Volume 111, Issue 19

8 November 2013

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Model of an urban system showing the formation of polycenters triggered by congestion. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion.

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Modeling the Polycentric Transition of Cities
Rémi Louf and Marc Barthelemy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198702 (2013)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193601 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

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Predictability and Suppression of Extreme Events in a Chaotic System

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198701 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

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Modeling the Polycentric Transition of Cities

Rémi Louf and Marc Barthelemy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198702 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Model of an urban system showing the formation of polycenters triggered by congestion. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion.

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Doubly Transient Chaos: Generic Form of Chaos in Autonomous Dissipative Systems

Adilson E. Motter, Márton Gruiz, György Károlyi, and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 194101 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

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Realizing Broadbands of Strong Nonlinear Coupling in Nanoelectromechanical Electron Shuttles

Chulki Kim, Marta Prada, Gloria Platero, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197202 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

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Measurement of Form-Factor-Independent Observables in the Decay $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 191801 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

LETTERS

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

Quantum State Cloning Using Deutschian Closed Timelike Curves

Todd A. Brun, Mark M. Wilde, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 190401 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Spin Drag of a Fermi Gas in a Harmonic Trap

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 190402 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Detecting and Estimating Continuous-Variable Entanglement by Local Orthogonal Observables

Chengjie Zhang, Sixia Yu, Qing Chen, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 190501 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Critical Assessment of the Boltzmann Approach to Active Systems

Florian Thüroff, Christoph A. Weber, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 190601 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Transient Behavior of the Dynamically Ordered Phase in Uniaxial Cobalt Films

A. Berger, O. Idigoras, and P. Vavassori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 190602 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Nonlinear Response in the Driven Lattice Lorentz Gas

Sebastian Leitmann and Thomas Franosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 190603 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of Form-Factor-Independent Observables in the Decay $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 191801 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Evidence for $X (3872)$ from $D D^{*}$ Scattering on the Lattice

Sasa Prelovsek and Luka Leskovec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 192001 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Selective Probing of the OH or OD Stretch Vibration in Liquid Water Using Resonant Inelastic Soft-X-Ray Scattering

Yoshihisa Harada, Takashi Tokushima, Yuka Horikawa, Osamu Takahashi, Hideharu Niwa, Masaki Kobayashi, Masaharu Oshima, Yasunori Senba, Haruhiko Ohashi, Kjartan Thor Wikfeldt, Anders Nilsson, Lars G. M. Pettersson, and Shik Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193001 (2013) - Published 8 November, 2013

Excited States of Positronic Lithium and Beryllium

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193401 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

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Fiber-Optical Switch Controlled by a Single Atom

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193601 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Stimulated Emission Tomography

M. Liscidini and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193602 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Demonstration of High-Order Dispersion Cancellation with an Ultrahigh-Efficiency Sum-Frequency Correlator

Joseph M. Lukens, Amir Dezfooliyan, Carsten Langrock, Martin M. Fejer, Daniel E. Leaird, and Andrew M. Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193603 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Topological Shaping of Light by Closed-Path Nanoslits

Etienne Brasselet, Gediminas Gervinskas, Gediminas Seniutinas, and Saulius Juodkazis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 193901 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

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Doubly Transient Chaos: Generic Form of Chaos in Autonomous Dissipative Systems

Adilson E. Motter, Márton Gruiz, György Károlyi, and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 194101 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Hamiltonian Mechanics of Stochastic Acceleration

J. W. Burby, A. I. Zhmoginov, and H. Qin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 195001 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Emergence of Glasslike Dynamics for Dissipative and Strongly Interacting Bosons

Dario Poletti, Peter Barmettler, Antoine Georges, and Corinna Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 195301 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Orientation Relations During the $α$ - $ω$ Phase Transition of Zirconium: In Situ Texture Observations at High Pressure and Temperature

H.-R. Wenk, P. Kaercher, W. Kanitpanyacharoen, E. Zepeda-Alarcon, and Y. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 195701 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Edge States and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect from Umklapp Scattering

Jelena Klinovaja and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 196401 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

RKKY Interactions and the Anomalous Hall Effect in Metallic Rare-Earth Pyrochlores

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 196601 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

$γ − α$ Isostructural Transition in Cerium

Nicola Lanatà, Yong-Xin Yao, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Kai-Ming Ho, Jörg Schmalian, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 196801 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

First-Principles Calculations on the Effect of Doping and Biaxial Tensile Strain on Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene

Chen Si, Zheng Liu, Wenhui Duan, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 196802 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Correlated Conductance Fluctuations Close to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Ultrathin NbN Films

R. Koushik, Siddhartha Kumar, Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Mintu Mondal, John Jesudasan, Aveek Bid, Pratap Raychaudhuri, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197001 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Excitonic Magnetism in Van Vleck–type $d^{4}$ Mott Insulators

Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197201 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

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Realizing Broadbands of Strong Nonlinear Coupling in Nanoelectromechanical Electron Shuttles

Chulki Kim, Marta Prada, Gloria Platero, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197202 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

Prethermalization in a Nonintegrable Quantum Spin Chain after a Quench

Matteo Marcuzzi, Jamir Marino, Andrea Gambassi, and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197203 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Interlayer Magnetoresistance due to Chiral Soliton Lattice Formation in Hexagonal Chiral Magnet ${CrNb}_{3} S_{6}$

Y. Togawa, Y. Kousaka, S. Nishihara, K. Inoue, J. Akimitsu, A. S. Ovchinnikov, and J. Kishine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197204 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Measurement of a Reaction-Diffusion Crossover in Exciton-Exciton Recombination inside Carbon Nanotubes Using Femtosecond Optical Absorption

J. Allam, M. T. Sajjad, R. Sutton, K. Litvinenko, Z. Wang, S. Siddique, Q.-H. Yang, W. H. Loh, and T. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197401 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Measurement of the Nonlinear Conducting States of $α − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} I_{3}$ Using Electronic Raman Scattering

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 197801 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

Geometric Friction Directs Cell Migration

M. Le Berre, Yan-Jun Liu, J. Hu, Paolo Maiuri, O. Bénichou, R. Voituriez, Y. Chen, and M. Piel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198101 (2013) - Published 7 November, 2013

Self-Assembly of Colloidal Superstructures in Coherently Fluctuating Fields

Igor M. Kulić and Miodrag L. Kulić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198301 (2013) - Published 5 November, 2013

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predictability and Suppression of Extreme Events in a Chaotic System

Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante, Marcos Oriá, Didier Sornette, Edward Ott, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198701 (2013) - Published 4 November, 2013

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modeling the Polycentric Transition of Cities

Rémi Louf and Marc Barthelemy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 198702 (2013) - Published 6 November, 2013

Model of an urban system showing the formation of polycenters triggered by congestion. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion.