Volume 118, Issue 9

3 March 2017

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On the Cover

Lorentz micrograph of a network of clockwise and anticlockwise vortices (white) and achiral antivortices (red) in a thin iron film.

From the article:

Light-Induced Metastable Magnetic Texture Uncovered by in situ Lorentz Microscopy
Tim Eggebrecht, Marcel Möller, J. Gregor Gatzmann, Nara Rubiano da Silva, Armin Feist, Ulrike Martens, Henning Ulrichs, Markus Münzenberg, Claus Ropers, and Sascha Schäfer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097203 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Phase Conjugation with Less Than a Photon per Degree of Freedom

M. Jang, C. Yang, and I. M. Vellekoop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093902 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

When a beam of light is sent through a nearly opaque material, the scattered light that emerges can be unscrambled even with few photons detected.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quasiparticle Approach to Molecules Interacting with Quantum Solvents

Mikhail Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095301 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

Quasiparticles called angulons can simplify the theoretical description of a molecule immersed in a quantum solvent.

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Dirac Fermions in Borophene

Baojie Feng, Osamu Sugino, Ro-Ya Liu, Jin Zhang, Ryu Yukawa, Mitsuaki Kawamura, Takushi Iimori, Howon Kim, Yukio Hasegawa, Hui Li, Lan Chen, Kehui Wu, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Fumio Komori, Tai-Chang Chiang, Sheng Meng, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096401 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

A one-atom-thick sheet of boron atoms exhibits Dirac cones, marking the first time this electronic property has been found in a material lacking a graphene-like crystal structure.

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Barrier Crossing in Escherichia coli Chemotaxis

Zhaojun Li, Qiuxian Cai, Xuanqi Zhang, Guangwei Si, Qi Ouyang, Chunxiong Luo, and Yuhai Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 098101 (2017) - Published 28 February, 2017

Bacteria track fast-moving chemical signals by hopping from one chemically favorable region to another.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Anisotropies with Seven Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

S. Abdollahi et al. (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091103 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

No significant anisotropies in the cosmic ray spectrum of electrons and positrons are seen in seven years of Fermi-LAT data.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Trapping of Cold Methyl Radicals

Yang Liu, Manish Vashishta, Pavle Djuricanin, Sida Zhou, Wei Zhong, Tony Mittertreiner, David Carty, and Takamasa Momose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093201 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

A beam of non-polar methyl molecules is slowed to a temperature of 200 mK using a magnetic molecular decelerator.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Condensation on Highly Superheated Surfaces: Unstable Thin Films in a Wickless Heat Pipe

Akshay Kundan, Thao T. T. Nguyen, Joel L. Plawsky, Peter C. Wayner, Jr., David F. Chao, and Ronald J. Sicker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 094501 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Microgravity experiments on the space station show condensation on a surface that is well above the boiling point of the condensate.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Switching the Structural Force in Ionic Liquid-Solvent Mixtures by Varying Composition

Alexander M. Smith, Alpha A. Lee, and Susan Perkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096002 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

The oscillating force between two plates immersed in a fluid can be tuned by adjusting the composition of the liquid.

LETTERS

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

Application of a Resource Theory for Magic States to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

Mark Howard and Earl Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 090501 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Liouville Field Theory and Log-Correlated Random Energy Models

Xiangyu Cao, Alberto Rosso, Raoul Santachiara, and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 090601 (2017) - Published 28 February, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Testing the Speed of Gravitational Waves over Cosmological Distances with Strong Gravitational Lensing

Thomas E. Collett and David Bacon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091101 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Speed of Gravitational Waves from Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Signals

Xi-Long Fan, Kai Liao, Marek Biesiada, Aleksandra Piórkowska-Kurpas, and Zong-Hong Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091102 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Anisotropies with Seven Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

S. Abdollahi et al. (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091103 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

No significant anisotropies in the cosmic ray spectrum of electrons and positrons are seen in seven years of Fermi-LAT data.

Graviton Mass Might Reduce Tension between Early and Late Time Cosmological Data

Antonio De Felice and Shinji Mukohyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091104 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Neutron Electric Dipole Moment from Gauge-String Duality

Lorenzo Bartolini, Francesco Bigazzi, Stefano Bolognesi, Aldo L. Cotrone, and Andrea Manenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091601 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

Mellin Amplitudes for Supergravity on ${AdS}_{5} \times S^{5}$

Leonardo Rastelli and Xinan Zhou (周稀楠)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091602 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Dielectric Haloscopes: A New Way to Detect Axion Dark Matter

Allen Caldwell, Gia Dvali, Béla Majorovits, Alexander Millar, Georg Raffelt, Javier Redondo, Olaf Reimann, Frank Simon, and Frank Steffen (MADMAX Working Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 091801 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Precise Measurement of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{+} π^{-} J / ψ$ Cross Section at Center-of-Mass Energies from 3.77 to 4.60 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 092001 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Evidence of Two Resonant Structures in $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{+} π^{-} h_{c}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 092002 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Hard Two-Photon Contribution to Elastic Lepton-Proton Scattering Determined by the OLYMPUS Experiment

B. S. Henderson et al. (OLYMPUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 092501 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Low-Energy Magnetic Dipole Radiation in Open-Shell Nuclei

R. Schwengner, S. Frauendorf, and B. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 092502 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Electromagnetic Moments of Radioactive ${}^{136}{Te}$ and the Emergence of Collectivity $2 p \oplus 2 n$ Outside of Double-Magic ${}^{132}{Sn}$

J. M. Allmond, A. E. Stuchbery, C. Baktash, A. Gargano, A. Galindo-Uribarri, D. C. Radford, C. R. Bingham, B. A. Brown, L. Coraggio, A. Covello, M. Danchev, C. J. Gross, P. A. Hausladen, N. Itaco, K. Lagergren, E. Padilla-Rodal, J. Pavan, M. A. Riley, N. J. Stone, D. W. Stracener, R. L. Varner, and C.-H. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 092503 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Limits of Strong Field Rescattering in the Relativistic Regime

M. Klaiber, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, J. Wu, S. S. Luo, P. Grugan, and B. C. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093001 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

Dynamically Encircling Exceptional Points: Exact Evolution and Polarization State Conversion

Absar U. Hassan, Bo Zhen, Marin Soljačić, Mercedeh Khajavikhan, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093002 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Trapping of Cold Methyl Radicals

Yang Liu, Manish Vashishta, Pavle Djuricanin, Sida Zhou, Wei Zhong, Tony Mittertreiner, David Carty, and Takamasa Momose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093201 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

A beam of non-polar methyl molecules is slowed to a temperature of 200 mK using a magnetic molecular decelerator.

Depolarization Dynamics in a Strongly Interacting Solid-State Spin Ensemble

Joonhee Choi, Soonwon Choi, Georg Kucsko, Peter C. Maurer, Brendan J. Shields, Hitoshi Sumiya, Shinobu Onoda, Junichi Isoya, Eugene Demler, Fedor Jelezko, Norman Y. Yao, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093601 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Zel’dovich Effect: Parametric Amplification from Medium Rotation

Daniele Faccio and Ewan M. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093901 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Phase Conjugation with Less Than a Photon per Degree of Freedom

M. Jang, C. Yang, and I. M. Vellekoop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 093902 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

When a beam of light is sent through a nearly opaque material, the scattered light that emerges can be unscrambled even with few photons detected.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Condensation on Highly Superheated Surfaces: Unstable Thin Films in a Wickless Heat Pipe

Akshay Kundan, Thao T. T. Nguyen, Joel L. Plawsky, Peter C. Wayner, Jr., David F. Chao, and Ronald J. Sicker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 094501 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Microgravity experiments on the space station show condensation on a surface that is well above the boiling point of the condensate.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Angular Momentum of Twisted Radiation from an Electron in Spiral Motion

M. Katoh, M. Fujimoto, H. Kawaguchi, K. Tsuchiya, K. Ohmi, T. Kaneyasu, Y. Taira, M. Hosaka, A. Mochihashi, and Y. Takashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 094801 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

New Paradigm for Turbulent Transport Across a Steep Gradient in Toroidal Plasmas

H. S. Xie, Y. Xiao, and Z. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095001 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

First Measurements of Deuterium-Tritium and Deuterium-Deuterium Fusion Reaction Yields in Ignition-Scalable Direct-Drive Implosions

C. J. Forrest, P. B. Radha, J. P. Knauer, V. Yu. Glebov, V. N. Goncharov, S. P. Regan, M. J. Rosenberg, T. C. Sangster, W. T. Shmayda, C. Stoeckl, and M. Gatu Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095002 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quasiparticle Approach to Molecules Interacting with Quantum Solvents

Mikhail Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095301 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

Quasiparticles called angulons can simplify the theoretical description of a molecule immersed in a quantum solvent.

Lattice Location of Mg in GaN: A Fresh Look at Doping Limitations

U. Wahl, L. M. Amorim, V. Augustyns, A. Costa, E. David-Bosne, T. A. L. Lima, G. Lippertz, J. G. Correia, M. R. da Silva, M. J. Kappers, K. Temst, A. Vantomme, and L. M. C. Pereira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095501 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Origin of a Nanoindentation Pop-in Event in Silicon Crystal

R. Abram, D. Chrobak, and R. Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 095502 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Reversible Heating in Electric Double Layer Capacitors

Mathijs Janssen and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096001 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Switching the Structural Force in Ionic Liquid-Solvent Mixtures by Varying Composition

Alexander M. Smith, Alpha A. Lee, and Susan Perkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096002 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

The oscillating force between two plates immersed in a fluid can be tuned by adjusting the composition of the liquid.

Reversal in the Size Dependence of Grain Rotation

Xiaoling Zhou, Nobumichi Tamura, Zhongying Mi, Jialin Lei, Jinyuan Yan, Lingkong Zhang, Wen Deng, Feng Ke, Binbin Yue, and Bin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096101 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Dirac Fermions in Borophene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096401 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

A one-atom-thick sheet of boron atoms exhibits Dirac cones, marking the first time this electronic property has been found in a material lacking a graphene-like crystal structure.

Accurate X-Ray Spectral Predictions: An Advanced Self-Consistent-Field Approach Inspired by Many-Body Perturbation Theory

Yufeng Liang, John Vinson, Sri Pemmaraju, Walter S. Drisdell, Eric L. Shirley, and David Prendergast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096402 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Mesoscopic Free Path of Nonthermalized Photogenerated Carriers in a Ferroelectric Insulator

Zongquan Gu, Dominic Imbrenda, Andrew L. Bennett-Jackson, Matthias Falmbigl, Adrian Podpirka, Thomas C. Parker, Daniel Shreiber, Mathew P. Ivill, Vladimir M. Fridkin, and Jonathan E. Spanier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096601 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Realization of Valley and Spin Pumps by Scattering at Nonmagnetic Disorders

Xing-Tao An, Jiang Xiao, M. W.-Y. Tu, Hongyi Yu, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, and Wang Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096602 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Experimental Observation of Anisotropic Adler-Bell-Jackiw Anomaly in Type-II Weyl Semimetal ${WTe}_{1.98}$ Crystals at the Quasiclassical Regime

Yang-Yang Lv, Xiao Li, Bin-Bin Zhang, W. Y. Deng, Shu-Hua Yao, Y. B. Chen, Jian Zhou, Shan-Tao Zhang, Ming-Hui Lu, Lei Zhang, Mingliang Tian, L. Sheng, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096603 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Excitons in topological Kondo insulators: Theory of thermodynamic and transport anomalies in ${SmB}_{6}$

Johannes Knolle and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096604 (2017) - Published 3 March, 2017

Particle-Hole Asymmetry in the Cuprate Pseudogap Measured with Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

Tristan L. Miller, Wentao Zhang, Hiroshi Eisaki, and Alessandra Lanzara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097001 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

Multiband One-Dimensional Electronic Structure and Spectroscopic Signature of Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Behavior in $K_{2} {Cr}_{3} {As}_{3}$

M. D. Watson, Y. Feng, C. W. Nicholson, C. Monney, J. M. Riley, H. Iwasawa, K. Refson, V. Sacksteder, D. T. Adroja, J. Zhao, and M. Hoesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097002 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

$a - b$ Anisotropy of the Intra-Unit-Cell Magnetic Order in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.6}$

Lucile Mangin-Thro, Yuan Li, Yvan Sidis, and Philippe Bourges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097003 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Magnetic Domain Wall Floating on a Spin Superfluid

Pramey Upadhyaya, Se Kwon Kim, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097201 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017

Light-Induced Metastable Magnetic Texture Uncovered by in situ Lorentz Microscopy

Tim Eggebrecht, Marcel Möller, J. Gregor Gatzmann, Nara Rubiano da Silva, Armin Feist, Ulrike Martens, Henning Ulrichs, Markus Münzenberg, Claus Ropers, and Sascha Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097203 (2017) - Published 1 March, 2017

Stationary Phonon Squeezing by Optical Polaron Excitation

T. Papenkort, V. M. Axt, and T. Kuhn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097401 (2017) - Published 2 March, 2017

Thermal Fluctuations of Ferroelectric Nanodomains in a Ferroelectric-Dielectric ${PbTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Superlattice

Qingteng Zhang, Eric M. Dufresne, Pice Chen, Joonkyu Park, Margaret P. Cosgriff, Mohammed Yusuf, Yongqi Dong, Dillon D. Fong, Hua Zhou, Zhonghou Cai, Ross J. Harder, Sara J. Callori, Matthew Dawber, Paul G. Evans, and Alec R. Sandy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 097601 (2017) - Published 27 February, 2017