Volume 103, Issue 15

9 October 2009

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Spatial intensity of modes along marginally unstable periodic orbits in a mushroom-shaped cavity. Modes for two different values of wavelength and the ratio of frequency to energy decay rate are shown left and right.

From the article:

Marginally Unstable Periodic Orbits in Semiclassical Mushroom Billiards
Jonathan Andreasen, Hui Cao, Jan Wiersig, and Adilson E. Motter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154101 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations

Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150502 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

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Yoctosecond Photon Pulses from Quark-Gluon Plasmas

Andreas Ipp, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152301 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

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Field-Free Orientation of CO Molecules by Femtosecond Two-Color Laser Fields

S. De, I. Znakovskaya, D. Ray, F. Anis, Nora G. Johnson, I. A. Bocharova, M. Magrakvelidze, B. D. Esry, C. L. Cocke, I. V. Litvinyuk, and M. F. Kling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153002 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

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Experimental Test of Fidelity Limits in Six-Photon Interferometry and of Rotational Invariance Properties of the Photonic Six-Qubit Entanglement Singlet State

Magnus Rådmark, Marek Żukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150501 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

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Quantum Hall Plateau Transition in Graphene with Spatially Correlated Random Hopping

Tohru Kawarabayashi, Yasuhiro Hatsugai, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156804 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

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Tailoring the Optical Dipole Force for Molecules by Field-Induced Alignment

S. M. Purcell and P. F. Barker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153001 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

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Evolution of the Fermi Surface of the Electron-Doped High-Temperature Superconductor ${Nd}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Revealed by Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations

T. Helm, M. V. Kartsovnik, M. Bartkowiak, N. Bittner, M. Lambacher, A. Erb, J. Wosnitza, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157002 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

LETTERS

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

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Experimental Test of Fidelity Limits in Six-Photon Interferometry and of Rotational Invariance Properties of the Photonic Six-Qubit Entanglement Singlet State

Magnus Rådmark, Marek Żukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150501 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

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Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations

Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150502 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Giant Kerr Nonlinearities in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Stojan Rebić, Jason Twamley, and Gerard J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150503 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Quantum Transport through a Tonks-Girardeau Gas

Stefan Palzer, Christoph Zipkes, Carlo Sias, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150601 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation Rate for Positron and Electron Excesses from $Q$ -Ball Decay

John McDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 151301 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Limits on the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections from the First Science Run of the ZEPLIN-III Experiment

V. N. Lebedenko et al. (ZEPLIN-III)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 151302 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Roles of Dark Energy Perturbations in Dynamical Dark Energy Models: Can We Ignore Them?

Chan-Gyung Park, Jai-chan Hwang, Jae-heon Lee, and Hyerim Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 151303 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Superconductivity in M Theory

Jerome P. Gauntlett, Julian Sonner, and Toby Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 151601 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Smoking Guns for On-Shell New Physics at the LHC

Christian Arnesen, Ira Z. Rothstein, and Jure Zupan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 151801 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Novel Reconstruction Technique for New Physics Processes with Initial State Radiation

Johan Alwall, Kenji Hiramastsu, Mihoko M. Nojiri, and Yasuhiro Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 151802 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Precision Measurement of the $X (3872)$ Mass in $J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152001 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Observation of the Naive- $T$ -Odd Sivers Effect in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152002 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Nuclear Physics

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Yoctosecond Photon Pulses from Quark-Gluon Plasmas

Andreas Ipp, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152301 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Local Monte Carlo Implementation of the Non-Abelian Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal Effect

Korinna Zapp, Johanna Stachel, and Urs Achim Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152302 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Energy and Momentum Deposited into a QCD Medium by a Jet Shower

G.-Y. Qin, A. Majumder, H. Song, and U. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152303 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Thermal Width of the $Υ$ at Large ’t Hooft Coupling

Jorge Noronha and Adrian Dumitru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152304 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Investigation of the Exclusive ${}^{3}{He} (e, e^{'} p n) {}^{1}H$ Reaction

D. G. Middleton et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152501 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Reinvestigation of the Direct Two-Proton Decay of the Long-Lived Isomer ${}^{94}{Ag}^{m}$ [0.4 s, 6.7 MeV, ( $21 +$ )]

J. Cerny, D. M. Moltz, D. W. Lee, K. Peräjärvi, B. R. Barquest, L. E. Grossman, W. Jeong, and C. C. Jewett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152502 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Breakdown of the $Z = 8$ Shell Closure in Unbound ${}^{12}O$ and its Mirror Symmetry

D. Suzuki et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152503 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tailoring the Optical Dipole Force for Molecules by Field-Induced Alignment

S. M. Purcell and P. F. Barker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153001 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Field-Free Orientation of CO Molecules by Femtosecond Two-Color Laser Fields

S. De, I. Znakovskaya, D. Ray, F. Anis, Nora G. Johnson, I. A. Bocharova, M. Magrakvelidze, B. D. Esry, C. L. Cocke, I. V. Litvinyuk, and M. F. Kling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153002 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Slow Electrons Generated by Intense High-Frequency Laser Pulses

Koudai Toyota, Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Toru Morishita, and Shinichi Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153003 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Magic Wavelength to Make Optical Lattice Clocks Insensitive to Atomic Motion

Hidetoshi Katori, Koji Hashiguchi, E. Yu. Il’inova, and V. D. Ovsiannikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153004 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

General Theoretical Description of $N$ -Body Recombination

N. P. Mehta, Seth T. Rittenhouse, J. P. D’Incao, J. von Stecher, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153201 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Atom-Dimer Scattering and Long-Lived Trimers in Fermionic Mixtures

J. Levinsen, T. G. Tiecke, J. T. M. Walraven, and D. S. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153202 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Phase Shift of a Weak Coherent Beam Induced by a Single Atom

Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Meng Khoon Tey, Brenda Chng, Timothy Liew, Gleb Maslennikov, Valerio Scarani, and Christian Kurtsiefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153601 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Verification of Plasmonic Cloaking at Microwave Frequencies with Metamaterials

Brian Edwards, Andrea Alù, Mário G. Silveirinha, and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153901 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Marginally Unstable Periodic Orbits in Semiclassical Mushroom Billiards

Jonathan Andreasen, Hui Cao, Jan Wiersig, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154101 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Second Universal Limit of Wave Segment Propagation in Excitable Media

A. Kothe, V. S. Zykov, and H. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154102 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Lyapunov Analysis Captures the Collective Dynamics of Large Chaotic Systems

Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Francesco Ginelli, and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154103 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Instabilities and Transition in Magnetohydrodynamic Flows in Ducts with Electrically Conducting Walls

Maxime Kinet, Bernard Knaepen, and Sergei Molokov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154501 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Rectification, Gating Voltage, and Interchannel Communication of Nanoslot Arrays due to Asymmetric Entrance Space Charge Polarization

Gilad Yossifon, Yu-Chen Chang, and Hsueh-Chia Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154502 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Efficiency and Spectrum Enhancement in a Tapered Free-Electron Laser Amplifier

X. J. Wang, H. P. Freund, D. Harder, W. H. Miner, Jr., J. B. Murphy, H. Qian, Y. Shen, and X. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154801 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Autoresonant Transition in the Presence of Noise and Self-Fields

I. Barth, L. Friedland, E. Sarid, and A. G. Shagalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155001 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Nonlinear Landau Damping Rate of a Driven Plasma Wave

Didier Bénisti, David J. Strozzi, Laurent Gremillet, and Olivier Morice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155002 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

New Anomaly in the Transverse Acoustic Impedance of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$ with a Wall Coated by Several Layers of ${}^{4}{He}$

S. Murakawa, Y. Tamura, Y. Wada, M. Wasai, M. Saitoh, Y. Aoki, R. Nomura, Y. Okuda, Y. Nagato, M. Yamamoto, S. Higashitani, and K. Nagai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155301 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Stable Topological Superfluid Phase of Ultracold Polar Fermionic Molecules

N. R. Cooper and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155302 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Elastic Limit and Strain Hardening of Thin Wires in Torsion

D. J. Dunstan, B. Ehrler, R. Bossis, S. Joly, K. M. Y. P’ng, and A. J. Bushby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155501 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Determination of Size Effects during the Phase Transition of a Nanoscale Au-Si Eutectic

B. J. Kim, J. Tersoff, C.-Y. Wen, M. C. Reuter, E. A. Stach, and F. M. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155701 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Ultrafast Structural Phase Transition Driven by Photoinduced Melting of Charge and Orbital Order

P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, E. Vorobeva, U. Staub, R. A. De Souza, C. J. Milne, Q. X. Jia, and G. Ingold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155702 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Observation of Multifractality in Anderson Localization of Ultrasound

Sanli Faez, Anatoliy Strybulevych, John H. Page, Ad Lagendijk, and Bart A. van Tiggelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 155703 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Direct Observation of Colloidal Aggregation by Critical Casimir Forces

Daniel Bonn, Jakub Otwinowski, Stefano Sacanna, Hua Guo, Gerard Wegdam, and Peter Schall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156101 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Multiferroicity in Rare-Earth Nickelates $R {NiO}_{3}$

Gianluca Giovannetti, Sanjeev Kumar, Daniel Khomskii, Silvia Picozzi, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156401 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Peculiar Rashba Splitting Originating from the Two-Dimensional Symmetry of the Surface

Kazuyuki Sakamoto, Haruya Kakuta, Katsuaki Sugawara, Koji Miyamoto, Akio Kimura, Takuya Kuzumaki, Nobuo Ueno, Emilia Annese, Jun Fujii, Ayaka Kodama, Tatsuya Shishidou, Hirofumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, Takafumi Sato, Takashi Takahashi, and Tamio Oguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156801 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Photoluminescence of a Quantum Dot Hybridized with a Continuum of Extended States

L. M. León Hilario and A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156802 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Pair Tunneling Resonance in the Single-Electron Transport Regime

M. Leijnse, M. R. Wegewijs, and M. H. Hettler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156803 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

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Quantum Hall Plateau Transition in Graphene with Spatially Correlated Random Hopping

Tohru Kawarabayashi, Yasuhiro Hatsugai, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 156804 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Observation of Giant Positive Magnetoresistance in a Cooper Pair Insulator

H. Q. Nguyen, S. M. Hollen, M. D. Stewart, Jr., J. Shainline, Aijun Yin, J. M. Xu, and J. M. Valles, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157001 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evolution of the Fermi Surface of the Electron-Doped High-Temperature Superconductor ${Nd}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Revealed by Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations

T. Helm, M. V. Kartsovnik, M. Bartkowiak, N. Bittner, M. Lambacher, A. Erb, J. Wosnitza, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157002 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Multiple Quantum Oscillations in the de Haas–van Alphen Spectra of the Underdoped High-Temperature Superconductor ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.5}$

Alain Audouard, Cyril Jaudet, David Vignolles, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Louis Taillefer, and Cyril Proust

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157003 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Real-Space Observation of a Right-Rotating Inhomogeneous Cycloidal Spin Spiral by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in a Triple Axes Vector Magnet

S. Meckler, N. Mikuszeit, A. Preßler, E. Y. Vedmedenko, O. Pietzsch, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157201 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Direct Current Control of Three Magnon Scattering Processes in Spin-Valve Nanocontacts

H. Schultheiss, X. Janssens, M. van Kampen, F. Ciubotaru, S. J. Hermsdoerfer, B. Obry, A. Laraoui, A. A. Serga, L. Lagae, A. N. Slavin, B. Leven, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157202 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Disorder Identification in Hysteresis Data: Recognition Analysis of the Random-Bond–Random-Field Ising Model

O. S. Ovchinnikov, S. Jesse, P. Bintacchit, S. Trolier-McKinstry, and S. V. Kalinin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157203 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

Magnetoelastic Coupling through the Antiferromagnet-to-Ferromagnet Transition of Quasi-Two-Dimensional $[Cu ({HF}_{2}) (pyz)_{2}] {BF}_{4}$ Using Infrared Spectroscopy

J. L. Musfeldt, L. I. Vergara, T. V. Brinzari, C. Lee, L. C. Tung, J. Kang, Y. J. Wang, J. A. Schlueter, J. L. Manson, and M.-H. Whangbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157401 (2009) - Published 8 October, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Network Topology and the Fragility of Tetrahedral Glass-Forming Liquids

Mark Wilson and Philip S. Salmon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157801 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Maximum Likelihood and the Single Receptor

Robert G. Endres and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 158101 (2009) - Published 7 October, 2009

Spontaneous Oscillations of a Minimal Actomyosin System under Elastic Loading

P.-Y. Plaçais, M. Balland, T. Guérin, J.-F. Joanny, and P. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 158102 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Approach to Thermal Equilibrium in Atomic Collisions”

Bernie D. Shizgal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159301 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Zhang et al. Reply:

P. Zhang, V. Kharchenko, A. Dalgarno, Y. Matsumi, T. Nakayama, and K. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159302 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Comment on “Resolving the Mystery of the Chain Friction Mechanism in Polymer Liquids”

K. L. Ngai, D. J. Plazek, and C. M. Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159801 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Sokolov and Schweizer Reply:

Alexei P. Sokolov and Kenneth S. Schweizer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159802 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Matter-Wave Self-Imaging by Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion Induced Interference [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 250401 (2008)]

Ke Li, L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, M. G. Payne, and M. S. Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159901 (2009) - Published 5 October, 2009

Publisher’s Note: How Perfect Can Graphene Be? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 136403 (2009)]

P. Neugebauer, M. Orlita, C. Faugeras, A.-L. Barra, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159902 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Erratum: Stellar and Primordial Nucleosynthesis of ${}^{7}{Be}$ : Measurement of ${}^{3}{He} (α, γ) {}^{7}{Be}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 232502 (2009)]

A. Di Leva, L. Gialanella, R. Kunz, D. Rogalla, D. Schürmann, F. Strieder, M. De Cesare, N. De Cesare, A. D’Onofrio, Z. Fülöp, G. Gyürky, G. Imbriani, G. Mangano, A. Ordine, V. Roca, C. Rolfs, M. Romano, E. Somorjai, and F. Terrasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159903 (2009) - Published 6 October, 2009

Erratum: Electrical Resistivity near Pomeranchuk Instability in Two Dimensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136402 (2007)]

Luca Dell’Anna and Walter Metzner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 159904 (2009) - Published 9 October, 2009