Volume 118, Issue 25

23 June 2017

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Molecular spin transistor with TbPc₂ molecule embedded between two gold tips.

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Landau-Zener Transition in a Continuously Measured Single-Molecule Spin Transistor
F. Troiani, C. Godfrin, S. Thiele, F. Balestro, W. Wernsdorfer, S. Klyatskaya, M. Ruben, and M. Affronte
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 257701 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251801 (2017) - Published 19 June, 2017

The Daya Bay Collaboration reports that sterile neutrinos probably aren’t behind a puzzling deficit in detected antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Dispersive Dam-Break Flow of a Photon Fluid

Gang Xu, Matteo Conforti, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 254101 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

High-intensity photon beams exhibit behavior reminiscent of water flowing after a dam collapses.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multispecies Trapped-Ion Node for Quantum Networking

I. V. Inlek, C. Crocker, M. Lichtman, K. Sosnova, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 250502 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

For the first time, ion-photon entanglement and two-quibit gating, two operations necessary for realizing fully functioning quantum computing nodes, are realized in the same experiment.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dark Matter Search Results from the $PICO − 60 C_{3} F_{8}$ Bubble Chamber

C. Amole et al. (PICO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251301 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

The best limits, to date, on WIMP spin-dependent interactions with protons and neutrons are obtained by the PICO and LUX collaborations, respectively.

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Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section Obtained from the Complete LUX Exposure

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251302 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

The best limits, to date, on WIMP spin-dependent interactions with protons and neutrons are obtained by the PICO and LUX collaborations, respectively.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extremely Large Magnetoresistance in a Topological Semimetal Candidate Pyrite ${PtBi}_{2}$

Wenshuai Gao, Ningning Hao, Fa-Wei Zheng, Wei Ning, Min Wu, Xiangde Zhu, Guolin Zheng, Jinglei Zhang, Jianwei Lu, Hongwei Zhang, Chuanying Xi, Jiyong Yang, Haifeng Du, Ping Zhang, Yuheng Zhang, and Mingliang Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 256601 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

A magnetoresistance of 11.2 million percent is observed in PtBi $_{2}$ single crystals at a temperature of 1.8 K, a value projected to be higher than previously reported for Dirac materials at 60 T.

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Controlling the Topological Sector of Magnetic Solitons in Exfoliated ${Cr}_{1 / 3} {NbS}_{2}$ Crystals

L. Wang, N. Chepiga, D.-K. Ki, L. Li, F. Li, W. Zhu, Y. Kato, O. S. Ovchinnikova, F. Mila, I. Martin, D. Mandrus, and A. F. Morpurgo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 257203 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Film thickness dependent changes in the topological properties of magnetic solitons are tracked via magnetotransport measurements in exfoliated crystals of the monoaxial chiral helimagnet Cr $_{1 / 3}$ NbS $_{2}$ .

LETTERS

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

Device-Independent Tests of Quantum Measurements

Michele Dall’Arno, Sarah Brandsen, Francesco Buscemi, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 250501 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multispecies Trapped-Ion Node for Quantum Networking

I. V. Inlek, C. Crocker, M. Lichtman, K. Sosnova, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 250502 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

For the first time, ion-photon entanglement and two-quibit gating, two operations necessary for realizing fully functioning quantum computing nodes, are realized in the same experiment.

Exact Results for Quenched Bond Randomness at Criticality

Gesualdo Delfino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 250601 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Renormalization Group Flows of Hamiltonians Using Tensor Networks

M. Bal, M. Mariën, J. Haegeman, and F. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 250602 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Selection Rule for Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation

Anirban Das and Basudeb Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251101 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dark Matter Search Results from the $PICO − 60 C_{3} F_{8}$ Bubble Chamber

C. Amole et al. (PICO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251301 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

The best limits, to date, on WIMP spin-dependent interactions with protons and neutrons are obtained by the PICO and LUX collaborations, respectively.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section Obtained from the Complete LUX Exposure

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251302 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

The best limits, to date, on WIMP spin-dependent interactions with protons and neutrons are obtained by the PICO and LUX collaborations, respectively.

Elementary Particles and Fields

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251801 (2017) - Published 19 June, 2017

The Daya Bay Collaboration reports that sterile neutrinos probably aren’t behind a puzzling deficit in detected antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

Search for the Decays $B_{s}^{0} \to τ^{+} τ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to τ^{+} τ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 251802 (2017) - Published 21 June, 2017

Exploratory Lattice QCD Study of the Rare Kaon Decay $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν \bar{ν}$

Ziyuan Bai, Norman H. Christ, Xu Feng, Andrew Lawson, Antonin Portelli, and Christopher T. Sachrajda (RBC-UKQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 252001 (2017) - Published 21 June, 2017

Top-Bottom Interference Effects in Higgs Plus Jet Production at the LHC

Jonas M. Lindert, Kirill Melnikov, Lorenzo Tancredi, and Christopher Wever

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 252002 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Electric Dipole Polarizability of ${}^{48}{Ca}$ and Implications for the Neutron Skin

J. Birkhan, M. Miorelli, S. Bacca, S. Bassauer, C. A. Bertulani, G. Hagen, H. Matsubara, P. von Neumann-Cosel, T. Papenbrock, N. Pietralla, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, A. Schwenk, and A. Tamii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 252501 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Recoil Inversion in the Photodissociation of Carbonyl Sulfide near 234 nm

Dimitris Sofikitis, Jaime Suarez, Johan A. Schmidt, T. Peter Rakitzis, Stavros C. Farantos, and Maurice H. M. Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 253001 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Single-Photon Interference due to Motion in an Atomic Collective Excitation

D. J. Whiting, N. Šibalić, J. Keaveney, C. S. Adams, and I. G. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 253601 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

Reducing Phonon-Induced Decoherence in Solid-State Single-Photon Sources with Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

T. Grange, N. Somaschi, C. Antón, L. De Santis, G. Coppola, V. Giesz, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, A. Auffèves, and P. Senellart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 253602 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Coherent Transfer between Low-Angular-Momentum and Circular Rydberg States

A. Signoles, E. K. Dietsche, A. Facon, D. Grosso, S. Haroche, J. M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Gleyzes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 253603 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Soliton Pulse Propagation in the Presence of Disorder-Induced Multiple Scattering in Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Nishan Mann and Stephen Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 253901 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

Achieving Arbitrary Control over Pairs of Polarization States Using Complex Birefringent Metamaterials

Alexander Cerjan and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 253902 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

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Dispersive Dam-Break Flow of a Photon Fluid

Gang Xu, Matteo Conforti, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 254101 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

High-intensity photon beams exhibit behavior reminiscent of water flowing after a dam collapses.

Parametric Oscillation, Frequency Mixing, and Injection Locking of Strongly Coupled Nanomechanical Resonator Modes

Maximilian J. Seitner, Mehdi Abdi, Alessandro Ridolfo, Michael J. Hartmann, and Eva M. Weig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 254301 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Unveiling Extreme Anisotropy in Elastic Structured Media

G. Lefebvre, T. Antonakakis, Y. Achaoui, R. V. Craster, S. Guenneau, and P. Sebbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 254302 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Effect of Partially Screened Nuclei on Fast-Electron Dynamics

L. Hesslow, O. Embréus, A. Stahl, T. C. DuBois, G. Papp, S. L. Newton, and T. Fülöp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 255001 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Spatiotemporal Evolution of Runaway Electron Momentum Distributions in Tokamaks

C. Paz-Soldan, C. M. Cooper, P. Aleynikov, D. C. Pace, N. W. Eidietis, D. P. Brennan, R. S. Granetz, E. M. Hollmann, C. Liu, A. Lvovskiy, R. A. Moyer, and D. Shiraki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 255002 (2017) - Published 22 June, 2017

Studying the Dynamics of Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction on Thin Foils by Means of Fourier-Transform Spectral Interferometry

V. Bagnoud, J. Hornung, T. Schlegel, B. Zielbauer, C. Brabetz, M. Roth, P. Hilz, M. Haug, J. Schreiber, and F. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 255003 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Grain Boundary Structures and Collective Dynamics of Inversion Domains in Binary Two-Dimensional Materials

Doaa Taha, S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Zhi-Feng Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 255501 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Detecting Molecular Rotational Dynamics Complementing the Low-Frequency Terahertz Vibrations in a Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Framework

Matthew R. Ryder, Ben Van de Voorde, Bartolomeo Civalleri, Thomas D. Bennett, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, Gianfelice Cinque, Felix Fernandez-Alonso, Dirk De Vos, Svemir Rudić, and Jin-Chong Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 255502 (2017) - Published 20 June, 2017

Mode Specific Electronic Friction in Dissociative Chemisorption on Metal Surfaces: $H_{2}$ on Ag(111)

Reinhard J. Maurer, Bin Jiang, Hua Guo, and John C. Tully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 256001 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extremely Large Magnetoresistance in a Topological Semimetal Candidate Pyrite ${PtBi}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 256601 (2017) - Published 23 June, 2017

A magnetoresistance of 11.2 million percent is observed in PtBi $_{2}$ single crystals at a temperature of 1.8 K, a value projected to be higher than previously reported for Dirac materials at 60 T.