Volume 118, Issue 6

10 February 2017

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Gray-scale map of the power spectral density for a system of three optomechanical oscillators locked in a cascaded optical configuration. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Light-Mediated Cascaded Locking of Multiple Nano-Optomechanical Oscillators
E. Gil-Santos, M. Labousse, C. Baker, A. Goetschy, W. Hease, C. Gomez, A. Lemaître, G. Leo, C. Ciuti, and I. Favero
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063605 (2017)

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Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars

Johannes Handsteiner, Andrew S. Friedman, Dominik Rauch, Jason Gallicchio, Bo Liu, Hannes Hosp, Johannes Kofler, David Bricher, Matthias Fink, Calvin Leung, Anthony Mark, Hien T. Nguyen, Isabella Sanders, Fabian Steinlechner, Rupert Ursin, Sören Wengerowsky, Alan H. Guth, David I. Kaiser, Thomas Scheidl, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060401 (2017) - Published 7 February, 2017

Light from two stars in the Milky Way has been used to test an open loophole of quantum physics.

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First Results from a Microwave Cavity Axion Search at $24 μ eV$

B. M. Brubaker, L. Zhong, Y. V. Gurevich, S. B. Cahn, S. K. Lamoreaux, M. Simanovskaia, J. R. Root, S. M. Lewis, S. Al Kenany, K. M. Backes, I. Urdinaran, N. M. Rapidis, T. M. Shokair, K. A. van Bibber, D. A. Palken, M. Malnou, W. F. Kindel, M. A. Anil, K. W. Lehnert, and G. Carosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061302 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

A new detector has searched for hypothetical dark matter particles known as axions in a previously inaccessible mass range.

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Characterizing Neutron-Proton Equilibration in Nuclear Reactions with Subzeptosecond Resolution

A. Jedele, A. B. McIntosh, K. Hagel, M. Huang, L. Heilborn, Z. Kohley, L. W. May, E. McCleskey, M. Youngs, A. Zarrella, and S. J. Yennello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 062501 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

The equilibration of nuclei containing a large imbalance of protons and neutrons can occur in $3 \times 10^{- 22}$ seconds, according to experiments—important information for models of element-creation in supernovae.

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Process-Accessible States of Block Copolymers

De-Wen Sun and Marcus Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067801 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Light could alter the chemistry of multicomponent polymers, allowing for the control of structures they form.

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Light-Mediated Cascaded Locking of Multiple Nano-Optomechanical Oscillators

E. Gil-Santos, M. Labousse, C. Baker, A. Goetschy, W. Hease, C. Gomez, A. Lemaître, G. Leo, C. Ciuti, and I. Favero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063605 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Light traveling on a chip connects a chain of nanomechanical oscillators, synchronizing the frequency of their motion.

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Spin Polarization and Attosecond Time Delay in Photoemission from Spin Degenerate States of Solids

Mauro Fanciulli, Henrieta Volfová, Stefan Muff, Jürgen Braun, Hubert Ebert, Jan Minár, Ulrich Heinzmann, and J. Hugo Dil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067402 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Time delay between photon entry and the resulting photoemission from a dispersive band of a solid is determined by measuring the spin polarization of the photoelectrons.

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Odd-Integer Quantum Hall States and Giant Spin Susceptibility in $p$ -Type Few-Layer ${WSe}_{2}$

Shuigang Xu, Junying Shen, Gen Long, Zefei Wu, Zhi-qiang Bao, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Xiao Xiao, Tianyi Han, Jiangxiazi Lin, Yingying Wu, Huanhuan Lu, Jianqiang Hou, Liheng An, Yuanwei Wang, Yuan Cai, K. M. Ho, Yuheng He, Rolf Lortz, Fan Zhang, and Ning Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067702 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Transition metal dichalcogenides in a tilted magnetic field display unconventional quantum Hall transport phenomena, including a Zeeman energy that is almost three times as large as the cyclotron energy.

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

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Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060401 (2017) - Published 7 February, 2017

Light from two stars in the Milky Way has been used to test an open loophole of quantum physics.

Interaction-Assisted Quantum Tunneling of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Out of a Single Trapping Well

Shreyas Potnis, Ramon Ramos, Kenji Maeda, Lincoln D. Carr, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060402 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Unifying Gate Synthesis and Magic State Distillation

Earl T. Campbell and Mark Howard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060501 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Resource Destroying Maps

Zi-Wen Liu, Xueyuan Hu, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060502 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Source-Device-Independent Ultrafast Quantum Random Number Generation

Davide G. Marangon, Giuseppe Vallone, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060503 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Gibbs Paradox Revisited from the Fluctuation Theorem with Absolute Irreversibility

Yûto Murashita and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060601 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Discrete Fluctuations in Memory Erasure without Energy Cost

Toshio Croucher, Salil Bedkihal, and Joan A. Vaccaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060602 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Testing the Axion-Conversion Hypothesis of 3.5 keV Emission with Polarization

Yan Gong, Xuelei Chen, and Hua Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061101 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Magnonic Black Holes

A. Roldán-Molina, Alvaro S. Nunez, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061301 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

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First Results from a Microwave Cavity Axion Search at $24 μ eV$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061302 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

A new detector has searched for hypothetical dark matter particles known as axions in a previously inaccessible mass range.

Vacuum Energy Sequestering and Graviton Loops

Nemanja Kaloper and Antonio Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061303 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Generalized Wilson-Fisher Critical Points from the Conformal Operator Product Expansion

Ferdinando Gliozzi, Andrea L. Guerrieri, Anastasios C. Petkou, and Congkao Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061601 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Graviton and Gluon Scattering from First Principles

Rutger H. Boels and Ricardo Medina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061602 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Search for Magnetic Monopoles with the MoEDAL Forward Trapping Detector in 13 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

B. Acharya et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 061801 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Correspondence between Soft and Rapidity Anomalous Dimensions

Alexey A. Vladimirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 062001 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Nuclear Physics

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Characterizing Neutron-Proton Equilibration in Nuclear Reactions with Subzeptosecond Resolution

A. Jedele, A. B. McIntosh, K. Hagel, M. Huang, L. Heilborn, Z. Kohley, L. W. May, E. McCleskey, M. Youngs, A. Zarrella, and S. J. Yennello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 062501 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Laser Spectroscopy of the Fine-Structure Splitting in the $2 {}^{3}{P_{J}}$ Levels of ${}^{4}{He}$

X. Zheng, Y. R. Sun, J.-J. Chen, W. Jiang, K. Pachucki, and S.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063001 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Anisotropy-Induced Quantum Interference and Population Trapping between Orthogonal Quantum Dot Exciton States in Semiconductor Cavity Systems

Stephen Hughes and Girish S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063601 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Exciton-Polariton Fano Resonance Driven by Second Harmonic Generation

Yafeng Wang, Liming Liao, Tao Hu, Song Luo, Lin Wu, Jun Wang, Zhe Zhang, Wei Xie, Liaoxin Sun, A. V. Kavokin, Xuechu Shen, and Zhanghai Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063602 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

High-Capacity Angularly Multiplexed Holographic Memory Operating at the Single-Photon Level

Radosław Chrapkiewicz, Michał Dąbrowski, and Wojciech Wasilewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063603 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Cavity-Assisted Measurement and Coherent Control of Collective Atomic Spin Oscillators

Jonathan Kohler, Nicolas Spethmann, Sydney Schreppler, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063604 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

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Light-Mediated Cascaded Locking of Multiple Nano-Optomechanical Oscillators

E. Gil-Santos, M. Labousse, C. Baker, A. Goetschy, W. Hease, C. Gomez, A. Lemaître, G. Leo, C. Ciuti, and I. Favero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063605 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Light traveling on a chip connects a chain of nanomechanical oscillators, synchronizing the frequency of their motion.

Facilitation Dynamics and Localization Phenomena in Rydberg Lattice Gases with Position Disorder

Matteo Marcuzzi, Jiří Minář, Daniel Barredo, Sylvain de Léséleuc, Henning Labuhn, Thierry Lahaye, Antoine Browaeys, Emanuele Levi, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063606 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Self-Channeling of High-Power Long-Wave Infrared Pulses in Atomic Gases

K. Schuh, M. Kolesik, E. M. Wright, J. V. Moloney, and S. W. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 063901 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Simultaneous High-Speed Recording of Sonoluminescence and Bubble Dynamics in Multibubble Fields

Carlos Cairós and Robert Mettin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 064301 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Molecular-Level Simulations of Turbulence and Its Decay

M. A. Gallis, N. P. Bitter, T. P. Koehler, J. R. Torczynski, S. J. Plimpton, and G. Papadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 064501 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Role of Direct Laser Acceleration of Electrons in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator with Ionization Injection

J. L. Shaw, N. Lemos, L. D. Amorim, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, K. A. Marsh, F. S. Tsung, W. B. Mori, and C. Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 064801 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Critical Velocity in the Presence of Surface Bound States in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

P. Zheng, W. G. Jiang, C. S. Barquist, Y. Lee, and H. B. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 065301 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Low-Entropy States of Neutral Atoms in Polarization-Synthesized Optical Lattices

Carsten Robens, Jonathan Zopes, Wolfgang Alt, Stefan Brakhane, Dieter Meschede, and Andrea Alberti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 065302 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Kibble-Zurek Scaling in the Yang-Lee Edge Singularity

Shuai Yin, Guang-Yao Huang, Chung-Yu Lo, and Pochung Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 065701 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Diverging Time Scale in the Dimensional Crossover for Liquids in Strong Confinement

Suvendu Mandal and Thomas Franosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 065901 (2017) - Published 6 February, 2017

Invariant Fast Diffusion on the Surfaces of Ultrastable and Aged Molecular Glasses

Yue Zhang and Zahra Fakhraai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 066101 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Creating and Steering Highly Directional Electron Beams in Graphene

Ming-Hao Liu (劉明豪), Cosimo Gorini, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 066801 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Quantum Annealing via Environment-Mediated Quantum Diffusion

Vadim N. Smelyanskiy, Davide Venturelli, Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz, Sergey Knysh, and Mark I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 066802 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Glass Transitions in Monodisperse Cluster-Forming Ensembles: Vortex Matter in Type-1.5 Superconductors

Rogelio Díaz-Méndez, Fabio Mezzacapo, Wolfgang Lechner, Fabio Cinti, Egor Babaev, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067001 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Coexistence of Replica Bands and Superconductivity in FeSe Monolayer Films

S. N. Rebec, T. Jia, C. Zhang, M. Hashimoto, D.-H. Lu, R. G. Moore, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067002 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Orbital Dimer Model for the Spin-Glass State in $Y_{2} {Mo}_{2} O_{7}$

Peter M. M. Thygesen, Joseph A. M. Paddison, Ronghuan Zhang, Kevin A. Beyer, Karena W. Chapman, Helen Y. Playford, Matthew G. Tucker, David A. Keen, Michael A. Hayward, and Andrew L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067201 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Electrical Detection of Spin Backflow from an Antiferromagnetic Insulator/ $Y_{3} {Fe}_{5} O_{12}$ Interface

Weiwei Lin and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067202 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Reveals Disordered Level-Crossing Physics in the Bose-Glass Regime of the Br-Doped $Ni ({Cl}_{1 - x} {Br}_{x})_{2} − 4 SC ({NH}_{2})_{2}$ Compound at a High Magnetic Field

Anna Orlova, Rémi Blinder, Edwin Kermarrec, Maxime Dupont, Nicolas Laflorencie, Sylvain Capponi, Hadrien Mayaffre, Claude Berthier, Armando Paduan-Filho, and Mladen Horvatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067203 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Disorder-Induced Revival of the Bose-Einstein Condensation in $Ni ({Cl}_{1 - x} {Br}_{x})_{2} − 4 SC ({NH}_{2})_{2}$ at High Magnetic Fields

Maxime Dupont, Sylvain Capponi, and Nicolas Laflorencie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067204 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017

Magnetic Field Dependence of Excitations Near Spin-Orbital Quantum Criticality

A. Biffin, Ch. Rüegg, J. Embs, T. Guidi, D. Cheptiakov, A. Loidl, V. Tsurkan, and R. Coldea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067205 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Anomalous Metal Phase Emergent on the Verge of an Exciton Mott Transition

Fumiya Sekiguchi, Toshimitsu Mochizuki, Changsu Kim, Hidefumi Akiyama, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067401 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

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Spin Polarization and Attosecond Time Delay in Photoemission from Spin Degenerate States of Solids

Mauro Fanciulli, Henrieta Volfová, Stefan Muff, Jürgen Braun, Hubert Ebert, Jan Minár, Ulrich Heinzmann, and J. Hugo Dil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067402 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

Time delay between photon entry and the resulting photoemission from a dispersive band of a solid is determined by measuring the spin polarization of the photoelectrons.

Landau-Zener-Stückelberg Interferometry in Quantum Dots with Fast Rise Times: Evidence for Coherent Phonon Driving

M. Korkusinski, S. A. Studenikin, G. Aers, G. Granger, A. Kam, and A. S. Sachrajda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067701 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

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Odd-Integer Quantum Hall States and Giant Spin Susceptibility in $p$ -Type Few-Layer ${WSe}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067702 (2017) - Published 10 February, 2017

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

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Process-Accessible States of Block Copolymers

De-Wen Sun and Marcus Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 067801 (2017) - Published 8 February, 2017

Light could alter the chemistry of multicomponent polymers, allowing for the control of structures they form.

ERRATA

Erratum: Comparison of Spectral Linewidths for Quantum Degenerate Bosons and Fermions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 213001 (2016)]

R. P. M. J. W. Notermans, R. J. Rengelink, and W. Vassen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 069901 (2017) - Published 9 February, 2017