Volume 113, Issue 21

21 November 2014

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Modeling of the surface roughening of a binary liquid polymer film undergoing phase separation.

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Pattern Formation in Polymer Blend Thin Films: Surface Roughening Couples to Phase Separation
Sam Coveney and Nigel Clarke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 218301 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fixed-Point Quantum Search with an Optimal Number of Queries

Theodore J. Yoder, Guang Hao Low, and Isaac L. Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210501 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

A well-known quantum search method, called Grover’s algorithm, has been modified to handle a wider variety of search problems.

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Frequency Ratio of Two Optical Clock Transitions in ${}^{171}{Yb}^{+}$ and Constraints on the Time Variation of Fundamental Constants

R. M. Godun, P. B. R. Nisbet-Jones, J. M. Jones, S. A. King, L. A. M. Johnson, H. S. Margolis, K. Szymaniec, S. N. Lea, K. Bongs, and P. Gill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210801 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Single-ion clocks yield new limits on how much the proton-to-electron mass ratio and the fine structure constant change over time.

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Improved Limit on a Temporal Variation of $m_{p} / m_{e}$ from Comparisons of ${Yb}^{+}$ and Cs Atomic Clocks

N. Huntemann, B. Lipphardt, Chr. Tamm, V. Gerginov, S. Weyers, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210802 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Single-ion clocks yield new limits on how much the proton-to-electron mass ratio and the fine structure constant change over time.

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Physics of Beer Tapping

Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Almudena Casado-Chacón, and Daniel Fuster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 214501 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

An investigation of the pub prank “beer tapping” provides a better understanding of gas-driven eruptions that occur in carbonated beverages, as well as in volcanic environments.

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Electronic Structure Basis for the Extraordinary Magnetoresistance in ${WTe}_{2}$

I. Pletikosić, Mazhar N. Ali, A. V. Fedorov, R. J. Cava, and T. Valla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216601 (2014) - Published 19 November, 2014

A near perfect balance between electrons and holes explains why WTe $_{2}$ ’s huge magnetoresistence doesn’t saturate at high fields, reaching 13 million percent at 60 tesla.

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Spacetime Curvature and the Higgs Stability During Inflation

M. Herranen, T. Markkanen, S. Nurmi, and A. Rajantie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 211102 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Curvature corrections to the Standard Model effective potential explain why the universe did not become unstable during cosmological inflation.

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Observation of an Excited $B_{c}^{\pm}$ Meson State with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 212004 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

The ATLAS Collaboration has observed a new excited state of the $B_{c}^{\pm}$ meson at 6842 MeV by reconstructing its decay. The mass and decay are consistent with QCD predictions for this excited state.

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Evidence for a Common Physical Origin of the Landau and BEC Theories of Superfluidity

S. O. Diallo, R. T. Azuah, D. L. Abernathy, Junko Taniguchi, Masaru Suzuki, Jacques Bossy, N. Mulders, and H. R. Glyde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215302 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

New measurements show that Bose-Einstein condensation underlies the emergence of the characteristic Landau quasiparticle spectrum in superfluid helium-4.

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Planck’s Quantum-Driven Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Chaos

Yu Chen and Chushun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216802 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

The kicked spin- $1 / 2$ rotor, a canonical chaotic system, is analogous to the integer quantum Hall effect.

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Nonuniversality in the Pinch-Off of Yield Stress Fluids: Role of Nonlocal Rheology

Nicolas Louvet, Daniel Bonn, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 218302 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

The behavior of neck thinning — where the liquid bridge between two droplets thins as the distance between the drops increases — is no longer believed to be universal, but depends on how the experiments are performed.

LETTERS

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

Universal Nonequilibrium Properties of Dissipative Rydberg Gases

Matteo Marcuzzi, Emanuele Levi, Sebastian Diehl, Juan P. Garrahan, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210401 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Quantum Quench and Prethermalization Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas with Long-Range Interactions

N. Nessi, A. Iucci, and M. A. Cazalilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210402 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Strong Monogamies of No-Signaling Violations for Bipartite Correlation Bell Inequalities

Ravishankar Ramanathan and Paweł Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210403 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

Efficient Estimation of Resonant Coupling between Quantum Systems

Markku P. V. Stenberg, Yuval R. Sanders, and Frank K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210404 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

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Fixed-Point Quantum Search with an Optimal Number of Queries

Theodore J. Yoder, Guang Hao Low, and Isaac L. Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210501 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

A well-known quantum search method, called Grover’s algorithm, has been modified to handle a wider variety of search problems.

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Frequency Ratio of Two Optical Clock Transitions in ${}^{171}{Yb}^{+}$ and Constraints on the Time Variation of Fundamental Constants

R. M. Godun, P. B. R. Nisbet-Jones, J. M. Jones, S. A. King, L. A. M. Johnson, H. S. Margolis, K. Szymaniec, S. N. Lea, K. Bongs, and P. Gill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210801 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Single-ion clocks yield new limits on how much the proton-to-electron mass ratio and the fine structure constant change over time.

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Improved Limit on a Temporal Variation of $m_{p} / m_{e}$ from Comparisons of ${Yb}^{+}$ and Cs Atomic Clocks

N. Huntemann, B. Lipphardt, Chr. Tamm, V. Gerginov, S. Weyers, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 210802 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Single-ion clocks yield new limits on how much the proton-to-electron mass ratio and the fine structure constant change over time.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Supersymmetric Black Holes with Lens-Space Topology

Hari K. Kunduri and James Lucietti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 211101 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

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Spacetime Curvature and the Higgs Stability During Inflation

M. Herranen, T. Markkanen, S. Nurmi, and A. Rajantie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 211102 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Curvature corrections to the Standard Model effective potential explain why the universe did not become unstable during cosmological inflation.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $C P$ -Violating Phase $ϕ_{s}$ in ${\bar{B}}_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{+} D_{s}^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 211801 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

Echoes of the Electroweak Phase Transition: Discovering a Second Higgs Doublet through $A_{0} \to Z H_{0}$

G. C. Dorsch, S. J. Huber, K. Mimasu, and J. M. No

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 211802 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

$W^{+} W^{-}$ Production at Hadron Colliders in Next to Next to Leading Order QCD

T. Gehrmann, M. Grazzini, S. Kallweit, P. Maierhöfer, A. von Manteuffel, S. Pozzorini, D. Rathlev, and L. Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 212001 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

Observation of $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{0} π^{0} h_{c}$ and a Neutral Charmoniumlike Structure $Z_{c} (4020)^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 212002 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

Rapidity Distributions in Drell-Yan and Higgs Productions at Threshold to Third Order in QCD

Taushif Ahmed, M. K. Mandal, Narayan Rana, and V. Ravindran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 212003 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

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Observation of an Excited $B_{c}^{\pm}$ Meson State with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 212004 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Generalized Efimov Scenario for Heavy-Light Mixtures

D. Blume and Yangqian Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 213201 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

Coherent Interaction of Light and Single Molecules in a Dielectric Nanoguide

Sanli Faez, Pierre Türschmann, Harald R. Haakh, Stephan Götzinger, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 213601 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strong-Field Perspective on High-Harmonic Radiation from Bulk Solids

Takuya Higuchi, Mark I. Stockman, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 213901 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Phase Instability in Semiconductor Lasers

L. Gil and G. L. Lippi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 213902 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

How a Curved Elastic Strip Opens

Thomas Barois, Loïc Tadrist, Catherine Quilliet, and Yoël Forterre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 214301 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

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Physics of Beer Tapping

Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Almudena Casado-Chacón, and Daniel Fuster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 214501 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

An investigation of the pub prank “beer tapping” provides a better understanding of gas-driven eruptions that occur in carbonated beverages, as well as in volcanic environments.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Cherenkov Radiation from Short Relativistic Bunches: General Approach

S. S. Baturin and A. D. Kanareykin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 214801 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dimensional Phase Transition from an Array of 1D Luttinger Liquids to a 3D Bose-Einstein Condensate

Andreas Vogler, Ralf Labouvie, Giovanni Barontini, Sebastian Eggert, Vera Guarrera, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215301 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

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Evidence for a Common Physical Origin of the Landau and BEC Theories of Superfluidity

S. O. Diallo, R. T. Azuah, D. L. Abernathy, Junko Taniguchi, Masaru Suzuki, Jacques Bossy, N. Mulders, and H. R. Glyde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215302 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

New measurements show that Bose-Einstein condensation underlies the emergence of the characteristic Landau quasiparticle spectrum in superfluid helium-4.

Density-Dependent Synthetic Gauge Fields Using Periodically Modulated Interactions

S. Greschner, G. Sun, D. Poletti, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215303 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

Classical Mobility of Highly Mobile Crystal Defects

T. D. Swinburne, S. L. Dudarev, and A. P. Sutton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215501 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

Identifying the Role of Terahertz Vibrations in Metal-Organic Frameworks: From Gate-Opening Phenomenon to Shear-Driven Structural Destabilization

Matthew R. Ryder, Bartolomeo Civalleri, Thomas D. Bennett, Sebastian Henke, Svemir Rudić, Gianfelice Cinque, Felix Fernandez-Alonso, and Jin-Chong Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215502 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

Monolithic Phononic Crystals with a Surface Acoustic Band Gap from Surface Phonon-Polariton Coupling

D. Yudistira, A. Boes, B. Djafari-Rouhani, Y. Pennec, L. Y. Yeo, A. Mitchell, and J. R. Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215503 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

Evolution of Covalent Networks under Cooling: Contrasting the Rigidity Window and Jamming Scenarios

Le Yan and Matthieu Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215504 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

Experimental Evidence for a Liquid-Liquid Crossover in Deeply Cooled Confined Water

Antonio Cupane, Margarita Fomina, Irina Piazza, Judith Peters, and Giorgio Schirò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 215701 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Instantaneous Band Gap Collapse in Photoexcited Monoclinic ${VO}_{2}$ due to Photocarrier Doping

Daniel Wegkamp, Marc Herzog, Lede Xian, Matteo Gatti, Pierluigi Cudazzo, Christina L. McGahan, Robert E. Marvel, Richard F. Haglund, Jr., Angel Rubio, Martin Wolf, and Julia Stähler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216401 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Direct Observation of Decoupled Structural and Electronic Transitions and an Ambient Pressure Monocliniclike Metallic Phase of ${VO}_{2}$

J. Laverock, S. Kittiwatanakul, A. A. Zakharov, Y. R. Niu, B. Chen, S. A. Wolf, J. W. Lu, and K. E. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216402 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Contiguous $3 d$ and $4 f$ Magnetism: Strongly Correlated $3 d$ Electrons in ${YbFe}_{2} {Al}_{10}$

P. Khuntia, P. Peratheepan, A. M. Strydom, Y. Utsumi, K.-T. Ko, K.-D. Tsuei, L. H. Tjeng, F. Steglich, and M. Baenitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216403 (2014) - Published 19 November, 2014

Combined Topological and Landau Order from Strong Correlations in Chern Bands

Stefanos Kourtis and Maria Daghofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216404 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

Collective Pairing of Resonantly Coupled Microcavity Polaritons

F. M. Marchetti and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216405 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

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Electronic Structure Basis for the Extraordinary Magnetoresistance in ${WTe}_{2}$

I. Pletikosić, Mazhar N. Ali, A. V. Fedorov, R. J. Cava, and T. Valla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216601 (2014) - Published 19 November, 2014

A near perfect balance between electrons and holes explains why WTe $_{2}$ ’s huge magnetoresistence doesn’t saturate at high fields, reaching 13 million percent at 60 tesla.

Anomalous Magnetic Ground State in an ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface Probed by Transport through Nanowires

A. Ron, E. Maniv, D. Graf, J.-H. Park, and Y. Dagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216801 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

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Planck’s Quantum-Driven Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Chaos

Yu Chen and Chushun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 216802 (2014) - Published 21 November, 2014

The kicked spin- $1 / 2$ rotor, a canonical chaotic system, is analogous to the integer quantum Hall effect.

Manipulation of Gap Nodes by Uniaxial Strain in Iron-Based Superconductors

Jian Kang, Alexander F. Kemper, and Rafael M. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 217001 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

Ising-Glauber Spin Cluster Model for Temperature-Dependent Magnetization Noise in SQUIDs

Amrit De

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 217002 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014

Purification and Many-Body Localization in Cold Atomic Gases

Felix Andraschko, Tilman Enss, and Jesko Sirker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 217201 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Motion of Domain Walls and the Dynamics of Kinks in the Magnetic Peierls Potential

F. J. Buijnsters, A. Fasolino, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 217202 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

$k = 0$ Magnetic Structure and Absence of Ferroelectricity in ${SmFeO}_{3}$

C.-Y. Kuo, Y. Drees, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, L. Zhao, L. Vasylechko, D. Sheptyakov, A. M. T. Bell, T. W. Pi, H.-J. Lin, M.-K. Wu, E. Pellegrin, S. M. Valvidares, Z. W. Li, P. Adler, A. Todorova, R. Küchler, A. Steppke, L. H. Tjeng, Z. Hu, and A. C. Komarek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 217203 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Trapping of Swimming Microorganisms at Lower Surfaces by Increasing Buoyancy

Ilyong Jung, Karine Guevorkian, and James M. Valles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 218101 (2014) - Published 17 November, 2014

Pattern Formation in Polymer Blend Thin Films: Surface Roughening Couples to Phase Separation

Sam Coveney and Nigel Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 218301 (2014) - Published 19 November, 2014

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Nonuniversality in the Pinch-Off of Yield Stress Fluids: Role of Nonlocal Rheology

Nicolas Louvet, Daniel Bonn, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 218302 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

Delayed Difference Scheme for Large Scale Scientific Simulations

Dheevatsa Mudigere, Sunil D. Sherlekar, and Santosh Ansumali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 218701 (2014) - Published 20 November, 2014

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Fractionalized Charge Excitations in a Spin Liquid on Partially Filled Pyrochlore Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 197202 (2014)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 219901 (2014) - Published 18 November, 2014