Volume 98, Issue 12

23 March 2007

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Micrograph of an on-chip optomechanical resonator with one of its calculated mechanical eigenmodes in the foreground. The mechanical mode and the optical mode are coupled via the centrifugal radiation pressure applied by the light circulating inside this photonic device.

From the article:

Modal Spectroscopy of Optoexcited Vibrations of a Micron-Scale On-Chip Resonator at Greater than 1 GHz Frequency
Tal Carmon and Kerry J. Vahala
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123901 (2007)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 121101 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

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Translations and Rotations Are Correlated in Granular Gases

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LETTERS

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

Measurement of Energy Eigenstates by a Slow Detector

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120401 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120403 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Secret Quantum Communication of a Reference Frame

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120501 (2007) - Published 19 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

NMR Experiment Factors Numbers with Gauss Sums

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120502 (2007) - Published 22 March, 2007

Modeling an Adiabatic Quantum Computer via an Exact Map to a Gas of Particles

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120503 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Entanglement Screening by Nonlinear Resonances

Ignacio García-Mata, André R. R. Carvalho, Florian Mintert, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120504 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Cluster Simulations of Loop Models on Two-Dimensional Lattices

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120601 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

TeV $γ$ Rays from Photodisintegration and Daughter Deexcitation of Cosmic-Ray Nuclei

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 121101 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Helically Symmetric $N$ -Particle Solutions in Scalar Gravity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 121102 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Dark Energy versus Modified Gravity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 121301 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 121801 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 122002 (2007) - Published 19 March, 2007

Mechanism of Near-Threshold Production of the $η$ Meson

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Nuclear Physics

${}^{12}C + {}^{12}C$ Fusion Reactions near the Gamow Energy

T. Spillane, F. Raiola, C. Rolfs, D. Schürmann, F. Strieder, S. Zeng, H.-W. Becker, C. Bordeanu, L. Gialanella, M. Romano, and J. Schweitzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 122501 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Coulomb Excitation of ${}^{68, 70}{Cu}$ : First Use of Postaccelerated Isomeric Beams

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 122701 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Direct XUV Probing of Attosecond Electron Recollision

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123001 (2007) - Published 20 March, 2007

Dynamics of Light-Field Control of Molecular Dissociation at the Few-Cycle Limit

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123002 (2007) - Published 22 March, 2007

Electron Collisions with Formic Acid Monomer and Dimer

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123201 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Anisotropic Explosions of Hydrogen Clusters under Intense Femtosecond Laser Irradiation

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Universal Approach to Optimal Photon Storage in Atomic Media

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123601 (2007) - Published 19 March, 2007

Dual-Species Matter Qubit Entangled with Light

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123602 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Modal Spectroscopy of Optoexcited Vibrations of a Micron-Scale On-Chip Resonator at Greater than 1 GHz Frequency

Tal Carmon and Kerry J. Vahala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123901 (2007) - Published 20 March, 2007

Enhanced Harmonic Generation from Expanding Clusters

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123902 (2007) - Published 20 March, 2007

Observation of Two-Dimensional Surface Solitons

Xiaosheng Wang, Anna Bezryadina, Zhigang Chen, K. G. Makris, D. N. Christodoulides, and G. I. Stegeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123903 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Probe of High-Order Harmonic Generation in a Hollow Waveguide Geometry using Counterpropagating Light

A. L. Lytle, X. Zhang, J. Peatross, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and O. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123904 (2007) - Published 23 March, 2007

Oscillations in Rapid Fracture

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 124301 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Oscillatory Instability in Two-Dimensional Dynamic Fracture

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 124302 (2007) - Published 21 March, 2007

Bubble Nucleation and Growth Anomaly for a Hydrophilic Microheater Attributed to Metastable Nanobubbles

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 124501 (2007) - Published 19 March, 2007

Hydrodynamics beyond Navier-Stokes: Exact Solution to the Lattice Boltzmann Hierarchy

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Quantum-Electrodynamical Photon Splitting in Magnetized Nonlinear Pair Plasmas

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 125001 (2007) - Published 20 March, 2007

Measurements of Energy Transport Patterns in Solid Density Laser Plasma Interactions at Intensities of $5 \times 10^{20} W {cm}^{- 2}$

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