Volume 107, Issue 24

9 December 2011

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Chaotic attractor for a network of four symmetrically coupled phase oscillators.

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Chaos in Symmetric Phase Oscillator Networks
Christian Bick, Marc Timme, Danilo Paulikat, Dirk Rathlev, and Peter Ashwin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 244101 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of High Coherence in Josephson Junction Qubits Measured in a Three-Dimensional Circuit QED Architecture

Hanhee Paik, D. I. Schuster, Lev S. Bishop, G. Kirchmair, G. Catelani, A. P. Sears, B. R. Johnson, M. J. Reagor, L. Frunzio, L. I. Glazman, S. M. Girvin, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240501 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

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Experimental Unconditional Preparation and Detection of a Continuous Bound Entangled State of Light

J. DiGuglielmo, A. Samblowski, B. Hage, C. Pineda, J. Eisert, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240503 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

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Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241302 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

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Exclusion of Canonical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles by Joint Analysis of Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies with Data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Alex Geringer-Sameth and Savvas M. Koushiappas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241303 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

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Nanoscale Electrostatic Manipulation of Magnetic Flux Quanta in Ferroelectric/Superconductor ${BiFeO}_{3} / {YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Heterostructures

Arnaud Crassous, Rozenn Bernard, Stéphane Fusil, Karim Bouzehouane, David Le Bourdais, Shaïma Enouz-Vedrenne, Javier Briatico, Manuel Bibes, Agnès Barthélémy, and Javier E. Villegas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247002 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

LETTERS

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

Klein Tunneling of a Quasirelativistic Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice

Tobias Salger, Christopher Grossert, Sebastian Kling, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240401 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

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Observation of High Coherence in Josephson Junction Qubits Measured in a Three-Dimensional Circuit QED Architecture

Hanhee Paik, D. I. Schuster, Lev S. Bishop, G. Kirchmair, G. Catelani, A. P. Sears, B. R. Johnson, M. J. Reagor, L. Frunzio, L. I. Glazman, S. M. Girvin, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240501 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Spin Squeezing Inequalities for Arbitrary Spin

Giuseppe Vitagliano, Philipp Hyllus, Iñigo L. Egusquiza, and Géza Tóth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240502 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

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Experimental Unconditional Preparation and Detection of a Continuous Bound Entangled State of Light

J. DiGuglielmo, A. Samblowski, B. Hage, C. Pineda, J. Eisert, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240503 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

Boson Pairing and Unusual Criticality in a Generalized $X Y$ Model

Yifei Shi, Austen Lamacraft, and Paul Fendley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240601 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Anderson Localization or Nonlinear Waves: A Matter of Probability

M. V. Ivanchenko, T. V. Laptyeva, and S. Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240602 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Fluctuations of Time Averages for Langevin Dynamics in a Binding Force Field

A. Dechant, E. Lutz, D. A. Kessler, and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 240603 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Floating and Sinking: The Imprint of Massive Scalars around Rotating Black Holes

Vitor Cardoso, Sayan Chakrabarti, Paolo Pani, Emanuele Berti, and Leonardo Gualtieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241101 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Black Hole Entropy and Isolated Horizons Thermodynamics

Amit Ghosh and Alejandro Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241301 (2011) - Published 6 December, 2011

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Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241302 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

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Exclusion of Canonical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles by Joint Analysis of Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies with Data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Alex Geringer-Sameth and Savvas M. Koushiappas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241303 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Universal Fermionic Spectral Functions from String Theory

Jerome P. Gauntlett, Julian Sonner, and Daniel Waldram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241601 (2011) - Published 6 December, 2011

Search for Differences in Oscillation Parameters for Atmospheric Neutrinos and Antineutrinos at Super-Kamiokande

K. Abe et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241801 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Constraints and Tests of the OPERA Superluminal Neutrinos

Xiao-Jun Bi, Peng-Fei Yin, Zhao-Huan Yu, and Qiang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241802 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

$W γ$ Production and Limits on Anomalous $W W γ$ Couplings in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241803 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

GHz Rabi Flopping to Rydberg States in Hot Atomic Vapor Cells

B. Huber, T. Baluktsian, M. Schlagmüller, A. Kölle, H. Kübler, R. Löw, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243001 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Doppler Cooling to the Quantum Limit

M. Chalony, A. Kastberg, B. Klappauf, and D. Wilkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243002 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Enhanced Nonlinear Double Excitation of He in Intense Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields

A. Hishikawa, M. Fushitani, Y. Hikosaka, A. Matsuda, C.-N. Liu, T. Morishita, E. Shigemasa, M. Nagasono, K. Tono, T. Togashi, H. Ohashi, H. Kimura, Y. Senba, M. Yabashi, and T. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243003 (2011) - Published 6 December, 2011

Control of Molecular Rotation with a Chiral Train of Ultrashort Pulses

S. Zhdanovich, A. A. Milner, C. Bloomquist, J. Floß, I. Sh. Averbukh, J. W. Hepburn, and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243004 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Measurement of a Large Chemical Reaction Rate between Ultracold Closed-Shell ${}^{40}{Ca}$ Atoms and Open-Shell ${}^{174}{Yb}^{+}$ Ions Held in a Hybrid Atom-Ion Trap

Wade G. Rellergert, Scott T. Sullivan, Svetlana Kotochigova, Alexander Petrov, Kuang Chen, Steven J. Schowalter, and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243201 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Light-Assisted Ion-Neutral Reactive Processes in the Cold Regime: Radiative Molecule Formation versus Charge Exchange

Felix H. J. Hall, Mireille Aymar, Nadia Bouloufa-Maafa, Olivier Dulieu, and Stefan Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243202 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Dispersive Optical Interface Based on Nanofiber-Trapped Atoms

S. T. Dawkins, R. Mitsch, D. Reitz, E. Vetsch, and A. Rauschenbeutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243601 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Supercontinuum Generation with Femtosecond Self-Healing Airy Pulses

Craig Ament, Pavel Polynkin, and Jerome V. Moloney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243901 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Trapped-Ion State Detection through Coherent Motion

D. B. Hume, C. W. Chou, D. R. Leibrandt, M. J. Thorpe, D. J. Wineland, and T. Rosenband

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243902 (2011) - Published 6 December, 2011

Chaos in Symmetric Phase Oscillator Networks

Christian Bick, Marc Timme, Danilo Paulikat, Dirk Rathlev, and Peter Ashwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 244101 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Memory Effects are Relevant for Chaotic Advection of Inertial Particles

Anton Daitche and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 244501 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stabilization of the Resistive Wall Mode by a Rotating Solid Conductor

C. Paz-Soldan, M. I. Brookhart, A. T. Eckhart, D. A. Hannum, C. C. Hegna, J. S. Sarff, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245001 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Zonal Flow Dynamics and Control of Turbulent Transport in Stellarators

P. Xanthopoulos, A. Mischchenko, P. Helander, H. Sugama, and T.-H. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245002 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Whistler Mode Based Explanation for the Fast Reconnection Rate Measured in the MIT Versatile Toroidal Facility

Nagendra Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245003 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Spatiotemporal Structure of the Interaction between Turbulence and Flows at the L-H Transition in a Toroidal Plasma

T. Estrada, C. Hidalgo, T. Happel, and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245004 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Mirror Mode Expansion in Planetary Magnetosheaths: Bohm-like Diffusion

Akira Hasegawa and Bruce T. Tsurutani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245005 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Unraveling the Solid-Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition Dynamics at the Atomic Level with Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy

F. Dorchies, A. Lévy, C. Goyon, P. Combis, D. Descamps, C. Fourment, M. Harmand, S. Hulin, P. M. Leguay, S. Petit, O. Peyrusse, and J. J. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245006 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Soliton Instabilities and Vortex Street Formation in a Polariton Quantum Fluid

G. Grosso, G. Nardin, F. Morier-Genoud, Y. Léger, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245301 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

van der Waals Interactions in Ionic and Semiconductor Solids

Guo-Xu Zhang, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Joachim Paier, Heiko Appel, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245501 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Forced Tearing of Ductile and Brittle Thin Sheets

T. Tallinen and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 245502 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Hall Superfluids in Topological Insulator Thin Films

Dagim Tilahun, Byounghak Lee, E. M. Hankiewicz, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246401 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Nature of the Band Gap and Origin of the Conductivity of ${PbO}_{2}$ Revealed by Theory and Experiment

David O. Scanlon, Aoife B. Kehoe, Graeme W. Watson, Martin O. Jones, William I. F. David, David J. Payne, Russell G. Egdell, Peter P. Edwards, and Aron Walsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246402 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Few-Particle Green’s Functions for Strongly Correlated Systems on Infinite Lattices

Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246403 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Quantum Dynamics of a Driven Correlated System Coupled to Phonons

L. Vidmar, J. Bonča, T. Tohyama, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246404 (2011) - Published 8 December, 2011

Observation of Spin-Selective Tunneling in SiGe Nanocrystals

G. Katsaros, V. N. Golovach, P. Spathis, N. Ares, M. Stoffel, F. Fournel, O. G. Schmidt, L. I. Glazman, and S. De Franceschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246601 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Engineering Negative Differential Conductance with the Cu(111) Surface State

B. W. Heinrich, M. V. Rastei, D.-J. Choi, T. Frederiksen, and L. Limot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246801 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Lamellar Solid-Liquid Mesophase Nucleated by Josephson Vortices at the Melting of the Vortex Lattice in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor

Y. Segev, Y. Myasoedov, E. Zeldov, T. Tamegai, G. P. Mikitik, and E. H. Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247001 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

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Nanoscale Electrostatic Manipulation of Magnetic Flux Quanta in Ferroelectric/Superconductor ${BiFeO}_{3} / {YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Heterostructures

Arnaud Crassous, Rozenn Bernard, Stéphane Fusil, Karim Bouzehouane, David Le Bourdais, Shaïma Enouz-Vedrenne, Javier Briatico, Manuel Bibes, Agnès Barthélémy, and Javier E. Villegas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247002 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

RKKY Ferromagnetism with Ising-Like Spin States in Intercalated ${Fe}_{1 / 4} {TaS}_{2}$

K.-T. Ko, Kyoo Kim, Sung Baek Kim, H.-D. Kim, J.-Y. Kim, B. I. Min, J.-H. Park, F.-H. Chang, H.-J. Lin, A. Tanaka, and S-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247201 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Diagonal Composite Order in a Two-Channel Kondo Lattice

Shintaro Hoshino, Junya Otsuki, and Yoshio Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247202 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Coherent Longitudinal-Optical Ground-State Phonon in CdSe Quantum Dots Triggered by Ultrafast Charge Migration

L. Dworak, V. V. Matylitsky, M. Braun, and J. Wachtveitl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247401 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

Evidence for Confined Tamm Plasmon Modes under Metallic Microdisks and Application to the Control of Spontaneous Optical Emission

O. Gazzano, S. Michaelis de Vasconcellos, K. Gauthron, C. Symonds, J. Bloch, P. Voisin, J. Bellessa, A. Lemaître, and P. Senellart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247402 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Sequence of Four Orthogonal Smectic Phases in an Achiral Bent-Core Liquid Crystal: Evidence for the $Sm A P_{α}$ Phase

Y. P. Panarin, M. Nagaraj, S. Sreenilayam, J. K. Vij, A. Lehmann, and C. Tschierske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 247801 (2011) - Published 7 December, 2011

Phase-Transition-like Properties of Double-Beam Optical Tweezers

A. B. Stilgoe, N. R. Heckenberg, T. A. Nieminen, and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 248101 (2011) - Published 5 December, 2011

COMMENTS

Comment on “How Water Meets a Very Hydrophobic Surface”

Markus Mezger, Harald Reichert, Benjamin M. Ocko, Jean Daillant, and Helmut Dosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 249801 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

Chattopadhyay et al. Reply:

Sudeshna Chattopadhyay, Ahmet Uysal, Benjamin Stripe, Young-geun Ha, Tobin J. Marks, Evguenia A. Karapetrova, and Pulak Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 249802 (2011) - Published 9 December, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Enhancement of the Spin Accumulation at the Interface between a Spin-Polarized Tunnel Junction and a Semiconductor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036601 (2009)]

M. Tran, H. Jaffrès, C. Deranlot, J.-M. George, A. Fert, A. Miard, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 249901 (2011) - Published 6 December, 2011