Volume 115, Issue 24

11 December 2015

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Cartoon of graphene being stretched. The green arrow indicates the direction of the strong uniform pseudomagnetic field that could be generated via this process. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Programmable Extreme Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene by a Uniaxial Stretch
Shuze Zhu, Joseph A. Stroscio, and Teng Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245501 (2015)

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Squeezing of Quantum Noise of Motion in a Micromechanical Resonator
J.-M. Pirkkalainen, E. Damskägg, M. Brandt, F. Massel, and M. A. Sillanpää
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243601 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015
The act of a quantum measurement reduces the uncertainty in the motion of a vibrating membrane below the fundamental quantum limit.
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Programmable Extreme Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene by a Uniaxial Stretch
Shuze Zhu, Joseph A. Stroscio, and Teng Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245501 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
A specially shaped ribbon of single-layer carbon can produce a strong magnetic-like effect within the material when it is pulled on its ends.
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Neutral Hydrogen Structures Trace Dust Polarization Angle: Implications for Cosmic Microwave Background Foregrounds
S. E. Clark, J. Colin Hill, J. E. G. Peek, M. E. Putman, and B. L. Babler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 241302 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
The morphology of diffuse neutral hydrogen structures can provide information about the orientation of polarized dust emission, a significant source of foreground contamination to the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
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Electron Spin Coherence of Shallow Donors in Natural and Isotopically Enriched Germanium
A. J. Sigillito, R. M. Jock, A. M. Tyryshkin, J. W. Beeman, E. E. Haller, K. M. Itoh, and S. A. Lyon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247601 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015
Measurements of the donor electron spin in germanium show coherence times that are long enough for the electrons to be used as qubits.
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Out-of-Contact Elastohydrodynamic Deformation due to Lubrication Forces
Yumo Wang, Charles Dhong, and Joelle Frechette
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 248302 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
A dimple forms at the surface of a soft material when it is lowered into contact with a hard surface. This dimple stops the two surfaces coming into direct contact with each other.
LETTERS
General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
Quasicondensation in Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases
Chien-Te Wu, Brandon M. Anderson, Rufus Boyack, and K. Levin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240401 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
Cooling Atomic Gases With Disorder
Thereza Paiva, Ehsan Khatami, Shuxiang Yang, Valéry Rousseau, Mark Jarrell, Juana Moreno, Randall G. Hulet, and Richard T. Scalettar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240402 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Cooling and Autonomous Feedback in a Bose-Hubbard Chain with Attractive Interactions
S. Hacohen-Gourgy, V. V. Ramasesh, C. De Grandi, I. Siddiqi, and S. M. Girvin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240501 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
Non-Abelian SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theories in Superconducting Circuits
A. Mezzacapo, E. Rico, C. Sabín, I. L. Egusquiza, L. Lamata, and E. Solano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240502 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
First-Passage Times in $d$ -Dimensional Heterogeneous Media
G. Vaccario, C. Antoine, and J. Talbot
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240601 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
Anomalous Magnetotransport in Disordered Structures: Classical Edge-State Percolation
Walter Schirmacher, Benedikt Fuchs, Felix Höfling, and Thomas Franosch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240602 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Experimental Observation of Two-Dimensional Anderson Localization with the Atomic Kicked Rotor
Isam Manai, Jean-François Clément, Radu Chicireanu, Clément Hainaut, Jean Claude Garreau, Pascal Szriftgiser, and Dominique Delande
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240603 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Towards a Mg Lattice Clock: Observation of the ${}^{1}{S_{0}} − {}^{3}{P_{0}}$ Transition and Determination of the Magic Wavelength
A. P. Kulosa, D. Fim, K. H. Zipfel, S. Rühmann, S. Sauer, N. Jha, K. Gibble, W. Ertmer, E. M. Rasel, M. S. Safronova, U. I. Safronova, and S. G. Porsev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 240801 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
Gravitation and Astrophysics
Spacetime Curvature and Higgs Stability after Inflation
M. Herranen, T. Markkanen, S. Nurmi, and A. Rajantie
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 241301 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
EDITORS' SUGGESTION
Neutral Hydrogen Structures Trace Dust Polarization Angle: Implications for Cosmic Microwave Background Foregrounds
S. E. Clark, J. Colin Hill, J. E. G. Peek, M. E. Putman, and B. L. Babler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 241302 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
The morphology of diffuse neutral hydrogen structures can provide information about the orientation of polarized dust emission, a significant source of foreground contamination to the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background.
Elementary Particles and Fields
Cascading Multicriticality in Nonrelativistic Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Tom Griffin, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Petr Hořava, and Ziqi Yan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 241601 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
Colliding Shock Waves and Hydrodynamics in Small Systems
Paul M. Chesler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 241602 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Evidence for the Strangeness-Changing Weak Decay $Ξ_{b}^{-} \to Λ_{b}^{0} π^{-}$
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 241801 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Resonant $π^{+} γ \to π^{+} π^{0}$ Amplitude from Quantum Chromodynamics
Raúl A. Briceño, Jozef J. Dudek, Robert G. Edwards, Christian J. Shultz, Christopher E. Thomas, and David J. Wilson (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 242001 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Nuclear Physics
Observation of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations of Charged Pion Pairs in $p^{↑} + p$ at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$
L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 242501 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
New Short-Lived Isotope ${}^{221}U$ and the Mass Surface Near $N = 126$
J. Khuyagbaatar et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 242502 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Anomalous Fano Profiles in External Fields
Alejandro Zielinski, Vinay Pramod Majety, Stefan Nagele, Renate Pazourek, Joachim Burgdörfer, and Armin Scrinzi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243001 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Cooling of a Bose-Einstein Condensate by Spin Distillation
B. Naylor, E. Maréchal, J. Huckans, O. Gorceix, P. Pedri, L. Vernac, and B. Laburthe-Tolra
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243002 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION
Squeezing of Quantum Noise of Motion in a Micromechanical Resonator
J.-M. Pirkkalainen, E. Damskägg, M. Brandt, F. Massel, and M. A. Sillanpää
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243601 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015
The act of a quantum measurement reduces the uncertainty in the motion of a vibrating membrane below the fundamental quantum limit.
Single Photon Subradiance: Quantum Control of Spontaneous Emission and Ultrafast Readout
Marlan O. Scully
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243602 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Intracavity Squeezing Can Enhance Quantum-Limited Optomechanical Position Detection through Deamplification
V. Peano, H. G. L. Schwefel, Ch. Marquardt, and F. Marquardt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243603 (2015) - Published 9 December, 2015
Quantum Optical Lattices for Emergent Many-Body Phases of Ultracold Atoms
Santiago F. Caballero-Benitez and Igor B. Mekhov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243604 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
From the Physics to the Computational Complexity of Multiboson Correlation Interference
Simon Laibacher and Vincenzo Tamma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243605 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
Dramatic Raman Gain Suppression in the Vicinity of the Zero Dispersion Point in a Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber
S. T. Bauerschmidt, D. Novoa, and P. St. J. Russell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 243901 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Rotation of Nonspherical Particles in Turbulent Channel Flow
Lihao Zhao, Niranjan Reddy Challabotla, Helge I. Andersson, and Evan A. Variano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 244501 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
Observation of Scaling in the Dynamics of a Strongly Quenched Quantum Gas
E. Nicklas, M. Karl, M. Höfer, A. Johnson, W. Muessel, H. Strobel, J. Tomkovič, T. Gasenzer, and M. K. Oberthaler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245301 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Selective Population of Edge States in a 2D Topological Band System
Bogdan Galilo, Derek K. K. Lee, and Ryan Barnett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245302 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
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EDITORS' SUGGESTION
Programmable Extreme Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene by a Uniaxial Stretch
Shuze Zhu, Joseph A. Stroscio, and Teng Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 245501 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
A specially shaped ribbon of single-layer carbon can produce a strong magnetic-like effect within the material when it is pulled on its ends.
Oxidation-Induced Surface Roughening of Aluminum Nanoparticles Formed in an Ablation Plume
Georg Daniel Förster, Marie Girault, Jérôme Menneveux, Luc Lavisse, Jean-Marie Jouvard, Maria del Carmen Marco de Lucas, Valérie Potin, François-Xavier Ouf, Moussa Kerkar, Jean-Luc Le Garrec, Erwann Carvou, Sophie Carles, Franck Rabilloud, Florent Calvo, Jin Yu, and James Brian Mitchell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246101 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
Spin Textures of Exciton-Polaritons in a Tunable Microcavity with Large TE-TM Splitting
S. Dufferwiel, Feng Li, E. Cancellieri, L. Giriunas, A. A. P. Trichet, D. M. Whittaker, P. M. Walker, F. Fras, E. Clarke, J. M. Smith, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246401 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Pressure-Induced Mott Transition Followed by a 24-K Superconducting Phase in ${BaFe}_{2} S_{3}$
Touru Yamauchi, Yasuyuki Hirata, Yutaka Ueda, and Kenya Ohgushi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246402 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Detecting the Exchange Phase of Majorana Bound States in a Corbino Geometry Topological Josephson Junction
Sunghun Park and Patrik Recher
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246403 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
First-Principles Framework to Compute Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectra of Semiconductors and Insulators
Quan Wan and Giulia Galli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246404 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Thermally Driven Pure Spin and Valley Currents via the Anomalous Nernst Effect in Monolayer Group-VI Dichalcogenides
Xiao-Qin Yu, Zhen-Gang Zhu, Gang Su, and A.-P. Jauho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246601 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Ferromagnetic Resonance Spin Pumping and Electrical Spin Injection in Silicon-Based Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Heterostructures
Y. Pu, P. M. Odenthal, R. Adur, J. Beardsley, A. G. Swartz, D. V. Pelekhov, M. E. Flatté, R. K. Kawakami, J. Pelz, P. C. Hammel, and E. Johnston-Halperin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246602 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Disorder and Metal-Insulator Transitions in Weyl Semimetals
Chui-Zhen Chen, Juntao Song, Hua Jiang, Qing-feng Sun, Ziqiang Wang, and X. C. Xie
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246603 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Superconductivity from Emerging Magnetic Moments
Shintaro Hoshino and Philipp Werner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247001 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Quantum Critical Origin of the Superconducting Dome in ${SrTiO}_{3}$
Jonathan M. Edge, Yaron Kedem, Ulrich Aschauer, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Alexander V. Balatsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247002 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Highly Anisotropic Magnon Dispersion in ${Ca}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ : Evidence for Strong Spin Orbit Coupling
S. Kunkemöller, D. Khomskii, P. Steffens, A. Piovano, A. A. Nugroho, and M. Braden
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247201 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Magnetism in Strongly Interacting One-Dimensional Quantum Mixtures
Pietro Massignan, Jesper Levinsen, and Meera M. Parish
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247202 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
Terahertz Dynamics of a Topologically Protected State: Quantum Hall Effect Plateaus near the Cyclotron Resonance of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
A. V. Stier, C. T. Ellis, J. Kwon, H. Xing, H. Zhang, D. Eason, G. Strasser, T. Morimoto, H. Aoki, H. Zeng, B. D. McCombe, and J. Cerne
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247401 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
EDITORS' SUGGESTION
Electron Spin Coherence of Shallow Donors in Natural and Isotopically Enriched Germanium
A. J. Sigillito, R. M. Jock, A. M. Tyryshkin, J. W. Beeman, E. E. Haller, K. M. Itoh, and S. A. Lyon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247601 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015
Measurements of the donor electron spin in germanium show coherence times that are long enough for the electrons to be used as qubits.
Optically Addressable Silicon Vacancy-Related Spin Centers in Rhombic Silicon Carbide with High Breakdown Characteristics and ENDOR Evidence of Their Structure
V. A. Soltamov, B. V. Yavkin, D. O. Tolmachev, R. A. Babunts, A. G. Badalyan, V. Yu. Davydov, E. N. Mokhov, I. I. Proskuryakov, S. B. Orlinskii, and P. G. Baranov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247602 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Anomalous Energetics and Dynamics of Moving Vortices
Leo Radzihovsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 247801 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Stochastic Proofreading Mechanism Alleviates Crosstalk in Transcriptional Regulation
Sarah A. Cepeda-Humerez, Georg Rieckh, and Gašper Tkačik
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 248101 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Propulsion of a Two-Sphere Swimmer
Daphne Klotsa, Kyle A. Baldwin, Richard J. A. Hill, R. M. Bowley, and Michael R. Swift
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 248102 (2015) - Published 7 December, 2015
Active Tensile Modulus of an Epithelial Monolayer
Romaric Vincent, Elsa Bazellières, Carlos Pérez-González, Marina Uroz, Xavier Serra-Picamal, and Xavier Trepat
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 248103 (2015) - Published 11 December, 2015
Thermal Analog of Gimbal Lock in a Colloidal Ferromagnetic Janus Rod
Yongxiang Gao, Andrew Kaan Balin, Roel P. A. Dullens, Julia M. Yeomans, and Dirk G. A. L. Aarts
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 248301 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
EDITORS' SUGGESTION
Out-of-Contact Elastohydrodynamic Deformation due to Lubrication Forces
Yumo Wang, Charles Dhong, and Joelle Frechette
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 248302 (2015) - Published 10 December, 2015
A dimple forms at the surface of a soft material when it is lowered into contact with a hard surface. This dimple stops the two surfaces coming into direct contact with each other.
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 249901 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
Publisher’s Note: Quantum Speed Limits for Leakage and Decoherence [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210402 (2015)]
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 249902 (2015) - Published 8 December, 2015
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