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Volume 104, Issue 15

16 April 2010
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Density (top) and phase (bottom) distributions of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate passing an obstacle.

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Bénard–von Kármán Vortex Street in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Kazuki Sasaki, Naoya Suzuki, and Hiroki Saito
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150404 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Halo-Shape and Relic-Density Exclusions of Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Explanations of Cosmic Ray Excesses

Jonathan L. Feng, Manoj Kaplinghat, and Hai-Bo Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 151301 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

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Effect of Polymer Additives on the Wetting of Impacting Droplets

M. I. Smith and V. Bertola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 154502 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

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Naturally Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation in a Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonator

J. U. Fürst, D. V. Strekalov, D. Elser, M. Lassen, U. L. Andersen, C. Marquardt, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153901 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

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Retinal Glial Cells Enhance Human Vision Acuity

A. M. Labin and E. N. Ribak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158102 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

LETTERS

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

Beyond Spontaneously Broken Symmetry in Bose-Einstein Condensates

W. J. Mullin and F. Laloë

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150401 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing of de Broglie Waves: Beyond Optics

V. Krachmalnicoff, J.-C. Jaskula, M. Bonneau, V. Leung, G. B. Partridge, D. Boiron, C. I. Westbrook, P. Deuar, P. Ziń, M. Trippenbach, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150402 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Geometric Potential and Transport in Photonic Topological Crystals

Alexander Szameit, Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, and Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150403 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Bénard–von Kármán Vortex Street in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Kazuki Sasaki, Naoya Suzuki, and Hiroki Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150404 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Metastable States and Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a Cold-Atom Josephson Ring

Dmitry Solenov and Dmitry Mozyrsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150405 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Nonperturbative Renormalization Group for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

Léonie Canet, Hugues Chaté, Bertrand Delamotte, and Nicolás Wschebor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 150601 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Halo-Shape and Relic-Density Exclusions of Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Explanations of Cosmic Ray Excesses

Jonathan L. Feng, Manoj Kaplinghat, and Hai-Bo Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 151301 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Monte Carlo Studies of Matrix Theory Correlation Functions

Masanori Hanada, Jun Nishimura, Yasuhiro Sekino, and Tamiaki Yoneya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 151601 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Search for the Associated Production of a b Quark and a Neutral Supersymmetric Higgs Boson that Decays into τ Pairs

V. M. Abazov et al. (The DØ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 151801 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation in Narrow Υ Decays

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 151802 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Deflection of Field-Free Aligned Molecules

E. Gershnabel and I. Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153001 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Resonance Scattering in Optical Lattices and Molecules: Interband versus Intraband Effects

Xiaoling Cui, Yupeng Wang, and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153201 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Scattering in Mixed Dimensions with Ultracold Gases

G. Lamporesi, J. Catani, G. Barontini, Y. Nishida, M. Inguscio, and F. Minardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153202 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Confinement-Induced Resonances in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Elmar Haller, Manfred J. Mark, Russell Hart, Johann G. Danzl, Lukas Reichsöllner, Vladimir Melezhik, Peter Schmelcher, and Hanns-Christoph Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153203 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Single Photon Double Ionization of the Helium Dimer

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, A. Malakzadeh, N. Sisourat, W. Schöllkopf, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. E. Grisenti, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153401 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Quasieigenstate Coalescence in an Atom-Cavity Quantum Composite

Youngwoon Choi, Sungsam Kang, Sooin Lim, Wookrae Kim, Jung-Ryul Kim, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Kyungwon An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153601 (2010) - Published 13 April, 2010

Discrete Single-Photon Quantum Walks with Tunable Decoherence

M. A. Broome, A. Fedrizzi, B. P. Lanyon, I. Kassal, A. Aspuru-Guzik, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153602 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Naturally Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation in a Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonator

J. U. Fürst, D. V. Strekalov, D. Elser, M. Lassen, U. L. Andersen, C. Marquardt, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153901 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Carbon Nanotubes in a Photonic Metamaterial

Andrey E. Nikolaenko, Francesco De Angelis, Stuart A. Boden, Nikitas Papasimakis, Peter Ashburn, Enzo Di Fabrizio, and Nikolay I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 153902 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Nonlocality-Induced Front-Interaction Enhancement

L. Gelens, D. Gomila, G. Van der Sande, M. A. Matías, and P. Colet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 154101 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Thermal Rectification through Vacuum

Clayton R. Otey, Wah Tung Lau (留華東), and Shanhui Fan (范汕洄)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 154301 (2010) - Published 13 April, 2010

Lagrangian and Eulerian Velocity Structure Functions in Hydrodynamic Turbulence

K. P. Zybin and V. A. Sirota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 154501 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

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Effect of Polymer Additives on the Wetting of Impacting Droplets

M. I. Smith and V. Bertola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 154502 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Preservation of Beam Emittance in the Presence of Ion Motion in Future High-Energy Plasma-Wakefield-Based Colliders

R. Gholizadeh, T. Katsouleas, P. Muggli, C. Huang, and W. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 155001 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Twin Motion Faster Than the Speed of Sound

Eilon Faran and Doron Shilo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 155501 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Embrittlement of Metal by Solute Segregation-Induced Amorphization

Hsiu-Pin Chen, Rajiv K. Kalia, Efthimios Kaxiras, Gang Lu, Aiichiro Nakano, Ken-ichi Nomura, Adri C. T. van Duin, Priya Vashishta, and Zaoshi Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 155502 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Vibrational Properties of α- and σ-Phase Fe-Cr Alloy

S. M. Dubiel, J. Cieslak, W. Sturhahn, M. Sternik, P. Piekarz, S. Stankov, and K. Parlinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 155503 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Highest-Occupied-Molecular-Orbital Band Dispersion of Rubrene Single Crystals as Observed by Angle-Resolved Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Shin-ichi Machida, Yasuo Nakayama, Steffen Duhm, Qian Xin, Akihiro Funakoshi, Naoki Ogawa, Satoshi Kera, Nobuo Ueno, and Hisao Ishii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156401 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Forcing Ferromagnetic Coupling Between Rare-Earth-Metal and 3d Ferromagnetic Films

Biplab Sanyal, Carolin Antoniak, Till Burkert, Bernhard Krumme, Anne Warland, Frank Stromberg, Christian Praetorius, Kai Fauth, Heiko Wende, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156402 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

z=3 Antiferromagnetic Quantum Criticality Driven by the Kondo Effect

Ki-Seok Kim and Chenglong Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156403 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Disentangling Entanglement Spectra of Fractional Quantum Hall States on Torus Geometries

Andreas M. Läuchli, Emil J. Bergholtz, Juha Suorsa, and Masudul Haque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156404 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Antibunching of Thermal Radiation by a Room-Temperature Phonon Bath: A Numerically Solvable Model for a Strongly Interacting Light-Matter-Reservoir System

Alexander Carmele, Marten Richter, Weng W. Chow, and Andreas Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156801 (2010) - Published 13 April, 2010

Josephson Light-Emitting Diode

Patrik Recher, Yuli V. Nazarov, and Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156802 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Dynamical Screening and Excitonic Instability in Bilayer Graphene

Rahul Nandkishore and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156803 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Strong Correlations in Highly Electron-Doped Zn(II)-DNA Complexes

Aleš Omerzu, Bernarda Anželak, Iztok Turel, Janez Štrancar, Anton Potočnik, Denis Arčon, Iztok Arčon, Dragan Mihailović, and Hiroshi Matsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156804 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Direct Spectroscopic Evidence of Spin-Dependent Hybridization between Rashba-Split Surface States and Quantum-Well States

Ke He, Yasuo Takeichi, Manami Ogawa, Taichi Okuda, P. Moras, D. Topwal, Ayumi Harasawa, Toru Hirahara, C. Carbone, Akito Kakizaki, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156805 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Guided Plasmons in Graphene p−n Junctions

E. G. Mishchenko, A. V. Shytov, and P. G. Silvestrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156806 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Dynamical Response and Confinement of the Electrons at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface

A. Dubroka, M. Rössle, K. W. Kim, V. K. Malik, L. Schultz, S. Thiel, C. W. Schneider, J. Mannhart, G. Herranz, O. Copie, M. Bibes, A. Barthélémy, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 156807 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Orbital-Fluctuation-Mediated Superconductivity in Iron Pnictides: Analysis of the Five-Orbital Hubbard-Holstein Model

Hiroshi Kontani and Seiichiro Onari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157001 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

Towards a Two-Dimensional Superconducting State of La2−xSrxCuO4 in a Moderate External Magnetic Field

A. A. Schafgans, A. D. LaForge, S. V. Dordevic, M. M. Qazilbash, W. J. Padilla, K. S. Burch, Z. Q. Li, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157002 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Measuring Renyi Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Matthew B. Hastings, Iván González, Ann B. Kallin, and Roger G. Melko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157201 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Non-Markovian Model of Photon-Assisted Dephasing by Electron-Phonon Interactions in a Coupled Quantum-Dot–Cavity System

P. Kaer, T. R. Nielsen, P. Lodahl, A.-P. Jauho, and J. Mørk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157401 (2010) - Published 13 April, 2010

Spontaneous Formation of Surface Antisite Defects in the Stabilization of the Sb-Rich GaSb(001) Surface

Conor Hogan, Rita Magri, and Rodolfo Del Sole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157402 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Challenge to the Charging Model of Semiconductor-Nanocrystal Fluorescence Intermittency from Off-State Quantum Yields and Multiexciton Blinking

Jing Zhao, Gautham Nair, Brent R. Fisher, and Moungi G. Bawendi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157403 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Transient Fluorescence of the Off State in Blinking CdSe/CdS/ZnS Semiconductor Nanocrystals Is Not Governed by Auger Recombination

Shamir Rosen, Osip Schwartz, and Dan Oron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157404 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Thermodynamically Stable Blue Phases

F. Castles, S. M. Morris, E. M. Terentjev, and H. J. Coles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 157801 (2010) - Published 13 April, 2010

Surface Instability Driven by Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Granular Layer

Daniel Lopez and François Pétrélis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158001 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Helix-Coil Kinetics of Individual Polyadenylic Acid Molecules in a Protein Channel

Jianxun Lin, Anatoly Kolomeisky, and Amit Meller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158101 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

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Retinal Glial Cells Enhance Human Vision Acuity

A. M. Labin and E. N. Ribak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158102 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Transient Localized Patterns in Noise-Driven Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Inbal Hecht, David A. Kessler, and Herbert Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158301 (2010) - Published 14 April, 2010

Light-Harvesting Mechanism of Bacteria Exploits a Critical Interplay between the Dynamics of Transport and Trapping

Felipe Caycedo-Soler, Ferney J. Rodríguez, Luis Quiroga, and Neil F. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158302 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Multiple-Time Scaling and Universal Behavior of the Earthquake Interevent Time Distribution

M. Bottiglieri, L. de Arcangelis, C. Godano, and E. Lippiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 158501 (2010) - Published 15 April, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Time Modulation of the K-Shell Electron Capture Decay Rates of H-like Heavy Ions at GSI Experiments”

V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159201 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Ivanov and Kienle Reply:

A. N. Ivanov and P. Kienle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159202 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Comment on “Time Modulation of the K-Shell Electron Capture Decay Rates of H-like Heavy Ions at GSI Experiments”

Harry J. Lipkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159203 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

Ivanov and Kienle Reply:

A. N. Ivanov and P. Kienle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159204 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

ERRATA

Erratum: Measurement of σ(e+e−→ψ(3770)→hadrons) at Ec.m.=3773  MeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092002 (2006)]

D. Besson et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159901 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Erratum: Effective Slip over Superhydrophobic Surfaces in Thin Channels [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 026001 (2009)]

François Feuillebois, Martin Z. Bazant, and Olga I. Vinogradova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159902 (2010) - Published 12 April, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Nuclear Forward Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation in Pulsed High Magnetic Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 087601 (2010)]

C. Strohm, P. Van der Linden, and R. Rüffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 159903 (2010) - Published 16 April, 2010

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