Robust and Versatile Black-Box Certification of Quantum Devices

Tzyh Haur Yang, Tamás Vértesi, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Valerio Scarani, and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 040401 (2014) – Published 22 July 2014

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Ultrarelativistic Electron States in a General Background Electromagnetic Field

A. Di Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 040402 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Quantum Phenomena in a Chirped Parametric Anharmonic Oscillator

I. Barth and L. Friedland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 040403 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Detection-Enhanced Steady State Entanglement with Ions

C. D. B. Bentley, A. R. R. Carvalho, D. Kielpinski, and J. J. Hope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 040501 (2014) – Published 22 July 2014

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Realization of Quantum Digital Signatures without the Requirement of Quantum Memory

Robert J. Collins, Ross J. Donaldson, Vedran Dunjko, Petros Wallden, Patrick J. Clarke, Erika Andersson, John Jeffers, and Gerald S. Buller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 040502 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

Viewpoint: Sending Messages with a Quantum Seal

With a simple optical experiment, researchers have demonstrated a quantum digital signature scheme for identifying the sender of an electronic message without requiring the use of quantum memories.

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Experimental Comparison of Efficient Tomography Schemes for a Six-Qubit State

Christian Schwemmer, Géza Tóth, Alexander Niggebaum, Tobias Moroder, David Gross, Otfried Gühne, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 040503 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

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No New Cosmological Concordance with Massive Sterile Neutrinos

Boris Leistedt, Hiranya V. Peiris, and Licia Verde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 041301 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

Contrary to earlier claims, the existence of massive sterile neutrinos does not reduce the discrepancy between cosmological data sets from the early and late time universe.

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Reheating Constraints to Inflationary Models

Liang Dai, Marc Kamionkowski, and Junpu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 041302 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Method for Direct Measurement of Cosmic Acceleration by 21-cm Absorption Systems

Hao-Ran Yu, Tong-Jie Zhang, and Ue-Li Pen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 041303 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

Synopsis: Direct Test of Cosmic Acceleration

Future radio surveys of intergalactic hydrogen clouds could offer the first direct measurement of the Universe’s acceleration.

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Measurement of the Inclusive Leptonic Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pairs that Decay to Two Charged Leptons at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 042001 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Measurement of the Branching Fraction $\mathcal{B}({\mathrm{\Lambda }}_c^{+}\to p{K}^{-}{\pi }^{+})$

A. Zupanc et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 042002 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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First Direct Measurement of the ${}^2\mathrm{H}(\alpha ,\gamma ){}^6\mathrm{Li}$ Cross Section at Big Bang Energies and the Primordial Lithium Problem

M. Anders et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 042501 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Monopole-Driven Shell Evolution below the Doubly Magic Nucleus ${}^{132}\mathrm{Sn}$ Explored with the Long-Lived Isomer in ${}^{126}\mathrm{Pd}$

H. Watanabe et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 042502 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Antineutrino Monitoring for Heavy Water Reactors

Eric Christensen, Patrick Huber, Patrick Jaffke, and Thomas E. Shea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 042503 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

Focus: Nuclear Monitoring with Antineutrinos

A system to monitor a nuclear reactor for possible diversion of weapons material would use an antineutrino detector parked close to the facility.

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Correction of Arbitrary Field Errors in Population Inversion of Quantum Systems by Universal Composite Pulses

Genko T. Genov, Daniel Schraft, Thomas Halfmann, and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043001 (2014) – Published 22 July 2014

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Anderson Wall and Bloch Oscillations in Molecular Rotation

Johannes Floß and Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043002 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Observation and Symmetry-Based Coherent Control of Transient Two-Photon Absorption: The Bright Side of Dark Pulses

Andrey Gandman, Leonid Rybak, and Zohar Amitay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043003 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

Femtosecond coherent control of the time evolution of excited atomic state populations is demonstrated using phase-shaped light pulses.

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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Clusters Using Rotational Wave Packets

Gediminas Galinis, Cephise Cacho, Richard T. Chapman, Andrew M. Ellis, Marius Lewerenz, Luis G. Mendoza Luna, Russell S. Minns, Mirjana Mladenović, Arnaud Rouzée, Emma Springate, I. C. Edmond Turcu, Mark J. Watkins, and Klaus von Haeften

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043004 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

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Effects of Ultrafast Molecular Rotation on Collisional Decoherence

Alexander A. Milner, Aleksey Korobenko, John W. Hepburn, and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043005 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Probing Electric and Magnetic Vacuum Fluctuations with Quantum Dots

P. Tighineanu, M. L. Andersen, A. S. Sørensen, S. Stobbe, and P. Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043601 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Emission of Microwave Photon Pairs by a Tunnel Junction

Jean-Charles Forgues, Christian Lupien, and Bertrand Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043602 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Quantum and Semiclassical Physics behind Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearity in the Midinfrared: The Role of Ionization Dynamics within the Field Half Cycle

E. E. Serebryannikov and A. M. Zheltikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 043901 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Revisiting the Saffman-Taylor Experiment: Imbibition Patterns and Liquid-Entrainment Transitions

Bertrand Levaché and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 044501 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Dense Suspension Splat: Monolayer Spreading and Hole Formation after Impact

Luuk A. Lubbers, Qin Xu, Sam Wilken, Wendy W. Zhang, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 044502 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

Synopsis: Dense Suspensions Spread Best

High-speed droplets containing a dense suspension of particles could be used to make universal coatings that spread on many types of surfaces.

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Robust Signatures of Quantum Radiation Reaction in Focused Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Jian-Xing Li, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 044801 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Thermal-Inertial Effects on Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Pair Plasmas

Luca Comisso and Felipe A. Asenjo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045001 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Control of Stimulated Raman Scattering in the Strongly Nonlinear and Kinetic Regime Using Spike Trains of Uneven Duration and Delay

B. J. Albright, L. Yin, and B. Afeyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045002 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Tokamak Operation with Safety Factor $q_{95}<2$ via Control of MHD Stability

P. Piovesan, J. M. Hanson, P. Martin, G. A. Navratil, F. Turco, J. Bialek, N. M. Ferraro, R. J. La Haye, M. J. Lanctot, M. Okabayashi, C. Paz-Soldan, E. J. Strait, A. D. Turnbull, P. Zanca, M. Baruzzo, T. Bolzonella, A. W. Hyatt, G. L. Jackson, L. Marrelli, L. Piron, and D. Shiraki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045003 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

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Topological Quantum Phases of ${}^4\mathrm{He}$ Confined to Nanoporous Materials

Lode Pollet and Anatoly B. Kuklov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045301 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Three-Body Physics in Strongly Correlated Spinor Condensates

V. E. Colussi, Chris H. Greene, and J. P. D’Incao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045302 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Tomography of Band Insulators from Quench Dynamics

Philipp Hauke, Maciej Lewenstein, and André Eckardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045303 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Delocalization of Weakly Interacting Bosons in a 1D Quasiperiodic Potential

V. P. Michal, B. L. Altshuler, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045304 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Resistive Flow in a Weakly Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate

F. Jendrzejewski, S. Eckel, N. Murray, C. Lanier, M. Edwards, C. J. Lobb, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045305 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Flow Unit Perspective on Room Temperature Homogeneous Plastic Deformation in Metallic Glasses

Z. Lu, W. Jiao, W. H. Wang, and H. Y. Bai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045501 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Role of Fragility in the Formation of Highly Stable Organic Glasses

A. Sepúlveda, M. Tylinski, A. Guiseppi-Elie, R. Richert, and M. D. Ediger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 045901 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Influence of Contact-Line Curvature on the Evaporation of Nanodroplets from Solid Substrates

Jianguo Zhang, Frédéric Leroy, and Florian Müller-Plathe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046101 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Enhanced Atom Mobility on the Surface of a Metastable Film

A. Picone, M. Riva, G. Fratesi, A. Brambilla, G. Bussetti, M. Finazzi, L. Duò, and F. Ciccacci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046102 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Finite-Size Effects: Hydrogen in $\mathrm{Fe}/\mathrm{V}$(001) Superlattices

Xiao Xin, Gunnar K. Pálsson, Max Wolff, and Björgvin Hjörvarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046103 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Dirac and Weyl Superconductors in Three Dimensions

Shengyuan A. Yang, Hui Pan, and Fan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046401 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Competing States in the $t$-$J$ Model: Uniform $d$-Wave State versus Stripe State

Philippe Corboz, T. M. Rice, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046402 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Spin-Valley Filtering in Strained Graphene Structures with Artificially Induced Carrier Mass and Spin-Orbit Coupling

Marko M. Grujić, Milan Ž. Tadić, and François M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046601 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Spin and Valley Noise in Two-Dimensional Dirac Materials

Wang-Kong Tse, A. Saxena, D. L. Smith, and N. A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046602 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Characterization of Spin-Orbit Interactions of GaAs Heavy Holes Using a Quantum Point Contact

Fabrizio Nichele, Stefano Chesi, Szymon Hennel, Angela Wittmann, Christian Gerl, Werner Wegscheider, Daniel Loss, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046801 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

Transport measurements confirm the presence of a quadratic spin orbit interaction in a 2D GaAs hole gas.

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Topological Criticality in the Chiral-Symmetric AIII Class at Strong Disorder

Ian Mondragon-Shem, Taylor L. Hughes, Juntao Song, and Emil Prodan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046802 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Curved Space: Gravitational Anomaly and Electromagnetic Response

T. Can, M. Laskin, and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046803 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

The electromagnetic response of fractional quantum Hall states is shown to be analogous to gravitational anomalies, allowing for the computation of previously unknown kinetic coefficients.

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Phase Coexistence and Metal-Insulator Transition in Few-Layer Phosphorene: A Computational Study

Jie Guan, Zhen Zhu, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046804 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

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Dephasing Effect on Backscattering of Helical Surface States in 3D Topological Insulators

Haiwen Liu, Hua Jiang, Qing-feng Sun, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046805 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

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Anderson Localization on the Bethe Lattice: Nonergodicity of Extended States

A. De Luca, B. L. Altshuler, V. E. Kravtsov, and A. Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046806 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Linear Response Theory for Shear Modulus $C_{66}$ and Raman Quadrupole Susceptibility: Evidence for Nematic Orbital Fluctuations in Fe-based Superconductors

Hiroshi Kontani and Youichi Yamakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047001 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Ground-State Cooling of a Carbon Nanomechanical Resonator by Spin-Polarized Current

P. Stadler, W. Belzig, and G. Rastelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047201 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Spin-Wave Spectrum of the Quantum Ferromagnet on the Pyrochlore Lattice ${\mathrm{Lu}}_2{\mathrm{V}}_2{\mathrm{O}}_7$

M. Mena, R. S. Perry, T. G. Perring, M. D. Le, S. Guerrero, M. Storni, D. T. Adroja, Ch. Rüegg, and D. F. McMorrow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047202 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Chirality-Induced Asymmetric Magnetic Nucleation in $\mathrm{Pt}/\mathrm{Co}/{\mathrm{AlO}}_x$ Ultrathin Microstructures

S. Pizzini, J. Vogel, S. Rohart, L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu, E. Jué, O. Boulle, I. M. Miron, C. K. Safeer, S. Auffret, G. Gaudin, and A. Thiaville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047203 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Induced Magnetization in ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.7}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{0.3}{\mathrm{MnO}}_3/{\mathrm{BiFeO}}_3$ Superlattices

Surendra Singh, J. T. Haraldsen, J. Xiong, E. M. Choi, P. Lu, D. Yi, X.-D. Wen, J. Liu, H. Wang, Z. Bi, P. Yu, M. R. Fitzsimmons, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, R. Ramesh, A. V. Balatsky, Jian-Xin Zhu, and Q. X. Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047204 (2014) – Published 24 July 2014

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Magnetic-Field-Modulated Resonant Tunneling in Ferromagnetic-Insulator-Nonmagnetic Junctions

Yang Song and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047205 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Disorder-Induced Magnetoresistance in a Two-Dimensional Electron System

Jinglei Ping, Indra Yudhistira, Navneeth Ramakrishnan, Sungjae Cho, Shaffique Adam, and Michael S. Fuhrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047206 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

Fluctuations in the charge carrier density are shown, theoretically and experimentally, to cause magnetoresistance in graphene and more generally any two-dimensional electron system.

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Superradiant Decay of Cyclotron Resonance of Two-Dimensional Electron Gases

Qi Zhang, Takashi Arikawa, Eiji Kato, John L. Reno, Wei Pan, John D. Watson, Michael J. Manfra, Michael A. Zudov, Mikhail Tokman, Maria Erukhimova, Alexey Belyanin, and Junichiro Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 047601 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Percolation and Grain Boundary Wetting in Anisotropic Texturally Equilibrated Pore Networks

Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, Maša Prodanović, and Marc A. Hesse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 048001 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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Active Phase and Amplitude Fluctuations of Flagellar Beating

Rui Ma, Gary S. Klindt, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse, Frank Jülicher, and Benjamin M. Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 048101 (2014) – Published 21 July 2014

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Channel-Facilitated Diffusion Boosted by Particle Binding at the Channel Entrance

Stefano Pagliara, Simon L. Dettmer, and Ulrich F. Keyser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 048102 (2014) – Published 23 July 2014

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Single-File Charge Storage in Conducting Nanopores

Alpha A. Lee, Svyatoslav Kondrat, and Alexei A. Kornyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 048701 (2014) – Published 25 July 2014

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