Volume 104, Issue 13

2 April 2010

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Laser-cooled atoms spiral to the surface of a carbon nanotube charged to hundreds of volts. A captured atom's valence electron (yellow) tunnels into the tube. The resultant ion (purple) is subsequently ejected and detected. Selected by the Editors for a PRL Suggestion.

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Field Ionization of Cold Atoms near the Wall of a Single Carbon Nanotube
Anne Goodsell, Trygve Ristroph, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133002 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Experiment with HELIOS: The Structure of ${}^{13}B$

B. B. Back, S. I. Baker, B. A. Brown, C. M. Deibel, S. J. Freeman, B. J. DiGiovine, C. R. Hoffman, B. P. Kay, H. Y. Lee, J. C. Lighthall, S. T. Marley, R. C. Pardo, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Schiffer, D. V. Shetty, A. W. Vann, J. Winkelbauer, and A. H. Wuosmaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132501 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

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Field Ionization of Cold Atoms near the Wall of a Single Carbon Nanotube

Anne Goodsell, Trygve Ristroph, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133002 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

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Backaction Amplification and Quantum Limits in Optomechanical Measurements

P. Verlot, A. Tavernarakis, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, and A. Heidmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133602 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

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Observation of Dirac Cone Electronic Dispersion in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

P. Richard, K. Nakayama, T. Sato, M. Neupane, Y.-M. Xu, J. H. Bowen, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, H. Ding, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 137001 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

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Observation of Spin-Triplet Superconductivity in Co-Based Josephson Junctions

Trupti S. Khaire, Mazin A. Khasawneh, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 137002 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

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Enhanced Production of Direct Photons in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ and Implications for the Initial Temperature

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132301 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

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Gaussian Approximation Potentials: The Accuracy of Quantum Mechanics, without the Electrons

Albert P. Bartók, Mike C. Payne, Risi Kondor, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136403 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

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Extended van Hove Singularity and Superconducting Instability in Doped Graphene

J. L. McChesney, Aaron Bostwick, Taisuke Ohta, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, J. González, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136803 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

LETTERS

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

Dicke-Model Phase Transition in the Quantum Motion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Cavity

D. Nagy, G. Kónya, G. Szirmai, and P. Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 130401 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Near-Optimal Dynamical Decoupling of a Qubit

Jacob R. West, Bryan H. Fong, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 130501 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Entanglement Spectrum of Topological Insulators and Superconductors

Lukasz Fidkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 130502 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black Holes in an Expanding Universe

Gary W. Gibbons and Kei-ichi Maeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 131101 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

First Measurement of the $b$ -Jet Cross Section in Events with a $W$ Boson in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 131801 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Jet Tomography of High-Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at Next-to-Leading Order

Ivan Vitev and Ben-Wei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132001 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

Measurements of $h_{c} ({}^{1}P_{1})$ in $ψ^{'}$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132002 (2010) - Published 30 March, 2010

Precise Charm to Strange Mass Ratio and Light Quark Masses from Full Lattice QCD

C. T. H. Davies, C. McNeile, K. Y. Wong, E. Follana, R. Horgan, K. Hornbostel, G. P. Lepage, J. Shigemitsu, and H. Trottier (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132003 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Adler Function, Bjorken Sum Rule, and the Crewther Relation to Order $α_{s}^{4}$ in a General Gauge Theory

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132004 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Charmed Baryonium

G. Cotugno, R. Faccini, A. D. Polosa, and C. Sabelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132005 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Nuclear Physics

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Enhanced Production of Direct Photons in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ and Implications for the Initial Temperature

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132301 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

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First Experiment with HELIOS: The Structure of ${}^{13}B$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132501 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Indication of a Deeply Bound and Compact $K^{-} p p$ State Formed in the $p p \to p Λ K^{+}$ Reaction at 2.85 GeV

T. Yamazaki et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132502 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Control of Angular Momentum Transfer in Resonant Two-Photon Light-Matter Interaction

D. A. Malik, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, and W. J. van der Zande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133001 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

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Field Ionization of Cold Atoms near the Wall of a Single Carbon Nanotube

Anne Goodsell, Trygve Ristroph, J. A. Golovchenko, and Lene Vestergaard Hau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133002 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Landau-Zener Transitions in Frozen Pairs of Rydberg Atoms

Nicolas Saquet, Anne Cournol, Jérôme Beugnon, Jacques Robert, Pierre Pillet, and Nicolas Vanhaecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133003 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Interatomic Coulombic Decay following Photoionization of the Helium Dimer: Observation of Vibrational Structure

T. Havermeier, T. Jahnke, K. Kreidi, R. Wallauer, S. Voss, M. Schöffler, S. Schössler, L. Foucar, N. Neumann, J. Titze, H. Sann, M. Kühnel, J. Voigtsberger, J. H. Morilla, W. Schöllkopf, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. E. Grisenti, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133401 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Quantum Noise Limited and Entanglement-Assisted Magnetometry

W. Wasilewski, K. Jensen, H. Krauter, J. J. Renema, M. V. Balabas, and E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133601 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

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Backaction Amplification and Quantum Limits in Optomechanical Measurements

P. Verlot, A. Tavernarakis, T. Briant, P.-F. Cohadon, and A. Heidmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133602 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Speckle Instability: Coherent Effects in Nonlinear Disordered Media

Benoît Grémaud and Thomas Wellens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133901 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Formation of Optical Bullets in Laser-Driven Plasma Bubble Accelerators

Peng Dong, S. A. Reed, S. A. Yi, S. Kalmykov, G. Shvets, M. C. Downer, N. H. Matlis, W. P. Leemans, C. McGuffey, S. S. Bulanov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, K. Krushelnick, A. Maksimchuk, T. Matsuoka, A. G. R. Thomas, and V. Yanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 134801 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

Electron Vacuum Acceleration in a Regime beyond Brunel Absorption

J. P. Geindre, R. S. Marjoribanks, and P. Audebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135001 (2010) - Published 30 March, 2010

Generalized Measurable Ignition Criterion for Inertial Confinement Fusion

PY. Chang, R. Betti, B. K. Spears, K. S. Anderson, J. Edwards, M. Fatenejad, J. D. Lindl, R. L. McCrory, R. Nora, and D. Shvarts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135002 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Unlimited Ion Acceleration by Radiation Pressure

S. V. Bulanov, E. Yu. Echkina, T. Zh. Esirkepov, I. N. Inovenkov, M. Kando, F. Pegoraro, and G. Korn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135003 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nucleation Antibunching in Catalyst-Assisted Nanowire Growth

Frank Glas, Jean-Christophe Harmand, and Gilles Patriarche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135501 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Size-Dependent Kinetics of Hydriding and Dehydriding of Pd Nanoparticles

Christoph Langhammer, Vladimir P. Zhdanov, Igor Zorić, and Bengt Kasemo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135502 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Microstructure versus Size: Mechanical Properties of Electroplated Single Crystalline Cu Nanopillars

Andrew T. Jennings, Michael J. Burek, and Julia R. Greer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135503 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Viscous Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiments at High Pressure and Strain Rate

Hye-Sook Park, K. T. Lorenz, R. M. Cavallo, S. M. Pollaine, S. T. Prisbrey, R. E. Rudd, R. C. Becker, J. V. Bernier, and B. A. Remington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 135504 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Mixed-Valency Signature in Vibrational Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy

Maite Alducin, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Andrés Arnau, and Nicolás Lorente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136101 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Structure Determination of the Coincidence Phase of Graphene on Ru(0001)

W. Moritz, B. Wang, M.-L. Bocquet, T. Brugger, T. Greber, J. Wintterlin, and S. Günther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136102 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Effects of Electronic and Lattice Polarization on the Band Structure of Delafossite Transparent Conductive Oxides

Julien Vidal, Fabio Trani, Fabien Bruneval, Miguel A. L. Marques, and Silvana Botti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136401 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

Mapping the Magnetostructural Quantum Phases of ${Mn}_{3} O_{4}$

M. Kim, X. M. Chen, Y. I. Joe, E. Fradkin, P. Abbamonte, and S. L. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136402 (2010) - Published 30 March, 2010

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Gaussian Approximation Potentials: The Accuracy of Quantum Mechanics, without the Electrons

Albert P. Bartók, Mike C. Payne, Risi Kondor, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136403 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Spin Bottleneck in Resonant Tunneling through Double Quantum Dots with Different Zeeman Splittings

S. M. Huang, Y. Tokura, H. Akimoto, K. Kono, J. J. Lin, S. Tarucha, and K. Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136801 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

Spectroscopic Measurement of Interlayer Screening in Multilayer Epitaxial Graphene

Dong Sun, Charles Divin, Claire Berger, Walt A. de Heer, Phillip N. First, and Theodore B. Norris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136802 (2010) - Published 1 April, 2010

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Extended van Hove Singularity and Superconducting Instability in Doped Graphene

J. L. McChesney, Aaron Bostwick, Taisuke Ohta, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, J. González, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136803 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Extra Spin-Wave Mode in Quantum Hall Systems: Beyond the Skyrmion Limit

I. K. Drozdov, L. V. Kulik, A. S. Zhuravlev, V. E. Kirpichev, I. V. Kukushkin, S. Schmult, and W. Dietsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136804 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Mapping Heat Origin in Plasmonic Structures

Guillaume Baffou, Christian Girard, and Romain Quidant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 136805 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

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Observation of Dirac Cone Electronic Dispersion in ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

P. Richard, K. Nakayama, T. Sato, M. Neupane, Y.-M. Xu, J. H. Bowen, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, H. Ding, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 137001 (2010) - Published 29 March, 2010

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Pressure-Dependent Metallic and Superconducting Phases in a Germanium Artificial Metal”

Dafang Li, Yanming Ma, and Jun Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 139701 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

Cui et al. Reply:

H. B. Cui, D. Graf, J. S. Brooks, and H. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 139702 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Classical Bound for Mach-Zehnder Superresolution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 123602 (2010)]

I. Afek, O. Ambar, and Y. Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 139901 (2010) - Published 31 March, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Zero Lag Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with Time Delayed Couplings [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 114102 (2010)]

A. Englert, W. Kinzel, Y. Aviad, M. Butkovski, I. Reidler, M. Zigzag, I. Kanter, and M. Rosenbluh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 139902 (2010) - Published 2 April, 2010