Volume 108, Issue 10

9 March 2012

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Map in q-space of relaxation times for a 2D gel made by a Langmuir monolayer of gold nanoparticles. The white lines are isochrones.

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Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Dynamics of a 2D Gel
D. Orsi, L. Cristofolini, G. Baldi, and A. Madsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105701 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Observation of Ground State Dineutron Decay: ${}^{16}{Be}$

A. Spyrou, Z. Kohley, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, G. Christian, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, E. Lunderberg, S. Mosby, W. A. Peters, A. Schiller, J. K. Smith, J. Snyder, M. J. Strongman, M. Thoennessen, and A. Volya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 102501 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

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Local Charge and Spin Currents in Magnetothermal Landscapes

Mathias Weiler, Matthias Althammer, Franz D. Czeschka, Hans Huebl, Martin S. Wagner, Matthias Opel, Inga-Mareen Imort, Günter Reiss, Andy Thomas, Rudolf Gross, and Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106602 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

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Reliability of Frequency and Amplitude Decoding in Gene Regulation

Filipe Tostevin, Wiet de Ronde, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 108104 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

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Laser Radiation Pressure Slowing of a Molecular Beam

J. F. Barry, E. S. Shuman, E. B. Norrgard, and D. DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 103002 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

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Scattering of Magnetic Mirror Trapped Fast Electrons by a Shear Alfvén Wave

Yuhou Wang, Walter Gekelman, Patrick Pribyl, and Konstantinos Papadopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105002 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

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Cavitating Langmuir Turbulence in the Terrestrial Aurora

B. Isham, M. T. Rietveld, P. Guio, F. R. E. Forme, T. Grydeland, and E. Mjølhus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105003 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

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Chiral Magnetic Soliton Lattice on a Chiral Helimagnet

Y. Togawa, T. Koyama, K. Takayanagi, S. Mori, Y. Kousaka, J. Akimitsu, S. Nishihara, K. Inoue, A. S. Ovchinnikov, and J. Kishine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107202 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

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Vortex Domain Walls in Helical Magnets

Fuxiang Li, T. Nattermann, and V. L. Pokrovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107203 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

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Strain Stiffening in Random Packings of Entangled Granular Chains

Eric Brown, Alice Nasto, Athanasios G. Athanassiadis, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 108302 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

LETTERS

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

Fully Nonlocal, Monogamous, and Random Genuinely Multipartite Quantum Correlations

Leandro Aolita, Rodrigo Gallego, Adán Cabello, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 100401 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Randomness versus Nonlocality and Entanglement

Antonio Acín, Serge Massar, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 100402 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Long-Range Quantum Gates using Dipolar Crystals

Hendrik Weimer, Norman Y. Yao, Chris R. Laumann, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 100501 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Absolute Stability of Axisymmetric Perturbations in Strongly Magnetized Collisionless Axisymmetric Accretion Disk Plasmas

C. Cremaschini, M. Tessarotto, and J. C. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 101101 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Lepton Number Violating Decays $B^{+} \to π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{+}$ and $B^{+} \to K^{-} μ^{+} μ^{+}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 101601 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Measurement of $Z Z$ Production in Leptonic Final States at $\sqrt{s}$ of 1.96 TeV at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 101801 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Differentiating the Higgs Boson from the Dilaton and Radion at Hadron Colliders

Vernon Barger, Muneyuki Ishida, and Wai-Yee Keung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 101802 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Measurement of the $C P$ -Violating Phase $ϕ_{s}$ in the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 101803 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

New Precision Limit on the Strange Vector Form Factors of the Proton

Z. Ahmed et al. (HAPPEX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 102001 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Heavy Quarkonium Production and Polarization

Zhong-Bo Kang, Jian-Wei Qiu, and George Sterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 102002 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Prediction of the Bottomonium $D$ -Wave Spectrum from Full Lattice QCD

J. O. Daldrop, C. T. H. Davies, and R. J. Dowdall (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 102003 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Nuclear Physics

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First Observation of Ground State Dineutron Decay: ${}^{16}{Be}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 102501 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

3D Projection Sideband Cooling

Xiao Li, Theodore A. Corcovilos, Yang Wang, and David S. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 103001 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

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Laser Radiation Pressure Slowing of a Molecular Beam

J. F. Barry, E. S. Shuman, E. B. Norrgard, and D. DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 103002 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Recollision Dynamics and Phase Diagram for Nonsequential Double Ionization with Circularly Polarized Laser Fields

L. B. Fu, G. G. Xin, D. F. Ye, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 103601 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Single-Shot Electronic Optical Activity Interferometry: Power and Phase Fluctuation-Free Measurement

Intae Eom, Sung-Hyun Ahn, Hanju Rhee, and Minhaeng Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 103901 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Efficient Single-Photon Frequency Conversion Using a Sagnac Interferometer

Matthew Bradford, Kenechukwu C. Obi, and Jung-Tsung Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 103902 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Normal Contact Stiffness of Elastic Solids with Fractal Rough Surfaces

Roman Pohrt and Valentin L. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 104301 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Opacity and Transport Measurements Reveal That Dilute Plasma Models of Sonoluminescence Are Not Valid

Shahzad Khalid, Brian Kappus, Keith Weninger, and Seth Putterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 104302 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Intrinsic Nonlinear Scale Governs Oscillations in Rapid Fracture

Tamar Goldman, Roi Harpaz, Eran Bouchbinder, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 104303 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Formation of Surface Nanobubbles and the Universality of Their Contact Angles: A Molecular Dynamics Approach

Joost H. Weijs, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 104501 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Convection in Multiphase Fluid Flows Using Lattice Boltzmann Methods

L. Biferale, P. Perlekar, M. Sbragaglia, and F. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 104502 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Channeling of Relativistic Laser Pulses, Surface Waves, and Electron Acceleration

N. Naseri, D. Pesme, W. Rozmus, and K. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105001 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

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Scattering of Magnetic Mirror Trapped Fast Electrons by a Shear Alfvén Wave

Yuhou Wang, Walter Gekelman, Patrick Pribyl, and Konstantinos Papadopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105002 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

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Cavitating Langmuir Turbulence in the Terrestrial Aurora

B. Isham, M. T. Rietveld, P. Guio, F. R. E. Forme, T. Grydeland, and E. Mjølhus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105003 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

High-Power Terahertz-Range Planar Gyrotrons with Transverse Energy Extraction

N. S. Ginzburg, I. V. Zotova, A. S. Sergeev, V. Yu. Zaslavsky, and I. V. Zheleznov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105101 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Liquid Ground State, Gap, and Excited States of a Strongly Correlated Spin Chain

Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105301 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Staircaselike Suppression of Supersolidity under Rotation

H. Choi, D. Takahashi, W. Choi, K. Kono, and E. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105302 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Narrowing the Length Distribution of Ge Nanowires

V. G. Dubrovskii, T. Xu, Y. Lambert, J.-P. Nys, B. Grandidier, D. Stiévenard, W. Chen, and P. Pareige

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105501 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Dispersion Interactions and Vibrational Effects in Ice as a Function of Pressure: A First Principles Study

Éamonn D. Murray and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105502 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Dynamics of a 2D Gel

D. Orsi, L. Cristofolini, G. Baldi, and A. Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105701 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Thermomolecular Orientation of Nonpolar Fluids

Frank Römer, Fernando Bresme, Jordan Muscatello, Dick Bedeaux, and J. Miguel Rubí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 105901 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Forces between Hydrophobic Solids in Concentrated Aqueous Salt Solution

Dean J. Mastropietro and William A. Ducker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106101 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Interfacial Alloy Hydride Destabilization in $Mg / Pd$ Thin Films

C.-J. Chung, Sang-Chul Lee, James R. Groves, Edwin N. Brower, Robert Sinclair, and Bruce M. Clemens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106102 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Commensurate Registry and Chemisorption at a Hetero-organic Interface

Benjamin Stadtmüller, Tomoki Sueyoshi, Georgy Kichin, Ingo Kröger, Sergey Soubatch, Ruslan Temirov, F. Stefan Tautz, and Christian Kumpf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106103 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Nanoscale Deformation of a Liquid Surface

Rene Ledesma-Alonso, Dominique Legendre, and Philippe Tordjeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106104 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Adsorbate Induced Restructuring of ${TiO}_{2} (011) − (2 \times 1)$ Leads to One-Dimensional Nanocluster Formation

Qian Cuan, Junguang Tao, Xue-Qing Gong, and Matthias Batzill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106105 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Quantum Phase Transition in $5 d$ Transition Metal Oxide ${Na}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

Choong H. Kim, Heung Sik Kim, Hogyun Jeong, Hosub Jin, and Jaejun Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106401 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Ultrastrong Coupling Regime and Plasmon Polaritons in Parabolic Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Markus Geiser, Fabrizio Castellano, Giacomo Scalari, Mattias Beck, Laurent Nevou, and Jérôme Faist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106402 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Universal Probes of Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators: Dislocation and $π$ Flux

Vladimir Juričić, Andrej Mesaros, Robert-Jan Slager, and Jan Zaanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106403 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Connecting the Reentrant Insulating Phase and the Zero-Field Metal-Insulator Transition in a 2D Hole System

R. L. J. Qiu, X. P. A. Gao, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106404 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Electron-Electron Interaction in the Magnetoresistance of Graphene

Johannes Jobst, Daniel Waldmann, Igor V. Gornyi, Alexander D. Mirlin, and Heiko B. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106601 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

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Local Charge and Spin Currents in Magnetothermal Landscapes

Mathias Weiler, Matthias Althammer, Franz D. Czeschka, Hans Huebl, Martin S. Wagner, Matthias Opel, Inga-Mareen Imort, Günter Reiss, Andy Thomas, Rudolf Gross, and Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106602 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

How to Distinguish between Specular and Retroconfigurations for Andreev Reflection in Graphene Rings

Jörg Schelter, Björn Trauzettel, and Patrik Recher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106603 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012

Structure Selection Based on High Vertical Electron Affinity for ${TiO}_{2}$ Clusters

Noa Marom, Minjung Kim, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106801 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Transformation-Optics Description of Nonlocal Effects in Plasmonic Nanostructures

A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Wiener, F. J. García-Vidal, S. A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106802 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Spin Splitting Unconstrained by Electron Pairing: The Spin-Vibronic States

Ungdon Ham and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106803 (2012) - Published 6 March, 2012

Magnetoresistance Measurements of Graphene at the Charge Neutrality Point

Yue Zhao, Paul Cadden-Zimansky, Fereshte Ghahari, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 106804 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Coherent Frequency Conversion in a Superconducting Artificial Atom with Two Internal Degrees of Freedom

F. Lecocq, I. M. Pop, I. Matei, E. Dumur, A. K. Feofanov, C. Naud, W. Guichard, and O. Buisson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107001 (2012) - Published 5 March, 2012

Friedel-Like Oscillations from Interstitial Iron in Superconducting ${Fe}_{1 + y} {Te}_{0.62} {Se}_{0.38}$

V. Thampy, J. Kang, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, W. Bao, A. T. Savici, J. Hu, T. J. Liu, B. Qian, D. Fobes, Z. Q. Mao, C. B. Fu, W. C. Chen, Q. Ye, R. W. Erwin, T. R. Gentile, Z. Tesanovic, and C. Broholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107002 (2012) - Published 7 March, 2012

Highly Confined Spin-Polarized Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in ${SrTiO}_{3} / {SrRuO}_{3}$ Superlattices

Marcos Verissimo-Alves, Pablo García-Fernández, Daniel I. Bilc, Philippe Ghosez, and Javier Junquera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107003 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Increased Superconducting Transition Temperature of a Niobium Thin Film Proximity Coupled to Gold Nanoparticles Using Linking Organic Molecules

Eran Katzir, Shira Yochelis, Felix Zeides, Nadav Katz, Yaov Kalcheim, Oded Millo, Gregory Leitus, Yuri Myasodeyov, Boris Ya. Shapiro, Ron Naaman, and Yossi Paltiel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107004 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Majorana Fermions and Exotic Surface Andreev Bound States in Topological Superconductors: Application to ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Timothy H. Hsieh and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107005 (2012) - Published 8 March, 2012

Broadly Tunable Subterahertz Emission from Internal Branches of the Current-Voltage Characteristics of Superconducting ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Single Crystals

Manabu Tsujimoto, Takashi Yamamoto, Kaveh Delfanazari, Ryo Nakayama, Takeo Kitamura, Masashi Sawamura, Takanari Kashiwagi, Hidetoshi Minami, Masashi Tachiki, Kazuo Kadowaki, and Richard A. Klemm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107006 (2012) - Published 9 March, 2012