Volume 101, Issue 9

29 August 2008

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Simulated crumpling of a steel wire pushed into a circular cavity, from both left and right sides. The black lines crossing the wire represent the direction and magnitude of contact force between wire segments, and the color of the wire corresponds to the local elastic bending energy from low to high (blue to red).

From the article:

Morphological Phases of Crumpled Wire
N. Stoop, F. K. Wittel, and H. J. Herrmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094101 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Coulomb Four-Body Problem: Electron-Impact Double Ionization of Helium in the Threshold Regime

Xueguang Ren, Alexander Dorn, and Joachim Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093201 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

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Unifying Scaling Theory for Vortex Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

D. G. Dritschel, R. K. Scott, C. Macaskill, G. A. Gottwald, and C. V. Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094501 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

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Local Stress and Superfluid Properties of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

L. Pollet, M. Boninsegni, A. B. Kuklov, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097202 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

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Temperature-Dependent Transport in Suspended Graphene

K. I. Bolotin, K. J. Sikes, J. Hone, H. L. Stormer, and P. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096802 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

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Emergence and Visualization of an Interface State during Contact Formation with a Single Molecule

P. M. Ryan, L. C. Teague, B. Naydenov, D. Borland, and John J. Boland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096801 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

LETTERS

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

Special Comparison Theorem for the Dirac Equation

Richard L. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090401 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Critical Temperature Curve in BEC-BCS Crossover

Evgeni Burovski, Evgeny Kozik, Nikolay Prokof’ev, Boris Svistunov, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090402 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Conditions for Quantum Violation of Macroscopic Realism

Johannes Kofler and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090403 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Counting Atoms Using Interaction Blockade in an Optical Superlattice

P. Cheinet, S. Trotzky, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger, M. Moreno-Cardoner, S. Fölling, and I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090404 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Nonadditive Quantum Error-Correcting Code

Sixia Yu, Qing Chen, C. H. Lai, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090501 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic Gates Based on Oscillating Magnetic Fields

C. Ospelkaus, C. E. Langer, J. M. Amini, K. R. Brown, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090502 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Lagrangian Statistical Model for Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Velocity Fields

Tanguy Le Borgne, Marco Dentz, and Jesus Carrera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090601 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Length of Time’s Arrow

Edward H. Feng and Gavin E. Crooks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090602 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Accurate Determination of Tensor Network State of Quantum Lattice Models in Two Dimensions

H. C. Jiang, Z. Y. Weng, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090603 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Imaging with Nanofocused Illumination

C. G. Schroer, P. Boye, J. M. Feldkamp, J. Patommel, A. Schropp, A. Schwab, S. Stephan, M. Burghammer, S. Schöder, and C. Riekel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090801 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Kaon Condensation, Black Holes, and Cosmological Natural Selection

G. E. Brown, Chang-Hwan Lee, and Mannque Rho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 091101 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from the XENON10 Experiment

J. Angle et al. (XENON10 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 091301 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Direct Measurement of the ${}^{7}{Be}$ Solar Neutrino Flux with 192 Days of Borexino Data

C. Arpesella et al. (Borexino Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 091302 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Study of $B$ Meson Decays with Excited $η$ and $η'$ Mesons

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 091801 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Landau-Yang Theorem and Decays of a $Z^{'}$ Boson into Two $Z$ Bosons

Wai-Yee Keung, Ian Low, and Jing Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 091802 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

$π N$ and $π π N$ Couplings of the $Δ (1232)$ and Its Chiral Partners

K. Nagata, A. Hosaka, and V. Dmitrašinović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 092001 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Many-Body Calculations of $n − {}^{3}H$ , $n − {}^{4}{He}$ , $p − {}^{3, 4}{He}$ , and $n − {}^{10}{Be}$ Scattering

Sofia Quaglioni and Petr Navrátil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 092501 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Medium-Mass Nuclei from Chiral Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions

G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, D. J. Dean, and M. Hjorth-Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 092502 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Two Distinct Quasifission Modes in the ${}^{32}S + {}^{232}{Th}$ Reaction

D. J. Hinde, R. du Rietz, M. Dasgupta, R. G. Thomas, and L. R. Gasques

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 092701 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

New Line Narrowing Effects in the Infrared Collision-Induced Spectra of Molecular Hydrogens in Liquid Neon

W. A. Herrebout, B. J. van der Veken, and A. P. Kouzov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093001 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Mechanisms for Lasing with Cold Atoms as the Gain Medium

William Guerin, Franck Michaud, and Robin Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093002 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

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Coulomb Four-Body Problem: Electron-Impact Double Ionization of Helium in the Threshold Regime

Xueguang Ren, Alexander Dorn, and Joachim Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093201 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Squashing Models for Optical Measurements in Quantum Communication

Normand J. Beaudry, Tobias Moroder, and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093601 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Delocalized Correlations in Twin Light Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum

A. M. Marino, V. Boyer, R. C. Pooser, P. D. Lett, K. Lemons, and K. M. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093602 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spectral Incoherent Solitons: A Localized Soliton Behavior in the Frequency Domain

Antonio Picozzi, Stéphane Pitois, and Guy Millot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093901 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Tunable Optical Frequency Comb with a Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator

Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Andrey B. Matsko, Vladimir S. Ilchenko, Iouri Solomatine, David Seidel, and Lute Maleki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093902 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Topological Insight into the Non-Arrhenius Mode Hopping of Semiconductor Ring Lasers

S. Beri, L. Gelens, M. Mestre, G. Van der Sande, G. Verschaffelt, A. Scirè, G. Mezosi, M. Sorel, and J. Danckaert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 093903 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Morphological Phases of Crumpled Wire

N. Stoop, F. K. Wittel, and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094101 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unifying Scaling Theory for Vortex Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

D. G. Dritschel, R. K. Scott, C. Macaskill, G. A. Gottwald, and C. V. Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094501 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Dynamics of Drying in 3D Porous Media

Lei Xu, Simon Davies, Andrew B. Schofield, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094502 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Random Vortex-Street Model for a Self-Similar Plane Turbulent Jet

Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, Itamar Procaccia, and Rama Govindarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 094503 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transport of Energetic Particles by Microturbulence in Magnetized Plasmas

Wenlu Zhang (张文禄), Zhihong Lin (林志宏), and Liu Chen (陈骝)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 095001 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nonaffine Deformation of Inherent Structure as a Static Signature of Cooperativity in Supercooled Liquids

Emanuela Del Gado, Patrick Ilg, Martin Kröger, and Hans Christian Öttinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 095501 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Triple Point on the Melting Curve and Polymorphism of Nitrogen at High Pressure

Alexander F. Goncharov, Jonathan C. Crowhurst, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 095502 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Crystal Structures of Calcium IV and V under High Pressure

Hiroshi Fujihisa, Yuki Nakamoto, Katsuya Shimizu, Takahiro Yabuuchi, and Yoshito Gotoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 095503 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Idealized Glass Transitions under Pressure: Dynamics versus Thermodynamics

Th. Voigtmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 095701 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Substrate and Chain Size Dependence of Near Surface Dynamics of Glassy Polymers

D. Qi, Z. Fakhraai, and J. A. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096101 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Defect Mediated Desorption of the KBr(001) Surface Induced by Single Highly Charged Ion Impact

R. Heller, S. Facsko, R. A. Wilhelm, and W. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096102 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Positioning of Strained Islands by Interaction with Surface Nanogrooves

G. Katsaros, J. Tersoff, M. Stoffel, A. Rastelli, P. Acosta-Diaz, G. S. Kar, G. Costantini, O. G. Schmidt, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096103 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Fingerprints for Spin-Selection Rules in the Interaction Dynamics of $O_{2}$ at Al(111)

Christian Carbogno, Jörg Behler, Axel Groß, and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096104 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Phase Transition Between a Luttinger Liquid and a Gas of Cold Molecules

K. T. Law and D. E. Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096401 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Structure, Stability, Edge States, and Aromaticity of Graphene Ribbons

Tobias Wassmann, Ari P. Seitsonen, A. Marco Saitta, Michele Lazzeri, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096402 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Efficient Formalism for Large-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics based on Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

J. L. Alonso, X. Andrade, P. Echenique, F. Falceto, D. Prada-Gracia, and A. Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096403 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory with a Self-Interaction Correction

J. Messud, P. M. Dinh, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096404 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Structural Relaxation due to Electronic Correlations in the Paramagnetic Insulator ${KCuF}_{3}$

I. Leonov, N. Binggeli, Dm. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, N. Stojić, and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096405 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Quantum Phase Transition in the Itinerant Antiferromagnet $(V_{0.9} {Ti}_{0.1})_{2} O_{3}$

Hiroaki Kadowaki, Kiyoichiro Motoya, Taku J. Sato, J. W. Lynn, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, and Jun Kikuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096406 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Vanishing Hall Coefficient in the Extreme Quantum Limit in Photocarrier-Doped ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Y. Kozuka, T. Susaki, and H. Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096601 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence and Visualization of an Interface State during Contact Formation with a Single Molecule

P. M. Ryan, L. C. Teague, B. Naydenov, D. Borland, and John J. Boland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096801 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

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Temperature-Dependent Transport in Suspended Graphene

K. I. Bolotin, K. J. Sikes, J. Hone, H. L. Stormer, and P. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096802 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Casimir Force for Thin Metal Films

V. A. Yampol’skii, Sergey Savel’ev, Z. A. Mayselis, S. S. Apostolov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096803 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Anomalous Conductance Oscillations and Half-Metallicity in Atomic Ag-O Chains

Mikkel Strange, Kristian S. Thygesen, James P. Sethna, and Karsten W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096804 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Kramer-Pesch Approximation for Analyzing Field-Angle-Resolved Measurements Made in Unconventional Superconductors: A Calculation of the Zero-Energy Density of States

Yuki Nagai and Nobuhiko Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097001 (2008) - Published 25 August, 2008

Vortex Breaking and Cutting in Type II Superconductors

A. Palau, R. Dinner, J. H. Durrell, and M. G. Blamire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097002 (2008) - Published 26 August, 2008

Temperature Dependence of the Gap Size near the Brillouin-Zone Nodes of ${HgBa}_{2} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$ Superconductors

W. Guyard, A. Sacuto, M. Cazayous, Y. Gallais, M. Le Tacon, D. Colson, and A. Forget

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097003 (2008) - Published 27 August, 2008

Giant Proximity Effect in a Phase-Fluctuating Superconductor

Dominic Marchand, Lucian Covaci, Mona Berciu, and Marcel Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097004 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Superconducting Coherence Peak in the Electronic Excitations of a Single-Layer ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{1.6} {La}_{0.4} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$ Cuprate Superconductor

J. Wei, Y. Zhang, H. W. Ou, B. P. Xie, D. W. Shen, J. F. Zhao, L. X. Yang, M. Arita, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, Y. Yoshida, H. Eisaki, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097005 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Study of the Fermi Surface of ${ZrB}_{12}$ Using the de Haas-van Alphen Effect

V. A. Gasparov, I. Sheikin, F. Levy, J. Teyssier, and G. Santi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097006 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Discontinuous Current-Phase Relations in Small One-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays

Jens Koch and Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097007 (2008) - Published 28 August, 2008

Sum Rules and Interlayer Infrared Response of the High Temperature ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$ Superconductor in an External Magnetic Field

A. D. LaForge, W. J. Padilla, K. S. Burch, Z. Q. Li, A. A. Schafgans, Kouji Segawa, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097008 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Field and Temperature Dependence of the Superfluid Density in ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ Superconductors: A Muon Spin Relaxation Study

H. Luetkens, H.-H. Klauss, R. Khasanov, A. Amato, R. Klingeler, I. Hellmann, N. Leps, A. Kondrat, C. Hess, A. Köhler, G. Behr, J. Werner, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097009 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008

Coexistence of Magnetic Fluctuations and Superconductivity in the Pnictide High Temperature Superconductor ${SmFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ Measured by Muon Spin Rotation

A. J. Drew, F. L. Pratt, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, P. J. Baker, R. H. Liu, G. Wu, X. H. Chen, I. Watanabe, V. K. Malik, A. Dubroka, K. W. Kim, M. Rössle, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097010 (2008) - Published 29 August, 2008