Volume 115, Issue 9

28 August 2015

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Transient magnetization in copper layer (red) and copper-cobalt interface (purple) caused by spin injection from an adjacent ferromagnetic polarizer layer of cobalt (blue). Selected for an Editor’s Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

From the article:

X-ray Detection of Transient Magnetic Moments Induced by a Spin Current in Cu
R. Kukreja, S. Bonetti, Z. Chen, D. Backes, Y. Acremann, J. A. Katine, A. D. Kent, H. A. Dürr, H. Ohldag, and J. Stöhr
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096601 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-ray Detection of Transient Magnetic Moments Induced by a Spin Current in Cu

R. Kukreja, S. Bonetti, Z. Chen, D. Backes, Y. Acremann, J. A. Katine, A. D. Kent, H. A. Dürr, H. Ohldag, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096601 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism detects the transient magnetic moments that are induced in a nonmagnetic material by spin injection from a ferromagnet.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Onsager Coefficients in Periodically Driven Systems

Karel Proesmans and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 090601 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Periodically driven thermodynamic systems near equilibrium cannot have finite fluxes with zero dissipation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Detection of the Acoustic Oscillation Phase Shift Expected from the Cosmic Neutrino Background

Brent Follin, Lloyd Knox, Marius Millea, and Zhen Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091301 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

The free-streaming cosmic neutrino background has been observed by a unique decomposition of the acoustic oscillations in the cosmic microwave background.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision Measurement of the Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 092002 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Measurements from STAR collaboration experiments at RHIC reveal that gluons and quarks may contribute equally to the spin angular momentum of a proton.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimized Effective Potential for Quantum Electrodynamical Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Camilla Pellegrini, Johannes Flick, Ilya V. Tokatly, Heiko Appel, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093001 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

Time-dependent density functional theory for quantum electrodynamics is successfully applied to electronic structure calculations via a quantum-optical treatment of the electromagnetic field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Method for a Continuous Determination of the Spin Tune in Storage Rings and Implications for Precision Experiments

D. Eversmann et al. (JEDI collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 094801 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

The spin precession frequency of a charged particle in a storage ring is determined with substantially increased precision. This allows for improved measurements of the electric dipole moments of charged particles.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffraction-Unlimited Position Measurement of Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Yuto Ashida and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095301 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice could be imaged on length scales below the diffraction limit by tracking the collapse of the system’s many-body wavefunction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetism of Gadolinium: A First-Principles Perspective

L. Oroszlány, A. Deák, E. Simon, S. Khmelevskyi, and L. Szunyogh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096402 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

The magnetic properties of gadolinium at non-zero temperature are different at the surface of the material and in the bulk for both the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases according to layer resolved density-functional theory calculations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-Electric Access to the Magnetic-Field-Invariant Magnetization of Antiferromagnets

Tobias Kosub, Martin Kopte, Florin Radu, Oliver G. Schmidt, and Denys Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097201 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

A new technique — spinning-current anomalous Hall magnetometry — measures the field invariant magnetization of antiferromagnets with high precision by cycling current and voltage probes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferromagnetic Switching of Knotted Vector Fields in Liquid Crystal Colloids

Qiaoxuan Zhang, Paul J. Ackerman, Qingkun Liu, and Ivan I. Smalyukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097802 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Nontrivial topological modulations, including skyrmions and knots, are observed in the magnetic field configurations of poly and monodomain chiral ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids.

LETTERS

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

Five Measurement Bases Determine Pure Quantum States on Any Dimension

D. Goyeneche, G. Cañas, S. Etcheverry, E. S. Gómez, G. B. Xavier, G. Lima, and A. Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 090401 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Vacuum Friction on a Rotating Pair of Atoms

Hervé Bercegol and Roland Lehoucq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 090402 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Classical Analog to Entanglement Reversibility

Eric Chitambar, Ben Fortescue, and Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 090501 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Onsager Coefficients in Periodically Driven Systems

Karel Proesmans and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 090601 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Periodically driven thermodynamic systems near equilibrium cannot have finite fluxes with zero dissipation.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Modeling the Complete Gravitational Wave Spectrum of Neutron Star Mergers

Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Tim Dietrich, and Alessandro Nagar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091101 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Evolution and End Point of the Black String Instability: Large $D$ Solution

Roberto Emparan, Ryotaku Suzuki, and Kentaro Tanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091102 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Detection of the Acoustic Oscillation Phase Shift Expected from the Cosmic Neutrino Background

Brent Follin, Lloyd Knox, Marius Millea, and Zhen Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091301 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

The free-streaming cosmic neutrino background has been observed by a unique decomposition of the acoustic oscillations in the cosmic microwave background.

Search for Event Rate Modulation in XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091302 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

String Theory Origin of Dyonic $N = 8$ Supergravity and Its Chern-Simons Duals

Adolfo Guarino, Daniel L. Jafferis, and Oscar Varela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091601 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Measurements of the Total and Differential Higgs Boson Production Cross Sections Combining the $H \to γ γ$ and $H \to Z Z^{*} \to 4 ℓ$ Decay Channels at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091801 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Condensed State of Heavy Vectorlike Neutrinos

M. B. Voloshin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091802 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Observation and Spin-Parity Determination of the $X (1835)$ in $J / ψ \to γ K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0} η$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 091803 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Neutrino Production of a Charmed Meson and the Transverse Spin Structure of the Nucleon

B. Pire and L. Szymanowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 092001 (2015) - Published 25 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision Measurement of the Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 092002 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Measurements from STAR collaboration experiments at RHIC reveal that gluons and quarks may contribute equally to the spin angular momentum of a proton.

Nuclear Physics

High-Precision Determination of the Pion-Nucleon $σ$ Term from Roy-Steiner Equations

Martin Hoferichter, Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira, Bastian Kubis, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 092301 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimized Effective Potential for Quantum Electrodynamical Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Camilla Pellegrini, Johannes Flick, Ilya V. Tokatly, Heiko Appel, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093001 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

Time-dependent density functional theory for quantum electrodynamics is successfully applied to electronic structure calculations via a quantum-optical treatment of the electromagnetic field.

Correlated Exciton Transport in Rydberg-Dressed-Atom Spin Chains

H. Schempp, G. Günter, S. Wüster, M. Weidemüller, and S. Whitlock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093002 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Mechanism and Experimental Observability of Global Switching Between Reactive and Nonreactive Coordinates at High Total Energies

Hiroshi Teramoto, Mikito Toda, Masahiko Takahashi, Hirohiko Kono, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093003 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Resonant Charge Transfer of Hydrogen Rydberg Atoms Incident on a Cu(100) Projected Band-Gap Surface

J. A. Gibbard, M. Dethlefsen, M. Kohlhoff, C. J. Rennick, E. So, M. Ford, and T. P. Softley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093201 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Coherence and Rydberg Blockade of Atomic Ensemble Qubits

M. Ebert, M. Kwon, T. G. Walker, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093601 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

All-Optical Preparation of Coherent Dark States of a Single Rare Earth Ion Spin in a Crystal

Kangwei Xia, Roman Kolesov, Ya Wang, Petr Siyushev, Rolf Reuter, Thomas Kornher, Nadezhda Kukharchyk, Andreas D. Wieck, Bruno Villa, Sen Yang, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093602 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

Strong Coupling between a Trapped Single Atom and an All-Fiber Cavity

Shinya Kato and Takao Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093603 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Heisenberg-Limited Qubit Read-Out with Two-Mode Squeezed Light

Nicolas Didier, Archana Kamal, William D. Oliver, Alexandre Blais, and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093604 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatial Rogue Waves in Photorefractive Ferroelectrics

D. Pierangeli, F. Di Mei, C. Conti, A. J. Agranat, and E. DelRe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 093901 (2015) - Published 25 August, 2015

Bridging Three Orders of Magnitude: Multiple Scattered Waves Sense Fractal Microscopic Structures via Dispersion

Simon A. Lambert, Sven Peter Näsholm, David Nordsletten, Christian Michler, Lauriane Juge, Jean-Michel Serfaty, Lynne Bilston, Bojan Guzina, Sverre Holm, and Ralph Sinkus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 094301 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Luminescence from Collapsing Centimeter Bubbles Expanded by Chemical Reaction

Jérôme Duplat and Emmanuel Villermaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 094501 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Method for a Continuous Determination of the Spin Tune in Storage Rings and Implications for Precision Experiments

D. Eversmann et al. (JEDI collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 094801 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Spectral Modification of Shock Accelerated Ions Using a Hydrodynamically Shaped Gas Target

O. Tresca, N. P. Dover, N. Cook, C. Maharjan, M. N. Polyanskiy, Z. Najmudin, P. Shkolnikov, and I. Pogorelsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 094802 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Self-Organizing Knotted Magnetic Structures in Plasma

C. B. Smiet, S. Candelaresi, A. Thompson, J. Swearngin, J. W. Dalhuisen, and D. Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095001 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

Spontaneous Decay of Periodic Magnetostatic Equilibria

William E. East, Jonathan Zrake, Yajie Yuan, and Roger D. Blandford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095002 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffraction-Unlimited Position Measurement of Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Yuto Ashida and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095301 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice could be imaged on length scales below the diffraction limit by tracking the collapse of the system’s many-body wavefunction.

Charge Pumping of Interacting Fermion Atoms in the Synthetic Dimension

Tian-Sheng Zeng, Ce Wang, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095302 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Direct Observation of Melting in Shock-Compressed Bismuth With Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction

M. G. Gorman, R. Briggs, E. E. McBride, A. Higginbotham, B. Arnold, J. H. Eggert, D. E. Fratanduono, E. Galtier, A. E. Lazicki, H. J. Lee, H. P. Liermann, B. Nagler, A. Rothkirch, R. F. Smith, D. C. Swift, G. W. Collins, J. S. Wark, and M. I. McMahon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095701 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Growth of Metal Phthalocyanine on Deactivated Semiconducting Surfaces Steered by Selective Orbital Coupling

Sean R. Wagner, Bing Huang, Changwon Park, Jiagui Feng, Mina Yoon, and Pengpeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096101 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nature of the Insulating Ground State of the $5 d$ Postperovskite ${CaIrO}_{3}$

Sun-Woo Kim, Chen Liu, Hyun-Jung Kim, Jun-Ho Lee, Yongxin Yao, Kai-Ming Ho, and Jun-Hyung Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096401 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetism of Gadolinium: A First-Principles Perspective

L. Oroszlány, A. Deák, E. Simon, S. Khmelevskyi, and L. Szunyogh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096402 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Absence of Orthogonality Catastrophe after a Spatially Inhomogeneous Interaction Quench in Luttinger Liquids

Balázs Dóra and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096403 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Electron-Phonon Coupling in the Bulk of Anatase ${TiO}_{2}$ Measured by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Spectroscopy

S. Moser, S. Fatale, P. Krüger, H. Berger, P. Bugnon, A. Magrez, H. Niwa, J. Miyawaki, Y. Harada, and M. Grioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096404 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Formation and Observation of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional $d_{x y}$ Electron Liquid in Epitaxially Stabilized ${Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {TiO}_{4}$ Thin Films

Y. F. Nie, D. Di Sante, S. Chatterjee, P. D. C. King, M. Uchida, S. Ciuchi, D. G. Schlom, and K. M. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096405 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-ray Detection of Transient Magnetic Moments Induced by a Spin Current in Cu

R. Kukreja, S. Bonetti, Z. Chen, D. Backes, Y. Acremann, J. A. Katine, A. D. Kent, H. A. Dürr, H. Ohldag, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096601 (2015) - Published 24 August, 2015

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism detects the transient magnetic moments that are induced in a nonmagnetic material by spin injection from a ferromagnet.

Length Scale of the Spin Seebeck Effect

Andreas Kehlberger, Ulrike Ritzmann, Denise Hinzke, Er-Jia Guo, Joel Cramer, Gerhard Jakob, Mehmet C. Onbasli, Dong Hun Kim, Caroline A. Ross, Matthias B. Jungfleisch, Burkard Hillebrands, Ulrich Nowak, and Mathias Kläui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096602 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Quantum Manipulation of Two-Electron Spin States in Isolated Double Quantum Dots

Benoit Bertrand, Hanno Flentje, Shintaro Takada, Michihisa Yamamoto, Seigo Tarucha, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, Christopher Bäuerle, and Tristan Meunier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096801 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Spin-Based Mach-Zehnder Interferometry in Topological Insulator $p − n$ Junctions

Roni Ilan, Fernando de Juan, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 096802 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Andreev-Bragg Reflection from an Amperian Superconductor

P. Baireuther, T. Hyart, B. Tarasinski, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097001 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

First-Principles Calculation of the Real-Space Order Parameter and Condensation Energy Density in Phonon-Mediated Superconductors

A. Linscheid, A. Sanna, A. Floris, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097002 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-Electric Access to the Magnetic-Field-Invariant Magnetization of Antiferromagnets

Tobias Kosub, Martin Kopte, Florin Radu, Oliver G. Schmidt, and Denys Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097201 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

A new technique — spinning-current anomalous Hall magnetometry — measures the field invariant magnetization of antiferromagnets with high precision by cycling current and voltage probes.

Candidate Quantum Spin Liquid in the ${Ce}^{3 +}$ Pyrochlore Stannate ${Ce}_{2} {Sn}_{2} O_{7}$

Romain Sibille, Elsa Lhotel, Vladimir Pomjakushin, Chris Baines, Tom Fennell, and Michel Kenzelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097202 (2015) - Published 27 August, 2015

Band Structure of Helimagnons in MnSi Resolved by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

M. Kugler, G. Brandl, J. Waizner, M. Janoschek, R. Georgii, A. Bauer, K. Seemann, A. Rosch, C. Pfleiderer, P. Böni, and M. Garst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097203 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Static Magnetic Proximity Effect in $Pt / {NiFe}_{2} O_{4}$ and $Pt / Fe$ Bilayers Investigated by X-Ray Resonant Magnetic Reflectivity

T. Kuschel, C. Klewe, J.-M. Schmalhorst, F. Bertram, O. Kuschel, T. Schemme, J. Wollschläger, S. Francoual, J. Strempfer, A. Gupta, M. Meinert, G. Götz, D. Meier, and G. Reiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097401 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Critical Thickness for Antiferroelectricity in ${PbZrO}_{3}$

B. K. Mani, C.-M. Chang, S. Lisenkov, and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097601 (2015) - Published 26 August, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Classical Liquids in Fractal Dimension

Marco Heinen, Simon K. Schnyder, John F. Brady, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097801 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferromagnetic Switching of Knotted Vector Fields in Liquid Crystal Colloids

Qiaoxuan Zhang, Paul J. Ackerman, Qingkun Liu, and Ivan I. Smalyukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097802 (2015) - Published 28 August, 2015

Nontrivial topological modulations, including skyrmions and knots, are observed in the magnetic field configurations of poly and monodomain chiral ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids.