Volume 109, Issue 14

5 October 2012

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Lineup of a chicken's egg (left) and 500 μm thick elastomeric shell samples with differing ellipsoidal shapes (right) used for studying geometry-induced rigidity. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Focus story in Physics.

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Geometry-Induced Rigidity in Nonspherical Pressurized Elastic Shells
A. Lazarus, H. C. B. Florijn, and P. M. Reis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144301 (2012)

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Geometry-Induced Rigidity in Nonspherical Pressurized Elastic Shells

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144301 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

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Indentation of Ellipsoidal and Cylindrical Elastic Shells

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Universal Recovery of the Energy-Level Degeneracy of Bright Excitons in InGaAs Quantum Dots without a Structure Symmetry

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Proposal for an Electron Antineutrino Disappearance Search Using High-Rate ${}^{8}{Li}$ Production and Decay

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147405 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

LETTERS

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

Lower Bound on the Entropy of Boundaries and Junctions in ( $1 + 1$ )-Dimensional Quantum Critical Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 140401 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Molecule and Polaron in a Highly Polarized Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 140402 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Nonperturbative Master Equation Solution of Central Spin Dephasing Dynamics

Edwin Barnes, Łukasz Cywiński, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 140403 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Low-Temperature Triple-Alpha Rate in a Full Three-Body Nuclear Model

N. B. Nguyen, F. M. Nunes, I. J. Thompson, and E. F. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 141101 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Is Black-Hole Ringdown a Memory of Its Progenitor?

Ioannis Kamaretsos, Mark Hannam, and B. S. Sathyaprakash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 141102 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

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Astrophysics-Independent Bounds on the Annual Modulation of Dark Matter Signals

Juan Herrero-Garcia, Thomas Schwetz, and Jure Zupan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 141301 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for a $W^{'}$ or Techni- $ρ$ Decaying into $W Z$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

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Nuclear Physics

$E 2$ Interference Effects in the ${}^{12}{C (α, γ_{0})^{16} O}$ Reaction

D. B. Sayre, C. R. Brune, D. E. Carter, D. K. Jacobs, T. N. Massey, and J. E. O’Donnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 142501 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Revealing the Cooper minimum of $N_{2}$ by Molecular Frame High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

J. B. Bertrand, H. J. Wörner, P. Hockett, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 143001 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Entanglement Swapping with Local Certification: Application to Remote Micromechanical Resonators

M. Abdi, S. Pirandola, P. Tombesi, and D. Vitali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 143601 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Vortex Induction via Anisotropy Stabilized Light-Matter Interaction

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 143901 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Frequency Conversion in a High $Q$ -Factor Sapphire Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator due to Paramagnetic Nonlinearity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 143902 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

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Optical Extinction in a Single Layer of Nanorods

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Revisiting Algorithms for Generating Surrogate Time Series

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144101 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

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Geometry-Induced Rigidity in Nonspherical Pressurized Elastic Shells

A. Lazarus, H. C. B. Florijn, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144301 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

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Indentation of Ellipsoidal and Cylindrical Elastic Shells

Dominic Vella, Amin Ajdari, Ashkan Vaziri, and Arezki Boudaoud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144302 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Extreme Events in the Dispersions of Two Neighboring Particles Under the Influence of Fluid Turbulence

R. Scatamacchia, L. Biferale, and F. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144501 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Minimization of Viscous Fluid Fingering: A Variational Scheme for Optimal Flow Rates

Eduardo O. Dias, Enrique Alvarez-Lacalle, Márcio S. Carvalho, and José A. Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144502 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Determination of the Pulse Duration of an X-Ray Free Electron Laser Using Highly Resolved Single-Shot Spectra

Yuichi Inubushi, Kensuke Tono, Tadashi Togashi, Takahiro Sato, Takaki Hatsui, Takashi Kameshima, Kazuaki Togawa, Toru Hara, Takashi Tanaka, Hitoshi Tanaka, Tetsuya Ishikawa, and Makina Yabashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 144801 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Evolution of an Electron Current Layer Prior to Reconnection Onset

Nagendra Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 145001 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Nonlinear Excitations of Zonal Structures by Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmodes

Liu Chen and Fulvio Zonca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 145002 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Appearance and Dynamics of Helical Flux Tubes under Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating in the Core of KSTAR Plasmas

G. S. Yun, H. K. Park, W. Lee, M. J. Choi, G. H. Choe, S. Park, Y. S. Bae, K. D. Lee, S. W. Yoon, Y. M. Jeon, C. W. Domier, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., B. Tobias, and A. J. H. Donné (KSTAR Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 145003 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Determination of the Hohlraum $M$ -band Fraction by a Shock-Wave Technique on the SGIII-Prototype Laser Facility

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Ion Motion in Self-Modulated Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

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Dynamics of Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction on Solid Targets

Y. Ping, A. J. Kemp, L. Divol, M. H. Key, P. K. Patel, K. U. Akli, F. N. Beg, S. Chawla, C. D. Chen, R. R. Freeman, D. Hey, D. P. Higginson, L. C. Jarrott, G. E. Kemp, A. Link, H. S. McLean, H. Sawada, R. B. Stephens, D. Turnbull, B. Westover, and S. C. Wilks

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Non-Abelian Gauge Fields and Topological Insulators in Shaken Optical Lattices

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Fracture Strength of ${AlLiB}_{14}$

L. F. Wan and S. P. Beckman

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Measuring Electric Field Induced Subpicometer Displacement of Step Edge Ions

Shigeki Kawai, Filippo Federici Canova, Thilo Glatzel, Teemu Hynninen, Ernst Meyer, and Adam S. Foster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146101 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Atomic Structure of Mn Wires on Si(001) Resolved by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

A. Fuhrer, F. J. Rueß, N. Moll, A. Curioni, and D. Widmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146102 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Role of Activated Chemisorption in Gas-Mediated Electron Beam Induced Deposition

James Bishop, Charlene J. Lobo, Aiden Martin, Mike Ford, Matthew Phillips, and Milos Toth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146103 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strength of the Effective Coulomb Interaction at Metal and Insulator Surfaces

Ersoy Şaşıoğlu, Christoph Friedrich, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146401 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Density-Functional Theory for $f$ -Electron Systems: The $α − γ$ Phase Transition in Cerium

Marco Casadei, Xinguo Ren, Patrick Rinke, Angel Rubio, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146402 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Interplay of Disorder and Interaction in Majorana Quantum Wires

Alejandro M. Lobos, Roman M. Lutchyn, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146403 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Topological Phase Transition in the Interaction of Surface Dirac Fermions in Heterostructures

Jeongwoo Kim, Jinwoong Kim, Ki-Seok Kim, and Seung-Hoon Jhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146601 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Unified Formalism of Andreev Reflection at a Ferromagnet/Superconductor Interface

T. Y. Chen, Z. Tesanovic, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146602 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Electric Field-Driven Coherent Spin Reorientation of Optically Generated Electron Spin Packets in InGaAs

S. Kuhlen, K. Schmalbuch, M. Hagedorn, P. Schlammes, M. Patt, M. Lepsa, G. Güntherodt, and B. Beschoten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146603 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Thermoelectric Probe for Neutral Edge Modes in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Giovanni Viola, Sourin Das, Eytan Grosfeld, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 146801 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Magneto-Optical Measurements of a Cascade of Transitions in Superconducting ${La}_{1.875} {Ba}_{0.125} {CuO}_{4}$ Single Crystals

Hovnatan Karapetyan, M. Hücker, G. D. Gu, J. M. Tranquada, M. M. Fejer, Jing Xia, and A. Kapitulnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147001 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Universal Broadening of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Coherence Peak of Disordered Superconducting Films

M. V. Feigel’man and M. A. Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147002 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Effective Doping and Suppression of Fermi Surface Reconstruction via Fe Vacancy Disorder in $K_{x} {Fe}_{2 - y} {Se}_{2}$

Tom Berlijn, P. J. Hirschfeld, and Wei Ku (顧威)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147003 (2012) - Published 3 October, 2012

Theory of a Large Thermoelectric Effect in Superconductors Doped with Magnetic Impurities

Mikhail S. Kalenkov, Andrei D. Zaikin, and Leonid S. Kuzmin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147004 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Interlayer Charge Disproportionation in the Layered Organic Superconductor $κ_{H} − (DMEDO − TSeF)_{2} [Au (CN)_{4}] (THF)$ with Polar Dielectric Insulating Layers

Tadashi Kawamoto, Takehiko Mori, David Graf, James S. Brooks, Yamaguchi Takahide, Shinya Uji, Takashi Shirahata, and Tatsuro Imakubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147005 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Disorder, Cluster Spin Glass, and Hourglass Spectra in Striped Magnetic Insulators

Eric C. Andrade and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147201 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Reversible Change of the Spin State in a Manganese Phthalocyanine by Coordination of CO Molecule

A. Stróżecka, M. Soriano, J. I. Pascual, and J. J. Palacios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147202 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Direct Observation of Magnetic Anisotropy in an Individual ${Fe}_{4}$ Single-Molecule Magnet

E. Burzurí, A. S. Zyazin, A. Cornia, and H. S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147203 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Coexistence of Long-Range and Algebraic Correlations for Short-Range Valence-Bond Wave Functions in Three Dimensions

A. Fabricio Albuquerque, Fabien Alet, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147204 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Quantum Magnetomechanics with Levitating Superconducting Microspheres

O. Romero-Isart, L. Clemente, C. Navau, A. Sanchez, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147205 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Quantum Magnetomechanics: Ultrahigh- $Q$ -Levitated Mechanical Oscillators

M. Cirio, G. K. Brennen, and J. Twamley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147206 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Exchange Field-Mediated Magnetoresistance in the Correlated Insulator Phase of Be films

T. J. Liu, J. C. Prestigiacomo, Y. M. Xiong, and P. W. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147207 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Correlation Functions in SU(2)-Invariant Resonating-Valence-Bond Spin Liquids on Nonbipartite Lattices

Julia Wildeboer and Alexander Seidel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147208 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

Frustrated Resonating Valence Bond States in Two Dimensions: Classification and Short-Range Correlations

Fan Yang and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147209 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012

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Universal Recovery of the Energy-Level Degeneracy of Bright Excitons in InGaAs Quantum Dots without a Structure Symmetry

R. Trotta, E. Zallo, C. Ortix, P. Atkinson, J. D. Plumhof, J. van den Brink, A. Rastelli, and O. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147401 (2012) - Published 1 October, 2012

Electron Transfer in a Virtual Quantum State of ${LiBH}_{4}$ Induced by Strong Optical Fields and Mapped by Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction

J. Stingl, F. Zamponi, B. Freyer, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, and A. Borgschulte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147402 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Nonperturbative Interband Response of a Bulk InSb Semiconductor Driven Off Resonantly by Terahertz Electromagnetic Few-Cycle Pulses

F. Junginger, B. Mayer, C. Schmidt, O. Schubert, S. Mährlein, A. Leitenstorfer, R. Huber, and A. Pashkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147403 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

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Visible-to-Telecom Quantum Frequency Conversion of Light from a Single Quantum Emitter

Sebastian Zaske, Andreas Lenhard, Christian A. Keßler, Jan Kettler, Christian Hepp, Carsten Arend, Roland Albrecht, Wolfgang-Michael Schulz, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler, and Christoph Becher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147404 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

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Two-Photon Interference Using Background-Free Quantum Frequency Conversion of Single Photons Emitted by an InAs Quantum Dot

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147405 (2012) - Published 4 October, 2012

Multiscaling Analysis of Ferroelectric Domain Wall Roughness

J. Guyonnet, E. Agoritsas, S. Bustingorry, T. Giamarchi, and P. Paruch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 147601 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Small ion-temperature-gradient scale length and reduced heat diffusivity at large hydrogen isotope mass in conventional $H$ -mode plasmas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125001 (2012)]

H. Urano, T. Takizuka, M. Kikuchi, T. Nakano, N. Hayashi, N. Oyama, and Y. Kamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 149901 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Forest: 3D Bispectrum of Lyman- $α$ Flux Spectra along Multiple Lines of Sight [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 121301 (2012)]

Dhiraj Kumar Hazra and Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 149902 (2012) - Published 2 October, 2012

Erratum: Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 046102 (2011)]

Martin Z. Bazant, Brian D. Storey, and Alexei A. Kornyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 149903 (2012) - Published 5 October, 2012