Volume 104, Issue 21

28 May 2010

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Simulation of turbulent water-flow patterns within a large area (1000 km x 1000 km) of the ocean at mid-latitudes. The colors differentiate between cyclonic (red) and anticyclonic (blue) vortices and filaments.

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Cyclone-Anticyclone Asymmetry in Geophysical Turbulence
Guillaume Roullet and Patrice Klein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 218501 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Demonstration of Time-Delay Interferometry for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Glenn de Vine, Brent Ware, Kirk McKenzie, Robert E. Spero, William M. Klipstein, and Daniel A. Shaddock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211103 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

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Sodium: A Charge-Transfer Insulator at High Pressures

Matteo Gatti, Ilya V. Tokatly, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 216404 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

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Aspiration of Biological Viscoelastic Drops

Karine Guevorkian, Marie-Josée Colbert, Mélanie Durth, Sylvie Dufour, and Françoise Brochard-Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 218101 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

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Defects and DNA Replication

Michel G. Gauthier, John Herrick, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 218104 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

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Morphology Scaling of Drop Impact onto a Granular Layer

Hiroaki Katsuragi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 218001 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

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Quantum Measurement of Phonon Shot Noise

A. A. Clerk, Florian Marquardt, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213603 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

LETTERS

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

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations for Minimum Energy Structures

Lucas K. Wagner and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 210201 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

Increasing the Statistical Significance of Entanglement Detection in Experiments

Bastian Jungnitsch, Sönke Niekamp, Matthias Kleinmann, Otfried Gühne, He Lu, Wei-Bo Gao, Yu-Ao Chen, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 210401 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

Bipolaron and $N$ -Polaron Binding Energies

Rupert L. Frank, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, and Lawrence E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 210402 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Detection of High-Dimensional Genuine Multipartite Entanglement of Mixed States

Marcus Huber, Florian Mintert, Andreas Gabriel, and Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 210501 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

Stochastic Matrix Product States

Kristan Temme and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 210502 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Black-Hole Binaries: Numerical Relativity Meets Perturbation Theory

Carlos O. Lousto, Hiroyuki Nakano, Yosef Zlochower, and Manuela Campanelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211101 (2010) - Published 25 May, 2010

Particle Accelerators inside Spinning Black Holes

Kayll Lake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211102 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

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Experimental Demonstration of Time-Delay Interferometry for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Glenn de Vine, Brent Ware, Kirk McKenzie, Robert E. Spero, William M. Klipstein, and Daniel A. Shaddock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211103 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Direct Reconstruction of Dark Energy

Chris Clarkson and Caroline Zunckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211301 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Spectrum of Planar $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory: Konishi Dimension at Any Coupling

Nikolay Gromov, Vladimir Kazakov, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211601 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

Real-Time Dynamics of the Chiral Magnetic Effect

Kenji Fukushima, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, and Harmen J. Warringa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 212001 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Entropy Driven Excitation Energy Sorting in Superfluid Fission Dynamics

Karl-Heinz Schmidt and Beatriz Jurado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 212501 (2010) - Published 25 May, 2010

Five-Body Cluster Structure of the Double- $Λ$ Hypernucleus ${}_{Λ Λ}^{11}{Be}$

E. Hiyama, M. Kamimura, Y. Yamamoto, and T. Motoba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 212502 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

Microscopic Study of the Triple- $α$ Reaction

A. S. Umar, J. A. Maruhn, N. Itagaki, and V. E. Oberacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 212503 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

${}^{34}P ({}^{7}{Li}, {}^{7}{Be} + γ)$ Reaction at $100 A MeV$ in Inverse Kinematics

R. G. T. Zegers, R. Meharchand, Y. Shimbara, Sam M. Austin, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, C. Aa. Diget, A. Gade, C. J. Guess, M. Hausmann, G. W. Hitt, M. E. Howard, M. King, D. Miller, S. Noji, A. Signoracci, K. Starosta, C. Tur, C. Vaman, P. Voss, D. Weisshaar, and J. Yurkon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 212504 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two-Photon Excitation and Relaxation of the $3 d − 4 d$ Resonance in Atomic Kr

M. Meyer, D. Cubaynes, V. Richardson, J. T. Costello, P. Radcliffe, W. B. Li, S. Düsterer, S. Fritzsche, A. Mihelic, K. G. Papamihail, and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213001 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Exponential Increase of Energy Level Density in Atoms: Th and Th II

V. A. Dzuba and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213002 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

Universal Properties in Ultracold Ion-Atom Interactions

Bo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213201 (2010) - Published 25 May, 2010

High Harmonic Spectroscopy of Multichannel Dynamics in Strong-Field Ionization

Y. Mairesse, J. Higuet, N. Dudovich, D. Shafir, B. Fabre, E. Mével, E. Constant, S. Patchkovskii, Z. Walters, M. Yu. Ivanov, and O. Smirnova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213601 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

Dressed-Atom Multiphoton Analysis of Anomalous Electromagnetically Induced Absorption

Hsiang-Shun Chou and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213602 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

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Quantum Measurement of Phonon Shot Noise

A. A. Clerk, Florian Marquardt, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213603 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Quantum Squeezing Generation versus Photon Localization in a Disordered Planar Microcavity

Motoaki Bamba, Simon Pigeon, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213604 (2010) - Published 28 May, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

All-Optical Molecular Orientation

Keita Oda, Masafumi Hita, Shinichirou Minemoto, and Hirofumi Sakai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213901 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

Wireless at the Nanoscale: Optical Interconnects using Matched Nanoantennas

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213902 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

Vortex Lattices in Coherently Pumped Polariton Microcavities

A. V. Gorbach, R. Hartley, and D. V. Skryabin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213903 (2010) - Published 25 May, 2010

Self-Turning Self-Confined Light Beams in Guest-Host Media

Armando Piccardi, Alessandro Alberucci, and Gaetano Assanto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213904 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

Revisiting the Young’s Double Slit Experiment for Background-Free Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy

David Gachet, Sophie Brustlein, and Hervé Rigneault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213905 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

On-Off Intermittency and Criticality in Early Stage Electromigration

Eric Dalton, Ian Clancy, David Corcoran, Arousian Arshak, and George Gooberman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 214101 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Experimental Determination of Zonal Winds Driven by Tides

C. Morize, M. Le Bars, P. Le Gal, and A. Tilgner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 214501 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Asymmetric Bimodal Accelerator Cavity for Raising rf Breakdown Thresholds

S. V. Kuzikov, S. Yu. Kazakov, Y. Jiang, and J. L. Hirshfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 214801 (2010) - Published 26 May, 2010

Observation of a Spontaneous Particle-Transport Barrier in the HL-2A Tokamak

W. W. Xiao (肖维文), X. L. Zou (邹晓岚), X. T. Ding (丁玄同), L. H. Yao (姚良骅), B. B. Feng (冯北滨), X. M. Song (宋显明), S. D. Song (宋绍栋), Y. Zhou (周艳), Z. T. Liu (刘泽田), B. S. Yuan (袁宝山), H. J. Sun (孙红娟), X. Q. Ji (季小全), Y. D. Gao (高亚东), Y. G. Li (李永高), L. W. Yan (严龙文), Q. W. Yang (杨青巍), Yi Liu (刘仪), J. Q. Dong (董家齐), X. R. Duan (段旭如), Yong Liu (刘永), and C. H. Pan (潘传红) (HL-2A Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 215001 (2010) - Published 24 May, 2010

Self-Consistent Current Sheets and Filaments in Relativistic Collisionless Plasma with Arbitrary Energy Distribution of Particles

V. V. Kocharovsky, Vl. V. Kocharovsky, and V. Ju. Martyanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 215002 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Kelvin Helmholtz Instability in Strongly Coupled Yukawa Liquids

Ashwin J. and R. Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 215003 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010

Intense High-Contrast Femtosecond $K$ -Shell X-Ray Source from Laser-Driven Ar Clusters

L. M. Chen, F. Liu, W. M. Wang, M. Kando, J. Y. Mao, L. Zhang, J. L. Ma, Y. T. Li, S. V. Bulanov, T. Tajima, Y. Kato, Z. M. Sheng, Z. Y. Wei, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 215004 (2010) - Published 27 May, 2010