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Electron backscattered diffraction scan of a deformed Re-W alloy with abundant twinning. Black areas represent surface pitting. [Maarten de Jong et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 065501 (2015)]

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Electronic Origins of Anomalous Twin Boundary Energies in Hexagonal Close Packed Transition Metals
Maarten de Jong, J. Kacher, M. H. F. Sluiter, L. Qi, D. L. Olmsted, A. van de Walle, J. W. Morris, Jr., A. M. Minor, and M. Asta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 065501 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide

A. Goban, C.-L. Hung, J. D. Hood, S.-P. Yu, J. A. Muniz, O. Painter, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 063601 (2015) - Published 5 August, 2015

Trapping atoms near a photonic crystal waveguide produces strong atom-photon coupling that results in enhanced atomic emission of light.

Ion Acceleration Using Relativistic Pulse Shaping in Near-Critical-Density Plasmas

J. H. Bin, W. J. Ma, H. Y. Wang, M. J. V. Streeter, C. Kreuzer, D. Kiefer, M. Yeung, S. Cousens, P. S. Foster, B. Dromey, X. Q. Yan, R. Ramis, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, M. Zepf, and J. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 064801 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Laser pulses that have passed through a carbon-nanotube foam are ideally suited to accelerate ions.

Intramolecular Force Contrast and Dynamic Current-Distance Measurements at Room Temperature

F. Huber, S. Matencio, A. J. Weymouth, C. Ocal, E. Barrena, and F. J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 066101 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

An improved take on an existing approach provides intramolecular imaging of molecules adsorbed on a solid surface at room temperature.

Synchronization as Aggregation: Cluster Kinetics of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators

Kevin P. O’Keeffe, P. L. Krapivsky, and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 064101 (2015) - Published 6 August, 2015

An analysis of a model that might describe fireflies and neurons shows the path to synchronization occurring in groups of charge-and-fire oscillators.

Hot-Electron Intraband Luminescence from Single Hot Spots in Noble-Metal Nanoparticle Films

Tobias Haug, Philippe Klemm, Sebastian Bange, and John M. Lupton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067403 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Visible light emission from silver and gold nanoparticle films irradiated with ultrashort infrared pulses is governed by hot electron recombination within the conduction band.

LETTERS

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

Squeezing and Entanglement of Density Oscillations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Andrew C. J. Wade, Jacob F. Sherson, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 060401 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Time-Delayed Quantum Feedback Control

Arne L. Grimsmo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 060402 (2015) - Published 4 August, 2015

Robust Characterization of Loss Rates

Joel J. Wallman, Marie Barnhill, and Joseph Emerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 060501 (2015) - Published 5 August, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Light Dark Matter from Forbidden Channels

Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo and Joshua T. Ruderman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 061301 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Six-Dimensional Superconformal Theories and their Compactifications from Type IIA Supergravity

Fabio Apruzzi, Marco Fazzi, Achilleas Passias, Andrea Rota, and Alessandro Tomasiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 061601 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Search for Resonances Decaying to Top and Bottom Quarks with the CDF Experiment

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 061801 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Penguin Contributions to CP Phases in Bd,s Decays to Charmonium

Philipp Frings, Ulrich Nierste, and Martin Wiebusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 061802 (2015) - Published 6 August, 2015

Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron from 2+1 Flavor Lattice QCD

F.-K. Guo, R. Horsley, U.-G. Meißner, Y. Nakamura, H. Perlt, P. E. L. Rakow, G. Schierholz, A. Schiller, and J. M. Zanotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 062001 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

W-Boson Production in Association with a Jet at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in Perturbative QCD

Radja Boughezal, Christfried Focke, Xiaohui Liu, and Frank Petriello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 062002 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Direct Measurement of the Mass Difference of Ho163 and Dy163 Solves the Q-Value Puzzle for the Neutrino Mass Determination

S. Eliseev, K. Blaum, M. Block, S. Chenmarev, H. Dorrer, Ch. E. Düllmann, C. Enss, P. E. Filianin, L. Gastaldo, M. Goncharov, U. Köster, F. Lautenschläger, Yu. N. Novikov, A. Rischka, R. X. Schüssler, L. Schweikhard, and A. Türler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 062501 (2015) - Published 5 August, 2015

Enhanced γ-Ray Emission from Neutron Unbound States Populated in β Decay

J. L. Tain et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 062502 (2015) - Published 6 August, 2015

Inverse Kinematic Study of the Al26g(d,p)Al27 Reaction and Implications for Destruction of Al26 in Wolf-Rayet and Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

V. Margerin, G. Lotay, P. J. Woods, M. Aliotta, G. Christian, B. Davids, T. Davinson, D. T. Doherty, J. Fallis, D. Howell, O. S. Kirsebom, D. J. Mountford, A. Rojas, C. Ruiz, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 062701 (2015) - Published 5 August, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Energetics and Control of Ultracold Isotope-Exchange Reactions between Heteronuclear Dimers in External Fields

Michał Tomza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 063201 (2015) - Published 6 August, 2015

Superradiance for Atoms Trapped along a Photonic Crystal Waveguide

A. Goban, C.-L. Hung, J. D. Hood, S.-P. Yu, J. A. Muniz, O. Painter, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 063601 (2015) - Published 5 August, 2015

Trapping atoms near a photonic crystal waveguide produces strong atom-photon coupling that results in enhanced atomic emission of light.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Synchronization as Aggregation: Cluster Kinetics of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators

Kevin P. O’Keeffe, P. L. Krapivsky, and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 064101 (2015) - Published 6 August, 2015

An analysis of a model that might describe fireflies and neurons shows the path to synchronization occurring in groups of charge-and-fire oscillators.

Droplets in Microchannels: Dynamical Properties of the Lubrication Film

Axel Huerre, Olivier Theodoly, Alexander M. Leshansky, Marie-Pierre Valignat, Isabelle Cantat, and Marie-Caroline Jullien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 064501 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ion Acceleration Using Relativistic Pulse Shaping in Near-Critical-Density Plasmas

J. H. Bin, W. J. Ma, H. Y. Wang, M. J. V. Streeter, C. Kreuzer, D. Kiefer, M. Yeung, S. Cousens, P. S. Foster, B. Dromey, X. Q. Yan, R. Ramis, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, M. Zepf, and J. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 064801 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Laser pulses that have passed through a carbon-nanotube foam are ideally suited to accelerate ions.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Parafermionic Zero Modes in Ultracold Bosonic Systems

M. F. Maghrebi, S. Ganeshan, D. J. Clarke, A. V. Gorshkov, and J. D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 065301 (2015) - Published 6 August, 2015

Electronic Origins of Anomalous Twin Boundary Energies in Hexagonal Close Packed Transition Metals

Maarten de Jong, J. Kacher, M. H. F. Sluiter, L. Qi, D. L. Olmsted, A. van de Walle, J. W. Morris, Jr., A. M. Minor, and M. Asta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 065501 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Intramolecular Force Contrast and Dynamic Current-Distance Measurements at Room Temperature

F. Huber, S. Matencio, A. J. Weymouth, C. Ocal, E. Barrena, and F. J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 066101 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

An improved take on an existing approach provides intramolecular imaging of molecules adsorbed on a solid surface at room temperature.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Landau Theory of Helical Fermi Liquids

Rex Lundgren and Joseph Maciejko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 066401 (2015) - Published 4 August, 2015

Linear Scaling of the Exciton Binding Energy versus the Band Gap of Two-Dimensional Materials

Jin-Ho Choi, Ping Cui, Haiping Lan, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 066403 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Surface and Step Conductivities on Si(111) Surfaces

Sven Just, Marcus Blab, Stefan Korte, Vasily Cherepanov, Helmut Soltner, and Bert Voigtländer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 066801 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Dynamic Reorganization of Vortex Matter into Partially Disordered Lattices

M. Marziali Bermúdez, M. R. Eskildsen, M. Bartkowiak, G. Nagy, V. Bekeris, and G. Pasquini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067001 (2015) - Published 4 August, 2015

Large Superconducting Spin Valve Effect and Ultrasmall Exchange Splitting in Epitaxial Rare-Earth-Niobium Trilayers

Yuanzhou Gu, Gábor B. Halász, J. W. A. Robinson, and M. G. Blamire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067201 (2015) - Published 3 August, 2015

Strain Induced Vortex Core Switching in Planar Magnetostrictive Nanostructures

T. A. Ostler, R. Cuadrado, R. W. Chantrell, A. W. Rushforth, and S. A. Cavill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067202 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Towards Scalable Entangled Photon Sources with Self-Assembled InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots

Jianping Wang, Ming Gong, G.-C. Guo, and Lixin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067401 (2015) - Published 5 August, 2015

Line Degeneracy and Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling of Light with Bulk Bianisotropic Metamaterials

Qinghua Guo, Wenlong Gao, Jing Chen, Yongmin Liu, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067402 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Hot-Electron Intraband Luminescence from Single Hot Spots in Noble-Metal Nanoparticle Films

Tobias Haug, Philippe Klemm, Sebastian Bange, and John M. Lupton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067403 (2015) - Published 7 August, 2015

Visible light emission from silver and gold nanoparticle films irradiated with ultrashort infrared pulses is governed by hot electron recombination within the conduction band.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Asymptotic Phase for Stochastic Oscillators”

Arkady Pikovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 069401 (2015) - Published 4 August, 2015

Thomas and Lindner Reply:

Peter J. Thomas and Benjamin Lindner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 069402 (2015) - Published 4 August, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Universal Three-Body Parameter in Heteronuclear Atomic Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243201 (2012)]

Yujun Wang, Jia Wang, J. P. D’Incao, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 069901 (2015) - Published 4 August, 2015

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