Volume 106, Issue 25

24 June 2011

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Measurement of linear Stark interference in the 6¹S₀→6³P₁ transition in ¹⁹⁹Hg. UV light (purple arrows) impinges on four cells filled with mercury vapor (blue) in a uniform magnetic field. The two middle cells are subject to antiparallel electric fields between a ground plane (yellow) and high-voltage electrodes on either side (gray).

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Measurement of Linear Stark Interference in ${}^{199}{Hg}$
T. H. Loftus, M. D. Swallows, W. C. Griffith, M. V. Romalis, B. R. Heckel, and E. N. Fortson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 253002 (2011)

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Mixed-Spin Pairing Condensates in Heavy Nuclei

Alexandros Gezerlis, G. F. Bertsch, and Y. L. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252502 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

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Observation of Spin Flips with a Single Trapped Proton

S. Ulmer, C. C. Rodegheri, K. Blaum, H. Kracke, A. Mooser, W. Quint, and J. Walz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 253001 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

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Effects of Interactions on the Critical Temperature of a Trapped Bose Gas

Robert P. Smith, Robert L. D. Campbell, Naaman Tammuz, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250403 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

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Nondeterminism in the Limit of Nonsmooth Dynamics

Mike R. Jeffrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254103 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

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Ground-State Proton Decay of ${}^{69}{Br}$ and Implications for the ${}^{68}{Se}$ Astrophysical Rapid Proton-Capture Process Waiting Point

A. M. Rogers, M. A. Famiano, W. G. Lynch, M. S. Wallace, F. Amorini, D. Bazin, R. J. Charity, F. Delaunay, R. T. de Souza, J. Elson, A. Gade, D. Galaviz, M.-J. van Goethem, S. Hudan, J. Lee, S. Lobastov, S. Lukyanov, M. Matoš, M. Mocko, H. Schatz, D. Shapira, L. G. Sobotka, M. B. Tsang, and G. Verde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252503 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

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Experimental Acoustic Ground Cloak in Air

Bogdan-Ioan Popa, Lucian Zigoneanu, and Steven A. Cummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 253901 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

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Computation of Static Heisenberg-Chain Correlators: Control over Length and Temperature Dependence

Jun Sato, Britta Aufgebauer, Herman Boos, Frank Göhmann, Andreas Klümper, Minoru Takahashi, and Christian Trippe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 257201 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

LETTERS

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

Model Independence in Two Dimensions and Polarized Cold Dipolar Molecules

A. G. Volosniev, D. V. Fedorov, A. S. Jensen, and N. T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250401 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Entanglement Symmetry, Amplitudes, and Probabilities: Inverting Born’s Rule

Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250402 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

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Effects of Interactions on the Critical Temperature of a Trapped Bose Gas

Robert P. Smith, Robert L. D. Campbell, Naaman Tammuz, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250403 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

Device-Independent Witnesses of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement

Jean-Daniel Bancal, Nicolas Gisin, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250404 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Sequential Projective Measurements for Channel Decoding

Seth Lloyd, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250501 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Extremal Quantum Correlations and Cryptographic Security

T. Franz, F. Furrer, and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250502 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Quantum Receiver beyond the Standard Quantum Limit of Coherent Optical Communication

Kenji Tsujino, Daiji Fukuda, Go Fujii, Shuichiro Inoue, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahiro Takeoka, and Masahide Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250503 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Optimal Protocols and Optimal Transport in Stochastic Thermodynamics

Erik Aurell, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, and Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250601 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Interacting Fermionic Atoms in Optical Lattices Diffuse Symmetrically Upwards and Downwards in a Gravitational Potential

Stephan Mandt, Akos Rapp, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250602 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Exact Solution for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation with Flat Initial Conditions

Pasquale Calabrese and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250603 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Resolved Atomic Interaction Sidebands in an Optical Clock Transition

M. Bishof, Y. Lin, M. D. Swallows, A. V. Gorshkov, J. Ye, and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 250801 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Scalar Radiation from Chameleon-Shielded Regions

Alessandra Silvestri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251101 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

Gravitational Waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle Instability in Black-Hole-Torus Systems

Kenta Kiuchi, Masaru Shibata, Pedro J. Montero, and José A. Font

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251102 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

Pure Connection Action Principle for General Relativity

Kirill Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251103 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Non-Gaussianity Consistency Relation for Multifield Inflation

Naonori Suma Sugiyama, Eiichiro Komatsu, and Toshifumi Futamase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251301 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

Asymptotically Safe Lorentzian Gravity

Elisa Manrique, Stefan Rechenberger, and Frank Saueressig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251302 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for a Heavy Particle Decaying into an Electron and a Muon with the ATLAS Detector in $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ $p p$ collisions at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251801 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Search for Light Gauge Bosons of the Dark Sector at the Mainz Microtron

H. Merkel, P. Achenbach, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, J. C. Bernauer, R. Böhm, D. Bosnar, L. Debenjak, A. Denig, M. O. Distler, A. Esser, H. Fonvieille, I. Friščić, D. G. Middleton, U. Müller, L. Nungesser, J. Pochodzalla, M. Rohrbeck, S. Sánchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, M. Schoth, S. Širca, and M. Weinriefer (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251802 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Technicolor Explanation for the CDF $W j j$ Excess

Estia J. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, and Adam Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 251803 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

Measurement of the $B^{0}$ Production Cross Section in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252001 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Flavor Asymmetry of the Nucleon Sea and the Five-Quark Components of the Nucleons

Wen-Chen Chang and Jen-Chieh Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252002 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Flavor Decomposition of the Elastic Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors

G. D. Cates, C. W. de Jager, S. Riordan, and B. Wojtsekhowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252003 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Neutron Skin of ${}^{208}{Pb}$ , Nuclear Symmetry Energy, and the Parity Radius Experiment

X. Roca-Maza, M. Centelles, X. Viñas, and M. Warda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252501 (2011) - Published 21 June, 2011

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Mixed-Spin Pairing Condensates in Heavy Nuclei

Alexandros Gezerlis, G. F. Bertsch, and Y. L. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252502 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ground-State Proton Decay of ${}^{69}{Br}$ and Implications for the ${}^{68}{Se}$ Astrophysical Rapid Proton-Capture Process Waiting Point

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 252503 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Spin Flips with a Single Trapped Proton

S. Ulmer, C. C. Rodegheri, K. Blaum, H. Kracke, A. Mooser, W. Quint, and J. Walz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 253001 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Measurement of Linear Stark Interference in ${}^{199}{Hg}$

T. H. Loftus, M. D. Swallows, W. C. Griffith, M. V. Romalis, B. R. Heckel, and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 253002 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Acoustic Ground Cloak in Air

Bogdan-Ioan Popa, Lucian Zigoneanu, and Steven A. Cummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 253901 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Shear Diversity Prevents Collective Synchronization

Ernest Montbrió and Diego Pazó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254101 (2011) - Published 21 June, 2011

Frequency Enhancement in Coupled Noisy Excitable Elements

Wei-Yin Chiang, Pik-Yin Lai, and C. K. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254102 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

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Nondeterminism in the Limit of Nonsmooth Dynamics

Mike R. Jeffrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254103 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Static Friction Coefficient Is Not a Material Constant

Oded Ben-David and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254301 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Dynamics of Nanoscale Precursor Film near a Moving Contact Line of Spreading Drops

A. Hoang and H. P. Kavehpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254501 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Reducing Global Turbulent Resistivity by Eliminating Large Eddies in a Spherical Liquid-Sodium Experiment

E. J. Kaplan, M. M. Clark, M. D. Nornberg, K. Rahbarnia, A. M. Rasmus, N. Z. Taylor, C. B. Forest, and E. J. Spence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 254502 (2011) - Published 21 June, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collimated Fast Electron Emission from Long Wires Irradiated by Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Shigeki Tokita, Kazuto Otani, Toshihiko Nishoji, Shunsuke Inoue, Masaki Hashida, and Shuji Sakabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255001 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Measurement and Control of Plasma Oscillations in Femtosecond Filaments

B. Zhou, A. Houard, Y. Liu, B. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, P. Mora, C. Smeenk, L. Arissian, and P. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255002 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Superfluid Quantum Interference in Multiple-Turn Reciprocal Geometry

Supradeep Narayana and Yuki Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255301 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

From Single Particle to Superfluid Excitations in a Dissipative Polariton Gas

V. Kohnle, Y. Léger, M. Wouters, M. Richard, M. T. Portella-Oberli, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255302 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Spontaneous Demagnetization of a Dipolar Spinor Bose Gas in an Ultralow Magnetic Field

B. Pasquiou, E. Maréchal, G. Bismut, P. Pedri, L. Vernac, O. Gorceix, and B. Laburthe-Tolra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255303 (2011) - Published 23 June, 2011

Theory of Programmable Hierarchic Self-Assembly

Alexei V. Tkachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255501 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Isotope Quantum Effects on the Water Proton Mean Kinetic Energy

A. Giuliani, F. Bruni, M. A. Ricci, and M. A. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255502 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Bending Ultrathin Graphene at the Margins of Continuum Mechanics

D.-B. Zhang, E. Akatyeva, and T. Dumitrică

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 255503 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Rotation and Translational Motion prior to Self-Assembly: Dynamics of Ethanethiolate on Cu(111)

S. Paterson, W. Allison, H. Hedgeland, J. Ellis, and A. P. Jardine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256101 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Sliding over a Phase Transition

A. Benassi, A. Vanossi, G. E. Santoro, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256102 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Surface Self-Diffusion of an Organic Glass

L. Zhu, C. W. Brian, S. F. Swallen, P. T. Straus, M. D. Ediger, and L. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256103 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Disproportionation and Metallization at Low-Spin to High-Spin Transition in Multiorbital Mott Systems

Jan Kuneš and Vlastimil Křápek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256401 (2011) - Published 21 June, 2011

Thermally Limited Current Carrying Ability of Graphene Nanoribbons

Albert D. Liao, Justin Z. Wu, Xinran Wang, Kristof Tahy, Debdeep Jena, Hongjie Dai, and Eric Pop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256801 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011

Energy Transport by Neutral Collective Excitations at the Quantum Hall Edge

E. V. Deviatov, A. Lorke, G. Biasiol, and L. Sorba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256802 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Localization Properties of Random-Mass Dirac Fermions from Real-Space Renormalization Group

V. V. Mkhitaryan and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256803 (2011) - Published 22 June, 2011

Hydrodynamic Description of Transport in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

A. V. Andreev, Steven A. Kivelson, and B. Spivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 256804 (2011) - Published 24 June, 2011

Incommensurate Spin-Density Wave Order in Electron-Doped ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductors

D. K. Pratt, M. G. Kim, A. Kreyssig, Y. B. Lee, G. S. Tucker, A. Thaler, W. Tian, J. L. Zarestky, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, B. N. Harmon, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 257001 (2011) - Published 20 June, 2011