Volume 116, Issue 1

8 January 2016

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Micrograph of a single microwave cavity optomechanical circuit, microfabricated out of aluminum (grey) on a sapphire substrate (black). The coil is approximately 100 μm on a side.

From the article:

Overwhelming Thermomechanical Motion with Microwave Radiation Pressure Shot Noise
J. D. Teufel, F. Lecocq, and R. W. Simmonds
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013602 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Superconducting Detectors for Superlight Dark Matter

Yonit Hochberg, Yue Zhao, and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 011301 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Regions of dark matter parameter space could be explored using superconductors sensitive to electron recoils from dark matter-electron scattering events, potentially allowing superlight dark matter to be detected.

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Step Crowding Effects Dampen the Stochasticity of Crystal Growth Kinetics

James F. Lutsko, Alexander E. S. Van Driessche, Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia, Dominique Maes, and Mike Sleutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015501 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Simulations describe how crystals are able to grow past impurities by forming multilayer steps.

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Self-Amplification of Solid Friction in Interleaved Assemblies

Héctor Alarcón, Thomas Salez, Christophe Poulard, Jean-Francis Bloch, Élie Raphaël, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, and Frédéric Restagno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015502 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

A simple model borne out by experiments explains why it’s so hard to separate a pair of phonebooks whose pages have been interleaved.

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Symmetric Satellite Swarms and Choreographic Crystals

Latham Boyle, Jun Yong Khoo, and Kendrick Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015503 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Theorists define a new kind of crystal, where the symmetry is not based on the static locations of objects but instead on the relationship between their periodic motions, as in a group of satellites.

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Probing Carrier Transport and Structure-Property Relationship of Highly Ordered Organic Semiconductors at the Two-Dimensional Limit

Yuhan Zhang, Jingsi Qiao, Si Gao, Fengrui Hu, Daowei He, Bing Wu, Ziyi Yang, Bingchen Xu, Yun Li, Yi Shi, Wei Ji, Peng Wang, Xiaoyong Wang, Min Xiao, Hangxun Xu, Jian-Bin Xu, and Xinran Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016602 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Researchers have fabricated high-quality organic semiconductors only a few molecular layers thick, revealing how the crystal structure affects the electronic properties.

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Unveiling Microscopic Structures of Charged Water Interfaces by Surface-Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy

Yu-Chieh Wen, Shuai Zha, Xing Liu, Shanshan Yang, Pan Guo, Guosheng Shi, Haiping Fang, Y. Ron Shen, and Chuanshan Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016101 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

A spectroscopic technique reveals the molecular structure of a charged water interface.

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Complexified Path Integrals, Exact Saddles, and Supersymmetry

Alireza Behtash, Gerald V. Dunne, Thomas Schäfer, Tin Sulejmanpasic, and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 011601 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

The fields and parameters in a path integral should be considered as complex quantities, even though they are real at the Lagrangian level, according to new calculations.

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Hanle Magnetoresistance in Thin Metal Films with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling

Saül Vélez, Vitaly N. Golovach, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Miren Isasa, Edurne Sagasta, Mikel Abadia, Celia Rogero, Luis E. Hueso, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and Fèlix Casanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016603 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

A new type of magnetoresistance is measured in thin nonmagnetic platinum films with strong spin-orbit coupling due to spin accumulation at the surface of the film.

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Guiding Spin Spirals by Local Uniaxial Strain Relief

Pin-Jui Hsu, Aurore Finco, Lorenz Schmidt, André Kubetzka, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017201 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Nanometer cycloidal spin spirals are observed on strained double-layers of iron where the layers have different lattice orientations.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Nonlocality with Arbitrary Limited Detection Efficiency

Gilles Pütz, Anthony Martin, Nicolas Gisin, Djeylan Aktas, Bruno Fedrici, and Sébastien Tanzilli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010401 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Polynomial Bell Inequalities

Rafael Chaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010402 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Nonlinear Bell Inequalities Tailored for Quantum Networks

Denis Rosset, Cyril Branciard, Tomer Jack Barnea, Gilles Pütz, Nicolas Brunner, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010403 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Explicit Local Integrals of Motion for the Many-Body Localized State

Louk Rademaker and Miguel Ortuño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010404 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Suppression of Dephasing by Qubit Motion in Superconducting Circuits

D. V. Averin, K. Xu, Y. P. Zhong, C. Song, H. Wang, and Siyuan Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010501 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Level Statistics and Localization Transitions of Lévy Matrices

E. Tarquini, G. Biroli, and M. Tarzia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010601 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Hidden Symmetries, Instabilities, and Current Suppression in Brownian Ratchets

David Cubero and Ferruccio Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 010602 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Superconducting Detectors for Superlight Dark Matter

Yonit Hochberg, Yue Zhao, and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 011301 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Complexified Path Integrals, Exact Saddles, and Supersymmetry

Alireza Behtash, Gerald V. Dunne, Thomas Schäfer, Tin Sulejmanpasic, and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 011601 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

The fields and parameters in a path integral should be considered as complex quantities, even though they are real at the Lagrangian level, according to new calculations.

Global Constraints on Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in the Effective Field Theory Approach

Adam Falkowski, Martín González-Alonso, Admir Greljo, and David Marzocca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 011801 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov Predictions for Inclusive Three Jet Production at the LHC

F. Caporale, G. Chachamis, B. Murdaca, and A. Sabio Vera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 012001 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Nuclear Physics

High Precision Determination of the $β$ Decay $Q_{EC}$ Value of ${}^{11}C$ and Implications on the Tests of the Standard Model

K. Gulyuz, G. Bollen, M. Brodeur, R. A. Bryce, K. Cooper, M. Eibach, C. Izzo, E. Kwan, K. Manukyan, D. J. Morrissey, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, M. Redshaw, R. Ringle, R. Sandler, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, A. A. Valverde, and A. C. C. Villari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 012501 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Validity of the Generalized Brink-Axel Hypothesis in ${}^{238}{Np}$

M. Guttormsen, A. C. Larsen, A. Görgen, T. Renstrøm, S. Siem, T. G. Tornyi, and G. M. Tveten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 012502 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Frequency Comparison of Two ${}^{40}{Ca}^{+}$ Optical Clocks with an Uncertainty at the $10^{- 17}$ Level

Y. Huang, H. Guan, P. Liu, W. Bian, L. Ma, K. Liang, T. Li, and K. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013001 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Quantum Algorithmic Readout in Multi-Ion Clocks

M. Schulte, N. Lörch, I. D. Leroux, P. O. Schmidt, and K. Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013002 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Light-Drag Enhancement by a Highly Dispersive Rubidium Vapor

Akbar Safari, Israel De Leon, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013601 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Overwhelming Thermomechanical Motion with Microwave Radiation Pressure Shot Noise

J. D. Teufel, F. Lecocq, and R. W. Simmonds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013602 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Negative Full Counting Statistics Arise from Interference Effects

Patrick P. Hofer and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013603 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatiotemporal Chaos Induces Extreme Events in an Extended Microcavity Laser

F. Selmi, S. Coulibaly, Z. Loghmari, I. Sagnes, G. Beaudoin, M. G. Clerc, and S. Barbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 013901 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Limiting Temperatures of Spherical Shock Wave Implosion

Michael Liverts and Nicholas Apazidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 014501 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Acceleration by Relativistic Surface Plasmons in Laser-Grating Interaction

L. Fedeli, A. Sgattoni, G. Cantono, D. Garzella, F. Réau, I. Prencipe, M. Passoni, M. Raynaud, M. Květoň, J. Proska, A. Macchi, and T. Ceccotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015001 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Strong Destabilization of Stable Modes with a Half-Frequency Associated with Chirping Geodesic Acoustic Modes in the Large Helical Device

T. Ido, K. Itoh, M. Osakabe, M. Lesur, A. Shimizu, K. Ogawa, K. Toi, M. Nishiura, S. Kato, M. Sasaki, K. Ida, S. Inagaki, S.-I. Itoh, and the LHD Experiment Group

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015002 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Nonlinear Excitation of Subcritical Instabilities in a Toroidal Plasma

M. Lesur, K. Itoh, T. Ido, M. Osakabe, K. Ogawa, A. Shimizu, M. Sasaki, K. Ida, S. Inagaki, S.-I. Itoh, and the LHD Experiment Group

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015003 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Strongly Enhanced Stimulated Brillouin Backscattering in an Electron-Positron Plasma

Matthew R. Edwards, Nathaniel J. Fisch, and Julia M. Mikhailova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015004 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Step Crowding Effects Dampen the Stochasticity of Crystal Growth Kinetics

James F. Lutsko, Alexander E. S. Van Driessche, Miguel A. Durán-Olivencia, Dominique Maes, and Mike Sleutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015501 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Simulations describe how crystals are able to grow past impurities by forming multilayer steps.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Amplification of Solid Friction in Interleaved Assemblies

Héctor Alarcón, Thomas Salez, Christophe Poulard, Jean-Francis Bloch, Élie Raphaël, Kari Dalnoki-Veress, and Frédéric Restagno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015502 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

A simple model borne out by experiments explains why it’s so hard to separate a pair of phonebooks whose pages have been interleaved.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Symmetric Satellite Swarms and Choreographic Crystals

Latham Boyle, Jun Yong Khoo, and Kendrick Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015503 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Theorists define a new kind of crystal, where the symmetry is not based on the static locations of objects but instead on the relationship between their periodic motions, as in a group of satellites.

Scaling Behavior and Strain Dependence of In-Plane Elastic Properties of Graphene

J. H. Los, A. Fasolino, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015901 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Solution of the Dynamics of Liquids in the Large-Dimensional Limit

Thibaud Maimbourg, Jorge Kurchan, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 015902 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

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Unveiling Microscopic Structures of Charged Water Interfaces by Surface-Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy

Yu-Chieh Wen, Shuai Zha, Xing Liu, Shanshan Yang, Pan Guo, Guosheng Shi, Haiping Fang, Y. Ron Shen, and Chuanshan Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016101 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

A spectroscopic technique reveals the molecular structure of a charged water interface.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Novel $Z_{2}$ Topological Metals and Semimetals

Y. X. Zhao and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016401 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Ultrafast Metamorphosis of a Complex Charge-Density Wave

Kerstin Haupt, Maximilian Eichberger, Nicolas Erasmus, Andrea Rohwer, Jure Demsar, Kai Rossnagel, and Heinrich Schwoerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016402 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Diabatic Mechanisms of Higher-Order Harmonic Generation in Solid-State Materials under High-Intensity Electric Fields

T. Tamaya, A. Ishikawa, T. Ogawa, and K. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016601 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

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Probing Carrier Transport and Structure-Property Relationship of Highly Ordered Organic Semiconductors at the Two-Dimensional Limit

Yuhan Zhang, Jingsi Qiao, Si Gao, Fengrui Hu, Daowei He, Bing Wu, Ziyi Yang, Bingchen Xu, Yun Li, Yi Shi, Wei Ji, Peng Wang, Xiaoyong Wang, Min Xiao, Hangxun Xu, Jian-Bin Xu, and Xinran Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016602 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Researchers have fabricated high-quality organic semiconductors only a few molecular layers thick, revealing how the crystal structure affects the electronic properties.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hanle Magnetoresistance in Thin Metal Films with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling

Saül Vélez, Vitaly N. Golovach, Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto, Miren Isasa, Edurne Sagasta, Mikel Abadia, Celia Rogero, Luis E. Hueso, F. Sebastian Bergeret, and Fèlix Casanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016603 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

A new type of magnetoresistance is measured in thin nonmagnetic platinum films with strong spin-orbit coupling due to spin accumulation at the surface of the film.

Optical Emission Spectroscopy Study of Competing Phases of Electrons in the Second Landau Level

A. L. Levy, U. Wurstbauer, Y. Y. Kuznetsova, A. Pinczuk, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, M. J. Manfra, G. C. Gardner, and J. D. Watson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016801 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Floquet-Engineered Valleytronics in Dirac Systems

Arijit Kundu, H. A. Fertig, and Babak Seradjeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 016802 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Nematic Resonance in the Raman Response of Iron-Based Superconductors

Yann Gallais, Indranil Paul, Ludivine Chauvière, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017001 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

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Guiding Spin Spirals by Local Uniaxial Strain Relief

Pin-Jui Hsu, Aurore Finco, Lorenz Schmidt, André Kubetzka, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017201 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Nanometer cycloidal spin spirals are observed on strained double-layers of iron where the layers have different lattice orientations.

Heat Conductivity of the Heisenberg Spin- $1 / 2$ Ladder: From Weak to Strong Breaking of Integrability

Robin Steinigeweg, Jacek Herbrych, Xenophon Zotos, and Wolfram Brenig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017202 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Doping-Induced Ferromagnetism and Possible Triplet Pairing in $d^{4}$ Mott Insulators

Jiří Chaloupka and Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017203 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Heat Transport in Spin Chains with Weak Spin-Phonon Coupling

A. L. Chernyshev and A. V. Rozhkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017204 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Stochastic Oscillation in Self-Organized Critical States of Small Systems: Sensitive Resting State in Neural Systems

Sheng-Jun Wang, Guang Ouyang, Jing Guang, Mingsha Zhang, K. Y. Michael Wong, and Changsong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 018101 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Rheology of Confined Non-Brownian Suspensions

Walter Fornari, Luca Brandt, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Cyan Umbert Lopez, Dhrubaditya Mitra, and Francesco Picano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 018301 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

Large Deviation Analysis of Rapid Onset of Rain Showers

Michael Wilkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 018501 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016

COMMENTS

Comment on “New Limits on Intrinsic Charm in the Nucleon from Global Analysis of Parton Distributions”

Stanley J. Brodsky and Susan Gardner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019101 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

Jimenez-Delgado et al. Reply:

P. Jimenez-Delgado, T. J. Hobbs, J. T. Londergan, and W. Melnitchouk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019102 (2016) - Published 5 January, 2016

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Search for Violation of $C P T$ and Lorentz Invariance in $B_{s}^{0}$ Meson Oscillations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161601 (2015)]

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019901 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Erratum: Creation of X-Ray Transparency of Matter by Stimulated Elastic Forward Scattering [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 107402 (2015)]

J. Stöhr and A. Scherz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019902 (2016) - Published 6 January, 2016

Publisher’s Note: Critical Thickness for Antiferroelectricity in ${PbZrO}_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097601 (2015)]

B. K. Mani, C.-M. Chang, S. Lisenkov, and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019903 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Publisher’s Note: Direct Imaging of Dynamic Glassy Behavior in a Strained Manganite Film [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265701 (2015)]

Worasom Kundhikanjana, Zhigao Sheng, Yongliang Yang, Keji Lai, Eric Yue Ma, Yong-Tao Cui, Michael A. Kelly, Masao Nakamura, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, Qiaochu Tang, Kun Zhang, Xinxin Li, and Zhi-Xun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019904 (2016) - Published 7 January, 2016

Publisher’s Note: Thermally Mediated Mechanism to Enhance Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 177205 (2015)]

C.-M. Chang, B. K. Mani, S. Lisenkov, and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 019905 (2016) - Published 8 January, 2016