Volume 108, Issue 17

27 April 2012

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Three-dimensional charge iso-surface corresponding to the charge density of 0.15 e/Å³ in bulk metallic glass Pd₄₀Ni₄₀P₂₀.

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Structural Origins of the Excellent Glass Forming Ability of ${Pd}_{40} {Ni}_{40} P_{20}$
P. F. Guan, T. Fujita, A. Hirata, Y. H. Liu, and M. W. Chen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175501 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Continuous Quantum Hypothesis Testing

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170502 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

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Cooperative Lamb Shift in an Atomic Vapor Layer of Nanometer Thickness

J. Keaveney, A. Sargsyan, U. Krohn, I. G. Hughes, D. Sarkisyan, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173601 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

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Self-Similar Curling of a Naturally Curved Elastica

A. C. Callan-Jones, P.-T. Brun, and B. Audoly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 174302 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

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Freezing Transition, Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices, and the Riemann Zeta Function

Yan V. Fyodorov, Ghaith A. Hiary, and Jonathan P. Keating

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170601 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

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Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171803 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

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Attosecond Plasma Wave Dynamics in Laser-Driven Cluster Nanoplasmas

Charles Varin, Christian Peltz, Thomas Brabec, and Thomas Fennel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175007 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

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Total X-Ray Scattering of Spider Dragline Silk

C. J. Benmore, T. Izdebski, and J. L. Yarger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 178102 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

LETTERS

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

Geometric Phase and Nonadiabatic Effects in an Electronic Harmonic Oscillator

M. Pechal, S. Berger, A. A. Abdumalikov, Jr., J. M. Fink, J. A. Mlynek, L. Steffen, A. Wallraff, and S. Filipp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170401 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Only Above Barrier Energy Components Contribute to Barrier Traversal Time

Eric A. Galapon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170402 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Experimental Quantum State Tomography via Compressed Sampling

Wei-Tao Liu, Ting Zhang, Ji-Ying Liu, Ping-Xing Chen, and Jian-Min Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170403 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Exact Solution for a Non-Markovian Dissipative Quantum Dynamics

Luca Ferialdi and Angelo Bassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170404 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Quantum Computing with Incoherent Resources and Quantum Jumps

M. F. Santos, M. Terra Cunha, R. Chaves, and A. R. R. Carvalho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170501 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

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Continuous Quantum Hypothesis Testing

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170502 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Driven Dynamics and Rotary Echo of a Qubit Tunably Coupled to a Harmonic Oscillator

S. Gustavsson, J. Bylander, F. Yan, P. Forn-Díaz, V. Bolkhovsky, D. Braje, G. Fitch, K. Harrabi, D. Lennon, J. Miloshi, P. Murphy, R. Slattery, S. Spector, B. Turek, T. Weir, P. B. Welander, F. Yoshihara, D. G. Cory, Y. Nakamura, T. P. Orlando, and W. D. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170503 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

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Freezing Transition, Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices, and the Riemann Zeta Function

Yan V. Fyodorov, Ghaith A. Hiary, and Jonathan P. Keating

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170601 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Adaptive resolution molecular dynamics simulation through coupling to an internal particle reservoir

S. Fritsch, S. Poblete, C. Junghans, G. Ciccotti, L. Delle Site, and K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170602 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Stochastic Systems with Odd and Even Variables

Richard E. Spinney and Ian J. Ford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 170603 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Voids as Alternatives to Dark Energy and the Propagation of $γ$ Rays through the Universe

Arnaud DeLavallaz and Malcolm Fairbairn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171301 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $C P$ -Violation Parameter $\sin 2 ϕ_{1}$ with a New Tagging Method at the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

Y. Sato et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171801 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Precise Measurement of the $C P$ Violation Parameter $\sin 2 ϕ_{1}$ in $B^{0} \to (c \bar{c}) K^{0}$ Decays

I. Adachi et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171802 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

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Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171803 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Taming the Pion Cloud of the Nucleon

Mary Alberg and Gerald A. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 172001 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

$J / ψ$ Polarization at the Tevatron and the LHC: Nonrelativistic-QCD Factorization at the Crossroads

Mathias Butenschoen and Bernd A. Kniehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 172002 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Axial Couplings and Strong Decay Widths of Heavy Hadrons

William Detmold, C.-J. David Lin, and Stefan Meinel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 172003 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Laboratory Tests of Low Density Astrophysical Nuclear Equations of State

L. Qin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 172701 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electric Dipole Moment Enhancement Factor of Thallium

S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173001 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Controlled Production of Subradiant States of a Diatomic Molecule in an Optical Lattice

Yosuke Takasu, Yutaka Saito, Yoshiro Takahashi, Mateusz Borkowski, Roman Ciuryło, and Paul S. Julienne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173002 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Interference Effects on ( $e$ , $2 e$ ) Electron Momentum Profiles of ${CF}_{4}$

Noboru Watanabe, XiangJun Chen, and Masahiko Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173201 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Dissipative Effects on Quantum Sticking

Yanting Zhang and Dennis P. Clougherty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173202 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Angular-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Superatom Orbitals of Fullerenes

J. Olof Johansson, Gordon G. Henderson, Françoise Remacle, and Eleanor E. B. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173401 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

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Cooperative Lamb Shift in an Atomic Vapor Layer of Nanometer Thickness

J. Keaveney, A. Sargsyan, U. Krohn, I. G. Hughes, D. Sarkisyan, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173601 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Optical Forces and Torques in Nonuniform Beams of Light

David B. Ruffner and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173602 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Demonstration of the Interaction between Two Stopped Light Pulses

Yi-Hsin Chen, Meng-Jung Lee, Weilun Hung, Ying-Cheng Chen, Yong-Fan Chen, and Ite A. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173603 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Full-Field Quantum Correlations of Spatially Entangled Photons

V. D. Salakhutdinov, E. R. Eliel, and W. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173604 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Pump-Induced Exceptional Points in Lasers

M. Liertzer, Li Ge, A. Cerjan, A. D. Stone, H. E. Türeci, and S. Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173901 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Stimulated Generation of Superluminal Light Pulses via Four-Wave Mixing

Ryan T. Glasser, Ulrich Vogl, and Paul D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 173902 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Nearest Level Spacing Statistics in Open Chaotic Systems: Generalization of the Wigner Surmise

Charles Poli, Germán A. Luna-Acosta, and Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 174101 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Acoustic Analogue of Graphene: Observation of Dirac Cones in Acoustic Surface Waves

Daniel Torrent and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 174301 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

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Self-Similar Curling of a Naturally Curved Elastica

A. C. Callan-Jones, P.-T. Brun, and B. Audoly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 174302 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Role of Nonlinear Coupling and Density Fluctuations in Magnetic-Fluctuation-Induced Particle Transport

L. Lin, W. X. Ding, D. L. Brower, W. F. Bergerson, T. A. Carter, T. F. Yates, A. F. Almagri, B. E. Chapman, and J. S. Sarff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175001 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Generating energetic electrons through staged acceleration in the two-plasmon-decay instability in inertial confinement fusion

R. Yan, C. Ren, J. Li, A. V. Maximov, W. B. Mori, Z.-M. Sheng, and F. S. Tsung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175002 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Massively Parallel Ionization of Extended Atomic Systems

Christian Gnodtke, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan-Michael Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175003 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Magnetic Discontinuities in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and in the Solar Wind

Vladimir Zhdankin, Stanislav Boldyrev, Joanne Mason, and Jean Carlos Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175004 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Finite Spot Effects on Radiation Pressure Acceleration from Intense High-Contrast Laser Interactions with Thin Targets

F. Dollar, C. Zulick, A. G. R. Thomas, V. Chvykov, J. Davis, G. Kalinchenko, T. Matsuoka, C. McGuffey, G. M. Petrov, L. Willingale, V. Yanovsky, A. Maksimchuk, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175005 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012

Measurement of the Adiabatic Index in Be Compressed by Counterpropagating Shocks

C. Fortmann, H. J. Lee, T. Döppner, R. W. Falcone, A. L. Kritcher, O. L. Landen, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175006 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012

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Attosecond Plasma Wave Dynamics in Laser-Driven Cluster Nanoplasmas

Charles Varin, Christian Peltz, Thomas Brabec, and Thomas Fennel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175007 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Excitation Spectrum of a Supersolid

S. Saccani, S. Moroni, and M. Boninsegni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175301 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking of $p$ -Orbital Bosons in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Xiaopeng Li, Zixu Zhang, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175302 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012

Bloch-Zener Oscillations across a Merging Transition of Dirac Points

Lih-King Lim, Jean-Noël Fuchs, and Gilles Montambaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175303 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Structural Origins of the Excellent Glass Forming Ability of ${Pd}_{40} {Ni}_{40} P_{20}$

P. F. Guan, T. Fujita, A. Hirata, Y. H. Liu, and M. W. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175501 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Dynamics and Dissipation Induced by Single-Electron Tunneling in Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectromechanical Systems

Marc Ganzhorn and Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 175502 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

Precursor to the Onset of the Bulk Oxidation of Cu(100)

Liang Li, Xi Mi, Yunfeng Shi, and Guangwen Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176101 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Ordering Mechanisms in Epitaxial SiGe Nanoislands

G. Vantarakis, I. N. Remediakis, and P. C. Kelires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176102 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Formation Mechanism for a Hybrid Supramolecular Network Involving Cooperative Interactions

Manuela Mura, Fabien Silly, Victor Burlakov, Martin R. Castell, G. Andrew D. Briggs, and Lev N. Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176103 (2012) - Published 27 April, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interfacial Protection of Topological Surface States in Ultrathin Sb Films

Guang Bian, Xiaoxiong Wang, Yang Liu, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176401 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012

Spin Pumping with Coherent Elastic Waves

M. Weiler, H. Huebl, F. S. Goerg, F. D. Czeschka, R. Gross, and S. T. B. Goennenwein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176601 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Spin-Polarized Electron Tunneling in bcc $FeCo / MgO / FeCo (001)$ Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

F. Bonell, T. Hauet, S. Andrieu, F. Bertran, P. Le Fèvre, L. Calmels, A. Tejeda, F. Montaigne, B. Warot-Fonrose, B. Belhadji, A. Nicolaou, and A. Taleb-Ibrahimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176602 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012

Commensurability-Dependent Transport of a Wigner Crystal in a Nanoconstriction

D. G. Rees, H. Totsuji, and K. Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176801 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012

Magnetic-Field Dependence of Tunnel Couplings in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots

K. Grove-Rasmussen, S. Grap, J. Paaske, K. Flensberg, S. Andergassen, V. Meden, H. I. Jørgensen, K. Muraki, and T. Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176802 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Entanglement Entropy in a One-Dimensional Disordered Interacting System: The Role of Localization

Richard Berkovits

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 176803 (2012) - Published 26 April, 2012

Hole-Doped Semiconductor Nanowire on Top of an $s$ -Wave Superconductor: A New and Experimentally Accessible System for Majorana Fermions

Li Mao, Ming Gong, E. Dumitrescu, Sumanta Tewari, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 177001 (2012) - Published 24 April, 2012

High- $T_{c}$ Spin Superfluidity in Antiferromagnets

Yu. M. Bunkov, E. M. Alakshin, R. R. Gazizulin, A. V. Klochkov, V. V. Kuzmin, V. S. L’vov, and M. S. Tagirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 177002 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Magnetic Excitation Spectra of ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ Probed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering: Establishing Links to Cuprate Superconductors

Jungho Kim, D. Casa, M. H. Upton, T. Gog, Young-June Kim, J. F. Mitchell, M. van Veenendaal, M. Daghofer, J. van den Brink, G. Khaliullin, and B. J. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 177003 (2012) - Published 23 April, 2012

Thermal Expansion and Grüneisen Parameters of $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$ : A Thermodynamic Quest for Quantum Criticality

Christoph Meingast, Frédéric Hardy, Rolf Heid, Peter Adelmann, Anna Böhmer, Philipp Burger, Doris Ernst, Rainer Fromknecht, Peter Schweiss, and Thomas Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 177004 (2012) - Published 25 April, 2012