Volume 105, Issue 14

1 October 2010

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Optical microscopy image of a millimeter-sized Si target bombarded by a beamlet of charged nanodroplets.

From the article:

Pressure-Induced Amorphization in Silicon Caused by the Impact of Electrosprayed Nanodroplets
Manuel Gamero-Castaño, Anna Torrents, Lorenzo Valdevit, and Jian-Guo Zheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145701 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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High-Cooperativity Coupling of Electron-Spin Ensembles to Superconducting Cavities

D. I. Schuster, A. P. Sears, E. Ginossar, L. DiCarlo, L. Frunzio, J. J. L. Morton, H. Wu, G. A. D. Briggs, B. B. Buckley, D. D. Awschalom, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140501 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Strong Coupling of a Spin Ensemble to a Superconducting Resonator

Y. Kubo, F. R. Ong, P. Bertet, D. Vion, V. Jacques, D. Zheng, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, A. Auffeves, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, M. F. Barthe, P. Bergonzo, and D. Esteve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140502 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Storage of Multiple Coherent Microwave Excitations in an Electron Spin Ensemble

Hua Wu, Richard E. George, Janus H. Wesenberg, Klaus Mølmer, David I. Schuster, Robert J. Schoelkopf, Kohei M. Itoh, Arzhang Ardavan, John J. L. Morton, and G. Andrew D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140503 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Sympathetic Cooling of Molecular Ions in Selected Rotational and Vibrational States Produced by Threshold Photoionization

Xin Tong, Alexander H. Winney, and Stefan Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143001 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Experimental Realization of a Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator Phase in Ternary Chalcogenide ${TlBiSe}_{2}$

K. Kuroda, M. Ye, A. Kimura, S. V. Eremeev, E. E. Krasovskii, E. V. Chulkov, Y. Ueda, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, and M. Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146801 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

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Classical Simulation of Relativistic Zitterbewegung in Photonic Lattices

Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Stefano Longhi, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143902 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

LETTERS

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

One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids with Power-Law Interactions: The Luttinger Staircase

M. Dalmonte, G. Pupillo, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140401 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Rotons in a Hybrid Bose-Fermi System

Ivan A. Shelykh, Thomas Taylor, and Alexey V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140402 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

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High-Cooperativity Coupling of Electron-Spin Ensembles to Superconducting Cavities

D. I. Schuster, A. P. Sears, E. Ginossar, L. DiCarlo, L. Frunzio, J. J. L. Morton, H. Wu, G. A. D. Briggs, B. B. Buckley, D. D. Awschalom, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140501 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Strong Coupling of a Spin Ensemble to a Superconducting Resonator

Y. Kubo, F. R. Ong, P. Bertet, D. Vion, V. Jacques, D. Zheng, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, A. Auffeves, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, M. F. Barthe, P. Bergonzo, and D. Esteve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140502 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Storage of Multiple Coherent Microwave Excitations in an Electron Spin Ensemble

Hua Wu, Richard E. George, Janus H. Wesenberg, Klaus Mølmer, David I. Schuster, Robert J. Schoelkopf, Kohei M. Itoh, Arzhang Ardavan, John J. L. Morton, and G. Andrew D. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140503 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Compensating the Noise of a Communication Channel via Asymmetric Encoding of Quantum Information

Marco Lucamarini, Rupesh Kumar, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, David Vitali, and Paolo Tombesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140504 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Fluctuation Theorems for Continuously Monitored Quantum Fluxes

Michele Campisi, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140601 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Efficient Solutions of Self-Consistent Mean Field Equations for Dewetting and Electrostatics in Nonuniform Liquids

Zhonghan Hu and John D. Weeks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 140602 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dark Matter, Neutron Stars, and Strange Quark Matter

M. Angeles Perez-Garcia, Joseph Silk, and Jirina R. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 141101 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Central Charges of Liouville and Toda Theories from $M 5$ -Branes

Luis F. Alday, Yuji Tachikawa, and Francesco Benini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 141601 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Anisotropy of $π^{0}$ Production in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ : Path-Length Dependence of Jet Quenching and the Role of Initial Geometry

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 142301 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

New Scalings in Nuclear Fragmentation

E. Bonnet, B. Borderie, N. Le Neindre, Ad. R. Raduta, M. F. Rivet, R. Bougault, A. Chbihi, J. D. Frankland, E. Galichet, F. Gagnon-Moisan, D. Guinet, P. Lautesse, J. Łukasik, P. Marini, M. Pârlog, E. Rosato, R. Roy, G. Spadaccini, M. Vigilante, J. P. Wieleczko, and B. Zwieglinski (INDRA and ALADIN Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 142701 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sympathetic Cooling of Molecular Ions in Selected Rotational and Vibrational States Produced by Threshold Photoionization

Xin Tong, Alexander H. Winney, and Stefan Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143001 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Attosecond Time-Resolved Autoionization of Argon

He Wang, Michael Chini, Shouyuan Chen, Chang-Hua Zhang, Feng He, Yan Cheng, Yi Wu, Uwe Thumm, and Zenghu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143002 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optics in Curved Space

Vincent H. Schultheiss, Sascha Batz, Alexander Szameit, Felix Dreisow, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefano Longhi, and Ulf Peschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143901 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

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Classical Simulation of Relativistic Zitterbewegung in Photonic Lattices

Felix Dreisow, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Stefano Longhi, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143902 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Passively Mode-Locked Raman Laser

W. Liang, V. S. Ilchenko, A. A. Savchenkov, A. B. Matsko, D. Seidel, and L. Maleki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143903 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Near-Threshold High-Order Harmonic Spectroscopy with Aligned Molecules

H. Soifer, P. Botheron, D. Shafir, A. Diner, O. Raz, B. D. Bruner, Y. Mairesse, B. Pons, and N. Dudovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 143904 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Population Dynamics At High Reynolds Number

Prasad Perlekar, Roberto Benzi, David R. Nelson, and Federico Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 144501 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Observation of the Nonlinear Dispersion Relation and Spatial Statistics of Wave Turbulence on the Surface of a Fluid

Eric Herbert, Nicolas Mordant, and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 144502 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Suppression of Electro-Osmotic Flow by Surface Roughness

R. J. Messinger and T. M. Squires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 144503 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Elastic Response of Carbon Nanotube Forests to Aerodynamic Stresses

Ilenia Battiato, Prabhakar R. Bandaru, and Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 144504 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Origin of Lagrangian Intermittency in Drift-Wave Turbulence

B. Kadoch, W. J. T. Bos, and K. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145001 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Neoclassical Toroidal Plasma Viscosity Torque in Collisionless Regimes in Tokamaks

Y. Sun, Y. Liang, K. C. Shaing, H. R. Koslowski, C. Wiegmann, and T. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145002 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Observation of Reversed-Shear Alfvén Eigenmodes Excited by Energetic Ions in a Helical Plasma

K. Toi et al. (LHD Experiment Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145003 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Mass Flux and Solid Growth in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ for 60–700 mK

M. W. Ray and R. B. Hallock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145301 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Anomalous Softening of ${}^{4}{He}$ Crystals

Xavier Rojas, Ariel Haziot, Victor Bapst, Sébastien Balibar, and Humphrey J. Maris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145302 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Spontaneous Pattern Formation Induced by Ion Bombardment of Binary Compounds

R. Mark Bradley and Patrick D. Shipman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145501 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Pressure-Induced Amorphization in Silicon Caused by the Impact of Electrosprayed Nanodroplets

Manuel Gamero-Castaño, Anna Torrents, Lorenzo Valdevit, and Jian-Guo Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145701 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Dynamical Conductivity at the Dirty Superconductor-Metal Quantum Phase Transition

Adrian Del Maestro, Bernd Rosenow, José A. Hoyos, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145702 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Stability, Adsorption, and Diffusion of ${CH}_{4}$ , ${CO}_{2}$ , and $H_{2}$ in Clathrate Hydrates

Guillermo Román-Pérez, Mohammed Moaied, Jose M. Soler, and Felix Yndurain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 145901 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

In Situ Probing of Fast Defect Annealing in Cu and Ni with a High-Intensity Positron Beam

Bernd Oberdorfer, Eva-Maria Steyskal, Wolfgang Sprengel, Werner Puff, Philip Pikart, Christoph Hugenschmidt, Michael Zehetbauer, Reinhard Pippan, and Roland Würschum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146101 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Occurrence of Rotation Domains in Heteroepitaxy

Marius Grundmann, Tammo Böntgen, and Michael Lorenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146102 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Atomic Spin-Sensitive Dissipation on Magnetic Surfaces

Franco Pellegrini, Giuseppe E. Santoro, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146103 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Growth and Structure of Crystalline Silica Sheet on Ru(0001)

D. Löffler, J. J. Uhlrich, M. Baron, B. Yang, X. Yu, L. Lichtenstein, L. Heinke, C. Büchner, M. Heyde, S. Shaikhutdinov, H.-J. Freund, R. Włodarczyk, M. Sierka, and J. Sauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146104 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quasiparticle Band Gap of ZnO: High Accuracy from the Conventional $G^{0} W^{0}$ Approach

Bi-Ching Shih, Yu Xue, Peihong Zhang, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146401 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Orbital Ordering in $e_{g}$ Orbital Systems: Ground States and Thermodynamics of the 120° Model

Andre van Rynbach, Synge Todo, and Simon Trebst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146402 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Pair-Density-Wave Correlations in the Kondo-Heisenberg Model

Erez Berg, Eduardo Fradkin, and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146403 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Dielectric Breakdown of Mott Insulators in Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

Martin Eckstein, Takashi Oka, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146404 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Charge Localization Dynamics Induced by Oxygen Vacancies on the ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ Surface

Piotr M. Kowalski, Matteo Farnesi Camellone, Nisanth N. Nair, Bernd Meyer, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146405 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

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Experimental Realization of a Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator Phase in Ternary Chalcogenide ${TlBiSe}_{2}$

K. Kuroda, M. Ye, A. Kimura, S. V. Eremeev, E. E. Krasovskii, E. V. Chulkov, Y. Ueda, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, and M. Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146801 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Magnetic-Field-Induced Non-Gaussian Fluctuations in Macroscopic Equilibrium Systems

K. E. Nagaev, O. S. Ayvazyan, N. Yu. Sergeeva, and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146802 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Graphene-Based Electronic Spin Lenses

Ali G. Moghaddam and Malek Zareyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146803 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Rippled Graphene in an In-Plane Magnetic Field: Effects of a Random Vector Potential

Mark B. Lundeberg and Joshua A. Folk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146804 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Shot Noise in the Self-Dual Interacting Resonant Level Model

A. Branschädel, E. Boulat, H. Saleur, and P. Schmitteckert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 146805 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010

Evidence for a Minigap in YBCO Grain Boundary Josephson Junctions

P. Lucignano, D. Stornaiuolo, F. Tafuri, B. L. Altshuler, and A. Tagliacozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 147001 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Disorder-Induced Freezing of Dynamical Spin Fluctuations in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Brian M. Andersen, Siegfried Graser, and P. J. Hirschfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 147002 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Bridging Charge-Orbital Ordering and Fermi Surface Instabilities in Half-Doped Single-Layered Manganite ${La}_{0.5} {Sr}_{1.5} {MnO}_{4}$

D. V. Evtushinsky, D. S. Inosov, G. Urbanik, V. B. Zabolotnyy, R. Schuster, P. Sass, T. Hänke, C. Hess, B. Büchner, R. Follath, P. Reutler, A. Revcolevschi, A. A. Kordyuk, and S. V. Borisenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 147201 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Suppression of Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Superconductors”

Gary A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 149701 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

Sobnack and Kusmartsev Reply:

M. B. Sobnack and F. V. Kusmartsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 149702 (2010) - Published 30 September, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Magnetic Imaging in Photonic Crystal Microcavities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 123902 (2010)]

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, 149901 (2010) - Published 27 September, 2010

Erratum: Proposal for Measuring Mechanically Equilibrium Spin Currents in the Rashba Medium [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266602 (2007).]

E. B. Sonin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 149902 (2010) - Published 28 September, 2010

Erratum: Density of States of Colloidal Glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 248305 (2010)]

Antina Ghosh, Vijayakumar K. Chikkadi, Peter Schall, Jorge Kurchan, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 149903 (2010) - Published 1 October, 2010