Volume 106, Issue 17

29 April 2011

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Optical micrographs of a thermocapillary instability in molten nanofilms that creates arrays of cold-seeking protrusions. Top: Structured growth beneath a cooled cylindrical mesa before (left) and after contact (right). Bottom: Growth beneath a more distant cooled sapphire window at early (left) and late times (right).

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Experimental Verification of the Formation Mechanism for Pillar Arrays in Nanofilms Subject to Large Thermal Gradients
Euan McLeod, Yu Liu, and Sandra M. Troian
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175501 (2011)

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LETTERS

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Rydberg-Induced Solitons: Three-Dimensional Self-Trapping of Matter Waves

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 170401 (2011) - Published 26 April, 2011

Temperature Dependence of the Universal Contact Parameter in a Unitary Fermi Gas

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Fractionalization via $Z_{2}$ Gauge Fields at a Cold-Atom Quantum Hall Transition

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 170403 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Tuned Transition from Quantum to Classical for Macroscopic Quantum States

A. Fedorov, P. Macha, A. K. Feofanov, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 170404 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Complete Reconstruction of the Wave Function of a Reacting Molecule by Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 170405 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Quantum Simulation of Time-Dependent Hamiltonians and the Convenient Illusion of Hilbert Space

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 170501 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Extension of Loop Quantum Gravity to $f (R)$ Theories

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 171301 (2011) - Published 28 April, 2011

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Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Dark Matter with a Yukawa Potential

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Elementary Particles and Fields

New Massive Gravity and ${AdS}_{4}$ Counterterms

Dileep P. Jatkar and Aninda Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 171601 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

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Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a $W$ Boson in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the $H \to W W \to l ν q^{'} \bar{q}$ Decay Channel

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 171802 (2011) - Published 28 April, 2011

Dihadron Fragmentation Functions for Large Invariant Mass

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 172001 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

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

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 172002 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Phase Diagram and Critical End Point for Strongly Interacting Quarks

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 172301 (2011) - Published 28 April, 2011

Fusion Reactions with the One-Neutron Halo Nucleus ${}^{15}C$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 172701 (2011) - Published 28 April, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Tunnel Ionization of Molecules and Orbital Imaging

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Proposal for a Laser Control of Vibrational Cooling in ${Na}_{2}$ Using Resonance Coalescence

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 173002 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Laser Excitation of Positronium in the Paschen-Back Regime

D. B. Cassidy, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Wrapping an Adhesive Sphere with an Elastic Sheet

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Negative Effective Gravity in Water Waves by Periodic Resonator Arrays

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Compressible Turbulence: The Cascade and its Locality

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 174502 (2011) - Published 28 April, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Plastic Deformations in Complex Plasmas

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175001 (2011) - Published 25 April, 2011

Time Evolution of Collisionless Shock in Counterstreaming Laser-Produced Plasmas

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175002 (2011) - Published 26 April, 2011

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High Magnetic Shear Gain in a Liquid Sodium Stable Couette Flow Experiment: A Prelude to an $α - Ω$ Dynamo

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Turbulent Transport in Tokamak Plasmas with Rotational Shear

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175004 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

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Optical Flux Lattices for Ultracold Atomic Gases

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175301 (2011) - Published 25 April, 2011

Experimental Verification of the Formation Mechanism for Pillar Arrays in Nanofilms Subject to Large Thermal Gradients

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175501 (2011) - Published 25 April, 2011

Theory, Synthesis, and Oxygen Reduction Catalysis of Fe-Porphyrin-Like Carbon Nanotube

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175502 (2011) - Published 28 April, 2011

Minimal Integer Automaton behind Crystal Plasticity

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High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope Observation of Zero-Strain Deformation Twinning Mechanisms in Ag

L. Liu, J. Wang, S. K. Gong, and S. X. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175504 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Collective Hypersonic Excitations in Strongly Multiple Scattering Colloids

T. Still, G. Gantzounis, D. Kiefer, G. Hellmann, R. Sainidou, G. Fytas, and N. Stefanou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175505 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Numerical Evidence for Critical Behavior of the Two-Dimensional Nonequilibrium Zero-Temperature Random Field Ising Model

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Modeling Multiple Time Scales during Glass Formation with Phase-Field Crystals

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 175702 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

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Vacant-Site Octahedral Tilings on ${SrTiO}_{3}$ (001), the $(\sqrt{13} \times \sqrt{13}) R 33.7 °$ Surface, and Related Structures

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 176102 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

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Polariton Condensation in a One-Dimensional Disordered Potential

F. Manni, K. G. Lagoudakis, B. Pietka, L. Fontanesi, M. Wouters, V. Savona, R. André, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 176401 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

Evolution of the Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot Probed by Shot Noise

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Paddling Mode of Forward Flight in Insects

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Optimal Branching Asymmetry of Hydrodynamic Pulsatile Trees

Magali Florens, Bernard Sapoval, and Marcel Filoche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 178104 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 178701 (2011) - Published 25 April, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Effect of Intense, Ultrashort Laser Pulses on DNA Plasmids in Their Native State: Strand Breakages Induced by In Situ Electrons and Radicals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 118101 (2011)]

J. S. D’Souza, J. A. Dharmadhikari, A. K. Dharmadhikari, B. J. Rao, and D. Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 179901 (2011) - Published 26 April, 2011

Erratum: Workhorse Semilocal Density Functional for Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Chemistry [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026403 (2009)]

John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka, Lucian A. Constantin, and Jianwei Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 179902 (2011) - Published 29 April, 2011