Volume 115, Issue 26

31 December 2015

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Optimal frame for polarization state reconstruction with nine distinct projective measurements of the associated Stokes vector.

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Optimal Frames for Polarization State Reconstruction
Matthew R. Foreman, Alberto Favaro, and Andrea Aiello
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 263901 (2015)

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On-Chip Maxwell’s Demon as an Information-Powered Refrigerator

J. V. Koski, A. Kutvonen, I. M. Khaymovich, T. Ala-Nissila, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260602 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

A pair of connected single-electron devices functions as a Maxwell’s demon that operates without external control.

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Strongly Interacting Gas of Two-Electron Fermions at an Orbital Feshbach Resonance

G. Pagano, M. Mancini, G. Cappellini, L. Livi, C. Sias, J. Catani, M. Inguscio, and L. Fallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265301 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Two separate groups have managed to control the interactions in a cold atomic gas in which each atom has two valence electrons.

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Observation of an Orbital Interaction-Induced Feshbach Resonance in ${}^{173}{Yb}$

M. Höfer, L. Riegger, F. Scazza, C. Hofrichter, D. R. Fernandes, M. M. Parish, J. Levinsen, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265302 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Two separate groups have managed to control the interactions in a cold atomic gas in which each atom has two valence electrons.

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Thermal Generation of Spin Current in an Antiferromagnet

S. Seki, T. Ideue, M. Kubota, Y. Kozuka, R. Takagi, M. Nakamura, Y. Kaneko, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266601 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Experiments show that a heat gradient can generate a spin-wave spin current in an antiferromagnetic insulator.

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Potential Remedies for the High Synchrotron-Radiation-Induced Heat Load for Future Highest-Energy-Proton Circular Colliders

R. Cimino, V. Baglin, and F. Schäfers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264804 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

A new design scheme for high-energy particle colliders could halve the cost of cooling future machines.

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Teleconnection Paths via Climate Network Direct Link Detection

Dong Zhou, Avi Gozolchiani, Yosef Ashkenazy, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 268501 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

A new method allows researchers to extract climate connections between remote regions from global temperature datasets.

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Experimental Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-Type Six-Photon Quantum Nonlocality

Chao Zhang, Yun-Feng Huang, Zhao Wang, Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260402 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

An entangled quantum state of six photons leads to non-classical correlations veryifying quantum nonlocality.

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Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment with a Beam Splitter in a Quantum Superposition

Shi-Biao Zheng, You-Peng Zhong, Kai Xu, Qi-Jue Wang, H. Wang, Li-Tuo Shen, Chui-Ping Yang, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland, and Si-Yuan Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260403 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

A beam splitter is placed in a quantum superposition state of being both active and inactive allowing the wave and particle aspects of the system to be observed in a single setup.

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Testing Einstein’s Equivalence Principle With Fast Radio Bursts

Jun-Jie Wei, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, and Peter Mészáros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 261101 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Time delays between correlated photons emitted from fast radio bursts induced by the gravitational potential of the Milky Way provide the most accurate tests of Einstein’s equivalence principle to date.

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Microscopic Observation of Pauli Blocking in Degenerate Fermionic Lattice Gases

Ahmed Omran, Martin Boll, Timon A. Hilker, Katharina Kleinlein, Guillaume Salomon, Immanuel Bloch, and Christian Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 263001 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

A fermion quantum gas microscope that operates in the quantum degenerate regime is used to directly measure local atom number fluctuations showing a strong suppression in the band-insulating region.

LETTERS

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

Formation and Dynamics of Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Tunable Optical Lattices

Daniel Greif, Gregor Jotzu, Michael Messer, Rémi Desbuquois, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260401 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

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Experimental Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-Type Six-Photon Quantum Nonlocality

Chao Zhang, Yun-Feng Huang, Zhao Wang, Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260402 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

An entangled quantum state of six photons leads to non-classical correlations veryifying quantum nonlocality.

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Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment with a Beam Splitter in a Quantum Superposition

Shi-Biao Zheng, You-Peng Zhong, Kai Xu, Qi-Jue Wang, H. Wang, Li-Tuo Shen, Chui-Ping Yang, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland, and Si-Yuan Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260403 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

A beam splitter is placed in a quantum superposition state of being both active and inactive allowing the wave and particle aspects of the system to be observed in a single setup.

“Photonic” Cat States from Strongly Interacting Matter Waves

Uwe R. Fischer and Myung-Kyun Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260404 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Quantum Fidelity for Arbitrary Gaussian States

Leonardo Banchi, Samuel L. Braunstein, and Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260501 (2015) - Published 22 December, 2015

Work Fluctuation-Dissipation Trade-Off in Heat Engines

Ken Funo and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260601 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

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On-Chip Maxwell’s Demon as an Information-Powered Refrigerator

J. V. Koski, A. Kutvonen, I. M. Khaymovich, T. Ala-Nissila, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260602 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

A pair of connected single-electron devices functions as a Maxwell’s demon that operates without external control.

Dissipation Bound for Thermodynamic Control

Benjamin B. Machta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 260603 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Testing Einstein’s Equivalence Principle With Fast Radio Bursts

Jun-Jie Wei, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, and Peter Mészáros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 261101 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Taking the Universe’s Temperature with Spectral Distortions of the Cosmic Microwave Background

J. Colin Hill, Nick Battaglia, Jens Chluba, Simone Ferraro, Emmanuel Schaan, and David N. Spergel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 261301 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

How to Recover a Qubit That Has Fallen into a Black Hole

Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Adam S. Jermyn, and Sean M. Carroll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 261302 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Precision Test of Gauge-Gravity Duality with Flavor

Andreas Karch, Brandon Robinson, and Christoph F. Uhlemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 261601 (2015) - Published 22 December, 2015

Distance between Quantum States and Gauge-Gravity Duality

Masamichi Miyaji, Tokiro Numasawa, Noburo Shiba, Tadashi Takayanagi, and Kento Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 261602 (2015) - Published 22 December, 2015

Determination of the Ratio of $b$ -Quark Fragmentation Fractions $f_{s} / f_{d}$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 262001 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Microscopic Observation of Pauli Blocking in Degenerate Fermionic Lattice Gases

Ahmed Omran, Martin Boll, Timon A. Hilker, Katharina Kleinlein, Guillaume Salomon, Immanuel Bloch, and Christian Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 263001 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

A fermion quantum gas microscope that operates in the quantum degenerate regime is used to directly measure local atom number fluctuations showing a strong suppression in the band-insulating region.

Exact Potential Driving the Electron Dynamics in Enhanced Ionization of $H_{2}^{+}$

Elham Khosravi, Ali Abedi, and Neepa T. Maitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 263002 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Paraxial Theory of Direct Electro-optic Sampling of the Quantum Vacuum

A. S. Moskalenko, C. Riek, D. V. Seletskiy, G. Burkard, and A. Leitenstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 263601 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optimal Frames for Polarization State Reconstruction

Matthew R. Foreman, Alberto Favaro, and Andrea Aiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 263901 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Mechanism of Partial Flame Propagation and Extinction in a Strong Gravitational Field

Kirill A. Kazakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264501 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Turbulence on a Fractal Fourier Set

Alessandra S. Lanotte, Roberto Benzi, Shiva K. Malapaka, Federico Toschi, and Luca Biferale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264502 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Condensation of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows

Kai Leong Chong (庄启亮), Shi-Di Huang (黄仕迪), Matthias Kaczorowski, and Ke-Qing Xia (夏克青)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264503 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Operational Head-on Beam-Beam Compensation with Electron Lenses in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

W. Fischer, X. Gu, Z. Altinbas, M. Costanzo, J. Hock, C. Liu, Y. Luo, A. Marusic, R. Michnoff, T. A. Miller, A. I. Pikin, V. Schoefer, P. Thieberger, and S. M. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264801 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Observation of Field-Emission Dependence on Stored Energy

Jiahang Shao, Sergey P. Antipov, Sergey V. Baryshev, Huaibi Chen, Manoel Conde, Darrell S. Doran, Wei Gai, Chunguang Jing, Wanming Liu, John Power, Jiaqi Qiu, Jiaru Shi, Dan Wang, Faya Wang, Charles E. Whiteford, Eric Wisniewski, and Liling Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264802 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoelectric Emission

Thomas Juffmann, Brannon B. Klopfer, Gunnar E. Skulason, Catherine Kealhofer, Fan Xiao, Seth M. Foreman, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264803 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

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Potential Remedies for the High Synchrotron-Radiation-Induced Heat Load for Future Highest-Energy-Proton Circular Colliders

R. Cimino, V. Baglin, and F. Schäfers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 264804 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015

A new design scheme for high-energy particle colliders could halve the cost of cooling future machines.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Strongly Interacting Gas of Two-Electron Fermions at an Orbital Feshbach Resonance

G. Pagano, M. Mancini, G. Cappellini, L. Livi, C. Sias, J. Catani, M. Inguscio, and L. Fallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265301 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Two separate groups have managed to control the interactions in a cold atomic gas in which each atom has two valence electrons.

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Observation of an Orbital Interaction-Induced Feshbach Resonance in ${}^{173}{Yb}$

M. Höfer, L. Riegger, F. Scazza, C. Hofrichter, D. R. Fernandes, M. M. Parish, J. Levinsen, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265302 (2015) - Published 21 December, 2015

Two separate groups have managed to control the interactions in a cold atomic gas in which each atom has two valence electrons.

Critical Velocity and Dissipation of an Ultracold Bose-Fermi Counterflow

Marion Delehaye, Sébastien Laurent, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Shuwei Jin, Frédéric Chevy, and Christophe Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265303 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Structured Weyl Points in Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermionic Superfluids

Yong Xu, Fan Zhang, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265304 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Multiscale Theory of Dislocation Climb

Pierre-Antoine Geslin, Benoît Appolaire, and Alphonse Finel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265501 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Critical Crystallization for Embrittlement in Metallic Glasses

Jittisa Ketkaew, Ze Liu, Wen Chen, and Jan Schroers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265502 (2015) - Published 22 December, 2015

Crack Front Segmentation and Facet Coarsening in Mixed-Mode Fracture

Chih-Hung Chen, Tristan Cambonie, Veronique Lazarus, Matteo Nicoli, Antonio J. Pons, and Alain Karma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265503 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Direct Imaging of Dynamic Glassy Behavior in a Strained Manganite Film

Worasom Kundhikanjana, Zhigao Sheng, Yongliang Yang, Keji Lai, Eric Yue Ma, Yong-Tao Cui, Michael A. Kelly, Masao Nakamura, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, Qiaochu Tang, Kun Zhang, Xinxin Li, and Zhi-Xun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265701 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Negative Pressure Vitrification of the Isochorically Confined Liquid in Nanopores

K. Adrjanowicz, K. Kaminski, K. Koperwas, and M. Paluch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 265702 (2015) - Published 22 December, 2015

Continuous and Collective Grain Rotation in Nanoscale Thin Films during Silicidation

M.-I. Richard, J. Fouet, M. Texier, C. Mocuta, C. Guichet, and O. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266101 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Switching of Dirac-Fermion Mass at the Interface of Ultrathin Ferromagnet and Rashba Metal

K. Honma, T. Sato, S. Souma, K. Sugawara, Y. Tanaka, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266401 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Optical Spectroscopic Studies of the Metal-Insulator Transition Driven by All-In–All-Out Magnetic Ordering in $5 d$ Pyrochlore ${Cd}_{2} {Os}_{2} O_{7}$

C. H. Sohn, Hogyun Jeong, Hosub Jin, Soyeon Kim, L. J. Sandilands, H. J. Park, K. W. Kim, S. J. Moon, Deok-Yong Cho, J. Yamaura, Z. Hiroi, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266402 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

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Thermal Generation of Spin Current in an Antiferromagnet

S. Seki, T. Ideue, M. Kubota, Y. Kozuka, R. Takagi, M. Nakamura, Y. Kaneko, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266601 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Experiments show that a heat gradient can generate a spin-wave spin current in an antiferromagnetic insulator.

Optical Generation of Hot Spin-Polarized Electrons from a Ferromagnetic Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Martin Ellguth, Christian Tusche, and Jürgen Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266801 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Taming the Dynamical Sign Problem in Real-Time Evolution of Quantum Many-Body Problems

Guy Cohen, Emanuel Gull, David R. Reichman, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266802 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Electron Quantization in Broken Atomic Wires

Eui Hwan Do and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266803 (2015) - Published 28 December, 2015

Robust Majorana Conductance Peaks for a Superconducting Lead

Yang Peng, Falko Pientka, Yuval Vinkler-Aviv, Leonid I. Glazman, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 266804 (2015) - Published 29 December, 2015

Unconventional Superconductivity in ${La}_{7} {Ir}_{3}$ Revealed by Muon Spin Relaxation: Introducing a New Family of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor That Breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry

J. A. T. Barker, D. Singh, A. Thamizhavel, A. D. Hillier, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, D. McK. Paul, and R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 267001 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Flow-Driven Cell Migration under External Electric Fields

Yizeng Li, Yoichiro Mori, and Sean X. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 268101 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Effect of Hydrodynamic Interactions on Self-Diffusion of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Colloidal Hard Spheres

Alice L. Thorneywork, Roberto E. Rozas, Roel P. A. Dullens, and Jürgen Horbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 268301 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

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Teleconnection Paths via Climate Network Direct Link Detection

Dong Zhou, Avi Gozolchiani, Yosef Ashkenazy, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 268501 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

A new method allows researchers to extract climate connections between remote regions from global temperature datasets.

Breaking of Ensemble Equivalence in Networks

Tiziano Squartini, Joey de Mol, Frank den Hollander, and Diego Garlaschelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 268701 (2015) - Published 30 December, 2015

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Yi Pan, Niklas Nilius, Hans-Joachim Freund, Joachim Paier, Christopher Penschke, and Joachim Sauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 269901 (2015) - Published 23 December, 2015

Retraction: Higher-Order Nonlocal Effects of a Relativistic Ponderomotive Force in High-Intensity Laser Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 035002 (2014)]

Natsumi Iwata and Yasuaki Kishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 269902 (2015) - Published 31 December, 2015