Volume 110, Issue 19

10 May 2013

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Mechanically stable packing of grains with periodically spaced semicircular asperities, modeling the effects of friction near the jamming transition. Solid (striped) gray regions at the central particle's perimeter represent single (double) asperity contacts.

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Isostaticity at Frictional Jamming
Stefanos Papanikolaou, Corey S. O’Hern, and Mark D. Shattuck
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 198002 (2013)

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Nonlinear Quantum Optomechanics via Individual Intrinsic Two-Level Defects

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Experiments on Transformation Thermodynamics: Molding the Flow of Heat

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Effect of Growth Induced (Non)Stoichiometry on Interfacial Conductance in ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$

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Metamaterial Huygens’ Surfaces: Tailoring Wave Fronts with Reflectionless Sheets

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Circular Motion of Asymmetric Self-Propelling Particles

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Systematic All-Orders Method to Eliminate Renormalization-Scale and Scheme Ambiguities in Perturbative QCD

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Fundamental Vibration of Molecular Hydrogen

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Direct Observation of Nonaffine Tube Deformation in Strained Polymer Networks

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

Evidence for a Quantum-to-Classical Transition in a Pair of Coupled Quantum Rotors

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 190401 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Experimental Realization of Nonadiabatic Holonomic Quantum Computation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 190501 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

Asymptotically Optimal Approximation of Single Qubit Unitaries by Clifford and $T$ Circuits Using a Constant Number of Ancillary Qubits

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 190502 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

Electric Quantum Walks with Individual Atoms

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 190601 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Systematic All-Orders Method to Eliminate Renormalization-Scale and Scheme Ambiguities in Perturbative QCD

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Precise Predictions for Top-Quark–Plus–Missing-Energy Signatures at the LHC

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 192002 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Anisotropy of Photon Production: Initial Eccentricity or Magnetic Field

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 192301 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

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Spins, Electromagnetic Moments, and Isomers of ${}^{107 − 129}{Cd}$

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Optimized Chiral Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

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Proton-Proton Weak Capture in Chiral Effective Field Theory

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Single-Size Thermometric Measurements on a Size Distribution of Neutral Fullerenes

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Diametrically Driven Self-Accelerating Pulses in a Photonic Crystal Fiber

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 193901 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

Observation of Displacement Momentum in Normal and Chiral Dielectrics

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Inverse Energy Cascade and Emergence of Large Coherent Vortices in Turbulence Driven by Faraday Waves

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Rotating Polygon Instability of a Swirling Free Surface Flow

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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 195001 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

Physics of Stimulated $L \to H$ Transitions

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Kinetic Theory and Vlasov Simulation of Nonlinear Ion-Acoustic Waves in Multi-Ion Species Plasmas

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamical Critical Phenomena in Driven-Dissipative Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 195301 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Component Particle Structure in Heterogeneous Disordered Ensembles Extracted from High-Throughput Fluctuation X-Ray Scattering

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Magnetic Self-Organized Atomic Laminate from First Principles and Thin Film Synthesis

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Electromelting of Confined Monolayer Ice

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Experiments on Transformation Thermodynamics: Molding the Flow of Heat

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Chain Conformation in Polymer Nanocomposites with Uniformly Dispersed Nanoparticles

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196001 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

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Direct Observation of Nonaffine Tube Deformation in Strained Polymer Networks

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Substrate Mediated Short- and Long-Range Adsorption Patterns of CO on Ag(110)

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Multiterminal Coulomb-Majorana Junction

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Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Transport Through Co-Doped Au Chains

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Tunable Polaronic Conduction in Anatase ${TiO}_{2}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196403 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Chiral Phase Transition in Charge Ordered $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

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Electronic Phase Transition and an Anomalous Ordered Phase in ${Ba}_{2} {Ti}_{13} O_{22}$ with $3 d^{1}$ Ions on a Triangle-Based Lattice

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196405 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

From Excitonic to Photonic Polariton Condensate in a ZnO-Based Microcavity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196406 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Numerical Solution of the $t − J$ Model with Random Exchange Couplings in $d = \infty$ Dimensions

Junya Otsuki and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196407 (2013) - Published 10 May, 2013

Broken Symmetries, Zero-Energy Modes, and Quantum Transport in Disordered Graphene: From Supermetallic to Insulating Regimes

Alessandro Cresti, Frank Ortmann, Thibaud Louvet, Dinh Van Tuan, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196601 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Kosterlitz-Thouless-Type Transition in a Charge Ordered State of the Layered Organic Conductor $α − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} I_{3}$

S. Uji, K. Kodama, K. Sugii, Y. Takahide, T. Terashima, N. Kurita, S. Tsuchiya, M. Kohno, M. Kimata, K. Yamamoto, and K. Yakushi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196602 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in 2D Organic Topological Insulators

Z. F. Wang, Zheng Liu, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196801 (2013) - Published 6 May, 2013

Impact of Stoichiometry on the Electronic Structure of PbS Quantum Dots

Donghun Kim, Dong-Ho Kim, Joo-Hyoung Lee, and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196802 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Simultaneous Spin-Charge Relaxation in Double Quantum Dots

V. Srinivasa, K. C. Nowack, M. Shafiei, L. M. K. Vandersypen, and J. M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196803 (2013) - Published 8 May, 2013

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Effect of Growth Induced (Non)Stoichiometry on Interfacial Conductance in ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 196804 (2013) - Published 9 May, 2013

Model Evidence of a Superconducting State with a Full Energy Gap in Small Cuprate Islands

Annica M. Black-Schaffer, Dmitri S. Golubev, Thilo Bauch, Floriana Lombardi, and Mikael Fogelström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 197001 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

Controlling the Competition between Optically Induced Ultrafast Spin-Flip Scattering and Spin Transport in Magnetic Multilayers

Emrah Turgut, Chan La-o-vorakiat, Justin M. Shaw, Patrik Grychtol, Hans T. Nembach, Dennis Rudolf, Roman Adam, Martin Aeschlimann, Claus M. Schneider, Thomas J. Silva, Margaret M. Murnane, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Stefan Mathias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 197201 (2013) - Published 7 May, 2013

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