Volume 119, Issue 4

28 July 2017

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A strongly turbulent plasma environment showing isocontours of the supercritical current density component in brown (positive) and violet (negative). Lines are sample orbits of energetic particles.

From the article:

Fractional Transport in Strongly Turbulent Plasmas
Heinz Isliker, Loukas Vlahos, and Dana Constantinescu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045101 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Superradiant Instability and Backreaction of Massive Vector Fields around Kerr Black Holes

William E. East and Frans Pretorius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041101 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

A spinning black hole may lose up to 9% of its mass by spontaneously growing “hair” in the form of excitations of a hypothetical particle field with a tiny mass.

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Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses

J. Cowley, C. Thornton, C. Arran, R. J. Shalloo, L. Corner, G. Cheung, C. D. Gregory, S. P. D. Mangles, N. H. Matlis, D. R. Symes, R. Walczak, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 044802 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Trains of laser pulses can be used to accelerate high-repetition-rate electron bunches to high energies.

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Size-Dependent Localization in Polydisperse Colloidal Glasses

D. Heckendorf, K. J. Mutch, S. U. Egelhaaf, and M. Laurati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 048003 (2017) - Published 28 July, 2017

Imaging of the individual particles of a glass reveals the different behaviors of slightly smaller vs slightly larger particles, suggesting new ways to adjust the properties of commercial glasses.

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Entanglement-Enhanced Radio-Frequency Field Detection and Waveform Sensing

F. Martin Ciurana, G. Colangelo, L. Slodička, R. J. Sewell, and M. W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043603 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

A new design for an atomic magnetometer utilizes so-called quantum nondemolition measurements to detect very weak magnetic-field signals.

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Superadditivity of the Classical Capacity with Limited Entanglement Assistance

Elton Yechao Zhu, Quntao Zhuang, and Peter W. Shor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040503 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

The capacity of quantum communication channels is predicted to switch from additive to superadditive when entanglement assistance is limited.

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Search for Neutrinoless Quadruple- $β$ Decay of ${}^{150}{Nd}$ with the NEMO-3 Detector

R. Arnold et al. (NEMO-3 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041801 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

The NEMO collaboration has performed the first experimental search for the rare neutrinoless quadruple beta decay.

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Plasma versus Drude Modeling of the Casimir Force: Beyond the Proximity Force Approximation

Michael Hartmann, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, and Paulo A. Maia Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043901 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Numerical results for experimentally measurable parameters are presented for the Casimir force between a sphere and a planar surface both made of gold.

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Tailoring Correlations of the Local Density of States in Disordered Photonic Materials

F. Riboli, F. Uccheddu, G. Monaco, N. Caselli, F. Intonti, M. Gurioli, and S. E. Skipetrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043902 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

The frequency correlations of local density of states of a material are linked to its microscopic features.

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Determinant Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Algorithm in the Thermodynamic Limit

Riccardo Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045701 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

High-order diagrammatic expansions for fermionic systems can be computed by considering the sum of all connected Feynman diagrams at fixed positions of interaction vertices. The method is an improvement over conventional diagrammatic Monte Carlo computations.

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Deconstructing Temperature Gradients across Fluid Interfaces: The Structural Origin of the Thermal Resistance of Liquid-Vapor Interfaces

Jordan Muscatello, Enrique Chacón, Pedro Tarazona, and Fernando Bresme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045901 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

The interfacial structure responsible for thermal resistance across liquid-vapor interfaces is shown to be connected to a low density fluid layer adsorbed at the liquid surface.

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In-Plane Propagation of Light in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers: Optical Selection Rules

G. Wang, C. Robert, M. M. Glazov, F. Cadiz, E. Courtade, T. Amand, D. Lagarde, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, B. Urbaszek, and X. Marie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047401 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

The electric field of light emitted from transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers is found to be oriented perpendicularly to the monolayer plane.

LETTERS

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

Complementarity and Polarization Modulation in Photon Interference

Andreas Norrman, Kasimir Blomstedt, Tero Setälä, and Ari T. Friberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040401 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Bell Inequalities Tailored to Maximally Entangled States

Alexia Salavrakos, Remigiusz Augusiak, Jordi Tura, Peter Wittek, Antonio Acín, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040402 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Hierarchy Construction and Non-Abelian Families of Generic Topological Orders

Tian Lan and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040403 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Digital Quantum Simulation of Minimal $AdS / CFT$

L. García-Álvarez, I. L. Egusquiza, L. Lamata, A. del Campo, J. Sonner, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040501 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Tensor-Network Simulations of the Surface Code under Realistic Noise

Andrew S. Darmawan and David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040502 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

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Superadditivity of the Classical Capacity with Limited Entanglement Assistance

Elton Yechao Zhu, Quntao Zhuang, and Peter W. Shor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040503 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

The capacity of quantum communication channels is predicted to switch from additive to superadditive when entanglement assistance is limited.

Entanglement in Nonunitary Quantum Critical Spin Chains

Romain Couvreur, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, and Hubert Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040601 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Auxiliary-Field Monte Carlo Method to Tackle Strong Interactions and Frustration in Lattice Bosons

Daniele Malpetti and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 040602 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Superradiant Instability and Backreaction of Massive Vector Fields around Kerr Black Holes

William E. East and Frans Pretorius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041101 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

A spinning black hole may lose up to 9% of its mass by spontaneously growing “hair” in the form of excitations of a hypothetical particle field with a tiny mass.

Dynamics of Dwarf Galaxies Disfavor Stellar-Mass Black Holes as Dark Matter

Savvas M. Koushiappas and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041102 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Neutrinoless Quadruple- $β$ Decay of ${}^{150}{Nd}$ with the NEMO-3 Detector

R. Arnold et al. (NEMO-3 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041801 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

The NEMO collaboration has performed the first experimental search for the rare neutrinoless quadruple beta decay.

First Observation of a Baryonic $B_{s}^{0}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 041802 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Quantum Numbers of Recently Discovered $Ω_{c}^{0}$ Baryons from Lattice QCD

M. Padmanath and Nilmani Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 042001 (2017) - Published 28 July, 2017

Nuclear Physics

$(3 + 1) D$ Quasiparticle Anisotropic Hydrodynamics for Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Mubarak Alqahtani, Mohammad Nopoush, Radoslaw Ryblewski, and Michael Strickland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 042301 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Novel Role of Superfluidity in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions

Piotr Magierski, Kazuyuki Sekizawa, and Gabriel Wlazłowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 042501 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Measurement of the Electron-Antineutrino Angular Correlation in Neutron $β$ Decay

G. Darius, W. A. Byron, C. R. DeAngelis, M. T. Hassan, F. E. Wietfeldt, B. Collett, G. L. Jones, M. S. Dewey, M. P. Mendenhall, J. S. Nico, H. Park, A. Komives, and E. J. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 042502 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Is the Dispersion Relation Applicable for Exotic Nuclear Systems? The Abnormal Threshold Anomaly in the ${}^{6}{He} + {}^{209}{Bi}$ System

L. Yang (杨磊), C. J. Lin (林承键), H. M. Jia (贾会明), D. X. Wang (王东玺), N. R. Ma (马南茹), L. J. Sun (孙立杰), F. Yang (杨峰), X. X. Xu (徐新星), Z. D. Wu (吴振东), H. Q. Zhang (张焕乔), and Z. H. Liu (刘祖华)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 042503 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

3D Sisyphus Cooling of Trapped Ions

S. Ejtemaee and P. C. Haljan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043001 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Multislip Friction with a Single Ion

Ian Counts, Dorian Gangloff, Alexei Bylinskii, Joonseok Hur, Rajibul Islam, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043601 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Correlated Photon Dynamics in Dissipative Rydberg Media

Emil Zeuthen, Michael J. Gullans, Mohammad F. Maghrebi, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043602 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

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Entanglement-Enhanced Radio-Frequency Field Detection and Waveform Sensing

F. Martin Ciurana, G. Colangelo, L. Slodička, R. J. Sewell, and M. W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043603 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

A new design for an atomic magnetometer utilizes so-called quantum nondemolition measurements to detect very weak magnetic-field signals.

Collective Optomechanical Effects in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Erika Cortese, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, and Simone De Liberato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043604 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Plasma versus Drude Modeling of the Casimir Force: Beyond the Proximity Force Approximation

Michael Hartmann, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, and Paulo A. Maia Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043901 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Numerical results for experimentally measurable parameters are presented for the Casimir force between a sphere and a planar surface both made of gold.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tailoring Correlations of the Local Density of States in Disordered Photonic Materials

F. Riboli, F. Uccheddu, G. Monaco, N. Caselli, F. Intonti, M. Gurioli, and S. E. Skipetrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043902 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

The frequency correlations of local density of states of a material are linked to its microscopic features.

Breaking the Temporal Resolution Limit by Superoscillating Optical Beats

Yaniv Eliezer, Liran Hareli, Lilya Lobachinsky, Sahar Froim, and Alon Bahabad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043903 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Ultrafocused Electromagnetic Field Pulses with a Hollow Cylindrical Waveguide

P. Maurer, J. Prat-Camps, J. I. Cirac, T. W. Hänsch, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043904 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Emergence of Multiscaling in a Random-Force Stirred Fluid

Victor Yakhot and Diego Donzis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 044501 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Vapor-Induced Motion of Liquid Droplets on an Inert Substrate

Xingkun Man and Masao Doi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 044502 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Towards Attosecond High-Energy Electron Bunches: Controlling Self-Injection in Laser-Wakefield Accelerators Through Plasma-Density Modulation

M. P. Tooley, B. Ersfeld, S. R. Yoffe, A. Noble, E. Brunetti, Z. M. Sheng, M. R. Islam, and D. A. Jaroszynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 044801 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

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Excitation and Control of Plasma Wakefields by Multiple Laser Pulses

J. Cowley, C. Thornton, C. Arran, R. J. Shalloo, L. Corner, G. Cheung, C. D. Gregory, S. P. D. Mangles, N. H. Matlis, D. R. Symes, R. Walczak, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 044802 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Trains of laser pulses can be used to accelerate high-repetition-rate electron bunches to high energies.

Direct Determination of Dynamic Properties of Coulomb and Yukawa Classical One-Component Plasmas

Yu. V. Arkhipov, A. Askaruly, A. E. Davletov, D. Yu. Dubovtsev, Z. Donkó, P. Hartmann, I. Korolov, L. Conde, and I. M. Tkachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045001 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Crossover from Classical to Fermi Liquid Behavior in Dense Plasmas

Jérôme Daligault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045002 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Fractional Transport in Strongly Turbulent Plasmas

Heinz Isliker, Loukas Vlahos, and Dana Constantinescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045101 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Complex Quasi-Two-Dimensional Crystalline Order Embedded in ${VO}_{2}$ and Other Crystals

Timothy Lovorn and Sanjoy K. Sarker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045501 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

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Determinant Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Algorithm in the Thermodynamic Limit

Riccardo Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045701 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

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Deconstructing Temperature Gradients across Fluid Interfaces: The Structural Origin of the Thermal Resistance of Liquid-Vapor Interfaces

Jordan Muscatello, Enrique Chacón, Pedro Tarazona, and Fernando Bresme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 045901 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

The interfacial structure responsible for thermal resistance across liquid-vapor interfaces is shown to be connected to a low density fluid layer adsorbed at the liquid surface.

Born-Oppenheimer Dynamics, Electronic Friction, and the Inclusion of Electron-Electron Interactions

Wenjie Dou, Gaohan Miao, and Joseph E. Subotnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046001 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Defect Structure of Localized Excitons in a ${WSe}_{2}$ Monolayer

Shuai Zhang, Chen-Guang Wang, Ming-Yang Li, Di Huang, Lain-Jong Li, Wei Ji, and Shiwei Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046101 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Sliced Basis Density Matrix Renormalization Group for Electronic Structure

E. Miles Stoudenmire and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046401 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Interplay of Correlations and Kohn Anomalies in Three Dimensions: Quantum Criticality with a Twist

T. Schäfer, A. A. Katanin, K. Held, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046402 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Valley-Polarized Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferrimagnetic Honeycomb Lattices

Jian Zhou, Qiang Sun, and Puru Jena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046403 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Noise-Induced Subdiffusion in Strongly Localized Quantum Systems

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, K. Ranjibul Islam, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046601 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Fractional Spin and Josephson Effect in Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductors

Alberto Camjayi, Liliana Arrachea, Armando Aligia, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046801 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

High-Fidelity Single-Shot Singlet-Triplet Readout of Precision-Placed Donors in Silicon

M. A. Broome, T. F. Watson, D. Keith, S. K. Gorman, M. G. House, J. G. Keizer, S. J. Hile, W. Baker, and M. Y. Simmons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046802 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Mesoscopic Transport in Electrostatically Defined Spin-Full Channels in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets

Aleksandr Kazakov, George Simion, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Valery Kolkovsky, Zbigniew Adamus, Grzegorz Karczewski, Tomasz Wojtowicz, and Leonid P. Rokhinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 046803 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Generic Theory for Majorana Zero Modes in 2D Superconductors

Cheung Chan, Lin Zhang, Ting Fung Jeffrey Poon, Ying-Ping He, Yan-Qi Wang, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047001 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

Nonreciprocal Magnons and Symmetry-Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Antiferromagnet

G. Gitgeatpong, Y. Zhao, P. Piyawongwatthana, Y. Qiu, L. W. Harriger, N. P. Butch, T. J. Sato, and K. Matan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047201 (2017) - Published 24 July, 2017

Magnetic Domain Walls as Hosts of Spin Superfluids and Generators of Skyrmions

Se Kwon Kim and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047202 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Magnetic Fluctuations, Precursor Phenomena, and Phase Transition in MnSi under a Magnetic Field

C. Pappas, L. J. Bannenberg, E. Lelièvre-Berna, F. Qian, C. D. Dewhurst, R. M. Dalgliesh, D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, and P. Falus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047203 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017

Order by Quenched Disorder in the Model Triangular Antiferromagnet $RbFe ({MoO}_{4})_{2}$

A. I. Smirnov, T. A. Soldatov, O. A. Petrenko, A. Takata, T. Kida, M. Hagiwara, A. Ya. Shapiro, and M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047204 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Probing the Nano-Skyrmion Lattice on Fe/Ir(111) with Magnetic Exchange Force Microscopy

Josef Grenz, Arne Köhler, Alexander Schwarz, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047205 (2017) - Published 28 July, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

In-Plane Propagation of Light in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers: Optical Selection Rules

G. Wang, C. Robert, M. M. Glazov, F. Cadiz, E. Courtade, T. Amand, D. Lagarde, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, B. Urbaszek, and X. Marie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047401 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

The electric field of light emitted from transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers is found to be oriented perpendicularly to the monolayer plane.

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

Polymer Chain Conformation and Dynamical Confinement in a Model One-Component Nanocomposite

C. Mark, O. Holderer, J. Allgaier, E. Hübner, W. Pyckhout-Hintzen, M. Zamponi, A. Radulescu, A. Feoktystov, M. Monkenbusch, N. Jalarvo, and D. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 047801 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Printing Non-Euclidean Solids

Giuseppe Zurlo and Lev Truskinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 048001 (2017) - Published 26 July, 2017

Mixing by Unstirring: Hyperuniform Dispersion of Interacting Particles upon Chaotic Advection

Joost H. Weijs and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 048002 (2017) - Published 27 July, 2017

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Size-Dependent Localization in Polydisperse Colloidal Glasses

D. Heckendorf, K. J. Mutch, S. U. Egelhaaf, and M. Laurati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 048003 (2017) - Published 28 July, 2017

Imaging of the individual particles of a glass reveals the different behaviors of slightly smaller vs slightly larger particles, suggesting new ways to adjust the properties of commercial glasses.

Dynamical Transition of Collective Motions in Dry Proteins

Zhuo Liu, Juan Huang, Madhusudan Tyagi, Hugh O’Neill, Qiu Zhang, Eugene Mamontov, Nitin Jain, Yujie Wang, Jie Zhang, Jeremy C. Smith, and Liang Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 048101 (2017) - Published 25 July, 2017