Volume 110, Issue 3

18 January 2013

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Position component of Wigner function flow: the figure shows its contours (floor) and projections along time (blue) and momentum (rose).

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Wigner Flow Reveals Topological Order in Quantum Phase Space Dynamics
Ole Steuernagel, Dimitris Kakofengitis, and Georg Ritter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030401 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Giant Plasticity of a Quantum Crystal

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035301 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

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Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions

Peter J. Yunker, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Alexei Borodin, D. J. Durian, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035501 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

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Strong Optical-Mechanical Coupling in a Vertical GaAs/AlAs Microcavity for Subterahertz Phonons and Near-Infrared Light

A. Fainstein, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, B. Jusserand, and B. Perrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037403 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

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Wigner Flow Reveals Topological Order in Quantum Phase Space Dynamics

Ole Steuernagel, Dimitris Kakofengitis, and Georg Ritter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030401 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

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Self-Assembled Nanowires with Giant Rashba Split Bands

Jewook Park, Sung Won Jung, Min-Cherl Jung, Hiroyuki Yamane, Nobuhiro Kosugi, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036801 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

LETTERS

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

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Wigner Flow Reveals Topological Order in Quantum Phase Space Dynamics

Ole Steuernagel, Dimitris Kakofengitis, and Georg Ritter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030401 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Structure of Multidimensional Entanglement in Multipartite Systems

Marcus Huber and Julio I. de Vicente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030501 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Security of Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution Against General Attacks

Anthony Leverrier, Raúl García-Patrón, Renato Renner, and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030502 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Observing the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of the Quantum Transverse-Field Ising Chain in Circuit QED

Oliver Viehmann, Jan von Delft, and Florian Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030601 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Chirality, Causality, and Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorems in Nonequilibrium Steady States

Chenjie Wang and D. E. Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 030602 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Symmetron Dark Energy in Laboratory Experiments

Amol Upadhye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 031301 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Magnetic Catalysis Versus Magnetic Inhibition

Kenji Fukushima and Yoshimasa Hidaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 031601 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Measurement of the $C P$ Asymmetry in $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 031801 (2013) - Published 17 January, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Pseudorapidity Density of Charged Particles in $p + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

B. Abelev et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 032301 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Search for Superscreening Effects in a Superconductor

P. Ujić, F. de Oliveira Santos, M. Lewitowicz, N. L. Achouri, M. Assié, B. Bastin, C. Borcea, R. Borcea, A. Buta, A. Coc, G. de France, O. Kamalou, J. Kiener, A. Lepailleur, V. Meot, A. Pautrat, M. G. Saint Laurent, O. Sorlin, M. Stanoiu, and V. Tatischeff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 032501 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Is $γ$ -Ray Emission from Novae Affected by Interference Effects in the ${}^{18}F (p, α) {}^{15}O$ Reaction?

A. M. Laird, A. Parikh, A. St. J. Murphy, K. Wimmer, A. A. Chen, C. M. Deibel, T. Faestermann, S. P. Fox, B. R. Fulton, R. Hertenberger, D. Irvine, J. José, R. Longland, D. J. Mountford, B. Sambrook, D. Seiler, and H.-F. Wirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 032502 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Charge Radius Isotope Shift Across the $N = 126$ Shell Gap

P. M. Goddard, P. D. Stevenson, and A. Rios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 032503 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Neutron Matter at Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in Chiral Effective Field Theory

I. Tews, T. Krüger, K. Hebeler, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 032504 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Self-Trapping in an Array of Coupled 1D Bose Gases

Aaron Reinhard, Jean-Félix Riou, Laura A. Zundel, David S. Weiss, Shuming Li, Ana Maria Rey, and Rafael Hipolito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033001 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Restoration of the Derivative Discontinuity in Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory: An Efficient Scheme for Energy Gap Correction

Jeng-Da Chai and Po-Ta Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033002 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

$g$ Factor of Lithiumlike Silicon ${}^{28}{Si}^{11 +}$

A. Wagner, S. Sturm, F. Köhler, D. A. Glazov, A. V. Volotka, G. Plunien, W. Quint, G. Werth, V. M. Shabaev, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033003 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Magnetically Stimulated Diffusion of Rydberg Gases

Yurii V. Dumin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033004 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Steering the Nuclear Motion in Singly Ionized Argon Dimers with Mutually Detuned Laser Pulses

J. Wu, M. Magrakvelidze, A. Vredenborg, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, A. Czasch, R. Dörner, and U. Thumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033005 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

High Harmonic Spectroscopy of the Cooper Minimum in Molecules

M. C. H. Wong, A.-T. Le, A. F. Alharbi, A. E. Boguslavskiy, R. R. Lucchese, J.-P. Brichta, C. D. Lin, and V. R. Bhardwaj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033006 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Electron Vortex Production and Control Using Aberration Induced Diffraction Catastrophes

T. C. Petersen, M. Weyland, D. M. Paganin, T. P. Simula, S. A. Eastwood, and M. J. Morgan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033901 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Topological Transition of Dirac Points in a Microwave Experiment

Matthieu Bellec, Ulrich Kuhl, Gilles Montambaux, and Fabrice Mortessagne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 033902 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Universal Chaotic Scattering on Quantum Graphs

Z. Pluhař and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 034101 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Drop Formation in Non-Newtonian Fluids

Mounir Aytouna, Jose Paredes, Noushine Shahidzadeh-Bonn, Sébastien Moulinet, Christian Wagner, Yacine Amarouchene, Jens Eggers, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 034501 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Oblique Laminar-Turbulent Interfaces in Plane Shear Flows

Yohann Duguet and Philipp Schlatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 034502 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Scale-Free Behavior of a 2D Complex Plasma During Rapid Cooling

C. A. Knapek, C. Durniak, D. Samsonov, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035001 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Giant Plasticity of a Quantum Crystal

Ariel Haziot, Xavier Rojas, Andrew D. Fefferman, John R. Beamish, and Sébastien Balibar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035301 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Controlling the Dynamics of an Open Many-Body Quantum System with Localized Dissipation

G. Barontini, R. Labouvie, F. Stubenrauch, A. Vogler, V. Guarrera, and H. Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035302 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Topological Wigner Crystal of Half-Solitons in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

H. Terças, D. D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035303 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

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Effects of Particle Shape on Growth Dynamics at Edges of Evaporating Drops of Colloidal Suspensions

Peter J. Yunker, Matthew A. Lohr, Tim Still, Alexei Borodin, D. J. Durian, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035501 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation and Effective Temperature Upon Heating a Deeply Supercooled Liquid

Nicoletta Gnan, Claudio Maggi, Giorgio Parisi, and Francesco Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035701 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Quantum Phase Transition in a Clean Two-Dimensional Electron System

T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 035702 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Forces During the Controlled Displacement of Organic Molecules

G. Langewisch, J. Falter, H. Fuchs, and A. Schirmeisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036101 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Structure of the Si(111)-( $5 \times 2$ )-Au Surface

Tadashi Abukawa and Yoshiki Nishigaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036102 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Blocking Growth by an Electrically Active Subsurface Layer: The Effect of Si as an Antisurfactant in the Growth of GaN

T. Markurt, L. Lymperakis, J. Neugebauer, P. Drechsel, P. Stauss, T. Schulz, T. Remmele, V. Grillo, E. Rotunno, and M. Albrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036103 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Superdiffusive Motion of the Pb Wetting Layer on the Si(111) Surface

K. L. Man, M. C. Tringides, M. M. T. Loy, and M. S. Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036104 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Self-Assembled Nanowires with Giant Rashba Split Bands

Jewook Park, Sung Won Jung, Min-Cherl Jung, Hiroyuki Yamane, Nobuhiro Kosugi, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036801 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Steady-State Coherent Transfer by Adiabatic Passage

Jan Huneke, Gloria Platero, and Sigmund Kohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036802 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Fermi Level Pinning by Gap States in Organic Semiconductors

S. Yogev, R. Matsubara, M. Nakamura, U. Zschieschang, H. Klauk, and Y. Rosenwaks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036803 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Visualizing Atomic-Scale Negative Differential Resistance in Bilayer Graphene

Keun Su Kim, Tae-Hwan Kim, Andrew L. Walter, Thomas Seyller, Han Woong Yeom, Eli Rotenberg, and Aaron Bostwick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 036804 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Effects of Disordered Ru Substitution in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Possible Realization of Superdiffusion in Real Materials

Limin Wang (王莉敏), Tom Berlijn, Yan Wang (王彦), Chia-Hui Lin (林佳輝), P. J. Hirschfeld, and Wei Ku (顧威)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037001 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Measurements of the Magnetic-Field-Tuned Conductivity of Disordered Two-Dimensional ${Mo}_{43} {Ge}_{57}$ and ${InO}_{x}$ Superconducting Films: Evidence for a Universal Minimum Superfluid Response

S. Misra, L. Urban, M. Kim, G. Sambandamurthy, and A. Yazdani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037002 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Measurement of Coherent Polarons in the Strongly Coupled Antiferromagnetically Ordered Iron-Chalcogenide ${Fe}_{1.02} Te$ using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Z. K. Liu, R.-H. He, D. H. Lu, M. Yi, Y. L. Chen, M. Hashimoto, R. G. Moore, S.-K. Mo, E. A. Nowadnick, J. Hu, T. J. Liu, Z. Q. Mao, T. P. Devereaux, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037003 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Stable Algebraic Spin Liquid in a Hubbard Model

S. R. Hassan, P. V. Sriluckshmy, Sandeep K. Goyal, R. Shankar, and David Sénéchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037201 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance at the Single-Atom Limit

N. Néel, S. Schröder, N. Ruppelt, P. Ferriani, J. Kröger, R. Berndt, and S. Heinze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037202 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Optical Conductivity Measurements of ${GaTa}_{4} {Se}_{8}$ Under High Pressure: Evidence of a Bandwidth-Controlled Insulator-to-Metal Mott Transition

V. Ta Phuoc, C. Vaju, B. Corraze, R. Sopracase, A. Perucchi, C. Marini, P. Postorino, M. Chligui, S. Lupi, E. Janod, and L. Cario

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037401 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Interfacing Spins in an InGaAs Quantum Dot to a Semiconductor Waveguide Circuit Using Emitted Photons

I. J. Luxmoore, N. A. Wasley, A. J. Ramsay, A. C. T. Thijssen, R. Oulton, M. Hugues, S. Kasture, V. G. Achanta, A. M. Fox, and M. S. Skolnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037402 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

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Strong Optical-Mechanical Coupling in a Vertical GaAs/AlAs Microcavity for Subterahertz Phonons and Near-Infrared Light

A. Fainstein, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, B. Jusserand, and B. Perrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037403 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Electronic Origin of Ultrafast Photoinduced Strain in ${BiFeO}_{3}$

Haidan Wen, Pice Chen, Margaret P. Cosgriff, Donald A. Walko, June Hyuk Lee, Carolina Adamo, Richard D. Schaller, Jon F. Ihlefeld, Eric M. Dufresne, Darrell G. Schlom, Paul G. Evans, John W. Freeland, and Yuelin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 037601 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Hydrodynamics of Confined Active Fluids

Tommaso Brotto, Jean-Baptiste Caussin, Eric Lauga, and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 038101 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Stability of Localized Wave Fronts in Bistable Systems

Steffen Rulands, Ben Klünder, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 038102 (2013) - Published 18 January, 2013

Dispersion of Self-Propelled Rods Undergoing Fluctuation-Driven Flips

Daisuke Takagi, Adam B. Braunschweig, Jun Zhang, and Michael J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 038301 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Correlated Dynamics of the Motion of Proton-Hole Wave Packets in a Photoionized Water Cluster

Zheng Li (李铮), Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, Oriol Vendrell, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 038302 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Implications of Relativity on Nonrelativistic Goldstone Theorems: Gapped Excitations at Finite Charge Density [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 011602 (2013)]

Alberto Nicolis and Federico Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 039901 (2013) - Published 14 January, 2013

Erratum: No-Go Theorem for Slowly Rotating Black Holes in Hor̆ava-Lifshitz Gravity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 181101 (2012)]

Enrico Barausse and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 039902 (2013) - Published 15 January, 2013

Erratum: Test of Low-Energy Theorems for ${}^{1}H (\vec{γ}, π^{0}) {}^{1}H$ in the Threshold Region [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 232501 (2001)]

A. Schmidt, P. Achenbach, J. Ahrens, H. J. Arends, R. Beck, A. M. Bernstein, V. Hejny, M. Kotulla, B. Krusche, V. Kuhr, R. Leukel, I. J. D. MacGregor, J. C. McGeorge, V. Metag, V. M. Olmos de León, F. Rambo, U. Siodlaczek, H. Ströher, Th. Walcher, J. Weiß, F. Wissmann, and M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 039903 (2013) - Published 17 January, 2013

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