Volume 102, Issue 9

6 March 2009

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A superconducting flux qubit and circuit imaged by atomic force microscopy. The energy gap of the flux qubit can be tuned using the additional flux loop (white box and large inset) in the circuit.

From the article:

Tuning the Gap of a Superconducting Flux Qubit
F. G. Paauw, A. Fedorov, C. J. P. M Harmans, and J. E. Mooij
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 090501 (2009)

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Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell

Yun Lai, Huanyang Chen, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093901 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

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Nondegenerate Metallic States on Bi(114): A One-Dimensional Topological Metal

J. W. Wells, J. H. Dil, F. Meier, J. Lobo-Checa, V. N. Petrov, J. Osterwalder, M. M. Ugeda, I. Fernandez-Torrente, J. I. Pascual, E. D. L. Rienks, M. F. Jensen, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096802 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

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Shell Erosion and Shape Coexistence in ${}_{16}^{43}S_{27}$

L. Gaudefroy, J. M. Daugas, M. Hass, S. Grévy, Ch. Stodel, J. C. Thomas, L. Perrot, M. Girod, B. Rossé, J. C. Angélique, D. L. Balabanski, E. Fiori, C. Force, G. Georgiev, D. Kameda, V. Kumar, R. L. Lozeva, I. Matea, V. Méot, P. Morel, B. S. Nara Singh, F. Nowacki, and G. Simpson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092501 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

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Extreme Tunability of Interactions in a ${}^{7}{Li}$ Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. E. Pollack, D. Dries, M. Junker, Y. P. Chen, T. A. Corcovilos, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 090402 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

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Superfluid Heat Conduction and the Cooling of Magnetized Neutron Stars

Deborah N. Aguilera, Vincenzo Cirigliano, José A. Pons, Sanjay Reddy, and Rishi Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091101 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

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Atomic-Resolution Imaging with a Sub-50-pm Electron Probe

Rolf Erni, Marta D. Rossell, Christian Kisielowski, and Ulrich Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096101 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

LETTERS

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

Optimal Control of a Qubit Coupled to a Non-Markovian Environment

P. Rebentrost, I. Serban, T. Schulte-Herbrüggen, and F. K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 090401 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

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Extreme Tunability of Interactions in a ${}^{7}{Li}$ Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. E. Pollack, D. Dries, M. Junker, Y. P. Chen, T. A. Corcovilos, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 090402 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Tuning the Gap of a Superconducting Flux Qubit

F. G. Paauw, A. Fedorov, C. J. P. M Harmans, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 090501 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Randomized Benchmarking and Process Tomography for Gate Errors in a Solid-State Qubit

J. M. Chow, J. M. Gambetta, L. Tornberg, Jens Koch, Lev S. Bishop, A. A. Houck, B. R. Johnson, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 090502 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Superfluid Heat Conduction and the Cooling of Magnetized Neutron Stars

Deborah N. Aguilera, Vincenzo Cirigliano, José A. Pons, Sanjay Reddy, and Rishi Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091101 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Towards Loop Quantum Gravity without the Time Gauge

Francesco Cianfrani and Giovanni Montani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091301 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exciting Gauge Field and Gravitons in Brane-Antibrane Annihilation

Anupam Mazumdar and Horace Stoica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091601 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Evidence for the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{()} D_{s}^{()}$ and a Measurement of $Δ Γ_{s}^{C P} / Γ_{s}$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091801 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in Weak Boson Fusion

Wolfgang Hollik, Tilman Plehn, Michael Rauch, and Heidi Rzehak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091802 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Direct $C P$ , Lepton Flavor, and Isospin Asymmetries in the Decays $B \to K^{(*)} l^{+} l^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091803 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Hypersharp Resonant Capture of Neutrinos as a Laboratory Probe of the Planck Length

R. S. Raghavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091804 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to Dimuons at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091805 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Dispersion $γ Z$ -Box Correction to the Weak Charge of the Proton

M. Gorchtein and C. J. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091806 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Measurement of the Lifetime of the $B_{c}^{\pm}$ Meson in the Semileptonic Decay Channel

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092001 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Search for Anomalous Top-Quark Couplings with the D0 Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092002 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Nuclear Physics

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Shell Erosion and Shape Coexistence in ${}_{16}^{43}S_{27}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092501 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Search for the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in ${}^{68}{Ni}$ at $600 MeV / nucleon$

O. Wieland et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092502 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Terahertz Echo of Tunnel Ionization in Gases

N. Karpowicz and X.-C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093001 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Attosecond Synchronization of High-Order Harmonics from Midinfrared Drivers

G. Doumy, J. Wheeler, C. Roedig, R. Chirla, P. Agostini, and L. F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093002 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Complementary Media Invisibility Cloak that Cloaks Objects at a Distance Outside the Cloaking Shell

Yun Lai, Huanyang Chen, Zhao-Qing Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093901 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Density of States and Extinction Mean Free Path of Waves in Random Media: Dispersion Relations and Sum Rules

R. Carminati and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093902 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Three-Dimensional Metamaterials with an Ultrahigh Effective Refractive Index over a Broad Bandwidth

Jonghwa Shin (신종화), Jung-Tsung Shen (沈榮聰), and Shanhui Fan (范汕洄)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093903 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Optical Polarization Modulation and Gain Anisotropy in an Electrically Injected Spin Laser

D. Basu, D. Saha, and P. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093904 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Composition Relation between Gap Solitons and Bloch Waves in Nonlinear Periodic Systems

Yongping Zhang (张永平) and Biao Wu (吴飙)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093905 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Local Capacitor Model for Plasmonic Electric Field Enhancement

J. H. Kang, D. S. Kim, and Q-Han Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 093906 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Influence of Porosity on Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

L. Macias, D. Müller, and A. D’Onofrio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 094501 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Avalanches and Non-Gaussian Fluctuations of the Global Velocity of Imbibition Fronts

Ramon Planet, Stéphane Santucci, and Jordi Ortín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 094502 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Particle Segregation and Dynamics in Confined Flows

Dino Di Carlo, Jon F. Edd, Katherine J. Humphry, Howard A. Stone, and Mehmet Toner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 094503 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Random Changes of Flow Topology in Two-Dimensional and Geophysical Turbulence

Freddy Bouchet and Eric Simonnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 094504 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Wave-Particle Interactions in Electron Acoustic Waves in Pure Ion Plasmas

F. Anderegg, C. F. Driscoll, D. H. E. Dubin, and T. M. O’Neil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095001 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Laser-Driven Shock Acceleration of Ion Beams from Spherical Mass-Limited Targets

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095002 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nucleation of Gold Nanoparticle Superclusters from Solution

H. Yan, S. Cingarapu, K. J. Klabunde, A. Chakrabarti, and C. M. Sorensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095501 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Detection of Buried Microstructures by Nonlinear Light Scattering Spectroscopy

A. G. F. de Beer, H. B. de Aguiar, J. F. W. Nijsen, and S. Roke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095502 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Sufficient Conditions for Thermal Rectification in Hybrid Quantum Structures

Lian-Ao Wu and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095503 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Atomistic Simulation of Field Enhanced Oxidation of Al (100) Beyond the Mott Potential

Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Shriram Ramanathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095504 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Solidification Velocities in Deeply Undercooled Silver

Wai-Lun Chan, Robert S. Averback, David G. Cahill, and Yinon Ashkenazy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 095701 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

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Atomic-Resolution Imaging with a Sub-50-pm Electron Probe

Rolf Erni, Marta D. Rossell, Christian Kisielowski, and Ulrich Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096101 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Two Pathways for Water Interaction with Oxygen Adatoms on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

Y. Du, N. A. Deskins, Z. Zhang, Z. Dohnálek, M. Dupuis, and I. Lyubinetsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096102 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Direct Observation and Theory of Trajectory-Dependent Electronic Energy Losses in Medium-Energy Ion Scattering

A. Hentz, G. S. Parkinson, P. D. Quinn, M. A. Muñoz-Márquez, D. P. Woodruff, P. L. Grande, G. Schiwietz, P. Bailey, and T. C. Q. Noakes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096103 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Role of Atomic Multiplets in the Electronic Structure of Rare-Earth Semiconductors and Semimetals

Leonid V. Pourovskii, Kris T. Delaney, Chris G. Van de Walle, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096401 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Dynamics of Trion Formation in ${In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ Quantum Wells

M. T. Portella-Oberli, J. Berney, L. Kappei, F. Morier-Genoud, J. Szczytko, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096402 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Quantized Hyperfine Field at an Implanted $μ^{+}$ Site in ${PrPb}_{3}$ : Interplay between Localized $f$ Electrons and an Interstitial Charged Particle

T. U. Ito, W. Higemoto, K. Ohishi, N. Nishida, R. H. Heffner, Y. Aoki, A. Amato, T. Onimaru, and H. S. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096403 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Adiabatic-Connection Fluctuation-Dissipation Density-Functional Theory Based on Range Separation

Julien Toulouse, Iann C. Gerber, Georg Jansen, Andreas Savin, and János G. Ángyán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096404 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Exciton Storage in a Nanoscale Aharonov-Bohm Ring with Electric Field Tuning

Andrea M. Fischer, Vivaldo L. Campo, Jr., Mikhail E. Portnoi, and Rudolf A. Römer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096405 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Spin-Orbital Singlet and Quantum Critical Point on the Diamond Lattice: ${FeSc}_{2} S_{4}$

Gang Chen, Leon Balents, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096406 (2009) - Published 5 March, 2009

Intrinsic Half-Metallicity in Modified Graphene Nanoribbons

Sudipta Dutta, Arun K. Manna, and Swapan K. Pati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096601 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Direct Evidence for the Role of the Madelung Potential in Determining the Work Function of Doped Organic Semiconductors

Perq-Jon Chia, Sankaran Sivaramakrishnan, Mi Zhou, Rui-Qi Png, Lay-Lay Chua, Richard H. Friend, and Peter K. H. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096602 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Itinerant Ferromagnetism in the Electronic Localization Limit

N. Kurzweil, E. Kogan, and A. Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096603 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Edge States in Graphene: From Gapped Flat-Band to Gapless Chiral Modes

Wang Yao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096801 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

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Nondegenerate Metallic States on Bi(114): A One-Dimensional Topological Metal

J. W. Wells, J. H. Dil, F. Meier, J. Lobo-Checa, V. N. Petrov, J. Osterwalder, M. M. Ugeda, I. Fernandez-Torrente, J. I. Pascual, E. D. L. Rienks, M. F. Jensen, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096802 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009

Anomalous Doping Effects on Charge Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons

Blanca Biel, X. Blase, François Triozon, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096803 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Cooling Carbon Nanotubes to the Phononic Ground State with a Constant Electron Current

Stefano Zippilli, Giovanna Morigi, and Adrian Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096804 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Abrupt Rotation of the Rashba Spin to the Direction Perpendicular to the Surface

Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Tatsuki Oda, Akio Kimura, Koji Miyamoto, Masahito Tsujikawa, Ayako Imai, Nobuo Ueno, Hirofumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, P. E. J. Eriksson, and R. I. G. Uhrberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096805 (2009) - Published 3 March, 2009

Tunneling between Edge States in a Quantum Spin Hall System

Anders Ström and Henrik Johannesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096806 (2009) - Published 4 March, 2009

Thermoelectric and Magnetothermoelectric Transport Measurements of Graphene

Yuri M. Zuev, Willy Chang, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096807 (2009) - Published 6 March, 2009

Fermi Surface and Order Parameter Driven Vortex Lattice Structure Transitions in Twin-Free ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$

J. S. White, V. Hinkov, R. W. Heslop, R. J. Lycett, E. M. Forgan, C. Bowell, S. Strässle, A. B. Abrahamsen, M. Laver, C. D. Dewhurst, J. Kohlbrecher, J. L. Gavilano, J. Mesot, B. Keimer, and A. Erb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 097001 (2009) - Published 2 March, 2009