Volume 109, Issue 23

7 December 2012

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Schematic of two optically coupled optomechanical oscillators consisting of two vertically stacked, suspended Si3N4 disks. The arrows indicate oscillation, and the rectangle highlights the region of evanescent optical coupling. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Synchronization of Micromechanical Oscillators Using Light
Mian Zhang, Gustavo S. Wiederhecker, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Arthur Barnard, Paul McEuen, and Michal Lipson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233906 (2012)

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Observation of Free-Space Single-Atom Matter Wave Interference

L. P. Parazzoli, A. M. Hankin, and G. W. Biedermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230401 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

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Is Dark Matter with Long-Range Interactions a Solution to All Small-Scale Problems of $Λ$ Cold Dark Matter Cosmology?

Laura G. van den Aarssen, Torsten Bringmann, and Christoph Pfrommer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 231301 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

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Observation of Self-Binding in Monolayer ${}^{3}{He}$

D. Sato, K. Naruse, T. Matsui, and Hiroshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235306 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

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Nanoplasmonic Lattices for Ultracold Atoms

M. Gullans, T. G. Tiecke, D. E. Chang, J. Feist, J. D. Thompson, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235309 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

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Quantized Casimir Force

Wang-Kong Tse and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236806 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

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Particle Scale Dynamics in Granular Impact

Abram H. Clark, Lou Kondic, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238302 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

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Evidence for a $\cos (4 φ)$ Modulation of the Superconducting Energy Gap of Optimally Doped ${FeTe}_{0.6} {Se}_{0.4}$ Single Crystals Using Laser Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

K. Okazaki, Y. Ito, Y. Ota, Y. Kotani, T. Shimojima, T. Kiss, S. Watanabe, C. -T. Chen, S. Niitaka, T. Hanaguri, H. Takagi, A. Chainani, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237011 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

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Bipedal Nanowalker by Pure Physical Mechanisms

Juan Cheng, Sarangapani Sreelatha, Ruizheng Hou, Artem Efremov, Ruchuan Liu, Johan R. C. van der Maarel, and Zhisong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238104 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

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Anisotropic Polarizability of Ultracold Polar ${}^{40}K {}^{87}{Rb}$ Molecules

B. Neyenhuis, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, A. Chotia, A. Petrov, S. Kotochigova, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230403 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Mixed-State Evolution in the Presence of Gain and Loss

Dorje C. Brody and Eva-Maria Graefe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230405 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Comparison of Two Independent Sr Optical Clocks with $1 \times 10^{- 17}$ Stability at $10^{3} s$

T. L. Nicholson, M. J. Martin, J. R. Williams, B. J. Bloom, M. Bishof, M. D. Swallows, S. L. Campbell, and J. Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230801 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Synchronization of Micromechanical Oscillators Using Light

Mian Zhang, Gustavo S. Wiederhecker, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Arthur Barnard, Paul McEuen, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233906 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Long-Range Correlations and Coherent Structures in Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria

Peter B. Weichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235002 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

LETTERS

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

Semistochastic Projector Monte Carlo Method

F. R. Petruzielo, A. A. Holmes, Hitesh J. Changlani, M. P. Nightingale, and C. J. Umrigar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230201 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Observation of Free-Space Single-Atom Matter Wave Interference

L. P. Parazzoli, A. M. Hankin, and G. W. Biedermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230401 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Weak Values are Universal in Von Neumann Measurements

Justin Dressel and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230402 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Anisotropic Polarizability of Ultracold Polar ${}^{40}K {}^{87}{Rb}$ Molecules

B. Neyenhuis, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, A. Chotia, A. Petrov, S. Kotochigova, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230403 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Universal Four-Body States in Heavy-Light Mixtures with a Positive Scattering Length

D. Blume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230404 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Mixed-State Evolution in the Presence of Gain and Loss

Dorje C. Brody and Eva-Maria Graefe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230405 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Steady-State Many-Body Entanglement of Hot Reactive Fermions

Michael Foss-Feig, Andrew J. Daley, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230501 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Continuous-Variable Blind Quantum Computation

Tomoyuki Morimae

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230502 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Positive Wigner Functions Render Classical Simulation of Quantum Computation Efficient

A. Mari and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230503 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Tarcísio N. Teles, Fernanda P. da C. Benetti, Renato Pakter, and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230601 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Comparison of Two Independent Sr Optical Clocks with $1 \times 10^{- 17}$ Stability at $10^{3} s$

T. L. Nicholson, M. J. Martin, J. R. Williams, B. J. Bloom, M. Bishof, M. D. Swallows, S. L. Campbell, and J. Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230801 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Ytterbium in Quantum Gases and Atomic Clocks: van der Waals Interactions and Blackbody Shifts

M. S. Safronova, S. G. Porsev, and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230802 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Possible Daily and Seasonal Variations in Quantum Interference Induced by Chern-Simons Gravity

Hiroki Okawara, Kei Yamada, and Hideki Asada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 231101 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Construction of Solar-Wind-Like Magnetic Fields

D. Aaron Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 231102 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Is Dark Matter with Long-Range Interactions a Solution to All Small-Scale Problems of $Λ$ Cold Dark Matter Cosmology?

Laura G. van den Aarssen, Torsten Bringmann, and Christoph Pfrommer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 231301 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Compressible Matter at a Holographic Interface

Moshe Rozali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 231601 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Measurements of $B_{c}^{+}$ Production and Mass with the $B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ π^{+}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232001 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Evidence for the $η_{b} (2 S)$ and Observation of $h_{b} (1 P) \to η_{b} (1 S) γ$ and $h_{b} (2 P) \to η_{b} (1 S) γ$

R. Mizuk et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232002 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Chiral Anomaly and Local Polarization Effect from the Quantum Kinetic Approach

Jian-Hua Gao, Zuo-Tang Liang, Shi Pu, Qun Wang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232301 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Unresolved Question of the ${}^{10}{He}$ Ground State Resonance

Z. Kohley, J. Snyder, T. Baumann, G. Christian, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, R. A. Haring-Kaye, M. Jones, E. Lunderberg, B. Luther, S. Mosby, A. Simon, J. K. Smith, A. Spyrou, S. L. Stephenson, and M. Thoennessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232501 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Interplay Between Valence and Core Excitation Mechanisms in the Breakup of Halo Nuclei

A. M. Moro and J. A. Lay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232502 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Existence of an Exotic Torus Configuration in High-Spin Excited States of ${}^{40}{Ca}$

T. Ichikawa, J. A. Maruhn, N. Itagaki, K. Matsuyanagi, P.-G. Reinhard, and S. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232503 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Measurement of the $- 3 keV$ Resonance in the Reaction ${}^{13}C (α, n) {}^{16}O$ of Importance in the $s$ -Process

M. La Cognata, C. Spitaleri, O. Trippella, G. G. Kiss, G. V. Rogachev, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, M. Avila, G. L. Guardo, E. Koshchiy, A. Kuchera, L. Lamia, S. M. R. Puglia, S. Romano, D. Santiago, and R. Spartà

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232701 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Maximal Refraction and Superluminal Propagation in a Gaseous Nanolayer

J. Keaveney, I. G. Hughes, A. Sargsyan, D. Sarkisyan, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233001 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction for Probing Rare Gas Atoms

Junliang Xu, Cosmin I. Blaga, Anthony D. DiChiara, Emily Sistrunk, Kaikai Zhang, Zhangjin Chen, Anh-Thu Le, Toru Morishita, C. D. Lin, Pierre Agostini, and Louis F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233002 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Dissipative Binding of Lattice Bosons through Distance-Selective Pair Loss

C. Ates, B. Olmos, W. Li, and I. Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233003 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Single Ions Trapped in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Martin Enderlein, Thomas Huber, Christian Schneider, and Tobias Schaetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233004 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Pinning an Ion with an Intracavity Optical Lattice

Rasmus B. Linnet, Ian D. Leroux, Mathieu Marciante, Aurélien Dantan, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233005 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Coherence-Assisted Resonance with Sub-Transit-Limited Linewidth

Lei Feng, Pengxiong Li, Liang Jiang, Jianming Wen, and Yanhong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233006 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Zero-Energy Resonances of Hydrogen Diatom Isotopologs: Tuning Quasiresonant Transitions in Vibration Space

Benhui Yang, R. C. Forrey, P. C. Stancil, S. Fonseca dos Santos, and N. Balakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233201 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Millikelvin Reactive Collisions between Sympathetically Cooled Molecular Ions and Laser-Cooled Atoms in an Ion-Atom Hybrid Trap

Felix H. J. Hall and Stefan Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233202 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Van der Waals Coefficients for Nanostructures: Fullerenes Defy Conventional Wisdom

Adrienn Ruzsinszky, John P. Perdew, Jianmin Tao, Gábor I. Csonka, and J. M. Pitarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233203 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Quantum Metrology in Non-Markovian Environments

Alex W. Chin, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233601 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Observation and Measurement of Interaction-Induced Dispersive Optical Nonlinearities in an Ensemble of Cold Rydberg Atoms

Valentina Parigi, Erwan Bimbard, Jovica Stanojevic, Andrew J. Hilliard, Florence Nogrette, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, and Philippe Grangier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233602 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Superresolving Multiphoton Interferences with Independent Light Sources

S. Oppel, T. Büttner, P. Kok, and J. von Zanthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233603 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Low-Pump-Power, Low-Phase-Noise, and Microwave to Millimeter-Wave Repetition Rate Operation in Microcombs

Jiang Li, Hansuek Lee, Tong Chen, and Kerry J. Vahala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233901 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Quantitative Experimental Determination of Scattering and Absorption Cross-Section Spectra of Individual Optical Metallic Nanoantennas

Martin Husnik, Stefan Linden, Richard Diehl, Jens Niegemann, Kurt Busch, and Martin Wegener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233902 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

High-Harmonic Spectroscopy of Oriented OCS Molecules: Emission of Even and Odd Harmonics

P. M. Kraus, A. Rupenyan, and H. J. Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233903 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Probing Polar Molecules with High Harmonic Spectroscopy

E. Frumker, N. Kajumba, J. B. Bertrand, H. J. Wörner, C. T. Hebeisen, P. Hockett, M. Spanner, S. Patchkovskii, G. G. Paulus, D. M. Villeneuve, A. Naumov, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233904 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Dissociative X-ray Lasing

Q. Miao, J.-C. Liu, H. Ågren, J.-E. Rubensson, and F. Gel’mukhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233905 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Synchronization of Micromechanical Oscillators Using Light

Mian Zhang, Gustavo S. Wiederhecker, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Arthur Barnard, Paul McEuen, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233906 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

X-ray Waveguide Mode in Resonance with a Periodic Structure

K. Okamoto, T. Noma, A. Komoto, W. Kubo, M. Takahashi, A. Iida, and H. Miyata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233907 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Universal Quantum Localizing Transition of a Partial Barrier in a Chaotic Sea

Matthias Michler, Arnd Bäcker, Roland Ketzmerick, Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann, and Steven Tomsovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 234101 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

New Approach to Resonance Crossing

G. Franchetti and F. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 234102 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration Enhancement by Nanostructured Foils

D. Margarone, O. Klimo, I. J. Kim, J. Prokůpek, J. Limpouch, T. M. Jeong, T. Mocek, J. Pšikal, H. T. Kim, J. Proška, K. H Nam, L. Štolcová, I. W. Choi, S. K. Lee, J. H. Sung, T. J. Yu, and G. Korn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 234801 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Woltjer-Taylor State without Taylor’s Conjecture: Plasma Relaxation at all Wavelengths

Hong Qin, Wandong Liu, Hong Li, and Jonathan Squire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235001 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

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Long-Range Correlations and Coherent Structures in Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria

Peter B. Weichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235002 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Locality and Universality in Gyrokinetic Turbulence

Bogdan Teaca, Alejandro Bañón Navarro, Frank Jenko, Stephan Brunner, and Laurent Villard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235003 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamics of Single Neutral Impurity Atoms Immersed in an Ultracold Gas

Nicolas Spethmann, Farina Kindermann, Shincy John, Claudia Weber, Dieter Meschede, and Artur Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235301 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Nontrivial Haldane Phase of an Atomic Two-Component Fermi Gas Trapped in a 1D Optical Lattice

Keita Kobayashi, Masahiko Okumura, Yukihiro Ota, Susumu Yamada, and Masahiko Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235302 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Signatures of Fermion Pairing with Unconventional Symmetry Around the BCS-BEC Crossover in a Quasi-2D Lattice

Dušan Volčko and Khandker F. Quader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235303 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Mott Criticality and Pseudogap in Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Ehud Altman, Eugene Demler, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235304 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Super-Tonks-Girardeau State in an Attractive One-Dimensional Dipolar Gas

M. D. Girardeau and G. E. Astrakharchik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235305 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Observation of Self-Binding in Monolayer ${}^{3}{He}$

D. Sato, K. Naruse, T. Matsui, and Hiroshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235306 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Excitations and Stripe Phase Formation in a Two-Dimensional Dipolar Bose Gas with Tilted Polarization

A. Macia, D. Hufnagl, F. Mazzanti, J. Boronat, and R. E. Zillich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235307 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

SU(3) Spin-Orbit Coupling in Systems of Ultracold Atoms

Ryan Barnett, G. R. Boyd, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235308 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Nanoplasmonic Lattices for Ultracold Atoms

M. Gullans, T. G. Tiecke, D. E. Chang, J. Feist, J. D. Thompson, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235309 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Structural Transformations on Vitrification in the Fragile Glass-Forming System ${CaAl}_{2} O_{4}$

James W. E. Drewitt, Louis Hennet, Anita Zeidler, Sandro Jahn, Philip S. Salmon, Daniel R. Neuville, and Henry E. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235501 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Step-Edge-Induced Oxide Growth During the Oxidation of Cu Surfaces

Guangwen Zhou, Langli Luo, Liang Li, Jim Ciston, Eric A. Stach, and Judith C. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 235502 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Contact Angles on a Soft Solid: From Young’s Law to Neumann’s Law

Antonin Marchand, Siddhartha Das, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Bruno Andreotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236101 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Universal Phase Diagram for Wetting on Mesoscale Roughness

S. Herminghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236102 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Commensurability Oscillations of Hole-Flux Composite Fermions

D. Kamburov, M. Shayegan, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and K. W. Baldwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236401 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Relaxation Dynamics of the Holstein Polaron

Denis Golež, Janez Bonča, Lev Vidmar, and Stuart A. Trugman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236402 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Fermi Surface Topology of LaFePO and LiFeP

Johannes Ferber, Harald O. Jeschke, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236403 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Nonlocal Order Parameters for the 1D Hubbard Model

Arianna Montorsi and Marco Roncaglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236404 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Charge-Doping-Driven Evolution of Magnetism and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in the Filled Skutterudite ${CePt}_{4} {Ge}_{12 - x} {Sb}_{x}$

M. Nicklas, S. Kirchner, R. Borth, R. Gumeniuk, W. Schnelle, H. Rosner, H. Borrmann, A. Leithe-Jasper, Yu. Grin, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236405 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

First-Principles Calculation of the Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in Bismuth Ferrite

Steve M. Young, Fan Zheng, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236601 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Energy-Driven Drag at Charge Neutrality in Graphene

Justin C. W. Song and Leonid S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236602 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Anisotropy of Spin Relaxation in Metals

Bernd Zimmermann, Phivos Mavropoulos, Swantje Heers, Nguyen H. Long, Stefan Blügel, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236603 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Phonon-Mediated Interlayer Conductance in Twisted Graphene Bilayers

V. Perebeinos, J. Tersoff, and Ph. Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236604 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Transition from Fractional to Majorana Fermions in Rashba Nanowires

Jelena Klinovaja, Peter Stano, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236801 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Evidence for Reentrant Melting in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Wigner Crystal

Hiroki Ikegami, Hikota Akimoto, David G. Rees, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236802 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Dynamical Self-Quenching of Spin Pumping into Double Quantum Dots

Arne Brataas and Emmanuel I. Rashba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236803 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Manipulation of Topological States and the Bulk Band Gap Using Natural Heterostructures of a Topological Insulator

K. Nakayama, K. Eto, Y. Tanaka, T. Sato, S. Souma, T. Takahashi, Kouji Segawa, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236804 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Suppression of Zeeman Gradients by Nuclear Polarization in Double Quantum Dots

S. M. Frolov, J. Danon, S. Nadj-Perge, K. Zuo, J. W. W. van Tilburg, V. S. Pribiag, J. W. G. van den Berg, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236805 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Quantized Casimir Force

Wang-Kong Tse and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236806 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Observation of the Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect and the Absence of the Meissner State in UCoGe

C. Paulsen, D. J. Hykel, K. Hasselbach, and D. Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237001 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Vanishing Meissner effect as a Hallmark of in–Plane Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Instability in Superconductor–Ferromagnet Layered Systems

S. Mironov, A. Mel’nikov, and A. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237002 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Topological Superconducting State of Lead Nanowires in an External Magnetic Field

J. G. Rodrigo, V. Crespo, H. Suderow, S. Vieira, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237003 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Microscopic Model of Quasiparticle Wave Packets in Superfluids, Superconductors, and Paired Hall States

S. A. Parameswaran, S. A. Kivelson, R. Shankar, S. L. Sondhi, and B. Z. Spivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237004 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Tailoring Population Inversion in Landau-Zener-Stückelberg Interferometry of Flux Qubits

Alejandro Ferrón, Daniel Domínguez, and María José Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237005 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Interference Phenomena and Long-Range Proximity Effect in Clean Superconductor-Ferromagnet Systems

A. S. Mel’nikov, A. V. Samokhvalov, S. M. Kuznetsova, and A. I. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237006 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Model for Magnetic Flux Patterns Induced by the Influence of In-Plane Magnetic Fields on Spatially Inhomogeneous Superconducting Interfaces of ${LaAlO}_{3} − {SrTiO}_{3}$ Bilayers

Kazushi Aoyama and Manfred Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237007 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Pressure- and Composition-Induced Structural Quantum Phase Transition in the Cubic Superconductor $(Sr, Ca)_{3} {Ir}_{4} {Sn}_{13}$

Lina E. Klintberg, Swee K. Goh, Patricia L. Alireza, Paul J. Saines, David A. Tompsett, Peter W. Logg, Jinhu Yang, Bin Chen, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, and F. Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237008 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Stabilization of Majorana Modes in Magnetic Vortices in the Superconducting Phase of Topological Insulators using Topologically Trivial Bands

Ching-Kai Chiu, Pouyan Ghaemi, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237009 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Many-Body Effects in Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides: Nonlocal Versus Dynamic Origin of Effective Masses

Jan M. Tomczak, M. van Schilfgaarde, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237010 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Evidence for a $\cos (4 φ)$ Modulation of the Superconducting Energy Gap of Optimally Doped ${FeTe}_{0.6} {Se}_{0.4}$ Single Crystals Using Laser Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

K. Okazaki, Y. Ito, Y. Ota, Y. Kotani, T. Shimojima, T. Kiss, S. Watanabe, C. -T. Chen, S. Niitaka, T. Hanaguri, H. Takagi, A. Chainani, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237011 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Noncollinear Magnetic Order Stabilized by Entangled Spin-Orbital Fluctuations

Wojciech Brzezicki, Jacek Dziarmaga, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237201 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Ground State in a Half-Doped Manganite Distinguished by Neutron Spectroscopy

G. E. Johnstone, T. G. Perring, O. Sikora, D. Prabhakaran, and A. T. Boothroyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237202 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Fluctuation-Induced Magnetization Dynamics and Criticality at the Interface of a Topological Insulator with a Magnetically Ordered Layer

Flavio S. Nogueira and Ilya Eremin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237203 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Thermoelectric Detection of Spin Waves

H. Schultheiss, J. E. Pearson, S. D. Bader, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237204 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Emergent Critical Phase and Ricci Flow in a 2D Frustrated Heisenberg Model

Peter P. Orth, Premala Chandra, Piers Coleman, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237205 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Spin-Transfer and Exchange Torques in Ferromagnetic Superconductors

Jacob Linder, Arne Brataas, Zahra Shomali, and Malek Zareyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237206 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Dirac Half-Metal in a Triangular Ferrimagnet

Hiroaki Ishizuka and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237207 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Entanglement Spectrum, Critical Exponents, and Order Parameters in Quantum Spin Chains

G. De Chiara, L. Lepori, M. Lewenstein, and A. Sanpera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237208 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Switching Behaviors and its Dynamics of a $Co / Pt$ Nanodot Under the Assistance of rf Fields

Satoshi Okamoto, Nobuaki Kikuchi, Masaki Furuta, Osamu Kitakami, and Takehito Shimatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237209 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

Evidence for Three Fluctuation Channels in the Spin Resonance of the Unconventional Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

S. Raymond, K. Kaneko, A. Hiess, P. Steffens, and G. Lapertot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237210 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Epsilon-Near-Zero Mode for Active Optoelectronic Devices

S. Vassant, A. Archambault, F. Marquier, F. Pardo, U. Gennser, A. Cavanna, J. L. Pelouard, and J. J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237401 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Switching Reciprocity On and Off in a Magneto-Optical X-Ray Scattering Experiment Using Nuclear Resonance of $α − {}^{57}{Fe}$ Foils

L. Deák, L. Bottyán, T. Fülöp, G. Kertész, D. L. Nagy, R. Rüffer, H. Spiering, F. Tanczikó, and G. Vankó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237402 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Spin-Echo Dynamics of a Heavy Hole in a Quantum Dot

Xiaoya Judy Wang, Stefano Chesi, and W. A. Coish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237601 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Interdependence of the Volume and Stress Ensembles and Equipartition in Statistical Mechanics of Granular Systems

Raphael Blumenfeld, Joe F. Jordan, and Sam F. Edwards

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238001 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Actively Stressed Marginal Networks

M. Sheinman, C. P. Broedersz, and F. C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238101 (2012) - Published 3 December, 2012

Selectivity of Ligand-Receptor Interactions between Nanoparticle and Cell Surfaces

Shihu Wang and Elena E. Dormidontova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238102 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

Enhancing the Resolution of a Sensor Via Negative Correlation: A Biologically Inspired Approach

Alexander P. Nikitin, Nigel G. Stocks, and Adi R. Bulsara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238103 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Bipedal Nanowalker by Pure Physical Mechanisms

Juan Cheng, Sarangapani Sreelatha, Ruizheng Hou, Artem Efremov, Ruchuan Liu, Johan R. C. van der Maarel, and Zhisong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238104 (2012) - Published 6 December, 2012

Telechelic Star Polymers as Self-Assembling Units from the Molecular to the Macroscopic Scale

Barbara Capone, Ivan Coluzza, Federica LoVerso, Christos N. Likos, and Ronald Blaak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238301 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

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Particle Scale Dynamics in Granular Impact

Abram H. Clark, Lou Kondic, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238302 (2012) - Published 7 December, 2012

Random Walks and Search in Time-Varying Networks

Nicola Perra, Andrea Baronchelli, Delia Mocanu, Bruno Gonçalves, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, and Alessandro Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 238701 (2012) - Published 4 December, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “First Observation of Ground State Dineutron Decay: ${}^{16}{Be}$ ”

F. M. Marqués, N. A. Orr, N. L. Achouri, F. Delaunay, and J. Gibelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 239201 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 239202 (2012) - Published 5 December, 2012