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Physical Review Letters

Volume 103, Issue 14

2 October 2009

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Time-energy plot of the expected event rate for finding photon-converted solar axions with a germanium detector.

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Search for Axions with the CDMS Experiment
Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141802 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Entropy Exchange in a Mixture of Ultracold Atoms

J. Catani, G. Barontini, G. Lamporesi, F. Rabatti, G. Thalhammer, F. Minardi, S. Stringari, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140401 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

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Absence of a Direct Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition in Disordered Bose Systems

L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140402 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

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Atomtronic Circuits of Diodes and Transistors

R. A. Pepino, J. Cooper, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140405 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

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Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide

J. R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147003 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

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Electrohydraulic Power Conversion in Planar Nanochannels

Douwe Jan Bonthuis, Dominik Horinek, Lydéric Bocquet, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 144503 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

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Reduction of Viscosity in Suspension of Swimming Bacteria

Andrey Sokolov and Igor S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 148101 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

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Increased Brownian Force Noise from Molecular Impacts in a Constrained Volume

A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, A. Heptonstall, M. Hueller, D. Nicolodi, S. Rowan, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, P. J. Wass, and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140601 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

LETTERS

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

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Entropy Exchange in a Mixture of Ultracold Atoms

J. Catani, G. Barontini, G. Lamporesi, F. Rabatti, G. Thalhammer, F. Minardi, S. Stringari, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140401 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

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Absence of a Direct Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition in Disordered Bose Systems

L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140402 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Quantum Entangled Dark Solitons Formed by Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

R. V. Mishmash and L. D. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140403 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Analytic Thermodynamics and Thermometry of Gaudin-Yang Fermi Gases

Erhai Zhao, Xi-Wen Guan, W. Vincent Liu, M. T. Batchelor, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140404 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

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Atomtronic Circuits of Diodes and Transistors

R. A. Pepino, J. Cooper, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140405 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Experimental Demonstration of the Bosonic Commutation Relation via Superpositions of Quantum Operations on Thermal Light Fields

A. Zavatta, V. Parigi, M. S. Kim, H. Jeong, and M. Bellini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140406 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Quantum Simulation of a System with Competing Two- and Three-Body Interactions

Xinhua Peng, Jingfu Zhang, Jiangfeng Du, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140501 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

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Increased Brownian Force Noise from Molecular Impacts in a Constrained Volume

A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, A. Heptonstall, M. Hueller, D. Nicolodi, S. Rowan, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, P. J. Wass, and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140601 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Convex Hull of $N$ Planar Brownian Motions: Exact Results and an Application to Ecology

Julien Randon-Furling, Satya N. Majumdar, and Alain Comtet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140602 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Overspinning a Black Hole with a Test Body

Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141101 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Superconductors from Superstrings

Steven S. Gubser, Christopher P. Herzog, Silviu S. Pufu, and Tiberiu Tesileanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141601 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Covariant Gauge on the Lattice: A New Implementation

Attilio Cucchieri, Tereza Mendes, and Elton M. S. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141602 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Measurement of the $W$ Boson Mass

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141801 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Search for Axions with the CDMS Experiment

Z. Ahmed et al. (CDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141802 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Measuring Lifetimes of Long-Lived Charged Massive Particles Stopped in LHC Detectors

Shoji Asai, Koichi Hamaguchi, and Satoshi Shirai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141803 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Charged Kaon Interferometric Probes of Space-Time Evolution in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

S. Afanasiev et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 142301 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Energy Loss for Heavy Quarks in Relation to Light Partons: Is Radiative Energy Loss for Heavy Quarks Anomalous?

Roy A. Lacey, R. Wei, N. N. Ajitanand, J. M. Alexander, X. Gong, J. Jia, A. Mawi, S. Mohapatra, D. Reynolds, S. Salnikov, and A. Taranenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 142302 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Nuclear Spins and Magnetic Moments of ${}^{71, 73, 75}{Cu}$ : Inversion of $π 2 p_{3 / 2}$ and $π 1 f_{5 / 2}$ Levels in ${}^{75}{Cu}$

K. T. Flanagan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 142501 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Absolute Cooling Rates of Freely Decaying Fullerenes

A. E. K. Sundén, M. Goto, J. Matsumoto, H. Shiromaru, H. Tanuma, T. Azuma, J. U. Andersen, S. E. Canton, and K. Hansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143001 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from Multiply Ionized Argon above 500 eV through Laser Pulse Self-Compression

P. Arpin, T. Popmintchev, N. L. Wagner, A. L. Lytle, O. Cohen, H. C. Kapteyn, and M. M. Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143901 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

All Optical Metamaterial Circuit Board at the Nanoscale

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143902 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Quasi-Bloch Oscillations in Curved Coupled Optical Waveguides

Arash Joushaghani, Rajiv Iyer, Joyce K. S. Poon, J. Stewart Aitchison, C. Martijn de Sterke, Jun Wan, and Marc M. Dignam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 143903 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Two-Dimensional Melting of a Crystal of Ferrofluid Spikes

François Boyer and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 144501 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Self-Sustaining Process through Streak Generation in a Flat-Plate Boundary Layer

Thomas Duriez, Jean-Luc Aider, and José Eduardo Wesfreid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 144502 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

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Electrohydraulic Power Conversion in Planar Nanochannels

Douwe Jan Bonthuis, Dominik Horinek, Lydéric Bocquet, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 144503 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Narrow Spin Resonance Width and Spin Flip with an rf-Bunched Deuteron Beam

V. S. Morozov, A. W. Chao, A. D. Krisch, M. A. Leonova, R. S. Raymond, D. W. Sivers, V. K. Wong, and A. M. Kondratenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 144801 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Transverse-Longitudinal Coupling Effect in Laser Bunch Slicing

M. Shimada, M. Katoh, M. Adachi, T. Tanikawa, S. Kimura, M. Hosaka, N. Yamamoto, Y. Takashima, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 144802 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics of Magnetic Islands Imbedded in Small-Scale Turbulence

M. Muraglia, O. Agullo, S. Benkadda, X. Garbet, P. Beyer, and A. Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145001 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Mass-Dependent Ion Heating during Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

G. Fiksel, A. F. Almagri, B. E. Chapman, V. V. Mirnov, Y. Ren, J. S. Sarff, and P. W. Terry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145002 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Hohlraum-Driven Mid- $Z$ ( ${SiO}_{2}$ ) Double-Shell Implosions on the Omega Laser Facility and Their Scaling to NIF

H. F. Robey, P. A. Amendt, J. L. Milovich, H.-S. Park, A. V. Hamza, and M. J. Bono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145003 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Breakdown of a Space Charge Limited Regime of a Sheath in a Weakly Collisional Plasma Bounded by Walls with Secondary Electron Emission

D. Sydorenko, I. Kaganovich, Y. Raitses, and A. Smolyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145004 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Defects in Compound Semiconductors Caused by Molecular Nitrogen

N. H. Nickel and M. A. Gluba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145501 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Microstructure and a Nucleation Mechanism for Nanoprecipitates in $PbTe − {AgSbTe}_{2}$

Xuezhi Ke, Changfeng Chen, Jihui Yang, Lijun Wu, Juan Zhou, Qiang Li, Yimei Zhu, and P. R. C. Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145502 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Exact Solution of the Anisotropic Special Transition in the $O (n)$ Model in Two Dimensions

Jérôme Dubail, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, and Hubert Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 145701 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Cationic Disorder and Phase Segregation in ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterointerfaces Evidenced by Medium-Energy Ion Spectroscopy

A. S. Kalabukhov, Yu. A. Boikov, I. T. Serenkov, V. I. Sakharov, V. N. Popok, R. Gunnarsson, J. Börjesson, N. Ljustina, E. Olsson, D. Winkler, and T. Claeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146101 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Microstructural Study of the Polymorphic Transformation in Pentacene Thin Films

Yosuke Murakami, Shigetaka Tomiya, Naoki Koshitani, Yoshihiro Kudo, Kotaro Satori, Masao Itabashi, Norihito Kobayashi, and Kazumasa Nomoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146102 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

From Electronic Structure to Catalytic Activity: A Single Descriptor for Adsorption and Reactivity on Transition-Metal Carbides

A. Vojvodic, A. Hellman, C. Ruberto, and B. I. Lundqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146103 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Observation of Time-Reversal-Protected Single-Dirac-Cone Topological-Insulator States in ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ and ${Sb}_{2} {Te}_{3}$

D. Hsieh, Y. Xia, D. Qian, L. Wray, F. Meier, J. H. Dil, J. Osterwalder, L. Patthey, A. V. Fedorov, H. Lin, A. Bansil, D. Grauer, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146401 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Towards Bose-Einstein Condensation of Semiconductor Excitons: The Biexciton Polarization Effect

D. Hägele, S. Pfalz, and M. Oestreich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146402 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Discovery of Ferromagnetic-Half-Metal–to–Insulator Transition in $K_{2} {Cr}_{8} O_{16}$

Kunihiro Hasegawa, Masahiko Isobe, Touru Yamauchi, Hiroaki Ueda, Jun-Ichi Yamaura, Hirotada Gotou, Takehiko Yagi, Hirohiko Sato, and Yutaka Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146403 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Correlation-Dependent Coherent to Incoherent Transitions in Resonant Energy Transfer Dynamics

Ahsan Nazir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146404 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Anomalous Metallic State in the Vicinity of Metal to Valence-Bond Solid Insulator Transition in ${LiVS}_{2}$

N. Katayama, M. Uchida, D. Hashizume, S. Niitaka, J. Matsuno, D. Matsumura, Y. Nishihata, J. Mizuki, N. Takeshita, A. Gauzzi, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146405 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Magnetoresistance in Hybrid Organic Spin Valves at the Onset of Multiple-Step Tunneling

J. J. H. M. Schoonus, P. G. E. Lumens, W. Wagemans, J. T. Kohlhepp, P. A. Bobbert, H. J. M. Swagten, and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146601 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Spin-Orbit-Mediated Spin Relaxation in Graphene

D. Huertas-Hernando, F. Guinea, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146801 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Diameter Dependence of the Dielectric Constant for the Excitonic Transition Energy of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

P. T. Araujo, A. Jorio, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. Sato, and R. Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 146802 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

0- $π$ Transition in Magnetic Triplet Superconductor Josephson Junctions

P. M. R. Brydon and Dirk Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147001 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Superfluid Density and Energy Gap Function of Superconducting ${PrPt}_{4} {Ge}_{12}$

A. Maisuradze, M. Nicklas, R. Gumeniuk, C. Baines, W. Schnelle, H. Rosner, A. Leithe-Jasper, Yu. Grin, and R. Khasanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147002 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

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Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide

J. R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147003 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Anomalous Josephson Current through a Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Dot

A. Zazunov, R. Egger, T. Jonckheere, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147004 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Electric-Field Switching of a Magnetic Propagation Vector in a Helimagnet

H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147201 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Spin Amplitude Modulation Driven Magnetoelectric Coupling in the New Multiferroic ${FeTe}_{2} O_{5} Br$

M. Pregelj, O. Zaharko, A. Zorko, Z. Kutnjak, P. Jeglič, P. J. Brown, M. Jagodič, Z. Jagličić, H. Berger, and D. Arčon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147202 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Direct Evidence of a Nonorthogonal Magnetization Configuration in Single Crystalline ${Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} / Rh / Fe / Rh (001)$ System

F. Yildiz, M. Przybylski, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147203 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Magnetic Ground State of Single and Coupled Permalloy Rectangles

S. Hankemeier, R. Frömter, N. Mikuszeit, D. Stickler, H. Stillrich, S. Pütter, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and H. P. Oepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147204 (2009) - Published 1 October, 2009

Kondo Resonance Narrowing in $d$ - and $f$ -Electron Systems

Andriy H. Nevidomskyy and P. Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147205 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Reconfigurable Terahertz Metamaterials

Hu Tao, A. C. Strikwerda, K. Fan, W. J. Padilla, X. Zhang, and R. D. Averitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147401 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Li Diffusion in ${Li}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$ Probed by Muon-Spin Spectroscopy

Jun Sugiyama, Kazuhiko Mukai, Yutaka Ikedo, Hiroshi Nozaki, Martin Månsson, and Isao Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147601 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Reduction of Viscosity in Suspension of Swimming Bacteria

Andrey Sokolov and Igor S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 148101 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Gated Narrow Escape Time for Molecular Signaling

Jürgen Reingruber and David Holcman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 148102 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009

Thermodynamic Limit of a Nonequilibrium Steady State: Maxwell-Type Construction for a Bistable Biochemical System

Hao Ge and Hong Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 148103 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Anomalously Slow Attrition Times for Asymmetric Populations with Internal Group Dynamics

Zhenyuan Zhao, Juan Camilo Bohorquez, Alex Dixon, and Neil F. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 148701 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Nondispersing Bohr Wave Packets”

S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 149301 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Maeda et al. Reply:

H. Maeda, J. H. Gurian, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 149302 (2009) - Published 29 September, 2009

Comment on “Spatial Symmetry and Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion”

Geraldo A. Barbosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 149303 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

Feng and Kumar Reply:

Sheng Feng and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 149304 (2009) - Published 2 October, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Thermal Conductivity of Isolated and Interacting Carbon Nanotubes: Comparing Results from Molecular Dynamics and the Boltzmann Transport Equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255502 (2007)]

Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 149901 (2009) - Published 28 September, 2009

Erratum: Quantum Noise Interference and Backaction Cooling in Cavity Nanomechanics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 207209 (2009)]

Florian Elste, A. A. Clerk, and S. M. Girvin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 149902 (2009) - Published 30 September, 2009