Volume 103, Issue 6

7 August 2009

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Scanning electron microscope images of silicon bilenses carefully designed to create a novel type of x-ray interferometer.

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X-Ray Nanointerferometer Based on Si Refractive Bilenses
A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, V. Kohn, V. Yunkin, S. Kuznetsov, M. B. Grigoriev, T. Roth, G. Vaughan, and C. Detlefs
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064801 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Spin- $1 / 2$ Optical Lattice Clock

N. D. Lemke, A. D. Ludlow, Z. W. Barber, T. M. Fortier, S. A. Diddams, Y. Jiang, S. R. Jefferts, T. P. Heavner, T. E. Parker, and C. W. Oates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063001 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Novel Pressure-Induced Interactions in Silane-Hydrogen

Timothy A. Strobel, Maddury Somayazulu, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065701 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent $ρ^{0}$ Photoproduction in Bulk Matter at High Energies

Elsa Couderc and Spencer Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062504 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-Ray Nanointerferometer Based on Si Refractive Bilenses

A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, V. Kohn, V. Yunkin, S. Kuznetsov, M. B. Grigoriev, T. Roth, G. Vaughan, and C. Detlefs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064801 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Doping Driven ( $π$ , 0) Nesting and Magnetic Properties of ${Fe}_{1 + x} Te$ Superconductors

Myung Joon Han and Sergey Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067001 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

LETTERS

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

Measurement of the Short-Range Attractive Force between Ge Plates Using a Torsion Balance

W. J. Kim, A. O. Sushkov, D. A. R. Dalvit, and S. K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 060401 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Fragmented Many-Body Ground States for Scalar Bosons in a Single Trap

Philipp Bader and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 060402 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Heavy-Light Fermion Mixtures at Unitarity

Alexandros Gezerlis, S. Gandolfi, K. E. Schmidt, and J. Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 060403 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmic Ray Electrons and Positrons from Supernova Explosions of Massive Stars

P. L. Biermann, J. K. Becker, A. Meli, W. Rhode, E. S. Seo, and T. Stanev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061101 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Scaling Laws of Turbulence and Heating of Fast Solar Wind: The Role of Density Fluctuations

V. Carbone, R. Marino, L. Sorriso-Valvo, A. Noullez, and R. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061102 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Revising the Predictions of Inflation for the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies

Iván Agulló, José Navarro-Salas, Gonzalo J. Olmo, and Leonard Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061301 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Explanation of the Central Charge Ratio $27 / 32$ in Four-Dimensional Renormalization Group Flows between Superconformal Theories

Yuji Tachikawa and Brian Wecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061601 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Search for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the $h \to a a \to μ μ μ μ$ , $μ μ τ τ$ Channels Using $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061801 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Search for Muon Neutrino and Antineutrino Disappearance in MiniBooNE

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061802 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Search for a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson Decaying into Diphotons in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061803 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Atmospheric, Long Baseline, and Reactor Neutrino Data Constraints on $θ_{13}$

J. E. Roa, D. C. Latimer, and D. J. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061804 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Do Gluons Carry Half of the Nucleon Momentum?

Xiang-Song Chen, Wei-Min Sun, Xiao-Fu Lü, Fan Wang, and T. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062001 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Nuclear Physics

New Features of Shape Coexistence in ${}^{152}{Sm}$

P. E. Garrett, W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, D. Bandyopadhyay, S. Choudry, D. Dashdorj, S. R. Lesher, M. T. McEllistrem, M. Mynk, J. N. Orce, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062501 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Time Modulation of the $K$ -Shell Electron Capture Decay Rates of H-like Heavy Ions at GSI Experiments

A. N. Ivanov and P. Kienle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062502 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Solution of the Center-Of-Mass Problem in Nuclear Structure Calculations

G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, and D. J. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062503 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent $ρ^{0}$ Photoproduction in Bulk Matter at High Energies

Elsa Couderc and Spencer Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 062504 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin- $1 / 2$ Optical Lattice Clock

N. D. Lemke, A. D. Ludlow, Z. W. Barber, T. M. Fortier, S. A. Diddams, Y. Jiang, S. R. Jefferts, T. P. Heavner, T. E. Parker, and C. W. Oates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063001 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Probing Electron Correlation via Attosecond xuv Pulses in the Two-Photon Double Ionization of Helium

J. Feist, S. Nagele, R. Pazourek, E. Persson, B. I. Schneider, L. A. Collins, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063002 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Ultrafast Nonradiative Decay Rates on Metallic Surfaces by Comparing Surface-Enhanced Raman and Fluorescence Signals of Single Molecules

C. M. Galloway, P. G. Etchegoin, and E. C. Le Ru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063003 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Nonlocal van der Waals Density Functional Made Simple

Oleg A. Vydrov and Troy Van Voorhis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063004 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Strong Coupling of a Mechanical Oscillator and a Single Atom

K. Hammerer, M. Wallquist, C. Genes, M. Ludwig, F. Marquardt, P. Treutlein, P. Zoller, J. Ye, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063005 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Nanowire Quantum Dots as an Ideal Source of Entangled Photon Pairs

Ranber Singh and Gabriel Bester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063601 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Plasmon-Induced Enhancement of Quantum Interference near Metallic Nanostructures

Vassilios Yannopapas, Emmanuel Paspalakis, and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063602 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Focusing of Second-Harmonic Signals with Nonlinear Metamaterial Lenses: A Biphotonic Microscopy Approach

Cristian Ciracì and Emmanuel Centeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063901 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Surface Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

Jan Peřina, Jr., Antonín Lukš, Ondřej Haderka, and Michael Scalora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063902 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Disorder-Induced Multiple Scattering in Photonic-Crystal Waveguides

S. Mazoyer, J. P. Hugonin, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 063903 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Induced Violation of Time-Reversal Invariance in the Regime of Weakly Overlapping Resonances

B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, J. Verbaarschot, and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064101 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Radial Wave Crystals: Radially Periodic Structures from Anisotropic Metamaterials for Engineering Acoustic or Electromagnetic Waves

Daniel Torrent and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064301 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Dissolution of a Liquid Microdroplet in a Nonideal Liquid-Liquid Mixture Far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium

Pietro Poesio, Gian Paolo Beretta, and Todd Thorsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064501 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Phase Randomization of Three-Wave Interactions in Capillary Waves

H. Punzmann, M. G. Shats, and H. Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064502 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-Ray Nanointerferometer Based on Si Refractive Bilenses

A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, V. Kohn, V. Yunkin, S. Kuznetsov, M. B. Grigoriev, T. Roth, G. Vaughan, and C. Detlefs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 064801 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Cross-Field Motion of Plasma Blobs in an Open Magnetic Field Line Configuration

C. Theiler, I. Furno, P. Ricci, A. Fasoli, B. Labit, S. H. Müller, and G. Plyushchev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065001 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Interplay between Gyrokinetic Turbulence, Flows, and Collisions: Perspectives on Transport and Poloidal Rotation

G. Dif-Pradalier, V. Grandgirard, Y. Sarazin, X. Garbet, and Ph. Ghendrih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065002 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Rotation Drive and Momentum Transport with Electron Cyclotron Heating in Tokamak Plasmas

M. Yoshida, Y. Sakamoto, H. Takenaga, S. Ide, N. Oyama, T. Kobayashi, and Y. Kamada (the JT-60 Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065003 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Transition from collisional to kinetic regimes in large-scale reconnection layers

W. Daughton, V. Roytershteyn, B. J. Albright, H. Karimabadi, L. Yin, and Kevin J. Bowers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065004 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Nonlinear Collisional Absorption of Laser Light in Dense Strongly Coupled Plasmas

A. Grinenko and D. O. Gericke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065005 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Signature of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Phase in the Collective Modes of a Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas

Jonathan M. Edge and N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065301 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Rate-Dependent Avalanche Size in Athermally Sheared Amorphous Solids

Anaël Lemaître and Christiane Caroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065501 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Temperature Stabilized Surface Reconstructions at Polar ZnO(0001)

Markus Valtiner, Mira Todorova, Guido Grundmeier, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065502 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

High-Pressure Behavior of Perovskite: ${FeTiO}_{3}$ Dissociation into $({Fe}_{1 - δ}, {Ti}_{δ}) O$ and ${Fe}_{1 + δ} {Ti}_{2 - δ} O_{5}$

X. Wu, G. Steinle-Neumann, O. Narygina, I. Kantor, C. McCammon, V. Prakapenka, V. Swamy, and L. Dubrovinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065503 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Thermodynamic Origins of Shear Band Formation and the Universal Scaling Law of Metallic Glass Strength

Y. H. Liu, C. T. Liu, W. H. Wang, A. Inoue, T. Sakurai, and M. W. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065504 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Glissile Dislocations with Transient Cores in Silicon

Laurent Pizzagalli, Julien Godet, and Sandrine Brochard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065505 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Novel Pressure-Induced Interactions in Silane-Hydrogen

Timothy A. Strobel, Maddury Somayazulu, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 065701 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Semiclassical Ground-State Energies of Many-Electron Systems

Brian R. Landry, Adam Wasserman, and Eric J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066401 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Exciton Condensation and Charge Fractionalization in a Topological Insulator Film

B. Seradjeh, J. E. Moore, and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066402 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Optical Modulation of Effective On-Site Coulomb Energy for the Mott Transition in an Organic Dimer Insulator

Y. Kawakami, S. Iwai, T. Fukatsu, M. Miura, N. Yoneyama, T. Sasaki, and N. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066403 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Hopping Modulation in a One-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian

Francesco Massel, Mikko J. Leskinen, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066404 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Analysis of the Antiferromagnetic Phase Transitions of the 2D Kondo Lattice

T. Tzen Ong and B. A. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066405 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Sign Inversion of Magnetoresistance in Space-Charge Limited Organic Devices

F. L. Bloom, M. Kemerink, W. Wagemans, and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066601 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Spin Torque and Waviness in Magnetic Multilayers: A Bridge between Valet-Fert Theory and Quantum Approaches

Valentin S. Rychkov, Simone Borlenghi, Henri Jaffres, Albert Fert, and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066602 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Microscopic Description of a Quantum Hall Transition Without Landau Levels

V. V. Mkhitaryan, V. Kagalovsky, and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066801 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Origins of Distinctly Different Behaviors of Pd and Pt Contacts on Graphene

Q. J. Wang and J. G. Che

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066802 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Threshold Voltage and Space Charge in Organic Transistors

I. Gutiérrez Lezama and A. F. Morpurgo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 066803 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Doping Driven ( $π$ , 0) Nesting and Magnetic Properties of ${Fe}_{1 + x} Te$ Superconductors

Myung Joon Han and Sergey Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067001 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Specific-Heat Measurement of a Residual Superconducting State in the Normal State of Underdoped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$ Cuprate Superconductors

Hai-Hu Wen, Gang Mu, Huiqian Luo, Huan Yang, Lei Shan, Cong Ren, Peng Cheng, Jing Yan, and Lei Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067002 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Dependence of Band-Renormalization Effects on the Number of Copper Oxide Layers in Tl-Based Copper Oxide Superconductors Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

W. S. Lee, K. Tanaka, I. M. Vishik, D. H. Lu, R. G. Moore, H. Eisaki, A. Iyo, T. P. Devereaux, and Z. X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067003 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Revision of Model Parameters for $κ$ -Type Charge Transfer Salts: An Ab Initio Study

Hem C. Kandpal, Ingo Opahle, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Harald O. Jeschke, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067004 (2009) - Published 4 August, 2009

Circular Dichroism in the Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectrum of the High-Temperature ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor: Can These Measurements Be Interpreted as Evidence for Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking?

V. Arpiainen, A. Bansil, and M. Lindroos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067005 (2009) - Published 5 August, 2009

Crossed Andreev Reflection and Charge Imbalance in Diffusive Normal-Superconducting-Normal Structures

Dmitri S. Golubev, Mikhail S. Kalenkov, and Andrei D. Zaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067006 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Symmetry-Induced Giant Vortex State in a Superconducting Pb Film with a Fivefold Penrose Array of Magnetic Pinning Centers

R. B. G. Kramer, A. V. Silhanek, J. Van de Vondel, B. Raes, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067007 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Spin Gap and Resonance at the Nesting Wave Vector in Superconducting ${FeSe}_{0.4} {Te}_{0.6}$

Yiming Qiu, Wei Bao, Y. Zhao, Collin Broholm, V. Stanev, Z. Tesanovic, Y. C. Gasparovic, S. Chang, Jin Hu, Bin Qian, Minghu Fang, and Zhiqiang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067008 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Measurement of Conduction-Electron Polarization via the Pairing Resonance

Y. M. Xiong, P. W. Adams, and G. Catelani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067009 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Superconductivity and Field-Induced Magnetism in ${SrFe}_{1.75} {Co}_{0.25} {As}_{2}$

R. Khasanov, A. Maisuradze, H. Maeter, A. Kwadrin, H. Luetkens, A. Amato, W. Schnelle, H. Rosner, A. Leithe-Jasper, and H.-H. Klauss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067010 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Imaging of Order Parameter Induced $π$ Phase Shifts in Cuprate Superconductors by Low-Temperature Scanning Electron Microscopy

Christian Gürlich, Edward Goldobin, Rainer Straub, Dietmar Doenitz, Ariando, Henk-Jan H. Smilde, Hans Hilgenkamp, Reinhold Kleiner, and Dieter Koelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 067011 (2009) - Published 7 August, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Excess of Proton Mean Kinetic Energy in Supercooled Water”

A. K. Soper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 069801 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

Pietropaolo et al. Reply:

A. Pietropaolo, R. Senesi, C. Andreani, A. Botti, M. A. Ricci, and F. Bruni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 069802 (2009) - Published 3 August, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Phase Transitions towards Criticality in a Neural System with Adaptive Interactions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 118110 (2009)]

Anna Levina, J. Michael Herrmann, and Theo Geisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 069901 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009

Erratum: Large Surface Charge Density Oscillations Induced by Subsurface Phonon Resonances [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 206102 (2008)]

V. Chis, B. Hellsing, G. Benedek, M. Bernasconi, E. V. Chulkov, and J. P. Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 069902 (2009) - Published 6 August, 2009