Volume 106, Issue 9

4 March 2011

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Microfluidic assembly process showing free particles being added (from top to bottom) into circular cells and subjected to a flow field, visualized by streamlines. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Algorithm for a Microfluidic Assembly Line
Tobias M. Schneider, Shreyas Mandre, and Michael P. Brenner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094503 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Algorithm for a Microfluidic Assembly Line

Tobias M. Schneider, Shreyas Mandre, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094503 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Reading of a Classical Digital Memory

Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090504 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Signal Amplification by Sensitive Control of Bifurcation Topology

R. B. Karabalin, Ron Lifshitz, M. C. Cross, M. H. Matheny, S. C. Masmanidis, and M. L. Roukes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094102 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Hidden Fermi Liquid: Self-Consistent Theory for the Normal State of High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

Philip A. Casey and Philip W. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 097002 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

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Precise Predictions for $W + 4$ -Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider

C. F. Berger, Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, D. Forde, T. Gleisberg, H. Ita, D. A. Kosower, and D. Maître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 092001 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

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Scaling Laws in Aeolian Sand Transport

T. D. Ho, A. Valance, P. Dupont, and A. Ould El Moctar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094501 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

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Controlled Coupling of a Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Center to a Silver Nanowire

Alexander Huck, Shailesh Kumar, Abdul Shakoor, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 096801 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

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Absence of Orbital Currents in Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{4} O_{8}$ Using a Zeeman-Perturbed Nuclear-Quadrupole-Resonance Technique

S. Strässle, B. Graneli, M. Mali, J. Roos, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 097003 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

LETTERS

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

Fundamental Quantum Limit to Waveform Estimation

Mankei Tsang, Howard M. Wiseman, and Carlton M. Caves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090401 (2011) - Published 3 March, 2011

Gapped Two-Body Hamiltonian for Continuous-Variable Quantum Computation

Leandro Aolita, Augusto J. Roncaglia, Alessandro Ferraro, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090501 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Dissipative Preparation of Entanglement in Optical Cavities

M. J. Kastoryano, F. Reiter, and A. S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090502 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Non-Abelian Operations on Majorana Fermions via Single-Charge Control

Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090503 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Reading of a Classical Digital Memory

Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090504 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Adaptive Cluster Expansion for Inferring Boltzmann Machines with Noisy Data

S. Cocco and R. Monasson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090601 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Weak Disorder: Anomalous Transport and Diffusion Are Normal Yet Again

M. Khoury, A. M. Lacasta, J. M. Sancho, and Katja Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 090602 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Self-Induced Suppression of Collective Neutrino Oscillations in a Supernova

Huaiyu Duan (端怀宇) and Alexander Friedland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 091101 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Generalized Recursion Relations for Correlators in the Gauge-Gravity Correspondence

Suvrat Raju

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 091601 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Dynamically Generated Mott Gap from Holography

Mohammad Edalati, Robert G. Leigh, and Philip W. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 091602 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

Orbifold Equivalence and the Sign Problem at Finite Baryon Density

Aleksey Cherman, Masanori Hanada, and Daniel Robles-Llana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 091603 (2011) - Published 3 March, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precise Predictions for $W + 4$ -Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider

C. F. Berger, Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, D. Forde, T. Gleisberg, H. Ita, D. A. Kosower, and D. Maître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 092001 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

Tetraquark-Based Analysis and Predictions of the Cross Sections and Distributions for the Processes $e^{+} e^{-} \to Υ (1 S) (π^{+} π^{-}, K^{+} K^{-}, η π^{0})$ near $Υ (5 S)$

Ahmed Ali, Christian Hambrock, and Satoshi Mishima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 092002 (2011) - Published 3 March, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Correct Description of the Bond Dissociation Limit without Breaking Spin Symmetry by a Random-Phase-Approximation Correlation Functional

Andreas Heßelmann and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093001 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Attosecond Resolved Electron Release in Two-Color Near-Threshold Photoionization of $N_{2}$

Jérémie Caillat, Alfred Maquet, Stefan Haessler, Baptiste Fabre, Thierry Ruchon, Pascal Salières, Yann Mairesse, and Richard Taïeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093002 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Nonlinear Self-Trapping of Broad Beams in Defocusing Waveguide Arrays

Francis H. Bennet, Tristram J. Alexander, Franz Haslinger, Arnan Mitchell, Dragomir N. Neshev, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093901 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

$P T$ -Symmetry Breaking and Laser-Absorber Modes in Optical Scattering Systems

Y. D. Chong, Li Ge, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093902 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Experimental Realization of Self-Guiding Unidirectional Electromagnetic Edge States

Yin Poo, Rui-xin Wu, Zhifang Lin, Yan Yang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093903 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Four-Wave Mixing Dipole Soliton in Laser-Induced Atomic Gratings

Yanpeng Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Zhiqiang Nie, Changbiao Li, Haixia Chen, Keqing Lu, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 093904 (2011) - Published 4 March, 2011

Experimental Demonstration of the Oscillatory Snake Instability of the Bright Soliton of the $(2 + 1) D$ Hyperbolic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

S.-P. Gorza, B. Deconinck, Ph. Emplit, T. Trogdon, and M. Haelterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094101 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Signal Amplification by Sensitive Control of Bifurcation Topology

R. B. Karabalin, Ron Lifshitz, M. C. Cross, M. H. Matheny, S. C. Masmanidis, and M. L. Roukes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094102 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling Laws in Aeolian Sand Transport

T. D. Ho, A. Valance, P. Dupont, and A. Ould El Moctar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094501 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

Quantum Friction

A. I. Volokitin and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094502 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Algorithm for a Microfluidic Assembly Line

Tobias M. Schneider, Shreyas Mandre, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 094503 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Spatially Resolved Measurements of Laser Filamentation in Long Scale Length Underdense Plasmas with and without Beam Smoothing

G. Sarri, C. A. Cecchetti, R. Jung, P. Hobbs, S. James, J. Lockyear, R. M. Stevenson, D. Doria, D. J. Hoarty, O. Willi, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095001 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Exotic Superfluid States of Lattice Fermions in Elongated Traps

D.-H. Kim, J. J. Kinnunen, J.-P. Martikainen, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095301 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Optically Directed Assembly of Continuous Mesoscale Filaments

J. T. Bahns, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, S. K. Gray, and L. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095501 (2011) - Published 28 February, 2011

Crystal Structures of Dense Lithium: A Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Transition

M. Marqués, M. I. McMahon, E. Gregoryanz, M. Hanfland, C. L. Guillaume, C. J. Pickard, G. J. Ackland, and R. J. Nelmes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095502 (2011) - Published 1 March, 2011

High-Pressure Synthesis, Amorphization, and Decomposition of Silane

Michael Hanfland, John E. Proctor, Christophe L. Guillaume, Olga Degtyareva, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095503 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Entropic Stabilization of Tunable Planar Modulated Superstructures

Michael Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095504 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011

Role of Thermodynamics in the Shape Transformation of Embedded Metal Nanoparticles Induced by Swift Heavy-Ion Irradiation

M. C. Ridgway, R. Giulian, D. J. Sprouster, P. Kluth, L. L. Araujo, D. J. Llewellyn, A. P. Byrne, F. Kremer, P. F. P. Fichtner, G. Rizza, H. Amekura, and M. Toulemonde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 095505 (2011) - Published 2 March, 2011