Volume 105, Issue 15

8 October 2010

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Locations of direct (black) and reflected (red) detection of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray events by the ANITA balloon experiment over Antarctica. The field of view is delineated by the dashed blue line.

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Observation of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays with the ANITA Balloon-Borne Radio Interferometer
S. Hoover et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151101 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Holographic Metals and the Fractionalized Fermi Liquid

Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151602 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

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Active Microrheology: A Proposed Technique to Measure Normal Stress Coefficients of Complex Fluids

Aditya S. Khair and Todd M. Squires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156001 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

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Electrical Measurement of the Direct Spin Hall Effect in $Fe / {In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ Heterostructures

E. S. Garlid, Q. O. Hu, M. K. Chan, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156602 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

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Characterizing and Modeling the Dynamics of Online Popularity

Jacob Ratkiewicz, Santo Fortunato, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, and Alessandro Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 158701 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

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Awaking the Vacuum in Relativistic Stars

William C. C. Lima, George E. A. Matsas, and Daniel A. T. Vanzella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151102 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

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All-Optical Control of Gigahertz Acoustic Resonances by Forward Stimulated Interpolarization Scattering in a Photonic Crystal Fiber

M. S. Kang, A. Brenn, and P. St.J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153901 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

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Simulating the Wess-Zumino Supersymmetry Model in Optical Lattices

Yue Yu and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150605 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

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Spin-Drag Hall Effect in a Rotating Bose Mixture

H. J. van Driel, R. A. Duine, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155301 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

LETTERS

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

Quantum State Tomography via Compressed Sensing

David Gross, Yi-Kai Liu, Steven T. Flammia, Stephen Becker, and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150401 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

First and Second Sound in Cylindrically Trapped Gases

G. Bertaina, L. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150402 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Dynamics of Pair Correlations in the Attractive Lieb-Liniger Gas

Dominik Muth and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150403 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

Quantum Discord and the Geometry of Bell-Diagonal States

Matthias D. Lang and Carlton M. Caves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150501 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Nonequilibrium Steady States in Contact: Approximate Thermodynamic Structure and Zeroth Law for Driven Lattice Gases

Punyabrata Pradhan, Christian P. Amann, and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150601 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Long-Range Correlations and Ensemble Inequivalence in a Generalized $A B C$ Model

A. Lederhendler and D. Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150602 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

Efficiency at Maximum Power of Low-Dissipation Carnot Engines

Massimiliano Esposito, Ryoichi Kawai, Katja Lindenberg, and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150603 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

Universal Local Symmetries and Nonsuperposition in Classical Mechanics

Ennio Gozzi and Carlo Pagani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150604 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

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Simulating the Wess-Zumino Supersymmetry Model in Optical Lattices

Yue Yu and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150605 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Optimal Reaction Time for Surface-Mediated Diffusion

O. Bénichou, D. Grebenkov, P. Levitz, C. Loverdo, and R. Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150606 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Estimating Dissipation from Single Stationary Trajectories

Édgar Roldán and Juan M. R. Parrondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 150607 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observation of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays with the ANITA Balloon-Borne Radio Interferometer

S. Hoover et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151101 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

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Awaking the Vacuum in Relativistic Stars

William C. C. Lima, George E. A. Matsas, and Daniel A. T. Vanzella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151102 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

Optimal Quantum Estimation of the Unruh-Hawking Effect

Mariona Aspachs, Gerardo Adesso, and Ivette Fuentes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151301 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Lorentz Invariance and $C P T$ Violation with the MINOS Far Detector

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151601 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

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Holographic Metals and the Fractionalized Fermi Liquid

Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151602 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Yangian-Invariant Scattering Amplitudes in Supersymmetric Chern-Simons Theory

Sangmin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151603 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

New Limit on Lorentz- and $C P T$ -Violating Neutron Spin Interactions

J. M. Brown, S. J. Smullin, T. W. Kornack, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151604 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Classical Polylogarithms for Amplitudes and Wilson Loops

A. B. Goncharov, M. Spradlin, C. Vergu, and A. Volovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 151605 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

Constraining the QCD Phase Diagram by Tricritical Lines at Imaginary Chemical Potential

Philippe de Forcrand and Owe Philipsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 152001 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Direct Measurements of ${}^{22}{Na} (p, γ) {}^{23}{Mg}$ Resonances and Consequences for ${}^{22}{Na}$ Production in Classical Novae

A. L. Sallaska, C. Wrede, A. García, D. W. Storm, T. A. D. Brown, C. Ruiz, K. A. Snover, D. F. Ottewell, L. Buchmann, C. Vockenhuber, D. A. Hutcheon, and J. A. Caggiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 152501 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chemical Distinction by Nuclear Spin Optical Rotation

Suvi Ikäläinen, Michael V. Romalis, Perttu Lantto, and Juha Vaara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153001 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Two-Center Resonant Photoionization

B. Najjari, A. B. Voitkiv, and C. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153002 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Ultracold RbSr Molecules Can Be Formed by Magnetoassociation

Piotr S. Żuchowski, J. Aldegunde, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153201 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

Efficient Sorting of Orbital Angular Momentum States of Light

Gregorius C. G. Berkhout, Martin P. J. Lavery, Johannes Courtial, Marco W. Beijersbergen, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153601 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Assessing the Polarization of a Quantum Field from Stokes Fluctuations

A. B. Klimov, G. Björk, J. Söderholm, L. S. Madsen, M. Lassen, U. L. Andersen, J. Heersink, R. Dong, Ch. Marquardt, G. Leuchs, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153602 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Optical Control of the Refractive Index of a Single Atom

Tobias Kampschulte, Wolfgang Alt, Stefan Brakhane, Martin Eckstein, René Reimann, Artur Widera, and Dieter Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153603 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency from a Single Atom in Free Space

L. Slodička, G. Hétet, S. Gerber, M. Hennrich, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153604 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cesium Vapor with Probe Pulses on the Single-Photon Level

David Höckel and Oliver Benson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153605 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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All-Optical Control of Gigahertz Acoustic Resonances by Forward Stimulated Interpolarization Scattering in a Photonic Crystal Fiber

M. S. Kang, A. Brenn, and P. St.J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153901 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

High- $Q$ Exterior Whispering-Gallery Modes in a Metal-Coated Microresonator

Yun-Feng Xiao, Chang-Ling Zou, Bei-Bei Li, Yan Li, Chun-Hua Dong, Zheng-Fu Han, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153902 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

Dynamics of Limit-Cycle Oscillators Subject to General Noise

Denis S. Goldobin, Jun-nosuke Teramae, Hiroya Nakao, and G. Bard Ermentrout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154101 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Desorption to Delamination: Dynamics of Detachment in a Colloidal Thin Film

Atul Varshney, P. Sharma, A. Sane, S. Ghosh, and S. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154301 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Complex Dynamics of Droplet Traffic in a Bifurcating Microfluidic Channel: Periodicity, Multistability, and Selection Rules

D. A. Sessoms, A. Amon, L. Courbin, and P. Panizza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154501 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Using Nonlinear Transient Growth to Construct the Minimal Seed for Shear Flow Turbulence

Chris C. T. Pringle and Rich R. Kerswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154502 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Current-Voltage Characteristic of Electrospray Processes in Microfluidics

V. R. Gundabala, N. Vilanova, and A. Fernández-Nieves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154503 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Steady-State Microbunching in a Storage Ring for Generating Coherent Radiation

Daniel F. Ratner and Alexander W. Chao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 154801 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

System Size Effects on Gyrokinetic Turbulence

B. F. McMillan, X. Lapillonne, S. Brunner, L. Villard, S. Jolliet, A. Bottino, T. Görler, and F. Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155001 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Radiation-Pressure Acceleration of Ion Beams from Nanofoil Targets: The Leaky Light-Sail Regime

B. Qiao, M. Zepf, M. Borghesi, B. Dromey, M. Geissler, A. Karmakar, and P. Gibbon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155002 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

“Snowflake” H Mode in a Tokamak Plasma

F. Piras, S. Coda, B. P. Duval, B. Labit, J. Marki, S. Yu. Medvedev, J.-M. Moret, A. Pitzschke, and O. Sauter (TCV Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155003 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Spin-Drag Hall Effect in a Rotating Bose Mixture

H. J. van Driel, R. A. Duine, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155301 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Degeneracy of Many-Body Quantum States in an Optical Lattice under a Uniform Magnetic Field

Jian Zhang, Chao-Ming Jian, Fei Ye, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155302 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Metallic Liquids and Glasses: Atomic Order and Global Packing

X. J. Liu, Y. Xu, X. Hui, Z. P. Lu, F. Li, G. L. Chen, J. Lu, and C. T. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155501 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

From Brittle to Ductile Fracture in Disordered Materials

Clara B. Picallo, Juan M. López, Stefano Zapperi, and Mikko J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 155502 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

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Active Microrheology: A Proposed Technique to Measure Normal Stress Coefficients of Complex Fluids

Aditya S. Khair and Todd M. Squires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156001 (2010) - Published 6 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Inversion of Spin Photocurrent due to Resonant Transmission

E. Wada, Y. Shirahata, T. Naito, M. Itoh, M. Yamaguchi, and T. Taniyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156601 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

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Electrical Measurement of the Direct Spin Hall Effect in $Fe / {In}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ Heterostructures

E. S. Garlid, Q. O. Hu, M. K. Chan, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156602 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Geometry, Mechanics, and Electronics of Singular Structures and Wrinkles in Graphene

Vitor M. Pereira, A. H. Castro Neto, H. Y. Liang, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156603 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Universal Scaling in Highly Doped Conducting Polymer Films

A. J. Kronemeijer, E. H. Huisman, I. Katsouras, P. A. van Hal, T. C. T. Geuns, P. W. M. Blom, S. J. van der Molen, and D. M. de Leeuw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156604 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010

Effective Magnetic Fields in Graphene Superlattices

Jianmin Sun, H. A. Fertig, and L. Brey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156801 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Correlation-Induced Memory Effects in Transport Properties of Low-Dimensional Systems

E. Perfetto, G. Stefanucci, and M. Cini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156802 (2010) - Published 5 October, 2010

Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in Disordered Topological Insulator Nanowires

J. H. Bardarson, P. W. Brouwer, and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 156803 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

Superconductivity in SnO: A Nonmagnetic Analog to Fe-Based Superconductors?

M. K. Forthaus, K. Sengupta, O. Heyer, N. E. Christensen, A. Svane, K. Syassen, D. I. Khomskii, T. Lorenz, and M. M. Abd-Elmeguid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 157001 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Normal-State Hourglass Dispersion of the Spin Excitations in ${FeSe}_{x} {Te}_{1 - x}$

Shiliang Li, Chenglin Zhang, Meng Wang, Hui-qian Luo, Xingye Lu, Enrico Faulhaber, Astrid Schneidewind, Peter Link, Jiangping Hu, Tao Xiang, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 157002 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Effects of Nematic Fluctuations on the Elastic Properties of Iron Arsenide Superconductors

R. M. Fernandes, L. H. VanBebber, S. Bhattacharya, P. Chandra, V. Keppens, D. Mandrus, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, A. S. Sefat, and J. Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 157003 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Where Are the Extra $d$ Electrons in Transition-Metal-Substituted Iron Pnictides?

H. Wadati, I. Elfimov, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 157004 (2010) - Published 4 October, 2010

Phase Slip Phenomena in Superconductors: From Ordered to Chaotic Dynamics

Mathieu Lu-Dac and V. V. Kabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 157005 (2010) - Published 7 October, 2010

Measurement of Magnetic Excitations in the Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic ${Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{2} {Cl}_{2}$ Insulator Using Resonant X-Ray Scattering: Evidence for Extended Interactions

M. Guarise, B. Dalla Piazza, M. Moretti Sala, G. Ghiringhelli, L. Braicovich, H. Berger, J. N. Hancock, D. van der Marel, T. Schmitt, V. N. Strocov, L. J. P. Ament, J. van den Brink, P.-H. Lin, P. Xu, H. M. Rønnow, and M. Grioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 157006 (2010) - Published 8 October, 2010