Volume 117, Issue 22

25 November 2016

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Left: A photonic crystal composed of alumina bars (white). Right: The measured electric-field distributions for incoming beams with incident angles of 45º. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Ultratransparent Media and Transformation Optics with Shifted Spatial Dispersions
Jie Luo, Yuting Yang, Zhongqi Yao, Weixin Lu, Bo Hou, Zhi Hong Hang, C. T. Chan, and Yun Lai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223901 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ramsey Interference with Single Photons

Stéphane Clemmen, Alessandro Farsi, Sven Ramelow, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223601 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Single particles of light can be prepared in a quantum superposition of two different colors, an achievement that could prove useful for quantum information processing.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Evidence of the Gardner Phase in a Granular Glass

A. Seguin and O. Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228001 (2016) - Published 21 November, 2016

Two-dimensional disk packings under compression and vibration display signatures of the Gardner phase transition that is thought to occur between the glass and jamming transitions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Temperature Effects in the Band Structure of Topological Insulators

Bartomeu Monserrat and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226801 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016

Calculations based on density-functional theory show that certain topological insulators can turn into conventional insulators at high temperature.

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Synthetic Dimensions and Spin-Orbit Coupling with an Optical Clock Transition

L. F. Livi, G. Cappellini, M. Diem, L. Franchi, C. Clivati, M. Frittelli, F. Levi, D. Calonico, J. Catani, M. Inguscio, and L. Fallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220401 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Spin-orbit interactions in ultracold quantum gases are synthesized via clock transitions between two energy levels, which act like pseudospin states.

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Universal Off-Equilibrium Scaling of Critical Cumulants in the QCD Phase Diagram

Swagato Mukherjee, Raju Venugopalan, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222301 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Observables sensitive to critical dynamics in heavy-ion collisions should be expressible as universal scaling functions according to new theoretical calculations.

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Single-Photon Absorber Based on Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms

C. Tresp, C. Zimmer, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. Gorniaczyk, A. Paris-Mandoki, and S. Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223001 (2016) - Published 21 November, 2016

A single photon absorber is realized using an ensemble of ultracold atoms. The absorption of one photon by the ensemble induces a long-lived excitation that makes the ensemble transparent to the next 35 incident photons.

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Ultratransparent Media and Transformation Optics with Shifted Spatial Dispersions

Jie Luo, Yuting Yang, Zhongqi Yao, Weixin Lu, Bo Hou, Zhi Hong Hang, C. T. Chan, and Yun Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223901 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016

A photonic crystal metamaterial is realized with perfect transmission of light at all incident angles. The material can be used to create aberration-free virtual images.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Synthetic Dimensions and Spin-Orbit Coupling with an Optical Clock Transition

L. F. Livi, G. Cappellini, M. Diem, L. Franchi, C. Clivati, M. Frittelli, F. Levi, D. Calonico, J. Catani, M. Inguscio, and L. Fallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220401 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Spin-orbit interactions in ultracold quantum gases are synthesized via clock transitions between two energy levels, which act like pseudospin states.

Nonlocality from Local Contextuality

Bi-Heng Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Jiang-Shan Chen, Yun-Feng Huang, Yong-Jian Han, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220402 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic with Global Radiation Fields

S. Weidt, J. Randall, S. C. Webster, K. Lake, A. E. Webb, I. Cohen, T. Navickas, B. Lekitsch, A. Retzker, and W. K. Hensinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220501 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Schur Complement Inequalities for Covariance Matrices and Monogamy of Quantum Correlations

Ludovico Lami, Christoph Hirche, Gerardo Adesso, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220502 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

High-Fidelity Bidirectional Nuclear Qubit Initialization in SiC

Viktor Ivády, Paul V. Klimov, Kevin C. Miao, Abram L. Falk, David J. Christle, Krisztián Szász, Igor A. Abrikosov, David D. Awschalom, and Adam Gali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220503 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Incorporating Noise Quantitatively in the Phase Field Crystal Model via Capillary Fluctuation Theory

Gabriel Kocher, Nana Ofori-Opoku, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220601 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Subhalo Abundance Matching in $f (R)$ Gravity

Jian-hua He, Baojiu Li, and Carlton M. Baugh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221101 (2016) - Published 21 November, 2016

Static Einstein-Maxwell Black Holes with No Spatial Isometries in AdS Space

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro and Eugen Radu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221102 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

First Constraints on the Complete Neutrino Mixing Matrix with a Sterile Neutrino

G. H. Collin, C. A. Argüelles, J. M. Conrad, and M. H. Shaevitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221801 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Off-Equilibrium Scaling of Critical Cumulants in the QCD Phase Diagram

Swagato Mukherjee, Raju Venugopalan, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222301 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Observables sensitive to critical dynamics in heavy-ion collisions should be expressible as universal scaling functions according to new theoretical calculations.

Role of the $Δ$ Resonance in the Population of a Four-Nucleon State in the ${}^{56}{Fe} \to {}^{54}{Fe}$ Reaction at Relativistic Energies

Zs. Podolyák et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222302 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

How Many-Body Correlations and $α$ Clustering Shape ${}^{6}{He}$

Carolina Romero-Redondo, Sofia Quaglioni, Petr Navrátil, and Guillaume Hupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222501 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Single-Photon Absorber Based on Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms

C. Tresp, C. Zimmer, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. Gorniaczyk, A. Paris-Mandoki, and S. Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223001 (2016) - Published 21 November, 2016

Collective Molecular Superrotation: A Model for Extremely Flexible Molecules Applied to Protonated Methane

Hanno Schmiedt, Per Jensen, and Stephan Schlemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223002 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ramsey Interference with Single Photons

Stéphane Clemmen, Alessandro Farsi, Sven Ramelow, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223601 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Single particles of light can be prepared in a quantum superposition of two different colors, an achievement that could prove useful for quantum information processing.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultratransparent Media and Transformation Optics with Shifted Spatial Dispersions

Jie Luo, Yuting Yang, Zhongqi Yao, Weixin Lu, Bo Hou, Zhi Hong Hang, C. T. Chan, and Yun Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223901 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016

A photonic crystal metamaterial is realized with perfect transmission of light at all incident angles. The material can be used to create aberration-free virtual images.

Eigenvalue Outliers of Non-Hermitian Random Matrices with a Local Tree Structure

Izaak Neri and Fernando Lucas Metz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224101 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Acoustic Type-II Weyl Nodes from Stacking Dimerized Chains

Zhaoju Yang and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224301 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Multiple Quantum Wells for $P T$ -Symmetric Phononic Crystals

A. V. Poshakinskiy, A. N. Poddubny, and A. Fainstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224302 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generalized Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij Distribution and Beam Matrix for Phase-Space Manipulations of High-Intensity Beams

Moses Chung, Hong Qin, Ronald C. Davidson, Lars Groening, and Chen Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224801 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Late-Time Mixing Sensitivity to Initial Broadband Surface Roughness in High-Energy-Density Shear Layers

K. A. Flippo, F. W. Doss, J. L. Kline, E. C. Merritt, D. Capelli, T. Cardenas, B. DeVolder, F. Fierro, C. M. Huntington, L. Kot, E. N. Loomis, S. A. MacLaren, T. J. Murphy, S. R. Nagel, T. S. Perry, R. B. Randolph, G. Rivera, and D. W. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225001 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility

D. E. Hinkel, L. F. Berzak Hopkins, T. Ma, J. E. Ralph, F. Albert, L. R. Benedetti, P. M. Celliers, T. Döppner, C. S. Goyon, N. Izumi, L. C. Jarrott, S. F. Khan, J. L. Kline, A. L. Kritcher, G. A. Kyrala, S. R. Nagel, A. E. Pak, P. Patel, M. D. Rosen, J. R. Rygg, M. B. Schneider, D. P. Turnbull, C. B. Yeamans, D. A. Callahan, and O. A. Hurricane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225002 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Electron Cooling in a Magnetically Expanding Plasma

J. M. Little and E. Y. Choueiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225003 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Momentum Distribution in the Unitary Bose Gas from First Principles

Tommaso Comparin and Werner Krauth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225301 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016

Traveling Majorana Solitons in a Low-Dimensional Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Superfluid

Peng Zou, Joachim Brand, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225302 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Three Dimensional Variable-Wavelength X-Ray Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

W. Cha, A. Ulvestad, M. Allain, V. Chamard, R. Harder, S. J. Leake, J. Maser, P. H. Fuoss, and S. O. Hruszkewycz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225501 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Can Point Defects in Surfaces in Solution be Atomically Resolved by Atomic Force Microscopy?

Bernhard Reischl, Paolo Raiteri, Julian D. Gale, and Andrew L. Rohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226101 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Persistent Skyrmion Lattice of Noninteracting Electrons with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Jiyong Fu, Poliana H. Penteado, Marco O. Hachiya, Daniel Loss, and J. Carlos Egues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226401 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

Equivalent Resistance from the Quantum to the Classical Transport Limit

Saheli Sarkar, Damaris Kröber, and Dirk K. Morr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226601 (2016) - Published 23 November, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Temperature Effects in the Band Structure of Topological Insulators

Bartomeu Monserrat and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226801 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016

Calculations based on density-functional theory show that certain topological insulators can turn into conventional insulators at high temperature.

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Evidence of the Gardner Phase in a Granular Glass

A. Seguin and O. Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228001 (2016) - Published 21 November, 2016

Two-dimensional disk packings under compression and vibration display signatures of the Gardner phase transition that is thought to occur between the glass and jamming transitions.

ERRATA

Erratum: Dislocation Structure and Mobility in hcp ${}^{4}{He}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045301 (2016)]

Edgar Josué Landinez Borda, Wei Cai, and Maurice de Koning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 229901 (2016) - Published 22 November, 2016