Volume 111, Issue 7

16 August 2013

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Ferromagnetic, artificial quasicrystal pattern formed in a permalloy thin film.

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Controlled Magnetic Reversal in Permalloy Films Patterned into Artificial Quasicrystals
V. S. Bhat, J. Sklenar, B. Farmer, J. Woods, J. T. Hastings, S. J. Lee, J. B. Ketterson, and L. E. De Long
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077201 (2013)

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Observation of Gigawatt-Class THz Pulses from a Compact Laser-Driven Particle Accelerator

A. Gopal, S. Herzer, A. Schmidt, P. Singh, A. Reinhard, W. Ziegler, D. Brömmel, A. Karmakar, P. Gibbon, U. Dillner, T. May, H-G. Meyer, and G. G. Paulus

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Motional Coherence of Fermions Immersed in a Bose Gas

R. Scelle, T. Rentrop, A. Trautmann, T. Schuster, and M. K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 070401 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

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Fractional Quantum Hall Phase Transitions and Four-Flux States in Graphene

Benjamin E. Feldman, Andrei J. Levin, Benjamin Krauss, Dmitry A. Abanin, Bertrand I. Halperin, Jurgen H. Smet, and Amir Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 076802 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

LETTERS

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

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Motional Coherence of Fermions Immersed in a Bose Gas

R. Scelle, T. Rentrop, A. Trautmann, T. Schuster, and M. K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 070401 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Impossibility of Spontaneously Rotating Time Crystals: A No-Go Theorem

Patrick Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 070402 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Quantum Enhanced Multiple Phase Estimation

Peter C. Humphreys, Marco Barbieri, Animesh Datta, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 070403 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

Characterizing Genuine Multisite Entanglement in Isotropic Spin Lattices

Himadri Shekhar Dhar, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 070501 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Exact Statistics of the Gap and Time Interval between the First Two Maxima of Random Walks and Lévy Flights

Satya N. Majumdar, Philippe Mounaix, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 070601 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Demonstrating the Feasibility of Probing the Neutron-Star Equation of State with Second-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Walter Del Pozzo, Tjonnie G. F. Li, Michalis Agathos, Chris Van Den Broeck, and Salvatore Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 071101 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

Precursor of Inflation

Inyong Cho, Hyeong-Chan Kim, and Taeyoon Moon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 071301 (2013) - Published 13 August, 2013

Superexponential Cutoff as a Probe of Annihilating Dark Matter

Alexander V. Belikov and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 071302 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

$N = 4$ Superconformal Bootstrap

Christopher Beem, Leonardo Rastelli, and Balt C. van Rees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 071601 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Mirror Energy Differences at Large Isospin Studied through Direct Two-Nucleon Knockout

P. J. Davies, M. A. Bentley, T. W. Henry, E. C. Simpson, A. Gade, S. M. Lenzi, T. Baugher, D. Bazin, J. S. Berryman, A. M. Bruce, C. Aa. Diget, H. Iwasaki, A. Lemasson, S. McDaniel, D. R. Napoli, A. Ratkiewicz, L. Scruton, A. Shore, R. Stroberg, J. A. Tostevin, D. Weisshaar, K. Wimmer, and R. Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 072501 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Addressing Two-Level Systems Variably Coupled to an Oscillating Field

Nir Navon, Shlomi Kotler, Nitzan Akerman, Yinnon Glickman, Ido Almog, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073001 (2013) - Published 13 August, 2013

Dynamics of Hollow Atom Formation in Intense X-Ray Pulses Probed by Partial Covariance Mapping

L. J. Frasinski et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073002 (2013) - Published 13 August, 2013

Understanding and Reducing Errors in Density Functional Calculations

Min-Cheol Kim, Eunji Sim, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073003 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

Vacuum-Assisted Generation and Control of Atomic Coherences at X-Ray Energies

Kilian P. Heeg, Hans-Christian Wille, Kai Schlage, Tatyana Guryeva, Daniel Schumacher, Ingo Uschmann, Kai S. Schulze, Berit Marx, Tino Kämpfer, Gerhard G. Paulus, Ralf Röhlsberger, and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073601 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Circuit QED Bright Source for Chiral Entangled Light Based on Dissipation

Fernando Quijandría, Diego Porras, Juan José García-Ripoll, and David Zueco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073602 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

Quantum Many-Body Dynamics in Optomechanical Arrays

Max Ludwig and Florian Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073603 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Wavelength Scaling of High Harmonic Generation Close to the Multiphoton Ionization Regime

Chien-Jen Lai, Giovanni Cirmi, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Shu-Wei Huang, Eduardo Granados, Phillip Keathley, Siddharth Bhardwaj, and Franz X. Kärtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073901 (2013) - Published 12 August, 2013

Asymmetric Molecular Imaging through Decoding Odd-Even High-Order Harmonics

Y. J. Chen, L. B. Fu, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073902 (2013) - Published 12 August, 2013

Three-Wave Mixing with Three Incoming Waves: Signal-Idler Coherent Attenuation and Gain Enhancement in a Parametric Amplifier

Flavius Schackert, Ananda Roy, Michael Hatridge, Michel H. Devoret, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073903 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

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Near-Infrared Metatronic Nanocircuits by Design

Humeyra Caglayan, Sung-Hoon Hong, Brian Edwards, Cherie R. Kagan, and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073904 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measuring the Orbital Angular Momentum of Electron Vortex Beams Using a Forked Grating

Koh Saitoh, Yuya Hasegawa, Kazuma Hirakawa, Nobuo Tanaka, and Masaya Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 074801 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

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Observation of Gigawatt-Class THz Pulses from a Compact Laser-Driven Particle Accelerator

A. Gopal, S. Herzer, A. Schmidt, P. Singh, A. Reinhard, W. Ziegler, D. Brömmel, A. Karmakar, P. Gibbon, U. Dillner, T. May, H-G. Meyer, and G. G. Paulus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 074802 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

Nonuniversal Power-Law Spectra in Turbulent Systems

V. Bratanov, F. Jenko, D. R. Hatch, and M. Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 075001 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Kinetic Theory of Plasma Sheaths Surrounding Electron-Emitting Surfaces

J. P. Sheehan, N. Hershkowitz, I. D. Kaganovich, H. Wang, Y. Raitses, E. V. Barnat, B. R. Weatherford, and D. Sydorenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 075002 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ranking the Stars: A Refined Pareto Approach to Computational Materials Design

Kurt Lejaeghere, Stefaan Cottenier, and Veronique Van Speybroeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 075501 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Tomography of Particle Plasmon Fields from Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Anton Hörl, Andreas Trügler, and Ulrich Hohenester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 076801 (2013) - Published 13 August, 2013

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Fractional Quantum Hall Phase Transitions and Four-Flux States in Graphene

Benjamin E. Feldman, Andrei J. Levin, Benjamin Krauss, Dmitry A. Abanin, Bertrand I. Halperin, Jurgen H. Smet, and Amir Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 076802 (2013) - Published 16 August, 2013

Edge Currents as a Signature of Flatbands in Topological Superconductors

Andreas P. Schnyder, Carsten Timm, and P. M. R. Brydon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077001 (2013) - Published 13 August, 2013

Controlled Magnetic Reversal in Permalloy Films Patterned into Artificial Quasicrystals

V. S. Bhat, J. Sklenar, B. Farmer, J. Woods, J. T. Hastings, S. J. Lee, J. B. Ketterson, and L. E. De Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077201 (2013) - Published 12 August, 2013

Role of Hyperfine Coupling in Magnetic and Quadrupolar Ordering of $\Pr_{3} {Pd}_{20} {Si}_{6}$

L. Steinke, K. Mitsumoto, C. F. Miclea, F. Weickert, A. Dönni, M. Akatsu, Y. Nemoto, T. Goto, H. Kitazawa, P. Thalmeier, and M. Brando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077202 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Electron-Mediated Relaxation Following Ultrafast Pumping of Strongly Correlated Materials: Model Evidence of a Correlation-Tuned Crossover between Thermal and Nonthermal States

B. Moritz, A. F. Kemper, M. Sentef, T. P. Devereaux, and J. K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077401 (2013) - Published 12 August, 2013

Polarization Selection Rules for Inter-Landau-Level Transitions in Epitaxial Graphene Revealed by the Infrared Optical Hall Effect

P. Kühne, V. Darakchieva, R. Yakimova, J. D. Tedesco, R. L. Myers-Ward, C. R. Eddy, Jr., D. K. Gaskill, C. M. Herzinger, J. A. Woollam, M. Schubert, and T. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077402 (2013) - Published 14 August, 2013

Orbital-Ordering-Induced Ferroelectricity in ${SrCrO}_{3}$

Kapil Gupta, Priya Mahadevan, Phivos Mavropoulos, and Marjana Ležaić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077601 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Controlling Self-Organizing Dynamics on Networks Using Models that Self-Organize

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 078701 (2013) - Published 12 August, 2013

COMMENTS

Comment on “Black Holes are Neither Particle Accelerators Nor Dark Matter Probes”

O. B. Zaslavskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 079001 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013

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Sean T. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 079002 (2013) - Published 15 August, 2013