http://prl.aps.org/ Physical Review Letters Editors' Suggestions (by suggesting a few manuscripts each week, we hope to promote reading across fields of physics) en-us Copyright (c) 2007, The American Physical Society 2008-04-29T02:30:10-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2008-04-29T02:30:10-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e177201 Author(s): M. Möttönen, J. J. Vartiainen, and J. P. Pekola<br/>We present the first measurements of the Berry phase in a superconducting Cooper pair pump. A fixed amount of Berry phase is accumulated to the quantum-mechanical ground state in each adiabatic pumping cycle, which is determined by measuring the charge passing through the device. The dynamic and ge...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177201] Published Mon Apr 28, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177201 Mikko Möttönen Juha J. Vartiainen Jukka P. Pekola 2008-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.177201 text/html article 17 100 2008-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 177201 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-11-07T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e166101 Author(s): T. Kumagai et al.<br/>The dynamics of water dimers was investigated at the single-molecule level by using a scanning tunneling microscope. The two molecules in a water dimer, bound on a Cu(110) surface at 6 K, were observed to exchange their roles as hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor via hydrogen-bond rearrangement. The ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166101] Published Thu Apr 24, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166101 T. Kumagai M. Kaizu S. Hatta H. Okuyama T. Aruga et al. 2008-04-24T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.166101 text/html article 16 100 2008-04-24T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 166101 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. abstract 2008-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e168301 Author(s): E. Grelet<br/>We report a study of colloidal suspensions of highly monodisperse semiflexible chiral rodlike viruses, denoted fd, in the range of high concentrations. Small angle x-ray scattering experiments reveal the existence of two hexagonal phases: the first one is crystalline and the second one is hexatic c...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 168301] Published Thu Apr 24, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 168301 Eric Grelet 2008-04-24T00:00:00-05:00 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.168301 text/html article 16 100 2008-04-24T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 168301 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics abstract 2007-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e155504 Author(s): M. Harb et al.<br/>The excitation of a high density of carriers in semiconductors can induce an order-to-disorder phase transition due to changes in the potential-energy landscape of the lattice. We report the first direct resolution of the structural details of this phenomenon in freestanding films of polycrystallin...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155504] Published Fri Apr 18, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155504 Maher Harb Ralph Ernstorfer Christoph T. Hebeisen Germán Sciaini Weina Peng et al. 2008-04-18T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.155504 text/html article 15 100 2008-04-18T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 155504 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. abstract 2007-12-19T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e157001 Author(s): Y. Nakajima, T. Nakagawa, T. Tamegai, and H. Harima<br/>We report low-temperature specific-heat studies on the single-crystalline ternary-iron silicide superconductor Lu_{2}Fe_{3}Si_{5} with T_{c}=6.1  K down to ∼T_{c}/20. We confirm a reduced normalized jump in specific heat at T_{c}, and find that the specific heat divided by temperature C/T shows a s...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 157001] Published Tue Apr 15, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 157001 Y. Nakajima T. Nakagawa T. Tamegai H. Harima 2008-04-15T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.157001 text/html article 15 100 2008-04-15T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 157001 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e141301 Author(s): M. Maggiore<br/>When a classical black hole is perturbed, its relaxation is governed by a set of quasinormal modes with complex frequencies ω=ω_{R}+iω_{I}. We show that this behavior is the same as that of damped harmonic oscillators whose real frequencies are (ω_{R}^{2}+ω_{I}^{2})^{1/2}, rather than simply ω_{R}....<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 141301] Published Tue Apr 08, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 141301 Michele Maggiore 2008-04-08T00:00:00-05:00 Gravitation and Astrophysics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.141301 text/html article 14 100 2008-04-08T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 141301 Gravitation and Astrophysics abstract 2007-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e145502 Author(s): Y. Tanaka et al.<br/>Enantiomers, or stereoisomers, have crystal structures that are mirror images of each other and are thus handed, like our right and left hands. The physical properties of enantiomers are identical except for optical activity, which rotates linearly polarized light by equal amounts but in opposite d...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145502] Published Tue Apr 08, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 145502 Yoshikazu Tanaka Tomoyuki Takeuchi Stephen W. Lovesey Kevin S. Knight Ashish Chainani et al. 2008-04-08T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.145502 text/html article 14 100 2008-04-08T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 145502 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. abstract 2007-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e138101 Author(s): A. Pifferi et al.<br/>We demonstrate the feasibility of time-resolved diffuse reflectance measurements at small source-detector separations using a single-photon avalanche diode operated in time-gated mode. Photon time distributions at an interfiber distance of 2 mm were obtained on a homogeneous tissue phantom with a d...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 138101] Published Mon Mar 31, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 138101 Antonio Pifferi Alessandro Torricelli Lorenzo Spinelli Davide Contini Rinaldo Cubeddu et al. 2008-03-31T00:00:00-05:00 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.138101 text/html article 13 100 2008-03-31T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 138101 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics abstract 2007-07-27T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e134501 Author(s): A. Steinberger, C. Cottin-Bizonne, P. Kleimann, and E. Charlaix<br/>We present an experimental study of the elastic properties of a superhydrophobic surface in the Cassie regime, due to the gas bubbles trapped at the liquid-solid interface. We use a surface force apparatus to measure the force response to an oscillating drainage flow between a sphere and the surfac...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134501] Published Mon Mar 31, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134501 A. Steinberger C. Cottin-Bizonne P. Kleimann E. Charlaix 2008-03-31T00:00:00-05:00 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.134501 text/html article 13 100 2008-03-31T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 134501 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. abstract 2007-06-12T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e121801 Author(s): J. Wicht et al. (Belle Collaboration)<br/>We search for the radiative penguin decays B_{s}^{0}→ϕγ and B_{s}^{0}→γγ in a 23.6  fb^{-1} data sample collected at the Υ(5S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e^{+}e^{-} asymmetric-energy collider. We observe for the first time a radiative penguin decay of the B_{s}^{0} meson in the B...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 121801] Published Wed Mar 26, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 121801 J. Wicht I. Adachi H. Aihara K. Arinstein V. Aulchenko et al. 2008-03-26T00:00:00-05:00 Elementary Particles and Fields 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.121801 text/html article 12 100 2008-03-26T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 121801 Elementary Particles and Fields abstract 2007-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e120801 Author(s): D. Hanneke, S. Fogwell, and G. Gabrielse<br/>A measurement using a one-electron quantum cyclotron gives the electron magnetic moment in Bohr magnetons, g/2=1.001 159 652 180 73 (28) [0.28 ppt], with an uncertainty 2.7 and 15 times smaller than for previous measurements in 2006 and 1987. The electron is used as a magnetometer to allow line sha...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 120801] Published Wed Mar 26, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 120801 D. Hanneke S. Fogwell G. Gabrielse 2008-03-26T00:00:00-05:00 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.120801 text/html article 12 100 2008-03-26T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 120801 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. abstract 2008-01-04T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e112001 Author(s): K.-F. Chen et al. (Belle Collaboration)<br/>We report the first observation of e^{+}e^{-}→Υ(1S)π^{+}π^{-}, Υ(2S)π^{+}π^{-}, and first evidence for e^{+}e^{-}→Υ(3S)π^{+}π^{-}, Υ(1S)K^{+}K^{-}, near the peak of the Υ(5S) resonance at sqrt[s]∼10.87  GeV. The results are based on a data sample of 21.7  fb^{-1} collected with the Belle detector a...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 112001] Published Mon Mar 17, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 112001 K.-F. Chen W.-S. Hou M. Shapkin A. Sokolov I. Adachi et al. 2008-03-17T00:00:00-05:00 Elementary Particles and Fields 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.112001 text/html article 11 100 2008-03-17T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 112001 Elementary Particles and Fields abstract 2007-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e110501 Author(s): M. Van den Nest, W. Dür, and H. J. Briegel<br/>We prove that the 2D Ising model is complete in the sense that the partition function of any classical q-state spin model (on an arbitrary graph) can be expressed as a special instance of the partition function of a 2D Ising model with complex inhomogeneous couplings and external fields. In the cas...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110501] Published Mon Mar 17, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110501 M. Van den Nest W. Dür H. J. Briegel 2008-03-17T00:00:00-05:00 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.110501 text/html article 11 100 2008-03-17T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 110501 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. abstract 2007-09-04T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e107002 Author(s): W. Zhang et al.<br/>Laser-based angle-resolved photoemission measurements with superhigh resolution have been carried out on an optimally doped Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8} high temperature superconductor. New high energy features at ∼115  meV and ∼150  meV, in addition to the prominent ∼70  meV one, are found to develop...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 107002] Published Fri Mar 14, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 107002 Wentao Zhang Guodong Liu Lin Zhao Haiyun Liu Jianqiao Meng et al. 2008-03-14T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.107002 text/html article 10 100 2008-03-14T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 107002 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-12-19T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e107602 Author(s): Yu. S. Dedkov, M. Fonin, U. Rüdiger, and C. Laubschat<br/>We report on angle-resolved photoemission studies of the electronic π states of high-quality epitaxial graphene layers on a Ni(111) surface. In this system the electron binding energy of the π states shows a strong dependence on the magnetization reversal of the Ni film. The observed extraordinaril...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 107602] Published Wed Mar 12, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 107602 Yu. S. Dedkov M. Fonin U. Rüdiger C. Laubschat 2008-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.107602 text/html article 10 100 2008-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 107602 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e101101 Author(s): R. U. Abbasi et al. (High Resolution Fly’s Eye Collaboration)<br/>The High Resolution Fly’s Eye (HiRes) experiment has observed the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin suppression (called the GZK cutoff) with a statistical significance of five standard deviations. HiRes’ measurement of the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays shows a sharp suppression at an energy of 6×10^{1...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 101101] Published Mon Mar 10, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 101101 R. U. Abbasi T. Abu-Zayyad M. Allen J. F. Amman G. Archbold et al. 2008-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 Gravitation and Astrophysics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.101101 text/html article 10 100 2008-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 101101 Gravitation and Astrophysics abstract 2007-03-05T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e106101 Author(s): M. Nagasaka, H. Kondoh, K. Amemiya, T. Ohta, and Y. Iwasawa<br/>The time scale of proton transfer between H_{2}O and OH adsorbed on a Pt(111) surface was determined by a combination of laser-induced thermal desorption (LITD) and microscale x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (micro-XPS). The patterned distribution OH+H_{2}O/H_{2}O/OH+H_{2}O was initially prepared ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 106101] Published Mon Mar 10, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 106101 M. Nagasaka H. Kondoh K. Amemiya T. Ohta Y. Iwasawa 2008-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.106101 text/html article 10 100 2008-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 106101 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. abstract 2007-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e096403 Author(s): D. Le Bolloc’h et al.<br/>A high resolution coherent x-ray diffraction experiment has been performed on the charge-density wave (CDW) system K_{0.3}MoO_{3}. The 2k_{F} satellite reflection associated with the CDW has been measured with respect to external dc currents. In the sliding regime, the 2k_{F} satellite reflection d...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 096403] Published Tue Mar 04, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 096403 D. Le Bolloc’h V. L. R. Jacques N. Kirova J. Dumas S. Ravy et al. 2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.096403 text/html article 9 100 2008-03-04T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 096403 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-07-31T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e090402 Author(s): A. H. van Amerongen, J. J. P. van Es, P. Wicke, K. V. Kheruntsyan, and N. J. van Druten<br/>We investigate the behavior of a weakly interacting nearly one-dimensional trapped Bose gas at finite temperature. We perform in situ measurements of spatial density profiles and show that they are very well described by a model based on exact solutions obtained using the Yang-Yang thermodynamic fo...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090402] Published Mon Mar 03, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090402 A. H. van Amerongen J. J. P. van Es P. Wicke K. V. Kheruntsyan N. J. van Druten 2008-03-03T00:00:00-05:00 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.090402 text/html article 9 100 2008-03-03T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 090402 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. abstract 2007-09-12T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e087202 Author(s): A. Olariu et al.<br/>We report, through ^{17}O NMR, an unambiguous local determination of the intrinsic kagome lattice spin susceptibility as well as that created around nonmagnetic defects arising from natural Zn/Cu exchange in the S=1/2 (Cu^{2+}) herbertsmithite ZnCu_{3}(OH)_{6}Cl_{2} compound. The issue of a singlet...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 087202] Published Thu Feb 28, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 087202 A. Olariu P. Mendels F. Bert F. Duc J. C. Trombe et al. 2008-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.087202 text/html article 8 100 2008-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 087202 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-10-31T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e081101 Author(s): K. Glampedakis, N. Andersson, and D. I. Jones<br/>We discuss a new superfluid instability occurring in the interior of mature neutron stars with implications for free precession. This instability is similar to the instability which is responsible for the formation of turbulence in superfluid helium. We demonstrate that the instability is unlikely ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 081101] Published Tue Feb 26, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 081101 K. Glampedakis N. Andersson D. I. Jones 2008-02-26T00:00:00-05:00 Gravitation and Astrophysics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.081101 text/html article 8 100 2008-02-26T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 081101 Gravitation and Astrophysics abstract 2007-08-20T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e085501 Author(s): D. Antonangeli, M. Krisch, D. L. Farber, D. G. Ruddle, and G. Fiquet<br/>We performed high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering measurements on a single crystal of hcp cobalt at simultaneous high pressure and high temperature, obtaining 4 of the 5 independent elements of the elastic tensor. Our experiments indicate that the elasticity of hcp-Co is well described within...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 085501] Published Mon Feb 25, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 085501 Daniele Antonangeli Michael Krisch Daniel L. Farber David G. Ruddle Guillaume Fiquet 2008-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.085501 text/html article 8 100 2008-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 085501 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. abstract 2007-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e077001 Author(s): S. B. Field and G. Stan<br/>When a current is applied to a type-I superconducting strip containing a narrow channel across its width, magnetic flux spots nucleate at the edge and are then driven along the channel by the current. These flux “drops” are reminiscent of water drops dripping from a faucet, a model system for study...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077001] Published Fri Feb 22, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 077001 Stuart B. Field Gheorghe Stan 2008-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.077001 text/html article 7 100 2008-02-22T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 077001 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2006-12-28T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e078101 Author(s): B. Qian, T. R. Powers, and K. S. Breuer<br/>The deformation of an elastic rod rotating in a viscous fluid is considered, with applications related to flagellar motility. The rod is tilted relative to the rotation axis, and experiments and theory are used to study the shape transition when driven either at constant torque or at constant speed...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 078101] Published Tue Feb 19, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 078101 Bian Qian Thomas R. Powers Kenneth S. Breuer 2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.078101 text/html article 7 100 2008-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 078101 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics abstract 2007-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e062501 Author(s): J. W. Holt, G. E. Brown, T. T. S. Kuo, J. D. Holt, and R. Machleidt<br/>We present shell model calculations for the beta decay of ^{14}C to the ^{14}N ground state, treating the states of the A=14 multiplet as two 0p holes in an ^{16}O core. We employ low-momentum nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions derived from the realistic Bonn-B potential and find that the Gamow-Tell...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 062501] Published Fri Feb 15, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 062501 J. W. Holt G. E. Brown T. T. S. Kuo J. D. Holt R. Machleidt 2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00 Nuclear Physics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.062501 text/html article 6 100 2008-02-15T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 062501 Nuclear Physics abstract 2007-09-21T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e066401 Author(s): C. Krellner, T. Förster, H. Jeevan, C. Geibel, and J. Sichelschmidt<br/>Electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements of the ferromagnetic (FM) Kondo lattice system CeRuPO show a well defined ESR signal which is related to the Ce^{3+} magnetism. In contrast, no ESR could be observed in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) homologue CeOsPO. Additionally, we detect an ESR signal in ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 066401] Published Mon Feb 11, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 066401 C. Krellner T. Förster H. Jeevan C. Geibel J. Sichelschmidt 2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.066401 text/html article 6 100 2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 066401 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-10-10T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e065001 Author(s): J. B. A. Mitchell et al.<br/>The small-angle x-ray scattering method has been applied to study fireballs ejected into the air from molten hot spots in borosilicate glass by localized microwaves [V. Dikhtyar and E. Jerby, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 045002 (2006)]. The fireball’s particle size distribution, density, and decay rate in a...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 065001] Published Mon Feb 11, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 065001 J. B. A. Mitchell J. L. LeGarrec M. Sztucki T. Narayanan V. Dikhtyar et al. 2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00 Plasma and Beam Physics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.065001 text/html article 6 100 2008-02-11T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 065001 Plasma and Beam Physics abstract 2007-10-18T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e056405 Author(s): C. Detlefs et al.<br/>We report the first direct observation of the influence of high magnetic fields on the Jahn-Teller (JT) transition in TbVO_{4}. Contrary to spectroscopic and magnetic methods, x-ray diffraction directly measures the JT distortion; the splitting between the (311)/(131) and (202)/(022) pairs of Bragg...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 056405] Published Fri Feb 08, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 056405 C. Detlefs F. Duc Z. A. Kazeĭ J. Vanacken P. Frings et al. 2008-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.056405 text/html article 5 100 2008-02-08T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 056405 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. abstract 2007-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e052001 Author(s): D. G. Ireland et al. (The CLAS Collaboration)<br/>We examine the results of two measurements by the CLAS collaboration, one of which claimed evidence for a Θ^{+} pentaquark, while the other found no such evidence. The unique feature of these two experiments was that they were performed with the same experimental setup. Using a Bayesian analysis, w...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 052001] Published Wed Feb 06, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 052001 D. G. Ireland B. McKinnon D. Protopopescu P. Ambrozewicz M. Anghinolfi et al. 2008-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 Elementary Particles and Fields 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.052001 text/html article 5 100 2008-02-06T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 052001 Elementary Particles and Fields abstract 2007-09-20T00:00:00-05:00 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v100/e051101 Author(s): D. Spolyar, K. Freese, and P. Gondolo<br/>A mechanism is identified whereby dark matter (DM) in protostellar halos dramatically alters the current theoretical framework for the formation of the first stars. Heat from neutralino DM annihilation is shown to overwhelm any cooling mechanism, consequently impeding the star formation process and...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 051101] Published Mon Feb 04, 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 051101 Douglas Spolyar Katherine Freese Paolo Gondolo 2008-02-04T00:00:00-05:00 Gravitation and Astrophysics 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.051101 text/html article 5 100 2008-02-04T00:00:00-05:00 Physical Review Letters 051101 Gravitation and Astrophysics abstract 2007-05-04T00:00:00-05:00