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Correlations in a bipartite state. With only classical correlations (brown shade), an observable on A can be measured without any quantum uncertainty. For any quantum correlations (yellow shade), every local measurement on A is affected by quantum uncertainty. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. [Davide Girolami, Tommaso Tufarelli, and Gerardo Adesso, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 240402 (2013) ] Read Article | More Covers
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June 17, 2013
Two experiments have detected the signature of a new particle, which may combine quarks in a way not seen before. [Viewpoint on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 252001 (2013)] [Viewpoint on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 252002 (2013)] Read Article | More viewpoints |
June 14, 2013
A model mixing Brownian motion with purposeful movement guided by vocal signals suggests that Mongolian gazelle herds may have developed an efficient foraging strategy. [Focus on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248106 (2013)] Read Article | More Focus |
June 13, 2013  The American Physical Society and the University of Arizona (UA) are very pleased to announce that Pierre Meystre, UA Regents’ Professor of Physics and of Optical Sciences, has been appointed Lead Editor of Physical Review Letters. Read More | More News/Announcements
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June 13, 2013
Sound at a specific frequency passes through a wall with membrane-covered holes, as if the wall weren’t there. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 244302 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
June 13, 2013
New simulations better explain how Fibonacci patterns can emerge from the biochemical processes driving a plant’s growth. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248104 (2013)] Read Article | More Synopses |
June 13, 2013
Differences in measurements of the expansion of the Universe may point to physics beyond the standard model of cosmology. [Synopsis on Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 241305 (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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Z. Q. Liu et al. (Belle Collaboration)
The cross section for e+e-→π+π-J/ψ between 3.8 and 5.5 GeV is measured with a 967 fb-1 data sample collected by the Belle detector at or near the Υ(nS) (n=1,2,…,5) resonances. The Y(4260) state is observed, and its resonance parameters are determined. In addition, an excess of π+π-J/ψ production ar... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 252002 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)
We study the process e+e-→π+π-J/ψ at a center-of-mass energy of 4.260 GeV using a 525 pb-1 data sample collected with the BESIII detector operating at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider. The Born cross section is measured to be (62.9±1.9±3.7) pb, consistent with the production of the Y(4260). ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 252001 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
O. Gazzano, M. P. Almeida, A. K. Nowak, S. L. Portalupi, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, A. G. White, and P. Senellart
We demonstrate the unambiguous entangling operation of a photonic quantum-logic gate driven by an ultrabright solid-state single-photon source. Indistinguishable single photons emitted by a single semiconductor quantum dot in a micropillar optical cavity are used as target and control qubits. For a ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 250501 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Ricardo Martínez-García, Justin M. Calabrese, Thomas Mueller, Kirk A. Olson, and Cristóbal López
We investigate the relationship between communication and search efficiency in a biological context by proposing a model of Brownian searchers with long-range pairwise interactions. After a general study of the properties of the model, we show an application to the particular case of acoustic commun... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248106 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Matthew Pennybacker and Alan C. Newell
We demonstrate that the pattern forming partial differential equation derived from the auxin distribution model proposed by Meyerowitz, Traas, and others gives rise to all spiral phyllotaxis properties observed on plants. We show how the advancing pushed pattern front chooses spiral families enumera... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248104 (2013)] Published Thu Jun 13, 2013
Jong Jin Park, K. J. B. Lee, Oliver B. Wright, Myoung Ki Jung, and Sam H. Lee
We demonstrate 97%, 89%, and 76% transmission of sound amplitude in air through walls perforated with subwavelength holes of areal coverage fractions 0.10, 0.03, and 0.01, respectively, producing 94-, 950-, and 5700-fold intensity enhancements therein. This remarkable level of extraordinary acoustic... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 244302 (2013)] Published Thu Jun 13, 2013
Davide Girolami, Tommaso Tufarelli, and Gerardo Adesso
Quantum mechanics predicts that measurements of incompatible observables carry a minimum uncertainty which is independent of technical deficiencies of the measurement apparatus or incomplete knowledge of the state of the system. Nothing yet seems to prevent a single physical quantity, such as one sp... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 240402 (2013)] Published Thu Jun 13, 2013
Valerio Marra, Luca Amendola, Ignacy Sawicki, and Wessel Valkenburg
There is an approximately 9% discrepancy, corresponding to 2.4σ, between two independent constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe: one indirectly arising from the cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillations and one more directly obtained from local measurements of the relat... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 241305 (2013)] Published Thu Jun 13, 2013
I. Bartos, A. M. Beloborodov, K. Hurley, and S. Márka
Jet reheating via nuclear collisions has recently been proposed as the main mechanism for gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. In addition to producing the observed gamma rays, collisional heating must generate 10–100 GeV neutrinos, implying a close relation between the neutrino and gamma-ray luminositie... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 241101 (2013)] Published Wed Jun 12, 2013
Walter Kob and Ludovic Berthier
We use computer simulations to investigate the static properties of a simple glass-forming fluid in which the positions of a finite fraction of the particles have been frozen. By probing the equilibrium statistics of the overlap between independent configurations of the liquid, we find strong eviden... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 245702 (2013)] Published Tue Jun 11, 2013
Keigo Sato, Katsuyuki Shizu, Kazuaki Yoshimura, Atsushi Kawada, Hiroshi Miyazaki, and Chihaya Adachi
We demonstrate an organic molecule with an energy gap between its singlet and triplet excited states of almost zero (ΔEST∼0 eV). Such separation was realized through proper combination of an electron-donating indolocarbazole group and a diphenyltriazine electron-accepting moiety. Calculated and mea... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 247401 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 10, 2013
Jonathan M. Edge, Jian Li, Pierre Delplace, and Markus Büttiker
We investigate the current noise correlations at a quantum point contact in a quantum spin Hall structure, focusing on the effect of a weak magnetic field in the presence of disorder. For the case of two equally biased terminals we discover a robust peak: the noise correlations vanish at B=0 and are... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 246601 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 10, 2013
Steven Weinberg
It is suggested that Goldstone bosons may be masquerading as fractional cosmic neutrinos, contributing about 0.39 to what is reported as the effective number of neutrino types in the era before recombination. The broken symmetry associated with these Goldstone bosons is further speculated to be the ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 241301 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 10, 2013
David Abreu and Udo Seifert
We present a model for the dynamics of fluid vesicles in linear flow which consistently includes thermal fluctuations and nonlinear coupling between different modes. At the transition between tank treading and tumbling, we predict a trembling motion which is at odds with the known deterministic moti... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 238103 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 7, 2013
L. Mazzola, G. De Chiara, and M. Paternostro
We propose an interferometric setting for the ancilla-assisted measurement of the characteristic function of the work distribution following a time-dependent process experienced by a quantum system. We identify how the configuration of the effective interferometer is linked to the symmetries enjoyed... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 230602 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 7, 2013
R. Dorner, S. R. Clark, L. Heaney, R. Fazio, J. Goold, and V. Vedral
We propose an experimental scheme to verify the quantum nonequilibrium fluctuation relations using current technology. Specifically, we show that the characteristic function of the work distribution for a nonequilibrium quench of a general quantum system can be extracted by Ramsey interferometry of ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 230601 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 7, 2013
X.-D. Cai, C. Weedbrook, Z.-E. Su, M.-C. Chen, Mile Gu, M.-J. Zhu, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan
Solving linear systems of equations is ubiquitous in all areas of science and engineering. With rapidly growing data sets, such a task can be intractable for classical computers, as the best known classical algorithms require a time proportional to the number of variables N. A recently proposed quan... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 230501 (2013)] Published Thu Jun 6, 2013
Mohammad-Ali Miri, Matthias Heinrich, Ramy El-Ganainy, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
We show that supersymmetry can provide a versatile platform in synthesizing a new class of optical structures with desired properties and functionalities. By exploiting the intimate relationship between superpatners, one can systematically construct index potentials capable of exhibiting the same sc... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 233902 (2013)] Published Thu Jun 6, 2013
Weigang Wang (王魏刚), Ko Munakata, Michael Rozler, and Malcolm R. Beasley
Under mesoscopic conditions, the transport potential on a thin film carrying a current is theoretically expected to bear spatial variation due to quantum interference. Scanning tunneling potentiometry is the ideal tool to investigate such variation, by virtue of its high spatial resolution. We repor... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 236802 (2013)] Published Tue Jun 4, 2013
Michael Duerr, Pavel Fileviez Pérez, and Mark B. Wise
Models where the baryon (B) and lepton (L) numbers are local gauge symmetries that are spontaneously broken at a low scale are revisited. We find new extensions of the standard model which predict the existence of fermions that carry both baryon and lepton numbers (i.e., leptoquarks). The local bary... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 231801 (2013)] Published Tue Jun 4, 2013
Yusuke Nishida, Sergej Moroz, and Dam Thanh Son
We study a system of spinless fermions in two dimensions with a short-range interaction fine-tuned to a p-wave resonance. We show that three such fermions form an infinite tower of bound states of orbital angular momentum ℓ=±1 and their binding energies obey a universal doubly exponential scaling E3... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235301 (2013)] Published Tue Jun 4, 2013
H. S. Nguyen, D. Vishnevsky, C. Sturm, D. Tanese, D. Solnyshkov, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, A. Amo, G. Malpuech, and J. Bloch
We report on the realization of a double-barrier resonant tunneling diode for cavity polaritons, by lateral patterning of a one-dimensional cavity. Sharp transmission resonances are demonstrated when sending a polariton flow onto the device. We show that a nonresonant beam can be used as an optical ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 236601 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 3, 2013
Marcus Roper, Mark J. Dayel, Rachel E. Pepper, and M. A. R. Koehl
The flagellated protozoan Salpingoeca rosetta is one of the closest relatives of multicellular animals. Unicellular S. rosetta can be induced to form multicellular colonies, but colonies swim more slowly than individual cells so the advantages conferred by colony formation are uncertain. Here we use... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 228104 (2013)] Published Fri May 31, 2013
Andreas Reiserer, Christian Nölleke, Stephan Ritter, and Gerhard Rempe
A single neutral atom is trapped in a three-dimensional optical lattice at the center of a high-finesse optical resonator. Using fluorescence imaging and a shiftable standing-wave trap, the atom is deterministically loaded into the maximum of the intracavity field where the atom-cavity coupling is s... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 223003 (2013)] Published Thu May 30, 2013
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
Using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb-1 and collected by LHCb in 2011 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, we report the measurement of direct CP violation in Bs0→K-π+ decays, ACP(Bs0→K-π+)=0.27±0.04 (stat)±0.01 (syst), with significance exceeding 5 standard de... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 221601 (2013)] Published Thu May 30, 2013
General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
O. Gazzano, M. P. Almeida, A. K. Nowak, S. L. Portalupi, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, A. G. White, and P. Senellart
We demonstrate the unambiguous entangling operation of a photonic quantum-logic gate driven by an ultrabright solid-state single-photon source. Indistinguishable single photons emitted by a single semiconductor quantum dot in a micropillar optical cavity are used as target and control qubits. For a ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 250501 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Guangjiong Dong, Jiang Zhu, Weiping Zhang, and Boris A. Malomed
We investigate the ground state (GS) of a collisionless Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a soft one-dimensional optical lattice (OL), which is formed by two counterpropagating optical beams perturbed by the BEC density profile through the local-field effect (LFE). We show that LFE gives ris... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 250401 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Elementary Particles and Fields
Z. Q. Liu et al. (Belle Collaboration)
The cross section for e+e-→π+π-J/ψ between 3.8 and 5.5 GeV is measured with a 967 fb-1 data sample collected by the Belle detector at or near the Υ(nS) (n=1,2,…,5) resonances. The Y(4260) state is observed, and its resonance parameters are determined. In addition, an excess of π+π-J/ψ production ar... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 252002 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)
We study the process e+e-→π+π-J/ψ at a center-of-mass energy of 4.260 GeV using a 525 pb-1 data sample collected with the BESIII detector operating at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider. The Born cross section is measured to be (62.9±1.9±3.7) pb, consistent with the production of the Y(4260). ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 252001 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration)
We report measurements of oscillation parameters from νμ and ν̅ μ disappearance using beam and atmospheric data from MINOS. The data comprise exposures of 10.71×1020 protons on target in the νμ-dominated beam, 3.36×1020 protons on target in the ν̅ μ-enhanced beam, and 37.88 kton yr of ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 251801 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Nuclear Physics
I. Pomerantz et al. (CLAS and Hall-A Collaborations)
We have measured cross sections for the γ3He→pd reaction at photon energies of 0.4–1.4 GeV and a center-of-mass angle of 90°. We observe dimensional scaling above 0.7 GeV at this center-of-mass angle. This is the first observation of dimensional scaling in the photodisintegration of a nucleus heavie... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 242301 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Simon E. Nigg and S. M. Girvin
We present a general protocol for stabilizer operator measurements in a system of N superconducting qubits. Using the dispersive coupling between the qubits and the field of a resonator as well as single qubit rotations, we show how to encode the parity of an arbitrary subset of M≤N qubits, onto two... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 243604 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Xu Wang, Justin Tian, and J. H. Eberly
For time-dependent strong-field atomic ionization a new theoretical approach is described that combines the numerical time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) and the numerical time-dependent Newtonian equation (TDNE). This approach keeps both the accuracy of quantum calculations and the speed of ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 243001 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
Patric Müller, Michael Heckel, Achim Sack, and Thorsten Pöschel
We investigate the coefficient of normal restitution as a function of the impact velocity, ε(v), for inelastic spheres. We observe oscillating behavior of ε(v) which is superimposed to the known decay of the coefficient of restitution as a function of impact velocity. This remarkable effect was so f... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 254301 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Matteo Clerici, Marco Peccianti, Bruno E. Schmidt, Lucia Caspani, Mostafa Shalaby, Mathieu Giguère, Antonio Lotti, Arnaud Couairon, François Légaré, Tsuneyuki Ozaki, Daniele Faccio, and Roberto Morandotti
Low-frequency currents induced by ultrashort laser-driven ionization can emit extremely broadband, single-cycle terahertz pulses. We present a model that predicts a strong wavelength dependence of the THz emission in good agreement with our experimental study. This reveals that the combined effects ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 253901 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Simbarashe Nkomo, Mark R. Tinsley, and Kenneth Showalter
Chimera states occur spontaneously in populations of coupled photosensitive chemical oscillators. Experiments and simulations are carried out on nonlocally coupled oscillators, with the coupling strength decreasing exponentially with distance. Chimera states with synchronized oscillators, phase wave... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 244102 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Xiaobing Luo (罗小兵), Jiahao Huang (黄嘉豪), Honghua Zhong (钟宏华), Xizhou Qin (秦锡洲), Qiongtao Xie (谢琼涛), Yuri S. Kivshar, and Chaohong Lee (李朝红)
We introduce a novel concept of the pseudo-parity-time (pseudo-PT) symmetry in periodically modulated optical systems with balanced gain and loss. We demonstrate that whether or not the original system is PT symmetric, we can manipulate the property of the PT symmetry by applying a periodic modulati... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 243902 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Plasma and Beam Physics
K. Higashimori, N. Yokoi, and M. Hoshino
We report simulation results for turbulent magnetic reconnection obtained using a newly developed Reynolds-averaged magnetohydrodynamics model. We find that the initial Harris current sheet develops in three ways, depending on the strength of turbulence: laminar reconnection, turbulent reconnection,... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 255001 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
B. Jorns and E. Y. Choueiri
The stochastic threshold for the heating of ions in a magnetized plasma with two electrostatic waves is experimentally characterized. Two obliquely propagating electrostatic modes are launched in a magnetized plasma with frequencies that differ by the ion cyclotron frequency. The values of the wave ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 245002 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
Jeppe C. Dyre
It was recently reported that the electrical modulus peaks narrows upon annealing of the ionic system CKN [Paluch et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 015702 (2013)], which was interpreted as providing evidence of dynamic heterogeneity of this glass. The present analysis of the same data in terms of the a... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 245901 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
M. C. Ridgway, T. Bierschenk, R. Giulian, B. Afra, M. D. Rodriguez, L. L. Araujo, A. P. Byrne, N. Kirby, O. H. Pakarinen, F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund, M. Schleberger, O. Osmani, N. Medvedev, B. Rethfeld, and P. Kluth
Ion tracks formed in amorphous Ge by swift heavy-ion irradiation have been identified with experiment and modeling to yield unambiguous evidence of tracks in an amorphous semiconductor. Their underdense core and overdense shell result from quenched-in radially outward material flow. Following a soli... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 245502 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Mario Collura, Spyros Sotiriadis, and Pasquale Calabrese
We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a Tonks-Girardeau gas released from a parabolic trap to a circle. We present the exact analytic solution of the many body dynamics and prove that, for large times and in a properly defined thermodynamic limit, the reduced density matrix of any finite subsystem... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 245301 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
U. Nagel, Randy S. Fishman, T. Katuwal, H. Engelkamp, D. Talbayev, Hee Taek Yi, S.-W. Cheong, and T. Rõõm
We have studied the magnetic field dependence of far-infrared active magnetic modes in a single ferroelectric domain BiFeO3 crystal at low temperature. The modes soften close to the critical field of 18.8 T along the [001] (pseudocubic) axis, where the cycloidal structure changes to the homogeneous ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 257201 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
Davide Venturelli, Rosario Fazio, and Vittorio Giovannetti
We present a theoretical study of an electronic quantum refrigerator based on four quantum dots arranged in a square configuration, in contact with as many thermal reservoirs. We show that the system implements the minimal mechanism for acting as a self-contained quantum refrigerator, by demonstrati... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 256801 (2013)] Published Mon Jun 17, 2013
M.-H. Kim, J. Yan, R. J. Suess, T. E. Murphy, M. S. Fuhrer, and H. D. Drew
The photovoltaic and bolometric photoresponse in gapped bilayer graphene was investigated by optical and transport measurements. A pulse coincidence technique at 1.5 μm was used to measure the response times as a function of temperature. The bolometric and photovoltaic response times were found to ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 247402 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Jinhong Park, S.-S. B. Lee, Yuval Oreg, and H.-S. Sim
We propose a method to directly measure, by electrical means, the Kondo screening cloud formed by an Anderson impurity coupled to semi-infinite quantum wires, on which an electrostatic gate voltage is applied at distance L from the impurity. We show that the Kondo cloud, and hence the Kondo temperat... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 246603 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
S. Kambe, Y. Tokunaga, H. Sakai, T. D. Matsuda, Y. Haga, Z. Fisk, and R. E. Walstedt
We report 29Si NMR spectra and Knight shift measurements as a function of applied field orientation in the (001) basal plane of URu2Si2. Observed linewidth oscillations confirm the in-plane twofold ordered domain state observed in recent magnetic susceptibility measurements. Analysis of our linewidt... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 246406 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Atsuko Takamatsu, Kyosuke Shinohara, Takuji Ishikawa, and Hiroshi Hamada
Rotational movement of mouse node cilia generates leftward fluid flow in the node cavity, playing an important role in left-right determination in the embryo. Although rotation of numerous cilia was believed necessary to trigger the determination, recent reports indicate the action of two cilia to b... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248107 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
Ricardo Martínez-García, Justin M. Calabrese, Thomas Mueller, Kirk A. Olson, and Cristóbal López
We investigate the relationship between communication and search efficiency in a biological context by proposing a model of Brownian searchers with long-range pairwise interactions. After a general study of the properties of the model, we show an application to the particular case of acoustic commun... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248106 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
A. Amitai and D. Holcman
Is it possible to extract the size and structure of chromosomal territories (confined domain) from the encounter frequencies of chromosomal loci? To answer this question, we estimate the mean time for two monomers located on the same polymer to encounter, which we call the mean first encounter time ... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 248105 (2013)] Published Fri Jun 14, 2013
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Elementary Particles and Fields
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Xiao-Yong Feng, Jianhui Dai, Chung-Hou Chung, and Qimiao Si
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D. A. Pesin and A. H. MacDonald
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Max Neudecker, Stephan Ulrich, Stephan Herminghaus, and Matthias Schröter
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M. G. Aartsen et al.
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W. S. Graves, F. X. Kärtner, D. E. Moncton, and P. Piot
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G. Stupakov, A. Zholents, and M. S. Zolotorev
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