Transition Path Time Distribution, Tunneling Times, Friction, and Uncertainty

Eli Pollak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070401 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Localization in Open Quantum Systems

I. Yusipov, T. Laptyeva, S. Denisov, and M. Ivanchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070402 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Spin-Polarizing Interferometric Beam Splitter for Free Electrons

Matthias M. Dellweg and Carsten Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070403 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Digital Quantum Simulation of ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ Lattice Gauge Theories with Dynamical Fermionic Matter

Erez Zohar, Alessandro Farace, Benni Reznik, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070501 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Exponentially Biased Ground-State Sampling of Quantum Annealing Machines with Transverse-Field Driving Hamiltonians

Salvatore Mandrà, Zheng Zhu, and Helmut G. Katzgraber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070502 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Continuous-Variable Instantaneous Quantum Computing is Hard to Sample

T. Douce, D. Markham, E. Kashefi, E. Diamanti, T. Coudreau, P. Milman, P. van Loock, and G. Ferrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070503 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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No-Go Theorem for the Characterization of Work Fluctuations in Coherent Quantum Systems

Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Elisa Bäumer, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Marcus Huber, and Antonio Acin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070601 (2017) – Published 14 February 2017

The operator of work in quantum thermodynamics is incompatible with quantum mechanics, which is why the correspondence principle has to be critically examined whenever work is involved.

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Beating Rayleigh’s Curse by Imaging Using Phase Information

Weng-Kian Tham, Hugo Ferretti, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070801 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Weak Value Amplification Can Outperform Conventional Measurement in the Presence of Detector Saturation

Jérémie Harris, Robert W. Boyd, and Jeff S. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070802 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Quantum Estimation Methods for Quantum Illumination

M. Sanz, U. Las Heras, J. J. García-Ripoll, E. Solano, and R. Di Candia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 070803 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Spin-Dependent Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle–Nucleon Cross Section Limits from First Data of PandaX-II Experiment

Changbo Fu et al. (PandaX-II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 071301 (2017) – Published 13 February 2017

New data from the PandaX-II experiment in China improves the bounds on the spin-dependent cross-sections for WIMP dark matter by a factor of two.

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Density Induced Phase Transitions in the Schwinger Model: A Study with Matrix Product States

Mari Carmen Bañuls, Krzysztof Cichy, J. Ignacio Cirac, Karl Jansen, and Stefan Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 071601 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Observation of the Decay ${\mathrm{\Xi }}_b^{-}\to p{K}^{-}{K}^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 071801 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Unifying Inflation with the Axion, Dark Matter, Baryogenesis, and the Seesaw Mechanism

Guillermo Ballesteros, Javier Redondo, Andreas Ringwald, and Carlos Tamarit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 071802 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

Synopsis: Model Tries to Solve Five Physics Problems at Once

A minimal extension to the standard model of particle physics involves six new particles.

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Search for Two-Photon Interaction with Axionlike Particles Using High-Repetition Pulsed Magnets and Synchrotron X Rays

T. Inada, T. Yamazaki, T. Namba, S. Asai, T. Kobayashi, K. Tamasaku, Y. Tanaka, Y. Inubushi, K. Sawada, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa, A. Matsuo, K. Kawaguchi, K. Kindo, and H. Nojiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 071803 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Precision Determination of the Small-$x$ Gluon from Charm Production at LHCb

Rhorry Gauld and Juan Rojo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 072001 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Next-to-Next-to Leading Order QCD Predictions for Single Jet Inclusive Production at the LHC

J. Currie, E. W. N. Glover, and J. Pires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 072002 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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$94\beta$-Decay Half-Lives of Neutron-Rich ${}_{55}\mathrm{Cs}$ to ${}_{67}\mathrm{Ho}$: Experimental Feedback and Evaluation of the $r$-Process Rare-Earth Peak Formation

J. Wu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 072701 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Probing the Dynamics of a Superradiant Quantum Phase Transition with a Single Trapped Ion

Ricardo Puebla, Myung-Joong Hwang, Jorge Casanova, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073001 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Quantum Engineering of a Low-Entropy Gas of Heteronuclear Bosonic Molecules in an Optical Lattice

Lukas Reichsöllner, Andreas Schindewolf, Tetsu Takekoshi, Rudolf Grimm, and Hanns-Christoph Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073201 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Transportable Optical Lattice Clock with $7\times {10}^{-17}$ Uncertainty

S. B. Koller, J. Grotti, St. Vogt, A. Al-Masoudi, S. Dörscher, S. Häfner, U. Sterr, and Ch. Lisdat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073601 (2017) – Published 13 February 2017

Viewpoint: Transportable Clocks Move with the Times

Transportable atomic clocks are now operating with fractional-frequency uncertainties below one part in 10${}^{16}$, opening up new applications.

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Superradiant Topological Peierls Insulator inside an Optical Cavity

Farokh Mivehvar, Helmut Ritsch, and Francesco Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073602 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Parasitic Photon-Pair Suppression via Photonic Stop-Band Engineering

L. G. Helt, Agata M. Brańczyk, Marco Liscidini, and M. J. Steel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073603 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Evanescent-Vacuum-Enhanced Photon-Exciton Coupling and Fluorescence Collection

Juanjuan Ren, Ying Gu, Dongxing Zhao, Fan Zhang, Tiancai Zhang, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073604 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Coherent Population Oscillation-Based Light Storage

P. Neveu, M.-A. Maynard, R. Bouchez, J. Lugani, R. Ghosh, F. Bretenaker, F. Goldfarb, and E. Brion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073605 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Novel Lasers Based on Resonant Dark States

Sotiris Droulias, Aditya Jain, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 073901 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Formation and Destabilization of the Particle Band on the Fluid-Fluid Interface

Jungchul Kim, Feng Xu, and Sungyon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074501 (2017) – Published 13 February 2017

New experiments show that when a particle suspension is injected into oil, the particles congregate at the oil-suspension interface, causing it to destabilize.

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Direct Self-Sustained Fragmentation Cascade of Reactive Droplets

Chihiro Inoue, Yu-ichiro Izato, Atsumi Miyake, and Emmanuel Villermaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074502 (2017) – Published 14 February 2017

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Roughness as a Route to the Ultimate Regime of Thermal Convection

Srikanth Toppaladoddi, Sauro Succi, and John S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074503 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Marangoni Bursting: Evaporation-Induced Emulsification of Binary Mixtures on a Liquid Layer

L. Keiser, H. Bense, P. Colinet, J. Bico, and E. Reyssat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074504 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

Focus: Video—Liquid Drop Bursts into Thousands of Pieces

A drop of water-alcohol mixture on a layer of oil was caught on video bursting into thousands of tiny droplets.

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Generalized Knudsen Number for Unsteady Fluid Flow

V. Kara, V. Yakhot, and K. L. Ekinci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074505 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Numerical Investigation of Thermal Counterflow of He II Past Cylinders

Cyprien Soulaine, Michel Quintard, Bertrand Baudouy, and Rob Van Weelderen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074506 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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First Demonstration of Laser-Assisted Charge Exchange for Microsecond Duration ${\mathrm{H}}^{-}$ Beams

Sarah Cousineau, Abdurahim Rakhman, Martin Kay, Alexander Aleksandrov, Viatcheslav Danilov, Timofey Gorlov, Yun Liu, Michael Plum, Andrei Shishlo, and David Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 074801 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Anisotropic Electron Tail Generation during Tearing Mode Magnetic Reconnection

Ami M. DuBois, Abdulgader F. Almagri, Jay K. Anderson, Daniel J. Den Hartog, John David Lee, and John S. Sarff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 075001 (2017) – Published 14 February 2017

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Wake-Mediated Propulsion of an Upstream Particle in Two-Dimensional Plasma Crystals

I. Laut, C. Räth, S. K. Zhdanov, V. Nosenko, G. E. Morfill, and H. M. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 075002 (2017) – Published 14 February 2017

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Fluorescent Nanowire Ring Illumination for Wide-Field Far-Field Subdiffraction Imaging

Xiaowei Liu, Cuifang Kuang, Xiang Hao, Chenlei Pang, Pengfei Xu, Haifeng Li, Ying Liu, Chao Yu, Yingke Xu, Di Nan, Weidong Shen, Yue Fang, Lenian He, Xu Liu, and Qing Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076101 (2017) – Published 14 February 2017

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Ion Structure Near a Core-Shell Dielectric Nanoparticle

Manman Ma, Zecheng Gan, and Zhenli Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076102 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Load and Time Dependence of Interfacial Chemical Bond-Induced Friction at the Nanoscale

Kaiwen Tian, Nitya N. Gosvami, David L. Goldsby, Yun Liu, Izabela Szlufarska, and Robert W. Carpick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076103 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Determination of Surface Recombination Velocities at Contacts in Organic Semiconductor Devices Using Injected Carrier Reservoirs

Oskar J. Sandberg, Simon Sandén, Anton Sundqvist, Jan-Henrik Smått, and Ronald Österbacka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076601 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Minimal Excitations in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

J. Rech, D. Ferraro, T. Jonckheere, L. Vannucci, M. Sassetti, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076801 (2017) – Published 13 February 2017

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Optically Imaged Striped Domains of Nonequilibrium Electronic and Nuclear Spins in a Fractional Quantum Hall Liquid

John N. Moore, Junichiro Hayakawa, Takaaki Mano, Takeshi Noda, and Go Yusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076802 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

Photoluminescence and magnetic resonance imaging reveal deformable regions in fractional quantum Hall liquids that produce nuclear spins from spin-polarized electrons.

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Novel Topological Phase with a Zero Berry Curvature

Feng Liu and Katsunori Wakabayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 076803 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Spontaneous Currents in Superconducting Systems with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling

S. Mironov and A. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 077001 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

Spin-orbit-model calculations predict a spontaneous supercurrent at the interface between an s-wave superconductor and a ferromagnet.

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Itinerant Antiferromagnetism in ${\mathrm{RuO}}_2$

T. Berlijn, P. C. Snijders, O. Delaire, H.-D. Zhou, T. A. Maier, H.-B. Cao, S.-X. Chi, M. Matsuda, Y. Wang, M. R. Koehler, P. R. C. Kent, and H. H. Weitering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 077201 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Cornering Gapless Quantum States via Their Torus Entanglement

William Witczak-Krempa, Lauren E. Hayward Sierens, and Roger G. Melko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 077202 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Catastrophic Thinning of Dielectric Elastomers

G. Zurlo, M. Destrade, D. DeTommasi, and G. Puglisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078001 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Fundamental Limits to Collective Concentration Sensing in Cell Populations

Sean Fancher and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078101 (2017) – Published 14 February 2017

Synopsis: Cell Sensing Improves in a Loose Crowd

Cells that communicate with each other can measure chemical concentrations with higher precision if they spread out into a sparse configuration.

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Reversible Switching of Cooperating Replicators

Georg C. Urtel, Thomas Rind, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078102 (2017) – Published 15 February 2017

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Persistence-Driven Durotaxis: Generic, Directed Motility in Rigidity Gradients

Elizaveta A. Novikova, Matthew Raab, Dennis E. Discher, and Cornelis Storm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078103 (2017) – Published 16 February 2017

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Emergent Structures in an Active Polar Fluid: Dynamics of Shape, Scattering, and Merger

Kabir Husain and Madan Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078104 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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Mapping the Structure of Directed Networks: Beyond the Bow-Tie Diagram

G. Timár, A. V. Goltsev, S. N. Dorogovtsev, and J. F. F. Mendes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078301 (2017) – Published 17 February 2017

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