Volume 113, Issue 14

3 October 2014

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On the Cover

Calculated reciprocal space wave function of an electron probe beam distorted by fourfold astigmatism.

From the article:

Achieving Atomic Resolution Magnetic Dichroism by Controlling the Phase Symmetry of an Electron Probe
Ján Rusz, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, and Somnath Bhowmick
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 145501 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Umesh Vazirani and Thomas Vidick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140501 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

To fend off potential hackers, researchers have taken a theoretical step closer to realizing a device-independent quantum cryptography protocol.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141802 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has placed stringent limits on a hypothetical fourth neutrino.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nonlinear Ultrasonic Phased Array Imaging

J. N. Potter, A. J. Croxford, and P. D. Wilcox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 144301 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

A new acoustic imaging technique could reveal previously invisible cracks in bridges or other infrastructure.

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Quantifying Coherence

T. Baumgratz, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140401 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

A quantified measure of quantum coherence — a necessary resource of quantum information — has been proposed using a similar approach to that established for entanglement and quantum reference frames.

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Experimental Reconstruction of Work Distribution and Study of Fluctuation Relations in a Closed Quantum System

Tiago B. Batalhão, Alexandre M. Souza, Laura Mazzola, Ruben Auccaise, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, John Goold, Gabriele De Chiara, Mauro Paternostro, and Roberto M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140601 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

A liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance platform allows control and quantification of the non-equilibrium spin dynamics of a closed quantum system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sphaleron Rate in the Minimal Standard Model

Michela D’Onofrio, Kari Rummukainen, and Anders Tranberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141602 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

The most accurate calculation of the sphaleron rate — responsible for baryon number changing processes — has been made using large scale lattice simulations and the mass of the recently discovered Higgs boson.

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Evidence for Electroweak Production of $W^{\pm} W^{\pm} j j$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141803 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has found evidence for the scattering of two massive vector bosons, a previously unseen process predicted by the Standard Model.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Astrophysical Line Diagnosis Requires Nonlinear Dynamical Atomic Modeling

Natalia S. Oreshkina, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Christoph H. Keitel, and Zoltán Harman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143001 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

A discrepancy between atomic theory and laboratory astrophysics experiments measuring the x-ray emission lines from highly charged Iron ions can be resolved by including nonlinear dynamical light-atom interactions.

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Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics on a Nanofiber Using a Composite Photonic Crystal Cavity

Ramachandrarao Yalla, Mark Sadgrove, Kali P. Nayak, and Kohzo Hakuta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143601 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

Spontaneous emission from a cavity made of an optical nanofiber and a nanostructured grating is demonstrated, which would allow single quantum emitters to be easily integrated into an optical network.

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Origin of Surface Canting within ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ Nanoparticles

K. L. Krycka, J. A. Borchers, R. A. Booth, Y. Ijiri, K. Hasz, J. J. Rhyne, and S. A. Majetich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147203 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014

Polarization analyzed small angle neutron scattering and modeling of iron oxide nanoparticles suggests that spin canting - tilting of surface spins at an angle to the applied magnetic field - arises from an interplay between interparticle coupling, Zeeman energy, magnetocrystalline anisotropy, and dipolar interactions.

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Competing Exchange Interactions on the Verge of a Metal-Insulator Transition in the Two-Dimensional Spiral Magnet ${Sr}_{3} {Fe}_{2} O_{7}$

J.-H. Kim, Anil Jain, M. Reehuis, G. Khaliullin, D. C. Peets, C. Ulrich, J. T. Park, E. Faulhaber, A. Hoser, H. C. Walker, D. T. Adroja, A. C. Walters, D. S. Inosov, A. Maljuk, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147206 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Exchange interactions between spin pairs have been experimentally measured in spiral magnets. Both ferro- and antiferromagnetic interactions were found, indicating that the spiral magnetic state arises from a competition between nearest neighbor ferromagnetic exchange and longer-distance antiferromagnetic exchange, confirming predictions by de Gennes in 1960.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantifying Coherence

T. Baumgratz, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140401 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

Experimental Demonstration of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Game Based on the All-Versus-Nothing Proof

Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Xiang-Jun Ye, Yu-Chun Wu, Jing-Ling Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140402 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

$3 / 4$ -Efficient Bell Measurement with Passive Linear Optics and Unentangled Ancillae

Fabian Ewert and Peter van Loock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140403 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Revealing Single-Trap Condensate Fragmentation by Measuring Density-Density Correlations after Time of Flight

Myung-Kyun Kang and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140404 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

Optimality of Gaussian Discord

Stefano Pirandola, Gaetana Spedalieri, Samuel L. Braunstein, Nicolas J. Cerf, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140405 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Umesh Vazirani and Thomas Vidick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140501 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

To fend off potential hackers, researchers have taken a theoretical step closer to realizing a device-independent quantum cryptography protocol.

Complete Positivity, Markovianity, and the Quantum Data-Processing Inequality, in the Presence of Initial System-Environment Correlations

Francesco Buscemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140502 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Reconstruction of Work Distribution and Study of Fluctuation Relations in a Closed Quantum System

Tiago B. Batalhão, Alexandre M. Souza, Laura Mazzola, Ruben Auccaise, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, John Goold, Gabriele De Chiara, Mauro Paternostro, and Roberto M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 140601 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

A liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance platform allows control and quantification of the non-equilibrium spin dynamics of a closed quantum system.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gravity Dual of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories on a Squashed Five-Sphere

Luis F. Alday, Martin Fluder, Paul Richmond, and James Sparks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141601 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sphaleron Rate in the Minimal Standard Model

Michela D’Onofrio, Kari Rummukainen, and Anders Tranberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141602 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

Evidence for $C P$ Violation in $B^{+} \to p \bar{p} K^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141801 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141802 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has placed stringent limits on a hypothetical fourth neutrino.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Electroweak Production of $W^{\pm} W^{\pm} j j$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 141803 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC has found evidence for the scattering of two massive vector bosons, a previously unseen process predicted by the Standard Model.

Observation of $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{0} χ_{b J}$ and Search for $X_{b} \to ω ϒ (1 S)$ at $\sqrt{s} = 10.867 GeV$

X. H. He et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142001 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Factorized Power Expansion for High- $p_{T}$ Heavy Quarkonium Production

Yan-Qing Ma, Jian-Wei Qiu, George Sterman, and Hong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142002 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Observation of $D^{0}$ Meson Nuclear Modifications in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142301 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Nonperturbative Shell-Model Interactions from the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group

S. K. Bogner, H. Hergert, J. D. Holt, A. Schwenk, S. Binder, A. Calci, J. Langhammer, and R. Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142501 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Ab Initio Coupled-Cluster Effective Interactions for the Shell Model: Application to Neutron-Rich Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes

G. R. Jansen, J. Engel, G. Hagen, P. Navratil, and A. Signoracci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142502 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Astrophysical Line Diagnosis Requires Nonlinear Dynamical Atomic Modeling

Natalia S. Oreshkina, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Christoph H. Keitel, and Zoltán Harman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143001 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

Does the “Reef Structure” at the Ozone Transition State towards the Dissociation Exist? New Insight from Calculations and Ultrasensitive Spectroscopy Experiments

Vl. G. Tyuterev, R. Kochanov, A. Campargue, S. Kassi, D. Mondelain, A. Barbe, E. Starikova, M. R. De Backer, P. G. Szalay, and S. Tashkun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143002 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

Atomic Site-Sensitive Processes in Low Energy Ion-Dimer Collisions

W. Iskandar, J. Matsumoto, A. Leredde, X. Fléchard, B. Gervais, S. Guillous, D. Hennecart, A. Méry, J. Rangama, C. L. Zhou, H. Shiromaru, and A. Cassimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143201 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics on a Nanofiber Using a Composite Photonic Crystal Cavity

Ramachandrarao Yalla, Mark Sadgrove, Kali P. Nayak, and Kohzo Hakuta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143601 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

Beating the Abbe Diffraction Limit in Confocal Microscopy via Nonclassical Photon Statistics

D. Gatto Monticone, K. Katamadze, P. Traina, E. Moreva, J. Forneris, I. Ruo-Berchera, P. Olivero, I. P. Degiovanni, G. Brida, and M. Genovese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143602 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Heralded Preparation and Readout of Entangled Phonons in a Photonic Crystal Cavity

Hugo Flayac and Vincenzo Savona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143603 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Impact of the dark path on quantum dot single photon emitters in small cavities

Kenji Kamide, Satoshi Iwamoto, and Yasuhiko Arakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143604 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Conversion of an Electromagnetic Wave into a Periodic Train of Solitons under Cyclotron Resonance Interaction with a Backward Beam of Unexcited Electron-Oscillators

I. V. Zotova, N. S. Ginzburg, A. S. Sergeev, E. R. Kocharovskaya, and V. Yu. Zaslavsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143901 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

Optimal Synchronization of Complex Networks

Per Sebastian Skardal, Dane Taylor, and Jie Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 144101 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nonlinear Ultrasonic Phased Array Imaging

J. N. Potter, A. J. Croxford, and P. D. Wilcox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 144301 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

A new acoustic imaging technique could reveal previously invisible cracks in bridges or other infrastructure.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Structure of the Diffusing Gas-Metal Interface in a Thermonuclear Plasma

Kim Molvig, Erik L. Vold, Evan S. Dodd, and Scott C. Wilks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 145001 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Achieving Atomic Resolution Magnetic Dichroism by Controlling the Phase Symmetry of an Electron Probe

Ján Rusz, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, and Somnath Bhowmick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 145501 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Capillary Contact Angle in a Completely Wet Groove

A. O. Parry, A. Malijevský, and C. Rascón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 146101 (2014) - Published 30 September, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Impurity-Assisted Tunneling Magnetoresistance under a Weak Magnetic Field

Oihana Txoperena, Yang Song, Lan Qing, Marco Gobbi, Luis E. Hueso, Hanan Dery, and Fèlix Casanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 146601 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014

Fluctuation-Driven Magnetic Hard-Axis Ordering in Metallic Ferromagnets

F. Krüger, C. J. Pedder, and A. G. Green

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147001 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetically Doped InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells

Qing-Ze Wang, Xin Liu, Hai-Jun Zhang, Nitin Samarth, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147201 (2014) - Published 29 September, 2014

Spin-Chirality-Driven Ferroelectricity on a Perfect Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet

H. Mitamura, R. Watanuki, K. Kaneko, N. Onozaki, Y. Amou, S. Kittaka, R. Kobayashi, Y. Shimura, I. Yamamoto, K. Suzuki, S. Chi, and T. Sakakibara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147202 (2014) - Published 1 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Origin of Surface Canting within ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ Nanoparticles

K. L. Krycka, J. A. Borchers, R. A. Booth, Y. Ijiri, K. Hasz, J. J. Rhyne, and S. A. Majetich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147203 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014

Interferometric Probes of Many-Body Localization

M. Serbyn, M. Knap, S. Gopalakrishnan, Z. Papić, N. Y. Yao, C. R. Laumann, D. A. Abanin, M. D. Lukin, and E. A. Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147204 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Far-from-Equilibrium Spin Transport in Heisenberg Quantum Magnets

Sebastian Hild, Takeshi Fukuhara, Peter Schauß, Johannes Zeiher, Michael Knap, Eugene Demler, Immanuel Bloch, and Christian Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147205 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

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Competing Exchange Interactions on the Verge of a Metal-Insulator Transition in the Two-Dimensional Spiral Magnet ${Sr}_{3} {Fe}_{2} O_{7}$

J.-H. Kim, Anil Jain, M. Reehuis, G. Khaliullin, D. C. Peets, C. Ulrich, J. T. Park, E. Faulhaber, A. Hoser, H. C. Walker, D. T. Adroja, A. C. Walters, D. S. Inosov, A. Maljuk, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147206 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Chirality Switching and Winding or Unwinding of the Antiferromagnetic NiO Domain Walls in $Fe / NiO / Fe / CoO / Ag (001)$

J. Li, A. Tan, S. Ma, R. F. Yang, E. Arenholz, C. Hwang, and Z. Q. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147207 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Nuclear Forward Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation by ${}^{99}{Ru}$

D. Bessas, D. G. Merkel, A. I. Chumakov, R. Rüffer, R. P. Hermann, I. Sergueev, A. Mahmoud, B. Klobes, M. A. McGuire, M. T. Sougrati, and L. Stievano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 147601 (2014) - Published 3 October, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Sticking Properties of Water Clusters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 103401 (2010)]

Sébastien Zamith, Pierre Feiden, Pierre Labastie, and Jean-Marc L’Hermite

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 149901 (2014) - Published 2 October, 2014