Volume 119, Issue 16

20 October 2017

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Frame from a simulation depicting the inspiral phase of the first observed binary neutron star merger [credit: T. Dietrich (FSU/AEI); BAM Collaboration]. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Revealing Quantum Statistics with a Pair of Distant Atoms

C. F. Roos, A. Alberti, D. Meschede, P. Hauke, and H. Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160401 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

A proposed set of experiments could offer a direct measurement of the fundamental quantum property that distinguishes fermions from bosons.

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GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

For the first time, researchers have detected both light and gravitational waves from the same event in space.

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Observation of Optomechanical Strain in a Cold Atomic Cloud

Noam Matzliah, Hagai Edri, Asif Sinay, Roee Ozeri, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 163201 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Laser light can stretch and squeeze a whole cloud of atoms with a collective force.

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Quantum criticality and the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in one-dimensional Bose gases

Bing Yang, Yang-Yang Chen, Yong-Guang Zheng, Hui Sun, Han-Ning Dai, Xi-Wen Guan, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 165701 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

The Tomonaga-Luttinger theory describing one-dimensional materials has been tested with cold atoms and arrays of Josephson junctions.

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Insulating Josephson Junction Chains as Pinned Luttinger Liquids

Karin Cedergren, Roger Ackroyd, Sergey Kafanov, Nicolas Vogt, Alexander Shnirman, and Timothy Duty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 167701 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

The Tomonaga-Luttinger theory describing one-dimensional materials has been tested with cold atoms and arrays of Josephson junctions.

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Are Gravitational Waves Spinning Down PSR $J 1023 + 0038$ ?

B. Haskell and A. Patruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161103 (2017) - Published 17 October, 2017

A pulsar PSR J1023+0038 switches between two states that have different spin-down rates. A new analysis suggests that this discrepancy may be due to gravitational wave emission.

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Dynamo Action in a Quasi-Keplerian Taylor-Couette Flow

Anna Guseva, Rainer Hollerbach, Ashley P. Willis, and Marc Avila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 164501 (2017) - Published 17 October, 2017

Numerical evidence is provided for self-sustaining dynamo action in a confined electrically conducting fluid, such as an astrophysical accretion disc.

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Coulometry and Calorimetry of Electric Double Layer Formation in Porous Electrodes

Mathijs Janssen, Elian Griffioen, P. M. Biesheuvel, René van Roij, and Ben Erné

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166002 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Two new experimental techniques that make coulometric and calorimetric measurements of porous electrodes are used to obtain the entropic contribution to the grand potential. The new results differ significantly from theoretical predictions.

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Importance of $σ$ Bonding Electrons for the Accurate Description of Electron Correlation in Graphene

Huihuo Zheng, Yu Gan, Peter Abbamonte, and Lucas K. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166402 (2017) - Published 20 October, 2017

Electron correlations in graphene are characterized via first principles calculations, showing that bonding of $σ$ electrons is important in understanding the low energy physics of graphene.

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Band Filling Control of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Weakly Ferromagnetic Insulators

G. Beutier, S. P. Collins, O. V. Dimitrova, V. E. Dmitrienko, M. I. Katsnelson, Y. O. Kvashnin, A. I. Lichtenstein, V. V. Mazurenko, A. G. A. Nisbet, E. N. Ovchinnikova, and D. Pincini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 167201 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

The evolution of the sign of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is determined with phase sensitive x-ray magnetic diffraction, through interference between quadrupole resonant and non-resonant magnetic scattering.

LETTERS

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

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Revealing Quantum Statistics with a Pair of Distant Atoms

C. F. Roos, A. Alberti, D. Meschede, P. Hauke, and H. Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160401 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

A proposed set of experiments could offer a direct measurement of the fundamental quantum property that distinguishes fermions from bosons.

Controlled Asymmetry of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering with an Injected Nondegenerate Optical Parametric Oscillator

M. K. Olsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160501 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

Entangling Two Individual Atoms of Different Isotopes via Rydberg Blockade

Yong Zeng, Peng Xu, Xiaodong He, Yangyang Liu, Min Liu, Jin Wang, D. J. Papoular, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160502 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

Linear and Logarithmic Time Compositions of Quantum Many-Body Operators

F. Motzoi, M. P. Kaicher, and F. K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160503 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

Frenetic Bounds on the Entropy Production

Christian Maes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 160601 (2017) - Published 17 October, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

For the first time, researchers have detected both light and gravitational waves from the same event in space.

Bounding the Speed of Gravity with Gravitational Wave Observations

Neil Cornish, Diego Blas, and Germano Nardini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161102 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

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Are Gravitational Waves Spinning Down PSR $J 1023 + 0038$ ?

B. Haskell and A. Patruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161103 (2017) - Published 17 October, 2017

A pulsar PSR J1023+0038 switches between two states that have different spin-down rates. A new analysis suggests that this discrepancy may be due to gravitational wave emission.

Compact Stars with Sequential QCD Phase Transitions

Mark Alford and Armen Sedrakian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161104 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Higgs Amplitudes from $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Andreas Brandhuber, Martyna Kostacińska, Brenda Penante, and Gabriele Travaglini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161601 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

Free Quantum Fields in 4D and Calabi-Yau Spaces

Robert de Mello Koch, Phumudzo Rabambi, Randle Rabe, and Sanjaye Ramgoolam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161602 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

Universal Spatial Structure of Nonequilibrium Steady States

Julian Sonner and Benjamin Withers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161603 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

Dark Matter “Collider” from Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter

Doojin Kim, Jong-Chul Park, and Seodong Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161801 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

Nuclear Physics

JLab Measurements of the ${}^{3}{He}$ Form Factors at Large Momentum Transfers

A. Camsonne et al. (The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 162501 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Optomechanical Strain in a Cold Atomic Cloud

Noam Matzliah, Hagai Edri, Asif Sinay, Roee Ozeri, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 163201 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Laser light can stretch and squeeze a whole cloud of atoms with a collective force.

Electronic Stopping of Slow Protons in Oxides: Scaling Properties

D. Roth, B. Bruckner, G. Undeutsch, V. Paneta, A. I. Mardare, C. L. McGahan, M. Dosmailov, J. I. Juaristi, M. Alducin, J. D. Pedarnig, R. F. Haglund, Jr., D. Primetzhofer, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 163401 (2017) - Published 20 October, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Bound Pulse Trains in Arrays of Coupled Spatially Extended Dynamical Systems

D. Puzyrev, A. G. Vladimirov, A. Pimenov, S. V. Gurevich, and S. Yanchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 163901 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Replica Symmetry Breaking in the Photonic Ferromagneticlike Spontaneous Mode-Locking Phase of a Multimode Nd:YAG Laser

André L. Moura, Pablo I. R. Pincheira, Albert S. Reyna, Ernesto P. Raposo, Anderson S. L. Gomes, and Cid B. de Araújo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 163902 (2017) - Published 20 October, 2017

Impact of Strong Scattering Resonances on Ballistic and Diffusive Wave Transport

Benoit Tallon, Thomas Brunet, and John H. Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 164301 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

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Dynamo Action in a Quasi-Keplerian Taylor-Couette Flow

Anna Guseva, Rainer Hollerbach, Ashley P. Willis, and Marc Avila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 164501 (2017) - Published 17 October, 2017

Numerical evidence is provided for self-sustaining dynamo action in a confined electrically conducting fluid, such as an astrophysical accretion disc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collisionless Shock Acceleration of High-Flux Quasimonoenergetic Proton Beams Driven by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses

H. Zhang, B. F. Shen, W. P. Wang, S. H. Zhai, S. S. Li, X. M. Lu, J. F. Li, R. J. Xu, X. L. Wang, X. Y. Liang, Y. X. Leng, R. X. Li, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 164801 (2017) - Published 17 October, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Quantum criticality and the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid in one-dimensional Bose gases

Bing Yang, Yang-Yang Chen, Yong-Guang Zheng, Hui Sun, Han-Ning Dai, Xi-Wen Guan, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 165701 (2017) - Published 18 October, 2017

The Tomonaga-Luttinger theory describing one-dimensional materials has been tested with cold atoms and arrays of Josephson junctions.

Submolecular Resolution by Variation of the Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy Amplitude and its Relation to the AFM/STM Signal

Bruno de la Torre, Martin Švec, Giuseppe Foti, Ondřej Krejčí, Prokop Hapala, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Thomas Frederiksen, Radek Zbořil, Andres Arnau, Héctor Vázquez, and Pavel Jelínek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166001 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

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Coulometry and Calorimetry of Electric Double Layer Formation in Porous Electrodes

Mathijs Janssen, Elian Griffioen, P. M. Biesheuvel, René van Roij, and Ben Erné

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166002 (2017) - Published 19 October, 2017

Entropic Comparison of Atomic-Resolution Electron Tomography of Crystals and Amorphous Materials

S. M. Collins, R. K. Leary, P. A. Midgley, R. Tovey, M. Benning, C.-B. Schönlieb, P. Rez, and M. M. J. Treacy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166101 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fierz Convergence Criterion: A Controlled Approach to Strongly Interacting Systems with Small Embedded Clusters

Thomas Ayral, Jaksa Vučičević, and Olivier Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166401 (2017) - Published 16 October, 2017

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Importance of $σ$ Bonding Electrons for the Accurate Description of Electron Correlation in Graphene

Huihuo Zheng, Yu Gan, Peter Abbamonte, and Lucas K. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 166402 (2017) - Published 20 October, 2017

Electron correlations in graphene are characterized via first principles calculations, showing that bonding of $σ$ electrons is important in understanding the low energy physics of graphene.