Volume 116, Issue 8

26 February 2016

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On the Cover

Anisotropic-beam imaging in two orthogonal directions in the axial plane of a hazelnut in real (top) and Fourier (bottom) space leads to isotropic high resolution (right column) via 3D Radon-transform filtered back projection.

From the article:

New X-Ray Tomography Method Based on the 3D Radon Transform Compatible with Anisotropic Sources
M. Vassholz, B. Koberstein-Schwarz, A. Ruhlandt, M. Krenkel, and T. Salditt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 088101 (2016)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial Reminders

Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080001 (2016) - Published 22 February, 2016

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Parallel Transport Quantum Logic Gates with Trapped Ions

Ludwig E. de Clercq, Hsiang-Yu Lo, Matteo Marinelli, David Nadlinger, Robin Oswald, Vlad Negnevitsky, Daniel Kienzler, Ben Keitch, and Jonathan P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080502 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

A new device performs quantum logic operations by directing trapped ions through a stationary laser beam.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Subradiance in a Large Cloud of Cold Atoms

William Guerin, Michelle O. Araújo, and Robin Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 083601 (2016) - Published 22 February, 2016

Subradiant states of many emitters have been created in a dilute cold-atom gas.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-ray Echo Spectroscopy

Yuri Shvyd’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080801 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

A new x-ray technique that uses echo signals has been theoretically proposed. The technique could improve both the spectral resolution and sensitivity of inelastic scattering measurements.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Colossal Seebeck Coefficient of Hopping Electrons in ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {PF}_{6}$

Yo Machida, Xiao Lin, Woun Kang, Koichi Izawa, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 087003 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Electrical and thermal transport measurements show a large Seebeck effect in an insulator cooled below the temperature corresponding to its Coulomb drag.

LETTERS

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

Mode Dependency of Quantum Decoherence Studied via an Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer

Tung-Sheng Lo, Yiping Lin, Phillip M. Wu, Dah-Chin Ling, C. C. Chi, and Jeng-Chung Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080401 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

Converting Nonclassicality into Entanglement

N. Killoran, F. E. S. Steinhoff, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080402 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Thermodynamics of Weakly Measured Quantum Systems

Jose Joaquin Alonso, Eric Lutz, and Alessandro Romito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080403 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Efficient Quantum Compression for Ensembles of Identically Prepared Mixed States

Yuxiang Yang, Giulio Chiribella, and Daniel Ebler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080501 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Parallel Transport Quantum Logic Gates with Trapped Ions

Ludwig E. de Clercq, Hsiang-Yu Lo, Matteo Marinelli, David Nadlinger, Robin Oswald, Vlad Negnevitsky, Daniel Kienzler, Ben Keitch, and Jonathan P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080502 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

A new device performs quantum logic operations by directing trapped ions through a stationary laser beam.

Rapid Adiabatic Preparation of Injective Projected Entangled Pair States and Gibbs States

Yimin Ge, András Molnár, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080503 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Universality in the Dynamics of Second-Order Phase Transitions

G. Nikoghosyan, R. Nigmatullin, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080601 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-ray Echo Spectroscopy

Yuri Shvyd’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 080801 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

A new x-ray technique that uses echo signals has been theoretically proposed. The technique could improve both the spectral resolution and sensitivity of inelastic scattering measurements.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Cloud Instabilities Just above the Neutrino Sphere of a Supernova

R. F. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081101 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Cosmic Explosions, Life in the Universe, and the Cosmological Constant

Tsvi Piran, Raul Jimenez, Antonio J. Cuesta, Fergus Simpson, and Licia Verde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081301 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Bremsstrahlung Function in $N = 2$ Superconformal Field Theories

Bartomeu Fiol, Efrat Gerchkovitz, and Zohar Komargodski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081601 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Quantum Phase Transition between a Topological and a Trivial Semimetal from Holography

Karl Landsteiner, Yan Liu, and Ya-Wen Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081602 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Perturbed Lepton-Specific Two-Higgs-Doublet Model Facing Experimental Hints for Physics beyond the Standard Model

Andreas Crivellin, Julian Heeck, and Peter Stoffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081801 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Measurement of Electron Neutrino Quasielastic and Quasielasticlike Scattering on Hydrocarbon at $⟨ E_{ν} ⟩ = 3.6 GeV$

J. Wolcott et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 081802 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Observation of the Singly Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay $D^{+} \to ω π^{+}$ and Evidence for $D^{0} \to ω π^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 082001 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Evidence for Simultaneous Production of $J / ψ$ and $ϒ$ Mesons

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 082002 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

High-Precision Differential Predictions for Top-Quark Pairs at the LHC

Michal Czakon, David Heymes, and Alexander Mitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 082003 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory Study of the $N^{*} (1535)$ Resonance in Lattice QCD

Zhan-Wei Liu, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber, Finn M. Stokes, Anthony W. Thomas, and Jia-Jun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 082004 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Subradiance in a Large Cloud of Cold Atoms

William Guerin, Michelle O. Araújo, and Robin Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 083601 (2016) - Published 22 February, 2016

Subradiant states of many emitters have been created in a dilute cold-atom gas.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Temporal Structure of Attosecond Pulses from Laser-Driven Coherent Synchrotron Emission

S. Cousens, B. Reville, B. Dromey, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 083901 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Photon Thermal Hall Effect

P. Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 084301 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stellarator Turbulence: Subdominant Eigenmodes and Quasilinear Modeling

M. J. Pueschel, B. J. Faber, J. Citrin, C. C. Hegna, P. W. Terry, and D. R. Hatch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085001 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Microengineering Laser Plasma Interactions at Relativistic Intensities

S. Jiang, L. L. Ji, H. Audesirk, K. M. George, J. Snyder, A. Krygier, P. Poole, C. Willis, R. Daskalova, E. Chowdhury, N. S. Lewis, D. W. Schumacher, A. Pukhov, R. R. Freeman, and K. U. Akli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085002 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Strongly Emitting Surfaces Unable to Float below Plasma Potential

M. D. Campanell and M. V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085003 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Synchronized Ion Acceleration by Ultraintense Slow Light

A. V. Brantov, E. A. Govras, V. F. Kovalev, and V. Yu. Bychenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085004 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stable Core Symmetries and Confined Textures for a Vortex Line in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Magnus O. Borgh, Muneto Nitta, and Janne Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085301 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Mechanical Yield in Amorphous Solids: A First-Order Phase Transition

Prabhat K. Jaiswal, Itamar Procaccia, Corrado Rainone, and Murari Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085501 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Elasticity in Amorphous Solids: Nonlinear or Piecewise Linear?

Awadhesh K. Dubey, Itamar Procaccia, Carmel A. B. Z. Shor, and Murari Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085502 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Short-Time Beta Relaxation in Glass-Forming Liquids Is Cooperative in Nature

Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta, and Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085701 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Enhanced Configurational Entropy in High-Density Nanoconfined Bilayer Ice

Fabiano Corsetti, Jon Zubeltzu, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 085901 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Correlations between In Situ Conductivity and Uniform-Height Epitaxial Morphology in $Pb / Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$

M. Jałochowski, R. Zdyb, and M. C. Tringides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086101 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Clustering of Oxygen Vacancies at ${CeO}_{2} (111)$ : Critical Role of Hydroxyls

Xin-Ping Wu and Xue-Qing Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086102 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Using Nonequilibrium Dynamics to Probe Competing Orders in a Mott-Peierls System

Y. Wang, B. Moritz, C.-C. Chen, C. J. Jia, M. van Veenendaal, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086401 (2016) - Published 24 February, 2016

Calculation of Electrochemical Energy Levels in Water Using the Random Phase Approximation and a Double Hybrid Functional

Jun Cheng and Joost VandeVondele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086402 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Mott Quantum Criticality in the Anisotropic 2D Hubbard Model

Benjamin Lenz, Salvatore R. Manmana, Thomas Pruschke, Fakher F. Assaad, and Marcin Raczkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086403 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations of High-Mobility Holes in Monolayer and Bilayer ${WSe}_{2}$ : Landau Level Degeneracy, Effective Mass, and Negative Compressibility

Babak Fallahazad, Hema C. P. Movva, Kyounghwan Kim, Stefano Larentis, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sanjay K. Banerjee, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086601 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Effects of Dephasing on Spin Lifetime in Ballistic Spin-Orbit Materials

Aron W. Cummings and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086602 (2016) - Published 23 February, 2016

Topological Protection from Random Rashba Spin-Orbit Backscattering: Ballistic Transport in a Helical Luttinger Liquid

Hong-Yi Xie, Heqiu Li, Yang-Zhi Chou, and Matthew S. Foster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086603 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Tunable Hybrid Qubit in a GaAs Double Quantum Dot

Gang Cao, Hai-Ou Li, Guo-Dong Yu, Bao-Chuan Wang, Bao-Bao Chen, Xiang-Xiang Song, Ming Xiao, Guang-Can Guo, Hong-Wen Jiang, Xuedong Hu, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086801 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Bulk Topological Proximity Effect

Timothy H. Hsieh, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Leon Balents, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086802 (2016) - Published 26 February, 2016

Non-Zhang-Rice Singlet Character of the First Ionization State of T-CuO

Clemens P. J. Adolphs, Simon Moser, George A. Sawatzky, and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 087002 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Colossal Seebeck Coefficient of Hopping Electrons in ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {PF}_{6}$

Yo Machida, Xiao Lin, Woun Kang, Koichi Izawa, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 087003 (2016) - Published 25 February, 2016

Electrical and thermal transport measurements show a large Seebeck effect in an insulator cooled below the temperature corresponding to its Coulomb drag.