Volume 118, Issue 16

21 April 2017

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Benchmark network of 128 oscillators, organized into four clusters, for numerical simulation of synchronization dynamics and the emergence of functional clusters.

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Diffusion Geometry Unravels the Emergence of Functional Clusters in Collective Phenomena
Manlio De Domenico
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 168301 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Atom Interferometry in a Warm Vapor

G. W. Biedermann, H. J. McGuinness, A. V. Rakholia, Y.-Y. Jau, D. R. Wheeler, J. D. Sterk, and G. R. Burns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163601 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Researchers have demonstrated an atom interferometer based on a warm vapor, rather than on a cold atomic gas.

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Neutron Generation by Laser-Driven Spherically Convergent Plasma Fusion

G. Ren, J. Yan, J. Liu, K. Lan, Y. H. Chen, W. Y. Huo, Z. Fan, X. Zhang, J. Zheng, Z. Chen, W. Jiang, L. Chen, Q. Tang, Z. Yuan, F. Wang, S. Jiang, Y. Ding, W. Zhang, and X. T. He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 165001 (2017) - Published 19 April, 2017

A new laser-driven fusion method could lead to a robust and efficient way to generate neutrons for use in materials science, geology, and other fields.

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Spin-Hall Voltage over a Large Length Scale in Bulk Germanium

F. Bottegoni, C. Zucchetti, S. Dal Conte, J. Frigerio, E. Carpene, C. Vergnaud, M. Jamet, G. Isella, F. Ciccacci, G. Cerullo, and M. Finazzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167402 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Germanium produces a surprisingly large separation of electron spins in response to electric current—good news for spin-based devices, since germanium is highly compatible with silicon.

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Black Hole Spectroscopy with Coherent Mode Stacking

Huan Yang, Kent Yagi, Jonathan Blackman, Luis Lehner, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161101 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Stacking up gravitational-wave “ringdown” signals from a set of black hole mergers increases the sensitivity of the signals to black hole properties.

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Large Deviations of a Tracer in the Symmetric Exclusion Process

Takashi Imamura, Kirone Mallick, and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 160601 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Anomalous diffusion of gas particles in a single-file channel is modeled using the one-dimensional symmetric exclusion process by tracking a tagged particle. An exact formula is derived for the large fluctuations of this tracer.

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Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: A Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Halos

Aaron D. Ludlow, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Matthieu Schaller, Tom Theuns, Carlos S. Frenk, Richard Bower, Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi, and Kyle A. Oman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161103 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Analysis of the acceleration profiles of galaxies identified in simulations of a cold dark matter universe confirms a previous finding that total acceleration correlates strongly with the baryonic acceleration in rotationally supported galaxies.

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Multifaceted Quadruplet of Low-Lying Spin-Zero States in ${}^{66}{Ni}$ : Emergence of Shape Isomerism in Light Nuclei

S. Leoni et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 162502 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Shape isomers are measured in $^{66}$ Ni, the lightest nuclei to date in which this behavior has been observed.

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Exact Single-Electron Approach to the Dynamics of Molecules in Strong Laser Fields

Axel Schild and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163202 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

An exact single-electron theory is derived for many-electron processes in strong-fields. As a first illustration of its potential, the theory is used to derive the single-active electron approximation, which had hitherto been an assumption.

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Detector-Independent Verification of Quantum Light

J. Sperling, W. R. Clements, A. Eckstein, M. Moore, J. J. Renema, W. S. Kolthammer, S. W. Nam, A. Lita, T. Gerrits, W. Vogel, G. S. Agarwal, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163602 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Criteria are formulated and experimentally verified for optical measurement schemes that probe nonclassical properties of light and are independent of the detector architecture used.

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Topological Subspace-Induced Bound State in the Continuum

Yi-Xin Xiao, Guancong Ma, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 166803 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

A new theory shows that symmetry-protected topological properties can survive in a system when the symmetry is broken, something that was previously thought to be impossible.

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Environmentally Mediated Coherent Control of a Spin Qubit in Diamond

Scott E. Lillie, David A. Broadway, James D. A. Wood, David A. Simpson, Alastair Stacey, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167204 (2017) - Published 19 April, 2017

The state of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy spin qubit is controlled by resonances with neighboring spins, offering a new way to control spin qubits.

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Emergence of Huge Negative Spin-Transfer Torque in Atomically Thin Co layers

Soong-Geun Je, Sang-Cheol Yoo, Joo-Sung Kim, Yong-Keun Park, Min-Ho Park, Joon Moon, Byoung-Chul Min, and Sug-Bong Choe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167205 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Experiments on ultrathin magnetic films show that spin-transfer torque has a much larger effect on spin transport than previously thought. This finding indicates a new way to manipulate magnetic domain walls in these materials.

LETTERS

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

Circumventing Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in Atom Interferometry Tests of the Equivalence Principle

Albert Roura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 160401 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Quantum Teleportation Between Discrete and Continuous Encodings of an Optical Qubit

Alexander E. Ulanov, Demid Sychev, Anastasia A. Pushkina, Ilya A. Fedorov, and A. I. Lvovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 160501 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Discrimination Power of a Quantum Detector

Christoph Hirche, Masahito Hayashi, Emilio Bagan, and John Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 160502 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Gaussian States Minimize the Output Entropy of One-Mode Quantum Gaussian Channels

Giacomo De Palma, Dario Trevisan, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 160503 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

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Large Deviations of a Tracer in the Symmetric Exclusion Process

Takashi Imamura, Kirone Mallick, and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 160601 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Black Hole Spectroscopy with Coherent Mode Stacking

Huan Yang, Kent Yagi, Jonathan Blackman, Luis Lehner, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161101 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Stacking up gravitational-wave “ringdown” signals from a set of black hole mergers increases the sensitivity of the signals to black hole properties.

Proposal for Observing the Unruh Effect using Classical Electrodynamics

Gabriel Cozzella, André G. S. Landulfo, George E. A. Matsas, and Daniel A. T. Vanzella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161102 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

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Mass-Discrepancy Acceleration Relation: A Natural Outcome of Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Halos

Aaron D. Ludlow, Alejandro Benítez-Llambay, Matthieu Schaller, Tom Theuns, Carlos S. Frenk, Richard Bower, Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Julio F. Navarro, Azadeh Fattahi, and Kyle A. Oman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161103 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Measurement of a Cosmographic Distance Ratio with Galaxy and Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing

Hironao Miyatake, Mathew S. Madhavacheril, Neelima Sehgal, Anže Slosar, David N. Spergel, Blake Sherwin, and Alexander van Engelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161301 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Relations for Gauge-Theory and Gravity Amplitudes at Loop Level

Song He and Oliver Schlotterer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161601 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

New Limits on Bosonic Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation, and Electron Decay from the Majorana Demonstrator

N. Abgrall et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 161801 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Relative Modification of Prompt $ψ (2 S)$ and $J / ψ$ Yields from $p p$ to PbPb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 162301 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Flow Dominance and Factorization of Transverse Momentum Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC

J. Adam et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 162302 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

${}_{36}^{96}{Kr}_{60}$ –Low- $Z$ Boundary of the Island of Deformation at $N = 60$

J. Dudouet et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 162501 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

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Multifaceted Quadruplet of Low-Lying Spin-Zero States in ${}^{66}{Ni}$ : Emergence of Shape Isomerism in Light Nuclei

S. Leoni et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 162502 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Shape isomers are measured in $^{66}$ Ni, the lightest nuclei to date in which this behavior has been observed.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Helium Atom Excitations by the $G W$ and Bethe-Salpeter Many-Body Formalism

Jing Li, Markus Holzmann, Ivan Duchemin, Xavier Blase, and Valerio Olevano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163001 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Theoretical Confirmation of the Low Experimental $3 C / 3 D$ $f$ -Value Ratio in Fe xvii

C. Mendoza and M. A. Bautista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163002 (2017) - Published 18 April, 2017

Perfect Transmission through Disordered Media

C. G. King, S. A. R. Horsley, and T. G. Philbin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163201 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

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Exact Single-Electron Approach to the Dynamics of Molecules in Strong Laser Fields

Axel Schild and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163202 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Strong Field Theories beyond Dipole Approximations in Nonrelativistic Regimes

Pei-Lun He, Di Lao, and Feng He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163203 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Isotopic Shift of Atom-Dimer Efimov Resonances in K-Rb Mixtures: Critical Effect of Multichannel Feshbach Physics

K. Kato, Yujun Wang, J. Kobayashi, P. S. Julienne, and S. Inouye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163401 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

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Atom Interferometry in a Warm Vapor

G. W. Biedermann, H. J. McGuinness, A. V. Rakholia, Y.-Y. Jau, D. R. Wheeler, J. D. Sterk, and G. R. Burns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163601 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Researchers have demonstrated an atom interferometer based on a warm vapor, rather than on a cold atomic gas.

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Detector-Independent Verification of Quantum Light

J. Sperling, W. R. Clements, A. Eckstein, M. Moore, J. J. Renema, W. S. Kolthammer, S. W. Nam, A. Lita, T. Gerrits, W. Vogel, G. S. Agarwal, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163602 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Criteria are formulated and experimentally verified for optical measurement schemes that probe nonclassical properties of light and are independent of the detector architecture used.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Regularizing Aperiodic Cycles of Resonant Radiation in Filament Light Bullets

Carsten Brée, Ihar Babushkin, Uwe Morgner, and Ayhan Demircan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 163901 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Semiclassical Identification of Periodic Orbits in a Quantum Many-Body System

Maram Akila, Daniel Waltner, Boris Gutkin, Petr Braun, and Thomas Guhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 164101 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Discontinuous Transition from Direct to Inverse Cascade in Three-Dimensional Turbulence

Ganapati Sahoo, Alexandros Alexakis, and Luca Biferale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 164501 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Plasma Wave Seed for Raman Amplifiers

Kenan Qu, Ido Barth, and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 164801 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Reduction of Intrinsic Electron Emittance from Photocathodes Using Ordered Crystalline Surfaces

Siddharth Karkare, Jun Feng, Xumin Chen, Weishi Wan, F. Javier Palomares, T.-C. Chiang, and Howard A. Padmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 164802 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

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Neutron Generation by Laser-Driven Spherically Convergent Plasma Fusion

G. Ren, J. Yan, J. Liu, K. Lan, Y. H. Chen, W. Y. Huo, Z. Fan, X. Zhang, J. Zheng, Z. Chen, W. Jiang, L. Chen, Q. Tang, Z. Yuan, F. Wang, S. Jiang, Y. Ding, W. Zhang, and X. T. He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 165001 (2017) - Published 19 April, 2017

A new laser-driven fusion method could lead to a robust and efficient way to generate neutrons for use in materials science, geology, and other fields.

Isotope Effects on Trapped-Electron-Mode Driven Turbulence and Zonal Flows in Helical and Tokamak Plasmas

Motoki Nakata, Masanori Nunami, Hideo Sugama, and Tomo-Hiko Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 165002 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Buckling of an Elastic Ridge: Competition between Wrinkles and Creases

C. Lestringant, C. Maurini, A. Lazarus, and B. Audoly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 165501 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Kinetics of Vapor-Solid Phase Transitions: Structure, Growth, and Mechanism

Jiarul Midya and Subir K. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 165701 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interlayer Pairing Symmetry of Composite Fermions in Quantum Hall Bilayers

Hiroki Isobe and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 166401 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Scaling Theory of the Anderson Transition in Random Graphs: Ergodicity and Universality

I. García-Mata, O. Giraud, B. Georgeot, J. Martin, R. Dubertrand, and G. Lemarié

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 166801 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Emergence of Supersymmetric Quantum Electrodynamics

Shao-Kai Jian, Chien-Hung Lin, Joseph Maciejko, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 166802 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

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Topological Subspace-Induced Bound State in the Continuum

Yi-Xin Xiao, Guancong Ma, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 166803 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

A new theory shows that symmetry-protected topological properties can survive in a system when the symmetry is broken, something that was previously thought to be impossible.

Tracing the Electronic Pairing Glue in Unconventional Superconductors via Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Patrik Hlobil, Jasmin Jandke, Wulf Wulfhekel, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167001 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Unconventional Superconductivity in the ${BiS}_{2}$ -Based Layered Superconductor ${NdO}_{0.71} F_{0.29} {BiS}_{2}$

Yuichi Ota, Kozo Okazaki, Haruyoshi Q. Yamamoto, Takashi Yamamoto, Shuntaro Watanabe, Chuangtian Chen, Masanori Nagao, Satoshi Watauchi, Isao Tanaka, Yoshihiko Takano, and Shik Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167002 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Hund’s Induced Fermi-Liquid Instabilities and Enhanced Quasiparticle Interactions

Luca de’ Medici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167003 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Anomalous Current-Induced Spin Torques in Ferrimagnets near Compensation

Rahul Mishra, Jiawei Yu, Xuepeng Qiu, M. Motapothula, T. Venkatesan, and Hyunsoo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167201 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Translation-Invariant Parent Hamiltonians of Valence Bond Crystals

Daniel Huerga, Andrés Greco, Claudio Gazza, and Alejandro Muramatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167202 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

Bifurcations of Coupled Electron-Phonon Modes in an Antiferromagnet Subjected to a Magnetic Field

K. N. Boldyrev, T. N. Stanislavchuk, A. A. Sirenko, D. Kamenskyi, L. N. Bezmaternykh, and M. N. Popova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167203 (2017) - Published 18 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Environmentally Mediated Coherent Control of a Spin Qubit in Diamond

Scott E. Lillie, David A. Broadway, James D. A. Wood, David A. Simpson, Alastair Stacey, Jean-Philippe Tetienne, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167204 (2017) - Published 19 April, 2017

The state of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy spin qubit is controlled by resonances with neighboring spins, offering a new way to control spin qubits.

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Emergence of Huge Negative Spin-Transfer Torque in Atomically Thin Co layers

Soong-Geun Je, Sang-Cheol Yoo, Joo-Sung Kim, Yong-Keun Park, Min-Ho Park, Joon Moon, Byoung-Chul Min, and Sug-Bong Choe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167205 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Magnetic-Order Crossover in Coupled Spin Ladders

M. Jeong (정민기), H. Mayaffre, C. Berthier, D. Schmidiger, A. Zheludev, and M. Horvatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167206 (2017) - Published 20 April, 2017

Artificial Nonlinearity Generated from Electromagnetic Coupling Metamolecule

Yongzheng Wen and Ji Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167401 (2017) - Published 17 April, 2017

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Spin-Hall Voltage over a Large Length Scale in Bulk Germanium

F. Bottegoni, C. Zucchetti, S. Dal Conte, J. Frigerio, E. Carpene, C. Vergnaud, M. Jamet, G. Isella, F. Ciccacci, G. Cerullo, and M. Finazzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 167402 (2017) - Published 21 April, 2017

Germanium produces a surprisingly large separation of electron spins in response to electric current—good news for spin-based devices, since germanium is highly compatible with silicon.