Volume 108, Issue 14

6 April 2012

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Four clusters of a colony of Bacillus subtilis expanding outward and placed under an optical microscope for measurements. White rods are individual bacteria; the overlay (color) shows instantaneous velocity vectors for each cluster. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Scale-Invariant Correlations in Dynamic Bacterial Clusters
Xiao Chen, Xu Dong, Avraham Be’er, Harry L. Swinney, and H. P. Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 148101 (2012)

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Experimental Observation of Spatially Localized Dynamo Magnetic Fields

B. Gallet, S. Aumaître, J. Boisson, F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle, N. Bonnefoy, M. Bourgoin, Ph. Odier, J.-F. Pinton, N. Plihon, G. Verhille, S. Fauve, and F. Pétrélis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 144501 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

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Scale-Invariant Correlations in Dynamic Bacterial Clusters

Xiao Chen, Xu Dong, Avraham Be’er, Harry L. Swinney, and H. P. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 148101 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

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Detection of Vibration-Mode Scattering in Electronic Shot Noise

Manohar Kumar, Rémi Avriller, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, and Jan M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146602 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

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Packing Spheres Tightly: Influence of Mechanical Stability on Close-Packed Sphere Structures

S. Heitkam, W. Drenckhan, and J. Fröhlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 148302 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

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Ergodicity Breaking and Parametric Resonances in Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Fernanda P. da C. Benetti, Tarcísio N. Teles, Renato Pakter, and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140601 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

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Model of an Exotic Chiral Superconducting Phase in a Graphene Bilayer

Mir Vahid Hosseini and Malek Zareyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 147001 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

LETTERS

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

Uncertainty Relation for Photons

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140401 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Stable Periodic Density Waves in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates Trapped in Optical Lattices

Aleksandra Maluckov, Goran Gligorić, Ljupčo Hadžievski, Boris A. Malomed, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140402 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Controlling Spin-Spin Network Dynamics by Repeated Projective Measurements

Christian O. Bretschneider, Gonzalo A. Álvarez, Gershon Kurizki, and Lucio Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140403 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Fermion Bags, Duality, and the Three Dimensional Massless Lattice Thirring Model

Shailesh Chandrasekharan and Anyi Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140404 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Dirac Semimetal in Three Dimensions

S. M. Young, S. Zaheer, J. C. Y. Teo, C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele, and A. M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140405 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Information Trade-Offs for Optical Quantum Communication

Mark M. Wilde, Patrick Hayden, and Saikat Guha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140501 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Parallel Information Transfer in a Multinode Quantum Information Processor

T. W. Borneman, C. E. Granade, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140502 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Fast Hybrid Silicon Double-Quantum-Dot Qubit

Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, J. R. Prance, John King Gamble, Teck Seng Koh, Yun-Pil Shim, Xuedong Hu, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, M. A. Eriksson, Mark Friesen, and S. N. Coppersmith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140503 (2012) - Published 4 April, 2012

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Ergodicity Breaking and Parametric Resonances in Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Fernanda P. da C. Benetti, Tarcísio N. Teles, Renato Pakter, and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 140601 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Reduction of Thermal Fluctuations in a Cryogenic Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector

Takashi Uchiyama, Shinji Miyoki, Souichi Telada, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Masatake Ohashi, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Koji Arai, Masa-Katsu Fujimoto, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, Seiji Kawamura, Osamu Miyakawa, Naoko Ohishi, Takanori Saito, Takakazu Shintomi, Toshikazu Suzuki, Ryutaro Takahashi, and Daisuke Tatsumi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 141101 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Time and a Physical Hamiltonian for Quantum Gravity

Viqar Husain and Tomasz Pawłowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 141301 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

What Do Gas-Rich Galaxies Actually Tell Us about Modified Newtonian Dynamics?

Simon Foreman and Douglas Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 141302 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

$K \to (π π)_{I = 2}$ Decay Amplitude from Lattice QCD

T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, N. H. Christ, N. Garron, E. Goode, T. Izubuchi, C. Jung, C. Kelly, C. Lehner, M. Lightman, Q. Liu, A. T. Lytle, R. D. Mawhinney, C. T. Sachrajda, A. Soni, and C. Sturm (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 141601 (2012) - Published 4 April, 2012

Could the Excess Seen at 124–126 GeV Be due to the Randall-Sundrum Radion?

Kingman Cheung and Tzu-Chiang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 141602 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Measurement of the Neutron $F_{2}$ Structure Function via Spectator Tagging with CLAS

N. Baillie et al. (The CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 142001 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Charge Radius of ${}^{12}{Be}$

A. Krieger, K. Blaum, M. L. Bissell, N. Frömmgen, Ch. Geppert, M. Hammen, K. Kreim, M. Kowalska, J. Krämer, T. Neff, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, Ch. Novotny, R. Sánchez, and D. T. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 142501 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Abrupt Change in Radiation-Width Distribution for ${}^{147}{Sm}$ Neutron Resonances

P. E. Koehler, R. Reifarth, J. L. Ullmann, T. A. Bredeweg, J. M. O’Donnell, R. S. Rundberg, D. J. Vieira, and J. M. Wouters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 142502 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Evidence for the Ground-State Resonance of ${}^{26}O$

E. Lunderberg, P. A. DeYoung, Z. Kohley, H. Attanayake, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, G. Christian, D. Divaratne, S. M. Grimes, A. Haagsma, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, B. Luther, S. Mosby, T. Nagi, G. F. Peaslee, A. Schiller, J. Snyder, A. Spyrou, M. J. Strongman, and M. Thoennessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 142503 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Frequency Metrology of Helium around 1083 nm and Determination of the Nuclear Charge Radius

P. Cancio Pastor, L. Consolino, G. Giusfredi, P. De Natale, M. Inguscio, V. A. Yerokhin, and K. Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 143001 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Muonium Emission into Vacuum from Mesoporous Thin Films at Cryogenic Temperatures

A. Antognini, P. Crivelli, T. Prokscha, K. S. Khaw, B. Barbiellini, L. Liszkay, K. Kirch, K. Kwuida, E. Morenzoni, F. M. Piegsa, Z. Salman, and A. Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 143401 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Quantum Interference of Single Photons from Remote Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

A. Sipahigil, M. L. Goldman, E. Togan, Y. Chu, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, A. S. Zibrov, A. Kubanek, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 143601 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Stimulated Emission from a Single Excited Atom in a Waveguide

Eden Rephaeli and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 143602 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Quantum Mutual Information Capacity for High-Dimensional Entangled States

P. Ben Dixon, Gregory A. Howland, James Schneeloch, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 143603 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Observation of Spatially Localized Dynamo Magnetic Fields

B. Gallet, S. Aumaître, J. Boisson, F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle, N. Bonnefoy, M. Bourgoin, Ph. Odier, J.-F. Pinton, N. Plihon, G. Verhille, S. Fauve, and F. Pétrélis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 144501 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Macroscopic Phase-Field Model of Partial Wetting: Bubbles in a Capillary Tube

Luis Cueto-Felgueroso and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 144502 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Observation of Energy Modulation in Electron Beams Passing through Terahertz Dielectric Wakefield Structures

S. Antipov, C. Jing, M. Fedurin, W. Gai, A. Kanareykin, K. Kusche, P. Schoessow, V. Yakimenko, and A. Zholents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 144801 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Measurement of Radiative Shock Properties by X-Ray Thomson Scattering

A. J. Visco, R. P. Drake, S. H. Glenzer, T. Döppner, G. Gregori, D. H. Froula, and M. J. Grosskopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145001 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Optical Thomson Scattering Measurements of Plasma Parameters in the Ablation Stage of Wire Array $Z$ Pinches

A. J. Harvey-Thompson, S. V. Lebedev, S. Patankar, S. N. Bland, G. Burdiak, J. P. Chittenden, A. Colaitis, P. De Grouchy, H. W. Doyle, G. N. Hall, E. Khoory, M. Hohenberger, L. Pickworth, F. Suzuki-Vidal, R. A. Smith, J. Skidmore, L. Suttle, and G. F. Swadling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145002 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Driven Spatially Autoresonant Stimulated Raman Scattering in the Kinetic Regime

T. Chapman, S. Hüller, P. E. Masson-Laborde, A. Heron, D. Pesme, and W. Rozmus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145003 (2012) - Published 4 April, 2012

Parametric Amplification of Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration in Underdense Plasma

Alexey V. Arefiev, Boris N. Breizman, Marius Schollmeier, and Vladimir N. Khudik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145004 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bond Order Solid of Two-Dimensional Dipolar Fermions

S. G. Bhongale, L. Mathey, Shan-Wen Tsai, Charles W. Clark, and Erhai Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145301 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

BCS-BEC Crossover in 2D Fermi Gases with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

Lianyi He and Xu-Guang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145302 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Self-Trapping of Magnon Bose-Einstein Condensates in the Ground State and on Excited Levels: From Harmonic to Box Confinement

S. Autti, Yu. M. Bunkov, V. B. Eltsov, P. J. Heikkinen, J. J. Hosio, P. Hunger, M. Krusius, and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145303 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Density Instabilities in a Two-Dimensional Dipolar Fermi Gas

M. M. Parish and F. M. Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145304 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Measurements of Tan’s Contact in an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate

R. J. Wild, P. Makotyn, J. M. Pino, E. A. Cornell, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145305 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Dynamic Structure Mediated by Graphitelike Al Nets on the ${Al}_{2} Cu$ (001) Surface

L. N. Serkovic Loli, É. Gaudry, V. Fournée, M.-C. de Weerd, and J. Ledieu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146101 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Field-Induced Expansion Deformation in Pb Islands on Cu(111): Evidence from Energy Shift of Empty Quantum-Well States

W. Y. Chan, H. S. Huang, W. B. Su, W. H. Lin, H.-T. Jeng, M. K. Wu, and C. S. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146102 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Density-Functional Theory with Screened van der Waals Interactions for the Modeling of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Systems

Victor G. Ruiz, Wei Liu, Egbert Zojer, Matthias Scheffler, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146103 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Kohn-Sham Self-Interaction Correction in Real Time

D. Hofmann, T. Körzdörfer, and S. Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146401 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Synchrotron Infrared Measurements of Dense Hydrogen to 360 GPa

Chang-Sheng Zha, Zhenxian Liu, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146402 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Spin Exciton Formation inside the Hidden Order Phase of ${CeB}_{6}$

Alireza Akbari and Peter Thalmeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146403 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

Direct Observation of Charge Ordering in Magnetite Using Resonant Multiwave X-Ray Diffraction

Shih-Chang Weng, Yen-Ru Lee, Cheng-Gang Chen, Chia-Hung Chu, Yun-Liang Soo, and Shih-Lin Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146404 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Computational Design of Axion Insulators Based on $5 d$ Spinel Compounds

Xiangang Wan, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Sergey Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146601 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

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Detection of Vibration-Mode Scattering in Electronic Shot Noise

Manohar Kumar, Rémi Avriller, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, and Jan M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 146602 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Model of an Exotic Chiral Superconducting Phase in a Graphene Bilayer

Mir Vahid Hosseini and Malek Zareyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 147001 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Electronic Correlations and Unconventional Spectral Weight Transfer in the High-Temperature Pnictide ${BaFe}_{2 - x} {Co}_{x} {As}_{2}$ Superconductor Using Infrared Spectroscopy

A. A. Schafgans, S. J. Moon, B. C. Pursley, A. D. LaForge, M. M. Qazilbash, A. S. Sefat, D. Mandrus, K. Haule, G. Kotliar, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 147002 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Scale-Invariant Correlations in Dynamic Bacterial Clusters

Xiao Chen, Xu Dong, Avraham Be’er, Harry L. Swinney, and H. P. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 148101 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

Microscale Rheology of a Soft Glassy Material Close to Yielding

Pierre Jop, Vincent Mansard, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Lydéric Bocquet, and Annie Colin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 148301 (2012) - Published 3 April, 2012

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Packing Spheres Tightly: Influence of Mechanical Stability on Close-Packed Sphere Structures

S. Heitkam, W. Drenckhan, and J. Fröhlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 148302 (2012) - Published 5 April, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “Electronic Structure of Superconducting ${KC}_{8}$ and Nonsuperconducting ${LiC}_{6}$ Graphite Intercalation Compounds: Evidence for a Graphene-Sheet-Driven Superconducting State”

M. Calandra, C. Attaccalite, G. Profeta, and F. Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 149701 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

Pan et al. Reply:

Z.-H. Pan, A. V. Fedorov, C. A. Howard, M. Ellerby, and T. Valla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 149702 (2012) - Published 6 April, 2012

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Ubiquitous Nature of Multimode Vibrational Resonances in Positron-Molecule Annihilation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093201 (2012)]

A. C. L. Jones, J. R. Danielson, M. R. Natisin, C. M. Surko, and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 149901 (2012) - Published 2 April, 2012