Volume 118, Issue 10

10 March 2017

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(Top) Side view, and (bottom) aerial view of a layer of particles trapped at an oil-water interface as it grows and then sinks in a container of water. (Top) The time lapse between the first and last images is roughly 400 ms. The two sets of images are not of the same event.

From the article:

Sinking a Granular Raft
Suzie Protière, Christophe Josserand, Jeffrey M. Aristoff, Howard A. Stone, and Manouk Abkarian
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 108001 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Glue Spin and Helicity in the Proton from Lattice QCD

Yi-Bo Yang, Raza Sabbir Sufian, Andrei Alexandru, Terrence Draper, Michael J. Glatzmaier, Keh-Fei Liu, and Yong Zhao (χQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 102001 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Computer simulations indicate that about 50% of the proton’s spin comes from the spin of the gluons that bind its quark constituents.

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Cross Interaction Drives Stratification in Drying Film of Binary Colloidal Mixtures

Jiajia Zhou, Ying Jiang, and Masao Doi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 108002 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

A simple diffusion model explains why small particles tend to push big ones to the bottom of a drying colloid film.

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Terahertz-Field-Induced Large Macroscopic Polarization and Domain-Wall Dynamics in an Organic Molecular Dielectric

T. Morimoto, T. Miyamoto, H. Yamakawa, T. Terashige, T. Ono, N. Kida, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107602 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

An organic crystal was switched between paraelectric and ferroelectric states in a picosecond. Similar materials could eventually serve as extremely fast digital switches.

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de Sitter Space as a Resonance

Jonathan Maltz and Leonard Susskind

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101602 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

de Sitter space is shown to arise as resonance in transition amplitudes in quantum gravity.

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Single Photon Thermal Ionization of $C_{60}$

Klavs Hansen, Robert Richter, Michele Alagia, Stefano Stranges, Luca Schio, Peter Salén, Vasyl Yatsyna, Raimund Feifel, and Vitali Zhaunerchyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103001 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

A single high-energy photon ionizes a C $_{60}$ molecule, promoting it to a highly excited state.

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Electronic Stopping of Slow Protons in Transition and Rare Earth Metals: Breakdown of the Free Electron Gas Concept

D. Roth, B. Bruckner, M. V. Moro, S. Gruber, D. Goebl, J. I. Juaristi, M. Alducin, R. Steinberger, J. Duchoslav, D. Primetzhofer, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103401 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Measurements of how slow protons stop in tantalum and gadolinium show that the process is dependent on the density of states.

LETTERS

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

Open Systems with Error Bounds: Spin-Boson Model with Spectral Density Variations

F. Mascherpa, A. Smirne, S. F. Huelga, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100401 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Experimental Minimum-Error Quantum-State Discrimination in High Dimensions

M. A. Solís-Prosser, M. F. Fernandes, O. Jiménez, A. Delgado, and L. Neves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100501 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Ultimate Precision of Adaptive Noise Estimation

Stefano Pirandola and Cosmo Lupo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100502 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Experimental Bayesian Quantum Phase Estimation on a Silicon Photonic Chip

S. Paesani, A. A. Gentile, R. Santagati, J. Wang, N. Wiebe, D. P. Tew, J. L. O’Brien, and M. G. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100503 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Properties of a Rare-Earth-Ion-Doped Waveguide at Sub-Kelvin Temperatures for Quantum Signal Processing

N. Sinclair, D. Oblak, C. W. Thiel, R. L. Cone, and W. Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100504 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Trade-Off Between Speed and Cost in Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

Steve Campbell and Sebastian Deffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100601 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Universal Work Fluctuations During Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counterdiabatic Driving

Ken Funo, Jing-Ning Zhang, Cyril Chatou, Kihwan Kim, Masahito Ueda, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100602 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Electronic Recoil Event Rate Modulation with 4 Years of XENON100 Data

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101101 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Cosmic Tsunamis in Modified Gravity: Disruption of Screening Mechanisms from Scalar Waves

R. Hagala, C. Llinares, and D. F. Mota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101301 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Duals for Five-Dimensional Superconformal Quantum Field Theories

Eric D’Hoker, Michael Gutperle, and Christoph F. Uhlemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101601 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

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de Sitter Space as a Resonance

Jonathan Maltz and Leonard Susskind

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101602 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

de Sitter space is shown to arise as resonance in transition amplitudes in quantum gravity.

Chiral Dark Sector

Raymond T. Co, Keisuke Harigaya, and Yasunori Nomura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101801 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Portal Connecting Dark Photons and Axions

Kunio Kaneta, Hye-Sung Lee, and Seokhoon Yun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101802 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

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Glue Spin and Helicity in the Proton from Lattice QCD

Yi-Bo Yang, Raza Sabbir Sufian, Andrei Alexandru, Terrence Draper, Michael J. Glatzmaier, Keh-Fei Liu, and Yong Zhao (χQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 102001 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Computer simulations indicate that about 50% of the proton’s spin comes from the spin of the gluons that bind its quark constituents.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Single Photon Thermal Ionization of $C_{60}$

Klavs Hansen, Robert Richter, Michele Alagia, Stefano Stranges, Luca Schio, Peter Salén, Vasyl Yatsyna, Raimund Feifel, and Vitali Zhaunerchyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103001 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

A single high-energy photon ionizes a C $_{60}$ molecule, promoting it to a highly excited state.

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Electronic Stopping of Slow Protons in Transition and Rare Earth Metals: Breakdown of the Free Electron Gas Concept

D. Roth, B. Bruckner, M. V. Moro, S. Gruber, D. Goebl, J. I. Juaristi, M. Alducin, R. Steinberger, J. Duchoslav, D. Primetzhofer, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103401 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Measurements of how slow protons stop in tantalum and gadolinium show that the process is dependent on the density of states.

Size-Resolved Photoelectron Anisotropy of Gas Phase Water Clusters and Predictions for Liquid Water

Sebastian Hartweg, Bruce L. Yoder, Gustavo A. Garcia, Laurent Nahon, and Ruth Signorell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103402 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Connecting Few-Body Inelastic Decay to Quantum Correlations in a Many-Body System: A Weakly Coupled Impurity in a Resonant Fermi Gas

Sébastien Laurent, Matthieu Pierce, Marion Delehaye, Tarik Yefsah, Frédéric Chevy, and Christophe Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103403 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Noiseless Quantum Measurement and Squeezing of Microwave Fields Utilizing Mechanical Vibrations

C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi, E. Damskägg, J.-M. Pirkkalainen, T. T. Heikkilä, F. Massel, and M. A. Sillanpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103601 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Photon Statistics of Propagating Thermal Microwaves

J. Goetz, S. Pogorzalek, F. Deppe, K. G. Fedorov, P. Eder, M. Fischer, F. Wulschner, E. Xie, A. Marx, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103602 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Efficient Vortex Generation in Subwavelength Epsilon-Near-Zero Slabs

Alessandro Ciattoni, Andrea Marini, and Carlo Rizza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 104301 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Precision Control of the Electron Longitudinal Bunch Shape Using an Emittance-Exchange Beam Line

G. Ha, M. H. Cho, W. Namkung, J. G. Power, D. S. Doran, E. E. Wisniewski, M. Conde, W. Gai, W. Liu, C. Whiteford, Q. Gao, K.-J. Kim, A. Zholents, Y.-E Sun, C. Jing, and P. Piot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 104801 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Quantifying Fusion Born Ion Populations in Magnetically Confined Plasmas using Ion Cyclotron Emission

L. Carbajal, R. O. Dendy, S. C. Chapman, and J. W. S. Cook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105001 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Distinct Turbulence Saturation Regimes in Stellarators

G. G. Plunk, P. Xanthopoulos, and P. Helander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105002 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Turbulence Nonlinearities Shed Light on Geometric Asymmetry in Tokamak Confinement Transitions

I. Cziegler, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, J. L. Terry, and G. R. Tynan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105003 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Quantum Quenching of Radiation Losses in Short Laser Pulses

C. N. Harvey, A. Gonoskov, A. Ilderton, and M. Marklund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105004 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anderson Transition of Cold Atoms with Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling in Two-Dimensional Speckle Potentials

Giuliano Orso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105301 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Helical Floquet Channels in 1D Lattices

Jan Carl Budich, Ying Hu, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105302 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Anomalous Transport in the Superfluid Fluctuation Regime

Shun Uchino and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105303 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Atomistic Origin of Deformation Twinning in Biomineral Aragonite

Jialin Liu, Zaiwang Huang, Zhiliang Pan, Qiuming Wei, Xiaodong Li, and Yue Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105501 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Fragility of Freon 113: The Most Fragile Plastic Crystal

A. Vispa, M. Romanini, M. A. Ramos, L. C. Pardo, F. J. Bermejo, M. Hassaine, A. I. Krivchikov, J. W. Taylor, and J. Ll. Tamarit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105701 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Exact Model of Vacancy-Mediated Solute Transport in Magnesium

Ravi Agarwal and Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105901 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Topology-Scaling Identification of Layered Solids and Stable Exfoliated 2D Materials

Michael Ashton, Joshua Paul, Susan B. Sinnott, and Richard G. Hennig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106101 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Gate-Tunable Band Structure of the ${LaAlO}_{3} − SrTi O_{3}$ Interface

A. E. M. Smink, J. C. de Boer, M. P. Stehno, A. Brinkman, W. G. van der Wiel, and H. Hilgenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106401 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Electric Control of Dirac Quasiparticles by Spin-Orbit Torque in an Antiferromagnet

L. Šmejkal, J. Železný, J. Sinova, and T. Jungwirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106402 (2017) - Published 6 March, 2017

Analytic Interatomic Forces in the Random Phase Approximation

Benjamin Ramberger, Tobias Schäfer, and Georg Kresse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106403 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

First-Principles-Based Method for Electron Localization: Application to Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride

C. E. Ekuma, V. Dobrosavljević, and D. Gunlycke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106404 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Influence of Domain Walls in the Incommensurate Charge Density Wave State of Cu Intercalated $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

Shichao Yan, Davide Iaia, Emilia Morosan, Eduardo Fradkin, Peter Abbamonte, and Vidya Madhavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106405 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Distinct Evolutions of Weyl Fermion Quasiparticles and Fermi Arcs with Bulk Band Topology in Weyl Semimetals

N. Xu, G. Autès, C. E. Matt, B. Q. Lv, M. Y. Yao, F. Bisti, V. N. Strocov, D. Gawryluk, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, N. C. Plumb, M. Radovic, T. Qian, O. V. Yazyev, J. Mesot, H. Ding, and M. Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106406 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Percolation via Combined Electrostatic and Chemical Doping in Complex Oxide Films

Peter P. Orth, Rafael M. Fernandes, Jeff Walter, C. Leighton, and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106801 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Current Noise from a Magnetic Moment in a Helical Edge

Jukka I. Väyrynen and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106802 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Impact of Atomic-Scale Contact Geometry on Andreev Reflection

J. Brand, P. Ribeiro, N. Néel, S. Kirchner, and J. Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107001 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

Effect of Biaxial Strain on the Phase Transitions of $Ca ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$

A. E. Böhmer, A. Sapkota, A. Kreyssig, S. L. Bud’ko, G. Drachuck, S. M. Saunders, A. I. Goldman, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107002 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Effects of Quantum Spin- $1 / 2$ Impurities on the Magnetic Properties of Zigzag Spin Chains

Koushik Karmakar, Markos Skoulatos, Giacomo Prando, Bertran Roessli, Uwe Stuhr, Franziska Hammerath, Christian Rüegg, and Surjeet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107201 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Crystalline Electric-Field Randomness in the Triangular Lattice Spin-Liquid ${YbMgGaO}_{4}$

Yuesheng Li, Devashibhai Adroja, Robert I. Bewley, David Voneshen, Alexander A. Tsirlin, Philipp Gegenwart, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107202 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Spin-Wave Excitations Evidencing the Kitaev Interaction in Single Crystalline $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

Kejing Ran, Jinghui Wang, Wei Wang, Zhao-Yang Dong, Xiao Ren, Song Bao, Shichao Li, Zhen Ma, Yuan Gan, Youtian Zhang, J. T. Park, Guochu Deng, S. Danilkin, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li, and Jinsheng Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107203 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Entropy Evolution in the Magnetic Phases of Partially Frustrated CePdAl

S. Lucas, K. Grube, C.-L. Huang, A. Sakai, S. Wunderlich, E. L. Green, J. Wosnitza, V. Fritsch, P. Gegenwart, O. Stockert, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107204 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Optical Manipulation of a Magnon-Photon Hybrid System

C. Braggio, G. Carugno, M. Guarise, A. Ortolan, and G. Ruoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107205 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Disordered Route to the Coulomb Quantum Spin Liquid: Random Transverse Fields on Spin Ice in $\Pr_{2} {Zr}_{2} O_{7}$

J.-J. Wen, S. M. Koohpayeh, K. A. Ross, B. A. Trump, T. M. McQueen, K. Kimura, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Qiu, D. M. Pajerowski, J. R. D. Copley, and C. L. Broholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107206 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Dynamic Chiral Magnetic Effect and Faraday Rotation in Macroscopically Disordered Helical Metals

J. Ma and D. A. Pesin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107401 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Revealing Extremely Low Energy Amplitude Modes in the Charge-Density-Wave Compound ${LaAgSb}_{2}$

R. Y. Chen, S. J. Zhang, M. Y. Zhang, T. Dong, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107402 (2017) - Published 7 March, 2017

Orbital Edge States in a Photonic Honeycomb Lattice

M. Milićević, T. Ozawa, G. Montambaux, I. Carusotto, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, J. Bloch, and A. Amo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107403 (2017) - Published 8 March, 2017

Ultrafast Photoinduced Electric-Polarization Switching in a Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectric Crystal

K. Iwano, Y. Shimoi, T. Miyamoto, D. Hata, M. Sotome, N. Kida, S. Horiuchi, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107404 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

Magnetoelectric Behavior from $S = 1 / 2$ Asymmetric Square Cupolas

Yasuyuki Kato, Kenta Kimura, Atsushi Miyake, Masashi Tokunaga, Akira Matsuo, Koichi Kindo, Mitsuru Akaki, Masayuki Hagiwara, Masakazu Sera, Tsuyoshi Kimura, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107601 (2017) - Published 9 March, 2017

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Terahertz-Field-Induced Large Macroscopic Polarization and Domain-Wall Dynamics in an Organic Molecular Dielectric

T. Morimoto, T. Miyamoto, H. Yamakawa, T. Terashige, T. Ono, N. Kida, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107602 (2017) - Published 10 March, 2017

An organic crystal was switched between paraelectric and ferroelectric states in a picosecond. Similar materials could eventually serve as extremely fast digital switches.