Volume 107, Issue 10

2 September 2011

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The real part of the χ matrix describing a quantum channel affecting two qubits encoded on single photons. The matrix was obtained by selective and efficient quantum process tomography.

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Selective and Efficient Quantum Process Tomography without Ancilla
Christian Tomás Schmiegelow, Ariel Bendersky, Miguel Antonio Larotonda, and Juan Pablo Paz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100502 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Order of Lattice Spins Coupled to Itinerant Interacting Electrons in One and Two Dimensions

Daniel Loss, Fabio L. Pedrocchi, and Anthony J. Leggett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107201 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

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Near-Zero-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

M. P. Ledbetter, T. Theis, J. W. Blanchard, H. Ring, P. Ganssle, S. Appelt, B. Blümich, A. Pines, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107601 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

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Regularity of Spike Trains and Harmony Perception in a Model of the Auditory System

Yu. V. Ushakov, A. A. Dubkov, and B. Spagnolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108103 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

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Integrability of the Rabi Model

D. Braak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100401 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

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Search for Three-Jet Resonances in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101801 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

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Accurate Eikonal-Curvature Relation for Wave Fronts in Locally Anisotropic Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Hans Dierckx, Olivier Bernus, and Henri Verschelde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108101 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

LETTERS

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

Nonclassical Degrees of Freedom in the Riemann Hamiltonian

Mark Srednicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100201 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

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Integrability of the Rabi Model

D. Braak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100401 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Nonlocality is Transitive

Sandro Coretti, Esther Hänggi, and Stefan Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100402 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Measurement-Induced Chaos with Entangled States

T. Kiss, S. Vymětal, L. D. Tóth, A. Gábris, I. Jex, and G. Alber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100501 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Selective and Efficient Quantum Process Tomography without Ancilla

Christian Tomás Schmiegelow, Ariel Bendersky, Miguel Antonio Larotonda, and Juan Pablo Paz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100502 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Quantum Fluctuation Theorem in an Interacting Setup: Point Contacts in Fractional Quantum Hall Edge State Devices

A. Komnik and H. Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 100601 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Revealing the Physics of $r$ Modes in Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries

Wynn C. G. Ho, Nils Andersson, and Brynmor Haskell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101101 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

$f$ -Mode Instability in Relativistic Neutron Stars

E. Gaertig, K. Glampedakis, K. D. Kokkotas, and B. Zink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101102 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anisotropic $N = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills Plasma and Its Instabilities

David Mateos and Diego Trancanelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101601 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Holographic Dual of a Boundary Conformal Field Theory

Tadashi Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101602 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

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Search for Three-Jet Resonances in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 101801 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Observation of the $Ξ_{b}^{0}$ Baryon

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102001 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to the Production of Two Bottom-Antibottom Pairs at the LHC

Nicolas Greiner, Alberto Guffanti, Thomas Reiter, and Jürgen Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102002 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Isolated Diphoton Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102003 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Nuclear Physics

New Limit on Time-Reversal Violation in Beta Decay

H. P. Mumm, T. E. Chupp, R. L. Cooper, K. P. Coulter, S. J. Freedman, B. K. Fujikawa, A. García, G. L. Jones, J. S. Nico, A. K. Thompson, C. A. Trull, J. F. Wilkerson, and F. E. Wietfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102301 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Lifetime Measurement of the $2_{1}^{+}$ State in ${}^{20}C$

M. Petri et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102501 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Direct Observation of Two Protons in the Decay of ${}^{54}{Zn}$

P. Ascher, L. Audirac, N. Adimi, B. Blank, C. Borcea, B. A. Brown, I. Companis, F. Delalee, C. E. Demonchy, F. de Oliveira Santos, J. Giovinazzo, S. Grévy, L. V. Grigorenko, T. Kurtukian-Nieto, S. Leblanc, J.-L. Pedroza, L. Perrot, J. Pibernat, L. Serani, P. C. Srivastava, and J.-C. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 102502 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Imaging Spatial Correlations of Rydberg Excitations in Cold Atom Clouds

A. Schwarzkopf, R. E. Sapiro, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 103001 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Direct Measurement of the Free Cyclotron Frequency of a Single Particle in a Penning Trap

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 103002 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Multimode Vibrational Couplings in Resonant Positron Annihilation

Sergio d’A. Sanchez, Marco A. P. Lima, and Márcio T. do N. Varella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 103201 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Classical Analogue of Displaced Fock States and Quantum Correlations in Glauber-Fock Photonic Lattices

Robert Keil, Armando Perez-Leija, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Hector Moya-Cessa, Stefan Nolte, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 103601 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Nonlinearity in Ar and $N_{2}$ near the Ionization Threshold

J. K. Wahlstrand, Y.-H. Cheng, Y.-H. Chen, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 103901 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

$p$ -Wave Cold Collisions in an Optical Lattice Clock

N. D. Lemke, J. von Stecher, J. A. Sherman, A. M. Rey, C. W. Oates, and A. D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 103902 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Resonance Assisted Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: Frequency Locking without Phase Locking

J. Thévenin, M. Romanelli, M. Vallet, M. Brunel, and T. Erneux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 104101 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ion Temperature and Hydrodynamic-Energy Measurements in a $Z$ -Pinch Plasma at Stagnation

E. Kroupp, D. Osin, A. Starobinets, V. Fisher, V. Bernshtam, L. Weingarten, Y. Maron, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, A. Fisher, M. E. Cuneo, C. Deeney, and J. L. Giuliani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105001 (2011) - Published 29 August, 2011

Production of Picosecond, Kilojoule, and Petawatt Laser Pulses via Raman Amplification of Nanosecond Pulses

R. M. G. M. Trines, F. Fiúza, R. Bingham, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva, R. A. Cairns, and P. A. Norreys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105002 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamic Evanescent Phonon Coupling Across the ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

Y. Segal, K. F. Garrity, C. A. F. Vaz, J. D. Hoffman, F. J. Walker, S. Ismail-Beigi, and C. H. Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105501 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Thermal-Induced Edge Barriers and Forces in Interlayer Interaction of Concentric Carbon Nanotubes

Zhengrong Guo, Tienchong Chang, Xingming Guo, and Huajian Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105502 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Structural Transitions of Solvent-Free Oligomer-Grafted Nanoparticles

Alexandros Chremos and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105503 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Identification of Strong and Weak Interacting Two-Level Systems in KBr:CN

Alejandro Gaita-Ariño and Moshe Schechter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105504 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Emergence of Long-Range Correlations and Rigidity at the Dynamic Glass Transition

Grzegorz Szamel and Elijah Flenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105505 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Elastic Metamaterials with Simultaneously Negative Effective Shear Modulus and Mass Density

Ying Wu, Yun Lai, and Zhao-Qing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105506 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Slow Aging Dynamics and Avalanches in a Gold-Cadmium Alloy Investigated by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

L. Müller, M. Waldorf, C. Gutt, G. Grübel, A. Madsen, T. R. Finlayson, and U. Klemradt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105701 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spontaneous Pattern Formation in a Polariton Condensate

F. Manni, K. G. Lagoudakis, T. C. H. Liew, R. André, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106401 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Topological Fermi Liquids from Coulomb Interactions in the Doped Honeycomb Lattice

Eduardo V. Castro, Adolfo G. Grushin, Belén Valenzuela, María A. H. Vozmediano, Alberto Cortijo, and Fernando de Juan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106402 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Ab Initio Theory of the Scattering-Independent Anomalous Hall Effect

Jürgen Weischenberg, Frank Freimuth, Jairo Sinova, Stefan Blügel, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106601 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Fermi Surface and Superconductivity in Low-Density High-Mobility $δ$ -Doped ${SrTiO}_{3}$

M. Kim, C. Bell, Y. Kozuka, M. Kurita, Y. Hikita, and H. Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106801 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

Dissipationless Electron Transport in Photon-Dressed Nanostructures

O. V. Kibis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106802 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Equality of Bulk Wave Functions and Edge Correlations in Some Topological Superconductors: A Spacetime Derivation

R. Shankar and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106803 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Two-Site Kondo Effect in Atomic Chains

N. Néel, R. Berndt, J. Kröger, T. O. Wehling, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 106804 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

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Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Order of Lattice Spins Coupled to Itinerant Interacting Electrons in One and Two Dimensions

Daniel Loss, Fabio L. Pedrocchi, and Anthony J. Leggett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107201 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Proximity Effects of a Symmetry-Breaking Interface on Spins of Photoexcited Electrons

Lan Qing, Yang Song, and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107202 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Spin-Orbit Symmetries of Conduction Electrons in Silicon

Pengke Li and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107203 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Control of Magnetic Fluctuations by Spin Current

V. E. Demidov, S. Urazhdin, E. R. J. Edwards, M. D. Stiles, R. D. McMichael, and S. O. Demokritov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107204 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Effective Mass Anisotropy of Hot Electrons in Nonparabolic Conduction Bands of $n$ -Doped InGaAs Films Using Ultrafast Terahertz Pump-Probe Techniques

F. Blanchard, D. Golde, F. H. Su, L. Razzari, G. Sharma, R. Morandotti, T. Ozaki, M. Reid, M. Kira, S. W. Koch, and F. A. Hegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107401 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Two-Spinon and Orbital Excitations of the Spin-Peierls System TiOCl

S. Glawion, J. Heidler, M. W. Haverkort, L. C. Duda, T. Schmitt, V. N. Strocov, C. Monney, K. J. Zhou, A. Ruff, M. Sing, and R. Claessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107402 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Extended Phonon Collapse and the Origin of the Charge-Density Wave in $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

F. Weber, S. Rosenkranz, J.-P. Castellan, R. Osborn, R. Hott, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen, T. Egami, A. H. Said, and D. Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107403 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Near-Zero-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

M. P. Ledbetter, T. Theis, J. W. Blanchard, H. Ring, P. Ganssle, S. Appelt, B. Blümich, A. Pines, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107601 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

2D Atomic Mapping of Oxidation States in Transition Metal Oxides by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy

Haiyan Tan, Stuart Turner, Emrah Yücelen, Jo Verbeeck, and Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107602 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Weak and Strong Coupling Theories for Polarizable Colloids and Nanoparticles

Amin Bakhshandeh, Alexandre P. dos Santos, and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107801 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Numerical Simulation of the Sedimentation of a Sphere in a Sheared Granular Fluid: A Granular Stokes Experiment

Anurag Tripathi and D. V. Khakhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108001 (2011) - Published 30 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Accurate Eikonal-Curvature Relation for Wave Fronts in Locally Anisotropic Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Hans Dierckx, Olivier Bernus, and Henri Verschelde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108101 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

Underwound DNA under Tension: Structure, Elasticity, and Sequence-Dependent Behaviors

Maxim Y. Sheinin, Scott Forth, John F. Marko, and Michelle D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108102 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

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Regularity of Spike Trains and Harmony Perception in a Model of the Auditory System

Yu. V. Ushakov, A. A. Dubkov, and B. Spagnolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108103 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Measurement of Correlations between Low-Frequency Vibrational Modes and Particle Rearrangements in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Colloidal Glasses

Ke Chen, M. L. Manning, Peter J. Yunker, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Zexin Zhang, Andrea J. Liu, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 108301 (2011) - Published 31 August, 2011

COMMENTS

Comment on “Raman Scattering Study of Phase Biaxiality in a Thermotropic Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal”

H. F. Gleeson and P. D. Brimicombe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 109801 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

Park et al. Reply:

Min Sang Park, Beom-Jin Yoon, Jung Ok Park, Satyendra Kumar, and Mohan Srinivasarao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 109802 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Electrical Manipulation and Measurement of Spin Properties of Quantum Spin Hall Edge States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 076803 (2011)]

Jukka I. Väyrynen and Teemu Ojanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 109901 (2011) - Published 1 September, 2011

Erratum: Helical Nanotube Structures of ${MoS}_{2}$ with Intrinsic Twisting: An Objective Molecular Dynamics Study [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 065502 (2010)]

D.-B. Zhang, T. Dumitrică, and G. Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 109902 (2011) - Published 2 September, 2011