Volume 119, Issue 6

11 August 2017

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Spatiotemporal dependence of current domains in polariton condensates.

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Spontaneous Polariton Currents in Periodic Lateral Chains
A. V. Nalitov, T. C. H. Liew, A. V. Kavokin, B. L. Altshuler, and Y. G. Rubo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067406 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Primordial Black Holes and $r$ -Process Nucleosynthesis

George M. Fuller, Alexander Kusenko, and Volodymyr Takhistov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061101 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

A dramatic scenario in which a compact black hole eats a spinning neutron star from inside might explain a nearby galaxy’s unexpectedly high abundance of heavy elements.

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Proton-Proton Fusion and Tritium $β$ Decay from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

Martin J. Savage, Phiala E. Shanahan, Brian C. Tiburzi, Michael L. Wagman, Frank Winter, Silas R. Beane, Emmanuel Chang, Zohreh Davoudi, William Detmold, and Kostas Orginos (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062002 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Theorists have used lattice-QCD calculations to predict two weak-force-driven reactions—proton fusion and tritium decay.

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Nanosecond X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy on Magnetic Skyrmions

M. H. Seaberg, B. Holladay, J. C. T. Lee, M. Sikorski, A. H. Reid, S. A. Montoya, G. L. Dakovski, J. D. Koralek, G. Coslovich, S. Moeller, W. F. Schlotter, R. Streubel, S. D. Kevan, P. Fischer, E. E. Fullerton, J. L. Turner, F.-J. Decker, S. K. Sinha, S. Roy, and J. J. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067403 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

A new x-ray spectroscopy technique can measure magnetic fluctuations in vortex-like structures called Skyrmions with nanosecond resolution.

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Fourth Exception in the Calculation of Relic Abundances

Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo, Duccio Pappadopulo, and Joshua T. Ruderman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061102 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

A proposal for a new mechanism of dark matter production suggests that the abundance of dark matter may be set by its inelastic scattering rate, instead of its annihilation rate.

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Dijet imbalance measurements in $Au + Au$ and $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ at STAR

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062301 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Analysis of the energy imbalance of dijet pairs in Au-Au collisions at RHIC shows how jets lose energy as they propagate through a quark-gluon plasma.

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Femtosecond Probing of Plasma Wakefields and Observation of the Plasma Wake Reversal Using a Relativistic Electron Bunch

C. J. Zhang, J. F. Hua, Y. Wan, C.-H. Pai, B. Guo, J. Zhang, Y. Ma, F. Li, Y. P. Wu, H.-H. Chu, Y. Q. Gu, X. L. Xu, W. B. Mori, C. Joshi, J. Wang, and W. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 064801 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

The electric-field structure in plasma wakefield accelerators has been detected experimentally with femtosecond resolution for the first time.

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Conductance of a Freestanding Conjugated Molecular Wire

Torben Jasper-Tönnies, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Thomas Frederiksen, Sandra Ulrich, Rainer Herges, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 066801 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

The conductance of a molecule standing perpendicular to a substrate is found to be dependent on the geometry, orbital symmetries, and bonds of the molecule.

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Probing Electron Spin Resonance in Monolayer Graphene

T. J. Lyon, J. Sichau, A. Dorn, A. Centeno, A. Pesquera, A. Zurutuza, and R. H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 066802 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Electron spin resonance experiments demonstrate that graphene possesses an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling.

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Metagratings: Beyond the Limits of Graded Metasurfaces for Wave Front Control

Younes Ra’di, Dimitrios L. Sounas, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067404 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Light could be steered in any direction using specially designed periodic gratings that have metamaterial inclusions, according to predictions.

LETTERS

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

Adiabatic Theorem for Quantum Spin Systems

S. Bachmann, W. De Roeck, and M. Fraas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060201 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Quantum State Transfer from a Single Photon to a Distant Quantum-Dot Electron Spin

Yu He, Yu-Ming He, Yu-Jia Wei, Xiao Jiang, Kai Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, and Sven Höfling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060501 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Simple Atomic Quantum Memory Suitable for Semiconductor Quantum Dot Single Photons

Janik Wolters, Gianni Buser, Andrew Horsley, Lucas Béguin, Andreas Jöckel, Jan-Philipp Jahn, Richard J. Warburton, and Philipp Treutlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060502 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Degeneracy-Preserving Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of Parity-Type Observables for Cat Qubits

Joachim Cohen, W. Clarke Smith, Michel H. Devoret, and Mazyar Mirrahimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060503 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

Exact Extremal Statistics in the Classical 1D Coulomb Gas

Abhishek Dhar, Anupam Kundu, Satya N. Majumdar, Sanjib Sabhapandit, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060601 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Observing Power-Law Dynamics of Position-Velocity Correlation in Anomalous Diffusion

Gadi Afek, Jonathan Coslovsky, Arnaud Courvoisier, Oz Livneh, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060602 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Driven Anisotropic Diffusion at Boundaries: Noise Rectification and Particle Sorting

Stefano Bo and Ralf Eichhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 060603 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Primordial Black Holes and $r$ -Process Nucleosynthesis

George M. Fuller, Alexander Kusenko, and Volodymyr Takhistov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061101 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

A dramatic scenario in which a compact black hole eats a spinning neutron star from inside might explain a nearby galaxy’s unexpectedly high abundance of heavy elements.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fourth Exception in the Calculation of Relic Abundances

Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo, Duccio Pappadopulo, and Joshua T. Ruderman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061102 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

A proposal for a new mechanism of dark matter production suggests that the abundance of dark matter may be set by its inelastic scattering rate, instead of its annihilation rate.

Equation of State and Duration to Radiation Domination after Inflation

Kaloian D. Lozanov and Mustafa A. Amin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061301 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Solutions to Yang-Mills Equations on Four-Dimensional de Sitter Space

Tatiana A. Ivanova, Olaf Lechtenfeld, and Alexander D. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061601 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Dark Matter Decay between Phase Transitions at the Weak Scale

Michael J. Baker and Joachim Kopp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 061801 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

Observation of the Decays $Λ_{b}^{0} \to χ_{c 1} p K^{-}$ and $Λ_{b}^{0} \to χ_{c 2} p K^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062001 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

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Proton-Proton Fusion and Tritium $β$ Decay from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

Martin J. Savage, Phiala E. Shanahan, Brian C. Tiburzi, Michael L. Wagman, Frank Winter, Silas R. Beane, Emmanuel Chang, Zohreh Davoudi, William Detmold, and Kostas Orginos (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062002 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Theorists have used lattice-QCD calculations to predict two weak-force-driven reactions—proton fusion and tritium decay.

Isotensor Axial Polarizability and Lattice QCD Input for Nuclear Double- $β$ Decay Phenomenology

Phiala E. Shanahan, Brian C. Tiburzi, Michael L. Wagman, Frank Winter, Emmanuel Chang, Zohreh Davoudi, William Detmold, Kostas Orginos, and Martin J. Savage (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062003 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Strong Evidence for Nucleon Resonances near 1900 MeV

A. V. Anisovich, V. Burkert, M. Hadžimehmedović, D. G. Ireland, E. Klempt, V. A. Nikonov, R. Omerović, H. Osmanović, A. V. Sarantsev, J. Stahov, A. Švarc, and U. Thoma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062004 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Nuclear Physics

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Dijet imbalance measurements in $Au + Au$ and $p p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ at STAR

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062301 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Analysis of the energy imbalance of dijet pairs in Au-Au collisions at RHIC shows how jets lose energy as they propagate through a quark-gluon plasma.

Quenching of Hadron Spectra in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC

François Arleo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062302 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Study of Nuclear Clustering from an Ab Initio Perspective

Konstantinos Kravvaris and Alexander Volya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062501 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Superfluid Density of Neutrons in the Inner Crust of Neutron Stars: New Life for Pulsar Glitch Models

Gentaro Watanabe and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 062701 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Unraveling the Structure of Ultracold Mesoscopic Collinear Molecular Ions

J. M. Schurer, A. Negretti, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063001 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Global Method for Electron Correlation

Mario Piris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063002 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Helicity-Selective Enhancement and Polarization Control of Attosecond High Harmonic Waveforms Driven by Bichromatic Circularly Polarized Laser Fields

Kevin M. Dorney, Jennifer L. Ellis, Carlos Hernández-García, Daniel D. Hickstein, Christopher A. Mancuso, Nathan Brooks, Tingting Fan, Guangyu Fan, Dmitriy Zusin, Christian Gentry, Patrik Grychtol, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063201 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Transfer of Phase Information between Microwave and Optical Fields via an Electron Spin

Ignas Lekavicius, D. Andrew Golter, Thein Oo, and Hailin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063601 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Disorder-Driven Density and Spin Self-Ordering of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Cavity

Farokh Mivehvar, Francesco Piazza, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 063602 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Confined Rayleigh-Bénard, Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard, and Double Diffusive Convection: A Unifying View on Turbulent Transport Enhancement through Coherent Structure Manipulation

Kai Leong Chong, Yantao Yang, Shi-Di Huang, Jin-Qiang Zhong, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco, Detlef Lohse, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 064501 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

Bifurcation Dynamics of a Particle-Encapsulating Droplet in Shear Flow

Lailai Zhu and François Gallaire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 064502 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Femtosecond Probing of Plasma Wakefields and Observation of the Plasma Wake Reversal Using a Relativistic Electron Bunch

C. J. Zhang, J. F. Hua, Y. Wan, C.-H. Pai, B. Guo, J. Zhang, Y. Ma, F. Li, Y. P. Wu, H.-H. Chu, Y. Q. Gu, X. L. Xu, W. B. Mori, C. Joshi, J. Wang, and W. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 064801 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

The electric-field structure in plasma wakefield accelerators has been detected experimentally with femtosecond resolution for the first time.

Scaling Fixed-Field Alternating-Gradient Accelerators with Reverse Bend and Spiral Edge Angle

Shinji Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 064802 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Continuum Lowering and Fermi-Surface Rising in Strongly Coupled and Degenerate Plasmas

S. X. Hu (胡素兴)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 065001 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

High-Pressure Behavior of Hydrogen and Deuterium at Low Temperatures

Xiao-Di Liu, Ross T. Howie, Hui-Chao Zhang, Xiao-Jia Chen, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 065301 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

Determination of the Density and Temperature Dependence of the Shear Viscosity of a Unitary Fermi Gas Based on Hydrodynamic Flow

Marcus Bluhm, Jiaxun Hou, and Thomas Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 065302 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Successive Dimensional Transition in ${(TMTTF)}_{2} {PF}_{6}$ Revealed by Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction

Shunsuke Kitou, Tatsuya Fujii, Tadashi Kawamoto, Naoyuki Katayama, Sachiko Maki, Eiji Nishibori, Kunihisa Sugimoto, Masaki Takata, Toshikazu Nakamura, and Hiroshi Sawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 065701 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Linking Spatial Distributions of Potential and Current in Viscous Electronics

Gregory Falkovich and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 066601 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conductance of a Freestanding Conjugated Molecular Wire

Torben Jasper-Tönnies, Aran Garcia-Lekue, Thomas Frederiksen, Sandra Ulrich, Rainer Herges, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 066801 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

The conductance of a molecule standing perpendicular to a substrate is found to be dependent on the geometry, orbital symmetries, and bonds of the molecule.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Electron Spin Resonance in Monolayer Graphene

T. J. Lyon, J. Sichau, A. Dorn, A. Centeno, A. Pesquera, A. Zurutuza, and R. H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 066802 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Electron spin resonance experiments demonstrate that graphene possesses an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling.

Quantum Coherent Multielectron Processes in an Atomic Scale Contact

Peter-Jan Peters, Fei Xu, Kristen Kaasbjerg, Gianluca Rastelli, Wolfgang Belzig, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 066803 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Transport Properties of an Electron-Hole Bilayer in Contact with a Superconductor Hybrid Junction

D. Bercioux, T. M. Klapwijk, and F. S. Bergeret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067001 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

Holon Wigner Crystal in a Lightly Doped Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid

Hong-Chen Jiang, T. Devereaux, and S. A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067002 (2017) - Published 7 August, 2017

Multiply Quantized Vortices in Fermionic Superfluids: Angular Momentum, Unpaired Fermions, and Spectral Asymmetry

Abhinav Prem, Sergej Moroz, Victor Gurarie, and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067003 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

How Correlated is the $FeSe / {SrTiO}_{3}$ System?

Subhasish Mandal, Peng Zhang, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, and K. Haule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067004 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Raman Scattering from Higgs Mode Oscillations in the Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnet ${Ca}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Sofia-Michaela Souliou, Jiří Chaloupka, Giniyat Khaliullin, Gihun Ryu, Anil Jain, B. J. Kim, Matthieu Le Tacon, and Bernhard Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067201 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Spin Order and Phase Transitions in Chains of Polariton Condensates

H. Ohadi, A. J. Ramsay, H. Sigurdsson, Y. del Valle-Inclan Redondo, S. I. Tsintzos, Z. Hatzopoulos, T. C. H. Liew, I. A. Shelykh, Y. G. Rubo, P. G. Savvidis, and J. J. Baumberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067401 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Large Bulk Photovoltaic Effect and Spontaneous Polarization of Single-Layer Monochalcogenides

Tonatiuh Rangel, Benjamin M. Fregoso, Bernardo S. Mendoza, Takahiro Morimoto, Joel E. Moore, and Jeffrey B. Neaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067402 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nanosecond X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy on Magnetic Skyrmions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067403 (2017) - Published 9 August, 2017

A new x-ray spectroscopy technique can measure magnetic fluctuations in vortex-like structures called Skyrmions with nanosecond resolution.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Metagratings: Beyond the Limits of Graded Metasurfaces for Wave Front Control

Younes Ra’di, Dimitrios L. Sounas, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067404 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Light could be steered in any direction using specially designed periodic gratings that have metamaterial inclusions, according to predictions.

Symmetry-Breaking Supercollisions in Landau-Quantized Graphene

Florian Wendler, Martin Mittendorff, Jacob C. König-Otto, Samuel Brem, Claire Berger, Walter A. de Heer, Roman Böttger, Harald Schneider, Manfred Helm, Stephan Winnerl, and Ermin Malic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067405 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Spontaneous Polariton Currents in Periodic Lateral Chains

A. V. Nalitov, T. C. H. Liew, A. V. Kavokin, B. L. Altshuler, and Y. G. Rubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067406 (2017) - Published 11 August, 2017

Room-Temperature Spin Polariton Diode Laser

Aniruddha Bhattacharya, Md Zunaid Baten, Ivan Iorsh, Thomas Frost, Alexey Kavokin, and Pallab Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067701 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

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

Hydrodynamics Defines the Stable Swimming Direction of Spherical Squirmers in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

J. S. Lintuvuori, A. Würger, and K. Stratford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 068001 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Determining the Gaussian Modulus and Edge Properties of 2D Materials: From Graphene to Lipid Bilayers

Matthew Zelisko, Fatemeh Ahmadpoor, Huajian Gao, and Pradeep Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 068002 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Helical Locomotion in a Granular Medium

Baptiste Darbois Texier, Alejandro Ibarra, and Francisco Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 068003 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017

Triggering Processes in Rock Fracture

Jörn Davidsen, Grzegorz Kwiatek, Elli-Maria Charalampidou, Thomas Goebel, Sergei Stanchits, Marc Rück, and Georg Dresen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 068501 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

COMMENTS

Comment on “Self-Referenced Coherent Diffraction X-Ray Movie of Ångstrom- and Femtosecond-Scale Atomic Motion”

Kochise Bennett, Markus Kowalewski, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 069301 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Glownia et al. Reply:

J. M. Glownia, A. Natan, J. P. Cryan, R. Hartsock, M. Kozina, M. P. Minitti, S. Nelson, J. Robinson, T. Sato, T. van Driel, G. Welch, C. Weninger, D. Zhu, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 069302 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Comment on “Ortho-Para-Dependent Pressure Effects Observed in the Near Infrared Band of Acetylene by Dual-Comb Spectroscopy”

Jean-Michel Hartmann and Ha Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 069401 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Iwakuni et al. Reply:

Kana Iwakuni, Sho Okubo, Koichi M. T. Yamada, Hajime Inaba, Atsushi Onae, Feng-Lei Hong, and Hiroyuki Sasada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 069402 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

ERRATA

Erratum: Role of Tensorial Electronic Friction in Energy Transfer at Metal Surfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217601 (2016)]

Mikhail Askerka, Reinhard J. Maurer, Victor S. Batista, and John C. Tully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 069901 (2017) - Published 8 August, 2017

Erratum: Probing the Electronic Structure of the Hemoglobin Active Center in Physiological Solutions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 068103 (2009)]

Emad F. Aziz, Niklas Ottosson, Sébastien Bonhommeau, Nora Bergmann, Wolfgang Eberhardt, and Majed Chergui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 069902 (2017) - Published 10 August, 2017