Volume 115, Issue 10

4 September 2015

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Temporal profile of spin-resolved magnetization dynamics for a many-body system of trapped atomic ions based on seven spins. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Spectroscopy of Interacting Quasiparticles in Trapped Ions
P. Jurcevic, P. Hauke, C. Maier, C. Hempel, B. P. Lanyon, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 100501 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Percolation Model of Sensory Transmission and Loss of Consciousness Under General Anesthesia

David W. Zhou, David D. Mowrey, Pei Tang, and Yan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 108103 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

A computer model of a network of neurons shows that a sudden breakdown in the net’s ability to transmit information mimics the brain wave changes that accompany anesthesia.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Equilibrium of a Macroscopic Quantum System in a Pure State

Sheldon Goldstein, David A. Huse, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Roderich Tumulka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 100402 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Thermal equilibrium can be indicated macroscopically by spatially uniform temperature and chemical potentials, but also by a microscopic property emerging from quantum entanglement.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopy of Interacting Quasiparticles in Trapped Ions

P. Jurcevic, P. Hauke, C. Maier, C. Hempel, B. P. Lanyon, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 100501 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

The collective excitations of a quantum many-body system of trapped ions is characterized in a new spectroscopic technique that probes the eigenmodes of the system. The technique allows the excited quasiparticles to be individually manipulated and measured.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Influence of Impurity Spin Dynamics on Quantum Transport in Epitaxial Graphene

Samuel Lara-Avila, Sergey Kubatkin, Oleksiy Kashuba, Joshua A. Folk, Silvia Lüscher, Rositza Yakimova, T. J. B. M. Janssen, Alexander Tzalenchuk, and Vladimir Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106602 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

A moderate in-plane magnetic field can reduce spin-related decoherence in epitaxial graphene.

LETTERS

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

Effect of Orbital Angular Momentum on Nondiffracting Ultrashort Optical Pulses

Marco Ornigotti, Claudio Conti, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 100401 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Equilibrium of a Macroscopic Quantum System in a Pure State

Sheldon Goldstein, David A. Huse, Joel L. Lebowitz, and Roderich Tumulka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 100402 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Thermal equilibrium can be indicated macroscopically by spatially uniform temperature and chemical potentials, but also by a microscopic property emerging from quantum entanglement.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopy of Interacting Quasiparticles in Trapped Ions

P. Jurcevic, P. Hauke, C. Maier, C. Hempel, B. P. Lanyon, R. Blatt, and C. F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 100501 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Test of the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker Metric Using the Distance Sum Rule

Syksy Räsänen, Krzysztof Bolejko, and Alexis Finoguenov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 101301 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Nonquenched Isoscalar Spin- $M 1$ Excitations in $s d$ -Shell Nuclei

H. Matsubara et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 102501 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ${}^{130}{Te}$ with CUORE-0

K. Alfonso et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 102502 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

Total Absorption Spectroscopy Study of ${}^{92}{Rb}$ Decay: A Major Contributor to Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum Shape

A.-A. Zakari-Issoufou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 102503 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Large-Area Atom Interferometry with Frequency-Swept Raman Adiabatic Passage

Krish Kotru, David L. Butts, Joseph M. Kinast, and Richard E. Stoner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 103001 (2015) - Published 31 August, 2015

Dynamic Exchange in the Strong Field Ionization of Molecules

Vinay Pramod Majety and Armin Scrinzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 103002 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Broadband Phase Spectroscopy over Turbulent Air Paths

Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Gregory B. Rieker, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Laura C. Sinclair, Jon Kofler, Ian Coddington, and Nathan R. Newbury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 103901 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Experimental Observation of Resonance-Assisted Tunneling

Stefan Gehler, Steffen Löck, Susumu Shinohara, Arnd Bäcker, Roland Ketzmerick, Ulrich Kuhl, and Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 104101 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

All-Phononic Digital Transistor on the Basis of Gap-Soliton Dynamics in an Anharmonic Oscillator Ladder

Merab Malishava and Ramaz Khomeriki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 104301 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Topological Phononic Crystals with One-Way Elastic Edge Waves

Pai Wang, Ling Lu, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 104302 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Plasma and Beam Physics

Improved Performance of High Areal Density Indirect Drive Implosions at the National Ignition Facility using a Four-Shock Adiabat Shaped Drive

D. T. Casey et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 105001 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Self-Similar Structure and Experimental Signatures of Suprathermal Ion Distribution in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

Grigory Kagan, D. Svyatskiy, H. G. Rinderknecht, M. J. Rosenberg, A. B. Zylstra, C.-K. Huang, and C. J. McDevitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 105002 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Atomistic Origin of Brittle Failure of Boron Carbide from Large-Scale Reactive Dynamics Simulations: Suggestions toward Improved Ductility

Qi An and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 105501 (2015) - Published 31 August, 2015

High-Energy Density and Superhard Nitrogen-Rich B-N Compounds

Yinwei Li, Jian Hao, Hanyu Liu, Siyu Lu, and John S. Tse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 105502 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

Dynamics of Ion Transport in Ionic Liquids

Alpha A. Lee, Svyatoslav Kondrat, Dominic Vella, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106101 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Coupled Nonpolar-Polar Metal-Insulator Transition in $1 ∶ 1$ ${SrCrO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Superlattices: A First-Principles Study

Yuanjun Zhou and Karin M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106401 (2015) - Published 31 August, 2015

Correlation-Driven Topological Fermi Surface Transition in FeSe

I. Leonov, S. L. Skornyakov, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106402 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Photon-Inhibited Topological Transport in Quantum Well Heterostructures

Aaron Farrell and T. Pereg-Barnea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106403 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Critical Delocalization of Chiral Zero Energy Modes in Graphene

Aires Ferreira and Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106601 (2015) - Published 31 August, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Influence of Impurity Spin Dynamics on Quantum Transport in Epitaxial Graphene

Samuel Lara-Avila, Sergey Kubatkin, Oleksiy Kashuba, Joshua A. Folk, Silvia Lüscher, Rositza Yakimova, T. J. B. M. Janssen, Alexander Tzalenchuk, and Vladimir Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106602 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

A moderate in-plane magnetic field can reduce spin-related decoherence in epitaxial graphene.

Thermal Hall Effect of Spin Excitations in a Kagome Magnet

Max Hirschberger, Robin Chisnell, Young S. Lee, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106603 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

Lissajous Rocking Ratchet: Realization in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

Sergey Platonov, Bernd Kästner, Hans W. Schumacher, Sigmund Kohler, and Stefan Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106801 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Second-Harmonic Coherent Driving of a Spin Qubit in a Si/SiGe Quantum Dot

P. Scarlino, E. Kawakami, D. R. Ward, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, M. A. Eriksson, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106802 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Role of Quantum and Surface-State Effects in the Bulk Fermi-Level Position of Ultrathin Bi Films

T. Hirahara, T. Shirai, T. Hajiri, M. Matsunami, K. Tanaka, S. Kimura, S. Hasegawa, and K. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106803 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

Intrinsic Metastabilities in the Charge Configuration of a Double Quantum Dot

D. E. F. Biesinger, C. P. Scheller, B. Braunecker, J. Zimmerman, A. C. Gossard, and D. M. Zumbühl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 106804 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Origin of the Resistive Anisotropy in the Electronic Nematic Phase of ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy

C. Mirri, A. Dusza, S. Bastelberger, M. Chinotti, L. Degiorgi, J.-H. Chu, H.-H. Kuo, and I. R. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 107001 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

First-Principles Quantum Dynamics of Singlet Fission: Coherent versus Thermally Activated Mechanisms Governed by Molecular $π$ Stacking

Hiroyuki Tamura, Miquel Huix-Rotllant, Irene Burghardt, Yoann Olivier, and David Beljonne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 107401 (2015) - Published 31 August, 2015

Creation of X-Ray Transparency of Matter by Stimulated Elastic Forward Scattering

J. Stöhr and A. Scherz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 107402 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Contribution of Water to Pressure and Cold Denaturation of Proteins

Valentino Bianco and Giancarlo Franzese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 108101 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Enhanced Diffusion of Enzymes that Catalyze Exothermic Reactions

Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 108102 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Percolation Model of Sensory Transmission and Loss of Consciousness Under General Anesthesia

David W. Zhou, David D. Mowrey, Pei Tang, and Yan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 108103 (2015) - Published 4 September, 2015

A computer model of a network of neurons shows that a sudden breakdown in the net’s ability to transmit information mimics the brain wave changes that accompany anesthesia.

Emergent Hyperuniformity in Periodically Driven Emulsions

Joost H. Weijs, Raphaël Jeanneret, Rémi Dreyfus, and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 108301 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Chemical and Crystallographic Characterization of the Tip Apex in Scanning Probe Microscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066101 (2014)]

Thomas Hofmann, Florian Pielmeier, and Franz J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 109901 (2015) - Published 1 September, 2015

Publisher’s Note: Dynamic Reorganization of Vortex Matter into Partially Disordered Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 067001 (2015)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 109902 (2015) - Published 3 September, 2015