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Confocal images of compressed emulsions. The color coding shows the low-frequency vibrational amplitudes of the droplets from high (dark green) to low (light green). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Evidence for Marginal Stability in Emulsions
Jie Lin, Ivane Jorjadze, Lea-Laetitia Pontani, Matthieu Wyart, and Jasna Brujic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208001 (2016)

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Radial Acceleration Relation in Rotationally Supported Galaxies

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A universal law shows that the rotation of a disk galaxy is determined entirely by the visible matter it contains, even if the disk is mostly filled with dark matter.

Atom-Chip Fountain Gravimeter

S. Abend, M. Gebbe, M. Gersemann, H. Ahlers, H. Müntinga, E. Giese, N. Gaaloul, C. Schubert, C. Lämmerzahl, W. Ertmer, W. P. Schleich, and E. M. Rasel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203003 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

A new gravity-measuring device uses ultracold atoms generated by a centimeter-wide atom chip, which might lead to a shoebox-sized gadget.

Large Cross-Phase Modulations at the Few-Photon Level

Zi-Yu Liu, Yi-Hsin Chen, Yen-Chun Chen, Hsiang-Yu Lo, Pin-Ju Tsai, Ite A. Yu, Ying-Cheng Chen, and Yong-Fan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203601 (2016) - Published 7 November, 2016

Microscopic clouds of cold atoms can mediate interactions between weak pulses of light at the level required for quantum logic with single photons.

Synthesis of Freestanding Graphene on SiC by a Rapid-Cooling Technique

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 205501 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

The addition of a rapid-cooling step to the epitaxial growth of graphene on silicon carbide can yield higher-quality graphene sheets.

Transport in Out-of-Equilibrium XXZ Chains: Exact Profiles of Charges and Currents

Bruno Bertini, Mario Collura, Jacopo De Nardis, and Maurizio Fagotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207201 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

A new method for calculating the time-evolving behavior of interacting quantum particles in one dimension can be used to model experiments that were previously beyond description.

Smooth Horizonless Geometries Deep Inside the Black-Hole Regime

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Emil J. Martinec, Rodolfo Russo, Masaki Shigemori, David Turton, and Nicholas P. Warner

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A novel class of horizonless supersymmetric black holes in five dimensions and their dual field theory descriptions are constructed, offering a specific realization of how the information content in a black hole can be consistent with quantum mechanics.

Photocell Optimization Using Dark State Protection

Amir Fruchtman, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Brendon W. Lovett, and Erik M. Gauger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203603 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

The efficiency of a photocell could be improved using the effects of quantum interference, according to a new theory.

Topological Surface States in Dense Solid Hydrogen

Ivan I. Naumov and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206403 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Solid hydrogen phases could be produced at megabar pressures that are poor bulk metals but have high surface conductivity, possibly explaining the differing experimental results on hydrogen realized under these conditions.

Quantum Entanglement as a Diagnostic of Phase Transitions in Disordered Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids

Zhao Liu and R. N. Bhatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206801 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Quantum entanglement could be used as a diagnostic for spotting disorder-driven topological phase transitions in fractional quantum Hall liquids.

Signatures of Hyperfine, Spin-Orbit, and Decoherence Effects in a Pauli Spin Blockade

T. Fujita, P. Stano, G. Allison, K. Morimoto, Y. Sato, M. Larsson, J.-H. Park, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, A. Oiwa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206802 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Two new transport measurements in GaAs quantum dots–one addressing spin-related transport, another quantum state degeneracy–use methods that could be adopted in other systems.

Measuring the Degeneracy of Discrete Energy Levels Using a GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dot

A. Hofmann, V. F. Maisi, C. Gold, T. Krähenmann, C. Rössler, J. Basset, P. Märki, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206803 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Two new transport measurements in GaAs quantum dots–one addressing spin-related transport, another quantum state degeneracy–use methods that could be adopted in other systems.

Magnon Polarons in the Spin Seebeck Effect

Takashi Kikkawa, Ka Shen, Benedetta Flebus, Rembert A. Duine, Ken-ichi Uchida, Zhiyong Qiu, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207203 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

A magnon-phonon resonance is observed using the spin Seebeck effect whereby a spin current is generated from a temperature gradient in magnetic materials.

Evidence for Marginal Stability in Emulsions

Jie Lin, Ivane Jorjadze, Lea-Laetitia Pontani, Matthieu Wyart, and Jasna Brujic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208001 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Confocal microscopy experiments reveal the effect of pressure on the spectrum of the vibrational modes for compressed emulsions. The observed scaling behavior in this model system lends credence to recent mean-field theories describing marginal stability in amorphous materials.

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

Practical Receiver for Optimal Discrimination of Binary Coherent Signals

Denis Sych and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 200501 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Quantum Simulation of the Factorization Problem

Jose Luis Rosales and Vicente Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 200502 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Erasure without Work in an Asymmetric Double-Well Potential

Momčilo Gavrilov and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 200601 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Radial Acceleration Relation in Rotationally Supported Galaxies

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 201101 (2016) - Published 9 November, 2016

A universal law shows that the rotation of a disk galaxy is determined entirely by the visible matter it contains, even if the disk is mostly filled with dark matter.

Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background due to Primordial Binary Black Hole Mergers

Vuk Mandic, Simeon Bird, and Ilias Cholis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 201102 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Smooth Horizonless Geometries Deep Inside the Black-Hole Regime

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Emil J. Martinec, Rodolfo Russo, Masaki Shigemori, David Turton, and Nicholas P. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 201601 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

A novel class of horizonless supersymmetric black holes in five dimensions and their dual field theory descriptions are constructed, offering a specific realization of how the information content in a black hole can be consistent with quantum mechanics.

New Integrable 4D Quantum Field Theories from Strongly Deformed Planar N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Ömer Gürdoğan and Vladimir Kazakov

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Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Excitation Spectra in the C12(p,d) Reaction near the η Emission Threshold

Y. K. Tanaka et al. (η-PRiME/Super-FRS Collaboration)

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Role of Excited States In High-order Harmonic Generation

S. Beaulieu, S. Camp, D. Descamps, A. Comby, V. Wanie, S. Petit, F. Légaré, K. J. Schafer, M. B. Gaarde, F. Catoire, and Y. Mairesse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203001 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Interacting Atomic Interferometry for Rotation Sensing Approaching the Heisenberg Limit

Stephen Ragole and Jacob M. Taylor

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Atom-Chip Fountain Gravimeter

S. Abend, M. Gebbe, M. Gersemann, H. Ahlers, H. Müntinga, E. Giese, N. Gaaloul, C. Schubert, C. Lämmerzahl, W. Ertmer, W. P. Schleich, and E. M. Rasel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203003 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

A new gravity-measuring device uses ultracold atoms generated by a centimeter-wide atom chip, which might lead to a shoebox-sized gadget.

Large Cross-Phase Modulations at the Few-Photon Level

Zi-Yu Liu, Yi-Hsin Chen, Yen-Chun Chen, Hsiang-Yu Lo, Pin-Ju Tsai, Ite A. Yu, Ying-Cheng Chen, and Yong-Fan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203601 (2016) - Published 7 November, 2016

Microscopic clouds of cold atoms can mediate interactions between weak pulses of light at the level required for quantum logic with single photons.

Deterministic Down-Converter and Continuous Photon-Pair Source within the Bad-Cavity Limit

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Photocell Optimization Using Dark State Protection

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 203603 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

The efficiency of a photocell could be improved using the effects of quantum interference, according to a new theory.

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Coexistence of Quantized, Time Dependent, Clusters in Globally Coupled Oscillators

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Angular Dynamics of a Small Particle in Turbulence

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Controlling Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Magnetically Driven Solid Metal Shells by Means of a Dynamic Screw Pinch

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Fate of Alpha Dynamos at Large Rm

Alexandre Cameron and Alexandros Alexakis

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Droplets of Trapped Quantum Dipolar Bosons

A. Macia, J. Sánchez-Baena, J. Boronat, and F. Mazzanti

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Onset of Superfluidity in He3 Films

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Floquet Realization and Signatures of One-Dimensional Anyons in an Optical Lattice

Christoph Sträter, Shashi C. L. Srivastava, and André Eckardt

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Synthesis of Freestanding Graphene on SiC by a Rapid-Cooling Technique

Jianfeng Bao, Wataru Norimatsu, Hiroshi Iwata, Keita Matsuda, Takahiro Ito, and Michiko Kusunoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 205501 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

The addition of a rapid-cooling step to the epitaxial growth of graphene on silicon carbide can yield higher-quality graphene sheets.

Lattice Vibrations Change the Solid Solubility of an Alloy at High Temperatures

Nina Shulumba, Olle Hellman, Zamaan Raza, Björn Alling, Jenifer Barrirero, Frank Mücklich, Igor A. Abrikosov, and Magnus Odén

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 205502 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Correlation between Fragility and the Arrhenius Crossover Phenomenon in Metallic, Molecular, and Network Liquids

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Well-Ordered In Adatoms at the In2O3(111) Surface Created by Fe Deposition

Margareta Wagner, Peter Lackner, Steffen Seiler, Stefan Gerhold, Jacek Osiecki, Karina Schulte, Lynn A. Boatner, Michael Schmid, Bernd Meyer, and Ulrike Diebold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206101 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Dynamic Scaling and Island Growth Kinetics in Pulsed Laser Deposition of SrTiO3

Gyula Eres, J. Z. Tischler, C. M. Rouleau, Ho Nyung Lee, H. M. Christen, P. Zschack, and B. C. Larson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206102 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Lifshitz Transitions in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe

Gaël Bastien, Adrien Gourgout, Dai Aoki, Alexandre Pourret, Ilya Sheikin, Gabriel Seyfarth, Jacques Flouquet, and Georg Knebel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206401 (2016) - Published 9 November, 2016

Vertex Corrections for Positive-Definite Spectral Functions of Simple Metals

Y. Pavlyukh, A.-M. Uimonen, G. Stefanucci, and R. van Leeuwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206402 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Topological Surface States in Dense Solid Hydrogen

Ivan I. Naumov and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206403 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Solid hydrogen phases could be produced at megabar pressures that are poor bulk metals but have high surface conductivity, possibly explaining the differing experimental results on hydrogen realized under these conditions.

Interplay of Site and Bond Electron-Phonon Coupling in One Dimension

Martin Hohenadler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206404 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Dimensional Hierarchy of Fermionic Interacting Topological Phases

Raquel Queiroz, Eslam Khalaf, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206405 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Resistivity Minimum in Highly Frustrated Itinerant Magnets

Zhentao Wang, Kipton Barros, Gia-Wei Chern, Dmitrii L. Maslov, and Cristian D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206601 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Quantum Entanglement as a Diagnostic of Phase Transitions in Disordered Fractional Quantum Hall Liquids

Zhao Liu and R. N. Bhatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206801 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Quantum entanglement could be used as a diagnostic for spotting disorder-driven topological phase transitions in fractional quantum Hall liquids.

Signatures of Hyperfine, Spin-Orbit, and Decoherence Effects in a Pauli Spin Blockade

T. Fujita, P. Stano, G. Allison, K. Morimoto, Y. Sato, M. Larsson, J.-H. Park, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, A. Oiwa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206802 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Two new transport measurements in GaAs quantum dots–one addressing spin-related transport, another quantum state degeneracy–use methods that could be adopted in other systems.

Measuring the Degeneracy of Discrete Energy Levels Using a GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dot

A. Hofmann, V. F. Maisi, C. Gold, T. Krähenmann, C. Rössler, J. Basset, P. Märki, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 206803 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Two new transport measurements in GaAs quantum dots–one addressing spin-related transport, another quantum state degeneracy–use methods that could be adopted in other systems.

Transport in Out-of-Equilibrium XXZ Chains: Exact Profiles of Charges and Currents

Bruno Bertini, Mario Collura, Jacopo De Nardis, and Maurizio Fagotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207201 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

A new method for calculating the time-evolving behavior of interacting quantum particles in one dimension can be used to model experiments that were previously beyond description.

Skyrmions at the Edge: Confinement Effects in Fe/Ir(111)

Julian Hagemeister, Davide Iaia, Elena Y. Vedmedenko, Kirsten von Bergmann, André Kubetzka, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207202 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Magnon Polarons in the Spin Seebeck Effect

Takashi Kikkawa, Ka Shen, Benedetta Flebus, Rembert A. Duine, Ken-ichi Uchida, Zhiyong Qiu, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207203 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

A magnon-phonon resonance is observed using the spin Seebeck effect whereby a spin current is generated from a temperature gradient in magnetic materials.

Theory of Spin Loss at Metallic Interfaces

K. D. Belashchenko, Alexey A. Kovalev, and M. van Schilfgaarde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207204 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Local Density of States for Nanoplasmonics

Tigran V. Shahbazyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207401 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Stability of High-Density Two-Dimensional Excitons against a Mott Transition in High Magnetic Fields Probed by Coherent Terahertz Spectroscopy

Qi Zhang, Yongrui Wang, Weilu Gao, Zhongqu Long, John D. Watson, Michael J. Manfra, Alexey Belyanin, and Junichiro Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207402 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

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

Evidence for Marginal Stability in Emulsions

Jie Lin, Ivane Jorjadze, Lea-Laetitia Pontani, Matthieu Wyart, and Jasna Brujic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208001 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Confocal microscopy experiments reveal the effect of pressure on the spectrum of the vibrational modes for compressed emulsions. The observed scaling behavior in this model system lends credence to recent mean-field theories describing marginal stability in amorphous materials.

Strain Pattern in Supercooled Liquids

Bernd Illing, Sebastian Fritschi, David Hajnal, Christian Klix, Peter Keim, and Matthias Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208002 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

Nonequilibrium Phase Behavior from Minimization of Free Power Dissipation

Philip Krinninger, Matthias Schmidt, and Joseph M. Brader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208003 (2016) - Published 11 November, 2016

Stochastic Predator-Prey Dynamics of Transposons in the Human Genome

Chi Xue and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208101 (2016) - Published 10 November, 2016

Immunization and Targeted Destruction of Networks using Explosive Percolation

Pau Clusella, Peter Grassberger, Francisco J. Pérez-Reche, and Antonio Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 208301 (2016) - Published 8 November, 2016

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