Volume 110, Issue 9

1 March 2013

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Pictures of surface gravity waves observed on silicon oil in a cylindrical container that is vibrated vertically. Wave-crest patterns alternate between starlike (left) and pentagonal (right) shapes at increased vibration amplitude. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Observation of Star-Shaped Surface Gravity Waves
Jean Rajchenbach, Didier Clamond, and Alphonse Leroux
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 094502 (2013)

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Observation of Star-Shaped Surface Gravity Waves

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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Welding: Strength from Interfacial Entanglements

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Cooper Pairing Above the Critical Temperature in a Unitary Fermi Gas

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 090401 (2013) - Published 26 February, 2013

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Absence of Luttinger’s Theorem due to Zeros in the Single-Particle Green Function

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Universal Rephasing Dynamics after a Quantum Quench via Sudden Coupling of Two Initially Independent Condensates

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 090404 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

Multimode Dynamics and Emergence of a Characteristic Length Scale in a One-Dimensional Quantum System

M. Kuhnert, R. Geiger, T. Langen, M. Gring, B. Rauer, T. Kitagawa, E. Demler, D. Adu Smith, and J. Schmiedmayer

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Local Topological Order Inhibits Thermal Stability in 2D

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 090502 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

Test for Determining a Subdiffusive Model in Ergodic Systems from Single Trajectories

Yasmine Meroz, Igor M. Sokolov, and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 090601 (2013) - Published 25 February, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Stationary Axisymmetric and Slowly Rotating Spacetimes in Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 091101 (2013) - Published 25 February, 2013

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 091601 (2013) - Published 27 February, 2013

Thermodynamical Property of Entanglement Entropy for Excited States

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 091602 (2013) - Published 1 March, 2013

Implications of Higgs Searches on the Four-Generation Standard Model

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 091801 (2013) - Published 25 February, 2013

Nuclear Physics

$β$ -Delayed Neutron Spectroscopy Using Trapped Radioactive Ions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 092501 (2013) - Published 26 February, 2013

Tensor Interaction Limit Derived From the $α − β − \bar{ν}$ Correlation in Trapped ${}^{8}{Li}$ Ions

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Water Dimer Rotationally Resolved Millimeter-Wave Spectrum Observation at Room Temperature

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Impulsive Laser Induced Alignment of Molecules Dissolved in Helium Nanodroplets

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Observation of the Larmor and Gouy Rotations with Electron Vortex Beams

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Chimera States on a Flat Torus

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Exponentially Fast Thinning of Nanoscale Films by Turbulent Mixing

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Observation of Star-Shaped Surface Gravity Waves

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Faraday Waves under Time-Reversed Excitation

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Evolution of Beam Distribution in Crossing a Walkinshaw Resonance

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Single-Shot Coherent Diffraction Imaging of Microbunched Relativistic Electron Beams for Free-Electron Laser Applications

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Experimental Verification of Entropy Cascade in Two-Dimensional Electrostatic Turbulence in Magnetized Plasma

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Following Strain-Induced Mosaicity Changes of Ferroelectric Thin Films by Ultrafast Reciprocal Space Mapping

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Lifetimes of Confined Acoustic Phonons in Ultrathin Silicon Membranes

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Mechanism for the Compressive Strain Induced Oscillations in the Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes

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Finite-Size Supercell Correction for Charged Defects at Surfaces and Interfaces

Hannu-Pekka Komsa and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 095505 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

General Constitutive Model for Supercooled Liquids: Anomalous Transverse Wave Propagation

Hideyuki Mizuno and Ryoichi Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 095901 (2013) - Published 27 February, 2013

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Optical Trapping at Gigapascal Pressures

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Interrupted Self-Organization of SiGe Pyramids

Jean-Noël Aqua, Adrien Gouyé, Antoine Ronda, Thomas Frisch, and Isabelle Berbezier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096101 (2013) - Published 26 February, 2013

Solid-Liquid Interfacial Premelting

Yang Yang, Mark Asta, and Brian B. Laird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096102 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Correlated Topological Insulators with Mixed Valence

Feng Lu, JianZhou Zhao, Hongming Weng, Zhong Fang, and Xi Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096401 (2013) - Published 25 February, 2013

Absence of Spin Liquid in Nonfrustrated Correlated Systems

S. R. Hassan and David Sénéchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096402 (2013) - Published 26 February, 2013

Majorana Fermions in Spin-Singlet Nodal Superconductors with Coexisting Noncollinear Magnetic Order

Yuan-Ming Lu and Ziqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096403 (2013) - Published 27 February, 2013

Evolution of the Magnetic Structure in ${CeCu}_{5.5} {Au}_{0.5}$ under Pressure towards Quantum Criticality

A. Hamann, O. Stockert, V. Fritsch, K. Grube, A. Schneidewind, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096404 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

Spontaneous Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking for Spinless Fermions on a Triangular Lattice

O. Tieleman, O. Dutta, M. Lewenstein, and A. Eckardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096405 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

Interacting Drift-Diffusion Theory for Photoexcited Electron-Hole Gratings in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Ka Shen and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096601 (2013) - Published 25 February, 2013

Breakdown of the Interlayer Coherence in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Youngwook Kim, Hoyeol Yun, Seung-Geol Nam, Minhyeok Son, Dong Su Lee, Dong Chul Kim, S. Seo, Hee Cheul Choi, Hu-Jong Lee, Sang Wook Lee, and Jun Sung Kim

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Anomalous Pressure Effect in Heteroacene Organic Field-Effect Transistors

K. Sakai, Y. Okada, S. Kitaoka, J. Tsurumi, Y. Ohishi, A. Fujiwara, K. Takimiya, and J. Takeya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 096603 (2013) - Published 28 February, 2013

Superconducting Spin Switch with Infinite Magnetoresistance Induced by an Internal Exchange Field

Bin Li, Niklas Roschewsky, Badih A. Assaf, Marius Eich, Marguerite Epstein-Martin, Don Heiman, Markus Münzenberg, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 097001 (2013) - Published 25 February, 2013

Quantum Synchronization of Conjugated Variables in a Superconducting Device Leads to the Fundamental Resistance Quantization

A. M. Hriscu and Yu. V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 097002 (2013) - Published 26 February, 2013

Interlayer Coherence and Superconducting Condensate in the $c$ -Axis Response of Optimally Doped $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$ High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor Using Infrared Spectroscopy

S. J. Moon, A. A. Schafgans, M. A. Tanatar, R. Prozorov, A. Thaler, P. C. Canfield, A. S. Sefat, D. Mandrus, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 097003 (2013) - Published 26 February, 2013

Determining the Surface-To-Bulk Progression in the Normal-State Electronic Structure of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ by Angle-Resolved Photoemission and Density Functional Theory

C. N. Veenstra, Z.-H. Zhu, B. Ludbrook, M. Capsoni, G. Levy, A. Nicolaou, J. A. Rosen, R. Comin, S. Kittaka, Y. Maeno, I. S. Elfimov, and A. Damascelli

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