Volume 118, Issue 22

2 June 2017

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Frequency vs time image at two detectors of gravitational waves from the third observed merger of binary black holes. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

The LIGO collaboration reports its third detection of gravitational waves coming from the merger of two black holes.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Relaxation Decoupling in Metallic Glasses at Low Temperatures

P. Luo, P. Wen, H. Y. Bai, B. Ruta, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 225901 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

Measurements of several metallic glasses under strain reveal that the materials relieve stress through a two-step process that has previously been seen only in “softer” glasses.

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Gas Marbles: Much Stronger than Liquid Marbles

Yousra Timounay, Olivier Pitois, and Florence Rouyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 228001 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

A spherical shell made of plastic microspheres can store pressurized gas in a tiny volume and might be used to stabilize foams or to deliver specialized gases.

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Self-Similar Nanocavity Design with Ultrasmall Mode Volume for Single-Photon Nonlinearities

Hyeongrak Choi, Mikkel Heuck, and Dirk Englund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223605 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

A carefully shaped air gap in a silicon block would concentrate laser light enough to produce photons that interact with one another, even using a weak laser beam, according to theory.

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Statistics of Fractionalized Excitations through Threshold Spectroscopy

Siddhardh C. Morampudi, Ari M. Turner, Frank Pollmann, and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 227201 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Well-established spectroscopic techniques such as neutron scattering could be used to identify anyons in two-dimensional materials.

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Wigner Entropy Production Rate

Jader P. Santos, Gabriel T. Landi, and Mauro Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 220601 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

A proposed theoretical framework for irreversible entropy production is applied to quantum systems in contact with non-equilibrium reservoirs; previous frameworks have been restricted to equilibrium reservoirs.

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Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221803 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

MiniBooNE’s neutrino detector searches for relatively light dark matter particles generated by Fermilab’s proton beam striking a steel target. The experiment yields a new limit on dark matter couplings for masses between 0.08 and 0.3 GeV.

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Dark Vibronic Polaritons and the Spectroscopy of Organic Microcavities

Felipe Herrera and Frank C. Spano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223601 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

A new class of collective excitation is predicted to explain the puzzling difference in magnitude between emission lines and absorption in organic microcavities.

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Quantum Nonlinear Optics with a Germanium-Vacancy Color Center in a Nanoscale Diamond Waveguide

M. K. Bhaskar, D. D. Sukachev, A. Sipahigil, R. E. Evans, M. J. Burek, C. T. Nguyen, L. J. Rogers, P. Siyushev, M. H. Metsch, H. Park, F. Jelezko, M. Lončar, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223603 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

A diamond color center with a germanium defect has superior optical coherence properties over other color centers, with implications for application.

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New Approaches to Coding Information using Inverse Scattering Transform

L. L. Frumin, A. A. Gelash, and S. K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223901 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

A new soliton-based technique is proposed for mitigating nonlinear signal distortions in optical fiber links.

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Universality of the Turbulent Velocity Profile

Paolo Luchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 224501 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Scaling analysis of wall-bounded fluid flow shows that the logarithmic velocity profile for turbulent conditions is universal across different pipe and channel geometries. Any observed differences are due to pressure gradient effects.

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Hydrodynamic Electron Flow and Hall Viscosity

Thomas Scaffidi, Nabhanila Nandi, Burkhard Schmidt, Andrew P. Mackenzie, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 226601 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

A method is proposed for measuring the classical Hall viscosity of an electron gas under a magnetic field, via signatures of hydrodynamic transport.

LETTERS

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

Direct Lattice Shaking of Bose Condensates: Finite Momentum Superfluids

Brandon M. Anderson, Logan W. Clark, Jennifer Crawford, Andreas Glatz, Igor S. Aranson, Peter Scherpelz, Lei Feng, Cheng Chin, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 220401 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Continuous Matrix Product States for Quantum Fields: An Energy Minimization Algorithm

Martin Ganahl, Julián Rincón, and Guifre Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 220402 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Quantum Secure Direct Communication with Quantum Memory

Wei Zhang, Dong-Sheng Ding, Yu-Bo Sheng, Lan Zhou, Bao-Sen Shi, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 220501 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

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Wigner Entropy Production Rate

Jader P. Santos, Gabriel T. Landi, and Mauro Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 220601 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Transient Dissipation and Structural Costs of Physical Information Transduction

Alexander B. Boyd, Dibyendu Mandal, Paul M. Riechers, and James P. Crutchfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 220602 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

The LIGO collaboration reports its third detection of gravitational waves coming from the merger of two black holes.

Test of Special Relativity Using a Fiber Network of Optical Clocks

P. Delva et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221102 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Two- and Three-Dimensional Probes of Parity in Primordial Gravity Waves

Kiyoshi Wesley Masui, Ue-Li Pen, and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221301 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonmaximal $θ_{23}$ Mixing at NOvA from Neutrino Decoherence

João A. B. Coelho, W. Anthony Mann, and Saqib S. Bashar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221801 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

Observation of $ψ (3686) \to e^{+} e^{-} χ_{c J}$ and $χ_{c J} \to e^{+} e^{-} J / ψ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221802 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE-DM Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221803 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order

John M. Campbell, R. Keith Ellis, and Ciaran Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 222001 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Rosenbluth Separation of the $π^{0}$ Electroproduction Cross Section Off the Neutron

M. Mazouz et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 222002 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthally Differential Pion Femtoscopy in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

D. Adamová et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 222301 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Anomalies in the Charge Yields of Fission Fragments from the ${}^{238}{U (n, f)}$ Reaction

J. N. Wilson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 222501 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photoassociation of Trilobite Rydberg Molecules via Resonant Spin-Orbit Coupling

K. S. Kleinbach, F. Meinert, F. Engel, W. J. Kwon, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223001 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dark Vibronic Polaritons and the Spectroscopy of Organic Microcavities

Felipe Herrera and Frank C. Spano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223601 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

A new class of collective excitation is predicted to explain the puzzling difference in magnitude between emission lines and absorption in organic microcavities.

Cooling a Harmonic Oscillator by Optomechanical Modification of Its Bath

Xunnong Xu, Thomas Purdy, and Jacob M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223602 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Nonlinear Optics with a Germanium-Vacancy Color Center in a Nanoscale Diamond Waveguide

M. K. Bhaskar, D. D. Sukachev, A. Sipahigil, R. E. Evans, M. J. Burek, C. T. Nguyen, L. J. Rogers, P. Siyushev, M. H. Metsch, H. Park, F. Jelezko, M. Lončar, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223603 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

A diamond color center with a germanium defect has superior optical coherence properties over other color centers, with implications for application.

Converting Quasiclassical States into Arbitrary Fock State Superpositions in a Superconducting Circuit

W. Wang, L. Hu, Y. Xu, K. Liu, Y. Ma, Shi-Biao Zheng, R. Vijay, Y. P. Song, L.-M. Duan, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223604 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Self-Similar Nanocavity Design with Ultrasmall Mode Volume for Single-Photon Nonlinearities

Hyeongrak Choi, Mikkel Heuck, and Dirk Englund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223605 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

A carefully shaped air gap in a silicon block would concentrate laser light enough to produce photons that interact with one another, even using a weak laser beam, according to theory.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Approaches to Coding Information using Inverse Scattering Transform

L. L. Frumin, A. A. Gelash, and S. K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 223901 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

A new soliton-based technique is proposed for mitigating nonlinear signal distortions in optical fiber links.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universality of the Turbulent Velocity Profile

Paolo Luchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 224501 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Warm Dense Matter Demonstrating Non-Drude Conductivity from Observations of Nonlinear Plasmon Damping

B. B. L. Witte, L. B. Fletcher, E. Galtier, E. Gamboa, H. J. Lee, U. Zastrau, R. Redmer, S. H. Glenzer, and P. Sperling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 225001 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Laboratory Observation of a Plasma-Flow-State Transition from Diverging to Stretching a Magnetic Nozzle

Kazunori Takahashi and Akira Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 225002 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Relaxation Decoupling in Metallic Glasses at Low Temperatures

P. Luo, P. Wen, H. Y. Bai, B. Ruta, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 225901 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

Measurements of several metallic glasses under strain reveal that the materials relieve stress through a two-step process that has previously been seen only in “softer” glasses.

Adatom Extraction from Pristine Metal Terraces by Dissociative Oxygen Adsorption: Combined STM and Density Functional Theory Investigation of $O / Ag (110)$

Jagriti Pal, Takat B. Rawal, Marco Smerieri, Sampyo Hong, Matti Alatalo, Letizia Savio, Luca Vattuone, Talat S. Rahman, and Mario Rocca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 226101 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mott Transition in a Metallic Liquid: Gutzwiller Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Gia-Wei Chern, Kipton Barros, Cristian D. Batista, Joel D. Kress, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 226401 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic Electron Flow and Hall Viscosity

Thomas Scaffidi, Nabhanila Nandi, Burkhard Schmidt, Andrew P. Mackenzie, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 226601 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

A method is proposed for measuring the classical Hall viscosity of an electron gas under a magnetic field, via signatures of hydrodynamic transport.

Odd-Parity Superconductivity near an Inversion Breaking Quantum Critical Point in One Dimension

Jonathan Ruhman, Vladyslav Kozii, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 227001 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Global Phase Diagram of a Three-Dimensional Dirty Topological Superconductor

Bitan Roy, Yahya Alavirad, and Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 227002 (2017) - Published 1 June, 2017

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Statistics of Fractionalized Excitations through Threshold Spectroscopy

Siddhardh C. Morampudi, Ari M. Turner, Frank Pollmann, and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 227201 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Well-established spectroscopic techniques such as neutron scattering could be used to identify anyons in two-dimensional materials.

Photostrictive Two-Dimensional Materials in the Monochalcogenide Family

Raad Haleoot, Charles Paillard, Thaneshwor P. Kaloni, Mehrshad Mehboudi, Bin Xu, L. Bellaiche, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 227401 (2017) - Published 30 May, 2017

Lattice Effects on Nematic Quantum Criticality in Metals

I. Paul and M. Garst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 227601 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

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

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Gas Marbles: Much Stronger than Liquid Marbles

Yousra Timounay, Olivier Pitois, and Florence Rouyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 228001 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017

A spherical shell made of plastic microspheres can store pressurized gas in a tiny volume and might be used to stabilize foams or to deliver specialized gases.

Model of Cell Crawling Controlled by Mechanosensitive Adhesion

M. Leoni and P. Sens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 228101 (2017) - Published 31 May, 2017

Chaotic Model for Lévy Walks in Swarming Bacteria

Gil Ariel, Avraham Be’er, and Andy Reynolds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 228102 (2017) - Published 2 June, 2017