Volume 101, Issue 3

18 July 2008

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Experimental setup to measure triple coincidences between α particles, neutrons, and γ rays when a 22.6MeV beam of ⁶He strikes a ⁶⁵Cu target.

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$1 n$ and $2 n$ Transfer With the Borromean Nucleus ${}^{6}{He}$ Near the Coulomb Barrier
A. Chatterjee, A. Navin, A. Shrivastava, S. Bhattacharyya, M. Rejmund, N. Keeley, V. Nanal, J. Nyberg, R. G. Pillay, K. Ramachandran, I. Stefan, D. Bazin, D. Beaumel, Y. Blumenfeld, G. de France, D. Gupta, M. Labiche, A. Lemasson, R. Lemmon, R. Raabe, J. A. Scarpaci, C. Simenel, and C. Timis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 032701 (2008)

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Measurement of the Casimir Force between a Gold Sphere and a Silicon Surface with Nanoscale Trench Arrays

H. B. Chan, Y. Bao, J. Zou, R. A. Cirelli, F. Klemens, W. M. Mansfield, and C. S. Pai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030401 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

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Feedback Cooling of the Normal Modes of a Massive Electromechanical System to Submillikelvin Temperature

A. Vinante, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, P. Falferi, N. Liguori, S. Longo, R. Mezzena, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, F. Salemi, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, S. Vitale, and J.-P. Zendri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033601 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scanning Josephson Tunneling Microscopy of Single-Crystal ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ with a Conventional Superconducting Tip

Hikari Kimura, R. P. Barber, Jr., S. Ono, Yoichi Ando, and R. C. Dynes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037002 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

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

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Measurement of the Casimir Force between a Gold Sphere and a Silicon Surface with Nanoscale Trench Arrays

H. B. Chan, Y. Bao, J. Zou, R. A. Cirelli, F. Klemens, W. M. Mansfield, and C. S. Pai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030401 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Quantization of a Nonholonomic System

Anthony M. Bloch and Alberto G. Rojo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030402 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Self-Isospectrality, Special Supersymmetry, and their Effect on the Band Structure

Francisco Correa, Vít Jakubský, Luis-Miguel Nieto, and Mikhail S. Plyushchay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030403 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Coriolis Effect in Optics: Unified Geometric Phase and Spin-Hall Effect

Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Yuri Gorodetski, Vladimir Kleiner, and Erez Hasman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030404 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Long-Living Bloch Oscillations of Matter Waves in Periodic Potentials

M. Salerno, V. V. Konotop, and Yu. V. Bludov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030405 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Phase Transition in the Three-State Potts Antiferromagnet on the Diced Lattice

Roman Kotecký, Jesús Salas, and Alan D. Sokal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 030601 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Building a Holographic Superconductor

Sean A. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, and Gary T. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 031601 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Bjorken Flow from an Anti–de Sitter Space Schwarzschild Black Hole

James Alsup and George Siopsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 031602 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Structure of Neutron-Rich Ar Isotopes Beyond $N = 28$

S. Bhattacharyya, M. Rejmund, A. Navin, E. Caurier, F. Nowacki, A. Poves, R. Chapman, D. O’Donnell, M. Gelin, A. Hodsdon, X. Liang, W. Mittig, G. Mukherjee, F. Rejmund, M. Rousseau, P. Roussel-Chomaz, K.-M. Spohr, and Ch. Theisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 032501 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

$1 n$ and $2 n$ Transfer With the Borromean Nucleus ${}^{6}{He}$ Near the Coulomb Barrier

A. Chatterjee, A. Navin, A. Shrivastava, S. Bhattacharyya, M. Rejmund, N. Keeley, V. Nanal, J. Nyberg, R. G. Pillay, K. Ramachandran, I. Stefan, D. Bazin, D. Beaumel, Y. Blumenfeld, G. de France, D. Gupta, M. Labiche, A. Lemasson, R. Lemmon, R. Raabe, J. A. Scarpaci, C. Simenel, and C. Timis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 032701 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Fission Decay Widths for Heavy-Ion Fusion-Fission Reactions

S. G. McCalla and J. P. Lestone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 032702 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Collapse and Revivals of the Photon Field in a Landau-Zener Process

J. Keeling and V. Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033001 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Intrinsic Electric Dipole Moments of Paramagnetic Atoms: Rubidium and Cesium

H. S. Nataraj, B. K. Sahoo, B. P. Das, and D. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033002 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Unique Definition of the Zeeman-Splitting $g$ Tensor of a Kramers Doublet

L. F. Chibotaru, A. Ceulemans, and H. Bolvin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033003 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Charge Transfer, Double and Bond-Breaking Excitations with Time-Dependent Density Matrix Functional Theory

K. J. H. Giesbertz, E. J. Baerends, and O. V. Gritsenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033004 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Low Energy Elastic Differential Electron Scattering from $H_{2} O$

H. Silva, J. Muse, M. C. A. Lopes, and M. A. Khakoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033201 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

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Feedback Cooling of the Normal Modes of a Massive Electromechanical System to Submillikelvin Temperature

A. Vinante, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, P. Falferi, N. Liguori, S. Longo, R. Mezzena, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, F. Salemi, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, S. Vitale, and J.-P. Zendri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033601 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Fundamental Quantum Limit to the Multiphoton Absorption Rate for Monochromatic Light

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033602 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Internal Momentum State Mapping Using High Harmonic Radiation

Xinhua Xie, Armin Scrinzi, Marlene Wickenhauser, Andrius Baltuška, Ingo Barth, and Markus Kitzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033901 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Hypersonic Modulation of Light in Three-Dimensional Photonic and Phononic Band-Gap Materials

A. V. Akimov, Y. Tanaka, A. B. Pevtsov, S. F. Kaplan, V. G. Golubev, S. Tamura, D. R. Yakovlev, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 033902 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of the Density Dependence of X-Ray Flux in a Laser-Driven Hohlraum

P. E. Young, M. D. Rosen, J. H. Hammer, W. S. Hsing, S. G. Glendinning, R. E. Turner, R. Kirkwood, J. Schein, C. Sorce, J. H. Satcher, Jr., A. Hamza, R. A. Reibold, R. Hibbard, O. Landen, A. Reighard, S. McAlpin, M. Stevenson, and B. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035001 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Quantum Corrections and Bound-State Effects in the Energy Relaxation of Hot Dense Hydrogen

M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035002 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Spontaneous Thermal Waves in a Magnetized Plasma

D. C. Pace, M. Shi, J. E. Maggs, G. J. Morales, and T. A. Carter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035003 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Ion Collection by Oblique Surfaces of an Object in a Transversely Flowing Strongly Magnetized Plasma

I. H. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035004 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Electron Spin Pumping of Rb Atoms on He Nanodroplets via Nondestructive Optical Excitation

Gerald Auböck, Johann Nagl, Carlo Callegari, and Wolfgang E. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035301 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Infinite Randomness Fixed Point of the Superconductor-Metal Quantum Phase Transition

Adrian Del Maestro, Bernd Rosenow, Markus Müller, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035701 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Nature of the Structural Transformations in $B_{2} O_{3}$ Glass under High Pressure

V. V. Brazhkin, Y. Katayama, K. Trachenko, O. B. Tsiok, A. G. Lyapin, Emilio Artacho, M. Dove, G. Ferlat, Y. Inamura, and H. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035702 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Intrinsically Minimal Thermal Conductivity in Cubic $I − V − {VI}_{2}$ Semiconductors

D. T. Morelli, V. Jovovic, and J. P. Heremans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 035901 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Experimental Evidence for Ice Formation at Room Temperature

K. B. Jinesh and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036101 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Evolution of the Structure and Thermodynamic Stability of the ${BaTiO}_{3} (001)$ Surface

Alexie M. Kolpak, Dongbo Li, Rui Shao, Andrew M. Rappe, and Dawn A. Bonnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036102 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Piezospin Polarization of Currents in Nanostructures

Alexey A. Kovalev, Liviu P. Zârbo, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Jairo Sinova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036401 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Complex Quasiparticle Band Structure Induced by Electron-Phonon Interaction: Band Splitting in the $1 \times 1$ $H / W (110)$ Surface

Asier Eiguren and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036402 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Non-Bloch Nature of Alloy States in a Conventional Semiconductor Alloy: ${Ga}_{x} {In}_{1 - x} P$ as an Example

Yong Zhang, A. Mascarenhas, and L.-W. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036403 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Electric Manipulation of Spin Relaxation Using the Spin Hall Effect

K. Ando, S. Takahashi, K. Harii, K. Sasage, J. Ieda, S. Maekawa, and E. Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036601 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Spin-Incoherent Transport in Quantum Wires

W. K. Hew, K. J. Thomas, M. Pepper, I. Farrer, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036801 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Nonadiabatic Two-Parameter Charge and Spin Pumping in a Quantum Dot

Matthias Braun and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036802 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Interactions and Magnetism in Graphene Boundary States

B. Wunsch, T. Stauber, F. Sols, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036803 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Halperin $(m, m^{'}, n)$ Bilayer Quantum Hall States on Thin Cylinders

Alexander Seidel and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036804 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Dissipation and Criticality in the Lowest Landau Level of Graphene

Xun Jia, Pallab Goswami, and Sudip Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036805 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Interaction-Induced Harmonic Frequency Mixing in Quantum Dots

M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and A. O. Gogolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036806 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

One-Dimensional $3 d$ Electronic Bands of Monatomic Cu Chains

P. H. Zhou, P. Moras, L. Ferrari, G . Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and C. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036807 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Charge Transport in Chemically Doped 2D Graphene

Aurélien Lherbier, X. Blase, Yann-Michel Niquet, François Triozon, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036808 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Tailoring Exchange Interactions in Engineered Nanostructures: An Ab Initio Study

O. O. Brovko, P. A. Ignatiev, V. S. Stepanyuk, and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036809 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Anisotropic Effect of Cd and Hg Doping on the Pauli Limited Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

Y. Tokiwa, R. Movshovich, F. Ronning, E. D. Bauer, P. Papin, A. D. Bianchi, J. F. Rauscher, S. M. Kauzlarich, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037001 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scanning Josephson Tunneling Microscopy of Single-Crystal ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ with a Conventional Superconducting Tip

Hikari Kimura, R. P. Barber, Jr., S. Ono, Yoichi Ando, and R. C. Dynes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037002 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Stable Mean-Field Solution of a Short-Range Interacting SO(3) Quantum Heisenberg Spin Glass

C. M. S. da Conceição and E. C. Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037201 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

NMR Evidence for the Persistence of a Spin Superlattice Beyond the $1 / 8$ Magnetization Plateau in ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

M. Takigawa, S. Matsubara, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, H. Kageyama, and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037202 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Magnetism in Disordered Graphene and Irradiated Graphite

Oleg V. Yazyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037203 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$ Spin Ice: A Test Case for Emergent Clusters in a Frustrated Magnet

Taras Yavors’kii, Tom Fennell, Michel J. P. Gingras, and Steven T. Bramwell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037204 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Energy Minimization and ac Demagnetization in a Nanomagnet Array

X. Ke, J. Li, C. Nisoli, Paul E. Lammert, W. McConville, R. F. Wang, V. H. Crespi, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037205 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Multicritical End Point of the First-Order Ferromagnetic Transition in Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites

L. Demkó, I. Kézsmárki, G. Mihály, N. Takeshita, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037206 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Scattering Theory of Gilbert Damping

Arne Brataas, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037207 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Statistical Mechanics of Steiner Trees

M. Bayati, C. Borgs, A. Braunstein, J. Chayes, A. Ramezanpour, and R. Zecchina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037208 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Spin-Orbit Coupling and Ion Displacements in Multiferroic ${TbMnO}_{3}$

H. J. Xiang, Su-Huai Wei, M.-H. Whangbo, and Juarez L. F. Da Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037209 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

First Principles Study of Improper Ferroelectricity in ${TbMnO}_{3}$

Andrei Malashevich and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037210 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Below-Gap Excitation of $π$ -Conjugated Polymer-Fullerene Blends: Implications for Bulk Organic Heterojunction Solar Cells

T. Drori, C.-X. Sheng, A. Ndobe, S. Singh, J. Holt, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037401 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Excited-State Molecular Vibration Observed for a Probe Pulse Preceding the Pump Pulse by Real-Time Optical Spectroscopy

Takayoshi Kobayashi, Juan Du, Wei Feng, and Katsumi Yoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037402 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Possible Observation of Cycloidal Electromagnons in ${BiFeO}_{3}$

M. Cazayous, Y. Gallais, A. Sacuto, R. de Sousa, D. Lebeugle, and D. Colson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037601 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Dynamic Singularity in Multicomponent Glass-Forming Metallic Liquids

S. M. Chathoth, B. Damaschke, M. M. Koza, and K. Samwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037801 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Topological Defects in Spherical Nematics

Homin Shin, Mark J. Bowick, and Xiangjun Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037802 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Model of DNA Bending by Cooperative Binding of Proteins

S. M. Rappaport and Y. Rabin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 038101 (2008) - Published 14 July, 2008

Hydrodynamic Attraction of Swimming Microorganisms by Surfaces

Allison P. Berke, Linda Turner, Howard C. Berg, and Eric Lauga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 038102 (2008) - Published 17 July, 2008

Test of the Gouy-Chapman Theory for a Charged Lipid Membrane against Explicit-Solvent Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Myunggi Yi, Hugh Nymeyer, and Huan-Xiang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 038103 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Local Stress Control of Spatiotemporal Ordering of Colloidal Crystals in Complex Flows

Laura T. Shereda, Ronald G. Larson, and Michael J. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 038301 (2008) - Published 15 July, 2008

Field-Induced Layer Formation in Dipolar Nanofilms

Jelena Jordanovic and Sabine H. L. Klapp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 038302 (2008) - Published 16 July, 2008

Publisher’s Note: Probing the Morphology and Energy Landscape of Blends of Conjugated Polymers with Sub-10 nm Resolution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 016102 (2008)]

Sebastian Westenhoff, Ian A. Howard, and Richard H. Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 039904 (2008) - Published 18 July, 2008

Volume 101, Issue 3

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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