Volume 102, Issue 11

20 March 2009

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On the Cover

A hairpin vortex state in plane Couette flow. A bundle of vortex lines reveals the symmetry of the new solution (left), which is absent in an existing solution (right).

From the article:

Hairpin Vortex Solution in Planar Couette Flow: A Tapestry of Knotted Vortices
Tomoaki Itano and Sotos C. Generalis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 114501 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Type-1.5 Superconductivity

Victor Moshchalkov, Mariela Menghini, T. Nishio, Q. H. Chen, A. V. Silhanek, V. H. Dao, L. F. Chibotaru, N. D. Zhigadlo, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117001 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Two-Source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction $AuAu \to AuAu ρ^{0}$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112301 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Viscosity Behavior Spanning Four Orders of Magnitude in As-S Melts under High Pressure

V. V. Brazhkin, M. Kanzaki, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, and Y. Katayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115901 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Blockade, Orbital Occupation, and Charge Ordering in ${La}_{1.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {CoO}_{4}$

C. F. Chang, Z. Hu, Hua Wu, T. Burnus, N. Hollmann, M. Benomar, T. Lorenz, A. Tanaka, H.-J. Lin, H. H. Hsieh, C. T. Chen, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116401 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Assembled Magnetic Surface Swimmers

A. Snezhko, M. Belkin, I. S. Aranson, and W.-K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 118103 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

LETTERS

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

Short-time Enhancement of the Decay of Coherent Excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Nir Bar-Gill, Eitan E. Rowen, Gershon Kurizki, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110401 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Emergence of Quantum Correlations from Nonlocality Swapping

Paul Skrzypczyk, Nicolas Brunner, and Sandu Popescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110402 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Dynamical Typicality of Quantum Expectation Values

Christian Bartsch and Jochen Gemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110403 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Positive Phase Space Transformation Incompatible with Classical Physics

Wonmin Son, Johannes Kofler, M. S. Kim, Vlatko Vedral, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110404 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional System of Quantum Dipoles

F. Mazzanti, R. E. Zillich, G. E. Astrakharchik, and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110405 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Density and Spin Response Function of a Normal Fermi Gas at Unitarity

S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110406 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Quantum Communication beyond the Localization Length in Disordered Spin Chains

Jonathan Allcock and Noah Linden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110501 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Restrictions on Transversal Encoded Quantum Gate Sets

Bryan Eastin and Emanuel Knill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110502 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Alkaline-Earth-Metal Atoms as Few-Qubit Quantum Registers

A. V. Gorshkov, A. M. Rey, A. J. Daley, M. M. Boyd, J. Ye, P. Zoller, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110503 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

de Finetti Representation Theorem for Infinite-Dimensional Quantum Systems and Applications to Quantum Cryptography

R. Renner and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110504 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Purely Quantum Superadditivity of Classical Capacities of Quantum Multiple Access Channels

Lukasz Czekaj and Pawel Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 110505 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Magnetowave Induced Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

Feng-Yin Chang, Pisin Chen, Guey-Lin Lin, Robert Noble, and Richard Sydora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111101 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111102 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Instability of Anisotropic Cosmological Solutions Supported by Vector Fields

Burak Himmetoglu, Carlo R. Contaldi, and Marco Peloso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111301 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

How to Derotate the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization

Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111302 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Fractal Properties of Quantum Spacetime

Dario Benedetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111303 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Deconfinement Phase Transition in $N = 4$ Super Yang-Mills Theory on $R \times S^{3}$ from Supersymmetric Matrix Quantum Mechanics

Goro Ishiki, Sang-Woo Kim, Jun Nishimura, and Asato Tsuchiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111601 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

New Approach to the $μ - B_{μ}$ Problem of Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Csaba Csáki, Adam Falkowski, Yasunori Nomura, and Tomer Volansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111801 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Threshold Resummation for Squark-Antisquark and Gluino-Pair Production at the LHC

A. Kulesza and L. Motyka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111802 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Two-Source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction $AuAu \to AuAu ρ^{0}$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112301 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

Discovery of ${}^{229}{Rn}$ and the Structure of the Heaviest Rn and Ra Isotopes from Penning-Trap Mass Measurements

D. Neidherr, G. Audi, D. Beck, K. Blaum, Ch. Böhm, M. Breitenfeldt, R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, S. George, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, A. Kellerbauer, M. Kowalska, D. Lunney, E. Minaya-Ramirez, S. Naimi, E. Noah, L. Penescu, M. Rosenbusch, S. Schwarz, L. Schweikhard, and T. Stora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112501 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Partial Dynamical Symmetry in Quantum Hamiltonians with Higher-Order Terms

J. E. García-Ramos, A. Leviatan, and P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112502 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Isospin Dependence of Incomplete Fusion Reactions at $25 MeV / Nucleon$

F. Amorini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 112701 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Exact Dynamical Exchange-Correlation Kernel of a Weakly Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

V. U. Nazarov, G. Vignale, and Y.-C. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113001 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Strong Laser Field Fragmentation of $H_{2}$ : Coulomb Explosion without Double Ionization

B. Manschwetus, T. Nubbemeyer, K. Gorling, G. Steinmeyer, U. Eichmann, H. Rottke, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113002 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Photonic Micro-Electromechanical Systems Vibrating at $X$ -band (11-GHz) Rates

Matthew Tomes and Tal Carmon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113601 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Scattering Forces from the Curl of the Spin Angular Momentum of a Light Field

Silvia Albaladejo, Manuel I. Marqués, Marine Laroche, and Juan José Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113602 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Terahertz Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Fractals

A. Agrawal, T. Matsui, W. Zhu, A. Nahata, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113901 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Metamaterials: Optical Activity without Chirality

E. Plum, X.-X. Liu, V. A. Fedotov, Y. Chen, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 113902 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Hairpin Vortex Solution in Planar Couette Flow: A Tapestry of Knotted Vortices

Tomoaki Itano and Sotos C. Generalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 114501 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Statistical Properties of Directional Ocean Waves: The Role of the Modulational Instability in the Formation of Extreme Events

M. Onorato, T. Waseda, A. Toffoli, L. Cavaleri, O. Gramstad, P. A. E. M. Janssen, T. Kinoshita, J. Monbaliu, N. Mori, A. R. Osborne, M. Serio, C. T. Stansberg, H. Tamura, and K. Trulsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 114502 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Coherent Electron Cooling

Vladimir N. Litvinenko and Yaroslav S. Derbenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 114801 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

X-Ray Thomson-Scattering Measurements of Density and Temperature in Shock-Compressed Beryllium

H. J. Lee, P. Neumayer, J. Castor, T. Döppner, R. W. Falcone, C. Fortmann, B. A. Hammel, A. L. Kritcher, O. L. Landen, R. W. Lee, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. H. Munro, R. Redmer, S. P. Regan, S. Weber, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115001 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

Correlation between Electron Transport and Shear Alfvén Activity in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

D. Stutman, L. Delgado-Aparicio, N. Gorelenkov, M. Finkenthal, E. Fredrickson, S. Kaye, E. Mazzucato, and K. Tritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115002 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Magnetic Reconnection in Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

S. Servidio, W. H. Matthaeus, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak, and P. Dmitruk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115003 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Demonstration of Effective Control of Fast-Ion-Stabilized Sawteeth by Electron-Cyclotron Current Drive

M. Lennholm, L.-G. Eriksson, F Turco, F. Bouquey, C. Darbos, R. Dumont, G. Giruzzi, M. Jung, R. Lambert, R. Magne, D. Molina, P. Moreau, F. Rimini, J-L. Segui, S. Song, and E. Traisnel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115004 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Residual-Current Excitation in Plasmas Produced by Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

A. A. Silaev and N. V. Vvedenskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115005 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Positive Ion Induced Solidification of ${}^{4}{He}$

P. Moroshkin, V. Lebedev, and A. Weis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115301 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Mechanism of the Band Gap Opening across the Order-Disorder Transition of $Si (111) (4 \times 1) − In$

C. González, Jiandong Guo, J. Ortega, F. Flores, and H. H. Weitering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115501 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Slip Line Growth as a Critical Phenomenon

Fabio Leoni and Stefano Zapperi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115502 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Structures of Insulating Phases of Dense Lithium

Yansun Yao, John S. Tse, and Dennis D. Klug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115503 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Demixing of Hydrogen and Helium at Megabar Pressures

Winfried Lorenzen, Bastian Holst, and Ronald Redmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115701 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

Nanoscale Brushes: How to Build a Smart Surface Coating

Holger Merlitz, Gui-Li He, Chen-Xu Wu, and Jens-Uwe Sommer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115702 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Viscosity Behavior Spanning Four Orders of Magnitude in As-S Melts under High Pressure

V. V. Brazhkin, M. Kanzaki, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, and Y. Katayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 115901 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

Atomic Structure of the Epitaxial $BaO / Si (001)$ Interface

Y. Segal, J. W. Reiner, A. M. Kolpak, Z. Zhang, S. Ismail-Beigi, C. H. Ahn, and F. J. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116101 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Blockade, Orbital Occupation, and Charge Ordering in ${La}_{1.5} {Sr}_{0.5} {CoO}_{4}$

C. F. Chang, Z. Hu, Hua Wu, T. Burnus, N. Hollmann, M. Benomar, T. Lorenz, A. Tanaka, H.-J. Lin, H. H. Hsieh, C. T. Chen, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116401 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

Conductance of Fully Equilibrated Quantum Wires

Jérôme Rech, Tobias Micklitz, and K. A. Matveev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116402 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Nuclear Magnetism and Electronic Order in ${}^{13}C$ Nanotubes

Bernd Braunecker, Pascal Simon, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116403 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Self-Masking of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Layer Materials

Hiroyuki Yamase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116404 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Direct Measurement of the Percolation Probability in Carbon Nanofiber-Polyimide Nanocomposites

A. Trionfi, D. H. Wang, J. D. Jacobs, L.-S. Tan, R. A. Vaia, and J. W. P. Hsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116601 (2009) - Published 18 March, 2009

Charge Transport in Semiconductors with Multiscale Conformational Dynamics

Alessandro Troisi, David L. Cheung, and Denis Andrienko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116602 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Testing the Topological Nature of the Fractional Quantum Hall Edge

Shivakumar Jolad and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116801 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Electrical Generation of Pure Spin Currents in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

S. M. Frolov, A. Venkatesan, W. Yu, J. A. Folk, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116802 (2009) - Published 19 March, 2009

Pathway for the Transformation from Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite into Amorphous Diamond

Keisuke Niwase, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, Manabu Yokoo, Ken-ichi Kondo, and Tadao Iwata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 116803 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Type-1.5 Superconductivity

Victor Moshchalkov, Mariela Menghini, T. Nishio, Q. H. Chen, A. V. Silhanek, V. H. Dao, L. F. Chibotaru, N. D. Zhigadlo, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117001 (2009) - Published 16 March, 2009

Distinct Pseudogap and Quasiparticle Relaxation Dynamics in the Superconducting State of Nearly Optimally Doped ${SmFeAsO}_{0.8} F_{0.2}$ Single Crystals

T. Mertelj, V. V. Kabanov, C. Gadermaier, N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Katrych, J. Karpinski, and D. Mihailovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117002 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Model for Vortex-Core Tunneling Spectroscopy of Chiral $p$ -Wave Superconductors via Odd-Frequency Pairing States

Yasunari Tanuma, Nobuhiko Hayashi, Yukio Tanaka, and Alexander A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117003 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Pseudoisotropic Upper Critical Field in Cobalt-Doped ${SrFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Epitaxial Films

S. A. Baily, Y. Kohama, H. Hiramatsu, B. Maiorov, F. F. Balakirev, M. Hirano, and H. Hosono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117004 (2009) - Published 17 March, 2009

Anisotropy in the Electrical Resistivity and Susceptibility of Superconducting ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Single Crystals

X. F. Wang, T. Wu, G. Wu, H. Chen, Y. L. Xie, J. J. Ying, Y. J. Yan, R. H. Liu, and X. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117005 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009

Electronic Phase Separation in the Slightly Underdoped Iron Pnictide Superconductor ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

J. T. Park, D. S. Inosov, Ch. Niedermayer, G. L. Sun, D. Haug, N. B. Christensen, R. Dinnebier, A. V. Boris, A. J. Drew, L. Schulz, T. Shapoval, U. Wolff, V. Neu, Xiaoping Yang, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, and V. Hinkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117006 (2009) - Published 20 March, 2009