Volume 102, Issue 19

15 May 2009

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Intensity of light refracted through a metamaterial prism. Unlike a normal prism, violet light is refracted less than red light.

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Anomalous Refraction of Light Colors by a Metamaterial Prism
Mário G. Silveirinha
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193903 (2009)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: The Future of Scientific Publishing

Jack Sandweiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190001 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Most Quantum States Are Too Entangled To Be Useful As Computational Resources

D. Gross, S. T. Flammia, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190501 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Are Random Pure States Useful for Quantum Computation?

Michael J. Bremner, Caterina Mora, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190502 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Minimally Entangled Typical Quantum States at Finite Temperature

Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190601 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Focusing Ultrasound with an Acoustic Metamaterial Network

Shu Zhang, Leilei Yin, and Nicholas Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194301 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Breaking Strain of Neutron Star Crust and Gravitational Waves

C. J. Horowitz and Kai Kadau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191102 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser-Driven Ultrafast Field Propagation on Solid Surfaces

K. Quinn, P. A. Wilson, C. A. Cecchetti, B. Ramakrishna, L. Romagnani, G. Sarri, L. Lancia, J. Fuchs, A. Pipahl, T. Toncian, O. Willi, R. J. Clarke, D. Neely, M. Notley, P. Gallegos, D. C. Carroll, M. N. Quinn, X. H. Yuan, P. McKenna, T. V. Liseykina, A. Macchi, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194801 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure-Induced Superconducting State of Europium Metal at Low Temperatures

M. Debessai, T. Matsuoka, J. J. Hamlin, J. S. Schilling, and K. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197002 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Lena M. Lopatina and Jonathan V. Selinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197802 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

LETTERS

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

Unified Picture of Superfluidity: From Bogoliubov’s Approximation to Popov’s Hydrodynamic Theory

N. Dupuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190401 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Momentum Resolved Radio Frequency Spectroscopy in Trapped Fermi Gases

Qijin Chen and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190402 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Most Quantum States Are Too Entangled To Be Useful As Computational Resources

D. Gross, S. T. Flammia, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190501 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Are Random Pure States Useful for Quantum Computation?

Michael J. Bremner, Caterina Mora, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190502 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Direct Measurements of Entanglement and Permutation Symmetry

S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190503 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Assessing Quantum Dimensionality from Observable Dynamics

Michael M. Wolf and David Perez-Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190504 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Minimally Entangled Typical Quantum States at Finite Temperature

Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190601 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems

E. Ben-Naim and P. L. Krapivsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 190602 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Self-Force Correction to the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of a Schwarzschild Black Hole

Leor Barack and Norichika Sago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191101 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Breaking Strain of Neutron Star Crust and Gravitational Waves

C. J. Horowitz and Kai Kadau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191102 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

World-Volume Effective Theory for Higher-Dimensional Black Holes

Roberto Emparan, Troels Harmark, Vasilis Niarchos, and Niels A. Obers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191301 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Inflationary Universe with Anisotropic Hair

Masa-aki Watanabe, Sugumi Kanno, and Jiro Soda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191302 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

From Decay to Complete Breaking: Pulling the Strings in $S U (2)$ Yang-Mills Theory

M. Pepe and U.-J. Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191601 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Higher Derivative Corrections to Black Hole Thermodynamics from Supersymmetric Matrix Quantum Mechanics

Masanori Hanada, Yoshifumi Hyakutake, Jun Nishimura, and Shingo Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191602 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Scheme for Building a ’t Hooft–Polyakov Monopole

Julian Sonner and David Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191801 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Search for Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying into Top and Bottom Quarks in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191802 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Precise Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor $G_{M}^{n}$ in the Few- ${GeV}^{2}$ Region

J. Lachniet et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192001 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Measurement of $γ + b + X$ and $γ + c + X$ Production Cross Sections in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (The DØ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192002 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Observation of an “ABC” Effect in Proton-Proton Collisions

S. Dymov, M. Hartmann, A. Kacharava, A. Khoukaz, V. Komarov, P. Kulessa, A. Kulikov, V. Kurbatov, G. Macharashvili, S. Merzliakov, M. Mielke, S. Mikirtychiants, M. Nekipelov, M. Nioradze, H. Ohm, F. Rathmann, H. Ströher, D. Tsirkov, Yu. Uzikov, Yu. Valdau, C. Wilkin, S. Yaschenko, and B. Zalikhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192301 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Prediction of a Photon Peak in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana and David Mateos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192302 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Fission Barriers of Compound Superheavy Nuclei

J. C. Pei, W. Nazarewicz, J. A. Sheikh, and A. K. Kerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192501 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Probing of Collective Electron Dynamics Driven by Dielectronic Repulsion

M. A. Lysaght, P. G. Burke, and H. W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193001 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Two-Photon Speckle as a Probe of Multi-Dimensional Entanglement

C. W. J. Beenakker, J. W. F. Venderbos, and M. P. van Exter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193601 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Spatial Quantum Correlations Induced by Multiple Scattering of Nonclassical Light

S. Smolka, A. Huck, U. L. Andersen, A. Lagendijk, and P. Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193901 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Brillouin-Enhanced Hyperparametric Generation of an Optical Frequency Comb in a Monolithic Highly Nonlinear Fiber Cavity Pumped by a cw Laser

Danielle Braje, Leo Hollberg, and Scott Diddams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193902 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Anomalous Refraction of Light Colors by a Metamaterial Prism

Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193903 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Exploring Multistability in Semiconductor Ring Lasers: Theory and Experiment

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 193904 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Irregular Subharmonic Cluster Patterns in an Autonomous Photoelectrochemical Oscillator

Iljana Miethe, Vladimir García-Morales, and Katharina Krischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194101 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Stochastic Phase Reduction for a General Class of Noisy Limit Cycle Oscillators

Jun-nosuke Teramae, Hiroya Nakao, and G. Bard Ermentrout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194102 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Focusing Ultrasound with an Acoustic Metamaterial Network

Shu Zhang, Leilei Yin, and Nicholas Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194301 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Universal Dripping and Jetting in a Transverse Shear Flow

Robert F. Meyer and John C. Crocker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194501 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Competition between Local Collisions and Collective Hydrodynamic Feedback Controls Traffic Flows in Microfluidic Networks

M. Belloul, W. Engl, A. Colin, P. Panizza, and A. Ajdari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194502 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Thin-Film Fluid Flows over Microdecorated Surfaces: Observation of Polygonal Hydraulic Jumps

Emilie Dressaire, Laurent Courbin, Jérome Crest, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194503 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Ratchetlike Motion of a Shaken Drop

Xavier Noblin, Richard Kofman, and Franck Celestini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194504 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser-Driven Ultrafast Field Propagation on Solid Surfaces

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 194801 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Directed Acceleration of Electrons from a Solid Surface by Sub-10-fs Laser Pulses

F. Brandl, B. Hidding, J. Osterholz, D. Hemmers, A. Karmakar, A. Pukhov, and G. Pretzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195001 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Role of Plasma Elongation on Turbulent Transport in Magnetically Confined Plasmas

P. Angelino, X. Garbet, L. Villard, A. Bottino, S. Jolliet, Ph. Ghendrih, V. Grandgirard, B. F. McMillan, Y. Sarazin, G. Dif-Pradalier, and T. M. Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195002 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Destabilizing Effect of Dynamical Friction on Fast-Particle-Driven Waves in a Near-Threshold Nonlinear Regime

M. K. Lilley, B. N. Breizman, and S. E. Sharapov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195003 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Symmetry Constraints on the Dynamics of Magnetically Confined Plasma

Wayne Arter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195004 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Laser Smoothing and Imprint Reduction with a Foam Layer in the Multikilojoule Regime

S. Depierreux et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195005 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Plasticity-Induced Structural Anisotropy of Silica Glass

C. L. Rountree, D. Vandembroucq, M. Talamali, E. Bouchaud, and S. Roux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195501 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Connection between Boson Peak and Elastic Properties in Silicate Glasses

G. Baldi, A. Fontana, G. Monaco, L. Orsingher, S. Rols, F. Rossi, and B. Ruta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195502 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Revealing Subsurface Vibrational Modes by Atom-Resolved Damping Force Spectroscopy

Makoto Ashino, Roland Wiesendanger, Andrei N. Khlobystov, Savas Berber, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195503 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

One-Dimensional Confined Motion of Single Metal Atoms inside Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Jamie H. Warner, Yasuhiro Ito, Mark H. Rümmeli, Thomas Gemming, Bernd Büchner, Hisanori Shinohara, and G. Andrew D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195504 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Fabrication of a Freestanding Boron Nitride Single Layer and Its Defect Assignments

Chuanhong Jin, Fang Lin, Kazu Suenaga, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195505 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Low Temperature Studies of the Excited-State Structure of Negatively Charged Nitrogen-Vacancy Color Centers in Diamond

A. Batalov, V. Jacques, F. Kaiser, P. Siyushev, P. Neumann, L. J. Rogers, R. L. McMurtrie, N. B. Manson, F. Jelezko, and J. Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195506 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Theory of Amorphous Packings of Binary Mixtures of Hard Spheres

Indaco Biazzo, Francesco Caltagirone, Giorgio Parisi, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195701 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Atomistic Simulations of Heat Transport in Silicon Nanowires

Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195901 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Selective Growth and Dissolution of Ni on a PdAu Bimetallic Surface by In Situ STM: Determining the Relative Adsorbate-Substrate Interaction Energy

A. Damian, F. Maroun, and P. Allongue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196101 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Phase Contribution of Image Potential on Empty Quantum Well States in Pb Islands on the Cu(111) Surface

M. C. Yang, C. L. Lin, W. B. Su, S. P. Lin, S. M. Lu, H. Y. Lin, C. S. Chang, W. K. Hsu, and Tien T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196102 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Structure and Growth of Height-Selected Ag Islands on Fivefold $i − AlPdMn$ Quasicrystalline Surfaces: STM Analysis and Step Dynamics Modeling

Barış Ünal, V. Fournée, P. A. Thiel, and J. W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196103 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Orbital and Charge-Resolved Polaron States in CdSe Dots and Rods Probed by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Zhixiang Sun (孙志祥), Ingmar Swart, Christophe Delerue, Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196401 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Violation of Critical Universality at the Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition of ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

C. Krellner, S. Hartmann, A. Pikul, N. Oeschler, J. G. Donath, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196402 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Spiral Charge Frustration in the Molecular Conductor $(DI − DCNQI)_{2} Ag$

Hitoshi Seo and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196403 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Nonequilibrium Spin Dynamics in the Ferromagnetic Kondo Model

Andreas Hackl, David Roosen, Stefan Kehrein, and Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196601 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Boosting Electronic Transport in Carbon Nanotubes by Isotopic Disorder

Niels Vandecasteele, Michele Lazzeri, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196801 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

Mesoscopic Spin-Hall Effect in 2D Electron Systems with Smooth Boundaries

P. G. Silvestrov, V. A. Zyuzin, and E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196802 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Increased Phonon Scattering by Nanograins and Point Defects in Nanostructured Silicon with a Low Concentration of Germanium

G. H. Zhu, H. Lee, Y. C. Lan, X. W. Wang, G. Joshi, D. Z. Wang, J. Yang, D. Vashaee, H. Guilbert, A. Pillitteri, M. S. Dresselhaus, G. Chen, and Z. F. Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196803 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Lattice Model of a Three-Dimensional Topological Singlet Superconductor with Time-Reversal Symmetry

Andreas P. Schnyder, Shinsei Ryu, and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 196804 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Anisotropic Dependence of Superconductivity on Uniaxial Pressure in ${CeIrIn}_{5}$

O. M. Dix, A. G. Swartz, R. J. Zieve, J. Cooley, T. R. Sayles, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197001 (2009) - Published 11 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure-Induced Superconducting State of Europium Metal at Low Temperatures

M. Debessai, T. Matsuoka, J. J. Hamlin, J. S. Schilling, and K. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197002 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Unconventional Vortex Dynamics in Mesoscopic Superconducting Corbino Disks

N. S. Lin, V. R. Misko, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197003 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Model for Determining the Pairing Symmetry and Relative Sign of the Energy Gap of Iron-Arsenide Superconductors using Tunneling Spectroscopy

Da Wang, Yuan Wan, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197004 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Quantum Effects in a Weakly Frustrated $S = 1 / 2$ Two-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnet in an Applied Magnetic Field

N. Tsyrulin, T. Pardini, R. R. P. Singh, F. Xiao, P. Link, A. Schneidewind, A. Hiess, C. P. Landee, M. M. Turnbull, and M. Kenzelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197201 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Chiral Paramagnetic Skyrmion-like Phase in MnSi

C. Pappas, E. Lelièvre-Berna, P. Falus, P. M. Bentley, E. Moskvin, S. Grigoriev, P. Fouquet, and B. Farago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197202 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Continuous-Wave Pumping of Multiexciton Bands in the Photoluminescence Spectrum of a Single CdTe-CdSe Core-Shell Colloidal Quantum Dot

Ruth Osovsky, Dima Cheskis, Viki Kloper, Aldona Sashchiuk, Martin Kroner, and Efrat Lifshitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197401 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Dynamical Disorder of $π$ -Molecular Structures Induced by Proton Dynamics in an Organic Ferroelectric Compound

J. Fujioka, S. Horiuchi, F. Kagawa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197601 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

Unusual Hyperfine Interaction of Dirac Electrons and NMR Spectroscopy in Graphene

Balázs Dóra and Ferenc Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197602 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Monte Carlo Simulation of Coarse Grain Polymeric Systems

François A. Detcheverry, Darin Q. Pike, Paul F. Nealey, Marcus Müller, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197801 (2009) - Published 12 May, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

COMMENTS

Comment on “Temperature-Dependent Localized Excitations of Doped Carriers in Superconducting Diamond”

J. D. Lee, S. W. Han, N. Miyawaki, and H. Gomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 199701 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Ishizaka et al. Reply:

K. Ishizaka, R. Eguchi, S. Tsuda, A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, T. Shimojima, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, C.-T. Chen, Y. Takano, M. Nagao, I. Sakaguchi, T. Takenouchi, H. Kawarada, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 199702 (2009) - Published 13 May, 2009

Comment on “Origin of Metallic States at the Heterointerface between the Band Insulators ${LaAlO}_{3}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$ ”

Scott A. Chambers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 199703 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

Yoshimatsu et al. Reply:

K. Yoshimatsu, R. Yasuhara, H. Kumigashira, and M. Oshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 199704 (2009) - Published 14 May, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Dipole Induced Transparency in Drop-Filter Cavity-Waveguide Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153601 (2006)]

Edo Waks and Jelena Vuckovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 199901 (2009) - Published 15 May, 2009