Volume 102, Issue 12

27 March 2009

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"Distribution of the average interaction strength of the outermost protons and neutrons, δ V_pn, plotted against proton number (vertical) and neutron number (horizontal). Quadrants are defined by the Z=82 proton and N=126 neutron shell closures. The result for ²¹⁰Pb is the first experimentally obtained δ V_pn in the lower right quadrant.

From the article:

Schottky Mass Measurement of the ${}^{208}{Hg}$ Isotope: Implication for the Proton-Neutron Interaction Strength around Doubly Magic ${}^{208}{Pb}$
L. Chen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 122503 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Schottky Mass Measurement of the ${}^{208}{Hg}$ Isotope: Implication for the Proton-Neutron Interaction Strength around Doubly Magic ${}^{208}{Pb}$

L. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 122503 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

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Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Sliding Nanotubes

X. H. Zhang, G. E. Santoro, U. Tartaglino, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125502 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

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Optical Absorption to Probe the Quantum Hall Ferromagnet at Filling Factor $ν = 1$

P. Plochocka, J. M. Schneider, D. K. Maude, M. Potemski, M. Rappaport, V. Umansky, I. Bar-Joseph, J. G. Groshaus, Y. Gallais, and A. Pinczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126806 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

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Enhanced Heat Transport by Turbulent Two-Phase Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Jin-Qiang Zhong, Denis Funfschilling, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124501 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

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An In-Plane Solid-Liquid-Solid Growth Mode for Self-Avoiding Lateral Silicon Nanowires

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125501 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

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Impact of Phonon-Surface Roughness Scattering on Thermal Conductivity of Thin Si Nanowires

Pierre Martin, Zlatan Aksamija, Eric Pop, and Umberto Ravaioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125503 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

LETTERS

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

Distilling Nonlocality

Manuel Forster, Severin Winkler, and Stefan Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120401 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Topological Quantum Computation via the Quantum Tunneling Effect

Su-Peng Kou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120402 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

No-Go Theorem for Gaussian Quantum Error Correction

Julien Niset, Jaromír Fiurášek, and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120501 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Concatenated Control Sequences Based on Optimized Dynamic Decoupling

Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120502 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Spectral Function and Quasiparticle Damping of Interacting Bosons in Two Dimensions

Andreas Sinner, Nils Hasselmann, and Peter Kopietz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120601 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Asymptotic Behavior of Self-Affine Processes in Semi-Infinite Domains

Andrea Zoia, Alberto Rosso, and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120602 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Micromagic Clock: Microwave Clock Based on Atoms in an Engineered Optical Lattice

K. Beloy, A. Derevianko, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 120801 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation

Nemanja Kaloper and Lorenzo Sorbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 121301 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bulk Viscosity and the Conformal Anomaly in the Pion Gas

D. Fernández-Fraile and A. Gómez Nicola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 121601 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Large Hierarchies from Approximate $R$ Symmetries

Rolf Kappl, Hans Peter Nilles, Saúl Ramos-Sánchez, Michael Ratz, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg, and Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 121602 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Inclusive Search for Squark and Gluino Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 121801 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Naturalness of $C P$ Violation in the Standard Model

Gary W. Gibbons, Steffen Gielen, C. N. Pope, and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 121802 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Structure of ${}^{240}{Pu}$ : Evidence for Octupole Phonon Condensation?

X. Wang, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, S. Zhu, I. Wiedenhöver, U. Garg, S. Frauendorf, T. Nakatsukasa, I. Ahmad, A. Bernstein, E. Diffenderfer, S. J. Freeman, J. P. Greene, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, A. Larabee, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, B. Meredith, D. Seweryniak, C. Teal, and P. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 122501 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

Nuclear Symmetry Energy Probed by Neutron Skin Thickness of Nuclei

M. Centelles, X. Roca-Maza, X. Viñas, and M. Warda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 122502 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

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Schottky Mass Measurement of the ${}^{208}{Hg}$ Isotope: Implication for the Proton-Neutron Interaction Strength around Doubly Magic ${}^{208}{Pb}$

L. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 122503 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Constraints on the Density Dependence of the Symmetry Energy

M. B. Tsang (曾敏兒), Yingxun Zhang (张英逊), P. Danielewicz, M. Famiano, Zhuxia Li (李祝霞), W. G. Lynch (連致標), and A. W. Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 122701 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nuclear Interference in the Coulomb Explosion of $H_{2}^{+}$ in Short vuv Laser Fields

Morten Førre, Samira Barmaki, and Henri Bachau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123001 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Few-Photon Multiple Ionization of $N_{2}$ by Extreme Ultraviolet Free-Electron Laser Radiation

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123002 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Attosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Metal Surfaces

C.-H. Zhang and U. Thumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123601 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

All Optical Waveguiding in a Coherent Atomic Rubidium Vapor

Praveen K. Vudyasetu, David J. Starling, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123602 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Tailored Photon-Pair Generation in Optical Fibers

Offir Cohen, Jeff S. Lundeen, Brian J. Smith, Graciana Puentes, Peter J. Mosley, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123603 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Determination of Correlation Functions of Scattering Potentials of Stochastic Media from Scattering Experiments

Mayukh Lahiri, Emil Wolf, David G. Fischer, and Tomohiro Shirai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123901 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Two-Beam Coupling between Filament-Forming Beams in Air

A. C. Bernstein, M. McCormick, G. M. Dyer, J. C. Sanders, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123902 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Spin Hall Effect of Light in Spherical Geometry

D. Haefner, S. Sukhov, and A. Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123903 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Dirac Spectra and Edge States in Honeycomb Plasmonic Lattices

Dezhuan Han, Yun Lai, Jian Zi, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123904 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Experimental Observation of Rabi Oscillations in Photonic Lattices

Ksenia Shandarova, Christian E. Rüter, Detlef Kip, Konstantinos G. Makris, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Or Peleg, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 123905 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Directing Brownian Motion on a Periodic Surface

David Speer, Ralf Eichhorn, and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124101 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Heat Transport by Turbulent Two-Phase Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Jin-Qiang Zhong, Denis Funfschilling, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124501 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

Selection Rules for the Nonlinear Interaction of Internal Gravity Waves

Chung-Hsiang Jiang and Philip S. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124502 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Power and Pressure Fluctuations in Elastic Turbulence over a Wide Range of Polymer Concentrations

Yonggun Jun and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124503 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Wave-Current Interaction as a Spatial Dynamical System: Analogies with Rainbow and Black Hole Physics

Jean-Charles Nardin, Germain Rousseaux, and Pierre Coullet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124504 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Interacting Vortices and Spin-Up in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

J. B. Taylor, Matthias Borchardt, and Per Helander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124505 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Few-Cycle Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration

K. Schmid, L. Veisz, F. Tavella, S. Benavides, R. Tautz, D. Herrmann, A. Buck, B. Hidding, A. Marcinkevicius, U. Schramm, M. Geissler, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, D. Habs, and F. Krausz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 124801 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Transport of Parallel Momentum Induced by Current-Symmetry Breaking in Toroidal Plasmas

Y. Camenen, A. G. Peeters, C. Angioni, F. J. Casson, W. A. Hornsby, A. P. Snodin, and D. Strintzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125001 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Characterization of High-Intensity Laser Propagation in the Relativistic Transparent Regime through Measurements of Energetic Proton Beams

L. Willingale, S. R. Nagel, A. G. R. Thomas, C. Bellei, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, R. Heathcote, M. C. Kaluza, C. Kamperidis, S. Kneip, K. Krushelnick, N. Lopes, S. P. D. Mangles, W. Nazarov, P. M. Nilson, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125002 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Phase Transitions and Continuous Observation of Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Condensate

Y. Liu, S. Jung, S. E. Maxwell, L. D. Turner, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125301 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

Heat Capacity Peak in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ : Effects of Disorder and ${}^{3}{He}$ Impurities

X. Lin, A. C. Clark, Z. G. Cheng, and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125302 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

An In-Plane Solid-Liquid-Solid Growth Mode for Self-Avoiding Lateral Silicon Nanowires

Linwei Yu, Pierre-Jean Alet, Gennaro Picardi, and Pere Roca i Cabarrocas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125501 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

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Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Sliding Nanotubes

X. H. Zhang, G. E. Santoro, U. Tartaglino, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125502 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

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Impact of Phonon-Surface Roughness Scattering on Thermal Conductivity of Thin Si Nanowires

Pierre Martin, Zlatan Aksamija, Eric Pop, and Umberto Ravaioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125503 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics of a Three-Dimensional Glass-Forming System

Edan Lerner, Itamar Procaccia, and Jacques Zylberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125701 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

High-Pressure Phases of Nitrogen

Chris J. Pickard and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 125702 (2009) - Published 27 March, 2009

Local Methylthiolate Adsorption Geometry on Au(111) from Photoemission Core-Level Shifts

A. Chaudhuri, T. J. Lerotholi, D. C. Jackson, D. P. Woodruff, and V. Dhanak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126101 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Orbital-Selective Mott Transition out of Band Degeneracy Lifting

Luca de’ Medici, S. R. Hassan, Massimo Capone, and Xi Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126401 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

Phase Diagram of the Low-Density Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Electron Gas

N. D. Drummond and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126402 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Localized and Itinerant States in Lanthanide Oxides United by $G W @ LDA + U$

Hong Jiang, Ricardo I. Gomez-Abal, Patrick Rinke, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126403 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Stationary Density Matrix of a Pumped Polariton System

Carlos Andrés Vera, Alejandro Cabo, and Augusto González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126404 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Phenomenology of One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids Beyond the Low-Energy Limit

Adilet Imambekov and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126405 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Aharonov-Casher Effect in Exchange Interactions in a Wigner Crystal

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Markus Kindermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126801 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

Random-Gap Model for Graphene and Graphene Bilayers

K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126802 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Formation and Evolution of Single-Molecule Junctions

M. Kamenetska, M. Koentopp, A. C. Whalley, Y. S. Park, M. L. Steigerwald, C. Nuckolls, M. S. Hybertsen, and L. Venkataraman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126803 (2009) - Published 24 March, 2009

Softening of the Radial Breathing Mode in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

H. Farhat, K. Sasaki, M. Kalbac, M. Hofmann, R. Saito, M. S. Dresselhaus, and J. Kong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126804 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Resistance Noise in Electrically Biased Bilayer Graphene

Atindra Nath Pal and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126805 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

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Optical Absorption to Probe the Quantum Hall Ferromagnet at Filling Factor $ν = 1$

P. Plochocka, J. M. Schneider, D. K. Maude, M. Potemski, M. Rappaport, V. Umansky, I. Bar-Joseph, J. G. Groshaus, Y. Gallais, and A. Pinczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126806 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Embedding Transition-Metal Atoms in Graphene: Structure, Bonding, and Magnetism

A. V. Krasheninnikov, P. O. Lehtinen, A. S. Foster, P. Pyykkö, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 126807 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Effect of Microwaves on the Current-Phase Relation of Superconductor–Normal-Metal–Superconductor Josephson Junctions

M. Fuechsle, J. Bentner, D. A. Ryndyk, M. Reinwald, W. Wegscheider, and C. Strunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 127001 (2009) - Published 23 March, 2009

Mechanism of Terahertz Electromagnetic Wave Emission from Intrinsic Josephson Junctions

Masashi Tachiki, Shouta Fukuya, and Tomio Koyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 127002 (2009) - Published 25 March, 2009

Unusual Doping Dependence of the Electronic Structure and Coexistence of Spin-Density-Wave and Superconductor Phases in Single Crystalline ${Sr}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Y. Zhang, J. Wei, H. W. Ou, J. F. Zhao, B. Zhou, F. Chen, M. Xu, C. He, G. Wu, H. Chen, M. Arita, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, X. H. Chen, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 127003 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009

Unconventional London Penetration Depth in Single-Crystal $Ba ({Fe}_{0.93} {Co}_{0.07})_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductors

R. T. Gordon, N. Ni, C. Martin, M. A. Tanatar, M. D. Vannette, H. Kim, G. D. Samolyuk, J. Schmalian, S. Nandi, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman, J. Q. Yan, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 127004 (2009) - Published 26 March, 2009