Volume 112, Issue 21

30 May 2014

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Spontaneous creation of periodically oscillating and colliding dark soliton pairs.

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Creation and Abrupt Decay of a Quasistationary Dark Soliton in a Polariton Condensate
Yan Xue and Michał Matuszewski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216401 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Interaction of Fixed Number of Photons with Retinal Rod Cells

Nam Mai Phan, Mei Fun Cheng, Dmitri A. Bessarab, and Leonid A. Krivitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213601 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Scientists have measured the quantum efficiency of retinal cells using single photons.

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Electron Dynamics in the Diffusion Region of an Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection

D. B. Graham, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, A. Vaivads, M. André, and A. N. Fazakerley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215004 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Satellite observations of the Earth’s magnetosphere reveal how electrons are heated when plasmas with different densities, temperatures, and magnetic field strengths collide.

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Size-Dependent Same-Material Tribocharging in Insulating Grains

Scott R. Waitukaitis, Victor Lee, James M. Pierson, Steven L. Forman, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 218001 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Experiments show that the buildup of charge in a collection of grains is not due to the transfer of electrons.

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Quantum Discord Determines the Interferometric Power of Quantum States

Davide Girolami, Alexandre M. Souza, Vittorio Giovannetti, Tommaso Tufarelli, Jefferson G. Filgueiras, Roberto S. Sarthour, Diogo O. Soares-Pinto, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210401 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Noisy quantum states, with quantum correlations but not entanglement, are shown to be useful for precise phase estimation, outperforming purely classically correlated states.

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Proposal for a Noninterferometric Test of Collapse Models in Optomechanical Systems

M. Bahrami, M. Paternostro, A. Bassi, and H. Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210404 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

A new scheme based on an optomechanical cavity and a vibrating mirror operated at low temperatures could provide the first test of the quantum superposition at the macro scale.

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Strong-Field Tunneling from a Coherent Superposition of Electronic States

Lutz Fechner, Nicolas Camus, Joachim Ullrich, Thomas Pfeifer, and Robert Moshammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213001 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

The wavefunction evolution of excited electronic states of argon is directly imaged from the momentum distribution of the electrons.

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Embedded Photonic Eigenvalues in 3D Nanostructures

Francesco Monticone and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213903 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Subwavelength layered plasmonic nanospheres can be tuned to excite specific scattering resonances with infinite lifetimes.

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Coherent Electronic Coupling in Atomically Thin ${MoSe}_{2}$

Akshay Singh, Galan Moody, Sanfeng Wu, Yanwen Wu, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Xiaodong Xu, and Xiaoqin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216804 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Two-dimensional spectroscopy is applied to transition metal dichalcogenides for the first time, showing coherent electronic coupling between excitons and trions.

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Inertial Mass Transport and Capillary Hydraulic Jump in a Liquid Foam Microchannel

Alexandre Cohen, Nathalie Fraysse, Jean Rajchenbach, Médéric Argentina, Yann Bouret, and Christophe Raufaste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 218303 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

A surprisingly fast flow of liquid is observed in foam microchannels due to capillarity and the deformable liquid-air interface of the foam.

LETTERS

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

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Quantum Discord Determines the Interferometric Power of Quantum States

Davide Girolami, Alexandre M. Souza, Vittorio Giovannetti, Tommaso Tufarelli, Jefferson G. Filgueiras, Roberto S. Sarthour, Diogo O. Soares-Pinto, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210401 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Noisy quantum states, with quantum correlations but not entanglement, are shown to be useful for precise phase estimation, outperforming purely classically correlated states.

Non-Markovianity through Accessible Information

F. F. Fanchini, G. Karpat, B. Çakmak, L. K. Castelano, G. H. Aguilar, O. Jiménez Farías, S. P. Walborn, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, and M. C. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210402 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Phase Space Distribution Near the Self-Excited Oscillation Threshold

Yuvaraj Dhayalan, Ilya Baskin, Keren Shlomi, and Eyal Buks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210403 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

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Proposal for a Noninterferometric Test of Collapse Models in Optomechanical Systems

M. Bahrami, M. Paternostro, A. Bassi, and H. Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210404 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

A new scheme based on an optomechanical cavity and a vibrating mirror operated at low temperatures could provide the first test of the quantum superposition at the macro scale.

Measuring Topological Invariants in Photonic Systems

Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210405 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Catching Time-Reversed Microwave Coherent State Photons with 99.4% Absorption Efficiency

J. Wenner, Yi Yin, Yu Chen, R. Barends, B. Chiaro, E. Jeffrey, J. Kelly, A. Megrant, J. Y. Mutus, C. Neill, P. J. J. O’Malley, P. Roushan, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, T. C. White, Alexander N. Korotkov, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210501 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Global Symmetry is Unnecessary for Fast Quantum Search

Jonatan Janmark, David A. Meyer, and Thomas G. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210502 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Spreading of Perturbations in Long-Range Interacting Classical Lattice Models

David Métivier, Romain Bachelard, and Michael Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210601 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Universal Order and Gap Statistics of Critical Branching Brownian Motion

Kabir Ramola, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210602 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

First Experimental Constraint on the ${}^{59}{Fe} (n, γ) {}^{60}{Fe}$ Reaction Cross Section at Astrophysical Energies via the Coulomb Dissociation of ${}^{60}{Fe}$

E. Uberseder et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 211101 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for $C P$ Violation in $D^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0}$ Decays

N. K. Nisar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 211601 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Effective Field Theory for Heavy Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Scattering with Nucleons

Richard J. Hill and Mikhail P. Solon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 211602 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Probing Resonance Decays to Two Visible and Multiple Invisible Particles

Won Sang Cho, Doojin Kim, Konstantin T. Matchev, and Myeonghun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 211801 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Measurement of the $B \to X_{s} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Branching Fraction and Search for Direct $C P$ Violation from a Sum of Exclusive Final States

J. P. Lees et al. (BaBar Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 211802 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Accessing the Transverse Dynamics and Polarization of Gluons inside the Proton at the LHC

Wilco J. den Dunnen, Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Cristian Pisano, and Marc Schlegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 212001 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Prediction of the $D_{s}^{*}$ Width from a Calculation of its Radiative Decay in Full Lattice QCD

G. C. Donald, C. T. H. Davies, J. Koponen, and G. P. Lepage (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 212002 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Calculation of $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Observables Using Form Factors from Lattice QCD

Ronald R. Horgan, Zhaofeng Liu, Stefan Meinel, and Matthew Wingate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 212003 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Half-Life of the $T = \frac{1}{2}$ Mirror Decay of ${}^{19}{Ne}$ and its Implication on Physics Beyond the Standard Model

L. J. Broussard, H. O. Back, M. S. Boswell, A. S. Crowell, P. Dendooven, G. S. Giri, C. R. Howell, M. F. Kidd, K. Jungmann, W. L. Kruithof, A. Mol, C. J. G. Onderwater, R. W. Pattie, Jr., P. D. Shidling, M. Sohani, D. J. van der Hoek, A. Rogachevskiy, E. Traykov, O. O. Versolato, L. Willmann, H. W. Wilschut, and A. R. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 212301 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Strong-Field Tunneling from a Coherent Superposition of Electronic States

Lutz Fechner, Nicolas Camus, Joachim Ullrich, Thomas Pfeifer, and Robert Moshammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213001 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

The wavefunction evolution of excited electronic states of argon is directly imaged from the momentum distribution of the electrons.

Time-Dependent Multiphoton Ionization of Xenon in the Soft-X-Ray Regime

N. Gerken, S. Klumpp, A. A. Sorokin, K. Tiedtke, M. Richter, V. Bürk, K. Mertens, P. Juranić, and M. Martins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213002 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

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Interaction of Fixed Number of Photons with Retinal Rod Cells

Nam Mai Phan, Mei Fun Cheng, Dmitri A. Bessarab, and Leonid A. Krivitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213601 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Scientists have measured the quantum efficiency of retinal cells using single photons.

Coherent Polariton Dynamics in Coupled Highly Dissipative Cavities

Yong-Chun Liu, Xingsheng Luan, Hao-Kun Li, Qihuang Gong, Chee Wei Wong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213602 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

$GV / m$ Single-Cycle Terahertz Fields from a Laser-Driven Large-Size Partitioned Organic Crystal

Carlo Vicario, Balazs Monoszlai, and Christoph P. Hauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213901 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Angular Talbot effect

José Azaña and Hugues Guillet de Chatellus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213902 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

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Embedded Photonic Eigenvalues in 3D Nanostructures

Francesco Monticone and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213903 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Subwavelength layered plasmonic nanospheres can be tuned to excite specific scattering resonances with infinite lifetimes.

Generating Non-Rayleigh Speckles with Tailored Intensity Statistics

Yaron Bromberg and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 213904 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Clustering of Particles Falling in a Turbulent Flow

K. Gustavsson, S. Vajedi, and B. Mehlig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 214501 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Laser Driven Donut Wakefields for Positron and Electron Acceleration

J. Vieira and J. T. Mendonça

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215001 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Magnetic Reconnection and Intermittent Turbulence in the Solar Wind

K. T. Osman, W. H. Matthaeus, J. T. Gosling, A. Greco, S. Servidio, B. Hnat, S. C. Chapman, and T. D. Phan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215002 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Collimation of Energetic Electrons from a Laser-Target Interaction by a Magnetized Target Back Plasma Preformed by a Long-Pulse Laser

H. B. Zhuo, Z. L. Chen, Z. M. Sheng, M. Chen, T. Yabuuchi, M. Tampo, M. Y. Yu, X. H. Yang, C. T. Zhou, K. A. Tanaka, J. Zhang, and R. Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215003 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

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Electron Dynamics in the Diffusion Region of an Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection

D. B. Graham, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, A. Vaivads, M. André, and A. N. Fazakerley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215004 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Satellite observations of the Earth’s magnetosphere reveal how electrons are heated when plasmas with different densities, temperatures, and magnetic field strengths collide.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Many-Body Effects on the Zero-Point Renormalization of the Band Structure

G. Antonius, S. Poncé, P. Boulanger, M. Côté, and X. Gonze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215501 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Extreme-Value Distributions and the Freezing Transition of Structural Glasses

Michele Castellana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 215701 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Collapse and Reversibility of the Superhydrophobic State on Nanotextured Surfaces

Antonio Checco, Benjamin M. Ocko, Atikur Rahman, Charles T. Black, Mykola Tasinkevych, Alberto Giacomello, and Siegfried Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216101 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Creation and Abrupt Decay of a Quasistationary Dark Soliton in a Polariton Condensate

Yan Xue and Michał Matuszewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216401 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Tunable Nonequilibrium Luttinger Liquid Based on Counterpropagating Edge Channels

M. G. Prokudina, S. Ludwig, V. Pellegrini, L. Sorba, G. Biasiol, and V. S. Khrapai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216402 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Intrinsic Mobility Limiting Mechanisms in Lanthanum-Doped Strontium Titanate

Amit Verma, Adam P. Kajdos, Tyler A. Cain, Susanne Stemmer, and Debdeep Jena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216601 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Band-Edge Noise Spectroscopy of a Magnetic Tunnel Junction

Farkhad G. Aliev, Juan Pedro Cascales, Ali Hallal, Mairbek Chshiev, and Stephane Andrieu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216801 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Out-of-Equilibrium Properties and Nonlinear Effects for Interacting Quantum Impurity Systems in the Strong-Coupling Regime

L. Freton and E. Boulat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216802 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Quantum Spin Hall and Quantum Anomalous Hall States Realized in Junction Quantum Wells

Haijun Zhang, Yong Xu, Jing Wang, Kai Chang, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216803 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

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Coherent Electronic Coupling in Atomically Thin ${MoSe}_{2}$

Akshay Singh, Galan Moody, Sanfeng Wu, Yanwen Wu, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Xiaodong Xu, and Xiaoqin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216804 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Two-dimensional spectroscopy is applied to transition metal dichalcogenides for the first time, showing coherent electronic coupling between excitons and trions.

Entanglement Detection in Coupled Particle Plasmons

Javier del Pino, Johannes Feist, F. J. García-Vidal, and Juan Jose García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216805 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Antilocalization of Coulomb Blockade in a Ge/Si Nanowire

A. P. Higginbotham, F. Kuemmeth, T. W. Larsen, M. Fitzpatrick, J. Yao, H. Yan, C. M. Lieber, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 216806 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014

Artificial Topological Superconductor by the Proximity Effect

Jin-Peng Xu, Canhua Liu, Mei-Xiao Wang, Jianfeng Ge, Zhi-Long Liu, Xiaojun Yang, Yan Chen, Ying Liu, Zhu-An Xu, Chun-Lei Gao, Dong Qian, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Jin-Feng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 217001 (2014) - Published 30 May, 2014

Exact Results for Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Multiorbital Systems on Square and Cubic Lattices

Yi Li, Elliott H. Lieb, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 217201 (2014) - Published 27 May, 2014

Effect of Pnictogen Height on Spin Waves in Iron Pnictides

Chenglin Zhang, Leland W. Harriger, Zhiping Yin, Weicheng Lv, Miaoyin Wang, Guotai Tan, Yu Song, D. L. Abernathy, Wei Tian, Takeshi Egami, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 217202 (2014) - Published 28 May, 2014

Imaging Ultrafast Demagnetization Dynamics after a Spatially Localized Optical Excitation

C. von Korff Schmising, B. Pfau, M. Schneider, C. M. Günther, M. Giovannella, J. Perron, B. Vodungbo, L. Müller, F. Capotondi, E. Pedersoli, N. Mahne, J. Lüning, and S. Eisebitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 217203 (2014) - Published 29 May, 2014