Volume 100, Issue 21

30 May 2008

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On the Cover

Simulated energy loss of a 200 keV electron beam incident on two nanoscale silicon slabs (left and right halves of figure) as a function of scattering angle. Blue outside the "V" represents waveguide modes excited by Čerenkov radiation.

From the article:

Formation of Guided Cherenkov Radiation in Silicon-Based Nanocomposites
Aycan Yurtsever, Martin Couillard, and David A. Muller
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 217402 (2008)

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FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Photon Antibunching in the Photoluminescence Spectra of a Single Carbon Nanotube

Alexander Högele, Christophe Galland, Martin Winger, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 217401 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

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Information is Not Lost in the Evaporation of 2D Black Holes

Abhay Ashtekar, Victor Taveras, and Madhavan Varadarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211302 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

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Search for the Higgs Boson in Events with Missing Transverse Energy and $b$ Quark Jets Produced in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211801 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

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Detection of Elementary Charges on Colloidal Particles

Filip Strubbe, Filip Beunis, and Kristiaan Neyts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 218301 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

LETTERS

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

Optimum Spin Squeezing in Bose-Einstein Condensates with Particle Losses

Yun Li, Y. Castin, and A. Sinatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210401 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Double Species Bose-Einstein Condensate with Tunable Interspecies Interactions

G. Thalhammer, G. Barontini, L. De Sarlo, J. Catani, F. Minardi, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210402 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Breakdown of Integrability in a Quasi-1D Ultracold Bosonic Gas

I. E. Mazets, T. Schumm, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210403 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Generation of High-Fidelity Four-Photon Cluster State and Quantum-Domain Demonstration of One-Way Quantum Computing

Yuuki Tokunaga, Shin Kuwashiro, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210501 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

No-Broadcasting Theorem and Its Classical Counterpart

Amir Kalev and Itay Hen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210502 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Testing the Dimension of Hilbert Spaces

Nicolas Brunner, Stefano Pironio, Antonio Acin, Nicolas Gisin, André Allan Méthot, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210503 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Global Information Balance in Quantum Measurements

Francesco Buscemi, Masahito Hayashi, and Michał Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210504 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Finite-Size Scaling in Extreme Statistics

G. Györgyi, N. R. Moloney, K. Ozogány, and Z. Rácz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210601 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Observation of Polarized Positrons from an Undulator-Based Source

G. Alexander et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 210801 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Upper Limit on the Diffuse Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Tau Neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

J. Abraham et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211101 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Black Hole State Counting in Loop Quantum Gravity: A Number-Theoretical Approach

Iván Agulló, J. Fernando Barbero G., Jacobo Díaz-Polo, Enrique Fernández-Borja, and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211301 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Information is Not Lost in the Evaporation of 2D Black Holes

Abhay Ashtekar, Victor Taveras, and Madhavan Varadarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211302 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for the Higgs Boson in Events with Missing Transverse Energy and $b$ Quark Jets Produced in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211801 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Study of Direct $C P$ Violation in $B^{\pm} \to J / ψ K^{\pm} (π^{\pm})$ Decays

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211802 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Search for $W^{'}$ Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark

V. M. Abazov et al. (The D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211803 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Distant Dipolar Fields in Laser-Polarized Gases on Macroscopic Scales

Paul P. Zänker, Jörg Schmiedeskamp, Hans W. Spiess, and Rodolfo H. Acosta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 213001 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Crystal Effects in the Neutralization of ${He}^{+}$ Ions in the Low Energy Ion Scattering Regime

D. Primetzhofer, S. N. Markin, J. I. Juaristi, E. Taglauer, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 213201 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Resonances in Electron-Impact Electron Detachment of $C_{2}^{-}$

Gabriela Halmová and Jonathan Tennyson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 213202 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coupling of Polarization and Spatial Degrees of Freedom of Highly Divergent Emission in Broad-Area Square Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

I. V. Babushkin, M. Schulz-Ruhtenberg, N. A. Loiko, K. F. Huang, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 213901 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Clusters and Switchers in Globally Coupled Photochemical Oscillators

Annette F. Taylor, Panagiotis Kapetanopoulos, Benjamin J. Whitaker, Rita Toth, Larry Bull, and Mark R. Tinsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 214101 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Inertial Clustering of Particles in High-Reynolds-Number Turbulence

Ewe Wei Saw, Raymond A. Shaw, Sathyanarayana Ayyalasomayajula, Patrick Y. Chuang, and Ármann Gylfason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 214501 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Velocity Profiles of Water Flowing Past Solid Glass Surfaces Using Fluorescent Nanoparticles and Molecules as Velocity Probes

D. Lasne, A. Maali, Y. Amarouchene, L. Cognet, B. Lounis, and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 214502 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Exact Linear Hydrodynamics from the Boltzmann Equation

I. V. Karlin, M. Colangeli, and M. Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 214503 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Breakdown Limits on Gigavolt-per-Meter Electron-Beam-Driven Wakefields in Dielectric Structures

M. C. Thompson, H. Badakov, A. M. Cook, J. B. Rosenzweig, R. Tikhoplav, G. Travish, I. Blumenfeld, M. J. Hogan, R. Ischebeck, N. Kirby, R. Siemann, D. Walz, P. Muggli, A. Scott, and R. B. Yoder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 214801 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Generation and Measurement of Relativistic Electron Bunches Characterized by a Linearly Ramped Current Profile

R. J. England, J. B. Rosenzweig, and G. Travish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 214802 (2008) - Published 28 May, 2008

Tempest Simulations of Collisionless Damping of the Geodesic-Acoustic Mode in Edge-Plasma Pedestals

X. Q. Xu, Z. Xiong, Z. Gao, W. M. Nevins, and G. R. McKee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215001 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Observation of Large-Angle Quasimonoenergetic Electrons from a Laser Wakefield

D. Kaganovich, D. F. Gordon, and A. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215002 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Evidence of Long-Distance Correlation of Fluctuations during Edge Transitions to Improved-Confinement Regimes in the TJ-II Stellarator

M. A. Pedrosa, C. Silva, C. Hidalgo, B. A. Carreras, R. O. Orozco, and D. Carralero (TJ-II team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215003 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Plasma-Density-Gradient Injection of Low Absolute-Momentum-Spread Electron Bunches

C. G. R. Geddes, K. Nakamura, G. R. Plateau, Cs. Toth, E. Cormier-Michel, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, J. R. Cary, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215004 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bose Fluids Above $T_{c}$ : Incompressible Vortex Fluids and “Supersolidity”

P. W. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215301 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Steady and Decaying Flow of He II in a Channel with Ends Blocked by Superleaks

T. V. Chagovets and L. Skrbek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215302 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

New Dissipation Relaxation Phenomenon in Oscillating Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

Y. Aoki, M. C. Keiderling, and H. Kojima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215303 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Strong Orientational Effect of Stretched Aerogel on the ${}^{3}{He}$ Order Parameter

J. Elbs, Yu. M. Bunkov, E. Collin, H. Godfrin, and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215304 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Subarea Law of Entanglement in Nodal Fermionic Systems

Letian Ding, Noah Bray-Ali, Rong Yu, and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215701 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

First-Principles Calculation of Self-Diffusion Coefficients

M. Mantina, Y. Wang, R. Arroyave, L. Q. Chen, Z. K. Liu, and C. Wolverton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 215901 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Fluctuations, Temperature, and Detuning Effects in Solid-Light Systems

Markus Aichhorn, Martin Hohenadler, Charles Tahan, and Peter B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 216401 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Pressure-Induced Insulator-Metal Transition in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ : A Slave-Boson Approach

Javier D. Fuhr, Michel Avignon, and Blas Alascio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 216402 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Scaling and Universality in the Optics of Disordered Exciton Chains

J. A. Klugkist, V. A. Malyshev, and J. Knoester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 216403 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

Sharp Contrasts in Low-Energy Quasiparticle Dynamics of Graphite between Brillouin Zone $K$ and $H$ Points

J. D. Lee, S. W. Han, and J. Inoue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 216801 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Observation of Negative Absolute Resistance in a Josephson Junction

J. Nagel, D. Speer, T. Gaber, A. Sterck, R. Eichhorn, P. Reimann, K. Ilin, M. Siegel, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 217001 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Nodal $d + i d$ Pairing and Topological Phases on the Triangular Lattice of ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2} \cdot y H_{2} O$ : Evidence for an Unconventional Superconducting State

Sen Zhou and Ziqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 217002 (2008) - Published 29 May, 2008

Uncovering a Pressure-Tuned Electronic Transition in ${Bi}_{1.98} {Sr}_{2.06} Y_{0.68} {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ using Raman Scattering and X-Ray Diffraction

T. Cuk, V. V. Struzhkin, T. P. Devereaux, A. F. Goncharov, C. A. Kendziora, H. Eisaki, H.-K. Mao, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 217003 (2008) - Published 30 May, 2008

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Laser-Assisted Muon Decay”

N. B. Narozhny and A. M. Fedotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 219101 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Liu, Li, and Berakdar Reply:

A.-H. Liu, S.-M. Li, and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 219102 (2008) - Published 27 May, 2008

Volume 100, Issue 21

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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