Volume 106, Issue 10

11 March 2011

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Time-evolving shape of a shadow cast by a developing sulcus on a bent slab of a soft elastomer. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Unfolding the Sulcus
Evan Hohlfeld and L. Mahadevan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105702 (2011)

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${}^{39}{Ar}$ Detection at the $10^{- 16}$ Isotopic Abundance Level with Atom Trap Trace Analysis

W. Jiang, W. Williams, K. Bailey, A. M. Davis, S.-M. Hu, Z.-T. Lu, T. P. O’Connor, R. Purtschert, N. C. Sturchio, Y. R. Sun, and P. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103001 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

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Unfolding the Sulcus

Evan Hohlfeld and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105702 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

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Detecting Vanishing Dimensions via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Jonas Mureika and Dejan Stojkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101101 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

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Giant Nonhysteretic Responses of Two-Phase Nanostructured Alloys

Wei-Feng Rao, Manfred Wuttig, and Armen G. Khachaturyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105703 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

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Hybrid Improper Ferroelectricity: A Mechanism for Controllable Polarization-Magnetization Coupling

Nicole A. Benedek and Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107204 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

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Observation of Intrinsic Inverse Spin Hall Effect

Lalani K. Werake, Brian A. Ruzicka, and Hui Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107205 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

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Many-Body Dynamics of Exciton Creation in a Quantum Dot by Optical Absorption: A Quantum Quench towards Kondo Correlations

Hakan E. Türeci, M. Hanl, M. Claassen, A. Weichselbaum, T. Hecht, B. Braunecker, A. Govorov, L. Glazman, A. Imamoglu, and J. von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107402 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

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Double-Stranded RNA Resists Condensation

Li Li, Suzette A. Pabit, Steve P. Meisburger, and Lois Pollack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 108101 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

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Acoustic Emission Monitoring of the Syracuse Athena Temple: Scale Invariance in the Timing of Ruptures

G. Niccolini, A. Carpinteri, G. Lacidogna, and A. Manuello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 108503 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

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Modulated Spin Liquid: A New Paradigm for ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

C. Pépin, M. R. Norman, S. Burdin, and A. Ferraz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106601 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

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Distinct Fermi Surface Topology and Nodeless Superconducting Gap in a $({Tl}_{0.58} {Rb}_{0.42}) {Fe}_{1.72} {Se}_{2}$ Superconductor

Daixiang Mou, Shanyu Liu, Xiaowen Jia, Junfeng He, Yingying Peng, Lin Zhao, Li Yu, Guodong Liu, Shaolong He, Xiaoli Dong, Jun Zhang, Hangdong Wang, Chiheng Dong, Minghu Fang, Xiaoyang Wang, Qinjun Peng, Zhimin Wang, Shenjin Zhang, Feng Yang, Zuyan Xu, Chuangtian Chen, and X. J. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107001 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

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Giant Magneto-Optical Faraday Effect in HgTe Thin Films in the Terahertz Spectral Range

A. M. Shuvaev, G. V. Astakhov, A. Pimenov, C. Brüne, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107404 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

LETTERS

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

Efficient Measurement of Quantum Dynamics via Compressive Sensing

A. Shabani, R. L. Kosut, M. Mohseni, H. Rabitz, M. A. Broome, M. P. Almeida, A. Fedrizzi, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100401 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Rotonlike Fulde-Ferrell Collective Excitations of an Imbalanced Fermi Gas in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Zlatko Koinov, Rafael Mendoza, and Mauricio Fortes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100402 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Correlation Effects in Quantum Spin-Hall Insulators: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study

M. Hohenadler, T. C. Lang, and F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100403 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Probing Non-Abelian Statistics of Majorana Fermions in Ultracold Atomic Superfluid

Shi-Liang Zhu, L.-B. Shao, Z. D. Wang, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100404 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Extracting Excitations from Model State Entanglement

A. Sterdyniak, N. Regnault, and B. A. Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100405 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

How Much Measurement Independence Is Needed to Demonstrate Nonlocality?

Jonathan Barrett and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100406 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

Entangled Optical Vortex Links

J. Romero, J. Leach, B. Jack, M. R. Dennis, S. Franke-Arnold, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100407 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Quantum Probe and Design for a Chemical Compass with Magnetic Nanostructures

Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100501 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

Methanol as a Sensitive Probe for Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio

Paul Jansen, Li-Hong Xu, Isabelle Kleiner, Wim Ubachs, and Hendrick L. Bethlem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 100801 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Detecting Vanishing Dimensions via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Jonas Mureika and Dejan Stojkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101101 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Fermi Bubbles: Giant, Multibillion-Year-Old Reservoirs of Galactic Center Cosmic Rays

Roland M. Crocker and Felix Aharonian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101102 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

A Geometric Solution to the Coincidence Problem, and the Size of the Landscape as the Origin of Hierarchy

Raphael Bousso, Ben Freivogel, Stefan Leichenauer, and Vladimir Rosenhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101301 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

New Solution of the Cosmological Constant Problems

John D. Barrow and Douglas J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101302 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

One-Loop Quantum Gravity Repulsion in the Early Universe

Bogusław Broda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101303 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Stable Charged Cosmic Strings

H. Weigel, M. Quandt, and N. Graham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 101601 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Directed Flow at Midrapidity in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Matthew Luzum and Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 102301 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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${}^{39}{Ar}$ Detection at the $10^{- 16}$ Isotopic Abundance Level with Atom Trap Trace Analysis

W. Jiang, W. Williams, K. Bailey, A. M. Davis, S.-M. Hu, Z.-T. Lu, T. P. O’Connor, R. Purtschert, N. C. Sturchio, Y. R. Sun, and P. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103001 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

Unveiling Residual Molecular Binding in Triply Charged Hydrogen Bromide

F. Penent, P. Lablanquie, J. Palaudoux, L. Andric, G. Gamblin, Y. Hikosaka, K. Ito, and S. Carniato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103002 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Inhibition, Enhancement, and Control of Spontaneous Emission in Photonic Nanowires

Joël Bleuse, Julien Claudon, Megan Creasey, Nitin. S. Malik, Jean-Michel Gérard, Ivan Maksymov, Jean-Paul Hugonin, and Philippe Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103601 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Control of Light Transmission through Opaque Scattering Media in Space and Time

Jochen Aulbach, Bergin Gjonaj, Patrick M. Johnson, Allard P. Mosk, and Ad Lagendijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103901 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Circular Dichroism in Biological Photonic Crystals and Cubic Chiral Nets

M. Saba, M. Thiel, M. D. Turner, S. T. Hyde, M. Gu, K. Grosse-Brauckmann, D. N. Neshev, K. Mecke, and G. E. Schröder-Turk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103902 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Experimental Observation of Speckle Instability in Kerr Random Media

U. Bortolozzo, S. Residori, and P. Sebbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 103903 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Convective Instability and Mass Transport of Diffusion Layers in a Hele-Shaw Geometry

Scott Backhaus, Konstantin Turitsyn, and R. E. Ecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 104501 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Self-Similar Wave Produced by Local Perturbation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Shear-Layer Instability

Jérôme Hoepffner, Ralf Blumenthal, and Stéphane Zaleski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 104502 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Current Filamentation Instability in Laser Wakefield Accelerators

C. M. Huntington, A. G. R. Thomas, C. McGuffey, T. Matsuoka, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, S. Kneip, Z. Najmudin, C. Palmer, V. Yanovsky, A. Maksimchuk, R. P. Drake, T. Katsouleas, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105001 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

High-Power, Kilojoule Class Laser Channeling in Millimeter-Scale Underdense Plasma

L. Willingale, P. M. Nilson, A. G. R. Thomas, J. Cobble, R. S. Craxton, A. Maksimchuk, P. A. Norreys, T. C. Sangster, R. H. H. Scott, C. Stoeckl, C. Zulick, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105002 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Bernd Fröhlich, Michael Feld, Enrico Vogt, Marco Koschorreck, Wilhelm Zwerger, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105301 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Field-Induced Phase Transitions of Repulsive Spin-1 Bosons in Optical Lattices

K. Rodríguez, A. Argüelles, A. K. Kolezhuk, L. Santos, and T. Vekua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105302 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

${}^{4}{He}$ Luttinger Liquid in Nanopores

Adrian Del Maestro, Massimo Boninsegni, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105303 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Crossover from 2D to 3D in a Weakly Interacting Fermi Gas

P. Dyke, E. D. Kuhnle, S. Whitlock, H. Hu, M. Mark, S. Hoinka, M. Lingham, P. Hannaford, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105304 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Dislocations Jam at Any Density

Georgios Tsekenis, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Karin A. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105501 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Elastic and Anelastic Properties of Ferroelectric ${SrTi}^{18} O_{3}$ in the kHz-MHz Regime

J. F. Scott, J. Bryson, M. A. Carpenter, J. Herrero-Albillos, and M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105502 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Bistable and Self-Tunable Negative-Index Metamaterial at Optical Frequencies

Pai-Yen Chen, Mohamed Farhat, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105503 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Single-Molecule Imaging with X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Dream or Reality?

A. Fratalocchi and G. Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105504 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

From Point Defects in Graphene to Two-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon

J. Kotakoski, A. V. Krasheninnikov, U. Kaiser, and J. C. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105505 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

Anisotropy and Coarsening in the Instability of Solid Dewetting Fronts

M. Dufay and O. Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105506 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Nature of the Quantum Phase Transition to a Spin-Nematic Phase

T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105701 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

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Unfolding the Sulcus

Evan Hohlfeld and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105702 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Giant Nonhysteretic Responses of Two-Phase Nanostructured Alloys

Wei-Feng Rao, Manfred Wuttig, and Armen G. Khachaturyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105703 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

Dynamical Arrest Transition in Nanoparticle Dispersions with Short-Range Interactions

Aaron P. R. Eberle, Norman J. Wagner, and Ramón Castañeda-Priego

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 105704 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Multiscale Modeling Approach to Acoustic Emission during Plastic Deformation

Jagadish Kumar and G. Ananthakrishna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106001 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Tilting, Bending, and Nonterminal Sites in $CO / Cu (001)$

R. Thamankar, H. L. Meyerheim, A. Ernst, S. Ostanin, I. V. Maznichenko, E. Soyka, I. Mertig, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106101 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Realization of the $SU (N)$ Kondo Effect in a Strong Magnetic Field

Assaf Carmi, Yuval Oreg, and Micha Berkooz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106401 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Current-Induced Decoherence in the Multichannel Kondo Problem

Aditi Mitra and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106402 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Resistivity of a Non-Galilean–Invariant Fermi Liquid near Pomeranchuk Quantum Criticality

Dmitrii L. Maslov, Vladimir I. Yudson, and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106403 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Exciton Condensation Driving the Periodic Lattice Distortion of $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

C. Monney, C. Battaglia, H. Cercellier, P. Aebi, and H. Beck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106404 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Electronic Correlations at the $α − γ$ Structural Phase Transition in Paramagnetic Iron

I. Leonov, A. I. Poteryaev, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106405 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modulated Spin Liquid: A New Paradigm for ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

C. Pépin, M. R. Norman, S. Burdin, and A. Ferraz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106601 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Spin-Orbit Coupling, Spin Relaxation, and Spin Diffusion in Organic Solids

Z. G. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106602 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Semiconducting Electronic Property of Graphene Adsorbed on (0001) Surfaces of ${SiO}_{2}$

Thanh Cuong Nguyen, Minoru Otani, and Susumu Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106801 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Topological Crystalline Insulators

Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106802 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Spectrum of an Electron Spin Coupled to an Unpolarized Bath of Nuclear Spins

Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 106803 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Distinct Fermi Surface Topology and Nodeless Superconducting Gap in a $({Tl}_{0.58} {Rb}_{0.42}) {Fe}_{1.72} {Se}_{2}$ Superconductor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107001 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Enhanced Quasiparticle Heat Conduction in the Multigap Superconductor ${Lu}_{2} {Fe}_{3} {Si}_{5}$

Y. Machida, S. Sakai, K. Izawa, H. Okuyama, and T. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107002 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Origin and Tailoring of the Antiferromagnetic Domain Structure in $α − {Fe}_{2} O_{3}$ Thin Films Unraveled by Statistical Analysis of Dichroic Spectromicroscopy (X-Ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy) Images

Odile Bezencenet, Daniel Bonamy, Rachid Belkhou, Philippe Ohresser, and Antoine Barbier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107201 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Unexpectedly Large Electronic Contribution to Linear Magnetoelectricity

Eric Bousquet, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Kris T. Delaney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107202 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

Robustness of a Perturbed Topological Phase

Sébastien Dusuel, Michael Kamfor, Román Orús, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Julien Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107203 (2011) - Published 8 March, 2011

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Hybrid Improper Ferroelectricity: A Mechanism for Controllable Polarization-Magnetization Coupling

Nicole A. Benedek and Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107204 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

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Observation of Intrinsic Inverse Spin Hall Effect

Lalani K. Werake, Brian A. Ruzicka, and Hui Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107205 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

Phenomenology of Current-Induced Dynamics in Antiferromagnets

Kjetil M. D. Hals, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107206 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

Photoinduced Reconfiguration Cycle in a Molecular Adsorbate Layer Studied by Femtosecond Inner-Shell Photoelectron Spectroscopy

H. Dachraoui, M. Michelswirth, P. Siffalovic, P. Bartz, C. Schäfer, B. Schnatwinkel, J. Mattay, W. Pfeiffer, M. Drescher, and U. Heinzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107401 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

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Many-Body Dynamics of Exciton Creation in a Quantum Dot by Optical Absorption: A Quantum Quench towards Kondo Correlations

Hakan E. Türeci, M. Hanl, M. Claassen, A. Weichselbaum, T. Hecht, B. Braunecker, A. Govorov, L. Glazman, A. Imamoglu, and J. von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107402 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

Broadband Slow Light Metamaterial Based on a Double-Continuum Fano Resonance

Chihhui Wu, Alexander B. Khanikaev, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107403 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Magneto-Optical Faraday Effect in HgTe Thin Films in the Terahertz Spectral Range

A. M. Shuvaev, G. V. Astakhov, A. Pimenov, C. Brüne, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107404 (2011) - Published 11 March, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Structure of Blue Phase III of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

O. Henrich, K. Stratford, M. E. Cates, and D. Marenduzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107801 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

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Acoustic Emission Monitoring of the Syracuse Athena Temple: Scale Invariance in the Timing of Ruptures

G. Niccolini, A. Carpinteri, G. Lacidogna, and A. Manuello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 108503 (2011) - Published 10 March, 2011

Possible Origin of Efficient Navigation in Small Worlds

Yanqing Hu, Yougui Wang, Daqing Li, Shlomo Havlin, and Zengru Di

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 108701 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Nonlocal Superelastic Model of Size-Dependent Hardening and Dissipation in Single Crystal Cu-Al-Ni Shape Memory Alloys [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 085504 (2011)]

Lei Qiao, Julian J. Rimoli, Ying Chen, Christopher A. Schuh, and Raul Radovitzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 109901 (2011) - Published 7 March, 2011

Erratum: Laser Field Absorption in Self-Generated Electron-Positron Pair Plasma [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 035001 (2011)]

E. N. Nerush, I. Yu. Kostyukov, A. M. Fedotov, N. B. Narozhny, N. V. Elkina, and H. Ruhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 109902 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Demonstration of Ignition Radiation Temperatures in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 085004 (2011)]

S. H. Glenzer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 109903 (2011) - Published 9 March, 2011