Volume 118, Issue 24

16 June 2017

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On the Cover

Strain field distribution of hot-pressed caged skutterudite crystals.

From the article:

Filling-Fraction Fluctuation Leading to Glasslike Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Caged Skutterudites
Ren Wei, Geng Huiyuan, Zhang Zihao, and Zhang Lixia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245901 (2017)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Supplemental Material or Joint Submission?

Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 240001 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem via Correlations Measured with a Momentum Microscope

S. S. Hodgman, R. I. Khakimov, R. J. Lewis-Swan, A. G. Truscott, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 240402 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

A microscope that images the momenta of atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate could solve quantum many-body problems

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Real-Time Observation of Internal Motion within Ultrafast Dissipative Optical Soliton Molecules

Katarzyna Krupa, K. Nithyanandan, Ugo Andral, Patrice Tchofo-Dinda, and Philippe Grelu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243901 (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

Pairs of solitons traveling in an optical fiber behave like a vibrating molecule.

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Signature of the Spin-Nematic Phase in ${LiCuVO}_{4}$ at High Magnetic Fields

A. Orlova, E. L. Green, J. M. Law, D. I. Gorbunov, G. Chanda, S. Krämer, M. Horvatić, R. K. Kremer, J. Wosnitza, and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 247201 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements strengthen the case that spins in a copper oxide exhibit nematic order similar to that found in liquid crystals.

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Dimensional, Geometrical, and Physical Constraints in Skull Growth

Johannes Weickenmeier, Cedric Fischer, Dennis Carter, Ellen Kuhl, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 248101 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

A model predicts skull growth patterns based on mechanical effects, rather than biology, and could help surgeons treating patients with head growth problems.

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Observation of Topological Bloch-State Defects and Their Merging Transition

Matthias Tarnowski, Marlon Nuske, Nick Fläschner, Benno Rem, Dominik Vogel, Lukas Freystatzky, Klaus Sengstock, Ludwig Mathey, and Christof Weitenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 240403 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

A new method is proposed and demonstrated for detecting topological phenomena in cold atoms confined in optical lattices.

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Ultrafast Magnetization of a Dense Molecular Gas with an Optical Centrifuge

A. A. Milner, A. Korobenko, and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243201 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

The electronic spin of paramagnetic molecules is controlled by manipulating their rotation, polarizing them. This technique should be applicable to many other paramagnetic molecules.

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Nonlinear Surface Lattice Resonance in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays

Lior Michaeli, Shay Keren-Zur, Ori Avayu, Haim Suchowski, and Tal Ellenbogen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243904 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

A 30-fold increase in second harmonic emission is reported from an array of split-ring resonators. The enhancement is attributed to two sources: the Rayleigh-Wood anomaly and a collective surface lattice resonance mode.

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Infrared Topological Plasmons in Graphene

Dafei Jin, Thomas Christensen, Marin Soljačić, Nicholas X. Fang, Ling Lu, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245301 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Periodically patterned graphene is predicted to host a new class of high-frequency, unidirectional, topological, edge magnetoplasmons.

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Scaling of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect as an Indicator of Axion Electrodynamics

S. Grauer, K. M. Fijalkowski, S. Schreyeck, M. Winnerlein, K. Brunner, R. Thomale, C. Gould, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 246801 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Evidence of axionic insulating behavior is shown in thin topological insulator films via analysis of conductivity flow diagrams. As film thickness increases, the flow changes from a two-dimensional integer quantum Hall regime to one consistent with an axion insulator.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Zeno Effects from Measurement Controlled Qubit-Bath Interactions

P. M. Harrington, J. T. Monroe, and K. W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 240401 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

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Solving the Quantum Many-Body Problem via Correlations Measured with a Momentum Microscope

S. S. Hodgman, R. I. Khakimov, R. J. Lewis-Swan, A. G. Truscott, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 240402 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

A microscope that images the momenta of atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate could solve quantum many-body problems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Topological Bloch-State Defects and Their Merging Transition

Matthias Tarnowski, Marlon Nuske, Nick Fläschner, Benno Rem, Dominik Vogel, Lukas Freystatzky, Klaus Sengstock, Ludwig Mathey, and Christof Weitenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 240403 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

A new method is proposed and demonstrated for detecting topological phenomena in cold atoms confined in optical lattices.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Searching for Primordial Black Holes in the Radio and X-Ray Sky

Daniele Gaggero, Gianfranco Bertone, Francesca Calore, Riley M. T. Connors, Mark Lovell, Sera Markoff, and Emma Storm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 241101 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Long-Range Critical Exponents near the Short-Range Crossover

Connor Behan, Leonardo Rastelli, Slava Rychkov, and Bernardo Zan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 241601 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Nucleon Structure Functions from Operator Product Expansion on the Lattice

A. J. Chambers, R. Horsley, Y. Nakamura, H. Perlt, P. E. L. Rakow, G. Schierholz, A. Schiller, K. Somfleth, R. D. Young, and J. M. Zanotti (QCDSF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 242001 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Beam-Target Helicity Asymmetry for $\vec{γ} \vec{n} \to π^{-} p$ in the $N^{*}$ Resonance Region

D. Ho et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 242002 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Shape Evolution in Neutron-Rich Krypton Isotopes Beyond $N = 60$ : First Spectroscopy of ${}^{98, 100}{Kr}$

F. Flavigny et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 242501 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

Shell Evolution towards ${}^{78}{Ni}$ : Low-Lying States in ${}^{77}{Cu}$

E. Sahin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 242502 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Local Equation for the Exact Optimized Effective Potential in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Sheng-Lun Liao, Tak-San Ho, Herschel Rabitz, and Shih-I Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243001 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrafast Magnetization of a Dense Molecular Gas with an Optical Centrifuge

A. A. Milner, A. Korobenko, and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243201 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

The electronic spin of paramagnetic molecules is controlled by manipulating their rotation, polarizing them. This technique should be applicable to many other paramagnetic molecules.

Quantum Synchronization Blockade: Energy Quantization Hinders Synchronization of Identical Oscillators

Niels Lörch, Simon E. Nigg, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Rakesh P. Tiwari, and Christoph Bruder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243602 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Real-Time Observation of Internal Motion within Ultrafast Dissipative Optical Soliton Molecules

Katarzyna Krupa, K. Nithyanandan, Ugo Andral, Patrice Tchofo-Dinda, and Philippe Grelu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243901 (2017) - Published 13 June, 2017

Pairs of solitons traveling in an optical fiber behave like a vibrating molecule.

X-ray Phase-Contrast Radiography and Tomography with a Multiaperture Analyzer

M. Endrizzi, F. A. Vittoria, L. Rigon, D. Dreossi, F. Iacoviello, P. R. Shearing, and A. Olivo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243902 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

Light Meets Water in Nonlocal Media: Surface Tension Analogue in Optics

Theodoros P. Horikis and Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243903 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Surface Lattice Resonance in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays

Lior Michaeli, Shay Keren-Zur, Ori Avayu, Haim Suchowski, and Tal Ellenbogen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 243904 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Adiabatic Invariant Approach to Transverse Instability: Landau Dynamics of Soliton Filaments

P. G. Kevrekidis, Wenlong Wang, R. Carretero-González, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 244101 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Adsorption-Mediated Mass Streaming in a Standing Acoustic Wave

Oren Weltsch, Avshalom Offner, Dan Liberzon, and Guy Z. Ramon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 244301 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ion Motion Induced Emittance Growth of Matched Electron Beams in Plasma Wakefields

Weiming An, Wei Lu, Chengkun Huang, Xinlu Xu, Mark J. Hogan, Chan Joshi, and Warren B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 244801 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Nuno F. Loureiro and Stanislav Boldyrev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245101 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Infrared Topological Plasmons in Graphene

Dafei Jin, Thomas Christensen, Marin Soljačić, Nicholas X. Fang, Ling Lu, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245301 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Periodically patterned graphene is predicted to host a new class of high-frequency, unidirectional, topological, edge magnetoplasmons.

Novel Superhard $s p^{3}$ Carbon Allotrope from Cold-Compressed $C_{70}$ Peapods

Xigui Yang, Mingguang Yao, Xiangying Wu, Shijie Liu, Shuanglong Chen, Ke Yang, Ran Liu, Tian Cui, Bertil Sundqvist, and Bingbing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245701 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Filling-Fraction Fluctuation Leading to Glasslike Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Caged Skutterudites

Ren Wei, Geng Huiyuan, Zhang Zihao, and Zhang Lixia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 245901 (2017) - Published 14 June, 2017

Time Strengthening of Crystal Nanocontacts

Juan J. Mazo, Dirk Dietzel, Andre Schirmeisen, J. G. Vilhena, and Enrico Gnecco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 246101 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Multiple-Quantum Transitions and Charge-Induced Decoherence of Donor Nuclear Spins in Silicon

David P. Franke, Moritz P. D. Pflüger, Kohei M. Itoh, and Martin S. Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 246401 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Nonequilibrium $G W + EDMFT$ : Antiscreening and Inverted Populations from Nonlocal Correlations

Denis Golež, Lewin Boehnke, Hugo U. R. Strand, Martin Eckstein, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 246402 (2017) - Published 15 June, 2017

Kondo Insulator to Semimetal Transformation Tuned by Spin-Orbit Coupling

S. Dzsaber, L. Prochaska, A. Sidorenko, G. Eguchi, R. Svagera, M. Waas, A. Prokofiev, Q. Si, and S. Paschen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 246601 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect as an Indicator of Axion Electrodynamics

S. Grauer, K. M. Fijalkowski, S. Schreyeck, M. Winnerlein, K. Brunner, R. Thomale, C. Gould, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 246801 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Signature of the Spin-Nematic Phase in ${LiCuVO}_{4}$ at High Magnetic Fields

A. Orlova, E. L. Green, J. M. Law, D. I. Gorbunov, G. Chanda, S. Krämer, M. Horvatić, R. K. Kremer, J. Wosnitza, and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 247201 (2017) - Published 12 June, 2017

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements strengthen the case that spins in a copper oxide exhibit nematic order similar to that found in liquid crystals.

Probing Phase Coupling Between Two Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillators with an External Source

Yi Li, Xavier de Milly, Flavio Abreu Araujo, Olivier Klein, Vincent Cros, Julie Grollier, and Grégoire de Loubens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 247202 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Skyrmion Knots in Frustrated Magnets

Paul Sutcliffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 247203 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

Ultrafast Formation of a Charge Density Wave State in $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ : Observation at Nanometer Scales Using Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction

C. Laulhé, T. Huber, G. Lantz, A. Ferrer, S. O. Mariager, S. Grübel, J. Rittmann, J. A. Johnson, V. Esposito, A. Lübcke, L. Huber, M. Kubli, M. Savoini, V. L. R. Jacques, L. Cario, B. Corraze, E. Janod, G. Ingold, P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, and S. Ravy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 247401 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

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

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Dimensional, Geometrical, and Physical Constraints in Skull Growth

Johannes Weickenmeier, Cedric Fischer, Dennis Carter, Ellen Kuhl, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 248101 (2017) - Published 16 June, 2017

A model predicts skull growth patterns based on mechanical effects, rather than biology, and could help surgeons treating patients with head growth problems.