Volume 109, Issue 8

24 August 2012

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The band structure for spin-orbit-coupled noninteracting particles on a 2D square lattice shows four degenerate minima in the lower band, due to rotational symmetry breaking by the lattice, as well as a Dirac cone.

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Bose-Hubbard Models with Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling: Mott Insulators, Spin Textures, and Superfluidity
William S. Cole, Shizhong Zhang, Arun Paramekanti, and Nandini Trivedi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085302 (2012)

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Controlling Fast Transport of Cold Trapped Ions

A. Walther, F. Ziesel, T. Ruster, S. T. Dawkins, K. Ott, M. Hettrich, K. Singer, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. Poschinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080501 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

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Coherent Diabatic Ion Transport and Separation in a Multizone Trap Array

R. Bowler, J. Gaebler, Y. Lin, T. R. Tan, D. Hanneke, J. D. Jost, J. P. Home, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080502 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

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Minimagnetospheres above the Lunar Surface and the Formation of Lunar Swirls

R. A. Bamford, B. Kellett, W. J. Bradford, C. Norberg, A. Thornton, K. J. Gibson, I. A. Crawford, L. Silva, L. Gargaté, and R. Bingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081101 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

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Metamaterials Controlled with Light

Ilya V. Shadrivov, Polina V. Kapitanova, Stanislav I. Maslovski, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083902 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

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Mutational Pathway Determines Whether Drug Gradients Accelerate Evolution of Drug-Resistant Cells

Philip Greulich, Bartłomiej Waclaw, and Rosalind J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 088101 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

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Observing the Dynamics of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays

C. M. F. Mingarelli, K. Grover, T. Sidery, R. J. E. Smith, and A. Vecchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081104 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

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Monolithic Growth of Ultrathin Ge Nanowires on Si(001)

J. J. Zhang, G. Katsaros, F. Montalenti, D. Scopece, R. O. Rezaev, C. Mickel, B. Rellinghaus, L. Miglio, S. De Franceschi, A. Rastelli, and O. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085502 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

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Proposed Nonlinear Resonance Laser Technique for Manipulating Nanoparticles

Tetsuhiro Kudo and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 087402 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

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Ultracold Fermionic Feshbach Molecules of ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{40}K$

Cheng-Hsun Wu, Jee Woo Park, Peyman Ahmadi, Sebastian Will, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085301 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

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Breakdown of the Korringa Law of Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Metallic GaAs

Dominikus Kölbl, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Andreas Fuhrer, Gian Salis, and Santos F. Alvarado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086601 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

LETTERS

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

Macroscopic Quantum Self-Trapping in Dynamical Tunneling

Sebastian Wüster, Beata J. Da̧browska-Wüster, and Matthew J. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080401 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Bosonic Josephson Junction Controlled by a Single Trapped Ion

R. Gerritsma, A. Negretti, H. Doerk, Z. Idziaszek, T. Calarco, and F. Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080402 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

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Controlling Fast Transport of Cold Trapped Ions

A. Walther, F. Ziesel, T. Ruster, S. T. Dawkins, K. Ott, M. Hettrich, K. Singer, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. Poschinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080501 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

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Coherent Diabatic Ion Transport and Separation in a Multizone Trap Array

R. Bowler, J. Gaebler, Y. Lin, T. R. Tan, D. Hanneke, J. D. Jost, J. P. Home, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080502 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Using Separable Bell-Diagonal States to Distribute Entanglement

Alastair Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080503 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Resource Efficient Source of Multiphoton Polarization Entanglement

E. Megidish, T. Shacham, A. Halevy, L. Dovrat, and H. S. Eisenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080504 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Efficient Measurement of Quantum Gate Error by Interleaved Randomized Benchmarking

Easwar Magesan, Jay M. Gambetta, B. R. Johnson, Colm A. Ryan, Jerry M. Chow, Seth T. Merkel, Marcus P. da Silva, George A. Keefe, Mary B. Rothwell, Thomas A. Ohki, Mark B. Ketchen, and M. Steffen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080505 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Improved Tests of Local Position Invariance Using ${}^{87}{Rb}$ and ${}^{133}{Cs}$ Fountains

J. Guéna, M. Abgrall, D. Rovera, P. Rosenbusch, M. E. Tobar, Ph. Laurent, A. Clairon, and S. Bize

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 080801 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Minimagnetospheres above the Lunar Surface and the Formation of Lunar Swirls

R. A. Bamford, B. Kellett, W. J. Bradford, C. Norberg, A. Thornton, K. J. Gibson, I. A. Crawford, L. Silva, L. Gargaté, and R. Bingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081101 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Schwarzschild Black Holes can Wear Scalar Wigs

Juan Barranco, Argelia Bernal, Juan Carlos Degollado, Alberto Diez-Tejedor, Miguel Megevand, Miguel Alcubierre, Darío Núñez, and Olivier Sarbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081102 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

Gravitational Waves from Color-Magnetic “Mountains” in Neutron Stars

K. Glampedakis, D. I. Jones, and L. Samuelsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081103 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

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Observing the Dynamics of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays

C. M. F. Mingarelli, K. Grover, T. Sidery, R. J. E. Smith, and A. Vecchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081104 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Elementary Particles and Fields

AdS/QCD Holographic Wave Function for the $ρ$ Meson and Diffractive $ρ$ Meson Electroproduction

J. R. Forshaw and R. Sandapen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081601 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Maximal $R$ -Symmetry Violating Amplitudes in Type IIB Superstring Theory

Rutger H. Boels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081602 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Search for $t b$ Resonances in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081801 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Observation of the $η_{b} (2 S)$ Meson in $Υ (2 S) \to γ η_{b} (2 S)$ , $η_{b} (2 S) \to$ Hadrons and Confirmation of the $η_{b} (1 S)$ Meson

S. Dobbs, Z. Metreveli, A. Tomaradze, T. Xiao, and Kamal K. Seth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 082001 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Charm Production in Association with an Electroweak Gauge Boson at the LHC

W. J. Stirling and E. Vryonidou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 082002 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Control of Orbital Parity Mix Interferences and the Relative Phase of Even and Odd Harmonics in an Attosecond Pulse Train

G. Laurent, W. Cao, H. Li, Z. Wang, I. Ben-Itzhak, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083001 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Probing the Longitudinal Momentum Spread of the Electron Wave Packet at the Tunnel Exit

A. N. Pfeiffer, C. Cirelli, A. S. Landsman, M. Smolarski, D. Dimitrovski, L. B. Madsen, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083002 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Controllable Binding of Polar Molecules and Metastability of One-Dimensional Gases with Attractive Dipole Forces

Jason N. Byrd, John A. Montgomery, Jr., and Robin Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083003 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Raman Optical Activity by Heterodyne-Detected Polarization-Resolved Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering

Kotaro Hiramatsu, Masanari Okuno, Hideaki Kano, Philippe Leproux, Vincent Couderc, and Hiro-o Hamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083901 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

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Metamaterials Controlled with Light

Ilya V. Shadrivov, Polina V. Kapitanova, Stanislav I. Maslovski, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083902 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Increasing Quantum Degeneracy by Heating a Superfluid

D. J. Papoular, G. Ferrari, L. P. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 084501 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Size-Differentiated Lateral Migration of Bubbles in Couette Flow of Two-Dimensional Foam

Hadi Mohammadigoushki and James J. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 084502 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Plasma and Beam Physics

Novel Vortex Generator and Mode Converter for Electron Beams

P. Schattschneider, M. Stöger-Pollach, and J. Verbeeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 084801 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

Observation of Strong Oscillations of Areal Mass in an Unsupported Shock Wave

Y. Aglitskiy, M. Karasik, A. L. Velikovich, V. Serlin, J. Weaver, T. J. Kessler, A. J. Schmitt, S. P. Obenschain, N. Metzler, and J. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085001 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Observation of the Avalanche of Runaway Electrons in Air in a Strong Electric Field

A. V. Gurevich, G. A. Mesyats, K. P. Zybin, M. I. Yalandin, A. G. Reutova, V. G. Shpak, and S. A. Shunailov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085002 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Seed Laser Chirping for Enhanced Backward Raman Amplification in Plasmas

Z. Toroker, V. M. Malkin, and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085003 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Ultracold Fermionic Feshbach Molecules of ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{40}K$

Cheng-Hsun Wu, Jee Woo Park, Peyman Ahmadi, Sebastian Will, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085301 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Bose-Hubbard Models with Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling: Mott Insulators, Spin Textures, and Superfluidity

William S. Cole, Shizhong Zhang, Arun Paramekanti, and Nandini Trivedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085302 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Exotic Quantum Spin Models in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Mott Insulators

J. Radić, A. Di Ciolo, K. Sun, and V. Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085303 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Localized Phase Structures Growing Out of Quantum Fluctuations in a Quench of Tunnel-coupled Atomic Condensates

Clemens Neuenhahn, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and Florian Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085304 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Crystallization during Bending of a Pd-Based Metallic Glass Detected by X-Ray Microscopy

Alain Reza Yavari, Konstantinos Georgarakis, Jerzy Antonowicz, Mihai Stoica, Nobuyuki Nishiyama, Gavin Vaughan, Mingwei Chen, and Michel Pons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085501 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

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Monolithic Growth of Ultrathin Ge Nanowires on Si(001)

J. J. Zhang, G. Katsaros, F. Montalenti, D. Scopece, R. O. Rezaev, C. Mickel, B. Rellinghaus, L. Miglio, S. De Franceschi, A. Rastelli, and O. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085502 (2012) - Published 23 August, 2012

Dynamical Instability in Boolean Networks as a Percolation Problem

Shane Squires, Edward Ott, and Michelle Girvan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 085701 (2012) - Published 24 August, 2012

Microstructure Map for Self-Organized Phase Separation during Film Deposition

Yong Lu, Cuiping Wang, Yipeng Gao, Rongpei Shi, Xingjun Liu, and Yunzhi Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086101 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Three-Dimensional Electron Realm in ${VSe}_{2}$ by Soft-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Origin of Charge-Density Waves

Vladimir N. Strocov, Ming Shi, Masaki Kobayashi, Claude Monney, Xiaoqiang Wang, Juraj Krempasky, Thorsten Schmitt, Luc Patthey, Helmuth Berger, and Peter Blaha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086401 (2012) - Published 20 August, 2012

Insulator-Metal Transition in Highly Compressed NiO

Alexander G. Gavriliuk, Ivan A. Trojan, and Viktor V. Struzhkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086402 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Kondo Destruction and Valence Fluctuations in an Anderson Model

J. H. Pixley, Stefan Kirchner, Kevin Ingersent, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086403 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

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Breakdown of the Korringa Law of Nuclear Spin Relaxation in Metallic GaAs

Dominikus Kölbl, Dominik M. Zumbühl, Andreas Fuhrer, Gian Salis, and Santos F. Alvarado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086601 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012

Symmetry-Driven Novel Kondo Effect in a Molecule

Emi Minamitani, Noriyuki Tsukahara, Daisuke Matsunaka, Yousoo Kim, Noriaki Takagi, and Maki Kawai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 086602 (2012) - Published 22 August, 2012

Universal Heat Conduction in the Iron Arsenide Superconductor ${KFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Evidence of a $d$ -Wave State

J.-Ph. Reid, M. A. Tanatar, A. Juneau-Fecteau, R. T. Gordon, S. René de Cotret, N. Doiron-Leyraud, T. Saito, H. Fukazawa, Y. Kohori, K. Kihou, C. H. Lee, A. Iyo, H. Eisaki, R. Prozorov, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 087001 (2012) - Published 21 August, 2012