Volume 113, Issue 1

4 July 2014

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Focusing scheme for dipole wave production using 12 laser pulses and the anomalous radiative trapping effect.

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Anomalous Radiative Trapping in Laser Fields of Extreme Intensity
A. Gonoskov, A. Bashinov, I. Gonoskov, C. Harvey, A. Ilderton, A. Kim, M. Marklund, G. Mourou, and A. Sergeev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 014801 (2014)

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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with $γ$ -ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network

J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and IPN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011102 (2014) - Published 30 June, 2014

A five-year search for gravitational waves by two large-scale experiments results in no detection—but suggests an observation may soon be within reach.

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Evidence for Polarization of Gluons in the Proton

Daniel de Florian, Rodolfo Sassot, Marco Stratmann, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 012001 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

A new analysis of high-energy data shows that gluons may provide some of the proton’s missing spin.

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Evidence for Triangular $D_{3 h}$ Symmetry in ${}^{12}C$

D. J. Marín-Lámbarri, R. Bijker, M. Freer, M. Gai, Tz. Kokalova, D. J. Parker, and C. Wheldon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 012502 (2014) - Published 30 June, 2014

The discovery of a new excited state in carbon-12 hints at this nucleus’s triangular symmetry.

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Nonlinear Inverse Synthesis and Eigenvalue Division Multiplexing in Optical Fiber Channels

Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Stanislav A. Derevyanko, Keith J. Blow, Ildar Gabitov, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 013901 (2014) - Published 1 July, 2014

Researchers propose a new way to eliminate the signal distortions in optical fibers that are caused by nonlinear effects.

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Harnessing Buckling to Design Tunable Locally Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials

Pai Wang, Filippo Casadei, Sicong Shan, James C. Weaver, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 014301 (2014) - Published 3 July, 2014

A novel type of acoustic metamaterial made of rubber and metal absorbs or transmits sound waves depending on how the material is squeezed.

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Tensor Interpretation of BICEP2 Results Severely Constrains Axion Dark Matter

David J. E. Marsh, Daniel Grin, Renée Hlozek, and Pedro G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011801 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

If the excess $B$ -mode polarization measured by BICEP2 comes from inflationary gravitational waves then there are severe constraints on the mass and abundance of axionlike particles making up cold dark matter.

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Axion Cold Dark Matter in View of BICEP2 Results

Paolo Gondolo and Luca Visinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011802 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

If the excess B-mode polarization measured by BICEP2 comes from inflationary gravitational waves then there are severe constraints on the mass and abundance of axionlike particles making up cold dark matter.

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Exploring a New Regime for Processing Optical Qubits: Squeezing and Unsqueezing Single Photons

Yoshichika Miwa, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Noriaki Iwata, Mamoru Endo, Petr Marek, Radim Filip, Peter van Loock, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 013601 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

A single photon is reversibly transformed from a particle-like state to a continuous wave state via a squeezing gate, which operates by reducing fluctuations in one Heisenberg variable at the expense of another.

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Dielectric Effects in the Self-Assembly of Binary Colloidal Aggregates

Kipton Barros and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 017801 (2014) - Published 1 July, 2014

The dielectric polarizability of mobile charged colloidal particles in a solvent is successfully included in molecular dynamics simulations, and shown to alter the predicted self-assembled structures of the particles.

LETTERS

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

Fourier Transform for Fermionic Systems and the Spectral Tensor Network

Andrew J. Ferris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 010401 (2014) - Published 3 July, 2014

Optimal Control of Effective Hamiltonians

Albert Verdeny, Łukasz Rudnicki, Cord A. Müller, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 010501 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Information Theoretical Analysis of Quantum Optimal Control

S. Lloyd and S. Montangero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 010502 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Quench Dynamics of One-Dimensional Interacting Bosons in a Disordered Potential: Elastic Dephasing and Critical Speeding-Up of Thermalization

Marco Tavora, Achim Rosch, and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 010601 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmological Constraints on Brans-Dicke Theory

A. Avilez and C. Skordis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011101 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with $γ$ -ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network

J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and IPN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011102 (2014) - Published 30 June, 2014

A five-year search for gravitational waves by two large-scale experiments results in no detection—but suggests an observation may soon be within reach.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Persistent Superconductor Currents in Holographic Lattices

Norihiro Iizuka, Akihiro Ishibashi, and Kengo Maeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011601 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

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Tensor Interpretation of BICEP2 Results Severely Constrains Axion Dark Matter

David J. E. Marsh, Daniel Grin, Renée Hlozek, and Pedro G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011801 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

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Axion Cold Dark Matter in View of BICEP2 Results

Paolo Gondolo and Luca Visinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011802 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

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Evidence for Polarization of Gluons in the Proton

Daniel de Florian, Rodolfo Sassot, Marco Stratmann, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 012001 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

A new analysis of high-energy data shows that gluons may provide some of the proton’s missing spin.

Nuclear Physics

Isospin Character of Low-Lying Pygmy Dipole States in ${}^{208}{Pb}$ via Inelastic Scattering of ${}^{17}O$ Ions

F. C. L. Crespi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 012501 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

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Evidence for Triangular $D_{3 h}$ Symmetry in ${}^{12}C$

D. J. Marín-Lámbarri, R. Bijker, M. Freer, M. Gai, Tz. Kokalova, D. J. Parker, and C. Wheldon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 012502 (2014) - Published 30 June, 2014

The discovery of a new excited state in carbon-12 hints at this nucleus’s triangular symmetry.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

All-Optical Vector Atomic Magnetometer

B. Patton, E. Zhivun, D. C. Hovde, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 013001 (2014) - Published 1 July, 2014

Bright Solitonic Matter-Wave Interferometer

G. D. McDonald, C. C. N. Kuhn, K. S. Hardman, S. Bennetts, P. J. Everitt, P. A. Altin, J. E. Debs, J. D. Close, and N. P. Robins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 013002 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

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Exploring a New Regime for Processing Optical Qubits: Squeezing and Unsqueezing Single Photons

Yoshichika Miwa, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Noriaki Iwata, Mamoru Endo, Petr Marek, Radim Filip, Peter van Loock, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 013601 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonlinear Inverse Synthesis and Eigenvalue Division Multiplexing in Optical Fiber Channels

Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Stanislav A. Derevyanko, Keith J. Blow, Ildar Gabitov, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 013901 (2014) - Published 1 July, 2014

Researchers propose a new way to eliminate the signal distortions in optical fibers that are caused by nonlinear effects.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Harnessing Buckling to Design Tunable Locally Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials

Pai Wang, Filippo Casadei, Sicong Shan, James C. Weaver, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 014301 (2014) - Published 3 July, 2014

A novel type of acoustic metamaterial made of rubber and metal absorbs or transmits sound waves depending on how the material is squeezed.

Influence of Slip on the Rayleigh-Plateau Rim Instability in Dewetting Viscous Films

Oliver Bäumchen, Ludovic Marquant, Ralf Blossey, Andreas Münch, Barbara Wagner, and Karin Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 014501 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Anomalous Radiative Trapping in Laser Fields of Extreme Intensity

A. Gonoskov, A. Bashinov, I. Gonoskov, C. Harvey, A. Ilderton, A. Kim, M. Marklund, G. Mourou, and A. Sergeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 014801 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Excitation Spectrum of the Lieb-Liniger Model

Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 015301 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator of Composite Fermions

Yinhan Zhang and Junren Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 016801 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Dielectric Effects in the Self-Assembly of Binary Colloidal Aggregates

Kipton Barros and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 017801 (2014) - Published 1 July, 2014

Measurement of Proton Tunneling in Short Hydrogen Bonds in Single Crystals of 3,5 Pyridinedicarboxylic Acid Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

I. Frantsuzov, S. J. Ford, I. Radosavljevic Evans, A. J. Horsewill, H. P. Trommsdorff, and M. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 018301 (2014) - Published 2 July, 2014

Volume 113, Issue 1

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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