Volume 113, Issue 10

5 September 2014

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Experimental (left) and simulated (right) real-space optical intensity and interference patterns of a linear polariton wave in a GaAs microcavity propagating across a pointlike defect.

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Linear Wave Dynamics Explains Observations Attributed to Dark Solitons in a Polariton Quantum Fluid
P. Cilibrizzi, H. Ohadi, T. Ostatnicky, A. Askitopoulos, W. Langbein, and P. Lagoudakis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103901 (2014)

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Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 101101 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

What can high-energy neutrinos tell us about astrophysical objects beyond our galaxy?

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On-Chip Generation and Manipulation of Entangled Photons Based on Reconfigurable Lithium-Niobate Waveguide Circuits

H. Jin, F. M. Liu, P. Xu, J. L. Xia, M. L. Zhong, Y. Yuan, J. W. Zhou, Y. X. Gong, W. Wang, and S. N. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103601 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

On a single chip, sources of entangled photons are combined with optical elements that can perform complex manipulations of quantum signals.

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Optimal Fractal-Like Hierarchical Honeycombs

Ramin Oftadeh, Babak Haghpanah, Dominic Vella, Arezki Boudaoud, and Ashkan Vaziri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 104301 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Fractal structures based on hexagonal honeycombs provide a route to create low-weight materials with tunable properties.

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Soliton Turbulence in Shallow Water Ocean Surface Waves

Andrea Costa, Alfred R. Osborne, Donald T. Resio, Silvia Alessio, Elisabetta Chrivì, Enrica Saggese, Katinka Bellomo, and Chuck E. Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 108501 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Analysis of sea surface height measurements during a storm in North Carolina’s Outer Banks has led to the first observation of an unusual form of turbulence.

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Scalable Spin Squeezing for Quantum-Enhanced Magnetometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates

W. Muessel, H. Strobel, D. Linnemann, D. B. Hume, and M. K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103004 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

A new technique uses up to 30 Bose-Einstein condensates simultaneously to make ultraprecise measurements.

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Gravitational Waves from Periodic Three-Body Systems

V. Dmitrašinović, Milovan Šuvakov, and Ana Hudomal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 101102 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Gravitational wave signatures from new solutions of the classic three-body problem yield luminosities that are orders of magnitude larger than their binary counterparts.

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Discovery of a Superconducting High-Entropy Alloy

P. Koželj, S. Vrtnik, A. Jelen, S. Jazbec, Z. Jagličić, S. Maiti, M. Feuerbacher, W. Steurer, and J. Dolinšek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107001 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

A new superconducting alloy, which behaves as a type II superconductor below 7.3 K, has been synthesized from Tantalum, Niobium, Hafnium, Zirconium and Titanium.

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Electric-Field-Induced Skyrmion Distortion and Giant Lattice Rotation in the Magnetoelectric Insulator ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

J. S. White, K. Prša, P. Huang, A. A. Omrani, I. Živković, M. Bartkowiak, H. Berger, A. Magrez, J. L. Gavilano, G. Nagy, J. Zang, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107203 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

A combination of static electric fields and an oscillating magnetic field are used to rotate Skyrmions, topological spin features, in the chiral lattice insulator Cu $_{2}$ OSeO $_{3}$ .

LETTERS

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

When Are Popescu-Rohrlich Boxes and Random Access Codes Equivalent?

Andrzej Grudka, Karol Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, Waldemar Kłobus, and Marcin Pawłowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100401 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Witnessing Genuine Multipartite Entanglement with Positive Maps

Marcus Huber and Ritabrata Sengupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100501 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Boson Sampling from a Gaussian State

A. P. Lund, A. Laing, S. Rahimi-Keshari, T. Rudolph, J. L. O’Brien, and T. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100502 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

General Monogamy Relation for the Entanglement of Formation in Multiqubit Systems

Yan-Kui Bai, Yuan-Fei Xu, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100503 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

Anomalous Features of Diffusion in Corrugated Potentials with Spatial Correlations: Faster than Normal, and Other Surprises

Igor Goychuk and Vasyl O. Kharchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100601 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Nonequilibrium Stationary States of 3D Self-Gravitating Systems

Fernanda P. C. Benetti, Ana C. Ribeiro-Teixeira, Renato Pakter, and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100602 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Guaranteed Energy-Efficient Bit Reset in Finite Time

Cormac Browne, Andrew J. P. Garner, Oscar C. O. Dahlsten, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 100603 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 101101 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

What can high-energy neutrinos tell us about astrophysical objects beyond our galaxy?

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Gravitational Waves from Periodic Three-Body Systems

V. Dmitrašinović, Milovan Šuvakov, and Ana Hudomal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 101102 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Gravitational wave signatures from new solutions of the classic three-body problem yield luminosities that are orders of magnitude larger than their binary counterparts.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Subleading Soft Theorem in Arbitrary Dimensions from Scattering Equations

Burkhard U. W. Schwab and Anastasia Volovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 101601 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

Search for Trilepton Nucleon Decay via $p \to e^{+} ν ν$ and $p \to μ^{+} ν ν$ in the Super-Kamiokande Experiment

V. Takhistov et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 101801 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Measurement of the Transverse Target and Beam-Target Asymmetries in $η$ Meson Photoproduction at MAMI

C. S. Akondi et al. (A2 Collaboration at MAMI)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 102001 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Eccentric Protons? Sensitivity of Flow to System Size and Shape in $p + p$ , $p + Pb$ , and $Pb + Pb$ Collisions

Björn Schenke and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 102301 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Further Improvement of the Upper Limit on the Direct $3 α$ Decay from the Hoyle State in ${}^{12}C$

M. Itoh, S. Ando, T. Aoki, H. Arikawa, S. Ezure, K. Harada, T. Hayamizu, T. Inoue, T. Ishikawa, K. Kato, H. Kawamura, Y. Sakemi, and A. Uchiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 102501 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Calculation of Multichannel Reactions in the Four-Nucleon System above Breakup Threshold

A. Deltuva and A. C. Fonseca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 102502 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mechanisms of Strong-Field Double Ionization of Xe

Xufei Sun, Min Li, Difa Ye, Guoguo Xin, Libin Fu, Xiguo Xie, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Jie Liu, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103001 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Visualizing the Coupling between Red and Blue Stark States Using Photoionization Microscopy

A. S. Stodolna, F. Lépine, T. Bergeman, F. Robicheaux, A. Gijsbertsen, J. H. Jungmann, C. Bordas, and M. J. J. Vrakking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103002 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Time-Reversal Symmetry Violation in Molecules Induced by Nuclear Magnetic Quadrupole Moments

V. V. Flambaum, D. DeMille, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103003 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

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Scalable Spin Squeezing for Quantum-Enhanced Magnetometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates

W. Muessel, H. Strobel, D. Linnemann, D. B. Hume, and M. K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103004 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

A new technique uses up to 30 Bose-Einstein condensates simultaneously to make ultraprecise measurements.

Low-Energy Photoelectrons in Strong-Field Ionization by Laser Pulses with Large Ellipticity

D. Dimitrovski, J. Maurer, H. Stapelfeldt, and L. B. Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103005 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

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On-Chip Generation and Manipulation of Entangled Photons Based on Reconfigurable Lithium-Niobate Waveguide Circuits

H. Jin, F. M. Liu, P. Xu, J. L. Xia, M. L. Zhong, Y. Yuan, J. W. Zhou, Y. X. Gong, W. Wang, and S. N. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103601 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

On a single chip, sources of entangled photons are combined with optical elements that can perform complex manipulations of quantum signals.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Linear Wave Dynamics Explains Observations Attributed to Dark Solitons in a Polariton Quantum Fluid

P. Cilibrizzi, H. Ohadi, T. Ostatnicky, A. Askitopoulos, W. Langbein, and P. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 103901 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Chaos Driven by Interfering Memory

S. Perrard, M. Labousse, E. Fort, and Y. Couder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 104101 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Dysonian Dynamics of the Ginibre Ensemble

Zdzislaw Burda, Jacek Grela, Maciej A. Nowak, Wojciech Tarnowski, and Piotr Warchoł

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 104102 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

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Optimal Fractal-Like Hierarchical Honeycombs

Ramin Oftadeh, Babak Haghpanah, Dominic Vella, Arezki Boudaoud, and Ashkan Vaziri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 104301 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Fractal structures based on hexagonal honeycombs provide a route to create low-weight materials with tunable properties.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Proposal for Carrier-Envelope-Phase Stable Single-Cycle Attosecond Pulse Generation in the Extreme-Ultraviolet Range

Z. Tibai, Gy. Tóth, M. I. Mechler, J. A. Fülöp, G. Almási, and J. Hebling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 104801 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Multiple Beam Two-Plasmon Decay: Linear Threshold to Nonlinear Saturation in Three Dimensions

J. Zhang, J. F. Myatt, R. W. Short, A. V. Maximov, H. X. Vu, D. F. DuBois, and D. A. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 105001 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Electromagnetic Field Generation in the Downstream of Electrostatic Shocks Due to Electron Trapping

A. Stockem, T. Grismayer, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 105002 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Magnetic Reconnection between Colliding Magnetized Laser-Produced Plasma Plumes

G. Fiksel, W. Fox, A. Bhattacharjee, D. H. Barnak, P.-Y. Chang, K. Germaschewski, S. X. Hu, and P. M. Nilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 105003 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

First-Principles Approach to Nonlinear Lattice Dynamics: Anomalous Spectra in PbTe

Yue Chen (陈粤), Xinyuan Ai (艾馨元), and C. A. Marianetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 105501 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Why Does Graphene Behave as a Weakly Interacting System?

Johannes Hofmann, Edwin Barnes, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 105502 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

Quantitative Adsorbate Structure Determination for Quasicrystals Using X-Ray Standing Waves

R. D. Diehl, H. I. Li, S. Y. Su, A. Mayer, N. A. Stanisha, J. Ledieu, K. R. J. Lovelock, Robert G. Jones, A. Deyko, L. H. Wearing, R. McGrath, A. Chaudhuri, and D. P. Woodruff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106101 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Inducing Magnetism in Pure Organic Molecules by Single Magnetic Atom Doping

Violeta Iancu, Kai-Felix Braun, Koen Schouteden, and Chris Van Haesendonck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106102 (2014) - Published 3 September, 2014

Atomic Structure of a Spinel-Like Transition ${Al}_{2} O_{3} (100)$ Surface

Thomas N. Jensen, Kristoffer Meinander, Stig Helveg, Adam S. Foster, Sampo Kulju, Tiziana Musso, and Jeppe V. Lauritsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106103 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Segregation Stabilizes Nanocrystalline Bulk Steel with Near Theoretical Strength

Yujiao Li, Dierk Raabe, Michael Herbig, Pyuck-Pa Choi, Shoji Goto, Aleksander Kostka, Hiroshi Yarita, Christine Borchers, and Reiner Kirchheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106104 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Mott Insulator in Three-Dimensional Systems with Quadratic Band Touching

Igor F. Herbut and Lukas Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106401 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Magnetic Correlations and Pairing in the $1 / 5$ -Depleted Square Lattice Hubbard Model

Ehsan Khatami, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Warren E. Pickett, and Richard T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106402 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State

Timothy H. Hsieh and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106801 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Plasmons and Screening in Monolayer and Multilayer Black Phosphorus

Tony Low, Rafael Roldán, Han Wang, Fengnian Xia, Phaedon Avouris, Luis Martín Moreno, and Francisco Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 106802 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

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Discovery of a Superconducting High-Entropy Alloy

P. Koželj, S. Vrtnik, A. Jelen, S. Jazbec, Z. Jagličić, S. Maiti, M. Feuerbacher, W. Steurer, and J. Dolinšek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107001 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

A new superconducting alloy, which behaves as a type II superconductor below 7.3 K, has been synthesized from Tantalum, Niobium, Hafnium, Zirconium and Titanium.

Impact of Quenched Oxygen Disorder on Charge Density Wave Order in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$

A. J. Achkar, X. Mao, Christopher McMahon, R. Sutarto, F. He, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, and D. G. Hawthorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107002 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Robust Transport Signatures of Topological Superconductivity in Topological Insulator Nanowires

Fernando de Juan, Roni Ilan, and Jens H. Bardarson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107003 (2014) - Published 5 September, 2014

First-Principles Study of the Honeycomb-Lattice Iridates ${Na}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$ in the Presence of Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction and Electron Correlations

Youhei Yamaji, Yusuke Nomura, Moyuru Kurita, Ryotaro Arita, and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107201 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Temperature-Dependent Interplay of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Single-Ion Anisotropy in Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

Jaehong Jeong, Manh Duc Le, P. Bourges, S. Petit, S. Furukawa, Shin-Ae Kim, Seongsu Lee, S-W. Cheong, and Je-Geun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107202 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

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Electric-Field-Induced Skyrmion Distortion and Giant Lattice Rotation in the Magnetoelectric Insulator ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

J. S. White, K. Prša, P. Huang, A. A. Omrani, I. Živković, M. Bartkowiak, H. Berger, A. Magrez, J. L. Gavilano, G. Nagy, J. Zang, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107203 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

A combination of static electric fields and an oscillating magnetic field are used to rotate Skyrmions, topological spin features, in the chiral lattice insulator Cu $_{2}$ OSeO $_{3}$ .

Many-Body Localization in a Disordered Quantum Ising Chain

Jonas A. Kjäll, Jens H. Bardarson, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107204 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Biexciton Auger Recombination in Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots

Cheng Sun, Florian Figge, John A. McGuire, Qiqi Li, and Liang-shi Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107401 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Energy Relations of Positron-Electron Pairs Emitted from Surfaces

I. S. Brandt, Z. Wei, F. O. Schumann, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 107601 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Optimal Implementations for Reliable Circadian Clocks

Yoshihiko Hasegawa and Masanori Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 108101 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

Specialization and Bet Hedging in Heterogeneous Populations

Steffen Rulands, David Jahn, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 108102 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014

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Soliton Turbulence in Shallow Water Ocean Surface Waves

Andrea Costa, Alfred R. Osborne, Donald T. Resio, Silvia Alessio, Elisabetta Chrivì, Enrica Saggese, Katinka Bellomo, and Chuck E. Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 108501 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Analysis of sea surface height measurements during a storm in North Carolina’s Outer Banks has led to the first observation of an unusual form of turbulence.

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Zeeman Effect Induced by Intense Laser Light [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083002 (2014)]

E. Stambulchik and Y. Maron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 109901 (2014) - Published 2 September, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Spin-Orbit Qubits of Rare-Earth-Metal Ions in Axially Symmetric Crystal Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 226402 (2009)]

S. Bertaina, J. H. Shim, S. Gambarelli, B. Z. Malkin, and B. Barbara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 109902 (2014) - Published 4 September, 2014