Volume 105, Issue 17

22 October 2010

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Measured (left) and calculated (right) double-slit interference pattern of soft x-ray harmonics from Ne at 330 eV.

From the article:

Bright, Coherent, Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Light Source
M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, T. Popmintchev, M. Gerrity, B. Zhang, M. Seaberg, D. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173901 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Composite Nanochannels as Nanopumps Driven by Symmetric Temperature Gradients

Chong Liu and Zhigang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 174501 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Chiral Charge-Density Waves

J. Ishioka, Y. H. Liu, K. Shimatake, T. Kurosawa, K. Ichimura, Y. Toda, M. Oda, and S. Tanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176401 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discovery of Highly Excited Long-Lived Isomers in Neutron-Rich Hafnium and Tantalum Isotopes through Direct Mass Measurements

M. W. Reed et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 172501 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiple Packets of Neutral Molecules Revolving for over a Mile

Peter C. Zieger, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Cynthia E. Heiner, Hendrick L. Bethlem, André J. A. van Roij, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173001 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Feedback Cooling of a Single Neutral Atom

Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Alexander Kubanek, Matthias Apel, Maximilian Balbach, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173003 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrically Driven Multiaxis Rotational Dynamics of Colloidal Platelets in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Clayton P. Lapointe, Sharla Hopkins, Thomas G. Mason, and Ivan I. Smalyukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 178301 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interacting Branching Process as a Simple Model of Innovation

Vishal Sood, Myléne Mathieu, Amer Shreim, Peter Grassberger, and Maya Paczuski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 178701 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

LETTERS

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

Polarized ${}^{3}{He}$ as a Probe for Short-Range Spin-Dependent Interactions

A. K. Petukhov, G. Pignol, D. Jullien, and K. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170401 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Generalized Clausius Inequality for Nonequilibrium Quantum Processes

Sebastian Deffner and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170402 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Breakdown of Universality for Unequal-Mass Fermi Gases with Infinite Scattering Length

D. Blume and K. M. Daily

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170403 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Loophole-Free Bell Test for Continuous Variables via Wave and Particle Correlations

Se-Wan Ji, Jaewan Kim, Hai-Woong Lee, M. S. Zubairy, and Hyunchul Nha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170404 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Preparing Thermal States of Quantum Systems by Dimension Reduction

Ersen Bilgin and Sergio Boixo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170405 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Entanglement Verification with Finite Data

Robin Blume-Kohout, Jun O. S. Yin, and S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170501 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Coherent Transport of Atomic Quantum States in a Scalable Shift Register

A. Lengwenus, J. Kruse, M. Schlosser, S. Tichelmann, and G. Birkl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170502 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Fluctuation Relations and Rare Realizations of Transport Observables

Alexander Altland, Alessandro De Martino, Reinhold Egger, and Boris Narozhny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170601 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Fractional Fokker-Planck Equations for Subdiffusion with Space- and Time-Dependent Forces

B. I. Henry, T. A. M. Langlands, and P. Straka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170602 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Correspondence between Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes and Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories

Arjun Bagchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 171601 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Search for Hidden Sector Photons with the ADMX Detector

A. Wagner, G. Rybka, M. Hotz, L. J Rosenberg, S. J. Asztalos, G. Carosi, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, K. van Bibber, J. Hoskins, C. Martin, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, R. Bradley, and J. Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 171801 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Search for $f_{J} (2220)$ in Radiative $J / ψ$ Decays

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 172001 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Testing the Chiral Magnetic Effect with Central $U + U$ Collisions

Sergei A. Voloshin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 172301 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discovery of Highly Excited Long-Lived Isomers in Neutron-Rich Hafnium and Tantalum Isotopes through Direct Mass Measurements

M. W. Reed et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 172501 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Evidence for Phonon Mediated Pairing Interaction in the Halo of the Nucleus ${}^{11}{Li}$

G. Potel, F. Barranco, E. Vigezzi, and R. A. Broglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 172502 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiple Packets of Neutral Molecules Revolving for over a Mile

Peter C. Zieger, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Cynthia E. Heiner, Hendrick L. Bethlem, André J. A. van Roij, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173001 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Time-of-Flight Imaging Method to Observe Signatures of Antiferromagnetically Ordered States of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Kensuke Inaba and Makoto Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173002 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Feedback Cooling of a Single Neutral Atom

Markus Koch, Christian Sames, Alexander Kubanek, Matthias Apel, Maximilian Balbach, Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Pepijn W. H. Pinkse, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173003 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Interatomic Electronic Decay Driven by Nuclear Motion

Nicolas Sisourat, Hendrik Sann, Nikolai V. Kryzhevoi, Přemysl Kolorenč, Tilo Havermeier, Felix Sturm, Till Jahnke, Hong-Keun Kim, Reinhard Dörner, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173401 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

High-Fidelity Readout in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics Using the Jaynes-Cummings Nonlinearity

M. D. Reed, L. DiCarlo, B. R. Johnson, L. Sun, D. I. Schuster, L. Frunzio, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173601 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Observation of Two-Photon Absorption at Low Power Levels Using Tapered Optical Fibers in Rubidium Vapor

S. M. Hendrickson, M. M. Lai, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173602 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Spinor Slow-Light and Dirac Particles with Variable Mass

R. G. Unanyan, J. Otterbach, M. Fleischhauer, J. Ruseckas, V. Kudriašov, and G. Juzeliūnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173603 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Bright, Coherent, Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Light Source

M.-C. Chen, P. Arpin, T. Popmintchev, M. Gerrity, B. Zhang, M. Seaberg, D. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173901 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Direct Observation of Self-Similarity in Evolution of Transient Stimulated Raman Scattering in Gas-Filled Photonic Crystal Fibers

A. Nazarkin, A. Abdolvand, A. V. Chugreev, and P. St.J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 173902 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Anisotropic Mass Density by Radially Periodic Fluid Structures

Daniel Torrent and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 174301 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Composite Nanochannels as Nanopumps Driven by Symmetric Temperature Gradients

Chong Liu and Zhigang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 174501 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Folded Edge of Turbulence in a Pipe

Y. Tasaka, T. M. Schneider, and T. Mullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 174502 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Field Compressing Magnetothermal Instability in Laser Plasmas

J. J. Bissell, C. P. Ridgers, and R. J. Kingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175001 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Observation of Magnetized Soliton Remnants in the Wake of Intense Laser Pulse Propagation through Plasmas

L. Romagnani, A. Bigongiari, S. Kar, S. V. Bulanov, C. A. Cecchetti, T. Zh. Esirkepov, M. Galimberti, R. Jung, T. V. Liseykina, A. Macchi, J. Osterholz, F. Pegoraro, O. Willi, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175002 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Controlling Hot Electrons by Wave Amplification and Decay in Compressing Plasma

P. F. Schmit, I. Y. Dodin, and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175003 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Observation of Anomalous Ion Heating by Broadband Drift-Wave Turbulence

S. Enge, G. Birkenmeier, P. Manz, M. Ramisch, and U. Stroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175004 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Nonlinear Simulations of Peeling-Ballooning Modes with Anomalous Electron Viscosity and their Role in Edge Localized Mode Crashes

X. Q. Xu, B. Dudson, P. B. Snyder, M. V. Umansky, and H. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175005 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Suppression of Tritium Retention in Remote Areas of ITER by Nonperturbative Reactive Gas Injection

F. L. Tabarés, J. A. Ferreira, A. Ramos, G. van Rooij, J. Westerhout, R. Al, J. Rapp, A. Drenik, and M. Mozetic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175006 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Observation of Postsoliton Expansion Following Laser Propagation through an Underdense Plasma

G. Sarri, D. K. Singh, J. R. Davies, F. Fiuza, K. L. Lancaster, E. L. Clark, S. Hassan, J. Jiang, N. Kageiwa, N. Lopes, A. Rehman, C. Russo, R. H. H. Scott, T. Tanimoto, Z. Najmudin, K. A. Tanaka, M. Tatarakis, M. Borghesi, and P. A. Norreys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175007 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Super-Tonks-Girardeau Gas of Spin- $1 / 2$ Interacting Fermions

Liming Guan and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175301 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Microfluidic Rheology of Soft Colloids above and below Jamming

K. N. Nordstrom, E. Verneuil, P. E. Arratia, A. Basu, Z. Zhang, A. G. Yodh, J. P. Gollub, and D. J. Durian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 175701 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Ionic Currents in the Presence of Supporting Electrolytes

Ehud Yariv and Yaniv Almog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176101 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Chiral Charge-Density Waves

J. Ishioka, Y. H. Liu, K. Shimatake, T. Kurosawa, K. Ichimura, Y. Toda, M. Oda, and S. Tanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176401 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Electron-Phonon Interactions of ${Si}_{100}$ and ${Ge}_{100}$ Superconductors with Ba Atoms Inside

Jun Tang, Jingtao Xu, Satoshi Heguri, Hiroshi Fukuoka, Syoji Yamanaka, Koji Akai, and Katsumi Tanigaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176402 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Bipolaron Formation in Organic Solar Cells Observed by Pulsed Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance

J. Behrends, A. Schnegg, K. Lips, E. A. Thomsen, A. K. Pandey, I. D. W. Samuel, and D. J. Keeble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176601 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Gate-Voltage Control of Chemical Potential and Weak Antilocalization in ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

J. Chen, H. J. Qin, F. Yang, J. Liu, T. Guan, F. M. Qu, G. H. Zhang, J. R. Shi, X. C. Xie, C. L. Yang, K. H. Wu, Y. Q. Li, and L. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176602 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Distinguishing Quantum and Classical Transport through Nanostructures

Neill Lambert, Clive Emary, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176801 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Atypical Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene at Filling Factor $1 / 3$

Z. Papić, M. O. Goerbig, and N. Regnault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176802 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Highly Confined Hybrid Spoof Surface Plasmons in Ultrathin Metal-Dielectric Heterostructures

S. Hossein Mousavi, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Burton Neuner, III, Yoav Avitzour, Dmitriy Korobkin, Gabriel Ferro, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176803 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

“Artificial Atoms” in Magnetic Fields: Wave-Function Shaping and Phase-Sensitive Tunneling

Wen Lei, Christian Notthoff, Jie Peng, Dirk Reuter, Andreas Wieck, Gabriel Bester, and Axel Lorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176804 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Design Principles and Coupling Mechanisms in the 2D Quantum Well Topological Insulator $HgTe / CdTe$

Jun-Wei Luo and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176805 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Correlated Electron Effects in Low Energy ${Sr}^{+}$ Ion Scattering

X. He and J. A. Yarmoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176806 (2010) - Published 21 October, 2010

Tilt-Induced Anisotropic to Isotropic Phase Transition at $ν = 5 / 2$

Jing Xia, Vaclav Cvicek, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 176807 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Lifetime and Coherence of Two-Level Defects in a Josephson Junction

Yoni Shalibo, Ya’ara Rofe, David Shwa, Felix Zeides, Matthew Neeley, John M. Martinis, and Nadav Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 177001 (2010) - Published 19 October, 2010

Helical Liquids and Majorana Bound States in Quantum Wires

Yuval Oreg, Gil Refael, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 177002 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Width Dependence of the Nonadiabatic Spin-Transfer Torque in Narrow Domain Walls

Stellan Bohlens and Daniela Pfannkuche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 177201 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010

Static versus Dynamic Heterogeneities in the $D = 3$ Edwards-Anderson-Ising Spin Glass

R. Alvarez Baños, A. Cruz, L. A. Fernandez, J. M. Gil-Narvion, A. Gordillo-Guerrero, M. Guidetti, A. Maiorano, F. Mantovani, E. Marinari, V. Martin-Mayor, J. Monforte-Garcia, A. Muñoz Sudupe, D. Navarro, G. Parisi, S. Perez-Gaviro, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, S. F. Schifano, B. Seoane, A. Tarancon, R. Tripiccione, and D. Yllanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 177202 (2010) - Published 20 October, 2010

Negative Volume Thermal Expansion Via Orbital and Magnetic Orders in ${Ca}_{2} {Ru}_{1 - x} {Cr}_{x} O_{4} (0 < x < 0.13)$

T. F. Qi, O. B. Korneta, S. Parkin, L. E. De Long, P. Schlottmann, and G. Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 177203 (2010) - Published 22 October, 2010

Unraveling the Nature of Charge Excitations in ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$ with Momentum-Resolved Cu $K$ -Edge Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

C.-C. Chen, B. Moritz, F. Vernay, J. N. Hancock, S. Johnston, C. J. Jia, G. Chabot-Couture, M. Greven, I. Elfimov, G. A. Sawatzky, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 177401 (2010) - Published 18 October, 2010