Volume 114, Issue 22

5 June 2015

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On the Cover

Design for a Si-based nanoplasmonic waveguide structure for third-harmonic generation showing excitation (pink) and emission (green).

From the article:

Coherent Visible-Light-Generation Enhancement in Silicon-Based Nanoplasmonic Waveguides via Third-Harmonic Conversion
S. Sederberg and A. Y. Elezzabi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227401 (2015)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Can There Be a Physics of the Brain?

John Beggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220001 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Pumping in Electrodynamically Coupled Magnon-Photon Systems

Lihui Bai, M. Harder, Y. P. Chen, X. Fan, J. Q. Xiao, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227201 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

Excitations in a magnet coupled to a microwave cavity can be detected electrically, providing a new way to study magnets in the quantum regime.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Individual Quantum Probes for Optimal Thermometry

Luis A. Correa, Mohammad Mehboudi, Gerardo Adesso, and Anna Sanpera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220405 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

Theorists describe the best nanoscale thermometer allowed by the laws of physics to help experimenters push the limits of technology in measurements within cells or tiny electronic circuits.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Heralded Storage of a Photonic Quantum Bit in a Single Atom

Norbert Kalb, Andreas Reiserer, Stephan Ritter, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220501 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

A scheme based on an atom trapped in a cavity faithfully transfers a qubit state between a photon and the atom.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Locality of Gravitational Systems from Entanglement of Conformal Field Theories

Jennifer Lin, Matilde Marcolli, Hirosi Ooguri, and Bogdan Stoica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221601 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

AdS/CFT correspondence has uncovered a relationship between the quantum entanglement of non-gravitating systems and the equations of general relativity in the presence of matter sources.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Updated Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Predictions for the Weak Radiative $B$ -Meson Decays

M. Misiak, H. M. Asatrian, R. Boughezal, M. Czakon, T. Ewerth, A. Ferroglia, P. Fiedler, P. Gambino, C. Greub, U. Haisch, T. Huber, M. Kamiński, G. Ossola, M. Poradziński, A. Rehman, T. Schutzmeier, M. Steinhauser, and J. Virto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221801 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Precise standard-model theoretical predictions of the decay of a bottom-quark meson into a strange-quark and a photon allow better bounds on models of new physics, notably those with hypothetical charged Higgs bosons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal State Estimation for Cavity Optomechanical Systems

Witlef Wieczorek, Sebastian G. Hofer, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier, Ralf Riedinger, Klemens Hammerer, and Markus Aspelmeyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 223601 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Accounting for nontrivial experimental noise sources, optical measurements of a cavity optomechanical system demonstrate real-time optimal state estimation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Wess-Zumino-Witten Terms in Graphene Landau Levels

Junhyun Lee and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226801 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

An effective field theory describing the quantum critical behavior of magnetic ordering in monolayer and bilayer graphene has a Wess-Zumino-Witten term, similar to that found in the chiral Lagrangian for QCD.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Crystalline Insulator Phase in Graphene Multilayers

M. Kindermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226802 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Interlayer coupling in graphene multilayers with certain commensurate twists is predicted to form a 2D topological insulator.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Propagating Stress Waves During Epithelial Expansion

Shiladitya Banerjee, Kazage J. C. Utuje, and M. Cristina Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228101 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

A continuum model of a monolayer of spreading cells demonstrates that feedback between strain and regulatory biochemistry gives rise to propagating stress waves in tissues.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence and Persistence of Collective Cell Migration on Small Circular Micropatterns

Felix J. Segerer, Florian Thüroff, Alicia Piera Alberola, Erwin Frey, and Joachim O. Rädler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228102 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

An extended version of the cellular Potts model is able to describe an experiment directly addressing the transition from erratic single cell motion to multicellular collective migration.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Bounds on Heat Transport Through Nanojunctions

Edward Taylor and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220401 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Simple Explanation of the Quantum Limits of Genuine $n$ -Body Nonlocality

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220402 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Bounding Quantum Contextuality with Lack of Third-Order Interference

Joe Henson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220403 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Demonstration of Quantum Nonlocality in the Presence of Measurement Dependence

Djeylan Aktas, Sébastien Tanzilli, Anthony Martin, Gilles Pütz, Rob Thew, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220404 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Individual Quantum Probes for Optimal Thermometry

Luis A. Correa, Mohammad Mehboudi, Gerardo Adesso, and Anna Sanpera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220405 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

Theorists describe the best nanoscale thermometer allowed by the laws of physics to help experimenters push the limits of technology in measurements within cells or tiny electronic circuits.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Heralded Storage of a Photonic Quantum Bit in a Single Atom

Norbert Kalb, Andreas Reiserer, Stephan Ritter, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220501 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

A scheme based on an atom trapped in a cavity faithfully transfers a qubit state between a photon and the atom.

Iterated Gate Teleportation and Blind Quantum Computation

Carlos A. Pérez-Delgado and Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220502 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Variational Matrix Product Operators for the Steady State of Dissipative Quantum Systems

Jian Cui, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Mari Carmen Bañuls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220601 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutral Black Rings in Five Dimensions are Unstable

Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221101 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Locality of Gravitational Systems from Entanglement of Conformal Field Theories

Jennifer Lin, Matilde Marcolli, Hirosi Ooguri, and Bogdan Stoica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221601 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

AdS/CFT correspondence has uncovered a relationship between the quantum entanglement of non-gravitating systems and the equations of general relativity in the presence of matter sources.

Effective Field Theories from Soft Limits of Scattering Amplitudes

Clifford Cheung, Karol Kampf, Jiri Novotny, and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221602 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Updated Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Predictions for the Weak Radiative $B$ -Meson Decays

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221801 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Search for New Phenomena in Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ Measured with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221802 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Possible New Resonance from $W_{L} W_{L} − h h$ Interchannel Coupling

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, and Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221803 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

QCD inequalities for hadron interactions

William Detmold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 222001 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Angular Structure of the In-Medium QCD Cascade

J.-P. Blaizot, Y. Mehtar-Tani, and M. A. C. Torres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 222002 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of Magic Wavelengths for the ${}^{40}{Ca}^{+}$ Clock Transition

Pei-Liang Liu, Yao Huang, Wu Bian, Hu Shao, Hua Guan, Yong-Bo Tang, Cheng-Bin Li, J. Mitroy, and Ke-Lin Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 223001 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Rotational State Microwave Mixing for Laser Cooling of Complex Diatomic Molecules

Mark Yeo, Matthew T. Hummon, Alejandra L. Collopy, Bo Yan, Boerge Hemmerling, Eunmi Chae, John M. Doyle, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 223003 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal State Estimation for Cavity Optomechanical Systems

Witlef Wieczorek, Sebastian G. Hofer, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier, Ralf Riedinger, Klemens Hammerer, and Markus Aspelmeyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 223601 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Accounting for nontrivial experimental noise sources, optical measurements of a cavity optomechanical system demonstrate real-time optimal state estimation.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Scheme for Achieving a Topological Photonic Crystal by Using Dielectric Material

Long-Hua Wu and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 223901 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

Brownian Motion of Molecular Probes in Supercooled Liquids

Qihan Liu, Shicheng Huang, and Zhigang Suo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 224301 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Weyl Points in Three-Dimensional Optical Lattices: Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles in Momentum Space

Tena Dubček, Colin J. Kennedy, Ling Lu, Wolfgang Ketterle, Marin Soljačić, and Hrvoje Buljan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 225301 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

Antiferromagnetic Spinor Condensates in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice

L. Zhao, J. Jiang, T. Tang, M. Webb, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 225302 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Damping of Long-Wavelength Collective Modes in Spinor Bose-Fermi Mixtures

J. H. Pixley, Xiaopeng Li, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 225303 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

The Principle of Independent Bond-Level Response: Tuning by Pruning to Exploit Disorder for Global Behavior

Carl P. Goodrich, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 225501 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Specific Heat Anomaly in a Supercooled Liquid with Amorphous Boundary Conditions

Daniel A. Mártin, Andrea Cavagna, and Tomás S. Grigera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 225901 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

Transition from Order to Configurational Disorder for Surface Reconstructions on ${SrTiO}_{3}$ (111)

L. D. Marks, A. N. Chiaramonti, S. U. Rahman, and M. R. Castell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226101 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Origin of Spinel Nanocheckerboards via First Principles

Mordechai Kornbluth and Chris A. Marianetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226102 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

Interfacial Charge States in Graphene on SiC Studied by Noncontact Scanning Nonlinear Dielectric Potentiometry

Kohei Yamasue, Hirokazu Fukidome, Kazutoshi Funakubo, Maki Suemitsu, and Yasuo Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226103 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations in Solids with Downfolded Hamiltonians

Fengjie Ma, Wirawan Purwanto, Shiwei Zhang, and Henry Krakauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226401 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

Normal-Mode Splitting in the Coupled System of Hybridized Nuclear Magnons and Microwave Photons

L. V. Abdurakhimov, Yu. M. Bunkov, and D. Konstantinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226402 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

Electric-Field-Driven Resistive Switching in the Dissipative Hubbard Model

Jiajun Li, Camille Aron, Gabriel Kotliar, and Jong E. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226403 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior and Anomalous Suppression of Landau Damping in Layered Metals Close to Ferromagnetism

Sam P. Ridgway and Chris A. Hooley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226404 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Wess-Zumino-Witten Terms in Graphene Landau Levels

Junhyun Lee and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226801 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Crystalline Insulator Phase in Graphene Multilayers

M. Kindermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226802 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Interlayer coupling in graphene multilayers with certain commensurate twists is predicted to form a 2D topological insulator.

Tunable Spin-Qubit Coupling Mediated by a Multielectron Quantum Dot

V. Srinivasa, H. Xu, and J. M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226803 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Double Path Interference and Magnetic Oscillations in Cooper Pair Transport through a Single Nanowire

S. V. Mironov, A. S. Mel’nikov, and A. I. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227001 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Pumping in Electrodynamically Coupled Magnon-Photon Systems

Lihui Bai, M. Harder, Y. P. Chen, X. Fan, J. Q. Xiao, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227201 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

Excitations in a magnet coupled to a microwave cavity can be detected electrically, providing a new way to study magnets in the quantum regime.

One-Third Magnetization Plateau with a Preceding Novel Phase in Volborthite

H. Ishikawa, M. Yoshida, K. Nawa, M. Jeong, S. Krämer, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, M. Takigawa, M. Akaki, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, K. Kindo, J. Yamaura, Y. Okamoto, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227202 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

Dispersionless Spin Waves and Underlying Field-Induced Magnetic Order in Gadolinium Gallium Garnet

N. d’Ambrumenil, O. A. Petrenko, H. Mutka, and P. P. Deen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227203 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

Coherent Visible-Light-Generation Enhancement in Silicon-Based Nanoplasmonic Waveguides via Third-Harmonic Conversion

S. Sederberg and A. Y. Elezzabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227401 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015

Spatially Resolved Thermodynamics of the Partially Ionized Exciton Gas in GaAs

S. Bieker, T. Henn, T. Kiessling, W. Ossau, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227402 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

Highly Coherent Electron Beam from a Laser-Triggered Tungsten Needle Tip

Dominik Ehberger, Jakob Hammer, Max Eisele, Michael Krüger, Jonathan Noe, Alexander Högele, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227601 (2015) - Published 5 June, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Boundary Condition in Liquid Thin Films Revealed through the Thermal Fluctuations of Their Free Surfaces

B. Pottier, C. Frétigny, and L. Talini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227801 (2015) - Published 1 June, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Propagating Stress Waves During Epithelial Expansion

Shiladitya Banerjee, Kazage J. C. Utuje, and M. Cristina Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228101 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

A continuum model of a monolayer of spreading cells demonstrates that feedback between strain and regulatory biochemistry gives rise to propagating stress waves in tissues.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence and Persistence of Collective Cell Migration on Small Circular Micropatterns

Felix J. Segerer, Florian Thüroff, Alicia Piera Alberola, Erwin Frey, and Joachim O. Rädler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228102 (2015) - Published 2 June, 2015

An extended version of the cellular Potts model is able to describe an experiment directly addressing the transition from erratic single cell motion to multicellular collective migration.

Two-Dimensional Clusters of Colloidal Spheres: Ground States, Excited States, and Structural Rearrangements

Rebecca W. Perry, Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon, Michael P. Brenner, and Vinothan N. Manoharan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228301 (2015) - Published 3 June, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Bounds on Invisible Higgs Boson Decays Extracted from LHC $t \bar{t} H$ Production Data [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 151801 (2014)]

Ning Zhou, Zepyoor Khechadoorian, Daniel Whiteson, and Tim M. P. Tait

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 229901 (2015) - Published 4 June, 2015