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Volume 104, Issue 24

18 June 2010
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Molecular dynamics simulations track the behavior of a precursor film as a water droplet (red and white) wrapped in graphene (blue) spreads on gold.

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Precursor Film in Dynamic Wetting, Electrowetting, and Electro-Elasto-Capillarity
Quanzi Yuan and Ya-Pu Zhao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246101 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Limits of Sensing Temporal Concentration Changes by Single Cells

Thierry Mora and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248101 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

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Berry-Phase Translation of X Rays by a Deformed Crystal

Yoshiki Kohmura, Kei Sawada, and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 244801 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

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Long-Range Dynamic Correlations in Confined Suspensions

Derek Frydel and Haim Diamant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248302 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density of States of Colloidal Glasses

Antina Ghosh, Vijayakumar K. Chikkadi, Peter Schall, Jorge Kurchan, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248305 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

LETTERS

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

Contextual Values of Observables in Quantum Measurements

J. Dressel, S. Agarwal, and A. N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240401 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Nonlinear Phase Dynamics in a Driven Bosonic Josephson Junction

Erez Boukobza, Michael G. Moore, Doron Cohen, and Amichay Vardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240402 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Nonequivalence of Ensembles for Long-Range Quantum Spin Systems in Optical Lattices

Michael Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240403 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Emerging Beam Resonances in Atom Diffraction from a Reflection Grating

Bum Suk Zhao (조범석), Gerard Meijer, and Wieland Schöllkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240404 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Highly Entangled States with Almost No Secrecy

Matthias Christandl, Norbert Schuch, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240405 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

η Condensate of Fermionic Atom Pairs via Adiabatic State Preparation

A. Kantian, A. J. Daley, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240406 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Pseudogap Pairing in Ultracold Fermi Atoms

Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu, Peter D. Drummond, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240407 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Controllable Gaussian-Qubit Interface for Extremal Quantum State Engineering

Gerardo Adesso, Steve Campbell, Fabrizio Illuminati, and Mauro Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240501 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Gisin’s Theorem for Arbitrary Dimensional Multipartite States

Ming Li and Shao-Ming Fei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 240502 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Tuning the Mass of Chameleon Fields in Casimir Force Experiments

Ph. Brax, C. van de Bruck, A. C. Davis, D. J. Shaw, and D. Iannuzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241101 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observational Signatures of Superconducting Cosmic Strings?

K. S. Cheng, Yun-Wei Yu, and T. Harko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241102 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Limits on Light-Speed Anisotropies from Compton Scattering of High-Energy Electrons

J.-P. Bocquet et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241601 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Search for WW and WZ Resonances Decaying to Electron, Missing ET, and Two Jets in pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV.

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241801 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in the Dielectron and Diphoton Final States with 5.4  fb−1 of Data from pp¯ Collisions at s=1.96  TeV

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241802 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Observation of a JPC=1−+ Exotic Resonance in Diffractive Dissociation of 190   GeV/c π− into π−π−π+

M. G. Alekseev et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241803 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Factorization Breaking in High-Transverse-Momentum Charged-Hadron Production at the Tevatron?

S. Albino, B. A. Kniehl, and G. Kramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 242001 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Recoil Polarization Measurements of the Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor Ratio to Q2=8.5  GeV2

A. J. R. Puckett et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 242301 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Symmetry-Forbidden Electronic State Interference Observed in Angularly Resolved NO+(A Π1) Deexcitation Spectra of the N*O(2σ−12π2) Resonance

Ph. V. Demekhin, I. D. Petrov, V. L. Sukhorukov, W. Kielich, A. Knie, H. Schmoranzer, and A. Ehresmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243001 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Ultracold Giant Polyatomic Rydberg Molecules: Coherent Control of Molecular Orientation

Seth T. Rittenhouse and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243002 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Positronium Cooling and Emission in Vacuum from Nanochannels at Cryogenic Temperature

Sebastiano Mariazzi, Paolo Bettotti, and Roberto S. Brusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243401 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Pump-Induced Dynamical Tunneling in a Deformed Microcavity Laser

Juhee Yang, Sang-Bum Lee, Songky Moon, Soo-Young Lee, Sang Wook Kim, Truong Thi Anh Dao, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Kyungwon An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243601 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Cold-Atom-Induced Control of an Optomechanical Device

M. Paternostro, G. De Chiara, and G. M. Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243602 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Polychromatic Photonic Quasicrystal Cavities

Susanna M. Thon, William T. M. Irvine, Dustin Kleckner, and Dirk Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243901 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Phase-Coupled Plasmon-Induced Transparency

Rohan D. Kekatpure, Edward S. Barnard, Wenshan Cai, and Mark L. Brongersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 243902 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Molecular Emission and Temperature Measurements from Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence

Hangxun Xu and Kenneth S. Suslick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 244301 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Discrete Breathers in One-Dimensional Diatomic Granular Crystals

N. Boechler, G. Theocharis, S. Job, P. G. Kevrekidis, Mason A. Porter, and C. Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 244302 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Berry-Phase Translation of X Rays by a Deformed Crystal

Yoshiki Kohmura, Kei Sawada, and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 244801 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Unified First Principles Description from Warm Dense Matter to Ideal Ionized Gas Plasma: Electron-Ion Collisions Induced Friction

Jiayu Dai, Yong Hou, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245001 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Observation of Beat Oscillation Generation by Coupled Waves Associated with Parametric Decay during Radio Frequency Wave Heating of a Spherical Tokamak Plasma

Yoshihiko Nagashima, Takuya Oosako, Yuichi Takase, Akira Ejiri, Osamu Watanabe, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Yuuki Adachi, Hiroshi Tojo, Takashi Yamaguchi, Hiroki Kurashina, Kotaro Yamada, Byung Il An, Hiroshi Kasahara, Fujio Shimpo, Ryuhei Kumazawa, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Haduki Matsuzawa, Junichi Hiratsuka, Kentaro Hanashima, Hidetoshi Kakuda, Takuya Sakamoto, and Takuma Wakatsuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245002 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Altered Reactivity and the Emergence of Ionic Metal Ordered Structures in Li-Cs at High Pressures

Xiuwen Zhang and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245501 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Insights on the Atomic and Electronic Structure of Boron Nanoribbons

Sumit Saxena and Trevor A. Tyson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245502 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Scaling Theory of the Mott Transition and Breakdown of the Grüneisen Scaling Near a Finite-Temperature Critical End Point

Lorenz Bartosch, Mariano de Souza, and Michael Lang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245701 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Key Role of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Colloidal Gelation

Akira Furukawa and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245702 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Shear Relaxation in Iron under the Conditions of Earth’s Inner Core

A. B. Belonoshko, T. Bryk, and A. Rosengren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245703 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Cooling Classical Particles with a Microcanonical Szilard Engine

Rahul Marathe and J. M. R. Parrondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245704 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Criticality in Trapped Atomic Systems

L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245705 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Precursor Film in Dynamic Wetting, Electrowetting, and Electro-Elasto-Capillarity

Quanzi Yuan and Ya-Pu Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246101 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi-Surface Topology and Helical Antiferromagnetism in Heavy Lanthanide Metals

K. M. Döbrich, A. Bostwick, J. L. McChesney, K. Rossnagel, E. Rotenberg, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246401 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Dynamical Vertex Approximation for Nanoscopic Systems

A. Valli, G. Sangiovanni, O. Gunnarsson, A. Toschi, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246402 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Magnetoelectric Photocurrent Generated by Direct Interband Transitions in InGaAs/InAlAs Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Junfeng Dai, Hai-Zhou Lu, C. L. Yang, Shun-Qing Shen, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Xiaodong Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246601 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Layered Distribution of Charge Carriers in Organic Thin Film Transistors

Arian Shehu, Santiago D. Quiroga, Pasquale D’Angelo, Cristiano Albonetti, Francesco Borgatti, Mauro Murgia, Andrea Scorzoni, Pablo Stoliar, and Fabio Biscarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246602 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Large Anisotropy of the Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Single InAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dot

S. Takahashi, R. S. Deacon, K. Yoshida, A. Oiwa, K. Shibata, K. Hirakawa, Y. Tokura, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246801 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Correlated Electrons in Optically Tunable Quantum Dots: Building an Electron Dimer Molecule

Achintya Singha, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, and Massimo Rontani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246802 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Nearly Massless Electrons in the Silicon Interface with a Metal Film

Keun Su Kim, Sung Chul Jung, Myung Ho Kang, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246803 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Ferromagnetic Proximity Effect in a Ferromagnet–Quantum-Dot–Superconductor Device

L. Hofstetter, A. Geresdi, M. Aagesen, J. Nygård, C. Schönenberger, and S. Csonka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246804 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Density-Dependent Reorientation and Rehybridization of Chemisorbed Conjugated Molecules for Controlling Interface Electronic Structure

B. Bröker, O. T. Hofmann, G. M. Rangger, P. Frank, R.-P. Blum, R. Rieger, L. Venema, A. Vollmer, K. Müllen, J. P. Rabe, A. Winkler, P. Rudolf, E. Zojer, and N. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246805 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Gate-Controlled One-Dimensional Channel on the Surface of a 3D Topological Insulator

Takehito Yokoyama, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246806 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

Dynamic Cluster Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of a Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model with Stripelike Charge-Density-Wave Modulations: Interplay between Inhomogeneities and the Superconducting State

T. A. Maier, G. Alvarez, M. Summers, and T. C. Schulthess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247001 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Evidence for Long-Range Correlations within Arrays of Spontaneously Created Magnetic Vortices in a Nb Thin-Film Superconductor

Daniel Golubchik, Emil Polturak, and Gad Koren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247002 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Theory of Microwave-Assisted Supercurrent in Diffusive SNS Junctions

Pauli Virtanen, Tero T. Heikkilä, F. Sebastián Bergeret, and Juan Carlos Cuevas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247003 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Strong Valence Fluctuation in the Quantum Critical Heavy Fermion Superconductor β−YbAlB4: A Hard X-Ray Photoemission Study

M. Okawa, M. Matsunami, K. Ishizaka, R. Eguchi, M. Taguchi, A. Chainani, Y. Takata, M. Yabashi, K. Tamasaku, Y. Nishino, T. Ishikawa, K. Kuga, N. Horie, S. Nakatsuji, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247201 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Giant Magnetoelastic Coupling in a Metallic Helical Metamagnet

A. Barcza, Z. Gercsi, K. S. Knight, and K. G. Sandeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247202 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

CdEr2Se4: A New Erbium Spin Ice System in a Spinel Structure

J. Lago, I. Živković, B. Z. Malkin, J. Rodriguez Fernandez, P. Ghigna, P. Dalmas de Réotier, A. Yaouanc, and T. Rojo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247203 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Comparison of Ising Spin Glass Noise to Flux and Inductance Noise in SQUIDs

Zhi Chen and Clare C. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247204 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Extraction of Many-Body Configurations from Nonlinear Absorption in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

R. P. Smith, J. K. Wahlstrand, A. C. Funk, R. P. Mirin, S. T. Cundiff, J. T. Steiner, M. Schafer, M. Kira, and S. W. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247401 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Exciton Diffusion in Air-Suspended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

S. Moritsubo, T. Murai, T. Shimada, Y. Murakami, S. Chiashi, S. Maruyama, and Y. K. Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247402 (2010) - Published 15 June, 2010

Auger-Mediated Sticking of Positrons to Surfaces: Evidence for a Single-Step Transition from a Scattering State to a Surface Image Potential Bound State

S. Mukherjee, M. P. Nadesalingam, P. Guagliardo, A. D. Sergeant, B. Barbiellini, J. F. Williams, N. G. Fazleev, and A. H. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 247403 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Experimental Realization of a Rotational Ratchet in a Granular Gas

Peter Eshuis, Ko van der Weele, Detlef Lohse, and Devaraj van der Meer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248001 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limits of Sensing Temporal Concentration Changes by Single Cells

Thierry Mora and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248101 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Dynamic Instabilities in Assemblies of Molecular Motors with Finite Stiffness

T. Guérin, J. Prost, and J.-F. Joanny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248102 (2010) - Published 16 June, 2010

Small Surface Pretilt Strikingly Affects the Director Profile during Poiseuille Flow of a Nematic Liquid Crystal

C. J. Holmes, S. L. Cornford, and J. R. Sambles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248301 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Long-Range Dynamic Correlations in Confined Suspensions

Derek Frydel and Haim Diamant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248302 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Interfacially Driven Instability in the Microchannel Flow of a Shear-Banding Fluid

P. Nghe, S. M. Fielding, P. Tabeling, and A. Ajdari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248303 (2010) - Published 17 June, 2010

Coarsening Foams Robustly Reach a Self-Similar Growth Regime

Jérôme Lambert, Rajmund Mokso, Isabelle Cantat, Peter Cloetens, James A. Glazier, François Graner, and Renaud Delannay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248304 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density of States of Colloidal Glasses

Antina Ghosh, Vijayakumar K. Chikkadi, Peter Schall, Jorge Kurchan, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248305 (2010) - Published 18 June, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Hidden Slow Dynamics in Water”

R. Richert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 249801 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Jansson, Bergman, and Swenson Reply:

H. Jansson, R. Bergman, and J. Swenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 249802 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Comment on “Hidden Slow Dynamics in Water”

Catalin P. Gainaru and Roland Böhmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 249803 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

Jansson, Bergman, and Swenson Reply:

H. Jansson, R. Bergman, and J. Swenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 249804 (2010) - Published 14 June, 2010

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