Volume 113, Issue 22

28 November 2014

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On the Cover

Phosphorene-based fullerene structures with octahedral (top) and icosahedral (bottom) symmetry. First column shows triangular facets; other columns show stick models.

From the article:

High Stability of Faceted Nanotubes and Fullerenes of Multiphase Layered Phosphorus: A Computational Study
Jie Guan, Zhen Zhu, and David Tománek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 226801 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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High-Fidelity Preparation, Gates, Memory, and Readout of a Trapped-Ion Quantum Bit

T. P. Harty, D. T. C. Allcock, C. J. Ballance, L. Guidoni, H. A. Janacek, N. M. Linke, D. N. Stacey, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220501 (2014) - Published 24 November, 2014

Qubits based on trapped ions can be prepared and manipulated with record-breaking accuracy, offering a promising scalable platform for quantum computing.

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Coherent Precession of an Individual $5 / 2$ Spin

M. Goryca, M. Koperski, P. Wojnar, T. Smoleński, T. Kazimierczuk, A. Golnik, and P. Kossacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227202 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Researchers observed the precession of an individual spin-5/2 ion in a quantum dot, a system that could store multiple bits for quantum computing.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strongly Anisotropic Ballistic Magnetoresistance in Compact Three-Dimensional Semiconducting Nanoarchitectures

Ching-Hao Chang, Jeroen van den Brink, and Carmine Ortix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227205 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

A 2D electron gas confined in nanotubes, formed by rolling up multilayer films of a non-magnetic semiconducting material, is predicted to exhibit strongly anisotropic magnetoresistance.

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Tunable Charge and Spin Order in ${PrNiO}_{3}$ Thin Films and Superlattices

M. Hepting, M. Minola, A. Frano, G. Cristiani, G. Logvenov, E. Schierle, M. Wu, M. Bluschke, E. Weschke, H.-U. Habermeier, E. Benckiser, M. Le Tacon, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227206 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

The metal-insulator transition in PrNiO $_{3}$ is shown to arise from spin density wave formation, confirming theoretical predictions.

LETTERS

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

Universal Postquench Prethermalization at a Quantum Critical Point

Pia Gagel, Peter P. Orth, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220401 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Fidelity Preparation, Gates, Memory, and Readout of a Trapped-Ion Quantum Bit

T. P. Harty, D. T. C. Allcock, C. J. Ballance, L. Guidoni, H. A. Janacek, N. M. Linke, D. N. Stacey, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220501 (2014) - Published 24 November, 2014

Qubits based on trapped ions can be prepared and manipulated with record-breaking accuracy, offering a promising scalable platform for quantum computing.

Qubit Architecture with High Coherence and Fast Tunable Coupling

Yu Chen, C. Neill, P. Roushan, N. Leung, M. Fang, R. Barends, J. Kelly, B. Campbell, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, E. Jeffrey, A. Megrant, J. Y. Mutus, P. J. J. O’Malley, C. M. Quintana, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. C. White, Michael R. Geller, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220502 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Momentum Distribution of a Dilute Unitary Bose Gas with Three-Body Losses

Sébastien Laurent, Xavier Leyronas, and Frédéric Chevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220601 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

First Order Transition for the Optimal Search Time of Lévy Flights with Resetting

Lukasz Kusmierz, Satya N. Majumdar, Sanjib Sabhapandit, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220602 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

First Experimental Characterization of Microwave Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers

R. Šmída et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 221101 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Precision Measurement of the $(e^{+} + e^{-})$ Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays from 0.5 GeV to 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 221102 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Constraints on Primordial Non-Gaussianity from $800 000$ Photometric Quasars

Boris Leistedt, Hiranya V. Peiris, and Nina Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 221301 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Finding the $0^{- -}$ Glueball

Cong-Feng Qiao and Liang Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 221601 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Switching Exciton Pulses Through Conical Intersections

K. Leonhardt, S. Wüster, and J. M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 223001 (2014) - Published 24 November, 2014

Nonlinear Dichroism in Back-to-Back Double Ionization of He by an Intense Elliptically Polarized Few-Cycle Extreme Ultraviolet Pulse

J. M. Ngoko Djiokap, N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, S. X. Hu, L. B. Madsen, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 223002 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Cooperative Emission of a Coherent Superflash of Light

C. C. Kwong, T. Yang, M. S. Pramod, K. Pandey, D. Delande, R. Pierrat, and D. Wilkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 223601 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Noiseless Conditional Teleportation of a Single Photon

Maria Fuwa, Shunsuke Toba, Shuntaro Takeda, Petr Marek, Ladislav Mišta, Jr., Radim Filip, Peter van Loock, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 223602 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Quantum non-Gaussian Depth of Single-Photon States

Ivo Straka, Ana Predojević, Tobias Huber, Lukáš Lachman, Lorenz Butschek, Martina Miková, Michal Mičuda, Glenn S. Solomon, Gregor Weihs, Miroslav Ježek, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 223603 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Width Shift Distribution: A Test of Nonorthogonality for Local and Global Perturbations

J.-B. Gros, U. Kuhl, O. Legrand, F. Mortessagne, E. Richalot, and D. V. Savin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 224101 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ultrahigh Brilliance Multi-MeV $γ$ -Ray Beams from Nonlinear Relativistic Thomson Scattering

G. Sarri, D. J. Corvan, W. Schumaker, J. M. Cole, A. Di Piazza, H. Ahmed, C. Harvey, C. H. Keitel, K. Krushelnick, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, D. Symes, A. G. R. Thomas, M. Yeung, Z. Zhao, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 224801 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Time-Resolved Measurements of Suprathermal Ion Transport Induced by Intermittent Plasma Blob Filaments

A. Bovet, A. Fasoli, and I. Furno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 225001 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Role of Structure and Entropy in Determining Differences in Dynamics for Glass Formers with Different Interaction Potentials

Atreyee Banerjee, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry, and Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 225701 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Surface segregation driven by molecular architecture asymmetry in polymer blends

Jae Sik Lee, Nam-Heui Lee, Somesh Peri, Mark D. Foster, Charles F. Majkrzak, Renfeng Hu, and David T. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 225702 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Origin of High-Resolution IETS-STM Images of Organic Molecules with Functionalized Tips

Prokop Hapala, Ruslan Temirov, F. Stefan Tautz, and Pavel Jelínek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 226101 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ultrafast Control and Rabi Oscillations of Polaritons

L. Dominici, D. Colas, S. Donati, J. P. Restrepo Cuartas, M. De Giorgi, D. Ballarini, G. Guirales, J. C. López Carreño, A. Bramati, G. Gigli, E. del Valle, F. P. Laussy, and D. Sanvitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 226401 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

High Stability of Faceted Nanotubes and Fullerenes of Multiphase Layered Phosphorus: A Computational Study

Jie Guan, Zhen Zhu, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 226801 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Persistent Detwinning of Iron-Pnictide ${EuFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Crystals by Small External Magnetic Fields

S. Zapf, C. Stingl, K. W. Post, J. Maiwald, N. Bach, I. Pietsch, D. Neubauer, A. Löhle, C. Clauss, S. Jiang, H. S. Jeevan, D. N. Basov, P. Gegenwart, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227001 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Long-Range Spin-Triplet Helix in Proximity Induced Superconductivity in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Systems

Xin Liu, J. K. Jain, and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227002 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Evidence of Surface Loss as Ubiquitous Limiting Damping Mechanism in SiN Micro- and Nanomechanical Resonators

L. G. Villanueva and S. Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227201 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Precession of an Individual $5 / 2$ Spin

M. Goryca, M. Koperski, P. Wojnar, T. Smoleński, T. Kazimierczuk, A. Golnik, and P. Kossacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227202 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Researchers observed the precession of an individual spin-5/2 ion in a quantum dot, a system that could store multiple bits for quantum computing.

Barlowite: A Spin- $1 / 2$ Antiferromagnet with a Geometrically Perfect Kagome Motif

Tian-Heng Han, John Singleton, and John A. Schlueter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227203 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

Novel Phase Transitions in the Breathing Pyrochlore Lattice: ${}^{7}{Li − NMR}$ on ${LiInCr}_{4} O_{8}$ and ${LiGaCr}_{4} O_{8}$

Yu Tanaka, Makoto Yoshida, Masashi Takigawa, Yoshihiko Okamoto, and Zenji Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227204 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strongly Anisotropic Ballistic Magnetoresistance in Compact Three-Dimensional Semiconducting Nanoarchitectures

Ching-Hao Chang, Jeroen van den Brink, and Carmine Ortix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227205 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

A 2D electron gas confined in nanotubes, formed by rolling up multilayer films of a non-magnetic semiconducting material, is predicted to exhibit strongly anisotropic magnetoresistance.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable Charge and Spin Order in ${PrNiO}_{3}$ Thin Films and Superlattices

M. Hepting, M. Minola, A. Frano, G. Cristiani, G. Logvenov, E. Schierle, M. Wu, M. Bluschke, E. Weschke, H.-U. Habermeier, E. Benckiser, M. Le Tacon, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227206 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

The metal-insulator transition in PrNiO $_{3}$ is shown to arise from spin density wave formation, confirming theoretical predictions.

Extremely Nonperturbative Nonlinearities in GaAs Driven by Atomically Strong Terahertz Fields in Gold Metamaterials

C. Lange, T. Maag, M. Hohenleutner, S. Baierl, O. Schubert, E. R. J. Edwards, D. Bougeard, G. Woltersdorf, and R. Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227401 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Sequential Activation of Molecular Breathing and Bending during Spin-Crossover Photoswitching Revealed by Femtosecond Optical and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Marco Cammarata, Roman Bertoni, Maciej Lorenc, Hervé Cailleau, Sergio Di Matteo, Cindy Mauriac, Samir F. Matar, Henrik Lemke, Matthieu Chollet, Sylvain Ravy, Claire Laulhé, Jean-François Létard, and Eric Collet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227402 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Non-Gilbert-damping Mechanism in a Ferromagnetic Heusler Compound Probed by Nonlinear Spin Dynamics

P. Pirro, T. Sebastian, T. Brächer, A. A. Serga, T. Kubota, H. Naganuma, M. Oogane, Y. Ando, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227601 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Structure of Cholesterol in Lipid Rafts

Laura Toppozini, Sebastian Meinhardt, Clare L. Armstrong, Zahra Yamani, Norbert Kučerka, Friederike Schmid, and Maikel C. Rheinstädter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 228101 (2014) - Published 25 November, 2014

COMMENTS

Comment on “Fitting the Annual Modulation in DAMA with Neutrons from Muons and Neutrinos”

P. S. Barbeau, J. I. Collar, Yu. Efremenko, and K. Scholberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 229001 (2014) - Published 26 November, 2014