Volume 101, Issue 14

3 October 2008

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Pseudocolor plot of soliton collisions in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. By tuning interactions in the model, it is possible to achieve elastic particlelike collisions between solitons, making a quantum Newton's cradle.

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Supersolitons: Solitonic Excitations in Atomic Soliton Chains
David Novoa, Boris A. Malomed, Humberto Michinel, and Víctor M. Pérez-García
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 144101 (2008)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: APS now leaves copyright with authors for derivative works

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140001 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Trapping of Hydrogen after Multistage Zeeman Deceleration

S. D. Hogan, A. W. Wiederkehr, H. Schmutz, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143001 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Complex Networks Renormalization: Flows and Fixed Points

Filippo Radicchi, José J. Ramasco, Alain Barrat, and Santo Fortunato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 148701 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

LETTERS

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

Pure-State Quantum Trajectories for General Non-Markovian Systems Do Not Exist

Howard M. Wiseman and J. M. Gambetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140401 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Quantum Semi-Markov Processes

Heinz-Peter Breuer and Bassano Vacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140402 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Determination of the Superfluid Gap in Atomic Fermi Gases by Quasiparticle Spectroscopy

André Schirotzek, Yong-il Shin, Christian H. Schunck, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140403 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

An Additive and Operational Entanglement Measure: Conditional Entanglement of Mutual Information

Dong Yang, Michał Horodecki, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140501 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Tripartite Entanglement Transformations and Tensor Rank

Eric Chitambar, Runyao Duan, and Yaoyun Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140502 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Approximate Locality for Quantum Systems on Graphs

Tobias J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140503 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Twofold Advance in the Theoretical Understanding of Far-From-Equilibrium Properties of Interacting Nanostructures

E. Boulat, H. Saleur, and P. Schmitteckert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140601 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Directed Flow in Nonadiabatic Stochastic Pumps

Saar Rahav, Jordan Horowitz, and Christopher Jarzynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140602 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Scale-Renormalized Matrix-Product States for Correlated Quantum Systems

Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 140603 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Anomalous Cosmic-Microwave-Background Polarization and Gravitational Chirality

Carlo R. Contaldi, João Magueijo, and Lee Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 141101 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Cosmic Sparks from Superconducting Strings

Tanmay Vachaspati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 141301 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Low-Energy Theorem for Virtual Compton Scattering and Generalized Sum Rules of the Nucleon

Mikhail Gorchtein and Adam P. Szczepaniak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 141601 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Hints of $θ_{13} > 0$ from Global Neutrino Data Analysis

G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, A. Palazzo, and A. M. Rotunno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 141801 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Top Tagging: A Method for Identifying Boosted Hadronically Decaying Top Quarks

David E. Kaplan, Keith Rehermann, Matthew D. Schwartz, and Brock Tweedie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 142001 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Mean-Field Derivation of the Interacting Boson Model Hamiltonian and Exotic Nuclei

Kosuke Nomura, Noritaka Shimizu, and Takaharu Otsuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 142501 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Probing the Order-to-Chaos Region in Superdeformed ${}^{151}{Tb}$ and ${}^{196}{Pb}$ Nuclei with Continuum $γ$ Transitions

S. Leoni et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 142502 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Mass Measurements and Implications for the Energy of the High-Spin Isomer in ${}^{94}{Ag}$

A. Kankainen, V.-V. Elomaa, L. Batist, S. Eliseev, T. Eronen, U. Hager, J. Hakala, A. Jokinen, I. D. Moore, Yu. N. Novikov, H. Penttilä, A. Popov, S. Rahaman, S. Rinta-Antila, J. Rissanen, A. Saastamoinen, D. M. Seliverstov, T. Sonoda, G. Vorobjev, C. Weber, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 142503 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Intruder Configurations in the $A = 33$ Isobars: ${}^{33}{Mg}$ and ${}^{33}{Al}$

Vandana Tripathi, S. L. Tabor, P. F. Mantica, Y. Utsuno, P. Bender, J. Cook, C. R. Hoffman, Sangjin Lee, T. Otsuka, J. Pereira, M. Perry, K. Pepper, J. S. Pinter, J. Stoker, A. Volya, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 142504 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Trapping of Hydrogen after Multistage Zeeman Deceleration

S. D. Hogan, A. W. Wiederkehr, H. Schmutz, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143001 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Long-Range One-Dimensional Longitudinal Optical Binding

V. Karásek, T. Čižmár, O. Brzobohatý, P. Zemánek, V. Garcés-Chávez, and K. Dholakia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143601 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Decay Control via Discrete-to-Continuum Coupling Modulation in an Optical Waveguide System

F. Dreisow, A. Szameit, M. Heinrich, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, and S. Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143602 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Condensation in Disordered Lasers: Theory, $3 D + 1$ Simulations, and Experiments

C. Conti, M. Leonetti, A. Fratalocchi, L. Angelani, and G. Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143901 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Collective Resonances in Gold Nanoparticle Arrays

Baptiste Auguié and William L. Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143902 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Disordered Lattice Solitons

Nikolaos K. Efremidis and Kyriakos Hizanidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 143903 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Supersolitons: Solitonic Excitations in Atomic Soliton Chains

David Novoa, Boris A. Malomed, Humberto Michinel, and Víctor M. Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 144101 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Harmonic Measure for Percolation and Ising Clusters Including Rare Events

David A. Adams, Leonard M. Sander, and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 144102 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Tracking Quasiclassical Chaos in Ultracold Boson Gases

Maxence Lepers, Véronique Zehnlé, and Jean Claude Garreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 144103 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Hyperviscosity, Galerkin Truncation, and Bottlenecks in Turbulence

Uriel Frisch, Susan Kurien, Rahul Pandit, Walter Pauls, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Achim Wirth, and Jian-Zhou Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 144501 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Bypassing Cowling’s Theorem in Axisymmetric Fluid Dynamos

Christophe Gissinger, Emmanuel Dormy, and Stephan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 144502 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Near-Complete Absorption of Intense, Ultrashort Laser Light by Sub- $λ$ Gratings

Subhendu Kahaly, S. K. Yadav, W. M. Wang, S. Sengupta, Z. M. Sheng, A. Das, P. K. Kaw, and G. Ravindra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145001 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Beam Loading in the Nonlinear Regime of Plasma-Based Acceleration

M. Tzoufras, W. Lu, F. S. Tsung, C. Huang, W. B. Mori, T. Katsouleas, J. Vieira, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145002 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Intrinsic Ambipolarity and Rotation in Stellarators

P. Helander and A. N. Simakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145003 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Strong and Ductile Colossal Carbon Tubes with Walls of Rectangular Macropores

Huisheng Peng, Daoyong Chen, Jian-Yu Huang, S. B. Chikkannanavar, J. Hänisch, Menka Jain, D. E. Peterson, S. K Doorn, Yunfeng Lu, Y. T. Zhu, and Q. X. Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145501 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Size Scaling and Bursting Activity in Thermally Activated Breakdown of Fiber Bundles

Naoki Yoshioka, Ferenc Kun, and Nobuyasu Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145502 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Percolation Clusters above Criticality Form Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Surfaces

Ehud Perlsman and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145701 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Stochastic Metallic-Glass Cellular Structures Exhibiting Benchmark Strength

Marios D. Demetriou, Chris Veazey, John S. Harmon, Joseph P. Schramm, and William L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145702 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Sublimation inside an Elastoplastic Material

Valery I. Levitas and Nataliya Altukhova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 145703 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Near Neutrality of an Oxygen Molecule Adsorbed on a Pt(111) Surface

Liang Qi, Xiaofeng Qian, and Ju Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146101 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Cantilever Bending with Rough Surfaces

Jörg Weissmüller and Huiling Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146102 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Size Effects in Thermal and Photochemistry of $(NO)_{2}$ on Ag Nanoparticles

Daniel Mulugeta, Ki Hyun Kim (김기현), Kazuo Watanabe (渡辺量朗), Dietrich Menzel, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146103 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Self-Alignment of Co Adatoms on In Atomic Wires by Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron-Gas-Meditated Interactions

Canhua Liu, Takashi Uchihashi, and Tomonobu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146104 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fractional Statistics of Topological Defects in Graphene and Related Structures

B. Seradjeh and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146401 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Influence of the Dark Exciton State on the Optical and Quantum Optical Properties of Single Quantum Dots

M. Reischle, G. J. Beirne, R. Roßbach, M. Jetter, and P. Michler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146402 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in the Periodic Anderson Model

A. Amaricci, G. Sordi, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146403 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Formation of an Exciton Polariton Condensate: Thermodynamic versus Kinetic Regimes

J. Kasprzak, D. D. Solnyshkov, R. André, Le Si Dang, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146404 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Dependence of Effective Mass on Spin and Valley Degrees of Freedom

T. Gokmen, Medini Padmanabhan, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146405 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Charge Frustration and Quantum Criticality for Strongly Correlated Fermions

Liza Huijse, James Halverson, Paul Fendley, and Kareljan Schoutens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146406 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Electron Lifetime in a Shockley-Type Metal-Organic Interface State

C. H. Schwalb, S. Sachs, M. Marks, A. Schöll, F. Reinert, E. Umbach, and U. Höfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146801 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in ${Hg}_{1 - y} {Mn}_{y} Te$ Quantum Wells

Chao-Xing Liu, Xiao-Liang Qi, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146802 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Quantum Hall Ferromagnetic States and Spin-Orbit Interactions in the Fractional Regime

Stefano Chesi and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146803 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Josephson Effect through an Isotropic Magnetic Molecule

Minchul Lee, Thibaut Jonckheere, and Thierry Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146804 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Tuning the Effective Fine Structure Constant in Graphene: Opposing Effects of Dielectric Screening on Short- and Long-Range Potential Scattering

C. Jang, S. Adam, J.-H. Chen, E. D. Williams, S. Das Sarma, and M. S. Fuhrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 146805 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Photon-Number Squeezing in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

M. Marthaler, Gerd Schön, and Alexander Shnirman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147001 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Peak Effect in the Critical Current of Type II Superconductors with Strong Magnetic Vortex Pinning

X. B. Xu, H. Fangohr, X. N. Xu, M. Gu, Z. H. Wang, S. M. Ji, S. Y. Ding, D. Q. Shi, and S. X. Dou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147002 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Momentum Dependence of the Superconducting Gap in ${NdFeAsO}_{0.9} F_{0.1}$ Single Crystals Measured by Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Takeshi Kondo, A. F. Santander-Syro, O. Copie, Chang Liu, M. E. Tillman, E. D. Mun, J. Schmalian, S. L. Bud’ko, M. A. Tanatar, P. C. Canfield, and A. Kaminski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147003 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Spin Resonance in Three-Dimensional Superconductors: The Case of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

A. V. Chubukov and L. P. Gor’kov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147004 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Size Dependence of Current Spin Polarization through Superconductor/Ferromagnet Nanocontacts

M. Stokmaier, G. Goll, D. Weissenberger, C. Sürgers, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147005 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Determining Exchange Splitting in a Magnetic Semiconductor by Spin-Filter Tunneling

T. S. Santos, J. S. Moodera, K. V. Raman, E. Negusse, J. Holroyd, J. Dvorak, M. Liberati, Y. U. Idzerda, and E. Arenholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147201 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008

Direct Measurement of Intrinsic Atomic Scale Magnetostriction

M. P. Ruffoni, S. Pascarelli, R. Grössinger, R. Sato Turtelli, C. Bormio-Nunes, and R. F. Pettifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147202 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Direct Observation of Quantum Coherence in Single-Molecule Magnets

C. Schlegel, J. van Slageren, M. Manoli, E. K. Brechin, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147203 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Simple Glass Models and Their Quantum Annealing

Thomas Jörg, Florent Krzakala, Jorge Kurchan, and A. C. Maggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147204 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Spin Waves and Quantum Criticality in the Frustrated $X Y$ Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet ${Er}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

J. P. C. Ruff, J. P. Clancy, A. Bourque, M. A. White, M. Ramazanoglu, J. S. Gardner, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, M. B. Johnson, H. A. Dabkowska, and B. D. Gaulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147205 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Electrical Control of Exchange Bias Mediated by Graphene

Y. G. Semenov, J. M. Zavada, and K. W. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147206 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Rotation of the Pinning Direction in the Exchange Bias Training Effect in Polycrystalline $NiFe / FeMn$ Bilayers

X. P. Qiu, D. Z. Yang, S. M. Zhou, R. Chantrell, K. O’Grady, U. Nowak, J. Du, X. J. Bai, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147207 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Refractive Index Enhancement with Vanishing Absorption in an Atomic Vapor

N. A. Proite, B. E. Unks, J. T. Green, and D. D. Yavuz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147401 (2008) - Published 29 September, 2008

Anomalous Photogalvanic Effect of Circularly Polarized Light Incident on the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} N / GaN$ Heterostructures at Room Temperature

X. W. He, B. Shen, Y. H. Chen, Q. Zhang, K. Han, C. M. Yin, N. Tang, F. J. Xu, C. G. Tang, Z. J. Yang, Z. X. Qin, G. Y. Zhang, and Z. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147402 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Influence of Strain on the Conduction Band Structure of Strained Silicon Nanomembranes

C. Euaruksakul, Z. W. Li, F. Zheng, F. J. Himpsel, C. S. Ritz, B. Tanto, D. E. Savage, X. S. Liu, and M. G. Lagally

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147403 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Evidence for Dark Excitons in a Single Carbon Nanotube due to the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Ryusuke Matsunaga, Kazunari Matsuda, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147404 (2008) - Published 3 October, 2008

Dynamical Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya Interaction in ${KCuF}_{3}$

M. V. Eremin, D. V. Zakharov, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, R. M. Eremina, A. Shuvaev, A. Pimenov, P. Ghigna, J. Deisenhofer, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147601 (2008) - Published 2 October, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Topology of Smectic Order on Compact Substrates

Xiangjun Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 147801 (2008) - Published 1 October, 2008

Reentrant Condensation of Proteins in Solution Induced by Multivalent Counterions

F. Zhang, M. W. A. Skoda, R. M. J. Jacobs, S. Zorn, R. A. Martin, C. M. Martin, G. F. Clark, S. Weggler, A. Hildebrandt, O. Kohlbacher, and F. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 148101 (2008) - Published 30 September, 2008