Volume 112, Issue 16

25 April 2014

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Cutaway view of a short-period tunable microwave undulator showing the corrugated guiding walls (top); simulated profile of the on-axis electric field (bottom). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Experimental Demonstration of a Tunable Microwave Undulator
Sami Tantawi, Muhammad Shumail, Jeffery Neilson, Gordon Bowden, Chao Chang, Erik Hemsing, and Michael Dunning
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164802 (2014)

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Cavity-Enhanced Room-Temperature Magnetometry Using Absorption by Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

K. Jensen, N. Leefer, A. Jarmola, Y. Dumeige, V. M. Acosta, P. Kehayias, B. Patton, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160802 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

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Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts

Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161301 (2014) - Published 21 April, 2014

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Resonantly Produced 7 keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Models and the Properties of Milky Way Satellites

Kevork N. Abazajian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161303 (2014) - Published 24 April, 2014

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Two-Level Systems and Boson Peak Remain Stable in 110-Million-Year-Old Amber Glass

Tomás Pérez-Castañeda, Rafael J. Jiménez-Riobóo, and Miguel A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165901 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

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Experimental Demonstration of a Tunable Microwave Undulator

Sami Tantawi, Muhammad Shumail, Jeffery Neilson, Gordon Bowden, Chao Chang, Erik Hemsing, and Michael Dunning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164802 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

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Completely Stopped and Dispersionless Light in Plasmonic Waveguides

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Tim W. Pickering, Joachim M. Hamm, A. Freddie Page, and Ortwin Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 167401 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

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Manifold Mixing in the Temporal Evolution of a Spin-1 Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yun-Tak Oh, Panjin Kim, Jin-Hong Park, and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160402 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, which initially are either purely ferromagnetic, or purely antiferromagnetic, will almost always evolve into a mixed magnetic state.

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Linear-Optical Simulation of the Cooling of a Cluster-State Hamiltonian System

G. H. Aguilar, T. Kolb, D. Cavalcanti, L. Aolita, R. Chaves, S. P. Walborn, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160501 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Experimental quantum simulations of a three qubit system shows a transition to bound and then free entanglement as the temperature of the system decreases.

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Observation of Photon Polarization in the $b \to s γ$ Transition

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161801 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

The right handed component of photon polarization is directly observed in B-meson decays for the first time.

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Hyperfine Structure Constant of the Neutron Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Be}^{+}$

A. Takamine, M. Wada, K. Okada, T. Sonoda, P. Schury, T. Nakamura, Y. Kanai, T. Kubo, I. Katayama, S. Ohtani, H. Wollnik, and H. A. Schuessler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162502 (2014) - Published 24 April, 2014

The hyperfine structure constant of the $^{11}$ Be single halo neutron is measured using laser-microwave double resonance spectroscopy.

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Fast Imaging with Inelastically Scattered Electrons by Off-Axis Chromatic Confocal Electron Microscopy

Changlin Zheng, Ye Zhu, Sorin Lazar, and Joanne Etheridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 166101 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Off-axis confocal electron microscopy can be used to image inelastically scattered electrons from a material’s surface, opening the door to fast three-dimensional chemical mapping on the nanoscale.

LETTERS

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

Obtaining a $W$ State from a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger State via Stochastic Local Operations and Classical Communication with a Rate Approaching Unity

Nengkun Yu, Cheng Guo, and Runyao Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160401 (2014) - Published 21 April, 2014

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Manifold Mixing in the Temporal Evolution of a Spin-1 Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yun-Tak Oh, Panjin Kim, Jin-Hong Park, and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160402 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, which initially are either purely ferromagnetic, or purely antiferromagnetic, will almost always evolve into a mixed magnetic state.

Scaling of Rényi Entanglement Entropies of the Free Fermi-Gas Ground State: A Rigorous Proof

Hajo Leschke, Alexander V. Sobolev, and Wolfgang Spitzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160403 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

$ψ$ -Epistemic Models are Exponentially Bad at Explaining the Distinguishability of Quantum States

M. S. Leifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160404 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

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Linear-Optical Simulation of the Cooling of a Cluster-State Hamiltonian System

G. H. Aguilar, T. Kolb, D. Cavalcanti, L. Aolita, R. Chaves, S. P. Walborn, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160501 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Experimental quantum simulations of a three qubit system shows a transition to bound and then free entanglement as the temperature of the system decreases.

Fluxon Readout of a Superconducting Qubit

Kirill G. Fedorov, Anastasia V. Shcherbakova, Michael J. Wolf, Detlef Beckmann, and Alexey V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160502 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Nano-Kelvin Thermometry and Temperature Control: Beyond the Thermal Noise Limit

Wenle Weng, James D. Anstie, Thomas M. Stace, Geoff Campbell, Fred N. Baynes, and Andre N. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160801 (2014) - Published 21 April, 2014

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Cavity-Enhanced Room-Temperature Magnetometry Using Absorption by Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

K. Jensen, N. Leefer, A. Jarmola, Y. Dumeige, V. M. Acosta, P. Kehayias, B. Patton, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 160802 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Strong Binary Pulsar Constraints on Lorentz Violation in Gravity

Kent Yagi, Diego Blas, Nicolás Yunes, and Enrico Barausse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161101 (2014) - Published 24 April, 2014

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Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts

Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161301 (2014) - Published 21 April, 2014

Simple Predictions from Multifield Inflationary Models

Richard Easther, Jonathan Frazer, Hiranya V. Peiris, and Layne C. Price

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161302 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

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Resonantly Produced 7 keV Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Models and the Properties of Milky Way Satellites

Kevork N. Abazajian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161303 (2014) - Published 24 April, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of Photon Polarization in the $b \to s γ$ Transition

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161801 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

The right handed component of photon polarization is directly observed in B-meson decays for the first time.

Search for Top Squark and Higgsino Production Using Diphoton Higgs Boson Decays

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 161802 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Lattice Study of the Jet Quenching Parameter

Marco Panero, Kari Rummukainen, and Andreas Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162001 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Lattice QCD with Mismatched Fermi Surfaces

Arata Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162002 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Beam-Energy Dependence of the Directed Flow of Protons, Antiprotons, and Pions in Au+Au Collisions

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162301 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

Observation of Enhanced Monopole Strength and Clustering in ${}^{12}{Be}$

Z. H. Yang ((杨再宏)) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162501 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

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Hyperfine Structure Constant of the Neutron Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Be}^{+}$

A. Takamine, M. Wada, K. Okada, T. Sonoda, P. Schury, T. Nakamura, Y. Kanai, T. Kubo, I. Katayama, S. Ohtani, H. Wollnik, and H. A. Schuessler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162502 (2014) - Published 24 April, 2014

The hyperfine structure constant of the $^{11}$ Be single halo neutron is measured using laser-microwave double resonance spectroscopy.

Forging the Link between Nuclear Reactions and Nuclear Structure

M. H. Mahzoon, R. J. Charity, W. H. Dickhoff, H. Dussan, and S. J. Waldecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162503 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Shape Coexistence in the Neutron-Deficient Even-Even ${}^{182 - 188}{Hg}$ Isotopes Studied via Coulomb Excitation

N. Bree et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 162701 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Wireless Network Control of Interacting Rydberg Atoms

Jaron Sanders, Rick van Bijnen, Edgar Vredenbregt, and Servaas Kokkelmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 163001 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Zeeman-Tuned Rotational Level-Crossing Spectroscopy in a Diatomic Free Radical

S. B. Cahn, J. Ammon, E. Kirilov, Y. V. Gurevich, D. Murphree, R. Paolino, D. A. Rahmlow, M. G. Kozlov, and D. DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 163002 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Selective Control over Fragmentation Reactions in Polyatomic Molecules Using Impulsive Laser Alignment

Xinhua Xie, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, Huailiang Xu, Stefan Roither, Markus S. Schöffler, Daniil Kartashov, Sonia Erattupuzha, Tim Rathje, Gerhard G. Paulus, Kaoru Yamanouchi, Andrius Baltuška, Stefanie Gräfe, and Markus Kitzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 163003 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Photoassociation of Long-Range $n D$ Rydberg Molecules

D. A. Anderson, S. A. Miller, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 163201 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

X-Ray Second Harmonic Generation

S. Shwartz, M. Fuchs, J. B. Hastings, Y. Inubushi, T. Ishikawa, T. Katayama, D. A. Reis, T. Sato, K. Tono, M. Yabashi, S. Yudovich, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 163901 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Manipulation of High-Order Scattering Processes in Ultrasmall Optical Resonators to Control Far-Field Emission

Brandon Redding, Li Ge, Qinghai Song, Glenn S. Solomon, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 163902 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Dissipation-Driven Behavior of Nonpropagating Hydrodynamic Solitons Under Confinement

Leonardo Gordillo and Mónica A. García-Ñustes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164101 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Genesis of Streamwise-Localized Solutions from Globally Periodic Traveling Waves in Pipe Flow

M. Chantry, A. P. Willis, and R. R. Kerswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164501 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transverse Spreading of Electrons in High-Intensity Laser Fields

D. G. Green and C. N. Harvey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164801 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

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Experimental Demonstration of a Tunable Microwave Undulator

Sami Tantawi, Muhammad Shumail, Jeffery Neilson, Gordon Bowden, Chao Chang, Erik Hemsing, and Michael Dunning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 164802 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

Observation of Turbulent Intermittency Scaling with Magnetic Helicity in an MHD Plasma Wind Tunnel

D. A. Schaffner, A. Wan, and M. R. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165001 (2014) - Published 25 April, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dissociation of High-Pressure Solid Molecular Hydrogen: A Quantum Monte Carlo and Anharmonic Vibrational Study

Sam Azadi, Bartomeu Monserrat, W. M. C. Foulkes, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165501 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Strain Imaging of Nanoscale Semiconductor Heterostructures with X-Ray Bragg Projection Ptychography

Martin V. Holt, Stephan O. Hruszkewycz, Conal E. Murray, Judson R. Holt, Deborah M. Paskiewicz, and Paul H. Fuoss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165502 (2014) - Published 23 April, 2014

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Two-Level Systems and Boson Peak Remain Stable in 110-Million-Year-Old Amber Glass

Tomás Pérez-Castañeda, Rafael J. Jiménez-Riobóo, and Miguel A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 165901 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

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Fast Imaging with Inelastically Scattered Electrons by Off-Axis Chromatic Confocal Electron Microscopy

Changlin Zheng, Ye Zhu, Sorin Lazar, and Joanne Etheridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 166101 (2014) - Published 22 April, 2014

Off-axis confocal electron microscopy can be used to image inelastically scattered electrons from a material’s surface, opening the door to fast three-dimensional chemical mapping on the nanoscale.