Volume 118, Issue 14

7 April 2017

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On the Cover

Numerical simulations of the crystallographically forbidden but topologically allowed nonsixfold vortices in a sixfold multiferroic material. Arrows indicate the cores of the ferroelectric vortices.

From the article:

Topologically Allowed Nonsixfold Vortices in a Sixfold Multiferroic Material: Observation and Classification
Shaobo Cheng, Jun Li, Myung-Geun Han, Shiqing Deng, Guotai Tan, Xixiang Zhang, Jing Zhu, and Yimei Zhu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145501 (2017)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Welcoming Hugues Chaté to Physical Review Letters

Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140001 (2017) - Published 4 April, 2017

Editorial: Looking Ahead

Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140002 (2017) - Published 4 April, 2017

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Wind Generated Rogue Waves in an Annular Wave Flume

A. Toffoli, D. Proment, H. Salman, J. Monbaliu, F. Frascoli, M. Dafilis, E. Stramignoni, R. Forza, M. Manfrin, and M. Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 144503 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Wind-generated waves in a ring-shaped water tank can spontaneously grow into single behemoth waves, mimicking a poorly understood ocean phenomenon.

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Elemental Topological Dirac Semimetal: $α$ -Sn on InSb(111)

Cai-Zhi Xu, Yang-Hao Chan, Yige Chen, Peng Chen, Xiaoxiong Wang, Catherine Dejoie, Man-Hong Wong, Joseph Andrew Hlevyack, Hyejin Ryu, Hae-Young Kee, Nobumichi Tamura, Mei-Yin Chou, Zahid Hussain, Sung-Kwan Mo, and Tai-Chang Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146402 (2017) - Published 4 April, 2017

By applying strain to a form of tin, researchers make it behave like a 3D analog of graphene.

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Small Particle Driven Chain Disentanglements in Polymer Nanocomposites

Erkan Senses, Siyam M. Ansar, Christopher L. Kitchens, Yimin Mao, Suresh Narayanan, Bharath Natarajan, and Antonio Faraone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147801 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Adding nanoparticles to molten polymer disentangles its constituent molecular chains, allowing them to flow more easily.

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Bell Correlations in Spin-Squeezed States of 500 000 Atoms

Nils J. Engelsen, Rajiv Krishnakumar, Onur Hosten, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140401 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Nonlocal correlations implied by quantum mechanics have been achieved to high statistical significance in an ensemble of half a million atoms, an increase by three orders of magnitude over previous results.

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Demonstration of Multisetting One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering in Two-Qubit Systems

Ya Xiao, Xiang-Jun Ye, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140404 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

One-way EPR steering—the ability of one quantum system to remotely affect another’s state through local measurements—is experimentally demonstrated for two qubits.

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Coherent Coupling of Remote Spin Ensembles via a Cavity Bus

T. Astner, S. Nevlacsil, N. Peterschofsky, A. Angerer, S. Rotter, S. Putz, J. Schmiedmayer, and J. Majer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140502 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Two macroscopically distinct nitrogen-vacancy spin ensembles are coherently coupled using a superconducting transmission line resonator.

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Strong Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Light Mediators

Torsten Bringmann, Felix Kahlhoefer, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, and Parampreet Walia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141802 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Models of dark matter with velocity-dependent self-interactions are strongly constrained or ruled out by data from cosmic microwave background radiation and other detection probes.

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Beating the Standard Sensitivity-Bandwidth Limit of Cavity-Enhanced Interferometers with Internal Squeezed-Light Generation

M. Korobko, L. Kleybolte, S. Ast, H. Miao, Y. Chen, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143601 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

A 36% increase in the sensitivity of an interferometer is demonstrated using internal squeezing—non-classical correlations of a light field—inside the interferometer’s cavity.

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Diffused Vorticity and Moment of Inertia of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate

Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145302 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

A striking reduction in the superfluid density of a Bose-Einstein condensate with spin-orbit coupling at zero temperature, is observed in a hydrodynamic theory of the system. This result violates the established theory of superfluid density behavior.

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Evidence for Anomalous Dynamic Heterogeneities in Isostatic Supercooled Liquids

M. Micoulaut and M Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145502 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

The glass transition of a liquid is approached from high and low temperature directions via simulations, showing anomalies in the correlation lengths of the glass.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generalized Pseudopotentials for the Anisotropic Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Bo Yang, Zi-Xiang Hu, Ching Hua Lee, and Z. Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146403 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

By studying the geometries that lack rotational symmetry, theorists quantitatively describe quantum Hall scenarios such as tilted magnetic fields and nematic states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gating Classical Information Flow via Equilibrium Quantum Phase Transitions

Leonardo Banchi, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147203 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

The flow of information through a wire of coupled magnetic atoms can be shut off by tuning the intrinsic quantum fluctuations in the system with a magnetic field.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bell Correlations in Spin-Squeezed States of 500 000 Atoms

Nils J. Engelsen, Rajiv Krishnakumar, Onur Hosten, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140401 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Random Number Generation with Cosmic Photons

Cheng Wu, Bing Bai, Yang Liu, Xiaoming Zhang, Meng Yang, Yuan Cao, Jianfeng Wang, Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou, Xiheng Shi, Xiongfeng Ma, Ji-Gang Ren, Jun Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Jingyun Fan, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140402 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Quantum Simulation of Generic Many-Body Open System Dynamics Using Classical Noise

A. Chenu, M. Beau, J. Cao, and A. del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140403 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Demonstration of Multisetting One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering in Two-Qubit Systems

Ya Xiao, Xiang-Jun Ye, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140404 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

One-way EPR steering—the ability of one quantum system to remotely affect another’s state through local measurements—is experimentally demonstrated for two qubits.

Interfacing Superconducting Qubits and Single Optical Photons Using Molecules in Waveguides

Sumanta Das, Vincent E. Elfving, Sanli Faez, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140501 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Coupling of Remote Spin Ensembles via a Cavity Bus

T. Astner, S. Nevlacsil, N. Peterschofsky, A. Angerer, S. Rotter, S. Putz, J. Schmiedmayer, and J. Majer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140502 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Two macroscopically distinct nitrogen-vacancy spin ensembles are coherently coupled using a superconducting transmission line resonator.

Thermalization and Return to Equilibrium on Finite Quantum Lattice Systems

Terry Farrelly, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, and Marcus Cramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 140601 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Metric Independence of Vacuum and Force-Free Electromagnetic Fields

Abraham I. Harte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141101 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Renormalized Stress-Energy Tensor of an Evaporating Spinning Black Hole

Adam Levi, Ehud Eilon, Amos Ori, and Maarten van de Meent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141102 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anti–de Sitter Particles and Manifest (Super)Isometries

Alex S. Arvanitakis, Alec E. Barns-Graham, and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141601 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Simplifying Differential Equations for Multiscale Feynman Integrals beyond Multiple Polylogarithms

Luise Adams, Ekta Chaubey, and Stefan Weinzierl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141602 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Yangian Symmetry and Integrability of Planar $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Niklas Beisert, Aleksander Garus, and Matteo Rosso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141603 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Fuzzy Dark Matter from Infrared Confining Dynamics

Hooman Davoudiasl and Christopher W. Murphy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141801 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong Constraints on Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Light Mediators

Torsten Bringmann, Felix Kahlhoefer, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, and Parampreet Walia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141802 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Models of dark matter with velocity-dependent self-interactions are strongly constrained or ruled out by data from cosmic microwave background radiation and other detection probes.

First Direct-Detection Constraints on eV-Scale Hidden-Photon Dark Matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (DAMIC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 141803 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Lattice Prediction for Deeply Bound Doubly Heavy Tetraquarks

A. Francis, R. J. Hudspith, R. Lewis, and K. Maltman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 142001 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Limits on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Coulomb Interactions in Nuclei and Atoms

V. V. Flambaum and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 142501 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Inelastic Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions within the Spectral Function Formalism

Erica Vagnoni, Omar Benhar, and Davide Meloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 142502 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultimate Limit in the Spectral Resolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Combs

C. Corsi, I. Liontos, M. Bellini, S. Cavalieri, P. Cancio Pastor, M. Siciliani de Cumis, and R. Eramo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143201 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Essential Conditions for Dynamic Interference

Mehrdad Baghery, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143202 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Energy-Resolved Ultrashort Delays of Photoelectron Emission Clocked by Orthogonal Two-Color Laser Fields

Xiaochun Gong, Cheng Lin, Feng He, Qiying Song, Kang Lin, Qinying Ji, Wenbin Zhang, Junyang Ma, Peifen Lu, Yunquan Liu, Heping Zeng, Weifeng Yang, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143203 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Superstatistical Energy Distributions of an Ion in an Ultracold Buffer Gas

I. Rouse and S. Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143401 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Beating the Standard Sensitivity-Bandwidth Limit of Cavity-Enhanced Interferometers with Internal Squeezed-Light Generation

M. Korobko, L. Kleybolte, S. Ast, H. Miao, Y. Chen, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143601 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

A 36% increase in the sensitivity of an interferometer is demonstrated using internal squeezing—non-classical correlations of a light field—inside the interferometer’s cavity.

Subradiance via Entanglement in Atoms with Several Independent Decay Channels

Martin Hebenstreit, Barbara Kraus, Laurin Ostermann, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143602 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Parametrically Tunable Soliton-Induced Resonant Radiation by Three-Wave Mixing

B. B. Zhou, X. Liu, H. R. Guo, X. L. Zeng, X. F. Chen, H. P. Chung, Y. H. Chen, and M. Bache

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 143901 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Quantifying the Dynamical Complexity of Chaotic Time Series

Antonio Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 144101 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Dispersion Management of Propagating Waveguide Modes on the Water Surface

Shenhe Fu, Jianying Zhou, Yongyao Li, Lev Shemer, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 144501 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Observation of Thermal Equilibrium in Capillary Wave Turbulence

Guillaume Michel, François Pétrélis, and Stéphan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 144502 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Wind Generated Rogue Waves in an Annular Wave Flume

A. Toffoli, D. Proment, H. Salman, J. Monbaliu, F. Frascoli, M. Dafilis, E. Stramignoni, R. Forza, M. Manfrin, and M. Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 144503 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Wind-generated waves in a ring-shaped water tank can spontaneously grow into single behemoth waves, mimicking a poorly understood ocean phenomenon.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Population Mixing in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field

M. Hesse, L. J. Chen, Y.-H. Liu, N. Bessho, and J. L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145101 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Scattering Theory on Surface Majorana Fermions by an Impurity in ${}^{3}{He} − B$

Yasumasa Tsutsumi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145301 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffused Vorticity and Moment of Inertia of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate

Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145302 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Topologically Allowed Nonsixfold Vortices in a Sixfold Multiferroic Material: Observation and Classification

Shaobo Cheng, Jun Li, Myung-Geun Han, Shiqing Deng, Guotai Tan, Xixiang Zhang, Jing Zhu, and Yimei Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145501 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Anomalous Dynamic Heterogeneities in Isostatic Supercooled Liquids

M. Micoulaut and M Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145502 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

The glass transition of a liquid is approached from high and low temperature directions via simulations, showing anomalies in the correlation lengths of the glass.

Infrared Peak Splitting from Phonon Localization in Solid Hydrogen

Ioan B. Magdău and Graeme J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145701 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Premelting hcp to bcc Transition in Beryllium

Y. Lu, T. Sun, Ping Zhang, P. Zhang, D.-B. Zhang, and R. M. Wentzcovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145702 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Hopping Time Scales and the Phonon-Liquid Electron-Crystal Picture in Thermoelectric Copper Selenide

D. J. Voneshen, H. C. Walker, K. Refson, and J. P. Goff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145901 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Thermal Hall Effect in a Phonon-Glass ${Ba}_{3} {CuSb}_{2} O_{9}$

K. Sugii, M. Shimozawa, D. Watanabe, Y. Suzuki, M. Halim, M. Kimata, Y. Matsumoto, S. Nakatsuji, and M. Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 145902 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Accurate Determination of the Quasiparticle and Scaling Properties Surrounding the Quantum Critical Point of Disordered Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetals

Bo Fu, Wei Zhu, Qinwei Shi, Qunxiang Li, Jinlong Yang, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146401 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Elemental Topological Dirac Semimetal: $α$ -Sn on InSb(111)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146402 (2017) - Published 4 April, 2017

By applying strain to a form of tin, researchers make it behave like a 3D analog of graphene.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generalized Pseudopotentials for the Anisotropic Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Bo Yang, Zi-Xiang Hu, Ching Hua Lee, and Z. Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146403 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

By studying the geometries that lack rotational symmetry, theorists quantitatively describe quantum Hall scenarios such as tilted magnetic fields and nematic states.

BC8 Silicon (Si-III) is a Narrow-Gap Semiconductor

Haidong Zhang, Hanyu Liu, Kaya Wei, Oleksandr O. Kurakevych, Yann Le Godec, Zhenxian Liu, Joshua Martin, Michael Guerrette, George S. Nolas, and Timothy A. Strobel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146601 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Electromagnetic Response of Three-Dimensional Topological Crystalline Insulators

Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy, Yuxuan Wang, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146602 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Detection and Control of Spin-Orbit Interactions in a GaAs Hole Quantum Point Contact

A. Srinivasan, D. S. Miserev, K. L. Hudson, O. Klochan, K. Muraki, Y. Hirayama, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, O. P. Sushkov, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146801 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Fate of Majorana Modes in ${CeCoIn}_{5} / {YbCoIn}_{5}$ Superlattices: A Test Bed for the Reduction of Topological Classification

Tsuneya Yoshida, Akito Daido, Youichi Yanase, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147001 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Absence of a Large Superconductivity-Induced Gap in Magnetic Fluctuations of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

S. Kunkemöller, P. Steffens, P. Link, Y. Sidis, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147002 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

Majorana Zero Modes Protected by a Hopf Invariant in Topologically Trivial Superconductors

Zhongbo Yan, Ren Bi, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147003 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

High- $T_{c}$ Superconductivity in FeSe at High Pressure: Dominant Hole Carriers and Enhanced Spin Fluctuations

J. P. Sun, G. Z. Ye, P. Shahi, J.-Q. Yan, K. Matsuura, H. Kontani, G. M. Zhang, Q. Zhou, B. C. Sales, T. Shibauchi, Y. Uwatoko, D. J. Singh, and J.-G. Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147004 (2017) - Published 7 April, 2017

Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in $Pt / CoFeB$ Films: Effect of the Heavy-Metal Thickness

S. Tacchi, R. E. Troncoso, M. Ahlberg, G. Gubbiotti, M. Madami, J. Åkerman, and P. Landeros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147201 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

Tunable Sign Change of Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in $Pt / NiO / YIG$ Structures

Dazhi Hou, Zhiyong Qiu, Joseph Barker, Koji Sato, Kei Yamamoto, Saül Vélez, Juan M. Gomez-Perez, Luis E. Hueso, Fèlix Casanova, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147202 (2017) - Published 3 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gating Classical Information Flow via Equilibrium Quantum Phase Transitions

Leonardo Banchi, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 147203 (2017) - Published 5 April, 2017

The flow of information through a wire of coupled magnetic atoms can be shut off by tuning the intrinsic quantum fluctuations in the system with a magnetic field.