Volume 103, Issue 11

11 September 2009

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Vorticity field near wing reversal of a moving wing (white: wing; blue: counter clockwise fluid rotation; red: clockwise fluid rotation). Optimized flapping motion can be more efficient than classical airfoil wing motion.

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Flapping Wing Flight Can Save Aerodynamic Power Compared to Steady Flight
Umberto Pesavento and Z. Jane Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 118102 (2009)

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Light Well: A Tunable Free-Electron Light Source on a Chip

G. Adamo, K. F. MacDonald, Y. H. Fu, C-M. Wang, D. P. Tsai, F. J. García de Abajo, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113901 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

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Ultrafast Path for Optical Magnetization Reversal via a Strongly Nonequilibrium State

K. Vahaplar, A. M. Kalashnikova, A. V. Kimel, D. Hinzke, U. Nowak, R. Chantrell, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, A. Kirilyuk, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 117201 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

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Towards Quantum Experiments with Human Eyes as Detectors Based on Cloning via Stimulated Emission

Pavel Sekatski, Nicolas Brunner, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Christoph Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113601 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

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Field-Induced Carrier Delocalization in the Strain-Induced Mott Insulating State of an Organic Superconductor

Yoshitaka Kawasugi, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Naoya Tajima, Takeo Fukunaga, Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, and Reizo Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116801 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

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

Dynamical Properties of the One-Dimensional Spin- $1 / 2$ Bose-Hubbard Model near a Mott-Insulator to Ferromagnetic-Liquid Transition

M. B. Zvonarev, V. V. Cheianov, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110401 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Quantum Darwinism in a Mixed Environment

Michael Zwolak, H. T. Quan, and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110402 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Splitting the Topological Degeneracy of Non-Abelian Anyons

Parsa Bonderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110403 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Nonperturbative Treatment of Double Compton Backscattering in Intense Laser Fields

Erik Lötstedt and Ulrich D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110404 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Simple Pulses for Elimination of Leakage in Weakly Nonlinear Qubits

F. Motzoi, J. M. Gambetta, P. Rebentrost, and F. K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110501 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Nonlocal Entanglement Transformations Achievable by Separable Operations

Eric Chitambar and Runyao Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110502 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Measuring Qutrit-Qutrit Entanglement of Orbital Angular Momentum States of an Atomic Ensemble and a Photon

R. Inoue, T. Yonehara, Y. Miyamoto, M. Koashi, and M. Kozuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110503 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Ultrahigh-Resolution Soft-X-Ray Microscopy with Zone Plates in High Orders of Diffraction

S. Rehbein, S. Heim, P. Guttmann, S. Werner, and G. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 110801 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

How to Observe a Non-Kerr Spacetime Using Gravitational Waves

Theocharis A. Apostolatos, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, and George Contopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111101 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy

Máximo Bañados, Joseph Silk, and Stephen M. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111102 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions

P. Sikivie and Q. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111301 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Inhomogeneity in Cosmic Ray Sources as the Origin of the Electron Spectrum and the PAMELA Anomaly

Nir J. Shaviv, Ehud Nakar, and Tsvi Piran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111302 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Grand Unification Scale Primordial Black Holes: Consequences and Constraints

Richard Anantua, Richard Easther, and John T. Giblin, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111303 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Electron Antineutrino Appearance at the $Δ m^{2} \sim 1 {eV}^{2}$ Scale

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111801 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Bottomonium Spectroscopy with Mixing of $η_{b}$ States and a Light $C P$ -Odd Higgs Boson

Florian Domingo, Ulrich Ellwanger, and Miguel-Angel Sanchis-Lozano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 111802 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dominance of the Breit Interaction in the X-Ray Emission of Highly Charged Ions Following Dielectronic Recombination

Stephan Fritzsche, Andrey Surzhykov, and Thomas Stöhlker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113001 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Vanishing Electronic Energy Loss of Very Slow Light Ions in Insulators with Large Band Gaps

S. N. Markin, D. Primetzhofer, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113201 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Decoherence and Collisional Frequency Shifts of Trapped Bosons and Fermions

Kurt Gibble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113202 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

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Towards Quantum Experiments with Human Eyes as Detectors Based on Cloning via Stimulated Emission

Pavel Sekatski, Nicolas Brunner, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Christoph Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113601 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Proposal for Pulsed On-Demand Sources of Photonic Cluster State Strings

Netanel H. Lindner and Terry Rudolph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113602 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Light Well: A Tunable Free-Electron Light Source on a Chip

G. Adamo, K. F. MacDonald, Y. H. Fu, C-M. Wang, D. P. Tsai, F. J. García de Abajo, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113901 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Observation of a Microscopic Cascaded Contribution to the Fifth-Order Nonlinear Susceptibility

Ksenia Dolgaleva, Heedeuk Shin, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113902 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Observation of Three-Dimensional Discrete-Continuous $X$ Waves in Photonic Lattices

M. Heinrich, A. Szameit, F. Dreisow, R. Keil, S. Minardi, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, and F. Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 113903 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Synchronization of Sound Sources

Markus Abel, Karsten Ahnert, and Steffen Bergweiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 114301 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Coexistence of Two Singularities in Dewetting Flows: Regularizing the Corner Tip

Ivo Peters, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Adrian Daerr, and Laurent Limat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 114501 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Burgers Shock Waves and Sound in a 2D Microfluidic Droplets Ensemble

Tsevi Beatus, Tsvi Tlusty, and Roy Bar-Ziv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 114502 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Effect of the Laser Wavelength on the Saturated Level of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

S. Depierreux, D. T. Michel, V. Tassin, P. Loiseau, C. Stenz, and C. Labaune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115001 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Laboratory Observations of Self-Excited Dust Acoustic Shocks

J. Heinrich, S.-H. Kim, and R. L. Merlino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115002 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Collision Dynamics and Rung Formation of non-Abelian Vortices

Michikazu Kobayashi, Yuki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115301 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Potassium under Pressure: A Pseudobinary Ionic Compound

M. Marqués, G. J. Ackland, L. F. Lundegaard, G. Stinton, R. J. Nelmes, M. I. McMahon, and J. Contreras-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115501 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Initial Structure Memory of Pressure-Induced Changes in the Phase-Change Memory Alloy ${Ge}_{2} {Sb}_{2} {Te}_{5}$

M. Krbal, A. V. Kolobov, J. Haines, P. Fons, C. Levelut, R. Le Parc, M. Hanfland, J. Tominaga, A. Pradel, and M. Ribes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115502 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Irreversible Rearrangements, Correlated Domains, and Local Structure in Aging Glasses

Peter Yunker, Zexin Zhang, Kevin B. Aptowicz, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115701 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Coarse-Grained Simulations of Flow-Induced Nucleation in Semicrystalline Polymers

Richard S. Graham and Peter D. Olmsted

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115702 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Direct Observation of a Surface Induced Disordering Process in Magnetic Nanoparticles

András Kovács, Kazuhisa Sato, Vlado K. Lazarov, Pedro L. Galindo, Toyohiko J. Konno, and Yoshihiko Hirotsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 115703 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

Understanding the Clean Interface between Covalent Si and Ionic ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$

H. J. Xiang, Juarez L. F. Da Silva, Howard M. Branz, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116101 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Fluctuations due to Spinons, Polarons, and Stripes in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Norikazu Tomita and Shuji Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116401 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Appearance of “Fragile” Fermi Liquids in Finite-Width Mott Insulators Sandwiched between Metallic Leads

H. Zenia, J. K. Freericks, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and Th. Pruschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116402 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

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Field-Induced Carrier Delocalization in the Strain-Induced Mott Insulating State of an Organic Superconductor

Yoshitaka Kawasugi, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Naoya Tajima, Takeo Fukunaga, Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, and Reizo Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116801 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Searching for the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphite

Y. Kopelevich, B. Raquet, M. Goiran, W. Escoffier, R. R. da Silva, J. C. Medina Pantoja, I. A. Luk’yanchuk, A. Sinchenko, and P. Monceau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116802 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Optical Hall Conductivity in Ordinary and Graphene Quantum Hall Systems

Takahiro Morimoto, Yasuhiro Hatsugai, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116803 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Gate Tunable Infrared Phonon Anomalies in Bilayer Graphene

A. B. Kuzmenko, L. Benfatto, E. Cappelluti, I. Crassee, D. van der Marel, P. Blake, K. S. Novoselov, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 116804 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Complex Inductance, Excess Noise, and Surface Magnetism in dc SQUIDs

S. Sendelbach, D. Hover, M. Mück, and R. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 117001 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Crystal Orientation and Thickness Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of Tetragonal ${FeSe}_{1 - x}$ Thin Films

M. J. Wang, J. Y. Luo, T. W. Huang, H. H. Chang, T. K. Chen, F. C. Hsu, C. T. Wu, P. M. Wu, A. M. Chang, and M. K. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 117002 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Theoretical Demonstration of How the Dispersion of Magnetic Excitations in Cuprate Compounds can be Determined Using Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Luuk J. P. Ament, Giacomo Ghiringhelli, Marco Moretti Sala, Lucio Braicovich, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 117003 (2009) - Published 11 September, 2009

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Excluded Volume and Ion Polarizability Effects in the Electrical Double-Layer Structure and Capacitance

Y. Lauw, M. D. Horne, T. Rodopoulos, and F. A. M. Leermakers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 117801 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

Jamming in Sheared Foams and Emulsions, Explained by Critical Instability of the Films between Neighboring Bubbles and Drops

N. D. Denkov, S. Tcholakova, K. Golemanov, and A. Lips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 118302 (2009) - Published 10 September, 2009

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Publisher’s Note: Classical Aspects in Above-Threshold Ionization with a Midinfrared Strong Laser Field [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093001 (2009)]

W. Quan, Z. Lin, M. Wu, H. Kang, H. Liu, X. Liu, J. Chen, J. Liu, X. T. He, S. G. Chen, H. Xiong, L. Guo, H. Xu, Y. Fu, Y. Cheng, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 119901 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Probing $C P$ Violation with the Electric Dipole Moment of Atomic Mercury [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083001 (2009)]

K. V. P. Latha, D. Angom, B. P. Das, and D. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 119902 (2009) - Published 8 September, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Coherent Terahertz Polarization Control through Manipulation of Electron Trajectories [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023902 (2009)]

Haidan Wen and Aaron M. Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 119903 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Kondo Lattice Scenario in Disordered Semiconductor Heterostructures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067203 (2009)]

Kusum Dhochak and V. Tripathi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 119904 (2009) - Published 9 September, 2009

Volume 103, Issue 11

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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