Volume 107, Issue 8

19 August 2011

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Spatiotemporal plot of recorded images of holes in a potato starch suspension layer after onset of a local perturbation (time is plotted vertically). Frequent replications and annihilations of holes cause spatiotemporal chaos.

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Self-Replicating Holes in a Vertically Vibrated Dense Suspension
H. Ebata and M. Sano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 088301 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Support for Temporally Varying Behavior of the Pioneer Anomaly from the Extended Pioneer 10 and 11 Doppler Data Sets

Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth, Jordan Ellis, and Craig B. Markwardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081103 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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Novel Self-Assembled Morphologies from Isotropic Interactions

E. Edlund, O. Lindgren, and M. Nilsson Jacobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085501 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Order-to-Disorder Transition in Ring-Shaped Colloidal Stains

Álvaro G. Marín, Hanneke Gelderblom, Detlef Lohse, and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085502 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Designing Isotropic Interactions for Self-Assembly of Complex Lattices

E. Edlund, O. Lindgren, and M. Nilsson Jacobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085503 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Vacancy-Driven Anisotropic Defect Distribution in the Battery-Cathode Material ${LiFePO}_{4}$

Jaekwang Lee, Wu Zhou, Juan C. Idrobo, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085507 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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High-Resolution Molecular Orbital Imaging Using a $p$ -Wave STM Tip

Leo Gross, Nikolaj Moll, Fabian Mohn, Alessandro Curioni, Gerhard Meyer, Felix Hanke, and Mats Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086101 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Regulating Brownian Fluctuations with Tunable Microscopic Magnetic Traps

A. Chen, G. Vieira, T. Henighan, M. Howdyshell, J. A. North, A. J. Hauser, F. Y. Yang, M. G. Poirier, C. Jayaprakash, and R. Sooryakumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087206 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Optically Induced Rotation of an Exciton Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

E. Poem, O. Kenneth, Y. Kodriano, Y. Benny, S. Khatsevich, J. E. Avron, and D. Gershoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087401 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

LETTERS

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

Dissonance is Required for Assisted Optimal State Discrimination

Luis Roa, J. C. Retamal, and M. Alid-Vaccarezza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080401 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Superfluid Density of an Open Dissipative Condensate

Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080402 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Near-Deterministic Discrimination of All Bell States with Linear Optics

Mladen Pavičić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080403 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Non-Markovian Behavior of Small and Large Complex Quantum Systems

Marko Žnidarič, Carlos Pineda, and Ignacio García-Mata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080404 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Perturbative Quantum Error Correction

Cédric Bény

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080501 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Simple All-Microwave Entangling Gate for Fixed-Frequency Superconducting Qubits

Jerry M. Chow, A. D. Córcoles, Jay M. Gambetta, Chad Rigetti, B. R. Johnson, John A. Smolin, J. R. Rozen, George A. Keefe, Mary B. Rothwell, Mark B. Ketchen, and M. Steffen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080502 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Entanglement Generated by Dissipation and Steady State Entanglement of Two Macroscopic Objects

Hanna Krauter, Christine A. Muschik, Kasper Jensen, Wojciech Wasilewski, Jonas M. Petersen, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080503 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Useful Multiparticle Entanglement and Sub-Shot-Noise Sensitivity in Experimental Phase Estimation

Roland Krischek, Christian Schwemmer, Witlef Wieczorek, Harald Weinfurter, Philipp Hyllus, Luca Pezzé, and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080504 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravity and Large Black Holes in Randall-Sundrum II Braneworlds

Pau Figueras and Toby Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081101 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Hawking Radiation, Unruh Radiation, and the Equivalence Principle

Douglas Singleton and Steve Wilburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081102 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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Support for Temporally Varying Behavior of the Pioneer Anomaly from the Extended Pioneer 10 and 11 Doppler Data Sets

Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth, Jordan Ellis, and Craig B. Markwardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081103 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Color Dual Form for Gauge-Theory Amplitudes

Z. Bern and T. Dennen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081601 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

New Formulation of $γ Z$ Box Corrections to the Weak Charge of the Proton

P. G. Blunden, W. Melnitchouk, and A. W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081801 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Two-Flavor QCD Correction to Lepton Magnetic Moments at Leading Order in the Electromagnetic Coupling

Xu Feng, Karl Jansen, Marcus Petschlies, and Dru B. Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 081802 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Search for a Fourth Generation $t^{'}$ Quark in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 082001 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Pair Production of $J / ψ$ as a Probe of Double Parton Scattering at LHCb

C. H. Kom, A. Kulesza, and W. J. Stirling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 082002 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Probing New Top Physics at the LHCb Experiment

Alexander L. Kagan, Jernej F. Kamenik, Gilad Perez, and Sheldon Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 082003 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Precise Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Channel at D0

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 082004 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong Field Ionization to Multiple Electronic States in Water

Joseph P. Farrell, Simon Petretti, Johann Förster, Brian K. McFarland, Limor S. Spector, Yulian V. Vanne, Piero Decleva, Philip H. Bucksbaum, Alejandro Saenz, and Markus Gühr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083001 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Quantum Metrology with Entangled Coherent States

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083601 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Simultaneous Wavelength Translation and Amplitude Modulation of Single Photons from a Quantum Dot

Matthew T. Rakher, Lijun Ma, Marcelo Davanço, Oliver Slattery, Xiao Tang, and Kartik Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083602 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Quantum Spatial Superresolution by Optical Centroid Measurements

Heedeuk Shin, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Hye Jeong Chang, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083603 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Controlling Soliton Refraction in Optical Lattices

Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Stanislav A. Derevyanko, and Sergey A. Gredeskul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 083901 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Coherent Light with Tunable Polarization from Single-Pass Free-Electron Lasers

C. Spezzani, E. Allaria, M. Coreno, B. Diviacco, E. Ferrari, G. Geloni, E. Karantzoulis, B. Mahieu, M. Vento, and G. De Ninno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 084801 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Collimation with Hollow Electron Beams

G. Stancari, A. Valishev, G. Annala, G. Kuznetsov, V. Shiltsev, D. A. Still, and L. G. Vorobiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 084802 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Novel Self-Assembled Morphologies from Isotropic Interactions

E. Edlund, O. Lindgren, and M. Nilsson Jacobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085501 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Order-to-Disorder Transition in Ring-Shaped Colloidal Stains

Álvaro G. Marín, Hanneke Gelderblom, Detlef Lohse, and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085502 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

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Designing Isotropic Interactions for Self-Assembly of Complex Lattices

E. Edlund, O. Lindgren, and M. Nilsson Jacobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085503 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

Graph Theory Meets Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Atomic Structures and Transformations at the Nanoscale

Fabio Pietrucci and Wanda Andreoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085504 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Self-Oscillating Regime of Crack Propagation Induced by a Local Phase Transition at Its Tip

Alexei Boulbitch and Alexander L. Korzhenevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085505 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Criticality of Relaxation in Dislocation Systems

Péter Dusán Ispánovity, István Groma, Géza Györgyi, Péter Szabó, and Wolfgang Hoffelner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085506 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

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Vacancy-Driven Anisotropic Defect Distribution in the Battery-Cathode Material ${LiFePO}_{4}$

Jaekwang Lee, Wu Zhou, Juan C. Idrobo, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085507 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Stability of the Bulk Phase of Layered ZnO

Bipul Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085508 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

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High-Resolution Molecular Orbital Imaging Using a $p$ -Wave STM Tip

Leo Gross, Nikolaj Moll, Fabian Mohn, Alessandro Curioni, Gerhard Meyer, Felix Hanke, and Mats Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086101 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

Surface and Defect Structure of Oxide Nanowires on ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Matthew S. J. Marshall, Andres E. Becerra-Toledo, Laurence D. Marks, and Martin R. Castell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086102 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermions in 3D Optical Lattices: Cooling Protocol to Obtain Antiferromagnetism

Thereza Paiva, Yen Lee Loh, Mohit Randeria, Richard T. Scalettar, and Nandini Trivedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086401 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Plasmons in Sodium under Pressure: Increasing Departure from Nearly Free-Electron Behavior

I. Loa, K. Syassen, G. Monaco, G. Vankó, M. Krisch, and M. Hanfland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086402 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Symmetries of Multifractal Spectra and Field Theories of Anderson Localization

I. A. Gruzberg, A. W. W. Ludwig, A. D. Mirlin, and M. R. Zirnbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086403 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Unveiling the Magnetic Structure of Graphene Nanoribbons

Rebeca Ribeiro, Jean-Marie Poumirol, Alessandro Cresti, Walter Escoffier, Michel Goiran, Jean-Marc Broto, Stephan Roche, and Bertrand Raquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086601 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Predicted Ultrafast Dynamic Metallization of Dielectric Nanofilms by Strong Single-Cycle Optical Fields

Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina, Matthias F. Kling, and Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086602 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Origin of the Planar Hall Effect in Nanocrystalline ${Co}_{60} {Fe}_{20} B_{20}$

K. M. Seemann, F. Freimuth, H. Zhang, S. Blügel, Y. Mokrousov, D. E. Bürgler, and C. M. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086603 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Band Structures of Bilayer Graphene Superlattices

Matthew Killi, Si Wu, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086801 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Simultaneous Quantization of Bulk Conduction and Valence States through Adsorption of Nonmagnetic Impurities on ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Marco Bianchi, Richard C. Hatch, Jianli Mi, Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, and Philip Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086802 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Switching Spin and Charge between Edge States in Topological Insulator Constrictions

Viktor Krueckl and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086803 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Quantum-Classical Crossover and Apparent Metal-Insulator Transition in a Weakly Interacting 2D Fermi Liquid

Xiaoqing Zhou, B. Schmidt, C. Proust, G. Gervais, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086804 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Distributions of Waiting Times of Dynamic Single-Electron Emitters

Mathias Albert, Christian Flindt, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086805 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Bipartite Composite Fermion States

G. J. Sreejith, C. Tőke, A. Wójs, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086806 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Fate of the Resonating Valence Bond in Graphene

Mariapia Marchi, Sam Azadi, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086807 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Unconventional Surface Impedance of a Normal-Metal Film Covering a Spin-Triplet Superconductor Due to Odd-Frequency Cooper Pairs

Yasuhiro Asano, Alexander A. Golubov, Yakov V. Fominov, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087001 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Zeeman-Driven Phase Transition within the Superconducting State of $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$

J. A. Wright, E. Green, P. Kuhns, A. Reyes, J. Brooks, J. Schlueter, R. Kato, H. Yamamoto, M. Kobayashi, and S. E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087002 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Triplet Superconductivity in a Ferromagnetic Vortex

Mikhail S. Kalenkov, Andrei D. Zaikin, and Victor T. Petrashov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087003 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Hidden Reentrant and Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell Superconducting Phases in a Magnetic Field in a $(TMTSF)_{2} {ClO}_{4}$

A. G. Lebed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087004 (2011) - Published 19 August, 2011

Predicted Pressure-Induced $s$ -Band Ferromagnetism in Alkali Metals

Chris J. Pickard and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087201 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Transport and Accumulation of Spin Anisotropy

Michael M. E. Baumgärtel, Michael Hell, Sourin Das, and Maarten R. Wegewijs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087202 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Ultimate Limit of Electron-Spin Precession upon Reflection in Ferromagnetic Films

A. Hallal, T. Berdot, P. Dey, L. Tati Bismaths, L. Joly, A. Bourzami, F. Scheurer, H. Bulou, J. Henk, M. Alouani, and W. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087203 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Nature of the Spin Liquid State of the Hubbard Model on a Honeycomb Lattice

B. K. Clark, D. A. Abanin, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087204 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

Fermionic Magnons, Non-Abelian Spinons, and the Spin Quantum Hall Effect from an Exactly Solvable Spin- $1 / 2$ Kitaev Model with SU(2) Symmetry

Hong Yao and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087205 (2011) - Published 17 August, 2011

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Regulating Brownian Fluctuations with Tunable Microscopic Magnetic Traps

A. Chen, G. Vieira, T. Henighan, M. Howdyshell, J. A. North, A. J. Hauser, F. Y. Yang, M. G. Poirier, C. Jayaprakash, and R. Sooryakumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087206 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

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Optically Induced Rotation of an Exciton Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

E. Poem, O. Kenneth, Y. Kodriano, Y. Benny, S. Khatsevich, J. E. Avron, and D. Gershoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087401 (2011) - Published 18 August, 2011

Energy Distribution Curves of Ultrafast Laser-Induced Field Emission and Their Implications for Electron Dynamics

Hirofumi Yanagisawa, Matthias Hengsberger, Dominik Leuenberger, Martin Klöckner, Christian Hafner, Thomas Greber, and Jürg Osterwalder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 087601 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Thermostatistics of Overdamped Motion of Interacting Particles”

Yan Levin and Renato Pakter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 088901 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

Andrade et al. Reply:

J. S. Andrade, Jr., G. F. T. da Silva, A. A. Moreira, F. D. Nobre, and E. M. F. Curado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 088902 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Super-Alfvénic Propagation of Substorm Reconnection Signatures and Poynting Flux [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 065001 (2011)]

M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, J. P. Eastwood, and T. D. Phan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 089901 (2011) - Published 15 August, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Kaleidoscope of Exotic Quantum Phases in a Frustrated $X Y$ Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 077201 (2011)]

Christopher N. Varney, Kai Sun, Victor Galitski, and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 089902 (2011) - Published 16 August, 2011