Volume 107, Issue 3

15 July 2011

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On the Cover

Band structure of a film of 20 antimony atomic bilayers obtained by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

From the article:

Passage from Spin-Polarized Surface States to Unpolarized Quantum Well States in Topologically Nontrivial Sb Films
G. Bian, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036802 (2011)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Redefining Length

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030001 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Does Gravity Cause Load-Bearing Bridges in Colloidal and Granular Systems?

M. C. Jenkins, M. D. Haw, G. C. Barker, W. C. K. Poon, and S. U. Egelhaaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 038302 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Parallel Generation of Quadripartite Cluster Entanglement in the Optical Frequency Comb

Matthew Pysher, Yoshichika Miwa, Reihaneh Shahrokhshahi, Russell Bloomer, and Olivier Pfister

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030505 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy of Magnetic Structures

Joshua J. Turner, Xiaojing Huang, Oleg Krupin, Keoki A. Seu, Daniel Parks, Stephen Kevan, Enju Lima, Kim Kisslinger, Ian McNulty, Richard Gambino, Stephane Mangin, Sujoy Roy, and Peter Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033904 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Field-Theoretic Method for the Virial Expansion

David B. Kaplan and Sichun Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030601 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling of Charge-Changing Interaction Cross Sections and Point-Proton Radii of Neutron-Rich Carbon Isotopes

T. Yamaguchi, I. Hachiuma, A. Kitagawa, K. Namihira, S. Sato, T. Suzuki, I. Tanihata, and M. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 032502 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fusion Yield Enhancement in Magnetized Laser-Driven Implosions

P. Y. Chang, G. Fiksel, M. Hohenberger, J. P. Knauer, R. Betti, F. J. Marshall, D. D. Meyerhofer, F. H. Séguin, and R. D. Petrasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035006 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Density of States and Interface Effects in Semimetallic ErAs Nanoparticles Embedded in GaAs

Jason K. Kawasaki, Rainer Timm, Kris T. Delaney, Edvin Lundgren, Anders Mikkelsen, and Chris J. Palmstrøm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036806 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Separation: Interplay between the Soret Effect and Entropic Force Gradient

Yusuke T. Maeda, Axel Buguin, and Albert Libchaber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 038301 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

LETTERS

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

Scattered Wave Packet Formalism with Markovian Outgoing Wave Boundary Conditions for Open Quantum Systems

Chia-Chun Chou and Robert E. Wyatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030401 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Does Ignorance of the Whole Imply Ignorance of the Parts? Large Violations of Noncontextuality in Quantum Theory

Thomas Vidick and Stephanie Wehner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030402 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Ion Crystal Transducer for Strong Coupling between Single Ions and Single Photons

L. Lamata, D. R. Leibrandt, I. L. Chuang, J. I. Cirac, M. D. Lukin, V. Vuletić, and S. F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030501 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Robust Preparation and Manipulation of Protected Qubits Using Time-Varying Hamiltonians

Thomas Coudreau, Benoît Douçot, Romain Dubessy, Daria Andreoli, and Perola Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030502 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Bringing Order through Disorder: Localization of Errors in Topological Quantum Memories

James R. Wootton and Jiannis K. Pachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030503 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Localization of Toric Code Defects

Cyril Stark, Lode Pollet, Ataç Imamoğlu, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030504 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Parallel Generation of Quadripartite Cluster Entanglement in the Optical Frequency Comb

Matthew Pysher, Yoshichika Miwa, Reihaneh Shahrokhshahi, Russell Bloomer, and Olivier Pfister

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030505 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Charge-State Conditional Operation of a Spin Qubit

I. van Weperen, B. D. Armstrong, E. A. Laird, J. Medford, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030506 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Field-Theoretic Method for the Virial Expansion

David B. Kaplan and Sichun Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030601 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Atomic Clocks with Suppressed Blackbody Radiation Shift

V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, M. V. Okhapkin, S. N. Bagayev, Chr. Tamm, E. Peik, N. Huntemann, T. E. Mehlstäubler, and F. Riehle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030801 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Compact Stars in Eddington Inspired Gravity

Paolo Pani, Vitor Cardoso, and Térence Delsate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 031101 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Weakly Turbulent Instability of Anti–de Sitter Spacetime

Piotr Bizoń and Andrzej Rostworowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 031102 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Chiral Magnetic Effect in Lattice QCD with a Chiral Chemical Potential

Arata Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 031601 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Search for a Very Light $C P$ -Odd Higgs Boson in Top Quark Decays from $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 031801 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Measurement of Spin Correlation in $t \bar{t}$ Production Using a Matrix Element Approach

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 032001 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Higher Harmonic Anisotropic Flow Measurements of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 2.76 TeV$

K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 032301 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Heavy Quark Energy Loss in High Multiplicity Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

Sascha Vogel, Pol Bernard Gossiaux, Klaus Werner, and Jörg Aichelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 032302 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Quenching of Spectroscopic Factors for Proton Removal in Oxygen Isotopes

Ø. Jensen, G. Hagen, M. Hjorth-Jensen, B. Alex Brown, and A. Gade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 032501 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling of Charge-Changing Interaction Cross Sections and Point-Proton Radii of Neutron-Rich Carbon Isotopes

T. Yamaguchi, I. Hachiuma, A. Kitagawa, K. Namihira, S. Sato, T. Suzuki, I. Tanihata, and M. Fukuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 032502 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

$K$ -Shell X-Ray Spectroscopy of Atomic Nitrogen

M. M. Sant’Anna, A. S. Schlachter, G. Öhrwall, W. C. Stolte, D. W. Lindle, and B. M. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033001 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Compression of Positron Clouds in the Independent Particle Regime

C. A. Isaac, C. J. Baker, T. Mortensen, D. P. van der Werf, and M. Charlton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033201 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Photoemission of Positronium from Si

D. B. Cassidy, T. H. Hisakado, H. W. K. Tom, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033401 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Time-Reversed Optical Parametric Oscillation

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033901 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Experimental Observation of Quantum Talbot Effects

Xin-Bing Song, Hai-Bo Wang, Jun Xiong, Kaige Wang, Xiangdong Zhang, Kai-Hong Luo, and Ling-An Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033902 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Spectrally Resolved Maker Fringes in High-Order Harmonic Generation

C. M. Heyl, J. Güdde, U. Höfer, and A. L’Huillier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033903 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy of Magnetic Structures

Joshua J. Turner, Xiaojing Huang, Oleg Krupin, Keoki A. Seu, Daniel Parks, Stephen Kevan, Enju Lima, Kim Kisslinger, Ian McNulty, Richard Gambino, Stephane Mangin, Sujoy Roy, and Peter Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033904 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Network Reconstruction from Random Phase Resetting

Zoran Levnajić and Arkady Pikovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 034101 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Robustness of Optimal Synchronization in Real Networks

Bhargava Ravoori, Adam B. Cohen, Jie Sun, Adilson E. Motter, Thomas E. Murphy, and Rajarshi Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 034102 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Digital Key for Chaos Communication Performing Time Delay Concealment

Romain Modeste Nguimdo, Pere Colet, Laurent Larger, and Luís Pesquera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 034103 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Nonstationary Wave Turbulence in an Elastic Plate

Benjamin Miquel and Nicolas Mordant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 034501 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Selective Spreading and Jetting of Electrically Driven Dielectric Films

Pilnam Kim, Camille Duprat, Scott S. H. Tsai, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 034502 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Extensive Scaling from Computational Homology and Karhunen-Loève Decomposition Analysis of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Experiments

Hüseyin Kurtuldu, Konstantin Mischaikow, and Michael F. Schatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 034503 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

All-Optical Cascaded Laser Wakefield Accelerator Using Ionization-Induced Injection

J. S. Liu, C. Q. Xia, W. T. Wang, H. Y. Lu, Ch. Wang, A. H. Deng, W. T. Li, H. Zhang, X. Y. Liang, Y. X. Leng, X. M. Lu, C. Wang, J. Z. Wang, K. Nakajima, R. X. Li, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035001 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Electron Energy Distribution of a Current-Free Double Layer: Druyvesteyn Theory and Experiments

Kazunori Takahashi, Christine Charles, Rod W. Boswell, and Tamiya Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035002 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Measurement of Peeling Mode Edge Current Profile Dynamics

M. W. Bongard, R. J. Fonck, C. C. Hegna, A. J. Redd, and D. J. Schlossberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035003 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Gyrokinetic Simulations of Solar Wind Turbulence from Ion to Electron Scales

G. G. Howes, J. M. TenBarge, W. Dorland, E. Quataert, A. A. Schekochihin, R. Numata, and T. Tatsuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035004 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Nonlinear Dispersion of Stationary Waves in Collisionless Plasmas

I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035005 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fusion Yield Enhancement in Magnetized Laser-Driven Implosions

P. Y. Chang, G. Fiksel, M. Hohenberger, J. P. Knauer, R. Betti, F. J. Marshall, D. D. Meyerhofer, F. H. Séguin, and R. D. Petrasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035006 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bosonic and Fermionic Dipoles on a Ring

Sascha Zöllner, G. M. Bruun, C. J. Pethick, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035301 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Mechanisms of Postsynthesis Doping of Boron Nitride Nanostructures with Carbon from First-Principles Simulations

Natalia Berseneva, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, and Risto M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035501 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Tuning the Limiting Thickness of a Thin Oxide Layer on Al(111) with Oxygen Gas Pressure

Na Cai, Guangwen Zhou, Kathrin Müller, and David E. Starr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035502 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Limits on Passivating Defects in Semiconductors: The Case of Si Edge Dislocations

Tzu-Liang Chan, D. West, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 035503 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Graphene on Ir(111): Physisorption with Chemical Modulation

Carsten Busse, Predrag Lazić, Rabie Djemour, Johann Coraux, Timm Gerber, Nicolae Atodiresei, Vasile Caciuc, Radovan Brako, Alpha T. N’Diaye, Stefan Blügel, Jörg Zegenhagen, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036101 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Stable Cation Inversion at the ${MgAl}_{2} O_{4} (100)$ Surface

Morten K. Rasmussen, Adam S. Foster, Berit Hinnemann, Filippo F. Canova, Stig Helveg, Kristoffer Meinander, Natalia M. Martin, Jan Knudsen, Alina Vlad, Edvin Lundgren, Andreas Stierle, Flemming Besenbacher, and Jeppe V. Lauritsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036102 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Reversible Transition between Thermodynamically Stable Phases with Low Density of Oxygen Vacancies on the ${SrTiO}_{3} (110)$ Surface

Fengmiao Li, Zhiming Wang, Sheng Meng, Yongbao Sun, Jinlong Yang, Qinlin Guo, and Jiandong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036103 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Structural Comparison of $n$ -Type and $p$ -Type ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interfaces

Ryosuke Yamamoto, Christopher Bell, Yasuyuki Hikita, Harold Y. Hwang, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Kimura, and Yusuke Wakabayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036104 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Onset and Dynamics of Vortex-Antivortex Pairs in Polariton Optical Parametric Oscillator Superfluids

G. Tosi, F. M. Marchetti, D. Sanvitto, C. Antón, M. H. Szymańska, A. Berceanu, C. Tejedor, L. Marrucci, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, and L. Viña

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036401 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Symmetry of Valence States of Heusler Compounds Explored by Linear Dichroism in Hard-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Siham Ouardi, Gerhard H. Fecher, Xeniya Kozina, Gregory Stryganyuk, Benjamin Balke, Claudia Felser, Eiji Ikenaga, Takeharu Sugiyama, Naomi Kawamura, Motohiro Suzuki, and Keisuke Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036402 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Nonthermal Melting of a Charge Density Wave in ${TiSe}_{2}$

E. Möhr-Vorobeva, S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, U. Staub, R. De Souza, C. Milne, G. Ingold, J. Demsar, H. Schaefer, and A. Titov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036403 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Model Characterization of Gapless Edge Modes of Topological Insulators Using Intermediate Brillouin-Zone Functions

Lukasz Fidkowski, T. S. Jackson, and Israel Klich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036601 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Gate-Defined Graphene Quantum Point Contact in the Quantum Hall Regime

S. Nakaharai, J. R. Williams, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036602 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Majorana Edge States in Interacting One-Dimensional Systems

Suhas Gangadharaiah, Bernd Braunecker, Pascal Simon, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036801 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Passage from Spin-Polarized Surface States to Unpolarized Quantum Well States in Topologically Nontrivial Sb Films

G. Bian, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036802 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Neutral Fermion Excitations in the Moore-Read State at Filling Factor $ν = 5 / 2$

Gunnar Möller, Arkadiusz Wójs, and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036803 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Scattering Theory of Current-Induced Forces in Mesoscopic Systems

Niels Bode, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Reinhold Egger, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036804 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Characterizing Neutral Modes of Fractional States in the Second Landau Level

M. Dolev, Y. Gross, R. Sabo, I. Gurman, M. Heiblum, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036805 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Density of States and Interface Effects in Semimetallic ErAs Nanoparticles Embedded in GaAs

Jason K. Kawasaki, Rainer Timm, Kris T. Delaney, Edvin Lundgren, Anders Mikkelsen, and Chris J. Palmstrøm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036806 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Magneto-Raman Scattering of Graphene on Graphite: Electronic and Phonon Excitations

C. Faugeras, M. Amado, P. Kossacki, M. Orlita, M. Kühne, A. A. L. Nicolet, Yu. I. Latyshev, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036807 (2011) - Published 14 July, 2011

Magnetoresistance Oscillations of Superconducting Al-Film Cylinders Covering InAs Nanowires below the Quantum Critical Point

I. Sternfeld, E. Levy, M. Eshkol, A. Tsukernik, M. Karpovski, Hadas Shtrikman, A. Kretinin, and A. Palevski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 037001 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Non-Markovian Dynamics of Spectral Narrowing for Excitons in the Layered Semiconductor GaSe Observed Using Optical Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy

H. Tahara, Y. Ogawa, and F. Minami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 037402 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

Using the Near-Field Coupling of a Sharp Tip to Tune Fluorescence-Emission Fluctuations during Quantum-Dot Blinking

Eyal Shafran, Benjamin D. Mangum, and Jordan M. Gerton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 037403 (2011) - Published 13 July, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Chaos and Unpredictability in Evolutionary Dynamics in Discrete Time

Daniele Vilone, Alberto Robledo, and Angel Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 038101 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Separation: Interplay between the Soret Effect and Entropic Force Gradient

Yusuke T. Maeda, Axel Buguin, and Albert Libchaber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 038301 (2011) - Published 11 July, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Does Gravity Cause Load-Bearing Bridges in Colloidal and Granular Systems?

M. C. Jenkins, M. D. Haw, G. C. Barker, W. C. K. Poon, and S. U. Egelhaaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 038302 (2011) - Published 15 July, 2011

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Electrostatic Control of the Evolution from a Superconducting Phase to an Insulating Phase in Ultrathin ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - x}$ Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 027001 (2011)]

Xiang Leng, Javier Garcia-Barriocanal, Shameek Bose, Yeonbae Lee, and A. M. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 039901 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011

Erratum: Signature of Tetrahedral Ge in the Raman Spectrum of Amorphous Phase-Change Materials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 085503 (2010)]

Riccardo Mazzarello, Sebastiano Caravati, Stefano Angioletti-Uberti, Marco Bernasconi, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 039902 (2011) - Published 12 July, 2011