Volume 105, Issue 16

15 October 2010

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A photonic crystal structure that illustrates cloaking with use of a normally incident optical Gaussian beam. From the left, the beam begins to diverge as it travels towards the center; it then bends around the cloaked object and re-forms as another beam on the opposite side.

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Transformation Optics with Photonic Band Gap Media
Yaroslav A. Urzhumov and David R. Smith
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163901 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Topological Quantization in Units of the Fine Structure Constant

Joseph Maciejko, Xiao-Liang Qi, H. Dennis Drew, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166803 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

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Polarization Switching without Domain Formation at the Intrinsic Coercive Field in Ultrathin Ferroelectric ${PbTiO}_{3}$

Matthew J. Highland, Timothy T. Fister, Marie-Ingrid Richard, Dillon D. Fong, Paul H. Fuoss, Carol Thompson, Jeffrey A. Eastman, Stephen K. Streiffer, and G. Brian Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167601 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

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Direct Measurement of the Flow Field around Swimming Microorganisms

Knut Drescher, Raymond E. Goldstein, Nicolas Michel, Marco Polin, and Idan Tuval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 168101 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

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Oscillatory Flows Induced by Microorganisms Swimming in Two Dimensions

Jeffrey S. Guasto, Karl A. Johnson, and J. P. Gollub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 168102 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

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Search for New Particles in Two-Jet Final States in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 161801 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

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Vacuum Phonon Tunneling

Igor Altfeder, Andrey A. Voevodin, and Ajit K. Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166101 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

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Grain-Boundary Fluctuations in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

Thomas O. E. Skinner, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, and Roel P. A. Dullens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 168301 (2010) - Published 13 October, 2010

LETTERS

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

Zeno and Anti-Zeno Polarization Control of Spin Ensembles by Induced Dephasing

Gonzalo A. Álvarez, D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao, Lucio Frydman, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160401 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Localization of Cold Atoms in State-Dependent Optical Lattices via a Rabi Pulse

Birger Horstmann, Stephan Dürr, and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160402 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Spin-Orbit Coupled Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chunji Wang, Chao Gao, Chao-Ming Jian, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160403 (2010) - Published 13 October, 2010

Collective Many-Body Interaction in Rydberg Dressed Atoms

Jens Honer, Hendrik Weimer, Tilman Pfau, and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160404 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Stable Vortex–Bright-Soliton Structures in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

K. J. H. Law, P. G. Kevrekidis, and Laurette S. Tuckerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160405 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Hybrid Long-Distance Entanglement Distribution Protocol

J. B. Brask, I. Rigas, E. S. Polzik, U. L. Andersen, and A. S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160501 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Spin Quantum Bit with Ferromagnetic Contacts for Circuit QED

Audrey Cottet and Takis Kontos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160502 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Heat Conduction in a Three-Dimensional Momentum-Conserving Anharmonic Lattice

Lei Wang (王雷), Dahai He (贺达海), and Bambi Hu (胡斑比)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 160601 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Torsion-Bar Antenna for Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Observations

Masaki Ando, Koji Ishidoshiro, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Kent Yagi, Wataru Kokuyama, Kimio Tsubono, and Akiteru Takamori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 161101 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Constraints on Neutron Star Radii Based on Chiral Effective Field Theory Interactions

K. Hebeler, J. M. Lattimer, C. J. Pethick, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 161102 (2010) - Published 13 October, 2010

Can Primordial Magnetic Fields Seeded by Electroweak Strings Cause an Alignment of Quasar Axes on Cosmological Scales?

Robert Poltis and Dejan Stojkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 161301 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Primordial Gravity Wave Fossils and Their Use in Testing Inflation

Kiyoshi Wesley Masui and Ue-Li Pen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 161302 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for New Particles in Two-Jet Final States in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 161801 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Extracting the Light Quark Mass Ratio $m_{u} / m_{d}$ from Bottomonia Transitions

Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 162001 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Microscopic Spectrum of the Wilson Dirac Operator

P. H. Damgaard, K. Splittorff, and J. J. M. Verbaarschot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 162002 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Correlations of Forward Dihadrons in $d + Au$ Collisions at RHIC in the Color Glass Condensate

J. L. Albacete and C. Marquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 162301 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Dissipative Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: A New Way to Derive the Equations of Motion from Kinetic Theory

G. S. Denicol, T. Koide, and D. H. Rischke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 162501 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Orbital Dependent Nucleonic Pairing in the Lightest Known Isotopes of Tin

I. G. Darby, R. K. Grzywacz, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, L. Cartegni, C. J. Gross, M. Hjorth-Jensen, D. T. Joss, S. N. Liddick, W. Nazarewicz, S. Padgett, R. D. Page, T. Papenbrock, M. M. Rajabali, J. Rotureau, and K. P. Rykaczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 162502 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonsequential Two-Photon Double Ionization of Atoms: Identifying the Mechanism

Morten Førre, Sølve Selstø, and Raymond Nepstad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163001 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Rydberg Trimers and Excited Dimers Bound by Internal Quantum Reflection

V. Bendkowsky, B. Butscher, J. Nipper, J. B. Balewski, J. P. Shaffer, R. Löw, T. Pfau, W. Li, J. Stanojevic, T. Pohl, and J. M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163201 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Quantum-To-Classical Transition in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

J. M. Fink, L. Steffen, P. Studer, Lev S. Bishop, M. Baur, R. Bianchetti, D. Bozyigit, C. Lang, S. Filipp, P. J. Leek, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163601 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Sub-Rayleigh Imaging via $N$ -Photon Detection

Fabrizio Guerrieri, Lorenzo Maccone, Franco N. C. Wong, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Simone Tisa, and Franco Zappa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163602 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Transformation Optics with Photonic Band Gap Media

Yaroslav A. Urzhumov and David R. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163901 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Multiple Scattering of Light in Superdiffusive Media

Jacopo Bertolotti, Kevin Vynck, and Diederik S. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163902 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Using Phonon Resonances as a Route to All-Angle Negative Refraction in the Far-Infrared Region: The Case of Crystal Quartz

R. Rodrigues da Silva, R. Macêdo da Silva, T. Dumelow, J. A. P. da Costa, S. B. Honorato, and A. P. Ayala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163903 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Superfluid Motion of Light

Patricio Leboeuf and Simon Moulieras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163904 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Quantum Correlations in Two-Particle Anderson Localization

Yoav Lahini, Yaron Bromberg, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Yaron Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163905 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Self-Trapping of Optical Beams through Thermophoresis

Yuval Lamhot, Assaf Barak, Or Peleg, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163906 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Liquid-Column Sustainment Driven by Acoustic Wave Guiding

Nicolas Bertin, Régis Wunenburger, Etienne Brasselet, and Jean-Pierre Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 164501 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Beam Emission from a Diamond-Amplifier Cathode

Xiangyun Chang, Qiong Wu, Ilan Ben-Zvi, Andrew Burrill, Jorg Kewisch, Triveni Rao, John Smedley, Erdong Wang, Erik M. Muller, Richard Busby, and Dimitre Dimitrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 164801 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Convective Transport Suppression in the Scrape-Off Layer Using Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating on the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak

G. Antar, S. Assas, V. Bobkov, J.-M. Noterdaeme, E. Wolfrum, A. Herrmann, and V. Rohde (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 165001 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Observations of Slow Electron Holes at a Magnetic Reconnection Site

Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, A. Vaivads, M. André, M. Fujimoto, A. Retinò, and C. J. Owen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 165002 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Surface Tension and Energy in Multivariant Martensitic Transformations: Phase-Field Theory, Simulations, and Model of Coherent Interface

Valery I. Levitas and Mahdi Javanbakht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 165701 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

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Vacuum Phonon Tunneling

Igor Altfeder, Andrey A. Voevodin, and Ajit K. Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166101 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Collective Shape Oscillations of SiGe Islands on Pit-Patterned Si(001) Substrates: A Coherent-Growth Strategy Enabled by Self-Regulated Intermixing

J. J. Zhang, F. Montalenti, A. Rastelli, N. Hrauda, D. Scopece, H. Groiss, J. Stangl, F. Pezzoli, F. Schäffler, O. G. Schmidt, L. Miglio, and G. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166102 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Friction Anisotropy of the Surface of Organic Crystals and Its Impact on Scanning Force Microscopy

M. Campione and E. Fumagalli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166103 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Metastable Underwater Superhydrophobicity

Rosa Poetes, Kathrin Holtzmann, Kristian Franze, and Ullrich Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166104 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Irrational Charge from Topological Order

R. Moessner and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166401 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Fragile Mott Insulators

Hong Yao and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166402 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Electronic Transport in Dual-Gated Bilayer Graphene at Large Displacement Fields

Thiti Taychatanapat and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166601 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Graphene Field-Effect Transistors with Ferroelectric Gating

Yi Zheng, Guang-Xin Ni, Chee-Tat Toh, Chin-Yaw Tan, Kui Yao, and Barbaros Özyilmaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166602 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

In-Plane Transport and Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Thin Films of the Topological Insulators ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ and ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Pouyan Ghaemi, Roger S. K. Mong, and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166603 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Emission and Absorption Quantum Noise Measurement with an On-Chip Resonant Circuit

J. Basset, H. Bouchiat, and R. Deblock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166801 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

What Is Measured in the Scanning Gate Microscopy of a Quantum Point Contact?

Rodolfo A. Jalabert, Wojciech Szewc, Steven Tomsovic, and Dietmar Weinmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166802 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

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Topological Quantization in Units of the Fine Structure Constant

Joseph Maciejko, Xiao-Liang Qi, H. Dennis Drew, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166803 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Magnetoconductance Response in Unipolar and Bipolar Organic Diodes at Ultrasmall Fields

T. D. Nguyen, B. R. Gautam, E. Ehrenfreund, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 166804 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Circuit QED and Sudden Phase Switching in a Superconducting Qubit Array

L. Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167001 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Enhancement of the Critical Temperature of ${HgBa}_{2} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$ by Applying Uniaxial and Hydrostatic Pressure: Implications for a Universal Trend in Cuprate Superconductors

F. Hardy, N. J. Hillier, C. Meingast, D. Colson, Y. Li, N. Barišić, G. Yu, X. Zhao, M. Greven, and J. S. Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167002 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Phase-Incoherent Superconducting Pairs in the Normal State of $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$

Goutam Sheet, Manan Mehta, D. A. Dikin, S. Lee, C. W. Bark, J. Jiang, J. D. Weiss, E. E. Hellstrom, M. S. Rzchowski, C. B. Eom, and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167003 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Andreev and Single-Particle Tunneling Spectra of Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Kai-Yu Yang, Kun Huang, Wei-Qiang Chen, T. M. Rice, and Fu-Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167004 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Local Quasiparticle Density of States of Superconducting ${SmFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ Single Crystals: Evidence for Spin-Mediated Pairing

Y. Fasano, I. Maggio-Aprile, N. D. Zhigadlo, S. Katrych, J. Karpinski, and Ø. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167005 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Efficient Numerical Approach to Inhomogeneous Superconductivity: The Chebyshev-Bogoliubov–de Gennes Method

L. Covaci, F. M. Peeters, and M. Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167006 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Quadrupolar Waves in Uranium Dioxide

S. Carretta, P. Santini, R. Caciuffo, and G. Amoretti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167201 (2010) - Published 11 October, 2010

Tunneling Spin Injection into Single Layer Graphene

Wei Han, K. Pi, K. M. McCreary, Yan Li, Jared J. I. Wong, A. G. Swartz, and R. K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167202 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Oscillatory Spin Polarization and Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in ${Fe}_{3} O_{4}$ Thin Films on GaAs(001)

Yan Li, Wei Han, A. G. Swartz, K. Pi, J. J. I. Wong, S. Mack, D. D. Awschalom, and R. K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167203 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Solvable Model of Quantum Random Optimization Problems

Laura Foini, Guilhem Semerjian, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167204 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Ferromagnetically Coupled Shastry-Sutherland Quantum Spin Singlets in $(CuCl) {LaNb}_{2} O_{7}$

C. Tassel, J. Kang, C. Lee, O. Hernandez, Y. Qiu, W. Paulus, E. Collet, B. Lake, T. Guidi, M.-H. Whangbo, C. Ritter, H. Kageyama, and S.-H. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167205 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Tunable Magnetic Interaction at the Atomic Scale in Oxide Heterostructures

J. W. Seo, W. Prellier, P. Padhan, P. Boullay, J.-Y. Kim, Hangil Lee, C. D. Batista, I. Martin, Elbert E. M. Chia, T. Wu, B.-G. Cho, and C. Panagopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167206 (2010) - Published 14 October, 2010

Cycloidal Order of $4 f$ Moments as a Probe of Chiral Domains in ${DyMnO}_{3}$

E. Schierle, V. Soltwisch, D. Schmitz, R. Feyerherm, A. Maljuk, F. Yokaichiya, D. N. Argyriou, and E. Weschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167207 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Influence of the Magnetic State on the Chemical Order-Disorder Transition Temperature in Fe-Ni Permalloy

M. Ekholm, H. Zapolsky, A. V. Ruban, I. Vernyhora, D. Ledue, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167208 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Observation of the Intraexciton Autler-Townes Effect in $GaAs / AlGaAs$ Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Martin Wagner, Harald Schneider, Dominik Stehr, Stephan Winnerl, Aaron M. Andrews, Stephan Schartner, Gottfried Strasser, and Manfred Helm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167401 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010

Anomalous Power Laws of Spectral Diffusion in Quantum Dots: A Connection to Luminescence Intermittency

Taras Plakhotnik, Mark J. Fernée, Brad Littleton, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Christian Potzner, and Paul Mulvaney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167402 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Determination of Electric-Field, Magnetic-Field, and Electric-Current Distributions of Infrared Optical Antennas: A Near-Field Optical Vector Network Analyzer

Robert L. Olmon, Matthias Rang, Peter M. Krenz, Brian A. Lail, Laxmikant V. Saraf, Glenn D. Boreman, and Markus B. Raschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167403 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

Theory of Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering by Collective Magnetic Excitations

M. W. Haverkort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167404 (2010) - Published 15 October, 2010

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Polarization Switching without Domain Formation at the Intrinsic Coercive Field in Ultrathin Ferroelectric ${PbTiO}_{3}$

Matthew J. Highland, Timothy T. Fister, Marie-Ingrid Richard, Dillon D. Fong, Paul H. Fuoss, Carol Thompson, Jeffrey A. Eastman, Stephen K. Streiffer, and G. Brian Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 167601 (2010) - Published 12 October, 2010