Volume 109, Issue 16

19 October 2012

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Possible space-time crystal which may be realized in a system of ultracold ions, confined on a ring in a weak magnetic field (red arrows). Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Space-Time Crystals of Trapped Ions
Tongcang Li, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Zhang-Qi Yin, H. T. Quan, Xiaobo Yin, Peng Zhang, L.-M. Duan, and Xiang Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163001 (2012)

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Production and Decay of the Heaviest Nuclei ${}^{293, 294}1 17$ and ${}^{294}1 18$

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 162501 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Space-Time Crystals of Trapped Ions

Tongcang Li, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Zhang-Qi Yin, H. T. Quan, Xiaobo Yin, Peng Zhang, L.-M. Duan, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163001 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams

David B. Ruffner and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163903 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Hexagonal $A B C$ Semiconductors as Ferroelectrics

Joseph W. Bennett, Kevin F. Garrity, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167602 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Spontaneous Circulation of Confined Active Suspensions

Francis G. Woodhouse and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 168105 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

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Quantum Time Crystals

Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160401 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Classical Time Crystals

Alfred Shapere and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160402 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Unlocking Internal Prestress from Protein Nanoshells

W. S. Klug, W. H. Roos, and G. J. L. Wuite

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 168104 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

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Intrinsic Instability of Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopes

S. M. Schramm, S. J. van der Molen, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163901 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Intrinsic Electron-Phonon Resistivity of ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ in the Topological Regime

Dohun Kim, Qiuzi Li, Paul Syers, Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, S. Das Sarma, and Michael S. Fuhrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166801 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Radio Frequency Charge Parity Meter

M. D. Schroer, M. Jung, K. D. Petersson, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166804 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

LETTERS

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

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Quantum Time Crystals

Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160401 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

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Classical Time Crystals

Alfred Shapere and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160402 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Exact Results for Classical Casimir Interactions: Dirichlet and Drude Model in the Sphere-Sphere and Sphere-Plane Geometry

Giuseppe Bimonte and Thorsten Emig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160403 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Effects of Reduced Measurement Independence on Bell-Based Randomness Expansion

Dax Enshan Koh, Michael J. W. Hall, Setiawan, James E. Pope, Chiara Marletto, Alastair Kay, Valerio Scarani, and Artur Ekert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160404 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Quantum Steering and Spacelike Separation

Miguel Navascués and David Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160405 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Complete Insecurity of Quantum Protocols for Classical Two-Party Computation

Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, and Christian Schaffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160501 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Detection of Multiparticle Entanglement: Quantifying the Search for Symmetric Extensions

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Matthias Christandl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160502 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

High Threshold Error Correction for the Surface Code

James R. Wootton and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160503 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Robust-Fidelity Atom-Photon Entangling Gates in the Weak-Coupling Regime

Ying Li, Leandro Aolita, Darrick E. Chang, and Leong Chuan Kwek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160504 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Emergent Thermodynamics in a Quenched Quantum Many-Body System

R. Dorner, J. Goold, C. Cormick, M. Paternostro, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160601 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Fluctuation-Response Theorem for the Active Noisy Oscillator of the Hair-Cell Bundle

L. Dinis, P. Martin, J. Barral, J. Prost, and J. F. Joanny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160602 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Observation of the Deexcitation of the ${}^{229 m}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomer

Xinxin Zhao, Yenny Natali Martinez de Escobar, Robert Rundberg, Evelyn M. Bond, Allen Moody, and David J. Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160801 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Implications of Lepton Flavor Universality Violations in $B$ Decays

Svjetlana Fajfer, Jernej F. Kamenik, Ivan Nišandžić, and Jure Zupan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 161801 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Radiative Natural Supersymmetry with a 125 GeV Higgs Boson

Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Peisi Huang, Azar Mustafayev, and Xerxes Tata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 161802 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Chiral Kinetic Theory

M. A. Stephanov and Y. Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 162001 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Nuclear Physics

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Production and Decay of the Heaviest Nuclei ${}^{293, 294}1 17$ and ${}^{294}1 18$

Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 162501 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

New Isomers in the Full Seniority Scheme of Neutron-Rich Lead Isotopes: The Role of Effective Three-Body Forces

A. Gottardo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 162502 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Observation of Large Scissors Resonance Strength in Actinides

M. Guttormsen, L. A. Bernstein, A. Bürger, A. Görgen, F. Gunsing, T. W. Hagen, A. C. Larsen, T. Renstrøm, S. Siem, M. Wiedeking, and J. N. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 162503 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Space-Time Crystals of Trapped Ions

Tongcang Li, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Zhang-Qi Yin, H. T. Quan, Xiaobo Yin, Peng Zhang, L.-M. Duan, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163001 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Enhancement of Vibrational Excitation and Dissociation of $H_{2}^{+}$ in Infrared Laser Pulses

A. Picón, A. Jaroń-Becker, and A. Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163002 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Multiphoton Above Threshold Effects in Strong-Field Fragmentation

C. B. Madsen, F. Anis, L. B. Madsen, and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163003 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Dynamics of Nonclassical Light from a Single Solid-State Quantum Emitter

Edward B. Flagg, Sergey V. Polyakov, Tim Thomay, and Glenn S. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163601 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Intrinsic Instability of Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopes

S. M. Schramm, S. J. van der Molen, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163901 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Temporal Gap Solitons and All-Optical Control of Group Delay in Line-Defect Waveguides

S. Malaguti, G. Bellanca, S. Combrié, A. de Rossi, and S. Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163902 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams

David B. Ruffner and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 163903 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Nonuniversal Transitions to Synchrony in the Sakaguchi-Kuramoto Model

Oleh E. Omel’chenko and Matthias Wolfrum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164101 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Rounding Effects in Record Statistics

G. Wergen, D. Volovik, S. Redner, and J. Krug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164102 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Driving Potential and Noise Level Determine the Synchronization State of Hydrodynamically Coupled Oscillators

Nicolas Bruot, Jurij Kotar, Filippo de Lillo, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, and Pietro Cicuta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164103 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Alternating Hexagonal and Striped Patterns in Faraday Surface Waves

Nicolas Périnet, Damir Juric, and Laurette S. Tuckerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164501 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

First High Power Test Results for 2.1 GHz Superconducting Photonic Band Gap Accelerator Cavities

Evgenya I. Simakov, W. Brian Haynes, Michael A. Madrid, Frank P. Romero, Tsuyoshi Tajima, Walter M. Tuzel, Chase H. Boulware, and Terry L. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164801 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Experimental Observation of Suppression of Coherent-Synchrotron-Radiation–Induced Beam-Energy Spread with Shielding Plates

V. Yakimenko, M. Fedurin, V. Litvinenko, A. Fedotov, D. Kayran, and P. Muggli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164802 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Stable Charged-Particle Acceleration and Focusing in a Laser Accelerator Using Spatial Harmonics

B. Naranjo, A. Valloni, S. Putterman, and J. B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 164803 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Multiscale Investigations of Drift-Wave Turbulence and Plasma Flows: Measurements and Total-Distribution-Function Gyrokinetic Simulations

S. Leerink, V. V. Bulanin, A. D. Gurchenko, E. Z. Gusakov, J. A. Heikkinen, S. J. Janhunen, S. I. Lashkul, A. B. Altukhov, L. A. Esipov, M. Yu. Kantor, T. P. Kiviniemi, T. Korpilo, D. V. Kuprienko, and A. V. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 165001 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Quantitative Study of Guide-Field Effects on Hall Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

T. D. Tharp, M. Yamada, H. Ji, E. Lawrence, S. Dorfman, C. E. Myers, and J. Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 165002 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Two-Particle Distribution and Correlation Function for a 1D Dusty Plasma Experiment

Amit K. Mukhopadhyay and J. Goree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 165003 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Symmetry Protected Topological Order and Spin Susceptibility in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

Takeshi Mizushima, Masatoshi Sato, and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 165301 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Atomic-Scale Relaxation Dynamics and Aging in a Metallic Glass Probed by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

B. Ruta, Y. Chushkin, G. Monaco, L. Cipelletti, E. Pineda, P. Bruna, V. M. Giordano, and M. Gonzalez-Silveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 165701 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Pure Glass in Finite Dimensions

Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 165702 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Stability of Freely Falling Granular Streams

Stephan Ulrich and Annette Zippelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166001 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Stability of Thin Wetting Films on Chemically Nanostructured Surfaces

A. Checco, B. M. Ocko, M. Tasinkevych, and S. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166101 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Double-Layer In Structural Model for the $In / Si (111) − \sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{3}$ Surface

Jae Whan Park and Myung Ho Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166102 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Temperature-Dependent Two-State Dynamics of Individual Cooperatively Rearranging Regions on a Glass Surface

S. Ashtekar, J. Lyding, and M. Gruebele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166103 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Giant Collective Spin-Orbit Field in a Quantum Well: Fine Structure of Spin Plasmons

F. Baboux, F. Perez, C. A. Ullrich, I. D’Amico, J. Gómez, and M. Bernard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166401 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Imaging the Electron-Phonon Interaction at the Atomic Scale

Igor Altfeder, K. A. Matveev, and A. A. Voevodin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166402 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Majorana Single-Charge Transistor

R. Hützen, A. Zazunov, B. Braunecker, A. Levy Yeyati, and R. Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166403 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Electronic Correlations Stabilize the Antiferromagnetic Mott State in ${Cs}_{3} C_{60}$

G. Giovannetti and M. Capone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166404 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Switchable Quantum Anomalous Hall State in a Strongly Frustrated Lattice Magnet

Jörn W. F. Venderbos, Maria Daghofer, Jeroen van den Brink, and Sanjeev Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166405 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Decoupling of Structural and Electronic Phase Transitions in ${VO}_{2}$

Zhensheng Tao, Tzong-Ru T. Han, Subhendra D. Mahanti, Phillip M. Duxbury, Fei Yuan, Chong-Yu Ruan, Kevin Wang, and Junqiao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166406 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Visualizing Landau Levels of Dirac Electrons in a One-Dimensional Potential

Yoshinori Okada, Wenwen Zhou, Chetan Dhital, D. Walkup, Ying Ran, Z. Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, and V. Madhavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166407 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

Ultrafast Magnetoacoustics in Nickel Films

Ji-Wan Kim, Mircea Vomir, and Jean-Yves Bigot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166601 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Spin-Orbit Coupling Induced Spin-Transfer Torque and Current Polarization in Topological-Insulator/Ferromagnet Vertical Heterostructures

Farzad Mahfouzi, Naoto Nagaosa, and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166602 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Graphene under a High Electric Field

Shuntaro Tani, François Blanchard, and Koichiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166603 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Full First-Principles Theory of Spin Relaxation in Group-IV Materials

O. D. Restrepo and W. Windl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166604 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Role of Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling on Decoherence and Relaxation of Central Spins in Quantum Dots

N. A. Sinitsyn, Yan Li, S. A. Crooker, A. Saxena, and D. L. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166605 (2012) - Published 18 October, 2012

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Intrinsic Electron-Phonon Resistivity of ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ in the Topological Regime

Dohun Kim, Qiuzi Li, Paul Syers, Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, S. Das Sarma, and Michael S. Fuhrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166801 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Topological Surface States with Persistent High Spin Polarization across the Dirac Point in ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{2} Se$ and ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{2} Te$

K. Miyamoto, A. Kimura, T. Okuda, H. Miyahara, K. Kuroda, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, S. V. Eremeev, T. V. Menshchikova, E. V. Chulkov, K. A. Kokh, and O. E. Tereshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166802 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Light-Emitting Waveguide-Plasmon Polaritons

S. R. K. Rodriguez, S. Murai, M. A. Verschuuren, and J. Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166803 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

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Radio Frequency Charge Parity Meter

M. D. Schroer, M. Jung, K. D. Petersson, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166804 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Bi(111) Thin Film with Insulating Interior but Metallic Surfaces

Shunhao Xiao, Dahai Wei, and Xiaofeng Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166805 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Optical Nonlinearity for Few-Photon Pulses on a Quantum Dot-Pillar Cavity Device

V. Loo, C. Arnold, O. Gazzano, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, O. Krebs, P. Voisin, P. Senellart, and L. Lanco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166806 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Distinct Charge Orders in the Planes and Chains of Ortho-III-Ordered ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + δ}$ Superconductors Identified by Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering

A. J. Achkar, R. Sutarto, X. Mao, F. He, A. Frano, S. Blanco-Canosa, M. Le Tacon, G. Ghiringhelli, L. Braicovich, M. Minola, M. Moretti Sala, C. Mazzoli, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, B. Keimer, G. A. Sawatzky, and D. G. Hawthorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167001 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Little-Parks Oscillations in an Insulator

G. Kopnov, O. Cohen, M. Ovadia, K. Hong Lee, C. C. Wong, and D. Shahar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167002 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012

Effects of Transition Metal Substitutions on the Incommensurability and Spin Fluctuations in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ by Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering

M. G. Kim, J. Lamsal, T. W. Heitmann, G. S. Tucker, D. K. Pratt, S. N. Khan, Y. B. Lee, A. Alam, A. Thaler, N. Ni, S. Ran, S. L. Bud’ko, K. J. Marty, M. D. Lumsden, P. C. Canfield, B. N. Harmon, D. D. Johnson, A. Kreyssig, R. J. McQueeney, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167003 (2012) - Published 19 October, 2012

Order by Quantum Disorder in ${Er}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

Lucile Savary, Kate A. Ross, Bruce D. Gaulin, Jacob P. C. Ruff, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167201 (2012) - Published 15 October, 2012

Ground States of the Ising Model on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice and the Origin of the Fractional Magnetization Plateaus in Rare-Earth-Metal Tetraborides

Yu. I. Dublenych

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167202 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Critical Behavior of the Number of Minima of a Random Landscape at the Glass Transition Point and the Tracy-Widom Distribution

Yan V. Fyodorov and Celine Nadal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167203 (2012) - Published 16 October, 2012

Anisotropic Cascade of Field-Induced Phase Transitions in the Frustrated Spin-Ladder System ${BiCu}_{2} {PO}_{6}$

Yoshimitsu Kohama, Shuang Wang, Atsuko Uchida, Krunoslav Prsa, Sergei Zvyagin, Yuri Skourski, Ross D. McDonald, Luis Balicas, Henrik M. Ronnow, Christian Rüegg, and Marcelo Jaime

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 167204 (2012) - Published 17 October, 2012