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Volume 100, Issue 25

27 June 2008
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Fermi surface of solid metallic hydrogen at 414 GPa. The ab initio study predicts multiband superconductivity near room temperature.

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Ab Initio Description of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Dense Molecular Hydrogen
P. Cudazzo, G. Profeta, A. Sanna, A. Floris, A. Continenza, S. Massidda, and E. K. U. Gross
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257001 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Relativistic Closed-Form Hamiltonian for Many-Body Gravitating Systems in the Post-Minkowskian Approximation

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab Initio Description of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Dense Molecular Hydrogen

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257001 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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LETTERS

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

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Controlled Generation of Coherent Matter Currents Using a Periodic Driving Field

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Noise Correlation Spectroscopy of the Broken Order of a Mott Insulating Phase

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Measurements of the Vertical Coherence Length in Neutron Interferometry

D. A. Pushin, M. Arif, M. G. Huber, and D. G. Cory

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Dipole Oscillations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Presence of Defects and Disorder

M. Albert, T. Paul, N. Pavloff, and P. Leboeuf

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Optimized Double-Well Quantum Interferometry with Gaussian Squeezed States

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 250406 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Computational Difficulty of Finding Matrix Product Ground States

Norbert Schuch, Ignacio Cirac, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 250501 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Nonequilibrium Free-Energy Relations for Thermal Changes

Stephen R. Williams, Debra J. Searles, and Denis J. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 250601 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Nonergodicity Mimics Inhomogeneity in Single Particle Tracking

Ariel Lubelski, Igor M. Sokolov, and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 250602 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Relativistic Closed-Form Hamiltonian for Many-Body Gravitating Systems in the Post-Minkowskian Approximation

Tomáš Ledvinka, Gerhard Schäfer, and Jiří Bičák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 251101 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Hierarchies from D-brane Instantons in Globally Defined Calabi-Yau Orientifolds

Mirjam Cvetič and Timo Weigand

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Wrapped Branes as Qubits

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Cascading Gravity: Extending the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati Model to Higher Dimension

Claudia de Rham, Gia Dvali, Stefan Hofmann, Justin Khoury, Oriol Pujolàs, Michele Redi, and Andrew J. Tolley

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Observation of B0→pp¯K*0 with a Large K*0 Polarization

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Study of the Decays D0→π−e+νe, D0→K−e+νe, D+→π0e+νe, and D+→K¯0e+νe

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Accurate Mass Determinations in Decay Chains with Missing Energy

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Quasifree Photoproduction of η Mesons off the Neutron

I. Jaegle et al. (The CBELSA/TAPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 252002 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Fast Equilibration of Hadrons in an Expanding Fireball

J. Noronha-Hostler, C. Greiner, and I. A. Shovkovy

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Quasielastic Barrier Distributions: Role of Particle Transfer Channels

G. Pollarolo

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rabi Oscillations and Excitation Trapping in the Coherent Excitation of a Mesoscopic Frozen Rydberg Gas

M. Reetz-Lamour, T. Amthor, J. Deiglmayr, and M. Weidemüller

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Thermal Casimir versus Casimir-Polder Forces: Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Forces

Stefan Yoshi Buhmann and Stefan Scheel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 253201 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Entanglement Test on a Microscopic-Macroscopic System

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

High Harmonic Frequency Combs for High Resolution Spectroscopy

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Resonance Widths in Open Microwave Cavities Studied by Harmonic Inversion

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Preferential Concentration of Heavy Particles in Stably Stratified Turbulence

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Shear Instability in Fluids with a Density-Dependent Viscosity

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Investigation of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability with Stereolithographed Interfaces

Christian Mariani, Marc Vandenboomgaerde, Georges Jourdan, Denis Souffland, and Lazhar Houas

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Universal Intermittent Properties of Particle Trajectories in Highly Turbulent Flows

A. Arnèodo et al. (International Collaboration for Turbulence Research)

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Three-Dimensional Modeling of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Ignition-Scale Experiments

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Monoenergetic Electronic Beam Production Using Dual Collinear Laser Pulses

A. G. R. Thomas, C. D. Murphy, S. P. D. Mangles, A. E. Dangor, P. Foster, J. G. Gallacher, D. A. Jaroszynski, C. Kamperidis, K. L. Lancaster, P. A. Norreys, R. Viskup, K. Krushelnick, and Z. Najmudin

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M. Lehnen, S. A. Bozhenkov, S. S. Abdullaev, and M. W. Jakubowski (TEXTOR Team)

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Identification and Characterization of Potential Shear Transformation Zones in Metallic Glasses

Francesco Delogu

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Influence of Nanotips on the Hydrophilicity of Metallic Nanorod Surfaces

D.-X. Ye, T.-M. Lu, and T. Karabacak

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Effect of Contact Line Curvature on Solid-Fluid Surface Tensions Without Line Tension

C. A. Ward and Jiyu Wu

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Stereodynamics in Dissociative Adsorption of NO on Si(111)

M. Hashinokuchi, M. Okada, H. Ito, T. Kasai, K. Moritani, and Y. Teraoka

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Interplay of Hydrogen-Bond and Coordinate Covalent-Bond Interactions in Self-Assembly of NH3 Molecules on the Si(001) Surface

Yong-Sung Kim, Ja-Yong Koo, and Hanchul Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256105 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Theoretical Description of Carrier Mediated Magnetism in Cobalt Doped ZnO

Aron Walsh, Juarez L. F. Da Silva, and Su-Huai Wei

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Mott Transition of Excitons in Coupled Quantum Wells

M. Stern, V. Garmider, V. Umansky, and I. Bar-Joseph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256402 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Anisotropy Contrast in Phonon-Enhanced Apertureless Near-Field Microscopy Using a Free-Electron Laser

S. C. Kehr, M. Cebula, O. Mieth, T. Härtling, J. Seidel, S. Grafström, L. M. Eng, S. Winnerl, D. Stehr, and M. Helm

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Observation of the Triplet Metastable State of Shallow Donor Pairs in AlN Crystals with a Negative-U Behavior: A High-Frequency EPR and ENDOR Study

Sergei B. Orlinskii, Jan Schmidt, Pavel G. Baranov, Matthias Bickermann, Boris M. Epelbaum, and Albrecht Winnacker

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Survival of the Dirac Points in Rippled Graphene

Lucian Covaci and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256405 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Semiclassical Origins of Density Functionals

Peter Elliott, Donghyung Lee, Attila Cangi, and Kieron Burke

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Ultrafast Spin Dynamics Including Spin-Orbit Interaction in Semiconductors

Michael Krauß, Martin Aeschlimann, and Hans Christian Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256601 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Observation of Pinning Mode of Stripe Phases of 2D Systems in High Landau Levels

G. Sambandamurthy, R. M. Lewis, Han Zhu, Y. P. Chen, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256801 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Carbon Nanotube Electron Windmills: A Novel Design for Nanomotors

S. W. D. Bailey, I. Amanatidis, and C. J. Lambert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256802 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Ultrawide-Bandwidth Slow-Light System Based on THz Plasmonic Graded Metallic Grating Structures

Qiaoqiang Gan, Zhan Fu, Yujie J. Ding, and Filbert J. Bartoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256803 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Deformation Induced Semiconductor-Metal Transition in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes Probed by Electric Force Microscopy

A. P. M. Barboza, A. P. Gomes, B. S. Archanjo, P. T. Araujo, A. Jorio, A. S. Ferlauto, M. S. C. Mazzoni, H. Chacham, and B. R. A. Neves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256804 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Quantum Wire Hybridized With a Single-Level Impurity

Igor V. Lerner, Vladimir I. Yudson, and Igor V. Yurkevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256805 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab Initio Description of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Dense Molecular Hydrogen

P. Cudazzo, G. Profeta, A. Sanna, A. Floris, A. Continenza, S. Massidda, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257001 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Quasiparticle Relaxation in Optically Excited High-Q Superconducting Resonators

R. Barends, J. J. A. Baselmans, S. J. C. Yates, J. R. Gao, J. N. Hovenier, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257002 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Breakdown of Universal Transport in Correlated d-Wave Superconductors

Brian M. Andersen and P. J. Hirschfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257003 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Anisotropic Multiband Many-Body Interactions in LuNi2B2C

B. Bergk, V. Petzold, H. Rosner, S.-L. Drechsler, M. Bartkowiak, O. Ignatchik, A. D. Bianchi, I. Sheikin, P. C. Canfield, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257004 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Current-Driven Vortex Oscillations in Metallic Nanocontacts

Q. Mistral, M. van Kampen, G. Hrkac, Joo-Von Kim, T. Devolder, P. Crozat, C. Chappert, L. Lagae, and T. Schrefl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257201 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Stability of Bose-Einstein Condensates of Hot Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

I. S. Tupitsyn, P. C. E. Stamp, and A. L. Burin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257202 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Metal-Insulator Transition and Its Relation to Magnetic Structure in (LaMnO3)2n/(SrMnO3)n Superlattices

A. Bhattacharya, S. J. May, S. G. E. te Velthuis, M. Warusawithana, X. Zhai, Bin Jiang, J.-M. Zuo, M. R. Fitzsimmons, S. D. Bader, and J. N. Eckstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257203 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Bonding, Backbonding, and Spin-Polarized Molecular Orbitals: Basis for Magnetism and Semiconducting Transport in V[TCNE]x∼2

J. B. Kortright, D. M. Lincoln, R. Shima Edelstein, and A. J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257204 (2008) - Published 27 June, 2008

Nearly Perfect Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer from Wannier Excitons to Naphthalene in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Quantum-Well Materials

K. Ema, M. Inomata, Y. Kato, H. Kunugita, and M. Era

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257401 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Magnetic Color Symmetry of Lattice Rotations in a Diamagnetic Material

S. Denev, A. Kumar, M. D. Biegalski, H. W. Jang, C. M. Folkman, A. Vasudevarao, Y. Han, I. M. Reaney, S. Trolier-McKinstry, C.-B. Eom, D. G. Schlom, and V. Gopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257601 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Dynamics and Reactivity of Positively Charged Muonium in Heavily Doped Si:B and Comparisons with Hydrogen

A. I. Mansour, Z. Salman, K. H. Chow, I. Fan, P. J. C. King, B. Hitti, J. Jung, and S. P. Cottrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257602 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Temperature Response of Xe129 Depolarization Transfer and Its Application for Ultrasensitive NMR Detection

Leif Schröder, Tyler Meldrum, Monica Smith, Thomas J. Lowery, David E. Wemmer, and Alexander Pines

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257603 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cooperativity, Sensitivity, and Noise in Biochemical Signaling

William Bialek and Sima Setayeshgar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258101 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limits of Filopodium Stability

Sander Pronk, Phillip L. Geissler, and Daniel A. Fletcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258102 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

Mutagenic Evidence for the Optimal Control of Evolutionary Dynamics

Raj Chakrabarti, Herschel Rabitz, Stacey L. Springs, and George L. McLendon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258103 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Microcanonical versus Canonical Analysis of Protein Folding

J. Hernández-Rojas and J. M. Gomez Llorente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258104 (2008) - Published 25 June, 2008

Ion Specific Protein Assembly and Hydrophobic Surface Forces

Mikael Lund, Pavel Jungwirth, and Clifford E. Woodward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258105 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Viscous-Fingering-Like Instability of Cell Fragments

A. C. Callan-Jones, J.-F. Joanny, and J. Prost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258106 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

Bayesian Approach to Network Modularity

Jake M. Hofman and Chris H. Wiggins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 258701 (2008) - Published 23 June, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Disorder Induced Transition into a One-Dimensional Wigner Glass [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236403 (2007)]

Shimul Akhanjee and Joseph Rudnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 259901 (2008) - Published 24 June, 2008

Erratum: 3D Short-Range Wetting and Nonlocality [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136105 (2008)]

A. O. Parry, C. Rascón, N. R. Bernardino, and J. M. Romero-Enrique

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 259902 (2008) - Published 26 June, 2008

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