Volume 104, Issue 17

30 April 2010

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The Fermi surface (at two different energy levels) of the oxide PtCoO₂ is visualized as a large hexagonal electron cylinder, rotated 30° with respect to the Brillouin zone, with energy-dependent warping at corners.

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Unusual Transport and Strongly Anisotropic Thermopower in ${PtCoO}_{2}$ and ${PdCoO}_{2}$
Khuong P. Ong, David J. Singh, and Ping Wu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176601 (2010)

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New Mechanism for Quark Energy Loss

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Daniel Fernández, and David Mateos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 172301 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

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Production of a Fully Spin-Polarized Ensemble of Positronium Atoms

D. B. Cassidy, V. E. Meligne, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173401 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

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Role of Electronic Structure in the Martensitic Phase Transition of ${Ni}_{2} {Mn}_{1 + x} {Sn}_{1 - x}$ Studied by Hard-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculation

M. Ye, A. Kimura, Y. Miura, M. Shirai, Y. T. Cui, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, S. Ueda, K. Kobayashi, R. Kainuma, T. Shishido, K. Fukushima, and T. Kanomata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176401 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

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Atomic-Scale Control of Electron Transport through Single Molecules

Y. F. Wang, J. Kröger, R. Berndt, H. Vázquez, M. Brandbyge, and M. Paulsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176802 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

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Wave-Vector Dependence of Magnetic-Turbulence Spectra in the Solar Wind

Y. Narita, K.-H. Glassmeier, F. Sahraoui, and M. L. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 171101 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

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Continuous Quantum Phase Transition between an Antiferromagnet and a Valence-Bond Solid in Two Dimensions: Evidence for Logarithmic Corrections to Scaling

Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177201 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

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Berry-Phase-Induced Heat Pumping and Its Impact on the Fluctuation Theorem

Jie Ren (任捷), Peter Hänggi, and Baowen Li (李保文)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170601 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

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Unusual Transport and Strongly Anisotropic Thermopower in ${PtCoO}_{2}$ and ${PdCoO}_{2}$

Khuong P. Ong, David J. Singh, and Ping Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176601 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

LETTERS

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

Characterizing the Nonlocal Correlations Created via Entanglement Swapping

C. Branciard, N. Gisin, and S. Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170401 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Emergence of Canonical Ensembles from Pure Quantum States

Jaeyoon Cho and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170402 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Coherent Detection of Electron Dephasing

E. Strambini, L. Chirolli, V. Giovannetti, F. Taddei, R. Fazio, V. Piazza, and F. Beltram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170403 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Mesoscopic Ensembles of Polar Bosons in Triple-Well Potentials

T. Lahaye, T. Pfau, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170404 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Operator Space Theory: A Natural Framework for Bell Inequalities

M. Junge, C. Palazuelos, D. Pérez-García, I. Villanueva, and M. M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170405 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Adiabatic Perturbation Theory and Geometric Phases for Degenerate Systems

Gustavo Rigolin and Gerardo Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170406 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

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Berry-Phase-Induced Heat Pumping and Its Impact on the Fluctuation Theorem

Jie Ren (任捷), Peter Hänggi, and Baowen Li (李保文)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170601 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Influence of Noise on Force Measurements

Giovanni Volpe, Laurent Helden, Thomas Brettschneider, Jan Wehr, and Clemens Bechinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170602 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Paradoxes of Subdiffusive Infiltration in Disordered Systems

Nickolay Korabel and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 170603 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Wave-Vector Dependence of Magnetic-Turbulence Spectra in the Solar Wind

Y. Narita, K.-H. Glassmeier, F. Sahraoui, and M. L. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 171101 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Near-Threshold $Λ (1520)$ Production by the $\vec{γ} p \to K^{+} Λ (1520)$ Reaction at Forward $K^{+}$ Angles

H. Kohri et al. (LEPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 172001 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Nuclear Physics

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New Mechanism for Quark Energy Loss

Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Daniel Fernández, and David Mateos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 172301 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

State-Dependent Energy Shifts of Rydberg Atoms in a Ponderomotive Optical Lattice

K. C. Younge, B. Knuffman, S. E. Anderson, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173001 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Multiphoton Double Ionization of Ar and Ne Close to Threshold

Yunquan Liu, Difa Ye, Jie Liu, A. Rudenko, S. Tschuch, M. Dürr, M. Siegel, U. Morgner, Qihuang Gong, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173002 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

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Production of a Fully Spin-Polarized Ensemble of Positronium Atoms

D. B. Cassidy, V. E. Meligne, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173401 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Observation of Two-Photon Speckle Patterns

W. H. Peeters, J. J. D. Moerman, and M. P. van Exter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173601 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Coherent Population Trapping with Controlled Interparticle Interactions

H. Schempp, G. Günter, C. S. Hofmann, C. Giese, S. D. Saliba, B. D. DePaola, T. Amthor, M. Weidemüller, S. Sevinçli, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173602 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Light-Mode Condensation in Actively-Mode-Locked Lasers

Rafi Weill, Baruch Fischer, and Omri Gat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173901 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Effects of Spatial Coherence on the Angular Distribution of Radiant Intensity Generated by Scattering on a Sphere

Thomas van Dijk, David G. Fischer, Taco D. Visser, and Emil Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 173902 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Matter-Wave Dark Solitons: Stochastic versus Analytical Results

S. P. Cockburn, H. E. Nistazakis, T. P. Horikis, P. G. Kevrekidis, N. P. Proukakis, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 174101 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Test of “Crab-Waist” Collisions at the $DA Φ NE$ $Φ$ Factory

M. Zobov et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 174801 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Numerical Modeling of Edge-Localized-Mode Filaments on Divertor Plates Based on Thermoelectric Currents

A. Wingen, T. E. Evans, C. J. Lasnier, and K. H. Spatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 175001 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Space-Charge Modulation in Vacuum Microdiodes at THz Frequencies

Andreas Pedersen, Andrei Manolescu, and Ágúst Valfells

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 175002 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

In Situ Observations of a Secondary Magnetic Island in an Ion Diffusion Region and Associated Energetic Electrons

Rongsheng Wang, Quanming Lu, Aimin Du, and Shui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 175003 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Atomistic Simulation of Creep in a Nanocrystal

Timothy T. Lau, Akihiro Kushima, and Sidney Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 175501 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Radial Cracks in Perforated Thin Sheets

Romain Vermorel, Nicolas Vandenberghe, and Emmanuel Villermaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 175502 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Apparent Scarcity of Low-Density Polymorphs of Inorganic Solids

Martijn A. Zwijnenburg, Francesc Illas, and Stefan T. Bromley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 175503 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Role of Electronic Structure in the Martensitic Phase Transition of ${Ni}_{2} {Mn}_{1 + x} {Sn}_{1 - x}$ Studied by Hard-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculation

M. Ye, A. Kimura, Y. Miura, M. Shirai, Y. T. Cui, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, S. Ueda, K. Kobayashi, R. Kainuma, T. Shishido, K. Fukushima, and T. Kanomata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176401 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Transition from Heavy-Fermion to Mixed-Valence Behavior in ${Ce}_{1 - x} Y_{x} {Al}_{3}$ : A Quantitative Comparison with the Anderson Impurity Model

E. A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, I. L. Sashin, P. Riseborough, B. D. Rainford, D. T. Adroja, and J. M. Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176402 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Fermi Sea of Heavy Electrons (a Kondo Lattice) is Never a Fermi Liquid

Philip W. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176403 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Electronic Structure of Few-Layer Graphene: Experimental Demonstration of Strong Dependence on Stacking Sequence

Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176404 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

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Unusual Transport and Strongly Anisotropic Thermopower in ${PtCoO}_{2}$ and ${PdCoO}_{2}$

Khuong P. Ong, David J. Singh, and Ping Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176601 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Periodic Scarred States in Open Quantum Dots as Evidence of Quantum Darwinism

A. M. Burke, R. Akis, T. E. Day, Gil Speyer, D. K. Ferry, and B. R. Bennett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176801 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

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Atomic-Scale Control of Electron Transport through Single Molecules

Y. F. Wang, J. Kröger, R. Berndt, H. Vázquez, M. Brandbyge, and M. Paulsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176802 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Quantum Confinement by an Order-Disorder Boundary in Nanocrystalline Silicon

L. Bagolini, A. Mattoni, G. Fugallo, L. Colombo, E. Poliani, S. Sanguinetti, and E. Grilli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 176803 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Anomalous Noise in the Pseudogap Regime of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$

D. S. Caplan, V. Orlyanchik, M. B. Weissman, D. J. Van Harlingen, E. H. Fradkin, M. J. Hinton, and T. R. Lemberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177001 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Band Structure of the Heavily-Electron-Doped FeAs-Based $Ba (Fe, Co)_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductor Suppresses Antiferromagnetic Correlations

T. Sudayama, Y. Wakisaka, K. Takubo, R. Morinaga, T. J. Sato, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, and T. Mizokawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177002 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Interplay between Static and Dynamic Properties of Semifluxons in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ $0 − π$ Josephson Junctions

K. Cedergren, J. R. Kirtley, T. Bauch, G. Rotoli, A. Troeman, H. Hilgenkamp, F. Tafuri, and F. Lombardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177003 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

rf-SQUID-Mediated Coherent Tunable Coupling between a Superconducting Phase Qubit and a Lumped-Element Resonator

M. S. Allman, F. Altomare, J. D. Whittaker, K. Cicak, D. Li, A. Sirois, J. Strong, J. D. Teufel, and R. W. Simmonds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177004 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Novel High Pressure Structures and Superconductivity of $Ca {Li}_{2}$

Yu Xie, Artem R. Oganov, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177005 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Ab Initio Description of Disordered ${Sr}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Using the Coherent Potential Approximation

Jiji J. Pulikkotil and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177006 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

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Continuous Quantum Phase Transition between an Antiferromagnet and a Valence-Bond Solid in Two Dimensions: Evidence for Logarithmic Corrections to Scaling

Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177201 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Valence Bond Glass on an fcc Lattice in the Double Perovskite ${Ba}_{2} {YMoO}_{6}$

M. A. de Vries, A. C. Mclaughlin, and J.-W. G. Bos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177202 (2010) - Published 27 April, 2010

Valence Bond Glass Phase in Dilute Kagome Antiferromagnets

R. R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177203 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Magnetic Response of an Ultrathin Cobalt Film in Contact with an Organic Pentacene Layer

Yuet-Loy Chan, Ya-Jyuan Hung, Chia-Hao Wang, Ying-Chang Lin, Ching-Yuan Chiu, Yu-Ling Lai, Hsu-Ting Chang, Chih-Hao Lee, Y. J. Hsu, and D. H. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177204 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Detection of Qubit-Oscillator Entanglement in Nanoelectromechanical Systems

Thomas L. Schmidt, Kjetil Børkje, Christoph Bruder, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177205 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Theory of Electromagnons in the Multiferroic Mn Perovskites: The Vital Role of Higher Harmonic Components of the Spiral Spin Order

Masahito Mochizuki, Nobuo Furukawa, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177206 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Midinfrared Internal Exciton Transitions in Separated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Jigang Wang, Matt W. Graham, Yingzhong Ma, Graham R. Fleming, and Robert A. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177401 (2010) - Published 26 April, 2010

Tunable Band Gaps and Excitons in Doped Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes Made Possible by Acoustic Plasmons

Catalin D. Spataru and François Léonard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177402 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Solid-State Spin-Photon Quantum Interface without Spin-Orbit Coupling

Martin Claassen, Hakan E. Türeci, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177403 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Subnanosecond Geminate Charge Recombination in Polymer-Polymer Photovoltaic Devices

Justin M. Hodgkiss, Andrew R. Campbell, R. Alex Marsh, Akshay Rao, Sebastian Albert-Seifried, and Richard H. Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 177701 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Determination of Photoswitching Dynamics through Chiral Mapping of Single Molecules Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Matthew J. Comstock, David A. Strubbe, Luis Berbil-Bautista, Niv Levy, Jongweon Cho, Daniel Poulsen, Jean M. J. Fréchet, Steven G. Louie, and Michael F. Crommie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 178301 (2010) - Published 28 April, 2010

Theory of Dielectric Elastomers Capable of Giant Deformation of Actuation

Xuanhe Zhao and Zhigang Suo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 178302 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

Elastic Turbulence in Shear Banding Wormlike Micelles

M. A. Fardin, D. Lopez, J. Croso, G. Grégoire, O. Cardoso, G. H. McKinley, and S. Lerouge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 178303 (2010) - Published 30 April, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Inaccuracy of Density Functional Theory Calculations for Dihydrogen Binding Energetics onto Ca Cation Centers”

Youhwa Ohk, Yong-Hyun Kim, and Yousung Jung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 179601 (2010) - Published 29 April, 2010