Volume 104, Issue 25

25 June 2010

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Linac Coherent Light Source free-electron x-ray laser undulator section. Inset: Photoionization of nitrogen molecules. Ion time-of-flight mass spectra and charge state distribution plotted over pulse duration. See also Synopsis in Physics.

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Ultraintense X-Ray Induced Ionization, Dissociation, and Frustrated Absorption in Molecular Nitrogen
M. Hoener et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253002 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Ultraintense X-Ray Induced Ionization, Dissociation, and Frustrated Absorption in Molecular Nitrogen

M. Hoener et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253002 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

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Nonsuperfluid Origin of the Nonclassical Rotational Inertia in a Bulk Sample of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

John D. Reppy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255301 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

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High Melting Points of Tantalum in a Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell

Agnès Dewaele, Mohamed Mezouar, Nicolas Guignot, and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255701 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

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Orientation-Dependent Entanglement Lifetime in a Squeezed Atomic Clock

Ian D. Leroux, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250801 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

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Generation and Compression of Chirped Biphotons

S. Sensarn, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253602 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

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Classical to Path-Integral Adaptive Resolution in Molecular Simulation: Towards a Smooth Quantum-Classical Coupling

A. B. Poma and L. Delle Site

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250201 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

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Fractal Universe and Quantum Gravity

Gianluca Calcagni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251301 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Classical to Path-Integral Adaptive Resolution in Molecular Simulation: Towards a Smooth Quantum-Classical Coupling

A. B. Poma and L. Delle Site

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250201 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Non-Markovian Entanglement Dynamics in the Presence of System-Bath Coherence

Arend G. Dijkstra and Yoshitaka Tanimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250401 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Stokes Phenomenon and Schwinger Vacuum Pair Production in Time-Dependent Laser Pulses

Cesim K. Dumlu and Gerald V. Dunne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250402 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Hawking Radiation from an Acoustic Black Hole on an Ion Ring

B. Horstmann, B. Reznik, S. Fagnocchi, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250403 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Convergence Rates for Arbitrary Statistical Moments of Random Quantum Circuits

Winton G. Brown and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250501 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Quantum Algorithm for Exact Monte Carlo Sampling

Nicolas Destainville, Bertrand Georgeot, and Olivier Giraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250502 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Arbitrarily Large Continuous-Variable Cluster States from a Single Quantum Nondemolition Gate

Nicolas C. Menicucci, Xian Ma, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250503 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

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Orientation-Dependent Entanglement Lifetime in a Squeezed Atomic Clock

Ian D. Leroux, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250801 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling

L. Hüdepohl, B. Müller, H.-T. Janka, A. Marek, and G. G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251101 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Quantum Enhancement of the Zero-Area Sagnac Interferometer Topology for Gravitational Wave Detection

Tobias Eberle, Sebastian Steinlechner, Jöran Bauchrowitz, Vitus Händchen, Henning Vahlbruch, Moritz Mehmet, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251102 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Connection between Black-Hole Quasinormal Modes and Lensing in the Strong Deflection Limit

Ivan Zh. Stefanov, Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev, and Galin G. Gyulchev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251103 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

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Fractal Universe and Quantum Gravity

Gianluca Calcagni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251301 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Fisher’s Zeros as the Boundary of Renormalization Group Flows in Complex Coupling Spaces

A. Denbleyker, Daping Du, Yuzhi Liu, Y. Meurice, and Haiyuan Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251601 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Effects of Compactification in D-brane Inflation

Daniel Baumann, Anatoly Dymarsky, Shamit Kachru, Igor R. Klebanov, and Liam McAllister

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251602 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Exotic Branes and Nongeometric Backgrounds

Jan de Boer and Masaki Shigemori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251603 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Search for Pair Production of Supersymmetric Top Quarks in Dilepton Events from $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251801 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Unitarity Triangle without Semileptonic Decays

E. Lunghi and Amarjit Soni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 251802 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Flavor Changing Neutral Coupling Mediated Radiative Top Quark Decays at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Jure Drobnak, Svjetlana Fajfer, and Jernej F. Kamenik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 252001 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Transition in Yield and Azimuthal Shape Modification in Dihadron Correlations in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 252301 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Suppression of Charge Equilibration Leading to the Synthesis of Exotic Nuclei

Yoritaka Iwata, Takaharu Otsuka, Joachim A. Maruhn, and Naoyuki Itagaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 252501 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Nuclear Spins and Moments of Ga Isotopes Reveal Sudden Structural Changes between $N = 40$ and $N = 50$

B. Cheal, E. Mané, J. Billowes, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, B. A. Brown, F. C. Charlwood, K. T. Flanagan, D. H. Forest, C. Geppert, M. Honma, A. Jokinen, M. Kowalska, A. Krieger, J. Krämer, I. D. Moore, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, M. Schug, H. H. Stroke, P. Vingerhoets, D. T. Yordanov, and M. Žáková

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 252502 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Production and Decay of Element 114: High Cross Sections and the New Nucleus ${}^{277}{Hs}$

Ch. E. Düllmann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 252701 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Microwave Lens for Polar Molecules

Hitoshi Odashima, Simon Merz, Katsunari Enomoto, Melanie Schnell, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253001 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

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Ultraintense X-Ray Induced Ionization, Dissociation, and Frustrated Absorption in Molecular Nitrogen

M. Hoener et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253002 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Spectrum of Two-Level Systems with Discrete Frequency Fluctuations

Yoav Sagi, Rami Pugatch, Ido Almog, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253003 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Quantum Theory of Recollisional ( $e$ , $2 e$ ) Process in Strong Field Nonsequential Double Ionization of Helium

Zhangjin Chen, Yaqiu Liang, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253201 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Optical Nanoprobing via Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light

Oscar G. Rodríguez-Herrera, David Lara, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Chris Dainty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253601 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

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Generation and Compression of Chirped Biphotons

S. Sensarn, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253602 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Differential Ghost Imaging

F. Ferri, D. Magatti, L. A. Lugiato, and A. Gatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253603 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Spectroscopic Test of Bose-Einstein Statistics for Photons

D. English, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253604 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three-Dimensional Study of the Vector Potential of Magnetic Structures

Charudatta Phatak, Amanda K. Petford-Long, and Marc De Graef

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253901 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Asymmetric Transmission of Linearly Polarized Light at Optical Metamaterials

C. Menzel, C. Helgert, C. Rockstuhl, E.-B. Kley, A. Tünnermann, T. Pertsch, and F. Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253902 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Delay-Bandwidth and Delay-Loss Limitations for Cloaking of Large Objects

Hila Hashemi, Baile Zhang, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253903 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Diffusion-Trapped Airy Beams in Photorefractive Media

Shu Jia, Joyce Lee, Jason W. Fleischer, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 253904 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Universal Response of Quantum Systems with Chaotic Dynamics

Diego A. Wisniacki, Natalia Ares, and Eduardo G. Vergini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 254101 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Amplitude-Phase Synchronization at the Onset of Permanent Spatiotemporal Chaos

Abraham C.-L. Chian, Rodrigo A. Miranda, Erico L. Rempel, Yoshitaka Saiki, and Michio Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 254102 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Scale-Dependent Statistical Geometry in Two-Dimensional Flow

Sophia T. Merrifield, Douglas H. Kelley, and Nicholas T. Ouellette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 254501 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Centroid and Envelope Dynamics of High-Intensity Charged-Particle Beams in an External Focusing Lattice and Oscillating Wobbler

Hong Qin, Ronald C. Davidson, and B. Grant Logan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 254801 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Exploring the Saturation Levels of Stimulated Raman Scattering in the Absolute Regime

D. T. Michel, S. Depierreux, C. Stenz, V. Tassin, and C. Labaune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255001 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Anisotropy of Solar Wind Turbulence between Ion and Electron Scales

C. H. K. Chen, T. S. Horbury, A. A. Schekochihin, R. T. Wicks, O. Alexandrova, and J. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255002 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Self-Modulation Instability of a Long Proton Bunch in Plasmas

Naveen Kumar, Alexander Pukhov, and Konstantin Lotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255003 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Laboratory Observation of Localized Onset of Magnetic Reconnection

Noam Katz, Jan Egedal, Will Fox, Ari Le, Jeff Bonde, and Arturs Vrublevskis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255004 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Nonsuperfluid Origin of the Nonclassical Rotational Inertia in a Bulk Sample of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

John D. Reppy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255301 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Ramsey Interference in One-Dimensional Systems: The Full Distribution Function of Fringe Contrast as a Probe of Many-Body Dynamics

Takuya Kitagawa, Susanne Pielawa, Adilet Imambekov, Jörg Schmiedmayer, Vladimir Gritsev, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255302 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Interacting Hofstadter Spectrum of Atoms in an Artificial Gauge Field

Stephen Powell, Ryan Barnett, Rajdeep Sensarma, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255303 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Structure Modulation Driven by Cyclic Deformation in Nanocrystalline NiFe

Sheng Cheng, Yonghao Zhao, Yinmin Wang, Ying Li, Xun-Li Wang, Peter K. Liaw, and Enrique J. Lavernia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255501 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

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High Melting Points of Tantalum in a Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell

Agnès Dewaele, Mohamed Mezouar, Nicolas Guignot, and Paul Loubeyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255701 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

High-Pressure—High-Temperature Polymorphism in Ta: Resolving an Ongoing Experimental Controversy

L. Burakovsky, S. P. Chen, D. L. Preston, A. B. Belonoshko, A. Rosengren, A. S. Mikhaylushkin, S. I. Simak, and J. A. Moriarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255702 (2010) - Published 21 June, 2010

Magnetically Induced Pattern Formation in Phase Separating Polymer-Solvent–Nanoparticle Mixtures

Rakchanok Rungsawang, Joakim da Silva, Cheng-Pei Wu, Easan Sivaniah, Adrian Ionescu, Crispin H. W. Barnes, and Nicholas J. Darton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255703 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Mode-Coupling Theory as a Mean-Field Description of the Glass Transition

Atsushi Ikeda and Kunimasa Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 255704 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Temperature Dependence of Atomic-Scale Stick-Slip Friction

Lars Jansen, Hendrik Hölscher, Harald Fuchs, and André Schirmeisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256101 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Site Specificity in Femtosecond Laser Desorption of Neutral H Atoms from Graphite(0001)

R. Frigge, T. Hoger, B. Siemer, H. Witte, M. Silies, H. Zacharias, T. Olsen, and J. Schiøtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256102 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Ordering Induced Ferromagnetic Insulator: $K_{2} {Cr}_{8} O_{16}$

Priya Mahadevan, Abhinav Kumar, Debraj Choudhury, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256401 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

NMR Study of the Mott Transitions to Superconductivity in the Two ${Cs}_{3} C_{60}$ Phases

Y. Ihara, H. Alloul, P. Wzietek, D. Pontiroli, M. Mazzani, and M. Riccò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256402 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Surface Charge Density Wave Phase Transition in $NbS e_{3}$

Christophe Brun, Zhao-Zhong Wang, Pierre Monceau, and Serguei Brazovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256403 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Columnar Fluctuations as a Source of Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Weak Metallic Magnets

T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256404 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Effects of Spin Currents

Jing Wang, Bang-Fen Zhu, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256601 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

How to Measure the Transmission Phase through a Quantum Dot in a Two-Terminal Interferometer

Vadim I. Puller and Yigal Meir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256801 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Optical Hall Effect in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime

Y. Ikebe, T. Morimoto, R. Masutomi, T. Okamoto, H. Aoki, and R. Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256802 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Surface Band-Gap Narrowing in Quantized Electron Accumulation Layers

P. D. C. King, T. D. Veal, C. F. McConville, J. Zúñiga-Pérez, V. Muñoz-Sanjosé, M. Hopkinson, E. D. L. Rienks, M. Fuglsang Jensen, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256803 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Edge Dynamics in a Quantum Spin Hall State: Effects from Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction

Anders Ström, Henrik Johannesson, and G. I. Japaridze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256804 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Quasiparticle Interference in the Spin-Density Wave Phase of Iron-Based Superconductors

J. Knolle, I. Eremin, A. Akbari, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257001 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Quenching the Superconducting State of Cuprate Compounds with Electric Currents: A Variational Study

Lilach Goren and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257002 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Glassy Dynamics in Thermally Activated List Sorting

Ling-Nan Zou (邹岭楠) and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257201 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Real-Time Changes in the Optical Spectrum of Organic Semiconducting Films and Their Thickness Regimes during Growth

U. Heinemeyer, K. Broch, A. Hinderhofer, M. Kytka, R. Scholz, A. Gerlach, and F. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257401 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Mechanically Generated Surface Chirality at the Nanoscale

Sameh Ferjani, Yoonseuk Choi, Joel Pendery, Rolfe G. Petschek, and Charles Rosenblatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257801 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Power of the Poincaré Group: Elucidating the Hidden Symmetries in Focal Conic Domains

Gareth P. Alexander, Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, and Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 257802 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Run-and-Tumble Particles with Hydrodynamics: Sedimentation, Trapping, and Upstream Swimming

R. W. Nash, R. Adhikari, J. Tailleur, and M. E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 258101 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Self-Limited Self-Assembly of Chiral Filaments

Yasheng Yang, Robert B. Meyer, and Michael F. Hagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 258102 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

Protein-Mediated DNA Loop Formation and Breakdown in a Fluctuating Environment

Yih-Fan Chen, J. N. Milstein, and Jens-Christian Meiners

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 258103 (2010) - Published 24 June, 2010

Epidemic Threshold for the Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible Model on Random Networks

Roni Parshani, Shai Carmi, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 258701 (2010) - Published 22 June, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum Criticality and Nodal Superconductivity in the FeAs-Based Superconductor ${KFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ ”

Taichi Terashima, Motoi Kimata, Nobuyuki Kurita, Hidetaka Satsukawa, Atsushi Harada, Kaori Hazama, Motoharu Imai, Akira Sato, Kunihiro Kihou, Chul-Ho Lee, Hijiri Kito, Hiroshi Eisaki, Akira Iyo, Taku Saito, Hideto Fukazawa, Yoh Kohori, Hisatomo Harima, and Shinya Uji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 259701 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Publisher’s Note: High Harmonic Spectroscopy of Multichannel Dynamics in Strong-Field Ionization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 213601 (2010)] [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 229901 (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, 259901 (2010) - Published 23 June, 2010

Erratum: Observation and Control of Transverse Energy-Transport Barrier due to the Formation of an Energetic-Electron Layer with Sheared $E \times B$ Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 055001 (2006)]

T. Cho, M. Hirata, and V. P. Pastukhov (GAMMA 10 Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 259902 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010

Erratum: Particle Accelerators Inside Spinning Black Holes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 211102 (2010)]

Kayll Lake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 259903 (2010) - Published 25 June, 2010