Volume 115, Issue 22

27 November 2015

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Artist rendition of collisions within a colloidal suspension . Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Hydrodynamic and Contact Contributions to Continuous Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions
Neil Y. C. Lin, Ben M. Guy, Michiel Hermes, Chris Ness, Jin Sun, Wilson C. K. Poon, and Itai Cohen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 228304 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale

Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan, and Surjeet Rajendran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221801 (2015) - Published 23 November, 2015

A theoretical proposal ties the puzzling light mass of the Higgs particle to a hypothetical new particle that plays an important role during the big bang.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic and Contact Contributions to Continuous Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions

Neil Y. C. Lin, Ben M. Guy, Michiel Hermes, Chris Ness, Jin Sun, Wilson C. K. Poon, and Itai Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 228304 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Experiments explain the significant increase in viscosity that occurs when stirring a mixture of cornstarch and water.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Spin-Dependent Charge Symmetry Breaking in $Λ N$ Interaction: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of ${}_{Λ}^{4}{He}$

T. O. Yamamoto et al. (J-PARC E13 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222501 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

The energy spacing of the spin-doublet states in the $_{Λ}^{4}$ He hypernucleus indicate a large spin dependent charge symmetry breaking in the $Λ N$ interaction.

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Ultrabroadband Dispersive Radiation by Spatiotemporal Oscillation of Multimode Waves

Logan G. Wright, Stefan Wabnitz, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Frank W. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223902 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Light pulses in an optical fiber with a large core can undergo dramatic oscillations in their intensity. These oscillations cause a near-infrared pulse to spray off new pulses at wavelengths that range from the mid-infrared to the ultraviolet.

LETTERS

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

Necessity of Eigenstate Thermalization

Giacomo De Palma, Alessio Serafini, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marcus Cramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 220401 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Testing Nonassociative Quantum Mechanics

Martin Bojowald, Suddhasattwa Brahma, and Umut Büyükçam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 220402 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Revealing Hidden Coherence in Partially Coherent Light

Jiří Svozilík, Adam Vallés, Jan Peřina, Jr., and Juan P. Torres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 220501 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Verifiable Measurement-Only Blind Quantum Computing with Stabilizer Testing

Masahito Hayashi and Tomoyuki Morimae

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 220502 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Diffusion and Subdiffusion of Interacting Particles on Comblike Structures

O. Bénichou, P. Illien, G. Oshanin, A. Sarracino, and R. Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 220601 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Steady-State Dynamics and Effective Temperature for a Model of Quantum Criticality in an Open System

P. Ribeiro, F. Zamani, and S. Kirchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 220602 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Tomographic Constraints on High-Energy Neutrinos of Hadronuclear Origin

Shin’ichiro Ando, Irene Tamborra, and Fabio Zandanel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221101 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Absence of Disorder-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Simple Holographic Models

Sašo Grozdanov, Andrew Lucas, Subir Sachdev, and Koenraad Schalm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221601 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale

Peter W. Graham, David E. Kaplan, and Surjeet Rajendran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221801 (2015) - Published 23 November, 2015

A theoretical proposal ties the puzzling light mass of the Higgs particle to a hypothetical new particle that plays an important role during the big bang.

Composite Heavy Vector Triplet in the ATLAS Diboson Excess

Andrea Thamm, Riccardo Torre, and Andrea Wulzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221802 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Observation of $B^{0} \to p \bar{Λ} D^{(*) -}$

Y.-Y. Chang et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221803 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Lepton Universality Test in the Photoproduction of $e^{-} e^{+}$ Versus $μ^{-} μ^{+}$ Pairs on a Proton Target

Vladyslav Pauk and Marc Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221804 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction for $Λ_{c}^{+} \to Λ e^{+} ν_{e}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 221805 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Can Nonrelativistic QCD Explain the $γ γ^{*} \to η_{c}$ Transition Form Factor Data?

Feng Feng, Yu Jia, and Wen-Long Sang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222001 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Observation of a Neutral Structure near the $D {\bar{D}}^{}$ Mass Threshold in $e^{+} e^{-} \to (D {\bar{D}}^{})^{0} π^{0}$ at $\sqrt{s} = 4.226$ and 4.257 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222002 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Lattice QCD Calculation of Hadronic Light-by-Light Scattering

Jeremy Green, Oleksii Gryniuk, Georg von Hippel, Harvey B. Meyer, and Vladimir Pascalutsa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222003 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Anisotropy in $U + U$ and $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222301 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Spin-Dependent Charge Symmetry Breaking in $Λ N$ Interaction: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of ${}_{Λ}^{4}{He}$

T. O. Yamamoto et al. (J-PARC E13 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222501 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

The energy spacing of the spin-doublet states in the $_{Λ}^{4}$ He hypernucleus indicate a large spin dependent charge symmetry breaking in the $Λ N$ interaction.

Isospin Mixing in ${}^{80}{Zr}$ : From Finite to Zero Temperature

S. Ceruti et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222502 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

New Sum Rule for the Nuclear Magnetic Polarizability

Mikhail Gorchtein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 222503 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rotational-State-Dependent Dispersion of Molecules by Pulsed Optical Standing Waves

Xing Nan Sun, Lee Yeong Kim, Bum Suk Zhao (조범석), and Doo Soo Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223001 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Positronium Production and Scattering below Its Breakup Threshold

S. J. Brawley, S. E. Fayer, M. Shipman, and G. Laricchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223201 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Cooperative Emission of a Pulse Train in an Optically Thick Scattering Medium

C. C. Kwong, T. Yang, D. Delande, R. Pierrat, and D. Wilkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223601 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Phonon Cooling by an Optomechanical Heat Pump

Ying Dong, F. Bariani, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223602 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Correlated Emission Lasing in Harmonic Oscillators Coupled via a Single Three-Level Artificial Atom

Z. H. Peng, Yu-xi Liu, J. T. Peltonen, T. Yamamoto, J. S. Tsai, and O. Astafiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223603 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Broadband Coherent Enhancement of Transmission and Absorption in Disordered Media

Chia Wei Hsu, Arthur Goetschy, Yaron Bromberg, A. Douglas Stone, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223901 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrabroadband Dispersive Radiation by Spatiotemporal Oscillation of Multimode Waves

Logan G. Wright, Stefan Wabnitz, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Frank W. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 223902 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Absorption of an Electron by a Dielectric Wall

F. X. Bronold and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 225001 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Chiral $d$ -Wave Superfluid in Periodically Driven Lattices

Shao-Liang Zhang, Li-Jun Lang, and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 225301 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Crossover from $β$ to $α$ Relaxation in Cooperative Facilitation Dynamics

Mauro Sellitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 225701 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Angular-Dependent Phase Factor of Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations in the Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Z. J. Xiang, D. Zhao, Z. Jin, C. Shang, L. K. Ma, G. J. Ye, B. Lei, T. Wu, Z. C. Xia, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 226401 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Suppression of Three-Dimensional Charge Density Wave Ordering via Thickness Control

Gideok Kim, Michael Neumann, Minu Kim, Manh Duc Le, Tae Dong Kang, and Tae Won Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 226402 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Spin-Current to Charge-Current Conversion and Magnetoresistance in a Hybrid Structure of Graphene and Yttrium Iron Garnet

J. B. S. Mendes, O. Alves Santos, L. M. Meireles, R. G. Lacerda, L. H. Vilela-Leão, F. L. A. Machado, R. L. Rodríguez-Suárez, A. Azevedo, and S. M. Rezende

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 226601 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Selective Amplification of the Primary Exciton in a $Mo S_{2}$ Monolayer

Hyun Seok Lee, Min Su Kim, Youngjo Jin, Gang Hee Han, Young Hee Lee, and Jeongyong Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 226801 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Formation of Molecular-Orbital Bands in a Twisted Hubbard Tube: Implications for Unconventional Superconductivity in $K_{2} {Cr}_{3} {As}_{3}$

Hanting Zhong, Xiao-Yong Feng, Hua Chen, and Jianhui Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 227001 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Leggett Modes and the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism in Superconductors without Inversion Symmetry

Nikolaj Bittner, Dietrich Einzel, Ludwig Klam, and Dirk Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 227002 (2015) - Published 24 November, 2015

Magnetic Field Tuning and Quantum Interference in a Cooper Pair Splitter

G. Fülöp, F. Domínguez, S. d’Hollosy, A. Baumgartner, P. Makk, M. H. Madsen, V. A. Guzenko, J. Nygård, C. Schönenberger, A. Levy Yeyati, and S. Csonka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 227003 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic and Contact Contributions to Continuous Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions

Neil Y. C. Lin, Ben M. Guy, Michiel Hermes, Chris Ness, Jin Sun, Wilson C. K. Poon, and Itai Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 228304 (2015) - Published 25 November, 2015

Experiments explain the significant increase in viscosity that occurs when stirring a mixture of cornstarch and water.