Volume 111, Issue 26

27 December 2013

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On the Cover

Schematic view of the 3D edge-sharing network of VO_6 octahedra extracted from the experimentally determined low-temperature tetragonal phase structure of MgV₂O₄.

From the article:

$A$ -Type Antiferro-Orbital Ordering with $I 4_{1} / a$ Symmetry and Geometrical Frustration in the Spinel Vanadate ${MgV}_{2} O_{4}$
S. Niitaka, H. Ohsumi, K. Sugimoto, S. Lee, Y. Oshima, K. Kato, D. Hashizume, T. Arima, M. Takata, and H. Takagi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 267201 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Scale Anomalies in the Microwave Background: Causation and Correlation

Grigor Aslanyan and Richard Easther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 261301 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Individual Dopant Atoms in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Jinwoo Hwang, Jack Y. Zhang, Adrian J. D’Alfonso, Leslie J. Allen, and Susanne Stemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 266101 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

LETTERS

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

Breakdown of Quasilocality in Long-Range Quantum Lattice Models

Jens Eisert, Mauritz van den Worm, Salvatore R. Manmana, and Michael Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 260401 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Driving at the Quantum Speed Limit: Optimal Control of a Two-Level System

Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 260501 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Geometry-Induced Superdiffusion in Driven Crowded Systems

Olivier Bénichou, Anna Bodrova, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Pierre Illien, Adam Law, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, Gleb Oshanin, and Raphaël Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 260601 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Scale Anomalies in the Microwave Background: Causation and Correlation

Grigor Aslanyan and Richard Easther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 261301 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Action and Entanglement in Gravity and Field Theory

Yasha Neiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 261302 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anomaly Nucleation Constrains $S U (2)$ Gauge Theories

James Halverson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 261601 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Double Diffractive Cross-Section Measurement in the Forward Region at the LHC

G. Antchev et al. (TOTEM Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 262001 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Split Isobaric Analog State in ${}^{55}{Ni}$ : Case of Strong Isospin Mixing

Vandana Tripathi, S. L. Tabor, A. Volya, S. N. Liddick, P. C. Bender, N. Larson, C. Prokop, S. Suchyta, P.-L. Tai, and J. M. VonMoss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 262501 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Unified Approach to Probing Coulomb Effects in Tunnel Ionization for Any Ellipticity of Laser Light

A. S. Landsman, C. Hofmann, A. N. Pfeiffer, C. Cirelli, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 263001 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Role of Rotational Wave Packets in Strong Field Experiments

S. J. Weber, M. Oppermann, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 263601 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinearly Induced $P T$ Transition in Photonic Systems

Yaakov Lumer, Yonatan Plotnik, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 263901 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Phase Winding a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Elongated Trap: Experimental Observation of Moving Magnetic Orders and Dark-Bright Solitons

C. Hamner, Yongping Zhang, J. J. Chang, Chuanwei Zhang, and P. Engels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 264101 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Tuning Mie Scattering Resonances in Soft Materials with Magnetic Fields

Thomas Brunet, Kevin Zimny, Benoit Mascaro, Olivier Sandre, Olivier Poncelet, Christophe Aristégui, and Olivier Mondain-Monval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 264301 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Anomalous $k_{⊥}^{- 8 / 3}$ Spectrum in Electron Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Romain Meyrand and Sébastien Galtier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 264501 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Two Color Free-Electron Laser and Frequency Beating

F. Ciocci, G. Dattoli, S. Pagnutti, A. Petralia, E. Sabia, P. L. Ottaviani, M. Ferrario, F. Villa, and V. Petrillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 264801 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Convective Velocity Reversal Caused by Turbulence Transition in Tokamak Plasma

W. L. Zhong, X. L. Zou, C. Bourdelle, S. D. Song, J. F. Artaud, T. Aniel, and X. R. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 265001 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pair Correlations in the Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn, Jesper Levinsen, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 265301 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Dissipative Dynamics of a Driven Quantum Spin Coupled to a Bath of Ultracold Fermions

Michael Knap, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 265302 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Strain-Induced Formation of Fourfold Symmetric SiGe Quantum Dot Molecules

V. A. Zinovyev, A. V. Dvurechenskii, P. A. Kuchinskaya, and V. A. Armbrister

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 265501 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Competing Thermodynamic and Dynamic Factors Select Molecular Assemblies on a Gold Surface

Thomas K. Haxton, Hui Zhou, Isaac Tamblyn, Daejin Eom, Zonghai Hu, Jeffrey B. Neaton, Tony F. Heinz, and Stephen Whitelam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 265701 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Individual Dopant Atoms in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Jinwoo Hwang, Jack Y. Zhang, Adrian J. D’Alfonso, Leslie J. Allen, and Susanne Stemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 266101 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Ion Depletion Near a Solution Surface: Is Image-Charge Repulsion Sufficient?

Ulrich K. Krieger, Maurus Hess, Thomas Peter, Antonella Rossi, Nicholas D. Spencer, and William A. Lanford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 266102 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Hysteretic Melting Transition of a Soliton Lattice in a Commensurate Charge Modulation

Pin-Jui Hsu, Tobias Mauerer, Matthias Vogt, J. J. Yang, Yoon Seok Oh, S.-W. Cheong, Matthias Bode, and Weida Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 266401 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Electron Interactions and Gap Opening in Graphene Superlattices

Justin C. W. Song, Andrey V. Shytov, and Leonid S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 266801 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Effect of Coulomb Interaction on Microwave-Induced Magnetoconductivity Oscillations of Surface Electrons on Liquid Helium

Denis Konstantinov, Yuriy Monarkha, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 266802 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Observation of Incipient Charge Nematicity in ${Ba (Fe_{1 - X} Co_{X})}_{2} As_{2}$

Y. Gallais, R. M. Fernandes, I. Paul, L. Chauvière, Y.-X. Yang, M.-A. Méasson, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto, D. Colson, and A. Forget

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 267001 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

$A$ -Type Antiferro-Orbital Ordering with $I 4_{1} / a$ Symmetry and Geometrical Frustration in the Spinel Vanadate ${MgV}_{2} O_{4}$

S. Niitaka, H. Ohsumi, K. Sugimoto, S. Lee, Y. Oshima, K. Kato, D. Hashizume, T. Arima, M. Takata, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 267201 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Unraveling Orbital Hybridization of Triplet Emitters at the Metal-Organic Interface

Pascal R. Ewen, Jan Sanning, Nikos L. Doltsinis, Matteo Mauro, Cristian A. Strassert, and Daniel Wegner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 267401 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Terahertz Electron-Hole Recollisions in $GaAs / AlGaAs$ Quantum Wells: Robustness to Scattering by Optical Phonons and Thermal Fluctuations

Hunter Banks, Ben Zaks, Fan Yang, Shawn Mack, Arthur C. Gossard, Renbao Liu, and Mark S. Sherwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 267402 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Elasticity-Based Mechanism for the Collective Motion of Self-Propelled Particles with Springlike Interactions: A Model System for Natural and Artificial Swarms

Eliseo Ferrante, Ali Emre Turgut, Marco Dorigo, and Cristián Huepe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 268302 (2013) - Published 26 December, 2013

ERRATA

Erratum: Long-Range Hydration Effect of Lipid Membrane Studied by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 158102 (2011)]

Mafumi Hishida and Koichiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 269901 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013

Erratum: Spatial Organization of the Cell Cytoplasm by Position-Dependent Phase Separation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 088101 (2013)]

Chiu Fan Lee, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Jöbin Gharakhani, Anthony A. Hyman, and Frank Jülicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 269902 (2013) - Published 27 December, 2013