Volume 102, Issue 24

19 June 2009

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Pseudospin-valve transistor in which gate electrodes generate an electric field in bilayer graphene. An incoming electron's pseudospin cannot precess abruptly, which inhibits current flow.

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Pseudospin Valve in Bilayer Graphene: Towards Graphene-Based Pseudospintronics
P. San-Jose, E. Prada, E. McCann, and H. Schomerus
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247204 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonequilibrium Polymer Rheology in Spin-Cast Films

David R. Barbero and Ullrich Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248303 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Exclusive Charmonium Production and $γ γ \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242001 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultrafast Optical Spin Echo for Electron Spins in Semiconductors

Susan M. Clark, Kai-Mei C. Fu, Qiang Zhang, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Colin Stanley, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247601 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Behavior and Scaling in Trapped Systems

Massimo Campostrini and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240601 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resolving the Mystery of the Chain Friction Mechanism in Polymer Liquids

Alexei P. Sokolov and Kenneth S. Schweizer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248301 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

LETTERS

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

Unpredictable Tunneling of a Classical Wave-Particle Association

A. Eddi, E. Fort, F. Moisy, and Y. Couder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240401 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Large Momentum Beam Splitter Using Bloch Oscillations

Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, François Nez, and François Biraben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240402 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Atom Interferometers with Scalable Enclosed Area

Holger Müller, Sheng-wey Chiow, Sven Herrmann, and Steven Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240403 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Supersonic Quantum Communication

J. Eisert and D. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240501 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Efficient Multiparticle Entanglement via Asymmetric Rydberg Blockade

M. Saffman and K. Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240502 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Behavior and Scaling in Trapped Systems

Massimo Campostrini and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240601 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Longest Excursion of Stochastic Processes in Nonequilibrium Systems

Claude Godrèche, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240602 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Matrix Product States for Dynamical Simulation of Infinite Chains

M. C. Bañuls, M. B. Hastings, F. Verstraete, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240603 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Microcanonical Phase Diagrams of Short-Range Ferromagnets

Michael Kastner and Michel Pleimling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240604 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Determination of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant $G$ with Time-of-Swing Method

Jun Luo, Qi Liu, Liang-Cheng Tu, Cheng-Gang Shao, Lin-Xia Liu, Shan-Qing Yang, Qing Li, and Ya-Ting Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240801 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Robust Identification of Isotropic Diffuse Gamma Rays from Galactic Dark Matter

Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins and Vasiliki Pavlidou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 241301 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Relic Density of Neutrinos with Primordial Asymmetries

Sergio Pastor, Teguayco Pinto, and Georg G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 241302 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Generalized Lorentz-Dirac Equation for a Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory

Mariano Chernicoff, J. Antonio García, and Alberto Güijosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 241601 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Path-Integral Action of a Particle in the Noncommutative Plane

Sunandan Gangopadhyay and Frederik G. Scholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 241602 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Functional Renormalization Group Approach to the Sine-Gordon Model

S. Nagy, I. Nándori, J. Polonyi, and K. Sailer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 241603 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Exclusive Charmonium Production and $γ γ \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242001 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Evidence for a Narrow Near-Threshold Structure in the $J / ψ ϕ$ Mass Spectrum in $B^{+} \to J / ψ ϕ K^{+}$ Decays

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242002 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Possibility of Deeply Bound Hadronic Molecules from Single Pion Exchange

Frank Close and Clark Downum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242003 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Implications of Heavy-Quark Spin Symmetry on Heavy-Meson Hadronic Molecules

Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242004 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Nuclear Physics

First Gogny-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov Nuclear Mass Model

S. Goriely, S. Hilaire, M. Girod, and S. Péru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242501 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Lifetime Measurements of the Neutron-Rich $N = 30$ Isotones ${}^{50}{Ca}$ and ${}^{51}{Sc}$ : Orbital Dependence of Effective Charges in the $f p$ Shell

J. J. Valiente-Dobón et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242502 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Classical Analogues of Two-Photon Quantum Interference

R. Kaltenbaek, J. Lavoie, and K. J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 243601 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Measurement of Autler-Townes and Mollow Transitions in a Strongly Driven Superconducting Qubit

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 243602 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Analytic Description of the High-Energy Plateau in Harmonic Generation by Atoms: Can the Harmonic Power Increase with Increasing Laser Wavelengths?

M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, T. S. Sarantseva, M. Yu. Emelin, M. Yu. Ryabikin, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 243901 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Three-Mode Optoacoustic Parametric Amplifier: A Tool for Macroscopic Quantum Experiments

Chunnong Zhao, Li Ju, Haixing Miao, Slawomir Gras, Yaohui Fan, and David G. Blair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 243902 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Competition between Weak Localization and Ballistic Transport

Chushun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 243903 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Pinned Scroll Rings in an Excitable System

Zulma A. Jiménez, Bradley Marts, and Oliver Steinbock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244101 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Butterfly Floquet Spectrum in Driven SU(2) Systems

Jiao Wang and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244102 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Realization of Anisotropic Diamagnetic Kepler Problem in a Solid State Environment

Zhanghai Chen, Weihang Zhou, Bo Zhang, C. H. Yu, Jingbing Zhu, Wei Lu, and S. C. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244103 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Hydrodynamic Relaxation of an Electron Plasma to a Near-Maximum Entropy State

D. J. Rodgers, S. Servidio, W. H. Matthaeus, D. C. Montgomery, T. B. Mitchell, and T. Aziz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244501 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Test of a New Technique to Overcome Spin-Depolarizing Resonances

V. S. Morozov, A. W. Chao, A. D. Krisch, M. A. Leonova, R. S. Raymond, D. W. Sivers, V. K. Wong, A. Garishvili, R. Gebel, A. Lehrach, B. Lorentz, R. Maier, D. Prasuhn, H. Stockhorst, D. Welsch, F. Hinterberger, and A. M. Kondratenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244801 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Time-Dependent, Three-Dimensional Simulation of Free-Electron-Laser Oscillators

P. J. M. van der Slot, H. P. Freund, W. H. Miner Jr., S. V. Benson, M. Shinn, and K.-J. Boller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 244802 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Enhancing the Number of High-Energy Electrons Deposited to a Compressed Pellet via Double Cones in Fast Ignition

Hong-bo Cai, Kunioki Mima, Wei-min Zhou, Tomoyuki Jozaki, Hideo Nagatomo, Atsushi Sunahara, and Rodney J. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245001 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Propagation and Damping of Nonlinear Plasma Wave Packets

J. E. Fahlen, B. J. Winjum, T. Grismayer, and W. B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245002 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection via Alfvén Eigenmodes

Lei Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245003 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Influence of a Polarization Force on Dust Acoustic Waves

S. A. Khrapak, A. V. Ivlev, V. V. Yaroshenko, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245004 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Instability-Enhanced Collisional Effects and Langmuir’s Paradox

S. D. Baalrud, J. D. Callen, and C. C. Hegna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245005 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Large-Orbit Gyrotron Operation in the Terahertz Frequency Range

V. L. Bratman, Yu. K. Kalynov, and V. N. Manuilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245101 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Induced Interactions for Ultracold Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices

D.-H. Kim, P. Törmä, and J.-P. Martikainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245301 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Nuclear Spin Ordering on the Surface of a ${}^{3}{He}$ Crystal: Magnetic Steps

I. A. Todoshchenko, H. Alles, H. J. Junes, M. S. Manninen, and A. Ya. Parshin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245302 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Pairing, Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order, and Quantum Phase Transition in Strongly Attracting Ultracold Bose Gas Mixtures in Tight Waveguides

M. D. Girardeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245303 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Atomic Level Structure in Multicomponent Bulk Metallic Glass

Y. Q. Cheng, E. Ma, and H. W. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245501 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Effect of Axial Torsion on $s p$ Carbon Atomic Wires

Luca Ravagnan, Nicola Manini, Eugenio Cinquanta, Giovanni Onida, Davide Sangalli, Carlo Motta, Michele Devetta, Andrea Bordoni, Paolo Piseri, and Paolo Milani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245502 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Toughening Effect of Strain-Induced Crystallites in Natural Rubber

H. P. Zhang, J. Niemczura, G. Dennis, K. Ravi-Chandar, and M. Marder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245503 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Thermal Stability of Strained Nanowires

Cristiano Nisoli, Douglas Abraham, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245504 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Electron Scattering in Intrananotube Quantum Dots

G. Buchs, D. Bercioux, P. Ruffieux, P. Gröning, H. Grabert, and O. Gröning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245505 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Thermalization Dynamics Close to a Quantum Phase Transition

Dario Patanè, Alessandro Silva, Fernando Sols, and Luigi Amico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245701 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Shear-Induced Chiral Migration of Particles with Anisotropic Rigidity

Nobuhiko Watari and Ronald G. Larson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246001 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

How Vibrationally Assisted Tunneling with STM Affects the Motions and Reactions of Single Adsorbates

S. G. Tikhodeev and H. Ueba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246101 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Melting of Two-Dimensional Adatom Superlattices Stabilized by Long-Range Electronic Interactions

N. N. Negulyaev, V. S. Stepanyuk, L. Niebergall, P. Bruno, M. Pivetta, M. Ternes, F. Patthey, and W.-D. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246102 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Fluctuations and the Valence Transition in Yb under Pressure

E. R. Ylvisaker, J. Kuneš, A. K. McMahan, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246401 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Demonstration of Half-Metallicity in Fermi-Level-Tuned Heusler Alloy ${Co}_{2} {FeAl}_{0.5} {Si}_{0.5}$ at Room Temperature

R. Shan, H. Sukegawa, W. H. Wang, M. Kodzuka, T. Furubayashi, T. Ohkubo, S. Mitani, K. Inomata, and K. Hono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246601 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

First-Principles Study of Electron Transport through the Single-Molecule Magnet ${Mn}_{12}$

Salvador Barraza-Lopez, Kyungwha Park, Víctor García-Suárez, and Jaime Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246801 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Demonstration of Quadrature-Squeezed Surface Plasmons in a Gold Waveguide

Alexander Huck, Stephan Smolka, Peter Lodahl, Anders S. Sørensen, Alexandra Boltasseva, Jiri Janousek, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 246802 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Tunable ( $δ π$ , $δ π$ )-Type Antiferromagnetic Order in $α$ -Fe(Te,Se) Superconductors

Wei Bao, Y. Qiu, Q. Huang, M. A. Green, P. Zajdel, M. R. Fitzsimmons, M. Zhernenkov, S. Chang, Minghu Fang, B. Qian, E. K. Vehstedt, Jinhu Yang, H. M. Pham, L. Spinu, and Z. Q. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247001 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

Nonexponential London Penetration Depth of FeAs-Based Superconducting $R {FeAsO}_{0.9} F_{0.1}$ ( $R = La$ , Nd) Single Crystals

C. Martin, M. E. Tillman, H. Kim, M. A. Tanatar, S. K. Kim, A. Kreyssig, R. T. Gordon, M. D. Vannette, S. Nandi, V. G. Kogan, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, A. I. Goldman, and R. Prozorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247002 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Finite Electric Field Effects in the Large Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Surface $Pt / Fe / Pt (001)$ : A First-Principles Study

Masahito Tsujikawa and Tatsuki Oda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247203 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Pseudospin Valve in Bilayer Graphene: Towards Graphene-Based Pseudospintronics

P. San-Jose, E. Prada, E. McCann, and H. Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247204 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Increased Tunneling Magnetoresistance Using Normally bcc CoFe Alloy Electrodes Made Amorphous without Glass Forming Additives

Li Gao, Xin Jiang, See-Hun Yang, Philip M. Rice, Teya Topuria, and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247205 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Energies and Lifetimes of Magnons in Complex Ferromagnets: A First-Principle Study of Heusler Alloys

Paweł Buczek, Arthur Ernst, Patrick Bruno, and Leonid M. Sandratskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247206 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Spectra of Nondoped and Electron-Doped ${SrTiO}_{3}$ : Crossover from Auger Recombination to Single-Carrier Trapping

Yasuhiro Yamada, Hideki Yasuda, Takeshi Tayagaki, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247401 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultrafast Optical Spin Echo for Electron Spins in Semiconductors

Susan M. Clark, Kai-Mei C. Fu, Qiang Zhang, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Colin Stanley, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247601 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Unconventional Ferroelectric Transition in the Multiferroic Compound ${TbMnO}_{3}$ Revealed by the Absence of an Anomaly in $c$ -Polarized Phonon Dispersion

R. Kajimoto, H. Sagayama, K. Sasai, T. Fukuda, S. Tsutsui, T. Arima, K. Hirota, Y. Mitsui, H. Yoshizawa, A. Q. R. Baron, Y. Yamasaki, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247602 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Collective Coherent Control: Synchronization of Polarization in Ferroelectric ${PbTiO}_{3}$ by Shaped THz Fields

Tingting Qi, Young-Han Shin, Ka-Lo Yeh, Keith A. Nelson, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247603 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Mirror Symmetry Breaking and Restoration: The Role of Noise and Chiral Bias

David Hochberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248101 (2009) - Published 17 June, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resolving the Mystery of the Chain Friction Mechanism in Polymer Liquids

Alexei P. Sokolov and Kenneth S. Schweizer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248301 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Active and Nonlinear Microrheology in Dense Colloidal Suspensions

I. Gazuz, A. M. Puertas, Th. Voigtmann, and M. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248302 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonequilibrium Polymer Rheology in Spin-Cast Films

David R. Barbero and Ullrich Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248303 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Phase Statistics of Seismic Coda Waves

D. Anache-Ménier, B. A. van Tiggelen, and L. Margerin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 248501 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Ferroelectrically Induced Weak Ferromagnetism by Design”

Rogerio de Sousa and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 249701 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

Fennie Replies:

Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 249702 (2009) - Published 16 June, 2009

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Scaling in Plateau-to-Plateau Transition: A Direct Connection of Quantum Hall Systems with the Anderson Localization Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 216801 (2009)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 249901 (2009) - Published 15 June, 2009

Erratum: Cold Optical Injection Producing Monoenergetic, Multi-GeV Electron Bunches [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065001 (2009)]

X. Davoine, E. Lefebvre, C. Rechatin, J. Faure, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 249902 (2009) - Published 18 June, 2009

Erratum: High Precision Atomic Theory for Li and ${Be}^{+}$ : QED Shifts and Isotope Shifts [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 243002 (2008)]

Z.-C. Yan, W. Nörtershäuser, and G. W. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 249903 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009

Erratum: Quantum Phase Transitions in the Sub-Ohmic Spin-Boson Model: Failure of the Quantum-Classical Mapping [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 070604 (2005)]

Matthias Vojta, Ning-Hua Tong, and Ralf Bulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 249904 (2009) - Published 19 June, 2009