Volume 112, Issue 8

28 February 2014

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Stylistic rendition of an electrode array in an experiment on 6H-SiC color centers. Resonant electric fields coherently drive spin rotations in optically addressable semiconductor point defects.

From the article:

Electrically Driven Spin Resonance in Silicon Carbide Color Centers
P. V. Klimov, A. L. Falk, B. B. Buckley, and D. D. Awschalom
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087601 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dominant Secondary Nuclear Photoexcitation with the X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

Jonas Gunst, Yuri A. Litvinov, Christoph H. Keitel, and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082501 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

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X-Ray Diffraction from Isolated and Strongly Aligned Gas-Phase Molecules with a Free-Electron Laser

Jochen Küpper et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083002 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

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Scanning X-Ray Nanodiffraction on Living Eukaryotic Cells in Microfluidic Environments

Britta Weinhausen, Oliva Saldanha, Robin N. Wilke, Christian Dammann, Marius Priebe, Manfred Burghammer, Michael Sprung, and Sarah Köster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088102 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

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Reversing Quantum Trajectories with Analog Feedback

G. de Lange, D. Ristè, M. J. Tiggelman, C. Eichler, L. Tornberg, G. Johansson, A. Wallraff, R. N. Schouten, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 080501 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Measurement-induced noise in quantum systems can be undone by reversing the qubits' trajectory.

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Spin and parity measurement of the $Λ (1405)$ baryon

K. Moriya et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082004 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Photoproduction measurements show that the Λ(1405) particle isspin-1/2 and negative parity—the lightest such baryon containing a strangequark.

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Fano Resonances in the Infrared Spectra of Phonons in Hyperkagome ${Na}_{3} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$

D. Pröpper, A. N. Yaresko, T. I. Larkin, T. N. Stanislavchuk, A. A. Sirenko, T. Takayama, A. Matsumoto, H. Takagi, B. Keimer, and A. V. Boris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087401 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Spectroscopic ellipsometry study of Na3Ir3O8 suggests thatelectron-phonon interactions play a prominent role in its electronicstructure.

LETTERS

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

Adaptive Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of a Photon Number

B. Peaudecerf, T. Rybarczyk, S. Gerlich, S. Gleyzes, J. M. Raimond, S. Haroche, I. Dotsenko, and M. Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 080401 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

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Reversing Quantum Trajectories with Analog Feedback

G. de Lange, D. Ristè, M. J. Tiggelman, C. Eichler, L. Tornberg, G. Johansson, A. Wallraff, R. N. Schouten, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 080501 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Measurement-induced noise in quantum systems can be undone by reversing the qubits' trajectory.

Macroscopic Optomechanics from Displaced Single-Photon Entanglement

Pavel Sekatski, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Nicolas Sangouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 080502 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

Optomechanical Micro-Macro Entanglement

R. Ghobadi, S. Kumar, B. Pepper, D. Bouwmeester, A. I. Lvovsky, and C. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 080503 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

Improved Quantum Metrology Using Quantum Error Correction

W. Dür, M. Skotiniotis, F. Fröwis, and B. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 080801 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Production Mechanism for Heavy Neutrinos at the LHC

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Apostolos Pilaftsis, and Un-ki Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 081801 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Approximate Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Corrections to Hadronic Jet Production

Daniel de Florian, Patriz Hinderer, Asmita Mukherjee, Felix Ringer, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082001 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Top Quark Induced Backgrounds to Higgs Production in the $W W^{(*)} \to l l ν ν$ Decay Channel at Next-to-Leading-Order in QCD

R. Frederix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082002 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Evidence for High Energy Resummation Effects in Mueller-Navelet Jets at the LHC

B. Ducloué, L. Szymanowski, and S. Wallon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082003 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

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Spin and parity measurement of the $Λ (1405)$ baryon

K. Moriya et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082004 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Photoproduction measurements show that the Λ(1405) particle isspin-1/2 and negative parity—the lightest such baryon containing a strangequark.

Nuclear Physics

Universal Fluctuation-Driven Eccentricities in Proton-Proton, Proton-Nucleus, and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Li Yan and Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082301 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Beam Energy Dependence of the Viscous Damping of Anisotropic Flow in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Roy A. Lacey, A. Taranenko, J. Jia, D. Reynolds, N. N. Ajitanand, J. M. Alexander, Yi Gu, and A. Mwai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082302 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

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Dominant Secondary Nuclear Photoexcitation with the X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

Jonas Gunst, Yuri A. Litvinov, Christoph H. Keitel, and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 082501 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Frequency Dependence of the Exact Exchange-Correlation Kernel of Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

M. Thiele and S. Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083001 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

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X-Ray Diffraction from Isolated and Strongly Aligned Gas-Phase Molecules with a Free-Electron Laser

Jochen Küpper et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083002 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Vortices Associated with the Wave Function of a Single Electron Emitted in Slow Ion-Atom Collisions

L. Ph. H. Schmidt, C. Goihl, D. Metz, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, S. Yu. Ovchinnikov, J. H. Macek, and D. R. Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083201 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Relation between the Dynamics of Glassy Clusters and Characteristic Features of their Energy Landscape

Sandip De, Bastian Schaefer, Ali Sadeghi, Michael Sicher, D. G. Kanhere, and Stefan Goedecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 083401 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Phase Dynamics Criterion for Fast Relaxation of High-Confinement-Mode Plasmas

P. W. Xi, X. Q. Xu, and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 085001 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantitative Elemental Mapping at Atomic Resolution Using X-Ray Spectroscopy

G. Kothleitner, M. J. Neish, N. R. Lugg, S. D. Findlay, W. Grogger, F. Hofer, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 085501 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Semimetallic Two-Dimensional Boron Allotrope with Massless Dirac Fermions

Xiang-Feng Zhou, Xiao Dong, Artem R. Oganov, Qiang Zhu, Yongjun Tian, and Hui-Tian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 085502 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Angular Momentum of Phonons and the Einstein–de Haas Effect

Lifa Zhang and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 085503 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Realization of 2D Spin-Orbit Interaction and Exotic Topological Orders in Cold Atoms

Xiong-Jun Liu, K. T. Law, and T. K. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 086401 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Dimerization-Induced Cross-Layer Quasi-Two-Dimensionality in Metallic ${IrTe}_{2}$

G. L. Pascut, K. Haule, M. J. Gutmann, S. A. Barnett, A. Bombardi, S. Artyukhin, T. Birol, D. Vanderbilt, J. J. Yang, S.-W. Cheong, and V. Kiryukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 086402 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Fingerprints of Inelastic Transport at the Surface of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ : Role of Electron-Phonon Coupling

M. V. Costache, I. Neumann, J. F. Sierra, V. Marinova, M. M. Gospodinov, S. Roche, and S. O. Valenzuela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 086601 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Spin-Dependent Electron Transfer Dynamics Probed by Resonant Photoemission Spectroscopy

Florian Blobner, Runyuan Han, Andreas Kim, Wilfried Wurth, and Peter Feulner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 086801 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Electric Field Tuning of the Rashba Effect in the Polar Perovskite Structures

K. V. Shanavas and S. Satpathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 086802 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Contribution of the Peierls Potential to the Exchange Bias and Coercivity of Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Bilayers

J. Moritz, P. Bacher, and B. Dieny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087201 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

Insulating Ferromagnetic ${LaCoO}_{3 - δ}$ Films: A Phase Induced by Ordering of Oxygen Vacancies

Neven Biškup, Juan Salafranca, Virat Mehta, Mark P. Oxley, Yuri Suzuki, Stephen J. Pennycook, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Maria Varela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087202 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Magnetic Frustration in Iridium Spinel Compound ${CuIr}_{2} S_{4}$

K. M. Kojima, R. Kadono, M. Miyazaki, M. Hiraishi, I. Yamauchi, A. Koda, Y. Tsuchiya, H. S. Suzuki, and H. Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087203 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Pressure-Induced Quantum Critical and Multicritical Points in a Frustrated Spin Liquid

M. Thede, A. Mannig, M. Månsson, D. Hüvonen, R. Khasanov, E. Morenzoni, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087204 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

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Fano Resonances in the Infrared Spectra of Phonons in Hyperkagome ${Na}_{3} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$

D. Pröpper, A. N. Yaresko, T. I. Larkin, T. N. Stanislavchuk, A. A. Sirenko, T. Takayama, A. Matsumoto, H. Takagi, B. Keimer, and A. V. Boris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087401 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014

Spectroscopic ellipsometry study of Na3Ir3O8 suggests thatelectron-phonon interactions play a prominent role in its electronicstructure.

Ultrafast Photoemission Spectroscopy of the Uranium Dioxide ${UO}_{2}$ Mott Insulator: Evidence for a Robust Energy Gap Structure

Steve M. Gilbertson, Tomasz Durakiewicz, Georgi L. Dakovski, Yinwan Li, Jian-Xin Zhu, Steven D. Conradson, Stuart A. Trugman, and George Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 087402 (2014) - Published 28 February, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Scale-Dependent Nonaffine Elasticity of Semiflexible Polymer Networks

M. Atakhorrami, G. H. Koenderink, J. F. Palierne, F. C. MacKintosh, and C. F. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088101 (2014) - Published 24 February, 2014

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Scanning X-Ray Nanodiffraction on Living Eukaryotic Cells in Microfluidic Environments

Britta Weinhausen, Oliva Saldanha, Robin N. Wilke, Christian Dammann, Marius Priebe, Manfred Burghammer, Michael Sprung, and Sarah Köster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088102 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

Viscoelastic Response of a Complex Fluid at Intermediate Distances

Adar Sonn-Segev, Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Haim Diamant, and Yael Roichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088301 (2014) - Published 25 February, 2014

COMMENTS

Comment on “Binomial Moment Equations for Stochastic Reaction Systems”

Jiajun Zhang, Lifang Huang, and Tianshou Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088901 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

Barzel and Biham Reply

Baruch Barzel and Ofer Biham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 088902 (2014) - Published 27 February, 2014

ERRATA

Erratum: Comparison of Quantum and Classical Relaxation in Spin Dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 147201 (2013)]

R. Wieser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 089901 (2014) - Published 26 February, 2014