Volume 117, Issue 14

30 September 2016

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Sequence of scanning tunneling microscopy images of Au adatoms (circular protrusions) on NaCl(2ML)/Cu(111). Two initially neutral Au adatoms (marked by red arrows) were deliberately charged negatively and that initiated their diffusion.

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Charge-State-Dependent Diffusion of Individual Gold Adatoms on Ionic Thin NaCl Films
Jascha Repp, Wolfram Steurer, Ivan Scivetti, Mats Persson, Leo Gross, and Gerhard Meyer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146102 (2016)

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24-Hour Relativistic Bit Commitment

Ephanielle Verbanis, Anthony Martin, Raphaël Houlmann, Gianluca Boso, Félix Bussières, and Hugo Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140506 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Researchers have securely contained a single bit for a record 24 hours, during which it was inaccessible to both sender and recipient, a technology that could be useful for voting or bidding.

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Ultracompact Minihalos as Probes of Inflationary Cosmology

Grigor Aslanyan, Layne C. Price, Jenni Adams, Torsten Bringmann, Hamish A. Clark, Richard Easther, Geraint F. Lewis, and Pat Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141102 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Searches for ultracompact clumps of cold dark matter have come up empty, but these nondetections place new limits on the early expansion history of the Universe.

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Power Series Approximation for the Correlation Kernel Leading to Kohn-Sham Methods Combining Accuracy, Computational Efficiency, and General Applicability

Jannis Erhard, Patrick Bleiziffer, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143002 (2016) - Published 26 September, 2016

A new approach to calculating the properties of molecules and solids may offer higher accuracy at reasonable computational cost, accelerating the discovery of useful materials.

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Observation of Coupled Vortex Lattices in a Mass-Imbalance Bose and Fermi Superfluid Mixture

Xing-Can Yao, Hao-Ze Chen, Yu-Ping Wu, Xiang-Pei Liu, Xiao-Qiong Wang, Xiao Jiang, Youjin Deng, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 145301 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Researchers mixed two superfluids of different atoms together and observed that vortices in one affected those in the other—evidence of mutual interaction between the two species.

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Neurofilaments Function as Shock Absorbers: Compression Response Arising from Disordered Proteins

Micha Kornreich, Eti Malka-Gibor, Ben Zuker, Adi Laser-Azogui, and Roy Beck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 148101 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

Proteins in nerve cells function like shock absorbers that protect the cells from mechanical stress.

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High-Fidelity Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic Using Near-Field Microwaves

T. P. Harty, M. A. Sepiol, D. T. C. Allcock, C. J. Ballance, J. E. Tarlton, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140501 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

A high-fidelity two-qubit quantum gate is implemented in a trapped-ion setup using microwaves, instead of standard laser fields.

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Geometrical Destabilization of Inflation

Sébastien Renaux-Petel and Krzysztof Turzyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141301 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

A general mechanism is proposed by which curvature effects can prematurely end inflation, excluding some otherwise viable models.

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Ortho-Para-Dependent Pressure Effects Observed in the Near Infrared Band of Acetylene by Dual-Comb Spectroscopy

Kana Iwakuni, Sho Okubo, Koichi M. T. Yamada, Hajime Inaba, Atsushi Onae, Feng-Lei Hong, and Hiroyuki Sasada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143902 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

The pressure broadening coefficient of the $ν_{1} + ν_{3}$ vibrational band of acetylene is experimentally observed to have a nuclear spin state dependence.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Backaction Evading Measurement of Collective Mechanical Modes

C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi, E. Damskägg, J.-M. Pirkkalainen, A. A. Clerk, M. J. Woolley, and M. A. Sillanpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140401 (2016) - Published 26 September, 2016

Experimental Test of Residual Error-Disturbance Uncertainty Relations for Mixed Spin- $½$ States

Bülent Demirel, Stephan Sponar, Georg Sulyok, Masanao Ozawa, and Yuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140402 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

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High-Fidelity Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic Using Near-Field Microwaves

T. P. Harty, M. A. Sepiol, D. T. C. Allcock, C. J. Ballance, J. E. Tarlton, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140501 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

A high-fidelity two-qubit quantum gate is implemented in a trapped-ion setup using microwaves, instead of standard laser fields.

Preparation of Entangled States through Hilbert Space Engineering

Y. Lin, J. P. Gaebler, F. Reiter, T. R. Tan, R. Bowler, Y. Wan, A. Keith, E. Knill, S. Glancy, K. Coakley, A. S. Sørensen, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140502 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Continuous-Wave Single-Photon Transistor Based on a Superconducting Circuit

Oleksandr Kyriienko and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140503 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Recovering Quantum Properties of Continuous-Variable States in the Presence of Measurement Errors

E. Shchukin and P. van Loock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140504 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Proposal for Microwave Boson Sampling

Borja Peropadre, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, Joonsuk Huh, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140505 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

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24-Hour Relativistic Bit Commitment

Ephanielle Verbanis, Anthony Martin, Raphaël Houlmann, Gianluca Boso, Félix Bussières, and Hugo Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 140506 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Researchers have securely contained a single bit for a record 24 hours, during which it was inaccessible to both sender and recipient, a technology that could be useful for voting or bidding.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Universal Modified Newtonian Dynamics Relation between the Baryonic and “Dynamical” Central Surface Densities of Disc Galaxies

Mordehai Milgrom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141101 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

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Ultracompact Minihalos as Probes of Inflationary Cosmology

Grigor Aslanyan, Layne C. Price, Jenni Adams, Torsten Bringmann, Hamish A. Clark, Richard Easther, Geraint F. Lewis, and Pat Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141102 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Searches for ultracompact clumps of cold dark matter have come up empty, but these nondetections place new limits on the early expansion history of the Universe.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Geometrical Destabilization of Inflation

Sébastien Renaux-Petel and Krzysztof Turzyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141301 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

A general mechanism is proposed by which curvature effects can prematurely end inflation, excluding some otherwise viable models.

Numerical Evidence for a Phase Transition in 4D Spin-Foam Quantum Gravity

Benjamin Bahr and Sebastian Steinhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141302 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Simple Emergent Power Spectra from Complex Inflationary Physics

Mafalda Dias, Jonathan Frazer, and M. C. David Marsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141303 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anomalous Transport Due to the Conformal Anomaly

M. N. Chernodub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141601 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Broadband and Resonant Approaches to Axion Dark Matter Detection

Yonatan Kahn, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 141801 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Energy Scan of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to h_{b} (n P) π^{+} π^{-}$ ( $n = 1$ , 2) Cross Sections and Evidence for $ϒ (11020)$ Decays into Charged Bottomoniumlike States

R. Mizuk et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 142001 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Chiral Magnetic Effect and Anomalous Transport from Real-Time Lattice Simulations

Niklas Müller, Sören Schlichting, and Sayantan Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 142301 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Branching and Fragmentation of Dipole Strength in ${}^{181}{Ta}$ in the Region of the Scissors Mode

C. T. Angell, R. Hajima, T. Shizuma, B. Ludewigt, and B. J. Quiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 142501 (2016) - Published 26 September, 2016

Improved Direct Measurement of the 64.5 keV Resonance Strength in the ${}^{17}O (p, α) {}^{14}N$ Reaction at LUNA

C. G. Bruno et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 142502 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Strong Neutron- $γ$ Competition above the Neutron Threshold in the Decay of ${}^{70}{Co}$

A. Spyrou, S. N. Liddick, F. Naqvi, B. P. Crider, A. C. Dombos, D. L. Bleuel, B. A. Brown, A. Couture, L. Crespo Campo, M. Guttormsen, A. C. Larsen, R. Lewis, P. Möller, S. Mosby, M. R. Mumpower, G. Perdikakis, C. J. Prokop, T. Renstrøm, S. Siem, S. J. Quinn, and S. Valenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 142701 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect from Liquids

C. A. Arrell, J. Ojeda, L. Mewes, J. Grilj, F. Frassetto, L. Poletto, F. van Mourik, and M. Chergui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143001 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

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Power Series Approximation for the Correlation Kernel Leading to Kohn-Sham Methods Combining Accuracy, Computational Efficiency, and General Applicability

Jannis Erhard, Patrick Bleiziffer, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143002 (2016) - Published 26 September, 2016

A new approach to calculating the properties of molecules and solids may offer higher accuracy at reasonable computational cost, accelerating the discovery of useful materials.

Free Nano-Object Ramsey Interferometry for Large Quantum Superpositions

C. Wan, M. Scala, G. W. Morley, ATM. A. Rahman, H. Ulbricht, J. Bateman, P. F. Barker, S. Bose, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143003 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Improvement of an Atomic Clock using Squeezed Vacuum

I. Kruse, K. Lange, J. Peise, B. Lücke, L. Pezzè, J. Arlt, W. Ertmer, C. Lisdat, L. Santos, A. Smerzi, and C. Klempt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143004 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Spin-Orbit Interactions and Quantum Spin Dynamics in Cold Ion-Atom Collisions

Timur V. Tscherbul, Paul Brumer, and Alexei A. Buchachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143201 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Attosecond Time Delay in Photoemission and Electron Scattering near Threshold

Anatoli S. Kheifets, Alexander W. Bray, and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143202 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Measurement-Induced Macroscopic Superposition States in Cavity Optomechanics

Ulrich B. Hoff, Johann Kollath-Bönig, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143601 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Emergence of correlated optics in one-dimensional waveguides for classical and quantum atomic gases

Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143602 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Edge Solitons in Nonlinear-Photonic Topological Insulators

Daniel Leykam and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143901 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

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Ortho-Para-Dependent Pressure Effects Observed in the Near Infrared Band of Acetylene by Dual-Comb Spectroscopy

Kana Iwakuni, Sho Okubo, Koichi M. T. Yamada, Hajime Inaba, Atsushi Onae, Feng-Lei Hong, and Hiroyuki Sasada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143902 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

The pressure broadening coefficient of the $ν_{1} + ν_{3}$ vibrational band of acetylene is experimentally observed to have a nuclear spin state dependence.

Power Spectrum Analysis and Missing Level Statistics of Microwave Graphs with Violated Time Reversal Invariance

Małgorzata Białous, Vitalii Yunko, Szymon Bauch, Michał Ławniczak, Barbara Dietz, and Leszek Sirko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 144101 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Experimental Observation and Theoretical Description of Multisoliton Fission in Shallow Water

S. Trillo, G. Deng, G. Biondini, M. Klein, G. F. Clauss, A. Chabchoub, and M. Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 144102 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Tracking Breather Dynamics in Irregular Sea State Conditions

Amin Chabchoub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 144103 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Experimental Observation of Dynamical Localization in Laser-Kicked Molecular Rotors

M. Bitter and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 144104 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

Emergence of Chemical Oscillations from Nanosized Target Patterns

Cédric Barroo, Yannick De Decker, Thierry Visart de Bocarmé, and Norbert Kruse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 144501 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collective Deceleration of Laser-Driven Electron Bunches

S. Chou (周紹暐), J. Xu (徐建彩), K. Khrennikov, D. E. Cardenas, J. Wenz, M. Heigoldt, L. Hofmann, L. Veisz, and S. Karsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 144801 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Spatial and Transient Effects during the Amplification of a Picosecond Pulse Beam by a Nanosecond Pump

C. Neuville, C. Baccou, A. Debayle, P.-E. Masson-Laborde, S. Hüller, M. Casanova, D. Marion, P. Loiseau, K. Glize, C. Labaune, and S. Depierreux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 145001 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Synchronization of Geodesic Acoustic Modes and Magnetic Fluctuations in Toroidal Plasmas

K. J. Zhao, Y. Nagashima, P. H. Diamond, J. Q. Dong, K. Itoh, S.- I. Itoh, L. W. Yan, J. Cheng, A. Fujisawa, S. Inagaki, Y. Kosuga, M. Sasaki, Z. X. Wang, L. Wei, Z. H. Huang, D. L. Yu, W. Y. Hong, Q. Li, X. Q. Ji, X. M. Song, Y. Huang, Yi. Liu, Q. W. Yang, X. T. Ding, and X. R. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 145002 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of Coupled Vortex Lattices in a Mass-Imbalance Bose and Fermi Superfluid Mixture

Xing-Can Yao, Hao-Ze Chen, Yu-Ping Wu, Xiang-Pei Liu, Xiao-Qiong Wang, Xiao Jiang, Youjin Deng, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 145301 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Researchers mixed two superfluids of different atoms together and observed that vortices in one affected those in the other—evidence of mutual interaction between the two species.

Applicability of Dynamic Facilitation Theory to Binary Hard Disk Systems

Masaharu Isobe, Aaron S. Keys, David Chandler, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 145701 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Topological Symmetry Breaking in Viscous Coarsening

David Bouttes, Emmanuelle Gouillart, and Damien Vandembroucq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 145702 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Hot Adatom Diffusion Following Oxygen Dissociation on Pd(100) and Pd(111): A First-Principles Study of the Equilibration Dynamics of Exothermic Surface Reactions

Vanessa J. Bukas and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146101 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Charge-State-Dependent Diffusion of Individual Gold Adatoms on Ionic Thin NaCl Films

Jascha Repp, Wolfram Steurer, Ivan Scivetti, Mats Persson, Leo Gross, and Gerhard Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146102 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Chiral Weyl Pockets and Fermi Surface Topology of the Weyl Semimetal TaAs

F. Arnold, M. Naumann, S.-C. Wu, Y. Sun, M. Schmidt, H. Borrmann, C. Felser, B. Yan, and E. Hassinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146401 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Pressure-Induced New Topological Weyl Semimetal Phase in TaAs

Yonghui Zhou, Pengchao Lu, Yongping Du, Xiangde Zhu, Ganghua Zhang, Ranran Zhang, Dexi Shao, Xuliang Chen, Xuefei Wang, Mingliang Tian, Jian Sun, Xiangang Wan, Zhaorong Yang, Wenge Yang, Yuheng Zhang, and Dingyu Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146402 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Strong Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect in the TaAs Family of Weyl Semimetals

Yan Sun, Yang Zhang, Claudia Felser, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146403 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Interaction-Tuned Anderson versus Mott Localization

Andrey E. Antipov, Younes Javanmard, Pedro Ribeiro, and Stefan Kirchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146601 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Exponential Orthogonality Catastrophe at the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition

S. Kettemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146602 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

Chiral Anomaly and Giant Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Noncentrosymmetric Weyl Semimetals

Takahiro Morimoto and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146603 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Dynamical Scheme for Interferometric Measurements of Full-Counting Statistics

David Dasenbrook and Christian Flindt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146801 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Ultrafast Emission and Detection of a Single-Electron Gaussian Wave Packet: A Theoretical Study

Sungguen Ryu, M. Kataoka, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 146802 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Andreev Reflection in an $s$ -Type Superconductor Proximized 3D Topological Insulator

E. S. Tikhonov, D. V. Shovkun, M. Snelder, M. P. Stehno, Y. Huang, M. S. Golden, A. A. Golubov, A. Brinkman, and V. S. Khrapai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147001 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Electron Doping of the Parent Cuprate ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$ without Cation Substitution

Haofei I. Wei, Carolina Adamo, Elizabeth A. Nowadnick, Edward B. Lochocki, Shouvik Chatterjee, Jacob P. Ruf, Malcolm R. Beasley, Darrell G. Schlom, and Kyle M. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147002 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Long Spin Diffusion Length in Few-Layer Graphene Flakes

W. Yan, L. C. Phillips, M. Barbone, S. J. Hämäläinen, A. Lombardo, M. Ghidini, X. Moya, F. Maccherozzi, S. van Dijken, S. S. Dhesi, A. C. Ferrari, and N. D. Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147201 (2016) - Published 27 September, 2016

Laser-Driven Multiferroics and Ultrafast Spin Current Generation

Masahiro Sato, Shintaro Takayoshi, and Takashi Oka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147202 (2016) - Published 28 September, 2016

Hot-Electron-Induced Ultrafast Demagnetization in $Co / Pt$ Multilayers

N. Bergeard, M. Hehn, S. Mangin, G. Lengaigne, F. Montaigne, M. L. M. Lalieu, B. Koopmans, and G. Malinowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147203 (2016) - Published 29 September, 2016

Orbital Engineering in Nickelate Heterostructures Driven by Anisotropic Oxygen Hybridization rather than Orbital Energy Levels

G. Fabbris, D. Meyers, J. Okamoto, J. Pelliciari, A. S. Disa, Y. Huang, Z.-Y. Chen, W. B. Wu, C. T. Chen, S. Ismail-Beigi, C. H. Ahn, F. J. Walker, D. J. Huang, T. Schmitt, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147401 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016

Magnetoelectric Coupling through the Spin Flop Transition in ${Ni}_{3} {TeO}_{6}$

M. O. Yokosuk, Amal al-Wahish, Sergey Artyukhin, K. R. O’Neal, D. Mazumdar, P. Chen, Junjie Yang, Yoon Seok Oh, Stephen A. McGill, K. Haule, Sang-Wook Cheong, David Vanderbilt, and J. L. Musfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 147402 (2016) - Published 30 September, 2016