Volume 113, Issue 25

19 December 2014

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Cross-sectional views of a 3D picture reconstructed from x-ray images of the firefly tracheal system. Selected as a Synopsis in Physics.

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Firefly Light Flashing: Oxygen Supply Mechanism
Yueh-Lin Tsai, Chia-Wei Li, Tzay-Ming Hong, Jen-Zon Ho, En-Cheng Yang, Wen-Yen Wu, G. Margaritondo, Su-Ting Hsu, Edwin B. L. Ong, and Y. Hwu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 258103 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Work Measurement as a Generalized Quantum Measurement

Augusto J. Roncaglia, Federico Cerisola, and Juan Pablo Paz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250601 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

A new method of measuring work in a quantum-mechanical setting provides a way to evaluate the thermodynamics of small, fluctuating systems.

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Unidentified Line in X-Ray Spectra of the Andromeda Galaxy and Perseus Galaxy Cluster

A. Boyarsky, O. Ruchayskiy, D. Iakubovskyi, and J. Franse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251301 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

An x-ray feature recently detected by different astronomy groups may be the long-awaited signature of dark matter.

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Low-Threshold Bidirectional Air Lasing

Alexandre Laurain, Maik Scheller, and Pavel Polynkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 253901 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

A scheme using two pump wavelengths in the infrared and ultraviolet produces more efficient laserlike emission in air, which could benefit remote sensing applications.

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Search for Millicharged Particles Using Optically Levitated Microspheres

David C. Moore, Alexander D. Rider, and Giorgio Gratta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251801 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Tiny dielectric spheres in an optical trap are used to search for hypothetical particles with a small fractional charge.

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Firefly Light Flashing: Oxygen Supply Mechanism

Yueh-Lin Tsai, Chia-Wei Li, Tzay-Ming Hong, Jen-Zon Ho, En-Cheng Yang, Wen-Yen Wu, G. Margaritondo, Su-Ting Hsu, Edwin B. L. Ong, and Y. Hwu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 258103 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

X-ray images of the light-emitting organs in fireflies clarify the mechanism by which oxygen controls the insects’ luminescence.

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Computational Advantage from Quantum-Controlled Ordering of Gates

Mateus Araújo, Fabio Costa, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250402 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

Proposal to allow the order in which quantum gates are performed to be switched around, which could result in more powerful quantum computers.

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Spin-Relaxation Anisotropy in a GaAs Quantum Dot

P. Scarlino, E. Kawakami, P. Stano, M. Shafiei, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256802 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

The electron spin-relaxation time of a quantum dot can be controlled by varying the orientation of an externally applied magnetic field.

LETTERS

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

Completing the Picture for the Smallest Eigenvalue of Real Wishart Matrices

G. Akemann, T. Guhr, M. Kieburg, R. Wegner, and T. Wirtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250201 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Entanglement and Spin Squeezing in Non-Hermitian Phase Transitions

Tony E. Lee, Florentin Reiter, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250401 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Computational Advantage from Quantum-Controlled Ordering of Gates

Mateus Araújo, Fabio Costa, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250402 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

Proposal to allow the order in which quantum gates are performed to be switched around, which could result in more powerful quantum computers.

Experimental Observation of Hardy-Like Quantum Contextuality

Breno Marques, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Nawareg, Adán Cabello, and Mohamed Bourennane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250403 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

General Transfer-Function Approach to Noise Filtering in Open-Loop Quantum Control

Gerardo A. Paz-Silva and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250501 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

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Work Measurement as a Generalized Quantum Measurement

Augusto J. Roncaglia, Federico Cerisola, and Juan Pablo Paz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250601 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

A new method of measuring work in a quantum-mechanical setting provides a way to evaluate the thermodynamics of small, fluctuating systems.

Using Entanglement Against Noise in Quantum Metrology

Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzański and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 250801 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Novel Method for Incorporating Model Uncertainties into Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimates

Christopher J. Moore and Jonathan R. Gair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251101 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

What the Timing of Millisecond Pulsars Can Teach us about Their Interior

Mark G. Alford and Kai Schwenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251102 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

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Unidentified Line in X-Ray Spectra of the Andromeda Galaxy and Perseus Galaxy Cluster

A. Boyarsky, O. Ruchayskiy, D. Iakubovskyi, and J. Franse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251301 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

An x-ray feature recently detected by different astronomy groups may be the long-awaited signature of dark matter.

Dark Energy from the String Axiverse

Marc Kamionkowski, Josef Pradler, and Devin G. E. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251302 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Correlation Functions in $S U (2)$ $N = 2$ Superconformal QCD

Marco Baggio, Vasilis Niarchos, and Kyriakos Papadodimas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251601 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

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Search for Millicharged Particles Using Optically Levitated Microspheres

David C. Moore, Alexander D. Rider, and Giorgio Gratta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 251801 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Tiny dielectric spheres in an optical trap are used to search for hypothetical particles with a small fractional charge.

Magnetic Moments of Light Nuclei from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

S. R. Beane, E. Chang, S. Cohen, W. Detmold, H. W. Lin, K. Orginos, A. Parreño, M. J. Savage, and B. C. Tiburzi (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 252001 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic and Triangular Flow in $p$ -Pb and Peripheral Pb-Pb Collisions from Parton Scatterings

Adam Bzdak and Guo-Liang Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 252301 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

Spectroscopic Properties of Nuclear Skyrme Energy Density Functionals

D. Tarpanov, J. Dobaczewski, J. Toivanen, and B. G. Carlsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 252501 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Large Low-Energy $M 1$ Strength for ${}^{56, 57}{Fe}$ within the Nuclear Shell Model

B. Alex Brown and A. C. Larsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 252502 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Theoretical Tracking of Resonance-Enhanced Multiple Ionization Pathways in X-ray Free-Electron Laser Pulses

Phay J. Ho, Christoph Bostedt, Sebastian Schorb, and Linda Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 253001 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

Universality in Molecular Halo Clusters

P. Stipanović, L. Vranješ Markić, I. Bešlić, and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 253401 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Low-Threshold Bidirectional Air Lasing

Alexandre Laurain, Maik Scheller, and Pavel Polynkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 253901 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

A scheme using two pump wavelengths in the infrared and ultraviolet produces more efficient laserlike emission in air, which could benefit remote sensing applications.

Macroscopic Manipulation of High-Order-Harmonic Generation Through Bound-State Coherent Control

Itai Hadas and Alon Bahabad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 253902 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Asymptotic Phase for Stochastic Oscillators

Peter J. Thomas and Benjamin Lindner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254101 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

Approaching the Asymptotic Regime of Rapidly Rotating Convection: Boundary Layers versus Interior Dynamics

S. Stellmach, M. Lischper, K. Julien, G. Vasil, J. S. Cheng, A. Ribeiro, E. M. King, and J. M. Aurnou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254501 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

Laminar, Turbulent, and Inertial Shear-Thickening Regimes in Channel Flow of Neutrally Buoyant Particle Suspensions

Iman Lashgari, Francesco Picano, Wim-Paul Breugem, and Luca Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254502 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

Universal Profile of the Vortex Condensate in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Jason Laurie, Guido Boffetta, Gregory Falkovich, Igor Kolokolov, and Vladimir Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254503 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of Single-Crystal Self-Seeded Two-Color X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers

A. A. Lutman, F.-J Decker, J. Arthur, M. Chollet, Y. Feng, J. Hastings, Z. Huang, H. Lemke, H.-D. Nuhn, A. Marinelli, J. L. Turner, S. Wakatsuki, J. Welch, and D. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254801 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

Experimental Demonstration of Longitudinal Beam Phase-Space Linearizer in a Free-Electron Laser Facility by Corrugated Structures

Haixiao Deng, Meng Zhang, Chao Feng, Tong Zhang, Xingtao Wang, Taihe Lan, Lie Feng, Wenyan Zhang, Xiaoqing Liu, Haifeng Yao, Lei Shen, Bin Li, Junqiang Zhang, Xuan Li, Wencheng Fang, Dan Wang, Marie-emmanuelle Couprie, Guoqiang Lin, Bo Liu, Qiang Gu, Dong Wang, and Zhentang Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 254802 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

In-depth Plasma-Wave Heating of Dense Plasma Irradiated by Short Laser Pulses

M. Sherlock, E. G. Hill, R. G. Evans, S. J. Rose, and W. Rozmus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255001 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

Rotation and Kinetic Modifications of the Tokamak Ideal-Wall Pressure Limit

J. E. Menard, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, R. E. Bell, S. M. Kaye, J.-K. Park, and K. Tritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255002 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Creation of Ultracold ${}^{87}{Rb} {}^{133}{Cs}$ Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground State

Peter K. Molony, Philip D. Gregory, Zhonghua Ji, Bo Lu, Michael P. Köppinger, C. Ruth Le Sueur, Caroline L. Blackley, Jeremy M. Hutson, and Simon L. Cornish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255301 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

Chladni Solitons and the Onset of the Snaking Instability for Dark Solitons in Confined Superfluids

A. Muñoz Mateo and J. Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255302 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Scaling Shift in Multicracked Fiber Bundles

Fabio Manca, Stefano Giordano, Pier Luca Palla, and Fabrizio Cleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255501 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Interplay of Driving and Frequency Noise in the Spectra of Vibrational Systems

Yaxing Zhang, J. Moser, J. Güttinger, A. Bachtold, and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255502 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Asymptotic Scaling Behavior of Self-Avoiding Walks on Critical Percolation Clusters

Niklas Fricke and Wolfhard Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255701 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Prediction of Near-Room-Temperature Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect on Honeycomb Materials

Shu-Chun Wu, Guangcun Shan, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256401 (2014) - Published 15 December, 2014

Coherent Quasiparticles with a Small Fermi Surface in Lightly Doped ${Sr}_{3} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

A. de la Torre, E. C. Hunter, A. Subedi, S. McKeown Walker, A. Tamai, T. K. Kim, M. Hoesch, R. S. Perry, A. Georges, and F. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256402 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Topological Tuning in Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetals

Awadhesh Narayan, Domenico Di Sante, Silvia Picozzi, and Stefano Sanvito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256403 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

Momentum-Space Entanglement Spectrum of Bosons and Fermions with Interactions

Rex Lundgren, Jonathan Blair, Martin Greiter, Andreas Läuchli, Gregory A. Fiete, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256404 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

Topological Pair-Density-Wave Superconducting States

Gil Young Cho, Rodrigo Soto-Garrido, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256405 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Interfacial Fermi Loops from Interfacial Symmetries

Ryuji Takahashi and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256406 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Nonequilibrium Probing of Two-Level Charge Fluctuators Using the Step Response of a Single-Electron Transistor

A. Pourkabirian, M. V. Gustafsson, G. Johansson, J. Clarke, and P. Delsing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256801 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

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Spin-Relaxation Anisotropy in a GaAs Quantum Dot

P. Scarlino, E. Kawakami, P. Stano, M. Shafiei, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256802 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

The electron spin-relaxation time of a quantum dot can be controlled by varying the orientation of an externally applied magnetic field.

Electrical and Thermal Control of Magnetic Exchange Interactions

Jonas Fransson, Jie Ren, and Jian-Xin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257201 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Topological Transitions from Multipartite Entanglement with Tensor Networks: A Procedure for Sharper and Faster Characterization

Román Orús, Tzu-Chieh Wei, Oliver Buerschaper, and Artur García-Saez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257202 (2014) - Published 19 December, 2014

Topological Nature of Optical Bound States in the Continuum

Bo Zhen, Chia Wei Hsu, Ling Lu, A. Douglas Stone, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257401 (2014) - Published 18 December, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Geometry of Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets

Hillel Aharoni, Eran Sharon, and Raz Kupferman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 257801 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

Scaling of Gene Expression with Transcription-Factor Fugacity

Franz M. Weinert, Robert C. Brewster, Mattias Rydenfelt, Rob Phillips, and Willem K. Kegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 258101 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

Energy Dissipation and Noise Correlations in Biochemical Sensing

Christopher C. Govern and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 258102 (2014) - Published 16 December, 2014

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Firefly Light Flashing: Oxygen Supply Mechanism

Yueh-Lin Tsai, Chia-Wei Li, Tzay-Ming Hong, Jen-Zon Ho, En-Cheng Yang, Wen-Yen Wu, G. Margaritondo, Su-Ting Hsu, Edwin B. L. Ong, and Y. Hwu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 258103 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014

X-ray images of the light-emitting organs in fireflies clarify the mechanism by which oxygen controls the insects’ luminescence.

ERRATA

Erratum: Optimal Network Modularity for Information Diffusion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 088701 (2014)]

Azadeh Nematzadeh, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, and Yong-Yeol Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 259901 (2014) - Published 17 December, 2014