Volume 116, Issue 14

8 April 2016

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Smectic microstructure of a two-dimensional planar boundary in a 3D simulation. The intersection of smectic layers and the section forms sets of concentric circles. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Weirdest Martensite: Smectic Liquid Crystal Microstructure and Weyl-Poincaré Invariance
Danilo B. Liarte, Matthew Bierbaum, Ricardo A. Mosna, Randall D. Kamien, and James P. Sethna
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147802 (2016)

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Optomechanical Quantum Control of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond

D. Andrew Golter, Thein Oo, Mayra Amezcua, Kevin A. Stewart, and Hailin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143602 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

The state of excited electrons in a diamond-crystal defect can be controlled using mechanical waves.

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Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite Observations of Parallel Electron Acceleration in Magnetic Field Reconnection by Fermi Reflection from Time Domain Structures

F. S. Mozer, O. A. Agapitov, A. Artemyev, J. L. Burch, R. E. Ergun, B. L. Giles, D. Mourenas, R. B. Torbert, T. D. Phan, and I. Vasko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145101 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

A new satellite mission has observed electron acceleration by electric field waves moving along the magnetic boundary between the Earth and the solar wind.

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Mechanical Resonators for Quantum Optomechanics Experiments at Room Temperature

R. A. Norte, J. P. Moura, and S. Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147202 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

Two independent experiments demonstrate room temperature mechanical resonators with outstanding optical and mechanical properties, for example high quality factor and attonewton force sensitivity.

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Electron-Vibration Coupling in Molecular Materials: Assignment of Vibronic Modes from Photoelectron Momentum Mapping

M. Graus, M. Grimm, C. Metzger, M. Dauth, C. Tusche, J. Kirschner, S. Kümmel, A. Schöll, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147601 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Photoelectron spectroscopy reveals the details of the interaction between electronic and vibrational excitations in a molecular material.

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Failure of the Volume Function in Granular Statistical Mechanics and an Alternative Formulation

Raphael Blumenfeld, Shahar Amitai, Joe F. Jordan, and Rebecca Hihinashvili

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 148001 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

A reformulation of the statistical mechanics of granular materials replaces the volume of the material with a function related to its structure.

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Coupling Identical one-dimensional Many-Body Localized Systems

Pranjal Bordia, Henrik P. Lüschen, Sean S. Hodgman, Michael Schreiber, Immanuel Bloch, and Ulrich Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140401 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Many-body localization in chains of cold atoms with identical disorder is unstable with respect to inter-chain coupling.

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Observation of Quantum Interference between Separated Mechanical Oscillator Wave Packets

D. Kienzler, C. Flühmann, V. Negnevitsky, H.-Y. Lo, M. Marinelli, D. Nadlinger, and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140402 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

A trapped ion is produced in a superposition of motional wave packets, which are shown to interfere despite being separated by 240 nanometers.

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Thermodynamic Entropy as a Noether Invariant

Shin-ichi Sasa and Yuki Yokokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140601 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

The thermodynamic entropy of a classical many-particle system can be related to a conserved quantity for quasi-static thermodynamics processes.

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Experimental Insights into the Nanostructure of the Cores of Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals

Xiaoguang Wang, Young-Ki Kim, Emre Bukusoglu, Bo Zhang, Daniel S. Miller, and Nicholas L. Abbott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147801 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Experimental characterization of point defects in liquid crystals show they are nanoscopic loops as predicted by theory.

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Weirdest Martensite: Smectic Liquid Crystal Microstructure and Weyl-Poincaré Invariance

Danilo B. Liarte, Matthew Bierbaum, Ricardo A. Mosna, Randall D. Kamien, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147802 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

A set of rules is proposed for the construction of circular domain boundaries seen at the interfaces of smectic liquid crystals.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coupling Identical one-dimensional Many-Body Localized Systems

Pranjal Bordia, Henrik P. Lüschen, Sean S. Hodgman, Michael Schreiber, Immanuel Bloch, and Ulrich Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140401 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Many-body localization in chains of cold atoms with identical disorder is unstable with respect to inter-chain coupling.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Quantum Interference between Separated Mechanical Oscillator Wave Packets

D. Kienzler, C. Flühmann, V. Negnevitsky, H.-Y. Lo, M. Marinelli, D. Nadlinger, and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140402 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

A trapped ion is produced in a superposition of motional wave packets, which are shown to interfere despite being separated by 240 nanometers.

Entanglement Renormalization and Wavelets

Glen Evenbly and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140403 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Detecting Lower Bounds to Quantum Channel Capacities

Chiara Macchiavello and Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140501 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Holonomic Quantum Control with Continuous Variable Systems

Victor V. Albert, Chi Shu, Stefan Krastanov, Chao Shen, Ren-Bao Liu, Zhen-Biao Yang, Robert J. Schoelkopf, Mazyar Mirrahimi, Michel H. Devoret, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140502 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

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Thermodynamic Entropy as a Noether Invariant

Shin-ichi Sasa and Yuki Yokokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140601 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

The thermodynamic entropy of a classical many-particle system can be related to a conserved quantity for quasi-static thermodynamics processes.

Atomic Quadrupole Moment Measurement Using Dynamic Decoupling

R. Shaniv, N. Akerman, and R. Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 140801 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Explosion and Final State of an Unstable Reissner-Nordström Black Hole

Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Juan Carlos Degollado, Pedro J. Montero, José A. Font, and Carlos Herdeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141101 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Nonlinear Evolution and Final Fate of Charged Anti–de Sitter Black Hole Superradiant Instability

Pablo Bosch, Stephen R. Green, and Luis Lehner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141102 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Accelerator Measurements of Magnetically Induced Radio Emission from Particle Cascades with Applications to Cosmic-Ray Air Showers

K. Belov et al. (T-510 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141103 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Probing Neutrino Hierarchy and Chirality via Wakes

Hong-Ming Zhu, Ue-Li Pen, Xuelei Chen, and Derek Inman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141301 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

$D 3$ -Brane Model Building and the Supertrace Rule

Iosif Bena, Mariana Graña, Stanislav Kuperstein, Praxitelis Ntokos, and Michela Petrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141601 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Bootstrapping Critical Ising Model on Three Dimensional Real Projective Space

Yu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141602 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Weak Decays of Excited $B$ Mesons

B. Grinstein and J. Martin Camalich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141801 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Minimal Leptoquark Explanation for the $R_{D^{(*)}}$ , $R_{K}$ , and $(g - 2)_{μ}$ Anomalies

Martin Bauer and Matthias Neubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141802 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Axion Isocurvature and Magnetic Monopoles

Yasunori Nomura, Surjeet Rajendran, and Fabio Sanches

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 141803 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Controlling Below-Threshold Nonsequential Double Ionization via Quantum Interference

A. S. Maxwell and C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143001 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Resolved-Sideband Laser Cooling in a Penning Trap

J. F. Goodwin, G. Stutter, R. C. Thompson, and D. M. Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143002 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Dynamical Generation of Topological Magnetic Lattices for Ultracold Atoms

Jinlong Yu, Zhi-Fang Xu, Rong Lü, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143003 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Observation of Quantum Interferences via Light-Induced Conical Intersections in Diatomic Molecules

Adi Natan, Matthew R. Ware, Vaibhav S. Prabhudesai, Uri Lev, Barry D. Bruner, Oded Heber, and Philip H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143004 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Dynamics of Strong-Field Double Ionization in Two-Color Counterrotating Fields

Jan L. Chaloupka and Daniel D. Hickstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143005 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Dynamical Characteristics of Rydberg Electrons Released by a Weak Electric Field

Elias Diesen, Ulf Saalmann, Martin Richter, Maksim Kunitski, Reinhard Dörner, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143006 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Population Redistribution Among Multiple Electronic States of Molecular Nitrogen Ions in Strong Laser Fields

Jinping Yao, Shicheng Jiang, Wei Chu, Bin Zeng, Chengyin Wu, Ruifeng Lu, Ziting Li, Hongqiang Xie, Guihua Li, Chao Yu, Zhanshan Wang, Hongbing Jiang, Qihuang Gong, and Ya Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143007 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Single-Mode Parametric-Down-Conversion States with 50 Photons as a Source for Mesoscopic Quantum Optics

Georg Harder, Tim J. Bartley, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, and Christine Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143601 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

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Optomechanical Quantum Control of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond

D. Andrew Golter, Thein Oo, Mayra Amezcua, Kevin A. Stewart, and Hailin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143602 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

The state of excited electrons in a diamond-crystal defect can be controlled using mechanical waves.

Exotic Attractors of the Nonequilibrium Rabi-Hubbard Model

M. Schiró, C. Joshi, M. Bordyuh, R. Fazio, J. Keeling, and H. E. Türeci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143603 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Competing Turing and Faraday Instabilities in Longitudinally Modulated Passive Resonators

François Copie, Matteo Conforti, Alexandre Kudlinski, Arnaud Mussot, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143901 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Unified Approach towards the Dynamics of Optical and Electron Vortex Beams

Pratul Bandyopadhyay, Banasri Basu, and Debashree Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 144801 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Collisional Relaxation of Fine Velocity Structures in Plasmas

Oreste Pezzi, Francesco Valentini, and Pierluigi Veltri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145001 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

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Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite Observations of Parallel Electron Acceleration in Magnetic Field Reconnection by Fermi Reflection from Time Domain Structures

F. S. Mozer, O. A. Agapitov, A. Artemyev, J. L. Burch, R. E. Ergun, B. L. Giles, D. Mourenas, R. B. Torbert, T. D. Phan, and I. Vasko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145101 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

A new satellite mission has observed electron acceleration by electric field waves moving along the magnetic boundary between the Earth and the solar wind.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Liquid and Solid Phases of ${}^{3}{He}$ on Graphite

M. C. Gordillo and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145301 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Motion of a Distinguishable Impurity in the Bose Gas: Arrested Expansion Without a Lattice and Impurity Snaking

Neil J. Robinson, Jean-Sébastien Caux, and Robert M. Konik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145302 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

New Phases and Dissociation-Recombination of Hydrogen Deuteride to 3.4 Mbar

Ranga P. Dias, Ori Noked, and Isaac F. Silvera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145501 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Spinodals with Disorder: From Avalanches in Random Magnets to Glassy Dynamics

Saroj Kumar Nandi, Giulio Biroli, and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145701 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Thermal and Electronic Fluctuations of Flexible Adsorbed Molecules: Azobenzene on Ag(111)

Reinhard J. Maurer, Wei Liu, Igor Poltavsky, Thomas Stecher, Harald Oberhofer, Karsten Reuter, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 146101 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Super-Poissonian Shot Noise of Squeezed-Magnon Mediated Spin Transport

Akashdeep Kamra and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 146601 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

Emergent Kondo Lattice Behavior in Iron-Based Superconductors $A {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ ( $A = K$ , Rb, Cs)

Y. P. Wu, D. Zhao, A. F. Wang, N. Z. Wang, Z. J. Xiang, X. G. Luo, T. Wu, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147001 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Field-Induced Magnonic Liquid in the 3D Spin-Dimerized Antiferromagnet ${Sr}_{3} {Cr}_{2} O_{8}$

Zhe Wang, D. L. Quintero-Castro, S. Zherlitsyn, S. Yasin, Y. Skourski, A. T. M. N. Islam, B. Lake, J. Deisenhofer, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147201 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

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Mechanical Resonators for Quantum Optomechanics Experiments at Room Temperature

R. A. Norte, J. P. Moura, and S. Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147202 (2016) - Published 5 April, 2016

Two independent experiments demonstrate room temperature mechanical resonators with outstanding optical and mechanical properties, for example high quality factor and attonewton force sensitivity.

Static and Dynamical Properties of Antiferromagnetic Skyrmions in the Presence of Applied Current and Temperature

Joseph Barker and Oleg A. Tretiakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147203 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Chirality-Dependent Transmission of Spin Waves through Domain Walls

F. J. Buijnsters, Y. Ferreiros, A. Fasolino, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147204 (2016) - Published 8 April, 2016

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Electron-Vibration Coupling in Molecular Materials: Assignment of Vibronic Modes from Photoelectron Momentum Mapping

M. Graus, M. Grimm, C. Metzger, M. Dauth, C. Tusche, J. Kirschner, S. Kümmel, A. Schöll, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147601 (2016) - Published 6 April, 2016

Photoelectron spectroscopy reveals the details of the interaction between electronic and vibrational excitations in a molecular material.

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Insights into the Nanostructure of the Cores of Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals

Xiaoguang Wang, Young-Ki Kim, Emre Bukusoglu, Bo Zhang, Daniel S. Miller, and Nicholas L. Abbott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147801 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

Experimental characterization of point defects in liquid crystals show they are nanoscopic loops as predicted by theory.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Weirdest Martensite: Smectic Liquid Crystal Microstructure and Weyl-Poincaré Invariance

Danilo B. Liarte, Matthew Bierbaum, Ricardo A. Mosna, Randall D. Kamien, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147802 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

A set of rules is proposed for the construction of circular domain boundaries seen at the interfaces of smectic liquid crystals.

Resonant Carbon $K$ -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase

Chenhui Zhu, Michael R. Tuchband, Anthony Young, Min Shuai, Alyssa Scarbrough, David M. Walba, Joseph E. Maclennan, Cheng Wang, Alexander Hexemer, and Noel A. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147803 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

Molecular Hydrodynamics from Memory Kernels

Dominika Lesnicki, Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Antoine Carof, and Benjamin Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 147804 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016

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

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Failure of the Volume Function in Granular Statistical Mechanics and an Alternative Formulation

Raphael Blumenfeld, Shahar Amitai, Joe F. Jordan, and Rebecca Hihinashvili

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 148001 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

A reformulation of the statistical mechanics of granular materials replaces the volume of the material with a function related to its structure.

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Electrostatics-Driven Hierarchical Buckling of Charged Flexible Ribbons

Zhenwei Yao and Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 148101 (2016) - Published 4 April, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Multimode Kapitza-Dirac Interferometry with Trapped Cold Atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 023003 (2014)]

WeiDong Li, Tianchen He, and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 149901 (2016) - Published 7 April, 2016