Volume 113, Issue 13

26 September 2014

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A scanning tunneling microscope utilizes radio-frequency signals to detect single spin transitions in a terbium ion (red) sandwiched between two phthalocyanine molecules (green) on a gold substrate (yellow).

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Radio Frequency Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy for Single-Molecule Spin Resonance
Stefan Müllegger, Stefano Tebi, Amal K. Das, Wolfgang Schöfberger, Felix Faschinger, and Reinhold Koch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133001 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evidence of $b$ -Jet Quenching in PbPb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 132301 (2014) - Published 22 September, 2014

LHC experiments show that the quark-gluon plasma stops jets made of light and heavy quarks equally well, offering insights into a state of matter thought to have existed in the early Universe.

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Single Molecule as a Local Acoustic Detector for Mechanical Oscillators

Yuxi Tian, Pedro Navarro, and Michel Orrit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135505 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

A single molecule can work as a vibration sensor that can detect displacements nearly as small as a proton.

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Single-Atom Source in the Picokelvin Regime

A. G. Manning, R. Khakimov, R. G. Dall, and A. G. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130403 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Researchers have demonstrated a new source of individual helium atoms at picokelvin temperatures, paving the way for testing the entanglement of particles with mass.

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Efficiently Loading a Single Photon into a Single-Sided Fabry-Perot Cavity

Chang Liu, Yuan Sun, Luwei Zhao, Shanchao Zhang, M. M. T. Loy, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133601 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

A single photon with an optimally shaped waveform can be loaded into a cavity with near-unity efficiency.

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Infinite Lifetime of Underwater Superhydrophobic States

Muchen Xu, Guangyi Sun, and Chang-Jin Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136103 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

The water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces may last longer when they’re used at shallower depths.

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Observation of Suppression of Light Scattering Induced by Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Cold-Atom Ensemble

J. Pellegrino, R. Bourgain, S. Jennewein, Y. R. P. Sortais, A. Browaeys, S. D. Jenkins, and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133602 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Light scattering by a cold atom cloud is reduced by exposing the cloud to near resonant laser light, where the size of the cloud is comparable to the wavelength of the light.

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Slippage and Boundary Layer Probed in an Almost Ideal Gas by a Nanomechanical Oscillator

M. Defoort, K. J. Lulla, T. Crozes, O. Maillet, O. Bourgeois, and E. Collin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136101 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

The friction experienced by an oscillating wire immersed in a flowing rarefied gas is measured experimentally for pressures ranging over six orders of magnitude.

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Tangling of Tethered Swimmers: Interactions between Two Nematodes

Matilda Backholm, Rafael D. Schulman, William S. Ryu, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 138101 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Two worms, fixed at one end but free to move randomly at the other, tangle together in a predictable way, depending on the relative motion of the two free ends.

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Easily Repairable Networks: Reconnecting Nodes after Damage

Robert S. Farr, John L. Harer, and Thomas M. A. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 138701 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

A new class of network models are introduced, which are easily repairable and able to withstand multiple attacks. Optimization rules are given for the design of square and triangular lattice repairable networks.

LETTERS

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

Anonymous Quantum Nonlocality

Yeong-Cherng Liang, Florian John Curchod, Joseph Bowles, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130401 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Entanglement Entropy in Fermi Gases and Anderson’s Orthogonality Catastrophe

A. Ossipov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130402 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

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Single-Atom Source in the Picokelvin Regime

A. G. Manning, R. Khakimov, R. G. Dall, and A. G. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130403 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Researchers have demonstrated a new source of individual helium atoms at picokelvin temperatures, paving the way for testing the entanglement of particles with mass.

Dark Solitons with Majorana Fermions in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Gases

Yong Xu, Li Mao, Biao Wu, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130404 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

3D Topological Quantum Memory with a Power-Law Energy Barrier

Kamil P. Michnicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130501 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing in Optical Time-Frequency Modes Using Quantum Memories

Peter C. Humphreys, W. Steven Kolthammer, Joshua Nunn, Marco Barbieri, Animesh Datta, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130502 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

Quantum Support Vector Machine for Big Data Classification

Patrick Rebentrost, Masoud Mohseni, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 130503 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measurement of Neutrino Masses from Relative Velocities

Hong-Ming Zhu, Ue-Li Pen, Xuelei Chen, Derek Inman, and Yu Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 131301 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Towards the All-Loop Worldsheet $S$ Matrix for ${AdS}_{3} \times S^{3} \times T^{4}$

Riccardo Borsato, Olof Ohlsson Sax, Alessandro Sfondrini, and Bogdan Stefański, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 131601 (2014) - Published 22 September, 2014

Singlino Resonant Dark Matter and 125 GeV Higgs Boson in High-Scale Supersymmetry

Kazuya Ishikawa, Teppei Kitahara, and Masahiro Takimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 131801 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence of $b$ -Jet Quenching in PbPb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 132301 (2014) - Published 22 September, 2014

LHC experiments show that the quark-gluon plasma stops jets made of light and heavy quarks equally well, offering insights into a state of matter thought to have existed in the early Universe.

Proton Radii of ${}^{12 - 17}B$ Define a Thick Neutron Surface in ${}^{17}B$

A. Estradé et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 132501 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Yrast 6 $^{+}$ Seniority Isomers of $^{136, 138}$ Sn

G. S. Simpson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 132502 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Radio Frequency Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy for Single-Molecule Spin Resonance

Stefan Müllegger, Stefano Tebi, Amal K. Das, Wolfgang Schöfberger, Felix Faschinger, and Reinhold Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133001 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

Time-Resolved X-Ray Imaging of Anisotropic Nanoplasma Expansion

Christian Peltz, Charles Varin, Thomas Brabec, and Thomas Fennel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133401 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

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Efficiently Loading a Single Photon into a Single-Sided Fabry-Perot Cavity

Chang Liu, Yuan Sun, Luwei Zhao, Shanchao Zhang, M. M. T. Loy, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133601 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

A single photon with an optimally shaped waveform can be loaded into a cavity with near-unity efficiency.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Suppression of Light Scattering Induced by Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Cold-Atom Ensemble

J. Pellegrino, R. Bourgain, S. Jennewein, Y. R. P. Sortais, A. Browaeys, S. D. Jenkins, and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133602 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Light scattering by a cold atom cloud is reduced by exposing the cloud to near resonant laser light, where the size of the cloud is comparable to the wavelength of the light.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Collapse Arrest in Instantaneous Kerr Media via Parametric Interactions

Alessia Pasquazi, Marco Peccianti, Matteo Clerici, Claudio Conti, and Roberto Morandotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133901 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Optimal Point Spread Function Design for 3D Imaging

Yoav Shechtman, Steffen J. Sahl, Adam S. Backer, and W. E. Moerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133902 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Field-Cycle-Resolved Photoionization in Solids

P. A. Zhokhov and A. M. Zheltikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 133903 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Drying by Cavitation and Poroelastic Relaxations in Porous Media with Macroscopic Pores Connected by Nanoscale Throats

Olivier Vincent, David A. Sessoms, Erik J. Huber, Jules Guioth, and Abraham D. Stroock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 134501 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

All-Optical Radiation Reaction at $1 0^{21} W / {cm}^{2}$

M. Vranic, J. L. Martins, J. Vieira, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 134801 (2014) - Published 22 September, 2014

Correlated Energy-Spread Removal with Space Charge for High-Harmonic Generation

E. Hemsing, A. Marinelli, G. Marcus, and D. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 134802 (2014) - Published 22 September, 2014

First Characterization of Coherent Optical Vortices from Harmonic Undulator Radiation

E. Hemsing, M. Dunning, C. Hast, T. Raubenheimer, and Dao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 134803 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Access to a New Plasma Edge State with High Density and Pressures using the Quiescent $H$ Mode

W. M. Solomon, P. B. Snyder, K. H. Burrell, M. E. Fenstermacher, A. M. Garofalo, B. A. Grierson, A. Loarte, G. R. McKee, R. Nazikian, and T. H. Osborne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135001 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Mode-Coupling Instability in a Fluid Two-Dimensional Complex Plasma

A. V. Ivlev, S. K. Zhdanov, M. Lampe, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135002 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Microstability of Magnetically Confined Electron-Positron Plasmas

P. Helander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135003 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Interaction Effects on Number Fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate of Light

E. C. I. van der Wurff, A.-W. de Leeuw, R. A. Duine, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135301 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Quench-Induced Supercurrents in an Annular Bose Gas

L. Corman, L. Chomaz, T. Bienaimé, R. Desbuquois, C. Weitenberg, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135302 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

High-Pressure Transformation of ${SiO}_{2}$ Glass from a Tetrahedral to an Octahedral Network: A Joint Approach Using Neutron Diffraction and Molecular Dynamics

Anita Zeidler, Kamil Wezka, Ruth F. Rowlands, Dean A. J. Whittaker, Philip S. Salmon, Annalisa Polidori, James W. E. Drewitt, Stefan Klotz, Henry E. Fischer, Martin C. Wilding, Craig L. Bull, Matthew G. Tucker, and Mark Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135501 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Localization of Low-Frequency Oscillations in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

V. V. Smirnov, D. S. Shepelev, and L. I. Manevitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135502 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Direct Observation of Depth-Dependent Atomic Displacements Associated with Dislocations in Gallium Nitride

J. G. Lozano, H. Yang, M. P. Guerrero-Lebrero, A. J. D’Alfonso, A. Yasuhara, E. Okunishi, S. Zhang, C. J. Humphreys, L. J. Allen, P. L. Galindo, P. B. Hirsch, and P. D. Nellist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135503 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Moiré Patterns as a Probe of Interplanar Interactions for Graphene on h-BN

M. M. van Wijk, A. Schuring, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. Fasolino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135504 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

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Single Molecule as a Local Acoustic Detector for Mechanical Oscillators

Yuxi Tian, Pedro Navarro, and Michel Orrit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 135505 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

A single molecule can work as a vibration sensor that can detect displacements nearly as small as a proton.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Slippage and Boundary Layer Probed in an Almost Ideal Gas by a Nanomechanical Oscillator

M. Defoort, K. J. Lulla, T. Crozes, O. Maillet, O. Bourgeois, and E. Collin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136101 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

The friction experienced by an oscillating wire immersed in a flowing rarefied gas is measured experimentally for pressures ranging over six orders of magnitude.

Negatively Charged Ions on Mg(0001) Surfaces: Appearance and Origin of Attractive Adsorbate-Adsorbate Interactions

Su-Ting Cheng, Mira Todorova, Christoph Freysoldt, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136102 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

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Infinite Lifetime of Underwater Superhydrophobic States

Muchen Xu, Guangyi Sun, and Chang-Jin Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136103 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

The water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces may last longer when they’re used at shallower depths.

Surface-Step-Induced Oscillatory Oxide Growth

Liang Li, Langli Luo, Jim Ciston, Wissam A. Saidi, Eric A. Stach, Judith C. Yang, and Guangwen Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136104 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Theory of Oxygen-Boron Vacancy Defect in Cubic Boron Nitride: A Diamond ${NV}^{-}$ Isoelectronic Center

Tesfaye A. Abtew, Weiwei Gao, Xiang Gao, Y. Y. Sun, S. B. Zhang, and Peihong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136401 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Interacting Weyl Semimetals: Characterization via the Topological Hamiltonian and its Breakdown

William Witczak-Krempa, Michael Knap, and Dmitry Abanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136402 (2014) - Published 25 September, 2014

Topological Spin Texture in a Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator

Jiansheng Wu, Jie Liu, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136403 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Quantum Well State Induced Oscillation of Pure Spin Currents in $Fe / Au / Pd (001)$ Systems

Eric Montoya, Bret Heinrich, and Erol Girt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136601 (2014) - Published 24 September, 2014

Current Patterns and Orbital Magnetism in Mesoscopic dc Transport

Michael Walz, Jan Wilhelm, and Ferdinand Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 136602 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

High-Energy Anomaly in the Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra of ${Nd}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ : Evidence for a Matrix Element Effect

E. D. L. Rienks, M. Ärrälä, M. Lindroos, F. Roth, W. Tabis, G. Yu, M. Greven, and J. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 137001 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Scale-Invariant Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators beyond the Two-Dimensional Limit

Xufeng Kou, Shih-Ting Guo, Yabin Fan, Lei Pan, Murong Lang, Ying Jiang, Qiming Shao, Tianxiao Nie, Koichi Murata, Jianshi Tang, Yong Wang, Liang He, Ting-Kuo Lee, Wei-Li Lee, and Kang L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 137201 (2014) - Published 26 September, 2014

Probing the Dynamics of a Nuclear Spin Bath in Diamond through Time-Resolved Central Spin Magnetometry

A. Dréau, P. Jamonneau, O. Gazzano, S. Kosen, J.-F. Roch, J. R. Maze, and V. Jacques

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 137601 (2014) - Published 22 September, 2014

Orbital-Ordering-Driven Multiferroicity and Magnetoelectric Coupling in ${GeV}_{4} S_{8}$

Kiran Singh, Charles Simon, Elena Cannuccia, Marie-Bernadette Lepetit, Benoit Corraze, Etienne Janod, and Laurent Cario

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 137602 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Tangling of Tethered Swimmers: Interactions between Two Nematodes

Matilda Backholm, Rafael D. Schulman, William S. Ryu, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 138101 (2014) - Published 23 September, 2014

Two worms, fixed at one end but free to move randomly at the other, tangle together in a predictable way, depending on the relative motion of the two free ends.