Volume 105, Issue 6

6 August 2010

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Spin polarization at 2.5 Å above a benzene molecule adsorbed on a Fe/W(110) surface (left panel) slightly below (lower right) and above (upper right) the Fermi level. Selected by the Editors for a PRL Suggestion.

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Design of the Local Spin Polarization at the Organic-Ferromagnetic Interface
Nicolae Atodiresei, Jens Brede, Predrag Lazić, Vasile Caciuc, Germar Hoffmann, Roland Wiesendanger, and Stefan Blügel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066601 (2010)

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Design of the Local Spin Polarization at the Organic-Ferromagnetic Interface

Nicolae Atodiresei, Jens Brede, Predrag Lazić, Vasile Caciuc, Germar Hoffmann, Roland Wiesendanger, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066601 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

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Femtosecond Response of Quasiparticles and Phonons in Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Studied by Wideband Terahertz Spectroscopy

A. Pashkin, M. Porer, M. Beyer, K. W. Kim, A. Dubroka, C. Bernhard, X. Yao, Y. Dagan, R. Hackl, A. Erb, J. Demsar, R. Huber, and A. Leitenstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067001 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

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Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays: Fundamental Limits and Trade-Offs

D. Hunt, G. Korniss, and B. K. Szymanski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 068701 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

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Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Comb Metrology

Dominik Z. Kandula, Christoph Gohle, Tjeerd J. Pinkert, Wim Ubachs, and Kjeld S. E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063001 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

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Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials

Igor I. Smolyaninov and Evgenii E. Narimanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067402 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

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Achieving a Strongly Temperature-Dependent Casimir Effect

Alejandro W. Rodriguez, David Woolf, Alexander P. McCauley, Federico Capasso, John D. Joannopoulos, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060401 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

LETTERS

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

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Achieving a Strongly Temperature-Dependent Casimir Effect

Alejandro W. Rodriguez, David Woolf, Alexander P. McCauley, Federico Capasso, John D. Joannopoulos, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060401 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Fault-Tolerant Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Paradox Based on Non-Abelian Anyons

Dong-Ling Deng, Chunfeng Wu, Jing-Ling Chen, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060402 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Storage and Recall of Weak Coherent Optical Pulses with an Efficiency of 25%

M. Sabooni, F. Beaudoin, A. Walther, N. Lin, A. Amari, M. Huang, and S. Kröll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060501 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Photonic Phase Gate via an Exchange of Fermionic Spin Waves in a Spin Chain

Alexey V. Gorshkov, Johannes Otterbach, Eugene Demler, Michael Fleischhauer, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060502 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Strong Coupling of a Quantum Oscillator to a Flux Qubit at Its Symmetry Point

A. Fedorov, A. K. Feofanov, P. Macha, P. Forn-Díaz, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060503 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Solving Frustration-Free Spin Systems

N. de Beaudrap, M. Ohliger, T. J. Osborne, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060504 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Stochastic Thermodynamics and Sustainable Efficiency in Work Production

B. Gaveau, M. Moreau, and L. S. Schulman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060601 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Feedback Control of Quantum Transport

Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060602 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Long-Range Order in Nonequilibrium Interacting Quantum Spin Chains

Tomaž Prosen and Marko Žnidarič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 060603 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Rotation-Invariant Relations in Vector Meson Decays into Fermion Pairs

Pietro Faccioli, Carlos Lourenço, and João Seixas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 061601 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Perturbative Quantum Gravity as a Double Copy of Gauge Theory

Zvi Bern, John Joseph M. Carrasco, and Henrik Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 061602 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Supersymmetric Dualities beyond the Conformal Window

V. P. Spiridonov and G. S. Vartanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 061603 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Enhanced Sensitivities for the Searches of Neutrino Magnetic Moments through Atomic Ionization

Henry T. Wong, Hau-Bin Li, and Shin-Ted Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 061801 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Nonuniversality of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distributions at Small $x$

Bo-Wen Xiao and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 062001 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Higher-Twist Dynamics in Large Transverse Momentum Hadron Production

François Arleo, Stanley J. Brodsky, Dae Sung Hwang, and Anne M. Sickles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 062002 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic and Hexadecapole Flow of Charged Hadrons in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 062301 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Extreme Ultraviolet Frequency Comb Metrology

Dominik Z. Kandula, Christoph Gohle, Tjeerd J. Pinkert, Wim Ubachs, and Kjeld S. E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063001 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Measurement of Anomalously Strong Emission from the $1 s − 9 p$ Transition in the Spectrum of H-Like Phosphorus Following Charge Exchange with Molecular Hydrogen

M. A. Leutenegger, P. Beiersdorfer, G. V. Brown, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, and F. S. Porter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063201 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Relationship between Complete Coherence in the Space-Time and in the Space-Frequency Domains

Mayukh Lahiri and Emil Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063901 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Spontaneous and Triggered Vortices in Polariton Optical-Parametric-Oscillator Superfluids

F. M. Marchetti, M. H. Szymańska, C. Tejedor, and D. M. Whittaker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063902 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Determining the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Intense Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

F. Mackenroth, A. Di Piazza, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 063903 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Optimal Frequency for Microfluidic Mixing across a Fluid Interface

Sanjeeva Balasuriya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 064501 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multiresonance Effect in Type-I Edge-Localized Mode Control With Low $n$ Fields on JET

Y. Liang, C. G. Gimblett, P. K. Browning, P. Devoy, H. R. Koslowski, S. Jachmich, Y. Sun, and C. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 065001 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Stable Laser-Driven Proton Beam Acceleration from a Two-Ion-Species Ultrathin Foil

Tong-Pu Yu, Alexander Pukhov, Gennady Shvets, and Min Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 065002 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Quasimonoenergetic Proton Bunch Generation by Dual-Peaked Electrostatic-Field Acceleration in Foils Irradiated by an Intense Linearly Polarized Laser

H. B. Zhuo (卓红斌), Z. L. Chen (陈正林), W. Yu (余玮), Z. M. Sheng (盛政明), M. Y. Yu (郁明阳), Z. Jin (金展), and R. Kodama (兒玉了祐)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 065003 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Ion Acoustic Waves in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

J. Castro, P. McQuillen, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 065004 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Néel Transition of Lattice Fermions in a Harmonic Trap: A Real-Space Dynamic Mean-Field Study

E. V. Gorelik, I. Titvinidze, W. Hofstetter, M. Snoek, and N. Blümer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 065301 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Strong Quantum Size Effects in Pb(111) Thin Films Mediated by Anomalous Friedel Oscillations

Yu Jia, Biao Wu, Chong Li, T. L. Einstein, H. H. Weitering, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066101 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Scaling Behavior in Non-Hookean Compression of Thin-Walled Structures

T. Tallinen, J. Ojajärvi, J. A. Åström, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066102 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Structural and Phase Changes in Amorphous Solid Water Films Revealed by Positron Beam Spectroscopy

Y. C. Wu, A. Kallis, J. Jiang, and P. G. Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066103 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Adsorbates in a Box: Titration of Substrate Electronic States

Zhihai Cheng, Jonathan Wyrick, Miaomiao Luo, Dezheng Sun, Daeho Kim, Yeming Zhu, Wenhao Lu, Kwangmoo Kim, T. L. Einstein, and Ludwig Bartels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066104 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Controlling Magnetism of a Complex Metallic System Using Atomic Individualism

Y. Mudryk, D. Paudyal, V. K. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., S. Misra, and G. J. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066401 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Disentanglement of the Electronic and Lattice Parts of the Order Parameter in a 1D Charge Density Wave System Probed by Femtosecond Spectroscopy

H. Schäfer, V. V. Kabanov, M. Beyer, K. Biljakovic, and J. Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066402 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

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Design of the Local Spin Polarization at the Organic-Ferromagnetic Interface

Nicolae Atodiresei, Jens Brede, Predrag Lazić, Vasile Caciuc, Germar Hoffmann, Roland Wiesendanger, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066601 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Perpendicular Spin Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

O. G. Heinonen, S. W. Stokes, and J. Y. Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066602 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Electronic Mapping of Molecular Orbitals at the Molecule-Metal Interface

M. C. Lennartz, V. Caciuc, N. Atodiresei, S. Karthäuser, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066801 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Spin and Charge Transport on the Surface of a Topological Insulator

A. A. Burkov and D. G. Hawthorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 066802 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

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Femtosecond Response of Quasiparticles and Phonons in Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Studied by Wideband Terahertz Spectroscopy

A. Pashkin, M. Porer, M. Beyer, K. W. Kim, A. Dubroka, C. Bernhard, X. Yao, Y. Dagan, R. Hackl, A. Erb, J. Demsar, R. Huber, and A. Leitenstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067001 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Superconductivity without Nesting in LiFeAs

S. V. Borisenko, V. B. Zabolotnyy, D. V. Evtushinsky, T. K. Kim, I. V. Morozov, A. N. Yaresko, A. A. Kordyuk, G. Behr, A. Vasiliev, R. Follath, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067002 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Type-1.5 Superconducting State from an Intrinsic Proximity Effect in Two-Band Superconductors

Egor Babaev, Johan Carlström, and Martin Speight

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067003 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Observation and Simulation of All Angular Magnetoresistance Oscillation Effects in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Conductor $(DMET)_{2} I_{3}$

Pashupati Dhakal, Harukazu Yoshino, Jeong Il Oh, Koichi Kikuchi, and Michael J. Naughton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067201 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Domain-Wall Movement Control in $Co / Au$ Multilayers by ${He}^{+}$ -Ion-Bombardment-Induced Lateral Coercivity Gradients

M. Urbaniak, P. Kuświk, Z. Kurant, M. Tekielak, D. Engel, D. Lengemann, B. Szymański, M. Schmidt, J. Aleksiejew, A. Maziewski, A. Ehresmann, and F. Stobiecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067202 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Direct Observation of Impurity-Induced Magnetism in a Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Two-Leg Spin Ladder

F. Casola, T. Shiroka, S. Wang, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, J. Mesot, and H.-R. Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067203 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Two Coupled Nanomechanical Electron Shuttles

Chulki Kim, Jonghoo Park, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067204 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Spin Hamiltonians with Resonating-Valence-Bond Ground States

Jennifer Cano and Paul Fendley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067205 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Tracking Random Walk of Individual Domain Walls in Cylindrical Nanomagnets with Resistance Noise

Amrita Singh, Soumik Mukhopadhyay, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067206 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Quantum Spin Metal State on a Decorated Honeycomb Lattice

K. S. Tikhonov and M. V. Feigel’man

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067207 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Anisotropic Propagation and Damping of Spin Waves in a Nanopatterned Antidot Lattice

S. Neusser, G. Duerr, H. G. Bauer, S. Tacchi, M. Madami, G. Woltersdorf, G. Gubbiotti, C. H. Back, and D. Grundler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067208 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Fraction of a Millimeter Propagation of Exciton Polaritons in Photoexcited Nanofibers of Organic Dye

Ken Takazawa, Jun-ichi Inoue, Kazutaka Mitsuishi, and Tadashi Takamasu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067401 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

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Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials

Igor I. Smolyaninov and Evgenii E. Narimanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067402 (2010) - Published 2 August, 2010

Revealing the Exciton Fine Structure of PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Using Optical Spectroscopy in High Magnetic Fields

R. D. Schaller, S. A. Crooker, D. A. Bussian, J. M. Pietryga, J. Joo, and V. I. Klimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067403 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Effect of Mechanical Strain on the Optical Properties of Quantum Dots: Controlling Exciton Shape, Orientation, and Phase with a Mechanical Strain

Garnett W. Bryant, M. Zieliński, Natalia Malkova, James Sims, W. Jaskólski, and Javier Aizpurua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067404 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Strain-Induced Changes in the Electronic Structure of ${MnCr}_{2} O_{4}$ Thin Films Probed by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

G. van der Laan, R. V. Chopdekar, Y. Suzuki, and E. Arenholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067405 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Electron Spin Coherence and Electron Nuclear Double Resonance of Bi Donors in Natural Si

Richard E. George, Wayne Witzel, H. Riemann, N. V. Abrosimov, N. Nötzel, Mike L. W. Thewalt, and John J. L. Morton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067601 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Bismuth Qubits in Silicon: The Role of EPR Cancellation Resonances

M. H. Mohammady, G. W. Morley, and T. S. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067602 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Minimal Energy Packings and Collapse of Sticky Tangent Hard-Sphere Polymers

Robert S. Hoy and Corey S. O’Hern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 068001 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

Self-Contact and Instabilities in the Anisotropic Growth of Elastic Membranes

Norbert Stoop, Falk K. Wittel, Martine Ben Amar, Martin Michael Müller, and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 068101 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Stress Relaxation in Entangled Polymer Melts

Ji-Xuan Hou, Carsten Svaneborg, Ralf Everaers, and Gary S. Grest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 068301 (2010) - Published 5 August, 2010

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Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays: Fundamental Limits and Trade-Offs

D. Hunt, G. Korniss, and B. K. Szymanski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 068701 (2010) - Published 4 August, 2010

Self-Organized Chaos through Polyhomeostatic Optimization

D. Markovic and Claudius Gros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 068702 (2010) - Published 6 August, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Beyond the Death of Linear Response: $1 / f$ Optimal Information Transport [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 040601 (2010)]

Gerardo Aquino, Mauro Bologna, Paolo Grigolini, and Bruce J. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 069901 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Coherent Terahertz Emission of Intrinsic Josephson Junction Stacks in the Hot Spot Regime [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 057002 (2010)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 069902 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Publisher’s Note: Comparative Study of the Valence Electronic Excitations of $N_{2}$ by Inelastic X-Ray and Electron Scattering [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053202 (2010)]

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, 069903 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010

Erratum: Experimental Measurement of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Torsional Properties [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 256102 (2006)]

A. R. Hall, L. An, J. Liu, L. Vicci, M. R. Falvo, R. Superfine, and S. Washburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 069904 (2010) - Published 3 August, 2010