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1 TeV electron event in the AMS detector on the International Space Station. Tracker planes 1–9 measure the particle charge and its momentum bending in the y-z plane. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion. [M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 141102 (2013) ] Read Article | More Covers
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April 4, 2013
Hairlike sensory cells in our ears may detect weak auditory signals through a synchronization process, according to new experiments. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148103 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
April 4, 2013
Femtosecond laser spectroscopy can identify otherwise inaccessible precursors in photoinduced chemical reactions. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148305 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
April 4, 2013
When rapidly deformed, a suspension of cornstarch in water not only becomes stiff like a solid but also fractures like one. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148304 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
March 12, 2013  Readers can now conveniently access APS journals from home, on mobile devices, or while traveling by linking their institution’s subscriptions to their personal APS Journal Account. To link the subscriptions, simply click on the new Go Mobile! button that appears on article pages when accessing the journals from your institution.
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March 11, 2013  Headed to the 2013 APS March meeting in Baltimore? Join us Wednesday March 20th for beer, pizza, and what is certain to be an excellent talk by Nobel laureate Bill Phillips. Read More | More News/Announcements
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February 13, 2013 The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for the leading Editor of Physical Review Letters (PRL).
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February 6, 2013  The editors of the APS journals have selected 142 new Outstanding Referees for 2013, out of more than 60,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2013 honorees come from 27 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees.
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October 16, 2012  Today ORCID opened its registry allowing researchers in all fields and from around the world to distinguish themselves by registering for their own unique identifier. APS has been a long-time supporter of ORCID and, as one of the official Launch Partners, we have updated our author profile application so that authors may register their ORCID within our database of authors and referees. Widespread adoption of ORCID identifiers will improve the scholarly record and help researchers receive proper credit for all of their contributions. To get started, simply visit the APS Author Profile application.
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October 9, 2012  The APS congratulates Serge Haroche and David WIneland for their 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. They and their collaborators have made significant advances in the realization of quantum phenomena with many beautiful experiments. Their ability to manipulate atoms and photons to demonstrate fundamental aspects of quantum physics has been documented in many journal articles. We are very pleased that much of this seminal work has been published in the APS journals Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, and Reviews of Modern Physics. To honor these laureates and their collaborators, we have made freely available five of their many APS publications that demonstrate some of the key insights of their pioneering work. Read More | More News/Announcements
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September 25, 2012  Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Ig Nobel Prizes in Physics and Fluid Dynamics. Raymond E. Goldstein, Patrick B. Warren, and Robin C. Ball received a share of the Physics prize for their work on the shape and motion of human hair when bundled in a ponytail, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 078101 (2012). For additional information, see Ponytail Physics for a brief synopsis published in Physics. Rebecca Thompson, APS's Head of Public Outreach, wrote on the Physics Central blog about her attempt to duplicate the ponytail research. H.C. Mayer and R. Krechetnikov took home the Fluid Dynamics prize for their study on the dynamics of sloshing coffee, Phys. Rev. E 85, 046117 (2012), which was highlighted in Physics, Science of Slosh, back in April 2012. We also note that our very own prognosticator, Brian Jacobsmeyer, predicted both winners back in July (http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2012/07/who-will-win-ig-nobel-prize.html).
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July 12, 2012 The American Physical Society is pleased to announce the availability of a new "Saved Search" feature on our journal platform. With Saved Searches, you can receive daily updates based on any search criteria available in our search engine. Use them to track specific keywords, the publications of your colleagues at your institution, new publications that cite your work (if your name is unique enough), and much more. You may choose to receive your updates via email or RSS feeds. To save a search, first log in using your APS Journal account, do a search, and then simply save it on the search results page. More News/Announcements
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To promote reading across fields, the editors of Physical Review Letters offer "Suggestions" each week of papers that they hope will lead readers to explore other areas of physics. Please see our Announcement PRL 98, 010001 (2007).
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W. Lechner, S. J. M. Habraken, N. Kiesel, M. Aspelmeyer, and P. Zoller
Levitated nanospheres in optical cavities open a novel route to study many-body systems out of solution and highly isolated from the environment. We show that properly tuned optical parameters allow for the study of the nonequilibrium dynamics of composite nanoparticles with nonisotropic optical fri... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 143604 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Matthieu Roché, Eglind Myftiu, Mitchell C. Johnston, Pilnam Kim, and Howard A. Stone
We study the dynamic fracture of thin layers of suspensions of non-Brownian rigid particles. The impact of a projectile triggers a liquid-to-solid transition and a hole opens in the layer. We show that the occurrence of fracture and the spatial and dynamic features of the cracks depend mostly on the... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148304 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 4, 2013
A. Perali, D. Neilson, and A. R. Hamilton
Exciton bound states in solids between electrons and holes are predicted to form a superfluid at high temperatures. We show that by employing atomically thin crystals such as a pair of adjacent bilayer graphene sheets, equilibrium superfluidity of electron-hole pairs should be achievable for the fir... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146803 (2013)] Published Wed Apr 3, 2013
David Peter, Axel Griesmaier, Tilman Pfau, and Hans Peter Büchler
A new method to drive a system of neutral dipolar fermions into the lowest Landau level regime is proposed. By employing adiabatic spin-flip processes in combination with a diabatic transfer, the fermions are pumped to higher orbital angular momentum states in a repeated scheme that allows for the p... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 145303 (2013)] Published Wed Apr 3, 2013
M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)
A precision measurement by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station of the positron fraction in primary cosmic rays in the energy range from 0.5 to 350 GeV based on 6.8×106 positron and electron events is presented. The very accurate data show that the positron fraction is ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 141102 (2013)] Published Wed Apr 3, 2013
Markus Niemann, Holger Kantz, and Eli Barkai
Recent experiments on blinking quantum dots, weak turbulence in liquid crystals, and nanoelectrodes reveal the fundamental connection between 1/f noise and power law intermittency. The nonstationarity of the process implies that the power spectrum is random—a manifestation of weak ergodicity breakin... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 140603 (2013)] Published Tue Apr 2, 2013
A. Javadi, J. Eggers, D. Bonn, M. Habibi, and N. M. Ribe
Thin jets of viscous fluid like honey falling from capillary nozzles can attain lengths exceeding 10 m before breaking up into droplets via the Rayleigh-Plateau (surface tension) instability. Using a combination of laboratory experiments and WKB analysis of the growth of shape perturbations on a jet... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 144501 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 1, 2013
I. V. Igumenshchev, D. H. Froula, D. H. Edgell, V. N. Goncharov, T. J. Kessler, F. J. Marshall, R. L. McCrory, P. W. McKenty, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. T. Michel, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, and S. Skupsky
Spherically symmetric direct-drive-ignition designs driven by laser beams with a focal-spot size nearly equal to the target diameter suffer from energy losses due to crossed-beam energy transfer (CBET). Significant reduction of CBET and improvements in implosion hydrodynamic efficiency can be achiev... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 145001 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 1, 2013
R. H. Liu, W. L. Lim, and S. Urazhdin
We utilized microwave spectroscopy to study the magnetization oscillations locally induced in a Permalloy film by a pure spin current, which is generated due to the spin Hall effect in an adjacent Pt layer. The oscillation frequency is lower than the ferromagnetic resonance of Permalloy, indicating ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 147601 (2013)] Published Mon Apr 1, 2013
Xabel Garcia, Salima Rafaï, and Philippe Peyla
Some microalgae are sensitive to light intensity gradients. This property is known as phototaxis: The algae swim toward a light source (positive phototaxis). We use this property to control the motion of microalgae within a Poiseuille flow using light. The combination of flow vorticity and phototaxi... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 138106 (2013)] Published Thu Mar 28, 2013
Xiaobin Niu, Stephen P. Stagon, Hanchen Huang, J. Kevin Baldwin, and Amit Misra
Physical vapor deposition provides a controllable means of growing two-dimensional metallic thin films and one-dimensional metallic nanorods. While theories exist for the growth of metallic thin films, their counterpart for the growth of metallic nanorods is absent. Because of this absence, the lowe... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 136102 (2013)] Published Thu Mar 28, 2013
M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)
We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, the DeepCore subarray is included in the analysis, lowering the energy threshold and extending the search to th... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 131302 (2013)] Published Thu Mar 28, 2013
N. Lee, C. Vecchini, Y. J. Choi, L. C. Chapon, A. Bombardi, P. G. Radaelli, and S-W. Cheong
Giant tunability of ferroelectric polarization (ΔP=5000 μC/m2) in the multiferroic GdMn2O5 with external magnetic fields is discovered. The detailed magnetic model from x-ray magnetic scattering results indicates that the Gd-Mn symmetric exchange striction plays a major role in the tunable ferroele... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 137203 (2013)] Published Tue Mar 26, 2013
J. DiSciacca, M. Marshall, K. Marable, G. Gabrielse, S. Ettenauer, E. Tardiff, R. Kalra, D. W. Fitzakerley, M. C. George, E. A. Hessels, C. H. Storry, M. Weel, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, and T. Sefzick (ATRAP Collaboration)
For the first time a single trapped antiproton (p̅ ) is used to measure the p̅ magnetic moment μp̅ . The moment μp̅ =μp̅ S/(ℏ/2) is given in terms of its spin S and the nuclear magneton (μN) by μp̅ /μN=-2.792 845±0.000 012. The 4.4 parts per million (ppm) u... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 130801 (2013)] Published Mon Mar 25, 2013
A. Chabchoub, O. Kimmoun, H. Branger, N. Hoffmann, D. Proment, M. Onorato, and N. Akhmediev
We present the first ever observation of dark solitons on the surface of water. It takes the form of an amplitude drop of the carrier wave which does not change shape in propagation. The shape and width of the soliton depend on the water depth, carrier frequency, and the amplitude of the background ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124101 (2013)] Published Thu Mar 21, 2013
Keisuke Fujii, Yoshifumi Nakata, Masayuki Ohzeki, and Mio Murao
We consider measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) on thermal states of the interacting cluster Hamiltonian containing interactions between the cluster stabilizers that undergoes thermal phase transitions. We show that the long-range order of the symmetry breaking thermal states below a critic... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120502 (2013)] Published Thu Mar 21, 2013
Lukas Fricke, Michael Wulf, Bernd Kaestner, Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs, Janis Timoshenko, Pavel Nazarov, Frank Hohls, Philipp Mirovsky, Brigitte Mackrodt, Ralf Dolata, Thomas Weimann, Klaus Pierz, and Hans W. Schumacher
We report noninvasive single-charge detection of the full probability distribution Pn of the initialization of a quantum dot with n electrons for rapid decoupling from an electron reservoir. We analyze the data in the context of a model for sequential tunneling pinch-off, which has generic solutions... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126803 (2013)] Published Wed Mar 20, 2013
Navish Wadhwa, Pavlos Vlachos, and Sunghwan Jung
When two jets of fluid collide, they can “bounce” off each other, due to a thin film of air which keeps them separated. We describe the phenomenon of stable noncoalescence between two jets of the same fluid, colliding obliquely with each other. Using a simple experimental setup, we carry out a param... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124502 (2013)] Published Wed Mar 20, 2013
Stephen D. Ellis, Tuhin S. Roy, and Jakub Scholtz
This Letter applies the concept of “jets,” as constructed from calorimeter cell four-vectors, to jets composed (primarily) of photons (or leptons). Thus jets become a superset of both traditional objects such as QCD jets, photons, and electrons, and more unconventional objects such as photon jets an... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122003 (2013)] Published Wed Mar 20, 2013
Hayato Motohashi, Alexei A. Starobinsky, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama
It is shown that the tension between recent neutrino oscillation experiments, favoring sterile neutrinos with masses of the order of 1 eV, and cosmological data which impose stringent constraints on neutrino masses from the free streaming suppression of density fluctuations, can be resolved in model... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121302 (2013)] Published Tue Mar 19, 2013
I. Mahboob, K. Nishiguchi, A. Fujiwara, and H. Yamaguchi
An electromechanical resonator harboring an atomlike spectrum of discrete mechanical vibrations, namely, phonon modes, has been developed. A purely mechanical three-mode system becomes available in the electromechanical atom in which the energy difference of the two higher modes is resonant with a l... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127202 (2013)] Published Mon Mar 18, 2013
Eiji Shikoh, Kazuya Ando, Kazuki Kubo, Eiji Saitoh, Teruya Shinjo, and Masashi Shiraishi
A spin battery concept is applied for the dynamical generation of pure spin current and spin transport in p-type silicon (p-Si). Ferromagnetic resonance and effective s-d coupling in Ni80Fe20 results in spin accumulation at the Ni80Fe20/p-Si interface, inducing spin injection and the generation of s... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127201 (2013)] Published Mon Mar 18, 2013
T. Baluktsian, B. Huber, R. Löw, and T. Pfau
We present evidence for Rydberg-Rydberg interaction in a gas of rubidium atoms above room temperature. Rabi oscillations on the nanosecond time scale to different Rydberg states are investigated in a vapor cell experiment. Analyzing the atomic time evolution and comparing to a dephasing model, we fi... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123001 (2013)] Published Mon Mar 18, 2013
J. Colgan, J. Abdallah, Jr., A. Ya. Faenov, S. A. Pikuz, E. Wagenaars, N. Booth, O. Culfa, R. J. Dance, R. G. Evans, R. J. Gray, T. Kaempfer, K. L. Lancaster, P. McKenna, A. L. Rossall, I. Yu. Skobelev, K. S. Schulze, I. Uschmann, A. G. Zhidkov, and N. C. Woolsey
In high-spectral resolution experiments with the petawatt Vulcan laser, strong x-ray radiation of KK hollow atoms (atoms without n=1 electrons) from thin Al foils was observed at pulse intensities of 3×1020 W/cm2. The observations of spectra from these exotic states of matter are supported by detai... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125001 (2013)] Published Mon Mar 18, 2013
D. E. Chang, J. I. Cirac, and H. J. Kimble
Atoms coupled to nanophotonic interfaces represent an exciting frontier for the investigation of quantum light-matter interactions. While most work has considered the interaction between statically positioned atoms and light, here we demonstrate that a wealth of phenomena can arise from the self-con... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 113606 (2013)] Published Fri Mar 15, 2013
General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
J. P. Kestner, Xin Wang, Lev S. Bishop, Edwin Barnes, and S. Das Sarma
We develop a systematic method of performing corrected gate operations on an array of exchange-coupled singlet-triplet qubits in the presence of both fluctuating nuclear Overhauser field gradients and charge noise. The single-qubit control sequences we present have a simple form, are relatively shor... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 140502 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Qi Zhou and Xiaoling Cui
Intensive theoretical studies have recently predicted that a Bose-Einstein condensate will exhibit a variety of novel properties if spin-orbit coupling is present. However, an unambiguous fact has also been pointed out: Rashba coupling destroys a condensate of noninteracting bosons even in high dime... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 140407 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Elementary Particles and Fields
Alessandro Codello and Giulio D’Odorico
We study how universality classes of O(N)-symmetric models depend continuously on the dimension d and the number of field components N. We observe, from a renormalization group perspective, how the implications of the Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg theorem set in as we gradually deform theory space towards... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 141601 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Nuclear Physics
J. P. Fernández-García, M. Cubero, M. Rodríguez-Gallardo, L. Acosta, M. Alcorta, M. A. G. Alvarez, M. J. G. Borge, L. Buchmann, C. A. Diget, H. A. Falou, B. R. Fulton, H. O. U. Fynbo, D. Galaviz, J. Gómez-Camacho, R. Kanungo, J. A. Lay, M. Madurga, I. Martel, A. M. Moro, I. Mukha, T. Nilsson, A. M. Sánchez-Benítez, A. Shotter, O. Tengblad, and P. Walden
The inclusive breakup for the 11Li+208Pb reaction at energies around the Coulomb barrier has been measured for the first time. A sizable yield of 9Li following the 11Li dissociation has been observed, even at energies well below the Coulomb barrier. Using the first-order semiclassical perturbation t... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 142701 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
W. Lechner, S. J. M. Habraken, N. Kiesel, M. Aspelmeyer, and P. Zoller
Levitated nanospheres in optical cavities open a novel route to study many-body systems out of solution and highly isolated from the environment. We show that properly tuned optical parameters allow for the study of the nonequilibrium dynamics of composite nanoparticles with nonisotropic optical fri... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 143604 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Kohei Toyoda, Fuyuto Takahashi, Shun Takizawa, Yu Tokizane, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Ryuji Morita, and Takashige Omatsu
We discovered that chiral nanoneedles fabricated by vortex laser ablation can be used to visualize the helicity of an optical vortex. The orbital angular momentum of light determines the chirality of the nanoneedles, since it is transferred from the optical vortex to the metal. Only the spin angular... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 143603 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
Arthur Babuty, Karl Joulain, Pierre-Olivier Chapuis, Jean-Jacques Greffet, and Yannick De Wilde
We report local spectra of the near-field thermal emission recorded by a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, using a tungsten tip as a local scatterer coupling the near-field thermal emission to the far field. Spectra recorded on silicon carbide and silicon dioxide exhibit temporal coherence du... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146103 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Antonio Ambrosio, Pasqualino Maddalena, and Lorenzo Marrucci
Azopolymer films exposed to nonuniform illumination exhibit a phenomenon of light-induced mass transport, leading to the formation of permanent relief patterns on the film surface. Its underlying microscopic mechanism remains unclear, despite many years of research effort. Here we introduce a model ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146102 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
Hiroyuki Takenaka, Ilya Grinberg, and Andrew M. Rappe
Relaxor ferroelectrics have been a focus of intense attention due to their anomalous properties, and understanding the structure and dynamics of relaxors has been one of the long-standing challenges in solid-state physics. We investigate the local structure and dynamics in 75%PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3-25%PbTiO... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 147602 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Y. M. Lu, Y. Choi, C. M. Ortega, X. M. Cheng, J. W. Cai, S. Y. Huang, L. Sun, and C. L. Chien
Thin Pt films on an yttrium iron garnet (YIG=Y3Fe5O12) show ferromagneticlike transport properties, which may impact the functionality of Pt in spin current detection, but do not provide direct quantitative information on the Pt magnetization. We report magnetic x-ray magnetic circular dichroism mea... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 147207 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Jun Zhao, C. R. Rotundu, K. Marty, M. Matsuda, Y. Zhao, C. Setty, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Jiangping Hu, and R. J. Birgeneau
Magnetic correlations in isovalently doped Ba(Fe1-xRux)2As2 (x=0.25, Tc=14.5 K; x=0.35, Tc=20 K) are studied by elastic and inelastic neutron scattering techniques. A relatively large superconducting spin gap accompanied by a weak resonance mode is observed in the superconducting state in both sam... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 147003 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
S. M. Anton, J. S. Birenbaum, S. R. O’Kelley, V. Bolkhovsky, D. A. Braje, G. Fitch, M. Neeley, G. C. Hilton, H.-M. Cho, K. D. Irwin, F. C. Wellstood, W. D. Oliver, A. Shnirman, and John Clarke
The spectral density SΦ(f)=A2/(f/1 Hz)α of magnetic flux noise in ten dc superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) with systematically varied geometries shows that α increases as the temperature is lowered; in so doing, each spectrum pivots about a nearly constant frequency. The mean-sq... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 147002 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Eric Johlin, Lucas K. Wagner, Tonio Buonassisi, and Jeffrey C. Grossman
The inherently disordered nature of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) obscures the influence of atomic features on the trapping of holes. To address this, we have created a set of over two thousand ab initio structures of a-Si:H and explored the influence of geometric factors on the occurrence... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146805 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
O. E. Dial, M. D. Shulman, S. P. Harvey, H. Bluhm, V. Umansky, and A. Yacoby
Two level systems that can be reliably controlled and measured hold promise as qubits both for metrology and for quantum information science. Since a fluctuating environment limits the performance of qubits in both capacities, understanding environmental coupling and dynamics is key to improving qub... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146804 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Oliver Bodensiek, Rok Žitko, Matthias Vojta, Mark Jarrell, and Thomas Pruschke
The explanation of heavy-fermion superconductivity is a long-standing challenge to theory. It is commonly thought to be connected to nonlocal fluctuations of either spin or charge degrees of freedom and therefore of unconventional type. Here we present results for the Kondo-lattice model, a paradigm... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146406 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Ethan W. Brown, Bryan K. Clark, Jonathan L. DuBois, and David M. Ceperley
We perform calculations of the 3D finite-temperature homogeneous electron gas in the warm-dense regime (rs≡(3/4πn)1/3a0-1=1.0–40.0 and Θ≡T/TF=0.0625–8.0) using restricted path-integral Monte Carlo simulations. Precise energies, pair correlation functions, and structure factors are obtained. For all ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146405 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Wade DeGottardi, Diptiman Sen, and Smitha Vishveshwara
We present a unified study of the effect of periodic, quasiperiodic, and disordered potentials on topological phases that are characterized by Majorana end modes in one-dimensional p-wave superconducting systems. We define a topological invariant derived from the equations of motion for Majorana mod... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 146404 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Tiago P. Peixoto
We investigate the detectability of modules in large networks when the number of modules is not known in advance. We employ the minimum description length principle which seeks to minimize the total amount of information required to describe the network, and avoid overfitting. According to this crit... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148701 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Sofia Kantorovich, Alexey O. Ivanov, Lorenzo Rovigatti, José Maria Tavares, and Francesco Sciortino
We investigate, via numerical simulations, mean field, and density functional theories, the magnetic response of a dipolar hard sphere fluid at low temperatures and densities, in the region of strong association. The proposed parameter-free theory is able to capture both the density and temperature ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148306 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Stefan Ruetzel, Martin Kullmann, Johannes Buback, Patrick Nuernberger, and Tobias Brixner
We establish coherent triggered-exchange two-dimensional (TE2D) electronic spectroscopy as an expansion of pump-repump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy and uniquely elucidate the role of higher-lying electronic states in ultrafast photochemistry. As an example, this is demonstrated for a mole... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148305 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 4, 2013
Matthieu Roché, Eglind Myftiu, Mitchell C. Johnston, Pilnam Kim, and Howard A. Stone
We study the dynamic fracture of thin layers of suspensions of non-Brownian rigid particles. The impact of a projectile triggers a liquid-to-solid transition and a hole opens in the layer. We show that the occurrence of fracture and the spatial and dynamic features of the cracks depend mostly on the... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148304 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 4, 2013
Nicholas B. Schade, Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon, Elizabeth R. Chen, Dina Aronzon, Jesse W. Collins, Jonathan A. Fan, Federico Capasso, and Vinothan N. Manoharan
Using experiments and simulations, we investigate the clusters that form when colloidal spheres stick irreversibly to—or “park” on—smaller spheres. We use either oppositely charged particles or particles labeled with complementary DNA sequences, and we vary the ratio α of large to small sphere radii... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148303 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 4, 2013
Jonathan S. Mitchell and Sarah A. Harris
DNA supercoiling plays a role in genetic control by imposing torsional stress. This can induce writhe, which changes the global shape of the DNA. We have used atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to partition the free energy changes driving the writhing and unwrithing transitions in supercoiled ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148105 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Pablo de Vera, Rafael Garcia-Molina, Isabel Abril, and Andrey V. Solov’yov
We present a semiempirical model for calculating the electron emission from any organic compound after ion impact. With only the input of the density and composition of the target we are able to evaluate its ionization cross sections using plausible approximations. Results for protons impacting in t... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148104 (2013)] Published Fri Apr 5, 2013
Yuttana Roongthumskul, Roie Shlomovitz, Robijn Bruinsma, and Dolores Bozovic
Hair cells of the inner ear contain an active amplifier that allows them to detect extremely weak signals. As one of the manifestations of an active process, spontaneous oscillations arise in fluid immersed hair bundles of in vitro preparations of selected auditory and vestibular organs. We measure ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 148103 (2013)] Published Thu Apr 4, 2013
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
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P. He, X. Ma, J. W. Zhang, H. B. Zhao, G. Lüpke, Z. Shi, and S. M. Zhou
Accepted Tue Jan 8, 2013
A. M. Hriscu and Yu. V. Nazarov
Accepted Tue Jan 8, 2013
M. Yi, D. H. Lu, R. Yu, S. C. Riggs, J.-H. Chu, B. Lv, Z. Liu, M. Lu, Y.-T. Cui, M. Hashimoto, S.-K. Mo, Z. Hussain, C. W. Chu, I. R. Fisher, Q. Si, and Z.-X. Shen
Accepted Tue Jan 8, 2013
Yi Yin, Yu Chen, Daniel Sank, P. J. J. O’Malley, T. C. White, R. Barends, J. Kelly, Erik Lucero, Matteo Mariantoni, A. Megrant, C. Neill, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, Alexander N. Korotkov, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis
Accepted Mon Jan 7, 2013
Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics
James G. Puckett and Karen E. Daniels
Accepted Wed Jan 9, 2013
Jörn Davidsen and Grzegorz Kwiatek
Accepted Wed Jan 9, 2013
Carsten F. E. Schroer and Andreas Heuer
Accepted Wed Jan 9, 2013
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Daniel A. T. Vanzella
Accepted Tue Jan 8, 2013
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Alberto Nicolis and Federico Piazza
Accepted Mon Jan 7, 2013
N. Murdoch, B. Rozitis, K. Nordstrom, S. F. Green, P. Michel, T.-L. de Lophem, and W. Losert
Accepted Mon Jan 7, 2013
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