Volume 114, Issue 7

20 February 2015

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Amyloid fibril network simulation for 31130 peptides on a 2D lattice.

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Universality in the Morphology and Mechanics of Coarsening Amyloid Fibril Networks
L. G. Rizzi, D. A. Head, and S. Auer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078102 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Constraint on a Varying Proton-Electron Mass Ratio 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang

J. Bagdonaite, W. Ubachs, M. T. Murphy, and J. B. Whitmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071301 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

The spectrum of a distant quasar reveals no sign of changes in the mass ratio of the proton and the electron over 12 billion years, constraining dark energy theories.

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Kinesin-8 Motors Improve Nuclear Centering by Promoting Microtubule Catastrophe

Matko Glunčić, Nicola Maghelli, Alexander Krull, Vladimir Krstić, Damien Ramunno-Johnson, Nenad Pavin, and Iva M. Tolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078103 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

A motor protein called kinesin-8 helps keep a cell’s nucleus centered by controlling the length of the tubular structures that connect it with the cell wall.

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Directional Antineutrino Detection

Benjamin R. Safdi and Burkhant Suerfu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071802 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

A proposed detector for low-energy antineutrinos would reveal the particles’ trajectories, potentially allowing more detailed studies of Earth’s radioactivity and of nuclear reactors.

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Measurement of Critical Currents of Superconducting Aluminum Nanowires in External Magnetic Fields: Evidence for a Weber Blockade

Tyler Morgan-Wall, Benjamin Leith, Nikolaus Hartman, Atikur Rahman, and Nina Marković

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 077002 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

An applied field can control the entry and exit of single quanta of magnetic flux (vortices) in superconducting nanowires.

LETTERS

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

Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

C. Hamner, Yongping Zhang, M. A. Khamehchi, Matthew J. Davis, and P. Engels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 070401 (2015) - Published 17 February, 2015

Direct Tests of Measurement Uncertainty Relations: What It Takes

Paul Busch and Neil Stevens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 070402 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Compressibility of a Fermionic Mott Insulator of Ultracold Atoms

Pedro M. Duarte, Russell A. Hart, Tsung-Lin Yang, Xinxing Liu, Thereza Paiva, Ehsan Khatami, Richard T. Scalettar, Nandini Trivedi, and Randall G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 070403 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Composable Security Proof for Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Coherent States

Anthony Leverrier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 070501 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Fermion-Fermion Scattering in Quantum Field Theory with Superconducting Circuits

L. García-Álvarez, J. Casanova, A. Mezzacapo, I. L. Egusquiza, L. Lamata, G. Romero, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 070502 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining the 6.05 MeV $0^{+}$ and 6.13 MeV $3^{-}$ Cascade Transitions in the ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ Reaction Using the Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients

M. L. Avila, G. V. Rogachev, E. Koshchiy, L. T. Baby, J. Belarge, K. W. Kemper, A. N. Kuchera, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, and E. Uberseder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071101 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

Stability of Anti–de Sitter Space in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

Nils Deppe, Allison Kolly, Andrew Frey, and Gabor Kunstatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071102 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Gravitational Redshift of Galaxies in Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Iftach Sadeh, Low Lerh Feng, and Ofer Lahav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071103 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Accelerated Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation with Reduced Order Modeling

Priscilla Canizares, Scott E. Field, Jonathan Gair, Vivien Raymond, Rory Smith, and Manuel Tiglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071104 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraint on a Varying Proton-Electron Mass Ratio 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang

J. Bagdonaite, W. Ubachs, M. T. Murphy, and J. B. Whitmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071301 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

The spectrum of a distant quasar reveals no sign of changes in the mass ratio of the proton and the electron over 12 billion years, constraining dark energy theories.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Quantum Field Theory of Fluids

Ben Gripaios and Dave Sutherland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071601 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

Integrability and Maximally Helicity Violating Diagrams in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Andreas Brandhuber, Brenda Penante, Gabriele Travaglini, and Donovan Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071602 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Right-Handed Quark Mixing in Left-Right Symmetric Theory

Goran Senjanović and Vladimir Tello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071801 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

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Directional Antineutrino Detection

Benjamin R. Safdi and Burkhant Suerfu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 071802 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

A proposed detector for low-energy antineutrinos would reveal the particles’ trajectories, potentially allowing more detailed studies of Earth’s radioactivity and of nuclear reactors.

Nuclear Physics

Production and Elliptic Flow of Dileptons and Photons in a Matrix Model of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Charles Gale, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Sangyong Jeon, Shu Lin, Jean-François Paquet, Robert D. Pisarski, Daisuke Satow, Vladimir V. Skokov, and Gojko Vujanovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 072301 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Measurements of the Nuclear Modification Factor for Jets in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 072302 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy for the Study of Ion Coulomb Crystals

A. Lemmer, C. Cormick, C. T. Schmiegelow, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 073001 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

Dispersion Engineering for Vertical Microcavities Using Subwavelength Gratings

Zhaorong Wang, Bo Zhang, and Hui Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 073601 (2015) - Published 17 February, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Improved Intrapulse Raman Scattering Control via Asymmetric Airy Pulses

Yi Hu, Amirhossein Tehranchi, Stefan Wabnitz, Raman Kashyap, Zhigang Chen, and Roberto Morandotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 073901 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Deflection of a Beam of Multi-GeV Electrons by a Thin Crystal

U. Wienands, T. W. Markiewicz, J. Nelson, R. J. Noble, J. L. Turner, U. I. Uggerhøj, T. N. Wistisen, E. Bagli, L. Bandiera, G. Germogli, V. Guidi, A. Mazzolari, R. Holtzapple, and M. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 074801 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Nonhelical Inverse Transfer of a Decaying Turbulent Magnetic Field

Axel Brandenburg, Tina Kahniashvili, and Alexander G. Tevzadze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 075001 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Breakdown of the Fermi Liquid Description for Strongly Interacting Fermions

Yoav Sagi, Tara E. Drake, Rabin Paudel, Roman Chapurin, and Deborah S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 075301 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Nanomechanics of Bidentate Thiolate Ligands on Gold Surfaces

Martin E. Zoloff Michoff, Jordi Ribas-Arino, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 075501 (2015) - Published 17 February, 2015

Structure and Local Chemical Properties of Boron-Terminated Tetravacancies in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ovidiu Cretu, Yung-Chang Lin, Masanori Koshino, Luiz H. G. Tizei, Zheng Liu, and Kazutomo Suenaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 075502 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ground-State Degeneracy of Topological Phases on Open Surfaces

Ling-Yan Hung and Yidun Wan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 076401 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

Gapped Domain Walls, Gapped Boundaries, and Topological Degeneracy

Tian Lan, Juven C. Wang, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 076402 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

Spin Polarization of the Split Kondo State

Kirsten von Bergmann, Markus Ternes, Sebastian Loth, Christopher P. Lutz, and Andreas J. Heinrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 076601 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Gap Reversal at Filling Factors $3 + 1 / 3$ and $3 + 1 / 5$ : Towards Novel Topological Order in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Ethan Kleinbaum, Ashwani Kumar, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and G. A. Csáthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 076801 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Singly Connected Disordered Conductors

I. L. Aleiner, A. V. Andreev, and V. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 076802 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015

Universal Increase in the Superconducting Critical Temperature of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors at Low Doping by the Electron-Electron Interaction

Matteo Calandra, Paolo Zoccante, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 077001 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

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Measurement of Critical Currents of Superconducting Aluminum Nanowires in External Magnetic Fields: Evidence for a Weber Blockade

Tyler Morgan-Wall, Benjamin Leith, Nikolaus Hartman, Atikur Rahman, and Nina Marković

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 077002 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

An applied field can control the entry and exit of single quanta of magnetic flux (vortices) in superconducting nanowires.

Constraints on Topological Order in Mott Insulators

Michael P. Zaletel and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 077201 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

Hyperhoneycomb Iridate $β − {Li}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$ as a Platform for Kitaev Magnetism

T. Takayama, A. Kato, R. Dinnebier, J. Nuss, H. Kono, L. S. I. Veiga, G. Fabbris, D. Haskel, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 077202 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Stochastic Phenotype Transition of a Single Cell in an Intermediate Region of Gene State Switching

Hao Ge, Hong Qian, and X. Sunney Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078101 (2015) - Published 17 February, 2015

Universality in the Morphology and Mechanics of Coarsening Amyloid Fibril Networks

L. G. Rizzi, D. A. Head, and S. Auer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078102 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

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Kinesin-8 Motors Improve Nuclear Centering by Promoting Microtubule Catastrophe

Matko Glunčić, Nicola Maghelli, Alexander Krull, Vladimir Krstić, Damien Ramunno-Johnson, Nenad Pavin, and Iva M. Tolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078103 (2015) - Published 18 February, 2015

A motor protein called kinesin-8 helps keep a cell’s nucleus centered by controlling the length of the tubular structures that connect it with the cell wall.

Switching Bonds in a DNA Gel: An All-DNA Vitrimer

Flavio Romano and Francesco Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078104 (2015) - Published 19 February, 2015

Dynamical Criticality in the Collective Activity of a Population of Retinal Neurons

Thierry Mora, Stéphane Deny, and Olivier Marre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 078105 (2015) - Published 20 February, 2015