Volume 105, Issue 3

16 July 2010

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On the Cover

Simulations of four different models of bond percolation obtained on a square lattice at their respective percolation thresholds. The lower panels represent two novel schemes that yield first-order transitions. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Explosive Percolation via Control of the Largest Cluster
N. A. M. Araújo and H. J. Herrmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035701 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Upper Bound of 0.28 eV on Neutrino Masses from the Largest Photometric Redshift Survey

Shaun A. Thomas, Filipe B. Abdalla, and Ofer Lahav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 031301 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Smooth Cascade of Wrinkles at the Edge of a Floating Elastic Film

Jiangshui Huang, Benny Davidovitch, Christian D. Santangelo, Thomas P. Russell, and Narayanan Menon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 038302 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

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Draping Films: A Wrinkle to Fold Transition

Douglas P. Holmes and Alfred J. Crosby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 038303 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Degenerate Fermi Gas of ${}^{87}{Sr}$

B. J. DeSalvo, M. Yan, P. G. Mickelson, Y. N. Martinez de Escobar, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030402 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas of Atoms

Kirill Martiyanov, Vasiliy Makhalov, and Andrey Turlapov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030404 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explosive Percolation via Control of the Largest Cluster

N. A. M. Araújo and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035701 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Prediction of Doped Graphane as a High-Temperature Electron-Phonon Superconductor

G. Savini, A. C. Ferrari, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037002 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

LETTERS

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

Decoherence in Adiabatic Quantum Evolution: Application to Cooper Pair Pumping

J. P. Pekola, V. Brosco, M. Möttönen, P. Solinas, and A. Shnirman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030401 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Degenerate Fermi Gas of ${}^{87}{Sr}$

B. J. DeSalvo, M. Yan, P. G. Mickelson, Y. N. Martinez de Escobar, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030402 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Topological Order with a Twist: Ising Anyons from an Abelian Model

H. Bombin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030403 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas of Atoms

Kirill Martiyanov, Vasiliy Makhalov, and Andrey Turlapov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030404 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Itinerant Ferromagnetism of a Repulsive Atomic Fermi Gas: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study

S. Pilati, G. Bertaina, S. Giorgini, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030405 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Improving Quantum State Estimation with Mutually Unbiased Bases

R. B. A. Adamson and A. M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030406 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Remote Preparation of Single-Photon “Hybrid” Entangled and Vector-Polarization States

Julio T. Barreiro, Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030407 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Quantum versus Classical Correlations in Gaussian States

Gerardo Adesso and Animesh Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 030501 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Upper Bound of 0.28 eV on Neutrino Masses from the Largest Photometric Redshift Survey

Shaun A. Thomas, Filipe B. Abdalla, and Ofer Lahav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 031301 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Black Hole Entropy and $S U (2)$ Chern-Simons Theory

Jonathan Engle, Karim Noui, and Alejandro Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 031302 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Families of Particles with Different Masses in PT-Symmetric Quantum Field Theory

Carl M. Bender and S. P. Klevansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 031601 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Precision Constraints on Extra Fermion Generations

Jens Erler and Paul Langacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 031801 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

First Measurement of Bose-Einstein Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 0.9$ and 2.36 TeV at the LHC

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 032001 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Three-Body Forces and the Limit of Oxygen Isotopes

Takaharu Otsuka, Toshio Suzuki, Jason D. Holt, Achim Schwenk, and Yoshinori Akaishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 032501 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Critical-Point Boundary for the Nuclear Quantum Phase Transition Near $A = 100$ from Mass Measurements of ${}^{96, 97}{Kr}$

S. Naimi, G. Audi, D. Beck, K. Blaum, Ch. Böhm, Ch. Borgmann, M. Breitenfeldt, S. George, F. Herfurth, A. Herlert, M. Kowalska, S. Kreim, D. Lunney, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, S. Schwarz, L. Schweikhard, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 032502 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Formation of van der Waals Molecules in Buffer-Gas-Cooled Magnetic Traps

N. Brahms, T. V. Tscherbul, P. Zhang, J. Kłos, H. R. Sadeghpour, A. Dalgarno, J. M. Doyle, and T. G. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 033001 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

“Doubly Magic” Conditions in Magic-Wavelength Trapping of Ultracold Alkali-Metal Atoms

Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 033002 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Quantum-Dot-Spin Single-Photon Interface

S. T. Yılmaz, P. Fallahi, and A. Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 033601 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Light Bullets by Synthetic Diffraction-Dispersion Matching

Valery E. Lobanov, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 033901 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Transverse Shift of Helical Beams and Subdiffraction Imaging

Thomas Brunet, Jean-Louis Thomas, and Régis Marchiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034301 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Stokes’s Cradle: Newton’s Cradle with Liquid Coating

C. M. Donahue, C. M. Hrenya, and R. H. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034501 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Microfluidic Sorting of Stereoisomers

Ralf Eichhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034502 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Flow Reversals in Thermally Driven Turbulence

Kazuyasu Sugiyama, Rui Ni, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Tak Shing Chan, Sheng-Qi Zhou, Heng-Dong Xi, Chao Sun, Siegfried Grossmann, Ke-Qing Xia, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034503 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Entanglement Rules for Random Mixtures

J. Duplat, A. Jouary, and E. Villermaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034504 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stimulated Raman Side Scattering in Laser Wakefield Acceleration

T. Matsuoka, C. McGuffey, P. G. Cummings, Y. Horovitz, F. Dollar, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, P. Rousseau, V. Yanovsky, S. S. Bulanov, A. G. R. Thomas, A. Maksimchuk, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034801 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Phase-Space Manipulation of Ultracold Ion Bunches with Time-Dependent Fields

M. P. Reijnders, N. Debernardi, S. B. van der Geer, P. H. A. Mutsaers, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 034802 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Inverse Faraday Effect with Linearly Polarized Laser Pulses

S. Ali, J. R. Davies, and J. T. Mendonca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035001 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Experimental Electron Temperature Gradient Dependence of Heavy Impurity Transport in Fusion Devices

D. Villegas, R. Guirlet, C. Bourdelle, G. T. Hoang, X. Garbet, and R. Sabot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035002 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Tokamak Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium States with Axisymmetric Boundary and a 3D Helical Core

W. A. Cooper, J. P. Graves, A. Pochelon, O. Sauter, and L. Villard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035003 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Matter-Wave Scattering from Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Scott N. Sanders, Florian Mintert, and Eric J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035301 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Dynamical Density Fluctuations of Superfluids near the Critical Velocity

Yusuke Kato and Shohei Watabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035302 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Plasticity of Ductile Metallic Glasses: A Self-Organized Critical State

B. A. Sun, H. B. Yu, W. Jiao, H. Y. Bai, D. Q. Zhao, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035501 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explosive Percolation via Control of the Largest Cluster

N. A. M. Araújo and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035701 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Decomposition Controlled by Surface Morphology during Langmuir Evaporation of GaAs

J. Tersoff, D. E. Jesson, and W. X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035702 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Phase-Field Reaction-Pathway Kinetics of Martensitic Transformations in a Model ${Fe}_{3} Ni$ Alloy

Christophe Denoual, Anna Maria Caucci, Laurent Soulard, and Yves-Patrick Pellegrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 035703 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interplay between Structural, Electronic, and Magnetic Degrees of Freedom in ${Sr}_{3} {Cr}_{2} O_{8}$

G. Radtke, A. Saúl, H. A. Dabkowska, G. M. Luke, and G. A. Botton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036401 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Aharonov-Bohm Conductance through a Single-Channel Quantum Ring: Persistent-Current Blockade and Zero-Mode Dephasing

A. P. Dmitriev, I. V. Gornyi, V. Yu. Kachorovskii, and D. G. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036402 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Partial Kondo Screening in Frustrated Kondo Lattice Systems

Yukitoshi Motome, Kyoya Nakamikawa, Youhei Yamaji, and Masafumi Udagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036403 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Single-Dirac-Cone Topological Surface States in the ${TlBiSe}_{2}$ Class of Topological Semiconductors

Hsin Lin, R. S. Markiewicz, L. A. Wray, L. Fu, M. Z. Hasan, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036404 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Quantum Critical Behavior of Electrons at the Edge of Charge Order

L. Cano-Cortés, J. Merino, and S. Fratini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036405 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Anomalous Hall Effect in Disordered Multiband Metals

Alexey A. Kovalev, Jairo Sinova, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036601 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Controllable Driven Phase Transitions in Fractional Quantum Hall States in Bilayer Graphene

Vadim M. Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036801 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Carrier Localization on Surfaces of Organic Semiconductors Gated with Electrolytes

Yu Xia, Wei Xie, P. Paul Ruden, and C. Daniel Frisbie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036802 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Interaction-Induced Criticality in $Z_{2}$ Topological Insulators

P. M. Ostrovsky, I. V. Gornyi, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036803 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Potential Energy Landscape for Hot Electrons in Periodically Nanostructured Graphene

B. Borca, S. Barja, M. Garnica, D. Sánchez-Portal, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, C. F. Hermanns, J. J. Hinarejos, A. L. Vázquez de Parga, A. Arnau, P. M. Echenique, and R. Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 036804 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Disorder-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions in Superconductors and Magnets

L. B. Ioffe and Marc Mézard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037001 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Prediction of Doped Graphane as a High-Temperature Electron-Phonon Superconductor

G. Savini, A. C. Ferrari, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037002 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Theory of Multiband Superconductivity in Spin-Density-Wave Metals

J.-P. Ismer, Ilya Eremin, Enrico Rossi, Dirk K. Morr, and G. Blumberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037003 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Absence of an Appreciable Iron Isotope Effect on the Transition Temperature of the Optimally Doped ${SmFeAsO}_{1 - y}$ Superconductor

Parasharam M. Shirage, Kiichi Miyazawa, Kunihiro Kihou, Hijiri Kito, Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Yasumoto Tanaka, Hiroshi Eisaki, and Akira Iyo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037004 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Geometrical Resonance Conditions for THz Radiation from the Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Manabu Tsujimoto, Kazuhiro Yamaki, Kota Deguchi, Takashi Yamamoto, Takanari Kashiwagi, Hidetoshi Minami, Masashi Tachiki, Kazuo Kadowaki, and Richard A. Klemm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037005 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Large $D - 2$ Theory of Superconducting Fluctuations in a Magnetic Field and its Application to Iron Pnictides

James M. Murray and Zlatko Tešanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037006 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Influence of Dipolar Interaction on Vortex Dynamics in Arrays of Ferromagnetic Disks

Andreas Vogel, André Drews, Thomas Kamionka, Markus Bolte, and Guido Meier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037201 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Strong $K$ -edge Magnetic Circular Dichroism Observed in Photon-in–Photon-out Spectroscopy

Marcin Sikora, Amélie Juhin, Tsu-Chien Weng, Philippe Sainctavit, Carsten Detlefs, Frank de Groot, and Pieter Glatzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037202 (2010) - Published 13 July, 2010

Topological and Transport Properties of Dirac Fermions in an Antiferromagnetic Metallic Phase of Iron-Based Superconductors

Takao Morinari, Eiji Kaneshita, and Takami Tohyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037203 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Theory of Spin-Dependent Phonon-Assisted Optical Transitions in Silicon

Pengke Li (李鹏科) and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037204 (2010) - Published 15 July, 2010

Spin Model of Magnetostrictions in Multiferroic Mn Perovskites

Masahito Mochizuki, Nobuo Furukawa, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037205 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Heat Capacity Reveals the Physics of a Frustrated Spin Tube

Nedko B. Ivanov, Jürgen Schnack, Roman Schnalle, Johannes Richter, Paul Kögerler, Graham N. Newton, Leroy Cronin, Yugo Oshima, and Hiroyuki Nojiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037206 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Incommensurate Magnetic Order and Dynamics Induced by Spinless Impurities in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.6}$

A. Suchaneck, V. Hinkov, D. Haug, L. Schulz, C. Bernhard, A. Ivanov, K. Hradil, C. T. Lin, P. Bourges, B. Keimer, and Y. Sidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037207 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Ab Initio Indications for Giant Magnetoelectric Effects Driven by Structural Softness

Jacek C. Wojdeł and Jorge Íñiguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037208 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Resolved Sideband Emission of $InAs / GaAs$ Quantum Dots Strained by Surface Acoustic Waves

M. Metcalfe, S. M. Carr, A. Muller, G. S. Solomon, and J. Lawall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037401 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

Neutron-Scattering Measurement of Incommensurate Short-Range Order in Single Crystals of the $S = 1$ Triangular Antiferromagnet ${NiGa}_{2} S_{4}$

C. Stock, S. Jonas, C. Broholm, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Nambu, K. Onuma, Y. Maeno, and J.-H. Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037402 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Cole-Cole Broadening in Dielectric Relaxation and Strange Kinetics

Alexander Puzenko, Paul Ben Ishai, and Yuri Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037601 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Smooth Cascade of Wrinkles at the Edge of a Floating Elastic Film

Jiangshui Huang, Benny Davidovitch, Christian D. Santangelo, Thomas P. Russell, and Narayanan Menon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 038302 (2010) - Published 14 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Parameter Estimation with Entangled Photons Produced by Parametric Down-Conversion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 013603 (2010)]

Hugo Cable and Gabriel A. Durkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 039901 (2010) - Published 12 July, 2010

Erratum: Probing Surface Charge Fluctuations with Solid-State Nanopores [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 256804 (2009)]

David P. Hoogerheide, Slaven Garaj, and Jene A. Golovchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 039902 (2010) - Published 16 July, 2010

Volume 105, Issue 3

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA