Volume 117, Issue 2

8 July 2016

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On the Cover

Multivalent counterions (green) bind onto negatively charged phosphates (red) mostly externally for the case of DNA molecule (left) but deep inside the major groove for the case of RNA molecule (right).

From the article:

Opposing Effects of Multivalent Ions on the Flexibility of DNA and RNA
Aleksander V. Drozdetski, Igor S. Tolokh, Lois Pollack, Nathan Baker, and Alexey V. Onufriev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028101 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Giant Optical Polarization Rotation Induced by Spin-Orbit Coupling in Polarons

Blai Casals, Rafael Cichelero, Pablo García Fernández, Javier Junquera, David Pesquera, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Ingrid C. Infante, Florencio Sánchez, Josep Fontcuberta, and Gervasi Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 026401 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

A surprisingly large magneto-optical response occurs when mobile electrons in a cooled material become trapped by their interaction with the surrounding lattice.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Diagonalization and Many-Body Localization for a Disordered Quantum Spin Chain

John Z. Imbrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027201 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Theoretical work proves that interacting quantum systems can enter a many-body localized phase in which they cannot reach thermal equilibrium without an external bath.

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Frictional Fluid Dynamics and Plug Formation in Multiphase Millifluidic Flow

Guillaume Dumazer, Bjørnar Sandnes, Monem Ayaz, Knut Jørgen Måløy, and Eirik Grude Flekkøy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028002 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Experiments on grain-water-air mixtures flowing through a tube find that frictional forces between the grains and the tube lead to the creation of a series of plugs.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Test of the Universality of Free Fall with Atoms in Different Spin Orientations

Xiao-Chun Duan, Xiao-Bing Deng, Min-Kang Zhou, Ke Zhang, Wen-Jie Xu, Feng Xiong, Yao-Yao Xu, Cheng-Gang Shao, Jun Luo, and Zhong-Kun Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 023001 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Atom interferometry shows that the free-fall acceleration of rubidium atoms of opposite spin orientation is the same to within 1 part in 10 million.

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Manipulation of Nanoscale Domain Switching Using an Electron Beam with Omnidirectional Electric Field Distribution

Zibin Chen, Xiaolin Wang, Simon P. Ringer, and Xiaozhou Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027601 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Electrons hitting a ferroelectric material can produce a single digital bit 100 times smaller than the bits in today’s commercial memories.

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Perfect Quantum Cosmological Bounce

Steffen Gielen and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 021301 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

One theory for the formation of the universe replaces the singularity of the big bang with a smooth quantum “bounce”. This theory is extended to account for the passage of density variations and gravitational waves across the bounce.

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Evidence for a $B_{s}^{0} π^{\pm}$ State

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 022003 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

The D0 collaboration reports evidence of an exotic four-quark state, which would be the first ever consisting of four different flavors: up, down, strange, and bottom.

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Compression-Driven Mass Flow in Bulk Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

Zhi Gang Cheng and John Beamish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025301 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Mass flow in solid helium can be generated directly by mechanical compression and does not require superfluid conduits.

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Two-Gap Superconductivity in ${LaNiGa}_{2}$ with Nonunitary Triplet Pairing and Even Parity Gap Symmetry

Z. F. Weng, J. L. Zhang, M. Smidman, T. Shang, J. Quintanilla, J. F. Annett, M. Nicklas, G. M. Pang, L. Jiao, W. B. Jiang, Y. Chen, F. Steglich, and H. Q. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027001 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

A triplet pairing state exists between electrons with even parity on different orbitals in superconductors with two nodeless gaps.

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Elimination of X-Ray Diffraction through Stimulated X-Ray Transmission

B. Wu, T. Wang, C. E. Graves, D. Zhu, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, O. Hellwig, Z. Chen, H. A. Dürr, A. Scherz, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027401 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

The absorption and diffraction of an x-ray pulse transmitted through a magnetic cobalt-palladium multilayer decrease with increasing x-ray intensity.

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Spontaneous Insertion, Helix Formation, and Hydration of Polyethylene Oxide in Carbon Nanotubes

Udaya R. Dahal and Elena E. Dormidontova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027801 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Molecular dynamics simulations predict that a polyethylene oxide chain can spontaneously enter a carbon nanotube from a water-based solution, where it then forms a helical conformation stabilized by hydrogen bonding.

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Evolution of Porosity and Channelization of an Erosive Medium Driven by Fluid Flow

Arshad Kudrolli and Xavier Clotet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028001 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

A transparent box with a thin layer of glass beads allows optical tracking of dislodging, deposition, and erosion as water travels through the system. Channels develop underground and grow towards the surface due to erosion.

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Kinetic Transition Networks for the Thomson Problem and Smale’s Seventh Problem

Dhagash Mehta, Jianxu Chen, Danny Z. Chen, Halim Kusumaatmaja, and David J. Wales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028301 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Network theory is used to find the minimum energy of $N$ identical charges constrained on a sphere. Solutions are found relatively easily for $N \leq 150$ due to the easily accessible global minimum of the energy landscape.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Levy Flights and Multifractality of Dipolar Excitations in a Random System

X. Deng, B. L. Altshuler, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 020401 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Relating the Resource Theories of Entanglement and Quantum Coherence

Eric Chitambar and Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 020402 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Generation of Light with Multimode Time-Delayed Entanglement Using Storage in a Solid-State Spin-Wave Quantum Memory

Kate R. Ferguson, Sarah E. Beavan, Jevon J. Longdell, and Matthew J. Sellars

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 020501 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Displacement of Propagating Squeezed Microwave States

Kirill G. Fedorov, L. Zhong, S. Pogorzalek, P. Eder, M. Fischer, J. Goetz, E. Xie, F. Wulschner, K. Inomata, T. Yamamoto, Y. Nakamura, R. Di Candia, U. Las Heras, M. Sanz, E. Solano, E. P. Menzel, F. Deppe, A. Marx, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 020502 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Perfect Quantum Cosmological Bounce

Steffen Gielen and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 021301 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Dark Matter Decays from Nonminimal Coupling to Gravity

Oscar Catà, Alejandro Ibarra, and Sebastian Ingenhütt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 021302 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Limits on Momentum-Dependent Asymmetric Dark Matter with CRESST-II

G. Angloher et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 021303 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Reconstruction of Bulk Operators within the Entanglement Wedge in Gauge-Gravity Duality

Xi Dong, Daniel Harlow, and Aron C. Wall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 021601 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Precise QCD Predictions for the Production of a $Z$ Boson in Association with a Hadronic Jet

A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover, A. Huss, and T. A. Morgan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 022001 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Decoding the $X (5568)$ as a Fully Open-Flavor $s u \bar{b} \bar{d}$ Tetraquark State

Wei Chen, Hua-Xing Chen, Xiang Liu, T. G. Steele, and Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 022002 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for a $B_{s}^{0} π^{\pm}$ State

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 022003 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

The D0 collaboration reports evidence of an exotic four-quark state, which would be the first ever consisting of four different flavors: up, down, strange, and bottom.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Test of the Universality of Free Fall with Atoms in Different Spin Orientations

Xiao-Chun Duan, Xiao-Bing Deng, Min-Kang Zhou, Ke Zhang, Wen-Jie Xu, Feng Xiong, Yao-Yao Xu, Cheng-Gang Shao, Jun Luo, and Zhong-Kun Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 023001 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Atom interferometry shows that the free-fall acceleration of rubidium atoms of opposite spin orientation is the same to within 1 part in 10 million.

Tunneling Ionization Time Resolved by Backpropagation

Hongcheng Ni, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan-Michael Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 023002 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Coherent Absorption of N00N States

Thomas Roger, Sara Restuccia, Ashley Lyons, Daniel Giovannini, Jacquiline Romero, John Jeffers, Miles Padgett, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 023601 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Quantum Logic with Cavity Photons From Single Atoms

Annemarie Holleczek, Oliver Barter, Allison Rubenok, Jerome Dilley, Peter B. R. Nisbet-Jones, Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes, Graham D. Marshall, Chris Sparrow, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Konstantinos Poulios, Axel Kuhn, and Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 023602 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Generation of Nonlinear Vortex Precursors

Yue-Yue Chen, Xun-Li Feng, and Chengpu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 023901 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Estimating the Dimension of an Inertial Manifold from Unstable Periodic Orbits

X. Ding, H. Chaté, P. Cvitanović, E. Siminos, and K. A. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 024101 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Microbubbles and Microparticles are Not Faithful Tracers of Turbulent Acceleration

Varghese Mathai, Enrico Calzavarini, Jon Brons, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 024501 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of Single-Shot Picosecond Time-Resolved MeV Electron Imaging Using a Compact Permanent Magnet Quadrupole Based Lens

D. Cesar, J. Maxson, P. Musumeci, Y. Sun, J. Harrison, P. Frigola, F. H. O’Shea, H. To, D. Alesini, and R. K. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 024801 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Demonstration of Fuel Hot-Spot Pressure in Excess of 50 Gbar for Direct-Drive, Layered Deuterium-Tritium Implosions on OMEGA

S. P. Regan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025001 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

First Investigation on the Radiation Field of the Spherical Hohlraum

Wen Yi Huo (霍文义) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025002 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Compression-Driven Mass Flow in Bulk Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

Zhi Gang Cheng and John Beamish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025301 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Mass flow in solid helium can be generated directly by mechanical compression and does not require superfluid conduits.

Soft Route to 4D Tomography

Thibault Taillandier-Thomas, Stéphane Roux, and François Hild

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025501 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

Universal Aging Mechanism for Static and Sliding Friction of Metallic Nanoparticles

Michael Feldmann, Dirk Dietzel, Antoni Tekiel, Jessica Topple, Peter Grütter, and André Schirmeisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025502 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Blocking Phonon Transport by Structural Resonances in Alloy-Based Nanophononic Metamaterials Leads to Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

Shiyun Xiong, Kimmo Sääskilahti, Yuriy A. Kosevich, Haoxue Han, Davide Donadio, and Sebastian Volz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025503 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Giant Optical Polarization Rotation Induced by Spin-Orbit Coupling in Polarons

Blai Casals, Rafael Cichelero, Pablo García Fernández, Javier Junquera, David Pesquera, Mariano Campoy-Quiles, Ingrid C. Infante, Florencio Sánchez, Josep Fontcuberta, and Gervasi Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 026401 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

A surprisingly large magneto-optical response occurs when mobile electrons in a cooled material become trapped by their interaction with the surrounding lattice.

Gate-Tunable Landau Level Filling and Spectroscopy in Coupled Massive and Massless Electron Systems

Bin Cheng, Yong Wu, Peng Wang, Cheng Pan, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and M. Bockrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 026601 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

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Two-Gap Superconductivity in ${LaNiGa}_{2}$ with Nonunitary Triplet Pairing and Even Parity Gap Symmetry

Z. F. Weng, J. L. Zhang, M. Smidman, T. Shang, J. Quintanilla, J. F. Annett, M. Nicklas, G. M. Pang, L. Jiao, W. B. Jiang, Y. Chen, F. Steglich, and H. Q. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027001 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

A triplet pairing state exists between electrons with even parity on different orbitals in superconductors with two nodeless gaps.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diagonalization and Many-Body Localization for a Disordered Quantum Spin Chain

John Z. Imbrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027201 (2016) - Published 5 July, 2016

Theoretical work proves that interacting quantum systems can enter a many-body localized phase in which they cannot reach thermal equilibrium without an external bath.

Electron Scattering on a Magnetic Skyrmion in the Nonadiabatic Approximation

K. S. Denisov, I. V. Rozhansky, N. S. Averkiev, and E. Lähderanta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027202 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

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Elimination of X-Ray Diffraction through Stimulated X-Ray Transmission

B. Wu, T. Wang, C. E. Graves, D. Zhu, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, O. Hellwig, Z. Chen, H. A. Dürr, A. Scherz, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027401 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

The absorption and diffraction of an x-ray pulse transmitted through a magnetic cobalt-palladium multilayer decrease with increasing x-ray intensity.

Quantum Effects in Higher-Order Correlators of a Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit

A. Bechtold, F. Li, K. Müller, T. Simmet, P.-L. Ardelt, J. J. Finley, and N. A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027402 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

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Manipulation of Nanoscale Domain Switching Using an Electron Beam with Omnidirectional Electric Field Distribution

Zibin Chen, Xiaolin Wang, Simon P. Ringer, and Xiaozhou Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027601 (2016) - Published 8 July, 2016

Electrons hitting a ferroelectric material can produce a single digital bit 100 times smaller than the bits in today’s commercial memories.

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Insertion, Helix Formation, and Hydration of Polyethylene Oxide in Carbon Nanotubes

Udaya R. Dahal and Elena E. Dormidontova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 027801 (2016) - Published 6 July, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evolution of Porosity and Channelization of an Erosive Medium Driven by Fluid Flow

Arshad Kudrolli and Xavier Clotet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028001 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Frictional Fluid Dynamics and Plug Formation in Multiphase Millifluidic Flow

Guillaume Dumazer, Bjørnar Sandnes, Monem Ayaz, Knut Jørgen Måløy, and Eirik Grude Flekkøy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 028002 (2016) - Published 7 July, 2016

Experiments on grain-water-air mixtures flowing through a tube find that frictional forces between the grains and the tube lead to the creation of a series of plugs.