Volume 107, Issue 9

26 August 2011

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On the Cover

Sketch of a frequency comb spectroscopy system, which detects an ion-specific absorption signal from transmitted light modified by a discharge tube, an etalon, and a grating that combine to resolve each tooth of the comb. (Figure courtesy B. Baxley (JILA).)

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Frequency Comb Velocity-Modulation Spectroscopy
Laura C. Sinclair, Kevin C. Cossel, Tyler Coffey, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093002 (2011)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Majorana Modes at the Ends of Superconductor Vortices in Doped Topological Insulators

Pavan Hosur, Pouyan Ghaemi, Roger S. K. Mong, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 097001 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Artificial Atoms Can Do More Than Atoms: Deterministic Single Photon Subtraction from Arbitrary Light Fields

Jens Honer, R. Löw, Hendrik Weimer, Tilman Pfau, and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093601 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

A. J. Minnich, J. A. Johnson, A. J. Schmidt, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. A. Nelson, and G. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095901 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Tunable Rashba Spin Splitting of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

P. D. C. King, R. C. Hatch, M. Bianchi, R. Ovsyannikov, C. Lupulescu, G. Landolt, B. Slomski, J. H. Dil, D. Guan, J. L. Mi, E. D. L. Rienks, J. Fink, A. Lindblad, S. Svensson, S. Bao, G. Balakrishnan, B. B. Iversen, J. Osterwalder, W. Eberhardt, F. Baumberger, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096802 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Dipolar Ordering and Quantum Phase Transition in an ${Fe}_{8}$ Molecular Magnet

E. Burzurí, F. Luis, B. Barbara, R. Ballou, E. Ressouche, O. Montero, J. Campo, and S. Maegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 097203 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

LETTERS

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

Violation of a Temporal Bell Inequality for Single Spins in a Diamond Defect Center

G. Waldherr, P. Neumann, S. F. Huelga, F. Jelezko, and J. Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090401 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Relativistic Three-Body Recombination with the QED Vacuum

Huayu Hu and Carsten Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090402 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Reduction of the Casimir Force from Indium Tin Oxide Film by UV Treatment

C.-C. Chang, A. A. Banishev, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko, and U. Mohideen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090403 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Entanglement and Decoherence: Fragile and Robust Entanglement

Jaroslav Novotný, Gernot Alber, and Igor Jex

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090501 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Impossibility of Growing Quantum Bit Commitments

Severin Winkler, Marco Tomamichel, Stefan Hengl, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090502 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Quantum Kinetic Theory of Collisionless Superfluid Internal Convection

Lukas Gilz and James R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 090601 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Fermi Gamma-Ray “Bubbles” from Stochastic Acceleration of Electrons

Philipp Mertsch and Subir Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091101 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Excluding Light Asymmetric Bosonic Dark Matter

Chris Kouvaris and Peter Tinyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091301 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Elementary Particles and Fields

Interquark Potential with Finite Quark Mass from Lattice QCD

Taichi Kawanai and Shoichi Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091601 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Kink-Antikink Collisions in the $ϕ^{6}$ Model

Patrick Dorey, Kieran Mersh, Tomasz Romanczukiewicz, and Yasha Shnir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091602 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Are There Sterile Neutrinos at the eV Scale?

Joachim Kopp, Michele Maltoni, and Thomas Schwetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091801 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Measurement of the $t$ -Channel Single Top Quark Production Cross Section in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV$

S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091802 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Observation of $X (3872) \to J / ψ γ$ and Search for $X (3872) \to ψ^{'} γ$ in $B$ Decays

V. Bhardwaj et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091803 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

$P$ and $T$ Violating Form Factors of the Deuteron

J. de Vries, E. Mereghetti, R. G. E. Timmermans, and U. van Kolck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 091804 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Observation of $χ_{c 1}$ Decays into Vector Meson Pairs $ϕ ϕ$ , $ω ω$ , and $ω ϕ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 092001 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Searching for Anomalous Top Quark Production at the Early LHC

Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li, Li Lin Yang, and Hao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 092002 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Charmonium Spectra at Finite Temperature from QCD Sum Rules with the Maximum Entropy Method

Philipp Gubler, Kenji Morita, and Makoto Oka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 092003 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Mass of the $H$ Dibaryon

P. E. Shanahan, A. W. Thomas, and R. D. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 092004 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Nuclear Physics

Calculation of the Transition from Pairing Vibrational to Pairing Rotational Regimes between Magic Nuclei ${}^{100}{Sn}$ and ${}^{132}{Sn}$ via Two-Nucleon Transfer Reactions

G. Potel, F. Barranco, F. Marini, A. Idini, E. Vigezzi, and R. A. Broglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 092501 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Near-Barrier Fusion of the ${}^{8}B + {}^{58}{Ni}$ Proton-Halo System

E. F. Aguilera et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 092701 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Optical Excitation and Decay Dynamics of Ytterbium Atoms Embedded in a Solid Neon Matrix

C.-Y. Xu (徐晨昱), S.-M. Hu (胡水明), J. Singh, K. Bailey, Z.-T. Lu (卢征天), P. Mueller, T. P. O’Connor, and U. Welp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093001 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Frequency Comb Velocity-Modulation Spectroscopy

Laura C. Sinclair, Kevin C. Cossel, Tyler Coffey, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093002 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Rydberg Spectroscopy in an Optical Lattice: Blackbody Thermometry for Atomic Clocks

Vitali D. Ovsiannikov, Andrei Derevianko, and Kurt Gibble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093003 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Probing the Spatial Structure of a Molecular Attosecond Electron Wave Packet Using Shaped Recollision Trajectories

Hiromichi Niikura, Hans Jakob Wörner, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093004 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Attosecond Two-Photon Interferometry for Doubly Excited States of Helium

J. Feist, S. Nagele, C. Ticknor, B. I. Schneider, L. A. Collins, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093005 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Charge Transfer of Rydberg H Atoms at a Metal Surface

E. So, M. Dethlefsen, M. Ford, and T. P. Softley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093201 (2011) - Published 22 August, 2011

Relativistic and Close-Coupling Effects in the Spin Polarization of Low-Energy Electrons Scattered Elastically from Cadmium

Christopher J. Bostock, Michael J. Berrington, Dmitry V. Fursa, and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093202 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Artificial Atoms Can Do More Than Atoms: Deterministic Single Photon Subtraction from Arbitrary Light Fields

Jens Honer, R. Löw, Hendrik Weimer, Tilman Pfau, and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093601 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Lasing without Inversion in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

M. Marthaler, Y. Utsumi, D. S. Golubev, A. Shnirman, and Gerd Schön

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093901 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Light Funneling Mechanism Explained by Magnetoelectric Interference

Fabrice Pardo, Patrick Bouchon, Riad Haïdar, and Jean-Luc Pelouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093902 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Superluminal Propagation at Negative Group Velocity in Optical Fibers Based on Brillouin Lasing Oscillation

Liang Zhang (张亮), Li Zhan (詹黎), Kai Qian (钱楷), Jinmei Liu (刘金梅), Qishun Shen (沈启舜), Xiao Hu (胡晓), and Shouyu Luo (罗售余)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 093903 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Noise and Synchronization of a Single Active Colloid

Nicolas Bruot, Loïc Damet, Jurij Kotar, Pietro Cicuta, and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 094101 (2011) - Published 24 August, 2011

Plasma and Beam Physics

Forces on a Small Grain in the Nonlinear Plasma Wake of Another

I. H. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095001 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Nonaxisymmetric Anisotropy of Solar Wind Turbulence

A. J. Turner, G. Gogoberidze, S. C. Chapman, B. Hnat, and W.-C. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095002 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Generation and Amplification of Magnetic Islands by Drift Interchange Turbulence

M. Muraglia, O. Agullo, S. Benkadda, M. Yagi, X. Garbet, and A. Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095003 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Generation of High-Density Electrons Based on Plasma Grating Induced Bragg Diffraction in Air

Liping Shi, Wenxue Li, Yongdong Wang, Xin Lu, Liang’en Ding, and Heping Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095004 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Photon-Assisted Tunneling in a Biased Strongly Correlated Bose Gas

Ruichao Ma, M. Eric Tai, Philipp M. Preiss, Waseem S. Bakr, Jonathan Simon, and Markus Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095301 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Variable Dislocation Widths in Colloidal Crystals of Soft Thermosensitive Spheres

J. Hilhorst and A. V. Petukhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095501 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Mode-Selected Electron-Phonon Coupling in Superconducting Pb Nanofilms Determined from He Atom Scattering

I. Yu. Sklyadneva, G. Benedek, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen, and J. P. Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095502 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Liquid and Glassy Glycerol: Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Permittivity and Dielectric Polarization Fluctuation Measurements

J. Schindele, A. Reiser, and C. Enss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095701 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

A. J. Minnich, J. A. Johnson, A. J. Schmidt, K. Esfarjani, M. S. Dresselhaus, K. A. Nelson, and G. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 095901 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Pseudoelastic Deformation during Nanoscale Adhesive Contact Formation

Dan Mordehai, Eugen Rabkin, and David J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096101 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Antiferromagnetic Order in Pauli-Limited Unconventional Superconductors

Yasuyuki Kato, C. D. Batista, and I. Vekhter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096401 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Giant Spin-Hall Effect Induced by the Zeeman Interaction in Graphene

D. A. Abanin, R. V. Gorbachev, K. S. Novoselov, A. K. Geim, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096601 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

Current Correlations in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators

Thomas L. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096602 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Chiral Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Metallic Nanowires

Shunping Zhang, Hong Wei, Kui Bao, Ulf Håkanson, Naomi J. Halas, Peter Nordlander, and Hongxing Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096801 (2011) - Published 23 August, 2011

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Tunable Rashba Spin Splitting of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 096802 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Excitations in the Low-Temperature Ferroelectric Phase of Multiferroic ${YMn}_{2} O_{5}$ Using Inelastic Neutron Scattering

J.-H. Kim, M. A. van der Vegte, A. Scaramucci, S. Artyukhin, J.-H. Chung, S. Park, S-W. Cheong, M. Mostovoy, and S.-H. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 097401 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Polar Kerr Effect and Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Bilayer Graphene

Rahul Nandkishore and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 097402 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Single-Photon Optomechanics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 063602 (2011)]

A. Nunnenkamp, K. Børkje, and S. M. Girvin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 099901 (2011) - Published 25 August, 2011

Publisher’s Note: Band Structures of Bilayer Graphene Superlattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 086801 (2011)]

Matthew Killi, Si Wu, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 099902 (2011) - Published 26 August, 2011

Volume 107, Issue 9

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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