Volume 107, Issue 25

16 December 2011

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Transverse oscillation amplitude plot from an experiment with a guided matter wave interacting with a static tunable localized attractive potential. A chaotic zone with complex dynamics is clearly identified.

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Exploring Classically Chaotic Potentials with a Matter Wave Quantum Probe
G. L. Gattobigio, A. Couvert, B. Georgeot, and D. Guéry-Odelin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254104 (2011)

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Entanglement can Completely Defeat Quantum Noise

Jianxin Chen, Toby S. Cubitt, Aram W. Harrow, and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250504 (2011) - Published 15 December, 2011

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Experimental Realization of Strong Effective Magnetic Fields in an Optical Lattice

M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Nascimbène, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, and I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255301 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

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Electrolyte Gate-Controlled Kondo Effect in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Menyoung Lee, J. R. Williams, Sipei Zhang, C. Daniel Frisbie, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256601 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

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Scaling Laws for Melting Ice Avalanches

B. Turnbull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 258001 (2011) - Published 15 December, 2011

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Free-Carrier Generation in Aggregates of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Photoexcitation in the Ultraviolet Regime

Jared J. Crochet, Sajjad Hoseinkhani, Larry Lüer, Tobias Hertel, Stephen K. Doorn, and Guglielmo Lanzani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257402 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

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Superluminal Neutrinos at OPERA Confront Pion Decay Kinematics

Ramanath Cowsik, Shmuel Nussinov, and Utpal Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 251801 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

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Subwavelength Position Sensing Using Nonlinear Feedback and Wave Chaos

Seth D. Cohen, Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254103 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

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Hydrodynamics of Superfluid Helium in a Single Nanohole

M. Savard, G. Dauphinais, and G. Gervais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254501 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

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Spin Diffusion in Trapped Clouds of Cold Atoms with Resonant Interactions

G. M. Bruun and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255302 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

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Interface Control of Emergent Ferroic Order in Ruddlesden-Popper ${Sr}_{n + 1} {Ti}_{n} O_{3 n + 1}$

Turan Birol, Nicole A. Benedek, and Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257602 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

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Leonardo’s Rule, Self-Similarity, and Wind-Induced Stresses in Trees

Christophe Eloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 258101 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

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

Coarse Graining Makes It Hard to See Micro-Macro Entanglement

Sadegh Raeisi, Pavel Sekatski, and Christoph Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250401 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Demonstration of a Controlled-Phase Gate for Continuous-Variable One-Way Quantum Computation

Ryuji Ukai, Shota Yokoyama, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Peter van Loock, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250501 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Nonperturbative Gadget for Topological Quantum Codes

Samuel A. Ocko and Beni Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250502 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Compressed Quantum Simulation of the Ising Model

B. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250503 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

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Entanglement can Completely Defeat Quantum Noise

Jianxin Chen, Toby S. Cubitt, Aram W. Harrow, and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250504 (2011) - Published 15 December, 2011

Additivity Principle in High-Dimensional Deterministic Systems

Keiji Saito and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250601 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Spin Transport in the $X X Z$ Chain at Finite Temperature and Momentum

Robin Steinigeweg and Wolfram Brenig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250602 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Transverse Alignment of Fibers in a Periodically Sheared Suspension: An Absorbing Phase Transition with a Slowly Varying Control Parameter

Alexandre Franceschini, Emmanouela Filippidi, Elisabeth Guazzelli, and David J. Pine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 250603 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observational Constraints on Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos

Imre Bartos, Chad Finley, Alessandra Corsi, and Szabolcs Márka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 251101 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Constraints on Shift-Symmetric Scalar-Tensor Theories with a Vainshtein Mechanism from Bounds on the Time Variation of $G$

Eugeny Babichev, Cédric Deffayet, and Gilles Esposito-Farèse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 251102 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Probing Loop Quantum Gravity with Evaporating Black Holes

A. Barrau, T. Cailleteau, X. Cao, J. Diaz-Polo, and J. Grain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 251301 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Superluminal Neutrinos at OPERA Confront Pion Decay Kinematics

Ramanath Cowsik, Shmuel Nussinov, and Utpal Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 251801 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Measurements of Higher Order Flow Harmonics in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 252301 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Precise Measurement of Deuteron Tensor Analyzing Powers with BLAST

C. Zhang et al. (The BLAST collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 252501 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

${}^{149}{Sm} (n, α) {}^{146}{Nd}$ Cross Sections in the MeV Region

Guohui Zhang, Yu. M. Gledenov, G. Khuukhenkhuu, M. V. Sedysheva, P. J. Szalanski, P. E. Koehler, Yu. N. Voronov, Jiaming Liu, Xiang Liu, Jinhua Han, and Jinxiang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 252502 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Tunable Multiple Layered Dirac Cones in Optical Lattices

Z. Lan, A. Celi, W. Lu, P. Öhberg, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253001 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Circular Dichroism in Laser-Assisted Short-Pulse Photoionization

A. K. Kazansky, A. V. Grigorieva, and N. M. Kabachnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253002 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Indistinguishable Photon Pairs from Independent True Chaotic Sources

Amir Nevet, Alex Hayat, Pavel Ginzburg, and Meir Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253601 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Experimental Realization of Optimal Noise Estimation for a General Pauli Channel

A. Chiuri, V. Rosati, G. Vallone, S. Pádua, H. Imai, S. Giacomini, C. Macchiavello, and P. Mataloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253602 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Higher-Order Modulation Instability in Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Miro Erkintalo, Kamal Hammani, Bertrand Kibler, Christophe Finot, Nail Akhmediev, John M. Dudley, and Goëry Genty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253901 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Background-Free Nonlinear Microspectroscopy with Vibrational Molecular Interferometry

Erik T. Garbacik, Jeroen P. Korterik, Cees Otto, Shaul Mukamel, Jennifer L. Herek, and Herman L. Offerhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253902 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Vacuum in a Strong Magnetic Field as a Hyperbolic Metamaterial

Igor I. Smolyaninov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 253903 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Selection of Spiral Waves in Excitable Media with a Phase Wave at the Wave Back

V. S. Zykov, N. Oikawa, and E. Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254101 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Dissipative Localized States with Shieldlike Phase Structure

Marcel G. Clerc, Saliya Coulibaly, Mónica A. Garcia-Ñustes, and Yair Zárate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254102 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

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Subwavelength Position Sensing Using Nonlinear Feedback and Wave Chaos

Seth D. Cohen, Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254103 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Exploring Classically Chaotic Potentials with a Matter Wave Quantum Probe

G. L. Gattobigio, A. Couvert, B. Georgeot, and D. Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254104 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

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Hydrodynamics of Superfluid Helium in a Single Nanohole

M. Savard, G. Dauphinais, and G. Gervais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 254501 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Bifurcation to 3D Helical Magnetic Equilibrium in an Axisymmetric Toroidal Device

W. F. Bergerson, F. Auriemma, B. E. Chapman, W. X. Ding, P. Zanca, D. L. Brower, P. Innocente, L. Lin, R. Lorenzini, E. Martines, B. Momo, J. S. Sarff, and D. Terranova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255001 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Model for Incomplete Reconnection in Sawtooth Crashes

M. T. Beidler and P. A. Cassak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255002 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Controlled Betatron X-Ray Radiation from Tunable Optically Injected Electrons

S. Corde, K. Ta Phuoc, R. Fitour, J. Faure, A. Tafzi, J. P. Goddet, V. Malka, and A. Rousse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255003 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Large-Scale Magnetic Field Generation by Randomly Forced Shearing Waves

T. Heinemann, J. C. McWilliams, and A. A. Schekochihin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255004 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Observation of Peregrine Solitons in a Multicomponent Plasma with Negative Ions

H. Bailung, S. K. Sharma, and Y. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255005 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Experimental Realization of Strong Effective Magnetic Fields in an Optical Lattice

M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Nascimbène, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, and I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255301 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

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Spin Diffusion in Trapped Clouds of Cold Atoms with Resonant Interactions

G. M. Bruun and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255302 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Effect of the Quantum Zero-Point Atomic Motion on the Optical and Electronic Properties of Diamond and Trans-Polyacetylene

Elena Cannuccia and Andrea Marini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255501 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Large-Scale Simulations of $a$ -Si:H: The Origin of Midgap States Revisited

P. A. Khomyakov, Wanda Andreoni, N. D. Afify, and Alessandro Curioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255502 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Novel Cooperative Interactions and Structural Ordering in $H_{2} S − H_{2}$

Timothy A. Strobel, P. Ganesh, Maddury Somayazulu, P. R. C. Kent, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255503 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Insensitivity of Sub-Kelvin Electron-Phonon Coupling to Substrate Properties

Jason M. Underwood, Peter J. Lowell, Galen C. O’Neil, and Joel N. Ullom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255504 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Visualization of Hydrogen Bonding and Associated Chirality in Methanol Hexamers

Timothy J. Lawton, Javier Carrasco, Ashleigh E. Baber, Angelos Michaelides, and E. Charles H. Sykes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256101 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Janus-Faced Influence of Hund’s Rule Coupling in Strongly Correlated Materials

Luca de’ Medici, Jernej Mravlje, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256401 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

Critical Properties of the Half-Filled Hubbard Model in Three Dimensions

G. Rohringer, A. Toschi, A. Katanin, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256402 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Exciton-Mott Physics in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron-Hole System

Takuya Yoshioka and Kenichi Asano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256403 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

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Electrolyte Gate-Controlled Kondo Effect in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Menyoung Lee, J. R. Williams, Sipei Zhang, C. Daniel Frisbie, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256601 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

High-Field Transport in an Electron-Hole Plasma: Transition from Ballistic to Drift Motion

P. Bowlan, W. Kuehn, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, R. Hey, and C. Flytzanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256602 (2011) - Published 15 December, 2011

Two-Dimensional Topological Insulator State and Topological Phase Transition in Bilayer Graphene

Zhenhua Qiao, Wang-Kong Tse, Hua Jiang, Yugui Yao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256801 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Nonequilibrium Transport through a Spinful Quantum Dot with Superconducting Leads

B. M. Andersen, K. Flensberg, V. Koerting, and J. Paaske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256802 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

Near-Field Optical Mapping of Quantum Hall Edge States

H. Ito, K. Furuya, Y. Shibata, S. Kashiwaya, M. Yamaguchi, T. Akazaki, H. Tamura, Y. Ootuka, and S. Nomura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256803 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Coupling a Quantum Dot, Fermionic Leads, and a Microwave Cavity on a Chip

M. R. Delbecq, V. Schmitt, F. D. Parmentier, N. Roch, J. J. Viennot, G. Fève, B. Huard, C. Mora, A. Cottet, and T. Kontos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256804 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Trap-Assisted Recombination in Disordered Organic Semiconductors

M. Kuik, L. J. A. Koster, G. A. H. Wetzelaer, and P. W. M. Blom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 256805 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

One-Fe versus Two-Fe Brillouin Zone of Fe-Based Superconductors: Creation of the Electron Pockets by Translational Symmetry Breaking

Chia-Hui Lin, Tom Berlijn, Limin Wang, Chi-Cheng Lee, Wei-Guo Yin, and Wei Ku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257001 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Theory of Half-Metallic Ferrimagnetism in Double Perovskites

Onur Erten, O. Nganba Meetei, Anamitra Mukherjee, Mohit Randeria, Nandini Trivedi, and Patrick Woodward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257201 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Graphene as a Reversible Spin Manipulator of Molecular Magnets

Sumanta Bhandary, Saurabh Ghosh, Heike Herper, Heiko Wende, Olle Eriksson, and Biplab Sanyal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257202 (2011) - Published 15 December, 2011

Role of Antisymmetric Exchange in Selecting Magnetic Chirality in ${Ba}_{3} Nb {Fe}_{3} {Si}_{2} O_{14}$

A. Zorko, M. Pregelj, A. Potočnik, J. van Tol, A. Ozarowski, V. Simonet, P. Lejay, S. Petit, and R. Ballou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257203 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Emergent Rotational Symmetries in Disordered Magnetic Domain Patterns

Run Su, Keoki A. Seu, Daniel Parks, Jimmy J. Kan, Eric E. Fullerton, Sujoy Roy, and Stephen D. Kevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257204 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Domain-Wall Spin Dynamics in Kagome Antiferromagnets

E. Lhotel, V. Simonet, J. Ortloff, B. Canals, C. Paulsen, E. Suard, T. Hansen, D. J. Price, P. T. Wood, A. K. Powell, and R. Ballou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257205 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Circular Dichroism in the Optical Second-Harmonic Emission of Curved Gold Metal Nanowires

A. Belardini, M. C. Larciprete, M. Centini, E. Fazio, C. Sibilia, D. Chiappe, C. Martella, A. Toma, M. Giordano, and F. Buatier de Mongeot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257401 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

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Free-Carrier Generation in Aggregates of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Photoexcitation in the Ultraviolet Regime

Jared J. Crochet, Sajjad Hoseinkhani, Larry Lüer, Tobias Hertel, Stephen K. Doorn, and Guglielmo Lanzani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257402 (2011) - Published 16 December, 2011

Chiral Domains in Cycloidal Multiferroic Thin Films: Switching and Memory Effects

I. Fina, L. Fàbrega, X. Martí, F. Sánchez, and J. Fontcuberta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257601 (2011) - Published 12 December, 2011

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Interface Control of Emergent Ferroic Order in Ruddlesden-Popper ${Sr}_{n + 1} {Ti}_{n} O_{3 n + 1}$

Turan Birol, Nicole A. Benedek, and Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257602 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Fast and Slow Dynamics in a Discotic Liquid Crystal with Regions of Columnar Order and Disorder

M. R. Hansen, X. Feng, V. Macho, K. Müllen, H. W. Spiess, and G. Floudas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257801 (2011) - Published 14 December, 2011

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Scaling Laws for Melting Ice Avalanches

B. Turnbull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 258001 (2011) - Published 15 December, 2011

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Publisher’s Note: Observation of Size-Dependent Thermalization in CdSe Nanocrystals Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 177403 (2011)]

Daniel C. Hannah, Nicholas J. Dunn, Sandrine Ithurria, Dmitri V. Talapin, Lin X. Chen, Matthew Pelton, George C. Schatz, and Richard D. Schaller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 259901 (2011) - Published 13 December, 2011

Volume 107, Issue 25

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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