Volume 103, Issue 18

30 October 2009

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Vesicles in a flowing fluid, used to model red blood cells, exhibit a shape transition as a function of their deflation and the surrounding flow. See also Viewpoint in Physics. Selected for Editors' Suggestions.

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Why Do Red Blood Cells Have Asymmetric Shapes Even in a Symmetric Flow?
Badr Kaoui, George Biros, and Chaouqi Misbah
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188101 (2009)

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Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses with 20 to 28 Femtosecond Lasers

Ximao Feng, Steve Gilbertson, Hiroki Mashiko, He Wang, Sabih D. Khan, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Kun Zhao, and Zenghu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183901 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

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Why Do Red Blood Cells Have Asymmetric Shapes Even in a Symmetric Flow?

Badr Kaoui, George Biros, and Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188101 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

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Efficient Method for Predicting Crystal Structures at Finite Temperature: Variable Box Shape Simulations

Laura Filion, Matthieu Marechal, Bas van Oorschot, Daniël Pelt, Frank Smallenburg, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188302 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

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Thickness Dependent Phase Behavior of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Films

LiDong Pan, Shun Wang, C. S. Hsu, and C. C. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187802 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

LETTERS

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

Feynman Propagator for a Free Scalar Field on a Causal Set

Steven Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180401 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

Testing for Multipartite Quantum Nonlocality Using Functional Bell Inequalities

Q. Y. He, E. G. Cavalcanti, M. D. Reid, and P. D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180402 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

Fluctuations of Ionic Current Through Lipid Bilayers at the Onset of Peptide Attacks and Pore Formation

G. C. Fadda, D. Lairez, and G. Zalczer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180601 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Fractional Brownian Motion Versus the Continuous-Time Random Walk: A Simple Test for Subdiffusive Dynamics

Marcin Magdziarz, Aleksander Weron, Krzysztof Burnecki, and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180602 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Hard-X-Ray Phase-Difference Microscopy Using a Fresnel Zone Plate and a Transmission Grating

W. Yashiro, Y. Takeda, A. Takeuchi, Y. Suzuki, and A. Momose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180801 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Neutron Star Crusts from Oscillations in Giant Flares

Andrew W. Steiner and Anna L. Watts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 181101 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Exploiting Large-Scale Correlations to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves

Holger J. Pletsch and Bruce Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 181102 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Rotation of Galaxies as a Signature of Cosmic Strings in Weak Lensing Surveys

Daniel B. Thomas, Carlo R. Contaldi, and João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 181301 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Gamma Rays from Dark Matter Annihilations Strongly Constrain the Substructure in Halos

Anders Pinzke, Christoph Pfrommer, and Lars Bergström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 181302 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for a Low-Mass Higgs Boson in $Υ (3 S) \to γ A^{0}$ , $A^{0} \to τ^{+} τ^{-}$ at BABAR

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 181801 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Ground-State and Single-Particle Energies of Nuclei around ${}^{16}O$ , ${}^{40}{Ca}$ , and ${}^{56}{Ni}$ from Realistic Nucleon-Nucleon Forces

S. Fujii, R. Okamoto, and K. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 182501 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Three-Body Nonmesonic Weak Decay of the ${}_{Λ}^{12}C$ Hypernucleus

M. Kim et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 182502 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Collective Interatomic Decay of Multiple Vacancies in Clusters

Vitali Averbukh and Přemysl Kolorenč

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183001 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Production of Ultracold NH Molecules by Sympathetic Cooling with Mg

Alisdair O. G. Wallis and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183201 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Monte Carlo Wave Packet Theory of Dissociative Double Ionization

Henriette Astrup Leth, Lars Bojer Madsen, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183601 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Quantum Walk on a Line for a Trapped Ion

Peng Xue, Barry C. Sanders, and Dietrich Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183602 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses with 20 to 28 Femtosecond Lasers

Ximao Feng, Steve Gilbertson, Hiroki Mashiko, He Wang, Sabih D. Khan, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Kun Zhao, and Zenghu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183901 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Solitary Pulse Generation by Backward Raman Scattering in $H_{2}$ -Filled Photonic Crystal Fibers

A. Abdolvand, A. Nazarkin, A. V. Chugreev, C. F. Kaminski, and P. St.J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183902 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

Self-Propelled Dropwise Condensate on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Jonathan B. Boreyko and Chuan-Hua Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 184501 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Magnetoroton Softening in Rb Spinor Condensates with Dipolar Interactions

R. W. Cherng and E. Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185301 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Fermionic Collective Excitations in a Lattice Gas of Rydberg Atoms

B. Olmos, R. González-Férez, and I. Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185302 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Thermodynamic and Mechanical Stabilities of Tantalum Nitride

Chao Jiang, Zhijun Lin, and Yusheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185501 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Role of Ti Antisitelike Defects in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Minseok Choi, Fumiyasu Oba, and Isao Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185502 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Structure of Carbon Dioxide Phase IV: Breakdown of the Intermediate Bonding State Scenario

Frédéric Datchi, Valentina M. Giordano, Pascal Munsch, and A. Marco Saitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185701 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

Consequence of Excess Configurational Entropy on Fragility: The Case of a Polymer-Oligomer Blend

C. Dalle-Ferrier, S. Simon, W. Zheng, P. Badrinarayanan, T. Fennell, B. Frick, J. M. Zanotti, and C. Alba-Simionesco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185702 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Dynamics and Thermodynamics of a Novel Phase of ${NaAlH}_{4}$

Brandon C. Wood and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 185901 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Mechanism of Near-Field Raman Enhancement in One-Dimensional Systems

L. G. Cançado, A. Jorio, A. Ismach, E. Joselevich, A. Hartschuh, and L. Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186101 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bipolaron in the $t − J$ Model Coupled to Longitudinal and Transverse Quantum Lattice Vibrations

L. Vidmar, J. Bonča, S. Maekawa, and T. Tohyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186401 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Nonmagnetic Impurity Resonances as a Signature of Sign-Reversal Pairing in FeAs-Based Superconductors

Degang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186402 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Exact Bosonization for an Interacting Fermi Gas in Arbitrary Dimensions

K. B. Efetov, C. Pépin, and H. Meier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186403 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Theory of Spin-Conserving Excitation of the $N - V^{-}$ Center in Diamond

Adam Gali, Erik Janzén, Péter Deák, Georg Kresse, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186404 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Swapping Spin Currents: Interchanging Spin and Flow Directions

Maria B. Lifshits and Michel I. Dyakonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186601 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Giant Surface-Plasmon-Induced Drag Effect in Metal Nanowires

Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina, and Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186801 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Excitonic Effects on the Optical Response of Graphene and Bilayer Graphene

Li Yang, Jack Deslippe, Cheol-Hwan Park, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186802 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Tuning the Electron-Phonon Coupling in Multilayer Graphene with Magnetic Fields

C. Faugeras, M. Amado, P. Kossacki, M. Orlita, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 186803 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

Luminescence of a Cooper Pair

Yasuhiro Asano, Ikuo Suemune, Hideaki Takayanagi, and Eiichi Hanamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187001 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Co Dimers on Hexagonal Carbon Rings Proposed as Subnanometer Magnetic Storage Bits

Ruijuan Xiao, Daniel Fritsch, Michael D. Kuz’min, Klaus Koepernik, Helmut Eschrig, Manuel Richter, Knut Vietze, and Gotthard Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187201 (2009) - Published 26 October, 2009

Novel Multiferroic State of ${Eu}_{1 - x} Y_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ in High Magnetic Fields

M. Tokunaga, Y. Yamasaki, Y. Onose, M. Mochizuki, N. Furukawa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187202 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Fermionic Spin Excitations in Two- and Three-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

Zhihao Hao and Oleg Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187203 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Magnetoelectric Effect in Graphene Nanoribbons on Substrates via Electric Bias Control of Exchange Splitting

Zhuhua Zhang, Changfeng Chen, and Wanlin Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187204 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

Exciton Doublet in the Mott-Hubbard Insulator ${LiCuVO}_{4}$ Identified by Spectral Ellipsometry

Y. Matiks, P. Horsch, R. K. Kremer, B. Keimer, and A. V. Boris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187401 (2009) - Published 27 October, 2009

Morphology-Dependent Carrier and Exciton Generations in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Polymer Diodes as Revealed by Bleaching Spectroscopy

Katsuichi Kanemoto, Motoaki Yasui, Daisuke Kosumi, Akihiko Ogata, Mitsuru Sugisaki, Tsutomu Karasawa, Ichiro Akai, and Hideki Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187402 (2009) - Published 28 October, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Dewetting-Controlled Binding of Ligands to Hydrophobic Pockets

P. Setny, Z. Wang, L.-T. Cheng, B. Li, J. A. McCammon, and J. Dzubiella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187801 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

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Thickness Dependent Phase Behavior of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Films

LiDong Pan, Shun Wang, C. S. Hsu, and C. C. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 187802 (2009) - Published 30 October, 2009

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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Efficient Method for Predicting Crystal Structures at Finite Temperature: Variable Box Shape Simulations

Laura Filion, Matthieu Marechal, Bas van Oorschot, Daniël Pelt, Frank Smallenburg, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188302 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Nongeometric Conditional Phase Shift via Adiabatic Evolution of Dark Eigenstates: A New Approach to Quantum Computation”

Ognyan Oreshkov and John Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188901 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Discerning Incompressible and Compressible Phases of Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 135302 (2009)]

V. W. Scarola, L. Pollet, J. Oitmaa, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 189901 (2009) - Published 29 October, 2009