Volume 103, Issue 26

31 December 2009

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On the Cover

An algorithm traces trajectories and domains of the labyrinthine interior of a crumpled ball of aluminum foil which is remarkably rigid though mostly (80%) filled with air.

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Spontaneous Emergence of Ordered Phases in Crumpled Sheets
Yen-Chih Lin, Ji-Ming Sun, Jen-Hao Hsiao, Yeukuang Hwu, C. L. Wang, and Tzay-Ming Hong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263902 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement of Lateral Adhesion Forces at the Interface between a Liquid Drop and a Substrate

Rafael Tadmor, Prashant Bahadur, Aisha Leh, Hartmann E. N’guessan, Rajiv Jaini, and Lan Dang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266101 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

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Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Nonlinear Four-Wave Mixing

Jan Renger, Romain Quidant, Niek van Hulst, Stefano Palomba, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266802 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

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Hexagonal Warping Effects in the Surface States of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$

Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266801 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

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Limits on New Long Range Nuclear Spin-Dependent Forces Set with a $K − {}^{3}{He}$ Comagnetometer

G. Vasilakis, J. M. Brown, T. W. Kornack, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 261801 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

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Wave and Particle in Molecular Interference Lithography

Thomas Juffmann, Stefan Truppe, Philipp Geyer, András G. Major, Sarayut Deachapunya, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263601 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

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Self-Connected 3D Architecture of Microwires

Jean-Baptiste Fleury, David Pires, and Yves Galerne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 267801 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

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Biological Proton Pumping in an Oscillating Electric Field

Young C. Kim, Leon A. Furchtgott, and Gerhard Hummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 268102 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

LETTERS

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

Pump-Probe Spectroscopy of Two-Body Correlations in Ultracold Gases

Christiane P. Koch and Ronnie Kosloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260401 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

Many-Body Treatment of the Collisional Frequency Shift in Fermionic Atoms

A. M. Rey, A. V. Gorshkov, and C. Rubbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260402 (2009) - Published 22 December, 2009

Induced Interactions and the Superfluid Transition Temperature in a Three-Component Fermi Gas

J.-P. Martikainen, J. J. Kinnunen, P. Törmä, and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260403 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Wave Communication across Regular Lattices

Birgit Hein and Gregor Tanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260501 (2009) - Published 22 December, 2009

Crossover of the Thermal Escape Problem in Annular Spatially Distributed Systems

Kirill G. Fedorov and Andrey L. Pankratov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260601 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

Dependence of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Temperature on the Choice of Observable

Kirsten Martens, Eric Bertin, and Michel Droz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 260602 (2009) - Published 22 December, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Topological Entanglement Rényi Entropy and Reduced Density Matrix Structure

Steven T. Flammia, Alioscia Hamma, Taylor L. Hughes, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 261601 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

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Limits on New Long Range Nuclear Spin-Dependent Forces Set with a $K − {}^{3}{He}$ Comagnetometer

G. Vasilakis, J. M. Brown, T. W. Kornack, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 261801 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

Search for Muon-Neutrino to Electron-Neutrino Transitions in MINOS

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 261802 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

Dilaton-Assisted Dark Matter

Yang Bai, Marcela Carena, and Joseph Lykken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 261803 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Highly Excited and Exotic Meson Spectrum from Dynamical Lattice QCD

Jozef J. Dudek, Robert G. Edwards, Michael J. Peardon, David G. Richards, and Christopher E. Thomas (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 262001 (2009) - Published 31 December, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Third Moments of Conserved Charges as Probes of QCD Phase Structure

Masayuki Asakawa, Shinji Ejiri, and Masakiyo Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 262301 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Viscous Hydrodynamic Predictions for Nuclear Collisions at the LHC

Matthew Luzum and Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 262302 (2009) - Published 31 December, 2009

Halo Structure of the Island of Inversion Nucleus ${}^{31}{Ne}$

T. Nakamura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 262501 (2009) - Published 22 December, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dispersionless Density Functional Theory

Katarzyna Pernal, Rafał Podeszwa, Konrad Patkowski, and Krzysztof Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263201 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

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Wave and Particle in Molecular Interference Lithography

Thomas Juffmann, Stefan Truppe, Philipp Geyer, András G. Major, Sarayut Deachapunya, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263601 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extraordinary Magnetic Field Enhancement with Metallic Nanowire: Role of Surface Impedance in Babinet’s Principle for Sub-Skin-Depth Regime

Sukmo Koo, M. Sathish Kumar, Jonghwa Shin, DaiSik Kim, and Namkyoo Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263901 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

Spontaneous Emergence of Ordered Phases in Crumpled Sheets

Yen-Chih Lin, Ji-Ming Sun, Jen-Hao Hsiao, Yeukuang Hwu, C. L. Wang, and Tzay-Ming Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 263902 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Specular Scattering Probability of Acoustic Phonons in Atomically Flat Interfaces

Yu-Chieh Wen, Chia-Lung Hsieh, Kung-Hsuan Lin, Hung-Pin Chen, Shu-Cheng Chin, Ching-Lien Hsiao, Yuan-Ting Lin, Chia-Seng Chang, Yuan-Chih Chang, Li-Wei Tu, and Chi-Kuang Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 264301 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Effect of Surface Tension Variations on the Pinch-Off Behavior of Small Fluid Drops in the Presence of Surfactants

M. Roché, M. Aytouna, D. Bonn, and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 264501 (2009) - Published 22 December, 2009

Critical Instability and Friction Scaling of Fluid Flows through Pipes with Rough Inner Surfaces

Jianjun Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 264502 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Optical Control of Thermocapillary Effects in Complex Nanofluids

Yuval Lamhot, Assaf Barak, Carmel Rotschild, Mordechai Segev, Meirav Saraf, Efrat Lifshitz, Abraham Marmur, Ramy El-Ganainy, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 264503 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Pulse Splitting in Short Wavelength Seeded Free Electron Lasers

M. Labat, N. Joly, S. Bielawski, C. Szwaj, C. Bruni, and M. E. Couprie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 264801 (2009) - Published 23 December, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Damping of Superfluid Flow by a Thermal Cloud

R. Meppelink, S. B. Koller, J. M. Vogels, H. T. C. Stoof, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 265301 (2009) - Published 23 December, 2009

Feshbach Resonance in Optical Lattices and the Quantum Ising Model

M. J. Bhaseen, A. O. Silver, M. Hohenadler, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 265302 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Isomerization-Induced Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Glass Former below and above $T_{g}$

V. Teboul, M. Saiddine, and J.-M. Nunzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 265701 (2009) - Published 22 December, 2009

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Measurement of Lateral Adhesion Forces at the Interface between a Liquid Drop and a Substrate

Rafael Tadmor, Prashant Bahadur, Aisha Leh, Hartmann E. N’guessan, Rajiv Jaini, and Lan Dang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266101 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

Local Vibrational Excitation through Extended Electronic States at a Germanium Surface

Kota Tomatsu, Kan Nakatsuji, Masamichi Yamada, Fumio Komori, Binghai Yan, Chiyung Yam, Thomas Frauenheim, Yong Xu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266102 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

New Insights on Atomic-Resolution Frequency-Modulation Kelvin-Probe Force-Microscopy Imaging of Semiconductors

Sascha Sadewasser, Pavel Jelinek, Chung-Kai Fang, Oscar Custance, Yusaku Yamada, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Masayuki Abe, and Seizo Morita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266103 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Multiferroicity in TTF-CA Organic Molecular Crystals Predicted through Ab Initio Calculations

Gianluca Giovannetti, Sanjeev Kumar, Alessandro Stroppa, Jeroen van den Brink, and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266401 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Real-Time Quantum Dynamics of Interacting Electrons: Self-Organized Nanoscale Structure in a Spin-Electron Coupled System

W. Koshibae, N. Furukawa, and N. Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266402 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Bandlike Motion and Mobility Saturation in Organic Molecular Semiconductors

S. Fratini and S. Ciuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266601 (2009) - Published 23 December, 2009

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Hexagonal Warping Effects in the Surface States of the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$

Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266801 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Nonlinear Four-Wave Mixing

Jan Renger, Romain Quidant, Niek van Hulst, Stefano Palomba, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266802 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

Experimental Demonstration of Topological Surface States Protected by Time-Reversal Symmetry

Tong Zhang, Peng Cheng, Xi Chen, Jin-Feng Jia, Xucun Ma, Ke He, Lili Wang, Haijun Zhang, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Xincheng Xie, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266803 (2009) - Published 23 December, 2009

Valley Symmetry Breaking in Bilayer Graphene: A Test of the Minimal Model

Masaaki Nakamura, Eduardo V. Castro, and Balázs Dóra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266804 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Quantum Confinement of Hot Image-Potential State Electrons

K. Schouteden and C. Van Haesendonck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266805 (2009) - Published 28 December, 2009

Fano-Kondo Interplay in a Side-Coupled Double Quantum Dot

S. Sasaki, H. Tamura, T. Akazaki, and T. Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266806 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Quantum Interference in Coherent Molecular Conductance

Julián Rincón, K. Hallberg, A. A. Aligia, and S. Ramasesha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266807 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Novel Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a Nondegenerate Two-Dimensional Electron System on Liquid Helium

Denis Konstantinov and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266808 (2009) - Published 31 December, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Connected 3D Architecture of Microwires

Jean-Baptiste Fleury, David Pires, and Yves Galerne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 267801 (2009) - Published 30 December, 2009

Random Matrix Approach to Collective Behavior and Bulk Universality in Protein Dynamics

Raffaello Potestio, Fabio Caccioli, and Pierpaolo Vivo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 268101 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

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Biological Proton Pumping in an Oscillating Electric Field

Young C. Kim, Leon A. Furchtgott, and Gerhard Hummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 268102 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

Jamming Proteins with Slipknots and Their Free Energy Landscape

Joanna I. Sułkowska, Piotr Sułkowski, and José N. Onuchic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 268103 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Brighter Light Sources from Black Metal: Significant Increase in Emission Efficiency of Incandescent Light Sources”

K. C. Mishra, M. Zachau, and R. E. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 269401 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

Vorobyev, Makin, and Guo Reply:

A. Y. Vorobyev, V. S. Makin, and Chunlei Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 269402 (2009) - Published 21 December, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Critical Behavior and Scaling in Trapped Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240601 (2009)]

Massimo Campostrini and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 269901 (2009) - Published 29 December, 2009