Volume 104, Issue 9

5 March 2010

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A plastic bead cracks when it impacts a hard wall. The fragment mass distribution shows a power law behavior independent of impact velocity.

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New Universality Class for the Fragmentation of Plastic Materials
G. Timár, J. Blömer, F. Kun, and H. J. Herrmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095502 (2010)

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Microscopic Derivation of Hubbard Parameters for Cold Atomic Gases

Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090402 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

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Three Detailed Fluctuation Theorems

Massimiliano Esposito and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090601 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

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Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above $10^{18} eV$

J. Abraham et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091101 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

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Adaptive Optical Phase Estimation Using Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing

T. A. Wheatley, D. W. Berry, H. Yonezawa, D. Nakane, H. Arao, D. T. Pope, T. C. Ralph, H. M. Wiseman, A. Furusawa, and E. H. Huntington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093601 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

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Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamic Stirring of Liquid Metals

M. A. Jaworski, T. K. Gray, M. Antonelli, J. J. Kim, C. Y. Lau, M. B. Lee, M. J. Neumann, W. Xu, and D. N. Ruzic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 094503 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

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Missing Atom as a Source of Carbon Magnetism

M. M. Ugeda, I. Brihuega, F. Guinea, and J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 096804 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

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Single-Shot Time-Domain Studies of Spin-Torque-Driven Switching in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Y.-T. Cui, G. Finocchio, C. Wang, J. A. Katine, R. A. Buhrman, and D. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 097201 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

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Effective Viscosity of Microswimmer Suspensions

Salima Rafaï, Levan Jibuti, and Philippe Peyla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 098102 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

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Freak Waves in the Linear Regime: A Microwave Study

R. Höhmann, U. Kuhl, H.-J. Stöckmann, L. Kaplan, and E. J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093901 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

LETTERS

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

Maxwell Superalgebra and Superparticles in Constant Gauge Backgrounds

Sotirios Bonanos, Joaquim Gomis, Kiyoshi Kamimura, and Jerzy Lukierski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090401 (2010) - Published 4 March, 2010

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Microscopic Derivation of Hubbard Parameters for Cold Atomic Gases

Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090402 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Arbitrarily Accurate Dynamical Control in Open Quantum Systems

Kaveh Khodjasteh, Daniel A. Lidar, and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090501 (2010) - Published 4 March, 2010

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Three Detailed Fluctuation Theorems

Massimiliano Esposito and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090601 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

Generalized Jarzynski Equality under Nonequilibrium Feedback Control

Takahiro Sagawa and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090602 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above $10^{18} eV$

J. Abraham et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091101 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

Modeling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals within the Effective-One-Body Approach

Nicolás Yunes, Alessandra Buonanno, Scott A. Hughes, M. Coleman Miller, and Yi Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091102 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Adiabatic Ekpyrosis: Scale-Invariant Curvature Perturbations from a Single Scalar Field in a Contracting Universe

Justin Khoury and Paul J. Steinhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091301 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Fermi Large Area Telescope Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications

A. A. Abdo et al. (Fermi LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091302 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for New Bottomlike Quark Pair Decays $Q \bar{Q} \to (t W^{\mp}) (\bar{t} W^{\pm})$ in Same-Charge Dilepton Events

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091801 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Observation of a Charmoniumlike Enhancement in the $γ γ \to ω J / ψ$ Process

S. Uehara et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 092001 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Adaptive Optical Phase Estimation Using Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing

T. A. Wheatley, D. W. Berry, H. Yonezawa, D. Nakane, H. Arao, D. T. Pope, T. C. Ralph, H. M. Wiseman, A. Furusawa, and E. H. Huntington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093601 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

Sub-Projection-Noise Sensitivity in Broadband Atomic Magnetometry

M. Koschorreck, M. Napolitano, B. Dubost, and M. W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093602 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Freak Waves in the Linear Regime: A Microwave Study

R. Höhmann, U. Kuhl, H.-J. Stöckmann, L. Kaplan, and E. J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093901 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Holography for Chemically Selective Single-Shot Nonscanning 3D Imaging

Kebin Shi, Haifeng Li, Qian Xu, Demetri Psaltis, and Zhiwen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 093902 (2010) - Published 4 March, 2010

Critical Superfluid Velocity in a Trapped Dipolar Gas

Ryan M. Wilson, Shai Ronen, and John L. Bohn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 094501 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

Observation of Axisymmetric Solitary Waves on the Surface of a Ferrofluid

E. Bourdin, J.-C. Bacri, and E. Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 094502 (2010) - Published 2 March, 2010

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Thermoelectric Magnetohydrodynamic Stirring of Liquid Metals

M. A. Jaworski, T. K. Gray, M. Antonelli, J. J. Kim, C. Y. Lau, M. B. Lee, M. J. Neumann, W. Xu, and D. N. Ruzic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 094503 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of Inertial Limit Alfvén Wave Dispersion for Finite Perpendicular Wave Number

C. A. Kletzing, D. J. Thuecks, F. Skiff, S. R. Bounds, and S. Vincena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095001 (2010) - Published 2 March, 2010

Relativistic Attosecond Electron Bunches from Laser-Illuminated Droplets

T. V. Liseykina, S. Pirner, and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095002 (2010) - Published 4 March, 2010

Demonstration of Tokamak Ohmic Flux Saving by Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

R. Raman, D. Mueller, B. A. Nelson, T. R. Jarboe, S. Gerhardt, H. W. Kugel, B. LeBlanc, R. Maingi, J. Menard, M. Ono, S. Paul, L. Roquemore, S. Sabbagh, and V. Soukhanovskii (NSTX Research Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095003 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nondestructive Imaging of Individual Biomolecules

Matthias Germann, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Conrad Escher, and Hans-Werner Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095501 (2010) - Published 2 March, 2010

New Universality Class for the Fragmentation of Plastic Materials

G. Timár, J. Blömer, F. Kun, and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095502 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

Parity Effects in the Scaling of Block Entanglement in Gapless Spin Chains

Pasquale Calabrese, Massimo Campostrini, Fabian Essler, and Bernard Nienhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095701 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Correlations between Vibrational Entropy and Dynamics in Liquids

Matthieu Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095901 (2010) - Published 1 March, 2010

Influence of Phase Transformation on Stress Evolution during Growth of Metal Thin Films on Silicon

A. Fillon, G. Abadias, A. Michel, C. Jaouen, and P. Villechaise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 096101 (2010) - Published 2 March, 2010

How Boron Nitride Forms a Regular Nanomesh on Rh(111)

Guocai Dong, Elodie B. Fourré, Femke C. Tabak, and Joost W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 096102 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

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Missing Atom as a Source of Carbon Magnetism

M. M. Ugeda, I. Brihuega, F. Guinea, and J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 096804 (2010) - Published 5 March, 2010

Nanoscale Electronic Order in Iron Pnictides

G. Lang, H.-J. Grafe, D. Paar, F. Hammerath, K. Manthey, G. Behr, J. Werner, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 097001 (2010) - Published 3 March, 2010

Strong Electron Correlations in the Normal State of the Iron-Based ${FeSe}_{0.42} {Te}_{0.58}$ Superconductor Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

A. Tamai, A. Y. Ganin, E. Rozbicki, J. Bacsa, W. Meevasana, P. D. C. King, M. Caffio, R. Schaub, S. Margadonna, K. Prassides, M. J. Rosseinsky, and F. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 097002 (2010) - Published 4 March, 2010