Volume 106, Issue 20

20 May 2011

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A photonic crystal defect cavity (middle) sustains coupled localized optical (top) and mechanical (bottom) modes.

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Optomechanical Coupling in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Defect Cavity
E. Gavartin, R. Braive, I. Sagnes, O. Arcizet, A. Beveratos, T. J. Kippenberg, and I. Robert-Philip
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203902 (2011)

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Cosmic-Ray Electron Flux Measured by the PAMELA Experiment between 1 and 625 GeV

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201101 (2011) - Published 19 May, 2011

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Optical Beam Steering Based on the Symmetry of Resonant Modes of Nanoparticles

Junjie Du, Zhifang Lin, S. T. Chui, Wanli Lu, Hao Li, Aimin Wu, Zhen Sheng, Jian Zi, Xi Wang, Shichang Zou, and Fuwan Gan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203903 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

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Scratching as a Fracture Process: From Butter to Steel

A-T. Akono, P. M. Reis, and F-J. Ulm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 204302 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

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Quantum Degenerate Mixtures of Alkali and Alkaline-Earth-Like Atoms

Hideaki Hara, Yosuke Takasu, Yoshifumi Yamaoka, John M. Doyle, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205304 (2011) - Published 19 May, 2011

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InN Thin Film Lattice Dynamics by Grazing Incidence Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

J. Serrano, A. Bosak, M. Krisch, F. J. Manjón, A. H. Romero, N. Garro, X. Wang, A. Yoshikawa, and M. Kuball

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205501 (2011) - Published 19 May, 2011

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Undulatory Swimming in Viscoelastic Fluids

X. N. Shen and P. E. Arratia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 208101 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

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Collective Modes and the Periodicity of Quantum Hall Stripes

I. V. Kukushkin, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, and J. H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206804 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

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Impact of Disorder on the $5 / 2$ Fractional Quantum Hall State

W. Pan, N. Masuhara, N. S. Sullivan, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, and D. C. Tsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206806 (2011) - Published 18 May, 2011

LETTERS

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

$H = x p$ Model Revisited and the Riemann Zeros

Germán Sierra and Javier Rodríguez-Laguna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200201 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Detecting Quantum States with a Positive Wigner Function beyond Mixtures of Gaussian States

Radim Filip and Ladislav Mišta, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200401 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Hardy’s Paradox and Violation of a State-Independent Bell Inequality in Time

Alessandro Fedrizzi, Marcelo P. Almeida, Matthew A. Broome, Andrew G. White, and Marco Barbieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200402 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Reappraisal of the Electric Dipole Moment Enhancement Factor for Thallium

H. S. Nataraj, B. K. Sahoo, B. P. Das, and D. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200403 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Slow Quench Dynamics of a One-Dimensional Bose Gas Confined to an Optical Lattice

Jean-Sébastien Bernier, Guillaume Roux, and Corinna Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200601 (2011) - Published 18 May, 2011

Heat Fluctuations in a Nonequilibrium Bath

J. R. Gomez-Solano, A. Petrosyan, and S. Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200602 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Core-Halo Distribution in the Hamiltonian Mean-Field Model

Renato Pakter and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 200603 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Cosmic-Ray Electron Flux Measured by the PAMELA Experiment between 1 and 625 GeV

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201101 (2011) - Published 19 May, 2011

Galilean-Invariant Scalar Fields Can Strengthen Gravitational Lensing

Mark Wyman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201102 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Gravitational Wave Emission from the Single-Degenerate Channel of Type Ia Supernovae

David Falta, Robert Fisher, and Gaurav Khanna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201103 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Long, Cold, Early $r$ Process? Neutrino-Induced Nucleosynthesis in He Shells Revisited

Projjwal Banerjee, W. C. Haxton, and Yong-Zhong Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201104 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Entanglement of Low-Energy Excitations in Conformal Field Theory

Francisco Castilho Alcaraz, Miguel Ibáñez Berganza, and Germán Sierra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201601 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Top Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry and Same-Sign Top Quark Pairs

Edmond L. Berger, Qing-Hong Cao, Chuan-Ren Chen, Chong Sheng Li, and Hao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201801 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Search for Pair Production of First-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201802 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Search for Pair Production of Second-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201803 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions and Search for Quark Compositeness in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 201804 (2011) - Published 18 May, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Structural Evolution in the Neutron-Rich Nuclei ${}^{106}{Zr}$ and ${}^{108}{Zr}$

T. Sumikama et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 202501 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Origin of the Anomalous Long Lifetime of ${}^{14}C$

P. Maris, J. P. Vary, P. Navrátil, W. E. Ormand, H. Nam, and D. J. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 202502 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Classical Dynamics of Laser-Driven $D_{3}^{+}$

Erik Lötstedt, Tsuyoshi Kato, and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203001 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Nuclear Spin Effect on Recombination of $H_{3}^{+}$ Ions with Electrons at 77 K

J. Varju, M. Hejduk, P. Dohnal, M. Jílek, T. Kotrík, R. Plašil, D. Gerlich, and J. Glosík

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203201 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Cavity-Controlled Collective Scattering at the Recoil Limit

Simone Bux, Christine Gnahm, Reinhardt A. W. Maier, Claus Zimmermann, and Philippe W. Courteille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203601 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Bright Spatially Coherent Wavelength-Tunable Deep-UV Laser Source Using an Ar-Filled Photonic Crystal Fiber

N. Y. Joly, J. Nold, W. Chang, P. Hölzer, A. Nazarkin, G. K. L. Wong, F. Biancalana, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203901 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Optomechanical Coupling in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Defect Cavity

E. Gavartin, R. Braive, I. Sagnes, O. Arcizet, A. Beveratos, T. J. Kippenberg, and I. Robert-Philip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203902 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

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Optical Beam Steering Based on the Symmetry of Resonant Modes of Nanoparticles

Junjie Du, Zhifang Lin, S. T. Chui, Wanli Lu, Hao Li, Aimin Wu, Zhen Sheng, Jian Zi, Xi Wang, Shichang Zou, and Fuwan Gan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 203903 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Stiffness of Contacts between Rough Surfaces

Sreekanth Akarapu, Tristan Sharp, and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 204301 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

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Scratching as a Fracture Process: From Butter to Steel

A-T. Akono, P. M. Reis, and F-J. Ulm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 204302 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Diffusive Transport by Thermal Velocity Fluctuations

Aleksandar Donev, John B. Bell, Anton de la Fuente, and Alejandro L. Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 204501 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Rogue Wave Observation in a Water Wave Tank

A. Chabchoub, N. P. Hoffmann, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 204502 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Conformal Invariance in Three-Dimensional Rotating Turbulence

S. Thalabard, D. Rosenberg, A. Pouquet, and P. D. Mininni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 204503 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Freezing and Melting of 3D Complex Plasma Structures under Microgravity Conditions Driven by Neutral Gas Pressure Manipulation

S. A. Khrapak, B. A. Klumov, P. Huber, V. I. Molotkov, A. M. Lipaev, V. N. Naumkin, H. M. Thomas, A. V. Ivlev, G. E. Morfill, O. F. Petrov, V. E. Fortov, Yu. Malentschenko, and S. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205001 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Suppression of the Ablation Phase in Wire Array Z Pinches Using a Tailored Current Prepulse

A. J. Harvey-Thompson, S. V. Lebedev, G. Burdiak, E. M. Waisman, G. N. Hall, F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. N. Bland, J. P. Chittenden, P. De Grouchy, E. Khoory, L. Pickworth, J. Skidmore, and G. Swadling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205002 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spectroscopy for Cold Atom Gases in Periodically Phase-Modulated Optical Lattices

Akiyuki Tokuno and Thierry Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205301 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Momentum Distribution and Contact of the Unitary Fermi Gas

Joaquín E. Drut, Timo A. Lähde, and Timour Ten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205302 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Detecting the Amplitude Mode of Strongly Interacting Lattice Bosons by Bragg Scattering

Ulf Bissbort, Sören Götze, Yongqiang Li, Jannes Heinze, Jasper S. Krauser, Malte Weinberg, Christoph Becker, Klaus Sengstock, and Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205303 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

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Quantum Degenerate Mixtures of Alkali and Alkaline-Earth-Like Atoms

Hideaki Hara, Yosuke Takasu, Yoshifumi Yamaoka, John M. Doyle, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205304 (2011) - Published 19 May, 2011

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InN Thin Film Lattice Dynamics by Grazing Incidence Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

J. Serrano, A. Bosak, M. Krisch, F. J. Manjón, A. H. Romero, N. Garro, X. Wang, A. Yoshikawa, and M. Kuball

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205501 (2011) - Published 19 May, 2011

Flow Transition within an Evaporating Binary Mixture Sessile Drop

John R. E. Christy, Yoshinori Hamamoto, and Khellil Sefiane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 205701 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Atomically Resolved Images of $I_{h}$ Ice Single Crystals in the Solid Phase

Keita Kobayashi, Masanori Koshino, and Kazu Suenaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206101 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Expansion Dynamics in the One-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Model

J. Kajala, F. Massel, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206401 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

First-Principles Investigation of Low Energy $E^{'}$ Center Precursors in Amorphous Silica

Nathan L. Anderson, Ravi Pramod Vedula, Peter A. Schultz, R. M. Van Ginhoven, and Alejandro Strachan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206402 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Finite Temperature Formalism for Composite Quantum Particles

Monique Combescot, Shiue-Yuan Shiau, and Yia-Chung Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206403 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

Optical Traps for Dark Excitons

Monique Combescot, Michael G. Moore, and Carlo Piermarocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206404 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Nanodopant-Induced Band Modulation in ${AgPb}_{m} {SbTe}_{2 + m}$ -Type Thermoelectrics

Yi Zhang, Xuezhi Ke, Changfeng Chen, Jihui Yang, and Paul R. C. Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206601 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Spin-to-Charge Conversion of Mesoscopic Spin Currents

Peter Stano and Philippe Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206602 (2011) - Published 20 May, 2011

Transport Spectroscopy of an Impurity Spin in a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot

S. J. Chorley, G. Giavaras, J. Wabnig, G. A. C. Jones, C. G. Smith, G. A. D. Briggs, and M. R. Buitelaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206801 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Helical Quantum States in HgTe Quantum Dots with Inverted Band Structures

Kai Chang and Wen-Kai Lou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206802 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Resolving Band-Structure Evolution and Defect-Induced States of Single Conjugated Oligomers by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Tight-Binding Calculations

Shiyong Wang, Weihua Wang, and Nian Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206803 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

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Collective Modes and the Periodicity of Quantum Hall Stripes

I. V. Kukushkin, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, and J. H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206804 (2011) - Published 16 May, 2011

Direct Observation of Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry on the Surface of a Magnetically Doped Topological Insulator

Yoshinori Okada, Chetan Dhital, Wenwen Zhou, Erik D. Huemiller, Hsin Lin, S. Basak, A. Bansil, Y.-B. Huang, H. Ding, Z. Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, and V. Madhavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 206805 (2011) - Published 17 May, 2011

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