Volume 118, Issue 26

30 June 2017

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Simulations of the dynamics of moderate and high energy pulses in a self-induced plasma. Top: time evolution of the pulse shapes. Bottom: changes in the ionization rates.

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PHz-Wide Spectral Interference Through Coherent Plasma-Induced Fission of Higher-Order Solitons
F. Köttig, F. Tani, J. C. Travers, and P. St.J. Russell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263902 (2017)

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Nuclear Force Imprints Revealed on the Elastic Scattering of Protons with ${}^{10}C$

A. Kumar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 262502 (2017) - Published 28 June, 2017

The scattering of protons from a carbon isotope can be used to test models of the strong force.

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Individual Tracer Atoms in an Ultracold Dilute Gas

Michael Hohmann, Farina Kindermann, Tobias Lausch, Daniel Mayer, Felix Schmidt, Eric Lutz, and Artur Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263401 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

The tracking of individual atoms diffusing in a cold, rarefied gas reveals the influence that a single impact has on randomizing the motion.

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Magnetically Induced Optical Transparency on a Forbidden Transition in Strontium for Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy

Matthew N. Winchester, Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R. K. Cline, and James K. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263601 (2017) - Published 26 June, 2017

A magnetic field applied to an atomic sample in an optical cavity generates optical transparency that could be used to enhance the frequency stability of lasers.

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Hidden Area and Mechanical Nonlinearities in Freestanding Graphene

Ryan J. T. Nicholl, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Ivan Vlassiouk, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, and Kirill I. Bolotin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 266101 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

The crumpling of graphene sheets explains a “soft spot” in the material’s mechanical response.

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Amplitude Sensing below the Zero-Point Fluctuations with a Two-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Mechanical Oscillator

K. A. Gilmore, J. G. Bohnet, B. C. Sawyer, J. W. Britton, and J. J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263602 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

A spin-based technique is able to measure the center-of-mass motion of a 2D crystal of trapped ions to a precision 40 times below the object’s zero-point energy.

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Markov Property of the Conformal Field Theory Vacuum and the $a$ Theorem

Horacio Casini, Eduardo Testé, and Gonzalo Torroba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261602 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

Vacuum entanglement entropy is used to prove the irreversibility of renormalization group flows in four or fewer spacetime dimensions.

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Phase-Imposing Initiation of Cherenkov Superradiance Emission by an Ultrashort-Seed Microwave Pulse

G. A. Mesyats, N. S. Ginzburg, A. A. Golovanov, G. G. Denisov, I. V. Romanchenko, V. V. Rostov, K. A. Sharypov, V. G. Shpak, S. A. Shunailov, M. R. Ulmaskulov, M. I. Yalandin, and I. V. Zotova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 264801 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

The phase of Chereknov superradiant emission is controlled by the injection of a short electromagnetic pulse.

LETTERS

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

Device-Independent Bounds on Detection Efficiency

Jochen Szangolies, Hermann Kampermann, and Dagmar Bruß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260401 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Collective Modes of a Soliton Train in a Fermi Superfluid

Shovan Dutta and Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260402 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Efficiently Controllable Graphs

Can Gokler, Seth Lloyd, Peter Shor, and Kevin Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260501 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Large Fluctuations for Spatial Diffusion of Cold Atoms

Erez Aghion, David A. Kessler, and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260601 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Floquet Dynamics of Boundary-Driven Systems at Criticality

William Berdanier, Michael Kolodrubetz, Romain Vasseur, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260602 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Extracting Work from Quantum Measurement in Maxwell’s Demon Engines

Cyril Elouard, David Herrera-Martí, Benjamin Huard, and Alexia Auffèves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 260603 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Implications of the Occurrence of Glitches in Pulsar Free Precession Candidates

D. I. Jones, G. Ashton, and R. Prix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261101 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Ultralight Dark Matter Resonates with Binary Pulsars

Diego Blas, Diana López Nacir, and Sergey Sibiryakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261102 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

First Searches for Axions and Axionlike Particles with the LUX Experiment

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261301 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Standard Model Background of the Cosmological Collider

Xingang Chen, Yi Wang, and Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261302 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Can Topology and Geometry be Measured by an Operator Measurement in Quantum Gravity?

David Berenstein and Alexandra Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261601 (2017) - Published 26 June, 2017

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Markov Property of the Conformal Field Theory Vacuum and the $a$ Theorem

Horacio Casini, Eduardo Testé, and Gonzalo Torroba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261602 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

Vacuum entanglement entropy is used to prove the irreversibility of renormalization group flows in four or fewer spacetime dimensions.

Large Electroweak Corrections to Vector-Boson Scattering at the Large Hadron Collider

Benedikt Biedermann, Ansgar Denner, and Mathieu Pellen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261801 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Light-by-Light Scattering Constraint on Born-Infeld Theory

John Ellis, Nick E. Mavromatos, and Tevong You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261802 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Measurement of the $C P$ Violation Parameter $A_{Γ}$ in $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$ and $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 261803 (2017) - Published 28 June, 2017

Nuclear Physics

First Elastic Electron Scattering from ${}^{132}{Xe}$ at the SCRIT Facility

K. Tsukada, A. Enokizono, T. Ohnishi, K. Adachi, T. Fujita, M. Hara, M. Hori, T. Hori, S. Ichikawa, K. Kurita, K. Matsuda, T. Suda, T. Tamae, M. Togasaki, M. Wakasugi, M. Watanabe, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 262501 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

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Nuclear Force Imprints Revealed on the Elastic Scattering of Protons with ${}^{10}C$

A. Kumar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 262502 (2017) - Published 28 June, 2017

The scattering of protons from a carbon isotope can be used to test models of the strong force.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Trapped Ions in Rydberg-Dressed Atomic Gases

T. Secker, N. Ewald, J. Joger, H. Fürst, T. Feldker, and R. Gerritsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263201 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

$1.5 μ m$ Lasers with Sub-10 mHz Linewidth

D. G. Matei, T. Legero, S. Häfner, C. Grebing, R. Weyrich, W. Zhang, L. Sonderhouse, J. M. Robinson, J. Ye, F. Riehle, and U. Sterr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263202 (2017) - Published 28 June, 2017

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Individual Tracer Atoms in an Ultracold Dilute Gas

Michael Hohmann, Farina Kindermann, Tobias Lausch, Daniel Mayer, Felix Schmidt, Eric Lutz, and Artur Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263401 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

The tracking of individual atoms diffusing in a cold, rarefied gas reveals the influence that a single impact has on randomizing the motion.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetically Induced Optical Transparency on a Forbidden Transition in Strontium for Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy

Matthew N. Winchester, Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R. K. Cline, and James K. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263601 (2017) - Published 26 June, 2017

A magnetic field applied to an atomic sample in an optical cavity generates optical transparency that could be used to enhance the frequency stability of lasers.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Amplitude Sensing below the Zero-Point Fluctuations with a Two-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Mechanical Oscillator

K. A. Gilmore, J. G. Bohnet, B. C. Sawyer, J. W. Britton, and J. J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263602 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

A spin-based technique is able to measure the center-of-mass motion of a 2D crystal of trapped ions to a precision 40 times below the object’s zero-point energy.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Micropillar Resonators for Optomechanics in the Extremely High 19–95-GHz Frequency Range

S. Anguiano, A. E. Bruchhausen, B. Jusserand, I. Favero, F. R. Lamberti, L. Lanco, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, P. Senellart, and A. Fainstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263901 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

PHz-Wide Spectral Interference Through Coherent Plasma-Induced Fission of Higher-Order Solitons

F. Köttig, F. Tani, J. C. Travers, and P. St.J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263902 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

Charge-Induced Saffman-Taylor Instabilities in Toroidal Droplets

A. A. Fragkopoulos, A. Aizenman, and A. Fernández-Nieves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 264501 (2017) - Published 26 June, 2017

Optimal Wall-to-Wall Transport by Incompressible Flows

Ian Tobasco and Charles R. Doering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 264502 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Phase-Imposing Initiation of Cherenkov Superradiance Emission by an Ultrashort-Seed Microwave Pulse

G. A. Mesyats, N. S. Ginzburg, A. A. Golovanov, G. G. Denisov, I. V. Romanchenko, V. V. Rostov, K. A. Sharypov, V. G. Shpak, S. A. Shunailov, M. R. Ulmaskulov, M. I. Yalandin, and I. V. Zotova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 264801 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

The phase of Chereknov superradiant emission is controlled by the injection of a short electromagnetic pulse.

Suppression of Alfvén Modes on the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade with Outboard Beam Injection

E. D. Fredrickson, E. V. Belova, D. J. Battaglia, R. E. Bell, N. A. Crocker, D. S. Darrow, A. Diallo, S. P. Gerhardt, N. N. Gorelenkov, B. P. LeBlanc, M. Podestà, and NSTX-U team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 265001 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Multipoint Measurements of the Electron Jet of Symmetric Magnetic Reconnection with a Moderate Guide Field

F. D. Wilder, R. E. Ergun, S. Eriksson, T. D. Phan, J. L. Burch, N. Ahmadi, K. A. Goodrich, D. L. Newman, K. J. Trattner, R. B. Torbert, B. L. Giles, R. J. Strangeway, W. Magnes, P.-A. Lindqvist, and Yu-V. Khotyaintsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 265101 (2017) - Published 29 June, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Interpretation and Utility of the Moments of Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Distributions

Peter Modregger, Matias Kagias, Sarah C. Irvine, Rolf Brönnimann, Konstantins Jefimovs, Marco Endrizzi, and Alessandro Olivo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 265501 (2017) - Published 30 June, 2017

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Hidden Area and Mechanical Nonlinearities in Freestanding Graphene

Ryan J. T. Nicholl, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Ivan Vlassiouk, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, and Kirill I. Bolotin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 266101 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

The crumpling of graphene sheets explains a “soft spot” in the material’s mechanical response.

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Discrete Time Crystals: Rigidity, Criticality, and Realizations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030401 (2017)]

N. Y. Yao, A. C. Potter, I.-D. Potirniche, and A. Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 269901 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Particle-Hole Duality in the Lowest Landau Level [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 206602 (2017)]

Dung Xuan Nguyen, Tankut Can, and Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 269902 (2017) - Published 27 June, 2017

Volume 118, Issue 26

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

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