Volume 112, Issue 18

9 May 2014

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Simulation of Taylor-Couette flow. Blue (yellow) represents positive (negative) azimuthal vorticity.

From the article:

Subcritical Equilibria in Taylor-Couette Flow
Kengo Deguchi, Alvaro Meseguer, and Fernando Mellibovsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 184502 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Electrically Injected Photon-Pair Source at Room Temperature

Fabien Boitier, Adeline Orieux, Claire Autebert, Aristide Lemaître, Elisabeth Galopin, Christophe Manquest, Carlo Sirtori, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo, and Sara Ducci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183901 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Researchers have fabricated an electrically powered semiconductor device that creates photon pairs.

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Eliminating Friction with Friction: 2D Janssen Effect in a Friction-Driven System

M. Yasinul Karim and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188001 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

For frictional grains on a conveyor belt, the pressure on the bottom can be substantially reduced if the boundary surfaces have a sawtooth shape.

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Relative Refractory Period in an Excitable Semiconductor Laser

F. Selmi, R. Braive, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, R. Kuszelewicz, and S. Barbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183902 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Semiconductor lasers can exhibit characteristics of nerve cells, making them potentially useful for simulating biological neural networks.

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Measuring Lipid Membrane Viscosity Using Rotational and Translational Probe Diffusion

Tristan T. Hormel, Sarah Q. Kurihara, M. Kathleen Brennan, Matthew C. Wozniak, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188101 (2014) - Published 6 May, 2014

A new method for measuring membrane viscosity allows a closer look at the effect of different proteins on the dynamical properties of the cell.

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First Measurements of Hydrodynamic Instability Growth in Indirectly Driven Implosions at Ignition-Relevant Conditions on the National Ignition Facility

V. A. Smalyuk, D. T. Casey, D. S. Clark, M. J. Edwards, S. W. Haan, A. Hamza, D. E. Hoover, W. W. Hsing, O. Hurricane, J. D. Kilkenny, J. Kroll, O. L. Landen, A. Moore, A. Nikroo, L. Peterson, K. Raman, B. A. Remington, H. F. Robey, S. V. Weber, and K. Widmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185003 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

X-ray radiography of laser-driven implosions show the temporal evolution of hydrodynamic instabilities, validating earlier theoretical predictions.

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Observation of Dipole-Induced Spin Texture in an ${}^{87}{Rb}$ Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yujiro Eto, Hiroki Saito, and Takuya Hirano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185301 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Dipole-dipole interactions in a rubidium condensate are observed experimentally for the first time by subjecting the condensate to a magnetic field.

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Inversion Symmetry Breaking by Oxygen Octahedral Rotations in the Ruddlesden-Popper $Na R {TiO}_{4}$ Family

Hirofumi Akamatsu, Koji Fujita, Toshihiro Kuge, Arnab Sen Gupta, Atsushi Togo, Shiming Lei, Fei Xue, Greg Stone, James M. Rondinelli, Long-Qing Chen, Isao Tanaka, Venkatraman Gopalan, and Katsuhisa Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187602 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

A novel class of materials with broken inversion symmetry is predicted using group theoretical analysis and confirmed experimentally by synchrotron x-ray diffraction.

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Impact of Attractive Interactions on the Rheology of Dense Athermal Particles

Ehsan Irani, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Claus Heussinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188303 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Simulations of weakly attractive soft particles subject to shear provide new insight into the links between structure, flow behavior and the origin of shear banding in these systems.

LETTERS

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

Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser with Thermal Light

Tao Peng, Hui Chen, Yanhua Shih, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180401 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Observing Interferences between Past and Future Quantum States in Resonance Fluorescence

P. Campagne-Ibarcq, L. Bretheau, E. Flurin, A. Auffèves, F. Mallet, and B. Huard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180402 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Fundamental, Multipole, and Half-Vortex Gap Solitons in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Valery E. Lobanov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Vladimir V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180403 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Quantifying Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Paul Skrzypczyk, Miguel Navascués, and Daniel Cavalcanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180404 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Hybrid Quantum Magnetism in Circuit QED: From Spin-Photon Waves to Many-Body Spectroscopy

Andreas Kurcz, Alejandro Bermudez, and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180405 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Permutationally Invariant Part of a Density Matrix and Nonseparability of $N$ -Qubit States

Ting Gao, Fengli Yan, and S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180501 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Entropy Production and Fluctuation Theorems for Langevin Processes under Continuous Non-Markovian Feedback Control

T. Munakata and M. L. Rosinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180601 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Nonequilibrium Solutions of the Boltzmann Equation under the Action of an External Force

D. Guéry-Odelin, J. G. Muga, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, and E. Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180602 (2014) - Published 6 May, 2014

Work Output and Efficiency at Maximum Power of Linear Irreversible Heat Engines Operating with a Finite-Sized Heat Source

Yuki Izumida and Koji Okuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180603 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Energy versus Information Based Estimations of Dissipation Using a Pair of Magnetic Colloidal Particles

S. Tusch, A. Kundu, G. Verley, T. Blondel, V. Miralles, D. Démoulin, D. Lacoste, and J. Baudry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180604 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of the Heat Bath for Two Brownian Particles

Caterina De Bacco, Fulvio Baldovin, Enzo Orlandini, and Ken Sekimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 180605 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Precise Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Parameter $θ_{23}$ from Muon Neutrino Disappearance in an Off-Axis Beam

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 181801 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Measurements of $t \bar{t}$ Spin Correlations and Top-Quark Polarization Using Dilepton Final States in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182001 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Enhanced Nonperturbative Effects through the Collinear Anomaly

Thomas Becher and Guido Bell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182002 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Polarizations of $χ_{c 1}$ and $χ_{c 2}$ in Prompt Production at the LHC

Hua-Sheng Shao, Yan-Qing Ma, Kai Wang, and Kuang-Ta Chao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182003 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Separated Response Function Ratios in Exclusive, Forward $π^{\pm}$ Electroproduction

G. M. Huber et al. (Jefferson Lab F_{π} Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182501 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Neutral Weak Current Two-Body Contributions in Inclusive Scattering from ${}^{12}C$

A. Lovato, S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Steven C. Pieper, and R. Schiavilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182502 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cooling Dynamics of Photoexcited ${C_{6}}^{-}$ and $C_{6} H^{-}$

G. Ito, T. Furukawa, H. Tanuma, J. Matsumoto, H. Shiromaru, T. Majima, M. Goto, T. Azuma, and K. Hansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183001 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Demonstration of a Strong Rydberg Blockade in Three-Atom Systems with Anisotropic Interactions

D. Barredo, S. Ravets, H. Labuhn, L. Béguin, A. Vernier, F. Nogrette, T. Lahaye, and A. Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183002 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Hidden Charge States in Soft-X-Ray Laser-Produced Nanoplasmas Revealed by Fluorescence Spectroscopy

L. Schroedter, M. Müller, A. Kickermann, A. Przystawik, S. Toleikis, M. Adolph, L. Flückiger, T. Gorkhover, L. Nösel, M. Krikunova, T. Oelze, Y. Ovcharenko, D. Rupp, M. Sauppe, D. Wolter, S. Schorb, C. Bostedt, T. Möller, and T. Laarmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183401 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Electrically Injected Photon-Pair Source at Room Temperature

Fabien Boitier, Adeline Orieux, Claire Autebert, Aristide Lemaître, Elisabeth Galopin, Christophe Manquest, Carlo Sirtori, Ivan Favero, Giuseppe Leo, and Sara Ducci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183901 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Researchers have fabricated an electrically powered semiconductor device that creates photon pairs.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Relative Refractory Period in an Excitable Semiconductor Laser

F. Selmi, R. Braive, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, R. Kuszelewicz, and S. Barbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183902 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Semiconductor lasers can exhibit characteristics of nerve cells, making them potentially useful for simulating biological neural networks.

Conductive Coupling of Split Ring Resonators: A Path to THz Metamaterials with Ultrasharp Resonances

Ibraheem Al-Naib, Erik Hebestreit, Carsten Rockstuhl, Falk Lederer, Demetrios Christodoulides, Tsuneyuki Ozaki, and Roberto Morandotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 183903 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Gravity-Driven Enhancement of Heavy Particle Clustering in Turbulent Flow

Jérémie Bec, Holger Homann, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 184501 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Subcritical Equilibria in Taylor-Couette Flow

Kengo Deguchi, Alvaro Meseguer, and Fernando Mellibovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 184502 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Exploration of the Transition from the Hydrodynamiclike to the Strongly Kinetic Regime in Shock-Driven Implosions

M. J. Rosenberg et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185001 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Plasma Heating by Electric Field Compression

K. Avinash and P. K. Kaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185002 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

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First Measurements of Hydrodynamic Instability Growth in Indirectly Driven Implosions at Ignition-Relevant Conditions on the National Ignition Facility

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185003 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

X-ray radiography of laser-driven implosions show the temporal evolution of hydrodynamic instabilities, validating earlier theoretical predictions.

New Edge Coherent Mode Providing Continuous Transport in Long-Pulse H-mode Plasmas

H. Q. Wang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185004 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of Dipole-Induced Spin Texture in an ${}^{87}{Rb}$ Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yujiro Eto, Hiroki Saito, and Takuya Hirano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185301 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Dipole-dipole interactions in a rubidium condensate are observed experimentally for the first time by subjecting the condensate to a magnetic field.

Universal Fractional Noncubic Power Law for Density of Metallic Glasses

Qiaoshi Zeng, Yoshio Kono, Yu Lin, Zhidan Zeng, Junyue Wang, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Changyong Park, Yue Meng, Wenge Yang, Ho-Kwang Mao, and Wendy L. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 185502 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi-Surface Reconstruction and Complex Phase Equilibria in ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

K. Gofryk, B. Saparov, T. Durakiewicz, A. Chikina, S. Danzenbächer, D. V. Vyalikh, M. J. Graf, and A. S. Sefat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186401 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Merging of Landau Levels in a Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron System in Silicon

A. A. Shashkin, V. T. Dolgopolov, J. W. Clark, V. R. Shaginyan, M. V. Zverev, and V. A. Khodel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186402 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Real-Space and Reciprocal-Space Berry Phases in the Hall Effect of ${Mn}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} Si$

C. Franz, F. Freimuth, A. Bauer, R. Ritz, C. Schnarr, C. Duvinage, T. Adams, S. Blügel, A. Rosch, Y. Mokrousov, and C. Pfleiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186601 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Extreme Thermopower Anisotropy and Interchain Transport in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Metal ${Li}_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$

J. L. Cohn, S. Moshfeghyeganeh, C. A. M. dos Santos, and J. J. Neumeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186602 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Electric-Dipole-Induced Universality for Dirac Fermions in Graphene

Alessandro De Martino, Denis Klöpfer, Davron Matrasulov, and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186603 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Experimental Observation of Dirac-like Surface States and Topological Phase Transition in ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x} Te (111)$ Films

Chenhui Yan, Junwei Liu, Yunyi Zang, Jianfeng Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Peng Wang, Zhi-Dong Zhang, Lili Wang, Xucun Ma, Shuaihua Ji, Ke He, Liang Fu, Wenhui Duan, Qi-Kun Xue, and Xi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186801 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

Density-Functional Tight-Binding Simulations of Curvature-Controlled Layer Decoupling and Band-Gap Tuning in Bilayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Pekka Koskinen, Ioanna Fampiou, and Ashwin Ramasubramaniam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186802 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Pure Scaling Operators at the Integer Quantum Hall Plateau Transition

R. Bondesan, D. Wieczorek, and M. R. Zirnbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186803 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

High- $T_{c}$ Superconductivity near the Anion Height Instability in Fe-Based Superconductors: Analysis of ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} H_{x}$

Seiichiro Onari, Youichi Yamakawa, and Hiroshi Kontani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187001 (2014) - Published 6 May, 2014

Spin-Orbit-Induced Circulating Currents in a Semiconductor Nanostructure

J. van Bree, A. Yu. Silov, P. M. Koenraad, and M. E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187201 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Ferro-Orbital Ordering Transition in Iron Telluride ${Fe}_{1 + y} Te$

David Fobes, Igor A. Zaliznyak, Zhijun Xu, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, John M. Tranquada, Leland Harriger, Deepak Singh, V. Ovidiu Garlea, Mark Lumsden, and Barry Winn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187202 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

ac Current Generation in Chiral Magnetic Insulators and Skyrmion Motion induced by the Spin Seebeck Effect

Shi-Zeng Lin, Cristian D. Batista, Charles Reichhardt, and Avadh Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187203 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Classical Antiferromagnetism in Kinetically Frustrated Electronic Models

C. N. Sposetti, B. Bravo, A. E. Trumper, C. J. Gazza, and L. O. Manuel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187204 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Optical Characterization of Electron-Phonon Interactions at the Saddle Point in Graphene

Adam T. Roberts, Rolf Binder, Nai H. Kwong, Dheeraj Golla, Daniel Cormode, Brian J. LeRoy, Henry O. Everitt, and Arvinder Sandhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187401 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Electrically and Mechanically Tunable Electron Spins in Silicon Carbide Color Centers

Abram L. Falk, Paul V. Klimov, Bob B. Buckley, Viktor Ivády, Igor A. Abrikosov, Greg Calusine, William F. Koehl, Ádám Gali, and David D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187601 (2014) - Published 5 May, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inversion Symmetry Breaking by Oxygen Octahedral Rotations in the Ruddlesden-Popper $Na R {TiO}_{4}$ Family

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187602 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

A novel class of materials with broken inversion symmetry is predicted using group theoretical analysis and confirmed experimentally by synchrotron x-ray diffraction.

Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Hydrated Electrons Near a Liquid Water Surface

Yo-ichi Yamamoto, Yoshi-Ichi Suzuki, Gaia Tomasello, Takuya Horio, Shutaro Karashima, Roland Mitríc, and Toshinori Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 187603 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Eliminating Friction with Friction: 2D Janssen Effect in a Friction-Driven System

M. Yasinul Karim and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188001 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

For frictional grains on a conveyor belt, the pressure on the bottom can be substantially reduced if the boundary surfaces have a sawtooth shape.

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Measuring Lipid Membrane Viscosity Using Rotational and Translational Probe Diffusion

Tristan T. Hormel, Sarah Q. Kurihara, M. Kathleen Brennan, Matthew C. Wozniak, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188101 (2014) - Published 6 May, 2014

A new method for measuring membrane viscosity allows a closer look at the effect of different proteins on the dynamical properties of the cell.

Selective Advantage of Diffusing Faster

Simone Pigolotti and Roberto Benzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188102 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Critical Onset of Layering in Sedimenting Suspensions of Nanoparticles

A. V. Butenko, P. M. Nanikashvili, D. Zitoun, and E. Sloutskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188301 (2014) - Published 7 May, 2014

Glass Transition Accelerates the Spreading of Polar Solvents on a Soluble Polymer

Julien Dupas, Emilie Verneuil, Maxime Van Landeghem, Bruno Bresson, Laurent Forny, Marco Ramaioli, Francois Lequeux, and Laurence Talini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188302 (2014) - Published 6 May, 2014

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Impact of Attractive Interactions on the Rheology of Dense Athermal Particles

Ehsan Irani, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Claus Heussinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 188303 (2014) - Published 9 May, 2014

Simulations of weakly attractive soft particles subject to shear provide new insight into the links between structure, flow behavior and the origin of shear banding in these systems.

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Subcycle Dynamics of Coulomb Asymmetry in Strong Elliptical Laser Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 023006 (2013)]

Min Li, Yunquan Liu, Hong Liu, Qicheng Ning, Libin Fu, Jie Liu, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Liang-You Peng, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 189901 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Charge Fractionalization in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 166801 (2014)]

Hiroyuki Inoue, Anna Grivnin, Nissim Ofek, Izhar Neder, Moty Heiblum, Vladimir Umansky, and Diana Mahalu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 189902 (2014) - Published 8 May, 2014