Volume 116, Issue 7

19 February 2016

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Force chains in a system of birefringent plastic disks of two diameters, stressed at the box boundaries. Courtesy of V. Sathish Akella and Mahesh Bandi, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

From the article:

What Determines the Static Force Chains in Stressed Granular Media?
Oleg Gendelman, Yoav G. Pollack, Itamar Procaccia, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Jacques Zylberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 078001 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Four-Photon Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement

B. C. Hiesmayr, M. J. A. de Dood, and W. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073601 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Four photons are shown to be entangled through their orbital angular momentum.

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Macrodeformation Twins in Single-Crystal Aluminum

F. Zhao, L. Wang, D. Fan, B. X. Bie, X. M. Zhou, T. Suo, Y. L. Li, M. W. Chen, C. L. Liu, M. L. Qi, M. H. Zhu, and S. N. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075501 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Aluminum crystals can respond to strain by twinning—a finding that challenges conventional conceptions of material deformation.

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Strong Amplification of Coherent Acoustic Phonons by Intraminiband Currents in a Semiconductor Superlattice

Keisuke Shinokita, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Rudolf Hey, and Christos Flytzanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075504 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

An optical amplification scheme for sound can double the intensity of phonons traveling through a solid.

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Generating Soap Bubbles by Blowing on Soap Films

Louis Salkin, Alexandre Schmit, Pascal Panizza, and Laurent Courbin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 077801 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Using a bubble-blowing apparatus, researchers developed a model that explains the effects of several factors, such as the breath velocity, on the process of blowing a bubble.

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Certifying the Presence of a Photonic Qubit by Splitting It in Two

Evan Meyer-Scott, Daniel McCloskey, Klaudia Gołos, Jeff Z. Salvail, Kent A. G. Fisher, Deny R. Hamel, Adán Cabello, Kevin J. Resch, and Thomas Jennewein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070501 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

A photonic qubit has been transmitted over a lossy 30-meter-long channel without destroying its state in a precertification scheme that does not require synchronization or indistinguishability.

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End Point of Black Ring Instabilities and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture

Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, and Saran Tunyasuvunakool

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071102 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

A numerical study of asymptotically flat spaces in five dimensions shows that singularities may not necessarily be hidden inside event horizons violating the so-called weak cosmic censorship hypothesis.

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New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment

R. Agnese et al. (SuperCDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071301 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

The CDMS collaboration presents improved limits on the spin-independent cross section of low-mass weakly interacting particles with the nucleon.

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Search for Narrow Resonances Decaying to Dijets in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071801 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

No signal of new particles has been found by the CMS collaboration from Run 2 of the LHC at 13 TeV. This null result tightens constraints on a variety of models that predict the existence of heavy resonant states that decay into pairs of jets.

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Agreement of Experiment and Theory on the Single Ionization of Helium by Fast Proton Impact

H. Gassert, O. Chuluunbaatar, M. Waitz, F. Trinter, H.-K. Kim, T. Bauer, A. Laucke, Ch. Müller, J. Voigtsberger, M. Weller, J. Rist, M. Pitzer, S. Zeller, T. Jahnke, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, J. B. Williams, S. A. Zaytsev, A. A. Bulychev, K. A. Kouzakov, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, Yu. V. Popov, and M. S. Schöffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073201 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

High resolution measurements of the electron emission pattern following the ionization of helium settles a decade old discrepancy between theory and experiment on the angular emission pattern.

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Stopped Light at High Storage Efficiency in a $\Pr^{3 +} : Y_{2} {SiO}_{5}$ Crystal

Daniel Schraft, Marcel Hain, Nikolaus Lorenz, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073602 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

A storage efficiency of 76% is demonstrated in a solid-state quantum memory device with a ring-type multi-pass configuration.

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Optical Control of Magnetic Feshbach Resonances by Closed-Channel Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

A. Jagannathan, N. Arunkumar, J. A. Joseph, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075301 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Two-field optical control of scattering in two-body interactions is achieved, strongly shifting a magnetic Feshbach resonance and suppressing spontaneous scattering.

LETTERS

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

Extreme Violation of Local Realism in Quantum Hypergraph States

Mariami Gachechiladze, Costantino Budroni, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070401 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Assisted Distillation of Quantum Coherence

E. Chitambar, A. Streltsov, S. Rana, M. N. Bera, G. Adesso, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070402 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Universal Steering Criteria

Huangjun Zhu, Masahito Hayashi, and Lin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070403 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Nonlocal Measurements via Quantum Erasure

Aharon Brodutch and Eliahu Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070404 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Proposal for an Optomechanical Bell Test

V. Caprara Vivoli, T. Barnea, C. Galland, and N. Sangouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070405 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Proposal to Test Bell’s Inequality in Electromechanics

Sebastian G. Hofer, Konrad W. Lehnert, and Klemens Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070406 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Driven Markovian Quantum Criticality

Jamir Marino and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070407 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Multiparticle Bound-State Formation following a Quantum Quench to the One-Dimensional Bose Gas with Attractive Interactions

Lorenzo Piroli, Pasquale Calabrese, and Fabian H. L. Essler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070408 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

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Certifying the Presence of a Photonic Qubit by Splitting It in Two

Evan Meyer-Scott, Daniel McCloskey, Klaudia Gołos, Jeff Z. Salvail, Kent A. G. Fisher, Deny R. Hamel, Adán Cabello, Kevin J. Resch, and Thomas Jennewein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070501 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

A photonic qubit has been transmitted over a lossy 30-meter-long channel without destroying its state in a precertification scheme that does not require synchronization or indistinguishability.

Efficient Measurement of Multiparticle Entanglement with Embedding Quantum Simulator

Ming-Cheng Chen, Dian Wu, Zu-En Su, Xin-Dong Cai, Xi-Lin Wang, Tao Yang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070502 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Measuring Entanglement in a Photonic Embedding Quantum Simulator

J. C. Loredo, M. P. Almeida, R. Di Candia, J. S. Pedernales, J. Casanova, E. Solano, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070503 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Entanglement Quantification Made Easy: Polynomial Measures Invariant under Convex Decomposition

Bartosz Regula and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070504 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Large Deviations of Surface Height in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

Baruch Meerson, Eytan Katzav, and Arkady Vilenkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 070601 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Hidden Cosmic-Ray Accelerators as an Origin of TeV-PeV Cosmic Neutrinos

Kohta Murase, Dafne Guetta, and Markus Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071101 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

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End Point of Black Ring Instabilities and the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture

Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, and Saran Tunyasuvunakool

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071102 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment

R. Agnese et al. (SuperCDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071301 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

The CDMS collaboration presents improved limits on the spin-independent cross section of low-mass weakly interacting particles with the nucleon.

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Narrow Resonances Decaying to Dijets in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071801 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Identification of Nuclear Effects in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions at Low Three-Momentum Transfer

P. A. Rodrigues et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 071802 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Thermal Photon Radiation in High Multiplicity $p + Pb$ Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

Chun Shen, Jean-François Paquet, Gabriel S. Denicol, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 072301 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Single and Double Beta-Decay $Q$ Values among the Triplet ${}^{96}{Zr}$ , ${}^{96}{Nb}$ , and ${}^{96}{Mo}$

M. Alanssari, D. Frekers, T. Eronen, L. Canete, J. Dilling, M. Haaranen, J. Hakala, M. Holl, M. Ješkovský, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, J. Koponen, A. J. Mayer, I. D. Moore, D. A. Nesterenko, I. Pohjalainen, P. Povinec, J. Reinikainen, S. Rinta-Antila, P. C. Srivastava, J. Suhonen, R. I. Thompson, A. Voss, and M. E. Wieser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 072501 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Molecular Three-Electron Auger Decay

Raimund Feifel, John H. D. Eland, Richard J. Squibb, Melanie Mucke, Sergey Zagorodskikh, Per Linusson, Francesco Tarantelli, Přemysl Kolorenč, and Vitali Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073001 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Agreement of Experiment and Theory on the Single Ionization of Helium by Fast Proton Impact

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073201 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

High resolution measurements of the electron emission pattern following the ionization of helium settles a decade old discrepancy between theory and experiment on the angular emission pattern.

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Observation of Four-Photon Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement

B. C. Hiesmayr, M. J. A. de Dood, and W. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073601 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Four photons are shown to be entangled through their orbital angular momentum.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stopped Light at High Storage Efficiency in a $\Pr^{3 +} : Y_{2} {SiO}_{5}$ Crystal

Daniel Schraft, Marcel Hain, Nikolaus Lorenz, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073602 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

A storage efficiency of 76% is demonstrated in a solid-state quantum memory device with a ring-type multi-pass configuration.

Coherent Amplification of Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics in an Optical Oscillator

Igal Aharonovich and Avi Pe’er

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073603 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ultrafast Excitation of an Inner-Shell Electron by Laser-Induced Electron Recollision

Yunpei Deng, Zhinan Zeng, Zhengmao Jia, Pavel Komm, Yinhui Zheng, Xiaochun Ge, Ruxin Li, and Gilad Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073901 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Imaging Hidden Objects with Spatial Speckle Intensity Correlations over Object Position

Jason A. Newman, Qiaoen Luo, and Kevin J. Webb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 073902 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Optimal Length Scale for a Turbulent Dynamo

Mira Sadek, Alexandros Alexakis, and Stephan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 074501 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Signatures of the Self-Similar Regime of Strongly Coupled Stimulated Brillouin Scattering for Efficient Short Laser Pulse Amplification

L. Lancia, A. Giribono, L. Vassura, M. Chiaramello, C. Riconda, S. Weber, A. Castan, A. Chatelain, A. Frank, T. Gangolf, M. N. Quinn, J. Fuchs, and J.-R. Marquès

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075001 (2016) - Published 16 February, 2016

Ionic Transport Coefficients of Dense Plasmas without Molecular Dynamics

Jérôme Daligault, Scott D. Baalrud, Charles E. Starrett, Didier Saumon, and Travis Sjostrom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075002 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Generation and Beaming of Early Hot Electrons onto the Capsule in Laser-Driven Ignition Hohlraums

E. L. Dewald, F. Hartemann, P. Michel, J. Milovich, M. Hohenberger, A. Pak, O. L. Landen, L. Divol, H. F. Robey, O. A. Hurricane, T. Döppner, F. Albert, B. Bachmann, N. B. Meezan, A. J. MacKinnon, D. Callahan, and M. J. Edwards

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075003 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Control of Magnetic Feshbach Resonances by Closed-Channel Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

A. Jagannathan, N. Arunkumar, J. A. Joseph, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075301 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Two-field optical control of scattering in two-body interactions is achieved, strongly shifting a magnetic Feshbach resonance and suppressing spontaneous scattering.

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Macrodeformation Twins in Single-Crystal Aluminum

F. Zhao, L. Wang, D. Fan, B. X. Bie, X. M. Zhou, T. Suo, Y. L. Li, M. W. Chen, C. L. Liu, M. L. Qi, M. H. Zhu, and S. N. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075501 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Aluminum crystals can respond to strain by twinning—a finding that challenges conventional conceptions of material deformation.

Chemomechanical Origin of Hydrogen Trapping at Grain Boundaries in fcc Metals

Xiao Zhou, Daniel Marchand, David L. McDowell, Ting Zhu, and Jun Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075502 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Sampling Polymorphs of Ionic Solids using Random Superlattices

Vladan Stevanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075503 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

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Strong Amplification of Coherent Acoustic Phonons by Intraminiband Currents in a Semiconductor Superlattice

Keisuke Shinokita, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Rudolf Hey, and Christos Flytzanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075504 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

An optical amplification scheme for sound can double the intensity of phonons traveling through a solid.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Isotropic Kink and Quasiparticle Excitations in the Three-Dimensional Perovskite Manganite ${La}_{0.6} {Sr}_{0.4} {MnO}_{3}$

Koji Horiba, Miho Kitamura, Kohei Yoshimatsu, Makoto Minohara, Enju Sakai, Masaki Kobayashi, Atsushi Fujimori, and Hiroshi Kumigashira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 076401 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Enhancement of Photoinduced Charge-Order Melting via Anisotropy Control by Double-Pulse Excitation in Perovskite Manganites: $\Pr_{0.6} {Ca}_{0.4} {MnO}_{3}$

H. Yada, Y. Ijiri, H. Uemura, Y. Tomioka, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 076402 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Generation of Transient Photocurrents in the Topological Surface State of ${Sb}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ by Direct Optical Excitation with Midinfrared Pulses

K. Kuroda, J. Reimann, J. Güdde, and U. Höfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 076801 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Magnetic Interactions at the Nanoscale in Trilayer Titanates

Yanwei Cao, Zhenzhong Yang, M. Kareev, Xiaoran Liu, D. Meyers, S. Middey, D. Choudhury, P. Shafer, Jiandong Guo, J. W. Freeland, E. Arenholz, Lin Gu, and J. Chakhalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 076802 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Emergent Non-Fermi-Liquid at the Quantum Critical Point of a Topological Phase Transition in Two Dimensions

Hiroki Isobe, Bohm-Jung Yang, Andrey Chubukov, Jörg Schmalian, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 076803 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Amplitude Control of the Spin-Triplet Supercurrent in $S / F / S$ Josephson Junctions

William M. Martinez, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 077001 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Evolution of High-Temperature Superconductivity from a Low- $T_{c}$ Phase Tuned by Carrier Concentration in FeSe Thin Flakes

B. Lei, J. H. Cui, Z. J. Xiang, C. Shang, N. Z. Wang, G. J. Ye, X. G. Luo, T. Wu, Z. Sun, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 077002 (2016) - Published 18 February, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Generating Soap Bubbles by Blowing on Soap Films

Louis Salkin, Alexandre Schmit, Pascal Panizza, and Laurent Courbin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 077801 (2016) - Published 19 February, 2016

Using a bubble-blowing apparatus, researchers developed a model that explains the effects of several factors, such as the breath velocity, on the process of blowing a bubble.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Elastic Membrane Deformations Govern Interleaflet Coupling of Lipid-Ordered Domains”

J. J. Williamson and P. D. Olmsted

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 079801 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

Galimzyanov et al. Reply:

Timur R. Galimzyanov, Rodion J. Molotkovsky, Fredric S. Cohen, Peter Pohl, and Sergey A. Akimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 079802 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Half-Quantum Vortices in an Antiferromagnetic Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 015301 (2015)]

Sang Won Seo, Seji Kang, Woo Jin Kwon, and Yong-il Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 079901 (2016) - Published 17 February, 2016