Volume 117, Issue 23

2 December 2016

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On the Cover

Ratio between the global spin relaxation rate minimum and the rate at vanishing wave vectors of spin density in zinc-blende-type 2DEGs as a function of Miller indices. White regions indicate persistent spin helix solutions.

From the article:

Control of Spin Helix Symmetry in Semiconductor Quantum Wells by Crystal Orientation
Michael Kammermeier, Paul Wenk, and John Schliemann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236801 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Precision Measurement of the Boron to Carbon Flux Ratio in Cosmic Rays from 1.9 GV to 2.6 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231102 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

New Space Station data support a straightforward model of cosmic-ray propagation through the Galaxy but also add to previous signs of undiscovered cosmic-ray sources such as dark matter.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interevent Correlations from Avalanches Hiding Below the Detection Threshold

Sanja Janićević, Lasse Laurson, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Stéphane Santucci, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230601 (2016) - Published 1 December, 2016

A study of bursting phenomena like earthquakes suggests that events appear to cluster in time because of the way that small events like aftershocks are identified.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

First On-Sky Fringes with an Up-Conversion Interferometer Tested on a Telescope Array

P. Darré, R. Baudoin, J.-T. Gomes, N. J. Scott, L. Delage, L. Grossard, J. Sturmann, C. Farrington, F. Reynaud, and T. A. Ten Brummelaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 233902 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Converting infrared light to visible light might boost the sensitivity of infrared telescope arrays.

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Coherent Cherenkov-Cyclotron Radiation Excited by an Electron Beam in a Metamaterial Waveguide

J. S. Hummelt, X. Lu, H. Xu, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237701 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

A system that produces radiation by sending electrons through a metamaterial waveguide could potentially generate high-power microwaves with high efficiency.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetorotational Turbulence and Dynamo in a Collisionless Plasma

Matthew W. Kunz, James M. Stone, and Eliot Quataert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235101 (2016) - Published 1 December, 2016

The evolution of magnetorotational turbulence is tracked in 3D kinetic simulations for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of a Topological Band Gap Opening in Ultracold Fermi Gases with Two-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupling

Zengming Meng, Lianghui Huang, Peng Peng, Donghao Li, Liangchao Chen, Yong Xu, Chuanwei Zhang, Pengjun Wang, and Jing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235304 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

The topological band gap in a Fermi gas is controlled by tuning the polarization of Raman lasers that create a perpendicular Zeeman field, leading to a band gap opening.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-Reversal-Breaking Weyl Fermions in Magnetic Heusler Alloys

Zhijun Wang, M. G. Vergniory, S. Kushwaha, Max Hirschberger, E. V. Chulkov, A. Ernst, N. P. Ong, Robert J. Cava, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236401 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Weyl materials with only two Weyl nodes are predicted in a time-reversal-breaking system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proving Nontrivial Topology of Pure Bismuth by Quantum Confinement

S. Ito, B. Feng, M. Arita, A. Takayama, R.-Y. Liu, T. Someya, W.-C. Chen, T. Iimori, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, C.-M. Cheng, S.-J. Tang, F. Komori, K. Kobayashi, T.-C. Chiang, and I. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236402 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Characterization of the nontrivial topology in bismuth through high-resolution ARPES measurements is aided by a new quantum well geometry.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Forces on Rigid Inclusions in Elastic Media and Resulting Matrix-Mediated Interactions

Mate Puljiz, Shilin Huang, Günter K. Auernhammer, and Andreas M. Menzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238003 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Theorists correctly predict the change in position of paramagnetic particles embedded in a gel and subject to a magnetic field by considering the effective elastic interparticle interactions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mutation at Expanding Front of Self-Replicating Colloidal Clusters

Hidenori Tanaka, Zorana Zeravcic, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238004 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

The emergence of mutations is studied in a system of self-replicating colloids, showing behavior similar to that seen in growing bacterial colonies.

LETTERS

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

Generalized Master Equations Leading to Completely Positive Dynamics

Bassano Vacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230401 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Randomness Amplification under Minimal Fundamental Assumptions on the Devices

Ravishankar Ramanathan, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Karol Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Hanna Wojewódka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230501 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Clean Quantum and Classical Communication Protocols

Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, Christopher Perry, and Jeroen Zuiddam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230503 (2016) - Published 1 December, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interevent Correlations from Avalanches Hiding Below the Detection Threshold

Sanja Janićević, Lasse Laurson, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Stéphane Santucci, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230601 (2016) - Published 1 December, 2016

A study of bursting phenomena like earthquakes suggests that events appear to cluster in time because of the way that small events like aftershocks are identified.

Experimental Demonstration of Higher Precision Weak-Value-Based Metrology Using Power Recycling

Yi-Tao Wang, Jian-Shun Tang, Gang Hu, Jian Wang, Shang Yu, Zong-Quan Zhou, Ze-Di Cheng, Jin-Shi Xu, Sen-Zhi Fang, Qing-Lin Wu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230801 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Versatile Method for Renormalized Stress-Energy Computation in Black-Hole Spacetimes

Adam Levi and Amos Ori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231101 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision Measurement of the Boron to Carbon Flux Ratio in Cosmic Rays from 1.9 GV to 2.6 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231102 (2016) - Published 28 November, 2016

New Space Station data support a straightforward model of cosmic-ray propagation through the Galaxy but also add to previous signs of undiscovered cosmic-ray sources such as dark matter.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Direct Approach to Quantum Tunneling

Anders Andreassen, David Farhi, William Frost, and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231601 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Chaos in Chiral Condensates in Gauge Theories

Koji Hashimoto, Keiju Murata, and Kentaroh Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231602 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

One-Loop One-Point Functions in Gauge-Gravity Dualities with Defects

Isak Buhl-Mortensen, Marius de Leeuw, Asger C. Ipsen, Charlotte Kristjansen, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231603 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Light Scalar Dark Matter

Asher Berlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 231801 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Top Quark Mass Calibration for Monte Carlo Event Generators

Mathias Butenschoen, Bahman Dehnadi, André H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Moritz Preisser, and Iain W. Stewart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 232001 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Measurement of Singly Cabibbo Suppressed Decays $Λ_{c}^{+} \to p π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Λ_{c}^{+} \to p K^{+} K^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 232002 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Vortex Pinning and Dynamics in the Neutron Star Crust

Gabriel Wlazłowski, Kazuyuki Sekizawa, Piotr Magierski, Aurel Bulgac, and Michael McNeil Forbes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 232701 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nanoscale “Dark State” Optical Potentials for Cold Atoms

M. Łącki, M. A. Baranov, H. Pichler, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 233001 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of a Photonic Crystal All-Optical Switch

Pierre Colman, Per Lunnemann, Yi Yu, and Jesper Mørk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 233901 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

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First On-Sky Fringes with an Up-Conversion Interferometer Tested on a Telescope Array

P. Darré, R. Baudoin, J.-T. Gomes, N. J. Scott, L. Delage, L. Grossard, J. Sturmann, C. Farrington, F. Reynaud, and T. A. Ten Brummelaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 233902 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Converting infrared light to visible light might boost the sensitivity of infrared telescope arrays.

Polarization Shaping for Control of Nonlinear Propagation

Frédéric Bouchard, Hugo Larocque, Alison M. Yao, Christopher Travis, Israel De Leon, Andrea Rubano, Ebrahim Karimi, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 233903 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Sharp Transition in the Lift Force of a Fluid Flowing Past Nonsymmetrical Obstacles: Evidence for a Lift Crisis in the Drag Crisis Regime

Patrick Bot, Marc Rabaud, Goulven Thomas, Alessandro Lombardi, and Charles Lebret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 234501 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Induced-Charge Capacitive Deionization: The Electrokinetic Response of a Porous Particle to an External Electric Field

S. Rubin, M. E. Suss, P. M. Biesheuvel, and M. Bercovici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 234502 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Physical Mechanism of the Transverse Instability in Radiation Pressure Ion Acceleration

Y. Wan, C.-H. Pai, C. J. Zhang, F. Li, Y. P. Wu, J. F. Hua, W. Lu, Y. Q. Gu, L. O. Silva, C. Joshi, and W. B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 234801 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Evolution of a Vortex in a Strain Flow

N. C. Hurst, J. R. Danielson, D. H. E. Dubin, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235001 (2016) - Published 1 December, 2016

Experimental Investigation of the Collective Raman Scattering of Multiple Laser Beams in Inhomogeneous Plasmas

S. Depierreux, C. Neuville, C. Baccou, V. Tassin, M. Casanova, P.-E. Masson-Laborde, N. Borisenko, A. Orekhov, A. Colaitis, A. Debayle, G. Duchateau, A. Heron, S. Huller, P. Loiseau, P. Nicolaï, D. Pesme, C. Riconda, G. Tran, R. Bahr, J. Katz, C. Stoeckl, W. Seka, V. Tikhonchuk, and C. Labaune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235002 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Role of Frequency Chirp and Energy Flow Directionality in the Strong Coupling Regime of Brillouin-Based Plasma Amplification

M. Chiaramello, F. Amiranoff, C. Riconda, and S. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235003 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetorotational Turbulence and Dynamo in a Collisionless Plasma

Matthew W. Kunz, James M. Stone, and Eliot Quataert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235101 (2016) - Published 1 December, 2016

The evolution of magnetorotational turbulence is tracked in 3D kinetic simulations for the first time.

Nonlinear Waves in the Terrestrial Quasiparallel Foreshock

B. Hnat, D. Y. Kolotkov, D. O’Connell, V. M. Nakariakov, and G. Rowlands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235102 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

1D to 3D Crossover of a Spin-Imbalanced Fermi Gas

Melissa C. Revelle, Jacob A. Fry, Ben A. Olsen, and Randall G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235301 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Remnant Geometric Hall Response in a Quantum Quench

Justin H. Wilson, Justin C. W. Song, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235302 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Momentum-Resolved Observation of Thermal and Quantum Depletion in a Bose Gas

R. Chang, Q. Bouton, H. Cayla, C. Qu, A. Aspect, C. I. Westbrook, and D. Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235303 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of a Topological Band Gap Opening in Ultracold Fermi Gases with Two-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupling

Zengming Meng, Lianghui Huang, Peng Peng, Donghao Li, Liangchao Chen, Yong Xu, Chuanwei Zhang, Pengjun Wang, and Jing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235304 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

The topological band gap in a Fermi gas is controlled by tuning the polarization of Raman lasers that create a perpendicular Zeeman field, leading to a band gap opening.

Candidate Elastic Quantum Critical Point in ${LaCu}_{6 - x} {Au}_{x}$

L. Poudel, A. F. May, M. R. Koehler, M. A. McGuire, S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Calder, R. E. Baumbach, R. Mukherjee, D. Sapkota, C. de la Cruz, D. J. Singh, D. Mandrus, and A. D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235701 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-Reversal-Breaking Weyl Fermions in Magnetic Heusler Alloys

Zhijun Wang, M. G. Vergniory, S. Kushwaha, Max Hirschberger, E. V. Chulkov, A. Ernst, N. P. Ong, Robert J. Cava, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236401 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Weyl materials with only two Weyl nodes are predicted in a time-reversal-breaking system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proving Nontrivial Topology of Pure Bismuth by Quantum Confinement

S. Ito, B. Feng, M. Arita, A. Takayama, R.-Y. Liu, T. Someya, W.-C. Chen, T. Iimori, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, C.-M. Cheng, S.-J. Tang, F. Komori, K. Kobayashi, T.-C. Chiang, and I. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236402 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Characterization of the nontrivial topology in bismuth through high-resolution ARPES measurements is aided by a new quantum well geometry.

Control of Spin Helix Symmetry in Semiconductor Quantum Wells by Crystal Orientation

Michael Kammermeier, Paul Wenk, and John Schliemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236801 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Single-Shot Ternary Readout of Two-Electron Spin States in a Quantum Dot Using Spin Filtering by Quantum Hall Edge States

H. Kiyama, T. Nakajima, S. Teraoka, A. Oiwa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236802 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Scaling Theory of a Compressibility-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in a Two-Dimensional Electron Fluid

D. Belitz and T. R. Kirkpatrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236803 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Pressure Induced Stripe-Order Antiferromagnetism and First-Order Phase Transition in FeSe

P. S. Wang, S. S. Sun, Y. Cui, W. H. Song, T. R. Li, Rong Yu, Hechang Lei, and Weiqiang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237001 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Ballistic Graphene Josephson Junctions from the Short to the Long Junction Regimes

I. V. Borzenets, F. Amet, C. T. Ke, A. W. Draelos, M. T. Wei, A. Seredinski, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Y. Bomze, M. Yamamoto, S. Tarucha, and G. Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237002 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Mechanical Actuation of Magnetic Domain-Wall Motion

Se Kwon Kim, Daniel Hill, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237201 (2016) - Published 29 November, 2016

Quantum Critical Scaling in the Disordered Itinerant Ferromagnet ${UCo}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} Ge$

K. Huang, S. Eley, P. F. S. Rosa, L. Civale, E. D. Bauer, R. E. Baumbach, M. B. Maple, and M. Janoschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237202 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Magnetic Excitations and Electronic Interactions in ${Sr}_{2} {CuTeO}_{6}$ : A Spin- $1 / 2$ Square Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

P. Babkevich, Vamshi M. Katukuri, B. Fåk, S. Rols, T. Fennell, D. Pajić, H. Tanaka, T. Pardini, R. R. P. Singh, A. Mitrushchenkov, O. V. Yazyev, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237203 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Evidence for a Strong Topological Insulator Phase in ${ZrTe}_{5}$

G. Manzoni, L. Gragnaniello, G. Autès, T. Kuhn, A. Sterzi, F. Cilento, M. Zacchigna, V. Enenkel, I. Vobornik, L. Barba, F. Bisti, Ph. Bugnon, A. Magrez, V. N. Strocov, H. Berger, O. V. Yazyev, M. Fonin, F. Parmigiani, and A. Crepaldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237601 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent Cherenkov-Cyclotron Radiation Excited by an Electron Beam in a Metamaterial Waveguide

J. S. Hummelt, X. Lu, H. Xu, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237701 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

A system that produces radiation by sending electrons through a metamaterial waveguide could potentially generate high-power microwaves with high efficiency.

Puddle-Induced Resistance Oscillations in the Breakdown of the Graphene Quantum Hall Effect

M. Yang, O. Couturaud, W. Desrat, C. Consejo, D. Kazazis, R. Yakimova, M. Syväjärvi, M. Goiran, J. Béard, P. Frings, M. Pierre, A. Cresti, W. Escoffier, and B. Jouault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 237702 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

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

Barrier-Free Nucleation at Grain-Boundary Triple Junctions During Solid-State Phase Transformations

Huajing Song and Jeffrey J. Hoyt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238001 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Pattern Formation in Polymerizing Actin Flocks: Spirals, Spots, and Waves without Nonlinear Chemistry

T. Le Goff, B. Liebchen, and D. Marenduzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238002 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Forces on Rigid Inclusions in Elastic Media and Resulting Matrix-Mediated Interactions

Mate Puljiz, Shilin Huang, Günter K. Auernhammer, and Andreas M. Menzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238003 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Theorists correctly predict the change in position of paramagnetic particles embedded in a gel and subject to a magnetic field by considering the effective elastic interparticle interactions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mutation at Expanding Front of Self-Replicating Colloidal Clusters

Hidenori Tanaka, Zorana Zeravcic, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238004 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

The emergence of mutations is studied in a system of self-replicating colloids, showing behavior similar to that seen in growing bacterial colonies.

Template-Directed Copolymerization, Random Walks along Disordered Tracks, and Fractals

Pierre Gaspard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238101 (2016) - Published 30 November, 2016

Unexpectedly Enhanced Solubility of Aromatic Amino Acids and Peptides in an Aqueous Solution of Divalent Transition-Metal Cations

Guosheng Shi, Yaru Dang, Tingting Pan, Xing Liu, Hui Liu, Shaoxian Li, Lijuan Zhang, Hongwei Zhao, Shaoping Li, Jiaguang Han, Renzhong Tai, Yiming Zhu, Jichen Li, Qing Ji, R. A. Mole, Dehong Yu, and Haiping Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 238102 (2016) - Published 2 December, 2016

Volume 117, Issue 23

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

Nuclear Physics

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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