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Physical Review Letters

Volume 103, Issue 24

11 December 2009

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A charged particle (green arrow) emits radiation as it passes through a spherical cloak, making the cloak visible. Selected for Editors' Suggestions.

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Electromagnetic Detection of a Perfect Invisibility Cloak
Baile Zhang and Bae-Ian Wu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 243901 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit

Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245701 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization Vortices in Germanium Telluride Nanoplatelets: A Theoretical Study

E. Durgun, Ph. Ghosez, R. Shaltaf, X. Gonze, and J.-Y. Raty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247601 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

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Spin Gradient Thermometry for Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

David M. Weld, Patrick Medley, Hirokazu Miyake, David Hucul, David E. Pritchard, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245301 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

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Self-Organized Criticality in Sheared Suspensions

L. Corté, S. J. Gerbode, W. Man, and D. J. Pine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248301 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electromagnetic Detection of a Perfect Invisibility Cloak

Baile Zhang and Bae-Ian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 243901 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

LETTERS

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

Atomic Color Superfluid via Three-Body Loss

A. Kantian, M. Dalmonte, S. Diehl, W. Hofstetter, P. Zoller, and A. J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240401 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Optimal Control at the Quantum Speed Limit

T. Caneva, M. Murphy, T. Calarco, R. Fazio, S. Montangero, V. Giovannetti, and G. E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240501 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Experimental Characterization of Entanglement Dynamics in Noisy Channels

Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Xiao-Ye Xu, Cheng-Hao Shi, Xu-Bo Zou, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240502 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Entanglement Percolation in Quantum Complex Networks

Martí Cuquet and John Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240503 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Cluster-State Quantum Computing Enhanced by High-Fidelity Generalized Measurements

D. N. Biggerstaff, R. Kaltenbaek, D. R. Hamel, G. Weihs, T. Rudolph, and K. J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240504 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Capacity of Quantum Erasure Channel Assisted by Backwards Classical Communication

Debbie Leung, Joungkeun Lim, and Peter Shor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 240505 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Generalized Similarity in Finite Range Solar Wind Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

S. C. Chapman and R. M. Nicol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 241101 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Cosmological Tests of General Relativity with Future Tomographic Surveys

Gong-Bo Zhao, Levon Pogosian, Alessandra Silvestri, and Joel Zylberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 241301 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Inclusive Radiative $B$ -Meson Decays with a Photon Energy Threshold of 1.7 GeV

A. Limosani et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 241801 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

MiniBooNE Anomaly and Heavy Neutrino Decay

S. N. Gninenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 241802 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Discovering Baryon-Number Violating Neutralino Decays at the LHC

Jonathan M. Butterworth, John R. Ellis, Are R. Raklev, and Gavin P. Salam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 241803 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Topology Studies of Hydrodynamics Using Two-Particle Correlation Analysis

J. Takahashi, B. M. Tavares, W. L. Qian, R. Andrade, F. Grassi, Y. Hama, T. Kodama, and N. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 242301 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

New Insight into the Observation of Spectroscopic Strength Reduction in Atomic Nuclei: Implication for the Physical Meaning of Spectroscopic Factors

N. K. Timofeyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 242501 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electromagnetic Detection of a Perfect Invisibility Cloak

Baile Zhang and Bae-Ian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 243901 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Diffractive Imaging Using Partially Coherent X Rays

L. W. Whitehead, G. J. Williams, H. M. Quiney, D. J. Vine, R. A. Dilanian, S. Flewett, K. A. Nugent, A. G. Peele, E. Balaur, and I. McNulty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 243902 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Pressurized Fluid Damping of Nanoelectromechanical Systems

Oleksiy Svitelskiy, Vince Sauer, Ning Liu, Kar-Mun Cheng, Eric Finley, Mark R. Freeman, and Wayne K. Hiebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 244501 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Supermagnetosonic Jets behind a Collisionless Quasiparallel Shock

H. Hietala, T. V. Laitinen, K. Andréeová, R. Vainio, A. Vaivads, M. Palmroth, T. I. Pulkkinen, H. E. J. Koskinen, E. A. Lucek, and H. Rème

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245001 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Collective Dynamics of Complex Plasma Bilayers

P. Hartmann, Z. Donkó, G. J. Kalman, S. Kyrkos, K. I. Golden, and M. Rosenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245002 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Radiation-Pressure Acceleration of Ion Beams Driven by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulses

A. Henig, S. Steinke, M. Schnürer, T. Sokollik, R. Hörlein, D. Kiefer, D. Jung, J. Schreiber, B. M. Hegelich, X. Q. Yan, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, T. Tajima, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner, and D. Habs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245003 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Measurements of Ionic Structure in Shock Compressed Lithium Hydride from Ultrafast X-Ray Thomson Scattering

A. L. Kritcher, P. Neumayer, C. R. D. Brown, P. Davis, T. Döppner, R. W. Falcone, D. O. Gericke, G. Gregori, B. Holst, O. L. Landen, H. J. Lee, E. C. Morse, A. Pelka, R. Redmer, M. Roth, J. Vorberger, K. Wünsch, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245004 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Wave-Particle Dynamics of Wave Breaking in the Self-Excited Dust Acoustic Wave

Lee-Wen Teng, Mei-Chu Chang, Yu-Ping Tseng, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245005 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Spin Gradient Thermometry for Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

David M. Weld, Patrick Medley, Hirokazu Miyake, David Hucul, David E. Pritchard, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245301 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Intrinsic $n$ -Type Behavior in Transparent Conducting Oxides: A Comparative Hybrid-Functional Study of ${In}_{2} O_{3}$ , ${SnO}_{2}$ , and ZnO

Péter Ágoston, Karsten Albe, Risto M. Nieminen, and Martti J. Puska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245501 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equivalence of Glass Transition and Colloidal Glass Transition in the Hard-Sphere Limit

Ning Xu, Thomas K. Haxton, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245701 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Dynamics of the Negative Thermal Expansion in Tellurium Based Liquid Alloys

Céline Otjacques, Jean-Yves Raty, Marie-Vanessa Coulet, Mark Johnson, Helmut Schober, Christophe Bichara, and Jean-Pierre Gaspard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245901 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Using Rare Gas Permeation to Probe Methanol Diffusion near the Glass Transition Temperature

Jesper Matthiesen, R. Scott Smith, and Bruce D. Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 245902 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Hot Atom Dynamics after Dissociative Adsorption of $H_{2}$ on Pd(100)

Axel Groß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246101 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Hydrogen Dissociation and Spillover on Individual Isolated Palladium Atoms

Heather L. Tierney, Ashleigh E. Baber, John R. Kitchin, and E. Charles H. Sykes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246102 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Coulombically Driven Rolling of Nanorods on Water

Lela Vuković and Petr Král

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246103 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Interference in Macroscopic Crystals of Nonmetallic ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

J. G. Checkelsky, Y. S. Hor, M.-H. Liu, D.-X. Qu, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246601 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Using Electronic Coherence to Probe a Deeply Embedded Quantum Well in Bimetallic $Pb / Ag$ Films on Si(111)

M. K. Brinkley, Y. Liu, N. J. Speer, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246801 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Dynamic Conductivity in Graphene beyond Linear Response

E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246802 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Cloaking from Surface Plasmon Polaritons by a Circular Array of Point Scatterers

Björn Baumeier, Tamara A. Leskova, and Alexei A. Maradudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246803 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Quasi-Free-Standing Epitaxial Graphene on SiC Obtained by Hydrogen Intercalation

C. Riedl, C. Coletti, T. Iwasaki, A. A. Zakharov, and U. Starke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246804 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Magnetism and Correlations in Fractionally Filled Degenerate Shells of Graphene Quantum Dots

A. D. Güçlü, P. Potasz, O. Voznyy, M. Korkusinski, and P. Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 246805 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Quantum Liquid with Deconfined Fractional Excitations in Three Dimensions

Olga Sikora, Frank Pollmann, Nic Shannon, Karlo Penc, and Peter Fulde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247001 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Controlling the Sign of Magnetoconductance in Andreev Quantum Dots

Robert S. Whitney and Ph. Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247002 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Hierarchical Energy Relaxation in Mesoscopic Tunnel Junctions: Effect of a Nonequilibrium Environment on Low-Temperature Transport

N. M. Chtchelkatchev, V. M. Vinokur, and T. I. Baturina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247003 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Suppression of Proximity Effect and the Enhancement of $p$ -Wave Superconductivity in the ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ -Ru System

Y. A. Ying, Y. Xin, B. W. Clouser, E. Hao, N. E. Staley, R. J. Myers, L. F. Allard, D. Fobes, T. Liu, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247004 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Fluctuation-Induced Heat Release from Temperature-Quenched Nuclear Spins near a Quantum Critical Point

Y. H. Kim, N. Kaur, B. M. Atkins, N. S. Dalal, and Y. Takano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247201 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

Modeling the Antiferromagnetic Phase in Iron Pnictides: Weakly Ordered State

E. Kaneshita, T. Morinari, and T. Tohyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247202 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarization Vortices in Germanium Telluride Nanoplatelets: A Theoretical Study

E. Durgun, Ph. Ghosez, R. Shaltaf, X. Gonze, and J.-Y. Raty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247601 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Reduced Interfacial Entanglement Density Affects the Boundary Conditions of Polymer Flow

O. Bäumchen, R. Fetzer, and K. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 247801 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Topological Phonon Modes and Their Role in Dynamic Instability of Microtubules

Emil Prodan and Camelia Prodan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248101 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Modeling Torque Versus Speed, Shot Noise, and Rotational Diffusion of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor

Thierry Mora, Howard Yu, and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248102 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Dynamics of Vesicle Unbinding under Axisymmetric Flow

Sunita Chatkaew, Marc Georgelin, Marc Jaeger, and Marc Leonetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248103 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Nonequilibrium $1 / f$ Noise in Rectifying Nanopores

Matthew R. Powell, Ivan Vlassiouk, Craig Martens, and Zuzanna S. Siwy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248104 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Coding of Information in Limit Cycle Oscillators

Jan-Hendrik Schleimer and Martin Stemmler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248105 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Statistical Properties of Metastable Intermediates in DNA Unzipping

J. M. Huguet, N. Forns, and F. Ritort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248106 (2009) - Published 10 December, 2009

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Self-Organized Criticality in Sheared Suspensions

L. Corté, S. J. Gerbode, W. Man, and D. J. Pine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248301 (2009) - Published 7 December, 2009

Competition between Shear Banding and Wall Slip in Wormlike Micelles

M. Paul Lettinga and Sébastien Manneville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248302 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Hydrodynamic Mobility of an Optically Trapped Colloidal Particle near Fluid-Fluid Interfaces

G. M. Wang, R. Prabhakar, and E. M. Sevick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248303 (2009) - Published 8 December, 2009

Stringlike Clusters and Cooperative Interlayer Permeation in Smectic Liquid Crystals Formed by Colloidal Rods

Alessandro Patti, Djamel El Masri, René van Roij, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248304 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009

Structural Relaxation of a Gel Modeled by Three Body Interactions

Shibu Saw, Niels L. Ellegaard, Walter Kob, and Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248305 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

Computing with Noise: Phase Transitions in Boolean Formulas

Alexander Mozeika, David Saad, and Jack Raymond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 248701 (2009) - Published 11 December, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Cosmic Neutrino Last Scattering Surface [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171301 (2009)]

Scott Dodelson and Mika Vesterinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 249901 (2009) - Published 9 December, 2009