Volume 102, Issue 7

20 February 2009

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Photovoltaic device of nanocrystal quantum dots on a heterostructure. The hybrid nature of the device leads to a demonstrated gain in the photocurrent conversion efficiency, useful for solar-cell technology.

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Photocurrent Enhancement in Hybrid Nanocrystal Quantum-Dot $p − i − n$ Photovoltaic Devices
S. Chanyawadee, R. T. Harley, M. Henini, D. V. Talapin, and P. G. Lagoudakis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 077402 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Magnetoresistance in Double Spin Filter Tunnel Junctions with Nonmagnetic Electrodes and its Unconventional Bias Dependence

Guo-Xing Miao, Martina Müller, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076601 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter from the High Energy PAMELA $\bar{p} / p$ Data

F. Donato, D. Maurin, P. Brun, T. Delahaye, and P. Salati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 071301 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

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Diamond at 800 GPa

D. K. Bradley, J. H. Eggert, R. F. Smith, S. T. Prisbrey, D. G. Hicks, D. G. Braun, J. Biener, A. V. Hamza, R. E. Rudd, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075503 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

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Molecular-Weight Dependent Thermal Diffusion in Dilute Polymer Solutions

Alois Würger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 078302 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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Spontaneous Dipole Alignment in Films of $N_{2} O$

Richard Balog, P. Cicman, N. C. Jones, and D. Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073003 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

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Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Silicon Determined by First-Principles Simulation

P. Ganesh and M. Widom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075701 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

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Layered Kondo Lattice Model for Quantum Critical $β − {YbAlB}_{4}$

Andriy H. Nevidomskyy and P. Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 077202 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

LETTERS

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

Universality and Anomalous Mean-Field Breakdown of Symmetry-Breaking Transitions in a Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

Chaohong Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070401 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Bloch Oscillations in a One-Dimensional Spinor Gas

D. M. Gangardt and A. Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070402 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Vortex Quantum Dynamics of Two Dimensional Lattice Bosons

Netanel H. Lindner, Assa Auerbach, and Daniel P. Arovas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070403 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Deterministic Ultracold Ion Source Targeting the Heisenberg Limit

W. Schnitzler, N. M. Linke, R. Fickler, J. Meijer, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and K. Singer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070501 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Fault-Tolerant Holonomic Quantum Computation

Ognyan Oreshkov, Todd A. Brun, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070502 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Nonequilibrium Reliability of Quantum Memories

Alastair Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070503 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Critical Interfaces in the Random-Bond Potts Model

Jesper L. Jacobsen, Pierre Le Doussal, Marco Picco, Raoul Santachiara, and Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070601 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Recovery of Free Energy Branches in Single Molecule Experiments

Ivan Junier, Alessandro Mossa, Maria Manosas, and Felix Ritort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070602 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Random Walks and Anderson Localization in a Three-Dimensional Class C Network Model

M. Ortuño, A. M. Somoza, and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 070603 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter from the High Energy PAMELA $\bar{p} / p$ Data

F. Donato, D. Maurin, P. Brun, T. Delahaye, and P. Salati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 071301 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gauge Coupling Unification in $F$ -Theory Grand Unified Theories

Ralph Blumenhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 071601 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Implementation of the Duality between Wilson Loops and Scattering Amplitudes in QCD

Yuri Makeenko and Poul Olesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 071602 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to the Top-Quark Decay via Model-Independent Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Couplings

Jia Jun Zhang, Chong Sheng Li, Jun Gao, Hao Zhang, Zhao Li, C.-P. Yuan, and Tzu-Chiang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 072001 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Accurate Retrieval of Target Structures and Laser Parameters of Few-Cycle Pulses from Photoelectron Momentum Spectra

S. Micheau, Zhangjin Chen, A. T. Le, J. Rauschenberger, M. F. Kling, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073001 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Tuning the Fluorescence Emission Spectra of a Single Molecule with a Variable Optical Subwavelength Metal Microcavity

Alexey Chizhik, Frank Schleifenbaum, Raphael Gutbrod, Anna Chizhik, Dmitry Khoptyar, Alfred J. Meixner, and Jörg Enderlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073002 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

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Spontaneous Dipole Alignment in Films of $N_{2} O$

Richard Balog, P. Cicman, N. C. Jones, and D. Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073003 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Individual Addressing of Trapped Ions and Coupling of Motional and Spin States Using rf Radiation

M. Johanning, A. Braun, N. Timoney, V. Elman, W. Neuhauser, and Chr. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073004 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Accurate Molecular Van Der Waals Interactions from Ground-State Electron Density and Free-Atom Reference Data

Alexandre Tkatchenko and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073005 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Physical Mechanisms and Scaling Laws of $K$ -Shell Double Photoionization

J. Hoszowska, A. K. Kheifets, J.-Cl. Dousse, M. Berset, I. Bray, W. Cao, K. Fennane, Y. Kayser, M. Kavčič, J. Szlachetko, and M. Szlachetko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073006 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Manipulating the Torsion of Molecules by Strong Laser Pulses

C. B. Madsen, L. B. Madsen, S. S. Viftrup, M. P. Johansson, T. B. Poulsen, L. Holmegaard, V. Kumarappan, K. A. Jørgensen, and H. Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073007 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Nonadiabatic Coherent Evolution of Two-Level Systems under Spontaneous Decay

F. O. Prado, E. I. Duzzioni, M. H. Y. Moussa, N. G. de Almeida, and C. J. Villas-Bôas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073008 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Microwave Surface-Plasmon-Like Modes on Thin Metamaterials

Matthew J. Lockyear, Alastair P. Hibbins, and J. Roy Sambles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073901 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Elliptically Polarized High-Order Harmonic Emission from Molecules in Linearly Polarized Laser Fields

Xibin Zhou, Robynne Lock, Nick Wagner, Wen Li, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073902 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Beating of Coupled Ultraviolet Light Modes in Zinc Oxide Nanoresonators

M. Schirra, M. Feneberg, G. M. Prinz, A. Reiser, T. Röder, K. Thonke, and R. Sauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073903 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Spatial Interference: From Coherent to Incoherent

Su-Heng Zhang, Lu Gao, Jun Xiong, Li-Juan Feng, De-Zhong Cao, and Kaige Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073904 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

First Experimental Observation of Generalized Synchronization Phenomena in Microwave Oscillators

Boris S. Dmitriev, Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, Andrey V. Starodubov, Dmitriy I. Trubetskov, and Yurii D. Zharkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 074101 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Hyperbolicity and the Effective Dimension of Spatially Extended Dissipative Systems

Hong-liu Yang, Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Francesco Ginelli, Hugues Chaté, and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 074102 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Interaction between Supersonic Disintegrating Liquid Jets and Their Shock Waves

Kyoung-Su Im, Seong-Kyun Cheong, X. Liu, Jin Wang, Ming-Chia Lai, Mark W. Tate, Alper Ercan, Matthew J. Renzi, Daniel R. Schuette, and Sol M. Gruner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 074501 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Steady-State Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media: Statistics and Transport Properties

Ken Tore Tallakstad, Henning Arendt Knudsen, Thomas Ramstad, Grunde Løvoll, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Renaud Toussaint, and Eirik Grude Flekkøy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 074502 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Using the Beam-Echo Effect for Generation of Short-Wavelength Radiation

G. Stupakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 074801 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Evidence of Inward Toroidal Momentum Convection in the JET Tokamak

T. Tala, K.-D. Zastrow, J. Ferreira, P. Mantica, V. Naulin, A. G. Peeters, G. Tardini, M. Brix, G. Corrigan, C. Giroud, and D. Strintzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075001 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Ab Initio Determination of Thermal Conductivity of Dense Hydrogen Plasmas

Vanina Recoules, Flavien Lambert, Alain Decoster, Benoit Canaud, and Jean Clérouin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075002 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Counterstreaming Beams and Flat-Top Electron Distributions Observed with Langmuir, Whistler, and Compressional Alfvén Waves in Earth’s Magnetic Tail

Alexandra Teste and George K. Parks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075003 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Electrostatic and magnetic transport of energetic ions in turbulent plasmas

T. Hauff, M. J. Pueschel, T. Dannert, and F. Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075004 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Reconnection at High Latitudes: Antiparallel Merging

M. W. Dunlop, Q.-H. Zhang, C.-J. Xiao, J.-S. He, Z. Pu, R. C. Fear, C. Shen, and C. P. Escoubet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075005 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Magnetization Plateau of Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Solid ${}^{3}{He}$ on a Triangular Lattice

Hirofumi Nema, Akira Yamaguchi, Takahiro Hayakawa, and Hidehiko Ishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075301 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Longitudinal Optical Phonons in Metallic and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Martin Fouquet, Hagen Telg, Janina Maultzsch, Yang Wu, Bhupesh Chandra, J. Hone, Tony F. Heinz, and C. Thomsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075501 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Unveiling the Formation Mechanism of Pseudo-Single-Crystal Aragonite Platelets in Nacre

Xiaodong Li and Zaiwang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075502 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

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Diamond at 800 GPa

D. K. Bradley, J. H. Eggert, R. F. Smith, S. T. Prisbrey, D. G. Hicks, D. G. Braun, J. Biener, A. V. Hamza, R. E. Rudd, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075503 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Formation of Large Voids in the Amorphous Phase-Change Memory ${Ge}_{2} {Sb}_{2} {Te}_{5}$ Alloy

Zhimei Sun, Jian Zhou, Andreas Blomqvist, Börje Johansson, and Rajeev Ahuja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075504 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Depressurization Amorphization of Single-Crystal Boron Carbide

X. Q. Yan, Z. Tang, L. Zhang, J. J. Guo, C. Q. Jin, Y. Zhang, T. Goto, J. W. McCauley, and M. W. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075505 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Proton Tunneling: A Decay Channel of the O-H Stretch Mode in ${KTaO}_{3}$

E. J. Spahr, L. Wen, M. Stavola, L. A. Boatner, L. C. Feldman, N. H. Tolk, and G. Lüpke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075506 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

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Liquid-Liquid Transition in Supercooled Silicon Determined by First-Principles Simulation

P. Ganesh and M. Widom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075701 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Nanoparticle Motion within Glassy Polymer Melts

Hongyu Guo, Gilles Bourret, Muriel K. Corbierre, Simona Rucareanu, R. Bruce Lennox, Khalid Laaziri, Luc Piche, Mark Sutton, James L. Harden, and Robert L. Leheny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 075702 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Oxygen-Coverage Effects on Molecular Dissociations at a Pt Metal Surface

R. B. Getman, W. F. Schneider, A. D. Smeltz, W. N. Delgass, and F. H. Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076101 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Intrinsic and extrinsic corrugation of monolayer graphene deposited on ${SiO}_{2}$

V. Geringer, M. Liebmann, T. Echtermeyer, S. Runte, M. Schmidt, R. Rückamp, M. C. Lemme, and M. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076102 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Traveling-Wave Electrophoresis For Microfluidic Separations

Boyd F. Edwards, Aaron T. Timperman, R. Lloyd Carroll, Kyoo Jo, Jon M. Mease, and Jarrod E. Schiffbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076103 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Revival of Electron Coherence in a Quantum Wire of Finite Length

Jaeuk U. Kim, W.-R. Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076401 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Kinks in the Electronic Specific Heat

A. Toschi, M. Capone, C. Castellani, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076402 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

Pair Correlations of a Spin-Imbalanced Fermi Gas on Two-Leg Ladders

A. E. Feiguin and F. Heidrich-Meisner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076403 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Charge-Density-Wave Destruction and Ferromagnetic Order in ${SmNiC}_{2}$

S. Shimomura, C. Hayashi, G. Asaka, N. Wakabayashi, M. Mizumaki, and H. Onodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076404 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Evolution of the Kondo State of ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ Probed by High-Field ESR

U. Schaufuß, V. Kataev, A. A. Zvyagin, B. Büchner, J. Sichelschmidt, J. Wykhoff, C. Krellner, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076405 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

Emergent Collective Modes and Kinks in Electronic Dispersions

Carsten Raas, Patrick Grete, and Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076406 (2009) - Published 20 February, 2009

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Magnetoresistance in Double Spin Filter Tunnel Junctions with Nonmagnetic Electrodes and its Unconventional Bias Dependence

Guo-Xing Miao, Martina Müller, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076601 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

3D Pressure Field in Lipid Membranes and Membrane-Protein Complexes

O. H. Samuli Ollila, H. Jelger Risselada, Martti Louhivuori, Erik Lindahl, Ilpo Vattulainen, and Siewert J. Marrink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 078101 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Measurement of the Torque on a Single Stretched and Twisted DNA Using Magnetic Tweezers

Francesco Mosconi, Jean François Allemand, David Bensimon, and Vincent Croquette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 078301 (2009) - Published 17 February, 2009

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Why is Polonium Simple Cubic and So Highly Anisotropic?”

Kyoo Kim, Hong Chul Choi, and B. I. Min

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 079701 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

Šob, Legut, and Friák Reply:

Mojmír Šob, Dominik Legut, and Martin Friák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 079702 (2009) - Published 19 February, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Apollonian Networks: Simultaneously Scale-Free, Small World, Euclidean, Space Filling, and with Matching Graphs [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 018702 (2005)]

José S. Andrade, Jr., Hans J. Herrmann, Roberto F. S. Andrade, and Luciano R. da Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 079901 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009

Erratum: Interference between Compton Scattering and X-Ray Parametric Down-Conversion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 244801 (2007)]

Kenji Tamasaku and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 079902 (2009) - Published 18 February, 2009