Volume 117, Issue 7

12 August 2016

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Waveguide lattice for the generation of photonic topological zero modes.

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Non-Abelian Braiding of Light
Thomas Iadecola, Thomas Schuster, and Claudio Chamon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073901 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071801 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

A search for sterile neutrinos with the IceCube detector has found no evidence for the hypothetical particles, significantly narrowing the range of masses that a new kind of neutrino could possibly have.

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Preparation of Ultracold Atom Clouds at the Shot Noise Level

M. Gajdacz, A. J. Hilliard, M. A. Kristensen, P. L. Pedersen, C. Klempt, J. J. Arlt, and J. F. Sherson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073604 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

A new technique allows researchers to specify the number of atoms in an ultracold cloud (in the millions) and then to reproduce that same number in repeated experiments.

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Frozen Impacted Drop: From Fragmentation to Hierarchical Crack Patterns

Elisabeth Ghabache, Christophe Josserand, and Thomas Séon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 074501 (2016) - Published 9 August, 2016

Water droplets impacting a cold surface exhibit a variety of fracture patterns depending on the temperature of the surface.

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Direct Detection of Pure ac Spin Current by X-Ray Pump-Probe Measurements

J. Li, L. R. Shelford, P. Shafer, A. Tan, J. X. Deng, P. S. Keatley, C. Hwang, E. Arenholz, G. van der Laan, R. J. Hicken, and Z. Q. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076602 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

X-ray pulses have been used to directly observe the spin current flowing in a metal.

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Three-Dimensional Icosahedral Phase Field Quasicrystal

P. Subramanian, A. J. Archer, E. Knobloch, and A. M. Rucklidge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075501 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

A 3D phase field crystal model is used to explore the formation and stability of icosahedral quasicrystals. The mechanisms that stabilize 2D quasicrystals also play a role in this 3D system.

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Possible “Magnéli” Phases and Self-Alloying in the Superconducting Sulfur Hydride

Ryosuke Akashi, Wataru Sano, Ryotaro Arita, and Shinji Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075503 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

The emergence of an infinite number of metastable crystal phases may play a role in the high-pressure superconducting phase transition of sulfur hydride according to new ab initio calculations.

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Decoupling Edge Versus Bulk Conductance in the Trivial Regime of an $InAs / GaSb$ Double Quantum Well Using Corbino Ring Geometry

Binh-Minh Nguyen, Andrey A. Kiselev, Ramsey Noah, Wei Yi, Fanming Qu, Arjan J. A. Beukman, Folkert K. de Vries, Jasper van Veen, Stevan Nadj-Perge, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Morten Kjaergaard, Henri J. Suominen, Fabrizio Nichele, Charles M. Marcus, Michael J. Manfra, and Marko Sokolich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 077701 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

A semiconductor quantum well with a concentric geometry enables experimentalists to decouple bulk and edge conduction channels.

LETTERS

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

From Classical Nonlinear Integrable Systems to Quantum Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

Manaka Okuyama and Kazutaka Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070401 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Analytic and Nearly Optimal Self-Testing Bounds for the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt and Mermin Inequalities

Jędrzej Kaniewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070402 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

Exact Short-Time Height Distribution in the One-Dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and Edge Fermions at High Temperature

Pierre Le Doussal, Satya N. Majumdar, Alberto Rosso, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070403 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

Demonstration of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Using Single-Photon Path Entanglement and Displacement-Based Detection

T. Guerreiro, F. Monteiro, A. Martin, J. B. Brask, T. Vértesi, B. Korzh, M. Caloz, F. Bussières, V. B. Verma, A. E. Lita, R. P. Mirin, S. W. Nam, F. Marsilli, M. D. Shaw, N. Gisin, N. Brunner, H. Zbinden, and R. T. Thew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070404 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

Foliated Quantum Error-Correcting Codes

A. Bolt, G. Duclos-Cianci, D. Poulin, and T. M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070501 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Entropy Production of Nanosystems with Time Scale Separation

Shou-Wen Wang, Kyogo Kawaguchi, Shin-ichi Sasa, and Lei-Han Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070601 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Evading Vacuum Noise: Wigner Projections or Husimi Samples?

C. R. Müller, C. Peuntinger, T. Dirmeier, I. Khan, U. Vogl, Ch. Marquardt, G. Leuchs, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Y. S. Teo, Z. Hradil, and J. Řeháček

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 070801 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Characteristics of Four Upward-Pointing Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed with ANITA

P. W. Gorham et al. (ANITA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071101 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Combined Search for Lorentz Violation in Short-Range Gravity

Cheng-Gang Shao, Yu-Jie Tan, Wen-Hai Tan, Shan-Qing Yang, Jun Luo, Michael Edmund Tobar, Quentin G. Bailey, J. C. Long, E. Weisman, Rui Xu, and V. Alan Kostelecký

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071102 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle as a Probe of Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Jonas P. Pereira, James M. Overduin, and Alexander J. Poyneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071103 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Consistent Perturbative Fixed Point Calculations in QCD and Supersymmetric QCD

Thomas A. Ryttov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071601 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Superintegrability of $d$ -Dimensional Conformal Blocks

Mikhail Isachenkov and Volker Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071602 (2016) - Published 9 August, 2016

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Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071801 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Impact of Nonstandard Interactions on Sterile-Neutrino Searches at IceCube

Jiajun Liao and Danny Marfatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071802 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Protophobic Fifth-Force Interpretation of the Observed Anomaly in ${}^{8}{Be}$ Nuclear Transitions

Jonathan L. Feng, Bartosz Fornal, Iftah Galon, Susan Gardner, Jordan Smolinsky, Tim M. P. Tait, and Philip Tanedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 071803 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

Vector-Boson Fusion Higgs Production at Three Loops in QCD

Frédéric A. Dreyer and Alexander Karlberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 072001 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Massive Photons: An Infrared Regularization Scheme for Lattice $QCD + QED$

Michael G. Endres, Andrea Shindler, Brian C. Tiburzi, and André Walker-Loud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 072002 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Enhancing the Effect of Lorentz Invariance and Einstein’s Equivalence Principle Violation in Nuclei and Atoms

V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 072501 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Accurate Semilocal Density Functional for Condensed-Matter Physics and Quantum Chemistry

Jianmin Tao and Yuxiang Mo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073001 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Superradiance in a Large and Dilute Cloud of Cold Atoms in the Linear-Optics Regime

Michelle O. Araújo, Ivor Krešić, Robin Kaiser, and William Guerin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073002 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Observation of Single-Photon Superradiance and the Cooperative Lamb Shift in an Extended Sample of Cold Atoms

S. J. Roof, K. J. Kemp, M. D. Havey, and I. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073003 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Determination of Energy-Transfer Distributions in Ionizing Ion-Molecule Collisions

S. Maclot, R. Delaunay, D. G. Piekarski, A. Domaracka, B. A. Huber, L. Adoui, F. Martín, M. Alcamí, L. Avaldi, P. Bolognesi, S. Díaz-Tendero, and P. Rousseau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073201 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Electrostatically Guided Rydberg Positronium

A. Deller, A. M. Alonso, B. S. Cooper, S. D. Hogan, and D. B. Cassidy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073202 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

Genuine Quantum Signatures in Synchronization of Anharmonic Self-Oscillators

Niels Lörch, Ehud Amitai, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Christoph Bruder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073601 (2016) - Published 9 August, 2016

Observation of Nondegenerate Two-Photon Gain in GaAs

Matthew Reichert, Arthur L. Smirl, Greg Salamo, David J. Hagan, and Eric W. Van Stryland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073602 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Phonon-Mediated Nonclassical Interference in Diamond

Duncan G. England, Kent A. G. Fisher, Jean-Philippe W. MacLean, Philip J. Bustard, Khabat Heshami, Kevin J. Resch, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073603 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

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Preparation of Ultracold Atom Clouds at the Shot Noise Level

M. Gajdacz, A. J. Hilliard, M. A. Kristensen, P. L. Pedersen, C. Klempt, J. J. Arlt, and J. F. Sherson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073604 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

A new technique allows researchers to specify the number of atoms in an ultracold cloud (in the millions) and then to reproduce that same number in repeated experiments.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Non-Abelian Braiding of Light

Thomas Iadecola, Thomas Schuster, and Claudio Chamon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073901 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Experimental Generation of Riemann Waves in Optics: A Route to Shock Wave Control

Benjamin Wetzel, Domenico Bongiovanni, Michael Kues, Yi Hu, Zhigang Chen, Stefano Trillo, John M. Dudley, Stefano Wabnitz, and Roberto Morandotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 073902 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

One Single Static Measurement Predicts Wave Localization in Complex Structures

Gautier Lefebvre, Alexane Gondel, Marc Dubois, Michael Atlan, Florian Feppon, Aimé Labbé, Camille Gillot, Alix Garelli, Maxence Ernoult, Svitlana Mayboroda, Marcel Filoche, and Patrick Sebbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 074301 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

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Frozen Impacted Drop: From Fragmentation to Hierarchical Crack Patterns

Elisabeth Ghabache, Christophe Josserand, and Thomas Séon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 074501 (2016) - Published 9 August, 2016

Water droplets impacting a cold surface exhibit a variety of fracture patterns depending on the temperature of the surface.

Transition in the Flow of Power-Law Fluids through Isotropic Porous Media

F. Zami-Pierre, R. de Loubens, M. Quintard, and Y. Davit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 074502 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Interaction of Edge-Localized Modes and Turbulent Eddies in Toroidal Plasma under $n = 1$ Magnetic Perturbation

Jaehyun Lee, Gunsu S. Yun, Minjun J. Choi, Jae-Min Kwon, Young-Mu Jeon, Woochang Lee, Neville C. Luhmann, Jr., and Hyeon K. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075001 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

First Measurements of Fuel-Ablator Interface Instability Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions on the National Ignition Facility

C. R. Weber, T. Döppner, D. T. Casey, T. L. Bunn, L. C. Carlson, R. J. Dylla-Spears, B. J. Kozioziemski, A. G. MacPhee, A. Nikroo, H. F. Robey, J. D. Sater, and V. A. Smalyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075002 (2016) - Published 9 August, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Topological Septet Pairing with Spin- $\frac{3}{2}$ Fermions: High-Partial-Wave Channel Counterpart of the ${}^{3}{He} − B$ Phase

Wang Yang, Yi Li, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075301 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

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Three-Dimensional Icosahedral Phase Field Quasicrystal

P. Subramanian, A. J. Archer, E. Knobloch, and A. M. Rucklidge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075501 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

A 3D phase field crystal model is used to explore the formation and stability of icosahedral quasicrystals. The mechanisms that stabilize 2D quasicrystals also play a role in this 3D system.

Anharmonicity in the High-Temperature $C m c m$ Phase of SnSe: Soft Modes and Three-Phonon Interactions

Jonathan M. Skelton, Lee A. Burton, Stephen C. Parker, Aron Walsh, Chang-Eun Kim, Aloysius Soon, John Buckeridge, Alexey A. Sokol, C. Richard A. Catlow, Atsushi Togo, and Isao Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075502 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

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Possible “Magnéli” Phases and Self-Alloying in the Superconducting Sulfur Hydride

Ryosuke Akashi, Wataru Sano, Ryotaro Arita, and Shinji Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075503 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

The emergence of an infinite number of metastable crystal phases may play a role in the high-pressure superconducting phase transition of sulfur hydride according to new ab initio calculations.

Chromatic Aberration Correction for Atomic Resolution TEM Imaging from 20 to 80 kV

Martin Linck, Peter Hartel, Stephan Uhlemann, Frank Kahl, Heiko Müller, Joachim Zach, Max. Haider, Marcel Niestadt, Maarten Bischoff, Johannes Biskupek, Zhongbo Lee, Tibor Lehnert, Felix Börrnert, Harald Rose, and Ute Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076101 (2016) - Published 9 August, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Intertwined Rashba, Dirac, and Weyl Fermions in Hexagonal Hyperferroelectrics

Domenico Di Sante, Paolo Barone, Alessandro Stroppa, Kevin F. Garrity, David Vanderbilt, and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076401 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Thermally Driven Electronic Topological Transition in FeTi

F. C. Yang, J. A. Muñoz, O. Hellman, L. Mauger, M. S. Lucas, S. J. Tracy, M. B. Stone, D. L. Abernathy, Yuming Xiao, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076402 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

Topological Phases in ${InAs}_{1 - x} {Sb}_{x}$ : From Novel Topological Semimetal to Majorana Wire

Georg W. Winkler, QuanSheng Wu, Matthias Troyer, Peter Krogstrup, and Alexey A. Soluyanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076403 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

Surface-State-Dominated Spin-Charge Current Conversion in Topological-Insulator–Ferromagnetic-Insulator Heterostructures

Hailong Wang, James Kally, Joon Sue Lee, Tao Liu, Houchen Chang, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Mingzhong Wu, Anthony Richardella, and Nitin Samarth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076601 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

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Direct Detection of Pure ac Spin Current by X-Ray Pump-Probe Measurements

J. Li, L. R. Shelford, P. Shafer, A. Tan, J. X. Deng, P. S. Keatley, C. Hwang, E. Arenholz, G. van der Laan, R. J. Hicken, and Z. Q. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076602 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016

X-ray pulses have been used to directly observe the spin current flowing in a metal.

Rashba Interaction and Local Magnetic Moments in a Graphene-BN Heterostructure Intercalated with Au

E. C. T. O’Farrell, J. Y. Tan, Y. Yeo, G. K. W. Koon, B. Özyilmaz, K. Watanabe, and T. Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076603 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

Effect of Pure Dephasing and Phonon Scattering on the Coupling of Semiconductor Quantum Dots to Optical Cavities

C. Jarlov, É. Wodey, A. Lyasota, M. Calic, P. Gallo, B. Dwir, A. Rudra, and E. Kapon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076801 (2016) - Published 8 August, 2016

$π$ Spin Berry Phase in a Quantum-Spin-Hall-Insulator-Based Interferometer: Evidence for the Helical Spin Texture of the Edge States

Wei Chen, Wei-Yin Deng, Jing-Min Hou, D. N. Shi, L. Sheng, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 076802 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

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Decoupling Edge Versus Bulk Conductance in the Trivial Regime of an $InAs / GaSb$ Double Quantum Well Using Corbino Ring Geometry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 077701 (2016) - Published 12 August, 2016

A semiconductor quantum well with a concentric geometry enables experimentalists to decouple bulk and edge conduction channels.

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Higgs Boson Pair Production in Gluon Fusion at Next-to-Leading Order with Full Top-Quark Mass Dependence [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 012001 (2016)]

S. Borowka, N. Greiner, G. Heinrich, S. P. Jones, M. Kerner, J. Schlenk, U. Schubert, and T. Zirke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 079901 (2016) - Published 10 August, 2016

Erratum: Effective Interaction between Active Colloids and Fluid Interfaces Induced by Marangoni Flows [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 078301 (2016)]

Alvaro Domínguez, P. Malgaretti, M. N. Popescu, and S. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 079902 (2016) - Published 11 August, 2016