Volume 103, Issue 16

16 October 2009

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Two possible real-space orientations of a hexagonal lattice on a gold (001) surface. Depending on the orientation, different diffraction peaks will be seen with x rays.

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Surface X-Ray Speckles: Coherent Surface Diffraction from Au(001)
M. S. Pierce, K. C. Chang, D. Hennessy, V. Komanicky, M. Sprung, A. Sandy, and H. You
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165501 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth of Dome-Shaped Carbon Nanoislands on Ir(111): The Intermediate between Carbidic Clusters and Quasi-Free-Standing Graphene

Paolo Lacovig, Monica Pozzo, Dario Alfè, Paolo Vilmercati, Alessandro Baraldi, and Silvano Lizzit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166101 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-Functional Theory for Strongly Interacting Electrons

Paola Gori-Giorgi, Michael Seidl, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166402 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is the $X (3872)$ Production Cross Section at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ Compatible with a Hadron Molecule Interpretation?

C. Bignamini, B. Grinstein, F. Piccinini, A. D. Polosa, and C. Sabelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 162001 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Horizon in Random Matrix Theory, the Hawking Radiation, and Flow of Cold Atoms

Fabio Franchini and Vladimir E. Kravtsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166401 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

LETTERS

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

Experimental Entanglement and Nonlocality of a Two-Photon Six-Qubit Cluster State

Raino Ceccarelli, Giuseppe Vallone, Francesco De Martini, Paolo Mataloni, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160401 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Universal Dephasing of Many-Body Rabi Oscillations of Atoms in One-Dimensional Traps

Sebastian D. Huber and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160402 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Cavity-Mediated Strong Matter Wave Bistability in a Spin-1 Condensate

Lu Zhou, Han Pu, Hong Y. Ling, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160403 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Complete Criterion for Separability Detection

Miguel Navascués, Masaki Owari, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160404 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

State-Independent Quantum Contextuality with Single Photons

Elias Amselem, Magnus Rådmark, Mohamed Bourennane, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160405 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Topological Quantum Computing with Read-Rezayi States

L. Hormozi, N. E. Bonesteel, and S. H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160501 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Fundamental Limit on the Rate of Quantum Dynamics: The Unified Bound Is Tight

Lev B. Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160502 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Rapid Single-Shot Measurement of a Singlet-Triplet Qubit

C. Barthel, D. J. Reilly, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160503 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Relative Entropy of Entanglement and Restricted Measurements

M. Piani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160504 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Entropic Entanglement Criteria for Continuous Variables

S. P. Walborn, B. G. Taketani, A. Salles, F. Toscano, and R. L. de Matos Filho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160505 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Second Renormalization of Tensor-Network States

Z. Y. Xie, H. C. Jiang, Q. N. Chen, Z. Y. Weng, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160601 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Universal Nonstationary Dynamics at the Depinning Transition

Alejandro B. Kolton, Grégory Schehr, and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 160602 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Instability of Higher-Dimensional Charged Black Holes in the de Sitter World

R. A. Konoplya and A. Zhidenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 161101 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Intermediate Mass Black Holes and Nearby Dark Matter Point Sources: A Critical Reassessment

Torsten Bringmann, Julien Lavalle, and Pierre Salati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 161301 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Flat 3-brane with Tension in Cascading Gravity

Claudia de Rham, Justin Khoury, and Andrew Tolley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 161601 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Minimal Basis for Gauge Theory Amplitudes

N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr, Poul H. Damgaard, and Pierre Vanhove

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 161602 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Evidence for the $η_{b} (1 S)$ Meson in Radiative $Υ (2 S)$ Decay

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 161801 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is the $X (3872)$ Production Cross Section at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ Compatible with a Hadron Molecule Interpretation?

C. Bignamini, B. Grinstein, F. Piccinini, A. D. Polosa, and C. Sabelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 162001 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurement of the $K$ -Shell Spectrum from Highly Charged Xenon with an Array of X-Ray Calorimeters

Daniel B. Thorn, Ming F. Gu, Gregory V. Brown, Peter Beiersdorfer, F. Scott Porter, Caroline A. Kilbourne, and Richard L. Kelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163001 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Dramatic Reductions in Inelastic Cross Sections for Ultracold Collisions near Feshbach Resonances

Jeremy M. Hutson, Musie Beyene, and Maykel Leonardo González-Martínez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163201 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Observation of Universality in Ultracold ${}^{7}{Li}$ Three-Body Recombination

Noam Gross, Zav Shotan, Servaas Kokkelmans, and Lev Khaykovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163202 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Observation of Nonlocal Modulation with Entangled Photons

S. Sensarn, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163601 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Efficient Optical Quantum State Engineering

Kevin T. McCusker and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163602 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Irreversible Photon Transfer in an Ensemble of $Λ$ -Type Atoms and a Photon Diode

Gor Nikoghosyan and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 163603 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamic Crack Tip Equation of Motion: High-Speed Oscillatory Instability

Eran Bouchbinder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 164301 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Influence of Boundaries on Localized Patterns

G. Kozyreff, P. Assemat, and S. J. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 164501 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Critical Angle for Electrically Driven Coalescence of Two Conical Droplets

James C. Bird, William D. Ristenpart, Andrew Belmonte, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 164502 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Scaling Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators with a Small Orbit Excursion

Shinji Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 164801 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Universal Probability Distribution Function for Bursty Transport in Plasma Turbulence

I. Sandberg, S. Benkadda, X. Garbet, G. Ropokis, K. Hizanidis, and D. del-Castillo-Negrete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165001 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Energy Increase in Multi-MeV Ion Acceleration in the Interaction of a Short Pulse Laser with a Cluster-Gas Target

Y. Fukuda, A. Ya. Faenov, M. Tampo, T. A. Pikuz, T. Nakamura, M. Kando, Y. Hayashi, A. Yogo, H. Sakaki, T. Kameshima, A. S. Pirozhkov, K. Ogura, M. Mori, T. Zh. Esirkepov, J. Koga, A. S. Boldarev, V. A. Gasilov, A. I. Magunov, T. Yamauchi, R. Kodama, P. R. Bolton, Y. Kato, T. Tajima, H. Daido, and S. V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165002 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Universality of Solar-Wind Turbulent Spectrum from MHD to Electron Scales

O. Alexandrova, J. Saur, C. Lacombe, A. Mangeney, J. Mitchell, S. J. Schwartz, and P. Robert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165003 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Physical Mechanism behind Zonal-Flow Generation in Drift-Wave Turbulence

P. Manz, M. Ramisch, and U. Stroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165004 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Resonant Pedestal Pressure Reduction Induced by a Thermal Transport Enhancement due to Stochastic Magnetic Boundary Layers in High Temperature Plasmas

O. Schmitz, T. E. Evans, M. E. Fenstermacher, E. A. Unterberg, M. E. Austin, B. D. Bray, N. H. Brooks, H. Frerichs, M. Groth, M. W. Jakubowski, C. J. Lasnier, M. Lehnen, A. W. Leonard, S. Mordijck, R. A. Moyer, T. H. Osborne, D. Reiter, U. Samm, M. J. Schaffer, B. Unterberg, and W. P. West (the DIII-D and TEXTOR Research Teams)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165005 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evolution from BCS to Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Superfluidity in One-Dimensional Optical Lattices

M. Iskin and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165301 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Surface X-Ray Speckles: Coherent Surface Diffraction from Au(001)

M. S. Pierce, K. C. Chang, D. Hennessy, V. Komanicky, M. Sprung, A. Sandy, and H. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165501 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Anomalous Proton Dynamics in Ice at Low Temperatures

L. E. Bove, S. Klotz, A. Paciaroni, and F. Sacchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 165901 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth of Dome-Shaped Carbon Nanoislands on Ir(111): The Intermediate between Carbidic Clusters and Quasi-Free-Standing Graphene

Paolo Lacovig, Monica Pozzo, Dario Alfè, Paolo Vilmercati, Alessandro Baraldi, and Silvano Lizzit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166101 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Horizon in Random Matrix Theory, the Hawking Radiation, and Flow of Cold Atoms

Fabio Franchini and Vladimir E. Kravtsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166401 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-Functional Theory for Strongly Interacting Electrons

Paola Gori-Giorgi, Michael Seidl, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166402 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Two Interacting Helical Edge Modes in Quantum Spin Hall Systems

Yukio Tanaka and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166403 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Negative Nonlocal Resistance in Mesoscopic Gold Hall Bars: Absence of the Giant Spin Hall Effect

G. Mihajlović, J. E. Pearson, M. A. Garcia, S. D. Bader, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166601 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Nonlinear Conductance in a Ballistic Aharonov-Bohm Ring

Alexis R. Hernández and Caio H. Lewenkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166801 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Charge Confinement and Doping at ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interfaces

T. Fix, F. Schoofs, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, and M. G. Blamire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166802 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Large Low-Frequency Fluctuations in the Velocity of a Driven Vortex Lattice in a Single Crystal of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ Superconductor

Shyam Mohan, Jaivardhan Sinha, S. S. Banerjee, A. K. Sood, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167001 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Detection of the Unusual Magnetic Orders in the Pseudogap Region of a High-Temperature Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.6}$ Crystal by Muon-Spin Relaxation

J. E. Sonier, V. Pacradouni, S. A. Sabok-Sayr, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, and H. A. Mook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167002 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Controllable Andreev Retroreflection and Specular Andreev Reflection in a Four-Terminal Graphene-Superconductor Hybrid System

Shu-guang Cheng, Yanxia Xing, Jian Wang, and Qing-feng Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167003 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Temperature and Size Dependence of Antiferromagnetism in Mn Nanostructures

P. Sessi, N. P. Guisinger, J. R. Guest, and M. Bode

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167201 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Electronic Self-Organization in the Single-Layer Manganite $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{1 + x} {MnO}_{4}$

F. Ye, Songxue Chi, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, A. Moreo, E. Dagotto, J. W. Lynn, R. Mathieu, Y. Kaneko, Y. Tokura, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167202 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Unraveling the Inhomogeneously Broadened Absorption Spectrum of Conjugated Polymers by Single-Molecule Light-Harvesting Action Spectroscopy

Manfred J. Walter and John M. Lupton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167401 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Post-Selected Indistinguishable Photons from the Resonance Fluorescence of a Single Quantum Dot in a Microcavity

S. Ates, S. M. Ulrich, S. Reitzenstein, A. Löffler, A. Forchel, and P. Michler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167402 (2009) - Published 16 October, 2009

Resonant Nonlinear Damping of Quantized Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Nanowires: A Spin Torque Ferromagnetic Resonance Study

C. T. Boone, J. A. Katine, J. R. Childress, V. Tiberkevich, A. Slavin, J. Zhu, X. Cheng, and I. N. Krivorotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167601 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Mechanically Induced Biaxial Transition in a Nanoconfined Nematic Liquid Crystal with a Topological Defect

Giovanni Carbone, Giuseppe Lombardo, Riccardo Barberi, Igor Muševič, and Uroš Tkalec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167801 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Liquid Crystal Cells with “Dirty” Substrates

Leo Radzihovsky and Quan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167802 (2009) - Published 12 October, 2009

Multilamellar Structures Induced by Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Ions Added to a Binary Mixture of $D_{2} O$ and 3-Methylpyridine

Koichiro Sadakane, Akira Onuki, Koji Nishida, Satoshi Koizumi, and Hideki Seto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 167803 (2009) - Published 14 October, 2009

Statistical Mechanics of Ecosystem Assembly

José A. Capitán, José A. Cuesta, and Jordi Bascompte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 168101 (2009) - Published 13 October, 2009

Size Regulation in the Segmentation of Drosophila: Interacting Interfaces between Localized Domains of Gene Expression Ensure Robust Spatial Patterning

Sergei Vakulenko, Manu, John Reinitz, and Ovidiu Radulescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 168102 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Raman Scattering and the Low-Frequency Vibrational Spectrum of Glasses”

V. N. Novikov and E. Duval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 169701 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009

Schmid and Schirmacher Reply:

Bernhard Schmid and Walter Schirmacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 169702 (2009) - Published 15 October, 2009