Volume 115, Issue 15

9 October 2015

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Illustration of optical control of a Feshbach resonance, which occurs when a laser (yellow) brings a molecular level (blue surface) close to the atomic scattering threshold (red surface). Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Quantum Dynamics with Spatiotemporal Control of Interactions in a Stable Bose-Einstein Condensate
Logan W. Clark, Li-Chung Ha, Chen-Yu Xu, and Cheng Chin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155301 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Why Hexagonal Basalt Columns?

Martin Hofmann, Robert Anderssohn, Hans-Achim Bahr, Hans-Jürgen Weiß, and Jens Nellesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154301 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

A new model explains why cracks in cooling lava tend to form hexagonal patterns.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Dynamics with Spatiotemporal Control of Interactions in a Stable Bose-Einstein Condensate

Logan W. Clark, Li-Chung Ha, Chen-Yu Xu, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155301 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

Optical pulses—tuned to a magic wavelength—provide both spatial and temporal control over the interactions between atoms in an ultracold gas.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Squaring the Circle: Geometric Skewness and Symmetry Breaking for Passive Scalar Transport in Ducts and Pipes

Manuchehr Aminian, Francesca Bernardi, Roberto Camassa, and Richard M. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154503 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

Calculations of the motion of particles carried by a fluid flowing through a pipe find a surprising effect of the pipe’s shape.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Noise-Induced Mechanism for Biological Homochirality of Early Life Self-Replicators

Farshid Jafarpour, Tommaso Biancalani, and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 158101 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

The preferred handedness of biomolecules may be the result of noisy chemical fluctuations, according to a new theory.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Independence as a Resource in Small-Scale Thermodynamics

Matteo Lostaglio, Markus P. Müller, and Michele Pastena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150402 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Microscopic engines, even if operated far from equilibrium, could negate thermal fluctuations by creating correlations between initially uncorrelated systems. This would allow the engines to extract as much work as their reversible macroscopic counterparts and do so reliably.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Geometric Phase Appears in the Ultracold Hydrogen Exchange Reaction

B. K. Kendrick, Jisha Hazra, and N. Balakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153201 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

Hydrogen exchange reactions can be turned on and off by geometric phase effects at temperatures well below one Kelvin.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization Engineering in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Spin-Photon Entanglers

A. B. Young, A. C. T. Thijssen, D. M. Beggs, P. Androvitsaneas, L. Kuipers, J. G. Rarity, S. Hughes, and R. Oulton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153901 (2015) - Published 6 October, 2015

Entangled states of spin orientation and directional photons could be created by carefully placing of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal waveguide.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tracer Shape and Local Media Structure Determine the Trend of Translation-Rotation Decoupling in Two-Dimensional Colloids

Jeongmin Kim and Bong June Sung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 158302 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

The diffusion of a particle-laden fluid around a tracer particle strongly depends on how closely matched the tracer and fluid particles are in shape.

LETTERS

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

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for an Extended Noncontextuality in a Broad Class of Quantum Mechanical Systems

Janne V. Kujala, Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, and Jan-Åke Larsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150401 (2015) - Published 6 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Independence as a Resource in Small-Scale Thermodynamics

Matteo Lostaglio, Markus P. Müller, and Michele Pastena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150402 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Secrecy in Prepare-and-Measure Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Tests with a Qubit Bound

Erik Woodhead and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150501 (2015) - Published 6 October, 2015

Operational Multipartite Entanglement Measures

K. Schwaiger, D. Sauerwein, M. Cuquet, J. I. de Vicente, and B. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150502 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Remote Entanglement by Coherent Multiplication of Concurrent Quantum Signals

Ananda Roy, Liang Jiang, A. Douglas Stone, and Michel Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150503 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Quantum Error Corrections

Eric Mintun, Joseph Polchinski, and Vladimir Rosenhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 151601 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Polarization Transfer in Wide-Angle Compton Scattering and Single-Pion Photoproduction from the Proton

C. Fanelli et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 152001 (2015) - Published 6 October, 2015

$B \to π l l$ Form Factors for New Physics Searches from Lattice QCD

Jon A. Bailey, A. Bazavov, C. Bernard, C. M. Bouchard, C. DeTar, Daping Du, A. X. El-Khadra, E. D. Freeland, E. Gámiz, Steven Gottlieb, U. M. Heller, A. S. Kronfeld, J. Laiho, L. Levkova, Yuzhi Liu, E. Lunghi, P. B. Mackenzie, Y. Meurice, E. Neil, Si-Wei Qiu, J. N. Simone, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, R. S. Van de Water, and Ran Zhou (Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 152002 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Tevatron Combination of Single-Top-Quark Cross Sections and Determination of the Magnitude of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element $V_{t b}$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 152003 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Generating Isolated Elliptically Polarized Attosecond Pulses Using Bichromatic Counterrotating Circularly Polarized Laser Fields

Lukas Medišauskas, Jack Wragg, Hugo van der Hart, and Misha Yu. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153001 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Virtual Sequential Picture for Nonsequential Two-Photon Double Ionization of Helium

Wei-Chao Jiang, Jun-Yi Shan, Qihuang Gong, and Liang-You Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153002 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Geometric Phase Appears in the Ultracold Hydrogen Exchange Reaction

B. K. Kendrick, Jisha Hazra, and N. Balakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153201 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

Hydrogen exchange reactions can be turned on and off by geometric phase effects at temperatures well below one Kelvin.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization Engineering in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Spin-Photon Entanglers

A. B. Young, A. C. T. Thijssen, D. M. Beggs, P. Androvitsaneas, L. Kuipers, J. G. Rarity, S. Hughes, and R. Oulton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153901 (2015) - Published 6 October, 2015

Entangled states of spin orientation and directional photons could be created by carefully placing of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal waveguide.

One-Wave Optical Phase Conjugation Mirror by Actively Coupling Arbitrary Light Fields into a Single-Mode Reflector

KyeoReh Lee, Junsung Lee, Jung-Hoon Park, Ji-Ho Park, and YongKeun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 153902 (2015) - Published 6 October, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Why Hexagonal Basalt Columns?

Martin Hofmann, Robert Anderssohn, Hans-Achim Bahr, Hans-Jürgen Weiß, and Jens Nellesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154301 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

A new model explains why cracks in cooling lava tend to form hexagonal patterns.

Logarithmic Mean Temperature Profiles and Their Connection to Plume Emissions in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Erwin P. van der Poel, Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico, Roberto Verzicco, Siegfried Grossmann, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154501 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

Comparative Experimental Study of Fixed Temperature and Fixed Heat Flux Boundary Conditions in Turbulent Thermal Convection

Shi-Di Huang (黄仕迪), Fei Wang (王飞), Heng-Dong Xi (郗恒东), and Ke-Qing Xia (夏克青)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154502 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Squaring the Circle: Geometric Skewness and Symmetry Breaking for Passive Scalar Transport in Ducts and Pipes

Manuchehr Aminian, Francesca Bernardi, Roberto Camassa, and Richard M. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154503 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

Calculations of the motion of particles carried by a fluid flowing through a pipe find a surprising effect of the pipe’s shape.

Wetting Driven by Thermal Fluctuations on Terraced Nanostructures

Carlos E. Colosqui, Teng Teng, and Amir M. Rahmani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 154504 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonresonant Charged-Particle Acceleration by Electrostatic Waves Propagating across Fluctuating Magnetic Field

A. V. Artemyev, A. I. Neishtadt, A. A. Vasiliev, and L. M. Zelenyi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155001 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Electron Rephasing in a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator

E. Guillaume, A. Döpp, C. Thaury, K. Ta Phuoc, A. Lifschitz, G. Grittani, J.-P. Goddet, A. Tafzi, S. W. Chou, L. Veisz, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155002 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Dynamics with Spatiotemporal Control of Interactions in a Stable Bose-Einstein Condensate

Logan W. Clark, Li-Chung Ha, Chen-Yu Xu, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155301 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

Optical pulses—tuned to a magic wavelength—provide both spatial and temporal control over the interactions between atoms in an ultracold gas.

Quantum Mechanical Stabilization of a Collapsing Bose-Bose Mixture

D. S. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155302 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Dissipation of Quasiclassical Turbulence in Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$

D. E. Zmeev, P. M. Walmsley, A. I. Golov, P. V. E. McClintock, S. N. Fisher, and W. F. Vinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155303 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

Spinor Condensates on a Cylindrical Surface in Synthetic Gauge Fields

Tin-Lun Ho and Biao Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155304 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Maximizing the Strength of Fiber Bundles under Uniform Loading

Soumyajyoti Biswas and Parongama Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155501 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Phase Diagram of Pyrochlore Iridates: All-in–All-out Magnetic Ordering and Non-Fermi-Liquid Properties

Hiroshi Shinaoka, Shintaro Hoshino, Matthias Troyer, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156401 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Localized Majorana-Like Modes in a Number-Conserving Setting: An Exactly Solvable Model

Fernando Iemini, Leonardo Mazza, Davide Rossini, Rosario Fazio, and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156402 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Spin-Orbital Excitation Continuum and Anomalous Electron-Phonon Interaction in the Mott Insulator ${LaTiO}_{3}$

C. Ulrich, G. Khaliullin, M. Guennou, H. Roth, T. Lorenz, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156403 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Distinct Topological Crystalline Phases in Models for the Strongly Correlated Topological Insulator ${SmB}_{6}$

Pier Paolo Baruselli and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156404 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Surface-State Spin Textures and Mirror Chern Numbers in Topological Kondo Insulators

Markus Legner, Andreas Rüegg, and Manfred Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156405 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

In-Plane Electric Polarization of Bilayer Graphene Nanoribbons Induced by an Interlayer Bias Voltage

Ryo Okugawa, Junya Tanaka, Takashi Koretsune, Susumu Saito, and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156601 (2015) - Published 5 October, 2015

Topological Imbert-Fedorov Shift in Weyl Semimetals

Qing-Dong Jiang, Hua Jiang, Haiwen Liu, Qing-Feng Sun, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156602 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Chirality-Dependent Hall Effect in Weyl Semimetals

Shengyuan A. Yang, Hui Pan, and Fan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156603 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Nonlocal Magnetoresistance Mediated by Spin Superfluidity

So Takei and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156604 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Non-Fermi-Liquid Crossovers in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor in a Tilted Magnetic Field

A. G. Lebed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 157001 (2015) - Published 8 October, 2015

Nonrelativistic Dynamics of the Amplitude (Higgs) Mode in Superconductors

T. Cea, C. Castellani, G. Seibold, and L. Benfatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 157002 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015

Complete Generalized Gibbs Ensembles in an Interacting Theory

E. Ilievski, J. De Nardis, B. Wouters, J.-S. Caux, F. H. L. Essler, and T. Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 157201 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Spin Nematics, Valence-Bond Solids, and Spin Liquids in $SO (N)$ Quantum Spin Models on the Triangular Lattice

Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 157202 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Rayleigh-Jeans Condensation of Pumped Magnons in Thin-Film Ferromagnets

Andreas Rückriegel and Peter Kopietz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 157203 (2015) - Published 7 October, 2015

Long-Range Phase Coherence in Double-Barrier Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Large Thick Metallic Quantum Well

B. S. Tao, H. X. Yang, Y. L. Zuo, X. Devaux, G. Lengaigne, M. Hehn, D. Lacour, S. Andrieu, M. Chshiev, T. Hauet, F. Montaigne, S. Mangin, X. F. Han, and Y. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 157204 (2015) - Published 9 October, 2015