Volume 106, Issue 1

7 January 2011

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Plot of a twisted photon vector field. The rainbow-scale color variation of this potential indicates complex phases, which are superpositions of terms proportional to the azimuthal angle of the transverse momentum.

From the article:

Generation of High-Energy Photons with Large Orbital Angular Momentum by Compton Backscattering
U. D. Jentschura and V. G. Serbo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013001 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Relativity and the Lead-Acid Battery

Rajeev Ahuja, Andreas Blomqvist, Peter Larsson, Pekka Pyykkö, and Patryk Zaleski-Ejgierd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 018301 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes as Powerful Particle Accelerators

M. Tavani et al. (AGILE Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 018501 (2011) - Published 3 January, 2011

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Monoenergetic Proton Beams Accelerated by a Radiation Pressure Driven Shock

Charlotte A. J. Palmer, N. P. Dover, I. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, G. I. Dudnikova, M. Ispiriyan, M. N. Polyanskiy, J. Schreiber, P. Shkolnikov, V. Yakimenko, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 014801 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

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Glass Transition of the Monodisperse Gaussian Core Model

Atsushi Ikeda and Kunimasa Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015701 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

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Superconducting Phase at 7.7 K in the ${Hg}_{x} {ReO}_{3}$ Compound with a Hexagonal Bronze Structure

Kenya Ohgushi, Ayako Yamamoto, Yoko Kiuchi, Chandreyee Ganguli, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi, Yoshiya Uwatoko, and Hidenori Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 017001 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

LETTERS

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

Quantum Zigzag Transition in Ion Chains

Efrat Shimshoni, Giovanna Morigi, and Shmuel Fishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010401 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Speckle Imaging of Spin Fluctuations in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Christian Sanner, Edward J. Su, Aviv Keshet, Wujie Huang, Jonathon Gillen, Ralf Gommers, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010402 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Directly Estimating Nonclassicality

A. Mari, K. Kieling, B. Melholt Nielsen, E. S. Polzik, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010403 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Generation of Macroscopic Superpositions of Quantum States by Linear Coupling to a Bath

D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao, Nir Bar-Gill, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010404 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Thermal Equilibration between Two Quantum Systems

A. V. Ponomarev, S. Denisov, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010405 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

No Signaling, Entanglement Breaking, and Localizability in Bipartite Channels

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Stefano Facchini, and Paolo Perinotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010501 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Imaging of Trapped Ions with a Microfabricated Optic for Quantum Information Processing

Erik W. Streed, Benjamin G. Norton, Andreas Jechow, Till J. Weinhold, and David Kielpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010502 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Regular Scanning Tunneling Microscope Tips can be Intrinsically Chiral

Heather L. Tierney, Colin J. Murphy, and E. Charles H. Sykes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 010801 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Effect of Thallium Impurities in the DAMA Experiment on the Allowed Parameter Space for Inelastic Dark Matter

Spencer Chang, Rafael F. Lang, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 011301 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Entanglement Entropy and Mutual Information Production Rates in Acoustic Black Holes

Stefano Giovanazzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 011302 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Energy Flux Positivity and Unitarity in Conformal Field Theories

Manuela Kulaxizi and Andrei Parnachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 011601 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Search for Stopped Gluinos in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 011801 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Mach Cone Induced by $γ$ -Triggered Jets in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Hanlin Li, Fuming Liu, Guo-liang Ma, Xin-Nian Wang, and Yan Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 012301 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Cold Neutrons Trapped in External Fields

S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, and Steven C. Pieper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 012501 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Generation of High-Energy Photons with Large Orbital Angular Momentum by Compton Backscattering

U. D. Jentschura and V. G. Serbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013001 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Evaporative Cooling and Coherent Axial Oscillations of Highly Charged Ions in a Penning Trap

M. Hobein, A. Solders, M. Suhonen, Y. Liu, and R. Schuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013002 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

All Optical Switch of Vacuum Rabi Oscillations: The Ultrafast Quantum Eraser

A. Ridolfo, R. Vilardi, O. Di Stefano, S. Portolan, and S. Savasta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013601 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Experimental Implementation of the Optimal Linear-Optical Controlled Phase Gate

Karel Lemr, A. Černoch, J. Soubusta, K. Kieling, J. Eisert, and M. Dušek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013602 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Highly Efficient Single-Pass Source of Pulsed Single-Mode Twin Beams of Light

Andreas Eckstein, Andreas Christ, Peter J. Mosley, and Christine Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013603 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Random Semiconductor Lasers: Scattered versus Fabry-Perot Feedback

S. Kalusniak, H. J. Wünsche, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013901 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Anomalous Band Formation in Arrays of Terahertz Nanoresonators

Y. M. Bahk, H. R. Park, K. J. Ahn, H. S. Kim, Y. H. Ahn, Dai-Sik Kim, J. Bravo-Abad, L. Martin-Moreno, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013902 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Phase-Diverse Coherent Diffractive Imaging: High Sensitivity with Low Dose

Corey T. Putkunz, Jesse N. Clark, David J. Vine, Garth J. Williams, Mark A. Pfeifer, Eugeniu Balaur, Ian McNulty, Keith A. Nugent, and Andrew G. Peele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013903 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Retrieving Angular Distributions of High-Order Harmonic Generation from a Single Molecule

Kazumichi Yoshii, Godai Miyaji, and Kenzo Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 013904 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Manifestation of Hamiltonian Monodromy in Nonlinear Wave Systems

E. Assémat, C. Michel, A. Picozzi, H. R. Jauslin, and D. Sugny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 014101 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Acoustic Cloaking by a Superlens with Single-Negative Materials

Xuefeng Zhu, Bin Liang, Weiwei Kan, Xinye Zou, and Jianchun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 014301 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Electrical Switching of Wetting States on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: A Route Towards Reversible Cassie-to-Wenzel Transitions

G. Manukyan, J. M. Oh, D. van den Ende, R. G. H. Lammertink, and F. Mugele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 014501 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Underwater Restoration and Retention of Gases on Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Drag Reduction

Choongyeop Lee and Chang-Jin Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 014502 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Monoenergetic Proton Beams Accelerated by a Radiation Pressure Driven Shock

Charlotte A. J. Palmer, N. P. Dover, I. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, G. I. Dudnikova, M. Ispiriyan, M. N. Polyanskiy, J. Schreiber, P. Shkolnikov, V. Yakimenko, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 014801 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spin Relaxation and Band Excitation of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate in 2D Optical Lattices

B. Pasquiou, G. Bismut, E. Maréchal, P. Pedri, L. Vernac, O. Gorceix, and B. Laburthe-Tolra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015301 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Unconventional Superfluid Order in the $F$ Band of a Bipartite Optical Square Lattice

Matthias Ölschläger, Georg Wirth, and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015302 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Ising Deconfinement Transition between Feshbach-Resonant Superfluids

S. Ejima, M. J. Bhaseen, M. Hohenadler, F. H. L. Essler, H. Fehske, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015303 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Optical Conductivity Spectral Anomalies in the Off-Center Rattling System $β − {Ba}_{8} {Ga}_{16} {Sn}_{30}$

T. Mori, K. Iwamoto, S. Kushibiki, H. Honda, H. Matsumoto, N. Toyota, M. A. Avila, K. Suekuni, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015501 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Thermophoretically Dominated Aerosol Coagulation

Daniel E. Rosner and Manuel Arias-Zugasti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015502 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Predicted Novel High-Pressure Phases of Lithium

Jian Lv, Yanchao Wang, Li Zhu, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015503 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

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Glass Transition of the Monodisperse Gaussian Core Model

Atsushi Ikeda and Kunimasa Miyazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 015701 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polaronic Conductivity in the Photoinduced Phase of $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$

N. Dean, J. C. Petersen, D. Fausti, R. I. Tobey, S. Kaiser, L. V. Gasparov, H. Berger, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016401 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators in $I − III − {VI}_{2}$ and $II − IV − V_{2}$ Chalcopyrite Semiconductors

Wanxiang Feng, Di Xiao, Jun Ding, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016402 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Neutron Magnetic Form Factor in Strongly Correlated Materials

Maria Elisabetta Pezzoli, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016403 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Composite-Fermion Theory for Pseudogap, Fermi Arc, Hole Pocket, and Non-Fermi Liquid of Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Youhei Yamaji and Masatoshi Imada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016404 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Landau Theory of Charge and Spin Ordering in the Nickelates

SungBin Lee, Ru Chen, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016405 (2011) - Published 6 January, 2011

Polar Nanodomains and Giant Converse Magnetoelectric Effect in Charge-Ordered ${Fe}_{2} {OBO}_{3}$

H. X. Yang, H. F. Tian, Y. J. Song, Y. B. Qin, Y. G. Zhao, C. Ma, and J. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016406 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Kondo Quantum Criticality of Magnetic Adatoms in Graphene

Bruno Uchoa, T. G. Rappoport, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016801 (2011) - Published 4 January, 2011

Interplay of Conductance, Force, and Structural Change in Metallic Point Contacts

Markus Ternes, César González, Christopher P. Lutz, Prokop Hapala, Franz J. Giessibl, Pavel Jelínek, and Andreas J. Heinrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016802 (2011) - Published 5 January, 2011

Coexistence of Coulomb Blockade and Zero Bias Anomaly in a Strongly Coupled Nanodot

L. Bitton, D. B. Gutman, R. Berkovits, and A. Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016803 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

Effect of Strain on Stripe Phases in the Quantum Hall Regime

Sunanda P. Koduvayur, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Sergei Khlebnikov, Gabor Csathy, Michael J. Manfra, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth W. West, and Leonid P. Rokhinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 016804 (2011) - Published 7 January, 2011

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