Volume 113, Issue 24

12 December 2014

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Optical microscope image of a fluxonium qubit inductively coupled to an antenna.

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Non-Poissonian Quantum Jumps of a Fluxonium Qubit due to Quasiparticle Excitations
U. Vool, I. M. Pop, K. Sliwa, B. Abdo, C. Wang, T. Brecht, Y. Y. Gao, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, G. Catelani, M. Mirrahimi, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret
Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247001 (2014)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Standard Rulers, Candles, and Clocks from the Low-Redshift Universe

Alan Heavens, Raul Jimenez, and Licia Verde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241302 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

A measure of how galaxies are spatially distributed can be determined in a new, more robust way.

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Multi-GeV Electron Beams from Capillary-Discharge-Guided Subpetawatt Laser Pulses in the Self-Trapping Regime

W. P. Leemans, A. J. Gonsalves, H.-S. Mao, K. Nakamura, C. Benedetti, C. B. Schroeder, Cs. Tóth, J. Daniels, D. E. Mittelberger, S. S. Bulanov, J.-L. Vay, C. G. R. Geddes, and E. Esarey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245002 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

A laser-driven particle accelerator, delivering a beam of electrons with a record-breaking energy of 4.2 giga-electron-volts, could lead to compact x-ray lasers or high-energy colliders.

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Imaging Josephson Vortices on the Surface Superconductor $Si (111) − (\sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{3}) − In$ using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Howon Kim, Takuto Kawakami, Yuki Nagai, Tomonobu Nakayama, Xiao Hu, Yukio Hasegawa, and Takashi Uchihashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247004 (2014) - Published 10 December, 2014

Single-atomic-step imperfections on the surface of superconducting films behave like Josephson junctions.

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Pattern Selection in Growing Tubular Tissues

P. Ciarletta, V. Balbi, and E. Kuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 248101 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

A model of soft biological tissue explains why wrinkles and folds form in tubular structures like the esophagus or the intestines.

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Breaking the Symmetry of Forward-Backward Light Emission with Localized and Collective Magnetoelectric Resonances in Arrays of Pyramid-Shaped Aluminum Nanoparticles

S. R. K. Rodriguez, F. Bernal Arango, T. P. Steinbusch, M. A. Verschuuren, A. F. Koenderink, and J. Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247401 (2014) - Published 12 December, 2014

An array of nanometer-sized aluminum pyramids acts as a directional antenna for light, and the direction depends on wavelength.

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$SU (2) \times U (1)$ Gauge Invariance and the Shape of New Physics in Rare $B$ Decays

R. Alonso, B. Grinstein, and J. Martin Camalich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241802 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

An effective field theory for physics beyond the electroweak scale, where symmetries of the Standard Model are assumed to apply, provides model-independent constraints on new physics from the branching ratios of B decays.

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Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules

Toen Castle, Yigil Cho, Xingting Gong, Euiyeon Jung, Daniel M. Sussman, Shu Yang, and Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245502 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Simple rules for cutting and folding rigid sheets can facilitate preplanned material design.

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Quantum Transport Evidence for the Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal Phase in ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

L. P. He, X. C. Hong, J. K. Dong, J. Pan, Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246402 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Bulk quantum transport measurements of Cd $_{3}$ As $_{2}$ provide further evidence that it is a 3D Dirac Semimetal - a quantum state of matter whose properties resemble a 3D analog of graphene.

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Coherent Control of a Single ${}^{29}{Si}$ Nuclear Spin Qubit

Jarryd J. Pla, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Kuan Y. Tan, Juan P. Dehollain, Rajib Rahman, Gerhard Klimeck, David N. Jamieson, Andrew S. Dzurak, and Andrea Morello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246801 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

The readout and manipulation of individual silicon nuclei has been achieved with a high degree of coherence, paving the way for quantum algorithms in silicon devices.

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Biphasic, Lyotropic, Active Nematics

Matthew L. Blow, Sumesh P. Thampi, and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 248303 (2014) - Published 12 December, 2014

Active nematic domains elongate and orient at their interface. Here this behavior is shown theoretically to arise from active stresses in the system.

LETTERS

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

Characterizing the Performance of xor Games and the Shannon Capacity of Graphs

Ravishankar Ramanathan, Alastair Kay, Gláucia Murta, and Paweł Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240401 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Geometric Scaling of Efimov States in a ${}^{6}{Li} − {}^{133}{Cs}$ Mixture

Shih-Kuang Tung, Karina Jiménez-García, Jacob Johansen, Colin V. Parker, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240402 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Representation of Berry Phase by the Trajectories of Majorana Stars

H. D. Liu and L. B. Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240403 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Is the Angular Momentum of an Electron Conserved in a Uniform Magnetic Field?

Colin R. Greenshields, Robert L. Stamps, Sonja Franke-Arnold, and Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240404 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Apparatus for Measuring the Thermal Casimir Force at Large Distances

Giuseppe Bimonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240405 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Coherent Quantum Dynamics in Steady-State Manifolds of Strongly Dissipative Systems

Paolo Zanardi and Lorenzo Campos Venuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240406 (2014) - Published 12 December, 2014

Coexistence, Interfacial Energy, and the Fate of Microemulsions of 2D Dipolar Bosons

Saverio Moroni and Massimo Boninsegni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240407 (2014) - Published 10 December, 2014

Experimental Entanglement Redistribution under Decoherence Channels

G. H. Aguilar, A. Valdés-Hernández, L. Davidovich, S. P. Walborn, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240501 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Critical Capacitance and Charge-Vortex Duality Near the Superfluid-to-Insulator Transition

Snir Gazit, Daniel Podolsky, and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240601 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Isometric Fluctuation Relations for Equilibrium States with Broken Symmetry

D. Lacoste and P. Gaspard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 240602 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Confining Force Solution of the QCD Axion Domain-Wall Problem

S. M. Barr and Jihn E. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241301 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

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Standard Rulers, Candles, and Clocks from the Low-Redshift Universe

Alan Heavens, Raul Jimenez, and Licia Verde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241302 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

A measure of how galaxies are spatially distributed can be determined in a new, more robust way.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Consistent Use of the Standard Model Effective Potential

Anders Andreassen, William Frost, and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241801 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

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$SU (2) \times U (1)$ Gauge Invariance and the Shape of New Physics in Rare $B$ Decays

R. Alonso, B. Grinstein, and J. Martin Camalich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241802 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Measurement of the Inclusive Electron Neutrino Charged Current Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 241803 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Measurements of Direct $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries in Charmless Decays of Bottom Baryons

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 242001 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Precision Measurement of the Mass and Lifetime of the $Ξ_{b}^{-}$ Baryon

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 242002 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Matter from Effective Quark-Quark Interaction

M. Baldo and K. Fukukawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 242501 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Breakdown of the Dipole Approximation in Strong-Field Ionization

A. Ludwig, J. Maurer, B. W. Mayer, C. R. Phillips, L. Gallmann, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 243001 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Many-Body Localization in Dipolar Systems

N. Y. Yao, C. R. Laumann, S. Gopalakrishnan, M. Knap, M. Müller, E. A. Demler, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 243002 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Fabry-Perot Interferometer with Quantum Mirrors: Nonlinear Light Transport and Rectification

F. Fratini, E. Mascarenhas, L. Safari, J-Ph. Poizat, D. Valente, A. Auffèves, D. Gerace, and M. F. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 243601 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subwavelength Multilayer Dielectrics: Ultrasensitive Transmission and Breakdown of Effective-Medium Theory

Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Ido Kaminer, Yonatan Plotnik, Guy Bartal, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 243901 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Plasma and Beam Physics

Improving the Self-Guiding of an Ultraintense Laser by Tailoring Its Longitudinal Profile

M. Tzoufras, F. S. Tsung, W. B. Mori, and A. A. Sahai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245001 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

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Multi-GeV Electron Beams from Capillary-Discharge-Guided Subpetawatt Laser Pulses in the Self-Trapping Regime

W. P. Leemans, A. J. Gonsalves, H.-S. Mao, K. Nakamura, C. Benedetti, C. B. Schroeder, Cs. Tóth, J. Daniels, D. E. Mittelberger, S. S. Bulanov, J.-L. Vay, C. G. R. Geddes, and E. Esarey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245002 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

A laser-driven particle accelerator, delivering a beam of electrons with a record-breaking energy of 4.2 giga-electron-volts, could lead to compact x-ray lasers or high-energy colliders.

Field-Reversed Bubble in Deep Plasma Channels for High-Quality Electron Acceleration

A. Pukhov, O. Jansen, T. Tueckmantel, J. Thomas, and I. Yu. Kostyukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245003 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Static Dielectric Permittivity of Ice from First Principles

Nicéphore Bonnet and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245501 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

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Making the Cut: Lattice Kirigami Rules

Toen Castle, Yigil Cho, Xingting Gong, Euiyeon Jung, Daniel M. Sussman, Shu Yang, and Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245502 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Simple rules for cutting and folding rigid sheets can facilitate preplanned material design.

Critical Dynamical Heterogeneities Close to Continuous Second-Order Glass Transitions

Saroj Kumar Nandi, Giulio Biroli, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Kunimasa Miyazaki, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245701 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Structural Relaxation is a Scale-Free Process

Anaël Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 245702 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

How “Hot Precursors” Modify Island Nucleation: A Rate-Equation Model

Josue R. Morales-Cifuentes, T. L. Einstein, and A. Pimpinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246101 (2014) - Published 10 December, 2014

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Local Adiabatic Mixing of Kramers Pairs of Majorana Bound States

Konrad Wölms, Ady Stern, and Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246401 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

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Quantum Transport Evidence for the Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal Phase in ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

L. P. He, X. C. Hong, J. K. Dong, J. Pan, Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246402 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Bulk quantum transport measurements of Cd $_{3}$ As $_{2}$ provide further evidence that it is a 3D Dirac Semimetal - a quantum state of matter whose properties resemble a 3D analog of graphene.

Magnitude of the Magnetic Exchange Interaction in the Heavy-Fermion Antiferromagnet ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

Pinaki Das, S.-Z. Lin, N. J. Ghimire, K. Huang, F. Ronning, E. D. Bauer, J. D. Thompson, C. D. Batista, G. Ehlers, and M. Janoschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246403 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Shining Light on Transition-Metal Oxides: Unveiling the Hidden Fermi Liquid

Xiaoyu Deng, Aaron Sternbach, Kristjan Haule, D. N. Basov, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246404 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Phase Diagram of the Triangular Extended Hubbard Model

Luca F. Tocchio, Claudius Gros, Xue-Feng Zhang ((张学锋)), and Sebastian Eggert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246405 (2014) - Published 12 December, 2014

Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times of Single Donors and Donor Clusters in Silicon

Yu-Ling Hsueh, Holger Büch, Yaohua Tan, Yu Wang, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Gerhard Klimeck, Michelle Y. Simmons, and Rajib Rahman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246406 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Plasmons in Strongly Correlated Systems: Spectral Weight Transfer and Renormalized Dispersion

E. G. C. P. van Loon, H. Hafermann, A. I. Lichtenstein, A. N. Rubtsov, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246407 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Electronic Transport in Graphene with Aggregated Hydrogen Adatoms

Fernando Gargiulo, Gabriel Autès, Naunidh Virk, Stefan Barthel, Malte Rösner, Lisa R. M. Toller, Tim O. Wehling, and Oleg V. Yazyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246601 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

High Conductance 2D Transport around the Hall Mobility Peak in Electrolyte-Gated Rubrene Crystals

Wei Xie, Shun Wang, Xin Zhang, C. Leighton, and C. Daniel Frisbie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246602 (2014) - Published 10 December, 2014

Multiple Quantum Phases in Graphene with Enhanced Spin-Orbit Coupling: From the Quantum Spin Hall Regime to the Spin Hall Effect and a Robust Metallic State

Alessandro Cresti, Dinh Van Tuan, David Soriano, Aron W. Cummings, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246603 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

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Coherent Control of a Single ${}^{29}{Si}$ Nuclear Spin Qubit

Jarryd J. Pla, Fahd A. Mohiyaddin, Kuan Y. Tan, Juan P. Dehollain, Rajib Rahman, Gerhard Klimeck, David N. Jamieson, Andrew S. Dzurak, and Andrea Morello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246801 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

The readout and manipulation of individual silicon nuclei has been achieved with a high degree of coherence, paving the way for quantum algorithms in silicon devices.

Limits to Metallic Conduction in Atomic-Scale Quasi-One-Dimensional Silicon Wires

Bent Weber, Hoon Ryu, Y.-H. Matthias Tan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Michelle Y. Simmons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246802 (2014) - Published 10 December, 2014

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Wigner Crystal of Interacting Composite Fermions

Yang Liu, D. Kamburov, S. Hasdemir, M. Shayegan, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and K. W. Baldwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 246803 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Non-Poissonian Quantum Jumps of a Fluxonium Qubit due to Quasiparticle Excitations

U. Vool, I. M. Pop, K. Sliwa, B. Abdo, C. Wang, T. Brecht, Y. Y. Gao, S. Shankar, M. Hatridge, G. Catelani, M. Mirrahimi, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, L. I. Glazman, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247001 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Multilevel Interference Resonances in Strongly Driven Three-Level Systems

Jeroen Danon and Mark S. Rudner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247002 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Asymmetric Frequency Conversion in Nonlinear Systems Driven by a Biharmonic Pump

Archana Kamal, Ananda Roy, John Clarke, and Michel H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247003 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

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Imaging Josephson Vortices on the Surface Superconductor $Si (111) − (\sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{3}) − In$ using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Howon Kim, Takuto Kawakami, Yuki Nagai, Tomonobu Nakayama, Xiao Hu, Yukio Hasegawa, and Takashi Uchihashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247004 (2014) - Published 10 December, 2014

Single-atomic-step imperfections on the surface of superconducting films behave like Josephson junctions.

Flux-Dependent Crossover between Quantum and Classical Behavior in a dc SQUID

S. Butz, A. K. Feofanov, K. G. Fedorov, H. Rotzinger, A. U. Thomann, B. Mackrodt, R. Dolata, V. B. Geshkenbein, G. Blatter, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247005 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

Finite-Temperature Spin Dynamics in a Perturbed Quantum Critical Ising Chain with an $E_{8}$ Symmetry

Jianda Wu, Márton Kormos, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247201 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Magnetization and Microstructure Dynamics in $Fe / MnAs / GaAs (001)$ : Fe Magnetization Reversal by a Femtosecond Laser Pulse

C. Spezzani, E. Ferrari, E. Allaria, F. Vidal, A. Ciavardini, R. Delaunay, F. Capotondi, E. Pedersoli, M. Coreno, C. Svetina, L. Raimondi, M. Zangrando, R. Ivanov, I. Nikolov, A. Demidovich, M. B. Danailov, H. Popescu, M. Eddrief, G. De Ninno, M. Kiskinova, and M. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247202 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

Chiral Anomaly and Diffusive Magnetotransport in Weyl Metals

A. A. Burkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247203 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

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Breaking the Symmetry of Forward-Backward Light Emission with Localized and Collective Magnetoelectric Resonances in Arrays of Pyramid-Shaped Aluminum Nanoparticles

S. R. K. Rodriguez, F. Bernal Arango, T. P. Steinbusch, M. A. Verschuuren, A. F. Koenderink, and J. Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247401 (2014) - Published 12 December, 2014

An array of nanometer-sized aluminum pyramids acts as a directional antenna for light, and the direction depends on wavelength.

Short-Range Correlations in the Magnetic Ground State of ${Na}_{4} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$

Rebecca Dally, Tom Hogan, Alex Amato, Hubertus Luetkens, Chris Baines, Jose Rodriguez-Rivera, Michael J. Graf, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247601 (2014) - Published 8 December, 2014

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Pattern Selection in Growing Tubular Tissues

P. Ciarletta, V. Balbi, and E. Kuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 248101 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014

A model of soft biological tissue explains why wrinkles and folds form in tubular structures like the esophagus or the intestines.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Biphasic, Lyotropic, Active Nematics

Matthew L. Blow, Sumesh P. Thampi, and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 248303 (2014) - Published 12 December, 2014

Active nematic domains elongate and orient at their interface. Here this behavior is shown theoretically to arise from active stresses in the system.

International Trade Network: Fractal Properties and Globalization Puzzle

Mariusz Karpiarz, Piotr Fronczak, and Agata Fronczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 248701 (2014) - Published 11 December, 2014

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: ${MoS}_{2}$ : Choice Substrate for Accessing and Tuning the Electronic Properties of Graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 156804 (2014)]

Chih-Pin Lu, Guohong Li, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, and Eva Y. Andrei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 249901 (2014) - Published 9 December, 2014