Volume 117, Issue 15

7 October 2016

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Twelve topological defects trapped together in a hole—a spot where the two-dimensional liquid crystal film is thinner. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Defect Interactions in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Fluids
R. Stannarius and K. Harth
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157801 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Demonstration of Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing Using the Cosmic Infrared Background

Patricia Larsen, Anthony Challinor, Blake D. Sherwin, and Daisy Mak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151102 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Researchers demonstrate a method for removing gravitational lensing effects that distort maps of the cosmic microwave background.

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Warm Little Inflaton

Mar Bastero-Gil, Arjun Berera, Rudnei O. Ramos, and João G. Rosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151301 (2016) - Published 4 October, 2016

A concept borrowed from particle physics models called little Higgs gives new strength to the theory of warm inflation.

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Diffractive Imaging of Coherent Nuclear Motion in Isolated Molecules

Jie Yang, Markus Guehr, Xiaozhe Shen, Renkai Li, Theodore Vecchione, Ryan Coffee, Jeff Corbett, Alan Fry, Nick Hartmann, Carsten Hast, Kareem Hegazy, Keith Jobe, Igor Makasyuk, Joseph Robinson, Matthew S. Robinson, Sharon Vetter, Stephen Weathersby, Charles Yoneda, Xijie Wang, and Martin Centurion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153002 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

Molecular movies of vibrating iodine molecules have been recorded in time-resolved x-ray and electron diffraction experiments

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Self-Referenced Coherent Diffraction X-Ray Movie of Ångstrom- and Femtosecond-Scale Atomic Motion

J. M. Glownia, A. Natan, J. P. Cryan, R. Hartsock, M. Kozina, M. P. Minitti, S. Nelson, J. Robinson, T. Sato, T. van Driel, G. Welch, C. Weninger, D. Zhu, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153003 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

Molecular movies of vibrating iodine molecules have been recorded in time-resolved x-ray and electron diffraction experiments

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Coherent Control of the Exciton-Biexciton System in an InAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Ensemble

Takeshi Suzuki, Rohan Singh, Manfred Bayer, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157402 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

A spectroscopy method can identify quantum dots within an ensemble based on their size and emission frequency.

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Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P. Adamson et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration, MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151801 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

An analysis of data from the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 experiments places stringent limits on the mass and mixing of a hypothetical sterile neutrino.

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Search for Structure in the $B_{s}^{0} π^{\pm}$ Invariant Mass Spectrum

R. Aaij et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152003 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Data from LHCb does not confirm the exotic four-quark hadron recently evidenced by the D0 collaboration.

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${}^{7}{Be} (n, α) {}^{4}{He}$ Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN

M. Barbagallo et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152701 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

The neutron- $^{7}$ Be cross section—an important ingredient in Big Bang nucleosynthesis—is measured at a wide range of neutron energies.

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Recombination-Enhanced Surface Expansion of Clusters in Intense Soft X-Ray Laser Pulses

Daniela Rupp, Leonie Flückiger, Marcus Adolph, Tais Gorkhover, Maria Krikunova, Jan Philippe Müller, Maria Müller, Tim Oelze, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Benjamin Röben, Mario Sauppe, Sebastian Schorb, David Wolter, Rolf Mitzner, Michael Wöstmann, Sebastian Roling, Marion Harmand, Rolf Treusch, Mathias Arbeiter, Thomas Fennel, Christoph Bostedt, and Thomas Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153401 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Nanoplasmas, formed by irradiating xenon clusters with short intense soft x-ray pulses, undergo a previously unnoticed heating process due to electron-ion recombination within the plasma.

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Defect Interactions in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Fluids

R. Stannarius and K. Harth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157801 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Experiments exploring the behavior of disclinations in liquid crystals interacting via long-range elastic forces indicate that previous theoretical models don’t correctly capture their dynamics.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Correlations Are Stronger Than All Nonsignaling Correlations Produced by $n$ -Outcome Measurements

Matthias Kleinmann and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 150401 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Adiabatic Quantum Search in Open Systems

Dominik S. Wild, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Michael Knap, Norman Y. Yao, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 150501 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

Quantum Change Point

Gael Sentís, Emilio Bagan, John Calsamiglia, Giulio Chiribella, and Ramon Muñoz-Tapia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 150502 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Doubly Magic Optical Trapping for Cs Atom Hyperfine Clock Transitions

A. W. Carr and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 150801 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Localized ${AdS}_{5} \times S^{5}$ Black Holes

Óscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, and Benson Way

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151101 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

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Demonstration of Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing Using the Cosmic Infrared Background

Patricia Larsen, Anthony Challinor, Blake D. Sherwin, and Daisy Mak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151102 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Researchers demonstrate a method for removing gravitational lensing effects that distort maps of the cosmic microwave background.

Deciphering the Dipole Anisotropy of Galactic Cosmic Rays

Markus Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151103 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

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Warm Little Inflaton

Mar Bastero-Gil, Arjun Berera, Rudnei O. Ramos, and João G. Rosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151301 (2016) - Published 4 October, 2016

A concept borrowed from particle physics models called little Higgs gives new strength to the theory of warm inflation.

H.E.S.S. Limits on Linelike Dark Matter Signatures in the 100 GeV to 2 TeV Energy Range Close to the Galactic Center

H. Abdalla et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151302 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P. Adamson et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration, MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151801 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

An analysis of data from the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 experiments places stringent limits on the mass and mixing of a hypothetical sterile neutrino.

Improved Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino with the Full Configuration of the Daya Bay Experiment

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151802 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Search for Sterile Neutrinos Mixing with Muon Neutrinos in MINOS

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 151803 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Scheme Variations of the QCD Coupling and Hadronic $τ$ Decays

Diogo Boito, Matthias Jamin, and Ramon Miravitllas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152001 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

Charge Redistribution from Anomalous Magnetovorticity Coupling

Koichi Hattori and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152002 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Structure in the $B_{s}^{0} π^{\pm}$ Invariant Mass Spectrum

R. Aaij et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152003 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Data from LHCb does not confirm the exotic four-quark hadron recently evidenced by the D0 collaboration.

Three-Jet Production in Electron-Positron Collisions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy

Vittorio Del Duca, Claude Duhr, Adam Kardos, Gábor Somogyi, and Zoltán Trócsányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152004 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Nuclear Physics

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${}^{7}{Be} (n, α) {}^{4}{He}$ Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN

M. Barbagallo et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152701 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

The neutron- $^{7}$ Be cross section—an important ingredient in Big Bang nucleosynthesis—is measured at a wide range of neutron energies.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhanced Constraints for Accurate Lower Bounds on Many-Electron Quantum Energies from Variational Two-Electron Reduced Density Matrix Theory

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153001 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

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Diffractive Imaging of Coherent Nuclear Motion in Isolated Molecules

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153002 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

Molecular movies of vibrating iodine molecules have been recorded in time-resolved x-ray and electron diffraction experiments

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Self-Referenced Coherent Diffraction X-Ray Movie of Ångstrom- and Femtosecond-Scale Atomic Motion

J. M. Glownia, A. Natan, J. P. Cryan, R. Hartsock, M. Kozina, M. P. Minitti, S. Nelson, J. Robinson, T. Sato, T. van Driel, G. Welch, C. Weninger, D. Zhu, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153003 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

Molecular movies of vibrating iodine molecules have been recorded in time-resolved x-ray and electron diffraction experiments

Atomic Resolution Imaging at an Ultralow Accelerating Voltage by a Monochromatic Transmission Electron Microscope

Shigeyuki Morishita, Masaki Mukai, Kazu Suenaga, and Hidetaka Sawada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153004 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

Heteronuclear Efimov Scenario with Positive Intraspecies Scattering Length

Juris Ulmanis, Stephan Häfner, Rico Pires, Eva D. Kuhnle, Yujun Wang, Chris H. Greene, and Matthias Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153201 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Recombination-Enhanced Surface Expansion of Clusters in Intense Soft X-Ray Laser Pulses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153401 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Nanoplasmas, formed by irradiating xenon clusters with short intense soft x-ray pulses, undergo a previously unnoticed heating process due to electron-ion recombination within the plasma.

Multiple Rabi Splittings under Ultrastrong Vibrational Coupling

Jino George, Thibault Chervy, Atef Shalabney, Eloïse Devaux, Hidefumi Hiura, Cyriaque Genet, and Thomas W. Ebbesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153601 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coherence Constraints and the Last Hidden Optical Coherence

Xiao-Feng Qian, Tanya Malhotra, A. Nick Vamivakas, and Joseph H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 153901 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Suppression of Noise-Induced Modulations in Multidelay Systems

Lina Jaurigue, Eckehard Schöll, and Kathy Lüdge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 154101 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Preferential Rotation of Chiral Dipoles in Isotropic Turbulence

Stefan Kramel, Greg A. Voth, Saskia Tympel, and Federico Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 154501 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Ligament Mediated Fragmentation of Viscoelastic Liquids

Bavand Keshavarz, Eric C. Houze, John R. Moore, Michael R. Koerner, and Gareth H. McKinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 154502 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nondestructive Measurement of Orbital Angular Momentum for an Electron Beam

Hugo Larocque, Frédéric Bouchard, Vincenzo Grillo, Alicia Sit, Stefano Frabboni, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Miles J. Padgett, Robert W. Boyd, and Ebrahim Karimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 154801 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

First Test of Long-Range Collisional Drag via Plasma Wave Damping

M. Affolter, F. Anderegg, D. H. E. Dubin, and C. F. Driscoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155001 (2016) - Published 4 October, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anisotropic Expansion of a Thermal Dipolar Bose Gas

Y. Tang, A. G. Sykes, N. Q. Burdick, J. M. DiSciacca, D. S. Petrov, and B. L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155301 (2016) - Published 4 October, 2016

Relaxor Ferroelectrics: Back to the Single-Soft-Mode Picture

B. Hehlen, M. Al-Sabbagh, A. Al-Zein, and J. Hlinka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155501 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Controlling Strain Bursts and Avalanches at the Nano- to Micrometer Scale

Yinan Cui, Giacomo Po, and Nasr Ghoniem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155502 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Phase-Field-Crystal Model for Electromigration in Metal Interconnects

Nan Wang, Kirk H. Bevan, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 155901 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Proton Conductivity in Phosphoric Acid: The Role of Quantum Effects

M. Heres, Y. Wang, P. J. Griffin, C. Gainaru, and A. P. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156001 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Laser-Induced Charge-Density-Wave Transient Depinning in Chromium

V. L. R. Jacques, C. Laulhé, N. Moisan, S. Ravy, and D. Le Bolloc’h

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156401 (2016) - Published 3 October, 2016

Uncoupled Dark States Can Inherit Polaritonic Properties

Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Johannes Feist, Eduardo Gonzalo Badía, Esteban Moreno, and Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156402 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Ab Initio Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the Warm Dense Electron Gas in the Thermodynamic Limit

Tobias Dornheim, Simon Groth, Travis Sjostrom, Fionn D. Malone, W. M. C. Foulkes, and Michael Bonitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156403 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Nonergodic Phases in Strongly Disordered Random Regular Graphs

B. L. Altshuler, E. Cuevas, L. B. Ioffe, and V. E. Kravtsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156601 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

Superconductivity near a Quantum-Critical Point: The Special Role of the First Matsubara Frequency

Yuxuan Wang, Artem Abanov, Boris L. Altshuler, Emil A. Yuzbashyan, and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157001 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Nematic Quantum Critical Fluctuations in ${BaFe}_{2 - x} {Ni}_{x} {As}_{2}$

Zhaoyu Liu, Yanhong Gu, Wei Zhang, Dongliang Gong, Wenliang Zhang, Tao Xie, Xingye Lu, Xiaoyan Ma, Xiaotian Zhang, Rui Zhang, Jun Zhu, Cong Ren, Lei Shan, Xianggang Qiu, Pengcheng Dai, Yi-feng Yang, Huiqian Luo, and Shiliang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157002 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Highly Anisotropic and Twofold Symmetric Superconducting Gap in Nematically Ordered ${FeSe}_{0.93} S_{0.07}$

H. C. Xu, X. H. Niu, D. F. Xu, J. Jiang, Q. Yao, Q. Y. Chen, Q. Song, M. Abdel-Hafiez, D. A. Chareev, A. N. Vasiliev, Q. S. Wang, H. L. Wo, J. Zhao, R. Peng, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157003 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Thermodynamic Measurement of Angular Anisotropy at the Hidden Order Transition of ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

Jennifer Trinh, Ekkes Brück, Theo Siegrist, Rebecca Flint, Premala Chandra, Piers Coleman, and Arthur P. Ramirez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157201 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Anisotropic Polar Magneto-Optic Kerr Effect of Ultrathin $Fe / GaAs (001)$ Layers due to Interfacial Spin-Orbit Interaction

M. Buchner, P. Högl, S. Putz, M. Gmitra, S. Günther, M. A. W. Schoen, M. Kronseder, D. Schuh, D. Bougeard, J. Fabian, and C. H. Back

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157202 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

Fractional Spin Fluctuations as a Precursor of Quantum Spin Liquids: Majorana Dynamical Mean-Field Study for the Kitaev Model

Junki Yoshitake, Joji Nasu, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157203 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Tunable Magnon Weyl Points in Ferromagnetic Pyrochlores

Alexander Mook, Jürgen Henk, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157204 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Skyrmions with Attractive Interactions in an Ultrathin Magnetic Film

Levente Rózsa, András Deák, Eszter Simon, Rocio Yanes, László Udvardi, László Szunyogh, and Ulrich Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157205 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

Manipulating Smith-Purcell Emission with Babinet Metasurfaces

Zuojia Wang, Kan Yao, Min Chen, Hongsheng Chen, and Yongmin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157401 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

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Coherent Control of the Exciton-Biexciton System in an InAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Ensemble

Takeshi Suzuki, Rohan Singh, Manfred Bayer, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157402 (2016) - Published 6 October, 2016

A spectroscopy method can identify quantum dots within an ensemble based on their size and emission frequency.

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Defect Interactions in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Fluids

R. Stannarius and K. Harth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 157801 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Experiments exploring the behavior of disclinations in liquid crystals interacting via long-range elastic forces indicate that previous theoretical models don’t correctly capture their dynamics.

Anisotropic X-Ray Dark-Field Tomography: A Continuous Model and its Discretization

M. Wieczorek, F. Schaff, F. Pfeiffer, and T. Lasser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 158101 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

COMMENTS

Comment on “Estimating Excitonic Effects in the Absorption Spectra of Solids: Problems and Insight from a Guided Iteration Scheme”

S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, A. Sanna, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 159701 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Axion Dark Matter Coupling to Resonant Photons via Magnetic Field [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161804 (2016)]

Ben T. McAllister, Stephen R. Parker, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 159901 (2016) - Published 5 October, 2016

Erratum: First Measurements of Fuel-Ablator Interface Instability Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions on the National Ignition Facility [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075002 (2016)]

C. R. Weber, T. Döppner, D. T. Casey, T. L. Bunn, L. C. Carlson, R. J. Dylla-Spears, B. J. Kozioziemski, A. G. MacPhee, A. Nikroo, H. F. Robey, J. D. Sater, and V. A. Smalyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 159902 (2016) - Published 7 October, 2016