Volume 105, Issue 1

2 July 2010

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A relativistic shock wave generated by a supernova impacts a massive interstellar cloud.

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Fast Lattice Boltzmann Solver for Relativistic Hydrodynamics
M. Mendoza, B. M. Boghosian, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014502 (2010)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: PRL Standards Update, and Thanks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010001 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evaporative Cooling of Antiprotons to Cryogenic Temperatures

G. B. Andresen et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013003 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Nanofriction of Neon Films on Superconducting Lead

M. Pierno, L. Bruschi, G. Fois, G. Mistura, C. Boragno, F. Buatier de Mongeot, and U. Valbusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016102 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Self-Organization of a Stable Pore Structure in a Phospholipid Bilayer

Kenichiro Koshiyama, Takeru Yano, and Tetsuya Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 018105 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Asymmetric Dark Matter and the Sun

Mads T. Frandsen and Subir Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 011301 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Injection Locking of a Trapped-Ion Phonon Laser

S. Knünz, M. Herrmann, V. Batteiger, G. Saathoff, T. W. Hänsch, K. Vahala, and Th. Udem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013004 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Three Body Recombination of Ultracold Dipoles to Weakly Bound Dimers

Christopher Ticknor and Seth T. Rittenhouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013201 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Superscattering of Light from Subwavelength Nanostructures

Zhichao Ruan and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013901 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

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Structure and Dynamics of Shock-Induced Nanobubble Collapse in Water

M. Vedadi, A. Choubey, K. Nomura, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, and A. C. T. van Duin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014503 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

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X-Ray Absorption Signatures of the Molecular Environment in Water and Ice

Wei Chen, Xifan Wu, and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017802 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

LETTERS

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

Quantum Reconstruction of the Mutual Coherence Function

Z. Hradil, J. Řeháček, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010401 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Operational Tomography: Fitting of Data Patterns

J. Řeháček, D. Mogilevtsev, and Z. Hradil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010402 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Precision Quantum Metrology and Nonclassicality in Linear and Nonlinear Detection Schemes

Ángel Rivas and Alfredo Luis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010403 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Statistical Estimation of the Efficiency of Quantum State Tomography Protocols

Yu. I. Bogdanov, G. Brida, M. Genovese, S. P. Kulik, E. V. Moreva, and A. P. Shurupov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010404 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Measuring Small Longitudinal Phase Shifts: Weak Measurements or Standard Interferometry?

Nicolas Brunner and Christoph Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010405 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Tomography and Entanglement in Coupled Josephson Junction Qubits

Niels Grønbech-Jensen, Jeffrey E. Marchese, Matteo Cirillo, and James A. Blackburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010501 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Real-Space Renormalization Yields Finite Correlations

Thomas Barthel, Martin Kliesch, and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010502 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Negative Specific Heat in the Canonical Statistical Ensemble

F. Staniscia, A. Turchi, D. Fanelli, P. H. Chavanis, and G. De Ninno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 010601 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Eddington’s Theory of Gravity and Its Progeny

Máximo Bañados and Pedro G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 011101 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Asymmetric Dark Matter and the Sun

Mads T. Frandsen and Subir Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 011301 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

New Model of Inflation with Nonminimal Derivative Coupling of Standard Model Higgs Boson to Gravity

Cristiano Germani and Alex Kehagias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 011302 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Higgs Boson Production via Vector-Boson Fusion at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Paolo Bolzoni, Fabio Maltoni, Sven-Olaf Moch, and Marco Zaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 011801 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Measurement of the Ratio $σ_{t \bar{t}} / σ_{Z / γ^{*} \to l l}$ and Precise Extraction of the $t \bar{t}$ Cross Section

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 012001 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two-Photon Inner-Shell Ionization in the Extreme Ultraviolet

V. Richardson, J. T. Costello, D. Cubaynes, S. Düsterer, J. Feldhaus, H. W. van der Hart, P. Juranić, W. B. Li, M. Meyer, M. Richter, A. A. Sorokin, and K. Tiedke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013001 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Response Calculations with an Independent Particle System with an Exact One-Particle Density Matrix

K. J. H. Giesbertz, O. V. Gritsenko, and E. J. Baerends

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013002 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evaporative Cooling of Antiprotons to Cryogenic Temperatures

G. B. Andresen et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013003 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Injection Locking of a Trapped-Ion Phonon Laser

S. Knünz, M. Herrmann, V. Batteiger, G. Saathoff, T. W. Hänsch, K. Vahala, and Th. Udem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013004 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three Body Recombination of Ultracold Dipoles to Weakly Bound Dimers

Christopher Ticknor and Seth T. Rittenhouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013201 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Photon-Number Selective Group Delay in Cavity Induced Transparency

Gor Nikoghosyan and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013601 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Optomechanical Cooling with Generalized Interferometers

André Xuereb, Tim Freegarde, Peter Horak, and Peter Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013602 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Parameter Estimation with Entangled Photons Produced by Parametric Down-Conversion

Hugo Cable and Gabriel A. Durkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013603 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superscattering of Light from Subwavelength Nanostructures

Zhichao Ruan and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013901 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Method to Generate Complex Quasinondiffracting Optical Lattices

Servando López-Aguayo, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013902 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Optical Realization of Relativistic Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013903 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Observation of Spatial Fluctuations of the Local Density of States in Random Photonic Media

M. D. Birowosuto, S. E. Skipetrov, W. L. Vos, and A. P. Mosk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013904 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Experimental Observation of Critical Phenomena in a Laser Light System

Amir Rosen, Rafi Weill, Boris Levit, Vladimir Smulakovsky, Alexander Bekker, and Baruch Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013905 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Numerical Investigation of the Instability and Nonlinear Evolution of Narrow-Band Directional Ocean Waves

Bengt Eliasson and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014501 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Fast Lattice Boltzmann Solver for Relativistic Hydrodynamics

M. Mendoza, B. M. Boghosian, H. J. Herrmann, and S. Succi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014502 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structure and Dynamics of Shock-Induced Nanobubble Collapse in Water

M. Vedadi, A. Choubey, K. Nomura, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, and A. C. T. van Duin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 014503 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-Organization and Threshold of Stimulated Raman Scattering

Didier Bénisti, Olivier Morice, Laurent Gremillet, Evangelos Siminos, and David J. Strozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015001 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Formation of Field-Reversed-Configuration Plasma with Punctuated-Betatron-Orbit Electrons

D. R. Welch, S. A. Cohen, T. C. Genoni, and A. H. Glasser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015002 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Relativistic Quasimonoenergetic Positron Jets from Intense Laser-Solid Interactions

Hui Chen, S. C. Wilks, D. D. Meyerhofer, J. Bonlie, C. D. Chen, S. N. Chen, C. Courtois, L. Elberson, G. Gregori, W. Kruer, O. Landoas, J. Mithen, J. Myatt, C. D. Murphy, P. Nilson, D. Price, M. Schneider, R. Shepherd, C. Stoeckl, M. Tabak, R. Tommasini, and P. Beiersdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015003 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Comparison of Secondary Islands in Collisional Reconnection to Hall Reconnection

L. S. Shepherd and P. A. Cassak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015004 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Hot Electrons Transverse Refluxing in Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions

S. Buffechoux et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015005 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fluctuations and Stochastic Processes in One-Dimensional Many-Body Quantum Systems

H.-P. Stimming, N. J. Mauser, J. Schmiedmayer, and I. E. Mazets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015301 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Dynamical Correlations near Dislocation Jamming

Lasse Laurson, M.-Carmen Miguel, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015501 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Plasticity and Dislocation Dynamics in a Phase Field Crystal Model

Pak Yuen Chan, Georgios Tsekenis, Jonathan Dantzig, Karin A. Dahmen, and Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015502 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Pressure-Induced Disordering and Anomalous Lattice Expansion in ${La}_{2} {Zr}_{2} O_{7}$ Pyrochlore

F. X. Zhang, M. Lang, Zhenxian Liu, and R. C. Ewing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015503 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Emergence of Rigidity at the Structural Glass Transition: A First-Principles Computation

Hajime Yoshino and Marc Mézard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015504 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Analysis of Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Glass Former from the Spatial Correlations of Mobility

Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta, and Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015701 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Dynamical Phase Transitions and Instabilities in Open Atomic Many-Body Systems

Sebastian Diehl, Andrea Tomadin, Andrea Micheli, Rosario Fazio, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015702 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Inhibiting Adatom Diffusion through Surface Alloying

Zhengzheng Chen, Nicholas Kioussis, King-Ning Tu, Nasr Ghoniem, and Jenn-Ming Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015703 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Random-Roughness Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions

Christian Kunert, Jens Harting, and Olga I. Vinogradova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016001 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Rare-Earth Surface Alloying: A New Phase for ${GdAu}_{2}$

M. Corso, M. J. Verstraete, F. Schiller, M. Ormaza, L. Fernández, T. Greber, M. Torrent, A. Rubio, and J. E. Ortega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016101 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

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Nanofriction of Neon Films on Superconducting Lead

M. Pierno, L. Bruschi, G. Fois, G. Mistura, C. Boragno, F. Buatier de Mongeot, and U. Valbusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016102 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Acoustic Plasmon on the Au(111) Surface

Sung Jin Park and Richard E. Palmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016801 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Electronic Phase Diagram of Single-Element Silicon “Strain” Superlattices

Zheng Liu, Jian Wu, Wenhui Duan, Max G. Lagally, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016802 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Single-Electron Transport through Single Dopants in a Dopant-Rich Environment

Michiharu Tabe, Daniel Moraru, Maciej Ligowski, Miftahul Anwar, Ryszard Jablonski, Yukinori Ono, and Takeshi Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 016803 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Vertex Dynamics in Finite Two-Dimensional Square Spin Ices

Zoe Budrikis, Paolo Politi, and R. L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017201 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Direct Phase Probing and Mapping via Spintronic Michelson Interferometry

A. Wirthmann, Xiaolong Fan, Y. S. Gui, K. Martens, G. Williams, J. Dietrich, G. E. Bridges, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017202 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Photoinduced Transition between Conventional and Topological Insulators in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems

Jun-ichi Inoue and Akihiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017401 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Ultrafast All-Optical Coupling of Light to Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Plain Metal Surfaces

Nir Rotenberg, Markus Betz, and Henry M. van Driel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017402 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Large Anisotropy in the Magnetic Susceptibility of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

T. A. Searles, Y. Imanaka, T. Takamasu, H. Ajiki, J. A. Fagan, E. K. Hobbie, and J. Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017403 (2010) - Published 2 July, 2010

Soft Mode Doublet in ${PbMg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3} O_{3}$ Relaxor Investigated with Hyper-Raman Scattering

A. Al-Zein, J. Hlinka, J. Rouquette, and B. Hehlen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017601 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Nonequilibrium Band Mapping of Unoccupied Bulk States below the Vacuum Level by Two-Photon Photoemission

Zhaofeng Hao, J. I. Dadap, K. R. Knox, M. B. Yilmaz, N. Zaki, P. D. Johnson, and R. M. Osgood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017602 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Surface Alignment and Anchoring Transitions in Nematic Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

V. G. Nazarenko, O. P. Boiko, H.-S. Park, O. M. Brodyn, M. M. Omelchenko, L. Tortora, Yu. A. Nastishin, and O. D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017801 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-Ray Absorption Signatures of the Molecular Environment in Water and Ice

Wei Chen, Xifan Wu, and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017802 (2010) - Published 30 June, 2010

Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Noise in Protein Distributions during Gene Expression

Tao Jia and Rahul V. Kulkarni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 018101 (2010) - Published 28 June, 2010

Anharmonic Torsional Stiffness of DNA Revealed under Small External Torques

Alexey K. Mazur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 018102 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Synthetic Mechanochemical Molecular Swimmer

Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 018103 (2010) - Published 29 June, 2010

Hyperpolarizing Gases via Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and Sublimation

A. Comment, S. Jannin, J.-N. Hyacinthe, P. Miéville, R. Sarkar, P. Ahuja, P. R. Vasos, X. Montet, F. Lazeyras, J.-P. Vallée, P. Hautle, J. A. Konter, B. van den Brandt, J.-Ph. Ansermet, R. Gruetter, and G. Bodenhausen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 018104 (2010) - Published 1 July, 2010

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