Volume 108, Issue 23

8 June 2012

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On the Cover

Experimental set-up for high-sensitivity interferometry using coherent states as input and exploiting an amplification process to increase the robustness of the signal.

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Phase Estimation via Quantum Interferometry for Noisy Detectors
Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Vito Giovanni Lucivero, Vittorio Giovannetti, Lorenzo Maccone, and Fabio Sciarrino
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233602 (2012)

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Force-Free Gravitational Redshift: Proposed Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm Experiment

Michael A. Hohensee, Brian Estey, Paul Hamilton, Anton Zeilinger, and Holger Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230404 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

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Adiabatic Quantum Algorithm for Search Engine Ranking

Silvano Garnerone, Paolo Zanardi, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230506 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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Emergence of Spontaneous Twist and Curvature in Non-Euclidean Rods: Application to Erodium Plant Cells

Hillel Aharoni, Yael Abraham, Rivka Elbaum, Eran Sharon, and Raz Kupferman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238106 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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Origin of Bulk Uniaxial Anisotropy in Zinc-Blende Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

M. Birowska, C. Śliwa, J. A. Majewski, and T. Dietl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237203 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

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Electronic Ferroelectricity in a Molecular Crystal with Large Polarization Directing Antiparallel to Ionic Displacement

Kensuke Kobayashi, Sachio Horiuchi, Reiji Kumai, Fumitaka Kagawa, Youichi Murakami, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237601 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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Thermal, Autonomous Replicator Made from Transfer RNA

Hubert Krammer, Friederike M. Möller, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238104 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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Hydrodynamic-Driven Stability Analysis of Morphological Patterns on Stalactites and Implications for Cave Paleoflow Reconstructions

Carlo Camporeale and Luca Ridolfi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238501 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

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Spontaneous Emission by Rotating Objects: A Scattering Approach

Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Robert L. Jaffe, and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230403 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

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Observing Quantum Oscillation of Ground States in Single Molecular Magnet

Jiahui Yang, Ya Wang, Zixiang Wang, Xing Rong, Chang-Kui Duan, Ji-Hu Su, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230501 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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Using Quasars as Standard Clocks for Measuring Cosmological Redshift

De-Chang Dai, Glenn D. Starkman, Branislav Stojkovic, Dejan Stojkovic, and Amanda Weltman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231302 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

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Strong Constraints on the Rare Decays $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231801 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

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Synthetic 3D Spin-Orbit Coupling

Brandon M. Anderson, Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Victor M. Galitski, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235301 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

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van der Waals Bonding in Layered Compounds from Advanced Density-Functional First-Principles Calculations

T. Björkman, A. Gulans, A. V. Krasheninnikov, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235502 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

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NMR Study in the Iron-Selenide ${Rb}_{0.74} {Fe}_{1.6} {Se}_{2}$ : Determination of the Superconducting Phase as Iron Vacancy-Free ${Rb}_{0.3} {Fe}_{2} {Se}_{2}$

Y. Texier, J. Deisenhofer, V. Tsurkan, A. Loidl, D. S. Inosov, G. Friemel, and J. Bobroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237002 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

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

Ziv-Zakai Error Bounds for Quantum Parameter Estimation

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230401 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Observation of the Intrinsic Abraham Force in Time-Varying Magnetic and Electric Fields

G. L. J. A. Rikken and B. A. van Tiggelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230402 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

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Spontaneous Emission by Rotating Objects: A Scattering Approach

Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Robert L. Jaffe, and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230403 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

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Force-Free Gravitational Redshift: Proposed Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm Experiment

Michael A. Hohensee, Brian Estey, Paul Hamilton, Anton Zeilinger, and Holger Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230404 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

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Observing Quantum Oscillation of Ground States in Single Molecular Magnet

Jiahui Yang, Ya Wang, Zixiang Wang, Xing Rong, Chang-Kui Duan, Ji-Hu Su, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230501 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Quantifying Tripartite Entanglement of Three-Qubit Generalized Werner States

Jens Siewert and Christopher Eltschka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230502 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Discrete Fourier-Based Correlations for Entanglement Detection

Ryo Namiki and Yuuki Tokunaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230503 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Quasilocality and Efficient Simulation of Markovian Quantum Dynamics

Thomas Barthel and Martin Kliesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230504 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Asymptotic Dynamics of Coined Quantum Walks on Percolation Graphs

B. Kollár, T. Kiss, J. Novotný, and I. Jex

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230505 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

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Adiabatic Quantum Algorithm for Search Engine Ranking

Silvano Garnerone, Paolo Zanardi, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230506 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Detecting Incapacity of a Quantum Channel

Graeme Smith and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230507 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Constraints on Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Effective Cluster States

Daniel Klagges and Kai Phillip Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230508 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Measurements of Quasiparticle Tunneling Dynamics in a Band-Gap-Engineered Transmon Qubit

L. Sun, L. DiCarlo, M. D. Reed, G. Catelani, Lev S. Bishop, D. I. Schuster, B. R. Johnson, Ge A. Yang, L. Frunzio, L. Glazman, M. H. Devoret, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230509 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Anomalous Spatial Diffusion and Multifractality in Optical Lattices

Andreas Dechant and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230601 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Theory of Fractional Lévy Kinetics for Cold Atoms Diffusing in Optical Lattices

David A. Kessler and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 230602 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs, Revised

Svenja Hümmer, Philipp Baerwald, and Walter Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231101 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Instability in the Dense Supernova Neutrino Gas with Flavor-Dependent Angular Distributions

Alessandro Mirizzi and Pasquale Dario Serpico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231102 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Bounds on Spectral Dispersion from Fermi-Detected Gamma Ray Bursts

Robert J. Nemiroff, Ryan Connolly, Justin Holmes, and Alexander B. Kostinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231103 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Revising the Multipole Moments of Numerical Spacetimes and its Consequences

George Pappas and Theocharis A. Apostolatos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231104 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Cosmic Microwave Background Trispectrum and Primordial Magnetic Field Limits

Pranjal Trivedi, T. R. Seshadri, and Kandaswamy Subramanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231301 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

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Using Quasars as Standard Clocks for Measuring Cosmological Redshift

De-Chang Dai, Glenn D. Starkman, Branislav Stojkovic, Dejan Stojkovic, and Amanda Weltman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231302 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Relations for Three-Dimensional Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes

Till Bargheer, Song He, and Tristan McLoughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231601 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Quantum Electron Star

Andrea Allais, John McGreevy, and S. Josephine Suh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231602 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

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Strong Constraints on the Rare Decays $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 231801 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Observation of New Resonant Structures in $γ γ \to ω ϕ$ , $ϕ ϕ$ , and $ω ω$

Z. Q. Liu et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 232001 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Electromagnetic Self-Energy Contribution to $M_{p} - M_{n}$ and the Isovector Nucleon Magnetic Polarizability

André Walker-Loud, Carl E. Carlson, and Gerald A. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 232301 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Metallodielectric Hybrid Antennas for Ultrastrong Enhancement of Spontaneous Emission

Xue-Wen Chen, Mario Agio, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233001 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Imaging Polyatomic Molecules in Three Dimensions Using Molecular Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions

J. B. Williams, C. S. Trevisan, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, I. Bocharova, H. Kim, B. Ulrich, R. Wallauer, F. Sturm, T. N. Rescigno, A. Belkacem, R. Dörner, Th. Weber, C. W. McCurdy, and A. L. Landers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233002 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Triple Compton Effect: A Photon Splitting into Three upon Collision with a Free Electron

Erik Lötstedt and Ulrich D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233201 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Size-Dependent Ultrafast Ionization Dynamics of Nanoscale Samples in Intense Femtosecond X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Pulses

Sebastian Schorb, Daniela Rupp, Michelle L. Swiggers, Ryan N. Coffee, Marc Messerschmidt, Garth Williams, John D. Bozek, Shin-Ichi Wada, Oleg Kornilov, Thomas Möller, and Christoph Bostedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233401 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Breakdown of the Classical Description of a Local System

Eran Kot, Niels Grønbech-Jensen, Bo M. Nielsen, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Eugene S. Polzik, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233601 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Phase Estimation via Quantum Interferometry for Noisy Detectors

Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Vito Giovanni Lucivero, Vittorio Giovannetti, Lorenzo Maccone, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233602 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Coupled Qubit-Cavity Arrays

Felix Nissen, Sebastian Schmidt, Matteo Biondi, Gianni Blatter, Hakan E. Türeci, and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233603 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dissipative Rogue Waves Generated by Chaotic Pulse Bunching in a Mode-Locked Laser

C. Lecaplain, Ph. Grelu, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233901 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Twisting Light by Nonlinear Photonic Crystals

Noa Voloch Bloch, Keren Shemer, Asia Shapira, Roy Shiloh, Irit Juwiler, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233902 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Delay Coupled Oscillators for Frequency Tuning of Solid-State Terahertz Sources

Yahya M. Tousi, Vahnood Pourahmad, and Ehsan Afshari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 234101 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Tuning Near Field Radiative Heat Flux through Surface Excitations with a Metal Insulator Transition

P. J. van Zwol, L. Ranno, and J. Chevrier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 234301 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

Bistability between Equatorial and Axial Dipoles during Magnetic Field Reversals

Christophe Gissinger, Ludovic Petitdemange, Martin Schrinner, and Emmanuel Dormy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 234501 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

General Cause of Sheath Instability Identified for Low Collisionality Plasmas in Devices with Secondary Electron Emission

M. D. Campanell, A. V. Khrabrov, and I. D. Kaganovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235001 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Origin of Magnetic Stochasticity and Transport in Plasma Microturbulence

D. R. Hatch, M. J. Pueschel, F. Jenko, W. M. Nevins, P. W. Terry, and H. Doerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235002 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Few-Cycle Driven Relativistically Oscillating Plasma Mirrors: A Source of Intense Isolated Attosecond Pulses

P. Heissler, R. Hörlein, J. M. Mikhailova, L. Waldecker, P. Tzallas, A. Buck, K. Schmid, C. M. S. Sears, F. Krausz, L. Veisz, M. Zepf, and G. D. Tsakiris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235003 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Weibel-Instability-Mediated Collisionless Shocks in the Laboratory with Ultraintense Lasers

F. Fiuza, R. A. Fonseca, J. Tonge, W. B. Mori, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235004 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Macroscopic Transport of Mega-ampere Electron Currents in Aligned Carbon-Nanotube Arrays

Gourab Chatterjee, Prashant Kumar Singh, Saima Ahmed, A. P. L. Robinson, Amit D. Lad, Sudipta Mondal, V. Narayanan, Iti Srivastava, Nikhil Koratkar, John Pasley, A. K. Sood, and G. Ravindra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235005 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Synthetic 3D Spin-Orbit Coupling

Brandon M. Anderson, Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Victor M. Galitski, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235301 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Polaron-to-Polaron Transitions in the Radio-Frequency Spectrum of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Y. Zhang, W. Ong, I. Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235302 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Helicity in Ropes of Chiral Nanotubes: Calculations and Observation

David Teich, Gotthard Seifert, Sumio Iijima, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235501 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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van der Waals Bonding in Layered Compounds from Advanced Density-Functional First-Principles Calculations

T. Björkman, A. Gulans, A. V. Krasheninnikov, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235502 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

Quantum Simulation of the Cooperative Jahn-Teller Transition in 1D Ion Crystals

Diego Porras, Peter A. Ivanov, and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235701 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Athermal Phase Separation of Self-Propelled Particles with No Alignment

Yaouen Fily and M. Cristina Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235702 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Stress-Induced Variations in the Stiffness of Micro- and Nanocantilever Beams

R. B. Karabalin, L. G. Villanueva, M. H. Matheny, J. E. Sader, and M. L. Roukes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236101 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Interfacial Effects on Nanoconfined Diffusive Mass Transport Regimes

A. Ziemys, M. Kojic, M. Milosevic, and M. Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236102 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Packing Defects into Ordered Structures: Strands on ${TiO}_{2}$

R. Bechstein, H. H. Kristoffersen, L. B. Vilhelmsen, F. Rieboldt, J. Stausholm-Møller, S. Wendt, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236103 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

Effect of Surface Motion on the Rotational Quadrupole Alignment Parameter of $D_{2}$ Reacting on Cu(111)

Francesco Nattino, Cristina Díaz, Bret Jackson, and Geert-Jan Kroes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236104 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Anomalous In-Plane Electronic Scattering in Charge Ordered ${Na}_{0.41} {CoO}_{2} \cdot 0.6 H_{2} O$

Guixin Cao, Maxim M. Korshunov, Yuze Gao, Mathieu Le Tacon, David J. Singh, and Chengtian Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236401 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Accurate and Efficient Method for Many-Body van der Waals Interactions

Alexandre Tkatchenko, Robert A. DiStasio, Jr., Roberto Car, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236402 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

Pressure Effect on the Structural Transition and Suppression of the High-Spin State in the Triple-Layer $T^{'} − {La}_{4} {Ni}_{3} O_{8}$

J.-G. Cheng, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, H. D. Zhou, K. Matsubayashi, Y. Uwatoko, P. P. Kong, C. Q. Jin, W. G. Yang, and G. Y. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236403 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Spin Transistor Action from Hidden Onsager Reciprocity

İ. Adagideli, V. Lutsker, M. Scheid, Ph. Jacquod, and K. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 236601 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Strong Coupling Superconductivity at 8.4 K in an Antiperovskite Phosphide $Sr {Pt}_{3} P$

T. Takayama, K. Kuwano, D. Hirai, Y. Katsura, A. Yamamoto, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237001 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

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NMR Study in the Iron-Selenide ${Rb}_{0.74} {Fe}_{1.6} {Se}_{2}$ : Determination of the Superconducting Phase as Iron Vacancy-Free ${Rb}_{0.3} {Fe}_{2} {Se}_{2}$

Y. Texier, J. Deisenhofer, V. Tsurkan, A. Loidl, D. S. Inosov, G. Friemel, and J. Bobroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237002 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Electric Field Control of the Magnetic Chiralities in Ferroaxial Multiferroic $RbFe ({MoO}_{4})_{2}$

Alexander J. Hearmon, Federica Fabrizi, Laurent C. Chapon, R. D. Johnson, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Sergey V. Streltsov, P. J. Brown, and Paolo G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237201 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Imaging the First-Order Magnetic Transition in ${La}_{0.35} \Pr_{0.275} {Ca}_{0.375} {MnO}_{3}$

Mark H. Burkhardt, M. A. Hossain, S. Sarkar, Y.-D. Chuang, A. G. Cruz Gonzalez, A. Doran, A. Scholl, A. T. Young, N. Tahir, Y. J. Choi, S.-W. Cheong, H. A. Dürr, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237202 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

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Origin of Bulk Uniaxial Anisotropy in Zinc-Blende Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

M. Birowska, C. Śliwa, J. A. Majewski, and T. Dietl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237203 (2012) - Published 7 June, 2012

Long-Wavelength Helimagnetic Order and Skyrmion Lattice Phase in ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

T. Adams, A. Chacon, M. Wagner, A. Bauer, G. Brandl, B. Pedersen, H. Berger, P. Lemmens, and C. Pfleiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237204 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Theory of Raman Scattering in One-Dimensional Quantum Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Antiferromagnets

Masahiro Sato, Hosho Katsura, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237401 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

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Electronic Ferroelectricity in a Molecular Crystal with Large Polarization Directing Antiparallel to Ionic Displacement

Kensuke Kobayashi, Sachio Horiuchi, Reiji Kumai, Fumitaka Kagawa, Youichi Murakami, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237601 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Field Emission of Electrons Generated by the Near Field of Strongly Coupled Plasmons

Florian Schertz, Marcus Schmelzeisen, Maximilian Kreiter, Hans-Joachim Elmers, and Gerd Schönhense

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 237602 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Spatial Structures and Giant Number Fluctuations in Models of Active Matter

Supravat Dey, Dibyendu Das, and R. Rajesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238001 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Scaling Laws for the Slip Velocity in Dense Granular Flows

Riccardo Artoni, Andrea C. Santomaso, Massimiliano Go’, and Paolo Canu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238002 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Photoelectron Dynamics in X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Diffractive Imaging of Biological Samples

Stefan P. Hau-Riege

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238101 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Surface Hydration Amplifies Single-Well Protein Atom Diffusion Propagating into the Macromolecular Core

Liang Hong, Xiaolin Cheng, Dennis C. Glass, and Jeremy C. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238102 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

Cholesterol Mediates Membrane Curvature during Fusion Events

Andrey Ivankin, Ivan Kuzmenko, and David Gidalevitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238103 (2012) - Published 5 June, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermal, Autonomous Replicator Made from Transfer RNA

Hubert Krammer, Friederike M. Möller, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238104 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Universal Protein Fluctuations in Populations of Microorganisms

Hanna Salman, Naama Brenner, Chih-kuan Tung, Noa Elyahu, Elad Stolovicki, Lindsay Moore, Albert Libchaber, and Erez Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238105 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence of Spontaneous Twist and Curvature in Non-Euclidean Rods: Application to Erodium Plant Cells

Hillel Aharoni, Yael Abraham, Rivka Elbaum, Eran Sharon, and Raz Kupferman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238106 (2012) - Published 4 June, 2012

Contractile Units in Disordered Actomyosin Bundles Arise from F-Actin Buckling

Martin Lenz, Todd Thoresen, Margaret L. Gardel, and Aaron R. Dinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238107 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Fluctuations in Symmetric Diblock Copolymers: Testing Theories Old and New

Jian Qin and David C. Morse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238301 (2012) - Published 6 June, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Hydrodynamic-Driven Stability Analysis of Morphological Patterns on Stalactites and Implications for Cave Paleoflow Reconstructions

Carlo Camporeale and Luca Ridolfi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 238501 (2012) - Published 8 June, 2012

Volume 108, Issue 23

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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