Volume 119, Issue 5

4 August 2017

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On the Cover

Snapshot of spiral waves resulting from the spatiotemporal dynamics of excitable media. White circles indicate the phase singularities or organizing centers of the waves.

From the article:

Features of Chaotic Transients in Excitable Media Governed by Spiral and Scroll Waves
Thomas Lilienkamp, Jan Christoph, and Ulrich Parlitz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054101 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Pressure-Dependent Friction on Granular Slopes Close to Avalanche

Jérôme Crassous, Antoine Humeau, Samuel Boury, and Jérôme Casas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 058003 (2017) - Published 3 August, 2017

Experiments show that the mass of an object determines whether it slides down a sandy slope, which may explain why insect predators called antlions can trap ants in sand pits.

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Nonlinear Self-Action of Light through Biological Suspensions

Anna Bezryadina, Tobias Hansson, Rekha Gautam, Benjamin Wetzel, Graham Siggins, Andrew Kalmbach, Josh Lamstein, Daniel Gallardo, Edward J. Carpenter, Andrew Ichimura, Roberto Morandotti, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 058101 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

A laser beam sent through a suspension of marine bacteria pulls the organisms into the beam, which focuses the light.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Designing Kitaev Spin Liquids in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Masahiko G. Yamada, Hiroyuki Fujita, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057202 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Versatile materials called metal-organic frameworks might be good systems in which to search for quantum spin liquids.

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Search for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 051802 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

The ATLAS collaboration has placed an upper limit on the decay rate of Higgs bosons into pairs of muons within a factor of three of the Standard Model prediction.

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Oscillation of Branching Ratios Between the $D (2 s) + D (1 s)$ and the $D (2 p) + D (1 s)$ Channels in Direct Photodissociation of $D_{2}$

Jie Wang, Qingnan Meng, and Yuxiang Mo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053002 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Previously predicted oscillations in the electronic states of atoms after the dissociation of a hydrogen molecule are observed experimentally.

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Optical Control of the Resonant Dipole-Dipole Interaction between Rydberg Atoms

Sylvain de Léséleuc, Daniel Barredo, Vincent Lienhard, Antoine Browaeys, and Thierry Lahaye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053202 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

The interaction between two Rydberg atoms is modified experimentally by addressing one of the two atoms with a laser beam.

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Mass and Moment of Inertia Govern the Transition in the Dynamics and Wakes of Freely Rising and Falling Cylinders

Varghese Mathai, Xiaojue Zhu, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054501 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

The oscillations of neutrally buoyant cylinders depend on rotational freedom of the objects, as well as their mass.

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Frictional Magneto-Coulomb Drag in Graphene Double-Layer Heterostructures

Xiaomeng Liu, Lei Wang, Kin Chung Fong, Yuanda Gao, Patrick Maher, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Cory Dean, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056802 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

The first experimental study of frictional drag effect between two monolayer sheets of graphene separated by a boron nitride spacer shows on strong magneto- and Hall-drag signals that depend on the Landau level filling of each graphene layer.

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Evidence for Weakly Correlated Oxygen Holes in the Highest- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductor ${HgBa}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{8 + δ}$

A. Chainani, M. Sicot, Y. Fagot-Revurat, G. Vasseur, J. Granet, B. Kierren, L. Moreau, M. Oura, A. Yamamoto, Y. Tokura, and D. Malterre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057001 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Oxygen-hole correlations in HgBa $_{2}$ Ca $_{2}$ Cu $_{3}$ O $_{8 + δ}$ , the highest T $_{c}$ mercury-based cuprate superconductor, are found to be weaker than those seen in any other cuprate superconductor.

LETTERS

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

Frustrated Magnetism of Dipolar Molecules on a Square Optical Lattice: Prediction of a Quantum Paramagnetic Ground State

Haiyuan Zou, Erhai Zhao, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050401 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Universal Bell Correlations Do Not Exist

Cole A. Graham and William M. Hoza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050402 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Quantum Fluctuations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

D. Edler, C. Mishra, F. Wächtler, R. Nath, S. Sinha, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050403 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Stepwise Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Spinor Gas

C. Frapolli, T. Zibold, A. Invernizzi, K. Jiménez-García, J. Dalibard, and F. Gerbier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050404 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Determining Complementary Properties with Quantum Clones

G. S. Thekkadath, R. Y. Saaltink, L. Giner, and J. S. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050405 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Entanglement Area Laws for Long-Range Interacting Systems

Zhe-Xuan Gong, Michael Foss-Feig, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050501 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Correlation-Enhanced Algorithmic Cooling

Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones, Eduardo Martín-Martínez, Achim Kempf, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050502 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Experimental Blind Quantum Computing for a Classical Client

He-Liang Huang, Qi Zhao, Xiongfeng Ma, Chang Liu, Zu-En Su, Xi-Lin Wang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Barry C. Sanders, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050503 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Contextual Fraction as a Measure of Contextuality

Samson Abramsky, Rui Soares Barbosa, and Shane Mansfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050504 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Slow Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Open Quantum Systems

Vasco Cavina, Andrea Mari, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050601 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Quantum Heat Engine Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Yueyang Zou, Yue Jiang, Yefeng Mei, Xianxin Guo, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050602 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Towards the Fundamental Quantum Limit of Linear Measurements of Classical Signals

Haixing Miao, Rana X Adhikari, Yiqiu Ma, Belinda Pang, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 050801 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Intensity Interferometry: Measuring Protoneutron Star Radii During Core-Collapse Supernovae

Warren P. Wright and James P. Kneller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 051101 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Algebraic Structure of Cut Feynman Integrals and the Diagrammatic Coaction

Samuel Abreu, Ruth Britto, Claude Duhr, and Einan Gardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 051601 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Case for an EeV Gravitino

Emilian Dudas, Yann Mambrini, and Keith A. Olive

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 051801 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

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Search for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 051802 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

The ATLAS collaboration has placed an upper limit on the decay rate of Higgs bosons into pairs of muons within a factor of three of the Standard Model prediction.

Nuclear Physics

Dynamics of Fragmented Condensates and Macroscopic Entanglement

Aurel Bulgac and Shi Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 052501 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Electric and Magnetic Dipole Strength at Low Energy

K. Sieja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 052502 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Impact of Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer measurements of $β$ decay of fission products on the decay heat and reactor ${\bar{ν}}_{e}$ flux calculation

A. Fijałkowska, M. Karny, K. P. Rykaczewski, B. C. Rasco, R. Grzywacz, C. J. Gross, M. Wolińska-Cichocka, K. C. Goetz, D. W. Stracener, W. Bielewski, R. Goans, J. H. Hamilton, J. W. Johnson, C. Jost, M. Madurga, K. Miernik, D. Miller, S. W. Padgett, S. V. Paulauskas, A. V. Ramayya, and E. F. Zganjar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 052503 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Energy Dependent Stereodynamics of the $Ne ({{}^{3}P}_{2}) + Ar$ Reaction

Sean D. S. Gordon, Junwen Zou, Silvia Tanteri, Justin Jankunas, and Andreas Osterwalder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053001 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Oscillation of Branching Ratios Between the $D (2 s) + D (1 s)$ and the $D (2 p) + D (1 s)$ Channels in Direct Photodissociation of $D_{2}$

Jie Wang, Qingnan Meng, and Yuxiang Mo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053002 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Previously predicted oscillations in the electronic states of atoms after the dissociation of a hydrogen molecule are observed experimentally.

Focusing of a Rydberg Positronium Beam with an Ellipsoidal Electrostatic Mirror

A. C. L. Jones, J. Moxom, H. J. Rutbeck-Goldman, K. A. Osorno, G. G. Cecchini, M. Fuentes-Garcia, R. G. Greaves, D. J. Adams, H. W. K. Tom, A. P. Mills, Jr., and M. Leventhal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053201 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

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Optical Control of the Resonant Dipole-Dipole Interaction between Rydberg Atoms

Sylvain de Léséleuc, Daniel Barredo, Vincent Lienhard, Antoine Browaeys, and Thierry Lahaye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053202 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

The interaction between two Rydberg atoms is modified experimentally by addressing one of the two atoms with a laser beam.

Suppression of Multiphoton Resonances in Driven Quantum Systems via Pulse Shape Optimization

Denis Gagnon, François Fillion-Gourdeau, Joey Dumont, Catherine Lefebvre, and Steve MacLean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053203 (2017) - Published 3 August, 2017

Emergence of a Higher Energy Structure in Strong Field Ionization with Inhomogeneous Electric Fields

L. Ortmann, J. A. Pérez-Hernández, M. F. Ciappina, J. Schötz, A. Chacón, G. Zeraouli, M. F. Kling, L. Roso, M. Lewenstein, and A. S. Landsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053204 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Incoherent Diffractive Imaging via Intensity Correlations of Hard X Rays

Anton Classen, Kartik Ayyer, Henry N. Chapman, Ralf Röhlsberger, and Joachim von Zanthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053401 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Characterization of Neutral Radicals from a Dissociative Electron Attachment Process

Zhou Li, Aleksandar R. Milosavljević, Ian Carmichael, and Sylwia Ptasinska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053402 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Amplified Optomechanical Transduction of Virtual Radiation Pressure

Mauro Cirio, Kamanasish Debnath, Neill Lambert, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053601 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Many-Body Subradiant Excitations in Metamaterial Arrays: Experiment and Theory

Stewart D. Jenkins, Janne Ruostekoski, Nikitas Papasimakis, Salvatore Savo, and Nikolay I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053901 (2017) - Published 3 August, 2017

Magnetic Dipole Scattering from Metallic Nanowire for Ultrasensitive Deflection Sensing

Zheng Xi and H. P. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053902 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Features of Chaotic Transients in Excitable Media Governed by Spiral and Scroll Waves

Thomas Lilienkamp, Jan Christoph, and Ulrich Parlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054101 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Chaos and Predictability of Homogeneous-Isotropic Turbulence

G. Boffetta and S. Musacchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054102 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Kolmogorov Turbulence Defeated by Anderson Localization for a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Sinai-Oscillator Trap

Leonardo Ermann, Eduardo Vergini, and Dima L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054103 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

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Mass and Moment of Inertia Govern the Transition in the Dynamics and Wakes of Freely Rising and Falling Cylinders

Varghese Mathai, Xiaojue Zhu, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054501 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

The oscillations of neutrally buoyant cylinders depend on rotational freedom of the objects, as well as their mass.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Polarization Dependence of Bulk Ion Acceleration from Ultrathin Foils Irradiated by High-Intensity Ultrashort Laser Pulses

C. Scullion, D. Doria, L. Romagnani, A. Sgattoni, K. Naughton, D. R. Symes, P. McKenna, A. Macchi, M. Zepf, S. Kar, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 054801 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Counterpropagating Radiative Shock Experiments on the Orion Laser

F. Suzuki-Vidal, T. Clayson, C. Stehlé, G. F. Swadling, J. M. Foster, J. Skidmore, P. Graham, G. C. Burdiak, S. V. Lebedev, U. Chaulagain, R. L. Singh, E. T. Gumbrell, S. Patankar, C. Spindloe, J. Larour, M. Kozlova, R. Rodriguez, J. M. Gil, G. Espinosa, P. Velarde, and C. Danson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 055001 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Longitudinal and Transverse Instability of Ion Acoustic Waves

T. Chapman, R. L. Berger, B. I. Cohen, J. W. Banks, and S. Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 055002 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Coalescence of Macroscopic Flux Ropes at the Subsolar Magnetopause: Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations

M. Zhou, J. Berchem, R. J. Walker, M. El-Alaoui, X. Deng, E. Cazzola, G. Lapenta, M. L. Goldstein, W. R. Paterson, Y. Pang, R. E. Ergun, B. Lavraud, H. Liang, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, C. Zhao, B. L. Giles, C. J. Pollock, P.-A. Lindqvist, G. Marklund, F. D. Wilder, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, R. B. Torbert, and J. L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 055101 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Length-Scale Dependence of the Stokes-Einstein and Adam-Gibbs Relations in Model Glass Formers

Anshul D. S. Parmar, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056001 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Nanoconfinement in Slit Pores Enhances Water Self-Dissociation

Daniel Muñoz-Santiburcio and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056002 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Stability of Electrodeposition at Solid-Solid Interfaces and Implications for Metal Anodes

Zeeshan Ahmad and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056003 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Towards a First-Principles Determination of Effective Coulomb Interactions in Correlated Electron Materials: Role of Intershell Interactions

Priyanka Seth, Philipp Hansmann, Ambroise van Roekeghem, Loig Vaugier, and Silke Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056401 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Breakdown of Traditional Many-Body Theories for Correlated Electrons

O. Gunnarsson, G. Rohringer, T. Schäfer, G. Sangiovanni, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056402 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Anomalous Nernst and Righi-Leduc Effects in ${Mn}_{3} Sn$ : Berry Curvature and Entropy Flow

Xiaokang Li, Liangcai Xu, Linchao Ding, Jinhua Wang, Mingsong Shen, Xiufang Lu, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056601 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Apparent Reversal of Molecular Orbitals Reveals Entanglement

Ping Yu, Nemanja Kocić, Jascha Repp, Benjamin Siegert, and Andrea Donarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056801 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Frictional Magneto-Coulomb Drag in Graphene Double-Layer Heterostructures

Xiaomeng Liu, Lei Wang, Kin Chung Fong, Yuanda Gao, Patrick Maher, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Cory Dean, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056802 (2017) - Published 2 August, 2017

Tuning Edge States in Strained-Layer $InAs / GaInSb$ Quantum Spin Hall Insulators

Lingjie Du, Tingxin Li, Wenkai Lou, Xingjun Wu, Xiaoxue Liu, Zhongdong Han, Chi Zhang, Gerard Sullivan, Amal Ikhlassi, Kai Chang, and Rui-Rui Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056803 (2017) - Published 3 August, 2017

Enhanced Spin Conductance of a Thin-Film Insulating Antiferromagnet

Scott A. Bender, Hans Skarsvåg, Arne Brataas, and Rembert A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056804 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Weakly Correlated Oxygen Holes in the Highest- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductor ${HgBa}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{8 + δ}$

A. Chainani, M. Sicot, Y. Fagot-Revurat, G. Vasseur, J. Granet, B. Kierren, L. Moreau, M. Oura, A. Yamamoto, Y. Tokura, and D. Malterre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057001 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Transport through a Majorana Island in the Strong Tunneling Regime

Roman M. Lutchyn and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057002 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

3D Spin-Liquid State in an Organic Hyperkagome Lattice of Mott Dimers

Asato Mizuno, Yoshiaki Shuku, Michio M. Matsushita, Masahisa Tsuchiizu, Yuuki Hara, Nobuo Wada, Yasuhiro Shimizu, and Kunio Awaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057201 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Designing Kitaev Spin Liquids in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Masahiko G. Yamada, Hiroyuki Fujita, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057202 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Versatile materials called metal-organic frameworks might be good systems in which to search for quantum spin liquids.

Quasiparticle Breakdown and Spin Hamiltonian of the Frustrated Quantum Pyrochlore ${Yb}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ in a Magnetic Field

J. D. Thompson, P. A. McClarty, D. Prabhakaran, I. Cabrera, T. Guidi, and R. Coldea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057203 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Optical Absorption and Emission Mechanisms of Single Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Nicholas R. Jungwirth and Gregory D. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057401 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Photoinduced Domain Pattern Transformation in Ferroelectric-Dielectric Superlattices

Youngjun Ahn, Joonkyu Park, Anastasios Pateras, Matthew B. Rich, Qingteng Zhang, Pice Chen, Mohammed H. Yusuf, Haidan Wen, Matthew Dawber, and Paul G. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057601 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics of $V_{3} O_{5}$ as a Signature of a Photoinduced Insulator-Metal Phase Transition

Nardeep Kumar, Armando Rúa, Junqiang Lu, Félix Fernández, and Sergiy Lysenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057602 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

Skyrme Insulators: Insulators at the Brink of Superconductivity

Onur Erten, Po-Yao Chang, Piers Coleman, and Alexei M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057603 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

Terahertz-Range Polar Modes in Domain-Engineered ${BiFeO}_{3}$

Jirka Hlinka, Marek Paściak, Sabine Körbel, and Pavel Marton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057604 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

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

Enhanced Deformation of Azobenzene-Modified Liquid Crystal Polymers under Dual Wavelength Exposure: A Photophysical Model

Ling Liu and Patrick R. Onck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 057801 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Dynamics of Fractal Cluster Gels with Embedded Active Colloids

Megan E. Szakasits, Wenxuan Zhang, and Michael J. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 058001 (2017) - Published 31 July, 2017

Collective Behavior of Chiral Active Matter: Pattern Formation and Enhanced Flocking

Benno Liebchen and Demian Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 058002 (2017) - Published 1 August, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure-Dependent Friction on Granular Slopes Close to Avalanche

Jérôme Crassous, Antoine Humeau, Samuel Boury, and Jérôme Casas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 058003 (2017) - Published 3 August, 2017

Experiments show that the mass of an object determines whether it slides down a sandy slope, which may explain why insect predators called antlions can trap ants in sand pits.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Self-Action of Light through Biological Suspensions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 058101 (2017) - Published 4 August, 2017

A laser beam sent through a suspension of marine bacteria pulls the organisms into the beam, which focuses the light.