Volume 106, Issue 4

28 January 2011

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Nanoparticle adhering to an elastic nanotube. The bound area on the triangulated surface is shown below.

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Reshaping Elastic Nanotubes via Self-Assembly of Surface-Adhesive Nanoparticles
Josep C. Pàmies and Angelo Cacciuto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045702 (2011)

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Closed Timelike Curves via Postselection: Theory and Experimental Test of Consistency

Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Raul Garcia-Patron, Vittorio Giovannetti, Yutaka Shikano, Stefano Pirandola, Lee A. Rozema, Ardavan Darabi, Yasaman Soudagar, Lynden K. Shalm, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040403 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Orbital Evolution of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Black-Hole Binaries with Numerical Relativity

Carlos O. Lousto and Yosef Zlochower

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041101 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

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Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy with Carbon Monoxide Terminated Tips

Zhixiang Sun (孙志祥), Mark P. Boneschanscher, Ingmar Swart, Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046104 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Coarse-Grained Dynamics of Protein Synthesis in a Cell-Free System

Eyal Karzbrun, Jonghyeon Shin, Roy H. Bar-Ziv, and Vincent Noireaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 048104 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

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Sustained Quantum Coherence and Entanglement in the Avian Compass

Erik M. Gauger, Elisabeth Rieper, John J. L. Morton, Simon C. Benjamin, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040503 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Localized and Extended States in a Disordered Trap

Luca Pezzé and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040601 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Eigenfunction Entropy and Spectral Compressibility for Critical Random Matrix Ensembles

E. Bogomolny and O. Giraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 044101 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Insensitivity of the Superconducting Gap to Variations in the Critical Temperature of Zn-Substituted ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductors

Y. Lubashevsky, A. Garg, Y. Sassa, M. Shi, and A. Kanigel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047002 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Evidence of a Precursor Superconducting Phase at Temperatures as High as 180 K in $R {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ} (R = Y, Gd, Eu)$ Superconducting Crystals from Infrared Spectroscopy

A. Dubroka, M. Rössle, K. W. Kim, V. K. Malik, D. Munzar, D. N. Basov, A. A. Schafgans, S. J. Moon, C. T. Lin, D. Haug, V. Hinkov, B. Keimer, Th. Wolf, J. G. Storey, J. L. Tallon, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047006 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Selection Rules for Light-Induced Magnetization of a Crystal with Threefold Symmetry: The Case of Antiferromagnetic NiO

Takuya Higuchi, Natsuki Kanda, Hiroharu Tamaru, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047401 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

LETTERS

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

Absence of Thermalization in Nonintegrable Systems

Christian Gogolin, Markus P. Müller, and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040401 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Experimental Violation of Two-Party Leggett-Garg Inequalities with Semiweak Measurements

J. Dressel, C. J. Broadbent, J. C. Howell, and A. N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040402 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

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Closed Timelike Curves via Postselection: Theory and Experimental Test of Consistency

Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Raul Garcia-Patron, Vittorio Giovannetti, Yutaka Shikano, Stefano Pirandola, Lee A. Rozema, Ardavan Darabi, Yasaman Soudagar, Lynden K. Shalm, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040403 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Preservation of Bipartite Pseudoentanglement in Solids Using Dynamical Decoupling

Ya Wang, Xing Rong, Pengbo Feng, Wanjie Xu, Bo Chong, Ji-Hu Su, Jiangbin Gong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040501 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Entanglement Dynamics of a Strongly Driven Trapped Atom

Maryam Roghani, Hanspeter Helm, and Heinz-Peter Breuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040502 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Sustained Quantum Coherence and Entanglement in the Avian Compass

Erik M. Gauger, Elisabeth Rieper, John J. L. Morton, Simon C. Benjamin, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040503 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Coherent Optical Writing and Reading of the Exciton Spin State in Single Quantum Dots

Y. Benny, S. Khatsevich, Y. Kodriano, E. Poem, R. Presman, D. Galushko, P. M. Petroff, and D. Gershoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040504 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Robust Quantum State Transfer in Random Unpolarized Spin Chains

N. Y. Yao, L. Jiang, A. V. Gorshkov, Z.-X. Gong, A. Zhai, L.-M. Duan, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040505 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Localized and Extended States in a Disordered Trap

Luca Pezzé and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 040601 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Orbital Evolution of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Black-Hole Binaries with Numerical Relativity

Carlos O. Lousto and Yosef Zlochower

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041101 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Improved Constraints on an Axion-Mediated Force

S. A. Hoedl, S. M. Fleischer, E. G. Adelberger, and B. R. Heckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041801 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking from Monopole Condensation

Csaba Csáki, Yuri Shirman, and John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041802 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant to Part-per-Million Precision

D. M. Webber et al. (MuLan Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041803 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Experimental Constraints on Left-Right Symmetric Models from Muon Decay

R. Bayes et al. (TWIST Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041804 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Quark Fragmentation in the $θ$ Vacuum

Zhong-Bo Kang and Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 042001 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

$J / ψ (ψ^{'})$ Production at the Tevatron and LHC at $O (α_{s}^{4} v^{4})$ in Nonrelativistic QCD

Yan-Qing Ma, Kai Wang, and Kuang-Ta Chao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 042002 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic and Triangular Flow in Event-by-Event $D = 3 + 1$ Viscous Hydrodynamics

Björn Schenke, Sangyong Jeon, and Charles Gale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 042301 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Distribution of Resonance Widths and Dynamics of Continuum Coupling

G. L. Celardo, N. Auerbach, F. M. Izrailev, and V. G. Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 042501 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Microscopic Calculation of the ${}^{3}{He} (α, γ) {}^{7}{Be}$ and ${}^{3}H (α, γ) {}^{7}{Li}$ Capture Cross Sections Using Realistic Interactions

Thomas Neff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 042502 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

How Metallic are Small Sodium Clusters?

J. Bowlan, A. Liang, and W. A. de Heer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 043401 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Eigenfunction Entropy and Spectral Compressibility for Critical Random Matrix Ensembles

E. Bogomolny and O. Giraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 044101 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Anisotropy of Imbalanced Alfvénic Turbulence in Fast Solar Wind

R. T. Wicks, T. S. Horbury, C. H. K. Chen, and A. A. Schekochihin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045001 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Detailed Mapping of the Local ${Ir}^{4 +}$ Dimers through the Metal-Insulator Transitions of ${CuIr}_{2} S_{4}$ Thiospinel by X-Ray Atomic Pair Distribution Function Measurements

E. S. Božin, A. S. Masadeh, Y. S. Hor, J. F. Mitchell, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045501 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Electron-Induced Rippling in Graphene

P. San-Jose, J. González, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045502 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Atomistic Simulation of Slow Grain Boundary Motion

Chuang Deng and Christopher A. Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045503 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Measurable Lattice Effects on the Charge and Magnetic Response in Graphene

G. Gómez-Santos and T. Stauber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045504 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Ginzburg-Landau-Type Multiphase Field Model for Competing fcc and bcc Nucleation

G. I. Tóth, J. R. Morris, and L. Gránásy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045701 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Reshaping Elastic Nanotubes via Self-Assembly of Surface-Adhesive Nanoparticles

Josep C. Pàmies and Angelo Cacciuto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045702 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Role of Disorder and Anharmonicity in the Thermal Conductivity of Silicon-Germanium Alloys: A First-Principles Study

Jivtesh Garg, Nicola Bonini, Boris Kozinsky, and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 045901 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Rheo-NMR of the Secondary Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Square Ducts

Christian B. Schroeder and Kenneth R. Jeffrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046001 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Dislocation-Pairing Transitions in Hot Grain Boundaries

David L. Olmsted, Dorel Buta, Ari Adland, Stephen M. Foiles, Mark Asta, and Alain Karma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046101 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding

Martin Z. Bazant, Brian D. Storey, and Alexei A. Kornyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046102 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

$c (2 \times 2)$ Water-Hydroxyl Layer on Cu(110): A Wetting Layer Stabilized by Bjerrum Defects

Matthew Forster, Rasmita Raval, Andrew Hodgson, Javier Carrasco, and Angelos Michaelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046103 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

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Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy with Carbon Monoxide Terminated Tips

Zhixiang Sun (孙志祥), Mark P. Boneschanscher, Ingmar Swart, Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046104 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Seeing Many-Body Effects in Single- and Few-Layer Graphene: Observation of Two-Dimensional Saddle-Point Excitons

Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046401 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Exotic Gapless Mott Insulators of Bosons on Multileg Ladders

Matthew S. Block, Ryan V. Mishmash, Ribhu K. Kaul, D. N. Sheng, Olexei I. Motrunich, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046402 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Measurement of the $ν = 1 / 3$ Fractional Quantum Hall Energy Gap in Suspended Graphene

Fereshte Ghahari, Yue Zhao, Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Kirill Bolotin, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046801 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Controlling the Interaction of Electron and Nuclear Spins in a Tunnel-Coupled Quantum Dot

C. Kloeffel, P. A. Dalgarno, B. Urbaszek, B. D. Gerardot, D. Brunner, P. M. Petroff, D. Loss, and R. J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046802 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Two-Dimensional Graphene with Structural Defects: Elastic Mean Free Path, Minimum Conductivity, and Anderson Transition

Aurélien Lherbier, Simon M.-M. Dubois, Xavier Declerck, Stephan Roche, Yann-Michel Niquet, and Jean-Christophe Charlier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046803 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Phase Fluctuations in a Strongly Disordered $s$ -Wave NbN Superconductor Close to the Metal-Insulator Transition

Mintu Mondal, Anand Kamlapure, Madhavi Chand, Garima Saraswat, Sanjeev Kumar, John Jesudasan, L. Benfatto, Vikram Tripathi, and Pratap Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047001 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

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Insensitivity of the Superconducting Gap to Variations in the Critical Temperature of Zn-Substituted ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductors

Y. Lubashevsky, A. Garg, Y. Sassa, M. Shi, and A. Kanigel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047002 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Electronic Dispersion Anomalies in Iron Pnictide Superconductors

Andreas Heimes, Roland Grein, and Matthias Eschrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047003 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Proximity of the Superconducting Dome and the Quantum Critical Point in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

S.-X. Yang, H. Fotso, S.-Q. Su, D. Galanakis, E. Khatami, J.-H. She, J. Moreno, J. Zaanen, and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047004 (2011) - Published 26 January, 2011

Extended Ginzburg-Landau Formalism for Two-Band Superconductors

A. A. Shanenko, M. V. Milošević, F. M. Peeters, and A. V. Vagov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047005 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Evidence of a Precursor Superconducting Phase at Temperatures as High as 180 K in $R {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ} (R = Y, Gd, Eu)$ Superconducting Crystals from Infrared Spectroscopy

A. Dubroka, M. Rössle, K. W. Kim, V. K. Malik, D. Munzar, D. N. Basov, A. A. Schafgans, S. J. Moon, C. T. Lin, D. Haug, V. Hinkov, B. Keimer, Th. Wolf, J. G. Storey, J. L. Tallon, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047006 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Linear-Temperature Dependence of Static Magnetic Susceptibility in LaFeAsO from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

S. L. Skornyakov, A. A. Katanin, and V. I. Anisimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047007 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

Two-Dimensional Intrinsic Ferromagnetism at Nitride-Boride Interfaces

Y. Gohda and S. Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047201 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Lyddane-Sachs-Teller Relationship in Linear Magnetoelectrics

Raffaele Resta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047202 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Coupled Magnetic Cycloids in Multiferroic ${TbMnO}_{3}$ and ${Eu}_{3 / 4} Y_{1 / 4} {MnO}_{3}$

Hoyoung Jang, J.-S. Lee, K.-T. Ko, W.-S. Noh, T. Y. Koo, J.-Y. Kim, K.-B. Lee, J.-H. Park, C. L. Zhang, Sung Baek Kim, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047203 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Theory of Electric Polarization in Multiorbital Mott Insulators

Maxim Mostovoy, Kentaro Nomura, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047204 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

High- $Q$ Nanomechanics via Destructive Interference of Elastic Waves

I. Wilson-Rae, R. A. Barton, S. S. Verbridge, D. R. Southworth, B. Ilic, H. G. Craighead, and J. M. Parpia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047205 (2011) - Published 27 January, 2011

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Selection Rules for Light-Induced Magnetization of a Crystal with Threefold Symmetry: The Case of Antiferromagnetic NiO

Takuya Higuchi, Natsuki Kanda, Hiroharu Tamaru, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047401 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Harmonic Image Reconstruction Assisted by a Nonlinear Metmaterial Surface

Zhiyu Wang, Yu Luo, Tao Jiang, Zheng Wang, Jiangtao Huangfu, and Lixin Ran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047402 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

$4 d − 5 p$ Orbital Mixing and Asymmetric In $4 d - O$ $2 p$ Hybridization in ${InMnO}_{3}$ : A New Bonding Mechanism for Hexagonal Ferroelectricity

Min-Ae Oak, Jung-Hoon Lee, Hyun Myung Jang, Jung Suk Goh, Hyoung Joon Choi, and James F. Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047601 (2011) - Published 24 January, 2011

Role of Ti $3 d$ Carriers in Mediating the Ferromagnetism of $Co ∶ {TiO}_{2}$ Anatase Thin Films

T. Ohtsuki, A. Chainani, R. Eguchi, M. Matsunami, Y. Takata, M. Taguchi, Y. Nishino, K. Tamasaku, M. Yabashi, T. Ishikawa, M. Oura, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047602 (2011) - Published 25 January, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Volume 106, Issue 4

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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