Volume 111, Issue 14

4 October 2013

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Density profiles for composite fermion crystals on the surface of a sphere.

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Competing Crystal Phases in the Lowest Landau Level
Alexander C. Archer, Kwon Park, and Jainendra K. Jain
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146804 (2013)

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Detection of $B$ -Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope

D. Hanson et al. (SPTpol Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141301 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

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First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton

D. Androic et al. (Q_{weak} Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141803 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

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Quantum Metrology with a Scanning Probe Atom Interferometer

Caspar F. Ockeloen, Roman Schmied, Max F. Riedel, and Philipp Treutlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 143001 (2013) - Published 3 October, 2013

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Superconducting Vortex Lattices for Ultracold Atoms

O. Romero-Isart, C. Navau, A. Sanchez, P. Zoller, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145304 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

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Dual Lattice Simulation of the Abelian Gauge-Higgs Model at Finite Density: An Exploratory Proof of Concept Study

Ydalia Delgado Mercado, Christof Gattringer, and Alexander Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141601 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

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Chaotic Systems with Absorption

Eduardo G. Altmann, Jefferson S. E. Portela, and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 144101 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

LETTERS

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

Time Scales in the Approach to Equilibrium of Macroscopic Quantum Systems

Sheldon Goldstein, Takashi Hara, and Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 140401 (2013) - Published 1 October, 2013

Oblique Breathers Generated by a Flow of Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates Past a Polarized Obstacle

A. M. Kamchatnov and Y. V. Kartashov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 140402 (2013) - Published 3 October, 2013

Simple Manipulation of a Microwave Dressed-State Ion Qubit

S. C. Webster, S. Weidt, K. Lake, J. J. McLoughlin, and W. K. Hensinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 140501 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detection of $B$ -Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope

D. Hanson et al. (SPTpol Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141301 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dual Lattice Simulation of the Abelian Gauge-Higgs Model at Finite Density: An Exploratory Proof of Concept Study

Ydalia Delgado Mercado, Christof Gattringer, and Alexander Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141601 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

Search for the Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays $B_{s}^{0} \to e^{\pm} μ^{\mp}$ and $B^{0} \to e^{\pm} μ^{\mp}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141801 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor at Spacelike Momenta

L. Chang, I. C. Cloët, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt, and P. C. Tandy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141802 (2013) - Published 1 October, 2013

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First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton

D. Androic et al. (Q_{weak} Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141803 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Shape and Pairing Fluctuation Effects on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Nuclear Matrix Elements

Nuria López Vaquero, Tomás R. Rodríguez, and J. Luis Egido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 142501 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum Metrology with a Scanning Probe Atom Interferometer

Caspar F. Ockeloen, Roman Schmied, Max F. Riedel, and Philipp Treutlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 143001 (2013) - Published 3 October, 2013

Anomalous Ion Charge Distribution from Cluster Nanoplasmas

T. Madhu Trivikram, R. Rajeev, K. P. M. Rishad, J. Jha, and M. Krishnamurthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 143401 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Nuclear Polarization Corrections to the $μ {}^{4}{He}^{+}$ Lamb Shift

C. Ji, N. Nevo Dinur, S. Bacca, and N. Barnea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 143402 (2013) - Published 3 October, 2013

Optical Spin Squeezing: Bright Beams as High-Flux Entangled Photon Sources

Federica A. Beduini and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 143601 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Casimir Momentum of a Chiral Molecule in a Magnetic Field

M. Donaire, B. A. van Tiggelen, and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 143602 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Chaotic Systems with Absorption

Eduardo G. Altmann, Jefferson S. E. Portela, and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 144101 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Slow Stochastic Switching by Collective Chaos of Fast Elements

Hidetoshi Aoki and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 144102 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Synergetic Fluid Mixing from Viscous Fingering and Alternating Injection

Birendra Jha, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 144501 (2013) - Published 1 October, 2013

Influence of Droplet Geometry on the Coalescence of Low Viscosity Drops

A. Eddi, K. G. Winkels, and J. H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 144502 (2013) - Published 1 October, 2013

Axisymmetric Turbulent Wakes with New Nonequilibrium Similarity Scalings

J. Nedić, J. C. Vassilicos, and B. Ganapathisubramani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 144503 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Unraveling Quasiperiodic Relaxations of Transport Barriers with Gyrokinetic Simulations of Tokamak Plasmas

A. Strugarek, Y. Sarazin, D. Zarzoso, J. Abiteboul, A. S. Brun, T. Cartier-Michaud, G. Dif-Pradalier, X. Garbet, Ph. Ghendrih, V. Grandgirard, G. Latu, C. Passeron, and O. Thomine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145001 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Plasma Response to a Varying Degree of Stress

Ami M. DuBois, Edward Thomas, Jr., William E. Amatucci, and Gurudas Ganguli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145002 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Radial Localization of Toroidicity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes

Zhixuan Wang (王直轩), Zhihong Lin (林志宏), Ihor Holod, W. W. Heidbrink, Benjamin Tobias, Michael Van Zeeland, and M. E. Austin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145003 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quasiparticle Lifetime in Ultracold Fermionic Mixtures with Density and Mass Imbalance

Zhihao Lan, Georg M. Bruun, and Carlos Lobo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145301 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Analytic Solution of the Approach of Quantum Vortices Towards Reconnection

Laurent Boué, Dmytro Khomenko, Victor S. L’vov, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145302 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Three-Dimensional Anderson Localization in Variable Scale Disorder

W. R. McGehee, S. S. Kondov, W. Xu, J. J. Zirbel, and B. DeMarco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145303 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

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Superconducting Vortex Lattices for Ultracold Atoms

O. Romero-Isart, C. Navau, A. Sanchez, P. Zoller, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145304 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

Healing of Nanocracks by Disclinations

G. Q. Xu and M. J. Demkowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145501 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Chemical Functionalization of Silicene: Spontaneous Structural Transition and Exotic Electronic Properties

Bing Huang, H. J. Xiang, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145502 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Nonhysteretic Superelasticity of Shape Memory Alloys at the Nanoscale

Zhen Zhang, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Tetsuro Suzuki, Turab Lookman, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145701 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Continuum Theory of Phase Separation Kinetics for Active Brownian Particles

Joakim Stenhammar, Adriano Tiribocchi, Rosalind J. Allen, Davide Marenduzzo, and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145702 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

“Liquid-Gas” Transition in the Supercritical Region: Fundamental Changes in the Particle Dynamics

V. V. Brazhkin, Yu. D. Fomin, A. G. Lyapin, V. N. Ryzhov, E. N. Tsiok, and Kostya Trachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 145901 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

Load-Induced Confinement Activates Diamond Lubrication by Water

G. Zilibotti, S. Corni, and M. C. Righi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146101 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Rotational and Vibrational Excitations of a Hydrogen Molecule Trapped within a Nanocavity of Tunable Dimension

Shaowei Li (李绍巍), Arthur Yu, Freddy Toledo, Zhumin Han (韩竹敏), Hui Wang, H. Y. He, Ruqian Wu, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146102 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Exciton-Polariton Gap Solitons in Two-Dimensional Lattices

E. A. Cerda-Méndez, D. Sarkar, D. N. Krizhanovskii, S. S. Gavrilov, K. Biermann, M. S. Skolnick, and P. V. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146401 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Conductivity of Graphene with Resonant and Nonresonant Adsorbates

Guy Trambly de Laissardière and Didier Mayou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146601 (2013) - Published 1 October, 2013

Fundamental Differences between Quantum Spin Hall Edge States at Zigzag and Armchair Terminations of Honeycomb and Ruby Nets

Laura Cano-Cortés, Carmine Ortix, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146801 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Quantum Transport in Magnetic Topological Insulator Thin Films

Hai-Zhou Lu, An Zhao, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146802 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Engineering Topological Surface States: HgS, HgSe, and HgTe

François Virot, Roland Hayn, Manuel Richter, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146803 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Competing Crystal Phases in the Lowest Landau Level

Alexander C. Archer, Kwon Park, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 146804 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Excitation of Single Quasiparticles in a Small Superconducting Al Island Connected to Normal-Metal Leads by Tunnel Junctions

V. F. Maisi, S. V. Lotkhov, A. Kemppinen, A. Heimes, J. T. Muhonen, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147001 (2013) - Published 3 October, 2013

Chiral Edge States and Fractional Charge Separation in a System of Interacting Bosons on a Kagome Lattice

Xue-Feng Zhang (张学锋) and Sebastian Eggert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147201 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Interplay between Classical Magnetic Moments and Superconductivity in Quantum One-Dimensional Conductors: Toward a Self-Sustained Topological Majorana Phase

Bernd Braunecker and Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147202 (2013) - Published 1 October, 2013

Local Spin Relaxation within the Random Heisenberg Chain

J. Herbrych, J. Kokalj, and P. Prelovšek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147203 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Charge Ordering in a Pure Spin Model: Dipolar Spin Ice

R. A. Borzi, D. Slobinsky, and S. A. Grigera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147204 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Probing Real-Space and Time-Resolved Correlation Functions with Many-Body Ramsey Interferometry

Michael Knap, Adrian Kantian, Thierry Giamarchi, Immanuel Bloch, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147205 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

Metamaterial Transparency Induced by Cooperative Electromagnetic Interactions

Stewart D. Jenkins and Janne Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 147401 (2013) - Published 30 September, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Comment on “Physical Origin and Generic Control of Magnonic Band Gaps of Dipole-Exchange Spin Waves in Width-Modulated Nanostrip Waveguides”

K. Di, H. S. Lim, V. L. Zhang, M. H. Kuok, S. C. Ng, M. G. Cottam, and H. T. Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 149701 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

Lee, Han, and Kim Reply:

Ki-Suk Lee, Dong-Soo Han, and Sang-Koog Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 149702 (2013) - Published 2 October, 2013

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Interplay of the Kondo Effect and Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling in Multihole Ultraclean Carbon Nanotubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 136803 (2013)]

J. P. Cleuziou, N. V. N’Guyen, S. Florens, and W. Wernsdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 149901 (2013) - Published 3 October, 2013

Publisher’s Note: Entanglement of Interacting Fermions in Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 130402 (2013)]

Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 149902 (2013) - Published 4 October, 2013

Volume 111, Issue 14

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA