Volume 101, Issue 8

22 August 2008

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Images of the explosion of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate following its collapse (from left to right, trap hold times of 0.1 ms to 0.5 ms). The clover-leaf shape is due to strong dipolar interactions.

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$d$ -Wave Collapse and Explosion of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate
T. Lahaye, J. Metz, B. Fröhlich, T. Koch, M. Meister, A. Griesmaier, T. Pfau, H. Saito, Y. Kawaguchi, and M. Ueda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080401 (2008)

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FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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$d$ -Wave Collapse and Explosion of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. Lahaye, J. Metz, B. Fröhlich, T. Koch, M. Meister, A. Griesmaier, T. Pfau, H. Saito, Y. Kawaguchi, and M. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080401 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Metal to Insulator Transition in Epitaxial Graphene Induced by Molecular Doping

S. Y. Zhou, D. A. Siegel, A. V. Fedorov, and A. Lanzara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086402 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disorder-Induced Stabilization of the Pseudogap in Strongly Correlated Systems

Simone Chiesa, Prabuddha B. Chakraborty, Warren E. Pickett, and Richard T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086401 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predicting Polarization and Nonlinear Dielectric Response of Arbitrary Perovskite Superlattice Sequences

Xifan Wu, Massimiliano Stengel, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087601 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

LETTERS

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$d$ -Wave Collapse and Explosion of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. Lahaye, J. Metz, B. Fröhlich, T. Koch, M. Meister, A. Griesmaier, T. Pfau, H. Saito, Y. Kawaguchi, and M. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080401 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Visualization of Branch Points in $P T$ -Symmetric Waveguides

Shachar Klaiman, Uwe Günther, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080402 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Multistage Entanglement Swapping

Alexander M. Goebel, Claudia Wagenknecht, Qiang Zhang, Yu-Ao Chen, Kai Chen, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080403 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Error Correcting Bell Inequalities

Thomas A. Walker, Fiona A. C. Polack, and Samuel L. Braunstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080501 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Controlling the Spontaneous Emission of a Superconducting Transmon Qubit

A. A. Houck, J. A. Schreier, B. R. Johnson, J. M. Chow, Jens Koch, J. M. Gambetta, D. I. Schuster, L. Frunzio, M. H. Devoret, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080502 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Sudden Birth versus Sudden Death of Entanglement in Multipartite Systems

C. E. López, G. Romero, F. Lastra, E. Solano, and J. C. Retamal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 080503 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Resonant Speed Meter for Gravitational-Wave Detection

Atsushi Nishizawa, Seiji Kawamura, and Masa-aki Sakagami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 081101 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Cosmology Is Not a Renormalization Group Flow

R. P. Woodard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 081301 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Real-Time Gauge/Gravity Duality

Kostas Skenderis and Balt C. van Rees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 081601 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Tensor Operators in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics

Ricardo Amorim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 081602 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Measurements of $B \to {π, η, η^{'}} l ν_{l}$ Branching Fractions and Determination of $| V_{u b} |$ with Semileptonically Tagged $B$ Mesons

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 081801 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Observation of $Y (3940) \to J / ψ ω$ in $B \to J / ψ ω K$ at BABAR

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 082001 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Proton Electromagnetic-Form-Factor Ratios at Low $Q^{2}$

Gerald A. Miller, E. Piasetzky, and G. Ron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 082002 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Particle-Species Dependent Modification of Jet-Induced Correlations in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

S. Afanasiev et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 082301 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Perturbative QCD Calculations of Elliptic Flow and Shear Viscosity in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

Zhe Xu, Carsten Greiner, and Horst Stöcker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 082302 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Heavy Deformed Nuclei in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method

Y. Alhassid, L. Fang, and H. Nakada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 082501 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

$α$ -Particle Condensation in ${}^{16}O$ Studied with a Full Four-Body Orthogonality Condition Model Calculation

Y. Funaki, T. Yamada, H. Horiuchi, G. Röpke, P. Schuck, and A. Tohsaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 082502 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Breakdown of the Two-Step Model in $K$ -Shell Photoemission and Subsequent Decay Probed by the Molecular-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions of ${CO}_{2}$

X.-J. Liu, H. Fukuzawa, T. Teranishi, A. De Fanis, M. Takahashi, H. Yoshida, A. Cassimi, A. Czasch, L. Schmidt, R. Dörner, K. Wang, B. Zimmermann, V. McKoy, I. Koyano, N. Saito, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083001 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Neutron Beam Effects on Spin-Exchange-Polarized ${}^{3}{He}$

M. Sharma, E. Babcock, K. H. Andersen, L. Barrón-Palos, M. Becker, S. Boag, W. C. Chen, T. E. Chupp, A. Danagoulian, T. R. Gentile, A. Klein, S. Penttila, A. Petoukhov, T. Soldner, E. R. Tardiff, T. G. Walker, and W. S. Wilburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083002 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Imaging Intramolecular Coulomb Repulsions in Multiply Charged Anions

Xiao-Peng Xing, Xue-Bin Wang, and Lai-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083003 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Evidence of Wave-Particle Duality for Single Fast Hydrogen Atoms

H. T. Schmidt, D. Fischer, Z. Berenyi, C. L. Cocke, M. Gudmundsson, N. Haag, H. A. B. Johansson, A. Källberg, S. B. Levin, P. Reinhed, U. Sassenberg, R. Schuch, A. Simonsson, K. Støchkel, and H. Cederquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083201 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Strong Coupling of Quantum Dots in Microcavities

Fabrice P. Laussy, Elena del Valle, and Carlos Tejedor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083601 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Anomalous Power Flow and “Ghost” Sources

Cesar Monzon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083901 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Surface-Structure-Assisted Chaotic Mode Lasing in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

Tsin-Dong Lee, Chih-Yao Chen, YuanYao Lin, Ming-Chih Chou, Te-ho Wu, and Ray-Kuang Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084101 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Public Channel Cryptography: Chaos Synchronization and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem

Ido Kanter, Evi Kopelowitz, and Wolfgang Kinzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084102 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Solvable Model for Chimera States of Coupled Oscillators

Daniel M. Abrams, Rennie Mirollo, Steven H. Strogatz, and Daniel A. Wiley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084103 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Tension-Induced Multistability in Inextensible Helical Ribbons

E. L. Starostin and G. H. M. van der Heijden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084301 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Extraordinary Sound Screening in Perforated Plates

Héctor Estrada, Pilar Candelas, Antonio Uris, Francisco Belmar, F. J. García de Abajo, and Francisco Meseguer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084302 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Experimental Evidence of Thermal Vibrational Convection in a Nonuniformly Heated Fluid in a Reduced Gravity Environment

A. Mialdun, I. I. Ryzhkov, D. E. Melnikov, and V. Shevtsova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084501 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Microfluidic Colloidal Island Formation and Erasure Induced by Surface Acoustic Wave Radiation

Haiyan Li, James R. Friend, and Leslie Y. Yeo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084502 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Dynamics of $A + B \to C$ Reaction Fronts in the Presence of Buoyancy-Driven Convection

L. Rongy, P. M. J. Trevelyan, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084503 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Quantifying Turbulence-Induced Segregation of Inertial Particles

Enrico Calzavarini, Massimo Cencini, Detlef Lohse, and Federico Toschi (International Collaboration for Turbulence Research)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 084504 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Exponential Frequency Spectrum in Magnetized Plasmas

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085001 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Generation of Stable, Low-Divergence Electron Beams by Laser-Wakefield Acceleration in a Steady-State-Flow Gas Cell

J. Osterhoff, A. Popp, Zs. Major, B. Marx, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, M. Fuchs, M. Geissler, R. Hörlein, B. Hidding, S. Becker, E. A. Peralta, U. Schramm, F. Grüner, D. Habs, F. Krausz, S. M. Hooker, and S. Karsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085002 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Identification of the Electron-Diffusion Region during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

Yang Ren, Masaaki Yamada, Hantao Ji, Stefan P. Gerhardt, and Russell Kulsrud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085003 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Enhancement of Ohmic and Stochastic Heating by Resonance Effects in Capacitive Radio Frequency Discharges: A Theoretical Approach

T. Mussenbrock, R. P. Brinkmann, M. A. Lieberman, A. J. Lichtenberg, and E. Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085004 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Absence of Complete Finite-Larmor-Radius Stabilization in Extended MHD

P. Zhu, D. D. Schnack, F. Ebrahimi, E. G. Zweibel, M. Suzuki, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085005 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Admissible Equilibria of Non-neutral Plasmas in a Malmberg-Penning Trap

Igor Kotelnikov and Massimiliano Romé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085006 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anomalous Attenuation of Transverse Sound in ${}^{3}{He}$

J. P. Davis, J. Pollanen, H. Choi, J. A. Sauls, W. P. Halperin, and A. B. Vorontsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085301 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ Quantum Interference Grating

Yuki Sato, Aditya Joshi, and Richard Packard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085302 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Negative Poisson’s Ratio Materials via Isotropic Interactions

Mikael C. Rechtsman, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085501 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Dynamical Instabilities of Ice X

Razvan Caracas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085502 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Velocity-Dependent Fatigue Crack Paths in Nanograined Pt Films

R. A. Meirom, T. Clark, R. Polcawich, J. Pulskamp, M. Dubey, and C. L. Muhlstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085503 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Direct Mapping of Phonon Dispersion Relations in Copper by Momentum-Resolved X-Ray Calorimetry

Ruqing Xu, Hawoong Hong, Paul Zschack, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085504 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Electronic Selection Rules Controlling Dislocation Glide in bcc Metals

Travis E. Jones, Mark E. Eberhart, Dennis P. Clougherty, and Chris Woodward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085505 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Stress Induced Stripe Formation in $Pd / W (110)$

T. O. Menteş, A. Locatelli, L. Aballe, and E. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085701 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Highly Anion-Defective Aluminates

Chunlei Wan, Zhixue Qu, Yong He, Dong Luan, and Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 085901 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Description of the Fluctuating Colloid-Polymer Interface

Edgar M. Blokhuis, Joris Kuipers, and Richard L. C. Vink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086101 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Spontaneous Oscillations and Waves during Chemical Vapor Deposition of InN

F. Jiang, A. Munkholm, R.-V. Wang, S. K. Streiffer, Carol Thompson, P. H. Fuoss, K. Latifi, K. R. Elder, and G. B. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086102 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Optimal Capping Layer Thickness for Stacked Quantum Dots

X. B. Niu, Y.-J. Lee, R. E. Caflisch, and C. Ratsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086103 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Novel Insights into Nanopore Deformation Caused by Capillary Condensation

Gerrit Günther, Johannes Prass, Oskar Paris, and Martin Schoen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086104 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disorder-Induced Stabilization of the Pseudogap in Strongly Correlated Systems

Simone Chiesa, Prabuddha B. Chakraborty, Warren E. Pickett, and Richard T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086401 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Metal to Insulator Transition in Epitaxial Graphene Induced by Molecular Doping

S. Y. Zhou, D. A. Siegel, A. V. Fedorov, and A. Lanzara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086402 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Local Density of States of One-Dimensional Mott Insulators and Charge-Density Wave States with a Boundary

Dirk Schuricht, Fabian H. L. Essler, Akbar Jaefari, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086403 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Band Jahn-Teller Instability and Formation of Valence Bond Solid in a Mixed-Valent Spinel Oxide ${LiRh}_{2} O_{4}$

Yoshihiko Okamoto, Seiji Niitaka, Masaya Uchida, Takeshi Waki, Masashi Takigawa, Yoshitaka Nakatsu, Akira Sekiyama, Shigemasa Suga, Ryotaro Arita, and Hidenori Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086404 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Spin-Charge Separated Solitons in a Topological Band Insulator

Ying Ran, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086801 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Spin-Charge Separation in the Quantum Spin Hall State

Xiao-Liang Qi and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086802 (2008) - Published 19 August, 2008

Anomalous Transport Properties and Phase Diagram of the FeAs-Based ${SmFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ Superconductors

R. H. Liu, G. Wu, T. Wu, D. F. Fang, H. Chen, S. Y. Li, K. Liu, Y. L. Xie, X. F. Wang, R. L. Yang, L. Ding, C. He, D. L. Feng, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087001 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Spectrum of Andreev Bound States in a Molecule Embedded Inside a Microwave-Excited Superconducting Junction

Jonas Sköldberg, Tomas Löfwander, Vitaly S. Shumeiko, and Mikael Fogelström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087002 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Doping-Induced Change in the Interlayer Transport Mechanism of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ near the Superconducting Transition Temperature

S. O. Katterwe, A. Rydh, and V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087003 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Metal-Insulator Transition by Isovalent Anion Substitution in ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ : Implications to Ferromagnetism

P. R. Stone, K. Alberi, S. K. Z. Tardif, J. W. Beeman, K. M. Yu, W. Walukiewicz, and O. D. Dubon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087203 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Domain Walls in Gapped Graphene

G. W. Semenoff, V. Semenoff, and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087204 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Transition from Orbital Liquid to Jahn-Teller Insulator in Orthorhombic Perovskites $R {TiO}_{3}$

J.-G. Cheng, Y. Sui, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, and W. H. Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087205 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Role of Interference between Localized and Propagating Surface Waves on the Extraordinary Optical Transmission Through a Subwavelength-Aperture Array

Yong-Jun Bao, Ru-Wen Peng, Da-Jun Shu, Mu Wang, Xiang Lu, Jun Shao, Wei Lu, and Nai-Ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087401 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Direct Observation of Dark Excitons in Individual Carbon Nanotubes: Inhomogeneity in the Exchange Splitting

Ajit Srivastava, Han Htoon, Victor I. Klimov, and Junichiro Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087402 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Extremely Narrow Plasmon Resonances Based on Diffraction Coupling of Localized Plasmons in Arrays of Metallic Nanoparticles

V. G. Kravets, F. Schedin, and A. N. Grigorenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087403 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predicting Polarization and Nonlinear Dielectric Response of Arbitrary Perovskite Superlattice Sequences

Xifan Wu, Massimiliano Stengel, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087601 (2008) - Published 18 August, 2008

Unusual Magneto-Optical Phenomenon Reveals Low Energy Spin Dispersion in the Spin-1 Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Chain System ${NiCl}_{2} - 4 SC ({NH}_{2})_{2}$

S. Cox, R. D. McDonald, M. Armanious, P. Sengupta, and A. Paduan-Filho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 087602 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Isolating Segregation Mechanisms in a Split-Bottom Cell

K. M. Hill and Yi Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 088001 (2008) - Published 21 August, 2008

Oscillation Regularity in Noise-Driven Excitable Systems with Multi-Time-Scale Adaptation

William H. Nesse, Christopher A. Del Negro, and Paul C. Bressloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 088101 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks Decaying to a $τ$ Lepton and a $b$ Quark in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071802 (2008)]

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 089901 (2008) - Published 20 August, 2008

Publisher’s Note: Experimental Characterization of Nonlinear Harmonic Generation in Planar and Helical Undulators [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174801 (2008)]

E. Allaria, F. Curbis, M. Coreno, M. Danailov, B. Diviacco, C. Spezzani, M. Trovo, and G. De Ninno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 089902 (2008) - Published 22 August, 2008

Volume 101, Issue 8

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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