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) 2009 The American Physical Society 2009-11-20T19:25:33-05:00 assocpub@aps.org rss@aps.org hourly 4 2009-11-20T19:25:33-05:00 rss@aps.org http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.218701 Author(s): Bernd Blasius and Ralf Tönjes<br/>We perform a quantitative analysis of extensive chess databases and show that the frequencies of opening moves are distributed according to a power law with an exponent that increases linearly with the game depth, whereas the pooled distribution of all opening weights follows Zipf’s law with unive...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 218701] Published Mon Nov 16, 2009 Bernd Blasius and Ralf Tönjes 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.218701 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 218701 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 21 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 218701 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.217201 Author(s): A. Thiess, Y. Mokrousov, S. Heinze, and S. Blügel<br/>Based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that magnetism impedes the formation of long chains in break junctions. We find a distinct softening of the binding energy of atomic chains due to the creation of magnetic moments that crucially reduces the probability of successful chain format...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 217201] Published Mon Nov 16, 2009 A. Thiess, Y. Mokrousov, S. Heinze, and S. Blügel 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.217201 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 217201 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 21 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 217201 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.216101 Author(s): J. Buschbeck, I. Opahle, M. Richter, U. K. Rößler, P. Klaer, M. Kallmayer, H. J. Elmers, G. Jakob, L. Schultz, and S. Fähler<br/>Strained coherent film growth is commonly either limited to ultrathin films or low strains. Here, we present an approach to achieve high strains in thicker films, by using materials with inherent structural instabilities. As an example, 50 nm thick epitaxial films of the Fe_{70} Pd_{30} magnetic sh...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 216101] Published Mon Nov 16, 2009 J. Buschbeck, I. Opahle, M. Richter, U. K. Rößler, P. Klaer, M. Kallmayer, H. J. Elmers, G. Jakob, L. Schultz, and S. Fähler 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.216101 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 216101 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 21 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 216101 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.215002 Author(s): C. D. Cothran, M. R. Brown, T. Gray, M. J. Schaffer, and G. Marklin<br/>A nonaxisymmetric stable magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium within a prolate cylindrical conducting boundary has been produced experimentally. It has m=1 azimuthal symmetry, helical distortion, and flat λ profile, all in agreement with the computed magnetically relaxed minimum magnetic energy Ta...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 215002] Published Mon Nov 16, 2009 C. D. Cothran, M. R. Brown, T. Gray, M. J. Schaffer, and G. Marklin 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.215002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 215002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 21 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 215002 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.213901 Author(s): Alexander A. Govyadinov, George Y. Panasyuk, and John C. Schotland<br/>We propose a method for optical nanoimaging in which the structure of a three-dimensional inhomogeneous medium may be recovered from far-field power measurements. Neither phase control of the illuminating field nor phase measurements of the scattered field are necessary. The method is based on the s...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 213901] Published Mon Nov 16, 2009 Alexander A. Govyadinov, George Y. Panasyuk, and John C. Schotland 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.213901 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 213901 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 21 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 213901 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.210401 Author(s): Heinz-Peter Breuer, Elsi-Mari Laine, and Jyrki Piilo<br/>We construct a general measure for the degree of non-Markovian behavior in open quantum systems. This measure is based on the trace distance which quantifies the distinguishability of quantum states. It represents a functional of the dynamical map describing the time evolution of physical states, an...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 210401] Published Mon Nov 16, 2009 Heinz-Peter Breuer, Elsi-Mari Laine, and Jyrki Piilo 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.210401 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 210401 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 21 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 210401 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.206803 Author(s): Guillaume Schull, Thomas Frederiksen, Mads Brandbyge, and Richard Berndt<br/>The charge flow from a single C_{60} molecule to another one has been probed. The conformation and electronic states of both molecules on the contacting electrodes have been characterized using a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope. While the contact conductance of a single molecule between two ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 206803] Published Wed Nov 11, 2009 Guillaume Schull, Thomas Frederiksen, Mads Brandbyge, and Richard Berndt 2009-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.206803 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 206803 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 20 2009-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 206803 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.207201 Author(s): G. J. Conduit, A. G. Green, and B. D. Simons<br/>A variety of analytical techniques suggest that quantum fluctuations lead to a fundamental instability of the Fermi liquid that drives ferromagnetic transitions first order at low temperatures. We present both analytical and numerical evidence that, driven by the same quantum fluctuations, this firs...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 207201] Published Mon Nov 09, 2009 G. J. Conduit, A. G. Green, and B. D. Simons 2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.207201 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 207201 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 20 2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 207201 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.200402 Author(s): Y. N. Martinez de Escobar, P. G. Mickelson, M. Yan, B. J. DeSalvo, S. B. Nagel, and T. C. Killian<br/>We report Bose-Einstein condensation of ^{84} Sr in an optical dipole trap. Efficient laser cooling on the narrow intercombination line and an ideal s-wave scattering length allow the creation of large condensates (N_{0} ∼3×10^{5} ) even though the natural abundance of this isotope is only 0.6%. ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200402] Published Mon Nov 09, 2009 Y. N. Martinez de Escobar, P. G. Mickelson, M. Yan, B. J. DeSalvo, S. B. Nagel, and T. C. Killian 2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.200402 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200402 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 20 2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 200402 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.200401 Author(s): Simon Stellmer, Meng Khoon Tey, Bo Huang, Rudolf Grimm, and Florian Schreck<br/>We report on the attainment of Bose-Einstein condensation with ultracold strontium atoms. We use the ^{84} Sr isotope, which has a low natural abundance but offers excellent scattering properties for evaporative cooling. Accumulation in a metastable state using a magnetic-trap, narrowline cooling, a...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200401] Published Mon Nov 09, 2009 Simon Stellmer, Meng Khoon Tey, Bo Huang, Rudolf Grimm, and Florian Schreck 2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.200401 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 200401 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 20 2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00 200401 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.194802 Author(s): Sergey N. Galyamin, Andrey V. Tyukhtin, Alexey Kanareykin, and Paul Schoessow<br/>We analyze the radiation from a charged particle crossing the boundary between an ordinary medium and a “left-handed” metamaterial. We obtain exact and approximate expressions for the field components and develop algorithms for their computation. The spatial radiation in this system can be separ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 194802] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Sergey N. Galyamin, Andrey V. Tyukhtin, Alexey Kanareykin, and Paul Schoessow 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.194802 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 194802 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 19 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 194802 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.194801 Author(s): Sheng Xi, Hongsheng Chen, Tao Jiang, Lixin Ran, Jiangtao Huangfu, Bae-Ian Wu, Jin Au Kong, and Min Chen<br/>By using a phased electromagnetic dipole array to model a moving charged particle, we experimentally verified a reversed Cherenkov radiation in the left-handed media in the frequency range from 8.1 to 9.5 GHz. Our results demonstrate the feasibility of new types of particle detectors and radiation ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 194801] Published Mon Nov 02, 2009 Sheng Xi, Hongsheng Chen, Tao Jiang, Lixin Ran, Jiangtao Huangfu, Bae-Ian Wu, Jin Au Kong, and Min Chen 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.194801 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 194801 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 19 2009-11-02T00:00:00-05:00 194801 Plasma and Beam Physics Plasma and Beam Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.188302 Author(s): Laura Filion, Matthieu Marechal, Bas van Oorschot, Daniël Pelt, Frank Smallenburg, and Marjolein Dijkstra<br/>We present an efficient and robust method based on Monte Carlo simulations for predicting crystal structures at finite temperature. We apply this method, which is surprisingly easy to implement, to a variety of systems, demonstrating its effectiveness for hard, attractive, and anisotropic interacti...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188302] Published Thu Oct 29, 2009 Laura Filion, Matthieu Marechal, Bas van Oorschot, Daniël Pelt, Frank Smallenburg, and Marjolein Dijkstra 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.188302 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188302 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 18 2009-10-29T00:00:00-04:00 188302 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.188101 Author(s): Badr Kaoui, George Biros, and Chaouqi Misbah<br/>Understanding why red blood cells (RBCs) move with an asymmetric shape (slipperlike shape) in small blood vessels is a long-standing puzzle in blood circulatory research. By considering a vesicle (a model system for RBCs), we discovered that the slipper shape results from a loss in stability of the ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188101] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 Badr Kaoui, George Biros, and Chaouqi Misbah 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.188101 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 188101 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 18 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 188101 Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.183901 Author(s): Ximao Feng, Steve Gilbertson, Hiroki Mashiko, He Wang, Sabih D. Khan, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Kun Zhao, and Zenghu Chang<br/>Isolated attosecond pulses are powerful tools for exploring electron dynamics in matter. So far, such extreme ultraviolet pulses have only been generated using high power, few-cycle lasers, which are very difficult to construct and operate. We propose and demonstrate a technique called generalized d...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183901] Published Mon Oct 26, 2009 Ximao Feng, Steve Gilbertson, Hiroki Mashiko, He Wang, Sabih D. Khan, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Kun Zhao, and Zenghu Chang 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.183901 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 183901 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 18 2009-10-26T00:00:00-04:00 183901 Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.177002 Author(s): F. Chiodi, M. Aprili, and B. Reulet<br/>We use microwave excitation to elucidate the dynamics of long superconductor–normal metal–superconductor Josephson junctions. By varying the excitation frequency in the range 10 MHz–40 GHz, we observe that the critical and retrapping currents, deduced from the dc voltage versus dc current ch...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177002] Published Fri Oct 23, 2009 F. Chiodi, M. Aprili, and B. Reulet 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.177002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 177002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 17 2009-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 177002 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.171301 Author(s): Scott Dodelson and Mika Vesterinen<br/>Neutrinos decoupled from the rest of the cosmic plasma when the Universe was less than one second old, far earlier than the photons, which decoupled at t=380 000 years. Surprisingly, though, the last scattering surface of massive neutrinos is much closer to us than that of the photons. Here we cal...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171301] Published Mon Oct 19, 2009 Scott Dodelson and Mika Vesterinen 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.171301 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 171301 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 17 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 171301 Gravitation and Astrophysics Gravitation and Astrophysics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.170401 Author(s): R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof<br/>We show how time-dependent magnetic fields lead to spin motive forces and spin drag in a spinor Bose gas. We propose to observe these effects in a toroidal trap and analyze this particular proposal in some detail. In the linear-response regime we define a transport coefficient that is analogous to t...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401] Published Mon Oct 19, 2009 R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.170401 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 170401 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 17 2009-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 170401 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.166402 Author(s): Paola Gori-Giorgi, Michael Seidl, and G. Vignale<br/>We present an alternative to the Kohn-Sham formulation of density-functional theory for the ground-state properties of strongly interacting electronic systems. The idea is to start from the limit of zero kinetic energy and systematically expand the universal energy functional of the density in power...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166402] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 Paola Gori-Giorgi, Michael Seidl, and G. Vignale 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.166402 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166402 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 16 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 166402 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.166401 Author(s): Fabio Franchini and Vladimir E. Kravtsov<br/>We propose a Gaussian scalar field theory in a curved 2D metric with an event horizon as the low-energy effective theory for a weakly confined, invariant random matrix ensemble (RME). The presence of an event horizon naturally generates a bath of Hawking radiation, which introduces a finite temperat...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166401] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 Fabio Franchini and Vladimir E. Kravtsov 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.166401 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166401 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 16 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 166401 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.166101 Author(s): Paolo Lacovig, Monica Pozzo, Dario Alfè, Paolo Vilmercati, Alessandro Baraldi, and Silvano Lizzit<br/>By combining high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, we show that carbon nanoislands formed during the growth of a long-range ordered graphene layer on Ir(111) assume a peculiar domelike shape. The understanding of the unusual growth mechanism of these C clusters, whi...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166101] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 Paolo Lacovig, Monica Pozzo, Dario Alfè, Paolo Vilmercati, Alessandro Baraldi, and Silvano Lizzit 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.166101 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 166101 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 16 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 166101 Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.162001 Author(s): C. Bignamini, B. Grinstein, F. Piccinini, A. D. Polosa, and C. Sabelli<br/>The X(3872) is universally accepted to be an exotic hadron. In this Letter, we assume that the X(3872) is a D^{0} D [over ¯] ^{*0} molecule, as claimed by many authors, and attempt an estimate of its prompt production cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron. A comparison with Collider Detector at Fe...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 162001] Published Mon Oct 12, 2009 C. Bignamini, B. Grinstein, F. Piccinini, A. D. Polosa, and C. Sabelli 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.162001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 162001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 16 2009-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 162001 Elementary Particles and Fields Elementary Particles and Fields http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.150502 Author(s): Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd<br/>Solving linear systems of equations is a common problem that arises both on its own and as a subroutine in more complex problems: given a matrix A and a vector b [over →] , find a vector x [over →] such that Ax [over →] =b [over →] . We consider the case where one does not need to know the s...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150502] Published Wed Oct 07, 2009 Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.150502 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150502 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 15 2009-10-07T00:00:00-04:00 150502 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.157002 Author(s): T. Helm, M. V. Kartsovnik, M. Bartkowiak, N. Bittner, M. Lambacher, A. Erb, J. Wosnitza, and R. Gross<br/>We report on the direct probing of the Fermi surface in the bulk of the electron-doped superconductor Nd_{2-x} Ce_{x} CuO_{4} at different doping levels by means of magnetoresistance quantum oscillations. Our data reveal a sharp qualitative change in the Fermi surface topology, due to translational ...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157002] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 T. Helm, M. V. Kartsovnik, M. Bartkowiak, N. Bittner, M. Lambacher, A. Erb, J. Wosnitza, and R. Gross 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.157002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 157002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 15 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 157002 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.153002 Author(s): S. De, I. Znakovskaya, D. Ray, F. Anis, Nora G. Johnson, I. A. Bocharova, M. Magrakvelidze, B. D. Esry, C. L. Cocke, I. V. Litvinyuk, and M. F. Kling<br/>We report the first experimental observation of nonadiabatic field-free orientation of a heteronuclear diatomic molecule (CO) induced by an intense two-color (800 and 400 nm) femtosecond laser field. We monitor orientation by measuring fragment ion angular distributions after Coulomb explosion with...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153002] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 S. De, I. Znakovskaya, D. Ray, F. Anis, Nora G. Johnson, I. A. Bocharova, M. Magrakvelidze, B. D. Esry, C. L. Cocke, I. V. Litvinyuk, and M. F. Kling 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.153002 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153002 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 15 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 153002 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.153001 Author(s): S. M. Purcell and P. F. Barker<br/>We report on the ability to tailor the optical dipole force for molecules by tuning their effective polarizability with strong field alignment using polarized fields. We have measured a difference of 20% in the dipole force on cold CS_{2} molecules when changing from linear to near-circular polariza...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153001] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 S. M. Purcell and P. F. Barker 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.153001 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 153001 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 15 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 153001 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.152301 Author(s): Andreas Ipp, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jörg Evers<br/>Present ultrafast laser optics is at the frontier between atto- and zeptosecond photon pulses, giving rise to unprecedented applications. We show that high-energetic photon pulses down to the yoctosecond time scale can be produced in heavy-ion collisions. We focus on photons produced during the init...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152301] Published Mon Oct 05, 2009 Andreas Ipp, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jörg Evers 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.152301 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152301 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 15 2009-10-05T00:00:00-04:00 152301 Nuclear Physics Nuclear Physics http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.147003 Author(s): J. R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and Franco Nori<br/>We investigate the dynamical Casimir effect in a coplanar waveguide (CPW) terminated by a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Changing the magnetic flux through the SQUID parametrically modulates the boundary condition of the CPW, and thereby, its effective length. Effective boundar...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147003] Published Mon Sep 28, 2009 J. R. Johansson, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and Franco Nori 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.147003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147003 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 14 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 147003 Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.140601 Author(s): A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, A. Heptonstall, M. Hueller, D. Nicolodi, S. Rowan, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, P. J. Wass, and W. J. Weber<br/>We report on residual-gas damping of the motion of a macroscopic test mass enclosed in a nearby housing in the molecular flow regime. The damping coefficient, and thus the associated thermal force noise, is found to increase significantly when the distance between the test mass and surrounding walls...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140601] Published Mon Sep 28, 2009 A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, A. Heptonstall, M. Hueller, D. Nicolodi, S. Rowan, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, P. J. Wass, and W. J. Weber 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.140601 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140601 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 14 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 140601 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.140405 Author(s): R. A. Pepino, J. Cooper, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland<br/>We illustrate that open quantum systems composed of neutral, ultracold atoms in one-dimensional optical lattices can exhibit behavior analogous to semiconductor electronic circuits. A correspondence is demonstrated for bosonic atoms, and the experimental requirements to realize these devices are est...<br/><img src="http://prola.aps.org/graphics/prlsugg30x30.gif" width="30" height="30" alt="PRL Editors' Suggestion"/><br/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140405] Published Mon Sep 28, 2009 R. A. Pepino, J. Cooper, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 Personal use only, all commercial or other reuse prohibited 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.140405 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 140405 text/html article Physical Review Letters 103 14 2009-09-28T00:00:00-04:00 140405 General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.