Volume 105, Issue 8

20 August 2010

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An end-grafted DNA molecule (red) is scraped and stretched by the spreading front of a spherical bioadhesive molecule (blue), which is attached to a protein surface by short polymer anchors (yellow).

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Scraping and Stapling of End-Grafted DNA Chains by a Bioadhesive Spreading Vesicle to Reveal Chain Internal Friction and Topological Complexity
Gimoon Nam, Marie Laure Hisette, Yuting Liang Sun, Thomas Gisler, Albert Johner, Fabrice Thalmann, André Pierre Schröder, Carlos Manuel Marques, and Nam-Kyung Lee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 088101 (2010)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evidence for an Anomalous Like-Sign Dimuon Charge Asymmetry

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081801 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

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Microscopic Observation of Kinetic Molecular Sieving of Hydrogen Isotopes in a Nanoporous Material

T. X. Nguyen, H. Jobic, and S. K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085901 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

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Cutting Ice: Nanowire Regelation

Teemu Hynninen, Vili Heinonen, Cristiano L. Dias, Mikko Karttunen, Adam S. Foster, and Tapio Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086102 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

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Imaging Pauli Repulsion in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

C. Weiss, C. Wagner, C. Kleimann, M. Rohlfing, F. S. Tautz, and R. Temirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086103 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

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Crystallization of Deformable Spherical Colloids

Vera M. O. Batista and Mark A. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 088305 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Cloning for Absolute Radiometry

Bruno Sanguinetti, Enrico Pomarico, Pavel Sekatski, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080503 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

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Methoxy Species on Cu(110): Understanding the Local Structure of a Key Catalytic Reaction Intermediate

M. K. Bradley, D. Kreikemeyer Lorenzo, W. Unterberger, D. A. Duncan, T. J. Lerotholi, J. Robinson, and D. P. Woodruff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086101 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

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Peierls-Type Instability and Tunable Band Gap in Functionalized Graphene

D. A. Abanin, A. V. Shytov, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086802 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

LETTERS

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

Complete QED Theory of Multiphoton Trident Pair Production in Strong Laser Fields

Huayu Hu, Carsten Müller, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080401 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

Limitations on the Attainable Intensity of High Power Lasers

A. M. Fedotov, N. B. Narozhny, G. Mourou, and G. Korn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080402 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Enhanced and Reduced Atom Number Fluctuations in a BEC Splitter

Kenneth Maussang, G. Edward Marti, Tobias Schneider, Philipp Treutlein, Yun Li, Alice Sinatra, Romain Long, Jérôme Estève, and Jakob Reichel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080403 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Entanglement Entropy and Entanglement Spectrum of the Kitaev Model

Hong Yao and Xiao-Liang Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080501 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

Spin Filtering and Entanglement Swapping through Coherent Evolution of a Single Quantum Dot

Jose Garcia Coello, Abolfazl Bayat, Sougato Bose, John H. Jefferson, and Charles E. Creffield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080502 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Cloning for Absolute Radiometry

Bruno Sanguinetti, Enrico Pomarico, Pavel Sekatski, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080503 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

Local Discrimination of Mixed States

J. Calsamiglia, J. I. de Vicente, R. Muñoz-Tapia, and E. Bagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 080504 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nonlinear Metric Perturbation Enhancement of Primordial Gravitational Waves

M. Bastero-Gil, J. Macias-Pérez, and D. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081301 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Elementary Particles and Fields

Oscillon Resonances and Creation of Kinks in Particle Collisions

T. Romanczukiewicz and Ya. Shnir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081601 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

Effect of Extra Dimensions on Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings

Eimear O’Callaghan, Sarah Chadburn, Ghazal Geshnizjani, Ruth Gregory, and Ivonne Zavala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081602 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

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Evidence for an Anomalous Like-Sign Dimuon Charge Asymmetry

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081801 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

Search for the Production of Scalar Bottom Quarks in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081802 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Measurement of $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing Parameters Using $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{+} K^{-}$ Decays

P. del Amo Sanchez et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 081803 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Elliptical Polarization and Probability of Double Ionization

Xu Wang and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 083001 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Recollisions and Correlated Double Ionization with Circularly Polarized Light

F. Mauger, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 083002 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Breakdown of Angular Momentum Selection Rules in High Pressure Optical Pumping Experiments

B. Lancor, E. Babcock, R. Wyllie, and T. G. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 083003 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Auger Electron Angular Distribution of Double Core-Hole States in the Molecular Reference Frame

James P. Cryan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 083004 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Double Core-Hole Production in $N_{2}$ : Beating the Auger Clock

L. Fang, M. Hoener, O. Gessner, F. Tarantelli, S. T. Pratt, O. Kornilov, C. Buth, M. Gühr, E. P. Kanter, C. Bostedt, J. D. Bozek, P. H. Bucksbaum, M. Chen, R. Coffee, J. Cryan, M. Glownia, E. Kukk, S. R. Leone, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 083005 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Stochastic Recurrent Dynamics of Complex Systems of Solitons

Ido Kaminer, Mordechai Segev, and Alfred M. Bruckstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 083901 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Nonuniversal Results Induced by Diversity Distribution in Coupled Excitable Systems

Luis F. Lafuerza, Pere Colet, and Raul Toral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 084101 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Direct Observation of Flow-Concentration Coupling in a Shear-Banding Fluid

Matthew E. Helgeson, Lionel Porcar, Carlos Lopez-Barron, and Norman J. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 084501 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Stratlets: Low Reynolds Number Point-Force Solutions in a Stratified Fluid

A. M. Ardekani and R. Stocker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 084502 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Gyroscopic Instability of a Drop Trapped Inside an Inclined Circular Hydraulic Jump

Christophe Pirat, Luc Lebon, Antoine Fruleux, Jean-Sébastien Roche, and Laurent Limat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 084503 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Plasma and Beam Physics

Directional Bremsstrahlung from a Ti Laser-Produced X-Ray Source at Relativistic Intensities in the 3–12 keV Range

F. Zamponi, A. Lübcke, T. Kämpfer, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, A. P. L. Robinson, A. Giulietti, P. Köster, L. Labate, T. Levato, and L. A. Gizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085001 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

Topological Constraints on Magnetic Relaxation

A. R. Yeates, G. Hornig, and A. L. Wilmot-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085002 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

Confinement of Plasma along Shaped Open Magnetic Fields from the Centrifugal Force of Supersonic Plasma Rotation

C. Teodorescu, W. C. Young, G. W. S. Swan, R. F. Ellis, A. B. Hassam, and C. A. Romero-Talamas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085003 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

Mode Coupling for Phonons in a Single-Layer Dusty Plasma Crystal

Bin Liu, J. Goree, and Yan Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085004 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anomalously Elastic Intermediate Phase in Randomly Layered Superfluids, Superconductors, and Planar Magnets

Priyanka Mohan, Paul M. Goldbart, Rajesh Narayanan, John Toner, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085301 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Finding the Elusive Sliding Phase in the Superfluid-Normal Phase Transition Smeared by $c$ -Axis Disorder

David Pekker, Gil Refael, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085302 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Shock Compression of a Fifth Period Element: Liquid Xenon to 840 GPa

Seth Root, Rudolph J. Magyar, John H. Carpenter, David L. Hanson, and Thomas R. Mattsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085501 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

Epitaxial Graphene on SiC(0001): More than Just Honeycombs

Y. Qi, S. H. Rhim, G. F. Sun, M. Weinert, and L. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085502 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Submicron Plasticity: Yield Stress, Dislocation Avalanches, and Velocity Distribution

Péter Dusán Ispánovity, István Groma, Géza Györgyi, Ferenc F. Csikor, and Daniel Weygand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085503 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Novel Rhenium Nitrides

Alexandra Friedrich, Björn Winkler, Lkhamsuren Bayarjargal, Wolfgang Morgenroth, Erick A. Juarez-Arellano, Victor Milman, Keith Refson, Martin Kunz, and Kai Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085504 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microscopic Observation of Kinetic Molecular Sieving of Hydrogen Isotopes in a Nanoporous Material

T. X. Nguyen, H. Jobic, and S. K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 085901 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Methoxy Species on Cu(110): Understanding the Local Structure of a Key Catalytic Reaction Intermediate

M. K. Bradley, D. Kreikemeyer Lorenzo, W. Unterberger, D. A. Duncan, T. J. Lerotholi, J. Robinson, and D. P. Woodruff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086101 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Cutting Ice: Nanowire Regelation

Teemu Hynninen, Vili Heinonen, Cristiano L. Dias, Mikko Karttunen, Adam S. Foster, and Tapio Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086102 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Imaging Pauli Repulsion in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

C. Weiss, C. Wagner, C. Kleimann, M. Rohlfing, F. S. Tautz, and R. Temirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086103 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Renormalization of the Spin Hall Effect

Bo Gu, Jing-Yu Gan, Nejat Bulut, Timothy Ziman, Guang-Yu Guo, Naoto Nagaosa, and Sadamichi Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086401 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Effective Low-Energy Model for $f$ -Electron Delocalization

K. A. Al-Hassanieh, Yi-feng Yang, Ivar Martin, and C. D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086402 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Momentum Distribution and Renormalization Factor in Sodium and the Electron Gas

Simo Huotari, J. Aleksi Soininen, Tuomas Pylkkänen, Keijo Hämäläinen, Arezki Issolah, Andrey Titov, Jeremy McMinis, Jeongnim Kim, Ken Esler, David M. Ceperley, Markus Holzmann, and Valerio Olevano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086403 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Band Structure of SnTe Studied by Photoemission Spectroscopy

P. B. Littlewood, B. Mihaila, R. K. Schulze, D. J. Safarik, J. E. Gubernatis, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, C. P. Opeil, T. Durakiewicz, J. L. Smith, and J. C. Lashley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086404 (2010) - Published 20 August, 2010

Ultrafast (but Many-Body) Relaxation in a Low-Density Electron Glass

V. K. Thorsmølle and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086601 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Adiabatic Cooling with Non-Abelian Anyons

G. Gervais and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086801 (2010) - Published 16 August, 2010

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Peierls-Type Instability and Tunable Band Gap in Functionalized Graphene

D. A. Abanin, A. V. Shytov, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086802 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Metallization of Nanofilms in Strong Adiabatic Electric Fields

Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina, Matthias F. Kling, and Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086803 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Coherent Control of Interacting Particles Using Dynamical and Aharonov-Bohm Phases

C. E. Creffield and G. Platero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 086804 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Significant Reduction of Electronic Correlations upon Isovalent Ru Substitution of ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

V. Brouet, F. Rullier-Albenque, M. Marsi, B. Mansart, M. Aichhorn, S. Biermann, J. Faure, L. Perfetti, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, P. Le Fèvre, F. Bertran, A. Forget, and D. Colson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 087001 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

Spin Ice under Pressure: Symmetry Enhancement and Infinite Order Multicriticality

L. D. C. Jaubert, J. T. Chalker, P. C. W. Holdsworth, and R. Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 087201 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

Temperature-Dependent Magnetoelectric Effect from First Principles

Maxim Mostovoy, Andrea Scaramucci, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Kris T. Delaney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 087202 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

Antiferromagnetically Spin Polarized Oxygen Observed in Magnetoelectric ${TbMn}_{2} O_{5}$

T. A. W. Beale, S. B. Wilkins, R. D. Johnson, S. R. Bland, Y. Joly, T. R. Forrest, D. F. McMorrow, F. Yakhou, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, and P. D. Hatton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 087203 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Suppression of Octahedral Tilts and Associated Changes in Electronic Properties at Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructure Interfaces

A. Y. Borisevich, H. J. Chang, M. Huijben, M. P. Oxley, S. Okamoto, M. K. Niranjan, J. D. Burton, E. Y. Tsymbal, Y. H. Chu, P. Yu, R. Ramesh, S. V. Kalinin, and S. J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 087204 (2010) - Published 19 August, 2010

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Scraping and Stapling of End-Grafted DNA Chains by a Bioadhesive Spreading Vesicle to Reveal Chain Internal Friction and Topological Complexity

Gimoon Nam, Marie Laure Hisette, Yuting Liang Sun, Thomas Gisler, Albert Johner, Fabrice Thalmann, André Pierre Schröder, Carlos Manuel Marques, and Nam-Kyung Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 088101 (2010) - Published 17 August, 2010

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Crystallization of Deformable Spherical Colloids

Vera M. O. Batista and Mark A. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 088305 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

COMMENTS

Comment on “Force Balance at the Transition from Selective Withdrawal to Viscous Entrainment”

J. Eggers and S. Courrech du Pont

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 089401 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

Blanchette and Zhang Reply:

François Blanchette and Wendy W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 089402 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Vertex Dynamics in Finite Two-Dimensional Square Spin Ices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017201 (2010)]

Zoe Budrikis, Paolo Politi, and R. L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 089901 (2010) - Published 18 August, 2010