Volume 112, Issue 9

7 March 2014

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Conductance maps of pristine graphene in wave-vector space.

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Theoretical Analysis of a Dual-Probe Scanning Tunneling Microscope Setup on Graphene
Mikkel Settnes, Stephen R. Power, Dirch H. Petersen, and Antti-Pekka Jauho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096801 (2014)

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First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091303 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

The Large Underground Xenon experiment finds no evidence for lowmass weakly interacting dark matter particles, in apparent disagreementwith recent results from other experiments.

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Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy

Nemanja Kaloper and Antonio Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091304 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

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First Indication of Terrestrial Matter Effects on Solar Neutrino Oscillation

A. Renshaw et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091805 (2014) - Published 7 March, 2014

Experiments at the underground Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan see indications of the long predicted alteration in neutrino oscillations as they pass through matter.

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Nanoscale Detection of a Single Fundamental Charge in Ambient Conditions Using the $NV^{-}$ Center in Diamond

Florian Dolde, Marcus W. Doherty, Julia Michl, Ingmar Jakobi, Boris Naydenov, Sebastien Pezzagna, Jan Meijer, Philipp Neumann, Fedor Jelezko, Neil B. Manson, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097603 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

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Complex Ordered Patterns in Mechanical Instability Induced Geometrically Frustrated Triangular Cellular Structures

Sung Hoon Kang, Sicong Shan, Andrej Košmrlj, Wim L. Noorduin, Samuel Shian, James C. Weaver, David R. Clarke, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098701 (2014) - Published 5 March, 2014

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Search for Quantum Black Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass $Lepton + Jet$ Final States Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ and the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091804 (2014) - Published 5 March, 2014

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Blurring the Boundaries: Decays of Multiparticle Isomers at the Proton Drip Line

R. J. Carroll et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 092501 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

New Tantalum isomer discovered at the boundary of nuclear stability.

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Numerical Calculation of Granular Entropy

Daniel Asenjo, Fabien Paillusson, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098002 (2014) - Published 5 March, 2014

Numerical simulations question the long held assumption thatpacking configurations in granular systems are equally probable.

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Discontinuous Shear Thickening without Inertia in Dense Non-Brownian Suspensions

M. Wyart and M. E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098302 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

The sudden jump in viscosity observed in flowing suspensions ofhard spheres arises due to a transition from lubricated to frictionalcontacts between the spheres.

LETTERS

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

Unifying Three Perspectives on Information Processing in Stochastic Thermodynamics

A. C. Barato and U. Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 090601 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Computation of Large Deviation Statistics via Iterative Measurement-and-Feedback Procedure

Takahiro Nemoto and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 090602 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Mass of a Black Hole Firewall

M. A. Abramowicz, W. Kluźniak, and J.-P. Lasota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091301 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Search for Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with ${}^{3}{He}$ Buffer Gas: Closing the Hot Dark Matter Gap

M. Arik et al. (CAST Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091302 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

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First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091303 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

The Large Underground Xenon experiment finds no evidence for lowmass weakly interacting dark matter particles, in apparent disagreementwith recent results from other experiments.

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Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy

Nemanja Kaloper and Antonio Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091304 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Radiative Origin of All Quark and Lepton Masses through Dark Matter with Flavor Symmetry

Ernest Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091801 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Observation of ${\bar{B}}_{(s)}^{0} \to J / ψ$ $f_{1} (1285)$ Decays and Measurement of the $f_{1} (1285)$ Mixing Angle

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091802 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Using Geoelectrons to Search for Velocity-Dependent Spin-Spin Interactions

L. R. Hunter and D. G. Ang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091803 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

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Search for Quantum Black Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass $Lepton + Jet$ Final States Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ and the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091804 (2014) - Published 5 March, 2014

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First Indication of Terrestrial Matter Effects on Solar Neutrino Oscillation

A. Renshaw et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 091805 (2014) - Published 7 March, 2014

Experiments at the underground Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan see indications of the long predicted alteration in neutrino oscillations as they pass through matter.

Observation of $e^{+} e^{-} \to γ X (3872)$ at BESIII

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 092001 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Color Entanglement for Azimuthal Asymmetries in the Drell-Yan Process

M. G. A. Buffing and P. J. Mulders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 092002 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Nuclear Physics

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Blurring the Boundaries: Decays of Multiparticle Isomers at the Proton Drip Line

R. J. Carroll et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 092501 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

New Tantalum isomer discovered at the boundary of nuclear stability.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nuclear Reaction Induced by Carrier-Envelope-Phase Controlled Proton Recollision in a Laser-Driven Molecule

Erik Lötstedt and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 093001 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Quantum Nondemolition Detection of a Propagating Microwave Photon

Sankar R. Sathyamoorthy, L. Tornberg, Anton F. Kockum, Ben Q. Baragiola, Joshua Combes, C. M. Wilson, Thomas M. Stace, and G. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 093601 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Frequency Conversion in Silica-Whispering-Gallery-Mode Microspherical Resonators

D. Farnesi, A. Barucci, G. C. Righini, S. Berneschi, S. Soria, and G. Nunzi Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 093901 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Anomalies of a Nonequilibrium Spinor Polariton Condensate in a Magnetic Field

J. Fischer, S. Brodbeck, A. V. Chernenko, I. Lederer, A. Rahimi-Iman, M. Amthor, V. D. Kulakovskii, L. Worschech, M. Kamp, M. Durnev, C. Schneider, A. V. Kavokin, and S. Höfling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 093902 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Direct Observation of a Pulse Peak Using a Peak-Removed Gaussian Optical Pulse in a Superluminal Medium

Makoto Tomita, Heisuke Amano, Seiji Masegi, and Aminul I. Talukder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 093903 (2014) - Published 7 March, 2014

Physical Aging of Classical Oscillators

Florin Ionita and Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 094101 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Quantum Synchronization of a Driven Self-Sustained Oscillator

Stefan Walter, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Christoph Bruder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 094102 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Pattern-Wavelength Coarsening from Topological Dynamics in Silicon Nanofoams

M. Castro, R. Cuerno, M. M. García-Hernández, and L. Vázquez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 094103 (2014) - Published 7 March, 2014

Probing Locally the Onset of Slippage at a Model Multicontact Interface

V. Romero, E. Wandersman, G. Debrégeas, and A. Prevost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 094301 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Anisotropic Blistering Instability of Highly Ellipsoidal Shells

Hamid Ebrahimi, Amin Ajdari, Dominic Vella, Arezki Boudaoud, and Ashkan Vaziri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 094302 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Wrinkling of Random and Regular Semiflexible Polymer Networks

Pascal Müller and Jan Kierfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 094303 (2014) - Published 7 March, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Efficient Neutron Production from a Novel Configuration of Deuterium Gas-Puff $Z$ -Pinch

D. Klir, P. Kubes, K. Rezac, J. Cikhardt, J. Kravarik, O. Sila, A. V. Shishlov, B. M. Kovalchuk, N. A. Ratakhin, V. A. Kokshenev, A. Yu. Labetsky, R. K. Cherdizov, F. I. Fursov, N. E. Kurmaev, G. N. Dudkin, B. A. Nechaev, V. N. Padalko, H. Orcikova, and K. Turek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 095001 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Subdominant Modes in Zonal-Flow-Regulated Turbulence

K. D. Makwana, P. W. Terry, M. J. Pueschel, and D. R. Hatch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 095002 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Alfvénic Propagation: A Key to Nonlocal Effects in Magnetized Plasmas

F. Sattin and D. F. Escande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 095003 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Galilean Invariance in Confined Quantum Systems: Implications for Spectral Gaps, Superfluid Flow, and Periodic Order

András Sütő

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 095301 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Interaction-Tuned Dynamical Transitions in a Rashba Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Gas

Juraj Radić, Stefan S. Natu, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 095302 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ionization Potentials of Solids: The Importance of Vertex Corrections

Andreas Grüneis, Georg Kresse, Yoyo Hinuma, and Fumiyasu Oba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096401 (2014) - Published 7 March, 2014

Microscopic Theory of the Inverse Edelstein Effect

Ka Shen, G. Vignale, and R. Raimondi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096601 (2014) - Published 5 March, 2014

Theoretical Analysis of a Dual-Probe Scanning Tunneling Microscope Setup on Graphene

Mikkel Settnes, Stephen R. Power, Dirch H. Petersen, and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096801 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Proximity Effect in Graphene–Topological-Insulator Heterostructures

Junhua Zhang, C. Triola, and E. Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096802 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Identifying Non-Abelian Topological Order through Minimal Entangled States

W. Zhu, S. S. Gong, F. D. M. Haldane, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096803 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Topological States in Ferromagnetic CdO/EuO Superlattices and Quantum Wells

Haijun Zhang, Jing Wang, Gang Xu, Yong Xu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096804 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Strain-Induced Pseudomagnetic Fields in Twisted Graphene Nanoribbons

Dong-Bo Zhang, Gotthard Seifert, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096805 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Suppression of Magnetic Coupling by in-Plane Buckling in ${SrFeO}_{2}$

Kazumasa Horigane, Anna Llobet, and Despina Louca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097001 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Random Fields, Topology, and the Imry-Ma Argument

Thomas C. Proctor, Dmitry A. Garanin, and Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097201 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Coherent Coupling of Excitons and Trions in a Photoexcited CdTe/CdMgTe Quantum Well

G. Moody, I. A. Akimov, H. Li, R. Singh, D. R. Yakovlev, G. Karczewski, M. Wiater, T. Wojtowicz, M. Bayer, and S. T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097401 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Ultrabright and Ultrafast III–V Semiconductor Photocathodes

Siddharth Karkare, Laurent Boulet, Luca Cultrera, Bruce Dunham, Xianghong Liu, William Schaff, and Ivan Bazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097601 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Localized Excited Charge Carriers Generate Ultrafast Inhomogeneous Strain in the Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

Daniel Schick, Marc Herzog, Haidan Wen, Pice Chen, Carolina Adamo, Peter Gaal, Darrell G. Schlom, Paul G. Evans, Yuelin Li, and Matias Bargheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097602 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

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Nanoscale Detection of a Single Fundamental Charge in Ambient Conditions Using the $NV^{-}$ Center in Diamond

Florian Dolde, Marcus W. Doherty, Julia Michl, Ingmar Jakobi, Boris Naydenov, Sebastien Pezzagna, Jan Meijer, Philipp Neumann, Fedor Jelezko, Neil B. Manson, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097603 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Universal Features of Dynamic Heterogeneity in Supercooled Liquids

Elijah Flenner, Hannah Staley, and Grzegorz Szamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 097801 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Effects of Packing Density on the Segregative Behaviors of Granular Systems

C. R. K. Windows-Yule, T. Weinhart, D. J. Parker, and A. R. Thornton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098001 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

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Numerical Calculation of Granular Entropy

Daniel Asenjo, Fabien Paillusson, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098002 (2014) - Published 5 March, 2014

Numerical simulations question the long held assumption thatpacking configurations in granular systems are equally probable.

Universal Structural Characteristics of Planar Granular Packs

Takashi Matsushima and Raphael Blumenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098003 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

Spatial Propagation of Protein Polymerization

S. I. A. Cohen, L. Rajah, C. H. Yoon, A. K. Buell, D. A. White, R. A. Sperling, M. Vendruscolo, E. M. Terentjev, C. M. Dobson, D. A. Weitz, and T. P. J. Knowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098101 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Shear-Modulus Investigations of Monohydroxy Alcohols: Evidence for a Short-Chain-Polymer Rheological Response

C. Gainaru, R. Figuli, T. Hecksher, B. Jakobsen, J. C. Dyre, M. Wilhelm, and R. Böhmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098301 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

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Discontinuous Shear Thickening without Inertia in Dense Non-Brownian Suspensions

M. Wyart and M. E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 098302 (2014) - Published 6 March, 2014

The sudden jump in viscosity observed in flowing suspensions ofhard spheres arises due to a transition from lubricated to frictionalcontacts between the spheres.

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ERRATA

Erratum: Dissipative Binding of Lattice Bosons through Distance-Selective Pair Loss [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233003 (2012)]

C. Ates, B. Olmos, W. Li, and I. Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 099901 (2014) - Published 3 March, 2014

Erratum: Strong-Field Many-Body Physics and the Giant Enhancement in the High-Harmonic Spectrum of Xenon [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 233005 (2013)]

Stefan Pabst and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 099902 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Implementation of Dynamically Corrected Gates on a Single Electron Spin in Diamond [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 050503 (2014)]

Xing Rong, Jianpei Geng, Zixiang Wang, Qi Zhang, Chenyong Ju, Fazhan Shi, Chang-Kui Duan, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 099903 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Chemical and Crystallographic Characterization of the Tip Apex in Scanning Probe Microscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066101 (2014)]

Thomas Hofmann, Florian Pielmeier, and Franz J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 099904 (2014) - Published 4 March, 2014