Volume 100, Issue 20

23 May 2008

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On the Cover

Schematic of graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors with palladium contacts (S,D) on a 10 nm thick silicon dioxide surface (purple). The devices are found to be semiconducting at room temperature.

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Room-Temperature All-Semiconducting Sub-10-nm Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistors
Xinran Wang, Yijian Ouyang, Xiaolin Li, Hailiang Wang, Jing Guo, and Hongjie Dai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206803 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Noncritically Squeezed Light via Spontaneous Rotational Symmetry Breaking

Carlos Navarrete–Benlloch, Eugenio Roldán, and Germán J. de Valcárcel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203601 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disentangling Effects of Nuclear Structure in Heavy Element Formation

D. J. Hinde, R. G. Thomas, R. du Rietz, A. Diaz-Torres, M. Dasgupta, M. L. Brown, M. Evers, L. R. Gasques, R. Rafiei, and M. D. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 202701 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room-Temperature All-Semiconducting Sub-10-nm Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistors

Xinran Wang, Yijian Ouyang, Xiaolin Li, Hailiang Wang, Jing Guo, and Hongjie Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206803 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perfect Metamaterial Absorber

N. I. Landy, S. Sajuyigbe, J. J. Mock, D. R. Smith, and W. J. Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207402 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proteins: Coexistence of Stability and Flexibility

Shlomi Reuveni, Rony Granek, and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 208101 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

LETTERS

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

Magnetic Phase Transitions in One-Dimensional Strongly Attractive Three-Component Ultracold Fermions

X. W. Guan, M. T. Batchelor, C. Lee, and H.-Q. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200401 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Wigner Crystallization in Rapidly Rotating 2D Dipolar Fermi Gases

M. A. Baranov, H. Fehrmann, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200402 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Rotating Ground States of a One-Dimensional Spin-Polarized Gas of Fermionic Atoms with Attractive $p$ -Wave Interactions on a Mesoscopic Ring

M. D. Girardeau and E. M. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200403 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Self-Consistent Crystalline Condensate in Chiral Gross-Neveu and Bogoliubov–de Gennes Systems

Gökçe Başar and Gerald V. Dunne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200404 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Double and Negative Reflection of Cold Atoms in Non-Abelian Gauge Potentials

Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Julius Ruseckas, Andreas Jacob, Luis Santos, and Patrik Öhberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200405 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Orbital Ordering and Frustration of $p$ -Band Mott Insulators

Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200406 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Discriminating Multipartite Entangled States

Christian Schmid, Nikolai Kiesel, Wiesław Laskowski, Witlef Wieczorek, Marek Żukowski, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200407 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Closed-Orbit Theory of Spatial Density Oscillations in Finite Fermion Systems

Jérôme Roccia and Matthias Brack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200408 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Quantum Cryptography with Finite Resources: Unconditional Security Bound for Discrete-Variable Protocols with One-Way Postprocessing

Valerio Scarani and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200501 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

High-Fidelity Readout of Trapped-Ion Qubits

A. H. Myerson, D. J. Szwer, S. C. Webster, D. T. C. Allcock, M. J. Curtis, G. Imreh, J. A. Sherman, D. N. Stacey, A. M. Steane, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200502 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Single-File Diffusion in a Box

L. Lizana and T. Ambjörnsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200601 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Primary Gas Thermometry by Means of Laser-Absorption Spectroscopy: Determination of the Boltzmann Constant

G. Casa, A. Castrillo, G. Galzerano, R. Wehr, A. Merlone, D. Di Serafino, P. Laporta, and L. Gianfrani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 200801 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

No-Boundary Measure of the Universe

James B. Hartle, S. W. Hawking, and Thomas Hertog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 201301 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Geometry in Transition: A Model of Emergent Geometry

Rodrigo Delgadillo-Blando, Denjoe O’Connor, and Badis Ydri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 201601 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Strong Evidence for $Z Z$ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 201801 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Search for the Decay $K_{L}^{0} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$

J. K. Ahn et al. (E391a Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 201802 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Production of New Charmoniumlike States in $e^{+} e^{-} \to J / ψ D^{()} {\bar{D}}^{()}$ at $\sqrt{s} \approx 10.6 GeV$

P. Pakhlov et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 202001 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disentangling Effects of Nuclear Structure in Heavy Element Formation

D. J. Hinde, R. G. Thomas, R. du Rietz, A. Diaz-Torres, M. Dasgupta, M. L. Brown, M. Evers, L. R. Gasques, R. Rafiei, and M. D. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 202701 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Control of Four-Level Quantum Coherence via Discrete Spectral Shaping of an Optical Frequency Comb

Matthew C. Stowe, Avi Pe’er, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203001 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Shaping Emission Spectra of Fluorescent Molecules with Single Plasmonic Nanoresonators

M. Ringler, A. Schwemer, M. Wunderlich, A. Nichtl, K. Kürzinger, T. A. Klar, and J. Feldmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203002 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Angle-Resolved High-Order Above-Threshold Ionization of a Molecule: Sensitive Tool for Molecular Characterization

M. Busuladžić, A. Gazibegović-Busuladžić, D. B. Milošević, and W. Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203003 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Inelastic Collisions of Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules in an Optical Trap

Eric R. Hudson, Nathan B. Gilfoy, S. Kotochigova, Jeremy M. Sage, and D. DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203201 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Compression of Antiproton Clouds for Antihydrogen Trapping

G. B. Andresen et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203401 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Radial Compression of an Antiproton Cloud for Production of Intense Antiproton Beams

N. Kuroda, H. A. Torii, M. Shibata, Y. Nagata, D. Barna, M. Hori, D. Horváth, A. Mohri, J. Eades, K. Komaki, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203402 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Noncritically Squeezed Light via Spontaneous Rotational Symmetry Breaking

Carlos Navarrete–Benlloch, Eugenio Roldán, and Germán J. de Valcárcel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203601 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Design of Many-Atom Cavity QED Systems for Strong Two-Photon Nonlinearity

Akira Ishikawa and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203602 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Slow and Fast Light in Liquid Crystal Light Valves

S. Residori, U. Bortolozzo, and J. P. Huignard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203603 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Mode Locking in a Free-Electron Laser Amplifier

N. R. Thompson and B. W. J. McNeil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203901 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Polarization Singularities in 2D and 3D Speckle Fields

Florian Flossmann, Kevin O‘Holleran, Mark R. Dennis, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203902 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Coherent Control of Ultrahigh-Frequency Acoustic Resonances in Photonic Crystal Fibers

G. S. Wiederhecker, A. Brenn, H. L. Fragnito, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203903 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Defect-Free Surface States in Modulated Photonic Lattices

Ivan L. Garanovich, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 203904 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Superscars in Billiards: A Model for Doorway States in Quantum Spectra

S. Åberg, T. Guhr, M. Miski-Oglu, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 204101 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Elimination of Vortex Streets in Bluff-Body Flows

S. Dong, G. S. Triantafyllou, and G. E. Karniadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 204501 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Scrape-Off-Layer Current Model for Filament Structure Observed during Edge-Localized Modes in the DIII-D Tokamak

Hironori Takahashi, E. D. Fredrickson, and M. J. Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205001 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Observation of Subpicosecond X-Ray Emission from Laser-Cluster Interaction

F. Dorchies, F. Blasco, C. Bonté, T. Caillaud, C. Fourment, and O. Peyrusse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205002 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Magnetosheath Plasma Turbulence and Its Spatiotemporal Evolution as Observed by the Cluster Spacecraft

E. Yordanova, A. Vaivads, M. André, S. C. Buchert, and Z. Vörös

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205003 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Transition of MHD Kink-Stability Properties between Line-Tied and Non-Line-Tied Boundary Conditions

X. Sun, T. P. Intrator, L. Dorf, I. Furno, and G. Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205004 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Temperature Relaxation in Hot Dense Hydrogen

Michael S. Murillo and M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205005 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Magnetic-Dipole Vortex Generation by Propagation of Ultraintense and Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Moderate-Density Plasmas

Tatsufumi Nakamura and Kunioki Mima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205006 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Solid Superheating Observed in Two-Dimensional Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasma

Yan Feng, J. Goree, and Bin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205007 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Exact Relativistic Kinetic Theory of an Electron-Beam–Plasma System: Hierarchy of the Competing Modes in the System-Parameter Space

A. Bret, L. Gremillet, D. Bénisti, and E. Lefebvre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205008 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Exact Relations for a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas from the Operator Product Expansion

Eric Braaten and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205301 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Resonant Spin-Changing Collisions in Spinor Fermi Gases

N. Bornemann, P. Hyllus, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205302 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

First Principles Calculation of Localized Surface Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interaction at Pb(111) Thin Films

Felix Yndurain and Manuel Perez Jigato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205501 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Binary Alloys of Ge and Te: Order, Voids, and the Eutectic Composition

J. Akola and R. O. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205502 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Quantum Magnets under Pressure: Controlling Elementary Excitations in ${TlCuCl}_{3}$

Ch. Rüegg, B. Normand, M. Matsumoto, A. Furrer, D. F. McMorrow, K. W. Krämer, H. -U. Güdel, S. N. Gvasaliya, H. Mutka, and M. Boehm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205701 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Symmetrized General Hopping Current Equation

Ilan Riess and Joachim Maier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 205901 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Slip at High Shear Rates

Ashlie Martini, Hua-Yi Hsu, Neelesh A. Patankar, and Seth Lichter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206001 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Quantitative Atomic Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

James M. LeBeau, Scott D. Findlay, Leslie J. Allen, and Susanne Stemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206101 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Revisiting the Valence-Band and Core-Level Photoemission Spectra of NiO

M. Taguchi, M. Matsunami, Y. Ishida, R. Eguchi, A. Chainani, Y. Takata, M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206401 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Magnetic Breakdown Induced Peierls Transition

A. M. Kadigrobov, A. Bjeliš, and D. Radić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206402 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Atomistic Origin of Urbach Tails in Amorphous Silicon

Y. Pan, F. Inam, M. Zhang, and D. A. Drabold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206403 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Sodium Trimer Ordering on a ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$ Surface

Woei Wu Pai, S. H. Huang, Ying S. Meng, Y. C. Chao, C. H. Lin, H. L. Liu, and F. C. Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206404 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Quantum Stress Focusing in Descriptive Chemistry

Jianmin Tao, Giovanni Vignale, and I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206405 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Interferometric Control of Spin-Polarized Electron Populations at a Metal Surface Observed by Multiphoton Photoemission

Aimo Winkelmann, Wen-Chin Lin, Francesco Bisio, Hrvoje Petek, and Jürgen Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206601 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Zero-Energy State in Graphene in a High Magnetic Field

Joseph G. Checkelsky, Lu Li, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206801 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Role of Symmetry in the Transport Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons under Bias

Zuanyi Li, Haiyun Qian, Jian Wu, Bing-Lin Gu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206802 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room-Temperature All-Semiconducting Sub-10-nm Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistors

Xinran Wang, Yijian Ouyang, Xiaolin Li, Hailiang Wang, Jing Guo, and Hongjie Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206803 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Energy Relaxation in the Spin-Polarized Disordered Electron Liquid

N. M. Chtchelkatchev and I. S. Burmistrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206804 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Exact Exponents of Edge Singularities in Dynamic Correlation Functions of 1D Bose Gas

Adilet Imambekov and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206805 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Calcium as the Superior Coating Metal in Functionalization of Carbon Fullerenes for High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage

Mina Yoon, Shenyuan Yang, Christian Hicke, Enge Wang, David Geohegan, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 206806 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Triplet Josephson Effect with Magnetic Feedback in a Superconductor-Ferromagnet Heterostructure

V. Braude and Ya. M. Blanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207001 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Andreev Current-Induced Dissipation in a Hybrid Superconducting Tunnel Junction

Sukumar Rajauria, P. Gandit, T. Fournier, F. W. J. Hekking, B. Pannetier, and H. Courtois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207002 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Thermal Conductivity Evidence for a $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ Pairing Symmetry in the Heavy-Fermion ${CeIrIn}_{5}$ Superconductor

Y. Kasahara, T. Iwasawa, Y. Shimizu, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, I. Vekhter, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207003 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Evidence for Gap Anisotropy in ${CaC}_{6}$ from Directional Point-Contact Spectroscopy

R. S. Gonnelli, D. Daghero, D. Delaude, M. Tortello, G. A. Ummarino, V. A. Stepanov, J. S. Kim, R. K. Kremer, A. Sanna, G. Profeta, and S. Massidda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207004 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

Atomic-Layer Resolved Magnetic and Electronic Structure Analysis of Ni Thin Film on a Cu(001) Surface by Diffraction Spectroscopy

Fumihiko Matsui, Tomohiro Matsushita, Yukako Kato, Mie Hashimoto, Kanako Inaji, Fang Zhun Guo, and Hiroshi Daimon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207201 (2008) - Published 19 May, 2008

Imaging the Cone State of the Spin Reorientation Transition

Robert Frömter, Holger Stillrich, Christian Menk, and Hans Peter Oepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207202 (2008) - Published 22 May, 2008

Compact Dielectric Particles as a Building Block for Low-Loss Magnetic Metamaterials

Bogdan-Ioan Popa and Steven A. Cummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207401 (2008) - Published 20 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perfect Metamaterial Absorber

N. I. Landy, S. Sajuyigbe, J. J. Mock, D. R. Smith, and W. J. Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207402 (2008) - Published 21 May, 2008

Resolving the Optical Spectrum of Water: Coordination and Electrostatic Effects

A. Hermann, W. G. Schmidt, and P. Schwerdtfeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207403 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Direct and Stepwise Energy Transfer from Excitons to Plasmons in Close-Packed Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticle Monolayer Films

Koshin Hosoki, Takeshi Tayagaki, Shinpei Yamamoto, Kazunari Matsuda, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207404 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Postselective Two-Photon Interference from a Continuous Nonclassical Stream of Photons Emitted by a Quantum Dot

R. B. Patel, A. J. Bennett, K. Cooper, P. Atkinson, C. A. Nicoll, D. A. Ritchie, and A. J. Shields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 207405 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

ERRATA

Erratum: Extended One-Dimensional Supramolecular Assembly on a Stepped Surface [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 046103 (2008)]

J. Schnadt, E. Rauls, W. Xu, R. T. Vang, J. Knudsen, E. Lægsgaard, Z. Li, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 209901 (2008) - Published 23 May, 2008