Volume 104, Issue 19

14 May 2010

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Unlike light, caustic spin-wave beams (red), emitted from the left in a medium with externally controlled anisotropy, do not diffract while propagating through a solid or bounce off boundaries with the reflection angle equal to the angle of incidence.

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Nondiffractive Subwavelength Wave Beams in a Medium with Externally Controlled Anisotropy
T. Schneider, A. A. Serga, A. V. Chumak, C. W. Sandweg, S. Trudel, S. Wolff, M. P. Kostylev, V. S. Tiberkevich, A. N. Slavin, and B. Hillebrands
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197203 (2010)

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Self-Refraction of Supernova Neutrinos: Mixed Spectra and Three-Flavor Instabilities

Alexander Friedland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 191102 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Frequency Dependence and Dissipation in the Dynamics of Solid Helium

Oleksandr Syshchenko, James Day, and John Beamish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195301 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

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Image Scanning Microscopy

Claus B. Müller and Jörg Enderlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 198101 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

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Electromagnetically Induced Transparency on a Single Artificial Atom

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 193601 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Nanostructure of Calcium Silicate Hydrates in Cements

L. B. Skinner, S. R. Chae, C. J. Benmore, H. R. Wenk, and P. J. M. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195502 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Fully Overheated Single-Electron Transistor

M. A. Laakso, T. T. Heikkilä, and Yuli V. Nazarov

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Lieb-Robinson Bound and Locality for General Markovian Quantum Dynamics

David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190401 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Defining a New Class of Turbulent Flows

R. Stresing, J. Peinke, R. E. Seoud, and J. C. Vassilicos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 194501 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

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Purely Electric Spin Pumping in One Dimension

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 196601 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

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

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Lieb-Robinson Bound and Locality for General Markovian Quantum Dynamics

David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190401 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Quantum Decay of Dark Solitons

D. M. Gangardt and A. Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190402 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

Non-Fermi-Liquid Fixed Point for an Imbalanced Gas of Fermions in $1 + ϵ$ Dimensions

A. J. A. James and A. Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190403 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Exact Axisymmetric Solutions of the Maxwell Equations in a Nonlinear Nondispersive Medium

E. Yu. Petrov and A. V. Kudrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190404 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Continuous Matrix Product States for Quantum Fields

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190405 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Clustered Error Correction of Codeword-Stabilized Quantum Codes

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190501 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Enhanced Sampling in the Well-Tempered Ensemble

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190601 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Asymmetric Long Josephson Junction Acting as a Ratchet for a Quantum Field

A. O. Sboychakov, Sergey Savel’ev, A. L. Rakhmanov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 190602 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Influence of Self-Gravity on the Runaway Instability of Black-Hole–Torus Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 191101 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

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Self-Refraction of Supernova Neutrinos: Mixed Spectra and Three-Flavor Instabilities

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Nuclear Fusion in Dense Matter

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 191103 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Universal Properties of Dark Matter Halos

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 191301 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Test of Lepton Universality in $Υ (1 S)$ Decays at BABAR

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 191801 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Migration of Nuclear Shell Gaps Studied in the $d ({}^{24}{Ne}, p γ) {}^{25}{Ne}$ Reaction

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 192501 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Systematic Reduction of Sign Errors in Many-Body Calculations of Atoms and Molecules

Michal Bajdich, Murilo L. Tiago, Randolph Q. Hood, Paul R. C. Kent, and Fernando A. Reboredo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 193001 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Resonant Inelastic Scattering Spectra of Free Molecules with Vibrational Resolution

Franz Hennies, Annette Pietzsch, Martin Berglund, Alexander Föhlisch, Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir Strocov, Hans O. Karlsson, Joakim Andersson, and Jan-Erik Rubensson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 193002 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

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Electromagnetically Induced Transparency on a Single Artificial Atom

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 193601 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Frustrated Brownian Motion of Nonlocal Solitary Waves

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 193901 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Amplification of Impulsively Excited Molecular Rotational Coherence

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 193902 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Characterizing the Response of Chaotic Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 194101 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Quantum and Thermal Effects of Dark Solitons in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 194102 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

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Defining a New Class of Turbulent Flows

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 194501 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Direct Observation of Mode-Coupling Instability in Two-Dimensional Plasma Crystals

L. Couëdel, V. Nosenko, A. V. Ivlev, S. K. Zhdanov, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195001 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Monoenergetic Energy Doubling in a Hybrid Laser-Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

B. Hidding, T. Königstein, J. Osterholz, S. Karsch, O. Willi, and G. Pretzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195002 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

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Frequency Dependence and Dissipation in the Dynamics of Solid Helium

Oleksandr Syshchenko, James Day, and John Beamish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195301 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Three-Dimensional Roton Excitations and Supersolid Formation in Rydberg-Excited Bose-Einstein Condensates

N. Henkel, R. Nath, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195302 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Parametric Amplification of Vacuum Fluctuations in a Spinor Condensate

C. Klempt, O. Topic, G. Gebreyesus, M. Scherer, T. Henninger, P. Hyllus, W. Ertmer, L. Santos, and J. J. Arlt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195303 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

Sound Attenuation at Terahertz Frequencies and the Boson Peak of Vitreous Silica

G. Baldi, V. M. Giordano, G. Monaco, and B. Ruta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195501 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Nanostructure of Calcium Silicate Hydrates in Cements

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195502 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Effect of Rhenium on the Dislocation Core Structure in Tungsten

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195503 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

How do Self-Assembling Polymers and Gels Age Compared to Glasses?

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195701 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Local Cluster Aggregation Models of Explosive Percolation

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Monte Carlo Study of the Axial Next-Nearest-Neighbor Ising Model

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 195703 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Dynamic Arrest in Multicomponent Glass-Forming Alloys

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Emergent Chemical Mapping at Atomic-Column Resolution by Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy in an Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscope

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Pinning of Adsorbed Cobalt Atoms by Defects Embedded in the Copper (111) Surface

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Metal-Insulator Transition of Fermions on a Kagome Lattice at 1/3 Filling

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Purely Electric Spin Pumping in One Dimension

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 196601 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Large Neutral Barrier at Grain Boundaries in Chalcopyrite Thin Films

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 196602 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Phonon-Mediated versus Coulombic Backaction in Quantum Dot Circuits

D. Harbusch, D. Taubert, H. P. Tranitz, W. Wegscheider, and S. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 196801 (2010) - Published 10 May, 2010

Spectator Behavior in a Quantum Hall Antidot with Multiple Bound Modes

W.-R. Lee and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 196802 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

Lower Bound for the Excitonic Fine Structure Splitting in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

Ranber Singh and Gabriel Bester

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Irreversibility in Response to Forces Acting on Graphene Sheets

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Fully Overheated Single-Electron Transistor

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Functional Superconductor Interfaces from Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

P. M. R. Brydon, Christian Iniotakis, Dirk Manske, and M. Sigrist

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Dichotomy between Large Local and Small Ordered Magnetic Moments in Iron-Based Superconductors

P. Hansmann, R. Arita, A. Toschi, S. Sakai, G. Sangiovanni, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197002 (2010) - Published 14 May, 2010

Large Magnetostriction from Morphotropic Phase Boundary in Ferromagnets

Sen Yang, Huixin Bao, Chao Zhou, Yu Wang, Xiaobing Ren, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Yoshio Katsuya, Masahiko Tanaka, Keisuke Kobayashi, Xiaoping Song, and Jianrong Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197201 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Superexchange Coupling and Slow Magnetic Relaxation in a Transuranium Polymetallic Complex

N. Magnani, E. Colineau, R. Eloirdi, J.-C. Griveau, R. Caciuffo, S. M. Cornet, I. May, C. A. Sharrad, D. Collison, and R. E. P. Winpenny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197202 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Nondiffractive Subwavelength Wave Beams in a Medium with Externally Controlled Anisotropy

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197203 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Influence of the Electron-Cation Interaction on Electron Mobility in Dye-Sensitized ZnO and ${TiO}_{2}$ Nanocrystals: A Study Using Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy

H. Němec, J. Rochford, O. Taratula, E. Galoppini, P. Kužel, T. Polívka, A. Yartsev, and V. Sundström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197401 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Bloch Oscillations of THz Acoustic Phonons in Coupled Nanocavity Structures

N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, A. Fainstein, B. Perrin, B. Jusserand, O. Mauguin, L. Largeau, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197402 (2010) - Published 13 May, 2010

Ferroelectricity in Strain-Free ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Thin Films

H. W. Jang, A. Kumar, S. Denev, M. D. Biegalski, P. Maksymovych, C. W. Bark, C. T. Nelson, C. M. Folkman, S. H. Baek, N. Balke, C. M. Brooks, D. A. Tenne, D. G. Schlom, L. Q. Chen, X. Q. Pan, S. V. Kalinin, V. Gopalan, and C. B. Eom

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Direct Observation of Confined Single Chain Dynamics by Neutron Scattering

J. Martín, M. Krutyeva, M. Monkenbusch, A. Arbe, J. Allgaier, A. Radulescu, P. Falus, J. Maiz, C. Mijangos, J. Colmenero, and D. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 197801 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the $α$ -Helix to $β$ -Sheet Transition in Coiled Protein Filaments: Evidence for a Critical Filament Length Scale

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 198304 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

NMR Observation of Entangled Polymer Dynamics: Tube Model Predictions and Constraint Release

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 198305 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

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Erratum: Mass of the $η_{b}$ and $α_{s}$ from the Nonrelativistic Renormalization Group [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 242001 (2004)]

Bernd A. Kniehl, Alexander A. Penin, Antonio Pineda, Vladimir A. Smirnov, and Matthias Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 199901 (2010) - Published 11 May, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Indications of Proton-Dominated Cosmic-Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 161101 (2010)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 199902 (2010) - Published 12 May, 2010

Volume 104, Issue 19

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

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