Volume 115, Issue 13

25 September 2015

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On the Cover

(Left) Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈ single crystal disks glued to a Hall sensor chip. (Right) Nanocrystalline vortex solid imaged by magnetic decoration.

From the article:

Size-Induced Depression of First-Order Transition Lines and Entropy Jump in Extremely Layered Nanocrystalline Vortex Matter
M. I. Dolz, Y. Fasano, N. R. Cejas Bolecek, H. Pastoriza, V. Mosser, M. Li, and M. Konczykowski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137003 (2015)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: General Relativity Still Making Waves

Clifford Will

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 130001 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanofluidic Diode for Simple Fluids without Moving Parts

Long Li, Jingwen Mo, and Zhigang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 134503 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

An array of nanochannels—made from a mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials—acts as a one-way diode for fluids.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Semiconducting Graphene from Highly Ordered Substrate Interactions

M. S. Nevius, M. Conrad, F. Wang, A. Celis, M. N. Nair, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, A. Tejeda, and E. H. Conrad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136802 (2015) - Published 21 September, 2015

Researchers have engineered a large energy band gap in a graphene layer grown on a silicon carbide substrate.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Identifying Exotic Hidden-Charm Pentaquarks

Rui Chen, Xiang Liu, Xue-Qian Li, and Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132002 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

The pentaquarks discovered by the LHCb Collaboration could be molecular bound states of a charmed baryon and a meson. Observing the predicted isospin partners would allow for this interpretation to be verified.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision Spectroscopy in Cold Molecules: The Lowest Rotational Interval of ${He}_{2}^{+}$ and Metastable ${He}_{2}$

Paul Jansen, Luca Semeria, Laura Esteban Hofer, Simon Scheidegger, Josef A. Agner, Hansjürg Schmutz, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133202 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

The experimental accuracy needed to reveal quantum-electrodynamics corrections in a three-electron molecule is achieved. These measurements represent a benchmark and test for future ab initio calculations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Feshbach Resonance in Alkali-Earth Atoms

Ren Zhang, Yanting Cheng, Hui Zhai, and Peng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135301 (2015) - Published 21 September, 2015

A scheme is proposed to realize a new type of Feshbach resonance between two atoms with different orbital and nuclear spin quantum numbers.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decoherence of Impurities in a Fermi Sea of Ultracold Atoms

Marko Cetina, Michael Jag, Rianne S. Lous, Jook T. M. Walraven, Rudolf Grimm, Rasmus S. Christensen, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135302 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

The superposition of internal states of impurity atoms in a strongly interacting Fermi gas decohere an order of magnitude faster than predictions that assume this process occurs via quasiparticle scattering.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low Speed Crack Propagation via Kink Formation and Advance on the Silicon (110) Cleavage Plane

James R. Kermode, Anna Gleizer, Guy Kovel, Lars Pastewka, Gábor Csányi, Dov Sherman, and Alessandro De Vita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135501 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

A thermally activated fracture process can occur in silicon without bonds breaking at the crack tip. For such a process cracks can propagate at speeds well below 2000 ms^{-1}, which were previously thought to be ‘forbidden’.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Spectroscopic Characterization of Spin and Layer Polarization in ${WSe}_{2}$

Matthew Yankowitz, Devin McKenzie, and Brian J. LeRoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136803 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Tunneling spectroscopy exhibits suppression of intervalley electronic scattering in the valence band of a monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide WSe $_{2}$ .

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Helical Luttinger Liquid in $InAs / GaSb$ Quantum Spin Hall Edges

Tingxin Li, Pengjie Wang, Hailong Fu, Lingjie Du, Kate A. Schreiber, Xiaoyang Mu, Xiaoxue Liu, Gerard Sullivan, Gábor A. Csáthy, Xi Lin, and Rui-Rui Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136804 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Strong electron-electron interactions are observed in one dimensional InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulators.

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Cavity State Manipulation Using Photon-Number Selective Phase Gates

Reinier W. Heeres, Brian Vlastakis, Eric Holland, Stefan Krastanov, Victor V. Albert, Luigi Frunzio, Liang Jiang, and Robert J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137002 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

A new quantum gate can control the phase of a quantum state and create a high fidelity single photon Fock state.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Light-Matter Interaction at Surfaces in the Spatiotemporal Limit of Macroscopic Models

M. Lucchini, L. Castiglioni, L. Kasmi, P. Kliuiev, A. Ludwig, M. Greif, J. Osterwalder, M. Hengsberger, L. Gallmann, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137401 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

The angular dependence of photoemission from a copper surface, irradiated with an infra-red light pulse, is well described by the Fresnel equations. This shows that despite being derived from macroscopic considerations, the Fresnel equations correctly describe microscopic and attosecond scales.

LETTERS

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

Simulating Bosonic Baths with Error Bars

M. P. Woods, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 130401 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Ab Initio Thermodynamic Results for the Degenerate Electron Gas at Finite Temperature

T. Schoof, S. Groth, J. Vorberger, and M. Bonitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 130402 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Energy Cost of Controlling Mesoscopic Quantum Systems

Jordan M. Horowitz and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 130501 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonchiral Enhancement of Scalar Glueball Decay in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto Model

Frederic Brünner and Anton Rebhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 131601 (2015) - Published 21 September, 2015

Universal Features of Left-Right Entanglement Entropy

Diptarka Das and Shouvik Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 131602 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Diagnosing Chaos Using Four-Point Functions in Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory

Daniel A. Roberts and Douglas Stanford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 131603 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Search for Dark Matter in Events with Missing Transverse Momentum and a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Photons in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 131801 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Ab initio Calculation of the $n p \to d γ$ Radiative Capture Process

Silas R. Beane, Emmanuel Chang, William Detmold, Kostas Orginos, Assumpta Parreño, Martin J. Savage, and Brian C. Tiburzi (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132001 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Identifying Exotic Hidden-Charm Pentaquarks

Rui Chen, Xiang Liu, Xue-Qian Li, and Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132002 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Importance of the Bulk Viscosity of QCD in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

S. Ryu, J.-F. Paquet, C. Shen, G. S. Denicol, B. Schenke, S. Jeon, and C. Gale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132301 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Use of a Continuous Wave Laser and Pockels Cell for Sensitive High-Resolution Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy

R. P. de Groote, I. Budinčević, J. Billowes, M. L. Bissell, T. E. Cocolios, G. J. Farooq-Smith, V. N. Fedosseev, K. T. Flanagan, S. Franchoo, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, H. Heylen, R. Li, K. M. Lynch, B. A. Marsh, G. Neyens, R. E. Rossel, S. Rothe, H. H. Stroke, K. D. A. Wendt, S. G. Wilkins, and X. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132501 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Decay and Fission Hindrance of Two- and Four-Quasiparticle $K$ Isomers in ${}^{254}{Rf}$

H. M. David et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132502 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resonance Effects in Photoemission Time Delays

M. Sabbar, S. Heuser, R. Boge, M. Lucchini, T. Carette, E. Lindroth, L. Gallmann, C. Cirelli, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133001 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Operating Spin Echo in the Quantum Regime for an Atomic-Ensemble Quantum Memory

Jun Rui, Yan Jiang, Sheng-Jun Yang, Bo Zhao, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133002 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Signatures of Quantum-Tunneling Diffusion of Hydrogen Atoms on Water Ice at 10 K

K. Kuwahata, T. Hama, A. Kouchi, and N. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133201 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision Spectroscopy in Cold Molecules: The Lowest Rotational Interval of ${He}_{2}^{+}$ and Metastable ${He}_{2}$

Paul Jansen, Luca Semeria, Laura Esteban Hofer, Simon Scheidegger, Josef A. Agner, Hansjürg Schmutz, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133202 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Recollision-Induced Superradiance of Ionized Nitrogen Molecules

Yi Liu, Pengji Ding, Guillaume Lambert, Aurélien Houard, Vladimir Tikhonchuk, and André Mysyrowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133203 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Observation of Floquet States in a Strongly Driven Artificial Atom

Chunqing Deng, Jean-Luc Orgiazzi, Feiruo Shen, Sahel Ashhab, and Adrian Lupascu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133601 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Ensemble-Averaged Quantum Correlations between Path-Entangled Photons Undergoing Anderson Localization

Yehonatan Gilead, Mor Verbin, and Yaron Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133602 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Discriminating between the Role of Phase Matching and that of the Single-Atom Response in Resonance Plasma-Plume High-Order Harmonic Generation

Noa Rosenthal and Gilad Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133901 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Generation of Large-Scale Winds in Horizontally Anisotropic Convection

J. von Hardenberg, D. Goluskin, A. Provenzale, and E. A. Spiegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 134501 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Sudden Relaminarization and Lifetimes in Forced Isotropic Turbulence

Moritz F. Linkmann and Alexander Morozov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 134502 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanofluidic Diode for Simple Fluids without Moving Parts

Long Li, Jingwen Mo, and Zhigang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 134503 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

An array of nanochannels—made from a mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials—acts as a one-way diode for fluids.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Feshbach Resonance in Alkali-Earth Atoms

Ren Zhang, Yanting Cheng, Hui Zhai, and Peng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135301 (2015) - Published 21 September, 2015

A scheme is proposed to realize a new type of Feshbach resonance between two atoms with different orbital and nuclear spin quantum numbers.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decoherence of Impurities in a Fermi Sea of Ultracold Atoms

Marko Cetina, Michael Jag, Rianne S. Lous, Jook T. M. Walraven, Rudolf Grimm, Rasmus S. Christensen, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135302 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Universal High-Momentum Asymptote and Thermodynamic Relations in a Spinless Fermi Gas with a Resonant $p$ -Wave Interaction

Shuhei M. Yoshida and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135303 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Universal Relations for a Fermi Gas Close to a $p$ -Wave Interaction Resonance

Zhenhua Yu, Joseph H. Thywissen, and Shizhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135304 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Impurities in Bose-Einstein Condensates: From Polaron to Soliton

Shahriar Shadkhoo and Robijn Bruinsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135305 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low Speed Crack Propagation via Kink Formation and Advance on the Silicon (110) Cleavage Plane

James R. Kermode, Anna Gleizer, Guy Kovel, Lars Pastewka, Gábor Csányi, Dov Sherman, and Alessandro De Vita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135501 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Unified Criterion for Temperature-Induced and Strain-Driven Glass Transitions in Metallic Glass

H. B. Yu, R. Richert, R. Maaß, and K. Samwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135701 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Charge Redistribution and Transport in Molecular Contacts

Martina Corso, Martin Ondráček, Christian Lotze, Prokop Hapala, Katharina J. Franke, Pavel Jelínek, and J. Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136101 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Island Ripening via a Polymerization-Depolymerization Mechanism

Martin Hesse, Bernhard von Boehn, Andrea Locatelli, Alessandro Sala, Tevfik O. Menteş, and Ronald Imbihl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136102 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Plus Numerical Renormalization-Group Study of Spin-Orbital Separation in a Three-Band Hund Metal

K. M. Stadler, Z. P. Yin, J. von Delft, G. Kotliar, and A. Weichselbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136401 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Spin Signature of Nonlocal Correlation Binding in Metal-Organic Frameworks

T. Thonhauser, S. Zuluaga, C. A. Arter, K. Berland, E. Schröder, and P. Hyldgaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136402 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Electric Field Control of Spin Lifetimes in $Nb − {SrTiO}_{3}$ by Spin-Orbit Fields

A. M. Kamerbeek, P. Högl, J. Fabian, and T. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136601 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Band Engineering of Dirac Surface States in Topological-Insulator-Based van der Waals Heterostructures

Cui-Zu Chang, Peizhe Tang, Xiao Feng, Kang Li, Xu-Cun Ma, Wenhui Duan, Ke He, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136801 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Semiconducting Graphene from Highly Ordered Substrate Interactions

M. S. Nevius, M. Conrad, F. Wang, A. Celis, M. N. Nair, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, A. Tejeda, and E. H. Conrad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136802 (2015) - Published 21 September, 2015

Researchers have engineered a large energy band gap in a graphene layer grown on a silicon carbide substrate.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Spectroscopic Characterization of Spin and Layer Polarization in ${WSe}_{2}$

Matthew Yankowitz, Devin McKenzie, and Brian J. LeRoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136803 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

Tunneling spectroscopy exhibits suppression of intervalley electronic scattering in the valence band of a monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide WSe $_{2}$ .

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Helical Luttinger Liquid in $InAs / GaSb$ Quantum Spin Hall Edges

Tingxin Li, Pengjie Wang, Hailong Fu, Lingjie Du, Kate A. Schreiber, Xiaoyang Mu, Xiaoxue Liu, Gerard Sullivan, Gábor A. Csáthy, Xi Lin, and Rui-Rui Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 136804 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Strong electron-electron interactions are observed in one dimensional InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulators.

Competing Magnetic Fluctuations in Iron Pnictide Superconductors: Role of Ferromagnetic Spin Correlations Revealed by NMR

P. Wiecki, B. Roy, D. C. Johnston, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, and Y. Furukawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137001 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cavity State Manipulation Using Photon-Number Selective Phase Gates

Reinier W. Heeres, Brian Vlastakis, Eric Holland, Stefan Krastanov, Victor V. Albert, Luigi Frunzio, Liang Jiang, and Robert J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137002 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

A new quantum gate can control the phase of a quantum state and create a high fidelity single photon Fock state.

Size-Induced Depression of First-Order Transition Lines and Entropy Jump in Extremely Layered Nanocrystalline Vortex Matter

M. I. Dolz, Y. Fasano, N. R. Cejas Bolecek, H. Pastoriza, V. Mosser, M. Li, and M. Konczykowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137003 (2015) - Published 25 September, 2015

Successive Magnetic-Field-Induced Transitions and Colossal Magnetoelectric Effect in ${Ni}_{3} {TeO}_{6}$

Jae Wook Kim, S. Artyukhin, E. D. Mun, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, A. Hansen, J. J. Yang, Y. S. Oh, D. Vanderbilt, V. S. Zapf, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137201 (2015) - Published 24 September, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Light-Matter Interaction at Surfaces in the Spatiotemporal Limit of Macroscopic Models

M. Lucchini, L. Castiglioni, L. Kasmi, P. Kliuiev, A. Ludwig, M. Greif, J. Osterwalder, M. Hengsberger, L. Gallmann, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137401 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Fully Parameter-Free Calculation of Optical Spectra for Insulators, Semiconductors, and Metals from a Simple Polarization Functional

J. A. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137402 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Projected Dipole Model for Quantum Plasmonics

Wei Yan, Martijn Wubs, and N. Asger Mortensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 137403 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Colloidal Microworms Propelling via a Cooperative Hydrodynamic Conveyor Belt

Fernando Martinez-Pedrero, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 138301 (2015) - Published 22 September, 2015

Terahertz Field Enhancement and Photon-Assisted Tunneling in Single-Molecule Transistors

Kenji Yoshida, Kenji Shibata, and Kazuhiko Hirakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 138302 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

COMMENTS

Comment on “Multiorbital Effects on the Transport and the Superconducting Fluctuations in LiFeAs”

A. Ramos-Álvarez, J. Mosqueira, and F. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 139701 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015

Rullier-Albenque et al. Reply:

F. Rullier-Albenque, D. Colson, A. Forget, and H. Alloul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 139702 (2015) - Published 23 September, 2015