Volume 107, Issue 12

16 September 2011

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On the Cover

Spatial contour plots of magnitudes (top) and phases (middle) obtained from an analysis of equatorial Pacific surface water temperature data, representing the dominant mode of the El Niño--Southern Oscillation; the corresponding time series appears at the bottom.

From the article:

Phase Synchronization of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation with the Annual Cycle
Karl Stein, Axel Timmermann, and Niklas Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 128501 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dissipative Quantum Church-Turing Theorem

M. Kliesch, T. Barthel, C. Gogolin, M. Kastoryano, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 120501 (2011) - Published 12 September, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Measurements of the Differential Cross Sections for the Elastic $n − {}^{3}H$ and $n − {}^{2}H$ Scattering at 14.1 MeV by Using an Inertial Confinement Fusion Facility

J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, F. H. Seguin, D. T. Casey, R. D. Petrasso, D. P. McNabb, P. Navratil, S. Quaglioni, T. C. Sangster, V. Yu Glebov, and D. D. Meyerhofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 122502 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Local Run-Up Amplification by Resonant Wave Interactions

Themistoklis S. Stefanakis, Frédéric Dias, and Denys Dutykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 124502 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

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Scanning Emitter Lifetime Imaging Microscopy for Spontaneous Emission Control

Martin Frimmer, Yuntian Chen, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 123602 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

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Termination of Two-Dimensional Metallic Conduction near the Metal-Insulator Transition in a $Si / SiGe$ Quantum Well

T. M. Lu, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, P. C. Liu, Z. Zhang, and Y. H. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126403 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

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Plasmonic Airy Beam Generated by In-Plane Diffraction

L. Li, T. Li, S. M. Wang, C. Zhang, and S. N. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126804 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

LETTERS

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

Universality of the Three-Body Parameter for Efimov States in Ultracold Cesium

M. Berninger, A. Zenesini, B. Huang, W. Harm, H.-C. Nägerl, F. Ferlaino, R. Grimm, P. S. Julienne, and J. M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 120401 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Stronger Quantum Correlations with Loophole-Free Postselection

Matty J. Hoban and Dan E. Browne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 120402 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Optical Injection and Terahertz Detection of the Macroscopic Berry Curvature

Kuljit S. Virk and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 120403 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissipative Quantum Church-Turing Theorem

M. Kliesch, T. Barthel, C. Gogolin, M. Kastoryano, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 120501 (2011) - Published 12 September, 2011

Entanglement Distillation by Dissipation and Continuous Quantum Repeaters

Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht, Christine A. Muschik, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 120502 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Regular Modes in Rotating Stars

Mickaël Pasek, Bertrand Georgeot, François Lignières, and Daniel R. Reese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 121101 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Constraints on the Fundamental String Coupling from $B$ -Mode Experiments

A. Avgoustidis, E. J. Copeland, A. Moss, L. Pogosian, A. Pourtsidou, and Danièle A. Steer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 121301 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Neutral Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs Produced in Association with $b$ Quarks in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 121801 (2011) - Published 12 September, 2011

Precision Measurement of the Ratio $B (t \to W b) / B (t \to W q)$ and Extraction of $V_{tb}$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 121802 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Antimagnetic Rotation Band in Nuclei: A Microscopic Description

P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍), J. Peng (彭婧), H. Z. Liang (梁豪兆), P. Ring, and J. Meng (孟杰)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 122501 (2011) - Published 13 September, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Measurements of the Differential Cross Sections for the Elastic $n − {}^{3}H$ and $n − {}^{2}H$ Scattering at 14.1 MeV by Using an Inertial Confinement Fusion Facility

J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, F. H. Seguin, D. T. Casey, R. D. Petrasso, D. P. McNabb, P. Navratil, S. Quaglioni, T. C. Sangster, V. Yu Glebov, and D. D. Meyerhofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 122502 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Proposal for Entangling Remote Micromechanical Oscillators via Optical Measurements

K. Børkje, A. Nunnenkamp, and S. M. Girvin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 123601 (2011) - Published 12 September, 2011

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Scanning Emitter Lifetime Imaging Microscopy for Spontaneous Emission Control

Martin Frimmer, Yuntian Chen, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 123602 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extensive and Subextensive Chaos in Globally Coupled Dynamical Systems

Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Hugues Chaté, Francesco Ginelli, Antonio Politi, and Alessandro Torcini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 124101 (2011) - Published 13 September, 2011

Trapping Microfluidic Drops in Wells of Surface Energy

Rémi Dangla, Sungyon Lee, and Charles N. Baroud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 124501 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Local Run-Up Amplification by Resonant Wave Interactions

Themistoklis S. Stefanakis, Frédéric Dias, and Denys Dutykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 124502 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Evidence of the Role of Zonal Flows for the $L − H$ Transition at Marginal Input Power in the EAST Tokamak

G. S. Xu, B. N. Wan, H. Q. Wang, H. Y. Guo, H. L. Zhao, A. D. Liu, V. Naulin, P. H. Diamond, G. R. Tynan, M. Xu, R. Chen, M. Jiang, P. Liu, N. Yan, W. Zhang, L. Wang, S. C. Liu, and S. Y. Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 125001 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Magnetohydrodynamic Mechanism for Pedestal Formation

L. Guazzotto and R. Betti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 125002 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Diagram and Structural Diversity of the Densest Binary Sphere Packings

Adam B. Hopkins, Yang Jiao, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 125501 (2011) - Published 13 September, 2011

Exponent Inequalities in Dynamical Systems

Eytan Katzav and Moshe Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 125701 (2011) - Published 12 September, 2011

Spontaneous Breakup of Extended Monodisperse Polymer Melts

Henrik Koblitz Rasmussen and Kaijia Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126001 (2011) - Published 13 September, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Superconducting Phase and Pairing Fluctuations in the Half-Filled Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Michael Sentef, Philipp Werner, Emanuel Gull, and Arno P. Kampf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126401 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Anisotropic Dirac Fermions in a Bi Square Net of ${SrMnBi}_{2}$

Joonbum Park, G. Lee, F. Wolff-Fabris, Y. Y. Koh, M. J. Eom, Y. K. Kim, M. A. Farhan, Y. J. Jo, C. Kim, J. H. Shim, and J. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126402 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Termination of Two-Dimensional Metallic Conduction near the Metal-Insulator Transition in a $Si / SiGe$ Quantum Well

T. M. Lu, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, P. C. Liu, Z. Zhang, and Y. H. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126403 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Effects of the Berry Phase and Instantons in One-Dimensional Kondo-Heisenberg Model

Pallab Goswami and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126404 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Integrable Mott Insulators Driven by a Finite Electric Field

Marcin Mierzejewski, Janez Bonča, and Peter Prelovšek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126601 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Compressibility Measurements of Quasi-One-Dimensional Quantum Wires

L. W. Smith, A. R. Hamilton, K. J. Thomas, M. Pepper, I. Farrer, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126801 (2011) - Published 13 September, 2011

Electron Transport in Gold Nanowires: Stable 1-, 2- and 3-Dimensional Atomic Structures and Noninteger Conduction States

F. Tavazza, D. T. Smith, L. E. Levine, J. R. Pratt, and A. M. Chaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126802 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Generic Wave-Function Description of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States and Fractional Topological Insulators

Xiao-Liang Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126803 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Plasmonic Airy Beam Generated by In-Plane Diffraction

L. Li, T. Li, S. M. Wang, C. Zhang, and S. N. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126804 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

Efficient Photovoltaic Current Generation at Ferroelectric Domain Walls

Jan Seidel, Deyi Fu, Seung-Yeul Yang, Esther Alarcón-Lladó, Junqiao Wu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Joel W. Ager, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126805 (2011) - Published 15 September, 2011

Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Trilayer Graphene

A. Kumar, W. Escoffier, J. M. Poumirol, C. Faugeras, D. P. Arovas, M. M. Fogler, F. Guinea, S. Roche, M. Goiran, and B. Raquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126806 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Low-Frequency Spin Fluctuations in Skyrmions Confined by Wires: Measurements of Local Nuclear Spin Relaxation

Takashi Kobayashi, Norio Kumada, Takeshi Ota, Satoshi Sasaki, and Yoshiro Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126807 (2011) - Published 16 September, 2011

Method for Detecting Superconducting Stripes in High-Temperature Superconductors Based on Nonlinear Resistivity Measurements

Rodrigo A. Muniz and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 127001 (2011) - Published 13 September, 2011

Hidden Itinerant-Spin Phase in Heavily Overdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductors Revealed by Dilute Fe Doping: A Combined Neutron Scattering and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study

Rui-Hua He, M. Fujita, M. Enoki, M. Hashimoto, S. Iikubo, S.-K. Mo, Hong Yao, T. Adachi, Y. Koike, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 127002 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Violation of a Temporal Bell Inequality for Single Spins in a Diamond Defect Center [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090401 (2011)]

G. Waldherr, P. Neumann, S. F. Huelga, F. Jelezko, and J. Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 129901 (2011) - Published 12 September, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Two-Spinon and Orbital Excitations of the Spin-Peierls System TiOCl [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 107402 (2011)]

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, 129902 (2011) - Published 14 September, 2011