Volume 112, Issue 19

16 May 2014

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Optical micrograph of a nematic liquid crystal drop in a polymer matrix, obtained with crossed polarizers and an additional phase retardation plate.

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Topological Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals with Bulk Nematic Defect Lines Pinned to Handlebody Surfaces
Michael G. Campbell, Mykola Tasinkevych, and Ivan I. Smalyukh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 197801 (2014)

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Observation of the Second Triatomic Resonance in Efimov’s Scenario

Bo Huang ((黄博)), Leonid A. Sidorenkov, Rudolf Grimm, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190401 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

A larger form of the three-body entity called an Efimov state has been experimentally observed, confirming the discrete scaling factor predicted by theory.

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How Much Can We Learn about the Physics of Inflation?

Scott Dodelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191301 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

The large amplitude of primordial gravitational waves seen by BICEP2 will allow for sensitive tests of inflation by future measurements.

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Inflationary Tensor Perturbations after BICEP2

Jerod Caligiuri and Arthur Kosowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191302 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

The large amplitude of primordial gravitational waves seen by BICEP2 will allow for sensitive tests of inflation by future measurements.

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Anomalous Light Absorption around Subwavelength Apertures in Metal Films

O. Lozan, M. Perrin, B. Ea-Kim, J. M. Rampnoux, S. Dilhaire, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193903 (2014) - Published 16 May, 2014

Experiments looking at surface-bound light emanating from a thin slit find less of the light is absorbed by the surface material than expected.

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Why Charged Molecules Move Across a Temperature Gradient: The Role of Electric Fields

Maren Reichl, Mario Herzog, Alexandra Götz, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 198101 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

Researchers have developed a complete theory for thermophoresis—the process by which molecules in a liquid move under the influence of temperature—and tested it under a wide range of conditions.

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Can Primordial Magnetic Fields be the Origin of the BICEP2 Data?

Camille Bonvin, Ruth Durrer, and Roy Maartens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191303 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Primordial magnetic fields could contribute to the large tensor to scalar ratio reported by BICEP2’s measurement of the cosmic microwave background polarization, reducing the disparity with earlier observations by the Planck satellite.

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Natural Higgs Mass in Supersymmetry from Nondecoupling Effects

Xiaochuan Lu, Hitoshi Murayama, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191803 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

A novel extension of the standard model allows for large supersymmetry breaking without a fine-tuning of parameters, therefore maintaining naturalness.

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Novel Method to Study Neutron Capture of ${}^{235}U$ and ${}^{238}U$ Simultaneously at keV Energies

A. Wallner, T. Belgya, M. Bichler, K. Buczak, I. Dillmann, F. Käppeler, C. Lederer, A. Mengoni, F. Quinto, P. Steier, and L. Szentmiklosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 192501 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

The keV and MeV neutron capture cross-sections of different uranium isotopes are measured using a new technique, which combines accelerator mass spectrometry and neutron activation.

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Measurements of Fusion Reactions of Low-Intensity Radioactive Carbon Beams on ${}^{12}C$ and their Implications for the Understanding of X-Ray Bursts

P. F. F. Carnelli, S. Almaraz-Calderon, K. E. Rehm, M. Albers, M. Alcorta, P. F. Bertone, B. Digiovine, H. Esbensen, J. O. Fernández Niello, D. Henderson, C. L. Jiang, J. Lai, S. T. Marley, O. Nusair, T. Palchan-Hazan, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, and C. Ugalde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 192701 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

The first measurement of the radioactive $^{10, 14, 15}$ C on $^{12}$ C cross section provides valuable input to theoretical calculations of fusion taking place in the crusts of neutron stars.

LETTERS

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

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Observation of the Second Triatomic Resonance in Efimov’s Scenario

Bo Huang ((黄博)), Leonid A. Sidorenkov, Rudolf Grimm, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190401 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

A larger form of the three-body entity called an Efimov state has been experimentally observed, confirming the discrete scaling factor predicted by theory.

Probing Macroscopic Realism via Ramsey Correlation Measurements

A. Asadian, C. Brukner, and P. Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190402 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

Heisenberg-Limited Atom Clocks Based on Entangled Qubits

E. M. Kessler, P. Kómár, M. Bishof, L. Jiang, A. S. Sørensen, J. Ye, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190403 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Hamiltonian Learning and Certification Using Quantum Resources

Nathan Wiebe, Christopher Granade, Christopher Ferrie, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190501 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Optimal Quantum Control of Multimode Couplings between Trapped Ion Qubits for Scalable Entanglement

T. Choi, S. Debnath, T. A. Manning, C. Figgatt, Z.-X. Gong, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190502 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Experimental Demonstration of Polarization Encoding Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Zhiyuan Tang, Zhongfa Liao, Feihu Xu, Bing Qi, Li Qian, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190503 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Fast Accurate State Measurement with Superconducting Qubits

Evan Jeffrey, Daniel Sank, J. Y. Mutus, T. C. White, J. Kelly, R. Barends, Y. Chen, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, A. Megrant, P. J. J. O’Malley, C. Neill, P. Roushan, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 190504 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nonmodal Linear Stability of the Schwarzschild Black Hole

Gustavo Dotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191101 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

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How Much Can We Learn about the Physics of Inflation?

Scott Dodelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191301 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

The large amplitude of primordial gravitational waves seen by BICEP2 will allow for sensitive tests of inflation by future measurements.

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Inflationary Tensor Perturbations after BICEP2

Jerod Caligiuri and Arthur Kosowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191302 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

The large amplitude of primordial gravitational waves seen by BICEP2 will allow for sensitive tests of inflation by future measurements.

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Can Primordial Magnetic Fields be the Origin of the BICEP2 Data?

Camille Bonvin, Ruth Durrer, and Roy Maartens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191303 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

New Constraints on Dark Matter Effective Theories from Standard Model Loops

Andreas Crivellin, Francesco D’Eramo, and Massimiliano Procura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191304 (2014) - Published 16 May, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Combined Analysis of $ν_{μ}$ Disappearance and $ν_{μ} \to ν_{e}$ Appearance in MINOS Using Accelerator and Atmospheric Neutrinos

P. Adamson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191801 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Measurement of Inclusive $W$ and $Z$ Boson Production Cross Sections in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191802 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

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Natural Higgs Mass in Supersymmetry from Nondecoupling Effects

Xiaochuan Lu, Hitoshi Murayama, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191803 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

A novel extension of the standard model allows for large supersymmetry breaking without a fine-tuning of parameters, therefore maintaining naturalness.

Noncommuting Momenta of Topological Solitons

Haruki Watanabe and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 191804 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Nuclear Physics

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Novel Method to Study Neutron Capture of ${}^{235}U$ and ${}^{238}U$ Simultaneously at keV Energies

A. Wallner, T. Belgya, M. Bichler, K. Buczak, I. Dillmann, F. Käppeler, C. Lederer, A. Mengoni, F. Quinto, P. Steier, and L. Szentmiklosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 192501 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

The keV and MeV neutron capture cross-sections of different uranium isotopes are measured using a new technique, which combines accelerator mass spectrometry and neutron activation.

Laser-Nucleus Reactions: Population of States Far above Yrast and Far from Stability

A. Pálffy and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 192502 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

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Measurements of Fusion Reactions of Low-Intensity Radioactive Carbon Beams on ${}^{12}C$ and their Implications for the Understanding of X-Ray Bursts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 192701 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

The first measurement of the radioactive $^{10, 14, 15}$ C on $^{12}$ C cross section provides valuable input to theoretical calculations of fusion taking place in the crusts of neutron stars.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhanced One-Photon Double Ionization of Atoms and Molecules in an Environment of Different Species

V. Stumpf, N. V. Kryzhevoi, K. Gokhberg, and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193001 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Subcycle Control of Electron-Electron Correlation in Double Ionization

Li Zhang, Xinhua Xie, Stefan Roither, Yueming Zhou, Peixiang Lu, Daniil Kartashov, Markus Schöffler, Dror Shafir, Paul B. Corkum, Andrius Baltuška, André Staudte, and Markus Kitzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193002 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Interaction-Induced Quantum Phase Revivals and Evidence for the Transition to the Quantum Chaotic Regime in 1D Atomic Bloch Oscillations

F. Meinert, M. J. Mark, E. Kirilov, K. Lauber, P. Weinmann, M. Gröbner, and H.-C. Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193003 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Far-Field Signatures of a Two-Body Bound State in Collective Emission from Interacting Two-Level Atoms on a Lattice

Paolo Longo and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193601 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nature of Spatiotemporal Light Bullets in Bulk Kerr Media

D. Majus, G. Tamošauskas, I. Gražulevičiūtė, N. Garejev, A. Lotti, A. Couairon, D. Faccio, and A. Dubietis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193901 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Observation of Migrating Transverse Anderson Localizations of Light in Nonlocal Media

Marco Leonetti, Salman Karbasi, Arash Mafi, and Claudio Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193902 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

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Anomalous Light Absorption around Subwavelength Apertures in Metal Films

O. Lozan, M. Perrin, B. Ea-Kim, J. M. Rampnoux, S. Dilhaire, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 193903 (2014) - Published 16 May, 2014

Experiments looking at surface-bound light emanating from a thin slit find less of the light is absorbed by the surface material than expected.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Long-Term Evolution of Broken Wakefields in Finite-Radius Plasmas

K. V. Lotov, A. P. Sosedkin, and A. V. Petrenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 194801 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

2D X-Ray Radiography of Imploding Capsules at the National Ignition Facility

J. R. Rygg, O. S. Jones, J. E. Field, M. A. Barrios, L. R. Benedetti, G. W. Collins, D. C. Eder, M. J. Edwards, J. L. Kline, J. J. Kroll, O. L. Landen, T. Ma, A. Pak, J. L. Peterson, K. Raman, R. P. J. Town, and D. K. Bradley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 195001 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Three-Component Ultracold Fermi Gases with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Lihong Zhou, Xiaoling Cui, and Wei Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 195301 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Driving Ordering Processes in Molecular-Dynamics Simulations

Harro Dittmar and Peter G. Kusalik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 195701 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Frozen Topology: Entanglements Control Nucleation and Crystallization in Polymers

Chuanfu Luo and Jens-Uwe Sommer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 195702 (2014) - Published 16 May, 2014

Metastable States and Wetting Transition of Submerged Superhydrophobic Structures

Pengyu Lv, Yahui Xue, Yipeng Shi, Hao Lin, and Huiling Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196101 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

${TiO}_{2}$ /Ferroelectric Heterostructures as Dynamic Polarization-Promoted Catalysts for Photochemical and Electrochemical Oxidation of Water

Jun Hee Lee and Annabella Selloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196102 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

Atomic Monolayer Deposition on the Surface of Nanotube Mechanical Resonators

A. Tavernarakis, J. Chaste, A. Eichler, G. Ceballos, M. C. Gordillo, J. Boronat, and A. Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196103 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Density-Functional Theory of Thermoelectric Phenomena

F. G. Eich, M. Di Ventra, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196401 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

From Infinite to Two Dimensions through the Functional Renormalization Group

C. Taranto, S. Andergassen, J. Bauer, K. Held, A. Katanin, W. Metzner, G. Rohringer, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196402 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Qubits Based on Polariton Rabi Oscillators

S. S. Demirchyan, I. Yu. Chestnov, A. P. Alodjants, M. M. Glazov, and A. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196403 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Characterization of a Topological Mott Insulator in One Dimension

Tsuneya Yoshida, Robert Peters, Satoshi Fujimoto, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196404 (2014) - Published 16 May, 2014

Selective Equilibration of Spin-Polarized Quantum Hall Edge States in Graphene

F. Amet, J. R. Williams, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196601 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Emergence of Massless Dirac Fermions in Graphene’s Hofstadter Butterfly at Switches of the Quantum Hall Phase Connectivity

M. Diez, J. P. Dahlhaus, M. Wimmer, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196602 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

First Principles Explanation of the Positive Seebeck Coefficient of Lithium

Bin Xu and Matthieu J. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196603 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Transport Properties of a 3D Topological Insulator based on a Strained High-Mobility HgTe Film

D. A. Kozlov, Z. D. Kvon, E. B. Olshanetsky, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretsky, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196801 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Competition between Covalent Bonding and Charge Transfer at Complex-Oxide Interfaces

Juan Salafranca, Julián Rincón, Javier Tornos, Carlos León, Jacobo Santamaria, Elbio Dagotto, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Maria Varela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196802 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Transport Signatures of Fractional Fermions in Rashba Nanowires

Diego Rainis, Arijit Saha, Jelena Klinovaja, Luka Trifunovic, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 196803 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Doping Nature of Native Defects in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

B. Hildebrand, C. Didiot, A. M. Novello, G. Monney, A. Scarfato, A. Ubaldini, H. Berger, D. R. Bowler, C. Renner, and P. Aebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 197001 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Scaling of Spin Hall Angle in 3d, 4d, and 5d Metals from $Y_{3} {Fe}_{5} O_{12}$ /Metal Spin Pumping

H. L. Wang, C. H. Du, Y. Pu, R. Adur, P. C. Hammel, and F. Y. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 197201 (2014) - Published 15 May, 2014

Terahertz and Gigahertz Emission from an All-Silicon Nanocrystal

Holger Vach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 197401 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

Multiple Soft-Mode Vibrations of Lead Zirconate

J. Hlinka, T. Ostapchuk, E. Buixaderas, C. Kadlec, P. Kuzel, I. Gregora, J. Kroupa, M. Savinov, A. Klic, J. Drahokoupil, I. Etxebarria, and J. Dec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 197601 (2014) - Published 12 May, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Topological Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals with Bulk Nematic Defect Lines Pinned to Handlebody Surfaces

Michael G. Campbell, Mykola Tasinkevych, and Ivan I. Smalyukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 197801 (2014) - Published 16 May, 2014

Kovacs-Like Memory Effect in Driven Granular Gases

A. Prados and E. Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 198001 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014

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Why Charged Molecules Move Across a Temperature Gradient: The Role of Electric Fields

Maren Reichl, Mario Herzog, Alexandra Götz, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 198101 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

Researchers have developed a complete theory for thermophoresis—the process by which molecules in a liquid move under the influence of temperature—and tested it under a wide range of conditions.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Towards Direct-Gap Silicon Phases by the Inverse Band Structure Design Approach”

Maximilian Amsler, José A. Flores-Livas, Silvana Botti, Miguel A. L. Marques, and Stefan Goedecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 199801 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

Xiang et al. Reply:

H. J. Xiang, Bing Huang, Erjun Kan, Su-Huai Wei, and X. G. Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 199802 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

ERRATA

Erratum: Oscillatory Vertical Coupling between a Whispering-Gallery Resonator and a Bus Waveguide [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 163901 (2013)]

M. Ghulinyan, F. Ramiro-Manzano, N. Prtljaga, R. Guider, I. Carusotto, A. Pitanti, G. Pucker, and L. Pavesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 199901 (2014) - Published 13 May, 2014

Erratum: Enigmatic $4 / 11$ State: A Prototype for Unconventional Fractional Quantum Hall Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 016801 (2014)]

Sutirtha Mukherjee, Sudhansu S. Mandal, Ying-Hai Wu, Arkadiusz Wójs, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 199902 (2014) - Published 14 May, 2014