Volume 113, Issue 26

31 December 2014

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(Top) Confocal images and (bottom) simulations of emulsion drops filling with Escherichia coli bacteria.

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Filling an Emulsion Drop with Motile Bacteria
I. D. Vladescu, E. J. Marsden, J. Schwarz-Linek, V. A. Martinez, J. Arlt, A. N. Morozov, D. Marenduzzo, M. E. Cates, and W. C. K. Poon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268101 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Revised Upper Limit to Energy Extraction from a Kerr Black Hole

Jeremy D. Schnittman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261102 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Particle collisions outside the event horizon of a black hole result in an upper limit on the energy of escaping particles higher than previously estimated.

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All-Optical Formation of Coherent Dark States of Silicon-Vacancy Spins in Diamond

Benjamin Pingault, Jonas N. Becker, Carsten H. H. Schulte, Carsten Arend, Christian Hepp, Tillmann Godde, Alexander I. Tartakovskii, Matthew Markham, Christoph Becher, and Mete Atatüre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263601 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

The spin on a silicon defect in diamond can be prepared in a coherent quantum state, a promising sign that it could encode information in a quantum internet.

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All-Optical Initialization, Readout, and Coherent Preparation of Single Silicon-Vacancy Spins in Diamond

Lachlan J. Rogers, Kay D. Jahnke, Mathias H. Metsch, Alp Sipahigil, Jan M. Binder, Tokuyuki Teraji, Hitoshi Sumiya, Junichi Isoya, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Hemmer, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263602 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

The spin on a silicon defect in diamond can be prepared in a coherent quantum state, a promising sign that it could encode information in a quantum internet.

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Generation and Detection of a Sub-Poissonian Atom Number Distribution in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

J.-B. Béguin, E. M. Bookjans, S. L. Christensen, H. L. Sørensen, J. H. Müller, E. S. Polzik, and J. Appel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263603 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

A minimally invasive measurement technique gives a precise, real-time estimate of the number of atoms in a one-dimensional trap.

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Reversible Control of Co Magnetism by Voltage-Induced Oxidation

Chong Bi, Yaohua Liu, T. Newhouse-Illige, M. Xu, M. Rosales, J. W. Freeland, Oleg Mryasov, Shufeng Zhang, S. G. E. te Velthuis, and W. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267202 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Small voltages can control the magnetic properties of thin films at room temperature.

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Anomalous Impact in Reaction-Diffusion Financial Models

I. Mastromatteo, B. Tóth, and J.-P. Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268701 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Financial markets can behave like critical systems in which small perturbations have an anomalously high impact on trading prices.

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Spectral Noise Correlations of an Ultrafast Frequency Comb

Roman Schmeissner, Jonathan Roslund, Claude Fabre, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263906 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

The amplitude and phase of noise between different “teeth” in a femotsecond frequency comb is measured using a programmable pulse that can isolate the noise in different frequency regions.

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Paramagnetic Spin Pumping

Y. Shiomi and E. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266602 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

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Dynamic Compression of Single Nanochannel Confined DNA via a Nanodozer Assay

Ahmed Khorshid, Philip Zimny, David Tétreault-La Roche, Geremia Massarelli, Takahiro Sakaue, and Walter Reisner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268104 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

A new experimental system can compress single DNA molecules trapped in a channel using a nanosized spherical plunger.

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Thermophoretic Forces on DNA Measured with a Single-Molecule Spring Balance

Jonas N. Pedersen, Christopher J. Lüscher, Rodolphe Marie, Lasse H. Thamdrup, Anders Kristensen, and Henrik Flyvbjerg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268301 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

The thermopheretic forces arising from temperature gradients over a single DNA strand have been measured using the DNA strand itself, which effectively acts as a tiny spring balance.

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Interactions between Charged Lamellae in Aqueous Solution

Laure Herrmann, Albert Johner, and Patrick Kékicheff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268302 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

In highly charged soft matter systems that are dominated by long-range electrostatic interactions, such as lamellar phases of surfactants, ion correlations need to be accounted for in order to qantitaively describe the forces.

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Direct Visualization of Conformation and Dense Packing of DNA-Based Soft Colloids

Jing Zhang, Paul M. Lettinga, Jan K. G. Dhont, and Emmanuel Stiakakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268303 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

A 2D array of magnetic DNA coated colloids shifts from a closed packed circle configuration to close packed hexagons under increasing pressure, with no interpenetration of the DNA coating strands.

LETTERS

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

Stronger Uncertainty Relations for All Incompatible Observables

Lorenzo Maccone and Arun K. Pati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260401 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Probabilistic Metrology Attains Macroscopic Cloning of Quantum Clocks

B. Gendra, J. Calsamiglia, R. Muñoz-Tapia, E. Bagan, and G. Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260402 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Identifying a Bath-Induced Bose Liquid in Interacting Spin-Boson Models

Zi Cai, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Lode Pollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260403 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Reconstructing Quantum States from Local Data

Brian Swingle and Isaac H. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260501 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Structural Quantification of Entanglement

F. Shahandeh, J. Sperling, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260502 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Error Distributions on Large Entangled States with Non-Markovian Dynamics

Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Netanel H. Lindner, and Terry Rudolph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260503 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Quantum Error Suppression with Commuting Hamiltonians: Two Local is Too Local

Iman Marvian and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260504 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Irreversible Work and Inner Friction in Quantum Thermodynamic Processes

F. Plastina, A. Alecce, T. J. G. Apollaro, G. Falcone, G. Francica, F. Galve, N. Lo Gullo, and R. Zambrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260601 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Atomic Clock with $1 \times 10^{- 18}$ Room-Temperature Blackbody Stark Uncertainty

K. Beloy, N. Hinkley, N. B. Phillips, J. A. Sherman, M. Schioppo, J. Lehman, A. Feldman, L. M. Hanssen, C. W. Oates, and A. D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260801 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Trumpet Slices in Kerr Spacetimes

Kenneth A. Dennison, Thomas W. Baumgarte, and Pedro J. Montero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261101 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

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Revised Upper Limit to Energy Extraction from a Kerr Black Hole

Jeremy D. Schnittman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261102 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Particle collisions outside the event horizon of a black hole result in an upper limit on the energy of escaping particles higher than previously estimated.

Taming the Nonlinearity of the Einstein Equation

Abraham I. Harte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261103 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Hierarchical Axion Inflation

Ido Ben-Dayan, Francisco Gil Pedro, and Alexander Westphal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261301 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Understanding the Core-Halo Relation of Quantum Wave Dark Matter from 3D Simulations

Hsi-Yu Schive, Ming-Hsuan Liao, Tak-Pong Woo, Shing-Kwong Wong, Tzihong Chiueh, Tom Broadhurst, and W-Y. Pauchy Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261302 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Coupling Hydrodynamics to Nonequilibrium Degrees of Freedom in Strongly Interacting Quark-Gluon Plasma

Michal P. Heller, Romuald A. Janik, Michał Spaliński, and Przemysław Witaszczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261601 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Entanglement Entropy Flow and the Ward Identity

Vladimir Rosenhaus and Michael Smolkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261602 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Singularity Structure of Maximally Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Jacob L. Bourjaily, Freddy Cachazo, and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261603 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

Collinear Limit of Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling

Benjamin Basso, Amit Sever, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261604 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

${AdS}_{5} \times S^{5}$ Mirror Model as a String Sigma Model

Gleb Arutyunov and Stijn J. van Tongeren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261605 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

First Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Coherent Charged Pion Production on Argon

R. Acciarri et al. (ArgoNeuT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261801 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Measurement of Coherent Production of $π^{\pm}$ in Neutrino and Antineutrino Beams on Carbon from $E_{ν}$ of 1.5 to 20 GeV

A. Higuera et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261802 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Indirect Handle on the Down-Quark Yukawa Coupling

Florian Goertz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261803 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section and $| V_{t b} |$ in Events with One Charged Lepton, Large Missing Transverse Energy, and Jets at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 261804 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Jun Gao and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262001 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Prompt $ψ (2 S)$ to $J / ψ$ Yield Ratios in Pb-Pb and $p$ - $p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262301 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Nuclear Structure Aspects of Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

B. A. Brown, M. Horoi, and R. A. Sen’kov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262501 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Isomer Decay Spectroscopy of ${}^{164}{Sm}$ and ${}^{166}{Gd}$ : Midshell Collectivity Around $N = 100$

Z. Patel et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262502 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Nuclear Deformation at Finite Temperature

Y. Alhassid, C. N. Gilbreth, and G. F. Bertsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262503 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Effects of Three-Nucleon Forces and Two-Body Currents on Gamow-Teller Strengths

A. Ekström, G. R. Jansen, K. A. Wendt, G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, S. Bacca, B. Carlsson, and D. Gazit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262504 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Fission Barrier of Superheavy Nuclei and Persistence of Shell Effects at High Spin: Cases of ${}^{254}{No}$ and ${}^{220}{Th}$

Greg Henning et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262505 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Measurement of Compton Scattering from the Deuteron and an Improved Extraction of the Neutron Electromagnetic Polarizabilities

L. S. Myers, J. R. M. Annand, J. Brudvik, G. Feldman, K. G. Fissum, H. W. Grießhammer, K. Hansen, S. S. Henshaw, L. Isaksson, R. Jebali, M. A. Kovash, M. Lundin, J. A. McGovern, D. G. Middleton, A. M. Nathan, D. R. Phillips, B. Schröder, and S. C. Stave (COMPTON@MAX-lab Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 262506 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Modulation of Attosecond Beating in Resonant Two-Photon Ionization

Álvaro Jiménez-Galán, Luca Argenti, and Fernando Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263001 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Time Delays in Two-Photon Ionization

Jing Su, Hongcheng Ni, Agnieszka Jaroń-Becker, and Andreas Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263002 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Photon Emission and Absorption of a Single Ion Coupled to an Optical-Fiber Cavity

M. Steiner, H. M. Meyer, J. Reichel, and M. Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263003 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

Is the Molecular Berry Phase an Artifact of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation?

Seung Kyu Min, Ali Abedi, Kwang S. Kim, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263004 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Photon Momentum Sharing between an Electron and an Ion in Photoionization: From One-Photon (Photoelectric Effect) to Multiphoton Absorption

Szczepan Chelkowski, André D. Bandrauk, and Paul B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263005 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

$C P$ -Violating Effect of the Th Nuclear Magnetic Quadrupole Moment: Accurate Many-Body Study of ThO

L. V. Skripnikov, A. N. Petrov, A. V. Titov, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263006 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Fine Structure and Ionization Energy of the $1 s 2 s 2 p$ ${}^{4}P$ State of the Helium Negative Ion ${He}^{-}$

Liming Wang, Chun Li, Zong-Chao Yan, and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263007 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Anisotropic Relaxation Dynamics in a Dipolar Fermi Gas Driven Out of Equilibrium

K. Aikawa, A. Frisch, M. Mark, S. Baier, R. Grimm, J. L. Bohn, D. S. Jin, G. M. Bruun, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263201 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

High-Resolution Imaging of Velocity-Controlled Molecular Collisions Using Counterpropagating Beams

Sjoerd N. Vogels, Jolijn Onvlee, Alexander von Zastrow, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Ad van der Avoird, and Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263202 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Size-Dependent High-order Harmonic Generation in Rare-Gas Clusters

Hyunwook Park, Zhou Wang, Hui Xiong, Stephen B. Schoun, Junliang Xu, Pierre Agostini, and Louis F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263401 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

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All-Optical Formation of Coherent Dark States of Silicon-Vacancy Spins in Diamond

Benjamin Pingault, Jonas N. Becker, Carsten H. H. Schulte, Carsten Arend, Christian Hepp, Tillmann Godde, Alexander I. Tartakovskii, Matthew Markham, Christoph Becher, and Mete Atatüre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263601 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

The spin on a silicon defect in diamond can be prepared in a coherent quantum state, a promising sign that it could encode information in a quantum internet.

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All-Optical Initialization, Readout, and Coherent Preparation of Single Silicon-Vacancy Spins in Diamond

Lachlan J. Rogers, Kay D. Jahnke, Mathias H. Metsch, Alp Sipahigil, Jan M. Binder, Tokuyuki Teraji, Hitoshi Sumiya, Junichi Isoya, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Hemmer, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263602 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

The spin on a silicon defect in diamond can be prepared in a coherent quantum state, a promising sign that it could encode information in a quantum internet.

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Generation and Detection of a Sub-Poissonian Atom Number Distribution in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

J.-B. Béguin, E. M. Bookjans, S. L. Christensen, H. L. Sørensen, J. H. Müller, E. S. Polzik, and J. Appel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263603 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

A minimally invasive measurement technique gives a precise, real-time estimate of the number of atoms in a one-dimensional trap.

Scattering in the Ultrastrong Regime: Nonlinear Optics with One Photon

E. Sanchez-Burillo, D. Zueco, J. J. Garcia-Ripoll, and L. Martin-Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263604 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Large Suppression of Quantum Fluctuations of Light from a Single Emitter by an Optical Nanostructure

Diego Martín-Cano, Harald R. Haakh, Karim Murr, and Mario Agio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263605 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Directional Superradiant Emission from Statistically Independent Incoherent Nonclassical and Classical Sources

S. Oppel, R. Wiegner, G. S. Agarwal, and J. von Zanthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263606 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Harnessing the Point-Spread Function for High-Resolution Far-Field Optical Microscopy

Xiangsheng Xie, Yongzhu Chen, Ken Yang, and Jianying Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263901 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Hybrid Coupling Mechanism in a System Supporting High Order Diffraction, Plasmonic, and Cavity Resonances

Abraham Vázquez-Guardado, Alireza Safaei, Sushrut Modak, Daniel Franklin, and Debashis Chanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263902 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

Imaging Optical Fields Through Heavily Scattering Media

Jason A. Newman and Kevin J. Webb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263903 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Ionization-Induced Self-Compression of Tightly Focused Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Z.-H. He, J. A. Nees, B. Hou, K. Krushelnick, and A. G. R. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263904 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Unidirectional Spectral Singularities

Hamidreza Ramezani, Hao-Kun Li, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263905 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

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Spectral Noise Correlations of an Ultrafast Frequency Comb

Roman Schmeissner, Jonathan Roslund, Claude Fabre, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263906 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

The amplitude and phase of noise between different “teeth” in a femotsecond frequency comb is measured using a programmable pulse that can isolate the noise in different frequency regions.

Twisted Toroidal Vortex Solitons in Inhomogeneous Media with Repulsive Nonlinearity

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Boris A. Malomed, Yasha Shnir, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 264101 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Forecasting Transitions in Systems with High-Dimensional Stochastic Complex Dynamics: A Linear Stability Analysis of the Tangled Nature Model

Andrea Cairoli, Duccio Piovani, and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 264102 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Fluctuations of Global Energy Release and Crackling in Nominally Brittle Heterogeneous Fracture

J. Barés, M. L. Hattali, D. Dalmas, and D. Bonamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 264301 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Planar-Dielectric-Wakefield Accelerator Structure Using Bragg-Reflector Boundaries

G. Andonian, O. Williams, S. Barber, D. Bruhwiler, P. Favier, M. Fedurin, K. Fitzmorris, A. Fukasawa, P. Hoang, K. Kusche, B. Naranjo, B. O’Shea, P. Stoltz, C. Swinson, A. Valloni, and J. B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 264801 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Experimental Proof of Adjustable Single-Knob Ion Beam Emittance Partitioning

L. Groening, M. Maier, C. Xiao, L. Dahl, P. Gerhard, O. K. Kester, S. Mickat, H. Vormann, M. Vossberg, and M. Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 264802 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Spatiotemporal Splitting of Global Eigenmodes due to Cross-Field Coupling via Vortex Dynamics in Drift Wave Turbulence

C. Brandt, S. C. Thakur, A. D. Light, J. Negrete, Jr., and G. R. Tynan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265001 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Number Fluctuations of a Dipolar Condensate: Anisotropy and Slow Approach to the Thermodynamic Regime

D. Baillie, R. N. Bisset, C. Ticknor, and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265301 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Thermal Phase Transitions of Strongly Correlated Bosons with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Ciarán Hickey and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265302 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of High-Density Atomic Hydrogen in Solid Mixtures of Molecular Hydrogen Isotopes

S. Sheludiakov, J. Ahokas, J. Järvinen, D. Zvezdov, O. Vainio, L. Lehtonen, S. Vasiliev, S. Mao, V. V. Khmelenko, and D. M. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265303 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Quasiparticle Lifetime in a Mixture of Bose and Fermi Superfluids

Wei Zheng and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265304 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Theory of Electrocaloric Effect in a Shape-Changing Container: Gas in a Nanotube

Oleg E. Shklyaev, Eric Mockensturm, Milton W. Cole, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265501 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

Static and Dynamic Aspects of Black Silicon Formation

David Abi Saab, Philippe Basset, Matthew J. Pierotti, Matthew L. Trawick, and Dan E. Angelescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265502 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Intermittent Dislocation Density Fluctuations in Crystal Plasticity from a Phase-Field Crystal Model

Jens M. Tarp, Luiza Angheluta, Joachim Mathiesen, and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265503 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

New Iron Hydrides under High Pressure

Charles M. Pépin, Agnès Dewaele, Grégory Geneste, Paul Loubeyre, and Mohamed Mezouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265504 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Shape-Memory Transformations of NiTi: Minimum-Energy Pathways between Austenite, Martensites, and Kinetically Limited Intermediate States

N. A. Zarkevich and D. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265701 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

First-Order Dynamical Phase Transitions

Elena Canovi, Philipp Werner, and Martin Eckstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265702 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Origin of the Phonon Hall Effect in Rare-Earth Garnets

Michiyasu Mori, Alexander Spencer-Smith, Oleg P. Sushkov, and Sadamichi Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265901 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

New Reconstructions of the (110) Surface of Rutile ${TiO}_{2}$ Predicted by an Evolutionary Method

Qinggao Wang, Artem R. Oganov, Qiang Zhu, and Xiang-Feng Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266101 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Detection of Spin Entanglement via Spin-Charge Separation in Crossed Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids

Alexander Schroer, Bernd Braunecker, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, and Patrik Recher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266401 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Effect of Spin-Orbit Interactions on the 0.7 Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts

Olga Goulko, Florian Bauer, Jan Heyder, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266402 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Dynamical Correlations and Screened Exchange on the Experimental Bench: Spectral Properties of the Cobalt Pnictide ${BaCo}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Ambroise van Roekeghem, Thomas Ayral, Jan M. Tomczak, Michele Casula, Nan Xu, Hong Ding, Michel Ferrero, Olivier Parcollet, Hong Jiang, and Silke Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266403 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Supersolid Phase Accompanied by a Quantum Critical Point in the Intermediate Coupling Regime of the Holstein Model

Yuta Murakami, Philipp Werner, Naoto Tsuji, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266404 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Symmetry of the Excitations in the Hidden Order State of ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

J. Buhot, M.-A. Méasson, Y. Gallais, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto, G. Lapertot, and D. Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266405 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Dimerization-Induced Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in ${IrTe}_{2}$

Man Jin Eom, Kyoo Kim, Y. J. Jo, J. J. Yang, E. S. Choi, B. I. Min, J.-H. Park, S.-W. Cheong, and Jun Sung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266406 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Correlation-Induced Self-Doping in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductor ${Ba}_{2} {Ti}_{2} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{4} O$

J.-Z. Ma, A. van Roekeghem, P. Richard, Z.-H. Liu, H. Miao, L.-K. Zeng, N. Xu, M. Shi, C. Cao, J.-B. He, G.-F. Chen, Y.-L. Sun, G.-H. Cao, S.-C. Wang, S. Biermann, T. Qian, and H. Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266407 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Resonant Edge Magnetoplasmons and Their Decay in Graphene

N. Kumada, P. Roulleau, B. Roche, M. Hashisaka, H. Hibino, I. Petković, and D. C. Glattli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266601 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Paramagnetic Spin Pumping

Y. Shiomi and E. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266602 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Gilbert Damping in Noncollinear Ferromagnets

Zhe Yuan, Kjetil M. D. Hals, Yi Liu, Anton A. Starikov, Arne Brataas, and Paul J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266603 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Multiterminal Conductance of a Floquet Topological Insulator

L. E. F. Foa Torres, P. M. Perez-Piskunow, C. A. Balseiro, and Gonzalo Usaj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266801 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Density-Curvature Response and Gravitational Anomaly

Andrey Gromov and Alexander G. Abanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266802 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Nonequilibrated Counterpropagating Edge Modes in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Anna Grivnin, Hiroyuki Inoue, Yuval Ronen, Yuval Baum, Moty Heiblum, Vladimir Umansky, and Diana Mahalu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266803 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Valley Splitting and Polarization by the Zeeman Effect in Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$

Yilei Li, Jonathan Ludwig, Tony Low, Alexey Chernikov, Xu Cui, Ghidewon Arefe, Young Duck Kim, Arend M. van der Zande, Albert Rigosi, Heather M. Hill, Suk Hyun Kim, James Hone, Zhiqiang Li, Dmitry Smirnov, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266804 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Time-Domain Interferometry of Surface Plasmons at Nonlinear Continuum Hot Spots in Films of Silver Nanoparticles

Philippe Klemm, Tobias Haug, Sebastian Bange, and John M. Lupton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266805 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Persistent Ferromagnetism and Topological Phase Transition at the Interface of a Superconductor and a Topological Insulator

Wei Qin and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 266806 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Heavy-Fermion Superconductivity in the Quadrupole Ordered State of ${PrV}_{2} {Al}_{20}$

Masaki Tsujimoto, Yosuke Matsumoto, Takahiro Tomita, Akito Sakai, and Satoru Nakatsuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267001 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Many-Body Characterization of Particle-Conserving Topological Superfluids

Gerardo Ortiz, Jorge Dukelsky, Emilio Cobanera, Carlos Esebbag, and Carlo Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267002 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Anyonic Liquids in Nearly Saturated Spin Chains

Armin Rahmani, Adrian E. Feiguin, and Cristian D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267201 (2014) - Published 29 December, 2014

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Reversible Control of Co Magnetism by Voltage-Induced Oxidation

Chong Bi, Yaohua Liu, T. Newhouse-Illige, M. Xu, M. Rosales, J. W. Freeland, Oleg Mryasov, Shufeng Zhang, S. G. E. te Velthuis, and W. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267202 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Small voltages can control the magnetic properties of thin films at room temperature.

Elastic Stiffness of a Skyrmion Crystal

Y. Nii, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, and Y. Iwasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267203 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Haldane Phase in the Hubbard Model at 2/3-Filling for the Organic Molecular Compound ${Mo}_{3} S_{7} {(dmit)}_{3}$

C. Janani, J. Merino, I. P. McCulloch, and B. J. Powell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267204 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Incipient Ferromagnetism in ${Tb}_{2} {Ge}_{2} O_{7}$ : Application of Chemical Pressure to the Enigmatic Spin-Liquid Compound ${Tb}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

A. M. Hallas, J. G. Cheng, A. M. Arevalo-Lopez, H. J. Silverstein, Y. Su, P. M. Sarte, H. D. Zhou, E. S. Choi, J. P. Attfield, G. M. Luke, and C. R. Wiebe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267205 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Microscopic Realization of Two-Dimensional Bosonic Topological Insulators

Zheng-Xin Liu, Zheng-Cheng Gu, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267206 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Fast Electrical Control of Single Electron Spins in Quantum Dots with Vanishing Influence from Nuclear Spins

J. Yoneda, T. Otsuka, T. Nakajima, T. Takakura, T. Obata, M. Pioro-Ladrière, H. Lu, C. J. Palmstrøm, A. C. Gossard, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267601 (2014) - Published 23 December, 2014

Duality of Topological Defects in Hexagonal Manganites

Fei-Ting Huang, Xueyun Wang, Sinead M. Griffin, Yu Kumagai, Oliver Gindele, Ming-Wen Chu, Yoichi Horibe, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Sang-Wook Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267602 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Dynamic Screening Probed by Core-Resonant Double Photoemission from Surfaces

Z. Wei, F. O. Schumann, C. H. Li, L. Behnke, G. Di Filippo, G. Stefani, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267603 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Inductive Measurement of Optically Hyperpolarized Phosphorous Donor Nuclei in an Isotopically Enriched Silicon-28 Crystal

P. Gumann, O. Patange, C. Ramanathan, H. Haas, O. Moussa, M. L. W. Thewalt, H. Riemann, N. V. Abrosimov, P. Becker, H.-J. Pohl, K. M. Itoh, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 267604 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Contact Formation in Random Networks of Elongated Objects

A. Ekman, A. Miettinen, T. Tallinen, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268001 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

Microscopic Theory for Negative Differential Mobility in Crowded Environments

O. Bénichou, P. Illien, G. Oshanin, A. Sarracino, and R. Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268002 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Filling an Emulsion Drop with Motile Bacteria

I. D. Vladescu, E. J. Marsden, J. Schwarz-Linek, V. A. Martinez, J. Arlt, A. N. Morozov, D. Marenduzzo, M. E. Cates, and W. C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268101 (2014) - Published 22 December, 2014

Universal Behavior in the Mesoscale Properties of Amyloid Fibrils

Salvatore Assenza, Jozef Adamcik, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Paolo De Los Rios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268103 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

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Dynamic Compression of Single Nanochannel Confined DNA via a Nanodozer Assay

Ahmed Khorshid, Philip Zimny, David Tétreault-La Roche, Geremia Massarelli, Takahiro Sakaue, and Walter Reisner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268104 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

A new experimental system can compress single DNA molecules trapped in a channel using a nanosized spherical plunger.

Exact Distributions for Stochastic Gene Expression Models with Bursting and Feedback

Niraj Kumar, Thierry Platini, and Rahul V. Kulkarni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268105 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

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Thermophoretic Forces on DNA Measured with a Single-Molecule Spring Balance

Jonas N. Pedersen, Christopher J. Lüscher, Rodolphe Marie, Lasse H. Thamdrup, Anders Kristensen, and Henrik Flyvbjerg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268301 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

The thermopheretic forces arising from temperature gradients over a single DNA strand have been measured using the DNA strand itself, which effectively acts as a tiny spring balance.

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Interactions between Charged Lamellae in Aqueous Solution

Laure Herrmann, Albert Johner, and Patrick Kékicheff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268302 (2014) - Published 30 December, 2014

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Direct Visualization of Conformation and Dense Packing of DNA-Based Soft Colloids

Jing Zhang, Paul M. Lettinga, Jan K. G. Dhont, and Emmanuel Stiakakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268303 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

A 2D array of magnetic DNA coated colloids shifts from a closed packed circle configuration to close packed hexagons under increasing pressure, with no interpenetration of the DNA coating strands.

Boosting Capacitive Blue-Energy and Desalination Devices with Waste Heat

Mathijs Janssen, Andreas Härtel, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268501 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014

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Anomalous Impact in Reaction-Diffusion Financial Models

I. Mastromatteo, B. Tóth, and J.-P. Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 268701 (2014) - Published 31 December, 2014

Financial markets can behave like critical systems in which small perturbations have an anomalously high impact on trading prices.

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Erratum: Localized Orientational Order Chaperones the Nucleation of Rotator Phases in Hard Polyhedral Particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 048301 (2014)]

Vikram Thapar and Fernando A. Escobedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 269901 (2014) - Published 24 December, 2014