Volume 107, Issue 18

28 October 2011

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Photograph of a crustose lichen community on a rock in an alpine environment. The community can be modeled as a group of mutually excluding organisms competing for space.

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Ecosystems with Mutually Exclusive Interactions Self-Organize to a State of High Diversity
Joachim Mathiesen, Namiko Mitarai, Kim Sneppen, and Ala Trusina
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011)

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Pair Creation Constrains Superluminal Neutrino Propagation

Andrew G. Cohen and Sheldon L. Glashow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181803 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Experimental Validation of the Largest Calculated Isospin-Symmetry-Breaking Effect in a Superallowed Fermi Decay

D. Melconian, S. Triambak, C. Bordeanu, A. García, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, N. Nica, H. I. Park, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, I. S. Towner, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 182301 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Molecular Symmetry Governs Surface Diffusion

Tobias Sonnleitner, Ingmar Swart, Niko Pavliček, Andreas Pöllmann, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186103 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Chern Semimetal and the Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in ${HgCr}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

Gang Xu, Hongming Weng, Zhijun Wang, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186806 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Stress Clamp Experiments on Multicellular Tumor Spheroids

Fabien Montel, Morgan Delarue, Jens Elgeti, Laurent Malaquin, Markus Basan, Thomas Risler, Bernard Cabane, Danijela Vignjevic, Jacques Prost, Giovanni Cappello, and Jean-François Joanny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188102 (2011) - Published 24 October, 2011

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Unifying Suspension and Granular Rheology

François Boyer, Élisabeth Guazzelli, and Olivier Pouliquen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188301 (2011) - Published 24 October, 2011

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Interaction of Single Viruslike Particles with Vesicles Containing Glycosphingolipids

M. Bally, A. Gunnarsson, L. Svensson, G. Larson, V. P. Zhdanov, and F. Höök

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188103 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

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Improved Search for Muon-Neutrino to Electron-Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181802 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Joule Heating and Spin-Transfer Torque Investigated on the Atomic Scale Using a Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope

S. Krause, G. Herzog, A. Schlenhoff, A. Sonntag, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186601 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Gate-Dependent Orbital Magnetic Moments in Carbon Nanotubes

T. S. Jespersen, K. Grove-Rasmussen, K. Flensberg, J. Paaske, K. Muraki, T. Fujisawa, and J. Nygård

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186802 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

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Spatially Modulated Tunnel Magnetoresistance on the Nanoscale

Hirofumi Oka, Kun Tao, Sebastian Wedekind, Guillemin Rodary, Valeri S. Stepanyuk, Dirk Sander, and Jürgen Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187201 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

LETTERS

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

Importance of Reversibility in the Quantum Formalism

François David

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180401 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Detecting Nonclassical System-Environment Correlations by Local Operations

Manuel Gessner and Heinz-Peter Breuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180402 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Particle Self-Bunching in the Schwinger Effect in Spacetime-Dependent Electric Fields

F. Hebenstreit, R. Alkofer, and H. Gies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180403 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Entanglement Cost of Implementing Controlled-Unitary Operations

Akihito Soeda, Peter S. Turner, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180501 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Entanglement Detection in the Vicinity of Arbitrary Dicke States

L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180502 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking at the Fluctuating Level

Pablo I. Hurtado and Pedro L. Garrido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180601 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Spatial Markov Model of Anomalous Transport Through Random Lattice Networks

Peter K. Kang, Marco Dentz, Tanguy Le Borgne, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180602 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Noise-Induced Stabilization in Population Dynamics

Matthew Parker, Alex Kamenev, and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 180603 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Long-Term Cycling of Kozai-Lidov Cycles: Extreme Eccentricities and Inclinations Excited by a Distant Eccentric Perturber

Boaz Katz, Subo Dong, and Renu Malhotra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181101 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Flux Periodicities and Quantum Hair on Holographic Superconductors

Marc Montull, Oriol Pujolàs, Alberto Salvio, and Pedro J. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181601 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Search for New Physics in High $p_{T}$ Like-Sign Dilepton Events at CDF II

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181801 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

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Improved Search for Muon-Neutrino to Electron-Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181802 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

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Pair Creation Constrains Superluminal Neutrino Propagation

Andrew G. Cohen and Sheldon L. Glashow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 181803 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

$η π^{+} π^{-}$ Resonant Structure around $1.8 GeV / c^{2}$ and $η (1405)$ in $J / ψ \to ω η π^{+} π^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 182001 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Nuclear Physics

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Experimental Validation of the Largest Calculated Isospin-Symmetry-Breaking Effect in a Superallowed Fermi Decay

D. Melconian, S. Triambak, C. Bordeanu, A. García, J. C. Hardy, V. E. Iacob, N. Nica, H. I. Park, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, I. S. Towner, R. E. Tribble, and Y. Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 182301 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Streaking in the Low-Energy Region as a Probe of Rescattering

Ming-Hui Xu, Liang-You Peng, Zheng Zhang, Qihuang Gong, Xiao-Min Tong, Evgeny A. Pronin, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183001 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Prediction of the Derivative Discontinuity in Density Functional Theory from an Electrostatic Description of the Exchange and Correlation Potential

Xavier Andrade and Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183002 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

Photon Energy Dependent Valence Band Response of Metallic Nanoparticles

K. Jänkälä, M. Tchaplyguine, M.-H. Mikkelä, O. Björneholm, and M. Huttula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183401 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Observation of Optical Bound States in the Continuum

Yonatan Plotnik, Or Peleg, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183901 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Crescent Waves in Optical Cavities

Chandroth P. Jisha, YuanYao Lin, Tsin-Dong Lee, and Ray-Kuang Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183902 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Extreme Nonlinear Optics in a Femtosecond Enhancement Cavity

T. K. Allison, A. Cingöz, D. C. Yost, and J. Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 183903 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Breakdown of Self-Similarity at the Crests of Large-Amplitude Standing Water Waves

Jon Wilkening

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 184501 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Triggering Rogue Waves in Opposing Currents

Miguel Onorato, Davide Proment, and Alessandro Toffoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 184502 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Dynamic Multiscaling in Two-Dimensional Fluid Turbulence

Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Dhrubaditya Mitra, Prasad Perlekar, and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 184503 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Long Wave Run-Up on Random Beaches

Denys Dutykh, Céline Labart, and Dimitrios Mitsotakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 184504 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ion and Electron Heating Characteristics of Magnetic Reconnection in a Two Flux Loop Merging Experiment

Y. Ono, H. Tanabe, Y. Hayashi, T. Ii, Y. Narushima, T. Yamada, M. Inomoto, and C. Z. Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185001 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Dense Monoenergetic Proton Beams from Chirped Laser-Plasma Interaction

Benjamin J. Galow, Yousef I. Salamin, Tatyana V. Liseykina, Zoltán Harman, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185002 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Generality of Deterministic Chaos, Exponential Spectra, and Lorentzian Pulses in Magnetically Confined Plasmas

J. E. Maggs and G. J. Morales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185003 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Diagram of the Commensurate Two-Dimensional Disordered Bose-Hubbard Model

Ş. G. Söyler, M. Kiselev, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185301 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Understanding the Metal-Carbon Interface in FePt Catalyzed Carbon Nanotubes

D. Pohl, F. Schäffel, M. H. Rümmeli, E. Mohn, C. Täschner, L. Schultz, C. Kisielowski, and B. Rellinghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185501 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Probing Shear-Band Initiation in Metallic Glasses

D. Klaumünzer, A. Lazarev, R. Maaß, F. H. Dalla Torre, A. Vinogradov, and J. F. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185502 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Interplay of Wetting and Elasticity in the Nucleation of Carbon Nanotubes

Dmitri Schebarchov, Shaun C. Hendy, Elif Ertekin, and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185503 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Hydrogen Bonds and van der Waals Forces in Ice at Ambient and High Pressures

Biswajit Santra, Jiří Klimeš, Dario Alfè, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Ben Slater, Angelos Michaelides, Roberto Car, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185701 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Glass Transition and Random Close Packing above Three Dimensions

Patrick Charbonneau, Atsushi Ikeda, Giorgio Parisi, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185702 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Dynamical Screening and Ionic Conductivity in Water from Ab Initio Simulations

Martin French, Sebastien Hamel, and Ronald Redmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 185901 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Dielectrowetting Driven Spreading of Droplets

G. McHale, C. V. Brown, M. I. Newton, G. G. Wells, and N. Sampara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186101 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Interaction of Phonons and Dirac Fermions on the Surface of ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ : A Strong Kohn Anomaly

Xuetao Zhu, L. Santos, R. Sankar, S. Chikara, C. . Howard, F. C. Chou, C. Chamon, and M. El-Batanouny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186102 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

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Molecular Symmetry Governs Surface Diffusion

Tobias Sonnleitner, Ingmar Swart, Niko Pavliček, Andreas Pöllmann, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186103 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Three-Dimensional Atomic Structure of Metastable Nanoclusters in Doped Semiconductors

Martin Couillard, Guillaume Radtke, Andrew P. Knights, and Gianluigi A. Botton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186104 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bootstrap Approximation for the Exchange-Correlation Kernel of Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, A. Sanna, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186401 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Spin Superstructure and Noncoplanar Ordering in Metallic Pyrochlore Magnets with Degenerate Orbitals

Gia-Wei Chern and Cristian D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186403 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Simple Approximate Physical Orbitals for $G W$ Quasiparticle Calculations

Georgy Samsonidze, Manish Jain, Jack Deslippe, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186404 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Rashba Spin-Splitting Control at the Surface of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Z.-H. Zhu, G. Levy, B. Ludbrook, C. N. Veenstra, J. A. Rosen, R. Comin, D. Wong, P. Dosanjh, A. Ubaldini, P. Syers, N. P. Butch, J. Paglione, I. S. Elfimov, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186405 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Damping of Bloch Oscillations in the Hubbard Model

Martin Eckstein and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186406 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Huge (but Finite) Time Scales in Slow Relaxations: Beyond Simple Aging

Ariel Amir, Stefano Borini, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186407 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Near Doping-Independent Pocket Area from an Antinodal Fermi Surface Instability in Underdoped High Temperature Superconductors

N. Harrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186408 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

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Joule Heating and Spin-Transfer Torque Investigated on the Atomic Scale Using a Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscope

S. Krause, G. Herzog, A. Schlenhoff, A. Sonntag, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186601 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Enhanced Thermoelectric Power in Dual-Gated Bilayer Graphene

Chang-Ran Wang, Wen-Sen Lu, Lei Hao, Wei-Li Lee, Ting-Kuo Lee, Feng Lin, I-Chun Cheng, and Jian-Zhang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186602 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Interacting Dirac Fermions on a Topological Insulator in a Magnetic Field

Vadim M. Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186801 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

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Gate-Dependent Orbital Magnetic Moments in Carbon Nanotubes

T. S. Jespersen, K. Grove-Rasmussen, K. Flensberg, J. Paaske, K. Muraki, T. Fujisawa, and J. Nygård

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186802 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Stable Pfaffian State in Bilayer Graphene

Vadim M. Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186803 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Magneto-Coulomb Effect in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots Filled with Magnetic Nanoparticles

S. Datta, L. Marty, J. P. Cleuziou, C. Tilmaciu, B. Soula, E. Flahaut, and W. Wernsdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186804 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Quasiparticle Interference around a Magnetic Impurity on a Surface with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling

Anna Stróżecka, Asier Eiguren, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186805 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

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Chern Semimetal and the Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in ${HgCr}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

Gang Xu, Hongming Weng, Zhijun Wang, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186806 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Mean-Field Pairing Theory for the Charge-Stripe Phase of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

Florian Loder, Siegfried Graser, Arno P. Kampf, and Thilo Kopp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187001 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

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Spatially Modulated Tunnel Magnetoresistance on the Nanoscale

Hirofumi Oka, Kun Tao, Sebastian Wedekind, Guillemin Rodary, Valeri S. Stepanyuk, Dirk Sander, and Jürgen Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187201 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Anisotropic Critical Magnetic Fluctuations in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe

C. Stock, D. A. Sokolov, P. Bourges, P. H. Tobash, K. Gofryk, F. Ronning, E. D. Bauer, K. C. Rule, and A. D. Huxley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187202 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Identification of Different Electron Screening Behavior Between the Bulk and Surface of (Ga,Mn)As

J. Fujii, M. Sperl, S. Ueda, K. Kobayashi, Y. Yamashita, M. Kobata, P. Torelli, F. Borgatti, M. Utz, C. S. Fadley, A. X. Gray, G. Monaco, C. H. Back, G. van der Laan, and G. Panaccione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187203 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Enhanced NMR Relaxation of Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids and the Magnitude of the Carbon Hyperfine Coupling in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

A. Kiss, A. Pályi, Y. Ihara, P. Wzietek, P. Simon, H. Alloul, V. Zólyomi, J. Koltai, J. Kürti, B. Dóra, and F. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187204 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

All-Optical Trion Generation in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Silvia M. Santos, Bertrand Yuma, Stéphane Berciaud, Jonah Shaver, Mathieu Gallart, Pierre Gilliot, Laurent Cognet, and Brahim Lounis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187401 (2011) - Published 27 October, 2011

Real-Time Direct Observations of Polarization Reversal in a Piezoelectric Crystal: $Pb ({Mg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3}) O_{3} − {PbTiO}_{3}$ Studied via In Situ Electrical Biasing Transmission Electron Microscopy

Yukio Sato, Tsukasa Hirayama, and Yuichi Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187601 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Equilibrium Polarization of Ultrathin ${PbTiO}_{3}$ with Surface Compensation Controlled by Oxygen Partial Pressure

M. J. Highland, T. T. Fister, D. D. Fong, P. H. Fuoss, Carol Thompson, J. A. Eastman, S. K. Streiffer, and G. B. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187602 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

Giant Alkali-Metal-Induced Lattice Relaxation as the Driving Force of the Insulating Phase of Alkali-Metal/Si(111):B

L. Chaput, C. Tournier-Colletta, L. Cardenas, A. Tejeda, B. Kierren, D. Malterre, Y. Fagot-Revurat, P. Le Fèvre, F. Bertran, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, D. G. Trabada, J. Ortega, and F. Flores

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 187603 (2011) - Published 28 October, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Transverse Instability of Dunes

Eric J. R. Parteli, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188001 (2011) - Published 26 October, 2011

Ecosystems with Mutually Exclusive Interactions Self-Organize to a State of High Diversity

Joachim Mathiesen, Namiko Mitarai, Kim Sneppen, and Ala Trusina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011) - Published 25 October, 2011

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Stress Clamp Experiments on Multicellular Tumor Spheroids

Fabien Montel, Morgan Delarue, Jens Elgeti, Laurent Malaquin, Markus Basan, Thomas Risler, Bernard Cabane, Danijela Vignjevic, Jacques Prost, Giovanni Cappello, and Jean-François Joanny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188102 (2011) - Published 24 October, 2011

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