Volume 107, Issue 11

9 September 2011

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Near-field imaging of Airy plasmons (nonspreading bended rays of light) propagating along the surface of a gold film with an engineered grating pattern for their excitation. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Generation and Near-Field Imaging of Airy Surface Plasmons
Alexander Minovich, Angela E. Klein, Norik Janunts, Thomas Pertsch, Dragomir N. Neshev, and Yuri S. Kivshar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116802 (2011)

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Knudsen Gas Provides Nanobubble Stability

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116101 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

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Generation and Near-Field Imaging of Airy Surface Plasmons

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116802 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

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Predicted Formation of Superconducting Platinum-Hydride Crystals under Pressure in the Presence of Molecular Hydrogen

Duck Young Kim, Ralph H. Scheicher, Chris J. Pickard, R. J. Needs, and R. Ahuja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117002 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

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Linear Chain Structure of Four- $α$ Clusters in ${}^{16}O$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 112501 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

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LETTERS

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

Visualization of Dimensional Effects in Collective Excitations of Optically Trapped Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bose Gases

Ying Hu and Zhaoxin Liang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 110401 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Momentum Distribution of the Homogeneous Electron Gas

Markus Holzmann, Bernard Bernu, Carlo Pierleoni, Jeremy McMinis, David M. Ceperley, Valerio Olevano, and Luigi Delle Site

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 110402 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Device Calibration Impacts Security of Quantum Key Distribution

Nitin Jain, Christoffer Wittmann, Lars Lydersen, Carlos Wiechers, Dominique Elser, Christoph Marquardt, Vadim Makarov, and Gerd Leuchs

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3D Loop Models and the ${CP}^{n - 1}$ Sigma Model

Adam Nahum, J. T. Chalker, P. Serna, M. Ortuño, and A. M. Somoza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 110601 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Transient Solar Oscillations Driven by Primordial Black Holes

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Strongly Coupled Chameleons and the Neutronic Quantum Bouncer

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Elementary Particles and Fields

Volume Dependence of Bound States with Angular Momentum

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 112001 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Radiative Improvement of the Lattice Nonrelativistic QCD Action Using the Background Field Method and Application to the Hyperfine Splitting of Quarkonium States

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 112002 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Nuclear Physics

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Linear Chain Structure of Four- $α$ Clusters in ${}^{16}O$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 112501 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Determination of the ${}^{24}{Mg}$ I $(3 s 3 p) {}^{3}P_{2}$ Lifetime

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113001 (2011) - Published 7 September, 2011

Demonstration of Turnstiles as a Chaotic Ionization Mechanism in Rydberg Atoms

Korana Burke, Kevin A. Mitchell, Brendan Wyker, Shuzhen Ye, and F. Barry Dunning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113002 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Probing Angular Correlations in Sequential Double Ionization

A. Fleischer, H. J. Wörner, L. Arissian, L. R. Liu, M. Meckel, A. Rippert, R. Dörner, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and A. Staudte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113003 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Rotation-Induced Breakdown of Torsional Quantum Control

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113004 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Energy Correlation among Three Photoelectrons Emitted in Core-Valence-Valence Triple Photoionization of Ne

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113005 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

Enhanced Sputtering from the $F / Si (100)$ Surface with Extraction of the Surface Bond Direction

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113201 (2011) - Published 7 September, 2011

Observation of Two-Mode Squeezing in the Microwave Frequency Domain

C. Eichler, D. Bozyigit, C. Lang, M. Baur, L. Steffen, J. M. Fink, S. Filipp, and A. Wallraff

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Superradiant Phase Transitions and the Standard Description of Circuit QED

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113602 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Real-World Quantum Sensors: Evaluating Resources for Precision Measurement

Nicholas Thomas-Peter, Brian J. Smith, Animesh Datta, Lijian Zhang, Uwe Dorner, and Ian A. Walmsley

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Direct Sampling of Negative Quasiprobabilities of a Squeezed State

T. Kiesel, W. Vogel, B. Hage, and R. Schnabel

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Monitoring Atomic Cluster Expansion by High-Harmonic Generation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113901 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

Large-Deviation Approach to Space-Time Chaos

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 114101 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Chaotic Spin-Wave Solitons in Magnetic Film Feedback Rings

Zihui Wang, Aaron Hagerstrom, Justin Q. Anderson, Wei Tong, Mingzhong Wu, Lincoln D. Carr, Richard Eykholt, and Boris A. Kalinikos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 114102 (2011) - Published 7 September, 2011

Many-Body Radiative Heat Transfer Theory

Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Svend-Age Biehs, and Karl Joulain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 114301 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

Frequency-Selective Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer between Photonic Crystal Slabs: A Computational Approach for Arbitrary Geometries and Materials

Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Ognjen Ilic, Peter Bermel, Ivan Celanovic, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, and Steven G. Johnson

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Homoclinic Tangle on the Edge of Shear Turbulence

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Evolution of Wave Turbulence under “Gusty” Forcing

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Mach Number Dependence of Turbulent Magnetic Field Amplification: Solenoidal versus Compressive Flows

C. Federrath, G. Chabrier, J. Schober, R. Banerjee, R. S. Klessen, and D. R. G. Schleicher

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Long-Distance Radial Correlation in Toroidal Plasma Turbulence

S. Inagaki, T. Tokuzawa, K. Itoh, K. Ida, S.-I. Itoh, N. Tamura, S. Sakakibara, N. Kasuya, A. Fujisawa, S. Kubo, T. Shimozuma, T. Ido, S. Nishimura, H. Arakawa, T. Kobayashi, K. Tanaka, Y. Nagayama, K. Kawahata, S. Sudo, H. Yamada, and A. Komori (LHD Experiment Group)

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Monoenergetic Ion Beam Generation by Driving Ion Solitary Waves with Circularly Polarized Laser Light

D. Jung, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, D. C. Gautier, R. Hörlein, D. Kiefer, A. Henig, R. Johnson, S. Letzring, S. Palaniyappan, R. Shah, T. Shimada, X. Q. Yan, K. J. Bowers, T. Tajima, J. C. Fernández, D. Habs, and B. M. Hegelich

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Critically Balanced Ion Temperature Gradient Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas

M. Barnes, F. I. Parra, and A. A. Schekochihin

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Change in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions upon Using an Ab Initio Multiphase DT Equation of State

L. Caillabet, B. Canaud, G. Salin, S. Mazevet, and P. Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 115004 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 115301 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Positive Vibrational Entropy of Chemical Ordering in FeV

J. A. Muñoz, M. S. Lucas, O. Delaire, M. L. Winterrose, L. Mauger, Chen W. Li, A. O. Sheets, M. B. Stone, D. L. Abernathy, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow, and B. Fultz

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Direct Observation of Local Mn-Mn Distances in the Paramagnetic Compound ${CsMn}_{x} {Mg}_{1 - x} {Br}_{3}$

A. Furrer, Th. Strässle, J. P. Embs, F. Juranyi, V. Pomjakushin, M. Schneider, and K. W. Krämer

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Reverse Self-Assembly: (111)-Oriented Gold Crystallization at Alkylthiol Monolayer Templates

Ahmet Uysal, Benjamin Stripe, Binhua Lin, Mati Meron, and Pulak Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 115503 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

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Knudsen Gas Provides Nanobubble Stability

James R. T. Seddon, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116101 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

Ultrafast Reorientation of Dangling OH Groups at the Air-Water Interface Using Femtosecond Vibrational Spectroscopy

Cho-Shuen Hsieh, R. Kramer Campen, Ana Celia Vila Verde, Peter Bolhuis, Han-Kwang Nienhuys, and Mischa Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116102 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Narrowing of Topological Bands due to Electronic Orbital Degrees of Freedom

Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Maria Daghofer, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116401 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Suppression of Near-Fermi Level Electronic States at the Interface in a ${LaNiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Superlattice

A. M. Kaiser, A. X. Gray, G. Conti, J. Son, A. Greer, A. Perona, A. Rattanachata, A. Y. Saw, A. Bostwick, S. Yang, S.-H. Yang, E. M. Gullikson, J. B. Kortright, S. Stemmer, and C. S. Fadley

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Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

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Generation and Near-Field Imaging of Airy Surface Plasmons

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116802 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

Point Defects on Graphene on Metals

M. M. Ugeda, D. Fernández-Torre, I. Brihuega, P. Pou, A. J. Martínez-Galera, Rubén Pérez, and J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116803 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Intersubband Edge Singularity in Metallic Nanotubes

E. G. Mishchenko and O. A. Starykh

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Asymmetric Orbital-Lattice Interactions in Ultrathin Correlated Oxide Films

J. Chakhalian, J. M. Rondinelli, Jian Liu, B. A. Gray, M. Kareev, E. J. Moon, N. Prasai, J. L. Cohn, M. Varela, I. C. Tung, M. J. Bedzyk, S. G. Altendorf, F. Strigari, B. Dabrowski, L. H. Tjeng, P. J. Ryan, and J. W. Freeland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116805 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

Exotic $d$ -Wave Superconducting State of Strongly Hole-Doped $K_{x} {Ba}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Ronny Thomale, Christian Platt, Werner Hanke, Jiangping Hu, and B. Andrei Bernevig

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Predicted Formation of Superconducting Platinum-Hydride Crystals under Pressure in the Presence of Molecular Hydrogen

Duck Young Kim, Ralph H. Scheicher, Chris J. Pickard, R. J. Needs, and R. Ahuja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117002 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

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Spin-Canting-Induced Improper Ferroelectricity and Spontaneous Magnetization Reversal in $SmFe O_{3}$

Jung-Hoon Lee, Young Kyu Jeong, Jung Hwan Park, Min-Ae Oak, Hyun Myung Jang, Jong Yeog Son, and James F. Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117201 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

Femtosecond Laser Excitation of Spin Resonances in Amorphous Ferrimagnetic ${Gd}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x}$ Alloys

A. Mekonnen, M. Cormier, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, A. Hrabec, L. Ranno, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117202 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Molecular Prototypes for Spin-Based CNOT and SWAP Quantum Gates

F. Luis, A. Repollés, M. J. Martínez-Pérez, D. Aguilà, O. Roubeau, D. Zueco, P. J. Alonso, M. Evangelisti, A. Camón, J. Sesé, L. A. Barrios, and G. Aromí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117203 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Ignoring Your Neighbors: Moment Correlations Dominated by Indirect or Distant Interactions in an Ordered Nanomagnet Array

Sheng Zhang, Jie Li, Jason Bartell, Xianglin Ke, Cristiano Nisoli, Paul E. Lammert, Vincent H. Crespi, and Peter Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117204 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Optical Response of Relativistic Electrons in the Polar BiTeI Semiconductor

J. S. Lee, G. A. H. Schober, M. S. Bahramy, H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, R. Arita, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117401 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

Dielectric Relaxation in Liquid Water: Two Fractions or Two Dynamics?

Alexander Y. Zasetsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117601 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Phase Transitions in Epitaxial ( $- 110$ ) ${BiFeO}_{3}$ Films from First Principles

S. Prosandeev, Igor A. Kornev, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 117602 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

General Mechanism of Actomyosin Contractility

Nilushi L. Dasanayake, Paul J. Michalski, and Anders E. Carlsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 118101 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Effects of Demographic Noise on the Synchronization of a Metapopulation in a Fluctuating Environment

Yi Ming Lai, Jay Newby, and Paul C. Bressloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 118102 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Overlimiting Current in a Microchannel

E. Victoria Dydek, Boris Zaltzman, Isaak Rubinstein, D. S. Deng, Ali Mani, and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 118301 (2011) - Published 6 September, 2011

Doping-Enhanced Lithium Diffusion in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Gang Wu, Shunnian Wu, and Ping Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 118302 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Wetting of a Multiarm Star-Shaped Molecule

Emmanouil Glynos, Bradley Frieberg, and Peter F. Green

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 118303 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

Hydrogen-Bond Equilibria and Lifetimes in a Monohydroxy Alcohol

C. Gainaru, S. Kastner, F. Mayr, P. Lunkenheimer, S. Schildmann, H. J. Weber, W. Hiller, A. Loidl, and R. Böhmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 118304 (2011) - Published 9 September, 2011

COMMENTS

Comment on “High-Precision Determination of the Electric and Magnetic Form Factors of the Proton”

J. Arrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 119101 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Bernauer et al. Reply:

J. C. Bernauer, P. Achenbach, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, R. Böhm, D. Bosnar, L. Debenjak, M. O. Distler, L. Doria, A. Esser, H. Fonvieille, J. M. Friedrich, J. Friedrich, M. Gómez Rodríguez de la Paz, M. Makek, H. Merkel, D. G. Middleton, U. Müller, L. Nungesser, J. Pochodzalla, M. Potokar, S. Sánchez Majos, B. S. Schlimme, S. Širca, Th. Walcher, and M. Weinriefer (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 119102 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Spin Interactions in bcc and fcc Fe beyond the Heisenberg Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 017204 (2011)]

R. Singer, F. Dietermann, and M. Fähnle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 119901 (2011) - Published 8 September, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Relativistic and Close-Coupling Effects in the Spin Polarization of Low-Energy Electrons Scattered Elastically from Cadmium [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093202 (2011)]

Christopher J. Bostock, Michael J. Berrington, Dmitry V. Fursa, and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 119902 (2011) - Published 7 September, 2011