Volume 115, Issue 11

11 September 2015

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On the Cover

Interference between photoelectron wave packets (in momentum space) produced in the ionization of a helium atom by a pair of oppositely circularly polarized attosecond laser pulses that are time delayed.

From the article:

Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses
J. M. Ngoko Djiokap, S. X. Hu, L. B. Madsen, N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113004 (2015)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Refereeing Revisited

Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110001 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spectrotemporal Shaping of Seeded Free-Electron Laser Pulses

David Gauthier, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Giovanni De Ninno, Enrico Allaria, Paolo Cinquegrana, Miltcho Bojanov Danailov, Alexander Demidovich, Eugenio Ferrari, Luca Giannessi, Benoît Mahieu, and Giuseppe Penco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 114801 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

A free-electron laser can be precisely controlled to produce temporally patterned pulses of ultraviolet light.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Untangling the Mechanics and Topology in the Frictional Response of Long Overhand Elastic Knots

M. K. Jawed, P. Dieleman, B. Audoly, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 118302 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Knots tied with stiff wire have a simplified geometry that reveals the relationship between the configuration of a knot and the forces within it.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Measurement of Antineutrino Oscillation with the Full Detector Configuration at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111802 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Antineutrino oscillation data from the fully constructed Day Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment improves the precision of the smallest of the three neutrino mixing angles by a factor of two.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions $B ({\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{* +} τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}) / B ({\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{* +} μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ})$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111803 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

The decay of $B$ mesons into $τ$ leptons is 2.1 standard deviations greater than the Standard Model prediction, according to measurements by the LHCb Collaboration. This agrees with a previous measurement of the BABAR Collaboration.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $Z_{c} (3900)^{0}$ in $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{0} π^{0} J / ψ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 112003 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

The neutral partner of the four-quark state $Z c (3900)^{+ -}$ is observed in electron-positron collisions by the BESIII Collaboration.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gigantic Surface Lifetime of an Intrinsic Topological Insulator

Madhab Neupane, Su-Yang Xu, Yukiaki Ishida, Shuang Jia, Benjamin M. Fregoso, Chang Liu, Ilya Belopolski, Guang Bian, Nasser Alidoust, Tomasz Durakiewicz, Victor Galitski, Shik Shin, Robert J. Cava, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116801 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Exceptionally long-lived excited surface states are found in the topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{2}$ Se, with the state persisting for microseconds.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of Stable Overlaps between Antiparallel Filaments

D. Johann, D. Goswami, and K. Kruse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 118103 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Cross-linkers and molecular motors are behind the stable overlap of antiparallel microtubule regions that form during, and are needed for, successful cell division.

LETTERS

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

Optimal Feedback Scheme and Universal Time Scaling for Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation

Haidong Yuan and Chi-Hang Fred Fung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110401 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Classical Approach to Multichromophoric Resonance Energy Transfer

Sebastián Duque, Paul Brumer, and Leonardo A. Pachón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110402 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

From the Kochen-Specker Theorem to Noncontextuality Inequalities without Assuming Determinism

Ravi Kunjwal and Robert W. Spekkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110403 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Device-Independent Tests of Entropy

Rafael Chaves, Jonatan Bohr Brask, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110501 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Experimental Protection of Two-Qubit Quantum Gates against Environmental Noise by Dynamical Decoupling

Jingfu Zhang and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110502 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Anomalous Processes with General Waiting Times: Functionals and Multipoint Structure

Andrea Cairoli and Adrian Baule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110601 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Upper Limit on Strange Quark Matter Abundance in Cosmic Rays with the PAMELA Space Experiment

O. Adriani et al. (PAMELA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111101 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Accretion of Dark Matter by Stars

Richard Brito, Vitor Cardoso, and Hirotada Okawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111301 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Insight into the Microscopic Structure of an AdS Black Hole from a Thermodynamical Phase Transition

Shao-Wen Wei (魏少文) and Yu-Xiao Liu (刘玉孝)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111302 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Measurement of Antineutrino Oscillation with the Full Detector Configuration at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111802 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Antineutrino oscillation data from the fully constructed Day Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment improves the precision of the smallest of the three neutrino mixing angles by a factor of two.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions $B ({\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{* +} τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}) / B ({\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{* +} μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ})$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 111803 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

First Observation of Top Quark Production in the Forward Region

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 112001 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Transport Coefficients in Yang-Mills Theory and QCD

Nicolai Christiansen, Michael Haas, Jan M. Pawlowski, and Nils Strodthoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 112002 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $Z_{c} (3900)^{0}$ in $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{0} π^{0} J / ψ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 112003 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

The neutral partner of the four-quark state $Z c (3900)^{+ -}$ is observed in electron-positron collisions by the BESIII Collaboration.

Nuclear Physics

Four-Body Correlations in Nuclei

M. Sambataro and N. Sandulescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 112501 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High-Resolution Spectroscopy on the Laser-Cooling Candidate ${La}^{-}$

E. Jordan, G. Cerchiari, S. Fritzsche, and A. Kellerbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113001 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Experimental Detection of Quantum Coherent Evolution through the Violation of Leggett-Garg-Type Inequalities

Zong-Quan Zhou, Susana F. Huelga, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113002 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Coherent Coupling of Alkali Atoms by Random Collisions

Or Katz, Or Peleg, and Ofer Firstenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113003 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses

J. M. Ngoko Djiokap, S. X. Hu, L. B. Madsen, N. L. Manakov, A. V. Meremianin, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113004 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Large Phase-by-Phase Modulations in Atomic Interfaces

M. Artoni and A. Zavatta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113005 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Fano-Liouville Spectral Signatures in Open Quantum Systems

Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro, Ines Urdaneta, Monica Calatayud, Osman Atabek, Vladimiro Mujica, and Arne Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113006 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Production of Hyperpolarized $H_{2}$ Molecules from $\vec{H}$ Atoms in Gas-Storage Cells

R. Engels, M. Gaißer, R. Gorski, K. Grigoryev, M. Mikirtychyants, A. Nass, F. Rathmann, H. Seyfarth, H. Ströher, P. Weiss, L. Kochenda, P. Kravtsov, V. Trofimov, N. Tschernov, A. Vasilyev, M. Vznuzdaev, and H. Paetz gen. Schieck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 113007 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Weakly Nonlinear Model with Exact Coefficients for the Fluttering and Spiraling Motion of Buoyancy-Driven Bodies

Joël Tchoufag, David Fabre, and Jacques Magnaudet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 114501 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Power and Nonpower Laws of Passive Scalar Moments Convected by Isotropic Turbulence

Toshiyuki Gotoh and Takeshi Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 114502 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spectrotemporal Shaping of Seeded Free-Electron Laser Pulses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 114801 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

A free-electron laser can be precisely controlled to produce temporally patterned pulses of ultraviolet light.

Generation of Electromagnetic Fields of Extremely High Intensity by Coherent Summation of Cherenkov Superradiance Pulses

N. S. Ginzburg, A. W. Cross, A. A. Golovanov, G. A. Mesyats, M. S. Pedos, A. D. R. Phelps, I. V. Romanchenko, V. V. Rostov, S. N. Rukin, K. A. Sharypov, V. G. Shpak, S. A. Shunailov, M. R. Ulmaskulov, M. I. Yalandin, and I. V. Zotova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 114802 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Free-Electron X-Ray Laser Measurements of Collisional-Damped Plasmons in Isochorically Heated Warm Dense Matter

P. Sperling, E. J. Gamboa, H. J. Lee, H. K. Chung, E. Galtier, Y. Omarbakiyeva, H. Reinholz, G. Röpke, U. Zastrau, J. Hastings, L. B. Fletcher, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115001 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pressure, Compressibility, and Contact of the Two-Dimensional Attractive Fermi Gas

E. R. Anderson and J. E. Drut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115301 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Monopole Excitations of a Harmonically Trapped One-Dimensional Bose Gas from the Ideal Gas to the Tonks-Girardeau Regime

S. Choi, V. Dunjko, Z. D. Zhang, and M. Olshanii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115302 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Exploring Competing Density Order in the Ionic Hubbard Model with Ultracold Fermions

Michael Messer, Rémi Desbuquois, Thomas Uehlinger, Gregor Jotzu, Sebastian Huber, Daniel Greif, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115303 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculation of the Binding Energy of Bilayer Graphene

E. Mostaani, N. D. Drummond, and V. I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115501 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Chiral Phonons at High-Symmetry Points in Monolayer Hexagonal Lattices

Lifa Zhang and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 115502 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Antiferroquadrupolar and Ising-Nematic Orders of a Frustrated Bilinear-Biquadratic Heisenberg Model and Implications for the Magnetism of FeSe

Rong Yu and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116401 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Superconducting Fluctuations in the Normal State of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Xi Chen, J. P. F. LeBlanc, and Emanuel Gull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116402 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Magnetoanisotropic Andreev Reflection in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Junctions

Petra Högl, Alex Matos-Abiague, Igor Žutić, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116601 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Currents Induced by Magnetic Impurities in Superconductors with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Sergey S. Pershoguba, Kristofer Björnson, Annica M. Black-Schaffer, and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116602 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gigantic Surface Lifetime of an Intrinsic Topological Insulator

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116801 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Exceptionally long-lived excited surface states are found in the topological insulator Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{2}$ Se, with the state persisting for microseconds.

Bosonic Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Optical Flux Lattices

A. Sterdyniak, Nigel R. Cooper, and N. Regnault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116802 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Bosonic Integer Quantum Hall Effect in an Interacting Lattice Model

Yin-Chen He, Subhro Bhattacharjee, R. Moessner, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116803 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Sum-Rule Constraints on the Surface State Conductance of Topological Insulators

K. W. Post, B. C. Chapler, M. K. Liu, J. S. Wu, H. T. Stinson, M. D. Goldflam, A. R. Richardella, J. S. Lee, A. A. Reijnders, K. S. Burch, M. M. Fogler, N. Samarth, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116804 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Itinerancy-Enhanced Quantum Fluctuation of Magnetic Moments in Iron-Based Superconductors

Yu-Ting Tam (譚宇婷), Dao-Xin Yao (姚道新), and Wei Ku (顧威)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 117001 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

New Type of Stable Particlelike States in Chiral Magnets

Filipp N. Rybakov, Aleksandr B. Borisov, Stefan Blügel, and Nikolai S. Kiselev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 117201 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Double Resonant Raman Scattering and Valley Coherence Generation in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

G. Wang, M. M. Glazov, C. Robert, T. Amand, X. Marie, and B. Urbaszek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 117401 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Anharmonic Thermal Oscillations of the Electron Momentum Distribution in Lithium Fluoride

A. Erba, J. Maul, M. Itou, R. Dovesi, and Y. Sakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 117402 (2015) - Published 10 September, 2015

Optical Gyrotropy from Axion Electrodynamics in Momentum Space

Shudan Zhong, Joseph Orenstein, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 117403 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Molecular-Scale Remnants of the Liquid-Gas Transition in Supercritical Polar Fluids

V. P. Sokhan, A. Jones, F. S. Cipcigan, J. Crain, and G. J. Martyna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 117801 (2015) - Published 11 September, 2015

Guiding Chiral Self-Propellers in a Periodic Potential

Amir Nourhani, Vincent H. Crespi, and Paul E. Lammert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 118101 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

Free Energy Cost of Reducing Noise while Maintaining a High Sensitivity

Pablo Sartori and Yuhai Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 118102 (2015) - Published 8 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of Stable Overlaps between Antiparallel Filaments

D. Johann, D. Goswami, and K. Kruse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 118103 (2015) - Published 9 September, 2015

Cross-linkers and molecular motors are behind the stable overlap of antiparallel microtubule regions that form during, and are needed for, successful cell division.