Volume 115, Issue 3

17 July 2015

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Graph showing longitudinal resistance at finite magnetic field as a function of top and bottom gate voltages for an InAs/GaSb double quantum well device.

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Electric and Magnetic Tuning Between the Trivial and Topological Phases in InAs/GaSb Double Quantum Wells
Fanming Qu, Arjan J. A. Beukman, Stevan Nadj-Perge, Michael Wimmer, Binh-Minh Nguyen, Wei Yi, Jacob Thorp, Marko Sokolich, Andrey A. Kiselev, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036803 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Spatially Resolved Detection of a Spin-Entanglement Wave in a Bose-Hubbard Chain

Takeshi Fukuhara, Sebastian Hild, Johannes Zeiher, Peter Schauß, Immanuel Bloch, Manuel Endres, and Christian Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 035302 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

A quantum microscope images a propagating wave of entanglement between atoms trapped in an optical lattice.

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THz-Pulse-Induced Selective Catalytic CO Oxidation on Ru

Jerry L. LaRue, Tetsuo Katayama, Aaron Lindenberg, Alan S. Fisher, Henrik Öström, Anders Nilsson, and Hirohito Ogasawara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036103 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

Terahertz pulses drive certain reactions on a metal surface by selectively exciting some of the adsorbed molecules.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thin Films in Partial Wetting: Internal Selection of Contact-Line Dynamics

Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Gareth H. McKinley, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 034502 (2015) - Published 17 July, 2015

Classical fluid theory can’t explain a puddle that spreads and then stops. A new theory solves the problem by incorporating intermolecular forces between the liquid and the solid underneath.

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Experimental Test of Entropic Noise-Disturbance Uncertainty Relations for Spin- $1 / 2$ Measurements

Georg Sulyok, Stephan Sponar, Bülent Demirel, Francesco Buscemi, Michael J. W. Hall, Masanao Ozawa, and Yuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030401 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Experiments on neutrons confirm an information-theoretic formulation of Heisenberg’s noise-disturbance uncertainty principle: There is a reciprocal trade-off in knowledge of two incompatible spin observables.

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Evidence of $W γ γ$ Production in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ and Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031802 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

The first measurement of triple gauge boson production ( $W$ boson and two photons) at the LHC provides new limits on interactions beyond the standard model.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-Functional Theory for Strongly Correlated Bosonic and Fermionic Ultracold Dipolar and Ionic Gases

F. Malet, A. Mirtschink, C. B. Mendl, J. Bjerlin, E. Ö. Karabulut, S. M. Reimann, and Paola Gori-Giorgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033006 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

An alternative functional for DFT calculations enables simulations of ultracold gases with long-ranged interactions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Magnetization of a Quantum Point Contact Measured by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Minoru Kawamura, Keiji Ono, Peter Stano, Kimitoshi Kono, and Tomosuke Aono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036601 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Nuclear magnetic moments inside a quantum point contact (QPC) can be polarized by a DC current. This polarization influences the QPC conductance at $0.7 * 2 e^{2} / h$ , where a conductance plateau has previously been observed.

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Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Hall Effects in the Skyrmion Phase of ${Mn}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} Ge$

J. Gayles, F. Freimuth, T. Schena, G. Lani, P. Mavropoulos, R. A. Duine, S. Blügel, J. Sinova, and Y. Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036602 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

A new theoretical treatment of Skyrmions in ferromagnets shows that electron dynamics are governed by Berry phase physics.

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Coupling Ferroelectricity with Spin-Valley Physics in Oxide-Based Heterostructures

Kunihiko Yamauchi, Paolo Barone, Tatsuya Shishidou, Tamio Oguchi, and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 037602 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

A theoretically proposed oxide-based heterostructure indicates how coupling of spin and valley degrees of freedom may be engineered and controlled via the ferroelectric properties typical of transition-metal oxides.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical Limit to Concentration Sensing Amid Spurious Ligands

Thierry Mora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 038102 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

The accuracy with which a cell can sense a specific ligand is limited by the concentration of incorrect ligands that can bind to and interfere with the cell receptors.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Test of Entropic Noise-Disturbance Uncertainty Relations for Spin- $1 / 2$ Measurements

Georg Sulyok, Stephan Sponar, Bülent Demirel, Francesco Buscemi, Michael J. W. Hall, Masanao Ozawa, and Yuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030401 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Fate of Many-Body Localization Under Periodic Driving

Achilleas Lazarides, Arnab Das, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030402 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Nonzero Classical Discord

Vlad Gheorghiu, Marcos C. de Oliveira, and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030403 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Entanglement and Nonlocality are Inequivalent for Any Number of Parties

R. Augusiak, M. Demianowicz, J. Tura, and A. Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030404 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

Qutrit Magic State Distillation Tight in Some Directions

Hillary Dawkins and Mark Howard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030501 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Practical Relativistic Bit Commitment

T. Lunghi, J. Kaniewski, F. Bussières, R. Houlmann, M. Tomamichel, S. Wehner, and H. Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030502 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Postselection-Loophole-Free Bell Test Over an Installed Optical Fiber Network

Gonzalo Carvacho, Jaime Cariñe, Gabriel Saavedra, Álvaro Cuevas, Jorge Fuenzalida, Felipe Toledo, Miguel Figueroa, Adán Cabello, Jan-Åke Larsson, Paolo Mataloni, Gustavo Lima, and Guilherme B. Xavier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030503 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Communication Tasks with Infinite Quantum-Classical Separation

Christopher Perry, Rahul Jain, and Jonathan Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030504 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Concentrating Tripartite Quantum Information

Alexander Streltsov, Soojoon Lee, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 030505 (2015) - Published 17 July, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Entropy Inequality Violations from Ultraspinning Black Holes

Robie A. Hennigar, Robert B. Mann, and David Kubizňák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031101 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

Approaching the Post-Newtonian Regime with Numerical Relativity: A Compact-Object Binary Simulation Spanning 350 Gravitational-Wave Cycles

Béla Szilágyi, Jonathan Blackman, Alessandra Buonanno, Andrea Taracchini, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Tony Chu, Lawrence E. Kidder, and Yi Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031102 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

$(1 + 1) D$ Calculation Provides Evidence that Quantum Entanglement Survives a Firewall

Eduardo Martín-Martínez and Jorma Louko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031301 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to J / ψ K_{S}^{0}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031601 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to $e μ$ , $e τ$ , or $μ τ$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031801 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of $W γ γ$ Production in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ and Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 031802 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

The first measurement of triple gauge boson production ( $W$ boson and two photons) at the LHC provides new limits on interactions beyond the standard model.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Characterization of Molecular Breakup by Very Intense Femtosecond XUV Laser Pulses

Lun Yue (岳仑) and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033001 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Precision Test of Many-Body QED in the ${Be}^{+}$ $2 p$ Fine Structure Doublet Using Short-Lived Isotopes

Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Christopher Geppert, Andreas Krieger, Krzysztof Pachucki, Mariusz Puchalski, Klaus Blaum, Mark L. Bissell, Nadja Frömmgen, Michael Hammen, Magdalena Kowalska, Jörg Krämer, Kim Kreim, Rainer Neugart, Gerda Neyens, Rodolfo Sánchez, and Deyan T. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033002 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Phase Reconstruction of Strong-Field Excited Systems by Transient-Absorption Spectroscopy

Zuoye Liu, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Christian Ott, Kristina Meyer, Yonghao Mi, Zoltán Harman, Christoph H. Keitel, and Thomas Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033003 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Alkali-Metal Spin Maser

W. Chalupczak and P. Josephs-Franks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033004 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

Magneto-Optical Properties of Paramagnetic Superrotors

A. A. Milner, A. Korobenko, J. Floß, I. Sh. Averbukh, and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033005 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-Functional Theory for Strongly Correlated Bosonic and Fermionic Ultracold Dipolar and Ionic Gases

F. Malet, A. Mirtschink, C. B. Mendl, J. Bjerlin, E. Ö. Karabulut, S. M. Reimann, and Paola Gori-Giorgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033006 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

An alternative functional for DFT calculations enables simulations of ultracold gases with long-ranged interactions.

Quasiresonant van der Waals Interaction between Nonidentical Atoms

M. Donaire, R. Guérout, and A. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033201 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

Absolute Differential Positronium-Formation Cross Sections

M. Shipman, S. Armitage, J. Beale, S. J. Brawley, S. E. Fayer, A. J. Garner, D. E. Leslie, P. Van Reeth, and G. Laricchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033401 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Hybrid Quantum Systems with Collectively Coupled Spin States: Suppression of Decoherence through Spectral Hole Burning

Dmitry O. Krimer, Benedikt Hartl, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033601 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Photoionization-Induced Emission of Tunable Few-Cycle Midinfrared Dispersive Waves in Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

D. Novoa, M. Cassataro, J. C. Travers, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033901 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Spin-Glass Model Governs Laser Multiple Filamentation

W. Ettoumi, J. Kasparian, and J.-P. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 033902 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Phase Diffusion in Unequally Noisy Coupled Oscillators

Rami M. Amro, Benjamin Lindner, and Alexander B. Neiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 034101 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Propagation Dynamics of Airy Water-Wave Pulses

Shenhe Fu, Yuval Tsur, Jianying Zhou, Lev Shemer, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 034501 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thin Films in Partial Wetting: Internal Selection of Contact-Line Dynamics

Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Gareth H. McKinley, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 034502 (2015) - Published 17 July, 2015

Classical fluid theory can’t explain a puddle that spreads and then stops. A new theory solves the problem by incorporating intermolecular forces between the liquid and the solid underneath.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spatial Coherence and Stability in a Disordered Organic Polariton Condensate

K. S. Daskalakis, S. A. Maier, and S. Kéna-Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 035301 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatially Resolved Detection of a Spin-Entanglement Wave in a Bose-Hubbard Chain

Takeshi Fukuhara, Sebastian Hild, Johannes Zeiher, Peter Schauß, Immanuel Bloch, Manuel Endres, and Christian Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 035302 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

A quantum microscope images a propagating wave of entanglement between atoms trapped in an optical lattice.

Quantitative Measurement of Density in a Shear Band of Metallic Glass Monitored Along its Propagation Direction

Vitalij Schmidt, Harald Rösner, Martin Peterlechner, Gerhard Wilde, and Paul M. Voyles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 035501 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Plasmon Injection to Compensate and Control Losses in Negative Index Metamaterials

Mehdi Sadatgol, Şahin K. Özdemir, Lan Yang, and Durdu Ö. Güney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 035502 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

Nonequilibrium Casimir-like Forces in Liquid Mixtures

T. R. Kirkpatrick, J. M. Ortiz de Zárate, and J. V. Sengers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 035901 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Giant Osmotic Pressure in the Forced Wetting of Hydrophobic Nanopores

Millan Michelin-Jamois, Cyril Picard, Gérard Vigier, and Elisabeth Charlaix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036101 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Peeling by Nanomechanical Forces: A Route to Selective Creation of Surface Structures

Porntip Seema, Jörg Behler, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036102 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

THz-Pulse-Induced Selective Catalytic CO Oxidation on Ru

Jerry L. LaRue, Tetsuo Katayama, Aaron Lindenberg, Alan S. Fisher, Henrik Öström, Anders Nilsson, and Hirohito Ogasawara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036103 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

Terahertz pulses drive certain reactions on a metal surface by selectively exciting some of the adsorbed molecules.

Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Adsorption: Structure and Binding of Benzene on Coinage Metals

Wei Liu, Friedrich Maaß, Martin Willenbockel, Christopher Bronner, Michael Schulze, Serguei Soubatch, F. Stefan Tautz, Petra Tegeder, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036104 (2015) - Published 17 July, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Novel Electronic Behavior Driving ${NdNiO}_{3}$ Metal-Insulator Transition

M. H. Upton, Yongseong Choi, Hyowon Park, Jian Liu, D. Meyers, J. Chakhalian, S. Middey, Jong-Woo Kim, and Philip J. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036401 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed Semilocal Density Functional

Jianwei Sun, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, and John P. Perdew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036402 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Metallic Quasicrystals with Local Magnetic Moments

Eric C. Andrade, Anuradha Jagannathan, Eduardo Miranda, Matthias Vojta, and Vladimir Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036403 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Competing $d$ -Wave and $p$ -Wave Spin-Singlet Superconductivities in the Two-Dimensional Kondo Lattice

Junya Otsuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036404 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Magnetization of a Quantum Point Contact Measured by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Minoru Kawamura, Keiji Ono, Peter Stano, Kimitoshi Kono, and Tomosuke Aono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036601 (2015) - Published 13 July, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Hall Effects in the Skyrmion Phase of ${Mn}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} Ge$

J. Gayles, F. Freimuth, T. Schena, G. Lani, P. Mavropoulos, R. A. Duine, S. Blügel, J. Sinova, and Y. Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036602 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

A new theoretical treatment of Skyrmions in ferromagnets shows that electron dynamics are governed by Berry phase physics.

Molecular Adsorption Changes the Quantum Structure of Oxide-Supported Gold Nanoparticles: Chemisorption versus Physisorption

Christian Stiehler, Florencia Calaza, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Niklas Nilius, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036804 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coupling Ferroelectricity with Spin-Valley Physics in Oxide-Based Heterostructures

Kunihiko Yamauchi, Paolo Barone, Tatsuya Shishidou, Tamio Oguchi, and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 037602 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Detention Times of Microswimmers Close to Surfaces: Influence of Hydrodynamic Interactions and Noise

Konstantin Schaar, Andreas Zöttl, and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 038101 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical Limit to Concentration Sensing Amid Spurious Ligands

Thierry Mora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 038102 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

The accuracy with which a cell can sense a specific ligand is limited by the concentration of incorrect ligands that can bind to and interfere with the cell receptors.

Renewal Approach to the Analysis of the Asynchronous State for Coupled Noisy Oscillators

Farzad Farkhooi and Carl van Vreeswijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 038103 (2015) - Published 16 July, 2015

Nondecaying Hydrodynamic Interactions along Narrow Channels

Karolis Misiunas, Stefano Pagliara, Eric Lauga, John R. Lister, and Ulrich F. Keyser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 038301 (2015) - Published 15 July, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Radiative Improvement of the Lattice Nonrelativistic QCD Action Using the Background Field Method and Application to the Hyperfine Splitting of Quarkonium States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 112002 (2011)]

T. C. Hammant, A. G. Hart, G. M. von Hippel, R. R. Horgan, and C. J. Monahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 039901 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Erratum: Consistency of the Adiabatic Theorem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 220401 (2009)]

M. H. S. Amin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 039902 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015

Erratum: Simple Model for the Mechanics of Spider Webs [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 038102 (2010)]

Yuko Aoyanagi and Ko Okumura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 039903 (2015) - Published 14 July, 2015