Volume 111, Issue 22

27 November 2013

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Simulation of a liquid crystal droplet with an adsorbed nanoparticle (top). Plot of the order parameter and field lines within the droplet (bottom). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Nematic-Field-Driven Positioning of Particles in Liquid Crystal Droplets
Jonathan K. Whitmer, Xiaoguang Wang, Frederic Mondiot, Daniel S. Miller, Nicholas L. Abbott, and Juan J. de Pablo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227801 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Determination of the Neutron Lifetime

A. T. Yue, M. S. Dewey, D. M. Gilliam, G. L. Greene, A. B. Laptev, J. S. Nico, W. M. Snow, and F. E. Wietfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 222501 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cooperativity and the Freezing of Molecular Motion at the Glass Transition

Th. Bauer, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225702 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Computing the Length of the Shortest Telomere in the Nucleus

K. Dao Duc and D. Holcman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228104 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of a Nonmagnetic Collapsed Tetragonal Phase in Nonsuperconducting ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Evidence of the Impact of Spin Fluctuations on Superconductivity in the Iron-Arsenide Compounds

J. H. Soh, G. S. Tucker, D. K. Pratt, D. L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, S. Ran, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, A. Kreyssig, R. J. McQueeney, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227002 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nematic-Field-Driven Positioning of Particles in Liquid Crystal Droplets

Jonathan K. Whitmer, Xiaoguang Wang, Frederic Mondiot, Daniel S. Miller, Nicholas L. Abbott, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227801 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Stop-and-Go Dynamics of Active Bacteria Swarms

Daniel Svenšek, Harald Pleiner, and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228101 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Colloidal Rotors

Jurij Kotar, Luke Debono, Nicolas Bruot, Stuart Box, David Phillips, Stephen Simpson, Simon Hanna, and Pietro Cicuta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228103 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

LETTERS

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

Enhancing the Thermal Stability of Majorana Fermions with Redundancy Using Dipoles in Optical Lattices

Fei Lin and V. W. Scarola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220401 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Topological Entanglement Entropy with a Twist

Benjamin J. Brown, Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrew C. Doherty, and Sean D. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220402 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Observation of Surface States with Algebraic Localization

G. Corrielli, G. Della Valle, A. Crespi, R. Osellame, and S. Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220403 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

What Does One Measure When One Measures the Arrival Time of a Quantum Particle?

Nicola Vona, Günter Hinrichs, and Detlef Dürr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220404 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Impurity Problem in a Bilayer System of Dipoles

N. Matveeva and S. Giorgini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220405 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Geometric Phase Effects in Dynamics Near Conical Intersections: Symmetry Breaking and Spatial Localization

Ilya G. Ryabinkin and Artur F. Izmaylov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220406 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Effects of Berry Curvature on the Collective Modes of Ultracold Gases

Hannah M. Price and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220407 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Cavity-Mediated Near-Critical Dissipative Dynamics of a Driven Condensate

Manas Kulkarni, Baris Öztop, and Hakan E. Türeci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220408 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Experimental Detection of Quantum Channels

Adeline Orieux, Linda Sansoni, Mauro Persechino, Paolo Mataloni, Matteo Rossi, and Chiara Macchiavello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 220501 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Localization of Negative Energy and the Bekenstein Bound

David D. Blanco and Horacio Casini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221601 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Phenomenological Characterization of Semiholographic Non-Fermi Liquids

Ayan Mukhopadhyay and Giuseppe Policastro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221602 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Search for Top Squarks in $R$ -Parity-Violating Supersymmetry Using Three or More Leptons and $b$ -Tagged Jets

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221801 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Impact of Nuclear Effects on the Extraction of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters

P. Coloma and P. Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221802 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Searching for Light Dark Matter with the SLAC Millicharge Experiment

M. Diamond and P. Schuster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221803 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Constraints on New Physics from Baryogenesis and Large Hadron Collider Data

Poul H. Damgaard, Donal O’Connell, Troels C. Petersen, and Anders Tranberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221804 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

$D_{s 0}^{*} (2317)$ Meson and $D$ -Meson-Kaon Scattering from Lattice QCD

Daniel Mohler, C. B. Lang, Luka Leskovec, Sasa Prelovsek, and R. M. Woloshyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 222001 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Precise QCD Predictions for the Production of a Photon Pair in Association with Two Jets

T. Gehrmann, N. Greiner, and G. Heinrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 222002 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Nuclear Physics

$K_{S}^{0}$ and $Λ$ Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

B. Abelev et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 222301 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Fully Dynamical Simulation of Central Nuclear Collisions

Wilke van der Schee, Paul Romatschke, and Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 222302 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Determination of the Neutron Lifetime

A. T. Yue, M. S. Dewey, D. M. Gilliam, G. L. Greene, A. B. Laptev, J. S. Nico, W. M. Snow, and F. E. Wietfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 222501 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spatial Domain Interactions between Ultraweak Optical Beams

Utsab Khadka, Jiteng Sheng, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 223601 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Analytic Properties of Two-Photon Scattering Matrix in Integrated Quantum Systems Determined by the Cluster Decomposition Principle

Shanshan Xu, Eden Rephaeli, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 223602 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Goos-Hänchen Shifts of Partially Coherent Light Fields

Li-Gang Wang, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 223901 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Clash of Kinks: Phase Shifts in Colliding Nonintegrable Solitons

Mustafa A. Amin, Eugene A. Lim, and I-Sheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 224101 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Femtosecond 240-keV Electron Pulses from Direct Laser Acceleration in a Low-Density Gas

Vincent Marceau, Charles Varin, Thomas Brabec, and Michel Piché

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 224801 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Strongly Reduced Penetration of Atomic Deuterium in Radiation-Damaged Tungsten

M. H. J. ’t Hoen, M. Mayer, A. W. Kleyn, and P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225001 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Filamentation Instability of Counterstreaming Laser-Driven Plasmas

W. Fox, G. Fiksel, A. Bhattacharjee, P.-Y. Chang, K. Germaschewski, S. X. Hu, and P. M. Nilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225002 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spin-Orbit Coupling and Quantum Spin Hall Effect for Neutral Atoms without Spin Flips

Colin J. Kennedy, Georgios A. Siviloglou, Hirokazu Miyake, William Cody Burton, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225301 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Liquid Phase Stability Under an Extreme Temperature Gradient

Zhi Liang, Kiran Sasikumar, and Pawel Keblinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225701 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cooperativity and the Freezing of Molecular Motion at the Glass Transition

Th. Bauer, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225702 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

High Pressure as a Key Factor to Identify the Conductivity Mechanism in Protic Ionic Liquids

Z. Wojnarowska, Y. Wang, J. Pionteck, K. Grzybowska, A. P. Sokolov, and M. Paluch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225703 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Thermal Boundary Resistance between GaN and Cubic Ice and THz Acoustic Attenuation Spectrum of Cubic Ice from Complex Acoustic Impedance Measurements

Pierre-Adrien Mante, Chien-Cheng Chen, Yu-Chieh Wen, Jinn-Kong Sheu, and Chi-Kuang Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 225901 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Wetting Transition in Water

S. R. Friedman, M. Khalil, and P. Taborek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226101 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Force of Adhesion Upon Loss of Contact Angle Hysteresis: When a Liquid Behaves Like a Solid

Juan V. Escobar and Rolando Castillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226102 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect in a Two-Dimensional Quasicrystal

Yaacov E. Kraus, Zohar Ringel, and Oded Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226401 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Algebra of Majorana Doubling

Jaehoon Lee and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226402 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Cubic Topological Kondo Insulators

Victor Alexandrov, Maxim Dzero, and Piers Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226403 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Cooper Pairs Spintronics in Triplet Spin Valves

F. Romeo and R. Citro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226801 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Space-Charge Transfer in Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Systems

Yong Xu, Oliver T. Hofmann, Raphael Schlesinger, Stefanie Winkler, Johannes Frisch, Jens Niederhausen, Antje Vollmer, Sylke Blumstengel, Fritz Henneberger, Norbert Koch, Patrick Rinke, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 226802 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Measurement of Unique Magnetic and Superconducting Phases in Oxygen-Doped High-Temperature Superconductors ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4 + y}$

L. Udby, J. Larsen, N. B. Christensen, M. Boehm, Ch. Niedermayer, H. E. Mohottala, T. B. S. Jensen, R. Toft-Petersen, F. C. Chou, N. H. Andersen, K. Lefmann, and B. O. Wells

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227001 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of a Nonmagnetic Collapsed Tetragonal Phase in Nonsuperconducting ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Evidence of the Impact of Spin Fluctuations on Superconductivity in the Iron-Arsenide Compounds

J. H. Soh, G. S. Tucker, D. K. Pratt, D. L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, S. Ran, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, A. Kreyssig, R. J. McQueeney, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227002 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Electric Field Control of Terahertz Polarization in a Multiferroic Manganite with Electromagnons

A. Shuvaev, V. Dziom, Anna Pimenov, M. Schiebl, A. A. Mukhin, A. C. Komarek, T. Finger, M. Braden, and A. Pimenov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227201 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

BZT: A Soft Pseudospin Glass

David Sherrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227601 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Mechanical Spin Control of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

E. R. MacQuarrie, T. A. Gosavi, N. R. Jungwirth, S. A. Bhave, and G. D. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227602 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nematic-Field-Driven Positioning of Particles in Liquid Crystal Droplets

Jonathan K. Whitmer, Xiaoguang Wang, Frederic Mondiot, Daniel S. Miller, Nicholas L. Abbott, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 227801 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Stop-and-Go Dynamics of Active Bacteria Swarms

Daniel Svenšek, Harald Pleiner, and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228101 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Amoeboid Swimming: A Generic Self-Propulsion of Cells in Fluids by Means of Membrane Deformations

Alexander Farutin, Salima Rafaï, Dag Kristian Dysthe, Alain Duperray, Philippe Peyla, and Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228102 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Colloidal Rotors

Jurij Kotar, Luke Debono, Nicolas Bruot, Stuart Box, David Phillips, Stephen Simpson, Simon Hanna, and Pietro Cicuta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228103 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Computing the Length of the Shortest Telomere in the Nucleus

K. Dao Duc and D. Holcman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228104 (2013) - Published 27 November, 2013

Activation Energy for Mobility of Dyes and Proteins in Polymer Solutions: From Diffusion of Single Particles to Macroscale Flow

Krzysztof Sozański, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, Tomasz Kalwarczyk, and Robert Hołyst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 228301 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

COMMENTS

Comment on “Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields”

Ruth Durrer, Giovanni Marozzi, and Massimiliano Rinaldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 229001 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Campanelli Replies:

Leonardo Campanelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 229002 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

ERRATA

Erratum: Nonlocal Memory Effects in the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210402 (2012)]

Elsi-Mari Laine, Heinz-Peter Breuer, Jyrki Piilo, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 229901 (2013) - Published 25 November, 2013

Publisher’s Note: Eddy Viscosity in Dense Granular Flows [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 058002 (2013)]

T. Miller, P. Rognon, B. Metzger, and I. Einav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 229902 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013

Erratum: Theoretical Approach to Microwave-Radiation-Induced Zero-Resistance States in 2D Electron Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 016806 (2005)]

J. Iñarrea and G. Platero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 229903 (2013) - Published 26 November, 2013