Volume 104, Issue 23

11 June 2010

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Spherical gold nanoparticles (not shown) are asymmetrically coated with S-(CH₂)₁₇-COOH ligands in water. S atoms are shown in yellow, CH₂ chains in blue, COOH groups in red.

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Spontaneous Asymmetry of Coated Spherical Nanoparticles in Solution and at Liquid-Vapor Interfaces
J. Matthew D. Lane and Gary S. Grest
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235501 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Lateral Shift Makes a Ground-Plane Cloak Detectable

Baile Zhang, Tucker Chan, and Bae-Ian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233903 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

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Verification of Universal Relations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

J. T. Stewart, J. P. Gaebler, T. E. Drake, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235301 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

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Dynamical Coulomb Blockade and the Derivative Discontinuity of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

S. Kurth, G. Stefanucci, E. Khosravi, C. Verdozzi, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236801 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

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Guess Your Neighbor’s Input: A Multipartite Nonlocal Game with No Quantum Advantage

Mafalda L. Almeida, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Nicolas Brunner, Antonio Acín, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230404 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

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Watching the Solvation of Atoms in Liquids One Solvent Molecule at a Time

Arthur E. Bragg, William J. Glover, and Benjamin J. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233005 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

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Bacterial Chromosomal Loci Move Subdiffusively through a Viscoelastic Cytoplasm

Stephanie C. Weber, Andrew J. Spakowitz, and Julie A. Theriot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238102 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

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Observations of Random Walk of the Ground in Space and Time

Vladimir Shiltsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238501 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

LETTERS

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

Perfect Quantum Privacy Implies Nonlocality

Remigiusz Augusiak, Daniel Cavalcanti, Giuseppe Prettico, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230401 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Normal Phase of an Imbalanced Fermi Gas

Christophe Mora and Frédéric Chevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230402 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

NMR Quantum Simulation of Localization Effects Induced by Decoherence

Gonzalo A. Álvarez and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230403 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

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Guess Your Neighbor’s Input: A Multipartite Nonlocal Game with No Quantum Advantage

Mafalda L. Almeida, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Nicolas Brunner, Antonio Acín, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefano Pironio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230404 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Decoherence and Thermalization of a Pure Quantum State in Quantum Field Theory

Alexandre Giraud and Julien Serreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230405 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Stroboscopic Generation of Topological Protection

C. M. Herdman, Kevin C. Young, V. W. Scarola, Mohan Sarovar, and K. B. Whaley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230501 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Superconducting Resonators as Beam Splitters for Linear-Optics Quantum Computation

Luca Chirolli, Guido Burkard, Shwetank Kumar, and David P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230502 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Improving Zero-Error Classical Communication with Entanglement

Toby S. Cubitt, Debbie Leung, William Matthews, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230503 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Universal Fluctuations of Growing Interfaces: Evidence in Turbulent Liquid Crystals

Kazumasa A. Takeuchi and Masaki Sano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230601 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

One-Dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: An Exact Solution and its Universality

Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 230602 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Crystallization of Carbon-Oxygen Mixtures in White Dwarf Stars

C. J. Horowitz, A. S. Schneider, and D. K. Berry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 231101 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Geometric Invariant Measuring the Deviation from Kerr Data

Thomas Bäckdahl and Juan A. Valiente Kroon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 231102 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Screening Long-Range Forces through Local Symmetry Restoration

Kurt Hinterbichler and Justin Khoury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 231301 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonperturbative Effects on Seven-Brane Yukawa Couplings

Fernando Marchesano and Luca Martucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 231601 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{* -} π^{+}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{() -} ρ^{+}$ and Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{ -} ρ^{+}$ Longitudinal Polarization Fraction

R. Louvot et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 231801 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Width of the Confining String in Yang-Mills Theory

F. Gliozzi, M. Pepe, and U.-J. Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 232001 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Chiral Magnetic Spirals

Gökçe Başar, Gerald V. Dunne, and Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 232301 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Study of Nuclear Stopping in Central Collisions at Intermediate Energies

G. Lehaut, D. Durand, O. Lopez, E. Vient, A. Chbihi, J. D. Frankland, E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, R. Bougault, E. Galichet, D. Guinet, Ph. Lautesse, N. Le Neindre, P. Napolitani, M. Parlog, M. F. Rivet, and E. Rosato (INDRA and ALADIN Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 232701 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurement of the Hydrogen-Deuterium $1 S - 2 S$ Isotope Shift

Christian G. Parthey, Arthur Matveev, Janis Alnis, Randolf Pohl, Thomas Udem, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Nikolai Kolachevsky, and Theodor W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233001 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Suppression of Exponential Electronic Decay in a Charged Environment

Vitali Averbukh, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan Michael Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233002 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Circular Dichroism in Photoionization of $H_{2}$

D. Dowek, J. F. Pérez-Torres, Y. J. Picard, P. Billaud, C. Elkharrat, J. C. Houver, J. L. Sanz-Vicario, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233003 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Hybridization of Organic Molecular Orbitals with Substrate States at Interfaces: PTCDA on Silver

J. Ziroff, F. Forster, A. Schöll, P. Puschnig, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233004 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

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Watching the Solvation of Atoms in Liquids One Solvent Molecule at a Time

Arthur E. Bragg, William J. Glover, and Benjamin J. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233005 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Dipole Enhancement of Positron Binding to Molecules

J. R. Danielson, J. J. Gosselin, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233201 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Strongly Enhanced Recombination via Two-Center Electronic Correlations

C. Müller, A. B. Voitkiv, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Z. Harman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233202 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Quantum Noise and Self-Sustained Radiation of $P T$ -Symmetric Systems

Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233601 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Entanglement in Atomic Resonance Fluorescence

P. Grünwald and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233602 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Infrared Two-Color Multicycle Laser Field Synthesis for Generating an Intense Attosecond Pulse

Eiji J. Takahashi, Pengfei Lan, Oliver D. Mücke, Yasuo Nabekawa, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233901 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Difference Differential Equations for a Resonator with a Very Thin Nonlinear Medium

L. A. Lugiato and F. Prati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233902 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

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Lateral Shift Makes a Ground-Plane Cloak Detectable

Baile Zhang, Tucker Chan, and Bae-Ian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233903 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Controlling the Interference of Multiple Molecular Orbitals in High-Harmonic Generation

H. J. Wörner, J. B. Bertrand, P. Hockett, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Villeneuve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 233904 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Uniform Laser-Driven Relativistic Electron Layer for Coherent Thomson Scattering

H.-C. Wu (武慧春), J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, J. Fernández, and B. M. Hegelich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 234801 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Intrinsic Emittance Reduction of an Electron Beam from Metal Photocathodes

C. P. Hauri, R. Ganter, F. Le Pimpec, A. Trisorio, C. Ruchert, and H. H. Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 234802 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Kinetic Theory for Distribution Functions of Wave-Particle Interactions in Plasmas

Y. Kominis, A. K. Ram, and K. Hizanidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235001 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Spatial Frequency Clustering in Nonlinear Dust-Density Waves

K. O. Menzel, O. Arp, and A. Piel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235002 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Strong Coupling and Degeneracy Effects in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

S. X. Hu, B. Militzer, V. N. Goncharov, and S. Skupsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235003 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Magnetospheric Vortex Formation: Self-Organized Confinement of Charged Particles

Z. Yoshida, H. Saitoh, J. Morikawa, Y. Yano, S. Watanabe, and Y. Ogawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235004 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Verification of Universal Relations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

J. T. Stewart, J. P. Gaebler, T. E. Drake, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235301 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Spontaneous Asymmetry of Coated Spherical Nanoparticles in Solution and at Liquid-Vapor Interfaces

J. Matthew D. Lane and Gary S. Grest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235501 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Atomistic Study of Crack-Tip Cleavage to Dislocation Emission Transition in Silicon Single Crystals

Dipanjan Sen, Christian Thaulow, Stella V. Schieffer, Alan Cohen, and Markus J. Buehler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 235502 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Hole-Mediated Hydrogen Spillover Mechanism in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Kyuho Lee, Yong-Hyun Kim, Y. Y. Sun, D. West, Yufeng Zhao, Zhongfang Chen, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236101 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Ripples in Strongly Correlated Metals

E. C. Andrade, E. Miranda, and V. Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236401 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Probing the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Phase by Double Occupancy Modulation Spectroscopy

Anna Korolyuk, Francesco Massel, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236402 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Effective Band Structure of Random Alloys

Voicu Popescu and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236403 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Evidence for a Correlated Insulator to Antiferromagnetic Metal Transition in CrN

P. A. Bhobe, A. Chainani, M. Taguchi, T. Takeuchi, R. Eguchi, M. Matsunami, K. Ishizaka, Y. Takata, M. Oura, Y. Senba, H. Ohashi, Y. Nishino, M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, T. Ishikawa, K. Takenaka, H. Takagi, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236404 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Mechanism for Current Saturation and Energy Dissipation in Graphene Transistors

Ashley M. DaSilva, Ke Zou, J. K. Jain, and J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236601 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Giant Magnetoresistance in Organic Spin Valves

Dali Sun, Lifeng Yin, Chengjun Sun, Hangwen Guo, Zheng Gai, X.-G. Zhang, T. Z. Ward, Zhaohua Cheng, and Jian Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236602 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

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Dynamical Coulomb Blockade and the Derivative Discontinuity of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

S. Kurth, G. Stefanucci, E. Khosravi, C. Verdozzi, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236801 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Exchange Control of Nuclear Spin Diffusion in a Double Quantum Dot

D. J. Reilly, J. M. Taylor, J. R. Petta, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 236802 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Strong Surface Contribution to the Nonlinear Meissner Effect in $d$ -Wave Superconductors

A. Zare, T. Dahm, and N. Schopohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237001 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Family of Exactly Solvable Models with an Ultimate Quantum Paramagnetic Ground State

Kai Phillip Schmidt and Mukul Laad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237201 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

Surface Spin Flip Probability of Mesoscopic Ag Wires

G. Mihajlović, J. E. Pearson, S. D. Bader, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237202 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Disorder in a Quantum Spin Liquid: Flux Binding and Local Moment Formation

A. J. Willans, J. T. Chalker, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237203 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Magnetic Exchange Splitting in Fe above the Curie Temperature

M. Pickel, A. B. Schmidt, M. Weinelt, and M. Donath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237204 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Supersolid Phases in a Realistic Three-Dimensional Spin Model

Luis Seabra and Nic Shannon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237205 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Dynamic Binding of Driven Interfaces in Coupled Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Layers

P. J. Metaxas, R. L. Stamps, J.-P. Jamet, J. Ferré, V. Baltz, B. Rodmacq, and P. Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237206 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Two-Spinon and Four-Spinon Continuum in a Frustrated Ferromagnetic Spin- $1 / 2$ Chain

M. Enderle, B. Fåk, H.-J. Mikeska, R. K. Kremer, A. Prokofiev, and W. Assmus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237207 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Infrared Conductivity of Elemental Bismuth under Pressure: Evidence for an Avoided Lifshitz-Type Semimetal-Semiconductor Transition

N. P. Armitage, Riccardo Tediosi, F. Lévy, E. Giannini, L. Forro, and D. van der Marel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 237401 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Unjamming Dynamics: The Micromechanics of a Seismic Fault Model

Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Eugenio Lippiello, Cataldo Godano, and Lucilla de Arcangelis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238001 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Pressure Independence of Granular Flow through an Aperture

M. A. Aguirre, J. G. Grande, A. Calvo, L. A. Pugnaloni, and J.-C. Géminard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238002 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

Biased Transport of Elastic Cytoskeletal Filaments with Alternating Polarities by Molecular Motors

Barak Gur and Oded Farago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238101 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

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Bacterial Chromosomal Loci Move Subdiffusively through a Viscoelastic Cytoplasm

Stephanie C. Weber, Andrew J. Spakowitz, and Julie A. Theriot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238102 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Base-By-Base Ratcheting of Single Stranded DNA through a Solid-State Nanopore

Binquan Luan, Hongbo Peng, Stas Polonsky, Steve Rossnagel, Gustavo Stolovitzky, and Glenn Martyna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238103 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Statistical Mechanics of Developable Ribbons

L. Giomi and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238104 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010

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Observations of Random Walk of the Ground in Space and Time

Vladimir Shiltsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 238501 (2010) - Published 7 June, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Diffusion and Dimer Formation of CO Molecules Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses”

H. Ueba and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 239601 (2010) - Published 9 June, 2010

Comment on “Measuring the Configurational Heat Capacity of Liquids”

Robert M. Pick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 239602 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

Wang and Richert Reply:

L.-M. Wang and R. Richert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 239603 (2010) - Published 10 June, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Revisiting the Young’s Double Slit Experiment for Background-Free Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213905 (2010)]

David Gachet, Sophie Brustlein, and Hervé Rigneault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 239901 (2010) - Published 8 June, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Cryptotomography: Reconstructing 3D Fourier Intensities from Randomly Oriented Single-Shot Diffraction Patterns [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 225501 (2010)]

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, 239902 (2010) - Published 11 June, 2010