Volume 104, Issue 2

15 January 2010

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Airflow (orange), after a 1 m/s disc impact, becomes supersonic due to pinching water. Selected for an Editors' Suggestions and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact
Stephan Gekle, Ivo R. Peters, José Manuel Gordillo, Devaraj van der Meer, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024501 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact

Stephan Gekle, Ivo R. Peters, José Manuel Gordillo, Devaraj van der Meer, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024501 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Carbon Nanotubes as Cooper-Pair Beam Splitters

L. G. Herrmann, F. Portier, P. Roche, A. Levy Yeyati, T. Kontos, and C. Strunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026801 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Unitary Equivalence of Multipartite Pure States

B. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020504 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Prediction of the $B_{c}^{*}$ Mass in Full Lattice QCD

E. B. Gregory, C. T. H. Davies, E. Follana, E. Gamiz, I. D. Kendall, G. P. Lepage, H. Na, J. Shigemitsu, and K. Y. Wong (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 022001 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

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

Optimal Measurement on Noisy Quantum Systems

Yu Watanabe, Takahiro Sagawa, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020401 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Unified Approach to Quantum and Classical Dualities

E. Cobanera, G. Ortiz, and Z. Nussinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020402 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Experimental Realization of a Controlled-NOT Gate with Four-Photon Six-Qubit Cluster States

Wei-Bo Gao, Ping Xu, Xing-Can Yao, Otfried Gühne, Adán Cabello, Chao-Yang Lu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020501 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

First-Order Phase Transition in the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

A. P. Young, S. Knysh, and V. N. Smelyanskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020502 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Teleportation-Induced Correlated Quantum Channels

F. Caruso, V. Giovannetti, and G. M. Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020503 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Unitary Equivalence of Multipartite Pure States

B. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020504 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Measurement of the Spiral Spectrum of Entangled Two-Photon States

H. Di Lorenzo Pires, H. C. B. Florijn, and M. P. van Exter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020505 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Geometric Stochastic Resonance

Pulak Kumar Ghosh, Fabio Marchesoni, Sergey E. Savel’ev, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020601 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Hitting Probability for Anomalous Diffusion Processes

Satya N. Majumdar, Alberto Rosso, and Andrea Zoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 020602 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Spinning Black Holes as Particle Accelerators

Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 021101 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Thermal Duality and Hagedorn Transition from $p$ -adic Strings

Tirthabir Biswas, Jose A. R. Cembranos, and Joseph I. Kapusta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 021601 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Measurement of $| V_{u b} |$ from Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic $B$ Decays

P. Urquijo et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 021801 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Searches for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decays $τ^{\pm} \to e^{\pm} γ$ and $τ^{\pm} \to μ^{\pm} γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 021802 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Prediction of the $B_{c}^{*}$ Mass in Full Lattice QCD

E. B. Gregory, C. T. H. Davies, E. Follana, E. Gamiz, I. D. Kendall, G. P. Lepage, H. Na, J. Shigemitsu, and K. Y. Wong (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 022001 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Nonzero Quadrupole Moments of Candidate Tetrahedral Bands

R. A. Bark, J. F. Sharpey-Schafer, S. M. Maliage, T. E. Madiba, F. S. Komati, E. A. Lawrie, J. J. Lawrie, R. Lindsay, P. Maine, S. M. Mullins, S. H. T. Murray, N. J. Ncapayi, T. M. Ramashidza, F. D. Smit, and P. Vymers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 022501 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

SU(3) Quasidynamical Symmetry Underlying the Alhassid-Whelan Arc of Regularity

Dennis Bonatsos, E. A. McCutchan, and R. F. Casten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 022502 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Control of Electron Localization in Deuterium Molecular Ions using an Attosecond Pulse Train and a Many-Cycle Infrared Pulse

K. P. Singh, F. He, P. Ranitovic, W. Cao, S. De, D. Ray, S. Chen, U. Thumm, A. Becker, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, I. V. Litvinyuk, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023001 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Three Resonant Ultracold Bosons: Off-Resonance Effects

Mattia Jona-Lasinio and Ludovic Pricoupenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023201 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Fully Differential Molecular-Frame Measurements for the Electron-Impact Dissociative Ionization of $H_{2}$

S. Bellm, J. Lower, E. Weigold, and D. W. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023202 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Crossover of Feshbach Resonances to Shape-Type Resonances in Electron-Hydrogen Atom Excitation with a Screened Coulomb Interaction

Song Bin Zhang, Jian Guo Wang, and R. K. Janev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023203 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Vacuum Degeneracy of a Circuit QED System in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime

Pierre Nataf and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023601 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Few-Photon Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems: Interaction-Induced Radiation Trapping

Paolo Longo, Peter Schmitteckert, and Kurt Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023602 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonquantum Entanglement Resolves a Basic Issue in Polarization Optics

B. N. Simon, S. Simon, F. Gori, M. Santarsiero, R. Borghi, N. Mukunda, and R. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023901 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Boosted $X$ Waves in Nonlinear Optical Systems

Edward Arévalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023902 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Supersonic Air Flow due to Solid-Liquid Impact

Stephan Gekle, Ivo R. Peters, José Manuel Gordillo, Devaraj van der Meer, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024501 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Effect of Polymer Additives on Heat Transport in Turbulent Thermal Convection

Roberto Benzi, Emily S. C. Ching, and Elisabetta De Angelis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024502 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Turbulent Magnetic Diffusivity Tensor for Time-Dependent Mean Fields

David W. Hughes and Michael R. E. Proctor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024503 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Enhancing X-Ray Generation by Electron-Beam–Laser Interaction in an Optical Bragg Structure

Vadim Karagodsky, David Schieber, and Levi Schächter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 024801 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Experimental Evidence of Short Light Pulse Amplification Using Strong-Coupling Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Pump Depletion Regime

L. Lancia, J.-R. Marquès, M. Nakatsutsumi, C. Riconda, S. Weber, S. Hüller, A. Mančić, P. Antici, V. T. Tikhonchuk, A. Héron, P. Audebert, and J. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025001 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Feedback Assisted Experimental Studies of Zonal-Flow Saturation and Scalings

V. Sokolov, X. Wei, and A. K. Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025002 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Injection and Trapping of Tunnel-Ionized Electrons into Laser-Produced Wakes

A. Pak, K. A. Marsh, S. F. Martins, W. Lu, W. B. Mori, and C. Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025003 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Ionization Induced Trapping in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

C. McGuffey, A. G. R. Thomas, W. Schumaker, T. Matsuoka, V. Chvykov, F. J. Dollar, G. Kalintchenko, V. Yanovsky, A. Maksimchuk, K. Krushelnick, V. Yu. Bychenkov, I. V. Glazyrin, and A. V. Karpeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025004 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Size of Plastic Events in Strained Amorphous Solids at Finite Temperatures

H. G. E. Hentschel, Smarajit Karmakar, Edan Lerner, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025501 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Effects of Finite Probe Size on Self-Affine Roughness Measurements

F. Lechenault, G. Pallares, M. George, C. Rountree, E. Bouchaud, and M. Ciccotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025502 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Thermally Induced Local Failures in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems: Collapse in Carbon Nanotubes, Necking in Nanowires, and Opening of Bubbles in DNA

Cristiano Nisoli, Douglas Abraham, Turab Lookman, and Avadh Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025503 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Spectroscopic Evidence for Ultrahigh-Pressure Polymorphism in ${SiO}_{2}$ Glass

Motohiko Murakami and Jay D. Bass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025504 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Small-World to Fractal Transition in Complex Networks: A Renormalization Group Approach

Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Chaoming Song, and Hernán A. Makse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 025701 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Observation and Modeling of Interrupted Pattern Coarsening: Surface Nanostructuring by Ion Erosion

Javier Muñoz-García, Raúl Gago, Luis Vázquez, José Angel Sánchez-García, and Rodolfo Cuerno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026101 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Superconducting Gap, Normal State Pseudogap, and Tunneling Spectra of Bosonic and Cuprate Superconductors

A. S. Alexandrov and J. Beanland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026401 (2010) - Published 12 January, 2010

Dynamical Cluster Approximation Study of the Anisotropic Two-Orbital Hubbard Model

Hunpyo Lee, Yu-Zhong Zhang, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valentí, and Hartmut Monien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026402 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

Spin-Transfer Torque on a Single Magnetic Adatom

F. Delgado, J. J. Palacios, and J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026601 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Carbon Nanotubes as Cooper-Pair Beam Splitters

L. G. Herrmann, F. Portier, P. Roche, A. Levy Yeyati, T. Kontos, and C. Strunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026801 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Optical Patch Antennas for Single Photon Emission Using Surface Plasmon Resonances

R. Esteban, T. V. Teperik, and J. J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 026802 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Semiclassical Gaps in the Density of States of Chaotic Andreev Billiards

Jack Kuipers, Daniel Waltner, Cyril Petitjean, Gregory Berkolaiko, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027001 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Metastable Superconducting Qubit

Andrew J. Kerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027002 (2010) - Published 11 January, 2010

Ultrafast Pump-Probe Study of Phase Separation and Competing Orders in the Underdoped $(Ba, K) {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductor

Elbert E. M. Chia, D. Talbayev, Jian-Xin Zhu, H. Q. Yuan, T. Park, J. D. Thompson, C. Panagopoulos, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, and A. J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027003 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Discovery of a Novel Smectic- $C^{*}$ Liquid-Crystal Phase with Six-Layer Periodicity

Shun Wang, LiDong Pan, R. Pindak, Z. Q. Liu, H. T. Nguyen, and C. C. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027801 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Non-Newtonian Granular Hydrodynamics. What Do the Inelastic Simple Shear Flow and the Elastic Fourier Flow Have in Common?

Francisco Vega Reyes, Andrés Santos, and Vicente Garzó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 028001 (2010) - Published 13 January, 2010

Electronic Excitations Generated by the Deposition of Mg on Mg Films

U. Hagemann, D. Krix, and H. Nienhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 028301 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Multidimensional Optical Fractionation of Colloidal Particles with Holographic Verification

Ke Xiao and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 028302 (2010) - Published 15 January, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Comment on “Formation of Large Voids in the Amorphous Phase-Change Memory ${Ge}_{2} {Sb}_{2} {Te}_{5}$ Alloy” [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 019601 (2010)]

P. Jóvári, I. Kaban, S. Kohara, and M. Takata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 029901 (2010) - Published 14 January, 2010

Volume 104, Issue 2

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

ERRATA