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Volume 103, Issue 8

21 August 2009
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A focused electron beam removes atoms from individual sites of an optical lattice. Selected for Editors' Suggestions.

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Experimental Demonstration of Single-Site Addressability in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice
Peter Würtz, Tim Langen, Tatjana Gericke, Andreas Koglbauer, and Herwig Ott
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080404 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of Single-Site Addressability in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Peter Würtz, Tim Langen, Tatjana Gericke, Andreas Koglbauer, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080404 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Solution to the Arrow-of-Time Dilemma

Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080401 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

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Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity at Four Loops

Z. Bern, J. J. M. Carrasco, L. J. Dixon, H. Johansson, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081301 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

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Analogue Hawking Radiation in a dc-SQUID Array Transmission Line

P. D. Nation, M. P. Blencowe, A. J. Rimberg, and E. Buks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087004 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Linear Continuum Mechanics for Quantum Many-Body Systems

Jianmin Tao, Xianlong Gao, G. Vignale, and I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086401 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic Phase Locking of Swimming Microorganisms

Gwynn J. Elfring and Eric Lauga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 088101 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

LETTERS

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

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Quantum Solution to the Arrow-of-Time Dilemma

Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080401 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Probing Minicharged Particles with Tests of Coulomb’s Law

Joerg Jaeckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080402 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Microscopic Theory of the Andreev Gap

Tobias Micklitz and Alexander Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080403 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of Single-Site Addressability in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Peter Würtz, Tim Langen, Tatjana Gericke, Andreas Koglbauer, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080404 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Enhancing the Area of a Raman Atom Interferometer Using a Versatile Double-Diffraction Technique

T. Lévèque, A. Gauguet, F. Michaud, F. Pereira Dos Santos, and A. Landragin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080405 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Optical Kagome Lattice for Ultracold Atoms with Nearest Neighbor Interactions

J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080406 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

How Long Can a Quantum Memory Withstand Depolarizing Noise?

Fernando Pastawski, Alastair Kay, Norbert Schuch, and Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080501 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Quantum Adiabatic Brachistochrone

A. T. Rezakhani, W.-J. Kuo, A. Hamma, D. A. Lidar, and P. Zanardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080502 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Orientational Dynamics and Dielectric Response of Nanopore Water

Jürgen Köfinger and Christoph Dellago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080601 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Tuning the Shape of the Condensate in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

B. Waclaw, J. Sopik, W. Janke, and H. Meyer-Ortmanns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080602 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Mass of a Spin Vortex in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Ari M. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 080603 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Binary Black Holes’ Effects on Electromagnetic Fields

Carlos Palenzuela, Matthew Anderson, Luis Lehner, Steven L. Liebling, and David Neilsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081101 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Ultrahigh-Energy Photons as a Probe of Nearby Transient Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources and Possible Lorentz-Invariance Violation

Kohta Murase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081102 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

High-Energy Antiprotons from Old Supernova Remnants

Pasquale Blasi and Pasquale D. Serpico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081103 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Testing Astrophysical Models for the PAMELA Positron Excess with Cosmic Ray Nuclei

Philipp Mertsch and Subir Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081104 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity at Four Loops

Z. Bern, J. J. M. Carrasco, L. J. Dixon, H. Johansson, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081301 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Peccei-Quinn Mechanism in Gravity and the Nature of the Barbero-Immirzi Parameter

Simone Mercuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081302 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Cosmic Microwave Background Bispectrum from Primordial Magnetic Fields on Large Angular Scales

T. R. Seshadri and Kandaswamy Subramanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081303 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Sketching the Bethe-Salpeter Kernel

Lei Chang and Craig D. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081601 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Test of Lorentz Invariance with Spin Precession of Ultracold Neutrons

I. Altarev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081602 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Measurement of the Ratio of the νμ Charged-Current Single-Pion Production to Quasielastic Scattering with a 0.8 GeV Neutrino Beam on Mineral Oil

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081801 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Search for Dark Photons from Supersymmetric Hidden Valleys

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081802 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Search for Dimuon Decays of a Light Scalar Boson in Radiative Transitions Υ→γA0

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081803 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Vector Boson Production at Hadron Colliders: A Fully Exclusive QCD Calculation at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Stefano Catani, Leandro Cieri, Giancarlo Ferrera, Daniel de Florian, and Massimiliano Grazzini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 082001 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Measurement of Bottom Versus Charm as a Function of Transverse Momentum with Electron-Hadron Correlations in p+p Collisions at s=200  GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 082002 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Extraction of the Light Quark Mass Ratio from the Decays ψ′→J/ψπ0(η)

Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 082003 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Nuclear Physics

Neutron Properties in the Medium

I. C. Cloët, Gerald A. Miller, E. Piasetzky, and G. Ron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 082301 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Evolution of Nuclear Many-Body Forces with the Similarity Renormalization Group

E. D. Jurgenson, P. Navrátil, and R. J. Furnstahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 082501 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing CP Violation with the Electric Dipole Moment of Atomic Mercury

K. V. P. Latha, D. Angom, B. P. Das, and D. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083001 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Extremely Low-Frequency Spectroscopy in Low-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Giuseppe Pileio, Marina Carravetta, and Malcolm H. Levitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083002 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Conical Intersections in Laboratory Coordinates with Ultracold Molecules

Alisdair O. G. Wallis, S. A. Gardiner, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083201 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Ultracold Three-Body Collisions near Overlapping Feshbach Resonances

J. P. D’Incao and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083202 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Infrared to Ultraviolet Light Conversion in Laser-Cluster Interactions

A. M. Bystrov and V. B. Gildenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083401 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Dressed Collective Qubit States and the Tavis-Cummings Model in Circuit QED

J. M. Fink, R. Bianchetti, M. Baur, M. Göppl, L. Steffen, S. Filipp, P. J. Leek, A. Blais, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083601 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Holographic Ghost Imaging and the Violation of a Bell Inequality

B. Jack, J. Leach, J. Romero, S. Franke-Arnold, M. Ritsch-Marte, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 083602 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Superfluid Turbulence from Quantum Kelvin Wave to Classical Kolmogorov Cascades

Jeffrey Yepez, George Vahala, Linda Vahala, and Min Soe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 084501 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Lorentz Mapping of Magnetic Fields in Hot Dense Plasmas

R. D. Petrasso, C. K. Li, F. H. Seguin, J. R. Rygg, J. A. Frenje, R. Betti, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, P. A. Amendt, D. H. Froula, O. L. Landen, P. K. Patel, J. S. Ross, and R. P. J. Town

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085001 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Stability of a Shock-Decelerated Ablation Front

Y. Aglitskiy, M. Karasik, A. L. Velikovich, V. Serlin, J. L. Weaver, A. J. Schmitt, S. P. Obenschain, N. Metzler, S. T. Zalesak, J. H. Gardner, J. Oh, and E. C. Harding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085002 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

“Light Sail” Acceleration Reexamined

Andrea Macchi, Silvia Veghini, and Francesco Pegoraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085003 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Turbulent Transport of Trapped-Electron Modes in Collisionless Plasmas

Yong Xiao and Zhihong Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085004 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Simulating Dense QCD Matter with Ultracold Atomic Boson-Fermion Mixtures

Kenji Maeda, Gordon Baym, and Tetsuo Hatsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085301 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Drag Force on an Impurity below the Superfluid Critical Velocity in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate

Andrew G. Sykes, Matthew J. Davis, and David C. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085302 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Hydrogen-Vacancy Interactions in Fe-C Alloys

Paul R. Monasterio, Timothy T. Lau, Sidney Yip, and Krystyn J. Van Vliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085501 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Suppression of Friction by Mechanical Vibrations

Rosario Capozza, Andrea Vanossi, Alessandro Vezzani, and Stefano Zapperi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085502 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Direct Mapping of the Finite Temperature Phase Diagram of Strongly Correlated Quantum Models

Qi Zhou, Yasuyuki Kato, Naoki Kawashima, and Nandini Trivedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085701 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Dynamic Jamming Point for Shear Thickening Suspensions

Eric Brown and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086001 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Linear Continuum Mechanics for Quantum Many-Body Systems

Jianmin Tao, Xianlong Gao, G. Vignale, and I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086401 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Anisotropic Structure Deformation in the VO2 Metal-Insulator Transition

Jamie M. Booth and Philip S. Casey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086402 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Strong Coupling Theory for the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard Model

S. Schmidt and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086403 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Unconventional Pairing in Excitonic Condensates under Spin-Orbit Coupling

M. Ali Can and T. Hakioğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086404 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Controlling the Polarization Eigenstate of a Quantum Dot Exciton with Light

Thomas Belhadj, Claire-Marie Simon, Thierry Amand, Pierre Renucci, Beatrice Chatel, Olivier Krebs, Aristide Lemaître, Paul Voisin, Xavier Marie, and Bernhard Urbaszek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086601 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Carbon Nanoelectronics: Unzipping Tubes into Graphene Ribbons

H. Santos, L. Chico, and L. Brey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086801 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Structural and Electronic Properties of Oxidized Graphene

Jia-An Yan, Lede Xian, and M. Y. Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086802 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Coexistence of Competing Antiferromagnetic and Superconducting Phases in the Underdoped Ba(Fe0.953Co0.047)2As2 Compound Using X-ray and Neutron Scattering Techniques

D. K. Pratt, W. Tian, A. Kreyssig, J. L. Zarestky, S. Nandi, N. Ni, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087001 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Static and Dynamic Magnetism in Underdoped Superconductor BaFe1.92Co0.08As2

A. D. Christianson, M. D. Lumsden, S. E. Nagler, G. J. MacDougall, M. A. McGuire, A. S. Sefat, R. Jin, B. C. Sales, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087002 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Optimizing Anharmonicity in Nanoscale Weak Link Josephson Junction Oscillators

R. Vijay, J. D. Sau, Marvin L. Cohen, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087003 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

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Analogue Hawking Radiation in a dc-SQUID Array Transmission Line

P. D. Nation, M. P. Blencowe, A. J. Rimberg, and E. Buks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087004 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Transition from Three-Dimensional Anisotropic Spin Excitations to Two-Dimensional Spin Excitations by Electron Doping the FeAs-Based BaFe1.96Ni0.04As2 Superconductor

Leland W. Harriger, Astrid Schneidewind, Shiliang Li, Jun Zhao, Zhengcai Li, Wei Lu, Xiaoli Dong, Fang Zhou, Zhongxian Zhao, Jiangping Hu, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087005 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Coupled Magnetic and Ferroelectric Domains in Multiferroic Ni3V2O8

I. Cabrera, M. Kenzelmann, G. Lawes, Y. Chen, W. C. Chen, R. Erwin, T. R. Gentile, J. B. Leão, J. W. Lynn, N. Rogado, R. J. Cava, and C. Broholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087201 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Spin-Glass Transition at Nonzero Temperature in a Disordered Dipolar Ising System: The Case of LiHoxY1−xF4

Ka-Ming Tam and Michel J. P. Gingras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087202 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

All-Electrical Measurement of the Density of States in (Ga,Mn)As

D. Neumaier, M. Turek, U. Wurstbauer, A. Vogl, M. Utz, W. Wegscheider, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087203 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Resonant Pair Tunneling in Double Quantum Dots

Eran Sela and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087204 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Tuning Molecule-Mediated Spin Coupling in Bottom-Up-Fabricated Vanadium-Tetracyanoethylene Nanostructures

Daniel Wegner, Ryan Yamachika, Xiaowei Zhang, Yayu Wang, Tunna Baruah, Mark R. Pederson, Bart M. Bartlett, Jeffrey R. Long, and Michael F. Crommie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087205 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Proper Scaling of the Anomalous Hall Effect

Yuan Tian, Li Ye, and Xiaofeng Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087206 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Optical Manipulation of a Single Mn Spin in a CdTe-Based Quantum Dot

M. Goryca, T. Kazimierczuk, M. Nawrocki, A. Golnik, J. A. Gaj, P. Kossacki, P. Wojnar, and G. Karczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087401 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

X-Ray Absorption Spectra Reveal the Inapplicability of the Single-Band Hubbard Model to Overdoped Cuprate Superconductors

D. C. Peets, D. G. Hawthorn, K. M. Shen, Young-June Kim, D. S. Ellis, H. Zhang, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, G. A. Sawatzky, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087402 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Trapping Indirect Excitons in a GaAs Quantum-Well Structure with a Diamond-Shaped Electrostatic Trap

A. A. High, A. K. Thomas, G. Grosso, M. Remeika, A. T. Hammack, A. D. Meyertholen, M. M. Fogler, L. V. Butov, M. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087403 (2009) - Published 19 August, 2009

Are Volume Plasmons Excitable by Classical Light?

Katja Höflich, Ulrich Gösele, and Silke Christiansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087404 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Dephasing of Exciton Polaritons in Photoexcited InGaAs Quantum Dots in GaAs Nanocavities

A. Laucht, N. Hauke, J. M. Villas-Bôas, F. Hofbauer, G. Böhm, M. Kaniber, and J. J. Finley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087405 (2009) - Published 20 August, 2009

Optically Tunable Spontaneous Raman Fluorescence from a Single Self-Assembled InGaAs Quantum Dot

G. Fernandez, T. Volz, R. Desbuquois, A. Badolato, and A. Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087406 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Few-Photon Model of the Optical Emission of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Marten Richter, Alexander Carmele, Anna Sitek, and Andreas Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 087407 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic Phase Locking of Swimming Microorganisms

Gwynn J. Elfring and Eric Lauga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 088101 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Directed Percolation Criticality in Turbulent Liquid Crystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234503 (2007)]

Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masafumi Kuroda, Hugues Chaté, and Masaki Sano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 089901 (2009) - Published 17 August, 2009

Erratum: Weak Values and the Leggett-Garg Inequality in Solid-State Qubits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026804 (2008)]

Nathan S. Williams and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 089902 (2009) - Published 18 August, 2009

Erratum: Lagrangian-Eulerian Micromotion and Wave Heating in Nonlinear Self-Excited Dust-Acoustic Waves [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185004 (2008)]

Chen-Ting Liao, Lee-Wen Teng, Chen-Yu Tsai, Chong-Wai Io, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 089903 (2009) - Published 21 August, 2009

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