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Published: 2017-03-23T11:17:37-04:00

Anyonic Haldane Insulator in One Dimension

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Florian Lange, Satoshi Ejima, and Holger Fehske
We demonstrate numerically the existence of a nontrivial topological Haldane phase for the one-dimensional extended (U−V) Hubbard model with a mean density of one particle per site, not only for bosons but also for anyons, despite a broken reflection parity symmetry. The Haldane insulator, surrounde…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 120401] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Symmetry for Flavor-Kinematics Duality from an Action

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Clifford Cheung and Chia-Hsien Shen
We propose a new representation of the nonlinear sigma model that exhibits a manifest duality between flavor and kinematics. The fields couple exclusively through cubic Feynman vertices which define the structure constants of an underlying kinematic algebra. The action is invariant under a combinati…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121601] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Triple Parton Scatterings in High-Energy Proton-Proton Collisions

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): David d’Enterria and Alexander M. Snigirev
A generic expression to compute triple parton scattering cross sections in high-energy proton-proton (pp) collisions is presented as a function of the corresponding single parton cross sections and the transverse parton profile of the proton encoded in an effective parameter σ_{eff,TPS}. The value o…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 122001] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Homogeneous Atomic Fermi Gases

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Biswaroop Mukherjee, Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Zoran Hadzibabic, Tarik Yefsah, Julian Struck, and Martin W. Zwierlein

A homogenous Fermi gas is experimentally realized using a uniform trapping potential, allowing for the demonstration of phenomena not visible in inhomogeneous systems.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123401] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Unity-Efficiency Parametric Down-Conversion via Amplitude Amplification

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Barry C. Sanders, Franco N. C. Wong, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro
We propose an optical scheme, employing optical parametric down-converters interlaced with nonlinear sign gates (NSGs), that completely converts an n-photon Fock-state pump to n signal-idler photon pairs when the down-converters’ crystal lengths are chosen appropriately. The proof of this assertion …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123601] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Suppressing and Restoring the Dicke Superradiance Transition by Dephasing and Decay

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Peter Kirton and Jonathan Keeling
We show that dephasing of individual atoms destroys the superradiance transition of the Dicke model, but that adding individual decay toward the spin down state can restore this transition. To demonstrate this, we present a method to give an exact solution for the N atom problem with individual deph…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123602] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Generation of Coherent Light by a Moving Medium

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Fu Li, and Xiwen Zhang
We show that steady nonuniform motion of a medium through an optical resonator can yield light amplification at the resonator frequency. High gain can be achieved if at the generated frequency the medium refractive index is close to zero or the medium has a very strong frequency dispersion. We also …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123902] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Coarse-Graining the Fluid Flow around a Human Sperm

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Kenta Ishimoto, Hermes Gadêlha, Eamonn A. Gaffney, David J. Smith, and Jackson Kirkman-Brown
The flagellar beat is extracted from human sperm digital imaging microscopy and used to determine the flow around the cell and its trajectory, via boundary element simulation. Comparison of the predicted cell trajectory with observation demonstrates that simulation can predict fine-scale sperm dynam…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 124501] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Saffman-Taylor Instability and the Inner Splitting Mechanism

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Rafael M. Oliveira and Eckart Meiburg
For viscously unstable, miscible Hele-Shaw displacements, we investigate the origin of the streamwise vorticity shown to be responsible for the inner splitting mechanism by Oliveira and Meiburg [J. Fluid Mech. 687 431 (2011)]. Towards this end, we compare 3D Navier-Stokes simulation results for neut…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 124502] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Role of Magnetosonic Solitons in Perpendicular Collisionless Shock Reformation

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Renaud Gueroult, Yukiharu Ohsawa, and Nathaniel J. Fisch
The nature of the magnetic structure arising from ion specular reflection in shock compression studies is examined by means of 1D particle-in-cell simulations. Propagation speed, field profiles, and supporting currents for this magnetic structure are shown to be consistent with a magnetosonic solito…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125101] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Strong Thermal and Electrostatic Manipulation of the Casimir Force in Graphene Multilayers

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Chahine Abbas, Brahim Guizal, and Mauro Antezza
We show that graphene-dielectric multilayers give rise to an unusual tunability of the Casimir-Lifshitz forces and allow to easily realize completely different regimes within the same structure. Concerning thermal effects, graphene-dielectric multilayers take advantage of the anomalous features pred…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126101] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Strong Coupling between Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Molecular Vibrations

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): H. Memmi, O. Benson, S. Sadofev, and S. Kalusniak
We report on the strong coupling of surface plasmon polaritons and molecular vibrations in an organic-inorganic plasmonic hybrid structure consisting of a ketone-based polymer deposited on top of a silver layer. Attenuated-total-reflection spectra of the hybrid reveal an anticrossing in the dispersi…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126802] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Direct Cavity Detection of Majorana Pairs

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Matthieu C. Dartiailh, Takis Kontos, Benoit Douçot, and Audrey Cottet
No experiment could directly test the particle-antiparticle duality of Majorana fermions, so far. However, this property represents a necessary ingredient towards the realization of topological quantum computing schemes. Here, we show how to complete this task by using microwave techniques. The dire…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126803] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Clustering of Nonergodic Eigenstates in Quantum Spin Glasses

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): C. L. Baldwin, C. R. Laumann, A. Pal, and A. Scardicchio
The two primary categories for eigenstate phases of matter at a finite temperature are many-body localization (MBL) and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). We show that, in the paradigmatic quantum p-spin models of the spin-glass theory, eigenstates violate the ETH yet are not MBL either…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127201] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Field Theory Approach to Many-Body Localization

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Alexander Altland and Tobias Micklitz
We introduce an analytic approach to many-body localization (MBL) in random spin chains. We consider MBL within a first quantized framework where it becomes a localization phenomenon in the high-dimensional lattice defined by the Hilbert space of the clean system. Designed in analogy with the field-…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127202] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Consistent Chiral Kinetic Theory in Weyl Materials: Chiral Magnetic Plasmons

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): E. V. Gorbar, V. A. Miransky, I. A. Shovkovy, and P. O. Sukhachov
We argue that the correct definition of the electric current in the chiral kinetic theory for Weyl materials should include the Chern-Simons contribution that makes the theory consistent with the local conservation of the electric charge in electromagnetic and strain-induced pseudoelectromagnetic fi…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127601] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Measurement of the CP Asymmetry in B_{s}^{0} −B [over ¯] _{s}^{0} Mixing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 061803 (2016)]

2017-03-23T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 129903] Published Thu Mar 23, 2017

Sterile Neutrino Search at the NEOS Experiment

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Y. J. Ko, B. R. Kim, J. Y. Kim, B. Y. Han, C. H. Jang, E. J. Jeon, K. K. Joo, H. J. Kim, H. S. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Jaison Lee, J. Y. Lee, M. H. Lee, Y. M. Oh, H. K. Park, H. S. Park, K. S. Park, K. M. Seo, Kim Siyeon, and G. M. Sun (NEOS Collaboration)
An experiment to search for light sterile neutrinos is conducted at a reactor with a thermal power of 2.8 GW located at the Hanbit nuclear power complex. The search is done with a detector consisting of a ton of Gd-loaded liquid scintillator in a tendon gallery approximately 24 m from the reactor co…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121802] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Enantiomer-Specific State Transfer of Chiral Molecules

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Sandra Eibenberger, John Doyle, and David Patterson
State-selective enantiomeric excess is realized using microwave-driven coherent population transfer. The method selectively promotes either R or S molecules to a higher rotational state by phase-controlled microwave pulses that drive electric-dipole allowed rotational transitions. We demonstrate the…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123002] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Complex Active Optical Networks as a New Laser Concept

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Stefano Lepri, Cosimo Trono, and Giovanni Giacomelli
Complex optical networks containing one or more gain sections are investigated, and the evidence of lasing action is reported; the emission spectrum reflects the topological disorder induced by the connections. A theoretical description compares well with the measurements, mapping the networks to di…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123901] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Experimental Verification of the Role of Electron Pressure in Fast Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): W. Fox, F. Sciortino, A. v. Stechow, J. Jara-Almonte, J. Yoo, H. Ji, and M. Yamada
We report detailed laboratory observations of the structure of a reconnection current sheet in a two-fluid plasma regime with a guide magnetic field. We observe and quantitatively analyze the quadrupolar electron pressure variation in the ion-diffusion region, as originally predicted by extended mag…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125002] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Brittle Fracture Theory Predicts the Equation of Motion of Frictional Rupture Fronts

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Ilya Svetlizky, David S. Kammer, Elsa Bayart, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg
We study rupture fronts propagating along the interface separating two bodies at the onset of frictional motion via high-temporal-resolution measurements of the real contact area and strain fields. The strain measurements provide the energy flux and dissipation at the rupture tips. We show that the …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125501] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Memory and Universality in Interface Growth

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Jacopo De Nardis, Pierre Le Doussal, and Kazumasa A. Takeuchi
Recently, very robust universal properties have been shown to arise in one-dimensional growth processes with local stochastic rules, leading to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. Yet it has remained essentially unknown how fluctuations in these systems correlate at different times. He…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125701] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Vibronic Spectroscopy with Submolecular Resolution from STM-Induced Electroluminescence

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Benjamin Doppagne, Michael C. Chong, Etienne Lorchat, Stéphane Berciaud, Michelangelo Romeo, Hervé Bulou, Alex Boeglin, Fabrice Scheurer, and Guillaume Schull

A scanning tunneling microscope is used to excite the fluorescence of single molecules, leading to the observation of well resolved vibronic features. The work opens the way to vibronic spectroscopy with atomic-scale resolution.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 127401] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Generic Transport Mechanisms for Molecular Traffic in Cellular Protrusions

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Isabella R. Graf and Erwin Frey
Transport of molecular motors along protein filaments in a half-closed geometry is a common feature of biologically relevant processes in cellular protrusions. Using a lattice-gas model we study how the interplay between active and diffusive transport and mass conservation leads to localized domain …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128101] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Wind-Driven Formation of Ice Bridges in Straits

2017-03-21T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Bhargav Rallabandi, Zhong Zheng, Michael Winton, and Howard A. Stone

New theoretical work predicts the conditions under which sea ice will clog a narrow channel to create a natural bridge across it.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128701] Published Tue Mar 21, 2017

Constraining Light-Quark Yukawa Couplings from Higgs Distributions

2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Fady Bishara, Ulrich Haisch, Pier Francesco Monni, and Emanuele Re
We propose a novel strategy to constrain the bottom and charm Yukawa couplings by exploiting Large Hadron Collider (LHC) measurements of transverse momentum distributions in Higgs production. Our method does not rely on the reconstruction of exclusive final states or heavy-flavor tagging. Compared t…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121801] Published Mon Mar 20, 2017

Virtual Resonant Emission and Oscillatory Long-Range Tails in van der Waals Interactions of Excited States: QED Treatment and Applications

2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): U. D. Jentschura, C. M. Adhikari, and V. Debierre
We report on a quantum electrodynamic (QED) investigation of the interaction between a ground state atom with another atom in an excited state. General expressions, applicable to any atom, are indicated for the long-range tails that are due to virtual resonant emission and absorption into and from v…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 123001] Published Mon Mar 20, 2017

Suppression of Trapped Energetic Ions Driven Resistive Interchange Modes with Electron Cyclotron Heating in a Helical Plasma

2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): X. D. Du, K. Toi, S. Ohdachi, K. Y. Watanabe, H. Takahashi, Y. Yoshimura, M. Osakabe, R. Seki, T. Nicolas, H. Tsuchiya, K. Nagaoka, K. Ogawa, K. Tanaka, M. Isobe, M. Yokoyama, M. Yoshinuma, S. Kubo, S. Sakakibara, T. Bando, T. Ido, T. Ozaki, Y. Suzuki, Y. Takemura, and LHD Experiment Group
The resistive interchange mode destabilized by the resonant interaction with the trapped energetic ions is fully suppressed when the injected power of electron cyclotron heating exceeds a certain threshold. It is shown for the first time that the complete stabilization of the energetic-particle-driv…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 125001] Published Mon Mar 20, 2017

Bilayer Graphene as a Platform for Bosonic Symmetry-Protected Topological States

2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Zhen Bi, Ruixing Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, Andrea Young, Leon Balents, Chao-Xing Liu, and Cenke Xu
Bosonic symmetry protected topological (BSPT) states, the bosonic analogue of topological insulators, have attracted enormous theoretical interest in the last few years. Although BSPT states have been classified by various approaches, there is so far no successful experimental realization of any BSP…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126801] Published Mon Mar 20, 2017

Erratum: Core Structure and Non-Abelian Reconnection of Defects in a Biaxial Nematic Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 275302 (2016)]

2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Magnus O. Borgh and Janne Ruostekoski
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 129901] Published Mon Mar 20, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Multipartite Entanglement Detection with Minimal Effort [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 210504 (2016)]

2017-03-20T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Lukas Knips, Christian Schwemmer, Nico Klein, Marcin Wieśniak, and Harald Weinfurter
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 129902] Published Mon Mar 20, 2017

Size Sorting on the Rubble-Pile Asteroid Itokawa

2017-03-17T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Troy Shinbrot, Tapan Sabuwala, Theo Siu, Miguel Vivar Lazo, and Pinaki Chakraborty

Experiments and computer simulations show that the segregation of small and large rocks on an asteroid’s surface can arise from the way particles hitting the surface collide with the rocks already present.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111101] Published Fri Mar 17, 2017

Spontaneous Core Rotation in Ferrofluid Pipe Flow

2017-03-17T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Alexei Krekhov and Mark Shliomis

Ferrofluid flowing down a pipe is predicted to form either clockwise or counterclockwise swirls at the center of the pipe, and axial motion at the edges.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114503] Published Fri Mar 17, 2017

Proximity-Induced Shiba States in a Molecular Junction

2017-03-17T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Joshua O. Island, Rocco Gaudenzi, Joeri de Bruijckere, Enrique Burzurí, Carlos Franco, Marta Mas-Torrent, Concepció Rovira, Jaume Veciana, Teun M. Klapwijk, Ramón Aguado, and Herre S. J. van der Zant
Superconductors containing magnetic impurities exhibit intriguing phenomena derived from the competition between Cooper pairing and Kondo screening. At the heart of this competition are the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (Shiba) states which arise from the pair breaking effects a magnetic impurity has on a superc…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117001] Published Fri Mar 17, 2017

Exact Classical and Quantum Dynamics in Background Electromagnetic Fields

2017-03-16T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Tom Heinzl and Anton Ilderton

Novel hidden special relativity Poincaré symmetries enable the construction of exactly solvable models of classical and quantum charge dynamics in laser fields, potentially allowing analytical studies of laser-matter interactions beyond the plane-wave approximation.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113202] Published Thu Mar 16, 2017

Collisional Cooling of Light Ions by Cotrapped Heavy Atoms

2017-03-16T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Sourav Dutta, Rahul Sawant, and S. A. Rangwala
We experimentally demonstrate cooling of trapped ions by collisions with cotrapped, higher-mass neutral atoms. It is shown that the lighter ^{39}K^{+} ions, created by ionizing ^{39}K atoms in a magneto-optical trap (MOT), when trapped in an ion trap and subsequently allowed to cool by collisions wi…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113401] Published Thu Mar 16, 2017

Kinetic Effects in Dynamic Wetting

2017-03-16T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): James E. Sprittles
The maximum speed at which a liquid can wet a solid is limited by the need to displace gas lubrication films in front of the moving contact line. The characteristic height of these films is often comparable to the mean free path in the gas so that hydrodynamic models do not adequately describe the f…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114502] Published Thu Mar 16, 2017

Strain-Gradient Position Mapping of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

2017-03-16T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): P.-L. de Assis, I. Yeo, A. Gloppe, H. A. Nguyen, D. Tumanov, E. Dupont-Ferrier, N. S. Malik, E. Dupuy, J. Claudon, J.-M. Gérard, A. Auffèves, O. Arcizet, M. Richard, and J.-Ph. Poizat

The positions of quantum dots inside a microstructure can be determined by monitoring how an applied strain affects the dots’ photoluminescence.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117401] Published Thu Mar 16, 2017

Measurement-Based Linear Optics

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Rafael N. Alexander, Natasha C. Gabay, Peter P. Rohde, and Nicolas C. Menicucci
A major challenge in optical quantum processing is implementing large, stable interferometers. We offer a novel approach: virtual, measurement-based interferometers that are programed on the fly solely by the choice of homodyne measurement angles. The effects of finite squeezing are captured as unif…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110503] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Loop Optimization for Tensor Network Renormalization

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Shuo Yang, Zheng-Cheng Gu, and Xiao-Gang Wen
We introduce a tensor renormalization group scheme for coarse graining a two-dimensional tensor network that can be successfully applied to both classical and quantum systems on and off criticality. The key innovation in our scheme is to deform a 2D tensor network into small loops and then optimize …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110504] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Electromagnetic Duality Anomaly in Curved Spacetimes

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Ivan Agullo, Adrian del Rio, and Jose Navarro-Salas
The source-free Maxwell action is invariant under electric-magnetic duality rotations in arbitrary spacetimes. This leads to a conserved classical Noether charge. We show that this conservation law is broken at the quantum level in the presence of a background classical gravitational field with a no…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111301] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Searching for Axionlike Particles in Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Processes

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Eder Izaguirre, Tongyan Lin, and Brian Shuve
We propose new searches for axionlike particles (ALPs) produced in flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes. This proposal exploits the often-overlooked coupling of ALPs to W^{±} bosons, leading to FCNC production of ALPs even in the absence of a direct coupling to fermions. Our proposed sea…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111802] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Observation of B_{c}^{+} →D^{0} K^{+} Decays

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
Using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0  fb^{−1}, recorded by the LHCb detector at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, the B_{c}^{+}→D^{0}K^{+} decay is observed with a statistical significance of 5.1 standard deviations. By normalizing to B^{+}→D[over…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111803] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Spin Polarization of Rb and Cs np ^{2} P_{3/2} (n=5, 6) Atoms by Circularly Polarized Photoexcitation of a Transient Diatomic Molecule

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): A. E. Mironov, J. D. Hewitt, and J. G. Eden
We report the selective population of Rb or Cs np ^{2}P_{3/2} (n=5, 6; F=4, 5) hyperfine states by the photodissociation of a transient, alkali-rare gas diatomic molecule. Circularly polarized (σ^{−}), amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) on the D_{2} line of Rb or Cs (780.0 and 852.1 nm, respective…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113201] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Forecasting Fluid Flows Using the Geometry of Turbulence

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Balachandra Suri, Jeffrey Tithof, Roman O. Grigoriev, and Michael F. Schatz

The observation of ordered flow patterns in a weakly turbulent liquid may lead to new ways of predicting the evolution of turbulent flow.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114501] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Revisiting the Longitudinal 90° Limit in High Intensity Linear Accelerators

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Ingo Hofmann and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim
Parametric envelope and sum envelope resonances are analyzed to revisit the validity of an assumed stop band and design limit of high intensity linear accelerators at a longitudinal phase advance of 90° per focusing lattice period. While the 90° limit is unquestioned in the transverse plane, we show…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114803] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Thermometry for Laughlin States of Ultracold Atoms

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): P. T. Raum and V. W. Scarola
Cooling atomic gases into strongly correlated quantum phases requires estimates of the entropy to perform thermometry and establish viability. We construct an ansatz partition function for models of Laughlin states of atomic gases by combining high temperature series expansions with exact diagonaliz…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115302] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Dynamical Stability Limit for the Charge Density Wave in K_{0.3} MoO_{3}

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): R. Mankowsky, B. Liu, S. Rajasekaran, H. Y. Liu, D. Mou, X. J. Zhou, R. Merlin, M. Först, and A. Cavalleri
We study the response of the one-dimensional charge density wave in K_{0.3}MoO_{3} to different types of excitation with femtosecond optical pulses. We compare direct excitation of the lattice at midinfrared frequencies with injection of quasiparticles across the low energy charge density wave gap a…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 116402] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Energy Gap of Neutral Excitations Implies Vanishing Charge Susceptibility

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Haruki Watanabe
In quantum many-body systems with a U(1) symmetry, such as particle number conservation and axial spin conservation, there are two distinct types of excitations: charge-neutral excitations and charged excitations. The energy gaps of these excitations may be independent from each other in strongly co…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117205] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Micromechanical Origin of Particle Size Segregation

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): L. Jing, C. Y. Kwok, and Y. F. Leung
We computationally study the micromechanics of shear-induced size segregation and propose distinct migration mechanisms for individual large and small particles. While small particles percolate through voids without enduring contacts, large particles climb under shear through their crowded neighborh…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 118001] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Universal Long Ranged Correlations in Driven Binary Mixtures

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Alexis Poncet, Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery, and Gleb Oshanin
When two populations of “particles” move in opposite directions, like oppositely charged colloids under an electric field or intersecting flows of pedestrians, they can move collectively, forming lanes along their direction of motion. The nature of this “laning transition” is still being debated and…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 118002] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Evidence for Exotic Hadron Contributions to Λ_{b}^{0} →J/ψpπ^{−} Decays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 082003 (2016)]

2017-03-15T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): R. Aaij and LHCb Collaboration
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 119901] Published Wed Mar 15, 2017

Quantifying Photonic High-Dimensional Entanglement

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Anthony Martin, Thiago Guerreiro, Alexey Tiranov, Sébastien Designolle, Florian Fröwis, Nicolas Brunner, Marcus Huber, and Nicolas Gisin
High-dimensional entanglement offers promising perspectives in quantum information science. In practice, however, the main challenge is to devise efficient methods to characterize high-dimensional entanglement, based on the available experimental data which is usually rather limited. Here we report …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110501] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Ultrafine Entanglement Witnessing

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Farid Shahandeh, Martin Ringbauer, Juan C. Loredo, and Timothy C. Ralph

Researchers have devised an improved method for checking whether two particles are entangled.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110502] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Observation of Λ_{c}^{+} →nK_{S}^{0} π^{+}

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)
We report the first direct measurement of decays of the Λ_{c}^{+} baryon involving the neutron. The analysis is performed using 567  pb^{−1} of e^{+}e^{−} collision data collected at sqrt[s]=4.599  GeV with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider. We observe the decay Λ_{c}^{+}→nK_{S}^{0}π^{+} an…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 112001] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Cooperative Resonances in Light Scattering from Two-Dimensional Atomic Arrays

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Ephraim Shahmoon, Dominik S. Wild, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Susanne F. Yelin
We consider light scattering off a two-dimensional (2D) dipolar array and show how it can be tailored by properly choosing the lattice constant of the order of the incident wavelength. In particular, we demonstrate that such arrays can operate as a nearly perfect mirror for a wide range of incident …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113601] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Metasurface Polarization Optics: Independent Phase Control of Arbitrary Orthogonal States of Polarization

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): J. P. Balthasar Mueller, Noah A. Rubin, Robert C. Devlin, Benedikt Groever, and Federico Capasso
We present a method allowing for the imposition of two independent and arbitrary phase profiles on any pair of orthogonal states of polarization—linear, circular, or elliptical—relying only on simple, linearly birefringent wave plate elements arranged into metasurfaces. This stands in contrast to pr…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 113901] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Floquet Topological Order in Interacting Systems of Bosons and Fermions

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Fenner Harper and Rahul Roy

The phases of periodically driven systems of bosons and fermions are topologically classified by pairs of coprime integers.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115301] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Finite-Size Scaling of a First-Order Dynamical Phase Transition: Adaptive Population Dynamics and an Effective Model

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Takahiro Nemoto, Robert L. Jack, and Vivien Lecomte
We analyze large deviations of the time-averaged activity in the one-dimensional Fredrickson-Andersen model, both numerically and analytically. The model exhibits a dynamical phase transition, which appears as a singularity in the large deviation function. We analyze the finite-size scaling of this …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115702] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Ultrafast Magnetism of a Ferrimagnet across the Spin-Flop Transition in High Magnetic Fields

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): J. Becker, A. Tsukamoto, A. Kirilyuk, J. C. Maan, Th. Rasing, P. C. M. Christianen, and A. V. Kimel
We show that applying magnetic fields up to 30 T has a dramatic effect on the ultrafast spin dynamics in ferrimagnetic GdFeCo. Upon increasing the field beyond a critical value, the dynamics induced by a femtosecond laser excitation strongly increases in amplitude and slows down significantly. Such …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117203] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Kondo Destruction in RKKY-Coupled Kondo Lattice and Multi-Impurity Systems

2017-03-14T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Ammar Nejati, Katinka Ballmann, and Johann Kroha
In a Kondo lattice, the spin exchange coupling between a local spin and the conduction electrons acquires nonlocal contributions due to conduction electron scattering from surrounding local spins and the subsequent RKKY interaction. It leads to a hitherto unrecognized interference of Kondo screening…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117204] Published Tue Mar 14, 2017

Lepton-Flavor-Dependent Angular Analysis of B→K^{*} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{−}

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): S. Wehle et al. (Belle Collaboration)
We present a measurement of angular observables and a test of lepton flavor universality in the B→K^{*}ℓ^{+}ℓ^{−} decay, where ℓ is either e or μ. The analysis is performed on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 711  fb^{−1} containing 772×10^{6} BB[over ¯] pairs, collected at…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 111801] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Relativistic Electron Wave Packets Carrying Angular Momentum

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Two studies explore the properties of vortices formed by electrons that travel at relativistic speeds.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114801] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Relativistic Electron Vortices

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Stephen M. Barnett

Two studies explore the properties of vortices formed by electrons that travel at relativistic speeds.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 114802] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Geometric Explanation of Anomalous Finite-Size Scaling in High Dimensions

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Jens Grimm, Eren Metin Elçi, Zongzheng Zhou, Timothy M. Garoni, and Youjin Deng
We give an intuitive geometric explanation for the apparent breakdown of standard finite-size scaling in systems with periodic boundaries above the upper critical dimension. The Ising model and self-avoiding walk are simulated on five-dimensional hypercubic lattices with free and periodic boundary c…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 115701] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Energy-Dependent Chirality Effects in Quasifree-Standing Graphene

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): Daniela Dombrowski, Wouter Jolie, Marin Petrović, Sven Runte, Fabian Craes, Jürgen Klinkhammer, Marko Kralj, Predrag Lazić, Eran Sela, and Carsten Busse
We present direct experimental evidence of broken chirality in graphene by analyzing electron scattering processes at energies ranging from the linear (Dirac-like) to the strongly trigonally warped region. Furthermore, we are able to measure the energy of the van Hove singularity at the M point of t…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 116401] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Electrical Spin Orientation, Spin-Galvanic, and Spin-Hall Effects in Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): D. S. Smirnov and L. E. Golub
In disordered systems, the hopping conductivity regime is usually realized at low temperatures where spin-related phenomena differ strongly from the cases of delocalized carriers. We develop the unified microscopic theory of current-induced spin orientation, spin-galvanic, and spin-Hall effects for …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 116801] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Strong Spin-Phonon Coupling Mediated by Single Ion Anisotropy in the All-In–All-Out Pyrochlore Magnet Cd_{2} Os_{2} O_{7}

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): C. H. Sohn, C. H. Kim, L. J. Sandilands, N. T. M. Hien, S. Y. Kim, H. J. Park, K. W. Kim, S. J. Moon, J. Yamaura, Z. Hiroi, and T. W. Noh
Spin-phonon coupling mediated by single ion anisotropy was investigated using optical spectroscopy and first-principles calculations in the all-in–all-out pyrochlore magnet Cd_{2}Os_{2}O_{7}. Clear anomalies were observed in both the phonon frequencies and linewidths at the magnetic ordering tempera…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117201] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Metamagnetic Anomalies near Dynamic Phase Transitions

2017-03-13T10:00:00-04:00

Author(s): P. Riego, P. Vavassori, and A. Berger
We report the existence of anomalous metamagnetic fluctuations in the vicinity of the dynamic phase transition (DPT) that do not occur for the corresponding thermodynamic behavior of simple ferromagnets. Our results demonstrate that key characteristics associated with the DPT are qualitatively diffe…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 117202] Published Mon Mar 13, 2017

Cosmic Tsunamis in Modified Gravity: Disruption of Screening Mechanisms from Scalar Waves

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): R. Hagala, C. Llinares, and D. F. Mota
Extending general relativity by adding extra degrees of freedom is a popular approach for explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe and to build high energy completions of the theory of gravity. The presence of such new degrees of freedom is, however, tightly constrained from several obse…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101301] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Size-Resolved Photoelectron Anisotropy of Gas Phase Water Clusters and Predictions for Liquid Water

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Sebastian Hartweg, Bruce L. Yoder, Gustavo A. Garcia, Laurent Nahon, and Ruth Signorell
We report the first measurements of size-resolved photoelectron angular distributions for the valence orbitals of neutral water clusters with up to 20 molecules. A systematic decrease of the photoelectron anisotropy is found for clusters with up to 5–6 molecules, and most remarkably, convergence of …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103402] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Connecting Few-Body Inelastic Decay to Quantum Correlations in a Many-Body System: A Weakly Coupled Impurity in a Resonant Fermi Gas

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Sébastien Laurent, Matthieu Pierce, Marion Delehaye, Tarik Yefsah, Frédéric Chevy, and Christophe Salomon
We study three-body recombination in an ultracold Bose-Fermi mixture. We first show theoretically that, for weak interspecies coupling, the loss rate is proportional to Tan’s contact. Second, using a ^{7}Li/^{6}Li mixture we probe the recombination rate in both the thermal and dual superfluid regime…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103403] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Efficient Vortex Generation in Subwavelength Epsilon-Near-Zero Slabs

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Alessandro Ciattoni, Andrea Marini, and Carlo Rizza
We show that a homogeneous and isotropic slab, illuminated by a circularly polarized beam with no topological charge, produces vortices of order 2 in the opposite circularly polarized components of the reflected and transmitted fields, as a consequence of the transverse magnetic and transverse elect…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 104301] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Quantum Quenching of Radiation Losses in Short Laser Pulses

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): C. N. Harvey, A. Gonoskov, A. Ilderton, and M. Marklund
Accelerated charges radiate, and therefore must lose energy. The impact of this energy loss on particle motion, called radiation reaction, becomes significant in intense-laser matter interactions, where it can reduce collision energies, hinder particle acceleration schemes, and is seemingly unavoida…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105004] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

First-Principles-Based Method for Electron Localization: Application to Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): C. E. Ekuma, V. Dobrosavljević, and D. Gunlycke
We present a first-principles-based many-body typical medium dynamical cluster approximation and density function theory method for characterizing electron localization in disordered structures. This method applied to monolayer hexagonal boron nitride shows that the presence of boron vacancies could…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106404] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Influence of Domain Walls in the Incommensurate Charge Density Wave State of Cu Intercalated 1T−TiSe_{2}

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Shichao Yan, Davide Iaia, Emilia Morosan, Eduardo Fradkin, Peter Abbamonte, and Vidya Madhavan
We report a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study of the charge density wave (CDW) order in 1T−TiSe_{2} and Cu_{0.08}TiSe_{2}. In pristine 1T−TiSe_{2} we observe a long-range coherent commensurate CDW (CCDW) order. In contrast, Cu_{0.08}TiSe_{2} displays an incommensurate CDW (ICDW) ph…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106405] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Distinct Evolutions of Weyl Fermion Quasiparticles and Fermi Arcs with Bulk Band Topology in Weyl Semimetals

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): N. Xu, G. Autès, C. E. Matt, B. Q. Lv, M. Y. Yao, F. Bisti, V. N. Strocov, D. Gawryluk, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, N. C. Plumb, M. Radovic, T. Qian, O. V. Yazyev, J. Mesot, H. Ding, and M. Shi
The Weyl semimetal phase is a recently discovered topological quantum state of matter characterized by the presence of topologically protected degeneracies near the Fermi level. These degeneracies are the source of exotic phenomena, including the realization of chiral Weyl fermions as quasiparticles…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106406] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Current Noise from a Magnetic Moment in a Helical Edge

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Jukka I. Väyrynen and Leonid I. Glazman
We calculate the two-terminal current noise generated by a magnetic moment coupled to a helical edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator. When the system is symmetric with respect to in-plane spin rotation, the noise is dominated by the Nyquist component even in the presence of a voltage bias…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 106802] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Effect of Biaxial Strain on the Phase Transitions of Ca(Fe_{1−x} Co_{x} )_{2} As_{2}

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): A. E. Böhmer, A. Sapkota, A. Kreyssig, S. L. Bud’ko, G. Drachuck, S. M. Saunders, A. I. Goldman, and P. C. Canfield
We study the effect of applied strain as a physical control parameter for the phase transitions of Ca(Fe_{1−x}Co_{x})_{2}As_{2} using resistivity, magnetization, x-ray diffraction, and ^{57}Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy. Biaxial strain, namely, compression of the basal plane of the tetragonal unit cell,…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107002] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Ultrafast Photoinduced Electric-Polarization Switching in a Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectric Crystal

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): K. Iwano, Y. Shimoi, T. Miyamoto, D. Hata, M. Sotome, N. Kida, S. Horiuchi, and H. Okamoto
Croconic acid crystals show proton displacive-type ferroelectricity with a large spontaneous polarization reaching 20  μC/cm^{2}, which originates from the strong coupling of proton and π-electron degrees of freedom. Such a coupling makes us expect a large polarization change by photoirradiations. O…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107404] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Terahertz-Field-Induced Large Macroscopic Polarization and Domain-Wall Dynamics in an Organic Molecular Dielectric

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): T. Morimoto, T. Miyamoto, H. Yamakawa, T. Terashige, T. Ono, N. Kida, and H. Okamoto

An organic crystal was switched between paraelectric and ferroelectric states in a picosecond. Similar materials could eventually serve as extremely fast digital switches.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107602] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Two-Dimensional Platform for Networks of Majorana Bound States

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Michael Hell, Martin Leijnse, and Karsten Flensberg
We model theoretically a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) covered by a superconductor and demonstrate that topological superconducting channels are formed when stripes of the superconducting layer are removed. As a consequence, Majorana bound states (MBSs) are created at the ends of the stripes. …
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107701] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Comment on “Matter-Wave Interferometry of a Levitated Thermal Nano-Oscillator Induced and Probed by a Spin”

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): F. Robicheaux
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 108901] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): S. Bose, C. Wan, M. Scala, G. W. Morley, P. F. Barker, and M. S. Kim
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 108902] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Search for Structure in the B_{s}^{0} π^{±} Invariant Mass Spectrum [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 152003 (2016)]

2017-03-10T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 109904] Published Fri Mar 10, 2017

Portal Connecting Dark Photons and Axions

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Kunio Kaneta, Hye-Sung Lee, and Seokhoon Yun
The dark photon and the axion (or axionlike particle) are popular light particles of the hidden sector. Each of them has been actively searched for through the couplings called the vector portal and the axion portal. We introduce a new portal connecting the dark photon and the axion (axion–photon–da…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101802] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Precision Control of the Electron Longitudinal Bunch Shape Using an Emittance-Exchange Beam Line

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): G. Ha, M. H. Cho, W. Namkung, J. G. Power, D. S. Doran, E. E. Wisniewski, M. Conde, W. Gai, W. Liu, C. Whiteford, Q. Gao, K.-J. Kim, A. Zholents, Y.-E Sun, C. Jing, and P. Piot
We report on the experimental generation of relativistic electron bunches with a tunable longitudinal bunch shape. A longitudinal bunch-shaping (LBS) beam line, consisting of a transverse mask followed by a transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange (EEX) beam line, is used to tailor the longitud…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 104801] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Turbulence Nonlinearities Shed Light on Geometric Asymmetry in Tokamak Confinement Transitions

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): I. Cziegler, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, J. L. Terry, and G. R. Tynan
A comprehensive study of fully frequency-resolved nonlinear kinetic energy transfer has been performed for the first time in a diverted tokamak, providing new insight into the parametric dependences of edge turbulence transitions. Measurements using gas puff imaging in the turbulent L-mode state ill…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105003] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Atomistic Origin of Deformation Twinning in Biomineral Aragonite

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Jialin Liu, Zaiwang Huang, Zhiliang Pan, Qiuming Wei, Xiaodong Li, and Yue Qi
Deformation twinning rarely occurs in mineral materials which typically show brittle fracture. Surprisingly, it has recently been observed in the biomineral aragonite phase in nacre under high rate impact loading. In this Letter, the twinning tendency and the competition between fracture and deforma…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 105501] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Impact of Atomic-Scale Contact Geometry on Andreev Reflection

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): J. Brand, P. Ribeiro, N. Néel, S. Kirchner, and J. Kröger
Charge transport has been examined in junctions comprising the normal-metal tip of a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope, the surface of a conventional superconductor, and adsorbed C_{60} molecules. The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer energy gap gradually evolves into a zero-bias peak with decre…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107001] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Magnetoelectric Behavior from S=1/2 Asymmetric Square Cupolas

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Yasuyuki Kato, Kenta Kimura, Atsushi Miyake, Masashi Tokunaga, Akira Matsuo, Koichi Kindo, Mitsuru Akaki, Masayuki Hagiwara, Masakazu Sera, Tsuyoshi Kimura, and Yukitoshi Motome
Magnetoelectric properties are studied by a combined experimental and theoretical study of a quasi-two-dimensional material composed of square cupolas, Ba(TiO)Cu_{4}(PO_{4})_{4}. The magnetization is measured up to the field above the saturation, and several anomalies are observed depending on the f…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 107601] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Erratum: X-Ray Optics on a Chip: Guiding X Rays in Curved Channels [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 203902 (2015)]

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): T. Salditt, S. Hoffmann, M. Vassholz, J. Haber, M. Osterhoff, and J. Hilhorst
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 109902] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

Erratum: Model for Plane Turbulent Couette Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2956 (1995)]

2017-03-09T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Peter W. Egolf and Daniel A. Weiss
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 109903] Published Thu Mar 09, 2017

2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Steve Campbell and Sebastian Deffner
Achieving effectively adiabatic dynamics is a ubiquitous goal in almost all areas of quantum physics. Here, we study the speed with which a quantum system can be driven when employing transitionless quantum driving. As a main result, we establish a rigorous link between this speed, the quantum speed…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100601] Published Wed Mar 08, 2017

Universal Work Fluctuations During Shortcuts to Adiabaticity by Counterdiabatic Driving

2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Ken Funo, Jing-Ning Zhang, Cyril Chatou, Kihwan Kim, Masahito Ueda, and Adolfo del Campo
Counterdiabatic driving (CD) exploits auxiliary control fields to tailor the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum system, making possible the suppression of dissipated work in finite-time thermodynamics and the engineering of optimal thermal machines with no friction. We show that while the mean wor…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 100602] Published Wed Mar 08, 2017

Holographic Duals for Five-Dimensional Superconformal Quantum Field Theories

2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Eric D’Hoker, Michael Gutperle, and Christoph F. Uhlemann
We construct global solutions to type IIB supergravity with 16 residual supersymmetries whose space-time is AdS_{6}×S^{2} warped over a Riemann surface. Families of solutions are labeled by an arbitrary number L≥3 of asymptotic regions, in each of which the supergravity fields match those of a (p,q)…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 101601] Published Wed Mar 08, 2017

Single Photon Thermal Ionization of C_{60}

2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): Klavs Hansen, Robert Richter, Michele Alagia, Stefano Stranges, Luca Schio, Peter Salén, Vasyl Yatsyna, Raimund Feifel, and Vitali Zhaunerchyk

A single high-energy photon ionizes a C${}_{60}$ molecule, promoting it to a highly excited state.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103001] Published Wed Mar 08, 2017

Electronic Stopping of Slow Protons in Transition and Rare Earth Metals: Breakdown of the Free Electron Gas Concept

2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): D. Roth, B. Bruckner, M. V. Moro, S. Gruber, D. Goebl, J. I. Juaristi, M. Alducin, R. Steinberger, J. Duchoslav, D. Primetzhofer, and P. Bauer

Measurements of how slow protons stop in tantalum and gadolinium show that the process is dependent on the density of states.

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[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103401] Published Wed Mar 08, 2017

Photon Statistics of Propagating Thermal Microwaves

2017-03-08T10:00:00-05:00

Author(s): J. Goetz, S. Pogorzalek, F. Deppe, K. G. Fedorov, P. Eder, M. Fischer, F. Wulschner, E. Xie, A. Marx, and R. Gross
In experiments with superconducting quantum circuits, characterizing the photon statistics of propagating microwave fields is a fundamental task. We quantify the n^{2}+n photon number variance of thermal microwave photons emitted from a blackbody radiator for mean photon numbers, 0.05≲n≲1.5. We prob…
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 103602] Published Wed Mar 08, 2017