Volume 119, Issue 10

8 September 2017

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Sequential simulation snapshots of a moving droplet driven by collective dynamics of active particles. Top: evolution of particle alignment within the drop. Bottom: force generation.

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Self-Driven Droplet Powered By Active Nematics
Tong Gao and Zhaorui Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108002 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Superpropulsion of Droplets and Soft Elastic Solids

Christophe Raufaste, Gabriela Ramos Chagas, Thierry Darmanin, Cyrille Claudet, Frédéric Guittard, and Franck Celestini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108001 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

An oscillating surface can propel a drop of water or a springy ball upward at a speed higher than that of the moving surface.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spectroscopy of a Synthetic Trapped Ion Qubit

David Hucul, Justin E. Christensen, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100501 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017

The trapping and cooling of the radioactive isotope barium-133 offers up an attractive system for encoding quantum information.

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Mean-Field Scaling of the Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition in a 2D Optical Superlattice

Claire K. Thomas, Thomas H. Barter, Tsz-Him Leung, Masayuki Okano, Gyu-Boong Jo, Jennie Guzman, Itamar Kimchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100402 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017

Precise, quantitative tests of many-body theory are carried out using ultracold atoms as quantum simulators.

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QCD Coupling from a Nonperturbative Determination of the Three-Flavor $Λ$ Parameter

Mattia Bruno, Mattia Dalla Brida, Patrick Fritzsch, Tomasz Korzec, Alberto Ramos, Stefan Schaefer, Hubert Simma, Stefan Sint, and Rainer Sommer (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 102001 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

The magnitude of the strong nuclear force is precisely predicted with lattice QCD. This benchmark value is valuable for high energy particle collision computations.

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Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density

Loïc Anderegg, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Eunmi Chae, Boerge Hemmerling, Nicholas R. Hutzler, Aakash Ravi, Alejandra Collopy, Jun Ye, Wolfgang Ketterle, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103201 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017

Significant improvements in molecular trapping techniques increase the trappable molecular density by an order of magnitude, furthering the quest for directly loading optical tweezers and lattices, and for generating a Bose-Einstein condensate of CaF.

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Interatomic Coulombic Decay: The Mechanism for Rapid Deexcitation of Hollow Atoms

Richard A. Wilhelm, Elisabeth Gruber, Janine Schwestka, Roland Kozubek, Teresa I. Madeira, José P. Marques, Jacek Kobus, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Marika Schleberger, and Friedrich Aumayr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103401 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Interatomic Coulomb decay is shown to cause the ultrafast neutralization and de-excitation of atoms after they impact a surface.

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Competition between Polar and Nonpolar Lattice Distortions in Oxide Quantum Wells: New Critical Thickness at Polar Interfaces

J. Gazquez, M. Stengel, R. Mishra, M. Scigaj, M. Varela, M. A. Roldan, J. Fontcuberta, F. Sánchez, and G. Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106102 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

The balance between two competing order parameters can be controlled by quantum confinement to stabilize a perovskite compound into one of two possible phases.

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Negative Longitudinal Magnetoresistance from the Anomalous $N = 0$ Landau Level in Topological Materials

B. A. Assaf, T. Phuphachong, E. Kampert, V. V. Volobuev, P. S. Mandal, J. Sánchez-Barriga, O. Rader, G. Bauer, G. Springholz, L. A. de Vaulchier, and Y. Guldner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106602 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Analysis of the magnetoresistance of topological insulators indicates that the bulk of these materials is more topologically interesting than previously thought.

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Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity

Feng Peng, Ying Sun, Chris J. Pickard, Richard J. Needs, Qiang Wu, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107001 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

A first-principles search among possible rare earth hydrogen clathrate structures under high pressure predicts that one of them, YH $_{10}$ , is a potential room-temperature superconductor with a $T$ $_{c}$ of up to 303 K, at 400 GPa pressure.

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Effects of Trimethylamine- $N$ -oxide on the Conformation of Peptides and its Implications for Proteins

Zhaoqian Su, Farbod Mahmoudinobar, and Cristiano L. Dias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108102 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

The stabilization of folded proteins via the osmolyte TMAO is studied theoretically using molecular dynamics simulations, providing new insights in to the molecular mechanisms behind this process.

LETTERS

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

Pairing Dynamics of Polar States in a Quenched $p$ -Wave Superfluid Fermi Gas

Sukjin Yoon and Gentaro Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100401 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

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Mean-Field Scaling of the Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition in a 2D Optical Superlattice

Claire K. Thomas, Thomas H. Barter, Tsz-Him Leung, Masayuki Okano, Gyu-Boong Jo, Jennie Guzman, Itamar Kimchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100402 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017

Precise, quantitative tests of many-body theory are carried out using ultracold atoms as quantum simulators.

General Galilei Covariant Gaussian Maps

Giulio Gasbarri, Marko Toroš, and Angelo Bassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100403 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spectroscopy of a Synthetic Trapped Ion Qubit

David Hucul, Justin E. Christensen, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100501 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017

The trapping and cooling of the radioactive isotope barium-133 offers up an attractive system for encoding quantum information.

Experimental Detection of Quantum Channel Capacities

Álvaro Cuevas, Massimiliano Proietti, Mario Arnolfo Ciampini, Stefano Duranti, Paolo Mataloni, Massimiliano F. Sacchi, and Chiara Macchiavello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100502 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Polynomial-Time Classical Simulation of Quantum Ferromagnets

Sergey Bravyi and David Gosset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100503 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Fluctuation Theorem for Many-Body Pure Quantum States

Eiki Iyoda, Kazuya Kaneko, and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100601 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

Fractal Dimension of Interfaces in Edwards-Anderson and Long-range Ising Spin Glasses: Determining the Applicability of Different Theoretical Descriptions

Wenlong Wang, M. A. Moore, and Helmut G. Katzgraber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100602 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

Hybrid Semiclassical Theory of Quantum Quenches in One-Dimensional Systems

Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Márton Kormos, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100603 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Enhancing the Spectral Hardening of Cosmic TeV Photons by Mixing with Axionlike Particles in the Magnetized Cosmic Web

Daniele Montanino, Franco Vazza, Alessandro Mirizzi, and Matteo Viel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 101101 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

No Evidence for Extensions to the Standard Cosmological Model

Alan Heavens, Yabebal Fantaye, Elena Sellentin, Hans Eggers, Zafiirah Hosenie, Steve Kroon, and Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 101301 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of $B_{s}^{0}$ and $D_{s}^{-}$ Meson Lifetimes

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 101801 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

QCD Coupling from a Nonperturbative Determination of the Three-Flavor $Λ$ Parameter

Mattia Bruno, Mattia Dalla Brida, Patrick Fritzsch, Tomasz Korzec, Alberto Ramos, Stefan Schaefer, Hubert Simma, Stefan Sint, and Rainer Sommer (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 102001 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

The magnitude of the strong nuclear force is precisely predicted with lattice QCD. This benchmark value is valuable for high energy particle collision computations.

Nuclear Physics

Anomalous Evolution of the Near-Side Jet Peak Shape in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

J. Adam et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 102301 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density

Loïc Anderegg, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Eunmi Chae, Boerge Hemmerling, Nicholas R. Hutzler, Aakash Ravi, Alejandra Collopy, Jun Ye, Wolfgang Ketterle, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103201 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017

Autoresonance Cooling of Ions in an Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap

R. K. Gangwar, K. Saha, O. Heber, M. L. Rappaport, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103202 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interatomic Coulombic Decay: The Mechanism for Rapid Deexcitation of Hollow Atoms

Richard A. Wilhelm, Elisabeth Gruber, Janine Schwestka, Roland Kozubek, Teresa I. Madeira, José P. Marques, Jacek Kobus, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Marika Schleberger, and Friedrich Aumayr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103401 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Interatomic Coulomb decay is shown to cause the ultrafast neutralization and de-excitation of atoms after they impact a surface.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measured Emittance Dependence on the Injection Method in Laser Plasma Accelerators

S. K. Barber, J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder, R. Lehe, H.-E. Tsai, K. K. Swanson, S. Steinke, K. Nakamura, C. G. R. Geddes, C. Benedetti, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 104801 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

Electron Surfing and Drift Accelerations in a Weibel-Dominated High-Mach-Number Shock

Yosuke Matsumoto, Takanobu Amano, Tsunehiko N. Kato, and Masahiro Hoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 105101 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fundamental Resolution of Difficulties in the Theory of Charged Point Defects in Semiconductors

Yu-Ning Wu, X.-G. Zhang, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 105501 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

Multivalency-Driven Formation of Te-Based Monolayer Materials: A Combined First-Principles and Experimental study

Zhili Zhu, Xiaolin Cai, Seho Yi, Jinglei Chen, Yawei Dai, Chunyao Niu, Zhengxiao Guo, Maohai Xie, Feng Liu, Jun-Hyung Cho, Yu Jia, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106101 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Competition between Polar and Nonpolar Lattice Distortions in Oxide Quantum Wells: New Critical Thickness at Polar Interfaces

J. Gazquez, M. Stengel, R. Mishra, M. Scigaj, M. Varela, M. A. Roldan, J. Fontcuberta, F. Sánchez, and G. Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106102 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

The balance between two competing order parameters can be controlled by quantum confinement to stabilize a perovskite compound into one of two possible phases.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strong Linear Dichroism in Spin-Polarized Photoemission from Spin-Orbit-Coupled Surface States

H. Bentmann, H. Maaß, E. E. Krasovskii, T. R. F. Peixoto, C. Seibel, M. Leandersson, T. Balasubramanian, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106401 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

Localization Effects on Magnetotransport of a Disordered Weyl Semimetal

E. Khalaf and P. M. Ostrovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106601 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

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Negative Longitudinal Magnetoresistance from the Anomalous $N = 0$ Landau Level in Topological Materials

B. A. Assaf, T. Phuphachong, E. Kampert, V. V. Volobuev, P. S. Mandal, J. Sánchez-Barriga, O. Rader, G. Bauer, G. Springholz, L. A. de Vaulchier, and Y. Guldner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106602 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Analysis of the magnetoresistance of topological insulators indicates that the bulk of these materials is more topologically interesting than previously thought.

Exotic Non-Abelian Topological Defects in Lattice Fractional Quantum Hall States

Zhao Liu, Gunnar Möller, and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106801 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

Guiding Waves Along an Infinitesimal Line between Impedance Surfaces

Dia’aaldin J. Bisharat and Daniel F. Sievenpiper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106802 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

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Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity

Feng Peng, Ying Sun, Chris J. Pickard, Richard J. Needs, Qiang Wu, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107001 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Dimensional Crossover of Charge-Density Wave Correlations in the Cuprates

Yosef Caplan and Dror Orgad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107002 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Correlation of Fe-Based Superconductivity and Electron-Phonon Coupling in an $FeAs / Oxide$ Heterostructure

Seokhwan Choi, Steven Johnston, Won-Jun Jang, Klaus Koepernik, Ken Nakatsukasa, Jong Mok Ok, Hyun-Jung Lee, Hyun Woo Choi, Alex Taekyung Lee, Alireza Akbari, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Yunkyu Bang, Jun Sung Kim, and Jhinhwan Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107003 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Electrically Controllable Magnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga, J. L. Lado, Francisco Guinea, and Pablo San-Jose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107201 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

Edge Quantum Criticality and Emergent Supersymmetry in Topological Phases

Zi-Xiang Li, Yi-Fan Jiang, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107202 (2017) - Published 5 September, 2017

Spin Flips versus Spin Transport in Nonthermal Electrons Excited by Ultrashort Optical Pulses in Transition Metals

V. Shokeen, M. Sanchez Piaia, J.-Y. Bigot, T. Müller, P. Elliott, J. K. Dewhurst, S. Sharma, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107203 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Nonlinear Ultrafast Spin Scattering in the Skyrmion Phase of ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

M. C. Langner, S. Roy, S. W. Huang, J. D. Koralek, Y.-D. Chuang, G. L. Dakovski, J. J. Turner, J. S. Robinson, R. N. Coffee, M. P. Minitti, S. Seki, Y. Tokura, and R. W. Schoenlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107204 (2017) - Published 7 September, 2017

Magnon Spin-Momentum Locking: Various Spin Vortices and Dirac magnons in Noncollinear Antiferromagnets

Nobuyuki Okuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107205 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Signatures of the Chiral Anomaly in Phonon Dynamics

P. Rinkel, P. L. S. Lopes, and Ion Garate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107401 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Spin-Valley Half-Metal as a Prospective Material for Spin Valleytronics

A. V. Rozhkov, A. L. Rakhmanov, A. O. Sboychakov, K. I. Kugel, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107601 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superpropulsion of Droplets and Soft Elastic Solids

Christophe Raufaste, Gabriela Ramos Chagas, Thierry Darmanin, Cyrille Claudet, Frédéric Guittard, and Franck Celestini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108001 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

An oscillating surface can propel a drop of water or a springy ball upward at a speed higher than that of the moving surface.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effects of Trimethylamine- $N$ -oxide on the Conformation of Peptides and its Implications for Proteins

Zhaoqian Su, Farbod Mahmoudinobar, and Cristiano L. Dias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108102 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

The stabilization of folded proteins via the osmolyte TMAO is studied theoretically using molecular dynamics simulations, providing new insights in to the molecular mechanisms behind this process.

Bet Hedging against Demographic Fluctuations

BingKan Xue and Stanislas Leibler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108103 (2017) - Published 8 September, 2017

Concurrency-Induced Transitions in Epidemic Dynamics on Temporal Networks

Tomokatsu Onaga, James P. Gleeson, and Naoki Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108301 (2017) - Published 6 September, 2017