Volume 105, Issue 13

24 September 2010

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Permalloy thin-film structure of micron-sized dimensions for stabilizing an isolated magnetic antivortex. To investigate the magnetization dynamics driven by spin-transfer torque, two crossed pairs of electrodes are used.

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Magnetic Antivortex-Core Reversal by Circular-Rotational Spin Currents
Thomas Kamionka, Michael Martens, Kang Wei Chou, Michael Curcic, André Drews, Gisela Schütz, Tolek Tyliszczak, Hermann Stoll, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, and Guido Meier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137204 (2010)

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First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131302 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

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Molecular Superfluid: Nonclassical Rotations in Doped Para-Hydrogen Clusters

Hui Li, Robert J. Le Roy, Pierre-Nicholas Roy, and A. R. W. McKellar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133401 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

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Spin Control of Drifting Electrons Using Local Nuclear Polarization in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures

M. E. Nowakowski, G. D. Fuchs, S. Mack, N. Samarth, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137206 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

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Universality of Striped Morphologies

E. Edlund and M. Nilsson Jacobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137203 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

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

How Small Can Thermal Machines Be? The Smallest Possible Refrigerator

Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu, and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 130401 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Experimental Bound Entanglement in a Four-Photon State

Jonathan Lavoie, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Marco Piani, and Kevin J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 130501 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Low-Intensity Nonlinear Spectral Effects in Compton Scattering

Frederic V. Hartemann, Félicie Albert, Craig W. Siders, and C. P. J. Barty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 130801 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Three Dimensional Anisotropic $k$ Spectra of Turbulence at Subproton Scales in the Solar Wind

F. Sahraoui, M. L. Goldstein, G. Belmont, P. Canu, and L. Rezeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131101 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Analog Model for Quantum Gravity Effects: Phonons in Random Fluids

G. Krein, G. Menezes, and N. F. Svaiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131301 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

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First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131302 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Implications of the Dimuon $C P$ Asymmetry in $B_{d, s}$ Decays

Zoltan Ligeti, Michele Papucci, Gilad Perez, and Jure Zupan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131601 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Search for New Physics with a Dijet Plus Missing $E_{T}$ Signature in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131801 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Relations between Neutrino and Charged Fermion Masses

Pei-Hong Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 131802 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Magnetic-Field-Induced Insulator-Conductor Transition in $S U (2)$ Quenched Lattice Gauge Theory

P. V. Buividovich, M. N. Chernodub, D. E. Kharzeev, T. Kalaydzhyan, E. V. Luschevskaya, and M. I. Polikarpov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 132001 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Electroweak Nuclear Response in the Quasielastic Regime

Omar Benhar, Pietro Coletti, and Davide Meloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 132301 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

${}^{15}C (d, p) {}^{16}C$ Reaction and Exotic Behavior in ${}^{16}C$

A. H. Wuosmaa, B. B. Back, S. Baker, B. A. Brown, C. M. Deibel, P. Fallon, C. R. Hoffman, B. P. Kay, H. Y. Lee, J. C. Lighthall, A. O. Macchiavelli, S. T. Marley, R. C. Pardo, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Schiffer, D. V. Shetty, and M. Wiedeking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 132501 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multiphoton Double Ionization of Ar in Intense Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields Studied by Shot-by-Shot Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Y. Hikosaka, M. Fushitani, A. Matsuda, C.-M. Tseng, A. Hishikawa, E. Shigemasa, M. Nagasono, K. Tono, T. Togashi, H. Ohashi, H. Kimura, Y. Senba, M. Yabashi, and T. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133001 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Direct Test of Laser Tunneling with Electron Momentum Imaging

L. Arissian, C. Smeenk, F. Turner, C. Trallero, A. V. Sokolov, D. M. Villeneuve, A. Staudte, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133002 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Cold Heteronuclear Atom-Ion Collisions

Christoph Zipkes, Stefan Palzer, Lothar Ratschbacher, Carlo Sias, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133201 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Dynamics of a Cold Trapped Ion in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Stefan Schmid, Arne Härter, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133202 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Coherent Reflection of He Atom Beams from Rough Surfaces at Grazing Incidence

Bum Suk Zhao (조범석), H. Christian Schewe, Gerard Meijer, and Wieland Schöllkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133203 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

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Molecular Superfluid: Nonclassical Rotations in Doped Para-Hydrogen Clusters

Hui Li, Robert J. Le Roy, Pierre-Nicholas Roy, and A. R. W. McKellar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133401 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Catching Proteins in Liquid Helium Droplets

Frauke Bierau, Peter Kupser, Gerard Meijer, and Gert von Helden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133402 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Planck Spectroscopy and Quantum Noise of Microwave Beam Splitters

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133601 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Tunable Cavity Optomechanics with Ultracold Atoms

T. P. Purdy, D. W. C. Brooks, T. Botter, N. Brahms, Z.-Y. Ma, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133602 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Observation of the Rabi Oscillation of Light Driven by an Atomic Spin Wave

L. Q. Chen, Guo-Wan Zhang, Cheng-ling Bian, Chun-Hua Yuan, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 133603 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Local Interactions and the Global Organization of a Two-Phase Flow in a Branching Tree

Yu Song, Paul Manneville, and Charles N. Baroud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 134501 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser-Driven Fast Electron Collimation in Targets with Resistivity Boundary

B. Ramakrishna, S. Kar, A. P. L. Robinson, D. J. Adams, K. Markey, M. N. Quinn, X. H. Yuan, P. McKenna, K. L. Lancaster, J. S. Green, R. H. H. Scott, P. A. Norreys, J. Schreiber, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135001 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

High-Energy Ions from Near-Critical Density Plasmas via Magnetic Vortex Acceleration

Tatsufumi Nakamura, Sergei V. Bulanov, Timur Zh. Esirkepov, and Masaki Kando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135002 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Experimental Evidence of Momentum Transport Induced by an Up-Down Asymmetric Magnetic Equilibrium in Toroidal Plasmas

Y. Camenen, A. Bortolon, B. P. Duval, L. Federspiel, A. G. Peeters, F. J. Casson, W. A. Hornsby, A. N. Karpushov, F. Piras, O. Sauter, A. P. Snodin, and G. Szepesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135003 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Triggered Confinement Enhancement and Pedestal Expansion in High-Confinement-Mode Discharges in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

R. Maingi, R. E. Bell, J. M. Canik, S. P. Gerhardt, S. M. Kaye, B. P. LeBlanc, T. H. Osborne, M. G. Bell, E. D. Fredrickson, K. C. Lee, J. E. Menard, J.-K. Park, and S. A. Sabbagh (NSTX team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135004 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

Control of Gradient-Driven Instabilities Using Shear Alfvén Beat Waves

D. W. Auerbach, T. A. Carter, S. Vincena, and P. Popovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135005 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Amplification of Picosecond Pulses in a 140-GHz Gyrotron-Traveling Wave Tube

H. J. Kim, E. A. Nanni, M. A. Shapiro, J. R. Sirigiri, P. P. Woskov, and R. J. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135101 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Supersolid Droplet Crystal in a Dipole-Blockaded Gas

F. Cinti, P. Jain, M. Boninsegni, A. Micheli, P. Zoller, and G. Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135301 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Spontaneous Breaking of Spatial and Spin Symmetry in Spinor Condensates

M. Scherer, B. Lücke, G. Gebreyesus, O. Topic, F. Deuretzbacher, W. Ertmer, L. Santos, J. J. Arlt, and C. Klempt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135302 (2010) - Published 22 September, 2010

In Situ Observation of Dislocation Behavior in Nanometer Grains

Lihua Wang, Xiaodong Han, Pan Liu, Yonghai Yue, Ze Zhang, and En Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135501 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Quantum Quench in One Dimension: Coherent Inhomogeneity Amplification and “Supersolitons”

Matthew S. Foster, Emil A. Yuzbashyan, and Boris L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135701 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Spatiotemporal Hierarchy of Relaxation Events, Dynamical Heterogeneities, and Structural Reorganization in a Supercooled Liquid

R. Candelier, A. Widmer-Cooper, J. K. Kummerfeld, O. Dauchot, G. Biroli, P. Harrowell, and D. R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 135702 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Determination of the Quantum Contribution to the Activated Motion of Hydrogen on a Metal Surface: H/Pt(111)

A. P. Jardine, E. Y. M. Lee, D. J. Ward, G. Alexandrowicz, H. Hedgeland, W. Allison, J. Ellis, and E. Pollak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136101 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Energy Transport by Thermocapillary Convection during Sessile-Water-Droplet Evaporation

H. Ghasemi and C. A. Ward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136102 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Hidden Quasi-One-Dimensional Superconductivity in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

S. Raghu, A. Kapitulnik, and S. A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136401 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Geometric Doppler Effect: Spin-Split Dispersion of Thermal Radiation

Nir Dahan, Yuri Gorodetski, Kobi Frischwasser, Vladimir Kleiner, and Erez Hasman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136402 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Helical Luttinger Liquid in Topological Insulator Nanowires

R. Egger, A. Zazunov, and A. Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136403 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Interplay of Peltier and Seebeck Effects in Nanoscale Nonlocal Spin Valves

F. L. Bakker, A. Slachter, J.-P. Adam, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136601 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Density of States and Zero Landau Level Probed through Capacitance of Graphene

L. A. Ponomarenko, R. Yang, R. V. Gorbachev, P. Blake, A. S. Mayorov, K. S. Novoselov, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136801 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Direct Evidence for the Dirac-Cone Topological Surface States in the Ternary Chalcogenide ${TlBiSe}_{2}$

Takafumi Sato, Kouji Segawa, Hua Guo, Katsuaki Sugawara, Seigo Souma, Takashi Takahashi, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136802 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Non-Gaussian Fluctuations of Mesoscopic Persistent Currents

J. Danon and P. W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136803 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Phonon-Induced Gaps in Graphene and Graphite Observed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission

Y. Liu, Longxiang Zhang, M. K. Brinkley, G. Bian, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136804 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Atomically Thin ${MoS}_{2}$ : A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor

Kin Fai Mak, Changgu Lee, James Hone, Jie Shan, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136805 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Coulomb Interaction and First-Order Superconductor-Insulator Transition

S. V. Syzranov, I. L. Aleiner, B. L. Altshuler, and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137001 (2010) - Published 21 September, 2010

Carrier-Concentration Dependence of the Pseudogap Ground State of Superconducting ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2 - x} {La}_{x} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$ Revealed by ${}^{63, 65}{Cu}$ -Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Very High Magnetic Fields

Shinji Kawasaki, Chengtian Lin, Philip L. Kuhns, Arneil P. Reyes, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137002 (2010) - Published 24 September, 2010

Unconventional Anomalous Hall Effect in the Metallic Triangular-Lattice Magnet ${PdCrO}_{2}$

Hiroshi Takatsu, Shingo Yonezawa, Satoshi Fujimoto, and Yoshiteru Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137201 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

Ferroelectricity Induced by Spin-Dependent Metal-Ligand Hybridization in ${Ba}_{2} {CoGe}_{2} O_{7}$

H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, S. Miyahara, N. Furukawa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137202 (2010) - Published 20 September, 2010

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Excitons in Molecular Aggregates with Lévy-Type Disorder: Anomalous Localization and Exchange Broadening of Optical Spectra

A. Eisfeld, S. M. Vlaming, V. A. Malyshev, and J. Knoester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 137402 (2010) - Published 23 September, 2010

Volume 105, Issue 13

On the Cover

From the article:

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics