Volume 104, Issue 3

22 January 2010

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Turbulence arises in the temperature field of a fluid with a heavy layer (black) placed on top of a light layer (white).

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Nonlinear Diffusion Model for Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing
G. Boffetta, F. De Lillo, and S. Musacchio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034505 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measuring the Superfluid Fraction of an Ultracold Atomic Gas

Nigel R. Cooper and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030401 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

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NMR Implementation of a Molecular Hydrogen Quantum Simulation with Adiabatic State Preparation

Jiangfeng Du, Nanyang Xu, Xinhua Peng, Pengfei Wang, Sanfeng Wu, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030502 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

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Controlling the Hyperfine State of Rovibronic Ground-State Polar Molecules

S. Ospelkaus, K.-K. Ni, G. Quéméner, B. Neyenhuis, D. Wang, M. H. G. de Miranda, J. L. Bohn, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030402 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Measuring the Superfluid Fraction of an Ultracold Atomic Gas

Nigel R. Cooper and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030401 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

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Controlling the Hyperfine State of Rovibronic Ground-State Polar Molecules

S. Ospelkaus, K.-K. Ni, G. Quéméner, B. Neyenhuis, D. Wang, M. H. G. de Miranda, J. L. Bohn, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030402 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Capacities of Lossy Bosonic Memory Channels

Cosmo Lupo, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Stefano Mancini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030501 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

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NMR Implementation of a Molecular Hydrogen Quantum Simulation with Adiabatic State Preparation

Jiangfeng Du, Nanyang Xu, Xinhua Peng, Pengfei Wang, Sanfeng Wu, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030502 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Bound States for Magic State Distillation in Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Earl T. Campbell and Dan E. Browne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 030503 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Absence of Correlations in the QCD Dirac Spectrum at High Temperature

Tamás G. Kovács

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 031601 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spectral Shape of the Two-Photon Decay of the $2 {}^{1}S_{0}$ State in He-Like Tin

S. Trotsenko, A. Kumar, A. V. Volotka, D. Banaś, H. F. Beyer, H. Bräuning, S. Fritzsche, A. Gumberidze, S. Hagmann, S. Hess, P. Jagodziński, C. Kozhuharov, R. Reuschl, S. Salem, A. Simon, U. Spillmann, M. Trassinelli, L. C. Tribedi, G. Weber, D. Winters, and Th. Stöhlker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 033001 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Theory of Deep Minima in $(e, 2 e)$ Measurements of Triply Differential Cross Sections

J. H. Macek, J. B. Sternberg, S. Y. Ovchinnikov, and J. S. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 033201 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Theoretical Analysis of Mechanical Displacement Measurement Using a Multiple Cavity Mode Transducer

J. M. Dobrindt and T. J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 033901 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Roughness Induced Backscattering in Optical Silicon Waveguides

Francesco Morichetti, Antonio Canciamilla, Carlo Ferrari, Matteo Torregiani, Andrea Melloni, and Mario Martinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 033902 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Effective Magnetic Fields for Stationary Light

J. Otterbach, J. Ruseckas, R. G. Unanyan, G. Juzeliūnas, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 033903 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Emergence of Compact Structures in a Klein-Gordon Model

Philip Rosenau and Eugene Kashdan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034101 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Optical Negative Refraction in Ferrofluids with Magnetocontrollability

Y. Gao, J. P. Huang, Y. M. Liu, L. Gao, K. W. Yu, and X. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034501 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Appearance of Three Dimensionality in Wall-Bounded MHD Flows

R. Klein and A. Pothérat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034502 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Effect of a Polymer Additive on Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Guenter Ahlers and Alexei Nikolaenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034503 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Impact of a Viscous Liquid Drop

Robert D. Schroll, Christophe Josserand, Stéphane Zaleski, and Wendy W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034504 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Nonlinear Diffusion Model for Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing

G. Boffetta, F. De Lillo, and S. Musacchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 034505 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Threshold for Thermal Ionization of an Aluminum Surface by Pulsed Megagauss Magnetic Field

T. J. Awe, B. S. Bauer, S. Fuelling, and R. E. Siemon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035001 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Picosecond Short-Range Disordering in Isochorically Heated Aluminum at Solid Density

A. Mančić, A. Lévy, M. Harmand, M. Nakatsutsumi, P. Antici, P. Audebert, P. Combis, S. Fourmaux, S. Mazevet, O. Peyrusse, V. Recoules, P. Renaudin, J. Robiche, F. Dorchies, and J. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035002 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Resistive Wall Mode Instability at Intermediate Plasma Rotation

J. W. Berkery, S. A. Sabbagh, R. Betti, B. Hu, R. E. Bell, S. P. Gerhardt, J. Manickam, and K. Tritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035003 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Experimental Demonstration of X-Ray Drive Enhancement with Rugby-Shaped Hohlraums

F. Philippe, A. Casner, T. Caillaud, O. Landoas, M. C. Monteil, S. Liberatore, H. S. Park, P. Amendt, H. Robey, C. Sorce, C. K. Li, F. Seguin, M. Rosenberg, R. Petrasso, V. Glebov, and C. Stoeckl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035004 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phases of Polonium via Density Functional Theory

Matthieu J. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035501 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Shear Melting of a Colloidal Glass

Christoph Eisenmann, Chanjoong Kim, Johan Mattsson, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035502 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Alloy Catalyst in a Reactive Environment: The Example of Ag-Cu Particles for Ethylene Epoxidation

Simone Piccinin, Spiros Zafeiratos, Catherine Stampfl, Thomas W. Hansen, Michael Hävecker, Detre Teschner, Valerii I. Bukhtiyarov, Frank Girgsdies, Axel Knop-Gericke, Robert Schlögl, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035503 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Double Percolation Transition in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Nanocomposites

Xiangdong Liu, Raghava P. Panguluri, Zhi-Feng Huang, and Boris Nadgorny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035701 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Tunneling Splitting of Jahn-Teller Ions in Oxides

P. García-Fernández, A. Trueba, M. T. Barriuso, J. A. Aramburu, and M. Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035901 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Diffusion in Al-Cu Melts Studied by Time-Resolved X-Ray Radiography

B. Zhang, A. Griesche, and A. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035902 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Infinite-Order Transitions in Density-Functional Models of Wetting

K. Koga, J. O. Indekeu, and B. Widom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036101 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Structure and Energetics of Azobenzene on Ag(111): Benchmarking Semiempirical Dispersion Correction Approaches

G. Mercurio, E. R. McNellis, I. Martin, S. Hagen, F. Leyssner, S. Soubatch, J. Meyer, M. Wolf, P. Tegeder, F. S. Tautz, and K. Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036102 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Optimal Electron Doping of a $C_{60}$ Monolayer on Cu(111) via Interface Reconstruction

Woei Wu Pai, H. T. Jeng, C.-M. Cheng, C.-H. Lin, Xudong Xiao, Aidi Zhao, Xieqiu Zhang, Geng Xu, X. Q. Shi, M. A. Van Hove, C.-S. Hsue, and K.-D. Tsuei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036103 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Shaping Ge Islands on Si(001) Surfaces with Misorientation Angle

L. Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, and A. Balzarotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036104 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Two-Dimensional Confinement of $3 d^{1}$ Electrons in ${LaTiO}_{3} / {LaAlO}_{3}$ Multilayers

S. S. A. Seo, M. J. Han, G. W. J. Hassink, W. S. Choi, S. J. Moon, J. S. Kim, T. Susaki, Y. S. Lee, J. Yu, C. Bernhard, H. Y. Hwang, G. Rijnders, D. H. A. Blank, B. Keimer, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036401 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Recursive Method for the Density of States in One Dimension

Imke Schneider and Sebastian Eggert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036402 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Spin Noise of Electrons and Holes in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

S. A. Crooker, J. Brandt, C. Sandfort, A. Greilich, D. R. Yakovlev, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036601 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Probing Confined Phonon Modes by Transport through a Nanowire Double Quantum Dot

C. Weber, A. Fuhrer, C. Fasth, G. Lindwall, L. Samuelson, and A. Wacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036801 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

New Type of Vacancy-Induced Localized States in Multilayer Graphene

Eduardo V. Castro, María P. López-Sancho, and María A. H. Vozmediano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036802 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Plasmon Excitations by Photoelectron Emission from Rare Gas Nanobubbles in Aluminum

R. S. Dhaka and S. R. Barman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036803 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Kondo Effect in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot with a Spin-Accumulated Lead

T. Kobayashi, S. Tsuruta, S. Sasaki, T. Fujisawa, Y. Tokura, and T. Akazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036804 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Observation of Carrier-Density-Dependent Many-Body Effects in Graphene via Tunneling Spectroscopy

Victor W. Brar (韦小宝), Sebastian Wickenburg (魏烈钢), Melissa Panlasigui, Cheol-Hwan Park, Tim O. Wehling, Yuanbo Zhang (张远波), Régis Decker, Çağlar Girit, Alexander V. Balatsky, Steven G. Louie, Alex Zettl, and Michael F. Crommie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036805 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Oxygen Vacancy Origin of the Surface Band-Gap State of ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

C. M. Yim, C. L. Pang, and G. Thornton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036806 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Localized Edge Vibrations and Edge Reconstruction by Joule Heating in Graphene Nanostructures

M. Engelund, J. A. Fürst, A. P. Jauho, and M. Brandbyge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 036807 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Contrasting Spin Dynamics between Underdoped and Overdoped $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$

F. L. Ning, K. Ahilan, T. Imai, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, P. Cheng, B. Shen, and H.-H Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037001 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Sign Reversal of Field-Angle Resolved Heat Capacity Oscillations in a Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ and $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ Pairing Symmetry

K. An, T. Sakakibara, R. Settai, Y. Onuki, M. Hiragi, M. Ichioka, and K. Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037002 (2010) - Published 22 January, 2010

Nonlocal Effects on Magnetism in the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$

Unjong Yu, Abdol-Madjid Nili, Karlis Mikelsons, Brian Moritz, Juana Moreno, and Mark Jarrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037201 (2010) - Published 19 January, 2010

Magnetostructural Effect in the Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3} − {BiMnO}_{3}$ Checkerboard from First Principles

L. Pálová, P. Chandra, and K. M. Rabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037202 (2010) - Published 20 January, 2010

Entanglement in Supramolecular Spin Systems of Two Weakly Coupled Antiferromagnetic Rings (Purple- $C r_{7} Ni$ )

A. Candini, G. Lorusso, F. Troiani, A. Ghirri, S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, C. Muryn, F. Tuna, G. Timco, E. J. L. McInnes, R. E. P. Winpenny, W. Wernsdorfer, and M. Affronte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037203 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010

Realization of Giant Magnetoelectricity in Helimagnets

Sae Hwan Chun, Yi Sheng Chai, Yoon Seok Oh, Deepshikha Jaiswal-Nagar, So Young Haam, Ingyu Kim, Bumsung Lee, Dong Hak Nam, Kyung-Tae Ko, Jae-Hoon Park, Jae-Ho Chung, and Kee Hoon Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037204 (2010) - Published 21 January, 2010