Volume 113, Issue 5

1 August 2014

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On the Cover

Top: Images of a graphene wedge (bilayer region appears inside dotted line; single-layer region outside). Bottom: Single-layer graphene with a high density of grain boundaries and folds. The left column shows AFM topography images; middle and right columns show the amplitude and phase response of graphene plasmons by near-field interferometry, respectively.

From the article:

Phase-Resolved Surface Plasmon Interferometry of Graphene
Justin A. Gerber, Samuel Berweger, Brian T. O’Callahan, and Markus B. Raschke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 055502 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Single-Photon Transistor Mediated by Interstate Rydberg Interactions

H. Gorniaczyk, C. Tresp, J. Schmidt, H. Fedder, and S. Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053601 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Researchers have used interactions between highly excited atoms to make an optical transistor that can be activated by a single photon.

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Single-Photon Transistor Using a Förster Resonance

Daniel Tiarks, Simon Baur, Katharina Schneider, Stephan Dürr, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053602 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Researchers have used interactions between highly excited atoms to make an optical transistor that can be activated by a single photon.

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Time-reversal-symmetry Breaking in Turbulence

Jennifer Jucha, Haitao Xu, Alain Pumir, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 054501 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

By tracking the movement of tracer particles in a turbulent flow, researchers can connect the irreversibility of turbulence with microscopic fluid properties.

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Role of Dispersion Interactions in the Polymorphism and Entropic Stabilization of the Aspirin Crystal

Anthony M. Reilly and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 055701 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

A quantum calculation that includes many-body interactions shows why one form of aspirin is more stable than a structurally similar form.

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Measuring a Topological Transition in an Artificial Spin- $1 / 2$ System

M. D. Schroer, M. H. Kolodrubetz, W. F. Kindel, M. Sandberg, J. Gao, M. R. Vissers, D. P. Pappas, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050402 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

A collection of qubits are used to measure the topological invariants of an engineered spin system.

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Entropy- and Flow-Induced Superfluid States

Johan Carlström and Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 055301 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Superfluidity can be induced, rather than destroyed, by thermal fluctuations in systems having free energy degeneracies.

LETTERS

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

Temporal Quantum Correlations and Leggett-Garg Inequalities in Multilevel Systems

Costantino Budroni and Clive Emary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050401 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

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Measuring a Topological Transition in an Artificial Spin- $1 / 2$ System

M. D. Schroer, M. H. Kolodrubetz, W. F. Kindel, M. Sandberg, J. Gao, M. R. Vissers, D. P. Pappas, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050402 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

A collection of qubits are used to measure the topological invariants of an engineered spin system.

Invariants of Broken Discrete Symmetries

P. A. Kalozoumis, C. Morfonios, F. K. Diakonos, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050403 (2014) - Published 31 July, 2014

Steering Bound Entangled States: A Counterexample to the Stronger Peres Conjecture

Tobias Moroder, Oleg Gittsovich, Marcus Huber, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050404 (2014) - Published 1 August, 2014

Many-Body Interactions with Tunable-Coupling Transmon Qubits

A. Mezzacapo, L. Lamata, S. Filipp, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050501 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of One-Dimensional Hard-Core Anyons Following a Quench: Complete Relaxation of One-Body Observables

Tod M. Wright, Marcos Rigol, Matthew J. Davis, and Karén V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 050601 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Naturalness and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Clifford Cheung and Grant N. Remmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 051601 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Relative Entropies in Conformal Field Theory

Nima Lashkari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 051602 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Radiative Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Model Perturbative All the Way to the Planck Scale

Dongjin Chway, Radovan Dermíšek, Tae Hyun Jung, and Hyung Do Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 051801 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Freeze-Out Parameters from Electric Charge and Baryon Number Fluctuations: Is There Consistency?

S. Borsanyi, Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz, S. Krieg, C. Ratti, and K. K. Szabo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 052301 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Beam-Energy Dependence of Charge Separation along the Magnetic Field in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 052302 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Neutron Pair Transfer in ${}^{60}{Ni} + {}^{116}{Sn}$ Far below the Coulomb Barrier

D. Montanari, L. Corradi, S. Szilner, G. Pollarolo, E. Fioretto, G. Montagnoli, F. Scarlassara, A. M. Stefanini, S. Courtin, A. Goasduff, F. Haas, D. Jelavić Malenica, C. Michelagnoli, T. Mijatović, N. Soić, C. A. Ur, and M. Varga Pajtler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 052501 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Proton-Neutron Pairing Correlations in the Self-Conjugate Nucleus ${}^{38}K$ Probed via a Direct Measurement of the Isomer Shift

M. L. Bissell, J. Papuga, H. Naïdja, K. Kreim, K. Blaum, M. De Rydt, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, H. Heylen, M. Kowalska, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, F. Nowacki, M. M. Rajabali, R. Sanchez, K. Sieja, and D. T. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 052502 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Entanglement Generation Using Discrete Solitons in Coulomb Crystals

H. Landa, A. Retzker, T. Schaetz, and B. Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053001 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Deexcitation Dynamics of Superhydrogenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cations after Soft-x-Ray Absorption

G. Reitsma, L. Boschman, M. J. Deuzeman, O. González-Magaña, S. Hoekstra, S. Cazaux, R. Hoekstra, and T. Schlathölter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053002 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Eley-Rideal Reactions with N Atoms at Ru(0001): Formation of NO and $N_{2}$

Teodor Zaharia, Aart W. Kleyn, and Michael A. Gleeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053201 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

Three-Body Recombination at Vanishing Scattering Lengths in an Ultracold Bose Gas

Zav Shotan, Olga Machtey, Servaas Kokkelmans, and Lev Khaykovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053202 (2014) - Published 31 July, 2014

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Single-Photon Transistor Mediated by Interstate Rydberg Interactions

H. Gorniaczyk, C. Tresp, J. Schmidt, H. Fedder, and S. Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053601 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Researchers have used interactions between highly excited atoms to make an optical transistor that can be activated by a single photon.

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Single-Photon Transistor Using a Förster Resonance

Daniel Tiarks, Simon Baur, Katharina Schneider, Stephan Dürr, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053602 (2014) - Published 28 July, 2014

Researchers have used interactions between highly excited atoms to make an optical transistor that can be activated by a single photon.

Spectral Multiplexing for Scalable Quantum Photonics using an Atomic Frequency Comb Quantum Memory and Feed-Forward Control

Neil Sinclair, Erhan Saglamyurek, Hassan Mallahzadeh, Joshua A. Slater, Mathew George, Raimund Ricken, Morgan P. Hedges, Daniel Oblak, Christoph Simon, Wolfgang Sohler, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053603 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

$PT$ -Symmetric Phonon Laser

Hui Jing, S. K. Özdemir, Xin-You Lü, Jing Zhang, Lan Yang, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 053604 (2014) - Published 30 July, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Universality of Tip Singularity Formation in Freezing Water Drops

A. G. Marín, O. R. Enríquez, P. Brunet, P. Colinet, and J. H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 054301 (2014) - Published 31 July, 2014

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Time-reversal-symmetry Breaking in Turbulence

Jennifer Jucha, Haitao Xu, Alain Pumir, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 054501 (2014) - Published 29 July, 2014

By tracking the movement of tracer particles in a turbulent flow, researchers can connect the irreversibility of turbulence with microscopic fluid properties.