Volume 108, Issue 22

1 June 2012

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Configuration snapshot of hydrophilic (yellow) and hydrophobic (red) components of amphiphilic molecules as two opposing membranes begin to fuse, forming an hourglass-shaped passage.

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Transition Path from Two Apposed Membranes to a Stalk Obtained by a Combination of Particle Simulations and String Method
Marcus Müller, Yuliya G. Smirnova, Giovanni Marelli, Marc Fuhrmans, and An-Chang Shi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228103 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Peierls Substitution in an Engineered Lattice Potential

K. Jiménez-García, L. J. LeBlanc, R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, A. R. Perry, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225303 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

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Tunable Gauge Potential for Neutral and Spinless Particles in Driven Optical Lattices

J. Struck, C. Ölschläger, M. Weinberg, P. Hauke, J. Simonet, A. Eckardt, M. Lewenstein, K. Sengstock, and P. Windpassinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225304 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Observation of Quantum Phonon Fluctuations in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas

Julien Armijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225306 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

LETTERS

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

Edge States and Topological Phases in One-Dimensional Optical Superlattices

Li-Jun Lang, Xiaoming Cai, and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 220401 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Are Dynamical Quantum Jumps Detector Dependent?

Howard M. Wiseman and Jay M. Gambetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 220402 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Toward Global Quantum Communication: Beam Wandering Preserves Nonclassicality

D. Yu. Vasylyev, A. A. Semenov, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 220501 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Designer Spin Pseudomolecule Implemented with Trapped Ions in a Magnetic Gradient

A. Khromova, Ch. Piltz, B. Scharfenberger, T. F. Gloger, M. Johanning, A. F. Varón, and Ch. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 220502 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Role of Hidden Slow Degrees of Freedom in the Fluctuation Theorem

J. Mehl, B. Lander, C. Bechinger, V. Blickle, and U. Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 220601 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Detecting Chameleon Dark Energy via an Electrostatic Analogy

Katherine Jones-Smith and Francesc Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 221101 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

High Energy Neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles

Cecilia Lunardini and Soebur Razzaque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 221102 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Electroweak Beautygenesis: From $b \to s$ $C P$ Violation to the Cosmic Baryon Asymmetry

Tao Liu, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, and Jing Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 221301 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Vector Boson Mass Generation Without New Fields

Bernd A. Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 221601 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Strangeness Contribution to the Proton Spin from Lattice QCD

Gunnar S. Bali, Sara Collins, Meinulf Göckeler, Roger Horsley, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Andrea Nobile, Dirk Pleiter, P. E. L. Rakow, Andreas Schäfer, Gerrit Schierholz, and James M. Zanotti (QCDSF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 222001 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Measurements of the Mass and Width of the $η_{c}$ Using the Decay $ψ (3686) \to γ η_{c}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 222002 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Complete $O (α_{s}^{4})$ QCD Corrections to Hadronic $Z$ Decays

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, J. H. Kühn, and J. Rittinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 222003 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Polarization Components in $π^{0}$ Photoproduction at Photon Energies up to 5.6 GeV

W. Luo et al. (GEp-III and GEp2γ Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 222004 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Hindered Proton Collectivity in ${}_{16}^{28}S_{12}$ : Possible Magic Number at $Z = 16$

Y. Togano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 222501 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ionization Suppression of Diatomic Molecules in an Intense Midinfrared Laser Field

ZhiYang Lin, XinYan Jia, ChuanLiang Wang, ZiLong Hu, HuiPeng Kang, Wei Quan, XuanYang Lai, XiaoJun Liu, Jing Chen, Bin Zeng, Wei Chu, JinPing Yao, Ya Cheng, and ZhiZhan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223001 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Interference Carpets in Above-Threshold Ionization: From the Coulomb-Free to the Coulomb-Dominated Regime

Ph. A. Korneev, S. V. Popruzhenko, S. P. Goreslavski, T.-M. Yan, D. Bauer, W. Becker, M. Kübel, M. F. Kling, C. Rödel, M. Wünsche, and G. G. Paulus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223601 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Fractional Quantum Hall Physics in Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard Lattices

Andrew L. C. Hayward, Andrew M. Martin, and Andrew D. Greentree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223602 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Cherenkov Radiation in an Anomalous Dispersive Medium

Huaijin Ren, Xuewei Deng, Yuanlin Zheng, Ning An, and Xianfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223901 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Method for Single-Shot Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Magnetic Domains

Samuel Flewett, Stefan Schaffert, Jyoti Mohanty, Erik Guehrs, Jan Geilhufe, Christian M. Günther, Bastian Pfau, and Stefan Eisebitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223902 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Ubiquity of Optical Activity in Planar Metamaterial Scatterers

Ivana Sersic, Marie Anne van de Haar, Felipe Bernal Arango, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223903 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Laser-Rate-Equation Description of Optomechanical Oscillators

J. B. Khurgin, M. W. Pruessner, T. H. Stievater, and W. S. Rabinovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223904 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Localized Spoof Plasmons Arise while Texturing Closed Surfaces

Anders Pors, Esteban Moreno, L. Martin-Moreno, J. B. Pendry, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223905 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Partial Nonlinear Reciprocity Breaking through Ultrafast Dynamics in a Random Photonic Medium

Otto L. Muskens, Paul Venn, Timmo van der Beek, and Thomas Wellens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223906 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

All-Optical Control of an Individual Resonance in a Silicon Microresonator

Y. Henry Wen, Onur Kuzucu, Moti Fridman, Alexander L. Gaeta, Lian-Wee Luo, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 223907 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Coalescence Preference Depends on Size Inequality

Byung Mook Weon and Jung Ho Je

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 224501 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Turbulence Effect on Cloud Radiation

K. Matsuda, R. Onishi, R. Kurose, and S. Komori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 224502 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Ultimate Regime of High Rayleigh Number Convection in a Porous Medium

Duncan R. Hewitt, Jerome A. Neufeld, and John R. Lister

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 224503 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multicavity X-Ray Fabry-Perot Resonance with Ultrahigh Resolution and Contrast

X. R. Huang, D. P. Siddons, A. T. Macrander, R. W. Peng, and X. S. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 224801 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Instantaneous Normal Mode Analysis of Melting of Finite Dust Clusters

André Melzer, André Schella, Jan Schablinski, Dietmar Block, and Alexander Piel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225001 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of an Ultrathin Foil Accelerated by the Radiation Pressure of an Intense Laser

C. A. J. Palmer, J. Schreiber, S. R. Nagel, N. P. Dover, C. Bellei, F. N. Beg, S. Bott, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, S. M. Hassan, P. Hilz, D. Jung, S. Kneip, S. P. D. Mangles, K. L. Lancaster, A. Rehman, A. P. L. Robinson, C. Spindloe, J. Szerypo, M. Tatarakis, M. Yeung, M. Zepf, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225002 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Runaway Positrons in Fusion Plasmas

T. Fülöp and G. Papp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225003 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Diffusion in Ionic Mixtures across Coupling Regimes

Jérôme Daligault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225004 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

First Resolved Observations of the Demagnetized Electron-Diffusion Region of an Astrophysical Magnetic-Reconnection Site

J. D. Scudder, R. D. Holdaway, W. S. Daughton, H. Karimabadi, V. Roytershteyn, C. T. Russell, and J. Y. Lopez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225005 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Tricriticality and Phase Transitions in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Yun Li, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225301 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Expansion of 1D Polarized Superfluids: The Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State Reveals Itself

Hong Lu, L. O. Baksmaty, C. J. Bolech, and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225302 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Peierls Substitution in an Engineered Lattice Potential

K. Jiménez-García, L. J. LeBlanc, R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, A. R. Perry, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225303 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable Gauge Potential for Neutral and Spinless Particles in Driven Optical Lattices

J. Struck, C. Ölschläger, M. Weinberg, P. Hauke, J. Simonet, A. Eckardt, M. Lewenstein, K. Sengstock, and P. Windpassinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225304 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Anomalous Behavior of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ in Porous Vycor Glass

Xiao Mi and John D. Reppy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225305 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Observation of Quantum Phonon Fluctuations in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas

Julien Armijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225306 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Knudsen-to-Hydrodynamic Crossover in Liquid ${}^{3}{He}$ in a High-Porosity Aerogel

H. Takeuchi, S. Higashitani, K. Nagai, H. C. Choi, B. H. Moon, N. Masuhara, M. W. Meisel, Y. Lee, and N. Mulders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225307 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Laser Heating Control with Polarized Light in Isolated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Mariusz Zdrojek, Jarosław Judek, and Michał Wa̧sik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225501 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Damage-Cluster Distributions and Size Effect on Strength in Compressive Failure

Lucas Girard, Jérôme Weiss, and David Amitrano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225502 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Apparent Inverse Gibbs-Thomson Effect in Dealloyed Nanoporous Nanoparticles

I. McCue, J. Snyder, X. Li, Q. Chen, K. Sieradzki, and J. Erlebacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225503 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Electronic Stopping Power in Gold: The Role of $d$ Electrons and the $H / He$ Anomaly

M. Ahsan Zeb, J. Kohanoff, D. Sánchez-Portal, A. Arnau, J. I. Juaristi, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225504 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Structural and Electronic Properties of $T$ Graphene: A Two-Dimensional Carbon Allotrope with Tetrarings

Yu Liu, Gang Wang, Qingsong Huang, Liwei Guo, and Xiaolong Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225505 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Growing Point-to-Set Length Scale Correlates with Growing Relaxation Times in Model Supercooled Liquids

Glen M. Hocky, Thomas E. Markland, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225506 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Systematic Improvement of Classical Nucleation Theory

Santi Prestipino, Alessandro Laio, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225701 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Relaxation Time of High-Density Amorphous Ice

Philip H. Handle, Markus Seidl, and Thomas Loerting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 225901 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Tension and Stiffness of the Hard Sphere Crystal-Fluid Interface

A. Härtel, M. Oettel, R. E. Rozas, S. U. Egelhaaf, J. Horbach, and H. Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226101 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Patterning of Heteroepitaxial Overlayers from Nano to Micron Scales

K. R. Elder, G. Rossi, P. Kanerva, F. Sanches, S-C. Ying, E. Granato, C. V. Achim, and T. Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226102 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Asymmetric Transport Efficiencies of Positive and Negative Ion Defects in Amorphous Ice

Eui-seong Moon, Youngsoon Kim, Sunghwan Shin, and Heon Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226103 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

How Things Get Stuck: Kinetics, Elastohydrodynamics, and Soft Adhesion

Madhav Mani, Arvind Gopinath, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226104 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Atomically Abrupt Liquid-Oxide Interface Stabilized by Self-Regulated Interfacial Defects: The Case of $Al / {Al}_{2} O_{3}$ Interfaces

Joongoo Kang, Junyi Zhu, Calvin Curtis, Daniel Blake, Greg Glatzmaier, Yong-Hyun Kim, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226105 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Accessing Surface Brillouin Zone and Band Structure of Picene Single Crystals

Qian Xin, Steffen Duhm, Fabio Bussolotti, Kouki Akaike, Yoshihiro Kubozono, Hideo Aoki, Taichi Kosugi, Satoshi Kera, and Nobuo Ueno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226401 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Room Temperature Coherent Spin Alignment of Silicon Vacancies in $4 H$ - and $6 H$ -SiC

Victor A. Soltamov, Alexandra A. Soltamova, Pavel G. Baranov, and Ivan I. Proskuryakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226402 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

How to Find Out the Density of States in Disordered Organic Semiconductors

J. O. Oelerich, D. Huemmer, and S. D. Baranovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226403 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Theoretical Design of a Shallow Donor in Diamond by Lithium-Nitrogen Codoping

Jonathan E. Moussa, Noa Marom, Na Sai, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226404 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Subterahertz Acoustical Pumping of Electronic Charge in a Resonant Tunneling Device

E. S. K. Young, A. V. Akimov, M. Henini, L. Eaves, and A. J. Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226601 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Evidence for Spin-Flip Scattering and Local Moments in Dilute Fluorinated Graphene

X. Hong, K. Zou, B. Wang, S.-H. Cheng, and J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226602 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Upstream Neutral Modes in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime: Heat Waves or Coherent Dipoles

Yaron Gross, Merav Dolev, Moty Heiblum, Vladimir Umansky, and Diana Mahalu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226801 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Quantum Interference between Three Two-Spin States in a Double Quantum Dot

S. A. Studenikin, G. C. Aers, G. Granger, L. Gaudreau, A. Kam, P. Zawadzki, Z. R. Wasilewski, and A. S. Sachrajda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226802 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Tailoring Light-Matter Interaction with a Nanoscale Plasmon Resonator

Nathalie P. de Leon, Brendan J. Shields, Chun L. Yu, Dirk E. Englund, Alexey V. Akimov, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hongkun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226803 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Nonlocal Transport Near Charge Neutrality Point in a Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole System

G. M. Gusev, E. B. Olshanetsky, Z. D. Kvon, A. D. Levin, N. N. Mikhailov, and S. A. Dvoretsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226804 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Optoelectronic Properties in Monolayers of Hybridized Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Marco Bernardi, Maurizia Palummo, and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 226805 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Understanding the Josephson Current through a Kondo-Correlated Quantum Dot

D. J. Luitz, F. F. Assaad, T. Novotný, C. Karrasch, and V. Meden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 227001 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Evidence of a Spin Resonance Mode in the Iron-Based Superconductor ${Ba}_{0.6} K_{0.4} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ from Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Lei Shan, Jing Gong, Yong-Lei Wang, Bing Shen, Xingyuan Hou, Cong Ren, Chunhong Li, Huan Yang, Hai-Hu Wen, Shiliang Li, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 227002 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Feedback Effect on High-Energy Magnetic Fluctuations in the Model High-Temperature Superconductor ${HgBa}_{2} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$ Observed by Electronic Raman Scattering

Yuan Li, M. Le Tacon, M. Bakr, D. Terrade, D. Manske, R. Hackl, L. Ji, M. K. Chan, N. Barišić, X. Zhao, M. Greven, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 227003 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Transition Path from Two Apposed Membranes to a Stalk Obtained by a Combination of Particle Simulations and String Method

Marcus Müller, Yuliya G. Smirnova, Giovanni Marelli, Marc Fuhrmans, and An-Chang Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228103 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012

Emergence of Spiral Wave Activity in a Mechanically Heterogeneous Reaction-Diffusion-Mechanics System

L. D. Weise and A. V. Panfilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228104 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Mobility of a Semiflexible Chain Confined in a Nanochannel

Douglas R. Tree, Yanwei Wang, and Kevin D. Dorfman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228105 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

Generalized Hydrodynamic Treatment of the Interplay between Restricted Transport and Catalytic Reactions in Nanoporous Materials

David M. Ackerman, Jing Wang, and James W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228301 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Orientational Order and Alignment of Elongated Particles Induced by Shear

Tamás Börzsönyi, Balázs Szabó, Gábor Törös, Sandra Wegner, János Török, Ellák Somfai, Tomasz Bien, and Ralf Stannarius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228302 (2012) - Published 30 May, 2012

Influence of Particle Shape on Bending Rigidity of Colloidal Monolayer Membranes and Particle Deposition during Droplet Evaporation in Confined Geometries

Peter J. Yunker, Matthew Gratale, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 228303 (2012) - Published 1 June, 2012

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Pechen and Tannor Reply [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 198902 (2012)]

Alexander N. Pechen and David J. Tannor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 229901 (2012) - Published 29 May, 2012

Erratum: Generation and Characterization of Electron Bunches with Ramped Current Profiles in a Dual-Frequency Superconducting Linear Accelerator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 034801 (2012)]

P. Piot, C. Behrens, C. Gerth, M. Dohlus, F. Lemery, D. Mihalcea, P. Stoltz, and M. Vogt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 229902 (2012) - Published 31 May, 2012