Volume 119, Issue 11

15 September 2017

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On the Cover

Time evolution of charged ethanol drops suspended in a magnetic field. Left to right: effect of increasing angular momentum imparted by controllable air flow. Top to bottom: effect of increasing electric charge.

From the article:

Shapes and Fissility of Highly Charged and Rapidly Rotating Levitated Liquid Drops
L. Liao and R. J. A. Hill
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 114501 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Temperature Scaling Law for Quantum Annealing Optimizers

Tameem Albash, Victor Martin-Mayor, and Itay Hen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110502 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Calculations show that quantum annealing—the quantum computing method used in a commercially available device—is hampered by thermal effects.

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Self-Interacting Dark Matter Can Explain Diverse Galactic Rotation Curves

Ayuki Kamada, Manoj Kaplinghat, Andrew B. Pace, and Hai-Bo Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111102 (2017) - Published 13 September, 2017

Dark matter that interacts with itself provides a better description of the speeds of stars in galaxies than dark matter that doesn’t self-interact.

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Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon $Ξ_{c c}^{+ +}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112001 (2017) - Published 11 September, 2017

High-precision experiments at CERN find a new baryon containing two charm quarks.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneous Formation of Vector Vortex Beams in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Feedback

Jesus Jimenez-Garcia, Pedro Rodriguez, T. Guillet, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113902 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

A simple laser setup has spontaneously produced nonuniform polarization patterns called vector vortices.

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Improved Noninterferometric Test of Collapse Models Using Ultracold Cantilevers

A. Vinante, R. Mezzena, P. Falferi, M. Carlesso, and A. Bassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110401 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Oscillations of a microcantilever at milliKelvin temperature have been accurately measured, leading to more stringent limits on the collapse parameters of wave functions and revealing a noise source of unknown origin.

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All Entangled States can Demonstrate Nonclassical Teleportation

Daniel Cavalcanti, Paul Skrzypczyk, and Ivan Šupić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110501 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

A new benchmark for quantum teleportation shows that more entangled states are viable for this that previously thought.

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Emergence of Type-II Dirac Points in Graphynelike Photonic Lattices

Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Nicholas S. Nye, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113901 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

The band structure of an all-dielectric, non-centrosymmetric photonic lattice is predicted to exhibit both type-I and type-II Dirac points.

LETTERS

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

Diffusion and Signatures of Localization in Stochastic Conformal Field Theory

Denis Bernard and Benjamin Doyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110201 (2017) - Published 11 September, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Noninterferometric Test of Collapse Models Using Ultracold Cantilevers

A. Vinante, R. Mezzena, P. Falferi, M. Carlesso, and A. Bassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110401 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All Entangled States can Demonstrate Nonclassical Teleportation

Daniel Cavalcanti, Paul Skrzypczyk, and Ivan Šupić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110501 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

A new benchmark for quantum teleportation shows that more entangled states are viable for this that previously thought.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature Scaling Law for Quantum Annealing Optimizers

Tameem Albash, Victor Martin-Mayor, and Itay Hen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110502 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Calculations show that quantum annealing—the quantum computing method used in a commercially available device—is hampered by thermal effects.

Monogamy Inequality for Any Local Quantum Resource and Entanglement

S. Camalet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110503 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Correlation Decay in Fermionic Lattice Systems with Power-Law Interactions at Nonzero Temperature

Senaida Hernández-Santana, Christian Gogolin, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110601 (2017) - Published 13 September, 2017

Heat Transport via Low-Dimensional Systems with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

Shuji Tamaki, Makiko Sasada, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110602 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Diffusion in Deterministic Interacting Lattice Systems

Marko Medenjak, Katja Klobas, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110603 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Scaling Theory of Entanglement at the Many-Body Localization Transition

Philipp T. Dumitrescu, Romain Vasseur, and Andrew C. Potter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 110604 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Wave Oscillations in Bigravity

Kevin Max, Moritz Platscher, and Juri Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111101 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

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Self-Interacting Dark Matter Can Explain Diverse Galactic Rotation Curves

Ayuki Kamada, Manoj Kaplinghat, Andrew B. Pace, and Hai-Bo Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111102 (2017) - Published 13 September, 2017

Dark matter that interacts with itself provides a better description of the speeds of stars in galaxies than dark matter that doesn’t self-interact.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Large Spin Perturbation Theory for Conformal Field Theories

Luis F. Alday

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111601 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Gauss-Bonnet Supergravity in Six Dimensions

Joseph Novak, Mehmet Ozkan, Yi Pang, and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111602 (2017) - Published 13 September, 2017

Derivation of the Time-Reversal Anomaly for ( $2 + 1$ )-Dimensional Topological Phases

Yuji Tachikawa and Kazuya Yonekura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111603 (2017) - Published 13 September, 2017

Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches

Marco Farina and Matthew Low

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111801 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Search for Low Mass Vector Resonances Decaying to Quark-Antiquark Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 111802 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

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Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon $Ξ_{c c}^{+ +}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112001 (2017) - Published 11 September, 2017

High-precision experiments at CERN find a new baryon containing two charm quarks.

First Measurement of Transverse-Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Asymmetries in the Drell-Yan Process

M. Aghasyan et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112002 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Probing the Hardest Branching within Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Yang-Ting Chien and Ivan Vitev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112301 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Dissecting Reactor Antineutrino Flux Calculations

A. A. Sonzogni, E. A. McCutchan, and A. C. Hayes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112501 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Enhancement of the Triple Alpha Rate in a Hot Dense Medium

Mary Beard, Sam M. Austin, and Richard Cyburt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 112701 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Atomic Clock Measurements of Quantum Scattering Phase Shifts Spanning Feshbach Resonances at Ultralow Fields

Aaron Bennett, Kurt Gibble, Servaas Kokkelmans, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113401 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Vibrational Feshbach Resonances Mediated by Nondipole Positron-Molecule Interactions

M. R. Natisin, J. R. Danielson, G. F. Gribakin, A. R. Swann, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113402 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Induced Cavities for Photonic Quantum Gates

Ohr Lahad and Ofer Firstenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113601 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence of Type-II Dirac Points in Graphynelike Photonic Lattices

Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Nicholas S. Nye, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113901 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

The band structure of an all-dielectric, non-centrosymmetric photonic lattice is predicted to exhibit both type-I and type-II Dirac points.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneous Formation of Vector Vortex Beams in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers with Feedback

Jesus Jimenez-Garcia, Pedro Rodriguez, T. Guillet, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113902 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

A simple laser setup has spontaneously produced nonuniform polarization patterns called vector vortices.

Optically Controlled Orbital Angular Momentum Generation in a Polaritonic Quantum Fluid

S. M. H. Luk, N. H. Kwong, P. Lewandowski, S. Schumacher, and R. Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 113903 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Two-Dimensional Pulse Propagation without Anomalous Dispersion

Carl M. Bender, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Sarben Sarkar, and Anatoly V. Zayats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 114301 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Shapes and Fissility of Highly Charged and Rapidly Rotating Levitated Liquid Drops

L. Liao and R. J. A. Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 114501 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Realizing and Detecting a Topological Insulator in the AIII Symmetry Class

Carlos G. Velasco and Belén Paredes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115301 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Incommensurate Chirality Density Wave Transition in a Hybrid Molecular Framework

Joshua A. Hill, Kirsten E. Christensen, and Andrew L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115501 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Self-Averaging Fluctuations in the Chaoticity of Simple Fluids

Moupriya Das and Jason R. Green

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115502 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Extraordinary Indentation Strain Stiffening Produces Superhard Tungsten Nitrides

Cheng Lu, Quan Li, Yanming Ma, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115503 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

Nanoparticle Superlattices as Quasi-Frank-Kasper Phases

Alex Travesset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115701 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Disappearance of the Hexatic Phase in a Binary Mixture of Hard Disks

John Russo and Nigel B. Wilding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115702 (2017) - Published 14 September, 2017

Mapping Isobaric Aging onto the Equilibrium Phase Diagram

Kristine Niss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115703 (2017) - Published 15 September, 2017

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

Shear-Induced Heterogeneity in Associating Polymer Gels: Role of Network Structure and Dilatancy

Ahmad K. Omar and Zhen-Gang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 117801 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Electric Double Layer Composed of an Antagonistic Salt in an Aqueous Mixture: Local Charge Separation and Surface Phase Transition

Shunsuke Yabunaka and Akira Onuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 118001 (2017) - Published 11 September, 2017

ERRATA

Erratum: Reduced Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of ${}^{199}{Hg}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161601 (2016)]

B. Graner, Y. Chen, E. G. Lindahl, and B. R. Heckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 119901 (2017) - Published 12 September, 2017

Volume 119, Issue 11

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

ERRATA