Volume 100, Issue 11

21 March 2008

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On the Cover

Polarization microscopy of a liquid-crystal–monomer mixture after applying an inhomogeneous electric field to study the phase separation morphology. Shown here is the configuration after the applied field is turned off.

From the article:

In Situ Observation of Fringing-Field-Induced Phase Separation in a Liquid-Crystal–Monomer Mixture
Hongwen Ren, Shin-Tson Wu, and Yi-Hsin Lin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 117801 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Completeness of the Classical 2D Ising Model and Universal Quantum Computation

M. Van den Nest, W. Dür, and H. J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110501 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Anomalous $Υ (1 S) π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Υ (2 S) π^{+} π^{-}$ Production near the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

K.-F. Chen et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 112001 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

LETTERS

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

Electron in the Field of a Molecule with an Electric Dipole Moment

A. D. Alhaidari and H. Bahlouli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110401 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

No-Ghost Theorem for the Fourth-Order Derivative Pais-Uhlenbeck Oscillator Model

Carl M. Bender and Philip D. Mannheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110402 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Trapped Imbalanced Fermi Condensates

Masaki Tezuka and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110403 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Andreev-Like Reflections with Cold Atoms

A. J. Daley, P. Zoller, and B. Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110404 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Irrational Versus Rational Charge and Statistics in Two-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Claudio Chamon, Chang-Yu Hou, Roman Jackiw, Christopher Mudry, So-Young Pi, and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110405 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Dynamical Creation of Bosonic Cooper-Like Pairs

Tassilo Keilmann and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110406 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Completeness of the Classical 2D Ising Model and Universal Quantum Computation

M. Van den Nest, W. Dür, and H. J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110501 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Unconditional Privacy over Channels which Cannot Convey Quantum Information

K. Horodecki, M. Horodecki, P. Horodecki, D. Leung, and J. Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110502 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Nonmaximally Entangled States Can Be Better for Multiple Linear Optical Teleportation

Joanna Modławska and Andrzej Grudka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110503 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Secure Quantum Key Distribution using Continuous Variables of Single Photons

Lijian Zhang, Christine Silberhorn, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110504 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Operational Quantification of Continuous-Variable Correlations

Carles Rodó, Gerardo Adesso, and Anna Sanpera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110505 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Error Correction in Ensemble Registers for Quantum Repeaters and Quantum Computers

E. Brion, L. H. Pedersen, M. Saffman, and K. Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110506 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Does the Planck Mass Run on the Cosmological-Horizon Scale?

Georg Robbers, Niayesh Afshordi, and Michael Doran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 111101 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Constraints on Torsion from Bounds on Lorentz Violation

V. Alan Kostelecký, Neil Russell, and Jay D. Tasson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 111102 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Unitary Parametrization of Perturbations to Tribimaximal Neutrino Mixing

Sandip Pakvasa, Werner Rodejohann, and Thomas J. Weiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 111801 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Distinguishing the Higgs Boson from the Dilaton at the Large Hadron Collider

Walter D. Goldberger, Benjamín Grinstein, and Witold Skiba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 111802 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Anomalous $Υ (1 S) π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Υ (2 S) π^{+} π^{-}$ Production near the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

K.-F. Chen et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 112001 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Structure Relevant to Neutrinoless Double $β$ Decay: ${}^{76}{Ge}$ and ${}^{76}{Se}$

J. P. Schiffer, S. J. Freeman, J. A. Clark, C. Deibel, C. R. Fitzpatrick, S. Gros, A. Heinz, D. Hirata, C. L. Jiang, B. P. Kay, A. Parikh, P. D. Parker, K. E. Rehm, A. C. C. Villari, V. Werner, and C. Wrede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 112501 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Interplay between Single-Particle and Collective Effects in the Odd- $A$ Cu Isotopes beyond $N = 40$

I. Stefanescu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 112502 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Antihydrogen Production within a Penning-Ioffe Trap

G. Gabrielse, P. Larochelle, D. Le Sage, B. Levitt, W. S. Kolthammer, R. McConnell, P. Richerme, J. Wrubel, A. Speck, M. C. George, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, T. Sefzick, Z. Zhang, A. Carew, D. Comeau, E. A. Hessels, C. H. Storry, M. Weel, and J. Walz (ATRAP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113001 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Narrow-Line Magneto-Optical Cooling and Trapping of Strongly Magnetic Atoms

Andrew J. Berglund, James L. Hanssen, and Jabez J. McClelland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113002 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Rabi Oscillations between Ground and Rydberg States with Dipole-Dipole Atomic Interactions

T. A. Johnson, E. Urban, T. Henage, L. Isenhower, D. D. Yavuz, T. G. Walker, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113003 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Fully Relativistic Convergent Close-Coupling Method for Excitation and Ionization Processes in Electron Collisions with Atoms and Ions

Dmitry V. Fursa and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113201 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Melting of Trapped Few-Particle Systems

J. Böning, A. Filinov, P. Ludwig, H. Baumgartner, M. Bonitz, and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113401 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Controllable Coherent Population Transfers in Superconducting Qubits for Quantum Computing

L. F. Wei, J. R. Johansson, L. X. Cen, S. Ashhab, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113601 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Multifrequency Optical Invisibility Cloak with Layered Plasmonic Shells

Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113901 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Few-Cycle Light Bullets Created by Femtosecond Filaments

L. Bergé and S. Skupin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113902 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Observing Zitterbewegung for Photons near the Dirac Point of a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 113903 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Adaptive Synchronization of Dynamics on Evolving Complex Networks

Francesco Sorrentino and Edward Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 114101 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Stable Liquid Hydrogen at High Pressure by a Novel Ab Initio Molecular-Dynamics Calculation

Claudio Attaccalite and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 114501 (2008) - Published 17 March, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Edge-Localized Modes Explained as the Amplification of Scrape-Off-Layer Current Coupling

L. J. Zheng, H. Takahashi, and E. D. Fredrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115001 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Network Rigidity in ${GeSe}_{2}$ Glass at High Pressure

Sytle M. Antao, Chris J. Benmore, Baosheng Li, Liping Wang, Evgeny Bychkov, and John B. Parise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115501 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Controlling Structure and Morphology of CoPt Nanoparticles through Dynamical or Static Coalescence Effects

J. Penuelas, P. Andreazza, C. Andreazza-Vignolle, H. C. N. Tolentino, M. De Santis, and C. Mottet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115502 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Mechanochemistry and Thermochemistry are Different: Stress-Induced Strengthening of Chemical Bonds

Martin Konôpka, Robert Turanský, Joachim Reichert, Harald Fuchs, Dominik Marx, and Ivan Štich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115503 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Gold Nanoparticle Superlattice Crystallization Probed In Situ

Benjamin Abécassis, Fabienne Testard, and Olivier Spalla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115504 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Direct Observation and Image-Based Simulation of Three-Dimensional Tortuous Crack Evolution inside Opaque Materials

Lihe Qian, Hiroyuki Toda, Kentaro Uesugi, Masakazu Kobayashi, and Toshiro Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115505 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Solvophobic Solvation and Interaction of Small Apolar Particles in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids

Dietmar Paschek, Thorsten Köddermann, and Ralf Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 115901 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Dynamic Scaling of Non-Euclidean Interfaces

Carlos Escudero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116101 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Role of Electron-Hole Pair Excitations in the Dissociative Adsorption of Diatomic Molecules on Metal Surfaces

J. I. Juaristi, M. Alducin, R. Díez Muiño, H. F. Busnengo, and A. Salin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116102 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Decay of Hybridized Electronic States of a Na Cluster on Cu(001)

Y. Pavlyukh, J. Berakdar, and W. Hübner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116103 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Restructuring of Cobalt Nanoparticles Induced by Formation and Diffusion of Monodisperse Metal-Sulfur Complexes

J. Kibsgaard, K. Morgenstern, E. Lægsgaard, J. V. Lauritsen, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116104 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Kinetics of Facile Bilayer Island Formation at Low Temperature: $Ag / NiAl (110)$

Yong Han, Baris Unal, Feili Qin, Dapeng Jing, C. J. Jenks, Da-Jiang Liu, P. A. Thiel, and J. W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116105 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin Rings in Semiconductor Microcavities

I. A. Shelykh, T. C. H. Liew, and A. V. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116401 (2008) - Published 18 March, 2008

Generalized Hedin’s Equations for Quantum Many-Body Systems with Spin-Dependent Interactions

F. Aryasetiawan and S. Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116402 (2008) - Published 19 March, 2008

Nonlinearity in the Dynamics of Photoinduced Nucleation Process

Kunio Ishida and Keiichiro Nasu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116403 (2008) - Published 20 March, 2008

Orbital-Driven Electronic Structure Changes and the Resulting Optical Anisotropy of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Spin Gap Compound ${La}_{4} {Ru}_{2} O_{10}$

S. J. Moon, W. S. Choi, S. J. Kim, Y. S. Lee, P. G. Khalifah, D. Mandrus, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 116404 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Typicality for Generalized Microcanonical Ensembles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 160404 (2007)]

Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 119901 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Publisher’s Note: Kerr Black Holes Are Not Unique to General Relativity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 091101 (2008)]

Dimitrios Psaltis, Delphine Perrodin, Keith R. Dienes, and Irina Mocioiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 119902 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008

Publisher’s Note: No-Local-Broadcasting Theorem for Multipartite Quantum Correlations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090502 (2008)]

Marco Piani, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 119903 (2008) - Published 21 March, 2008