Volume 108, Issue 3

20 January 2012

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Effect of hard-sphere fluid confinement on pair correlations represented by experimental (top) and theoretical (bottom) anisotropic structure factors. Channel widths increase from left to right. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Anisotropic Pair Correlations and Structure Factors of Confined Hard-Sphere Fluids: An Experimental and Theoretical Study
K. Nygård, R. Kjellander, S. Sarman, S. Chodankar, E. Perret, J. Buitenhuis, and J. F. van der Veen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037802 (2012)

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Quantum Nonlocality Does Not Imply Entanglement Distillability

Tamás Vértesi and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030403 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Observation of Quantum Motion of a Nanomechanical Resonator

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jasper Chan, Jeff T. Hill, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Alex Krause, and Oskar Painter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033602 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

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Effective Viscosity of Confined Hydrocarbons

I. M. Sivebaek, V. N. Samoilov, and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036102 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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Ramsey Fringes and Time-Domain Multiple-Slit Interference from Vacuum

Eric Akkermans and Gerald V. Dunne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030401 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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First Observation of the $P$ -Wave Spin-Singlet Bottomonium States $h_{b} (1 P)$ and $h_{b} (2 P)$

I. Adachi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032001 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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Anisotropic Pair Correlations and Structure Factors of Confined Hard-Sphere Fluids: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

K. Nygård, R. Kjellander, S. Sarman, S. Chodankar, E. Perret, J. Buitenhuis, and J. F. van der Veen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037802 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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Chiral Quasicrystalline Order and Dodecahedral Geometry in Exceptional Families of Viruses

O. V. Konevtsova, S. B. Rochal, and V. L. Lorman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 038102 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

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

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Ramsey Fringes and Time-Domain Multiple-Slit Interference from Vacuum

Eric Akkermans and Gerald V. Dunne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030401 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

State-Independent Proof of Kochen-Specker Theorem with 13 Rays

Sixia Yu and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030402 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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Quantum Nonlocality Does Not Imply Entanglement Distillability

Tamás Vértesi and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030403 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Dephasing of Multiparticle Rydberg Excitations for Fast Entanglement Generation

F. Bariani, Y. O. Dudin, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030501 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Antibunched Emission of Photon Pairs via Quantum Zeno Blockade

Yu-Ping Huang and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030502 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Efficient Entanglement Criteria beyond Gaussian Limits Using Gaussian Measurements

Hyunchul Nha, Su-Yong Lee, Se-Wan Ji, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030503 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Thermodynamics of Genuine Nonequilibrium States under Feedback Control

David Abreu and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 030601 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Towards Singularity- and Ghost-Free Theories of Gravity

Tirthabir Biswas, Erik Gerwick, Tomi Koivisto, and Anupam Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 031101 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Self-Consistent Evolution of Magnetic Fields and Chiral Asymmetry in the Early Universe

Alexey Boyarsky, Jürg Fröhlich, and Oleg Ruchayskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 031301 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for Direct $C P$ Violation in $B^{\pm} \to η h^{\pm}$ and Observation of $B^{0} \to η K^{0}$

C.-T. Hoi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 031801 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

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First Observation of the $P$ -Wave Spin-Singlet Bottomonium States $h_{b} (1 P)$ and $h_{b} (2 P)$

I. Adachi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032001 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Linearly Polarized Gluons and the Higgs Transverse Momentum Distribution

Daniël Boer, Wilco J. den Dunnen, Cristian Pisano, Marc Schlegel, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032002 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Understanding Jet Scaling and Jet Vetos in Higgs Searches

Erik Gerwick, Tilman Plehn, and Steffen Schumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032003 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Evidence for Spin Correlation in $t \bar{t}$ Production

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032004 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Next-to-Leading-Order Results for Five, Six, and Seven Jets in Electron-Positron Annihilation

Sebastian Becker, Daniel Götz, Christian Reuschle, Christopher Schwan, and Stefan Weinzierl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032005 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Exploring the Low- $Z$ Shore of the Island of Inversion at $N = 19$

G. Christian et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 032501 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photon Bubbles in Ultracold Matter

J. T. Mendonça and R. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033001 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Inelastic Scattering of Broadband Electron Wave Packets Driven by an Intense Midinfrared Laser Field

A. D. DiChiara, E. Sistrunk, C. I. Blaga, U. B. Szafruga, P. Agostini, and L. F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033002 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Competition of Resonant and Nonresonant Paths in Resonance-Enhanced Two-Photon Single Ionization of He by an Ultrashort Extreme-Ultraviolet Pulse

Kenichi L. Ishikawa and Kiyoshi Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033003 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Threshold Photodetachment in a Repulsive Potential

A. O. Lindahl, J. Rohlén, H. Hultgren, I. Yu. Kiyan, D. J. Pegg, C. W. Walter, and D. Hanstorp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033004 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Electron-Energy Bunching in Laser-Driven Soft Recollisions

Alexander Kästner, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033201 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Absence of Vacuum Induced Berry Phases without the Rotating Wave Approximation in Cavity QED

Jonas Larson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033601 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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Observation of Quantum Motion of a Nanomechanical Resonator

Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Jasper Chan, Jeff T. Hill, Thiago P. Mayer Alegre, Alex Krause, and Oskar Painter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033602 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Beam Instabilities in the Scale-Free Regime

V. Folli, E. DelRe, and C. Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033901 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Ultrafast Tilting of the Dispersion of a Photonic Crystal and Adiabatic Spectral Compression of Light Pulses

Daryl M. Beggs, Thomas F. Krauss, L. Kuipers, and Tobias Kampfrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033902 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

All-Optical Measurement of High-Harmonic Amplitudes and Phases in Aligned Molecules

A. Rupenyan, J. B. Bertrand, D. M. Villeneuve, and H. J. Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033903 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Spatiotemporal Dispersion and Wave Envelopes with Relativistic and Pseudorelativistic Characteristics

J. M. Christian, G. S. McDonald, T. F. Hodgkinson, and P. Chamorro-Posada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 034101 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Hamiltonian Traffic Dynamics in Microfluidic-Loop Networks

Raphaël Jeanneret, Julien-Piera Vest, and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 034501 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Parametrically Excited Water Surface Ripples as Ensembles of Oscillons

M. Shats, H. Xia, and H. Punzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 034502 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation and Characterization of Electron Bunches with Ramped Current Profiles in a Dual-Frequency Superconducting Linear Accelerator

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 034801 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Proposal for an X-Ray Free Electron Laser Oscillator with Intermediate Energy Electron Beam

Jinhua Dai, Haixiao Deng, and Zhimin Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 034802 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Ultracold Electron Bunch Generation via Plasma Photocathode Emission and Acceleration in a Beam-Driven Plasma Blowout

B. Hidding, G. Pretzler, J. B. Rosenzweig, T. Königstein, D. Schiller, and D. L. Bruhwiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035001 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Universal Nonlinear Small-Scale Dynamo

A. Beresnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035002 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Ping-Pong Modes: A New Form of Multipactor

R. A. Kishek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035003 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Nonlinear Dispersion Relation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes

Robert Hager and Klaus Hallatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035004 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Dielectric-Barrier Discharges in Two-Dimensional Lattice Potentials

J. Sinclair and M. Walhout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035005 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Nondiffusive Suprathermal Ion Transport in Simple Magnetized Toroidal Plasmas

K. Gustafson, P. Ricci, I. Furno, and A. Fasoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035006 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Topologically Stable 2D Skyrmions in an Antiferromagnetic Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Jae-yoon Choi, Woo Jin Kwon, and Yong-il Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035301 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Mean-Field Dynamics of Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Yongping Zhang, Li Mao, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035302 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Improbability of Void Growth in Aluminum via Dislocation Nucleation under Typical Laboratory Conditions

L. D. Nguyen and D. H. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035501 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Intermolecular Hybridization Governs Molecular Electrical Doping

Ingo Salzmann, Georg Heimel, Steffen Duhm, Martin Oehzelt, Patrick Pingel, Benjamin M. George, Alexander Schnegg, Klaus Lips, Ralf-Peter Blum, Antje Vollmer, and Norbert Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035502 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Geometrical Frustration and Static Correlations in a Simple Glass Former

Benoit Charbonneau, Patrick Charbonneau, and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035701 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Random and Ordered Phases of Off-Lattice Rhombus Tiles

Stephen Whitelam, Isaac Tamblyn, Peter H. Beton, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 035702 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Drop Impact on Superheated Surfaces

Tuan Tran, Hendrik J. J. Staat, Andrea Prosperetti, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036101 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

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Effective Viscosity of Confined Hydrocarbons

I. M. Sivebaek, V. N. Samoilov, and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036102 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum-Mechanical Interatomic Potentials with Electron Temperature for Strong-Coupling Transition Metals

John A. Moriarty, Randolph Q. Hood, and Lin H. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036401 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Charge Kondo Anomalies in PbTe Doped with Tl Impurities

T. A. Costi and V. Zlatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036402 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Single Impurity Anderson Model versus Density Functional Theory for Describing Ce $L_{3}$ X-Ray Absorption Spectra of ${CeFe}_{2}$ : Resolution of a Recent Controversy

A. Kotani, K. O. Kvashnina, P. Glatzel, J. C. Parlebas, and G. Schmerber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036403 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Correlated Quantum Transport of Density Wave Electrons

J. H. Miller, Jr., A. I. Wijesinghe, Z. Tang, and A. M. Guloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036404 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Backscattering Suppression in Supersonic 1D Polariton Condensates

D. Tanese, D. D. Solnyshkov, A. Amo, L. Ferrier, E. Bernet-Rollande, E. Wertz, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, P. Senellart, G. Malpuech, and J. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036405 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Gutzwiller Theory of Band Magnetism in LaOFeAs

Tobias Schickling, Florian Gebhard, Jörg Bünemann, Lilia Boeri, Ole K. Andersen, and Werner Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036406 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Gating the Charge State of Single Molecules by Local Electric Fields

I. Fernández-Torrente, D. Kreikemeyer-Lorenzo, A. Stróżecka, K. J. Franke, and J. I. Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036801 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Measuring the Complex Admittance of a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot

S. J. Chorley, J. Wabnig, Z. V. Penfold-Fitch, K. D. Petersson, J. Frake, C. G. Smith, and M. R. Buitelaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036802 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Majorana Modes in Time-Reversal Invariant $s$ -Wave Topological Superconductors

Shusa Deng, Lorenza Viola, and Gerardo Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036803 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Size of the Localized Electron Emission Sites on a Closed Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube

Erwin C. Heeres, Tjerk H. Oosterkamp, and Niels de Jonge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036804 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Crossover between Weak Antilocalization and Weak Localization in a Magnetically Doped Topological Insulator

Minhao Liu, Jinsong Zhang, Cui-Zu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang, Xiao Feng, Kang Li, Ke He, Li-li Wang, Xi Chen, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Qi-Kun Xue, Xucun Ma, and Yayu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036805 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Competing Topological Orders in the $ν = 12 / 5$ Quantum Hall State

Parsa Bonderson, Adrian E. Feiguin, Gunnar Möller, and J. K. Slingerland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036806 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Non-Fraunhofer Interference Pattern in Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions

Mohammad Alidoust, Granville Sewell, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037001 (2012) - Published 17 January, 2012

Unconventional Anisotropic $s$ -Wave Superconducting Gaps of the LiFeAs Iron-Pnictide Superconductor

K. Umezawa, Y. Li, H. Miao, K. Nakayama, Z.-H. Liu, P. Richard, T. Sato, J. B. He, D.-M. Wang, G. F. Chen, H. Ding, T. Takahashi, and S.-C. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037002 (2012) - Published 20 January, 2012

Trapping and Injecting Single Domain Walls in Magnetic Wire by Local Fields

Manuel Vázquez, G. A. Basheed, Germán Infante, and Rafael P. Del Real

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037201 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin- $1 / 2$ Pyrochlores

Lucile Savary and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037202 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Femtosecond Dynamics of the Collinear-to-Spiral Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition in CuO

S. L. Johnson, R. A. de Souza, U. Staub, P. Beaud, E. Möhr-Vorobeva, G. Ingold, A. Caviezel, V. Scagnoli, W. F. Schlotter, J. J. Turner, O. Krupin, W.-S. Lee, Y.-D. Chuang, L. Patthey, R. G. Moore, D. Lu, M. Yi, P. S. Kirchmann, M. Trigo, P. Denes, D. Doering, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, D. Prabhakaran, and A. T. Boothroyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037203 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Resonant X-Ray Diffraction Study of an Unusually Large Phase Coexistence in Smectic Liquid-Crystal Films

LiDong Pan, P. Barois, R. Pindak, Z. Q. Liu, B. K. McCoy, and C. C. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037801 (2012) - Published 19 January, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anisotropic Pair Correlations and Structure Factors of Confined Hard-Sphere Fluids: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

K. Nygård, R. Kjellander, S. Sarman, S. Chodankar, E. Perret, J. Buitenhuis, and J. F. van der Veen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 037802 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

Chemotaxis Driven Instability of a Confined Bacterial Suspension

T. V. Kasyap and Donald L. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 038101 (2012) - Published 18 January, 2012

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