Volume 117, Issue 4

22 July 2016

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Scattering rates for three-phonon interactions for absorption (left) and emission (right) for the R Heusler semiconductor Ba₂AuBi at 300 K. Horizontal axes are phonon frequencies; vertical axis is the scattering rate.

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Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Full Heusler Semiconductors
Jiangang He, Maximilian Amsler, Yi Xia, S. Shahab Naghavi, Vinay I. Hegde, Shiqiang Hao, Stefan Goedecker, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, and Chris Wolverton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046602 (2016)

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One Photon Can Simultaneously Excite Two or More Atoms

Luigi Garziano, Vincenzo Macrì, Roberto Stassi, Omar Di Stefano, Franco Nori, and Salvatore Savasta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043601 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Theorists show that two atoms in an optical cavity can absorb the same photon.

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Negative Coulomb Drag in Double Bilayer Graphene

J. I. A. Li, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, A. Levchenko, and C. R. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046802 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Unusual interactions between charges have been observed in two closely separated graphene bilayers, a promising system in which to create a condensate of electron-hole pairs.

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Giant Frictional Drag in Double Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures

Kayoung Lee, Jiamin Xue, David C. Dillen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046803 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Unusual interactions between charges have been observed in two closely separated graphene bilayers, a promising system in which to create a condensate of electron-hole pairs.

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Curling Liquid Crystal Microswimmers: A Cascade of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Carsten Krüger, Gunnar Klös, Christian Bahr, and Corinna C. Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048003 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Liquid-crystal droplets can act like controllable artificial swimmers, twisting in two and three dimensions.

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Transmission Microscopy with Nanometer Resolution Using a Deterministic Single Ion Source

Georg Jacob, Karin Groot-Berning, Sebastian Wolf, Stefan Ulm, Luc Couturier, Samuel T. Dawkins, Ulrich G. Poschinger, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, and Kilian Singer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043001 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

A new ion microscope with nanometer-scale resolution builds up images using single ions emitted one at a time from an ion trap.

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Water Dielectric Effects in Planar Confinement

Alexander Schlaich, Ernst W. Knapp, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048001 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Molecular dynamics simulations indicate that the dielectric constant of water may dramatically change when the liquid is confined between two surfaces.

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Experimental Demonstration of Self-Guided Quantum Tomography

Robert J. Chapman, Christopher Ferrie, and Alberto Peruzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 040402 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

An iterative method that learns the quantum state of a system through a stochastic optimization algorithm is experimentally demonstrated. This method is advantageous over other quantum tomography techniques as it requires fewer measurements.

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Cool Quark Matter

Aleksi Kurkela and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 042501 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

A theoretical analysis accurately determines the thermodynamic properties of dense quark matter under the violent conditions that take place in neutron star mergers.

LETTERS

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

Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling, Strong Interactions, and the BCS-BEC Crossover in the Ground State of the Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Hao Shi, Peter Rosenberg, Simone Chiesa, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 040401 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Experimental Demonstration of Self-Guided Quantum Tomography

Robert J. Chapman, Christopher Ferrie, and Alberto Peruzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 040402 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Scalable Dissipative Preparation of Many-Body Entanglement

Florentin Reiter, David Reeb, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 040501 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Diffusive and Subdiffusive Spin Transport in the Ergodic Phase of a Many-Body Localizable System

Marko Žnidarič, Antonello Scardicchio, and Vipin Kerala Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 040601 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Modular Hamiltonian for Excited States in Conformal Field Theory

Nima Lashkari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 041601 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Precise QCD Predictions for the Production of Dijet Final States in Deep Inelastic Scattering

James Currie, Thomas Gehrmann, and Jan Niehues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 042001 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Observation of an Anomalous Line Shape of the $η^{'} π^{+} π^{-}$ Mass Spectrum near the $p \bar{p}$ Mass Threshold in $J / ψ \to γ η^{'} π^{+} π^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 042002 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Nuclear Physics

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Cool Quark Matter

Aleksi Kurkela and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 042501 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

A theoretical analysis accurately determines the thermodynamic properties of dense quark matter under the violent conditions that take place in neutron star mergers.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Transmission Microscopy with Nanometer Resolution Using a Deterministic Single Ion Source

Georg Jacob, Karin Groot-Berning, Sebastian Wolf, Stefan Ulm, Luc Couturier, Samuel T. Dawkins, Ulrich G. Poschinger, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, and Kilian Singer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043001 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

A new ion microscope with nanometer-scale resolution builds up images using single ions emitted one at a time from an ion trap.

Monitoring Nonadiabatic Electron-Nuclear Dynamics in Molecules by Attosecond Streaking of Photoelectrons

Markus Kowalewski, Kochise Bennett, Jérémy R. Rouxel, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043201 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

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One Photon Can Simultaneously Excite Two or More Atoms

Luigi Garziano, Vincenzo Macrì, Roberto Stassi, Omar Di Stefano, Franco Nori, and Salvatore Savasta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043601 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Theorists show that two atoms in an optical cavity can absorb the same photon.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Solid-State Source of Subcycle Pulses in the Midinfrared

E. A. Stepanov, A. A. Lanin, A. A. Voronin, A. B. Fedotov, and A. M. Zheltikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043901 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Accessing Extreme Spatiotemporal Localization of High-Power Laser Radiation through Transformation Optics and Scalar Wave Equations

V. Yu. Fedorov, M. Chanal, D. Grojo, and S. Tzortzakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 043902 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Spectrally Enhancing Near-Field Radiative Transfer between Metallic Gratings by Exciting Magnetic Polaritons in Nanometric Vacuum Gaps

Yue Yang and Liping Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 044301 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Cavitation-Induced Fracture Causes Nanocorrugations in Brittle Metallic Glasses

I. Singh, R. Narasimhan, and Upadrasta Ramamurty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 044302 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Double Impurity Critical Gradients for Electromagnetic Turbulence Excitation in Tokamak Plasmas

W. L. Zhong, Y. Shen, X. L. Zou, J. M. Gao, Z. B. Shi, J. Q. Dong, X. R. Duan, M. Xu, Z. Y. Cui, Y. G. Li, X. Q. Ji, D. L. Yu, J. Cheng, G. L. Xiao, M. Jiang, Z. C. Yang, B. Y. Zhang, P. W. Shi, Z. T. Liu, X. M. Song, X. T. Ding, and Yong Liu (HL-2A Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045001 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dislocation Structure and Mobility in hcp ${}^{4}{He}$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045301 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Topological Instabilities in ac-Driven Bosonic Systems

G. Engelhardt, M. Benito, G. Platero, and T. Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045302 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Geometric Origin of Superfluidity in the Lieb-Lattice Flat Band

Aleksi Julku, Sebastiano Peotta, Tuomas I. Vanhala, Dong-Hee Kim, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045303 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Connecting Local Yield Stresses with Plastic Activity in Amorphous Solids

Sylvain Patinet, Damien Vandembroucq, and Michael L. Falk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045501 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Real-Time Examination of Atomistic Mechanisms during Shock-Induced Structural Transformation in Silicon

Stefan J. Turneaure, N. Sinclair, and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045502 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Universal Non-Debye Scaling in the Density of States of Amorphous Solids

Patrick Charbonneau, Eric I. Corwin, Giorgio Parisi, Alexis Poncet, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 045503 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Self-Organized Growth, Structure, and Magnetism of Monatomic Transition-Metal Oxide Chains

Pascal Ferstl, Lutz Hammer, Christopher Sobel, Matthias Gubo, Klaus Heinz, M. Alexander Schneider, Florian Mittendorfer, and Josef Redinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046101 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Long-Term Repellency of Liquids by Superoleophobic Surfaces

Periklis Papadopoulos, Doris Vollmer, and Hans-Jürgen Butt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046102 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Collapse of Ferromagnetism and Fermi Surface Instability near Reentrant Superconductivity of URhGe

A. Gourgout, A. Pourret, G. Knebel, D. Aoki, G. Seyfarth, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046401 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Pseudogaps and Emergence of Coherence in Two-Dimensional Electron Liquids in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Patrick B. Marshall, Evgeny Mikheev, Santosh Raghavan, and Susanne Stemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046402 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Anomalous Hall Effect in a 2D Rashba Ferromagnet

I. A. Ado, I. A. Dmitriev, P. M. Ostrovsky, and M. Titov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046601 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Full Heusler Semiconductors

Jiangang He, Maximilian Amsler, Yi Xia, S. Shahab Naghavi, Vinay I. Hegde, Shiqiang Hao, Stefan Goedecker, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, and Chris Wolverton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046602 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Lévy Flights due to Anisotropic Disorder in Graphene

S. Gattenlöhner, I. V. Gornyi, P. M. Ostrovsky, B. Trauzettel, A. D. Mirlin, and M. Titov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046603 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Fractionally Charged Zero-Energy Single-Particle Excitations in a Driven Fermi Sea

Michael Moskalets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046801 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

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Negative Coulomb Drag in Double Bilayer Graphene

J. I. A. Li, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, A. Levchenko, and C. R. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046802 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Unusual interactions between charges have been observed in two closely separated graphene bilayers, a promising system in which to create a condensate of electron-hole pairs.

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Giant Frictional Drag in Double Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures

Kayoung Lee, Jiamin Xue, David C. Dillen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046803 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Unusual interactions between charges have been observed in two closely separated graphene bilayers, a promising system in which to create a condensate of electron-hole pairs.

Detection of Majorana Kramers Pairs Using a Quantum Point Contact

Jian Li, Wei Pan, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Roman M. Lutchyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046804 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Topological Superconductivity on the Surface of Fe-Based Superconductors

Gang Xu, Biao Lian, Peizhe Tang, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 047001 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016

Coherent Excited States in Superconductors due to a Microwave Field

A. V. Semenov, I. A. Devyatov, P. J. de Visser, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 047002 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Magnetic Precursor of the Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Fe-Ladder Compounds

Songxue Chi, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Huibo Cao, Yasuyuki Hirata, Kazuki Hashizume, Takuya Aoyama, and Kenya Ohgushi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 047003 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Magnetic Reversal of Electric Polarization with Fixed Chirality of Magnetic Structure in a Chiral-Lattice Helimagnet ${MnSb}_{2} O_{6}$

M. Kinoshita, S. Seki, T. J. Sato, Y. Nambu, T. Hong, M. Matsuda, H. B. Cao, S. Ishiwata, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 047201 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

Optical Activation of Germanium Plasmonic Antennas in the Mid-Infrared

Marco P. Fischer, Christian Schmidt, Emilie Sakat, Johannes Stock, Antonio Samarelli, Jacopo Frigerio, Michele Ortolani, Douglas J. Paul, Giovanni Isella, Alfred Leitenstorfer, Paolo Biagioni, and Daniele Brida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 047401 (2016) - Published 22 July, 2016

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

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Water Dielectric Effects in Planar Confinement

Alexander Schlaich, Ernst W. Knapp, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048001 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

Molecular dynamics simulations indicate that the dielectric constant of water may dramatically change when the liquid is confined between two surfaces.

Guiding Catalytically Active Particles with Chemically Patterned Surfaces

W. E. Uspal, M. N. Popescu, S. Dietrich, and M. Tasinkevych

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048002 (2016) - Published 19 July, 2016

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Curling Liquid Crystal Microswimmers: A Cascade of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Carsten Krüger, Gunnar Klös, Christian Bahr, and Corinna C. Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048003 (2016) - Published 21 July, 2016

Liquid-crystal droplets can act like controllable artificial swimmers, twisting in two and three dimensions.

Law of Localization in Chemical Reaction Networks

Takashi Okada and Atsushi Mochizuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048101 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

Defect-Mediated Morphologies in Growing Cell Colonies

Amin Doostmohammadi, Sumesh P. Thampi, and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 048102 (2016) - Published 20 July, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Implication of the Proton-Deuteron Radiative Capture for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 102501 (2016)]

L. E. Marcucci, G. Mangano, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 049901 (2016) - Published 18 July, 2016