Volume 117, Issue 26

23 December 2016

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Simulation of seed electric field isosurfaces for pulses containing high orbital angular momentum harmonics driven by stimulated Raman backscattering in a plasma (plasma not shown). The pulses have 1 lobe (top) and 2 lobes (bottom).

From the article:

High Orbital Angular Momentum Harmonic Generation
J. Vieira, R. M. G. M. Trines, E. P. Alves, R. A. Fonseca, J. T. Mendonça, R. Bingham, P. Norreys, and L. O. Silva
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 265001 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Avalanche Statistics Identify Intrinsic Stellar Processes near Criticality in KIC 8462852

Mohammed A. Sheikh, Richard L. Weaver, and Karin A. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 261101 (2016) - Published 19 December, 2016

A statistical analysis links a star’s mysterious brightness fluctuations to internal nonequilibrium phenomena, rather than structures orbiting around the star.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Axiomatic Relation between Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretic Entropies

Mirjam Weilenmann, Lea Kraemer, Philippe Faist, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 260601 (2016) - Published 22 December, 2016

Two notions of entropy are connected using a method reliant on basic properties common to both systems.

LETTERS

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

Universal Formula for the Mean First Passage Time in Planar Domains

Denis S. Grebenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 260201 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016

Device-Independent Certification of a Nonprojective Qubit Measurement

Esteban S. Gómez, Santiago Gómez, Pablo González, Gustavo Cañas, Johanna F. Barra, Aldo Delgado, Guilherme B. Xavier, Adán Cabello, Matthias Kleinmann, Tamás Vértesi, and Gustavo Lima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 260401 (2016) - Published 20 December, 2016

Estimating the Coherence of Noise in Quantum Control of a Solid-State Qubit

Guanru Feng, Joel J. Wallman, Brandon Buonacorsi, Franklin H. Cho, Daniel K. Park, Tao Xin, Dawei Lu, Jonathan Baugh, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 260501 (2016) - Published 20 December, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Axiomatic Relation between Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretic Entropies

Mirjam Weilenmann, Lea Kraemer, Philippe Faist, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 260601 (2016) - Published 22 December, 2016

Two notions of entropy are connected using a method reliant on basic properties common to both systems.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Avalanche Statistics Identify Intrinsic Stellar Processes near Criticality in KIC 8462852

Mohammed A. Sheikh, Richard L. Weaver, and Karin A. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 261101 (2016) - Published 19 December, 2016

A statistical analysis links a star’s mysterious brightness fluctuations to internal nonequilibrium phenomena, rather than structures orbiting around the star.

Sensitivity of Atom Interferometry to Ultralight Scalar Field Dark Matter

Andrew A. Geraci and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 261301 (2016) - Published 20 December, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to D^{+} D^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 261801 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016

Rosenbluth Separation of the $π^{0}$ Electroproduction Cross Section

M. Defurne et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 262001 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Delocalization of a Vacancy across Two Neon Atoms Bound by the van der Waals Force

H. Sann, C. Schober, A. Mhamdi, F. Trinter, C. Müller, S. K. Semenov, M. Stener, M. Waitz, T. Bauer, R. Wallauer, C. Goihl, J. Titze, F. Afaneh, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. Kunitski, H. Schmidt-Böcking, Ph. V. Demekhin, N. A. Cherepkov, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 263001 (2016) - Published 20 December, 2016

Complete $α^{6} m$ Corrections to the Ground State of $H_{2}$

Mariusz Puchalski, Jacek Komasa, Paweł Czachorowski, and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 263002 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase Transitions in Diffusion of Light

Roxana Rezvani Naraghi and Aristide Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 263901 (2016) - Published 21 December, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

High Orbital Angular Momentum Harmonic Generation

J. Vieira, R. M. G. M. Trines, E. P. Alves, R. A. Fonseca, J. T. Mendonça, R. Bingham, P. Norreys, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 265001 (2016) - Published 20 December, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strain-Induced Landau Levels in Arbitrary Dimensions with an Exact Spectrum

Stephan Rachel, Ilja Göthel, Daniel P. Arovas, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 266801 (2016) - Published 21 December, 2016

Magnetic Catalysis in Graphene Effective Field Theory

Carleton DeTar, Christopher Winterowd, and Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 266802 (2016) - Published 22 December, 2016

Emergent Conformal Symmetry and Geometric Transport Properties of Quantum Hall States on Singular Surfaces

T. Can, Y. H. Chiu, M. Laskin, and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 266803 (2016) - Published 22 December, 2016

Atomic-Scale Visualization of Quasiparticle Interference on a Type-II Weyl Semimetal Surface

Hao Zheng, Guang Bian, Guoqing Chang, Hong Lu, Su-Yang Xu, Guangqiang Wang, Tay-Rong Chang, Songtian Zhang, Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust, Daniel S. Sanchez, Fengqi Song, Horng-Tay Jeng, Nan Yao, Arun Bansil, Shuang Jia, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 266804 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016

Andreev Bound States Formation and Quasiparticle Trapping in Quench Dynamics Revealed by Time-Dependent Counting Statistics

R. Seoane Souto, A. Martín-Rodero, and A. Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 267701 (2016) - Published 21 December, 2016

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

Elastic Relaxation of Fluid-Driven Cracks and the Resulting Backflow

Ching-Yao Lai, Zhong Zheng, Emilie Dressaire, Guy Z. Ramon, Herbert E. Huppert, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 268001 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016

Amplitude-Modulated Bursting: A Novel Class of Bursting Rhythms

Theodore Vo, Mark A. Kramer, and Tasso J. Kaper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 268101 (2016) - Published 23 December, 2016