Volume 111, Issue 15

11 October 2013

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Cinquefoil knots formed in knotted electromagnetic fields. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Tying Knots in Light Fields
Hridesh Kedia, Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Daniel Peralta-Salas, and William T. M. Irvine
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150404 (2013)

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Tying Knots in Light Fields

Hridesh Kedia, Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Daniel Peralta-Salas, and William T. M. Irvine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150404 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

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Linear Optical Quantum Computing in a Single Spatial Mode

Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Justin B. Spring, Merritt Moore, Xian-Min Jin, Marco Barbieri, W. Steven Kolthammer, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150501 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

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Formation and Coalescence of Cosmological Supermassive-Black-Hole Binaries in Supermassive-Star Collapse

C. Reisswig, C. D. Ott, E. Abdikamalov, R. Haas, P. Mösta, and E. Schnetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151101 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

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Coherent Ultrafast Measurement of Time-Bin Encoded Photons

John M. Donohue, Megan Agnew, Jonathan Lavoie, and Kevin J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153602 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

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Sound and Light from Fractures in Scintillators

A. Tantot, S. Santucci, O. Ramos, S. Deschanel, M.-A. Verdier, E. Mony, Y. Wei, S. Ciliberto, L. Vanel, and P. C. F. Di Stefano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 154301 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

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Discovery of a Superhard Iron Tetraboride Superconductor

Huiyang Gou, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Elena Bykova, Alexander A. Tsirlin, Deepa Kasinathan, Walter Schnelle, Asta Richter, Marco Merlini, Michael Hanfland, Artem M. Abakumov, Dmitry Batuk, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Yoichi Nakajima, Aleksey N. Kolmogorov, and Leonid Dubrovinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157002 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

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Rabi Oscillations between Atomic and Molecular Condensates Driven with Coherent One-Color Photoassociation

Mi Yan, B. J. DeSalvo, Ying Huang, P. Naidon, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150402 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

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Equivalence Principle and Bound Kinetic Energy

Michael A. Hohensee, Holger Müller, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151102 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

LETTERS

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

Dividing Line between Quantum and Classical Trajectories in a Measurement Problem: Bohmian Time Constant

Antonio B. Nassar and Salvador Miret-Artés

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150401 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

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Rabi Oscillations between Atomic and Molecular Condensates Driven with Coherent One-Color Photoassociation

Mi Yan, B. J. DeSalvo, Ying Huang, P. Naidon, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150402 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Algebraic versus Exponential Decoherence in Dissipative Many-Particle Systems

Zi Cai and Thomas Barthel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150403 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

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Tying Knots in Light Fields

Hridesh Kedia, Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Daniel Peralta-Salas, and William T. M. Irvine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150404 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

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Linear Optical Quantum Computing in a Single Spatial Mode

Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Justin B. Spring, Merritt Moore, Xian-Min Jin, Marco Barbieri, W. Steven Kolthammer, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150501 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

Bosonic Mott Insulator with Meissner Currents

Alexandru Petrescu and Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150601 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Formation and Coalescence of Cosmological Supermassive-Black-Hole Binaries in Supermassive-Star Collapse

C. Reisswig, C. D. Ott, E. Abdikamalov, R. Haas, P. Mösta, and E. Schnetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151101 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

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Equivalence Principle and Bound Kinetic Energy

Michael A. Hohensee, Holger Müller, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151102 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

Excess Astrophysical Photons from a 0.1–1 keV Cosmic Axion Background

Joseph P. Conlon and M. C. David Marsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151301 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Baryogenesis and Dark Matter through a Higgs Asymmetry

Géraldine Servant and Sean Tulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151601 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Measurement of the $C P$ Asymmetry in $B^{+} \to K^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151801 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Limits on Exotic Long-Range Spin-Spin Interactions of Electrons

B. R. Heckel, W. A. Terrano, and E. G. Adelberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 151802 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Azimuthal Angle Dependence of Inclusive Jet Yields in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 152301 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

Isomers in ${}^{128}{Pd}$ and ${}^{126}{Pd}$ : Evidence for a Robust Shell Closure at the Neutron Magic Number 82 in Exotic Palladium Isotopes

H. Watanabe et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 152501 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

$N$ -Representability in Noncollinear Spin-Polarized Density-Functional Theory

David Gontier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153001 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Critical Landau Velocity in Helium Nanodroplets

Nils B. Brauer, Szymon Smolarek, Evgeniy Loginov, David Mateo, Alberto Hernando, Marti Pi, Manuel Barranco, Wybren J. Buma, and Marcel Drabbels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153002 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Retardation Effects and the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation: Theory of Tunneling Ionization of Molecules Revisited

Oleg I. Tolstikhin and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153003 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Nuclear Fluxes in Diatomic Molecules Deduced from Pump-Probe Spectra with Spatiotemporal Resolutions down to 5 pm and 200 asec

Jörn Manz, Jhon Fredy Pérez-Torres, and Yonggang Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153004 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Implementation of an Impedance-Matched $Λ$ System by Dressed-State Engineering

Kazuki Koshino, Kunihiro Inomata, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, and Yasunobu Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153601 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

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Coherent Ultrafast Measurement of Time-Bin Encoded Photons

John M. Donohue, Megan Agnew, Jonathan Lavoie, and Kevin J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153602 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

Optical Vortex Generation from Molecular Chromophore Arrays

Mathew D. Williams, Matt M. Coles, Kamel Saadi, David S. Bradshaw, and David L. Andrews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153603 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamic Beam Steering from a Subwavelength Slit by Selective Excitation of Guided Modes

S. B. Raghunathan, H. F. Schouten, W. Ubachs, B. Ea Kim, C. H. Gan, and T. D. Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153901 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Measuring Large Optical Transmission Matrices of Disordered Media

Hyeonseung Yu, Timothy R. Hillman, Wonshik Choi, Ji Oon Lee, Michael S. Feld, Ramachandra R. Dasari, and YongKeun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 153902 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

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Sound and Light from Fractures in Scintillators

A. Tantot, S. Santucci, O. Ramos, S. Deschanel, M.-A. Verdier, E. Mony, Y. Wei, S. Ciliberto, L. Vanel, and P. C. F. Di Stefano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 154301 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Viscous Control of Peeling an Elastic Sheet by Bending and Pulling

John R. Lister, Gunnar G. Peng, and Jerome A. Neufeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 154501 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Stabilization of Tokamak Microturbulence by Fast Ions

J. Citrin, F. Jenko, P. Mantica, D. Told, C. Bourdelle, J. Garcia, J. W. Haverkort, G. M. D. Hogeweij, T. Johnson, and M. J. Pueschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155001 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Magnetoplasmons in Rotating Dusty Plasmas

Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó, Torben Ott, Hanno Kählert, and Michael Bonitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155002 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

$K$ -Shell Photoabsorption Edge of Strongly Coupled Matter Driven by Laser-Converted Radiation

Yang Zhao (赵阳), Jiamin Yang (杨家敏), Jiyan Zhang (张继彦), Guohong Yang (杨国洪), Minxi Wei (韦敏习), Gang Xiong (熊刚), Tianming Song (宋天明), Zhiyu Zhang (张志宇), Lihua Bao (鲍利华), Bo Deng (邓博), Yukun Li (黎宇坤), Xiaoan He (何小安), Chaoguang Li (李朝光), Yu Mei (梅雨), Ruizhen Yu (于瑞珍), Shaoen Jiang (江少恩), Shenye Liu (刘慎业), Yongkun Ding (丁永坤), and Baohan Zhang (张保汉)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155003 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Two-Pulse Ionization Injection into Quasilinear Laser Wakefields

N. Bourgeois, J. Cowley, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155004 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

Rotating Instability in Low-Temperature Magnetized Plasmas

Jean-Pierre Boeuf and Bhaskar Chaudhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155005 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Feshbach Resonance without a Closed-Channel Bound State

Y. Avishai, Y. B. Band, and M. Trippenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155301 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

Amorphization Driven by Defect-Induced Mechanical Instability

Chao Jiang, Ming-Jie Zheng, Dane Morgan, and Izabela Szlufarska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155501 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Universal Medium-Range Order of Amorphous Metal Oxides

Kengo Nishio, Takehide Miyazaki, and Hisao Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155502 (2013) - Published 9 October, 2013

Signatures of a Pressure-Induced Topological Quantum Phase Transition in BiTeI

Xiaoxiang Xi, Chunli Ma, Zhenxian Liu, Zhiqiang Chen, Wei Ku, H. Berger, C. Martin, D. B. Tanner, and G. L. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 155701 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Synthesis-Dependent Atomic Surface Structures of Oxide Nanoparticles

Yuyuan Lin, Jianguo Wen, Linhua Hu, Robert M. Kennedy, Peter C. Stair, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, and Laurence D. Marks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 156101 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Transverse Spin-Gradient Functional for Noncollinear Spin-Density-Functional Theory

F. G. Eich and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 156401 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Interface-Induced Topological Insulator Transition in $GaAs / Ge / GaAs$ Quantum Wells

Dong Zhang, Wenkai Lou, Maosheng Miao, Shou-cheng Zhang, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 156402 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

Structural Transition in Atomic Chains Driven by Transient Doping

S. Polei, P. C. Snijders, S. C. Erwin, F. J. Himpsel, K-H. Meiwes-Broer, and I. Barke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 156801 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Stripe Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations in ${SrCo}_{2} {As}_{2}$

W. Jayasekara, Y. Lee, Abhishek Pandey, G. S. Tucker, A. Sapkota, J. Lamsal, S. Calder, D. L. Abernathy, J. L. Niedziela, B. N. Harmon, A. Kreyssig, D. Vaknin, D. C. Johnston, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157001 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

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Discovery of a Superhard Iron Tetraboride Superconductor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157002 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Formation of Gapless Fermi Arcs and Fingerprints of Order in the Pseudogap State of Cuprate Superconductors

Takeshi Kondo, Ari D. Palczewski, Yoichiro Hamaya, Tsunehiro Takeuchi, J. S. Wen, Z. J. Xu, Genda Gu, and Adam Kaminski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157003 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Singularity of the London Penetration Depth at Quantum Critical Points in Superconductors

Debanjan Chowdhury, Brian Swingle, Erez Berg, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157004 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Emergent Spin Excitations in a Bethe Lattice at Percolation

Hitesh J. Changlani, Shivam Ghosh, Sumiran Pujari, and Christopher L. Henley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157201 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Orbital Order and Hund’s Rule Frustration in Kondo Lattices

L. Isaev, K. Aoyama, I. Paul, and I. Vekhter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157202 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Theory of a Competitive Spin Liquid State for Weak Mott Insulators on the Triangular Lattice

Ryan V. Mishmash, James R. Garrison, Samuel Bieri, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157203 (2013) - Published 7 October, 2013

Spin Excitations of Individual Fe Atoms on Pt(111): Impact of the Site-Dependent Giant Substrate Polarization

A. A. Khajetoorians, T. Schlenk, B. Schweflinghaus, M. dos Santos Dias, M. Steinbrecher, M. Bouhassoune, S. Lounis, J. Wiebe, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157204 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Elemental Topological Insulator with Tunable Fermi Level: Strained $α$ -Sn on InSb(001)

A. Barfuss, L. Dudy, M. R. Scholz, H. Roth, P. Höpfner, C. Blumenstein, G. Landolt, J. H. Dil, N. C. Plumb, M. Radovic, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, A. Fleszar, G. Bihlmayer, D. Wortmann, G. Li, W. Hanke, R. Claessen, and J. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157205 (2013) - Published 11 October, 2013

First-Principles Method of Propagation of Tightly Bound Excitons: Verifying the Exciton Band Structure of LiF with Inelastic x-Ray Scattering

Chi-Cheng Lee (李啟正), Xiaoqian M. Chen (陈小千), Yu Gan (干禹), Chen-Lin Yeh (葉承霖), H. C. Hsueh (薛宏中), Peter Abbamonte, and Wei Ku (顧威)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157401 (2013) - Published 8 October, 2013

Proposed Rabi-Kondo Correlated State in a Laser-Driven Semiconductor Quantum Dot

B. Sbierski, M. Hanl, A. Weichselbaum, H. E. Türeci, M. Goldstein, L. I. Glazman, J. von Delft, and A. İmamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157402 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013

Hyperfine Splitting and Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism of Ni at Multimegabar Pressure

I. Sergueev, L. Dubrovinsky, M. Ekholm, O. Yu. Vekilova, A. I. Chumakov, M. Zając, V. Potapkin, I. Kantor, S. Bornemann, H. Ebert, S. I. Simak, I. A. Abrikosov, and R. Rüffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157601 (2013) - Published 10 October, 2013