Volume 117, Issue 5

29 July 2016

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Two nematic twisted bipolar 50 µm droplets of opposite handedness coexisting with the isotropic phase of the liquid crystal. The droplets rotate in opposite directions due to a temperature gradient.

From the article:

Continuous Rotation of Achiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets Driven by Heat Flux
Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Guilhem Poy, and Patrick Oswald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 057801 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evidence of Strong Proton Shape Fluctuations from Incoherent Diffraction

Heikki Mäntysaari and Björn Schenke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 052301 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Improved models of gluon fluctuations within protons have been developed and applied to particle collision data, pointing to strong gluon fluctuations at high energies.

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How to Reach a Thousand-Second in-Plane Polarization Lifetime with $0.97 − GeV / c$ Deuterons in a Storage Ring

G. Guidoboni et al. (JEDI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 054801 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Researchers set a new record for the in-plane spin-alignment lifetime of deuterons circulating in a magnetic storage ring.

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Bose Polarons in the Strongly Interacting Regime

Ming-Guang Hu, Michael J. Van de Graaff, Dhruv Kedar, John P. Corson, Eric A. Cornell, and Deborah S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055301 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Researchers have used impurities within a Bose-Einstein condensate to simulate polarons—electron-phonon combinations in solid-state systems.

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Observation of Attractive and Repulsive Polarons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Nils B. Jørgensen, Lars Wacker, Kristoffer T. Skalmstang, Meera M. Parish, Jesper Levinsen, Rasmus S. Christensen, Georg M. Bruun, and Jan J. Arlt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055302 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Researchers have used impurities within a Bose-Einstein condensate to simulate polarons—electron-phonon combinations in solid-state systems.

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Violation of the Leggett-Garg Inequality in Neutrino Oscillations

J. A. Formaggio, D. I. Kaiser, M. M. Murskyj, and T. E. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 050402 (2016) - Published 26 July, 2016

An experiment similar to the Bell inequality test confirms that neutrino oscillation is a quantum physics effect that is incompatible with alternative classical models.

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Temperature Trapping: Energy-Free Maintenance of Constant Temperatures as Ambient Temperature Gradients Change

Xiangying Shen, Ying Li, Chaoran Jiang, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055501 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Experiments show that a region next to changing hot and cold areas can be maintained at a fixed temperature without consuming energy.

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Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ and 13 TeV

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051802 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Data from the CMS collaboration contain a modest excess of photon pairs at 750 GeV. If this bump were confirmed it would require the existence of new elementary particles. More data should resolve the issue.

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Berry Phase in Lattice QCD

Arata Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 052001 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

The Berry phase of a single fermion wave function in two spatial dimensions is calculated using lattice field theory.

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Radii and Binding Energies in Oxygen Isotopes: A Challenge for Nuclear Forces

V. Lapoux, V. Somà, C. Barbieri, H. Hergert, J. D. Holt, and S. R. Stroberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 052501 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

$A b$ $i n i t i o$ calculations using elastic scattering data on oxygen are able to accurately reproduce the isotopes’ binding energies but fail to describe the charge and matter radii of the most neutron-rich systems.

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Slater to Mott Crossover in the Metal to Insulator Transition of ${Nd}_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

M. Nakayama, Takeshi Kondo, Z. Tian, J. J. Ishikawa, M. Halim, C. Bareille, W. Malaeb, K. Kuroda, T. Tomita, S. Ideta, K. Tanaka, M. Matsunami, S. Kimura, N. Inami, K. Ono, H. Kumigashira, L. Balents, S. Nakatsuji, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056403 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

The measured electronic structure of Nd $_{2}$ Ir $_{2}$ O $_{7}$ through its metal-insulator transition indicates an unusual Slater to Mott crossover with reducing temperature. This constrains theoretical models which suggest this material has topologically protected magnetic states.

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${MoTe}_{2}$ : A Type-II Weyl Topological Metal

Zhijun Wang, Dominik Gresch, Alexey A. Soluyanov, Weiwei Xie, S. Kushwaha, Xi Dai, Matthias Troyer, Robert J. Cava, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056805 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Crystallographic data from x-ray diffraction experiments is used in $a b$ $i n i t i o$ calculations to show that MoTe $_{2}$ is a candidate type-II Weyl semimetal.

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Spin-mediated Photomechanical Coupling of a Nanoelectromechanical Shuttle

A. V. Parafilo, S. I. Kulinich, L. Y. Gorelik, M. N. Kiselev, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 057202 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Theoretical predictions indicate that a spin-polarized electric current can strongly couple to both microwave radiation and mechanical oscillations allowing it to act as a mediator between the two.

LETTERS

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

No Quantum Realization of Extremal No-Signaling Boxes

Ravishankar Ramanathan, Jan Tuziemski, Michał Horodecki, and Paweł Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 050401 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

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Violation of the Leggett-Garg Inequality in Neutrino Oscillations

J. A. Formaggio, D. I. Kaiser, M. M. Murskyj, and T. E. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 050402 (2016) - Published 26 July, 2016

An experiment similar to the Bell inequality test confirms that neutrino oscillation is a quantum physics effect that is incompatible with alternative classical models.

Operational Characterization of Divisibility of Dynamical Maps

Joonwoo Bae and Dariusz Chruściński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 050403 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining $f (R)$ Gravity Theory Using Weak Lensing Peak Statistics from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Lensing Survey

Xiangkun Liu, Baojiu Li, Gong-Bo Zhao, Mu-Chen Chiu, Wei Fang, Chuzhong Pan, Qiao Wang, Wei Du, Shuo Yuan, Liping Fu, and Zuhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051101 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Multiband Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Parameter Estimation and Tests of General Relativity with Space- and Ground-Based Detectors

Salvatore Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051102 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect with Projected Fields: A Novel Probe of the Baryon Distribution with Planck, WMAP, and WISE Data

J. Colin Hill, Simone Ferraro, Nick Battaglia, Jia Liu, and David N. Spergel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051301 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Equilibration of Nonrelativistic Plasmas

Umut Gürsoy, Aron Jansen, Watse Sybesma, and Stefan Vandoren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051601 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ and 13 TeV

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 051802 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Berry Phase in Lattice QCD

Arata Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 052001 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

The Berry phase of a single fermion wave function in two spatial dimensions is calculated using lattice field theory.

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence of Strong Proton Shape Fluctuations from Incoherent Diffraction

Heikki Mäntysaari and Björn Schenke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 052301 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Improved models of gluon fluctuations within protons have been developed and applied to particle collision data, pointing to strong gluon fluctuations at high energies.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radii and Binding Energies in Oxygen Isotopes: A Challenge for Nuclear Forces

V. Lapoux, V. Somà, C. Barbieri, H. Hergert, J. D. Holt, and S. R. Stroberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 052501 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precise and Accurate Measurements of Strong-Field Photoionization and a Transferable Laser Intensity Calibration Standard

W. C. Wallace, O. Ghafur, C. Khurmi, Satya Sainadh U, J. E. Calvert, D. E. Laban, M. G. Pullen, K. Bartschat, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, D. Wells, H. M. Quiney, X. M. Tong, I. V. Litvinyuk, R. T. Sang, and D. Kielpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053001 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Three-Body Interaction of Rydberg Slow-Light Polaritons

Krzysztof Jachymski, Przemysław Bienias, and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053601 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatiotemporal Control of Light Transmission through a Multimode Fiber with Strong Mode Coupling

Wen Xiong, Philipp Ambichl, Yaron Bromberg, Brandon Redding, Stefan Rotter, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053901 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Role of Short-Range Order and Hyperuniformity in the Formation of Band Gaps in Disordered Photonic Materials

Luis S. Froufe-Pérez, Michael Engel, Pablo F. Damasceno, Nicolas Muller, Jakub Haberko, Sharon C. Glotzer, and Frank Scheffold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053902 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Berry Phase of Light under Bragg Reflection by Chiral Liquid-Crystal Media

Raouf Barboza, Umberto Bortolozzo, Marcel G. Clerc, and Stefania Residori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 053903 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

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How to Reach a Thousand-Second in-Plane Polarization Lifetime with $0.97 − GeV / c$ Deuterons in a Storage Ring

G. Guidoboni et al. (JEDI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 054801 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Researchers set a new record for the in-plane spin-alignment lifetime of deuterons circulating in a magnetic storage ring.

Fast Heating of Imploded Core with Counterbeam Configuration

Y. Mori, Y. Nishimura, R. Hanayama, S. Nakayama, K. Ishii, Y. Kitagawa, T. Sekine, N. Sato, T. Kurita, T. Kawashima, H. Kan, O. Komeda, T. Nishi, H. Azuma, T. Hioki, T. Motohiro, A. Sunahara, Y. Sentoku, and E. Miura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055001 (2016) - Published 26 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Bose Polarons in the Strongly Interacting Regime

Ming-Guang Hu, Michael J. Van de Graaff, Dhruv Kedar, John P. Corson, Eric A. Cornell, and Deborah S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055301 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Researchers have used impurities within a Bose-Einstein condensate to simulate polarons—electron-phonon combinations in solid-state systems.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Attractive and Repulsive Polarons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Nils B. Jørgensen, Lars Wacker, Kristoffer T. Skalmstang, Meera M. Parish, Jesper Levinsen, Rasmus S. Christensen, Georg M. Bruun, and Jan J. Arlt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055302 (2016) - Published 28 July, 2016

Researchers have used impurities within a Bose-Einstein condensate to simulate polarons—electron-phonon combinations in solid-state systems.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Temperature Trapping: Energy-Free Maintenance of Constant Temperatures as Ambient Temperature Gradients Change

Xiangying Shen, Ying Li, Chaoran Jiang, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 055501 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Experiments show that a region next to changing hot and cold areas can be maintained at a fixed temperature without consuming energy.

Multifold Increases in Turing Pattern Wavelength in the Chlorine Dioxide-Iodine-Malonic Acid Reaction-Diffusion System

Delora K. Gaskins, Emily E. Pruc, Irving R. Epstein, and Milos Dolnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056001 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Adsorption of $O_{2}$ on Ag(111): Evidence of Local Oxide Formation

B. V. Andryushechkin, V. M. Shevlyuga, T. V. Pavlova, G. M. Zhidomirov, and K. N. Eltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056101 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Photoinduced Enhancement of the Charge Density Wave Amplitude

A. Singer, S. K. K. Patel, R. Kukreja, V. Uhlíř, J. Wingert, S. Festersen, D. Zhu, J. M. Glownia, H. T. Lemke, S. Nelson, M. Kozina, K. Rossnagel, M. Bauer, B. M. Murphy, O. M. Magnussen, E. E. Fullerton, and O. G. Shpyrko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056401 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Metal-Insulator Transition in ${VO}_{2}$ : A $DFT + DMFT$ Perspective

W. H. Brito, M. C. O. Aguiar, K. Haule, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056402 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

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Slater to Mott Crossover in the Metal to Insulator Transition of ${Nd}_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056403 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Sisyphus Thermalization of Photons in a Cavity-Coupled Double Quantum Dot

M. J. Gullans, J. Stehlik, Y.-Y. Liu, C. Eichler, J. R. Petta, and J. M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056801 (2016) - Published 25 July, 2016

Anderson Localization from the Berry-Curvature Interchange in Quantum Anomalous Hall Systems

Zhenhua Qiao, Yulei Han, Lei Zhang, Ke Wang, Xinzhou Deng, Hua Jiang, Shengyuan A. Yang, Jian Wang, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056802 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Strong Coupling of the Cyclotron Motion of Surface Electrons on Liquid Helium to a Microwave Cavity

L. V. Abdurakhimov, R. Yamashiro, A. O. Badrutdinov, and D. Konstantinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056803 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

High-Temperature Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in $n − p$ Codoped Topological Insulators

Shifei Qi, Zhenhua Qiao, Xinzhou Deng, Ekin D. Cubuk, Hua Chen, Wenguang Zhu, Efthimios Kaxiras, S. B. Zhang, Xiaohong Xu, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056804 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

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${MoTe}_{2}$ : A Type-II Weyl Topological Metal

Zhijun Wang, Dominik Gresch, Alexey A. Soluyanov, Weiwei Xie, S. Kushwaha, Xi Dai, Matthias Troyer, Robert J. Cava, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056805 (2016) - Published 27 July, 2016

Crystallographic data from x-ray diffraction experiments is used in $a b$ $i n i t i o$ calculations to show that MoTe $_{2}$ is a candidate type-II Weyl semimetal.

SU(4) Skyrmions in the $ν = \pm 1$ Quantum Hall State of Graphene

Y. Lian, A. Rosch, and M. O. Goerbig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056806 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Universal Pinning Energy Barrier for Driven Domain Walls in Thin Ferromagnetic Films

V. Jeudy, A. Mougin, S. Bustingorry, W. Savero Torres, J. Gorchon, A. B. Kolton, A. Lemaître, and J.-P. Jamet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 057201 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-mediated Photomechanical Coupling of a Nanoelectromechanical Shuttle

A. V. Parafilo, S. I. Kulinich, L. Y. Gorelik, M. N. Kiselev, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 057202 (2016) - Published 29 July, 2016

Theoretical predictions indicate that a spin-polarized electric current can strongly couple to both microwave radiation and mechanical oscillations allowing it to act as a mediator between the two.