Volume 119, Issue 8

25 August 2017

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Histogram of invariant mass distribution of dimuons measured in Pb-Pb collisions used in identifying $Z$ bosons, and diagram showing their production with jets. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Study of Jet Quenching with $Z + jet$ Correlations in Pb-Pb and $p p$ Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 5.02 TeV$
A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 082301 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in an Interacting Many-Body System

P. Jurcevic, H. Shen, P. Hauke, C. Maier, T. Brydges, C. Hempel, B. P. Lanyon, M. Heyl, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080501 (2017) - Published 21 August, 2017

The observation of dynamical quantum phase transitions in an interacting many-body system breaks new ground in the study of matter out of thermal equilibrium.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Study of Jet Quenching with $Z + jet$ Correlations in Pb-Pb and $p p$ Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 082301 (2017) - Published 23 August, 2017

Properties of the quark-gluon plasma can be inferred from measurements of jets and $Z$ bosons simultaneously produced in the ion collisions that create the plasma.

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Popsicle-Stick Cobra Wave

Jean-Philippe Boucher, Christophe Clanet, David Quéré, and Frédéric Chevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 084301 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

High-speed video of the dramatic “cobra wave” produced by a latticework of popsicle sticks helped researchers explain the shape and speed of the wave.

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Magneto-Optical Detection of the Spin Hall Effect in Pt and W Thin Films

C. Stamm, C. Murer, M. Berritta, J. Feng, M. Gabureac, P. M. Oppeneer, and P. Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087203 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Spin accumulation due to the spin Hall effect has, for the first time, been detected directly, rather than inferred indirectly, in nonmagnetic conductors.

LETTERS

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

Witnessing Irreducible Dimension

Wan Cong, Yu Cai, Jean-Daniel Bancal, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080401 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in an Interacting Many-Body System

P. Jurcevic, H. Shen, P. Hauke, C. Maier, T. Brydges, C. Hempel, B. P. Lanyon, M. Heyl, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080501 (2017) - Published 21 August, 2017

The observation of dynamical quantum phase transitions in an interacting many-body system breaks new ground in the study of matter out of thermal equilibrium.

Multiphoton Interference in Quantum Fourier Transform Circuits and Applications to Quantum Metrology

Zu-En Su, Yuan Li, Peter P. Rohde, He-Liang Huang, Xi-Lin Wang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Jonathan P. Dowling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080502 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Entanglement is Necessary for Emergent Classicality in All Physical Theories

Jonathan G. Richens, John H. Selby, and Sabri W. Al-Safi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080503 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Unified Model for Pseudononuniversal Behavior of the Electrical Conductivity in Percolation Systems

I. Balberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080601 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Lower Bounding Diffusion Constant by the Curvature of Drude Weight

Marko Medenjak, Christoph Karrasch, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 080602 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Detecting Dark Photons with Reactor Neutrino Experiments

H. K. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 081801 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Direct Measurement of Nuclear Dependence of Charged Current Quasielasticlike Neutrino Interactions Using MINERvA

M. Betancourt et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 082001 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Nuclear Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Study of Jet Quenching with $Z + jet$ Correlations in Pb-Pb and $p p$ Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 082301 (2017) - Published 23 August, 2017

Properties of the quark-gluon plasma can be inferred from measurements of jets and $Z$ bosons simultaneously produced in the ion collisions that create the plasma.

Structure and Reactions of ${}^{11}{Be}$ : Many-Body Basis for Single-Neutron Halo

F. Barranco, G. Potel, R. A. Broglia, and E. Vigezzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 082501 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Molecular Frame Reconstruction Using Time-Domain Photoionization Interferometry

Claude Marceau, Varun Makhija, Dominique Platzer, A. Yu. Naumov, P. B. Corkum, Albert Stolow, D. M. Villeneuve, and Paul Hockett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 083401 (2017) - Published 22 August, 2017

Fully Differential Study of Capture with Vibrational Dissociation in $p + H_{2}$ Collisions

B. R. Lamichhane, T. Arthanayaka, J. Remolina, A. Hasan, M. F. Ciappina, F. Navarrete, R. O. Barrachina, R. A. Lomsadze, and M. Schulz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 083402 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Interatomic Coulombic Decay Mediated by Ultrafast Superexchange Energy Transfer

Tsveta Miteva, Sévan Kazandjian, Přemysl Kolorenč, Petra Votavová, and Nicolas Sisourat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 083403 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Heralded Single Photons Based on Spectral Multiplexing and Feed-Forward Control

M. Grimau Puigibert, G. H. Aguilar, Q. Zhou, F. Marsili, M. D. Shaw, V. B. Verma, S. W. Nam, D. Oblak, and W. Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 083601 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Stable Chimeras and Independently Synchronizable Clusters

Young Sul Cho, Takashi Nishikawa, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 084101 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Popsicle-Stick Cobra Wave

Jean-Philippe Boucher, Christophe Clanet, David Quéré, and Frédéric Chevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 084301 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

High-speed video of the dramatic “cobra wave” produced by a latticework of popsicle sticks helped researchers explain the shape and speed of the wave.

Motion of a Free-Settling Spherical Particle Driven by a Laser-Induced Bubble

Shengji Wu, Zhigang Zuo, Howard A. Stone, and Shuhong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 084501 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of the $K$ -Shell Opacity of a Solid-Density Magnesium Plasma Heated by an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

T. R. Preston, S. M. Vinko, O. Ciricosta, P. Hollebon, H.-K. Chung, G. L. Dakovski, J. Krzywinski, M. Minitti, T. Burian, J. Chalupský, V. Hájková, L. Juha, V. Vozda, U. Zastrau, R. W. Lee, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 085001 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Field-Line Localized Destabilization of Ballooning Modes in Three-Dimensional Tokamaks

M. Willensdorfer, T. B. Cote, C. C. Hegna, W. Suttrop, H. Zohm, M. Dunne, E. Strumberger, G. Birkenmeier, S. S. Denk, F. Mink, B. Vanovac, L. C. Luhmann, and the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 085002 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

BCS Theory of Time-Reversal-Symmetric Hofstadter-Hubbard Model

R. O. Umucalılar and M. Iskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 085301 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Superstrengthening ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ through Nanotwinning

Guodong Li, Umut Aydemir, Sergey I. Morozov, Max Wood, Qi An, Pengcheng Zhai, Qingjie Zhang, William A. Goddard, III, and G. Jeffrey Snyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 085501 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Stiffness Percolation in Stochastically Fragmented Continua

Anirban Pal and Catalin R. Picu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 085502 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Quantum Dot Self-Assembly Driven by a Surfactant-Induced Morphological Instability

Ryan B. Lewis, Pierre Corfdir, Hong Li, Jesús Herranz, Carsten Pfüller, Oliver Brandt, and Lutz Geelhaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 086101 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ultrafast Electronic Band Gap Control in an Excitonic Insulator

Selene Mor, Marc Herzog, Denis Golež, Philipp Werner, Martin Eckstein, Naoyuki Katayama, Minoru Nohara, Hide Takagi, Takashi Mizokawa, Claude Monney, and Julia Stähler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 086401 (2017) - Published 23 August, 2017

Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior and Continuously Tunable Resistivity Exponents in the Anderson-Hubbard Model at Finite Temperature

Niravkumar D. Patel, Anamitra Mukherjee, Nitin Kaushal, Adriana Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 086601 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Quasiparticle Interference on Cubic Perovskite Oxide Surfaces

Yoshinori Okada, Shiue-Yuan Shiau, Tay-Rong Chang, Guoqing Chang, Masaki Kobayashi, Ryota Shimizu, Horng-Tay Jeng, Susumu Shiraki, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Arun Bansil, Hsin Lin, and Taro Hitosugi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 086801 (2017) - Published 22 August, 2017

Odd-Frequency Superconductivity in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ Measured by Kerr Rotation

L. Komendová and A. M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087001 (2017) - Published 21 August, 2017

Complementary Response of Static Spin-Stripe Order and Superconductivity to Nonmagnetic Impurities in Cuprates

Z. Guguchia, B. Roessli, R. Khasanov, A. Amato, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, Y. J. Uemura, J. M. Tranquada, H. Keller, and A. Shengelaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087002 (2017) - Published 22 August, 2017

Origin of Superconductivity and Latent Charge Density Wave in ${NbS}_{2}$

Christoph Heil, Samuel Poncé, Henry Lambert, Martin Schlipf, Elena R. Margine, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087003 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

Classical Spin Nematic Transition in ${LiGa}_{0.95} {In}_{0.05} {Cr}_{4} O_{8}$

R. Wawrzyńczak, Y. Tanaka, M. Yoshida, Y. Okamoto, P. Manuel, N. Casati, Z. Hiroi, M. Takigawa, and G. J. Nilsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087201 (2017) - Published 22 August, 2017

Anomalous Hall Effect and Topological Defects in Antiferromagnetic Weyl Semimetals: ${Mn}_{3} Sn / Ge$

Jianpeng Liu and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087202 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magneto-Optical Detection of the Spin Hall Effect in Pt and W Thin Films

C. Stamm, C. Murer, M. Berritta, J. Feng, M. Gabureac, P. M. Oppeneer, and P. Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087203 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Spin accumulation due to the spin Hall effect has, for the first time, been detected directly, rather than inferred indirectly, in nonmagnetic conductors.

Dynamical Reduction of the Dimensionality of Exchange Interactions and the “Spin-Liquid” Phase of $κ$ - $(BEDT − TTF)_{2} X$

B. J. Powell, E. P. Kenny, and J. Merino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087204 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Optically Discriminating Carrier-Induced Quasiparticle Band Gap and Exciton Energy Renormalization in Monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Kaiyuan Yao, Aiming Yan, Salman Kahn, Aslihan Suslu, Yufeng Liang, Edward S. Barnard, Sefaattin Tongay, Alex Zettl, Nicholas J. Borys, and P. James Schuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087401 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

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

Fractional Viscosity Dependence of Reaction Kinetics in Glass-Forming Liquids

Seulki Kwon, Hyun Woo Cho, Jeongmin Kim, and Bong June Sung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087801 (2017) - Published 25 August, 2017

Dynamic Wrinkling and Strengthening of an Elastic Filament in a Viscous Fluid

Julien Chopin, Moumita Dasgupta, and Arshad Kudrolli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 088001 (2017) - Published 24 August, 2017