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Volume 103, Issue 17

23 October 2009
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On the Cover

Drops of water overcome adhesion and fly off a dewy lotus leaf as mechanical vibrations dry it.

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Restoring Superhydrophobicity of Lotus Leaves with Vibration-Induced Dewetting
Jonathan B. Boreyko and Chuan-Hua Chen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174502 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Spin Drag in Noncondensed Bose Gases

R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

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Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface

Scott Dodelson and Mika Vesterinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171301 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

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Evidence for Two Time Scales in Long SNS Junctions

F. Chiodi, M. Aprili, and B. Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177002 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

LETTERS

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

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Spin Drag in Noncondensed Bose Gases

R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

Collective Oscillations of an Imbalanced Fermi Gas: Axial Compression Modes and Polaron Effective Mass

S. Nascimbène, N. Navon, K. J. Jiang, L. Tarruell, M. Teichmann, J. McKeever, F. Chevy, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170402 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Barrier Control in Tunneling e+−e− Photoproduction

A. Di Piazza, E. Lötstedt, A. I. Milstein, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170403 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Light Scattering for Thermometry of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice

J. Ruostekoski, C. J. Foot, and A. B. Deb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170404 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Fidelity at Magnetic Quantum Phase Transitions

David Schwandt, Fabien Alet, and Sylvain Capponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170501 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

Can Closed Timelike Curves or Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics Improve Quantum State Discrimination or Help Solve Hard Problems?

Charles H. Bennett, Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith, and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170502 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Unconditional Security of Single-Photon Differential Phase Shift Quantum Key Distribution

Kai Wen, Kiyoshi Tamaki, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170503 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Tight Noise Thresholds for Quantum Computation with Perfect Stabilizer Operations

Wim van Dam and Mark Howard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170504 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Nonperturbative Effect of Attractive Forces in Viscous Liquids

Ludovic Berthier and Gilles Tarjus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170601 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Development of a Displacement- and Frequency-Noise-Free Interferometer in a 3D Configuration for Gravitational Wave Detection

Keiko Kokeyama, Shuichi Sato, Atsushi Nishizawa, Seiji Kawamura, Yanbei Chen, and Akio Sugamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171101 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

New Possible Quark-Hadron Mixed Phase in Protoneutron Stars

G. Pagliara, M. Hempel, and J. Schaffner-Bielich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171102 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

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Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface

Scott Dodelson and Mika Vesterinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171301 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

Constraining the Energy-Momentum Dispersion Relation with Planck-Scale Sensitivity Using Cold Atoms

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Claus Lämmerzahl, Flavio Mercati, and Guglielmo M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171302 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Electric-Magnetic Duality and Topological Insulators

A. Karch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171601 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

Measurement of the Differential Branching Fraction and Forward-Backward Asymmetry for B→K(*)l+l−

J.-T. Wei et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171801 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Testing the Time-Reversal Modified Universality of the Sivers Function

Zhong-Bo Kang and Jian-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 172001 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Growth of Long Range Forward-Backward Multiplicity Correlations with Centrality in Au+Au Collisions at sNN=200  GeV

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 172301 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Transport Coefficients of Hadronic Matter Near Tc

Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Jorge Noronha, and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 172302 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

η/s Ratio in Finite Nuclei

N. Auerbach and S. Shlomo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 172501 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Wavelength and Intensity Dependence of Short Pulse Laser Xenon Double Ionization between 500 and 2300 nm

G. Gingras, A. Tripathi, and B. Witzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173001 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Large Pressure Effect on the Angular Distribution of Two Lyman-α Photons Emitted by an Entangled Pair of H(2p) Atoms in the Photodissociation of H2

Takehiko Tanabe, Takeshi Odagiri, Motoyoshi Nakano, Isao H Suzuki, and Noriyuki Kouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173002 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Multiphoton Magnetooptical Trap

Saijun Wu, Thomas Plisson, Roger C. Brown, William D. Phillips, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173003 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Spontaneous Dressed-State Polarization in the Strong Driving Regime of Cavity QED

Michael A. Armen, Anthony E. Miller, and Hideo Mabuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173601 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Conservative and Nonconservative Torques in Optical Binding

D. Haefner, S. Sukhov, and A. Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173602 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Non-Gaussian Statistics and Extreme Waves in a Nonlinear Optical Cavity

A. Montina, U. Bortolozzo, S. Residori, and F. T. Arecchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173901 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

Manipulating Spatiotemporal Degrees of Freedom of Waves in Random Media

Fabrice Lemoult, Geoffroy Lerosey, Julien de Rosny, and Mathias Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173902 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Efficient Energy Transfer between Laser Beams by Stimulated Raman Scattering

Youbo Zhao, Tana E. Witt, and Robert J. Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 173903 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Statics and Inertial Dynamics of a Ruck in a Rug

Dominic Vella, Arezki Boudaoud, and Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174301 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Shape and Motion of a Ruck in a Rug

John M. Kolinski, Pascale Aussillous, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174302 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Spontaneous Imbibition Dynamics of an n-Alkane in Nanopores: Evidence of Meniscus Freezing and Monolayer Sticking

Simon Gruener and Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174501 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Restoring Superhydrophobicity of Lotus Leaves with Vibration-Induced Dewetting

Jonathan B. Boreyko and Chuan-Hua Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174502 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Symmetry Induced Four-Wave Capillary Wave Turbulence

Gustavo Düring and Claudio Falcón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 174503 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evidence for Fast-Ion Transport by Microturbulence

W. W. Heidbrink, J. M. Park, M. Murakami, C. C. Petty, C. Holcomb, and M. A. Van Zeeland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 175001 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

Growth and Saturation of Convective Modes of the Two-Plasmon Decay Instability in Inertial Confinement Fusion

R. Yan, A. V. Maximov, C. Ren, and F. S. Tsung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 175002 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Electron Self-Injection in Multidimensional Relativistic-Plasma Wake Fields

I. Kostyukov, E. Nerush, A. Pukhov, and V. Seredov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 175003 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Underlying Mechanism for the Giant Isochoric Compressibility of Solid He4: Superclimb of Dislocations

Ş. G. Söyler, A. B. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 175301 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Contribution of Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Cathodoluminescence to Study Crack-Tip Phenomena in Silica Glass

Giuseppe Pezzotti and Andrea Leto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 175501 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Structural Signal of a Dynamic Glass Transition

Sudeshna Chattopadhyay, Ahmet Uysal, Benjamin Stripe, Guennadi Evmenenko, Steven Ehrlich, Evguenia A. Karapetrova, and Pulak Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 175701 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Spectroscopic Imaging Scanning Tunneling Microscopy as a Probe of Orbital Structures and Ordering

Wei-Cheng Lee and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176101 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Partial Dissociation of Water on Fe3O4(001): Adsorbate Induced Charge and Orbital Order

Narasimham Mulakaluri, Rossitza Pentcheva, Maria Wieland, Wolfgang Moritz, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176102 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Oscillations in the Anomalous Phase in Sr3Ru2O7

J.-F. Mercure, S. K. Goh, E. C. T. O’Farrell, R. S. Perry, M. L. Sutherland, A. W. Rost, S. A. Grigera, R. A. Borzi, P. Gegenwart, and A. P. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176401 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

Holstein Polarons Near Surfaces

Glen L. Goodvin, Lucian Covaci, and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176402 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

GW Approximation of the Many-Body Problem and Changes in the Particle Number

Fabien Bruneval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176403 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Successes and Failures of Kadanoff-Baym Dynamics in Hubbard Nanoclusters

M. Puig von Friesen, C. Verdozzi, and C.-O. Almbladh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176404 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Efficient Spin Transitions in Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy

Nicolás Lorente and Jean-Pierre Gauyacq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176601 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Violation of Anderson’s Theorem for the Sign-Reversing s-Wave State of Iron-Pnictide Superconductors

Seiichiro Onari and Hiroshi Kontani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177001 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

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Evidence for Two Time Scales in Long SNS Junctions

F. Chiodi, M. Aprili, and B. Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177002 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Local Physics of Magnetization Plateaux in the Shastry-Sutherland Model

L. Isaev, G. Ortiz, and J. Dukelsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177201 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Angle-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectrum of the Exciton Condensate in Electron-Hole Semiconductor Bilayers

Jinwu Ye, Tao Shi, and Longhua Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177401 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Theory of the Optical Conductivity of Spin Liquid States in One-Dimensional Mott Insulators

Hosho Katsura, Masahiro Sato, Takashi Furuta, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177402 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin BaTiO3 Films: Probing the Size Effect by Ultraviolet Raman Spectroscopy

D. A. Tenne, P. Turner, J. D. Schmidt, M. Biegalski, Y. L. Li, L. Q. Chen, A. Soukiassian, S. Trolier-McKinstry, D. G. Schlom, X. X. Xi, D. D. Fong, P. H. Fuoss, J. A. Eastman, G. B. Stephenson, C. Thompson, and S. K. Streiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177601 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Field-Induced Layer Thinning Transition on Free-Standing Smectic Films

Maria S. S. Pereira, Marcelo L. Lyra, and Italo N. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177801 (2009) - Published 20 October, 2009

Yield Stress and Shear Banding in Granular Suspensions

Abdoulaye Fall, François Bertrand, Guillaume Ovarlez, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 178301 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Patterns in Flowing Sand: Understanding the Physics of Granular Flow

Tamás Börzsönyi, Robert E. Ecke, and Jim N. McElwaine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 178302 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Viable Singularity-Free f(R) Gravity without a Cosmological Constant”

A. de la Cruz-Dombriz, A. Dobado, and A. L. Maroto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179001 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Miranda et al. Reply:

Vinícius Miranda, Sergio E. Jorás, Ioav Waga, and Miguel Quartin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179002 (2009) - Published 23 October, 2009

Comment on “Relativistic Positron Creation Using Ultraintense Short Pulse Lasers”

D. B. Cassidy and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179501 (2009) - Published 19 October, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Filling-Factor-Dependent Magnetophonon Resonance in Graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 087402 (2007)]

M. O. Goerbig, J.-N. Fuchs, K. Kechedzhi, and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179901 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Erratum: Ionic and Wigner Glasses, Superionic Conductors, and Spinodal Electrostatic Gels: Dynamically Arrested Phases of the Primitive Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035701 (2009)]

L. E. Sánchez-Díaz, A. Vizcarra-Rendón, and R. Juárez-Maldonado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179902 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Erratum: Precision Measurement of the n−He3 Incoherent Scattering Length Using Neutron Interferometry [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 200401 (2009)]

M. G. Huber, M. Arif, T. C. Black, W. C. Chen, T. R. Gentile, D. S. Hussey, D. A. Pushin, F. E. Wietfeldt, and L. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179903 (2009) - Published 21 October, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Growth of Dome-Shaped Carbon Nanoislands on Ir(111): The Intermediate between Carbidic Clusters and Quasi-Free-Standing Graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166101 (2009)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 179904 (2009) - Published 22 October, 2009

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