Volume 106, Issue 5

4 February 2011

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Scanning electron microscope image of a fully electrical read-write device made from a ferromagnetic semiconductor. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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Fully Electrical Read-Write Device Out of a Ferromagnetic Semiconductor
S. Mark, P. Dürrenfeld, K. Pappert, L. Ebel, K. Brunner, C. Gould, and L. W. Molenkamp
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057204 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Electrical Read-Write Device Out of a Ferromagnetic Semiconductor

S. Mark, P. Dürrenfeld, K. Pappert, L. Ebel, K. Brunner, C. Gould, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057204 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Viscoelastic Suppression of Gravity-Driven Counterflow Instability

P. Beiersdorfer, D. Layne, E. W. Magee, and J. I. Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 058301 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coexistence of Light and Heavy Carriers Associated with Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in ${CeNi}_{0.8} {Bi}_{2}$ with a Bi Square Net

Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Satoru Matsuishi, Masahiro Hirano, Makoto Tachibana, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, Hitoshi Kawaji, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057002 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Circularly Polarized Light Emission from Semiconductor Planar Chiral Nanostructures

Kuniaki Konishi, Masahiro Nomura, Naoto Kumagai, Satoshi Iwamoto, Yasuhiko Arakawa, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057402 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dirac Point Degenerate with Massive Bands at a Topological Quantum Critical Point

J. C. Smith, S. Banerjee, V. Pardo, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056401 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantized Conductance at the Majorana Phase Transition in a Disordered Superconducting Wire

A. R. Akhmerov, J. P. Dahlhaus, F. Hassler, M. Wimmer, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057001 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

LETTERS

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

Quantum Mechanics in Metric Space: Wave Functions and Their Densities

I. D’Amico, J. P. Coe, V. V. França, and K. Capelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050401 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Competition between Pairing and Ferromagnetic Instabilities in Ultracold Fermi Gases near Feshbach Resonances

David Pekker, Mehrtash Babadi, Rajdeep Sensarma, Nikolaj Zinner, Lode Pollet, Martin W. Zwierlein, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050402 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Sufficient and Necessary Condition for Zero Quantum Entropy Rates under any Coupling to the Environment

César A. Rodríguez-Rosario, Gen Kimura, Hideki Imai, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050403 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Some Calculable Contributions to Entanglement Entropy

Mark P. Hertzberg and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050404 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Strong and Weak Thermalization of Infinite Nonintegrable Quantum Systems

M. C. Bañuls, J. I. Cirac, and M. B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050405 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Modular Entanglement

Giulia Gualdi, Salvatore M. Giampaolo, and Fabrizio Illuminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050501 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Does Adiabatic Quantum Optimization Fail for NP-Complete Problems?

Neil G. Dickson and M. H. S. Amin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 050502 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to $W^{+} W^{-} b \bar{b}$ Production at Hadron Colliders

A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, S. Kallweit, and S. Pozzorini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052001 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Short Range Correlations and the EMC Effect

L. B. Weinstein, E. Piasetzky, D. W. Higinbotham, J. Gomez, O. Hen, and R. Shneor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052301 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Precise Extraction of the Induced Polarization in the ${}^{4}{He} (e, e^{'} \vec{p}) {}^{3}H$ Reaction

S. P. Malace et al. (E03-104 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052501 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

$β$ -Decay Half-Lives of Very Neutron-Rich Kr to Tc Isotopes on the Boundary of the $r$ -Process Path: An Indication of Fast $r$ -Matter Flow

S. Nishimura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052502 (2011) - Published 3 February, 2011

Early Onset of Ground State Deformation in Neutron Deficient Polonium Isotopes

T. E. Cocolios et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052503 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Resonant Enhancement of Neutrinoless Double-Electron Capture in ${}^{152}{Gd}$

S. Eliseev, C. Roux, K. Blaum, M. Block, C. Droese, F. Herfurth, H.-J. Kluge, M. I. Krivoruchenko, Yu. N. Novikov, E. Minaya Ramirez, L. Schweikhard, V. M. Shabaev, F. Šimkovic, I. I. Tupitsyn, K. Zuber, and N. A. Zubova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052504 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Predominant Time Scales in Fission Processes in Reactions of S, Ti and Ni with W: Zeptosecond versus Attosecond

R. du Rietz, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, R. G. Thomas, L. R. Gasques, M. Evers, N. Lobanov, and A. Wakhle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052701 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Radiation Generated by the Ultrafast Migration of a Positive Charge Following the Ionization of a Molecular System

Alexander I. Kuleff and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053001 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Laser-Enabled Auger Decay in Rare-Gas Atoms

P. Ranitovic, X. M. Tong, C. W. Hogle, X. Zhou, Y. Liu, N. Toshima, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053002 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Decoherence in Attosecond Photoionization

Stefan Pabst, Loren Greenman, Phay J. Ho, David A. Mazziotti, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053003 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Cold $N + NH$ Collisions in a Magnetic Trap

Matthew T. Hummon, Timur V. Tscherbul, Jacek Kłos, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Wesley C. Campbell, Alexander Dalgarno, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053201 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Two-Photon Scattering by a Driven Three-Level Emitter in a One-Dimensional Waveguide and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Dibyendu Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053601 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Atom-Resonant Heralded Single Photons by Interaction-Free Measurement

Florian Wolfgramm, Yannick A. de Icaza Astiz, Federica A. Beduini, Alessandro Cerè, and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053602 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ultrafast Switching of Photonic Entanglement

Matthew A. Hall, Joseph B. Altepeter, and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 053901 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Dynamical Switching of a Reaction Coordinate to Carry the System through to a Different Product State at High Energies

Hiroshi Teramoto, Mikito Toda, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 054101 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Kuramoto Model of Coupled Oscillators with Positive and Negative Coupling Parameters: An Example of Conformist and Contrarian Oscillators

Hyunsuk Hong and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 054102 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Time Reversal of Speckle Noise

Gabriel Montaldo, Mickael Tanter, and Mathias Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 054301 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Persistence Problem in Two-Dimensional Fluid Turbulence

Prasad Perlekar, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, Dhrubaditya Mitra, and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 054501 (2011) - Published 3 February, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Free Energy Cascade in Gyrokinetic Turbulence

A. Bañón Navarro, P. Morel, M. Albrecht-Marc, D. Carati, F. Merz, T. Görler, and F. Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055001 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

Altitude Distribution of the Auroral Acceleration Potential Determined from Cluster Satellite Data at Different Heights

Göran T. Marklund, Soheil Sadeghi, Tomas Karlsson, Per-Arne Lindqvist, Hans Nilsson, Colin Forsyth, Andrew Fazakerley, Elizabeth A. Lucek, and Jolene Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055002 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Suppression of Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence via Negative Magnetic Shear in NSTX

H. Y. Yuh, S. M. Kaye, F. M. Levinton, E. Mazzucato, D. R. Mikkelsen, D. R. Smith, R. E. Bell, J. C. Hosea, B. P. LeBlanc, J. L. Peterson, H. K. Park, and W. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055003 (2011) - Published 3 February, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pendulum in a Fermi Liquid

Timo H. Virtanen and Erkki Thuneberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055301 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Quantum Coherence in a Superfluid Josephson Junction

Supradeep Narayana and Yuki Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055302 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Mechanical Deformation of Nanoscale Metal Rods: When Size and Shape Matter

M. J. Lagos, F. Sato, D. S. Galvão, and D. Ugarte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055501 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Age-Dependent Transient Shear Banding in Soft Glasses

Robyn L. Moorcroft, Michael E. Cates, and Suzanne M. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055502 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Breaking Elastic Field Symmetry with Substrate Vicinality

L. Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, and A. Balzarotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055503 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Quantum Fidelity in the Thermodynamic Limit

Marek M. Rams and Bogdan Damski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 055701 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Surface Bubble Nucleation Stability

James R. T. Seddon, E. Stefan Kooij, Bene Poelsema, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056101 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Ion-Specific Induced Charges at Aqueous Soft Interfaces

Wenjie Wang, Rebecca Y. Park, Alex Travesset, and David Vaknin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056102 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dirac Point Degenerate with Massive Bands at a Topological Quantum Critical Point

J. C. Smith, S. Banerjee, V. Pardo, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056401 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

Spinon Phonon Interaction and Ultrasonic Attenuation in Quantum Spin Liquids

Yi Zhou and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056402 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Photoemission of a Doped Mott Insulator: Spectral Weight Transfer and a Qualitative Mott-Hubbard Description

M. Sing, S. Glawion, M. Schlachter, M. R. Scholz, K. Goß, J. Heidler, G. Berner, and R. Claessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056403 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Electronic-Structure-Driven Magnetic Ordering in a Kondo Semiconductor ${CeOs}_{2} {Al}_{10}$

Shin-ichi Kimura, Takuya Iizuka, Hidetoshi Miyazaki, Akinori Irizawa, Yuji Muro, and Toshiro Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056404 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Emergence of Superconductivity, Valence Bond Order, and Mott Insulators in $Pd [(dmit)_{2}]$ Based Organic Salts

Jeffrey G. Rau and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056405 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Contributions to the Spin Hall Effect of Alloys

Stephan Lowitzer, Martin Gradhand, Diemo Ködderitzsch, Dmitry V. Fedorov, Ingrid Mertig, and Hubert Ebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056601 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

$Co [V_{2}] O_{4}$ : A Spinel Approaching the Itinerant Electron Limit

A. Kismarahardja, J. S. Brooks, A. Kiswandhi, K. Matsubayashi, R. Yamanaka, Y. Uwatoko, J. Whalen, T. Siegrist, and H. D. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056602 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011

Topological Entanglement in Abelian and Non-Abelian Excitation Eigenstates

Z. Papić, B. A. Bernevig, and N. Regnault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 056801 (2011) - Published 1 February, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantized Conductance at the Majorana Phase Transition in a Disordered Superconducting Wire

A. R. Akhmerov, J. P. Dahlhaus, F. Hassler, M. Wimmer, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057001 (2011) - Published 31 January, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Coexistence of Light and Heavy Carriers Associated with Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in ${CeNi}_{0.8} {Bi}_{2}$ with a Bi Square Net

Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Satoru Matsuishi, Masahiro Hirano, Makoto Tachibana, Eiji Takayama-Muromachi, Hitoshi Kawaji, and Hideo Hosono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057002 (2011) - Published 2 February, 2011

Spin-Density Wave near the Vortex Cores in the High-Temperature Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + y}$

A. M. Mounce, S. Oh, S. Mukhopadhyay, W. P. Halperin, A. P. Reyes, P. L. Kuhns, K. Fujita, M. Ishikado, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057003 (2011) - Published 3 February, 2011

Spin Waves in the $(π, 0)$ Magnetically Ordered Iron Chalcogenide ${Fe}_{1.05} Te$

O. J. Lipscombe, G. F. Chen, Chen Fang, T. G. Perring, D. L. Abernathy, A. D. Christianson, Takeshi Egami, Nanlin Wang, Jiangping Hu, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 057004 (2011) - Published 4 February, 2011