Volume 116, Issue 21

27 May 2016

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Simulated propagation in the x-z plane of perturbed extended modes of a cavity-free laser with a graphene-based active random metamaterial as amplifying medium.

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Graphene-Based Active Random Metamaterials for Cavity-Free Lasing
A. Marini and F. J. García de Abajo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217401 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Light Particle Solution to the Cosmic Lithium Problem

Andreas Goudelis, Maxim Pospelov, and Josef Pradler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211303 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

The apparent lack of lithium in the Universe, relative to theoretical expectations, could be explained by hypothetical lightweight and electrically neutral particles.

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Production of Highly Polarized Positrons Using Polarized Electrons at MeV Energies

D. Abbott et al. (PEPPo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 214801 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

A new technique requires much less energy to produce a beam of polarized positrons than previous techniques, making such beams potentially more widely available.

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Observation of Quantum Droplets in a Strongly Dipolar Bose Gas

Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Holger Kadau, Matthias Schmitt, Matthias Wenzel, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 215301 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

The collapse of a trapped ultracold magnetic gas is arrested by quantum fluctuations, creating quantum droplets of superfluid atoms.

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Rashba Splitting of Cooper Pairs

R. I. Shekhter, O. Entin-Wohlman, M. Jonson, and A. Aharony

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217001 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

The current flowing through a Josephson junction could be controlled via Rashba spin splitting according to this theoretical proposal.

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Role of Tensorial Electronic Friction in Energy Transfer at Metal Surfaces

Mikhail Askerka, Reinhard J. Maurer, Victor S. Batista, and John C. Tully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217601 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

First order time dependent perturbation theory is used to compute the full electronic friction tensor for adsorbate dynamics on metals surfaces. The results show that electronic friction-mediated coupling occurs between otherwise independent adsorbate modes.

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Anomalous Increase in Nematic-Isotropic Transition Temperature in Dimer Molecules Induced by a Magnetic Field

S. M. Salili, M. G. Tamba, S. N. Sprunt, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, A. Jákli, and J. T. Gleeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217801 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

A 15 K increase in the nematic order transition temperature of liquid crystal dimers is achieved by subjected the materials to a 22 T magnetic field. This increase is suggested to arise from magnetic-field-induced changes in the molecules’ structure.

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Horizon Entropy from Quantum Gravity Condensates

Daniele Oriti, Daniele Pranzetti, and Lorenzo Sindoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211301 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Gravitational Two-Loop Counterterm Is Asymptotically Safe

Holger Gies, Benjamin Knorr, Stefan Lippoldt, and Frank Saueressig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211302 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

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Light Particle Solution to the Cosmic Lithium Problem

Andreas Goudelis, Maxim Pospelov, and Josef Pradler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211303 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

The apparent lack of lithium in the Universe, relative to theoretical expectations, could be explained by hypothetical lightweight and electrically neutral particles.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Borel Summability of Perturbative Series in 4D $N = 2$ and 5D $N = 1$ Supersymmetric Theories

Masazumi Honda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211601 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Nonperturbative Regulator for Chiral Gauge Theories?

Dorota M. Grabowska and David B. Kaplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211602 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Evolution of the Jet Opening Angle Distribution in Holographic Plasma

Krishna Rajagopal, Andrey V. Sadofyev, and Wilke van der Schee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211603 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Observation of Energy and Baseline Dependent Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment

J. H. Choi et al. (RENO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 211801 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Observation of $Z_{b} (10610)$ and $Z_{b} (10650)$ Decaying to $B$ Mesons

A. Garmash et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 212001 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Charm-Quark Production in Deep-Inelastic Neutrino Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Edmond L. Berger, Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li, Ze Long Liu, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 212002 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Ordering Multiple Soft Gluon Emissions

René Ángeles Martínez, Jeffrey R. Forshaw, and Michael H. Seymour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 212003 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Moving Forward to Constrain the Shear Viscosity of QCD Matter

Gabriel Denicol, Akihiko Monnai, and Björn Schenke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 212301 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Neutron Skins and Halo Orbits in the $s d$ and $p f$ Shells

J. Bonnard, S. M. Lenzi, and A. P. Zuker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 212501 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hard-X-Ray-Induced Multistep Ultrafast Dissociation

Oksana Travnikova, Tatiana Marchenko, Gildas Goldsztejn, Kari Jänkälä, Nicolas Sisourat, Stéphane Carniato, Renaud Guillemin, Loïc Journel, Denis Céolin, Ralph Püttner, Hiroshi Iwayama, Eiji Shigemasa, Maria Novella Piancastelli, and Marc Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 213001 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Atom-Pair Kinetics with Strong Electric-Dipole Interactions

N. Thaicharoen, L. F. Gonçalves, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 213002 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Near-Transform-Limited Single Photons from an Efficient Solid-State Quantum Emitter

Hui Wang, Z.-C. Duan, Y.-H. Li, Si Chen, J.-P. Li, Y.-M. He, M.-C. Chen, Yu He, X. Ding, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 213601 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Universal Sign Control of Coupling in Tight-Binding Lattices

Robert Keil, Charles Poli, Matthias Heinrich, Jake Arkinstall, Gregor Weihs, Henning Schomerus, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 213901 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Green’s Function Retrieval with Absorbing Probes in Reverberating Cavities

Matthieu Davy, Julien de Rosny, and Philippe Besnier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 213902 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Stability of Solitary Waves and Vortices in a 2D Nonlinear Dirac Model

Jesús Cuevas–Maraver, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Avadh Saxena, Andrew Comech, and Ruomeng Lan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 214101 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Generalized Quasilinear Approximation: Application to Zonal Jets

J. B. Marston, G. P. Chini, and S. M. Tobias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 214501 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Production of Highly Polarized Positrons Using Polarized Electrons at MeV Energies

D. Abbott et al. (PEPPo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 214801 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

A new technique requires much less energy to produce a beam of polarized positrons than previous techniques, making such beams potentially more widely available.

Modulation of Core Turbulent Density Fluctuations by Large-Scale Neoclassical Tearing Mode Islands in the DIII-D Tokamak

L. Bardóczi, T. L. Rhodes, T. A. Carter, A. Bañón Navarro, W. A. Peebles, F. Jenko, and G. McKee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 215001 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of Quantum Droplets in a Strongly Dipolar Bose Gas

Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Holger Kadau, Matthias Schmitt, Matthias Wenzel, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 215301 (2016) - Published 23 May, 2016

The collapse of a trapped ultracold magnetic gas is arrested by quantum fluctuations, creating quantum droplets of superfluid atoms.

Neutron Scattering Analysis of Water’s Glass Transition and Micropore Collapse in Amorphous Solid Water

Catherine R. Hill, Christian Mitterdorfer, Tristan G. A. Youngs, Daniel T. Bowron, Helen J. Fraser, and Thomas Loerting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 215501 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Colossal Magnetoresistance in a Mott Insulator via Magnetic Field-Driven Insulator-Metal Transition

M. Zhu, J. Peng, T. Zou, K. Prokes, S. D. Mahanti, T. Hong, Z. Q. Mao, G. Q. Liu, and X. Ke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 216401 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

Pressure-Induced Confined Metal from the Mott Insulator ${Sr}_{3} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Yang Ding, Liuxiang Yang, Cheng-Chien Chen, Heung-Sik Kim, Myung Joon Han, Wei Luo, Zhenxing Feng, Mary Upton, Diego Casa, Jungho Kim, Thomas Gog, Zhidan Zeng, Gang Cao, Ho-kwang Mao, and Michel van Veenendaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 216402 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Spin Superfluidity in the $ν = 0$ Quantum Hall State of Graphene

So Takei, Amir Yacoby, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 216801 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Model Fractional Chern Insulators

Jörg Behrmann, Zhao Liu, and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 216802 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

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Rashba Splitting of Cooper Pairs

R. I. Shekhter, O. Entin-Wohlman, M. Jonson, and A. Aharony

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217001 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

The current flowing through a Josephson junction could be controlled via Rashba spin splitting according to this theoretical proposal.

Quadrupole Order in the Frustrated Pyrochlore ${Tb}_{2 + x} {Ti}_{2 - x} O_{7 + y}$

H. Takatsu, S. Onoda, S. Kittaka, A. Kasahara, Y. Kono, T. Sakakibara, Y. Kato, B. Fåk, J. Ollivier, J. W. Lynn, T. Taniguchi, M. Wakita, and H. Kadowaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217201 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Microscopic Origin of Heisenberg and Non-Heisenberg Exchange Interactions in Ferromagnetic bcc Fe

Y. O. Kvashnin, R. Cardias, A. Szilva, I. Di Marco, M. I. Katsnelson, A. I. Lichtenstein, L. Nordström, A. B. Klautau, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217202 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016

Graphene-Based Active Random Metamaterials for Cavity-Free Lasing

A. Marini and F. J. García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217401 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

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Role of Tensorial Electronic Friction in Energy Transfer at Metal Surfaces

Mikhail Askerka, Reinhard J. Maurer, Victor S. Batista, and John C. Tully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217601 (2016) - Published 25 May, 2016

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

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Anomalous Increase in Nematic-Isotropic Transition Temperature in Dimer Molecules Induced by a Magnetic Field

S. M. Salili, M. G. Tamba, S. N. Sprunt, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, A. Jákli, and J. T. Gleeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217801 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Jamming and Attraction of Interacting Run-and-Tumble Random Walkers

A. B. Slowman, M. R. Evans, and R. A. Blythe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 218101 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Isomer Shift and Magnetic Moment of the Long-Lived $1 / 2^{+}$ Isomer in ${}_{30}^{79}{Zn}_{49}$ : Signature of Shape Coexistence near ${}^{78}{Ni}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 182502 (2016)]

X. F. Yang, C. Wraith, L. Xie, C. Babcock, J. Billowes, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, B. Cheal, K. T. Flanagan, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, W. Gins, C. Gorges, L. K. Grob, H. Heylen, S. Kaufmann, M. Kowalska, J. Kraemer, S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, J. Papuga, R. Sánchez, and D. T. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 219901 (2016) - Published 24 May, 2016

Erratum: Local Deterministic Model of Singlet State Correlations Based on Relaxing Measurement Independence [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250404 (2010)]

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 219902 (2016) - Published 26 May, 2016

Erratum: Motional Averaging of Nuclear Resonance in a Field Gradient [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197601 (2015)]

Nanette N. Jarenwattananon and Louis-S. Bouchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 219903 (2016) - Published 27 May, 2016