Volume 111, Issue 3

19 July 2013

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Experimental (left) and theoretical (right) streamlines of the velocity field obtained from shear-driven flow within lipid membrane vesicles. The arrow indicates the direction of the imposed shear flow.

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Membrane Viscosity Determined from Shear-Driven Flow in Giant Vesicles
Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Francis G. Woodhouse, Vasily Kantsler, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 038103 (2013)

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Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum Bell States and Their Verification via Accessible Nonlinear Witnesses

Megan Agnew, Jeff Z. Salvail, Jonathan Leach, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030402 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

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Maxwell’s Refrigerator: An Exactly Solvable Model

Dibyendu Mandal, H. T. Quan, and Christopher Jarzynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030602 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

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Probing Time-Dependent Molecular Dipoles on the Attosecond Time Scale

Ch. Neidel, J. Klei, C.-H. Yang, A. Rouzée, M. J. J. Vrakking, K. Klünder, M. Miranda, C. L. Arnold, T. Fordell, A. L’Huillier, M. Gisselbrecht, P. Johnsson, M. P. Dinh, E. Suraud, P.-G. Reinhard, V. Despré, M. A. L. Marques, and F. Lépine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033001 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

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Zeptosecond High Harmonic keV X-Ray Waveforms Driven by Midinfrared Laser Pulses

C. Hernández-García, J. A. Pérez-Hernández, T. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, and L. Plaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033002 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

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Stopped Light and Image Storage by Electromagnetically Induced Transparency up to the Regime of One Minute

Georg Heinze, Christian Hubrich, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033601 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

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Cancellation of Internal Quantum Noise of an Amplifier by Quantum Correlation

Jia Kong, F. Hudelist, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033608 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

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Time-Domain Measurements of Reflection Delay in Frustrated Total Internal Reflection

George M. Gehring, Andreas C. Liapis, Svetlana G. Lukishova, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030404 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

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Manipulating Polarization and Impedance Signature: A Reciprocal Field Transformation Approach

Fu Liu, Zixian Liang, and Jensen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033901 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

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Manipulating the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light at the Micron Scale with Nematic Disclinations in a Liquid Crystal Film

Charles Loussert, Ulysse Delabre, and Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 037802 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

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

Measurement of the He-McKellar-Wilkens Topological Phase by Atom Interferometry and Test of Its Independence with Atom Velocity

J. Gillot, S. Lepoutre, A. Gauguet, M. Büchner, and J. Vigué

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030401 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

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Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum Bell States and Their Verification via Accessible Nonlinear Witnesses

Megan Agnew, Jeff Z. Salvail, Jonathan Leach, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030402 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

Distribution of Scattering Matrix Elements in Quantum Chaotic Scattering

S. Kumar, A. Nock, H.-J. Sommers, T. Guhr, B. Dietz, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and F. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030403 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

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Time-Domain Measurements of Reflection Delay in Frustrated Total Internal Reflection

George M. Gehring, Andreas C. Liapis, Svetlana G. Lukishova, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030404 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Optimal Coherent Control to Counteract Dissipation

Simeon Sauer, Clemens Gneiting, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030405 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Device-Independent Entanglement Quantification and Related Applications

Tobias Moroder, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Martin Hofmann, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030501 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

Private Quantum Subsystems

Tomas Jochym-O’Connor, David W. Kribs, Raymond Laflamme, and Sarah Plosker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030502 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

Equivalence Relations for the Classical Capacity of Single-Mode Gaussian Quantum Channels

Joachim Schäfer, Evgueni Karpov, Raúl García-Patrón, Oleg V. Pilyavets, and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030503 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Dynamical Correction to Linear Kohn-Sham Conductances from Static Density Functional Theory

S. Kurth and G. Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030601 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

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Maxwell’s Refrigerator: An Exactly Solvable Model

Dibyendu Mandal, H. T. Quan, and Christopher Jarzynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 030602 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmology from Group Field Theory Formalism for Quantum Gravity

Steffen Gielen, Daniele Oriti, and Lorenzo Sindoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 031301 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Model Independent Determination of the Dark Matter Mass from Direct Detection Experiments

Bradley J. Kavanagh and Anne M. Green

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 031302 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Natural Higgs-Flavor-Democracy Solution of the $μ$ Problem of Supersymmetry and the QCD Axion

Jihn E. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 031801 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 031802 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Evidence of a New Narrow Resonance Decaying to $χ_{c 1} γ$ in $B \to χ_{c 1} γ K$

V. Bhardwaj et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 032001 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Determining the Higgs Spin and Parity in the Diphoton Decay Channel

Daniël Boer, Wilco J. den Dunnen, Cristian Pisano, and Marc Schlegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 032002 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Medium Modification of Jet Fragmentation in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ Measured in Direct Photon-Hadron Correlations

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 032301 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations with Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions

A. Gezerlis, I. Tews, E. Epelbaum, S. Gandolfi, K. Hebeler, A. Nogga, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 032501 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Radiative Capture Reactions in Lattice Effective Field Theory

Gautam Rupak and Dean Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 032502 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Probing Time-Dependent Molecular Dipoles on the Attosecond Time Scale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033001 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

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Zeptosecond High Harmonic keV X-Ray Waveforms Driven by Midinfrared Laser Pulses

C. Hernández-García, J. A. Pérez-Hernández, T. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, A. Jaron-Becker, A. Becker, and L. Plaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033002 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

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Stopped Light and Image Storage by Electromagnetically Induced Transparency up to the Regime of One Minute

Georg Heinze, Christian Hubrich, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033601 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

Description of van der Waals Interactions Using Transformation Optics

Rongkuo Zhao, Yu Luo, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033602 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Deterministic Superresolution with Coherent States at the Shot Noise Limit

Emanuele Distante, Miroslav Ježek, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033603 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Phase Estimation with Weak Measurement Using a White Light Source

Xiao-Ye Xu, Yaron Kedem, Kai Sun, Lev Vaidman, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033604 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Spin Controlled Optical Radiation Pressure

Georgiy Tkachenko and Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033605 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Dark Entangled Steady States of Interacting Rydberg Atoms

D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033606 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Preparation of Entangled and Antiferromagnetic States by Dissipative Rydberg Pumping

A. W. Carr and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033607 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

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Cancellation of Internal Quantum Noise of an Amplifier by Quantum Correlation

Jia Kong, F. Hudelist, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033608 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Manipulating Polarization and Impedance Signature: A Reciprocal Field Transformation Approach

Fu Liu, Zixian Liang, and Jensen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033901 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

PHz-wide Supercontinua of Nondispersing Subcycle Pulses Generated by Extreme Modulational Instability

F. Tani, J. C. Travers, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033902 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Interferometric Spectroscopy of Scattered Light Can Quantify the Statistics of Subdiffractional Refractive-Index Fluctuations

L. Cherkezyan, I. Capoglu, H. Subramanian, J. D. Rogers, D. Damania, A. Taflove, and V. Backman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033903 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Friction Between a Viscoelastic Body and a Rigid Surface with Random Self-Affine Roughness

Q. Li, M. Popov, A. Dimaki, A. E. Filippov, S. Kürschner, and V. L. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 034301 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Numerical Simulation of Ejected Molten Metal Nanoparticles Liquified by Laser Irradiation: Interplay of Geometry and Dewetting

S. Afkhami and L. Kondic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 034501 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Two-Phase Fluid Displacement and Interfacial Instabilities Under Elastic Membranes

Talal T. Al-Housseiny, Ivan C. Christov, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 034502 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Observation of Photons Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum in Undulator Radiation

J. Bahrdt, K. Holldack, P. Kuske, R. Müller, M. Scheer, and P. Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 034801 (2013) - Published 15 July, 2013

Hanbury Brown–Twiss Interferometry at a Free-Electron Laser

A. Singer, U. Lorenz, F. Sorgenfrei, N. Gerasimova, J. Gulden, O. M. Yefanov, R. P. Kurta, A. Shabalin, R. Dronyak, R. Treusch, V. Kocharyan, E. Weckert, W. Wurth, and I. A. Vartanyants

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 034802 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Seeding, Controlling, and Benefiting from the Microbunching Instability

S. Seletskiy, B. Podobedov, Y. Shen, and X. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 034803 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Pressure and Energy Balance of Stagnating Plasmas in $z$ -Pinch Experiments: Implications to Current Flow at Stagnation

Y. Maron, A. Starobinets, V. I. Fisher, E. Kroupp, D. Osin, A. Fisher, C. Deeney, C. A. Coverdale, P. D. Lepell, E. P. Yu, C. Jennings, M. E. Cuneo, M. C. Herrmann, J. L. Porter, T. A. Mehlhorn, and J. P. Apruzese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 035001 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Spatiotemporal Structures of Edge Limit-Cycle Oscillation before L-to-H Transition in the JFT-2M Tokamak

T. Kobayashi, K. Itoh, T. Ido, K. Kamiya, S.-I. Itoh, Y. Miura, Y. Nagashima, A. Fujisawa, S. Inagaki, K. Ida, and K. Hoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 035002 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Exploring the Complex World of Two-Dimensional Ordering with Three Modes

S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Zhi-Feng Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 035501 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Impact of van der Waals Interactions on Single Asperity Friction

Matthias Lessel, Peter Loskill, Florian Hausen, Nitya Nand Gosvami, Roland Bennewitz, and Karin Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 035502 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Domain Dynamics in Thin Solid Films Following Ultrashort Pulse Excitation

Jesse J. Dean, David W. Rench, Nitin Samarth, and Henry M. van Driel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 035701 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Capillary Breakup of Discontinuously Rate Thickening Suspensions

Pawel J. Zimoch, Gareth H. McKinley, and A. E. Hosoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036001 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Effects of Atomic Collisions on the Stoichiometry of Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Daniel M. Packwood, Susumu Shiraki, and Taro Hitosugi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036101 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Origin of Quantum Ring Formation During Droplet Epitaxy

Z. Y. Zhou, C. X. Zheng, W. X. Tang, J. Tersoff, and D. E. Jesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036102 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Interaction of a Contact Resonance of Microspheres with Surface Acoustic Waves

N. Boechler, J. K. Eliason, A. Kumar, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, and N. Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036103 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Stacking in Bulk and Bilayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Gabriel Constantinescu, Agnieszka Kuc, and Thomas Heine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036104 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Critical Terrace Width for Two-Dimensional Nucleation during Si Growth on Si(111)-( $7 \times 7$ ) Surface

D. I. Rogilo, L. I. Fedina, S. S. Kosolobov, B. S. Ranguelov, and A. V. Latyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036105 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Hidden Fermi Liquid, Scattering Rate Saturation, and Nernst Effect: A Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Perspective

Wenhu Xu, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036401 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Orbital Localization, Charge Transfer, and Band Gaps in Semilocal Density-Functional Theory

R. Armiento and S. Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036402 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Optimal Hubbard Models for Materials with Nonlocal Coulomb Interactions: Graphene, Silicene, and Benzene

M. Schüler, M. Rösner, T. O. Wehling, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036601 (2013) - Published 16 July, 2013

Anomalous Hall Effect from Frustration-Tuned Scalar Chirality Distribution in $\Pr_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

M. Udagawa and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036602 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Magnetic Control of Spin-Orbit Fields: A First-Principles Study of $Fe / GaAs$ Junctions

Martin Gmitra, Alex Matos-Abiague, Claudia Draxl, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036603 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Interactions in Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers with Copropagating Edge Channels

Luca Chirolli, Fabio Taddei, Rosario Fazio, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036801 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Modulation of Majorana-Induced Current Cross-Correlations by Quantum Dots

Björn Zocher and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036802 (2013) - Published 18 July, 2013

Anomalous Ground State of the Electrons in Nanoconfined Water

G. F. Reiter, Aniruddha Deb, Y. Sakurai, M. Itou, V. G. Krishnan, and S. J. Paddison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036803 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Self-Induced Torque in Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Pavel Ginzburg, Alexey V. Krasavin, Alexander N. Poddubny, Pavel A. Belov, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Anatoly V. Zayats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 036804 (2013) - Published 19 July, 2013

Wigner-Poisson Statistics of Topological Transitions in a Josephson Junction

C. W. J. Beenakker, J. M. Edge, J. P. Dahlhaus, D. I. Pikulin, Shuo Mi, and M. Wimmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 037001 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013

Strain-Induced Ferromagnetism in Antiferromagnetic ${LuMnO}_{3}$ Thin Films

J. S. White, M. Bator, Y. Hu, H. Luetkens, J. Stahn, S. Capelli, S. Das, M. Döbeli, Th. Lippert, V. K. Malik, J. Martynczuk, A. Wokaun, M. Kenzelmann, Ch. Niedermayer, and C. W. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 037201 (2013) - Published 17 July, 2013