Volume 109, Issue 17

26 October 2012

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Molecular dynamics simulation snapshot of a 4000 molecule water droplet on suspended graphene.

From the article:

Breakdown in the Wetting Transparency of Graphene
Chih-Jen Shih, Qing Hua Wang, Shangchao Lin, Kyoo-Chul Park, Zhong Jin, Michael S. Strano, and Daniel Blankschtein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176101 (2012)

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Exact Current Statistics of the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries

Mieke Gorissen, Alexandre Lazarescu, Kirone Mallick, and Carlo Vanderzande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170601 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

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Origin of Grand Minima in Sunspot Cycles

Arnab Rai Choudhuri and Bidya Binay Karak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171103 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

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Lift-Off Dynamics in a Simple Jumping Robot

Jeffrey Aguilar, Alex Lesov, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Daniel I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 174301 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

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Observation of Excited $Λ_{b}^{0}$ Baryons

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 172003 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

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Observation of Blueshifted Ultralong-Range ${Cs}_{2}$ Rydberg Molecules

J. Tallant, S. T. Rittenhouse, D. Booth, H. R. Sadeghpour, and J. P. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173202 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

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Quantum-Critical Spin Dynamics in Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

S. Mukhopadhyay, M. Klanjšek, M. S. Grbić, R. Blinder, H. Mayaffre, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, M. A. Continentino, A. Paduan-Filho, B. Chiari, and O. Piovesana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177206 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

LETTERS

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

Are Cloned Quantum States Macroscopic?

F. Fröwis and W. Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170401 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

General Non-Markovian Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

Wei-Min Zhang, Ping-Yuan Lo, Heng-Na Xiong, Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170402 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Nonadiabatic Holonomic Quantum Computation in Decoherence-Free Subspaces

G. F. Xu, J. Zhang, D. M. Tong, Erik Sjöqvist, and L. C. Kwek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170501 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

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Exact Current Statistics of the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries

Mieke Gorissen, Alexandre Lazarescu, Kirone Mallick, and Carlo Vanderzande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170601 (2012) - Published 22 October, 2012

( $2 + 1$ )-Dimensional Directed Polymer in a Random Medium: Scaling Phenomena and Universal Distributions

Timothy Halpin-Healy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170602 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Random Fields at a Nonequilibrium Phase Transition

Hatem Barghathi and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 170603 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Massive Gravity: Nonlinear Instability of a Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe

Antonio De Felice, A. Emir Gümrükçüoğlu, and Shinji Mukohyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171101 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Parameter Estimation in Searches for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

V. Mandic, E. Thrane, S. Giampanis, and T. Regimbau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171102 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

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Origin of Grand Minima in Sunspot Cycles

Arnab Rai Choudhuri and Bidya Binay Karak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171103 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

Examining the Evidence for Dynamical Dark Energy

Gong-Bo Zhao, Robert G. Crittenden, Levon Pogosian, and Xinmin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171301 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Shedding Light on $C P$ Violation in the Charm System via $D \to V γ$ Decays

Gino Isidori and Jernej F. Kamenik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171801 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Measurement of the Bottom-Strange Meson Mixing Phase in the Full CDF Data Set

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171802 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Search for New Physics in the Multijet and Missing Transverse Momentum Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 171803 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Hyperon-Nucleon Interactions from Quantum Chromodynamics and the Composition of Dense Nuclear Matter

S. R. Beane, E. Chang, S. D. Cohen, W. Detmold, H.-W. Lin, T. C. Luu, K. Orginos, A. Parreño, M. J. Savage, and A. Walker-Loud (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 172001 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Evidence for the Direct Two-Photon Transition from $ψ (3686)$ to $J / ψ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 172002 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

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Observation of Excited $Λ_{b}^{0}$ Baryons

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 172003 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Neutron Single Particle Structure in ${}^{131}{Sn}$ and Direct Neutron Capture Cross Sections

R. L. Kozub, G. Arbanas, A. S. Adekola, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, K. Y. Chae, K. A. Chipps, J. A. Cizewski, L. Erikson, R. Hatarik, W. R. Hix, K. L. Jones, W. Krolas, J. F. Liang, Z. Ma, C. Matei, B. H. Moazen, C. D. Nesaraja, S. D. Pain, D. Shapira, J. F. Shriner, Jr., M. S. Smith, and T. P. Swan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 172501 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Dynamics of Neutral Superexcited Oxygen: A Direct Measurement of the Competition between Autoionization and Predissociation

Henry Timmers, Niranjan Shivaram, and Arvinder Sandhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173001 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Vibrational Conical Intersections as a Mechanism of Ultrafast Vibrational Relaxation

Peter Hamm and Gerhard Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173201 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

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Observation of Blueshifted Ultralong-Range ${Cs}_{2}$ Rydberg Molecules

J. Tallant, S. T. Rittenhouse, D. Booth, H. R. Sadeghpour, and J. P. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173202 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Bayesian Feedback Control of a Two-Atom Spin-State in an Atom-Cavity System

Stefan Brakhane, Wolfgang Alt, Tobias Kampschulte, Miguel Martinez-Dorantes, René Reimann, Seokchan Yoon, Artur Widera, and Dieter Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173601 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Advantages of Coherent Feedback for Cooling Quantum Oscillators

Ryan Hamerly and Hideo Mabuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173602 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Enhanced Squeezing of a Collective Spin via Control of Its Qudit Subsystems

Leigh M. Norris, Collin M. Trail, Poul S. Jessen, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173603 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Experimental Quantum Networking Protocols via Four-Qubit Hyperentangled Dicke States

A. Chiuri, C. Greganti, M. Paternostro, G. Vallone, and P. Mataloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173604 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Thermodynamic Upper Bound on Broadband Light Coupling with Photonic Structures

Zongfu Yu, Aaswath Raman, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 173901 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Time Irreversible Billiards with Piecewise-Straight Trajectories

Giulio Casati and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 174101 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Buckling of Scroll Waves

Hans Dierckx, Henri Verschelde, Özgür Selsil, and Vadim N. Biktashev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 174102 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

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Lift-Off Dynamics in a Simple Jumping Robot

Jeffrey Aguilar, Alex Lesov, Kurt Wiesenfeld, and Daniel I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 174301 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Total-Internal-Reflection-Fluorescence Microscopy for the Study of Nanobubble Dynamics

Chon U Chan and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 174501 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Three-Dimensional Structure of Mach Cones in Monolayer Complex Plasma Crystals

L. Couëdel, D. Samsonov, C. Durniak, S. Zhdanov, H. M. Thomas, G. E. Morfill, and C. Arnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175001 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Intrinsic Rotation of Toroidally Confined Magnetohydrodynamics

Jorge A. Morales, Wouter J. T. Bos, Kai Schneider, and David C. Montgomery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175002 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Spin-Gradient-Driven Light Amplification in a Quantum Plasma

Stefanie Braun, Felipe A. Asenjo, and Swadesh M. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175003 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Constructing the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble after a Quantum Quench

Jean-Sébastien Caux and Robert M. Konik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175301 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Atomic Quantum Simulation of Dynamical Gauge Fields Coupled to Fermionic Matter: From String Breaking to Evolution after a Quench

D. Banerjee, M. Dalmonte, M. Müller, E. Rico, P. Stebler, U.-J. Wiese, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175302 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Grain Boundary Rotations in Solids

S. V. Bobylev and I. A. Ovid’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175501 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Cagelike Diamondoid Nitrogen at High Pressures

Xiaoli Wang, Yanchao Wang, Maosheng Miao, Xin Zhong, Jian Lv, Tian Cui, Jianfu Li, Li Chen, Chris J. Pickard, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175502 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Limits to Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Metal Bilayers due to Weak Electron-Phonon Coupling in Au and Cu

Wei Wang (汪维) and David G. Cahill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175503 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Dynamic Ionic Clusters with Flowing Electron Bubbles from Warm to Hot Dense Iron along the Hugoniot Curve

Jiayu Dai, Dongdong Kang, Zengxiu Zhao, Yanqun Wu, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175701 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Evidence of Growing Spatial Correlations during the Aging of Glassy Glycerol

C. Brun, F. Ladieu, D. L’Hôte, G. Biroli, and J-P. Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175702 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Surface Criticality at a Dynamic Phase Transition

Hyunhang Park and Michel Pleimling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 175703 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Breakdown in the Wetting Transparency of Graphene

Chih-Jen Shih, Qing Hua Wang, Shangchao Lin, Kyoo-Chul Park, Zhong Jin, Michael S. Strano, and Daniel Blankschtein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176101 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mott Metal-Insulator Transition on Compressible Lattices

Mario Zacharias, Lorenz Bartosch, and Markus Garst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176401 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Quantum Dynamics of the Hubbard-Holstein Model in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium: Application to Pump-Probe Phenomena

G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, E. A. Nowadnick, T. P. Devereaux, A. S. Mishchenko, and N. Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176402 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Real-Space Coexistence of the Melted Mott State and Superconductivity in Fe-Substituted $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$

R. Ang, Y. Tanaka, E. Ieki, K. Nakayama, T. Sato, L. J. Li, W. J. Lu, Y. P. Sun, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176403 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

$β − {YbAlB}_{4}$ : A Critical Nodal Metal

Aline Ramires, Piers Coleman, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, and A. M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176404 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Evolution of $c − f$ Hybridization and Two-Component Hall Effect in $β − {YbAlB}_{4}$

E. C. T. O’Farrell, Y. Matsumoto, and S. Nakatsuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176405 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Ultralow Doping in Organic Semiconductors: Evidence of Trap Filling

Selina Olthof, Shafigh Mehraeen, Swagat K. Mohapatra, Stephen Barlow, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Jean-Luc Brédas, Seth R. Marder, and Antoine Kahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176601 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Why Is the Bulk Resistivity of Topological Insulators So Small?

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176801 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Time-Dependent View of Sequential Transport through Molecules with Rapidly Fluctuating Bridges

Bogdan Popescu, P. Benjamin Woiczikowski, Marcus Elstner, and Ulrich Kleinekathöfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176802 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Topological Insulator Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Quantum Hall Effect and Fractional Charge via Folding

Qinglei Meng, Smitha Vishveshwara, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 176803 (2012) - Published 25 October, 2012

Orbital Selective Fermi Surface Shifts and Mechanism of High $T_{c}$ Superconductivity in Correlated $A FeAs$ ( $A = Li$ , Na)

Geunsik Lee, Hyo Seok Ji, Yeongkwan Kim, Changyoung Kim, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar, Bumsung Lee, Seunghyun Khim, Kee Hoon Kim, Kwang S. Kim, Ki-Seok Kim, and Ji Hoon Shim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177001 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Long-Range Quantum Ising Spin Glasses at $T = 0$ : Gapless Collective Excitations and Universality

A. Andreanov and M. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177201 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

All-Electrical Injection and Detection of a Spin-Polarized Current Using 1D Conductors

T.-M. Chen, M. Pepper, I. Farrer, G. A. C. Jones, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177202 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Singular Field Response and Singular Screening of Vacancies in Antiferromagnets

Alexander Wollny, Eric C. Andrade, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177203 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Evidence of Non-Mean-Field-Like Low-Temperature Behavior in the Edwards-Anderson Spin-Glass Model

B. Yucesoy, Helmut G. Katzgraber, and J. Machta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177204 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

Crystallography-Driven Positive Exchange Bias in $Co / CoO$ Bilayers

A. K. Suszka, O. Idigoras, E. Nikulina, A. Chuvilin, and A. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177205 (2012) - Published 23 October, 2012

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Quantum-Critical Spin Dynamics in Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

S. Mukhopadhyay, M. Klanjšek, M. S. Grbić, R. Blinder, H. Mayaffre, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, M. A. Continentino, A. Paduan-Filho, B. Chiari, and O. Piovesana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177206 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Experimental Realization of a Metamaterial Detector Focal Plane Array

David Shrekenhamer, Wangren Xu, Suresh Venkatesh, David Schurig, Sameer Sonkusale, and Willie J. Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 177401 (2012) - Published 24 October, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Steady and Decaying Flow of He II in a Channel with Ends Blocked by Superleaks [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215302 (2008)PRBMDO1098-0121PRBMDO1098-0121JLTPAC0022-2291]

T. V. Chagovets and L. Skrbek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 179901 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Erratum: Randomized Benchmarking of Multiqubit Gates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 260503 (2012)]

J. P. Gaebler, A. M. Meier, T. R. Tan, R. Bowler, Y. Lin, D. Hanneke, J. D. Jost, J. P. Home, E. Knill, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 179902 (2012) - Published 26 October, 2012

Volume 109, Issue 17

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA