Volume 105, Issue 2

9 July 2010

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On the Cover

Branches of a typical two-dimensional Hamiltonian flow from a plane source, created by a weak disorder potential. The white plumes denote high intensity; the low and high potential values are represented by magenta and cyan, respectively.

From the article:

Universal Statistics of Branched Flows
Jakob J. Metzger, Ragnar Fleischmann, and Theo Geisel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020601 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022002 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Morphology, Growth, and Size Limit of Bacterial Cells

Hongyuan Jiang and Sean X. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 028101 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spin Self-Rephasing and Very Long Coherence Times in a Trapped Atomic Ensemble

C. Deutsch, F. Ramirez-Martinez, C. Lacroûte, F. Reinhard, T. Schneider, J. N. Fuchs, F. Piéchon, F. Laloë, J. Reichel, and P. Rosenbusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020401 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Fiber Optic Detection of Trapped Ion Fluorescence

A. P. VanDevender, Y. Colombe, J. Amini, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 023001 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

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Optical Probe of Quantum Shot-Noise Reduction at a Single-Atom Contact

Natalia L. Schneider, Guillaume Schull, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026601 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

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Molecular Imaging of Slip in Entangled DNA Solution

Pouyan E. Boukany, Orin Hemminger, Shi-Qing Wang, and L. J. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027802 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Spin Self-Rephasing and Very Long Coherence Times in a Trapped Atomic Ensemble

C. Deutsch, F. Ramirez-Martinez, C. Lacroûte, F. Reinhard, T. Schneider, J. N. Fuchs, F. Piéchon, F. Laloë, J. Reichel, and P. Rosenbusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020401 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Rearranging the Exponential Wall for Large $N$ -Body Systems

Deborah K. Watson and Martin Dunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020402 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Decay of Polarons and Molecules in a Strongly Polarized Fermi Gas

G. M. Bruun and P. Massignan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020403 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Quantum Darwinism in an Everyday Environment: Huge Redundancy in Scattered Photons

C. Jess Riedel and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020404 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Rotonlike Instability and Pattern Formation in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Michał Matuszewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020405 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Optimal Dynamical Control of Many-Body Entanglement

Felix Platzer, Florian Mintert, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020501 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Quantum State Reduction for Universal Measurement Based Computation

Xie Chen, Runyao Duan, Zhengfeng Ji, and Bei Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020502 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Gaussian Quantum Discord

Paolo Giorda and Matteo G. A. Paris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020503 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Universal Statistics of Branched Flows

Jakob J. Metzger, Ragnar Fleischmann, and Theo Geisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020601 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Superfluidity and Critical Velocities in Nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensates

Michiel Wouters and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 020602 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Ultrahigh-Energy Photons as Probes of Lorentz Symmetry Violations in Stringy Space-Time Foam Models

Luca Maccione, Stefano Liberati, and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 021101 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Higher Order Intercommutations in Cosmic String Collisions

A. Achúcarro and G. J. Verbiest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 021601 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Seeing in Color: Jet Superstructure

Jason Gallicchio and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022001 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022002 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Heavy Quark Fluorescence

Juan M. Torres-Rincon and Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022003 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Three-Particle Coincidence of the Long Range Pseudorapidity Correlation in High Energy Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022301 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Higher Moments of Net Proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC

M. M. Aggarwal et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022302 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Pair Decay Width of the Hoyle State and its Role for Stellar Carbon Production

M. Chernykh, H. Feldmeier, T. Neff, P. von Neumann-Cosel, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022501 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Mode Coupling and the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in a Relativistic Two-Phonon Model

Elena Litvinova, Peter Ring, and Victor Tselyaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022502 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Elastic Scattering and Reaction Mechanisms of the Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Be}$ around the Coulomb Barrier

A. Di Pietro et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022701 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Fiber Optic Detection of Trapped Ion Fluorescence

A. P. VanDevender, Y. Colombe, J. Amini, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 023001 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Nonuniversal Efimov Atom-Dimer Resonances in a Three-Component Mixture of ${}^{6}{Li}$

Shuta Nakajima, Munekazu Horikoshi, Takashi Mukaiyama, Pascal Naidon, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 023201 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Switchable Ultrastrong Coupling in Circuit QED

B. Peropadre, P. Forn-Díaz, E. Solano, and J. J. García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 023601 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Magnetic Field Control of the Quantum Chaotic Dynamics of Hydrogen Analogs in an Anisotropic Crystal Field

Weihang Zhou, Zhanghai Chen, Bo Zhang, C. H. Yu, Wei Lu, and S. C. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 024101 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Magnetic Reversals in a Simple Model of Magnetohydrodynamics

Roberto Benzi and Jean-François Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 024501 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Single-Cycled Short-Wavelength Laser Pulse Compressed from a Chirped Pulse Induced by Laser-Foil Interaction

L. L. Ji (吉亮亮), B. F. Shen (沈百飞), D. X. Li (李冬雪), D. Wang (王丁), Y. X. Leng (冷雨欣), X. M. Zhang (张晓梅), M. Wen (温猛), W. P. Wang (王文鹏), J. C. Xu (徐建彩), and Y. H. Yu. (郁亚红)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 025001 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Viscoelasticity of 2D Liquids Quantified in a Dusty Plasma Experiment

Yan Feng, J. Goree, and Bin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 025002 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evidence for a High-Temperature Disorder-Induced Mobility in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

A. Eyal, O. Pelleg, L. Embon, and E. Polturak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 025301 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Low-Frequency Vibrations of Soft Colloidal Glasses

Ke Chen, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Zexin Zhang, Daniel T. N. Chen, Peter J. Yunker, Silke Henkes, Carolina Brito, Olivier Dauchot, Wim van Saarloos, Andrea J. Liu, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 025501 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Precursor-Mediated Crystallization Process in Suspensions of Hard Spheres

T. Schilling, H. J. Schöpe, M. Oettel, G. Opletal, and I. Snook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 025701 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Indium-Gallium Segregation in ${CuIn}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} {Se}_{2}$ : An Ab Initio–Based Monte Carlo Study

Christian D. R. Ludwig, Thomas Gruhn, Claudia Felser, Tanja Schilling, Johannes Windeln, and Peter Kratzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 025702 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Transport of Deposited Atoms throughout Strain-Mediated Self-Assembly

Oussama Moutanabbir, Satoru Miyamoto, Eugene E. Haller, and Kohei M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026101 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Pentagons and Heptagons in the First Water Layer on Pt(111)

S. Nie, Peter J. Feibelman, N. C. Bartelt, and K. Thürmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026102 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Mechanical and Thermal Stability of Adhesive Membranes with Nonzero Bending Rigidity

T. Tallinen, J. A. Åström, P. Kekäläinen, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026103 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Many-Body Effects in the Excitation Spectrum of a Defect in SiC

Michel Bockstedte, Andrea Marini, Oleg Pankratov, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026401 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Experimental Observation of the Crystallization of a Paired Holon State

A. Rusydi, W. Ku, B. Schulz, R. Rauer, I. Mahns, D. Qi, X. Gao, A. T. S. Wee, P. Abbamonte, H. Eisaki, Y. Fujimaki, S. Uchida, and M. Rübhausen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026402 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Probe of Quantum Shot-Noise Reduction at a Single-Atom Contact

Natalia L. Schneider, Guillaume Schull, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026601 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Counting Statistics for Mesoscopic Conductors with Internal Degrees Of Freedom

Christopher Birchall and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026801 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

$S$ -Duality Constraints on 1D Patterns Associated with Fractional Quantum Hall States

Alexander Seidel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026802 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Environment-Assisted Tunneling as an Origin of the Dynes Density of States

J. P. Pekola, V. F. Maisi, S. Kafanov, N. Chekurov, A. Kemppinen, Yu. A. Pashkin, O.-P. Saira, M. Möttönen, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026803 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Microwave Zero-Resistance States in a Bilayer Electron System

S. Wiedmann, G. M. Gusev, O. E. Raichev, A. K. Bakarov, and J. C. Portal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026804 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Confinement-Induced Berry Phase and Helicity-Dependent Photocurrents

J. E. Moore and J. Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 026805 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Unusual Electronic Structure and Observation of Dispersion Kink in CeFeAsO Parent Compound of FeAs-based Superconductors

Haiyun Liu, G. F. Chen, Wentao Zhang, Lin Zhao, Guodong Liu, T.-L. Xia, Xiaowen Jia, Daixiang Mu, Shanyu Liu, Shaolong He, Yingying Peng, Junfeng He, Zhaoyu Chen, Xiaoli Dong, Jun Zhang, Guiling Wang, Yong Zhu, Zuyan Xu, Chuangtian Chen, and X. J. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027001 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Effects of Thermal Phase Fluctuations in a Two-Dimensional Superconductor: An Exact Result for the Spectral Function

A. M. Tsvelik and F. H. L. Essler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027002 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Specific Heat Measurements of ${Ba}_{0.68} K_{0.32} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Single Crystals: Evidence for a Multiband Strong-Coupling Superconducting State

P. Popovich, A. V. Boris, O. V. Dolgov, A. A. Golubov, D. L. Sun, C. T. Lin, R. K. Kremer, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027003 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Two-Dimensional Orbital-Like Magnetic Order in the High-Temperature ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductor

V. Balédent, B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, N. B. Christensen, S. Pailhès, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, J. Mesot, and P. Bourges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027004 (2010) - Published 7 July, 2010

Band-dependent Quasiparticle Dynamics in Single Crystals of the ${Ba}_{0.6} K_{0.4} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductor Revealed by Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Darius H. Torchinsky, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, and Nuh Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027005 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Interface Ferromagnetism and Orbital Reconstruction in ${BiFeO}_{3} − {La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$ Heterostructures

P. Yu, J.-S. Lee, S. Okamoto, M. D. Rossell, M. Huijben, C.-H. Yang, Q. He, J. X. Zhang, S. Y. Yang, M. J. Lee, Q. M. Ramasse, R. Erni, Y.-H. Chu, D. A. Arena, C.-C. Kao, L. W. Martin, and R. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027201 (2010) - Published 6 July, 2010

Magnetostriction and Magnetic Heterogeneities in Iron-Gallium

M. Laver, C. Mudivarthi, J. R. Cullen, A. B. Flatau, W.-C. Chen, S. M. Watson, and M. Wuttig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027202 (2010) - Published 8 July, 2010

Superdiffusive Spin Transport as a Mechanism of Ultrafast Demagnetization

M. Battiato, K. Carva, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027203 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Kitaev-Heisenberg Model on a Honeycomb Lattice: Possible Exotic Phases in Iridium Oxides $A_{2} {IrO}_{3}$

Jiří Chaloupka, George Jackeli, and Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027204 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Damping of Nanomechanical Resonators

Quirin P. Unterreithmeier, Thomas Faust, and Jörg P. Kotthaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027205 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010

Noncollinear Magnetization Structure at the Thickness-Driven Spin-Reorientation Transition in Epitaxial Fe Films on W(110)

T. Ślęzak, M. Ślęzak, M. Zając, K. Freindl, A. Kozioł-Rachwał, K. Matlak, N. Spiridis, D. Wilgocka-Ślęzak, E. Partyka-Jankowska, M. Rennhofer, A. I. Chumakov, S. Stankov, R. Rüffer, and J. Korecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 027206 (2010) - Published 9 July, 2010