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Synthetic Dimensions and Spin-Orbit Coupling with an Optical Clock Transition

L. F. Livi, G. Cappellini, M. Diem, L. Franchi, C. Clivati, M. Frittelli, F. Levi, D. Calonico, J. Catani, M. Inguscio, and L. Fallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220401 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

Spin-orbit interactions in ultracold quantum gases are synthesized via clock transitions between two energy levels, which act like pseudospin states.

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Nonlocality from Local Contextuality

Bi-Heng Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Jiang-Shan Chen, Yun-Feng Huang, Yong-Jian Han, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220402 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic with Global Radiation Fields

S. Weidt, J. Randall, S. C. Webster, K. Lake, A. E. Webb, I. Cohen, T. Navickas, B. Lekitsch, A. Retzker, and W. K. Hensinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220501 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Schur Complement Inequalities for Covariance Matrices and Monogamy of Quantum Correlations

Ludovico Lami, Christoph Hirche, Gerardo Adesso, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220502 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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High-Fidelity Bidirectional Nuclear Qubit Initialization in SiC

Viktor Ivády, Paul V. Klimov, Kevin C. Miao, Abram L. Falk, David J. Christle, Krisztián Szász, Igor A. Abrikosov, David D. Awschalom, and Adam Gali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220503 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Incorporating Noise Quantitatively in the Phase Field Crystal Model via Capillary Fluctuation Theory

Gabriel Kocher, Nana Ofori-Opoku, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 220601 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Subhalo Abundance Matching in $f(R)$ Gravity

Jian-hua He, Baojiu Li, and Carlton M. Baugh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221101 (2016) – Published 21 November 2016

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Static Einstein-Maxwell Black Holes with No Spatial Isometries in AdS Space

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro and Eugen Radu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221102 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

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First Constraints on the Complete Neutrino Mixing Matrix with a Sterile Neutrino

G. H. Collin, C. A. Argüelles, J. M. Conrad, and M. H. Shaevitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 221801 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Universal Off-Equilibrium Scaling of Critical Cumulants in the QCD Phase Diagram

Swagato Mukherjee, Raju Venugopalan, and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222301 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

Observables sensitive to critical dynamics in heavy-ion collisions should be expressible as universal scaling functions according to new theoretical calculations.

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Role of the $\mathrm{\Delta }$ Resonance in the Population of a Four-Nucleon State in the ${}^{56}\mathrm{Fe}\to {}^{54}\mathrm{Fe}$ Reaction at Relativistic Energies

Zs. Podolyák et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222302 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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How Many-Body Correlations and $\alpha$ Clustering Shape ${}^6\mathrm{He}$

Carolina Romero-Redondo, Sofia Quaglioni, Petr Navrátil, and Guillaume Hupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222501 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Single-Photon Absorber Based on Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms

C. Tresp, C. Zimmer, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. Gorniaczyk, A. Paris-Mandoki, and S. Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223001 (2016) – Published 21 November 2016

A single photon absorber is realized using an ensemble of ultracold atoms. The absorption of one photon by the ensemble induces a long-lived excitation that makes the ensemble transparent to the next 35 incident photons.

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Collective Molecular Superrotation: A Model for Extremely Flexible Molecules Applied to Protonated Methane

Hanno Schmiedt, Per Jensen, and Stephan Schlemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223002 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Ramsey Interference with Single Photons

Stéphane Clemmen, Alessandro Farsi, Sven Ramelow, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223601 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

Viewpoint: Photon Qubit is Made of Two Colors

Single particles of light can be prepared in a quantum superposition of two different colors, an achievement that could prove useful for quantum information processing.

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Ultratransparent Media and Transformation Optics with Shifted Spatial Dispersions

Jie Luo, Yuting Yang, Zhongqi Yao, Weixin Lu, Bo Hou, Zhi Hong Hang, C. T. Chan, and Yun Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223901 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

A photonic crystal metamaterial is realized with perfect transmission of light at all incident angles. The material can be used to create aberration-free virtual images.

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Eigenvalue Outliers of Non-Hermitian Random Matrices with a Local Tree Structure

Izaak Neri and Fernando Lucas Metz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224101 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Acoustic Type-II Weyl Nodes from Stacking Dimerized Chains

Zhaoju Yang and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224301 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Multiple Quantum Wells for $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-Symmetric Phononic Crystals

A. V. Poshakinskiy, A. N. Poddubny, and A. Fainstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224302 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Generalized Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij Distribution and Beam Matrix for Phase-Space Manipulations of High-Intensity Beams

Moses Chung, Hong Qin, Ronald C. Davidson, Lars Groening, and Chen Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 224801 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Late-Time Mixing Sensitivity to Initial Broadband Surface Roughness in High-Energy-Density Shear Layers

K. A. Flippo, F. W. Doss, J. L. Kline, E. C. Merritt, D. Capelli, T. Cardenas, B. DeVolder, F. Fierro, C. M. Huntington, L. Kot, E. N. Loomis, S. A. MacLaren, T. J. Murphy, S. R. Nagel, T. S. Perry, R. B. Randolph, G. Rivera, and D. W. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225001 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility

D. E. Hinkel, L. F. Berzak Hopkins, T. Ma, J. E. Ralph, F. Albert, L. R. Benedetti, P. M. Celliers, T. Döppner, C. S. Goyon, N. Izumi, L. C. Jarrott, S. F. Khan, J. L. Kline, A. L. Kritcher, G. A. Kyrala, S. R. Nagel, A. E. Pak, P. Patel, M. D. Rosen, J. R. Rygg, M. B. Schneider, D. P. Turnbull, C. B. Yeamans, D. A. Callahan, and O. A. Hurricane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225002 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Electron Cooling in a Magnetically Expanding Plasma

J. M. Little and E. Y. Choueiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225003 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Momentum Distribution in the Unitary Bose Gas from First Principles

Tommaso Comparin and Werner Krauth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225301 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

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Traveling Majorana Solitons in a Low-Dimensional Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Superfluid

Peng Zou, Joachim Brand, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225302 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Three Dimensional Variable-Wavelength X-Ray Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

W. Cha, A. Ulvestad, M. Allain, V. Chamard, R. Harder, S. J. Leake, J. Maser, P. H. Fuoss, and S. O. Hruszkewycz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225501 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Can Point Defects in Surfaces in Solution be Atomically Resolved by Atomic Force Microscopy?

Bernhard Reischl, Paolo Raiteri, Julian D. Gale, and Andrew L. Rohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226101 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Persistent Skyrmion Lattice of Noninteracting Electrons with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Jiyong Fu, Poliana H. Penteado, Marco O. Hachiya, Daniel Loss, and J. Carlos Egues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226401 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Equivalent Resistance from the Quantum to the Classical Transport Limit

Saheli Sarkar, Damaris Kröber, and Dirk K. Morr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226601 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Temperature Effects in the Band Structure of Topological Insulators

Bartomeu Monserrat and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226801 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

Synopsis: Topological Insulators Feel the Heat

Calculations based on density-functional theory show that certain topological insulators can turn into conventional insulators at high temperature.

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Interface Structure, Band Alignment, and Built-In Potentials at ${\mathrm{LaFeO}}_3/n\text{−}{\mathrm{SrTiO}}_3$ Heterojunctions

Ryan Comes and Scott Chambers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 226802 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

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Theory of Enhanced Interlayer Tunneling in Optically Driven High-$T_c$ Superconductors

Jun-ichi Okamoto, Andrea Cavalleri, and Ludwig Mathey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227001 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

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Nature of Bosonic Excitations Revealed by High-Energy Charge Carriers

Jan Kogoj, Marcin Mierzejewski, and Janez Bonča

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227002 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Effect of Nematic Order on the Low-Energy Spin Fluctuations in Detwinned ${\mathrm{BaFe}}_{1.935}{\mathrm{Ni}}_{0.065}{\mathrm{As}}_2$

Wenliang Zhang, J. T. Park, Xingye Lu, Yuan Wei, Xiaoyan Ma, Lijie Hao, Pengcheng Dai, Zi Yang Meng, Yi-feng Yang, Huiqian Luo, and Shiliang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227003 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Realization of the Haldane-Kane-Mele Model in a System of Localized Spins

Se Kwon Kim, Héctor Ochoa, Ricardo Zarzuela, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227201 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Intrinsic Ferromagnetism in the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor $\mathrm{Co}:{\mathrm{TiO}}_2$

H. Saadaoui, X. Luo, Z. Salman, X. Y. Cui, N. N. Bao, P. Bao, R. K. Zheng, L. T. Tseng, Y. H. Du, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, T. Liu, Y. R. Wang, S. Li, J. Ding, S. P. Ringer, E. Morenzoni, and J. B. Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227202 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Curvature-Induced Asymmetric Spin-Wave Dispersion

Jorge A. Otálora, Ming Yan, Helmut Schultheiss, Riccardo Hertel, and Attila Kákay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227203 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Analogy Between the “Hidden Order” and the Orbital Antiferromagnetism in ${\mathrm{URu}}_{2-x}{\mathrm{Fe}}_x{\mathrm{Si}}_2$

H.-H. Kung, S. Ran, N. Kanchanavatee, V. Krapivin, A. Lee, J. A. Mydosh, K. Haule, M. B. Maple, and G. Blumberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227601 (2016) – Published 22 November 2016

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Experimental Evidence of the Gardner Phase in a Granular Glass

A. Seguin and O. Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228001 (2016) – Published 21 November 2016

Viewpoint: Signs of a Gardner Transition in a Granular Glass

Two-dimensional disk packings under compression and vibration display signatures of the Gardner phase transition that is thought to occur between the glass and jamming transitions.

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Universal Hydrodynamic Mechanisms for Crystallization in Active Colloidal Suspensions

Rajesh Singh and R. Adhikari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228002 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Minimal Positive Design for Self-Assembly of the Archimedean Tilings

Stephen Whitelam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228003 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Emergent Structural Mechanisms for High-Density Collective Motion Inspired by Human Crowds

Arianna Bottinelli, David T. J. Sumpter, and Jesse L. Silverberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228301 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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Continuous-Time Discrete-Distribution Theory for Activity-Driven Networks

Lorenzo Zino, Alessandro Rizzo, and Maurizio Porfiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 228302 (2016) – Published 23 November 2016

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