Volume 114, Issue 4

30 January 2015

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Scanning tunneling microscope image of the topography of Pb islands on a Cu(111) surface.

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Local Measurement of the Eliashberg Function of Pb Islands: Enhancement of Electron-Phonon Coupling by Quantum Well States
Michael Schackert, Tobias Märkl, Jasmin Jandke, Martin Hölzer, Sergey Ostanin, Eberhard K. U. Gross, Arthur Ernst, and Wulf Wulfhekel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047002 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Settling the Half-Life of ${}^{60}{Fe}$ : Fundamental for a Versatile Astrophysical Chronometer

A. Wallner, M. Bichler, K. Buczak, R. Dressler, L. K. Fifield, D. Schumann, J. H. Sterba, S. G. Tims, G. Wallner, and W. Kutschera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 041101 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

A better measure of an iron isotope’s half-life may lead to new ways of dating astrophysical events that unfold over millions of years.

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Observation of Generalized Optomechanical Coupling and Cooling on Cavity Resonance

Andreas Sawadsky, Henning Kaufer, Ramon Moghadas Nia, Sergey P. Tarabrin, Farid Ya. Khalili, Klemens Hammerer, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043601 (2015) - Published 26 January, 2015

A new scheme for cooling a mechanical oscillator in a cavity may allow the observation of quantum effects on macroscopic objects and the realization of ultrasensitive gravitational-wave detectors.

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Gigabar Spherical Shock Generation on the OMEGA Laser

R. Nora, W. Theobald, R. Betti, F. J. Marshall, D. T. Michel, W. Seka, B. Yaakobi, M. Lafon, C. Stoeckl, J. Delettrez, A. A. Solodov, A. Casner, C. Reverdin, X. Ribeyre, A. Vallet, J. Peebles, F. N. Beg, and M. S. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 045001 (2015) - Published 27 January, 2015

A two-step scheme for inertial confinement fusion generates gigabar shock pressures in a fuel target.

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Electric Dipole Moments of Nanosolvated Acid Molecules in Water Clusters

Nicholas Guggemos, Petr Slavíček, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043401 (2015) - Published 30 January, 2015

A new experimental technique probes the dissociation of a single molecule in water and reveals more complexities than expected.

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Hypothesis Testing with Open Quantum Systems

Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 040401 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Monitoring the emitted radiation and final state of an open quantum system could allow determination of the optimal Hamiltonian governing the system’s dynamics.

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Laser Cooling without Spontaneous Emission

Christopher Corder, Brian Arnold, and Harold Metcalf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043002 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Atom-light interactions using polychromatic laser fields permit energy and momentum exchange for laser cooling without spontaneous emission.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hypothesis Testing with Open Quantum Systems

Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 040401 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Monitoring the emitted radiation and final state of an open quantum system could allow determination of the optimal Hamiltonian governing the system’s dynamics.

Variational Principle for Steady States of Dissipative Quantum Many-Body Systems

Hendrik Weimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 040402 (2015) - Published 30 January, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Settling the Half-Life of ${}^{60}{Fe}$ : Fundamental for a Versatile Astrophysical Chronometer

A. Wallner, M. Bichler, K. Buczak, R. Dressler, L. K. Fifield, D. Schumann, J. H. Sterba, S. G. Tims, G. Wallner, and W. Kutschera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 041101 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

A better measure of an iron isotope’s half-life may lead to new ways of dating astrophysical events that unfold over millions of years.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Semileptonic $C P$ Asymmetry in $B^{0}$ - ${\bar{B}}^{0}$ Mixing

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 041601 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Precision Measurement of $C P$ Violation in $B_{S}^{0} \to J / Ψ K^{+} K^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 041801 (2015) - Published 30 January, 2015

Improving Identification of Dijet Resonances at Hadron Colliders

Eder Izaguirre, Brian Shuve, and Itay Yavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 041802 (2015) - Published 30 January, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

One-Loop Dominance in the Imaginary Part of the Polarizability: Application to Blackbody and Noncontact van der Waals Friction

U. D. Jentschura, G. Łach, M. De Kieviet, and K. Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043001 (2015) - Published 27 January, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser Cooling without Spontaneous Emission

Christopher Corder, Brian Arnold, and Harold Metcalf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043002 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Atom-light interactions using polychromatic laser fields permit energy and momentum exchange for laser cooling without spontaneous emission.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electric Dipole Moments of Nanosolvated Acid Molecules in Water Clusters

Nicholas Guggemos, Petr Slavíček, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043401 (2015) - Published 30 January, 2015

A new experimental technique probes the dissociation of a single molecule in water and reveals more complexities than expected.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Generalized Optomechanical Coupling and Cooling on Cavity Resonance

Andreas Sawadsky, Henning Kaufer, Ramon Moghadas Nia, Sergey P. Tarabrin, Farid Ya. Khalili, Klemens Hammerer, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043601 (2015) - Published 26 January, 2015

A new scheme for cooling a mechanical oscillator in a cavity may allow the observation of quantum effects on macroscopic objects and the realization of ultrasensitive gravitational-wave detectors.

Superradiance Lattice

Da-Wei Wang, Ren-Bao Liu, Shi-Yao Zhu, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043602 (2015) - Published 27 January, 2015

Electrical Manipulation of Crystal Symmetry for Switching Transverse Acoustic Phonons

H. Jeong, Y. D. Jho, and C. J. Stanton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043603 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Spin Squeezing in a Quadrupolar Nuclei NMR System

R. Auccaise, A. G. Araujo-Ferreira, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, T. J. Bonagamba, and I. Roditi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043604 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

General Phase Diagram of Multimodal Ordered and Disordered Lasers in Closed and Open Cavities

F. Antenucci, C. Conti, A. Crisanti, and L. Leuzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 043901 (2015) - Published 30 January, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Proposal to Generate an Isolated Monocycle X-Ray Pulse by Counteracting the Slippage Effect in Free-Electron Lasers

Takashi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 044801 (2015) - Published 26 January, 2015

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Gigabar Spherical Shock Generation on the OMEGA Laser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 045001 (2015) - Published 27 January, 2015

A two-step scheme for inertial confinement fusion generates gigabar shock pressures in a fuel target.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Mobile Magnetic Impurities in a Fermi Superfluid: A Route to Designer Molecules

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Colin V. Parker, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 045301 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Weyl Superfluidity in a Three-Dimensional Dipolar Fermi Gas

Bo Liu, Xiaopeng Li, Lan Yin, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 045302 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

$S U (3)$ Semiclassical Representation of Quantum Dynamics of Interacting Spins

Shainen M. Davidson and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 045701 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electric Control of Spin Injection into a Ferroelectric Semiconductor

Xiaohui Liu, J. D. Burton, M. Ye. Zhuravlev, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 046601 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Oxygen Defects in Phosphorene

A. Ziletti, A. Carvalho, D. K. Campbell, D. F. Coker, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 046801 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Electronic Structure of Epitaxial Single-Layer ${MoS}_{2}$

Jill A. Miwa, Søren Ulstrup, Signe G. Sørensen, Maciej Dendzik, Antonija Grubišić Čabo, Marco Bianchi, Jeppe Vang Lauritsen, and Philip Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 046802 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Structural Origin of the Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Local Magnetic Moments in the ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Family of Materials

L. Ortenzi, H. Gretarsson, S. Kasahara, Y. Matsuda, T. Shibauchi, K. D. Finkelstein, W. Wu, S. R. Julian, Young-June Kim, I. I. Mazin, and L. Boeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047001 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Local Measurement of the Eliashberg Function of Pb Islands: Enhancement of Electron-Phonon Coupling by Quantum Well States

Michael Schackert, Tobias Märkl, Jasmin Jandke, Martin Hölzer, Sergey Ostanin, Eberhard K. U. Gross, Arthur Ernst, and Wulf Wulfhekel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047002 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

Direct Observation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in a Pt/Co/Ni Film

Kai Di, Vanessa Li Zhang, Hock Siah Lim, Ser Choon Ng, Meng Hau Kuok, Jiawei Yu, Jungbum Yoon, Xuepeng Qiu, and Hyunsoo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047201 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Coupling of GHz Phonons to Ferroelastic Domain Walls in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

L. Maerten, A. Bojahr, M. Gohlke, M. Rössle, and M. Bargheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047401 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Measurements of the Electric Field of Zero-Point Optical Phonons in GaAs Quantum Wells Support the Urbach Rule for Zero-Temperature Lifetime Broadening

Rupak Bhattacharya, Richarj Mondal, Pradip Khatua, Alok Rudra, Eli Kapon, Stefan Malzer, Gottfried Döhler, Bipul Pal, and Bhavtosh Bansal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047402 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Electronic Structures and Optical Properties of Partially and Fully Fluorinated Graphene

Shengjun Yuan, Malte Rösner, Alexander Schulz, Tim O. Wehling, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 047403 (2015) - Published 28 January, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Optical Response of Gas-Phase Atoms at Less than $λ / 80$ from a Dielectric Surface”

Daniel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 049301 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Measurement of the $W$ Boson Production Charge Asymmetry in $p \bar{p} \to W + X \to e ν + X$ Events at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 151803 (2014)]

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 049901 (2015) - Published 29 January, 2015