Author(s): Shao-Kai Jian, Yi-Fan Jiang, and Hong YaoRenormalization group analysis demonstrates that space-time supersymmetry emerges at pair density wave transitions in 3D Weyl and 2D Dirac semimetals.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 237001] Published Thu Jun 1…

Author(s): Liat Levin, Wojciech Skomorowski, Leonid Rybak, Ronnie Kosloff, Christiane P. Koch, and Zohar AmitayA tailored laser pulse controls the formation of a molecular bond between two atoms.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 233003] Published Wed Jun 10, 2015

Author(s): R. Garcés, R. Podgornik, and V. Lorman

Order in chromatin arises from symmetries of the nucleosome-DNA interaction.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 238102] Published Tue Jun 09, 2015

Author(s): R. H. Parker, M. R. Dietrich, M. R. Kalita, N. D. Lemke, K. G. Bailey, M. Bishof, J. P. Greene, R. J. Holt, W. Korsch, Z.-T. Lu, P. Mueller, T. P. O’Connor, and J. T. Singh

Researchers have devised a new technique to look for evidence of a permanent electric dipole moment in atoms, which would signal new physics.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 233002] Published Tue Jun 09, 2015

Author(s): Areejit Samal and Olivier C. MartinThe probabilities of obtaining genotypes with fixed alleles at specific locations via repeated inbreeding is generalized to cases involving four or more genes.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 238101] Published Tue Ju…

Author(s): M. G. Ries, A. N. Wenz, G. Zürn, L. Bayha, I. Boettcher, D. Kedar, P. A. Murthy, M. Neidig, T. Lompe, and S. Jochim

Experiments with cold atoms explore the superfluid phase transition of paired fermions in two dimensions.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 230401] Published Mon Jun 08, 2015

Author(s): Luis A. Correa, Mohammad Mehboudi, Gerardo Adesso, and Anna SanperaTheorists describe the best nanoscale thermometer allowed by the laws of physics to help experimenters push the limits of technology in measurements within cells or tiny elec…

Author(s): Witlef Wieczorek, Sebastian G. Hofer, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier, Ralf Riedinger, Klemens Hammerer, and Markus AspelmeyerAccounting for nontrivial experimental noise sources, optical measurements of a cavity optomechanical system demonstrate …

Author(s): M. Misiak, H. M. Asatrian, R. Boughezal, M. Czakon, T. Ewerth, A. Ferroglia, P. Fiedler, P. Gambino, C. Greub, U. Haisch, T. Huber, M. Kamiński, G. Ossola, M. Poradziński, A. Rehman, T. Schutzmeier, M. Steinhauser, and J. Virto

Precise standard-model theoretical predictions of the decay of a bottom-quark meson into a strange-quark and a photon allow better bounds on models of new physics, notably those with hypothetical charged Higgs bosons.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 221801] Published Tue Jun 02, 2015

Author(s): Norbert Kalb, Andreas Reiserer, Stephan Ritter, and Gerhard RempeA scheme based on an atom trapped in a cavity faithfully transfers a qubit state between a photon and the atom.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 220501] Published Tue Jun 02, 2015

Author(s): Felix J. Segerer, Florian Thüroff, Alicia Piera Alberola, Erwin Frey, and Joachim O. Rädler

An extended version of the cellular Potts model is able to describe an experiment directly addressing the transition from erratic single cell motion to multicellular collective migration.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228102] Published Tue Jun 02, 2015

Author(s): M. KindermannInterlayer coupling in graphene multilayers with certain commensurate twists is predicted to form a 2D topological insulator.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 226802] Published Tue Jun 02, 2015

Author(s): Jennifer Lin, Matilde Marcolli, Hirosi Ooguri, and Bogdan StoicaAdS/CFT correspondence has uncovered a relationship between the quantum entanglement of non-gravitating systems and the equations of general relativity in the presence of matter…

Author(s): Shiladitya Banerjee, Kazage J. C. Utuje, and M. Cristina Marchetti

A continuum model of a monolayer of spreading cells demonstrates that feedback between strain and regulatory biochemistry gives rise to propagating stress waves in tissues.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 228101] Published Tue Jun 02, 2015

Author(s): Lihui Bai, M. Harder, Y. P. Chen, X. Fan, J. Q. Xiao, and C.-M. Hu

Excitations in a magnet coupled to a microwave cavity can be detected electrically, providing a new way to study magnets in the quantum regime.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 227201] Published Mon Jun 01, 2015

Author(s): Junhyun Lee and Subir SachdevAn effective field theory describing the quantum critical behavior of magnetic ordering in monolayer and bilayer graphene has a Wess-Zumino-Witten term, similar to that found in the chiral Lagrangian for QCD.[Phy…

Author(s): Stéphane Vernède, Laurent Ponson, and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

A statistical analysis of crack surfaces from three different types of materials reveals a deep connection with fluid turbulence and a potentially new approach to studying failed machine parts.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 215501] Published Fri May 29, 2015

Author(s): D. A. Martinez, V. A. Smalyuk, J. O. Kane, A. Casner, S. Liberatore, and L. P. Masse

An x-ray radiation source on the National Ignition Facility can drive the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a plasma from weakly nonlinear to the highly nonlinear regime.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 215004] Published Fri May 29, 2015

Author(s): Maxwell F. Parsons, Florian Huber, Anton Mazurenko, Christie S. Chiu, Widagdo Setiawan, Katherine Wooley-Brown, Sebastian Blatt, and Markus GreinerTwo new quantum gas microscopes demonstrate the imaging of fermionic atoms in an optical latti…

Author(s): Simon Birkholz, Carsten Brée, Ayhan Demircan, and Günter Steinmeyer

Analysis of experimental data from multi-filament, oceanic and fiber optic rogue wave systems show that rogue waves are often preceded by a short ordered phase, providing a method to predict their occurrence.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 213901] Published Thu May 28, 2015

Author(s): Manoj Kaplinghat, Tim Linden, and Hai-Bo Yu

Self-interacting dark matter may explain the gamma-ray excess observed in the Milky Way’s galactic center while also being consistent with the absence of these signals from dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 211303] Published Wed May 27, 2015

Author(s): Charalampos Anastasiou, Claude Duhr, Falko Dulat, Franz Herzog, and Bernhard MistlbergerFirst three-loop calculation of a cross section in perturbative QCD will help with the search for deviations in Higgs boson properties from Standard Mode…

Author(s): Y. Tokunaga, D. Aoki, H. Mayaffre, S. Krämer, M.-H. Julien, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, and S. Araki

NMR measurements near the quantum tricritical point show that reentrance of superconductivity at high fields requires longitudinal fluctuations (parallel to the applied field). These experimental results will require revision of theoretical work, which to date has included only transverse fluctuations.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 216401] Published Wed May 27, 2015

Author(s): A. B. Zylstra, J. A. Frenje, P. E. Grabowski, C. K. Li, G. W. Collins, P. Fitzsimmons, S. Glenzer, F. Graziani, S. B. Hansen, S. X. Hu, M. Gatu Johnson, P. Keiter, H. Reynolds, J. R. Rygg, F. H. Séguin, and R. D. Petrasso

Charged particle energy loss and stopping power in warm dense matter (a moderately-coupled plasma at high density and moderate temperature) have been measured at the percent level by the OMEGA laser facility.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 215002] Published Wed May 27, 2015

Author(s): Howon Kim and Yukio HasegawaA highly stable scanning tunneling microscope measures the electrical properties of a metal on a scale smaller than individual atoms.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 206801] Published Fri May 22, 2015

Author(s): R. L. Stenzel and J. M. Urrutia

The plasma waves known as helicons can be created and measured in the laboratory even without confining walls.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 205005] Published Thu May 21, 2015

Author(s): A. Urvoy, F. Ripka, I. Lesanovsky, D. Booth, J. P. Shaffer, T. Pfau, and R. Löw

The strong interaction potential between multiple Rydberg atoms allow many-body effects to be observed in a room temperature atomic vapor.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 203002] Published Tue May 19, 2015

Author(s): Alessandro Taloni, Elena Kardash, Oguz Umut Salman, Lev Truskinovsky, Stefano Zapperi, and Caterina A. M. La Porta

Water flowing through a cell’s membrane is essential to the process of changing cellular shape.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 208101] Published Tue May 19, 2015

Author(s): Jee Woo Park, Sebastian A. Will, and Martin W. ZwierleinThe cooling of strongly dipolar molecules to their absolute ground state has opened the possibility of creating new forms of matter.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 205302] Published Mon May 18, …

Author(s): Kilian P. Heeg, Johann Haber, Daniel Schumacher, Lars Bocklage, Hans-Christian Wille, Kai S. Schulze, Robert Loetzsch, Ingo Uschmann, Gerhard G. Paulus, Rudolf Rüffer, Ralf Röhlsberger, and Jörg Evers

Slow light effects have been measured for x rays using a cavity filled with iron nuclei, where the speed of light was reduced by a factor of 10,000.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 203601] Published Mon May 18, 2015

Author(s): Richard Schmidt and Mikhail Lemeshko

Immersing a quantum impurity into a Bose-Einstein condensate causes a redistribution of the angular momentum between the impurity and the many-body environment leading to collective excitations. These excitations can be explained using a new quasiparticle: the “angulon”.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 203001] Published Mon May 18, 2015

Author(s): K. Müller, J. Richard, V. V. Volchkov, V. Denechaud, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, and V. Josse

Controlled manipulation of the time reversal symmetry in a disordered quantum gas is achieved by applying a dephasing pulse.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 205301] Published Mon May 18, 2015

Author(s): K. P. Heeg, C. Ott, D. Schumacher, H.-C. Wille, R. Röhlsberger, T. Pfeifer, and J. Evers

The phase of an x ray can be detected when it interacts with nuclei, an effect that could be used to characterize the quantum state of a nuclear two-level system.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 207401] Published Mon May 18, 2015

Author(s): Jean Etesse, Martin Bouillard, Bhaskar Kanseri, and Rosa Tualle-BrouriAn optical setup is used to generate a mesoscopic state of light, called a cat state, which can be fed back into the system to increase its nonclassicality.[Phys. Rev. Let…

Author(s): G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration)

A new value for the Higgs boson mass will allow stronger tests of the standard model and of theories about the Universe’s stability.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191803] Published Thu May 14, 2015

Author(s): Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Melih Okan, Thomas Gersdorf, Vinay V. Ramasesh, Waseem S. Bakr, Thomas Lompe, and Martin W. ZwierleinA quantum microscope able to image individual atoms of optically trapped fermionic potassium has been…

Author(s): S. Dushenko, M. Koike, Y. Ando, T. Shinjo, M. Myronov, and M. ShiraishiGermanium layers can carry spin-polarized currents over several hundred nanometers at room temperature, a key asset for spintronic applications.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 196…

Author(s): T. S. Wood and R. Hollerbach

Simulations of the magnetic field of a neutron star show that shear stresses induced by the field are strong enough to fracture the star’s crust.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 191101] Published Tue May 12, 2015

Author(s): A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)Particle correlations in deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC reveal patterns reminiscent of those generated by the quark-gluon plasma in larger heavy-ion collisions.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192301] Published …

Author(s): Nanette N. Jarenwattananon and Louis-S. BouchardA revised theory for diffusion-based nuclear magnetic resonance shows that the linewidth decreases with temperature for gasses. This finding is contrary to the behavior seen in fluids and there…

Author(s): Alexandre P. Solon, Joakim Stenhammar, Raphael Wittkowski, Mehran Kardar, Yariv Kafri, Michael E. Cates, and Julien Tailleur

An equation of state for a gas of self-propelled spheres is a step towards a thermodynamic description of “active” matter, such as bird flocks and tissue.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 198301] Published Mon May 11, 2015

Author(s): B. Gouraud, D. Maxein, A. Nicolas, O. Morin, and J. LauratLight signals propagating down an ultrathin fiber can be temporarily stored in a cloud of cold atoms surrounding the fiber.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 180503] Published Thu May 07, 2015

Author(s): Jan Guzowski and Piotr GarsteckiWater droplets can self-assemble into a range of structures inside larger drops of oil, with potential uses in targeted drug delivery and biological tissue engineering.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188302] Published …

Author(s): Stephen M. Wu, John E. Pearson, and Anand BhattacharyaA spin current is experimentally generated in various insulating paramagnets using thermal gradients, a surprising result as, unlike ferromagnetic insulators, paramagnets do not hold thei…

Author(s): H. Yasuda and J. Yang

Structures made solely from folded rigid planes exhibit both tunable negative Poisson’s ratio and structural bistability allowing for the construction of new types of mechanical metamaterials.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 185502] Published Tue May 05, 2015

Author(s): Sebastian Klembt, Emilien Durupt, Sanjoy Datta, Thorsten Klein, Augustin Baas, Yoan Léger, Carsten Kruse, Detlef Hommel, Anna Minguzzi, and Maxime Richard

A gas of polaritons can serve as a coolant fluid that transports heat away from a semiconductor microcavity.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 186403] Published Tue May 05, 2015

Author(s): A. J. Bestwick, E. J. Fox, Xufeng Kou, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Thin films of magnetic topological insulators can exhibit a nearly ideal quantum Hall effect without requiring an applied magnetic field.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 187201] Published Mon May 04, 2015

Author(s): Rafael G. Henríquez Rivera, Kushal Sinha, and Michael D. Graham

During blood flow, white blood cells and platelets segregate near vessel walls, a phenomenon known as margination. A new kinetic theory allows the different segregation regimes to be defined, showing that, under certain conditions, the concentration of cells at the walls goes to zero.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 188101] Published Mon May 04, 2015

Author(s): Niklas Romming, André Kubetzka, Christian Hanneken, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger

Atomic-scale imaging reveals the shape and size of a technologically interesting magnetic quasiparticle.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 177203] Published Fri May 01, 2015

Author(s): G. D’Adamo, D. Marenduzzo, C. Micheletti, and E. Orlandini

An applied electric field could reconfigure the structure of colloidal defects dispersed within a liquid crystal.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 177801] Published Thu Apr 30, 2015

Author(s): M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)Higher accuracy measurements of the proton cosmic ray spectrum at high energies show that it deviates from the long held single power law behavior.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 171103] Published Thu Apr 30, 2015

Author(s): Victor V. Albert, Leonid I. Glazman, and Liang JiangSystems with nontrivial topological properties can be constructed from electric circuits consisting of capacitors and inductors.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 173902] Published Thu Apr 30, 2015

Author(s): P.-T. Brun, Basile Audoly, Neil M. Ribe, T. S. Eaves, and John R. Lister

A new model can predict the patterns formed by a viscous jet falling onto a moving surface.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 174501] Published Thu Apr 30, 2015

Author(s): Armin Tavakoli, Alley Hameedi, Breno Marques, and Mohamed BourennaneA significant gain in the success probability of recovering bits from an encoded sequence has been achieved with quantum random access codes, outperforming their classical c…

Author(s): M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

The highest energy neutrinos ever recorded have a flavor distribution of neutrinos that is consistent with the particles having a cosmic origin.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 171102] Published Tue Apr 28, 2015

Author(s): A. Palladino, G. Pagliaroli, F. L. Villante, and F. Vissani

The highest energy neutrinos ever recorded have a flavor distribution of neutrinos that is consistent with the particles having a cosmic origin.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 171101] Published Tue Apr 28, 2015

Author(s): Zengwei Zhu, Xiao Lin, Juan Liu, Benoît Fauqué, Qian Tao, Chongli Yang, Youguo Shi, and Kamran Behnia

Measurements of the Fermi surface of WTe2 demonstrate that it is nearly a perfectly compensated semimetal.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 176601] Published Mon Apr 27, 2015

Author(s): Stephanie Höhn, Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Pierre A. Haas, Philipp Khuc Trong, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Images of an algal embryo transitioning into an adult give physicists a rare opportunity to test a mechanical model of morphogenesis.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 178101] Published Mon Apr 27, 2015

Author(s): Ken H. Nagai, Yutaka Sumino, Raul Montagne, Igor S. Aranson, and Hugues Chaté

Large vortex and lane structures, as well as other coherent patterns, form in active systems when underdamped stochastic dynamics are modeled.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 168001] Published Fri Apr 24, 2015

Author(s): P. Schellart et al.Radio waves generated by cosmic rays provide an unprecedented view of the elusive electric fields in thunderstorms.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 165001] Published Fri Apr 24, 2015

Author(s): Matthew Evans et al. Ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors are predicted to suffer from instabilities that strongly limit the sensitivity of the detectors. Arising from a coupling between optical and mechanical resonances…

Author(s): Rajita Menon and Kirill S. KorolevMicrobial cooperation involves the diffusion of nutrients from one species to another, but too high a diffusion rate weakens the cooperative bond.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 168102] Published Thu Apr 23, 2015

Author(s): Ian A. Finneran, Jacob T. Good, Daniel B. Holland, P. Brandon Carroll, Marco A. Allodi, and Geoffrey A. Blake A new scheme to generate terahertz frequency combs features unprecedented bandwidth and frequency accuracy.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, …

Author(s): D. M. Asner et al. (Project 8 Collaboration)

An electron’s energy can be determined with high accuracy by detecting the radiation it emits when moving in a magnetic field.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 162501] Published Mon Apr 20, 2015

Author(s): E. A. Bloemsma, S. M. Vlaming, V. A. Malyshev, and J. Knoester

Self-assembled tubular molecular aggregates are robust against exciton localization, and could therefore act as exciton wires.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 156804] Published Fri Apr 17, 2015

Author(s): A. C. L. Jones, H. J. Goldman, Q. Zhai, P. Feng, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

A series of low-energy peaks are observed for positronium emitted by the metal-organic framework crystal ZIF-8.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 153201] Published Fri Apr 17, 2015

Author(s): Alexander P. Petroff, Xiao-Lun Wu, and Albert Libchaber Rotating bacteria suck other bacteria into a 2D crystal structure, an unprecedented pattern for living organisms.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 158102] Published Fri Apr 17, 2015

Author(s): A. Datas, E. López, I. Ramiro, E. Antolín, A. Martí, A. Luque, R. Tamaki, Y. Shoji, T. Sogabe, and Y. Okada

The spectral range over which intermediate band gap solar cell devices absorb is significantly increased, with absorption for wavelengths from 250 nm to 6000 nm. In these materials a photocurrent is produced when the material is irradiated with photons with energies below the bandgap of the material.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 157701] Published Thu Apr 16, 2015

Author(s): Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Chris J. Pickard, Joseph Nelson, Richard J. Needs, Yinwei Li, Hanyu Liu, Yunwei Zhang, Yanming Ma, and Francesco Mauri The coupling of electrons to anharmonic crystal vibrations may explain the record high-temper…

Author(s): M. T. Reeves, T. P. Billam, B. P. Anderson, and A. S. Bradley

Numerical simulations of a Bose-Einstein condensate flowing past an obstacle uncover a single dimensionless parameter that characterizes the onset of superfluid turbulence.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 155302] Published Thu Apr 16, 2015

Author(s): M. F. Maghrebi and M. T. H. Reid

Entanglement entropy – an inherently quantum mechanical property – is related to classical thermodynamic entropy in one higher dimension.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 151602] Published Thu Apr 16, 2015

Author(s): T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)†, D0 Collaboration)‡)

An analysis of data from the now-shuttered Tevatron excludes certain Higgs bosons with exotic properties.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 151802] Published Wed Apr 15, 2015

Author(s): Norman Gürlebeck

The no-hair theorem was originally formulated to describe isolated black holes, but an extended version now describes the more realistic case of a black hole distorted by nearby matter.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 151102] Published Wed Apr 15, 2015

Author(s): Craig Benko, Linqiang Hua, Thomas K. Allison, François Labaye, and Jun Ye

A frequency comb can align an ensemble of molecules 150 million times per second.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 153001] Published Tue Apr 14, 2015

Author(s): Mathew Madhavacheril et al. ((Atacama Cosmology Telescope Collaboration)) Gravitational lensing by foreground dark matter halos leaves an observable imprint on the cosmic microwave background, which can be used to determine their mass.[Phys…

Author(s): Óscar J. C. Dias, Mahdi Godazgar, and Jorge E. Santos

Kerr-Newman black holes – a general family of stationary asymptotically flat black holes – are shown to be linear mode stable. No instability exists for any of the gavito-electomagnetic modes.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 151101] Published Mon Apr 13, 2015

Author(s): F. Hartmann, P. Pfeffer, S. Höfling, M. Kamp, and L. Worschech

In a step toward the conversion of excess heat into electric current, researchers demonstrate a device that generates current in response to voltage fluctuations that mimic heat.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 146805] Published Fri Apr 10, 2015

Author(s): T. Iffländer, S. Rolf-Pissarczyk, L. Winking, R. G. Ulbrich, A. Al-Zubi, S. Blügel, and M. Wenderoth

The electronic charge distribution at the iron/gallium interface is imaged directly with high spatial and energetic resolution. The metal-semiconductor electronic barrier properties are found to be dependent on both the charge distribution and chemical bonds between the metal and semiconductor atoms.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 146804] Published Thu Apr 09, 2015

Author(s): Raisa Trubko, James Greenberg, Michael T. St. Germaine, Maxwell D. Gregoire, William F. Holmgren, Ivan Hromada, and Alexander D. Cronin

Light-induced shifts in atom interference fringes are shown to be significantly affected by the Earth’s rotation rate, opening the door to a new type of atom interferometer.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 140404] Published Thu Apr 09, 2015

Author(s): Tim Kovachy, Jason M. Hogan, Alex Sugarbaker, Susannah M. Dickerson, Christine A. Donnelly, Chris Overstreet, and Mark A. Kasevich An optical dipole field is used as a collimating lens to cool Rubidium atoms to record-low kinetic temperature…

Author(s): Akshay Kundan, Joel L. Plawsky, Peter C. Wayner, Jr., David F. Chao, Ronald J. Sicker, Brian J. Motil, Tibor Lorik, Louis Chestney, John Eustace, and John Zoldak

In the absence of gravity, surface tension forces affect how fluids flow in heat pipes and may limit the device’s cooling performance on spacecraft missions.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 146105] Published Tue Apr 07, 2015

Author(s): E. Bäckström, D. Hanstorp, O. M. Hole, M. Kaminska, R. F. Nascimento, M. Blom, M. Björkhage, A. Källberg, P. Löfgren, P. Reinhed, S. Rosén, A. Simonsson, R. D. Thomas, S. Mannervik, H. T. Schmidt, and H. Cederquist

A cooled ring stores high-speed negative ions for more than a 1000 seconds and enables new studies of atomic and molecular ions that are important in interstellar and atmospheric chemistry.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 143003] Published Mon Apr 06, 2015

Author(s): Matthew I. Brookhart, Aaron Stemo, Amanda Zuberbier, Ellen Zweibel, and Cary B. Forest The first laboratory experiments of a zero net current plasma show instabilities and turbulence expected from solar flare and coronal heating theories.[Ph…

Author(s): Z. B. Guo and P. H. Diamond

A phase dynamics approach successfully explains the nonlinear behavior of disruptive instabilities occurring at the edges of tokama plasmas.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 145002] Published Mon Apr 06, 2015

Author(s): Quentin Aubourg and Nicolas Mordant Experimental water tank measurements of gravity-capillary surface waves show 3-wave coupling is important in the build up of water wave turbulence.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 144501] Published Mon Apr 06, 2015

Author(s): Roy A. Lacey

A finite size scaling analysis of heavy-ion collisions points to the location of the critical end point – the termination of the first order phase transition line – in the QCD phase diagram.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 142301] Published Mon Apr 06, 2015

Author(s): K. Choi et al. ((Super-Kamiokande Collaboration))

Super-Kamiokande’s 22.6 kton cylindrical water Cherenkov detector has provided the most stringent upper limit on the proton-WIMP dark matter scattering cross section.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 141301] Published Mon Apr 06, 2015

Author(s): Feodor Hilitski, Andrew R. Ward, Luis Cajamarca, Michael F. Hagan, Gregory M. Grason, and Zvonimir Dogic

A new technique combining imaging and optical trapping of microtubule filaments finds that the free energy between two filaments scales linearly with the applied strain, in violation of Hooke’s law.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 138102] Published Thu Apr 02, 2015

Author(s): Jean-Charles Forgues, Christian Lupien, and Bertrand ReuletEvidence of quantum entanglement is uncovered in an unlikely place: the electrical noise in a simple quantum conductor chilled to near zero.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 130403] Published T…

Author(s): Jonathan M. M. Hall, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber, Benjamin J. Menadue, Benjamin J. Owen, Anthony W. Thomas, and Ross D. Young

The Lambda baryon, in its excited state, behaves like a molecule, according to new lattice chromodynamics simulations of the particle’s magnetic structure.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 132002] Published Wed Apr 01, 2015

Author(s): Steffen Werner, Tom Stückemann, Manuel Beirán Amigo, Jochen C. Rink, Frank Jülicher, and Benjamin M. Friedrich

A modification to the classical Turing pattern mechanism is proposed to address body plan regeneration in flatworms. In particular, how these spontaneously forming patterns automatically and reliably adjust to animal size ensuring only one head forms.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 138101] Published Wed Apr 01, 2015

Author(s): S. J. Denny, S. R. Clark, Y. Laplace, A. Cavalleri, and D. Jaksch

Terahertz radiation could reduce thermal noise in superconducting cuprates and potentially increase their critical temperature.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 137001] Published Tue Mar 31, 2015

Author(s): B. J. Shields, Q. P. Unterreithmeier, N. P. de Leon, H. Park, and M. D. Lukin

A scheme to read single electron spin states at nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond achieves a threefold reduction in noise for room temperature measurements.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 136402] Published Tue Mar 31, 2015

Author(s): Kyoo Kim, Sooran Kim, K.-T. Ko, Hwangho Lee, J.-H. Park, J. J. Yang, S.-W. Cheong, and B. I. Min

The microscopic origin of the first order electronic and structural transitions in IrTe₂, a candidate for a new topological superconductor, have been elucidated providing insight into its intriguing structural properties.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 136401] Published Tue Mar 31, 2015

Author(s): J. H. Quilter, A. J. Brash, F. Liu, M. Glässl, A. M. Barth, V. M. Axt, A. J. Ramsay, M. S. Skolnick, and A. M. Fox

Phonons assist in creating an excitation-dominated state, or population inversion, in a single quantum dot—an effect that could be used to realize single-photon sources.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 137401] Published Mon Mar 30, 2015

Author(s): J. Millen, P. Z. G. Fonseca, T. Mavrogordatos, T. S. Monteiro, and P. F. Barker

Combining two trapping techniques reduces the motion of a levitated bead close to the point where quantum effects should become observable.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 123602] Published Fri Mar 27, 2015

Author(s): D. Turnbull, P. Michel, J. E. Ralph, L. Divol, J. S. Ross, L. F. Berzak Hopkins, A. L. Kritcher, D. E. Hinkel, and J. D. Moody

Sidescattered light seen in inertial confinement fusion experiments originates mostly from neighboring beams in the overlapping laser beam configuration used.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 125001] Published Thu Mar 26, 2015

Author(s): K. Jiménez-García, L. J. LeBlanc, R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, C. Qu, M. Gong, C. Zhang, and I. B. Spielman

Laser-induced spin-orbit coupling in ultracold atoms can be tuned, in contrast to the fixed spin-orbit coupling in materials like topological insulators.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 125301] Published Tue Mar 24, 2015

Author(s): Liwei Liu, Kai Yang, Yuhang Jiang, Boqun Song, Wende Xiao, Shiru Song, Shixuan Du, Min Ouyang, Werner A. Hofer, Antonio H. Castro Neto, and Hong-Jun Gao

The magnetic structure of a magnetic metal-organic complex on a gold surface can be mapped by exploring the field dependence of the extended Kondo effect.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 126601] Published Tue Mar 24, 2015

Author(s): H. M. Meyer, R. Stockill, M. Steiner, C. Le Gall, C. Matthiesen, E. Clarke, A. Ludwig, J. Reichel, M. Atatüre, and M. Köhl

Researchers show that a single photon can transfer an excitation from a quantum dot to an ion.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 123001] Published Mon Mar 23, 2015