Volume 110, Issue 4

25 January 2013

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Depth profile of a neutron star. Red type indicates how the predicted composition changes on the basis of a precision mass measurement of the neutron-rich isotope ⁸²Zn. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Plumbing Neutron Stars to New Depths with the Binding Energy of the Exotic Nuclide ${}^{82}{Zn}$
R. N. Wolf, D. Beck, K. Blaum, Ch. Böhm, Ch. Borgmann, M. Breitenfeldt, N. Chamel, S. Goriely, F. Herfurth, M. Kowalska, S. Kreim, D. Lunney, V. Manea, E. Minaya Ramirez, S. Naimi, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, J. Stanja, F. Wienholtz, and K. Zuber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041101 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Pinning of Fermionic Occupation Numbers

Christian Schilling, David Gross, and Matthias Christandl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040404 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

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Pseudospin-Resolved Transport Spectroscopy of the Kondo Effect in a Double Quantum Dot

S. Amasha, A. J. Keller, I. G. Rau, A. Carmi, J. A. Katine, Hadas Shtrikman, Y. Oreg, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046604 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

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Plumbing Neutron Stars to New Depths with the Binding Energy of the Exotic Nuclide ${}^{82}{Zn}$

R. N. Wolf, D. Beck, K. Blaum, Ch. Böhm, Ch. Borgmann, M. Breitenfeldt, N. Chamel, S. Goriely, F. Herfurth, M. Kowalska, S. Kreim, D. Lunney, V. Manea, E. Minaya Ramirez, S. Naimi, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, L. Schweikhard, J. Stanja, F. Wienholtz, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041101 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

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Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S.

A. Abramowski et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041301 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

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Single Ion Coupled to an Optical Fiber Cavity

Matthias Steiner, Hendrik M. Meyer, Christian Deutsch, Jakob Reichel, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043003 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

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Bright Laser-Driven Neutron Source Based on the Relativistic Transparency of Solids

M. Roth, D. Jung, K. Falk, N. Guler, O. Deppert, M. Devlin, A. Favalli, J. Fernandez, D. Gautier, M. Geissel, R. Haight, C. E. Hamilton, B. M. Hegelich, R. P. Johnson, F. Merrill, G. Schaumann, K. Schoenberg, M. Schollmeier, T. Shimada, T. Taddeucci, J. L. Tybo, F. Wagner, S. A. Wender, C. H. Wilde, and G. A. Wurden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 044802 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

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Quantum Heating of a Nonlinear Resonator Probed by a Superconducting Qubit

F. R. Ong, M. Boissonneault, F. Mallet, A. C. Doherty, A. Blais, D. Vion, D. Esteve, and P. Bertet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047001 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

LETTERS

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

Wick’s Theorem for Matrix Product States

R. Hübener, A. Mari, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040401 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Constraints on Short-Range Spin-Dependent Interactions from Scalar Spin-Spin Coupling in Deuterated Molecular Hydrogen

M. P. Ledbetter, M. V. Romalis, and D. F. Jackson Kimball

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040402 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Typical Local Measurements in Generalized Probabilistic Theories: Emergence of Quantum Bipartite Correlations

Matthias Kleinmann, Tobias J. Osborne, Volkher B. Scholz, and Albert H. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040403 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

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Pinning of Fermionic Occupation Numbers

Christian Schilling, David Gross, and Matthias Christandl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040404 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Integrability-Based Analysis of the Hyperfine-Interaction-Induced Decoherence in Quantum Dots

Alexandre Faribault and Dirk Schuricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040405 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Classical Capacity of Quantum Thermal Noise Channels to within 1.45 Bits

Robert König and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040501 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Improving Quantum Gate Fidelities by Using a Qubit to Measure Microwave Pulse Distortions

Simon Gustavsson, Olger Zwier, Jonas Bylander, Fei Yan, Fumiki Yoshihara, Yasunobu Nakamura, Terry P. Orlando, and William D. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040502 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Entanglement Replication in Driven Dissipative Many-Body systems

S. Zippilli, M. Paternostro, G. Adesso, and F. Illuminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040503 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Thermodynamics of a Physical Model Implementing a Maxwell Demon

Philipp Strasberg, Gernot Schaller, Tobias Brandes, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040601 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Plumbing Neutron Stars to New Depths with the Binding Energy of the Exotic Nuclide ${}^{82}{Zn}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041101 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

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Search for Photon-Linelike Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilations with H.E.S.S.

A. Abramowski et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041301 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Possibility of Testing the Light Dark Matter Hypothesis with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Dan Hooper and Wei Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041302 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Hard to Soft Pomeron Transition in Small- $x$ Deep Inelastic Scattering Data Using Optimal Renormalization

Martin Hentschinski, Agustín Sabio Vera, and Clara Salas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041601 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Consequences of Moduli Stabilization in the Einstein-Maxwell Landscape

César Asensio and Antonio Seguí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 041602 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Top-Quark Decay at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042001 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Polarization for Prompt $J / ψ$ and $ψ (2 s)$ Production at the Tevatron and LHC

Bin Gong, Lu-Ping Wan, Jian-Xiong Wang, and Hong-Fei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042002 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Azimuthal Anisotropy of Neutral Pions in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042301 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Nonthermal $p / π$ Ratio at LHC as a Consequence of Hadronic Final State Interactions

Jan Steinheimer, Jörg Aichelin, and Marcus Bleicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042501 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Crossover from Vibrational to Rotational Collectivity in Heavy Nuclei in the Shell-Model Monte Carlo Approach

C. Özen, Y. Alhassid, and H. Nakada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042502 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Isoscalar Monopole Resonance of the Alpha Particle: A Prism to Nuclear Hamiltonians

Sonia Bacca, Nir Barnea, Winfried Leidemann, and Giuseppina Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042503 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Fluctuations and Symmetry Energy in Nuclear Fragmentation Dynamics

M. Colonna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 042701 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Angular Correlation Between B K-VV Auger Electrons of ${BF}_{3}$ Molecules and Coincident Fragment Ions: Manifestation of the Difference Between the Angular Correlation and Molecular Frame Auger Electron Angular Distribution

T. Mizuno, J. Adachi, M. Kazama, M. Stener, P. Decleva, and A. Yagishita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043001 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Elliptical Polarization Favors Long Quantum Orbits in High-Order Above-Threshold Ionization of Noble Gases

XuanYang Lai, ChuanLiang Wang, YongJu Chen, ZiLong Hu, Wei Quan, XiaoJun Liu, Jing Chen, Ya Cheng, ZhiZhan Xu, and Wilhelm Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043002 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

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Single Ion Coupled to an Optical Fiber Cavity

Matthias Steiner, Hendrik M. Meyer, Christian Deutsch, Jakob Reichel, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043003 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Object Identification Using Correlated Orbital Angular Momentum States

Néstor Uribe-Patarroyo, Andrew Fraine, David S. Simon, Olga Minaeva, and Alexander V. Sergienko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043601 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Amplified X-Ray Emission from Core-Ionized Diatomic Molecules

Victor Kimberg and Nina Rohringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043901 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

High-Field Quantum Calculation Reveals Time-Dependent Negative Kerr Contribution

P. Béjot, E. Cormier, E. Hertz, B. Lavorel, J. Kasparian, J.-P. Wolf, and O. Faucher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 043902 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Human Time-Frequency Acuity Beats the Fourier Uncertainty Principle

Jacob N. Oppenheim and Marcelo O. Magnasco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 044301 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Spatiotemporal Control of Temperature in Nanostructures Heated by Coherent Laser Fields

Vassilios Yannopapas and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 044302 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Superradiant Cascade in a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

L. Giannessi, M. Bellaveglia, E. Chiadroni, A. Cianchi, M. E. Couprie, M. Del Franco, G. Di Pirro, M. Ferrario, G. Gatti, M. Labat, G. Marcus, A. Mostacci, A. Petralia, V. Petrillo, M. Quattromini, J. V. Rau, S. Spampinati, and V. Surrenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 044801 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

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Bright Laser-Driven Neutron Source Based on the Relativistic Transparency of Solids

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 044802 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Bright Betatronlike X Rays from Radiation Pressure Acceleration of a Mass-Limited Foil Target

Tong-Pu Yu (余同普), Alexander Pukhov, Zheng-Ming Sheng (盛政明), Feng Liu (刘峰), and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045001 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Generating Overcritical Dense Relativistic Electron Beams via Self-Matching Resonance Acceleration

B. Liu, H. Y. Wang, J. Liu, L. B. Fu, Y. J. Xu, X. Q. Yan, and X. T. He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045002 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Observation of a Critical Gradient Threshold for Electron Temperature Fluctuations in the DIII-D Tokamak

J. C. Hillesheim, J. C. DeBoo, W. A. Peebles, T. A. Carter, G. Wang, T. L. Rhodes, L. Schmitz, G. R. McKee, Z. Yan, G. M. Staebler, K. H. Burrell, E. J. Doyle, C. Holland, C. C. Petty, S. P. Smith, A. E. White, and L. Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045003 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Spontaneous Avalanche Ionization of a Strongly Blockaded Rydberg Gas

M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, C. S. Hofmann, H. Schempp, G. Günter, S. Whitlock, and M. Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045004 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ultracold Fermi Gases with Resonant Dipole-Dipole Interaction

T. Shi, S.-H. Zou, H. Hu, C.-P. Sun, and S. Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045301 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Fermion Pairing Across a Dipolar Interaction Induced Resonance

Ran Qi, Zhe-Yu Shi, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045302 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Double Universality of a Quantum Phase Transition in Spinor Condensates: Modification of the Kibble-Żurek Mechanism by a Conservation Law

Tomasz Świsłocki, Emilia Witkowska, Jacek Dziarmaga, and Michał Matuszewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 045303 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Role of Kinks in the Dynamics of Contact Lines Receding on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Anaïs Gauthier, Marco Rivetti, Jérémie Teisseire, and Etienne Barthel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046101 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bound States of Conical Singularities in Graphene-Based Topological Insulators

Andreas Rüegg and Chungwei Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046401 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Phonon-Induced Topological Transitions and Crossovers in Dirac Materials

Ion Garate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046402 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Emergence of a Common Energy Scale Close to the Orbital-Selective Mott Transition

Markus Greger, Marcus Kollar, and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046403 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Surface State Magnetization and Chiral Edge States on Topological Insulators

Fan Zhang, C. L. Kane, and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046404 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Generation of Pure Bulk Valley Current in Graphene

Yongjin Jiang, Tony Low, Kai Chang, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, and Francisco Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046601 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Nature of Tunable Hole $g$ Factors in Quantum Dots

N. Ares, V. N. Golovach, G. Katsaros, M. Stoffel, F. Fournel, L. I. Glazman, O. G. Schmidt, and S. De Franceschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046602 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Proximity Effects Induced in Graphene by Magnetic Insulators: First-Principles Calculations on Spin Filtering and Exchange-Splitting Gaps

H. X. Yang, A. Hallal, D. Terrade, X. Waintal, S. Roche, and M. Chshiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046603 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

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Pseudospin-Resolved Transport Spectroscopy of the Kondo Effect in a Double Quantum Dot

S. Amasha, A. J. Keller, I. G. Rau, A. Carmi, J. A. Katine, Hadas Shtrikman, Y. Oreg, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046604 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Integer Quantum Hall Effect for Bosons

T. Senthil and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046801 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Cooperative Modulation of Electronic Structures of Aromatic Molecules Coupled to Multiple Metal Contacts

Weihua Wang, Xingqiang Shi, Shiyong Wang, Jun Liu, Michel A. Van Hove, Pei Nian Liu, Rui-Qin Zhang, and Nian Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046802 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Charge Frustration in a Triangular Triple Quantum Dot

M. Seo, H. K. Choi, S.-Y. Lee, N. Kim, Y. Chung, H.-S. Sim, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046803 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

High-Pressure Core Structures of Si Nanoparticles for Solar Energy Conversion

S. Wippermann, M. Vörös, D. Rocca, A. Gali, G. Zimanyi, and G. Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046804 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Dispersive Readout of a Few-Electron Double Quantum Dot with Fast rf Gate Sensors

J. I. Colless, A. C. Mahoney, J. M. Hornibrook, A. C. Doherty, H. Lu, A. C. Gossard, and D. J. Reilly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046805 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Characterizing Disordered Fermion Systems Using the Momentum-Space Entanglement Spectrum

Ian Mondragon-Shem, Mayukh Khan, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046806 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Collimated Plasmon Beam: Nondiffracting versus Linearly Focused

L. Li, T. Li, S. M. Wang, and S. N. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 046807 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Heating of a Nonlinear Resonator Probed by a Superconducting Qubit

F. R. Ong, M. Boissonneault, F. Mallet, A. C. Doherty, A. Blais, D. Vion, D. Esteve, and P. Bertet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047001 (2013) - Published 22 January, 2013

Nonlocal Thermoelectric Effects and Nonlocal Onsager relations in a Three-Terminal Proximity-Coupled Superconductor-Ferromagnet Device

P. Machon, M. Eschrig, and W. Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047002 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013

Spin-State Transition in the Fe Pnictides

H. Gretarsson, S. R. Saha, T. Drye, J. Paglione, Jungho Kim, D. Casa, T. Gog, W. Wu, S. R. Julian, and Young-June Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047003 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Evolution from a Nodeless Gap to $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ -Wave in Underdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

E. Razzoli, G. Drachuck, A. Keren, M. Radovic, N. C. Plumb, J. Chang, Y.-B. Huang, H. Ding, J. Mesot, and M. Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047004 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Exact Matrix Product Solution for the Boundary-Driven Lindblad $X X Z$ Chain

D. Karevski, V. Popkov, and G. M. Schütz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047201 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Optical Probing of Ultrafast Electronic Decay in Bi and Sb with Slow Phonons

J. J. Li, J. Chen, D. A. Reis, S. Fahy, and R. Merlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047401 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Proposal for a Bosonic Cascade Laser

T. C. H. Liew, M. M. Glazov, K. V. Kavokin, I. A. Shelykh, M. A. Kaliteevski, and A. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047402 (2013) - Published 25 January, 2013

Field-Dependent Domain Distortion and Interlayer Polarization Distribution in ${PbTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Superlattices

Pice Chen, Margaret P. Cosgriff, Qingteng Zhang, Sara J. Callori, Bernhard W. Adams, Eric M. Dufresne, Matthew Dawber, and Paul G. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 047601 (2013) - Published 24 January, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Lifetime-Enhanced Transport in Silicon due to Spin and Valley Blockade [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 136602 (2011)]

G. P. Lansbergen, R. Rahman, J. Verduijn, G. C. Tettamanzi, N. Collaert, S. Biesemans, G. Klimeck, L. C. L. Hollenberg, and S. Rogge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 049901 (2013) - Published 23 January, 2013