Volume 101, Issue 19

7 November 2008

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Two thin filaments undulate in a downward flowing soap film. Center panels display the filament amplitudes and separation, outer panels show their instantaneous wake. Unlike rigid objects, the leading filament experiences less drag than its follower.

From the article:

Anomalous Hydrodynamic Drafting of Interacting Flapping Flags
Leif Ristroph and Jun Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194502 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constructing an Array of Anchored Single-Molecule Rotors on Gold Surfaces

L. Gao, Q. Liu, Y. Y. Zhang, N. Jiang, H. G. Zhang, Z. H. Cheng, W. F. Qiu, S. X. Du, Y. Q. Liu, W. A. Hofer, and H.-J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197209 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Bloch Oscillations and Zener Tunneling with Nonclassical Light

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193902 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of an Ultracold Plasma Instability

X. L. Zhang, R. S. Fletcher, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195002 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Hidden-Variable Simulation of Measurements in Quantum Experiments

Borivoje Dakić, Milovan Šuvakov, Tomasz Paterek, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190402 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Hydrodynamic Drafting of Interacting Flapping Flags

Leif Ristroph and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194502 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Backaction of Microwave Fields on a Nanomechanical Oscillator

J. D. Teufel, J. W. Harlow, C. A. Regal, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197203 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization Selective Magnetic Vortex Dynamics and Core Reversal in Rotating Magnetic Fields

Michael Curcic, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, Arne Vansteenkiste, Markus Weigand, Vitalij Sackmann, Hermann Stoll, Manfred Fähnle, Tolek Tyliszczak, Georg Woltersdorf, Christian H. Back, and Gisela Schütz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197204 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

LETTERS

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

States of the Dirac Equation in Confining Potentials

Riccardo Giachetti and Emanuele Sorace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190401 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Hidden-Variable Simulation of Measurements in Quantum Experiments

Borivoje Dakić, Milovan Šuvakov, Tomasz Paterek, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190402 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Foundation of Statistical Mechanics under Experimentally Realistic Conditions

Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190403 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Stable Suspension and Dispersion-Induced Transitions from Repulsive Casimir Forces Between Fluid-Separated Eccentric Cylinders

Alejandro W. Rodriguez, J. N. Munday, J. D. Joannopoulos, Federico Capasso, Diego A. R. Dalvit, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190404 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Magnetic Dipolar Interaction in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Atomic Interferometer

M. Fattori, G. Roati, B. Deissler, C. D’Errico, M. Zaccanti, M. Jona-Lasinio, L. Santos, M. Inguscio, and G. Modugno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190405 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Long-Range Correlations of Density in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Expanding in a Random Potential

N. Cherroret and S. E. Skipetrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190406 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Generation of Narrow-Band Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs for Atomic Quantum Memories

Xiao-Hui Bao, Yong Qian, Jian Yang, Han Zhang, Zeng-Bing Chen, Tao Yang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190501 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Quantum Phase Tomography of a Strongly Driven Qubit

M. S. Rudner, A. V. Shytov, L. S. Levitov, D. M. Berns, W. D. Oliver, S. O. Valenzuela, and T. P. Orlando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190502 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Novel Schemes for Directly Measuring Entanglement of General States

Jianming Cai and Wei Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190503 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Single-Photon Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

M. S. Tame, C. Lee, J. Lee, D. Ballester, M. Paternostro, A. V. Zayats, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190504 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Tracking Heterogeneous Dynamics During the $α$ Relaxation of a Simple Glass Former

Pinaki Chaudhuri, Srikanth Sastry, and Walter Kob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190601 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Interplay between Anderson and Stark Localization in 2D Lattices

A. R. Kolovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190602 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Critical Asymmetry for Giant Diffusion of Active Brownian Particles

Benjamin Lindner and Ernesto M. Nicola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190603 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Coulomb Suppression of the Stellar Enhancement Factor

G. G. Kiss, T. Rauscher, Gy. Gyürky, A. Simon, Zs. Fülöp, and E. Somorjai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 191101 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Colorful Horizons with Charge in Anti–de Sitter Space

Steven S. Gubser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 191601 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry and Extraction of ${sin }^{2} θ_{W}^{eff}$ in $p \bar{p} \to Z / γ^{*} + X \to e^{+} e^{-} + X$ Events Produced at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 191801 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

New Measurement of the $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν \bar{ν}$ Branching Ratio

A. V. Artamonov et al. (E949 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 191802 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Observation of $Υ (2 S) \to η Υ (1 S)$ and Search for Related Transitions

Q. He et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 192001 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay $t \to Z q$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 192002 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Locating Multiple Self-Consistent Field Solutions: An Approach Inspired by Metadynamics

Alex J. W. Thom and Martin Head-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193001 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Polarization Control in Two-Color Above-Threshold Ionization of Atomic Helium

M. Meyer, D. Cubaynes, D. Glijer, J. Dardis, P. Hayden, P. Hough, V. Richardson, E. T. Kennedy, J. T. Costello, P. Radcliffe, S. Düsterer, A. Azima, W. B. Li, H. Redlin, J. Feldhaus, R. Taïeb, A. Maquet, A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo, E. V. Gryzlova, and S. I. Strakhova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193002 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Strong Field Ionization Rate for Arbitrary Laser Frequencies

S. V. Popruzhenko, V. D. Mur, V. S. Popov, and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193003 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Orthopositronium Lifetime: Analytic Results in $O (α)$ and $O (α^{3} \ln α)$

Bernd A. Kniehl, Anatoly V. Kotikov, and Oleg L. Veretin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193401 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Frequency Shifts in an Optical Lattice Clock Due to Magnetic-Dipole and Electric-Quadrupole Transitions

A. V. Taichenachev, V. I. Yudin, V. D. Ovsiannikov, V. G. Pal’chikov, and C. W. Oates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193601 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Effect of Nonlinearity on Adiabatic Evolution of Light

Y. Lahini, F. Pozzi, M. Sorel, R. Morandotti, D. N. Christodoulides, and Y. Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193901 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

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Optical Bloch Oscillations and Zener Tunneling with Nonclassical Light

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 193902 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Antisymmetric Polar Modes of Thermal Convection in Rotating Spherical Fluid Shells at High Taylor Numbers

Ferran Garcia, Juan Sánchez, and Marta Net

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194501 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Hydrodynamic Drafting of Interacting Flapping Flags

Leif Ristroph and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194502 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Electrorheological Fluid Dynamics

Jianwei Zhang, Xiuqing Gong, Chun Liu, Weijia Wen, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194503 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Turbulence-Condensate Interaction in Two Dimensions

H. Xia, H. Punzmann, G. Falkovich, and M. G. Shats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194504 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Is the Scaling of Supersonic Turbulence Universal?

Wolfram Schmidt, Christoph Federrath, and Ralf Klessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194505 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Probing the Hydrogen Melting Line at High Pressures by Dynamic Compression

A. Grinenko, D. O. Gericke, S. H. Glenzer, and J. Vorberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 194801 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Evidence from Numerical Simulations of Transport-Barrier Relaxations in Tokamak Edge Plasmas in the Presence of Electromagnetic Fluctuations

G. Fuhr, P. Beyer, S. Benkadda, and X. Garbet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195001 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

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Observation of an Ultracold Plasma Instability

X. L. Zhang, R. S. Fletcher, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195002 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Dusty-Plasma Liquid in the Statistical Theory of the Liquid State

V. E. Fortov, O. F. Petrov, and O. S. Vaulina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195003 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Resonance Cone Interaction With a Self-Consistent Radio-Frequency Sheath

J. R. Myra and D. A. D’Ippolito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195004 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Observation of Plasma Rotation Driven by Static Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Fields in a Tokamak

A. M. Garofalo, K. H. Burrell, J. C. DeBoo, J. S. deGrassie, G. L. Jackson, M. Lanctot, H. Reimerdes, M. J. Schaffer, W. M. Solomon, and E. J. Strait

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195005 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Torsional Stick-Slip Behavior in ${WS}_{2}$ Nanotubes

K. S. Nagapriya, Ohad Goldbart, Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri, Gotthard Seifert, Reshef Tenne, and Ernesto Joselevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195501 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Spectroscopic Signatures of Novel Oxygen-Defect Complexes in Stoichiometrically Controlled CdSe

G. Chen, J. S. Bhosale, I. Miotkowski, and A. K. Ramdas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195502 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Mixed Mobile Ion Effect and Cooperative Motions in Silver-Sodium Phosphate Glasses

Andreas Hall, Jan Swenson, Stefan Adams, and Carlo Meneghini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 195901 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Electron Damage to Supported Ice Investigated by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy

Michael Mehlhorn, Heiko Gawronski, and Karina Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196101 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Geometric Principles of Surface Growth

Carlos Escudero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196102 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Dual-Surfactant Effect to Enhance $p$ -Type Doping in III-V Semiconductor Thin Films

J. Y. Zhu, Feng Liu, and G. B. Stringfellow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196103 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Steady-State Nonequilibrium Density of States of Driven Strongly Correlated Lattice Models in Infinite Dimensions

A. V. Joura, J. K. Freericks, and Th. Pruschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196401 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Field-Induced Spin-Ice-Like Orders in Spin Liquid ${Tb}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

H. Cao, A. Gukasov, I. Mirebeau, P. Bonville, and G. Dhalenne.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196402 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Coulomb Barrier for Charge Separation at an Organic Semiconductor Interface

Matthias Muntwiler, Qingxin Yang, William A. Tisdale, and X.-Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196403 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Coherent Particle Transfer in an On-Demand Single-Electron Source

J. Keeling, A. V. Shytov, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196404 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Measurement of the Optical Conductivity of Graphene

Kin Fai Mak, Matthew Y. Sfeir, Yang Wu, Chun Hung Lui, James A. Misewich, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196405 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

STM Images of Subsurface Mn Atoms in GaAs: Evidence of Hybridization of Surface and Impurity States

J.-M. Jancu, J.-Ch. Girard, M. O. Nestoklon, A. Lemaître, F. Glas, Z. Z. Wang, and P. Voisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196801 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Pfaffian Statistics through Adiabatic Transport in the 1D Coherent State Representation

Alexander Seidel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196802 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Adsorbate-Limited Conductivity of Graphene

John P. Robinson, Henning Schomerus, László Oroszlány, and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196803 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Unscreened Coulomb Interactions and the Quantum Spin Hall Phase in Neutral Zigzag Graphene Ribbons

Mahdi Zarea, Carlos Büsser, and Nancy Sandler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196804 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Tunable Spin Gaps in a Quantum-Confined Geometry

Emmanouil Frantzeskakis, Stéphane Pons, Hossein Mirhosseini, Jürgen Henk, Christian R. Ast, and Marco Grioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 196805 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Magnetic Dispersion of the Diagonal Incommensurate Phase in Lightly Doped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

M. Matsuda, M. Fujita, S. Wakimoto, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, J. M. Tranquada, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197001 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Current Induced Decomposition of Abrikosov Vortices in $p − n$ Layered Superconductors and Heterostructures

A. L. Rakhmanov, Sergey Savel’ev, and F. V. Kusmartsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197002 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

${Na}_{4} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$ as a 3D Spin Liquid with Fermionic Spinons

Yi Zhou, Patrick A. Lee, Tai-Kai Ng, and Fu-Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197201 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Gapless Spin Liquids on the Three-Dimensional Hyperkagome Lattice of ${Na}_{4} {Ir}_{3} O_{8}$

Michael J. Lawler, Arun Paramekanti, Yong Baek Kim, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197202 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Backaction of Microwave Fields on a Nanomechanical Oscillator

J. D. Teufel, J. W. Harlow, C. A. Regal, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197203 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization Selective Magnetic Vortex Dynamics and Core Reversal in Rotating Magnetic Fields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197204 (2008) - Published 3 November, 2008

Evidence for Universal Scaling in the Spin-Glass Phase

Thomas Jörg and Helmut G. Katzgraber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197205 (2008) - Published 5 November, 2008

Magnetic Bistability and Nucleation of Magnetic Bubbles in a Layered 2D Organic-Based Magnet $[Fe (TCNE) (NCMe)_{2}] [{FeCl}_{4}]$

Jung-Woo Yoo, V. N. Prigodin, W. W. Shum, K. I. Pokhodnya, Joel S. Miller, and A. J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197206 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Rotation of an Electric Polarization Vector by Rotating Magnetic Field in Cycloidal Magnet ${Eu}_{0.55} Y_{0.45} {MnO}_{3}$

H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, F. Kagawa, S. Ishiwata, Y. Kaneko, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197207 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Probing Superexchange Interaction in Molecular Magnets by Spin-Flip Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Xi Chen, Ying-Shuang Fu, Shuai-Hua Ji, Tong Zhang, Peng Cheng, Xu-Cun Ma, Xiao-Long Zou, Wen-Hui Duan, Jin-Feng Jia, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197208 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constructing an Array of Anchored Single-Molecule Rotors on Gold Surfaces

L. Gao, Q. Liu, Y. Y. Zhang, N. Jiang, H. G. Zhang, Z. H. Cheng, W. F. Qiu, S. X. Du, Y. Q. Liu, W. A. Hofer, and H.-J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197209 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008

Fano Profiles Induced by Near-Field Coupling in Heterogeneous Dimers of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles

G. Bachelier, I. Russier-Antoine, E. Benichou, C. Jonin, N. Del Fatti, F. Vallée, and P.-F. Brevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197401 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Ferroelectricity-Induced Coupling between Light and Terahertz-Frequency Acoustic Phonons in ${BaTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Superlattices

A. Bruchhausen, A. Fainstein, A. Soukiassian, D. G. Schlom, X. X. Xi, M. Bernhagen, P. Reiche, and R. Uecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197402 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Electronic and Mechanical Coupling of Carbon Nanotubes: A Tunable Resonant Raman Study of Systems with Known Structures

A. Débarre, M. Kobylko, A. M. Bonnot, A. Richard, V. N. Popov, L. Henrard, and M. Kociak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197403 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Ultrafast Electronic Phase Transition in ${La}_{1 / 2} {Sr}_{3 / 2} {MnO}_{4}$ by Coherent Vibrational Excitation: Evidence for Nonthermal Melting of Orbital Order

R. I. Tobey, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197404 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Cooperative Response of $Pb (ZrTi) O_{3}$ Nanoparticles to Curled Electric Fields

Ivan I. Naumov and Huaxiang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197601 (2008) - Published 4 November, 2008

Nature of Dynamical Coupling between Polarization and Strain in Nanoscale Ferroelectrics from First Principles

I. Ponomareva and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 197602 (2008) - Published 6 November, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamics of the Solid and Liquid Phases in Dilute Sheared Brownian Suspensions: Irreversibility and Particle Migration [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 240602 (2007)]

J. R. Brown, J. D. Seymour, S. L. Codd, E. O. Fridjonsson, G. R. Cokelet, and M. Nyden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 199901 (2008) - Published 7 November, 2008