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Physical Review Letters – 10 February 2012
Volume 108, Issue 6 (partial)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Superconductivity Induced by Longitudinal Ferromagnetic Fluctuations in UCoGe
T. Hattori, Y. Ihara, Y. Nakai, K. Ishida, Y. Tada, S. Fujimoto, N. Kawakami, E. Osaki, K. Deguchi, N. K. Sato, and I. Satoh
Published 6 February 2012 (5 pages)
066403 [View PDF (462 kB)]
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Giant Improper Ferroelectricity in the Ferroaxial Magnet CaMn7O12
R. D. Johnson, L. C. Chapon, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, P. G. Radaelli, and C. Martin
Published 6 February 2012 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (1,282 kB)]
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Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares
Nicholas Stone and Abraham Loeb
Published 6 February 2012 (4 pages)
061302 [View PDF (305 kB)]
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Axion Dark Matter and Cosmological Parameters
O. Erken, P. Sikivie, H. Tam, and Q. Yang
Published 9 February 2012 (4 pages)
061304 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Self-Organized Transition to Coherent Activity in Disordered Media
Rajeev Singh, Jinshan Xu, Nicolas G. Garnier, Alain Pumir, and Sitabhra Sinha
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
068102 [View PDF (5,187 kB)]
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Intrinsic Stability of a Body Hovering in an Oscillating Airflow
Bin Liu, Leif Ristroph, Annie Weathers, Stephen Childress, and Jun Zhang
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
068103 [View PDF (504 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis

LETTERS

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

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Exciton Supersolidity in Hybrid Bose-Fermi Systems
Michał Matuszewski, Thomas Taylor, and Alexey V. Kavokin
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
060401 [View PDF (887 kB)]
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Clock Shift in a Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas
Christian Langmack, Marcus Barth, Wilhelm Zwerger, and Eric Braaten
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
060402 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Complete Set of Operational Measures for the Characterization of Three-Qubit Entanglement
J. I. de Vicente, T. Carle, C. Streitberger, and B. Kraus
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
060501 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Compact Continuous-Variable Entanglement Distillation
Animesh Datta, Lijian Zhang, Joshua Nunn, Nathan K. Langford, Alvaro Feito, Martin B. Plenio, and Ian A. Walmsley
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
060502 [View PDF (834 kB)]
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Rectification of Spatial Disorder
Jaegon Um, Hyunsuk Hong, Fabio Marchesoni, and Hyunggyu Park
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
060601 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Phase Diagram and Density Large Deviations of a Nonconserving ABC Model
O. Cohen and D. Mukamel
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
060602 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Suppression of Self-Induced Flavor Conversion in the Supernova Accretion Phase
Srdjan Sarikas, Georg G. Raffelt, Lorenz Hüdepohl, and Hans-Thomas Janka
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
061101 [View PDF (568 kB)]
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Entropy Generation across Earth’s Collisionless Bow Shock
G. K. Parks, E. Lee, M. McCarthy, M. Goldstein, S. Y. Fu, J. B. Cao, P. Canu, N. Lin, M. Wilber, I. Dandouras, H. Réme, and A. Fazakerley
Published 9 February 2012 (4 pages)
061102 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Main Sequence Stars with Asymmetric Dark Matter
Fabio Iocco, Marco Taoso, Florent Leclercq, and Georges Meynet
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
061301 [View PDF (318 kB)]
Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares
Nicholas Stone and Abraham Loeb
Published 6 February 2012 (4 pages)
061302 [View PDF (305 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Axion Dark Matter and Cosmological Parameters
O. Erken, P. Sikivie, H. Tam, and Q. Yang
Published 9 February 2012 (4 pages)
061304 [View PDF (150 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Infrared Fixed Point of the 12-Fermion SU(3) Gauge Model Based on 2-Lattice Monte Carlo Renomalization-Group Matching
Anna Hasenfratz
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
061601 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Nonanalyticity in Scale in the Planar Limit of QCD
R. Lohmayer and H. Neuberger
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
061602 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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First Measurement of the Partial Widths of 209Bi Decay to the Ground and to the First Excited States
J. W. Beeman, M. Biassoni, C. Brofferio, C. Bucci, S. Capelli, L. Cardani, M. Carrettoni, M. Clemenza, O. Cremonesi, E. Ferri, A. Giachero, L. Gironi, P. Gorla, C. Gotti, A. Nucciotti, C. Maiano, L. Pattavina, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, M. Sisti, and L. Zanotti
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
062501 [View PDF (267 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Mechanism of Delayed Double Ionization in a Strong Laser Field
F. Mauger, A. Kamor, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer
Published 7 February 2012 (4 pages)
063001 [View PDF (1,426 kB)]
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Subcycle Controlled Charge-Directed Reactivity with Few-Cycle Midinfrared Pulses
I. Znakovskaya, P. von den Hoff, G. Marcus, S. Zherebtsov, B. Bergues, X. Gu, Y. Deng, M. J. J. Vrakking, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, R. de Vivie-Riedle, and M. F. Kling
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
063002 [View PDF (1,111 kB)]
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Effect of Cusps in Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics
Zeng-hui Yang, Neepa T. Maitra, and Kieron Burke
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
063003 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Driving Rydberg-Rydberg Transitions from a Coplanar Microwave Waveguide
S. D. Hogan, J. A. Agner, F. Merkt, T. Thiele, S. Filipp, and A. Wallraff
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
063004 [View PDF (1,096 kB)]
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Nuclear Shape Effect on the g Factor of Hydrogenlike Ions
Jacek Zatorski, Natalia S. Oreshkina, Christoph H. Keitel, and Zoltán Harman
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
063005 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Interference between Competing Pathways in Atomic Harmonic Generation
A. C. Brown, S. Hutchinson, M. A. Lysaght, and H. W. van der Hart
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
063006 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Experimental Estimate of a Classicality Witness via a Single Measurement
G. H. Aguilar, O. Jiménez Farías, J. Maziero, R. M. Serra, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, and S. P. Walborn
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
063601 [View PDF (229 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Integrability and Conservation Laws for the Nonlinear Evolution Equations of Partially Coherent Waves in Noninstantaneous Kerr Media
T. Hansson, M. Lisak, and D. Anderson
Published 8 February 2012 (3 pages)
063901 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Correlations of Record Events as a Test for Heavy-Tailed Distributions
J. Franke, G. Wergen, and J. Krug
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
064101 [View PDF (235 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Dynamical Coupling between Gradients and Transport in Fusion Plasmas
C. Hidalgo, C. Silva, B. A. Carreras, B. van Milligen, H. Figueiredo, L. García, M. A. Pedrosa, B. Gonçalves, and A. Alonso
Published 7 February 2012 (4 pages)
065001 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Transport-Driven Toroidal Rotation in the Tokamak Edge
T. Stoltzfus-Dueck
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
065002 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Electronic Detection of Collective Modes of an Ultracold Plasma
K. A. Twedt and S. L. Rolston
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
065003 [View PDF (512 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Frictionless Flow in a Binary Polariton Superfluid
E. Cancellieri, F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, D. Sanvitto, and C. Tejedor
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
065301 [View PDF (777 kB)]
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Crystal Structure of Cold Compressed Graphite
Maximilian Amsler, José A. Flores-Livas, Lauri Lehtovaara, Felix Balima, S. Alireza Ghasemi, Denis Machon, Stéphane Pailhès, Alexander Willand, Damien Caliste, Silvana Botti, Alfonso San Miguel, Stefan Goedecker, and Miguel A. L. Marques
Published 7 February 2012 (4 pages)
065501 [View PDF (1,070 kB)]
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Morphology of Lamellae-Forming Block Copolymer Films between Two Orthogonal Chemically Nanopatterned Striped Surfaces
Guoliang Liu, Abelardo Ramírez-Hernández, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kim Nygård, Dillip K. Satapathy, Oliver Bunk, Juan J. de Pablo, and Paul F. Nealey
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
065502 [View PDF (1,076 kB)]
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Young-Type Interference for Scattering of Fast Helium Atoms from an Oxygen Covered Mo(112) Surface
J. Seifert and H. Winter
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
065503 [View PDF (1,453 kB)]
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Evidence for a Phase Transition in Silicate Melt at Extreme Pressure and Temperature Conditions
D. K. Spaulding, R. S. McWilliams, R. Jeanloz, J. H. Eggert, P. M. Celliers, D. G. Hicks, G. W. Collins, and R. F. Smith
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
065701 [View PDF (870 kB)]
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Glass-Transition Temperature Gradient in Nanocomposites: Evidence from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Aurélie Papon, Hélène Montes, Mohamed Hanafi, François Lequeux, Laurent Guy, and Kay Saalwächter
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
065702 [View PDF (522 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Coherent Emission from a Disordered Organic Semiconductor Induced by Strong Coupling with Surface Plasmons
S. Aberra Guebrou, C. Symonds, E. Homeyer, J. C. Plenet, Yu. N. Gartstein, V. M. Agranovich, and J. Bellessa
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
066401 [View PDF (1,527 kB)]
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Metal-to-Insulator Transition and Electron-Hole Puddle Formation in Disordered Graphene Nanoribbons
Gerald Schubert and Holger Fehske
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
066402 [View PDF (1,090 kB)]
Superconductivity Induced by Longitudinal Ferromagnetic Fluctuations in UCoGe
T. Hattori, Y. Ihara, Y. Nakai, K. Ishida, Y. Tada, S. Fujimoto, N. Kawakami, E. Osaki, K. Deguchi, N. K. Sato, and I. Satoh
Published 6 February 2012 (5 pages)
066403 [View PDF (462 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Viewpoint
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New Perspective on Formation Energies and Energy Levels of Point Defects in Nonmetals
R. Ramprasad, H. Zhu, Patrick Rinke, and Matthias Scheffler
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
066404 [View PDF (529 kB)]
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Electric Field Confinement Effect on Charge Transport in Organic Field-Effect Transistors
Xiaoran Li, Andrey Kadashchuk, Ivan I. Fishchuk, Wiljan T. T. Smaal, Gerwin Gelinck, Dirk J. Broer, Jan Genoe, Paul Heremans, and Heinz Bässler
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
066601 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Ground State of the Parallel Double Quantum Dot System
Rok Žitko, Jernej Mravlje, and Kristjan Haule
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
066602 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Bethe Ansatz Approach to the Kondo Effect within Density-Functional Theory
Justin P. Bergfield, Zhen-Fei Liu, Kieron Burke, and Charles A. Stafford
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
066801 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Non-Abelian Braiding of Lattice Bosons
Eliot Kapit, Paul Ginsparg, and Erich Mueller
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
066802 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Realizing the Multiparticle Hanbury Brown–Twiss Interferometer Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Crystals
Li Dai and L. C. Kwek
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
066803 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Ir(111) Surface State with Giant Rashba Splitting Persists under Graphene in Air
A. Varykhalov, D. Marchenko, M. R. Scholz, E. D. L. Rienks, T. K. Kim, G. Bihlmayer, J. Sánchez-Barriga, and O. Rader
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
066804 [View PDF (1,003 kB)]
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Hall Viscosity and Electromagnetic Response
Carlos Hoyos and Dam Thanh Son
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
066805 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Hierarchical Nature of the Quantum Hall Effects
Parsa Bonderson
Published 9 February 2012 (4 pages)
066806 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Avoidance of Majorana Resonances in Periodic Topological Superconductor-Nanowire Structures
Jay D. Sau, Chien Hung Lin, Hoi-Yin Hui, and S. Das Sarma
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
067001 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Manifestly Non-Gaussian Fluctuations in Superconductor-Normal Metal Tunnel Nanostructures
M. A. Laakso, T. T. Heikkilä, and Yuli V. Nazarov
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
067002 [View PDF (472 kB)]
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Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of Partial Order in MnSi
Frank Krüger, Una Karahasanovic, and Andrew G. Green
Published 8 February 2012 (5 pages)
067003 [View PDF (744 kB)]
Giant Improper Ferroelectricity in the Ferroaxial Magnet CaMn7O12
R. D. Johnson, L. C. Chapon, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, P. G. Radaelli, and C. Martin
Published 6 February 2012 (4 pages)
067201 [View PDF (1,282 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Viewpoint
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Variational Numerical Renormalization Group: Bridging the Gap between NRG and Density Matrix Renormalization Group
Iztok Pižorn and Frank Verstraete
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
067202 [View PDF (841 kB)]
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Magnetotransport at Domain Walls in BiFeO3
Q. He, C.-H. Yeh, J.-C. Yang, G. Singh-Bhalla, C.-W. Liang, P.-W. Chiu, G. Catalan, L. W. Martin, Y.-H. Chu, J. F. Scott, and R. Ramesh
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
067203 [View PDF (1,860 kB)]
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Quantum Ice: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Nic Shannon, Olga Sikora, Frank Pollmann, Karlo Penc, and Peter Fulde
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
067204 [View PDF (1,001 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Unconventional Topological Spin Structure in Coupled Magnetic Discs
C. Phatak, A. K. Petford-Long, and O. Heinonen
Published 9 February 2012 (4 pages)
067205 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Weak Exciton Scattering in Molecular Nanotubes Revealed by Double-Quantum Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
Darius Abramavicius, Alexandra Nemeth, Franz Milota, Jaroslaw Sperling, Shaul Mukamel, and Harald F. Kauffmann
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
067401 [View PDF (857 kB)]
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Persistence of Covalent Bonding in Liquid Silicon Probed by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
J. T. Okada, P. H.-L. Sit, Y. Watanabe, Y. J. Wang, B. Barbiellini, T. Ishikawa, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, A. Bansil, R. Ishikawa, M. Hamaishi, T. Masaki, P.-F. Paradis, K. Kimura, T. Ishikawa, and S. Nanao
Published 8 February 2012 (4 pages)
067402 [View PDF (342 kB)]

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Dynamic Structure Factor of Vibrating Fractals
Shlomi Reuveni, Joseph Klafter, and Rony Granek
Published 7 February 2012 (5 pages)
068101 [View PDF (628 kB)]
Self-Organized Transition to Coherent Activity in Disordered Media
Rajeev Singh, Jinshan Xu, Nicolas G. Garnier, Alain Pumir, and Sitabhra Sinha
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
068102 [View PDF (5,187 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis
Intrinsic Stability of a Body Hovering in an Oscillating Airflow
Bin Liu, Leif Ristroph, Annie Weathers, Stephen Childress, and Jun Zhang
Published 9 February 2012 (5 pages)
068103 [View PDF (504 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Synopsis

ERRATA

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Publisher’s Note: Controlled Betatron X-Ray Radiation from Tunable Optically Injected Electrons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255003 (2011)]
S. Corde, K. Ta Phuoc, R. Fitour, J. Faure, A. Tafzi, J. P. Goddet, V. Malka, and A. Rousse
Published 8 February 2012 (1 page)
069901(E) [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Publisher’s Note: Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Synergistic Diffusion-Diffraction Patterns [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 058103 (2012)]
Noam Shemesh, Carl-Fredrik Westin, and Yoram Cohen
Published 8 February 2012 (1 page)
069902(E) [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Microscopic Derivation of Hubbard Parameters for Cold Atomic Gases [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090402 (2010)]
Hans Peter Büchler
Published 8 February 2012 (2 pages)
069903(E) [View PDF (182 kB)]
 
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