Volume 117, Issue 21

18 November 2016

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On the Cover

Calculated superconducting gap amplitude on one of the orbital-resolved Fermi surfaces of UPt₃ for a candidate pairing state. Three line nodes are highlighted in orange.

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Exotic Multigap Structure in ${UPt}_{3}$ Unveiled by a First-Principles Analysis
Takuya Nomoto and Hiroaki Ikeda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217002 (2016)

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Experimental Ten-Photon Entanglement

Xi-Lin Wang, Luo-Kan Chen, W. Li, H.-L. Huang, C. Liu, C. Chen, Y.-H. Luo, Z.-E. Su, D. Wu, Z.-D. Li, H. Lu, Y. Hu, X. Jiang, C.-Z. Peng, L. Li, N.-L. Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210502 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

An entangled polarization state of ten photons sets a new record for multiphoton entanglement.

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Comparison of Spectral Linewidths for Quantum Degenerate Bosons and Fermions

R. P. M. J. W. Notermans, R. J. Rengelink, and W. Vassen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213001 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Precision measurements of an atomic transition in cold gases of helium-4 and helium-3 isolate the effects of quantum statistics on the transition’s line shape.

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Two-Color Coherent Control of Femtosecond Above-Threshold Photoemission from a Tungsten Nanotip

Michael Förster, Timo Paschen, Michael Krüger, Christoph Lemell, Georg Wachter, Florian Libisch, Thomas Madlener, Joachim Burgdörfer, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217601 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

By firing laser pulses of two different colors at a nanosized metal tip, researchers create an interference effect that turns electron emission on and off with femtosecond timing.

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Porosity Governs Normal Stresses in Polymer Gels

Henri C. G. de Cagny, Bart E. Vos, Mahsa Vahabi, Nicholas A. Kurniawan, Masao Doi, Gijsje H. Koenderink, F. C. MacKintosh, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217802 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

A new theory explains why fluid-filled filamentary networks contract in response to a sideways force.

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Ultrafast Long-Distance Quantum Communication with Static Linear Optics

Fabian Ewert, Marcel Bergmann, and Peter van Loock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210501 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Theorists propose that an all-optical scheme for long-distance quantum communication could be made using quantum error correcting codes. Unlike others, this scheme does not require fast feedforward operations or quantum memories.

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Observation of Collective Coupling between an Engineered Ensemble of Macroscopic Artificial Atoms and a Superconducting Resonator

Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Corentin Déprez, Hiraku Toida, Kouichi Semba, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, William J. Munro, and Shiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210503 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Coherent coupling is experimentally observed between an LC resonator and 4300 superconducting flux qubits.

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Demonstration of Weight-Four Parity Measurements in the Surface Code Architecture

Maika Takita, A. D. Córcoles, Easwar Magesan, Baleegh Abdo, Markus Brink, Andrew Cross, Jerry M. Chow, and Jay M. Gambetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210505 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

A surface code quantum error correcting protocol is experimentally demonstrated with a network of five superconducting transmon qubits.

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Dressed Hard States and Black Hole Soft Hair

Mehrdad Mirbabayi and Massimo Porrati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 211301 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

A new analysis argues that soft black hole hair, introduced recently by Hawking, Perry, and Strominger, may not carry quantum information about the black hole relevant for the information loss paradox.

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Relativistic Electrons Produced by Foreshock Disturbances Observed Upstream of Earth’s Bow Shock

L. B. Wilson, III, D. G. Sibeck, D. L. Turner, A. Osmane, D. Caprioli, and V. Angelopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215101 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

The THEMIS spacecraft has observed surprisingly high velocity electrons upstream of where the solar wind collides with Earth’s magnetosphere. Current theories of ion acceleration in foreshock disturbances cannot account for the high relativistic energies of these electrons.

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Phase-Controlled Bistability of a Dark Soliton Train in a Polariton Fluid

V. Goblot, H. S. Nguyen, I. Carusotto, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, A. Amo, and J. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217401 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

A previously unseen bistable behavior is experimentally observed in a counter-propagating interacting polariton fluid resonantly excited in a 1D semiconductor microcavity.

LETTERS

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

Universal Signatures of Quantum Critical Points from Finite-Size Torus Spectra: A Window into the Operator Content of Higher-Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

Michael Schuler, Seth Whitsitt, Louis-Paul Henry, Subir Sachdev, and Andreas M. Läuchli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210401 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Fermionic Orbital Optimization in Tensor Network States

C. Krumnow, L. Veis, Ö. Legeza, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210402 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

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Ultrafast Long-Distance Quantum Communication with Static Linear Optics

Fabian Ewert, Marcel Bergmann, and Peter van Loock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210501 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Ten-Photon Entanglement

Xi-Lin Wang, Luo-Kan Chen, W. Li, H.-L. Huang, C. Liu, C. Chen, Y.-H. Luo, Z.-E. Su, D. Wu, Z.-D. Li, H. Lu, Y. Hu, X. Jiang, C.-Z. Peng, L. Li, N.-L. Liu, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210502 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

An entangled polarization state of ten photons sets a new record for multiphoton entanglement.

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Observation of Collective Coupling between an Engineered Ensemble of Macroscopic Artificial Atoms and a Superconducting Resonator

Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Corentin Déprez, Hiraku Toida, Kouichi Semba, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, William J. Munro, and Shiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210503 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Coherent coupling is experimentally observed between an LC resonator and 4300 superconducting flux qubits.

Multipartite Entanglement Detection with Minimal Effort

Lukas Knips, Christian Schwemmer, Nico Klein, Marcin Wieśniak, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210504 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

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Demonstration of Weight-Four Parity Measurements in the Surface Code Architecture

Maika Takita, A. D. Córcoles, Easwar Magesan, Baleegh Abdo, Markus Brink, Andrew Cross, Jerry M. Chow, and Jay M. Gambetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210505 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

A surface code quantum error correcting protocol is experimentally demonstrated with a network of five superconducting transmon qubits.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Projections for Measuring the Size of the Solar Core with Neutrino-Electron Scattering

Jonathan H. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 211101 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Radiative Screening of Fifth Forces

Clare Burrage, Edmund J. Copeland, and Peter Millington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 211102 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

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Dressed Hard States and Black Hole Soft Hair

Mehrdad Mirbabayi and Massimo Porrati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 211301 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Higher-Loop Amplitude Monodromy Relations in String and Gauge Theory

Piotr Tourkine and Pierre Vanhove

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 211601 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Codecaying Dark Matter

Jeff Asaf Dror, Eric Kuflik, and Wee Hao Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 211801 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Comparison of Spectral Linewidths for Quantum Degenerate Bosons and Fermions

R. P. M. J. W. Notermans, R. J. Rengelink, and W. Vassen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213001 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Precision measurements of an atomic transition in cold gases of helium-4 and helium-3 isolate the effects of quantum statistics on the transition’s line shape.

Photodissociation of Trapped ${Rb}_{2}^{+}$ : Implications for Simultaneous Trapping of Atoms and Molecular Ions

S. Jyothi, Tridib Ray, Sourav Dutta, A. R. Allouche, Romain Vexiau, Olivier Dulieu, and S. A. Rangwala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213002 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Nonlinear Breit-Wheeler Pair Production in a Tightly Focused Laser Beam

A. Di Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213201 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Arbitrary Dicke-State Control of Symmetric Rydberg Ensembles

Tyler Keating, Charles H. Baldwin, Yuan-Yu Jau, Jongmin Lee, Grant W. Biedermann, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213601 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Nonclassicality Criteria in Multiport Interferometry

L. Rigovacca, C. Di Franco, B. J. Metcalf, I. A. Walmsley, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213602 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Topological Pumping of Photons in Nonlinear Resonator Arrays

Jirawat Tangpanitanon, Victor M. Bastidas, Sarah Al-Assam, Pedram Roushan, Dieter Jaksch, and Dimitris G. Angelakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213603 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Stable Optical Trap from a Single Optical Field Utilizing Birefringence

Robinjeet Singh, Garrett D. Cole, Jonathan Cripe, and Thomas Corbitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213604 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Parametric Symmetry Breaking in a Nonlinear Resonator

Anina Leuch, Luca Papariello, Oded Zilberberg, Christian L. Degen, R. Chitra, and Alexander Eichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 214101 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Bifurcations and Singularities for Coupled Oscillators with Inertia and Frustration

J. Barré and D. Métivier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 214102 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Role of Multiple Soliton Interactions in the Generation of Rogue Waves: The Modified Korteweg–de Vries Framework

A. V. Slunyaev and E. N. Pelinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 214501 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Macroscopic Model for Head-On Binary Droplet Collisions in a Gaseous Medium

Jie Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 214502 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Relativistic Electrons Produced by Foreshock Disturbances Observed Upstream of Earth’s Bow Shock

L. B. Wilson, III, D. G. Sibeck, D. L. Turner, A. Osmane, D. Caprioli, and V. Angelopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215101 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bloch Oscillations in Optical and Zeeman Lattices in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Coupling

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, Dmitry A. Zezyulin, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215301 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Nanobubble Fragmentation and Bubble-Free-Channel Shear Localization in Helium-Irradiated Submicron-Sized Copper

Ming-Shuai Ding, Lin Tian, Wei-Zhong Han, Ju Li, Evan Ma, and Zhi-Wei Shan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215501 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Coordinate-Invariant Lyddane-Sachs-Teller Relationship for Polar Vibrations in Materials with Monoclinic and Triclinic Crystal Systems

Mathias Schubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215502 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Unraveling the Anomalous Grain Size Dependence of Cavitation

J. W. Wilkerson and K. T. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215503 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Giant Isotropic Nernst Effect in an Anisotropic Kondo Semimetal

Ulrike Stockert, Peijie Sun, Niels Oeschler, Frank Steglich, Toshiro Takabatake, Piers Coleman, and Silke Paschen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 216401 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Angle-Resolved Spectroscopy of Positronium Emission from a Cu(110) Surface

A. C. L. Jones, H. J. Rutbeck-Goldman, T. H. Hisakado, A. M. Piñeiro, H. W. K. Tom, A. P. Mills, Jr., B. Barbiellini, and J. Kuriplach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 216402 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Higher-Spin Theory of the Magnetorotons

Siavash Golkar, Dung Xuan Nguyen, Matthew M. Roberts, and Dam Thanh Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 216403 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Observation of Orbital Order in the Half-Filled $4 f$ Gd Compound

H. Jang, B. Y. Kang, B. K. Cho, M. Hashimoto, D. Lu, C. A. Burns, C.-C. Kao, and J.-S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 216404 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Emergent Electromagnetic Induction and Adiabatic Charge Pumping in Noncentrosymmetric Weyl Semimetals

Hiroaki Ishizuka, Tomoya Hayata, Masahito Ueda, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 216601 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Superconductivity Emerging from an Electronic Phase Separation in the Charge Ordered Phase of ${RbFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

E. Civardi, M. Moroni, M. Babij, Z. Bukowski, and P. Carretta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217001 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Exotic Multigap Structure in ${UPt}_{3}$ Unveiled by a First-Principles Analysis

Takuya Nomoto and Hiroaki Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217002 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Superconductivity in FeSe Thin Films Driven by the Interplay between Nematic Fluctuations and Spin-Orbit Coupling

Jian Kang and Rafael M. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217003 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

Thermal Spin Dynamics of Yttrium Iron Garnet

Joseph Barker and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217201 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

Spin Nernst Effect of Magnons in Collinear Antiferromagnets

Ran Cheng, Satoshi Okamoto, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217202 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Magnon Spin Nernst Effect in Antiferromagnets

Vladimir A. Zyuzin and Alexey A. Kovalev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217203 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Electromagnetic Signatures of the Chiral Anomaly in Weyl Semimetals

Edwin Barnes, J. J. Heremans, and Djordje Minic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217204 (2016) - Published 15 November, 2016

Berry Curvature in Magnon-Phonon Hybrid Systems

Ryuji Takahashi and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217205 (2016) - Published 17 November, 2016

Enhanced Spin-Orbit Torque via Modulation of Spin Current Absorption

Xuepeng Qiu, William Legrand, Pan He, Yang Wu, Jiawei Yu, Rajagopalan Ramaswamy, Aurelien Manchon, and Hyunsoo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217206 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase-Controlled Bistability of a Dark Soliton Train in a Polariton Fluid

V. Goblot, H. S. Nguyen, I. Carusotto, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, A. Amo, and J. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217401 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

A previously unseen bistable behavior is experimentally observed in a counter-propagating interacting polariton fluid resonantly excited in a 1D semiconductor microcavity.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Color Coherent Control of Femtosecond Above-Threshold Photoemission from a Tungsten Nanotip

Michael Förster, Timo Paschen, Michael Krüger, Christoph Lemell, Georg Wachter, Florian Libisch, Thomas Madlener, Joachim Burgdörfer, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217601 (2016) - Published 14 November, 2016

By firing laser pulses of two different colors at a nanosized metal tip, researchers create an interference effect that turns electron emission on and off with femtosecond timing.

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

Universality between Experiment and Simulation of a Diblock Copolymer Melt

Thomas M. Beardsley and Mark W. Matsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217801 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

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Porosity Governs Normal Stresses in Polymer Gels

Henri C. G. de Cagny, Bart E. Vos, Mahsa Vahabi, Nicholas A. Kurniawan, Masao Doi, Gijsje H. Koenderink, F. C. MacKintosh, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 217802 (2016) - Published 18 November, 2016

A new theory explains why fluid-filled filamentary networks contract in response to a sideways force.

Structural Transitions in Densifying Networks

R. Lambiotte, P. L. Krapivsky, U. Bhat, and S. Redner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 218301 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

COMMENTS

Comment on “High Gain Submicrometer Optical Amplifier at Near-Infrared Communication Band”

Xue Feng, Zhicheng Liu, Jurgen Michel, Cun-Zheng Ning, Markus Pollnau, Limin Tong, and Leijun Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 219701 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Wang et al. Reply:

Xiaoxia Wang, Xiujuan Zhuang, Sen Yang, Yu Chen, Qinglin Zhang, Xiaoli Zhu, Hong Zhou, Pengfei Guo, Junwu Liang, Yu Huang, Anlian Pan, and Xiangfeng Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 219702 (2016) - Published 16 November, 2016

Volume 117, Issue 21

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

COMMENTS

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