Volume 103, Issue 12

18 September 2009

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Far-field spectrum of the forward emission by an Airy beam in water, as a function of emission angle and wavelength. Airy beams are approximately diffraction-free, but their intensity features freely self-bend on propagation.

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Filamentation of Femtosecond Laser Airy Beams in Water
Pavel Polynkin, Miroslav Kolesik, and Jerome Moloney
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123902 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Formation of Nuclear “Pasta” in Supernovae

Gentaro Watanabe, Hidetaka Sonoda, Toshiki Maruyama, Katsuhiko Sato, Kenji Yasuoka, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 121101 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

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Rydberg-State-Enabled Deceleration and Trapping of Cold Molecules

S. D. Hogan, Ch. Seiler, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123001 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

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Molecular Dissociative Ionization and Wave-Packet Dynamics Studied Using Two-Color XUV and IR Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

F. Kelkensberg, C. Lefebvre, W. Siu, O. Ghafur, T. T. Nguyen-Dang, O. Atabek, A. Keller, V. Serov, P. Johnsson, M. Swoboda, T. Remetter, A. L’Huillier, S. Zherebtsov, G. Sansone, E. Benedetti, F. Ferrari, M. Nisoli, F. Lépine, M. F. Kling, and M. J. J. Vrakking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123005 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

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Magnetization Reversal of Nanoscale Islands: How Size and Shape Affect the Arrhenius Prefactor

S. Krause, G. Herzog, T. Stapelfeldt, L. Berbil-Bautista, M. Bode, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127202 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

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Time-Resolved Up-Conversion of Entangled Photon Pairs

Kevin A. O’Donnell and Alfred B. U’Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123602 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

LETTERS

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

First-Principles Study of Casimir Repulsion in Metamaterials

Vassilios Yannopapas and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120401 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

Private Capacity of Quantum Channels is Not Additive

Ke Li, Andreas Winter, XuBo Zou, and GuangCan Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120501 (2009) - Published 15 September, 2009

Entanglement and Tunable Spin-Spin Couplings between Trapped Ions Using Multiple Transverse Modes

K. Kim, M.-S. Chang, R. Islam, S. Korenblit, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120502 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

Extensive Nonadditivity of Privacy

Graeme Smith and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120503 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Adiabatic Gate Teleportation

Dave Bacon and Steven T. Flammia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120504 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Single-Electronic Radio-Frequency Refrigerator

S. Kafanov, A. Kemppinen, Yu. A. Pashkin, M. Meschke, J. S. Tsai, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120801 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Formation of Nuclear “Pasta” in Supernovae

Gentaro Watanabe, Hidetaka Sonoda, Toshiki Maruyama, Katsuhiko Sato, Kenji Yasuoka, and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 121101 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Cosmic-Ray Electron Injection from the Ionization of Nuclei

Giovanni Morlino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 121102 (2009) - Published 15 September, 2009

Galactic Substructure and Energetic Neutrinos from the Sun and Earth

Savvas M. Koushiappas and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 121301 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Angular Momentum Content of the $ρ$ Meson in Lattice QCD

Leonid Ya. Glozman, C. B. Lang, and Markus Limmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 121601 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Probing the Gluon Self-Interaction in Light Mesons

Christian S. Fischer and Richard Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 122001 (2009) - Published 15 September, 2009

Strange Quark Condensate in the Nucleon in $2 + 1$ Flavor QCD

D. Toussaint and W. Freeman (MILC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 122002 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Smallest Known $Q$ Value of Any Nuclear Decay: The Rare $β^{-}$ Decay of ${}^{115}{In} (9 / 2^{+}) \to {}^{115}{Sn} (3 / 2^{+})$

J. S. E. Wieslander, J. Suhonen, T. Eronen, M. Hult, V.-V. Elomaa, A. Jokinen, G. Marissens, M. Misiaszek, M. T. Mustonen, S. Rahaman, C. Weber, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 122501 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

$Q$ Value of ${}^{115}{In} \to {}^{115}{Sn} (3 / 2^{+})$ : The Lowest Known Energy $β$ Decay

Brianna J. Mount, Matthew Redshaw, and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 122502 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Rydberg-State-Enabled Deceleration and Trapping of Cold Molecules

S. D. Hogan, Ch. Seiler, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123001 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Theoretical Determination of Characteristic X-Ray Lines and the Copper $K α$ Spectrum

C. T. Chantler, A. C. L. Hayward, and I. P. Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123002 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

Resonance Coalescence in Molecular Photodissociation

R. Lefebvre, O. Atabek, M. Šindelka, and N. Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123003 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

Trapping and Manipulation of Isolated Atoms Using Nanoscale Plasmonic Structures

D. E. Chang, J. D. Thompson, H. Park, V. Vuletić, A. S. Zibrov, P. Zoller, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123004 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

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Molecular Dissociative Ionization and Wave-Packet Dynamics Studied Using Two-Color XUV and IR Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123005 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

Quantum Jumps and Spin Dynamics of Interacting Atoms in a Strongly Coupled Atom-Cavity System

M. Khudaverdyan, W. Alt, T. Kampschulte, S. Reick, A. Thobe, A. Widera, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123006 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Quantum Pumping with Ultracold Atoms on Microchips: Fermions versus Bosons

Kunal K. Das and Seth Aubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123007 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Two Electrons on a Hypersphere: A Quasiexactly Solvable Model

Pierre-François Loos and Peter M. W. Gill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123008 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Bloch Oscillations in Complex Crystals with $P T$ Symmetry

S. Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123601 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

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Time-Resolved Up-Conversion of Entangled Photon Pairs

Kevin A. O’Donnell and Alfred B. U’Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123602 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Autoresonant Dynamics of Optical Guided Waves

Assaf Barak, Yuval Lamhot, Lazar Friedland, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123901 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Filamentation of Femtosecond Laser Airy Beams in Water

Pavel Polynkin, Miroslav Kolesik, and Jerome Moloney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123902 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Spectrum of Light in a Quantum Fluctuating Periodic Structure

Mauro Antezza and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123903 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Asymmetric Disconnection of an Underwater Air Bubble: Persistent Neck Vibrations Evolve into a Smooth Contact

Konstantin S. Turitsyn, Lipeng Lai, and Wendy W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 124501 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Three Periods of Drying of a Single Square Capillary Tube

F. Chauvet, P. Duru, S. Geoffroy, and M. Prat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 124502 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Strong Scattering of High Power Millimeter Waves in Tokamak Plasmas with Tearing Modes

E. Westerhof, S. K. Nielsen, J. W. Oosterbeek, M. Salewski, M. R. De Baar, W. A. Bongers, A. Bürger, B. A. Hennen, S. B. Korsholm, F. Leipold, D. Moseev, M. Stejner, and D. J. Thoen (the TEXTOR Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 125001 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pressure-Induced Insulator-to-Metal Transition in ${TbBaCo}_{2} O_{5.48}$

D. Chernyshov, G. Rozenberg, E. Greenberg, E. Pomyakushina, and V. Dmitriev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 125501 (2009) - Published 15 September, 2009

Wurtzite to Rocksalt Phase Transformation of Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystals via Laser-Induced Shock Waves: Transition from Single to Multiple Nucleation

Joshua S. Wittenberg, Maxwell G. Merkle, and A. Paul Alivisatos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 125701 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

Superionic Conduction in Substoichiometric LiAl Alloy: An Ab Initio Study

Clotilde S. Cucinotta, Giacomo Miceli, Paolo Raiteri, Matthias Krack, Thomas D. Kühne, Marco Bernasconi, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 125901 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Thermal Conductivity of MgO Periclase from Equilibrium First Principles Molecular Dynamics

Nico de Koker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 125902 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Atomic Structure Imaging Beyond Conventional Resolution Limits in the Transmission Electron Microscope

Sarah J. Haigh, Hidetaka Sawada, and Angus I. Kirkland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 126101 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Critical Metal Phase at the Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition with Kondo Impurities

S. Kettemann, E. R. Mucciolo, and I. Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 126401 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Density Enhanced Diffusion of Dipolar Excitons within a One-Dimensional Channel

X. P. Vögele, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, J. P. Kotthaus, and A. W. Holleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 126402 (2009) - Published 16 September, 2009

Slow Relaxations and Aging in the Electron Glass

Ariel Amir, Yuval Oreg, and Yoseph Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 126403 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009

dc Conductivity of an Array of Josephson Junctions in the Insulating State

S. V. Syzranov, K. B. Efetov, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127001 (2009) - Published 15 September, 2009

Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconducting State in Zn Nanowires Driven in the Normal State by an Electric Current

Yu Chen, S. D. Snyder, and A. M. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127002 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Evidence for a Nodal Energy Gap in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductor LaFePO from Penetration Depth Measurements by Scanning SQUID Susceptometry

Clifford W. Hicks, Thomas M. Lippman, Martin E. Huber, James G. Analytis, Jiun-Haw Chu, Ann S. Erickson, Ian R. Fisher, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127003 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Exchange Bias Driven by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Ferroelectric Polarization at $G$ -Type Antiferromagnetic Perovskite Interfaces

Shuai Dong, Kunihiko Yamauchi, Seiji Yunoki, Rong Yu, Shuhua Liang, Adriana Moreo, J.-M. Liu, Silvia Picozzi, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127201 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

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Magnetization Reversal of Nanoscale Islands: How Size and Shape Affect the Arrhenius Prefactor

S. Krause, G. Herzog, T. Stapelfeldt, L. Berbil-Bautista, M. Bode, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127202 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Control of the Strong Light-Matter Interaction between an Elongated ${In}_{0.3} {Ga}_{0.7} As$ Quantum Dot and a Micropillar Cavity Using External Magnetic Fields

S. Reitzenstein, S. Münch, P. Franeck, A. Rahimi-Iman, A. Löffler, S. Höfling, L. Worschech, and A. Forchel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127401 (2009) - Published 18 September, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Interplay between Gyrokinetic Turbulence, Flows, and Collisions: Perspectives on Transport and Poloidal Rotation [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 103, 065002 (2009)]

G. Dif-Pradalier, V. Grandgirard, Y. Sarazin, X. Garbet, and Ph. Ghendrih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 129901 (2009) - Published 14 September, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Spin Field Effect Transistors with Ultracold Atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 265302 (2008)]

J. Y. Vaishnav, Julius Ruseckas, Charles W. Clark, and Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 129902 (2009) - Published 17 September, 2009