Volume 115, Issue 16

16 October 2015

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On the Cover

Bose-Einstein condensate density (color scale) as a function of position and time for a condensate coupled to the light field of a high-Q optical cavity for limit cycle dynamics (left) and chaotic dynamics (right).

From the article:

Self-Ordered Limit Cycles, Chaos, and Phase Slippage with a Superfluid inside an Optical Resonator
Francesco Piazza and Helmut Ritsch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163601 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Gravitationally Induced Vertical Striation of Polarized Ultracold Neutrons by Spin-Echo Spectroscopy

S. Afach et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 162502 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

A new technique borrows a trick from MRI scanners to make precise magnetic measurements with cold neutrons.

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Transport Spectroscopy of a Spin-Coherent Dot-Cavity System

C. Rössler, D. Oehri, O. Zilberberg, G. Blatter, M. Karalic, J. Pijnenburg, A. Hofmann, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, C. Reichl, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166603 (2015) - Published 12 October, 2015

A quantum dot can form a mesoscopic quantum state together with the electrons of a cavity in which the dot is embedded.

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Quantum Hilbert Hotel

Václav Potoček, Filippo M. Miatto, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Andreas C. Liapis, Daniel K. L. Oi, Robert W. Boyd, and John Jeffers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160505 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

An optical experiment realizes one of the room-changing operations in the Hilbert Hotel—a fictitious establishment that illustrates some perplexing properties of infinity.

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Propulsion and Instability of a Flexible Helical Rod Rotating in a Viscous Fluid

M. K. Jawed, N. K. Khouri, F. Da, E. Grinspun, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 168101 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

Experiments with rotating elastic rods mimic the behavior of swimming bacteria, showing how their tails buckle above a certain rotation speed.

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Phase-Reference-Free Experiment of Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Chao Wang, Xiao-Tian Song, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Chun-Mei Zhang, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160502 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) is achieved without the two parties having aligned reference frames. This could potentially make MDI-QKD systems simpler to build.

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Checking the Dark Matter Origin of a 3.53 keV Line with the Milky Way Center

A. Boyarsky, J. Franse, D. Iakubovskyi, and O. Ruchayskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161301 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

An x-ray line observed in the spectra of the Milky Way center is consistent with similar lines detected in other galaxies. The origin of this line is unknown, but its energy fits with x-ray emissions from dark matter decay seen in various theoretical models.

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Generation of Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polaritons Using Nondiffractive Bessel Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum

B. A. Knyazev, Yu. Yu. Choporova, M. S. Mitkov, V. S. Pavelyev, and B. O. Volodkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163901 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Terahertz surface plasmons are realized experimentally via diffraction of a vortex beam from a metal-dielectric interface.

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High-Fidelity Rapid Initialization and Read-Out of an Electron Spin via the Single Donor $D^{-}$ Charge State

T. F. Watson, B. Weber, M. G. House, H. Büch, and M. Y. Simmons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166806 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Fast and accurate spin qubit readout is achieved by increasing the tunneling rate of an electron between a single electron transition and a nearby charge sensor.

LETTERS

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

Quasiparticle Properties of a Mobile Impurity in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Rasmus Søgaard Christensen, Jesper Levinsen, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160401 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

From Floquet to Dicke: Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Interacting with Quantum Light

Balázs Gulácsi and Balázs Dóra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160402 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Controlled Rephasing of Single Collective Spin Excitations in a Cold Atomic Quantum Memory

Boris Albrecht, Pau Farrera, Georg Heinze, Matteo Cristiani, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160501 (2015) - Published 12 October, 2015

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Phase-Reference-Free Experiment of Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Chao Wang, Xiao-Tian Song, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Chun-Mei Zhang, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160502 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) is achieved without the two parties having aligned reference frames. This could potentially make MDI-QKD systems simpler to build.

Experimental Generation of Robust Entanglement from Classical Correlations via Local Dissipation

Adeline Orieux, Mario A. Ciampini, Paolo Mataloni, Dagmar Bruß, Matteo Rossi, and Chiara Macchiavello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160503 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Proposal for High-Fidelity Quantum Simulation Using a Hybrid Dressed State

Jianming Cai, Itsik Cohen, Alex Retzker, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160504 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

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Quantum Hilbert Hotel

Václav Potoček, Filippo M. Miatto, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Andreas C. Liapis, Daniel K. L. Oi, Robert W. Boyd, and John Jeffers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160505 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

An optical experiment realizes one of the room-changing operations in the Hilbert Hotel—a fictitious establishment that illustrates some perplexing properties of infinity.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Compactness of Neutron Stars

Wei-Chia Chen and J. Piekarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161101 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

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Checking the Dark Matter Origin of a 3.53 keV Line with the Milky Way Center

A. Boyarsky, J. Franse, D. Iakubovskyi, and O. Ruchayskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161301 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Theoretically Palatable Flavor Combinations of Astrophysical Neutrinos

Mauricio Bustamante, John F. Beacom, and Walter Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161302 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Effect of New Physics in Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor

Carlos. A. Argüelles, Teppei Katori, and Jordi Salvado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161303 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Exact Path Integral for 3D Quantum Gravity

Norihiro Iizuka, Akinori Tanaka, and Seiji Terashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161304 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Violation of $C P T$ and Lorentz Invariance in $B_{s}^{0}$ Meson Oscillations

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161601 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Goldstone Gauginos

Daniele S. M. Alves, Jamison Galloway, Matthew McCullough, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161801 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Search for Hidden-Sector Bosons in $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161802 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Disentangling Mass and Mixing Hierarchies

Simon Knapen and Dean J. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 161803 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Beyond-Standard-Model Tensor Interaction and Hadron Phenomenology

Aurore Courtoy, Stefan Baeßler, Martín González–Alonso, and Simonetta Liuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 162001 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Mass Measurement of ${}^{56}{Sc}$ Reveals a Small $A = 56$ Odd-Even Mass Staggering, Implying a Cooler Accreted Neutron Star Crust

Z. Meisel et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 162501 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Gravitationally Induced Vertical Striation of Polarized Ultracold Neutrons by Spin-Echo Spectroscopy

S. Afach et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 162502 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

A new technique borrows a trick from MRI scanners to make precise magnetic measurements with cold neutrons.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sagnac Interferometry with a Single Atomic Clock

R. Stevenson, M. R. Hush, T. Bishop, I. Lesanovsky, and T. Fernholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163001 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

Spin-Mixing Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates

Marco Gabbrielli, Luca Pezzè, and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163002 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Probe of Rydberg-Atom Transitions via an Amplitude-Modulated Optical Standing Wave with a Ponderomotive Interaction

K. R. Moore and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163003 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Self-Ordered Limit Cycles, Chaos, and Phase Slippage with a Superfluid inside an Optical Resonator

Francesco Piazza and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163601 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Above-Threshold Ionization of Quasiperiodic Structures by Low-Frequency Laser Fields

F. Catoire and H. Bachau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163602 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Deterministic Generation of Arbitrary Photonic States Assisted by Dissipation

A. González-Tudela, V. Paulisch, D. E. Chang, H. J. Kimble, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163603 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Generation of Terahertz Surface Plasmon Polaritons Using Nondiffractive Bessel Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum

B. A. Knyazev, Yu. Yu. Choporova, M. S. Mitkov, V. S. Pavelyev, and B. O. Volodkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163901 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Terahertz surface plasmons are realized experimentally via diffraction of a vortex beam from a metal-dielectric interface.

Synchronization and Phase Noise Reduction in Micromechanical Oscillator Arrays Coupled through Light

Mian Zhang, Shreyas Shah, Jaime Cardenas, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163902 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Wettability Stabilizes Fluid Invasion into Porous Media via Nonlocal, Cooperative Pore Filling

Ran Holtzman and Enrico Segre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 164501 (2015) - Published 12 October, 2015

Blockage of Water Flow in Carbon Nanotubes by Ions Due to Interactions between Cations and Aromatic Rings

Jian Liu, Guosheng Shi, Pan Guo, Jinrong Yang, and Haiping Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 164502 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Lattice-Assisted Spectroscopy: A Generalized Scanning Tunneling Microscope for Ultracold Atoms

A. Kantian, U. Schollwöck, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 165301 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Heavy-Fermion Valence-Bond Liquids in Ultracold Atoms: Cooperation of the Kondo Effect and Geometric Frustration

L. Isaev and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 165302 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Laser-Induced Kondo Effect in Ultracold Alkaline-Earth Fermions

Masaya Nakagawa and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 165303 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Polar Phase of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ in Anisotropic Aerogel

V. V. Dmitriev, A. A. Senin, A. A. Soldatov, and A. N. Yudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 165304 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Crystal-Like Rearrangements of Icosahedra in Simulated Copper-Zirconium Metallic Glasses and their Effect on Mechanical Properties

J. Zemp, M. Celino, B. Schönfeld, and J. F. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 165501 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

Stretched Exponential Relaxation of Glasses at Low Temperature

Yingtian Yu, Mengyi Wang, Dawei Zhang, Bu Wang, Gaurav Sant, and Mathieu Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 165901 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Emergent Supersymmetry from Strongly Interacting Majorana Zero Modes

Armin Rahmani, Xiaoyu Zhu, Marcel Franz, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166401 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

Signature of Strong Spin-Orbital Coupling in the Large Nonsaturating Magnetoresistance Material ${WTe}_{2}$

J. Jiang, F. Tang, X. C. Pan, H. M. Liu, X. H. Niu, Y. X. Wang, D. F. Xu, H. F. Yang, B. P. Xie, F. Q. Song, P. Dudin, T. K. Kim, M. Hoesch, P. Kumar Das, I. Vobornik, X. G. Wan, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166601 (2015) - Published 12 October, 2015

Temperature-Induced Lifshitz Transition in ${WTe}_{2}$

Yun Wu, Na Hyun Jo, Masayuki Ochi, Lunan Huang, Daixiang Mou, Sergey L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, Nandini Trivedi, Ryotaro Arita, and Adam Kaminski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166602 (2015) - Published 12 October, 2015

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transport Spectroscopy of a Spin-Coherent Dot-Cavity System

C. Rössler, D. Oehri, O. Zilberberg, G. Blatter, M. Karalic, J. Pijnenburg, A. Hofmann, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, C. Reichl, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166603 (2015) - Published 12 October, 2015

A quantum dot can form a mesoscopic quantum state together with the electrons of a cavity in which the dot is embedded.

Electronic Degeneracy and Intrinsic Magnetic Properties of Epitaxial $Nb : {SrTiO}_{3}$ Thin Films Controlled by Defects

A. Sarantopoulos, E. Ferreiro-Vila, V. Pardo, C. Magén, M. H. Aguirre, and F. Rivadulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166801 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Signatures of Bloch-Band Geometry on Excitons: Nonhydrogenic Spectra in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Ajit Srivastava and Ataç Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166802 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Berry Phase Modification to the Energy Spectrum of Excitons

Jianhui Zhou, Wen-Yu Shan, Wang Yao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166803 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Light-Induced Exciton Spin Hall Effect in van der Waals Heterostructures

Yun-Mei Li, Jian Li, Li-Kun Shi, Dong Zhang, Wen Yang, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166804 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

SU(3) and SU(4) Singlet Quantum Hall States at $ν = 2 / 3$

Fengcheng Wu, Inti Sodemann, Allan H. MacDonald, and Thierry Jolicoeur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166805 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Fidelity Rapid Initialization and Read-Out of an Electron Spin via the Single Donor $D^{-}$ Charge State

T. F. Watson, B. Weber, M. G. House, H. Büch, and M. Y. Simmons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166806 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Fast and accurate spin qubit readout is achieved by increasing the tunneling rate of an electron between a single electron transition and a nearby charge sensor.

Emergent SU(3) Symmetry in Random Spin-1 Chains

V. L. Quito, José A. Hoyos, and E. Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167201 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Resonating-Valence-Bond Physics Is Not Always Governed by the Shortest Tunneling Loops

Arnaud Ralko and Ioannis Rousochatzakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167202 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Rare-Earth Triangular Lattice Spin Liquid: A Single-Crystal Study of ${YbMgGaO}_{4}$

Yuesheng Li, Gang Chen, Wei Tong, Li Pi, Juanjuan Liu, Zhaorong Yang, Xiaoqun Wang, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167203 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

First-Principles Study of the Magnetic Structure of ${Na}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

Kaige Hu (胡凯歌), Fa Wang, and Ji Feng (冯济)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167204 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Adjacent Fe-Vacancy Interactions as the Origin of Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in $({In}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x})_{2} O_{3}$

R. J. Green, T. Z. Regier, B. Leedahl, J. A. McLeod, X. H. Xu, G. S. Chang, E. Z. Kurmaev, and A. Moewes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167401 (2015) - Published 14 October, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

General Differential Contact Identities for Macromolecules

Jonathan Landy, P. A. Pincus, and YongSeok Jho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 167801 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

Criticality in the Approach to Failure in Amorphous Solids

Jie Lin, Thomas Gueudré, Alberto Rosso, and Matthieu Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 168001 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015

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Propulsion and Instability of a Flexible Helical Rod Rotating in a Viscous Fluid

M. K. Jawed, N. K. Khouri, F. Da, E. Grinspun, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 168101 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

Experiments with rotating elastic rods mimic the behavior of swimming bacteria, showing how their tails buckle above a certain rotation speed.

Three-Dimensional Conformation of Folded Polymers in Single Crystals

You-lee Hong, Shichen Yuan, Zhen Li, Yutian Ke, Koji Nozaki, and Toshikazu Miyoshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 168301 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

COMMENTS

Comment on “General Non-Markovian Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems”

Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Juan Pablo Paz, and Augusto J. Roncaglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 168901 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

Zhang et al. Reply:

Wei-Min Zhang, Ping-Yuan Lo, Heng-Na Xiong, Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 168902 (2015) - Published 13 October, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: New Steady-State Quiescent High-Confinement Plasma in an Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 055001 (2015)]

J. S. Hu, Z. Sun, H. Y. Guo, J. G. Li, B. N. Wan, H. Q. Wang, S. Y. Ding, G. S. Xu, Y. F. Liang, D. K. Mansfield, R. Maingi, X. L. Zou, L. Wang, J. Ren, G. Z. Zuo, L. Zhang, Y. M. Duan, T. H. Shi, L. Q. Hu, and EAST team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 169901 (2015) - Published 15 October, 2015

Publisher’s Note: Decay and Fission Hindrance of Two- and Four-Quasiparticle $K$ Isomers in ${}^{254}{Rf}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 132502 (2015)]

H. M. David et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 169902 (2015) - Published 16 October, 2015