July 2010 Literature Digest

[nano] Evidence of graphene-like electronic signature in silicene nanoribbons
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v96/i26/p261905

[graphene/CVD] A simple alcohol-chemical vapor deposition synthesis of single-layer graphenes using flash cooling
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v96/i26/p263105

[graphene/bio] Electron transfer mechanism of cytochrome c at graphene electrode
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v96/i26/p263702

[general] Evaporative Cooling of Antiprotons to Cryogenic Temperatures (PRL)
http://focus.aps.org/story/v26/st1

[AMO/optics] Method to Generate Complex Quasinondiffracting Optical Lattices
(PRL)

[AMO/open quantum system] Optical Realization of Relativistic Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics (PRL) {test in DFB laser?}
related:
Observation of parity–time symmetry in optics
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v6/n3/abs/nphys1515.html

[optics] Observation of Spatial Fluctuations of the Local Density of States in Random Photonic Media (PRL)

[optics] Experimental Observation of Critical Phenomena in a Laser Light System (PRL)

[quantum] Dynamical Phase Transitions and Instabilities in Open Atomic Many-Body Systems (PRL)

[CMP/TI --theory] Photoinduced Transition between Conventional and Topological Insulators in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems (PRL)

[graphene/theory] Gap opening in graphene by shear strain
http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v81/i24/e241412

[graphene] Observation of magnetic edge state in graphene nanoribbons
http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v81/i24/e245428

[TI-theory] Monopole current and unconventional Hall response on a topological insulator
http://prb.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v81/i24/e245125
Gate-Controlled One-Dimensional Channel on the Surface of a 3D Topological Insulator
http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v104/i24/e246806

[general] 4D Electron Tomography
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/328/5986/1668

[nano/optics] Optical Nanoprobing via Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light
http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v104/i25/e253601
related: Observation of the Spin Hall Effect of Light via Weak Measurements
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5864/787
Geometrodynamics of spinning light
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v2/n12/abs/nphoton.2008.229.html

[graphene-theory] Electric field: A catalyst for hydrogenation of graphene
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v96/i25/p253106/pdf

[graphene] Ultrathin, transparent, and flexible graphene films for supercapacitor application
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v96/i25/p253105/pdf

[graphene] Doping of few-layered graphene and carbon nanotubes using ion implantation

[thermal/theory] Strain effects on the thermal conductivity of nanostructures
http://prb.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v81/i24/e245318

[quantum/nano] Coherent control of Rydberg states in silicon
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7301/full/nature09112.html

[AMO/quantum] Efficient quantum memory for light
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7301/full/nature09081.html

[2DES/QHE] Optical Hall Effect in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v104/i25/e256802

[spintronics] Single-Shot Readout of a Single Nuclear Spin
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1189075v1

[TI/QHE-theory] Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/lookup?lookupType=volpage&vol=329&fp=61&view=short

[general/astro/graphene] {oldest CVD synthesis of graphene?}
Graphite Whiskers in CV3 Meteorites
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/320/5872/91?ijkey=fb6ff718321e9ec79545ace3809330b948a14861
Graphite in an Apollo 17 Impact Melt Breccia
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5987/51#R6

[AMO/astrophyiscs]To Cool or Not to Coolan Apollo 17
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5987/45
Experimental Results for H₂ Formation from H^– and H and Implications for First Star Formation
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5987/69

[CMP/supersolid] Evidence for Free-Flowing Supersolid Slipping Away?
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5987/20

[graphene] Limits on intrinsic magnetism in graphene
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1007/1007.0423.pdf

[graphene/theory] Valley symmetry breaking and gap tuning in graphene by spin doping
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0367

[graphene-XPS] The ratio of carbon atoms with sp2 bonding to those with sp3 bonding in graphite oxide samples with different sample preparation times
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0287

[CMP/nano] Mesoscopic Percolating Resistance Network in a Strained Manganite Thin Film
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5988/190

[CMP/superconductor] Superconductivity: Revelations of the fullerenes
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/full/466191a.html

[general/AMO]
The size of the proton
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/full/466195a.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/full/nature09250.html

[quantum/AMO] Ultrabright source of entangled photon pairs
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7303/abs/nature09148.html

[CMP/AMO] Observation of pseudogap behaviour in a strongly interacting Fermi gas
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nphys1709.html

[CMP] Phase transitions in confined water nanofilms
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys1708.html

[CMP] Zero-doping state and electron–hole asymmetry in an ambipolar cuprate
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys1717.html

[CMP] Light-driven nanoscale plasmonic motors
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nnano.2010.128.html

[Nano/CNT] Hysteresis-free operation of suspended carbon nanotube transistors
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2010.129.html

[nano/quantum info -multivalued]
Multistability of a coherent spin ensemble in a semiconductor microcavity
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmat2787.html

[graphene/nano] Gate-controlled electron transport in coronenes as a bottom-up approach towards graphene transistors
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n3/abs/ncomms1029.html

[graphene/nano/theory] Nonlinear optical conductance in a graphene pn junction in the terahertz regime
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v97/i1/p011907

[thermal] Interfacial thermal conductance in spun-cast polymer films and polymer brushes
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v97/i1/p011908

[nano/InAs] Electron transport properties of InAs ultrathin films obtained by epitaxial lift-off and van der Waals bonding on flexible substrates
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v97/i1/p012102

[nano] Nanoscale rectification at the LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ interface
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v97/i1/p013102

[graphene] Graphene field-effect transistors with self-aligned gates
http://link.aip.org/link/APPLAB/v97/i1/p013103

[general/disorder] Universal Statistics of Branched Flows
http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v105/i2/e020601

[AMO] Keeping atoms synchronized for better timekeeping
http://physics.aps.org/viewpoint-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.020401
Spin Self-Rephasing and Very Long Coherence Times in a Trapped Atomic Ensemble (PRL)

[CMP/nano] Optical Probe of Quantum Shot-Noise Reduction at a Single-Atom Contact

[CMP/AMO] Rotonlike Instability and Pattern Formation in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates [PRL]

[quantum] Optimal Dynamical Control of Many-Body Entanglement
http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v105/i2/e020501

[quantum/semiconductor-AMO]Magnetic Field Control of the Quantum Chaotic Dynamics of Hydrogen Analogs in an Anisotropic Crystal Field

[graphene/nano] Vertical Pillar-Superlattice Array and Graphene Hybrid Light Emitting Diodes (Nano Lett)

[CMP/Topological Insulator] Topological insulators: Star material
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100714/full/466310a.html

[CMP] Two- and three-dimensional extended solids and metallization of compressed XeF2
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nchem.724.html#/author-information

[general/material sci] Questions raised over Korean torpedo claims
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100714/pdf/466302b.pdf

[graphene-theory] Effects of disorder and interactions on Anderson transition and Puddles
in doped Graphene
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3309

[CMP-graphene-like] Spin and Valley Splittings in Multilayered Massless Dirac Fermion System
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3342 [in organic $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$]

[graphene-theory] The influence of the optical Stark effect on chiral tunneling in
graphene http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3430

[optics] Direct detection of single molecules by optical absorption
http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1007.3457

[graphene-theory] Gauge fi elds in graphene
http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5179

[graphene] Thermoelectric Transport of Massive Dirac Fermions in Bilayer Graphene http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4739

[topological insulator-theory] {interferometry} Straining the Identity of Majorana Fermions
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2350

[general] Genetic Signatures of Exceptional Longevity in Humans
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1190532v2
{interesting in many ways, including the "correction"}

[graphene/BN] Electronic structure of a graphene/hexagonal-BN heterostructure grown on Ru(0001) by chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition: extrinsically doped graphene
http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/22/30/302002/pdf/0953-8984_22_30_302002.pdf

[Cold atom-theory] Measuring the equation of state of trapped ultracold bosonic systems in
an optical lattice with in-situ density imaging
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3529

[Graphene-theory] A comprehensive study of electric, thermoelectric and thermal
conductivities of Graphene with short range unitary and charged impurities
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3533

[graphene-theory] Topological insulating phases in mono and bilayer graphene
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3704