Volume 101, Issue 20

14 November 2008

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Contours of electron-density perturbation around a monovacancy in aluminum. The small red dots denote atoms around the vacancy.

From the article:

Role of Macroscopic Deformations in Energetics of Vacancies in Aluminum
Vikram Gavini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205503 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reversal of the Weak Measurement of a Quantum State in a Superconducting Phase Qubit

Nadav Katz, Matthew Neeley, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, A. O’Connell, H. Wang, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis, and Alexander N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200401 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Steady State Entanglement in the Mechanical Vibrations of Two Dielectric Membranes

Michael J. Hartmann and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200503 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Evolution from a Molecular Rydberg Gas to an Ultracold Plasma in a Seeded Supersonic Expansion of NO

J. P. Morrison, C. J. Rennick, J. S. Keller, and E. R. Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205005 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hiding under the Carpet: A New Strategy for Cloaking

Jensen Li and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203901 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Longitudinal Spin Density Wave Order in a Quasi-1D Ising-like Quantum Antiferromagnet

S. Kimura, M. Matsuda, T. Masuda, S. Hondo, K. Kaneko, N. Metoki, M. Hagiwara, T. Takeuchi, K. Okunishi, Z. He, K. Kindo, T. Taniyama, and M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 207201 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Casimir Forces in Colloidal Suspensions on Chemically Patterned Surfaces

Florian Soyka, Olga Zvyagolskaya, Christopher Hertlein, Laurent Helden, and Clemens Bechinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 208301 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

LETTERS

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reversal of the Weak Measurement of a Quantum State in a Superconducting Phase Qubit

Nadav Katz, Matthew Neeley, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, A. O’Connell, H. Wang, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis, and Alexander N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200401 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Dissipation Induced Coherence of a Two-Mode Bose-Einstein Condensate

D. Witthaut, F. Trimborn, and S. Wimberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200402 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Possibility of Prolific Pair Production with High-Power Lasers

A. R. Bell and John G. Kirk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200403 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Quantum Zeno and Anti-Zeno Effects: Without the Rotating-Wave Approximation

H. Zheng, S. Y. Zhu, and M. S. Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200404 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Experimental Quantum Computing without Entanglement

B. P. Lanyon, M. Barbieri, M. P. Almeida, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200501 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Directional Coupling for Quantum Computing and Communication

Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200502 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Steady State Entanglement in the Mechanical Vibrations of Two Dielectric Membranes

Michael J. Hartmann and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200503 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Characterization of Collective Gaussian Attacks and Security of Coherent-State Quantum Cryptography

Stefano Pirandola, Samuel L. Braunstein, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200504 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Heat Conductivity from Molecular Chaos Hypothesis in Locally Confined Billiard Systems

Thomas Gilbert and Raphaël Lefevere

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200601 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Quantification of the Information Limit of Transmission Electron Microscopes

J. Barthel and A. Thust

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 200801 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in Upsilon Decays

W. Love et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 201601 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Searches for $B$ Meson Decays to $ϕ ϕ$ , $ϕ ρ$ , $ϕ f_{0} (980)$ , and $f_{0} (980) f_{0} (980)$ Final States

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 201801 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top-Quark Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202001 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Evidence for a Parity Doublet $Δ (1920) P_{33}$ and $Δ (1940) D_{33}$ from $γ p \to p π^{0} η$

I. Horn et al. (CB-ELSA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202002 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Color Fluctuations in the Nucleon in High-Energy Scattering

L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman, D. Treleani, and C. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202003 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Convergence of the Chiral Expansion in Two-Flavor Lattice QCD

J. Noaki, S. Aoki, T. W. Chiu, H. Fukaya, S. Hashimoto, T. H. Hsieh, T. Kaneko, H. Matsufuru, T. Onogi, E. Shintani, and N. Yamada (JLQCD and TWQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202004 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Nuclear Physics

First Penning-Trap Mass Measurement of the Exotic Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Li}$

M. Smith, M. Brodeur, T. Brunner, S. Ettenauer, A Lapierre, R. Ringle, V. L. Ryjkov, F. Ames, P. Bricault, G. W. F. Drake, P. Delheij, D. Lunney, F. Sarazin, and J. Dilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202501 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Laser Channeling of Bethe-Heitler Pairs

Erik Lötstedt, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203001 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Optical Feshbach Resonance Using the Intercombination Transition

K. Enomoto, K. Kasa, M. Kitagawa, and Y. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203201 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Collisional Stability of a Three-Component Degenerate Fermi Gas

T. B. Ottenstein, T. Lompe, M. Kohnen, A. N. Wenz, and S. Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203202 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Molecular Beam Collisions with a Magnetically Trapped Target

Brian C. Sawyer, Benjamin K. Stuhl, Dajun Wang, Mark Yeo, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203203 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Explosion of Xenon Clusters Driven by Intense Femtosecond Pulses of Extreme Ultraviolet Light

B. F. Murphy, K. Hoffmann, A. Belolipetski, J. Keto, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203401 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Multimodal Properties and Dynamics of Gradient Echo Quantum Memory

G. Hétet, J. J. Longdell, M. J. Sellars, P. K. Lam, and B. C. Buchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203601 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Two-Photon Gateway in One-Atom Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

A. Kubanek, A. Ourjoumtsev, I. Schuster, M. Koch, P. W. H. Pinkse, K. Murr, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203602 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hiding under the Carpet: A New Strategy for Cloaking

Jensen Li and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203901 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Observation of Defect-Free Surface Modes in Optical Waveguide Arrays

Alexander Szameit, Ivan L. Garanovich, Matthias Heinrich, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Felix Dreisow, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 203902 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Membrane-Type Acoustic Metamaterial with Negative Dynamic Mass

Z. Yang, Jun Mei, Min Yang, N. H. Chan, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 204301 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Universal Cone Angle of ac Electrosprays Due to Net Charge Entrainment

Nishant Chetwani, Siddharth Maheshwari, and Hsueh-Chia Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 204501 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Trapping and Destruction of Long-Range High-Intensity Optical Filaments by Molecular Quantum Wakes in Air

S. Varma, Y.-H. Chen, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205001 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

Nature of Transport across Sheared Zonal Flows in Electrostatic Ion-Temperature-Gradient Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence

R. Sánchez, D. E. Newman, J.-N. Leboeuf, V. K. Decyk, and B. A. Carreras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205002 (2008) - Published 12 November, 2008

$α$ Channeling in a Rotating Plasma

Abraham J. Fetterman and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205003 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Magnetic Reconnection by a Self-Retreating $X$ Line

M. Oka, M. Fujimoto, T. K. M. Nakamura, I. Shinohara, and K.-I. Nishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205004 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Evolution from a Molecular Rydberg Gas to an Ultracold Plasma in a Seeded Supersonic Expansion of NO

J. P. Morrison, C. J. Rennick, J. S. Keller, and E. R. Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205005 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Hydrogen Clusters that Remain Fluid at Low Temperature

Kirill Kuyanov-Prozument and Andrey F. Vilesov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205301 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Crack Growth by Surface Diffusion in Viscoelastic Media

R. Spatschek, E. A. Brener, and D. Pilipenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205501 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Local Structural Origins of the Distinct Electronic Properties of Nb-Substituted ${SrTiO}_{3}$ and ${BaTiO}_{3}$

Katharine Page, Taras Kolodiazhnyi, Thomas Proffen, Anthony K. Cheetham, and Ram Seshadri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205502 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Role of Macroscopic Deformations in Energetics of Vacancies in Aluminum

Vikram Gavini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205503 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Divergent Four-Point Dynamic Density Correlation Function of a Glassy Suspension

Grzegorz Szamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205701 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Universal Distributions Generated in a Nucleation Pulse

Vitaly A. Shneidman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205702 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Local Lattice Distortion in the Giant Negative Thermal Expansion Material ${Mn}_{3} {Cu}_{1 - x} {Ge}_{x} N$

S. Iikubo, K. Kodama, K. Takenaka, H. Takagi, M. Takigawa, and S. Shamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 205901 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Monodisperse Microisland Formation on $Ni / Ru (0001)$ Monolayers

Peter Jakob, Kai Anhut, Sebastian Schnur, and Axel Groß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206101 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Large Surface Charge Density Oscillations Induced by Subsurface Phonon Resonances

V. Chis, B. Hellsing, G. Benedek, M. Bernasconi, E. V. Chulkov, and J. P. Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206102 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Local Density of States for Individual Energy Levels in Finite Quantum Wires

Imke Schneider, Alexander Struck, Michael Bortz, and Sebastian Eggert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206401 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Time-Dependent Current-Density-Functional Theory of Spin-Charge Separation and Spin Drag in One-Dimensional Ultracold Fermi Gases

Gao Xianlong, Marco Polini, Diego Rainis, M. P. Tosi, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206402 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008

Optical Probe of Carrier Doping by X-Ray Irradiation in the Organic Dimer Mott Insulator $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} Cu [N (CN)_{2}] Cl$

T. Sasaki, N. Yoneyama, Y. Nakamura, N. Kobayashi, Y. Ikemoto, T. Moriwaki, and H. Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206403 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Pairing Symmetry in a Two-Orbital Exchange Coupling Model of Oxypnictides

Kangjun Seo, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206404 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Possible Anisotropic $s - f$ Hybridization in a Cubic Heavy-Fermion Compound: ${CeIn}_{1} {Sn}_{2}$

A. P. Murani, A. Severing, M. Enderle, P. Steffens, and D. Richard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206405 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Spin Noise Spectroscopy in GaAs (110) Quantum Wells: Access to Intrinsic Spin Lifetimes and Equilibrium Electron Dynamics

Georg M. Müller, Michael Römer, Dieter Schuh, Werner Wegscheider, Jens Hübner, and Michael Oestreich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206601 (2008) - Published 11 November, 2008

Primary Tunnel Junction Thermometry

Jukka P. Pekola, Tommy Holmqvist, and Matthias Meschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206801 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Quasiparticle Chirality in Epitaxial Graphene Probed at the Nanometer Scale

I. Brihuega, P. Mallet, C. Bena, S. Bose, C. Michaelis, L. Vitali, F. Varchon, L. Magaud, K. Kern, and J. Y. Veuillen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206802 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Formulation of Time-Resolved Counting Statistics Based on a Positive-Operator-Valued Measure

Adam Bednorz and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206803 (2008) - Published 14 November, 2008

Inherent Stochasticity of Superconductor-Resistor Switching Behavior in Nanowires

Nayana Shah, David Pekker, and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 207001 (2008) - Published 10 November, 2008

Coexistence of Competing Orders with Two Energy Gaps in Real and Momentum Space in the High Temperature Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$

J.-H. Ma, Z.-H. Pan, F. C. Niestemski, M. Neupane, Y.-M. Xu, P. Richard, K. Nakayama, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, H.-Q. Luo, L. Fang, H.-H. Wen, Ziqiang Wang, H. Ding, and V. Madhavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 207002 (2008) - Published 13 November, 2008