Volume 100, Issue 24

20 June 2008

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Water-filled chamber containing an optically trapped silica sphere (right) and a 100 micron sphere (left). The small sphere is directed towards the large sphere boundary to study diffusion in the presence of a wall.

From the article:

Anisotropic Memory Effects in Confined Colloidal Diffusion
Sylvia Jeney, Branimir Lukić, Jonas A. Kraus, Thomas Franosch, and László Forró
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240604 (2008)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Changes in Publishing

Reinhardt Schuhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240001 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Realization of an Optical One-Way Barrier for Neutral Atoms

Jeremy J. Thorn, Elizabeth A. Schoene, Tao Li, and Daniel A. Steck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240407 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Continuation of Periodic Orbits through a Fold

J. Sieber, A. Gonzalez-Buelga, S. A. Neild, D. J. Wagg, and B. Krauskopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244101 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Self-Induced Cyclic Reorganization of Free Bodies through Thermal Convection

Bin Liu (刘斌) and Jun Zhang (张骏)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244501 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Fidelity Gates in a Single Josephson Qubit

Erik Lucero, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, N. Katz, Matthew Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, H. Wang, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247001 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity at 41 K and Its Competition with Spin-Density-Wave Instability in Layered ${CeO}_{1 - x} F_{x} FeAs$

G. F. Chen, Z. Li, D. Wu, G. Li, W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, P. Zheng, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247002 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Spin-Torque Driven Magnetization Reversal through Nonuniform Modes

J. P. Strachan, V. Chembrolu, Y. Acremann, X. W. Yu, A. A. Tulapurkar, T. Tyliszczak, J. A. Katine, M. J. Carey, M. R. Scheinfein, H. C. Siegmann, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247201 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

LETTERS

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

Noise Correlations in One-Dimensional Systems of Ultracold Fermions

L. Mathey, E. Altman, and A. Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240401 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Mixtures of Strongly Interacting Bosons in Optical Lattices

P. Buonsante, S. M. Giampaolo, F. Illuminati, V. Penna, and A. Vezzani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240402 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Transverse Instability of Straight Vortex Lines in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. Klawunn, R. Nath, P. Pedri, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240403 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Entangled Photon Pairs Produced by a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Microcavity

R. Johne, N. A Gippius, G. Pavlovic, D. D. Solnyshkov, I. A. Shelykh, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240404 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Vortex Lattice Transitions in Cyclic Spinor Condensates

Ryan Barnett, Subroto Mukerjee, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240405 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Collisional Properties of a Polarized Fermi Gas with Resonant Interactions

G. M. Bruun, A. Recati, C. J. Pethick, H. Smith, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240406 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Realization of an Optical One-Way Barrier for Neutral Atoms

Jeremy J. Thorn, Elizabeth A. Schoene, Tao Li, and Daniel A. Steck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240407 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Exact Formula of the Distribution of Schmidt Eigenvalues for Dynamical Formation of Entanglement in Quantum Chaos

Hiroto Kubotani, Satoshi Adachi, and Mikito Toda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240501 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Theory of Smeared Quantum Phase Transitions

José A. Hoyos and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240601 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Hysteresis-Induced Long-Time Tails

Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240602 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz in Two Dimensions: Quantum Ising Model

Lukasz Cincio, Jacek Dziarmaga, and Marek M. Rams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240603 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Anisotropic Memory Effects in Confined Colloidal Diffusion

Sylvia Jeney, Branimir Lukić, Jonas A. Kraus, Thomas Franosch, and László Forró

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240604 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Doppler Optomechanics of a Photonic Crystal

K. Karrai, I. Favero, and C. Metzger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240801 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Magnetic Field Production during Preheating at the Electroweak Scale

Andrés Díaz-Gil, Juan García-Bellido, Margarita García Pérez, and Antonio González-Arroyo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241301 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Beyond Two Dark Energy Parameters

Devdeep Sarkar, Scott Sullivan, Shahab Joudaki, Alexandre Amblard, Daniel E. Holz, and Asantha Cooray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241302 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Constraints on the Infrared Behavior of the Gluon Propagator in Yang-Mills Theories

A. Cucchieri and T. Mendes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241601 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Measurement of $B (D_{s}^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{μ})$

L. Widhalm et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241801 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Accumulating Evidence for Nonstandard Leptonic Decays of $D_{s}$ Mesons

Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Andreas S. Kronfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241802 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Search for Scalar Neutrino Superpartners in $e + μ$ Final States in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241803 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

$σ \to γ γ$ Width from Nucleon Electromagnetic Polarizabilities

José Bernabéu and Joaquim Prades

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241804 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

First Study of the Radiation-Amplitude Zero in $W γ$ Production and Limits on Anomalous $W W γ$ Couplings at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241805 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Two-Loop QCD Amplitude for $g g \to h$ , $H$ in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Charalampos Anastasiou, Stefan Beerli, and Alejandro Daleo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241806 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Mass Effects in Muon and Semileptonic $b \to c$ Decays

Alexey Pak and Andrzej Czarnecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 241807 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Jet Substructure as a New Higgs-Search Channel at the Large Hadron Collider

Jonathan M. Butterworth, Adam R. Davison, Mathieu Rubin, and Gavin P. Salam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 242001 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Suppression of High- $p_{T}$ Neutral Pion Production in Central $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 17.3 GeV$ Relative to $p + C$ and $p + Pb$ Collisions

M. M. Aggarwal et al. (WA98 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 242301 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Improved Measurement of the $1 s 2 s {}^{1}S_{0} - 1 s 2 p {}^{3}P_{1}$ Interval in Heliumlike Silicon

Thomas R. DeVore, David N. Crosby, and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243001 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

High Precision Atomic Theory for Li and ${Be}^{+}$ : QED Shifts and Isotope Shifts

Z.-C. Yan, W. Nörtershäuser, and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243002 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Probing Isotope Effects in Chemical Reactions Using Single Ions

Peter F. Staanum, Klaus Højbjerre, Roland Wester, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243003 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Realization of Localized Bohr-Like Wave Packets

J. J. Mestayer, B. Wyker, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243004 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Spatially Resolved Observation of Dipole-Dipole Interaction between Rydberg Atoms

C. S. E. van Ditzhuijzen, A. F. Koenderink, J. V. Hernández, F. Robicheaux, L. D. Noordam, and H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243201 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Observation of Entanglement between Two Light Beams Spanning an Octave in Optical Frequency

Nicolai B. Grosse, Syed Assad, Moritz Mehmet, Roman Schnabel, Thomas Symul, and Ping Koy Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243601 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Continuation of Periodic Orbits through a Fold

J. Sieber, A. Gonzalez-Buelga, S. A. Neild, D. J. Wagg, and B. Krauskopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244101 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Self-Induced Cyclic Reorganization of Free Bodies through Thermal Convection

Bin Liu (刘斌) and Jun Zhang (张骏)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244501 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Thick Films of Viscous Fluid Coating a Plate Withdrawn from a Liquid Reservoir

J. H. Snoeijer, J. Ziegler, B. Andreotti, M. Fermigier, and J. Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244502 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Scaling of the Local Convective Heat Flux in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xiao-Dong Shang, Penger Tong, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244503 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Resonant Generation of Internal Waves on a Model Continental Slope

H. P. Zhang, B. King, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244504 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Generation and Characterization of Uniformly Filled Ellipsoidal Electron-Beam Distributions

P. Musumeci, J. T. Moody, R. J. England, J. B. Rosenzweig, and T. Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244801 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

A Proposal for an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Oscillator with an Energy-Recovery Linac

Kwang-Je Kim, Yuri Shvyd’ko, and Sven Reiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244802 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Electron-Beam Instability in Left-Handed Media

Yury P. Bliokh, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 244803 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Absorption of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Strongly Overdense Targets

M. Cerchez, R. Jung, J. Osterholz, T. Toncian, O. Willi, P. Mulser, and H. Ruhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245001 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum and Quasiclassical Types of Superfluid Turbulence

P. M. Walmsley and A. I. Golov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245301 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Manifestations of the Roton Mode in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ryan M. Wilson, Shai Ronen, John L. Bohn, and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245302 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Observation of a Universal Aggregation Mechanism and a Possible Phase Transition in Au Sputtered by Swift Heavy Ions

P. K. Kuiri, B. Joseph, H. P. Lenka, G. Sahu, J. Ghatak, D. Kanjilal, and D. P. Mahapatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245501 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Effect of a Negative Poisson Ratio in the Tension of Ceramics

Fan Song, Junbing Zhou, Xianghong Xu, Yi Xu, and Yilong Bai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245502 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Hard X Ray Holographic Diffraction Imaging

Lorenz-M. Stadler, Christian Gutt, Tina Autenrieth, Olaf Leupold, Stefan Rehbein, Yuriy Chushkin, and Gerhard Grübel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245503 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Optimal Packings of Superdisks and the Role of Symmetry

Y. Jiao, F. H. Stillinger, and S. Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245504 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Experimental Evidence Supported by Simulations of a Very High $H_{2}$ Diffusion in Metal Organic Framework Materials

F. Salles, H. Jobic, G. Maurin, M. M. Koza, P. L. Llewellyn, T. Devic, C. Serre, and G. Ferey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245901 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Tracking the Effects of Rigidity Percolation Down to the Liquid State: Relaxational Dynamics of Binary Chalcogen Melts

F. J. Bermejo, C. Cabrillo, E. Bychkov, P. Fouquet, G. Ehlers, W. Häussler, D. L. Price, and M. L. Saboungi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245902 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Slip Flow Over Structured Surfaces with Entrapped Microbubbles

Jari Hyväluoma and Jens Harting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246001 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ferromagnetism and Kondo Insulator Behavior in the Disordered Periodic Anderson Model

Unjong Yu (유운종), Krzysztof Byczuk, and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246401 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Coulomb-Frustrated Phase Separation Phase Diagram in Systems with Short-Range Negative Compressibility

C. Ortix, J. Lorenzana, and C. Di Castro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246402 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Universal Scaling in Nonequilibrium Transport through a Single Channel Kondo Dot

M. Grobis, I. G. Rau, R. M. Potok, H. Shtrikman, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246601 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Perpendicular Spin Torques in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Z. Li, S. Zhang, Z. Diao, Y. Ding, X. Tang, D. M. Apalkov, Z. Yang, K. Kawabata, and Y. Huai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246602 (2008) - Published 17 June, 2008

Origin of Negative Differential Resistance in a Strongly Coupled Single Molecule-Metal Junction Device

Ranjit Pati, Mike McClain, and Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246801 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Model Fractional Quantum Hall States and Jack Polynomials

B. Andrei Bernevig and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246802 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Disturbance of Tunneling Coherence by Oxygen Vacancy in Epitaxial $Fe / MgO / Fe$ Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

G. X. Miao, Y. J. Park, J. S. Moodera, M. Seibt, G. Eilers, and M. Münzenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246803 (2008) - Published 19 June, 2008

Quantum Confinement and Electronic Properties of Tapered Silicon Nanowires

Zhigang Wu, J. B. Neaton, and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246804 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Interaction Correction to the Conductance of a Ballistic Conductor

Piet W. Brouwer and Joern N. Kupferschmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246805 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Quantum Hall Effect of Massless Dirac Fermions in a Vanishing Magnetic Field

Kentaro Nomura, Shinsei Ryu, Mikito Koshino, Christopher Mudry, and Akira Furusaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246806 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Valence Surface Electronic States on Ge(001)

M. W. Radny, G. A. Shah, S. R. Schofield, P. V. Smith, and N. J. Curson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246807 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

BCS Superconductivity of Dirac Electrons in Graphene Layers

N. B. Kopnin and E. B. Sonin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 246808 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Fidelity Gates in a Single Josephson Qubit

Erik Lucero, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, N. Katz, Matthew Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, H. Wang, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247001 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity at 41 K and Its Competition with Spin-Density-Wave Instability in Layered ${CeO}_{1 - x} F_{x} FeAs$

G. F. Chen, Z. Li, D. Wu, G. Li, W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, P. Zheng, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247002 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Ordered, Disordered, and Coexistent Stable Vortex Lattices in ${NbSe}_{2}$ Single Crystals

G. Pasquini, D. Pérez Daroca, C. Chiliotte, G. S. Lozano, and V. Bekeris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247003 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Conductance of $d$ -Wave Superconductor/Normal Metal/ $d$ -Wave Superconductor Junctions

D. A. Pesin, A. V. Andreev, and B. Spivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247004 (2008) - Published 18 June, 2008

Interlayer-Spacing Dependence of $T_{c}$ in ${Li}_{x} M_{y} HfNCl$ ( $M$ : Molecule) Superconductors

T. Takano, T. Kishiume, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Iwasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247005 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

Possible Dynamic States in Inductively Coupled Intrinsic Josephson Junctions of Layered High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

Shizeng Lin and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247006 (2008) - Published 20 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Spin-Torque Driven Magnetization Reversal through Nonuniform Modes

J. P. Strachan, V. Chembrolu, Y. Acremann, X. W. Yu, A. A. Tulapurkar, T. Tyliszczak, J. A. Katine, M. J. Carey, M. R. Scheinfein, H. C. Siegmann, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247201 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008

Nature of Magnetic Coupling between Mn Ions in As-Grown ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ Studied by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

Y. Takeda, M. Kobayashi, T. Okane, T. Ohkochi, J. Okamoto, Y. Saitoh, K. Kobayashi, H. Yamagami, A. Fujimori, A. Tanaka, J. Okabayashi, M. Oshima, S. Ohya, P. N. Hai, and M. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247202 (2008) - Published 16 June, 2008