Volume 105, Issue 19

5 November 2010

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A CaF₂ atomic force microscope tip interacts with a CaF₂ substrate in the presence of screening water molecules. Ca: turquoise; F: green or yellow; O: red; H: silver.

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Mechanism of Contrast Formation in Atomic Force Microscopy in Water
Matthew Watkins and Alexander L. Shluger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196101 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Realization of a $SU (2) \times SU (6)$ System of Fermions in a Cold Atomic Gas

Shintaro Taie, Yosuke Takasu, Seiji Sugawa, Rekishu Yamazaki, Takuya Tsujimoto, Ryo Murakami, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190401 (2010) - Published 1 November, 2010

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Migration and Localization of Metal Atoms on Strained Graphene

Ovidiu Cretu, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Julio A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Litao Sun, Risto M. Nieminen, and Florian Banhart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196102 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

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Structure and Response in the World Trade Network

Jiankui He and Michael W. Deem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 198701 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

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Vicious Lévy Flights

Igor Goncharenko and Ajay Gopinathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190601 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

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Efficient Band Gap Prediction for Solids

M. K. Y. Chan and G. Ceder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196403 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Realization of a $SU (2) \times SU (6)$ System of Fermions in a Cold Atomic Gas

Shintaro Taie, Yosuke Takasu, Seiji Sugawa, Rekishu Yamazaki, Takuya Tsujimoto, Ryo Murakami, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190401 (2010) - Published 1 November, 2010

Sub-Poissonian Number Differences in Four-Wave Mixing of Matter Waves

J.-C. Jaskula, M. Bonneau, G. B. Partridge, V. Krachmalnicoff, P. Deuar, K. V. Kheruntsyan, A. Aspect, D. Boiron, and C. I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190402 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Cold Atom Simulation of Interacting Relativistic Quantum Field Theories

J. Ignacio Cirac, Paolo Maraner, and Jiannis K. Pachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190403 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Wilson Fermions and Axion Electrodynamics in Optical Lattices

A. Bermudez, L. Mazza, M. Rizzi, N. Goldman, M. Lewenstein, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190404 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Noise-Enhanced Classical and Quantum Capacities in Communication Networks

Filippo Caruso, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190501 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Nonzero Quantum Discord

Borivoje Dakić, Vlatko Vedral, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190502 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Quantum State Restoration and Single-Copy Tomography for Ground States of Hamiltonians

Edward Farhi, David Gosset, Avinatan Hassidim, Andrew Lutomirski, Daniel Nagaj, and Peter Shor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190503 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Evolution and Symmetry of Multipartite Entanglement

Gilad Gour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190504 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

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Vicious Lévy Flights

Igor Goncharenko and Ajay Gopinathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190601 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anyons from Strings

Luca Mezincescu and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 191601 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Search for $R$ -Parity Violating Decays of Sneutrinos to $e μ$ , $μ τ$ , and $e τ$ Pairs in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 191801 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Search for Sneutrino Production in $e μ$ Final States in $5.3 {fb}^{- 1}$ of $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 191802 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

First Measurement of Inclusive $B \to X_{s} η$ Decays

K. Nishimura et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 191803 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Anderson Localization in Quark-Gluon Plasma

Tamás G. Kovács and Ferenc Pittler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 192001 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Particle Transfer Reactions with the Time-Dependent Hartree-Fock Theory Using a Particle Number Projection Technique

Cédric Simenel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 192701 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherence Freeze in an Optical Lattice Investigated Via Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Samansa Maneshi, Chao Zhuang, Christopher R. Paul, Luciano S. Cruz, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193001 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Dead-Zone-Free Atomic Magnetometry with Simultaneous Excitation of Orientation and Alignment Resonances

A. Ben-Kish and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193601 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Strongly Enhanced Spin Squeezing via Quantum Control

Collin M. Trail, Poul S. Jessen, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193602 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Cooperative Atom-Light Interaction in a Blockaded Rydberg Ensemble

J. D. Pritchard, D. Maxwell, A. Gauguet, K. J. Weatherill, M. P. A. Jones, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193603 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

How to Measure the Optical Thickness of Scattering Particles from the Phase Delay of Scattered Waves: Application to Turbid Samples

M. A. C. Potenza, K. P. V. Sabareesh, M. Carpineti, M. D. Alaimo, and M. Giglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193901 (2010) - Published 3 November, 2010

Designing Three-Dimensional Transformation Optical Media Using Quasiconformal Coordinate Transformations

N. I. Landy, N. Kundtz, and D. R. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193902 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

The Clapping Book: Wind-Driven Oscillations in a Stack of Elastic Sheets

P. Buchak, C. Eloy, and P. M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 194301 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Microtearing Modes in Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas

I. Predebon, F. Sattin, M. Veranda, D. Bonfiglio, and S. Cappello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195001 (2010) - Published 1 November, 2010

Ion Response to Relativistic Electron Bunches in the Blowout Regime of Laser-Plasma Accelerators

K. I. Popov, W. Rozmus, V. Yu. Bychenkov, N. Naseri, C. E. Capjack, and A. V. Brantov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195002 (2010) - Published 1 November, 2010

Structure of an Exploding Laser-Produced Plasma

A. Collette and W. Gekelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195003 (2010) - Published 1 November, 2010

Computational Interpretation of Megagauss-Magnetic-Field-Induced Metallic Surface Plasma Initiation and Evolution

Irvin R. Lindemuth, Richard E. Siemon, Bruno S. Bauer, Milena A. Angelova, and Walter L. Atchison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195004 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Pair Creation in QED-Strong Pulsed Laser Fields Interacting with Electron Beams

Igor V. Sokolov, Natalia M. Naumova, John A. Nees, and Gérard A. Mourou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195005 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Neoclassical Transport in the Helical Reversed-Field Pinch

M. Gobbin, G. Spizzo, L. Marrelli, and R. B. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195006 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Energetic Electrons Associated with Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetic Cloud Boundary Layer

Y. Wang, F. S. Wei, X. S. Feng, S. H. Zhang, P. B. Zuo, and T. R. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195007 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Spectral Enhancement in the Double Pulse Regime of Laser Proton Acceleration

K. Markey, P. McKenna, C. M. Brenner, D. C. Carroll, M. M. Günther, K. Harres, S. Kar, K. Lancaster, F. Nürnberg, M. N. Quinn, A. P. L. Robinson, M. Roth, M. Zepf, and D. Neely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195008 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fermi-Bose Mixtures near Broad Interspecies Feshbach Resonances

Jun Liang Song, Mohammad S. Mashayekhi, and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195301 (2010) - Published 3 November, 2010

Pressure-Induced Delocalization of Photoexcited States in a Semiconducting Polymer

Sebastian Albert-Seifried, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Frédéric Laquai, Hugo A. Bronstein, Charlotte K. Williams, and Richard H. Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195501 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Step-Flow Kinetics in Nanowire Growth

C.-Y. Wen, J. Tersoff, M. C. Reuter, E. A. Stach, and F. M. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195502 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Strain-Enhanced Doping in Semiconductors: Effects of Dopant Size and Charge State

Junyi Zhu, Feng Liu, G. B. Stringfellow, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195503 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

New Phases of Water Ice Predicted at Megabar Pressures

Burkhard Militzer and Hugh F. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 195701 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Mechanism of Contrast Formation in Atomic Force Microscopy in Water

Matthew Watkins and Alexander L. Shluger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196101 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

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Migration and Localization of Metal Atoms on Strained Graphene

Ovidiu Cretu, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Julio A. Rodríguez-Manzo, Litao Sun, Risto M. Nieminen, and Florian Banhart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196102 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Cohesive Properties and Asymptotics of the Dispersion Interaction in Graphite by the Random Phase Approximation

S. Lebègue, J. Harl, Tim Gould, J. G. Ángyán, G. Kresse, and J. F. Dobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196401 (2010) - Published 1 November, 2010

Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling Regime with Polariton Dots

Y. Todorov, A. M. Andrews, R. Colombelli, S. De Liberato, C. Ciuti, P. Klang, G. Strasser, and C. Sirtori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196402 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

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Efficient Band Gap Prediction for Solids

M. K. Y. Chan and G. Ceder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196403 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Global Phase Diagram of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Arising from Repulsive Three-Body Interactions

Arkadiusz Wójs, Csaba Tőke, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 196801 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of the Iron-Chalcogenide Superconductor ${Fe}_{1.03} {Te}_{0.7} {Se}_{0.3}$ : Strong Coupling Behavior and the Universality of Interband Scattering

K. Nakayama, T. Sato, P. Richard, T. Kawahara, Y. Sekiba, T. Qian, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, H. Ding, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197001 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Exchange Bias and Domain Evolution at 10 nm Scales

I. Schmid, M. A. Marioni, P. Kappenberger, S. Romer, M. Parlinska-Wojtan, H. J. Hug, O. Hellwig, M. J. Carey, and E. E. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197201 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Giant Skyrmions Stabilized by Dipole-Dipole Interactions in Thin Ferromagnetic Films

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197202 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Ultrafast Magnon Generation in an Fe Film on Cu(100)

A. B. Schmidt, M. Pickel, M. Donath, P. Buczek, A. Ernst, V. P. Zhukov, P. M. Echenique, L. M. Sandratskii, E. V. Chulkov, and M. Weinelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197401 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010

Theory of Giant Electromechanical Response from Ferroelectric Bilayers with Polydomain Structures due to Interlayer and Interdomain Coupling

R. Mahjoub, S. P. Alpay, and V. Nagarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197601 (2010) - Published 2 November, 2010

Atomic-Scale Compensation Phenomena at Polar Interfaces

Matthew F. Chisholm, Weidong Luo, Mark P. Oxley, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Ho Nyung Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197602 (2010) - Published 4 November, 2010

Domain Wall Conductivity in La-Doped ${BiFeO}_{3}$

J. Seidel, P. Maksymovych, Y. Batra, A. Katan, S.-Y. Yang, Q. He, A. P. Baddorf, S. V. Kalinin, C.-H. Yang, J.-C. Yang, Y.-H. Chu, E. K. H. Salje, H. Wormeester, M. Salmeron, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 197603 (2010) - Published 5 November, 2010