Volume 104, Issue 18

7 May 2010

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Long-lived rotating current filament observed in a magnetically confined plasma at the JET tokamak. (Illustration by Paul Carman).

From the article:

Observation of Confined Current Ribbon in JET Plasmas
E. R. Solano et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185003 (2010)

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Ultrafast Fourier Transform with a Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Molecule

Kouichi Hosaka, Hiroyuki Shimada, Hisashi Chiba, Hiroyuki Katsuki, Yoshiaki Teranishi, Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki, and Kenji Ohmori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180501 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

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Superfast Laser Cooling

S. Machnes, M. B. Plenio, B. Reznik, A. M. Steane, and A. Retzker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183001 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

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Surface Josephson Plasma Waves in Layered Superconductors above the Plasma Frequency: Evidence for a Negative Index of Refraction

V. A. Golick, D. V. Kadygrob, V. A. Yampol’skii, A. L. Rakhmanov, B. A. Ivanov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187003 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

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Experiments on the Random Packing of Tetrahedral Dice

Alexander Jaoshvili, Andria Esakia, Massimo Porrati, and Paul M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185501 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

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Relativistic and Quantum Electrodynamics Effects in the Helium Pair Potential

M. Przybytek, W. Cencek, J. Komasa, G. Łach, B. Jeziorski, and K. Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183003 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

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Observation of a Cooperative Radiation Force in the Presence of Disorder

T. Bienaimé, S. Bux, E. Lucioni, Ph. W. Courteille, N. Piovella, and R. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183602 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

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Localized Instability on the Route to Disorder in Faraday Waves

Itamar Shani, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184507 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

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

Quantitative Determination of Temperature in the Approach to Magnetic Order of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice

R. Jördens, L. Tarruell, D. Greif, T. Uehlinger, N. Strohmaier, H. Moritz, T. Esslinger, L. De Leo, C. Kollath, A. Georges, V. Scarola, L. Pollet, E. Burovski, E. Kozik, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180401 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

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Ultrafast Fourier Transform with a Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Molecule

Kouichi Hosaka, Hiroyuki Shimada, Hisashi Chiba, Hiroyuki Katsuki, Yoshiaki Teranishi, Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki, and Kenji Ohmori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180501 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Entanglement Gap and a New Principle of Adiabatic Continuity

R. Thomale, A. Sterdyniak, N. Regnault, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180502 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Surface Code Quantum Communication

Austin G. Fowler, David S. Wang, Charles D. Hill, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Rodney Van Meter, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180503 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Purification of Single-Photon Entanglement

D. Salart, O. Landry, N. Sangouard, N. Gisin, H. Herrmann, B. Sanguinetti, C. Simon, W. Sohler, R. T. Thew, A. Thomas, and H. Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180504 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Implementing Arbitrary Phase Gates with Ising Anyons

Parsa Bonderson, David J. Clarke, Chetan Nayak, and Kirill Shtengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 180505 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Sign-Singularity of the Reduced Magnetic Helicity in the Solar Wind Plasma

V. Carbone, S. Perri, E. Yordanova, P. Veltri, R. Bruno, Y. Khotyaintsev, and M. André

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 181101 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

A Critical Mach Number for Electron Injection in Collisionless Shocks

Takanobu Amano and Masahiro Hoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 181102 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Scalar Curvature of a Causal Set

Dionigi M. T. Benincasa and Fay Dowker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 181301 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Consistent Extension of Hořava Gravity

D. Blas, O. Pujolàs, and S. Sibiryakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 181302 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Compact $z = 2$ Electrodynamics in $2 + 1$ Dimensions: Confinement with Gapless Modes

Sumit R. Das and Ganpathy Murthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 181601 (2010) - Published 5 May, 2010

Search for $C P$ Violation in the Decays $D_{(s)}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+}$ and $D_{(s)}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{+}$

B. R. Ko et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 181602 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Computation of the ${}^{17}F$ Proton Halo State and Resonances in $A = 17$ Nuclei

G. Hagen, T. Papenbrock, and M. Hjorth-Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 182501 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Superfast Laser Cooling

S. Machnes, M. B. Plenio, B. Reznik, A. M. Steane, and A. Retzker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183001 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

$H_{2}$ Superexcited States: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of their Competing Decay-Channel Fluorescence, Dissociation, and Ionization

M. Glass-Maujean, Ch. Jungen, H. Schmoranzer, A. Knie, I. Haar, R. Hentges, W. Kielich, K. Jänkälä, and A. Ehresmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183002 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

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Relativistic and Quantum Electrodynamics Effects in the Helium Pair Potential

M. Przybytek, W. Cencek, J. Komasa, G. Łach, B. Jeziorski, and K. Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183003 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Single Photons from Coupled Quantum Modes

T. C. H. Liew and V. Savona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183601 (2010) - Published 5 May, 2010

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Observation of a Cooperative Radiation Force in the Presence of Disorder

T. Bienaimé, S. Bux, E. Lucioni, Ph. W. Courteille, N. Piovella, and R. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183602 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Ultimate On-Chip Quantum Amplifier

O. V. Astafiev, A. A. Abdumalikov, Jr., A. M. Zagoskin, Yu. A. Pashkin, Y. Nakamura, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183603 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Shaping Biphoton Temporal Waveforms with Modulated Classical Fields

J. F. Chen, Shanchao Zhang, Hui Yan, M. M. T. Loy, G. K. L. Wong, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183604 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Talbot Effect

Yong Zhang, Jianming Wen, S. N. Zhu, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 183901 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Polymer Heat Transport Enhancement in Thermal Convection: The Case of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence

G. Boffetta, A. Mazzino, S. Musacchio, and L. Vozella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184501 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Large-Scale Collective Properties of Self-Propelled Rods

Francesco Ginelli, Fernando Peruani, Markus Bär, and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184502 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Insulator-to-Conducting Transition in Dense Fluid Helium

P. M. Celliers, P. Loubeyre, J. H. Eggert, S. Brygoo, R. S. McWilliams, D. G. Hicks, T. R. Boehly, R. Jeanloz, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184503 (2010) - Published 5 May, 2010

Tumbling Dynamics of Passive Flexible Wings

Daniel Tam, John W. M. Bush, Michael Robitaille, and Arshad Kudrolli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184504 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Clustering of Charged Inertial Particles in Turbulence

Jiang Lu, Hansen Nordsiek, Ewe Wei Saw, and Raymond A. Shaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184505 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Turbulence in More than Two and Less than Three Dimensions

Antonio Celani, Stefano Musacchio, and Dario Vincenzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184506 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

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Localized Instability on the Route to Disorder in Faraday Waves

Itamar Shani, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184507 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Combined Flux Compression and Plasma Opening Switch on the Saturn Pulsed Power Generator

Franklin S. Felber, Eduardo M. Waisman, and Michael G. Mazarakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185001 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Convective and Diffusive Energetic Particle Losses Induced by Shear Alfvén Waves in the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak

M. García-Muñoz, N. Hicks, R. van Voornveld, I. G. J. Classen, R. Bilato, V. Bobkov, M. Bruedgam, H.-U. Fahrbach, V. Igochine, S. Jaemsae, M. Maraschek, and K. Sassenberg (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185002 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Observation of Confined Current Ribbon in JET Plasmas

E. R. Solano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185003 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Experiments on the Random Packing of Tetrahedral Dice

Alexander Jaoshvili, Andria Esakia, Massimo Porrati, and Paul M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185501 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline NaCl Islands on Cu(111)

Ch. Bombis, F. Ample, J. Mielke, M. Mannsberger, C. J. Villagómez, Ch. Roth, C. Joachim, and L. Grill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185502 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

First-Principles Simulations of Lithium Melting: Stability of the bcc Phase Close to Melting

E. R. Hernández, A. Rodriguez-Prieto, A. Bergara, and D. Alfè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185701 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Fundamental High-Pressure Calibration from All-Electron Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations

K. P. Esler, R. E. Cohen, B. Militzer, Jeongnim Kim, R. J. Needs, and M. D. Towler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 185702 (2010) - Published 5 May, 2010

Contrasting Behavior of Carbon Nucleation in the Initial Stages of Graphene Epitaxial Growth on Stepped Metal Surfaces

Hua Chen, Wenguang Zhu, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186101 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Critical Behavior in Graphene with Coulomb Interactions

Jianhui Wang, H. A. Fertig, and Ganpathy Murthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186401 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Evidence for a Non-Fermi-Liquid Phase in Ge-Substituted ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

J. Custers, P. Gegenwart, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, P. Coleman, and S. Paschen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186402 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Extrinsic Spin Hall Effect from First Principles

Martin Gradhand, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Peter Zahn, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186403 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Quantized Magnetic Confinement in Quantum Wires

A. Tarasov, S. Hugger, Hengyi Xu, M. Cerchez, T. Heinzel, I. V. Zozoulenko, U. Gasser-Szerer, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186801 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Conductance Fluctuations and Field Asymmetry of Rectification in Graphene

C. Ojeda-Aristizabal, M. Monteverde, R. Weil, M. Ferrier, S. Guéron, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186802 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Inelastic Backaction due to Quantum Point Contact Charge Fluctuations

C. E. Young and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186803 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Correlation-Induced Conductance Suppression at Level Degeneracy in a Quantum Dot

H. A. Nilsson, O. Karlström, M. Larsson, P. Caroff, J. N. Pedersen, L. Samuelson, A. Wacker, L.-E. Wernersson, and H. Q. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186804 (2010) - Published 4 May, 2010

Universal Decay Cascade Model for Dynamic Quantum Dot Initialization

Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs and Bernd Kaestner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186805 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Weak Superconducting Pairing and a Single Isotropic Energy Gap in Stoichiometric LiFeAs

D. S. Inosov, J. S. White, D. V. Evtushinsky, I. V. Morozov, A. Cameron, U. Stockert, V. B. Zabolotnyy, T. K. Kim, A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, E. M. Forgan, R. Klingeler, J. T. Park, S. Wurmehl, A. N. Vasiliev, G. Behr, C. D. Dewhurst, and V. Hinkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187001 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Unusual Relationship between Magnetism and Superconductivity in ${FeTe}_{0.5} {Se}_{0.5}$

H. A. Mook, M. D. Lumsden, A. D. Christianson, S. E. Nagler, Brian C. Sales, Rongying Jin, Michael A. McGuire, Athena S. Sefat, D. Mandrus, T. Egami, and Clarina dela Cruz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187002 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

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Surface Josephson Plasma Waves in Layered Superconductors above the Plasma Frequency: Evidence for a Negative Index of Refraction

V. A. Golick, D. V. Kadygrob, V. A. Yampol’skii, A. L. Rakhmanov, B. A. Ivanov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187003 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Manipulation of Spin Transport in Graphene by Surface Chemical Doping

K. Pi, Wei Han, K. M. McCreary, A. G. Swartz, Yan Li, and R. K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187201 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Differential Conductance and Quantum Interference in Kondo Systems

Jeremy Figgins and Dirk K. Morr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187202 (2010) - Published 6 May, 2010

Frustrated Antiferromagnets with Entanglement Renormalization: Ground State of the Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg Model on a Kagome Lattice

G. Evenbly and G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187203 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Quadratic X-Ray Magneto-Optical Effect upon Reflection in a Near-Normal-Incidence Configuration at the $M$ Edges of $3 d$ -Transition Metals

S. Valencia, A. Kleibert, A. Gaupp, J. Rusz, D. Legut, J. Bansmann, W. Gudat, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187401 (2010) - Published 3 May, 2010

Enhancement and Inhibition of Coherent Phonon Emission of a Ni Film in a ${BaTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Cavity

N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, A. Fainstein, B. Perrin, B. Jusserand, A. Soukiassian, X. X. Xi, and D. G. Schlom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187402 (2010) - Published 5 May, 2010

X-Ray Diffraction Studies of 180° Ferroelectric Domains in ${PbTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Superlattices under an Applied Electric Field

P. Zubko, N. Stucki, C. Lichtensteiger, and J.-M. Triscone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187601 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Robust Spin Polarization and Spin Textures on Stepped Au(111) Surfaces

Jorge Lobo-Checa, Fabian Meier, Jan Hugo Dil, Taichi Okuda, Martina Corso, Vladimir N. Petrov, Matthias Hengsberger, Luc Patthey, and Jürg Osterwalder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 187602 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Erratum: Electromagnetic Spin-Orbit Interactions via Scattering of Subwavelength Apertures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 083903 (2010)]

L. T. Vuong, A. J. L. Adam, J. M. Brok, P. C. M. Planken, and H. P. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 189901 (2010) - Published 7 May, 2010

Volume 104, Issue 18

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.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

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