Volume 115, Issue 17

23 October 2015

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Checkerboardlike pattern found in the local density of states for quasiparticle excitations provides evidence for Majorana bound states inside vortex cores in a topological superconductor.

From the article:

Evolution of Density of States and a Spin-Resolved Checkerboard-Type Pattern Associated with the Majorana Bound State
Takuto Kawakami and Xiao Hu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 177001 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dynamical Quasicondensation of Hard-Core Bosons at Finite Momenta

L. Vidmar, J. P. Ronzheimer, M. Schreiber, S. Braun, S. S. Hodgman, S. Langer, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch, and U. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175301 (2015) - Published 19 October, 2015

The spontaneous emergence of long-range quantum order, normally the preserve of low-temperature equilibrium states, has been observed in an expanding cloud of potassium atoms.

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X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Reveals Intermittent Aging Dynamics in a Metallic Glass

Zach Evenson, Beatrice Ruta, Simon Hechler, Moritz Stolpe, Eloi Pineda, Isabella Gallino, and Ralf Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175701 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Aging in metallic glasses occurs via intermittent rearrangements of the atoms and is not a steady, continuous process as previously thought.

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Electron Microscopy of Probability Currents at Atomic Resolution

A. Lubk, A. Béché, and J. Verbeeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176101 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

A commercial electron microscope is reconfigured to image crystalline strain and variations in electric and magnetic fields within a material.

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Detecting Stealth Dark Matter Directly through Electromagnetic Polarizability

T. Appelquist, E. Berkowitz, R. C. Brower, M. I. Buchoff, G. T. Fleming, X.-Y. Jin, J. Kiskis, G. D. Kribs, E. T. Neil, J. C. Osborn, C. Rebbi, E. Rinaldi, D. Schaich, C. Schroeder, S. Syritsyn, P. Vranas, E. Weinberg, and O. Witzel (Lattice Strong Dynamics (LSD) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171803 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Lattice gauge theory computations provide bounds on detecting composite dark matter in direct detection experiments.

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Semivisible Jets: Dark Matter Undercover at the LHC

Timothy Cohen, Mariangela Lisanti, and Hou Keong Lou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171804 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Models of dark matter that include dark-sector particles with strong coupling could have evaded LHC searches due to jets of strongly interacting particles that mask their “missing energy” signatures.

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Evidence of Branching Phenomena in Current-Driven Ionization Waves

Keith T. K. Loebner, Thomas C. Underwood, and Mark A. Cappelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175001 (2015) - Published 19 October, 2015

Magnetohydrodynamic ionization waves generated by pulsed currents in a Lorentz force plasma accelerator mimic the behavior of classical combustion-driven shocks.

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Magnetoinfrared Spectroscopy of Landau Levels and Zeeman Splitting of Three-Dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions in ${ZrTe}_{5}$

R. Y. Chen, Z. G. Chen, X.-Y. Song, J. A. Schneeloch, G. D. Gu, F. Wang, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176404 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Signatures of massless Dirac fermions have been observed in a new candidate three-dimensional Dirac semimetal.

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Nonanalyticity, Valley Quantum Phases, and Lightlike Exciton Dispersion in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Theory and First-Principles Calculations

Diana Y. Qiu, Ting Cao, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176801 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

An ab-initio calculation shows that excitons in a monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide MoS $_{2}$ exhibit an unusual low-energy dispersion pattern.

LETTERS

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

Unbounded Violation of Quantum Steering Inequalities

M. Marciniak, A. Rutkowski, Z. Yin, M. Horodecki, and R. Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 170401 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Dynamics and Interaction of Vortex Lines in an Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. Serafini, M. Barbiero, M. Debortoli, S. Donadello, F. Larcher, F. Dalfovo, G. Lamporesi, and G. Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 170402 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Proposed Robust Entanglement-Based Magnetic Field Sensor Beyond the Standard Quantum Limit

Tohru Tanaka, Paul Knott, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Shane Dooley, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, William J. Munro, and Shiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 170801 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Does the Collapse of a Supramassive Neutron Star Leave a Debris Disk?

Ben Margalit, Brian D. Metzger, and Andrei M. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171101 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Emerging Hawking-Like Radiation from Gravitational Bremsstrahlung Beyond the Planck Scale

Marcello Ciafaloni, Dimitri Colferai, and Gabriele Veneziano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171301 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Central Charges and the Sign of Entanglement in 4D Conformal Field Theories

Eric Perlmutter, Mukund Rangamani, and Massimiliano Rota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171601 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Continuous Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz as Holographic Surface-State Correspondence

Masamichi Miyaji, Tokiro Numasawa, Noburo Shiba, Tadashi Takayanagi, and Kento Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171602 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Standard Model as a Double Field Theory

Kang-Sin Choi and Jeong-Hyuck Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171603 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

“Lagrangian” for a Non-Lagrangian Field Theory with $N = 2$ Supersymmetry

Abhijit Gadde, Shlomo S. Razamat, and Brian Willett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171604 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Completing the Picture of the Roper Resonance

Jorge Segovia, Bruno El-Bennich, Eduardo Rojas, Ian C. Cloët, Craig D. Roberts, Shu-Sheng Xu, and Hong-Shi Zong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171801 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Scalar Hint from the Diboson Excess?

Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Aldo Deandrea, and Michio Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171802 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detecting Stealth Dark Matter Directly through Electromagnetic Polarizability

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171803 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Lattice gauge theory computations provide bounds on detecting composite dark matter in direct detection experiments.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Semivisible Jets: Dark Matter Undercover at the LHC

Timothy Cohen, Mariangela Lisanti, and Hou Keong Lou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171804 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Towards Exotic Hidden-Charm Pentaquarks in QCD

Hua-Xing Chen, Wei Chen, Xiang Liu, T. G. Steele, and Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 172001 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Nuclear Physics

${}_{37}^{97}{Rb}_{60}$ : The Cornerstone of the Region of Deformation around $A \sim 100$

C. Sotty et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 172501 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Measurement of the Target-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Quasielastic Scattering from the Reaction ${}^{3}{He}^{↑} (e, e^{'})$

Y.-W. Zhang et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 172502 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Pathway for the Production of Neutron-Rich Isotopes around the $N = 126$ Shell Closure

Y. X. Watanabe, Y. H. Kim, S. C. Jeong, Y. Hirayama, N. Imai, H. Ishiyama, H. S. Jung, H. Miyatake, S. Choi, J. S. Song, E. Clement, G. de France, A. Navin, M. Rejmund, C. Schmitt, G. Pollarolo, L. Corradi, E. Fioretto, D. Montanari, M. Niikura, D. Suzuki, H. Nishibata, and J. Takatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 172503 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rydberg Excitation of a Single Trapped Ion

T. Feldker, P. Bachor, M. Stappel, D. Kolbe, R. Gerritsma, J. Walz, and F. Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173001 (2015) - Published 19 October, 2015

Simultaneous Measurement of the Three-Dimensional Orientation of Excitation and Emission Dipoles

Narain Karedla, Simon C. Stein, Dirk Hähnel, Ingo Gregor, Anna Chizhik, and Jörg Enderlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173002 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Enhancement of Ultracold Molecule Formation Using Shaped Nanosecond Frequency Chirps

J. L. Carini, S. Kallush, R. Kosloff, and P. L. Gould

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173003 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Attosecond Coherent Control of Single and Double Photoionization in Argon

C. W. Hogle, X. M. Tong, L. Martin, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and P. Ranitovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173004 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Nature of the Volume Isotope Effect in Ice

Koichiro Umemoto, Emiko Sugimura, Stefano de Gironcoli, Yoichi Nakajima, Kei Hirose, Yasuo Ohishi, and Renata M. Wentzcovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173005 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Deviations from Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics in Confined Optical Lattices

Andreas Dechant, David A. Kessler, and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173006 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Ultraefficient Coupling of a Quantum Emitter to the Tunable Guided Plasmons of a Carbon Nanotube

Luis Martín-Moreno, F. Javier García de Abajo, and Francisco J. García-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173601 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Blackbody Theory for Hyperbolic Materials

Svend-Age Biehs, Slawa Lang, Alexander Yu. Petrov, Manfred Eich, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 174301 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Controlling Viscous Fingering Using Time-Dependent Strategies

Zhong Zheng, Hyoungsoo Kim, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 174501 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Branching Phenomena in Current-Driven Ionization Waves

Keith T. K. Loebner, Thomas C. Underwood, and Mark A. Cappelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175001 (2015) - Published 19 October, 2015

Magnetohydrodynamic ionization waves generated by pulsed currents in a Lorentz force plasma accelerator mimic the behavior of classical combustion-driven shocks.

Avoiding Tokamak Disruptions by Applying Static Magnetic Fields That Align Locked Modes with Stabilizing Wave-Driven Currents

F. A. Volpe, A. Hyatt, R. J. La Haye, M. J. Lanctot, J. Lohr, R. Prater, E. J. Strait, and A. Welander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175002 (2015) - Published 19 October, 2015

Generation of Large-Scale Magnetic Fields by Small-Scale Dynamo in Shear Flows

J. Squire and A. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175003 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Role of Ion Kinetic Physics in the Interaction of Magnetic Flux Ropes

A. Stanier, W. Daughton, L. Chacón, H. Karimabadi, J. Ng, Y.-M. Huang, A. Hakim, and A. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175004 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Quasicondensation of Hard-Core Bosons at Finite Momenta

L. Vidmar, J. P. Ronzheimer, M. Schreiber, S. Braun, S. S. Hodgman, S. Langer, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch, and U. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175301 (2015) - Published 19 October, 2015

The spontaneous emergence of long-range quantum order, normally the preserve of low-temperature equilibrium states, has been observed in an expanding cloud of potassium atoms.

Atomic-Level Understanding of “Asymmetric Twins” in Boron Carbide

Kelvin Y. Xie, Qi An, M. Fatih Toksoy, James W. McCauley, Richard A. Haber, William A. Goddard, III, and Kevin J. Hemker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175501 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Elastic Waves Scattering without Conversion in Metamaterials with Simultaneous Zero Indices for Longitudinal and Transverse Waves

Fengming Liu and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175502 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

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X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Reveals Intermittent Aging Dynamics in a Metallic Glass

Zach Evenson, Beatrice Ruta, Simon Hechler, Moritz Stolpe, Eloi Pineda, Isabella Gallino, and Ralf Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 175701 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Aging in metallic glasses occurs via intermittent rearrangements of the atoms and is not a steady, continuous process as previously thought.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electron Microscopy of Probability Currents at Atomic Resolution

A. Lubk, A. Béché, and J. Verbeeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176101 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

A commercial electron microscope is reconfigured to image crystalline strain and variations in electric and magnetic fields within a material.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fröhlich Electron-Phonon Vertex from First Principles

Carla Verdi and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176401 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Collapse of the Mott Gap and Emergence of a Nodal Liquid in Lightly Doped ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

A. de la Torre, S. McKeown Walker, F. Y. Bruno, S. Riccó, Z. Wang, I. Gutierrez Lezama, G. Scheerer, G. Giriat, D. Jaccard, C. Berthod, T. K. Kim, M. Hoesch, E. C. Hunter, R. S. Perry, A. Tamai, and F. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176402 (2015) - Published 21 October, 2015

Development of Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations with Localized Nodal Surfaces for Second-Row Elements

Burkhard Militzer and Kevin P. Driver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176403 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoinfrared Spectroscopy of Landau Levels and Zeeman Splitting of Three-Dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions in ${ZrTe}_{5}$

R. Y. Chen, Z. G. Chen, X.-Y. Song, J. A. Schneeloch, G. D. Gu, F. Wang, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176404 (2015) - Published 22 October, 2015

Signatures of massless Dirac fermions have been observed in a new candidate three-dimensional Dirac semimetal.

Detecting Band Inversions by Measuring the Environment: Fingerprints of Electronic Band Topology in Bulk Phonon Linewidths

Kush Saha, Katherine Légaré, and Ion Garate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176405 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

Interplay of Electron and Nuclear Spin Noise in $n$ -Type GaAs

Fabian Berski, Jens Hübner, Michael Oestreich, Arne Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, and Mikhail Glazov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176601 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

Intrinsic Transparent Conductors without Doping

Xiuwen Zhang, Lijun Zhang, John D. Perkins, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176602 (2015) - Published 23 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonanalyticity, Valley Quantum Phases, and Lightlike Exciton Dispersion in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Theory and First-Principles Calculations

Diana Y. Qiu, Ting Cao, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176801 (2015) - Published 20 October, 2015

An ab-initio calculation shows that excitons in a monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide MoS $_{2}$ exhibit an unusual low-energy dispersion pattern.