Volume 101, Issue 4

25 July 2008

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Wakefield created in a plasma illuminated by a laser, which results in emission of electro-optic shock radiation from the electron sheath (blue) around a plasma bubble (red).

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Electro-Optic Shocks from Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions
D. F. Gordon, B. Hafizi, D. Kaganovich, and A. Ting
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045004 (2008)

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Highly Conductive Molecular Junctions Based on Direct Binding of Benzene to Platinum Electrodes

M. Kiguchi, O. Tal, S. Wohlthat, F. Pauly, M. Krieger, D. Djukic, J. C. Cuevas, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046801 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

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Plasmon-Induced Transparency in Metamaterials

Shuang Zhang, Dentcho A. Genov, Yuan Wang, Ming Liu, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 047401 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

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Quenching Spin Decoherence in Diamond through Spin Bath Polarization

Susumu Takahashi, Ronald Hanson, Johan van Tol, Mark S. Sherwin, and David D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 047601 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

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Onset of Landau-Level Formation in Carbon-Nanotube-Based Electronic Fabry-Perot Resonators

Bertrand Raquet, Rémi Avriller, Benjamin Lassagne, Sébastien Nanot, Walter Escoffier, Jean-Marc Broto, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046803 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

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Laser-Catalyzed Production of Ultracold Molecules: The ${}^{6}{Li} + {}^{6}{Li} {}^{7}{Li} \overset{ℏ ω}{\to} {}^{6}{Li} - {}^{6}{Li} + {}^{7}{Li}$ Reaction

Xuan Li, Gregory A. Parker, Paul Brumer, Ioannis Thanopulos, and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043003 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

LETTERS

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

Cross-Molecular Coupling in Combined Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonances

Matt Mackie, Matthew Fenty, Danielle Savage, and Jake Kesselman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 040401 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Tunable Miscibility in a Dual-Species Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. B. Papp, J. M. Pino, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 040402 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Quantum Metrology: Dynamics versus Entanglement

Sergio Boixo, Animesh Datta, Matthew J. Davis, Steven T. Flammia, Anil Shaji, and Carlton M. Caves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 040403 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Quantum Nonlocality and Partial Transposition for Continuous-Variable Systems

Alejo Salles, Daniel Cavalcanti, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 040404 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Holographic Quantum Computing

Karl Tordrup, Antonio Negretti, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 040501 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

High-Bandwidth Hybrid Quantum Repeater

W. J. Munro, R. Van Meter, Sebastien G. R. Louis, and Kae Nemoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 040502 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Brightening of an Accretion Disk due to Viscous Dissipation of Gravitational Waves during the Coalescence of Supermassive Black Holes

Bence Kocsis and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 041101 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Eötvös Bounds on Couplings of Fundamental Parameters to Gravity

Thomas Dent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 041102 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for $B^{+} \to D^{* +} π^{0}$ Decay

M. Iwabuchi et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 041601 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Membranes on an Orbifold

Neil Lambert and David Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 041602 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Nonthermal Fixed Points: Effective Weak Coupling for Strongly Correlated Systems Far from Equilibrium

Jürgen Berges, Alexander Rothkopf, and Jonas Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 041603 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Single-Transverse-Spin Asymmetries of Identified Charged Hadrons in Polarized $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 62.4 GeV$

I. Arsene et al. (BRAHMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 042001 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Charge Form Factor of the Neutron at Low Momentum Transfer from the ${}^{2}{\vec{H}} (\vec{e}, e^{'} n) {}^{1}H$ Reaction

E. Geis et al. (The BLAST Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 042501 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Intrashell Electron-Interaction-Mediated Photoformation of Hollow Atoms near Threshold

S. Huotari, K. Hämäläinen, R. Diamant, R. Sharon, C. C. Kao, and M. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043001 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Limits on Tunneling Theories of Strong-Field Ionization

H. R. Reiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043002 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser-Catalyzed Production of Ultracold Molecules: The ${}^{6}{Li} + {}^{6}{Li} {}^{7}{Li} \overset{ℏ ω}{\to} {}^{6}{Li} - {}^{6}{Li} + {}^{7}{Li}$ Reaction

Xuan Li, Gregory A. Parker, Paul Brumer, Ioannis Thanopulos, and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043003 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Decay Channel Dependence of the Photoelectron Angular Distributions in Core-Level Ionization of Ne Dimers

Masakazu Yamazaki, Jun-ichi Adachi, Yasuyuki Kimura, Akira Yagishita, Mauro Stener, Piero Decleva, Nobuhiro Kosugi, Hiroshi Iwayama, Kiyonobu Nagaya, and Makoto Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043004 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Ionization of Helium and Argon by Very Slow Antiproton Impact

H. Knudsen, H.-P. E. Kristiansen, H. D. Thomsen, U. I. Uggerhøj, T. Ichioka, S. P. Møller, C. A. Hunniford, R. W. McCullough, M. Charlton, N. Kuroda, Y. Nagata, H. A. Torii, Y. Yamazaki, H. Imao, H. H. Andersen, and K. Tökesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043201 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Slow Light Beam Splitter

Yanhong Xiao, Mason Klein, Michael Hohensee, Liang Jiang, David F. Phillips, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043601 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Input Impedance, Nanocircuit Loading, and Radiation Tuning of Optical Nanoantennas

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043901 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Miniature Plasmonic Wave Plates

Aurélien Drezet, Cyriaque Genet, and Thomas W. Ebbesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043902 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Observation of the Spin-Based Plasmonic Effect in Nanoscale Structures

Y. Gorodetski, A. Niv, V. Kleiner, and E. Hasman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 043903 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Free-Energy Transition in a Gas of Noninteracting Nonlinear Wave Particles

A. Fratalocchi, C. Conti, G. Ruocco, and S. Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 044101 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Buoyancy-Driven Breakup of an Isolated Drop with Surfactant

Michael A. Rother and Robert H. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 044501 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Stochastic Langevin Model for Flow and Transport in Porous Media

Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, Daniel M. Tartakovsky, and Paul Meakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 044502 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Cross-Field Transport by Instabilities and Blobs in a Magnetized Toroidal Plasma

M. Podestà, A. Fasoli, B. Labit, I. Furno, P. Ricci, F. M. Poli, A. Diallo, S. H. Müller, and C. Theiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045001 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

Existence and Vanishing of the Breathing Mode in Strongly Correlated Finite Systems

C. Henning, K. Fujioka, P. Ludwig, A. Piel, A. Melzer, and M. Bonitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045002 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

X-Ray Scattering Measurements of Radiative Heating and Cooling Dynamics

G. Gregori, S. H. Glenzer, K. B. Fournier, K. M. Campbell, E. L. Dewald, O. S. Jones, J. H. Hammer, S. B. Hansen, R. J. Wallace, and O. L. Landen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045003 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Electro-Optic Shocks from Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions

D. F. Gordon, B. Hafizi, D. Kaganovich, and A. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045004 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Crackling Dynamics in Material Failure as the Signature of a Self-Organized Dynamic Phase Transition

D. Bonamy, S. Santucci, and L. Ponson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045501 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Liquid-Vapor Transition Driven by Bond Disorder

Behnaz Bozorgui and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 045701 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Direct Measurement of Core-Level Relaxation Dynamics on a Surface-Adsorbate System

L. Miaja-Avila, G. Saathoff, S. Mathias, J. Yin, C. La-o-vorakiat, M. Bauer, M. Aeschlimann, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046101 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

${}^{4}{He}$ Adsorbed on the Outer Surface of Carbon Nanotube Bundles

M. C. Gordillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046102 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Dragging of Polarizable Nanodroplets by Distantly Solvated Ions

Boyang Wang and Petr Král

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046103 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Liquid-Liquid Interfacial Tension of Electrolyte Solutions

Markus Bier, Jos Zwanikken, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046104 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Multigap Superconductivity in the Heavy-Fermion System ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

G. Seyfarth, J. P. Brison, G. Knebel, D. Aoki, G. Lapertot, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046401 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Stroboscopic Wave-Packet Description of Nonequilibrium Many-Electron Problems

P. Bokes, F. Corsetti, and R. W. Godby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046402 (2008) - Published 22 July, 2008

Transition-Metal-Substituted Indium Thiospinels as Novel Intermediate-Band Materials: Prediction and Understanding of Their Electronic Properties

P. Palacios, I. Aguilera, K. Sánchez, J. C. Conesa, and P. Wahnón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046403 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Density Inhomogeneity Driven Percolation Metal-Insulator Transition and Dimensional Crossover in Graphene Nanoribbons

S. Adam, S. Cho, M. S. Fuhrer, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046404 (2008) - Published 23 July, 2008

Defect Energy Levels in Density Functional Calculations: Alignment and Band Gap Problem

Audrius Alkauskas, Peter Broqvist, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046405 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Evidence for Itineracy in the Anticipated Kondo Insulator FeSi: A Quantitative Determination of the Band Renormalization

M. Klein, D. Zur, D. Menzel, J. Schoenes, K. Doll, J. Röder, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046406 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Interstitial Electronic Localization

Bruno Rousseau and N. W. Ashcroft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046407 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Anisotropic Spin Relaxation in Graphene

N. Tombros, S. Tanabe, A. Veligura, C. Jozsa, M. Popinciuc, H. T. Jonkman, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046601 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

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Highly Conductive Molecular Junctions Based on Direct Binding of Benzene to Platinum Electrodes

M. Kiguchi, O. Tal, S. Wohlthat, F. Pauly, M. Krieger, D. Djukic, J. C. Cuevas, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046801 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Reciprocal Relations for Nonlinear Coupled Transport

R. Dean Astumian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046802 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

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Onset of Landau-Level Formation in Carbon-Nanotube-Based Electronic Fabry-Perot Resonators

Bertrand Raquet, Rémi Avriller, Benjamin Lassagne, Sébastien Nanot, Walter Escoffier, Jean-Marc Broto, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046803 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008

Theory of Activated Transport in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems

B. Roostaei, K. J. Mullen, H. A. Fertig, and S. H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046804 (2008) - Published 25 July, 2008

Electron-Hole Symmetry and Magnetic Coupling in Antiferromagnetic LaFeAsO

Z. P. Yin, S. Lebègue, M. J. Han, B. P. Neal, S. Y. Savrasov, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 047001 (2008) - Published 21 July, 2008

Coherent $d$ -Wave Superconducting Gap in Underdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

M. Shi, J. Chang, S. Pailhés, M. R. Norman, J. C. Campuzano, M. Månsson, T. Claesson, O. Tjernberg, A. Bendounan, L. Patthey, N. Momono, M. Oda, M. Ido, C. Mudry, and J. Mesot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 047002 (2008) - Published 24 July, 2008