Volume 116, Issue 9

4 March 2016

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2D-omnidirectional x-ray scattering image of a carbon fiber loop. Colors indicate strongest scattering directions.

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2D-Omnidirectional Hard-X-Ray Scattering Sensitivity in a Single Shot
Matias Kagias, Zhentian Wang, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Konstantins Jefimovs, and Marco Stampanoni
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093902 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments

Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik, Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090405 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Quantum weirdness is hard for humans to grasp, so researchers wrote a program to suggest experimental setups.

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How Water Advances on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Frank Schellenberger, Noemí Encinas, Doris Vollmer, and Hans-Jürgen Butt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096101 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

High-resolution imaging of a drop moving on an ultra-water-repellent surface spurs researchers to propose a new definition for superhydrophobicity.

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Observation of Thermoelectric Currents in High-Field Superconductor-Ferromagnet Tunnel Junctions

S. Kolenda, M. J. Wolf, and D. Beckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097001 (2016) - Published 1 March, 2016

Researchers have observed spin-dependent thermoelectric currents in superconductors—a finding that could lead to precise cryogenic thermometers.

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Emergent Collective Chemotaxis without Single-Cell Gradient Sensing

Brian A. Camley, Juliane Zimmermann, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 098101 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

A simple model suggests a way in which clusters of cells could follow concentration gradients in cases where individual cells cannot.

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Structures and Dynamics of Glass-Forming Colloidal Liquids under Spherical Confinement

Bo Zhang and Xiang Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 098302 (2016) - Published 2 March, 2016

Correlated patterns of particles form in colloidal liquids as they approach the glass transition.

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Realization of the Contextuality-Nonlocality Tradeoff with a Qubit-Qutrit Photon Pair

Xiang Zhan, Xin Zhang, Jian Li, Yongsheng Zhang, Barry C. Sanders, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090401 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

A quantum optics experiment verifies theoretical work showing that there is a trade-off between local contextual correlations and spatially separated correlations.

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Observation and Calculation of the Quasibound Rovibrational Levels of the Electronic Ground State of $H_{2}^{+}$

Maximilian Beyer and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093001 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Orbiting resonances (quasi-bound states) of H $_{2}^{+}$ have been experimentally observed.

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Valley Vortex States in Sonic Crystals

Jiuyang Lu, Chunyin Qiu, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093901 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

A sonic crystal consisting of a hexagonal array of triangular steel rods in water provides a new degree of freedom to manipulate acoustic waves.

LETTERS

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

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Realization of the Contextuality-Nonlocality Tradeoff with a Qubit-Qutrit Photon Pair

Xiang Zhan, Xin Zhang, Jian Li, Yongsheng Zhang, Barry C. Sanders, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090401 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

A quantum optics experiment verifies theoretical work showing that there is a trade-off between local contextual correlations and spatially separated correlations.

Upper Bounds on Spontaneous Wave-Function Collapse Models Using Millikelvin-Cooled Nanocantilevers

A. Vinante, M. Bahrami, A. Bassi, O. Usenko, G. Wijts, and T. H. Oosterkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090402 (2016) - Published 2 March, 2016

Steering Maps and Their Application to Dimension-Bounded Steering

Tobias Moroder, Oleg Gittsovich, Marcus Huber, Roope Uola, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090403 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Minimal noise subsystems

Xiaoting Wang, Mark Byrd, and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090404 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

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Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments

Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik, Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090405 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Quantum weirdness is hard for humans to grasp, so researchers wrote a program to suggest experimental setups.

Critical Schwinger Pair Production

Holger Gies and Greger Torgrimsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090406 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Minimax Quantum Tomography: Estimators and Relative Entropy Bounds

Christopher Ferrie and Robin Blume-Kohout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090407 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Cavity-Enhanced Room-Temperature Broadband Raman Memory

D. J. Saunders, J. H. D. Munns, T. F. M. Champion, C. Qiu, K. T. Kaczmarek, E. Poem, P. M. Ledingham, I. A. Walmsley, and J. Nunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090501 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Finite-Time Fluctuations for the Totally Asymmetric Exclusion Process

Sylvain Prolhac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090601 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Detecting Large Quantum Fisher Information with Finite Measurement Precision

Florian Fröwis, Pavel Sekatski, and Wolfgang Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 090801 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Supertranslations and Superrotations at the Black Hole Horizon

Laura Donnay, Gaston Giribet, Hernán A. González, and Miguel Pino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 091101 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Leptogenesis from Left-Handed Neutrino Production during Axion Inflation

Peter Adshead and Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 091301 (2016) - Published 2 March, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Constraint on Defect and Boundary Renormalization Group Flows

Kristan Jensen and Andy O’Bannon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 091601 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Boosting the Direct $C P$ Measurement of the Higgs-Top Coupling

Matthew R. Buckley and Dorival Gonçalves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 091801 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Finite Nuclei in the Quark-Meson Coupling Model

J. R. Stone, P. A. M. Guichon, P. G. Reinhard, and A. W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 092501 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation and Calculation of the Quasibound Rovibrational Levels of the Electronic Ground State of $H_{2}^{+}$

Maximilian Beyer and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093001 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Orbiting resonances (quasi-bound states) of H $_{2}^{+}$ have been experimentally observed.

Anomalously Large Chiral Sensitivity in the Dissociative Electron Attachment of 10-Iodocamphor

J. M. Dreiling, F. W. Lewis, J. D. Mills, and T. J. Gay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093201 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Photonic Circuits with Time Delays and Quantum Feedback

Hannes Pichler and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093601 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Deterministic Squeezed States with Collective Measurements and Feedback

Kevin C. Cox, Graham P. Greve, Joshua M. Weiner, and James K. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093602 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Valley Vortex States in Sonic Crystals

Jiuyang Lu, Chunyin Qiu, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093901 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

A sonic crystal consisting of a hexagonal array of triangular steel rods in water provides a new degree of freedom to manipulate acoustic waves.

2D-Omnidirectional Hard-X-Ray Scattering Sensitivity in a Single Shot

Matias Kagias, Zhentian Wang, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Konstantins Jefimovs, and Marco Stampanoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093902 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Necessity of Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking for the Polar Kerr Effect in Linear Response

Weejee Cho and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093903 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Superresolution Imaging of Optical Vortices in a Speckle Pattern

Marco Pascucci, Gilles Tessier, Valentina Emiliani, and Marc Guillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 093904 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Critical-Gradient Behavior in Alfvén-Eigenmode-Induced Fast-Ion Transport

C. S. Collins, W. W. Heidbrink, M. E. Austin, G. J. Kramer, D. C. Pace, C. C. Petty, L. Stagner, M. A. Van Zeeland, R. B. White, Y. B. Zhu, and DIII-D team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 095001 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Low-to-High Confinement Transition Mediated by Turbulence Radial Wave Number Spectral Shift in a Fusion Plasma

G. S. Xu, B. N. Wan, H. Q. Wang, H. Y. Guo, V. Naulin, J. Juul Rasmussen, A. H. Nielsen, X. Q. Wu, N. Yan, L. Chen, L. M. Shao, R. Chen, L. Wang, and W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 095002 (2016) - Published 1 March, 2016

Nonthermal Electron Energization from Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Driven Plasmas

Samuel R. Totorica, Tom Abel, and Frederico Fiuza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 095003 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Energetic Geodesic Acoustic Modes Associated with Two-Stream-like Instabilities in Tokamak Plasmas

Z. S. Qu, M. J. Hole, and M. Fitzgerald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 095004 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensing Magnons in a Degenerate Ferromagnetic Spinor Bose Gas

Fang Fang, Ryan Olf, Shun Wu, Holger Kadau, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 095301 (2016) - Published 1 March, 2016

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How Water Advances on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Frank Schellenberger, Noemí Encinas, Doris Vollmer, and Hans-Jürgen Butt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096101 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

High-resolution imaging of a drop moving on an ultra-water-repellent surface spurs researchers to propose a new definition for superhydrophobicity.

Submolecular Resolution Imaging of Molecules by Atomic Force Microscopy: The Influence of the Electrostatic Force

Joost van der Lit, Francesca Di Cicco, Prokop Hapala, Pavel Jelinek, and Ingmar Swart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096102 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Chiral Magnetic Effect and Anomalous Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic Insulators with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Akihiko Sekine and Kentaro Nomura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096401 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Coexistence of Incommensurate Magnetism and Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Hiroyuki Yamase, Andreas Eberlein, and Walter Metzner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096402 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Two-Dimensional $π$ -Conjugated Covalent-Organic Frameworks as Quantum Anomalous Hall Topological Insulators

Liang Dong, Youngkuk Kim, Dequan Er, Andrew M. Rappe, and Vivek B. Shenoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096601 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Spin to Charge Conversion at Room Temperature by Spin Pumping into a New Type of Topological Insulator: $α$ -Sn Films

J.-C. Rojas-Sánchez, S. Oyarzún, Y. Fu, A. Marty, C. Vergnaud, S. Gambarelli, L. Vila, M. Jamet, Y. Ohtsubo, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, P. Le Fèvre, F. Bertran, N. Reyren, J.-M. George, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096602 (2016) - Published 1 March, 2016

Spin Polarization and Texture of the Fermi Arcs in the Weyl Fermion Semimetal TaAs

Su-Yang Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096801 (2016) - Published 1 March, 2016

Competition between Kondo Screening and Quantum Hall Edge Reconstruction

A. W. Heine, D. Tutuc, G. Zwicknagl, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096802 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

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Observation of Thermoelectric Currents in High-Field Superconductor-Ferromagnet Tunnel Junctions

S. Kolenda, M. J. Wolf, and D. Beckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097001 (2016) - Published 1 March, 2016

Researchers have observed spin-dependent thermoelectric currents in superconductors—a finding that could lead to precise cryogenic thermometers.

Thermoelectric Signatures of Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking States in Multiband Superconductors

Julien Garaud, Mihail Silaev, and Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097002 (2016) - Published 4 March, 2016

Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Metallic Bilayers

Junyeon Kim, Peng Sheng, Saburo Takahashi, Seiji Mitani, and Masamitsu Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097201 (2016) - Published 29 February, 2016

Correlation Length versus Gap in Frustration-Free Systems

David Gosset and Yichen Huang (黄溢辰)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097202 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Full Electroresistance Modulation in a Mixed-Phase Metallic Alloy

Z. Q. Liu, L. Li, Z. Gai, J. D. Clarkson, S. L. Hsu, A. T. Wong, L. S. Fan, M.-W. Lin, C. M. Rouleau, T. Z. Ward, H. N. Lee, A. S. Sefat, H. M. Christen, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097203 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Antiferromagnetic Spin Seebeck Effect

Stephen M. Wu, Wei Zhang, Amit KC, Pavel Borisov, John E. Pearson, J. Samuel Jiang, David Lederman, Axel Hoffmann, and Anand Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097204 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016

Origin of the Spin-Orbital Liquid State in a Nearly $J = 0$ Iridate ${Ba}_{3} {ZnIr}_{2} O_{9}$

Abhishek Nag, S. Middey, Sayantika Bhowal, S. K. Panda, Roland Mathieu, J. C. Orain, F. Bert, P. Mendels, P. G. Freeman, M. Mansson, H. M. Ronnow, M. Telling, P. K. Biswas, D. Sheptyakov, S. D. Kaushik, Vasudeva Siruguri, Carlo Meneghini, D. D. Sarma, Indra Dasgupta, and Sugata Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097205 (2016) - Published 3 March, 2016