Volume 106, Issue 14

8 April 2011

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Schematic diagram of a molecular motor controlled by interadsorbate interaction.

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Control of Molecular Rotors by Selection of Anchoring Sites
Hyo Won Kim, M. Han, H.-J. Shin, S. Lim, Y. Oh, K. Tamada, M. Hara, Y. Kim, M. Kawai, and Young Kuk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146101 (2011)

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Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141101 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

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Macrospin Tunneling and Magnetopolaritons with Nanomechanical Interference

Alexey A. Kovalev, Lorien X. Hayden, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147203 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

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Jamming and Flow of Random-Close-Packed Spherical Bubbles: An Analogy with Granular Materials

Rémi Lespiat, Sylvie Cohen-Addad, and Reinhard Höhler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 148302 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

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Single-Shot Detection of Electrons Generated by Individual Photons in a Tunable Lateral Quantum Dot

A. Pioda, E. Totoki, H. Kiyama, T. Fujita, G. Allison, T. Asayama, A. Oiwa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146804 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

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Young’s Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures

F. Intonti, F. Riboli, N. Caselli, M. Abbarchi, S. Vignolini, D. S. Wiersma, A. Vinattieri, D. Gerace, L. Balet, L. H. Li, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, A. Fiore, and M. Gurioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143901 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

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Contour Instabilities in Early Tumor Growth Models

M. Ben Amar, C. Chatelain, and P. Ciarletta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 148101 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

LETTERS

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

Experimental Demonstration of a Controllable Electrostatic Molecular Beam Splitter

Lianzhong Deng, Yan Liang, Zhenxing Gu, Shunyong Hou, Shengqiang Li, Yong Xia, and Jianping Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140401 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Phase Diagram of Two-Dimensional Polar Condensates in a Magnetic Field

A. J. A. James and A. Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140402 (2011) - Published 6 April, 2011

How to Observe Dipolar Effects in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Krzysztof Gawryluk, Kai Bongs, and Mirosław Brewczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140403 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Optimal Control of Open Quantum Systems Applied to the Photochemistry of Surfaces

Erik Asplund and Thorsten Klüner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140404 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Generalized Thermalization in an Integrable Lattice System

Amy C. Cassidy, Charles W. Clark, and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140405 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Nonperturbative Entangling Gates between Distant Qubits Using Uniform Cold Atom Chains

Leonardo Banchi, Abolfazl Bayat, Paola Verrucchi, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140501 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Environment-Assisted Precision Measurement

G. Goldstein, P. Cappellaro, J. R. Maze, J. S. Hodges, L. Jiang, A. S. Sørensen, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140502 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Nonlinear Relativistic and Quantum Equations with a Common Type of Solution

F. D. Nobre, M. A. Rego-Monteiro, and C. Tsallis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140601 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Time Transformation for Random Walks in the Quenched Trap Model

S. Burov and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 140602 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141101 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Holography and Entanglement in Flat Spacetime

Wei Li (李微) and Tadashi Takayanagi (高柳匡)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141301 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Local Observation in Eternal Inflation

James Hartle, S. W. Hawking, and Thomas Hertog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141302 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Long-Distance Dominance of the $C P$ Asymmetry in $\bar{B} \to X_{s, d} γ$ Decays

Michael Benzke, Seung J. Lee, Matthias Neubert, and Gil Paz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141801 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Scale Invariant Extension of the Standard Model with a Strongly Interacting Hidden Sector

Taeil Hur and P. Ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141802 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Search for Heavy Bottomlike Quarks Decaying to an Electron or Muon and Jets in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141803 (2011) - Published 6 April, 2011

Next-to-Leading QCD Effect on the Quark Compositeness Search at the LHC

Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li, Jian Wang, Hua Xing Zhu, and C.-P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 142001 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Improved Geometrical Scaling at the LHC

Michal Praszalowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 142002 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Spontaneous Electromagnetic Superconductivity of Vacuum in a Strong Magnetic Field: Evidence from the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model

M. N. Chernodub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 142003 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Pattern Formation with Trapped Ions

Tony E. Lee and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143001 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Probing Single-Photon Ionization on the Attosecond Time Scale

K. Klünder, J. M. Dahlström, M. Gisselbrecht, T. Fordell, M. Swoboda, D. Guénot, P. Johnsson, J. Caillat, J. Mauritsson, A. Maquet, R. Taïeb, and A. L’Huillier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143002 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Measurement of an Efimov Trimer Binding Energy in a Three-Component Mixture of ${}^{6}{Li}$

Shuta Nakajima, Munekazu Horikoshi, Takashi Mukaiyama, Pascal Naidon, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143201 (2011) - Published 6 April, 2011

Stroboscopic Backaction Evasion in a Dense Alkali-Metal Vapor

G. Vasilakis, V. Shah, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143601 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Young’s Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures

F. Intonti, F. Riboli, N. Caselli, M. Abbarchi, S. Vignolini, D. S. Wiersma, A. Vinattieri, D. Gerace, L. Balet, L. H. Li, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, A. Fiore, and M. Gurioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143901 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Ultrafast Dephasing of Light in Strongly Scattering GaP Nanowires

Martina Abb, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, and Otto L. Muskens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143902 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Highly Tunable Low-Threshold Optical Parametric Oscillation in Radially Poled Whispering Gallery Resonators

T. Beckmann, H. Linnenbank, H. Steigerwald, B. Sturman, D. Haertle, K. Buse, and I. Breunig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 143903 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Simulations of Coulombic Fission of Charged Inviscid Drops

J. C. Burton and P. Taborek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 144501 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser with an Energy-Chirped Electron Beam and Undulator Tapering

L. Giannessi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 144801 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Centrifugal Separation and Equilibration Dynamics in an Electron-Antiproton Plasma

G. B. Andresen et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145001 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Ab Initio Simulations of Dense Helium Plasmas

Cong Wang, Xian-Tu He, and Ping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145002 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Exact Time-Dependent Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Solutions in Compressible Magnetized Plasmas Exhibiting Collapse

Nikhil Chakrabarti, Chandan Maity, and Hans Schamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145003 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pauli Blocking Effect on Efimov States near a Feshbach Resonance

David James MacNeill and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145301 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Probing Nearest-Neighbor Correlations of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice

Daniel Greif, Leticia Tarruell, Thomas Uehlinger, Robert Jördens, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145302 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Substitutional Alloy of Bi and Te at High Pressure

Li Zhu, Hui Wang, Yanchao Wang, Jian Lv, Yanmei Ma, Qiliang Cui, Yanming Ma, and Guangtian Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145501 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Controlling the Bonding and Band Gaps of Solid Carbon Monoxide with Pressure

Jian Sun, Dennis D. Klug, Chris J. Pickard, and Richard J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145502 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Large Decrease of Fluctuations for Supercooled Water in Hydrophobic Nanoconfinement

Elena G. Strekalova, Marco G. Mazza, H. Eugene Stanley, and Giancarlo Franzese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 145701 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Control of Molecular Rotors by Selection of Anchoring Sites

Hyo Won Kim, M. Han, H.-J. Shin, S. Lim, Y. Oh, K. Tamada, M. Hara, Y. Kim, M. Kawai, and Young Kuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146101 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Incoherent Behavior in the Ground State of Strongly Correlated Systems

Adrian E. Feiguin and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146401 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Antiferromagnetic Order in Multiband Hubbard Models for Iron Pnictides

T. Schickling, F. Gebhard, and J. Bünemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146402 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Sequential Spin Polarization of the Fermi Surface Pockets in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ and Its Implications for the Hidden Order

M. M. Altarawneh, N. Harrison, S. E. Sebastian, L. Balicas, P. H. Tobash, J. D. Thompson, F. Ronning, and E. D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146403 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Optically Erasing Disorder in Semiconductor Microcavities with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

T. C. H. Liew and V. Savona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146404 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Weak Localization in Mesoscopic Hole Transport: Berry Phases and Classical Correlations

Viktor Krueckl, Michael Wimmer, İnanç Adagideli, Jack Kuipers, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146801 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Gate-Voltage Control of Oxygen Diffusion on Graphene

Alejandro M. Suarez, Ljubisa R. Radovic, Ezra Bar-Ziv, and Jorge O. Sofo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146802 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

Nonlocal Screening of Plasmons in Graphene by Semiconducting and Metallic Substrates: First-Principles Calculations

Jun Yan, Kristian S. Thygesen, and Karsten W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146803 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

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Single-Shot Detection of Electrons Generated by Individual Photons in a Tunable Lateral Quantum Dot

A. Pioda, E. Totoki, H. Kiyama, T. Fujita, G. Allison, T. Asayama, A. Oiwa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 146804 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011

Collective Modes in the Loop Ordered Phase of Cuprate Superconductors

Yan He and C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147001 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Confinement-Deconfinement Interplay in Quantum Phases of Doped Mott Insulators

Peng Ye, Chu-Shun Tian, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Zheng-Yu Weng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147002 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Metastable $π$ Junction between an $s_{\pm}$ -Wave and an $s$ -Wave Superconductor

E. Berg, N. H. Lindner, and T. Pereg-Barnea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147003 (2011) - Published 7 April, 2011

Edge-Soliton-Mediated Vortex-Core Reversal Dynamics

Ki-Suk Lee, Myoung-Woo Yoo, Youn-Seok Choi, and Sang-Koog Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147201 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Exact Crossover Green Function in the Two-Channel and Two-Impurity Kondo Models

Eran Sela, Andrew K. Mitchell, and Lars Fritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147202 (2011) - Published 5 April, 2011

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Macrospin Tunneling and Magnetopolaritons with Nanomechanical Interference

Alexey A. Kovalev, Lorien X. Hayden, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147203 (2011) - Published 4 April, 2011

Spin Liquid State in the $S = 1 / 2$ Triangular Lattice ${Ba}_{3} {CuSb}_{2} O_{9}$

H. D. Zhou, E. S. Choi, G. Li, L. Balicas, C. R. Wiebe, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, and J. S. Gardner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147204 (2011) - Published 6 April, 2011

Electronic and Magnetic Reconstructions in ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterostructures: A Case of Enhanced Interlayer Coupling Controlled by the Interface

F. Y. Bruno, J. Garcia-Barriocanal, M. Varela, N. M. Nemes, P. Thakur, J. C. Cezar, N. B. Brookes, A. Rivera-Calzada, M. Garcia-Hernandez, C. Leon, S. Okamoto, S. J. Pennycook, and J. Santamaria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 147205 (2011) - Published 8 April, 2011