Volume 112, Issue 23

13 June 2014

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Overhead view of planar patterns obtained by shadow lithography: Evaporated metal atoms are deposited obliquely onto a monolayer colloidal crystal of spheres on a rotating substrate. Colors and brightness represent values of rotation and deposition tilt angles, respectively.

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Characterization of Patterns Formed by Shadows of Spheres
Sarah V. Kostinski, Elizabeth R. Chen, and Michael P. Brenner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 235502 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a $W$ Boson in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231802 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Separate collider experiments observe the top quark without its usual antiparticle partner in unique processes that could give insight into new physics, such as additional sets of quarks.

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Observation of $s$ -Channel Production of Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration†, D0 Collaboration‡)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231803 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Separate collider experiments observe the top quark without its usual antiparticle partner in unique processes that could give insight into new physics, such as additional sets of quarks.

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Room Temperature Electrically Injected Polariton Laser

Pallab Bhattacharya, Thomas Frost, Saniya Deshpande, Md Zunaid Baten, Arnab Hazari, and Ayan Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236802 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

A new polariton laser is electrically powered and operates at room temperatures, making it more useful for optical electronic application than previous designs.

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Numerical Evidence for Nucleated Self-Assembly of DNA Brick Structures

Aleks Reinhardt and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238103 (2014) - Published 11 June, 2014

Computer simulations suggest that mixtures of hundreds of distinct nanoparticles or colloids can self-assemble into well-defined structures.

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Hyperfine Splitting of the $2 s_{1 / 2}$ and $2 p_{1 / 2}$ Levels in Li- and Be-like Ions of ${}_{59}^{141}\Pr$

P. Beiersdorfer, E. Träbert, G. V. Brown, J. Clementson, D. B. Thorn, M. H. Chen, K. T. Cheng, and J. Sapirstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233003 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopic measurements of the hyperfine splittings in high-Z ions provide insight into the fundamental interactions between light and atoms in strong fields.

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Localization-Delocalization Transitions in Turbophoresis of Inertial Particles

S. Belan, I. Fouxon, and G. Falkovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234502 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

A theoretical study of particles diffusing in a fluid subject to temperature or turbulent gradients, shows that, due to their inertia, heavy particles can escape local minima, such as walls, ‘flying’ away, where lighter particles will accumulate.

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Single-Shot Readout and Relaxation of Singlet and Triplet States in Exchange-Coupled ${}^{31}P$ Electron Spins in Silicon

Juan P. Dehollain, Juha T. Muhonen, Kuan Y. Tan, Andre Saraiva, David N. Jamieson, Andrew S. Dzurak, and Andrea Morello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236801 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Time-resolved measurements of the exchange coupling between pairs of phosphorous dopants in silicon give concrete ideas of what would be needed to implement 2-qubit quantum logic gates in this system.

LETTERS

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

Accelerating search kinetics by following boundaries

T. Calandre, O. Bénichou, and R. Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 230601 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Disordered Horizons: Holography of Randomly Disordered Fixed Points

Sean A. Hartnoll and Jorge E. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231601 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Anomalous Discrete Symmetries in Three Dimensions and Group Cohomology

Anton Kapustin and Ryan Thorngren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231602 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Measurement of Ratios of $ν_{μ}$ Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2–20 GeV

B. G. Tice et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231801 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

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Observation of the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a $W$ Boson in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231802 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Separate collider experiments observe the top quark without its usual antiparticle partner in unique processes that could give insight into new physics, such as additional sets of quarks.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Observation of $s$ -Channel Production of Single Top Quarks at the Tevatron

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration†, D0 Collaboration‡)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231803 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Separate collider experiments observe the top quark without its usual antiparticle partner in unique processes that could give insight into new physics, such as additional sets of quarks.

Evidence for $s$ -Channel Single-Top-Quark Production in Events with One Charged Lepton and Two Jets at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231804 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Search for $s$ -Channel Single-Top-Quark Production in Events with Missing Energy Plus Jets in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231805 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Measurements of Four-Lepton Production at the $Z$ Resonance in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 8 TeV with ATLAS

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231806 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for Flow from Hydrodynamic Simulations of $p − Pb$ Collisions at 5.02 TeV from $v_{2}$ Mass Splitting

K. Werner, M. Bleicher, B. Guiot, Iu. Karpenko, and T. Pierog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 232301 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mechanisms of Below-Threshold Harmonic Generation in Atoms

Wei-Hao Xiong, Ji-Wei Geng, Jing-Yi Tang, Liang-You Peng, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233001 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Enhancing the Macroscopic Yield of Narrow-Band High-Order Harmonic Generation by Fano Resonances

Jan Rothhardt, Steffen Hädrich, Stefan Demmler, Manuel Krebs, Stephan Fritzsche, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233002 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

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Hyperfine Splitting of the $2 s_{1 / 2}$ and $2 p_{1 / 2}$ Levels in Li- and Be-like Ions of ${}_{59}^{141}\Pr$

P. Beiersdorfer, E. Träbert, G. V. Brown, J. Clementson, D. B. Thorn, M. H. Chen, K. T. Cheng, and J. Sapirstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233003 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopic measurements of the hyperfine splittings in high-Z ions provide insight into the fundamental interactions between light and atoms in strong fields.

Photon-Assisted Confinement-Induced Resonances for Ultracold Atoms

Vicente Leyton, Maryam Roghani, Vittorio Peano, and Michael Thorwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233201 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Counterintuitive Dispersion Violating Kramers-Kronig Relations in Gain Slabs

Li-Gang Wang, Lin Wang, M. Al-Amri, Shi-Yao Zhu, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233601 (2014) - Published 11 June, 2014

Theory of Single-Shot Phase Contrast Imaging in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke and Tim Byrnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233602 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Eigenpolarizations for Giant Transverse Optical Beam Shifts

Jörg B. Götte, Wolfgang Löffler, and Mark R. Dennis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 233901 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Two Scenarios for Quantum Multifractality Breakdown

R. Dubertrand, I. García-Mata, B. Georgeot, O. Giraud, G. Lemarié, and J. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234101 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Experimental Demonstration of Ordered and Disordered Multiresonant Metamaterials for Lamb Waves

Matthieu Rupin, Fabrice Lemoult, Geoffroy Lerosey, and Philippe Roux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234301 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Direct Numerical Simulations of Capillary Wave Turbulence

Luc Deike, Daniel Fuster, Michael Berhanu, and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234501 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

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Localization-Delocalization Transitions in Turbophoresis of Inertial Particles

S. Belan, I. Fouxon, and G. Falkovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234502 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Clustering, Fronts, and Heat Transfer in Turbulent Suspensions of Heavy Particles

Jérémie Bec, Holger Homann, and Giorgio Krstulovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 234503 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Light Fan Driven by a Relativistic Laser Pulse

Yin Shi, Baifei Shen, Lingang Zhang, Xiaomei Zhang, Wenpeng Wang, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 235001 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Abnormal Superfluid Fraction of Harmonically Trapped Few-Fermion Systems

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 235301 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Avalanches in 2D Dislocation Systems: Plastic Yielding Is Not Depinning

Péter Dusán Ispánovity, Lasse Laurson, Michael Zaiser, István Groma, Stefano Zapperi, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 235501 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Characterization of Patterns Formed by Shadows of Spheres

Sarah V. Kostinski, Elizabeth R. Chen, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 235502 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Emergent Antiferromagnetism out of the “Hidden-Order” State in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ : High Magnetic Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to 40 T

H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, S. Kambe, R. R. Urbano, M.-T. Suzuki, P. L. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, P. H. Tobash, F. Ronning, E. D. Bauer, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236401 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Physical Origins of the New Magnetoresistance in $Pt / YIG$

B. F. Miao, S. Y. Huang, D. Qu, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236601 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Spontaneous Breaking of Time-Reversal Symmetry in Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Layers in Silicon and Germanium

S. Shamim, S. Mahapatra, G. Scappucci, W. M. Klesse, M. Y. Simmons, and A. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236602 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

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Single-Shot Readout and Relaxation of Singlet and Triplet States in Exchange-Coupled ${}^{31}P$ Electron Spins in Silicon

Juan P. Dehollain, Juha T. Muhonen, Kuan Y. Tan, Andre Saraiva, David N. Jamieson, Andrew S. Dzurak, and Andrea Morello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236801 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

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Room Temperature Electrically Injected Polariton Laser

Pallab Bhattacharya, Thomas Frost, Saniya Deshpande, Md Zunaid Baten, Arnab Hazari, and Ayan Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236802 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

A new polariton laser is electrically powered and operates at room temperatures, making it more useful for optical electronic application than previous designs.

Dynamical Coulomb Blockade of Shot Noise

Carles Altimiras, Olivier Parlavecchio, Philippe Joyez, Denis Vion, Patrice Roche, Daniel Esteve, and Fabien Portier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 236803 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Lattice Model of Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in Metals: Relation of a Strong Core Hole to the X-Ray Edge Singularity

R. S. Markiewicz, J. J. Rehr, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 237401 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Correlating Polymer Crystals via Self-Induced Nucleation

Hui Zhang, Muhuo Yu, Bin Zhang, Renate Reiter, Maximilian Vielhauer, Rolf Mülhaupt, Jun Xu, and Günter Reiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 237801 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Boson Peak in Deeply Cooled Confined Water: A Possible Way to Explore the Existence of the Liquid-to-Liquid Transition in Water

Zhe Wang, Kao-Hsiang Liu, Peisi Le, Mingda Li, Wei-Shan Chiang, Juscelino B. Leão, John R. D. Copley, Madhusudan Tyagi, Andrey Podlesnyak, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Chung-Yuan Mou, and Sow-Hsin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 237802 (2014) - Published 12 June, 2014

Swelling of Olympic Gels

M. Lang, J. Fischer, M. Werner, and J.-U. Sommer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238001 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Stochastic Ratchet Mechanisms for Replacement of Proteins Bound to DNA

S. Cocco, J. F. Marko, and R. Monasson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238101 (2014) - Published 11 June, 2014

Rheology of Semiflexible Bundle Networks with Transient Linkers

Kei W. Müller, Robijn F. Bruinsma, Oliver Lieleg, Andreas R. Bausch, Wolfgang A. Wall, and Alex J. Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238102 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

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Numerical Evidence for Nucleated Self-Assembly of DNA Brick Structures

Aleks Reinhardt and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238103 (2014) - Published 11 June, 2014

Computer simulations suggest that mixtures of hundreds of distinct nanoparticles or colloids can self-assemble into well-defined structures.

Self-Induced Polar Order of Active Brownian Particles in a Harmonic Trap

Marc Hennes, Katrin Wolff, and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238104 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014

Direct Observation of the Coherent Nuclear Response after the Absorption of a Photon

M. Liebel, C. Schnedermann, G. Bassolino, G. Taylor, A. Watts, and P. Kukura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238301 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Foam Drainage Control Using Thermocapillary Stress in a Two-Dimensional Microchamber

V. Miralles, B. Selva, I. Cantat, and M.-C. Jullien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238302 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Dynamic Clustering and Chemotactic Collapse of Self-Phoretic Active Particles

Oliver Pohl and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238303 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Prediction of Anomalous Blood Viscosity in Confined Shear Flow

Marine Thiébaud, Zaiyi Shen, Jens Harting, and Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238304 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Geminate and Nongeminate Recombination of Triplet Excitons Formed by Singlet Fission

Sam L. Bayliss, Alexei D. Chepelianskii, Alessandro Sepe, Brian J. Walker, Bruno Ehrler, Matthew J. Bruzek, John E. Anthony, and Neil C. Greenham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238701 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

ERRATA

Erratum: Bottom-Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry in the Standard Model and Beyond [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 062003 (2013)]

Benjamín Grinstein and Christopher W. Murphy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 239901 (2014) - Published 9 June, 2014

Erratum: Determination of the Origin and Magnitude of Logarithmic Finite-Size Effects on Interfacial Tension: Role of Interfacial Fluctuations and Domain Breathing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 125701 (2014)]

Fabian Schmitz, Peter Virnau, and Kurt Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 239902 (2014) - Published 10 June, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Elemental Topological Insulator with Tunable Fermi Level: Strained $α − Sn$ on InSb(001) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157205 (2013)]

A. Barfuss, L. Dudy, M. R. Scholz, H. Roth, P. Höpfner, C. Blumenstein, G. Landolt, J. H. Dil, N. C. Plumb, M. Radovic, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, A. Fleszar, G. Bihlmayer, D. Wortmann, G. Li, W. Hanke, R. Claessen, and J. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 239903 (2014) - Published 13 June, 2014