Volume 105, Issue 18

29 October 2010

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Force transmitted through a shear-thickening fluid causes a depression in molding clay, as a sphere is driven to a point just above it.

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Focused Force Transmission through an Aqueous Suspension of Granules
Bin Liu, Michael Shelley, and Jun Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 188301 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fluctuations of the Local Density of States Probe Localized Surface Plasmons on Disordered Metal Films

V. Krachmalnicoff, E. Castanié, Y. De Wilde, and R. Carminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183901 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

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Direct Determination of Large Spin-Torque Nonadiabaticity in Vortex Core Dynamics

L. Heyne, J. Rhensius, D. Ilgaz, A. Bisig, U. Rüdiger, M. Kläui, L. Joly, F. Nolting, L. J. Heyderman, J. U. Thiele, and F. Kronast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 187203 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

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Bringing Entanglement to the High Temperature Limit

Fernando Galve, Leonardo A. Pachón, and David Zueco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180501 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

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Quantum Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit via Rabi Oscillations

Zeyang Liao, M. Al-Amri, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183601 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

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Electron Spin Decoherence in Isotope-Enriched Silicon

Wayne M. Witzel, Malcolm S. Carroll, Andrea Morello, Łukasz Cywiński, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 187602 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

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Strongly Interacting Atom Lasers in Three-Dimensional Optical Lattices

Itay Hen and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180401 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

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Event Excess in the MiniBooNE Search for ${\bar{ν}}_{μ} \to {\bar{ν}}_{e}$ Oscillations

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181801 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Strongly Interacting Atom Lasers in Three-Dimensional Optical Lattices

Itay Hen and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180401 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

General Optimality of the Heisenberg Limit for Quantum Metrology

Marcin Zwierz, Carlos A. Pérez-Delgado, and Pieter Kok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180402 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

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Bringing Entanglement to the High Temperature Limit

Fernando Galve, Leonardo A. Pachón, and David Zueco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180501 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Metal-Coated Nanocylinder Cavity for Broadband Nonclassical Light Emission

I. S. Maksymov, M. Besbes, J. P. Hugonin, J. Yang, A. Beveratos, I. Sagnes, I. Robert-Philip, and P. Lalanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 180502 (2010) - Published 29 October, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmology Favoring Extra Radiation and Sub-eV Mass Sterile Neutrinos as an Option

Jan Hamann, Steen Hannestad, Georg G. Raffelt, Irene Tamborra, and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181301 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Non-Gaussianity in Axion $N$ -flation Models

Soo A. Kim, Andrew R. Liddle, and David Seery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181302 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Event Excess in the MiniBooNE Search for ${\bar{ν}}_{μ} \to {\bar{ν}}_{e}$ Oscillations

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181801 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

Color Sextet Scalars in Early LHC Experiments

Edmond L. Berger, Qing-Hong Cao, Chuan-Ren Chen, Gabe Shaughnessy, and Hao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181802 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Determination of the Axial-Vector Weak Coupling Constant with Ultracold Neutrons

J. Liu et al. (UCNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 181803 (2010) - Published 29 October, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Indirect Observation of an In-Medium $η^{'}$ Mass Reduction in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ $Au + Au$ Collisions

T. Csörgő, R. Vértesi, and J. Sziklai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 182301 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Excitation of the Isomeric ${}^{229 m}{Th}$ Nuclear State via an Electronic Bridge Process in ${}^{229}{Th}^{+}$

S. G. Porsev, V. V. Flambaum, E. Peik, and Chr. Tamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 182501 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

New Superheavy Element Isotopes: ${}^{242}{Pu} ({}^{48}{Ca}, 5 n) {}^{285}1 14$

P. A. Ellison, K. E. Gregorich, J. S. Berryman, D. L. Bleuel, R. M. Clark, I. Dragojević, J. Dvorak, P. Fallon, C. Fineman-Sotomayor, J. M. Gates, O. R. Gothe, I. Y. Lee, W. D. Loveland, J. P. McLaughlin, S. Paschalis, M. Petri, J. Qian, L. Stavsetra, M. Wiedeking, and H. Nitsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 182701 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resonant and Near-Threshold Photoionization Cross Sections of ${Fe}^{14 +}$

M. C. Simon, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, C. Beilmann, M. Schwarz, Z. Harman, S. W. Epp, B. L. Schmitt, T. M. Baumann, E. Behar, S. Bernitt, R. Follath, R. Ginzel, C. H. Keitel, R. Klawitter, K. Kubiček, V. Mäckel, P. H. Mokler, G. Reichardt, O. Schwarzkopf, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183001 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

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Quantum Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit via Rabi Oscillations

Zeyang Liao, M. Al-Amri, and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183601 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Self-Similar Modes of Coherent Diffusion

O. Firstenberg, P. London, D. Yankelev, R. Pugatch, M. Shuker, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183602 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Fluctuations of the Local Density of States Probe Localized Surface Plasmons on Disordered Metal Films

V. Krachmalnicoff, E. Castanié, Y. De Wilde, and R. Carminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183901 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Extremely Short Pulses via Stark Modulation of the Atomic Transition Frequencies

Y. V. Radeonychev, V. A. Polovinkin, and Olga Kocharovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 183902 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Spectral Theory of the Turbulent Mean-Velocity Profile

Gustavo Gioia, Nicholas Guttenberg, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 184501 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Direct Measurement of Effective Magnetic Diffusivity in Turbulent Flow of Liquid Sodium

Peter Frick, Vitaliy Noskov, Sergey Denisov, and Rodion Stepanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 184502 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Flower Patterns in Drop Impact on Thin Liquid Films

Guillaume Lagubeau, Marco A. Fontelos, Christophe Josserand, Agnès Maurel, Vincent Pagneux, and Philippe Petitjeans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 184503 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth during the Implosion of Initially Solid Al Tubes Driven by the 20-MA, 100-ns Z Facility

D. B. Sinars, S. A. Slutz, M. C. Herrmann, R. D. McBride, M. E. Cuneo, K. J. Peterson, R. A. Vesey, C. Nakhleh, B. E. Blue, K. Killebrew, D. Schroen, K. Tomlinson, A. D. Edens, M. R. Lopez, I. C. Smith, J. Shores, V. Bigman, G. R. Bennett, B. W. Atherton, M. Savage, W. A. Stygar, G. T. Leifeste, and J. L. Porter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185001 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Experimental Observation of Increased Threshold Electric Field for Runaway Generation due to Synchrotron Radiation Losses in the FTU Tokamak

J. R. Martín-Solís, R. Sánchez, and B. Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185002 (2010) - Published 25 October, 2010

Neoclassical Transport Caused by Collisionless Scattering across an Asymmetric Separatrix

Daniel H. E. Dubin, C. F. Driscoll, and Yu. A. Tsidulko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185003 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

$β$ -Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes Destabilized by Energetic Electrons in a Tokamak Plasma

W. Chen, X. T. Ding, Q. W. Yang, Yi Liu, X. Q. Ji, Y. P. Zhang, J. Zhou, G. L. Yuan, H. J. Sun, W. Li, Y. Zhou, Y. Huang, J. Q. Dong, B. B. Feng, X. M. Song, Z. B. Shi, Z. T. Liu, X. Y. Song, L. C. Li, X. R. Duan, and Y. Liu (HL-2A team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185004 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Melting of Bi Sublattice in Nanosized ${BiFeO}_{3}$ Perovskite by Resonant X-Ray Diffraction

V. Petkov, S. M. Selbach, M.-A. Einarsrud, T. Grande, and S. D. Shastri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185501 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

Role of Surface Reconstructions in (111) Silicon Fracture

Delia Fernandez-Torre, Tristan Albaret, and Alessandro De Vita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185502 (2010) - Published 28 October, 2010

Significance of Self-Trapping on Hydrogen Diffusion

Andreas Blomqvist, Gunnar K. Pálsson, C. Moysés Araújo, Rajeev Ahuja, and Björgvin Hjörvarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 185901 (2010) - Published 28 October, 2010

Self-Consistent Interpretation of the 2D Structure of the Liquid ${Au}_{82} {Si}_{18}$ Surface: Bending Rigidity and the Debye-Waller Effect

S. Mechler, P. S. Pershan, E. Yahel, S. E. Stoltz, O. G. Shpyrko, B. Lin, M. Meron, and S. Sellner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 186101 (2010) - Published 27 October, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Majorana and Dirac Zero Modes in Superconducting Vortex Cores

Rahul Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 186401 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

BCS Wave-Function Approach to the BEC-BCS Crossover of Exciton-Polariton Condensates

Tim Byrnes, Tomoyuki Horikiri, Natsuko Ishida, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 186402 (2010) - Published 26 October, 2010

Quantum Valence Criticality as an Origin of Unconventional Critical Phenomena

Shinji Watanabe and Kazumasa Miyake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 186403 (2010) - Published 28 October, 2010

Electronic Structure of Crystalline ${}^{4}{He}$ at High Pressures

Ho Kwang Mao, Eric L. Shirley, Yang Ding, Peter Eng, Yong Q. Cai, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Jinfu Shu, Russell J. Hemley, Chichang Kao, and Wendy L. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 186404 (2010) - Published 29 October, 2010