Volume 112, Issue 17

2 May 2014

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Collision of two solitons as described by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation showing generation of a void which transforms back into a bright soliton.

From the article:

Coherent Cavitation in the Liquid of Light
Ángel Paredes, David Feijoo, and Humberto Michinel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173901 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Measurement-Induced Entanglement and Quantum Trajectories of Remote Superconducting Qubits

N. Roch, M. E. Schwartz, F. Motzoi, C. Macklin, R. Vijay, A. W. Eddins, A. N. Korotkov, K. B. Whaley, M. Sarovar, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170501 (2014) - Published 28 April, 2014

Researchers create entangled states of two superconducting qubits separated by more than a meter of coaxial cable.

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${}^{48}{Ca} + {}^{249}{Bk}$ Fusion Reaction Leading to Element $Z = 117$ : Long-Lived $α$ -Decaying ${}^{270}{Db}$ and Discovery of ${}^{266}{Lr}$

J. Khuyagbaatar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 172501 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Researchers have independently confirmed the existence of element $117$ and have discovered a new isotope along the way.

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Acoustic Tractor Beam

Christine E. M. Démoré, Patrick M. Dahl, Zhengyi Yang, Peter Glynne-Jones, Andreas Melzer, Sandy Cochran, Michael P. MacDonald, and Gabriel C. Spalding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174302 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Structured acoustic fields can pull macroscopic objects towards the source by means of nonconservative forces.

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Possible Evidence for Free Precession of a Strongly Magnetized Neutron Star in the Magnetar 4U $0142 + 61$

K. Makishima, T. Enoto, J. S. Hiraga, T. Nakano, K. Nakazawa, S. Sakurai, M. Sasano, and H. Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171102 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

An analysis of x-ray emission from a magnetar suggests that its huge magnetic field has distorted its shape, causing it to wobble.

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Sliding Friction on Wet and Dry Sand

A. Fall, B. Weber, M. Pakpour, N. Lenoir, N. Shahidzadeh, J. Fiscina, C. Wagner, and D. Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175502 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Adding a small amount of water to sand can significantly reduce the sliding friction.

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Quantum Quenches in the Thermodynamic Limit

M. Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170601 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

A sophisticated high temperature expansion allows lattice practitioners to study quantum quenches in the thermodynamic limit. There is strong evidence that non-integrable systems thermalize while integrable ones do not.

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Hall Attractor in Axially Symmetric Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star Crusts

Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos and Andrew Cumming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171101 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

The classical Hall effect is found to drive the magnetic field of neutron star crusts towards an attractor state without a turbulent cascade.

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Can Topological Defects Mimic the BICEP2 $B$ -Mode Signal?

Joanes Lizarraga, Jon Urrestilla, David Daverio, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz, and Andrew R. Liddle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171301 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Topological defects such as Cosmic strings cannot explain the BICEP2 B-mode polarization data, but provide an added improvement over pure inflationary scenarios.

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Did BICEP2 See Vector Modes? First $B$ -Mode Constraints on Cosmic Defects

Adam Moss and Levon Pogosian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171302 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Topological defects such as Cosmic strings cannot explain the BICEP2 B-mode polarization data, but provide an added improvement over pure inflationary scenarios.

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Critical Nuclear Charge for Two-Electron Atoms

C. S. Estienne, M. Busuttil, A. Moini, and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173001 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

The critical electric charge needed to bind a two-electron helium-like atom is calculated to sixteen significant figures, vastly improving previously obtained values.

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High-Accuracy Measurement of the Differential Scalar Polarizability of a ${}^{88}{Sr}^{+}$ Clock Using the Time-Dilation Effect

Pierre Dubé, Alan A. Madej, Maria Tibbo, and John E. Bernard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173002 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

A new measurement technique allows the uncertainty in the frequency shift of strontium atoms as they decay to be reduced by a factor of 24, paving the way for more accurate atomic clocks.

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Viscoelastic Effects in Avalanche Dynamics: A Key to Earthquake Statistics

E. A. Jagla, François P. Landes, and Alberto Rosso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174301 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Relaxation processes in deforming materials are essential for capturing the basic features of aftershocks.

LETTERS

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

Fisher Information and the Quantum Cramér-Rao Sensitivity Limit of Continuous Measurements

Søren Gammelmark and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170401 (2014) - Published 28 April, 2014

Critical Temperature of Interacting Bose Gases in Periodic Potentials

T. T. Nguyen, A. J. Herrmann, M. Troyer, and S. Pilati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170402 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Noisy Quantum Cellular Automata for Quantum versus Classical Excitation Transfer

Michele Avalle and Alessio Serafini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170403 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Observing the Onset of Effective Mass

Rockson Chang, Shreyas Potnis, Ramon Ramos, Chao Zhuang, Matin Hallaji, Alex Hayat, Federico Duque-Gomez, J. E. Sipe, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170404 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

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Observation of Measurement-Induced Entanglement and Quantum Trajectories of Remote Superconducting Qubits

N. Roch, M. E. Schwartz, F. Motzoi, C. Macklin, R. Vijay, A. W. Eddins, A. N. Korotkov, K. B. Whaley, M. Sarovar, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170501 (2014) - Published 28 April, 2014

Researchers create entangled states of two superconducting qubits separated by more than a meter of coaxial cable.

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Quantum Quenches in the Thermodynamic Limit

M. Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170601 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Kinetics of Mobile Impurities and Correlation Functions in One-Dimensional Superfluids at Finite Temperature

M. Arzamasovs, F. Bovo, and D. M. Gangardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170602 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

How Nonlinear Interactions Challenge the Three-Dimensional Anderson Transition

Nicolas Cherroret, Benoît Vermersch, Jean Claude Garreau, and Dominique Delande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 170603 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Hall Attractor in Axially Symmetric Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star Crusts

Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos and Andrew Cumming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171101 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

The classical Hall effect is found to drive the magnetic field of neutron star crusts towards an attractor state without a turbulent cascade.

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Possible Evidence for Free Precession of a Strongly Magnetized Neutron Star in the Magnetar 4U $0142 + 61$

K. Makishima, T. Enoto, J. S. Hiraga, T. Nakano, K. Nakazawa, S. Sakurai, M. Sasano, and H. Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171102 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

An analysis of x-ray emission from a magnetar suggests that its huge magnetic field has distorted its shape, causing it to wobble.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Can Topological Defects Mimic the BICEP2 $B$ -Mode Signal?

Joanes Lizarraga, Jon Urrestilla, David Daverio, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz, and Andrew R. Liddle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171301 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Topological defects such as Cosmic strings cannot explain the BICEP2 B-mode polarization data, but provide an added improvement over pure inflationary scenarios.

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Did BICEP2 See Vector Modes? First $B$ -Mode Constraints on Cosmic Defects

Adam Moss and Levon Pogosian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171302 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Topological defects such as Cosmic strings cannot explain the BICEP2 B-mode polarization data, but provide an added improvement over pure inflationary scenarios.

First Measurement of the Ionization Yield of Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Argon

T. H. Joshi, S. Sangiorgio, A. Bernstein, M. Foxe, C. Hagmann, I. Jovanovic, K. Kazkaz, V. Mozin, E. B. Norman, S. V. Pereverzev, F. Rebassoo, and P. Sorensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171303 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Universal Scaling in Fast Quantum Quenches in Conformal Field Theories

Sumit R. Das, Damián A. Galante, and Robert C. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171601 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Viable Dark Matter via Radiative Symmetry Breaking in a Scalar Singlet Higgs Portal Extension of the Standard Model

T. G. Steele, Zhi-Wei Wang, D. Contreras, and R. B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171602 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Universal Thermal Corrections to Single Interval Entanglement Entropy for Two Dimensional Conformal Field Theories

John Cardy and Christopher P. Herzog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171603 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Search for Top-Quark Partners with Charge $5 / 3$ in the Same-Sign Dilepton Final State

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171801 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Top-Quark Decays $t \to Z q$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 171802 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

Nuclear Physics

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${}^{48}{Ca} + {}^{249}{Bk}$ Fusion Reaction Leading to Element $Z = 117$ : Long-Lived $α$ -Decaying ${}^{270}{Db}$ and Discovery of ${}^{266}{Lr}$

J. Khuyagbaatar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 172501 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Researchers have independently confirmed the existence of element $117$ and have discovered a new isotope along the way.

Double-Magic Nature of ${}^{132}{Sn}$ and ${}^{208}{Pb}$ through Lifetime and Cross-Section Measurements

J. M. Allmond et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 172701 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Critical Nuclear Charge for Two-Electron Atoms

C. S. Estienne, M. Busuttil, A. Moini, and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173001 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

The critical electric charge needed to bind a two-electron helium-like atom is calculated to sixteen significant figures, vastly improving previously obtained values.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Accuracy Measurement of the Differential Scalar Polarizability of a ${}^{88}{Sr}^{+}$ Clock Using the Time-Dilation Effect

Pierre Dubé, Alan A. Madej, Maria Tibbo, and John E. Bernard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173002 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

A new measurement technique allows the uncertainty in the frequency shift of strontium atoms as they decay to be reduced by a factor of 24, paving the way for more accurate atomic clocks.

High Energy Resolution Off-Resonant Spectroscopy for X-Ray Absorption Spectra Free of Self-Absorption Effects

W. Błachucki, J. Szlachetko, J. Hoszowska, J.-Cl. Dousse, Y. Kayser, M. Nachtegaal, and J. Sá

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173003 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Muon Loop Light-by-Light Contribution to Hyperfine Splitting in Muonium

Michael I. Eides and Valery A. Shelyuto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173004 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Controlling Discrete and Continuous Symmetries in “Superradiant” Phase Transitions with Circuit QED Systems

Alexandre Baksic and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173601 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Multipulse Three-Dimensional Alignment of Asymmetric Top Molecules

Xiaoming Ren, Varun Makhija, and Vinod Kumarappan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173602 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coherent Cavitation in the Liquid of Light

Ángel Paredes, David Feijoo, and Humberto Michinel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173901 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Synchronization Dynamics in the Presence of Coupling Delays and Phase Shifts

David J. Jörg, Luis G. Morelli, Saúl Ares, and Frank Jülicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174101 (2014) - Published 28 April, 2014

Irrationality and Quasiperiodicity in Driven Nonlinear Systems

David Cubero, Jesús Casado-Pascual, and Ferruccio Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174102 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Pattern Formation in Systems with Multiple Delayed Feedbacks

Serhiy Yanchuk and Giovanni Giacomelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174103 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

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Viscoelastic Effects in Avalanche Dynamics: A Key to Earthquake Statistics

E. A. Jagla, François P. Landes, and Alberto Rosso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174301 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Relaxation processes in deforming materials are essential for capturing the basic features of aftershocks.

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Acoustic Tractor Beam

Christine E. M. Démoré, Patrick M. Dahl, Zhengyi Yang, Peter Glynne-Jones, Andreas Melzer, Sandy Cochran, Michael P. MacDonald, and Gabriel C. Spalding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174302 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Structured acoustic fields can pull macroscopic objects towards the source by means of nonconservative forces.

Logarithmic Spatial Variations and Universal $f^{- 1}$ Power Spectra of Temperature Fluctuations in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xiaozhou He, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Guenter Ahlers (International Collaboration for Turbulence Research)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 174501 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Magnetic-Field Generation and Amplification in an Expanding Plasma

K. M. Schoeffler, N. F. Loureiro, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175001 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phonon Self-Energy and Origin of Anomalous Neutron Scattering Spectra in SnTe and PbTe Thermoelectrics

C. W. Li, O. Hellman, J. Ma, A. F. May, H. B. Cao, X. Chen, A. D. Christianson, G. Ehlers, D. J. Singh, B. C. Sales, and O. Delaire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175501 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

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Sliding Friction on Wet and Dry Sand

A. Fall, B. Weber, M. Pakpour, N. Lenoir, N. Shahidzadeh, J. Fiscina, C. Wagner, and D. Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175502 (2014) - Published 29 April, 2014

Adding a small amount of water to sand can significantly reduce the sliding friction.

Random-Field-like Criticality in Glass-Forming Liquids

Giulio Biroli, Chiara Cammarota, Gilles Tarjus, and Marco Tarzia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175701 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Oxygen Self-Diffusion in ${HfO}_{2}$ Studied by Electron Spectroscopy

M. Vos, P. L. Grande, D. K. Venkatachalam, S. K. Nandi, and R. G. Elliman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 175901 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Gap Structure of the Hofstadter System of Interacting Dirac Fermions in Graphene

Vadim M. Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176401 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

${CaIrO}_{3}$ : A Spin-Orbit Mott Insulator Beyond the $j_{eff} = 1 / 2$ Ground State

M. Moretti Sala, K. Ohgushi, A. Al-Zein, Y. Hirata, G. Monaco, and M. Krisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176402 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Interplay of Exciton Condensation and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect in $InAs / GaSb$ Bilayers

D. I. Pikulin and T. Hyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176403 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Nonequilibrium “Melting” of a Charge Density Wave Insulator via an Ultrafast Laser Pulse

Wen Shen, Yizhi Ge, A. Y. Liu, H. R. Krishnamurthy, T. P. Devereaux, and J. K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176404 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

Transport Discovery of Emerging Robust Helical Surface States in $Z_{2} = 0$ Systems

Hua Jiang, Haiwen Liu, Ji Feng, Qingfeng Sun, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176601 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

Strain-Induced Gap Modification in Black Phosphorus

A. S. Rodin, A. Carvalho, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176801 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Semiconducting Layered Blue Phosphorus: A Computational Study

Zhen Zhu and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176802 (2014) - Published 1 May, 2014

Long-Range Spin Transfer in Triple Quantum Dots

R. Sánchez, G. Granger, L. Gaudreau, A. Kam, M. Pioro-Ladrière, S. A. Studenikin, P. Zawadzki, A. S. Sachrajda, and G. Platero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 176803 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014

Selective Mott Physics as a Key to Iron Superconductors

Luca de’ Medici, Gianluca Giovannetti, and Massimo Capone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 177001 (2014) - Published 28 April, 2014

Neutron Scattering Measurements of Spatially Anisotropic Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Semiconducting $K_{0.85} {Fe}_{1.54} {Se}_{2}$ ( $T_{N} = 280 K$ )

Jun Zhao, Yao Shen, R. J. Birgeneau, Miao Gao, Zhong-Yi Lu, D.-H. Lee, X. Z. Lu, H. J. Xiang, D. L. Abernathy, and Y. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 177002 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Gapless Quantum Spin Liquid in an Organic Spin-1/2 Triangular-Lattice $κ - H_{3} (Cat-EDT-TTF)_{2}$

Takayuki Isono, Hiromichi Kamo, Akira Ueda, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Motoi Kimata, Hiroyuki Tajima, Satoshi Tsuchiya, Taichi Terashima, Shinya Uji, and Hatsumi Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 177201 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

ERRATA

Erratum: Detection of Microwave Spin Pumping Using the Inverse Spin Hall Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 217204 (2013)]

C. Hahn, G. de Loubens, M. Viret, O. Klein, V. V. Naletov, and J. Ben Youssef

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 179901 (2014) - Published 30 April, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Equation of State Measurements of Warm Dense Carbon Using Laser-Driven Shock and Release Technique [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 155003 (2014)]

K. Falk, E. J. Gamboa, G. Kagan, D. S. Montgomery, B. Srinivasan, P. Tzeferacos, and J. F. Benage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 179902 (2014) - Published 2 May, 2014