Volume 111, Issue 8

23 August 2013

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Simulation of bursting activity during the creep rupture of a heterogeneous material modeled by a fiber bundle. Fibers undergoing slow degradation (green) trigger bursts of immediate breaking (other colors); crack starts in the upper right corner.

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Temporal and Spacial Evolution of Bursts in Creep Rupture
Zsuzsa Danku and Ferenc Kun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084302 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observing Light-by-Light Scattering at the Large Hadron Collider

David d’Enterria and Gustavo G. da Silveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080405 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

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Cosmic-Ray Positron Energy Spectrum Measured by PAMELA

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081102 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

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Measurement of the Plasma Astrophysical $S$ Factor for the ${}^{3}{He} (d, p) {}^{4}{He}$ Reaction in Exploding Molecular Clusters

M. Barbui, W. Bang, A. Bonasera, K. Hagel, K. Schmidt, J. B. Natowitz, R. Burch, G. Giuliani, M. Barbarino, H. Zheng, G. Dyer, H. J. Quevedo, E. Gaul, A. C. Bernstein, M. Donovan, S. Kimura, M. Mazzocco, F. Consoli, R. De Angelis, P. Andreoli, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082502 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

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Multiaxis Inertial Sensing with Long-Time Point Source Atom Interferometry

Susannah M. Dickerson, Jason M. Hogan, Alex Sugarbaker, David M. S. Johnson, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083001 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

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Emulating Solid-State Physics with a Hybrid System of Ultracold Ions and Atoms

U. Bissbort, D. Cocks, A. Negretti, Z. Idziaszek, T. Calarco, F. Schmidt-Kaler, W. Hofstetter, and R. Gerritsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080501 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

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Toward Quantum Processing in Molecules: A THz-Bandwidth Coherent Memory for Light

Philip J. Bustard, Rune Lausten, Duncan G. England, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083901 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

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Evidence for a Magnetic Seebeck Effect

Sylvain D. Brechet, Francesco A. Vetro, Elisa Papa, Stewart E. Barnes, and Jean-Philippe Ansermet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087205 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

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Nondestructive Measurement of Nuclear Magnetization by Off-Resonant Faraday Rotation

R. Giri, S. Cronenberger, M. M. Glazov, K. V. Kavokin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, M. Vladimirova, and D. Scalbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087603 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

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Path-Based Approach to Random Walks on Networks Characterizes How Proteins Evolve New Functions

Michael Manhart and Alexandre V. Morozov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 088102 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

LETTERS

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

Elementary Excitations in Gapped Quantum Spin Systems

Jutho Haegeman, Spyridon Michalakis, Bruno Nachtergaele, Tobias J. Osborne, Norbert Schuch, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080401 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Universality in the Full Counting Statistics of Trapped Fermions

Viktor Eisler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080402 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Information-Theoretic Equilibration: The Appearance of Irreversibility under Complex Quantum Dynamics

Cozmin Ududec, Nathan Wiebe, and Joseph Emerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080403 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Coherent Dynamical Recoupling of Diffusion-Driven Decoherence in Magnetic Resonance

Gonzalo A. Álvarez, Noam Shemesh, and Lucio Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080404 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

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Observing Light-by-Light Scattering at the Large Hadron Collider

David d’Enterria and Gustavo G. da Silveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080405 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

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Emulating Solid-State Physics with a Hybrid System of Ultracold Ions and Atoms

U. Bissbort, D. Cocks, A. Negretti, Z. Idziaszek, T. Calarco, F. Schmidt-Kaler, W. Hofstetter, and R. Gerritsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080501 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Coherent Josephson Qubit Suitable for Scalable Quantum Integrated Circuits

R. Barends, J. Kelly, A. Megrant, D. Sank, E. Jeffrey, Y. Chen, Y. Yin, B. Chiaro, J. Mutus, C. Neill, P. O’Malley, P. Roushan, J. Wenner, T. C. White, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080502 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Long-Range Entanglement Is Necessary for a Topological Storage of Quantum Information

Isaac H. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080503 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Quasilocal Conserved Charges in a Covariant Theory of Gravity

Wontae Kim, Shailesh Kulkarni, and Sang-Heon Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081101 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

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Cosmic-Ray Positron Energy Spectrum Measured by PAMELA

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081102 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Dislocations in Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in a Stellar Atmosphere

A. López Ariste, M. Collados, and E. Khomenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081103 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Lattice QCD in Rotating Frames

Arata Yamamoto and Yuji Hirono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081601 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081801 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Inclusive Search for Supersymmetry Using Razor Variables in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 081802 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Strangeness at High Temperatures: From Hadrons to Quarks

A. Bazavov, H.-T. Ding, P. Hegde, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Y. Maezawa, Swagato Mukherjee, H. Ohno, P. Petreczky, C. Schmidt, S. Sharma, W. Soeldner, and M. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082301 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Hadron Formation in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions and the QCD Phase Diagram

Francesco Becattini, Marcus Bleicher, Thorsten Kollegger, Tim Schuster, Jan Steinheimer, and Reinhard Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082302 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Measurements of Parity-Violating Asymmetries in Electron-Deuteron Scattering in the Nucleon Resonance Region

D. Wang et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082501 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

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Measurement of the Plasma Astrophysical $S$ Factor for the ${}^{3}{He} (d, p) {}^{4}{He}$ Reaction in Exploding Molecular Clusters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082502 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Towards a Microscopic Description of Reactions Involving Exotic Nuclei

P. Descouvemont and M. S. Hussein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 082701 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Multiaxis Inertial Sensing with Long-Time Point Source Atom Interferometry

Susannah M. Dickerson, Jason M. Hogan, Alex Sugarbaker, David M. S. Johnson, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083001 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

State-Dependent Electron Delocalization Dynamics at the Solute-Solvent Interface: Soft-X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculations

Sergey I. Bokarev, Marcus Dantz, Edlira Suljoti, Oliver Kühn, and Emad F. Aziz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083002 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Strong Field Multiple Ionization as a Route to Electron Dynamics in a van der Waals Cluster

J. Wu, X. Gong, M. Kunitski, F. K. Amankona-Diawuo, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, A. Czasch, T. Seideman, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083003 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Single-Photon Laser-Enabled Auger Spectroscopy for Measuring Attosecond Electron-Hole Dynamics

Bridgette Cooper and Vitali Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083004 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Parametric Down-Conversion and Polariton Pair Generation in Optomechanical Systems

Yong-Chun Liu, Yun-Feng Xiao, You-Ling Chen, Xiao-Chong Yu, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083601 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Attosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Vortices from High-Order Harmonic Generation

Carlos Hernández-García, Antonio Picón, Julio San Román, and Luis Plaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083602 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Toward Quantum Processing in Molecules: A THz-Bandwidth Coherent Memory for Light

Philip J. Bustard, Rune Lausten, Duncan G. England, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 083901 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Observation of Locked Phase Dynamics and Enhanced Frequency Stability in Synchronized Micromechanical Oscillators

Deepak K. Agrawal, Jim Woodhouse, and Ashwin A. Seshia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084101 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Puckering Stick-Slip Friction Induced by a Sliding Nanoscale Contact

M. V. Rastei, B. Heinrich, and J. L. Gallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084301 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Temporal and Spacial Evolution of Bursts in Creep Rupture

Zsuzsa Danku and Ferenc Kun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084302 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Three-Dimensional Vortices Generated by Self-Replication in Stably Stratified Rotating Shear Flows

Philip S. Marcus, Suyang Pei, Chung-Hsiang Jiang, and Pedram Hassanzadeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084501 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Using Off-Resonance Laser Modulation for Beam-Energy-Spread Cooling in Generation of Short-Wavelength Radiation

Haixiao Deng and Chao Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084801 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Microbunched Electron Cooling for High-Energy Hadron Beams

D. Ratner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 084802 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Generation and Bistability of a Waveguide Nanoplasma Observed by Enhanced Extreme-Ultraviolet Fluorescence

Murat Sivis and Claus Ropers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085001 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Experimental-like Helical Self-Organization in Reversed-Field Pinch Modeling

D. Bonfiglio, M. Veranda, S. Cappello, D. F. Escande, and L. Chacón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085002 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Experimental Characterization of the Stagnation Layer between Two Obliquely Merging Supersonic Plasma Jets

E. C. Merritt, A. L. Moser, S. C. Hsu, J. Loverich, and M. Gilmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085003 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Onset of Hydrodynamic Mix in High-Velocity, Highly Compressed Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

T. Ma et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085004 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Optical Transverse Injection in Laser-Plasma Acceleration

R. Lehe, A. F. Lifschitz, X. Davoine, C. Thaury, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085005 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Strains Induced by Point Defects in Graphene on a Metal

Nils Blanc, Fabien Jean, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Gilles Renaud, and Johann Coraux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085501 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Observation of Rayleigh Phonon Scattering through Excitation of Extremely High Overtones in Low-Loss Cryogenic Acoustic Cavities for Hybrid Quantum Systems

Maxim Goryachev, Daniel L. Creedon, Serge Galliou, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085502 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Interlayer Carbon Bond Formation Induced by Hydrogen Adsorption in Few-Layer Supported Graphene

Srivats Rajasekaran, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Hirohito Ogasawara, Anders Nilsson, and Sarp Kaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085503 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Magnetic Correlations in Short and Narrow Graphene Armchair Nanoribbons

Michael Golor, Cornelie Koop, Thomas C. Lang, Stefan Wessel, and Manuel J. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085504 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

“Magic” Vicinal Zinc Oxide Surfaces

Hao Zheng, Markus Gruyters, Eckhard Pehlke, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086101 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Temperature Effects in the Vibrational Spectra of Self-Assembled Monolayers

Katrin Forster-Tonigold, Xia Stammer, Christof Wöll, and Axel Groß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086102 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Localization at the Edge of a 2D Topological Insulator by Kondo Impurities with Random Anisotropies

B. L. Altshuler, I. L. Aleiner, and V. I. Yudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086401 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Kondo Memory in Driven Strongly Correlated Quantum Dots

Xiao Zheng, YiJing Yan, and Massimiliano Di Ventra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086601 (2013) - Published 19 August, 2013

Substituent-Induced Intermolecular Interaction in Organic Crystals Revealed by Precise Band-Dispersion Measurements

Hiroyuki Yamane and Nobuhiro Kosugi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086602 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Difference Between Far-Infrared Photoconductivity Spectroscopy and Absorption Spectroscopy: Theoretical Evidence of the Electron Reservoir Mechanism

Tadashi Toyoda, Maho Fujita, Tomohisa Uchida, Nobuyoshi Hiraiwa, Taturo Fukuda, Hideki Koizumi, and Chao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086801 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

In-Plane Magnetization-Induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect

Xin Liu, Hsiu-Chuan Hsu, and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086802 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Anomalous Edge Transport in the Quantum Anomalous Hall State

Jing Wang, Biao Lian, Haijun Zhang, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086803 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Chiral Superfluid States in Hybrid Graphene Heterostructures

Junhua Zhang and E. Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086804 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Controlling a Nanowire Spin-Orbit Qubit via Electric-Dipole Spin Resonance

Rui Li, J. Q. You, C. P. Sun, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086805 (2013) - Published 23 August, 2013

Pressure-Induced Unconventional Superconducting Phase in the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Kevin Kirshenbaum, P. S. Syers, A. P. Hope, N. P. Butch, J. R. Jeffries, S. T. Weir, J. J. Hamlin, M. B. Maple, Y. K. Vohra, and J. Paglione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087001 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Symmetry-Protected Majorana Fermions in Topological Crystalline Superconductors: Theory and Application to ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Yuji Ueno, Ai Yamakage, Yukio Tanaka, and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087002 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Anisotropy of the Superconducting State in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

C. Rastovski, C. D. Dewhurst, W. J. Gannon, D. C. Peets, H. Takatsu, Y. Maeno, M. Ichioka, K. Machida, and M. R. Eskildsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087003 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Anisotropic Propagating Excitations and Quadrupolar Effects in ${Tb}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

Solène Guitteny, Julien Robert, Pierre Bonville, Jacques Ollivier, Claudia Decorse, Paul Steffens, Martin Boehm, Hannu Mutka, Isabelle Mirebeau, and Sylvain Petit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087201 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Interfacial Ferromagnetism in ${LaNiO}_{3} / {CaMnO}_{3}$ Superlattices

A. J. Grutter, H. Yang, B. J. Kirby, M. R. Fitzsimmons, J. A. Aguiar, N. D. Browning, C. A. Jenkins, E. Arenholz, V. V. Mehta, U. S. Alaan, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087202 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Néel-State to Valence-Bond-Solid Transition on the Honeycomb Lattice: Evidence for Deconfined Criticality

Sumiran Pujari, Kedar Damle, and Fabien Alet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087203 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Origin of Interface Magnetism in ${BiMnO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ and ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterostructures

M. Salluzzo, S. Gariglio, D. Stornaiuolo, V. Sessi, S. Rusponi, C. Piamonteze, G. M. De Luca, M. Minola, D. Marré, A. Gadaleta, H. Brune, F. Nolting, N. B. Brookes, and G. Ghiringhelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087204 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for a Magnetic Seebeck Effect

Sylvain D. Brechet, Francesco A. Vetro, Elisa Papa, Stewart E. Barnes, and Jean-Philippe Ansermet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087205 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Time Domain Mapping of Spin Torque Oscillator Effective Energy

Graham E. Rowlands, Jordan A. Katine, Juergen Langer, Jian Zhu, and Ilya N. Krivorotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087206 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Optical Fingerprints of Si Honeycomb Chains and Atomic Gold Wires on the Si(111)-( $5 \times 2$ )-Au Surface

Conor Hogan, Elena Ferraro, Niall McAlinden, and John F. McGilp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087401 (2013) - Published 22 August, 2013

Room Temperature Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Magnetoelectric ${GaFeO}_{3}$ Epitaxial Thin Films

Somdutta Mukherjee, Amritendu Roy, Sushil Auluck, Rajendra Prasad, Rajeev Gupta, and Ashish Garg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087601 (2013) - Published 21 August, 2013

Dynamic Magnetoelectric Effect in Ferromagnet/Superconductor Tunnel Junctions

Mircea Trif and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087602 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

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Nondestructive Measurement of Nuclear Magnetization by Off-Resonant Faraday Rotation

R. Giri, S. Cronenberger, M. M. Glazov, K. V. Kavokin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, M. Vladimirova, and D. Scalbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087603 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Ab initio Studies of Ionization Potentials of Hydrated Hydroxide and Hydronium

Charles W. Swartz and Xifan Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 087801 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

Spatial Organization of the Cell Cytoplasm by Position-Dependent Phase Separation

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 088101 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Universal Out-of-Equilibrium Transport in Kondo-Correlated Quantum Dots: Renormalized Dual Fermions on the Keldysh Contour”

A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 089701 (2013) - Published 20 August, 2013