Volume 118, Issue 12

24 March 2017

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On the Cover

Depiction of different sets of redundantly recorded observables that induce a decomposition of the wave function into branches. Spatially disjoint regions with the same coloring denote different records for the same observable.

From the article:

Classical Branch Structure from Spatial Redundancy in a Many-Body Wave Function
C. Jess Riedel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 120402 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Temperature Dependence of Magnetic Excitations: Terahertz Magnons above the Curie Temperature

H. J. Qin, Kh. Zakeri, A. Ernst, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127203 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Magnetic waves in a permanent magnet can survive even when the material is too hot for large-scale magnetism to exist.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wind-Driven Formation of Ice Bridges in Straits

Bhargav Rallabandi, Zhong Zheng, Michael Winton, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128701 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

New theoretical work predicts the conditions under which sea ice will clog a narrow channel to create a natural bridge across it.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations in $p − Pb$ Collisions and Its Implication for the Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 122301 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

The CMS collaboration observes correlations between same and oppositely charged particles in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions. This challenges the chiral magnetic effect interpretation for charge-dependent azimuthal correlations, and indicates a common underlying mechanism for these correlations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Homogeneous Atomic Fermi Gases

Biswaroop Mukherjee, Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Zoran Hadzibabic, Tarik Yefsah, Julian Struck, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123401 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

A homogeneous Fermi gas is experimentally realized using a uniform trapping potential, allowing for the demonstration of phenomena not visible in inhomogeneous systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bogoliubov Fermi Surfaces in Superconductors with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

D. F. Agterberg, P. M. R. Brydon, and C. Timm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127001 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Predictions indicate that certain nodal superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry have Fermi surfaces made up of charge-neutral broken Cooper pairs. This is a departure from earlier theory that accounted for the electronic structure of these superconductors via point or line nodes of the superconducting gap.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vibronic Spectroscopy with Submolecular Resolution from STM-Induced Electroluminescence

Benjamin Doppagne, Michael C. Chong, Etienne Lorchat, Stéphane Berciaud, Michelangelo Romeo, Hervé Bulou, Alex Boeglin, Fabrice Scheurer, and Guillaume Schull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127401 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

A scanning tunneling microscope is used to excite the fluorescence of single molecules, leading to the observation of well resolved vibronic features. The work opens the way to vibronic spectroscopy with atomic-scale resolution.

LETTERS

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

Anyonic Haldane Insulator in One Dimension

Florian Lange, Satoshi Ejima, and Holger Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 120401 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Classical Branch Structure from Spatial Redundancy in a Many-Body Wave Function

C. Jess Riedel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 120402 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Constructive Method for Detecting the Information Backflow of Non-Markovian Dynamics

Bogna Bylicka, Markus Johansson, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 120501 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121101 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121102 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action

Clifford Cheung and Chia-Hsien Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121601 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Constraining Light-Quark Yukawa Couplings from Higgs Distributions

Fady Bishara, Ulrich Haisch, Pier Francesco Monni, and Emanuele Re

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121801 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Sterile Neutrino Search at the NEOS Experiment

Y. J. Ko, B. R. Kim, J. Y. Kim, B. Y. Han, C. H. Jang, E. J. Jeon, K. K. Joo, H. J. Kim, H. S. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Jaison Lee, J. Y. Lee, M. H. Lee, Y. M. Oh, H. K. Park, H. S. Park, K. S. Park, K. M. Seo, Kim Siyeon, and G. M. Sun (NEOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121802 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Triple Parton Scatterings in High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions

David d’Enterria and Alexander M. Snigirev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 122001 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations in $p − Pb$ Collisions and Its Implication for the Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 122301 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Virtual Resonant Emission and Oscillatory Long-Range Tails in van der Waals Interactions of Excited States: QED Treatment and Applications

U. D. Jentschura, C. M. Adhikari, and V. Debierre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123001 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Enantiomer-Specific State Transfer of Chiral Molecules

Sandra Eibenberger, John Doyle, and David Patterson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123002 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Homogeneous Atomic Fermi Gases

Biswaroop Mukherjee, Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Zoran Hadzibabic, Tarik Yefsah, Julian Struck, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123401 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

A homogeneous Fermi gas is experimentally realized using a uniform trapping potential, allowing for the demonstration of phenomena not visible in inhomogeneous systems.

Unity-Efficiency Parametric Down-Conversion via Amplitude Amplification

Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Barry C. Sanders, Franco N. C. Wong, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123601 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Suppressing and Restoring the Dicke Superradiance Transition by Dephasing and Decay

Peter Kirton and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123602 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Complex Active Optical Networks as a New Laser Concept

Stefano Lepri, Cosimo Trono, and Giovanni Giacomelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123901 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Generation of Coherent Light by a Moving Medium

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Fu Li, and Xiwen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123902 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Coarse-Graining the Fluid Flow around a Human Sperm

Kenta Ishimoto, Hermes Gadêlha, Eamonn A. Gaffney, David J. Smith, and Jackson Kirkman-Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 124501 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Saffman-Taylor Instability and the Inner Splitting Mechanism

Rafael M. Oliveira and Eckart Meiburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 124502 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Suppression of Trapped Energetic Ions Driven Resistive Interchange Modes with Electron Cyclotron Heating in a Helical Plasma

X. D. Du, K. Toi, S. Ohdachi, K. Y. Watanabe, H. Takahashi, Y. Yoshimura, M. Osakabe, R. Seki, T. Nicolas, H. Tsuchiya, K. Nagaoka, K. Ogawa, K. Tanaka, M. Isobe, M. Yokoyama, M. Yoshinuma, S. Kubo, S. Sakakibara, T. Bando, T. Ido, T. Ozaki, Y. Suzuki, Y. Takemura, and LHD Experiment Group

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125001 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Experimental Verification of the Role of Electron Pressure in Fast Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field

W. Fox, F. Sciortino, A. v. Stechow, J. Jara-Almonte, J. Yoo, H. Ji, and M. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125002 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Role of Magnetosonic Solitons in Perpendicular Collisionless Shock Reformation

Renaud Gueroult, Yukiharu Ohsawa, and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125101 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Brittle Fracture Theory Predicts the Equation of Motion of Frictional Rupture Fronts

Ilya Svetlizky, David S. Kammer, Elsa Bayart, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125501 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Memory and Universality in Interface Growth

Jacopo De Nardis, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125701 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Strong Thermal and Electrostatic Manipulation of the Casimir Force in Graphene Multilayers

Chahine Abbas, Brahim Guizal, and Mauro Antezza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126101 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Slave Boson Theory of Orbital Differentiation with Crystal Field Effects: Application to ${UO}_{2}$

Nicola Lanatà, Yongxin Yao, Xiaoyu Deng, Vladimir Dobrosavljević, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126401 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Bilayer Graphene as a Platform for Bosonic Symmetry-Protected Topological States

Zhen Bi, Ruixing Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, Andrea Young, Leon Balents, Chao-Xing Liu, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126801 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Strong Coupling between Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Molecular Vibrations

H. Memmi, O. Benson, S. Sadofev, and S. Kalusniak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126802 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Direct Cavity Detection of Majorana Pairs

Matthieu C. Dartiailh, Takis Kontos, Benoit Douçot, and Audrey Cottet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126803 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Super-Planckian Electron Cooling in a van der Waals Stack

Alessandro Principi, Mark B. Lundeberg, Niels C. H. Hesp, Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Frank H. L. Koppens, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126804 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bogoliubov Fermi Surfaces in Superconductors with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

D. F. Agterberg, P. M. R. Brydon, and C. Timm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127001 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Clustering of Nonergodic Eigenstates in Quantum Spin Glasses

C. L. Baldwin, C. R. Laumann, A. Pal, and A. Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127201 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

Field Theory Approach to Many-Body Localization

Alexander Altland and Tobias Micklitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127202 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Temperature Dependence of Magnetic Excitations: Terahertz Magnons above the Curie Temperature

H. J. Qin, Kh. Zakeri, A. Ernst, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127203 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

Magnetic waves in a permanent magnet can survive even when the material is too hot for large-scale magnetism to exist.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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

Generic Transport Mechanisms for Molecular Traffic in Cellular Protrusions

Isabella R. Graf and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128101 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

Equivalence between Non-Markovian and Markovian Dynamics in Epidemic Spreading Processes

Michele Starnini, James P. Gleeson, and Marián Boguñá

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128301 (2017) - Published 24 March, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wind-Driven Formation of Ice Bridges in Straits

Bhargav Rallabandi, Zhong Zheng, Michael Winton, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128701 (2017) - Published 21 March, 2017

New theoretical work predicts the conditions under which sea ice will clog a narrow channel to create a natural bridge across it.

ERRATA

Erratum: Core Structure and Non-Abelian Reconnection of Defects in a Biaxial Nematic Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 275302 (2016)]

Magnus O. Borgh and Janne Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 129901 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Multipartite Entanglement Detection with Minimal Effort [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210504 (2016)]

Lukas Knips, Christian Schwemmer, Nico Klein, Marcin Wieśniak, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 129902 (2017) - Published 20 March, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Measurement of the $C P$ Asymmetry in $B_{s}^{0} - {\bar{B}}_{s}^{0}$ Mixing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 061803 (2016)]

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 129903 (2017) - Published 23 March, 2017