Volume 102, Issue 20

22 May 2009

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STM image of a Fe nanowire deposited on a molecular Cu₃N network. The nanowires form in grooves in the network. Because the Fe atom occupation is asymmetric at the crests, the nanowires exhibit a minimum separation. See also Synopsis in Physics.

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Strain Relief Guided Growth of Atomic Nanowires in a ${Cu}_{3} N − Cu (110)$ Molecular Network
X.-D. Ma, D. I. Bazhanov, O. Fruchart, F. Yildiz, T. Yokoyama, M. Przybylski, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, and J. Kirschner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205503 (2009)

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Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber

M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, V. Balic, T. Peyronel, M. Hafezi, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203902 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

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Deriving Carbon Atomic Chains from Graphene

Chuanhong Jin, Haiping Lan, Lianmao Peng, Kazu Suenaga, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205501 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

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Strain Relief Guided Growth of Atomic Nanowires in a ${Cu}_{3} N − Cu (110)$ Molecular Network

X.-D. Ma, D. I. Bazhanov, O. Fruchart, F. Yildiz, T. Yokoyama, M. Przybylski, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205503 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

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Limits on a Muon Flux from Neutralino Annihilations in the Sun with the IceCube 22-String Detector

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201302 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

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Quantum Coherence of Relic Neutrinos

George M. Fuller and Chad T. Kishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201303 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

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

Precision Measurement of the $n − {}^{3}{He}$ Incoherent Scattering Length Using Neutron Interferometry

M. G. Huber, M. Arif, T. C. Black, W. C. Chen, T. R. Gentile, D. S. Hussey, D. A. Pushin, F. E. Wietfeldt, and L. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 200401 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

Two-Qubit State Tomography Using a Joint Dispersive Readout

S. Filipp, P. Maurer, P. J. Leek, M. Baur, R. Bianchetti, J. M. Fink, M. Göppl, L. Steffen, J. M. Gambetta, A. Blais, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 200402 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Thresholds for Topological Codes in the Presence of Loss

Thomas M. Stace, Sean D. Barrett, and Andrew C. Doherty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 200501 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

Electronic Refrigeration at the Quantum Limit

Andrey V. Timofeev, Meri Helle, Matthias Meschke, Mikko Möttönen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 200801 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Active Galactic Nuclei Shed Light on Axionlike Particles

Clare Burrage, Anne-Christine Davis, and Douglas J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201101 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions

Eric A. Bergshoeff, Olaf Hohm, and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201301 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

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Limits on a Muon Flux from Neutralino Annihilations in the Sun with the IceCube 22-String Detector

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201302 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

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Quantum Coherence of Relic Neutrinos

George M. Fuller and Chad T. Kishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201303 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Realistic Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with keV Mass does not Contradict Cosmological Bounds

Alexey Boyarsky, Julien Lesgourgues, Oleg Ruchayskiy, and Matteo Viel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201304 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Decays $B_{(s)}^{0} \to e^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B_{(s)}^{0} \to e^{+} e^{-}$ in CDF Run II

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201801 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Measurement of the $Z γ \to ν \bar{ν} γ$ Production Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous $Z Z γ$ and $Z γ γ$ Couplings in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201802 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Proposal for a Search for Cosmic Axions Using an Optical Cavity

A. C. Melissinos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 202001 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Towards a Unified Understanding of Jet Quenching and Elliptic Flow within a Perturbative QCD Parton Transport

Oliver Fochler, Zhe Xu, and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 202301 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Angular Dependence of Jet Quenching Indicates Its Strong Enhancement near the QCD Phase Transition

Jinfeng Liao and Edward Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 202302 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Probing Neutron Correlations through Nuclear Breakup

Marlène Assié and Denis Lacroix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 202501 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Low-Lying Neutron Intruder State in ${}^{13}B$ and the Fading of the $N = 8$ Shell Closure

H. Iwasaki, A. Dewald, C. Fransen, A. Gelberg, M. Hackstein, J. Jolie, P. Petkov, T. Pissulla, W. Rother, and K. O. Zell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 202502 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing Molecular Frame Photoionization via Laser Generated High-Order Harmonics from Aligned Molecules

Anh-Thu Le, R. R. Lucchese, M. T. Lee, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203001 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Memory for Light as a Quantum Process

M. Lobino, C. Kupchak, E. Figueroa, and A. I. Lvovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203601 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Localization in Correlated Bilayer Structures: From Photonic Crystals to Metamaterials and Semiconductor Superlattices

F. M. Izrailev and N. M. Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203901 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

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Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber

M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, V. Balic, T. Peyronel, M. Hafezi, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203902 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

Accessible Light Bullets via Synergetic Nonlinearities

Ian B. Burgess, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto, and Roberto Morandotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203903 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Nanowire Plasmon Excitation by Adiabatic Mode Transformation

Ewold Verhagen, Marko Spasenović, Albert Polman, and L. (Kobus) Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203904 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Observation of Zeroth-Order Band Gaps in Negative-Refraction Photonic Crystal Superlattices at Near-Infrared Frequencies

S. Kocaman, R. Chatterjee, N. C. Panoiu, J. F. McMillan, M. B. Yu, R. M. Osgood, D. L. Kwong, and C. W. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203905 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Precursor Luminescence near the Collapse of Laser-Induced Bubbles in Alkali-Salt Solutions

Han-Ching Chu, Sonny Vo, and Gary A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 204301 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Bubble Pinch-Off in a Rotating Flow

Raymond Bergmann, Anders Andersen, Devaraj van der Meer, and Tomas Bohr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 204501 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observations of Electromagnetic Fields and Plasma Flow in Hohlraums with Proton Radiography

C. K. Li, F. H. Séguin, J. A. Frenje, R. D. Petrasso, P. A. Amendt, R. P. J. Town, O. L. Landen, J. R. Rygg, R. Betti, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, J. M. Soures, C. A. Back, J. D. Kilkenny, and A. Nikroo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205001 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

Energetics, Ionization, and Expansion Dynamics of Atomic Clusters Irradiated with Short Intense Vacuum-Ultraviolet Pulses

B. Ziaja, H. Wabnitz, F. Wang, E. Weckert, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205002 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Guiding, Focusing, and Collimated Transport of Hot Electrons in a Canal in the Extended Tip of Cone Targets

N. Renard-Le Galloudec, E. d’Humières, B. I. Cho, J. Osterholz, Y. Sentoku, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205003 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Electron-Ion Temperature Equilibration in an $S F_{6}$ Plasma

Lorin X. Benedict, James N. Glosli, David F. Richards, Frederick H. Streitz, Stefan P. Hau-Riege, Richard A. London, Frank R. Graziani, Michael S. Murillo, and John F. Benage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205004 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Deriving Carbon Atomic Chains from Graphene

Chuanhong Jin, Haiping Lan, Lianmao Peng, Kazu Suenaga, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205501 (2009) - Published 18 May, 2009

Unravelling the Mechanism of Pressure Induced Amorphization of Phase Change Materials

S. Caravati, M. Bernasconi, T. D. Kühne, M. Krack, and M. Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205502 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

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Strain Relief Guided Growth of Atomic Nanowires in a ${Cu}_{3} N − Cu (110)$ Molecular Network

X.-D. Ma, D. I. Bazhanov, O. Fruchart, F. Yildiz, T. Yokoyama, M. Przybylski, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205503 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Reversible Twinning in Pure Aluminum

B. Q. Li, M. L. Sui, B. Li, E. Ma, and S. X. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205504 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Nucleation of Breathers via Stochastic Resonance in Nonlinear Lattices

David Cubero, Jesús Cuevas, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 205505 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

From Droplets to Nanowires: Dynamics of Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth

K. W. Schwarz and J. Tersoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206101 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Efficient Perturbation Theory for Quantum Lattice Models

H. Hafermann, G. Li, A. N. Rubtsov, M. I. Katsnelson, A. I. Lichtenstein, and H. Monien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206401 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Role of Oxygen Electrons in the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Magnetoresistive Oxide ${La}_{2 - 2 x} {Sr}_{1 + 2 x} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ Probed by Compton Scattering

B. Barbiellini, A. Koizumi, P. E. Mijnarends, W. Al-Sawai, Hsin Lin, T. Nagao, K. Hirota, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206402 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Electronic Griffiths Phase of the $d = 2$ Mott Transition

E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206403 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Kondo-Cluster-Glass State near a Ferromagnetic Quantum Phase Transition

T. Westerkamp, M. Deppe, R. Küchler, M. Brando, C. Geibel, P. Gegenwart, A. P. Pikul, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206404 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Spin-Density Wave Fermi Surface Reconstruction in Underdoped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$

N. Harrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206405 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Lower Bounds on the Exchange-Correlation Energy in Reduced Dimensions

E. Räsänen, S. Pittalis, K. Capelle, and C. R. Proetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206406 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Quantum Critical Point at Finite Doping in the 2D Hubbard Model: A Dynamical Cluster Quantum Monte Carlo Study

N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, A. Macridin, C. Şen, M. Jarrell, and Michael Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206407 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Onset of an Insulating Zero-Plateau Quantum Hall State in Graphene

E. Shimshoni, H. A. Fertig, and G. Venketeswara Pai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206408 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Far-Infrared Absorption and the Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Hole-Doped Cuprates

S. Lupi, D. Nicoletti, O. Limaj, L. Baldassarre, M. Ortolani, S. Ono, Yoichi Ando, and P. Calvani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206409 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Electronic Cooling in Graphene

R. Bistritzer and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206410 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Ab initio Calculation of van der Waals Bonded Molecular Crystals

Deyu Lu, Yan Li, Dario Rocca, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206411 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Collective Modes of the Massless Dirac Plasma

S. Das Sarma and E. H. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206412 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Conductance Relaxation in the Electron Glass: Microwave versus Infrared Response

Z. Ovadyahu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206601 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Directional Field-Induced Metallization of Quasi-One-Dimensional ${Li}_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$

Xiaofeng Xu, A. F. Bangura, J. G. Analytis, J. D. Fletcher, M. M. J. French, N. Shannon, J. He, S. Zhang, D. Mandrus, R. Jin, and N. E. Hussey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206602 (2009) - Published 20 May, 2009

Effect of a High- $κ$ Environment on Charge Carrier Mobility in Graphene

L. A. Ponomarenko, R. Yang, T. M. Mohiuddin, M. I. Katsnelson, K. S. Novoselov, S. V. Morozov, A. A. Zhukov, F. Schedin, E. W. Hill, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206603 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Electron Spin Polarization Induced by Linearly Polarized Light in a (110) GaAs Quantum-Well Waveguide

Shanna Crankshaw, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Michael Moewe, Connie Chang-Hasnain, Hailin Wang, and Shun-Lien Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206604 (2009) - Published 21 May, 2009

Quantum Well States in Two-Dimensional Gold Clusters on MgO Thin Films

X. Lin, N. Nilius, H.-J. Freund, M. Walter, P. Frondelius, K. Honkala, and H. Häkkinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206801 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Cyclotron Spin-Flip Excitations in a $ν = 1 / 3$ Quantum Hall Ferromagnet

A. B. Van’kov, L. V. Kulik, S. Dickmann, I. V. Kukushkin, V. E. Kirpichev, W. Dietsche, and S. Schmult

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 206802 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Microwave Surface-Impedance Measurements of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Single Crystal ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductors: Evidence for a Disorder-Dependent Superfluid Density

K. Hashimoto, T. Shibauchi, S. Kasahara, K. Ikada, S. Tonegawa, T. Kato, R. Okazaki, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, H. Takeya, K. Hirata, T. Terashima, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 207001 (2009) - Published 19 May, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy of Highly Compressed Solid Deuterium at 300 K: Evidence for a New Phase and Implications for the Band Gap [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235503 (2007)]

Bruce J. Baer, William J. Evans, and Choong-Shik Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 209901 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Comment on “Spectroscopic Signatures of Novel Oxygen-Defect Complexes in Stoichiometrically Controlled CdSe” [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 209601 (2009)]

L. Zhang, J. T-Thienprasert, M.-H. Du, D. J. Singh, and S. Limpijumnong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 209902 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Erratum: Universal Spreading of Wave Packets in Disordered Nonlinear Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 024101 (2009)]

S. Flach, D. O. Krimer, and Ch. Skokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 209903 (2009) - Published 22 May, 2009

Volume 102, Issue 20

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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