Volume 101, Issue 23

5 December 2008

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Calculated splitting of spin states upon magnetic quantum tunneling in a Mn₁₂mda wheel-shaped single-molecule magnet, plotted as a function of applied field and direction of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange interaction vector.

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Influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Exchange Interaction on Quantum Phase Interference of Spins
W. Wernsdorfer, T. C. Stamatatos, and G. Christou
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237204 (2008)

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Nonaxisymmetric Shapes of a Magnetically Levitated and Spinning Water Droplet

R. J. A. Hill and L. Eaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 234501 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

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Static Magnetic Order in ${Tb}_{2} {Sn}_{2} O_{7}$ Revealed by Muon Spin Relaxation with Exterior Muon Implantation

S. R. Giblin, J. D. M. Champion, H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe, J. S. Gardner, I. Terry, S. Calder, T. Fennell, and S. T. Bramwell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237201 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

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Coordinated Chemomechanical Cycles: A Mechanism for Autonomous Molecular Motion

S. J. Green, J. Bath, and A. J. Turberfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 238101 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

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New Model System for a One-Dimensional Electron Liquid: Self-Organized Atomic Gold Chains on Ge(001)

J. Schäfer, C. Blumenstein, S. Meyer, M. Wisniewski, and R. Claessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236802 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

LETTERS

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

Local Interactions and Non-Abelian Quantum Loop Gases

Matthias Troyer, Simon Trebst, Kirill Shtengel, and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230401 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Adiabatic Nonlinear Probes of One-Dimensional Bose Gases

C. De Grandi, R. A. Barankov, and A. Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230402 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Locally Optimal Control of Quantum Systems with Strong Feedback

Alireza Shabani and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230403 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Naimark-Dilated $P T$ -Symmetric Brachistochrone

Uwe Günther and Boris F. Samsonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230404 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Coulomb Breakup Problem

A. S. Kadyrov, I. Bray, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and A. T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230405 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Generation of Quantum-Dot Cluster States with a Superconducting Transmission Line Resonator

Zhi-Rong Lin, Guo-Ping Guo, Tao Tu, Fei-Yun Zhu, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230501 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Perfect State Transfer on a Spin Chain without State Initialization

C. Di Franco, M. Paternostro, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230502 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Driving-Induced Crossover: From Classical Criticality to Self-Organized Criticality

Francisco-José Pérez-Reche, Lev Truskinovsky, and Giovanni Zanzotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230601 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Khinchin Theorem and Anomalous Diffusion

Luciano C. Lapas, Rafael Morgado, Mendeli H. Vainstein, J. Miguel Rubí, and Fernando A. Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230602 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Combination of Bloch Oscillations with a Ramsey-Bordé Interferometer: New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant

Malo Cadoret, Estefania de Mirandes, Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, Catherine Schwob, François Nez, Lucile Julien, and François Biraben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 230801 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutron Reactions in Accreting Neutron Stars: A New Pathway to Efficient Crust Heating

Sanjib S. Gupta, Toshihiko Kawano, and Peter Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 231101 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Dark-Matter Particles without Weak-Scale Masses or Weak Interactions

Jonathan L. Feng and Jason Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 231301 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for Neutral $B$ Meson Decays to $ω K^{* 0}$

P. Goldenzweig et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 231801 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Is the Spectrum of Highly Excited Mesons Purely Coulombian?

El Houssine Mezoir and P. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 232001 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Observation of the Doubly Strange $b$ Baryon $Ω_{b}^{-}$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 232002 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Suppression Pattern of Neutral Pions at High Transverse Momentum in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ and Constraints on Medium Transport Coefficients

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 232301 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong-Field Tunneling without Ionization

T. Nubbemeyer, K. Gorling, A. Saenz, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233001 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Inelastic Collisions in Optically Trapped Ultracold Metastable Ytterbium

A. Yamaguchi, S. Uetake, D. Hashimoto, J. M. Doyle, and Y. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233002 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Classical Trajectory Diagnosis of a Fingerlike Pattern in the Correlated Electron Momentum Distribution in Strong Field Double Ionization of Helium

D. F. Ye, X. Liu, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233003 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Laser-Intensity Dependent Vibrational Excitation and Alignment of Molecular Ions in the Ultrafast Multiphoton Regime

J. H. Posthumus, B. Fabre, C. Cornaggia, N. de Ruette, and X. Urbain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233004 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Differential Cross Sections for the Ionization of Oriented $H_{2}$ Molecules by Electron Impact

J. Colgan, M. S. Pindzola, F. Robicheaux, C. Kaiser, A. J. Murray, and D. H. Madison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233201 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Is CO Carbon $K V V$ Auger Electron Emission Affected by the Photoelectron?

G. Prümper, H. Fukuzawa, D. Rolles, K. Sakai, K. C. Prince, J. R. Harries, Y. Tamenori, N. Berrah, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233202 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Rotational Study of Carbon Monoxide Solvated with Helium Atoms

L. A. Surin, A. V. Potapov, B. S. Dumesh, S. Schlemmer, Y. Xu, P. L. Raston, and W. Jäger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233401 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Transforming Spatial Entanglement Using a Domain-Engineering Technique

X. Q. Yu, P. Xu, Z. D. Xie, J. F. Wang, H. Y. Leng, J. S. Zhao, S. N. Zhu, and N. B. Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233601 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Phase-Sensitive Manipulations of a Squeezed Vacuum Field in an Optical Parametric Amplifier inside an Optical Cavity

Jing Zhang (张靖), Chenguang Ye (叶晨光), Feng Gao (高峰), and Min Xiao (肖敏)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233602 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Even-Order Aberration Cancellation in Quantum Interferometry

Cristian Bonato, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Stefano Bonora, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233603 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Measurement of Sub-Shot-Noise Correlations of Spatial Fluctuations in the Photon-Counting Regime

Jean-Luc Blanchet, Fabrice Devaux, Luca Furfaro, and Eric Lantz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233604 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Generation of Large-Amplitude Coherent-State Superposition via Ancilla-Assisted Photon Subtraction

Hiroki Takahashi, Kentaro Wakui, Shigenari Suzuki, Masahiro Takeoka, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Akira Furusawa, and Masahide Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233605 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three-Dimensional Coherent Optical Waves Localized on Trochoidal Parametric Surfaces

T. H. Lu, Y. C. Lin, Y. F. Chen, and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233901 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Active Control of Rogue Waves for Stimulated Supercontinuum Generation

D. R. Solli, C. Ropers, and B. Jalali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 233902 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Molecular Dynamics of Extreme Mass Segregation in a Rapidly Collapsing Bubble

Alexander Bass, Steven J. Ruuth, Carlos Camara, Barry Merriman, and Seth Putterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 234301 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

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Nonaxisymmetric Shapes of a Magnetically Levitated and Spinning Water Droplet

R. J. A. Hill and L. Eaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 234501 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Volume Reflection Dependence of $400 GeV / c$ Protons on the Bent Crystal Curvature

W. Scandale et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 234801 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Convective Dust Clouds Driven by Thermal Creep in a Complex Plasma

S. Mitic, R. Sütterlin, A. V. Ivlev H. Höfner, M. H. Thoma, S. Zhdanov, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235001 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Observation of Ion-Cyclotron-Frequency Mode-Conversion Flow Drive in Tokamak Plasmas

Y. Lin, J. E. Rice, S. J. Wukitch, M. J. Greenwald, A. E. Hubbard, A. Ince-Cushman, L. Lin, M. Porkolab, M. L. Reinke, and N. Tsujii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235002 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Rapid Generation of Angular Momentum in Bounded Magnetized Plasma

Wouter J. T. Bos, Salah Neffaa, and Kai Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235003 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Weakly Turbulent Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in Compressible Low- $β$ Plasmas

Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235004 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Observation of Resistive and Ferritic Wall Modes in a Line-Tied Pinch

W. F. Bergerson, D. A. Hannum, C. C. Hegna, R. D. Kendrick, J. S. Sarff, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235005 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coherent Optical Control of the Ultrafast Dephasing of Phonon-Plasmon Coupling in a Polar Semiconductor Using a Pulse Train of Below-Band-Gap Excitation

J. D. Lee and Muneaki Hase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235501 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

High Thermal Conductivity of Single Polyethylene Chains Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Asegun Henry and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 235502 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Direct Observation of a Nonequilibrium Electro-Osmotic Instability

S. M. Rubinstein, G. Manukyan, A. Staicu, I. Rubinstein, B. Zaltzman, R. G. H. Lammertink, F. Mugele, and M. Wessling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236101 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Contrast Reversal in Atomic-Resolution Chemical Mapping

P. Wang, A. J. D’Alfonso, S. D. Findlay, L. J. Allen, and A. L. Bleloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236102 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Alignment-Induced Epitaxial Transition in Organic-Organic Heteroepitaxy

Dong Guo, Kenji Sakamoto, Kazushi Miki, Susumu Ikeda, and Koichiro Saiki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236103 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ionization Energies of Shallow Donor States in ZnO Created by Reversible Formation and Depletion of H Interstitials

Hengshan Qiu, Bernd Meyer, Yuemin Wang, and Christof Wöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236401 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Orbital Mixing and Nesting in the Bilayer Manganites ${La}_{2 - 2 x} {Sr}_{1 + 2 x} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$

R. Saniz, M. R. Norman, and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236402 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Reversible Phase Transformation and Doubly Charged Anions at the Surface of Simple Cubic ${RbC}_{60}$

Roberto Macovez, Andrea Goldoni, Luca Petaccia, Ingrid Marenne, Paul A. Brühwiler, and Petra Rudolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236403 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ferromagnetic Nickel

J. Bünemann, F. Gebhard, T. Ohm, S. Weiser, and W. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236404 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Polarized Superfluidity in the Attractive Hubbard Model with Population Imbalance

Tung-Lam Dao, Michel Ferrero, Antoine Georges, Massimo Capone, and Olivier Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236405 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Nonequilibrium Transport through a Point Contact in the $ν = 5 / 2$ Non-Abelian Quantum Hall State

Adrian Feiguin, Paul Fendley, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236801 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Model System for a One-Dimensional Electron Liquid: Self-Organized Atomic Gold Chains on Ge(001)

J. Schäfer, C. Blumenstein, S. Meyer, M. Wisniewski, and R. Claessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236802 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

Measurement of Temporal Correlations of the Overhauser Field in a Double Quantum Dot

D. J. Reilly, J. M. Taylor, E. A. Laird, J. R. Petta, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236803 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Optical Spin Initialization and Nondestructive Measurement in a Quantum Dot Molecule

Danny Kim, Sophia E. Economou, Ştefan C. Bădescu, Michael Scheibner, Allan S. Bracker, Mark Bashkansky, Thomas L. Reinecke, and Daniel Gammon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236804 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Magnetic Field Effects in $π$ -Conjugated Polymer-Fullerene Blends: Evidence for Multiple Components

F. J. Wang, Heinz Bässler, and Z. Valy Vardeny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236805 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Conductance of Sidewall-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes: Universal Dependence on Adsorption Sites

Juan María García-Lastra, Kristian S. Thygesen, Mikkel Strange, and Ángel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 236806 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Lack of Evidence for Orbital-Current Effects in the High-Temperature $Y_{2} {Ba}_{4} {Cu}_{7} O_{15 - δ}$ Superconductor using ${}^{89}Y$ Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

S. Strässle, J. Roos, M. Mali, H. Keller, and T. Ohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237001 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Direct Observation of the Superconducting Gap in Phonon Spectra

F. Weber, A. Kreyssig, L. Pintschovius, R. Heid, W. Reichardt, D. Reznik, O. Stockert, and K. Hradil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237002 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

High-Field Pauli-Limiting Behavior and Strongly Enhanced Upper Critical Magnetic Fields near the Transition Temperature of an Arsenic-Deficient ${LaO}_{0.9} F_{0.1} {FeAs}_{1 - δ}$ Superconductor

G. Fuchs, S.-L. Drechsler, N. Kozlova, G. Behr, A. Köhler, J. Werner, K. Nenkov, R. Klingeler, J. Hamann-Borrero, C. Hess, A. Kondrat, M. Grobosch, A. Narduzzo, M. Knupfer, J. Freudenberger, B. Büchner, and L. Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237003 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Model for the Magnetic Order and Pairing Channels in Fe Pnictide Superconductors

M. Daghofer, A. Moreo, J. A. Riera, E. Arrigoni, D. J. Scalapino, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237004 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Multiband Order Parameters for the ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ and ${PrRu}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ Skutterudite Superconductors from Thermal Conductivity Measurements

R. W. Hill, Shiyan Li, M. B. Maple, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237005 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

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Static Magnetic Order in ${Tb}_{2} {Sn}_{2} O_{7}$ Revealed by Muon Spin Relaxation with Exterior Muon Implantation

S. R. Giblin, J. D. M. Champion, H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe, J. S. Gardner, I. Terry, S. Calder, T. Fennell, and S. T. Bramwell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237201 (2008) - Published 1 December, 2008

Carrier-Mediated Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Multilayers ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As / GaAs : Be$

J.-H. Chung, S. J. Chung, Sanghoon Lee, B. J. Kirby, J. A. Borchers, Y. J. Cho, X. Liu, and J. K. Furdyna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237202 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

Probing the Spin Polarization of Current by Soft X-Ray Imaging of Current-Induced Magnetic Vortex Dynamics

Shinya Kasai, Peter Fischer, Mi-Young Im, Keisuke Yamada, Yoshinobu Nakatani, Kensuke Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kohno, and Teruo Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237203 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Exchange Interaction on Quantum Phase Interference of Spins

W. Wernsdorfer, T. C. Stamatatos, and G. Christou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237204 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Magnetic-Field Dependence of the ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ Fermi Surface

P. M. C. Rourke, A. McCollam, G. Lapertot, G. Knebel, J. Flouquet, and S. R. Julian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237205 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Energy Equilibration Processes of Electrons, Magnons, and Phonons at the Femtosecond Time Scale

J. Walowski, G. Müller, M. Djordjevic, M. Münzenberg, M. Kläui, C. A. F. Vaz, and J. A. C. Bland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237401 (2008) - Published 3 December, 2008

High-Pressure Effect on ${PbTiO}_{3}$ : An Investigation by Raman and X-Ray Scattering up to 63 GPa

P.-E. Janolin, P. Bouvier, J. Kreisel, P. A. Thomas, I. A. Kornev, L. Bellaiche, W. Crichton, M. Hanfland, and B. Dkhil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237601 (2008) - Published 2 December, 2008

$1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$ : Semimetal or Semiconductor?

Julia C. E. Rasch, Torsten Stemmler, Beate Müller, Lenart Dudy, and Recardo Manzke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237602 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Confinement Effect on Interparticle Potential in Nematic Colloids

Mojca Vilfan, Natan Osterman, Martin Čopič, Miha Ravnik, Slobodan Žumer, Jurij Kotar, Dušan Babič, and Igor Poberaj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237801 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

Thermotropic Biaxial Liquid Crystalline Phases in a Mixture of Attractive Uniaxial Rod and Disk Particles

Alejandro Cuetos, Amparo Galindo, and George Jackson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 237802 (2008) - Published 4 December, 2008

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces”

Ann E. Mattsson, Rickard Armiento, and Thomas R. Mattsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 239701 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008

Perdew et al. Reply:

John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka, Oleg A. Vydrov, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Lucian A. Constantin, Xiaolan Zhou, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 239702 (2008) - Published 5 December, 2008