Volume 112, Issue 11

21 March 2014

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Vorticity in a homogeneous baroclinic flow.

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Cross-helicity in Rotating Homogeneous Shear-Stratified Turbulence
A. B. Pieri, F. S. Godeferd, C. Cambon, B. Dubrulle, and S. Thalabard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114501 (2014)

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Signatures of $α$ Clustering in Light Nuclei from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Wojciech Broniowski and Enrique Ruiz Arriola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112501 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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Towards a Metallurgy of Neutron Star Crusts

D. Kobyakov and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112504 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

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Direct Observation, Study, and Control of Molecular Superrotors

Aleksey Korobenko, Alexander A. Milner, and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113004 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

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Observation and Control of Shock Waves in Individual Nanoplasmas

Daniel D. Hickstein, Franklin Dollar, Jim A. Gaffney, Mark E. Foord, George M. Petrov, Brett B. Palm, K. Ellen Keister, Jennifer L. Ellis, Chengyuan Ding, Stephen B. Libby, Jose L. Jimenez, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, and Wei Xiong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115004 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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Tuning Ideal Tensile Strengths and Intrinsic Ductility of bcc Refractory Alloys

Liang Qi and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115503 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

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Observation of Orbital Resonance Hall Effect in ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {ClO}_{4}$

Kaya Kobayashi, H. Satsukawa, J. Yamada, T. Terashima, and S. Uji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116805 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

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Radio-Wave Oscillations of Molecular-Chain Resonators

Stefan Müllegger, Mohammad Rashidi, Karlheinz Mayr, Michael Fattinger, Andreas Ney, and Reinhold Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117201 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

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Determination of $| V_{u s} |$ from a Lattice QCD Calculation of the $K \to π ℓ ν$ Semileptonic Form Factor with Physical Quark Masses

A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, C. M. Bouchard, C. DeTar, Daping Du, A. X. El-Khadra, J. Foley, E. D. Freeland, E. Gámiz, Steven Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, Jongjeong Kim, A. S. Kronfeld, J. Laiho, L. Levkova, P. B. Mackenzie, E. T. Neil, M. B. Oktay, Si-Wei Qiu, J. N. Simone, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, R. S. Van de Water, and Ran Zhou (Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112001 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Simulations of up-strange quark mixing using physical quark masses leads to the most precise constraints on quark flavor-changing interactions to date.

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Irregular Shapes of Water Clusters Generated in Supersonic Expansions

J. Lengyel, A. Pysanenko, V. Poterya, P. Slavíček, M. Fárník, J. Kočišek, and J. Fedor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113401 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Water vapor expanding through a nozzle produces clusters of 50-600 molecules with surprisingly irregular shapes.

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Collective Effects in Vortex Movements in Complex Plasmas

Mierk Schwabe, Sergey Zhdanov, Christoph Räth, David B. Graves, Hubertus M. Thomas, and Gregor E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115002 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Classical turbulence is observed numerically in vortex-induced flow of dusty plasmas.

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Geometric Signatures of Jamming in the Mechanical Vacuum

Peter K. Morse and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115701 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

The peculiar nature of jamming in particulate media can be characterized by purely geometric means both below and above the jamming transition.

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Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Graphene Proximity Coupled to an Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Zhenhua Qiao, Wei Ren, Hua Chen, L. Bellaiche, Zhenyu Zhang, A. H. MacDonald, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116404 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Simulations show that when graphene is deposited on a room-temperature mutiferrroic, an interesting and topologically nontrivial band gap opens up, leading to a quantum anomalous Hall phase.

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Observation of Quantum Jumps of a Single Quantum Dot Spin Using Submicrosecond Single-Shot Optical Readout

Aymeric Delteil, Wei-bo Gao, Parisa Fallahi, Javier Miguel-Sanchez, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116802 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Using an all-optical technique, researchers have decreased the time required to make a single-shot read-out of the spin state of an electron on a quantum dot by almost three orders of magnitude.

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Hydrodynamics Determines Collective Motion and Phase Behavior of Active Colloids in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Confinement

Andreas Zöttl and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 118101 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

The collective motion of microorganisms can be strongly influencedby the flow pattern created by an individual micro-swimmer.

LETTERS

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

Non-Markovian Dynamical Maps: Numerical Processing of Open Quantum Trajectories

Javier Cerrillo and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110401 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Two-Body and Three-Body Contacts for Identical Bosons near Unitarity

D. Hudson Smith, Eric Braaten, Daekyoung Kang, and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110402 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Thermometry of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices via Artificial Gauge Fields

Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110403 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Emergent Kinetics and Fractionalized Charge in 1D Spin-Orbit Coupled Flatband Optical Lattices

Fei Lin, Chuanwei Zhang, and V. W. Scarola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110404 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Testing Bell’s Inequality with Cosmic Photons: Closing the Setting-Independence Loophole

Jason Gallicchio, Andrew S. Friedman, and David I. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110405 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics and Quantum Entanglement in Optomechanical Systems

Guanglei Wang, Liang Huang, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Celso Grebogi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110406 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Classical Field Approach to Quantum Weak Measurements

Justin Dressel, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110407 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

High-Fidelity Cluster State Generation for Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Kensuke Inaba, Yuuki Tokunaga, Kiyoshi Tamaki, Kazuhiro Igeta, and Makoto Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110501 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Bound Entangled States with a Private Key and their Classical Counterpart

Maris Ozols, Graeme Smith, and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110502 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Non-Normalizable Densities in Strong Anomalous Diffusion: Beyond the Central Limit Theorem

Adi Rebenshtok, Sergey Denisov, Peter Hänggi, and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110601 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Strong Anderson Localization in Cold Atom Quantum Quenches

T. Micklitz, C. A. Müller, and A. Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110602 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

New Limit on Lorentz-Invariance- and $C P T$ -Violating Neutron Spin Interactions Using a Free-Spin-Precession ${}^{3}{He}$ - ${}^{129}{Xe}$ Comagnetometer

F. Allmendinger, W. Heil, S. Karpuk, W. Kilian, A. Scharth, U. Schmidt, A. Schnabel, Yu. Sobolev, and K. Tullney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110801 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Effective Helium Burning Rates and the Production of the Neutrino Nuclei

Sam M. Austin, Christopher West, and Alexander Heger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111101 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Conformal Gravity Holography in Four Dimensions

Daniel Grumiller, Maria Irakleidou, Iva Lovrekovic, and Robert McNees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111102 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance Violation of Gravity in the Standard Model Extension with Pulsars

Lijing Shao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111103 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Two-Color Gauge Theory with Novel Infrared Behavior

T. Appelquist, R. C. Brower, M. I. Buchoff, M. Cheng, G. T. Fleming, J. Kiskis, M. F. Lin, E. T. Neil, J. C. Osborn, C. Rebbi, D. Schaich, C. Schroeder, S. Syritsyn, G. Voronov, P. Vranas, and O. Witzel (Lattice Strong Dynamics (LSD) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111601 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Quantum Entanglement of Local Operators in Conformal Field Theories

Masahiro Nozaki, Tokiro Numasawa, and Tadashi Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111602 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Observation of $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions

B. R. Ko et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111801 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Measurement of the ${\bar{B}}_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} D_{s}^{+}$ and ${\bar{B}}_{s}^{0} \to D^{-} D_{s}^{+}$ Effective Lifetimes

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111802 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

First Search for Exotic $Z$ Boson Decays into Photons and Neutral Pions in Hadron Collisions

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111803 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Measurement of the Direct $C P$ -violating Charge Asymmetry in $D_{s}^{\pm} \to ϕ π^{\pm}$ Decays

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 111804 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

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Determination of $| V_{u s} |$ from a Lattice QCD Calculation of the $K \to π ℓ ν$ Semileptonic Form Factor with Physical Quark Masses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112001 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Simulations of up-strange quark mixing using physical quark masses leads to the most precise constraints on quark flavor-changing interactions to date.

Nuclear Physics

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Signatures of $α$ Clustering in Light Nuclei from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Wojciech Broniowski and Enrique Ruiz Arriola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112501 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Observation of Low- and High-Energy Gamow-Teller Phonon Excitations in Nuclei

Y. Fujita et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112502 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Nuclear Structure Towards $N = 40$ ${}^{60}{Ca}$ : In-Beam $γ$ -Ray Spectroscopy of ${}^{58, 60}{Ti}$

A. Gade et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112503 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

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Towards a Metallurgy of Neutron Star Crusts

D. Kobyakov and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 112504 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong-Field Kapitza-Dirac Scattering of Neutral Atoms

S. Eilzer, H. Zimmermann, and U. Eichmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113001 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Classical-Quantum Correspondence for Above-Threshold Ionization

Min Li, Ji-Wei Geng, Hong Liu, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113002 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Decoherence-Assisted Spectroscopy of a Single ${Mg}^{+}$ Ion

G. Clos, M. Enderlein, U. Warring, T. Schaetz, and D. Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113003 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

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Direct Observation, Study, and Control of Molecular Superrotors

Aleksey Korobenko, Alexander A. Milner, and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113004 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Transition between Mechanisms of Laser-Induced Field-Free Molecular Orientation

I. Znakovskaya, M. Spanner, S. De, H. Li, D. Ray, P. Corkum, I. V. Litvinyuk, C. L. Cocke, and M. F. Kling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113005 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Magnetic Trapping of Molecules via Optical Loading and Magnetic Slowing

Hsin-I Lu, Ivan Kozyryev, Boerge Hemmerling, Julia Piskorski, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113006 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectra of ${CS}_{2}$ : Dynamics at Conical Intersections

Kwanghsi Wang, Vincent McKoy, Paul Hockett, and Michael S. Schuurman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113007 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Controlling Magnetic Feshbach Resonances in Polar Open-Shell Molecules with Nonresonant Light

Michał Tomza, Rosario González-Férez, Christiane P. Koch, and Robert Moszynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113201 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

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Irregular Shapes of Water Clusters Generated in Supersonic Expansions

J. Lengyel, A. Pysanenko, V. Poterya, P. Slavíček, M. Fárník, J. Kočišek, and J. Fedor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113401 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Water vapor expanding through a nozzle produces clusters of 50-600 molecules with surprisingly irregular shapes.

Continuous Measurement of a Non-Markovian Open Quantum System

A. Shabani, J. Roden, and K. B. Whaley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113601 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Relaxation Oscillations in the Formation of a Polariton Condensate

Milena De Giorgi, Dario Ballarini, Paolo Cazzato, George Deligeorgis, Simos I. Tsintzos, Zacharias Hatzopoulos, Pavlos G. Savvidis, Giuseppe Gigli, Fabrice P. Laussy, and Daniele Sanvitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113602 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Shifts of a Resonance Line in a Dense Atomic Sample

Juha Javanainen, Janne Ruostekoski, Yi Li, and Sung-Mi Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113603 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamic Imaging Using Ptychography

Jesse N. Clark, Xiaojing Huang, Ross J. Harder, and Ian K. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113901 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Observation of the Geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light

Jan Korger, Andrea Aiello, Vanessa Chille, Peter Banzer, Christoffer Wittmann, Norbert Lindlein, Christoph Marquardt, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113902 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Resonant Pulling of a Microparticle Using a Backward Surface Wave

A. V. Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 113903 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Effects of Moderate Noise on a Limit Cycle Oscillator: Counterrotation and Bistability

Jay M. Newby and Michael A. Schwemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114101 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Basin of Attraction Determines Hysteresis in Explosive Synchronization

Yong Zou, Tiago Pereira, Michael Small, Zonghua Liu, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114102 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Classical to Quantum Transition of Heat Transfer between Two Silica Clusters

Shiyun Xiong, Kaike Yang, Yuriy A. Kosevich, Yann Chalopin, Roberto D’Agosta, Pietro Cortona, and Sebastian Volz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114301 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Cross-helicity in Rotating Homogeneous Shear-Stratified Turbulence

A. B. Pieri, F. S. Godeferd, C. Cambon, B. Dubrulle, and S. Thalabard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114501 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Linking Reduced Breaking Crest Speeds to Unsteady Nonlinear Water Wave Group Behavior

M. L. Banner, X. Barthelemy, F. Fedele, M. Allis, A. Benetazzo, F. Dias, and W. L. Peirson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114502 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Demonstration of Energy-Chirp Compensation by a Tunable Dielectric-Based Structure

S. Antipov, S. Baturin, C. Jing, M. Fedurin, A. Kanareykin, C. Swinson, P. Schoessow, W. Gai, and A. Zholents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114801 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Impact of Non-Gaussian Electron Energy Heating upon the Performance of a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

E. Ferrari, E. Allaria, W. Fawley, L. Giannessi, Z. Huang, G. Penco, and S. Spampinati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 114802 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Observation of Edge Instability Limiting the Pedestal Growth in Tokamak Plasmas

A. Diallo, J. W. Hughes, M. Greenwald, B. LaBombard, E. Davis, S-G. Baek, C. Theiler, P. Snyder, J. Canik, J. Walk, T. Golfinopoulos, J. Terry, M. Churchill, A. Hubbard, M. Porkolab, L. Delgado-Aparicio, M. L. Reinke, A. White, and Alcator C-Mod team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115001 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

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Collective Effects in Vortex Movements in Complex Plasmas

Mierk Schwabe, Sergey Zhdanov, Christoph Räth, David B. Graves, Hubertus M. Thomas, and Gregor E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115002 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Classical turbulence is observed numerically in vortex-induced flow of dusty plasmas.

Diocotron and Kelvin Mode Damping from a Flux through the Critical Layer

A. A. Kabantsev, C. Y. Chim, T. M. O’Neil, and C. F. Driscoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115003 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

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Observation and Control of Shock Waves in Individual Nanoplasmas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115004 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermodynamics and Magnetic Properties of the Anisotropic 3D Hubbard Model

Jakub Imriška, Mauro Iazzi, Lei Wang, Emanuel Gull, Daniel Greif, Thomas Uehlinger, Gregor Jotzu, Leticia Tarruell, Tilman Esslinger, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115301 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Dynamical Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Ring Resonator

D. Schmidt, H. Tomczyk, S. Slama, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115302 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Stability of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$ in Compressed Aerogel

J. I. A. Li, A. M. Zimmerman, J. Pollanen, C. A. Collett, W. J. Gannon, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115303 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Dissociative Chemisorption of $O_{2}$ Inducing Stress Corrosion Cracking in Silicon Crystals

Anna Gleizer, Giovanni Peralta, James R. Kermode, Alessandro De Vita, and Dov Sherman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115501 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

High Frequency Monitoring Reveals Aftershocks in Subcritical Crack Growth

M. Stojanova, S. Santucci, L. Vanel, and O. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115502 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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Tuning Ideal Tensile Strengths and Intrinsic Ductility of bcc Refractory Alloys

Liang Qi and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115503 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

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Geometric Signatures of Jamming in the Mechanical Vacuum

Peter K. Morse and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 115701 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

The peculiar nature of jamming in particulate media can be characterized by purely geometric means both below and above the jamming transition.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ferminoic Physics in Dipolariton Condensates

Jung-Jung Su, Na Young Kim, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116401 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Direct Observation of Dirac Cones and a Flatband in a Honeycomb Lattice for Polaritons

T. Jacqmin, I. Carusotto, I. Sagnes, M. Abbarchi, D. D. Solnyshkov, G. Malpuech, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, and A. Amo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116402 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Optically Driven Rabi Oscillations and Adiabatic Passage of Single Electron Spins in Diamond

D. Andrew Golter and Hailin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116403 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Graphene Proximity Coupled to an Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Zhenhua Qiao, Wei Ren, Hua Chen, L. Bellaiche, Zhenyu Zhang, A. H. MacDonald, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116404 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Simulations show that when graphene is deposited on a room-temperature mutiferrroic, an interesting and topologically nontrivial band gap opens up, leading to a quantum anomalous Hall phase.

Theory of the Electron Spin Resonance in the Heavy Fermion Metal $β − {YbAlB}_{4}$

Aline Ramires and Piers Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116405 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Origins of Nonlocality Near the Neutrality Point in Graphene

Julien Renard, Matthias Studer, and Joshua A. Folk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116601 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Spin Relaxation Mechanism in Graphene: Resonant Scattering by Magnetic Impurities

Denis Kochan, Martin Gmitra, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116602 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Subterahertz Chaos Generation by Coupling a Superlattice to a Linear Resonator

A. E. Hramov, V. V. Makarov, A. A. Koronovskii, S. A. Kurkin, M. B. Gaifullin, N. V. Alexeeva, K. N. Alekseev, M. T. Greenaway, T. M. Fromhold, A. Patanè, F. V. Kusmartsev, V. A. Maksimenko, O. I. Moskalenko, and A. G. Balanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116603 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Many-Body Renormalization of the Minimal Conductivity in Graphene

F. Guinea and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116604 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Novel Midinfrared Plasmonic Properties of Bilayer Graphene

Tony Low, Francisco Guinea, Hugen Yan, Fengnian Xia, and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116801 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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Observation of Quantum Jumps of a Single Quantum Dot Spin Using Submicrosecond Single-Shot Optical Readout

Aymeric Delteil, Wei-bo Gao, Parisa Fallahi, Javier Miguel-Sanchez, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116802 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Using an all-optical technique, researchers have decreased the time required to make a single-shot read-out of the spin state of an electron on a quantum dot by almost three orders of magnitude.

Characterization of Qubit Dephasing by Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana Interferometry

F. Forster, G. Petersen, S. Manus, P. Hänggi, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, S. Kohler, and S. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116803 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

$ν = 5 / 2$ Fractional Quantum Hall State in the Presence of Alloy Disorder

Nianpei Deng, G. C. Gardner, S. Mondal, E. Kleinbaum, M. J. Manfra, and G. A. Csáthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116804 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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Observation of Orbital Resonance Hall Effect in ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {ClO}_{4}$

Kaya Kobayashi, H. Satsukawa, J. Yamada, T. Terashima, and S. Uji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 116805 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Phase Diagram of a Three-Orbital Model for High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors

Cédric Weber, T. Giamarchi, and C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117001 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Edge Ferromagnetism from Majorana Flat Bands: Application to Split Tunneling-Conductance Peaks in High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors

Andrew C. Potter and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117002 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

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Radio-Wave Oscillations of Molecular-Chain Resonators

Stefan Müllegger, Mohammad Rashidi, Karlheinz Mayr, Michael Fattinger, Andreas Ney, and Reinhold Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117201 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Observation of Zero-Point Quantum Fluctuations of a Single-Molecule Magnet through the Relaxation of its Nuclear Spin Bath

A. Morello, A. Millán, and L. J. de Jongh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117202 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Phase Dependence of Microwave-Assisted Switching of a Single Magnetic Nanoparticle

R. Piquerel, O. Gaier, E. Bonet, C. Thirion, and W. Wernsdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117203 (2014) - Published 19 March, 2014

Topological Order in an Entangled SU(2) $\otimes X Y$ Spin-Orbital Ring

Wojciech Brzezicki, Jacek Dziarmaga, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117204 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Photon Polarization Precession Spectroscopy for High-Resolution Studies of Spin Waves

Ralf Röhlsberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117205 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Single-Electron Shuttle Based on Electron Spin

S. I. Kulinich, L. Y. Gorelik, A. N. Kalinenko, I. V. Krive, R. I. Shekhter, Y. W. Park, and M. Jonson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117206 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Spontaneous Exciton Dissociation in Carbon Nanotubes

Y. Kumamoto, M. Yoshida, A. Ishii, A. Yokoyama, T. Shimada, and Y. K. Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117401 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Gyromagnetically Induced Transparency of Metasurfaces

S. Hossein Mousavi, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Jeffery Allen, Monica Allen, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117402 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Large Quality Factor in Sheet Metamaterials Made from Dark Dielectric Meta-atoms

Aditya Jain, Philippe Tassin, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117403 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Understanding the Electronic Structure of ${IrO}_{2}$ Using Hard-X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density-Functional Theory

J. M. Kahk, C. G. Poll, F. E. Oropeza, J. M. Ablett, D. Céolin, J-P. Rueff, S. Agrestini, Y. Utsumi, K. D. Tsuei, Y. F. Liao, F. Borgatti, G. Panaccione, A. Regoutz, R. G. Egdell, B. J. Morgan, D. O. Scanlon, and D. J. Payne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117601 (2014) - Published 17 March, 2014

Self-Assembly of Bicomponent Molecular Monolayers: Adsorption Height Changes and Their Consequences

E. Goiri, M. Matena, A. El-Sayed, J. Lobo-Checa, P. Borghetti, C. Rogero, B. Detlefs, J. Duvernay, J. E. Ortega, and D. G. de Oteyza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117602 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

Exotic Magnetism on the Quasi-fcc Lattices of the $d^{3}$ Double Perovskites ${La}_{2} Na B^{'} O_{6}$ ( $B^{'} = Ru$ , Os)

A. A. Aczel, P. J. Baker, D. E. Bugaris, J. Yeon, H.-C. zur Loye, T. Guidi, and D. T. Adroja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117603 (2014) - Published 20 March, 2014

Experimental Test of Theories of the Detection Mechanism in a Nanowire Superconducting Single Photon Detector

J. J. Renema, R. Gaudio, Q. Wang, Z. Zhou, A. Gaggero, F. Mattioli, R. Leoni, D. Sahin, M. J. A. de Dood, A. Fiore, and M. P. van Exter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117604 (2014) - Published 21 March, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Pressure-Dependent Relaxation in the Photoexcited Mott Insulator $ET - F_{2} TCNQ$ : Influence of Hopping and Correlations on Quasiparticle Recombination Rates

M. Mitrano, G. Cotugno, S. R. Clark, R. Singla, S. Kaiser, J. Stähler, R. Beyer, M. Dressel, L. Baldassarre, D. Nicoletti, A. Perucchi, T. Hasegawa, H. Okamoto, D. Jaksch, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117801 (2014) - Published 18 March, 2014

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