Volume 106, Issue 2

14 January 2011

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Measured pressure field mappings of a bare (left) and cloaked (right) steel cylinder illuminated with a point ultrasound source inside a water tank. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Broadband Acoustic Cloak for Ultrasound Waves
Shu Zhang, Chunguang Xia, and Nicholas Fang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024301 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement of Stimulated Hawking Emission in an Analogue System

Silke Weinfurtner, Edmund W. Tedford, Matthew C. J. Penrice, William G. Unruh, and Gregory A. Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021302 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Cavity Induced Shift and Narrowing of the Positronium Lyman- $α$ Transition

D. B. Cassidy, M. W. J. Bromley, L. C. Cota, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 023401 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Broadband Acoustic Cloak for Ultrasound Waves

Shu Zhang, Chunguang Xia, and Nicholas Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024301 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Angular Momentum Transport in Turbulent Flow between Independently Rotating Cylinders

M. S. Paoletti and D. P. Lathrop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024501 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Torque Scaling in Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow with Co- and Counterrotating Cylinders

Dennis P. M. van Gils, Sander G. Huisman, Gert-Wim Bruggert, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024502 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Tunable Casimir Repulsion with Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators

Adolfo G. Grushin and Alberto Cortijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020403 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Entanglement of Two Qubits Mediated by One-Dimensional Plasmonic Waveguides

A. Gonzalez-Tudela, D. Martin-Cano, E. Moreno, L. Martin-Moreno, C. Tejedor, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020501 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Point-Contact Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons on Liquid Helium

D. G. Rees, I. Kuroda, C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi, M. Höfer, P. Leiderer, and K. Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026803 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

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Drag Induced Lift in Granular Media

Yang Ding, Nick Gravish, and Daniel I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 028001 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

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Engineering the Electronic Band Structure for Multiband Solar Cells

N. López, L. A. Reichertz, K. M. Yu, K. Campman, and W. Walukiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 028701 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Measuring Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems

M. Cramer, M. B. Plenio, and H. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020401 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

LETTERS

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

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Measuring Entanglement in Condensed Matter Systems

M. Cramer, M. B. Plenio, and H. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020401 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Bound Nonlocality and Activation

Nicolas Brunner, Daniel Cavalcanti, Alejo Salles, and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020402 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Tunable Casimir Repulsion with Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators

Adolfo G. Grushin and Alberto Cortijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020403 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Trident Pair Production in Strong Laser Pulses

Anton Ilderton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020404 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

Detecting Genuine Multipartite Quantum Nonlocality: A Simple Approach and Generalization to Arbitrary Dimensions

Jean-Daniel Bancal, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, and Yeong-Cherng Liang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020405 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

How Many Bits Does It Take to Track an Open Quantum System?

R. I. Karasik and H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020406 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

Two-Point Phase Correlations of a One-Dimensional Bosonic Josephson Junction

T. Betz, S. Manz, R. Bücker, T. Berrada, Ch. Koller, G. Kazakov, I. E. Mazets, H.-P. Stimming, A. Perrin, T. Schumm, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020407 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

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Entanglement of Two Qubits Mediated by One-Dimensional Plasmonic Waveguides

A. Gonzalez-Tudela, D. Martin-Cano, E. Moreno, L. Martin-Moreno, C. Tejedor, and F. J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020501 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Characterizing Quantum Properties of a Measurement Apparatus: Insights from the Retrodictive Approach

Taoufik Amri, Julien Laurat, and Claude Fabre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020502 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

Perfect Quantum Routing in Regular Spin Networks

Peter J. Pemberton-Ross and Alastair Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020503 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

Optical Pumping into Many-Body Entanglement

Jaeyoon Cho, Sougato Bose, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020504 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

Efficiency of Autonomous Soft Nanomachines at Maximum Power

Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 020601 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Exact Solutions in 3D New Massive Gravity

Haji Ahmedov and Alikram N. Aliev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021301 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

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Measurement of Stimulated Hawking Emission in an Analogue System

Silke Weinfurtner, Edmund W. Tedford, Matthew C. J. Penrice, William G. Unruh, and Gregory A. Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021302 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Improved Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Proton Interactions from a Two Liter ${CF}_{3} I$ Bubble Chamber

E. Behnke, J. Behnke, S. J. Brice, D. Broemmelsiek, J. I. Collar, P. S. Cooper, M. Crisler, C. E. Dahl, D. Fustin, J. Hall, J. H. Hinnefeld, M. Hu, I. Levine, E. Ramberg, T. Shepherd, A. Sonnenschein, and M. Szydagis (COUPP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021303 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holography and Colliding Gravitational Shock Waves in Asymptotically $Ad S_{5}$ Spacetime

Paul M. Chesler and Laurence G. Yaffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 021601 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Determination of the Width of the Top Quark

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 022001 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

Phase Structure of Two-Flavor QCD at Finite Chemical Potential

Jens Braun, Lisa M. Haas, Florian Marhauser, and Jan M. Pawlowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 022002 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

Reconciling $J / ψ$ Production at HERA, RHIC, Tevatron, and LHC with Nonrelativistic QCD Factorization at Next-to-Leading Order

Mathias Butenschön and Bernd A. Kniehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 022003 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

Nuclear Physics

$k_{t}$ Factorization for Hard Processes in Nuclei

Fabio Dominguez, Bo-Wen Xiao, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 022301 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Heavy Cluster Knockout Reaction ${}^{16}O ({}^{12}C, 2 {}^{12}C) {}^{4}{He}$ and the Nature of the ${}^{12}C − {}^{12}C$ Interaction Potential

B. N. Joshi, Arun K. Jain, Y. K. Gupta, D. C. Biswas, A. Saxena, B. V. John, L. S. Danu, R. P. Vind, and R. K. Choudhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 022501 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Enhanced Quadrupole Collectivity at $N = 40$ : The Case of Neutron-Rich Fe Isotopes

W. Rother et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 022502 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrahigh-Order Wave Mixing in Noncollinear High Harmonic Generation

J. B. Bertrand, H. J. Wörner, H.-C. Bandulet, É. Bisson, M. Spanner, J.-C. Kieffer, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 023001 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cavity Induced Shift and Narrowing of the Positronium Lyman- $α$ Transition

D. B. Cassidy, M. W. J. Bromley, L. C. Cota, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 023401 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Space-Time Resolved Approach for Interacting Quantum Field Theories

R. E. Wagner, M. R. Ware, B. T. Shields, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 023601 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fractional-Power-Law Level Statistics Due to Dynamical Tunneling

Arnd Bäcker, Roland Ketzmerick, Steffen Löck, and Normann Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024101 (2011) - Published 12 January, 2011

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Broadband Acoustic Cloak for Ultrasound Waves

Shu Zhang, Chunguang Xia, and Nicholas Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024301 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Angular Momentum Transport in Turbulent Flow between Independently Rotating Cylinders

M. S. Paoletti and D. P. Lathrop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024501 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Torque Scaling in Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow with Co- and Counterrotating Cylinders

Dennis P. M. van Gils, Sander G. Huisman, Gert-Wim Bruggert, Chao Sun, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024502 (2011) - Published 10 January, 2011

Mutual Adaptation of a Faraday Instability Pattern with its Flexible Boundaries in Floating Fluid Drops

G. Pucci, E. Fort, M. Ben Amar, and Y. Couder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 024503 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Vanishing Magnetic Shear And Electron Transport Barriers In The RFX-Mod Reversed Field Pinch

M. Gobbin, D. Bonfiglio, D. F. Escande, A. Fassina, L. Marrelli, A. Alfier, E. Martines, B. Momo, and D. Terranova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025001 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

Autoresonant Excitation of Antiproton Plasmas

G. B. Andresen et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025002 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Many-Body Spin Interactions and the Ground State of a Dense Rydberg Lattice Gas

Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025301 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

Dynamics of a Tunable Superfluid Junction

L. J. LeBlanc, A. B. Bardon, J. McKeever, M. H. T. Extavour, D. Jervis, J. H. Thywissen, F. Piazza, and A. Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025302 (2011) - Published 12 January, 2011

Memory of the Initial Conditions in an Incompletely Chaotic Quantum System: Universal Predictions with Application to Cold Atoms

V. A. Yurovsky and M. Olshanii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025303 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

New Structural Picture of the ${Ge}_{2} {Sb}_{2} {Te}_{5}$ Phase-Change Alloy

X. Q. Liu, X. B. Li, L. Zhang, Y. Q. Cheng, Z. G. Yan, M. Xu, X. D. Han, S. B. Zhang, Z. Zhang, and E. Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025501 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

Mechanism of Wear and Ripple Formation Induced by the Mechanical Action of an Atomic Force Microscope Tip

Aleksander E. Filippov, Valentin L. Popov, and Michael Urbakh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 025502 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

To Wet or Not to Wet? Dispersion Forces Tip the Balance for Water Ice on Metals

Javier Carrasco, Biswajit Santra, Jiří Klimeš, and Angelos Michaelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026101 (2011) - Published 11 January, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

High- $T_{c}$ Ferroelectricity Emerging from Magnetic Degeneracy in Cupric Oxide

Gianluca Giovannetti, Sanjeev Kumar, Alessandro Stroppa, Jeroen van den Brink, Silvia Picozzi, and José Lorenzana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026401 (2011) - Published 12 January, 2011

Atomic Structure, Energetics, and Dynamics of Topological Solitons in Indium Chains on Si(111) Surfaces

Hui Zhang, Jin-Ho Choi, Yang Xu, Xiuxia Wang, Xiaofang Zhai, Bing Wang, Changgan Zeng, Jun-Hyung Cho, Zhenyu Zhang, and J. G. Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026801 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

Tunable Quantum Dot Arrays Formed from Self-Assembled Metal-Organic Networks

F. Klappenberger, D. Kühne, W. Krenner, I. Silanes, A. Arnau, F. J. García de Abajo, S. Klyatskaya, M. Ruben, and J. V. Barth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026802 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011

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Point-Contact Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons on Liquid Helium

D. G. Rees, I. Kuroda, C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi, M. Höfer, P. Leiderer, and K. Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026803 (2011) - Published 14 January, 2011

Pseudogap of Metallic Layered Nickelate $R_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {NiO}_{4}$ ( $R = Nd, Eu$ ) Crystals Measured Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

M. Uchida, K. Ishizaka, P. Hansmann, Y. Kaneko, Y. Ishida, X. Yang, R. Kumai, A. Toschi, Y. Onose, R. Arita, K. Held, O. K. Andersen, S. Shin, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 027001 (2011) - Published 12 January, 2011

Existence, Character, and Origin of Surface-Related Bands in the High Temperature Iron Pnictide Superconductor ${BaFe}_{2 - x} {Co}_{x} {As}_{2}$

Erik van Heumen, Johannes Vuorinen, Klaus Koepernik, Freek Massee, Yingkai Huang, Ming Shi, Jesse Klei, Jeroen Goedkoop, Matti Lindroos, Jeroen van den Brink, and Mark S. Golden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 027002 (2011) - Published 13 January, 2011