Volume 105, Issue 22

26 November 2010

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On the Cover

Numerical simulations of the formation of vortex-antivortex lattices as expanding wave packets interfere in an evolving two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. See also Physical Review Focus story.

From the article:

Texture Control in a Pseudospin Bose-Einstein Condensate
Gary Ruben, Michael J. Morgan, and David M. Paganin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220402 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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How to Look for Supersymmetry under the LHC Lamppost

Partha Konar, Konstantin T. Matchev, Myeonghun Park, and Gaurab K. Sarangi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 221801 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

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Giant Piezoresistance Effects in Silicon Nanowires and Microwires

J. S. Milne, A. C. H. Rowe, S. Arscott, and Ch. Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226802 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

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Texture Control in a Pseudospin Bose-Einstein Condensate

Gary Ruben, Michael J. Morgan, and David M. Paganin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220402 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

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Optomechanical Transducers for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

K. Stannigel, P. Rabl, A. S. Sørensen, P. Zoller, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220501 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

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Observation of a Red-Blue Detuning Asymmetry in Matter-Wave Superradiance

L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, Qiang Cao, Xiaorui Wang, Xinyu Luo, Ruquan Wang, M. G. Payne, Fan Yang, Xiaoji Zhou, Xuzong Chen, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220404 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

LETTERS

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

Quantum Quenches and Off-Equilibrium Dynamical Transition in the Infinite-Dimensional Bose-Hubbard Model

Bruno Sciolla and Giulio Biroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220401 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

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Texture Control in a Pseudospin Bose-Einstein Condensate

Gary Ruben, Michael J. Morgan, and David M. Paganin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220402 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Quantum Radiation Reaction Effects in Multiphoton Compton Scattering

A. Di Piazza, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220403 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

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Observation of a Red-Blue Detuning Asymmetry in Matter-Wave Superradiance

L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, Qiang Cao, Xiaorui Wang, Xinyu Luo, Ruquan Wang, M. G. Payne, Fan Yang, Xiaoji Zhou, Xuzong Chen, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220404 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Equilibration Rates and Negative Absolute Temperatures for Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Akos Rapp, Stephan Mandt, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220405 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Superfluidity and Dimerization in a Multilayered System of Fermionic Polar Molecules

Andrew C. Potter, Erez Berg, Daw-Wei Wang, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220406 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Schwinger Limit Attainability with Extreme Power Lasers

Stepan S. Bulanov, Timur Zh. Esirkepov, Alexander G. R. Thomas, James K. Koga, and Sergei V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220407 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

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Optomechanical Transducers for Long-Distance Quantum Communication

K. Stannigel, P. Rabl, A. S. Sørensen, P. Zoller, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220501 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Significance Analysis and Statistical Mechanics: An Application to Clustering

Marta Łuksza, Michael Lässig, and Johannes Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 220601 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Can the Morphology of $γ$ -Ray Emission Distinguish Annihilating from Decaying Dark Matter?

Céline Bœhm, Timur Delahaye, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 221301 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Group Field Theory with Noncommutative Metric Variables

Aristide Baratin and Daniele Oriti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 221302 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

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How to Look for Supersymmetry under the LHC Lamppost

Partha Konar, Konstantin T. Matchev, Myeonghun Park, and Gaurab K. Sarangi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 221801 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in $6.3 {fb}^{- 1}$ of $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 221802 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Universal Flow-Driven Conical Emission in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Barbara Betz, Jorge Noronha, Giorgio Torrieri, Miklos Gyulassy, and Dirk H. Rischke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 222301 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Tensor Correlations Measured in ${}^{3}{He} (e, e^{'} p p) n$

H. Baghdasaryan et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 222501 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Steering the Electron in $H_{2}^{+}$ by Nuclear Wave Packet Dynamics

Bettina Fischer, Manuel Kremer, Thomas Pfeifer, Bernold Feuerstein, Vandana Sharma, Uwe Thumm, Claus Dieter Schröter, Robert Moshammer, and Joachim Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 223001 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

Directional Emission of Multiply Charged Ions During Dissociative Ionization in Asymmetric Two-Color Laser Fields

K. J. Betsch, D. W. Pinkham, and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 223002 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Four-Body Efimov Effect for Three Fermions and a Lighter Particle

Yvan Castin, Christophe Mora, and Ludovic Pricoupenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 223201 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Control and Tomography of a Three Level Superconducting Artificial Atom

R. Bianchetti, S. Filipp, M. Baur, J. M. Fink, C. Lang, L. Steffen, M. Boissonneault, A. Blais, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 223601 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three-Dimensional Negative Index of Refraction at Optical Frequencies by Coupling Plasmonic Waveguides

Ewold Verhagen, René de Waele, L. Kuipers, and Albert Polman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 223901 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Observation of Slow Light in the Noise Spectrum of a Vertical External Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser

A. El Amili, B.-X. Miranda, F. Goldfarb, G. Baili, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, F. Bretenaker, and M. Alouini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 223902 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Friction of Wrinkles

Hamid Mohammadi and Martin H. Müser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 224301 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Finite-Size Effects Lead to Supercritical Bifurcations in Turbulent Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Stephan Weiss, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Jin-Qiang Zhong, Herman J. H. Clercx, Detlef Lohse, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 224501 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Start Current and Gain Measurements for a Smith-Purcell Free-Electron Laser

J. Gardelle, P. Modin, and J. T. Donohue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 224801 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Enhanced Propagation for Relativistic Laser Pulses in Inhomogeneous Plasmas Using Hollow Channels

J. Fuchs, E. d’Humières, Y. Sentoku, P. Antici, S. Atzeni, H. Bandulet, S. Depierreux, C. Labaune, and A. Schiavi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225001 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Observation of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Interactions in a Drift-Wave Streamer

T. Yamada, S.-I. Itoh, S. Inagaki, Y. Nagashima, N. Kasuya, K. Kamataki, H. Arakawa, T. Kobayashi, M. Yagi, A. Fujisawa, and K. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225002 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spin-Asymmetric Josephson Effect

M. O. J. Heikkinen, F. Massel, J. Kajala, M. J. Leskinen, G. S. Paraoanu, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225301 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Multishell Intermetallic Onions by Symmetrical Configuration of Ordered Domains

R. Yu, W. Chen, Z. Y. Cheng, Y. D. Li, and J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225501 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Yielding and Shear Banding in Soft Glassy Materials

Abdoulaye Fall, Jose Paredes, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225502 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Direct Measurements of the Dynamical Correlation Length Indicate its Divergence at an Athermal Glass Transition

Z. Rotman and E. Eisenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225503 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Topological Nature of the Phonon Hall Effect

Lifa Zhang, Jie Ren, Jian-Sheng Wang, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 225901 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Direct Subangstrom Measurement of Surfaces of Oxide Particles

R. Yu, L. H. Hu, Z. Y. Cheng, Y. D. Li, H. Q. Ye, and J. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226101 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Identification of $A$ - and $B$ -Site Cation Vacancy Defects in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films

D. J. Keeble, S. Wicklein, R. Dittmann, L. Ravelli, R. A. Mackie, and W. Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226102 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Delocalized $π$ State between Molecules through a Surface Confined Pseudodihydrogen Bond

Lan Chen, Hui Li, and Andrew Thye Shen Wee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226103 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Cooper-Pair Injection into Quantum Spin Hall Insulators

Koji Sato, Daniel Loss, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226401 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

${}^{7}{Li}$ NMR Investigation of Li-Li Pair Ordering in the Paraelectric Phase of Weakly Substitutionally Disordered $K_{1 - x} {Li}_{x} {TaO}_{3}$

Boštjan Zalar, Andrija Lebar, David C. Ailion, R. O. Kuzian, I. V. Kondakova, and V. V. Laguta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226402 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Noncoplanar Magnetic Ordering Driven by Itinerant Electrons on the Pyrochlore Lattice

Gia-Wei Chern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226403 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Coulomb Energy Determination of a Single Si Dangling Bond

T. H. Nguyen, G. Mahieu, M. Berthe, B. Grandidier, C. Delerue, D. Stiévenard, and Ph. Ebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226404 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Understanding the Nature of the Kinetic Process in a ${VO}_{2}$ Metal-Insulator Transition

Tao Yao (姚涛), Xiaodong Zhang (张晓东), Zhihu Sun (孙治湖), Shoujie Liu (柳守杰), Yuanyuan Huang (黄元元), Yi Xie (谢毅), Changzheng Wu (吴长征), Xun Yuan (袁勋), Wenqing Zhang (张文清), Ziyu Wu (吴自玉), Guoqiang Pan (潘国强), Fengchun Hu (胡凤春), Lihui Wu (吴利徽), Qinghua Liu (刘庆华), and Shiqiang Wei (韦世强)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226405 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Interplay among Coulomb Interaction, Spin-Orbit Interaction, and Multiple Electron-Boson Interactions in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

H. Iwasawa, Y. Yoshida, I. Hase, S. Koikegami, H. Hayashi, J. Jiang, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, and Y. Aiura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226406 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Energy Relaxation and Thermalization of Hot Electrons in Quantum Wires

Torsten Karzig, Leonid I. Glazman, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226407 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Key Pairing Interaction in Layered Doped Ionic Insulators

A. S. Alexandrov and A. M. Bratkovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226408 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Competition between Charge-Transfer Exciton Dissociation and Direct Photocarrier Generation in Molecular Donor-Acceptor Compounds

Jun’ya Tsutsumi (堤潤也), Toshikazu Yamada (山田寿一), Hiroyuki Matsui (松井弘之), Simon Haas, and Tatsuo Hasegawa (長谷川達生)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226601 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Photon-Induced Vanishing of Magnetoconductance in 2D Electrons on Liquid Helium

Denis Konstantinov and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226801 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

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Giant Piezoresistance Effects in Silicon Nanowires and Microwires

J. S. Milne, A. C. H. Rowe, S. Arscott, and Ch. Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226802 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

How to Find Conductance Tensors of Quantum Multiwire Junctions through Static Calculations: Application to an Interacting $Y$ Junction

Armin Rahmani, Chang-Yu Hou, Adrian Feiguin, Claudio Chamon, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226803 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Tuning Energy Relaxation along Quantum Hall Channels

C. Altimiras, H. le Sueur, U. Gennser, A. Cavanna, D. Mailly, and F. Pierre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226804 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Dissipation-Induced $d$ -Wave Pairing of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice

S. Diehl, W. Yi, A. J. Daley, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 227001 (2010) - Published 22 November, 2010

Energy-Dependent Enhancement of the Electron-Coupling Spectrum of the Underdoped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor

H. Anzai, A. Ino, T. Kamo, T. Fujita, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, A. Fujimori, Z.-X. Shen, M. Ishikado, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 227002 (2010) - Published 24 November, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Transition from Thermal to Athermal Friction under Cryogenic Conditions”

C. G. Dunckle and P. Taborek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 229601 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Zhao et al. Reply:

Xueying Zhao, Simon R. Phillpot, W. Gregory Sawyer, Susan B. Sinnott, and Scott S. Perry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 229602 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

ERRATA

Erratum: Evidence for Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor ${LaNiC}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117007 (2009).]

A. D. Hillier, J. Quintanilla, and R. Cywinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 229901 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Thermal Decomposition of the Solid Phase of Nitromethane: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 188302 (2010)]

Jing Chang, Peng Lian, Dong-Qing Wei, Xiang-Rong Chen, Qing-Ming Zhang, and Zi-Zheng Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 229902 (2010) - Published 23 November, 2010