Volume 102, Issue 5

6 February 2009

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Microscopic image of a conducting wire network created by an evaporative assembly process using a gold nanoparticle suspension over a monolayer of 100 μm latex particles.

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Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles into Microwire Networks Induced by Drying Liquid Bridges
Ivan U. Vakarelski, Derek Y. C. Chan, Takashi Nonoguchi, Hiroyuki Shinto, and Ko Higashitani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 058303 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New Measurement of the Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio up to 100 GeV in the Cosmic Radiation

O. Adriani et al. (PAMELA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051101 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

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Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles into Microwire Networks Induced by Drying Liquid Bridges

Ivan U. Vakarelski, Derek Y. C. Chan, Takashi Nonoguchi, Hiroyuki Shinto, and Ko Higashitani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 058303 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

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Instantaneous Mapping of Coherently Coupled Electronic Transitions and Energy Transfers in a Photosynthetic Complex Using Angle-Resolved Coherent Optical Wave-Mixing

Ian P. Mercer, Yasin C. El-Taha, Nathaniel Kajumba, Jonathan P. Marangos, John W. G. Tisch, Mads Gabrielsen, Richard J. Cogdell, Emma Springate, and Edmund Turcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057402 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

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Equilibrium Route to Colloidal Gelation: Mixtures of Hard-Sphere-Like Colloids

Ph. Germain and S. Amokrane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 058301 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

LETTERS

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

Phonon Instability with Respect to Soliton Formation in Two-Dimensional Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

R. Nath, P. Pedri, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050401 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Dynamically Induced Zeeman Effect in Massless QED

Efrain J. Ferrer and Vivian de la Incera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050402 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Momentum Exchange between Light and a Single Atom: Abraham or Minkowski?

E. A. Hinds and Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050403 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Driven Quantum Coarsening

Camille Aron, Giulio Biroli, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050404 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Multiphoton Coherent Manipulation in Large-Spin Qubits

S. Bertaina, L. Chen, N. Groll, J. Van Tol, N. S. Dalal, and I. Chiorescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050501 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Computational Power of Correlations

Janet Anders and Dan E. Browne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050502 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Direct and Reverse Secret-Key Capacities of a Quantum Channel

Stefano Pirandola, Raul García-Patrón, Samuel L. Braunstein, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050503 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Pesin-Type Identity for Intermittent Dynamics with a Zero Lyaponov Exponent

Nickolay Korabel and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050601 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Theory of Single File Diffusion in a Force Field

E. Barkai and R. Silbey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050602 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Phase Transitions Induced by Nanoconfinement in Liquid Water

Nicolas Giovambattista, Peter J. Rossky, and Pablo G. Debenedetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 050603 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Measurement of the Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio up to 100 GeV in the Cosmic Radiation

O. Adriani et al. (PAMELA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051101 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Effective Scenario of Loop Quantum Cosmology

You Ding, Yongge Ma, and Jinsong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051301 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Large Extra Spatial Dimensions in the Dielectron and Diphoton Channels in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051601 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Holographic Quantum Liquid

A. Karch, D. T. Son, and A. O. Starinets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051602 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Ratio of $B_{s}^{0}$ to an Orbitally Excited $D_{s}^{**}$ State: $Br (B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s 1}^{-} (2536) μ^{+} ν X)$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051801 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Search for a Light Pseudoscalar Particle in the Decay $K_{L}^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0} X$

Y. C. Tung et al. (E391a Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051802 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Search for Associated $W$ and Higgs Boson Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051803 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons at High $\tan β$ in the $b (h / H / A) \to b τ^{+} τ^{-}$ Channel

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051804 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Neutrino Mass, Dark Matter, and Baryon Asymmetry via TeV-Scale Physics without Fine-Tuning

Mayumi Aoki, Shinya Kanemura, and Osamu Seto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051805 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Double-Pionic Fusion of Nuclear Systems and the “ABC” Effect: Approaching a Puzzle by Exclusive and Kinematically Complete Measurements

M. Bashkanov et al. (CELSIUS/WASA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 052301 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Indications of Conical Emission of Charged Hadrons at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 052302 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nearest-Neighbor Detection of Atoms in a 1D Optical Lattice by Fluorescence Imaging

M. Karski, L. Förster, J. M. Choi, W. Alt, A. Widera, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053001 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory for Nonadiabatic Electronic Dynamics

Vinod Krishna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053002 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Operational Determination of Multiqubit Entanglement Classes via Tuning of Local Operations

T. Bastin, C. Thiel, J. von Zanthier, L. Lamata, E. Solano, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053601 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Resonant Sum Frequency Generation with Time-Energy Entangled Photons

S. Sensarn, Irfan Ali-Khan, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053602 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Low-Loss Metamaterials Based on Classical Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

P. Tassin, Lei Zhang, Th. Koschny, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053901 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Quantum Fluctuations in Small Lasers

Kaushik Roy-Choudhury, Stephan Haas, and A. F. J. Levi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 053902 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Guiding of Relativistic Electron Beams in Solid Targets by Resistively Controlled Magnetic Fields

S. Kar, A. P. L. Robinson, D. C Carroll, O Lundh, K. Markey, P. McKenna, P. Norreys, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055001 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Strongly Interacting Bosons in a Disordered Optical Lattice

M. White, M. Pasienski, D. McKay, S. Q. Zhou, D. Ceperley, and B. DeMarco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055301 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Structures and Topological Transitions of Hydrocarbon Films on Quasicrystalline Surfaces

Wahyu Setyawan, Renee D. Diehl, and Stefano Curtarolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055501 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Dislocation Core Energies and Core Fields from First Principles

Emmanuel Clouet, Lisa Ventelon, and F. Willaime

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055502 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Harder than Diamond: Superior Indentation Strength of Wurtzite BN and Lonsdaleite

Zicheng Pan, Hong Sun, Yi Zhang, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055503 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Complex Dynamics during Metal Dissolution: From Intrinsic to Faceted Anomalous Scaling

P. Córdoba-Torres, T. J. Mesquita, I. N. Bastos, and R. P. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055504 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Exponential Distributions of Collective Flow-Event Properties in Viscous Liquid Dynamics

Nicholas P. Bailey, Thomas B. Schrøder, and Jeppe C. Dyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055701 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Quantum Switching at a Mean-Field Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice

V. S. Shchesnovich and V. V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055702 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

New Metallic Carbon Crystal

Masahiro Itoh, Motoko Kotani, Hisashi Naito, Toshikazu Sunada, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, and Tadafumi Adschiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055703 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in a Glass-Forming Liquid

Azita Parsaeian and Horacio E. Castillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 055704 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Impact of Surface Chemistry on Grain Boundary Induced Intrinsic Stress Evolution during Polycrystalline Thin Film Growth

Y. Qi, B. W. Sheldon, H. Guo, X. Xiao, and A. K. Kothari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056101 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Molecular Self-Assembly of Functionalized Fullerenes on a Metal Surface

Bogdan Diaconescu, Teng Yang, Savas Berber, Mikael Jazdzyk, Glen P. Miller, David Tománek, and Karsten Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056102 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Melting of the Na Layers in Solid ${Na}_{0.8} {CoO}_{2}$

M. Weller, A. Sacchetti, H. R. Ott, K. Mattenberger, and B. Batlogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056401 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Observation of Long-Lived Polariton States in Semiconductor Microcavities across the Parametric Threshold

D. Ballarini, D. Sanvitto, A. Amo, L. Viña, M. Wouters, I. Carusotto, A. Lemaitre, and J. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056402 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Energy Gaps in Etched Graphene Nanoribbons

C. Stampfer, J. Güttinger, S. Hellmüller, F. Molitor, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056403 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Evolution of Electronic Structure of Doped Mott Insulators: Reconstruction of Poles and Zeros of Green’s Function

Shiro Sakai, Yukitoshi Motome, and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056404 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Full-Zone Spin Splitting for Electrons and Holes in Bulk GaAs and GaSb

Jun-Wei Luo, Gabriel Bester, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056405 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Enhanced Dimerization of TiOCl under Pressure: Spin-Peierls to Peierls Transition

S. Blanco-Canosa, F. Rivadulla, A. Piñeiro, V. Pardo, D. Baldomir, D. I. Khomskii, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, M. A. López-Quintela, and J. Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056406 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

“Rainbow” Trapping and Releasing at Telecommunication Wavelengths

Qiaoqiang Gan, Yujie J. Ding, and Filbert J. Bartoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056801 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Kondo Decoherence: Finding the Right Spin Model for Iron Impurities in Gold and Silver

T. A. Costi, L. Bergqvist, A. Weichselbaum, J. von Delft, T. Micklitz, A. Rosch, P. Mavropoulos, P. H. Dederichs, F. Mallet, L. Saminadayar, and C. Bäuerle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056802 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Shape of Disorder-Broadened Landau Subbands in Graphene

W. Zhu, Q. W. Shi, X. R. Wang, J. Chen, J. L. Yang, and J. G. Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056803 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Incipient Formation of an Electron Lattice in a Weakly Confined Quantum Wire

W. K. Hew, K. J. Thomas, M. Pepper, I. Farrer, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056804 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Ferromagnetic Spin Coupling as the Origin of 0.7 Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts

K. Aryanpour and J. E. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056805 (2009) - Published 5 February, 2009

Symmetry Classes in Graphene Quantum Dots: Universal Spectral Statistics, Weak Localization, and Conductance Fluctuations

Jürgen Wurm, Adam Rycerz, İnanç Adagideli, Michael Wimmer, Klaus Richter, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056806 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Long-Range Coulomb Interaction in Bilayer Graphene

D. S. L. Abergel and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056807 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Dirac Cones and Minigaps for Graphene on Ir(111)

I. Pletikosić, M. Kralj, P. Pervan, R. Brako, J. Coraux, A. T. N’Diaye, C. Busse, and T. Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056808 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Magnetic Correlations in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CoO}_{4}$ Studied by Neutron Scattering: Possible Evidence for Stripe Phases

M. Cwik, M. Benomar, T. Finger, Y. Sidis, D. Senff, M. Reuther, T. Lorenz, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057201 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Density Matrix Renormalization Group in the Heisenberg Picture

Michael J. Hartmann, Javier Prior, Stephen R. Clark, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057202 (2009) - Published 2 February, 2009

Ultrafast Spin Dynamics: The Effect of Colored Noise

U. Atxitia, O. Chubykalo-Fesenko, R. W. Chantrell, U. Nowak, and A. Rebei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057203 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Local Control of Ultrafast Dynamics of Magnetic Nanoparticles

A. Sukhov and J. Berakdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057204 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

Fidelity Approach to the Disordered Quantum $X Y$ Model

Silvano Garnerone, N. Tobias Jacobson, Stephan Haas, and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057205 (2009) - Published 4 February, 2009

Pressure-Induced Electronic Mixing and Enhancement of Ferromagnetic Ordering in Eu $X$ ( $X = Te$ , Se, S, O) Magnetic Semiconductors

Narcizo M. Souza-Neto, Daniel Haskel, Yuan-Chieh Tseng, and Gerard Lapertot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057206 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Two-Photon Photoemission

K. Hild, J. Maul, G. Schönhense, H. J. Elmers, M. Amft, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057207 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Engineering Superposition States and Tailored Probes for Nanoresonators via Open-Loop Control

Kurt Jacobs, Lin Tian, and Justin Finn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057208 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Measuring Domain Wall Fidelity Lengths Using a Chirality Filter

E. R. Lewis, D. Petit, A.-V. Jausovec, L. O’Brien, D. E. Read, H. T. Zeng, and R. P. Cowburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057209 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009

Electron-Plasmon and Electron-Electron Interactions at a Single Atom Contact

Guillaume Schull, Nicolas Néel, Peter Johansson, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057401 (2009) - Published 3 February, 2009

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Instantaneous Mapping of Coherently Coupled Electronic Transitions and Energy Transfers in a Photosynthetic Complex Using Angle-Resolved Coherent Optical Wave-Mixing

Ian P. Mercer, Yasin C. El-Taha, Nathaniel Kajumba, Jonathan P. Marangos, John W. G. Tisch, Mads Gabrielsen, Richard J. Cogdell, Emma Springate, and Edmund Turcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 057402 (2009) - Published 6 February, 2009