Volume 118, Issue 11

17 March 2017

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Illustration of bouncing pebbles superimposed on a photograph of the asteroid Itokawa taken by the JAXA spacecraft Hayabusa. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and for a Focus story in Physics.

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Size Sorting on the Rubble-Pile Asteroid Itokawa
Troy Shinbrot, Tapan Sabuwala, Theo Siu, Miguel Vivar Lazo, and Pinaki Chakraborty
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111101 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Ultrafine Entanglement Witnessing

Farid Shahandeh, Martin Ringbauer, Juan C. Loredo, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110502 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Researchers have devised an improved method for checking whether two particles are entangled.

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Size Sorting on the Rubble-Pile Asteroid Itokawa

Troy Shinbrot, Tapan Sabuwala, Theo Siu, Miguel Vivar Lazo, and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111101 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Experiments and computer simulations show that the segregation of small and large rocks on an asteroid’s surface can arise from the way particles hitting the surface collide with the rocks already present.

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Forecasting Fluid Flows Using the Geometry of Turbulence

Balachandra Suri, Jeffrey Tithof, Roman O. Grigoriev, and Michael F. Schatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114501 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

The observation of ordered flow patterns in a weakly turbulent liquid may lead to new ways of predicting the evolution of turbulent flow.

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Relativistic Electron Wave Packets Carrying Angular Momentum

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114801 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Two studies explore the properties of vortices formed by electrons that travel at relativistic speeds.

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Relativistic Electron Vortices

Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114802 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Two studies explore the properties of vortices formed by electrons that travel at relativistic speeds.

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Strain-Gradient Position Mapping of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

P.-L. de Assis, I. Yeo, A. Gloppe, H. A. Nguyen, D. Tumanov, E. Dupont-Ferrier, N. S. Malik, E. Dupuy, J. Claudon, J.-M. Gérard, A. Auffèves, O. Arcizet, M. Richard, and J.-Ph. Poizat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117401 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

The positions of quantum dots inside a microstructure can be determined by monitoring how an applied strain affects the dots’ photoluminescence.

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Exact Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Background Electromagnetic Fields

Tom Heinzl and Anton Ilderton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113202 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

Novel hidden special relativity Poincaré symmetries enable the construction of exactly solvable models of classical and quantum charge dynamics in laser fields, potentially allowing analytical studies of laser-matter interactions beyond the plane-wave approximation.

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Spontaneous Core Rotation in Ferrofluid Pipe Flow

Alexei Krekhov and Mark Shliomis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114503 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Ferrofluid flowing down a pipe is predicted to form either clockwise or counterclockwise swirls at the center of the pipe, and axial motion at the edges.

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Floquet Topological Order in Interacting Systems of Bosons and Fermions

Fenner Harper and Rahul Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115301 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

The phases of periodically driven systems of bosons and fermions are topologically classified by pairs of coprime integers.

LETTERS

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

Quantifying Photonic High-Dimensional Entanglement

Anthony Martin, Thiago Guerreiro, Alexey Tiranov, Sébastien Designolle, Florian Fröwis, Nicolas Brunner, Marcus Huber, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110501 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

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Ultrafine Entanglement Witnessing

Farid Shahandeh, Martin Ringbauer, Juan C. Loredo, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110502 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Researchers have devised an improved method for checking whether two particles are entangled.

Measurement-Based Linear Optics

Rafael N. Alexander, Natasha C. Gabay, Peter P. Rohde, and Nicolas C. Menicucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110503 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Loop Optimization for Tensor Network Renormalization

Shuo Yang, Zheng-Cheng Gu, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110504 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Size Sorting on the Rubble-Pile Asteroid Itokawa

Troy Shinbrot, Tapan Sabuwala, Theo Siu, Miguel Vivar Lazo, and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111101 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Electromagnetic Duality Anomaly in Curved Spacetimes

Ivan Agullo, Adrian del Rio, and Jose Navarro-Salas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111301 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Lepton-Flavor-Dependent Angular Analysis of $B \to K^{*} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$

S. Wehle et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111801 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Searching for Axionlike Particles in Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Processes

Eder Izaguirre, Tongyan Lin, and Brian Shuve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111802 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Observation of $B_{c}^{+} \to D^{0} K^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111803 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Observation of $Λ_{c}^{+} \to n K_{S}^{0} π^{+}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 112001 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin Polarization of Rb and Cs $n p$ ${{}^{2}P}_{\frac{3}{2}}$ ( $n = 5$ , 6) Atoms by Circularly Polarized Photoexcitation of a Transient Diatomic Molecule

A. E. Mironov, J. D. Hewitt, and J. G. Eden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113201 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

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Exact Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Background Electromagnetic Fields

Tom Heinzl and Anton Ilderton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113202 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

Collisional Cooling of Light Ions by Cotrapped Heavy Atoms

Sourav Dutta, Rahul Sawant, and S. A. Rangwala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113401 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

Cooperative Resonances in Light Scattering from Two-Dimensional Atomic Arrays

Ephraim Shahmoon, Dominik S. Wild, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Susanne F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113601 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Metasurface Polarization Optics: Independent Phase Control of Arbitrary Orthogonal States of Polarization

J. P. Balthasar Mueller, Noah A. Rubin, Robert C. Devlin, Benedikt Groever, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113901 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

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Forecasting Fluid Flows Using the Geometry of Turbulence

Balachandra Suri, Jeffrey Tithof, Roman O. Grigoriev, and Michael F. Schatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114501 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

The observation of ordered flow patterns in a weakly turbulent liquid may lead to new ways of predicting the evolution of turbulent flow.

Kinetic Effects in Dynamic Wetting

James E. Sprittles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114502 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

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Spontaneous Core Rotation in Ferrofluid Pipe Flow

Alexei Krekhov and Mark Shliomis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114503 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Ferrofluid flowing down a pipe is predicted to form either clockwise or counterclockwise swirls at the center of the pipe, and axial motion at the edges.

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Relativistic Electron Wave Packets Carrying Angular Momentum

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114801 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Two studies explore the properties of vortices formed by electrons that travel at relativistic speeds.

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Relativistic Electron Vortices

Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114802 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Two studies explore the properties of vortices formed by electrons that travel at relativistic speeds.

Revisiting the Longitudinal 90° Limit in High Intensity Linear Accelerators

Ingo Hofmann and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114803 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Floquet Topological Order in Interacting Systems of Bosons and Fermions

Fenner Harper and Rahul Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115301 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

The phases of periodically driven systems of bosons and fermions are topologically classified by pairs of coprime integers.

Thermometry for Laughlin States of Ultracold Atoms

P. T. Raum and V. W. Scarola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115302 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Geometric Explanation of Anomalous Finite-Size Scaling in High Dimensions

Jens Grimm, Eren Metin Elçi, Zongzheng Zhou, Timothy M. Garoni, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115701 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Finite-Size Scaling of a First-Order Dynamical Phase Transition: Adaptive Population Dynamics and an Effective Model

Takahiro Nemoto, Robert L. Jack, and Vivien Lecomte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115702 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Energy-Dependent Chirality Effects in Quasifree-Standing Graphene

Daniela Dombrowski, Wouter Jolie, Marin Petrović, Sven Runte, Fabian Craes, Jürgen Klinkhammer, Marko Kralj, Predrag Lazić, Eran Sela, and Carsten Busse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 116401 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Dynamical Stability Limit for the Charge Density Wave in $K_{0.3} {MoO}_{3}$

R. Mankowsky, B. Liu, S. Rajasekaran, H. Y. Liu, D. Mou, X. J. Zhou, R. Merlin, M. Först, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 116402 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Electrical Spin Orientation, Spin-Galvanic, and Spin-Hall Effects in Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems

D. S. Smirnov and L. E. Golub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 116801 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Proximity-Induced Shiba States in a Molecular Junction

Joshua O. Island, Rocco Gaudenzi, Joeri de Bruijckere, Enrique Burzurí, Carlos Franco, Marta Mas-Torrent, Concepció Rovira, Jaume Veciana, Teun M. Klapwijk, Ramón Aguado, and Herre S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117001 (2017) - Published 17 March, 2017

Strong Spin-Phonon Coupling Mediated by Single Ion Anisotropy in the All-In–All-Out Pyrochlore Magnet ${Cd}_{2} {Os}_{2} O_{7}$

C. H. Sohn, C. H. Kim, L. J. Sandilands, N. T. M. Hien, S. Y. Kim, H. J. Park, K. W. Kim, S. J. Moon, J. Yamaura, Z. Hiroi, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117201 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Metamagnetic Anomalies near Dynamic Phase Transitions

P. Riego, P. Vavassori, and A. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117202 (2017) - Published 13 March, 2017

Ultrafast Magnetism of a Ferrimagnet across the Spin-Flop Transition in High Magnetic Fields

J. Becker, A. Tsukamoto, A. Kirilyuk, J. C. Maan, Th. Rasing, P. C. M. Christianen, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117203 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Kondo Destruction in RKKY-Coupled Kondo Lattice and Multi-Impurity Systems

Ammar Nejati, Katinka Ballmann, and Johann Kroha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117204 (2017) - Published 14 March, 2017

Energy Gap of Neutral Excitations Implies Vanishing Charge Susceptibility

Haruki Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117205 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

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Strain-Gradient Position Mapping of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

P.-L. de Assis, I. Yeo, A. Gloppe, H. A. Nguyen, D. Tumanov, E. Dupont-Ferrier, N. S. Malik, E. Dupuy, J. Claudon, J.-M. Gérard, A. Auffèves, O. Arcizet, M. Richard, and J.-Ph. Poizat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117401 (2017) - Published 16 March, 2017

The positions of quantum dots inside a microstructure can be determined by monitoring how an applied strain affects the dots’ photoluminescence.

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

Micromechanical Origin of Particle Size Segregation

L. Jing, C. Y. Kwok, and Y. F. Leung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 118001 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

Universal Long Ranged Correlations in Driven Binary Mixtures

Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery, and Gleb Oshanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 118002 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Evidence for Exotic Hadron Contributions to $Λ_{b}^{0} \to J / ψ p π^{-}$ Decays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 082003 (2016)]

R. Aaij and LHCb Collaboration

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 119901 (2017) - Published 15 March, 2017