Volume 108, Issue 8

24 February 2012

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Artistic impression of the photonic crystal used to demonstrate sub-Bragg energy gaps below the first-order Bragg condition. The crystal consists of nanopores etched in silicon and arranged in a centered rectangular lattice. (Image by T.J. Huisman)

From the article:

Observation of Sub-Bragg Diffraction of Waves in Crystals
Simon R. Huisman, Rajesh V. Nair, Alex Hartsuiker, Léon A. Woldering, Allard P. Mosk, and Willem L. Vos
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083901 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Electric Field Induced Phase Transitions in Polymers: A Novel Mechanism for High Speed Energy Storage

V. Ranjan, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, and J. Bernholc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087802 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

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Experimental Demonstration of Spin Geometric Phase: Radius Dependence of Time-Reversal Aharonov-Casher Oscillations

Fumiya Nagasawa, Jun Takagi, Yoji Kunihashi, Makoto Kohda, and Junsaku Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086801 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Competition for Graphene: Graphynes with Direction-Dependent Dirac Cones

Daniel Malko, Christian Neiss, Francesc Viñes, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086804 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conditional Detection of Pure Quantum States of Light after Storage in a Tm-Doped Waveguide

Erhan Saglamyurek, Neil Sinclair, Jeongwan Jin, Joshua A. Slater, Daniel Oblak, Félix Bussières, Mathew George, Raimund Ricken, Wolfgang Sohler, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083602 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

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Terahertz Response and Colossal Kerr Rotation from the Surface States of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

R. Valdés Aguilar, A. V. Stier, W. Liu, L. S. Bilbro, D. K. George, N. Bansal, L. Wu, J. Cerne, A. G. Markelz, S. Oh, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087403 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

LETTERS

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

Density and Spin Response of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas in the Attractive and Quasirepulsive Regime

F. Palestini, P. Pieri, and G. C. Strinati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080401 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Thermalization in Nature and on a Quantum Computer

Arnau Riera, Christian Gogolin, and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080402 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Feasible Optical Weak Measurements of Complementary Observables via a Single Hamiltonian

Shengjun Wu and Marek Żukowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080403 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Geometric Phase Contribution to Quantum Nonequilibrium Many-Body Dynamics

Michael Tomka, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and Vladimir Gritsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080404 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Long-Lived Dipolar Molecules and Feshbach Molecules in a 3D Optical Lattice

Amodsen Chotia, Brian Neyenhuis, Steven A. Moses, Bo Yan, Jacob P. Covey, Michael Foss-Feig, Ana Maria Rey, Deborah S. Jin, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080405 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Tuning the Tricritical Point with Spin-Orbit Coupling in Polarized Fermionic Condensates

Renyuan Liao, Yu Yi-Xiang, and Wu-Ming Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080406 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Zeno Effect for Quantum Computation and Control

Gerardo A. Paz-Silva, A. T. Rezakhani, Jason M. Dominy, and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080501 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Quantum System Identification

Daniel Burgarth and Kazuya Yuasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080502 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Density of States for a Specified Correlation Function and the Energy Landscape

C. J. Gommes, Y. Jiao, and S. Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080601 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Test of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law at Millimeter Ranges

Shan-Qing Yang, Bi-Fu Zhan, Qing-Lan Wang, Cheng-Gang Shao, Liang-Cheng Tu, Wen-Hai Tan, and Jun Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081101 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Connecting Neutron Star Observations to Three-Body Forces in Neutron Matter and to the Nuclear Symmetry Energy

A. W. Steiner and S. Gandolfi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081102 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Thomas P. Sotiriou and Valerio Faraoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081103 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Proton-Helium Spectral Anomaly as a Signature of Cosmic Ray Accelerator

M. A. Malkov, P. H. Diamond, and R. Z. Sagdeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081104 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Integrable Spin Chain for the $SL (2, R) / U (1)$ Black Hole Sigma Model

Yacine Ikhlef, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, and Hubert Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081601 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Phenomenology of TeV Little String Theory from Holography

Ignatios Antoniadis, Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos, and Amit Giveon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081602 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Solution to the Flavor Problem of Warped Extra-Dimension Models

Martin Bauer, Raoul Malm, and Matthias Neubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081603 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Observation of Exclusive $γ γ$ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081801 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Constraint on Parity-Violating Muonic Forces

Vernon Barger, Cheng-Wei Chiang, Wai-Yee Keung, and Danny Marfatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081802 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Puzzle of Anomalously Large Isospin Violations in $η (1405 / 1475) \to 3 π$

Jia-Jun Wu, Xiao-Hai Liu, Qiang Zhao, and Bing-Song Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081803 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Searching for Stoponium Along with the Higgs Boson

Vernon Barger, Muneyuki Ishida, and Wai-Yee Keung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081804 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Neutrino Cosmology after WMAP 7-Year Data and LHC First $Z^{'}$ Bounds

Luis Alfredo Anchordoqui and Haim Goldberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081805 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Sneutrino Dark Matter in Gauged Inverse Seesaw Models for Neutrinos

Haipeng An, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Yi Cai, and R. N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081806 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Measurements of the Angular Distributions in the Decays $B \to K^{(*)} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 081807 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

$J / ψ$ Polarization in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

B. Abelev et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 082001 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resonant Circular Dichroism of Chiral Metal-Organic Complex

D. Catone, M. Stener, P. Decleva, G. Contini, N. Zema, T. Prosperi, V. Feyer, K. C. Prince, and S. Turchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083001 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Exact Wave Functions of Two-Electron Quantum Rings

Pierre-François Loos and Peter M. W. Gill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083002 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Effect of Internal Energy on the Repulsive Coulomb Barrier of Polyanions

Daniel A. Horke, Adam S. Chatterley, and Jan R. R. Verlet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083003 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Generation and Characterization of Multimode Quantum Frequency Combs

Olivier Pinel, Pu Jian, Renné Medeiros de Araújo, Jinxia Feng, Benoît Chalopin, Claude Fabre, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083601 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conditional Detection of Pure Quantum States of Light after Storage in a Tm-Doped Waveguide

Erhan Saglamyurek, Neil Sinclair, Jeongwan Jin, Joshua A. Slater, Daniel Oblak, Félix Bussières, Mathew George, Raimund Ricken, Wolfgang Sohler, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083602 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Control of Material Damping in High- $Q$ Membrane Microresonators

P.-L. Yu, T. P. Purdy, and C. A. Regal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083603 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Sub-Bragg Diffraction of Waves in Crystals

Simon R. Huisman, Rajesh V. Nair, Alex Hartsuiker, Léon A. Woldering, Allard P. Mosk, and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083901 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

From Electromagnetically Induced Transparency to Superscattering with a Single Structure: A Coupled-Mode Theory for Doubly Resonant Structures

Lieven Verslegers, Zongfu Yu, Zhichao Ruan, Peter B. Catrysse, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 083902 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Generation of Localized Modes in an Electrical Lattice Using Subharmonic Driving

L. Q. English, F. Palmero, P. Candiani, J. Cuevas, R. Carretero-González, P. G. Kevrekidis, and A. J. Sievers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 084101 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Crossover from Hydrodynamics to the Kinetic Regime in Confined Nanoflows

C. Lissandrello, V. Yakhot, and K. L. Ekinci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 084501 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Broadband Cloaking in Stratified Seas

Mohammad-Reza Alam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 084502 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonaxisymmetric Anisotropy of Solar Wind Turbulence as a Direct Test for Models of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

A. J. Turner, G. Gogoberidze, and S. C. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085001 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Time-Resolved Measurements of Hot-Electron Equilibration Dynamics in High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Thin-Foil Solid Targets

P. M. Nilson, J. R. Davies, W. Theobald, P. A. Jaanimagi, C. Mileham, R. K. Jungquist, C. Stoeckl, I. A. Begishev, A. A. Solodov, J. F. Myatt, J. D. Zuegel, T. C. Sangster, R. Betti, and D. D. Meyerhofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085002 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Gray Solitons in Confining Potentials

Dominic C. Wadkin-Snaith and Dimitri M. Gangardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085301 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Doublon Relaxation in the Bose-Hubbard Model

A. L. Chudnovskiy, D. M. Gangardt, and A. Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085302 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Isolated Quantum Heat Engine

O. Fialko and D. W. Hallwood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085303 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Elastic Moduli Inheritance and the Weakest Link in Bulk Metallic Glasses

D. Ma, A. D. Stoica, X.-L. Wang, Z. P. Lu, B. Clausen, and D. W. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085501 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Quantitative Characterization of Critical Nanoclusters Nucleated on Large Single Molecules

Paul M. Winkler, Aron Vrtala, Gerhard Steiner, Daniela Wimmer, Hanna Vehkamäki, Kari E. J. Lehtinen, Georg P. Reischl, Markku Kulmala, and Paul E. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085701 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Critical Slowing Down Exponents of Mode Coupling Theory

F. Caltagirone, U. Ferrari, L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, and T. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085702 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

High Chalcocite ${Cu}_{2} S$ : A Solid-Liquid Hybrid Phase

Lin-Wang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 085703 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Bistable Configurations of Dibenzo[a,h]thianthrene and their Interconversion Pathway

Niko Pavliček, Benoit Fleury, Mathias Neu, Judith Niedenführ, Coral Herranz-Lancho, Mario Ruben, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086101 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dimensional Crossover Driven by an Electric Field

Camille Aron, Gabriel Kotliar, and Cedric Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086401 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Spin-Selective Kondo Insulator: Cooperation of Ferromagnetism and the Kondo Effect

Robert Peters, Norio Kawakami, and Thomas Pruschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086402 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Ab initio Studies on the Interplay between Spin-Orbit Interaction and Coulomb Correlation in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ and ${Ba}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

R. Arita, J. Kuneš, A. V. Kozhevnikov, A. G. Eguiluz, and M. Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086403 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Theory of a Fermi-Liquid to Non-Fermi-Liquid Quantum Phase Transition in Dimensions $d > 1$

T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086404 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Two-Channel Kondo Physics in Two-Impurity Kondo Models

Andrew K. Mitchell, Eran Sela, and David E. Logan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086405 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Interplay between Nonequilibrium and Equilibrium Spin Torque Using Synthetic Ferrimagnets

Christian Klein, Cyril Petitjean, and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086601 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Phonon-Induced Backscattering in Helical Edge States

Jan Carl Budich, Fabrizio Dolcini, Patrik Recher, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086602 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Demonstration of Spin Geometric Phase: Radius Dependence of Time-Reversal Aharonov-Casher Oscillations

Fumiya Nagasawa, Jun Takagi, Yoji Kunihashi, Makoto Kohda, and Junsaku Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086801 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012

Scaling of Dynamical Decoupling for Spin Qubits

J. Medford, Ł. Cywiński, C. Barthel, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086802 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Collective Nature of the Reentrant Integer Quantum Hall States in the Second Landau Level

N. Deng, A. Kumar, M. J. Manfra, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and G. A. Csáthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086803 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Competition for Graphene: Graphynes with Direction-Dependent Dirac Cones

Daniel Malko, Christian Neiss, Francesc Viñes, and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086804 (2012) - Published 24 February, 2012

Effect of Uniaxial Strain on the Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Chetan Dhital, Z. Yamani, Wei Tian, J. Zeretsky, A. S. Sefat, Ziqiang Wang, R. J. Birgeneau, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087001 (2012) - Published 22 February, 2012

Vortex Lattice Studies in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ with $H ⊥ c$

P. Das, J. S. White, A. T. Holmes, S. Gerber, E. M. Forgan, A. D. Bianchi, M. Kenzelmann, M. Zolliker, J. L. Gavilano, E. D. Bauer, J. L. Sarrao, C. Petrovic, and M. R. Eskildsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087002 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Evolution of Edge States and Critical Phenomena in the Rashba Superconductor with Magnetization

Ai Yamakage, Yukio Tanaka, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087003 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Quantification of Correlations in Quantum Many-Particle Systems

Krzysztof Byczuk, Jan Kuneš, Walter Hofstetter, and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087004 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Mn}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : An Antiferromagnetic Local-Moment Metal

Abhishek Pandey, R. S. Dhaka, J. Lamsal, Y. Lee, V. K. Anand, A. Kreyssig, T. W. Heitmann, R. J. McQueeney, A. I. Goldman, B. N. Harmon, A. Kaminski, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087005 (2012) - Published 23 February, 2012

Structural and Magnetic Dynamics of a Laser Induced Phase Transition in FeRh

S. O. Mariager, F. Pressacco, G. Ingold, A. Caviezel, E. Möhr-Vorobeva, P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, C. J. Milne, E. Mancini, S. Moyerman, E. E. Fullerton, R. Feidenhans’l, C. H. Back, and C. Quitmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 087201 (2012) - Published 21 February, 2012