Volume 102, Issue 15

17 April 2009

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On the Cover

Array of magnetic vortices in CaAlMn₃O₇. Its strong spin-lattice coupling and symmetry breaking properties lead to a large magnetoelectric response.

From the article:

Superexchange-Driven Magnetoelectricity in Magnetic Vortices
Kris T. Delaney, Maxim Mostovoy, and Nicola A. Spaldin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 157203 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Suspension of Atoms Using Optical Pulses, and Application to Gravimetry

K. J. Hughes, J. H. T. Burke, and C. A. Sackett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150403 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Exploring Correlated 1D Bose Gases from the Superfluid to the Mott-Insulator State by Inelastic Light Scattering

D. Clément, N. Fabbri, L. Fallani, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155301 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

One-Neutron Removal Measurement Reveals ${}^{24}O$ as a New Doubly Magic Nucleus

R. Kanungo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152501 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isotopic Dependence of the Nuclear Caloric Curve

C. Sfienti et al. (ALADIN2000 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152701 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Time Evolution of a Single-Electron Wave Function

M. Kataoka, M. R. Astley, A. L. Thorn, D. K. L. Oi, C. H. W. Barnes, C. J. B. Ford, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156801 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Frustration in Graphene Nanoflakes: Magnetic Order and Spin Logic Devices

Wei L. Wang, Oleg V. Yazyev, Sheng Meng, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 157201 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polymer Dimensions in Good Solvents: Crossover from Semidilute to Concentrated Solutions

G. Cheng, W. W. Graessley, and Y. B. Melnichenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 157801 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

LETTERS

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

Time-Domain Scars: Resolving the Spectral Form Factor in Phase Space

Thomas Dittrich and Leonardo A. Pachón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150401 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Superfluid Transition in a Bose Gas with Correlated Disorder

S. Pilati, S. Giorgini, and N. Prokof’ev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150402 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Suspension of Atoms Using Optical Pulses, and Application to Gravimetry

K. J. Hughes, J. H. T. Burke, and C. A. Sackett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150403 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Momentum Signatures for Schwinger Pair Production in Short Laser Pulses with a Subcycle Structure

F. Hebenstreit, R. Alkofer, G. V. Dunne, and H. Gies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150404 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Critically Damped Quantum Search

Ari Mizel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150501 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Sparse Polynomial Space Approach to Dissipative Quantum Systems: Application to the Sub-Ohmic Spin-Boson Model

A. Alvermann and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150601 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Universal Spectra of Coherent Atoms in a Recurrent Random Walk

R. Pugatch, O. Firstenberg, M. Shuker, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150602 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Duality and the Knizhnik-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov Relation in Liouville Quantum Gravity

Bertrand Duplantier and Scott Sheffield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150603 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Green-Function-Based Monte Carlo Method for Classical Fields Coupled to Fermions

Alexander Weiße

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 150604 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measurement of the ${}^{60}{Fe} (n, γ)^{61} Fe$ Cross Section at Stellar Temperatures

E. Uberseder, R. Reifarth, D. Schumann, I. Dillmann, C. Domingo Pardo, J. Görres, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, J. Marganiec, J. Neuhausen, M. Pignatari, F. Voss, S. Walter, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 151101 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Cosmology from an Anti-de Sitter–Schwarzschild Black Hole via Holography

Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos, George Siopsis, and Nikolaos Tetradis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 151301 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Possibility of Detecting Anisotropic Expansion of the Universe by Very Accurate Astrometry Measurements

Claudia Quercellini, Miguel Quartin, and Luca Amendola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 151302 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Top-Quark Production via Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in $W + 1$ Jet Events at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 151801 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

$J / ψ$ Polarization from Fixed-Target to Collider Energies

Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenço, João Seixas, and Hermine K. Wöhri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 151802 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Measurement of Strange Quark Contributions to the Vector Form Factors of the Proton at $Q^{2} = 0.22 (GeV / c)^{2}$

S. Baunack et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 151803 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass with Dilepton Events Selected Using Neuroevolution at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152001 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Quark Forces from Hadronic Spectroscopy

Dan Pirjol and Carlos Schat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152002 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Gluon Saturation Effects on $J / ψ$ Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

Dmitri Kharzeev, Eugene Levin, Marzia Nardi, and Kirill Tuchin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152301 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

One-Neutron Removal Measurement Reveals ${}^{24}O$ as a New Doubly Magic Nucleus

R. Kanungo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152501 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

First Direct Measurement of the ${}^{17}F (p, γ) {}^{18}{Ne}$ Cross Section

K. A. Chipps, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, K. Y. Chae, U. Greife, R. Hatarik, R. L. Kozub, C. Matei, B. H. Moazen, C. D. Nesaraja, S. D. Pain, W. A. Peters, S. T. Pittman, J. F. Shriner, Jr., and M. S. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152502 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Nuclear Mass Formulas: Crossing the 0.6 MeV Accuracy Threshold with Microscopically Deduced Pairing

S. Goriely, N. Chamel, and J. M. Pearson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152503 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isotopic Dependence of the Nuclear Caloric Curve

C. Sfienti et al. (ALADIN2000 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 152701 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Excitation of ${}^{1}S$ and ${}^{3}S$ Metastable Helium Atoms to Doubly Excited States

M. Alagia, M. Coreno, H. Farrokhpour, P. Franceschi, A. Mihelič, A. Moise, R. Omidyan, K. C. Prince, R. Richter, J. Söderström, S. Stranges, M. Tabrizchi, and M. Žitnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153001 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

High-Fidelity Transport of Trapped-Ion Qubits through an $X$ -Junction Trap Array

R. B. Blakestad, C. Ospelkaus, A. P. VanDevender, J. M. Amini, J. Britton, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153002 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Two-Center Double-Capture Interference in Fast $H e^{2 +} + H_{2}$ Collisions

Deepankar Misra, H. T. Schmidt, M. Gudmundsson, D. Fischer, N. Haag, H. A. B. Johansson, A. Källberg, B. Najjari, P. Reinhed, R. Schuch, M. Schöffler, A. Simonsson, A. B. Voitkiv, and H. Cederquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153201 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Probing the 2D to 3D Structural Transition in Gold Cluster Anions Using Argon Tagging

Wei Huang and Lai-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153401 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Inhibition of Light Tunneling in Waveguide Arrays

A. Szameit, Y. V. Kartashov, F. Dreisow, M. Heinrich, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, V. A. Vysloukh, F. Lederer, and L. Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153901 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Multipath Entanglement of Two Photons

Alessandro Rossi, Giuseppe Vallone, Andrea Chiuri, Francesco De Martini, and Paolo Mataloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153902 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Cross Conversion between Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Quasicylindrical Waves

X. Y. Yang, H. T. Liu, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153903 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Bright Cavity Polariton Solitons

O. A. Egorov, D. V. Skryabin, A. V. Yulin, and F. Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153904 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Optical Pattern Transitions from Modulation to Transverse Instabilities in Photorefractive Crystals

Chien-Chung Jeng, YuanYao Lin, Ray-Ching Hong, and Ray-Kuang Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 153905 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Deformable Self-Propelled Particles

Takao Ohta and Takahiro Ohkuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 154101 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Subwavelength Imaging in Phononic Crystals

A. Sukhovich, B. Merheb, K. Muralidharan, J. O. Vasseur, Y. Pennec, P. A. Deymier, and J. H. Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 154301 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collective-Interaction Control and Reduction of Optical Frequency Shot Noise in Charged-Particle Beams

A. Gover and E. Dyunin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 154801 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Coherent Forward Stimulated-Brillouin Scattering of a Spatially Incoherent Laser Beam in a Plasma and Its Effect on Beam Spray

M. Grech, G. Riazuelo, D. Pesme, S. Weber, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155001 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Observations of Double Layers in Earth’s Plasma Sheet

R. E. Ergun, L. Andersson, J. Tao, V. Angelopoulos, J. Bonnell, J. P. McFadden, D. E. Larson, S. Eriksson, T. Johansson, C. M. Cully, D. N. Newman, M. V. Goldman, A. Roux, O. LeContel, K.-H. Glassmeier, and W. Baumjohann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155002 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Quiescent H-Mode Plasmas with Strong Edge Rotation in the Cocurrent Direction

K. H. Burrell, T. H. Osborne, P. B. Snyder, W. P. West, M. E. Fenstermacher, R. J. Groebner, P. Gohil, A. W. Leonard, and W. M. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155003 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Impact-Ionization Cooling in Laser-Induced Plasma Filaments

A. Filin, R. Compton, D. A. Romanov, and R. J. Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155004 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Redistribution of Suprathermal Electrons due to Fishbone Frequency Jumps

A. Macor, M. Goniche, J. F. Artaud, J. Decker, D. Elbeze, X. Garbet, G. Giruzzi, G. T. Hoang, P. Maget, D. Mazon, D. Molina, C. Nguyen, Y. Peysson, R. Sabot, and J. L. Ségui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155005 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Observation of $> 400 − eV$ Precursor Plasmas from Low-Wire-Number Copper Arrays at the 1-MA Zebra Facility

C. A. Coverdale, A. S. Safronova, V. L. Kantsyrev, N. D. Ouart, A. A. Esaulov, C. Deeney, K. M. Williamson, G. C. Osborne, I. Shrestha, D. J. Ampleford, and B. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155006 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Exploring Correlated 1D Bose Gases from the Superfluid to the Mott-Insulator State by Inelastic Light Scattering

D. Clément, N. Fabbri, L. Fallani, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155301 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Microscopic Mechanisms of the Brittleness of Viscoelastic Fluids

H. Tabuteau, S. Mora, G. Porte, M. Abkarian, and C. Ligoure

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155501 (2009) - Published 14 April, 2009

Oxide-Ion Disorder Within the High Temperature $δ$ Phase of ${Bi}_{2} O_{3}$

Chris E. Mohn, Svein Stølen, Stefan T. Norberg, and Stephen Hull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155502 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Key Role of the Cation Interstitial Structure in the Radiation Resistance of Pyrochlores

Alain Chartier, Gilles Catillon, and Jean-Paul Crocombette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155503 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Atomic Scale Structure of (001) Hydrogen-Induced Platelets in Germanium

Marie-Laure David, Laurent Pizzagalli, Fréderic Pailloux, and Jean François Barbot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155504 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Growth Mechanisms of Metal Nanoparticles via First Principles

Giannis Mpourmpakis and Dionisios G. Vlachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155505 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Nonmonotonic Evolution of Density Fluctuations during Glass Relaxation

John C. Mauro, Sezen Soyer Uzun, Wim Bras, and Sabyasachi Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155506 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Change of Diffusion Mechanism with Lattice Parameter in the Series of Lanthanide Indides Having $L 1_{2}$ Structure

Gary S. Collins, Xia Jiang, John P. Bevington, Farida Selim, and Matthew O. Zacate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 155901 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

How Wetting and Adhesion Affect Thermal Conductance of a Range of Hydrophobic to Hydrophilic Aqueous Interfaces

Natalia Shenogina, Rahul Godawat, Pawel Keblinski, and Shekhar Garde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156101 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Wurtzite-Type CoO Nanocrystals in Ultrathin ZnCoO Films

H. L. Meyerheim, C. Tusche, A. Ernst, S. Ostanin, I. V. Maznichenko, K. Mohseni, N. Jedrecy, J. Zegenhagen, J. Roy, I. Mertig, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156102 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009

Coarsening Kinetics of a Spinodally Decomposed Vicinal Si(111) Surface

Yongsam Kim, M. H. Jo, T. C. Kim, C. W. Yang, J. W. Kim, J. S. Hwang, D. Y. Noh, N. D. Kim, and J. W. Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156103 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Electron-Induced Desorption of Physisorbed $H_{2}$ via Resonance Vibrational Excitation

S. Andersson and K. Svensson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156104 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Prediction that Uniaxial Tension along $⟨ 111 ⟩$ Produces a Direct Band Gap in Germanium

Feng Zhang, Vincent H. Crespi, and Peihong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156401 (2009) - Published 15 April, 2009

Critical Behavior at the Mott-Anderson Transition: A Typical-Medium Theory Perspective

M. C. O. Aguiar, V. Dobrosavljević, E. Abrahams, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156402 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Possible Phase Transition Deep Inside the Hidden Order Phase of Ultraclean ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

H. Shishido, K. Hashimoto, T. Shibauchi, T. Sasaki, H. Oizumi, N. Kobayashi, T. Takamasu, K. Takehana, Y. Imanaka, T. D. Matsuda, Y. Haga, Y. Onuki, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156403 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law at the Kondo Breakdown Quantum Critical Point

K.-S. Kim and C. Pépin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156404 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Probing the Debye Layer: Capacitance and Potential of Zero Charge Measured Using a Debye-Layer Transistor

J.-L. Fraikin, M. V. Requa, and A. N. Cleland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156601 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Spin Currents in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

S. D. Ganichev, S. A. Tarasenko, V. V. Bel’kov, P. Olbrich, W. Eder, D. R. Yakovlev, V. Kolkovsky, W. Zaleszczyk, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156602 (2009) - Published 16 April, 2009

Magnetic Impurities on the Surface of a Topological Insulator

Qin Liu, Chao-Xing Liu, Cenke Xu, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156603 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

Theory for Spin Diffusion in Disordered Organic Semiconductors

P. A. Bobbert, W. Wagemans, F. W. A. van Oost, B. Koopmans, and M. Wohlgenannt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156604 (2009) - Published 17 April, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Time Evolution of a Single-Electron Wave Function

M. Kataoka, M. R. Astley, A. L. Thorn, D. K. L. Oi, C. H. W. Barnes, C. J. B. Ford, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 156801 (2009) - Published 13 April, 2009