Volume 118, Issue 4

27 January 2017

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Optical pulling and pushing are demonstrated by supercontinuum light incident on a hexagonal gold plate (top, left) of area about 80 μm² held on a tapered fiber in air. The time sequence of the photos runs from left to right across the top, then from left to right across the bottom. Selected for Focus in Physics and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Light-Induced Pulling and Pushing by the Synergic Effect of Optical Force and Photophoretic Force
Jinsheng Lu, Hangbo Yang, Lina Zhou, Yuanqing Yang, Si Luo, Qiang Li, and Min Qiu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043601 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Light-Induced Pulling and Pushing by the Synergic Effect of Optical Force and Photophoretic Force

Jinsheng Lu, Hangbo Yang, Lina Zhou, Yuanqing Yang, Si Luo, Qiang Li, and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043601 (2017) - Published 23 January, 2017

Two forces coming from a light beam—one based on momentum transfer, the other on thermal effects—force a tiny gold plate to move in opposite directions.

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Accelerating Plasma Mirrors to Investigate the Black Hole Information Loss Paradox

Pisin Chen and Gerard Mourou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 045001 (2017) - Published 23 January, 2017

A proposal for using an accelerated plasma mirror to study the black hole information paradox elevates a thought experiment into a potential reality.

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Vulnerability and Cosusceptibility Determine the Size of Network Cascades

Yang Yang, Takashi Nishikawa, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 048301 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Specific clusters within a network tend to fail consistently as part of large-scale network failures, such as those in electrical grids or airline transportation systems.

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Spontaneous Breakdown of Topological Protection in Two Dimensions

Jianhui Wang, Yigal Meir, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046801 (2017) - Published 26 January, 2017

A topological insulator with beveled, as opposed to sharp, edges might lose the attributes that make it attractive for applications.

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One-Dimensional Self-Organization and Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a Hamiltonian System

Jiao Wang and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040601 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Nonequilibrium phase transitions, known from 2D and 3D systems, are also demonstrated in 1D, with implications for transport in these systems.

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Strange Quark Magnetic Moment of the Nucleon at the Physical Point

Raza Sabbir Sufian, Yi-Bo Yang, Andrei Alexandru, Terrence Draper, Jian Liang, and Keh-Fei Liu (χQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 042001 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

The strange quark contribution to magnetic moment and charge radius is extracted from lattice simulations. These are the first such simulations to be carried out using the physical pion mass.

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Lifetime Measurement of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomer

Benedict Seiferle, Lars von der Wense, and Peter G. Thirolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 042501 (2017) - Published 26 January, 2017

The half-life of $^{229}$ Th nuclear isomer has been measured to be 7 $\pm$ 1 $μ s$ .

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Observation of Mode-Locked Spatial Laser Solitons

F. Gustave, N. Radwell, C. McIntyre, J. P. Toomey, D. M. Kane, S. Barland, W. J. Firth, G.-L. Oppo, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 044102 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

The formation of stable spatiotemporal structures—solitons—is observed in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.

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Weyl Exceptional Rings in a Three-Dimensional Dissipative Cold Atomic Gas

Yong Xu, Sheng-Tao Wang, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 045701 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

A new topological gapless ring of nondegenerate states, characterized by both a quantized Chern number and a quantized Berry phase, is predicted to occur in 3D dissipative systems.

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Half Layer By Half Layer Growth of a Blue Phosphorene Monolayer on a GaN(001) Substrate

Jiang Zeng, Ping Cui, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046101 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

First-principles calculations suggest a new kinetic pathway for growing either black or blue phosphorene monolayers on metallic and semiconducting substrates.

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Flexural-Phonon Scattering Induced by Electrostatic Gating in Graphene

Tue Gunst, Kristen Kaasbjerg, and Mads Brandbyge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046601 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Phonon scattering, in conjunction with the electrostatic and dielectric environments, can limit the transport performance of graphene devices.

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Topologically Entangled Rashba-Split Shockley States on the Surface of Grey Arsenic

Peng Zhang, J.-Z. Ma, Y. Ishida, L.-X. Zhao, Q.-N. Xu, B.-Q. Lv, K. Yaji, G.-F. Chen, H.-M. Weng, X. Dai, Z. Fang, X.-Q. Chen, L. Fu, T. Qian, H. Ding, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046802 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Electronic states that only exist on the surface and not in the bulk are predicted for noble metals. These states have now been observed on grey arsenic surfaces through time-resolved ARPES measurements.

LETTERS

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

Edge Modes, Degeneracies, and Topological Numbers in Non-Hermitian Systems

Daniel Leykam, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Chunli Huang, Y. D. Chong, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040401 (2017) - Published 23 January, 2017

Simultaneous Bistability of a Qubit and Resonator in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Th. K. Mavrogordatos, G. Tancredi, M. Elliott, M. J. Peterer, A. Patterson, J. Rahamim, P. J. Leek, E. Ginossar, and M. H. Szymańska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040402 (2017) - Published 24 January, 2017

Uniform Additivity in Classical and Quantum Information

Andrew Cross, Ke Li, and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040501 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Quantum Supremacy for Simulating a Translation-Invariant Ising Spin Model

Xun Gao, Sheng-Tao Wang, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040502 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Entangled Pure State Transformations via Local Operations Assisted by Finitely Many Rounds of Classical Communication

C. Spee, J. I. de Vicente, D. Sauerwein, and B. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040503 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

One-Dimensional Self-Organization and Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a Hamiltonian System

Jiao Wang and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040601 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Nonequilibrium phase transitions, known from 2D and 3D systems, are also demonstrated in 1D, with implications for transport in these systems.

Optimum Mixed-State Discrimination for Noisy Entanglement-Enhanced Sensing

Quntao Zhuang, Zheshen Zhang, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 040801 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

From Planck Data to Planck Era: Observational Tests of Holographic Cosmology

Niayesh Afshordi, Claudio Corianò, Luigi Delle Rose, Elizabeth Gould, and Kostas Skenderis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 041301 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Strange Quark Magnetic Moment of the Nucleon at the Physical Point

Raza Sabbir Sufian, Yi-Bo Yang, Andrei Alexandru, Terrence Draper, Jian Liang, and Keh-Fei Liu (χQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 042001 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

The strange quark contribution to magnetic moment and charge radius is extracted from lattice simulations. These are the first such simulations to be carried out using the physical pion mass.

Nuclear Physics

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Lifetime Measurement of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomer

Benedict Seiferle, Lars von der Wense, and Peter G. Thirolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 042501 (2017) - Published 26 January, 2017

The half-life of $^{229}$ Th nuclear isomer has been measured to be 7 $\pm$ 1 $μ s$ .

NEOS Data and the Origin of the 5 MeV Bump in the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum

Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 042502 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Lowest ${}^{2}S$ Electronic Excitations of the Boron Atom

Sergiy Bubin and Ludwik Adamowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043001 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Light-Induced Pulling and Pushing by the Synergic Effect of Optical Force and Photophoretic Force

Jinsheng Lu, Hangbo Yang, Lina Zhou, Yuanqing Yang, Si Luo, Qiang Li, and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043601 (2017) - Published 23 January, 2017

Two forces coming from a light beam—one based on momentum transfer, the other on thermal effects—force a tiny gold plate to move in opposite directions.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase Matching Using the Linear Electro-Optic Effect

Zijian Cui, Dean Liu, Jie Miao, Aihua Yang, and Jianqiang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043901 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Superresonant Radiation Stimulated by Higher Harmonics

Cristian Redondo Lourés, Thomas Roger, Daniele Faccio, and Fabio Biancalana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043902 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Complementary Speckle Patterns: Deterministic Interchange of Intrinsic Vortices and Maxima through Scattering Media

Jérôme Gateau, Hervé Rigneault, and Marc Guillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 043903 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Random Matrix Theory Approach to Chaotic Coherent Perfect Absorbers

Huanan Li, Suwun Suwunnarat, Ragnar Fleischmann, Holger Schanz, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 044101 (2017) - Published 26 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Mode-Locked Spatial Laser Solitons

F. Gustave, N. Radwell, C. McIntyre, J. P. Toomey, D. M. Kane, S. Barland, W. J. Firth, G.-L. Oppo, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 044102 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

The formation of stable spatiotemporal structures—solitons—is observed in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser.

Linear and Nonlinear Bullets of the Bogoliubov–de Gennes Excitations

S. Kumar, A. M. Perego, and K. Staliunas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 044103 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Universal Dichotomy for Dynamical Systems with Variable Delay

Andreas Otto, David Müller, and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 044104 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Accelerating Plasma Mirrors to Investigate the Black Hole Information Loss Paradox

Pisin Chen and Gerard Mourou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 045001 (2017) - Published 23 January, 2017

A proposal for using an accelerated plasma mirror to study the black hole information paradox elevates a thought experiment into a potential reality.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Casimir Forces and Quantum Friction from Ginzburg Radiation in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates

Jamir Marino, Alessio Recati, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 045301 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Meissner-like Effect for a Synthetic Gauge Field in Multimode Cavity QED

Kyle E. Ballantine, Benjamin L. Lev, and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 045302 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Weyl Exceptional Rings in a Three-Dimensional Dissipative Cold Atomic Gas

Yong Xu, Sheng-Tao Wang, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 045701 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

A new topological gapless ring of nondegenerate states, characterized by both a quantized Chern number and a quantized Berry phase, is predicted to occur in 3D dissipative systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Half Layer By Half Layer Growth of a Blue Phosphorene Monolayer on a GaN(001) Substrate

Jiang Zeng, Ping Cui, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046101 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

First-principles calculations suggest a new kinetic pathway for growing either black or blue phosphorene monolayers on metallic and semiconducting substrates.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetoexcitons Break Antiunitary Symmetries

Frank Schweiner, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046401 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flexural-Phonon Scattering Induced by Electrostatic Gating in Graphene

Tue Gunst, Kristen Kaasbjerg, and Mads Brandbyge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046601 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Phonon scattering, in conjunction with the electrostatic and dielectric environments, can limit the transport performance of graphene devices.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneous Breakdown of Topological Protection in Two Dimensions

Jianhui Wang, Yigal Meir, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046801 (2017) - Published 26 January, 2017

A topological insulator with beveled, as opposed to sharp, edges might lose the attributes that make it attractive for applications.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topologically Entangled Rashba-Split Shockley States on the Surface of Grey Arsenic

Peng Zhang, J.-Z. Ma, Y. Ishida, L.-X. Zhao, Q.-N. Xu, B.-Q. Lv, K. Yaji, G.-F. Chen, H.-M. Weng, X. Dai, Z. Fang, X.-Q. Chen, L. Fu, T. Qian, H. Ding, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 046802 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Amplitude Higgs Mode and Admittance in Superconductors with a Moving Condensate

Andreas Moor, Anatoly F. Volkov, and Konstantin B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 047001 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Fractionalized $Z_{2}$ Classical Heisenberg Spin Liquids

J. Rehn, Arnab Sen, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 047201 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

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

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Vulnerability and Cosusceptibility Determine the Size of Network Cascades

Yang Yang, Takashi Nishikawa, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 048301 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Specific clusters within a network tend to fail consistently as part of large-scale network failures, such as those in electrical grids or airline transportation systems.

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Si Nanoribbons on Ag(110) Studied by Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Diffraction, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, and Density-Functional Theory: Evidence of a Pentamer Chain Structure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 276102 (2016)]

Geoffroy Prévot, Conor Hogan, Thomas Leoni, Romain Bernard, Eric Moyen, and Laurence Masson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 049901 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Biochemical Machines for the Interconversion of Mutual Information and Work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 028101 (2017)]

Thomas McGrath, Nick S. Jones, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, and Thomas E. Ouldridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 049902 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Driven Open Quantum Systems and Floquet Stroboscopic Dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 250401 (2016)]

S. Restrepo, J. Cerrillo, V. M. Bastidas, D. G. Angelakis, and T. Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 049903 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Transient Casimir Forces from Quenches in Thermal and Active Matter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 015702 (2017)]

Christian M. Rohwer, Mehran Kardar, and Matthias Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 049904 (2017) - Published 27 January, 2017