Volume 100, Issue 7

22 February 2008

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On the Cover

Photograph of single bubble sonoluminescence in a spherical resonator. A bubble driven acoustically at the second spherical mode of the resonator moves in orbits (left). Addition of a high harmonic results in a bright, stationary bubble (right)

From the article:

Trapping an Intensely Bright, Stable Sonoluminescing Bubble
Raúl Urteaga and Fabián J. Bonetto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074302 (2008)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: The Tau Lepton and Thirty Years of Changes in Elementary Particle Physics Research

M. L. Perl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070001 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent Electron Scattering Captured by an Attosecond Quantum Stroboscope

J. Mauritsson, P. Johnsson, E. Mansten, M. Swoboda, T. Ruchon, A. L’Huillier, and K. J. Schafer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073003 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Resonant Interferometric Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit

M. Kiffner, J. Evers, and M. S. Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073602 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chaotic Dynamics of Driven Flux Drops: A Superconducting “Dripping Faucet”

Stuart B. Field and Gheorghe Stan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077001 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shape Transition and Propulsive Force of an Elastic Rod Rotating in a Viscous Fluid

Bian Qian, Thomas R. Powers, and Kenneth S. Breuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 078101 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

LETTERS

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

Destroying Superfluidity by Rotating a Fermi Gas at Unitarity

I. Bausmerth, A. Recati, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070401 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Trapped Fermi Gases in Rotating Optical Lattices: Realization and Detection of the Topological Hofstadter Insulator

R. O. Umucalılar, Hui Zhai, and M. Ö. Oktel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070402 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Entanglement in Spatially Inhomogeneous Many-Fermion Systems

V. V. França and K. Capelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070403 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Entanglement Renormalization and Topological Order

Miguel Aguado and Guifré Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070404 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Dilemma that Cannot Be Resolved by Biased Quantum Coin Flipping

Satoshi Ishizaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070501 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Area Laws in Quantum Systems: Mutual Information and Correlations

Michael M. Wolf, Frank Verstraete, Matthew B. Hastings, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070502 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Pure State Estimation and the Characterization of Entanglement

Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070503 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Protocol for Byzantine Agreement and Liar Detection

Sascha Gaertner, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Adán Cabello, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070504 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Not-So-Normal Mode Decomposition

Michael M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070505 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Critical Exponent of the Fractional Langevin Equation

S. Burov and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070601 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Migration of Bosonic Particles across a Mott Insulator to a Superfluid Phase Interface

Michael J. Hartmann and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070602 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Universality in Quantum Chaos and the One-Parameter Scaling Theory

Antonio M. García-García and Jiao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070603 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nonlinear Evolution of Anisotropic Cosmological Power

Shin’ichiro Ando and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 071301 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scaling Solution for Small Cosmic String Loops

Jorge V. Rocha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 071601 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Direct Measurement of the $W$ Boson Width in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 071801 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays $τ^{\pm} \to l^{\pm} ω$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 071802 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Radiative and Collisional Jet Energy Loss in the Quark-Gluon Plasma at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Guang-You Qin, Jörg Ruppert, Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon, Guy D. Moore, and Munshi G. Mustafa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 072301 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Restoration of the $N = 82$ Shell Gap from Direct Mass Measurements of ${}^{132, 134}{Sn}$

M. Dworschak, G. Audi, K. Blaum, P. Delahaye, S. George, U. Hager, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, A. Kellerbauer, H.-J. Kluge, D. Lunney, L. Schweikhard, and C. Yazidjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 072501 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherence of an Optically Illuminated Single Nuclear Spin Qubit

L. Jiang, M. V. Gurudev Dutt, E. Togan, L. Childress, P. Cappellaro, J. M. Taylor, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073001 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Sub-Shot-Noise Magnetometry with a Correlated Spin-Relaxation Dominated Alkali-Metal Vapor

I. K. Kominis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073002 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent Electron Scattering Captured by an Attosecond Quantum Stroboscope

J. Mauritsson, P. Johnsson, E. Mansten, M. Swoboda, T. Ruchon, A. L’Huillier, and K. J. Schafer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073003 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Isotope Shift in the Dielectronic Recombination of Three-Electron ${}^{A}{Nd}^{57 +}$

C. Brandau et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073201 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Ultracold Inelastic Collisions in Two Dimensions

Z. Li, S. V. Alyabyshev, and R. V. Krems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073202 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Evidence for Strong Breit Interaction in Dielectronic Recombination of Highly Charged Heavy Ions

Nobuyuki Nakamura, Anthony P. Kavanagh, Hirofumi Watanabe, Hiroyuki A. Sakaue, Yueming Li, Daiji Kato, Fred J. Currell, and Shunsuke Ohtani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073203 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Mach-Zehnder Interferometry at the Heisenberg Limit with Coherent and Squeezed-Vacuum Light

Luca Pezzé and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073601 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Resonant Interferometric Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit

M. Kiffner, J. Evers, and M. S. Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073602 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase-Matched Raman-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing in a Dispersion-Compensated High-Finesse Optical Cavity

Shin-ichi Zaitsu, Hirotomo Izaki, and Totaro Imasaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073901 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Molecular Recollision Interferometry in High Harmonic Generation

Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Wen Li, Nick Wagner, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073902 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Flapping States of a Flag in an Inviscid Fluid: Bistability and the Transition to Chaos

Silas Alben and Michael J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074301 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Trapping an Intensely Bright, Stable Sonoluminescing Bubble

Raúl Urteaga and Fabián J. Bonetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074302 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Spatiotemporal Segregation-Pattern Drift in Particle-Laden Rimming Flow

E. Guyez and P. J. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074501 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Energy Decay Laws in Strongly Anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Barbara Bigot, Sébastien Galtier, and Hélène Politano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074502 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Magnetorotational-type Instability in Couette-Taylor Flow of a Viscoelastic Polymer Liquid

Gordon I. Ogilvie and Adrian T. Potter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074503 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Capillary-Gravity Waves Generated by a Slow Moving Object

A. D. Chepelianskii, F. Chevy, and E. Raphaël

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074504 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generating a Quasiellipsoidal Electron Beam by 3D Laser-Pulse Shaping

Yuelin Li and John W. Lewellen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074801 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

High-Gradient Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration with Two Subpicosecond Electron Bunches

Efthymios Kallos, Tom Katsouleas, Wayne D. Kimura, Karl Kusche, Patric Muggli, Igor Pavlishin, Igor Pogorelsky, Daniil Stolyarov, and Vitaly Yakimenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074802 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Classical Perfect Diamagnetism: Expulsion of Current from the Plasma Interior

S. M. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075001 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Enhanced Direct-Drive Implosions with Thin High- $Z$ Ablation Layers

Andrew N. Mostovych, Denis G. Colombant, Max Karasik, James P. Knauer, Andrew J. Schmitt, and James L. Weaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075002 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Magnetic Cavitation and the Reemergence of Nonlocal Transport in Laser Plasmas

C. P. Ridgers, R. J. Kingham, and A. G. R. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075003 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Coulomb Microexplosions of Ferroelectric Ceramics

D. Yarmolich, V. Vekselman, V. Tz. Gurovich, and Ya. E. Krasik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075004 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stages of Homogeneous Nucleation in Solid Isotopic Helium Mixtures

M. Poole, J. Saunders, and B. Cowan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075301 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

New Class of Plastic Bulk Metallic Glass

L. Y. Chen, Z. D. Fu, G. Q. Zhang, X. P. Hao, Q. K. Jiang, X. D. Wang, Q. P. Cao, H. Franz, Y. G. Liu, H. S. Xie, S. L. Zhang, B. Y. Wang, Y. W. Zeng, and J. Z. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075501 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Structural Transition in Compressed Amorphous Sulfur

Chrystèle Sanloup, Eugene Gregoryanz, Olga Degtyareva, and Michael Hanfland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075701 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Atomic Mobility and Strain Localization in Amorphous Metals

Francesco Delogu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 075901 (2008) - Published 19 February, 2008

Non-Brownian Microrheology of a Fluid-Gel Interface

E. K. Hobbie, S. Lin-Gibson, and S. Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076001 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Squeeze-Out of Branched Alkanes on Graphite

N. N. Gosvami, S. K. Sinha, and S. J. O’Shea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076101 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Theory of Multifrequency Atomic Force Microscopy

Jose R. Lozano and Ricardo Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076102 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Highly Ordered Ga Nanodroplets on a GaAs Surface Formed by a Focused Ion Beam

Qiangmin Wei, Jie Lian, Wei Lu, and Lumin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076103 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Strain-Induced Formation of Surface Defects in Amorphous Silica: A Theoretical Prediction

Chin-Lung Kuo, Sangheon Lee, and Gyeong S. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076104 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strain-Induced Insulator State and Giant Gauge Factor of ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {CoO}_{3}$ Films

A. D. Rata, A. Herklotz, K. Nenkov, L. Schultz, and K. Dörr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076401 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Finite Temperature Mott Transition in Hubbard Model on Anisotropic Triangular Lattice

Takuma Ohashi, Tsutomu Momoi, Hirokazu Tsunetsugu, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076402 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Electronic State of ${PuCoGa}_{5}$ and ${NpCoGa}_{5}$ as Probed by Polarized Neutrons

A. Hiess, A. Stunault, E. Colineau, J. Rebizant, F. Wastin, R. Caciuffo, and G. H. Lander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076403 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Semiclassical Theory of the Anderson Transition

Antonio M. García-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076404 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Nondestructive Room-Temperature Adsorption of $2, 4, 6 -tri (2^{'} -thienyl) − 1, 3, 5 -triazine$ on a Si-B Interface: High-Resolution STM Imaging and Molecular Modeling

Y. Makoudi, F. Palmino, E. Duverger, M. Arab, F. Chérioux, C. Ramseyer, B. Therrien, M. J.-L. Tschan, and G. Süss-Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 076405 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chaotic Dynamics of Driven Flux Drops: A Superconducting “Dripping Faucet”

Stuart B. Field and Gheorghe Stan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077001 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Unusual Upper Critical Field of the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe

N. T. Huy, D. E. de Nijs, Y. K. Huang, and A. de Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077002 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

$0 − π$ Transitions in a Superconductor/Chiral Ferromagnet/Superconductor Junction Induced by a Homogeneous Cycloidal Spiral

Thierry Champel, Tomas Löfwander, and Matthias Eschrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077003 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Spin Phonon Induced Collinear Order and Magnetization Plateaus in Triangular and Kagome Antiferromagnets: Applications to ${CuFeO}_{2}$

Fa Wang and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077201 (2008) - Published 20 February, 2008

Microscopic Nature of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Interface Coupling of Uncompensated Magnetic Moments in Exchange Bias Systems

M. Gruyters and D. Schmitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077205 (2008) - Published 22 February, 2008

Temporal Coherence of Photons Emitted by Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Defect Centers in Diamond Using Optical Rabi-Oscillations

A. Batalov, C. Zierl, T. Gaebel, P. Neumann, I.-Y. Chan, G. Balasubramanian, P. R. Hemmer, F. Jelezko, and J. Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077401 (2008) - Published 21 February, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION