Volume 118, Issue 17

28 April 2017

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Angle-resolved photoemission intensity map of LiCu₂O₂ at a constant energy of −1.75 eV.

From the article:

Electronic Phase Separation and Dramatic Inverse Band Renormalization in the Mixed-Valence Cuprate ${LiCu}_{2} O_{2}$
S. Moser, Y. Nomura, L. Moreschini, G. Gatti, H. Berger, P. Bugnon, A. Magrez, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, S. Biermann, and M. Grioni
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176404 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Sisyphus Laser Cooling of a Polyatomic Molecule

Ivan Kozyryev, Louis Baum, Kyle Matsuda, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Loic Anderegg, Alexander P. Sedlack, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173201 (2017) - Published 24 April, 2017

The successful laser cooling of a triatomic molecule paves the way towards the study of ultracold polyatomic molecules.

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Realization of a Cascaded Quantum System: Heralded Absorption of a Single Photon Qubit by a Single-Electron Charged Quantum Dot

Aymeric Delteil, Zhe Sun, Stefan Fält, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177401 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Researchers have transferred quantum information from one quantum dot to another dot 5 m away using photonic qubits as the relay.

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Charge-Induced Force Noise on Free-Falling Test Masses: Results from LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano et al. (LISA Pathfinder Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 171101 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Measurements of electrostatic forces on free-falling test masses–2 kg metal cubes–are carried out for the first time in an environment constructed for space-based gravitational wave detectors (a spacecraft 1.5 million km away from Earth).

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Bound States and Field-Polarized Haldane Modes in a Quantum Spin Ladder

S. Ward, M. Mena, P. Bouillot, C. Kollath, T. Giamarchi, K. P. Schmidt, B. Normand, K. W. Krämer, D. Biner, R. Bewley, T. Guidi, M. Boehm, D. F. McMorrow, and Ch. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177202 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Singlet and triplet excitations are created in the spin ladder bis-piperidinium copper tetrachloride by applying a high magnetic field.

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Spectrum of the Nuclear Environment for GaAs Spin Qubits

Filip K. Malinowski, Frederico Martins, Łukasz Cywiński, Mark S. Rudner, Peter D. Nissen, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177702 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

The nuclear spin noise in a GaAs spin qubit is described by a classical spin diffusion model in both the high- and low-field regime, a result which calls for revisiting the numerical methods used to characterize these spin dynamics.

LETTERS

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

Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Two-Dimensional Fermionic Mott-Insulating and Metallic Phases

J. H. Drewes, L. A. Miller, E. Cocchi, C. F. Chan, N. Wurz, M. Gall, D. Pertot, F. Brennecke, and M. Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 170401 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Topological Phases of Parafermions: A Model with Exactly Solvable Ground States

Fernando Iemini, Christophe Mora, and Leonardo Mazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 170402 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Anderson Localization of Ultracold Atoms: Where is the Mobility Edge?

Michael Pasek, Giuliano Orso, and Dominique Delande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 170403 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Improved Sensing with a Single Qubit

P. Sekatski, M. Skotiniotis, and W. Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 170801 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Charge-Induced Force Noise on Free-Falling Test Masses: Results from LISA Pathfinder

M. Armano et al. (LISA Pathfinder Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 171101 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Searching for Axionlike Particles with Ultraperipheral Heavy-Ion Collisions

Simon Knapen, Tongyan Lin, Hou Keong Lou, and Tom Melia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 171801 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Probing $C P$ Violation in $h \to τ^{-} τ^{+}$ at the LHC

Kaoru Hagiwara, Kai Ma, and Shingo Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 171802 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Effect of Compactified Dimensions and Background Magnetic Fields on the Phase Structure of $S U (N)$ Gauge Theories

Massimo D’Elia and Marco Mariti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 172001 (2017) - Published 24 April, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Observation of the Isovector Giant Monopole Resonance via the ${}^{28}{Si} ({}^{10}{Be}, {}^{10}{B^{*}} [1.74 MeV])$ Reaction at $100 A MeV$

M. Scott et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 172501 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sisyphus Laser Cooling of a Polyatomic Molecule

Ivan Kozyryev, Louis Baum, Kyle Matsuda, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Loic Anderegg, Alexander P. Sedlack, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173201 (2017) - Published 24 April, 2017

The successful laser cooling of a triatomic molecule paves the way towards the study of ultracold polyatomic molecules.

Intense-Laser Solid State Physics: Unraveling the Difference between Semiconductors and Dielectrics

C. R. McDonald, G. Vampa, P. B. Corkum, and T. Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173601 (2017) - Published 24 April, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ideal Magnetic Dipole Scattering

Tianhua Feng, Yi Xu, Wei Zhang, and Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173901 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Giant Thermal Magnetoresistance in Plasmonic Structures

Ivan Latella and Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173902 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Nonexponential Decoherence and Subdiffusion in Atom-Optics Kicked Rotor

Sumit Sarkar, Sanku Paul, Chetan Vishwakarma, Sunil Kumar, Gunjan Verma, M. Sainath, Umakant D. Rapol, and M. S. Santhanam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 174101 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Incoherence-Mediated Remote Synchronization

Liyue Zhang, Adilson E. Motter, and Takashi Nishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 174102 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

$P T$ -Symmetric Scattering in Flow Duct Acoustics

Yves Aurégan and Vincent Pagneux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 174301 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Mitigation of the Hose Instability in Plasma-Wakefield Accelerators

T. J. Mehrling, R. A. Fonseca, A. Martinez de la Ossa, and J. Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 174801 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Fast Low-to-High Confinement Mode Bifurcation Dynamics in a Tokamak Edge Plasma Gyrokinetic Simulation

C. S. Chang, S. Ku, G. R. Tynan, R. Hager, R. M. Churchill, I. Cziegler, M. Greenwald, A. E. Hubbard, and J. W. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 175001 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Electron-Scale Quadrants of the Hall Magnetic Field Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft during Asymmetric Reconnection

Rongsheng Wang, Rumi Nakamura, Quanming Lu, Wolfgang Baumjohann, R. E. Ergun, J. L. Burch, Martin Volwerk, Ali Varsani, Takuma Nakamura, Walter Gonzalez, Barbara Giles, Dan Gershman, and Shui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 175101 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Interaction-Driven Shift and Distortion of a Flat Band in an Optical Lieb Lattice

Hideki Ozawa, Shintaro Taie, Tomohiro Ichinose, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 175301 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Ab Initio Green-Kubo Approach for the Thermal Conductivity of Solids

Christian Carbogno, Rampi Ramprasad, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 175901 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Antiferroquadrupolar Order and Rotational Symmetry Breaking in a Generalized Bilinear-Biquadratic Model on a Square Lattice

Hsin-Hua Lai, Wen-Jun Hu, Emilian M. Nica, Rong Yu, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176401 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Single Nodal Loop of Accidental Degeneracies in Minimal Symmetry: Triclinic ${CaAs}_{3}$

Y. Quan, Z. P. Yin, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176402 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Projector Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Nonlinear Wave Functions

Lauretta R. Schwarz, A. Alavi, and George H. Booth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176403 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Electronic Phase Separation and Dramatic Inverse Band Renormalization in the Mixed-Valence Cuprate ${LiCu}_{2} O_{2}$

S. Moser, Y. Nomura, L. Moreschini, G. Gatti, H. Berger, P. Bugnon, A. Magrez, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, S. Biermann, and M. Grioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176404 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Anomalous de Haas–van Alphen Effect in $InAs / GaSb$ Quantum Wells

Johannes Knolle and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176801 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Supercurrents in Unidirectional Channels Originate from Information Transfer in the Opposite Direction: A Theoretical Prediction

Xiao-Li Huang and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177001 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Spontaneous Orbital-Selective Mott Transitions and the Jahn-Teller Metal of $A_{3} C_{60}$

Shintaro Hoshino and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177002 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Topological Magnon Bands and Unconventional Superconductivity in Pyrochlore Iridate Thin Films

Pontus Laurell and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177201 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bound States and Field-Polarized Haldane Modes in a Quantum Spin Ladder

S. Ward, M. Mena, P. Bouillot, C. Kollath, T. Giamarchi, K. P. Schmidt, B. Normand, K. W. Krämer, D. Biner, R. Bewley, T. Guidi, M. Boehm, D. F. McMorrow, and Ch. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177202 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Singlet and triplet excitations are created in the spin ladder bis-piperidinium copper tetrachloride by applying a high magnetic field.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realization of a Cascaded Quantum System: Heralded Absorption of a Single Photon Qubit by a Single-Electron Charged Quantum Dot

Aymeric Delteil, Zhe Sun, Stefan Fält, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177401 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

Researchers have transferred quantum information from one quantum dot to another dot 5 m away using photonic qubits as the relay.

Evidence for a Nematic Phase in ${La}_{1.75} {Sr}_{0.25} {NiO}_{4}$

Ruidan Zhong, Barry L. Winn, Genda Gu, Dmitry Reznik, and J. M. Tranquada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177601 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

Hyperfine and Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects on Decay of Spin-Valley States in a Carbon Nanotube

T. Pei, A. Pályi, M. Mergenthaler, N. Ares, A. Mavalankar, J. H. Warner, G. A. D. Briggs, and E. A. Laird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177701 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

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Spectrum of the Nuclear Environment for GaAs Spin Qubits

Filip K. Malinowski, Frederico Martins, Łukasz Cywiński, Mark S. Rudner, Peter D. Nissen, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177702 (2017) - Published 28 April, 2017

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

Slip Morphology of Elastic Strips on Frictional Rigid Substrates

Tomohiko G. Sano, Tetsuo Yamaguchi, and Hirofumi Wada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 178001 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017

Fast Diffusion of Long Guest Rods in a Lamellar Phase of Short Host Particles

Laura Alvarez, M. Paul Lettinga, and Eric Grelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 178002 (2017) - Published 25 April, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Probing the Scale Invariance of the Inflationary Power Spectrum in Expanding Quasi-Two-Dimensional Dipolar Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 130404 (2017)]

Seok-Yeong Chä and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 179901 (2017) - Published 26 April, 2017