Volume 115, Issue 14

2 October 2015

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Density matrices of three polarization qubit states of telecommunication wavelength photons after storage in an atomic quantum memory. Selected for an Editor's Suggestion.

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Telecom-Wavelength Atomic Quantum Memory in Optical Fiber for Heralded Polarization Qubits
Jeongwan Jin, Erhan Saglamyurek, Marcel. lí Grimau Puigibert, Varun Verma, Francesco Marsili, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Oblak, and Wolfgang Tittel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140501 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Raman-Free, Noble-Gas-Filled Photonic-Crystal Fiber Source for Ultrafast, Very Bright Twin-Beam Squeezed Vacuum

Martin A. Finger, Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Nicolas Y. Joly, Maria V. Chekhova, and Philip St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143602 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

An optical-fiber scheme generates a bright “twin beam”—a pair of quantum-correlated beams that could be used in high-precision metrology.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sensing Polymer Chain Dynamics through Ring Topology: A Neutron Spin Echo Study

Sebastian Gooßen, Margarita Krutyeva, Melissa Sharp, Artem Feoktystov, Jürgen Allgaier, Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen, Andreas Wischnewski, and Dieter Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 148302 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Ring-shaped polymers have been used to detect a theoretical tube that restricts the motion of molten polymer chains.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Theory of the Sea Ice Thickness Distribution

Srikanth Toppaladoddi and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 148501 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

A new solution to an old equation will make it easier to model the evolution of sea-ice thickness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Telecom-Wavelength Atomic Quantum Memory in Optical Fiber for Heralded Polarization Qubits

Jeongwan Jin, Erhan Saglamyurek, Marcel. lí Grimau Puigibert, Varun Verma, Francesco Marsili, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Oblak, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140501 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

The storage and retrieval of polarization qubits encoded into photons is demonstrated using erbium-doped fiber optics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precessional Instability in Binary Black Holes with Aligned Spins

Davide Gerosa, Michael Kesden, Richard O’Shaughnessy, Antoine Klein, Emanuele Berti, Ulrich Sperhake, and Daniele Trifirò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141102 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Black hole binaries with oppositely aligned spins can be unstable. This instability allows significant spin precession prior to the merger producing detectable gravitational-wave signatures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurements of Elliptic and Triangular Flow in High-Multiplicity ${}^{3}{He} + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 142301 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Particle correlations in $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions suggest that a low-viscosity quark-gluon plasma forms in collisions using light projectiles.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Diffraction in Cold Magnetized Plasma

Z. Abelson, R. Gad, S. Bar-Ad, and A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143901 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Microwaves can propogate in a cold magnetized plasma without being diffracted for certain magnetic field strengths and electron densities.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Oscillations without a Fermi Surface and the Anomalous de Haas–van Alphen Effect

Johannes Knolle and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 146401 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

The Fermi surface of a metal is typically detected via quantum oscillations of its thermodynamic properties in response to a changing applied magnetic field. A microscopic model shows that these oscillations also occur in a band insulator, despite the absence of a Fermi surface.

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High- $T_{c}$ Superconductivity at the Interface between the ${CaCuO}_{2}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Insulating Oxides

D. Di Castro, C. Cantoni, F. Ridolfi, C. Aruta, A. Tebano, N. Yang, and G. Balestrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147001 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

CaCuO $_{2}$ /SrTiO $_{3}$ heterostructures show interface superconductivity at $40$ K due to extra oxygen ions in the interface Ca plane, which act as doping holes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Magnon Bands in a Kagome Lattice Ferromagnet

R. Chisnell, J. S. Helton, D. E. Freedman, D. K. Singh, R. I. Bewley, D. G. Nocera, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147201 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Experimental evidence is presented for a topological magnon insulator, a material where magnetic excitations (magnons) are protected from scattering by the properties of the material.

LETTERS

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

Dynamic Optical Lattices of Subwavelength Spacing for Ultracold Atoms

Sylvain Nascimbene, Nathan Goldman, Nigel R. Cooper, and Jean Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140401 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Measurement-Induced Localization of an Ultracold Lattice Gas

Y. S. Patil, S. Chakram, and M. Vengalattore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140402 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Telecom-Wavelength Atomic Quantum Memory in Optical Fiber for Heralded Polarization Qubits

Jeongwan Jin, Erhan Saglamyurek, Marcel. lí Grimau Puigibert, Varun Verma, Francesco Marsili, Sae Woo Nam, Daniel Oblak, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140501 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

The storage and retrieval of polarization qubits encoded into photons is demonstrated using erbium-doped fiber optics.

Edwards Thermodynamics for a Driven Athermal System with Dry Friction

Giacomo Gradenigo, Ezequiel E. Ferrero, Eric Bertin, and Jean-Louis Barrat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140601 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

Scaling and Universality at Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions

Markus Heyl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 140602 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring Intermediate-Mass Black-Hole Binaries with Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors

John Veitch, Michael Pürrer, and Ilya Mandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141101 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precessional Instability in Binary Black Holes with Aligned Spins

Davide Gerosa, Michael Kesden, Richard O’Shaughnessy, Antoine Klein, Emanuele Berti, Ulrich Sperhake, and Daniele Trifirò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141102 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Black hole binaries with oppositely aligned spins can be unstable. This instability allows significant spin precession prior to the merger producing detectable gravitational-wave signatures.

Dark Matter Ignition of Type Ia Supernovae

Joseph Bramante

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141301 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Chiral Alfvén Wave in Anomalous Hydrodynamics

Naoki Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141601 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Yangian Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes and the Dilatation Operator in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Andreas Brandhuber, Paul Heslop, Gabriele Travaglini, and Donovan Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 141602 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

First Observation of the Hadronic Transition $ϒ (4 S) \to η h_{b} (1 P)$ and New Measurement of the $h_{b} (1 P)$ and $η_{b} (1 S)$ Parameters

U. Tamponi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 142001 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurements of Elliptic and Triangular Flow in High-Multiplicity ${}^{3}{He} + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 142301 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Particle correlations in $^{3}$ He $+$ Au collisions suggest that a low-viscosity quark-gluon plasma forms in collisions using light projectiles.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonperturbative Quantum Physics from Low-Order Perturbation Theory

Héctor Mera, Thomas G. Pedersen, and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143001 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Ultrafast Charge Transfer of a Valence Double Hole in Glycine Driven Exclusively by Nuclear Motion

Zheng Li, Oriol Vendrell, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143002 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Measurement of Dipole Matrix Elements with a Single Trapped Ion

M. Hettrich, T. Ruster, H. Kaufmann, C. F. Roos, C. T. Schmiegelow, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. G. Poschinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143003 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Incompressible Polaritons in a Flat Band

Matteo Biondi, Evert P. L. van Nieuwenburg, Gianni Blatter, Sebastian D. Huber, and Sebastian Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143601 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Raman-Free, Noble-Gas-Filled Photonic-Crystal Fiber Source for Ultrafast, Very Bright Twin-Beam Squeezed Vacuum

Martin A. Finger, Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Nicolas Y. Joly, Maria V. Chekhova, and Philip St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143602 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

An optical-fiber scheme generates a bright “twin beam”—a pair of quantum-correlated beams that could be used in high-precision metrology.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Diffraction in Cold Magnetized Plasma

Z. Abelson, R. Gad, S. Bar-Ad, and A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143901 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Microwaves can propogate in a cold magnetized plasma without being diffracted for certain magnetic field strengths and electron densities.

Universal Long-Range Nanometric Bending of Water by Light

Gopal Verma and Kamal P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 143902 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Single-Mode, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in a Supersonic Flow

W. C. Wan, G. Malamud, A. Shimony, C. A. Di Stefano, M. R. Trantham, S. R. Klein, D. Shvarts, C. C. Kuranz, and R. P. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 145001 (2015) - Published 1 October, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Oscillations without a Fermi Surface and the Anomalous de Haas–van Alphen Effect

Johannes Knolle and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 146401 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High- $T_{c}$ Superconductivity at the Interface between the ${CaCuO}_{2}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Insulating Oxides

D. Di Castro, C. Cantoni, F. Ridolfi, C. Aruta, A. Tebano, N. Yang, and G. Balestrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147001 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

CaCuO $_{2}$ /SrTiO $_{3}$ heterostructures show interface superconductivity at $40$ K due to extra oxygen ions in the interface Ca plane, which act as doping holes.

Ferromagnetic Spin Fluctuation and Unconventional Superconductivity in ${Rb}_{2} {Cr}_{3} {As}_{3}$ Revealed by ${}^{75}{As}$ NMR and NQR

J. Yang, Z. T. Tang, G. H. Cao, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147002 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

Two-Dimensional Superconductor with a Giant Rashba Effect: One-Atom-Layer Tl-Pb Compound on Si(111)

A. V. Matetskiy, S. Ichinokura, L. V. Bondarenko, A. Y. Tupchaya, D. V. Gruznev, A. V. Zotov, A. A. Saranin, R. Hobara, A. Takayama, and S. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147003 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Magnon Bands in a Kagome Lattice Ferromagnet

R. Chisnell, J. S. Helton, D. E. Freedman, D. K. Singh, R. I. Bewley, D. G. Nocera, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147201 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Experimental evidence is presented for a topological magnon insulator, a material where magnetic excitations (magnons) are protected from scattering by the properties of the material.

Disorder-Driven Spin-Orbital Liquid Behavior in the ${Ba}_{3} X {Sb}_{2} O_{9}$ Materials

Andrew Smerald and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147202 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

Ultrafast Nonlinear Response of Bulk Plasmons in Highly Doped ZnO Layers

Tobias Tyborski, Sascha Kalusniak, Sergey Sadofev, Fritz Henneberger, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147401 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Gigahertz Dielectric Polarization of Substitutional Single Niobium Atoms in Defective Graphitic Layers

Xuefeng Zhang, Junjie Guo, Pengfei Guan, Gaowu Qin, and Stephen J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147601 (2015) - Published 1 October, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Entropy-Driven Chiral Order in a System of Achiral Bent Particles

Cristina Greco and Alberta Ferrarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 147801 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

Lagrangian Descriptors of Thermalized Transition States on Time-Varying Energy Surfaces

Galen T. Craven and Rigoberto Hernandez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 148301 (2015) - Published 29 September, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sensing Polymer Chain Dynamics through Ring Topology: A Neutron Spin Echo Study

Sebastian Gooßen, Margarita Krutyeva, Melissa Sharp, Artem Feoktystov, Jürgen Allgaier, Wim Pyckhout-Hintzen, Andreas Wischnewski, and Dieter Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 148302 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Ring-shaped polymers have been used to detect a theoretical tube that restricts the motion of molten polymer chains.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Theory of the Sea Ice Thickness Distribution

Srikanth Toppaladoddi and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 148501 (2015) - Published 2 October, 2015

A new solution to an old equation will make it easier to model the evolution of sea-ice thickness.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Interplay between Water and ${TiO}_{2}$ Anatase (101) Surface with Subsurface Oxygen Vacancy”

J. Fan, J. Z. Zhao, H. Xu, and S. Y. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 149601 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

Comment on “Boson Peak in Deeply Cooled Confined Water: A Possible Way to Explore the Existence of the Liquid-to-Liquid Transition in Water”

F. Formisano and S. De Panfilis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 149801 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

Wang et al. Reply:

Zhe Wang, Kao-Hsiang Liu, Peisi Le, Mingda Li, Wei-Shan Chiang, Juscelino B. Leão, John R. D. Copley, Madhusudan Tyagi, Andrey Podlesnyak, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Chung-Yuan Mou, and Sow-Hsin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 149802 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Fabry-Perot Interferometer with Quantum Mirrors: Nonlinear Light Transport and Rectification [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 243601 (2014)]

F. Fratini, E. Mascarenhas, L. Safari, J-Ph. Poizat, D. Valente, A. Auffèves, D. Gerace, and M. F. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 149901 (2015) - Published 28 September, 2015

Erratum: Asymptotic Scaling Behavior of Self-Avoiding Walks on Critical Percolation Clusters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 255701 (2014)]

Niklas Fricke and Wolfhard Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 149902 (2015) - Published 30 September, 2015