Volume 113, Issue 6

8 August 2014

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Heat flows from the cantilever tip to a self-assembled monolayer on a gold substrate.

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Length-Dependent Thermal Transport along Molecular Chains
T. Meier, F. Menges, P. Nirmalraj, H. Hölscher, H. Riel, and B. Gotsmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060801 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Motion of a Solitonic Vortex in the BEC-BCS Crossover

Mark J. H. Ku, Wenjie Ji, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Tarik Yefsah, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065301 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Two independent groups have shown that certain defects in superfluids can be identified as solitonic vortices.

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Observation of Solitonic Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Simone Donadello, Simone Serafini, Marek Tylutki, Lev P. Pitaevskii, Franco Dalfovo, Giacomo Lamporesi, and Gabriele Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065302 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Two independent groups have shown that certain defects in superfluids can be identified as solitonic vortices.

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Failed Escape: Solid Surfaces Prevent Tumbling of Escherichia coli

Mehdi Molaei, Michael Barry, Roman Stocker, and Jian Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068103 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

E. coli near a surface become easily trapped because liquid forces suppress their tumbling motion.

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Sharp and Fast: Sensors and Switches Based on Polymer Brushes with Adsorption-Active Minority Chains

Leonid I. Klushin, Alexander M. Skvortsov, Alexey A. Polotsky, Shuanhu Qi, and Friederike Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068303 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

In a proposed scheme for a polymer coating, the surface could change its properties in less than a second.

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Distribution of Squeezed States through an Atmospheric Channel

Christian Peuntinger, Bettina Heim, Christian R. Müller, Christian Gabriel, Christoph Marquardt, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060502 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Squeezed states of light have been successfully transmitted through 1.6 km of turbulent atmosphere using a polarization encoding technique.

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Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution by Rotation-Invariant Twisted Photons

Giuseppe Vallone, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Anna Sponselli, Sergei Slussarenko, Lorenzo Marrucci, Fabio Sciarrino, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060503 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Free-space quantum communication over a distance of 210 meters is demonstrated using orbital angular momentum of light.

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High-Fidelity Rapid Ground-State Loading of an Ultracold Gas into an Optical Lattice

Shumpei Masuda, Katsuhiro Nakamura, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063003 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

A new method for preparing Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices is proposed, which limits detrimental effects such as decoherence, three-body losses and uncontrolled sources of noise.

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Microwave Down-Conversion with an Impedance-Matched $Λ$ System in Driven Circuit QED

K. Inomata, K. Koshino, Z. R. Lin, W. D. Oliver, J. S. Tsai, Y. Nakamura, and T. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063604 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Impedance matching between a microwave photon pulse and an artificial atom coupled to a waveguide is experimentally demonstrated - the incident photons are completely absorbed by the cavity.

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Multiple Transient Memories in Experiments on Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions

Joseph D. Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068301 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

In line with previous theoretical predictions, noise is shown experimentally to stabilize memory retention in sheared particle suspensions.

LETTERS

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

How Universal Is the Entanglement Spectrum?

Anushya Chandran, Vedika Khemani, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060501 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

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Distribution of Squeezed States through an Atmospheric Channel

Christian Peuntinger, Bettina Heim, Christian R. Müller, Christian Gabriel, Christoph Marquardt, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060502 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Squeezed states of light have been successfully transmitted through 1.6 km of turbulent atmosphere using a polarization encoding technique.

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Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution by Rotation-Invariant Twisted Photons

Giuseppe Vallone, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Anna Sponselli, Sergei Slussarenko, Lorenzo Marrucci, Fabio Sciarrino, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060503 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Free-space quantum communication over a distance of 210 meters is demonstrated using orbital angular momentum of light.

Mobility Edge for Cold Atoms in Laser Speckle Potentials

Dominique Delande and Giuliano Orso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060601 (2014) - Published 6 August, 2014

Length-Dependent Thermal Transport along Molecular Chains

T. Meier, F. Menges, P. Nirmalraj, H. Hölscher, H. Riel, and B. Gotsmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 060801 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Silk Damping at a Redshift of a Billion: New Limit on Small-Scale Adiabatic Perturbations

Donghui Jeong, Josef Pradler, Jens Chluba, and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 061301 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Reheating the Universe Once More: The Dissipation of Acoustic Waves as a Novel Probe of Primordial Inhomogeneities on Even Smaller Scales

Tomohiro Nakama, Teruaki Suyama, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 061302 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Hidden GeV-Scale Interactions of Quarks

Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Claudia Frugiuele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 061801 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Probing Hidden Sectors with Stückelberg U(1) Gauge Fields

Wan-Zhe Feng, Gary Shiu, Pablo Soler, and Fang Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 061802 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

$N (1520)$ $3 / 2^{-}$ Helicity Amplitudes from an Energy-Independent Multipole Analysis Based on New Polarization Data on Photoproduction of Neutral Pions

J. Hartmann et al. (CBELSA/TAPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 062001 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Next-to-Leading-Order Forward Hadron Production in the Small- $x$ Regime: The Role of Rapidity Factorization

Zhong-Bo Kang, Ivan Vitev, and Hongxi Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 062002 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

Sivers Effect in Two-Hadron Electroproduction

Aram Kotzinian, Hrayr H. Matevosyan, and Anthony W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 062003 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

Determination of the $η^{'}$ -Proton Scattering Length in Free Space

E. Czerwiński, P. Moskal, M. Silarski, S. D. Bass, D. Grzonka, B. Kamys, A. Khoukaz, J. Klaja, W. Krzemień, W. Oelert, J. Ritman, T. Sefzick, J. Smyrski, A. Täschner, M. Wolke, and M. Zieliński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 062004 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Candidate for Laser Cooling of a Negative Ion: Observations of Bound-Bound Transitions in ${La}^{-}$

C. W. Walter, N. D. Gibson, D. J. Matyas, C. Crocker, K. A. Dungan, B. R. Matola, and J. Rohlén

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063001 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Kennard-Stepanov Relation Connecting Absorption and Emission Spectra in an Atomic Gas

Peter Moroshkin, Lars Weller, Anne Saß, Jan Klaers, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063002 (2014) - Published 6 August, 2014

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High-Fidelity Rapid Ground-State Loading of an Ultracold Gas into an Optical Lattice

Shumpei Masuda, Katsuhiro Nakamura, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063003 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

A new method for preparing Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices is proposed, which limits detrimental effects such as decoherence, three-body losses and uncontrolled sources of noise.

Interaction Effects on Dynamical Localization in Driven Helium

Felix Jörder, Klaus Zimmermann, Alberto Rodriguez, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063004 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Extended Mermin Method for Calculating the Electron Inelastic Mean Free Path

B. Da, H. Shinotsuka, H. Yoshikawa, Z. J. Ding, and S. Tanuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063201 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

Configurable Unitary Transformations and Linear Logic Gates Using Quantum Memories

G. T. Campbell, O. Pinel, M. Hosseini, T. C. Ralph, B. C. Buchler, and P. K. Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063601 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Engineering Frequency-Time Quantum Correlation of Narrow-Band Biphotons from Cold Atoms

Young-Wook Cho, Kwang-Kyoon Park, Jong-Chan Lee, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063602 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Interfacing Superconducting Qubits and Telecom Photons via a Rare-Earth-Doped Crystal

Christopher O’Brien, Nikolai Lauk, Susanne Blum, Giovanna Morigi, and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063603 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

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Microwave Down-Conversion with an Impedance-Matched $Λ$ System in Driven Circuit QED

K. Inomata, K. Koshino, Z. R. Lin, W. D. Oliver, J. S. Tsai, Y. Nakamura, and T. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 063604 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Impedance matching between a microwave photon pulse and an artificial atom coupled to a waveguide is experimentally demonstrated - the incident photons are completely absorbed by the cavity.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Intensity Interferometry of Single X-Ray Pulses from a Synchrotron Storage Ring

A. Singer, U. Lorenz, A. Marras, A. Klyuev, J. Becker, K. Schlage, P. Skopintsev, O. Gorobtsov, A. Shabalin, H.-C. Wille, H. Franz, H. Graafsma, and I. A. Vartanyants

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 064801 (2014) - Published 6 August, 2014

Dielectric Concentrator for Cherenkov Radiation

Sergey N. Galyamin and Andrey V. Tyukhtin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 064802 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Motion of a Solitonic Vortex in the BEC-BCS Crossover

Mark J. H. Ku, Wenjie Ji, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Tarik Yefsah, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065301 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Two independent groups have shown that certain defects in superfluids can be identified as solitonic vortices.

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Observation of Solitonic Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Simone Donadello, Simone Serafini, Marek Tylutki, Lev P. Pitaevskii, Franco Dalfovo, Giacomo Lamporesi, and Gabriele Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065302 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Two independent groups have shown that certain defects in superfluids can be identified as solitonic vortices.

Unstable Avoided Crossing in Coupled Spinor Condensates

Nathan R. Bernier, Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065303 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Thermal Transport across a Substrate–Thin-Film Interface: Effects of Film Thickness and Surface Roughness

Zhi Liang, Kiran Sasikumar, and Pawel Keblinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 065901 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Phase Separation in a Wedge: Exact Results

Gesualdo Delfino and Alessio Squarcini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066101 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Dichroism in the Interaction between Vortex Electron Beams, Plasmons, and Molecules

A. Asenjo-Garcia and F. J. García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066102 (2014) - Published 6 August, 2014

Surface Strain Improves Molecular Adsorption but Hampers Dissociation for $N_{2}$ on the $Fe / W (110)$ Surface

I. Goikoetxea, J. I. Juaristi, R. Díez Muiño, and M. Alducin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066103 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Droplets on Inclined Plates: Local and Global Hysteresis of Pinned Capillary Surfaces

Michiel Musterd, Volkert van Steijn, Chris R. Kleijn, and Michiel T. Kreutzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066104 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Dense Network of One-Dimensional Midgap Metallic Modes in Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$ and Their Spatial Undulations

Hongjun Liu, Lu Jiao, Fang Yang, Yuan Cai, Xianxin Wu, Wingkin Ho, Chunlei Gao, Jinfeng Jia, Ning Wang, Heng Fan, Wang Yao, and Maohai Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066105 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Integrable Model with Parafermion Zero Energy Modes

A. M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066401 (2014) - Published 6 August, 2014

Overbias Light Emission due to Higher-Order Quantum Noise in a Tunnel Junction

F. Xu, C. Holmqvist, and W. Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066801 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Electronic Screening-Enhanced Hole Pairing in Two-Leg Spin Ladders Studied by High-Resolution Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at Cu $M$ Edges

A. Rusydi, A. Goos, S. Binder, A. Eich, K. Botril, P. Abbamonte, X. Yu, M. B. H. Breese, H. Eisaki, Y. Fujimaki, S. Uchida, N. Guerassimova, R. Treusch, J. Feldhaus, R. Reininger, M. V. Klein, and M. Rübhausen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067001 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Enhancement of Magnetic Stripe Order in Iron-Pnictide Superconductors from the Interaction between Conduction Electrons and Magnetic Impurities

Maria N. Gastiasoro and Brian M. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067002 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Absence of a Proximity Effect for a Thin-Films of a ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ Topological Insulator Grown on Top of a ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Cuprate Superconductor

T. Yilmaz, I. Pletikosić, A. P. Weber, J. T. Sadowski, G. D. Gu, A. N. Caruso, B. Sinkovic, and T. Valla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067003 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

Correlated Decay of Triplet Excitations in the Shastry-Sutherland Compound ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

M. E. Zayed, Ch. Rüegg, Th. Strässle, U. Stuhr, B. Roessli, M. Ay, J. Mesot, P. Link, E. Pomjakushina, M. Stingaciu, K. Conder, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067201 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Lattice Strain Accompanying the Colossal Magnetoresistance Effect in ${EuB}_{6}$

Rudra Sekhar Manna, Pintu Das, Mariano de Souza, Frank Schnelle, Michael Lang, Jens Müller, Stephan von Molnár, and Zachary Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067202 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Oscillations of the Orbital Magnetic Moment due to $d$ -Band Quantum Well States

M. Dąbrowski, T. R. F. Peixoto, M. Pazgan, A. Winkelmann, M. Cinal, T. Nakagawa, Y. Takagi, T. Yokoyama, F. Bisio, U. Bauer, F. Yildiz, M. Przybylski, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067203 (2014) - Published 6 August, 2014

Ultrafast Optical Parametric Pumping of Magnetization Reorientation and Precessional Dynamics in ${DyFe}_{2} / {YFe}_{2}$ Exchange Springs

L. R. Shelford, Y. Liu, U. Al-Jarah, P. A. J. de Groot, G. J. Bowden, R. C. C. Ward, and R. J. Hicken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 067601 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Why Have Continuum Theories Previously Failed to Describe Sandpile Formation?

Qijun Zheng and Aibing Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068001 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Reentrant Melting of RNA with Quenched Sequence Randomness

G. N. Hayrapetyan, F. Iannelli, J. Lekscha, V. F. Morozov, R. R. Netz, and Y. Sh. Mamasakhlisov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068101 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Zipf’s Law and Criticality in Multivariate Data without Fine-Tuning

David J. Schwab, Ilya Nemenman, and Pankaj Mehta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068102 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

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Failed Escape: Solid Surfaces Prevent Tumbling of Escherichia coli

Mehdi Molaei, Michael Barry, Roman Stocker, and Jian Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068103 (2014) - Published 7 August, 2014

E. coli near a surface become easily trapped because liquid forces suppress their tumbling motion.

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Multiple Transient Memories in Experiments on Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions

Joseph D. Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068301 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

In line with previous theoretical predictions, noise is shown experimentally to stabilize memory retention in sheared particle suspensions.

Universality of Block Copolymer Melts

Jens Glaser, Pavani Medapuram, Thomas M. Beardsley, Mark W. Matsen, and David C. Morse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068302 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

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Sharp and Fast: Sensors and Switches Based on Polymer Brushes with Adsorption-Active Minority Chains

Leonid I. Klushin, Alexander M. Skvortsov, Alexey A. Polotsky, Shuanhu Qi, and Friederike Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 068303 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014

In a proposed scheme for a polymer coating, the surface could change its properties in less than a second.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Sticking of Hydrogen on Supported and Suspended Graphene at Low Temperature”

Dennis P. Clougherty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 069601 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Lepetit and Jackson Reply:

Bruno Lepetit and Bret Jackson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 069602 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Effect of Temperature and Density Fluctuations on the Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics of Glass-Forming Van der Waals Liquids under High Pressure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 125701 (2013)]

K. Koperwas, A. Grzybowski, K. Grzybowska, Z. Wojnarowska, A. P. Sokolov, and M. Paluch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 069901 (2014) - Published 4 August, 2014

Erratum: Floquet Scattering Matrix Theory of Heat Fluctuations in Dynamical Quantum Conductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 206801 (2014)]

Michael Moskalets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 069902 (2014) - Published 5 August, 2014

Publisher’s Note: Shear-Induced Mixing Governs Codeformation of Crystalline-Amorphous Nanolaminates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 035501 (2014)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 069903 (2014) - Published 8 August, 2014