Volume 112, Issue 14

11 April 2014

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On the Cover

Behaviour of an active nematic droplet with increasing activity (left to right). The more active the droplet the more it deforms, until it splits.

From the article:

Spontaneous Division and Motility in Active Nematic Droplets
Luca Giomi and Antonio DeSimone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147802 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergent Spatial Structures in Flocking Models: A Dynamical System Insight

Jean-Baptiste Caussin, Alexandre Solon, Anton Peshkov, Hugues Chaté, Thierry Dauxois, Julien Tailleur, Vincenzo Vitelli, and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148102 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resonant Acoustic Propagation and Negative Density in Liquid Foams

Juliette Pierre, Benjamin Dollet, and Valentin Leroy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148307 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Detection of Resonant Electron Pitch Angle Scattering by Whistler Waves in a Laboratory Plasma

B. Van Compernolle, J. Bortnik, P. Pribyl, W. Gekelman, M. Nakamoto, X. Tao, and R. M. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145006 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement-Based Classical Computation

Matty J. Hoban, Joel J. Wallman, Hussain Anwar, Naïri Usher, Robert Raussendorf, and Dan E. Browne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140505 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

A classical analogue to measurement based quantum computation is hard to simulate classically despite its lack of entanglement.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Implementation of a Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Witness

Ping Xu, Xiao Yuan, Luo-Kan Chen, He Lu, Xing-Can Yao, Xiongfeng Ma, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140506 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Researchers close the loophole that allowed any two photons - whether entangled or separate - to be falsely measured to be entangled.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Classical Nernst engine

Julian Stark, Kay Brandner, Keiji Saito, and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

An analytically solvable model for a heat engine based on the Nernst effect - where an electric voltage is generated perpendicular to a heat current in the presence of a magnetic field - yields an upper bound on the efficiency.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conformal Field Theories in Fractional Dimensions

Sheer El-Showk, Miguel Paulos, David Poland, Slava Rychkov, David Simmons-Duffin, and Alessandro Vichi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 141601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

A numerical study suggests that conformal field theories in diverse dimensions may be different limits of a unifying theory.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Entanglement-Dependent Two-Particle Holonomic Phase

J. C. Loredo, M. A. Broome, D. H. Smith, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143603 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

A geometrical to topological phase transition is observed experimentally in systems of two entangled photons as the degree entanglement is tuned.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radiation-Reaction Trapping of Electrons in Extreme Laser Fields

L. L. Ji, A. Pukhov, I. Yu. Kostyukov, B. F. Shen, and K. Akli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145003 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Simulations of laser-plasma interactions demonstrate that electrons can be trapped inside a laser pulse due to the force exerted by plasma radiated photons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite Size Analysis of Zero-Temperature Jamming Transition under Applied Shear Stress by Minimizing a Thermodynamic-Like Potential

Hao Liu, Xiaoyi Xie, and Ning Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145502 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

The non-equilibrium jamming transition of sheared frictionless repulsive spheres is modeled by minimizing a thermodynamic-like potential for an equilibrium phase transition.

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Laser Excitation of Lattice-Driven Anharmonic Magnetization Dynamics in Dielectric ${FeBO}_{3}$

D. Afanasiev, I. Razdolski, K. M. Skibinsky, D. Bolotin, S. V. Yagupov, M. B. Strugatsky, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147403 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Experiments show that the magnetization of a free-standing FeBO $_{3}$ film can be controlled by exciting the film with femtosecond laser pulses.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Tests of Classical and Quantum Dimensionality

Johan Ahrens, Piotr Badziąg, Marcin Pawłowski, Marek Żukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140401 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Certifying Separability in Symmetric Mixed States of $N$ Qubits, and Superradiance

Elie Wolfe and S. F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140402 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Coherent Backscattering in Fock Space: A Signature of Quantum Many-Body Interference in Interacting Bosonic Systems

Thomas Engl, Julien Dujardin, Arturo Argüelles, Peter Schlagheck, Klaus Richter, and Juan Diego Urbina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140403 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Test of Genuine Multipartite Nonlocality without Inequalities

Qing Chen, Sixia Yu, Chengjie Zhang, C. H. Lai, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140404 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

On-Demand Dark Soliton Train Manipulation in a Spinor Polariton Condensate

F. Pinsker and H. Flayac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140405 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Amplification, Redundancy, and Quantum Chernoff Information

Michael Zwolak, C. Jess Riedel, and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140406 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Certifying the Dimension of Classical and Quantum Systems in a Prepare-and-Measure Scenario with Independent Devices

Joseph Bowles, Marco Túlio Quintino, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140407 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Quantum Criticality and Dynamical Instability in the Kicked-Top Model

Victor Manuel Bastidas, Pedro Pérez-Fernández, Malte Vogl, and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140408 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Experimental Entanglement Activation from Discord in a Programmable Quantum Measurement

Gerardo Adesso, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Eleonora Nagali, Marco Piani, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140501 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

How Energy Conservation Limits Our Measurements

Miguel Navascués and Sandu Popescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140502 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Device-Independent Certification of High-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Fabrizio Bisesto, Fabio Sciarrino, Johanna F. Barra, Gustavo Lima, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140503 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Asymptotically Optimal Topological Quantum Compiling

Vadym Kliuchnikov, Alex Bocharov, and Krysta M. Svore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140504 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement-Based Classical Computation

Matty J. Hoban, Joel J. Wallman, Hussain Anwar, Naïri Usher, Robert Raussendorf, and Dan E. Browne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140505 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

A classical analogue to measurement based quantum computation is hard to simulate classically despite its lack of entanglement.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Implementation of a Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Witness

Ping Xu, Xiao Yuan, Luo-Kan Chen, He Lu, Xing-Can Yao, Xiongfeng Ma, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140506 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Researchers close the loophole that allowed any two photons - whether entangled or separate - to be falsely measured to be entangled.

Can Communication Power of Separable Correlations Exceed That of Entanglement Resource?

Paweł Horodecki, Jan Tuziemski, Paweł Mazurek, and Ryszard Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140507 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Classical Nernst engine

Julian Stark, Kay Brandner, Keiji Saito, and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Nonequilibrium Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem and Heat Production

E. Lippiello, M. Baiesi, and A. Sarracino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140602 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Parallelized Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm with Nonlocal Worm Updates

Akiko Masaki-Kato, Takafumi Suzuki, Kenji Harada, Synge Todo, and Naoki Kawashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 140603 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conformal Field Theories in Fractional Dimensions

Sheer El-Showk, Miguel Paulos, David Poland, Slava Rychkov, David Simmons-Duffin, and Alessandro Vichi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 141601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

A numerical study suggests that conformal field theories in diverse dimensions may be different limits of a unifying theory.

Topological Response Theory of Abelian Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases in Two Dimensions

Meng Cheng and Zheng-Cheng Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 141602 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Pion Masses in Two-Flavor QCD with $η$ Condensation

Sinya Aoki and Michael Creutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 141603 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

High-Precision Predictions for the Light $C P$ -Even Higgs Boson Mass of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

T. Hahn, S. Heinemeyer, W. Hollik, H. Rzehak, and G. Weiglein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 141801 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Photoproduction of $π^{0}$ Mesons off Neutrons in the Nucleon Resonance Region

M. Dieterle et al. (Crystal Ball/TAPS experiment at MAMI, A2 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 142001 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Deformation-Driven $p$ -Wave Halos at the Drip Line: ${}^{31}{Ne}$

T. Nakamura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 142501 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Evolution of Collectivity in ${}^{72}{Kr}$ : Evidence for Rapid Shape Transition

H. Iwasaki, A. Lemasson, C. Morse, A. Dewald, T. Braunroth, V. M. Bader, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, J. S. Berryman, C. M. Campbell, A. Gade, C. Langer, I. Y. Lee, C. Loelius, E. Lunderberg, F. Recchia, D. Smalley, S. R. Stroberg, R. Wadsworth, C. Walz, D. Weisshaar, A. Westerberg, K. Whitmore, and K. Wimmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 142502 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Neutrino Propagation in Nuclear Medium and Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

S. Kovalenko, M. I. Krivoruchenko, and F. Šimkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 142503 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dynamic Dimensionality Identification for Quantum Control

Jonathan Roslund and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143001 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Fermionic Superradiance in a Transversely Pumped Optical Cavity

J. Keeling, M. J. Bhaseen, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143002 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Umklapp Superradiance with a Collisionless Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas

Francesco Piazza and Philipp Strack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143003 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Superradiance of Degenerate Fermi Gases in a Cavity

Yu Chen, Zhenhua Yu, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143004 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Double Photoionization in Ring Molecules: Search of the Cooper Pair Formation

K. Jänkälä, P. Lablanquie, F. Penent, J. Palaudoux, L. Andric, and M. Huttula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143005 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Ionization of Excited Atoms by Intense Single-Cycle THz Pulses

Sha Li and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143006 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Bose-Einstein Condensates with Cavity-Mediated Spin-Orbit Coupling

Y. Deng, J. Cheng, H. Jing, and S. Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143007 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Alignment of $D$ -State Rydberg Molecules

A. T. Krupp, A. Gaj, J. B. Balewski, P. Ilzhöfer, S. Hofferberth, R. Löw, T. Pfau, M. Kurz, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143008 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Neutral Gas Sympathetic Cooling of an Ion in a Paul Trap

Kuang Chen, Scott T. Sullivan, and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143009 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Microscopic Superfluidity in ${}^{4}{He}$ Clusters Stirred by a Rotating Impurity Molecule

Angeline Wairegi, Antonio Gamboa, Andrew D. Burbanks, Ernestine A. Lee, and David Farrelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143401 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Quantum Control of Molecular Gas Hydrodynamics

S. Zahedpour, J. K. Wahlstrand, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Heralded Single-Phonon Preparation, Storage, and Readout in Cavity Optomechanics

Christophe Galland, Nicolas Sangouard, Nicolas Piro, Nicolas Gisin, and Tobias J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143602 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Entanglement-Dependent Two-Particle Holonomic Phase

J. C. Loredo, M. A. Broome, D. H. Smith, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143603 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

A geometrical to topological phase transition is observed experimentally in systems of two entangled photons as the degree entanglement is tuned.

Quantum Walks of Correlated Photon Pairs in Two-Dimensional Waveguide Arrays

Konstantinos Poulios, Robert Keil, Daniel Fry, Jasmin D. A. Meinecke, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Alberto Politi, Mirko Lobino, Markus Gräfe, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit, and Jeremy L. O’Brien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143604 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Light Transport and Localization in Two-Dimensional Correlated Disorder

Gaurasundar M. Conley, Matteo Burresi, Filippo Pratesi, Kevin Vynck, and Diederik S. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143901 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Macroscopic Effects in Noncollinear High-Order Harmonic Generation

C. M. Heyl, P. Rudawski, F. Brizuela, S. N. Bengtsson, J. Mauritsson, and A. L’Huillier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143902 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Experimental Demonstration of a Coherent Perfect Absorber with PT Phase Transition

Yong Sun, Wei Tan, Hong-qiang Li, Jensen Li, and Hong Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143903 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial-Coherence Analysis of a Blackbody through an Up-Conversion Interferometer

J.-T. Gomes, L. Delage, R. Baudoin, L. Grossard, L. Bouyeron, D. Ceus, F. Reynaud, H. Herrmann, and W. Sohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 143904 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Chimera States: The Existence Criteria Revisited

Gautam C. Sethia and Abhijit Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144101 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Universal Quantum Graphs

Z. Pluhař and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144102 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Chimeralike States in an Ensemble of Globally Coupled Oscillators

Azamat Yeldesbay, Arkady Pikovsky, and Michael Rosenblum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144103 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Negative Refraction and Energy Funneling by Hyperbolic Materials: An Experimental Demonstration in Acoustics

Victor M. García-Chocano, Johan Christensen, and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144301 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Upscale Energy Transfer in Three-Dimensional Rapidly Rotating Turbulent Convection

Antonio M. Rubio, Keith Julien, Edgar Knobloch, and Jeffrey B. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144501 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Recurrent Bursts via Linear Processes in Turbulent Environments

Geert Brethouwer, Philipp Schlatter, Yohann Duguet, Dan S. Henningson, and Arne V. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144502 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Surface Nanobubbles Nucleate Microdroplets

Xuehua Zhang, Henri Lhuissier, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144503 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Shock-Wave Compression and Joule-Thomson Expansion

Wm. G. Hoover, Carol G. Hoover, and Karl P. Travis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144504 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Numerical Simulation of a Self-Similar Cascade of Filament Instabilities in the Surface Quasigeostrophic System

R. K. Scott and D. G. Dritschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 144505 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonuniformly Driven Two-Plasmon-Decay Instability in Direct-Drive Implosions

W. Seka, J. F. Myatt, R. W. Short, D. H. Froula, J. Katz, V. N. Goncharov, and I. V. Igumenshchev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145001 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Čerenkov Emission of Quasiparallel Whistlers by Fast Electron Phase-Space Holes during Magnetic Reconnection

M. V. Goldman, D. L. Newman, G. Lapenta, L. Andersson, J. T. Gosling, S. Eriksson, S. Markidis, J. P. Eastwood, and R. Ergun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145002 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radiation-Reaction Trapping of Electrons in Extreme Laser Fields

L. L. Ji, A. Pukhov, I. Yu. Kostyukov, B. F. Shen, and K. Akli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145003 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Simulations of laser-plasma interactions demonstrate that electrons can be trapped inside a laser pulse due to the force exerted by plasma radiated photons.

Observations of Continuum Depression in Warm Dense Matter with X-Ray Thomson Scattering

L. B. Fletcher, A. L. Kritcher, A. Pak, T. Ma, T. Döppner, C. Fortmann, L. Divol, O. S. Jones, O. L. Landen, H. A. Scott, J. Vorberger, D. A. Chapman, D. O. Gericke, B. A. Mattern, G. T. Seidler, G. Gregori, R. W. Falcone, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145004 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Electron-Ion Equilibration in Ultrafast Heated Graphite

T. G. White, N. J. Hartley, B. Borm, B. J. B. Crowley, J. W. O. Harris, D. C. Hochhaus, T. Kaempfer, K. Li, P. Neumayer, L. K. Pattison, F. Pfeifer, S. Richardson, A. P. L. Robinson, I. Uschmann, and G. Gregori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145005 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Detection of Resonant Electron Pitch Angle Scattering by Whistler Waves in a Laboratory Plasma

B. Van Compernolle, J. Bortnik, P. Pribyl, W. Gekelman, M. Nakamoto, X. Tao, and R. M. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145006 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Ab Initio Simulations for the Ion-Ion Structure Factor of Warm Dense Aluminum

Hannes R. Rüter and Ronald Redmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145007 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Optically Controlled Solid-Density Transient Plasma Gratings

S. Monchocé, S. Kahaly, A. Leblanc, L. Videau, P. Combis, F. Réau, D. Garzella, P. D’Oliveira, Ph. Martin, and F. Quéré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145008 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Onsager-Kraichnan Condensation in Decaying Two-Dimensional Quantum Turbulence

T. P. Billam, M. T. Reeves, B. P. Anderson, and A. S. Bradley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145301 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite Size Analysis of Zero-Temperature Jamming Transition under Applied Shear Stress by Minimizing a Thermodynamic-Like Potential

Hao Liu, Xiaoyi Xie, and Ning Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145502 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

The non-equilibrium jamming transition of sheared frictionless repulsive spheres is modeled by minimizing a thermodynamic-like potential for an equilibrium phase transition.

Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Physics with Nanomechanical Graphene Resonators: Intrinsic Relaxation and Thermalization from Flexural Mode Coupling

Daniel Midtvedt, Alexander Croy, Andreas Isacsson, Zenan Qi, and Harold S. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145503 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Plasticity Initiation and Evolution during Nanoindentation of an Iron–3% Silicon Crystal

Ling Zhang and Takahito Ohmura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145504 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Glass Transitions in a Monatomic Liquid with Two Glassy States

Andrew Gordon and Nicolas Giovambattista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145701 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Relationships between Atomic Diffusion Mechanisms and Ensemble Transport Coefficients in Crystalline Polymorphs

Benjamin J. Morgan and Paul A. Madden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 145901 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Effects of Rotational-Symmetry Breaking on Physisorption of Ortho- and Para- $H_{2}$ on Ag(111)

Toshiki Sugimoto and Katsuyuki Fukutani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146101 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Wetting of Elastic Solids on Nanopillars

M. Ignacio, Y. Saito, P. Smereka, and O. Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146102 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Mechanism for Limiting Thickness of Thin Oxide Films on Aluminum

Jakub D. Baran, Henrik Grönbeck, and Anders Hellman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146103 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

First-Principles Calculation of Atomic Forces and Structural Distortions in Strongly Correlated Materials

I. Leonov, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146401 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Coexistence of Spin Density Waves and Superconductivity in ${(TMTSF)}_{2} {PF}_{6}$

Arjun Narayanan, Andhika Kiswandhi, David Graf, James Brooks, and Paul Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146402 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Inducing a Lifshitz Transition by Extrinsic Doping of Surface Bands in the Topological Crystalline Insulator ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x} Se$

I. Pletikosić, G. D. Gu, and T. Valla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146403 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Fractal Energy Spectrum of a Polariton Gas in a Fibonacci Quasiperiodic Potential

D. Tanese, E. Gurevich, F. Baboux, T. Jacqmin, A. Lemaître, E. Galopin, I. Sagnes, A. Amo, J. Bloch, and E. Akkermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146404 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Time Reversal Symmetric Topological Exciton Condensate in Bilayer HgTe Quantum Wells

Jan Carl Budich, Björn Trauzettel, and Paolo Michetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146405 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Finite-Temperature Conductivity and Magnetoconductivity of Topological Insulators

Hai-Zhou Lu and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

High-Field Terahertz Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Lithium Niobate

C. Somma, K. Reimann, C. Flytzanis, T. Elsaesser, and M. Woerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146602 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Floquet Theory of Electron Waiting Times in Quantum-Coherent Conductors

David Dasenbrook, Christian Flindt, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146801 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Green’s Functions from Real-Time Bold-Line Monte Carlo Calculations: Spectral Properties of the Nonequilibrium Anderson Impurity Model

Guy Cohen, Emanuel Gull, David R. Reichman, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146802 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

One-Dimensional Weak Antilocalization Due to the Berry Phase in HgTe Wires

M. Mühlbauer, A. Budewitz, B. Büttner, G. Tkachov, E. M. Hankiewicz, C. Brüne, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146803 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Edge Physics of the Quantum Spin Hall Insulator from a Quantum Dot Excited by Optical Absorption

Romain Vasseur and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 146804 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Optical Birefringence and Dichroism of Cuprate Superconductors in the THz Regime

Y. Lubashevsky, LiDong Pan, T. Kirzhner, G. Koren, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147001 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Superconductivity on the Brink of Spin-Charge Order in a Doped Honeycomb Bilayer

Oskar Vafek, James M. Murray, and Vladimir Cvetkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147002 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Tuning Magnetic Coupling in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ Thin Films with Epitaxial Strain

A. Lupascu, J. P. Clancy, H. Gretarsson, Zixin Nie, J. Nichols, J. Terzic, G. Cao, S. S. A. Seo, Z. Islam, M. H. Upton, Jungho Kim, D. Casa, T. Gog, A. H. Said, Vamshi M. Katukuri, H. Stoll, L. Hozoi, J. van den Brink, and Young-June Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147201 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Lattice-Site-Specific Spin Dynamics in Double Perovskite ${Sr}_{2} {CoOsO}_{6}$

Binghai Yan, Avijit Kumar Paul, Sudipta Kanungo, Manfred Reehuis, Andreas Hoser, Daniel M. Többens, Walter Schnelle, Robert C. Williams, Tom Lancaster, Fan Xiao, Johannes S. Möller, Stephen J. Blundell, William Hayes, Claudia Felser, and Martin Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147202 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Crystals of Bound States in the Magnetization Plateaus of the Shastry-Sutherland Model

Philippe Corboz and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147203 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Motion Induced by Spin Waves

Erlend G. Tveten, Alireza Qaiumzadeh, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147204 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Femtosecond Dynamics of Momentum-Dependent Magnetic Excitations from Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in ${CaCu}_{2} O_{3}$

Valentina Bisogni, Stefanos Kourtis, Claude Monney, Kejin Zhou, Roberto Kraus, Chinnathambi Sekar, Vladimir Strocov, Bernd Büchner, Jeroen van den Brink, Lucio Braicovich, Thorsten Schmitt, Maria Daghofer, and Jochen Geck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147401 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Suris Tetrons: Possible Spectroscopic Evidence for Four-Particle Optical Excitations of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

A. V. Koudinov, C. Kehl, A. V. Rodina, J. Geurts, D. Wolverson, and G. Karczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147402 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

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Laser Excitation of Lattice-Driven Anharmonic Magnetization Dynamics in Dielectric ${FeBO}_{3}$

D. Afanasiev, I. Razdolski, K. M. Skibinsky, D. Bolotin, S. V. Yagupov, M. B. Strugatsky, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147403 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Experiments show that the magnetization of a free-standing FeBO $_{3}$ film can be controlled by exciting the film with femtosecond laser pulses.

Long-Time Correlation in Non-Markovian Dephasing of an Exciton-Phonon System in InAs Quantum Dots

H. Tahara, Y. Ogawa, F. Minami, K. Akahane, and M. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147404 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Ultrafast Switching of the Electric Polarization and Magnetic Chirality in ${BiFeO}_{3}$ by an Electric Field

Satadeep Bhattacharjee, Dovran Rahmedov, Dawei Wang, Jorge Íñiguez, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147601 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Investigation of Surface Magnetic Noise by Shallow Spins in Diamond

T. Rosskopf, A. Dussaux, K. Ohashi, M. Loretz, R. Schirhagl, H. Watanabe, S. Shikata, K. M. Itoh, and C. L. Degen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147602 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Triplet Correlations Dominate the Transition from Simple to Tetrahedral Liquids

Murari Singh, Debdas Dhabal, Andrew Huy Nguyen, Valeria Molinero, and Charusita Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147801 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Spontaneous Division and Motility in Active Nematic Droplets

Luca Giomi and Antonio DeSimone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 147802 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

High-Velocity Drag Friction in Granular Media near the Jamming Point

Yuka Takehara and Ko Okumura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148001 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Nonmonotonic Effects of Migration in Subdivided Populations

Pierangelo Lombardo, Andrea Gambassi, and Luca Dall’Asta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148101 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

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Emergent Spatial Structures in Flocking Models: A Dynamical System Insight

Jean-Baptiste Caussin, Alexandre Solon, Anton Peshkov, Hugues Chaté, Thierry Dauxois, Julien Tailleur, Vincenzo Vitelli, and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148102 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Range Expansion of Heterogeneous Populations

Matthias Reiter, Steffen Rulands, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148103 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Synchronization and Liquid Crystalline Order in Soft Active Fluids

M. Leoni and T. B. Liverpool

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148104 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Dynamics of Sheared Ellipses and Circular Disks: Effects of Particle Shape

Somayeh Farhadi and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148301 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Quantum Simulation of Collective Proton Tunneling in Hexagonal Ice Crystals

Christof Drechsel-Grau and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148302 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Adsorption and Pattern Recognition of Polymers at Complex Surfaces with Attractive Stripelike Motifs

Monika Möddel, Wolfhard Janke, and Michael Bachmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148303 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Theory and Simulations of Electrocatalyst-Coated Semiconductor Electrodes for Solar Water Splitting

Thomas J. Mills, Fuding Lin, and Shannon W. Boettcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148304 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Controlling the Position of Traveling Waves in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Jakob Löber and Harald Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148305 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

Slowing Down of Accelerated Structural Relaxation in Ultrathin Polymer Films

Qiyun Tang, Wenbing Hu, and Simone Napolitano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148306 (2014) - Published 10 April, 2014

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Resonant Acoustic Propagation and Negative Density in Liquid Foams

Juliette Pierre, Benjamin Dollet, and Valentin Leroy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148307 (2014) - Published 11 April, 2014

Enhanced Flow in Small-World Networks

Cláudio L. N. Oliveira, Pablo A. Morais, André A. Moreira, and José S. Andrade, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 148701 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Self-Assembly of Bicomponent Molecular Monolayers: Adsorption Height Changes and Their Consequences [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 117602 (2014)]

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, 149901 (2014) - Published 7 April, 2014

Erratum: Standard Model Predictions for $B \to K ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ with Form Factors from Lattice QCD [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 162002 (2013)]

Chris Bouchard, G. Peter Lepage, Christopher Monahan, Heechang Na, and Junko Shigemitsu (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 149902 (2014) - Published 8 April, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Interaction of Relativistic Electron-Vortex Beams with Few-Cycle Laser Pulses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 134801 (2014)]

Armen G. Hayrapetyan, Oliver Matula, Andrea Aiello, Andrey Surzhykov, and Stephan Fritzsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 149903 (2014) - Published 9 April, 2014