Volume 108, Issue 21

25 May 2012

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Model of the electronic wake (blue surfaces) generated by an energetic proton (red sphere) traveling in an aluminum crystal. The resulting change in electronic density is responsible for modification of chemical bonds between the atoms and consequently for a change in their interactions.

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Nonadiabatic Forces in Ion-Solid Interactions: The Initial Stages of Radiation Damage
Alfredo A. Correa, Jorge Kohanoff, Emilio Artacho, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, and Alfredo Caro
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213201 (2012)

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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Erbium

K. Aikawa, A. Frisch, M. Mark, S. Baier, A. Rietzler, R. Grimm, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210401 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

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Observation of Spin Correlation in $t \bar{t}$ Events from $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ Using the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 212001 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

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Heat Flux Manipulation with Engineered Thermal Materials

Supradeep Narayana and Yuki Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214303 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

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Quantum Degenerate Dipolar Fermi Gas

Mingwu Lu, Nathaniel Q. Burdick, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215301 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

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What Phasons Look Like: Particle Trajectories in a Quasicrystalline Potential

Justus A. Kromer, Michael Schmiedeberg, Johannes Roth, and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218301 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

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Identifying the Charge Carriers of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 212301 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

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Prescribed Pattern Transformation in Swelling Gel Tubes by Elastic Instability

Howon Lee, Jiaping Zhang, Hanqing Jiang, and Nicholas X. Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214304 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

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Ordered Array of Single Adatoms with Remarkable Thermal Stability: $Au / {Fe}_{3} O_{4} (001)$

Zbyněk Novotný, Giacomo Argentero, Zhiming Wang, Michael Schmid, Ulrike Diebold, and Gareth S. Parkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216103 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

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Cavity-Enhanced Parity-Nonconserving Optical Rotation in Metastable Xe and Hg

L. Bougas, G. E. Katsoprinakis, W. von Klitzing, J. Sapirstein, and T. P. Rakitzis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210801 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

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New Class of Three-Body States

Nicolais L. Guevara, Yujun Wang, and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213202 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

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Antiferromagnetic $S = 1 / 2$ Spin Chain Driven by $p$ -Orbital Ordering in ${CsO}_{2}$

Syarif Riyadi, Baomin Zhang, Robert A. de Groot, Antonio Caretta, Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht, Thomas T. M. Palstra, and Graeme R. Blake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217206 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

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

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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Erbium

K. Aikawa, A. Frisch, M. Mark, S. Baier, A. Rietzler, R. Grimm, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210401 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Nonlocal Memory Effects in the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

Elsi-Mari Laine, Heinz-Peter Breuer, Jyrki Piilo, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210402 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Macroscopic Tunneling of a Membrane in an Optomechanical Double-Well Potential

L. F. Buchmann, L. Zhang, A. Chiruvelli, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210403 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Sub-Heisenberg Estimation Strategies Are Ineffective

Vittorio Giovannetti and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210404 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Uncertainty Relations from Simple Entropic Properties

Patrick J. Coles, Roger Colbeck, Li Yu, and Michael Zwolak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210405 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Association of Efimov Trimers from a Three-Atom Continuum

Olga Machtey, Zav Shotan, Noam Gross, and Lev Khaykovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210406 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Nonlocality of Symmetric States

Zizhu Wang (王子竹) and Damian Markham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210407 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Holographic Storage of Biphoton Entanglement

Han-Ning Dai, Han Zhang, Sheng-Jun Yang, Tian-Ming Zhao, Jun Rui, You-Jin Deng, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Shuai Chen, Xiao-Hui Bao, Xian-Min Jin, Bo Zhao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210501 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Stochastic Energetics for Non-Gaussian Processes

Kiyoshi Kanazawa, Takahiro Sagawa, and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210601 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Efficiency of Isothermal Molecular Machines at Maximum Power

Christian Van den Broeck, Niraj Kumar, and Katja Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210602 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Geometric Heat Flux for Classical Thermal Transport in Interacting Open Systems

Jie Ren, Sha Liu, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210603 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Fluctuation Theorems for an Asymmetric Rotor in a Granular Gas

Sylvain Joubaud, Detlef Lohse, and Devaraj van der Meer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210604 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Quantum Isoperiodic Stable Structures and Directed Transport

Gabriel G. Carlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210605 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

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Cavity-Enhanced Parity-Nonconserving Optical Rotation in Metastable Xe and Hg

L. Bougas, G. E. Katsoprinakis, W. von Klitzing, J. Sapirstein, and T. P. Rakitzis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 210801 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Comparison of Atom Interferometers and Light Interferometers as Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors

John G. Baker and J. I. Thorpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211101 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Common Solution to the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy and Gradient Problems

Carmelo Evoli, Daniele Gaggero, Dario Grasso, and Luca Maccione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211102 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Lensing of 21-cm Fluctuations by Primordial Gravitational Waves

Laura Book, Marc Kamionkowski, and Fabian Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211301 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Helical Superconducting Black Holes

Aristomenis Donos and Jerome P. Gauntlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211601 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Search for Low-Mass Dark-Sector Higgs Bosons

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211801 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ Collected by the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211802 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Evidence for the Charmless Annihilation Decay Mode $B_{s}^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-}$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211803 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Search for Dark Matter in Events with One Jet and Missing Transverse Energy in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211804 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Search for a Heavy Particle Decaying to a Top Quark and a Light Quark in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 211805 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

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Observation of Spin Correlation in $t \bar{t}$ Events from $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ Using the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 212001 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Nuclear Physics

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Identifying the Charge Carriers of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 212301 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Elucidation of the Anomalous $A = 9$ Isospin Quartet Behavior

M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, S. Ettenauer, A. Lapierre, R. Ringle, B. A. Brown, D. Lunney, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 212501 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Variational Two-Particle Density Matrix Calculation for the Hubbard Model Below Half Filling Using Spin-Adapted Lifting Conditions

Brecht Verstichel, Helen van Aggelen, Ward Poelmans, and Dimitri Van Neck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213001 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Validity of Factorization of the High-Energy Photoelectron Yield in Above-Threshold Ionization of an Atom by a Short Laser Pulse

M. V. Frolov, D. V. Knyazeva, N. L. Manakov, A. M. Popov, O. V. Tikhonova, E. A. Volkova, Ming-Hui Xu, Liang-You Peng, Liang-Wen Pi, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213002 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Spectroscopy and Thermometry of Drumhead Modes in a Mesoscopic Trapped-Ion Crystal Using Entanglement

Brian C. Sawyer, Joseph W. Britton, Adam C. Keith, C.-C. Joseph Wang, James K. Freericks, Hermann Uys, Michael J. Biercuk, and John J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213003 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Nonadiabatic Forces in Ion-Solid Interactions: The Initial Stages of Radiation Damage

Alfredo A. Correa, Jorge Kohanoff, Emilio Artacho, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, and Alfredo Caro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213201 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

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New Class of Three-Body States

Nicolais L. Guevara, Yujun Wang, and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213202 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ultrafast Tunable Optical Delay Line Based on Indirect Photonic Transitions

Daryl M. Beggs, Isabella H. Rey, Tobias Kampfrath, Nir Rotenberg, L. Kuipers, and Thomas F. Krauss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213901 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Direct Generation of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs in a Poled Fiber

Eric Y. Zhu, Zhiyuan Tang, Li Qian, Lukas G. Helt, Marco Liscidini, J. E. Sipe, Costantino Corbari, Albert Canagasabey, Morten Ibsen, and Peter G. Kazansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213902 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Spatial Power Combination for Omnidirectional Radiation via Anisotropic Metamaterials

Qiang Cheng, Wei Xiang Jiang, and Tie Jun Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213903 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Adler Synchronization of Spatial Laser Solitons Pinned by Defects

P. V. Paulau, C. McIntyre, Y. Noblet, N. Radwell, W. J. Firth, P. Colet, T. Ackemann, and G.-L. Oppo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213904 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Diodelike Asymmetric Transmission of Linearly Polarized Waves Using Magnetoelectric Coupling and Electromagnetic Wave Tunneling

Mehmet Mutlu, Ahmet E. Akosman, Andriy E. Serebryannikov, and Ekmel Ozbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213905 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Nonlinear Modes in Finite-Dimensional $P T$ -Symmetric Systems

D. A. Zezyulin and V. V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213906 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Role of Magnetic Induction Currents in Nanoslit Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Seung-Yeol Lee, Il-Min Lee, Junghyun Park, Sewoong Oh, Wooyoung Lee, Kyoung-Youm Kim, and Byoungho Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 213907 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Controlling Synchronization in Large Laser Networks

Micha Nixon, Moti Fridman, Eitan Ronen, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson, and Ido Kanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214101 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Topological Changes in Periodicity Hubs of Dissipative Systems

Roberto Barrio, Fernando Blesa, and Sergio Serrano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214102 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Stress Wave Anisotropy in Centered Square Highly Nonlinear Granular Systems

A. Leonard and C. Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214301 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Enhancement of Mechanical $Q$ Factors by Optical Trapping

K.-K. Ni, R. Norte, D. J. Wilson, J. D. Hood, D. E. Chang, O. Painter, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214302 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

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Heat Flux Manipulation with Engineered Thermal Materials

Supradeep Narayana and Yuki Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214303 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

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Prescribed Pattern Transformation in Swelling Gel Tubes by Elastic Instability

Howon Lee, Jiaping Zhang, Hanqing Jiang, and Nicholas X. Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214304 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Stochastic and Deterministic Vector Chromatography of Suspended Particles in One-Dimensional Periodic Potentials

Jorge A. Bernate and German Drazer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214501 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Edge State in Pipe Flow Experiments

A. de Lozar, F. Mellibovsky, M. Avila, and B. Hof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214502 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Universal Dissipation Scaling for Nonequilibrium Turbulence

P. C. Valente and J. C. Vassilicos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214503 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Separation of Chiral Particles in Micro- or Nanofluidic Channels

Sebastian Meinhardt, Jens Smiatek, Ralf Eichhorn, and Friederike Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214504 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Scaling and Statistics in Three-Dimensional Compressible Turbulence

Jianchun Wang, Yipeng Shi, Lian-Ping Wang, Zuoli Xiao, X. T. He, and Shiyi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214505 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Plasmoid Ejection and Secondary Current Sheet Generation from Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Plasma Interaction

Quan-Li Dong (董全力), Shou-Jun Wang (王首钧), Quan-Ming Lu (陆全明), Can Huang (黄灿), Da-Wei Yuan (袁大伟), Xun Liu (刘勋), Xiao-Xuan Lin (林晓宣), Yu-Tong Li (李玉同), Hui-Gang Wei (魏会冈), Jia-Yong Zhong (仲佳勇), Jian-Rong Shi (施建荣), Shao-En Jiang (江少恩), Yong-Kun Ding (丁永坤), Bo-Bin Jiang (蒋柏彬), Kai Du (杜凯), Xian-Tu He (贺贤土), M. Y. Yu (郁明阳), C. S. Liu (刘全生), Shui Wang (王水), Yong-Jian Tang (唐永健), Jian-Qiang Zhu (朱健强), Gang Zhao (赵刚), Zheng-Ming Sheng (盛政明), and Jie Zhang (张杰)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215001 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Effect of Drift Waves on Plasma Blob Dynamics

Justin R. Angus, Maxim V. Umansky, and Sergei I. Krasheninnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215002 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Driving Sudden Current and Voltage in Expanding and Compressing Plasma

P. F. Schmit and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215003 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Precision Shock Tuning on the National Ignition Facility

H. F. Robey et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215004 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Assembly of High-Areal-Density Deuterium-Tritium Fuel from Indirectly Driven Cryogenic Implosions

A. J. Mackinnon et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215005 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Quantum Degenerate Dipolar Fermi Gas

Mingwu Lu, Nathaniel Q. Burdick, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215301 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Preparation and Spectroscopy of a Metastable Mott-Insulator State with Attractive Interactions

M. J. Mark, E. Haller, K. Lauber, J. G. Danzl, A. Janisch, H. P. Büchler, A. J. Daley, and H.-C. Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215302 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

$p$ -Type Conductivity in N-Doped ZnO: The Role of the $N_{Zn} − V_{O}$ Complex

Lei Liu, Jilian Xu, Dandan Wang, Mingming Jiang, Shuangpeng Wang, Binghui Li, Zhenzhong Zhang, Dongxu Zhao, Chong-Xin Shan, Bin Yao, and D. Z. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215501 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

${BaTiO}_{3} (001) − (2 \times 1)$ : Surface Structure and Spin Density

H. L. Meyerheim, A. Ernst, K. Mohseni, I. V. Maznichenko, S. Ostanin, F. Klimenta, N. Jedrecy, W. Feng, I. Mertig, R. Felici, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215502 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Prediction and Hydrogen Acceleration of Ordering in Iron-Vanadium Alloys

J. Bloch, O. Levy, B. Pejova, J. Jacob, S. Curtarolo, and B. Hjörvarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215503 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Boiling Crisis as a Critical Phenomenon

P. Lloveras, F. Salvat-Pujol, L. Truskinovsky, and E. Vives

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215701 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Microscopic Origin of the Reduced Thermal Conductivity of Silicon Nanowires

Yuping He and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 215901 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Uncovering Molecular Mechanisms of Electrowetting and Saturation with Simulations

Jin Liu, Moran Wang, Shiyi Chen, and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216101 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Formation of a Novel Ordered ${Ni}_{3} Al$ Surface Structure by Codeposition on NiAl(110)

Yong Han, Barış Ünal, and J. W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216102 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

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Ordered Array of Single Adatoms with Remarkable Thermal Stability: $Au / {Fe}_{3} O_{4} (001)$

Zbyněk Novotný, Giacomo Argentero, Zhiming Wang, Michael Schmid, Ulrike Diebold, and Gareth S. Parkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216103 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strong Coupling Superconductivity, Pseudogap, and Mott Transition

G. Sordi, P. Sémon, K. Haule, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216401 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Vibron Quasibound State in the Noncentrosymmetric Tetragonal Heavy-Fermion Compound ${CeCuAl}_{3}$

D. T. Adroja, A. del Moral, C. de la Fuente, A. Fraile, E. A. Goremychkin, J. W. Taylor, A. D. Hillier, and F. Fernandez-Alonso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216402 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Magnon-Mediated Interactions between Fermions Depend Strongly on the Lattice Structure

Mirko Möller, George A. Sawatzky, and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216403 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Electronic Structure of Spatially Aligned Graphene Nanoribbons on Au(788)

S. Linden, D. Zhong, A. Timmer, N. Aghdassi, J. H. Franke, H. Zhang, X. Feng, K. Müllen, H. Fuchs, L. Chi, and H. Zacharias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216801 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Non-Abelian Gauge Potentials in Graphene Bilayers

P. San-Jose, J. González, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216802 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Quantized Hall Effect and Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations in Highly Doped ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ : Evidence for Layered Transport of Bulk Carriers

Helin Cao, Jifa Tian, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Tian Shen, Jiuning Hu, Shan Qiao, and Yong P. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216803 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Spin Transition in the $ν = 8 / 3$ Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

W. Pan, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, and D. C. Tsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 216804 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Dynamical Aspects of Strong Pinning of Magnetic Vortices in Type-II Superconductors

A. U. Thomann, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217001 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Giant Resistance Change across the Phase Transition in Spin-Crossover Molecules

N. Baadji and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217201 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Prediction of Giant Spin Motive Force due to Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Jung-Hwan Moon, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Hyun-Woo Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217202 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Magnetic Coulomb Fields of Monopoles in Spin Ice and Their Signatures in the Internal Field Distribution

G. Sala, C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner, S. L. Sondhi, K. Kitagawa, M. Takigawa, R. Higashinaka, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217203 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Spin-Wave Excitation in Magnetic Insulators by Spin-Transfer Torque

Jiang Xiao (萧江) and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217204 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Charge Order at the Frontier between the Molecular and Solid States in ${Ba}_{3} {NaRu}_{2} O_{9}$

Simon A. J. Kimber, Mark S. Senn, Simone Fratini, Hua Wu, Adrian H. Hill, Pascal Manuel, J. Paul Attfield, Dimitri N. Argyriou, and Paul. F. Henry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217205 (2012) - Published 24 May, 2012

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Antiferromagnetic $S = 1 / 2$ Spin Chain Driven by $p$ -Orbital Ordering in ${CsO}_{2}$

Syarif Riyadi, Baomin Zhang, Robert A. de Groot, Antonio Caretta, Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht, Thomas T. M. Palstra, and Graeme R. Blake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217206 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Coexisting Order and Disorder Hidden in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Frustrated Magnet

K. Iida, S.-H. Lee, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217207 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

Phonon Energy Gaps in the Charged Incommensurate Planes of the Spin-Ladder ${Sr}_{14} {Cu}_{24} O_{41}$ Compound by Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy

V. K. Thorsmølle, C. C. Homes, A. Gozar, G. Blumberg, J. L. M. van Mechelen, A. B. Kuzmenko, S. Vanishri, C. Marin, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217401 (2012) - Published 21 May, 2012

Ultrafast Transitions from Solid to Liquid and Plasma States of Graphite Induced by X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Pulses

S. P. Hau-Riege, A. Graf, T. Döppner, R. A. London, J. Krzywinski, C. Fortmann, S. H. Glenzer, M. Frank, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, M. Messerschmidt, C. Bostedt, S. Schorb, J. A. Bradley, A. Lutman, D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, and B. Rudek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217402 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Enhancing the Nonlinear Optical Response Using Multifrequency Gold-Nanowire Antennas

Hayk Harutyunyan, Giorgio Volpe, Romain Quidant, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 217403 (2012) - Published 23 May, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Full-Field Near-Field Optical Microscope for Cell Imaging

Thomas Barroca, Karla Balaa, Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, and Emmanuel Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218101 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Spin-Selective Transport of Electrons in DNA Double Helix

Ai-Min Guo and Qing-feng Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218102 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Characterizing Concentrated, Multiply Scattering, and Actively Driven Fluorescent Systems with Confocal Differential Dynamic Microscopy

Peter J. Lu (陸述義), Fabio Giavazzi, Thomas E. Angelini, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Frank Jargstorff, Andrew B. Schofield, James N. Wilking, Mark B. Romanowsky, David A. Weitz, and Roberto Cerbino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218103 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics of a Microswimmer in Poiseuille Flow

Andreas Zöttl and Holger Stark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218104 (2012) - Published 22 May, 2012

Cellular Dewetting: Opening of Macroapertures in Endothelial Cells

David Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Madhavi P. Maddugoda, Caroline Stefani, Sebastien Janel, Frank Lafont, Damien Cuvelier, Emmanuel Lemichez, and Françoise Brochard-Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218105 (2012) - Published 25 May, 2012

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Volume 108, Issue 21

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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