Volume 106, Issue 22

3 June 2011

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Hierarchical pattern of folds for a long, suspended curtain made of a thin sheet of rubber. Selected for an Editor’s Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Wrinkling Hierarchy in Constrained Thin Sheets from Suspended Graphene to Curtains
Hugues Vandeparre, Miguel Piñeirua, Fabian Brau, Benoit Roman, José Bico, Cyprien Gay, Wenzhong Bao, Chun Ning Lau, Pedro M. Reis, and Pascal Damman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224301 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Gravity Probe B: Final Results of a Space Experiment to Test General Relativity

C. W. F. Everitt et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221101 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

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Wigner Crystals of ${}^{229}{Th}$ for Optical Excitation of the Nuclear Isomer

C. J. Campbell, A. G. Radnaev, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 223001 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

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Wrinkling Hierarchy in Constrained Thin Sheets from Suspended Graphene to Curtains

Hugues Vandeparre, Miguel Piñeirua, Fabian Brau, Benoit Roman, José Bico, Cyprien Gay, Wenzhong Bao, Chun Ning Lau, Pedro M. Reis, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224301 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

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Equivalence of the Boson Peak in Glasses to the Transverse Acoustic van Hove Singularity in Crystals

A. I. Chumakov, G. Monaco, A. Monaco, W. A. Crichton, A. Bosak, R. Rüffer, A. Meyer, F. Kargl, L. Comez, D. Fioretto, H. Giefers, S. Roitsch, G. Wortmann, M. H. Manghnani, A. Hushur, Q. Williams, J. Balogh, K. Parliński, P. Jochym, and P. Piekarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225501 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

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Holographic Josephson Junctions

Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, and Benson Way

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221601 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

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Explosive Percolation is Continuous, but with Unusual Finite Size Behavior

Peter Grassberger, Claire Christensen, Golnoosh Bizhani, Seung-Woo Son, and Maya Paczuski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225701 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

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Optical Detection of Spin Transport in Nonmagnetic Metals

F. Fohr, S. Kaltenborn, J. Hamrle, H. Schultheiß, A. A. Serga, H. C. Schneider, B. Hillebrands, Y. Fukuma, L. Wang, and Y. Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226601 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

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Propagation of Spin Information at the Supramolecular Scale through Heteroaromatic Linkers

V. Bellini, G. Lorusso, A. Candini, W. Wernsdorfer, T. B. Faust, G. A. Timco, R. E. P. Winpenny, and M. Affronte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 227205 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

LETTERS

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

Quantification of Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions within Phase Space

Chang-Woo Lee and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220401 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Majorana Fermions in Equilibrium and in Driven Cold-Atom Quantum Wires

Liang Jiang, Takuya Kitagawa, Jason Alicea, A. R. Akhmerov, David Pekker, Gil Refael, J. Ignacio Cirac, Eugene Demler, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220402 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

All Nonclassical Correlations Can Be Activated into Distillable Entanglement

Marco Piani, Sevag Gharibian, Gerardo Adesso, John Calsamiglia, Paweł Horodecki, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220403 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

Fully Distrustful Quantum Bit Commitment and Coin Flipping

J. Silman, A. Chailloux, N. Aharon, I. Kerenidis, S. Pironio, and S. Massar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220501 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Quantum State Tomography of an Itinerant Squeezed Microwave Field

F. Mallet, M. A. Castellanos-Beltran, H. S. Ku, S. Glancy, E. Knill, K. D. Irwin, G. C. Hilton, L. R. Vale, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220502 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Experimental State Tomography of Itinerant Single Microwave Photons

C. Eichler, D. Bozyigit, C. Lang, L. Steffen, J. Fink, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220503 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Spin Transport in a One-Dimensional Anisotropic Heisenberg Model

Marko Žnidarič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220601 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Collision-Number Statistics for Transport Processes

A. Zoia, E. Dumonteil, and A. Mazzolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220602 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gravity Probe B: Final Results of a Space Experiment to Test General Relativity

C. W. F. Everitt et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221101 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Reduced Basis Catalogs for Gravitational Wave Templates

Scott E. Field, Chad R. Galley, Frank Herrmann, Jan S. Hesthaven, Evan Ochsner, and Manuel Tiglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221102 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

A New Tolman Test of a Cosmic Distance Duality Relation at 21 cm

Satej Khedekar and Sayan Chakraborti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221301 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Holographic Josephson Junctions

Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, and Benson Way

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 221601 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

QCD Phase Diagram According to the Center Group

Ydalia Delgado Mercado, Hans Gerd Evertz, and Christof Gattringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 222001 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Model-Independent Calculation of Radiative Neutron Capture on Lithium-7

Gautam Rupak and Renato Higa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 222501 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group For Nuclei

K. Tsukiyama, S. K. Bogner, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 222502 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Wigner Crystals of ${}^{229}{Th}$ for Optical Excitation of the Nuclear Isomer

C. J. Campbell, A. G. Radnaev, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 223001 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Quantum Optomechanics of a Bose-Einstein Antiferromagnet

H. Jing, D. S. Goldbaum, L. Buchmann, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 223601 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Synchronized Cluster Formation in Coupled Laser Networks

Micha Nixon, Moti Friedman, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson, and Ido Kanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 223901 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Transverse Electromagnetic Modes in Aperture Waveguides Containing a Metamaterial with Extreme Anisotropy

Peter B. Catrysse and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 223902 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Photonic Band Gaps in One-Dimensionally Ordered Cold Atomic Vapors

Alexander Schilke, Claus Zimmermann, Philippe W. Courteille, and William Guerin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 223903 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

Multistable Attractors in a Network of Phase Oscillators with Three-Body Interactions

Takuma Tanaka and Toshio Aoyagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224101 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

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Wrinkling Hierarchy in Constrained Thin Sheets from Suspended Graphene to Curtains

Hugues Vandeparre, Miguel Piñeirua, Fabian Brau, Benoit Roman, José Bico, Cyprien Gay, Wenzhong Bao, Chun Ning Lau, Pedro M. Reis, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224301 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Vortex Stretching as a Mechanism for Quantum Kinetic Energy Decay

Robert M. Kerr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224501 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Magnetic Control of Particle Injection in Plasma Based Accelerators

J. Vieira, S. F. Martins, V. B. Pathak, R. A. Fonseca, W. B. Mori, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225001 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Observation of Peak Neoclassical Toroidal Viscous Force in the DIII-D Tokamak

A. J. Cole, J. D. Callen, W. M. Solomon, A. M. Garofalo, C. C. Hegna, M. J. Lanctot, and H. Reimerdes (the DIII-D Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225002 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Ballistic Focusing of Polyenergetic Protons Driven by Petawatt Laser Pulses

S. Kar, K. Markey, M. Borghesi, D. C Carroll, P. McKenna, D. Neely, M. N. Quinn, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225003 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

First Observation of Edge Localized Modes Mitigation with Resonant and Nonresonant Magnetic Perturbations in ASDEX Upgrade

W. Suttrop, T. Eich, J. C. Fuchs, S. Günter, A. Janzer, A. Herrmann, A. Kallenbach, P. T. Lang, T. Lunt, M. Maraschek, R. M. McDermott, A. Mlynek, T. Pütterich, M. Rott, T. Vierle, E. Wolfrum, Q. Yu, I. Zammuto, and H. Zohm (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225004 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Measurement of the Ionization State and Electron Temperature of Plasma during the Ablation Stage of a Wire-Array Z Pinch Using Absorption Spectroscopy

V. V. Ivanov, P. Hakel, R. C. Mancini, J. P. Chittenden, A. Anderson, T. Durmaz, P. Wiewior, D. Papp, S. D. Altemara, A. L. Astanovitskiy, and O. Chalyy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225005 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Ion Velocity Distribution Function Investigated Inside an Unstable Magnetized Plasma Exhibiting a Rotating Nonlinear Structure

C. Rebont, N. Claire, Th. Pierre, and F. Doveil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225006 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Thermometry for Quantum Simulation

Qi Zhou and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225301 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

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Equivalence of the Boson Peak in Glasses to the Transverse Acoustic van Hove Singularity in Crystals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225501 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Energy Landscape of Fullerene Materials: A Comparison of Boron to Boron Nitride and Carbon

Sandip De, Alexander Willand, Maximilian Amsler, Pascal Pochet, Luigi Genovese, and Stefan Goedecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225502 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Phonon Spectra, Nearest Neighbors, and Mechanical Stability of Disordered Colloidal Clusters with Attractive Interactions

Peter J. Yunker, Ke Chen, Zexin Zhang, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225503 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Mechanism of Coarsening and Bubble Formation in High-Genus Nanoporous Metals

J. Erlebacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225504 (2011) - Published 3 June, 2011

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Explosive Percolation is Continuous, but with Unusual Finite Size Behavior

Peter Grassberger, Claire Christensen, Golnoosh Bizhani, Seung-Woo Son, and Maya Paczuski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225701 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Tailoring the Structure of Water at a Metal Surface: A Structural Analysis of the Water Bilayer Formed on an Alloy Template

Fiona McBride, George R. Darling, Katariina Pussi, and Andrew Hodgson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226101 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dynamical Signatures of Edge-State Magnetism on Graphene Nanoribbons

Hélène Feldner, Zi Yang Meng, Thomas C. Lang, Fakher F. Assaad, Stefan Wessel, and Andreas Honecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226401 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Protected Nodal Electron Pocket from Multiple- $Q$ Ordering in Underdoped High Temperature Superconductors

N. Harrison and S. E. Sebastian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226402 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Hole Localization in Molecular Crystals from Hybrid Density Functional Theory

Na Sai, Paul F. Barbara, and Kevin Leung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226403 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

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Optical Detection of Spin Transport in Nonmagnetic Metals

F. Fohr, S. Kaltenborn, J. Hamrle, H. Schultheiß, A. A. Serga, H. C. Schneider, B. Hillebrands, Y. Fukuma, L. Wang, and Y. Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226601 (2011) - Published 31 May, 2011

Phantom Force Induced by Tunneling Current: A Characterization on Si(111)

A. J. Weymouth, T. Wutscher, J. Welker, T. Hofmann, and F. J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226801 (2011) - Published 1 June, 2011

Electrical Excitation of Surface Plasmons

Palash Bharadwaj, Alexandre Bouhelier, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226802 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011

Hotspot Decorations Map Plasmonic Patterns with the Resolution of Scanning Probe Techniques

V. K. Valev, A. V. Silhanek, Y. Jeyaram, D. Denkova, B. De Clercq, V. Petkov, X. Zheng, V. Volskiy, W. Gillijns, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, O. A. Aktsipetrov, M. Ameloot, V. V. Moshchalkov, and T. Verbiest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 226803 (2011) - Published 2 June, 2011