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Volume 107, Issue 21

18 November 2011
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Assembly of triangular bipyramids forming a dodecagonal quasicrystal in Monte Carlo simulations.

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Degenerate Quasicrystal of Hard Triangular Bipyramids
Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, and Sharon C. Glotzer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215702 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Electric-Field-Induced Magnetization Reversal in a Ferromagnet-Multiferroic Heterostructure

J. T. Heron, M. Trassin, K. Ashraf, M. Gajek, Q. He, S. Y. Yang, D. E. Nikonov, Y-H. Chu, S. Salahuddin, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217202 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe136 with the EXO-200 Detector

N. Ackerman et al. (EXO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 212501 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

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Intrinsic Spin-Dependent Thermal Transport

S. Y. Huang, W. G. Wang, S. F. Lee, J. Kwo, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216604 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optics of Semiconductors from Meta-Generalized-Gradient-Approximation-Based Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

V. U. Nazarov and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216402 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

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Reliability of Hybrid Functionals in Predicting Band Gaps

Manish Jain, James R. Chelikowsky, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216806 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

LETTERS

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

Nature and Properties of a Repulsive Fermi Gas in the Upper Branch of the Energy Spectrum

Vijay B. Shenoy and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210401 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Temperature Can Enhance Coherent Oscillations at a Landau-Zener Transition

Robert S. Whitney, Maxime Clusel, and Timothy Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210402 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Quantum Correlations Require Multipartite Information Principles

Rodrigo Gallego, Lars Erik Würflinger, Antonio Acín, and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210403 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Practical Characterization of Quantum Devices without Tomography

Marcus P. da Silva, Olivier Landon-Cardinal, and David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210404 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Controlling Correlated Tunneling and Superexchange Interactions with ac-Driven Optical Lattices

Yu-Ao Chen, Sylvain Nascimbène, Monika Aidelsburger, Marcos Atala, Stefan Trotzky, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210405 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Strong Quantum Spin Correlations Observed in Atomic Spin Mixing

Eva M. Bookjans, Christopher D. Hamley, and Michael S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210406 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Topological Order at Nonzero Temperature

Matthew B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210501 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Quantum Information Transfer between Topological and Spin Qubit Systems

Martin Leijnse and Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210502 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Effects of Hyperons in Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Kenta Kiuchi, Koutarou Kyutoku, and Masaru Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 211101 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Primordial Non-Gaussianities of Gravitational Waves in the Most General Single-Field Inflation Model with Second-Order Field Equations

Xian Gao, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masahide Yamaguchi, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 211301 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Observational Constraints on Loop Quantum Cosmology

Martin Bojowald, Gianluca Calcagni, and Shinji Tsujikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 211302 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Second-Order Phase Transition in Causal Dynamical Triangulations

Jan Ambjørn, S. Jordan, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 211303 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Determination of fs/fd for 7 TeV pp Collisions and Measurement of the B0→D−K+ Branching Fraction

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 211801 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Constraining Quark Angular Momentum through Semi-Inclusive Measurements

Alessandro Bacchetta and Marco Radici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 212001 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Experimental Confirmation that the Proton is Asymptotically a Black Disk

Martin M. Block and Francis Halzen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 212002 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Nuclear Physics

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Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe136 with the EXO-200 Detector

N. Ackerman et al. (EXO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 212501 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

First Experimental Determination of the Charge Radius of Rb74 and Its Application in Tests of the Unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

E. Mané, A. Voss, J. A. Behr, J. Billowes, T. Brunner, F. Buchinger, J. E. Crawford, J. Dilling, S. Ettenauer, C. D. P. Levy, O. Shelbaya, and M. R. Pearson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 212502 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Magnetic Dichroism in K-Shell Photoemission from Laser Excited Li Atoms

M. Meyer, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, D. Cubaynes, Z. Felfli, E. Heinecke, S. T. Manson, and P. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213001 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Enhanced Ps-Ps Interactions due to Quantum Confinement

D. B. Cassidy and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213401 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency with Rydberg Atoms

David Petrosyan, Johannes Otterbach, and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213601 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Experimental Test of the Quantum Non-Gaussian Character of a Heralded Single-Photon State

Miroslav Ježek, Ivo Straka, Michal Mičuda, Miloslav Dušek, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213602 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Mechanical Squeezing via Parametric Amplification and Weak Measurement

A. Szorkovszky, A. C. Doherty, G. I. Harris, and W. P. Bowen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213603 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Dissipative Optomechanics in a Michelson-Sagnac Interferometer

André Xuereb, Roman Schnabel, and Klemens Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213604 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

How Accurate Is the Attosecond Streak Camera?

Misha Ivanov and Olga Smirnova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 213605 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Beating the Efficiency of Both Quantum and Classical Simulations with a Semiclassical Method

Cesare Mollica and Jiří Vaníček

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 214101 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Ear Deformations Give Bats a Physical Mechanism for Fast Adaptation of Ultrasonic Beam Patterns

Li Gao, Sreenath Balakrishnan, Weikai He, Zhen Yan, and Rolf Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 214301 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Pair Dispersion in Turbulence: The Subdominant Role of Scaling

Mark Peter Rast and Jean-François Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 214501 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Lagrangian Acceleration of Passive Tracers in Statistically Steady Rotating Turbulence

Lorenzo Del Castello and Herman J. H. Clercx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 214502 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Different Regimes for Water Wave Turbulence

P. Cobelli, A. Przadka, P. Petitjeans, G. Lagubeau, V. Pagneux, and A. Maurel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 214503 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Inter-ELM Power Decay Length for JET and ASDEX Upgrade: Measurement and Comparison with Heuristic Drift-Based Model

T. Eich, B. Sieglin, A. Scarabosio, W. Fundamenski, R. J. Goldston, and A. Herrmann (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215001 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Electron Temperature Gradient Scale at Collisionless Shocks

Steven J. Schwartz, Edmund Henley, Jeremy Mitchell, and Vladimir Krasnoselskikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215002 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation, Density Peaking, and Turbulence Regimes in the Core of Tokamak Plasmas

C. Angioni, R. M. McDermott, F. J. Casson, E. Fable, A. Bottino, R. Dux, R. Fischer, Y. Podoba, T. Pütterich, F. Ryter, and E. Viezzer (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215003 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Mapping the X-Ray Emission Region in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator

S. Corde, C. Thaury, K. Ta Phuoc, A. Lifschitz, G. Lambert, J. Faure, O. Lundh, E. Benveniste, A. Ben-Ismail, L. Arantchuk, A. Marciniak, A. Stordeur, P. Brijesh, A. Rousse, A. Specka, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215004 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Simultaneous Dimerization and SU(4) Symmetry Breaking of 4-Color Fermions on the Square Lattice

Philippe Corboz, Andreas M. Läuchli, Karlo Penc, Matthias Troyer, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215301 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Atomic Scale Fluctuations Govern Brittle Fracture and Cavitation Behavior in Metallic Glasses

P. Murali, T. F. Guo, Y. W. Zhang, R. Narasimhan, Y. Li, and H. J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215501 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Novel Superhard Carbon: C-Centered Orthorhombic C8

Zhisheng Zhao, Bo Xu, Xiang-Feng Zhou, Li-Min Wang, Bin Wen, Julong He, Zhongyuan Liu, Hui-Tian Wang, and Yongjun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215502 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Regular Packings on Periodic Lattices

Tadeus Ras, Rolf Schilling, and Martin Weigel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215503 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

When Is a Conductor Not Perfect? Sum Rules Fail Under Critical Fluctuations

Subir K. Das, Young C. Kim, and Michael E. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215701 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Degenerate Quasicrystal of Hard Triangular Bipyramids

Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215702 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Inducing H/D Exchange in Ultrathin Ice Films by Proton Deficiency

J. Blomquist, M. P. Andersson, and P. Uvdal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216101 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Towards a Description of the Kondo Effect Using Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

G. Stefanucci and S. Kurth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216401 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optics of Semiconductors from Meta-Generalized-Gradient-Approximation-Based Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

V. U. Nazarov and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216402 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Unconventional Temperature Enhanced Magnetism in Fe1.1Te

Igor A. Zaliznyak, Zhijun Xu, John M. Tranquada, Genda Gu, Alexei M. Tsvelik, and Matthew B. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216403 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Floquet Spectrum and Transport through an Irradiated Graphene Ribbon

Zhenghao Gu, H. A. Fertig, Daniel P. Arovas, and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216601 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Quantum Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Dong Su Lee, Christian Riedl, Thomas Beringer, A. H. Castro Neto, Klaus von Klitzing, Ulrich Starke, and Jurgen H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216602 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Carrier Scattering from Dynamical Magnetoconductivity in Quasineutral Epitaxial Graphene

M. Orlita, C. Faugeras, R. Grill, A. Wysmolek, W. Strupinski, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, G. Martinez, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216603 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

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Intrinsic Spin-Dependent Thermal Transport

S. Y. Huang, W. G. Wang, S. F. Lee, J. Kwo, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216604 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Dispersion and Localization of Electronic States at a Ferrocene/Cu(111) Interface

B. W. Heinrich, L. Limot, M. V. Rastei, C. Iacovita, J. P. Bucher, Duval Mbongo Djimbi, Carlo Massobrio, and Mauro Boero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216801 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Observation of Hysteretic Transport due to Dynamic Nuclear Spin Polarization in a GaAs Lateral Double Quantum Dot

Takashi Kobayashi, Kenichi Hitachi, Satoshi Sasaki, and Koji Muraki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216802 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Quasiparticle Excitations and Charge Transition Levels of Oxygen Vacancies in Hafnia

Manish Jain, James R. Chelikowsky, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216803 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Coulomb Blockade in an Open Quantum Dot

S. Amasha, I. G. Rau, M. Grobis, R. M. Potok, H. Shtrikman, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216804 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Fingerprints of the Anisotropic Spin-Split Hole Dispersion in Resonant Inelastic Light Scattering in Two-Dimensional Hole Systems

M. Hirmer, M. Hirmer, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, T. Korn, R. Winkler, and C. Schüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216805 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reliability of Hybrid Functionals in Predicting Band Gaps

Manish Jain, James R. Chelikowsky, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216806 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Direct Probing of Schottky Barriers in Si Nanowire Schottky Barrier Field Effect Transistors

Dominik Martin, Andre Heinzig, Matthias Grube, Lutz Geelhaar, Thomas Mikolajick, Henning Riechert, and Walter M. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 216807 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Topological Superconductivity in CuxBi2Se3

Satoshi Sasaki, M. Kriener, Kouji Segawa, Keiji Yada, Yukio Tanaka, Masatoshi Sato, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217001 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Anisotropic In-Plane Resistivity in the Nematic Phase of the Iron Pnictides

Rafael M. Fernandes, Elihu Abrahams, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217002 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Role of the Vortex-Core Energy on the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Thin Films of NbN

Mintu Mondal, Sanjeev Kumar, Madhavi Chand, Anand Kamlapure, Garima Saraswat, G. Seibold, L. Benfatto, and Pratap Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217003 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Upper Limit to Magnetism in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures

M. R. Fitzsimmons, N. W. Hengartner, S. Singh, M. Zhernenkov, F. Y. Bruno, J. Santamaria, A. Brinkman, M. Huijben, H. J. A. Molegraaf, J. de la Venta, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217201 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

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Electric-Field-Induced Magnetization Reversal in a Ferromagnet-Multiferroic Heterostructure

J. T. Heron, M. Trassin, K. Ashraf, M. Gajek, Q. He, S. Y. Yang, D. E. Nikonov, Y-H. Chu, S. Salahuddin, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217202 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Ferromagnetism in Hydrogenated Graphene Nanopore Arrays

K. Tada, J. Haruyama, H. X. Yang, M. Chshiev, T. Matsui, and H. Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217203 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Diversity Enabling Equilibration: Disorder and the Ground State in Artificial Spin Ice

Zoe Budrikis, Paolo Politi, and R. L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217204 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Electric Current Effect on the Energy Barrier of Magnetic Domain Wall Depinning: Origin of the Quadratic Contribution

Kab-Jin Kim, Jisu Ryu, Gi-Hong Gim, Jae-Chul Lee, Kyung-Ho Shin, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Sug-Bong Choe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217205 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Long-Range Crystalline Nature of the Skyrmion Lattice in MnSi

T. Adams, S. Mühlbauer, C. Pfleiderer, F. Jonietz, A. Bauer, A. Neubauer, R. Georgii, P. Böni, U. Keiderling, K. Everschor, M. Garst, and A. Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217206 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Microwave Photon Counter Based on Josephson Junctions

Y.-F. Chen, D. Hover, S. Sendelbach, L. Maurer, S. T. Merkel, E. J. Pritchett, F. K. Wilhelm, and R. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217401 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Dependence of the Redshifted and Blueshifted Photoluminescence Spectra of Single InxGa1−xAs/GaAs Quantum Dots on the Applied Uniaxial Stress

K. D. Jöns, R. Hafenbrak, R. Singh, F. Ding, J. D. Plumhof, A. Rastelli, O. G. Schmidt, G. Bester, and P. Michler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217402 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Time Dependence of Charge Transfer Processes in Diamond Studied with Positrons

J.-M. Mäki, F. Tuomisto, A. Varpula, D. Fisher, R. U. A. Khan, and P. M. Martineau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217403 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Interplay of Couplings between Antiferrodistortive, Ferroelectric, and Strain Degrees of Freedom in Monodomain PbTiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattices

Pablo Aguado-Puente, Pablo García-Fernández, and Javier Junquera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217601 (2011) - Published 15 November, 2011

Insight on Hole-Hole Interaction and Magnetic Order from Dichroic Auger-Photoelectron Coincidence Spectra

M. Cini, E. Perfetto, R. Gotter, F. Offi, A. Ruocco, and G. Stefani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217602 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Impact Craters in Granular Media: Grains against Grains

F. Pacheco-Vázquez and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 218001 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Gene Expression Noise Facilitates Adaptation and Drug Resistance Independently of Mutation

Daniel A. Charlebois, Nezar Abdennur, and Mads Kaern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 218101 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Multiwavelength Anomalous Diffraction at High X-Ray Intensity

Sang-Kil Son (손상길), Henry N. Chapman, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 218102 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Active Biopolymers Confer Fast Reorganization Kinetics

Douglas Swanson and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 218103 (2011) - Published 17 November, 2011

Nonrenewal Statistics in the Catalytic Activity of Enzyme Molecules at Mesoscopic Concentrations

Soma Saha, Somdeb Ghose, R. Adhikari, and Arti Dua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 218301 (2011) - Published 16 November, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Near-Deterministic Discrimination of All Bell States with Linear Optics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080403 (2011)]

Mladen Pavičić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 219901 (2011) - Published 14 November, 2011

Erratum: Quantum Metrology with Entangled Coherent States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083601 (2011)]

Jaewoo Joo, William J. Munro, and Timothy P. Spiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 219902 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

Erratum: Anomalously Long Passage through a Rounded-Off-Step Potential due to a New Mechanism of Multidimensional Tunneling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240403 (2006)]

Kin’ya Takahashi and Kensuke S. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 219903 (2011) - Published 18 November, 2011

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