Volume 100, Issue 13

4 April 2008

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Diagram of the Crystal Ball detector used to measure neutral pions photoproduced from a ¹²C target (red).

From the article:

Incoherent Neutral Pion Photoproduction on ${}^{12}C$
C. M. Tarbert et al. (Crystal Ball at MAMI Collaboration and A2 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 132301 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneous Formation of Complex Micelles from a Homogeneous Solution

Xuehao He and Friederike Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137802 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanoscale Flow on a Bubble Mattress: Effect of Surface Elasticity

A. Steinberger, C. Cottin-Bizonne, P. Kleimann, and E. Charlaix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134501 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Time-Resolved Diffuse Reflectance Using Small Source-Detector Separation and Fast Single-Photon Gating

Antonio Pifferi, Alessandro Torricelli, Lorenzo Spinelli, Davide Contini, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Fabrizio Martelli, Giovanni Zaccanti, Alberto Tosi, Alberto Dalla Mora, Franco Zappa, and Sergio Cova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 138101 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

LETTERS

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

Formation and Dynamics of Many-Boson Fragmented States in One-Dimensional Attractive Ultracold Gases

Alexej I. Streltsov, Ofir E. Alon, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130401 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Staggered-Vortex Superfluid of Ultracold Bosons in an Optical Lattice

Lih-King Lim, C. Morais Smith, and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130402 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Dipolar Bosons in a Planar Array of One-Dimensional Tubes

C. Kollath, Julia S. Meyer, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130403 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Proposed Experiment for Testing Quantum Contextuality with Neutrons

Adán Cabello, Stefan Filipp, Helmut Rauch, and Yuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130404 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Unifying Variational Methods for Simulating Quantum Many-Body Systems

C. M. Dawson, J. Eisert, and T. J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130501 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Universal Geometric Entanglement Close to Quantum Phase Transitions

Román Orús

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130502 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Effect of Local Minima on Adiabatic Quantum Optimization

M. H. S. Amin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130503 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Chiral Brownian Heat Pump

M. van den Broek and C. Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130601 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Paths of Fluctuation Induced Switching

H. B. Chan, M. I. Dykman, and C. Stambaugh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130602 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Relativistic Photon Mediated Shocks

Amir Levinson and Omer Bromberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131101 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Signatures of Gravitational Fixed Points at the Large Hadron Collider

Daniel F. Litim and Tilman Plehn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131301 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Nearly Scale Invariant Spectrum of Gravitational Radiation from Global Phase Transitions

Katherine Jones-Smith, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Harsh Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131302 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Heavy-Flavor Contribution to Bhabha Scattering

R. Bonciani, A. Ferroglia, and A. A. Penin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131601 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Virtual Hadronic and Leptonic Contributions to Bhabha Scattering

Stefano Actis, Michał Czakon, Janusz Gluza, and Tord Riemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131602 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Search for $Z Z$ and $Z γ $ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ and Limits on Anomalous $Z Z Z$ and $Z Z γ $ Couplings

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131801 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Search for $C P T$ and Lorentz Violation in $B^{0} − {\bar{B}}^{0}$ Oscillations with Dilepton Events

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131802 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Search for Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays of the Neutral Kaon

E. Abouzaid et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131803 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Hypercharged Anomaly Mediation

Radovan Dermíšek, Herman Verlinde, and Lian-Tao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 131804 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Incoherent Neutral Pion Photoproduction on ${}^{12}C$

C. M. Tarbert et al. (Crystal Ball at MAMI Collaboration and A2 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 132301 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Discovery of a Nuclear Isomer in ${}^{65}{Fe}$ with PenningTrap Mass Spectrometry

M. Block, C. Bachelet, G. Bollen, M. Facina, C. M. Folden, III, C. Guénaut, A. A. Kwiatkowski, D. J. Morrissey, G. K. Pang, A. Prinke, R. Ringle, J. Savory, P. Schury, and S. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 132501 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

$Q_{EC}$ Values of the Superallowed $β$ Emitters ${}^{50}{Mn}$ and ${}^{54}{Co}$

T. Eronen, V.-V. Elomaa, U. Hager, J. Hakala, J. C. Hardy, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, I. D. Moore, H. Penttilä, S. Rahaman, S. Rinta-Antila, J. Rissanen, A. Saastamoinen, T. Sonoda, C. Weber, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 132502 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Observation of the $3 n$ Evaporation Channel in the Complete Hot-Fusion Reaction ${}^{26}{Mg} + {}^{248}{Cm}$ Leading to the New Superheavy Nuclide ${}^{271}{Hs}$

J. Dvorak, W. Brüchle, M. Chelnokov, Ch. E. Düllmann, Z. Dvorakova, K. Eberhardt, E. Jäger, R. Krücken, A. Kuznetsov, Y. Nagame, F. Nebel, K. Nishio, R. Perego, Z. Qin, M. Schädel, B. Schausten, E. Schimpf, R. Schuber, A. Semchenkov, P. Thörle, A. Türler, M. Wegrzecki, B. Wierczinski, A. Yakushev, and A. Yeremin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 132503 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhancing High-Order Above-Threshold Dissociation of $H_{2}^{+}$ Beams with Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

J. McKenna, A. M. Sayler, F. Anis, B. Gaire, Nora G. Johnson, E. Parke, J. J. Hua, H. Mashiko, C. M. Nakamura, E. Moon, Z. Chang, K. D. Carnes, B. D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133001 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shift in an Arbitrary Electronic Spin State

Teemu O. Pennanen and Juha Vaara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133002 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Selector for Structural Isomers of Neutral Molecules

Frank Filsinger, Undine Erlekam, Gert von Helden, Jochen Küpper, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133003 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Electrical Response of Molecular Systems: The Power of Self-Interaction Corrected Kohn-Sham Theory

T. Körzdörfer, M. Mundt, and S. Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133004 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Interference in the Collective Electron Momentum in Double Photoionization of $H_{2}$

K. Kreidi, D. Akoury, T. Jahnke, Th. Weber, A. Staudte, M. Schöffler, N. Neumann, J. Titze, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, A. Czasch, O. Jagutzki, R. A. Costa Fraga, R. E. Grisenti, M. Smolarski, P. Ranitovic, C. L. Cocke, T. Osipov, H. Adaniya, J. C. Thompson, M. H. Prior, A. Belkacem, A. L. Landers, H. Schmidt-Böcking, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133005 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Rescattering for Extended Atomic Systems

Ulf Saalmann and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133006 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Exact Low-Order Classical Moments in Collision-Induced Bands by Linear Rotors: ${CO}_{2} − {CO}_{2}$

M. Chrysos, A. P. Kouzov, N. I. Egorova, and F. Rachet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133007 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Triple Coincidence Experiment to Explore the Two-Electron Continuum States of the Projectile Resulting from Mutual Ionization in 100-keV ${He}^{0} + He$ Collisions

László Sarkadi and Andrea Orbán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133201 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Collisional Control of Ground State Polar Molecules and Universal Dipolar Scattering

Christopher Ticknor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133202 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Multistep Ionization of Argon Clusters in Intense Femtosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses

C. Bostedt, H. Thomas, M. Hoener, E. Eremina, T. Fennel, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, H. Wabnitz, M. Kuhlmann, E. Plönjes, K. Tiedtke, R. Treusch, J. Feldhaus, A. R. B. de Castro, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133401 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Heralded Generation of Ultrafast Single Photons in Pure Quantum States

Peter J. Mosley, Jeff S. Lundeen, Brian J. Smith, Piotr Wasylczyk, Alfred B. U’Ren, Christine Silberhorn, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133601 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Preservation of Energy-Time Entanglement in a Slow Light Medium

Curtis J. Broadbent, Ryan M. Camacho, Ran Xin, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133602 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Demonstration of a Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate in the Telecommunications Band

Jun Chen, Joseph B. Altepeter, Milja Medic, Kim Fook Lee, Burc Gokden, Robert H. Hadfield, Sae Woo Nam, and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133603 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Necessary Conditions for Mode Interactions in Parametrically Excited Waves

T. Epstein and J. Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134101 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Effect of Phonon-Phonon Interactions on Localization

Abhishek Dhar and J. L. Lebowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134301 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanoscale Flow on a Bubble Mattress: Effect of Surface Elasticity

A. Steinberger, C. Cottin-Bizonne, P. Kleimann, and E. Charlaix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134501 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Lagrangian Dispersion and Heat Transport in Convective Turbulence

Jörg Schumacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134502 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

“Bottleneck Effect” in Two-Dimensional Microfluidics

Patricia Burriel, Josep Claret, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, and Francesc Sagués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134503 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Dynamics of Hairpin Vortices and Polymer-Induced Turbulent Drag Reduction

Kyoungyoun Kim, Ronald J. Adrian, S. Balachandar, and R. Sureshkumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 134504 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Turbulent Equipartition and Homogenization of Plasma Angular Momentum

Ö. D. Gürcan, P. H. Diamond, and T. S. Hahm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135001 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Measurements of Terahertz Electrical Conductivity of Intense Laser-Heated Dense Aluminum Plasmas

K. Y. Kim, B. Yellampalle, J. H. Glownia, A. J. Taylor, and G. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135002 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Generating High-Current Monoenergetic Proton Beams by a CircularlyPolarized Laser Pulse in the Phase-StableAcceleration Regime

X. Q. Yan (颜学庆), C. Lin (林晨), Z. M. Sheng (盛政明), Z. Y. Guo (郭之虞), B. C. Liu (刘必成), Y. R. Lu (陆元荣), J. X. Fang (方家驯), and J. E. Chen (陈佳洱)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135003 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

First-Principles Prediction of a Ground State Crystal Structure of Magnesium Borohydride

V. Ozolins, E. H. Majzoub, and C. Wolverton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135501 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

X-Ray Diffuse Scattering Measurements of Nucleation Dynamics at Femtosecond Resolution

A. M. Lindenberg et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135502 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Effect of the $α - γ$ Phase Transition on the Stability of Dislocation Loops in bcc Iron

S. L. Dudarev, R. Bullough, and P. M. Derlet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135503 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Anomalous Phonon Behavior: Blueshift of the Surface Boson Peak in Silica Glass with Increasing Temperature

W. Steurer, A. Apfolter, M. Koch, W. E. Ernst, E. Søndergård, J. R. Manson, and B. Holst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135504 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Molybdenum at High Pressure and Temperature: Melting from Another Solid Phase

A. B. Belonoshko, L. Burakovsky, S. P. Chen, B. Johansson, A. S. Mikhaylushkin, D. L. Preston, S. I. Simak, and D. C. Swift

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135701 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Crystalline Amorphous Semiconductor Superlattice

T. C. Chong, L. P. Shi, X. Q. Wei, R. Zhao, H. K. Lee, P. Yang, and A. Y. Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136101 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Interface Structure and Radiation Damage Resistance in Cu-Nb Multilayer Nanocomposites

M. J. Demkowicz, R. G. Hoagland, and J. P. Hirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136102 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Role of Intermolecular Interactions on the Electronic and Geometric Structure of a Large $π$ -Conjugated Molecule Adsorbed on a Metal Surface

L. Kilian, A. Hauschild, R. Temirov, S. Soubatch, A. Schöll, A. Bendounan, F. Reinert, T.-L. Lee, F. S. Tautz, M. Sokolowski, and E. Umbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136103 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Role of Molecular Orbitals Near the Fermi Level in the Excitation of Vibrational Modes of a Single Molecule at a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Junction

Michiaki Ohara, Yousoo Kim, Susumu Yanagisawa, Yoshitada Morikawa, and Maki Kawai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136104 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

3D Short-Range Wetting and Nonlocality

A. O. Parry, C. Rascón, N. R. Bernardino, and J. M. Romero-Enrique

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136105 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dimensional Crossover of Quantum Critical Behavior in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

J. G. Donath, F. Steglich, E. D. Bauer, J. L. Sarrao, and P. Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136401 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Hubbard Model on the Triangular Lattice: Spiral Order and Spin Liquid

Peyman Sahebsara and David Sénéchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136402 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Dirac Fermions at the $H$ Point of Graphite: Magnetotransmission Studies

M. Orlita, C. Faugeras, G. Martinez, D. K. Maude, M. L. Sadowski, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136403 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Kinetic Ferromagnetism on a Kagome Lattice

F. Pollmann, P. Fulde, and K. Shtengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136404 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Aharonov-Bohm Excitons at Elevated Temperatures in Type-II $ZnTe / ZnSe$ Quantum Dots

I. R. Sellers, V. R. Whiteside, I. L. Kuskovsky, A. O. Govorov, and B. D. McCombe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136405 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces

John P. Perdew, Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Gábor I. Csonka, Oleg A. Vydrov, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Lucian A. Constantin, Xiaolan Zhou, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136406 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Spin Injection and Relaxation in a Mesoscopic Superconductor

N. Poli, J. P. Morten, M. Urech, Arne Brataas, D. B. Haviland, and V. Korenivski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136601 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Resonant Electron Heating and Molecular Phonon Cooling in Single $C_{60}$ Junctions

G. Schulze, K. J. Franke, A. Gagliardi, G. Romano, C. S. Lin, A. L. Rosa, T. A. Niehaus, Th. Frauenheim, A. Di Carlo, A. Pecchia, and J. I. Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136801 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Electron-Spin Manipulation and Resonator Readout in a Double-Quantum-Dot Nanoelectromechanical System

N. Lambert, I. Mahboob, M. Pioro-Ladrière, Y. Tokura, S. Tarucha, and H. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136802 (2008) - Published 2 April, 2008

Direct Measurement of Strain-Induced Changes in the Band Structure of Carbon Nanotubes

Mingyuan Huang, Yang Wu, Bhupesh Chandra, Hugen Yan, Yuyao Shan, Tony F. Heinz, and James Hone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136803 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Graphene Antidot Lattices: Designed Defects and Spin Qubits

Thomas G. Pedersen, Christian Flindt, Jesper Pedersen, Niels Asger Mortensen, Antti-Pekka Jauho, and Kjeld Pedersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136804 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Multiexciton Absorption and Multiple Exciton Generation in CdSe Quantum Dots

Alberto Franceschetti and Yong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136805 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Electrically Injected Cavity Polaritons

L. Sapienza, A. Vasanelli, R. Colombelli, C. Ciuti, Y. Chassagneux, C. Manquest, U. Gennser, and C. Sirtori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 136806 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

Momentum Dependence of the Electron-Phonon Coupling and Self-Energy Effects in Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ within the Local Density Approximation

Rolf Heid, Klaus-Peter Bohnen, Roland Zeyher, and Dirk Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137001 (2008) - Published 31 March, 2008

Macroscopic Vortex Droplets in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Crystals Pumped by an ac Magnetic Field

L. S. Uspenskaya and A. L. Rakhmanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137002 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Precursor State to Unconventional Superconductivity in ${CeIrIn}_{5}$

Sunil Nair, S. Wirth, M. Nicklas, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, Z. Fisk, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137003 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Observation of a Spin Gap in the Normal State of Superconducting ${Mo}_{3} {Sb}_{7}$

Vinh Hung Tran, Wojciech Miiller, and Zbigniew Bukowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137004 (2008) - Published 1 April, 2008

Bosonic Spectral Density of Epitaxial Thin-Film ${La}_{1.83} {Sr}_{0.17} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductors from Infrared Conductivity Measurements

J. Hwang, E. Schachinger, J. P. Carbotte, F. Gao, D. B. Tanner, and T. Timusk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137005 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Shear Banding in Biphasic Liquid-Liquid Systems

Sergio Caserta, Marino Simeone, and Stefano Guido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137801 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneous Formation of Complex Micelles from a Homogeneous Solution

Xuehao He and Friederike Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 137802 (2008) - Published 4 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

ERRATA

Erratum: Measurement of the $W W$ Production Cross Section in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 151801 (2005)]

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 139901 (2008) - Published 3 April, 2008