Volume 119, Issue 9

1 September 2017

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On the Cover

Microfluidic particle trapping device: blue, water; pink, polymer solution; tan bubble, air that isolates the water from the polymer solution. The gray shape is a trapped microgel particle. The plot shows particle volume vs time as pressure is applied osmotically.

From the article:

Compression and Reswelling of Microgel Particles after an Osmotic Shock
Jelle J. F. Sleeboom, Panayiotis Voudouris, Melle T. J. J. M. Punter, Frank J. Aangenendt, Daniel Florea, Paul van der Schoot, and Hans M. Wyss
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 098001 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermometer Effect: Origin of the Mixed Alkali Effect in Glass Relaxation

Yingtian Yu, Mengyi Wang, Morten M. Smedskjaer, John C. Mauro, Gaurav Sant, and Mathieu Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 095501 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Loss of calibration of alkali glass thermometers is due to changes in the oxygen coordination numbers of the different types of alkali atoms.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Birefringent Stable Glass with Predominantly Isotropic Molecular Orientation

Tianyi Liu, Annemarie L. Exarhos, Ethan C. Alguire, Feng Gao, Elmira Salami-Ranjbaran, Kevin Cheng, Tiezheng Jia, Joseph E. Subotnik, Patrick J. Walsh, James M. Kikkawa, and Zahra Fakhraai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 095502 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Birefringence in a stable glass is shown, through photoluminescence and ellipsometry experiments, to be due to anisotropic packing.

LETTERS

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

Macroscopic Superpositions as Quantum Ground States

Borivoje Dakić and Milan Radonjić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 090401 (2017) - Published 1 September, 2017

Superconducting Qubits as Mechanical Quantum Engines

Kewin Sachtleben, Kahio T. Mazon, and Luis G. C. Rego

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 090601 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Order and Symmetry Breaking in the Fluctuations of Driven Systems

N. Tizón-Escamilla, C. Pérez-Espigares, P. L. Garrido, and P. I. Hurtado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 090602 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Quantum Thermal Machine as a Thermometer

Patrick P. Hofer, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 090603 (2017) - Published 1 September, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Testing the Binary Black Hole Nature of a Compact Binary Coalescence

N. V. Krishnendu, K. G. Arun, and Chandra Kant Mishra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 091101 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Solar Irradiance Variability is Caused by the Magnetic Activity on the Solar Surface

Kok Leng Yeo, Sami K. Solanki, Charlotte M. Norris, Benjamin Beeck, Yvonne C. Unruh, and Natalie A. Krivova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 091102 (2017) - Published 1 September, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Confinement in the Bulk, Deconfinement on the Wall: Infrared Equivalence between Compactified QCD and Quantum Magnets

Tin Sulejmanpasic, Hui Shao, Anders W. Sandvik, and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 091601 (2017) - Published 1 September, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Alignment of the ${(3 d^{10} 4 s 5 s)}^{3} S_{1}$ State of Zn Excited by Polarized Electron Impact

N. B. Clayburn and T. J. Gay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 093401 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Cavity Antiresonance Spectroscopy of Dipole Coupled Subradiant Arrays

David Plankensteiner, Christian Sommer, Helmut Ritsch, and Claudiu Genes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 093601 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Realization of Floquet $P T$ -Symmetric Systems

Mahboobeh Chitsazi, Huanan Li, F. M. Ellis, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 093901 (2017) - Published 1 September, 2017

Subcritical Thermal Convection of Liquid Metals in a Rapidly Rotating Sphere

E. J. Kaplan, N. Schaeffer, J. Vidal, and P. Cardin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 094501 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Crater Formation on Electrodes during Charge Transfer with Aqueous Droplets or Solid Particles

E. S. Elton, E. R. Rosenberg, and W. D. Ristenpart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 094502 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Levitation and Self-Organization of Liquid Microdroplets over Dry Heated Substrates

Dmitry V. Zaitsev, Dmitry P. Kirichenko, Vladimir S. Ajaev, and Oleg A. Kabov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 094503 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Acceleration of Electrons Injected by a Plasma Mirror into a Radially Polarized Laser Beam

N. Zaïm, M. Thévenet, A. Lifschitz, and J. Faure

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 094801 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Orbital-Angular-Momentum Mode Selection by Rotationally Symmetric Superposition of Chiral States with Application to Electron Vortex Beams

Yuanjie Yang, G. Thirunavukkarasu, M. Babiker, and Jun Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 094802 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermometer Effect: Origin of the Mixed Alkali Effect in Glass Relaxation

Yingtian Yu, Mengyi Wang, Morten M. Smedskjaer, John C. Mauro, Gaurav Sant, and Mathieu Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 095501 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Loss of calibration of alkali glass thermometers is due to changes in the oxygen coordination numbers of the different types of alkali atoms.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Birefringent Stable Glass with Predominantly Isotropic Molecular Orientation

Tianyi Liu, Annemarie L. Exarhos, Ethan C. Alguire, Feng Gao, Elmira Salami-Ranjbaran, Kevin Cheng, Tiezheng Jia, Joseph E. Subotnik, Patrick J. Walsh, James M. Kikkawa, and Zahra Fakhraai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 095502 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Birefringence in a stable glass is shown, through photoluminescence and ellipsometry experiments, to be due to anisotropic packing.

Friction Regimes of Water-Lubricated Diamond (111): Role of Interfacial Ether Groups and Tribo-Induced Aromatic Surface Reconstructions

Takuya Kuwahara, Gianpietro Moras, and Michael Moseler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 096101 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Structure of the ${SnO}_{2} (110) − (4 \times 1)$ Surface

Lindsay R. Merte, Mathias S. Jørgensen, Katariina Pussi, Johan Gustafson, Mikhail Shipilin, Andreas Schaefer, Chu Zhang, Jonathan Rawle, Chris Nicklin, Geoff Thornton, Robert Lindsay, Bjørk Hammer, and Edvin Lundgren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 096102 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Two-Dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions in Antiferromagnetic $A {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ $(A = Ba, Sr)$

Zhi-Guo Chen (谌志国), Luyang Wang, Yu Song, Xingye Lu, Huiqian Luo, Chenglin Zhang, Pengcheng Dai, Zhiping Yin, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 096401 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Neutral Silicon-Vacancy Center in Diamond: Spin Polarization and Lifetimes

B. L. Green, S. Mottishaw, B. G. Breeze, A. M. Edmonds, U. F. S. D’Haenens-Johansson, M. W. Doherty, S. D. Williams, D. J. Twitchen, and M. E. Newton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 096402 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Static Magnetic Response of Non-Fermi-Liquid Density

Jing-Yuan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 096601 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Crossover from Collective to Incoherent Spin Excitations in Superconducting Cuprates Probed by Detuned Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

M. Minola, Y. Lu, Y. Y. Peng, G. Dellea, H. Gretarsson, M. W. Haverkort, Y. Ding, X. Sun, X. J. Zhou, D. C. Peets, L. Chauviere, P. Dosanjh, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, A. Damascelli, M. Dantz, X. Lu, T. Schmitt, L. Braicovich, G. Ghiringhelli, B. Keimer, and M. Le Tacon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097001 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Real-Time Observation of Phonon-Mediated $σ − π$ Interband Scattering in ${MgB}_{2}$

E. Baldini, A. Mann, L. Benfatto, E. Cappelluti, A. Acocella, V. M. Silkin, S. V. Eremeev, A. B. Kuzmenko, S. Borroni, T. Tan, X. X. Xi, F. Zerbetto, R. Merlin, and F. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097002 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Emergent $1 / f$ Noise in Ensembles of Random Telegraph Noise Oscillators

Barry N. Costanzi and E. Dan Dahlberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097201 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Probing Spinon Nodal Structures in Three-Dimensional Kitaev Spin Liquids

Gábor B. Halász, Brent Perreault, and Natalia B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097202 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Directed-Loop Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Retarded Interactions

Manuel Weber, Fakher F. Assaad, and Martin Hohenadler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097401 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Superradiance from Two Dimensional Brick-Wall Aggregates of Dye Molecules: The Role of Size and Shape for the Temperature Dependence

Alexander Eisfeld, Christian Marquardt, Alexander Paulheim, and Moritz Sokolowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097402 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Dark Solitons in High Velocity Waveguide Polariton Fluids

P. M. Walker, L. Tinkler, B. Royall, D. V. Skryabin, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097403 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Strong Local-Field Enhancement of the Nonlinear Soft-Mode Response in a Molecular Crystal

Giulia Folpini, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Johannes Hoja, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097404 (2017) - Published 1 September, 2017

Shiba Bound States across the Mobility Edge in Doped InAs Nanowires

Alexandre Assouline, Cheryl Feuillet-Palma, Alexandre Zimmers, Hervé Aubin, Marco Aprili, and Jean-Christophe Harmand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097701 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Threshold Dynamics of a Semiconductor Single Atom Maser

Y.-Y. Liu, J. Stehlik, C. Eichler, X. Mi, T. R. Hartke, M. J. Gullans, J. M. Taylor, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097702 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Nonrenewal Statistics in the Catalytic Activity of Enzyme Molecules at Mesoscopic Concentrations”

In-Chun Jeong, Sanggeun Song, Daehyun Kim, Seong Jun Park, Ji-Hyun Kim, and Jaeyoung Sung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 099801 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

Kumar, Adhikari, and Dua Reply:

Ashutosh Kumar, R. Adhikari, and Arti Dua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 099802 (2017) - Published 31 August, 2017

ERRATA

Erratum: Statistics and Properties of Low-Frequency Vibrational Modes in Structural Glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 035501 (2016)]

Edan Lerner, Gustavo Düring, and Eran Bouchbinder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 099901 (2017) - Published 28 August, 2017