Volume 119, Issue 19

10 November 2017

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Probing the magnetism of metallic dysprosium with circularly polarized soft x rays for ferromagnetic dynamics (left), and with linearly polarized soft x rays for antiferromagnetic dynamics (right). Selected for a Focus story in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Ultrafast and Energy-Efficient Quenching of Spin Order: Antiferromagnetism Beats Ferromagnetism
Nele Thielemann-Kühn, Daniel Schick, Niko Pontius, Christoph Trabant, Rolf Mitzner, Karsten Holldack, Hartmut Zabel, Alexander Föhlisch, and Christian Schüßler-Langeheine
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197202 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Depletion of a Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate

Raphael Lopes, Christoph Eigen, Nir Navon, David Clément, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190404 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

An experiment with cold atoms confirms a 70-year-old theory predicting the fraction of a Bose gas that turns into a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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Persistence of the $Z = 28$ Shell Gap Around ${}^{78}{Ni}$ : First Spectroscopy of ${}^{79}{Cu}$

L. Olivier et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192501 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Two independent experiments on the isotope copper-79 confirm that its nuclear neighbor nickel-78 is indeed a doubly magic nucleus.

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Binding Energy of ${}^{79}{Cu}$ : Probing the Structure of the Doubly Magic ${}^{78}{Ni}$ from Only One Proton Away

A. Welker, N. A. S. Althubiti, D. Atanasov, K. Blaum, T. E. Cocolios, F. Herfurth, S. Kreim, D. Lunney, V. Manea, M. Mougeot, D. Neidherr, F. Nowacki, A. Poves, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, F. Wienholtz, R. N. Wolf, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192502 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Two independent experiments on the isotope copper-79 confirm that its nuclear neighbor nickel-78 is indeed a doubly magic nucleus.

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Photonic Counterparts of Cooper Pairs

André Saraiva, Filomeno S. de Aguiar Júnior, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Arthur Patrocínio Pena, Carlos H. Monken, Marcelo F. Santos, Belita Koiller, and Ado Jorio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193603 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

A pairing of photons—similar to the pairing of electrons in superconductors—can occur when light scatters in a transparent medium.

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Ultrafast and Energy-Efficient Quenching of Spin Order: Antiferromagnetism Beats Ferromagnetism

Nele Thielemann-Kühn, Daniel Schick, Niko Pontius, Christoph Trabant, Rolf Mitzner, Karsten Holldack, Hartmut Zabel, Alexander Föhlisch, and Christian Schüßler-Langeheine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197202 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

A class of magnetic materials can be reordered at the nanoscale more rapidly than the type usually found in magnetic hard drives, offering a possible route to faster memory devices.

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Focusing and Sorting of Ellipsoidal Magnetic Particles in Microchannels

Daiki Matsunaga, Fanlong Meng, Andreas Zöttl, Ramin Golestanian, and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 198002 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Researchers propose a scheme to position, focus, and sort magnetic particles in a microchannel with a magnetic field.

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Direct Imaging of a Zero-Field Target Skyrmion and Its Polarity Switch in a Chiral Magnetic Nanodisk

Fengshan Zheng, Hang Li, Shasha Wang, Dongsheng Song, Chiming Jin, Wenshen Wei, András Kovács, Jiadong Zang, Mingliang Tian, Yuheng Zhang, Haifeng Du, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197205 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

A vortex-like magnetic spin structure inside a small disk of material is stable without an external magnetic field and might be useful for information storage or processing.

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Quantifying the Coherence between Coherent States

Kok Chuan Tan, Tyler Volkoff, Hyukjoon Kwon, and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190405 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

A measure ties quantum coherence inextricably to the nonclassicality of light, showing that resources underlying both phenomena are the same.

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Cancellation Mechanism for Dark-Matter–Nucleon Interaction

Christian Gross, Oleg Lebedev, and Takashi Toma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191801 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

A simple Higgs portal dark matter model could explain why dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles has not yet been directly detected.

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Cross-Kerr Nonlinearity for Phonon Counting

Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablützel, and Dzmitry Matsukevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193602 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

The motional states of trapped ions are nonlinearly coupled through the anharmonicity of the inter-ion Coublomb interaction.

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Spin-Resolved Spectroscopy of the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States of Individual Atoms

L. Cornils, A. Kamlapure, L. Zhou, S. Pradhan, A. A. Khajetoorians, J. Fransson, J. Wiebe, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197002 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Experimental evidence is presented for the spin polarization of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states induced by the presence of a single magnetic atom on a superconductor.

LETTERS

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

Information Retrieval and Criticality in Parity-Time-Symmetric Systems

Kohei Kawabata, Yuto Ashida, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190401 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Solvable Family of Driven-Dissipative Many-Body Systems

Michael Foss-Feig, Jeremy T. Young, Victor V. Albert, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Mohammad F. Maghrebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190402 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Relaxation Dynamics in the Merging of $N$ Independent Condensates

M. Aidelsburger, J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190403 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

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Quantum Depletion of a Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate

Raphael Lopes, Christoph Eigen, Nir Navon, David Clément, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190404 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

An experiment with cold atoms confirms a 70-year-old theory predicting the fraction of a Bose gas that turns into a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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Quantifying the Coherence between Coherent States

Kok Chuan Tan, Tyler Volkoff, Hyukjoon Kwon, and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190405 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

A measure ties quantum coherence inextricably to the nonclassicality of light, showing that resources underlying both phenomena are the same.

Simulating Positive-Operator-Valued Measures with Projective Measurements

Michał Oszmaniec, Leonardo Guerini, Peter Wittek, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190501 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Optimizing the Frequency of Quantum Error Correction

Ali Abu-Nada, Ben Fortescue, and Mark Byrd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190502 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Efficient Simulation of Quantum Error Correction Under Coherent Error Based on the Nonunitary Free-Fermionic Formalism

Yasunari Suzuki, Keisuke Fujii, and Masato Koashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 190503 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Weak Gravitational Lensing of Finite Beams

Pierre Fleury, Julien Larena, and Jean-Philippe Uzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191101 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Supernova Origin of Cosmic Rays from a $γ$ -Ray Signal in the Constellation III Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Andrii Neronov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191102 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Nonspherically Symmetric Collapse in Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes

Hans Bantilan, Pau Figueras, Markus Kunesch, and Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191103 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Collapse and Nonlinear Instability of AdS Space with Angular Momentum

Matthew W. Choptuik, Óscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, and Benson Way

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191104 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Logarithmic Four-Point Functions in the Critical Two-Dimensional Ising Model

Giacomo Gori and Jacopo Viti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191601 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Surprises in $O (N)$ Models: Nonperturbative Fixed Points, Large $N$ Limits, and Multicriticality

Shunsuke Yabunaka and Bertrand Delamotte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191602 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

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Cancellation Mechanism for Dark-Matter–Nucleon Interaction

Christian Gross, Oleg Lebedev, and Takashi Toma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191801 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

A simple Higgs portal dark matter model could explain why dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles has not yet been directly detected.

Evidence for Isospin Violation and Measurement of $C P$ Asymmetries in $B \to K^{*} (892) γ$

T. Horiguchi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191802 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Search for Heavy Higgs Bosons $A / H$ Decaying to a Top Quark Pair in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 191803 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Nuclear Physics

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Persistence of the $Z = 28$ Shell Gap Around ${}^{78}{Ni}$ : First Spectroscopy of ${}^{79}{Cu}$

L. Olivier et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192501 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Two independent experiments on the isotope copper-79 confirm that its nuclear neighbor nickel-78 is indeed a doubly magic nucleus.

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Binding Energy of ${}^{79}{Cu}$ : Probing the Structure of the Doubly Magic ${}^{78}{Ni}$ from Only One Proton Away

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192502 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Two independent experiments on the isotope copper-79 confirm that its nuclear neighbor nickel-78 is indeed a doubly magic nucleus.

Discovery of ${}^{72}{Rb}$ : A Nuclear Sandbank Beyond the Proton Drip Line

H. Suzuki et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192503 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Nuclear Matrix Elements for Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance Violation

B. A. Brown, G. F. Bertsch, L. M. Robledo, M. V. Romalis, and V. Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192504 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin-Tensor–Momentum-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Xi-Wang Luo, Kuei Sun, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193001 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Optimal and Robust Quantum Metrology Using Interaction-Based Readouts

Samuel P. Nolan, Stuart S. Szigeti, and Simon A. Haine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193601 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

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Cross-Kerr Nonlinearity for Phonon Counting

Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablützel, and Dzmitry Matsukevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193602 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

The motional states of trapped ions are nonlinearly coupled through the anharmonicity of the inter-ion Coublomb interaction.

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Photonic Counterparts of Cooper Pairs

André Saraiva, Filomeno S. de Aguiar Júnior, Reinaldo de Melo e Souza, Arthur Patrocínio Pena, Carlos H. Monken, Marcelo F. Santos, Belita Koiller, and Ado Jorio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193603 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

A pairing of photons—similar to the pairing of electrons in superconductors—can occur when light scatters in a transparent medium.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Second Harmonic Generation of Unpolarized Light

Changqin Ding, James R. W. Ulcickas, Fengyuan Deng, and Garth J. Simpson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 193901 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Shock Ignition of Inertial Fusion Targets

W. L. Shang, R. Betti, S. X. Hu, K. Woo, L. Hao, C. Ren, A. R. Christopherson, A. Bose, and W. Theobald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195001 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Suppression of Ion-Scale Microtearing Modes by Electron-Scale Turbulence via Cross-Scale Nonlinear Interactions in Tokamak Plasmas

S. Maeyama, T.-H. Watanabe, and A. Ishizawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195002 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Large-Scale Description of Interacting One-Dimensional Bose Gases: Generalized Hydrodynamics Supersedes Conventional Hydrodynamics

Benjamin Doyon, Jérôme Dubail, Robert Konik, and Takato Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195301 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Anomalous Quasiparticle Reflection from the Surface of a ${}^{3}{He} − {}^{4}{He}$ Dilute Solution

Hiroki Ikegami, Kitak Kim, Daisuke Sato, Kimitoshi Kono, Hyoungsoon Choi, and Yuriy P. Monarkha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195302 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Does a Growing Static Length Scale Control the Glass Transition?

Matthieu Wyart and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195501 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Sonic Landau Levels and Synthetic Gauge Fields in Mechanical Metamaterials

Hamed Abbaszadeh, Anton Souslov, Jayson Paulose, Henning Schomerus, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195502 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Atomic-Level Processes of Shear Band Nucleation in Metallic Glasses

D. Şopu, A. Stukowski, M. Stoica, and S. Scudino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 195503 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Metal-Exchange Catalysis in the Growth of Sesquioxides: Towards Heterostructures of Transparent Oxide Semiconductors

Patrick Vogt, Oliver Brandt, Henning Riechert, Jonas Lähnemann, and Oliver Bierwagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196001 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin Fluctuations in the 0.7 Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts

Dennis H. Schimmel, Benedikt Bruognolo, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196401 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Coulomb Correlations Intertwined with Spin and Orbital Excitations in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

K. Tomiyasu, J. Okamoto, H. Y. Huang, Z. Y. Chen, E. P. Sinaga, W. B. Wu, Y. Y. Chu, A. Singh, R.-P. Wang, F. M. F. de Groot, A. Chainani, S. Ishihara, C. T. Chen, and D. J. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196402 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Mirror Protected Dirac Fermions on a Weyl Semimetal NbP Surface

Hao Zheng, Guoqing Chang, Shin-Ming Huang, Cheng Guo, Xiao Zhang, Songtian Zhang, Jiaxin Yin, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust, Daniel S. Sanchez, Guang Bian, Tay-Rong Chang, Titus Neupert, Horng-Tay Jeng, Shuang Jia, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196403 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Amphoteric Be in GaN: Experimental Evidence for Switching between Substitutional and Interstitial Lattice Sites

Filip Tuomisto, Vera Prozheeva, Ilja Makkonen, Thomas H. Myers, Michal Bockowski, and Henryk Teisseyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196404 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Optimal Charge-to-Spin Conversion in Graphene on Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Manuel Offidani, Mirco Milletarì, Roberto Raimondi, and Aires Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196801 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Dispersive Readout of Adiabatic Phases

Sigmund Kohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196802 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Vibrational Properties of a Monolayer Silicene Sheet Studied by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Shaoxiang Sheng, Jiang-bin Wu, Xin Cong, Wenbin Li, Jian Gou, Qing Zhong, Peng Cheng, Ping-heng Tan, Lan Chen, and Kehui Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 196803 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Competition among Superconducting, Antiferromagnetic, and Charge Orders with Intervention by Phase Separation in the 2D Holstein-Hubbard Model

Takahiro Ohgoe and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197001 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

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Spin-Resolved Spectroscopy of the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States of Individual Atoms

L. Cornils, A. Kamlapure, L. Zhou, S. Pradhan, A. A. Khajetoorians, J. Fransson, J. Wiebe, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197002 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Experimental evidence is presented for the spin polarization of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states induced by the presence of a single magnetic atom on a superconductor.

Spin Pumping and Shot Noise in Ferrimagnets: Bridging Ferro- and Antiferromagnets

Akashdeep Kamra and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197201 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

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Ultrafast and Energy-Efficient Quenching of Spin Order: Antiferromagnetism Beats Ferromagnetism

Nele Thielemann-Kühn, Daniel Schick, Niko Pontius, Christoph Trabant, Rolf Mitzner, Karsten Holldack, Hartmut Zabel, Alexander Föhlisch, and Christian Schüßler-Langeheine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197202 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

A class of magnetic materials can be reordered at the nanoscale more rapidly than the type usually found in magnetic hard drives, offering a possible route to faster memory devices.

Dirac Fermions with Competing Orders: Non-Landau Transition with Emergent Symmetry

Toshihiro Sato, Martin Hohenadler, and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197203 (2017) - Published 7 November, 2017

Structural “ $δ$ Doping” to Control Local Magnetization in Isovalent Oxide Heterostructures

E. J. Moon, Q. He, S. Ghosh, B. J. Kirby, S. T. Pantelides, A. Y. Borisevich, and S. J. May

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197204 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

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Direct Imaging of a Zero-Field Target Skyrmion and Its Polarity Switch in a Chiral Magnetic Nanodisk

Fengshan Zheng, Hang Li, Shasha Wang, Dongsheng Song, Chiming Jin, Wenshen Wei, András Kovács, Jiadong Zang, Mingliang Tian, Yuheng Zhang, Haifeng Du, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 197205 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

A vortex-like magnetic spin structure inside a small disk of material is stable without an external magnetic field and might be useful for information storage or processing.