Volume 108, Issue 4

27 January 2012

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Local density of states of a hexagonal graphene quantum dot, mapped by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (left) and by tight binding calculations (right).

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Wave-Function Mapping of Graphene Quantum Dots with Soft Confinement
D. Subramaniam, F. Libisch, Y. Li, C. Pauly, V. Geringer, R. Reiter, T. Mashoff, M. Liebmann, J. Burgdörfer, C. Busse, T. Michely, R. Mazzarello, M. Pratzer, and M. Morgenstern
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046801 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Temperature Dependence of Standard Model $C P$ Violation

Tomáš Brauner, Olli Taanila, Anders Tranberg, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041601 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Complete Optical Absorption in Periodically Patterned Graphene

Sukosin Thongrattanasiri, Frank H. L. Koppens, and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 047401 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

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Two-Photon Quantum Interference from Separate Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Hannes Bernien, Lilian Childress, Lucio Robledo, Matthew Markham, Daniel Twitchen, and Ronald Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043604 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Evolution of Fermion Pairing from Three to Two Dimensions

Ariel T. Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Mark J. H. Ku, Waseem S. Bakr, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045302 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

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Quantum One-Time Pad in the Presence of an Eavesdropper

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Jonathan Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040504 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

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Universal Order Statistics of Random Walks

Grégory Schehr and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040601 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Superconformal Technicolor

Aleksandr Azatov, Jamison Galloway, and Markus A. Luty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041802 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Evidence for Heavy Hyperhydrogen ${}_{Λ}^{6}H$

M. Agnello et al. (FINUDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042501 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Nuclear Charge Radii of ${}^{21 − 32}{Mg}$

D. T. Yordanov, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, M. De Rydt, Ch. Geppert, M. Kowalska, J. Krämer, K. Kreim, A. Krieger, P. Lievens, T. Neff, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, R. Sánchez, and P. Vingerhoets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042504 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Efficient Production of Rydberg Positronium

D. B. Cassidy, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043401 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Retention Capacity of Random Surfaces

Craig L. Knecht, Walter Trump, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045703 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

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Measurement of Quantum Noise in a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

J. Basset, A. Yu. Kasumov, C. P. Moca, G. Zaránd, P. Simon, H. Bouchiat, and R. Deblock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046802 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Single-Shot Measurement of Triplet-Singlet Relaxation in a $Si / SiGe$ Double Quantum Dot

J. R. Prance, Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, L. R. Schreiber, L. M. K. Vandersypen, Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046808 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

LETTERS

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

Master Equations for Correlated Quantum Channels

V. Giovannetti and G. M. Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040401 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Nonlocality Tests Enhanced by a Third Observer

Daniel Cavalcanti, Rafael Rabelo, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040402 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

When Does Noise Increase the Quantum Capacity?

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Jonathan Oppenheim, and Sergii Strelchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040501 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Benchmarking a Quantum Teleportation Protocol in Superconducting Circuits Using Tomography and an Entanglement Witness

M. Baur, A. Fedorov, L. Steffen, S. Filipp, M. P. da Silva, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040502 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Indistinguishable Entangled Photons Generated by a Light-Emitting Diode

R. M. Stevenson, C. L. Salter, J. Nilsson, A. J. Bennett, M. B. Ward, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and A. J. Shields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040503 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

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Quantum One-Time Pad in the Presence of an Eavesdropper

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Jonathan Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040504 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

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Universal Order Statistics of Random Walks

Grégory Schehr and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 040601 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Resolving the Ghost Problem in Nonlinear Massive Gravity

S. F. Hassan and Rachel A. Rosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041101 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Temperature Dependence of Standard Model $C P$ Violation

Tomáš Brauner, Olli Taanila, Anders Tranberg, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041601 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Residual Symmetries for Neutrino Mixing with a Large $θ_{13}$ and Nearly Maximal $δ_{D}$

Shao-Feng Ge, Duane A. Dicus, and Wayne W. Repko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041801 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Superconformal Technicolor

Aleksandr Azatov, Jamison Galloway, and Markus A. Luty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041802 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Reweighing the Evidence for a Light Higgs Boson in Dileptonic $W$ Boson Decays

Alan J. Barr, Ben Gripaios, and Christopher G. Lester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041803 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Measurement of the $Z Z$ Production Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous Neutral Triple Gauge Couplings in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041804 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Search for New Phenomena in $t \bar{t}$ Events with Large Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 041805 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence for Heavy Hyperhydrogen ${}_{Λ}^{6}H$

M. Agnello et al. (FINUDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042501 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Photodisintegration Cross Section of the Reaction ${}^{4}{He} (γ, p) {}^{3}H$ between 22 and 30 MeV

R. Raut, W. Tornow, M. W. Ahmed, A. S. Crowell, J. H. Kelley, G. Rusev, S. C. Stave, and A. P. Tonchev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042502 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Ab Initio Many-Body Calculations of the ${}^{3}H (d, n) {}^{4}{He}$ and ${}^{3}{He} (d, p) {}^{4}{He}$ Fusion Reactions

Petr Navrátil and Sofia Quaglioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042503 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Nuclear Charge Radii of ${}^{21 − 32}{Mg}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042504 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Symmetry Restoration in Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Based Theories

G. F. Bertsch and L. M. Robledo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042505 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Creating and Transporting Trojan Wave Packets

B. Wyker, S. Ye, F. B. Dunning, S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043001 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Coulomb Asymmetry in Strong Field Multielectron Ionization of Diatomic Molecules

J. Wu, M. Meckel, S. Voss, H. Sann, M. Kunitski, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, A. Czasch, H. Kim, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043002 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Nonequilibrium Quantum Phase Transitions in the Dicke Model

V. M. Bastidas, C. Emary, B. Regler, and T. Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043003 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Molecular Imaging Using High-Order Harmonic Generation and Above-Threshold Ionization

Elmar V. van der Zwan and Manfred Lein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043004 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Enhancement of Blackbody Friction due to the Finite Lifetime of Atomic Levels

G. Łach, M. DeKieviet, and U. D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043005 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Magnetically Tunable Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Li-Yb Mixtures

Daniel A. Brue and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043201 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Strongly Enhanced Backward Emission of Electrons in Transfer and Ionization

M. Schulz, X. Wang, M. Gundmundsson, K. Schneider, A. Kelkar, A. B. Voitkiv, B. Najjari, M. Schöffler, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, R. Dörner, J. Ullrich, R. Moshammer, and D. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043202 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Efficient Production of Rydberg Positronium

D. B. Cassidy, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043401 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Correlated Photon Emission from Multiatom Rydberg Dark States

J. D. Pritchard, C. S. Adams, and K. Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043601 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Shaping an Itinerant Quantum Field into a Multimode Squeezed Vacuum by Dissipation

Diego Porras and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043602 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Direct Observation of Non-Markovian Radiation Dynamics in 3D Bulk Photonic Crystals

Ulrich Hoeppe, Christian Wolff, Jens Küchenmeister, Jens Niegemann, Malte Drescher, Hartmut Benner, and Kurt Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043603 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

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Two-Photon Quantum Interference from Separate Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Hannes Bernien, Lilian Childress, Lucio Robledo, Matthew Markham, Daniel Twitchen, and Ronald Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043604 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Transmission Eigenvalues and the Bare Conductance in the Crossover to Anderson Localization

Zhou Shi and Azriel Z. Genack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043901 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Loss of Phase of Collapsing Beams

Bonggu Shim, Samuel E. Schrauth, Alexander L. Gaeta, Moran Klein, and Gadi Fibich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043902 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Self-Sustained Localized Structures in a Boundary-Layer Flow

Yohann Duguet, Philipp Schlatter, Dan S. Henningson, and Bruno Eckhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 044501 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Shock Modon: A New Type of Coherent Structure in Rotating Shallow Water

Noé Lahaye and Vladimir Zeitlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 044502 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Flame Speed and Self-Similar Propagation of Expanding Turbulent Premixed Flames

Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Fujia Wu, Delin Zhu, and Chung K. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 044503 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Conversion and Spin-Polarization Filtering in Electron Beams

Ebrahim Karimi, Lorenzo Marrucci, Vincenzo Grillo, and Enrico Santamato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 044801 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

Local Kinetic Effects in Two-Dimensional Plasma Turbulence

S. Servidio, F. Valentini, F. Califano, and P. Veltri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045001 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Construction of Analytical Many-Body Wave Functions for Correlated Bosons in a Harmonic Trap

Ioannis Brouzos and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045301 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Evolution of Fermion Pairing from Three to Two Dimensions

Ariel T. Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Mark J. H. Ku, Waseem S. Bakr, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045302 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Universal Mechanism of Dissipation in Fermi Superfluids at Ultralow Temperatures

Mihail A. Silaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045303 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Realization of a Resonant Fermi Gas with a Large Effective Range

E. L. Hazlett, Y. Zhang, R. W. Stites, and K. M. O’Hara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045304 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Ultracold Atoms in a Tunable Optical Kagome Lattice

Gyu-Boong Jo, Jennie Guzman, Claire K. Thomas, Pavan Hosur, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045305 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Correlated Phases of Bosons in the Flat Lowest Band of the Dice Lattice

G. Möller and N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045306 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Thermodynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Free Magnetization

B. Pasquiou, E. Maréchal, L. Vernac, O. Gorceix, and B. Laburthe-Tolra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045307 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Onset Temperature of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Incommensurate Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

R. Rota and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045308 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Nonadiabatic Study of Dynamic Electronic Effects during Brittle Fracture of Silicon

Patrick L. Theofanis, Andres Jaramillo-Botero, William A. Goddard, III, and Hai Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045501 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

Lattice Dynamics and Superconductivity in Cerium at High Pressure

I. Loa, E. I. Isaev, M. I. McMahon, D. Y. Kim, B. Johansson, A. Bosak, and M. Krisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045502 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Persistence and Eventual Demise of Oxygen Molecules at Terapascal Pressures

Jian Sun, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Dennis D. Klug, Chris J. Pickard, and Richard J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045503 (2012) - Published 27 January, 2012

Hierarchical Freezing in a Lattice Model

Travis W. Byington and Joshua E. S. Socolar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045701 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Ashkin-Teller Criticality and Pseudo-First-Order Behavior in a Frustrated Ising Model on the Square Lattice

Songbo Jin, Arnab Sen, and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045702 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

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Retention Capacity of Random Surfaces

Craig L. Knecht, Walter Trump, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045703 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Thermodynamically Stable Phases of Carbon at Multiterapascal Pressures

Miguel Martinez-Canales, Chris J. Pickard, and Richard J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045704 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Diffusion-Induced Oscillations of Extended Defects

Alexander L. Korzhenevskii, Richard Bausch, and Rudi Schmitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046101 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Order and Semions in a Strongly Correlated Quantum Spin Hall Insulator

Andreas Rüegg and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046401 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Transverse Conductivity in the Sliding Charge-Density-Wave State of ${NbSe}_{3}$

A. A. Sinchenko, P. Monceau, and T. Crozes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046402 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Enhancement of the Kondo Effect through Rashba Spin-Orbit Interactions

Mahdi Zarea, Sergio E. Ulloa, and Nancy Sandler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046601 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Charge Transport in Weyl Semimetals

Pavan Hosur, S. A. Parameswaran, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046602 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Wave-Function Mapping of Graphene Quantum Dots with Soft Confinement

D. Subramaniam, F. Libisch, Y. Li, C. Pauly, V. Geringer, R. Reiter, T. Mashoff, M. Liebmann, J. Burgdörfer, C. Busse, T. Michely, R. Mazzarello, M. Pratzer, and M. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046801 (2012) - Published 23 January, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of Quantum Noise in a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

J. Basset, A. Yu. Kasumov, C. P. Moca, G. Zaránd, P. Simon, H. Bouchiat, and R. Deblock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046802 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Magnetic-Field Probing of an SU(4) Kondo Resonance in a Single-Atom Transistor

G. C. Tettamanzi, J. Verduijn, G. P. Lansbergen, M. Blaauboer, M. J. Calderón, R. Aguado, and S. Rogge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046803 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Quantized $ν = 5 / 2$ State in a Two-Subband Quantum Hall System

J. Nuebler, B. Friess, V. Umansky, B. Rosenow, M. Heiblum, K. von Klitzing, and J. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046804 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Chiral Orbital-Angular Momentum in the Surface States of ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Seung Ryong Park, Jinhee Han, Chul Kim, Yoon Young Koh, Changyoung Kim, Hyungjun Lee, Hyoung Joon Choi, Jung Hoon Han, Kyung Dong Lee, Nam Jung Hur, Masashi Arita, Kenya Shimada, Hirofumi Namatame, and Masaki Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046805 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

Topological Hubbard Model and Its High-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect

Titus Neupert, Luiz Santos, Shinsei Ryu, Claudio Chamon, and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046806 (2012) - Published 24 January, 2012

Dipole Coupling of a Double Quantum Dot to a Microwave Resonator

T. Frey, P. J. Leek, M. Beck, A. Blais, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046807 (2012) - Published 25 January, 2012

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Single-Shot Measurement of Triplet-Singlet Relaxation in a $Si / SiGe$ Double Quantum Dot

J. R. Prance, Zhan Shi, C. B. Simmons, D. E. Savage, M. G. Lagally, L. R. Schreiber, L. M. K. Vandersypen, Mark Friesen, Robert Joynt, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 046808 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations above the Dome-Shaped and Full-Gap Superconducting States of ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ Revealed by ${}^{75}{As}$ -Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance

T. Oka, Z. Li, S. Kawasaki, G. F. Chen, N. L. Wang, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 047001 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012

de Haas–van Alphen Study of the Fermi Surfaces of Superconducting LiFeP and LiFeAs

C. Putzke, A. I. Coldea, I. Guillamón, D. Vignolles, A. McCollam, D. LeBoeuf, M. D. Watson, I. I. Mazin, S. Kasahara, T. Terashima, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, and A. Carrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 047002 (2012) - Published 26 January, 2012