Volume 119, Issue 23

8 December 2017

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Magnetic field isocontours from an MHD simulation of a dynamo instability.

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Dynamo Enhancement and Mode Selection Triggered by High Magnetic Permeability
S. Kreuzahler, Y. Ponty, N. Plihon, H. Homann, and R. Grauer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 234501 (2017)

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MICROSCOPE Mission: First Results of a Space Test of the Equivalence Principle

Pierre Touboul et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 231101 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

The MICROSCOPE satellite mission has tested the equivalence principle with unprecedented precision, showing no deviations from the predictions of general relativity.

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Three-Dimensional General-Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Remnant Accretion Disks from Neutron Star Mergers: Outflows and $r$ -Process Nucleosynthesis

Daniel M. Siegel and Brian D. Metzger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 231102 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

New calculations show that the accretion flows that form after a neutron star collision can eject large amounts of matter rich in gold and other heavy elements.

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Observation of a Degenerate Fermi Gas Trapped by a Bose-Einstein Condensate

B. J. DeSalvo, Krutik Patel, Jacob Johansen, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 233401 (2017) - Published 7 December, 2017

A Bose-Einstein condensate can act as a stable trap for a gas of fermions.

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Observation of Caroli–de Gennes–Matricon Vortex States in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

Christophe Berthod, Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Jens Bruér, Andreas Erb, and Christoph Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 237001 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Experiments on a copper-based high-temperature superconductor uncover the existence of vortex states—a hallmark of conventional superconductivity.

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Melde’s Experiment on a Vibrating Liquid Foam Microchannel

Alexandre Cohen, Nathalie Fraysse, and Christophe Raufaste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 238001 (2017) - Published 8 December, 2017

A liquid microchannel—the line where three soap films meet—vibrates like a string whose diameter shrinks as the shaking force increases.

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Resource Theory of Superposition

T. Theurer, N. Killoran, D. Egloff, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230401 (2017) - Published 5 December, 2017

Resource theories of coherence are generalized to quantify the superposition of a finite number of linearly independent states.

LETTERS

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

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Resource Theory of Superposition

T. Theurer, N. Killoran, D. Egloff, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230401 (2017) - Published 5 December, 2017

Resource theories of coherence are generalized to quantify the superposition of a finite number of linearly independent states.

Bounding the Set of Classical Correlations of a Many-Body System

Matteo Fadel and Jordi Tura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230402 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Probing the Bond Order Wave Phase Transitions of the Ionic Hubbard Model by Superlattice Modulation Spectroscopy

Karla Loida, Jean-Sébastien Bernier, Roberta Citro, Edmond Orignac, and Corinna Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230403 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Three-Dimensional Localized-Delocalized Anderson Transition in the Time Domain

Dominique Delande, Luis Morales-Molina, and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230404 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Demonstration of Two-Atom Entanglement with Ultrafast Optical Pulses

J. D. Wong-Campos, S. A. Moses, K. G. Johnson, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230501 (2017) - Published 8 December, 2017

Chemical Continuous Time Random Walks

Tomás Aquino and Marco Dentz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 230601 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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MICROSCOPE Mission: First Results of a Space Test of the Equivalence Principle

Pierre Touboul et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 231101 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

The MICROSCOPE satellite mission has tested the equivalence principle with unprecedented precision, showing no deviations from the predictions of general relativity.

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Three-Dimensional General-Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Remnant Accretion Disks from Neutron Star Mergers: Outflows and $r$ -Process Nucleosynthesis

Daniel M. Siegel and Brian D. Metzger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 231102 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

New calculations show that the accretion flows that form after a neutron star collision can eject large amounts of matter rich in gold and other heavy elements.

Fate of the Hoop Conjecture in Quantum Gravity

Fabio Anzà and Goffredo Chirco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 231301 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

First Observation of the Rare Purely Baryonic Decay $B^{0} \to p \bar{p}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 232001 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Large Longitudinal Spin Alignment of Excited Projectiles in Intermediate Energy Inelastic Scattering

D. E. M. Hoff, R. J. Charity, K. W. Brown, C. D. Pruitt, L. G. Sobotka, T. B. Webb, G. Potel, B. Roeder, and A. Saastamoinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 232501 (2017) - Published 8 December, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of a Degenerate Fermi Gas Trapped by a Bose-Einstein Condensate

B. J. DeSalvo, Krutik Patel, Jacob Johansen, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 233401 (2017) - Published 7 December, 2017

A Bose-Einstein condensate can act as a stable trap for a gas of fermions.

Efimov States of Strongly Interacting Photons

M. J. Gullans, S. Diehl, S. T. Rittenhouse, B. P. Ruzic, J. P. D’Incao, P. Julienne, A. V. Gorshkov, and J. M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 233601 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Spin-Mechanical Scheme with Color Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Membranes

Mehdi Abdi, Myung-Joong Hwang, Mortaza Aghtar, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 233602 (2017) - Published 5 December, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhancing Coherent Light-Matter Interactions through Microcavity-Engineered Plasmonic Resonances

Pai Peng ((彭湃)), Yong-Chun Liu, Da Xu, Qi-Tao Cao, Guowei Lu, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 233901 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Phase Stochastic Resonance in a Forced Nanoelectromechanical Membrane

Avishek Chowdhury, Sylvain Barbay, Marcel G. Clerc, Isabelle Robert-Philip, and Rémy Braive

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 234101 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Dynamo Enhancement and Mode Selection Triggered by High Magnetic Permeability

S. Kreuzahler, Y. Ponty, N. Plihon, H. Homann, and R. Grauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 234501 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Terahertz Radiation via the Two-Color Laser Scheme with Uncommon Frequency Ratios

Liang-Liang Zhang, Wei-Min Wang, Tong Wu, Rui Zhang, Shi-Jing Zhang, Cun-Lin Zhang, Yan Zhang, Zheng-Ming Sheng, and Xi-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 235001 (2017) - Published 8 December, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Emergence of Non-Abelian Magnetic Monopoles in a Quantum Impurity Problem

E. Yakaboylu, A. Deuchert, and M. Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 235301 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Anisotropic Superattenuation of Capillary Waves on Driven Glass Interfaces

Bruno Bresson, Coralie Brun, Xavier Buet, Yong Chen, Matteo Ciccotti, Jérôme Gâteau, Greg Jasion, Marco N. Petrovich, Francesco Poletti, David J. Richardson, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Gilles Tessier, Botond Tyukodi, and Damien Vandembroucq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 235501 (2017) - Published 5 December, 2017

Melting Curve and Liquid Structure of Nitrogen Probed by X-ray Diffraction to 120 GPa

Gunnar Weck, Frédéric Datchi, Gaston Garbarino, Sandra Ninet, Jean-Antoine Queyroux, Thomas Plisson, Mohamed Mezouar, and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 235701 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Full Counting Statistics for Interacting Fermions with Determinantal Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Stephan Humeniuk and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 236401 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

Doublon-Holon Origin of the Subpeaks at the Hubbard Band Edges

Seung-Sup B. Lee, Jan von Delft, and Andreas Weichselbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 236402 (2017) - Published 5 December, 2017

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Observation of Caroli–de Gennes–Matricon Vortex States in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

Christophe Berthod, Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Jens Bruér, Andreas Erb, and Christoph Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 237001 (2017) - Published 4 December, 2017

Experiments on a copper-based high-temperature superconductor uncover the existence of vortex states—a hallmark of conventional superconductivity.

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

Nanoscale Particle Motion in Attractive Polymer Nanocomposites

Erkan Senses, Suresh Narayanan, Yimin Mao, and Antonio Faraone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 237801 (2017) - Published 6 December, 2017

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Melde’s Experiment on a Vibrating Liquid Foam Microchannel

Alexandre Cohen, Nathalie Fraysse, and Christophe Raufaste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 238001 (2017) - Published 8 December, 2017

A liquid microchannel—the line where three soap films meet—vibrates like a string whose diameter shrinks as the shaking force increases.