Volume 109, Issue 7

17 August 2012

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Photographs are recorded every 3 hours and 20 minutes, from top left to bottom right, to show the growth sequence of a percolating network (red) of disconnected fragments (black) of a slime mold on agar. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Physarum polycephalum Percolation as a Paradigm for Topological Phase Transitions in Transportation Networks
Adrian Fessel, Christina Oettmeier, Erik Bernitt, Nils C. Gauthier, and Hans-Günther Döbereiner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078103 (2012)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters

Daniel Gottesman, Thomas Jennewein, and Sarah Croke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070503 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071804 (2012) - Published 14 August, 2012

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Magnetically Driven Flows in Arched Plasma Structures

E. V. Stenson and P. M. Bellan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075001 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

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Photon-Assisted Tunneling through Self-Assembled InAs Quantum Dots in the Terahertz Frequency Range

K. Shibata, A. Umeno, K. M. Cha, and K. Hirakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077401 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Measurement of the Binding Energies of the Organic-Metal Perylene-Teracarboxylic-Dianhydride/Au(111) Bonds by Molecular Manipulation Using an Atomic Force Microscope

C. Wagner, N. Fournier, F. S. Tautz, and R. Temirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076102 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Operational Framework for Nonlocality

Rodrigo Gallego, Lars Erik Würflinger, Antonio Acín, and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070401 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

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Measurement of the Velocity of Neutrinos from the CNGS Beam with the Large Volume Detector

N. Yu. Agafonova et al. (LVD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070801 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

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Refining New-Physics Searches in $B \to D τ ν$ with Lattice QCD

Jon A. Bailey et al. (Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071802 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Physarum polycephalum Percolation as a Paradigm for Topological Phase Transitions in Transportation Networks

Adrian Fessel, Christina Oettmeier, Erik Bernitt, Nils C. Gauthier, and Hans-Günther Döbereiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078103 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Defense Mechanisms of Empathetic Players in the Spatial Ultimatum Game

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc, and György Szabó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078701 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

LETTERS

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

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Operational Framework for Nonlocality

Rodrigo Gallego, Lars Erik Würflinger, Antonio Acín, and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070401 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Phase-Space Approach to Solving the Time-Independent Schrödinger Equation

Asaf Shimshovitz and David J. Tannor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070402 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Quantum Discord Bounds the Amount of Distributed Entanglement

T. K. Chuan, J. Maillard, K. Modi, T. Paterek, M. Paternostro, and M. Piani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070501 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Coherence-Protected Quantum Gate by Continuous Dynamical Decoupling in Diamond

Xiangkun Xu, Zixiang Wang, Changkui Duan, Pu Huang, Pengfei Wang, Ya Wang, Nanyang Xu, Xi Kong, Fazhan Shi, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070502 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters

Daniel Gottesman, Thomas Jennewein, and Sarah Croke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070503 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Practical Experimental Certification of Computational Quantum Gates Using a Twirling Procedure

Osama Moussa, Marcus P. da Silva, Colm A. Ryan, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070504 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Antipersistent Random Walk in a Two State Flashing Magnetic Potential

Pietro Tierno, Francesc Sagués, Tom H. Johansen, and Igor M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070601 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Measurement of the Velocity of Neutrinos from the CNGS Beam with the Large Volume Detector

N. Yu. Agafonova et al. (LVD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070801 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

Optical Transitions in Highly Charged Californium Ions with High Sensitivity to Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant

J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and A. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 070802 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Local Magnetic Turbulence and TeV–PeV Cosmic Ray Anisotropies

Gwenael Giacinti and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071101 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

Transient Resonances in the Inspirals of Point Particles into Black Holes

Éanna É. Flanagan and Tanja Hinderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071102 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Pair Production of a New $b^{'}$ Quark that Decays into a $Z$ Boson and a Bottom Quark with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071801 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Refining New-Physics Searches in $B \to D τ ν$ with Lattice QCD

Jon A. Bailey et al. (Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071802 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Search for New Physics with Same-Sign Isolated Dilepton Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071803 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071804 (2012) - Published 14 August, 2012

$θ$ Dependence of the Deconfinement Temperature in Yang-Mills Theories

Massimo D’Elia and Francesco Negro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 072001 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Full $QED + QCD$ Low-Energy Constants through Reweighting

Tomomi Ishikawa, Thomas Blum, Masashi Hayakawa, Taku Izubuchi, Chulwoo Jung, and Ran Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 072002 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Nuclear Physics

$J / ψ$ Suppression at Forward Rapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$

B. Abelev et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 072301 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Pseudospin Symmetry in Single Particle Resonant States

Bing-Nan Lu (吕炳楠), En-Guang Zhao (赵恩广), and Shan-Gui Zhou (周善贵)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 072501 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

NMR Chemical Shift in an Electronic State with Arbitrary Degeneracy

Willem Van den Heuvel and Alessandro Soncini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073001 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Strong Coupling between Molecular Excited States and Surface Plasmon Modes of a Slit Array in a Thin Metal Film

Adi Salomon, Robert J. Gordon, Yehiam Prior, Tamar Seideman, and Maxim Sukharev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073002 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

$N$ -Body Efimov States from Two-Particle Noise

Amy N. Nicholson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073003 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Direct Visualization of Laser-Driven Electron Multiple Scattering and Tunneling Distance in Strong-Field Ionization

Daniel D. Hickstein, Predrag Ranitovic, Stefan Witte, Xiao-Min Tong, Ymkje Huismans, Paul Arpin, Xibin Zhou, K. Ellen Keister, Craig W. Hogle, Bosheng Zhang, Chengyuan Ding, Per Johnsson, N. Toshima, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073004 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Inelastic Confinement-Induced Resonances in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Simon Sala, Philipp-Immanuel Schneider, and Alejandro Saenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073201 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Positronium Hyperfine Interval Measured via Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy

D. B. Cassidy, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073401 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Subcycle ac Stark Shift of Helium Excited States Probed with Isolated Attosecond Pulses

Michael Chini, Baozhen Zhao, He Wang, Yan Cheng, S. X. Hu, and Zenghu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073601 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strong Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Monolayer Graphene Sheet Arrays

Bing Wang, Xiang Zhang, Francisco J. García-Vidal, Xiaocong Yuan, and Jinghua Teng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 073901 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Geometry of the Vapor Layer Under a Leidenfrost Drop

J. C. Burton, A. L. Sharpe, R. C. A. van der Veen, A. Franco, and S. R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 074301 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Revival of Classical Vortex Generators Now for Transition Delay

Shahab Shahinfar, Sohrab S. Sattarzadeh, Jens H. M. Fransson, and Alessandro Talamelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 074501 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Effect of Weak Rotation on Large-Scale Circulation Cessations in Turbulent Convection

Michael Assaf, Luiza Angheluta, and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 074502 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generating periodic terahertz structures in a relativistic electron beam through frequency down-conversion of optical lasers

M. Dunning, C. Hast, E. Hemsing, K. Jobe, D. McCormick, J. Nelson, T. O. Raubenheimer, K. Soong, Z. Szalata, D. Walz, S. Weathersby, and D. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 074801 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Magnetically Driven Flows in Arched Plasma Structures

E. V. Stenson and P. M. Bellan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075001 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

Plasma Adiabatic Lapse Rate

Peter Amendt, Claudio Bellei, and Scott Wilks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075002 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Adiabatic-Nonadiabatic Transition in Warm Long-Range Interacting Systems: The Transport of Intense Inhomogeneous Beams

Everton G. Souza, Antonio Endler, Felipe B. Rizzato, and Renato Pakter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075003 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Drive Asymmetry and the Origin of Turbulence in an ICF Implosion

V. A. Thomas and R. J. Kares

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075004 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Confinement-Driven Phase Separation of Quantum Liquid Mixtures

T. R. Prisk, C. Pantalei, H. Kaiser, and P. E. Sokol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075301 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

$p$ -Wave Polaron

Jesper Levinsen, Pietro Massignan, Frédéric Chevy, and Carlos Lobo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075302 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Pressure-Driven Evolution of the Covalent Network in ${CaB}_{6}$

A. N. Kolmogorov, S. Shah, E. R. Margine, A. K. Kleppe, and A. P. Jephcoat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075501 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Planar Defect Nucleation and Annihilation Mechanisms in Nanocontact Plasticity of Metal Surfaces

Jorge Alcalá, Roger Dalmau, Oliver Franke, Monika Biener, Juergen Biener, and Andrea Hodge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075502 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Non-Arrhenius Ionic Conductivities in Glasses due to a Distribution of Activation Energies

C. Bischoff, K. Schuller, S. P. Beckman, and S. W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 075901 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

$n$ -Type Doping of Germanium from Phosphine: Early Stages Resolved at the Atomic Level

G. Scappucci, O. Warschkow, G. Capellini, W. M. Klesse, D. R. McKenzie, and M. Y. Simmons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076101 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

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Measurement of the Binding Energies of the Organic-Metal Perylene-Teracarboxylic-Dianhydride/Au(111) Bonds by Molecular Manipulation Using an Atomic Force Microscope

C. Wagner, N. Fournier, F. S. Tautz, and R. Temirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076102 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Double Exchange Ferromagnetism in the Peierls Insulator State

S. Nishimoto and Y. Ohta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076401 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

Singular Behavior of Eigenstates in Anderson’s Model of Localization

S. Johri and R. N. Bhatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076402 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Detection of Electrically Modulated Inverse Spin Hall Effect in an $Fe / GaAs$ Microdevice

K. Olejník, J. Wunderlich, A. C. Irvine, R. P. Campion, V. P. Amin, Jairo Sinova, and T. Jungwirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076601 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

Spin-Filter Tunnel Junction with Matched Fermi Surfaces

T. Harada, I. Ohkubo, M. Lippmaa, Y. Sakurai, Y. Matsumoto, S. Muto, H. Koinuma, and M. Oshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076602 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Tuning the Performance of Organic Spintronic Devices Using X-Ray Generated Traps

J. Rybicki, R. Lin, F. Wang, M. Wohlgenannt, C. He, T. Sanders, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076603 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Topological Character and Magnetism of the Dirac State in Mn-Doped ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$

J. Henk, M. Flieger, I. V. Maznichenko, I. Mertig, A. Ernst, S. V. Eremeev, and E. V. Chulkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076801 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Stabilizing the Zigzag Edge: Graphene Nanoribbons with Sterically Constrained Terminations

Cheng-Ing Chia and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 076802 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Probing the Role of Co Substitution in the Electronic Structure of Iron Pnictides

G. Levy, R. Sutarto, D. Chevrier, T. Regier, R. Blyth, J. Geck, S. Wurmehl, L. Harnagea, H. Wadati, T. Mizokawa, I. S. Elfimov, A. Damascelli, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077001 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition to the Superconducting State of Heavy-Fermion Superlattices

Jian-Huang She and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077002 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Spin Reorientation in ${TlFe}_{1.6} {Se}_{2}$ with Complete Vacancy Ordering

Andrew F. May, Michael A. McGuire, Huibo Cao, Ilya Sergueev, Claudia Cantoni, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, David S. Parker, and Brian C. Sales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077003 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Magnetic Susceptibility of Collinear and Noncollinear Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077201 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Detection and In Situ Switching of Unreversed Interfacial Antiferromagnetic Spins in a Perpendicular-Exchange-Biased System

Yu Shiratsuchi, Hayato Noutomi, Hiroto Oikawa, Tetsuya Nakamura, Motohiro Suzuki, Toshiaki Fujita, Kazuto Arakawa, Yuichiro Takechi, Hirotaro Mori, Toyohiko Kinoshita, Masahiko Yamamoto, and Ryoichi Nakatani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077202 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Pressure and Temperature Control of Spin-Switchable Metal-Organic Coordination Polymers from Ab Initio Calculations

K. Tarafder, S. Kanungo, P. M. Oppeneer, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077203 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Quantum Order by Disorder and Accidental Soft Mode in ${Er}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

M. E. Zhitomirsky, M. V. Gvozdikova, P. C. W. Holdsworth, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077204 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Quantum Spin Liquids and the Metal-Insulator Transition in Doped Semiconductors

Andrew C. Potter, Maissam Barkeshli, John McGreevy, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077205 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Photon-Assisted Tunneling through Self-Assembled InAs Quantum Dots in the Terahertz Frequency Range

K. Shibata, A. Umeno, K. M. Cha, and K. Hirakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 077401 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Bond Flexibility and Low Valence Promote Finite Clusters of Self-Aggregating Particles

Olga Markova, Jonathan Alberts, Edwin Munro, and Pierre-François Lenne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078101 (2012) - Published 13 August, 2012

Stiffness of the Extrafibrillar Phase in Staggered Biological Arrays

Benny Bar-On and H. Daniel Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078102 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

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Physarum polycephalum Percolation as a Paradigm for Topological Phase Transitions in Transportation Networks

Adrian Fessel, Christina Oettmeier, Erik Bernitt, Nils C. Gauthier, and Hans-Günther Döbereiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078103 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Defense Mechanisms of Empathetic Players in the Spatial Ultimatum Game

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaž Perc, and György Szabó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 078701 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012

COMMENTS

Comment on “Impact of a Global Quadratic Potential on Galactic Rotation Curves”

Kamal K. Nandi and Arunava Bhadra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079001 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Comment on “Dynamic Opinion Model and Invasion Percolation”

Arsalan Sattari, Maya Paczuski, and Peter Grassberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079801 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Shao, Havlin, and Stanley Reply:

Jia Shao, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079802 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

ERRATA

Erratum: Precise Orientation of a Single $C_{60}$ Molecule on the Tip of a Scanning Probe Microscope [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 268302 (2012)]

C. Chiutu, A. M. Sweetman, A. J. Lakin, A. Stannard, S. Jarvis, L. Kantorovich, J. L. Dunn, and P. Moriarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079901 (2012) - Published 15 August, 2012

Retraction: Near-Deterministic Discrimination of all Bell States with Linear Optics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 080403 (2011)]

Mladen Pavičić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079902 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Erratum: Highly Conductive Molecular Junctions Based on Direct Binding of Benzene to Platinum Electrodes [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 101, 046801 (2008)]

M. Kiguchi, O. Tal, S. Wohlthat, F. Pauly, M. Krieger, D. Djukic, J. C. Cuevas, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079903 (2012) - Published 16 August, 2012

Publisher’s Note: Direct Transition from Quantum Escape to a Phase Diffusion Regime in YBaCuO Biepitaxial Josephson Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 050601 (2012)]

Luigi Longobardi, Davide Massarotti, Daniela Stornaiuolo, Luca Galletti, Giacomo Rotoli, Floriana Lombardi, and Francesco Tafuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 079904 (2012) - Published 17 August, 2012