Volume 109, Issue 4

27 July 2012

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Isoscattering quantum graphs (top) and pictures of corresponding microwave scattering networks (middle). Panel (bottom) shows the experimental setup for measuring the scattering matrix of a network, to ascertain if the shape of a graph can be determined from its scattering properties.

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Are Scattering Properties of Graphs Uniquely Connected to Their Shapes?
Oleh Hul, Michał Ławniczak, Szymon Bauch, Adam Sawicki, Marek Kuś, and Leszek Sirko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 040402 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Motions with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

Nick Hand et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 041101 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Noiseless Optical Amplifier Operating on Hundreds of Spatial Modes

N. V. Corzo, A. M. Marino, K. M. Jones, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043602 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

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Ultrafast and Octave-Spanning Optical Nonlinearities from Strongly Phase-Mismatched Quadratic Interactions

B. B. Zhou, A. Chong, F. W. Wise, and M. Bache

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043902 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

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Ultrahigh-Resolution Magnetic Resonance in Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields: Two-Dimensional Long-Lived-Coherence Correlation Spectroscopy

Srinivas Chinthalapalli, Aurélien Bornet, Takuya F. Segawa, Riddhiman Sarkar, Sami Jannin, and Geoffrey Bodenhausen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 047602 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

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Quantum Stability of Chameleon Field Theories

Amol Upadhye, Wayne Hu, and Justin Khoury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 041301 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Four-Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Z. Bern, G. Diana, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, S. Höche, D. A. Kosower, H. Ita, D. Maître, and K. Ozeren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 042001 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

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Adjoint Method Provides Phase Response Functions for Delay-Induced Oscillations

Kiyoshi Kotani, Ikuhiro Yamaguchi, Yutaro Ogawa, Yasuhiko Jimbo, Hiroya Nakao, and G. Bard Ermentrout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 044101 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

LETTERS

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

Weak Measurements with Orbital-Angular-Momentum Pointer States

G. Puentes, N. Hermosa, and J. P. Torres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 040401 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Are Scattering Properties of Graphs Uniquely Connected to Their Shapes?

Oleh Hul, Michał Ławniczak, Szymon Bauch, Adam Sawicki, Marek Kuś, and Leszek Sirko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 040402 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Experimental Activation of Bound Entanglement

Fumihiro Kaneda, Ryosuke Shimizu, Satoshi Ishizaka, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, Hideo Kosaka, and Keiichi Edamatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 040501 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Quantum Entanglement in Random Physical States

Alioscia Hamma, Siddhartha Santra, and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 040502 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Equation of State Beyond the Radius of Convergence of the Virial Expansion

M. V. Ushcats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 040601 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Evidence of Galaxy Cluster Motions with the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

Nick Hand et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 041101 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Quantum Stability of Chameleon Field Theories

Amol Upadhye, Wayne Hu, and Justin Khoury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 041301 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Kaon $B$ Parameter from Improved Staggered Fermions in $N_{f} = 2 + 1$ QCD

Taegil Bae, Yong-Chull Jang, Chulwoo Jung, Hyung-Jin Kim, Jangho Kim, Jongjeong Kim, Kwangwoo Kim, Sunghee Kim, Weonjong Lee, Stephen R. Sharpe, and Boram Yoon (SWME Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 041601 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Probing New Physics via the $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Effective Lifetime

Kristof De Bruyn, Robert Fleischer, Robert Knegjens, Patrick Koppenburg, Marcel Merk, Antonio Pellegrino, and Niels Tuning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 041801 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

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Four-Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Z. Bern, G. Diana, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, S. Höche, D. A. Kosower, H. Ita, D. Maître, and K. Ozeren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 042001 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Eliminating the Renormalization Scale Ambiguity for Top-Pair Production Using the Principle of Maximum Conformality

Stanley J. Brodsky and Xing-Gang Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 042002 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

First Observation of the $M 1$ Transition $ψ (3686) \to γ η_{c} (2 S)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 042003 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Nuclear Physics

High-Precision Measurement of the ${}^{19}{Ne}$ Half-Life and Implications for Right-Handed Weak Currents

S. Triambak, P. Finlay, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, G. Hackman, G. C. Ball, P. E. Garrett, C. E. Svensson, D. S. Cross, A. B. Garnsworthy, R. Kshetri, J. N. Orce, M. R. Pearson, E. R. Tardiff, H. Al-Falou, R. A. E. Austin, R. Churchman, M. K. Djongolov, R. D’Entremont, C. Kierans, L. Milovanovic, S. O’Hagan, S. Reeve, S. K. L. Sjue, and S. J. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 042301 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Limits on Neutrino Masses from Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

J. Barea, J. Kotila, and F. Iachello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 042501 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Characteristic Spectrum of Very Low-Energy Photoelectron from Above-Threshold Ionization in the Tunneling Regime

C. Y. Wu, Y. D. Yang, Y. Q. Liu, Q. H. Gong, M. Wu, X. Liu, X. L. Hao, W. D. Li, X. T. He, and J. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043001 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Adiabatic State Preparation of Interacting Two-Level Systems

R. T. Brierley, C. Creatore, P. B. Littlewood, and P. R. Eastham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043002 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Quantum Resonances in Selective Rotational Excitation of Molecules with a Sequence of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

S. Zhdanovich, C. Bloomquist, J. Floß, I. Sh. Averbukh, J. W. Hepburn, and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043003 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Strong-Field Ionization Rate Depends on the Sign of the Magnetic Quantum Number

Thushani Herath, Lu Yan, Suk Kyoung Lee, and Wen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043004 (2012) - Published 25 July, 2012

Absolute Measurement of the Relativistic Magnetic Dipole Transition Energy in Heliumlike Argon

Pedro Amaro, Sophie Schlesser, Mauro Guerra, Eric-Olivier Le Bigot, Jean-Michel Isac, Pascal Travers, José Paulo Santos, Csilla I. Szabo, Alexandre Gumberidze, and Paul Indelicato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043005 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Spin Dynamics in the Kapitza-Dirac Effect

Sven Ahrens, Heiko Bauke, Christoph H. Keitel, and Carsten Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043601 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

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Noiseless Optical Amplifier Operating on Hundreds of Spatial Modes

N. V. Corzo, A. M. Marino, K. M. Jones, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043602 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Depolarization Remote Sensing by Orthogonality Breaking

Julien Fade and Mehdi Alouini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043901 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

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Ultrafast and Octave-Spanning Optical Nonlinearities from Strongly Phase-Mismatched Quadratic Interactions

B. B. Zhou, A. Chong, F. W. Wise, and M. Bache

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 043902 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Adjoint Method Provides Phase Response Functions for Delay-Induced Oscillations

Kiyoshi Kotani, Ikuhiro Yamaguchi, Yutaro Ogawa, Yasuhiko Jimbo, Hiroya Nakao, and G. Bard Ermentrout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 044101 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Solutions of the Vector Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations: Evidence for Deterministic Rogue Waves

Fabio Baronio, Antonio Degasperis, Matteo Conforti, and Stefan Wabnitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 044102 (2012) - Published 26 July, 2012

Homogeneous Nucleation in Water in Microfluidic Channels

Keita Ando, Ai-Qun Liu, and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 044501 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Harmonic Fast-Wave Power Flow along Magnetic Field Lines in the Scrape-Off Layer of NSTX

R. J. Perkins, J. C. Hosea, G. J. Kramer, J.-W. Ahn, R. E. Bell, A. Diallo, S. Gerhardt, T. K. Gray, D. L. Green, E. F. Jaeger, M. A. Jaworski, B. P. LeBlanc, A. McLean, R. Maingi, C. K. Phillips, L. Roquemore, P. M. Ryan, S. Sabbagh, G. Taylor, and J. R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 045001 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Activated Nucleation of Vortices in a Dipole-Blockaded Supersolid Condensate

Peter Mason, Christophe Josserand, and Sergio Rica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 045301 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Interaction-Induced Impeding of Decoherence and Anomalous Diffusion

Dario Poletti, Jean-Sébastien Bernier, Antoine Georges, and Corinna Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 045302 (2012) - Published 24 July, 2012

Mass Flux Characteristics in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ for $T > 100 mK$ : Evidence for Bosonic Luttinger-Liquid Behavior

Ye. Vekhov and R. B. Hallock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 045303 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Quantum Confinement Drives Macroscopic Stress Oscillations at the Initial Stage of Thin Film Growth

David Flötotto, Zumin Wang, Lars P. H. Jeurgens, and Eric J. Mittemeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 045501 (2012) - Published 27 July, 2012

Thermodynamic Study of Simple Molecular Glasses: Universal Features in Their Heat Capacity and the Size of the Cooperatively Rearranging Regions

Soichi Tatsumi, Shintaro Aso, and Osamu Yamamuro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 045701 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Determining the In-Plane Orientation of the Ground-State Orbital of ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

T. Willers, F. Strigari, N. Hiraoka, Y. Q. Cai, M. W. Haverkort, K.-D. Tsuei, Y. F. Liao, S. Seiro, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, L. H. Tjeng, and A. Severing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 046401 (2012) - Published 23 July, 2012