First direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO Hanford (Livingston) detectors in red (blue) from the inspiral of two large black holes. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016)
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Gravitational waves emitted by the merger of two black holes have been detected, setting the course for a new era of observational astrophysics.
E. B. Norrgard, D. J. McCarron, M. H. Steinecker, M. R. Tarbutt, and D. DeMille
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063004 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Researchers cooled trapped molecules well below 1 mK—a record temperature for molecules that have not been assembled from pre-cooled atoms.
Alexander Prehn, Martin Ibrügger, Rosa Glöckner, Gerhard Rempe, and Martin Zeppenfeld
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063005 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Researchers cooled trapped molecules well below 1 mK—a record temperature for molecules that have not been assembled from pre-cooled atoms.
Weiqi Xue, Yi Yu, Luisa Ottaviano, Yaohui Chen, Elizaveta Semenova, Kresten Yvind, and Jesper Mork
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063901 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Researchers have studied a membrane laser containing nanometer-sized holes to demonstrate how photon losses can be minimized.
Gautier Lefebvre, Aymeric Merceron, and Pierre Jop
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068002 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Experiments with an eroding stream of grains reveals a step pattern that implies the erosion is governed by collisions rather than friction.
F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061801 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
The antineutrino spectrum measured at Daya Bay corroborates the so-called reactor antineutrino anomaly — an excess of observed antineutrinos over theoretical expectations.
T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn, and N. A. Lo Presti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 062001 (2016) - Published 8 February, 2016
The complete analytical computation of the amplitude for five-particle scattering at the second perturbative order in quantum chromodynamics is carried out for the first time.
N. Huntemann, C. Sanner, B. Lipphardt, Chr. Tamm, and E. Peik
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063001 (2016) - Published 8 February, 2016
A twentyfold improvement in the accuracy of a single ytterbium ion atomic clock is achieved using the ion’s electric octupole transition.
Péter Sándor, Vincent Tagliamonti, Arthur Zhao, Tamás Rozgonyi, Matthias Ruckenbauer, Philipp Marquetand, and Thomas Weinacht
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063002 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Pulse duration can strongly affect the dynamics of molecular ionization. For pulses shorter than 10 fs vibrational dynamics are no longer seen to play an important role.
R. W. Peterson, T. P. Purdy, N. S. Kampel, R. W. Andrews, P.-L. Yu, K. W. Lehnert, and C. A. Regal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063601 (2016) - Published 8 February, 2016
A 40-nanometer-thick membrane has been cooled to a low enough temperature that is has the minimum phonon occupation allowed by quantum backaction.
Ilya Belopolski, Su-Yang Xu, Daniel S. Sanchez, Guoqing Chang, Cheng Guo, Madhab Neupane, Hao Zheng, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, Guang Bian, Nasser Alidoust, Tay-Rong Chang, BaoKai Wang, Xiao Zhang, Arun Bansil, Horng-Tay Jeng, Hsin Lin, Shuang Jia, and M. Zahid Hasan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066802 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Any surface state band structure that satisfies one of four specific conditions contains topological Fermi arcs, and is therefore a Weyl semimetal.
Yi Peng, Lipeng Lai, Yi-Shu Tai, Kechun Zhang, Xinliang Xu, and Xiang Cheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068303 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
An ellipsoid immersed in a bacterial suspension diffuses slowest along its major axis and fastest along its minor axis, in contrast to predictions from Brownian motion.
Corinna Kollath, Ameneh Sheikhan, Stefan Wolff, and Ferdinand Brennecke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 060401 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Markus Spanner, Felix Höfling, Sebastian C. Kapfer, Klaus R. Mecke, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, and Thomas Franosch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 060601 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Federico Piazza, and Hermano Velten
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061101 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Gravitational waves emitted by the merger of two black holes have been detected, setting the course for a new era of observational astrophysics.
Viqar Husain and Jorma Louko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061301 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Viqar Husain and Babar Qureshi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061302 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Christian Baadsgaard, N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr, Jacob L. Bourjaily, Simon Caron-Huot, Poul H. Damgaard, and Bo Feng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061601 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Jan de Boer, Michal P. Heller, Robert C. Myers, and Yasha Neiman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061602 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061801 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
The antineutrino spectrum measured at Daya Bay corroborates the so-called reactor antineutrino anomaly — an excess of observed antineutrinos over theoretical expectations.
T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn, and N. A. Lo Presti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 062001 (2016) - Published 8 February, 2016
The complete analytical computation of the amplitude for five-particle scattering at the second perturbative order in quantum chromodynamics is carried out for the first time.
L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 062301 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
J. E. Lynn, I. Tews, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, A. Gezerlis, K. E. Schmidt, and A. Schwenk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 062501 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
N. Huntemann, C. Sanner, B. Lipphardt, Chr. Tamm, and E. Peik
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063001 (2016) - Published 8 February, 2016
A twentyfold improvement in the accuracy of a single ytterbium ion atomic clock is achieved using the ion’s electric octupole transition.
Péter Sándor, Vincent Tagliamonti, Arthur Zhao, Tamás Rozgonyi, Matthias Ruckenbauer, Philipp Marquetand, and Thomas Weinacht
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063002 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Pulse duration can strongly affect the dynamics of molecular ionization. For pulses shorter than 10 fs vibrational dynamics are no longer seen to play an important role.
Nicolas Teeny, Enderalp Yakaboylu, Heiko Bauke, and Christoph H. Keitel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063003 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
E. B. Norrgard, D. J. McCarron, M. H. Steinecker, M. R. Tarbutt, and D. DeMille
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063004 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Researchers cooled trapped molecules well below 1 mK—a record temperature for molecules that have not been assembled from pre-cooled atoms.
Alexander Prehn, Martin Ibrügger, Rosa Glöckner, Gerhard Rempe, and Martin Zeppenfeld
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063005 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Researchers cooled trapped molecules well below 1 mK—a record temperature for molecules that have not been assembled from pre-cooled atoms.
Timur A. Isaev and Robert Berger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063006 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
R. W. Peterson, T. P. Purdy, N. S. Kampel, R. W. Andrews, P.-L. Yu, K. W. Lehnert, and C. A. Regal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063601 (2016) - Published 8 February, 2016
A 40-nanometer-thick membrane has been cooled to a low enough temperature that is has the minimum phonon occupation allowed by quantum backaction.
Weiqi Xue, Yi Yu, Luisa Ottaviano, Yaohui Chen, Elizaveta Semenova, Kresten Yvind, and Jesper Mork
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063901 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Researchers have studied a membrane laser containing nanometer-sized holes to demonstrate how photon losses can be minimized.
V. A. Andreeva, O. G. Kosareva, N. A. Panov, D. E. Shipilo, P. M. Solyankin, M. N. Esaulkov, P. González de Alaiza Martínez, A. P. Shkurinov, V. A. Makarov, L. Bergé, and S. L. Chin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 063902 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Marija R. Janković and V. Dmitrašinović
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 064301 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Minori Shirota, Michiel A. J. van Limbeek, Chao Sun, Andrea Prosperetti, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 064501 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Evgenya I. Simakov, Sergey A. Arsenyev, Cynthia E. Buechler, Randall L. Edwards, William P. Romero, Manoel Conde, Gwanghui Ha, John G. Power, Eric E. Wisniewski, and Chunguang Jing
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 064801 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
T. J. Awe, K. J. Peterson, E. P. Yu, R. D. McBride, D. B. Sinars, M. R. Gomez, C. A. Jennings, M. R. Martin, S. E. Rosenthal, D. G. Schroen, A. B. Sefkow, S. A. Slutz, K. Tomlinson, and R. A. Vesey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 065001 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
J. C. Hillesheim, E. Delabie, H. Meyer, C. F. Maggi, L. Meneses, E. Poli, and JET Contributors (EUROfusion Consortium, JET, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 065002 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Chen Liu, Ezequiel E. Ferrero, Francesco Puosi, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Kirsten Martens
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 065501 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Xingkun Man and Masao Doi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066101 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Dongshi Guan, Yong Jian Wang, Elisabeth Charlaix, and Penger Tong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066102 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Shang Liu, Tomi Ohtsuki, and Ryuichi Shindou
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066401 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
F. Baboux, L. Ge, T. Jacqmin, M. Biondi, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, S. Schmidt, H. E. Türeci, A. Amo, and J. Bloch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066402 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Hao Zheng, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, Ilya Belopolski, Daniel S. Sanchez, Guang Bian, Nasser Alidoust, Tay-Rong Chang, Chuang-Han Hsu, Horng-Tay Jeng, Arun Bansil, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066601 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Cheng-Cheng Liu, Jin-Jian Zhou, Yugui Yao, and Fan Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066801 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Ilya Belopolski, Su-Yang Xu, Daniel S. Sanchez, Guoqing Chang, Cheng Guo, Madhab Neupane, Hao Zheng, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, Guang Bian, Nasser Alidoust, Tay-Rong Chang, BaoKai Wang, Xiao Zhang, Arun Bansil, Horng-Tay Jeng, Hsin Lin, Shuang Jia, and M. Zahid Hasan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066802 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Any surface state band structure that satisfies one of four specific conditions contains topological Fermi arcs, and is therefore a Weyl semimetal.
Pierluigi Cudazzo, Lorenzo Sponza, Christine Giorgetti, Lucia Reining, Francesco Sottile, and Matteo Gatti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066803 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Andrei Nemilentsau, Tony Low, and George Hanson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066804 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
E. Riccardi, M.-A. Méasson, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto, and Y. Gallais
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066805 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Stefano Chesi, Li-Ping Yang, and Daniel Loss
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066806 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Th. Jacobs, Y. Simsek, Y. Koval, P. Müller, and V. M. Krasnov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 067001 (2016) - Published 9 February, 2016
Sahinur Reja, Jeroen van den Brink, and Satoshi Nishimoto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 067002 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
G. Koutroulakis, H. Kühne, J. A. Schlueter, J. Wosnitza, and S. E. Brown
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 067003 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Jun Oshitani, Toshiki Sasaki, Takuya Tsuji, Kyohei Higashida, and Derek Y. C. Chan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068001 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Gautier Lefebvre, Aymeric Merceron, and Pierre Jop
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068002 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Experiments with an eroding stream of grains reveals a step pattern that implies the erosion is governed by collisions rather than friction.
Ricard Alert and Jaume Casademunt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068101 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Gül H. Zerze, Jeetain Mittal, and Robert B. Best
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068102 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
A. Bérut, A. Imparato, A. Petrosyan, and S. Ciliberto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068301 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Hideyuki Mizuno, Leonardo E. Silbert, and Matthias Sperl
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068302 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
Yi Peng, Lipeng Lai, Yi-Shu Tai, Kechun Zhang, Xinliang Xu, and Xiang Cheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068303 (2016) - Published 10 February, 2016
An ellipsoid immersed in a bacterial suspension diffuses slowest along its major axis and fastest along its minor axis, in contrast to predictions from Brownian motion.
Ya Gao, Hanlin Deng, Weihua Li, Feng Qiu, and An-Chang Shi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068304 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Shreyas Gokhale, Rajesh Ganapathy, K. Hima Nagamanasa, and A. K. Sood
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068305 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Amit Das, Anirban Polley, and Madan Rao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068306 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
Jian Qin and Scott T. Milner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068307 (2016) - Published 12 February, 2016
Michael Sebek, Ralf Tönjes, and István Z. Kiss
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 068701 (2016) - Published 11 February, 2016
