Volume 97, Issue 15

13 October 2006

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Calculated Wigner function for a single-mode squeezed state, with added phase fluctuations giving rise to the figure-eight shape of the outer contours. Experiments verify that such states can be purified by mixing two of them.

From the article:

Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Variable Purification of Squeezed States
Alexander Franzen, Boris Hage, James DiGuglielmo, Jaromír Fiurás̆ek, and Roman Schnabel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150505 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Unitary Quantum Three-Body Problem in a Harmonic Trap

Félix Werner and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150401 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Adiabatic Mach-Zehnder Interferometry on a Quantized Bose-Josephson Junction

Chaohong Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150402 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Macroscopic Entanglement by Entanglement Swapping

Stefano Pirandola, David Vitali, Paolo Tombesi, and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150403 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

General Entanglement Scaling Laws from Time Evolution

Jens Eisert and Tobias J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150404 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Spin Correlations of Strongly Interacting Massive Fermion Pairs as a Test of Bell’s Inequality

H. Sakai, T. Saito, T. Ikeda, K. Itoh, T. Kawabata, H. Kuboki, Y. Maeda, N. Matsui, C. Rangacharyulu, M. Sasano, Y. Satou, K. Sekiguchi, K. Suda, A. Tamii, T. Uesaka, and K. Yako

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150405 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Semiclassical Structure of Chaotic Resonance Eigenfunctions

J. P. Keating, M. Novaes, S. D. Prado, and M. Sieber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150406 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Enhanced Convergence and Robust Performance of Randomized Dynamical Decoupling

Lea F. Santos and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150501 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Coherent Quasiclassical Dynamics of a Persistent Current Qubit

D. M. Berns, W. D. Oliver, S. O. Valenzuela, A. V. Shytov, K. K. Berggren, L. S. Levitov, and T. P. Orlando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150502 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Reduced Decoherence in Large Quantum Registers

Hans Georg Krojanski and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150503 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Universal Resources for Measurement-Based Quantum Computation

Maarten Van den Nest, Akimasa Miyake, Wolfgang Dür, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150504 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Variable Purification of Squeezed States

Alexander Franzen, Boris Hage, James DiGuglielmo, Jaromír Fiurás̆ek, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150505 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Sloppy-Model Universality Class and the Vandermonde Matrix

Joshua J. Waterfall, Fergal P. Casey, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Kevin S. Brown, Christopher R. Myers, Piet W. Brouwer, Veit Elser, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150601 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Prospects for Direct Detection of the Circular Polarization of the Gravitational-Wave Background

Naoki Seto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151101 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Strongly Coupled Chameleon Fields: New Horizons in Scalar Field Theory

David F. Mota and Douglas J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151102 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Interferometers for Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection

Yanbei Chen, Archana Pai, Kentaro Somiya, Seiji Kawamura, Shuichi Sato, Keiko Kokeyama, Robert L. Ward, Keisuke Goda, and Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151103 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Graviton Propagator from Background-Independent Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151301 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

$p$ -adic String Theories Provide Lattice Discretization to the Ordinary String Worldsheet

Debashis Ghoshal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151601 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Constraining the Phase of $B_{s} − {\bar{B}}_{s}$ Mixing

Yuval Grossman, Yosef Nir, and Guy Raz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151801 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Compatibility of Cast Search with Axionlike Interpretation of PVLAS Results

Eduard Massó and Javier Redondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151802 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Constraints on New Physics from the Quark Mixing Unitarity Triangle

M. Bona, M. Ciuchini, E. Franco, V. Lubicz, G. Martinelli, F. Parodi, M. Pierini, P. Roudeau, C. Schiavi, L. Silvestrini, A. Stocchi, and V. Vagnoni (UTfit Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151803 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production $W H \to W W W^{*} \to l^{\pm} ν l^{' \pm} ν^{'} + X$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 151804 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Identified Baryon and Meson Distributions at Large Transverse Momenta from $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 152301 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Forward Neutral Pion Production in $p + p$ and $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 152302 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Strongly Interacting Low-Viscosity Matter Created in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Laszlo P. Csernai, Joseph I. Kapusta, and Larry D. McLerran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 152303 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Observation of ${}^{54}{Ni}$ : Cross-Conjugate Symmetry in $f_{7 / 2}$ Mirror Energy Differences

A. Gadea et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 152501 (2006) - Published 10 October, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Evidence For The Production Of Slow Antiprotonic Hydrogen In Vacuum

N. Zurlo et al. (ATHENA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 153401 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Excimer Laser Pumped by an Intense, High-Energy Heavy-Ion Beam

A. Ulrich, A. Adonin, J. Jacoby, V. Turtikov, D. Fernengel, A. Fertman, A. Golubev, D. H. H. Hoffmann, A. Hug, R. Krücken, M. Kulish, J. Menzel, A. Morozov, P. Ni, D. N. Nikolaev, N. S. Shilkin, V. Ya. Ternovoi, S. Udrea, D. Varentsov, and J. Wieser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 153901 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Optical Pulse Compression of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in an Argon-Filled Planar Waveguide

Muhammad Nurhuda, Akira Suda, Samuel Bohman, Shigeru Yamaguchi, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 153902 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Two-Color Vector Solitons In Nonlocal Media

Alessandro Alberucci, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto, Andriy Dyadyusha, and Malgosia Kaczmarek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 153903 (2006) - Published 12 October, 2006

Interferometric Autocorrelation of an Attosecond Pulse Train in the Single-Cycle Regime

Yasuo Nabekawa, Toshihiko Shimizu, Tomoya Okino, Kentaro Furusawa, Hirokazu Hasegawa, Kaoru Yamanouchi, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 153904 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Single-Particle Diffraction and Interference at a Macroscopic Scale

Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 154101 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Periodic Microfluidic Bubbling Oscillator: Insight into the Stability of Two-Phase Microflows

Jan-Paul Raven and Philippe Marmottant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 154501 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Formation of a Direct Kolmogorov-Like Cascade of Second-Sound Waves in He II

G. V. Kolmakov, V. B. Efimov, A. N. Ganshin, P. V. E. McClintock, and L. P. Mezhov-Deglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155301 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Structure and Energetics of Molecular Point Defects in Ice $I_{h}$

Maurice de Koning, Alex Antonelli, Antonio J. R. da Silva, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155501 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006

Decorated, Tapered, and Highly Nonlinear Granular Chain

Robert Doney and Surajit Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155502 (2006) - Published 11 October, 2006

Systematic Method to New Phases of Polymeric Nitrogen under High Pressure

F. Zahariev, S. V. Dudiy, J. Hooper, F. Zhang, and T. K. Woo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155503 (2006) - Published 13 October, 2006

Large Melting-Point Hysteresis of Ge Nanocrystals Embedded in ${SiO}_{2}$

Q. Xu, I. D. Sharp, C. W. Yuan, D. O. Yi, C. Y. Liao, A. M. Glaeser, A. M. Minor, J. W. Beeman, M. C. Ridgway, P. Kluth, J. W. Ager, III, D. C. Chrzan, and E. E. Haller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155701 (2006) - Published 9 October, 2006