Volume 112, Issue 25

27 June 2014

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Local magnetization as a function of site position and time after a quench for different anisotropies of the Heisenberg model.

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Quench Dynamics of the Anisotropic Heisenberg Model
Wenshuo Liu and Natan Andrei
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 257204 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Universal Density Profile for Cosmic Voids

Nico Hamaus, P. M. Sutter, and Benjamin D. Wandelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251302 (2014) - Published 27 June, 2014

A simple equation can describe the large-scale bubbles that appear in the dark matter distributed throughout the Universe, and it applies to voids of a wide range of sizes and ages.

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Long-Distance Transfer and Routing of Static Magnetic Fields

C. Navau, J. Prat-Camps, O. Romero-Isart, J. I. Cirac, and A. Sanchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253901 (2014) - Published 23 June, 2014

Magnetic fields could be funneled over longer distances than currently possible using a magnetic “hose” made of ferromagnetic and superconductor materials.

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Ultrafast Dynamics of Massive Dirac Fermions in Bilayer Graphene

Søren Ulstrup, Jens Christian Johannsen, Federico Cilento, Jill A. Miwa, Alberto Crepaldi, Michele Zacchigna, Cephise Cacho, Richard Chapman, Emma Springate, Samir Mammadov, Felix Fromm, Christian Raidel, Thomas Seyller, Fulvio Parmigiani, Marco Grioni, Phil D. C. King, and Philip Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 257401 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Time-resolved experiments visualize the motion of electrons in bilayer graphene, confirming the material behaves as a semiconductor that has potential for electronics applications.

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Experimental Realization of a New Type of Crystalline Undulator

Tobias N. Wistisen, Kristoffer K. Andersen, Serdar Yilmaz, Rune Mikkelsen, John Lundsgaard Hansen, Ulrik I. Uggerhøj, Werner Lauth, and Hartmut Backe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 254801 (2014) - Published 24 June, 2014

The periodically varying electromagnetic field inside a crystal can be exploited to build an undulator that emits gamma rays.

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Observation of Efimov Resonances in a Mixture with Extreme Mass Imbalance

R. Pires, J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, M. Repp, A. Arias, E. D. Kuhnle, and M. Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250404 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Two consecutive Efimov resonances – a three body bound state where the two-body subsystem is unbound – have been measured in an ultracold Li-Cs mixture.

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Two-Photon Rotational Action Spectroscopy of Cold ${OH}^{-}$ at 1 ppb Accuracy

Pavol Jusko, Oskar Asvany, Ann-Christin Wallerstein, Sandra Brünken, and Stephan Schlemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253005 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

By cooling OH $^{-}$ ions to 15 K in a cold ion trap the lowest rotational transition frequency of OH $^{-}$ is measured to an accuracy of one part per billion.

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Simultaneous Measurement of Complementary Observables with Compressive Sensing

Gregory A. Howland, James Schneeloch, Daniel J. Lum, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253602 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Coincident high-resolution position and momentum imaging of optical photons is achieved using a sequence of weak and strong measurements.

LETTERS

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

Manipulation of $p$ -Wave Scattering of Cold Atoms in Low Dimensions Using the Magnetic Field Vector

Shi-Guo Peng, Shina Tan, and Kaijun Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250401 (2014) - Published 23 June, 2014

Absolute Absorption Cross Sections from Photon Recoil in a Matter-Wave Interferometer

Sandra Eibenberger, Xiaxi Cheng, J. P. Cotter, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250402 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

No $ψ$ -Epistemic Model Can Fully Explain the Indistinguishability of Quantum States

Jonathan Barrett, Eric G. Cavalcanti, Raymond Lal, and Owen J. E. Maroney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250403 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

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Observation of Efimov Resonances in a Mixture with Extreme Mass Imbalance

R. Pires, J. Ulmanis, S. Häfner, M. Repp, A. Arias, E. D. Kuhnle, and M. Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250404 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Two consecutive Efimov resonances – a three body bound state where the two-body subsystem is unbound – have been measured in an ultracold Li-Cs mixture.

Ultrafast and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Communication across Long Distances

Sreraman Muralidharan, Jungsang Kim, Norbert Lütkenhaus, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250501 (2014) - Published 27 June, 2014

Fast Quantum Gate via Feshbach-Pauli Blocking in a Nanoplasmonic Trap

Krzysztof Jachymski, Zbigniew Idziaszek, and Tommaso Calarco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250502 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring the Spin of Black Holes in Binary Systems Using Gravitational Waves

Salvatore Vitale, Ryan Lynch, John Veitch, Vivien Raymond, and Riccardo Sturani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251101 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Black Hole Hair in Generalized Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Thomas P. Sotiriou and Shuang-Yong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251102 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Evidence for Bouncing Evolution Before Inflation After BICEP2

Jun-Qing Xia, Yi-Fu Cai, Hong Li, and Xinmin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251301 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

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Universal Density Profile for Cosmic Voids

Nico Hamaus, P. M. Sutter, and Benjamin D. Wandelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251302 (2014) - Published 27 June, 2014

A simple equation can describe the large-scale bubbles that appear in the dark matter distributed throughout the Universe, and it applies to voids of a wide range of sizes and ages.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of $η' \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $η' \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{0} π^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251801 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Cold-Nuclear-Matter Effects on Heavy-Quark Production at Forward and Backward Rapidity in $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 252301 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

$β^{+}$ Gamow-Teller Transition Strengths from ${}^{46}{Ti}$ and Stellar Electron-Capture Rates

S. Noji et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 252501 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Alignment Dependent Enhancement of the Photoelectron Cutoff for Multiphoton Ionization of Molecules

C. T. L. Smeenk, L. Arissian, A. V. Sokolov, M. Spanner, K. F. Lee, A. Staudte, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253001 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

High-Precision Spectroscopy of the Forbidden $2 {}^{3}{S_{1}} \to 2 {}^{1}{P_{1}}$ Transition in Quantum Degenerate Metastable Helium

R. P. M. J. W. Notermans and W. Vassen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253002 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Interval Prediction of Molecular Properties in Parametrized Quantum Chemistry

David E. Edwards, Dmitry Yu. Zubarev, Andrew Packard, William A. Lester, Jr., and Michael Frenklach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253003 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Many-Electron QED Corrections to the $g$ Factor of Lithiumlike Ions

A. V. Volotka, D. A. Glazov, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and G. Plunien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253004 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Photon Rotational Action Spectroscopy of Cold ${OH}^{-}$ at 1 ppb Accuracy

Pavol Jusko, Oskar Asvany, Ann-Christin Wallerstein, Sandra Brünken, and Stephan Schlemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253005 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

By cooling OH $^{-}$ ions to 15 K in a cold ion trap the lowest rotational transition frequency of OH $^{-}$ is measured to an accuracy of one part per billion.

Optical Response of Gas-Phase Atoms at Less than $λ / 80$ from a Dielectric Surface

K. A. Whittaker, J. Keaveney, I. G. Hughes, A. Sargsyan, D. Sarkisyan, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253201 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Tracing Electron-Ion Recombination in Nanoplasmas Produced by Extreme-Ultraviolet Irradiation of Rare-Gas Clusters

B. Schütte, F. Campi, M. Arbeiter, Th. Fennel, M. J. J. Vrakking, and A. Rouzée

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253401 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Quantum Emitters Near a Metal Nanoparticle: Strong Coupling and Quenching

A. Delga, J. Feist, J. Bravo-Abad, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253601 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

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Simultaneous Measurement of Complementary Observables with Compressive Sensing

Gregory A. Howland, James Schneeloch, Daniel J. Lum, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253602 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Coincident high-resolution position and momentum imaging of optical photons is achieved using a sequence of weak and strong measurements.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Long-Distance Transfer and Routing of Static Magnetic Fields

C. Navau, J. Prat-Camps, O. Romero-Isart, J. I. Cirac, and A. Sanchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253901 (2014) - Published 23 June, 2014

Magnetic fields could be funneled over longer distances than currently possible using a magnetic “hose” made of ferromagnetic and superconductor materials.

Reconfigurable Directional Lasing Modes in Cavities with Generalized $P \tilde{T}$ Symmetry

J. M. Lee, S. Factor, Z. Lin, I. Vitebskiy, F. M. Ellis, and T. Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253902 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Speckle-Based X-Ray Phase-Contrast and Dark-Field Imaging with a Laboratory Source

I. Zanette, T. Zhou, A. Burvall, U. Lundström, D. H. Larsson, M. Zdora, P. Thibault, F. Pfeiffer, and H. M. Hertz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 253903 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Phase Transitions and Edge Scaling of Number Variance in Gaussian Random Matrices

Ricardo Marino, Satya N. Majumdar, Grégory Schehr, and Pierpaolo Vivo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 254101 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Experimental Realization of a New Type of Crystalline Undulator

Tobias N. Wistisen, Kristoffer K. Andersen, Serdar Yilmaz, Rune Mikkelsen, John Lundsgaard Hansen, Ulrik I. Uggerhøj, Werner Lauth, and Hartmut Backe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 254801 (2014) - Published 24 June, 2014

The periodically varying electromagnetic field inside a crystal can be exploited to build an undulator that emits gamma rays.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Role of Quantum Fluctuations in the Hexatic Phase of Cold Polar Molecules

Wolfgang Lechner, Hans-Peter Büchler, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 255301 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Growth Modes of Quasicrystals

C. V. Achim, M. Schmiedeberg, and H. Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 255501 (2014) - Published 26 June, 2014

Investigating Amorphous Order in Stable Glasses by Random Pinning

Christopher J. Fullerton and Robert L. Jack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 255701 (2014) - Published 27 June, 2014

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Ultrafast Dynamics of Massive Dirac Fermions in Bilayer Graphene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 257401 (2014) - Published 25 June, 2014

Time-resolved experiments visualize the motion of electrons in bilayer graphene, confirming the material behaves as a semiconductor that has potential for electronics applications.