Volume 115, Issue 19

6 November 2015

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On the Cover

Design for demonstration of a macroscopic thermal diode, conducting case; heat is conducted from left to right (top). Experimentally measured temperature distribution of the device (bottom).

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Temperature-Dependent Transformation Thermotics: From Switchable Thermal Cloaks to Macroscopic Thermal Diodes
Ying Li, Xiangying Shen, Zuhui Wu, Junying Huang, Yixuan Chen, Yushan Ni, and Jiping Huang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195503 (2015)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time in a Quenched Quantum System

T. B. Batalhão, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, M. Paternostro, E. Lutz, and R. M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190601 (2015) - Published 2 November, 2015

Entropy production, a quantity associated with the emergence of the arrow of time, has been successfully measured in a microscopic quantum system.

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All-Optical Reconstruction of Crystal Band Structure

G. Vampa, T. J. Hammond, N. Thiré, B. E. Schmidt, F. Légaré, C. R. McDonald, T. Brabec, D. D. Klug, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193603 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

An all-optical alternative to photoemission spectroscopy can probe the electronic band structure of a solid.

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Experimental Evidence of Helical Flow in Porous Media

Yu Ye, Gabriele Chiogna, Olaf A. Cirpka, Peter Grathwohl, and Massimo Rolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 194502 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Liquids can follow twisted paths when flowing through porous media.

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Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms

H. M. Price, O. Zilberberg, T. Ozawa, I. Carusotto, and N. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195303 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Cold atoms in an optical lattice with a synthetic extra dimension could be used to see the 4D version of the quantum Hall effect.

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Evidence of the Missing Baryons from the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in Planck Data

Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, Yin-Zhe Ma, Francisco S. Kitaura, Wenting Wang, Ricardo Génova-Santos, Juan Macías-Pérez, and Diego Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 191301 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Analysis of Planck measurements of the cosmic microwave background provides evidence that many of the baryons expected to exist in the Universe, but not detected in stars, are in the gas around the Central Galaxies identified in the Sloan galaxy survey.

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Exciting Polaritons with Quantum Light

J. C. López Carreño, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Sanvitto, E. del Valle, and F. P. Laussy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196402 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Pure quantum states could be generated in polaritonic systems by exciting them with a quantum light source rather than a laser.

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Shock Response and Phase Transitions of MgO at Planetary Impact Conditions

Seth Root, Luke Shulenburger, Raymond W. Lemke, Daniel H. Dolan, Thomas R. Mattsson, and Michael P. Desjarlais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 198501 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Shock compression experiments performed on Sandia National Laboratories’ Z-Machine along with theoretical simulations provide information on the phase boundaries of magnesium oxide at temperatures and pressures relevant to planetary impacts, such as the formation of Earth’s moon.

LETTERS

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

Dynamical Detection of Topological Phase Transitions in Short-Lived Atomic Systems

F. Setiawan, K. Sengupta, I. B. Spielman, and Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190401 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Spontaneous Increase of Magnetic Flux and Chiral-Current Reversal in Bosonic Ladders: Swimming against the Tide

S. Greschner, M. Piraud, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. P. McCulloch, U. Schollwöck, and T. Vekua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190402 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Postquantum Steering

Ana Belén Sainz, Nicolas Brunner, Daniel Cavalcanti, Paul Skrzypczyk, and Tamás Vértesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190403 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Nonhydrodynamic Transport in Trapped Unitary Fermi Gases

Jasmine Brewer and Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190404 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Entangling the Whole by Beam Splitting a Part

Callum Croal, Christian Peuntinger, Vanessa Chille, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs, Natalia Korolkova, and Ladislav Mišta, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190501 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

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Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time in a Quenched Quantum System

T. B. Batalhão, A. M. Souza, R. S. Sarthour, I. S. Oliveira, M. Paternostro, E. Lutz, and R. M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190601 (2015) - Published 2 November, 2015

Entropy production, a quantity associated with the emergence of the arrow of time, has been successfully measured in a microscopic quantum system.

Towards an Optimal Flow: Density-of-States-Informed Replica-Exchange Simulations

Thomas Vogel and Danny Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190602 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Smooth Optimal Quantum Control for Robust Solid-State Spin Magnetometry

Tobias Nöbauer, Andreas Angerer, Björn Bartels, Michael Trupke, Stefan Rotter, Jörg Schmiedmayer, Florian Mintert, and Johannes Majer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190801 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Evidence of the Missing Baryons from the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in Planck Data

Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo, Yin-Zhe Ma, Francisco S. Kitaura, Wenting Wang, Ricardo Génova-Santos, Juan Macías-Pérez, and Diego Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 191301 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Elementary Particles and Fields

Higgs Decay to Two Photons at One Loop in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

Christine Hartmann and Michael Trott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 191801 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Prediction for the Top Antitop $S$ -Wave Pair Production Cross Section Near Threshold in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation

Martin Beneke, Yuichiro Kiyo, Peter Marquard, Alexander Penin, Jan Piclum, and Matthias Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 192001 (2015) - Published 2 November, 2015

Nuclear Physics

Matching Pion-Nucleon Roy-Steiner Equations to Chiral Perturbation Theory

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 192301 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Extension of the $N = 40$ Island of Inversion towards $N = 50$ : Spectroscopy of ${}^{66}{Cr}$ , ${}^{70, 72}{Fe}$

C. Santamaria et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 192501 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonadiabatic Electron Dynamics in Orthogonal Two-Color Laser Fields with Comparable Intensities

Ji-Wei Geng, Wei-Hao Xiong, Xiang-Ru Xiao, Liang-You Peng, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193001 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Inducing Resonant Interactions in Ultracold Atoms with a Modulated Magnetic Field

D. Hudson Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193002 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Catching Conical Intersections in the Act: Monitoring Transient Electronic Coherences by Attosecond Stimulated X-Ray Raman Signals

Markus Kowalewski, Kochise Bennett, Konstantin E. Dorfman, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193003 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Ultracold Long-Range Rydberg Molecules with Complex Multichannel Spectra

Matthew T. Eiles and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193201 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Shaping the Biphoton Temporal Waveform with Spatial Light Modulation

Luwei Zhao, Xianxin Guo, Yuan Sun, Yumian Su, M. M. T. Loy, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193601 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Measurement and Shaping of Biphoton Spectral Wave Functions

N. Tischler, A. Büse, L. G. Helt, M. L. Juan, N. Piro, J. Ghosh, M. J. Steel, and G. Molina-Terriza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193602 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

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All-Optical Reconstruction of Crystal Band Structure

G. Vampa, T. J. Hammond, N. Thiré, B. E. Schmidt, F. Légaré, C. R. McDonald, T. Brabec, D. D. Klug, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193603 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

An all-optical alternative to photoemission spectroscopy can probe the electronic band structure of a solid.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantum-Spillover-Enhanced Surface-Plasmonic Absorption at the Interface of Silver and High-Index Dielectrics

Dafei Jin, Qing Hu, Daniel Neuhauser, Felix von Cube, Yingyi Yang, Ritesh Sachan, Ting S. Luk, David C. Bell, and Nicholas X. Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193901 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Topological States in Partially- $PT$ -Symmetric Azimuthal Potentials

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193902 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Noncollinear Polarization Gating of Attosecond Pulse Trains in the Relativistic Regime

M. Yeung, J. Bierbach, E. Eckner, S. Rykovanov, S. Kuschel, A. Sävert, M. Förster, C. Rödel, G. G. Paulus, S. Cousens, M. Coughlan, B. Dromey, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193903 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Nonlinear Cavity and Frequency Comb Radiations Induced by Negative Frequency Field Effects

Cristian Redondo Lourés, Daniele Faccio, and Fabio Biancalana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 193904 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Synchronization of Heterogeneous Oscillators by Noninvasive Time-Delayed Cross Coupling

Thomas Jüngling, Ingo Fischer, Eckehard Schöll, and Wolfram Just

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 194101 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Turbulence Locality and Granularlike Fluid Shear Viscosity in Collisional Suspensions

Diego Berzi and Luigi Fraccarollo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 194501 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

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Experimental Evidence of Helical Flow in Porous Media

Yu Ye, Gabriele Chiogna, Olaf A. Cirpka, Peter Grathwohl, and Massimo Rolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 194502 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Liquids can follow twisted paths when flowing through porous media.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Electron Vortex Beams in a Laser Field

Pratul Bandyopadhyay, Banasri Basu, and Debashree Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 194801 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Multi-MeV Electron Acceleration by Subterawatt Laser Pulses

A. J. Goers, G. A. Hine, L. Feder, B. Miao, F. Salehi, J. K. Wahlstrand, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 194802 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Positron Acceleration by Plasma Wakefields Driven by a Hollow Electron Beam

Neeraj Jain, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and J. P. Palastro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195001 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Statistical Transmutation in Floquet Driven Optical Lattices

Tigran A. Sedrakyan, Victor M. Galitski, and Alex Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195301 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Symmetry-Protected Topological Phase in a One-Dimensional Correlated Bosonic Model with a Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling

Jize Zhao, Shijie Hu, and Ping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195302 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

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Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms

H. M. Price, O. Zilberberg, T. Ozawa, I. Carusotto, and N. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195303 (2015) - Published 3 November, 2015

Cold atoms in an optical lattice with a synthetic extra dimension could be used to see the 4D version of the quantum Hall effect.

Bending Rules in Graphene Kirigami

Bastien F. Grosso and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195501 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Second Harmonic Generation of Nanoscale Phonon Wave Packets

A. Bojahr, M. Gohlke, W. Leitenberger, J. Pudell, M. Reinhardt, A. von Reppert, M. Roessle, M. Sander, P. Gaal, and M. Bargheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195502 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Temperature-Dependent Transformation Thermotics: From Switchable Thermal Cloaks to Macroscopic Thermal Diodes

Ying Li, Xiangying Shen, Zuhui Wu, Junying Huang, Yixuan Chen, Yushan Ni, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195503 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Perfect Lensing by a Single Interface: Defying Loss and Bandwidth Limitations of Metamaterials

Gilad Rosenblatt and Meir Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195504 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Enhancement of Water Evaporation on Solid Surfaces with Nanoscale Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Patterns

Rongzheng Wan, Chunlei Wang, Xiaoling Lei, Guoquan Zhou, and Haiping Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 195901 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Field Effect and Strongly Localized Carriers in the Metal-Insulator Transition Material ${VO}_{2}$

K. Martens, J. W. Jeong, N. Aetukuri, C. Rettner, N. Shukla, E. Freeman, D. N. Esfahani, F. M. Peeters, T. Topuria, P. M. Rice, A. Volodin, B. Douhard, W. Vandervorst, M. G. Samant, S. Datta, and S. S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196401 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exciting Polaritons with Quantum Light

J. C. López Carreño, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Sanvitto, E. del Valle, and F. P. Laussy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196402 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Pure quantum states could be generated in polaritonic systems by exciting them with a quantum light source rather than a laser.

Exact Double Counting in Combining the Dynamical Mean Field Theory and the Density Functional Theory

Kristjan Haule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196403 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Resonant Scattering by Magnetic Impurities as a Model for Spin Relaxation in Bilayer Graphene

Denis Kochan, Susanne Irmer, Martin Gmitra, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196601 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Strong Suppression of the Spin Hall Effect in the Spin Glass State

Y. Niimi, M. Kimata, Y. Omori, B. Gu, T. Ziman, S. Maekawa, A. Fert, and Y. Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196602 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Coulomb Blockade in a Two-Dimensional Conductive Polymer Monolayer

M. Akai-Kasaya, Y. Okuaki, S. Nagano, T. Mitani, and Y. Kuwahara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196801 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Unpaired Majorana Modes in Josephson-Junction Arrays with Gapless Bulk Excitations

M. Pino, A. M. Tsvelik, and L. B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197001 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Nematic Crossover in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ under Uniaxial Stress

Xiao Ren, Lian Duan, Yuwen Hu, Jiarui Li, Rui Zhang, Huiqian Luo, Pengcheng Dai, and Yuan Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197002 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Laser-Induced Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Magnetic Films

Ka Shen and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197201 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Fluctuations and All-In–All-Out Ordering in Dipole-Octupole ${Nd}_{2} {Zr}_{2} O_{7}$

E. Lhotel, S. Petit, S. Guitteny, O. Florea, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, C. Colin, E. Ressouche, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197202 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

What is the Valence of Mn in ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} N$ ?

Ryky Nelson, Tom Berlijn, Juana Moreno, Mark Jarrell, and Wei Ku (顧威)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197203 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

End States and Subgap Structure in Proximity-Coupled Chains of Magnetic Adatoms

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197204 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Piezomagnetoelectric Effect of Spin Origin in Dysprosium Orthoferrite

Taro Nakajima, Yusuke Tokunaga, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197205 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Delocalization of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Plasmonic Nanoantennas

Sviatlana Viarbitskaya, Olivier Demichel, Benoit Cluzel, Gérard Colas des Francs, and Alexandre Bouhelier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197401 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

Spin-Selective Electron Quantum Transport in Nonmagnetic $MgZnO / ZnO$ Heterostructures

D. Maryenko, J. Falson, M. S. Bahramy, I. A. Dmitriev, Y. Kozuka, A. Tsukazaki, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197601 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Exciton Lifetime Paradoxically Enhanced by Dissipation and Decoherence: Toward Efficient Energy Conversion of a Solar Cell

Yasuhiro Yamada, Youhei Yamaji, and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 197701 (2015) - Published 6 November, 2015

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Shock Response and Phase Transitions of MgO at Planetary Impact Conditions

Seth Root, Luke Shulenburger, Raymond W. Lemke, Daniel H. Dolan, Thomas R. Mattsson, and Michael P. Desjarlais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 198501 (2015) - Published 4 November, 2015

ERRATA

Erratum: Reversible Framework for Quantum Resource Theories [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 070503 (2015)]

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Gilad Gour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 199901 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015

Erratum: Pomeranchuk Cooling of $SU (2 N)$ Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 220401 (2013)]

Zi Cai, Hsiang-hsuan Hung, Lei Wang, Dong Zheng, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 199902 (2015) - Published 5 November, 2015