Volume 115, Issue 8

21 August 2015

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On the Cover

Network representations of the neural network of the nematode C. elegans (top) and of the interstate highways of the contiguous United States (bottom). Colors represent the spatial positions of the nodes inferred by looking at the network structure alone.

From the article:

Generalized Communities in Networks
M. E. J. Newman and Tiago P. Peixoto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088701 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Indication of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Newly Discovered Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Alex Geringer-Sameth, Matthew G. Walker, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Sergey E. Koposov, Vasily Belokurov, Gabriel Torrealba, and N. Wyn Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081101 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Are gamma rays from a nearby dwarf galaxy a beacon of dark matter or a false alarm?

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Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081102 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Using Earth as a neutrino filter, the IceCube neutrino experiment strengthens its claim that it has detected neutrinos from powerful astrophysical accelerators outside our Galaxy.

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Demonstration of a Circularly Polarized Plasma-Based Soft-X-Ray Laser

A. Depresseux, E. Oliva, J. Gautier, F. Tissandier, G. Lambert, B. Vodungbo, J-P. Goddet, A. Tafzi, J. Nejdl, M. Kozlova, G. Maynard, H. T. Kim, K. Ta Phuoc, A. Rousse, P. Zeitoun, and S. Sebban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083901 (2015) - Published 19 August, 2015

Researchers have developed a compact, circularly polarized x-ray source for studying biological matrerials.

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Observation of Magnetoelectric Multiferroicity in a Cubic Perovskite System: ${LaMn}_{3} {Cr}_{4} O_{12}$

Xiao Wang, Yisheng Chai, Long Zhou, Huibo Cao, Clarina-dela Cruz, Junye Yang, Jianhong Dai, Yunyu Yin, Zhen Yuan, Sijia Zhang, Runze Yu, Masaki Azuma, Yuichi Shimakawa, Huimin Zhang, Shuai Dong, Young Sun, Changqing Jin, and Youwen Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087601 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Electric and magnetic polarization are spontaneously produced in an unlikely material—one with a highly symmetric crystal structure.

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Formation of Shear Bands in Drying Colloidal Dispersions

Pree-Cha Kiatkirakajorn and Lucas Goehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088302 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Experiments explain why solidifying colloids sometimes form zigzagging stripes as they dry.

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New Area Law in General Relativity

Raphael Bousso and Netta Engelhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081301 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

A new relation between the area of a class of surfaces and the thermodynamic entropy has been proven, extending the results of Hawking’s 1971 area theorem.

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Observation of a New Narrow Axial-Vector Meson $a_{1} (1420)$

C. Adolph et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 082001 (2015) - Published 19 August, 2015

A new axial-vector meson is observed during the diffractive reaction of pions on a hydrogen target.

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Observation of Noise-Assisted Transport in an All-Optical Cavity-Based Network

Silvia Viciani, Manuela Lima, Marco Bellini, and Filippo Caruso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083601 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

A system of optical fibers and cavities is used to simulate noise-assisted transport through a network. This system could potentially allow the contribution of noise to the transport of light in a complex system, analogous to photosynthesis, to be studied.

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Tracking Primary Thermalization Events in Graphene with Photoemission at Extreme Time Scales

I. Gierz, F. Calegari, S. Aeschlimann, M. Chávez Cervantes, C. Cacho, R. T. Chapman, E. Springate, S. Link, U. Starke, C. R. Ast, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 086803 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited electron-hole pairs produced by 10 femtosecond pulses in graphene may have implications for petahertz electronic and optoelectronic devices.

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Nanostructure of Edge Dislocations in a Smectic- $C^{*}$ Liquid Crystal

C. Zhang, A. M. Grubb, A. J. Seed, P. Sampson, A. Jákli, and O. D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087801 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Edge dislocations in chiral smectic liquid crystals are directly observed using cryo-transmission electron microscopy.

LETTERS

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

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and the Paradox of Quantum Thermalization

Andrea De Luca and Alberto Rosso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080401 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Experimental Realization of High-Efficiency Counterfactual Computation

Fei Kong, Chenyong Ju, Pu Huang, Pengfei Wang, Xi Kong, Fazhan Shi, Liang Jiang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080501 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Generalized Moment Method for Gap Estimation and Quantum Monte Carlo Level Spectroscopy

Hidemaro Suwa and Synge Todo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080601 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Aging Wiener-Khinchin Theorem

N. Leibovich and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080602 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Wiener-Khinchin Theorem for Nonstationary Scale-Invariant Processes

Andreas Dechant and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080603 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Corner-Space Renormalization Method for Driven-Dissipative Two-Dimensional Correlated Systems

S. Finazzi, A. Le Boité, F. Storme, A. Baksic, and C. Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080604 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Replica Symmetry Breaking in Trajectories of a Driven Brownian Particle

Masahiko Ueda and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 080605 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Indication of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Newly Discovered Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Alex Geringer-Sameth, Matthew G. Walker, Savvas M. Koushiappas, Sergey E. Koposov, Vasily Belokurov, Gabriel Torrealba, and N. Wyn Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081101 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Are gamma rays from a nearby dwarf galaxy a beacon of dark matter or a false alarm?

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Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081102 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Using Earth as a neutrino filter, the IceCube neutrino experiment strengthens its claim that it has detected neutrinos from powerful astrophysical accelerators outside our Galaxy.

Resonant Dynamics and the Instability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime

Piotr Bizoń, Maciej Maliborski, and Andrzej Rostworowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081103 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

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New Area Law in General Relativity

Raphael Bousso and Netta Engelhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081301 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

A new relation between the area of a class of surfaces and the thermodynamic entropy has been proven, extending the results of Hawking’s 1971 area theorem.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Constraints on Exotic Dipole-Dipole Couplings between Electrons at the Micrometer Scale

Shlomi Kotler, Roee Ozeri, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081801 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Lepton Number Violation in Higgs Decay at LHC

Alessio Maiezza, Miha Nemevšek, and Fabrizio Nesti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081802 (2015) - Published 19 August, 2015

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Observation of a New Narrow Axial-Vector Meson $a_{1} (1420)$

C. Adolph et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 082001 (2015) - Published 19 August, 2015

A new axial-vector meson is observed during the diffractive reaction of pions on a hydrogen target.

Fully Differential Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Matteo Cacciari, Frédéric A. Dreyer, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P. Salam, and Giulia Zanderighi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 082002 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Jet at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Radja Boughezal, Fabrizio Caola, Kirill Melnikov, Frank Petriello, and Markus Schulze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 082003 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Reduction of Electronic Wave Functions to Kohn-Sham Effective Potentials

Ilya G. Ryabinkin, Sviataslau V. Kohut, and Viktor N. Staroverov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083001 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

High-Resolution Atom Interferometers with Suppressed Diffraction Phases

Brian Estey, Chenghui Yu, Holger Müller, Pei-Chen Kuan, and Shau-Yu Lan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083002 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

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Observation of Noise-Assisted Transport in an All-Optical Cavity-Based Network

Silvia Viciani, Manuela Lima, Marco Bellini, and Filippo Caruso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083601 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Dipolar Dephasing of Rydberg $D$ -State Polaritons

C. Tresp, P. Bienias, S. Weber, H. Gorniaczyk, I. Mirgorodskiy, H. P. Büchler, and S. Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083602 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Demonstration of a Circularly Polarized Plasma-Based Soft-X-Ray Laser

A. Depresseux, E. Oliva, J. Gautier, F. Tissandier, G. Lambert, B. Vodungbo, J-P. Goddet, A. Tafzi, J. Nejdl, M. Kozlova, G. Maynard, H. T. Kim, K. Ta Phuoc, A. Rousse, P. Zeitoun, and S. Sebban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083901 (2015) - Published 19 August, 2015

Researchers have developed a compact, circularly polarized x-ray source for studying biological matrerials.

High-Efficiency Broadband High-Harmonic Generation from a Single Quasi-Phase-Matching Nonlinear Crystal

Bao-Qin Chen, Chao Zhang, Chen-Yang Hu, Rong-Juan Liu, and Zhi-Yuan Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 083902 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Probing the Excitations of a Lieb-Liniger Gas from Weak to Strong Coupling

F. Meinert, M. Panfil, M. J. Mark, K. Lauber, J.-S. Caux, and H.-C. Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 085301 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Light Scattering Strategy for the Investigation of Time-Evolving Heterogeneous Supramolecular Self-Assemblies

Nicolas Jouault, Emilie Moulin, Nicolas Giuseppone, and Eric Buhler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 085501 (2015) - Published 19 August, 2015

Cluster-Based Solidification and Growth Algorithm for Decagonal Quasicrystals

P. Kuczera and W. Steurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 085502 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Computing Equilibrium Shapes of Wurtzite Crystals: The Example of GaN

Hong Li, Lutz Geelhaar, Henning Riechert, and Claudia Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 085503 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Steps or Terraces? Dynamics of Aromatic Hydrocarbons Adsorbed at Vicinal Metal Surfaces

Javier Camarillo-Cisneros, Wei Liu, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 086101 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Exchange-Dominated Pure Spin Current Transport in ${Alq}_{3}$ Molecules

S. W. Jiang, S. Liu, P. Wang, Z. Z. Luan, X. D. Tao, H. F. Ding, and D. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 086601 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Geometric Adiabatic Transport in Quantum Hall States

S. Klevtsov and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 086801 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Layered Topological Crystalline Insulators

Youngkuk Kim, C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 086802 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

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Tracking Primary Thermalization Events in Graphene with Photoemission at Extreme Time Scales

I. Gierz, F. Calegari, S. Aeschlimann, M. Chávez Cervantes, C. Cacho, R. T. Chapman, E. Springate, S. Link, U. Starke, C. R. Ast, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 086803 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited electron-hole pairs produced by 10 femtosecond pulses in graphene may have implications for petahertz electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Tunneling Processes into Localized Subgap States in Superconductors

Michael Ruby, Falko Pientka, Yang Peng, Felix von Oppen, Benjamin W. Heinrich, and Katharina J. Franke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087001 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Evidence for Half-Metallicity in $n$ -type ${HgCr}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

Tong Guan, Chaojing Lin, Chongli Yang, Youguo Shi, Cong Ren, Yongqing Li, Hongming Weng, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Shishen Yan, and Peng Xiong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087002 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Large Chern Number and Edge Currents in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Thomas Scaffidi and Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087003 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Proximity-Driven Enhanced Magnetic Order at Ferromagnetic-Insulator–Magnetic-Topological-Insulator Interface

Mingda Li, Cui-Zu Chang, Brian. J. Kirby, Michelle E. Jamer, Wenping Cui, Lijun Wu, Peng Wei, Yimei Zhu, Don Heiman, Ju Li, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087201 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Design of a Mott Multiferroic from a Nonmagnetic Polar Metal

Danilo Puggioni, Gianluca Giovannetti, Massimo Capone, and James M. Rondinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087202 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Thermodynamics of Chiral Spin Liquids with Abelian and Non-Abelian Anyons

Joji Nasu and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087203 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Accessing Phonon Polaritons in Hyperbolic Crystals by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Andrea Tomadin, Alessandro Principi, Justin C. W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087401 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

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Observation of Magnetoelectric Multiferroicity in a Cubic Perovskite System: ${LaMn}_{3} {Cr}_{4} O_{12}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087601 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Electric and magnetic polarization are spontaneously produced in an unlikely material—one with a highly symmetric crystal structure.

Decoherence of Near-Surface Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers Due to Electric Field Noise

M. Kim, H. J. Mamin, M. H. Sherwood, K. Ohno, D. D. Awschalom, and D. Rugar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087602 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Nanostructure of Edge Dislocations in a Smectic- $C^{*}$ Liquid Crystal

C. Zhang, A. M. Grubb, A. J. Seed, P. Sampson, A. Jákli, and O. D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087801 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Edge dislocations in chiral smectic liquid crystals are directly observed using cryo-transmission electron microscopy.

Shear-Rate-Independent Diffusion in Granular Flows

Yi Fan, Paul B. Umbanhowar, Julio M. Ottino, and Richard M. Lueptow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088001 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Diffusion in Jammed Particle Packs

Dan S. Bolintineanu, Gary S. Grest, Jeremy B. Lechman, and Leonardo E. Silbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088002 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Elastic Membrane Deformations Govern Interleaflet Coupling of Lipid-Ordered Domains

Timur R. Galimzyanov, Rodion J. Molotkovsky, Marine E. Bozdaganyan, Fredric S. Cohen, Peter Pohl, and Sergey A. Akimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088101 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Elastocapillary Instability in Mitochondrial Fission

David Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Sébastien Sart, Avin Babataheri, David Tareste, Abdul I. Barakat, Christophe Clanet, and Julien Husson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088102 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Adsorption-Desorption Kinetics of Soft Particles

Brendan Osberg, Johannes Nuebler, and Ulrich Gerland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088301 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

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Formation of Shear Bands in Drying Colloidal Dispersions

Pree-Cha Kiatkirakajorn and Lucas Goehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088302 (2015) - Published 18 August, 2015

Experiments explain why solidifying colloids sometimes form zigzagging stripes as they dry.

Coalescence Model for Crumpled Globules Formed in Polymer Collapse

Guy Bunin and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088303 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Towards a Unified Description of the Rheology of Hard-Particle Suspensions

B. M. Guy, M. Hermes, and W. C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088304 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Generalized Communities in Networks

M. E. J. Newman and Tiago P. Peixoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088701 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

COMMENTS

Comment on “Linear Wave Dynamics Explains Observations Attributed to Dark Solitons in a Polariton Quantum Fluid”

A. Amo, J. Bloch, A. Bramati, I. Carusotto, C. Ciuti, B. Deveaud, E. Giacobino, G. Grosso, A. Kamchatnov, G. Malpuech, N. Pavloff, S. Pigeon, D. Sanvitto, and D. D. Solnyshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 089401 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

Cilibrizzi et al. Reply:

P. Cilibrizzi, H. Ohadi, T. Ostatnicky, A. Askitopoulos, W. Langbein, and P. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 089402 (2015) - Published 17 August, 2015

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Interfacial Structure Dependent Spin Mixing Conductance in Cobalt Thin Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 056601 (2015)]

M. Tokaç, S. A. Bunyaev, G. N. Kakazei, D. S. Schmool, D. Atkinson, and A. T. Hindmarch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 089901 (2015) - Published 20 August, 2015

Publisher’s Note: Dissipative Phase Solitons in Semiconductor Lasers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043902 (2015)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 089902 (2015) - Published 21 August, 2015