Volume 116, Issue 5

5 February 2016

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Cube drilling. Top: photos of experimental setup. Bottom: corresponding numerical results. The numbers of holes drilled per face are one (left), six (middle), and eight (right).

From the article:

Critical Fragmentation Properties of Random Drilling: How Many Holes Need to Be Drilled to Collapse a Wooden Cube?
K. J. Schrenk, M. R. Hilário, V. Sidoravicius, N. A. M. Araújo, H. J. Herrmann, M. Thielmann, and A. Teixeira
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055701 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Strong Support for the Millisecond Pulsar Origin of the Galactic Center GeV Excess

Richard Bartels, Suraj Krishnamurthy, and Christoph Weniger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051102 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

New models show that neutron stars—and not dark matter—could be responsible for an excess of gamma rays from the Milky Way’s center.

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Evidence for Unresolved $γ$ -Ray Point Sources in the Inner Galaxy

Samuel K. Lee, Mariangela Lisanti, Benjamin R. Safdi, Tracy R. Slatyer, and Wei Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051103 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

New models show that neutron stars—and not dark matter—could be responsible for an excess of gamma rays from the Milky Way’s center.

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Candidate Resonant Tetraneutron State Populated by the ${}^{4}{He} ({}^{8}{He}, {}^{8}{Be})$ Reaction

K. Kisamori et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052501 (2016) - Published 3 February, 2016

Evidence that the four-neutron system known as the tetraneutron exists as a resonance has been uncovered in an experiment at the RIKEN Radioactive Ion Beam Factory.

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Carbon Honeycomb High Capacity Storage for Gaseous and Liquid Species

Nina V. Krainyukova and Evgeniy N. Zubarev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055501 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Carbon honeycomb, a new carbon structure, could store large amounts of hydrogen gas, which may benefit fuel cell technology.

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Constraints on Fluctuations in Sparsely Characterized Biological Systems

Andreas Hilfinger, Thomas M. Norman, Glenn Vinnicombe, and Johan Paulsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058101 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Biochemical networks are often poorly characterized, but researchers can still derive limits on the level of the random variations or noise in different network components.

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Photonic Maxwell’s Demon

Mihai D. Vidrighin, Oscar Dahlsten, Marco Barbieri, M. S. Kim, Vlatko Vedral, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 050401 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Information derived from microscopic measurements of thermal states made using a few photons is used to extract macroscopic work.

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Gravitational Waves from Isolated Systems: Surprising Consequences of a Positive Cosmological Constant

Abhay Ashtekar, Béatrice Bonga, and Aruna Kesavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051101 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

The mathematical framework used to describe gravitational waves is extended to incorporate the effect of a positive cosmological constant for the first time.

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Extracting Information about the Initial State from the Black Hole Radiation

Kinjalk Lochan and T. Padmanabhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051301 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Quantum matter falling into a semiclassical black hole leaves an imprint on future Hawking radiation. The resulting black hole entropy will be much smaller than the area of the event horizon.

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Effects of Sublattice Symmetry and Frustration on Ionic Transport in Garnet Solid Electrolytes

Boris Kozinsky, Sneha A. Akhade, Pierre Hirel, Adham Hashibon, Christian Elsässer, Prateek Mehta, Alan Logeat, and Ulrich Eisele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055901 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

The ground state structural symmetry and ionic conductivity have been theoretically calculated for the entire garnet family of solid Li-ion electrolytes.

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Mott Electrons in an Artificial Graphenelike Crystal of Rare-Earth Nickelate

S. Middey, D. Meyers, D. Doennig, M. Kareev, X. Liu, Y. Cao, Zhenzhong Yang, Jinan Shi, Lin Gu, P. J. Ryan, R. Pentcheva, J. W. Freeland, and J. Chakhalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056801 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Geometrical engineering of nickelate-based heterostructures can result in artificial graphene-like Mott crystals with antiferromagnetic correlations, structures that are not seen in bulk nickelates.

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Large Spin-Wave Bullet in a Ferrimagnetic Insulator Driven by the Spin Hall Effect

M. B. Jungfleisch, W. Zhang, J. Sklenar, J. Ding, W. Jiang, H. Chang, F. Y. Fradin, J. E. Pearson, J. B. Ketterson, V. Novosad, M. Wu, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057601 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

A spin-torque-driven ferromagnetic resonance in magnetic insulators is spatially mapped showing a localized spin-wave structure.

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Photonic Maxwell’s Demon

Mihai D. Vidrighin, Oscar Dahlsten, Marco Barbieri, M. S. Kim, Vlatko Vedral, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 050401 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Information derived from microscopic measurements of thermal states made using a few photons is used to extract macroscopic work.

Momentum-Space Correlations of a One-Dimensional Bose Gas

Bess Fang, Aisling Johnson, Tommaso Roscilde, and Isabelle Bouchoule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 050402 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Towards Realistic Implementations of a Majorana Surface Code

L. A. Landau, S. Plugge, E. Sela, A. Altland, S. M. Albrecht, and R. Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 050501 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gravitational Waves from Isolated Systems: Surprising Consequences of a Positive Cosmological Constant

Abhay Ashtekar, Béatrice Bonga, and Aruna Kesavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051101 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

The mathematical framework used to describe gravitational waves is extended to incorporate the effect of a positive cosmological constant for the first time.

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Strong Support for the Millisecond Pulsar Origin of the Galactic Center GeV Excess

Richard Bartels, Suraj Krishnamurthy, and Christoph Weniger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051102 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

New models show that neutron stars—and not dark matter—could be responsible for an excess of gamma rays from the Milky Way’s center.

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Evidence for Unresolved $γ$ -Ray Point Sources in the Inner Galaxy

Samuel K. Lee, Mariangela Lisanti, Benjamin R. Safdi, Tracy R. Slatyer, and Wei Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051103 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

New models show that neutron stars—and not dark matter—could be responsible for an excess of gamma rays from the Milky Way’s center.

Approaching Free Fall on Two Degrees of Freedom: Simultaneous Measurement of Residual Force and Torque on a Double Torsion Pendulum

M. Bassan, A. Cavalleri, M. De Laurentis, F. De Marchi, R. De Rosa, L. Di Fiore, R. Dolesi, N. Finetti, F. Garufi, A. Grado, M. Hueller, L. Marconi, L. Milano, G. Pucacco, R. Stanga, M. Visco, S. Vitale, and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051104 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

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Extracting Information about the Initial State from the Black Hole Radiation

Kinjalk Lochan and T. Padmanabhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051301 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Quantum matter falling into a semiclassical black hole leaves an imprint on future Hawking radiation. The resulting black hole entropy will be much smaller than the area of the event horizon.

Manifestly Local Theory of Vacuum Energy Sequestering

Nemanja Kaloper, Antonio Padilla, David Stefanyszyn, and George Zahariade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051302 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Cosmologically Safe QCD Axion without Fine-Tuning

Masaki Yamada, Tsutomu T. Yanagida, and Kazuya Yonekura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 051801 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Measurements of Absolute Hadronic Branching Fractions of the $Λ_{c}^{+}$ Baryon

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052001 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052002 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Top Quark Pair Production in Association with a Jet with Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Off-Shell Effects at the Large Hadron Collider

G. Bevilacqua, H. B. Hartanto, M. Kraus, and M. Worek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052003 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Nuclear Physics

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Candidate Resonant Tetraneutron State Populated by the ${}^{4}{He} ({}^{8}{He}, {}^{8}{Be})$ Reaction

K. Kisamori et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052501 (2016) - Published 3 February, 2016

Evidence that the four-neutron system known as the tetraneutron exists as a resonance has been uncovered in an experiment at the RIKEN Radioactive Ion Beam Factory.

Collective and Single-Particle Motion in Beyond Mean Field Approaches

J. Luis Egido, Marta Borrajo, and Tomás R. Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 052502 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing an Electron Scattering Resonance using Rydberg Molecules within a Dense and Ultracold Gas

Michael Schlagmüller, Tara Cubel Liebisch, Huan Nguyen, Graham Lochead, Felix Engel, Fabian Böttcher, Karl M. Westphal, Kathrin S. Kleinbach, Robert Löw, Sebastian Hofferberth, Tilman Pfau, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 053001 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Two-Dimensional Frequency Resolved Optomolecular Gating of High-Order Harmonic Generation

A. Ferré, H. Soifer, O. Pedatzur, C. Bourassin-Bouchet, B. D. Bruner, R. Canonge, F. Catoire, D. Descamps, B. Fabre, E. Mével, S. Petit, N. Dudovich, and Y. Mairesse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 053002 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Theoretical Hyperfine Structure of the Molecular Hydrogen Ion at the 1 ppm Level

Vladimir I. Korobov, J. C. J. Koelemeij, L. Hilico, and J.-Ph. Karr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 053003 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Observation of Atom-Wave Beats Using a Kerr Modulator for Atom Waves

B. Décamps, J. Gillot, J. Vigué, A. Gauguet, and M. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 053004 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Approaching the Heisenberg Limit without Single-Particle Detection

Emily Davis, Gregory Bentsen, and Monika Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 053601 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Tunable Polarons of Slow-Light Polaritons in a Two-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate

Fabian Grusdt and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 053602 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Universal Scaling of Spectral Fluctuation Transitions for Interacting Chaotic Systems

Shashi C. L. Srivastava, Steven Tomsovic, Arul Lakshminarayan, Roland Ketzmerick, and Arnd Bäcker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 054101 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

Nonlinear Generation of Vorticity by Surface Waves

S. V. Filatov, V. M. Parfenyev, S. S. Vergeles, M. Yu. Brazhnikov, A. A. Levchenko, and V. V. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 054501 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Interaction of an Ultrarelativistic Electron Bunch Train with a $W$ -Band Accelerating Structure: High Power and High Gradient

D. Wang, S. Antipov, C. Jing, J. G. Power, M. Conde, E. Wisniewski, W. Liu, J. Qiu, G. Ha, V. Dolgashev, C. Tang, and W. Gai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 054801 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Carbon Honeycomb High Capacity Storage for Gaseous and Liquid Species

Nina V. Krainyukova and Evgeniy N. Zubarev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055501 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Carbon honeycomb, a new carbon structure, could store large amounts of hydrogen gas, which may benefit fuel cell technology.

Critical Fragmentation Properties of Random Drilling: How Many Holes Need to Be Drilled to Collapse a Wooden Cube?

K. J. Schrenk, M. R. Hilário, V. Sidoravicius, N. A. M. Araújo, H. J. Herrmann, M. Thielmann, and A. Teixeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055701 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses

Robert L. Jack and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055702 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

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Effects of Sublattice Symmetry and Frustration on Ionic Transport in Garnet Solid Electrolytes

Boris Kozinsky, Sneha A. Akhade, Pierre Hirel, Adham Hashibon, Christian Elsässer, Prateek Mehta, Alan Logeat, and Ulrich Eisele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055901 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

The ground state structural symmetry and ionic conductivity have been theoretically calculated for the entire garnet family of solid Li-ion electrolytes.

Lateral Hopping of CO on Ag(110) by Multiple Overtone Excitation

Junepyo Oh, Hyunseob Lim, Ryuichi Arafune, Jaehoon Jung, Maki Kawai, and Yousoo Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056101 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Curvature Dependence of the Liquid-Vapor Surface Tension beyond the Tolman Approximation

Nicolas Bruot and Frédéric Caupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056102 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Simple Screened Hydrogen Model of Excitons in Two-Dimensional Materials

Thomas Olsen, Simone Latini, Filip Rasmussen, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056401 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Theory of Valence Transition in ${BiNiO}_{3}$

Makoto Naka, Hitoshi Seo, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056402 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Energy Gaps and Layer Polarization of Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall States in Bilayer Graphene

Yanmeng Shi, Yongjin Lee, Shi Che, Ziqi Pi, Timothy Espiritu, Petr Stepanov, Dmitry Smirnov, Chun Ning Lau, and Fan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056601 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Effective Confining Potential of Quantum States in Disordered Media

Douglas N. Arnold, Guy David, David Jerison, Svitlana Mayboroda, and Marcel Filoche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056602 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

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Mott Electrons in an Artificial Graphenelike Crystal of Rare-Earth Nickelate

S. Middey, D. Meyers, D. Doennig, M. Kareev, X. Liu, Y. Cao, Zhenzhong Yang, Jinan Shi, Lin Gu, P. J. Ryan, R. Pentcheva, J. W. Freeland, and J. Chakhalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056801 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Geometrical engineering of nickelate-based heterostructures can result in artificial graphene-like Mott crystals with antiferromagnetic correlations, structures that are not seen in bulk nickelates.

Orbital Selectivity in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Distance-Dependent Tunneling Process Observed in Iron Nitride

Y. Takahashi, T. Miyamachi, K. Ienaga, N. Kawamura, A. Ernst, and F. Komori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 056802 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Nonequilibrium Second-Order Phase Transition in a Cooper-Pair Insulator

A. Doron, I. Tamir, S. Mitra, G. Zeltzer, M. Ovadia, and D. Shahar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057001 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016

Tellurium Hydrides at High Pressures: High-Temperature Superconductors

Xin Zhong, Hui Wang, Jurong Zhang, Hanyu Liu, Shoutao Zhang, Hai-Feng Song, Guochun Yang, Lijun Zhang, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057002 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

Hidden Fermionic Excitation Boosting High-Temperature Superconductivity in Cuprates

Shiro Sakai, Marcello Civelli, and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057003 (2016) - Published 5 February, 2016

Rectifying the Optical-Field-Induced Current in Dielectrics: Petahertz Diode

J. D. Lee, Won Seok Yun, and Noejung Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057401 (2016) - Published 3 February, 2016

Real-Time Tracking of Singlet Exciton Diffusion in Organic Semiconductors

Oleg V. Kozlov, Foppe de Haan, Ross A. Kerner, Barry P. Rand, David Cheyns, and Maxim S. Pshenichnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057402 (2016) - Published 4 February, 2016

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Large Spin-Wave Bullet in a Ferrimagnetic Insulator Driven by the Spin Hall Effect

M. B. Jungfleisch, W. Zhang, J. Sklenar, J. Ding, W. Jiang, H. Chang, F. Y. Fradin, J. E. Pearson, J. B. Ketterson, V. Novosad, M. Wu, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057601 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

A spin-torque-driven ferromagnetic resonance in magnetic insulators is spatially mapped showing a localized spin-wave structure.

Electric Field Control of Jahn-Teller Distortions in Bulk Perovskites

Julien Varignon, Nicholas C. Bristowe, and Philippe Ghosez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 057602 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Constraints on Fluctuations in Sparsely Characterized Biological Systems

Andreas Hilfinger, Thomas M. Norman, Glenn Vinnicombe, and Johan Paulsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 058101 (2016) - Published 1 February, 2016

Biochemical networks are often poorly characterized, but researchers can still derive limits on the level of the random variations or noise in different network components.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Enhancement of Second-Order Nonlinear-Optical Signals by Optical Stimulation”

Maksim Grechko, Grazia Gonella, and Mischa Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 059401 (2016) - Published 3 February, 2016

Goodman and Tisdale Reply:

A. J. Goodman and W. A. Tisdale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 059402 (2016) - Published 3 February, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Towards a Unified Description of the Rheology of Hard-Particle Suspensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088304 (2015)]

B. M. Guy, M. Hermes, and W. C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 059901 (2016) - Published 2 February, 2016