Volume 114, Issue 18

8 May 2015

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Decomposition of the imaginary part of an eikonal diagram with an internal vertex into single- and triple-cut diagrams.

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Imaginary Parts and Discontinuities of Wilson Line Correlators
Eric Laenen, Kasper J. Larsen, and Robbert Rietkerk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 181602 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Demonstration of a Memory for Tightly Guided Light in an Optical Nanofiber

B. Gouraud, D. Maxein, A. Nicolas, O. Morin, and J. Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 180503 (2015) - Published 7 May, 2015

Light signals propagating down an ultrathin fiber can be temporarily stored in a cloud of cold atoms surrounding the fiber.

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Exciton-Polariton Gas as a Nonequilibrium Coolant

Sebastian Klembt, Emilien Durupt, Sanjoy Datta, Thorsten Klein, Augustin Baas, Yoan Léger, Carsten Kruse, Detlef Hommel, Anna Minguzzi, and Maxime Richard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186403 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

A gas of polaritons can serve as a coolant fluid that transports heat away from a semiconductor microcavity.

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Precise Quantization of the Anomalous Hall Effect near Zero Magnetic Field

A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, Xufeng Kou, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 187201 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Thin films of magnetic topological insulators can exhibit a nearly ideal quantum Hall effect without requiring an applied magnetic field.

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Droplet Clusters: Exploring the Phase Space of Soft Mesoscale Atoms

Jan Guzowski and Piotr Garstecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188302 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Water droplets can self-assemble into a range of structures inside larger drops of oil, with potential uses in targeted drug delivery and biological tissue engineering.

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All-Optical Nanomechanical Heat Engine

Andreas Dechant, Nikolai Kiesel, and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183602 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

A nanoparticle levitated in an optical cavity is proposed as a Stirling type heat engine – where the particle is driven through a cooling-heating sequence that changes the mechanical oscillations of the systems and generates heat.

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Reentrant Origami-Based Metamaterials with Negative Poisson’s Ratio and Bistability

H. Yasuda and J. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 185502 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

Structures made solely from folded rigid planes exhibit both tunable negative Poisson’s ratio and structural bistability allowing for the construction of new types of mechanical metamaterials.

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Paramagnetic Spin Seebeck Effect

Stephen M. Wu, John E. Pearson, and Anand Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186602 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

A spin current is experimentally generated in various insulating paramagnets using thermal gradients, a surprising result as, unlike ferromagnetic insulators, paramagnets do not hold their magnetization when the applied field is removed.

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Margination Regimes and Drainage Transition in Confined Multicomponent Suspensions

Rafael G. Henríquez Rivera, Kushal Sinha, and Michael D. Graham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188101 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

During blood flow, white blood cells and platelets segregate near vessel walls, a phenomenon known as margination. A new kinetic theory allows the different segregation regimes to be defined, showing that, under certain conditions, the concentration of cells at the walls goes to zero.

LETTERS

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

Genuine Multipartite Entanglement without Multipartite Correlations

Christian Schwemmer, Lukas Knips, Minh Cong Tran, Anna de Rosier, Wiesław Laskowski, Tomasz Paterek, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 180501 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Experimental Passive Round-Robin Differential Phase-Shift Quantum Key Distribution

Jian-Yu Guan, Zhu Cao, Yang Liu, Guo-Liang Shen-Tu, Jason S. Pelc, M. M. Fejer, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Xiongfeng Ma, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 180502 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

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Demonstration of a Memory for Tightly Guided Light in an Optical Nanofiber

B. Gouraud, D. Maxein, A. Nicolas, O. Morin, and J. Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 180503 (2015) - Published 7 May, 2015

Light signals propagating down an ultrathin fiber can be temporarily stored in a cloud of cold atoms surrounding the fiber.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Geometrically Induced Magnetic Catalysis and Critical Dimensions

Antonino Flachi, Kenji Fukushima, and Vincenzo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 181601 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Imaginary Parts and Discontinuities of Wilson Line Correlators

Eric Laenen, Kasper J. Larsen, and Robbert Rietkerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 181602 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Yang-Mills as Massive Chern-Simons Theory: A Third Way to Three-Dimensional Gauge Theories

Alex S. Arvanitakis, Alexander Sevrin, and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 181603 (2015) - Published 7 May, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Thermalization of Gluons with Bose-Einstein Condensation

Zhe Xu, Kai Zhou, Pengfei Zhuang, and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 182301 (2015) - Published 7 May, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mercury Monohalides: Suitability for Electron Electric Dipole Moment Searches

V. S. Prasannaa, A. C. Vutha, M. Abe, and B. P. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183001 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Time-Resolved Spectroscopy in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: An Exact Condition

Johanna I. Fuks, Kai Luo, Ernesto D. Sandoval, and Neepa T. Maitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183002 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

Antihydrogen Formation via Antiproton Scattering with Excited Positronium

A. S. Kadyrov, C. M. Rawlins, A. T. Stelbovics, I. Bray, and M. Charlton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183201 (2015) - Published 8 May, 2015

Ancillary Qubit Spectroscopy of Vacua in Cavity and Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Jared Lolli, Alexandre Baksic, David Nagy, Vladimir E. Manucharyan, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183601 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

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All-Optical Nanomechanical Heat Engine

Andreas Dechant, Nikolai Kiesel, and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183602 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Boosting Terahertz Generation in Laser-Field Ionized Gases Using a Sawtooth Wave Shape

P. González de Alaiza Martínez, I. Babushkin, L. Bergé, S. Skupin, E. Cabrera-Granado, C. Köhler, U. Morgner, A. Husakou, and J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183901 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Enhancement of Second-Order Nonlinear-Optical Signals by Optical Stimulation

A. J. Goodman and W. A. Tisdale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183902 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Exponentially Tempered Lévy Sums in Random Lasers

Ravitej Uppu and Sushil Mujumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 183903 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Synergistic Laser-Wakefield and Direct-Laser Acceleration in the Plasma-Bubble Regime

Xi Zhang, Vladimir N. Khudik, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 184801 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Sixth-Order Resonance of High-Intensity Linear Accelerators

Dong-O Jeon, Kyung Ryun Hwang, Ji-Ho Jang, Hyunchang Jin, and Hyojae Jang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 184802 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Modulated Electron Cyclotron Drift Instability in a High-Power Pulsed Magnetron Discharge

Sedina Tsikata and Tiberiu Minea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 185001 (2015) - Published 8 May, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Compton-Like Polariton Scattering in Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Ivan V. Iorsh, Alexander N. Poddubny, Pavel Ginzburg, Pavel A. Belov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 185501 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

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Reentrant Origami-Based Metamaterials with Negative Poisson’s Ratio and Bistability

H. Yasuda and J. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 185502 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

Structures made solely from folded rigid planes exhibit both tunable negative Poisson’s ratio and structural bistability allowing for the construction of new types of mechanical metamaterials.

First-Order Character and Observable Signatures of Topological Quantum Phase Transitions

A. Amaricci, J. C. Budich, M. Capone, B. Trauzettel, and G. Sangiovanni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 185701 (2015) - Published 8 May, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magneto-Optics of Massive Dirac Fermions in Bulk ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

M. Orlita, B. A. Piot, G. Martinez, N. K. Sampath Kumar, C. Faugeras, M. Potemski, C. Michel, E. M. Hankiewicz, T. Brauner, Č. Drašar, S. Schreyeck, S. Grauer, K. Brunner, C. Gould, C. Brüne, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186401 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

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Exciton-Polariton Gas as a Nonequilibrium Coolant

Sebastian Klembt, Emilien Durupt, Sanjoy Datta, Thorsten Klein, Augustin Baas, Yoan Léger, Carsten Kruse, Detlef Hommel, Anna Minguzzi, and Maxime Richard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186403 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

A gas of polaritons can serve as a coolant fluid that transports heat away from a semiconductor microcavity.

Fluctuation Theorem for a Small Engine and Magnetization Switching by Spin Torque

Yasuhiro Utsumi and Tomohiro Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186601 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

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Paramagnetic Spin Seebeck Effect

Stephen M. Wu, John E. Pearson, and Anand Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186602 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

Correlation Lengths and Topological Entanglement Entropies of Unitary and Nonunitary Fractional Quantum Hall Wave Functions

B. Estienne, N. Regnault, and B. A. Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186801 (2015) - Published 8 May, 2015

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Precise Quantization of the Anomalous Hall Effect near Zero Magnetic Field

A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, Xufeng Kou, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 187201 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Thin films of magnetic topological insulators can exhibit a nearly ideal quantum Hall effect without requiring an applied magnetic field.

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Collective Ion Dynamics in Liquid Zinc: Evidence for Complex Dynamics in a Non-Free-Electron Liquid Metal

M. Zanatta, F. Sacchetti, E. Guarini, A. Orecchini, A. Paciaroni, L. Sani, and C. Petrillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 187801 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Curvature Dependence of Hydrophobic Hydration Dynamics

R. Gregor Weiß, Matthias Heyden, and Joachim Dzubiella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 187802 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

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Margination Regimes and Drainage Transition in Confined Multicomponent Suspensions

Rafael G. Henríquez Rivera, Kushal Sinha, and Michael D. Graham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188101 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Collective Dynamics in a Binary Mixture of Hydrodynamically Coupled Microrotors

Kyongmin Yeo, Enkeleida Lushi, and Petia M. Vlahovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188301 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

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Droplet Clusters: Exploring the Phase Space of Soft Mesoscale Atoms

Jan Guzowski and Piotr Garstecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188302 (2015) - Published 6 May, 2015

Water droplets can self-assemble into a range of structures inside larger drops of oil, with potential uses in targeted drug delivery and biological tissue engineering.

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 151302 (2015)]

Mathew Madhavacheril et al. (Atacama Cosmology Telescope Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 189901 (2015) - Published 4 May, 2015

Erratum: Evidence for a Smooth Onset of Deformation in the Neutron-Rich Kr Isotopes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 062701 (2012)]

M. Albers et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 189902 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015

Erratum: Bond Disorder Induced Criticality of the Three-Color Ashkin-Teller Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 155701 (2012)]

Arash Bellafard, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Matthias Troyer, and Sudip Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 189903 (2015) - Published 5 May, 2015