Volume 108, Issue 16

20 April 2012

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Atomic force micrographs of chemically etched ErMnO₃ crystals showing the evolution of ferroelectric vortex-antivortex domain patterns with varying cooling rates.

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Direct Observation of the Proliferation of Ferroelectric Loop Domains and Vortex-Antivortex Pairs
S. C. Chae, N. Lee, Y. Horibe, M. Tanimura, S. Mori, B. Gao, S. Carr, and S.-W. Cheong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 167603 (2012)

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Photonic Realization of the Quantum Rabi Model

A. Crespi, S. Longhi, and R. Osellame

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163601 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

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Nondiffracting Accelerating Wave Packets of Maxwell’s Equations

Ido Kaminer, Rivka Bekenstein, Jonathan Nemirovsky, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163901 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

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Spectroscopy of Spin-Orbit Quantum Bits in Indium Antimonide Nanowires

S. Nadj-Perge, V. S. Pribiag, J. W. G. van den Berg, K. Zuo, S. R. Plissard, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, S. M. Frolov, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166801 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

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Femtosecond Population Inversion and Stimulated Emission of Dense Dirac Fermions in Graphene

T. Li, L. Luo, M. Hupalo, J. Zhang, M. C. Tringides, J. Schmalian, and J. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 167401 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

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Dense Electron-Positron Plasmas and Ultraintense $γ$ rays from Laser-Irradiated Solids

C. P. Ridgers, C. S. Brady, R. Duclous, J. G. Kirk, K. Bennett, T. D. Arber, A. P. L. Robinson, and A. R. Bell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165006 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

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Chiral Surfaces Self-Assembling in One-Component Systems with Isotropic Interactions

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165502 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Instability in Magnetic Materials with a Dynamical Axion Field

Hirosi Ooguri and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 161803 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

LETTERS

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

Critical and Strong-Coupling Phases in One- and Two-Bath Spin-Boson Models

Cheng Guo, Andreas Weichselbaum, Jan von Delft, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 160401 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Non-Markovianity-Assisted Steady State Entanglement

Susana F. Huelga, Ángel Rivas, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 160402 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Statistical Physics of Bose-Einstein-Condensed Light in a Dye Microcavity

Jan Klaers, Julian Schmitt, Tobias Damm, Frank Vewinger, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 160403 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Dynamics of a Qubit as a Classical Stochastic Process with Time-Correlated Noise: Minimal Measurement Invasiveness

Alberto Montina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 160501 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Momentum Transfer in Nonequilibrium Steady States

Antoine Fruleux, Ryoichi Kawai, and Ken Sekimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 160601 (2012) - Published 17 April, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Relativistic Field Theories Far from Equilibrium

Jürgen Berges and Dénes Sexty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 161601 (2012) - Published 17 April, 2012

Puzzle of Bulk Conformal Field Theories at Central Charge $c = 0$

Romain Vasseur, Azat Gainutdinov, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, and Hubert Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 161602 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

First Observation of the Decays ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{+} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $B^{-} \to D^{0} K^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 161801 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

First Measurements of Inclusive Muon Neutrino Charged Current Differential Cross Sections on Argon

C. Anderson et al. (ArgoNeuT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 161802 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Instability in Magnetic Materials with a Dynamical Axion Field

Hirosi Ooguri and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 161803 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Complex Heavy-Quark Potential at Finite Temperature from Lattice QCD

Alexander Rothkopf, Tetsuo Hatsuda, and Shoichi Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 162001 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Is the $7 / 2_{1}^{-}$ Isomer State of ${}^{43}S$ Spherical?

R. Chevrier et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 162501 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Precise Determination of the Unperturbed ${}^{8}B$ Neutrino Spectrum

T. Roger et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 162502 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Low-Energy Enhancement in the Photon Strength of ${}^{95}{Mo}$

M. Wiedeking, L. A. Bernstein, M. Krtička, D. L. Bleuel, J. M. Allmond, M. S. Basunia, J. T. Harke, P. Fallon, R. B. Firestone, B. L. Goldblum, R. Hatarik, P. T. Lake, I-Y. Lee, S. R. Lesher, S. Paschalis, M. Petri, L. Phair, and N. D. Scielzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 162503 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Streaking of Correlated Two-Electron Transitions in Helium

Renate Pazourek, Johannes Feist, Stefan Nagele, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163001 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Electrodynamic Coupling of Electric Dipole Emitters to a Fluctuating Mode Density within a Nanocavity

Alexey I. Chizhik, Ingo Gregor, Frank Schleifenbaum, Claus B. Müller, Christian Röling, Alfred J. Meixner, and Jörg Enderlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163002 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Photonic Realization of the Quantum Rabi Model

A. Crespi, S. Longhi, and R. Osellame

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163601 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Quantum Interference between Two Single Photons of Different Microwave Frequencies

François Nguyen, Eva Zakka-Bajjani, Raymond W. Simmonds, and José Aumentado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163602 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nondiffracting Accelerating Wave Packets of Maxwell’s Equations

Ido Kaminer, Rivka Bekenstein, Jonathan Nemirovsky, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163901 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Pseudopulse Near-Field Subsurface Tomography

K. P. Gaikovich, P. K. Gaikovich, Ye. S. Maksimovitch, and V. A. Badeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 163902 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Distributional Response to Biases in Deterministic Superdiffusion

Takuma Akimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 164101 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Inverse Energy Cascade in Three-Dimensional Isotropic Turbulence

Luca Biferale, Stefano Musacchio, and Federico Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 164501 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Order-Harmonic Generation and Superradiance in a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

L. Giannessi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 164801 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Flux-Limited Nonequilibrium Electron Energy Transport in Warm Dense Gold

Z. Chen, V. Sametoglu, Y. Y. Tsui, T. Ao, and A. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165001 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Magnetic field generation in Rayleigh-Taylor unstable inertial confinement fusion plasmas

Bhuvana Srinivasan, Guy Dimonte, and Xian-Zhu Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165002 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Saturation of the Two-Plasmon Decay Instability in Long-Scale-Length Plasmas Relevant to Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion

D. H. Froula, B. Yaakobi, S. X. Hu, P-Y. Chang, R. S. Craxton, D. H. Edgell, R. Follett, D. T. Michel, J. F. Myatt, W. Seka, R. W. Short, A. Solodov, and C. Stoeckl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165003 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Origin of Tokamak Density Limit Scalings

D. A. Gates and L. Delgado-Aparicio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165004 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Parallel Heat Flux from Low to High Parallel Temperature along a Magnetic Field Line

Zehua Guo and Xian-Zhu Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165005 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Dense Electron-Positron Plasmas and Ultraintense $γ$ rays from Laser-Irradiated Solids

C. P. Ridgers, C. S. Brady, R. Duclous, J. G. Kirk, K. Bennett, T. D. Arber, A. P. L. Robinson, and A. R. Bell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165006 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Novel Attractive Force between Ions in Quantum Plasmas

P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165007 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Creation on Demand of Higher Orbital States in a Vibrating Optical Lattice

Tomasz Sowiński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165301 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Photoconductive Detection of Tetrahedrally Coordinated Hydrogen in ZnO

S. G. Koch, E. V. Lavrov, and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165501 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Chiral Surfaces Self-Assembling in One-Component Systems with Isotropic Interactions

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165502 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Equilibrium Fluid-Solid Coexistence of Hard Spheres

L. A. Fernández, V. Martín-Mayor, B. Seoane, and P. Verrocchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165701 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Proton Disorder and Superionicity in Hot Dense Ammonia Ice

S. Ninet, F. Datchi, and A. M. Saitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165702 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Structure of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Films on Si

C. Stephen Hellberg, Kristopher E. Andersen, Hao Li, P. J. Ryan, and J. C. Woicik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166101 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Room-Temperature Polariton Parametric Scattering Driven by a One-Dimensional Polariton Condensate

Wei Xie, Hongxing Dong, Saifeng Zhang, Liaoxin Sun, Weihang Zhou, Yanjing Ling, Jian Lu, Xuechu Shen, and Zhanghai Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166401 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Anomalous High-Pressure Jahn-Teller Behavior in ${CuWO}_{4}$

J. Ruiz-Fuertes, A. Segura, F. Rodríguez, D. Errandonea, and M. N. Sanz-Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166402 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Rigorous Definition of Oxidation States of Ions in Solids

Lai Jiang, Sergey V. Levchenko, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166403 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Evidence for the Importance of Extended Coulomb Interactions and Forward Scattering in Cuprate Superconductors

S. Johnston, I. M. Vishik, W. S. Lee, F. Schmitt, S. Uchida, K. Fujita, S. Ishida, N. Nagaosa, Z. X. Shen, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166404 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Convergence of Conduction Bands as a Means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of $n$ -Type ${Mg}_{2} {Si}_{1 - x} {Sn}_{x}$ Solid Solutions

Wei Liu, Xiaojian Tan, Kang Yin, Huijun Liu, Xinfeng Tang, Jing Shi, Qingjie Zhang, and Ctirad Uher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166601 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Quenching of the Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene with Scrolled Edges

Alessandro Cresti, Michael M. Fogler, Francisco Guinea, A. H. Castro Neto, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166602 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Mesoscopic Stoner Instability in Metallic Nanoparticles Revealed by Shot Noise

Björn Sothmann, Jürgen König, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166603 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Mapping Itinerant Electrons around Kondo Impurities

H. Prüser, M. Wenderoth, A. Weismann, and R. G. Ulbrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166604 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Tunable Kondo Effect in a Double Quantum Dot Coupled to Ferromagnetic Contacts

Rok Žitko, Jong Soo Lim, Rosa López, Jan Martinek, and Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166605 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

$z \to - z$ Symmetry of Spin-Orbit Coupling and Weak Localization in Graphene

Edward McCann and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166606 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Spectroscopy of Spin-Orbit Quantum Bits in Indium Antimonide Nanowires

S. Nadj-Perge, V. S. Pribiag, J. W. G. van den Berg, K. Zuo, S. R. Plissard, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, S. M. Frolov, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166801 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Proposal of a One-Dimensional Electron Gas in the Steps at the ${LaAlO}_{3} − {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

N. C. Bristowe, T. Fix, M. G. Blamire, P. B. Littlewood, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166802 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Subradiant Split Cooper Pairs

Audrey Cottet, Takis Kontos, and Alfredo Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 166803 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

Observation of Well-Ordered Metastable Vortex Lattice Phases in Superconducting ${MgB}_{2}$ Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

P. Das, C. Rastovski, T. R. O’Brien, K. J. Schlesinger, C. D. Dewhurst, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, N. D. Zhigadlo, J. Karpinski, and M. R. Eskildsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 167001 (2012) - Published 19 April, 2012

Spectral and Thermodynamic Properties of a Strong-Leg Quantum Spin Ladder

D. Schmidiger, P. Bouillot, S. Mühlbauer, S. Gvasaliya, C. Kollath, T. Giamarchi, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 167201 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Quasi-One-Dimensional Magnons in an Intermetallic Marcasite

M. B. Stone, M. D. Lumsden, S. E. Nagler, D. J. Singh, J. He, B. C. Sales, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 167202 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Fock-Darwin States of Dirac Electrons in Graphene-Based Artificial Atoms”

P. S. Park, S. C. Kim, and S.-R. Eric Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 169701 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

Apalkov and Chakraborty Reply:

Vadim M. Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 169702 (2012) - Published 18 April, 2012

ERRATA

Erratum: Black Hole Entropy and Isolated Horizons Thermodynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 241301 (2011)]

Amit Ghosh and Alejandro Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 169901 (2012) - Published 16 April, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Role of Cellulose Oxidation in the Yellowing of Ancient Paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 158301 (2012)]

A. Mosca Conte, O. Pulci, A. Knapik, J. Bagniuk, R. Del Sole, J. Lojewska, and M. Missori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 169902 (2012) - Published 20 April, 2012