Volume 113, Issue 17

24 October 2014

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Scanning tunneling microscope image of cobalt atoms (gold) adsorbed on a graphene sheet that covers a Ru(0001) metal substrate. The corrugation of the graphene moiré structure is highlighted with hills (blue) and valleys (green).

From the article:

Tailoring the Magnetism of Co Atoms on Graphene through Substrate Hybridization
F. Donati, L. Gragnaniello, A. Cavallin, F. D. Natterer, Q. Dubout, M. Pivetta, F. Patthey, J. Dreiser, C. Piamonteze, S. Rusponi, and H. Brune
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177201 (2014)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: A Marketplace for Physics

Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 170001 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimensions

Freddy Cachazo, Song He, and Ellis Ye Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171601 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

A new formula for the scattering of massless particles may simplify predictions and analyses of LHC experiments and shed new light on quantum gravity theories.

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Nonlinear Interaction between Single Photons

T. Guerreiro, A. Martin, B. Sanguinetti, J. S. Pelc, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer, N. Gisin, H. Zbinden, N. Sangouard, and R. T. Thew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 173601 (2014) - Published 22 October, 2014

The interaction between two individual photons in a nonlinear optical waveguide offers new possibilities for quantum information processing.

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Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials

Bastiaan Florijn, Corentin Coulais, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 175503 (2014) - Published 24 October, 2014

Squeezing a holey rubber slab changes its stiffness over a wide range in the direction perpendicular to the squeeze.

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Artificial Tribotactic Microscopic Walkers: Walking Based on Friction Gradients

Joshua P. Steimel, Juan L. Aragones, and Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 178101 (2014) - Published 22 October, 2014

Pairs of micrometer-sized magnetic beads could “hunt” for chemicals by sensing changes in surface friction.

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Full Transmission and Reflection of Waves Propagating through a Maze of Disorder

Benoît Gérardin, Jérôme Laurent, Arnaud Derode, Claire Prada, and Alexandre Aubry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 173901 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

A normally opaque medium can become fully transparent to properly tailored acoustic waves.

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Mechanism for Thermal Relic Dark Matter of Strongly Interacting Massive Particles

Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Tomer Volansky, and Jay G. Wacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171301 (2014) - Published 22 October, 2014

Strongly interacting light dark matter could provide a mechanism for achieving thermal relic dark matter abundances via inelastic processes at freezeout. This addresses outstanding problems in small-scale structure formation.

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Strong Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Sectors from SLAC Beam Dump E137

Brian Batell, Rouven Essig, and Ze’ev Surujon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171802 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Using 30 year old electron beam-dump data, stringent new constraints are placed on the parameter space of dark photons - recently proposed hypothetical force carriers between dark matter particles.

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Classical Dynamical Localization

Italo Guarneri, Giulio Casati, and Volker Karle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 174101 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Features thought to be unique to quantum dynamical systems, such as localization of momentum, are found in a classical kicked rotor - where particles move in a ring and are ‘kicked’ periodically by an external field that changes the particle’s momentum.

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Phonon Localization by Mass Disorder in Dense Hydrogen-Deuterium Binary Alloy

Ross T. Howie, Ioan B. Magdău, Alexander F. Goncharov, Graeme J. Ackland, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 175501 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Localized vibration phonon modes are observed in a dense hydrogen-deuterium mixture, due to mass distribution disorder from the different isotope masses in the mixture.

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In-Plane Magnetoresistance Obeys Kohler’s Rule in the Pseudogap Phase of Cuprate Superconductors

M. K. Chan, M. J. Veit, C. J. Dorow, Y. Ge, Y. Li, W. Tabis, Y. Tang, X. Zhao, N. Barišić, and M. Greven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177005 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Kohler’s rule - that a metal’s resistivity in an applied magnetic field exhibits scaling behavior - is shown to be universally valid for the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors, if disorder and extrinsic influences are taken into account.

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Detection of Up-converted Persistent Luminescence in the Near Infrared Emitted by the ${Zn}_{3} {Ga}_{2} {GeO}_{8} : {Cr}^{3 +}$ , ${Yb}^{3 +}$ , ${Er}^{3 +}$ Phosphor

Feng Liu, Yanjie Liang, and Zhengwei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177401 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Persistent luminescence, lasting more than 24 hours, is generated in a new phosphor compound via an upconversion process.

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Gravity Driven Instability in Elastic Solid Layers

Serge Mora, Ty Phou, Jean-Marc Fromental, and Yves Pomeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 178301 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

A new Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability is seen in elastic gel materials, where the instability is driven by gravity.

LETTERS

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

Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence in Finite Dimensional Systems

Davide Girolami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 170401 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Experimental Detection of Entanglement with Optimal-Witness Families

Jibo Dai, Yink Loong Len, Yong Siah Teo, Berthold-Georg Englert, and Leonid A. Krivitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 170402 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Relaxation Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in an Optical Superlattice

D. Pertot, A. Sheikhan, E. Cocchi, L. A. Miller, J. E. Bohn, M. Koschorreck, M. Köhl, and C. Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 170403 (2014) - Published 23 October, 2014

Experimental Generation of Continuous-Variable Hyperentanglement in an Optical Parametric Oscillator

Kui Liu, Jun Guo, Chunxiao Cai, Shuaifeng Guo, and Jiangrui Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 170501 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Fast Thermalization and Helmholtz Oscillations of an Ultracold Bose Gas

D. J. Papoular, L. P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 170601 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Asymptotic Freedom in Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity

Giulio D’Odorico, Frank Saueressig, and Marrit Schutten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171101 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanism for Thermal Relic Dark Matter of Strongly Interacting Massive Particles

Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Tomer Volansky, and Jay G. Wacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171301 (2014) - Published 22 October, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scattering of Massless Particles in Arbitrary Dimensions

Freddy Cachazo, Song He, and Ellis Ye Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171601 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

A new formula for the scattering of massless particles may simplify predictions and analyses of LHC experiments and shed new light on quantum gravity theories.

Search for Scalar Diphoton Resonances in the Mass Range 65–600 GeV with the ATLAS Detector in $p p$ Collision Data at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171801 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Sectors from SLAC Beam Dump E137

Brian Batell, Rouven Essig, and Ze’ev Surujon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171802 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Using 30 year old electron beam-dump data, stringent new constraints are placed on the parameter space of dark photons - recently proposed hypothetical force carriers between dark matter particles.

Baryogenesis from Strong $C P$ Violation and the QCD Axion

Géraldine Servant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 171803 (2014) - Published 24 October, 2014

Measurement of the ${\bar{B}}_{s}^{0}$ Meson Lifetime in $D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 172001 (2014) - Published 24 October, 2014

Nuclear Physics

QCD Sum Rules for Magnetically Induced Mixing between $η_{c}$ and $J / ψ$

Sungtae Cho, Koichi Hattori, Su Houng Lee, Kenji Morita, and Sho Ozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 172301 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nonlinear Interaction between Single Photons

T. Guerreiro, A. Martin, B. Sanguinetti, J. S. Pelc, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer, N. Gisin, H. Zbinden, N. Sangouard, and R. T. Thew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 173601 (2014) - Published 22 October, 2014

The interaction between two individual photons in a nonlinear optical waveguide offers new possibilities for quantum information processing.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Full Transmission and Reflection of Waves Propagating through a Maze of Disorder

Benoît Gérardin, Jérôme Laurent, Arnaud Derode, Claire Prada, and Alexandre Aubry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 173901 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

A normally opaque medium can become fully transparent to properly tailored acoustic waves.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Classical Dynamical Localization

Italo Guarneri, Giulio Casati, and Volker Karle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 174101 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Grueneisen Relaxation Photoacoustic Microscopy

Lidai Wang, Chi Zhang, and Lihong V. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 174301 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Plasma-Resistivity-Induced Strong Damping of the Kinetic Resistive Wall Mode

Yuling He, Yueqiang Liu, Yue Liu, Guangzhou Hao, and Aike Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 175001 (2014) - Published 24 October, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon Localization by Mass Disorder in Dense Hydrogen-Deuterium Binary Alloy

Ross T. Howie, Ioan B. Magdău, Alexander F. Goncharov, Graeme J. Ackland, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 175501 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Localized vibration phonon modes are observed in a dense hydrogen-deuterium mixture, due to mass distribution disorder from the different isotope masses in the mixture.

Stability, Energetics, and Magnetic States of Cobalt Adatoms on Graphene

Yudistira Virgus, Wirawan Purwanto, Henry Krakauer, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 175502 (2014) - Published 23 October, 2014

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Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials

Bastiaan Florijn, Corentin Coulais, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 175503 (2014) - Published 24 October, 2014

Squeezing a holey rubber slab changes its stiffness over a wide range in the direction perpendicular to the squeeze.

Unexpected Reconstruction of the $α$ -Boron (111) Surface

Xiang-Feng Zhou, Artem R. Oganov, Xi Shao, Qiang Zhu, and Hui-Tian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 176101 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Phonon-Assisted Crossover from a Nonmagnetic Peierls Insulator to a Magnetic Stoner Metal

Yongcheng Liang, Xun Yuan, Yanfeng Gao, Wenqing Zhang, and Peihong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 176401 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Quantum Phases of the Shastry-Sutherland Kondo Lattice: Implications for the Global Phase Diagram of Heavy-Fermion Metals

J. H. Pixley, Rong Yu, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 176402 (2014) - Published 24 October, 2014

Damping of Confined Modes in a Ferromagnetic Thin Insulating Film: Angular Momentum Transfer across a Nanoscale Field-Defined Interface

Rohan Adur, Chunhui Du, Hailong Wang, Sergei A. Manuilov, Vidya P. Bhallamudi, Chi Zhang, Denis V. Pelekhov, Fengyuan Yang, and P. Chris Hammel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 176601 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Hybrid Spin and Valley Quantum Computing with Singlet-Triplet Qubits

Niklas Rohling, Maximilian Russ, and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 176801 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

First-Principles Approach to Calculating Energy Level Alignment at Aqueous Semiconductor Interfaces

Neerav Kharche, James T. Muckerman, and Mark S. Hybertsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 176802 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Theoretical Prediction of a Time-Reversal Broken Chiral Superconducting Phase Driven by Electronic Correlations in a Single ${TiSe}_{2}$ Layer

R. Ganesh, G. Baskaran, Jeroen van den Brink, and Dmitry V. Efremov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177001 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Neutron-Scattering Evidence for a Periodically Modulated Superconducting Phase in the Underdoped Cuprate ${La}_{1.905} {Ba}_{0.095} {CuO}_{4}$

Zhijun Xu, C. Stock, Songxue Chi, A. I. Kolesnikov, Guangyong Xu, Genda Gu, and J. M. Tranquada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177002 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Odd-Parity Triplet Superconducting Phase in Multiorbital Materials with a Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling: Application to Doped ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

Zi Yang Meng, Yong Baek Kim, and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177003 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Disorder Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in ${BaPb}_{1 - x} {Bi}_{x} O_{3}$ and Inference of Disorder-Free Critical Temperature

Katherine Luna, Paula Giraldo-Gallo, Theodore Geballe, Ian Fisher, and Malcolm Beasley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177004 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

In-Plane Magnetoresistance Obeys Kohler’s Rule in the Pseudogap Phase of Cuprate Superconductors

M. K. Chan, M. J. Veit, C. J. Dorow, Y. Ge, Y. Li, W. Tabis, Y. Tang, X. Zhao, N. Barišić, and M. Greven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177005 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Tailoring the Magnetism of Co Atoms on Graphene through Substrate Hybridization

F. Donati, L. Gragnaniello, A. Cavallin, F. D. Natterer, Q. Dubout, M. Pivetta, F. Patthey, J. Dreiser, C. Piamonteze, S. Rusponi, and H. Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177201 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detection of Up-converted Persistent Luminescence in the Near Infrared Emitted by the ${Zn}_{3} {Ga}_{2} {GeO}_{8} : {Cr}^{3 +}$ , ${Yb}^{3 +}$ , ${Er}^{3 +}$ Phosphor

Feng Liu, Yanjie Liang, and Zhengwei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177401 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Persistent luminescence, lasting more than 24 hours, is generated in a new phosphor compound via an upconversion process.

Control of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas on ${SrTiO}_{3} (111)$ by Atomic Oxygen

S. McKeown Walker, A. de la Torre, F. Y. Bruno, A. Tamai, T. K. Kim, M. Hoesch, M. Shi, M. S. Bahramy, P. D. C. King, and F. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 177601 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Continuum Modeling of Secondary Rheology in Dense Granular Materials

David L. Henann and Ken Kamrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 178001 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

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Artificial Tribotactic Microscopic Walkers: Walking Based on Friction Gradients

Joshua P. Steimel, Juan L. Aragones, and Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 178101 (2014) - Published 22 October, 2014

Pairs of micrometer-sized magnetic beads could “hunt” for chemicals by sensing changes in surface friction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gravity Driven Instability in Elastic Solid Layers

Serge Mora, Ty Phou, Jean-Marc Fromental, and Yves Pomeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 178301 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

A new Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability is seen in elastic gel materials, where the instability is driven by gravity.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Formation of Phase Space Holes and Clumps”

I. Y. Dodin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 179501 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

Lilley and Nyqvist Reply:

M. K. Lilley and R. M. Nyqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 179502 (2014) - Published 21 October, 2014

ERRATA

Erratum: Continuous Generation of Spinmotive Force in a Patterned Ferromagnetic Film [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 236602 (2011)]

Y. Yamane, K. Sasage, T. An, K. Harii, J. Ohe, J. Ieda, S. E. Barnes, E. Saitoh, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 179901 (2014) - Published 20 October, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Bulk Signatures of Pressure-Induced Band Inversion and Topological Phase Transitions in ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x} Se$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 096401 (2014)]

Xiaoxiang Xi, Xu-Gang He, Fen Guan, Zhenxian Liu, R. D. Zhong, J. A. Schneeloch, T. S. Liu, G. D. Gu, X. Du, Z. Chen, X. G. Hong, Wei Ku, and G. L. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 179902 (2014) - Published 23 October, 2014