Volume 108, Issue 2

13 January 2012

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Snapshot from the simulation of a crater-forming collision of a nanosized Cu projectile with a single-crystal Cu target showing dislocations.

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Why Nanoprojectiles Work Differently than Macroimpactors: The Role of Plastic Flow
Christian Anders, Eduardo M. Bringa, Gerolf Ziegenhain, Giles A. Graham, J. Freddy Hansen, Nigel Park, Nick E. Teslich, and Herbert M. Urbassek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 027601 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Entropic Splitter for Particle Separation

D. Reguera, A. Luque, P. S. Burada, G. Schmid, J. M. Rubí, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020604 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

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Violation of the Holographic Viscosity Bound in a Strongly Coupled Anisotropic Plasma

Anton Rebhan and Dominik Steineder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 021601 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

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Collective Quantum Jumps of Rydberg Atoms

Tony E. Lee, H. Häffner, and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023602 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Ultimate Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow

Sander G. Huisman, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Siegfried Grossmann, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024501 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Transition to the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xiaozhou He, Denis Funfschilling, Holger Nobach, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024502 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Genetic-Algorithm Discovery of a Direct-Gap and Optically Allowed Superstructure from Indirect-Gap Si and Ge Semiconductors

Mayeul d’Avezac, Jun-Wei Luo, Thomas Chanier, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 027401 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

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New Insights into the ${}^{243}{Am} + {}^{48}{Ca}$ Reaction Products Previously Observed in the Experiments on Elements 113, 115, and 117

Yu. Ts. Oganessian, F. Sh. Abdullin, S. N. Dmitriev, J. M. Gostic, J. H. Hamilton, R. A. Henderson, M. G. Itkis, K. J. Moody, A. N. Polyakov, A. V. Ramayya, J. B. Roberto, K. P. Rykaczewski, R. N. Sagaidak, D. A. Shaughnessy, I. V. Shirokovsky, M. A. Stoyer, V. G. Subbotin, A. M. Sukhov, Yu. S. Tsyganov, V. K. Utyonkov, A. A. Voinov, and G. K. Vostokin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 022502 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

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Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Pressure-Induced Metallization in FeO with Rocksalt-Type Structure

Kenji Ohta, R. E. Cohen, Kei Hirose, Kristjan Haule, Katsuya Shimizu, and Yasuo Ohishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026403 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

LETTERS

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

Gaussification and Entanglement Distillation of Continuous-Variable Systems: A Unifying Picture

Earl T. Campbell and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020501 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Entanglement of Three-Qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger–Symmetric States

Christopher Eltschka and Jens Siewert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020502 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Entropy Production in Nonequilibrium Systems at Stationary States

Tânia Tomé and Mário J. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020601 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Decoherence-Assisted Transport in a Dimer System

I. Sinayskiy, A. Marais, F. Petruccione, and A. Ekert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020602 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Vibrational Mechanics in an Optical Lattice: Controlling Transport via Potential Renormalization

A. Wickenbrock, P. C. Holz, N. A. Abdul Wahab, P. Phoonthong, D. Cubero, and F. Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020603 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

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Entropic Splitter for Particle Separation

D. Reguera, A. Luque, P. S. Burada, G. Schmid, J. M. Rubí, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 020604 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Quantum Gravitational Contributions to the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Spectrum

Claus Kiefer and Manuel Krämer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 021301 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Violation of the Holographic Viscosity Bound in a Strongly Coupled Anisotropic Plasma

Anton Rebhan and Dominik Steineder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 021601 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Boson Pair Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 021801 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Upper Bounds on Superpartner Masses from Upper Bounds on the Higgs Boson Mass

M. E. Cabrera, J. A. Casas, and A. Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 021802 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012

Eigenvalue Density of the Non-Hermitian Wilson Dirac Operator

Mario Kieburg, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, and Savvas Zafeiropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 022001 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Jet Flavor Tomography of Quark Gluon Plasmas at RHIC and LHC

Alessandro Buzzatti and Miklos Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 022301 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Test of Sum Rules in Nucleon Transfer Reactions

J. P. Schiffer, C. R. Hoffman, B. P. Kay, J. A. Clark, C. M. Deibel, S. J. Freeman, A. M. Howard, A. J. Mitchell, P. D. Parker, D. K. Sharp, and J. S. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 022501 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

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New Insights into the ${}^{243}{Am} + {}^{48}{Ca}$ Reaction Products Previously Observed in the Experiments on Elements 113, 115, and 117

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 022502 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Large Molecules Reveal a Linear Length Scaling for Double Photoionization

T. Hartman, P. N. Juranić, K. Collins, B. Reilly, N. Appathurai, and R. Wehlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023001 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Precision Measurements and Computations of Transition Energies in Rotationally Cold Triatomic Hydrogen Ions up to the Midvisible Spectral Range

Michele Pavanello, Ludwik Adamowicz, Alexander Alijah, Nikolai F. Zobov, Irina I. Mizus, Oleg L. Polyansky, Jonathan Tennyson, Tamás Szidarovszky, Attila G. Császár, Max Berg, Annemieke Petrignani, and Andreas Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023002 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Electronically Excited Cold Ion Crystals

Weibin Li and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023003 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Observation of Interference between Two Distinct Autoionizing States in Dissociative Photoionization of $H_{2}$

T. J. Reddish, A. Padmanabhan, M. A. MacDonald, L. Zuin, J. Fernández, A. Palacios, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023004 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Observation of a Resonant Four-Body Interaction in Cold Cesium Rydberg Atoms

J. H. Gurian, P. Cheinet, P. Huillery, A. Fioretti, J. Zhao, P. L. Gould, D. Comparat, and P. Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023005 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Subfemtosecond $K$ -Shell Excitation with a Few-Cycle Infrared Laser Field

Gilad Marcus, Wolfram Helml, Xun Gu, Yunpei Deng, Robert Hartmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Lothar Strueder, Reinhard Kienberger, and Ferenc Krausz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023201 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Dissociative Recombination of Highly Symmetric Polyatomic Ions

Nicolas Douguet, Ann E. Orel, Chris H. Greene, and Viatcheslav Kokoouline

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023202 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion and Quantum Walks in Arrays of Quadratic Nonlinear Waveguides

Alexander S. Solntsev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023601 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

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Collective Quantum Jumps of Rydberg Atoms

Tony E. Lee, H. Häffner, and M. C. Cross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023602 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Broadband Light Harvesting Nanostructures Robust to Edge Bluntness

Yu Luo, Dang Yuan Lei, Stefan A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023901 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

$P T$ Symmetry and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Microwave Billiard

S. Bittner, B. Dietz, U. Günther, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024101 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

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Ultimate Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow

Sander G. Huisman, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Siegfried Grossmann, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024501 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

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Transition to the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xiaozhou He, Denis Funfschilling, Holger Nobach, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024502 (2012) - Published 9 January, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Single Shot Spatial and Temporal Coherence Properties of the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source in the Hard X-Ray Regime

C. Gutt, P. Wochner, B. Fischer, H. Conrad, M. Castro-Colin, S. Lee, F. Lehmkühler, I. Steinke, M. Sprung, W. Roseker, D. Zhu, H. Lemke, S. Bogle, P. H. Fuoss, G. B. Stephenson, M. Cammarata, D. M. Fritz, A. Robert, and G. Grübel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024801 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Evidence of High Harmonics from Echo-Enabled Harmonic Generation for Seeding X-Ray Free Electron Lasers

D. Xiang, E. Colby, M. Dunning, S. Gilevich, C. Hast, K. Jobe, D. McCormick, J. Nelson, T. O. Raubenheimer, K. Soong, G. Stupakov, Z. Szalata, D. Walz, S. Weathersby, and M. Woodley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 024802 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Impeding Hohlraum Plasma Stagnation in Inertial-Confinement Fusion

C. K. Li, F. H. Séguin, J. A. Frenje, M. J. Rosenberg, H. G. Rinderknecht, A. B. Zylstra, R. D. Petrasso, P. A. Amendt, O. L. Landen, A. J. Mackinnon, R. P. J. Town, S. C. Wilks, R. Betti, D. D. Meyerhofer, J. M. Soures, J. Hund, J. D. Kilkenny, and A. Nikroo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025001 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Dispersive Nature of High Mach Number Collisionless Plasma Shocks: Poynting Flux of Oblique Whistler Waves

David Sundkvist, V. Krasnoselskikh, S. D. Bale, S. J. Schwartz, J. Soucek, and F. Mozer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025002 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

High-Gain Magnetized Inertial Fusion

Stephen A. Slutz and Roger A. Vesey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025003 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Opposite Effect of Spin-Orbit Coupling on Condensation and Superfluidity

Kezhao Zhou and Zhidong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025301 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Strong Suppression of the Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in a ${}^{4}{He}$ Film under High Pressure

S. Murakawa, M. Wasai, K. Akiyama, Y. Wada, Y. Tamura, R. Nomura, and Y. Okuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025302 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Irradiation-Induced Formation of Nanocrystallites with $C 15$ Laves Phase Structure in bcc Iron

M.-C. Marinica, F. Willaime, and J.-P. Crocombette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025501 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Heterogeneous Crystal Nucleation: The Effect of Lattice Mismatch

Gyula I. Tóth, György Tegze, Tamás Pusztai, and László Gránásy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 025502 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Coverage-Dependent Collective Diffusion of a Dense Pb Wetting Layer on Si(111)

Li Huang, C. Z. Wang, M. Z. Li, and K. M. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026101 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Selenium-Hyperdoped Silicon: Observation and Origin

Elif Ertekin, Mark T. Winkler, Daniel Recht, Aurore J. Said, Michael J. Aziz, Tonio Buonassisi, and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026401 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

${CeB}_{6}$ Macroscopically Revisited

M. Amara and R.-M. Galéra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026402 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

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Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Pressure-Induced Metallization in FeO with Rocksalt-Type Structure

Kenji Ohta, R. E. Cohen, Kei Hirose, Kristjan Haule, Katsuya Shimizu, and Yasuo Ohishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026403 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Effect of Miscibility and Percolation on Electron Transport in Amorphous Poly(3-Hexylthiophene)/Phenyl- $C_{61}$ -Butyric Acid Methyl Ester Blends

Kiarash Vakhshouri, Derek R. Kozub, Chenchen Wang, Alberto Salleo, and Enrique D. Gomez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026601 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Plasmonic Coherent Drive of an Optical Trap

A. Cuche, O. Mahboub, E. Devaux, C. Genet, and T. W. Ebbesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026801 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

Cross-Correlated Responses of Topological Superconductors and Superfluids

Kentaro Nomura, Shinsei Ryu, Akira Furusaki, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 026802 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Heat-Capacity Measurements of Energy-Gap Nodes of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor ${CeIrIn}_{5}$ Deep inside the Pressure-Dependent Dome Structure of Its Superconducting Phase Diagram

Xin Lu, Hanoh Lee, T. Park, F. Ronning, E. D. Bauer, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 027001 (2012) - Published 11 January, 2012

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Genetic-Algorithm Discovery of a Direct-Gap and Optically Allowed Superstructure from Indirect-Gap Si and Ge Semiconductors

Mayeul d’Avezac, Jun-Wei Luo, Thomas Chanier, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 027401 (2012) - Published 12 January, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids”

Konrad Matho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 029701 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Shastry Replies:

B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 029702 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Interface Control of Emergent Ferroic Order in Ruddlesden-Popper ${Sr}_{n + 1} {Ti}_{n} O_{3 n + 1}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257602 (2011).]

Turan Birol, Nicole A. Benedek, and Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 029901 (2012) - Published 10 January, 2012

Erratum: Three-Sublattice Ordering of the SU(3) Heisenberg Model of Three-Flavor Fermions on the Square and Cubic Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 265301 (2010)]

Tamás A. Tóth, Andreas M. Läuchli, Frédéric Mila, and Karlo Penc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 029902 (2012) - Published 13 January, 2012