Volume 108, Issue 9

2 March 2012

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Top: Setup for power-density-dependent single-shot single-particle scattering experiments on xenon nanoclusters. X-ray photons are detected, converted into optical photons, and digitized. Bottom: Scattering pattern for a high-power-density x-ray beam.

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Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering of Xenon Nanoparticles: Imaging Transient States of Matter
C. Bostedt, E. Eremina, D. Rupp, M. Adolph, H. Thomas, M. Hoener, A. R. B. de Castro, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, T. Laarmann, H. Wabnitz, E. Plönjes, R. Treusch, J. R. Schneider, and T. Möller
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093401 (2012)

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Influence of the Coriolis Force in Atom Interferometry

Shau-Yu Lan, Pei-Chen Kuan, Brian Estey, Philipp Haslinger, and Holger Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 090402 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

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Probing the Interiors of the Ice Giants: Shock Compression of Water to 700 GPa and $3.8 g / {cm}^{3}$

M. D. Knudson, M. P. Desjarlais, R. W. Lemke, T. R. Mattsson, M. French, N. Nettelmann, and R. Redmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 091102 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

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Optomechanical Self-Channeling of Light in a Suspended Planar Dual-Nanoweb Waveguide

A. Butsch, C. Conti, F. Biancalana, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093903 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

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Thermoelectrically Pumped Light-Emitting Diodes Operating above Unity Efficiency

Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Joseph Gray, Jr., and Rajeev J. Ram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097403 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bumblebees Foraging under Predation Risk

Friedrich Lenz, Thomas C. Ings, Lars Chittka, Aleksei V. Chechkin, and Rainer Klages

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 098103 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

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Yielding of Hard-Sphere Glasses during Start-Up Shear

N. Koumakis, M. Laurati, S. U. Egelhaaf, J. F. Brady, and G. Petekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 098303 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

LETTERS

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

Inverse Ising Inference Using All the Data

Erik Aurell and Magnus Ekeberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 090201 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Effect of Light Assisted Collisions on Matter Wave Coherence in Superradiant Bose-Einstein Condensates

N. S. Kampel, A. Griesmaier, M. P. Hornbak Steenstrup, F. Kaminski, E. S. Polzik, and J. H. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 090401 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

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Influence of the Coriolis Force in Atom Interferometry

Shau-Yu Lan, Pei-Chen Kuan, Brian Estey, Philipp Haslinger, and Holger Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 090402 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Experimental Observation of Impossible-to-Beat Quantum Advantage on a Hybrid Photonic System

Eleonora Nagali, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Fabio Sciarrino, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 090501 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

High-Accuracy Optical Clock Based on the Octupole Transition in ${}^{171}{Yb}^{+}$

N. Huntemann, M. Okhapkin, B. Lipphardt, S. Weyers, Chr. Tamm, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 090801 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring a Cosmological Distance-Redshift Relationship Using Only Gravitational Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Coalescences

C. Messenger and J. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 091101 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

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Probing the Interiors of the Ice Giants: Shock Compression of Water to 700 GPa and $3.8 g / {cm}^{3}$

M. D. Knudson, M. P. Desjarlais, R. W. Lemke, T. R. Mattsson, M. French, N. Nettelmann, and R. Redmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 091102 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Physical Process First Law and Increase of Horizon Entropy for Black Holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

Ayan Chatterjee and Sudipta Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 091301 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Spin-Density Matrix Elements for $γ p \to K^{* 0} Σ^{+}$ at $E_{γ} = 1.85 - 3.0 GeV$ with Evidence for the $κ (800)$ Meson Exchange

S. H. Hwang et al. (LEPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 092001 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Particle-Yield Modification in Jetlike Azimuthal Dihadron Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$

K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 092301 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Self-Consistent Tilted-Axis-Cranking Study of Triaxial Strongly Deformed Bands in ${}^{158}{Er}$ at Ultrahigh Spin

Yue Shi, J. Dobaczewski, S. Frauendorf, W. Nazarewicz, J. C. Pei, F. R. Xu, and N. Nikolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 092501 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

New Measurements of High-Momentum Nucleons and Short-Range Structures in Nuclei

N. Fomin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 092502 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Amplitude and Phase Reconstruction of Electron Wave Packets for Probing Ultrafast Photoionization Dynamics

Kyung Taec Kim, Dong Hyuk Ko, Juyun Park, Nark Nyul Choi, Chul Min Kim, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Jongmin Lee, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093001 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Observation of Anomalous Diffusion and Fractional Self-Similarity in One Dimension

Yoav Sagi, Miri Brook, Ido Almog, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093002 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Ubiquitous Nature of Multimode Vibrational Resonances in Positron-Molecule Annihilation

A. C. L. Jones, J. R. Danielson, M. R. Natisin, C. M. Surko, and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093201 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering of Xenon Nanoparticles: Imaging Transient States of Matter

C. Bostedt, E. Eremina, D. Rupp, M. Adolph, H. Thomas, M. Hoener, A. R. B. de Castro, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, T. Laarmann, H. Wabnitz, E. Plönjes, R. Treusch, J. R. Schneider, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093401 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Single-Photon Spectroscopy of a Single Molecule

Y. L. A. Rezus, S. G. Walt, R. Lettow, A. Renn, G. Zumofen, S. Götzinger, and V. Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093601 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Subnatural Linewidth Single Photons from a Quantum Dot

Clemens Matthiesen, Anthony Nickolas Vamivakas, and Mete Atatüre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093602 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Photon Production from the Vacuum Close to the Superradiant Transition: Linking the Dynamical Casimir Effect to the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism

G. Vacanti, S. Pugnetti, N. Didier, M. Paternostro, G. M. Palma, R. Fazio, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093603 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Ultrafast Photon-Photon Interaction in a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System

Dirk Englund, Arka Majumdar, Michal Bajcsy, Andrei Faraon, Pierre Petroff, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093604 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subwavelength Modulational Instability and Plasmon Oscillons in Nanoparticle Arrays

Roman E. Noskov, Pavel A. Belov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093901 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Four-Wave Mixing from ${Fe}^{3 +}$ Spins in Sapphire

Daniel L. Creedon, Karim Benmessaï, Warwick P. Bowen, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093902 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

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Optomechanical Self-Channeling of Light in a Suspended Planar Dual-Nanoweb Waveguide

A. Butsch, C. Conti, F. Biancalana, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093903 (2012) - Published 2 March, 2012

Spontaneous Formation of Synchronization Clusters in Homogenous Neuronal Ensembles Induced by Noise and Interaction Delays

Igor Franović, Kristina Todorović, Nebojša Vasović, and Nikola Burić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 094101 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Chaos and Statistical Relaxation in Quantum Systems of Interacting Particles

L. F. Santos, F. Borgonovi, and F. M. Izrailev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 094102 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Capillary Pressure and Contact Line Force on a Soft Solid

Antonin Marchand, Siddhartha Das, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Bruno Andreotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 094301 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Turbulent Pipe Flow at Extreme Reynolds Numbers

M. Hultmark, M. Vallikivi, S. C. C. Bailey, and A. J. Smits

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 094501 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Long-Range Persistence of Femtosecond Modulations on Laser-Plasma-Accelerated Electron Beams

C. Lin, J. van Tilborg, K. Nakamura, A. J. Gonsalves, N. H. Matlis, T. Sokollik, S. Shiraishi, J. Osterhoff, C. Benedetti, C. B. Schroeder, Cs. Tóth, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 094801 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Scaling of Spontaneous Rotation with Temperature and Plasma Current in Tokamaks

F. I. Parra, M. F. F. Nave, A. A. Schekochihin, C. Giroud, J. S. de Grassie, J. H. F. Severo, P. de Vries, and K.-D. Zastrow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095001 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Understanding the Low-Frequency Quasilocalized Modes in Disordered Colloidal Systems

Peng Tan, Ning Xu, Andrew B. Schofield, and Lei Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095501 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Exceptionally Low Shear Modulus in a Prototypical Imidazole-Based Metal-Organic Framework

Jin-Chong Tan, Bartolomeo Civalleri, Chung-Cherng Lin, Loredana Valenzano, Raimondas Galvelis, Po-Fei Chen, Thomas D. Bennett, Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, Claudio M. Zicovich-Wilson, and Anthony K. Cheetham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095502 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Experimental Test of Universality of the Anderson Transition

Matthias Lopez, Jean-François Clément, Pascal Szriftgiser, Jean Claude Garreau, and Dominique Delande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095701 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Ab initio Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics in the Solid Superionic Conductor ${LiBH}_{4}$

Philippe C. Aeberhard, Stephen R. Williams, Denis J. Evans, Keith Refson, and William I. F. David

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 095901 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Competition between Electron and Phonon Excitations in the Scattering of Nitrogen Atoms and Molecules off Tungsten and Silver Metal Surfaces

L. Martin-Gondre, M. Alducin, G. A. Bocan, R. Díez Muiño, and J. I. Juaristi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096101 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Large Reaction Rate Enhancement in Formation of Ultrathin AuSi Eutectic Layers

Tyler S. Matthews, Carolyn Sawyer, D. Frank Ogletree, Zuzanna Liliental-Weber, Daryl C. Chrzan, and Junqiao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096102 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Hidden Multiple-Spin Interactions as an Origin of Spin Scalar Chiral Order in Frustrated Kondo Lattice Models

Yutaka Akagi, Masafumi Udagawa, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096401 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Tuning the Magnetic Dimensionality by Charge Ordering in the Molecular TMTTF Salts

Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Hitoshi Seo, Shoji Ishibashi, and Stuart E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096402 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Chirality Waves in Two-Dimensional Magnets

D. Solenov, D. Mozyrsky, and I. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096403 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Fragility of Surface States and Robustness of Topological Order in ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ against Oxidation

Xiaoxiong Wang, Guang Bian, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096404 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Deformation and Scattering in Graphene over Substrate Steps

T. Low, V. Perebeinos, J. Tersoff, and Ph. Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096601 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Scanning-Tunneling Microscope Imaging of Single-Electron Solitons in a Material with Incommensurate Charge-Density Waves

Serguei Brazovskii, Christophe Brun, Zhao-Zhong Wang, and Pierre Monceau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096801 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Spin and Majorana Polarization in Topological Superconducting Wires

Doru Sticlet, Cristina Bena, and Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 096802 (2012) - Published 1 March, 2012

Single-Charge Transistor Based on the Charge-Phase Duality of a Superconducting Nanowire Circuit

T. T. Hongisto and A. B. Zorin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097001 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Ultrafast Momentum-Dependent Response of Electrons in Antiferromagnetic ${EuFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Driven by Optical Excitation

L. Rettig, R. Cortés, S. Thirupathaiah, P. Gegenwart, H. S. Jeevan, M. Wolf, J. Fink, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097002 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Distribution of Supercurrent Switching in Graphene under the Proximity Effect

U. C. Coskun, M. Brenner, T. Hymel, V. Vakaryuk, A. Levchenko, and A. Bezryadin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097003 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Theoretical Description of the Superconducting State of Nanostructures at Intermediate Temperatures: A Combined Treatment of Collective Modes and Fluctuations

Pedro Ribeiro and Antonio M. García-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097004 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

Wilson Ratio of a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid in a Spin- $1 / 2$ Heisenberg Ladder

K. Ninios, Tao Hong, T. Manabe, C. Hotta, S. N. Herringer, M. M. Turnbull, C. P. Landee, Y. Takano, and H. B. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097201 (2012) - Published 27 February, 2012

Multiferroic Behavior in Trimerized Mott Insulators

Y. Kamiya and C. D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097202 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Ferroelectric Soft Mode in a ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Thin Film Impulsively Driven to the Anharmonic Regime Using Intense Picosecond Terahertz Pulses

I. Katayama, H. Aoki, J. Takeda, H. Shimosato, M. Ashida, R. Kinjo, I. Kawayama, M. Tonouchi, M. Nagai, and K. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097401 (2012) - Published 28 February, 2012

Realizing Optical Magnetism from Dielectric Metamaterials

James C. Ginn, Igal Brener, David W. Peters, Joel R. Wendt, Jeffrey O. Stevens, Paul F. Hines, Lorena I. Basilio, Larry K. Warne, Jon F. Ihlefeld, Paul G. Clem, and Michael B. Sinclair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 097402 (2012) - Published 29 February, 2012

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