Volume 118, Issue 19

12 May 2017

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Top view of marked manufactured particles confined to a flower-shaped wall and placed on a vibrating horizontal table. Traces of the motion of a few particles are overlaid in different colors. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and for a Focus story in Physics.

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Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Driven Two-Dimensional Granular Gas
Christian Scholz and Thorsten Pöschel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198003 (2017)

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Possible Dark Matter Annihilation Signal in the AMS-02 Antiproton Data

Ming-Yang Cui (崔明阳), Qiang Yuan (袁强), Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, and Yi-Zhong Fan (范一中)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 191101 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Recently released data on cosmic-ray antiprotons may contain hints of dark matter, as revealed by two new analyses.

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Novel Dark Matter Constraints from Antiprotons in Light of AMS-02

Alessandro Cuoco, Michael Krämer, and Michael Korsmeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 191102 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Recently released data on cosmic-ray antiprotons may contain hints of dark matter, as revealed by two new analyses.

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Study of $J / ψ$ Production in Jets

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192001 (2017) - Published 8 May, 2017

A study of $J / ψ$ production in jets reveals the weaknesses of a widely used method of simulating high-energy particle collisions.

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Liquid Droplets Act as “Compass Needles” for the Stresses in a Deformable Membrane

Rafael D. Schulman, René Ledesma-Alonso, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198002 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

A liquid drop’s shape can be used to detect tension anisotropies in an underlying elastic membrane.

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Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Driven Two-Dimensional Granular Gas

Christian Scholz and Thorsten Pöschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198003 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

Measurements of a two-dimensional “gas” made up of particles that spin when shaken bolsters a gas-like theory for granular materials.

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Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Branching Fraction and Effective Lifetime and Search for $B^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 191801 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

The LHCb Collaboration reports the first observation of the $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ decay from a single experiment. The result is the the most precise measurement of its branching fraction to date.

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Bloch Waves in Minimal Landau Gauge and the Infinite-Volume Limit of Lattice Gauge Theory

Attilio Cucchieri and Tereza Mendes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192002 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Bloch’s theorem for electrons in crystalline solids is used in numerical simulations of gauge theories to extrapolate simulations on small number of lattice sites to infinite sites, improving the simulation efficiency.

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Oxysulfide LiAlSO: A Lithium Superionic Conductor from First Principles

Xuelong Wang, Ruijuan Xiao, Hong Li, and Liquan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 195901 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

A candidate for a potentially superior lithium battery material is identified by crystal structure calculations.

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Density-Functional Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Jianyun Zhao, Manisha Thakurathi, Manish Jain, Diptiman Sen, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 196802 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

An alternative DFT approach on fractional quantum Hall systems uses composite fermions rather than electrons, thus sidestepping the problem of fractional orbital occupation.

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Ultrafast Reversal of the Ferroelectric Polarization

R. Mankowsky, A. von Hoegen, M. Först, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197601 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

The ferroelectric polarization in LiNbO $_{3}$ is transiently reversed with ultrashort optical pulses. The reversal is induced for both directions.

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Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimenting Brownian Particles

Johannes Möller and Theyencheri Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198001 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

During the early stages of sedimentation, synchrotron x-ray studies show that Brownian particles flow similarly to non-Brownian suspensions before Brownian motion takes over.

LETTERS

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

Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates with Helicoidal Spin-Orbit Coupling

Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Vladimir V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 190401 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Time-Bin-Encoded Boson Sampling with a Single-Photon Device

Yu He, X. Ding, Z.-E. Su, H.-L. Huang, J. Qin, C. Wang, S. Unsleber, C. Chen, H. Wang, Y.-M. He, X.-L. Wang, W.-J. Zhang, S.-J. Chen, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, L.-X. You, Z. Wang, S. Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 190501 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

Experimental Demonstration of a Cheap and Accurate Phase Estimation

Kenneth Rudinger, Shelby Kimmel, Daniel Lobser, and Peter Maunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 190502 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Inductive Supervised Quantum Learning

Alex Monràs, Gael Sentís, and Peter Wittek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 190503 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

Typical Relaxation of Isolated Many-Body Systems Which Do Not Thermalize

Ben N. Balz and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 190601 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Possible Dark Matter Annihilation Signal in the AMS-02 Antiproton Data

Ming-Yang Cui (崔明阳), Qiang Yuan (袁强), Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, and Yi-Zhong Fan (范一中)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 191101 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Recently released data on cosmic-ray antiprotons may contain hints of dark matter, as revealed by two new analyses.

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Novel Dark Matter Constraints from Antiprotons in Light of AMS-02

Alessandro Cuoco, Michael Krämer, and Michael Korsmeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 191102 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Recently released data on cosmic-ray antiprotons may contain hints of dark matter, as revealed by two new analyses.

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Branching Fraction and Effective Lifetime and Search for $B^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 191801 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Study of $J / ψ$ Production in Jets

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192001 (2017) - Published 8 May, 2017

A study of $J / ψ$ production in jets reveals the weaknesses of a widely used method of simulating high-energy particle collisions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bloch Waves in Minimal Landau Gauge and the Infinite-Volume Limit of Lattice Gauge Theory

Attilio Cucchieri and Tereza Mendes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192002 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Numerical Study of Nonperturbative Corrections to the Chiral Separation Effect in Quenched Finite-Density QCD

Matthias Puhr and P. V. Buividovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192003 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

Hunting the Gluon Orbital Angular Momentum at the Electron-Ion Collider

Xiangdong Ji, Feng Yuan, and Yong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192004 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Universal Self-Similar Scaling of Spatial Wilson Loops Out of Equilibrium

J. Berges, M. Mace, and S. Schlichting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192005 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Experimental Determination of $η / s$ for Finite Nuclear Matter

Debasish Mondal, Deepak Pandit, S. Mukhopadhyay, Surajit Pal, Balaram Dey, Srijit Bhattacharya, A. De, Soumik Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya, Pratap Roy, K. Banerjee, and S. R. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192501 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhanced Chiral Discriminatory van der Waals Interactions Mediated by Chiral Surfaces

Pablo Barcellona, Hassan Safari, A. Salam, and Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 193401 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dispersive Time-Delay Dynamical Systems

Alexander Pimenov, Svetlana Slepneva, Guillaume Huyet, and Andrei G. Vladimirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 193901 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Strain-Induced Gauge Field and Landau Levels in Acoustic Structures

Zhaoju Yang, Fei Gao, Yahui Yang, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 194301 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Electron Streaming Instabilities Modulate Proton Beams Accelerated in Laser-Plasma Interactions

S. Göde, C. Rödel, K. Zeil, R. Mishra, M. Gauthier, F.-E. Brack, T. Kluge, M. J. MacDonald, J. Metzkes, L. Obst, M. Rehwald, C. Ruyer, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, W. Schumaker, P. Sommer, T. E. Cowan, U. Schramm, S. Glenzer, and F. Fiuza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 194801 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Overestimation of Viscosity by the Green-Kubo Method in a Dusty Plasma Experiment

Zach Haralson and J. Goree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 195001 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Strength and Viscosity Effects on Perturbed Shock Front Stability in Metals

S. Opie, E. Loomis, P. Peralta, T. Shimada, and R. P. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 195501 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

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Oxysulfide LiAlSO: A Lithium Superionic Conductor from First Principles

Xuelong Wang, Ruijuan Xiao, Hong Li, and Liquan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 195901 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

A candidate for a potentially superior lithium battery material is identified by crystal structure calculations.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Density Propagator for Many-Body Localization: Finite-Size Effects, Transient Subdiffusion, and Exponential Decay

Soumya Bera, Giuseppe De Tomasi, Felix Weiner, and Ferdinand Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 196801 (2017) - Published 8 May, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-Functional Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Jianyun Zhao, Manisha Thakurathi, Manish Jain, Diptiman Sen, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 196802 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

An alternative DFT approach on fractional quantum Hall systems uses composite fermions rather than electrons, thus sidestepping the problem of fractional orbital occupation.

Quantum Fluctuations along Symmetry Crossover in a Kondo-Correlated Quantum Dot

Meydi Ferrier, Tomonori Arakawa, Tokuro Hata, Ryo Fujiwara, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Richard Deblock, Yoshimichi Teratani, Rui Sakano, Akira Oguri, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 196803 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

Resonances in the Field-Angle-Resolved Thermal Conductivity of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

Duk Y. Kim, Shi-Zeng Lin, Franziska Weickert, Eric D. Bauer, Filip Ronning, J. D. Thompson, and Roman Movshovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197001 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

Double-Quantum Spin-Relaxation Limits to Coherence of Near-Surface Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

B. A. Myers, A. Ariyaratne, and A. C. Bleszynski Jayich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197201 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Theory of Magnetic Ordering in the Heavy Rare Earths: Ab Initio Electronic Origin of Pair- and Four-Spin Interactions

Eduardo Mendive-Tapia and Julie B. Staunton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197202 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

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Ultrafast Reversal of the Ferroelectric Polarization

R. Mankowsky, A. von Hoegen, M. Först, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197601 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

The ferroelectric polarization in LiNbO $_{3}$ is transiently reversed with ultrashort optical pulses. The reversal is induced for both directions.

Zero-Phase-Difference Josephson Current Based on Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking via Parametric Excitation of a Movable Superconducting Dot

A. M. Eriksson and A. Vikström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197701 (2017) - Published 10 May, 2017

Topologically Enforced Bifurcations in Superconducting Circuits

G. Engelhardt, M. Benito, G. Platero, and T. Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 197702 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

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

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Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimenting Brownian Particles

Johannes Möller and Theyencheri Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198001 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

During the early stages of sedimentation, synchrotron x-ray studies show that Brownian particles flow similarly to non-Brownian suspensions before Brownian motion takes over.

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Liquid Droplets Act as “Compass Needles” for the Stresses in a Deformable Membrane

Rafael D. Schulman, René Ledesma-Alonso, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198002 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017

A liquid drop’s shape can be used to detect tension anisotropies in an underlying elastic membrane.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Driven Two-Dimensional Granular Gas

Christian Scholz and Thorsten Pöschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 198003 (2017) - Published 12 May, 2017

Measurements of a two-dimensional “gas” made up of particles that spin when shaken bolsters a gas-like theory for granular materials.

ERRATA

Erratum: Realization of the Dicke Model Using Cavity-Assisted Raman Transitions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 020408 (2014)]

Markus P. Baden, Kyle J. Arnold, Arne L. Grimsmo, Scott Parkins, and Murray D. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 199901 (2017) - Published 9 May, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Electronic Phase Separation and Dramatic Inverse Band Renormalization in the Mixed-Valence Cuprate ${LiCu}_{2} O_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 176404 (2017)]

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, 199902 (2017) - Published 11 May, 2017