Volume 101, Issue 11

12 September 2008

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An actin network crosslinked by filamin. The protein used in crosslinking and bundling of actin determines the mechanical properties of cells. Filamin creates actin networks of curved and branched bundles.

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Cross-Linking Molecules Modify Composite Actin Networks Independently
K. M. Schmoller, O. Lieleg, and A. R. Bausch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 118102 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Landau Levels and Riemann Zeros

Germán Sierra and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110201 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

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Dressed Atoms in Flight through a Periodic Crystal Field: X-VUV Double Resonance

Y. Nakai, Y. Nakano, T. Azuma, A. Hatakeyama, C. Kondo, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, E. Takada, and T. Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113201 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

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Classification of Turbulence Modification by Dispersed Spheres Using a Novel Dimensionless Number

Tomohiko Tanaka and John K. Eaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 114502 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

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Ultraslow Shock Waves of Electron Density in ${LiNbO}_{3}$ Crystals

S. Gronenborn, B. Sturman, M. Falk, D. Haertle, and K. Buse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116601 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

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Magnetic Control of Crystal Chirality and the Existence of a Large Magneto-Optical Dichroism Effect in ${CuB}_{2} O_{4}$

M. Saito, K. Ishikawa, K. Taniguchi, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117402 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

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Coherent Exciton–Surface-Plasmon-Polariton Interaction in Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures

P. Vasa, R. Pomraenke, S. Schwieger, Yu. I. Mazur, Vas. Kunets, P. Srinivasan, E. Johnson, J. E. Kihm, D. S. Kim, E. Runge, G. Salamo, and C. Lienau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116801 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

LETTERS

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

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Landau Levels and Riemann Zeros

Germán Sierra and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110201 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Exact Vortex Nucleation and Cooperative Vortex Tunneling in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. I. Parke, N. K. Wilkin, J. M. F. Gunn, and A. Bourne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110401 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Methods for Detecting Acceleration Radiation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

A. Retzker, J. I. Cirac, M. B. Plenio, and B. Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110402 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Class of Quantum Many-Body States That Can Be Efficiently Simulated

G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 110501 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmological Perturbation Theory in Slow-Roll Spacetimes

B. Losic and W. G. Unruh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 111101 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Independent Measurement of the Total Active ${}^{8}B$ Solar Neutrino Flux Using an Array of ${}^{3}{He}$ Proportional Counters at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

B. Aharmim et al. (SNO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 111301 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Branching Fractions, Isospin, and $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries for Exclusive $b \to d γ$ Modes

N. Taniguchi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 111801 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Search for Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Electron or Photon Pairs with the D0 Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 111802 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

QCD Prediction for the Non- $D \bar{D}$ Annihilation Decay of $ψ (3770)$

Zhi-Guo He, Ying Fan, and Kuang-Ta Chao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 112001 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Nucleon Distribution Amplitudes from Lattice QCD

Meinulf Göckeler, Roger Horsley, Thomas Kaltenbrunner, Yoshifumi Nakamura, Dirk Pleiter, Paul E. L. Rakow, Andreas Schäfer, Gerrit Schierholz, Hinnerk Stüben, Nikolaus Warkentin, and James M. Zanotti (QCDSF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 112002 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Inclusive $K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ Resonance Production in $e p$ Collisions at HERA

S. Chekanov et al. (ZEUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 112003 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Importance of Granular Structure in the Initial Conditions for the Elliptic Flow

R. P. G. Andrade, F. Grassi, Y. Hama, T. Kodama, and W. L. Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 112301 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Recollision Excitation, Electron Correlation, and the Production of High-Momentum Electrons in Double Ionization

S. L. Haan, J. S. Van Dyke, and Z. S. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113001 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

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Dressed Atoms in Flight through a Periodic Crystal Field: X-VUV Double Resonance

Y. Nakai, Y. Nakano, T. Azuma, A. Hatakeyama, C. Kondo, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, E. Takada, and T. Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113201 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatially Shifted Beam Approach to Subwavelength Focusing

Loïc Markley, Alex M. H. Wong, Yan Wang, and George V. Eleftheriades

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113901 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Optical Tamm States in One-Dimensional Magnetophotonic Structures

T. Goto, A. V. Dorofeenko, A. M. Merzlikin, A. V. Baryshev, A. P. Vinogradov, M. Inoue, A. A. Lisyansky, and A. B. Granovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113902 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Experimental Realization of Highly Efficient Broadband Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to a Photonic Crystal Waveguide

T. Lund-Hansen, S. Stobbe, B. Julsgaard, H. Thyrrestrup, T. Sünner, M. Kamp, A. Forchel, and P. Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113903 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Optical Fiber Systems Are Convectively Unstable

A. Mussot, E. Louvergneaux, N. Akhmediev, F. Reynaud, L. Delage, and M. Taki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113904 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Inhibition of Linear Absorption in Opaque Materials Using Phase-Locked Harmonic Generation

Marco Centini, Vito Roppo, Eugenio Fazio, Federico Pettazzi, Concita Sibilia, Joseph W. Haus, John V. Foreman, Neset Akozbek, Mark J. Bloemer, and Michael Scalora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 113905 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Meandering Fluid Streams in the Presence of Flow-Rate Fluctuations

Björn Birnir, Keith Mertens, Vakhtang Putkaradze, and Peter Vorobieff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 114501 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

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Classification of Turbulence Modification by Dispersed Spheres Using a Novel Dimensionless Number

Tomohiko Tanaka and John K. Eaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 114502 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Nanofluidics in the Debye Layer at Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Surfaces

C. I. Bouzigues, P. Tabeling, and L. Bocquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 114503 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Theory of Light-Ion Acceleration Driven by a Strong Charge Separation

M. Passoni and M. Lontano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115001 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Direct Measurements of an Increased Threshold for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering with Polarization Smoothing in Ignition Hohlraum Plasmas

D. H. Froula, L. Divol, R. L. Berger, R. A. London, N. B. Meezan, D. J. Strozzi, P. Neumayer, J. S. Ross, S. Stagnitto, L. J. Suter, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115002 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Geodesic Acoustic Mode Induced by Toroidal Rotation in Tokamaks

C. Wahlberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115003 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Effects of Ionization Gradients on Inertial-Confinement-Fusion Capsule Hydrodynamic Stability

Peter Amendt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115004 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Dynamics of Plasma Blobs in a Shear Flow

A. Diallo, A. Fasoli, I. Furno, B. Labit, M. Podestà, and C. Theiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115005 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thickness Induced Structural Changes in Polystyrene Films

M. K. Mukhopadhyay, X. Jiao, L. B. Lurio, Z. Jiang, J. Stark, M. Sprung, S. Narayanan, A. R. Sandy, and S. K. Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115501 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Self-Passivating Edge Reconstructions of Graphene

Pekka Koskinen, Sami Malola, and Hannu Häkkinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115502 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Predicting Structure of Molecular Crystals from First Principles

Rafał Podeszwa, Betsy M. Rice, and Krzysztof Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115503 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Peierls Potential for Crowdions in the bcc Transition Metals

S. P. Fitzgerald and D. Nguyen-Manh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115504 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Deformation Induced Microtwins and Stacking Faults in Aluminum Single Crystal

W. Z. Han, G. M. Cheng, S. X. Li, S. D. Wu, and Z. F. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115505 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Lattice Resistance to Dislocation Motion at the Nanoscale

A. Dutta, M. Bhattacharya, P. Barat, P. Mukherjee, N. Gayathri, and G. C. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115506 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Tomographic Femtosecond X-Ray Diffractive Imaging

K. E. Schmidt, J. C. H. Spence, U. Weierstall, R. Kirian, X. Wang, D. Starodub, H. N. Chapman, M. R. Howells, and R. B. Doak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115507 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Winding Up of the Wave-Function Phase by an Insulator-to-Superfluid Transition in a Ring of Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Jacek Dziarmaga, Jakub Meisner, and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 115701 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Vacancy Formation and Strain in Low-Temperature $Cu / Cu (100)$ Growth

Yunsic Shim, Valery Borovikov, Blas P. Uberuaga, Arthur F. Voter, and Jacques G. Amar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116101 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Interplay between External Strain and Oxygen Vacancies on a Rutile ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ Surface

Da-Jun Shu, Shu-Ting Ge, Mu Wang, and Nai-Ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116102 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strong Exciton-Photon Coupling in an Organic Single Crystal Microcavity

S Kéna-Cohen, M. Davanço, and S. R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116401 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Inverse Jahn-Teller Transition in Bimetallic Oxalates

Randy S. Fishman, Satoshi Okamoto, and Fernando A. Reboredo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116402 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Exact Treatment of Exciton-Polaron Formation by Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Simulations

Evgeni Burovski, Holger Fehske, and Andrei S. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116403 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

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Ultraslow Shock Waves of Electron Density in ${LiNbO}_{3}$ Crystals

S. Gronenborn, B. Sturman, M. Falk, D. Haertle, and K. Buse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116601 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Visualizing the Spin of Individual Cobalt-Phthalocyanine Molecules

C. Iacovita, M. V. Rastei, B. W. Heinrich, T. Brumme, J. Kortus, L. Limot, and J. P. Bucher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116602 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

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Coherent Exciton–Surface-Plasmon-Polariton Interaction in Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures

P. Vasa, R. Pomraenke, S. Schwieger, Yu. I. Mazur, Vas. Kunets, P. Srinivasan, E. Johnson, J. E. Kihm, D. S. Kim, E. Runge, G. Salamo, and C. Lienau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116801 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Boundary Multifractality at the Integer Quantum Hall Plateau Transition: Implications for the Critical Theory

H. Obuse, A. R. Subramaniam, A. Furusaki, I. A. Gruzberg, and A. W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116802 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Multifractality at the Quantum Hall Transition: Beyond the Parabolic Paradigm

F. Evers, A. Mildenberger, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116803 (2008) - Published 8 September, 2008

Admittance and Noise in an Electrically Driven Nanostructure: Interplay between Quantum Coherence and Statistics

Hee Chul Park and Kang-Hun Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116804 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Spectroscopic Mode Mapping of Resonant Plasmon Nanoantennas

Petru Ghenuche, Sudhir Cherukulappurath, Tim H. Taminiau, Niek F. van Hulst, and Romain Quidant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116805 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Quenching of the Quantum Hall Effect in Multilayered Epitaxial Graphene: The Role of Undoped Planes

Pierre Darancet, Nicolas Wipf, Claire Berger, Walt A. de Heer, and Didier Mayou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116806 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Nonlinear Transport through Strongly Correlated Two-Terminal Heterostructures: A Dynamical Mean-Field Approach

Satoshi Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116807 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Surface Electron Accumulation and the Charge Neutrality Level in ${In}_{2} O_{3}$

P. D. C. King, T. D. Veal, D. J. Payne, A. Bourlange, R. G. Egdell, and C. F. McConville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 116808 (2008) - Published 11 September, 2008

Inhomogeneous Magnetic-Field Response of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$ and ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Persisting above the Bulk Superconducting Transition Temperature

J. E. Sonier, M. Ilton, V. Pacradouni, C. V. Kaiser, S. A. Sabok-Sayr, Y. Ando, S. Komiya, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, and W. A. Atkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117001 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

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Magnetic Control of Crystal Chirality and the Existence of a Large Magneto-Optical Dichroism Effect in ${CuB}_{2} O_{4}$

M. Saito, K. Ishikawa, K. Taniguchi, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117402 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Excited-State Spectroscopy Using Single Spin Manipulation in Diamond

G. D. Fuchs, V. V. Dobrovitski, R. Hanson, A. Batra, C. D. Weis, T. Schenkel, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117601 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Ab initio Study of ${}^{40}{Ca}$ with an Importance-Truncated No-Core Shell Model”

D. J. Dean, G. Hagen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, T. Papenbrock, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119201 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Roth and Navrátil Reply:

R. Roth and P. Navrátil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119202 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Kaon Condensation, Black Holes, and Cosmological Natural Selection [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 091101 (2008)]

G. E. Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee, and Mannque Rho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119901 (2008) - Published 9 September, 2008

Erratum: Flapping States of a Flag in an Inviscid Fluid: Bistability and the Transition to Chaos [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 074301 (2008)]

Silas Alben and Michael J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119902 (2008) - Published 10 September, 2008

Erratum: Strong Friction Limit in Quantum Mechanics: The Quantum Smoluchowski Equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 086802 (2001)]

Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119903 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008

Publisher’s Note: Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221803 (2008)]

S. Abe et al. (KamLAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119904 (2008) - Published 12 September, 2008