Volume 117, Issue 16

14 October 2016

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On the Cover

(Left) Artistic visualization and (right) microscopy image of a colloidal spin ice made of interacting colloids on a square lattice of double wells. A defect line in the system's ground state is highlighted in red, while the arrows (right) denote the spin directions assigned to the colloids.

From the article:

Defect Dynamics in Artificial Colloidal Ice: Real-Time Observation, Manipulation, and Logic Gate
Johannes Loehr, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, and Pietro Tierno
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 168001 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rippled Quasiperpendicular Shock Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

A. Johlander, S. J. Schwartz, A. Vaivads, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, I. Gingell, I. B. Peng, S. Markidis, P.-A. Lindqvist, R. E. Ergun, G. T. Marklund, F. Plaschke, W. Magnes, R. J. Strangeway, C. T. Russell, H. Wei, R. B. Torbert, W. R. Paterson, D. J. Gershman, J. C. Dorelli, L. A. Avanov, B. Lavraud, Y. Saito, B. L. Giles, C. J. Pollock, and J. L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165101 (2016) - Published 12 October, 2016

Satellites orbiting near the edge of Earth’s magnetosphere have measured the velocities of ions accelerated by a shockwave with unprecedented temporal resolution.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Hydrogen Bonds in Excited State Proton Transfer

D. A. Horke, H. M. Watts, A. D. Smith, E. Jager, E. Springate, O. Alexander, C. Cacho, R. T. Chapman, and R. S. Minns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163002 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Hydrogen bonding may safeguard biomolecules against the damaging effects of UV light.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Proton Radioactivity of ${}^{67}{Kr}$

T. Goigoux et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162501 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

The measured half-life for two-proton emission from $^{6} 7$ Kr—the heaviest such emitter observed to date—is much shorter than theoretical predictions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cooling Mechanical Oscillators by Coherent Control

Martin Frimmer, Jan Gieseler, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163601 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Two oscillation modes of a levitated nanoparticle are cooled to their ground state through coupling of the modes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Josephson Currents Induced by the Witten Effect

Flavio S. Nogueira, Zohar Nussinov, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 167002 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Type-II superconductors with a topological insulator junction are predicted to generate an AC Josephson effect in the absence of an external voltage.

LETTERS

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

Observation of Time-Invariant Coherence in a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Quantum Simulator

Isabela A. Silva, Alexandre M. Souza, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Cianciaruso, Raimund Marx, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, Rosario Lo Franco, Steffen J. Glaser, Eduardo R. deAzevedo, Diogo O. Soares-Pinto, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 160402 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Power-Law Entanglement Spectrum in Many-Body Localized Phases

Maksym Serbyn, Alexios A. Michailidis, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Z. Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 160601 (2016) - Published 10 October, 2016

Sequential Feedback Scheme Outperforms the Parallel Scheme for Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation

Haidong Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 160801 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Suppression of Clock Shifts at Magnetic-Field-Insensitive Transitions

K. J. Arnold and M. D. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 160802 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Mass Ordering of Spectra from Fragmentation of Saturated Gluon States in High-Multiplicity Proton-Proton Collisions

Björn Schenke, Sören Schlichting, Prithwish Tribedy, and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162301 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Proton Radioactivity of ${}^{67}{Kr}$

T. Goigoux et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162501 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

The measured half-life for two-proton emission from $^{6} 7$ Kr—the heaviest such emitter observed to date—is much shorter than theoretical predictions.

Sensitivity of ( $d$ , $p$ ) Reactions to High $n − p$ Momenta and the Consequences for Nuclear Spectroscopy Studies

G. W. Bailey, N. K. Timofeyuk, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162502 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Topological Varma Superfluid in Optical Lattices

M. Di Liberto, A. Hemmerich, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163001 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Hydrogen Bonds in Excited State Proton Transfer

D. A. Horke, H. M. Watts, A. D. Smith, E. Jager, E. Springate, O. Alexander, C. Cacho, R. T. Chapman, and R. S. Minns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163002 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Hydrogen bonding may safeguard biomolecules against the damaging effects of UV light.

Competition between Spin Echo and Spin Self-Rephasing in a Trapped Atom Interferometer

C. Solaro, A. Bonnin, F. Combes, M. Lopez, X. Alauze, J.-N. Fuchs, F. Piéchon, and F. Pereira Dos Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163003 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Universal Three-Body Physics in Ultracold KRb Mixtures

L. J. Wacker, N. B. Jørgensen, D. Birkmose, N. Winter, M. Mikkelsen, J. Sherson, N. Zinner, and J. J. Arlt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163201 (2016) - Published 12 October, 2016

Nonperturbative Twist in the Generation of Extreme-Ultraviolet Vortex Beams

Laura Rego, Julio San Román, Antonio Picón, Luis Plaja, and Carlos Hernández-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163202 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cooling Mechanical Oscillators by Coherent Control

Martin Frimmer, Jan Gieseler, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163601 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Two oscillation modes of a levitated nanoparticle are cooled to their ground state through coupling of the modes.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Recurrence Induced by Breather Solitons in an Optical Microresonator

Chengying Bao, Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas, Yi Xuan, Daniel E. Leaird, Minghao Qi, and Andrew M. Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163901 (2016) - Published 12 October, 2016

Dispersion of Droplet Clouds in Turbulence

Humberto Bocanegra Evans, Nico Dam, Guus Bertens, Dennis van der Voort, and Willem van de Water

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 164501 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Optimal Stretching in Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Thomas D. Nevins and Douglas H. Kelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 164502 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser-Accelerated Ions from a Shock-Compressed Gas Foil

M. H. Helle, D. F. Gordon, D. Kaganovich, Y. Chen, J. P. Palastro, and A. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165001 (2016) - Published 10 October, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rippled Quasiperpendicular Shock Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165101 (2016) - Published 12 October, 2016

Satellites orbiting near the edge of Earth’s magnetosphere have measured the velocities of ions accelerated by a shockwave with unprecedented temporal resolution.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Surface Rebound of Relativistic Dislocations Directly and Efficiently Initiates Deformation Twinning

Qing-Jie Li, Ju Li, Zhi-Wei Shan, and Evan Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165501 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Cluster Glass Transition of Ultrasoft-Potential Fluids at High Density

Ryoji Miyazaki, Takeshi Kawasaki, and Kunimasa Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165701 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Origin of the Distinct Diffusion Behaviors of Cu and Ag in Covalent and Ionic Semiconductors

Hui-Xiong Deng, Jun-Wei Luo, Shu-Shen Li, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 165901 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi Surface of Metallic $V_{2} O_{3}$ from Angle-Resolved Photoemission: Mid-level Filling of $e_{g}^{π}$ Bands

I. Lo Vecchio, J. D. Denlinger, O. Krupin, B. J. Kim, P. A. Metcalf, S. Lupi, J. W. Allen, and A. Lanzara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166401 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Negative Magnetoresistance in Viscous Flow of Two-Dimensional Electrons

P. S. Alekseev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166601 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of the $π$ Magnetism of a Single Carbon Vacancy in Graphene

Yu Zhang, Si-Yu Li, Huaqing Huang, Wen-Tian Li, Jia-Bin Qiao, Wen-Xiao Wang, Long-Jing Yin, Ke-Ke Bai, Wenhui Duan, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166801 (2016) - Published 10 October, 2016

All Majorana Models with Translation Symmetry are Supersymmetric

Timothy H. Hsieh, Gábor B. Halász, and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166802 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light in Plasmonic Nanostructures and Nanocircuits

Deng Pan, Hong Wei, Long Gao, and Hongxing Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166803 (2016) - Published 12 October, 2016

Secondary Electron Interference from Trigonal Warping in Clean Carbon Nanotubes

A. Dirnaichner, M. del Valle, K. J. G. Götz, F. J. Schupp, N. Paradiso, M. Grifoni, Ch. Strunk, and A. K. Hüttel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166804 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Electron-Hole Asymmetric Chiral Breakdown of Reentrant Quantum Hall States

A. V. Rossokhaty, Y. Baum, J. A. Folk, J. D. Watson, G. C. Gardner, and M. J. Manfra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166805 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

Tunneling Planar Hall Effect in Topological Insulators: Spin Valves and Amplifiers

Benedikt Scharf, Alex Matos-Abiague, Jong E. Han, Ewelina M. Hankiewicz, and Igor Žutić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 166806 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Remarkable Stability of Charge Density Wave Order in ${La}_{1.875} {Ba}_{0.125} {CuO}_{4}$

X. M. Chen, V. Thampy, C. Mazzoli, A. M. Barbour, H. Miao, G. D. Gu, Y. Cao, J. M. Tranquada, M. P. M. Dean, and S. B. Wilkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 167001 (2016) - Published 11 October, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Josephson Currents Induced by the Witten Effect

Flavio S. Nogueira, Zohar Nussinov, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 167002 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Type-II superconductors with a topological insulator junction are predicted to generate an AC Josephson effect in the absence of an external voltage.

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Unraveling Photoinduced Spin Dynamics in the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ ”

Y. D. Glinka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 169701 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016

Wang et al. Reply:

M. C. Wang, S. Qiao, Z. Jiang, S. N. Luo, and J. Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 169702 (2016) - Published 14 October, 2016