Volume 117, Issue 24

9 December 2016

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Electron backscattered diffraction inverse pole figure map of stress-induced martensite microstructure showing large bands that indicate a twinning system.

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Reversion of a Parent ${130} {⟨ 310 ⟩}_{α^{''}}$ Martensitic Twinning System at the Origin of ${332} {⟨ 113 ⟩}_{β}$ Twins Observed in Metastable $β$ Titanium Alloys
P. Castany, Y. Yang, E. Bertrand, and T. Gloriant
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245501 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Rectification of Entropy Production by Maxwell’s Demon in a Quantum System

Patrice A. Camati, John P. S. Peterson, Tiago B. Batalhão, Kaonan Micadei, Alexandre M. Souza, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Roberto M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240502 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

A new implementation of a Maxwell’s demon can control entropy production in a quantum-mechanical system that is driven out of thermal equilibrium.

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First Liquid Layer Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions at the National Ignition Facility

R. E. Olson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245001 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

A laser-based fusion experiment demonstrates that liquid fuel capsules could rectify problems encountered with ice-based fuel capsules.

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Observation of von Kármán Vortex Street in an Atomic Superfluid Gas

Woo Jin Kwon, Joon Hyun Kim, Sang Won Seo, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245301 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

A flow pattern dubbed the von Kármán vortex street, which is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and extreme power, has been created in a superfluid.

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Wetting Effect on Torricelli’s Law

J. Ferrand, L. Favreau, S. Joubaud, and E. Freyssingeas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 248002 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

The speed at which water drains out of a tank depends on the affinity of water with the outside surface of the orifice through which it drains.

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Large-Scale Patterns in a Minimal Cognitive Flocking Model: Incidental Leaders, Nematic Patterns, and Aggregates

Lucas Barberis and Fernando Peruani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 248001 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

Moving particles with no memory can group together in complex flock configurations using only instantaneous cues.

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Quasi-Many-Body Localization in Translation-Invariant Systems

N. Y. Yao, C. R. Laumann, J. I. Cirac, M. D. Lukin, and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240601 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

In spin ladder systems, a single characteristic length scale controls the behavior of the spin polarization.

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Constraints on Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources from a Search for Neutrinos above 10 PeV with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241101 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

IceCube has put the tightest constraints on the cosmogenic neutrino flux—neutrinos produced when ultrahigh energy cosmic rays scatter from the cosmic microwave background. In the process the collaboration has also detected the highest energy neutrino to date.

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Golden Probe of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Yi Chen, Joe Lykken, Maria Spiropulu, Daniel Stolarski, and Roberto Vega-Morales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241801 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Four-lepton decays of the Higgs boson could be used to probe a key parameter of electroweak symmetry breaking.

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How Bright is the Proton? A Precise Determination of the Photon Parton Distribution Function

Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason, Gavin P. Salam, and Giulia Zanderighi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 242002 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

The distribution of photons inside the proton can be determined in a model-independent way from electron-proton scattering data.

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Nuclear Excitation by Two-Photon Electron Transition

A. V. Volotka, A. Surzhykov, S. Trotsenko, G. Plunien, Th. Stöhlker, and S. Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243001 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

An alternative mechanism for inducing nuclear excitation may provide a sensitive tool for probing metastable states of nuclei.

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Dynamics of a Ground-State Cooled Ion Colliding with Ultracold Atoms

Ziv Meir, Tomas Sikorsky, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Yehonatan Dallal, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243401 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Experiments show that the energy scale of atom-ion interactions is determined by the force the atom exerts on the ion during a collision.

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Geometric Resonance of Composite Fermions near Bilayer Quantum Hall States

M. A. Mueed, D. Kamburov, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 246801 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

A single-layer to bilayer transition is induced in a two-dimensional electron gas by applying a parallel magnetic field, enabling the direct study of composite fermions.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Networks with Chiral-Light–Matter Interaction in Waveguides

Sahand Mahmoodian, Peter Lodahl, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240501 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

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Experimental Rectification of Entropy Production by Maxwell’s Demon in a Quantum System

Patrice A. Camati, John P. S. Peterson, Tiago B. Batalhão, Kaonan Micadei, Alexandre M. Souza, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Roberto M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240502 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

A new implementation of a Maxwell’s demon can control entropy production in a quantum-mechanical system that is driven out of thermal equilibrium.

Quantum Entanglement Swapping between Two Multipartite Entangled States

Xiaolong Su, Caixing Tian, Xiaowei Deng, Qiang Li, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240503 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

Loops and Strings in a Superconducting Lattice Gauge Simulator

G. K. Brennen, G. Pupillo, E. Rico, T. M. Stace, and D. Vodola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240504 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Gaussian Intrinsic Entanglement

Ladislav Mišta, Jr. and Richard Tatham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240505 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Temporal Multimode Storage of Entangled Photon Pairs

Alexey Tiranov, Peter C. Strassmann, Jonathan Lavoie, Nicolas Brunner, Marcus Huber, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, Mikael Afzelius, Félix Bussières, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240506 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

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Quasi-Many-Body Localization in Translation-Invariant Systems

N. Y. Yao, C. R. Laumann, J. I. Cirac, M. D. Lukin, and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 240601 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

In spin ladder systems, a single characteristic length scale controls the behavior of the spin polarization.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraints on Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources from a Search for Neutrinos above 10 PeV with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241101 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Lunar Laser Ranging

A. Bourgoin, A. Hees, S. Bouquillon, C. Le Poncin-Lafitte, G. Francou, and M. -C. Angonin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241301 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bootstrapping a Five-Loop Amplitude Using Steinmann Relations

Simon Caron-Huot, Lance J. Dixon, Andrew McLeod, and Matt von Hippel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241601 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

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Golden Probe of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Yi Chen, Joe Lykken, Maria Spiropulu, Daniel Stolarski, and Roberto Vega-Morales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241801 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Four-lepton decays of the Higgs boson could be used to probe a key parameter of electroweak symmetry breaking.

Fate of the Tetraquark Candidate $Z_{c} (3900)$ from Lattice QCD

Yoichi Ikeda, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Shinya Gongyo, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Takashi Inoue, Takumi Iritani, Noriyoshi Ishii, Keiko Murano, and Kenji Sasaki (HAL QCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 242001 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

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How Bright is the Proton? A Precise Determination of the Photon Parton Distribution Function

Aneesh Manohar, Paolo Nason, Gavin P. Salam, and Giulia Zanderighi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 242002 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

The distribution of photons inside the proton can be determined in a model-independent way from electron-proton scattering data.

Nuclear Physics

Can Ab Initio Theory Explain the Phenomenon of Parity Inversion in ${}^{11}{Be}$ ?

Angelo Calci, Petr Navrátil, Robert Roth, Jérémy Dohet-Eraly, Sofia Quaglioni, and Guillaume Hupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 242501 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nuclear Excitation by Two-Photon Electron Transition

A. V. Volotka, A. Surzhykov, S. Trotsenko, G. Plunien, Th. Stöhlker, and S. Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243001 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

An alternative mechanism for inducing nuclear excitation may provide a sensitive tool for probing metastable states of nuclei.

Imaging the Temporal Evolution of Molecular Orbitals during Ultrafast Dissociation

H. Sann, T. Havermeier, C. Müller, H.-K. Kim, F. Trinter, M. Waitz, J. Voigtsberger, F. Sturm, T. Bauer, R. Wallauer, D. Schneider, M. Weller, C. Goihl, J. Tross, K. Cole, J. Wu, M. S. Schöffler, H. Schmidt-Böcking, T. Jahnke, M. Simon, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243002 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

Laser-Driven Recollisions under the Coulomb Barrier

Th. Keil, S. V. Popruzhenko, and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243003 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Decoupling Electronic versus Nuclear Photoresponse of Isolated Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophores Using Short Laser Pulses

Hjalte V. Kiefer, Henrik B. Pedersen, Anastasia V. Bochenkova, and Lars H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243004 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Dissipative Double-Well Potential for Cold Atoms: Kramers Rate and Stochastic Resonance

Ion Stroescu, David B. Hume, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243005 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

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Dynamics of a Ground-State Cooled Ion Colliding with Ultracold Atoms

Ziv Meir, Tomas Sikorsky, Ruti Ben-shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Yehonatan Dallal, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243401 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Experiments show that the energy scale of atom-ion interactions is determined by the force the atom exerts on the ion during a collision.

Storing Light with Subradiant Correlations in Arrays of Atoms

G. Facchinetti, S. D. Jenkins, and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243601 (2016) - Published 5 December, 2016

Spectrally Engineering Photonic Entanglement with a Time Lens

J. M. Donohue, M. Mastrovich, and K. J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243602 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

Temporal Quantum Correlations in Inelastic Light Scattering from Water

Mark Kasperczyk, Filomeno S. de Aguiar Júnior, Cassiano Rabelo, Andre Saraiva, Marcelo F. Santos, Lukas Novotny, and Ado Jorio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243603 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Controllable Terahertz Radiation from a Linear-Dipole Array Formed by a Two-Color Laser Filament in Air

Zhelin Zhang, Yanping Chen, Min Chen, Zhen Zhang, Jin Yu, Zhengming Sheng, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 243901 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

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First Liquid Layer Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions at the National Ignition Facility

R. E. Olson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245001 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

A laser-based fusion experiment demonstrates that liquid fuel capsules could rectify problems encountered with ice-based fuel capsules.

Structure of Plasma Heating in Gyrokinetic Alfvénic Turbulence

Alejandro Bañón Navarro, Bogdan Teaca, Daniel Told, Daniel Groselj, Paul Crandall, and Frank Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245101 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of von Kármán Vortex Street in an Atomic Superfluid Gas

Woo Jin Kwon, Joon Hyun Kim, Sang Won Seo, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245301 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

A flow pattern dubbed the von Kármán vortex street, which is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and extreme power, has been created in a superfluid.

Topological Superfluid in a Fermi-Bose Mixture with a High Critical Temperature

Zhigang Wu and G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245302 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Reversion of a Parent ${130} {⟨ 310 ⟩}_{α^{''}}$ Martensitic Twinning System at the Origin of ${332} {⟨ 113 ⟩}_{β}$ Twins Observed in Metastable $β$ Titanium Alloys

P. Castany, Y. Yang, E. Bertrand, and T. Gloriant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245501 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

Unveiling Dimensionality Dependence of Glassy Dynamics: 2D Infinite Fluctuation Eclipses Inherent Structural Relaxation

Hayato Shiba, Yasunori Yamada, Takeshi Kawasaki, and Kang Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 245701 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

Discriminating between Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Physisorbed Adsorbates: Role of Wavelike Charge-Density Fluctuations

Wang Gao, Yun Chen, and Qing Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 246101 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Temperature-Induced Topological Phase Transitions: Promoted versus Suppressed Nontrivial Topology

Gabriel Antonius and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 246401 (2016) - Published 7 December, 2016

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Geometric Resonance of Composite Fermions near Bilayer Quantum Hall States

M. A. Mueed, D. Kamburov, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 246801 (2016) - Published 6 December, 2016

A single-layer to bilayer transition is induced in a two-dimensional electron gas by applying a parallel magnetic field, enabling the direct study of composite fermions.

Structural Phase Transition and Material Properties of Few-Layer Monochalcogenides

Mehrshad Mehboudi, Benjamin M. Fregoso, Yurong Yang, Wenjuan Zhu, Arend van der Zande, Jaime Ferrer, L. Bellaiche, Pradeep Kumar, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 246802 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016

Orbital-Dependent Band Narrowing Revealed in an Extremely Correlated Hund’s Metal Emerging on the Topmost Layer of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Takeshi Kondo, M. Ochi, M. Nakayama, H. Taniguchi, S. Akebi, K. Kuroda, M. Arita, S. Sakai, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, Y. Maeno, R. Arita, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 247001 (2016) - Published 9 December, 2016