Volume 105, Issue 12

17 September 2010

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Drag in packed granular material creates upwards flow along periodically nucleated shear bands.

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Force and Flow Transition in Plowed Granular Media
Nick Gravish, Paul B. Umbanhowar, and Daniel I. Goldman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 128301 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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PAMELA Results on the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Flux from 60 MeV to 180 GeV in Kinetic Energy

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121101 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

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Phase Conjugation and Negative Refraction using Nonlinear Active Metamaterials

Alexander R. Katko, Shi Gu, John P. Barrett, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, Gennady Shvets, and Steven A. Cummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123905 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Diffusion-Limited Reactions in Crowded Environments

N. Dorsaz, C. De Michele, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, and G. Foffi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120601 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

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Magnetic Light-Matter Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Nanocavity

M. Burresi, T. Kampfrath, D. van Oosten, J. C. Prangsma, B. S. Song, S. Noda, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123901 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Magnetic Imaging in Photonic Crystal Microcavities

Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Diederik S. Wiersma, and Massimo Gurioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123902 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Gamma-Ray Localization of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

M. Marisaldi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 128501 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

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Enhanced Laboratory Sensitivity to Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant using Highly Charged Ions

J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120801 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

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Exact Factorization of the Time-Dependent Electron-Nuclear Wave Function

Ali Abedi, Neepa T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123002 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

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Neutron Optical Beam Splitter from Holographically Structured Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites

M. Fally, J. Klepp, Y. Tomita, T. Nakamura, C. Pruner, M. A. Ellabban, R. A. Rupp, M. Bichler, I. Drevenšek Olenik, J. Kohlbrecher, H. Eckerlebe, H. Lemmel, and H. Rauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123904 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

LETTERS

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

Establishing the Presence of Coherence in Atomic Fermi Superfluids: Spin-Flip and Spin-Preserving Bragg Scattering at Finite Temperatures

Hao Guo, Chih-Chun Chien, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120401 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Experimental Realization of Programmable Quantum Gate Array for Directly Probing Commutation Relations of Pauli Operators

Xing-Can Yao, Jaromír Fiurášek, He Lu, Wei-Bo Gao, Yu-Ao Chen, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120402 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Coherent Oscillations in an Exciton-Polariton Josephson Junction

K. G. Lagoudakis, B. Pietka, M. Wouters, R. André, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120403 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Entanglement and Sensitivity in Precision Measurements with States of a Fluctuating Number of Particles

P. Hyllus, L. Pezzé, and A. Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120501 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

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Diffusion-Limited Reactions in Crowded Environments

N. Dorsaz, C. De Michele, F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, and G. Foffi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120601 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Infinite Covariant Density for Diffusion in Logarithmic Potentials and Optical Lattices

David A. Kessler and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120602 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method without Detailed Balance

Hidemaro Suwa and Synge Todo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120603 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Enhanced Laboratory Sensitivity to Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant using Highly Charged Ions

J. C. Berengut, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 120801 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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PAMELA Results on the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Flux from 60 MeV to 180 GeV in Kinetic Energy

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121101 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Seasonal Variation of Atmospheric Leptons as a Probe of Charm

Paolo Desiati and Thomas K. Gaisser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121102 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Dark Energy from Primordial Inflationary Quantum Fluctuations

Christophe Ringeval, Teruaki Suyama, Tomo Takahashi, Masahide Yamaguchi, and Shuichiro Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121301 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Large-Scale Inhomogeneities May Improve the Cosmic Concordance of Supernovae

Luca Amendola, Kimmo Kainulainen, Valerio Marra, and Miguel Quartin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121302 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Process for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Searches: $μ^{-} e^{-} \to e^{-} e^{-}$ in a Muonic Atom

Masafumi Koike, Yoshitaka Kuno, Joe Sato, and Masato Yamanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121601 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Evidence for Direct $C P$ Violation in the Measurement of the Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle $γ$ with $B^{\mp} \to D^{()} K^{() \mp}$ Decays

P. del Amo Sanchez et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121801 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter Leaves a Trace

Andrea De Simone, Veronica Sanz, and Hiromitsu Phil Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 121802 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Determination of the Total Width of the $η^{'}$ Meson

E. Czerwiński, P. Moskal, D. Grzonka, R. Czyżykiewicz, D. Gil, B. Kamys, A. Khoukaz, J. Klaja, P. Klaja, W. Krzemień, W. Oelert, J. Ritman, T. Sefzick, M. Siemaszko, M. Silarski, J. Smyrski, A. Täschner, M. Wolke, P. Wüstner, J. Zdebik, M. Zieliński, and W. Zipper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 122001 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Convergence of Density-Matrix Expansions for Nuclear Interactions

B. G. Carlsson and J. Dobaczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 122501 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Determination of the Fine Structure Constant Using Helium Fine Structure

Marc Smiciklas and David Shiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123001 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

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Exact Factorization of the Time-Dependent Electron-Nuclear Wave Function

Ali Abedi, Neepa T. Maitra, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123002 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Shortcut to Adiabatic Passage in Two- and Three-Level Atoms

Xi Chen, I. Lizuain, A. Ruschhaupt, D. Guéry-Odelin, and J. G. Muga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123003 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

$s$ -Wave Interaction in a Two-Species Fermi-Fermi Mixture at a Narrow Feshbach Resonance

L. Costa, J. Brachmann, A.-C. Voigt, C. Hahn, M. Taglieber, T. W. Hänsch, and K. Dieckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123201 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Observation of Laser-Assisted Electron-Atom Scattering in Femtosecond Intense Laser Fields

Reika Kanya, Yuya Morimoto, and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123202 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Coherent Quantum-Noise Cancellation for Optomechanical Sensors

Mankei Tsang and Carlton M. Caves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123601 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Observation of Ground-State Quantum Beats in Atomic Spontaneous Emission

D. G. Norris, L. A. Orozco, P. Barberis-Blostein, and H. J. Carmichael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123602 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Quantum-Fluctuation-Initiated Coherence in Multioctave Raman Optical Frequency Combs

Y. Y. Wang, Chunbai Wu, F. Couny, M. G. Raymer, and F. Benabid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123603 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Magnetic Light-Matter Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Nanocavity

M. Burresi, T. Kampfrath, D. van Oosten, J. C. Prangsma, B. S. Song, S. Noda, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123901 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Magnetic Imaging in Photonic Crystal Microcavities

Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Diederik S. Wiersma, and Massimo Gurioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123902 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

High Order Symmetry Structural Properties of Vibrational Resonances Using Multiple-Field Polarization Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy Microscopy

Fabiana Munhoz, Hervé Rigneault, and Sophie Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123903 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Neutron Optical Beam Splitter from Holographically Structured Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites

M. Fally, J. Klepp, Y. Tomita, T. Nakamura, C. Pruner, M. A. Ellabban, R. A. Rupp, M. Bichler, I. Drevenšek Olenik, J. Kohlbrecher, H. Eckerlebe, H. Lemmel, and H. Rauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123904 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

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Phase Conjugation and Negative Refraction using Nonlinear Active Metamaterials

Alexander R. Katko, Shi Gu, John P. Barrett, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, Gennady Shvets, and Steven A. Cummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123905 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Entangled-Photon Generation in Nano-to-Bulk Crossover Regime

Motoaki Bamba and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123906 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Wheels within Wheels: Hamiltonian Dynamics as a Hierarchy of Action Variables

Rory J. Perkins and Paul M. Bellan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 124301 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generating Ultrarelativistic Attosecond Electron Bunches with Laser Wakefield Accelerators

M. J. H. Luttikhof, A. G. Khachatryan, F. A. van Goor, and K.-J. Boller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 124801 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Self-Shortening Dynamics Measured along a Femtosecond Laser Filament in Air

J. H. Odhner, D. A. Romanov, and R. J. Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125001 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stability and Dissipation of Laminar Vortex Flow in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

V. B. Eltsov, R. de Graaf, P. J. Heikkinen, J. J. Hosio, R. Hänninen, M. Krusius, and V. S. L’vov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125301 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Oscillating Solitons in a Three-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

Piotr Szankowski, Marek Trippenbach, Eryk Infeld, and George Rowlands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125302 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Magnetic Phase Transition in a Nanonetwork of Solid ${}^{3}{He}$ in Aerogel

D. I. Bradley, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, R. P. Haley, N. Mulders, G. R. Pickett, D. Potts, P. Skyba, J. Smith, V. Tsepelin, and R. C. V. Whitehead

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125303 (2010) - Published 16 September, 2010

Non-Abelian Anyons from Degenerate Landau Levels of Ultracold Atoms in Artificial Gauge Potentials

Michele Burrello and Andrea Trombettoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125304 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Acoustic Phonon Tunneling and Heat Transport due to Evanescent Electric Fields

Mika Prunnila and Johanna Meltaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125501 (2010) - Published 14 September, 2010

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Using Selective High-Order Laue Zones: Three-Dimensional Atomic Ordering in Sodium Cobaltate

F.-T. Huang, A. Gloter, M.-W. Chu, F. C. Chou, G. J. Shu, L.-K. Liu, C. H. Chen, and C. Colliex

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125502 (2010) - Published 15 September, 2010

Continuum Modeling of Bulk Metallic Glasses and Composites

Fadi Abdeljawad and Mikko Haataja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125503 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Substantial Crystalline Topology in Amorphous Silicon

J. M. Gibson, M. M. J. Treacy, T. Sun, and N. J. Zaluzec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125504 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Universal Shapes Formed by Two Interacting Cracks

Melissa L. Fender, Frédéric Lechenault, and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125505 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Glass Transition in Confined Geometry

Simon Lang, Vitalie Boţan, Martin Oettel, David Hajnal, Thomas Franosch, and Rolf Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125701 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010

Phase-Field Crystal Modeling of Compositional Domain Formation in Ultrathin Films

Srevatsan Muralidharan and Mikko Haataja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 126101 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Entropy Explains Metal-Insulator Transition of the Si(111)-In Nanowire Array

S. Wippermann and W. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 126102 (2010) - Published 17 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Superconducting Quantum Critical Point in ${CeCoIn}_{5 - x} {Sn}_{x}$

S. M. Ramos, M. B. Fontes, E. N. Hering, M. A. Continentino, E. Baggio-Saitovich, F. Dinóla Neto, E. M. Bittar, P. G. Pagliuso, E. D. Bauer, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 126401 (2010) - Published 13 September, 2010