Volume 119, Issue 3

21 July 2017

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Spin-polarized differential conductance maps of chiral spin spirals in ultrathin Fe films on Ir(111).

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Temperature-Induced Increase of Spin Spiral Periods
Aurore Finco, Levente Rózsa, Pin-Jui Hsu, André Kubetzka, Elena Vedmedenko, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 037202 (2017)

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Scanning Gate Microscope for Cold Atomic Gases

Samuel Häusler, Shuta Nakajima, Martin Lebrat, Dominik Husmann, Sebastian Krinner, Tilman Esslinger, and Jean-Philippe Brantut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030403 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

A new technique produces an image of the flow of cold atoms through a channel, a potentially important tool for future cold-atom technology.

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High-Precision Measurement of the Proton’s Atomic Mass

F. Heiße, F. Köhler-Langes, S. Rau, J. Hou, S. Junck, A. Kracke, A. Mooser, W. Quint, S. Ulmer, G. Werth, K. Blaum, and S. Sturm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033001 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

The most precise measurement to date of the proton mass finds a value that is 3 standard deviations lower than previous estimates.

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Measuring Interlayer Shear Stress in Bilayer Graphene

Guorui Wang, Zhaohe Dai, Yanlei Wang, PingHeng Tan, Luqi Liu, Zhiping Xu, Yueguang Wei, Rui Huang, and Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 036101 (2017) - Published 17 July, 2017

Creating a bulge in a graphene sheet offers the first measurement of the shear forces between graphene layers, an essential parameter for progress on graphene-based devices.

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Streaming from the Equator of a Drop in an External Electric Field

Quentin Brosseau and Petia M. Vlahovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 034501 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

An electric field can pull apart a millimeter-sized oil drop, causing it to shed thin rings from its equator that then break up into tiny droplets.

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Hippocampal Spike-Timing Correlations Lead to Hexagonal Grid Fields

Mauro M. Monsalve-Mercado and Christian Leibold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 038101 (2017) - Published 19 July, 2017

A model explains why grid cells—neurons that are part of the brain’s positioning system—fire electrical pulses in hexagonal patterns.

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Attosecond Probing of Nuclear Dynamics with Trajectory-Resolved High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

Pengfei Lan, Marc Ruhmann, Lixin He, Chunyang Zhai, Feng Wang, Xiaosong Zhu, Qingbin Zhang, Yueming Zhou, Min Li, Manfred Lein, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033201 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Laser-induced proton dynamics of molecular hydrogen are probed with attosecond precision using a trajectory-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy scheme.

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Universality of the Peregrine Soliton in the Focusing Dynamics of the Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Alexey Tikan, Cyril Billet, Gennady El, Alexander Tovbis, Marco Bertola, Thibaut Sylvestre, Francois Gustave, Stephane Randoux, Goëry Genty, Pierre Suret, and John M. Dudley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033901 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

The Peregrine soliton, a special kind of soliton whose shape is localized in space and time, exists in a wider range of scenarios than previously thought.

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Self-Focusing and the Talbot Effect in Conformal Transformation Optics

Xiangyang Wang, Huanyang Chen, Hui Liu, Lin Xu, Chong Sheng, and Shining Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033902 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Transformation optics is used to design a device that both focuses light and diffracts it.

LETTERS

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

Nonuniform Currents and Spins of Relativistic Electron Vortices in a Magnetic Field

Koen van Kruining, Armen G. Hayrapetyan, and Jörg B. Götte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030401 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Evolution-Free Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation through Zeeman Markers

Daniel Burgarth and Ashok Ajoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030402 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

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Scanning Gate Microscope for Cold Atomic Gases

Samuel Häusler, Shuta Nakajima, Martin Lebrat, Dominik Husmann, Sebastian Krinner, Tilman Esslinger, and Jean-Philippe Brantut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030403 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

A new technique produces an image of the flow of cold atoms through a channel, a potentially important tool for future cold-atom technology.

Neural Decoder for Topological Codes

Giacomo Torlai and Roger G. Melko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030501 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Cat Codes with Optimal Decoherence Suppression for a Lossy Bosonic Channel

Linshu Li, Chang-Ling Zou, Victor V. Albert, Sreraman Muralidharan, S. M. Girvin, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030502 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

High-Threshold Low-Overhead Fault-Tolerant Classical Computation and the Replacement of Measurements with Unitary Quantum Gates

Benjamin Cruikshank and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030503 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Systematic Construction of Counterexamples to the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

Naoto Shiraishi and Takashi Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030601 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Interfaces with Inward Growth

Yohsuke T. Fukai and Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030602 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Contrasting Work Fluctuations and Distributions in Systems with Short-Range and Long-Range Correlations

T. R. Kirkpatrick, J. K. Bhattacherjee, and J. V. Sengers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 030603 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Diffuse Cosmic Rays Shining in the Galactic Center: A Novel Interpretation of H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT $γ$ -Ray Data

D. Gaggero, D. Grasso, A. Marinelli, M. Taoso, and A. Urbano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031101 (2017) - Published 17 July, 2017

Constraining Relativistic Generalizations of Modified Newtonian Dynamics with Gravitational Waves

Paul M. Chesler and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031102 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Primordial Black Holes from Supersymmetry in the Early Universe

Eric Cotner and Alexander Kusenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031103 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Natural Covariant Planck Scale Cutoffs and the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum

Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Achim Kempf, and Robert T. W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031301 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

First Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from Lyman- $α$ Forest Data and Hydrodynamical Simulations

Vid Iršič, Matteo Viel, Martin G. Haehnelt, James S. Bolton, and George D. Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031302 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Sign Flip in the Casimir Force for Interacting Fermion Systems

Antonino Flachi, Muneto Nitta, Satoshi Takada, and Ryosuke Yoshii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031601 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Hunting Down Massless Dark Photons in Kaon Physics

M. Fabbrichesi, E. Gabrielli, and B. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031801 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

LHC as an Axion Factory: Probing an Axion Explanation for $(g - 2)_{μ}$ with Exotic Higgs Decays

Martin Bauer, Matthias Neubert, and Andrea Thamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 031802 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

$J / ψ$ Production and Polarization within a Jet

Zhong-Bo Kang, Jian-Wei Qiu, Felix Ringer, Hongxi Xing, and Hong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 032001 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

NRQCD Confronts LHCb Data on Quarkonium Production within Jets

Reggie Bain, Yiannis Makris, Thomas Mehen, Lin Dai, and Adam K. Leibovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 032002 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Can Tetraneutron be a Narrow Resonance?

K. Fossez, J. Rotureau, N. Michel, and M. Płoszajczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 032501 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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High-Precision Measurement of the Proton’s Atomic Mass

F. Heiße, F. Köhler-Langes, S. Rau, J. Hou, S. Junck, A. Kracke, A. Mooser, W. Quint, S. Ulmer, G. Werth, K. Blaum, and S. Sturm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033001 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

The most precise measurement to date of the proton mass finds a value that is 3 standard deviations lower than previous estimates.

Coherent Radiative Decay of Molecular Rotations: A Comparative Study of Terahertz-Oriented versus Optically Aligned Molecular Ensembles

Ran Damari, Dina Rosenberg, and Sharly Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033002 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Direct Extraction of Excitation Energies from Ensemble Density-Functional Theory

Zeng-hui Yang, Aurora Pribram-Jones, Kieron Burke, and Carsten A. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033003 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

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Attosecond Probing of Nuclear Dynamics with Trajectory-Resolved High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

Pengfei Lan, Marc Ruhmann, Lixin He, Chunyang Zhai, Feng Wang, Xiaosong Zhu, Qingbin Zhang, Yueming Zhou, Min Li, Manfred Lein, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033201 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Laser-induced proton dynamics of molecular hydrogen are probed with attosecond precision using a trajectory-resolved high-harmonic spectroscopy scheme.

Physically Realizable Space for the Purity-Depolarization Plane for Polarized Light Scattering Media

Aziz Tariq, Pengcheng Li, Dongsheng Chen, Donghong Lv, and Hui Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033202 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Many-Particle Entanglement Criterion for Superradiantlike States

Mehmet Emre Tasgin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033601 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

Quantum Harmonic Oscillator State Control in a Squeezed Fock Basis

D. Kienzler, H.-Y. Lo, V. Negnevitsky, C. Flühmann, M. Marinelli, and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033602 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Universality of the Peregrine Soliton in the Focusing Dynamics of the Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Alexey Tikan, Cyril Billet, Gennady El, Alexander Tovbis, Marco Bertola, Thibaut Sylvestre, Francois Gustave, Stephane Randoux, Goëry Genty, Pierre Suret, and John M. Dudley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033901 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

The Peregrine soliton, a special kind of soliton whose shape is localized in space and time, exists in a wider range of scenarios than previously thought.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Focusing and the Talbot Effect in Conformal Transformation Optics

Xiangyang Wang, Huanyang Chen, Hui Liu, Lin Xu, Chong Sheng, and Shining Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033902 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Transformation optics is used to design a device that both focuses light and diffracts it.

Focusing inside Disordered Media with the Generalized Wigner-Smith Operator

Philipp Ambichl, Andre Brandstötter, Julian Böhm, Matthias Kühmayer, Ulrich Kuhl, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033903 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Nonlocality Induces Chains of Nested Dissipative Solitons

J. Javaloyes, M. Marconi, and M. Giudici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033904 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Waveguides with Absorbing Boundaries: Nonlinearity Controlled by an Exceptional Point and Solitons

Bikashkali Midya and Vladimir V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 033905 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Source Illusion Devices for Flexural Lamb Waves Using Elastic Metasurfaces

Yongquan Liu, Zixian Liang, Fu Liu, Owen Diba, Alistair Lamb, and Jensen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 034301 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

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Streaming from the Equator of a Drop in an External Electric Field

Quentin Brosseau and Petia M. Vlahovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 034501 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

An electric field can pull apart a millimeter-sized oil drop, causing it to shed thin rings from its equator that then break up into tiny droplets.

Inertial Wave Turbulence Driven by Elliptical Instability

Thomas Le Reun, Benjamin Favier, Adrian J. Barker, and Michael Le Bars

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 034502 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of Rogue Waves in Gyrotrons Operating in the Regime of Developed Turbulence

N. S. Ginzburg, R. M. Rozental, A. S. Sergeev, A. E. Fedotov, I. V. Zotova, and V. P. Tarakanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 034801 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

Noninductively Driven Tokamak Plasmas at Near-Unity Toroidal Beta

D. J. Schlossberg, G. M. Bodner, M. W. Bongard, M. G. Burke, R. J. Fonck, J. M. Perry, and J. A. Reusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 035001 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Tunable Asymmetric Transmission via Lossy Acoustic Metasurfaces

Yong Li, Chen Shen, Yangbo Xie, Junfei Li, Wenqi Wang, Steven A. Cummer, and Yun Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 035501 (2017) - Published 18 July, 2017

Topological Control on the Structural Relaxation of Atomic Networks under Stress

Mathieu Bauchy, Mengyi Wang, Yingtian Yu, Bu Wang, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, Enrico Masoero, Franz-Joseph Ulm, and Roland Pellenq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 035502 (2017) - Published 21 July, 2017

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Measuring Interlayer Shear Stress in Bilayer Graphene

Guorui Wang, Zhaohe Dai, Yanlei Wang, PingHeng Tan, Luqi Liu, Zhiping Xu, Yueguang Wei, Rui Huang, and Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 036101 (2017) - Published 17 July, 2017

Creating a bulge in a graphene sheet offers the first measurement of the shear forces between graphene layers, an essential parameter for progress on graphene-based devices.

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

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Hippocampal Spike-Timing Correlations Lead to Hexagonal Grid Fields

Mauro M. Monsalve-Mercado and Christian Leibold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 038101 (2017) - Published 19 July, 2017

A model explains why grid cells—neurons that are part of the brain’s positioning system—fire electrical pulses in hexagonal patterns.

Contact Mechanics of a Small Icosahedral Virus

Cheng Zeng, Mercedes Hernando-Pérez, Bogdan Dragnea, Xiang Ma, Paul van der Schoot, and Roya Zandi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 038102 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

COMMENTS

Comment on “Failure of the Volume Function in Granular Statistical Mechanics and an Alternative Formulation”

Volker Becker and Klaus Kassner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 039801 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

Blumenfeld et al. Reply

Raphael Blumenfeld, Shahar Amitai, Joe F. Jordan, and Rebecca Hihinashvili

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 039802 (2017) - Published 20 July, 2017

Volume 119, Issue 3

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.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

COMMENTS