Volume 107, Issue 5

29 July 2011

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Color maps of rest-mass density (with velocity fields), temperature, and total neutrino emissivity (left to right) for a binary neutron-star merger simulation. The upper (lower) panels show x-y (x-z) plane configurations.

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Gravitational Waves and Neutrino Emission from the Merger of Binary Neutron Stars
Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Kenta Kiuchi, Koutarou Kyutoku, and Masaru Shibata
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051102 (2011)

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Quantum Decoherence of Single-Photon Counters

V. D’Auria, N. Lee, T. Amri, C. Fabre, and J. Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050504 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

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Indications of Suppression of Excited $Υ$ States in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 052302 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

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Single-Photon-Level Quantum Memory at Room Temperature

K. F. Reim, P. Michelberger, K. C. Lee, J. Nunn, N. K. Langford, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053603 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

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Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Two Dimensions

D. A. Dikin, M. Mehta, C. W. Bark, C. M. Folkman, C. B. Eom, and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056802 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

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CO Oxidation Facilitated by Robust Surface States on Au-Covered Topological Insulators

Hua Chen, Wenguang Zhu, Di Xiao, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056804 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

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Giant Flexoelectric Effect in Ferroelectric Epitaxial Thin Films

D. Lee, A. Yoon, S. Y. Jang, J.-G. Yoon, J.-S. Chung, M. Kim, J. F. Scott, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057602 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

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Device-Independent Certification of Entangled Measurements

Rafael Rabelo, Melvyn Ho, Daniel Cavalcanti, Nicolas Brunner, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050502 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

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First Observation of Two-Electron One-Photon Transitions in Single-Photon $K$ -Shell Double Ionization

J. Hoszowska, J.-Cl. Dousse, J. Szlachetko, Y. Kayser, W. Cao, P. Jagodziński, M. Kavčič, and S. H. Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053001 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

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Active Colloidal Suspensions Exhibit Polar Order under Gravity

Mihaela Enculescu and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 058301 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

LETTERS

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

Nonthermal Statistics in Isolated Quantum Spin Clusters after a Series of Perturbations

Kai Ji and Boris V. Fine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050401 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Stability of Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gases with Population Imbalance

M. Iskin and A. L. Subaşı

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050402 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Charge Qubit Purification by an Electronic Feedback Loop

Gerold Kießlich, Gernot Schaller, Clive Emary, and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050501 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

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Device-Independent Certification of Entangled Measurements

Rafael Rabelo, Melvyn Ho, Daniel Cavalcanti, Nicolas Brunner, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050502 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Scalable Spin Amplification with a Gain Over a Hundred

Makoto Negoro, Kenichiro Tateishi, Akinori Kagawa, and Masahiro Kitagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050503 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

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Quantum Decoherence of Single-Photon Counters

V. D’Auria, N. Lee, T. Amri, C. Fabre, and J. Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050504 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

“Negative” Backaction Noise in Interferometric Detection of a Microlever

J. Laurent, A. Mosset, O. Arcizet, J. Chevrier, S. Huant, and H. Sellier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 050801 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Area—Angular-Momentum Inequality for Axisymmetric Black Holes

Sergio Dain and Martin Reiris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051101 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Gravitational Waves and Neutrino Emission from the Merger of Binary Neutron Stars

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051102 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Rotation, the Equivalence Principle, and the Gravity Probe B Experiment

Wei-Tou Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051103 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Search for Light Dark Matter in XENON10 Data

J. Angle et al. (XENON10 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051301 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for New Dielectron Resonances and Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051801 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Limits on Anomalous Trilinear Gauge Couplings in $Z γ$ Events from $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 051802 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Sign of Kurtosis near the QCD Critical Point

M. A. Stephanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 052301 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

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Indications of Suppression of Excited $Υ$ States in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 052302 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Chiral Magnetic Wave at Finite Baryon Density and the Electric Quadrupole Moment of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Yannis Burnier, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Jinfeng Liao, and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 052303 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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First Observation of Two-Electron One-Photon Transitions in Single-Photon $K$ -Shell Double Ionization

J. Hoszowska, J.-Cl. Dousse, J. Szlachetko, Y. Kayser, W. Cao, P. Jagodziński, M. Kavčič, and S. H. Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053001 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Three-Electron Interatomic Coulombic Decay from the Inner-Valence Double-Vacancy States in NeAr

T. Ouchi, K. Sakai, H. Fukuzawa, X.-J. Liu, I. Higuchi, Y. Tamenori, K. Nagaya, H. Iwayama, M. Yao, D. Zhang, D. Ding, A. I. Kuleff, S. D. Stoychev, Ph. V. Demekhin, N. Saito, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053401 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Higher-Order Poincaré Sphere, Stokes Parameters, and the Angular Momentum of Light

Giovanni Milione, H. I. Sztul, D. A. Nolan, and R. R. Alfano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053601 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Dispersive Photon Blockade in a Superconducting Circuit

A. J. Hoffman, S. J. Srinivasan, S. Schmidt, L. Spietz, J. Aumentado, H. E. Türeci, and A. A. Houck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053602 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

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Single-Photon-Level Quantum Memory at Room Temperature

K. F. Reim, P. Michelberger, K. C. Lee, J. Nunn, N. K. Langford, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053603 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Bragg Scattering of Light in Vacuum Structured by Strong Periodic Fields

Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan and Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053604 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Deterministic Optical Rogue Waves

Cristian Bonatto, Michael Feyereisen, Stéphane Barland, Massimo Giudici, Cristina Masoller, José R. Rios Leite, and Jorge R. Tredicce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 053901 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Inner Composition Alignment for Inferring Directed Networks from Short Time Series

S. Hempel, A. Koseska, J. Kurths, and Z. Nikoloski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 054101 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Spontaneous Transition of Turbulent Flames to Detonations in Unconfined Media

Alexei Y. Poludnenko, Thomas A. Gardiner, and Elaine S. Oran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 054501 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity Calculations in Tokamaks Using a $δ f$ Monte Carlo Simulation and Their Verifications

S. Satake, J.-K. Park, H. Sugama, and R. Kanno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 055001 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Collisionless Bounce Resonance Heating in Dual-Frequency Capacitively Coupled Plasmas

Yong-Xin Liu, Quan-Zhi Zhang, Wei Jiang, Lu-Jing Hou, Xiang-Zhan Jiang, Wen-Qi Lu, and You-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 055002 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Generation of a Sheared Plasma Rotation by Emission, Propagation, and Absorption of Drift Wave Packets

M. Xu, G. R. Tynan, P. H. Diamond, C. Holland, J. H. Yu, and Z. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 055003 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

High-Frequency Coherent Edge Fluctuations in a High-Pedestal-Pressure Quiescent H-Mode Plasma

Z. Yan, G. R. McKee, R. J. Groebner, P. B. Snyder, T. H. Osborne, and K. H. Burrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 055004 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nanosecond Dynamics of Ferroelectric/Dielectric Superlattices

Ji Young Jo, Pice Chen, Rebecca J. Sichel, Sara J. Callori, John Sinsheimer, Eric M. Dufresne, Matthew Dawber, and Paul G. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 055501 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Dynamically Stabilized Growth of Polar Oxides: The Case of MgO(111)

Vlado K. Lazarov, Zhuhua Cai, Kenta Yoshida, K. Honglian L. Zhang, M. Weinert, Katherine S. Ziemer, and Philip J. Hasnip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056101 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Electrostriction at the ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

C. Cancellieri, D. Fontaine, S. Gariglio, N. Reyren, A. D. Caviglia, A. Fête, S. J. Leake, S. A. Pauli, P. R. Willmott, M. Stengel, Ph. Ghosez, and J.-M. Triscone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056102 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Block Spin Ground State and Three-Dimensionality of $(K, Tl)_{y} {Fe}_{1.6} {Se}_{2}$

Chao Cao and Jianhui Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056401 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

Equilibration of Luttinger Liquid and Conductance of Quantum Wires

K. A. Matveev and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056402 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids

B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056403 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Extremely Correlated Fermi-Liquid Description of Normal-State ARPES in Cuprates

G.-H. Gweon, B. S. Shastry, and G. D. Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056404 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Proximity Induced Enhancement of the Curie Temperature in Hybrid Spin Injection Devices

C. Song, M. Sperl, M. Utz, M. Ciorga, G. Woltersdorf, D. Schuh, D. Bougeard, C. H. Back, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056601 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Nonequilibrium Zeeman Splitting in Quantum Transport through Nanoscale Junctions

Sebastian Schmitt and Frithjof B. Anders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056801 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

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Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Two Dimensions

D. A. Dikin, M. Mehta, C. W. Bark, C. M. Folkman, C. B. Eom, and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056802 (2011) - Published 25 July, 2011

Surface Scattering via Bulk Continuum States in the 3D Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Sunghun Kim, M. Ye, K. Kuroda, Y. Yamada, E. E. Krasovskii, E. V. Chulkov, K. Miyamoto, M. Nakatake, T. Okuda, Y. Ueda, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, and A. Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056803 (2011) - Published 27 July, 2011

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CO Oxidation Facilitated by Robust Surface States on Au-Covered Topological Insulators

Hua Chen, Wenguang Zhu, Di Xiao, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056804 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Pressure Tuning of the Interplay of Magnetism and Superconductivity in ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

E. Lengyel, M. Nicklas, H. S. Jeevan, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057001 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Formation of Multiple-Flux-Quantum Vortices in Mesoscopic Superconductors from Simulations of Calorimetric, Magnetic, and Transport Properties

Ben Xu, M. V. Milošević, Shi-Hsin Lin, F. M. Peeters, and B. Jankó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057002 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

First-Principles Investigation of Morphotropic Transitions and Phase-Change Functional Responses in ${BiFeO}_{3} − {BiCoO}_{3}$ Multiferroic Solid Solutions

Oswaldo Diéguez and Jorge Íñiguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057601 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

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Giant Flexoelectric Effect in Ferroelectric Epitaxial Thin Films

D. Lee, A. Yoon, S. Y. Jang, J.-G. Yoon, J.-S. Chung, M. Kim, J. F. Scott, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 057602 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Active Colloidal Suspensions Exhibit Polar Order under Gravity

Mihaela Enculescu and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 058301 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

ERRATA

Erratum: Mott Insulators of Ultracold Fermionic Alkaline Earth Atoms: Underconstrained Magnetism and Chiral Spin Liquid [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 135301 (2009)]

Michael Hermele, Victor Gurarie, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 059901 (2011) - Published 26 July, 2011

Publisher’s Note: High Pressure Stabilization and Emergent Forms of ${PbH}_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 037002 (2011)]

Patryk Zaleski-Ejgierd, Roald Hoffmann, and N. W. Ashcroft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 059902 (2011) - Published 28 July, 2011

Erratum: Incommensurate Magnetism in FeAs Strips: Neutron Scattering from ${CaFe}_{4} {As}_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 037201 (2011).]

Yusuke Nambu, Liang L. Zhao, Emilia Morosan, Kyoo Kim, Gabriel Kotliar, Pawel Zajdel, Mark A. Green, William Ratcliff, Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera, and Collin Broholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 059903 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011

Erratum: General Optimality of the Heisenberg Limit for Quantum Metrology [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180402 (2010)]

Marcin Zwierz, Carlos A. Pérez-Delgado, and Pieter Kok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 059904 (2011) - Published 29 July, 2011