Volume 117, Issue 1

1 July 2016

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On the Cover

Dalitz plot for the Λ _c⁺ -> pK^- π⁺ decay, showing the estimated efficiency from Monte Carlo statistics with invariant mass squared values of K^-π⁺ versus pK^- .

From the article:

First Observation of the Doubly Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay of a Charmed Baryon: $Λ_{c}^{+} \to p K^{+} π^{-}$
S. B. Yang et al. (Belle Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011801 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explicit Derivation of Duality between a Free Dirac Cone and Quantum Electrodynamics in ( $2 + 1$ ) Dimensions

David F. Mross, Jason Alicea, and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016802 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Theoretical work reveals a surprising relationship between the physics of fermionic vortices and quantum electrodynamics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mechanical Autonomous Stochastic Heat Engine

Marc Serra-Garcia, André Foehr, Miguel Molerón, Joseph Lydon, Christopher Chong, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010602 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Researchers propose a stochastic heat engine that runs without an external control system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black Hole Kicks as New Gravitational Wave Observables

Davide Gerosa and Christopher J. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011101 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

The gravitational waves produced by the merging of two black holes are predicted to cause a recoil (or kick) velocity to the remnant black hole. This effect could be seen in the waveforms measured by gravitational wave observatories.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Higgs Boson Pair Production in Gluon Fusion at Next-to-Leading Order with Full Top-Quark Mass Dependence

S. Borowka, N. Greiner, G. Heinrich, S. P. Jones, M. Kerner, J. Schlenk, U. Schubert, and T. Zirke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 012001 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

The production rate of a pair of Higgs bosons has been calculated with higher precision than before by using the exact value of the top quark mass in the calculation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum-Enhanced Sensing Based on Time Reversal of Nonlinear Dynamics

D. Linnemann, H. Strobel, W. Muessel, J. Schulz, R. J. Lewis-Swan, K. V. Kheruntsyan, and M. K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013001 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Spin-changing collisions between atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate are used experimentally to implement a non-linear interferometer for quantum-enhanced phase measurements with sensitivity better than the standard quantum limit.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Topological Phases and Unpaired Dirac Cones in Photonic Floquet Topological Insulators

Daniel Leykam, M. C. Rechtsman, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013902 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

The design for a photonic lattice that can realize a previously unobserved anomalous Floquet phase is proposed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring the Second Chern Number from Nonadiabatic Effects

Michael Kolodrubetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015301 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Proposals are laid out for measuring the non-Abelian Berry curvature and the second Chern number of quantum systems including trapped ions, cold atoms, and superconducting qubits.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hybrid Quantum Device with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Coupled to Carbon Nanotubes

Peng-Bo Li, Ze-Liang Xiang, Peter Rabl, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015502 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

The spin of the NV center in diamond and the vibrational mode of a carbon nanotube suspended above the NV center could be coupled by passing a current through the nanotube. This system could be used to mechanically address quantum logic gates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Topological Nodal-Line Fermions in ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe

Jin Hu, Zhijie Tang, Jinyu Liu, Xue Liu, Yanglin Zhu, David Graf, Kevin Myhro, Son Tran, Chun Ning Lau, Jiang Wei, and Zhiqiang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016602 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Quantum oscillation experiments on two node-line semimetals raises the possibility of realizing a two-dimensional topological insulator state in monolayers of ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Velocity Induced by Néel Spin-Orbit Torques

O. Gomonay, T. Jungwirth, and J. Sinova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017202 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

The Néel spin orbit torque — a current-induced generation of an effective staggered magnetic field in antiferromagnets — could be used to move a magnetic domain wall at high velocities, according to theoretical predictions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Suppressed Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Valley-Selective Magnetoabsorption due to the Effective Mass Anisotropy in Bismuth

Pieter J. de Visser, Julien Levallois, Michaël K. Tran, Jean-Marie Poumirol, Ievgeniia O. Nedoliuk, Jérémie Teyssier, Ctirad Uher, Dirk van der Marel, and Alexey B. Kuzmenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017402 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Elliptically polarized infrared light in an external magnetic field is used in a new technique to measure the anisotropic effective mass of electrons in semi-metals.

LETTERS

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

Direct Tunneling Delay Time Measurement in an Optical Lattice

A. Fortun, C. Cabrera-Gutiérrez, G. Condon, E. Michon, J. Billy, and D. Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010401 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Universal Property of Quantum Measurements of Equilibrium Fluctuations and Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem

Kyota Fujikura and Akira Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010402 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Characterizing Ground and Thermal States of Few-Body Hamiltonians

Felix Huber and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010403 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Practical and Reliable Error Bars in Quantum Tomography

Philippe Faist and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010404 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Thresholds for Universal Concatenated Quantum Codes

Christopher Chamberland, Tomas Jochym-O’Connor, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010501 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Experimental Quantum Randomness Processing Using Superconducting Qubits

Xiao Yuan, Ke Liu, Yuan Xu, Weiting Wang, Yuwei Ma, Fang Zhang, Zhaopeng Yan, R. Vijay, Luyan Sun, and Xiongfeng Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010502 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Efficient Bayesian Phase Estimation

Nathan Wiebe and Chris Granade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010503 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Exact Statistics of Record Increments of Random Walks and Lévy Flights

Claude Godrèche, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010601 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mechanical Autonomous Stochastic Heat Engine

Marc Serra-Garcia, André Foehr, Miguel Molerón, Joseph Lydon, Christopher Chong, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010602 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Researchers propose a stochastic heat engine that runs without an external control system.

Momentum-Space Entanglement and Loschmidt Echo in Luttinger Liquids after a Quantum Quench

Balázs Dóra, Rex Lundgren, Mark Selover, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010603 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Lattice Kinetic Theory in a Comoving Galilean Reference Frame

N. Frapolli, S. S. Chikatamarla, and I. V. Karlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010604 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black Hole Kicks as New Gravitational Wave Observables

Davide Gerosa and Christopher J. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011101 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Black Hole Formation in Randall-Sundrum II Braneworlds

Daoyan Wang and Matthew W. Choptuik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011102 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Composite Operators in the Twistor Formulation of $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Laura Koster, Vladimir Mitev, Matthias Staudacher, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011601 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Generalized Gravitational Entropy for Warped Anti–de Sitter Space

Wei Song, Qiang Wen, and Jianfei Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011602 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Complete Construction of Magical, Symmetric, and Homogeneous $N = 2$ Supergravities as Double Copies of Gauge Theories

M. Chiodaroli, M. Günaydin, H. Johansson, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011603 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Search for a Minimal $N = 1$ Superconformal Field Theory in 4D

Dan Xie and Kazuya Yonekura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011604 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

First Observation of the Doubly Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay of a Charmed Baryon: $Λ_{c}^{+} \to p K^{+} π^{-}$

S. B. Yang et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 011801 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Higgs Boson Pair Production in Gluon Fusion at Next-to-Leading Order with Full Top-Quark Mass Dependence

S. Borowka, N. Greiner, G. Heinrich, S. P. Jones, M. Kerner, J. Schlenk, U. Schubert, and T. Zirke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 012001 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

The production rate of a pair of Higgs bosons has been calculated with higher precision than before by using the exact value of the top quark mass in the calculation.

Nuclear Physics

First Measurement of Several $β$ -Delayed Neutron Emitting Isotopes Beyond $N = 126$

R. Caballero-Folch et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 012501 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum-Enhanced Sensing Based on Time Reversal of Nonlinear Dynamics

D. Linnemann, H. Strobel, W. Muessel, J. Schulz, R. J. Lewis-Swan, K. V. Kheruntsyan, and M. K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013001 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering Study of Ultrafast Photoinduced Structural Dynamics in Solvated $[Co (terpy)_{2}]^{2 +}$

Elisa Biasin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013002 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Optical Polarization Möbius Strips and Points of Purely Transverse Spin Density

Thomas Bauer, Martin Neugebauer, Gerd Leuchs, and Peter Banzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013601 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

Temporal Purity and Quantum Interference of Single Photons from Two Independent Cold Atomic Ensembles

Peng Qian, Zhenjie Gu, Rong Cao, Rong Wen, Z. Y. Ou, J. F. Chen, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013602 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Heteroclinic Structure of Parametric Resonance in the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

M. Conforti, A. Mussot, A. Kudlinski, S. Rota Nodari, G. Dujardin, S. De Biévre, A. Armaroli, and S. Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013901 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Topological Phases and Unpaired Dirac Cones in Photonic Floquet Topological Insulators

Daniel Leykam, M. C. Rechtsman, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013902 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

The design for a photonic lattice that can realize a previously unobserved anomalous Floquet phase is proposed.

Symmetric Potential Lattice and Smooth Propagation of Tail-Free Discrete Breathers

Yusuke Doi and Kazuyuki Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 014101 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Coherence-Resonance Chimeras in a Network of Excitable Elements

Nadezhda Semenova, Anna Zakharova, Vadim Anishchenko, and Eckehard Schöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 014102 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Electron Diffusion Region of Large Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection

S. Eriksson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015001 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Experimental Evidence of Backward Raman Scattering Driven Cooperatively by Two Picosecond Laser Pulses Propagating Side by Side

C. Rousseaux, K. Glize, S. D. Baton, L. Lancia, D. Bénisti, and L. Gremillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015002 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring the Second Chern Number from Nonadiabatic Effects

Michael Kolodrubetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015301 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Proposals are laid out for measuring the non-Abelian Berry curvature and the second Chern number of quantum systems including trapped ions, cold atoms, and superconducting qubits.

Inversion of Dynamical Scattering from Large-Angle Rocking-Beam Electron Diffraction Patterns

Feng Wang, Robert S. Pennington, and Christoph T. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015501 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hybrid Quantum Device with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Coupled to Carbon Nanotubes

Peng-Bo Li, Ze-Liang Xiang, Peter Rabl, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 015502 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Critical Quasiparticle Scattering within the Superconducting State of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

Johnpierre Paglione, M. A. Tanatar, J.-Ph. Reid, H. Shakeripour, C. Petrovic, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016601 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Topological Nodal-Line Fermions in ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe

Jin Hu, Zhijie Tang, Jinyu Liu, Xue Liu, Yanglin Zhu, David Graf, Kevin Myhro, Son Tran, Chun Ning Lau, Jiang Wei, and Zhiqiang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016602 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Quantum oscillation experiments on two node-line semimetals raises the possibility of realizing a two-dimensional topological insulator state in monolayers of ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe.

Location of Trapped Electron Centers in the Bulk of Epitaxial MgO(001) Films Grown on Mo(001) Using in situ $W$ -band Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Damien Cornu, Jan Rocker, Anastasia Gonchar, Thomas Risse, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016801 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explicit Derivation of Duality between a Free Dirac Cone and Quantum Electrodynamics in ( $2 + 1$ ) Dimensions

David F. Mross, Jason Alicea, and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016802 (2016) - Published 27 June, 2016

Theoretical work reveals a surprising relationship between the physics of fermionic vortices and quantum electrodynamics.

Nonvortical Rashba Spin Structure on a Surface with $C_{1 h}$ Symmetry

Emilia Annese, Takuya Kuzumaki, Beate Müller, Yuta Yamamoto, Hiroto Nakano, Haruki Kato, Atsushi Araki, Minoru Ohtaka, Takashi Aoki, Hirotaka Ishikawa, Takashi Hayashida, Jacek R. Osiecki, Koji Miyamoto, Yasuo Takeichi, Ayumi Harasawa, Koichiro Yaji, Tetsuroh Shirasawa, Koh-ichi Nittoh, Wooil Yang, Kazushi Miki, Tatsuki Oda, Han Woong Yeom, and Kazuyuki Sakamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016803 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Inhibiting Klein Tunneling in a Graphene $p − n$ Junction without an External Magnetic Field

Hyungju Oh, Sinisa Coh, Young-Woo Son, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016804 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Composite Topological Excitations in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Heterostructures

Kjetil M. D. Hals, Michael Schecter, and Mark S. Rudner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017001 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Solitary Magnons in the $S = \frac{5}{2}$ Antiferromagnet ${CaFe}_{2} O_{4}$

C. Stock, E. E. Rodriguez, N. Lee, M. A. Green, F. Demmel, R. A. Ewings, P. Fouquet, M. Laver, Ch. Niedermayer, Y. Su, K. Nemkovski, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017201 (2016) - Published 28 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Velocity Induced by Néel Spin-Orbit Torques

O. Gomonay, T. Jungwirth, and J. Sinova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017202 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Self-Sustained Micromechanical Oscillator with Linear Feedback

Changyao Chen, Damián H. Zanette, Jeffrey R. Guest, David A. Czaplewski, and Daniel López

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017203 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Chiral Spin-Orbital Liquids with Nodal Lines

W. M. H. Natori, E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and R. G. Pereira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017204 (2016) - Published 1 July, 2016

Optical Blocking of Electron Tunneling into a Single Self-Assembled Quantum Dot

A. Kurzmann, B. Merkel, P. A. Labud, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, A. Lorke, and M. Geller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017401 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Suppressed Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Valley-Selective Magnetoabsorption due to the Effective Mass Anisotropy in Bismuth

Pieter J. de Visser, Julien Levallois, Michaël K. Tran, Jean-Marie Poumirol, Ievgeniia O. Nedoliuk, Jérémie Teyssier, Ctirad Uher, Dirk van der Marel, and Alexey B. Kuzmenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017402 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Elliptically polarized infrared light in an external magnetic field is used in a new technique to measure the anisotropic effective mass of electrons in semi-metals.

Nonreciprocal Radio Frequency Transduction in a Parametric Mechanical Artificial Lattice

Pu Huang, Liang Zhang, Jingwei Zhou, Tian Tian, Peiran Yin, Changkui Duan, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017701 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016

Piezoelectric Electromechanical Coupling in Nanomechanical Resonators with a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

A. A. Shevyrin, A. G. Pogosov, A. K. Bakarov, and A. A. Shklyaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 017702 (2016) - Published 30 June, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Universal Relations for a Fermi Gas Close to a $p$ -Wave Interaction Resonance [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135304 (2015)]

Zhenhua Yu, Joseph H. Thywissen, and Shizhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 019901 (2016) - Published 29 June, 2016