Volume 111, Issue 9

30 August 2013

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Penrose lattice of optical vortices in a nematic liquid crystal imaged through cross polarizers.

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Harnessing Optical Vortex Lattices in Nematic Liquid Crystals
R. Barboza, U. Bortolozzo, G. Assanto, E. Vidal-Henriquez, M. G. Clerc, and S. Residori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093902 (2013)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Partial-Measurement Backaction and Nonclassical Weak Values in a Superconducting Circuit

J. P. Groen, D. Ristè, L. Tornberg, J. Cramer, P. C. de Groot, T. Picot, G. Johansson, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090506 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

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Evidence for Maximal Acceleration and Singularity Resolution in Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli and Francesca Vidotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091303 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spacetime and Flux Tube $S$ -Matrices at Finite Coupling for $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Benjamin Basso, Amit Sever, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091602 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Guaranteed Convergence of the Kohn-Sham Equations

Lucas O. Wagner, E. M. Stoudenmire, Kieron Burke, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093003 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Transverse Bose-Einstein Condensation via Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations

Wu RuGway, A. G. Manning, S. S. Hodgman, R. G. Dall, A. G. Truscott, T. Lamberton, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093601 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Harnessing Optical Vortex Lattices in Nematic Liquid Crystals

R. Barboza, U. Bortolozzo, G. Assanto, E. Vidal-Henriquez, M. G. Clerc, and S. Residori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093902 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Evidence of Two Equilibration Mechanisms in Glassy Polymers

Daniele Cangialosi, Virginie M. Boucher, Angel Alegría, and Juan Colmenero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095701 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonpareil Yb Behavior in ${YbMn}_{6} {Ge}_{6 - x} {Sn}_{x}$

T. Mazet, D. Malterre, M. François, C. Dallera, M. Grioni, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096402 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Identifying the Electronic Character and Role of the Mn States in the Valence Band of (Ga,Mn)As

J. Fujii, B. R. Salles, M. Sperl, S. Ueda, M. Kobata, K. Kobayashi, Y. Yamashita, P. Torelli, M. Utz, C. S. Fadley, A. X. Gray, J. Braun, H. Ebert, I. Di Marco, O. Eriksson, P. Thunström, G. H. Fecher, H. Stryhanyuk, E. Ikenaga, J. Minár, C. H. Back, G. van der Laan, and G. Panaccione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 097201 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

LETTERS

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

Integer Quantum Hall State in Two-Component Bose Gases in a Synthetic Magnetic Field

Shunsuke Furukawa and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090401 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

No-Go Theorems for $ψ$ -Epistemic Models Based on a Continuity Assumption

M. K. Patra, S. Pironio, and S. Massar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090402 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Dynamic Stabilization of a Quantum Many-Body Spin System

T. M. Hoang, C. S. Gerving, B. J. Land, M. Anquez, C. D. Hamley, and M. S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090403 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Quantum Chaos in SU(3) Models with Trapped Ions

Tobias Graß, Bruno Juliá-Díaz, Marek Kuś, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090404 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Tunnel Ionization Dynamics of Bound Systems in Laser Fields: How Long Does It Take for a Bound Electron to Tunnel?

C. R. McDonald, G. Orlando, G. Vampa, and T. Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090405 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

Topological Order in the Projected Entangled-Pair States Formalism: Transfer Operator and Boundary Hamiltonians

Norbert Schuch, Didier Poilblanc, J. Ignacio Cirac, and David Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090501 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Waveguide-QED-Based Photonic Quantum Computation

Huaixiu Zheng, Daniel J. Gauthier, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090502 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Quantum Simulation of Noncausal Kinematic Transformations

U. Alvarez-Rodriguez, J. Casanova, L. Lamata, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090503 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Relativistic Motion Generates Quantum Gates and Entanglement Resonances

David Edward Bruschi, Andrzej Dragan, Antony R. Lee, Ivette Fuentes, and Jorma Louko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090504 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Only Transversal Gates and Error Correction

Adam Paetznick and Ben W. Reichardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090505 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Partial-Measurement Backaction and Nonclassical Weak Values in a Superconducting Circuit

J. P. Groen, D. Ristè, L. Tornberg, J. Cramer, P. C. de Groot, T. Picot, G. Johansson, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090506 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

Exact Lattice Boltzmann Equation

F. Bösch and I. V. Karlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090601 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Near-Heisenberg-Limited Atomic Clocks in the Presence of Decoherence

J. Borregaard and A. S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090801 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Efficient Atomic Clocks Operated with Several Atomic Ensembles

J. Borregaard and A. S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 090802 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Axial Symmetry Breaking in Self-Induced Flavor Conversionof Supernova Neutrino Fluxes

Georg Raffelt, Srdjan Sarikas, and David de Sousa Seixas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091101 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Internal Bremsstrahlung Signature of Real Scalar Dark Matter and Consistency with Thermal Relic Density

Takashi Toma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091301 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Can All Cosmological Observations Be Accurately Interpreted with a Unique Geometry?

Pierre Fleury, Hélène Dupuy, and Jean-Philippe Uzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091302 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Maximal Acceleration and Singularity Resolution in Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli and Francesca Vidotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091303 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

Elementary Particles and Fields

Lattice Study of Radiative $J / ψ$ Decay to a Tensor Glueball

Yi-Bo Yang, Long-Cheng Gui, Ying Chen, Chuan Liu, Yu-Bin Liu, Jian-Ping Ma, and Jian-Bo Zhang (CLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091601 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spacetime and Flux Tube $S$ -Matrices at Finite Coupling for $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Benjamin Basso, Amit Sever, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091602 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

Impact of a $C P$ -Violating Higgs Sector: From LHC to Baryogenesis

Jing Shu and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091801 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Unravelling $t \bar{t} h$ via the Matrix Element Method

Pierre Artoisenet, Priscila de Aquino, Fabio Maltoni, and Olivier Mattelaer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 091802 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Pion Distribution Amplitude from Lattice QCD

I. C. Cloët, L. Chang, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt, and P. C. Tandy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 092001 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Nuclear Physics

Charge Form Factor and Sum Rules of Electromagnetic Response Functions in ${}^{12}C$

A. Lovato, S. Gandolfi, Ralph Butler, J. Carlson, Ewing Lusk, Steven C. Pieper, and R. Schiavilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 092501 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Dependent Theory of Angular Correlations in Sequential Double Ionization

L. A. A. Nikolopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093001 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Coherent Control at Its Most Fundamental: Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Dependent Electron Localization in Photodissociation of a $H_{2}^{+}$ Molecular Ion Beam Target

T. Rathje, A. M. Sayler, S. Zeng, P. Wustelt, H. Figger, B. D. Esry, and G. G. Paulus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093002 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Guaranteed Convergence of the Kohn-Sham Equations

Lucas O. Wagner, E. M. Stoudenmire, Kieron Burke, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093003 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Evolution of Interatomic Coulombic Decay in the Time Domain

F. Trinter, J. B. Williams, M. Weller, M. Waitz, M. Pitzer, J. Voigtsberger, C. Schober, G. Kastirke, C. Müller, C. Goihl, P. Burzynski, F. Wiegandt, T. Bauer, R. Wallauer, H. Sann, A. Kalinin, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. Schöffler, N. Sisourat, and T. Jahnke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093401 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Time-Resolved Measurement of Interatomic Coulombic Decay in ${Ne}_{2}$

K. Schnorr et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093402 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Transverse Bose-Einstein Condensation via Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations

Wu RuGway, A. G. Manning, S. S. Hodgman, R. G. Dall, A. G. Truscott, T. Lamberton, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093601 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Quantum Jump Approach for Work and Dissipation in a Two-Level System

F. W. J. Hekking and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093602 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Multicolor Quantum Metrology with Entangled Photons

Bryn Bell, Srikanth Kannan, Alex McMillan, Alex S. Clark, William J. Wadsworth, and John G. Rarity

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093603 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

Optical Spectrum Analyzer with Quantum-Limited Noise Floor

M. Bishof, X. Zhang, M. J. Martin, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093604 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Surface Plasmons and Nonlocality: A Simple Model

Yu Luo, A. I. Fernandez-Dominguez, Aeneas Wiener, Stefan A. Maier, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093901 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Harnessing Optical Vortex Lattices in Nematic Liquid Crystals

R. Barboza, U. Bortolozzo, G. Assanto, E. Vidal-Henriquez, M. G. Clerc, and S. Residori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 093902 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Distribution of the Smallest Eigenvalue in the Correlated Wishart Model

Tim Wirtz and Thomas Guhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 094101 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Extension of a Suspended Soap Film: A Homogeneous Dilatation Followed by New Film Extraction

Jacopo Seiwert, Martin Monloubou, Benjamin Dollet, and Isabelle Cantat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 094501 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Plasma and Beam Physics

Annular Fast Electron Transport in Silicon Arising from Low-Temperature Resistivity

D. A. MacLellan, D. C. Carroll, R. J. Gray, N. Booth, M. Burza, M. P. Desjarlais, F. Du, B. Gonzalez-Izquierdo, D. Neely, H. W. Powell, A. P. L. Robinson, D. R. Rusby, G. G. Scott, X. H. Yuan, C.-G. Wahlström, and P. McKenna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095001 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Rotational Resonance of Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Braking in the KSTAR Tokamak

J.-K. Park, Y. M. Jeon, J. E. Menard, W. H. Ko, S. G. Lee, Y. S. Bae, M. Joung, K.-I. You, K.-D. Lee, N. Logan, K. Kim, J. S. Ko, S. W. Yoon, S. H. Hahn, J. H. Kim, W. C. Kim, Y.-K. Oh, and J.-G. Kwak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095002 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Raman-Induced Interactions in a Single-Component Fermi Gas Near an $s$ -Wave Feshbach Resonance

R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, L. J. LeBlanc, K. Jiménez-García, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095301 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

Extended Interplanar Linking in Graphite Formed from Vacancy Aggregates

T. Trevethan, P. Dyulgerova, C. D. Latham, M. I. Heggie, C. R. Seabourne, A. J. Scott, P. R. Briddon, and M. J. Rayson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095501 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Free Energy Generalization of the Peierls Potential in Iron

M. R. Gilbert, P. Schuck, B. Sadigh, and J. Marian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095502 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Fluctuation-Stabilized Marginal Networks and Anomalous Entropic Elasticity

M. Dennison, M. Sheinman, C. Storm, and F. C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095503 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Lead Is Not Off Center in PbTe: The Importance of $r$ -Space Phase Information in Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

T. Keiber, F. Bridges, and B. C. Sales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095504 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Evidence of Two Equilibration Mechanisms in Glassy Polymers

Daniele Cangialosi, Virginie M. Boucher, Angel Alegría, and Juan Colmenero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095701 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Young’s Equation at the Nanoscale

David Seveno, Terence D. Blake, and Joël De Coninck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096101 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Experimental Evidence for Oxygen Sublattice Control in Polar Infinite Layer ${SrCuO}_{2}$

D. Samal, Haiyan Tan, H. Molegraaf, B. Kuiper, W. Siemons, Sara Bals, Jo Verbeeck, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Y. Takamura, Elke Arenholz, Catherine A. Jenkins, G. Rijnders, and Gertjan Koster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096102 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Unusual Two-Stage Kinetics of Ethylene Adsorption on Si(100) Unraveled by Surface Optical Spectroscopy and Monte Carlo Simulation

Romain Coustel, Yves Borensztein, Olivier Pluchery, and Nadine Witkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096103 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Intrinsic Fluid Interfaces and Nonlocality

Eva M. Fernández, Enrique Chacón, Pedro Tarazona, Andrew O. Parry, and Carlos Rascón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096104 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Organization of Strongly Interacting Directed Polymer Liquids in the Presence of Stringent Constraints

Anton Souslov, D. Zeb Rocklin, and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096401 (2013) - Published 26 August, 2013

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonpareil Yb Behavior in ${YbMn}_{6} {Ge}_{6 - x} {Sn}_{x}$

T. Mazet, D. Malterre, M. François, C. Dallera, M. Grioni, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096402 (2013) - Published 28 August, 2013

Carrier Separation at Dislocation Pairs in CdTe

Chen Li, Yelong Wu, Timothy J. Pennycook, Andrew R. Lupini, Donovan N. Leonard, Wanjian Yin, Naba Paudel, Mowafak Al-Jassim, Yanfa Yan, and Stephen J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096403 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013

Evidence for Short-Range-Ordered Charge Stripes Far above the Charge-Ordering Transition in ${La}_{1.67} {Sr}_{0.33} {NiO}_{4}$

A. M. Milinda Abeykoon, Emil S. Božin, Wei-Guo Yin, Genda Gu, John P. Hill, John M. Tranquada, and Simon J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096404 (2013) - Published 30 August, 2013

Phase Space for the Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect in Epitaxial Graphene

J. A. Alexander-Webber, A. M. R. Baker, T. J. B. M. Janssen, A. Tzalenchuk, S. Lara-Avila, S. Kubatkin, R. Yakimova, B. A. Piot, D. K. Maude, and R. J. Nicholas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096601 (2013) - Published 27 August, 2013

Anisotropic Electronic State via Spontaneous Phase Separation in Strained Vanadium Dioxide Films

M. K. Liu, M. Wagner, E. Abreu, S. Kittiwatanakul, A. McLeod, Z. Fei, M. Goldflam, S. Dai, M. M. Fogler, J. Lu, S. A. Wolf, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 096602 (2013) - Published 29 August, 2013