Volume 107, Issue 20

11 November 2011

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Moving cavitation bubble as it first collapses, then rebounds while growing a jet against the local pressure gradient. The process is shown from right to left. The curved lines represent isobars.

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Universal Scaling Law for Jets of Collapsing Bubbles
D. Obreschkow, M. Tinguely, N. Dorsaz, P. Kobel, A. de Bosset, and M. Farhat
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 204501 (2011)

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Gamow-Teller Transition Strengths from ${}^{56}{Ni}$

M. Sasano, G. Perdikakis, R. G. T. Zegers, Sam M. Austin, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, C. Caesar, A. L. Cole, J. M. Deaven, N. Ferrante, C. J. Guess, G. W. Hitt, R. Meharchand, F. Montes, J. Palardy, A. Prinke, L. A. Riley, H. Sakai, M. Scott, A. Stolz, L. Valdez, and K. Yako

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 202501 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams

Andrey Novitsky, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Haifeng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203601 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

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Negative Nonconservative Forces: Optical “Tractor Beams” for Arbitrary Objects

S. Sukhov and A. Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203602 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

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Instability of the Origami of a Ferrofluid Drop in a Magnetic Field

Timothée Jamin, Charlotte Py, and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 204503 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

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Macroscopic Superconducting Current through a Silicon Surface Reconstruction with Indium Adatoms: $Si (111) − (\sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{3}) − In$

Takashi Uchihashi, Puneet Mishra, Masakazu Aono, and Tomonobu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207001 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Proposed Spin Amplification for Magnetic Sensors Employing Crystal Defects

Marcus Schaffry, Erik M. Gauger, John J. L. Morton, and Simon C. Benjamin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207210 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

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Locating the Barrier for Folding of Single Molecules under an External Force

Olga K. Dudko, Thomas G. W. Graham, and Robert B. Best

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 208301 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate Under Rotation

Xiao-Qiang Xu and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 200401 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Ab Initio Investigation of the Elliott-Yafet Electron-Phonon Mechanism in Laser-Induced Ultrafast Demagnetization

K. Carva, M. Battiato, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207201 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

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Building Designed Granular Towers One Drop at a Time

Julien Chopin and Arshad Kudrolli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 208304 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

LETTERS

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

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Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate Under Rotation

Xiao-Qiang Xu and Jung Hoon Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 200401 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Five- and Six-Body Resonances Tied to an Efimov Trimer

Javier von Stecher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 200402 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Abatement of Thermal Noise due to Internal Damping in 2D Oscillators with Rapidly Rotating Test Masses

R. Pegna, A. M. Nobili, M. Shao, S. G. Turyshev, G. Catastini, A. Anselmi, R. Spero, S. Doravari, G. L. Comandi, and A. De Michele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 200801 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

What Are the Relative Roles of Heating and Cooling in Generating Solar Wind Temperature Anisotropies?

B. A. Maruca, J. C. Kasper, and S. D. Bale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201101 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Modified Temperature-Anisotropy Instability Thresholds in the Solar Wind

R. Schlickeiser, M. J. Michno, D. Ibscher, M. Lazar, and T. Skoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201102 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Noise, Sign Problems, and Statistics

Michael G. Endres, David B. Kaplan, Jong-Wan Lee, and Amy N. Nicholson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201601 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Holographic Screens and Transport Coefficients in the Fluid-Gravity Correspondence

Christopher Eling and Yaron Oz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201602 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Proposed Search for a Fourth Neutrino with a PBq Antineutrino Source

Michel Cribier, Maximilien Fechner, Thierry Lasserre, Alain Letourneau, David Lhuillier, Guillaume Mention, Davide Franco, Vasily Kornoukhov, and Stefan Schönert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201801 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Observation of the Baryonic Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ μ^{+} μ^{-}$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201802 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Search for the Rare Decays $K_{L} \to π^{0} π^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $K_{L} \to π^{0} π^{0} X^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

E. Abouzaid et al. (The KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201803 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Search for New Physics with a Monojet and Missing Transverse Energy in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 201804 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Kinematic Power Corrections in Off-Forward Hard Reactions

V. M. Braun and A. N. Manashov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 202001 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Nuclear Physics

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Gamow-Teller Transition Strengths from ${}^{56}{Ni}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 202501 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Near-Barrier Fusion of $Sn + Ni$ and $Te + Ni$ Systems: Examining the Correlation between Nucleon Transfer and Fusion Enhancement

Z. Kohley, J. F. Liang, D. Shapira, R. L. Varner, C. J. Gross, J. M. Allmond, A. L. Caraley, E. A. Coello, F. Favela, K. Lagergren, and P. E. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 202701 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Improved Measurement of the Hydrogen $1 S - 2 S$ Transition Frequency

Christian G. Parthey, Arthur Matveev, Janis Alnis, Birgitta Bernhardt, Axel Beyer, Ronald Holzwarth, Aliaksei Maistrou, Randolf Pohl, Katharina Predehl, Thomas Udem, Tobias Wilken, Nikolai Kolachevsky, Michel Abgrall, Daniele Rovera, Christophe Salomon, Philippe Laurent, and Theodor W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203001 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

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Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams

Andrey Novitsky, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Haifeng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203601 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

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Negative Nonconservative Forces: Optical “Tractor Beams” for Arbitrary Objects

S. Sukhov and A. Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203602 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Femtosecond Nonlinear Fiber Optics in the Ionization Regime

P. Hölzer, W. Chang, J. C. Travers, A. Nazarkin, J. Nold, N. Y. Joly, M. F. Saleh, F. Biancalana, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203901 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Theory of Photoionization-Induced Blueshift of Ultrashort Solitons in Gas-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

Mohammed F. Saleh, Wonkeun Chang, Philipp Hölzer, Alexander Nazarkin, John C. Travers, Nicolas Y. Joly, Philip St. J. Russell, and Fabio Biancalana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 203902 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Universal Scaling Law for Jets of Collapsing Bubbles

D. Obreschkow, M. Tinguely, N. Dorsaz, P. Kobel, A. de Bosset, and M. Farhat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 204501 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Signature of Non-Fickian Solute Transport in Complex Heterogeneous Porous Media

Branko Bijeljic, Peyman Mostaghimi, and Martin J. Blunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 204502 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

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Instability of the Origami of a Ferrofluid Drop in a Magnetic Field

Timothée Jamin, Charlotte Py, and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 204503 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Tunable Few-Cycle and Multicycle Coherent Terahertz Radiation from Relativistic Electrons

Yuzhen Shen, Xi Yang, G. L. Carr, Yoshiteru Hidaka, James B. Murphy, and Xijie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 204801 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Coherence Effects on Photon Absorption in Optically Thick Plasmas

J. Rosato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205001 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Spectral Broadening of Characteristic $γ$ -Ray Emission Peaks from ${}^{12}C ({}^{3}{He}, p γ) {}^{14}N$ Reactions in Fusion Plasmas

M. Tardocchi, M. Nocente, I. Proverbio, V. G. Kiptily, P. Blanchard, S. Conroy, M. Fontanesi, G. Grosso, K. Kneupner, E. Lerche, A. Murari, E. Perelli Cippo, A. Pietropaolo, B. Syme, D. Van Eester, and G. Gorini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205002 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Electron Temperature Scaling in Laser Interaction with Solids

T. Kluge, T. Cowan, A. Debus, U. Schramm, K. Zeil, and M. Bussmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205003 (2011) - Published 10 November, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Suppression of Superfluidity upon Overflow of Trapped Fermions: Quantal and Thomas-Fermi Studies

P. Schuck and X. Viñas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205301 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Breaking the Far-Field Diffraction Limit in Optical Nanopatterning via Repeated Photochemical and Electrochemical Transitions in Photochromic Molecules

Nicole Brimhall, Trisha L. Andrew, Rajakumar Varma Manthena, and Rajesh Menon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205501 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Mixed Acoustic Phonons and Phase Modes in an Aperiodic Composite Crystal

B. Toudic, R. Lefort, C. Ecolivet, L. Guérin, R. Currat, P. Bourges, and T. Breczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205502 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Active Microwave Negative-Index Metamaterial Transmission Line with Gain

Tao Jiang, Kihun Chang, Li-Ming Si, Lixin Ran, and Hao Xin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205503 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Effect of Temperature on the Elastic Anisotropy of Pure Fe and ${Fe}_{0.9} {Cr}_{0.1}$ Random Alloy

V. I. Razumovskiy, A. V. Ruban, and P. A. Korzhavyi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 205504 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Direct Measurement of the Friction between and Shear Moduli of Shells of Carbon Nanotubes

Letian Lin, Taoran Cui, Lu-Chang Qin, and Sean Washburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206101 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Effects of Lattice Polarity on Interfacial Space Charges and Defect Disorder in Ionically Conducting AgI Heterostructures

Benjamin J. Morgan and Paul A. Madden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206102 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction at the $Ni / YSZ$ Anode of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells from First Principles

Clotilde S. Cucinotta, Marco Bernasconi, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206103 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Fluid Adsorption at the Base of a Cylinder

Andrew O. Parry and Carlos Rascón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206104 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Magnetic Nanostructures by Adaptive Twinning in Strained Epitaxial Films

Sandra Kauffmann-Weiss, Markus E. Gruner, Anja Backen, Ludwig Schultz, Peter Entel, and Sebastian Fähler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206105 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Chemically Mediated Quantum Criticality in ${NbFe}_{2}$

Aftab Alam and D. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206401 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Correlated Charged Impurity Scattering in Graphene

Jun Yan and Michael S. Fuhrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206601 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Topological Response Theory of Doped Topological Insulators

Maissam Barkeshli and Xiao-Liang Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206602 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Full Counting Statistics in the Self-Dual Interacting Resonant Level Model

Sam T. Carr, Dmitry A. Bagrets, and Peter Schmitteckert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206801 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Band Alignment, Built-In Potential, and the Absence of Conductivity at the ${LaCrO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3} (001)$ Heterojunction

S. A. Chambers, L. Qiao, T. C. Droubay, T. C. Kaspar, B. W. Arey, and P. V. Sushko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206802 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Universal Conductance Correction in a Tunable Strongly Coupled Nanogranular Metal

Roland Sachser, Fabrizio Porrati, Christian H. Schwalb, and Michael Huth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206803 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Nickelate Superlattices

M. J. Han, Xin Wang, C. A. Marianetti, and A. J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206804 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Tailored Nanoheterojunctions for Optimized Light Emission

Tianshu Li, Francois Gygi, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206805 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

Generating Entanglement and Squeezed States of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots

M. S. Rudner, L. M. K. Vandersypen, V. Vuletić, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206806 (2011) - Published 8 November, 2011

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Macroscopic Superconducting Current through a Silicon Surface Reconstruction with Indium Adatoms: $Si (111) − (\sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{3}) − In$

Takashi Uchihashi, Puneet Mishra, Masakazu Aono, and Tomonobu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207001 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Geometric Landau-Zener Interferometry

S. Gasparinetti, P. Solinas, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207002 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

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Ab Initio Investigation of the Elliott-Yafet Electron-Phonon Mechanism in Laser-Induced Ultrafast Demagnetization

K. Carva, M. Battiato, and P. M. Oppeneer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207201 (2011) - Published 7 November, 2011

Response of Acoustic Phonons to Charge and Orbital Order in the 50% Doped Bilayer Manganite ${LaSr}_{2} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$

F. Weber, S. Rosenkranz, J.-P. Castellan, R. Osborn, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, Y. Chen, Songxue Chi, J. W. Lynn, and D. Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207202 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Magnetic Phases of a Highly Frustrated Magnet, ${ZnCr}_{2} O_{4}$ , up to an Ultrahigh Magnetic Field of 600 T

Atsuhiko Miyata, Hiroaki Ueda, Yutaka Ueda, Hironobu Sawabe, and Shojiro Takeyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207203 (2011) - Published 9 November, 2011

Beyond the Compact Magnetic Domain Wall

C. Zinoni, A. Vanhaverbeke, P. Eib, G. Salis, and R. Allenspach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207204 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Coherent Spin Precession via Photoinduced Antiferromagnetic Interactions in ${La}_{0.67} {Ca}_{0.33} {MnO}_{3}$

H. B. Zhao, D. Talbayev, X. Ma, Y. H. Ren, A. Venimadhav, Qi Li, and G. Lüpke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207205 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Local Weak Ferromagnetism in Single-Crystalline Ferroelectric ${BiFeO}_{3}$

M. Ramazanoglu, M. Laver, W. Ratcliff, II, S. M. Watson, W. C. Chen, A. Jackson, K. Kothapalli, Seongsu Lee, S.-W. Cheong, and V. Kiryukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207206 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011

Spin Ice: Magnetic Excitations without Monopole Signatures Using Muon Spin Rotation

S. R. Dunsiger, A. A. Aczel, C. Arguello, H. Dabkowska, A. Dabkowski, M.-H. Du, T. Goko, B. Javanparast, T. Lin, F. L. Ning, H. M. L. Noad, D. J. Singh, T. J. Williams, Y. J. Uemura, M. J. P. Gingras, and G. M. Luke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207207 (2011) - Published 11 November, 2011