Volume 102, Issue 23

12 June 2009

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An atomic quantum motor made from two different ultracold atoms in a ring-shaped optical lattice. The atom with the arrow is magnetically powered.

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ac-Driven Atomic Quantum Motor
A. V. Ponomarev, S. Denisov, and P. Hänggi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230601 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms

André Schirotzek, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Ariel Sommer, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230402 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

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Cloaking a Sensor

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233901 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

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Low Fractal Dimension Cluster-Dilute Soot Aggregates from a Premixed Flame

Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Hans Moosmüller, W. Patrick Arnott, Mark A. Garro, Guoxun Tian, Jay G. Slowik, Eben S. Cross, Jeong-Ho Han, Paul Davidovits, Timothy B. Onasch, and Douglas R. Worsnop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235504 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

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Evidence of a Cascade and Dissipation of Solar-Wind Turbulence at the Electron Gyroscale

F. Sahraoui, M. L. Goldstein, P. Robert, and Yu. V. Khotyaintsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231102 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

LETTERS

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

Occupation Statistics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate for a Driven Landau-Zener Crossing

Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Maya Chuchem, Moritz Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos, and Doron Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230401 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms

André Schirotzek, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Ariel Sommer, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230402 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Ferrofluidity in a Two-Component Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

Hiroki Saito, Yuki Kawaguchi, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230403 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Casimir Interaction between Plane and Spherical Metallic Surfaces

Antoine Canaguier-Durand, Paulo A. Maia Neto, Ines Cavero-Pelaez, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230404 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Qubit Residence Time Measurements with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

D. Sokolovski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230405 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Quantum Teleportation of the Temporal Fluctuations of Light

Changsuk Noh, A. Chia, Hyunchul Nha, M. J. Collett, and H. J. Carmichael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230501 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Unifying All Classical Spin Models in a Lattice Gauge Theory

G. De las Cuevas, W. Dür, H. J. Briegel, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230502 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

ac-Driven Atomic Quantum Motor

A. V. Ponomarev, S. Denisov, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230601 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Positron Kinetics in Soft Condensed Matter

R. D. White and R. E. Robson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230602 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Reduction and Possible Elimination of Coating Thermal Noise Using a Rigidly Controlled Cavity with a Quantum-Nondemolition Technique

Kentaro Somiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 230801 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Diffuse Neutrino Flux from Failed Supernovae

Cecilia Lunardini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231101 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of a Cascade and Dissipation of Solar-Wind Turbulence at the Electron Gyroscale

F. Sahraoui, M. L. Goldstein, P. Robert, and Yu. V. Khotyaintsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231102 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by Schwarzschild Black Holes

Luís C. B. Crispino, Sam R. Dolan, and Ednilton S. Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231103 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Chiral Primordial Gravitational Waves from a Lifshitz Point

Tomohiro Takahashi and Jiro Soda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231301 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Resonant Diphoton Production with the D0 Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231801 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Tracking Fast Small Color Dipoles through Strong Gluon Fields at the LHC

L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman, and M. Zhalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232001 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Measurement of the $k_{T}$ Distribution of Particles in Jets Produced in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232002 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Two-Loop Soft Anomalous Dimensions and Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Logarithm Resummation for Heavy Quark Production

Nikolaos Kidonakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232003 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Resolving the Hanbury Brown–Twiss Puzzle in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Scott Pratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232301 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Soft Open Charm Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

V. Topor Pop, J. Barrette, and M. Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232302 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Mechanisms in Knockout Reactions

D. Bazin, R. J. Charity, R. T. de Souza, M. A. Famiano, A. Gade, V. Henzl, D. Henzlova, S. Hudan, J. Lee, S. Lukyanov, W. G. Lynch, S. McDaniel, M. Mocko, A. Obertelli, A. M. Rogers, L. G. Sobotka, J. R. Terry, J. A. Tostevin, M. B. Tsang, and M. S. Wallace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232501 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Stellar and Primordial Nucleosynthesis of ${}^{7}{Be}$ : Measurement of ${}^{3}{He} (α, γ) {}^{7}{Be}$

A. Di Leva, L. Gialanella, R. Kunz, D. Rogalla, D. Schürmann, F. Strieder, M. De Cesare, N. De Cesare, A. D’Onofrio, Z. Fülöp, G. Gyürky, G. Imbriani, G. Mangano, A. Ordine, V. Roca, C. Rolfs, M. Romano, E. Somorjai, and F. Terrasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232502 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rabi Oscillations and Few-Level Approximations in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

M. Ruggenthaler and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233001 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Optimal Surface-Electrode Trap Lattices for Quantum Simulation with Trapped Ions

Roman Schmied, Janus H. Wesenberg, and Dietrich Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233002 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Blindness of the Exact Density Response Function to Certain Types of Electronic Excitations: Implications for Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

Andreas Heßelmann and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233003 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Multiply Charged Thorium Crystals for Nuclear Laser Spectroscopy

C. J. Campbell, A. V. Steele, L. R. Churchill, M. V. DePalatis, D. E. Naylor, D. N. Matsukevich, A. Kuzmich, and M. S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233004 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Cloaking a Sensor

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233901 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Laser Beam Self-Focusing in the Atmosphere

A. M. Rubenchik, M. P. Fedoruk, and S. K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233902 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Optical Self-Similarity in Three Dimensions

Shihua Chen and John M. Dudley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233903 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Universal Correlations in a Nonlinear Periodic 1D System

Yaron Silberberg, Yoav Lahini, Yaron Bromberg, Eran Small, and Roberto Morandotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233904 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Brighter Light Sources from Black Metal: Significant Increase in Emission Efficiency of Incandescent Light Sources

A. Y. Vorobyev, V. S. Makin, and Chunlei Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 234301 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Generation and Stability of Toroidal Droplets in a Viscous Liquid

E. Pairam and A. Fernández-Nieves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 234501 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Evidence of the 90° Stop Band in the GSI UNILAC

L. Groening, W. Barth, W. Bayer, G. Clemente, L. Dahl, P. Forck, P. Gerhard, I. Hofmann, M. S. Kaiser, M. Maier, S. Mickat, T. Milosic, D. Jeon, and D. Uriot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 234801 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Magnetic-Surface Quality in Nonaxisymmetric Plasma Equilibria

Carolin Nührenberg, Allen H. Boozer, and Stuart R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235001 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Experimental Evidence of Impact Ignition: 100-Fold Increase of Neutron Yield by Impactor Collision

H. Azechi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235002 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Exponential Growth of Nonlinear Ballooning Instability

P. Zhu, C. C. Hegna, and C. R. Sovinec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235003 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

High-Current, Relativistic Electron-Beam Transport in Metals and the Role of Magnetic Collimation

M. Storm, A. A. Solodov, J. F. Myatt, D. D. Meyerhofer, C. Stoeckl, C. Mileham, R. Betti, P. M. Nilson, T. C. Sangster, W. Theobald, and Chunlei Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235004 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Metastable Helium Molecules as Tracers in Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$

W. Guo, J. D. Wright, S. B. Cahn, J. A. Nikkel, and D. N. McKinsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235301 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Evidence for Two Mg Related Acceptors in GaN

B. Monemar, P. P. Paskov, G. Pozina, C. Hemmingsson, J. P. Bergman, T. Kawashima, H. Amano, I. Akasaki, T. Paskova, S. Figge, D. Hommel, and A. Usui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235501 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Nonlinear Elasticity of Monolayer Graphene

Emiliano Cadelano, Pier Luca Palla, Stefano Giordano, and Luciano Colombo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235502 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Distribution of Thermally Activated Plastic Events in a Flowing Glass

David Rodney and Christopher Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235503 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Low Fractal Dimension Cluster-Dilute Soot Aggregates from a Premixed Flame

Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Hans Moosmüller, W. Patrick Arnott, Mark A. Garro, Guoxun Tian, Jay G. Slowik, Eben S. Cross, Jeong-Ho Han, Paul Davidovits, Timothy B. Onasch, and Douglas R. Worsnop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235504 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Complete Jamming Landscape of Confined Hard Discs

S. S. Ashwin and Richard K. Bowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 235701 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Nanoscale Frictional Dissipation into Shear-Stressed Polymer Relaxations

Lars Jansen, André Schirmeisen, James L. Hedrick, Mark A. Lantz, Armin Knoll, Rachel Cannara, and Bernd Gotsmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236101 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spectroscopic Evidence for Competing Reconstructions in Polar Multilayers ${LaAlO}_{3} / {LaVO}_{3} / {LaAlO}_{3}$

M. Takizawa, Y. Hotta, T. Susaki, Y. Ishida, H. Wadati, Y. Takata, K. Horiba, M. Matsunami, S. Shin, M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, A. Fujimori, and H. Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236401 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Fractional Charges on an Integer Quantum Hall Edge

E. Berg, Y. Oreg, E.-A. Kim, and F. von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236402 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Nonanalytic Spin Susceptibility of a Fermi Liquid: The Case of Fe-Based Pnictides

M. M. Korshunov, I. Eremin, D. V. Efremov, D. L. Maslov, and A. V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236403 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Universal Detector Efficiency of a Mesoscopic Capacitor

Simon E. Nigg and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236801 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Tuning Decoherence with a Voltage Probe

P. Roulleau, F. Portier, P. Roche, A. Cavanna, G. Faini, U. Gennser, and D. Mailly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236802 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Phase Relations Associated with One-Dimensional Shell Effects in Thin Metal Films

T. Miller, M. Y. Chou, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236803 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Two- and One-Dimensional Honeycomb Structures of Silicon and Germanium

S. Cahangirov, M. Topsakal, E. Aktürk, H. Şahin, and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236804 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Defect Scattering in Graphene

Jian-Hao Chen, W. G. Cullen, C. Jang, M. S. Fuhrer, and E. D. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236805 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Spin-Related Current Suppression in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot Spin-Diode Structure

K. Hamaya, M. Kitabatake, K. Shibata, M. Jung, S. Ishida, T. Taniyama, K. Hirakawa, Y. Arakawa, and T. Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236806 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Pressure-Dependent Metallic and Superconducting Phases in a Germanium Artificial Metal

H. B. Cui, D. Graf, J. S. Brooks, and H. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237001 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Evolution of the Local Superconducting Density of States in ${ErRh}_{4} B_{4}$ Close to the Ferromagnetic Transition

V. Crespo, J. G. Rodrigo, H. Suderow, S. Vieira, D. G. Hinks, and I. K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237002 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Theory of Heterotic Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor Josephson Junctions between Single- and Multiple-Gap Superconductors

Yukihiro Ota, Masahiko Machida, Tomio Koyama, and Hideki Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237003 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Creating Artificial Ice States Using Vortices in Nanostructured Superconductors

A. Libál, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, and C. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237004 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Pressure-Induced Magnetic Transition in Manganite ( ${La}_{0.75} {Ca}_{0.25} {MnO}_{3}$ )

Yang Ding, Daniel Haskel, Yuan-Chieh Tseng, Eiji Kaneshita, Michel van Veenendaal, J. F. Mitchell, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Vitali Prakapenka, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237201 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Pressure-Induced Invar Behavior in ${Pd}_{3} Fe$

M. L. Winterrose, M. S. Lucas, A. F. Yue, I. Halevy, L. Mauger, J. A. Muñoz, Jingzhu Hu, M. Lerche, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237202 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Excitation of Chaotic Spin Waves through Modulational Instability

Mingzhong Wu, Aaron M. Hagerstrom, Richard Eykholt, Alexander Kondrashov, and Boris A. Kalinikos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237203 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Spin-Wave Instabilities and Noncollinear Magnetic Phases of a Geometrically Frustrated Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet

J. T. Haraldsen, M. Swanson, G. Alvarez, and R. S. Fishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237204 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Circularly Polarized X Rays as a Probe of Noncollinear Magnetic Order in Multiferroic ${TbMnO}_{3}$

F. Fabrizi, H. C. Walker, L. Paolasini, F. de Bergevin, A. T. Boothroyd, D. Prabhakaran, and D. F. McMorrow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237205 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Spin Dynamics in Pyrochlore Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

P. H. Conlon and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237206 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Optical Emission from the Interaction of Fast Electrons with Metallic Films Containing a Circular Aperture: A Study of Radiative Decoherence of Fast Electrons

F. J. García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237401 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Ultrafast Coherent Electron Spin Flip in a Modulation-Doped CdTe Quantum Well

Carey Phelps, Timothy Sweeney, Ronald T. Cox, and Hailin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237402 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Decay of Rabi Oscillations by Dipolar-Coupled Dynamical Spin Environments

V. V. Dobrovitski, A. E. Feiguin, R. Hanson, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 237601 (2009) - Published 9 June, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Structure and Orientational Texture of Self-Organizing Lipid Bilayers

E. B. Watkins, C. E. Miller, D. J. Mulder, T. L. Kuhl, and J. Majewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238101 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

How Adequate are One- and Two-Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes for Protein Folding Dynamics?

Gia G. Maisuradze, Adam Liwo, and Harold A. Scheraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238102 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Ultrafast Quenching of Binary Colloidal Suspensions in an External Magnetic Field

Lahcen Assoud, Florian Ebert, Peter Keim, René Messina, Georg Maret, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238301 (2009) - Published 10 June, 2009

Effective Medium Theory for Reaction Rates and Diffusion Coefficients of Heterogeneous Systems

Sergio Alonso, Raymond Kapral, and Markus Bär

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238302 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009

Hiding Quiet Solutions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Florent Krzakala and Lenka Zdeborová

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238701 (2009) - Published 8 June, 2009

Asymptotic Behavior of the Kleinberg Model

Shai Carmi, Stephen Carter, Jie Sun, and Daniel ben-Avraham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238702 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Extended Navigability of Small World Networks: Exact Results and New Insights

Cécile Caretta Cartozo and Paolo De Los Rios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 238703 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Generating High-Current Monoenergetic Proton Beams by a Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse in the Phase-Stable Acceleration Regime”

Liangliang Ji, Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang, Fengchao Wang, Zhangying Jin, Meng Wen, Wenpeng Wang, and Jiancai Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 239501 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

Yan et al. Reply:

X. Q. Yan, C. Lin, Z. M. Sheng, Z. Y. Guo, B. C. Liu, Y. R. Lu, J. X. Fang, and J. E. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 239502 (2009) - Published 11 June, 2009

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Low-Lying Neutron Intruder State in ${}^{13}B$ and the Fading of the $N = 8$ Shell Closure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 202502 (2009)]

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, 239901 (2009) - Published 12 June, 2009