Volume 110, Issue 12

22 March 2013

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Depiction of a design for a directional 3D acoustic cloak for airborne sound. Surrounding the central cloaked object (a sphere of radius 4 cm) are 60 concentric acoustically rigid tori.

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Three-Dimensional Axisymmetric Cloak Based on the Cancellation of Acoustic Scattering from a Sphere
L. Sanchis, V. M. García-Chocano, R. Llopis-Pontiveros, A. Climente, J. Martínez-Pastor, F. Cervera, and J. Sánchez-Dehesa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124301 (2013)

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Experimental Observation of Dark Solitons on the Surface of Water

A. Chabchoub, O. Kimmoun, H. Branger, N. Hoffmann, D. Proment, M. Onorato, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124101 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

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Spin-Pump-Induced Spin Transport in $p$ -Type Si at Room Temperature

Eiji Shikoh, Kazuya Ando, Kazuki Kubo, Eiji Saitoh, Teruya Shinjo, and Masashi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127201 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Phonon Lasing in an Electromechanical Resonator

I. Mahboob, K. Nishiguchi, A. Fujiwara, and H. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127202 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Polar Volcanic Rocks

K. Bendtz, D. Milstead, H.-P. Hächler, A. M. Hirt, P. Mermod, P. Michael, T. Sloan, C. Tegner, and S. B. Thorarinsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121803 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

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Anomalous Modulation of a Zero-Bias Peak in a Hybrid Nanowire-Superconductor Device

A. D. K. Finck, D. J. Van Harlingen, P. K. Mohseni, K. Jung, and X. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126406 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

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Measurement-Based Quantum Computation on Symmetry Breaking Thermal States

Keisuke Fujii, Yoshifumi Nakata, Masayuki Ohzeki, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120502 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

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Cosmology Based on $f (R)$ Gravity Admits 1 eV Sterile Neutrinos

Hayato Motohashi, Alexei A. Starobinsky, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121302 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

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Jets and Photons

Stephen D. Ellis, Tuhin S. Roy, and Jakub Scholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122003 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Evidence for Strong van der Waals Type Rydberg-Rydberg Interaction in a Thermal Vapor

T. Baluktsian, B. Huber, R. Löw, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123001 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Noncoalescence in the Oblique Collision of Fluid Jets

Navish Wadhwa, Pavlos Vlachos, and Sunghwan Jung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124502 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Exotic Dense-Matter States Pumped by a Relativistic Laser Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Regime

J. Colgan, J. Abdallah, Jr., A. Ya. Faenov, S. A. Pikuz, E. Wagenaars, N. Booth, O. Culfa, R. J. Dance, R. G. Evans, R. J. Gray, T. Kaempfer, K. L. Lancaster, P. McKenna, A. L. Rossall, I. Yu. Skobelev, K. S. Schulze, I. Uschmann, A. G. Zhidkov, and N. C. Woolsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125001 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Counting Statistics for Electron Capture in a Dynamic Quantum Dot

Lukas Fricke, Michael Wulf, Bernd Kaestner, Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs, Janis Timoshenko, Pavel Nazarov, Frank Hohls, Philipp Mirovsky, Brigitte Mackrodt, Ralf Dolata, Thomas Weimann, Klaus Pierz, and Hans W. Schumacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126803 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

LETTERS

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

Maximally Epistemic Interpretations of the Quantum State and Contextuality

M. S. Leifer and O. J. E. Maroney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120401 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Dissipative Preparation of Spin Squeezed Atomic Ensembles in a Steady State

Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Johannes Otterbach, Eugene Demler, Vladan Vuletic, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120402 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Correlations between Detectors Allow Violation of the Heisenberg Noise-Disturbance Principle for Position and Momentum Measurements

Antonio Di Lorenzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120403 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Demonstrating a Driven Reset Protocol for a Superconducting Qubit

K. Geerlings, Z. Leghtas, I. M. Pop, S. Shankar, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, M. Mirrahimi, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120501 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Measurement-Based Quantum Computation on Symmetry Breaking Thermal States

Keisuke Fujii, Yoshifumi Nakata, Masayuki Ohzeki, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120502 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Quantum Information Processing with Nanomechanical Qubits

Simon Rips and Michael J. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120503 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Brownian Ratchet in a Thermal Bath Driven by Coulomb Friction

Andrea Gnoli, Alberto Petri, Fergal Dalton, Giorgio Pontuale, Giacomo Gradenigo, Alessandro Sarracino, and Andrea Puglisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 120601 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Model-Dependent High-Energy Neutrino Flux from Gamma-Ray Bursts

Bing Zhang and Pawan Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121101 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Shape from Sound: Toward New Tools for Quantum Gravity

David Aasen, Tejal Bhamre, and Achim Kempf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121301 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Cosmology Based on $f (R)$ Gravity Admits 1 eV Sterile Neutrinos

Hayato Motohashi, Alexei A. Starobinsky, and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121302 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

From the Planar Limit to M Theory

Tatsuo Azeyanagi, Mitsutoshi Fujita, and Masanori Hanada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121601 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Harmonic $R$ Matrices for Scattering Amplitudes and Spectral Regularization

Livia Ferro, Tomasz Łukowski, Carlo Meneghelli, Jan Plefka, and Matthias Staudacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121602 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Search for a Two-Higgs-Boson Doublet Using a Simplified Model in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121801 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Search for Resonant Top-Antitop Production in the Lepton Plus Jets Decay Mode Using the Full CDF Data Set

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121802 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Search for Magnetic Monopoles in Polar Volcanic Rocks

K. Bendtz, D. Milstead, H.-P. Hächler, A. M. Hirt, P. Mermod, P. Michael, T. Sloan, C. Tegner, and S. B. Thorarinsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 121803 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Onset Transition to Cold Nuclear Matter from Lattice QCD with Heavy Quarks

M. Fromm, J. Langelage, S. Lottini, M. Neuman, and O. Philipsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122001 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Factorization Theorem for High-Energy Scattering near the End Point

Junegone Chay and Chul Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122002 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

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Jets and Photons

Stephen D. Ellis, Tuhin S. Roy, and Jakub Scholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122003 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Impact of Tensor Force on $β$ Decay of Magic and Semimagic Nuclei

F. Minato and C. L. Bai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122501 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Direct Observation of Long-Lived Isomers in ${}^{212}{Bi}$

L. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122502 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Limited Asymmetry Dependence of Correlations from Single Nucleon Transfer

F. Flavigny, A. Gillibert, L. Nalpas, A. Obertelli, N. Keeley, C. Barbieri, D. Beaumel, S. Boissinot, G. Burgunder, A. Cipollone, A. Corsi, J. Gibelin, S. Giron, J. Guillot, F. Hammache, V. Lapoux, A. Matta, E. C. Pollacco, R. Raabe, M. Rejmund, N. de Séreville, A. Shrivastava, A. Signoracci, and Y. Utsuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 122503 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Evidence for Strong van der Waals Type Rydberg-Rydberg Interaction in a Thermal Vapor

T. Baluktsian, B. Huber, R. Löw, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123001 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Electrical Readout for Coherent Phenomena Involving Rydberg Atoms in Thermal Vapor Cells

D. Barredo, H. Kübler, R. Daschner, R. Löw, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123002 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Charge Oscillation Controlled Molecular Excitation

Tim Bayer, Hendrike Braun, Cristian Sarpe, Robert Siemering, Philipp von den Hoff, Regina de Vivie-Riedle, Thomas Baumert, and Matthias Wollenhaupt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123003 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Controlling Condensate Collapse and Expansion with an Optical Feshbach Resonance

Mi Yan, B. J. DeSalvo, B. Ramachandhran, H. Pu, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123201 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Observation of Backaction and Self-Induced Trapping in a Planar Hollow Photonic Crystal Cavity

Nicolas Descharmes, Ulagalandha Perumal Dharanipathy, Zhaolu Diao, Mario Tonin, and Romuald Houdré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123601 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Increased Photovoltaic Power Output via Diffractive Spectrum Separation

Ganghun Kim, Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero, Howard Lee, Daniel J. Friedman, and Rajesh Menon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123901 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Spatiotemporal Focusing Dynamics of Intense Supercontinuum THz Pulses

Clemens Ruchert, Carlo Vicario, and Christoph P. Hauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 123902 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

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Experimental Observation of Dark Solitons on the Surface of Water

A. Chabchoub, O. Kimmoun, H. Branger, N. Hoffmann, D. Proment, M. Onorato, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124101 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Three-Dimensional Axisymmetric Cloak Based on the Cancellation of Acoustic Scattering from a Sphere

L. Sanchis, V. M. García-Chocano, R. Llopis-Pontiveros, A. Climente, J. Martínez-Pastor, F. Cervera, and J. Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124301 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Inverse Cascades Sustained by the Transfer Rate of Angular Momentum in a 3D Turbulent Flow

Miguel López-Caballero and Javier Burguete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124501 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Noncoalescence in the Oblique Collision of Fluid Jets

Navish Wadhwa, Pavlos Vlachos, and Sunghwan Jung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124502 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

$DA Φ NE$ Operation with Electron-Cloud-Clearing Electrodes

D. Alesini, A. Drago, A. Gallo, S. Guiducci, C. Milardi, A. Stella, M. Zobov, S. De Santis, T. Demma, and P. Raimondi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 124801 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Exotic Dense-Matter States Pumped by a Relativistic Laser Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Regime

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125001 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Impact of Energetic-Particle-Driven Geodesic Acoustic Modes on Turbulence

D. Zarzoso, Y. Sarazin, X. Garbet, R. Dumont, A. Strugarek, J. Abiteboul, T. Cartier-Michaud, G. Dif-Pradalier, Ph. Ghendrih, V. Grandgirard, G. Latu, C. Passeron, and O. Thomine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125002 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Wannier Permanent Wave Functions for Featureless Bosonic Mott Insulators on the $1 / 3$ -Filled Kagome Lattice

S. A. Parameswaran, Itamar Kimchi, Ari M. Turner, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125301 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Metastable Criticality and the Super Tonks-Girardeau Gas

Miłosz Panfil, Jacopo De Nardis, and Jean-Sébastien Caux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125302 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Atomic Quantum Simulation of $U (N)$ and $SU (N)$ Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theories

D. Banerjee, M. Bögli, M. Dalmonte, E. Rico, P. Stebler, U.-J. Wiese, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125303 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Cold-Atom Quantum Simulator for SU(2) Yang-Mills Lattice Gauge Theory

Erez Zohar, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Benni Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125304 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Single Molecule Detection of Nanomechanical Motion

Vadim Puller, Brahim Lounis, and Fabio Pistolesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125501 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Structural Phase Transition and Magnetic-Field Effect on the Modulated Structure in $GdBaC o_{2} O_{5 + δ}$ ( $δ < 0.5$ )

T. Asaka, N. Abe, T. Kudo, K. Fukuda, K. Kimoto, Y. Matsui, N. Ishizawa, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125502 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

First-Order Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Cerium

A. Cadien, Q. Y. Hu, Y. Meng, Y. Q. Cheng, M. W. Chen, J. F. Shu, H. K. Mao, and H. W. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125503 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Entropic Commensurate-Incommensurate Transition

Nikolai Nikola, Daniel Hexner, and Dov Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 125701 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Microscopic Insight into Surface Wetting: Relations between Interfacial Water Structure and the Underlying Lattice Constant

Chongqin Zhu, Hui Li, Yongfeng Huang, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126101 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Photoinduced States in a Mott Insulator

Martin Eckstein and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126401 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Fractional Fermions with Non-Abelian Statistics

Jelena Klinovaja and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126402 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Piecewise Linearity of Approximate Density Functionals Revisited: Implications for Frontier Orbital Energies

Eli Kraisler and Leeor Kronik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126403 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Theory of the Magnetic and Metal-Insulator Transitions in $R {NiO}_{3}$ Bulk and Layered Structures

Bayo Lau and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126404 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Unconventional Fermi Surface Instabilities in the Kagome Hubbard Model

Maximilian L. Kiesel, Christian Platt, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126405 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

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Anomalous Modulation of a Zero-Bias Peak in a Hybrid Nanowire-Superconductor Device

A. D. K. Finck, D. J. Van Harlingen, P. K. Mohseni, K. Jung, and X. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126406 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Self-Heating, Bistability, and Thermal Switching in Organic Semiconductors

A. Fischer, P. Pahner, B. Lüssem, K. Leo, R. Scholz, T. Koprucki, K. Gärtner, and A. Glitzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126601 (2013) - Published 21 March, 2013

Quantum Heat Fluctuations of Single-Particle Sources

F. Battista, M. Moskalets, M. Albert, and P. Samuelsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126602 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Theory of Strong Coupling between Quantum Emitters and Propagating Surface Plasmons

A. González-Tudela, P. A. Huidobro, L. Martín-Moreno, C. Tejedor, and F. J. García-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126801 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Ab Initio Electronic Properties of Monolayer Phosphorus Nanowires in Silicon

D. W. Drumm, J. S. Smith, M. C. Per, A. Budi, L. C. L. Hollenberg, and S. P. Russo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126802 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Counting Statistics for Electron Capture in a Dynamic Quantum Dot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126803 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

Controllable Magnetic Doping of the Surface State of a Topological Insulator

T. Schlenk, M. Bianchi, M. Koleini, A. Eich, O. Pietzsch, T. O. Wehling, T. Frauenheim, A. Balatsky, J.-L. Mi, B. B. Iversen, J. Wiebe, A. A. Khajetoorians, Ph. Hofmann, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 126804 (2013) - Published 22 March, 2013

Superconductivity at the Onset of Spin-Density-Wave Order in a Metal

Yuxuan Wang and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127001 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013

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Spin-Pump-Induced Spin Transport in $p$ -Type Si at Room Temperature

Eiji Shikoh, Kazuya Ando, Kazuki Kubo, Eiji Saitoh, Teruya Shinjo, and Masashi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127201 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

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Phonon Lasing in an Electromechanical Resonator

I. Mahboob, K. Nishiguchi, A. Fujiwara, and H. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127202 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Deconfined Criticality in the Frustrated Heisenberg Honeycomb Antiferromagnet

R. Ganesh, Jeroen van den Brink, and Satoshi Nishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127203 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Large Zero-Field Cooled Exchange-Bias in Bulk ${Mn}_{2} PtGa$

A. K. Nayak, M. Nicklas, S. Chadov, C. Shekhar, Y. Skourski, J. Winterlik, and C. Felser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127204 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Weak Plaquette Valence Bond Order in the $S = 1 / 2$ Honeycomb $J_{1} - J_{2}$ Heisenberg Model

Zhenyue Zhu, David A. Huse, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127205 (2013) - Published 18 March, 2013

Magnetic State of Pyrochlore ${Cd}_{2} {Os}_{2} O_{7}$ Emerging from Strong Competition of Ligand Distortions and Longer-Range Crystalline Anisotropy

Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Rémi Maurice, Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Jeroen van den Brink, and Liviu Hozoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127206 (2013) - Published 19 March, 2013

Dynamical Splayed Ferromagnetic Ground State in the Quantum Spin Ice ${Yb}_{2} {Sn}_{2} O_{7}$

A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, P. Bonville, J. A. Hodges, V. Glazkov, L. Keller, V. Sikolenko, M. Bartkowiak, A. Amato, C. Baines, P. J. C. King, P. C. M. Gubbens, and A. Forget

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127207 (2013) - Published 20 March, 2013