Volume 103, Issue 9

28 August 2009

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Mixing and interleaving of layers of particles in a viscoelastic fluid driven by a background force. Particles originating from different quadrants are colored blue, green, red, and yellow.

From the article:

Transition to Mixing and Oscillations in a Stokesian Viscoelastic Flow
Becca Thomases and Michael Shelley
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 094501 (2009)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Single Top-Quark Production

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092001 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Observation of Electroweak Single Top-Quark Production

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092002 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Search for Stable Strange Quark Matter in Lunar Soil

K. Han, J. Ashenfelter, A. Chikanian, W. Emmet, L. E. Finch, A. Heinz, J. Madsen, R. D. Majka, B. Monreal, and J. Sandweiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092302 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Walk of a Trapped Ion in Phase Space

H. Schmitz, R. Matjeschk, Ch. Schneider, J. Glueckert, M. Enderlein, T. Huber, and T. Schaetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090504 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Solutions to Hořava Gravity

H. Lü, Jianwei Mei, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091301 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

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Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Steady-State Systems

J. Prost, J.-F. Joanny, and J. M. R. Parrondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090601 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Precursors with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms

Dong Wei, J. F. Chen, M. M. T. Loy, G. K. L. Wong, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093602 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

LETTERS

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

Laboratory Test of the Isotropy of Light Propagation at the $10^{- 17}$ Level

Ch. Eisele, A. Yu. Nevsky, and S. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090401 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Integral Relations for Three-Body Continuum States with the Adiabatic Expansion

P. Barletta, C. Romero-Redondo, A. Kievsky, M. Viviani, and E. Garrido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090402 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Time-Resolved Measurement of Landau-Zener Tunneling in Periodic Potentials

A. Zenesini, H. Lignier, G. Tayebirad, J. Radogostowicz, D. Ciampini, R. Mannella, S. Wimberger, O. Morsch, and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090403 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Error Threshold for Color Codes and Random Three-Body Ising Models

Helmut G. Katzgraber, H. Bombin, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090501 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Holonomic Quantum Computation in Subsystems

Ognyan Oreshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090502 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Quantifying Multipartite Nonlocality

Jean-Daniel Bancal, Cyril Branciard, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090503 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Walk of a Trapped Ion in Phase Space

H. Schmitz, R. Matjeschk, Ch. Schneider, J. Glueckert, M. Enderlein, T. Huber, and T. Schaetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090504 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Steady-State Systems

J. Prost, J.-F. Joanny, and J. M. R. Parrondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090601 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Condensation in Temporally Correlated Zero-Range Dynamics

Ori Hirschberg, David Mukamel, and Gunter M. Schütz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090602 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Ratchet Effects Induced by Terahertz Radiation in Heterostructures with a Lateral Periodic Potential

P. Olbrich, E. L. Ivchenko, R. Ravash, T. Feil, S. D. Danilov, J. Allerdings, D. Weiss, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, and S. D. Ganichev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090603 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Collisional Losses, Decoherence, and Frequency Shifts in Optical Lattice Clocks with Bosons

Ch. Lisdat, J. S. R. Vellore Winfred, T. Middelmann, F. Riehle, and U. Sterr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 090801 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Solutions to Hořava Gravity

H. Lü, Jianwei Mei, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091301 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

First Cosmological Constraints on Dark Energy from the Radial Baryon Acoustic Scale

Enrique Gaztañaga, Ramon Miquel, and Eusebio Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091302 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

How to Suppress the Shot Noise in Galaxy Surveys

Uroš Seljak, Nico Hamaus, and Vincent Desjacques

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091303 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Lenses in the Forest: Cross Correlation of the Lyman- $α$ Flux with Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing

Alberto Vallinotto, Sudeep Das, David N. Spergel, and Matteo Viel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091304 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Superconductor Vortices

Marc Montull, Alex Pomarol, and Pedro J. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091601 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Dynamics of Charged Events

Constantin Bachas, Claudio Bunster, and Marc Henneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091602 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Large Hadron Collider Probe of Supersymmetric Neutrinoless Double-Beta-Decay Mechanism

B. C. Allanach, C. H. Kom, and H. Päs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091801 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Pragmatic Approach to the Little Hierarchy Problem: The Case for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

Bohdan Grzadkowski and José Wudka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091802 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

First Observation of Vector Boson Pairs in a Hadronic Final State at the Tevatron Collider

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 091803 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Single Top-Quark Production

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092001 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Electroweak Single Top-Quark Production

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092002 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Probing the Infrared Quark Mass from Highly Excited Baryons

P. Bicudo, M. Cardoso, T. Van Cauteren, and Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092003 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Two-Photon Exchange in Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering: A QCD Factorization Approach

Nikolai Kivel and Marc Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092004 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Nuclear Physics

$K / π$ Fluctuations at Relativistic Energies

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092301 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Stable Strange Quark Matter in Lunar Soil

K. Han, J. Ashenfelter, A. Chikanian, W. Emmet, L. E. Finch, A. Heinz, J. Madsen, R. D. Majka, B. Monreal, and J. Sandweiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092302 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Possible Stimulation of Nuclear $α$ Decay by Superfluid Helium

A. L. Barabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092501 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Classical Aspects in Above-Threshold Ionization with a Midinfrared Strong Laser Field

W. Quan, Z. Lin, M. Wu, H. Kang, H. Liu, X. Liu, J. Chen, J. Liu, X. T. He, S. G. Chen, H. Xiong, L. Guo, H. Xu, Y. Fu, Y. Cheng, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093001 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Frequency Matching in Light-Storage Spectroscopy of Atomic Raman Transitions

Leon Karpa, Gor Nikoghosyan, Frank Vewinger, Michael Fleischhauer, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093601 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Precursors with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms

Dong Wei, J. F. Chen, M. M. T. Loy, G. K. L. Wong, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093602 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Gyrotropy of a Metamolecule: Wire on a Torus

N. Papasimakis, V. A. Fedotov, K. Marinov, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093901 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Observation of $P T$ -Symmetry Breaking in Complex Optical Potentials

A. Guo, G. J. Salamo, D. Duchesne, R. Morandotti, M. Volatier-Ravat, V. Aimez, G. A. Siviloglou, and D. N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 093902 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Time’s Barbed Arrow: Irreversibility, Crypticity, and Stored Information

James P. Crutchfield, Christopher J. Ellison, and John R. Mahoney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 094101 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Transition to Mixing and Oscillations in a Stokesian Viscoelastic Flow

Becca Thomases and Michael Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 094501 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Plasma and Beam Physics

Oblique Double Layers: A Comparison between Terrestrial and Auroral Measurements

C. Charles, R. W. Boswell, and R. Hawkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095001 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Characterizations of Low-Frequency Zonal Flow in the Edge Plasma of the HL-2A Tokamak

A. D. Liu, T. Lan, C. X. Yu, H. L. Zhao, L. W. Yan, W. Y. Hong, J. Q. Dong, K. J. Zhao, J. Qian, J. Cheng, X. R. Duan, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095002 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Observation of Narrow-Band Terahertz Coherent Cherenkov Radiation from a Cylindrical Dielectric-Lined Waveguide

A. M. Cook, R. Tikhoplav, S. Y. Tochitsky, G. Travish, O. B. Williams, and J. B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095003 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Enhanced Heat Flow in the Hydrodynamic Collisionless Regime

R. Meppelink, R. van Rooij, J. M. Vogels, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095301 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

$p$ -Wave Resonant Bose Gas: A Finite-Momentum Spinor Superfluid

Leo Radzihovsky and Sungsoo Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095302 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Structure of Amorphous Aluminum Oxide

Sung Keun Lee, Sung Bo Lee, Sun Young Park, Yoo Soo Yi, and Chi Won Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095501 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Radiation-Induced Premelting of Ice at Silica Interfaces

S. Schöder, H. Reichert, H. Schröder, M. Mezger, J. S. Okasinski, V. Honkimäki, J. Bilgram, and H. Dosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 095502 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Nanoscale Pit Formation at 2D Ge Layers on Si: Influence of Energy and Entropy

Konstantin Romanyuk, Jacek Brona, and Bert Voigtländer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096101 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Efficient Implementation of a van der Waals Density Functional: Application to Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Guillermo Román-Pérez and José M. Soler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096102 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Energetics and Dynamics of $H_{2}$ Adsorbed in a Nanoporous Material at Low Temperature

Lingzhu Kong, Guillermo Román-Pérez, José M. Soler, and David C. Langreth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096103 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Atom-By-Atom Quantum State Control in Adatom Chains on a Semiconductor

Stefan Fölsch, Jianshu Yang, Christophe Nacci, and Kiyoshi Kanisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096104 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Dispersed Forces from Measured Shape Anisotropy of Adatom Islands: Revelations from an Accelerated Simulation Scheme

Frits Rabbering, Abdelkader Kara, Herbert Wormeester, Teun Warnaar, Oleg Trushin, Talat. S. Rahman, and Bene Poelsema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096105 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Wave-Packet Dynamics in Chains with Delayed Electronic Nonlinear Response

F. A. B. F. de Moura, Iram Gléria, I. F. dos Santos, and M. L. Lyra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096401 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Large Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in Luttinger Liquids

Arti Garg, David Rasch, Efrat Shimshoni, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096402 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

First-Principles Simulations of Heavy Fermion Cerium Compounds Based on the Kondo Lattice

Munehisa Matsumoto, Myung Joon Han, Junya Otsuki, and Sergey Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096403 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Dynamics of the Formation and Decay of Coherence in a Polariton Condensate

E. del Valle, D. Sanvitto, A. Amo, F. P. Laussy, R. André, C. Tejedor, and L. Viña

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096404 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Acceptor Levels in $p$ -Type ${Cu}_{2} O$ : Rationalizing Theory and Experiment

David O. Scanlon, Benjamin J. Morgan, Graeme W. Watson, and Aron Walsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096405 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

Resonant Correlation-Induced Optical Bistability in an Electron System on Liquid Helium

Denis Konstantinov, M. I. Dykman, M. J. Lea, Yuriy Monarkha, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 096801 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Observation of a Novel Orbital Selective Mott Transition in ${Ca}_{1.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {RuO}_{4}$

M. Neupane, P. Richard, Z.-H. Pan, Y.-M. Xu, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, X. Dai, Z. Fang, Z. Wang, and H. Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097001 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Energy Decay in Superconducting Josephson-Junction Qubits from Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Excitations

John M. Martinis, M. Ansmann, and J. Aumentado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097002 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Enhancement of Superconductivity near the Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in UCoGe

E. Slooten, T. Naka, A. Gasparini, Y. K. Huang, and A. de Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097003 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Stabilization of Antiferromagnetic Order in FeO Nanolayers

S. Couet, K. Schlage, R. Rüffer, S. Stankov, Th. Diederich, B. Laenens, and R. Röhlsberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097201 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Direct Imaging of Nanoscale Phase Separation in ${La}_{0.55} {Ca}_{0.45} {MnO}_{3}$ : Relationship to Colossal Magnetoresistance

J. Tao, D. Niebieskikwiat, M. Varela, W. Luo, M. A. Schofield, Y. Zhu, M. B. Salamon, J. M. Zuo, S. T. Pantelides, and S. J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097202 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Orientation Dependence of the Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in hcp Cobalt

Eric Roman, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Ivo Souza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097203 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Low Ordered Magnetic Moment by Off-Diagonal Frustration in Undoped Parent Compounds to Iron-Based High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

J. P. Rodriguez and E. H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 097204 (2009) - Published 28 August, 2009

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Jumps between Macroscopic Quantum States of a Superconducting Qubit Coupled to a Microscopic Two-Level System [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 157001 (2008)]

Yang Yu, Shi-Liang Zhu, Guozhu Sun, Xueda Wen, Ning Dong, Jian Chen, Peiheng Wu, and Siyuan Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 099901 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Erratum: Why Does the Sun’s Torsional Oscillation Begin before the Sunspot Cycle? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 041102 (2009)]

Sagar Chakraborty, Arnab Rai Choudhuri, and Piyali Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 099902 (2009) - Published 24 August, 2009

Publisher’s Note: Collective States of Interacting Anyons, Edge States, and the Nucleation of Topological Liquids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 070401 (2009)]

Charlotte Gils, Eddy Ardonne, Simon Trebst, Andreas W. W. Ludwig, Matthias Troyer, and Zhenghan Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 099903 (2009) - Published 25 August, 2009

Erratum: Impact of Impurities on the Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Nanostructures: First-Principles Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 255502 (2009)]

T. M. Gibbons and S. K. Estreicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 099904 (2009) - Published 26 August, 2009

Erratum: Constraint on the Photino Mass from Cosmology [Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1419 (1983)]

H. Goldberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 099905 (2009) - Published 27 August, 2009

Volume 103, Issue 9

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

COMMENTS

ERRATA