Volume 105, Issue 25

17 December 2010

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A Pb-Pb collision event in the ATLAS detector at the LHC with a highly asymmetric pair of jets. One of the jets lost energy as it traversed the hot, dense medium produced in the collision. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC
G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252303 (2010)

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Elliptic Flow of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252302 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252303 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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New Type of Asymmetric Fission in Proton-Rich Nuclei

A. N. Andreyev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252502 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

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Flux Rope Dynamics: Experimental Study of Bouncing and Merging

X. Sun, T. P. Intrator, L. Dorf, J. Sears, I. Furno, and G. Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255001 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Controlling Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene at Ultrahigh Carrier Densities

Dmitri K. Efetov and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256805 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Local Compressibility Measurements of Correlated States in Suspended Bilayer Graphene

J. Martin, B. E. Feldman, R. T. Weitz, M. T. Allen, and A. Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256806 (2010) - Published 15 December, 2010

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Local Deterministic Model of Singlet State Correlations Based on Relaxing Measurement Independence

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250404 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

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Discovery of the Shape Coexisting $0^{+}$ State in ${}^{32}{Mg}$ by a Two Neutron Transfer Reaction

K. Wimmer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252501 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252301 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Topological Order Parameters for Interacting Topological Insulators

Zhong Wang, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256803 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

LETTERS

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

Effect of Rare Fluctuations on the Thermalization of Isolated Quantum Systems

Giulio Biroli, Corinna Kollath, and Andreas M. Läuchli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250401 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Casimir Force on a Surface with Shallow Nanoscale Corrugations: Geometry and Finite Conductivity Effects

Y. Bao, R. Guérout, J. Lussange, A. Lambrecht, R. A. Cirelli, F. Klemens, W. M. Mansfield, C. S. Pai, and H. B. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250402 (2010) - Published 15 December, 2010

Permutationally Invariant Quantum Tomography

G. Tóth, W. Wieczorek, D. Gross, R. Krischek, C. Schwemmer, and H. Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250403 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

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Local Deterministic Model of Singlet State Correlations Based on Relaxing Measurement Independence

Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250404 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Photon Regeneration Experiment for Axion Search Using X-Rays

R. Battesti, M. Fouché, C. Detlefs, T. Roth, P. Berceau, F. Duc, P. Frings, G. L. J. A. Rikken, and C. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250405 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Hyperentangled Mixed Phased Dicke States: Optical Design and Detection

A. Chiuri, G. Vallone, N. Bruno, C. Macchiavello, D. Bruß, and P. Mataloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250501 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation with Nondeterministic Gates

Ying Li, Sean D. Barrett, Thomas M. Stace, and Simon C. Benjamin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250502 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Fault-Tolerant Topological One-Way Quantum Computation with Probabilistic Two-Qubit Gates

Keisuke Fujii and Yuuki Tokunaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250503 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves as Seen by LISA

M. Sereno, A. Sesana, A. Bleuler, Ph. Jetzer, M. Volonteri, and M. C. Begelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 251101 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Precise Estimation of Cosmological Parameters Using a More Accurate Likelihood Function

Masanori Sato, Kiyotomo Ichiki, and Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 251301 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Applying the Variational Principle to ( $1 + 1$ )-Dimensional Quantum Field Theories

Jutho Haegeman, J. Ignacio Cirac, Tobias J. Osborne, Henri Verschelde, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 251601 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Search for $Z H \to l^{+} l^{-} b \bar{b}$ Production in $4.2 {fb}^{- 1}$ of $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 251801 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Improved Search for a Higgs Boson Produced in Association with $Z \to l^{+} l^{-}$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 251802 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Top Quark Mass Measurement in the $lepton + jets$ Channel Using a Matrix Element Method and in situ Jet Energy Calibration

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252001 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Hadron Mass Spectrum from Lattice QCD

Abhijit Majumder and Berndt Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252002 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Soft-Gluon Resummation and the Valence Parton Distribution Function of the Pion

Matthias Aicher, Andreas Schäfer, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252003 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Nuclear Physics

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Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252301 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Elliptic Flow of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252302 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252303 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Discovery of the Shape Coexisting $0^{+}$ State in ${}^{32}{Mg}$ by a Two Neutron Transfer Reaction

K. Wimmer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252501 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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New Type of Asymmetric Fission in Proton-Rich Nuclei

A. N. Andreyev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252502 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Energy Density Functional Study of Nuclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless $β β$ Decay

Tomás R. Rodríguez and Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252503 (2010) - Published 15 December, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Highly Efficient State-Selective Submicrosecond Photoionization Detection of Single Atoms

F. Henkel, M. Krug, J. Hofmann, W. Rosenfeld, M. Weber, and H. Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253001 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Low-Energy Structures in Strong Field Ionization Revealed by Quantum Orbits

Tian-Min Yan, S. V. Popruzhenko, M. J. J. Vrakking, and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253002 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Fragmentation Pathways of $H^{+} (H_{2} O)_{2}$ after Extreme Ultraviolet Photoionization

L. Lammich, C. Domesle, B. Jordon-Thaden, M. Förstel, T. Arion, T. Lischke, O. Heber, S. Klumpp, M. Martins, N. Guerassimova, R. Treusch, J. Ullrich, U. Hergenhahn, H. B. Pedersen, and A. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253003 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Bright Source of Spectrally Uncorrelated Polarization-Entangled Photons with Nearly Single-Mode Emission

P. G. Evans, R. S. Bennink, W. P. Grice, T. S. Humble, and J. Schaake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253601 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Optical orbital angular momentum from the curl of polarization

Xi-Lin Wang (汪喜林), Jing Chen, Yongnan Li (李勇男), Jianping Ding (丁剑平), Cheng-Shan Guo (国承山), and Hui-Tian Wang (王慧田)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253602 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Probing the Negative Wigner Function of a Pulsed Single Photon Point by Point

Kaisa Laiho, Katiúscia N. Cassemiro, David Gross, and Christine Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253603 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatiotemporal Airy Light Bullets in the Linear and Nonlinear Regimes

Daryoush Abdollahpour, Sergiy Suntsov, Dimitrios G. Papazoglou, and Stelios Tzortzakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 253901 (2010) - Published 15 December, 2010

Synchronizing Distant Nodes: A Universal Classification of Networks

V. Flunkert, S. Yanchuk, T. Dahms, and E. Schöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 254101 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Spatial Intermittency of Surface Layer Wind Fluctuations at Mesoscale Range

Rachel Baïle and Jean-François Muzy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 254501 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Maximal Potential Energy Transport: A Variational Principle for Solidification Problems

A. J. Wells, J. S. Wettlaufer, and S. A. Orszag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 254502 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Flux Rope Dynamics: Experimental Study of Bouncing and Merging

X. Sun, T. P. Intrator, L. Dorf, J. Sears, I. Furno, and G. Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255001 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Magnetic Reconnection Triggering Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities during a Sawtooth Crash in a Tokamak Plasma

I. T. Chapman, R. Scannell, W. A. Cooper, J. P. Graves, R. J. Hastie, G. Naylor, and A. Zocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255002 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Electron Current Drive by Fusion-Product-Excited Lower Hybrid Drift Instability

J. W. S. Cook, S. C. Chapman, and R. O. Dendy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255003 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Tunable Wigner States with Dipolar Atoms and Molecules

J. C. Cremon, G. M. Bruun, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255301 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Realistic Time-Reversal Invariant Topological Insulators with Neutral Atoms

N. Goldman, I. Satija, P. Nikolic, A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin-Delgado, M. Lewenstein, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255302 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Spectral Imaging of Individual Split-Ring Resonators

Guillaume Boudarham, Nils Feth, Viktor Myroshnychenko, Stefan Linden, Javier García de Abajo, Martin Wegener, and Mathieu Kociak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255501 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Explosive Percolation Transition is Actually Continuous

R. A. da Costa, S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev, and J. F. F. Mendes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255701 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Can an Electric Field Induce an Antiferroelectric Phase Out of a Ferroelectric Phase?

X. Tan, J. Frederick, C. Ma, W. Jo, and J. Rödel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255702 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Ostwald Ripening in Nanoalloys: When Thermodynamics Drives a Size-Dependent Particle Composition

D. Alloyeau, G. Prévot, Y. Le Bouar, T. Oikawa, C. Langlois, A. Loiseau, and C. Ricolleau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 255901 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polarized Nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensates of Spinor Exciton Polaritons in a Magnetic Field

A. V. Larionov, V. D. Kulakovskii, S. Höfling, C. Schneider, L. Worschech, and A. Forchel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256401 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Direct Determination of the Electron-Phonon Coupling Matrix Element in a Correlated System

Huajun Qin, Junren Shi, Yanwei Cao, Kehui Wu, Jiandi Zhang, E. W. Plummer, J. Wen, Z. J. Xu, G. D. Gu, and Jiandong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256402 (2010) - Published 15 December, 2010

Quantitative Determination of Contributions to the Thermoelectric Power Factor in Si Nanostructures

Hyuk Ju Ryu, Z. Aksamija, D. M. Paskiewicz, S. A. Scott, M. G. Lagally, I. Knezevic, and M. A. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256601 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Quantum Phase Transition and Emergent Symmetry in a Quadruple Quantum Dot System

Dong E. Liu, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256801 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Full Counting Statistics of a Luttinger Liquid Conductor

D. B. Gutman, Yuval Gefen, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256802 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Order Parameters for Interacting Topological Insulators

Zhong Wang, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256803 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Unconventional Proximity Effect and Inverse Spin-Switch Behavior in a Model Manganite-Cuprate-Manganite Trilayer System

Juan Salafranca and Satoshi Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256804 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Controlling Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene at Ultrahigh Carrier Densities

Dmitri K. Efetov and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256805 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

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Local Compressibility Measurements of Correlated States in Suspended Bilayer Graphene

J. Martin, B. E. Feldman, R. T. Weitz, M. T. Allen, and A. Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 256806 (2010) - Published 15 December, 2010

Electron-Phonon Coupling in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors Determined from Electron Relaxation Rates

C. Gadermaier, A. S. Alexandrov, V. V. Kabanov, P. Kusar, T. Mertelj, X. Yao, C. Manzoni, D. Brida, G. Cerullo, and D. Mihailovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257001 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Sisyphus Effects in a Microwave-Excited Flux-Qubit Resonator System

J. C. Skinner, H. Prance, P. B. Stiffell, and R. J. Prance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257002 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Stark Effect and Generalized Bloch-Siegert Shift in a Strongly Driven Two-Level System

Jani Tuorila, Matti Silveri, Mika Sillanpää, Erkki Thuneberg, Yuriy Makhlin, and Pertti Hakonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257003 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Vortex Solid Phase with Frozen Undulations in Superconducting Josephson-Junction Arrays in External Magnetic Fields

Hajime Yoshino, Tomoaki Nogawa, and Bongsoo Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257004 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Enhanced Pairing Correlations near Oxygen Dopants in Cuprate Superconductors

Giniyat Khaliullin, Michiyasu Mori, Takami Tohyama, and Sadamichi Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257005 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Far-Infrared Conductivity Measurements of Pair Breaking in Superconducting ${Nb}_{0.5} {Ti}_{0.5} N$ Thin Films Induced by an External Magnetic Field

Xiaoxiang Xi, J. Hwang, C. Martin, D. B. Tanner, and G. L. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257006 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Multiferroic $M$ -Type Hexaferrites with a Room-Temperature Conical State and Magnetically Controllable Spin Helicity

Y. Tokunaga, Y. Kaneko, D. Okuyama, S. Ishiwata, T. Arima, S. Wakimoto, K. Kakurai, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257201 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Coexistence of Antiferromagnetic and Spin Cluster Glass Order in the Magnetoelectric Relaxor Multiferroic ${PbFe}_{0.5} {Nb}_{0.5} O_{3}$

W. Kleemann, V. V. Shvartsman, P. Borisov, and A. Kania

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 257202 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Azimuthal Instability of the Interface in a Shear Banded Flow by Direct Visual Observation

J. P. Decruppe, L. Bécu, O. Greffier, and N. Fazel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 258301 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Direct Detection of the Ultrafast Response of Charges and Molecules in the Photoinduced Neutral-to-Ionic Transition of the Organic Tetrathiafulvalene- $p$ -Chloranil Solid

H. Uemura and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 258302 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Measurements Reveal the Origin of the Debye Process in Monohydroxy Alcohols

C. Gainaru, R. Meier, S. Schildmann, C. Lederle, W. Hiller, E. A. Rössler, and R. Böhmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 258303 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010

ERRATA

Erratum: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Anisotropic Large Spins in the Kondo Regime: Time-Dependent Numerical Renormalization Group Analysis [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 087201 (2008)]

David Roosen, Maarten R. Wegewijs, and Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 259901 (2010) - Published 13 December, 2010

Erratum: Model Accounting for the Effects of Pulling-Device Stiffness in the Analyses of Single-Molecule Force Measurements [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 108301 (2010)]

Arijit Maitra and Gaurav Arya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 259902 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Optical Möbius Symmetry in Metamaterials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 235501 (2010)]

Chih-Wei Chang, Ming Liu, Sunghyun Nam, Shuang Zhang, Yongmin Liu, Guy Bartal, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 259903 (2010) - Published 14 December, 2010

Erratum: Magnetoelectric Photocurrent Generated by Direct Interband Transitions in $InGaAs / InAlAs$ Two-Dimensional Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246601 (2010)]

Junfeng Dai, Hai-Zhou Lu, C. L. Yang, Shun-Qing Shen, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Xiaodong Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 259904 (2010) - Published 16 December, 2010