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Shapes of a Suspended Curly Hair
J. T. Miller, A. Lazarus, B. Audoly, and P. M. Reis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068103 (2014)

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Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 061802 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

The T2K experiment has observed electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam produced 295 km from the Super-Kamiokande detector with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV

Rupture Cascades in a Discrete Element Model of a Porous Sedimentary Rock

Ferenc Kun, Imre Varga, Sabine Lennartz-Sassinek, and Ian G. Main

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Lipid Membranes as Solvents for Carbon Nanoparticles

Jonathan Barnoud, Giulia Rossi, and Luca Monticelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068102 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Spectral Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 061801 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

A measurement of the energy dependence of antineutrino disappearance at the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is reported.

Possible Evidence for Helical Nuclear Spin Order in GaAs Quantum Wires

C. P. Scheller, T.-M. Liu, G. Barak, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and D. M. Zumbühl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066801 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

We present transport measurements of cleaved edge overgrowth GaAs quantum wires.

Shapes of a Suspended Curly Hair

J. T. Miller, A. Lazarus, B. Audoly, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068103 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

Emergent Cometlike Swarming of Optically Driven Thermally Active Colloids

Jack A. Cohen and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068302 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Simulations show that colloids heated via light illumination spontaneously self-organize into moving swarms with circulating colloidal currents.

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

Evaporative Production of Bright Atomic Solitons

P. Medley, M. A. Minar, N. C. Cizek, D. Berryrieser, and M. A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 060401 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Bidirectional Energy Cascades and the Origin of Kinetic Alfvénic and Whistler Turbulence in the Solar Wind

H. Che, M. L. Goldstein, and A. F. Viñas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 061101 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Probing Dark Energy with Lensing Magnification in Photometric Surveys

Michael D. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 061301 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Spectral Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 061801 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

A measurement of the energy dependence of antineutrino disappearance at the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment is reported.

Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 061802 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

The T2K experiment has observed electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam produced 295 km from the Super-Kamiokande detector with a peak energy of 0.6 GeV

Nuclear Physics

One-Dimensional α Condensation of α-Linear-Chain States in C12 and O16

T. Suhara, Y. Funaki, B. Zhou, H. Horiuchi, and A. Tohsaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 062501 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Probing the Symmetries of the Dirac Hamiltonian with Axially Deformed Scalar and Vector Potentials by Similarity Renormalization Group

Jian-You Guo, Shou-Wan Chen, Zhong-Ming Niu, Dong-Peng Li, and Quan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 062502 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Hyperfine Structure in Th229g3+ as a Probe of the Th229gTh229m Nuclear Excitation Energy

K. Beloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 062503 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Correlation Dynamics During a Slow Interaction Quench in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas

Jean-Sébastien Bernier, Roberta Citro, Corinna Kollath, and Edmond Orignac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 065301 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Rupture Cascades in a Discrete Element Model of a Porous Sedimentary Rock

Ferenc Kun, Imre Varga, Sabine Lennartz-Sassinek, and Ian G. Main

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 065501 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Si1xGex Nanocomposites

Claudio Melis and Luciano Colombo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 065901 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Chemical and Crystallographic Characterization of the Tip Apex in Scanning Probe Microscopy

Thomas Hofmann, Florian Pielmeier, and Franz J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066101 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Capillary Bridges between Soft Substrates

Jason S. Wexler, Tiara M. Heard, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066102 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

NMR Study of the Superconducting Gap Variation near the Mott Transition in Cs3C60

P. Wzietek, T. Mito, H. Alloul, D. Pontiroli, M. Aramini, and M. Riccò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066401 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

Non-Abelian Gauge Fields in Photonic Cavities and Photonic Superfluids

H. Terças, H. Flayac, D. D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066402 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Metastable Defect Formation at Microvoids Identified as a Source of Light-Induced Degradation in aSi:H

M. Fehr, A. Schnegg, B. Rech, O. Astakhov, F. Finger, R. Bittl, C. Teutloff, and K. Lips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066403 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect Induced by Resonant Skew Scattering in Graphene

Aires Ferreira, Tatiana G. Rappoport, Miguel A. Cazalilla, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066601 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Possible Evidence for Helical Nuclear Spin Order in GaAs Quantum Wires

C. P. Scheller, T.-M. Liu, G. Barak, A. Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and D. M. Zumbühl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066801 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

We present transport measurements of cleaved edge overgrowth GaAs quantum wires.

Spin-Dependent Electron Scattering at Graphene Edges on Ni(111)

A. Garcia-Lekue, T. Balashov, M. Olle, G. Ceballos, A. Arnau, P. Gambardella, D. Sanchez-Portal, and A. Mugarza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066802 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Metal Oxide Resistive Switching: Evolution of the Density of States Across the Metal-Insulator Transition

A. Mottaghizadeh, Q. Yu, P. L. Lang, A. Zimmers, and H. Aubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 066803 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

“Smile” Gap in the Density of States of a Cavity between Superconductors

J. Reutlinger, L. Glazman, Yu. V. Nazarov, and W. Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 067001 (2014) - Published 11 February, 2014

Multiband Superconductivity with Unexpected Deficiency of Nodal Quasiparticles in CeCu2Si2

Shunichiro Kittaka, Yuya Aoki, Yasuyuki Shimura, Toshiro Sakakibara, Silvia Seiro, Christoph Geibel, Frank Steglich, Hiroaki Ikeda, and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 067002 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Exactly Solvable Counting Statistics in Open Weakly Coupled Interacting Spin Systems

Berislav Buča and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 067201 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Spirals and Skyrmions in Two Dimensional Oxide Heterostructures

Xiaopeng Li, W. Vincent Liu, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 067202 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Metal-Insulator Photocathode Heterojunction for Directed Electron Emission

Timothy C. Droubay, Scott A. Chambers, Alan G. Joly, Wayne P. Hess, Karoly Németh, Katherine C. Harkay, and Linda Spentzouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 067601 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Statistical Mechanics Model for the Dynamics of Collective Epigenetic Histone Modification

Hang Zhang, Xiao-Jun Tian, Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, K. S. Kim, and Jianhua Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068101 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Lipid Membranes as Solvents for Carbon Nanoparticles

Jonathan Barnoud, Giulia Rossi, and Luca Monticelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068102 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Shapes of a Suspended Curly Hair

J. T. Miller, A. Lazarus, B. Audoly, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068103 (2014) - Published 13 February, 2014

DNA Flexibility on Short Length Scales Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy

Alexey K. Mazur and Mounir Maaloum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068104 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Self-Assembly of Catalytically Active Colloidal Molecules: Tailoring Activity Through Surface Chemistry

Rodrigo Soto and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068301 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

Emergent Cometlike Swarming of Optically Driven Thermally Active Colloids

Jack A. Cohen and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068302 (2014) - Published 12 February, 2014

Simulations show that colloids heated via light illumination spontaneously self-organize into moving swarms with circulating colloidal currents.

Quantized Contact Angles in the Dewetting of a Structured Liquid

Mark Ilton, Pawel Stasiak, Mark W. Matsen, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068303 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

Solid-Solid Transition in Landau-Levich Flow with Soft-Jammed Systems

M. Maillard, J. Boujlel, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068304 (2014) - Published 14 February, 2014

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Observation of Grand-Canonical Number Statistics in a Photon Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 030401 (2014)]

Julian Schmitt, Tobias Damm, David Dung, Frank Vewinger, Jan Klaers, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 069901 (2014) - Published 10 February, 2014

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