Volume 118, Issue 3

20 January 2017

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Phase distribution of a harmonic laser beam generated by the interaction of a vortex laser beam on a plasma mirror. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Interaction of Ultraintense Laser Vortices with Plasma Mirrors
A. Denoeud, L. Chopineau, A. Leblanc, and F. Quéré
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033902 (2017)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: A Decade of Editors’ Suggestions

Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030001 (2017) - Published 17 January, 2017

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discrete Time Crystals: Rigidity, Criticality, and Realizations

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030401 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

A detailed theoretical recipe for making time crystals has been unveiled and swiftly implemented by two groups using vastly different experimental systems.

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Interaction of Ultraintense Laser Vortices with Plasma Mirrors

A. Denoeud, L. Chopineau, A. Leblanc, and F. Quéré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033902 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

Laser vortex beams can exchange their optical angular momentum with a plasma from which they are reflected.

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Phononic Frequency Comb via Intrinsic Three-Wave Mixing

Adarsh Ganesan, Cuong Do, and Ashwin Seshia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033903 (2017) - Published 17 January, 2017

A micromechanical device generates a series of precise, equally spaced vibration frequencies, analogous to the light of the “optical frequency comb,” which has dramatically improved precision measurements.

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Probing Intermolecular Coupled Vibrations between Two Molecules

Zhumin Han (韩竹敏), Gregory Czap, Chen Xu (徐晨), Chi-lun Chiang (蔣季倫), Dingwang Yuan (袁定旺), Ruqian Wu, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036801 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers detect coupled vibrations between two molecules.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Franson Interference Generated by a Two-Level System

M. Peiris, K. Konthasinghe, and A. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030501 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Time-energy correlated photon pairs are generated with scattered light from a frequency filtered, resonantly driven quantum dot.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Redefining the Axion Window

Luca Di Luzio, Federico Mescia, and Enrico Nardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031801 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

The region of parameter space corresponding to realistic models in which axions may exist is considerably larger than assumed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Are There Signatures of Harmonic Oscillator Shells Far from Stability? First Spectroscopy of ${}^{110}{Zr}$

N. Paul et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 032501 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

Spectroscopy measurements of two nominally magic-number isotopes that lie near the neutron dripline show that neither isotope exhibits the states expected for a magic nucleus, challenging existing nuclear shell models.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbitalwise Coordination Number for Predicting Adsorption Properties of Metal Nanocatalysts

Xianfeng Ma and Hongliang Xin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036101 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

A microscopic coordination number affects the macroscopic catalytic properties of metallic nanoparticles.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Abnormal Elasticity of Single-Crystal Magnesiosiderite across the Spin Transition in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Suyu Fu, Jing Yang, and Jung-Fu Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036402 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Measurements of the elastic constants of magnesiosiderite at room temperature and pressures up to 70 GPa show changes in the shear and compressive stress moduli around the material’s spin transition.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Holography of the Dirac Fluid in Graphene with Two Currents

Yunseok Seo, Geunho Song, Philip Kim, Subir Sachdev, and Sang-Jin Sin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036601 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

A holographic model is proposed for a strongly coupled Dirac fluid that describes graphene near charge neutrality.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Electrical Spin Readout of ${NV}^{-}$ Centers in Diamond

Florian M. Hrubesch, Georg Braunbeck, Martin Stutzmann, Friedemann Reinhard, and Martin S. Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 037601 (2017) - Published 17 January, 2017

Enhanced readout contrast is achieved for the magnetic resonance of nitrogen-vacancy center spins in diamond using a new pulsed detection approach.

LETTERS

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discrete Time Crystals: Rigidity, Criticality, and Realizations

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030401 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

A detailed theoretical recipe for making time crystals has been unveiled and swiftly implemented by two groups using vastly different experimental systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Franson Interference Generated by a Two-Level System

M. Peiris, K. Konthasinghe, and A. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030501 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Time-energy correlated photon pairs are generated with scattered light from a frequency filtered, resonantly driven quantum dot.

Quantum State Discrimination Using the Minimum Average Number of Copies

Sergei Slussarenko, Morgan M. Weston, Jun-Gang Li, Nicholas Campbell, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030502 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Spatial Bell-State Generation without Transverse Mode Subspace Postselection

E. V. Kovlakov, I. B. Bobrov, S. S. Straupe, and S. P. Kulik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030503 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Error Suppression for Hamiltonian-Based Quantum Computation Using Subsystem Codes

Milad Marvian and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030504 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Conformal Invariance in Driven Diffusive Systems at High Currents

D. Karevski and G. M. Schütz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030601 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Dynamic Off-Equilibrium Transition in Systems Slowly Driven across Thermal First-Order Phase Transitions

Andrea Pelissetto and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030602 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

First Passage under Restart

Arnab Pal and Shlomi Reuveni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030603 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Dynamical Symmetry Breaking and Phase Transitions in Driven Diffusive Systems

Yongjoo Baek, Yariv Kafri, and Vivien Lecomte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030604 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Critical Number of Fields in Stochastic Inflation

Vincent Vennin, Hooshyar Assadullahi, Hassan Firouzjahi, Mahdiyar Noorbala, and David Wands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031301 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten–Type Recurrent Relations for Tree Superamplitudes of $D = 11$ Supergravity

Igor Bandos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031601 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Redefining the Axion Window

Luca Di Luzio, Federico Mescia, and Enrico Nardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031801 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

The region of parameter space corresponding to realistic models in which axions may exist is considerably larger than assumed.

Search for $B^{+} \to K^{+} τ^{+} τ^{-}$ at the BaBar Experiment

J. P. Lees et al. (BaBar Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031802 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Conventional Detectors

Chris Kouvaris and Josef Pradler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031803 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Octant of $θ_{23}$ in Danger with a Light Sterile Neutrino

Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Sabya Sachi Chatterjee, and Antonio Palazzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 031804 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Are There Signatures of Harmonic Oscillator Shells Far from Stability? First Spectroscopy of ${}^{110}{Zr}$

N. Paul et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 032501 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

Nucleus-Dependent Valence-Space Approach to Nuclear Structure

S. R. Stroberg, A. Calci, H. Hergert, J. D. Holt, S. K. Bogner, R. Roth, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 032502 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resolving Vibrational from Electronic Coherences in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy: The Role of the Laser Spectrum

Franco V. de A. Camargo, Lena Grimmelsmann, Harry L. Anderson, Stephen R. Meech, and Ismael A. Heisler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033001 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Precise Access to the Molecular-Frame Complex Recombination Dipole through High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

S. B. Schoun, A. Camper, P. Salières, R. R. Lucchese, P. Agostini, and L. F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033201 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Time-Resolved Measurement of Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Two-Photon Double Excitation of ${Ne}_{2}$

T. Takanashi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033202 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Demonstration of Spontaneous Chirality in a Nonlinear Microresonator

Qi-Tao Cao, Heming Wang, Chun-Hua Dong, Hui Jing, Rui-Shan Liu, Xi Chen, Li Ge, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033901 (2017) - Published 17 January, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interaction of Ultraintense Laser Vortices with Plasma Mirrors

A. Denoeud, L. Chopineau, A. Leblanc, and F. Quéré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033902 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

Laser vortex beams can exchange their optical angular momentum with a plasma from which they are reflected.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phononic Frequency Comb via Intrinsic Three-Wave Mixing

Adarsh Ganesan, Cuong Do, and Ashwin Seshia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033903 (2017) - Published 17 January, 2017

Vector-Resonance-Multimode Instability

S. V. Sergeyev, H. Kbashi, N. Tarasov, Yu. Loiko, and S. A. Kolpakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033904 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Perturbative High Harmonic Wave Front Control

Zhengyan Li, Graham Brown, Dong Hyuk Ko, Fanqi Kong, Ladan Arissian, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 033905 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Experimental Demonstration of Coherent Control in Quantum Chaotic Systems

M. Bitter and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 034101 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

High-Precision Shock Wave Measurements of Deuterium: Evaluation of Exchange-Correlation Functionals at the Molecular-to-Atomic Transition

M. D. Knudson and M. P. Desjarlais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 035501 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Full Elasticity Tensor from Thermal Diffuse Scattering

Björn Wehinger, Alessandro Mirone, Michael Krisch, and Alexeï Bosak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 035502 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbitalwise Coordination Number for Predicting Adsorption Properties of Metal Nanocatalysts

Xianfeng Ma and Hongliang Xin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036101 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

A microscopic coordination number affects the macroscopic catalytic properties of metallic nanoparticles.

Scaling of Tripartite Entanglement at Impurity Quantum Phase Transitions

Abolfazl Bayat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036102 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Anderson Transition for Classical Transport in Composite Materials

N. Benjamin Murphy, Elena Cherkaev, and Kenneth M. Golden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036401 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Abnormal Elasticity of Single-Crystal Magnesiosiderite across the Spin Transition in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Suyu Fu, Jing Yang, and Jung-Fu Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036402 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Holography of the Dirac Fluid in Graphene with Two Currents

Yunseok Seo, Geunho Song, Philip Kim, Subir Sachdev, and Sang-Jin Sin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036601 (2017) - Published 18 January, 2017

A holographic model is proposed for a strongly coupled Dirac fluid that describes graphene near charge neutrality.

Disorder-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Deformable Lattices

Domenico Di Sante, Simone Fratini, Vladimir Dobrosavljević, and Sergio Ciuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036602 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Intermolecular Coupled Vibrations between Two Molecules

Zhumin Han (韩竹敏), Gregory Czap, Chen Xu (徐晨), Chi-lun Chiang (蔣季倫), Dingwang Yuan (袁定旺), Ruqian Wu, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036801 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers detect coupled vibrations between two molecules.

Chiral Second-Sound Collective Modes at the Edge of 2D Systems with a Nontrivial Berry Curvature

Alessandro Principi, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, and Alex Levchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036802 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Conductivity Contrast and Tunneling Charge Transport in the Vortexlike Ferroelectric Domain Patterns of Multiferroic Hexagonal ${YMnO}_{3}$

E. Ruff, S. Krohns, M. Lilienblum, D. Meier, M. Fiebig, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036803 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Minimal Entanglement Witness from Electrical Current Correlations

F. Brange, O. Malkoc, and P. Samuelsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 036804 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Interplay between Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Orbital Order in 5-Pocket Model for Iron-Based Superconductors: Parquet Renormalization Group Study

Laura Classen, Rui-Qi Xing, Maxim Khodas, and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 037001 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

Polarization-Dependent Interference of Coherent Scattering from Orthogonal Dipole Moments of a Resonantly Excited Quantum Dot

Disheng Chen, Gary R. Lander, Glenn S. Solomon, and Edward B. Flagg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 037401 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Electrical Spin Readout of ${NV}^{-}$ Centers in Diamond

Florian M. Hrubesch, Georg Braunbeck, Martin Stutzmann, Friedemann Reinhard, and Martin S. Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 037601 (2017) - Published 17 January, 2017

Enhanced readout contrast is achieved for the magnetic resonance of nitrogen-vacancy center spins in diamond using a new pulsed detection approach.

Electron Spin Resonance at the Level of $1 0^{4}$ Spins Using Low Impedance Superconducting Resonators

C. Eichler, A. J. Sigillito, S. A. Lyon, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 037701 (2017) - Published 19 January, 2017

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

Shear Yielding and Shear Jamming of Dense Hard Sphere Glasses

Pierfrancesco Urbani and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 038001 (2017) - Published 20 January, 2017