Volume 117, Issue 13

23 September 2016

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Transport networks in biology developed through local adaptation and growth. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Global Optimization, Local Adaptation, and the Role of Growth in Distribution Networks
Henrik Ronellenfitsch and Eleni Katifori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138301 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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How Isotropic is the Universe?

Daniela Saadeh, Stephen M. Feeney, Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris, and Jason D. McEwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 131302 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

A new study of the cosmic microwave background places the strictest limits to date on a rotating Universe and other forms of cosmic anisotropy.

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Nuclear Binding Near a Quantum Phase Transition

Serdar Elhatisari, Ning Li, Alexander Rokash, Jose Manuel Alarcón, Dechuan Du, Nico Klein, Bing-nan Lu, Ulf-G. Meißner, Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Timo A. Lähde, Dean Lee, and Gautam Rupak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 132501 (2016) - Published 19 September, 2016

Simulations predict that the ground states of certain light nuclei lie near a quantum phase transition between a liquid-like phase and a phase involving clusters of alpha particles.

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Global Optimization, Local Adaptation, and the Role of Growth in Distribution Networks

Henrik Ronellenfitsch and Eleni Katifori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138301 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

A new model shows that tissue growth is crucial for explaining the formation of hierarchical and optimized vascular networks, such as those seen in plants and animals.

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Large Bragg Reflection from One-Dimensional Chains of Trapped Atoms Near a Nanoscale Waveguide

Neil V. Corzo, Baptiste Gouraud, Aveek Chandra, Akihisa Goban, Alexandra S. Sheremet, Dmitriy V. Kupriyanov, and Julien Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133603 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

Up to 75% of light reflects from just 2000 atoms aligned along an optical fiber, an arrangement that could be useful in photonic circuits.

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Coherent Backscattering of Light Off One-Dimensional Atomic Strings

H. L. Sørensen, J.-B. Béguin, K. W. Kluge, I. Iakoupov, A. S. Sørensen, J. H. Müller, E. S. Polzik, and J. Appel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133604 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

Up to 75% of light reflects from just 2000 atoms aligned along an optical fiber, an arrangement that could be useful in photonic circuits.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Continuous Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of the Transverse Component of a Qubit

U. Vool, S. Shankar, S. O. Mundhada, N. Ofek, A. Narla, K. Sliwa, E. Zalys-Geller, Y. Liu, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, S. M. Girvin, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133601 (2016) - Published 19 September, 2016

The transverse component of a superconducting qubit is continuously measured for the first time, showing quantum jumps between its eigenstates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magneto-Optical Signature of Massless Kane Electrons in ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

A. Akrap, M. Hakl, S. Tchoumakov, I. Crassee, J. Kuba, M. O. Goerbig, C. C. Homes, O. Caha, J. Novák, F. Teppe, W. Desrat, S. Koohpayeh, L. Wu, N. P. Armitage, A. Nateprov, E. Arushanov, Q. D. Gibson, R. J. Cava, D. van der Marel, B. A. Piot, C. Faugeras, G. Martinez, M. Potemski, and M. Orlita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136401 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Optical reflectivity experiments on Cd $_{3}$ As $_{2}$ indicate the presence of Kane electrons rather than Dirac fermions in this material. The results contradict those from recent ARPES experiments, but agree with recent STM results.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stress Singularities in Swelling Soft Solids

Alain Goriely, Johannes Weickenmeier, and Ellen Kuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138001 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

A swelling brain bulging out of a circular opening in the skull exhibits a stress singularity (similar to that seen for punch indentation) at the point of contact with the skull.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revealing Three-Dimensional Structure of an Individual Colloidal Crystal Grain by Coherent X-Ray Diffractive Imaging

A. G. Shabalin, J.-M. Meijer, R. Dronyak, O. M. Yefanov, A. Singer, R. P. Kurta, U. Lorenz, O. Y. Gorobtsov, D. Dzhigaev, S. Kalbfleisch, J. Gulden, A. V. Zozulya, M. Sprung, A. V. Petukhov, and I. A. Vartanyants

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138002 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Coherent x-ray diffraction imaging via an iterative phase retrieval approach allows for the visualization of the 3D positions of individual particles in a single colloidal crystal grain.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Correlations, Separability, and Quantum Coherence Length in Equilibrium Many-Body Systems

Daniele Malpetti and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 130401 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Determination of the Nonequilibrium Steady State Emerging from a Defect

Bruno Bertini and Maurizio Fagotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 130402 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Quantum-Enhanced Machine Learning

Vedran Dunjko, Jacob M. Taylor, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 130501 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Noise-Resilient Quantum Computing with a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center and Nuclear Spins

J. Casanova, Z.-Y. Wang, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 130502 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Improved Error Thresholds for Measurement-Free Error Correction

Daniel Crow, Robert Joynt, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 130503 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Shocks in the Early Universe

Ue-Li Pen and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 131301 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Isotropic is the Universe?

Daniela Saadeh, Stephen M. Feeney, Andrew Pontzen, Hiranya V. Peiris, and Jason D. McEwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 131302 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

A new study of the cosmic microwave background places the strictest limits to date on a rotating Universe and other forms of cosmic anisotropy.

Thermodynamics of Accelerating Black Holes

Michael Appels, Ruth Gregory, and David Kubizňák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 131303 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Necessary Condition for Emergent Symmetry from the Conformal Bootstrap

Yu Nakayama and Tomoki Ohtsuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 131601 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Entanglement of Distillation for Lattice Gauge Theories

Karel Van Acoleyen, Nick Bultinck, Jutho Haegeman, Michael Marien, Volkher B. Scholz, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 131602 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Nuclear Physics

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Nuclear Binding Near a Quantum Phase Transition

Serdar Elhatisari, Ning Li, Alexander Rokash, Jose Manuel Alarcón, Dechuan Du, Nico Klein, Bing-nan Lu, Ulf-G. Meißner, Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Timo A. Lähde, Dean Lee, and Gautam Rupak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 132501 (2016) - Published 19 September, 2016

Simulations predict that the ground states of certain light nuclei lie near a quantum phase transition between a liquid-like phase and a phase involving clusters of alpha particles.

Insight into the Narrow Structure in $η$ Photoproduction on the Neutron from Helicity-Dependent Cross Sections

L. Witthauer et al. (A2 Collaboration at MAMI)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 132502 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Double-Core-Hole States in Neon: Lifetime, Post-Collision Interaction, and Spectral Assignment

G. Goldsztejn, T. Marchenko, R. Püttner, L. Journel, R. Guillemin, S. Carniato, P. Selles, O. Travnikova, D. Céolin, A. F. Lago, R. Feifel, P. Lablanquie, M. N. Piancastelli, F. Penent, and M. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133001 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Towards Efficient Orbital-Dependent Density Functionals for Weak and Strong Correlation

Igor Ying Zhang, Patrick Rinke, John P. Perdew, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133002 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Signatures of Quantum Coherences in Rydberg Excitons

P. Grünwald, M. Aßmann, J. Heckötter, D. Fröhlich, M. Bayer, H. Stolz, and S. Scheel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133003 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Detection of Recurrent Fluorescence Photons

Yuta Ebara, Takeshi Furukawa, Jun Matsumoto, Hajime Tanuma, Toshiyuki Azuma, Haruo Shiromaru, and Klavs Hansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133004 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

Controlling Nonsequential Double Ionization in Two-Color Circularly Polarized Femtosecond Laser Fields

Christopher A. Mancuso, Kevin M. Dorney, Daniel D. Hickstein, Jan L. Chaloupka, Jennifer L. Ellis, Franklin J. Dollar, Ronny Knut, Patrik Grychtol, Dmitriy Zusin, Christian Gentry, Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133201 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Nonsequential Double Ionization by Counterrotating Circularly Polarized Two-Color Laser Fields

S. Eckart, M. Richter, M. Kunitski, A. Hartung, J. Rist, K. Henrichs, N. Schlott, H. Kang, T. Bauer, H. Sann, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133202 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Continuous Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of the Transverse Component of a Qubit

U. Vool, S. Shankar, S. O. Mundhada, N. Ofek, A. Narla, K. Sliwa, E. Zalys-Geller, Y. Liu, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, S. M. Girvin, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133601 (2016) - Published 19 September, 2016

The transverse component of a superconducting qubit is continuously measured for the first time, showing quantum jumps between its eigenstates.

Triple-Resonant Brillouin Light Scattering in Magneto-Optical Cavities

J. A. Haigh, A. Nunnenkamp, A. J. Ramsay, and A. J. Ferguson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133602 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

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Large Bragg Reflection from One-Dimensional Chains of Trapped Atoms Near a Nanoscale Waveguide

Neil V. Corzo, Baptiste Gouraud, Aveek Chandra, Akihisa Goban, Alexandra S. Sheremet, Dmitriy V. Kupriyanov, and Julien Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133603 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

Up to 75% of light reflects from just 2000 atoms aligned along an optical fiber, an arrangement that could be useful in photonic circuits.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent Backscattering of Light Off One-Dimensional Atomic Strings

H. L. Sørensen, J.-B. Béguin, K. W. Kluge, I. Iakoupov, A. S. Sørensen, J. H. Müller, E. S. Polzik, and J. Appel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133604 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

Up to 75% of light reflects from just 2000 atoms aligned along an optical fiber, an arrangement that could be useful in photonic circuits.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extended Propagation of Powerful Laser Pulses in Focusing Kerr Media

V. M. Malkin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133901 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Illuminating Molecular Symmetries with Bicircular High-Order-Harmonic Generation

Daniel M. Reich and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 133902 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Universal Scaling of Robust Thermal Hot Spot and Ionic Current Enhancement by Focused Ohmic Heating in a Conic Nanopore

Zehao Pan, Ceming Wang, Meng Li, and Hsueh-Chia Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 134301 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Spatiotemporal Wave Front Shaping in a Microwave Cavity

Philipp del Hougne, Fabrice Lemoult, Mathias Fink, and Geoffroy Lerosey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 134302 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Persistent Directional Current at Equilibrium in Nonreciprocal Many-Body Near Field Electromagnetic Heat Transfer

Linxiao Zhu and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 134303 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

Universal Scaling Laws for Dense Particle Suspensions in Turbulent Wall-Bounded Flows

Pedro Costa, Francesco Picano, Luca Brandt, and Wim-Paul Breugem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 134501 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evidence of Toroidally Localized Turbulence with Applied 3D Fields in the DIII-D Tokamak

R. S. Wilcox, M. W. Shafer, N. M. Ferraro, G. R. McKee, L. Zeng, T. L. Rhodes, J. M. Canik, C. Paz-Soldan, R. Nazikian, and E. A. Unterberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135001 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermodynamics versus Local Density Fluctuations in the Metal–Mott-Insulator Crossover

J. H. Drewes, E. Cocchi, L. A. Miller, C. F. Chan, D. Pertot, F. Brennecke, and M. Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135301 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Spin-Orbit-Coupled Correlated Metal Phase in Kondo Lattices: An Implementation with Alkaline-Earth Atoms

L. Isaev, J. Schachenmayer, and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135302 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Initial Atomic Motion Immediately Following Femtosecond-Laser Excitation in Phase-Change Materials

E. Matsubara, S. Okada, T. Ichitsubo, T. Kawaguchi, A. Hirata, P. F. Guan, K. Tokuda, K. Tanimura, T. Matsunaga, M. W. Chen, and N. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135501 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Machine Learning Energies of 2 Million Elpasolite $(A B C_{2} D_{6})$ Crystals

Felix A. Faber, Alexander Lindmaa, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, and Rickard Armiento

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135502 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Superionic-Superionic Phase Transitions in Body-Centered Cubic $H_{2} O$ Ice

Jean-Alexis Hernandez and Razvan Caracas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135503 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Deformation Behavior across the Zircon-Scheelite Phase Transition

Binbin Yue, Fang Hong, Sébastien Merkel, Dayong Tan, Jinyuan Yan, Bin Chen, and Ho-Kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135701 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Interfacial Free Energy as the Key to the Pressure-Induced Deceleration of Ice Nucleation

Jorge R. Espinosa, Alberto Zaragoza, Pablo Rosales-Pelaez, Caridad Navarro, Chantal Valeriani, Carlos Vega, and Eduardo Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 135702 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magneto-Optical Signature of Massless Kane Electrons in ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136401 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Fate of Spinons at the Mott Point

Tsung-Han Lee, Serge Florens, and Vladimir Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136601 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

$Z_{2}$ and Chiral Anomalies in Topological Dirac Semimetals

Anton A. Burkov and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136602 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Ultrafast Spin Density Wave Transition in Chromium Governed by Thermalized Electron Gas

C. W. Nicholson, C. Monney, R. Carley, B. Frietsch, J. Bowlan, M. Weinelt, and M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136801 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Bosonic Analogue of Dirac Composite Fermi Liquid

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136802 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Lateral Electron Confinement with Open Boundaries: Quantum Well States above Nanocavities at Pb(111)

M. Müller, N. Néel, S. Crampin, and J. Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 136803 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Correlation-Enhanced Odd-Parity Interorbital Singlet Pairing in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductor LiFeAs

R. Nourafkan, G. Kotliar, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 137001 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Self-Induced Glassiness and Pattern Formation in Spin Systems Subject to Long-Range Interactions

Alessandro Principi and Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 137201 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Exact Bethe Ansatz Spectrum of a Tight-Binding Chain with Dephasing Noise

Mariya V. Medvedyeva, Fabian H. L. Essler, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 137202 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Ab Initio Theory of Coherent Laser-Induced Magnetization in Metals

Marco Berritta, Ritwik Mondal, Karel Carva, and Peter M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 137203 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Spin-Orbit Twisted Spin Waves: Group Velocity Control

F. Perez, F. Baboux, C. A. Ullrich, I. D’Amico, G. Vignale, G. Karczewski, and T. Wojtowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 137204 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stress Singularities in Swelling Soft Solids

Alain Goriely, Johannes Weickenmeier, and Ellen Kuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138001 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

A swelling brain bulging out of a circular opening in the skull exhibits a stress singularity (similar to that seen for punch indentation) at the point of contact with the skull.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revealing Three-Dimensional Structure of an Individual Colloidal Crystal Grain by Coherent X-Ray Diffractive Imaging

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138002 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

Coherent x-ray diffraction imaging via an iterative phase retrieval approach allows for the visualization of the 3D positions of individual particles in a single colloidal crystal grain.

Theory of Acoustic Raman Modes in Proteins

Timothy DeWolf and Reuven Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138101 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Pointlike Inclusion Interactions in Tubular Membranes

Afshin Vahid and Timon Idema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138102 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Symmetry and Size of Membrane Protein Polyhedral Nanoparticles

Di Li, Osman Kahraman, and Christoph A. Haselwandter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138103 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

Nonadditive Compositional Curvature Energetics of Lipid Bilayers

A. J. Sodt, R. M. Venable, E. Lyman, and R. W. Pastor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138104 (2016) - Published 23 September, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Global Optimization, Local Adaptation, and the Role of Growth in Distribution Networks

Henrik Ronellenfitsch and Eleni Katifori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138301 (2016) - Published 22 September, 2016

A new model shows that tissue growth is crucial for explaining the formation of hierarchical and optimized vascular networks, such as those seen in plants and animals.

Simultaneous Precision Gravimetry and Magnetic Gradiometry with a Bose-Einstein Condensate: A High Precision, Quantum Sensor

K. S. Hardman, P. J. Everitt, G. D. McDonald, P. Manju, P. B. Wigley, M. A. Sooriyabandara, C. C. N. Kuhn, J. E. Debs, J. D. Close, and N. P. Robins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 138501 (2016) - Published 21 September, 2016

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Glassy Dynamics in Disordered Electronic Systems Reveal Striking Thermal Memory Effects [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 116601 (2016)]

A. Eisenbach, T. Havdala, J. Delahaye, T. Grenet, A. Amir, and A. Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 139901 (2016) - Published 20 September, 2016

Volume 117, Issue 13

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

COMMENTS

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