Volume 115, Issue 4

24 July 2015

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Stable structural phases found in simulations of helical bending-restrained semiflexible (all) and unrestrained flexible macromolecules (bottom row only).

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Stabilization of Helical Macromolecular Phases by Confined Bending
Matthew J. Williams and Michael Bachmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 048301 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Satellite Quantum Communications

Giuseppe Vallone, Davide Bacco, Daniele Dequal, Simone Gaiarin, Vincenza Luceri, Giuseppe Bianco, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 040502 (2015) - Published 20 July, 2015

Fragile photon states useful for quantum communication can be faithfully transmitted and distinguished over a link between an orbiting satellite and a telescope on Earth.

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Coherent Addressing of Individual Neutral Atoms in a 3D Optical Lattice

Yang Wang, Xianli Zhang, Theodore A. Corcovilos, Aishwarya Kumar, and David S. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043003 (2015) - Published 23 July, 2015

Researchers manipulate atomic qubits individually in a three-dimensional optical lattice.

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Drag Moderation by the Melting of an Ice Surface in Contact with Water

Ivan U. Vakarelski, Derek Y. C. Chan, and Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 044501 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

An ice coating can halve the drag of an object moving in water by reducing the turbulent wake behind it.

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Thermal Conductivity through the Quantum Critical Point in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ at Very Low Temperature

M. Taupin, G. Knebel, T. D. Matsuda, G. Lapertot, Y. Machida, K. Izawa, J.-P. Brison, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046402 (2015) - Published 20 July, 2015

Experiments with heavy-fermion materials show that quasiparticles exist at the critical point of a quantum phase transition.

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Temperature-Dependent Three-Dimensional Anisotropy of the Magnetoresistance in ${WTe}_{2}$

L. R. Thoutam, Y. L. Wang, Z. L. Xiao, S. Das, A. Luican-Mayer, R. Divan, G. W. Crabtree, and W. K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046602 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Tungsten-ditelluride cleaves easily into atomically thin layers, but its electrons conduct almost isotropically, suggesting a rare case of good charge conduction across weak mechanical bonds.

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Discontinuous Buckling of Wide Beams and Metabeams

Corentin Coulais, Johannes T. B. Overvelde, Luuk A. Lubbers, Katia Bertoldi, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 044301 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

The buckling of mechanical beams under a compressive force can be tuned by adding holes into the beam.

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Atom-Light Hybrid Interferometer

Bing Chen, Cheng Qiu, Shuying Chen, Jinxian Guo, L. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043602 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

A new type of interferometer, sensitive to the phases of an atomic spin wave and a light wave is experimentally demonstrated.

LETTERS

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

Phase-Imprinting of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Rydberg Impurities

Rick Mukherjee, Cenap Ates, Weibin Li, and Sebastian Wüster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 040401 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

Observation of a Topological Transition in the Bulk of a Non-Hermitian System

Julia M. Zeuner, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Stefan Nolte, Mark S. Rudner, Mordechai Segev, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 040402 (2015) - Published 23 July, 2015

Superadditivity of Private Information for Any Number of Uses of the Channel

David Elkouss and Sergii Strelchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 040501 (2015) - Published 20 July, 2015

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Experimental Satellite Quantum Communications

Giuseppe Vallone, Davide Bacco, Daniele Dequal, Simone Gaiarin, Vincenza Luceri, Giuseppe Bianco, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 040502 (2015) - Published 20 July, 2015

Fragile photon states useful for quantum communication can be faithfully transmitted and distinguished over a link between an orbiting satellite and a telescope on Earth.

Efficiency Statistics and Bounds for Systems with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

Jian-Hua Jiang, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 040601 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Limits on Anisotropy in the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

S. R. Taylor et al. (EPTA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 041101 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Hidden Topological Angles in Path Integrals

Alireza Behtash, Tin Sulejmanpasic, Thomas Schäfer, and Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 041601 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

Measurement of the Effective Weak Mixing Angle in $p \bar{p} \to Z / γ^{*} \to e^{+} e^{-}$ Events

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 041801 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Hyperfine Anomalies in Fr: Boundaries of the Spherical Single Particle Model

J. Zhang (张颉颃), M. Tandecki, R. Collister, S. Aubin, J. A. Behr, E. Gomez, G. Gwinner, L. A. Orozco, M. R. Pearson, and G. D. Sprouse (FrPNC collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 042501 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two-Color Strong-Field Photoelectron Spectroscopy and the Phase of the Phase

S. Skruszewicz, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, M. Arbeiter, Th. Fennel, and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043001 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Sub-Poissonian Statistics of Jamming Limits in Ultracold Rydberg Gases

Jaron Sanders, Matthieu Jonckheere, and Servaas Kokkelmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043002 (2015) - Published 23 July, 2015

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Coherent Addressing of Individual Neutral Atoms in a 3D Optical Lattice

Yang Wang, Xianli Zhang, Theodore A. Corcovilos, Aishwarya Kumar, and David S. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043003 (2015) - Published 23 July, 2015

Researchers manipulate atomic qubits individually in a three-dimensional optical lattice.

Precision Measurement for Metastable Helium Atoms of the 413 nm Tune-Out Wavelength at Which the Atomic Polarizability Vanishes

B. M. Henson, R. I. Khakimov, R. G. Dall, K. G. H. Baldwin, Li-Yan Tang, and A. G. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043004 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

Efimov Resonance and Three-Body Parameter in a Lithium-Rubidium Mixture

R. A. W. Maier, M. Eisele, E. Tiemann, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043201 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

Nonequilibrium Quantum Criticality and Non-Markovian Environment: Critical Exponent of a Quantum Phase Transition

D. Nagy and P. Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043601 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

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Atom-Light Hybrid Interferometer

Bing Chen, Cheng Qiu, Shuying Chen, Jinxian Guo, L. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043602 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

A new type of interferometer, sensitive to the phases of an atomic spin wave and a light wave is experimentally demonstrated.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Generation of Bright, Spatially Coherent Soft X-Ray High Harmonics in a Hollow Waveguide Using Two-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses

Cheng Jin, Gregory J. Stein, Kyung-Han Hong, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043901 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Dissipative Phase Solitons in Semiconductor Lasers

F. Gustave, L. Columbo, G. Tissoni, M. Brambilla, F. Prati, B. Kelleher, B. Tykalewicz, and S. Barland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043902 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

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Discontinuous Buckling of Wide Beams and Metabeams

Corentin Coulais, Johannes T. B. Overvelde, Luuk A. Lubbers, Katia Bertoldi, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 044301 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

The buckling of mechanical beams under a compressive force can be tuned by adding holes into the beam.

Boundary-Layer Effects on Acoustic Transmission Through Narrow Slit Cavities

G. P. Ward, R. K. Lovelock, A. R. J. Murray, A. P. Hibbins, J. R. Sambles, and J. D. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 044302 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

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Drag Moderation by the Melting of an Ice Surface in Contact with Water

Ivan U. Vakarelski, Derek Y. C. Chan, and Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 044501 (2015) - Published 24 July, 2015

An ice coating can halve the drag of an object moving in water by reducing the turbulent wake behind it.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Molecular-Atomic Transition along the Deuterium Hugoniot Curve with Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo Simulations

Norm M. Tubman, Elisa Liberatore, Carlo Pierleoni, Markus Holzmann, and David M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 045301 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Observation of a Fragmented, Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Sebastian Krinner, David Stadler, Jakob Meineke, Jean-Philippe Brantut, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 045302 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Topological Superradiant States in a Degenerate Fermi Gas

Jian-Song Pan, Xiong-Jun Liu, Wei Zhang, Wei Yi, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 045303 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Interaction-Driven Topological Insulator in Fermionic Cold Atoms on an Optical Lattice: A Design with a Density Functional Formalism

Sota Kitamura, Naoto Tsuji, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 045304 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Crossover from Localized to Cascade Relaxations in Metallic Glasses

Yue Fan, Takuya Iwashita, and Takeshi Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 045501 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

Noncontact Atomic Force Microscope Dissipation Reveals a Central Peak of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Structural Phase Transition

M. Kisiel, F. Pellegrini, G. E. Santoro, M. Samadashvili, R. Pawlak, A. Benassi, U. Gysin, R. Buzio, A. Gerbi, E. Meyer, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046101 (2015) - Published 20 July, 2015

Electronic Friction-Based Vibrational Lifetimes of Molecular Adsorbates: Beyond the Independent-Atom Approximation

Simon P. Rittmeyer, Jörg Meyer, J. Iñaki Juaristi, and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046102 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

Onset of Area-Dependent Dissipation in Droplet Spreading

Mark Ilton, Oliver Bäumchen, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046103 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Correlation-Driven Charge and Spin Fluctuations in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

M. Karolak, M. Izquierdo, S. L. Molodtsov, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046401 (2015) - Published 21 July, 2015

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Thermal Conductivity through the Quantum Critical Point in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ at Very Low Temperature

M. Taupin, G. Knebel, T. D. Matsuda, G. Lapertot, Y. Machida, K. Izawa, J.-P. Brison, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046402 (2015) - Published 20 July, 2015

Experiments with heavy-fermion materials show that quasiparticles exist at the critical point of a quantum phase transition.

Infrared-Induced Sluggish Dynamics in the GeSbTe Electron Glass

Z. Ovadyahu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046601 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

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Temperature-Dependent Three-Dimensional Anisotropy of the Magnetoresistance in ${WTe}_{2}$

L. R. Thoutam, Y. L. Wang, Z. L. Xiao, S. Das, A. Luican-Mayer, R. Divan, G. W. Crabtree, and W. K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 046602 (2015) - Published 22 July, 2015

Tungsten-ditelluride cleaves easily into atomically thin layers, but its electrons conduct almost isotropically, suggesting a rare case of good charge conduction across weak mechanical bonds.