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Volume 103, Issue 2

10 July 2009
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Flexural waves on a thin elastic plate are smoothly bent around an obstacle ("E") surrounded by a metamaterial cloak.

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Ultrabroadband Elastic Cloaking in Thin Plates
Mohamed Farhat, Sebastien Guenneau, and Stefan Enoch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024301 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Ultrahigh-Speed Random Number Generation Based on a Chaotic Semiconductor Laser

I. Reidler, Y. Aviad, M. Rosenbluh, and I. Kanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024102 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

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Graphene: A Nearly Perfect Fluid

Markus Müller, Jörg Schmalian, and Lars Fritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025301 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

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Interfacial Jetting Phenomena Induced by Focused Surface Vibrations

Ming K. Tan, James R. Friend, and Leslie Y. Yeo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024501 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

LETTERS

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

Non-Abelian Topological Order in s-Wave Superfluids of Ultracold Fermionic Atoms

Masatoshi Sato, Yoshiro Takahashi, and Satoshi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020401 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Conjectured Strong Complementary Information Tradeoff

Joseph M. Renes and Jean-Christian Boileau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020402 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Experimental Multiparticle Entanglement Swapping for Quantum Networking

Chao-Yang Lu, Tao Yang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020501 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Enhancement of Transmission Rates in Quantum Memory Channels with Damping

Giuliano Benenti, Antonio D’Arrigo, and Giuseppe Falci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020502 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Experimental Realization of Dicke States of up to Six Qubits for Multiparty Quantum Networking

R. Prevedel, G. Cronenberg, M. S. Tame, M. Paternostro, P. Walther, M. S. Kim, and A. Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020503 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Experimental Entanglement of a Six-Photon Symmetric Dicke State

Witlef Wieczorek, Roland Krischek, Nikolai Kiesel, Patrick Michelberger, Géza Tóth, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020504 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Entanglement of a Photon and an Optical Lattice Spin Wave

Y. O. Dudin, S. D. Jenkins, R. Zhao, D. N. Matsukevich, A. Kuzmich, and T. A. B. Kennedy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020505 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Identifying Phases of Quantum Many-Body Systems That Are Universal for Quantum Computation

Andrew C. Doherty and Stephen D. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020506 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Generalization of the Fractal Einstein Law Relating Conduction and Diffusion on Networks

Christophe P. Haynes and Anthony P. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 020601 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Infrared Divergence of Pure Einstein Gravity Contributions to the Cosmological Density Power Spectrum

Hyerim Noh, Donghui Jeong, and Jai-chan Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 021301 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Improved Limits on Lepton-Flavor-Violating τ Decays to ℓϕ, ℓρ, ℓK*, and ℓK¯*

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 021801 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp¯ Collisions

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 021802 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Model Independent Tests of Skyrmions and Their Holographic Cousins

Aleksey Cherman, Thomas D. Cohen, and Marina Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 022001 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Away-Side Asymmetry of Jet Correlation Relative to the Reaction Plane: A Sensitive Probe for Jet In-Medium Modifications

Jiangyong Jia, ShinIchi Esumi, and Rui Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 022301 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Polarization Control of Terahertz Waves Generated from Two-Color Laser-Induced Gas Plasma

Jianming Dai, Nicholas Karpowicz, and X.-C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023001 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Manipulating Higher Partial-Wave Atom-Atom Interactions by Strong Photoassociative Coupling

B. Deb and J. Hazra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023201 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Hund’s Paradox and the Collisional Stabilization of Chiral Molecules

Johannes Trost and Klaus Hornberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023202 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Measurement and Model of the Infrared Two-Photon Emission Spectrum of GaAs

Alex Hayat, Pavel Ginzburg, and Meir Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023601 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fano Resonance between Mie and Bragg Scattering in Photonic Crystals

M. V. Rybin, A. B. Khanikaev, M. Inoue, K. B. Samusev, M. J. Steel, G. Yushin, and M. F. Limonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023901 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Coherent Terahertz Polarization Control through Manipulation of Electron Trajectories

Haidan Wen and Aaron M. Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023902 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Pressure, Surface Tension, and Dripping of Self-Trapped Laser Beams

David Novoa, Humberto Michinel, and Daniele Tommasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 023903 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Weighted Spike-Triggered Average of a Fluctuating Stimulus Yielding the Phase Response Curve

Kaiichiro Ota, Masaki Nomura, and Toshio Aoyagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024101 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrahigh-Speed Random Number Generation Based on a Chaotic Semiconductor Laser

I. Reidler, Y. Aviad, M. Rosenbluh, and I. Kanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024102 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Ultrabroadband Elastic Cloaking in Thin Plates

Mohamed Farhat, Sebastien Guenneau, and Stefan Enoch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024301 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interfacial Jetting Phenomena Induced by Focused Surface Vibrations

Ming K. Tan, James R. Friend, and Leslie Y. Yeo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024501 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Renormalized Resonance Quartets in Dispersive Wave Turbulence

Wonjung Lee, Gregor Kovačič, and David Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024502 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Transitions between Turbulent States in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Jin-Qiang Zhong, Herman J. H. Clercx, Guenter Ahlers, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024503 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Enhanced Collimated GeV Monoenergetic Ion Acceleration from a Shaped Foil Target Irradiated by a Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse

M. Chen, A. Pukhov, T. P. Yu, and Z. M. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024801 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Magnetic-Fluctuation-Induced Particle Transport and Density Relaxation in a High-Temperature Plasma

W. X. Ding, D. L. Brower, G. Fiksel, D. J. Den Hartog, S. C. Prager, and J. S. Sarff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025001 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Boosted High-Harmonics Pulse from a Double-Sided Relativistic Mirror

T. Zh. Esirkepov, S. V. Bulanov, M. Kando, A. S. Pirozhkov, and A. G. Zhidkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025002 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Energetic-Electron-Driven Instability in the Helically Symmetric Experiment

C. B. Deng, D. L. Brower, B. N. Breizman, D. A. Spong, A. F. Almagri, D. T. Anderson, F. S. B. Anderson, W. X. Ding, W. Guttenfelder, K. M. Likin, and J. N. Talmadge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025003 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Graphene: A Nearly Perfect Fluid

Markus Müller, Jörg Schmalian, and Lars Fritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025301 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Ground State Properties of Cold Bosonic Atoms at Large Scattering Lengths

Jun Liang Song and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025302 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Exotic Paired States with Anisotropic Spin-Dependent Fermi Surfaces

Adrian E. Feiguin and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025303 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Jamming versus Glass Transitions

Romain Mari, Florent Krzakala, and Jorge Kurchan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025701 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Displacive Phase Transitions at Large Strains: Phase-Field Theory and Simulations

Valery I. Levitas, Vladimir A. Levin, Konstantin M. Zingerman, and Eugene I. Freiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 025702 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Local Investigation of Femtosecond Laser Induced Dynamics of Water Nanoclusters on Cu(111)

Michael Mehlhorn, Javier Carrasco, Angelos Michaelides, and Karina Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026101 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Enhancement of Tunneling Density of States at a Junction of Three Luttinger Liquid Wires

Amit Agarwal, Sourin Das, Sumathi Rao, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026401 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Excitonic Insulator State in Ta2NiSe5 Probed by Photoemission Spectroscopy

Y. Wakisaka, T. Sudayama, K. Takubo, T. Mizokawa, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, N. Katayama, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026402 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Workhorse Semilocal Density Functional for Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Chemistry

John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka, Lucian A. Constantin, and Jianwei Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026403 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Topological Change of the Fermi Surface in Ternary Iron Pnictides with Reduced c/a Ratio: A de Haas–van Alphen Study of CaFe2P2

Amalia I. Coldea, C. M. J. Andrew, J. G. Analytis, R. D. McDonald, A. F. Bangura, J.-H. Chu, I. R. Fisher, and A. Carrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026404 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Terahertz Response of Carbon Nanotube Transistors

Diego Kienle and François Léonard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026601 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Highly Enhanced Thermopower in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems at Millikelvin Temperatures

Srijit Goswami, Christoph Siegert, Matthias Baenninger, Michael Pepper, Ian Farrer, David A. Ritchie, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026602 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Polarization-Induced Zener Tunnel Junctions in Wide-Band-Gap Heterostructures

John Simon, Ze Zhang, Kevin Goodman, Huili Xing, Thomas Kosel, Patrick Fay, and Debdeep Jena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026801 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Quantum Oscillations in Coupled Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

S. Mathias, S. V. Eremeev, E. V. Chulkov, M. Aeschlimann, and M. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026802 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Magnetic-Field-Induced Crossover to a Nonuniversal Regime in a Kondo Dot

Tai-Min Liu, Bryan Hemingway, Andrei Kogan, Steven Herbert, and Michael Melloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026803 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Impurity-Induced Spin-Orbit Coupling in Graphene

A. H. Castro Neto and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026804 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Spinlike Susceptibility of Metallic and Insulating Thin Films at Low Temperature

Hendrik Bluhm, Julie A. Bert, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Martin E. Huber, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 026805 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Supersolid Phases of a Doped Valence-Bond Quantum Antiferromagnet: Evidence for a Coexisting Superconducting Order Parameter

Marcin Raczkowski and Didier Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027001 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Insular Superconductivity in a Co-Doped Iron Pnictide CaFe1−xCoxAsF

S. Takeshita, R. Kadono, M. Hiraishi, M. Miyazaki, A. Koda, S. Matsuishi, and H. Hosono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027002 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Emergence of a Superconducting State from an Antiferromagnetic Phase in Single Crystals of the Heavy Fermion Compound Ce2PdIn8

D. Kaczorowski, A. P. Pikul, D. Gnida, and V. H. Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027003 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Origin of the Inverse Spin Switch Effect in Superconducting Spin Valves

J. Zhu, X. Cheng, C. Boone, and I. N. Krivorotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027004 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Effect of a Compressive Uniaxial Strain on the Critical Current Density of Grain Boundaries in Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ Films

D. C. van der Laan, T. J. Haugan, and P. N. Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027005 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Gate-Controlled Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Parabolic GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well

M. Studer, G. Salis, K. Ensslin, D. C. Driscoll, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027201 (2009) - Published 7 July, 2009

Origin of the Optical Emission within the Cavity Mode of Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity Systems

J. Suffczyński, A. Dousse, K. Gauthron, A. Lemaître, I. Sagnes, L. Lanco, J. Bloch, P. Voisin, and P. Senellart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027401 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Ultrasonic Propagation of a Metallic Domain in Pr0.5Ca0.5CoO3 Undergoing a Photoinduced Insulator-Metal Transition

Y. Okimoto, X. Peng, M. Tamura, T. Morita, K. Onda, T. Ishikawa, S. Koshihara, N. Todoroki, T. Kyomen, and M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027402 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

Effect of Fullerene Encapsulation on Radial Vibrational Breathing-Mode Frequencies of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Soon-Kil Joung, Toshiya Okazaki, Naoki Kishi, Susumu Okada, Shunji Bandow, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027403 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Ultrafast Dynamics of Carrier Mobility in a Conjugated Polymer Probed at Molecular and Microscopic Length Scales

A. Devižis, A. Serbenta, K. Meerholz, D. Hertel, and V. Gulbinas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027404 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Defect-Enhanced Charge Transfer by Ion-Solid Interactions in SiC using Large-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Fei Gao, Haiyan Xiao, Xiaotao Zu, Matthias Posselt, and William J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027405 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Purcell-Factor-Enhanced Scattering from Si Nanocrystals in an Optical Microcavity

T. J. Kippenberg, A. L. Tchebotareva, J. Kalkman, A. Polman, and K. J. Vahala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 027406 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Coarsening of Faraday Heaps: Experiment, Simulation, and Theory

Henk Jan van Gerner, Gabriel A. Caballero-Robledo, Devaraj van der Meer, Ko van der Weele, and Martin A. van der Hoef

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028001 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Two-Component Genetic Switch as a Synthetic Module with Tunable Stability

C.-M. Ghim and E. Almaas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028101 (2009) - Published 6 July, 2009

Internal Friction and Nonequilibrium Unfolding of Polymeric Globules

Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Hirofumi Wada, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028102 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Ordered Nanoclusters in Lipid-Cholesterol Membranes

Maria K. Ratajczak, Eva Y. Chi, Shelli L. Frey, Kathleen D. Cao, Laura M. Luther, Ka Yee C. Lee, Jaroslaw Majewski, and Kristian Kjaer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028103 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Single-Shot Diffractive Imaging with a Table-Top Femtosecond Soft X-Ray Laser-Harmonics Source

A. Ravasio, D. Gauthier, F. R. N. C. Maia, M. Billon, J-P. Caumes, D. Garzella, M. Géléoc, O. Gobert, J-F. Hergott, A-M. Pena, H. Perez, B. Carré, E. Bourhis, J. Gierak, A. Madouri, D. Mailly, B. Schiedt, M. Fajardo, J. Gautier, P. Zeitoun, P. H. Bucksbaum, J. Hajdu, and H. Merdji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028104 (2009) - Published 8 July, 2009

Successive Dynamical Steps of Photoinduced Switching of a Molecular Fe(III) Spin-Crossover Material by Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction

M. Lorenc, J. Hébert, N. Moisan, E. Trzop, M. Servol, M. Buron-Le Cointe, H. Cailleau, M. L. Boillot, E. Pontecorvo, M. Wulff, S. Koshihara, and E. Collet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028301 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Taylor-like Vortices in Shear-Banding Flow of Giant Micelles

M. A. Fardin, B. Lasne, O. Cardoso, G. Grégoire, M. Argentina, J. P. Decruppe, and S. Lerouge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028302 (2009) - Published 10 July, 2009

Predicting Perception of the Wagon Wheel Illusion

Patrick Martineau, Martin Aguilar, and Leon Glass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 028701 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Liquid-State Properties of a One-Component Plasma [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 065003 (2006)]

Jérôme Daligault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 029901 (2009) - Published 9 July, 2009

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