Volume 101, Issue 25

19 December 2008

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Snapshot of a simulation of plasma in a reversed field pinch configuration, showing the density isosurface in a turbulent multiple helicity state.

From the article:

Compressibility Effects in the Dynamics of the Reversed-Field Pinch
M. Onofri, F. Malara, and P. Veltri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255002 (2008)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics

Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250001 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition with Atomic Matter Waves

Julien Chabé, Gabriel Lemarié, Benoît Grémaud, Dominique Delande, Pascal Szriftgiser, and Jean Claude Garreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255702 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Constraints on a Dark Matter Origin for the DAMA Annual Modulation Effect

C. E. Aalseth, P. S. Barbeau, D. G. Cerdeño, J. Colaresi, J. I. Collar, P. de Lurgio, G. Drake, J. E. Fast, C. H. Greenberg, T. W. Hossbach, J. D. Kephart, M. G. Marino, H. S. Miley, J. L. Orrell, D. Reyna, R. G. H. Robertson, R. L. Talaga, O. Tench, T. D. Van Wechel, J. F. Wilkerson, and K. M. Yocum (CoGeNT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251301 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Parametrization of the Two-Electron Reduced Density Matrix for its Direct Calculation without the Many-Electron Wave Function

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253002 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Can We Avoid Dark Energy?

James P. Zibin, Adam Moss, and Douglas Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251303 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Hall Transition in Real Space: From Localized to Extended States

K. Hashimoto, C. Sohrmann, J. Wiebe, T. Inaoka, F. Meier, Y. Hirayama, R. A. Römer, R. Wiesendanger, and M. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256802 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

LETTERS

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

Matter-Wave Self-Imaging by Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion Induced Interference

Ke Li, L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, M. G. Payne, and M. S. Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250401 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Theory of Magnetization Plateaux in the Shastry-Sutherland Model

J. Dorier, K. P. Schmidt, and F. Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250402 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Bragg Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

G. Veeravalli, E. Kuhnle, P. Dyke, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250403 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Demonstration of a Quantum Nondemolition Sum Gate

Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Yoshichika Miwa, Alexander Huck, Ulrik L. Andersen, Peter van Loock, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250501 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Quantum Critical Behavior in Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases

Hendrik Weimer, Robert Löw, Tilman Pfau, and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250601 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Classical Simulation of Infinite-Size Quantum Lattice Systems in Two Spatial Dimensions

J. Jordan, R. Orús, G. Vidal, F. Verstraete, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250602 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Size and Energy Scaling of Nonstatistical Vibrational Quantum States

P. D. Chowdary and M. Gruebele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250603 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Constraints on a Dark Matter Origin for the DAMA Annual Modulation Effect

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251301 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Singularities in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Thomas Cailleteau, Antonio Cardoso, Kevin Vandersloot, and David Wands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251302 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Can We Avoid Dark Energy?

James P. Zibin, Adam Moss, and Douglas Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251303 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Stringent Null Constraint on Cosmological Evolution of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio

Julian A. King, John K. Webb, Michael T. Murphy, and Robert F. Carswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251304 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Time-Dependent $C P$ Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} ρ^{0} γ$ Decays

J. Li et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251601 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Search for Supersymmetry in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ Using the Trilepton Signature for Chargino-Neutralino Production

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251801 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Missing Energy and Acoplanar $b$ -Jet Topology at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251802 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with $Z \to ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251803 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Measurement of the Single-Top-Quark Production Cross Section at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252001 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Identification of a Scalar Glueball

M. Albaladejo and J. A. Oller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252002 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Nuclear Physics

System-Size Independence of Directed Flow Measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252301 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Production and $β$ Decay of $r p$ -Process Nuclei ${}^{96}{Cd}$ , ${}^{98}{In}$ , and ${}^{100}{Sn}$

D. Bazin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252501 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Masses and Charge Radii of ${}^{17 - 22}{Ne}$ and the Two-Proton-Halo Candidate ${}^{17}{Ne}$

W. Geithner, T. Neff, G. Audi, K. Blaum, P. Delahaye, H. Feldmeier, S. George, C. Guénaut, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, S. Kappertz, M. Keim, A. Kellerbauer, H.-J. Kluge, M. Kowalska, P. Lievens, D. Lunney, K. Marinova, R. Neugart, L. Schweikhard, S. Wilbert, and C. Yazidjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252502 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Laser-Driven Excitation Dynamics in Ne: An Ab Initio Time-Dependent $R$ -Matrix Approach

M. A. Lysaght, P. G. Burke, and H. W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253001 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Parametrization of the Two-Electron Reduced Density Matrix for its Direct Calculation without the Many-Electron Wave Function

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253002 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Most Typical $1 ∶ 2$ Resonant Perturbation of the Hydrogen Atom by Weak Electric and Magnetic Fields

K. Efstathiou, O. V. Lukina, and D. A. Sadovskií

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253003 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Suppression of Decoherence in Fast-Atom Diffraction at Surfaces

F. Aigner, N. Simonović, B. Solleder, L. Wirtz, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253201 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Quantum Illumination with Gaussian States

Si-Hui Tan, Baris I. Erkmen, Vittorio Giovannetti, Saikat Guha, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone, Stefano Pirandola, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253601 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Controlled Generation of Squeezed States of Microwave Radiation in a Superconducting Resonant Circuit

A. M. Zagoskin, E. Il’ichev, M. W. McCutcheon, Jeff F. Young, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253602 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coherent Water Window X Ray by Phase-Matched High-Order Harmonic Generation in Neutral Media

Eiji J. Takahashi, Tsuneto Kanai, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253901 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Homoclinic Snaking in a Semiconductor-Based Optical System

S. Barbay, X. Hachair, T. Elsass, I. Sagnes, and R. Kuszelewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253902 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Metamaterial Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

N. Papasimakis, V. A. Fedotov, N. I. Zheludev, and S. L. Prosvirnin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 253903 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Experimental Demonstration of Hyperbolic Patterns

Stanis Kolpakov, Adolfo Esteban-Martín, Fernando Silva, Javier García, Kestutis Staliunas, and Germán J. de Valcárcel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 254101 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Self-Organization of Topological Defects due to Applied Constraints

Jonathan H. McCoy, Will Brunner, Werner Pesch, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 254102 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Selection of Nonequilibrium Overlimiting Currents: Universal Depletion Layer Formation Dynamics and Vortex Instability

Gilad Yossifon and Hsueh-Chia Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 254501 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Shear-Induced Diffusion of Platelike Particles in Microchannels

Roberto Rusconi and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 254502 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Shock Front Width and Structure in Supersonic Granular Flows

J. F. Boudet, Y. Amarouchene, and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 254503 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transverse-Coherence Properties of the Free-Electron-Laser FLASH at DESY

A. Singer, I. A. Vartanyants, M. Kuhlmann, S. Duesterer, R. Treusch, and J. Feldhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 254801 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Collision-Driven Negative-Energy Waves and the Weibel Instability of a Relativistic Electron Beam in a Quasineutral Plasma

Anupam Karmakar, Naveen Kumar, Gennady Shvets, Oleg Polomarov, and Alexander Pukhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255001 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Compressibility Effects in the Dynamics of the Reversed-Field Pinch

M. Onofri, F. Malara, and P. Veltri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255002 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Laboratory Observation of Electron Phase-Space Holes during Magnetic Reconnection

W. Fox, M. Porkolab, J. Egedal, N. Katz, and A. Le

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255003 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Unusual States of Vortex Matter in Mixtures of Bose-Einstein Condensates on Rotating Optical Lattices

E. K. Dahl, E. Babaev, and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255301 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Devil’s Staircase of Facets on the Surface of ${}^{4}{He}$ Crystals

I. A. Todoshchenko, H. Alles, H. J. Junes, M. S. Manninen, and A. Ya. Parshin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255302 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Crack Propagation through Phase-Separated Glasses: Effect of the Characteristic Size of Disorder

Davy Dalmas, Anne Lelarge, and Damien Vandembroucq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255501 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Sixfold-Coordinated Amorphous Polymorph of ${SiO}_{2}$ under High Pressure

Tomoko Sato and Nobumasa Funamori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255502 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Dynamic Arrest in Polymer Melts: Competition between Packing and Intramolecular Barriers

Marco Bernabei, Angel J. Moreno, and Juan Colmenero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255701 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition with Atomic Matter Waves

Julien Chabé, Gabriel Lemarié, Benoît Grémaud, Dominique Delande, Pascal Szriftgiser, and Jean Claude Garreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 255702 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Self-Organized Formation of $GaSb / GaAs$ Quantum Rings

R. Timm, H. Eisele, A. Lenz, L. Ivanova, G. Balakrishnan, D. L. Huffaker, and M. Dähne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256101 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Phase Transformation near the Classical Limit of Stability

Lutz Maibaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256102 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Scattering of Plasmons at the Intersection of Two Metallic Nanotubes: Implications for Tunneling

V. V. Mkhitaryan, Y. Fang, J. M. Gerton, E. G. Mishchenko, and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256401 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Novel Quantum Criticality in ${CeRu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ near Absolute Zero Observed by Thermal Expansion and Magnetostriction

J. Yoshida, S. Abe, D. Takahashi, Y. Segawa, Y. Komai, H. Tsujii, K. Matsumoto, H. Suzuki, and Y. Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256402 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Homopolar Bond Formation in ${ZnV}_{2} O_{4}$ Close to a Metal-Insulator Transition

V. Pardo, S. Blanco-Canosa, F. Rivadulla, D. I. Khomskii, D. Baldomir, Hua Wu, and J. Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256403 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

$T = 0$ Heavy-Fermion Quantum Critical Point as an Orbital-Selective Mott Transition

Lorenzo De Leo, Marcello Civelli, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256404 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Breakdown of Landau Theory in Overdoped Cuprates near the Onset of Superconductivity

M. Ossadnik, C. Honerkamp, T. M. Rice, and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256405 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Influence of Disorder on Electron-Hole Pair Condensation in Graphene Bilayers

R. Bistritzer and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256406 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Quantum Cavity for Spin due to Spin-Orbit Interaction at a Metal Boundary

A. Varykhalov, J. Sánchez-Barriga, A. M. Shikin, W. Gudat, W. Eberhardt, and O. Rader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256601 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Quantitative Determination of the Nonlinear Pinning Potential for a Magnetic Domain Wall

D. Bedau, M. Kläui, M. T. Hua, S. Krzyk, U. Rüdiger, G. Faini, and L. Vila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256602 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Origin of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Carrier Density at the ${LaAlO}_{3}$ on ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

Zoran S. Popović, Sashi Satpathy, and Richard M. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256801 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Hall Transition in Real Space: From Localized to Extended States

K. Hashimoto, C. Sohrmann, J. Wiebe, T. Inaoka, F. Meier, Y. Hirayama, R. A. Römer, R. Wiesendanger, and M. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256802 (2008) - Published 15 December, 2008

Impact of Coulomb Scattering on the Ultrafast Gain Recovery in InGaAs Quantum Dots

J. Gomis-Bresco, S. Dommers, V. V. Temnov, U. Woggon, M. Laemmlin, D. Bimberg, E. Malic, M. Richter, E. Schöll, and A. Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256803 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Avalanche-Induced Current Enhancement in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Albert Liao, Yang Zhao, and Eric Pop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256804 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008

Restricted Wiedemann-Franz Law and Vanishing Thermoelectric Power in One-Dimensional Conductors

Marcelo A. Kuroda and Jean-Pierre Leburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256805 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Vibronic Spectroscopy of an Artificial Molecule

David Gunnarsson, Jani Tuorila, Antti Paila, Jayanta Sarkar, Erkki Thuneberg, Yuriy Makhlin, and Pertti Hakonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256806 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Finite Frequency Noise of a Superconductor-Ferromagnet Quantum Point Contact

Audrey Cottet, Benoit Douçot, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257001 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Crystal Structure and Antiferromagnetic Order in ${NdFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ ( $x = 0.0$ and 0.2) Superconducting Compounds from Neutron Diffraction Measurements

Y. Qiu, Wei Bao, Q. Huang, T. Yildirim, J. M. Simmons, M. A. Green, J. W. Lynn, Y. C. Gasparovic, J. Li, T. Wu, G. Wu, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257002 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Neutron-Diffraction Measurements of Magnetic Order and a Structural Transition in the Parent ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Compound of FeAs-Based High-Temperature Superconductors

Q. Huang, Y. Qiu, Wei Bao, M. A. Green, J. W. Lynn, Y. C. Gasparovic, T. Wu, G. Wu, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257003 (2008) - Published 17 December, 2008

Optical Study of ${LaO}_{0.9} F_{0.1} FeAs$ : Evidence for a Weakly Coupled Superconducting State

S.-L. Drechsler, M. Grobosch, K. Koepernik, G. Behr, A. Köhler, J. Werner, A. Kondrat, N. Leps, C. Hess, R. Klingeler, R. Schuster, B. Büchner, and M. Knupfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257004 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Origin of the Spin Density Wave Instability in $A {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ ( $A = Ba, Sr$ ) as Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy

W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, G. Li, Z. Li, P. Zheng, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257005 (2008) - Published 18 December, 2008

Evidence for Two Energy Gaps in Superconducting ${Ba}_{0.6} K_{0.4} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Single Crystals and the Breakdown of the Uemura Plot

Cong Ren, Zhao-Sheng Wang, Hui-Qian Luo, Huan Yang, Lei Shan, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257006 (2008) - Published 19 December, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

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, 259901 (2008) - Published 16 December, 2008