Volume 111, Issue 2

12 July 2013

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Observation of a high-energy particle shower event from August 2011, identified as a PeV-energy neutrino. Each sphere represents a digital optical module sensor in the IceCube detector. Sphere size is a measure of the recorded number of photoelectrons. Colors represent arrival times of photons (red, early; blue, late). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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First Observation of PeV-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube
M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021103 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Observation of PeV-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021103 (2013) - Published 8 July, 2013

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First-Principles Determination of Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of Boron Arsenide: A Competitor for Diamond?

L. Lindsay, D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025901 (2013) - Published 8 July, 2013

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Electrical Excitation of Surface Plasmons by an Individual Carbon Nanotube Transistor

P. Rai, N. Hartmann, J. Berthelot, J. Arocas, G. Colas des Francs, A. Hartschuh, and A. Bouhelier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026804 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

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Effective Field Theory Approach to Gravitationally Induced Decoherence

M. P. Blencowe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021302 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

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How Stable is the Photon?

Julian Heeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021801 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

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Chronotaxic Systems: A New Class of Self-Sustained Nonautonomous Oscillators

Yevhen F. Suprunenko, Philip T. Clemson, and Aneta Stefanovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024101 (2013) - Published 8 July, 2013

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Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data

E. Aprile et al. (XENON100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021301 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

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Pump-Controlled Directional Light Emission from Random Lasers

Thomas Hisch, Matthias Liertzer, Dionyz Pogany, Florian Mintert, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023902 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

LETTERS

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

Scalable Reconstruction of Density Matrices

T. Baumgratz, D. Gross, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020401 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Particles, Holes, and Solitons: A Matrix Product State Approach

Damian Draxler, Jutho Haegeman, Tobias J. Osborne, Vid Stojevic, Laurens Vanderstraeten, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020402 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Bounding Temporal Quantum Correlations

Costantino Budroni, Tobias Moroder, Matthias Kleinmann, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020403 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Quantum Teleportation of Dynamics and Effective Interactions between Remote Systems

Christine A. Muschik, Klemens Hammerer, Eugene S. Polzik, and Ignacio J. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020501 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Secure Entanglement Distillation for Double-Server Blind Quantum Computation

Tomoyuki Morimae and Keisuke Fujii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020502 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Faithful Solid State Optical Memory with Dynamically Decoupled Spin Wave Storage

Marko Lovrić, Dieter Suter, Alban Ferrier, and Philippe Goldner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020503 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Quantum Frameness for $C P T$ Symmetry

Michael Skotiniotis, Borzu Toloui, Ian T. Durham, and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020504 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Nonadditivity in Quasiequilibrium States of Spin Systems with Lattice Distortion

Takashi Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020601 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observables of a Test Mass along an Inclined Orbit in a Post-Newtonian-Approximated Kerr Spacetime Including the Linear and Quadratic Spin Terms

Steven Hergt, Abhay Shah, and Gerhard Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021101 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Three-Dimensional Model of Cosmic-Ray Lepton Propagation Reproduces Data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Daniele Gaggero, Luca Maccione, Giuseppe Di Bernardo, Carmelo Evoli, and Dario Grasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021102 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Observation of PeV-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021103 (2013) - Published 8 July, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data

E. Aprile et al. (XENON100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021301 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Effective Field Theory Approach to Gravitationally Induced Decoherence

M. P. Blencowe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021302 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Massive Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

Haruki Watanabe, Tomáš Brauner, and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021601 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

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How Stable is the Photon?

Julian Heeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021801 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Strong Coupling and Bounds on the Spin-2 Mass in Massive Gravity

Clare Burrage, Nemanja Kaloper, and Antonio Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 021802 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Using Low-Energy Neutrinos from Pion Decay at Rest to Probe the Proton Strangeness

G. Pagliaroli, C. Lujan-Peschard, M. Mitra, and F. Vissani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 022001 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at $E_{ν} \sim 3.5 GeV$

L. Fields et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 022501 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at $E_{ν} \sim 3.5 GeV$

G. A. Fiorentini et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 022502 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Fragment-Based Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Martín A. Mosquera, Daniel Jensen, and Adam Wasserman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023001 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Electron-Nuclear Energy Sharing in Above-Threshold Multiphoton Dissociative Ionization of $H_{2}$

J. Wu, M. Kunitski, M. Pitzer, F. Trinter, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, M. Magrakvelidze, C. B. Madsen, L. B. Madsen, U. Thumm, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023002 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Atom Loss Resonances in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Christian Langmack, D. Hudson Smith, and Eric Braaten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023003 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Precision Measurement Method for Branching Fractions of Excited $P_{1 / 2}$ States Applied to ${}^{40}{Ca}^{+}$

Michael Ramm, Thaned Pruttivarasin, Mark Kokish, Ishan Talukdar, and Hartmut Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023004 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Trajectory-Resolved Coulomb Focusing in Tunnel Ionization of Atoms with Intense, Elliptically Polarized Laser Pulses

D. Shafir, H. Soifer, C. Vozzi, A. S. Johnson, A. Hartung, Z. Dube, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, N. Dudovich, and A. Staudte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023005 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Subcycle Dynamics of Coulomb Asymmetry in Strong Elliptical Laser Fields

Min Li, Yunquan Liu, Hong Liu, Qicheng Ning, Libin Fu, Jie Liu, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Liang-You Peng, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023006 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

High-Precision Spectroscopy with Counterpropagating Femtosecond Pulses

Itan Barmes, Stefan Witte, and Kjeld S. E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023007 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Sensitive Chiral Analysis via Microwave Three-Wave Mixing

David Patterson and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023008 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

Attractive Optical Forces from Blackbody Radiation

M. Sonnleitner, M. Ritsch-Marte, and H. Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023601 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Quantum Nonreciprocity of Nanoscale Antenna Arrays in Timed Dicke States

Gregory Y. Slepyan and Amir Boag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023602 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Compact Engineering of Path-Entangled Sources from a Monolithic Quadratic Nonlinear Photonic Crystal

H. Jin, P. Xu, X. W. Luo, H. Y. Leng, Y. X. Gong, W. J. Yu, M. L. Zhong, G. Zhao, and S. N. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023603 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

Demonstration of Weak Measurement Based on Atomic Spontaneous Emission

Itay Shomroni, Orel Bechler, Serge Rosenblum, and Barak Dayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023604 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Self-Focusing of Ultraintense Femtosecond Optical Vortices in Air

P. Polynkin, C. Ament, and J. V. Moloney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023901 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pump-Controlled Directional Light Emission from Random Lasers

Thomas Hisch, Matthias Liertzer, Dionyz Pogany, Florian Mintert, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023902 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Chronotaxic Systems: A New Class of Self-Sustained Nonautonomous Oscillators

Yevhen F. Suprunenko, Philip T. Clemson, and Aneta Stefanovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024101 (2013) - Published 8 July, 2013

Optimal Waveform for Fast Entrainment of Weakly Forced Nonlinear Oscillators

Anatoly Zlotnik, Yifei Chen, István Z. Kiss, Hisa-Aki Tanaka, and Jr-Shin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024102 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Transition from Amplitude to Oscillation Death via Turing Bifurcation

Aneta Koseska, Evgenii Volkov, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024103 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Thermalization via Heat Radiation of an Individual Object Thinner than the Thermal Wavelength

C. Wuttke and A. Rauschenbeutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024301 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Highly Anisotropic Elements for Acoustic Pentamode Applications

Christopher N. Layman, Christina J. Naify, Theodore P. Martin, David C. Calvo, and Gregory J. Orris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024302 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Elastic Energy Flux by Flexible Polymers in Fluid Turbulence

Heng-Dong Xi, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Haitao Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 024501 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Raman Backscatter as a Remote Laser Power Sensor in High-Energy-Density Plasmas

J. D. Moody, D. J. Strozzi, L. Divol, P. Michel, H. F. Robey, S. LePape, J. Ralph, J. S. Ross, S. H. Glenzer, R. K. Kirkwood, O. L. Landen, B. J. MacGowan, A. Nikroo, and E. A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025001 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Fast Collisionless Reconnection and Electron Heating in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

N. F. Loureiro, A. A. Schekochihin, and A. Zocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025002 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Spin-1 Thermal Bose Gas

H. K. Pechkis, J. P. Wrubel, A. Schwettmann, P. F. Griffin, R. Barnett, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025301 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Energy and Contact of the One-Dimensional Fermi Polaron at Zero and Finite Temperature

E. V. H. Doggen and J. J. Kinnunen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025302 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Universal Damping Behavior of Dipole Oscillations of One-Dimensional Ultracold Gases Induced by Quantum Phase Slips

Ippei Danshita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025303 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Disclination Classes, Fractional Excitations, and the Melting of Quantum Liquid Crystals

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Jeffrey C. Y. Teo, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025304 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Counting Elementary Charges on Nanoparticles by Electron Holography

C. Gatel, A. Lubk, G. Pozzi, E. Snoeck, and M. Hÿtch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025501 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Mg Doping Affects Dislocation Core Structures in GaN

S. K. Rhode, M. K. Horton, M. J. Kappers, S. Zhang, C. J. Humphreys, R. O. Dusane, S. -L. Sahonta, and M. A. Moram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025502 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Role of Dynamical Instability in the Ab Initio Phase Diagram of Calcium

Marco Di Gennaro, Srijan Kumar Saha, and Matthieu J. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025503 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Low-Temperature Criticality of Martensitic Transformations of Cu Nanoprecipitates in $α$ -Fe

Paul Erhart and Babak Sadigh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025701 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Determination of Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of Boron Arsenide: A Competitor for Diamond?

L. Lindsay, D. A. Broido, and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 025901 (2013) - Published 8 July, 2013

Direct Measurement of Friction of a Fluctuating Contact Line

Shuo Guo, Min Gao, Xiaomin Xiong, Yong Jian Wang, Xiaoping Wang, Ping Sheng, and Penger Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026101 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Itinerant Versus Localized Heavy-Electron Magnetism

Shintaro Hoshino and Yoshio Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026401 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Observation of Excitonic $N$ -Body Bound States: Polyexcitons in Diamond

J. Omachi, T. Suzuki, K. Kato, N. Naka, K. Yoshioka, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026402 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Excitation-Induced Dephasing in a Resonantly Driven $InAs / GaAs$ Quantum Dot

Léonard Monniello, Catherine Tonin, Richard Hostein, Aristide Lemaitre, Anthony Martinez, Valia Voliotis, and Roger Grousson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026403 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Second Thresholds in BEC-BCS-Laser Crossover of Exciton-Polariton Systems

Makoto Yamaguchi, Kenji Kamide, Ryota Nii, Tetsuo Ogawa, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026404 (2013) - Published 12 July, 2013

Transport Theory of Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides through Symmetry

Yang Song and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026601 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Magnetoresistance of an Anderson Insulator of Bosons

Anirban Gangopadhyay, Victor Galitski, and Markus Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026801 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Topological Charge Pumping in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Lei Wang, Matthias Troyer, and Xi Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026802 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Tailoring Magnetic Dipole Emission with Plasmonic Split-Ring Resonators

Sven M. Hein and Harald Giessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026803 (2013) - Published 10 July, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Electrical Excitation of Surface Plasmons by an Individual Carbon Nanotube Transistor

P. Rai, N. Hartmann, J. Berthelot, J. Arocas, G. Colas des Francs, A. Hartschuh, and A. Bouhelier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 026804 (2013) - Published 11 July, 2013

Phonon Bottleneck in Graphene-Based Josephson Junctions at Millikelvin Temperatures

I. V. Borzenets, U. C. Coskun, H. T. Mebrahtu, Yu. V. Bomze, A. I. Smirnov, and G. Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 027001 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Evidence of Strong Correlations and Coherence-Incoherence Crossover in the Iron Pnictide Superconductor ${KFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

F. Hardy, A. E. Böhmer, D. Aoki, P. Burger, T. Wolf, P. Schweiss, R. Heid, P. Adelmann, Y. X. Yao, G. Kotliar, J. Schmalian, and C. Meingast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 027002 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Electromagnetic Response of Weyl Semimetals

M. M. Vazifeh and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 027201 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Bond Order in Two-Dimensional Metals with Antiferromagnetic Exchange Interactions

Subir Sachdev and Rolando La Placa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 027202 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013

Ferromagnetic Interfacial Interaction and the Proximity Effect in a ${Co}_{2} FeAl / (Ga, Mn) As$ Bilayer

S. H. Nie, Y. Y. Chin, W. Q. Liu, J. C. Tung, J. Lu, H. J. Lin, G. Y. Guo, K. K. Meng, L. Chen, L. J. Zhu, D. Pan, C. T. Chen, Y. B. Xu, W. S. Yan, and J. H. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 027203 (2013) - Published 9 July, 2013