Volume 101, Issue 5

1 August 2008

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On the Cover

Phase diagram for a nonlinear electronic circuit. Periodic solutions form an infinite hierarchy of nested spirals surrounded by a sea of chaos and emanating from a common focal point.

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Periodicity Hub and Nested Spirals in the Phase Diagram of a Simple Resistive Circuit
Cristian Bonatto and Jason A. C. Gallas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 054101 (2008)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Reflections on Physical Review Letters

David Lazarus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050001 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hidden Variable Models for Quantum Theory Cannot Have Any Local Part

Roger Colbeck and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050403 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

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Effect of Pair Breaking on Mesoscopic Persistent Currents Well above the Superconducting Transition Temperature

H. Bary-Soroker, O. Entin-Wohlman, and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057001 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Pressure Induced Superconductivity in ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Milton S. Torikachvili, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Ni Ni, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057006 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

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Random Time-Scale Invariant Diffusion and Transport Coefficients

Y. He, S. Burov, R. Metzler, and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 058101 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of Ultrashort Coherent Vacuum Ultraviolet Pulses Using Electron Storage Rings: A New Bright Light Source for Experiments

G. De Ninno, E. Allaria, M. Coreno, F. Curbis, M. B. Danailov, E. Karantzoulis, A. Locatelli, T. O. Menteş, M. A. Nino, C. Spezzani, and M. Trovò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053902 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finding a Better Immunization Strategy

Yiping Chen, Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, Fredrik Liljeros, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 058701 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

LETTERS

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

Collective States of Interacting Fibonacci Anyons

Simon Trebst, Eddy Ardonne, Adrian Feiguin, David A. Huse, Andreas W. W. Ludwig, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050401 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Self-Trapping of Bosons and Fermions in Optical Lattices

Dirk-Sören Lühmann, Kai Bongs, Klaus Sengstock, and Daniela Pfannkuche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050402 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hidden Variable Models for Quantum Theory Cannot Have Any Local Part

Roger Colbeck and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050403 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Normal State of Highly Polarized Fermi Gases: Full Many-Body Treatment

R. Combescot and S. Giraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050404 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Deconfined Criticality: Generic First-Order Transition in the SU(2) Symmetry Case

A. B. Kuklov, M. Matsumoto, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050405 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Observing Quantum Correlation of Photons in Laguerre-Gauss Modes Using the Gouy Phase

Daisuke Kawase, Yoko Miyamoto, Mitsuo Takeda, Keiji Sasaki, and Shigeki Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050501 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Phase Transitions of Bipartite Entanglement

P. Facchi, U. Marzolino, G. Parisi, S. Pascazio, and A. Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050502 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Universal Record Statistics of Random Walks and Lévy Flights

Satya N. Majumdar and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 050601 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Eigenmode Structure in Solar-Wind Langmuir Waves

R. E. Ergun, D. M. Malaspina, Iver H. Cairns, M. V. Goldman, D. L. Newman, P. A. Robinson, S. Eriksson, J. L. Bougeret, C. Briand, S. D. Bale, C. A. Cattell, P. J. Kellogg, and M. L. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 051101 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Decay of a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson $h_{f} \to γ γ$ with the D0 Detector at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 051801 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Coupled-Cluster and Configuration-Interaction Calculations for Odd- $A$ Heavy Nuclei

J. R. Gour, M. Horoi, P. Piecuch, and B. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 052501 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Evolution of the $N = 50$ Shell Gap Energy towards ${}^{78}{Ni}$

J. Hakala, S. Rahaman, V.-V. Elomaa, T. Eronen, U. Hager, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, I. D. Moore, H. Penttilä, S. Rinta-Antila, J. Rissanen, A. Saastamoinen, T. Sonoda, C. Weber, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 052502 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong-Field Double Ionization of Ar below the Recollision Threshold

Yunquan Liu, S. Tschuch, A. Rudenko, M. Dürr, M. Siegel, U. Morgner, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053001 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Quantum State Reconstruction of a Rotational Wave Packet Created by a Nonresonant Intense Femtosecond Laser Field

Hirokazu Hasegawa and Yasuhiro Ohshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053002 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Giant Formation Rates of Ultracold Molecules via Feshbach-Optimized Photoassociation

Philippe Pellegrini, Marko Gacesa, and Robin Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053201 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Temporally Controlled Modulation of Antihydrogen Production and the Temperature Scaling of Antiproton-Positron Recombination

M. C. Fujiwara et al. (ATHENA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053401 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Photon Number Statistics of Multimode Parametric Down-Conversion

M. Avenhaus, H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge, K. Laiho, W. Mauerer, I. A. Walmsley, and C. Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053601 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamic Two-Center Interference in High-Order Harmonic Generation from Molecules with Attosecond Nuclear Motion

S. Baker, J. S. Robinson, M. Lein, C. C. Chirilă, R. Torres, H. C. Bandulet, D. Comtois, J. C. Kieffer, D. M. Villeneuve, J. W. G. Tisch, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053901 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of Ultrashort Coherent Vacuum Ultraviolet Pulses Using Electron Storage Rings: A New Bright Light Source for Experiments

G. De Ninno, E. Allaria, M. Coreno, F. Curbis, M. B. Danailov, E. Karantzoulis, A. Locatelli, T. O. Menteş, M. A. Nino, C. Spezzani, and M. Trovò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053902 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Full Stabilization of a Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Comb

P. Del’Haye, O. Arcizet, A. Schliesser, R. Holzwarth, and T. J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 053903 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Periodicity Hub and Nested Spirals in the Phase Diagram of a Simple Resistive Circuit

Cristian Bonatto and Jason A. C. Gallas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 054101 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Calculation of Superdiffusion for the Chirikov-Taylor Model

Roberto Venegeroles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 054102 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of Trains of Electron Microbunches with Adjustable Subpicosecond Spacing

P. Muggli, V. Yakimenko, M. Babzien, E. Kallos, and K. P. Kusche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 054801 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Halo Formation and Emittance Growth of Positron Beams in Plasmas

P. Muggli, B. E. Blue, C. E. Clayton, F. J. Decker, M. J. Hogan, C. Huang, C. Joshi, T. C. Katsouleas, W. Lu, W. B. Mori, C. L. O’Connell, R. H. Siemann, D. Walz, and M. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055001 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Validation of Thermal-Transport Modeling with Direct-Drive, Planar-Foil Acceleration Experiments on OMEGA

S. X. Hu, V. A. Smalyuk, V. N. Goncharov, S. Skupsky, T. C. Sangster, D. D. Meyerhofer, and D. Shvarts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055002 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Transition between Internal Transport Barriers with Different Temperature-Profile Curvatures in JT-60U Tokamak Plasmas

K. Ida, Y. Sakamoto, H. Takenaga, N. Oyama, K. Itoh, M. Yoshinuma, S. Inagaki, T. Kobuchi, A. Isayama, T. Suzuki, T. Fujita, G. Matsunaga, Y. Koide, M. Yoshida, S. Ide, and Y. Kamada (JT-60 team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055003 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Controlled Transport and Focusing of Laser-Accelerated Protons with Miniature Magnetic Devices

M. Schollmeier, S. Becker, M. Geißel, K. A. Flippo, A. Blažević, S. A. Gaillard, D. C. Gautier, F. Grüner, K. Harres, M. Kimmel, F. Nürnberg, P. Rambo, U. Schramm, J. Schreiber, J. Schütrumpf, J. Schwarz, N. A. Tahir, B. Atherton, D. Habs, B. M. Hegelich, and M. Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055004 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Development of Instabilities in Wire-Array $Z$ Pinches

J. P. Chittenden and C. A. Jennings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055005 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coherent Precession of Magnetization in the Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ $A$ -Phase

T. Sato, T. Kunimatsu, K. Izumina, A. Matsubara, M. Kubota, T. Mizusaki, and Yu. M. Bunkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055301 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Three-Dimensional Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging of a Ceramic Nanofoam: Determination of Structural Deformation Mechanisms

A. Barty, S. Marchesini, H. N. Chapman, C. Cui, M. R. Howells, D. A. Shapiro, A. M. Minor, J. C. H. Spence, U. Weierstall, J. Ilavsky, A. Noy, S. P. Hau-Riege, A. B. Artyukhin, T. Baumann, T. Willey, J. Stolken, T. van Buuren, and J. H. Kinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055501 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Sources of Electrical Conductivity in ${SnO}_{2}$

Abhishek Kumar Singh, Anderson Janotti, Matthias Scheffler, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055502 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Growth Mechanism of Si-Faceted Dendrites

K. Fujiwara, K. Maeda, N. Usami, and K. Nakajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055503 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

Universal Elastic Anisotropy Index

Shivakumar I. Ranganathan and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 055504 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

How Metallic Fe Controls the Composition of its Native Oxide

Sebastien Couet, Kai Schlage, Karel Saksl, and Ralf Röhlsberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056101 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Intrinsic Structure of Hydrophobic Surfaces: The Oil-Water Interface

Fernando Bresme, Enrique Chacón, Pedro Tarazona, and Kafui Tay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056102 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi Surface Properties of ${CeRu}_{2} ({Si}_{1 - x} {Ge}_{x})_{2}$ in Magnetic Fields above the Metamagnetic Transitions

M. Sugi, Y. Matsumoto, N. Kimura, T. Komatsubara, H. Aoki, T. Terashima, and S. Uji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056401 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in ${CeRh}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} {In}_{5}$

Swee K. Goh, Johnpierre Paglione, Mike Sutherland, E. C. T. O’Farrell, C. Bergemann, T. A. Sayles, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056402 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Electronic Coherence in $δ$ -Pu: A Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Study

C. A. Marianetti, K. Haule, G. Kotliar, and M. J. Fluss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056403 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Effective Temperature in Relaxation of Coulomb Glasses

A. M. Somoza, M. Ortuño, M. Caravaca, and M. Pollak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056601 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Spin Accumulation and Spin Relaxation in a Large Open Quantum Dot

E. J. Koop, B. J. van Wees, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and C. H. van der Wal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056602 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Coulomb Blockade and Superuniversality of the $θ$ Angle

I. S. Burmistrov and A. M. M. Pruisken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056801 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Nonlinear Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Four-Wave Mixing

Stefano Palomba and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056802 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Quantum Interference at the Twist Boundary in Graphene

S. Shallcross, S. Sharma, and O. A. Pankratov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056803 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

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Effect of Pair Breaking on Mesoscopic Persistent Currents Well above the Superconducting Transition Temperature

H. Bary-Soroker, O. Entin-Wohlman, and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057001 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Band-Dependent Normal-State Coherence in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ : Evidence from Nernst Effect and Thermopower Measurements

X. F. Xu, Z. A. Xu, T. J. Liu, D. Fobes, Z. Q. Mao, J. L. Luo, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057002 (2008) - Published 28 July, 2008

Unconventional Superconductivity with a Sign Reversal in the Order Parameter of ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$

I. I. Mazin, D. J. Singh, M. D. Johannes, and M. H. Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057003 (2008) - Published 29 July, 2008

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in the Superconducting State and Vortex Cores of the $β$ -Pyrochlore $K {Os}_{2} O_{6}$

C. Dubois, G. Santi, I. Cuttat, C. Berthod, N. Jenkins, A. P. Petrović, A. A. Manuel, Ø. Fischer, S. M. Kazakov, Z. Bukowski, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057004 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Enhancement of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Bilayers: Role of Pairing and Phase Stiffness

Ofer Yuli, Itay Asulin, Oded Millo, Dror Orgad, Leonid Iomin, and Gad Koren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057005 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

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Origin of the 150-K Anomaly in LaFeAsO: Competing Antiferromagnetic Interactions, Frustration, and a Structural Phase Transition

T. Yildirim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057010 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008

Quantum and Classical Glass Transitions in ${LiHo}_{x} Y_{1 - x} F_{4}$

C. Ancona-Torres, D. M. Silevitch, G. Aeppli, and T. F. Rosenbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057201 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Phonon and Electronic Nonradiative Decay Mechanisms of Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes

Vasili Perebeinos and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 057401 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finding a Better Immunization Strategy

Yiping Chen, Gerald Paul, Shlomo Havlin, Fredrik Liljeros, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 058701 (2008) - Published 31 July, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Enhanced Stability of Electrohydrodynamic Jets through Gas Ionization”

Manuel Gamero-Castaño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 059401 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

Korkut and Aksay Reply:

Sibel Korkut and Ilhan A. Aksay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 059402 (2008) - Published 30 July, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Discovery of a Nuclear Isomer in ${}^{65}{Fe}$ with Penning Trap Mass Spectrometry [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 132501 (2008)]

M. Block, C. Bachelet, G. Bollen, M. Facina, C. M. Folden, III, C. Guénaut, A. A. Kwiatkowski, D. J. Morrissey, G. K. Pang, A. Prinke, R. Ringle, J. Savory, P. Schury, and S. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 059901 (2008) - Published 1 August, 2008