http://prl.aps.org/ Accepted Papers for Physical Review Letters en-us Copyright (c) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-07T07:05:05-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-07T07:05:05-05:00 rss@aps.org http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/b7075Y79R5b10428a4e79a048879a3fc85d56fd74 We experimentally characterize the bipartite entanglement under one-sided open system dynamics and verify the recently formulated entanglement factorization law [Nature Phys., 4, 99 (2008)]. The one-sided open system dynamics is realized by implementing a phase damping and an amplitude decay channel... Jin Xu Shi, Chu Lian Feng, Xia Xuo Ye, ChengHao Shi, XuBo Zou and GuangCan Guo 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/8f079Y25S211af22a4ce8437ab36bc88e77a33a2f Single photon sources can greatly benefit from specially designed structures that modify the properties of the photon emitter. Dielectric cavities are often discussed, but they require a compromise between spectral width and Purcell factor. In this letter, we introduce plasmonic cavities as promisin... R. Esteban, T. V. Teperik and J. J. Greffet 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/ac074Y0bQ2611323876a788570a825fdcb7aeaa8e Fully differential data for H2-dissociation in ultra-short (6 fs,760nm), linearly polarized, intense (0.44 PW/cm2) laser pulses with stabilized carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) were recorded with a reaction microscope. Depending on the CEP, the molecular orientation, and the kinetic energy release (KER)... Manuel Kremer, Bettina Fischer, Bernold Feuerstein, Vit de Jesusor L. B., Vandana Sharma, Christian Hofrichter, Artem Rudenko, Uwe Thumm, Claus Dieter Schroter, Robert Moshammer and Joachim Ullrich 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/9d073Y83U981d81cd90a946116fe15f9f0443276c We provide a feasible necessary and sufficient condition for when an unknown quantum operation (quantum device) secretely selected from a set of known quantum operations can be identified perfectly within a finite number of queries, and thus complete the characterization of the perfect distinguishab... Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng and Mingsheng Ying 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/8207cYd8T7b1ad2ed01080b6eb728df639e33da77 At low temperature, a quasi-one-dimensional ensemble of atoms with attractive interaction forms a bright soliton. When exposed to a weak and smooth external potential, the shape of the soliton is hardly modified, but its center-of-mass motion is affected. We show that in a spatially correlated disor... Krzysztof Sacha, Cord A. Muller, Dominique Delande and Jakub Zakrzewski 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/c5079Y21S4911e1ad9bc7ce092e917ceb6b0e824d In typical epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) the ideally degenerate optical excitons are energy split, preventing the formation of two-photon entanglement in a biexciton decay. We use an external field, here a continuous-wave laser tuned to the QD in the AC Stark limit, to cancel the splitting and create... Andreas Muller, Wei Fang, John Lawall and Glenn S. Solomon 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/9e078Y09Uad1fd2b114e694397ac531ce943602b5 Considering the non-Newtonian gravity proposed in the grand unification theories, we show that the stability and observed global properties of neutron stars can not rule out the super-soft nuclear symmetry energies at supra-saturation densities. The degree of possible violation of the Inverse-Square... DeHua Wen, Bao Li An and LieWen Chen 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Gravitation and Astrophysics Gravitation and Astrophysics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/bf07dYc0W421001dd71023851205e6371dc911a5a We report experiments that probe self-assembly of micrometer-size colloids into one-particle-thick, robust, and self-healing membranes. In a magic-angle precessing magnetic field, superparamagnetic spheres experience isotropic pair attraction similar to the van der Waals force between atoms. But the... N. Osterman, I. Poberaj, J. Dobnikar, D. Frenkel, P. Ziherl and D. Babic 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/98073Y13Uc21ae2936993506f928f0982aed81d49 We present the first fully kinetic, collisional, and electromagnetic simulations of the complete time evolution of a deuterium gas-puff z-pinch. Recent experiments with 15-MA current pinches have suggested that the dominant neutron-production mechanism is thermonuclear. We observe distinct differenc... D. R. Welch, D. V. Rose, R. E. Clark, C. B. Mostrom, W. A. Stygar and R. J. Leeper 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/0d07dYb6S7014026c0bc79022e47f46764ed1c1c5 A scheme for producing nearly single-cycle relativistic laser pulses is proposed. When a laser pulse interacts with an overdense thin foil, because of self-consistent nonlinear modulation the latter will be more transparent to the more-intense part of the laser, so that a transmitted pulse can be mu... L.L Ji., B. F. Shen, X. M. Zhang, F. C. Wang, Z. Y. Jin, C. Q. Xia, M. Wen, W. P. Wang, J.C Xu. and M.Y Yu. 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/8207aYccW5018c1c882c7992e475489d1cf959c34 We present theory and experiment for the task of discriminating two nonorthogonal states, given multiple copies. We implement several local measurement schemes, on both pure states and states mixed by depolarizing noise. We find that schemes which, without noise, are optimal (or have optimal scaling... B. L. Higgins, B. M. Booth, A. C. Doherty, S. D. Bartlett, H. M. Wiseman and G. J. Pryde 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/f607aY94U711ea28c2551981b67ac203d70f9d325 The charge dynamics of hydrogen-like centers in semi-insulating GaAs have been studied by muon spin resonance in the presence of electric field and RF excitation. Electric-field-enhanced neutralization of deep electron and hole traps by track-induced hot carriers results in an increase of the excess... D. G. Eshchenko, V. G. Storchak, S. P. Cottrell and E. Morenzoni 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/8c07dYf3Qb61661a487d4793819075c737baff9c0 We report on a new method to determine the degree of bulk spin polarization in single crystal Co(1-x)FexS2, by modeling magnetic Compton scattering with ab initio calculations. Spin-dependent Compton profiles were measured for CoS2 and Co0.9Fe0.1S2, along four and three different crystallographic di... C. Utfeld, S. R. Giblin, J. W. Taylor, J. A. Duffy, C. Shenton Taylor, J. Laverock, S. B. Dugdale, M. Manno, C. Leighton, M. Itou and Y. Sakurai 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/b5070Y09Wb71f715986e9124606d978eb97ee5005 The nonlinear wave pattern generated by a localized pressure source moving over a liquid free surface at speeds below the minimum phase speed (cmin) of linear gravity-capillary waves is investigated experimentally and theoretically. At these speeds, freely propagating fully localized solitary waves,... James Diorio, Yeunwoo Cho, James H. Duncan and T. R. Akylas 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/f3075Y60U741172d06530b49e7f240c2c27571dc1 We propose a new low-energy theory for itinerant fermions near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. We show that the full low-energy model includes, in addition to conventional interaction via spin fluctuations, another type of interaction, whose presence is crucial for the theory to satisfy SU(2... Andrey V. Chubukov and Dmitrii L. Maslov 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/d1071YacS891d12491dc0f289ab468736a30f6b2f The choice of impedance used to shunt a Josephson junction determines if the charge transferred through the circuit is quantized: a capacitive shunt renders the charge discrete, whereas an inductive shunt leads to continuous charge. This discrepancy leads to a paradox in the limit of large inductanc... Jens Koch, V. Manucharyan, M. H. Devoret and L. I. Glazman 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/ca07bY73T4c1ca30303c1686b414ff6f451f13011 Quantum states inevitably decay with time into a probabilistic mixture of classical states, due to their interaction with the environment and measurement instrumentation. We present the first measurement of the decoherence dynamics of complex photon states in a condensed-matter system. By controllab... H. Wang, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, R. C. Bialczak, E. Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. OConnell, D. Sank, M. Weides, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland and John M. Martinis 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/99073Y33U6e18928306571126d644e3c5a9259d35 The expectation values of field operators are basic quantities of any interacting quantum theory, both for theoretical and experimental reasons. We present a novel method to compute, at zero and finite temperature, expectation values in the Lieb-Liniger model. These quantities, relevant in the physi... M. Kormos, G. Mussardo and A. Trombettoni 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/d007fY56S5014b26d60a4730cf46e2ddaa9cfda0d An outstanding question regarding the probing or possible device applications of correlated electronic materials (CEMs) with layered structure is the extent to which their bulk and surface properties differ or not. The broken translational symmetry at the surface can lead to distinct functionality d... V. B. Nascimento, J. W. Freeland, R. Saniz, R. G. Moore, D. Mazur, H. Liu, M. H. Pan, J. Rundgren, K. E. Gray, R. A. Rosenberg, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, A. J. Freeman, K. Veltruska and E. W. Plummer 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/f0070Ye4U661be1ac9fc0124b18c7b336ab2ef33e Electrons hopping on the sites of a three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice are shown to form topologically non-trivial insulating phases when the spin-orbit (SO) coupling and lattice distortions are present. Of 16 possible topological classes 9 are realized for various parameters in this model. Specif... H. M. Guo and M. Franz 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/3207bY15S9c13622b3661b75a7748a8fd465c3863 Optical manipulation of spin coherence in rubidium atoms is studied. The effect of off-resonant and circularly polarized light on optically induced magnetization is investigated. The change in precession frequency caused by the light-shift effect is verified. Absorption-free phase control of spin pr... T. Moriyasu, D. Nomoto, Y. Koyama, Y. Fukuda and T. Kohmoto 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/b307cYedT5719725926062c8cfa71a4b897ac0264 It is shown that a homogeneous two-component Fermi gas with (long range) dipolar and short-range isotropic interactions has a ferro-nematic phase for suitable values of the dipolar and short-range coupling constants. The ferro-nematic phase is characterized by having a non-zero magnetization and lon... Benjamin M. Fregoso and Eduardo Fradkin 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/db077Y20W801681c29c26d041d6cc15c6a0384f28 Parity-odd domains, corresponding to non-trivial topological solutions of the QCD vacuum, might be created during relativistic heavy-ion collisions. These domains are predicted to lead to charge separation of quarks along the system's orbital momentum axis. We investigate a three particle azimuthal ... B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A. V. Alakhverdyants, B. D. Anderson, D. Arkhipkin, G. S. Averichev, J. Balewski, O. Barannikova, L. S. Barnby, S. Baumgart, D. R. Beavis, R. Bellwied, F. Benedosso, M. J. Betancourt, R. R. Betts, A. Bhasin, A. K. Bhati, H. Bichsel, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, B. Biritz, L. C. Bland and I. Bnzarov 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Elementary Particles and Fields Elementary Particles and Fields http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/c207bY3dQf816919684f47d5d2195d620d388ca34 We present a feedback scheme to produce quantum non-Gaussian states from linear optical elements. Instead of traditional additive control methods, we introduce a mutiplicative feedback control and apply it to the deterministic generation of quantum superposition states. The protocol of feedback cont... Masahiro Yanagisawa 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics http://prl.aps.org/accepted/L/2007fYe2Ua11292530cb047950f0fdee09d77eeb0 We investigate the collisional stability of a sample of 40K atoms immersed in a tunable spin mixture of 6Li atoms. In this three-component Fermi-Fermi mixture, we find very low loss rates in a wide range of interactions as long as molecule formation of 6Li is avoided. The stable fermionic mixture wi... F. M. Spiegelhalder, A. Trenkwalder, D. Naik, G. Hendl, F. Schreck and R. Grimm 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited article Physical Review Letters Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics