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Volume 103, Issue 3

17 July 2009
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Magnetic scattering maps for the geometrically frustrated magnet YBaCo4O7. Dashed blue lines show the Brillouin zones of the crystal and solid blue lines show the reciprocal lattice.

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Magnetic Correlations in the Extended Kagome YBaCo4O7 Probed by Single-Crystal Neutron Scattering
P. Manuel, L. C. Chapon, P. G. Radaelli, H. Zheng, and J. F. Mitchell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037202 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Creation of Dirac Monopoles in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ville Pietilä and Mikko Möttönen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030401 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

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Experimental Demonstration of Classical Hamiltonian Monodromy in the 1∶1∶2 Resonant Elastic Pendulum

N. J. Fitch, C. A. Weidner, L. P. Parazzoli, H. R. Dullin, and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 034301 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

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Fermi Surface Topology and Low-Lying Quasiparticle Dynamics of Parent Fe1+xTe/Se Superconductor

Y. Xia, D. Qian, L. Wray, D. Hsieh, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037002 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

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Neutrinos from Supernovae as a Trigger for Gravitational Wave Search

G. Pagliaroli, F. Vissani, E. Coccia, and W. Fulgione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 031102 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

LETTERS

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

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Creation of Dirac Monopoles in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ville Pietilä and Mikko Möttönen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030401 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Exponentially Fragile PT Symmetry in Lattices with Localized Eigenmodes

Oliver Bendix, Ragnar Fleischmann, Tsampikos Kottos, and Boris Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030402 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Superfluid to Bose-Glass Transition in a 1D Weakly Interacting Bose Gas

Luca Fontanesi, Michiel Wouters, and Vincenzo Savona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030403 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Entangling and Disentangling Power of Unitary Transformations Are Not Equal

Noah Linden, John A. Smolin, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030501 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Open-System Dynamics of Graph-State Entanglement

Daniel Cavalcanti, Rafael Chaves, Leandro Aolita, Luiz Davidovich, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030502 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Multiplicative Noise and Second Order Phase Transitions

Alon Manor and Nadav M. Shnerb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030601 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Experimental Quenching of Harmonic Stimuli: Universality of Linear Response Theory

Paolo Allegrini, Mauro Bologna, Leone Fronzoni, Paolo Grigolini, and Ludovico Silvestri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030602 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Solids Using a Colored-Noise Thermostat

Michele Ceriotti, Giovanni Bussi, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 030603 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nonlinear Development of Shocklike Structure in the Solar Wind

E. Lee, G. K. Parks, M. Wilber, and N. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 031101 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

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Neutrinos from Supernovae as a Trigger for Gravitational Wave Search

G. Pagliaroli, F. Vissani, E. Coccia, and W. Fulgione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 031102 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Dark Matter Interpretation of Recent Electron and Positron Data

Lars Bergström, Joakim Edsjö, and Gabrijela Zaharijas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 031103 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Is There a Dark Matter Signal in the Galactic Positron Annihilation Radiation?

R. E. Lingenfelter, J. C. Higdon, and R. E. Rothschild

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 031301 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of New Charmless Decays of Bottom Hadrons

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 031801 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Dense QCD in a Finite Volume

Naoki Yamamoto and Takuya Kanazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 032001 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Relativistic Shock Waves in Viscous Gluon Matter

I. Bouras, E. Molnár, H. Niemi, Z. Xu, A. El, O. Fochler, C. Greiner, and D. H. Rischke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 032301 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Tomography of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions with Photon-Hadron Correlations

Hanzhong Zhang, J. F. Owens, Enke Wang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 032302 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Spectroscopy of Ne32 and the “Island of Inversion”

P. Doornenbal et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 032501 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Isoscalar and Isovector Splitting of Pygmy Dipole Structures

N. Paar, Y. F. Niu, D. Vretenar, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 032502 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photo- and Auger-Electron Recoil Induced Dynamics of Interatomic Coulombic Decay

K. Kreidi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033001 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Electron-Pair Excitations and the Molecular Coulomb Continuum

J. M. Feagin, J. Colgan, A. Huetz, and T. J. Reddish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033002 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Light Storage in an Atomic Mott Insulator

U. Schnorrberger, J. D. Thompson, S. Trotzky, R. Pugatch, N. Davidson, S. Kuhr, and I. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033003 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Universal Four-Boson States in Ultracold Molecular Gases: Resonant Effects in Dimer-Dimer Collisions

J. P. D’Incao, J. von Stecher, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033004 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Screened QED Corrections in Lithiumlike Heavy Ions in the Presence of Magnetic Fields

A. V. Volotka, D. A. Glazov, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and G. Plunien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033005 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Fermionized Photons in an Array of Driven Dissipative Nonlinear Cavities

I. Carusotto, D. Gerace, H. E. Tureci, S. De Liberato, C. Ciuti, and A. Imamoǧlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033601 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Observation of a Nonlocal Optical Vortex

R. M. Gomes, A. Salles, F. Toscano, P. H. Souto Ribeiro, and S. P. Walborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033602 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Detection of Interfering Pathways in Subfemtosecond Multielectron Dynamics

Aleksei M. Zheltikov, Aleksandr A. Voronin, Markus Kitzler, Andrius Baltuška, and Misha Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033901 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Deep-Subwavelength Focusing and Steering of Light in an Aperiodic Metallic Waveguide Array

Lieven Verslegers, Peter B. Catrysse, Zongfu Yu, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033902 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Designing Spinning Bloch States in 2D Photonic Crystals for Stirring Nanoparticles

Masaru Onoda and Tetsuyuki Ochiai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 033903 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Observation of Saturation of Fidelity Decay with an Atom Interferometer

Saijun Wu, Alexey Tonyushkin, and Mara G. Prentiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 034101 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Role of Singular Tori in the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Wave Systems

D. Sugny, A. Picozzi, S. Lagrange, and H. R. Jauslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 034102 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

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Experimental Demonstration of Classical Hamiltonian Monodromy in the 1∶1∶2 Resonant Elastic Pendulum

N. J. Fitch, C. A. Weidner, L. P. Parazzoli, H. R. Dullin, and H. J. Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 034301 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Effect of the Scalar Injection Mechanism on Passive Scalar Structure Functions in a Turbulent Flow

J. Lepore and L. Mydlarski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 034501 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Carrier-Envelope Phase Effects in Plasma-Based Electron Acceleration with Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

E. N. Nerush and I. Yu. Kostyukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035001 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Near-GeV Acceleration of Electrons by a Nonlinear Plasma Wave Driven by a Self-Guided Laser Pulse

S. Kneip et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035002 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Determination of Pair Interaction Forces between Particles in Nonideal Dissipative Systems

O. S. Vaulina, E. A. Lisin, A. V. Gavrikov, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035003 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Non-Abelian Optical Lattices: Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect and Dirac Fermions

N. Goldman, A. Kubasiak, A. Bermudez, P. Gaspard, M. Lewenstein, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035301 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Coherent Spin Manipulation and ESR on Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Markus Koch, Gerald Auböck, Carlo Callegari, and Wolfgang E. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035302 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Modulation Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Double Occupancies in a Fermionic Mott Insulator

Rajdeep Sensarma, David Pekker, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035303 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Pair-Supersolid Phase in a Bilayer System of Dipolar Lattice Bosons

C. Trefzger, C. Menotti, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035304 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Void Deformation and Breakup in Shearing Silica Glass

Yi-Chun Chen, Ken-ichi Nomura, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035501 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Deformation Crossover: From Nano- to Mesoscale

S. Cheng, A. D. Stoica, X.-L. Wang, Y. Ren, J. Almer, J. A. Horton, C. T. Liu, B. Clausen, D. W. Brown, P. K. Liaw, and L. Zuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035502 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Atomic Shuffling Dominated Mechanism for Deformation Twinning in Magnesium

B. Li and E. Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035503 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Ionic and Wigner Glasses, Superionic Conductors, and Spinodal Electrostatic Gels: Dynamically Arrested Phases of the Primitive Model

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035701 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Diffusion-Controlled Anisotropic Growth of Stable and Metastable Crystal Polymorphs in the Phase-Field Crystal Model

G. Tegze, L. Gránásy, G. I. Tóth, F. Podmaniczky, A. Jaatinen, T. Ala-Nissila, and T. Pusztai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 035702 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Kinetic Theory of Plastic Flow in Soft Glassy Materials

Lydéric Bocquet, Annie Colin, and Armand Ajdari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036001 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Phase Transitions in the Hubbard Model on a Triangular Lattice

Takuya Yoshioka, Akihisa Koga, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036401 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Origin of the Efficient Polaron-Pair Dissociation in Polymer-Fullerene Blends

Carsten Deibel, Thomas Strobel, and Vladimir Dyakonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036402 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Unusual Layer-Dependent Charge Distribution, Collective Mode Coupling, and Superconductivity in Multilayer Cuprate Ba2Ca3Cu4O8F2

Yulin Chen, Akira Iyo, Wanli Yang, Akihiro Ino, M. Arita, Steve Johnston, Hiroshi Eisaki, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, Thomas P. Devereaux, Zahid Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036403 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Insulating Ground States of Transition-Metal Monoxides from Exact Exchange

E. Engel and R. N. Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036404 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Role of δ-Hole-Doped Interfaces at Ohmic Contacts to Organic Semiconductors

Mi Zhou, Lay-Lay Chua, Rui-Qi Png, Chaw-Keong Yong, Sankaran Sivaramakrishnan, Perq-Jon Chia, Andrew T. S. Wee, Richard H. Friend, and Peter K. H. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036601 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Noise-Induced Phase Transition in the Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Ivan P. Levkivskyi and Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036801 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Understanding the Atomic-Scale Contrast in Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy

Laurent Nony, Adam S. Foster, Franck Bocquet, and Christian Loppacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036802 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Topological Insulator: A New Quantized Spin Hall Resistance Robust to Dephasing

Hua Jiang, Shuguang Cheng, Qing-feng Sun, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 036803 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Persistent Current in Small Superconducting Rings

Georg Schwiete and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037001 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

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Fermi Surface Topology and Low-Lying Quasiparticle Dynamics of Parent Fe1+xTe/Se Superconductor

Y. Xia, D. Qian, L. Wray, D. Hsieh, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037002 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Hybridization of Spin and Plasma Waves in Josephson Tunnel Junctions Containing a Ferromagnetic Layer

A. F. Volkov and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037003 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Universal versus Material-Dependent Two-Gap Behaviors of the High-Tc Cuprate Superconductors: Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of La2−xSrxCuO4

T. Yoshida, M. Hashimoto, S. Ideta, A. Fujimori, K. Tanaka, N. Mannella, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, M. Kubota, K. Ono, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037004 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Superconducting and Ferromagnetic Phases Induced by Lattice Distortions in Stoichiometric SrFe2As2 Single Crystals

S. R. Saha, N. P. Butch, K. Kirshenbaum, Johnpierre Paglione, and P. Y. Zavalij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037005 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Spin-Lattice Order in Frustrated ZnCr2O4

S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, C. Broholm, T. Y. Koo, W. Ratcliff, S.-W. Cheong, and P. Zschack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037201 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Magnetic Correlations in the Extended Kagome YBaCo4O7 Probed by Single-Crystal Neutron Scattering

P. Manuel, L. C. Chapon, P. G. Radaelli, H. Zheng, and J. F. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037202 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Two-Qubit Conditional Phase Gate in Laser-Excited Semiconductor Quantum Dots Using the Quantum Zeno Effect

K. J. Xu, Y. P. Huang, M. G. Moore, and C. Piermarocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037401 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Resonant Raman Transitions into Singlet and Triplet States in InGaAs Quantum Dots Containing Two Electrons

T. Köppen, D. Franz, A. Schramm, Ch. Heyn, D. Heitmann, and T. Kipp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037402 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Optically Enhanced Emission of Localized Excitons in InxGa1−xN Films by Coupling to Plasmons in a Gold Nanoparticle

A. A. Toropov, T. V. Shubina, V. N. Jmerik, S. V. Ivanov, Y. Ogawa, and F. Minami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037403 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Direct Observation of the Two Lowest Exciton Zero-Phonon Lines in Single CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals

L. Biadala, Y. Louyer, Ph. Tamarat, and B. Lounis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037404 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Magnetically Induced Electronic Ferroelectricity in Half-Doped Manganites

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037601 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Role of Distributions of Intramolecular Concentrations on the Dynamics of Miscible Polymer Blends Probed by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Wenjuan Liu, Dmitry Bedrov, Sanat K. Kumar, Boris Veytsman, and Ralph H. Colby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037801 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Supersoft Elasticity in Polydomain Nematic Elastomers

J. S. Biggins, M. Warner, and K. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037802 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Quantifying Water Density Fluctuations and Compressibility of Hydration Shells of Hydrophobic Solutes and Proteins

Sapna Sarupria and Shekhar Garde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037803 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Membrane Buckling Induced by Curved Filaments

Martin Lenz, Daniel J. G. Crow, and Jean-François Joanny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 038101 (2009) - Published 13 July, 2009

Elucidating the Origin of Anomalous Diffusion in Crowded Fluids

Jedrzej Szymanski and Matthias Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 038102 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

Role of Static Stress Diffusion in the Spatiotemporal Organization of Aftershocks

E. Lippiello, L. de Arcangelis, and C. Godano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 038501 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Acoustic Effects Accurately Predict an Extreme Case of Biological Morphology

Zhiwei Zhang, Son Nguyen Truong, and Rolf Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 038701 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

Impact of Human Activity Patterns on the Dynamics of Information Diffusion

José Luis Iribarren and Esteban Moro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 038702 (2009) - Published 14 July, 2009

COMMENTS

Comment on “Coexistence of Self-Organized Criticality and Intermittent Turbulence in the Solar Corona”

N. W. Watkins, S. C. Chapman, and S. J. Rosenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 039501 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Uritsky, Davila, and Jones Reply:

Vadim M. Uritsky, Joseph M. Davila, and Shaela I. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 039502 (2009) - Published 16 July, 2009

Comment on “Mechanism for Superelongation of Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures”

Feng Ding, Jian Yu Huang, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 039601 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

Tang et al. Reply:

Chun Tang, Wanlin Guo, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 039602 (2009) - Published 17 July, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Casimir Force for Thin Metal Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 096803 (2008)]

V. A. Yampol’skii, Sergey Savel’ev, Z. A. Mayselis, S. S. Apostolov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 039901 (2009) - Published 15 July, 2009

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