Volume 109, Issue 2

13 July 2012

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Simulated streamlines offer a clear visualization of radial trailing vortices between blades in a von Kármán water experiment.

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Kinematic $α$ Tensors and Dynamo Mechanisms in a von Kármán Swirling Flow
F. Ravelet, B. Dubrulle, F. Daviaud, and P.-A. Ratié
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024503 (2012)

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Measuring Entanglement Entropy of a Generic Many-Body System with a Quantum Switch

Dmitry A. Abanin and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020504 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Measuring Entanglement Growth in Quench Dynamics of Bosons in an Optical Lattice

A. J. Daley, H. Pichler, J. Schachenmayer, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020505 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Lithium Synthesis in Microquasar Accretion

Fabio Iocco and Miguel Pato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021102 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

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First Direct Detection Limits on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from XENON10

Rouven Essig, Aaron Manalaysay, Jeremy Mardon, Peter Sorensen, and Tomer Volansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021301 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Diffraction Regimes of Single Holes

J.-M. Yi, A. Cuche, F. de León-Pérez, A. Degiron, E. Laux, E. Devaux, C. Genet, J. Alegret, L. Martín-Moreno, and T. W. Ebbesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023901 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Reconfigurable Optothermal Microparticle Trap in Air-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

O. A. Schmidt, M. K. Garbos, T. G. Euser, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024502 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Role of Bose Statistics in Crystallization and Quantum Jamming

M. Boninsegni, L. Pollet, N. Prokof’ev, and B. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025302 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Casimir Force and In Situ Surface Potential Measurements on Nanomembranes

Daniel Garcia-Sanchez, King Yan Fong, Harish Bhaskaran, Steve Lamoreaux, and Hong X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027202 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Scale and Nature of Sulcification Patterns

Evan Hohlfeld and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025701 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

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Formation and Structure of Graphene Waves on Fe(110)

N. A. Vinogradov, A. A. Zakharov, V. Kocevski, J. Rusz, K. A. Simonov, O. Eriksson, A. Mikkelsen, E. Lundgren, A. S. Vinogradov, N. Mårtensson, and A. B. Preobrajenski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026101 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Noise-Induced Current Switching in Semiconductor Superlattices: Observation of Nonexponential Kinetics in a High-Dimensional System

Yu. Bomze, R. Hey, H. T. Grahn, and S. W. Teitsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026801 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Hybrid States and Charge Transfer at a Phthalocyanine Heterojunction: ${MnPc}^{δ +} / {F_{16} CoPc}^{δ -}$

Susi Lindner, Martin Knupfer, Rico Friedrich, Torsten Hahn, and Jens Kortus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027601 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

LETTERS

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

Universal Bound States of Two Particles in Mixed Dimensions or Near a Mirror

Shina Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020401 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Experimental Bound on the Maximum Predictive Power of Physical Theories

Terence E. Stuart, Joshua A. Slater, Roger Colbeck, Renato Renner, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020402 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Facilitated Spin Models of Dissipative Quantum Glasses

Beatriz Olmos, Igor Lesanovsky, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020403 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Entropic Test of Quantum Contextuality

P. Kurzyński, R. Ramanathan, and D. Kaszlikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020404 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Macroscopic Zeno Effect and Stationary Flows in Nonlinear Waveguides with Localized Dissipation

D. A. Zezyulin, V. V. Konotop, G. Barontini, and H. Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020405 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Shear Viscosity of a Unitary Fermi Gas

Gabriel Wlazłowski, Piotr Magierski, and Joaquín E. Drut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020406 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Spin Waves and Collisional Frequency Shifts of a Trapped-Atom Clock

Wilfried Maineult, Christian Deutsch, Kurt Gibble, Jakob Reichel, and Peter Rosenbusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020407 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

How Weak Values Emerge in Joint Measurements on Cloned Quantum Systems

Holger F. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020408 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

High-Order Noise Filtering in Nontrivial Quantum Logic Gates

Todd Green, Hermann Uys, and Michael J. Biercuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020501 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Measurement of the Entanglement between Photonic Spatial Modes in Optical Fibers

Yoonshik Kang, Jaekwon Ko, Sang Min Lee, Sang-Kyung Choi, Byoung Yoon Kim, and Hee Su Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020502 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Coherent Error Suppression in Multiqubit Entangling Gates

D. Hayes, S. M. Clark, S. Debnath, D. Hucul, I. V. Inlek, K. W. Lee, Q. Quraishi, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020503 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

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Measuring Entanglement Entropy of a Generic Many-Body System with a Quantum Switch

Dmitry A. Abanin and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020504 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Measuring Entanglement Growth in Quench Dynamics of Bosons in an Optical Lattice

A. J. Daley, H. Pichler, J. Schachenmayer, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020505 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Four Locally Indistinguishable Ququad-Ququad Orthogonal Maximally Entangled States

Nengkun Yu, Runyao Duan, and Mingsheng Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020506 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Path Finding on High-Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes

Grisell Díaz Leines and Bernd Ensing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020601 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Phase Transition and Interpore Correlations of Water in Nanopore Membranes

Georg Menzl, Jürgen Köfinger, and Christoph Dellago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020602 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Asymmetric Inclusion Process as a Showcase of Complexity

Shlomi Reuveni, Iddo Eliazar, and Uri Yechiali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020603 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Multigrid Algorithms for Tensor Network States

Michele Dolfi, Bela Bauer, Matthias Troyer, and Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020604 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Insights on the Matter-Gravity Coupling Paradigm

Térence Delsate and Jan Steinhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021101 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

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Lithium Synthesis in Microquasar Accretion

Fabio Iocco and Miguel Pato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021102 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

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First Direct Detection Limits on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from XENON10

Rouven Essig, Aaron Manalaysay, Jeremy Mardon, Peter Sorensen, and Tomer Volansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021301 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

New Window on Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Enrico Pajer and Matias Zaldarriaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021302 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for $C P$ Violation in the Decay $D^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+}$

B. R. Ko et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 021601 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Anisotropy of Charged Particles at High Transverse Momenta in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 022301 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

$N = 16$ Spherical Shell Closure in ${}^{24}O$

K. Tshoo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 022501 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dependence of Rydberg-Atom Optical Lattices on the Angular Wave Function

S. E. Anderson and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023001 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Appearance of Low Energy Resonances in CO–Para- $H_{2}$ Inelastic Collisions

Simon Chefdeville, Thierry Stoecklin, Astrid Bergeat, Kevin M. Hickson, Christian Naulin, and Michel Costes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023201 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Optomechanical Superpositions via Nested Interferometry

Brian Pepper, Roohollah Ghobadi, Evan Jeffrey, Christoph Simon, and Dirk Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023601 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Optical Analogues for Massless Dirac Particles and Conical Diffraction in One Dimension

J. M. Zeuner, N. K. Efremidis, R. Keil, F. Dreisow, D. N. Christodoulides, A. Tünnermann, S. Nolte, and A. Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023602 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Diffraction Regimes of Single Holes

J.-M. Yi, A. Cuche, F. de León-Pérez, A. Degiron, E. Laux, E. Devaux, C. Genet, J. Alegret, L. Martín-Moreno, and T. W. Ebbesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023901 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Material-Independent and Size-Independent Tractor Beams for Dipole Objects

Andrey Novitsky, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Andrei Lavrinenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 023902 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Inference of Time-Evolving Coupled Dynamical Systems in the Presence of Noise

Tomislav Stankovski, Andrea Duggento, Peter V. E. McClintock, and Aneta Stefanovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024101 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Controlling High-Frequency Collective Electron Dynamics via Single-Particle Complexity

N. Alexeeva, M. T. Greenaway, A. G. Balanov, O. Makarovsky, A. Patanè, M. B. Gaifullin, F. Kusmartsev, and T. M. Fromhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024102 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Thermal Fluctuations in Nanofluidic Transport

François Detcheverry and Lydéric Bocquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024501 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Reconfigurable Optothermal Microparticle Trap in Air-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

O. A. Schmidt, M. K. Garbos, T. G. Euser, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024502 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Kinematic $α$ Tensors and Dynamo Mechanisms in a von Kármán Swirling Flow

F. Ravelet, B. Dubrulle, F. Daviaud, and P.-A. Ratié

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024503 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

From Sticky to Slippery Droplets: Dynamics of Contact Line Depinning on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Wei Xu and Chang-Hwan Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 024504 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Frequency Oscillation of Alfvén Eigenmodes in Fusion Plasmas

H. S. Zhang (张桦森), Z. Lin (林志宏), and I. Holod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025001 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Formation of Streamer Discharges from an Isolated Ionization Column at Subbreakdown Conditions

Ningyu Liu, Burcu Kosar, Samaneh Sadighi, Joseph R. Dwyer, and Hamid K. Rassoul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025002 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Measurements of the $T (t, 2 n) {}^{4}{He}$ Neutron Spectrum at Low Reactant Energies from Inertial Confinement Implosions

D. T. Casey, J. A. Frenje, M. Gatu Johnson, M. J.-E. Manuel, N. Sinenian, A. B. Zylstra, F. H. Séguin, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, V. Yu Glebov, P. B. Radha, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. C. Sangster, D. P. McNabb, P. A. Amendt, R. N. Boyd, S. P. Hatchett, S. Quaglioni, J. R. Rygg, I. J. Thompson, A. D. Bacher, H. W. Herrmann, and Y. H. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025003 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Transition from Weak to Strong Cascade in MHD Turbulence

Andrea Verdini and Roland Grappin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025004 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Determination of the Ion Temperature in a Stainless Steel Slab Exposed to Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses

E. Principi, R. Cucini, A. Filipponi, A. Gessini, F. Bencivenga, F. D’Amico, A. Di Cicco, and C. Masciovecchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025005 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stability of Ultracold Atomic Bose Condensates with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling against Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations

Tomoki Ozawa and Gordon Baym

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025301 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

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Role of Bose Statistics in Crystallization and Quantum Jamming

M. Boninsegni, L. Pollet, N. Prokof’ev, and B. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025302 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Anomalous Behavior of Spin Systems with Dipolar Interactions

D. Peter, S. Müller, S. Wessel, and H. P. Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025303 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Order-Disorder Transition of Aragonite Nanoparticles in Nacre

Zaiwang Huang and Xiaodong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025501 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

“Compressed Graphite” Formed During $C_{60}$ to Diamond Transformation as Revealed by Scattering Computed Tomography

M. Álvarez-Murga, P. Bleuet, G. Garbarino, A. Salamat, M. Mezouar, and J. L. Hodeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025502 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Strong Coupling between Mechanical Modes in a Nanotube Resonator

A. Eichler, M. del Álamo Ruiz, J. A. Plaza, and A. Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025503 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Nanoscale Bending of Multilayered Boron Nitride and Graphene Ribbons: Experiment and Objective Molecular Dynamics Calculations

Ilia Nikiforov, Dai-Ming Tang, Xianlong Wei, Traian Dumitricǎ, and Dmitri Golberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025504 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

One-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional Ripple-to-Dome Transition for SiGe on Vicinal Si (1 1 10)

B. Sanduijav, D. Scopece, D. Matei, G. Chen, F. Schäffler, L. Miglio, and G. Springholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025505 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

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Scale and Nature of Sulcification Patterns

Evan Hohlfeld and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 025701 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

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Formation and Structure of Graphene Waves on Fe(110)

N. A. Vinogradov, A. A. Zakharov, V. Kocevski, J. Rusz, K. A. Simonov, O. Eriksson, A. Mikkelsen, E. Lundgren, A. S. Vinogradov, N. Mårtensson, and A. B. Preobrajenski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026101 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Induction of a Photostationary Ring-Opening—Ring-Closing State of Spiropyran Monolayers on the Semimetallic Bi(110) Surface

Gunnar Schulze, Katharina J. Franke, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026102 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

High Island Densities and Long Range Repulsive Interactions: Fe on Epitaxial Graphene

S. M. Binz, M. Hupalo, Xiaojie Liu, C. Z. Wang, Wen-Cai Lu, P. A. Thiel, K. M. Ho, E. H. Conrad, and M. C. Tringides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026103 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

“Gray” BCS Condensate of Excitons and Internal Josephson Effect

Roland Combescot and Monique Combescot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026401 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Phase Transition of Interacting Disordered Bosons in One Dimension

Zoran Ristivojevic, Aleksandra Petković, Pierre Le Doussal, and Thierry Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026402 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Reentrant Valence Transition in EuO at High Pressures: Beyond the Bond-Valence Model

N. M. Souza-Neto, J. Zhao, E. E. Alp, G. Shen, S. V. Sinogeikin, G. Lapertot, and D. Haskel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026403 (2012) - Published 12 July, 2012

Quantum Disordered Phase near the Mott Transition in the Staggered-Flux Hubbard Model on a Square Lattice

Chia-Chen Chang and Richard T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026404 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Extrinsic Spin Nernst Effect from First Principles

Katarina Tauber, Martin Gradhand, Dmitry V. Fedorov, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026601 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Spin Pumping Driven by Bistable Exchange Spin Waves

K. Ando and E. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026602 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Hidden Reservoir of Photoactive Electrons in ${LiNbO}_{3}$ Crystals

F. Luedtke, K. Buse, and B. Sturman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026603 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

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Noise-Induced Current Switching in Semiconductor Superlattices: Observation of Nonexponential Kinetics in a High-Dimensional System

Yu. Bomze, R. Hey, H. T. Grahn, and S. W. Teitsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026801 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Controlling the Topology of Fermi Surfaces in Metal Nanofilms

M. Ogawa, A. Gray, P. M. Sheverdyaeva, P. Moras, H. Hong, L.-C. Huang, S.-J. Tang, K. Kobayashi, C. Carbone, T.-C. Chiang, and I. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026802 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Chargeless Heat Transport in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

C. Altimiras, H. le Sueur, U. Gennser, A. Anthore, A. Cavanna, D. Mailly, and F. Pierre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 026803 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012

Prediction of Polaronlike Vortices and a Dissociation Depinning Transition in Magnetic Superconductors: The Example of ${ErNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

Lev N. Bulaevskii and Shi-Zeng Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027001 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Long MoGe Nanowires

Hyunjeong Kim, Shirin Jamali, and A. Rogachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027002 (2012) - Published 9 July, 2012

Angle-Dependent Evolution of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in an Organic Superconductor

R. Beyer, B. Bergk, S. Yasin, J. A. Schlueter, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027003 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Susceptibility Anisotropy in an Iron Arsenide Superconductor Revealed by X-Ray Diffraction in Pulsed Magnetic Fields

J. P. C. Ruff, J.-H. Chu, H.-H. Kuo, R. K. Das, H. Nojiri, I. R. Fisher, and Z. Islam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027004 (2012) - Published 11 July, 2012

Conversion of Terahertz Wave Polarization at the Boundary of a Layered Superconductor due to the Resonance Excitation of Oblique Surface Waves

Yu. O. Averkov, V. M. Yakovenko, V. A. Yampol’skii, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027005 (2012) - Published 10 July, 2012

Infrared Measurement of the Pseudogap of P-Doped and Co-Doped High-Temperature ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductors

S. J. Moon, A. A. Schafgans, S. Kasahara, T. Shibauchi, T. Terashima, Y. Matsuda, M. A. Tanatar, R. Prozorov, A. Thaler, P. C. Canfield, A. S. Sefat, D. Mandrus, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 027006 (2012) - Published 13 July, 2012