Volume 109, Issue 24

14 December 2012

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Contour plots showing the time evolution of the probability density for propagation of electronic wave packets following tunneling ionization for rescattering (top) and escaping (bottom) electrons, in the presence (right) and absence (left) of the Coulomb potential.

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Synchronizing Terahertz Wave Generation with Attosecond Bursts
Dongwen Zhang, Zhihui Lü, Chao Meng, Xiyu Du, Zhaoyan Zhou, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243002 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of the fcc-to-hcp Transition in Ensembles of Argon Nanoclusters

N. V. Krainyukova, R. E. Boltnev, E. P. Bernard, V. V. Khmelenko, D. M. Lee, and V. Kiryukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245505 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

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Pulsar Glitches: The Crust is not Enough

N. Andersson, K. Glampedakis, W. C. G. Ho, and C. M. Espinoza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241103 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

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Strict Limit on $C P T$ Violation from Polarization of $γ$ -Ray Bursts

Kenji Toma, Shinji Mukohyama, Daisuke Yonetoku, Toshio Murakami, Shuichi Gunji, Tatehiro Mihara, Yoshiyuki Morihara, Tomonori Sakashita, Takuya Takahashi, Yudai Wakashima, Hajime Yonemochi, and Noriyuki Toukairin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241104 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

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Attosecond-Recollision-Controlled Selective Fragmentation of Polyatomic Molecules

Xinhua Xie, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, Stefan Roither, Markus S. Schöffler, Daniil Kartashov, Huailiang Xu, Tim Rathje, Gerhard G. Paulus, Andrius Baltuška, Stefanie Gräfe, and Markus Kitzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243001 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

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Slicing Softly with Shear

E. Reyssat, T. Tallinen, M. Le Merrer, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244301 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Covariant Lyapunov Vectors from Reconstructed Dynamics: The Geometry behind True and Spurious Lyapunov Exponents

Hong-liu Yang, Günter Radons, and Holger Kantz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244101 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shot-Noise Thermometry of the Quantum Hall Edge States

Ivan P. Levkivskyi and Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246806 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

LETTERS

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

New Type of Crossover Physics in Three-Component Fermi Gases

Yusuke Nishida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240401 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Criticality in Transport through the Quantum Ising Chain

Malte Vogl, Gernot Schaller, and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240402 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Observation of Entanglement between Itinerant Microwave Photons and a Superconducting Qubit

C. Eichler, C. Lang, J. M. Fink, J. Govenius, S. Filipp, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240501 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Feedback Control of a Solid-State Qubit Using High-Fidelity Projective Measurement

D. Ristè, C. C. Bultink, K. W. Lehnert, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240502 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Quantum Walks with Nonorthogonal Position States

R. Matjeschk, A. Ahlbrecht, M. Enderlein, Ch. Cedzich, A. H. Werner, M. Keyl, T. Schaetz, and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240503 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Characterization of Addressability by Simultaneous Randomized Benchmarking

Jay M. Gambetta, A. D. Córcoles, S. T. Merkel, B. R. Johnson, John A. Smolin, Jerry M. Chow, Colm A. Ryan, Chad Rigetti, S. Poletto, Thomas A. Ohki, Mark B. Ketchen, and M. Steffen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240504 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Entanglement of Two Superconducting Qubits in a Waveguide Cavity via Monochromatic Two-Photon Excitation

S. Poletto, Jay M. Gambetta, Seth T. Merkel, John A. Smolin, Jerry M. Chow, A. D. Córcoles, George A. Keefe, Mary B. Rothwell, J. R. Rozen, D. W. Abraham, Chad Rigetti, and M. Steffen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240505 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Fluids in Extreme Confinement

Thomas Franosch, Simon Lang, and Rolf Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240601 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black Branes as Piezoelectrics

Jay Armas, Jakob Gath, and Niels A. Obers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241101 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Screening Modifications of Gravity Through Disformally Coupled Fields

Tomi S. Koivisto, David F. Mota, and Miguel Zumalacárregui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241102 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

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Pulsar Glitches: The Crust is not Enough

N. Andersson, K. Glampedakis, W. C. G. Ho, and C. M. Espinoza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241103 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

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Strict Limit on $C P T$ Violation from Polarization of $γ$ -Ray Bursts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241104 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

No-Go Theorems for Generalized Chameleon Field Theories

Junpu Wang, Lam Hui, and Justin Khoury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241301 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Six-Loop Konishi Anomalous Dimension from the $Y$ System

S. Leurent, D. Serban, and D. Volin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241601 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Five-Loop Four-Point Amplitude of $N = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills Theory

Z. Bern, J. J. M. Carrasco, H. Johansson, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241602 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Common Origin of Fermion Mixing and Geometrical $C P$ Violation, and Its Test Through Higgs Physics at the LHC

Gautam Bhattacharyya, Ivo de Medeiros Varzielas, and Philipp Leser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241603 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Natural Gauge Mediation with a Bino Next-to-Lightest Supersymmetric Particle at the LHC

James Barnard, Benjamin Farmer, Tony Gherghetta, and Martin White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241801 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Impact of a Higgs Boson at a Mass of 126 GeV on the Standard Model with Three and Four Fermion Generations

Otto Eberhardt, Geoffrey Herbert, Heiko Lacker, Alexander Lenz, Andreas Menzel, Ulrich Nierste, and Martin Wiebusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 241802 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Finite- $t$ and Target-Mass Corrections to Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

V. M. Braun, A. N. Manashov, and B. Pirnay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 242001 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Gluon- and Quark-Jet Multiplicities with NNNLO and NNLL Accuracy

P. Bolzoni, B. A. Kniehl, and A. V. Kotikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 242002 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Transverse Parton Distribution Functions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order: The Quark-to-Quark Case

Thomas Gehrmann, Thomas Lübbert, and Li Lin Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 242003 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Nuclear Physics

Cold-Nuclear-Matter Effects on Heavy-Quark Production in $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 242301 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Attosecond-Recollision-Controlled Selective Fragmentation of Polyatomic Molecules

Xinhua Xie, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, Stefan Roither, Markus S. Schöffler, Daniil Kartashov, Huailiang Xu, Tim Rathje, Gerhard G. Paulus, Andrius Baltuška, Stefanie Gräfe, and Markus Kitzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243001 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Synchronizing Terahertz Wave Generation with Attosecond Bursts

Dongwen Zhang, Zhihui Lü, Chao Meng, Xiyu Du, Zhaoyan Zhou, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243002 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Precision Measurement of Transition Matrix Elements via Light Shift Cancellation

C. D. Herold, V. D. Vaidya, X. Li, S. L. Rolston, J. V. Porto, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243003 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Measurement of a Wavelength of Light for Which the Energy Shift for an Atom Vanishes

William F. Holmgren, Raisa Trubko, Ivan Hromada, and Alexander D. Cronin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243004 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Universal Three-Body Parameter in Heteronuclear Atomic Systems

Yujun Wang, Jia Wang, J. P. D’Incao, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243201 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Spectrum of the Cavity-QED Microlaser: Strong Coupling Effects in the Frequency Pulling at Off Resonance

H.-G. Hong, W. Seo, Y. Song, M. Lee, H. Jeong, Y. Shin, W. Choi, R. R. Dasari, and K. An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243601 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Observation of a Skewed X-type Spatiotemporal Correlation of Ultrabroadband Twin Beams

O. Jedrkiewicz, A. Gatti, E. Brambilla, and P. Di Trapani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243901 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Shock Waves in Disordered Media

N. Ghofraniha, S. Gentilini, V. Folli, E. DelRe, and C. Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243902 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Mie Scattering by a Charged Dielectric Particle

R. L. Heinisch, F. X. Bronold, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243903 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Modulating Sub-THz Radiation with Current in Superconducting Metamaterial

V. Savinov, V. A. Fedotov, S. M. Anlage, P. A. J. de Groot, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243904 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Shaping the Ultrafast Temporal Correlations of Thermal-Like Photons

Víctor Torres-Company, Juan P. Torres, and Ari T. Friberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 243905 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Covariant Lyapunov Vectors from Reconstructed Dynamics: The Geometry behind True and Spurious Lyapunov Exponents

Hong-liu Yang, Günter Radons, and Holger Kantz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244101 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Slicing Softly with Shear

E. Reyssat, T. Tallinen, M. Le Merrer, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244301 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Three-Body Amplification of Photon Heat Tunneling

Riccardo Messina, Mauro Antezza, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244302 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Dynamics of Elastic Rods in Perfect Friction Contact

François Gay-Balmaz and Vakhtang Putkaradze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244303 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Universal Morphologies of Fluid Interfaces Deformed by the Radiation Pressure of Acoustic or Electromagnetic Waves

N. Bertin, H. Chraïbi, R. Wunenburger, J.-P. Delville, and E. Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244304 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Can a Metal Surface Repel Electric Charges?

Primož Rebernik Ribič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244801 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

X-Ray Amplification from a Raman Free-Electron Laser

I. A. Andriyash, E. d’Humières, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and Ph. Balcou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244802 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Strong Field Acceleration and Steering of Ultrafast Electron Pulses from a Sharp Metallic Nanotip

Doo Jae Park, Bjoern Piglosiewicz, Slawa Schmidt, Heiko Kollmann, Manfred Mascheck, and Christoph Lienau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 244803 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Excitation of Geodesic Acoustic Modes by External Fields

K. Hallatschek and G. R. McKee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245001 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Cluster Agglomeration Induced by Dust-Density Waves in Complex Plasmas

Simon Dap, David Lacroix, Robert Hugon, Ludovic de Poucques, Jean-Luc Briancon, and Jamal Bougdira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245002 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Resonant $K α$ Spectroscopy of Solid-Density Aluminum Plasmas

B. I. Cho et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245003 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Phase-Synchronization, Energy Cascade, and Intermittency in Solar-Wind Turbulence

S. Perri, V. Carbone, A. Vecchio, R. Bruno, H. Korth, T. H. Zurbuchen, and L. Sorriso-Valvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245004 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Isolated Attosecond Pulses from Laser-Driven Synchrotron Radiation

J. M. Mikhailova, M. V. Fedorov, N. Karpowicz, P. Gibbon, V. T. Platonenko, A. M. Zheltikov, and F. Krausz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245005 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Laser Absorption in Relativistically Underdense Plasmas by Synchrotron Radiation

C. S. Brady, C. P. Ridgers, T. D. Arber, A. R. Bell, and J. G. Kirk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245006 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Merging and Splitting of Plasma Spheroids in a Dusty Plasma

Maxime Mikikian, Hagop Tawidian, and Thomas Lecas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245007 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Generating High-Energy Highly Charged Ion Beams from Petawatt-Class Laser Interactions with Compound Targets

A. V. Korzhimanov, E. S. Efimenko, S. V. Golubev, and A. V. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245008 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Tachyon Condensation Due to Domain-Wall Annihilation in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Hiromitsu Takeuchi, Kenichi Kasamatsu, Makoto Tsubota, and Muneto Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245301 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Reentrant BCS-BEC Crossover and a Superfluid-Insulator Transition in Optical Lattices

Zhaochuan Shen (沈兆川), L. Radzihovsky, and V. Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245302 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Ab initio Calculations of Deep-Level Carrier Nonradiative Recombination Rates in Bulk Semiconductors

Lin Shi and Lin-Wang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245501 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Method for Retrieval of the Three-Dimensional Object Potential by Inversion of Dynamical Electron Scattering

Wouter Van den Broek and Christoph T. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245502 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

First-Principles Determination of the Structure of Magnesium Borohydride

Xiang-Feng Zhou, Artem R. Oganov, Guang-Rui Qian, and Qiang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245503 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Vitreous Silica Distends in Helium Gas: Acoustic Versus Static Compressibilities

Coralie Weigel, Alain Polian, Mathieu Kint, Benoit Rufflé, Marie Foret, and René Vacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245504 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the fcc-to-hcp Transition in Ensembles of Argon Nanoclusters

N. V. Krainyukova, R. E. Boltnev, E. P. Bernard, V. V. Khmelenko, D. M. Lee, and V. Kiryukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245505 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Ductilizing Bulk Metallic Glass Composite by Tailoring Stacking Fault Energy

Y. Wu, D. Q. Zhou, W. L. Song, H. Wang, Z. Y. Zhang, D. Ma, X. L. Wang, and Z. P. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 245506 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Nonlinear Behavior of Nematic Platelet Dispersions in Shear Flow

M. P. Lettinga, P. Holmqvist, P. Ballesta, S. Rogers, D. Kleshchanok, and B. Struth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246001 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Simulation of Spatially Resolved Electron Energy Loss Near-Edge Structure for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

M. P. Prange, M. P. Oxley, M. Varela, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246101 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Correlation-Enhanced Effective Mass of Two-Dimensional Electrons in ${Mg}_{x} {Zn}_{1 - x} O / ZnO$ Heterostructures

Y. Kasahara, Y. Oshima, J. Falson, Y. Kozuka, A. Tsukazaki, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Iwasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246401 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Strong Correlation in Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory

Francesc Malet and Paola Gori-Giorgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246402 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Negative $g$ Factors, Berry Phases, and Magnetic Properties of Complexes

L. F. Chibotaru and L. Ungur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246403 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Competition Between Antiferromagnetic and Charge-Density-Wave Order in the Half-Filled Hubbard-Holstein Model

E. A. Nowadnick, S. Johnston, B. Moritz, R. T. Scalettar, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246404 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

High-Magnetic-Field Lattice Length Changes in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

V. F. Correa, S. Francoual, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, T. P. Murphy, E. C. Palm, S. W. Tozer, A. H. Lacerda, P. A. Sharma, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246405 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Interaction Induced Staggered Spin-Orbit Order in Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Tanmoy Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246406 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Spin-Valve-Like Magnetoresistance in ${Mn}_{2} NiGa$ at Room Temperature

Sanjay Singh, R. Rawat, S. Esakki Muthu, S. W. D’Souza, E. Suard, A. Senyshyn, S. Banik, P. Rajput, S. Bhardwaj, A. M. Awasthi, Rajeev Ranjan, S. Arumugam, D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, Aparna Chakrabarti, and S. R. Barman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246601 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Quantum Oscillations in Magnetothermopower Measurements of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$

Dong-Xia Qu, Y. S. Hor, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246602 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Coherent Propagation of Spin Helices in a Quantum-Well Confined Electron Gas

Luyi Yang, J. D. Koralek, J. Orenstein, D. R. Tibbetts, J. L. Reno, and M. P. Lilly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246603 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Onsager Relations in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling

C. Gorini, R. Raimondi, and P. Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246604 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Topology, Delocalization via Average Symmetry and the Symplectic Anderson Transition

Liang Fu and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246605 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Interaction-Mediated Surface-State Instability in Disordered Three-Dimensional Topological Superconductors with Spin SU(2) Symmetry

Matthew S. Foster and Emil A. Yuzbashyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246801 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Topological Solitons versus Nonsolitonic Phase Defects in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge-Density Wave

Tae-Hwan Kim and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246802 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Magnetic-Field-Induced Localization in 2D Topological Insulators

Pierre Delplace, Jian Li, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246803 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Energy-Gap Opening in a Bi(110) Nanoribbon Induced by Edge Reconstruction

Jia-Tao Sun, Han Huang, Swee Liang Wong, H.-J. Gao, Yuan Ping Feng, and Andrew Thye Shen Wee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246804 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Adiabatic Continuation of Fractional Chern Insulators to Fractional Quantum Hall States

Thomas Scaffidi and Gunnar Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246805 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shot-Noise Thermometry of the Quantum Hall Edge States

Ivan P. Levkivskyi and Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246806 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Mapping Band Alignment across Complex Oxide Heterointerfaces

Bo-Chao Huang, Ya-Ping Chiu, Po-Cheng Huang, Wen-Ching Wang, Vu Thanh Tra, Jan-Chi Yang, Qing He, Jiunn-Yuan Lin, Chia-Seng Chang, and Ying-Hao Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246807 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Charge-Induced Coherence between Intersubband Plasmons in a Quantum Structure

A. Delteil, A. Vasanelli, Y. Todorov, C. Feuillet Palma, M. Renaudat St-Jean, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, and C. Sirtori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 246808 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

NMR Search for the Spin Nematic State in a LaFeAsO Single Crystal

M. Fu, D. A. Torchetti, T. Imai, F. L. Ning, J.-Q. Yan, and A. S. Sefat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247001 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Nonconventional Spin Glass Transition in a Chemically Ordered Pyrochlore

D. K. Singh and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247201 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Strain Engineering Magnetic Frustration in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films

Carlos Escorihuela-Sayalero, Oswaldo Diéguez, and Jorge Íñiguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247202 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Strong Paramagnetism of Gold Nanoparticles Deposited on a Sulfolobus acidocaldarius $S$ Layer

J. Bartolomé, F. Bartolomé, L. M. García, A. I. Figueroa, A. Repollés, M. J. Martínez-Pérez, F. Luis, C. Magén, S. Selenska-Pobell, F. Pobell, T. Reitz, R. Schönemann, T. Herrmannsdörfer, M. Merroun, A. Geissler, F. Wilhelm, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247203 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Observation of Coherent Helimagnons and Gilbert Damping in an Itinerant Magnet

J. D. Koralek, D. Meier, J. P. Hinton, A. Bauer, S. A. Parameswaran, A. Vishwanath, R. Ramesh, R. W. Schoenlein, C. Pfleiderer, and J. Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247204 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Relaxation Dynamics of Disordered Spin Chains: Localization and the Existence of a Stationary State

Simone Ziraldo, Alessandro Silva, and Giuseppe E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247205 (2012) - Published 11 December, 2012

Dynamical Correlations After a Quantum Quench

Fabian H. L. Essler, Stefano Evangelisti, and Maurizio Fagotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247206 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Optical Study of Archetypical Valence-Fluctuating Eu Systems

V. Guritanu, S. Seiro, J. Sichelschmidt, N. Caroca-Canales, T. Iizuka, S. Kimura, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247207 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Oscillatory Optical Response of an Amorphous Two-Dimensional Array of Gold Nanoparticles

Tomasz J. Antosiewicz, S. Peter Apell, Michael Zäch, Igor Zorić, and Christoph Langhammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247401 (2012) - Published 12 December, 2012

Ferroelectric Instability Under Screened Coulomb Interactions

Yong Wang, Xiaohui Liu, J. D. Burton, Sitaram S. Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247601 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Measurement of the Dynamical Dipolar Coupling in a Pair of Magnetic Nanodisks Using a Ferromagnetic Resonance Force Microscope

B. Pigeau, C. Hahn, G. de Loubens, V. V. Naletov, O. Klein, K. Mitsuzuka, D. Lacour, M. Hehn, S. Andrieu, and F. Montaigne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247602 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Boundary Resonances in $S = 1 / 2$ Antiferromagnetic Chains Under a Staggered Field

Shunsuke C. Furuya and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247603 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Landau-Level Spectroscopy of Relativistic Fermions with Low Fermi Velocity in the ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator

A. Wolos, S. Szyszko, A. Drabinska, M. Kaminska, S. G. Strzelecka, A. Hruban, A. Materna, and M. Piersa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247604 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Giant Reduction of InN Surface Electron Accumulation: Compensation of Surface Donors by Mg Dopants

W. M. Linhart, J. Chai, R. J. H. Morris, M. G. Dowsett, C. F. McConville, S. M. Durbin, and T. D. Veal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247605 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Orthorhombic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

J. C. Yang, Q. He, S. J. Suresha, C. Y. Kuo, C. Y. Peng, R. C. Haislmaier, M. A. Motyka, G. Sheng, C. Adamo, H. J. Lin, Z. Hu, L. Chang, L. H. Tjeng, E. Arenholz, N. J. Podraza, M. Bernhagen, R. Uecker, D. G. Schlom, V. Gopalan, L. Q. Chen, C. T. Chen, R. Ramesh, and Y. H. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247606 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Fluid Depletion in Shear Bands

Roman Mani, Dirk Kadau, Dani Or, and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248001 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Polarization-Controlled Photoswitching Resolves Dipole Directions with Subwavelength Resolution

Seongsil Lee, Jungsic Oh, Dohyeon Kim, Samuel Kim, Jong-Bong Lee, and Hong Gil Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248101 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Fast Migration and Emergent Population Dynamics

Michael Khasin, Evgeniy Khain, and Leonard M. Sander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248102 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Quantitative Assessment of the Interplay Between DNA Elasticity and Cooperative Binding of Ligands

L. Siman, I. S. S. Carrasco, J. K. L. da Silva, M. C. de Oliveira, M. S. Rocha, and O. N. Mesquita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248103 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Using Temporal Correlations and Full Distributions to Separate Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fluctuations in Biological Systems

Andreas Hilfinger, Mark Chen, and Johan Paulsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248104 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Capstan Friction Model for DNA Ejection from Bacteriophages

Sandip Ghosal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248105 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Squaring, Parity Breaking, and $S$ Tumbling of Vesicles under Shear Flow

Alexander Farutin and Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248106 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Small-Number Effects: A Third Stable State in a Genetic Bistable Toggle Switch

Rui Ma, Jichao Wang, Zhonghuai Hou, and Haiyan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248107 (2012) - Published 13 December, 2012

Mechanism of Lipid Nanodrop Spreading in a Case of Asymmetric Wetting

Sawsan Mohamad, Olivier Noël, Jean-Luc Buraud, Guillaume Brotons, Yasmina Fedala, and Dominique Ausserré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248108 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Physical Properties of Collective Motion in Suspensions of Bacteria

Andrey Sokolov and Igor S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248109 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Dynamics of Traction Stress Field during Cell Division

Hirokazu Tanimoto and Masaki Sano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248110 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

Range of Interaction between DNA-Bending Proteins is Controlled by the Second-Longest Correlation Length for Bending Fluctuations

Houyin Zhang and John F. Marko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 248301 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

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Erratum: Fast and Robust Spin Manipulation in a Quantum Dot by Electric Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 206602 (2012)]

Yue Ban, Xi Chen, E. Ya Sherman, and J. G. Muga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 249901 (2012) - Published 10 December, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Probing Polar Molecules with High Harmonic Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 233904 (2012)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 249902 (2012) - Published 14 December, 2012

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