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Simulations show that certain flowing fluids under the influence of rotational and thermal effects self organize into long-lived columnar structures.

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Model of Convective Taylor Columns in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Ian Grooms, Keith Julien, Jeffrey B. Weiss, and Edgar Knobloch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 224501 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Quantum Control and Entanglement in a Chemical Compass

Jianming Cai, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220502 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Understanding the “Antikick” in the Merger of Binary Black Holes

Luciano Rezzolla, Rodrigo P. Macedo, and José Luis Jaramillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 221101 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Double Quantum Dots

M. Gullans, J. J. Krich, J. M. Taylor, H. Bluhm, B. I. Halperin, C. M. Marcus, M. Stopa, A. Yacoby, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226807 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Electron and Optical Phonon Temperatures in Electrically Biased Graphene

Stéphane Berciaud, Melinda Y. Han, Kin Fai Mak, Louis E. Brus, Philip Kim, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227401 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

LETTERS

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

Proposal for Revealing Quantum Nonlocality via Local Contextuality

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220401 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Dynamical Unbinding Transition in a Periodically Driven Mott Insulator

Fabian Hassler, Andreas Rüegg, Manfred Sigrist, and Gianni Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220402 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Spin Drag in an Ultracold Fermi Gas on the Verge of Ferromagnetic Instability

R. A. Duine, Marco Polini, H. T. C. Stoof, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220403 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Multiple Colliding Electromagnetic Pulses: A Way to Lower the Threshold of e+e Pair Production from Vacuum

S. S. Bulanov, V. D. Mur, N. B. Narozhny, J. Nees, and V. S. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220404 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Zero-Transmission Law for Multiport Beam Splitters

Malte Christopher Tichy, Markus Tiersch, Fernando de Melo, Florian Mintert, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220405 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Precision Physics of Simple Atoms and Constraints on a Light Boson with Ultraweak Coupling

S. G. Karshenboim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220406 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Determination of Maximal Gaussian Entanglement Achievable by Feedback-Controlled Dynamics

Alessio Serafini and Stefano Mancini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220501 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Quantum Control and Entanglement in a Chemical Compass

Jianming Cai, Gian Giacomo Guerreschi, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220502 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Time-Dependent Mesoscopic Heat Transport

Dmitri V. Averin and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220601 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Anisotropic 2D Diffusive Expansion of Ultracold Atoms in a Disordered Potential

M. Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, J.-P. Brantut, B. Allard, T. Plisson, L. Pezzé, L. Sanchez-Palencia, A. Aspect, T. Bourdel, and P. Bouyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 220602 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Understanding the “Antikick” in the Merger of Binary Black Holes

Luciano Rezzolla, Rodrigo P. Macedo, and José Luis Jaramillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 221101 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gauge Fields, Membranes, and Subdeterminant Vector Models

Robert G. Leigh, Andrea Mauri, Djordje Minic, and Anastasios C. Petkou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 221801 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Production of a Beam of Tensor-Polarized Deuterons Using a Carbon Target

H. Seyfarth, R. Engels, F. Rathmann, H. Ströher, V. Baryshevsky, A. Rouba, C. Düweke, R. Emmerich, A. Imig, K. Grigoryev, M. Mikirtychiants, and A. Vasilyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 222501 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Ultrahigh-Resolution γ-Ray Spectroscopy of Gd156: A Test of Tetrahedral Symmetry

M. Jentschel, W. Urban, J. Krempel, D. Tonev, J. Dudek, D. Curien, B. Lauss, G. de Angelis, and P. Petkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 222502 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Alignment-Dependent Ionization of N2, O2, and CO2 in Intense Laser Fields

Simon Petretti, Yulian V. Vanne, Alejandro Saenz, Alberto Castro, and Piero Decleva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223001 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Strongly Correlated Gases of Rydberg-Dressed Atoms: Quantum and Classical Dynamics

G. Pupillo, A. Micheli, M. Boninsegni, I. Lesanovsky, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223002 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Temperature-Independent Casimir-Polder Forces Despite Large Thermal Photon Numbers

Simen Å. Ellingsen, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, and Stefan Scheel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223003 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Short-Time Operator Product Expansion for rf Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Eric Braaten, Daekyoung Kang, and Lucas Platter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223004 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Hiding Single Photons with Spread Spectrum Technology

Chinmay Belthangady, Chih-Sung Chuu, Ite A. Yu, G. Y. Yin, J. M. Kahn, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223601 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Stacked Optical Precursors from Amplitude and Phase Modulations

J. F. Chen, Heejeong Jeong, L. Feng, M. M. T. Loy, G. K. L. Wong, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223602 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spectral Collapse in Ensembles of Metamolecules

V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, E. Plum, A. Bitzer, M. Walther, P. Kuo, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223901 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Bistable and Addressable Localized Vortices in Semiconductor Lasers

P. Genevet, S. Barland, M. Giudici, and J. R. Tredicce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223902 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Observation of Two-Dimensional Dynamic Localization of Light

Alexander Szameit, Ivan L. Garanovich, Matthias Heinrich, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Felix Dreisow, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefano Longhi, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223903 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from Two-Dimensional Randomly Rough Penetrable Surfaces

Ingve Simonsen, Alexei A. Maradudin, and Tamara A. Leskova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223904 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Suppressing Fermi Acceleration in a Driven Elliptical Billiard

Edson D. Leonel and Leonid A. Bunimovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 224101 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Dynamical Tunneling in Many-Dimensional Chaotic Systems

Akiyuki Ishikawa, Atushi Tanaka, and Akira Shudo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 224102 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Model of Convective Taylor Columns in Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Ian Grooms, Keith Julien, Jeffrey B. Weiss, and Edgar Knobloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 224501 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electronic Structure of an XUV Photogenerated Solid-Density Aluminum Plasma

S. M. Vinko et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225001 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Low-Frequency Turbulence in a Linear Magnetized Plasma

B. N. Rogers and Paolo Ricci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225002 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Experimental Test of Instability-Enhanced Collisional Friction for Determining Ion Loss in Two Ion Species Plasmas

Chi-Shung Yip, Noah Hershkowitz, and Greg Severn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225003 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Cryptotomography: Reconstructing 3D Fourier Intensities from Randomly Oriented Single-Shot Diffraction Patterns

N. D. Loh, M. J. Bogan, V. Elser, A. Barty, S. Boutet, S. Bajt, J. Hajdu, T. Ekeberg, F. R. N. C. Maia, J. Schulz, M. M. Seibert, B. Iwan, N. Timneanu, S. Marchesini, I. Schlichting, R. L. Shoeman, L. Lomb, M. Frank, M. Liang, and H. N. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225501 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Microscopic Origin of Channeled Flow in Lamellar Titanium Aluminide

Ivaylo H. Katzarov and Anthony T. Paxton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225502 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Many-Body Orbital Paramagnetism in Doped Graphene Sheets

A. Principi, Marco Polini, G. Vignale, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225503 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Glass Transition for Driven Granular Fluids

W. Till Kranz, Matthias Sperl, and Annette Zippelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225701 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Effective Elasticity of a Flexible Filament Bound to a Deformable Cylindrical Surface

Anđela Šarić, Josep C. Pàmies, and Angelo Cacciuto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226101 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nature of the Mott Transition in Ca2RuO4

E. Gorelov, M. Karolak, T. O. Wehling, F. Lechermann, A. I. Lichtenstein, and E. Pavarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226401 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Finite Doping Signatures of the Mott Transition in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

G. Sordi, K. Haule, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226402 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Hopping Conduction Observed in Thermal Admittance Spectroscopy

U. Reislöhner, H. Metzner, and C. Ronning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226403 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Separation between Low-Energy Hole Dynamics and Spin Dynamics in a Frustrated Magnet

Kou Takubo, Yusuke Nambu, Satoru Nakatsuji, Yuki Wakisaka, Takaaki Sudayama, David Fournier, Giorgio Levy, Andrea Damascelli, Masashi Arita, Hirofumi Namatame, Masaki Taniguchi, and Takashi Mizokawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226404 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Quantum Melting of Charge Ice and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior: An Exact Solution for the Extended Falicov-Kimball Model in the Ice-Rule Limit

Masafumi Udagawa, Hiroaki Ishizuka, and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226405 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Structure-Induced Covalent Bonding in Al-Li Compounds

Kazuki Nozawa and Yasushi Ishii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226406 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Coulomb-Induced Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Oleg Chalaev and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226601 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Pinning-Mode Resonance of a Skyrme Crystal near Landau-Level Filling Factor ν=1

Han Zhu, G. Sambandamurthy, Yong P. Chen, P. Jiang, L. W. Engel, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226801 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Cooling of a Suspended Nanowire by an ac Josephson Current Flow

Gustav Sonne, Milton E. Peña-Aza, Leonid Y. Gorelik, Robert I. Shekhter, and Mats Jonson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226802 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Interaction-Induced Adiabatic Nonlinear Transport

Felix Reckermann, Janine Splettstoesser, and Maarten R. Wegewijs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226803 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Strong Charge-Transfer Excitonic Effects and the Bose-Einstein Exciton Condensate in Graphane

Pierluigi Cudazzo, Claudio Attaccalite, Ilya V. Tokatly, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226804 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Population Switching and Charge Sensing in Quantum Dots: A Case for a Quantum Phase Transition

Moshe Goldstein, Richard Berkovits, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226805 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Semiconductor Surface Plasmon Sources

A. Babuty, A. Bousseksou, J.-P. Tetienne, I. Moldovan Doyen, C. Sirtori, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, Y. De Wilde, and R. Colombelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226806 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Double Quantum Dots

M. Gullans, J. J. Krich, J. M. Taylor, H. Bluhm, B. I. Halperin, C. M. Marcus, M. Stopa, A. Yacoby, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226807 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Enhanced Superconducting Gaps in the Trilayer High-Temperature Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+δ Cuprate Superconductor

S. Ideta, K. Takashima, M. Hashimoto, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, H. Anzai, T. Fujita, Y. Nakashima, A. Ino, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, K. Ono, M. Kubota, D. H. Lu, Z.-X. Shen, K. M. Kojima, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227001 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Hybridization and Superconducting Gaps in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor PuCoGa5 Probed via the Dynamics of Photoinduced Quasiparticles

D. Talbayev, K. S. Burch, Elbert E. M. Chia, S. A. Trugman, J.-X. Zhu, E. D. Bauer, J. A. Kennison, J. N. Mitchell, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao, and A. J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227002 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Detection of the Phase Shift from a Single Abrikosov Vortex

T. Golod, A. Rydh, and V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227003 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Low Magnetization and Anisotropy in the Antiferromagnetic State of Undoped Iron Pnictides

E. Bascones, M. J. Calderón, and B. Valenzuela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227201 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Electron and Optical Phonon Temperatures in Electrically Biased Graphene

Stéphane Berciaud, Melinda Y. Han, Kin Fai Mak, Louis E. Brus, Philip Kim, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227401 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Evidence for Strain-Induced Ferroelectric Order in Epitaxial Thin-Film KTaO3

M. Tyunina, J. Narkilahti, M. Plekh, R. Oja, R. M. Nieminen, A. Dejneka, and V. Trepakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227601 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Electric-Field Control of Solitons in a Ferroelectric Organic Charge-Transfer Salt

F. Kagawa, S. Horiuchi, H. Matsui, R. Kumai, Y. Onose, T. Hasegawa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227602 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Coalescence Driven by Line Tension in Thin Nematic Films

U. Delabre and A-M. Cazabat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227801 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Critical Field Strength in an Electroclinic Liquid Crystal Elastomer

Christopher M. Spillmann, Amit V. Kapur, Frank W. Bentrem, Jawad Naciri, and Banahalli R. Ratna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 227802 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

Frequency Factors in a Landscape Model of Filamentous Protein Aggregation

Alexander K. Buell, Jamie R. Blundell, Christopher M. Dobson, Mark E. Welland, Eugene M. Terentjev, and Tuomas P. J. Knowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228101 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Dendritic Actin Filament Nucleation Causes Traveling Waves and Patches

Anders E. Carlsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228102 (2010) - Published 1 June, 2010

Torsional Network Model: Normal Modes in Torsion Angle Space Better Correlate with Conformation Changes in Proteins

Raul Mendez and Ugo Bastolla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228103 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Implementation of Dynamic Bayesian Decision Making by Intracellular Kinetics

Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228104 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Importance of Charge Regulation in Attractive Double-Layer Forces between Dissimilar Surfaces

Ionel Popa, Prashant Sinha, Marco Finessi, Plinio Maroni, Georg Papastavrou, and Michal Borkovec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228301 (2010) - Published 2 June, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Coherent Ratchets in Driven Bose-Einstein Condensates”

G. Benenti, G. Casati, S. Denisov, S. Flach, P. Hänggi, B. Li, and D. Poletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228901 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Creffield and Sols Reply:

C. E. Creffield and F. Sols

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 228902 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: High Harmonic Spectroscopy of Multichannel Dynamics in Strong-Field Ionization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213601 (2010)]

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, 229901 (2010) - Published 3 June, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Yao et al. Reply [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 104, 209602 (2010)10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.209602]

Yansun Yao, Dennis D. Klug, Jian Sun, and Roman Martoňák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 229902 (2010) - Published 4 June, 2010

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