Volume 114, Issue 5

6 February 2015

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On the Cover

Computer-aided design showing a grating-based soft x-ray self-seeding system recently implemented at the Linac Coherent Light Source at the National Accelerator Laboratory in California.

From the article:

Experimental Demonstration of a Soft X-Ray Self-Seeded Free-Electron Laser
D. Ratner et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054801 (2015)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Soft Matters

Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050001 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Full Multipartite Entanglement of Frequency-Comb Gaussian States

S. Gerke, J. Sperling, W. Vogel, Y. Cai, J. Roslund, N. Treps, and C. Fabre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050501 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

Researchers characterize the multiple ways of entanglement that exist between different frequency bands in a down-converted frequency comb.

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Glow in the Dark Matter: Observing Galactic Halos with Scattered Light

Jonathan H. Davis and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051303 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

The dark matter around galaxies might produce a detectable glow at infrared wavelengths.

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Storage and Retrieval of THz-Bandwidth Single Photons Using a Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Memory

Duncan G. England, Kent A. G. Fisher, Jean-Philippe W. MacLean, Philip J. Bustard, Rune Lausten, Kevin J. Resch, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053602 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Diamond crystals enable new ways of storing single photons at room temperature and detecting their entanglement.

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Entangled Absorption of a Single Photon with a Single Spin in Diamond

Hideo Kosaka and Naeko Niikura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053603 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Diamond crystals enable new ways of storing single photons at room temperature and detecting their entanglement.

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Strange Nonchaotic Stars

John F. Lindner, Vivek Kohar, Behnam Kia, Michael Hippke, John G. Learned, and William L. Ditto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054101 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

The ratio of the frequencies of a pulsating star is approximately the golden mean, a clue that the pulsing is fractal in time.

LETTERS

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

Corrections to Thomas-Fermi Densities at Turning Points and Beyond

Raphael F. Ribeiro, Donghyung Lee, Attila Cangi, Peter Elliott, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050401 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Convexity of the Entanglement Entropy of SU( $2 N$ )-Symmetric Fermions with Attractive Interactions

Joaquín E. Drut and William J. Porter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050402 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Testing Spontaneous Wave-Function Collapse Models on Classical Mechanical Oscillators

Lajos Diósi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050403 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Zero-Temperature Equation of State of Mass-Imbalanced Resonant Fermi Gases

Jens Braun, Joaquín E. Drut, and Dietrich Roscher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050404 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

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Full Multipartite Entanglement of Frequency-Comb Gaussian States

S. Gerke, J. Sperling, W. Vogel, Y. Cai, J. Roslund, N. Treps, and C. Fabre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050501 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

Researchers characterize the multiple ways of entanglement that exist between different frequency bands in a down-converted frequency comb.

Quantum Storage of Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement in an Atomic Ensemble

Dong-Sheng Ding, Wei Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Shuai Shi, Guo-Yong Xiang, Xi-Shi Wang, Yun-Kun Jiang, Bao-Sen Shi, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050502 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Efficiency Statistics at All Times: Carnot Limit at Finite Power

M. Polettini, G. Verley, and M. Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 050601 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dark-Matter Decay as a Complementary Probe of Multicomponent Dark Sectors

Keith R. Dienes, Jason Kumar, Brooks Thomas, and David Yaylali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051301 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

Does Small Scale Structure Significantly Affect Cosmological Dynamics?

Julian Adamek, Chris Clarkson, Ruth Durrer, and Martin Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051302 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

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Glow in the Dark Matter: Observing Galactic Halos with Scattered Light

Jonathan H. Davis and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051303 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

The dark matter around galaxies might produce a detectable glow at infrared wavelengths.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Adler Function in Supersymmetric QCD

M. Shifman and K. Stepanyantz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051601 (2015) - Published 6 February, 2015

Study of Vector Boson Scattering and Search for New Physics in Events with Two Same-Sign Leptons and Two Jets

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051801 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

Nucleon Decay into a Dark Sector

Hooman Davoudiasl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051802 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in the Production of $B^{\pm}$ Mesons in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 051803 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Effective Field Theory for Lattice Nuclei

N. Barnea, L. Contessi, D. Gazit, F. Pederiva, and U. van Kolck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 052501 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Local Scaling Correction for Reducing Delocalization Error in Density Functional Approximations

Chen Li, Xiao Zheng, Aron J. Cohen, Paula Mori-Sánchez, and Weitao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053001 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Induced Coherence, Vacuum Fields, and Complementarity in Biphoton Generation

A. Heuer, R. Menzel, and P. W. Milonni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053601 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

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Storage and Retrieval of THz-Bandwidth Single Photons Using a Room-Temperature Diamond Quantum Memory

Duncan G. England, Kent A. G. Fisher, Jean-Philippe W. MacLean, Philip J. Bustard, Rune Lausten, Kevin J. Resch, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053602 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Diamond crystals enable new ways of storing single photons at room temperature and detecting their entanglement.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entangled Absorption of a Single Photon with a Single Spin in Diamond

Hideo Kosaka and Naeko Niikura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053603 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Diamond crystals enable new ways of storing single photons at room temperature and detecting their entanglement.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Mode-Locked Ultrashort Pulse Generation from On-Chip Normal Dispersion Microresonators

S.-W. Huang, H. Zhou, J. Yang, J. F. McMillan, A. Matsko, M. Yu, D.-L. Kwong, L. Maleki, and C. W. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053901 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Magnetic-Field-Driven Localization of Light in a Cold-Atom Gas

S. E. Skipetrov and I. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053902 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Rotating Optical Microcavities with Broken Chiral Symmetry

Raktim Sarma, Li Ge, Jan Wiersig, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 053903 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

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Strange Nonchaotic Stars

John F. Lindner, Vivek Kohar, Behnam Kia, Michael Hippke, John G. Learned, and William L. Ditto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054101 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

The ratio of the frequencies of a pulsating star is approximately the golden mean, a clue that the pulsing is fractal in time.

Origin of the Microbranching Instability in Rapid Cracks

Tamar Goldman Boué, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054301 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

From Modal Mixing to Tunable Functional Switches in Nonlinear Phononic Crystals

R. Ganesh and S. Gonella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054302 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Detection of a Dynamic Cone-Shaped Meniscus on the Surface of Fluids in Electric Fields

Ezinwa O. Elele, Yueyang Shen, Donald R. Pettit, and Boris Khusid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054501 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Demonstration of a Soft X-Ray Self-Seeded Free-Electron Laser

D. Ratner et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 054801 (2015) - Published 6 February, 2015

New Steady-State Quiescent High-Confinement Plasma in an Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak

J. S. Hu, Z. Sun, H. Y. Guo, J. G. Li, B. N. Wan, H. Q. Wang, S. Y. Ding, G. S. Xu, Y. F. Liang, D. K. Mansfield, R. Maingi, X. L. Zou, L. Wang, J. Ren, G. Z. Zuo, L. Zhang, Y. M. Duan, T. H. Shi, L. Q. Hu, and East team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055001 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Microscopic Origin of Shear Relaxation in a Model Viscoelastic Liquid

J. Ashwin and Abhijit Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055002 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Roton-Maxon Excitation Spectrum of Bose Condensates in a Shaken Optical Lattice

Li-Chung Ha, Logan W. Clark, Colin V. Parker, Brandon M. Anderson, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055301 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Critical Length Limiting Superlow Friction

Ming Ma, Andrea Benassi, Andrea Vanossi, and Michael Urbakh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055501 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

First-Principles Calculation of Femtosecond Symmetry-Breaking Atomic Forces in Photoexcited Bismuth

Éamonn D. Murray and Stephen Fahy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055502 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Origami Multistability: From Single Vertices to Metasheets

Scott Waitukaitis, Rémi Menaut, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055503 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Evolution of Polytypism in GaAs Nanowires during Growth Revealed by Time-Resolved in situ x-ray Diffraction

Philipp Schroth, Martin Köhl, Jean-Wolfgang Hornung, Emmanouil Dimakis, Claudio Somaschini, Lutz Geelhaar, Andreas Biermanns, Sondes Bauer, Sergey Lazarev, Ullrich Pietsch, and Tilo Baumbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055504 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Origin of an Isothermal $R$ -Martensite Formation in Ni-rich Ti-Ni Solid Solution: Crystallization of Strain Glass

Yuanchao Ji, Dong Wang, Xiangdong Ding, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055701 (2015) - Published 2 February, 2015

Violation of the Spin-Statistics Theorem and the Bose-Einstein Condensation of Particles with Half-Integer Spin

H. D. Scammell and O. P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055702 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Non-Gaussian Spatial Correlations Dramatically Weaken Localization

H. Javan Mard, E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 056401 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Real Space Imaging of Spin Polarons in Zn-Doped ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

M. Yoshida, H. Kobayashi, I. Yamauchi, M. Takigawa, S. Capponi, D. Poilblanc, F. Mila, K. Kudo, Y. Koike, and N. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 056402 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Antiferromagnetic Topological Superconductor and Electrically Controllable Majorana Fermions

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 056403 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Disorder-Induced Floquet Topological Insulators

Paraj Titum, Netanel H. Lindner, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 056801 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Shot-Noise Evidence of Fractional Quasiparticle Creation in a Local Fractional Quantum Hall State

Masayuki Hashisaka, Tomoaki Ota, Koji Muraki, and Toshimasa Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 056802 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

Neutron-Scattering Measurements of Spin Excitations in LaFeAsO and $Ba ({Fe}_{0.953} {Co}_{0.047})_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Evidence for a Sharp Enhancement of Spin Fluctuations by Nematic Order

Qiang Zhang, Rafael M. Fernandes, Jagat Lamsal, Jiaqiang Yan, Songxue Chi, Gregory S. Tucker, Daniel K. Pratt, Jeffrey W. Lynn, R. W. McCallum, Paul C. Canfield, Thomas A. Lograsso, Alan I. Goldman, David Vaknin, and Robert J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 057001 (2015) - Published 4 February, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Effective Temperature of Mutations

Imre Derényi and Gergely J. Szöllősi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 058101 (2015) - Published 3 February, 2015

COMMENTS

Comment on “Phase-Space Approach to Solving the Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation”

James Brown and Tucker Carrington, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 058901 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015

Comment on “Quantum Frameness for $C P T$ Symmetry”

Piotr Kosiński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 058902 (2015) - Published 5 February, 2015