Volume 114, Issue 1

9 January 2015

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Contour plot of spectrogram of neutral beam driven toroidal n=3 mode in high-beta tokomak plasma.

From the article:

Alfvén Acoustic Channel for Ion Energy in High-Beta Tokamak Plasmas
Andreas Bierwage, Nobuyuki Aiba, and Kouji Shinohara
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015002 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Observation of Lee-Yang Zeros

Xinhua Peng, Hui Zhou, Bo-Bo Wei, Jiangyu Cui, Jiangfeng Du, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 010601 (2015) - Published 5 January, 2015

Imaginary magnetic fields predicted by the fundamental theory of phase transitions can be realized experimentally.

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Measurement of the Gravity-Field Curvature by Atom Interferometry

G. Rosi, L. Cacciapuoti, F. Sorrentino, M. Menchetti, M. Prevedelli, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013001 (2015) - Published 5 January, 2015

By measuring gravity with cold atoms at three different heights simultaneously, a team determined a new property of a gravitational field.

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Proximity-Induced Ferromagnetism in Graphene Revealed by the Anomalous Hall Effect

Zhiyong Wang, Chi Tang, Raymond Sachs, Yafis Barlas, and Jing Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016603 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Placing graphene on an insulating magnetic substrate can make the material ferromagnetic without disturbing its exceptional conductivity.

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Dark Matter with Pseudoscalar-Mediated Interactions Explains the DAMA Signal and the Galactic Center Excess

Chiara Arina, Eugenio Del Nobile, and Paolo Panci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 011301 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

A new dark matter model is able to account for the annual dark matter modulation observed by DAMA and the galactic center gamma-ray excess, while remaining compatible with other exclusion limits.

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Observation of a Four-Electron Auger Process in Near- $K$ -Edge Photoionization of Singly Charged Carbon Ions

A. Müller, A. Borovik, Jr., T. Buhr, J. Hellhund, K. Holste, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, S. Klumpp, M. Martins, S. Ricz, J. Viefhaus, and S. Schippers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013002 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Using a new photon-ion merged-beam setup at PETRA III, DESY, resonant Auger decay in which three electrons are emitted simultaneously is observed in carbon ions.

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Observation of the Leggett-Rice Effect in a Unitary Fermi Gas

S. Trotzky, S. Beattie, C. Luciuk, S. Smale, A. B. Bardon, T. Enss, E. Taylor, S. Zhang, and J. H. Thywissen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015301 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Measurements of the transverse spin diffusivity of a unitary Fermi gas show that it behaves as a ‘bad metal’ with transport lifetimes near the quantum limit.

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Shot Noise Induced by Nonequilibrium Spin Accumulation

Tomonori Arakawa, Junichi Shiogai, Mariusz Ciorga, Martin Utz, Dieter Schuh, Makoto Kohda, Junsaku Nitta, Dominique Bougeard, Dieter Weiss, Teruo Ono, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016601 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Excess shot noise from a current passing through a potential barrier is induced in a semiconductor spin valve.

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Shot Noise as a Probe of Spin-Polarized Transport through Single Atoms

Andreas Burtzlaff, Alexander Weismann, Mads Brandbyge, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016602 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Measurements of the shot noise through a gold STM tip contacted to a gold adatom reveal the open spin-polarized transport channels between the tip and the surface underneath.

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Framing Anomaly in the Effective Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Andrey Gromov, Gil Young Cho, Yizhi You, Alexander G. Abanov, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016805 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Anomalies in quantum field theories point to a consistent effective theory for fractional Hall liquids.

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Tunable Long Range Forces Mediated by Self-Propelled Colloidal Hard Spheres

Ran Ni, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, and Peter G. Bolhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 018302 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

The effective force between two flat objects immersed in a suspension of active colloids can be tuned by changing the activity and density of the colloids. This finding opens the door to using active matter as a way to manipulate the motion and assembly of macroscopic objects.

LETTERS

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

Measuring the Biphoton Temporal Wave Function with Polarization-Dependent and Time-Resolved Two-Photon Interference

Peng Chen, Chi Shu, Xianxin Guo, M. M. T. Loy, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 010401 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Coherence and Decay of Higher Energy Levels of a Superconducting Transmon Qubit

Michael J. Peterer, Samuel J. Bader, Xiaoyue Jin, Fei Yan, Archana Kamal, Theodore J. Gudmundsen, Peter J. Leek, Terry P. Orlando, William D. Oliver, and Simon Gustavsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 010501 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

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Experimental Observation of Lee-Yang Zeros

Xinhua Peng, Hui Zhou, Bo-Bo Wei, Jiangyu Cui, Jiangfeng Du, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 010601 (2015) - Published 5 January, 2015

Imaginary magnetic fields predicted by the fundamental theory of phase transitions can be realized experimentally.

General Magnetic Transition Dipole Moments for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Joscha Nehrkorn, Alexander Schnegg, Karsten Holldack, and Stefan Stoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 010801 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Dark Matter with Pseudoscalar-Mediated Interactions Explains the DAMA Signal and the Galactic Center Excess

Chiara Arina, Eugenio Del Nobile, and Paolo Panci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 011301 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

A new dark matter model is able to account for the annual dark matter modulation observed by DAMA and the galactic center gamma-ray excess, while remaining compatible with other exclusion limits.

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Physics in Resonant Production of Higgs Boson Pairs

Vernon Barger, Lisa L. Everett, C. B. Jackson, Andrea D. Peterson, and Gabe Shaughnessy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 011801 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Can the Differences in the Determinations of $V_{u b}$ and $V_{c b}$ Be Explained by New Physics?

Andreas Crivellin and Stefan Pokorski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 011802 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering Contribution to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment from Lattice QCD

Thomas Blum, Saumitra Chowdhury, Masashi Hayakawa, and Taku Izubuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 012001 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Neutron-Proton Contact and the Photoabsorption Cross Section

Ronen Weiss, Betzalel Bazak, and Nir Barnea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 012501 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Spectral Structure of Electron Antineutrinos from Nuclear Reactors

D. A. Dwyer and T. J. Langford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 012502 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Relativistic Coulomb Excitation within the Time Dependent Superfluid Local Density Approximation

I. Stetcu, C. A. Bertulani, A. Bulgac, P. Magierski, and K. J. Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 012701 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Measurement of the Gravity-Field Curvature by Atom Interferometry

G. Rosi, L. Cacciapuoti, F. Sorrentino, M. Menchetti, M. Prevedelli, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013001 (2015) - Published 5 January, 2015

By measuring gravity with cold atoms at three different heights simultaneously, a team determined a new property of a gravitational field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Four-Electron Auger Process in Near- $K$ -Edge Photoionization of Singly Charged Carbon Ions

A. Müller, A. Borovik, Jr., T. Buhr, J. Hellhund, K. Holste, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, S. Klumpp, M. Martins, S. Ricz, J. Viefhaus, and S. Schippers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013002 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Using a new photon-ion merged-beam setup at PETRA III, DESY, resonant Auger decay in which three electrons are emitted simultaneously is observed in carbon ions.

Atomic Masses of Tritium and Helium-3

E. G. Myers, A. Wagner, H. Kracke, and B. A. Wesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013003 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Body-Assisted van der Waals Interaction between Excited Atoms

Hassan Safari and Mohammad Reza Karimpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013201 (2015) - Published 9 January, 2015

Route to Chaos in Optomechanics

L. Bakemeier, A. Alvermann, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013601 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Demonstration of Enhanced Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission by an Optical Klystron

G. Penco, E. Allaria, G. De Ninno, E. Ferrari, and L. Giannessi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013901 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Time-Driven Superoscillations with Negative Refraction

M. Dubois, E. Bossy, S. Enoch, S. Guenneau, G. Lerosey, and P. Sebbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 013902 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Indentation of Ultrathin Elastic Films and the Emergence of Asymptotic Isometry

Dominic Vella, Jiangshui Huang, Narayanan Menon, Thomas P. Russell, and Benny Davidovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 014301 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Sustainable Drag Reduction in Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flows by Depositing Sprayable Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Siddarth Srinivasan, Justin A. Kleingartner, Jonathan B. Gilbert, Robert E. Cohen, Andrew J. B. Milne, and Gareth H. McKinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 014501 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Magnetically Assisted Fast Ignition

W.-M. Wang, P. Gibbon, Z.-M. Sheng, and Y.-T. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015001 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Alfvén Acoustic Channel for Ion Energy in High-Beta Tokamak Plasmas

Andreas Bierwage, Nobuyuki Aiba, and Kouji Shinohara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015002 (2015) - Published 9 January, 2015

Saturable Absorption of an X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Heated Solid-Density Aluminum Plasma

D. S. Rackstraw, O. Ciricosta, S. M. Vinko, B. Barbrel, T. Burian, J. Chalupský, B. I. Cho, H.-K. Chung, G. L. Dakovski, K. Engelhorn, V. Hájková, P. Heimann, M. Holmes, L. Juha, J. Krzywinski, R. W. Lee, S. Toleikis, J. J. Turner, U. Zastrau, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015003 (2015) - Published 9 January, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Leggett-Rice Effect in a Unitary Fermi Gas

S. Trotzky, S. Beattie, C. Luciuk, S. Smale, A. B. Bardon, T. Enss, E. Taylor, S. Zhang, and J. H. Thywissen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015301 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Measurements of the transverse spin diffusivity of a unitary Fermi gas show that it behaves as a ‘bad metal’ with transport lifetimes near the quantum limit.

Selective Detection of Angular-Momentum-Polarized Auger Electrons by Atomic Stereography

Fumihiko Matsui, Masayoshi Fujita, Takuya Ohta, Naoyuki Maejima, Hirosuke Matsui, Hiroaki Nishikawa, Tomohiro Matsushita, and Hiroshi Daimon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015501 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Superhard ${BC}_{3}$ in Cubic Diamond Structure

Miao Zhang, Hanyu Liu, Quan Li, Bo Gao, Yanchao Wang, Hongdong Li, Changfeng Chen, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015502 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Scale-Free Phase Field Theory of Dislocations

István Groma, Zoltán Vandrus, and Péter Dusán Ispánovity

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015503 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Nanoscale Directional Motion towards Regions of Stiffness

Tienchong Chang, Hongwei Zhang, Zhengrong Guo, Xingming Guo, and Huajian Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015504 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Following the Evolution of Hard Sphere Glasses in Infinite Dimensions under External Perturbations: Compression and Shear Strain

Corrado Rainone, Pierfrancesco Urbani, Hajime Yoshino, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 015701 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Spin Correlation in $O_{2}$ Chemisorption on Ni(111)

Mitsunori Kurahashi and Yasushi Yamauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016101 (2015) - Published 9 January, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interplay of Spin-Orbit Interactions, Dimensionality, and Octahedral Rotations in Semimetallic ${SrIrO}_{3}$

Y. F. Nie, P. D. C. King, C. H. Kim, M. Uchida, H. I. Wei, B. D. Faeth, J. P. Ruf, J. P. C. Ruff, L. Xie, X. Pan, C. J. Fennie, D. G. Schlom, and K. M. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016401 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Spatial Correlations and the Insulating Phase of the High- $T_{c}$ Cuprates: Insights from a Configuration-Interaction-Based Solver for Dynamical Mean Field Theory

Ara Go and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016402 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Non-Kondo-like Electronic Structure in the Correlated Rare-Earth Hexaboride ${Y b B}_{6}$

Madhab Neupane, Su-Yang Xu, Nasser Alidoust, Guang Bian, D. J. Kim, Chang Liu, I. Belopolski, T.-R. Chang, H.-T. Jeng, T. Durakiewicz, H. Lin, A. Bansil, Z. Fisk, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016403 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Spatially Resolved Transient Dynamics of Charge Density Waves in ${NbSe}_{3}$

E. C. Geil and R. E. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016404 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Determination of the Nitrogen Vacancy as a Shallow Compensating Center in GaN Doped with Divalent Metals

J. Buckeridge, C. R. A. Catlow, D. O. Scanlon, T. W. Keal, P. Sherwood, M. Miskufova, A. Walsh, S. M. Woodley, and A. A. Sokol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016405 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shot Noise Induced by Nonequilibrium Spin Accumulation

Tomonori Arakawa, Junichi Shiogai, Mariusz Ciorga, Martin Utz, Dieter Schuh, Makoto Kohda, Junsaku Nitta, Dominique Bougeard, Dieter Weiss, Teruo Ono, and Kensuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016601 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Excess shot noise from a current passing through a potential barrier is induced in a semiconductor spin valve.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shot Noise as a Probe of Spin-Polarized Transport through Single Atoms

Andreas Burtzlaff, Alexander Weismann, Mads Brandbyge, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016602 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Measurements of the shot noise through a gold STM tip contacted to a gold adatom reveal the open spin-polarized transport channels between the tip and the surface underneath.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proximity-Induced Ferromagnetism in Graphene Revealed by the Anomalous Hall Effect

Zhiyong Wang, Chi Tang, Raymond Sachs, Yafis Barlas, and Jing Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016603 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Placing graphene on an insulating magnetic substrate can make the material ferromagnetic without disturbing its exceptional conductivity.

Induced Topological Phases at the Boundary of 3D Topological Superconductors

Peter Finch, James de Lisle, Giandomenico Palumbo, and Jiannis K. Pachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016801 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Thermal Hall Effect and Geometry with Torsion

Andrey Gromov and Alexander G. Abanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016802 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Pressure-Induced Inhomogeneous Chiral-Spin Ground State in FeGe

A. Barla, H. Wilhelm, M. K. Forthaus, C. Strohm, R. Rüffer, M. Schmidt, K. Koepernik, U. K. Rößler, and M. M. Abd-Elmeguid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016803 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Phonon-Mediated Electron Transport through CaO Thin Films

Yi Cui, Sergio Tosoni, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Niklas Nilius, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016804 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Framing Anomaly in the Effective Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Andrey Gromov, Gil Young Cho, Yizhi You, Alexander G. Abanov, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016805 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Anomalies in quantum field theories point to a consistent effective theory for fractional Hall liquids.

Topology and Interactions in a Frustrated Slab: Tuning from Weyl Semimetals to $C > 1$ Fractional Chern Insulators

E. J. Bergholtz, Zhao Liu, M. Trescher, R. Moessner, and M. Udagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 016806 (2015) - Published 8 January, 2015

Experimental Detection of a Majorana Mode in the core of a Magnetic Vortex inside a Topological Insulator-Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3} / {NbSe}_{2}$ Heterostructure

Jin-Peng Xu, Mei-Xiao Wang, Zhi Long Liu, Jian-Feng Ge, Xiaojun Yang, Canhua Liu, Zhu An Xu, Dandan Guan, Chun Lei Gao, Dong Qian, Ying Liu, Qiang-Hua Wang, Fu-Chun Zhang, Qi-Kun Xue, and Jin-Feng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 017001 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015

Anisotropic Local Modification of Crystal Field Levels in Pr-Based Pyrochlores: A Muon-Induced Effect Modeled Using Density Functional Theory

F. R. Foronda, F. Lang, J. S. Möller, T. Lancaster, A. T. Boothroyd, F. L. Pratt, S. R. Giblin, D. Prabhakaran, and S. J. Blundell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 017602 (2015) - Published 6 January, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable Long Range Forces Mediated by Self-Propelled Colloidal Hard Spheres

Ran Ni, Martien A. Cohen Stuart, and Peter G. Bolhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 018302 (2015) - Published 7 January, 2015