Volume 112, Issue 7

21 February 2014

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Avalanche photodiode damaged by a high power laser beam during a cryptography attack. The dark central spot is a hole blown through the chip. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Laser Damage Helps the Eavesdropper in Quantum Cryptography
Audun Nystad Bugge, Sebastien Sauge, Aina Mardhiyah M. Ghazali, Johannes Skaar, Lars Lydersen, and Vadim Makarov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070503 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Up-Conversion of Squeezed Vacuum States from 1550 to 532 nm

Christina E. Vollmer, Christoph Baune, Aiko Samblowski, Tobias Eberle, Vitus Händchen, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073602 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

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Long-Lived Heteronuclear Spin-Singlet States in Liquids at a Zero Magnetic field

M. Emondts, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, T. Theis, B. Patton, J. W. Blanchard, M. C. Butler, D. Budker, and A. Pines

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077601 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

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Laser Damage Helps the Eavesdropper in Quantum Cryptography

Audun Nystad Bugge, Sebastien Sauge, Aina Mardhiyah M. Ghazali, Johannes Skaar, Lars Lydersen, and Vadim Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070503 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

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Fermi Condensation Near van Hove Singularities Within the Hubbard Model on the Triangular Lattice

Dmitry Yudin, Daniel Hirschmeier, Hartmut Hafermann, Olle Eriksson, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070403 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Under certain conditions, many-body interactions lead to plateausin the energy dispersion of fermion systems, even at high temperatures.

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Suppressing the Loss of Ultracold Molecules Via the Continuous Quantum Zeno Effect

B. Zhu, B. Gadway, M. Foss-Feig, J. Schachenmayer, M. L. Wall, K. R. A. Hazzard, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, D. S. Jin, J. Ye, M. Holland, and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070404 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

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Holographic Lattices Give the Graviton an Effective Mass

Mike Blake, David Tong, and David Vegh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 071602 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

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Novel Collective Autoionization Process Observed in Electron Spectra of He Clusters

Y. Ovcharenko, V. Lyamayev, R. Katzy, M. Devetta, A. LaForge, P. O’Keeffe, O. Plekan, P. Finetti, M. Di Fraia, M. Mudrich, M. Krikunova, P. Piseri, M. Coreno, N. B. Brauer, T. Mazza, S. Stranges, C. Grazioli, R. Richter, K. C. Prince, M. Drabbels, C. Callegari, F. Stienkemeier, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073401 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Femtosecond energy transfer between neighboring excited atoms in high-density nanoplasmas leads to a collective electron emission.

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Elimination of the $A$ -Square Problem from Cavity QED

András Vukics, Tobias Grießer, and Peter Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073601 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

The form of the interaction between light and atoms confined in optical cavities of arbitrary shape is carefully derived for the first time.

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Dissociation and the Development of Spatial Correlation in a Molecular Ultracold Plasma

H. Sadeghi, A. Kruyen, J. Hung, J. H. Gurian, J. P. Morrison, M. Schulz-Weiling, N. Saquet, C. J. Rennick, and E. R. Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075001 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

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Observation of a Strong Atom-Dimer Attraction in a Mass-Imbalanced Fermi-Fermi Mixture

Michael Jag, Matteo Zaccanti, Marko Cetina, Rianne S. Lous, Florian Schreck, Rudolf Grimm, Dmitry S. Petrov, and Jesper Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075302 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Attractive, rather than repulsive, atom-dimer interactions are observed in heavy-light fermion mixtures near Feshbach resonance.

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Optomechanics with Cavity Polaritons: Dissipative Coupling and Unconventional Bistability

O. Kyriienko, T. C. H. Liew, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076402 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

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Interplay between Turing Mechanisms can Increase Pattern Diversity

Shai Kinast, Yuval R. Zelnik, Golan Bel, and Ehud Meron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 078701 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

LETTERS

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

Attractive Inverse Square Potential, $U (1)$ Gauge, and Winding Transitions

Cristiano Nisoli and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070401 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Distillation of The Two-Mode Squeezed State

Yury Kurochkin, Adarsh S. Prasad, and A. I. Lvovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070402 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fermi Condensation Near van Hove Singularities Within the Hubbard Model on the Triangular Lattice

Dmitry Yudin, Daniel Hirschmeier, Hartmut Hafermann, Olle Eriksson, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, and Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070403 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Under certain conditions, many-body interactions lead to plateausin the energy dispersion of fermion systems, even at high temperatures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Suppressing the Loss of Ultracold Molecules Via the Continuous Quantum Zeno Effect

B. Zhu, B. Gadway, M. Foss-Feig, J. Schachenmayer, M. L. Wall, K. R. A. Hazzard, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, D. S. Jin, J. Ye, M. Holland, and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070404 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Observing Dirac’s Classical Phase Space Analog to the Quantum State

Charles Bamber and Jeff S. Lundeen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070405 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Quantum Graphs Whose Spectra Mimic the Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function

Jack Kuipers, Quirin Hummel, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070406 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

No-Go Theorem for the Composition of Quantum Systems

Maximilian Schlosshauer and Arthur Fine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070407 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Self-Correcting Quantum Memories Beyond the Percolation Threshold

Matthew B. Hastings, Grant H. Watson, and Roger G. Melko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070501 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Entanglement Genesis by Ancilla-Based Parity Measurement in 2D Circuit QED

O.-P. Saira, J. P. Groen, J. Cramer, M. Meretska, G. de Lange, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070502 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

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Laser Damage Helps the Eavesdropper in Quantum Cryptography

Audun Nystad Bugge, Sebastien Sauge, Aina Mardhiyah M. Ghazali, Johannes Skaar, Lars Lydersen, and Vadim Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070503 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Quantum Search on Graphene Lattices

Iain Foulger, Sven Gnutzmann, and Gregor Tanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070504 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Quantum Quenches and Work Distributions in Ultralow-Density Systems

Yulia E. Shchadilova, Pedro Ribeiro, and Masudul Haque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070601 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Scaling Quasistationary States in Long-Range Systems with Dissipation

Michael Joyce, Jules Morand, François Sicard, and Pascal Viot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070602 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Pseudolikelihood Decimation Algorithm Improving the Inference of the Interaction Network in a General Class of Ising Models

Aurélien Decelle and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070603 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Annihilation of Colliding Bogoliubov Quasiparticles Reveals their Majorana Nature

C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070604 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observation of the Spatial Distribution of Gravitationally Bound Quantum States of Ultracold Neutrons and Its Derivation Using the Wigner Function

G. Ichikawa, S. Komamiya, Y. Kamiya, Y. Minami, M. Tani, P. Geltenbort, K. Yamamura, M. Nagano, T. Sanuki, S. Kawasaki, M. Hino, and M. Kitaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 071101 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Significant Enhancement of Neutralino Dark Matter Annihilation from Electroweak Bremsstrahlung

Torsten Bringmann and Francesca Calore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 071301 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Elementary Particles and Fields

Energy-Energy Correlations in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

A. V. Belitsky, S. Hohenegger, G. P. Korchemsky, E. Sokatchev, and A. Zhiboedov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 071601 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

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Holographic Lattices Give the Graviton an Effective Mass

Mike Blake, David Tong, and David Vegh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 071602 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

All-Order Renormalization of the Propagator Matrix for Fermionic Systems with Flavor Mixing

Bernd A. Kniehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 071603 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Violation of Geometric Scaling in Deep Inelastic Scattering Due to Coulomb Corrections

Kirill Tuchin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 072001 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Deformation and Neutron Excess as Competing Effects for Dipole Strength in the Pygmy Region

R. Massarczyk et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 072501 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stimulated Compton Scattering in Two-Color Ionization of Hydrogen with keV Electromagnetic Fields

H. Bachau, M. Dondera, and V. Florescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073001 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Quantum Effects in Double Ionization of Argon below the Threshold Intensity

XiaoLei Hao, Jing Chen, WeiDong Li, Bingbing Wang, Xiaodong Wang, and Wilhelm Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073002 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Rare-Gas Clusters in Intense Extreme-Ultraviolet Pulses from a High-Order Harmonic Source

B. Schütte, M. Arbeiter, Th. Fennel, M. J. J. Vrakking, and A. Rouzée

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073003 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Novel Collective Autoionization Process Observed in Electron Spectra of He Clusters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073401 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Femtosecond energy transfer between neighboring excited atoms in high-density nanoplasmas leads to a collective electron emission.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Elimination of the $A$ -Square Problem from Cavity QED

András Vukics, Tobias Grießer, and Peter Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073601 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

The form of the interaction between light and atoms confined in optical cavities of arbitrary shape is carefully derived for the first time.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Up-Conversion of Squeezed Vacuum States from 1550 to 532 nm

Christina E. Vollmer, Christoph Baune, Aiko Samblowski, Tobias Eberle, Vitus Händchen, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073602 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Phase Stabilization of a Frequency Comb using Multipulse Quantum Interferometry

Andrea Cadarso, Jordi Mur-Petit, and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073603 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Single-Photon Switch Based on Rydberg Blockade

Simon Baur, Daniel Tiarks, Gerhard Rempe, and Stephan Dürr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073901 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Observation of Infinite-Range Intensity Correlations above, at, and below the Mobility Edges of the 3D Anderson Localization Transition

W. K. Hildebrand, A. Strybulevych, S. E. Skipetrov, B. A. van Tiggelen, and J. H. Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073902 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Arbitrary Control of Electromagnetic Flux in Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media with Near-Zero Index

Jie Luo, WeiXin Lu, ZhiHong Hang, HuanYang Chen, Bo Hou, Yun Lai, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 073903 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Quantum Chaos in an Ultrastrongly Coupled Bosonic Junction

Uta Naether, Juan José García-Ripoll, Juan José Mazo, and David Zueco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 074101 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Finite-Time and Finite-Size Scaling of the Kuramoto Oscillators

Mi Jin Lee, Su Do Yi, and Beom Jun Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 074102 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Flexible Fiber in a Turbulent Flow: A Macroscopic Polymer

C. Brouzet, G. Verhille, and P. Le Gal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 074501 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Hyperchaotic Intermittent Convection in a Magnetized Viscous Fluid

Wiesław M. Macek and Marek Strumik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 074502 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Narrow-Band Emission in Thomson Sources Operating in the High-Field Regime

Balša Terzić, Kirsten Deitrick, Alicia S. Hofler, and Geoffrey A. Krafft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 074801 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissociation and the Development of Spatial Correlation in a Molecular Ultracold Plasma

H. Sadeghi, A. Kruyen, J. Hung, J. H. Gurian, J. P. Morrison, M. Schulz-Weiling, N. Saquet, C. J. Rennick, and E. R. Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075001 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Energetic Stability of Coreless Vortices in Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates with Conserved Magnetization

Justin Lovegrove, Magnus O. Borgh, and Janne Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075301 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

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Observation of a Strong Atom-Dimer Attraction in a Mass-Imbalanced Fermi-Fermi Mixture

Michael Jag, Matteo Zaccanti, Marko Cetina, Rianne S. Lous, Florian Schreck, Rudolf Grimm, Dmitry S. Petrov, and Jesper Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075302 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Attractive, rather than repulsive, atom-dimer interactions are observed in heavy-light fermion mixtures near Feshbach resonance.

Jahn-Teller, Polarity, and Insulator-to-Metal Transition in BiMnO $_{3}$ at High Pressure

Mael Guennou, Pierre Bouvier, Pierre Toulemonde, Céline Darie, Céline Goujon, Pierre Bordet, Michael Hanfland, and Jens Kreisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075501 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Nonlocal First-Principles Calculations in Cu-Au and Other Intermetallic Alloys

Yongsheng Zhang, Georg Kresse, and C. Wolverton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075502 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Bimodal Island Size Distribution in Heteroepitaxial Growth

P. V. Chinta and R. L. Headrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075503 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

First-Principles Study of Secondary Slip in Zirconium

Nermine Chaari, Emmanuel Clouet, and David Rodney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075504 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Phononic Frequency Combs through Nonlinear Resonances

L. S. Cao, D. X. Qi, R. W. Peng, Mu Wang, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075505 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Emergent Collective Phenomena in a Mixture of Hard Shapes through Active Rotation

Nguyen H. P. Nguyen, Daphne Klotsa, Michael Engel, and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075701 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Criticality and Quenched Disorder: Harris Criterion Versus Rare Regions

Thomas Vojta and José A. Hoyos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 075702 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Water-Mediated Cooperative Migration of Chemisorbed Hydrogen on Graphene

Yufeng Zhao and Thomas Gennett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076101 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Enhanced Atomic-Scale Spin Contrast due to Spin Friction

S. Ouazi, A. Kubetzka, K. von Bergmann, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076102 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Room Temperature Frenkel-Wannier-Mott Hybridization of Degenerate Excitons in a Strongly Coupled Microcavity

Michael Slootsky, Xiaoze Liu, Vinod M. Menon, and Stephen R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076401 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optomechanics with Cavity Polaritons: Dissipative Coupling and Unconventional Bistability

O. Kyriienko, T. C. H. Liew, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076402 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Accurate Homogeneous Electron Gas Exchange-Correlation Free Energy for Local Spin-Density Calculations

Valentin V. Karasiev, Travis Sjostrom, James Dufty, and S. B. Trickey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076403 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Magnetotransport Subband Spectroscopy in InAs Nanowires

Florian Vigneau, Vladimir Prudkovkiy, Ivan Duchemin, Walter Escoffier, Philippe Caroff, Yann-Michel Niquet, Renaud Leturcq, Michel Goiran, and Bertrand Raquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076801 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Photoelectron Spin-Polarization Control in the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Z.-H. Zhu, C. N. Veenstra, S. Zhdanovich, M. P. Schneider, T. Okuda, K. Miyamoto, S.-Y. Zhu, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, M. W. Haverkort, I. S. Elfimov, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076802 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Hybrid Microwave-Cavity Heat Engine

Christian Bergenfeldt, Peter Samuelsson, Björn Sothmann, Christian Flindt, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076803 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Plasmons due to the Interplay of Dirac and Schrödinger Fermions

Stefan Juergens, Paolo Michetti, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076804 (2014) - Published 21 February, 2014

Strong Coupling of the Iron-Quadrupole and Anion-Dipole Polarizations in $Ba {({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Chao Ma, Lijun Wu, Wei-Guo Yin, Huaixin Yang, Honglong Shi, Zhiwei Wang, Jianqi Li, C. C. Homes, and Yimei Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077001 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Parity Measurement in Topological Josephson Junctions

François Crépin and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077002 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Manipulation of a Two-Photon Pump in Superconductor-Semiconductor Heterostructures

Paul Baireuther, Peter P. Orth, Ilya Vekhter, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077003 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Vortex Core Reversal Due to Spin Wave Interference

Hans G. Bauer, Markus Sproll, Christian H. Back, and Georg Woltersdorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077201 (2014) - Published 18 February, 2014

Ferromagnetism and Borromean Binding in Three-Fermion Clusters

Pavel Kornilovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077202 (2014) - Published 19 February, 2014

Calculation of Multipolar Exchange Interactions in Spin-Orbital Coupled Systems

Shu-Ting Pi, Ravindra Nanguneri, and Sergey Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077203 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Generic Spin Model for the Honeycomb Iridates beyond the Kitaev Limit

Jeffrey G. Rau, Eric Kin-Ho Lee, and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077204 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Role of Antiferromagnetic Ordering in the ( $1 \times 2$ ) Surface Reconstruction of $Ca {({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Guorong Li, Liangbo Liang, Qing Li, Minghu Pan, V. B. Nascimento, Xiaobo He, A. B. Karki, Vincent Meunier, Rongying Jin, Jiandi Zhang, and E. W. Plummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077205 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014

Direct Determination of Exchange Parameters in ${Cs}_{2} {CuBr}_{4}$ and ${Cs}_{2} {CuCl}_{4}$ : High-Field Electron-Spin-Resonance Studies

S. A. Zvyagin, D. Kamenskyi, M. Ozerov, J. Wosnitza, M. Ikeda, T. Fujita, M. Hagiwara, A. I. Smirnov, T. A. Soldatov, A. Ya. Shapiro, J. Krzystek, R. Hu, H. Ryu, C. Petrovic, and M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077206 (2014) - Published 20 February, 2014