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Simulation of a pulsar timing array for the detection of gravitational wave signals. Dots are millisecond pulsars. The stars represent the Galactic poles (North upper), the squares the Galactic center (right) and anticenter (left). The triangles are source locations.

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Pulsar Timing Array Based Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Square Kilometer Array Era
Yan Wang and Soumya D. Mohanty
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151104 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Observation of Genuine Three-Photon Interference

Sascha Agne, Thomas Kauten, Jeongwan Jin, Evan Meyer-Scott, Jeff Z. Salvail, Deny R. Hamel, Kevin J. Resch, Gregor Weihs, and Thomas Jennewein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153602 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Two independent groups have provided the first experimental demonstration of genuine three-photon interference.

Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference

Adrian J. Menssen, Alex E. Jones, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Malte C. Tichy, Stefanie Barz, W. Steven Kolthammer, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153603 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Two independent groups have provided the first experimental demonstration of genuine three-photon interference.

Direct Measurement of Sub-10 fs Relativistic Electron Beams with Ultralow Emittance

Jared Maxson, David Cesar, Giacomo Calmasini, Alexander Ody, Pietro Musumeci, and David Alesini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154802 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Electron pulses have shattered the 10-femtosecond barrier at which essentially all atomic motion is frozen in materials.

Enhancing the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries

Francesco Campaioli, Felix A. Pollock, Felix C. Binder, Lucas Céleri, John Goold, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Kavan Modi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150601 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Calculations show that charging a set of batteries can go faster if the batteries are coupled together quantum mechanically.

Screening, Hyperuniformity, and Instability in the Sedimentation of Irregular Objects

Tomer Goldfriend, Haim Diamant, and Thomas A. Witten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158005 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

A new theory suggests that sedimenting particles of irregular shape will drift horizontally as they fall, a result that may resolve a long-standing puzzle.

Dynamic Substrate for the Physical Encoding of Sensory Information in Bat Biosonar

Rolf Müller, Anupam K. Gupta, Hongxiao Zhu, Mittu Pannala, Uzair S. Gillani, Yanqing Fu, Philip Caspers, and John R. Buck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158102 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

The directional sensitivity of bat biosonar is improved by the wiggling of structures on the bat’s nose and ears.

Combined Analysis of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations at T2K

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151801 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

A pair of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, T2K and NOvA, probe whether μ and τ neutrinos maximally mix, as experiments have heretofore shown. T2K’s data is consistent with maximal mixing, but NOvA’s data disfavors it.

Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Angle θ23 in NOvA

P. Adamson et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151802 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

A pair of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, T2K and NOvA, probe whether μ and τ neutrinos maximally mix, as experiments have heretofore shown. T2K’s data is consistent with maximal mixing, but NOvA’s data disfavors it.

Negative-Mass Hydrodynamics in a Spin-Orbit–Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. A. Khamehchi, Khalid Hossain, M. E. Mossman, Yongping Zhang, Th. Busch, Michael McNeil Forbes, and P. Engels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155301 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Measurements of an expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate indicate that its dispersion features a region of negative effective mass.

Flow Navigation by Smart Microswimmers via Reinforcement Learning

Simona Colabrese, Kristian Gustavsson, Antonio Celani, and Luca Biferale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158004 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

“Smart” microswimmers—those that can sense mechanical cues from their surroundings and respond to them—can learn to take advantage of their environment, escaping bad situations and actively seeking more favorable ones.

Fundamental Costs in the Production and Destruction of Persistent Polymer Copies

Thomas E. Ouldridge and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158103 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

A lower bound is derived for the energetic cost of making polymer copies, a process that occurs during DNA replication and gene expression.

Nonlinear Rheology in a Model Biological Tissue

D. A. Matoz-Fernandez, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Jean-Louis Barrat, Eric Bertin, and Kirsten Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158105 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

A new model is developed to describe the crossover from linear to non-linear rheology in flowing active tissues. The model is based on stress fluctuations mediated by long-range elastic interactions.

LETTERS

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

Pumped-Up SU(1,1) Interferometry

Stuart S. Szigeti, Robert J. Lewis-Swan, and Simon A. Haine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150401 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

Monitoring of the Process of System Information Broadcasting in Time

P. Mironowicz, J. K. Korbicz, and P. Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150501 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Dynamically Correcting a CNOT Gate for any Systematic Logical Error

F. A. Calderon-Vargas and J. P. Kestner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150502 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach to Quantum Optimal Control

Jun Li, Xiaodong Yang, Xinhua Peng, and Chang-Pu Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150503 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

Single-Shot Readout of a Nuclear Spin Weakly Coupled to a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center at Room Temperature

Gang-Qin Liu, Jian Xing, Wen-Long Ma, Ping Wang, Chang-Hao Li, Hoi Chun Po, Yu-Ran Zhang, Heng Fan, Ren-Bao Liu, and Xin-Yu Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150504 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Measurement-Device-Independent Approach to Entanglement Measures

Farid Shahandeh, Michael J. W. Hall, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150505 (2017) - Published 13 April, 2017

Enhancing the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries

Francesco Campaioli, Felix A. Pollock, Felix C. Binder, Lucas Céleri, John Goold, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Kavan Modi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 150601 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Calculations show that charging a set of batteries can go faster if the batteries are coupled together quantum mechanically.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Forecasting Tidal Disruption Events for Binary Black Holes with an Outer Tertiary

Naoki Seto and Koutarou Kyutoku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151101 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO

Carl Blair et al. (LSC Instrument Authors)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151102 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

End Point of the Ultraspinning Instability and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, Luis Lehner, and Saran Tunyasuvunakool

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151103 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

Pulsar Timing Array Based Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Square Kilometer Array Era

Yan Wang and Soumya D. Mohanty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151104 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Digging Deeper: Observing Primordial Gravitational Waves below the Binary-Black-Hole-Produced Stochastic Background

T. Regimbau, M. Evans, N. Christensen, E. Katsavounidis, B. Sathyaprakash, and S. Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151105 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

Dipole of the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm Signal

Anže Slosar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151301 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Frame-Independent Classification of Single-Field Inflationary Models

Laur Järv, Kristjan Kannike, Luca Marzola, Antonio Racioppi, Martti Raidal, Mihkel Rünkla, Margus Saal, and Hardi Veermäe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151302 (2017) - Published 13 April, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Lower Bound on the Energy Density in Classical and Quantum Field Theories

Aron C. Wall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151601 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Enhancement of Supersymmetry via Renormalization Group Flow and the Superconformal Index

Kazunobu Maruyoshi and Jaewon Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151602 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Combined Analysis of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations at T2K

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151801 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

A pair of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, T2K and NOvA, probe whether μ and τ neutrinos maximally mix, as experiments have heretofore shown. T2K’s data is consistent with maximal mixing, but NOvA’s data disfavors it.

Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Angle θ23 in NOvA

P. Adamson et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 151802 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

A pair of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, T2K and NOvA, probe whether μ and τ neutrinos maximally mix, as experiments have heretofore shown. T2K’s data is consistent with maximal mixing, but NOvA’s data disfavors it.

Nuclear Physics

Microscopic Phase-Space Exploration Modeling of Fm258 Spontaneous Fission

Yusuke Tanimura, Denis Lacroix, and Sakir Ayik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 152501 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Scattering of the Halo Nucleus Be11 on Au197 at Energies around the Coulomb Barrier

V. Pesudo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 152502 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Ab Initio Description of Open-Shell Nuclei: Merging No-Core Shell Model and In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group

Eskendr Gebrerufael, Klaus Vobig, Heiko Hergert, and Robert Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 152503 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Dissociation of Metastable CO2+ in a Dimer

Xiaoyan Ding, M. Haertelt, S. Schlauderer, M. S. Schuurman, A. Yu. Naumov, D. M. Villeneuve, A. R. W. McKellar, P. B. Corkum, and A. Staudte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153001 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

Anomalous Quantum Correlations of Squeezed Light

B. Kühn, W. Vogel, M. Mraz, S. Köhnke, and B. Hage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153601 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Observation of Genuine Three-Photon Interference

Sascha Agne, Thomas Kauten, Jeongwan Jin, Evan Meyer-Scott, Jeff Z. Salvail, Deny R. Hamel, Kevin J. Resch, Gregor Weihs, and Thomas Jennewein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153602 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Two independent groups have provided the first experimental demonstration of genuine three-photon interference.

Distinguishability and Many-Particle Interference

Adrian J. Menssen, Alex E. Jones, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Malte C. Tichy, Stefanie Barz, W. Steven Kolthammer, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 153603 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Two independent groups have provided the first experimental demonstration of genuine three-photon interference.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Classical Fractals and Quantum Chaos in Ultracold Dipolar Collisions

B. C. Yang, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154101 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Diffractive Focusing of Waves in Time and in Space

Dror Weisman, Shenhe Fu, Manuel Gonçalves, Lev Shemer, Jianying Zhou, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154301 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Time-Reversal Symmetry Bounds on the Electromagnetic Response of Asymmetric Structures

Dimitrios L. Sounas and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154302 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

Huygens-Fresnel Acoustic Interference and the Development of Robust Time-Averaged Patterns from Traveling Surface Acoustic Waves

Citsabehsan Devendran, David J. Collins, Ye Ai, and Adrian Neild

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154501 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Dispersion-Induced Beam Instability in Circular Accelerators

Y. S. Yuan, O. Boine-Frankenheim, G. Franchetti, and I. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154801 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Direct Measurement of Sub-10 fs Relativistic Electron Beams with Ultralow Emittance

Jared Maxson, David Cesar, Giacomo Calmasini, Alexander Ody, Pietro Musumeci, and David Alesini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154802 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Electron pulses have shattered the 10-femtosecond barrier at which essentially all atomic motion is frozen in materials.

Depletion of Intense Fields

D. Seipt, T. Heinzl, M. Marklund, and S. S. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154803 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

Self-Generated Magnetic Fields in the Stagnation Phase of Indirect-Drive Implosions on the National Ignition Facility

C. A. Walsh, J. P. Chittenden, K. McGlinchey, N. P. L. Niasse, and B. D. Appelbe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155001 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Impurity Transport in a Mixed-Collisionality Stellarator Plasma

P. Helander, S. L. Newton, A. Mollén, and H. M. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155002 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Turbulent Kinetic Energy in the Energy Balance of a Solar Flare

E. P. Kontar, J. E. Perez, L. K. Harra, A. A. Kuznetsov, A. G. Emslie, N. L. S. Jeffrey, N. H. Bian, and B. R. Dennis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155101 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Negative-Mass Hydrodynamics in a Spin-Orbit–Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. A. Khamehchi, Khalid Hossain, M. E. Mossman, Yongping Zhang, Th. Busch, Michael McNeil Forbes, and P. Engels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155301 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Measurements of an expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate indicate that its dispersion features a region of negative effective mass.

Probing Microplasticity in Small-Scale FCC Crystals via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis

Xiaoyue Ni, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Gabriele Vajente, Rana X Adhikari, and Julia R. Greer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155501 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Unconventional Topological Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Systems with Space-Time Inversion Symmetry

Junyeong Ahn and Bohm-Jung Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 156401 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Doping Dependence of Collective Spin and Orbital Excitations in the Spin-1 Quantum Antiferromagnet La2xSrxNiO4 Observed by X Rays

G. Fabbris, D. Meyers, L. Xu, V. M. Katukuri, L. Hozoi, X. Liu, Z.-Y. Chen, J. Okamoto, T. Schmitt, A. Uldry, B. Delley, G. D. Gu, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, J. van den Brink, D. J. Huang, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 156402 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Phonoritonic Crystals with a Synthetic Magnetic Field for an Acoustic Diode

A. V. Poshakinskiy and A. N. Poddubny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 156801 (2017) - Published 13 April, 2017

Reduction of Electron Repulsion and Enhancement of Tc in Small Diffusive Superconducting Grains

Sabyasachi Tarat, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157001 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Dynamical and Reversible Control of Topological Spin Textures

E. A. Stepanov, C. Dutreix, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157201 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Matching Microscopic and Macroscopic Responses in Glasses

M. Baity-Jesi, E. Calore, A. Cruz, L. A. Fernandez, J. M. Gil-Narvion, A. Gordillo-Guerrero, D. Iñiguez, A. Maiorano, E. Marinari, V. Martin-Mayor, J. Monforte-Garcia, A. Muñoz-Sudupe, D. Navarro, G. Parisi, S. Perez-Gaviro, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, S. F. Schifano, B. Seoane, A. Tarancon, R. Tripiccione, and D. Yllanes (Janus Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157202 (2017) - Published 13 April, 2017

Magnetic Field Dependence of Spin Glass Free Energy Barriers

Samaresh Guchhait and Raymond L. Orbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157203 (2017) - Published 13 April, 2017

Creation and Manipulation of Stable Dark Solitons and Vortices in Microcavity Polariton Condensates

Xuekai Ma, Oleg A. Egorov, and Stefan Schumacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157401 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Quantum Corrections in Nanoplasmonics: Shape, Scale, and Material

Thomas Christensen, Wei Yan, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Marin Soljačić, and N. Asger Mortensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157402 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

Lattice-Rotation Vortex at the Charged Monoclinic Domain Boundary in a Relaxor Ferroelectric Crystal

Yu-Tsun Shao and Jian-Min Zuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157601 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Nonlocal Parity Order in the Two-Dimensional Mott Insulator

Serena Fazzini, Federico Becca, and Arianna Montorsi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 157602 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

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

Two-Dimensional Melting of Colloidal Hard Spheres

Alice L. Thorneywork, Joshua L. Abbott, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, and Roel P. A. Dullens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158001 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Effect of Cell Aspect Ratio on Swarming Bacteria

Bella Ilkanaiv, Daniel B. Kearns, Gil Ariel, and Avraham Be’er

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158002 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Imaging Local Diffusive Dynamics Using Diffusion Exchange Spectroscopy MRI

Dan Benjamini, Michal E. Komlosh, and Peter J. Basser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158003 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

Flow Navigation by Smart Microswimmers via Reinforcement Learning

Simona Colabrese, Kristian Gustavsson, Antonio Celani, and Luca Biferale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158004 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

“Smart” microswimmers—those that can sense mechanical cues from their surroundings and respond to them—can learn to take advantage of their environment, escaping bad situations and actively seeking more favorable ones.

Screening, Hyperuniformity, and Instability in the Sedimentation of Irregular Objects

Tomer Goldfriend, Haim Diamant, and Thomas A. Witten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158005 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

A new theory suggests that sedimenting particles of irregular shape will drift horizontally as they fall, a result that may resolve a long-standing puzzle.

Thermodynamic Paradigm for Solution Demixing Inspired by Nuclear Transport in Living Cells

Ching-Hao Wang, Pankaj Mehta, and Michael Elbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158101 (2017) - Published 10 April, 2017

Dynamic Substrate for the Physical Encoding of Sensory Information in Bat Biosonar

Rolf Müller, Anupam K. Gupta, Hongxiao Zhu, Mittu Pannala, Uzair S. Gillani, Yanqing Fu, Philip Caspers, and John R. Buck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158102 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

The directional sensitivity of bat biosonar is improved by the wiggling of structures on the bat’s nose and ears.

Fundamental Costs in the Production and Destruction of Persistent Polymer Copies

Thomas E. Ouldridge and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158103 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

A lower bound is derived for the energetic cost of making polymer copies, a process that occurs during DNA replication and gene expression.

Scale Invariance in Lateral Head Scans During Spatial Exploration

Chetan K. Yadav and Yoganarasimha Doreswamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158104 (2017) - Published 13 April, 2017

Nonlinear Rheology in a Model Biological Tissue

D. A. Matoz-Fernandez, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Jean-Louis Barrat, Eric Bertin, and Kirsten Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158105 (2017) - Published 14 April, 2017

A new model is developed to describe the crossover from linear to non-linear rheology in flowing active tissues. The model is based on stress fluctuations mediated by long-range elastic interactions.

COMMENTS

Comment on “New Ground-State Crystal Structure of Elemental Boron”

Tadashi Ogitsu, Vincenzo Lordi, Eric Schwegler, and Michael Widom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 159601 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Quantized Vortices and Four-Component Superfluidity of Semiconductor Excitons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127402 (2017)]

Romain Anankine, Mussie Beian, Suzanne Dang, Mathieu Alloing, Edmond Cambril, Kamel Merghem, Carmen Gomez Carbonell, Aristide Lemaître, and François Dubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 159901 (2017) - Published 11 April, 2017

Erratum: New Ground-State Crystal Structure of Elemental Boron [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 085501 (2016)]

Qi An, K. Madhav Reddy, Kelvin Y. Xie, Kevin J. Hemker, and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 159902 (2017) - Published 12 April, 2017

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