Volume 105, Issue 20

12 November 2010

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Femtosecond-laser-written directional coupler used as a beam splitter that allows manipulation of photon-state polarization-encoded qubits. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Polarization Entangled State Measurement on a Chip
Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Mataloni, Andrea Crespi, Roberta Ramponi, and Roberto Osellame
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200503 (2010)

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Polarization Entangled State Measurement on a Chip

Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Mataloni, Andrea Crespi, Roberta Ramponi, and Roberto Osellame

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200503 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

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Reactor Decay Heat in ${}^{239}{Pu}$ : Solving the $γ$ Discrepancy in the 4–3000-s Cooling Period

A. Algora et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 202501 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

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Hawking Radiation from Ultrashort Laser Pulse Filaments

F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, M. Clerici, V. Gorini, G. Ortenzi, L. Rizzi, E. Rubino, V. G. Sala, and D. Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203901 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

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Effective Magnetic Monopoles and Universal Conductance Fluctuations

Kjetil M. D. Hals, Anh Kiet Nguyen, Xavier Waintal, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207204 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

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Decoherence due to Elastic Rayleigh Scattering

H. Uys, M. J. Biercuk, A. P. VanDevender, C. Ospelkaus, D. Meiser, R. Ozeri, and J. J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200401 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

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Fermionic Light in Common Optical Media

David Novoa, Humberto Michinel, and Daniele Tommasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203904 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

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Direct Observation of the Surface Segregation of Cu in Pd by Time-Resolved Positron-Annihilation-Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy

J. Mayer, C. Hugenschmidt, and K. Schreckenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207401 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Decoherence due to Elastic Rayleigh Scattering

H. Uys, M. J. Biercuk, A. P. VanDevender, C. Ospelkaus, D. Meiser, R. Ozeri, and J. J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200401 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Robust Decoupling Techniques to Extend Quantum Coherence in Diamond

C. A. Ryan, J. S. Hodges, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200402 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Tensor Rank and Stochastic Entanglement Catalysis for Multipartite Pure States

Lin Chen, Eric Chitambar, Runyao Duan, Zhengfeng Ji, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200501 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation with Very High Threshold for Loss Errors

Sean D. Barrett and Thomas M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200502 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

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Polarization Entangled State Measurement on a Chip

Linda Sansoni, Fabio Sciarrino, Giuseppe Vallone, Paolo Mataloni, Andrea Crespi, Roberta Ramponi, and Roberto Osellame

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200503 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Hedged Maximum Likelihood Quantum State Estimation

Robin Blume-Kohout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 200504 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Monopole Solution in a Lorentz-Violating Field Theory

Michael D. Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 201601 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Adaptive Multigrid Algorithm for the Lattice Wilson-Dirac Operator

R. Babich, J. Brannick, R. C. Brower, M. A. Clark, T. A. Manteuffel, S. F. McCormick, J. C. Osborn, and C. Rebbi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 201602 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Sum Rules for Light-by-Light Scattering

Vladimir Pascalutsa and Marc Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 201603 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Neutrino Scattering on Atomic Electrons in Searches for the Neutrino Magnetic Moment

M. B. Voloshin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 201801 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{() +} D_{s}^{() -}$ Using $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions and a Determination of the $B_{s} − {\bar{B}}_{s}$ Width Difference $Δ Γ_{s}$

S. Esen et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 201802 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Test of the Universality of Naive-Time-Reversal-Odd Fragmentation Functions

Daniël Boer, Zhong-Bo Kang, Werner Vogelsang, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 202001 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Bottom Quark Contribution to Nonphotonic Electron Production in $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 202301 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

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Reactor Decay Heat in ${}^{239}{Pu}$ : Solving the $γ$ Discrepancy in the 4–3000-s Cooling Period

A. Algora et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 202501 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Coupled-Channel Calculation of Nonelastic Cross Sections Using a Density-Functional Structure Model

G. P. A. Nobre, F. S. Dietrich, J. E. Escher, I. J. Thompson, M. Dupuis, J. Terasaki, and J. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 202502 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Transfer of Photoassociated Molecules into the Rovibrational Ground State

K. Aikawa, D. Akamatsu, M. Hayashi, K. Oasa, J. Kobayashi, P. Naidon, T. Kishimoto, M. Ueda, and S. Inouye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203001 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Coupling between Internal Spin Dynamics and External Degrees of Freedom in the Presence of Colored Noise

S. Machluf, J. Coslovsky, P. G. Petrov, Y. Japha, and R. Folman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203002 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Ladder Climbing on the Anharmonic Intermolecular Potential in an Amino Acid Microcrystal via an Intense Monocycle Terahertz Pulse

Mukesh Jewariya, Masaya Nagai, and Koichiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203003 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Multiple Ionization Bursts in Laser-Driven Hydrogen Molecular Ion

Norio Takemoto and Andreas Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203004 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Creating and Manipulating Vortices in Atomic Wave Functions with Short Electric Field Pulses

S. Yu Ovchinnikov, J. B. Sternberg, J. H. Macek, Teck-Ghee Lee, and D. R. Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203005 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Kinetics and Dynamics of the $S ({}^{1}D_{2}) + H_{2} \to SH + H$ Reaction at Very Low Temperatures and Collision Energies

Coralie Berteloite, Manuel Lara, Astrid Bergeat, Sébastien D. Le Picard, Fabrice Dayou, Kevin M. Hickson, André Canosa, Christian Naulin, Jean-Michel Launay, Ian R. Sims, and Michel Costes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203201 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Detecting Positron-Atom Bound States through Resonant Annihilation

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203401 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Linear-Optical Processing Cannot Increase Photon Efficiency

D. W. Berry and A. I. Lvovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203601 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Hawking Radiation from Ultrashort Laser Pulse Filaments

F. Belgiorno, S. L. Cacciatori, M. Clerici, V. Gorini, G. Ortenzi, L. Rizzi, E. Rubino, V. G. Sala, and D. Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203901 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

High Harmonic Generation Via Continuum Wave-Packet Interference

Markus C. Kohler, Christian Ott, Philipp Raith, Robert Heck, Iris Schlegel, Christoph H. Keitel, and Thomas Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203902 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Isotropic Diffraction-Limited Focusing Using a Single Objective Lens

Emeric Mudry, Eric Le Moal, Patrick Ferrand, Patrick C. Chaumet, and Anne Sentenac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203903 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

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Fermionic Light in Common Optical Media

David Novoa, Humberto Michinel, and Daniele Tommasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 203904 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Classical Bifurcation at the Transition from Rabi to Josephson Dynamics

Tilman Zibold, Eike Nicklas, Christian Gross, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 204101 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Influence of Double Diffusive Effects on Miscible Viscous Fingering

M. Mishra, P. M. J. Trevelyan, C. Almarcha, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 204501 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Chaotic Transport and Damping from $θ$ -Ruffled Separatrices

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205001 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Existence of Metastable Kinetic Modes

C. Nguyen, H. Lütjens, X. Garbet, V. Grandgirard, and M. Lesur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205002 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Observation of a Velocity Domain Cooling Instability in a Radiative Shock

M. Hohenberger, D. R. Symes, J. Lazarus, H. W. Doyle, R. E. Carley, A. S. Moore, E. T. Gumbrell, M. M. Notley, R. J. Clarke, M. Dunne, and R. A. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205003 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Transport Induced by Large Scale Convective Structures in a Dipole-Confined Plasma

B. A. Grierson, M. E. Mauel, M. W. Worstell, and M. Klassen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205004 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Binary Quantum Turbulence Arising from Countersuperflow Instability in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

Hiromitsu Takeuchi, Shungo Ishino, and Makoto Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205301 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Direct Observation of Dynamical Bifurcation in a Superfluid Josephson Junction

Supradeep Narayana and Yuki Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205302 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Design Principles for Broad-Spectrum Protein-Crystal Nucleants with Nanoscale Pits

Jacobus A. van Meel, Richard P. Sear, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205501 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Elastic Heterogeneity in Metallic Glasses

W. Dmowski, T. Iwashita, C.-P. Chuang, J. Almer, and T. Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205502 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Scaling Theory for Unipolar Resistance Switching

J. S. Lee, S. B. Lee, S. H. Chang, L. G. Gao, B. S. Kang, M.-J. Lee, C. J. Kim, T. W. Noh, and B. Kahng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205701 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Modeling Abnormal Strain States in Ferroelastic Systems: The Role of Point Defects

Dong Wang, Yunzhi Wang, Zhen Zhang, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 205702 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Shubnikov–De Haas Oscillations in ${SrTiO}_{3} / {LaAlO}_{3}$ Interface

M. Ben Shalom, A. Ron, A. Palevski, and Y. Dagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 206401 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Bandwidth Tuning Triggers Interplay of Charge Order and Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional Organic Materials

S. Kaiser, M. Dressel, Y. Sun, A. Greco, J. A. Schlueter, G. L. Gard, and N. Drichko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 206402 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Anisotropic Magnetic Fluctuations in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe Studied by Direction-Dependent ${}^{59}{Co}$ NMR Measurements

Y. Ihara, T. Hattori, K. Ishida, Y. Nakai, E. Osaki, K. Deguchi, N. K. Sato, and I. Satoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 206403 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Chain of Majorana States from Superconducting Dirac Fermions at a Magnetic Domain Wall

Titus Neupert, Shigeki Onoda, and Akira Furusaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 206404 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm Conductance Oscillations from Topological Insulator Surface States

Yi Zhang and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 206601 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Theory of High-Energy Features in the Tunneling Spectra of Quantum-Hall Systems

A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 206801 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Is ${CrO}_{2}$ Fully Spin Polarized? Analysis of Andreev Spectra and Excess Current

Tomas Löfwander, Roland Grein, and Matthias Eschrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207001 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Angular Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in Ferromagnet-Superconductor-Ferromagnet Trilayers

Jian Zhu, Ilya N. Krivorotov, Klaus Halterman, and Oriol T. Valls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207002 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

Competing Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity on FeAs Layers in ${EuFe}_{2} ({As}_{0.73} P_{0.27})_{2}$

Aamir Ahmed, M. Itou, Shenggao Xu, Zhu’an Xu, Guanghan Cao, Y. Sakurai, James Penner-Hahn, and Aniruddha Deb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207003 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Enhanced Fermi-Surface Nesting in Superconducting ${BaFe}_{2} ({As}_{1 - x} P_{x})_{2}$ Revealed by the de Haas–van Alphen Effect

J. G. Analytis, J.-H. Chu, R. D. McDonald, S. C. Riggs, and I. R. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207004 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism of Cu-Doped ZnO Films Probed by Soft X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

T. S. Herng, D.-C. Qi, T. Berlijn, J. B. Yi, K. S. Yang, Y. Dai, Y. P. Feng, I. Santoso, C. Sánchez-Hanke, X. Y. Gao, Andrew T. S. Wee, W. Ku, J. Ding, and A. Rusydi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207201 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Conductivity Anisotropy in the Antiferromagnetic State of Iron Pnictides

B. Valenzuela, E. Bascones, and M. J. Calderón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207202 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010

Tunable Backaction of a DC SQUID on an Integrated Micromechanical Resonator

M. Poot, S. Etaki, I. Mahboob, K. Onomitsu, H. Yamaguchi, Ya. M. Blanter, and H. S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207203 (2010) - Published 10 November, 2010

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Effective Magnetic Monopoles and Universal Conductance Fluctuations

Kjetil M. D. Hals, Anh Kiet Nguyen, Xavier Waintal, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207204 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Limits on Intrinsic Magnetism in Graphene

M. Sepioni, R. R. Nair, S. Rablen, J. Narayanan, F. Tuna, R. Winpenny, A. K. Geim, and I. V. Grigorieva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207205 (2010) - Published 12 November, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of the Surface Segregation of Cu in Pd by Time-Resolved Positron-Annihilation-Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy

J. Mayer, C. Hugenschmidt, and K. Schreckenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207401 (2010) - Published 11 November, 2010

Single Crystal Study of Competing Rhombohedral and Monoclinic Order in Lead Zirconate Titanate

D. Phelan, X. Long, Y. Xie, Z.-G. Ye, A. M. Glazer, H. Yokota, P. A. Thomas, and P. M. Gehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 207601 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Pumping of Confined Water in Carbon Nanotubes by Rotation-Translation Coupling”

D. J. Bonthuis, K. Falk, C. N. Kaplan, D. Horinek, A. N. Berker, L. Bocquet, and R. R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 209401 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

Suk and Aluru Reply:

Myung E. Suk and N. R. Aluru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 209402 (2010) - Published 8 November, 2010

ERRATA

Erratum: Direct Measurements of ${}^{22}{Na} (p, γ) {}^{23}{Mg}$ Resonances and Consequences for ${}^{22}{Na}$ Production in Classical Novae [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 152501 (2010)]

A. L. Sallaska, C. Wrede, A. García, D. W. Storm, T. A. D. Brown, C. Ruiz, K. A. Snover, D. F. Ottewell, L. Buchmann, C. Vockenhuber, D. A. Hutcheon, and J. A. Caggiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 209901 (2010) - Published 9 November, 2010