Volume 101, Issue 7

15 August 2008

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Ions form the tetrahedral structure of compressed liquid lithium, while valence electrons occupy the interstices. Simulations predict such local order at pressures in the range 150–810 GPa.

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Tetrahedral Clustering in Molten Lithium under Pressure
Isaac Tamblyn, Jean-Yves Raty, and Stanimir A. Bonev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075703 (2008)

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Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State in the Decay $Υ (3 S) \to γ η_{b}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071801 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

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Fission Time Measurements: A New Probe into Superheavy Element Stability

M. Morjean, D. Jacquet, J. L. Charvet, A. L’Hoir, M. Laget, M. Parlog, A. Chbihi, M. Chevallier, C. Cohen, D. Dauvergne, R. Dayras, A. Drouart, C. Escano-Rodriguez, J. D. Frankland, R. Kirsch, P. Lautesse, L. Nalpas, C. Ray, C. Schmitt, C. Stodel, L. Tassan-Got, E. Testa, and C. Volant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 072701 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

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Spin Squeezing of Atomic Ensembles via Nuclear-Electronic Spin Entanglement

T. Fernholz, H. Krauter, K. Jensen, J. F. Sherson, A. S. Sørensen, and E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073601 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

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Direct Observation of Optically Induced Transient Structures in Graphite Using Ultrafast Electron Crystallography

Ramani K. Raman, Yoshie Murooka, Chong-Yu Ruan, Teng Yang, Savas Berber, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077401 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

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Disease Extinction in the Presence of Random Vaccination

Mark I. Dykman, Ira B. Schwartz, and Alexandra S. Landsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 078101 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

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

Complex Behavior of Fluid Lithium under Extreme Conditions

André Kietzmann, Ronald Redmer, Michael P. Desjarlais, and Thomas R. Mattsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070401 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Dynamical Structure Factor and Spin-Density Separation for a Weakly Interacting Two-Component Bose Gas

M.-C. Chung and A. B. Bhattacherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070402 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Employing Trapped Cold Ions to Verify the Quantum Jarzynski Equality

Gerhard Huber, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Sebastian Deffner, and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070403 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Realization of a Strongly Interacting Bose-Fermi Mixture from a Two-Component Fermi Gas

Yong-il Shin, André Schirotzek, Christian H. Schunck, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070404 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Nonuniqueness of the Phase Shift in Central Scattering due to Monodromy

Holger R. Dullin and Holger Waalkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070405 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Pulsating Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice

Uttam Shrestha, Marijan Kostrun, and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070406 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

High-Fidelity Quantum Operations on Superconducting Qubits in the Presence of Noise

Andrew J. Kerman and William D. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070501 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Quantum Correlation without Classical Correlations

Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, Vlatko Vedral, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070502 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Hamiltonians Using Perturbation Theory with Bounded-Strength Interactions

Sergey Bravyi, David P. DiVincenzo, Daniel Loss, and Barbara M. Terhal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070503 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Temporal Extent of Surface Potentials between Closely Spaced Metals

S. E. Pollack, S. Schlamminger, and J. H. Gundlach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071101 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State in the Decay $Υ (3 S) \to γ η_{b}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071801 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks Decaying to a $τ$ Lepton and a $b$ Quark in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071802 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Search for Pair Production of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons in the $H^{++} H^{--} \to μ^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-} μ^{-}$ Final State

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071803 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions with the D0 Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071804 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Global Analysis of Helicity Parton Densities and their Uncertainties

Daniel de Florian, Rodolfo Sassot, Marco Stratmann, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 072001 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Nuclear Physics

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Fission Time Measurements: A New Probe into Superheavy Element Stability

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 072701 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

X-Ray Absorption Measured in the Resonant Auger Scattering Mode

Y. Hikosaka, Y. Velkov, E. Shigemasa, T. Kaneyasu, Y. Tamenori, J. Liu, and F. Gel’mukhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073001 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Monotonic Convergent Optimal Control Theory with Strict Limitations on the Spectrum of Optimized Laser Fields

Caroline Gollub, Markus Kowalewski, and Regina de Vivie-Riedle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073002 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Recoil-Ion Momentum Distributions for Two-Photon Double Ionization of He and Ne by 44 eV Free-Electron Laser Radiation

A. Rudenko, L. Foucar, M. Kurka, Th. Ergler, K. U. Kühnel, Y. H. Jiang, A. Voitkiv, B. Najjari, A. Kheifets, S. Lüdemann, T. Havermeier, M. Smolarski, S. Schössler, K. Cole, M. Schöffler, R. Dörner, S. Düsterer, W. Li, B. Keitel, R. Treusch, M. Gensch, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073003 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Suppression of Inelastic Collisions Between Polar Molecules With a Repulsive Shield

A. V. Gorshkov, P. Rabl, G. Pupillo, A. Micheli, P. Zoller, M. D. Lukin, and H. P. Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073201 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Recombination Fluorescence in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

S. D. Bergeson and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073202 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

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Spin Squeezing of Atomic Ensembles via Nuclear-Electronic Spin Entanglement

T. Fernholz, H. Krauter, K. Jensen, J. F. Sherson, A. S. Sørensen, and E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073601 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Enhanced Cross-Phase Modulation Based on a Double Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a Four-Level Tripod Atomic System

Shujing Li, Xudong Yang, Xuemin Cao, Chunhong Zhang, Changde Xie, and Hai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073602 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Quantum Noise in the Collective Abstraction Reaction $A + B_{2} \to A B + B$

H. Jing, J. Cheng, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073603 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Near-Field Microscopy of Light Focusing through a Photonic Crystal Flat Lens

Nathalie Fabre, Loïc Lalouat, Benoit Cluzel, Xavier Mélique, Didier Lippens, Frédérique de Fornel, and Olivier Vanbésien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073901 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Optimized Structures for Photonic Quasicrystals

Mikael C. Rechtsman, Hyeong-Chai Jeong, Paul M. Chaikin, Salvatore Torquato, and Paul J. Steinhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 073902 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Nonmonotonicity in the Quantum-Classical Transition: Chaos Induced by Quantum Effects

Arie Kapulkin and Arjendu K. Pattanayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074101 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Time Reversal of Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. Martin, B. Georgeot, and D. L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074102 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Validity of Taylor’s Dissipation-Viscosity Independence Postulate in Variable-Viscosity Turbulent Fluid Mixtures

Kurnchul Lee, Sharath S. Girimaji, and Johannes Kerimo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074501 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Chaotic Dynamos Generated by a Turbulent Flow of Liquid Sodium

F. Ravelet, M. Berhanu, R. Monchaux, S. Aumaître, A. Chiffaudel, F. Daviaud, B. Dubrulle, M. Bourgoin, Ph. Odier, N. Plihon, J.-F. Pinton, R. Volk, S. Fauve, N. Mordant, and F. Pétrélis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074502 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Pattern Formation during Deformation of a Confined Viscoelastic Layer: From a Viscous Liquid to a Soft Elastic Solid

Julia Nase, Anke Lindner, and Costantino Creton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074503 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Simultaneous Numerical Simulation of Direct and Inverse Cascades in Wave Turbulence

A. O. Korotkevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074504 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Ultrasound Attenuation in Ferrofluids

Mark Shliomis, Michael Mond, and Konstantin Morozov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 074505 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Short-Scale Turbulent Fluctuations Driven by the Electron-Temperature Gradient in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

E. Mazzucato, D. R. Smith, R. E. Bell, S. M. Kaye, J. C. Hosea, B. P. LeBlanc, J. R. Wilson, P. M. Ryan, C. W. Domier, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., H. Yuh, W. Lee, and H. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075001 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Fast-Projectile Stopping Power of Quantal Multicomponent Strongly Coupled Plasmas

D. Ballester and I. M. Tkachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075002 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Evidence of Short-Range Screening in Shock-Compressed Aluminum Plasma

E. García Saiz, G. Gregori, F. Y. Khattak, J. Kohanoff, S. Sahoo, G. Shabbir Naz, S. Bandyopadhyay, M. Notley, R. L. Weber, and D. Riley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075003 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Hot-Electron Energy Coupling in Ultraintense Laser-Matter Interaction

A. J. Kemp, Y. Sentoku, and M. Tabak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075004 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Interaction of Streamer Discharges in Air and Other Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures

A. Luque, U. Ebert, and W. Hundsdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075005 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Finite-Size Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition at Grain Boundaries in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ and the Role of ${}^{3}{He}$ Impurities

Sergio Gaudio, Emmanuele Cappelluti, Gianluca Rastelli, and Luciano Pietronero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075301 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Designed Patterns: Flexible Control of Precipitation through Electric Currents

I. Bena, M. Droz, I. Lagzi, K. Martens, Z. Rácz, and A. Volford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075701 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Relation between Glass Transition Temperatures in Polymer Nanocomposites and Polymer Thin Films

Jamie M. Kropka, Victor Pryamitsyn, and Venkat Ganesan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075702 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Tetrahedral Clustering in Molten Lithium under Pressure

Isaac Tamblyn, Jean-Yves Raty, and Stanimir A. Bonev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075703 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

First-Principles Theory of Hydrogen Diffusion in Aluminum

Hakan Gunaydin, Sergey V. Barabash, K. N. Houk, and V. Ozoliņš

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075901 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Stochastic Hard-Sphere Dynamics for Hydrodynamics of Nonideal Fluids

Aleksandar Donev, Berni J. Alder, and Alejandro L. Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075902 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Breakdown of Fourier’s Law in Nanotube Thermal Conductors

C. W. Chang, D. Okawa, H. Garcia, A. Majumdar, and A. Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 075903 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Nanoscale Imaging with Resonant Coherent X Rays: Extension of Multiple-Wavelength Anomalous Diffraction to Nonperiodic Structures

A. Scherz, D. Zhu, R. Rick, W. F. Schlotter, S. Roy, J. Lüning, and J. Stöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076101 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Structure and Depletion at Fluorocarbon and Hydrocarbon/Water Liquid/Liquid Interfaces

Kaoru Kashimoto, Jaesung Yoon, Binyang Hou, Chiu-hao Chen, Binhua Lin, Makoto Aratono, Takanori Takiue, and Mark L. Schlossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076102 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Controlled Charge Switching on a Single Donor with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

K. Teichmann, M. Wenderoth, S. Loth, R. G. Ulbrich, J. K. Garleff, A. P. Wijnheijmer, and P. M. Koenraad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076103 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strong Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the High $T_{c}$ Iron Pnictides

Qimiao Si and Elihu Abrahams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076401 (2008) - Published 13 August, 2008

Novel $J_{eff} = 1 / 2$ Mott State Induced by Relativistic Spin-Orbit Coupling in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

B. J. Kim, Hosub Jin, S. J. Moon, J.-Y. Kim, B.-G. Park, C. S. Leem, Jaejun Yu, T. W. Noh, C. Kim, S.-J. Oh, J.-H. Park, V. Durairaj, G. Cao, and E. Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076402 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Spin Manipulation in Co-Doped ZnO

Qingyu Xu, Lars Hartmann, Shengqiang Zhou, Arndt Mcklich, Manfred Helm, Gisela Biehne, Holger Hochmuth, Michael Lorenz, Marius Grundmann, and Heidemarie Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076601 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Suppression of Electron Spin Relaxation in Mn-Doped GaAs

G. V. Astakhov, R. I. Dzhioev, K. V. Kavokin, V. L. Korenev, M. V. Lazarev, M. N. Tkachuk, Yu. G. Kusrayev, T. Kiessling, W. Ossau, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076602 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Optimal Nonlinear Passage Through a Quantum Critical Point

Roman Barankov and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076801 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Unusually Strong Space-Charge-Limited Current in Thin Wires

A. Alec Talin, François Léonard, B. S. Swartzentruber, Xin Wang, and Stephen D. Hersee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076802 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Metal-Insulator Transition in an Aperiodic Ladder Network: An Exact Result

Shreekantha Sil, Santanu K. Maiti, and Arunava Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076803 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

Oxygen Isotope Effects on the Superconducting Transition and Magnetic States Within the Phase Diagram of $Y_{1 - x} \Pr_{x} {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

R. Khasanov, A. Shengelaya, D. Di Castro, E. Morenzoni, A. Maisuradze, I. M. Savić, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, A. Bussmann-Holder, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077001 (2008) - Published 11 August, 2008

Superconducting Behavior in Compressed Solid ${SiH}_{4}$ with a Layered Structure

Xiao-Jia Chen, Jiang-Long Wang, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077002 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Magnetoresistance Anisotropy of a One-Dimensional Superconducting Niobium Strip

J. Hua, Z. L. Xiao, A. Imre, S. H. Yu, U. Patel, L. E. Ocola, R. Divan, A. Koshelev, J. Pearson, U. Welp, and W. K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077003 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Manipulation and Generation of Supercurrent in Out-of-Equilibrium Josephson Tunnel Nanojunctions

S. Tirelli, A. M. Savin, C. Pascual Garcia, J. P. Pekola, F. Beltram, and F. Giazotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077004 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Commensurate Spin Density Wave in LaFeAsO: A Local Probe Study

H.-H. Klauss, H. Luetkens, R. Klingeler, C. Hess, F. J. Litterst, M. Kraken, M. M. Korshunov, I. Eremin, S.-L. Drechsler, R. Khasanov, A. Amato, J. Hamann-Borrero, N. Leps, A. Kondrat, G. Behr, J. Werner, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077005 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Spin Dynamics in Iron-Based Layered Superconductor ${(La}_{0.87} {Ca}_{0.13}) FePO$ Revealed by ${}^{31}P$ and ${}^{139}{La}$ NMR Studies

Yusuke Nakai, Kenji Ishida, Yoichi Kamihara, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077006 (2008) - Published 15 August, 2008

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Direct Observation of Optically Induced Transient Structures in Graphite Using Ultrafast Electron Crystallography

Ramani K. Raman, Yoshie Murooka, Chong-Yu Ruan, Teng Yang, Savas Berber, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077401 (2008) - Published 12 August, 2008

Luminescence Decay and the Absorption Cross Section of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Stéphane Berciaud, Laurent Cognet, and Brahim Lounis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 077402 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical Origin of Independent Spiking and Bursting Activity in Neural Microcircuits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 128106 (2007)]

Thomas Nowotny and Mikhail I. Rabinovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 079901 (2008) - Published 14 August, 2008

Volume 101, Issue 7

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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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