Volume 102, Issue 25

26 June 2009

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An isolated particle ensemble in the form of a droplet observed in a fluid complex plasma. Bubbles, blobs, and cusps form spontaneously.

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Formation of Bubbles, Blobs, and Surface Cusps in Complex Plasmas
M. Schwabe, M. Rubin-Zuzic, S. Zhdanov, A. V. Ivlev, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255005 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Minimal Energy Cost for Thermodynamic Information Processing: Measurement and Information Erasure

Takahiro Sagawa and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250602 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

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Quantum Control of Tightly Competitive Product Channels

Matthias Roth, Laurent Guyon, Jonathan Roslund, Véronique Boutou, Francois Courvoisier, Jean-Pierre Wolf, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253001 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Quantum Imaging beyond the Diffraction Limit by Optical Centroid Measurements

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253601 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Illusion Optics: The Optical Transformation of an Object into Another Object

Yun Lai, Jack Ng, HuanYang Chen, DeZhuan Han, JunJun Xiao, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253902 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

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Observation of an Energetic Radiation Burst from Mountain-Top Thunderclouds

H. Tsuchiya, T. Enoto, T. Torii, K. Nakazawa, T. Yuasa, S. Torii, T. Fukuyama, T. Yamaguchi, H. Kato, M. Okano, M. Takita, and K. Makishima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255003 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

LETTERS

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

Hydrodynamic View of Wave-Packet Interference: Quantum Caves

Chia-Chun Chou, Ángel S. Sanz, Salvador Miret-Artés, and Robert E. Wyatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250401 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Inelastic Collisions of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover

X. Du, Y. Zhang, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250402 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Time-Symmetric Quantum Theory of Smoothing

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250403 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Tripartite Entanglement versus Tripartite Nonlocality in Three-Qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-Class States

S. Ghose, N. Sinclair, S. Debnath, P. Rungta, and R. Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250404 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

All Entangled States are Useful for Channel Discrimination

Marco Piani and John Watrous

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250501 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Heralded Quantum Gate between Remote Quantum Memories

P. Maunz, S. Olmschenk, D. Hayes, D. N. Matsukevich, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250502 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Broadcast Copies Reveal the Quantumness of Correlations

M. Piani, M. Christandl, C. E. Mora, and P. Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250503 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Test of the Additivity Principle for Current Fluctuations in a Model of Heat Conduction

Pablo I. Hurtado and Pedro L. Garrido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250601 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

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Minimal Energy Cost for Thermodynamic Information Processing: Measurement and Information Erasure

Takahiro Sagawa and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250602 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Wave Forms for Two- and Three-Body Gravitating Systems

Yuji Torigoe, Keisuke Hattori, and Hideki Asada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 251101 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Phenomenologically Viable Lorentz-Violating Quantum Gravity

Thomas P. Sotiriou, Matt Visser, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 251601 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Tau Final States

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 251801 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Isovector EMC Effect and the NuTeV Anomaly

I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, and A. W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 252301 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Quenching of the SnSbTe Cycle in the $r p$ Process

V.-V. Elomaa, G. K. Vorobjev, A. Kankainen, L. Batist, S. Eliseev, T. Eronen, J. Hakala, A. Jokinen, I. D. Moore, Yu. N. Novikov, H. Penttilä, A. Popov, S. Rahaman, J. Rissanen, A. Saastamoinen, H. Schatz, D. M. Seliverstov, C. Weber, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 252501 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum Control of Tightly Competitive Product Channels

Matthias Roth, Laurent Guyon, Jonathan Roslund, Véronique Boutou, Francois Courvoisier, Jean-Pierre Wolf, and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253001 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Rotationally Resolved Photoelectron Angular Distributions from a Nonlinear Polyatomic Molecule

Paul Hockett, Michael Staniforth, Katharine L. Reid, and Dave Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253002 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

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Quantum Imaging beyond the Diffraction Limit by Optical Centroid Measurements

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253601 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Nuclear Dynamics in Polyatomic Molecules and High-Order Harmonic Generation

Serguei Patchkovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253602 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Probing Localization in Absorbing Systems via Loschmidt Echos

Joshua D. Bodyfelt, Mei C. Zheng, Tsampikos Kottos, Ulrich Kuhl, and Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253901 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

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Illusion Optics: The Optical Transformation of an Object into Another Object

Yun Lai, Jack Ng, HuanYang Chen, DeZhuan Han, JunJun Xiao, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253902 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Disorder-Induced Coherent Scattering in Slow-Light Photonic Crystal Waveguides

M. Patterson, S. Hughes, S. Combrié, N.-V.-Quynh Tran, A. De Rossi, R. Gabet, and Y. Jaouën

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253903 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Quantum and Classical Correlations in Waveguide Lattices

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253904 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Long Lasting Modifications to Vortex Shedding Using a Short Plasma Excitation

Timothy N. Jukes and Kwing-So Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 254501 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Electric-Field-Induced Patterns in Soft Viscoelastic Films: From Long Waves of Viscous Liquids to Short Waves of Elastic Solids

N. Arun, Ashutosh Sharma, Partho S. G. Pattader, Indrani Banerjee, Hemant M. Dixit, and K. S. Narayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 254502 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Viscous Cavity Damping of a Microlever in a Simple Fluid

A. Siria, A. Drezet, F. Marchi, F. Comin, S. Huant, and J. Chevrier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 254503 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements and Simulations of Ultralow Emittance and Ultrashort Electron Beams in the Linac Coherent Light Source

Y. Ding, A. Brachmann, F.-J. Decker, D. Dowell, P. Emma, J. Frisch, S. Gilevich, G. Hays, Ph. Hering, Z. Huang, R. Iverson, H. Loos, A. Miahnahri, H.-D. Nuhn, D. Ratner, J. Turner, J. Welch, W. White, and J. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 254801 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Strong Signatures of Radiation Reaction below the Radiation-Dominated Regime

A. Di Piazza, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 254802 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Generation of Intermittent Turbulent Events at the Transition from Closed to Open Field Lines in a Toroidal Plasma

T. Happel, F. Greiner, N. Mahdizadeh, B. Nold, M. Ramisch, and U. Stroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255001 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Wave-Number Spectrum of Drift-Wave Turbulence

Ö. D. Gürcan, X. Garbet, P. Hennequin, P. H. Diamond, A. Casati, and G. L. Falchetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255002 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

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Observation of an Energetic Radiation Burst from Mountain-Top Thunderclouds

H. Tsuchiya, T. Enoto, T. Torii, K. Nakazawa, T. Yuasa, S. Torii, T. Fukuyama, T. Yamaguchi, H. Kato, M. Okano, M. Takita, and K. Makishima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255003 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Suppression of $n = 1$ Tilt Instability by Magnetic Shaping Coils in Rotamak Plasmas

X. Yang, Y. Petrov, and T. S. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255004 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Formation of Bubbles, Blobs, and Surface Cusps in Complex Plasmas

M. Schwabe, M. Rubin-Zuzic, S. Zhdanov, A. V. Ivlev, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255005 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Finite-Size and Confinement Effects in Spin-Polarized Trapped Fermi Gases

Mark Ku, Jens Braun, and Achim Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255301 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Fermionic Shadow Wave Function Variational Calculations of the Vacancy Formation Energy in ${}^{3}{He}$

L. Dandrea, F. Pederiva, S. Gandolfi, and M. H. Kalos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255302 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Stable Bloch Oscillations of Cold Atoms with Time-Dependent Interaction

C. Gaul, R. P. A. Lima, E. Díaz, C. A. Müller, and F. Domínguez-Adame

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255303 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Dynamical Creation of a Supersolid in Asymmetric Mixtures of Bosons

Tassilo Keilmann, Ignacio Cirac, and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255304 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Jamming in Systems Composed of Frictionless Ellipse-Shaped Particles

Mitch Mailman, Carl F. Schreck, Corey S. O’Hern, and Bulbul Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255501 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Impact of Impurities on the Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Nanostructures: First-Principles Theory

T. M. Gibbons and S. K. Estreicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255502 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Single-Crystal Structural Characterization of the Metallic Phase of Oxygen

G. Weck, S. Desgreniers, P. Loubeyre, and M. Mezouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255503 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Theory of Finite-Entanglement Scaling at One-Dimensional Quantum Critical Points

Frank Pollmann, Subroto Mukerjee, Ari M. Turner, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255701 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Unconventional Scaling of Electrical Conductivity Spectra for PSS-PDADMAC Polyelectrolyte Complexes

Á. W. Imre, M. Schönhoff, and C. Cramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255901 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Direct Evidence for Effects of Grain Structure on Reversible Compressive Deposition Stresses in Polycrystalline Gold Films

J. Leib, R. Mönig, and C. V. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256101 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Unstable Nonlocal Interface Dynamics

Matteo Nicoli, Rodolfo Cuerno, and Mario Castro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256102 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Chemical Identification of Ions in Doped NaCl by Scanning Force Microscopy

Adam S. Foster, Clemens Barth, and Claude R. Henry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256103 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Observation of Insulating Nanoislands in Ferromagnetic GaMnAs

D. M. Wang, Y. H. Ren, P. W. Jacobs, S. Fahy, X. Liu, J. K. Furdyna, V. F. Sapega, and R. Merlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256401 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Polaronic Hole Trapping in Doped ${BaBiO}_{3}$

C. Franchini, G. Kresse, and R. Podloucky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256402 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Quantum Spin Hall Effect in a Transition Metal Oxide ${Na}_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

Atsuo Shitade, Hosho Katsura, Jan Kuneš, Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256403 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Anisotropic Electric Conductivity of Delafossite ${PdCoO}_{2}$ Studied by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Han-Jin Noh, Jinwon Jeong, Jinhwan Jeong, En-Jin Cho, Sung Baek Kim, Kyoo Kim, B. I. Min, and Hyeong-Do Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256404 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Observation of an Electric-Field-Induced Band Gap in Bilayer Graphene by Infrared Spectroscopy

Kin Fai Mak, Chun Hung Lui, Jie Shan, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256405 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Intrinsic Coupling between Current and Domain Wall Motion in (Ga,Mn)As

Kjetil Magne Dørheim Hals, Anh Kiet Nguyen, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256601 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Cross Resonant Optical Antenna

P. Biagioni, J. S. Huang, L. Duò, M. Finazzi, and B. Hecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256801 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Theory of Single-Spin Inelastic Tunneling Spectroscopy

J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256802 (2009) - Published 23 June, 2009

Kondo Effect in the Helical Edge Liquid of the Quantum Spin Hall State

Joseph Maciejko, Chaoxing Liu, Yuval Oreg, Xiao-Liang Qi, Congjun Wu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256803 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Probing Surface Charge Fluctuations with Solid-State Nanopores

David P. Hoogerheide, Slaven Garaj, and Jene A. Golovchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256804 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Phase Diagram of Quarter-Filled Band Organic Salts $[EDT − TTF − {CONMe}_{2}]_{2} X$ , $X = {AsF}_{6}$ and Br

P. Auban-Senzier, C. R. Pasquier, D. Jérome, S. Suh, S. E. Brown, C. Mézière, and P. Batail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257001 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Strengthening of Reentrant Pinning by Collective Interactions in the Peak Effect

J. Lefebvre, M. Hilke, and Z. Altounian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257002 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Quantum Time Evolution in a Qubit Readout Process with a Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier

Hayato Nakano, Shiro Saito, Kouichi Semba, and Hideaki Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257003 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Cascade of Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in a Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet

N. A. Fortune, S. T. Hannahs, Y. Yoshida, T. E. Sherline, T. Ono, H. Tanaka, and Y. Takano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257201 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Temporal Coherence of MgO Based Magnetic Tunnel Junction Spin Torque Oscillators

D. Houssameddine, U. Ebels, B. Dieny, K. Garello, J.-P. Michel, B. Delaet, B. Viala, M.-C. Cyrille, J. A. Katine, and D. Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257202 (2009) - Published 22 June, 2009

Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetization Dynamics of Individual Atoms and Clusters of Fe and Co on Pt(111)

T. Balashov, T. Schuh, A. F. Takács, A. Ernst, S. Ostanin, J. Henk, I. Mertig, P. Bruno, T. Miyamachi, S. Suga, and W. Wulfhekel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257203 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Model for Elastic Relaxation Phenomena in Finite 2D Hexagonal Molecular Lattices

Cristian Enachescu, Laurentiu Stoleriu, Alexandru Stancu, and Andreas Hauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257204 (2009) - Published 26 June, 2009

Simultaneous Subsecond Hyperpolarization of the Nuclear and Electron Spins of Phosphorus in Silicon by Optical Pumping of Exciton Transitions

A. Yang, M. Steger, T. Sekiguchi, M. L. W. Thewalt, T. D. Ladd, K. M. Itoh, H. Riemann, N. V. Abrosimov, P. Becker, and H.-J. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257401 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Discovery of Incipient Ferrotoroidics from Atomistic Simulations

S. Prosandeev, A. R. Akbarzadeh, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257601 (2009) - Published 24 June, 2009

Damping by Slow Relaxing Rare Earth Impurities in ${Ni}_{80} {Fe}_{20}$

G. Woltersdorf, M. Kiessling, G. Meyer, J.-U. Thiele, and C. H. Back

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 257602 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Publisher’s Note: Analytic Description of the High-Energy Plateau in Harmonic Generation by Atoms: Can the Harmonic Power Increase with Increasing Laser Wavelengths? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 243901 (2009)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 259901 (2009) - Published 25 June, 2009