Volume 105, Issue 5

30 July 2010

Browse Issues:

On the Cover

Calculated electric field distributions of two transverse electric modes (top and bottom) from three rectangular dielectric nanostrips with three different interstrip spacings (10, 31, and 80 mm). The red color indicates the highest field values, and blue the lowest.

From the article:

Improving Optical Confinement in Nanostructures via External Mode Coupling
Q. H. Song and H. Cao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053902 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Submicron Spatial Modulation of an Interatomic Interaction in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Rekishu Yamazaki, Shintaro Taie, Seiji Sugawa, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050405 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect and Universal Faraday Effect in Thin-Film Topological Insulators

Wang-Kong Tse and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057401 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent Perfect Absorbers: Time-Reversed Lasers

Y. D. Chong, Li Ge, Hui Cao, and A. D. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053901 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Unveiling a Truncated Optical Lattice Associated with a Triangular Aperture Using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

J. M. Hickmann, E. J. S. Fonseca, W. C. Soares, and S. Chávez-Cerda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053904 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase-Separation Perspective on Dynamic Heterogeneities in Glass-Forming Liquids

C. Cammarota, A. Cavagna, I. Giardina, G. Gradenigo, T. S. Grigera, G. Parisi, and P. Verrocchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055703 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ordered Surface Alloy of Bulk-Immiscible Components Stabilized by Magnetism

S. Mehendale, Y. Girard, V. Repain, C. Chacon, J. Lagoute, S. Rousset, Madhura Marathe, and Shobhana Narasimhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056101 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Majorana Liquids: The Complete Fractionalization of the Electron

Cenke Xu and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057201 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

LETTERS

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

Quantum Annealing with the Jarzynski Equality

Masayuki Ohzeki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050401 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Mott-Insulator Phases of Spin- $3 / 2$ Fermions in the Presence of Quadratic Zeeman Coupling

K. Rodríguez, A. Argüelles, M. Colomé-Tatché, T. Vekua, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050402 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Entanglement and Non-Markovianity of Quantum Evolutions

Ángel Rivas, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050403 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Efficient Simulation of Strong System-Environment Interactions

Javier Prior, Alex W. Chin, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050404 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Submicron Spatial Modulation of an Interatomic Interaction in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Rekishu Yamazaki, Shintaro Taie, Seiji Sugawa, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050405 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Arbitrary Control of Entanglement between two Superconducting Resonators

Frederick W. Strauch, Kurt Jacobs, and Raymond W. Simmonds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050501 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Entanglement Entropy and the Fermi Surface

Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050502 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Adiabatic Markovian Dynamics

Ognyan Oreshkov and John Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 050503 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Non-Pauli Transitions from Spacetime Noncommutativity

A. P. Balachandran, Anosh Joseph, and Pramod Padmanabhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 051601 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Measurements of Charged Current Lepton Universality and $| V_{us} |$ Using Tau Lepton Decays to $e^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{e} ν_{τ}$ , $μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ} ν_{τ}$ , $π^{-} ν_{τ}$ , and $K^{-} ν_{τ}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 051602 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Search for Chameleon Scalar Fields with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

G. Rybka, M. Hotz, L. J Rosenberg, S. J. Asztalos, G. Carosi, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, K. van Bibber, J. Hoskins, C. Martin, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, R. Bradley, and J. Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 051801 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Superpartner Mass Measurement Technique using 1D Orthogonal Decompositions of the Cambridge Transverse Mass Variable $M_{T 2}$

Partha Konar, Kyoungchul Kong, Konstantin T. Matchev, and Myeonghun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 051802 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Electron Spectroscopy Using a Novel Interferometric Pump-Probe Technique

J. Mauritsson, T. Remetter, M. Swoboda, K. Klünder, A. L’Huillier, K. J. Schafer, O. Ghafur, F. Kelkensberg, W. Siu, P. Johnsson, M. J. J. Vrakking, I. Znakovskaya, T. Uphues, S. Zherebtsov, M. F. Kling, F. Lépine, E. Benedetti, F. Ferrari, G. Sansone, and M. Nisoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053001 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Ionization Branching Ratio Control with a Resonance Attosecond Clock

Luca Argenti and Eva Lindroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053002 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Mapping Molecular Orbital Symmetry on High-Order Harmonic Generation Spectrum Using Two-Color Laser Fields

Hiromichi Niikura, Nirit Dudovich, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053003 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Newton’s Cradle and Entanglement Transport in a Flexible Rydberg Chain

S. Wüster, C. Ates, A. Eisfeld, and J. M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053004 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Extracting Spectral Dynamics from Single Chromophores in Solution

Lisa F. Marshall, Jian Cui, Xavier Brokmann, and Moungi G. Bawendi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053005 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Process Tomography of Dynamical Decoupling in a Dense Cold Atomic Ensemble

Yoav Sagi, Ido Almog, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053201 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Comparative Study of the Valence Electronic Excitations of $N_{2}$ by Inelastic X-Ray and Electron Scattering

J. A. Bradley, G. T. Seidler, G. Cooper, M. Vos, A. P. Hitchcock, A. P. Sorini, C. Schlimmer, and K. P. Nagle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053202 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Steplike Intensity Threshold Behavior of Extreme Ionization in Laser-Driven Xenon Clusters

T. Döppner, J. P. Müller, A. Przystawik, S. Göde, J. Tiggesbäumker, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, C. Varin, L. Ramunno, T. Brabec, and T. Fennel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053401 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Squeezed-Light Optical Magnetometry

Florian Wolfgramm, Alessandro Cerè, Federica A. Beduini, Ana Predojević, Marco Koschorreck, and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053601 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Optical Continuous-Variable Qubit

Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Makoto Takeuchi, Kentaro Wakui, Hiroki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Masahiro Takeoka, and Masahide Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053602 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coherent Perfect Absorbers: Time-Reversed Lasers

Y. D. Chong, Li Ge, Hui Cao, and A. D. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053901 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Improving Optical Confinement in Nanostructures via External Mode Coupling

Q. H. Song and H. Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053902 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Ultrafast Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Terahertz Generation by Ionizing Two-Color Femtosecond Pulses in Gases

I. Babushkin, W. Kuehn, C. Köhler, S. Skupin, L. Bergé, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, J. Herrmann, and T. Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053903 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Unveiling a Truncated Optical Lattice Associated with a Triangular Aperture Using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum

J. M. Hickmann, E. J. S. Fonseca, W. C. Soares, and S. Chávez-Cerda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053904 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Pattern Formation through Phase Bistability in Oscillatory Systems with Space-Modulated Forcing

Germán J. de Valcárcel and Kestutis Staliunas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 054101 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Energy Carriers in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam $β$ Lattice: Solitons or Phonons?

Nianbei Li, Baowen Li, and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 054102 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Sub-Fourier Characteristics of a $δ$ -kicked-rotor Resonance

I. Talukdar, R. Shrestha, and G. S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 054103 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Two-State On-Off Intermittency and the Onset of Turbulence in a Spatiotemporally Chaotic System

P. P. Galuzio, S. R. Lopes, and R. L. Viana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055001 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Nonlinear Magnetoplasmons in Strongly Coupled Yukawa Plasmas

M. Bonitz, Z. Donkó, T. Ott, H. Kählert, and P. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055002 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Energy Exchange between Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Air

Y. Liu, M. Durand, S. Chen, A. Houard, B. Prade, B. Forestier, and A. Mysyrowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055003 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Phenomenon of Alfvénic Vortex Shedding

M. Gruszecki, V. M. Nakariakov, T. Van Doorsselaere, and T. D. Arber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055004 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Excitonic Effects in the Optical Conductivity of Gated Graphene

N. M. R. Peres, R. M. Ribeiro, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055501 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Theoretical Description of a DNA-Linked Nanoparticle Self-Assembly

Chia Wei Hsu, Francesco Sciortino, and Francis W. Starr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055502 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Origin of Predominance of Cementite among Iron Carbides in Steel at Elevated Temperature

C. M. Fang, M. H. F. Sluiter, M. A. van Huis, C. K. Ande, and H. W. Zandbergen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055503 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Cooperative Grain Boundary Sliding and Migration Process in Nanocrystalline Solids

S. V. Bobylev, N. F. Morozov, and I. A. Ovid’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055504 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Casimir Interactions in Ising Strips with Boundary Fields: Exact Results

Douglas B. Abraham and Anna Maciołek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055701 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Glass Formation and Shear Elasticity in Dense Suspensions of Repulsive Anisotropic Particles

R. C. Kramb, R. Zhang, K. S. Schweizer, and C. F. Zukoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055702 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase-Separation Perspective on Dynamic Heterogeneities in Glass-Forming Liquids

C. Cammarota, A. Cavagna, I. Giardina, G. Gradenigo, T. S. Grigera, G. Parisi, and P. Verrocchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 055703 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ordered Surface Alloy of Bulk-Immiscible Components Stabilized by Magnetism

S. Mehendale, Y. Girard, V. Repain, C. Chacon, J. Lagoute, S. Rousset, Madhura Marathe, and Shobhana Narasimhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056101 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Effect of Adhesive Interactions on Static Friction at the Atomic Scale

Carolyn J. Carkner, Sarah M. Haw, and Nicholas J. Mosey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056102 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

What Determines the Wave Function of Electron-Hole Pairs in Polariton Condensates?

Kenji Kamide and Tetsuo Ogawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056401 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Tunneling between Two Helical Superconductors via Majorana Edge Channels

Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056402 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

${KO}_{2}$ : Realization of Orbital Ordering in a $p$ -Orbital System

Ashis Kumar Nandy, Priya Mahadevan, Prasenjit Sen, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056403 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Real-Space Investigation of Structural Changes at the Metal-Insulator Transition in ${VO}_{2}$

Serena A. Corr, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Brent C. Melot, and Ram Seshadri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056404 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Nonadiabatic Spin Torque Investigated Using Thermally Activated Magnetic Domain Wall Dynamics

M. Eltschka, M. Wötzel, J. Rhensius, S. Krzyk, U. Nowak, M. Kläui, T. Kasama, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, L. J. Heyderman, H. J. van Driel, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056601 (2010) - Published 29 July, 2010

Probing Decoherence through Fano Resonances

Andreas Bärnthaler, Stefan Rotter, Florian Libisch, Joachim Burgdörfer, Stefan Gehler, Ulrich Kuhl, and Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056801 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Resonant Scattering by Realistic Impurities in Graphene

T. O. Wehling, S. Yuan, A. I. Lichtenstein, A. K. Geim, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056802 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Energy Relaxation in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056803 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

A. Kou, D. T. McClure, C. M. Marcus, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056804 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

Coexistence and Competition of Magnetism and Superconductivity on the Nanometer Scale in Underdoped ${BaFe}_{1.89} {Co}_{0.11} {As}_{2}$

P. Marsik, K. W. Kim, A. Dubroka, M. Rössle, V. K. Malik, L. Schulz, C. N. Wang, Ch. Niedermayer, A. J. Drew, M. Willis, T. Wolf, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057001 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Coherent Terahertz Emission of Intrinsic Josephson Junction Stacks in the Hot Spot Regime

H. B. Wang, S. Guénon, B. Gross, J. Yuan, Z. G. Jiang, Y. Y. Zhong, M. Grünzweig, A. Iishi, P. H. Wu, T. Hatano, D. Koelle, and R. Kleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057002 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Two-Orbital Model Explains the Higher Transition Temperature of the Single-Layer Hg-Cuprate Superconductor Compared to That of the La-Cuprate Superconductor

Hirofumi Sakakibara, Hidetomo Usui, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Ryotaro Arita, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057003 (2010) - Published 30 July, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Majorana Liquids: The Complete Fractionalization of the Electron

Cenke Xu and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057201 (2010) - Published 27 July, 2010

Thermoelectric Effect in Single-Molecule-Magnet Junctions

Rui-Qiang Wang, L. Sheng, R. Shen, Baigeng Wang, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057202 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect and Universal Faraday Effect in Thin-Film Topological Insulators

Wang-Kong Tse and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057401 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Bridging Multiferroic Phase Transitions by Epitaxial Strain in ${BiFeO}_{3}$

I. C. Infante, S. Lisenkov, B. Dupé, M. Bibes, S. Fusil, E. Jacquet, G. Geneste, S. Petit, A. Courtial, J. Juraszek, L. Bellaiche, A. Barthélémy, and B. Dkhil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057601 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Formation of van der Waals Molecules in Buffer-Gas-Cooled Magnetic Traps [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 033001 (2010)]

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, 059901 (2010) - Published 26 July, 2010

Publisher’s Note: First-Principles Prediction of Doped Graphane as a High-Temperature Electron-Phonon Superconductor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 037002 (2010)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 059902 (2010) - Published 28 July, 2010

Volume 105, Issue 5

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Elementary Particles and Fields

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