Volume 110, Issue 2

11 January 2013

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Top: Simulation of the surface of a 3D compressed soft solid layer with perfectly ordered I-shape (left) and Y-shape (right) sulcus or deformation patterns with alternating orientation. Bottom: Depth-averaged energy distributions of the I and Y patterns.

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Surface Sulci in Squeezed Soft Solids
T. Tallinen, J. S. Biggins, and L. Mahadevan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 024302 (2013)

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Universal Impurity-Induced Bound State in Topological Superfluids

Hui Hu, Lei Jiang, Han Pu, Yan Chen, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020401 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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Antilensing: The Bright Side of Voids

Krzysztof Bolejko, Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens, David Bacon, Nikolai Meures, and Emma Beynon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021302 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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First Evidence for the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021801 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

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Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link

K. C. Wright, R. B. Blakestad, C. J. Lobb, W. D. Phillips, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025302 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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Statistics of DNA Capture by a Solid-State Nanopore

Mirna Mihovilovic, Nicholas Hagerty, and Derek Stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028102 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

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Detecting Domain Walls of Axionlike Models Using Terrestrial Experiments

M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, M. P. Ledbetter, D. F. Jackson Kimball, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021803 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

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Coherent Spin Control by Electrical Manipulation of the Magnetic Anisotropy

Richard E. George, James P. Edwards, and Arzhang Ardavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027601 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

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Elastic and Conformational Softness of a Globular Protein

Liang Hong, Dennis C. Glass, Jonathan D. Nickels, Stefania Perticaroli, Zheng Yi, Madhusudan Tyagi, Hugh O’Neill, Qiu Zhang, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Jeremy C. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028104 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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Persistent Currents in Spinor Condensates

Scott Beattie, Stuart Moulder, Richard J. Fletcher, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025301 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

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Confined Bilayers Passively Regulate Shape and Stress

Margarita Staykova, Marino Arroyo, Mohammad Rahimi, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028101 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

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Full Alignment of Colloidal Objects by Programed Forcing

Brian Moths and T. A. Witten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028301 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

LETTERS

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

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Universal Impurity-Induced Bound State in Topological Superfluids

Hui Hu, Lei Jiang, Han Pu, Yan Chen, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020401 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

Fine-Grained Lower Limit of Entropic Uncertainty in the Presence of Quantum Memory

T. Pramanik, P. Chowdhury, and A. S. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020402 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Universal Contact for a Tonks-Girardeau Gas at Finite Temperature

Patrizia Vignolo and Anna Minguzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020403 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Quantum Maximum Entropy Principle for Fractional Exclusion Statistics

M. Trovato and L. Reggiani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020404 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Clausius Inequality and Optimality of Quasistatic Transformations for Nonequilibrium Stationary States

L. Bertini, D. Gabrielli, G. Jona-Lasinio, and C. Landim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020601 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Aging Effects and Population Splitting in Single-Particle Trajectory Averages

Johannes H. P. Schulz, Eli Barkai, and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020602 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Finite-Time Effects and Ultraweak Ergodicity Breaking in Superdiffusive Dynamics

Aljaž Godec and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020603 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

Size and Shape Dependence of Thermal Spin Transitions in Nanoislands

Pavel F. Bessarab, Valery M. Uzdin, and Hannes Jónsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 020604 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Implications of the Penetration Depth of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays on Physics at 100 TeV

Nimrod Shaham and Tsvi Piran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021101 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Do Stochastic Inhomogeneities Affect Dark-Energy Precision Measurements?

I. Ben-Dayan, M. Gasperini, G. Marozzi, F. Nugier, and G. Veneziano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021301 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

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Antilensing: The Bright Side of Voids

Krzysztof Bolejko, Chris Clarkson, Roy Maartens, David Bacon, Nikolai Meures, and Emma Beynon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021302 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scalar Glueball in Radiative $J / ψ$ Decay on the Lattice

Long-Cheng Gui, Ying Chen, Gang Li, Chuan Liu, Yu-Bin Liu, Jian-Ping Ma, Yi-Bo Yang, and Jian-Bo Zhang (CLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021601 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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First Evidence for the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021801 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Fourth Generation Parity

Hye-Sung Lee and Amarjit Soni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021802 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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Detecting Domain Walls of Axionlike Models Using Terrestrial Experiments

M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, M. P. Ledbetter, D. F. Jackson Kimball, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021803 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Observation of Two New $N^{*}$ Resonances in the Decay $ψ (3686) \to p \bar{p} π^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022001 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Electromagnetic Structure of the Proton, Pion, and Kaon by High-Precision Form Factor Measurements at Large Timelike Momentum Transfers

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022002 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Evidence for Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and $W$ Boson in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022003 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of $Z$ Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022301 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Neutron Capture Cross Section of Unstable ${}^{63}{Ni}$ : Implications for Stellar Nucleosynthesis

C. Lederer et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022501 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Three-Body Forces and Proton-Rich Nuclei

J. D. Holt, J. Menéndez, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022502 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Fine Structure of the Giant $M 1$ Resonance in ${}^{90}{Zr}$

G. Rusev, N. Tsoneva, F. Dönau, S. Frauendorf, R. Schwengner, A. P. Tonchev, A. S. Adekola, S. L. Hammond, J. H. Kelley, E. Kwan, H. Lenske, W. Tornow, and A. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022503 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Collective Structure in ${}^{94}{Zr}$ and Subshell Effects in Shape Coexistence

A. Chakraborty, E. E. Peters, B. P. Crider, C. Andreoiu, P. C. Bender, D. S. Cross, G. A. Demand, A. B. Garnsworthy, P. E. Garrett, G. Hackman, B. Hadinia, S. Ketelhut, Ajay Kumar, K. G. Leach, M. T. McEllistrem, J. Pore, F. M. Prados-Estévez, E. T. Rand, B. Singh, E. R. Tardiff, Z.-M. Wang, J. L. Wood, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022504 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Ab Initio Description of the Exotic Unbound ${}^{7}{He}$ Nucleus

Simone Baroni, Petr Navrátil, and Sofia Quaglioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 022505 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Frustrated Tunnel Ionization of Noble Gas Dimers with Rydberg-Electron Shakeoff by Electron Charge Oscillation

A. von Veltheim, B. Manschwetus, W. Quan, B. Borchers, G. Steinmeyer, H. Rottke, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 023001 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Time-Dependent Electron Interactions in Double Rydberg Wave Packets

X. Zhang, R. R. Jones, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 023002 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Single Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulse Generation by Intense Few Cycle Elliptically Polarized Laser Pulses and Terahertz Fields from Molecular Media

Kai-Jun Yuan and André D. Bandrauk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 023003 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Channel- and Angle-Resolved Above Threshold Ionization in the Molecular Frame

Jochen Mikosch, Andrey E. Boguslavskiy, Iain Wilkinson, Michael Spanner, Serguei Patchkovskii, and Albert Stolow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 023004 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Selective Bond Cleavage in Potassium Collisions with Pyrimidine Bases of DNA

Diogo Almeida, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Gustavo García, and Paulo Limão-Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 023201 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasticity and Fracture in Drying Colloidal Films

Lucas Goehring, William J. Clegg, and Alexander F. Routh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 024301 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Surface Sulci in Squeezed Soft Solids

T. Tallinen, J. S. Biggins, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 024302 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Effect of Target Material on Fast-Electron Transport and Resistive Collimation

S. Chawla, M. S. Wei, R. Mishra, K. U Akli, C. D. Chen, H. S. McLean, A. Morace, P. K. Patel, H. Sawada, Y. Sentoku, R. B. Stephens, and F. N. Beg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025001 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Astrophysics of Magnetically Collimated Jets Generated from Laser-Produced Plasmas

A. Ciardi, T. Vinci, J. Fuchs, B. Albertazzi, C. Riconda, H. Pépin, and O. Portugall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025002 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Alignment and Scaling of Large-Scale Fluctuations in the Solar Wind

R. T. Wicks, A. Mallet, T. S. Horbury, C. H. K. Chen, A. A. Schekochihin, and J. J. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025003 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Ion Kinetic Scale in the Solar Wind Observed

Jana Šafránková, Zdeněk Němeček, Lubomír Přech, and Georgy N. Zastenker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025004 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Persistent Currents in Spinor Condensates

Scott Beattie, Stuart Moulder, Richard J. Fletcher, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025301 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

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Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link

K. C. Wright, R. B. Blakestad, C. J. Lobb, W. D. Phillips, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025302 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

Quench, Equilibration, and Subaging in Structural Glasses

Mya Warren and Jörg Rottler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025501 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Superfragile Glassy Dynamics of a One-Component System with Isotropic Potential: Competition of Diffusion and Frustration

R. E. Ryltsev, N. M. Chtchelkatchev, and V. N. Ryzhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025701 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Direct Measurement of Room-Temperature Nondiffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane

Jeremy A. Johnson, A. A. Maznev, John Cuffe, Jeffrey K. Eliason, Austin J. Minnich, Timothy Kehoe, Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres, Gang Chen, and Keith A. Nelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025901 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Narrow Low-Frequency Spectrum and Heat Management by Thermocrystals

Martin Maldovan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025902 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Proton or Deuteron Transfer in Phase IV of Solid Hydrogen and Deuterium

Hanyu Liu and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025903 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Ab initio Lattice Thermal Conductivity of ${MgSiO}_{3}$ Perovskite as Found in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Haruhiko Dekura (出倉春彦), Taku Tsuchiya (土屋卓久), and Jun Tsuchiya (土屋旬)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 025904 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Confined Active Nematic Flow in Cylindrical Capillaries

Miha Ravnik and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026001 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

Nitridation of ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$ Surfaces: Chemical and Structural Change Triggered by Oxygen Desorption

Toru Akiyama, Yasutaka Saito, Kohji Nakamura, and Tomonori Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026101 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Diffusion of Small Molecules in Metal Organic Framework Materials

Pieremanuele Canepa, Nour Nijem, Yves J. Chabal, and T. Thonhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026102 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Initial Electrospreading of Aqueous Electrolyte Drops

Longquan Chen, Chunli Li, Nico F. A. van der Vegt, Günter K. Auernhammer, and Elmar Bonaccurso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026103 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Order-Disorder Oscillations in Exciton-Polariton Superfluids

Hiroki Saito, Tomohiko Aioi, and Tsuyoshi Kadokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026401 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Charge Fractionalization in a Mesoscopic Ring

Wade DeGottardi, Siddhartha Lal, and Smitha Vishveshwara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026402 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Heavy Antiferromagnetic Phases in Kondo Lattices

L. Isaev and I. Vekhter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026403 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Coulomb Drag in Graphene Near the Dirac Point

M. Schütt, P. M. Ostrovsky, M. Titov, I. V. Gornyi, B. N. Narozhny, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026601 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

NMR Probe of Metallic States in Nanoscale Topological Insulators

Dimitrios Koumoulis, Thomas C. Chasapis, Robert E. Taylor, Michael P. Lake, Danny King, Nanette N. Jarenwattananon, Gregory A. Fiete, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and Louis-S. Bouchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026602 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Photoinduced Topological Phase Transition and a Single Dirac-Cone State in Silicene

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026603 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Resonant Inelastic Light Scattering Investigation of Low-Lying Gapped Excitations in the Quantum Fluid at $ν = 5 / 2$

U. Wurstbauer, K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, and A. Pinczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026801 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy for Topological Insulators

Jian-Huang She, Jonas Fransson, A. R. Bishop, and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026802 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Carrier-Density-Controlled Anisotropic Spin Susceptibility of Two-Dimensional Hole Systems

T. Kernreiter, M. Governale, and U. Zülicke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026803 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Scattering Theory of Nonlinear Thermoelectric Transport

David Sánchez and Rosa López

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 026804 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Monte Carlo Study of an Unconventional Superconducting Phase in Iridium Oxide $J_{eff} = 1 / 2$ Mott Insulators Induced by Carrier Doping

Hiroshi Watanabe, Tomonori Shirakawa, and Seiji Yunoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027002 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

Predicted Multiple Cores of a Magnetic Vortex Threading a Two-Dimensional Metal Proximity Coupled to a Superconductor

N. B. Kopnin, I. M. Khaymovich, and A. S. Mel’nikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027003 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Emergent Superstructural Dynamic Order due to Competing Antiferroelectric and Antiferrodistortive Instabilities in Bulk ${EuTiO}_{3}$

Jong-Woo Kim, Paul Thompson, Simon Brown, Peter S. Normile, John A. Schlueter, Andrey Shkabko, Anke Weidenkaff, and Philip J. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027201 (2013) - Published 8 January, 2013

Superexchange-Mediated Ferromagnetic Coupling in Two-Dimensional Ni-TCNQ Networks on Metal Surfaces

N. Abdurakhmanova, T.-C. Tseng, A. Langner, C. S. Kley, V. Sessi, S. Stepanow, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027202 (2013) - Published 11 January, 2013

Measurement of the Ultrafast Spectral Diffusion of the Optical Transition of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Nano-Size Diamond Using Correlation Interferometry

Janik Wolters, Nikola Sadzak, Andreas W. Schell, Tim Schröder, and Oliver Benson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027401 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

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Coherent Spin Control by Electrical Manipulation of the Magnetic Anisotropy

Richard E. George, James P. Edwards, and Arzhang Ardavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027601 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Confined Bilayers Passively Regulate Shape and Stress

Margarita Staykova, Marino Arroyo, Mohammad Rahimi, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028101 (2013) - Published 9 January, 2013

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Statistics of DNA Capture by a Solid-State Nanopore

Mirna Mihovilovic, Nicholas Hagerty, and Derek Stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028102 (2013) - Published 7 January, 2013

From Flexible to Stiff: Systematic Analysis of Structural Phases for Single Semiflexible Polymers

Daniel T. Seaton, Stefan Schnabel, David P. Landau, and Michael Bachmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028103 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013

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Elastic and Conformational Softness of a Globular Protein

Liang Hong, Dennis C. Glass, Jonathan D. Nickels, Stefania Perticaroli, Zheng Yi, Madhusudan Tyagi, Hugh O’Neill, Qiu Zhang, Alexei P. Sokolov, and Jeremy C. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 028104 (2013) - Published 10 January, 2013