Volume 102, Issue 18

8 May 2009

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Composite overlay of optical and electron microscope images of a carbon nanotube lamp filament between electrodes about 1 μm apart. The nanotube itself is not visible in the image. Colored contours indicate the size and shape of the incandescence intensity distribution.

From the article:

Probing Planck’s Law with Incandescent Light Emission from a Single Carbon Nanotube
Yuwei Fan, S. B. Singer, Raymond Bergstrom, and B. C. Regan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187402 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement of the Cosmic Ray $e^{+} + e^{-}$ Spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

A. A. Abdo et al. (Fermi LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 181101 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

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Unusual Hall Effect Anomaly in MnSi under Pressure

Minhyea Lee, W. Kang, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186601 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

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Topological Hall Effect in the $A$ Phase of MnSi

A. Neubauer, C. Pfleiderer, B. Binz, A. Rosch, R. Ritz, P. G. Niklowitz, and P. Böni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186602 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

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Nonthermal Photocoercivity Effect in a Low-Doped (Ga,Mn)As Ferromagnetic Semiconductor

G. V. Astakhov, H. Hoffmann, V. L. Korenev, T. Kiessling, J. Schwittek, G. M. Schott, C. Gould, W. Ossau, K. Brunner, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187401 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

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Experimental Observation of a Photon Bouncing Ball

G. Della Valle, M. Savoini, M. Ornigotti, P. Laporta, V. Foglietti, M. Finazzi, L. Duò, and S. Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180402 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

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Huge Conductance Peak Caused by Symmetry in Double Quantum Dots

Robert S. Whitney, P. Marconcini, and M. Macucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186802 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons under Incoherent Pumping

A. V. Chumak, G. A. Melkov, V. E. Demidov, O. Dzyapko, V. L. Safonov, and S. O. Demokritov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187205 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

LETTERS

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

Domain Walls, Fusion Rules, and Conformal Field Theory in the Quantum Hall Regime

Eddy Ardonne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180401 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

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Experimental Observation of a Photon Bouncing Ball

G. Della Valle, M. Savoini, M. Ornigotti, P. Laporta, V. Foglietti, M. Finazzi, L. Duò, and S. Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180402 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Phase-Diffusion Dynamics in Weakly Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Erez Boukobza, Maya Chuchem, Doron Cohen, and Amichay Vardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180403 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Ground State Energy of the Two-Dimensional Weakly Interacting Bose Gas: First Correction Beyond Bogoliubov Theory

Christophe Mora and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180404 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Andreev Reflection in Bosonic Condensates

I. Zapata and F. Sols

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180405 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Entanglement Renormalization in Two Spatial Dimensions

G. Evenbly and G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180406 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Universal Computation by Quantum Walk

Andrew M. Childs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180501 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

No Deterministic Purification for Two Copies of a Noisy Entangled State

Anthony J. Short

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180502 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Transitions in the Communication Capacity of Dissipative Qubit Channels

D. Daems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180503 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Unconditional Security Proof of Long-Distance Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Discrete Modulation

Anthony Leverrier and Philippe Grangier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 180504 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of the Cosmic Ray $e^{+} + e^{-}$ Spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

A. A. Abdo et al. (Fermi LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 181101 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Precision Determination of Electroweak Coupling from Atomic Parity Violation and Implications for Particle Physics

S. G. Porsev, K. Beloy, and A. Derevianko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 181601 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Schwarzschild Radius from Monte Carlo Calculation of the Wilson Loop in Supersymmetric Matrix Quantum Mechanics

Masanori Hanada, Akitsugu Miwa, Jun Nishimura, and Shingo Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 181602 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Direct Measurement of the $W$ Production Charge Asymmetry in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 181801 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Minimal Gauged $U (1)_{B - L}$ Model with Spontaneous $R$ Parity Violation

Vernon Barger, Pavel Fileviez Pérez, and Sogee Spinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 181802 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Measurement of Angular Distributions of Drell-Yan Dimuons in $p + p$ Interactions at $800 GeV / c$

L. Y. Zhu et al. (FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 182001 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Quantum Phase Transitions and New Scales in QCD-like Theories

Mithat Ünsal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 182002 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Next-to-Leading-Order Predictions for $t$ -Channel Single-Top Production at Hadron Colliders

J. M. Campbell, R. Frederix, F. Maltoni, and F. Tramontano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 182003 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Baryon Stopping as a New Probe of Geometric Scaling

Yacine Mehtar-Tani and Georg Wolschin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 182301 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Measurement of the In-Medium $K^{0}$ Inclusive Cross Section in $π^{-}$ -Induced Reactions at $1.15 GeV / c$

M. L. Benabderrahmane et al. (FOPI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 182501 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

In-Beam $γ$ -Ray Spectroscopy of Very Neutron-Rich Nuclei: Excited States in ${}^{46}S$ and ${}^{48}{Ar}$

A. Gade, P. Adrich, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, J. M. Cook, C. Aa. Diget, T. Glasmacher, S. McDaniel, A. Ratkiewicz, K. Siwek, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 182502 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Microwave-Driven Atoms: From Anderson Localization to Einstein’s Photoeffect

Alexej Schelle, Dominique Delande, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183001 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Electrically Induced Two-Photon Transparency in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Alex Hayat, Amir Nevet, and Meir Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183002 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Cold Reactions of Alkali-Metal and Water Clusters inside Helium Nanodroplets

S. Müller, S. Krapf, Th. Koslowski, M. Mudrich, and F. Stienkemeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183401 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Intensity-Field Correlation of Single-Atom Resonance Fluorescence

S. Gerber, D. Rotter, L. Slodička, J. Eschner, H. J. Carmichael, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183601 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Generation and Direct Detection of Broadband Mesoscopic Polarization-Squeezed Vacuum

Timur Iskhakov, Maria V. Chekhova, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183602 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Cooperative Oscillation of Nondegenerate Transverse Modes in an Optical System: Multimode Operation in Parametric Oscillators

Axelle Amon, Pierre Suret, Serge Bielawski, Dominique Derozier, and Marc Lefranc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183901 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Focusing Radially Polarized Light by a Concentrically Corrugated Silver Film without a Hole

Piotr Wróbel, Jacek Pniewski, Tomasz J. Antosiewicz, and Tomasz Szoplik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183902 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Design and Experimental Realization of a Broadband Transformation Media Field Rotator at Microwave Frequencies

Huanyang Chen, Bo Hou, Shuyu Chen, Xianyu Ao, Weijia Wen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 183903 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Relativistic Invariance of Lyapunov Exponents in Bounded and Unbounded Systems

Adilson E. Motter and Alberto Saa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 184101 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Infiltration of Electrolytes in Molecular-Sized Nanopores

Ling Liu, Xi Chen, Weiyi Lu, Aijie Han, and Yu Qiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 184501 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Water Flow in Carbon Nanotubes: Transition to Subcontinuum Transport

John A. Thomas and Alan J. H. McGaughey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 184502 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multicascade Proton Acceleration by a Superintense Laser Pulse in the Regime of Relativistically Induced Slab Transparency

A. A. Gonoskov, A. V. Korzhimanov, V. I. Eremin, A. V. Kim, and A. M. Sergeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 184801 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Measurement of Correlation-Enhanced Collision Rates

F. Anderegg, D. H. E. Dubin, T. M. O’Neil, and C. F. Driscoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185001 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Sheared Plasma Rotation in Partially Stochastic Magnetic Fields

A. Wingen and K. H. Spatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185002 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Experimental Evidence of Predominantly Transverse Electron Plasma Waves Driven by Stimulated Raman Scattering of Picosecond Laser Pulses

C. Rousseaux, S. D. Baton, D. Bénisti, L. Gremillet, J. C. Adam, A. Héron, D. J. Strozzi, and F. Amiranoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185003 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Plasma-Density Determination from X-Ray Radiography of Laser-Driven Spherical Implosions

F. J. Marshall, P. W. McKenty, J. A. Delettrez, R. Epstein, J. P. Knauer, V. A. Smalyuk, J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, F. H. Séguin, and R. C. Mancini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185004 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Stimulated Raman and Brillouin Backscattering of Collimated Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

J. T. Mendonça, B. Thidé, and H. Then

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185005 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Non-Abelian Josephson Effect between Two $F = 2$ Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates in Double Optical Traps

Ran Qi, Xiao-Lu Yu, Z. B. Li, and W. M. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185301 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Supersolid Behavior in Confined Geometry

J. T. West, X. Lin, Z. G. Cheng, and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185302 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Superhard Semiconducting Optically Transparent High Pressure Phase of Boron

E. Yu. Zarechnaya, L. Dubrovinsky, N. Dubrovinskaia, Y. Filinchuk, D. Chernyshov, V. Dmitriev, N. Miyajima, A. El Goresy, H. F. Braun, S. Van Smaalen, I. Kantor, A. Kantor, V. Prakapenka, M. Hanfland, A. S. Mikhaylushkin, I. A. Abrikosov, and S. I. Simak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185501 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Identification of Hydrogen Molecules in ZnO

E. V. Lavrov, F. Herklotz, and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185502 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Apparent Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem due to Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Model Glass-Forming Liquid

Takeshi Kawasaki and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 185701 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Subnanometric Near-Field Raman Investigation in the Vicinity of a Metallic Nanostructure

Taro Ichimura, Shintaro Fujii, Prabhat Verma, Takaaki Yano, Yasushi Inouye, and Satoshi Kawata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186101 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Transition from Thermal to Athermal Friction under Cryogenic Conditions

Xueying Zhao (赵学应), Simon R. Phillpot, W. Gregory Sawyer, Susan B. Sinnott, and Scott S. Perry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186102 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Static and Dynamical Phyllotaxis in a Magnetic Cactus

Cristiano Nisoli, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Paul E. Lammert, J. D. Maynard, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186103 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mott Transition between a Spin-Liquid Insulator and a Metal in Three Dimensions

Daniel Podolsky, Arun Paramekanti, Yong Baek Kim, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186401 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Strong Light-Matter Coupling in Subwavelength Metal-Dielectric Microcavities at Terahertz Frequencies

Y. Todorov, A. M. Andrews, I. Sagnes, R. Colombelli, P. Klang, G. Strasser, and C. Sirtori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186402 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Polaron Formation in the Presence of Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling: Implications for Spintronics

Lucian Covaci and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186403 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

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Unusual Hall Effect Anomaly in MnSi under Pressure

Minhyea Lee, W. Kang, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186601 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Topological Hall Effect in the $A$ Phase of MnSi

A. Neubauer, C. Pfleiderer, B. Binz, A. Rosch, R. Ritz, P. G. Niklowitz, and P. Böni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186602 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Phonon-Mediated Nonequilibrium Interaction between Nanoscale Devices

G. J. Schinner, H. P. Tranitz, W. Wegscheider, J. P. Kotthaus, and S. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186801 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

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Huge Conductance Peak Caused by Symmetry in Double Quantum Dots

Robert S. Whitney, P. Marconcini, and M. Macucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186802 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Localization-Delocalization Transition of Indirect Excitons in Lateral Electrostatic Lattices

M. Remeika, J. C. Graves, A. T. Hammack, A. D. Meyertholen, M. M. Fogler, L. V. Butov, M. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186803 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Electronic Coupling and Optimal Gap Size between Two Metal Nanoparticles

Ke Zhao, M. Claudia Troparevsky, Di Xiao, Adolfo G. Eguiluz, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186804 (2009) - Published 8 May, 2009

Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductors and Superfluids in Two and Three Dimensions

Xiao-Liang Qi, Taylor L. Hughes, S. Raghu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187001 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Nernst Effect Measurements of Epitaxial $Y_{0.95} {Ca}_{0.05} {Ba}_{2} ({Cu}_{1 - x} {Zn}_{x})_{3} O_{y}$ and $Y_{0.9} {Ca}_{0.1} {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$ Superconducting Films

I. Kokanović, J. R. Cooper, and M. Matusiak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187002 (2009) - Published 4 May, 2009

Optical Spectroscopy of Superconducting ${Ba}_{0.55} K_{0.45} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : Evidence for Strong Coupling to Low-Energy Bosons

J. Yang, D. Hüvonen, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, N. Ni, P. C. Canfield, S. L. Bud’ko, J. P. Carbotte, and T. Timusk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187003 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Large Anisotropic Uniaxial Pressure Dependencies of $T_{c}$ in Single Crystalline $Ba ({Fe}_{0.92} {Co}_{0.08})_{2} {As}_{2}$

Frédéric Hardy, Peter Adelmann, Thomas Wolf, Hilbert v. Löhneysen, and Christoph Meingast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187004 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Two-Gap Superconductivity in ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : A Complementary Study of the Magnetic Penetration Depth by Muon-Spin Rotation and Angle-Resolved Photoemission

R. Khasanov, D. V. Evtushinsky, A. Amato, H.-H. Klauss, H. Luetkens, Ch. Niedermayer, B. Büchner, G. L. Sun, C. T. Lin, J. T. Park, D. S. Inosov, and V. Hinkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187005 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

Giant Modification of the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Transition-Metal Monolayers by an External Electric Field

Kohji Nakamura, Riki Shimabukuro, Yuji Fujiwara, Toru Akiyama, Tomonori Ito, and A. J. Freeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187201 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Order by Static Disorder in the Ising Chain Magnet ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2 - x} {Mn}_{x} O_{6}$

V. Kiryukhin, Seongsu Lee, W. Ratcliff, II, Q. Huang, H. T. Yi, Y. J. Choi, and S-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187202 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Hamiltonian Tomography in an Access-Limited Setting without State Initialization

C. Di Franco, M. Paternostro, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187203 (2009) - Published 5 May, 2009

Renormalization of Bulk Magnetic Electron States at High Binding Energies

A. Hofmann, X. Y. Cui, J. Schäfer, S. Meyer, P. Höpfner, C. Blumenstein, M. Paul, L. Patthey, E. Rotenberg, J. Bünemann, F. Gebhard, T. Ohm, W. Weber, and R. Claessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187204 (2009) - Published 6 May, 2009

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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons under Incoherent Pumping

A. V. Chumak, G. A. Melkov, V. E. Demidov, O. Dzyapko, V. L. Safonov, and S. O. Demokritov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187205 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

Itinerant Magnetic Excitations in Antiferromagnetic ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

S. O. Diallo, V. P. Antropov, T. G. Perring, C. Broholm, J. J. Pulikkotil, N. Ni, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 187206 (2009) - Published 7 May, 2009

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