Volume 107, Issue 15

7 October 2011

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The red and blue regions represent two parts of a dimer crystal structure for truncated tetrahedra. The dimers are arranged here in a periodic structure with a packing fraction of 0.988.

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Dense Regular Packings of Irregular Nonconvex Particles
Joost de Graaf, René van Roij, and Marjolein Dijkstra
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155501 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Electron-Mediated Nuclear-Spin Interactions between Distant Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

A. Bermudez, F. Jelezko, M. B. Plenio, and A. Retzker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150503 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

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Enhanced Photon Generation in a $Nb / n - InGaAs / p - InP$ Superconductor/Semiconductor-Diode Light Emitting Device

H. Sasakura, S. Kuramitsu, Y. Hayashi, K. Tanaka, T. Akazaki, E. Hanamura, R. Inoue, H. Takayanagi, Y. Asano, C. Hermannstädter, H. Kumano, and I. Suemune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157403 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

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Is Hydrogen Storage Possible in Metal-Doped Graphite 2D Systems in Conditions Found on Earth?

A. Sigal, M. I. Rojas, and E. P. M. Leiva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 158701 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

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Nonlocal Nonlinear Optics in Cold Rydberg Gases

S. Sevinçli, N. Henkel, C. Ates, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 153001 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

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Quantum Capillary Waves at the Superfluid—Mott-Insulator Interface

Steffen Patrick Rath, Boris Spivak, and Wilhelm Zwerger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155703 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

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Observation of Electronic Raman Scattering in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

H. Farhat, S. Berciaud, M. Kalbac, R. Saito, T. F. Heinz, M. S. Dresselhaus, and J. Kong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157401 (2011) - Published 4 October, 2011

LETTERS

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

Experimental Realization of Decoherence-Free Subspace in Neutron Interferometry

D. A. Pushin, M. G. Huber, M. Arif, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150401 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Fermi Problem with Artificial Atoms in Circuit QED

Carlos Sabín, Marco del Rey, Juan José García-Ripoll, and Juan León

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150402 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Bose-Einstein Condensates with Spin-Orbit Interaction

Tin-Lun Ho and Shizhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150403 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Synthetic Gauge Fields for Vibrational Excitations of Trapped Ions

Alejandro Bermudez, Tobias Schaetz, and Diego Porras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150501 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Collective Uncertainty Entanglement Test

Łukasz Rudnicki, Paweł Horodecki, and Karol Życzkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150502 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

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Electron-Mediated Nuclear-Spin Interactions between Distant Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

A. Bermudez, F. Jelezko, M. B. Plenio, and A. Retzker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150503 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Energy Landscape of 3D Spin Hamiltonians with Topological Order

Sergey Bravyi and Jeongwan Haah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150504 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Finite-Temperature Phase Transition in a Class of Four-State Potts Antiferromagnets

Youjin Deng, Yuan Huang, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Jesús Salas, and Alan D. Sokal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150601 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Mode-Coupling-Induced Dissipative and Thermal Effects at Long Times after a Quantum Quench

Aditi Mitra and Thierry Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150602 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

No Collective Neutrino Flavor Conversions during the Supernova Accretion Phase

Sovan Chakraborty, Tobias Fischer, Alessandro Mirizzi, Ninetta Saviano, and Ricard Tomàs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 151101 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Cosmic Curvature from de Sitter Equilibrium Cosmology

Andreas Albrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 151102 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Spallation Model for the Titanium-Rich Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

Rachid Ouyed, Denis Leahy, Amir Ouyed, and Prashanth Jaikumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 151103 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Energy Loss of an Infinitely Massive Half-Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfeld Particle by Radiation to All Orders in $1 / N$

Bartomeu Fiol and Blai Garolera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 151601 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Search for a Fermiophobic and Standard Model Higgs Boson in Diphoton Final States

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 151801 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

QCD Resummation for Jet Substructures

Hsiang-nan Li, Zhao Li, and C.-P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 152001 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

QCD Resummation for Single Spin Asymmetries

Zhong-Bo Kang, Bo-Wen Xiao, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 152002 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Associated Higgs- $W$ -Boson Production at Hadron Colliders: A Fully Exclusive QCD Calculation at NNLO

Giancarlo Ferrera, Massimiliano Grazzini, and Francesco Tramontano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 152003 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Percolation Transition in Yang-Mills Matter at a Finite Number of Colors

Stefano Lottini and Giorgio Torrieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 152301 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Octupolar-Excitation Penning-Trap Mass Spectrometry for $Q$ -Value Measurement of Double-Electron Capture in ${}^{164}{Er}$

S. Eliseev, C. Roux, K. Blaum, M. Block, C. Droese, F. Herfurth, M. Kretzschmar, M. I. Krivoruchenko, E. Minaya Ramirez, Yu. N. Novikov, L. Schweikhard, V. M. Shabaev, F. Šimkovic, I. I. Tupitsyn, K. Zuber, and N. A. Zubova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 152501 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nonlocal Nonlinear Optics in Cold Rydberg Gases

S. Sevinçli, N. Henkel, C. Ates, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 153001 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Nonclassical Behavior of an Intense Cavity Field Revealed by Quantum Discord

D. Z. Rossatto, T. Werlang, E. I. Duzzioni, and C. J. Villas-Boas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 153601 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Attenuation Coefficient of Single-Mode Periodic Waveguides

A. Baron, S. Mazoyer, W. Smigaj, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 153901 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Trajectory Selection in High Harmonic Generation by Controlling the Phase between Orthogonal Two-Color Fields

Leonardo Brugnera, David J. Hoffmann, Thomas Siegel, Felix Frank, Amelle Zaïr, John W. G. Tisch, and Jonathan P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 153902 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Onset of Turbulence from the Receptivity Stage of Fluid Flows

T. K. Sengupta and S. Bhaumik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 154501 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Ultrafast Interference Imaging of Air in Splashing Dynamics

Michelle M. Driscoll and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 154502 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of Electron Thermal Transport due to Electron Temperature Gradient Modes in a Basic Experiment

V. Sokolov and A. K. Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155001 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Experimental Evidence for a Reduction in Electron Thermal Diffusion due to Trapped Particles

J. A. Reusch, J. K. Anderson, D. J. Den Hartog, F. Ebrahimi, D. D. Schnack, H. D. Stephens, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155002 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dense Regular Packings of Irregular Nonconvex Particles

Joost de Graaf, René van Roij, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155501 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Inhomogenous Electronic Structure, Transport Gap, and Percolation Threshold in Disordered Bilayer Graphene

E. Rossi and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155502 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Multiple-Wave Diffraction in High Energy Resolution Back-Reflecting X-Ray Optics

Yuri P. Stetsko, J. W. Keister, D. S. Coburn, C. N. Kodituwakku, A. Cunsolo, and Y. Q. Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155503 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Density-Temperature-Softness Scaling of the Dynamics of Glass-Forming Soft-Sphere Liquids

Pedro E. Ramírez-González, Leticia López-Flores, Heriberto Acuña-Campa, and Magdaleno Medina-Noyola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155701 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Phase Diagram of Water under an Applied Electric Field

J. L. Aragones, L. G. MacDowell, J. I. Siepmann, and C. Vega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155702 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

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Quantum Capillary Waves at the Superfluid—Mott-Insulator Interface

Steffen Patrick Rath, Boris Spivak, and Wilhelm Zwerger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155703 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Two-Step Melting in Two Dimensions: First-Order Liquid-Hexatic Transition

Etienne P. Bernard and Werner Krauth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 155704 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Threshold Barrier of Carbon Nanotube Growth

Qinghong Yuan, Hong Hu, and Feng Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156101 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Single Molecule Observations of Desorption-Mediated Diffusion at the Solid-Liquid Interface

Robert Walder, Nathaniel Nelson, and Daniel K. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156102 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dispersive and Covalent Interactions between Graphene and Metal Surfaces from the Random Phase Approximation

Thomas Olsen, Jun Yan, Jens J. Mortensen, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156401 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Theory of 2D Transport in Graphene for Correlated Disorder

Qiuzi Li, E. H. Hwang, E. Rossi, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156601 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Theory of Spin Noise in Nanowires

M. M. Glazov and E. Ya. Sherman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156602 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Chirality-Assisted Electronic Cloaking of Confined States in Bilayer Graphene

Nan Gu, Mark Rudner, and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156603 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Pseudospin in Optical and Transport Properties of Graphene

Maxim Trushin and John Schliemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156801 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Tunable Hot-Electron Transfer Within a Single Core-Shell Nanowire

Guannan Chen, Eric M. Gallo, Oren D. Leaffer, Terrence McGuckin, Paola Prete, Nico Lovergine, and Jonathan E. Spanier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156802 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

Orbital-Angular-Momentum Based Origin of Rashba-Type Surface Band Splitting

Seung Ryong Park, Choong H. Kim, Jaejun Yu, Jung Hoon Han, and Changyoung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 156803 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Entanglement Spectra of Complex Paired Superfluids

J. Dubail and N. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157001 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

Method to Characterize Spinons as Emergent Elementary Particles

Ying Tang and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157201 (2011) - Published 3 October, 2011

General Theory for the Ferroelectric Polarization Induced by Spin-Spiral Order

H. J. Xiang, E. J. Kan, Y. Zhang, M.-H. Whangbo, and X. G. Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157202 (2011) - Published 7 October, 2011

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Observation of Electronic Raman Scattering in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

H. Farhat, S. Berciaud, M. Kalbac, R. Saito, T. F. Heinz, M. S. Dresselhaus, and J. Kong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157401 (2011) - Published 4 October, 2011

Coalescence of Single Photons Emitted by Disparate Single-Photon Sources: The Example of InAs Quantum Dots and Parametric Down-Conversion Sources

Sergey V. Polyakov, Andreas Muller, Edward B. Flagg, Alex Ling, Natalia Borjemscaia, Edward Van Keuren, Alan Migdall, and Glenn S. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157402 (2011) - Published 5 October, 2011

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Enhanced Photon Generation in a $Nb / n - InGaAs / p - InP$ Superconductor/Semiconductor-Diode Light Emitting Device

H. Sasakura, S. Kuramitsu, Y. Hayashi, K. Tanaka, T. Akazaki, E. Hanamura, R. Inoue, H. Takayanagi, Y. Asano, C. Hermannstädter, H. Kumano, and I. Suemune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 157403 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Is Hydrogen Storage Possible in Metal-Doped Graphite 2D Systems in Conditions Found on Earth?

A. Sigal, M. I. Rojas, and E. P. M. Leiva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 158701 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Structural Preferential Attachment: Network Organization beyond the Link

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André Noël, and Louis J. Dubé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 158702 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

COMMENTS

Comment on “Plasmon-Enhanced Ultraviolet Photoluminescence from Hybrid Structures of Graphene/ZnO Films”

Wei Yang and Xiaodong Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 159701 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011

Ahn et al. Reply:

Kwang Jun Ahn, Sung Won Hwang, Dong Hee Shin, Chang Oh Kim, Seung Hui Hong, Min Choul Kim, Jungkil Kim, Keun Yong Lim, Sung Kim, Suk-Ho Choi, Gunn Kim, and Byung Hee Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 159702 (2011) - Published 6 October, 2011