Volume 102, Issue 21

29 May 2009

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Observed and simulated magnetic pattern in a thin metal film, generated by a strong ultrafast electromagnetic field pulse parallel to the film surface.

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Electric Field Induced Magnetic Anisotropy in a Ferromagnet
S. J. Gamble, Mark H. Burkhardt, A. Kashuba, Rolf Allenspach, Stuart S. P. Parkin, H. C. Siegmann, and J. Stöhr
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 217201 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fluctuation Theorem for Arbitrary Open Quantum Systems

Michele Campisi, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210401 (2009) - Published 26 May, 2009

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Superconducting State in a Gallium-Doped Germanium Layer at Low Temperatures

T. Herrmannsdörfer, V. Heera, O. Ignatchik, M. Uhlarz, A. Mücklich, M. Posselt, H. Reuther, B. Schmidt, K.-H. Heinig, W. Skorupa, M. Voelskow, C. Wündisch, R. Skrotzki, M. Helm, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 217003 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

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Localized Closed Timelike Curves Can Perfectly Distinguish Quantum States

Todd A. Brun, Jim Harrington, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210402 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

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Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction from Selectively Aligned Molecules

Peter Reckenthaeler, Martin Centurion, Werner Fuß, Sergei A. Trushin, Ferenc Krausz, and Ernst E. Fill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213001 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

LETTERS

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluctuation Theorem for Arbitrary Open Quantum Systems

Michele Campisi, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210401 (2009) - Published 26 May, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Localized Closed Timelike Curves Can Perfectly Distinguish Quantum States

Todd A. Brun, Jim Harrington, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210402 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Delocalization of Relativistic Dirac Particles in Disordered One-Dimensional Systems and Its Implementation with Cold Atoms

Shi-Liang Zhu, Dan-Wei Zhang, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210403 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Reverse Coherent Information

Raúl García-Patrón, Stefano Pirandola, Seth Lloyd, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210501 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Coherence and Control of Quantum Registers Based on Electronic Spin in a Nuclear Spin Bath

P. Cappellaro, L. Jiang, J. S. Hodges, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210502 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Memory Erasure in Small Systems

Raoul Dillenschneider and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210601 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Proposed Experimental Method to Determine $α$ Sensitivity of Splitting between Ground and 7.6 eV Isomeric States in ${}^{229}{Th}$

J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and S. G. Porsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 210801 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Self-Calibrated Cluster Counts as a Probe of Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Masamune Oguri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 211301 (2009) - Published 26 May, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Horizon Formation and Far-from-Equilibrium Isotropization in a Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma

Paul M. Chesler and Laurence G. Yaffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 211601 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Measurement of $ν_{μ}$ and $ν_{e}$ Events in an Off-Axis Horn-Focused Neutrino Beam

P. Adamson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 211801 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Combining $K^{0} − {\bar{K}}^{0}$ Mixing and $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing to Constrain the Flavor Structure of New Physics

Kfir Blum, Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir, and Gilad Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 211802 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Renormalized Polyakov Loop in the Deconfined Phase of SU( $N$ ) Gauge Theory and Gauge-String Duality

Oleg Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 212001 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Quark and Gluon Form Factors to Three Loops

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, A. V. Smirnov, V. A. Smirnov, and M. Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 212002 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Nuclear Physics

$γ$ -Ray Spectroscopy at the Limits: First Observation of Rotational Bands in ${}^{255}{Lr}$

S. Ketelhut et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 212501 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Masses of ${}^{130}{Te}$ and ${}^{130}{Xe}$ and Double- $β$ -Decay $Q$ Value of ${}^{130}{Te}$

Matthew Redshaw, Brianna J. Mount, Edmund G. Myers, and Frank T. Avignone, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 212502 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-Resolved Electron Diffraction from Selectively Aligned Molecules

Peter Reckenthaeler, Martin Centurion, Werner Fuß, Sergei A. Trushin, Ferenc Krausz, and Ernst E. Fill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213001 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Measurement of the $2 S$ Hyperfine Interval in Atomic Hydrogen

N. Kolachevsky, A. Matveev, J. Alnis, C. G. Parthey, S. G. Karshenboim, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213002 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Electric Field Effects in the Excitation of Cold Rydberg-Atom Pairs

V. A. Nascimento, L. L. Caliri, A. Schwettmann, J. P. Shaffer, and L. G. Marcassa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213201 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Production of the Smallest QED Atom: True Muonium ( $μ^{+} μ^{-}$ )

Stanley J. Brodsky and Richard F. Lebed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213401 (2009) - Published 26 May, 2009

Stationary Light Pulses in Cold Atomic Media and without Bragg Gratings

Yen-Wei Lin, Wen-Te Liao, Thorsten Peters, Hung-Chih Chou, Jian-Siung Wang, Hung-Wen Cho, Pei-Chen Kuan, and Ite A. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213601 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Measurement of Sub-Shot-Noise Spatial Correlations without Background Subtraction

Giorgio Brida, Lucia Caspani, Alessandra Gatti, Marco Genovese, Alice Meda, and Ivano Ruo Berchera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213602 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Anisotropic Metamaterials Emulated by Tapered Waveguides: Application to Optical Cloaking

Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213901 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Controlling the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Raman-Generated Periodic Waveforms

Zhi-Ming Hsieh, Chien-Jen Lai, Han-Sung Chan, Sih-Ying Wu, Chao-Kuei Lee, Wei-Jan Chen, Ci-Ling Pan, Fu-Goul Yee, and A. H. Kung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213902 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Optical Nonreciprocity in Optomechanical Structures

Sasikanth Manipatruni, Jacob T. Robinson, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213903 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Interferometry of Attosecond Pulse Trains in the Extreme Ultraviolet Wavelength Region

Yasuo Nabekawa, Toshihiko Shimizu, Yusuke Furukawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213904 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Experimental Demonstration of Quantitative Imaging beyond Abbe’s Limit with Optical Diffraction Tomography

Guillaume Maire, Filip Drsek, Jules Girard, Hugues Giovannini, Anne Talneau, Denis Konan, Kamal Belkebir, Patrick C. Chaumet, and Anne Sentenac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 213905 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Dust-Induced Modulation of the Atomic Emission in a Dusty Argon Discharge

S. Hübner and A. Melzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 215001 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Cumulative Identical Spin Rotation Effects in Collisionless Trapped Atomic Gases

F. Piéchon, J. N. Fuchs, and F. Laloë

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 215301 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Deformation of Doubly Clamped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in an Electrostatic Field

Zhao Wang and Laetitia Philippe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 215501 (2009) - Published 26 May, 2009

Manipulation of Single Atoms by Atomic Force Microscopy as a Resonance Effect

Byungsoo Kim, Vakhtang Putkaradze, and Takashi Hikihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 215502 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Interfacial Polarization and Field-Induced Orientation in Nanostructured Soft-Ion Conductors

Peter Kohn, Klaus Schröter, and Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216101 (2009) - Published 26 May, 2009

Surface-Supported Gold Cages

R. Ferrando, G. Barcaro, and A. Fortunelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216102 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

$4 f$ -Derived Fermi Surfaces of ${CeRu}_{2} ({Si}_{1 - x} {Ge}_{x})_{2}$ near the Quantum Critical Point: Resonant Soft-X-Ray ARPES Study

T. Okane, T. Ohkochi, Y. Takeda, S.-i. Fujimori, A. Yasui, Y. Saitoh, H. Yamagami, A. Fujimori, Y. Matsumoto, M. Sugi, N. Kimura, T. Komatsubara, and H. Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216401 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Role of $f$ Electrons in the Fermi Surface of the Heavy Fermion Superconductor $β − {YbAlB}_{4}$

E. C. T. O’Farrell, D. A. Tompsett, S. E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, C. Capan, L. Balicas, K. Kuga, A. Matsuo, K. Kindo, M. Tokunaga, S. Nakatsuji, G. Csányi, Z. Fisk, and M. L. Sutherland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216402 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Probing Neutral Majorana Fermion Edge Modes with Charge Transport

Liang Fu and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216403 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Electrically Detected Interferometry of Majorana Fermions in a Topological Insulator

A. R. Akhmerov, Johan Nilsson, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216404 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Proposed Orbital Ordering in ${MnV}_{2} O_{4}$ from First-Principles Calculations

S. Sarkar, T. Maitra, Roser Valentí, and T. Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216405 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Delocalization by Disorder in Layered Systems

Dmitrii L. Maslov, Vladimir I. Yudson, Andres M. Somoza, and Miguel Ortuño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216601 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009

Scaling in Plateau-to-Plateau Transition: A Direct Connection of Quantum Hall Systems with the Anderson Localization Model

Wanli Li, C. L. Vicente, J. S. Xia, W. Pan, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216801 (2009) - Published 27 May, 2009

Nuclear State Preparation via Landau-Zener-Stückelberg Transitions in Double Quantum Dots

Hugo Ribeiro and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216802 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Nonequilibrium Transport at a Dissipative Quantum Phase Transition

Chung-Hou Chung, Karyn Le Hur, Matthias Vojta, and Peter Wölfle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216803 (2009) - Published 28 May, 2009

Towards Two-Dimensional Metallic Behavior at ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interfaces

O. Copie, V. Garcia, C. Bödefeld, C. Carrétéro, M. Bibes, G. Herranz, E. Jacquet, J.-L. Maurice, B. Vinter, S. Fusil, K. Bouzehouane, H. Jaffrès, and A. Barthélémy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216804 (2009) - Published 29 May, 2009