Volume 103, Issue 5

31 July 2009

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C₆₀ molecules (green) adsorbed on the close-packed silver {111} surface (blue) create and occupy a periodic array of vacancy sites. See also Viewpoint in Physics. Selected for Editors' Suggestions.

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Surface Geometry of $C_{60}$ on Ag(111)
H. I. Li, K. Pussi, K. J. Hanna, L.-L. Wang, D. D. Johnson, H.-P. Cheng, H. Shin, S. Curtarolo, W. Moritz, J. A. Smerdon, R. McGrath, and R. D. Diehl
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 056101 (2009)

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Surface Geometry of $C_{60}$ on Ag(111)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 056101 (2009) - Published 27 July, 2009

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LETTERS

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Quantum Computation in Correlation Space and Extremal Entanglement

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Phase Measurements of Barrier Crossings in a Periodically Modulated Double-Well Potential

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Novel Low-Temperature Behavior in Classical Many-Particle Systems

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Trajectory Approach to Two-State Kinetics of Single Particles on Sculpted Energy Landscapes

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Theory of Inelastic Electron Tunneling from a Localized Spin in the Impulsive Approximation

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

TeV Gamma Rays from Geminga and the Origin of the GeV Positron Excess

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Identifying Nearby Accelerators of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Using Ultrahigh Energy (and Very High Energy) Photons

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New Limits on the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment

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Origin of the Positron Excess in Cosmic Rays

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Multiple Spectral Splits of Supernova Neutrinos

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measuring a Long-Range Dark Matter Force at the Large Hadron Collider

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 051801 (2009) - Published 27 July, 2009

New Precise Measurement of the Pion Weak Form Factors in $π^{+} \to e^{+} ν γ$ Decay

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 051802 (2009) - Published 30 July, 2009

Measurement of Semileptonic $B$ Decays into Orbitally Excited Charmed Mesons

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 051803 (2009) - Published 31 July, 2009

Collins Function and the Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 052001 (2009) - Published 27 July, 2009

Beam-Helicity Asymmetries in Double-Pion Photoproduction off the Proton

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Nuclear Physics

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Three-Dimensional Momentum Imaging of Electron Wave Packet Interference in Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

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Probing Weakly Bound Molecules with Nonresonant Light

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Three-Body Dynamics in Single Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen by 75 keV Proton Impact

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Indistinguishable Photons from Independent Semiconductor Nanostructures

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Vacuum Rabi Splitting and Strong-Coupling Dynamics for Surface-Plasmon Polaritons and Rhodamine 6G Molecules

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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ultrahigh- $Q$ Tunable Whispering-Gallery-Mode Microresonator

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Magneto-optical Control of Light Collapse in Bulk Kerr Media

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Varying the Effective Refractive Index to Measure Optical Transport in Random Media

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Plasma and Beam Physics

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Radial Spreading of Drift-Wave–Zonal-Flow Turbulence via Soliton Formation

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Gyrokinetic Simulations of Turbulent Transport in a Ring Dipole Plasma

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Theory of Filamentary Plasma Array Formation in Microwave Breakdown at Near-Atmospheric Pressure

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Surface-Decorated Silicon Nanowires: A Route to High- $Z T$ Thermoelectrics

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Structural Prediction and Phase Transformation Mechanisms in Calcium at High Pressure

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Hexatic and Mesoscopic Phases in a 2D Quantum Coulomb System

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H. Cao, A. Gukasov, I. Mirebeau, P. Bonville, C. Decorse, and G. Dhalenne

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Thermalization after an Interaction Quench in the Hubbard Model

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Quasiparticle Transformation during a Metal-Insulator Transition in Graphene

Aaron Bostwick, Jessica L. McChesney, Konstantin V. Emtsev, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, Stephen D. Kevan, and Eli Rotenberg

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Electron-Spin Beat Susceptibility of Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

N. H. Kwong, Stefan Schumacher, and R. Binder

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Tailoring the Interaction Strength between Gold Particles and Silica Thin Films via Work Function Control

Umberto Martinez, Jan-Frederik Jerratsch, Niklas Nilius, Livia Giordano, Gianfranco Pacchioni, and Hans-Joachim Freund

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Correlated Coherent Oscillations in Coupled Semiconductor Charge Qubits

Gou Shinkai, Toshiaki Hayashi, Takeshi Ota, and Toshimasa Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 056802 (2009) - Published 28 July, 2009

Controlling Polarization at Insulating Surfaces: Quasiparticle Calculations for Molecules Adsorbed on Insulator Films

Christoph Freysoldt, Patrick Rinke, and Matthias Scheffler

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Hall Effect and Resistivity Study of the Magnetic Transition, Carrier Content, and Fermi-Liquid Behavior in $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$

F. Rullier-Albenque, D. Colson, A. Forget, and H. Alloul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 057001 (2009) - Published 30 July, 2009

Tetragonal-to-Orthorhombic Structural Phase Transition at 90 K in the Superconductor ${Fe}_{1.01} Se$

T. M. McQueen, A. J. Williams, P. W. Stephens, J. Tao, Y. Zhu, V. Ksenofontov, F. Casper, C. Felser, and R. J. Cava

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Spin Polarization of Half-Quantum Vortex in Systems with Equal Spin Pairing

Victor Vakaryuk and Anthony J. Leggett

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Fundamental Thickness Limit of Itinerant Ferromagnetic ${SrRuO}_{3}$ Thin Films

Young Jun Chang, Choong H. Kim, S.-H. Phark, Y. S. Kim, J. Yu, and T. W. Noh

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Switching a Single Spin on Metal Surfaces by a STM Tip: Ab Initio Studies

Kun Tao, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, I. Rungger, S. Sanvito, and P. Bruno

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Spin-Induced Optical Second Harmonic Generation in the Centrosymmetric Magnetic Semiconductors EuTe and EuSe

B. Kaminski, M. Lafrentz, R. V. Pisarev, D. R. Yakovlev, V. V. Pavlov, V. A. Lukoshkin, A. B. Henriques, G. Springholz, G. Bauer, E. Abramof, P. H. O. Rappl, and M. Bayer

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Control of the Anomalous Hall Effect by Doping in ${Eu}_{1 - x} {La}_{x} {TiO}_{3}$ Thin Films

K. S. Takahashi, M. Onoda, M. Kawasaki, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 057204 (2009) - Published 31 July, 2009

Pressure Induced Critical Behavior of Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in Sm-Nd-Sr Manganites

P. Sarkar, S. Arumugam, P. Mandal, A. Murugeswari, R. Thiyagarajan, S. Esaki Muthu, D. Mohan Radheep, Chandryee Ganguli, K. Matsubayshi, and Y. Uwatoko

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Controlling the Nonequilibrium Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Asymmetric Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

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Time-Resolved Formation of Excitons and Electron-Hole Droplets in Si Studied Using Terahertz Spectroscopy

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Spatially Resolved Spectroscopic Mapping of Polarization Reversal in Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Films: Crossing the Resolution Barrier

K. Seal, S. Jesse, M. P. Nikiforov, S. V. Kalinin, I. Fujii, P. Bintachitt, and S. Trolier-McKinstry

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Stochastic and Spatial Influences on Drug-Induced Bifurcations in Cardiac Tissue Culture

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Hydrodynamics of Cellular Cortical Flows and the Formation of Contractile Rings

G. Salbreux, J. Prost, and J. F. Joanny

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Influence of Complex Exciton-Phonon Coupling on Optical Absorption and Energy Transfer of Quantum Aggregates

Jan Roden, Alexander Eisfeld, Wolfgang Wolff, and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 058301 (2009) - Published 31 July, 2009

Extracting Renewable Energy from a Salinity Difference Using a Capacitor

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Exchange Interaction on Quantum Phase Interference of Spins”

E. del Barco, S. Hill, and D. N. Hendrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 059701 (2009) - Published 29 July, 2009

Wernsdorfer, Stamatatos, and Christou Reply:

W. Wernsdorfer, T. C. Stamatatos, and G. Christou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 059702 (2009) - Published 29 July, 2009

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: New Features of Electron Phase Space Holes Observed by the THEMIS Mission [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 225004 (2009)]

L. Andersson, R. E. Ergun, J. Tao, A. Roux, O. LeContel, V. Angelopoulos, J. Bonnell, J. P. McFadden, D. E. Larson, S. Eriksson, T. Johansson, C. M. Cully, D. L. Newman, M. V. Goldman, K.-H. Glassmeier, and W. Baumjohann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 059901 (2009) - Published 28 July, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Relativistic Shock Waves in Viscous Gluon Matter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 032301 (2009)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 059902 (2009) - Published 29 July, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Lifetime Measurements of the Neutron-Rich $N = 30$ Isotones ${}^{50}{Ca}$ and ${}^{51}{Sc}$ : Orbital Dependence of Effective Charges in the $f p$ Shell [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 242502 (2009)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 059903 (2009) - Published 29 July, 2009