Volume 106, Issue 11

18 March 2011

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Atomic structure of iron-bearing magnesium silicate perovskite, showing iron (orange) and magnesium (green) sites. High pressure triggers a crossover from high- to low-spin iron at the central (octahedral) site.

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Spin-State Crossover and Hyperfine Interactions of Ferric Iron in ${MgSiO}_{3}$ Perovskite
Han Hsu, Peter Blaha, Matteo Cococcioni, and Renata M. Wentzcovitch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 118501 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Position Measurements Obeying Momentum Conservation

Paul Busch and Leon Loveridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110406 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

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Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication Over a Noisy Classical Channel

R. Prevedel, Y. Lu, W. Matthews, R. Kaltenbaek, and K. J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110505 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

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New Light on Disordered Ensembles: Ab Initio Structure Determination of One Particle from Scattering Fluctuations of Many Copies

D. K. Saldin, H. C. Poon, M. J. Bogan, S. Marchesini, D. A. Shapiro, R. A. Kirian, U. Weierstall, and J. C. H. Spence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115501 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

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Highly Nonlinear Dynamics in a Slowly Sedimenting Colloidal Gel

G. Brambilla, S. Buzzaccaro, R. Piazza, L. Berthier, and L. Cipelletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 118302 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

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Viscous to Inertial Crossover in Liquid Drop Coalescence

Joseph D. Paulsen, Justin C. Burton, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 114501 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

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Symmetry Properties of the Large-Deviation Function of the Velocity of a Self-Propelled Polar Particle

Nitin Kumar, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A. K. Sood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 118001 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

LETTERS

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

Breakdown of the Coherent State Path Integral: Two Simple Examples

Justin H. Wilson and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110401 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Stable Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions

F. Fröwis and W. Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110402 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

BCS-BEC Crossover in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

G. Bertaina and S. Giorgini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110403 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Entanglement between the Future and the Past in the Quantum Vacuum

S. Jay Olson and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110404 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

Quantized Pumping and Topology of the Phase Diagram for a System of Interacting Bosons

Erez Berg, Michael Levin, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110405 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

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Position Measurements Obeying Momentum Conservation

Paul Busch and Leon Loveridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110406 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

Quantum Codes Give Counterexamples to the Unique Preimage Conjecture of the $N$ -Representability Problem

Samuel A. Ocko, Xie Chen, Bei Zeng, Beni Yoshida, Zhengfeng Ji, Mary Beth Ruskai, and Isaac L. Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110501 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Observation of Quantum Jumps in a Superconducting Artificial Atom

R. Vijay, D. H. Slichter, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110502 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Efficient Decoherence-Free Entanglement Distribution over Lossy Quantum Channels

Rikizo Ikuta, Yohei Ono, Toshiyuki Tashima, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110503 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Coherent State Transfer between an Electron and Nuclear Spin in ${}^{15}N @ C_{60}$

Richard M. Brown, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Erik M. Gauger, Brendon W. Lovett, Arzhang Ardavan, S. A. Lyon, G. Andrew D. Briggs, and John J. L. Morton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110504 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

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Entanglement-Enhanced Classical Communication Over a Noisy Classical Channel

R. Prevedel, Y. Lu, W. Matthews, R. Kaltenbaek, and K. J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110505 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Uncertainty Relation for Smooth Entropies

Marco Tomamichel and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 110506 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Cherenkov Losses in Theories Based on Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Mordehai Milgrom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 111101 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Constraints on Tree-Level Higher Order Gravitational Couplings in Superstring Theory

Stephan Stieberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 111601 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Measurement of the $B^{+}$ Production Cross Section in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 112001 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Direct Mass Measurements of Short-Lived $A = 2 Z - 1$ Nuclides ${}^{63}{Ge}$ , ${}^{65}{As}$ , ${}^{67}{Se}$ , and ${}^{71}{Kr}$ and Their Impact on Nucleosynthesis in the $r p$ Process

X. L. Tu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 112501 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Particle-Number Fluctuations and Correlations in Transfer Reactions Obtained Using the Balian-Vénéroni Variational Principle

Cédric Simenel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 112502 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Quantum Optics in a Waveguide: Distinct Single Photons Strongly Interacting at the Single Atom Level

Pavel Kolchin, Rupert F. Oulton, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 113601 (2011) - Published 15 March, 2011

Macroscopic Pure State of Light Free of Polarization Noise

Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Maria V. Chekhova, Georgy O. Rytikov, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 113602 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantum Light from a Whispering-Gallery-Mode Disk Resonator

J. U. Fürst, D. V. Strekalov, D. Elser, A. Aiello, U. L. Andersen, Ch. Marquardt, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 113901 (2011) - Published 15 March, 2011

Topological Chaos and Periodic Braiding of Almost-Cyclic Sets

Mark A. Stremler, Shane D. Ross, Piyush Grover, and Pankaj Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 114101 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

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Viscous to Inertial Crossover in Liquid Drop Coalescence

Joseph D. Paulsen, Justin C. Burton, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 114501 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Anisotropy of Spatiotemporal Decorrelation in Electrohydrodynamic Turbulence

F. Carbone, L. Sorriso-Valvo, C. Versace, G. Strangi, and R. Bartolino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 114502 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Emittance-Exchange-Based High Harmonic Generation Scheme for a Short-Wavelength Free Electron Laser

B. Jiang, J. G. Power, R. Lindberg, W. Liu, and W. Gai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 114801 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Experimental Investigation of the Role of Fluid Turbulent Stresses and Edge Plasma Flows for Intrinsic Rotation Generation in DIII-D $H$ -Mode Plasmas

S. H. Müller, J. A. Boedo, K. H. Burrell, J. S. deGrassie, R. A. Moyer, D. L. Rudakov, and W. M. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115001 (2011) - Published 15 March, 2011

Microparticles in a Collisional Rf Plasma Sheath under Hypergravity Conditions as Probes for the Electric Field Strength and the Particle Charge

J. Beckers, T. Ockenga, M. Wolter, W. W. Stoffels, J. van Dijk, H. Kersten, and G. M. W. Kroesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115002 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Saturation of Gyrokinetic Turbulence through Damped Eigenmodes

D. R. Hatch, P. W. Terry, F. Jenko, F. Merz, and W. M. Nevins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115003 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Momentum Injection in Tokamak Plasmas and Transitions to Reduced Transport

F. I. Parra, M. Barnes, E. G. Highcock, A. A. Schekochihin, and S. C. Cowley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115004 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Probing the Dynamics of Spontaneous Quantum Vortices in Polariton Superfluids

K. G. Lagoudakis, F. Manni, B. Pietka, M. Wouters, T. C. H. Liew, V. Savona, A. V. Kavokin, R. André, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115301 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Phase-Sensitive Measurements of Order Parameters for Ultracold Atoms through Two-Particle Interferometry

Takuya Kitagawa, Alain Aspect, Markus Greiner, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115302 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Dispersive Bottleneck Delaying Thermalization of Turbulent Bose-Einstein Condensates

Giorgio Krstulovic and Marc Brachet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115303 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Hydrodynamic Expansion of a Strongly Interacting Fermi-Fermi Mixture

A. Trenkwalder, C. Kohstall, M. Zaccanti, D. Naik, A. I. Sidorov, F. Schreck, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115304 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Coherent Interaction of a Single Fermion with a Small Bosonic Field

Sebastian Will, Thorsten Best, Simon Braun, Ulrich Schneider, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115305 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

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New Light on Disordered Ensembles: Ab Initio Structure Determination of One Particle from Scattering Fluctuations of Many Copies

D. K. Saldin, H. C. Poon, M. J. Bogan, S. Marchesini, D. A. Shapiro, R. A. Kirian, U. Weierstall, and J. C. H. Spence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115501 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Anionic and Hidden Hydrogen in ZnO

Mao-Hua Du and Koushik Biswas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115502 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Explosive Percolation with Multiple Giant Components

Wei Chen and Raissa M. D’Souza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115701 (2011) - Published 15 March, 2011

Modifying Fragility and Collective Motion in Polymer Melts with Nanoparticles

Francis W. Starr and Jack F. Douglas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115702 (2011) - Published 15 March, 2011

Viscosity, Shear Waves, and Atomic-Level Stress-Stress Correlations

V. A. Levashov, J. R. Morris, and T. Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115703 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Phyllotactic Description of Hard Sphere Packing in Cylindrical Channels

A. Mughal, H. K. Chan, and D. Weaire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115704 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Renormalization Group Analysis of the Random First-Order Transition

Chiara Cammarota, Giulio Biroli, Marco Tarzia, and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115705 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

Mixturelike Behavior Near a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Simulations of Supercooled Water

Megan J. Cuthbertson and Peter H. Poole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115706 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory Meets Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: Real-Time Dynamics for the 3D Hubbard Model

Daniel Karlsson, Antonio Privitera, and Claudio Verdozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 116401 (2011) - Published 15 March, 2011

Breaking of Particle-Hole Symmetry by Landau Level Mixing in the $ν = 5 / 2$ Quantized Hall State

Edward H. Rezayi and Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 116801 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Metallic Transport in a Monatomic Layer of In on a Silicon Surface

Shiro Yamazaki, Yoshikazu Hosomura, Iwao Matsuda, Rei Hobara, Toyoaki Eguchi, Yukio Hasegawa, and Shuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 116802 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Spin and the Honeycomb Lattice: Lessons from Graphene

Matthew Mecklenburg and B. C. Regan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 116803 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Nonlinear Screening in Multilayer Graphene Systems

Marcelo A. Kuroda, J. Tersoff, and Glenn J. Martyna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 116804 (2011) - Published 17 March, 2011

Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Fermi Surfaces of Superconducting ${BaFe}_{2} ({As}_{1 - x} P_{x})_{2}$ and Their Nesting Properties Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

T. Yoshida, I. Nishi, S. Ideta, A. Fujimori, M. Kubota, K. Ono, S. Kasahara, T. Shibauchi, T. Terashima, Y. Matsuda, H. Ikeda, and R. Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117001 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

Magnetic and Quasiparticle Excitation Spectra of an Itinerant $J_{1} - J_{2}$ Model for Iron-Pnictide Superconductors

C. M. S. da Conceição, M. B. Silva Neto, and E. C. Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117002 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

Long-Lived Ultrafast Spin Precession in Manganese Alloys Films with a Large Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

S. Mizukami, F. Wu, A. Sakuma, J. Walowski, D. Watanabe, T. Kubota, X. Zhang, H. Naganuma, M. Oogane, Y. Ando, and T. Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117201 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Role of Spin-Flip Transitions in the Anomalous Hall Effect of FePt Alloy

Hongbin Zhang, Frank Freimuth, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Ivo Souza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117202 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011

Singlet-Triplet Excitations in the Unconventional Spin-Peierls TiOBr Compound

J. P. Clancy, B. D. Gaulin, C. P. Adams, G. E. Granroth, A. I. Kolesnikov, T. E. Sherline, and F. C. Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117401 (2011) - Published 18 March, 2011

Elastically Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance in Nickel Thin Films

M. Weiler, L. Dreher, C. Heeg, H. Huebl, R. Gross, M. S. Brandt, and S. T. B. Goennenwein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117601 (2011) - Published 14 March, 2011

Coexistence of Magnetism and Superconductivity in the Iron-Based Compound ${Cs}_{0.8} ({FeSe}_{0.98})_{2}$

Z. Shermadini, A. Krzton-Maziopa, M. Bendele, R. Khasanov, H. Luetkens, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, S. Weyeneth, V. Pomjakushin, O. Bossen, and A. Amato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 117602 (2011) - Published 16 March, 2011