Volume 117, Issue 10

2 September 2016

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On the Cover

Topology-optimized photonic binary dielectric (black)/air (white) square lattices which will give rise to third order Dirac exceptional points.

From the article:

Enhanced Spontaneous Emission at Third-Order Dirac Exceptional Points in Inverse-Designed Photonic Crystals
Zin Lin, Adi Pick, Marko Lončar, and Alejandro W. Rodriguez
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107402 (2016)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Hybridizing Quantum Physics and Engineering

Monika Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100001 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Quantum Computing with Arbitrary Continuous-Variable Encoding

Hoi-Kwan Lau and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100501 (2016) - Published 31 August, 2016

A theoretical scheme is proposed for universal quantum computation using qubits encoded with the parity of two or four continuous variable quantum modes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gate Tuning of Electronic Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional ${NbSe}_{2}$

Xiaoxiang Xi, Helmuth Berger, László Forró, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106801 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

The efficient gate control of electronic phase transitions in the 2D crystalline metal NbSe $_{2}$ is experimentally demonstrated.

LETTERS

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

Ultradilute Low-Dimensional Liquids

D. S. Petrov and G. E. Astrakharchik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100401 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Failure of Local Thermal Equilibrium in Quantum Friction

F. Intravaia, R. O. Behunin, C. Henkel, K. Busch, and D. A. R. Dalvit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100402 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Quantum Computing with Arbitrary Continuous-Variable Encoding

Hoi-Kwan Lau and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100501 (2016) - Published 31 August, 2016

A theoretical scheme is proposed for universal quantum computation using qubits encoded with the parity of two or four continuous variable quantum modes.

Exponential Communication Complexity Advantage from Quantum Superposition of the Direction of Communication

Philippe Allard Guérin, Adrien Feix, Mateus Araújo, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100502 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Free-Space Quantum Signatures Using Heterodyne Measurements

Callum Croal, Christian Peuntinger, Bettina Heim, Imran Khan, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs, Petros Wallden, Erika Andersson, and Natalia Korolkova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100503 (2016) - Published 2 September, 2016

Langevin Equations for Reaction-Diffusion Processes

Federico Benitez, Charlie Duclut, Hugues Chaté, Bertrand Delamotte, Ivan Dornic, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100601 (2016) - Published 2 September, 2016

Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of a Quantum Squeezed State Beyond the 3 dB Limit

C. U. Lei, A. J. Weinstein, J. Suh, E. E. Wollman, A. Kronwald, F. Marquardt, A. A. Clerk, and K. C. Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100801 (2016) - Published 30 August, 2016

Demonstration of a Coherent Electronic Spin Cluster in Diamond

Helena S. Knowles, Dhiren M. Kara, and Mete Atatüre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100802 (2016) - Published 2 September, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Screened Interactions Associated with Dark Energy below the $100 μ m$ Length Scale

Alexander D. Rider, David C. Moore, Charles P. Blakemore, Maxime Louis, Marie Lu, and Giorgio Gratta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 101101 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

Spectroscopy of Kerr Black Holes with Earth- and Space-Based Interferometers

Emanuele Berti, Alberto Sesana, Enrico Barausse, Vitor Cardoso, and Krzysztof Belczynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 101102 (2016) - Published 2 September, 2016

Sound Speed of Primordial Fluctuations in Supergravity Inflation

Alexander Hetz and Gonzalo A. Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 101301 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Electrophobic Scalar Boson and Muonic Puzzles

Yu-Sheng Liu, David McKeen, and Gerald A. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 101801 (2016) - Published 2 September, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Magnetic Shift of the Chemical Freeze-out and Electric Charge Fluctuations

Kenji Fukushima and Yoshimasa Hidaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 102301 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Proton Distribution Radii of ${}^{12 - 19}C$ Illuminate Features of Neutron Halos

R. Kanungo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 102501 (2016) - Published 2 September, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rotational Control of Asymmetric Molecules: Dipole- versus Polarizability-Driven Rotational Dynamics

Ran Damari, Shimshon Kallush, and Sharly Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103001 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Photon Energy Deposition in Strong-Field Single Ionization of Multielectron Molecules

Wenbin Zhang, Zhichao Li, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Feng He, Heping Zeng, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103002 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Strong Coupling of Rydberg Atoms and Surface Phonon Polaritons on Piezoelectric Superlattices

Jiteng Sheng, Yuanxi Chao, and James P. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103201 (2016) - Published 30 August, 2016

Orbital Angular Momentum-Entanglement Frequency Transducer

Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Shi-Long Liu, Yan Li, Dong-Sheng Ding, Wei Zhang, Shuai Shi, Ming-Xin Dong, Bao-Sen Shi, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103601 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

Ultrashort Pulses for Far-Field Nanoscopy

Patrick Maurer, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Oriol Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 103602 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Large Deviation Function for the Number of Eigenvalues of Sparse Random Graphs Inside an Interval

Fernando L. Metz and Isaac Pérez Castillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 104101 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

From Cylindrical to Stretching Ridges and Wrinkles in Twisted Ribbons

Huy Pham Dinh, Vincent Démery, Benny Davidovitch, Fabian Brau, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 104301 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Advection and the Efficiency of Spectral Energy Transfer in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Lei Fang and Nicholas T. Ouellette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 104501 (2016) - Published 30 August, 2016

Bubble Drag Reduction Requires Large Bubbles

Ruben A. Verschoof, Roeland C. A. van der Veen, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 104502 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Chirped-Standing-Wave Acceleration of Ions with Intense Lasers

F. Mackenroth, A. Gonoskov, and M. Marklund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 104801 (2016) - Published 30 August, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamics of a Mobile Impurity in a One-Dimensional Bose Liquid

Aleksandra Petković and Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 105301 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Toward the Intrinsic Limit of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Jixia Dai, Damien West, Xueyun Wang, Yazhong Wang, Daniel Kwok, S.-W. Cheong, S. B. Zhang, and Weida Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106401 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

Dichotomy between Attractive and Repulsive Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids in Spin Ladders

M. Jeong (정민기), D. Schmidiger, H. Mayaffre, M. Klanjšek, C. Berthier, W. Knafo, G. Ballon, B. Vignolle, S. Krämer, A. Zheludev, and M. Horvatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106402 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Two-Channel Kondo Physics due to As Vacancies in the Layered Compound ${ZrAs}_{1.58} {Se}_{0.39}$

T. Cichorek, L. Bochenek, M. Schmidt, A. Czulucki, G. Auffermann, R. Kniep, R. Niewa, F. Steglich, and S. Kirchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106601 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gate Tuning of Electronic Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional ${NbSe}_{2}$

Xiaoxiang Xi, Helmuth Berger, László Forró, Jie Shan, and Kin Fai Mak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106801 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

The efficient gate control of electronic phase transitions in the 2D crystalline metal NbSe $_{2}$ is experimentally demonstrated.

Observation of an Anisotropic Wigner Crystal

Yang Liu, S. Hasdemir, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106802 (2016) - Published 30 August, 2016

Predictive Control over Charge Density in the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at the Polar-Nonpolar ${NdTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

Peng Xu, Yilikal Ayino, Christopher Cheng, Vlad S. Pribiag, Ryan B. Comes, Peter V. Sushko, Scott A. Chambers, and Bharat Jalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 106803 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Persistent Paramagnons Deep in the Metallic Phase of ${Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {IrO}_{4}$

H. Gretarsson, N. H. Sung, J. Porras, J. Bertinshaw, C. Dietl, Jan A. N. Bruin, A. F. Bangura, Y. K. Kim, R. Dinnebier, Jungho Kim, A. Al-Zein, M. Moretti Sala, M. Krisch, M. Le Tacon, B. Keimer, and B. J. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107001 (2016) - Published 1 September, 2016

Inertia-Free Thermally Driven Domain-Wall Motion in Antiferromagnets

Severin Selzer, Unai Atxitia, Ulrike Ritzmann, Denise Hinzke, and Ulrich Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107201 (2016) - Published 29 August, 2016

Magnons and Phonons Optically Driven out of Local Equilibrium in a Magnetic Insulator

Kyongmo An, Kevin S. Olsson, Annie Weathers, Sean Sullivan, Xi Chen, Xiang Li, Luke G. Marshall, Xin Ma, Nikita Klimovich, Jianshi Zhou, Li Shi, and Xiaoqin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107202 (2016) - Published 30 August, 2016

Pressure-Tuned Exchange Coupling of a Quantum Spin Liquid in the Molecular Triangular Lattice $κ − (ET)_{2} {Ag}_{2} (CN)_{3}$

Yasuhiro Shimizu, Takaaki Hiramatsu, Mitsuhiko Maesato, Akihiro Otsuka, Hideki Yamochi, Akihiro Ono, Masayuki Itoh, Makoto Yoshida, Masashi Takigawa, Yukihiro Yoshida, and Gunzi Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 107203 (2016) - Published 31 August, 2016