Volume 113, Issue 8

22 August 2014

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On the Cover

Nanoassembly model of an individual few-atomic-layer-thick CdSe platelet (purple) sandwiched between a gold particle and a planar gold surface.

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Probing Confined Phonon Modes in Individual CdSe Nanoplatelets Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
Daniel O. Sigle, James T. Hugall, Sandrine Ithurria, Benoit Dubertret, and Jeremy J. Baumberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 087402 (2014)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcement: In Memory of George L. Trigg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080001 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fitting the Annual Modulation in DAMA with Neutrons from Muons and Neutrinos

Jonathan H. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 081302 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

The recently observed signal from a direct-dark-matter-detection search may instead be due to neutrons generated from solar neutrinos and atmospheric muons.

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QCD Phase Transition with Chiral Quarks and Physical Quark Masses

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Michael I. Buchoff, Norman H. Christ, H.-T. Ding, Rajan Gupta, Chulwoo Jung, F. Karsch, Zhongjie Lin, R. D. Mawhinney, Greg McGlynn, Swagato Mukherjee, David Murphy, P. Petreczky, Dwight Renfrew, Chris Schroeder, R. A. Soltz, P. M. Vranas, and Hantao Yin (HotQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 082001 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

More realistic versions of lattice QCD may lead to a better understanding of how quarks formed hadrons in the early Universe.

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Zeeman Effect Induced by Intense Laser Light

E. Stambulchik and Y. Maron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083002 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

The magnetic field of intense visible light should have a major effect on the spectra of plasmas made from a wide range of elements.

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Self-Replicating Cracks: A Collaborative Fracture Mode in Thin Films

Joël Marthelot, Benoît Roman, José Bico, Jérémie Teisseire, Davy Dalmas, and Francisco Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085502 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

New experiments explain why thin coatings sometimes develop cracks in highly ordered patterns, such as spirals or crescents.

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Topologically Robust Transport of Photons in a Synthetic Gauge Field

S. Mittal, J. Fan, S. Faez, A. Migdall, J. M. Taylor, and M. Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 087403 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

A flat optical device is designed to allow light to travel unimpeded along its edges, even in the presence of defects.

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Braiding Statistics of Loop Excitations in Three Dimensions

Chenjie Wang and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080403 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

Symmetry protected 3D topological phases can be distinguished by their three-loop braiding statistics.

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Scaling of Chaos versus Periodicity: How Certain is it that an Attractor is Chaotic?

Madhura Joglekar, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 084101 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

A small perturbation in a system’s parameter can convert its attractor from chaotic to periodic, where the probability of obtaining a chaotic regime scales as a power law with respect to the perturbation size. These results look at how and why the way in which this scaling is defined can lead to different numerical values for the exponent.

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Carbon Kagome Lattice and Orbital-Frustration-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition for Optoelectronics

Yuanping Chen, Y. Y. Sun, H. Wang, D. West, Yuee Xie, J. Zhong, V. Meunier, Marvin L. Cohen, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085501 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

First-principle density functional theory calculations predict the existence of an elemental 3D carbon kagome lattice and provide concrete fabrication techniques for this new material.

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Determination of the Thermodynamic Scaling Exponent for Relaxation in Liquids from Static Ambient-Pressure Quantities

R. Casalini and C. M. Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085701 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Thermodynamic scaling analysis links static physical quantities to the intermolecular forces and mobility between molecules.

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Enhanced Antiferromagnetic Exchange between Magnetic Impurities in a Superconducting Host

N. Y. Yao, L. I. Glazman, E. A. Demler, M. D. Lukin, and J. D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 087202 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Nonperturbative analysis of magnetic impurities embedded in a superconducting host demonstrates that the RKKY theory for simple metals - coupling between the magnetic moments and conduction elections - is insufficient to describe exchange interactions, and localized electronic bound states near the impurity must also be taken into account.

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Anomalous $ζ$ Potential in Foam Films

Laurent Joly, François Detcheverry, and Anne-Laure Biance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 088301 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

Electro-osmosis in liquid films or soap bubbles is highly efficient, even when the number of charged surfactant molecules is small, due to an exact compensation between flow reduction from decreasing surface charge and flow enhancement from increased slip between the liquid and surfactant.

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Optimal Network Modularity for Information Diffusion

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 088701 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Clustering can enhance the spread of information in networks, via intra-community interactions.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Hamiltonian Identification from Measurement Time Traces

Jun Zhang and Mohan Sarovar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080401 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Spin-Liquid Condensate of Spinful Bosons

Biao Lian and Shoucheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080402 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

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Braiding Statistics of Loop Excitations in Three Dimensions

Chenjie Wang and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080403 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

Symmetry protected 3D topological phases can be distinguished by their three-loop braiding statistics.

Experimental Implementation of Adiabatic Passage between Different Topological Orders

Xinhua Peng, Zhihuang Luo, Wenqiang Zheng, Supeng Kou, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080404 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Experimental Semi-Device-Independent Certification of Entangled Measurements

Adam Bennet, Tamás Vértesi, Dylan J. Saunders, Nicolas Brunner, and G. J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080405 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Fault-Tolerant Conversion between the Steane and Reed-Muller Quantum Codes

Jonas T. Anderson, Guillaume Duclos-Cianci, and David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 080501 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Supernova Matter at Subnuclear Densities as a Resonant Fermi Gas: Enhancement of Neutrino Rates

A. Bartl, C. J. Pethick, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 081101 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Non-Gaussianity After BICEP2

Guido D’Amico and Matthew Kleban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 081301 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

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Fitting the Annual Modulation in DAMA with Neutrons from Muons and Neutrinos

Jonathan H. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 081302 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

The recently observed signal from a direct-dark-matter-detection search may instead be due to neutrons generated from solar neutrinos and atmospheric muons.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Limiting $P$ -Odd Interactions of Cosmic Fields with Electrons, Protons, and Neutrons

B. M. Roberts, Y. V. Stadnik, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, N. Leefer, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 081601 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

Ambitwistor Strings in Four Dimensions

Yvonne Geyer, Arthur E. Lipstein, and Lionel Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 081602 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

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QCD Phase Transition with Chiral Quarks and Physical Quark Masses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 082001 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

More realistic versions of lattice QCD may lead to a better understanding of how quarks formed hadrons in the early Universe.

Dilaton Chiral Perturbation Theory: Determining the Mass and Decay Constant of the Technidilaton on the Lattice

Shinya Matsuzaki and Koichi Yamawaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 082002 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

First Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Beauty-Quark Pair Production

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 082003 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Breakdown of the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation for the $A = 20$ and 21 Multiplets

A. T. Gallant, M. Brodeur, C. Andreoiu, A. Bader, A. Chaudhuri, U. Chowdhury, A. Grossheim, R. Klawitter, A. A. Kwiatkowski, K. G. Leach, A. Lennarz, T. D. Macdonald, B. E. Schultz, J. Lassen, H. Heggen, S. Raeder, A. Teigelhöfer, B. A. Brown, A. Magilligan, J. D. Holt, J. Menéndez, J. Simonis, A. Schwenk, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 082501 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

In-Trap Spectroscopy of Charge-Bred Radioactive Ions

A. Lennarz, A. Grossheim, K. G. Leach, M. Alanssari, T. Brunner, A. Chaudhuri, U. Chowdhury, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, A. T. Gallant, M. Holl, A. A. Kwiatkowski, J. Lassen, T. D. Macdonald, B. E. Schultz, S. Seeraji, M. C. Simon, C. Andreoiu, J. Dilling, and D. Frekers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 082502 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Prevailing Features of X-Ray-Induced Molecular Electron Spectra Revealed with Fullerenes

Abraham Camacho Garibay, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083001 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

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Zeeman Effect Induced by Intense Laser Light

E. Stambulchik and Y. Maron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083002 (2014) - Published 19 August, 2014

The magnetic field of intense visible light should have a major effect on the spectra of plasmas made from a wide range of elements.

Correlated Electron-Nuclear Dynamics with Conditional Wave Functions

Guillermo Albareda, Heiko Appel, Ignacio Franco, Ali Abedi, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083003 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Heisenberg Limit Superradiant Superresolving Metrology

Da-Wei Wang and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083601 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Driven Quantum Walks

Craig S. Hamilton, Regina Kruse, Linda Sansoni, Christine Silberhorn, and Igor Jex

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083602 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Hybridizing Ferromagnetic Magnons and Microwave Photons in the Quantum Limit

Yutaka Tabuchi, Seiichiro Ishino, Toyofumi Ishikawa, Rekishu Yamazaki, Koji Usami, and Yasunobu Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 083603 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Scaling of Chaos versus Periodicity: How Certain is it that an Attractor is Chaotic?

Madhura Joglekar, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 084101 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

Self-Consistent Mean Flow Description of the Nonlinear Saturation of the Vortex Shedding in the Cylinder Wake

Vladislav Mantič-Lugo, Cristóbal Arratia, and François Gallaire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 084501 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

Robust Energy Transfer Mechanism via Precession Resonance in Nonlinear Turbulent Wave Systems

Miguel D. Bustamante, Brenda Quinn, and Dan Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 084502 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Single-Shot Visualization of Evolving Laser Wakefields Using an All-Optical Streak Camera

Zhengyan Li, Hai-En Tsai, Xi Zhang, Chih-Hao Pai, Yen-Yu Chang, Rafal Zgadzaj, Xiaoming Wang, V. Khudik, G. Shvets, and M. C. Downer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085001 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensation of Helium in Aerogel and Athermal Dynamics of the Random-Field Ising Model

Geoffroy J. Aubry, Fabien Bonnet, Mathieu Melich, Laurent Guyon, Panayotis Spathis, Florence Despetis, and Pierre-Etienne Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085301 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

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Carbon Kagome Lattice and Orbital-Frustration-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition for Optoelectronics

Yuanping Chen, Y. Y. Sun, H. Wang, D. West, Yuee Xie, J. Zhong, V. Meunier, Marvin L. Cohen, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085501 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

First-principle density functional theory calculations predict the existence of an elemental 3D carbon kagome lattice and provide concrete fabrication techniques for this new material.

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Self-Replicating Cracks: A Collaborative Fracture Mode in Thin Films

Joël Marthelot, Benoît Roman, José Bico, Jérémie Teisseire, Davy Dalmas, and Francisco Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085502 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

New experiments explain why thin coatings sometimes develop cracks in highly ordered patterns, such as spirals or crescents.

Graphoepitaxy for Pattern Multiplication of Nanoparticle Monolayers

Mark E. Ferraro, Roger T. Bonnecaze, and Thomas M. Truskett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085503 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

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Determination of the Thermodynamic Scaling Exponent for Relaxation in Liquids from Static Ambient-Pressure Quantities

R. Casalini and C. M. Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 085701 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Thermodynamic scaling analysis links static physical quantities to the intermolecular forces and mobility between molecules.

Identification of the Au Coverage and Structure of the $Au / Si (111) − (5 \times 2)$ Surface

Se Gab Kwon and Myung Ho Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086101 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Creating One-Dimensional Nanoscale Periodic Ripples in a Continuous Mosaic Graphene Monolayer

Ke-Ke Bai, Yu Zhou, Hong Zheng, Lan Meng, Hailin Peng, Zhongfan Liu, Jia-Cai Nie, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086102 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Effects of Landau Level Mixing on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Monolayer Graphene

Michael R. Peterson and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086401 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Direct View at Excess Electrons in ${TiO}_{2}$ Rutile and Anatase

Martin Setvin, Cesare Franchini, Xianfeng Hao, Michael Schmid, Anderson Janotti, Merzuk Kaltak, Chris G. Van de Walle, Georg Kresse, and Ulrike Diebold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086402 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014

Role of Valence Fluctuations in the Superconductivity of Ce122 Compounds

H. Yamaoka, Y. Ikeda, I. Jarrige, N. Tsujii, Y. Zekko, Y. Yamamoto, J. Mizuki, J.-F. Lin, N. Hiraoka, H. Ishii, K.-D. Tsuei, T. C. Kobayashi, F. Honda, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086403 (2014) - Published 20 August, 2014

First-Order Insulator-to-Metal Mott Transition in the Paramagnetic 3D System ${GaTa}_{4} {Se}_{8}$

A. Camjayi, C. Acha, R. Weht, M. G. Rodríguez, B. Corraze, E. Janod, L. Cario, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086404 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Divergent Thermopower without a Quantum Phase Transition

Kridsanaphong Limtragool and Philip W. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086405 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Cubic Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in a Strained- $Ge / SiGe$ Quantum Well

Rai Moriya, Kentarou Sawano, Yusuke Hoshi, Satoru Masubuchi, Yasuhiro Shiraki, Andreas Wild, Christian Neumann, Gerhard Abstreiter, Dominique Bougeard, Takaaki Koga, and Tomoki Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086601 (2014) - Published 21 August, 2014

Controlling Spin Relaxation in Hexagonal BN-Encapsulated Graphene with a Transverse Electric Field

M. H. D. Guimarães, P. J. Zomer, J. Ingla-Aynés, J. C. Brant, N. Tombros, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086602 (2014) - Published 22 August, 2014

Mixed Dimensionality of Confined Conducting Electrons in the Surface Region of ${SrTiO}_{3}$

N. C. Plumb, M. Salluzzo, E. Razzoli, M. Månsson, M. Falub, J. Krempasky, C. E. Matt, J. Chang, M. Schulte, J. Braun, H. Ebert, J. Minár, B. Delley, K.-J. Zhou, T. Schmitt, M. Shi, J. Mesot, L. Patthey, and M. Radović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 086801 (2014) - Published 18 August, 2014