Volume 106, Issue 12

25 March 2011

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On the Cover

Polarization-sensitive micro-optic structures produced inside fused silica substrates with femtosecond laser pulses. Bottom: A cross-polarized light view (left) of a 2D array of polarization imprints in bulk material (right).

From the article:

Revealing Local Field Structure of Focused Ultrashort Pulses
Cyril Hnatovsky, Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, and Andrei Rode
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123901 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Novel Test of Modified Newtonian Dynamics with Gas Rich Galaxies

Stacy S. McGaugh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121303 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Quantum Hall Effect from the Topological Surface States of Strained Bulk HgTe

C. Brüne, C. X. Liu, E. G. Novik, E. M. Hankiewicz, H. Buhmann, Y. L. Chen, X. L. Qi, Z. X. Shen, S. C. Zhang, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126803 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

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Generating Particlelike Scattering States in Wave Transport

Stefan Rotter, Philipp Ambichl, and Florian Libisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120602 (2011) - Published 25 March, 2011

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“Ridge” in Proton-Proton Scattering at 7 TeV

K. Werner, Iu. Karpenko, and T. Pierog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122004 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

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Mass Measurements of Very Neutron-Deficient Mo and Tc Isotopes and Their Impact on $r p$ Process Nucleosynthesis

E. Haettner et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122501 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Single-Layer Behavior and Its Breakdown in Twisted Graphene Layers

A. Luican, Guohong Li, A. Reina, J. Kong, R. R. Nair, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, and E. Y. Andrei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126802 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Faithful Entanglement Swapping Based on Sum-Frequency Generation

Nicolas Sangouard, Bruno Sanguinetti, Noé Curtz, Nicolas Gisin, Rob Thew, and Hugo Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120403 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

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Speed Dependence of Atomic Stick-Slip Friction in Optimally Matched Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Qunyang Li, Yalin Dong, Danny Perez, Ashlie Martini, and Robert W. Carpick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126101 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Magnetism and Disorder Effects on Muon Spin Rotation Measurements of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Iron-Arsenic Superconductors

J. E. Sonier, W. Huang, C. V. Kaiser, C. Cochrane, V. Pacradouni, S. A. Sabok-Sayr, M. D. Lumsden, B. C. Sales, M. A. McGuire, A. S. Sefat, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127002 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

LETTERS

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

Measurement-Induced Nonlocality

Shunlong Luo and Shuangshuang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120401 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Are there Traps in Quantum Control Landscapes?

Alexander N. Pechen and David J. Tannor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120402 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

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Faithful Entanglement Swapping Based on Sum-Frequency Generation

Nicolas Sangouard, Bruno Sanguinetti, Noé Curtz, Nicolas Gisin, Rob Thew, and Hugo Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120403 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations of Ultracold Atomic Gases

Nir Bar-Gill, Christian Gross, Igor Mazets, Markus Oberthaler, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120404 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement Strategies in Two-Well Bose-Einstein Condensates

Q. Y. He, M. D. Reid, T. G. Vaughan, C. Gross, M. Oberthaler, and P. D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120405 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Decoupling a Cooper-Pair Box to Enhance the Lifetime to 0.2 ms

Z. Kim, B. Suri, V. Zaretskey, S. Novikov, K. D. Osborn, A. Mizel, F. C. Wellstood, and B. S. Palmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120501 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Suppressed Compressibility at Large Scale in Jammed Packings of Size-Disperse Spheres

Ludovic Berthier, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Corentin Coulais, Olivier Dauchot, and Peter Sollich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120601 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Generating Particlelike Scattering States in Wave Transport

Stefan Rotter, Philipp Ambichl, and Florian Libisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120602 (2011) - Published 25 March, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Impact of a Global Quadratic Potential on Galactic Rotation Curves

Philip D. Mannheim and James G. O’Brien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121101 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Universal Area Product Formulas for Rotating and Charged Black Holes in Four and Higher Dimensions

M. Cvetič, G. W. Gibbons, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121301 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Chiral Vacuum Fluctuations in Quantum Gravity

João Magueijo and Dionigi M. T. Benincasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121302 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Novel Test of Modified Newtonian Dynamics with Gas Rich Galaxies

Stacy S. McGaugh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121303 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Backreaction during Inflation: A Physical Gauge Invariant Formulation

F. Finelli, G. Marozzi, G. P. Vacca, and G. Venturi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121304 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Primordial Beryllium as a Big Bang Calorimeter

Maxim Pospelov and Josef Pradler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121305 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Electron Star Birth: A Continuous Phase Transition at Nonzero Density

Sean A. Hartnoll and Pavel Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121601 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Search for High Mass Resonances Decaying to Muon Pairs in $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ $p \bar{p}$ Collisions

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121801 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ f_{0} (980)$ and Evidence for $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ f_{0} (1370)$

J. Li et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121802 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121803 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Measurement of $b$ Hadron Lifetimes in Exclusive Decays Containing a $J / ψ$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121804 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Dark Light-Higgs Bosons

Patrick Draper, Tao Liu, Carlos E. M. Wagner, Lian-Tao Wang, and Hao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 121805 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Precise Study of the $Z / γ^{*}$ Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions Using a Novel Technique

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122001 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Antiangular Ordering of Gluon Radiation in QCD Media

Yacine Mehtar-Tani, Carlos A. Salgado, and Konrad Tywoniuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122002 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122003 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

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“Ridge” in Proton-Proton Scattering at 7 TeV

K. Werner, Iu. Karpenko, and T. Pierog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122004 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Corrections in Neutrino-Nucleus Deep Inelastic Scattering and their Compatibility with Global Nuclear Parton-Distribution-Function Analyses

K. Kovařík, I. Schienbein, F. I. Olness, J. Y. Yu, C. Keppel, J. G. Morfín, J. F. Owens, and T. Stavreva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122301 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Kubo Formulas for Second-Order Hydrodynamic Coefficients

Guy D. Moore and Kiyoumars A. Sohrabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122302 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

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Mass Measurements of Very Neutron-Deficient Mo and Tc Isotopes and Their Impact on $r p$ Process Nucleosynthesis

E. Haettner et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122501 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Nuclear Excitation by a Zeptosecond Multi-MeV Laser Pulse

Hans A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 122502 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resonant Auger Decay of Molecules in Intense X-Ray Laser Fields: Light-Induced Strong Nonadiabatic Effects

Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Ying-Chih Chiang, Philipp V. Demekhin, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123001 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Noise and Controllability: Suppression of Controllability in Large Quantum Systems

M. Khasin and R. Kosloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123002 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Differential Cross Sections for Ionization of Laser-Aligned Atoms by Electron Impact

Kate L. Nixon and Andrew James Murray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123201 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Attosecond Electron Wave-Packet Interference Observed by Transient Absorption

M. Holler, F. Schapper, L. Gallmann, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123601 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Revealing Local Field Structure of Focused Ultrashort Pulses

Cyril Hnatovsky, Vladlen Shvedov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, and Andrei Rode

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123901 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Plasmonic Brewster Angle: Broadband Extraordinary Transmission through Optical Gratings

Andrea Alù, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, and Mark J. Bloemer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 123902 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Effect of Current Sheets on the Solar Wind Magnetic Field Power Spectrum from the Ulysses Observation: From Kraichnan to Kolmogorov Scaling

G. Li, B. Miao, Q. Hu, and G. Qin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125001 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Direct Observation of Current in Type-I Edge-Localized-Mode Filaments on the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak

N. Vianello, V. Naulin, R. Schrittwieser, H. W. Müller, M. Zuin, C. Ionita, J. J. Rasmussen, F. Mehlmann, V. Rohde, R. Cavazzana, and M. Maraschek (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125002 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Local Versus Global Equilibration near the Bosonic Mott-Insulator–Superfluid Transition

Stefan S. Natu, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, and Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125301 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Parametric Excitation of a 1D Gas in Integrable and Nonintegrable Cases

M. Colomé-Tatché and D. S. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125302 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Mechanism of Void Nucleation and Growth in bcc Fe: Atomistic Simulations at Experimental Time Scales

Yue Fan, Akihiro Kushima, Sidney Yip, and Bilge Yildiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125501 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Experimental Determination of Third-Order Elastic Constants of Diamond

J. M. Lang, Jr. and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125502 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

New Jamming Scenario: From Marginal Jamming to Deep Jamming

Cang Zhao, Kaiwen Tian, and Ning Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125503 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Characterization of Nanoscale Mechanical Heterogeneity in a Metallic Glass by Dynamic Force Microscopy

Y. H. Liu, D. Wang, K. Nakajima, W. Zhang, A. Hirata, T. Nishi, A. Inoue, and M. W. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125504 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Impact of the Liquid Phase Shape on the Structure of III-V Nanowires

Peter Krogstrup, Stefano Curiotto, Erik Johnson, Martin Aagesen, Jesper Nygård, and Dominique Chatain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125505 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Pressure-Induced Polyamorphism in Salty Water

L. E. Bove, S. Klotz, J. Philippe, and A. M. Saitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125701 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-Gas Spinodal Decomposition

Vincent Testard, Ludovic Berthier, and Walter Kob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125702 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Possible Link of the $V$ -Shaped Phase Diagram to the Glass-Forming Ability and Fragility in a Water-Salt Mixture

Mika Kobayashi and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 125703 (2011) - Published 25 March, 2011

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Speed Dependence of Atomic Stick-Slip Friction in Optimally Matched Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Qunyang Li, Yalin Dong, Danny Perez, Ashlie Martini, and Robert W. Carpick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126101 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Probing the Out-of-Plane Distortion of Single Point Defects in Atomically Thin Hexagonal Boron Nitride at the Picometer Scale

Nasim Alem, Oleg V. Yazyev, Christian Kisielowski, P. Denes, Ulrich Dahmen, Peter Hartel, Maximilian Haider, Maarten Bischoff, Bin Jiang, Steven G. Louie, and A. Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126102 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interactions in Confined Polariton Condensates

Lydie Ferrier, Esther Wertz, Robert Johne, Dmitry D. Solnyshkov, Pascale Senellart, Isabelle Sagnes, Aristide Lemaître, Guillaume Malpuech, and Jacqueline Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126401 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Remote Dipolar Interactions for Objective Density Calibration and Flow Control of Excitonic Fluids

Kobi Cohen, Ronen Rapaport, and Paulo V. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126402 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Topological Magnetic Insulators with Corundum Structure

Jing Wang, Rundong Li, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Xiao-Liang Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126403 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect Induced by Iridium Impurities in Copper

Y. Niimi, M. Morota, D. H. Wei, C. Deranlot, M. Basletic, A. Hamzic, A. Fert, and Y. Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126601 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Interplay of the Kondo Effect and Spin-Polarized Transport in Magnetic Molecules, Adatoms, and Quantum Dots

Maciej Misiorny, Ireneusz Weymann, and Józef Barnaś

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126602 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Tunable Nonadiabatic Excitation in a Single-Electron Quantum Dot

M. Kataoka, J. D. Fletcher, P. See, S. P. Giblin, T. J. B. M. Janssen, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126801 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Single-Layer Behavior and Its Breakdown in Twisted Graphene Layers

A. Luican, Guohong Li, A. Reina, J. Kong, R. R. Nair, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, and E. Y. Andrei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126802 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Quantum Hall Effect from the Topological Surface States of Strained Bulk HgTe

C. Brüne, C. X. Liu, E. G. Novik, E. M. Hankiewicz, H. Buhmann, Y. L. Chen, X. L. Qi, Z. X. Shen, S. C. Zhang, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126803 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Model for Dissipative Conductance in Fractional Quantum Hall States

N. d’Ambrumenil, B. I. Halperin, and R. H. Morf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126804 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Effect of a Local Perturbation in a Fermionic Ladder

Sam T. Carr, Boris N. Narozhny, and Alexander A. Nersesyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126805 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Search for Majorana Fermions in Multiband Semiconducting Nanowires

Roman M. Lutchyn, Tudor D. Stanescu, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127001 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

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Magnetism and Disorder Effects on Muon Spin Rotation Measurements of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Iron-Arsenic Superconductors

J. E. Sonier, W. Huang, C. V. Kaiser, C. Cochrane, V. Pacradouni, S. A. Sabok-Sayr, M. D. Lumsden, B. C. Sales, M. A. McGuire, A. S. Sefat, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127002 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Magnetic-Field-Tuned Quantum Phase Transition in the Insulating Regime of Ultrathin Amorphous Bi Films

Yen-Hsiang Lin and A. M. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127003 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Bulk Superconducting Phase with a Full Energy Gap in the Doped Topological Insulator ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

M. Kriener, Kouji Segawa, Zhi Ren, Satoshi Sasaki, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127004 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Structural Origin of Apparent Fermi Surface Pockets in Angle-Resolved Photoemission of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$

P. D. C. King, J. A. Rosen, W. Meevasana, A. Tamai, E. Rozbicki, R. Comin, G. Levy, D. Fournier, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, K. M. Shen, N. J. C. Ingle, A. Damascelli, and F. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127005 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Elementary Excitations at Magnetic Surfaces and Their Spin Dependence

Y. Zhang, P. A. Ignatiev, J. Prokop, I. Tudosa, T. R. F. Peixoto, W. X. Tang, Kh. Zakeri, V. S. Stepanyuk, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127201 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Linearized Tensor Renormalization Group Algorithm for the Calculation of Thermodynamic Properties of Quantum Lattice Models

Wei Li, Shi-Ju Ran, Shou-Shu Gong, Yang Zhao, Bin Xi, Fei Ye, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127202 (2011) - Published 22 March, 2011

Fractional Spin Textures in the Frustrated Magnet ${SrCr}_{9 p} {Ga}_{12 - 9 p} O_{19}$

Arnab Sen, Kedar Damle, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127203 (2011) - Published 23 March, 2011

Hot-Electron-Driven Enhancement of Spin-Lattice Coupling in Gd and Tb $4 f$ Ferromagnets Observed by Femtosecond X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

Marko Wietstruk, Alexey Melnikov, Christian Stamm, Torsten Kachel, Niko Pontius, Muhammad Sultan, Cornelius Gahl, Martin Weinelt, Hermann A. Dürr, and Uwe Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 127401 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Fermi-Bose Mixtures near Broad Interspecies Feshbach Resonances”

J. Dukelsky, C. Esebbag, P. Schuck, and T. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 129601 (2011) - Published 21 March, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Phyllotactic Description of Hard Sphere Packing in Cylindrical Channels [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115704 (2011)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 129904 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Erratum: Nonsequential Two-Photon Double Ionization of Atoms: Identifying the Mechanism [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163001 (2010)]

Morten Førre, Sølve Selstø, and Raymond Nepstad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 129905 (2011) - Published 24 March, 2011

Volume 106, Issue 12

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

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