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An algorithm simulates the contours of the 3D electric wave field magnitude in a Tokamak-confined plasma. The gold and gray regions are, respectively, inside and outside the last-closed magnetic flux surface.

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Predicting High Harmonic Ion Cyclotron Heating Efficiency in Tokamak Plasmas
D. L. Green, L. A. Berry, G. Chen, P. M. Ryan, J. M. Canik, and E. F. Jaeger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 145001 (2011)

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Large Fluctuations in Driven Dissipative Media

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Oxygen as a Site Specific Probe of the Structure of Water and Oxide Materials

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Kinetics of Congruent Vaporization of ZnO Islands

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Tuning Hydrophobicity of Platinum by Small Changes in Surface Morphology

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electrostatic-Field-Driven Alignment of Organic Oligomers on ZnO Surfaces

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Motion of Spin Polariton Bullets in Semiconductor Microcavities

C. Adrados, T. C. H. Liew, A. Amo, M. D. Martín, D. Sanvitto, C. Antón, E. Giacobino, A. Kavokin, A. Bramati, and L. Viña

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Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in the NV Center in Diamond

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Anomalous Charge Tunneling in Fractional Quantum Hall Edge States at a Filling Factor ν=5/2

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Low Bias Electron Scattering in Structure-Identified Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Role of Substrate Polar Phonons

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Equilibrium Circular Photogalvanic Effect in a Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor System

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Orbital Kondo Effect in Cobalt-Benzene Sandwich Molecules

M. Karolak, D. Jacob, and A. I. Lichtenstein

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Electrically Tunable Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a Graphene-Based Josephson Junction

Gil-Ho Lee, Dongchan Jeong, Jae-Hyun Choi, Yong-Joo Doh, and Hu-Jong Lee

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Two-Qubit Gate of Combined Single-Spin Rotation and Interdot Spin Exchange in a Double Quantum Dot

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Metal-Insulator Transition in SrTiO3x Thin Films Induced by Frozen-Out Carriers

Z. Q. Liu, D. P. Leusink, X. Wang, W. M. Lü, K. Gopinadhan, A. Annadi, Y. L. Zhao, X. H. Huang, S. W. Zeng, Z. Huang, A. Srivastava, S. Dhar, T. Venkatesan, and Ariando

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Fractional Quantum Hall Effect of Hard-Core Bosons in Topological Flat Bands

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Band Gap and Edge Engineering via Ferroic Distortion and Anisotropic Strain: The Case of SrTiO3

Robert F. Berger, Craig J. Fennie, and Jeffrey B. Neaton

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Consistent Description of the Metallic Phase of Overdoped Cuprate Superconductors as an Anisotropic Marginal Fermi Liquid

J. Kokalj and Ross H. McKenzie

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Evolution of the Superconducting State of Fe-Based Compounds with Doping

S. Maiti, M. M. Korshunov, T. A. Maier, P. J. Hirschfeld, and A. V. Chubukov

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Intrinsic Coupling of Orbital Excitations to Spin Fluctuations in Mott Insulators

Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Maria Daghofer, Satoshi Nishimoto, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Jeroen van den Brink

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Characterization of an Organic Field-Effect Thin-Film Transistor in Operation Using Fluorescence-Yield X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Hiroyuki S. Kato, Hiroyuki Yamane, Nobuhiro Kosugi, and Maki Kawai

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4-(cyanomethyl)anilinium Perchlorate: A New Displacive-Type Molecular Ferroelectric

Hong-Ling Cai, Wen Zhang, Jia-Zhen Ge, Yi Zhang, Kunio Awaga, Takayoshi Nakamura, and Ren-Gen Xiong

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Microscopic Origin of the Giant Ferroelectric Polarization in Tetragonal-like BiFeO3

J. X. Zhang, Q. He, M. Trassin, W. Luo, D. Yi, M. D. Rossell, P. Yu, L. You, C. H. Wang, C. Y. Kuo, J. T. Heron, Z. Hu, R. J. Zeches, H. J. Lin, A. Tanaka, C. T. Chen, L. H. Tjeng, Y.-H. Chu, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 147602 (2011) - Published 29 September, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Stick-Slip Friction and Energy Dissipation in Boundary Lubrication

Yajie Lei and Yongsheng Leng

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Effects of Input Noise on a Simple Biochemical Switch

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Three Classes of Motion in the Dynamic Neutron-Scattering Susceptibility of a Globular Protein

Liang Hong, Nikolai Smolin, Benjamin Lindner, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Jeremy C. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 148102 (2011) - Published 30 September, 2011

Emergence of Synchronized Beating during the Regrowth of Eukaryotic Flagella

Raymond E. Goldstein, Marco Polin, and Idan Tuval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 148103 (2011) - Published 30 September, 2011

Single-Molecule Elasticity Measurements of the Onset of Excluded Volume in Poly(Ethylene Glycol)

Andrew Dittmore, Dustin B. McIntosh, Sam Halliday, and Omar A. Saleh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 148301 (2011) - Published 27 September, 2011

Structural Signature of a Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Self-Assembled Networks

Laurence Ramos, Arnaud Laperrousaz, Philippe Dieudonné, and Christian Ligoure

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Polydispersity Stabilizes Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

S. Belli, A. Patti, M. Dijkstra, and R. van Roij

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Surface Energies and Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers on Grafted Surfaces

David M. Trombly, Victor Pryamitsyn, and Venkat Ganesan

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Emergence of El Niño as an Autonomous Component in the Climate Network

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Hawking Radiation from Ultrashort Laser Pulse Filaments”

Ralf Schützhold and William G. Unruh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 149401 (2011) - Published 28 September, 2011

Belgiorno et al. Reply:

F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, M. Clerici, V. Gorini, G. Ortenzi, L. Rizzi, E. Rubino, V. G. Sala, and D. Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 149402 (2011) - Published 28 September, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Shaping Biphoton Temporal Waveforms with Modulated Classical Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183604 (2010)]

J. F. Chen, Shanchao Zhang, Hui Yan, M. M. T. Loy, G. K. L. Wong, and Shengwang Du

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Publisher’s Note: Evading the Sign Problem in Random Matrix Simulations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 132002 (2011)]

Jacques Bloch

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Publisher’s Note: Surface State Charge Dynamics of a High-Mobility Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 136803 (2011)]

Jason N. Hancock, J. L. M. van Mechelen, Alexey B. Kuzmenko, Dirk van der Marel, Christoph Brüne, Elena G. Novik, Georgy V. Astakhov, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 149903 (2011) - Published 30 September, 2011

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