Volume 115, Issue 23

4 December 2015

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STM topograph of Eu-intercalated graphene (bright) and nonintercalated graphene (dark) on Ir(111) with naphthalene islands (outlined in blue) atop Eu-intercalated patches. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Tuning the van der Waals Interaction of Graphene with Molecules via Doping
Felix Huttmann, Antonio J. Martínez-Galera, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, Stefan Schumacher, Sebastian Standop, Ikutaro Hamada, Tim O. Wehling, Stefan Blügel, and Thomas Michely
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236101 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Black Hole Window into $p$ -Wave Dark Matter Annihilation

Jessie Shelton, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Brian D. Fields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231302 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Gamma-ray observations of dark matter spikes near supermassive black holes provide a test of fermionic dark matter models.

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Tuning the van der Waals Interaction of Graphene with Molecules via Doping

Felix Huttmann, Antonio J. Martínez-Galera, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, Stefan Schumacher, Sebastian Standop, Ikutaro Hamada, Tim O. Wehling, Stefan Blügel, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236101 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

By adding dopant atoms to a graphene sheet, researchers are able to control the van der Waals attraction that the surface exerts on molecules.

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Molecular Mechanism of Water Evaporation

Yuki Nagata, Kota Usui, and Mischa Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236102 (2015) - Published 30 November, 2015

Each time a liquid water molecule enters the vapor phase, a coordinated dance of several molecules is involved, according to simulations.

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Hydrodynamics Versus Intracellular Coupling in the Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella

Greta Quaranta, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, and Daniel Tam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238101 (2015) - Published 30 November, 2015

A study of the breaststroke motion in swimming algae shows that hydrodynamic forces cannot explain the synchronization between the microorganism’s two “arms.”

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Test of Electric Charge Conservation with Borexino

M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231802 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Scientists have placed new limits on how often electrons decay into neutrinos and photons, a reaction that—if it occurred—would violate the law of charge conservation.

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One-to-One Mapping between Steering and Joint Measurability Problems

Roope Uola, Costantino Budroni, Otfried Gühne, and Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230402 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Quantum steering, the ability for Alice to use local measurements to steer Bob’s half of an entangled state, can be formulated in terms of a joint measurability problem allowing known techniques to be used from one protocol to the other.

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Heavy Tails in the Distribution of Time to Solution for Classical and Quantum Annealing

Damian S. Steiger, Troels F. Rønnow, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230501 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

Simulated quantum annealing, used in D-Wave systems, does not perform as well as classical annealing for computationally hard instances of the Ising spin glass problem, implying that median ‘time-to-solution’ is a poor measure of annealing algorithms.

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Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

M. Ackermann et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231301 (2015) - Published 30 November, 2015

Gamma-ray signatures of dark matter have not been seen by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration in data from dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Milky Way. Their absence puts tighter constraints on the Dark Matter annihilation cross section and WIMP masses.

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Nuclear Recoil Effect in the Lamb Shift of Light Hydrogenlike Atoms

V. A. Yerokhin and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 233002 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

The nuclear recoil correction in hydrogen-like atoms has been calculated nonperturbatively in the nuclear binding strength, $Z α$ , improving the numerical accuracy by more than two orders of magnitude.

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Asymmetric Acoustic Propagation of Wave Packets Via the Self-Demodulation Effect

Thibaut Devaux, Vincent Tournat, Olivier Richoux, and Vincent Pagneux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 234301 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

An acoustic diode composed of a multilayer phononic crystal connected to a granular layer supports the asymmetric propagation of a single mode wave packet.

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Fluctuation Relations of Fitness and Information in Population Dynamics

Tetsuya J. Kobayashi and Yuki Sughiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238102 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

A path-wise description of population dynamics provides a general description of the fitness of a population that can account for sub-optimal evolution strategies.

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Experimental Validation of a Nonextensive Scaling Law in Confined Granular Media

Gaël Combe, Vincent Richefeu, Marta Stasiak, and Allbens P. F. Atman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238301 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

The velocity distribution of sheared granular media shows unexpected similarities with turbulent fluid flows.

LETTERS

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

Many-Body Localization in the Presence of a Single-Particle Mobility Edge

Ranjan Modak and Subroto Mukerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230401 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

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One-to-One Mapping between Steering and Joint Measurability Problems

Roope Uola, Costantino Budroni, Otfried Gühne, and Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230402 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Observation of a Superradiant Mott Insulator in the Dicke-Hubbard Model

J. Klinder, H. Keßler, M. Reza Bakhtiari, M. Thorwart, and A. Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230403 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

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Heavy Tails in the Distribution of Time to Solution for Classical and Quantum Annealing

Damian S. Steiger, Troels F. Rønnow, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230501 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

Quadratic Stochastic Euclidean Bipartite Matching Problem

Sergio Caracciolo and Gabriele Sicuro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 230601 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Beyond the Horizon Distance: LIGO-Virgo can Boost Gravitational-Wave Detection Rates by Exploiting the Mass Distribution of Neutron Stars

I. Bartos and S. Márka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231101 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Neutron-Star–Black-Hole Binaries Produced by Binary-Driven Hypernovae

Chris L. Fryer, F. G. Oliveira, J. A. Rueda, and R. Ruffini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231102 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

M. Ackermann et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231301 (2015) - Published 30 November, 2015

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black Hole Window into $p$ -Wave Dark Matter Annihilation

Jessie Shelton, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Brian D. Fields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231302 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Gamma-ray observations of dark matter spikes near supermassive black holes provide a test of fermionic dark matter models.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Grand Canonical Ensembles, Multiparticle Wave Functions, Scattering Data, and Lattice Field Theories

Falk Bruckmann, Christof Gattringer, Thomas Kloiber, and Tin Sulejmanpasic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231601 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Long-Lived Gluinos and Stable Axinos

Stuart Raby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231801 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

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Test of Electric Charge Conservation with Borexino

M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 231802 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Scientists have placed new limits on how often electrons decay into neutrinos and photons, a reaction that—if it occurred—would violate the law of charge conservation.

Inclusive Production of the $X (4140)$ State in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at D0

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 232001 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Precision Mass Measurements of ${}^{129 - 131}{Cd}$ and Their Impact on Stellar Nucleosynthesis via the Rapid Neutron Capture Process

D. Atanasov, P. Ascher, K. Blaum, R. B. Cakirli, T. E. Cocolios, S. George, S. Goriely, F. Herfurth, H.-T. Janka, O. Just, M. Kowalska, S. Kreim, D. Kisler, Yu. A. Litvinov, D. Lunney, V. Manea, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, A. Welker, F. Wienholtz, R. N. Wolf, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 232501 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rotational Cooling of Trapped Polyatomic Molecules

Rosa Glöckner, Alexander Prehn, Barbara G. U. Englert, Gerhard Rempe, and Martin Zeppenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 233001 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nuclear Recoil Effect in the Lamb Shift of Light Hydrogenlike Atoms

V. A. Yerokhin and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 233002 (2015) - Published 4 December, 2015

Three-Photon-Annihilation Contributions to Positronium Energies at Order $m α^{7}$

Gregory S. Adkins, Minji Kim, Christian Parsons, and Richard N. Fell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 233401 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Nonlinear Radiation Pressure Dynamics in an Optomechanical Crystal

Alex G. Krause, Jeff T. Hill, Max Ludwig, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jasper Chan, Florian Marquardt, and Oskar Painter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 233601 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Nanofriction in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

T. Fogarty, C. Cormick, H. Landa, Vladimir M. Stojanović, E. Demler, and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 233602 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Asymmetric Acoustic Propagation of Wave Packets Via the Self-Demodulation Effect

Thibaut Devaux, Vincent Tournat, Olivier Richoux, and Vincent Pagneux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 234301 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

An acoustic diode composed of a multilayer phononic crystal connected to a granular layer supports the asymmetric propagation of a single mode wave packet.

Hindered Energy Cascade in Highly Helical Isotropic Turbulence

Rodion Stepanov, Ephim Golbraikh, Peter Frick, and Alexander Shestakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 234501 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Lifshitz Transition in the Double-Core Vortex in ${}^{3}{He − B}$

M. A. Silaev, E. V. Thuneberg, and M. Fogelström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 235301 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Generic Bistability in Creased Conical Surfaces

F. Lechenault and M. Adda-Bedia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 235501 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Complex Nanotwin Substructure of an Asymmetric $Σ 9$ Tilt Grain Boundary in a Silicon Polycrystal

A. Stoffers, B. Ziebarth, J. Barthel, O. Cojocaru-Mirédin, C. Elsässer, and D. Raabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 235502 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Tailor the Functionalities of Metasurfaces Based on a Complete Phase Diagram

Che Qu, Shaojie Ma, Jiaming Hao, Meng Qiu, Xin Li, Shiyi Xiao, Ziqi Miao, Ning Dai, Qiong He, Shulin Sun, and Lei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 235503 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Pressure Effect on the Boson Peak in Deeply Cooled Confined Water: Evidence of a Liquid-Liquid Transition

Zhe Wang, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Kanae Ito, Andrey Podlesnyak, and Sow-Hsin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 235701 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tuning the van der Waals Interaction of Graphene with Molecules via Doping

Felix Huttmann, Antonio J. Martínez-Galera, Vasile Caciuc, Nicolae Atodiresei, Stefan Schumacher, Sebastian Standop, Ikutaro Hamada, Tim O. Wehling, Stefan Blügel, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236101 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

By adding dopant atoms to a graphene sheet, researchers are able to control the van der Waals attraction that the surface exerts on molecules.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Molecular Mechanism of Water Evaporation

Yuki Nagata, Kota Usui, and Mischa Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236102 (2015) - Published 30 November, 2015

Each time a liquid water molecule enters the vapor phase, a coordinated dance of several molecules is involved, according to simulations.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

One-Dimensional Quasicrystals from Incommensurate Charge Order

Felix Flicker and Jasper van Wezel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236401 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Universality of Plasmon Excitations in Dirac Semimetals

Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Robert D. Pisarski, and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236402 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Quantum Quenches in Chern Insulators

M. D. Caio, N. R. Cooper, and M. J. Bhaseen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236403 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Fidelity Susceptibility Perspective on the Kondo Effect and Impurity Quantum Phase Transitions

Lei Wang, Hiroshi Shinaoka, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236601 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Anomalous Crystal Symmetry Fractionalization on the Surface of Topological Crystalline Insulators

Yang Qi and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236801 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Surface Effects on the Mott-Hubbard Transition in Archetypal $V_{2} O_{3}$

G. Lantz, M. Hajlaoui, E. Papalazarou, V. L. R. Jacques, A. Mazzotti, M. Marsi, S. Lupi, M. Amati, L. Gregoratti, L. Si, Z. Zhong, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236802 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Landau Levels in Strained Optical Lattices

Binbin Tian, Manuel Endres, and David Pekker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236803 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Quantized Evolution of the Plasmonic Response in a Stretched Nanorod

Tuomas P. Rossi, Asier Zugarramurdi, Martti J. Puska, and Risto M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 236804 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Proximity-Induced $π$ Josephson Junctions in Topological Insulators and Kramers Pairs of Majorana Fermions

Constantin Schrade, A. A. Zyuzin, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 237001 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Mapping the Electronic Structure of Each Ingredient Oxide Layer of High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Yan-Feng Lv, Wen-Lin Wang, Jun-Ping Peng, Hao Ding, Yang Wang, Lili Wang, Ke He, Shuai-Hua Ji, Ruidan Zhong, John Schneeloch, Gen-Da Gu, Can-Li Song, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 237002 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Spin Superfluidity and Long-Range Transport in Thin-Film Ferromagnets

Hans Skarsvåg, Cecilia Holmqvist, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 237201 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Origin of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Large Orbital Moment in Fe Atoms on MgO

S. Baumann, F. Donati, S. Stepanow, S. Rusponi, W. Paul, S. Gangopadhyay, I. G. Rau, G. E. Pacchioni, L. Gragnaniello, M. Pivetta, J. Dreiser, C. Piamonteze, C. P. Lutz, R. M. Macfarlane, B. A. Jones, P. Gambardella, A. J. Heinrich, and H. Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 237202 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

Realizing All $s o (N)_{1}$ Quantum Criticalities in Symmetry Protected Cluster Models

Ville Lahtinen and Eddy Ardonne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 237203 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Dynamic Response of a Single Interface in a Biocomposite Structure

B. Bar-On, B. Bayerlein, H. Blumtritt, and I. Zlotnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238001 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

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Hydrodynamics Versus Intracellular Coupling in the Synchronization of Eukaryotic Flagella

Greta Quaranta, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam, and Daniel Tam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238101 (2015) - Published 30 November, 2015

A study of the breaststroke motion in swimming algae shows that hydrodynamic forces cannot explain the synchronization between the microorganism’s two “arms.”

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluctuation Relations of Fitness and Information in Population Dynamics

Tetsuya J. Kobayashi and Yuki Sughiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238102 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

A path-wise description of population dynamics provides a general description of the fitness of a population that can account for sub-optimal evolution strategies.

Simultaneous Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy with Microchanneled Cantilevers

Dario Ossola, Livie Dorwling-Carter, Harald Dermutz, Pascal Behr, János Vörös, and Tomaso Zambelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238103 (2015) - Published 3 December, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Validation of a Nonextensive Scaling Law in Confined Granular Media

Gaël Combe, Vincent Richefeu, Marta Stasiak, and Allbens P. F. Atman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 238301 (2015) - Published 1 December, 2015

The velocity distribution of sheared granular media shows unexpected similarities with turbulent fluid flows.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Surface Plasmons and Nonlocality: A Simple Model”

W. L. Schaich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 239401 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015

Luo et al. Reply

Yu Luo, A. I. Fernandez-Dominguez, Aeneas Wiener, Stefan A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 239402 (2015) - Published 2 December, 2015