Volume 113, Issue 3

18 July 2014

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On the Cover

Time evolution of the sliding contact between two nanocrystalline surfaces under shear. The top, middle, and bottom images show glimpses into the grain structure, the grain boundaries and dislocations, and the sliding interface, respectively.

From the article:

Coarse Graining and Localized Plasticity between Sliding Nanocrystalline Metals
Pedro A. Romero, Tommi T. Järvi, Nils Beckmann, Matous Mrovec, and Michael Moseler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036101 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Precision Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in $L epton + J ets$ Final States

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032002 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

A new analysis of data from the Tevatron delivers the most precise value of the top quark mass based on a single measurement.

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Electric-Field Coupling to Spin Waves in a Centrosymmetric Ferrite

Xufeng Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Michael E. Flatté, and Hong X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 037202 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

In a magnetic material with strong spin-orbit coupling, the phase of spin waves can be controlled with an electric field.

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Imaging of Shear Waves Induced by Lorentz Force in Soft Tissues

P. Grasland-Mongrain, R. Souchon, F. Cartellier, A. Zorgani, J. Y. Chapelon, C. Lafon, and S. Catheline

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 038101 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

A medical imaging technique uses electric and magnetic fields to generate vibrations in tissues and measure their mechanical stiffness in a new way.

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Mode Competition and Anomalous Cooling in a Multimode Phonon Laser

Utku Kemiktarak, Mathieu Durand, Michael Metcalfe, and John Lawall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030802 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Mode competition—a well-known phenomenon in photon lasers—has now been studied and controlled in phonon lasers.

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Slow Kinetics of Brownian Maxima

E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030604 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

The probability that the maximum trajectory of two independent Brownian particles remains ordered decays as a power law with time.

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Quantifying the BICEP2-Planck Tension over Gravitational Waves

Kendrick M. Smith, Cora Dvorkin, Latham Boyle, Neil Turok, Mark Halpern, Gary Hinshaw, and Ben Gold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 031301 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

The discrepancy between the BICEP2 measurement of B-mode polarization, a possible indication of primordial gravity waves, and earlier limits set from Planck and WMAP is quantified. Future measurements to resolve the tension are discussed.

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Determining the $r p$ -Process Flow through ${}^{56}{Ni}$ : Resonances in ${}^{57}{Cu} (p, γ) {}^{58}{Zn}$ Identified with GRETINA

C. Langer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032502 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Updated measurements of the $^{57}$ Cu( $p, γ$ ) $^{58}$ Zn reaction rate provide a crucial input to x-ray burst modeling reducing the uncertainty in Nickel production by a factor of ten. This reduction in uncertainty will allow for an improved modeling of x-ray burst observables, such as light curves and x-ray spectra of nearby interstellar medium.

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Probe of Three-Dimensional Chiral Topological Insulators in an Optical Lattice

S.-T. Wang, D.-L. Deng, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 033002 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

An experimental scheme is proposed allowing the properties of topological insulators to be studied using cold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice.

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Anomalous Hydrodynamics of Two-Dimensional Vortex Fluids

Paul Wiegmann and Alexander G. Abanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 034501 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

A hydrodynamic description of a dense system of vortices is developed and features an anomalous stress responsible for a number of interesting macroscopic phenomena.

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Direct Observation of Radiation-Belt Electron Acceleration from Electron-Volt Energies to Megavolts by Nonlinear Whistlers

F. S. Mozer, O. Agapitov, V. Krasnoselskikh, S. Lejosne, G. D. Reeves, and I. Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035001 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

The acceleration of electrons in the Earth’s outer radiation belt from thermal to relativistic energies is observed for the first time and may help scientists better understand the weather in Space.

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Photon Emission from a Cavity-Coupled Double Quantum Dot

Y.-Y. Liu, K. D. Petersson, J. Stehlik, J. M. Taylor, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036801 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Driving a direct current through a double quantum dot in a semiconducting nanowire coupled to an optical cavity results in the emission of photons.

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Pressure-Induced Metallization of Molybdenum Disulfide

Zhen-Hua Chi, Xiao-Miao Zhao, Haidong Zhang, Alexander F. Goncharov, Sergey S. Lobanov, Tomoko Kagayama, Masafumi Sakata, and Xiao-Jia Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036802 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

A reversible first-order transition in the crystal structure of molybdenum disulfide is induced at pressures greater than 20 GPa, without doping, changing the material from semiconducting to metallic.

LETTERS

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

Entanglement-Assisted Weak Value Amplification

Shengshi Pang, Justin Dressel, and Todd A. Brun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030401 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Tensor Networks and Quantum Error Correction

Andrew J. Ferris and David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030501 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Maximal Privacy without Coherence

Debbie Leung, Ke Li, Graeme Smith, and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030502 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Experimental Observation of the Role of Mutual Information in the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of a Maxwell Demon

J. V. Koski, V. F. Maisi, T. Sagawa, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030601 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Persistence of Locality in Systems with Power-Law Interactions

Zhe-Xuan Gong, Michael Foss-Feig, Spyridon Michalakis, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030602 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Velocity Anomaly of a Driven Tracer in a Confined Crowded Environment

Pierre Illien, Olivier Bénichou, Gleb Oshanin, and Raphaël Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030603 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Slow Kinetics of Brownian Maxima

E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030604 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

The probability that the maximum trajectory of two independent Brownian particles remains ordered decays as a power law with time.

Highly Charged Ions for Atomic Clocks, Quantum Information, and Search for $α$ variation

M. S. Safronova, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, U. I. Safronova, S. G. Porsev, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030801 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

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Mode Competition and Anomalous Cooling in a Multimode Phonon Laser

Utku Kemiktarak, Mathieu Durand, Michael Metcalfe, and John Lawall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030802 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Mode competition—a well-known phenomenon in photon lasers—has now been studied and controlled in phonon lasers.

Multipulse Double-Quantum Magnetometry with Near-Surface Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

H. J. Mamin, M. H. Sherwood, M. Kim, C. T. Rettner, K. Ohno, D. D. Awschalom, and D. Rugar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 030803 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Magnetic Reconnection in the Interior of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections

R. L. Fermo, M. Opher, and J. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 031101 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

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Quantifying the BICEP2-Planck Tension over Gravitational Waves

Kendrick M. Smith, Cora Dvorkin, Latham Boyle, Neil Turok, Mark Halpern, Gary Hinshaw, and Ben Gold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 031301 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Equation of State of a Relativistic Theory from a Moving Frame

Leonardo Giusti and Michele Pepe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 031601 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Precision Measurement of the Mass and Lifetime of the $Ξ_{b}^{0}$ Baryon

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032001 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

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Precision Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in $L epton + J ets$ Final States

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032002 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

A new analysis of data from the Tevatron delivers the most precise value of the top quark mass based on a single measurement.

Nuclear Physics

Multiple Chiral Doublet Bands of Identical Configuration in ${}^{103}{Rh}$

I. Kuti, Q. B. Chen, J. Timár, D. Sohler, S. Q. Zhang, Z. H. Zhang, P. W. Zhao, J. Meng, K. Starosta, T. Koike, E. S. Paul, D. B. Fossan, and C. Vaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032501 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

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Determining the $r p$ -Process Flow through ${}^{56}{Ni}$ : Resonances in ${}^{57}{Cu} (p, γ) {}^{58}{Zn}$ Identified with GRETINA

C. Langer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032502 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

${}^{4}{He} + n + n$ Continuum within an Ab initio Framework

Carolina Romero-Redondo, Sofia Quaglioni, Petr Navrátil, and Guillaume Hupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032503 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Measurement of the Isoscalar Monopole Response in the Neutron-Rich Nucleus ${}^{68}{Ni}$

M. Vandebrouck et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032504 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

$β$ -Decay Half-Lives of ${}^{76, 77}{Co}$ , ${}^{79, 80}{Ni}$ , and ${}^{81}{Cu}$ : Experimental Indication of a Doubly Magic ${}^{78}{Ni}$

Z. Y. Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032505 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Giant Dipole Resonance as a Fingerprint of $α$ Clustering Configurations in ${}^{12}C$ and ${}^{16}O$

W. B. He (何万兵), Y. G. Ma (马余刚), X. G. Cao (曹喜光), X. Z. Cai (蔡翔舟), and G. Q. Zhang (张国强)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032506 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Universality of Returning Electron Wave Packet in High-Order Harmonic Generation with Midinfrared Laser Pulses

Anh-Thu Le, Hui Wei, Cheng Jin, Vu Ngoc Tuoc, Toru Morishita, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 033001 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probe of Three-Dimensional Chiral Topological Insulators in an Optical Lattice

S.-T. Wang, D.-L. Deng, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 033002 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

An experimental scheme is proposed allowing the properties of topological insulators to be studied using cold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice.

Measurement of the Hyperfine Quenching Rate of the Clock Transition in ${}^{171}{Yb}$

C.-Y. Xu (徐晨昱), J. Singh, J. C. Zappala, K. G. Bailey, M. R. Dietrich, J. P. Greene, W. Jiang (蒋蔚), N. D. Lemke, Z.-T. Lu (卢征天), P. Mueller, and T. P. O’Connor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 033003 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Magnetoelectric Effects in Local Light-Matter Interactions

Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 033601 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Symmetry-Selective Third-Harmonic Generation from Plasmonic Metacrystals

Shumei Chen, Guixin Li, Franziska Zeuner, Wing Han Wong, Edwin Yue Bun Pun, Thomas Zentgraf, Kok Wai Cheah, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 033901 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Vector Rogue Waves and Baseband Modulation Instability in the Defocusing Regime

Fabio Baronio, Matteo Conforti, Antonio Degasperis, Sara Lombardo, Miguel Onorato, and Stefan Wabnitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 034101 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

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Anomalous Hydrodynamics of Two-Dimensional Vortex Fluids

Paul Wiegmann and Alexander G. Abanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 034501 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

A hydrodynamic description of a dense system of vortices is developed and features an anomalous stress responsible for a number of interesting macroscopic phenomena.

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Direct Observation of Radiation-Belt Electron Acceleration from Electron-Volt Energies to Megavolts by Nonlinear Whistlers

F. S. Mozer, O. Agapitov, V. Krasnoselskikh, S. Lejosne, G. D. Reeves, and I. Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035001 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Charging and Heat Collection by a Positively Charged Dust Grain in a Plasma

Gian Luca Delzanno and Xian-Zhu Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035002 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Interpenetration, Deflection, and Stagnation of Cylindrically Convergent Magnetized Supersonic Tungsten Plasma Flows

G. F. Swadling, S. V. Lebedev, A. J. Harvey-Thompson, W. Rozmus, G. C. Burdiak, L. Suttle, S. Patankar, R. A. Smith, M. Bennett, G. N. Hall, F. Suzuki-Vidal, and J. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035003 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quench-Induced Breathing Mode of One-Dimensional Bose Gases

Bess Fang, Giuseppe Carleo, Aisling Johnson, and Isabelle Bouchoule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035301 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Universal Temperature Dependence, Flux Extinction, and the Role of ${}^{3}{He}$ Impurities in Superfluid Mass Transport through Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

Ye. Vekhov, W. J. Mullin, and R. B. Hallock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035302 (2014) - Published 17 July, 2014

Shear-Induced Mixing Governs Codeformation of Crystalline-Amorphous Nanolaminates

Wei Guo, Eric A. Jägle, Pyuck-Pa Choi, Jiahao Yao, Aleksander Kostka, Jochen M. Schneider, and Dierk Raabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035501 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Microscopic Description of Intraband Absorption in Graphene: The Occurrence of Transient Negative Differential Transmission

Faris Kadi, Torben Winzer, Ermin Malic, Andreas Knorr, F. Göttfert, M. Mittendorff, S. Winnerl, and M. Helm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035502 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Coarse Graining and Localized Plasticity between Sliding Nanocrystalline Metals

Pedro A. Romero, Tommi T. Järvi, Nils Beckmann, Matous Mrovec, and Michael Moseler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036101 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Time-Reversal-Invariant $Z_{4}$ Fractional Josephson Effect

Fan Zhang and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036401 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Principle of Maximum Entanglement Entropy and Local Physics of Strongly Correlated Materials

Nicola Lanatà, Hugo U. R. Strand, Yongxin Yao, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036402 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

High-Speed DC Transport of Emergent Monopoles in Spinor Photonic Fluids

H. Terças, D. D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036403 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photon Emission from a Cavity-Coupled Double Quantum Dot

Y.-Y. Liu, K. D. Petersson, J. Stehlik, J. M. Taylor, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036801 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Driving a direct current through a double quantum dot in a semiconducting nanowire coupled to an optical cavity results in the emission of photons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure-Induced Metallization of Molybdenum Disulfide

Zhen-Hua Chi, Xiao-Miao Zhao, Haidong Zhang, Alexander F. Goncharov, Sergey S. Lobanov, Tomoko Kagayama, Masafumi Sakata, and Xiao-Jia Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 036802 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Proposal for a Quantum Magnetic $R C$ Circuit

Kevin A. van Hoogdalem, Mathias Albert, Pascal Simon, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 037201 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

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Electric-Field Coupling to Spin Waves in a Centrosymmetric Ferrite

Xufeng Zhang, Tianyu Liu, Michael E. Flatté, and Hong X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 037202 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

In a magnetic material with strong spin-orbit coupling, the phase of spin waves can be controlled with an electric field.

Experimental Investigation of the Nature of the Magnetoresistance Effects in Pd-YIG Hybrid Structures

Tao Lin, Chi Tang, Hamad M. Alyahayaei, and Jing Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 037203 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Analytical Perspective for Bound States in the Continuum in Photonic Crystal Slabs

Yi Yang, Chao Peng, Yong Liang, Zhengbin Li, and Susumu Noda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 037401 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Imaging of Shear Waves Induced by Lorentz Force in Soft Tissues

P. Grasland-Mongrain, R. Souchon, F. Cartellier, A. Zorgani, J. Y. Chapelon, C. Lafon, and S. Catheline

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 038101 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

A medical imaging technique uses electric and magnetic fields to generate vibrations in tissues and measure their mechanical stiffness in a new way.

Langevin and Fokker-Planck Analyses of Inhibited Molecular Passing Processes Controlling Transport and Reactivity in Nanoporous Materials

Chi-Jen Wang, David M. Ackerman, Igor I. Slowing, and James W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 038301 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Large-Scale Chaos and Fluctuations in Active Nematics

Sandrine Ngo, Anton Peshkov, Igor S. Aranson, Eric Bertin, Francesco Ginelli, and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 038302 (2014) - Published 16 July, 2014

Creep and Fracture of a Protein Gel under Stress

Mathieu Leocmach, Christophe Perge, Thibaut Divoux, and Sébastien Manneville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 038303 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

COMMENTS

Comment on “Strength of Shock-Loaded Single-Crystal Tantalum [100] Determined Using in situ Broadband X-Ray Laue Diffraction”

Abigail Hunter and Dean L. Preston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 039601 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

Comley et al. Reply:

A. J. Comley, B. R. Maddox, R. E. Rudd, N. R. Barton, C. E. Wehrenberg, S. T. Prisbrey, J. A. Hawreliak, D. A. Orlikowski, S. C. Peterson, J. H. Satcher, A. J. Elsholz, H.-S. Park, B. A. Remington, N. Bazin, J. M. Foster, P. Graham, N. Park, P. A. Rosen, S. D. Rothman, A. Higginbotham, M. Suggit, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 039602 (2014) - Published 14 July, 2014

ERRATA

Erratum: Improved Determination of $G$ Using Two Methods [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 101102 (2013)]

Terry Quinn, Clive Speake, Harold Parks, and Richard Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 039901 (2014) - Published 15 July, 2014

Erratum: Critical Nuclear Charge for Two-Electron Atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 173001 (2014)]

C. S. Estienne, M. Busuttil, A. Moini, and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 039902 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Observation of $η' \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $η' \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{0} π^{0}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 251801 (2014)]

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 039903 (2014) - Published 18 July, 2014