Volume 115, Issue 21

20 November 2015
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Lensing by a spherical boson star. The colors represent the four quadrants of the celestial sphere. The black lines represent a grid of latitude and longitude. The white circles are Einstein rings.

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Shadows of Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair
Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Helgi F. Rúnarsson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211102 (2015)

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Limitations on the Evolution of Quantum Coherences: Towards Fully Quantum Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Piotr Ćwikliński, Michał Studziński, Michał Horodecki, and Jonathan Oppenheim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210403 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Sensing Atomic Motion from the Zero Point to Room Temperature with Ultrafast Atom Interferometry
K. G. Johnson, B. Neyenhuis, J. Mizrahi, J. D. Wong-Campos, and C. Monroe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 213001 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Optical Metacages
Ali Mirzaei, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215501 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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An array of equally spaced nanowires, dubbed metacage, could block optical radiation from entering or escaping a region of arbitrary shape.

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Reciprocity Between Robustness of Period and Plasticity of Phase in Biological Clocks
Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama and Kunihiko Kaneko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218101 (2015) – Published 19 November 2015
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A theoretical analysis explains why circadian clocks can be robust but also able to adapt to environmental changes.

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Small Crowders Slow Down Kinesin-1 Stepping by Hindering Motor Domain Diffusion
Krzysztof Sozański, Felix Ruhnow, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, Marcin Tabaka, Stefan Diez, and Robert Hołyst
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218102 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
Physics logo Focus: Stalling a Molecular Motor

Researchers used a viscous fluid to disrupt the operation of a molecular motor that transports material inside biological cells, giving insights into how it works.

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Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211101 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015

Improved measurements of the helium cosmic ray spectrum taken by the space-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer find deviations from a single power law behavior.

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Search for GeV γ-Ray Pair Halos Around Low Redshift Blazars
Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley, and Francesc Ferrer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211103 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015

Analysis of data from the Fermi Large Angle Telescope provides an indication of halos of gamma ray pairs around blazars at low redshift, and supports an estimate of the intergalactic magnetic field.

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Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP Violation in K→ππ Decay
Z. Bai, T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, N. H. Christ, J. Frison, N. Garron, T. Izubuchi, C. Jung, C. Kelly, C. Lehner, R. D. Mawhinney, C. T. Sachrajda, A. Soni, and D. Zhang (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212001 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015

First complete lattice QCD calculation of direct CP violation in a kaon decaying to pions is two standard deviations below the experimental value.

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Blast Dynamics in a Dissipative Gas
M. Barbier, D. Villamaina, and E. Trizac
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214301 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015

Self-similar corrugated instabilities form after intense localized explosions in dissipative gasses.

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Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Spin Chain of a Few Cold Atoms in a One-Dimensional Trap
S. Murmann, F. Deuretzbacher, G. Zürn, J. Bjerlin, S. M. Reimann, L. Santos, T. Lompe, and S. Jochim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215301 (2015) – Published 19 November 2015

Quantum magnetism that goes beyond nearest-neighbor correlations has been observed in a string of four ultracold fermions.

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Quantum Phase Transition and Protected Ideal Transport in a Kondo Chain
A. M. Tsvelik and O. M. Yevtushenko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216402 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015

Spontaneous breaking of helical symmetry in 1d interacting systems can result in symmetry protected ballistic transport.

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LETTERS

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

Hierarchy of Steering Criteria Based on Moments for All Bipartite Quantum Systems
Ioannis Kogias, Paul Skrzypczyk, Daniel Cavalcanti, Antonio Acín, and Gerardo Adesso
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210401 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Quantum Speed Limits for Leakage and Decoherence
Iman Marvian and Daniel A. Lidar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210402 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Limitations on the Evolution of Quantum Coherences: Towards Fully Quantum Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Piotr Ćwikliński, Michał Studziński, Michał Horodecki, and Jonathan Oppenheim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210403 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Maximum of a Fractional Brownian Motion: Analytic Results from Perturbation Theory
Mathieu Delorme and Kay Jörg Wiese
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 210601 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Precision Measurement of the Helium Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays of Rigidities 1.9 GV to 3 TV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211101 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015

Improved measurements of the helium cosmic ray spectrum taken by the space-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer find deviations from a single power law behavior.

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Shadows of Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair
Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Helgi F. Rúnarsson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211102 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Editors' Suggestion
Search for GeV γ-Ray Pair Halos Around Low Redshift Blazars
Wenlei Chen, James H. Buckley, and Francesc Ferrer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211103 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015

Analysis of data from the Fermi Large Angle Telescope provides an indication of halos of gamma ray pairs around blazars at low redshift, and supports an estimate of the intergalactic magnetic field.

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Enhancing the Bandwidth of Gravitational-Wave Detectors with Unstable Optomechanical Filters
Haixing Miao, Yiqiu Ma, Chunnong Zhao, and Yanbei Chen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211104 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Gravitation-Wave Emission in Shift-Symmetric Horndeski Theories
Enrico Barausse and Kent Yagi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211105 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Evanescent Effects can Alter Ultraviolet Divergences in Quantum Gravity without Physical Consequences
Zvi Bern, Clifford Cheung, Huan-Hang Chi, Scott Davies, Lance Dixon, and Josh Nohle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211301 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Isocurvature Perturbation of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Small Scale Structure
Ki-Young Choi, Jinn-Ouk Gong, and Chang Sub Shin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211302 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Elementary Particles and Fields

Local Operators in the Eternal Black Hole
Kyriakos Papadodimas and Suvrat Raju
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211601 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Probing the Charm Quark Yukawa Coupling in Higgs+Charm Production
Ilaria Brivio, Florian Goertz, and Gino Isidori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211801 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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W′ Boson near 2 TeV: Predictions for Run 2 of the LHC
Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Zhen Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 211802 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP Violation in K→ππ Decay
Z. Bai, T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, N. H. Christ, J. Frison, N. Garron, T. Izubuchi, C. Jung, C. Kelly, C. Lehner, R. D. Mawhinney, C. T. Sachrajda, A. Soni, and D. Zhang (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212001 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015

First complete lattice QCD calculation of direct CP violation in a kaon decaying to pions is two standard deviations below the experimental value.

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Neutron Electric Dipole Moment and Tensor Charges from Lattice QCD
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Vincenzo Cirigliano, Rajan Gupta, Huey-Wen Lin, and Boram Yoon (PNDME Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212002 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Cross Sections for the Exclusive Photon Electroproduction on the Proton and Generalized Parton Distributions
H. S. Jo et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212003 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Nuclear Physics

Dynamic Isovector Reorientation of Deuteron as a Probe to Nuclear Symmetry Energy
Li Ou (欧立), Zhigang Xiao (肖志刚), Han Yi (易晗), Ning Wang (王宁), Min Liu (刘敏), and Junlong Tian (田俊龙)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 212501 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sensing Atomic Motion from the Zero Point to Room Temperature with Ultrafast Atom Interferometry
K. G. Johnson, B. Neyenhuis, J. Mizrahi, J. D. Wong-Campos, and C. Monroe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 213001 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
Physics logo Viewpoint: Cool Physics with Warm Ions

Ultrafast laser pulses can be used to control and characterize the quantum motion of a single trapped ion over 5 orders of magnitude in temperature.

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Blast Dynamics in a Dissipative Gas
M. Barbier, D. Villamaina, and E. Trizac
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214301 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015

Self-similar corrugated instabilities form after intense localized explosions in dissipative gasses.

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Multicolor High-Gain Free-Electron Laser Driven by Seeded Microbunching Instability
E. Roussel, E. Ferrari, E. Allaria, G. Penco, S. Di Mitri, M. Veronese, M. Danailov, D. Gauthier, and L. Giannessi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214801 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Increasing the Brightness of Cold Ion Beams by Suppressing Disorder-Induced Heating with Rydberg Blockade
D. Murphy, R. E. Scholten, and B. M. Sparkes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 214802 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Self-Organized Stationary States of Tokamaks
S. C. Jardin, N. Ferraro, and I. Krebs
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215001 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Experimental Validation of a Filament Transport Model in Turbulent Magnetized Plasmas
D. Carralero, P. Manz, L. Aho-Mantila, G. Birkenmeier, M. Brix, M. Groth, H. W. Müller, U. Stroth, N. Vianello, E. Wolfrum, ASDEX Upgrade team, JET Contributors, and EUROfusion MST1 Team
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215002 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Ultrafast Synchrotron-Enhanced Thermalization of Laser-Driven Colliding Pair Plasmas
M. Lobet, C. Ruyer, A. Debayle, E. d’Humières, M. Grech, M. Lemoine, and L. Gremillet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215003 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Electron and Ion Heating Characteristics during Magnetic Reconnection in the MAST Spherical Tokamak
H. Tanabe, T. Yamada, T. Watanabe, K. Gi, K. Kadowaki, M. Inomoto, R. Imazawa, M. Gryaznevich, C. Michael, B. Crowley, N. J. Conway, R. Scannell, J. Harrison, I. Fitzgerald, A. Meakins, N. Hawkes, K. G. McClements, T. O’Gorman, C. Z. Cheng, Y. Ono, and The MAST Team
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215004 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Spin Chain of a Few Cold Atoms in a One-Dimensional Trap
S. Murmann, F. Deuretzbacher, G. Zürn, J. Bjerlin, S. M. Reimann, L. Santos, T. Lompe, and S. Jochim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215301 (2015) – Published 19 November 2015

Quantum magnetism that goes beyond nearest-neighbor correlations has been observed in a string of four ultracold fermions.

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Optical Metacages
Ali Mirzaei, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Ilya V. Shadrivov, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215501 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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An array of equally spaced nanowires, dubbed metacage, could block optical radiation from entering or escaping a region of arbitrary shape.

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Origin of the Large Anisotropic g Factor of Holes in Bismuth
Yuki Fuseya, Zengwei Zhu, Benoît Fauqué, Woun Kang, Bertrand Lenoir, and Kamran Behnia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216401 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Quantum Phase Transition and Protected Ideal Transport in a Kondo Chain
A. M. Tsvelik and O. M. Yevtushenko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216402 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015

Spontaneous breaking of helical symmetry in 1d interacting systems can result in symmetry protected ballistic transport.

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Resonant and Inelastic Andreev Tunneling Observed on a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot
J. Gramich, A. Baumgartner, and C. Schönenberger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216801 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Interplay of Surface and Dirac Plasmons in Topological Insulators: The Case of Bi2Se3
A. Politano, V. M. Silkin, I. A. Nechaev, M. S. Vitiello, L. Viti, Z. S. Aliev, M. B. Babanly, G. Chiarello, P. M. Echenique, and E. V. Chulkov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216802 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Bistable Photon Emission from a Solid-State Single-Atom Laser
Neill Lambert, Franco Nori, and Christian Flindt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216803 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Self-Assembled Wigner Crystals as Mediators of Spin Currents and Quantum Information
Bobby Antonio, Abolfazl Bayat, Sanjeev Kumar, Michael Pepper, and Sougato Bose
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216804 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Topological Edge States with Zero Hall Conductivity in a Dimerized Hofstadter Model
Alexander Lau, Carmine Ortix, and Jeroen van den Brink
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216805 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Quantum Nonlinear Hall Effect Induced by Berry Curvature Dipole in Time-Reversal Invariant Materials
Inti Sodemann and Liang Fu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 216806 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Spin-Fluctuation Mechanism of Anomalous Temperature Dependence of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Itinerant Magnets
I. A. Zhuravlev, V. P. Antropov, and K. D. Belashchenko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217201 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Phase Diagram of an Extended Quantum Dimer Model on the Hexagonal Lattice
Thiago Schlittler, Thomas Barthel, Grégoire Misguich, Julien Vidal, and Rémy Mosseri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217202 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Minimal Model of Spin-Transfer Torque and Spin Pumping Caused by the Spin Hall Effect
Wei Chen, Manfred Sigrist, Jairo Sinova, and Dirk Manske
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217203 (2015) – Published 19 November 2015
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Many-Body Theory of Ultrafast Demagnetization and Angular Momentum Transfer in Ferromagnetic Transition Metals
W. Töws and G. M. Pastor
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217204 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Observation of Fermi-Arc Spin Texture in TaAs
B. Q. Lv, S. Muff, T. Qian, Z. D. Song, S. M. Nie, N. Xu, P. Richard, C. E. Matt, N. C. Plumb, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, Z. Fang, X. Dai, J. H. Dil, J. Mesot, M. Shi, H. M. Weng, and H. Ding
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217601 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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High-Resolution Faraday Rotation and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Surface States of the Bulk-Insulating Topological Insulator Cu0.02Bi2Se3
Liang Wu, Wang-Kong Tse, M. Brahlek, C. M. Morris, R. Valdés Aguilar, N. Koirala, S. Oh, and N. P. Armitage
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 217602 (2015) – Published 16 November 2015
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Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Reciprocity Between Robustness of Period and Plasticity of Phase in Biological Clocks
Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama and Kunihiko Kaneko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218101 (2015) – Published 19 November 2015
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A theoretical analysis explains why circadian clocks can be robust but also able to adapt to environmental changes.

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Small Crowders Slow Down Kinesin-1 Stepping by Hindering Motor Domain Diffusion
Krzysztof Sozański, Felix Ruhnow, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, Marcin Tabaka, Stefan Diez, and Robert Hołyst
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218102 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Researchers used a viscous fluid to disrupt the operation of a molecular motor that transports material inside biological cells, giving insights into how it works.

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Convective Cage Release in Model Colloidal Glasses
Alan R. Jacob, Andreas S. Poulos, Sunhyung Kim, Jan Vermant, and George Petekidis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218301 (2015) – Published 17 November 2015
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Long Lifetime Hole Traps at Grain Boundaries in CdTe Thin-Film Photovoltaics
B. G. Mendis, D. Gachet, J. D. Major, and K. Durose
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218701 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Kinetics of Social Contagion
Zhongyuan Ruan, Gerardo Iñiguez, Márton Karsai, and János Kertész
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 218702 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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Erratum: Neutral Atom Frequency Reference in the Deep Ultraviolet with Fractional Uncertainty=5.7×10−15 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 183004 (2012)]
J. J. McFerran, L. Yi, S. Mejri, S. Di Manno, W. Zhang, J. Guéna, Y. Le Coq, and S. Bize
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 219901 (2015) – Published 18 November 2015
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Publisher’s Note: Dichotomy between the Hole and Electron Behavior in Multiband Superconductor FeSe Probed by Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 027006 (2015)]
M. D. Watson, T. Yamashita, S. Kasahara, W. Knafo, M. Nardone, J. Béard, F. Hardy, A. McCollam, A. Narayanan, S. F. Blake, T. Wolf, A. A. Haghighirad, C. Meingast, A. J. Schofield, H. v. Löhneysen, Y. Matsuda, A. I. Coldea, and T. Shibauchi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 219902 (2015) – Published 20 November 2015
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