Volume 102, Issue 3

23 January 2009

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On the Cover

Proposed electro-optical nanotrap for neutral atoms (yellow beam). A trapping potential (red) is created by a charged carbon nanotube and laser (blue) induced plasmons in a silver nanosphere dimer.

From the article:

Electro-Optical Nanotraps for Neutral Atoms
Brian Murphy and Lene Vestergaard Hau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033003 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Non-Gaussian Fluctuations near the QCD Critical Point

M. A. Stephanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032301 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

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Enhanced Spin Hall Effect by Resonant Skew Scattering in the Orbital-Dependent Kondo Effect

Guang-Yu Guo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036401 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

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Quantum Density Fluctuations in Classical Liquids

L. H. Ford and N. F. Svaiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030602 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

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Search for High-Mass $e^{+} e^{-}$ Resonances in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 031801 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

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Electro-Optical Nanotraps for Neutral Atoms

Brian Murphy and Lene Vestergaard Hau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033003 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

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High-Speed Jet Formation after Solid Object Impact

Stephan Gekle, José Manuel Gordillo, Devaraj van der Meer, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 034502 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

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Nonequilibrium Tunneling Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotubes

Yung-Fu Chen, Travis Dirks, Gassem Al-Zoubi, Norman O. Birge, and Nadya Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036804 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

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Enhancement of the Spin Accumulation at the Interface between a Spin-Polarized Tunnel Junction and a Semiconductor

M. Tran, H. Jaffrès, C. Deranlot, J.-M. George, A. Fert, A. Miard, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036601 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

LETTERS

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

Probing Spatial Spin Correlations of Ultracold Gases by Quantum Noise Spectroscopy

G. M. Bruun, Brian M. Andersen, Eugene Demler, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030401 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Search for Chameleon Particles Using a Photon-Regeneration Technique

A. S. Chou, W. Wester, A. Baumbaugh, H. R. Gustafson, Y. Irizarry-Valle, P. O. Mazur, J. H. Steffen, R. Tomlin, A. Upadhye, A. Weltman, X. Yang, and J. Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030402 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Monogamy of Bell’s Inequality Violations in Nonsignaling Theories

Marcin Pawłowski and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030403 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Experimental Demonstration of the Stability of Berry’s Phase for a Spin- $1 / 2$ Particle

S. Filipp, J. Klepp, Y. Hasegawa, C. Plonka-Spehr, U. Schmidt, P. Geltenbort, and H. Rauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030404 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Sculpting the Vortex State of a Spinor BEC

K. C. Wright, L. S. Leslie, A. Hansen, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030405 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Bell-Inequality Violation with a Triggered Photon-Pair Source

R. J. Young, R. M. Stevenson, A. J. Hudson, C. A. Nicoll, D. A. Ritchie, and A. J. Shields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030406 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Heavily Damped Motion of One-Dimensional Bose Gases in an Optical Lattice

Ippei Danshita and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030407 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Role of Interactions in ${}^{87}{Rb} − {}^{40}K$ Bose-Fermi Mixtures in a 3D Optical Lattice

Th. Best, S. Will, U. Schneider, L. Hackermüller, D. van Oosten, I. Bloch, and D.-S. Lühmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030408 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Photon-Photon Entanglement with a Single Trapped Atom

B. Weber, H. P. Specht, T. Müller, J. Bochmann, M. Mücke, D. L. Moehring, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030501 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Demonstrating Anyonic Fractional Statistics with a Six-Qubit Quantum Simulator

Chao-Yang Lu, Wei-Bo Gao, Otfried Gühne, Xiao-Qi Zhou, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030502 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Quantum Phase Transition in the Sub-Ohmic Spin-Boson Model: Quantum Monte Carlo Study with a Continuous Imaginary Time Cluster Algorithm

André Winter, Heiko Rieger, Matthias Vojta, and Ralf Bulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030601 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

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Quantum Density Fluctuations in Classical Liquids

L. H. Ford and N. F. Svaiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030602 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Bayesian Limits on Primordial Isotropy Breaking

C. Armendariz-Picon and Larne Pekowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 031301 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Consistent Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Dual for a Time-Dependent Finite Temperature System

Shunichiro Kinoshita (木下俊一郎), Shinji Mukohyama (向山信治), Shin Nakamura (中村真), and Kin-ya Oda (尾田欣也)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 031601 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Bipartite Entanglement Entropy in Massive Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

Benjamin Doyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 031602 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

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Search for High-Mass $e^{+} e^{-}$ Resonances in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 031801 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Measurement of the Angular and Lifetime Parameters of the Decays $B_{d}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{* 0}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032001 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Coulomb-Gauge Gluon Propagator and the Gribov Formula

G. Burgio, M. Quandt, and H. Reinhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032002 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

How Precisely Will the Total Cross Section Be Measured at the Large Hadron Collider?

J.-R. Cudell and O. V. Selyugin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032003 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Color Screening by Pions

William Detmold and Martin J. Savage (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032004 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Nuclear Physics

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Non-Gaussian Fluctuations near the QCD Critical Point

M. A. Stephanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032301 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electrostatic Extraction of Cold Molecules from a Cryogenic Reservoir

L. D. van Buuren, C. Sommer, M. Motsch, S. Pohle, M. Schenk, J. Bayerl, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033001 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Theory of Multiphoton Multielectron Ionization of Xenon under Strong 93-eV Radiation

M. G. Makris, P. Lambropoulos, and A. Mihelič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033002 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

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Electro-Optical Nanotraps for Neutral Atoms

Brian Murphy and Lene Vestergaard Hau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033003 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Angular Tunneling Ionization Probability of Fixed-in-Space $H_{2}$ Molecules in Intense Laser Pulses

A. Staudte, S. Patchkovskii, D. Pavičić, H. Akagi, O. Smirnova, D. Zeidler, M. Meckel, D. M. Villeneuve, R. Dörner, M. Yu. Ivanov, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033004 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Spin Squeezing of a Cold Atomic Ensemble with the Nuclear Spin of One-Half

T. Takano, M. Fuyama, R. Namiki, and Y. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033601 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Time-Resolved Measurement of a Charge Qubit

Georg M. Reuther, David Zueco, Peter Hänggi, and Sigmund Kohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033602 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Parabolic Resonance: A Route to Hamiltonian Spatiotemporal Chaos

Eli Shlizerman and Vered Rom-Kedar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033901 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Observation of Polarization Singularities at the Nanoscale

M. Burresi, R. J. P. Engelen, A. Opheij, D. van Oosten, D. Mori, T. Baba, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 033902 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Co-evolution of Phases and Connection Strengths in a Network of Phase Oscillators

Takaaki Aoki and Toshio Aoyagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 034101 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Dissipative Structures in Supersonic Turbulence

Liubin Pan, Paolo Padoan, and Alexei G. Kritsuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 034501 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

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High-Speed Jet Formation after Solid Object Impact

Stephan Gekle, José Manuel Gordillo, Devaraj van der Meer, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 034502 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collisions of the Second Kind in a Penning Trap

Levi Schächter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 034801 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Low-Energy-Spread Ion Bunches from a Trapped Atomic Gas

M. P. Reijnders, P. A. van Kruisbergen, G. Taban, S. B. van der Geer, P. H. A. Mutsaers, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 034802 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Observations of Turbulence Generated by Magnetic Reconnection

J. P. Eastwood, T. D. Phan, S. D. Bale, and A. Tjulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035001 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Observation of Self-Generated Flows in Tokamak Plasmas with Lower-Hybrid-Driven Current

A. Ince-Cushman, J. E. Rice, M. Reinke, M. Greenwald, G. Wallace, R. Parker, C. Fiore, J. W. Hughes, P. Bonoli, S. Shiraiwa, A. Hubbard, S. Wolfe, I. H. Hutchinson, E. Marmar, M. Bitter, J. Wilson, and K. Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035002 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Magnetohydrodynamic Stability of a Toroidal Plasma’s Separatrix

A. J. Webster and C. G. Gimblett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035003 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Increased Upstream Ionization due to Formation of a Double Layer

S. Chakraborty Thakur, Z. Harvey, I. A. Biloiu, A. Hansen, R. A. Hardin, W. S. Przybysz, and E. E. Scime

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035004 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Gyrokinetic Studies on Turbulence-Driven and Neoclassical Nondiffusive Toroidal-Momentum Transport and the Effect of Residual Fluctuations in Strong $E \times B$ Shear

W. X. Wang, T. S. Hahm, S. Ethier, G. Rewoldt, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, S. M. Kaye, and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035005 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Origin of the Incommensurate Modulation in Te-III and Fermi-Surface Nesting in a Simple Metal

I. Loa, M. I. McMahon, and A. Bosak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035501 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Coherent-Pulse 2D Crystallography Using a Free-Electron Laser X-Ray Source

A. P. Mancuso et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035502 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Unexpected Resonant Response in $[Fe (001) / Cr (001)]_{10} / MgO (001)$ Multilayers in a Magnetic Field

F. G. Aliev, V. V. Pryadun, and E. Snoeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035503 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Aging of the Secondary Relaxation to Probe Structural Relaxation in the Glassy State

R. Casalini and C. M. Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035701 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Understanding the Phase Transitions of the ${Ni}_{2} MnGa$ Magnetic Shape Memory System from First Principles

M. A. Uijttewaal, T. Hickel, J. Neugebauer, M. E. Gruner, and P. Entel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035702 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

High Thermal Conductivity of a Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Film

Xiao Liu, J. L. Feldman, D. G. Cahill, R. S. Crandall, N. Bernstein, D. M. Photiadis, M. J. Mehl, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 035901 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Enhanced Spin Hall Effect by Resonant Skew Scattering in the Orbital-Dependent Kondo Effect

Guang-Yu Guo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036401 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Design of Narrow-Gap ${TiO}_{2}$ : A Passivated Codoping Approach for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Activity

Yanqin Gai, Jingbo Li, Shu-Shen Li, Jian-Bai Xia, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036402 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

Anomalous Duality of $4 f$ Electrons in Filled Skutterudite ${CeOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

M. Matsunami, R. Eguchi, T. Kiss, K. Horiba, A. Chainani, M. Taguchi, K. Yamamoto, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, X.-Y. Wang, C.-T. Chen, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, H. Sugawara, H. Sato, H. Harima, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036403 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhancement of the Spin Accumulation at the Interface between a Spin-Polarized Tunnel Junction and a Semiconductor

M. Tran, H. Jaffrès, C. Deranlot, J.-M. George, A. Fert, A. Miard, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036601 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Photocurrent and Photovoltage Oscillations in the Two-Dimensional Electron System: Enhancement and Suppression of Built-In Electric Fields

S. I. Dorozhkin, I. V. Pechenezhskiy, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, and J. H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036602 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Dopant-Induced Intrinsic Bistability in a Biased Nanowire

Gennady Mil’nikov, Nobuya Mori, Yoshinari Kamakura, and Tatsuya Ezaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036801 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

First-Order Quantum Phase Transition of Excitons in Quantum Hall Bilayers

Biswajit Karmakar, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036802 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Rabi Oscillations in Landau-Quantized Graphene

Balázs Dóra, Klaus Ziegler, Peter Thalmeier, and Masaaki Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036803 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

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Nonequilibrium Tunneling Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotubes

Yung-Fu Chen, Travis Dirks, Gassem Al-Zoubi, Norman O. Birge, and Nadya Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 036804 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Origin of the Electron-Hole Asymmetry in the Scanning Tunneling Spectrum of the High-Temperature ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor

Jouko Nieminen, Hsin Lin, R. S. Markiewicz, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037001 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Dual Nature of a Ni Dopant in the Hole-Type ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Cuprate Superconductor

H. Hiraka, D. Matsumura, Y. Nishihata, J. Mizuki, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037002 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Strong Coupling of the Fe-Spin State and the As-As Hybridization in Iron-Pnictide Superconductors from First-Principle Calculations

T. Yildirim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037003 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Quantitative Magnetic Information from Reciprocal Space Maps in Transmission Electron Microscopy

Hans Lidbaum, Ján Rusz, Andreas Liebig, Björgvin Hjörvarsson, Peter M. Oppeneer, Ernesto Coronel, Olle Eriksson, and Klaus Leifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037201 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Chiral and Collinear Ordering in a Distorted Triangular Antiferromagnet

A. I. Smirnov, L. E. Svistov, L. A. Prozorova, A. Zheludev, M. D. Lumsden, E. Ressouche, O. A. Petrenko, K. Nishikawa, S. Kimura, M. Hagiwara, K. Kindo, A. Ya. Shapiro, and L. N. Demianets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037202 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Dynamically Dominant Excitations of String Solutions in the Spin- $1 / 2$ Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain in a Magnetic Field

Masanori Kohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037203 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Crystal Handedness and Spin Helix Chirality in ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} Si$

S. V. Grigoriev, D. Chernyshov, V. A. Dyadkin, V. Dmitriev, S. V. Maleyev, E. V. Moskvin, D. Menzel, J. Schoenes, and H. Eckerlebe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037204 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Magnetic Structure of ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Determined by Resonant X-Ray Diffraction

B. Bohnenbuck, I. Zegkinoglou, J. Strempfer, C. S. Nelson, H.-H. Wu, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, M. Reehuis, E. Schierle, Ph. Leininger, T. Herrmannsdörfer, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, C. T. Lin, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037205 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Weakly Coupled $s = 1 / 2$ Quantum Spin Singlets in ${Ba}_{3} {Cr}_{2} O_{8}$

M. Kofu, J.-H. Kim, S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, H. Ueda, Y. Qiu, H.-J. Kang, M. A. Green, and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037206 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009

Ultrametricity and Clustering of States in Spin Glasses: A One-Dimensional View

Helmut G. Katzgraber and Alexander K. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037207 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Crossover from the Quantum Critical to Overdamped Regime in the Heavy-Fermion System ${USn}_{3}$

S. Kambe, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, T. D. Matsuda, Y. Haga, H. Chudo, and R. E. Walstedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037208 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Nonlinear Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes: Exploring the Upper Density Limit of One-Dimensional Excitons

Yoichi Murakami and Junichiro Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037401 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Chirality-Selective Excitation of Coherent Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes by Femtosecond Optical Pulses

J.-H. Kim, K.-J. Han, N.-J. Kim, K.-J. Yee, Y.-S. Lim, G. D. Sanders, C. J. Stanton, L. G. Booshehri, E. H. Hároz, and J. Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037402 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Band Structure Asymmetry of Bilayer Graphene Revealed by Infrared Spectroscopy

Z. Q. Li, E. A. Henriksen, Z. Jiang, Z. Hao, M. C. Martin, P. Kim, H. L. Stormer, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 037403 (2009) - Published 23 January, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Region-of-Interest Tomography for Grating-Based X-Ray Differential Phase-Contrast Imaging”

Thomas Köhler and Frédéric Noo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 039801 (2009) - Published 20 January, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Spontaneous Emergence of Angular Momentum Josephson Oscillations in Coupled Annular Bose-Einstein Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050401 (2007)]

I. Lesanovsky and W. von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 039901 (2009) - Published 21 January, 2009

Erratum: Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136406 (2008)]

John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka, Oleg A. Vydrov, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Lucian A. Constantin, Xiaolan Zhou, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 039902 (2009) - Published 22 January, 2009