Volume 109, Issue 12

C. Rödel, D. an der Brügge, J. Bierbach, M. Yeung, T. Hahn, B. Dromey, S. Herzer, S. Fuchs, A. Galestian Pour, E. Eckner, M. Behmke, M. Cerchez, O. Jäckel, D. Hemmers, T. Toncian, M. C. Kaluza, A. Belyanin, G. Pretzler, O. Willi, A. Pukhov, M. Zepf, and G. G. Paulus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125002 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Three-Dimensional Mode Conversion Associated with Kinetic Alfvén Waves

Yu Lin, Jay R. Johnson, and Xueyi Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125003 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012

Strong Compression of a Magnetic Field with a Laser-Accelerated Foil

Hitoki Yoneda, Tomonori Namiki, Akinori Nishida, Ryosuke Kodama, Youichi Sakawa, Yasuhiro Kuramitsu, Taichi Morita, Kento Nishio, and Takao Ide

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125004 (2012) - Published 21 September, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Probing Phase Fluctuations in a 2D Degenerate Bose Gas by Free Expansion

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125301 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Simulating Compact Quantum Electrodynamics with Ultracold Atoms: Probing Confinement and Nonperturbative Effects

Erez Zohar, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Benni Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125302 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Electronic Structure Inheritance and Pressure-Induced Polyamorphism in Lanthanide-Based Metallic Glasses

G. Li, Y. Y. Wang, P. K. Liaw, Y. C. Li, and R. P. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125501 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Marginal Stability Constrains Force and Pair Distributions at Random Close Packing

Matthieu Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125502 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Lattice Anharmonicity in Defect-Free Pd Nanowhiskers

Lisa Y. Chen, Gunther Richter, John P. Sullivan, and Daniel S. Gianola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125503 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Reactive Gas Environment Induced Structural Modification of Noble-Transition Metal Alloy Nanoparticles

V. Petkov, L. Yang, J. Yin, R. Loukrakpam, S. Shan, B. Wanjala, J. Luo, K. W. Chapman, and C. J. Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125504 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Evolution of Shock-Induced Orientation-Dependent Metastable States in Crystalline Aluminum

Mikalai M. Budzevich, Vasily V. Zhakhovsky, Carter T. White, and Ivan I. Oleynik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125505 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

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Better Alloys with Quantum Design

Travis E. Jones, Mark E. Eberhart, Scott Imlay, Craig Mackey, and Greg B. Olson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125506 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012

Critical Role of Two-Dimensional Island-Mediated Growth on the Formation of Semiconductor Heterointerfaces

Esperanza Luna, Álvaro Guzmán, Achim Trampert, and Gabriel Álvarez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126101 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Dependent On-Site Electron Correlations and Localization in Itinerant Ferromagnets

R. Gotter, G. Fratesi, R. A. Bartynski, F. Da Pieve, F. Offi, A. Ruocco, S. Ugenti, M. I. Trioni, G. P. Brivio, and G. Stefani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126401 (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

Antiferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model on the Bernal-Stacked Honeycomb Bilayer

Thomas C. Lang, Zi Yang Meng, Michael M. Scherer, Stefan Uebelacker, Fakher F. Assaad, Alejandro Muramatsu, Carsten Honerkamp, and Stefan Wessel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126402 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Electrical Manipulation of Majorana Fermions in an Interdigitated Superconductor-Ferromagnet Device

Shu-Ping Lee, Jason Alicea, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126403 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Dimensional-Crossover-Driven Mott Transition in the Frustrated Hubbard Model

Marcin Raczkowski and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126404 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Peierls Distortion and Quantum Solitons

Chiara Marletto and Mario Rasetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126405 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Luttinger-liquid universality in the time evolution after an interaction quench

C. Karrasch, J. Rentrop, D. Schuricht, and V. Meden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126406 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Electron-Phonon Coupling in Crystalline Organic Semiconductors: Microscopic Evidence for Nonpolaronic Charge Carriers

Nenad Vukmirović, C. Bruder, and Vladimir M. Stojanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126407 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Low-Energy Models for Correlated Materials: Bandwidth Renormalization from Coulombic Screening

M. Casula, Ph. Werner, L. Vaugier, F. Aryasetiawan, T. Miyake, A. J. Millis, and S. Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126408 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Angle-Dependent van Hove Singularities in a Slightly Twisted Graphene Bilayer

Wei Yan, Mengxi Liu, Rui-Fen Dou, Lan Meng, Lei Feng, Zhao-Dong Chu, Yanfeng Zhang, Zhongfan Liu, Jia-Cai Nie, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126801 (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

Spin Texture Readout of a Moore-Read Topological Quantum Register

J. C. Romers and K. Schoutens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126802 (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

Inducing an Incipient Terahertz Finite Plasmonic Crystal in Coupled Two Dimensional Plasmonic Cavities

G. C. Dyer, G. R. Aizin, S. Preu, N. Q. Vinh, S. J. Allen, J. L. Reno, and E. A. Shaner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126803 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Quantum Hall to Charge-Density-Wave Phase Transitions in $A B C$ -Trilayer Graphene

Yafis Barlas, R. Côté, and Maxime Rondeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126804 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Coulomb Gap Triptych in a Periodic Array of Metal Nanocrystals

Tianran Chen, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126805 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cloaking Core-Shell Nanoparticles from Conducting Electrons in Solids

Bolin Liao, Mona Zebarjadi, Keivan Esfarjani, and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126806 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012

Surface Adatom Conductance Filtering in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Co-doped ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Iron Pnictide Superconductors

K. Koepernik, S. Johnston, E. van Heumen, Y. Huang, J. Kaas, J. B. Goedkoop, M. S. Golden, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127001 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

From Incommensurate Correlations to Mesoscopic Spin Resonance in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

C. Stock, C. Broholm, F. Demmel, J. Van Duijn, J. W. Taylor, H. J. Kang, R. Hu, and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127201 (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

Penetration Depth of Transverse Spin Current in Ultrathin Ferromagnets

A. Ghosh, S. Auffret, U. Ebels, and W. E. Bailey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127202 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Magnetic Soft Modes in the Distorted Triangular Antiferromagnet $α − {CaCr}_{2} O_{4}$

S. Toth, B. Lake, K. Hradil, T. Guidi, K. C. Rule, M. B. Stone, and A. T. M. N. Islam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127203 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Ultrafast Magnetic Vortex Core Switching Driven by the Topological Inverse Faraday Effect

Katsuhisa Taguchi, Jun-ichiro Ohe, and Gen Tatara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127204 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Incommensurate Orbital Modulation behind Ferroelectricity in ${CuFeO}_{2}$

Yoshikazu Tanaka (田中良和), Noriki Terada (寺田典樹), Taro Nakajima (中島多朗), Munetaka Taguchi (田口宗孝), Taro Kojima (小島太郎), Yasutaka Takata (高田恭孝), Setsuo Mitsuda (満田節生), Masaki Oura (大浦正樹), Yasunori Senba (仙波泰徳), Haruhiko Ohashi (大橋治彦), and Shik Shin (辛埴)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127205 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Asymmetric Thermal Line Shape Broadening in a Gapped 3D Antiferromagnet: Evidence for Strong Correlations at Finite Temperature

D. L. Quintero-Castro, B. Lake, A. T. M. N. Islam, E. M. Wheeler, C. Balz, M. Månsson, K. C. Rule, S. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127206 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

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$d^{0}$ Ferromagnetic Interface between Nonmagnetic Perovskites

R. Oja, M. Tyunina, L. Yao, T. Pinomaa, T. Kocourek, A. Dejneka, O. Stupakov, M. Jelinek, V. Trepakov, S. van Dijken, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127207 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012

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Measurement of Intrinsic Dirac Fermion Cooling on the Surface of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ Using Time-Resolved and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Y. H. Wang, D. Hsieh, E. J. Sie, H. Steinberg, D. R. Gardner, Y. S. Lee, P. Jarillo-Herrero, and N. Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127401 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012

Possible Quantum Diffusion of Polaronic Muons in ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ Spin Ice

P. Quémerais, P. McClarty, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127601 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Evolutionary Optimization of Optical Antennas

Thorsten Feichtner, Oleg Selig, Markus Kiunke, and Bert Hecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 127701 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Nonuniformities in the Angle of Repose and Packing Fraction of Large Heaps of Particles

Nikola Topić, Jason A. C. Gallas, and Thorsten Pöschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128001 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Anomalous Stress Profile in a Sheared Granular Column

Vishwajeet Mehandia, Kamala Jyotsna Gutam, and Prabhu R. Nott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128002 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Direct and Indirect Electron Emission from the Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore

Y. Toker, D. B. Rahbek, B. Klærke, A. V. Bochenkova, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128101 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Physical Origin of Anharmonic Dynamics in Proteins: New Insights From Resolution-Dependent Neutron Scattering on Homomeric Polypeptides

Giorgio Schiró, Francesca Natali, and Antonio Cupane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128102 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Hierarchical Helical Order in the Twisted Growth of Plant Organs

Hirofumi Wada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128104 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Optimal Shapes of Surface Slip Driven Self-Propelled Microswimmers

Andrej Vilfan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128105 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Optimized Cross-Slot Flow Geometry for Microfluidic Extensional Rheometry

Simon J. Haward, Mónica S. N. Oliveira, Manuel A. Alves, and Gareth H. McKinley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128301 (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

Switching Between Crystallization and Amorphous Agglomeration of Alkyl Thiol-Coated Gold Nanoparticles

Tihamér Geyer, Philip Born, and Tobias Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128302 (2012) - Published 17 September, 2012

Self-Similarity and Energy Dissipation in Stepped Polymer Films

Joshua D. McGraw, Thomas Salez, Oliver Bäumchen, Elie Raphaël, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128303 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Sizes of Multilamellar Vesicles in Shear

C.-Y. David Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128304 (2012) - Published 19 September, 2012

Bubble Driven Quasioscillatory Translational Motion of Catalytic Micromotors

Manoj Manjare, Bo Yang, and Y.-P. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 128305 (2012) - Published 21 September, 2012

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ERRATA

Erratum: Calculation of Transport Coefficient Profiles in Modulation Experiments as an Inverse Problem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 125007 (2012)]

D. F. Escande and F. Sattin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 129901 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Origin of the Pinning of Drifting Monostable Patterns [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 104101 (2012)]

M. G. Clerc, C. Fernandez-Oto, M. A. García-Ñustes, and E. Louvergneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 129902 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Lambda-to-Kaon Ratio Enhancement in Heavy Ion Collisions at Several TeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 102301 (2012)]

K. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 129903 (2012) - Published 18 September, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Evaporation of Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Surface Roughness and Small Droplet Size Effects [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 116101 (2012)]

Xuemei Chen, Ruiyuan Ma, Jintao Li, Chonglei Hao, Wei Guo, B. L. Luk, Shuai Cheng Li, Shuhuai Yao, and Zuankai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 129904 (2012) - Published 20 September, 2012