Volume 101, Issue 1

4 July 2008

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On the Cover

Portrait of PRL's founding Editor Samuel A. Goudsmit (Barry Rockwell, 2008). Goudsmit was the first Editor-in-Chief of the journals of the American Physical Society.

From the article:

Essay: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902–1978)
Benjamin Bederson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010002 (2008)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Golden Anniversary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010001 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Atomic-Scale Time and Space Resolution of Terahertz Frequency Acoustic Waves

Evan J. Reed, Michael R. Armstrong, Ki-Yong Kim, and James H. Glownia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 014302 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser-Field-Free Molecular Orientation

Akihisa Goban, Shinichirou Minemoto, and Hirofumi Sakai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013001 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High- $T_{c}$ Superconductivity in Superhard Diamondlike ${BC}_{5}$

Matteo Calandra and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016401 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Decelerating Microdynamics Can Accelerate Macrodynamics in the Voter Model

Hans-Ulrich Stark, Claudio J. Tessone, and Frank Schweitzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 018701 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902–1978)

Benjamin Bederson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010002 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

LETTERS

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

Atom-Molecule Dark State: The Exact Quantum Solution

Cheng Zhao, XuBo Zou, Han Pu, and GuangCan Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010401 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Dynamical Creation of Fractionalized Vortices and Vortex Lattices

An-Chun Ji, W. M. Liu, Jun Liang Song, and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010402 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Optimal Dynamical Decoherence Control of a Qubit

Goren Gordon, Gershon Kurizki, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010403 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Quantum Enhancement of Higher-Order Phononlike Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

E. E. Rowen, N. Bar-Gill, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010404 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Measurement-Only Topological Quantum Computation

Parsa Bonderson, Michael Freedman, and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010501 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Measurement-Based Quantum Computer in the Gapped Ground State of a Two-Body Hamiltonian

Gavin K. Brennen and Akimasa Miyake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010502 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Experimental Observation of an Entire Family of Four-Photon Entangled States

Witlef Wieczorek, Christian Schmid, Nikolai Kiesel, Reinhold Pohlner, Otfried Gühne, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010503 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Entanglement Spectrum as a Generalization of Entanglement Entropy: Identification of Topological Order in Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall Effect States

Hui Li and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 010504 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

A General Test of the Copernican Principle

Chris Clarkson, Bruce Bassett, and Teresa Hui-Ching Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 011301 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Large Extra Dimensions via Single Photon plus Missing Energy Final States at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 011601 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Analytical Characterization of Oscillon Energy and Lifetime

Marcelo Gleiser and David Sicilia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 011602 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Strong $C P$ Problem with $10^{32}$ Standard Model Copies

Gia Dvali and Glennys R. Farrar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 011801 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Observation of the $B_{c}$ Meson in the Exclusive Decay $B_{c} \to J / ψ π$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 012001 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Order $α_{s}^{4}$ QCD Corrections to $Z$ and $τ$ Decays

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 012002 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Nuclear Physics

$η \to γ γ$ Decay Width via the Primakoff Cross Section

T. E. Rodrigues, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, J. Mesa, C. Garcia, K. Shtejer, D. Dale, I. Nakagawa, and P. L. Cole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 012301 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Direct Mass Measurement of the Four-Neutron Halo Nuclide ${}^{8}{He}$

V. L. Ryjkov, M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, M. Smith, R. Ringle, A. Lapierre, F. Ames, P. Bricault, M. Dombsky, P. Delheij, D. Lunney, M. R. Pearson, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 012501 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

$0_{gs}^{+} \to 2_{1}^{+}$ Transition Strengths in ${}^{106}{Sn}$ and ${}^{108}{Sn}$

A. Ekström et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 012502 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser-Field-Free Molecular Orientation

Akihisa Goban, Shinichirou Minemoto, and Hirofumi Sakai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013001 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Switchable ${ErSc}_{2} N$ Rotor within a $C_{80}$ Fullerene Cage: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Photoluminescence Excitation Study

John J. L. Morton, Archana Tiwari, Geraldine Dantelle, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Arzhang Ardavan, and G. Andrew D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013002 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Tunneling Mediated by $2 D + 1$ Conical Waves in a 1D Lattice

Andrea Di Falco, Claudio Conti, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013601 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subdiffraction Light Focusing on a Grating Substrate

Anne Sentenac and Patrick C. Chaumet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013901 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Experimental Verification of Overcoming the Diffraction Limit with a Volumetric Veselago-Pendry Transmission-Line Lens

Jiang Zhu and George V. Eleftheriades

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013902 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Observation of Multivortex Solitons in Photonic Lattices

Bernd Terhalle, Tobias Richter, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Friedemann Kaiser, Cornelia Denz, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 013903 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Theory of Resonant Acoustic Transmission through Subwavelength Apertures

J. Christensen, L. Martin-Moreno, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 014301 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Atomic-Scale Time and Space Resolution of Terahertz Frequency Acoustic Waves

Evan J. Reed, Michael R. Armstrong, Ki-Yong Kim, and James H. Glownia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 014302 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Liquid Optical Fibers with a Multistable Core Actuated by Light Radiation Pressure

Etienne Brasselet, Régis Wunenburger, and Jean-Pierre Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 014501 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Mixing Dynamics in Continuous-Flow Microdroplet Reactors

Monpichar Srisa-Art, Andrew J. deMello, and Joshua B. Edel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 014502 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Self-Reinforcing Process of Magnetic Reconnection

Weigang Wan and Giovanni Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015001 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Equation-of-State Measurement of Dense Plasmas Heated With Fast Protons

G. M. Dyer, A. C. Bernstein, B. I. Cho, J. Osterholz, W. Grigsby, A. Dalton, R. Shepherd, Y. Ping, H. Chen, K. Widmann, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015002 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Experiments on the Propagation of Plasma Filaments

Noam Katz, Jan Egedal, Will Fox, Ari Le, and Miklos Porkolab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015003 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Vortex Locking in Direct Numerical Simulations of Quantum Turbulence

Karla Morris, Joel Koplik, and Damian W. I. Rouson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015301 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Soft Manifold Dynamics behind Negative Thermal Expansion

Z. Schlesinger, J. A. Rosen, J. N. Hancock, and A. P. Ramirez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015501 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Strain-Dependent Deformation Behavior in Nanocrystalline Metals

Hongqi Li, Hahn Choo, Yang Ren, Tarik A. Saleh, Ulrich Lienert, Peter K. Liaw, and Fereshteh Ebrahimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015502 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Memory Effects in the Two-Level Model for Glasses

Gerardo Aquino, Armen Allahverdyan, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015901 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Surface Vibrational Modes of $α$ -Quartz(0001) Probed by Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy

Wei-Tao Liu and Y. R. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016101 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Probing the Morphology and Energy Landscape of Blends of Conjugated Polymers with Sub-10 nm Resolution

Sebastian Westenhoff, Ian A. Howard, and Richard H. Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016102 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Coexistence of Rocksalt and Wurtzite Structure in Nanosized CoO Films

W. Meyer, D. Hock, K. Biedermann, M. Gubo, S. Müller, L. Hammer, and K. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016103 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High- $T_{c}$ Superconductivity in Superhard Diamondlike ${BC}_{5}$

Matteo Calandra and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016401 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Optical Circuits Based on Polariton Neurons in Semiconductor Microcavities

T. C. H. Liew, A. V. Kavokin, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016402 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Strong Coupling Approach to Actinide Metals

C. D. Batista, J. E. Gubernatis, T. Durakiewicz, and J. J. Joyce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016403 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Crystal-Field Level Inversion in Lightly Mn-Doped ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

M. A. Hossain, Z. Hu, M. W. Haverkort, T. Burnus, C. F. Chang, S. Klein, J. D. Denlinger, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, R. Mathieu, Y. Kaneko, Y. Tokura, S. Satow, Y. Yoshida, H. Takagi, A. Tanaka, I. S. Elfimov, G. A. Sawatzky, L. H. Tjeng, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016404 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Transport in a Dissipative Luttinger Liquid

Zoran Ristivojevic and Thomas Nattermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016405 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Collapse of the Electron Gas to Two Dimensions in Density Functional Theory

Lucian A. Constantin, John P. Perdew, and J. M. Pitarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016406 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Hole Localization in the One-Dimensional Doped Anderson-Hubbard Model

M. Okumura, S. Yamada, N. Taniguchi, and M. Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016407 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Increasing Thermoelectric Efficiency: A Dynamical Systems Approach

Giulio Casati, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016601 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

External Control of a Metal-Insulator Transition in GaMnAs Wires

Anh Kiet Nguyen and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016801 (2008) - Published 30 June, 2008

Quantum Conductance Oscillations in Metal/Molecule/Metal Switches at Room Temperature

Feng Miao, Douglas Ohlberg, Duncan R. Stewart, R. Stanley Williams, and Chun Ning Lau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016802 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Detection of Non-Gaussian Fluctuations in a Quantum Point Contact

G. Gershon, Yu. Bomze, E. V. Sukhorukov, and M. Reznikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016803 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Universal Quantized Spin-Hall Conductance Fluctuation in Graphene

Zhenhua Qiao, Jian Wang, Yadong Wei, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016804 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

Electronic Transport Properties of the Ising Quantum Hall Ferromagnet in a Si Quantum Well

Kiyohiko Toyama, Takahisa Nishioka, Kentarou Sawano, Yasuhiro Shiraki, and Tohru Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016805 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Defect Production in Nonlinear Quench across a Quantum Critical Point

Diptiman Sen, K. Sengupta, and Shreyoshi Mondal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016806 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Finite-Layer Thickness Stabilizes the Pfaffian State for the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Wave Function Overlap and Topological Degeneracy

Michael. R. Peterson, Th. Jolicoeur, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016807 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Absence of Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in the Pseudogap State of the High Temperature ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductor from Muon-Spin-Relaxation Measurements

G. J. MacDougall, A. A. Aczel, J. P. Carlo, T. Ito, J. Rodriguez, P. L. Russo, Y. J. Uemura, S. Wakimoto, and G. M. Luke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 017001 (2008) - Published 1 July, 2008

High Energy Dispersion Relations for the High Temperature ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Superconductor from Laser-Based Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Wentao Zhang, Guodong Liu, Jianqiao Meng, Lin Zhao, Haiyun Liu, Xiaoli Dong, Wei Lu, J. S. Wen, Z. J. Xu, G. D. Gu, T. Sasagawa, Guiling Wang, Yong Zhu, Hongbo Zhang, Yong Zhou, Xiaoyang Wang, Zhongxian Zhao, Chuangtian Chen, Zuyan Xu, and X. J. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 017002 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Consistency of Ground State and Spectroscopic Measurements on Flux Qubits

A. Izmalkov, S. H. W. van der Ploeg, S. N. Shevchenko, M. Grajcar, E. Il’ichev, U. Hübner, A. N. Omelyanchouk, and H.-G. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 017003 (2008) - Published 2 July, 2008

Altering the Superconductor Transition Temperature by Domain-Wall Arrangements in Hybrid Ferromagnet-Superconductor Structures

L. Y. Zhu, T. Y. Chen, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 017004 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008

Tuning the Pressure-Induced Superconducting Phase in Doped ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

L. Mendonça Ferreira, T. Park, V. Sidorov, M. Nicklas, E. M. Bittar, R. Lora-Serrano, E. N. Hering, S. M. Ramos, M. B. Fontes, E. Baggio-Saitovich, Hanoh Lee, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and P. G. Pagliuso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 017005 (2008) - Published 3 July, 2008