Volume 104, Issue 4

29 January 2010

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A leaf is resilient to damage as its veins route flow around an injury (black circle in the first image). Stomatal patchiness (second image) in a leaf may regulate water flux under conditions of stress. Access a related movie here. See also Physical Review Focus story.

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Damage and Fluctuations Induce Loops in Optimal Transport Networks
Eleni Katifori, Gergely J. Szöllősi, and Marcelo O. Magnasco
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048704 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Novel Manifestation of $α$ -Clustering Structures: New “ $α + {}^{208}{Pb}$ ” States in ${}^{212}{Po}$ Revealed by Their Enhanced $E 1$ Decays

A. Astier, P. Petkov, M.-G. Porquet, D. S. Delion, and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 042701 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Femtonewton Entropic Forces Can Control the Formation of Protein-Mediated DNA Loops

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048301 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

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Three and Two Hadron Correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$ Proton-Proton and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Alejandro Ayala, Jamal Jalilian-Marian, J. Magnin, Antonio Ortiz, G. Paić, and Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 042301 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Chemically Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities

C. Almarcha, P. M. J. Trevelyan, P. Grosfils, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044501 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Brittle-Quasibrittle Transition in Dynamic Fracture: An Energetic Signature

J. Scheibert, C. Guerra, F. Célarié, D. Dalmas, and D. Bonamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 045501 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Majorana Fermions and Non-Abelian Statistics in Three Dimensions

Jeffrey C. Y. Teo and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046401 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Optimal Form of Branching Supply and Collection Networks

Peter Sheridan Dodds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048702 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Fluctuations and Redundancy in Optimal Transport Networks

Francis Corson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048703 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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Damage and Fluctuations Induce Loops in Optimal Transport Networks

Eleni Katifori, Gergely J. Szöllősi, and Marcelo O. Magnasco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048704 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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Brown-York Mass and the Thorne Hoop Conjecture

Niall Ó Murchadha, Roh-Suan Tung, Naqing Xie, and Edward Malec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 041101 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

LETTERS

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

Bath-Optimized Minimal-Energy Protection of Quantum Operations from Decoherence

Jens Clausen, Guy Bensky, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040401 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Exact Solution for 1D Spin-Polarized Fermions with Resonant Interactions

Adilet Imambekov, Alexander A. Lukyanov, Leonid I. Glazman, and Vladimir Gritsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040402 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Thermal Casimir Effect in the Plane-Sphere Geometry

Antoine Canaguier-Durand, Paulo A. Maia Neto, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040403 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Interacting Boson Problems Can Be QMA Hard

Tzu-Chieh Wei, Michele Mosca, and Ashwin Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040501 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Generic New Platform for Topological Quantum Computation Using Semiconductor Heterostructures

Jay D. Sau, Roman M. Lutchyn, Sumanta Tewari, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040502 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Demonstration of Atomic Frequency Comb Memory for Light with Spin-Wave Storage

Mikael Afzelius, Imam Usmani, Atia Amari, Björn Lauritzen, Andreas Walther, Christoph Simon, Nicolas Sangouard, Jiří Minář, Hugues de Riedmatten, Nicolas Gisin, and Stefan Kröll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040503 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Heat Conduction in a Three Dimensional Anharmonic Crystal

Keiji Saito and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040601 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Direct Measurement of Thermal Fluctuation of High- $Q$ Pendulum

Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Takashi Uchiyama, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Masatake Ohashi, Seiji Kawamura, Shinji Miyoki, Osamu Miyakawa, Souichi Telada, and Kazuaki Kuroda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040602 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Time Walkers and Spatial Dynamics of Aging Information

L. Lizana, M. Rosvall, and K. Sneppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 040603 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Brown-York Mass and the Thorne Hoop Conjecture

Niall Ó Murchadha, Roh-Suan Tung, Naqing Xie, and Edward Malec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 041101 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

SQUID-Based Microwave Cavity Search for Dark-Matter Axions

S. J. Asztalos, G. Carosi, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, K. van Bibber, M. Hotz, L. J Rosenberg, G. Rybka, J. Hoskins, J. Hwang, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, R. Bradley, and J. Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 041301 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Nuclear Physics

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Three and Two Hadron Correlations in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$ Proton-Proton and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Alejandro Ayala, Jamal Jalilian-Marian, J. Magnin, Antonio Ortiz, G. Paić, and Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 042301 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Disentangling the Dynamical Origin of $P_{11}$ Nucleon Resonances

N. Suzuki, B. Juliá-Díaz, H. Kamano, T.-S. H. Lee, A. Matsuyama, and T. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 042302 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Novel Manifestation of $α$ -Clustering Structures: New “ $α + {}^{208}{Pb}$ ” States in ${}^{212}{Po}$ Revealed by Their Enhanced $E 1$ Decays

A. Astier, P. Petkov, M.-G. Porquet, D. S. Delion, and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 042701 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Open Quantum Systems with Unitary Propagation

Joel Yuen-Zhou, David G. Tempel, César A. Rodríguez-Rosario, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043001 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Dynamical Crystallization in the Dipole Blockade of Ultracold Atoms

T. Pohl, E. Demler, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043002 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Fast and Robust Laser Cooling of Trapped Systems

J. Cerrillo, A. Retzker, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043003 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Quantum Coherence of Discrete Kink Solitons in Ion Traps

H. Landa, S. Marcovitch, A. Retzker, M. B. Plenio, and B. Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043004 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

From Recollisions to the Knee: A Road Map for Double Ionization in Intense Laser Fields

F. Mauger, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043005 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Scaling Law for the Partitioning of Energy in Fragmenting Multicharged Carbon Clusters

M. Chabot, F. Mezdari, K. Béroff, G. Martinet, and P.-A. Hervieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043401 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Heralded Generation of an Atomic NOON State

Yu-Ao Chen, Xiao-Hui Bao, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Shuai Chen, Bo Zhao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043601 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Polarization Effects in Attosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Jan Conrad Baggesen and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043602 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Control of Thermal Emission by Selective Heating of Periodic Structures

S. E. Han and D. J. Norris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043901 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Inverse Scattering and Acousto-Optic Imaging

Guillaume Bal and John C. Schotland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043902 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Experimental Observation of Strong Edge Effects on the Pseudodiffusive Transport of Light in Photonic Graphene

Sander R. Zandbergen and Michiel J. A. de Dood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 043903 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Solvable Model of Spiral Wave Chimeras

Erik A. Martens, Carlo R. Laing, and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044101 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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Chemically Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities

C. Almarcha, P. M. J. Trevelyan, P. Grosfils, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044501 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Nonaxisymmetric Magnetorotational Instabilities in Cylindrical Taylor-Couette Flow

Rainer Hollerbach, Vijaya Teeluck, and Günther Rüdiger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044502 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Role of Soft-Iron Impellers on the Mode Selection in the von Kármán–Sodium Dynamo Experiment

André Giesecke, Frank Stefani, and Gunter Gerbeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044503 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Stability of Conservative Flows and New Steady-Fluid Solutions from Bifurcation Diagrams Exploiting a Variational Argument

Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and Charles H. K. Williamson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 044504 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

On Demand Triggering of Edge Localized Instabilities Using External Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Perturbations in Toroidal Plasmas

J. M. Canik, R. Maingi, T. E. Evans, R. E. Bell, S. P. Gerhardt, B. P. LeBlanc, J. Manickam, J. E. Menard, T. H. Osborne, J.-K. Park, S. F. Paul, P. B. Snyder, S. A. Sabbagh, H. W. Kugel, and E. A. Unterberg (the NSTX Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 045001 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Brittle-Quasibrittle Transition in Dynamic Fracture: An Energetic Signature

J. Scheibert, C. Guerra, F. Célarié, D. Dalmas, and D. Bonamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 045501 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

First-Order versus Unconventional Phase Transitions in Three-Dimensional Dimer Models

Stefanos Papanikolaou and Joseph J. Betouras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 045701 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Majorana Fermions and Non-Abelian Statistics in Three Dimensions

Jeffrey C. Y. Teo and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046401 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

Spin-Dependent Recombination between Phosphorus Donors in Silicon and $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ Interface States Investigated with Pulsed Electrically Detected Electron Double Resonance

Felix Hoehne, Hans Huebl, Bastian Galler, Martin Stutzmann, and Martin S. Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046402 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Tuning the Conductance of Dirac Fermions on the Surface of a Topological Insulator

S. Mondal, D. Sen, K. Sengupta, and R. Shankar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046403 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Quantifying Spin Hall Angles from Spin Pumping: Experiments and Theory

O. Mosendz, J. E. Pearson, F. Y. Fradin, G. E. W. Bauer, S. D. Bader, and A. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046601 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

High-Brightness Photocathodes through Ultrathin Surface Layers on Metals

Károly Németh, Katherine C. Harkay, Michel van Veenendaal, Linda Spentzouris, Marion White, Klaus Attenkofer, and George Srajer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046801 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Single-Spin Readout in a Double Quantum Dot Including a Micromagnet

Yun-Sok Shin, Toshiaki Obata, Yasuhiro Tokura, Michel Pioro-Ladrière, Roland Brunner, Toshihiro Kubo, Katsuharu Yoshida, and Seigo Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046802 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Surface-Enhanced Nonlinear Four-Wave Mixing

Jan Renger, Romain Quidant, Niek van Hulst, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046803 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Large Increase of the Curie Temperature by Orbital Ordering Control

Aymeric Sadoc, Bernard Mercey, Charles Simon, Dominique Grebille, Wilfrid Prellier, and Marie-Bernadette Lepetit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046804 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Crossover from Fermi Liquid to Multichannel Luttinger Liquid in High-Mobility Quantum Wires

M. Bell, A. Sergeev, J. P. Bird, V. Mitin, and A. Verevkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 046805 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

Tunable Superconducting Phase Transition in Metal-Decorated Graphene Sheets

B. M. Kessler, Ç. Ö. Girit, A. Zettl, and V. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 047001 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Gutzwiller Density Functional Studies of FeAs-Based Superconductors: Structure Optimization and Evidence for a Three-Dimensional Fermi Surface

GuangTao Wang, Yumin Qian, Gang Xu, Xi Dai, and Zhong Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 047002 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Femtonewton Entropic Forces Can Control the Formation of Protein-Mediated DNA Loops

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048301 (2010) - Published 28 January, 2010

Redundancy and Error Resilience in Boolean Networks

Tiago P. Peixoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048701 (2010) - Published 25 January, 2010

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Optimal Form of Branching Supply and Collection Networks

Peter Sheridan Dodds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048702 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

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Fluctuations and Redundancy in Optimal Transport Networks

Francis Corson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048703 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

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Damage and Fluctuations Induce Loops in Optimal Transport Networks

Eleni Katifori, Gergely J. Szöllősi, and Marcelo O. Magnasco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 048704 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Finite-Size Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition at Grain Boundaries in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ and the Role of ${}^{3}{He}$ Impurities”

B. Yucesoy, J. Machta, N. Prokof’ev, and B. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 049601 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

Gaudio et al. Reply:

S. Gaudio, E. Cappelluti, G. Rastelli, and L. Pietronero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 049602 (2010) - Published 26 January, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Realization of Giant Magnetoelectricity in Helimagnets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 037204 (2010)]

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, 049901 (2010) - Published 27 January, 2010

Erratum: Logarithmic Chain-Exchange Kinetics of Diblock Copolymer Micelles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 068302 (2006)]

Reidar Lund, Lutz Willner, Jörg Stellbrink, Peter Lindner, and Dieter Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 049902 (2010) - Published 29 January, 2010