Volume 118, Issue 8

24 February 2017

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On the Cover

Buckling-induced kirigami structure is flat-folded, bent, twisted, and used to support a 20 g mass. Inset shows that an identical perforated flat sheet cannot support such a mass.

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Buckling-Induced Kirigami
Ahmad Rafsanjani and Katia Bertoldi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084301 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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How to Make Distinct Dynamical Systems Appear Spectrally Identical

Andre G. Campos, Denys I. Bondar, Renan Cabrera, and Herschel A. Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083201 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Calculations show that a carefully engineered laser pulse can induce an atom to emit light as if it were a different atom.

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Fast Dynamics of Water Droplets Freezing from the Outside In

Sander Wildeman, Sebastian Sterl, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084101 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

High-speed video and modeling reveal the conditions under which water drops explode when they’re frozen from the outside in.

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Nonmonotonic Aging and Memory Retention in Disordered Mechanical Systems

Yoav Lahini, Omer Gottesman, Ariel Amir, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085501 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Crumpled sheets “remember” the application and removal of a force for days, a newly discovered memory effect that suggests crumpled sheets are a lot like glasses.

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Selective Probing of Hidden Spin-Polarized States in Inversion-Symmetric Bulk ${MoS}_{2}$

E. Razzoli, T. Jaouen, M.-L. Mottas, B. Hildebrand, G. Monney, A. Pisoni, S. Muff, M. Fanciulli, N. C. Plumb, V. A. Rogalev, V. N. Strocov, J. Mesot, M. Shi, J. H. Dil, H. Beck, and P. Aebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 086402 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

Photoemission spectroscopy has detected two different populations of spin-polarized electrons that are “hidden” within a layered, graphene-like material.

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Observation of the Annihilation Decay Mode $B^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081801 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

The LHCb Collaboration reports the rarest (8 in 100 million events) fully hadronic $B^{0}$ meson decay ever observed.

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Five-Loop Running of the QCD Coupling Constant

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 082002 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

For the first time, theorists calculate the complete five-loop term in the beta function for quark-gluon coupling in quantum chromodynamics.

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Repulsive Fermi Polarons in a Resonant Mixture of Ultracold ${}^{6}{Li}$ Atoms

F. Scazza, G. Valtolina, P. Massignan, A. Recati, A. Amico, A. Burchianti, C. Fort, M. Inguscio, M. Zaccanti, and G. Roati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083602 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Radio frequency spectroscopy measurements are used to determine the effective mass, energy, and decay rate of repulsive Fermi polaron quasiparticles that emerge from impurities in an ultracold Fermi gas.

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Impact of the Electronic Band Structure in High-Harmonic Generation Spectra of Solids

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Oliver D. Mücke, Franz X. Kärtner, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087403 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Advanced first-principles calculations reveal that the generation of high harmonic spectra is enhanced by the inhomogeneity of the electron-nuclei potential, which is obtained from the band structure.

LETTERS

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

Entanglement by Path Identity

Mario Krenn, Armin Hochrainer, Mayukh Lahiri, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080401 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Polynomial Monogamy Relations for Entanglement Negativity

Grant W. Allen and David A. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080402 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Vortex Lattices in the Bose-Fermi Superfluid Mixture

Yuzhu Jiang, Ran Qi, Zhe-Yu Shi, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080403 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Detecting Non-Markovianity of Quantum Evolution via Spectra of Dynamical Maps

Dariusz Chruściński, Chiara Macchiavello, and Sabrina Maniscalco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080404 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Quantum Machine Learning over Infinite Dimensions

Hoi-Kwan Lau, Raphael Pooser, George Siopsis, and Christian Weedbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080501 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Experimental Identification of Non-Abelian Topological Orders on a Quantum Simulator

Keren Li, Yidun Wan, Ling-Yan Hung, Tian Lan, Guilu Long, Dawei Lu, Bei Zeng, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080502 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Catalytic Decoupling of Quantum Information

Christian Majenz, Mario Berta, Frédéric Dupuis, Renato Renner, and Matthias Christandl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080503 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Nonergodicity in the Anisotropic Dicke Model

Wouter Buijsman, Vladimir Gritsev, and Rudolf Sprik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080601 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Conformal Bootstrap in Mellin Space

Rajesh Gopakumar, Apratim Kaviraj, Kallol Sen, and Aninda Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081601 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Construction of all $N = 4$ conformal supergravities

Daniel Butter, Franz Ciceri, Bernard de Wit, and Bindusar Sahoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081602 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Annihilation Decay Mode $B^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081801 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

The LHCb Collaboration reports the rarest (8 in 100 million events) fully hadronic $B^{0}$ meson decay ever observed.

Lifetime of $B_{c}^{-}$ Mesons Constrains Explanations for Anomalies in $B \to D^{(*)} τ ν$

Rodrigo Alonso, Benjamín Grinstein, and Jorge Martin Camalich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081802 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

$Λ_{c} \to Λ l^{+} ν_{l}$ Form Factors and Decay Rates from Lattice QCD with Physical Quark Masses

Stefan Meinel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 082001 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

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Five-Loop Running of the QCD Coupling Constant

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 082002 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

For the first time, theorists calculate the complete five-loop term in the beta function for quark-gluon coupling in quantum chromodynamics.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron Dynamics upon Ionization of Polyatomic Molecules: Coupling to Quantum Nuclear Motion and Decoherence

Morgane Vacher, Michael J. Bearpark, Michael A. Robb, and João Pedro Malhado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083001 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Five-Body Efimov Effect and Universal Pentamer in Fermionic Mixtures

B. Bazak and D. S. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083002 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

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How to Make Distinct Dynamical Systems Appear Spectrally Identical

Andre G. Campos, Denys I. Bondar, Renan Cabrera, and Herschel A. Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083201 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Calculations show that a carefully engineered laser pulse can induce an atom to emit light as if it were a different atom.

Observation of Interaction of Spin and Intrinsic Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

Dashiell L. P. Vitullo, Cody C. Leary, Patrick Gregg, Roger A. Smith, Dileep V. Reddy, Siddharth Ramachandran, and Michael G. Raymer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083601 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

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Repulsive Fermi Polarons in a Resonant Mixture of Ultracold ${}^{6}{Li}$ Atoms

F. Scazza, G. Valtolina, P. Massignan, A. Recati, A. Amico, A. Burchianti, C. Fort, M. Inguscio, M. Zaccanti, and G. Roati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083602 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Dynamically Manipulating Topological Physics and Edge Modes in a Single Degenerate Optical Cavity

Xiang-Fa Zhou, Xi-Wang Luo, Su Wang, Guang-Can Guo, Xingxiang Zhou, Han Pu, and Zheng-Wei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083603 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

Cavity-Assisted Single-Mode and Two-Mode Spin-Squeezed States via Phase-Locked Atom-Photon Coupling

Yong-Chang Zhang, Xiang-Fa Zhou, Xingxiang Zhou, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Wei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083604 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subcycle Extreme Nonlinearities in GaP Induced by an Ultrastrong Terahertz Field

Carlo Vicario, Mostafa Shalaby, and Christoph P. Hauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 083901 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

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Fast Dynamics of Water Droplets Freezing from the Outside In

Sander Wildeman, Sebastian Sterl, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084101 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

High-speed video and modeling reveal the conditions under which water drops explode when they’re frozen from the outside in.

Buckling-Induced Kirigami

Ahmad Rafsanjani and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084301 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Harnessing Geometric Frustration to Form Band Gaps in Acoustic Channel Lattices

Pai Wang, Yue Zheng, Matheus C. Fernandes, Yushen Sun, Kai Xu, Sijie Sun, Sung Hoon Kang, Vincent Tournat, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084302 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Topological Creation of Acoustic Pseudospin Multipoles in a Flow-Free Symmetry-Broken Metamaterial Lattice

Zhiwang Zhang, Qi Wei, Ying Cheng, Ting Zhang, Dajian Wu, and Xiaojun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084303 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Viscoelastic Drag Forces and Crossover from No-Slip to Slip Boundary Conditions for Flow near Air-Water Interfaces

A. Maali, R. Boisgard, H. Chraibi, Z. Zhang, H. Kellay, and A. Würger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 084501 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Anomalous Heating and Plasmoid Formation in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

J. D. Hare, L. Suttle, S. V. Lebedev, N. F. Loureiro, A. Ciardi, G. C. Burdiak, J. P. Chittenden, T. Clayson, C. Garcia, N. Niasse, T. Robinson, R. A. Smith, N. Stuart, F. Suzuki-Vidal, G. F. Swadling, J. Ma, J. Wu, and Q. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085001 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Why does Steady-State Magnetic Reconnection have a Maximum Local Rate of Order 0.1?

Yi-Hsin Liu, M. Hesse, F. Guo, W. Daughton, H. Li, P. A. Cassak, and M. A. Shay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085101 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Space-Time Vortex Driven Crossover and Vortex Turbulence Phase Transition in One-Dimensional Driven Open Condensates

Liang He, Lukas M. Sieberer, and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085301 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Anomalous Screening of Quantum Impurities by a Neutral Environment

E. Yakaboylu and M. Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085302 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

Instability of the Abrikosov Lattice due to Nonanalytic Core Reconstruction of Vortices in Bosonic Superfluids

Avraham Klein, Oded Agam, and Igor L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085303 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

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Nonmonotonic Aging and Memory Retention in Disordered Mechanical Systems

Yoav Lahini, Omer Gottesman, Ariel Amir, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 085501 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Crumpled sheets “remember” the application and removal of a force for days, a newly discovered memory effect that suggests crumpled sheets are a lot like glasses.

Quantitative Agreement between Electron-Optical Phase Images of ${WSe}_{2}$ and Simulations Based on Electrostatic Potentials that Include Bonding Effects

S. Borghardt, F. Winkler, Z. Zanolli, M. J. Verstraete, J. Barthel, A. H. Tavabi, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, and B. E. Kardynal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 086101 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

$J$ Freezing and Hund’s Rules in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Multiorbital Hubbard Models

Aaram J. Kim, Harald O. Jeschke, Philipp Werner, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 086401 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

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Selective Probing of Hidden Spin-Polarized States in Inversion-Symmetric Bulk ${MoS}_{2}$

E. Razzoli, T. Jaouen, M.-L. Mottas, B. Hildebrand, G. Monney, A. Pisoni, S. Muff, M. Fanciulli, N. C. Plumb, V. A. Rogalev, V. N. Strocov, J. Mesot, M. Shi, J. H. Dil, H. Beck, and P. Aebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 086402 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

Photoemission spectroscopy has detected two different populations of spin-polarized electrons that are “hidden” within a layered, graphene-like material.

How Many Parameters Actually Affect the Mobility of Conjugated Polymers?

Rocco P. Fornari, Paul W. M. Blom, and Alessandro Troisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 086601 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Lyapunov Exponent and Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlator’s Growth Rate in a Chaotic System

Efim B. Rozenbaum, Sriram Ganeshan, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 086801 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Unconventional Superconductivity in Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087001 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Theory of Laser-Controlled Competing Superconducting and Charge Orders

M. A. Sentef, A. Tokuno, A. Georges, and C. Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087002 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Hund Interaction, Spin-Orbit Coupling, and the Mechanism of Superconductivity in Strongly Hole-Doped Iron Pnictides

Oskar Vafek and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087003 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Surface State Tunneling Signatures in the Two-Component Superconductor ${UPt}_{3}$

Fabian Lambert, Alireza Akbari., Peter Thalmeier, and Ilya Eremin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087004 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Unconventional Surface Critical Behavior Induced by a Quantum Phase Transition from the Two-Dimensional Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki Phase to a Néel-Ordered Phase

Long Zhang and Fa Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087201 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Temperature and Magnetic Field Dependence of the Internal and Lattice Structures of Skyrmions by Off-Axis Electron Holography

K. Shibata, A. Kovács, N. S. Kiselev, N. Kanazawa, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087202 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Disorder-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in Spin Ice Pyrochlores

Lucile Savary and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087203 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Experimental and Ab Initio Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Ana M. Brown, Ravishankar Sundararaman, Prineha Narang, Adam M. Schwartzberg, William A. Goddard, III, and Harry A. Atwater

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087401 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Direct Time-Domain View of Auger Recombination in a Semiconductor

Kristopher W. Williams, Nicholas R. Monahan, Tyler J. S. Evans, and X.-Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087402 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

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Impact of the Electronic Band Structure in High-Harmonic Generation Spectra of Solids

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Oliver D. Mücke, Franz X. Kärtner, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087403 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Atomic-Scale Magnetometry of Dynamic Magnetization

J. van Bree and M. E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087601 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Charge-Order-Induced Ferroelectricity in ${LaVO}_{3} / {Sr VO}_{3}$ Superlattices

Se Young Park, Anil Kumar, and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 087602 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

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

Theory of Shape-Shifting Droplets

Pierre A. Haas, Raymond E. Goldstein, Stoyan K. Smoukov, Diana Cholakova, and Nikolai Denkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088001 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Fluidization and Active Thinning by Molecular Kinetics in Active Gels

David Oriola, Ricard Alert, and Jaume Casademunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088002 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Direct Observation of Entropic Stabilization of bcc Crystals Near Melting

Joris Sprakel, Alessio Zaccone, Frans Spaepen, Peter Schall, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088003 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Distinguishing Signatures of Multipathway Conformational Transitions

Christopher A. Pierse and Olga K. Dudko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088101 (2017) - Published 21 February, 2017

Critical Fluctuations in the Native State of Proteins

Qian-Yuan Tang, Yang-Yang Zhang, Jun Wang, Wei Wang, and Dante R. Chialvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088102 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

Critical Behaviors in Contagion Dynamics

L. Böttcher, J. Nagler, and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088301 (2017) - Published 23 February, 2017

Graph’s Topology and Free Energy of a Spin Model on the Graph

Jeong-Mo Choi, Amy I. Gilson, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 088302 (2017) - Published 24 February, 2017

COMMENTS

Comment on “New Ground-State Crystal Structure of Elemental Boron”

Helmut Werheit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 089601 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

An et al. Reply:

Qi An, K. Madhav Reddy, Kelvin Y. Xie, Kevin J. Hemker, and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 089602 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Spin Textures of Exciton-Polaritons in a Tunable Microcavity with Large TE-TM Splitting [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246401 (2015)]

S. Dufferwiel, Feng Li, E. Cancellieri, L. Giriunas, A. A. P. Trichet, D. M. Whittaker, P. M. Walker, F. Fras, E. Clarke, J. M. Smith, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 089901 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Development of improved radiation drive environment for high foot implosions at the National Ignition Facility [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225002 (2016)]

D. E. Hinkel, L. F. Berzak Hopkins, T. Ma, J. E. Ralph, F. Albert, L. R. Benedetti, P. M. Celliers, T. Döppner, C. S. Goyon, N. Izumi, L. C. Jarrott, S. F. Khan, J. L. Kline, A. L. Kritcher, G. A. Kyrala, S. R. Nagel, A. E. Pak, P. Patel, M. D. Rosen, J. R. Rygg, M. B. Schneider, D. P. Turnbull, C. B. Yeamans, D. A. Callahan, and O. A. Hurricane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 089902 (2017) - Published 22 February, 2017