Volume 109, Issue 19

9 November 2012

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Numerical simulations showing side views of bending light beam propagation dynamics along parabolic trajectories: nonparaxial Weber accelerating beam (top; the dotted curve shows the propagation direction of the beam) and Airy beam (bottom). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber Accelerating Beams
Peng Zhang, Yi Hu, Tongcang Li, Drake Cannan, Xiaobo Yin, Roberto Morandotti, Zhigang Chen, and Xiang Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193901 (2012)

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Superactivation of Quantum Nonlocality

Carlos Palazuelos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190401 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

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Efficiency at Maximum Power of Interacting Molecular Machines

N. Golubeva and A. Imparato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190602 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

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Limit on the Electron Electric Dipole Moment Using Paramagnetic Ferroelectric ${Eu}_{0.5} {Ba}_{0.5} {TiO}_{3}$

S. Eckel, A. O. Sushkov, and S. K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193003 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

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Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber Accelerating Beams

Peng Zhang, Yi Hu, Tongcang Li, Drake Cannan, Xiaobo Yin, Roberto Morandotti, Zhigang Chen, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193901 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

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Coherent Backscattering of Ultracold Atoms

F. Jendrzejewski, K. Müller, J. Richard, A. Date, T. Plisson, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, and V. Josse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195302 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

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Photoemission of Cooper Pairs from Aromatic Hydrocarbons

R. Wehlitz, P. N. Juranić, K. Collins, B. Reilly, E. Makoutz, T. Hartman, N. Appathurai, and S. B. Whitfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193001 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

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Stochastic Ion Heating from Many Overlapping Laser Beams in Fusion Plasmas

P. Michel, W. Rozmus, E. A. Williams, L. Divol, R. L. Berger, R. P. J. Town, S. H. Glenzer, and D. A. Callahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195004 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

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Coherent Storage and Phase Modulation of Single Hard-X-Ray Photons Using Nuclear Excitons

Wen-Te Liao, Adriana Pálffy, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 197403 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

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Universal Viscosity Behavior of Polymer Nanocomposites

Jagannathan T. Kalathi, Gary S. Grest, and Sanat K. Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 198301 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

LETTERS

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

Adaptively Restrained Particle Simulations

Svetlana Artemova and Stephane Redon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190201 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

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Superactivation of Quantum Nonlocality

Carlos Palazuelos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190401 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Emergence of the Pointer Basis through the Dynamics of Correlations

M. F. Cornelio, O. Jiménez Farías, F. F. Fanchini, I. Frerot, G. H. Aguilar, M. O. Hor-Meyll, M. C. de Oliveira, S. P. Walborn, A. O. Caldeira, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190402 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Operational Dynamic Modeling Transcending Quantum and Classical Mechanics

Denys I. Bondar, Renan Cabrera, Robert R. Lompay, Misha Yu. Ivanov, and Herschel A. Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190403 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Quantum Metrological Limits via a Variational Approach

B. M. Escher, L. Davidovich, N. Zagury, and R. L. de Matos Filho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190404 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Resource-Optimal Single-Qubit Quantum Circuits

Alex Bocharov and Krysta M. Svore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190501 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Measuring Gaussian Quantum Information and Correlations Using the Rényi Entropy of Order 2

Gerardo Adesso, Davide Girolami, and Alessio Serafini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190502 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Coherent Forward Scattering Peak Induced by Anderson Localization

T. Karpiuk, N. Cherroret, K. L. Lee, B. Grémaud, C. A. Müller, and C. Miniatura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190601 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

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Efficiency at Maximum Power of Interacting Molecular Machines

N. Golubeva and A. Imparato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 190602 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Detection of Small-Scale Structures in the Dissipation Regime of Solar-Wind Turbulence

S. Perri, M. L. Goldstein, J. C. Dorelli, and F. Sahraoui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 191101 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Integral Formula for Supersymmetric Scattering Amplitudes in Three Dimensions

Yu-tin Huang and Sangmin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 191601 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Precision Measurement of the $B \to X_{s} γ$ Photon Energy Spectrum, Branching Fraction, and Direct $C P$ Asymmetry $A_{C P} (B \to X_{s + d} γ)$

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 191801 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Measurements of the Top-Quark Mass and the $t \bar{t}$ Cross Section in the Hadronic $τ + jets$ Decay Channel at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 192001 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Yoctosecond Metrology Through Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations from a Quark-Gluon Plasma

Andreas Ipp and Peter Somkuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 192301 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Freeze-Out Conditions in Heavy Ion Collisions from QCD Thermodynamics

A. Bazavov, H.-T. Ding, P. Hegde, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Swagato Mukherjee, P. Petreczky, C. Schmidt, D. Smith, W. Soeldner, and M. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 192302 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

New Measurements of the Transverse Beam Asymmetry for Elastic Electron Scattering from Selected Nuclei

S. Abrahamyan et al. (HAPPEX and PREX Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 192501 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Photoemission of Cooper Pairs from Aromatic Hydrocarbons

R. Wehlitz, P. N. Juranić, K. Collins, B. Reilly, E. Makoutz, T. Hartman, N. Appathurai, and S. B. Whitfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193001 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Internuclear Separation Dependent Ionization of the Valence Orbitals of $I_{2}$ by Strong Laser Fields

H. Chen, V. Tagliamonti, and G. N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193002 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

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Limit on the Electron Electric Dipole Moment Using Paramagnetic Ferroelectric ${Eu}_{0.5} {Ba}_{0.5} {TiO}_{3}$

S. Eckel, A. O. Sushkov, and S. K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193003 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Elucidating Quantum Number-Dependent Coupling Matrix Elements Using Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Julia A. Davies and Katharine L. Reid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193004 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

${Ar}_{2}$ Photoelectron Spectroscopy Mediated by Autoionizing States

Marc Briant, Lionel Poisson, Majdi Hochlaf, Patrick de Pujo, Marc-André Gaveau, and Benoît Soep

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193401 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Temperature Gradient Driven Lasing and Stimulated Cooling

K. Sandner and H. Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193601 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Photon Blockade in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime

A. Ridolfo, M. Leib, S. Savasta, and M. J. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193602 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber Accelerating Beams

Peng Zhang, Yi Hu, Tongcang Li, Drake Cannan, Xiaobo Yin, Roberto Morandotti, Zhigang Chen, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193901 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Anti-Hermitian Plasmon Coupling of an Array of Gold Thin-Film Antennas for Controlling Light at the Nanoscale

Shuang Zhang, Ziliang Ye, Yuan Wang, Yongshik Park, Guy Bartal, Michael Mrejen, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193902 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Fracture Toughness of Metallic Glasses: Annealing-Induced Embrittlement

Chris H. Rycroft and Eran Bouchbinder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 194301 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking of Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Romain Meyrand and Sébastien Galtier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 194501 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Picometer Vertical Emittance with a Vertical Undulator

K. P. Wootton, M. J. Boland, R. Dowd, Y.-R. E. Tan, B. C. C. Cowie, Y. Papaphilippou, G. N. Taylor, and R. P. Rassool

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 194801 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Intermittent Dissipation at Kinetic Scales in Collisionless Plasma Turbulence

M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, H. Karimabadi, V. Roytershteyn, M. Shay, P. Wu, W. Daughton, B. Loring, and S. C. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195001 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Correlating Structural Order with Structural Rearrangement in Dusty Plasma Liquids: Can Structural Rearrangement be Predicted by Static Structural Information?

Yen-Shuo Su, Yu-Hsuan Liu, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195002 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Effects of Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance-Heating-Induced Internal Kink Mode on the Toroidal Rotation in the KSTAR Tokamak

J. Seol, S. G. Lee, B. H. Park, H. H. Lee, L. Terzolo, K. C. Shaing, K. I. You, G. S. Yun, C. C. Kim, K. D. Lee, W. H. Ko, J. G. Kwak, W. C. Kim, Y. K. Oh, J. Y. Kim, S. S. Kim, and K. Ida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195003 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

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Stochastic Ion Heating from Many Overlapping Laser Beams in Fusion Plasmas

P. Michel, W. Rozmus, E. A. Williams, L. Divol, R. L. Berger, R. P. J. Town, S. H. Glenzer, and D. A. Callahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195004 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Interaction Physics of Multipicosecond Petawatt Laser Pulses with Overdense Plasma

A. J. Kemp and L. Divol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195005 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phonon Dispersion Relation of an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate

I. Shammass, S. Rinott, A. Berkovitz, R. Schley, and J. Steinhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195301 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

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Coherent Backscattering of Ultracold Atoms

F. Jendrzejewski, K. Müller, J. Richard, A. Date, T. Plisson, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, and V. Josse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195302 (2012) - Published 5 November, 2012

Quantum Mechanical Limitations to Spin Diffusion in the Unitary Fermi Gas

Tilman Enss and Rudolf Haussmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195303 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Phase Transition Driven Discontinuity in Thermodynamic Size Selection

R. van Gastel, D. Kaminski, E. Vlieg, and B. Poelsema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195501 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Anisotropic Elastic Properties of Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks: How Soft are Soft Porous Crystals?

Aurélie U. Ortiz, Anne Boutin, Alain H. Fuchs, and François-Xavier Coudert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195502 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

First-Principles Mode Gruneisen Parameters and Negative Thermal Expansion in $α − {ZrW}_{2} O_{8}$

V. Gava, A. L. Martinotto, and C. A. Perottoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195503 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Crystal-Arrested Phase Separation

Juan Sabin, Arthur E. Bailey, Gabriel Espinosa, and Barbara J. Frisken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195701 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Fate of 2D Kinetic Ferromagnets and Critical Percolation Crossing Probabilities

J. Olejarz, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195702 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

First-Order Phase Transition in a Model Glass Former: Coupling of Local Structure and Dynamics

Thomas Speck, Alex Malins, and C. Patrick Royall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195703 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Ion-Irradiation-Assisted Phase Selection in Single Crystalline ${Fe}_{7} {Pd}_{3}$ Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Thin Films: From fcc to bcc along the Nishiyama-Wassermann Path

A. Arabi-Hashemi and S. G. Mayr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195704 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Cerium Across the $γ − α$ Volume Collapse Transition

M. J. Lipp, A. P. Sorini, J. Bradley, B. Maddox, K. T. Moore, H. Cynn, T. P. Devereaux, Y. Xiao, P. Chow, and W. J. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195705 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Experimental Investigation of Size Effects on the Thermal Conductivity of Silicon-Germanium Alloy Thin Films

Ramez Cheaito, John C. Duda, Thomas E. Beechem, Khalid Hattar, Jon F. Ihlefeld, Douglas L. Medlin, Mark A. Rodriguez, Michael J. Campion, Edward S. Piekos, and Patrick E. Hopkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 195901 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Influence of Line Tension on Spherical Colloidal Particles at Liquid-Vapor Interfaces

Sean P. McBride and Bruce M. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196101 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Desorption of $H_{2}$ , HD, and $D_{2}$ through Temporary Negative Ion Formation

K. Svensson and S. Andersson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196102 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Intrinsic Instability of Electronic Interfaces with Strong Rashba Coupling

S. Caprara, F. Peronaci, and M. Grilli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196401 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Interaction-Induced Localization of Fermionic Mobile Impurities in a Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superfluid

Jian Li, Jin An, and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196402 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012

Excitonic Phases from Weyl Semimetals

Huazhou Wei, Sung-Po Chao, and Vivek Aji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196403 (2012) - Published 9 November, 2012

Direct Observation of Valley Hybridization and Universal Symmetry of Graphene with Mesoscopic Conductance Fluctuations

Atindra Nath Pal, Vidya Kochat, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196601 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Observation of the Planar Nernst Effect in Permalloy and Nickel Thin Films with In-Plane Thermal Gradients

A. D. Avery, M. R. Pufall, and B. L. Zink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196602 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Drag Current Reversal in Capacitively Coupled Arrays of Small Josephson Junctions

Hiroshi Shimada, Chihiro Ishida, and Yoshinao Mizugaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196801 (2012) - Published 7 November, 2012

Unraveling the Intrinsic and Robust Nature of van Hove Singularities in Twisted Bilayer Graphene by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Theoretical Analysis

I. Brihuega, P. Mallet, H. González-Herrero, G. Trambly de Laissardière, M. M. Ugeda, L. Magaud, J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez, F. Ynduráin, and J.-Y. Veuillen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 196802 (2012) - Published 8 November, 2012