Volume 118, Issue 13

31 March 2017

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Paths of several polystyrene microspheres in an optical ratchet with current perpendicular to the driving in a centered rectangular lattice with spatial asymmetry. Selected as an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Omnidirectional Transport in Fully Reconfigurable Two Dimensional Optical Ratchets
Alejandro V. Arzola, Mario Villasante-Barahona, Karen Volke-Sepúlveda, Petr Jákl, and Pavel Zemánek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 138002 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum State Transfer via Noisy Photonic and Phononic Waveguides

B. Vermersch, P.-O. Guimond, H. Pichler, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133601 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

A new quantum communication protocol is robust in the presence of thermal noise, paving the way for all-microwave quantum networks.

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Gapless Spin-Liquid Ground State in the $S = 1 / 2$ Kagome Antiferromagnet

H. J. Liao, Z. Y. Xie, J. Chen, Z. Y. Liu, H. D. Xie, R. Z. Huang, B. Normand, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137202 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

A numerical analysis suggests that the elusive ground state of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model for the kagome lattice is a gapless spin liquid.

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Quantum Backreaction on Three-Dimensional Black Holes and Naked Singularities

Marc Casals, Alessandro Fabbri, Cristián Martínez, and Jorge Zanelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 131102 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Quantum-mechanical effects may remove some unphysical features of spacetime predicted by classical general relativity.

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Superfluid Boundary Layer

G. W. Stagg, N. G. Parker, and C. F. Barenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 135301 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Numerical simulations indicate that boundary layers, normally the preserve of conventional fluids flowing past solid surfaces, can also arise in superfluids.

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Hamiltonian for the Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function

Carl M. Bender, Dorje C. Brody, and Markus P. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130201 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

A Hamilonian with PT-symmetry invariant properties is investigated as a candidate for an operator that has eigenvalues corresponding to the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

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Nonuniversal Equation of State of the Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

L. Salasnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130402 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

The equation of state of a 2D Bose gas is derived with finite-range corrections, commonly found in experiments.

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Two-Photon Blockade in an Atom-Driven Cavity QED System

Christoph Hamsen, Karl Nicolas Tolazzi, Tatjana Wilk, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133604 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

A photon low pass filter is realized using a single atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Divergent and Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity in Millimeter-Long Nanotubes

Victor Lee, Chi-Hsun Wu, Zong-Xing Lou, Wei-Li Lee, and Chih-Wei Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 135901 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Measurements show that the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes diverges with length. At 1-mm, the nanotubes conduct heat approximately four times better than diamond or graphene.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Band-Resolved Double Photoemission Spectroscopy on Correlated Valence Electron Pairs in Metals

Andreas Trützschler, Michael Huth, Cheng-Tien Chiang, Robin Kamrla, Frank O. Schumann, Jürgen Kirschner, and Wolf Widdra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136401 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Double photoemission spectroscopy of silver and copper resolves band-specific electron pairs and reveals a band-dependent picture for electron correlation in solids.

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Correlated Electron Dynamics at Surfaces Investigated via ${He}^{2 +}$ Ion Neutralization

C. H. Li, C. Tusche, F. O. Schumann, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136402 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Coincidence electron spectroscopy provides the first evidence that neutralization of an He $^{2 +}$ ion near a metal surface leads to the emission of an electron pair, which in some cases originates from a correlated single step neutralization involving 4 electrons from the metal.

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Transport Signatures of Quasiparticle Poisoning in a Majorana Island

S. M. Albrecht, E. B. Hansen, A. P. Higginbotham, F. Kuemmeth, T. S. Jespersen, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, J. Danon, K. Flensberg, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137701 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

A new method of estimating the limiting effects of unpaired electrons in a Majorana-based topological qubit clarifies the prospects for topological computing.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Omnidirectional Transport in Fully Reconfigurable Two Dimensional Optical Ratchets

Alejandro V. Arzola, Mario Villasante-Barahona, Karen Volke-Sepúlveda, Petr Jákl, and Pavel Zemánek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 138002 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Directed movement of Brownian particles in two-dimensions is achieved using a fully reconfigurable ratchet based on optical traps.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hamiltonian for the Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function

Carl M. Bender, Dorje C. Brody, and Markus P. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130201 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

A Hamilonian with PT-symmetry invariant properties is investigated as a candidate for an operator that has eigenvalues corresponding to the nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

Nonsignaling Deterministic Models for Nonlocal Correlations have to be Uncomputable

Ariel Bendersky, Gabriel Senno, Gonzalo de la Torre, Santiago Figueira, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130401 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonuniversal Equation of State of the Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

L. Salasnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130402 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

The equation of state of a 2D Bose gas is derived with finite-range corrections, commonly found in experiments.

Chained Bell Inequality Experiment with High-Efficiency Measurements

T. R. Tan, Y. Wan, S. Erickson, P. Bierhorst, D. Kienzler, S. Glancy, E. Knill, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130403 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Probing the Scale Invariance of the Inflationary Power Spectrum in Expanding Quasi-Two-Dimensional Dipolar Condensates

Seok-Yeong Chä and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130404 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Observation of Quantum-Limited Spin Transport in Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases

C. Luciuk, S. Smale, F. Böttcher, H. Sharum, B. A. Olsen, S. Trotzky, T. Enss, and J. H. Thywissen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130405 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Direct Probe of Topological Invariants Using Bloch Oscillating Quantum Walks

V. V. Ramasesh, E. Flurin, M. Rudner, I. Siddiqi, and N. Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130501 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Quantum Simulation of Single-Qubit Thermometry Using Linear Optics

Luca Mancino, Marco Sbroscia, Ilaria Gianani, Emanuele Roccia, and Marco Barbieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130502 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Boson Sampling with Single-Photon Fock States from a Bright Solid-State Source

J. C. Loredo, M. A. Broome, P. Hilaire, O. Gazzano, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaitre, M. P. Almeida, P. Senellart, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130503 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Experimental Adiabatic Quantum Factorization under Ambient Conditions Based on a Solid-State Single Spin System

Kebiao Xu, Tianyu Xie, Zhaokai Li, Xiangkun Xu, Mengqi Wang, Xiangyu Ye, Fei Kong, Jianpei Geng, Changkui Duan, Fazhan Shi, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130504 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Many-Particle Dephasing after a Quench

Thomas Kiendl and Florian Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130601 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Geometric Baryogenesis from Shift Symmetry

Andrea De Simone, Takeshi Kobayashi, and Stefano Liberati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 131101 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

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Quantum Backreaction on Three-Dimensional Black Holes and Naked Singularities

Marc Casals, Alessandro Fabbri, Cristián Martínez, and Jorge Zanelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 131102 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Quantum-mechanical effects may remove some unphysical features of spacetime predicted by classical general relativity.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Background Independence and Duality Invariance in String Theory

Olaf Hohm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 131601 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Breakdown of String Perturbation Theory for Many External Particles

Sudip Ghosh and Suvrat Raju

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 131602 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

First Benchmark of Relativistic Photoionization Theories against 3D ab initio Simulation

B. Hafizi, D. F. Gordon, and J. P. Palastro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133201 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Arbitrarily Accurate Pulse Sequences for Robust Dynamical Decoupling

Genko T. Genov, Daniel Schraft, Nikolay V. Vitanov, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133202 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Control of Spatial Correlations between Rydberg Excitations using Rotary Echo

N. Thaicharoen, A. Schwarzkopf, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133401 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum State Transfer via Noisy Photonic and Phononic Waveguides

B. Vermersch, P.-O. Guimond, H. Pichler, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133601 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

A new quantum communication protocol is robust in the presence of thermal noise, paving the way for all-microwave quantum networks.

Nonlocalized Generation of Correlated Photon Pairs in Degenerate Down-Conversion

Kayn A. Forbes, Jack S. Ford, and David L. Andrews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133602 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Coherent Atom-Phonon Interaction through Mode Field Coupling in Hybrid Optomechanical Systems

Michele Cotrufo, Andrea Fiore, and Ewold Verhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133603 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Photon Blockade in an Atom-Driven Cavity QED System

Christoph Hamsen, Karl Nicolas Tolazzi, Tatjana Wilk, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133604 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

A photon low pass filter is realized using a single atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity.

Lateral Casimir Force on a Rotating Particle near a Planar Surface

Alejandro Manjavacas, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. Javier García de Abajo, and Anatoly V. Zayats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133605 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Picosecond Control of Quantum Dot Laser Emission by Coherent Phonons

T. Czerniuk, D. Wigger, A. V. Akimov, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, S. Höfling, D. R. Yakovlev, T. Kuhn, D. E. Reiter, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133901 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Gas-Solid Phase Transition in Laser Multiple Filamentation

D. Mongin, E. Schubert, N. Berti, J. Kasparian, and J.-P. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133902 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Diffraction-Induced Bidimensional Talbot Self-Imaging with Full Independent Period Control

Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Luis Romero Cortés, Antonin Deville, Mohamed Seghilani, and José Azaña

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133903 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Spontaneous Photon Production in Time-Dependent Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials

A. Prain, S. Vezzoli, N. Westerberg, T. Roger, and D. Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133904 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Flow Control of $A + B \to C$ Fronts by Radial Injection

Fabian Brau, G. Schuszter, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 134101 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Causality, Nonlocality, and Negative Refraction

Davide Forcella, Claire Prada, and Rémi Carminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 134301 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Coexistence of Quantum and Classical Flows in Quantum Turbulence in The $T = 0$ Limit

P. M. Walmsley and A. I. Golov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 134501 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Betatron X-Ray Radiation in a Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator Driven with Picosecond Laser Pulses

F. Albert, N. Lemos, J. L. Shaw, B. B. Pollock, C. Goyon, W. Schumaker, A. M. Saunders, K. A. Marsh, A. Pak, J. E. Ralph, J. L. Martins, L. D. Amorim, R. W. Falcone, S. H. Glenzer, J. D. Moody, and C. Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 134801 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

Systematic Fuel Cavity Asymmetries in Directly Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

R. C. Shah, B. M. Haines, F. J. Wysocki, J. F. Benage, J. A. Fooks, V. Glebov, P. Hakel, M. Hoppe, I. V. Igumenshchev, G. Kagan, R. C. Mancini, F. J. Marshall, D. T. Michel, T. J. Murphy, M. E. Schoff, K. Silverstein, C. Stoeckl, and B. Yaakobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 135001 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Superfluid Boundary Layer

G. W. Stagg, N. G. Parker, and C. F. Barenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 135301 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Numerical simulations indicate that boundary layers, normally the preserve of conventional fluids flowing past solid surfaces, can also arise in superfluids.

Dynamical Crossovers in Prethermal Critical States

Alessio Chiocchetta, Andrea Gambassi, Sebastian Diehl, and Jamir Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 135701 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Divergent and Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity in Millimeter-Long Nanotubes

Victor Lee, Chi-Hsun Wu, Zong-Xing Lou, Wei-Li Lee, and Chih-Wei Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 135901 (2017) - Published 30 March, 2017

Measurements show that the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotubes diverges with length. At 1-mm, the nanotubes conduct heat approximately four times better than diamond or graphene.

Local Polar Fluctuations in Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals

Omer Yaffe, Yinsheng Guo, Liang Z. Tan, David A. Egger, Trevor Hull, Constantinos C. Stoumpos, Fan Zheng, Tony F. Heinz, Leeor Kronik, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Jonathan S. Owen, Andrew M. Rappe, Marcos A. Pimenta, and Louis E. Brus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136001 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Band-Resolved Double Photoemission Spectroscopy on Correlated Valence Electron Pairs in Metals

Andreas Trützschler, Michael Huth, Cheng-Tien Chiang, Robin Kamrla, Frank O. Schumann, Jürgen Kirschner, and Wolf Widdra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136401 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Double photoemission spectroscopy of silver and copper resolves band-specific electron pairs and reveals a band-dependent picture for electron correlation in solids.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correlated Electron Dynamics at Surfaces Investigated via ${He}^{2 +}$ Ion Neutralization

C. H. Li, C. Tusche, F. O. Schumann, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136402 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Anomalous Nernst Effect in the Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Tian Liang, Jingjing Lin, Quinn Gibson, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Minhao Liu, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136601 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Parafermionic Wires at the Interface of Chiral Topological States

Luiz H. Santos and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 136801 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Electron Number-Based Phase Diagram of $\Pr_{1 - x} {LaCe}_{x} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$ and Possible Absence of Disparity between Electron- and Hole-Doped Cuprate Phase Diagrams

Dongjoon Song, Garam Han, Wonshik Kyung, Jeongjin Seo, Soohyun Cho, Beom Seo Kim, Masashi Arita, Kenya Shimada, Hirofumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, Seung Ryong Park, and C. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137001 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Pressure-Stabilized Tin Selenide Phase with an Unexpected Stoichiometry and a Predicted Superconducting State at Low Temperatures

Hulei Yu, Wenxin Lao, Lijuan Wang, Kuo Li, and Yue Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137002 (2017) - Published 28 March, 2017

Spin Superfluidity in Biaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulators

Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Hans Skarsvåg, Cecilia Holmqvist, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137201 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gapless Spin-Liquid Ground State in the $S = 1 / 2$ Kagome Antiferromagnet

H. J. Liao, Z. Y. Xie, J. Chen, Z. Y. Liu, H. D. Xie, R. Z. Huang, B. Normand, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137202 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

A numerical analysis suggests that the elusive ground state of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model for the kagome lattice is a gapless spin liquid.

Spin-Liquid–to–Spin-Liquid Transition in Kitaev Magnets Driven by Fractionalization

Joji Nasu, Yasuyuki Kato, Junki Yoshitake, Yoshitomo Kamiya, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137203 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transport Signatures of Quasiparticle Poisoning in a Majorana Island

S. M. Albrecht, E. B. Hansen, A. P. Higginbotham, F. Kuemmeth, T. S. Jespersen, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, J. Danon, K. Flensberg, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 137701 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

A new method of estimating the limiting effects of unpaired electrons in a Majorana-based topological qubit clarifies the prospects for topological computing.

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

Scaling Theory for the Frictionless Unjamming Transition

Kabir Ramola and Bulbul Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 138001 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Omnidirectional Transport in Fully Reconfigurable Two Dimensional Optical Ratchets

Alejandro V. Arzola, Mario Villasante-Barahona, Karen Volke-Sepúlveda, Petr Jákl, and Pavel Zemánek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 138002 (2017) - Published 27 March, 2017

Directed movement of Brownian particles in two-dimensions is achieved using a fully reconfigurable ratchet based on optical traps.

ERRATA

Erratum: Gravitational Casimir Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 081104 (2015)]

James Q. Quach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 139901 (2017) - Published 29 March, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Hydrogen Bonds in Excited State Proton Transfer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163002 (2016)]

D. A. Horke, H. M. Watts, A. D. Smith, E. Jager, E. Springate, O. Alexander, C. Cacho, R. T. Chapman, and R. S. Minns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 139902 (2017) - Published 31 March, 2017