Volume 113, Issue 19

7 November 2014

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The enzyme Renilla Luciferase attached to a stressed DNA spring.

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Dissipative Dynamics of Enzymes
Amila Ariyaratne, Chenhao Wu, Chiao-Yu Tseng, and Giovanni Zocchi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198101 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Statistical Diagnostics to Identify Galactic Foregrounds in $B$ -Mode Maps

Marc Kamionkowski and Ely D. Kovetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191303 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Ongoing searches for primordial gravitational waves have a new way to identify possible contaminations from cosmic dust.

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Cooperative Lamb Shift in a Mesoscopic Atomic Array

Z. Meir, O. Schwartz, E. Shahmoon, D. Oron, and R. Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193002 (2014) - Published 5 November, 2014

The roiling of the quantum vacuum tweaks the collective energy of far-apart ions.

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Viscoelasticity Breaks the Symmetry of Impacting Jets

H. Lhuissier, B. Néel, and L. Limat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 194502 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

A high-speed jet of certain fluids will form multiple wings, or archlike structures, when hitting a solid surface.

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Magnetic Resonance Detection of Individual Proton Spins Using Quantum Reporters

A. O. Sushkov, I. Lovchinsky, N. Chisholm, R. L. Walsworth, H. Park, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197601 (2014) - Published 3 November, 2014

An NMR scheme based on nitrogen vacancies in diamond images the spins of individual protons.

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Shear Modulus and Dilatancy Softening in Granular Packings above Jamming

C. Coulais, A. Seguin, and O. Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198001 (2014) - Published 3 November, 2014

Experiments on a model “soil” give new insight into the elasticity of nonlinear materials.

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Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution over 200 km

Yan-Lin Tang, Hua-Lei Yin, Si-Jing Chen, Yang Liu, Wei-Jun Zhang, Xiao Jiang, Lu Zhang, Jian Wang, Li-Xing You, Jian-Yu Guan, Dong-Xu Yang, Zhen Wang, Hao Liang, Zhen Zhang, Nan Zhou, Xiongfeng Ma, Teng-Yun Chen, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190501 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Using stable, high-efficiency single photon detectors, a quantum key distribution protocol is demonstrated and shown to be secure over a distance of 200 km.

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High-Precision Test of Landauer’s Principle in a Feedback Trap

Yonggun Jun, Momčilo Gavrilov, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190601 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

New experiments confirm the theoretical prediction of Rolf Landauer, that there is a lower bound on the minimum energy needed to perform a single computation, such as erasing a single bit of information.

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Origin of the High Energy Cosmic Neutrino Background

Shlomo Dado and Arnon Dar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191102 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Collisions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays within molecular clouds of star forming galaxies produce a diffuse background of very high energy neutrinos, consistent with that observed by the IceCube neutrino telescope.

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Landscape-Inversion Phase Transition in Dipolar Colloids: Tuning the Structure and Dynamics of 2D Crystals

Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198301 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

A new first order phase transition is seen in magnetic colloidal crystals, when the energy landscape is completely inverted.

LETTERS

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

Chiral Prethermalization in Supersonically Split Condensates

Kartiek Agarwal, Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Bernhard Rauer, Tim Langen, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190401 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Arbitrarily Small Amount of Measurement Independence Is Sufficient to Manifest Quantum Nonlocality

Gilles Pütz, Denis Rosset, Tomer Jack Barnea, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190402 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Quantum Mechanics with a Momentum-Space Artificial Magnetic Field

Hannah M. Price, Tomoki Ozawa, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190403 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Self-Guided Quantum Tomography

Christopher Ferrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190404 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

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Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution over 200 km

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190501 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Using stable, high-efficiency single photon detectors, a quantum key distribution protocol is demonstrated and shown to be secure over a distance of 200 km.

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High-Precision Test of Landauer’s Principle in a Feedback Trap

Yonggun Jun, Momčilo Gavrilov, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190601 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Basis Function Sampling: A New Paradigm for Material Property Computation

Jonathan K. Whitmer, Chi-cheng Chiu, Abhijeet A. Joshi, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190602 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Anisotropic Stress as a Signature of Nonstandard Propagation of Gravitational Waves

Ippocratis D. Saltas, Ignacy Sawicki, Luca Amendola, and Martin Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191101 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

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Origin of the High Energy Cosmic Neutrino Background

Shlomo Dado and Arnon Dar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191102 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Detecting Dark Matter with Imploding Pulsars in the Galactic Center

Joseph Bramante and Tim Linden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191301 (2014) - Published 3 November, 2014

Revisiting the Bound on Axion-Photon Coupling from Globular Clusters

Adrian Ayala, Inma Domínguez, Maurizio Giannotti, Alessandro Mirizzi, and Oscar Straniero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191302 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

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Statistical Diagnostics to Identify Galactic Foregrounds in $B$ -Mode Maps

Marc Kamionkowski and Ely D. Kovetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191303 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Ongoing searches for primordial gravitational waves have a new way to identify possible contaminations from cosmic dust.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Probing the Higgs Couplings to Photons in $h \to 4 ℓ$ at the LHC

Yi Chen, Roni Harnik, and Roberto Vega-Morales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 191801 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Comprehensive Description of $J / ψ$ Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at Collider Energies

Yan-Qing Ma and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 192301 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei Using Chiral Potentials

J. E. Lynn, J. Carlson, E. Epelbaum, S. Gandolfi, A. Gezerlis, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 192501 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Ab Initio Description of $p$ -Shell Hypernuclei

Roland Wirth, Daniel Gazda, Petr Navrátil, Angelo Calci, Joachim Langhammer, and Robert Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 192502 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Dipole-Quadrupole Interaction in an Ultracold Gas of Rydberg Atoms

Johannes Deiglmayr, Heiner Saßmannshausen, Pierre Pillet, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193001 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

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Cooperative Lamb Shift in a Mesoscopic Atomic Array

Z. Meir, O. Schwartz, E. Shahmoon, D. Oron, and R. Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193002 (2014) - Published 5 November, 2014

The roiling of the quantum vacuum tweaks the collective energy of far-apart ions.

Observation of Density-Induced Tunneling

Ole Jürgensen, Florian Meinert, Manfred J. Mark, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Dirk-Sören Lühmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193003 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

High Resolution Multiphoton Spectroscopy by a Tunable Free-Electron-Laser Light

M. Žitnik, A. Mihelič, K. Bučar, M. Kavčič, J.-E. Rubensson, M. Svanquist, J. Söderström, R. Feifel, C. Såthe, Y. Ovcharenko, V. Lyamayev, T. Mazza, M. Meyer, M. Simon, L. Journel, J. Lüning, O. Plekan, M. Coreno, M. Devetta, M. Di Fraia, P. Finetti, R. Richter, C. Grazioli, K. C. Prince, and C. Callegari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193201 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Inducing Nonclassical Lasing via Periodic Drivings in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, Juan José García-Ripoll, and Diego Porras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193601 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Probing Nuclear Motion by Frequency Modulation of Molecular High-Order Harmonic Generation

Xue-Bin Bian and André D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 193901 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Universal Behavior of the Initial Stage of Drop Impact

Evert Klaseboer, Rogerio Manica, and Derek Y. C. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 194501 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

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Viscoelasticity Breaks the Symmetry of Impacting Jets

H. Lhuissier, B. Néel, and L. Limat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 194502 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

A high-speed jet of certain fluids will form multiple wings, or archlike structures, when hitting a solid surface.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

$p$ -Wave Superfluidity by Spin-Nematic Fermi Surface Deformation

Jan Gukelberger, Evgeny Kozik, Lode Pollet, Nikolay Prokof’ev, Manfred Sigrist, Boris Svistunov, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 195301 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Many-Body Dynamics of Dipolar Molecules in an Optical Lattice

Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Bryce Gadway, Michael Foss-Feig, Bo Yan, Steven A. Moses, Jacob P. Covey, Norman Y. Yao, Mikhail D. Lukin, Jun Ye, Deborah S. Jin, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 195302 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Plasmon Decay and Thermal Transport from Spin-Charge Coupling in Generic Luttinger Liquids

Alex Levchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196401 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

Spin-Electricity Conversion Induced by Spin Injection into Topological Insulators

Y. Shiomi, K. Nomura, Y. Kajiwara, K. Eto, M. Novak, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando, and E. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196601 (2014) - Published 3 November, 2014

Spin Hall Effects in Metallic Antiferromagnets

Wei Zhang, Matthias B. Jungfleisch, Wanjun Jiang, John E. Pearson, Axel Hoffmann, Frank Freimuth, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196602 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

What Determines the Fermi Wave Vector of Composite Fermions?

D. Kamburov, Yang Liu, M. A. Mueed, M. Shayegan, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and K. W. Baldwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196801 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Stabilization and Manipulation of Electronically Phase-Separated Ground States in Defective Indium Atom Wires on Silicon

Hui Zhang, Fangfei Ming, Hyun-Jung Kim, Hongbin Zhu, Qiang Zhang, Hanno H. Weitering, Xudong Xiao, Changgan Zeng, Jun-Hyung Cho, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196802 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Manipulation and Characterization of Aperiodical Graphene Structures Created in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Shiyong Wang, Liang Z. Tan, Weihua Wang, Steven G. Louie, and Nian Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196803 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Revealing Topological Superconductivity in Extended Quantum Spin Hall Josephson Junctions

Shu-Ping Lee, Karen Michaeli, Jason Alicea, and Amir Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197001 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Noncoplanar and Counterrotating Incommensurate Magnetic Order Stabilized by Kitaev Interactions in $γ − {Li}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

A. Biffin, R. D. Johnson, I. Kimchi, R. Morris, A. Bombardi, J. G. Analytis, A. Vishwanath, and R. Coldea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197201 (2014) - Published 6 November, 2014

Fractionalized Charge Excitations in a Spin Liquid on Partially Filled Pyrochlore Lattices

Gang Chen, Hae-Young Kee, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197202 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Full Control of the Spin-Wave Damping in a Magnetic Insulator Using Spin-Orbit Torque

A. Hamadeh, O. d’Allivy Kelly, C. Hahn, H. Meley, R. Bernard, A. H. Molpeceres, V. V. Naletov, M. Viret, A. Anane, V. Cros, S. O. Demokritov, J. L. Prieto, M. Muñoz, G. de Loubens, and O. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197203 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Sufficient Condition for Entanglement Area Laws in Thermodynamically Gapped Spin Systems

Jaeyoon Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197204 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

Vaporization of Kitaev Spin Liquids

Joji Nasu, Masafumi Udagawa, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197205 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014

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Magnetic Resonance Detection of Individual Proton Spins Using Quantum Reporters

A. O. Sushkov, I. Lovchinsky, N. Chisholm, R. L. Walsworth, H. Park, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197601 (2014) - Published 3 November, 2014

An NMR scheme based on nitrogen vacancies in diamond images the spins of individual protons.

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Shear Modulus and Dilatancy Softening in Granular Packings above Jamming

C. Coulais, A. Seguin, and O. Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198001 (2014) - Published 3 November, 2014

Experiments on a model “soil” give new insight into the elasticity of nonlinear materials.

Dissipative Dynamics of Enzymes

Amila Ariyaratne, Chenhao Wu, Chiao-Yu Tseng, and Giovanni Zocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198101 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

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Landscape-Inversion Phase Transition in Dipolar Colloids: Tuning the Structure and Dynamics of 2D Crystals

Ricard Alert, Jaume Casademunt, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 198301 (2014) - Published 4 November, 2014

A new first order phase transition is seen in magnetic colloidal crystals, when the energy landscape is completely inverted.

ERRATA

Erratum: Scale-Invariant Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators beyond the Two-Dimensional Limit [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 137201 (2014)]

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, 199901 (2014) - Published 7 November, 2014