Volume 115, Issue 21

20 November 2015

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Lensing by a spherical boson star. The colors represent the four quadrants of the celestial sphere. The black lines represent a grid of latitude and longitude. The white circles are Einstein rings.

From the article:

Shadows of Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair
Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Helgi F. Rúnarsson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211102 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Limitations on the Evolution of Quantum Coherences: Towards Fully Quantum Second Laws of Thermodynamics

Piotr Ćwikliński, Michał Studziński, Michał Horodecki, and Jonathan Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210403 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Thermodynamic laws that are unique to quantum systems in a superposition of states have been derived using an information-theory approach.

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Sensing Atomic Motion from the Zero Point to Room Temperature with Ultrafast Atom Interferometry

K. G. Johnson, B. Neyenhuis, J. Mizrahi, J. D. Wong-Campos, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 213001 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Ultrafast laser pulses can be used to control and characterize the quantum motion of a single trapped ion over 5 orders of magnitude in temperature.

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Optical Metacages

Ali Mirzaei, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215501 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

An array of equally spaced nanowires, dubbed metacage, could block optical radiation from entering or escaping a region of arbitrary shape.

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Reciprocity Between Robustness of Period and Plasticity of Phase in Biological Clocks

Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218101 (2015) - Published 19 November, 2015

A theoretical analysis explains why circadian clocks can be robust but also able to adapt to environmental changes.

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Small Crowders Slow Down Kinesin-1 Stepping by Hindering Motor Domain Diffusion

Krzysztof Sozański, Felix Ruhnow, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, Marcin Tabaka, Stefan Diez, and Robert Hołyst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218102 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Researchers used a viscous fluid to disrupt the operation of a molecular motor that transports material inside biological cells, giving insights into how it works.

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Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211101 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Improved measurements of the helium cosmic ray spectrum taken by the space-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer find deviations from a single power law behavior.

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Search for GeV $γ$ -Ray Pair Halos Around Low Redshift Blazars

Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley, and Francesc Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211103 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Analysis of data from the Fermi Large Angle Telescope provides an indication of halos of gamma ray pairs around blazars at low redshift, and supports an estimate of the intergalactic magnetic field.

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Standard Model Prediction for Direct $C P$ Violation in $K \to π π$ Decay

Z. Bai, T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, N. H. Christ, J. Frison, N. Garron, T. Izubuchi, C. Jung, C. Kelly, C. Lehner, R. D. Mawhinney, C. T. Sachrajda, A. Soni, and D. Zhang (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212001 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

First complete lattice QCD calculation of direct CP violation in a kaon decaying to pions is two standard deviations below the experimental value.

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Blast Dynamics in a Dissipative Gas

M. Barbier, D. Villamaina, and E. Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214301 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Self-similar corrugated instabilities form after intense localized explosions in dissipative gasses.

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Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Spin Chain of a Few Cold Atoms in a One-Dimensional Trap

S. Murmann, F. Deuretzbacher, G. Zürn, J. Bjerlin, S. M. Reimann, L. Santos, T. Lompe, and S. Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215301 (2015) - Published 19 November, 2015

Quantum magnetism that goes beyond nearest-neighbor correlations has been observed in a string of four ultracold fermions.

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Quantum Phase Transition and Protected Ideal Transport in a Kondo Chain

A. M. Tsvelik and O. M. Yevtushenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216402 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Spontaneous breaking of helical symmetry in 1d interacting systems can result in symmetry protected ballistic transport.

LETTERS

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

Hierarchy of Steering Criteria Based on Moments for All Bipartite Quantum Systems

Ioannis Kogias, Paul Skrzypczyk, Daniel Cavalcanti, Antonio Acín, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210401 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Quantum Speed Limits for Leakage and Decoherence

Iman Marvian and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210402 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

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Limitations on the Evolution of Quantum Coherences: Towards Fully Quantum Second Laws of Thermodynamics

Piotr Ćwikliński, Michał Studziński, Michał Horodecki, and Jonathan Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210403 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Thermodynamic laws that are unique to quantum systems in a superposition of states have been derived using an information-theory approach.

Maximum of a Fractional Brownian Motion: Analytic Results from Perturbation Theory

Mathieu Delorme and Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210601 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211101 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Improved measurements of the helium cosmic ray spectrum taken by the space-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer find deviations from a single power law behavior.

Shadows of Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Helgi F. Rúnarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211102 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

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Search for GeV $γ$ -Ray Pair Halos Around Low Redshift Blazars

Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley, and Francesc Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211103 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Analysis of data from the Fermi Large Angle Telescope provides an indication of halos of gamma ray pairs around blazars at low redshift, and supports an estimate of the intergalactic magnetic field.

Enhancing the Bandwidth of Gravitational-Wave Detectors with Unstable Optomechanical Filters

Haixing Miao, Yiqiu Ma, Chunnong Zhao, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211104 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Gravitation-Wave Emission in Shift-Symmetric Horndeski Theories

Enrico Barausse and Kent Yagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211105 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Evanescent Effects can Alter Ultraviolet Divergences in Quantum Gravity without Physical Consequences

Zvi Bern, Clifford Cheung, Huan-Hang Chi, Scott Davies, Lance Dixon, and Josh Nohle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211301 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Isocurvature Perturbation of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Small Scale Structure

Ki-Young Choi, Jinn-Ouk Gong, and Chang Sub Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211302 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Local Operators in the Eternal Black Hole

Kyriakos Papadodimas and Suvrat Raju

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211601 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Probing the Charm Quark Yukawa Coupling in $Higgs + Charm$ Production

Ilaria Brivio, Florian Goertz, and Gino Isidori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211801 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

$W^{'}$ Boson near 2 TeV: Predictions for Run 2 of the LHC

Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Zhen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211802 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

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Standard Model Prediction for Direct $C P$ Violation in $K \to π π$ Decay

Z. Bai, T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, N. H. Christ, J. Frison, N. Garron, T. Izubuchi, C. Jung, C. Kelly, C. Lehner, R. D. Mawhinney, C. T. Sachrajda, A. Soni, and D. Zhang (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212001 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

First complete lattice QCD calculation of direct CP violation in a kaon decaying to pions is two standard deviations below the experimental value.

Neutron Electric Dipole Moment and Tensor Charges from Lattice QCD

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Rajan Gupta, Huey-Wen Lin, and Boram Yoon (PNDME Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212002 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Cross Sections for the Exclusive Photon Electroproduction on the Proton and Generalized Parton Distributions

H. S. Jo et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212003 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Dynamic Isovector Reorientation of Deuteron as a Probe to Nuclear Symmetry Energy

Li Ou (欧立), Zhigang Xiao (肖志刚), Han Yi (易晗), Ning Wang (王宁), Min Liu (刘敏), and Junlong Tian (田俊龙)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212501 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sensing Atomic Motion from the Zero Point to Room Temperature with Ultrafast Atom Interferometry

K. G. Johnson, B. Neyenhuis, J. Mizrahi, J. D. Wong-Campos, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 213001 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Ultrafast laser pulses can be used to control and characterize the quantum motion of a single trapped ion over 5 orders of magnitude in temperature.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Blast Dynamics in a Dissipative Gas

M. Barbier, D. Villamaina, and E. Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214301 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Self-similar corrugated instabilities form after intense localized explosions in dissipative gasses.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multicolor High-Gain Free-Electron Laser Driven by Seeded Microbunching Instability

E. Roussel, E. Ferrari, E. Allaria, G. Penco, S. Di Mitri, M. Veronese, M. Danailov, D. Gauthier, and L. Giannessi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214801 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Increasing the Brightness of Cold Ion Beams by Suppressing Disorder-Induced Heating with Rydberg Blockade

D. Murphy, R. E. Scholten, and B. M. Sparkes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214802 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Self-Organized Stationary States of Tokamaks

S. C. Jardin, N. Ferraro, and I. Krebs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215001 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Experimental Validation of a Filament Transport Model in Turbulent Magnetized Plasmas

D. Carralero, P. Manz, L. Aho-Mantila, G. Birkenmeier, M. Brix, M. Groth, H. W. Müller, U. Stroth, N. Vianello, E. Wolfrum, ASDEX Upgrade team, JET Contributors, and EUROfusion MST1 Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215002 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Ultrafast Synchrotron-Enhanced Thermalization of Laser-Driven Colliding Pair Plasmas

M. Lobet, C. Ruyer, A. Debayle, E. d’Humières, M. Grech, M. Lemoine, and L. Gremillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215003 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Electron and Ion Heating Characteristics during Magnetic Reconnection in the MAST Spherical Tokamak

H. Tanabe, T. Yamada, T. Watanabe, K. Gi, K. Kadowaki, M. Inomoto, R. Imazawa, M. Gryaznevich, C. Michael, B. Crowley, N. J. Conway, R. Scannell, J. Harrison, I. Fitzgerald, A. Meakins, N. Hawkes, K. G. McClements, T. O’Gorman, C. Z. Cheng, Y. Ono, and The MAST Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215004 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Spin Chain of a Few Cold Atoms in a One-Dimensional Trap

S. Murmann, F. Deuretzbacher, G. Zürn, J. Bjerlin, S. M. Reimann, L. Santos, T. Lompe, and S. Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215301 (2015) - Published 19 November, 2015

Quantum magnetism that goes beyond nearest-neighbor correlations has been observed in a string of four ultracold fermions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Metacages

Ali Mirzaei, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215501 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

An array of equally spaced nanowires, dubbed metacage, could block optical radiation from entering or escaping a region of arbitrary shape.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Origin of the Large Anisotropic $g$ Factor of Holes in Bismuth

Yuki Fuseya, Zengwei Zhu, Benoît Fauqué, Woun Kang, Bertrand Lenoir, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216401 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

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Quantum Phase Transition and Protected Ideal Transport in a Kondo Chain

A. M. Tsvelik and O. M. Yevtushenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216402 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Spontaneous breaking of helical symmetry in 1d interacting systems can result in symmetry protected ballistic transport.

Resonant and Inelastic Andreev Tunneling Observed on a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot

J. Gramich, A. Baumgartner, and C. Schönenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216801 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Interplay of Surface and Dirac Plasmons in Topological Insulators: The Case of ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

A. Politano, V. M. Silkin, I. A. Nechaev, M. S. Vitiello, L. Viti, Z. S. Aliev, M. B. Babanly, G. Chiarello, P. M. Echenique, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216802 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Bistable Photon Emission from a Solid-State Single-Atom Laser

Neill Lambert, Franco Nori, and Christian Flindt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216803 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Self-Assembled Wigner Crystals as Mediators of Spin Currents and Quantum Information

Bobby Antonio, Abolfazl Bayat, Sanjeev Kumar, Michael Pepper, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216804 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Topological Edge States with Zero Hall Conductivity in a Dimerized Hofstadter Model

Alexander Lau, Carmine Ortix, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216805 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials

Inti Sodemann and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216806 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Spin-Fluctuation Mechanism of Anomalous Temperature Dependence of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Itinerant Magnets

I. A. Zhuravlev, V. P. Antropov, and K. D. Belashchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217201 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Phase Diagram of an Extended Quantum Dimer Model on the Hexagonal Lattice

Thiago Schlittler, Thomas Barthel, Grégoire Misguich, Julien Vidal, and Rémy Mosseri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217202 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Minimal Model of Spin-Transfer Torque and Spin Pumping Caused by the Spin Hall Effect

Wei Chen, Manfred Sigrist, Jairo Sinova, and Dirk Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217203 (2015) - Published 19 November, 2015

Many-Body Theory of Ultrafast Demagnetization and Angular Momentum Transfer in Ferromagnetic Transition Metals

W. Töws and G. M. Pastor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217204 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Observation of Fermi-Arc Spin Texture in TaAs

B. Q. Lv, S. Muff, T. Qian, Z. D. Song, S. M. Nie, N. Xu, P. Richard, C. E. Matt, N. C. Plumb, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, Z. Fang, X. Dai, J. H. Dil, J. Mesot, M. Shi, H. M. Weng, and H. Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217601 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

High-Resolution Faraday Rotation and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Surface States of the Bulk-Insulating Topological Insulator ${Cu}_{0.02} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Liang Wu, Wang-Kong Tse, M. Brahlek, C. M. Morris, R. Valdés Aguilar, N. Koirala, S. Oh, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217602 (2015) - Published 16 November, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Reciprocity Between Robustness of Period and Plasticity of Phase in Biological Clocks

Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218101 (2015) - Published 19 November, 2015

A theoretical analysis explains why circadian clocks can be robust but also able to adapt to environmental changes.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Small Crowders Slow Down Kinesin-1 Stepping by Hindering Motor Domain Diffusion

Krzysztof Sozański, Felix Ruhnow, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, Marcin Tabaka, Stefan Diez, and Robert Hołyst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218102 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

Researchers used a viscous fluid to disrupt the operation of a molecular motor that transports material inside biological cells, giving insights into how it works.

Convective Cage Release in Model Colloidal Glasses

Alan R. Jacob, Andreas S. Poulos, Sunhyung Kim, Jan Vermant, and George Petekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218301 (2015) - Published 17 November, 2015

Long Lifetime Hole Traps at Grain Boundaries in CdTe Thin-Film Photovoltaics

B. G. Mendis, D. Gachet, J. D. Major, and K. Durose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218701 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Kinetics of Social Contagion

Zhongyuan Ruan, Gerardo Iñiguez, Márton Karsai, and János Kertész

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218702 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Neutral Atom Frequency Reference in the Deep Ultraviolet with Fractional $Uncertainty = 5.7 \times 1 0^{- 15}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 183004 (2012)]

J. J. McFerran, L. Yi, S. Mejri, S. Di Manno, W. Zhang, J. Guéna, Y. Le Coq, and S. Bize

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 219901 (2015) - Published 18 November, 2015

Publisher’s Note: Dichotomy between the Hole and Electron Behavior in Multiband Superconductor FeSe Probed by Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 027006 (2015)]

M. D. Watson, T. Yamashita, S. Kasahara, W. Knafo, M. Nardone, J. Béard, F. Hardy, A. McCollam, A. Narayanan, S. F. Blake, T. Wolf, A. A. Haghighirad, C. Meingast, A. J. Schofield, H. v. Löhneysen, Y. Matsuda, A. I. Coldea, and T. Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 219902 (2015) - Published 20 November, 2015