Volume 102, Issue 6

13 February 2009

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On the Cover

Intensity pattern of the beam generated by the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program near Gakona, Alaska. The central minimum is due to the phase ambiguity in the heart of the field, while the peaks surrounding the minimum arise from the rectangular shape of the antenna array.

From the article:

Radio Pumping of Ionospheric Plasma with Orbital Angular Momentum
T. B. Leyser, L. Norin, M. McCarrick, T. R. Pedersen, and B. Gustavsson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065004 (2009)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Is PRL Too Large to Have an “Impact”?

Manolis Antonoyiannakis and Samindranath Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060001 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Electromotive Force Induced by Domain Wall Motion

Shengyuan A. Yang, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Carl Knutson, Di Xiao, Qian Niu, Maxim Tsoi, and James L. Erskine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067201 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quasiparticles at the Mott Transition in $V_{2} O_{3}$ : Wave Vector Dependence and Surface Attenuation

F. Rodolakis, B. Mansart, E. Papalazarou, S. Gorovikov, P. Vilmercati, L. Petaccia, A. Goldoni, J. P. Rueff, S. Lupi, P. Metcalf, and M. Marsi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066805 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Surface Dead Layer for Quasiparticles Near a Mott Transition

Giovanni Borghi, Michele Fabrizio, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066806 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unprecedentedly Strong and Narrow Electromagnetic Emissions Stimulated by High-Frequency Radio Waves in the Ionosphere

L. Norin, T. B. Leyser, E. Nordblad, B. Thidé, and M. McCarrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065003 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sequential Desynchronization in Networks of Spiking Neurons with Partial Reset

Christoph Kirst, Theo Geisel, and Marc Timme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 068101 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

LETTERS

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

Cold Fermionic Atoms in Two-Dimensional Traps: Pairing versus Hund’s Rule

M. Rontani, J. R. Armstrong, Y. Yu, S. Åberg, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060401 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Dependence of the Direction of the Casimir Force on the Shape of the Boundary

Martin Schaden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060402 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Failure of Local Realism Revealed by Extremely-Coarse-Grained Measurements

Hyunseok Jeong, Mauro Paternostro, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060403 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Large Deviations of the Maximum Eigenvalue for Wishart and Gaussian Random Matrices

Satya N. Majumdar and Massimo Vergassola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060601 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Theory of the Field-Induced BEC in the Frustrated Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Dimer Compound ${BaCuSi}_{2} O_{6}$

Nicolas Laflorencie and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060602 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Compositional Contrast of Biological Materials in Liquids Using the Momentary Excitation of Higher Eigenmodes in Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy

Xin Xu, John Melcher, Sudipta Basak, Ron Reifenberger, and Arvind Raman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060801 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Carter-like Constants of the Motion in Newtonian Gravity and Electrodynamics

Clifford M. Will

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 061101 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Yukawa Interactions and Supersymmetric Electroweak Baryogenesis

Daniel J. H. Chung, Björn Garbrecht, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, and Sean Tulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 061301 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gravity Dual to a Quantum Critical Point with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Steven S. Gubser and Fábio D. Rocha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 061601 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Observation of $η^{'}$ Decays to $π^{+} π^{-} π^{0}$ and $π^{+} π^{-} e^{+} e^{-}$

P. Naik et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 061801 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Thermal Hadron Spectrum in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation From Gauge-String Duality

Yoshitaka Hatta and Toshihiro Matsuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 062001 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Survey of Excited State Neutron Spectroscopic Factors for $Z = 8 - 28$ Nuclei

M. B. Tsang (曾敏兒), Jenny Lee (李曉菁), S. C. Su (蘇士俊), J. Y. Dai (戴家琰), M. Horoi, H. Liu (刘航), W. G. Lynch (連致標), and S. Warren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 062501 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Circumstantial Evidence for a Soft Nuclear Symmetry Energy at Suprasaturation Densities

Zhigang Xiao, Bao-An Li, Lie-Wen Chen, Gao-Chan Yong, and Ming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 062502 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Nuclear Charge Radii of ${}^{7, 9, 10}{Be}$ and the One-Neutron Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Be}$

W. Nörtershäuser, D. Tiedemann, M. Žáková, Z. Andjelkovic, K. Blaum, M. L. Bissell, R. Cazan, G. W. F. Drake, Ch. Geppert, M. Kowalska, J. Krämer, A. Krieger, R. Neugart, R. Sánchez, F. Schmidt-Kaler, Z.-C. Yan, D. T. Yordanov, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 062503 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Power-Law Distributions for a Trapped Ion Interacting with a Classical Buffer Gas

Ralph G. DeVoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063001 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Prospects for Optical Clocks with a Blue-Detuned Lattice

M. Takamoto, H. Katori, S. I. Marmo, V. D. Ovsiannikov, and V. G. Pal’chikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063002 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Ideal Waveform to Generate the Maximum Possible Electron Recollision Energy for Any Given Oscillation Period

L. E. Chipperfield, J. S. Robinson, J. W. G. Tisch, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063003 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Photoinduced Separation of Chiral Isomers in a Classical Buffer Gas

B. Spivak and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063004 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Attosecond Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules

Olga Smirnova, Serguei Patchkovskii, Yann Mairesse, Nirit Dudovich, David Villeneuve, Paul Corkum, and Misha Yu. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063601 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Confining Stationary Light: Dirac Dynamics and Klein Tunneling

J. Otterbach, R. G. Unanyan, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063602 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Statistics of Narrow-Band Single Photons for Quantum Memories Generated by Ultrabright Cavity-Enhanced Parametric Down-Conversion

Matthias Scholz, Lars Koch, and Oliver Benson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063603 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Slowing Down Surface Plasmons on a Moiré Surface

Askin Kocabas, S. Seckin Senlik, and Atilla Aydinli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063901 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Soliton Excitation in Waveguide Arrays with an Effective Intermediate Dimensionality

A. Szameit, Y. V. Kartashov, F. Dreisow, M. Heinrich, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, V. A. Vysloukh, F. Lederer, and L. Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 063902 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Universality of Algebraic Laws in Hamiltonian Systems

Roberto Venegeroles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 064101 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Comparison of Turbulent Thermal Convection between Conditions of Constant Temperature and Constant Flux

Hans Johnston and Charles R. Doering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 064501 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Cold Optical Injection Producing Monoenergetic, Multi-GeV Electron Bunches

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065001 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Nonambipolar Transport by Trapped Particles in Tokamaks

Jong-kyu Park, Allen H. Boozer, and Jonathan E. Menard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065002 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unprecedentedly Strong and Narrow Electromagnetic Emissions Stimulated by High-Frequency Radio Waves in the Ionosphere

L. Norin, T. B. Leyser, E. Nordblad, B. Thidé, and M. McCarrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065003 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Radio Pumping of Ionospheric Plasma with Orbital Angular Momentum

T. B. Leyser, L. Norin, M. McCarrick, T. R. Pedersen, and B. Gustavsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065004 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Sawtooth-Control Mechanism using Toroidally Propagating Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance Waves in Tokamaks

J. P. Graves, I. Chapman, S. Coda, L.-G. Eriksson, and T. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065005 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamically Generated Double Occupancy as a Probe of Cold Atom Systems

S. D. Huber and A. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065301 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Novel High Pressure Structures of Polymeric Nitrogen

Yanming Ma, Artem R. Oganov, Zhenwei Li, Yu Xie, and Jani Kotakoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065501 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Transition Metal Impurities on the Bond-Centered Site in Germanium

S. Decoster, S. Cottenier, B. De Vries, H. Emmerich, U. Wahl, J. G. Correia, and A. Vantomme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065502 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Stable Glass Transformation to Supercooled Liquid via Surface-Initiated Growth Front

Stephen F. Swallen, Katherine Traynor, Robert J. McMahon, M. D. Ediger, and Thomas E. Mates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065503 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Measurement of the Mean Inner Potentials of Anthracene and Naphthalene

Richard R. Lunt, Stéphane Kéna-Cohen, Jay B. Benziger, and Stephen R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065504 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Fracture Phase Separation

Takehito Koyama, Takeaki Araki, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065701 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

First-Principles Calculations of Free Energies of Unstable Phases: The Case of fcc W

V. Ozolins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065702 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Topological Transition in a Non-Hermitian Quantum Walk

M. S. Rudner and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065703 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Assessing Guest Diffusivities in Porous Hosts from Transient Concentration Profiles

Lars Heinke, Despina Tzoulaki, Christian Chmelik, Florian Hibbe, Jasper M. van Baten, Hyuna Lim, Jing Li, Rajamani Krishna, and Jörg Kärger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 065901 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Long-Range Electron Interferences at a Metal Surface Induced by Buried Nanocavities

O. Kurnosikov, J. H. Nietsch, M. Sicot, H. J. M. Swagten, and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066101 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

New Structural Model for the $Si (331) − (12 \times 1)$ Surface Reconstruction

Corsin Battaglia, Katalin Gaál-Nagy, Claude Monney, Clément Didiot, Eike Fabian Schwier, Michael Gunnar Garnier, Giovanni Onida, and Philipp Aebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066102 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Interaction of Nanoparticles with Ideal Liquid-Liquid Interfaces

David L. Cheung and Stefan A. F. Bon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066103 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Tunable Metallicity of the ${La}_{5 / 8} {Ca}_{3 / 8} {MnO}_{3} (001)$ Surface by an Oxygen Overlayer

K. Fuchigami, Z. Gai, T. Z. Ward, L. F. Yin, P. C. Snijders, E. W. Plummer, and J. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066104 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Divergence of the Magnetic Grüneisen Ratio at the Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

Y. Tokiwa, T. Radu, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, and P. Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066401 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Dynamical Mean Field Theory of an Effective Three-Band Model for ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

A. Bourgeois, A. A. Aligia, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066402 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Discontinuous Nature of the Exchange-Correlation Functional in Strongly Correlated Systems

Paula Mori-Sánchez, Aron J. Cohen, and Weitao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066403 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Dynamics of Photoinduced Charge-Density-Wave to Metal Phase Transition in $K_{0.3} {MoO}_{3}$

A. Tomeljak, H. Schäfer, D. Städter, M. Beyer, K. Biljakovic, and J. Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066404 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Interband Contributions from the Magnetic Field on Hall Effects for Dirac Electrons in Bismuth

Yuki Fuseya, Masao Ogata, and Hidetoshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066601 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Quantum Transport Thermometry for Electrons in Graphene

K. Kechedzhi, D. W. Horsell, F. V. Tikhonenko, A. K. Savchenko, R. V. Gorbachev, I. V. Lerner, and V. I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066801 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Clustering Properties and Model Wave Functions for Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall Quasielectrons

B. Andrei Bernevig and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066802 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Band-Selective Filter in a Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbon

Jun Nakabayashi, Daisuke Yamamoto, and Susumu Kurihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066803 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Temperature Dependence of Microwave Photoresistance in 2D Electron Systems

A. T. Hatke, M. A. Zudov, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066804 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quasiparticles at the Mott Transition in $V_{2} O_{3}$ : Wave Vector Dependence and Surface Attenuation

F. Rodolakis, B. Mansart, E. Papalazarou, S. Gorovikov, P. Vilmercati, L. Petaccia, A. Goldoni, J. P. Rueff, S. Lupi, P. Metcalf, and M. Marsi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066805 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Surface Dead Layer for Quasiparticles Near a Mott Transition

Giovanni Borghi, Michele Fabrizio, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066806 (2009) - Published 11 February, 2009

Magnetic-Field Asymmetry of Electron Wave Packet Transmission in Bent Channels Capacitively Coupled to a Metal Gate

R. Kalina, B. Szafran, S. Bednarek, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066807 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Giant Nernst Effect due to Fluctuating Cooper Pairs in Superconductors

M. N. Serbyn, M. A. Skvortsov, A. A. Varlamov, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067001 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Asymmetric Noise Probed with a Josephson Junction

Q. Le Masne, H. Pothier, Norman O. Birge, C. Urbina, and D. Esteve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067002 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Electromotive Force Induced by Domain Wall Motion

Shengyuan A. Yang, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Carl Knutson, Di Xiao, Qian Niu, Maxim Tsoi, and James L. Erskine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067201 (2009) - Published 9 February, 2009

Fano-Like Antiresonances in Nanomechanical and Optomechanical Systems

D. A. Rodrigues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067202 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

Chemical Pressure Induced Spin Freezing Phase Transition in Kagome Pr Langasites

H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, R. R. Urbano, L. L. Lumata, J. S. Brooks, P. L. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, and J. S. Gardner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067203 (2009) - Published 10 February, 2009

How to Measure a Spinon Fermi Surface

M. R. Norman and T. Micklitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067204 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

Density of States and Critical Behavior of the Coulomb Glass

Brigitte Surer, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Gergely T. Zimanyi, Brandon A. Allgood, and Gianni Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067205 (2009) - Published 12 February, 2009

High Domain Wall Velocities due to Spin Currents Perpendicular to the Plane

A. V. Khvalkovskiy, K. A. Zvezdin, Ya. V. Gorbunov, V. Cros, J. Grollier, A. Fert, and A. K. Zvezdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067206 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009

Magnetism of FePt Surface Alloys

J. Honolka, T. Y. Lee, K. Kuhnke, A. Enders, R. Skomski, S. Bornemann, S. Mankovsky, J. Minár, J. Staunton, H. Ebert, M. Hessler, K. Fauth, G. Schütz, A. Buchsbaum, M. Schmid, P. Varga, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067207 (2009) - Published 13 February, 2009