Volume 114, Issue 19

15 May 2015

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Detectors of the ATLAS (top) and CMS (bottom) collaborations at the LHC. This is the first combination paper published from the two collaborations, a precision measurement of the mass of the Higgs boson. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191803 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Three Dimensional Simulation of the Magnetic Stress in a Neutron Star Crust

T. S. Wood and R. Hollerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191101 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Simulations of the magnetic field of a neutron star show that shear stresses induced by the field are strong enough to fracture the star’s crust.

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Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191803 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

A new value for the Higgs boson mass will allow stronger tests of the standard model and of theories about the Universe’s stability.

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Quantum-Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Melih Okan, Thomas Gersdorf, Vinay V. Ramasesh, Waseem S. Bakr, Thomas Lompe, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193001 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

A quantum microscope able to image individual atoms of optically trapped fermionic potassium has been developed by combining 3D Raman sideband cooling along with high-resolution optics.

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Experimental Demonstration of Room-Temperature Spin Transport in $n$ -Type Germanium Epilayers

S. Dushenko, M. Koike, Y. Ando, T. Shinjo, M. Myronov, and M. Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196602 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Germanium layers can carry spin-polarized currents over several hundred nanometers at room temperature, a key asset for spintronic applications.

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Pressure and Phase Equilibria in Interacting Active Brownian Spheres

Alexandre P. Solon, Joakim Stenhammar, Raphael Wittkowski, Mehran Kardar, Yariv Kafri, Michael E. Cates, and Julien Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198301 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

An equation of state for a gas of self-propelled spheres is a step towards a thermodynamic description of “active” matter, such as bird flocks and tissue.

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Measurement of Long-Range Angular Correlation and Quadrupole Anisotropy of Pions and (Anti)Protons in Central $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192301 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Particle correlations in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC reveal patterns reminiscent of those generated by the quark-gluon plasma in larger heavy-ion collisions.

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Experimental Generation of Squeezed Cat States with an Operation Allowing Iterative Growth

Jean Etesse, Martin Bouillard, Bhaskar Kanseri, and Rosa Tualle-Brouri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193602 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

An optical setup is used to generate a mesoscopic state of light, called a cat state, which can be fed back into the system to increase its nonclassicality.

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Motional Averaging of Nuclear Resonance in a Field Gradient

Nanette N. Jarenwattananon and Louis-S. Bouchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197601 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

A revised theory for diffusion-based nuclear magnetic resonance shows that the linewidth decreases with temperature for gasses. This finding is contrary to the behavior seen in fluids and therefore allows gasses and liquids to be distinguished by their linewidth behavior.

LETTERS

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

Family of Bell-like Inequalities as Device-Independent Witnesses for Entanglement Depth

Yeong-Cherng Liang, Denis Rosset, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Gilles Pütz, Tomer Jack Barnea, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190401 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Testing Nonclassicality and Non-Gaussianity in Phase Space

Jiyong Park, Junhua Zhang, Jaehak Lee, Se-Wan Ji, Mark Um, Dingshun Lv, Kihwan Kim, and Hyunchul Nha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190402 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Quantum Algorithm for Universal Implementation of the Projective Measurement of Energy

Shojun Nakayama, Akihito Soeda, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190501 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

Nonperturbative Leakage Elimination Operators and Control of a Three-Level System

Jun Jing, Lian-Ao Wu, Mark Byrd, J. Q. You, Ting Yu, and Zhao-Ming Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190502 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Columnar Order and Ashkin-Teller Criticality in Mixtures of Hard Squares and Dimers

Kabir Ramola, Kedar Damle, and Deepak Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 190601 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Three Dimensional Simulation of the Magnetic Stress in a Neutron Star Crust

T. S. Wood and R. Hollerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191101 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Simulations of the magnetic field of a neutron star show that shear stresses induced by the field are strong enough to fracture the star’s crust.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Infrared Renormalons versus Operator Product Expansions in Supersymmetric and Related Gauge Theories

Gerald V. Dunne, M. Shifman, and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191601 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Holographic Twin Higgs Model

Michael Geller and Ofri Telem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191801 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

Measurement of $J / ψ$ and $ψ (2 S)$ Prompt Double-Differential Cross Sections in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191802 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

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Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191803 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

A new value for the Higgs boson mass will allow stronger tests of the standard model and of theories about the Universe’s stability.

Peak Locations and Relative Phase of Different Decay Modes of the $a_{1}$ Axial Vector Resonance in Diffractive Production

Jean-Louis Basdevant and Edmond L. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192001 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of Long-Range Angular Correlation and Quadrupole Anisotropy of Pions and (Anti)Protons in Central $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192301 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Particle correlations in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC reveal patterns reminiscent of those generated by the quark-gluon plasma in larger heavy-ion collisions.

$β$ -Decay Half-Lives of 110 Neutron-Rich Nuclei across the $N = 82$ Shell Gap: Implications for the Mechanism and Universality of the Astrophysical $r$ Process

G. Lorusso et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192501 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

Evidence of Soft Dipole Resonance in ${}^{11}{Li}$ with Isoscalar Character

R. Kanungo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192502 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Precision Measurement of the $p (e, e^{'} p) π^{0}$ Reaction at Threshold

K. Chirapatpimol et al. (Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192503 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Origin of Low-Lying Enhanced $E 1$ Strength in Rare-Earth Nuclei

M. Spieker, S. Pascu, A. Zilges, and F. Iachello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192504 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum-Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Melih Okan, Thomas Gersdorf, Vinay V. Ramasesh, Waseem S. Bakr, Thomas Lompe, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193001 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

A quantum microscope able to image individual atoms of optically trapped fermionic potassium has been developed by combining 3D Raman sideband cooling along with high-resolution optics.

Efficient Single Photon Emission and Collection Based on Excitation of Gap Surface Plasmons

Hang Lian, Ying Gu, Juanjuan Ren, Fan Zhang, Luojia Wang, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193002 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Cavity-Funneled Generation of Indistinguishable Single Photons from Strongly Dissipative Quantum Emitters

Thomas Grange, Gaston Hornecker, David Hunger, Jean-Philippe Poizat, Jean-Michel Gérard, Pascale Senellart, and Alexia Auffèves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193601 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

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Experimental Generation of Squeezed Cat States with an Operation Allowing Iterative Growth

Jean Etesse, Martin Bouillard, Bhaskar Kanseri, and Rosa Tualle-Brouri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193602 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

An optical setup is used to generate a mesoscopic state of light, called a cat state, which can be fed back into the system to increase its nonclassicality.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Frequency Combs with Weakly Lasing Exciton-Polariton Condensates

K. Rayanov, B. L. Altshuler, Y. G. Rubo, and S. Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 193901 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Axial Momentum Lost to a Lateral Wall of a Helicon Plasma Source

Kazunori Takahashi, Aiki Chiba, Atsushi Komuro, and Akira Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195001 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Direct Heating of a Laser-Imploded Core by Ultraintense Laser-Driven Ions

Y. Kitagawa et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195002 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Tunable All-Optical Quasimonochromatic Thomson X-Ray Source in the Nonlinear Regime

K. Khrennikov, J. Wenz, A. Buck, J. Xu, M. Heigoldt, L. Veisz, and S. Karsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195003 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two-Dimensional Chiral Superfluids

Yasuhiro Tada, Wenxing Nie, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195301 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Feshbach-Stabilized Insulator of Bosons in Optical Lattices

L. de Forges de Parny, V. G. Rousseau, and T. Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195302 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

Vacuum Channeling Radiation by Relativistic Electrons in a Transverse Field of a Laser-Based Bessel Beam

L. Schächter and W. D. Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195501 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Incommensurate Systems as Model Compounds for Disorder Revealing Low-Temperature Glasslike Behavior

G. Reményi, S. Sahling, K. Biljaković, D. Starešinić, J.-C. Lasjaunias, J. E. Lorenzo, P. Monceau, and A. Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195502 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

Consolidation of Partially Stabilized ${ZrO}_{2}$ in the Presence of a Noncontacting Electric Field

Hasti Majidi and Klaus van Benthem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195503 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Understanding Anharmonicity in fcc Materials: From its Origin to ab initio Strategies beyond the Quasiharmonic Approximation

A. Glensk, B. Grabowski, T. Hickel, and J. Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 195901 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Ultrafast Atomic Diffusion Inducing a Reversible $(2 \sqrt{3} \times 2 \sqrt{3}) R 30 ° \leftrightarrow (\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}) R 30 °$ Transition on $Sn / Si (111) ∶ B$

W. Srour, Daniel G. Trabada, J. I. Martínez, F. Flores, J. Ortega, M. Abuín, Y. Fagot-Revurat, B. Kierren, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, D. Malterre, and A. Tejeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196101 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Hierarchy of Modes in an Interacting One-Dimensional System

O. Tsyplyatyev, A. J. Schofield, Y. Jin, M. Moreno, W. K. Tan, C. J. B. Ford, J. P. Griffiths, I. Farrer, G. A. C. Jones, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196401 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

Extraordinary Exciton Conductance Induced by Strong Coupling

Johannes Feist and Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196402 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Cavity-Enhanced Transport of Excitons

Johannes Schachenmayer, Claudiu Genes, Edoardo Tignone, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196403 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Thermal Vector Potential Theory of Transport Induced by a Temperature Gradient

Gen Tatara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196601 (2015) - Published 14 May, 2015

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Experimental Demonstration of Room-Temperature Spin Transport in $n$ -Type Germanium Epilayers

S. Dushenko, M. Koike, Y. Ando, T. Shinjo, M. Myronov, and M. Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196602 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Germanium layers can carry spin-polarized currents over several hundred nanometers at room temperature, a key asset for spintronic applications.

Determination of Formation and Ionization Energies of Charged Defects in Two-Dimensional Materials

Dan Wang, Dong Han, Xian-Bin Li, Sheng-Yi Xie, Nian-Ke Chen, Wei Quan Tian, Damien West, Hong-Bo Sun, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196801 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Phonon-Assisted Gain in a Semiconductor Double Quantum Dot Maser

M. J. Gullans, Y.-Y. Liu, J. Stehlik, J. R. Petta, and J. M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196802 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Coexistence of Charge-Density-Wave and Pair-Density-Wave Orders in Underdoped Cuprates

Yuxuan Wang, Daniel F. Agterberg, and Andrey Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197001 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Theory of Electromagnons in CuO

Kun Cao, Feliciano Giustino, and Paolo G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197201 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

Microwave Magnetochiral Dichroism in the Chiral-Lattice Magnet ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

Y. Okamura, F. Kagawa, S. Seki, M. Kubota, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197202 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Microwave Magnetochiral Effect in ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

Masahito Mochizuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197203 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Coupling of Chiralities in Spin and Physical Spaces: The Möbius Ring as a Case Study

Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, Denis D. Sheka, Denys Makarov, Oliver G. Schmidt, and Yuri Gaididei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197204 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Photon Bunching in Cathodoluminescence

S. Meuret, L. H. G. Tizei, T. Cazimajou, R. Bourrellier, H. C. Chang, F. Treussart, and M. Kociak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197401 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Motional Averaging of Nuclear Resonance in a Field Gradient

Nanette N. Jarenwattananon and Louis-S. Bouchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197601 (2015) - Published 12 May, 2015

Core-Level Spectroscopy to Probe the Oxidation State of Single Europium Atoms

Luiz H. G. Tizei, Ryo Nakanishi, Ryo Kitaura, Hisanori Shinohara, and Kazu Suenaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197602 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Cages and Anomalous Diffusion in Vibrated Dense Granular Media

Camille Scalliet, Andrea Gnoli, Andrea Puglisi, and Angelo Vulpiani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198001 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Mortality, Redundancy, and Diversity in Stochastic Search

Baruch Meerson and S. Redner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198101 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

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Pressure and Phase Equilibria in Interacting Active Brownian Spheres

Alexandre P. Solon, Joakim Stenhammar, Raphael Wittkowski, Mehran Kardar, Yariv Kafri, Michael E. Cates, and Julien Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198301 (2015) - Published 11 May, 2015

An equation of state for a gas of self-propelled spheres is a step towards a thermodynamic description of “active” matter, such as bird flocks and tissue.

Shape of Dynamical Heterogeneities and Fractional Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye Relations in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Suspensions of Colloidal Ellipsoids

Chandan K. Mishra and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198302 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Concentrating Genomic Length DNA in a Microfabricated Array

Yu Chen, Ezra S. Abrams, T. Christian Boles, Jonas N. Pedersen, Henrik Flyvbjerg, Robert H. Austin, and James C. Sturm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198303 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Charged-Particle Stopping Powers in Inertial Confinement Fusion Plasmas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3059 (1993)]

Chi-Kang Li and Richard D. Petrasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 199901 (2015) - Published 13 May, 2015

Erratum: Disordered Solids without Well-Defined Transverse Phonons: The Nature of Hard-Sphere Glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 035502 (2015)]

Xipeng Wang, Wen Zheng, Lijin Wang, and Ning Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 199902 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015

Erratum: Modification of the $ω$ -Meson Lifetime in Nuclear Matter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 192302 (2008)]

M. Kotulla et al. (CBELSA/TAPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 199903 (2015) - Published 15 May, 2015