Volume 105, Issue 10

3 September 2010

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Copper PC board for a high coherence superconducting qubit.

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High-Coherence Hybrid Superconducting Qubit
Matthias Steffen, Shwetank Kumar, David P. DiVincenzo, J. R. Rozen, George A. Keefe, Mary Beth Rothwell, and Mark B. Ketchen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100502 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 101102 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Fluctuations and Scaling in Creep Deformation

Jari Rosti, Juha Koivisto, Lasse Laurson, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100601 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Dynamic Solidification in Nanoconfined Water Films

Shah H. Khan, George Matei, Shivprasad Patil, and Peter M. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106101 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Approach for Simulating Distorted Materials

Pekka Koskinen and Oleg O. Kit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106401 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

LETTERS

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

Dual-Path State Reconstruction Scheme for Propagating Quantum Microwaves and Detector Noise Tomography

E. P. Menzel, F. Deppe, M. Mariantoni, M. Á. Araque Caballero, A. Baust, T. Niemczyk, E. Hoffmann, A. Marx, E. Solano, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100401 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Universal Binding and Recoil Corrections to Bound State $g$ Factors in Hydrogenlike Ions

Michael I. Eides and Timothy J. S. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100402 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Fault Tolerance with Noisy and Slow Measurements and Preparation

Gerardo A. Paz-Silva, Gavin K. Brennen, and Jason Twamley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100501 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

High-Coherence Hybrid Superconducting Qubit

Matthias Steffen, Shwetank Kumar, David P. DiVincenzo, J. R. Rozen, George A. Keefe, Mary Beth Rothwell, and Mark B. Ketchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100502 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Role of Initial Entanglement and Non-Gaussianity in the Decoherence of Photon-Number Entangled States Evolving in a Noisy Channel

Michele Allegra, Paolo Giorda, and Matteo G. A. Paris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100503 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Improved Superconducting Qubit Readout by Qubit-Induced Nonlinearities

Maxime Boissonneault, J. M. Gambetta, and Alexandre Blais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100504 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Response of the Strongly Driven Jaynes-Cummings Oscillator

Lev S. Bishop, Eran Ginossar, and S. M. Girvin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100505 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Qubit State Monitoring by Measurement of Three Complementary Observables

Rusko Ruskov, Alexander N. Korotkov, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100506 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Four-Qubit Entanglement Classification from String Theory

L. Borsten, D. Dahanayake, M. J. Duff, A. Marrani, and W. Rubens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100507 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Fluctuations and Scaling in Creep Deformation

Jari Rosti, Juha Koivisto, Lasse Laurson, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100601 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Origin of Hyperdiffusion in Generalized Brownian Motion

P. Siegle, I. Goychuk, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100602 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Thermalization in a Coherently Driven Ensemble of Two-Level Systems

Igor Lesanovsky, Beatriz Olmos, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 100603 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Short-Range Force Detection Using Optically Cooled Levitated Microspheres

Andrew A. Geraci, Scott B. Papp, and John Kitching

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 101101 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 101102 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Probing Quark-Gluon Interactions with Transverse Polarized Scattering

K. Slifer et al. (Resonance Spin Structure Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 101601 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Constraining the Noncommutative Spectral Action via Astrophysical Observations

William Nelson, Joseph Ochoa, and Mairi Sakellariadou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 101602 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Exclusion of an Exotic Top Quark with $- 4 / 3$ Electric Charge Using Soft Lepton Tagging

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 101801 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Very Broad $X (4260)$ and the Resonance Parameters of the $ψ (3 D)$ Vector Charmonium State

Eef van Beveren, George Rupp, and J. Segovia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 102001 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Dynamical Origin and the Pole Structure of $X (3872)$

I. V. Danilkin and Yu. A. Simonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 102002 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Prolate-Spherical Shape Coexistence at $N = 28$ in ${}^{44}S$

C. Force, S. Grévy, L. Gaudefroy, O. Sorlin, L. Cáceres, F. Rotaru, J. Mrazek, N. L. Achouri, J. C. Angélique, F. Azaiez, B. Bastin, R. Borcea, A. Buta, J. M. Daugas, Z. Dlouhy, Zs. Dombrádi, F. De Oliveira, F. Negoita, Y. Penionzhkevich, M. G. Saint-Laurent, D. Sohler, M. Stanoiu, I. Stefan, C. Stodel, and F. Nowacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 102501 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Noninvasive Vibrational Mode Spectroscopy of Ion Coulomb Crystals through Resonant Collective Coupling to an Optical Cavity Field

A. Dantan, J. P. Marler, M. Albert, D. Guénot, and M. Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103001 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

High-Harmonic Homodyne Detection of the Ultrafast Dissociation of ${Br}_{2}$ Molecules

H. J. Wörner, J. B. Bertrand, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Villeneuve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103002 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Atom-Dimer Scattering in a Three-Component Fermi Gas

T. Lompe, T. B. Ottenstein, F. Serwane, K. Viering, A. N. Wenz, G. Zürn, and S. Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103201 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Hot Water Molecules from Dissociative Recombination of $D_{3} O^{+}$ with Cold Electrons

H. Buhr, J. Stützel, M. B. Mendes, O. Novotný, D. Schwalm, M. H. Berg, D. Bing, M. Grieser, O. Heber, C. Krantz, S. Menk, S. Novotny, D. A. Orlov, A. Petrignani, M. L. Rappaport, R. Repnow, D. Zajfman, and A. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103202 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Nuclear-Spin-Independent Short-Range Three-Body Physics in Ultracold Atoms

Noam Gross, Zav Shotan, Servaas Kokkelmans, and Lev Khaykovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103203 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Frequency-Tunable Multigigawatt Sub-Half-Cycle Light Pulses from Coupled-State Dynamics of Optical Solitons and Impulsively Driven Molecular Vibrations

A. M. Zheltikov, A. A. Voronin, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, and G. Korn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103901 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Directional Laser Emission from a Wavelength-Scale Chaotic Microcavity

Q. H. Song, L. Ge, A. D. Stone, H. Cao, J. Wiersig, J.-B. Shim, J. Unterhinninghofen, W. Fang, and G. S. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 103902 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Fractional Synchronization of Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillators

Sergei Urazhdin, Phillip Tabor, Vasil Tiberkevich, and Andrei Slavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 104101 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Drag Coefficient for a Circular Obstacle in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Dilute Supersonic Granular Flow

J. F. Boudet and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 104501 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurement of Electro-Optic Shock and Electron Acceleration in a Strongly Cavitated Laser Wakefield Accelerator

M. H. Helle, D. Kaganovich, D. F. Gordon, and A. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 105001 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Doppler Spectrometry for Ultrafast Temporal Mapping of Density Dynamics in Laser-Induced Plasmas

S. Mondal, Amit D. Lad, Saima Ahmed, V. Narayanan, J. Pasley, P. P. Rajeev, A. P. L. Robinson, and G. Ravindra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 105002 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Self-Guided Laser Wakefield Acceleration beyond 1 GeV Using Ionization-Induced Injection

C. E. Clayton, J. E. Ralph, F. Albert, R. A. Fonseca, S. H. Glenzer, C. Joshi, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, S. F. Martins, W. B. Mori, A. Pak, F. S. Tsung, B. B. Pollock, J. S. Ross, L. O. Silva, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 105003 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Spin Contribution to the Ponderomotive Force in a Plasma

G. Brodin, A. P. Misra, and M. Marklund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 105004 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Influence of Magnetic Field Ripple on the Intrinsic Rotation of Tokamak Plasmas

M. F. F. Nave, T. Johnson, L.-G. Eriksson, K. Crombé, C. Giroud, M.-L. Mayoral, J. Ongena, A. Salmi, T. Tala, and M. Tsalas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 105005 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bending Crystals: Emergence of Fractal Dislocation Structures

Yong S. Chen, Woosong Choi, Stefanos Papanikolaou, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 105501 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Dynamic Solidification in Nanoconfined Water Films

Shah H. Khan, George Matei, Shivprasad Patil, and Peter M. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106101 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Edge-Mediated Dislocation Processes in Multishell Carbon Nano-Onions?

E. Akatyeva, J. Y. Huang, and T. Dumitrică

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106102 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Approach for Simulating Distorted Materials

Pekka Koskinen and Oleg O. Kit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106401 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Spectral Properties near the Mott Transition in the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Masanori Kohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106402 (2010) - Published 30 August, 2010

Unconventional $T - H$ Phase Diagram in the Noncentrosymmetric Compound ${Yb}_{2} {Fe}_{12} P_{7}$

R. E. Baumbach, J. J. Hamlin, L. Shu, D. A. Zocco, J. R. O’Brien, P.-C. Ho, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106403 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Spatially Extended Kondo State in Magnetic Molecules Induced by Interfacial Charge Transfer

U. G. E. Perera, H. J. Kulik, V. Iancu, L. G. G. V. Dias da Silva, S. E. Ulloa, N. Marzari, and S.-W. Hla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106601 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Apparent Power-Law Behavior of Conductance in Disordered Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems

A. S. Rodin and M. M. Fogler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106801 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Zero Landau Level in Folded Graphene Nanoribbons

E. Prada, P. San-Jose, and L. Brey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106802 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Quasiprobabilistic Interpretation of Weak Measurements in Mesoscopic Junctions

Adam Bednorz and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106803 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Distinct High- $T$ Transitions in Underdoped ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

R. R. Urbano, E. L. Green, W. G. Moulton, A. P. Reyes, P. L. Kuhns, E. M. Bittar, C. Adriano, T. M. Garitezi, L. Bufaiçal, and P. G. Pagliuso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107001 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Nonlocal Cooper Pair Splitting in a $p S n$ Junction

M. Veldhorst and A. Brinkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107002 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Unconventional Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Behavior in the Isovalent-Doped ${BaFe}_{2} ({As}_{1 - x} P_{x})_{2}$

Y. Nakai, T. Iye, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, H. Ikeda, S. Kasahara, H. Shishido, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, and T. Terashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107003 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Unified Picture for Magnetic Correlations in Iron-Based Superconductors

Wei-Guo Yin, Chi-Cheng Lee, and Wei Ku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107004 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Magnetization Patterns in Ferromagnetic Nanoelements as Functions of Complex Variable

Konstantin L. Metlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107201 (2010) - Published 31 August, 2010

Interplay between Charge Order, Ferroelectricity, and Ferroelasticity: Tungsten Bronze Structures as a Playground for Multiferroicity

Kunihiko Yamauchi and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107202 (2010) - Published 1 September, 2010

Study of the Ground State Properties of ${LiHo}_{x} Y_{1 - x} F_{4}$ Using Muon Spin Relaxation

J. Rodriguez, A. A. Aczel, J. P. Carlo, S. R. Dunsiger, G. J. MacDougall, P. L. Russo, A. T. Savici, Y. J. Uemura, C. R. Wiebe, and G. M. Luke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107203 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Pulsed Nuclear Pumping and Spin Diffusion in a Single Charged Quantum Dot

Thaddeus D. Ladd, David Press, Kristiaan De Greve, Peter L. McMahon, Benedikt Friess, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Alfred Forchel, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107401 (2010) - Published 2 September, 2010

Optical Excitation of a Forbidden Magnetic Resonance Mode in a Doped Lutetium-Iron-Garnet Film via the Inverse Faraday Effect

A. H. M. Reid, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, J. F. Gregg, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 107402 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Entanglement and Tunable Spin-Spin Couplings between Trapped Ions Using Multiple Transverse Modes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120502 (2009).]

K. Kim, M.-S. Chang, R. Islam, S. Korenblit, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 109901 (2010) - Published 3 September, 2010