Volume 100, Issue 16

25 April 2008

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On the Cover

Čerenkov radiation modes created when a two-frequency electromagnetic field propagates in a nonlinear photonic crystal waveguide. The spots arise from the sum of the fundamental frequencies (yellow) and the second harmonics of each (red, green).

From the article:

Nonlinear Čerenkov Radiation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Y. Zhang, Z. D. Gao, Z. Qi, S. N. Zhu, and N. B. Ming
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163904 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Hydrogen-Bond Exchange within a Single Water Dimer

T. Kumagai, M. Kaizu, S. Hatta, H. Okuyama, T. Aruga, I. Hamada, and Y. Morikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166101 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hexagonal Order in Crystalline and Columnar Phases of Hard Rods

Eric Grelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 168301 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

LETTERS

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

Is There Contextuality for a Single Qubit?

Andrzej Grudka and Paweł Kurzyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160401 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Stabilization of Solitons Generated by a Supersonic Flow of Bose-Einstein Condensate Past an Obstacle

A. M. Kamchatnov and L. P. Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160402 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Orbital Order in Mott Insulators of Spinless $p$ -Band Fermions

Erhai Zhao and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160403 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Fundamental Constants and Tests of Theory in Rydberg States of Hydrogenlike Ions

Ulrich D. Jentschura, Peter J. Mohr, Joseph N. Tan, and Benedikt J. Wundt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160404 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Exact Solution of Strongly Interacting Quasi-One-Dimensional Spinor Bose Gases

F. Deuretzbacher, K. Fredenhagen, D. Becker, K. Bongs, K. Sengstock, and D. Pfannkuche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160405 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Spatial Nonlocal Pair Correlations in a Repulsive 1D Bose Gas

A. G. Sykes, D. M. Gangardt, M. J. Davis, K. Viering, M. G. Raizen, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160406 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Quantum Random Access Memory

Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160501 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Active One-Way Quantum Computation with Two-Photon Four-Qubit Cluster States

Giuseppe Vallone, Enrico Pomarico, Francesco De Martini, and Paolo Mataloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160502 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Rapid Measurement of Quantum Systems Using Feedback Control

Joshua Combes, Howard M. Wiseman, and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160503 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Dynamical Evolution of Correlated Spontaneous Emission of a Single Photon from a Uniformly Excited Cloud of $N$ Atoms

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Jun-Tao Chang, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160504 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Universal Pulse Sequence to Minimize Spin Dephasing in the Central Spin Decoherence Problem

B. Lee, W. M. Witzel, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160505 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Towards Fault Tolerant Adiabatic Quantum Computation

Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160506 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Phase Transitions Induced by Saddle Points of Vanishing Curvature

Michael Kastner and Oliver Schnetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160601 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Far-from-Constant Mean Curvature Solutions of Einstein’s Constraint Equations with Positive Yamabe Metrics

M. Holst, G. Nagy, and G. Tsogtgerel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161101 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Possibility of Precise Measurement of the Cosmological Power Spectrum with a Dedicated Survey of 21 cm Emission after Reionization

Abraham Loeb and J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161301 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Quantum Bounce and Cosmic Recall

Alejandro Corichi and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161302 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction of $D_{s}^{+} \to τ^{+} ν_{τ}$ Decay

K. M. Ecklund et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161801 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

First Flavor-Tagged Determination of Bounds on Mixing-Induced $C P$ Violation in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ$ Decays

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161802 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Search for Heavy Toplike Quarks Using Lepton Plus Jets Events in 1.96 TeV $p \bar{p}$ Collisions

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161803 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Absolute Measurement of Hadronic Branching Fractions of the $D_{s}^{+}$ Meson

J. P. Alexander et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161804 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Calculation of the Bulk Viscosity in SU(3) Gluodynamics

Harvey B. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162001 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries

F. X. Girod et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162002 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Holographic Model of Hadronization

Nick Evans and Andrew Tedder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162003 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Low Mass Dimuons Produced in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Jörg Ruppert, Charles Gale, Thorsten Renk, Peter Lichard, and Joseph I. Kapusta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162301 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Emergence of Symmetry from Random $n$ -Body Interactions

Alexander Volya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162501 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

$M 1$ $γ$ Strength for Zirconium Nuclei in the Photoneutron Channel

H. Utsunomiya, S. Goriely, T. Kondo, T. Kaihori, A. Makinaga, S. Goko, H. Akimune, T. Yamagata, H. Toyokawa, T. Matsumoto, H. Harano, S. Hohara, Y.-W. Lui, S. Hilaire, S. Péru, and A. J. Koning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162502 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Proton-Neutron and Proton-Proton Correlations in Medium-Weight Nuclei and the Role of the Tensor Force

M. Alvioli, C. Ciofi degli Atti, and H. Morita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 162503 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron Self-Energy in the Presence of a Magnetic Field: Hyperfine Splitting and $g$ Factor

Vladimir A. Yerokhin and Ulrich D. Jentschura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163001 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Mixed Threefold and Fourfold Carbon Coordination in Compressed ${CO}_{2}$

Javier A. Montoya, Roger Rousseau, Mario Santoro, Federico Gorelli, and Sandro Scandolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163002 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Suppression of Molecular Decay in Ultracold Gases without Fermi Statistics

J. P. D’Incao and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163201 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fiber-Coupled Dual-Mode Waveguide Interferometer with $λ / 130$ Fringe Spacing

Richard M. Jenkins, Andrew F. Blockley, J. Banerji, and Alan R. Davies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163901 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Quantitative Phase Imaging with a Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscope

M. D. de Jonge, B. Hornberger, C. Holzner, D. Legnini, D. Paterson, I. McNulty, C. Jacobsen, and S. Vogt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163902 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Radiation Torque and Force on Optically Trapped Linear Nanostructures

F. Borghese, P. Denti, R. Saija, M. A. Iatì, and O. M. Maragò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163903 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Nonlinear Čerenkov Radiation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Y. Zhang, Z. D. Gao, Z. Qi, S. N. Zhu, and N. B. Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163904 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Second Order Parametric Processes in Nonlinear Silica Microspheres

Yong Xu, Ming Han, Anbo Wang, Zhiwen Liu, and James R. Heflin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163905 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Sub-Single-Cycle Optical Pulse Train with Constant Carrier Envelope Phase

Wei-Jan Chen, Zhi-Ming Hsieh, Shu Wei Huang, Hao-Yu Su, Chien-Jen Lai, Tsung-Ta Tang, Chuan-Hsien Lin, Chao-Kuei Lee, Ru-Pin Pan, Ci-Ling Pan, and A. H. Kung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 163906 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Residual Coulomb Interaction Fluctuations in Chaotic Systems: The Boundary, Random Plane Waves, and Semiclassical Theory

Steven Tomsovic, Denis Ullmo, and Arnd Bäcker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164101 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Localized Nonlinear Waves in Systems with Time- and Space-Modulated Nonlinearities

Juan Belmonte-Beitia, Víctor M. Pérez-García, Vadym Vekslerchik, and Vladimir V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164102 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Microscale Fluid Flow Induced by Thermoviscous Expansion Along a Traveling Wave

Franz M. Weinert, Jonas A. Kraus, Thomas Franosch, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164501 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Blistering Pattern and Formation of Nanofibers in Capillary Thinning of Polymer Solutions

R. Sattler, C. Wagner, and J. Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164502 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Order-Disorder Phase Transition in a Chaotic System

Rinto Anugraha, Koyo Tamura, Yoshiki Hidaka, Noriko Oikawa, and Shoichi Kai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164503 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Novel Internal Target for Electron Scattering off Unstable Nuclei

M. Wakasugi, T. Emoto, Y. Furukawa, K. Ishii, S. Ito, T. Koseki, K. Kurita, A. Kuwajima, T. Masuda, A. Morikawa, M. Nakamura, A. Noda, T. Ohnishi, T. Shirai, T. Suda, H. Takeda, T. Tamae, H. Tongu, S. Wang, and Y. Yano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164801 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Direct Measurement of the Chudakov Effect

T. Virkus, H. D. Thomsen, E. Uggerhøj, U. I. Uggerhøj, S. Ballestrero, P. Sona, A. Mangiarotti, T. J. Ketel, A. Dizdar, S. Kartal, and C. Pagliarone (CERN NA63 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 164802 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Fast Heating of Cylindrically Imploded Plasmas by Petawatt Laser Light

H. Nakamura, Y. Sentoku, T. Matsuoka, K. Kondo, M. Nakatsutsumi, T. Norimatsu, H. Shiraga, K. A. Tanaka, T. Yabuuchi, and R. Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165001 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Laser Heating of Solid Matter by Light-Pressure-Driven Shocks at Ultrarelativistic Intensities

K. U. Akli et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165002 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anderson Localization of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a 3D Random Potential

S. E. Skipetrov, A. Minguzzi, B. A. van Tiggelen, and B. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165301 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Kinetics and Morphological Instabilities of Stressed Solid-Solid Phase Transformations

N. G. Rudawski, K. S. Jones, and R. Gwilliam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165501 (2008) - Published 21 April, 2008

Influence of Temperature and Anisotropic Pressure on the Phase Transitions in $α$ -Cristobalite

Davide Donadio, Roman Martoňák, Paolo Raiteri, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165502 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Off-Center Rattling and Anisotropic Expansion of Type-I Clathrates Studied by Raman Scattering

Y. Takasu, T. Hasegawa, N. Ogita, M. Udagawa, M. A. Avila, K. Suekuni, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165503 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Stuffing Improves the Stability of Fullerenelike Boron Clusters

Dasari L. V. K. Prasad and Eluvathingal D. Jemmis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165504 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

The Crack Tip: A Nanolab for Studying Confined Liquids

A. Grimaldi, M. George, G. Pallares, C. Marlière, and M. Ciccotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165505 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Boundary-Induced Nonequilibrium Phase Transition into an Absorbing State

A. C. Barato and H. Hinrichsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165701 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Finite Volume Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami Theory

Bernd A. Berg and Santosh Dubey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165702 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Premartensitic Transition in ${Ni}_{2} MnGa$

C. P. Opeil, B. Mihaila, R. K. Schulze, L. Mañosa, A. Planes, W. L. Hults, R. A. Fisher, P. S. Riseborough, P. B. Littlewood, J. L. Smith, and J. C. Lashley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165703 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Liquid-Vapor Transition from a Microscopic Theory: Beyond the Maxwell Construction

Alberto Parola, Davide Pini, and Luciano Reatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165704 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Athermal Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Stochastic Three-State Oscillators

Bastien Fernandez and Lev S. Tsimring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165705 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Order Parameter Statistics in the Critical Quantum Ising Chain

Austen Lamacraft and Paul Fendley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165706 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Influence of Elastic Anisotropy on Structural Nanoscale Textures

Pol Lloveras, Teresa Castán, Marcel Porta, Antoni Planes, and Avadh Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165707 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Hydrogen-Bond Exchange within a Single Water Dimer

T. Kumagai, M. Kaizu, S. Hatta, H. Okuyama, T. Aruga, I. Hamada, and Y. Morikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166101 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Dynamics of Doped Holes in High $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors: A Clue from Optical Conductivity

A. S. Mishchenko, N. Nagaosa, Z.-X. Shen, G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, T. P. Devereaux, C. Bernhard, K. W. Kim, and J. Zaanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166401 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Temperature-Dependent Localized Excitations of Doped Carriers in Superconducting Diamond

K. Ishizaka, R. Eguchi, S. Tsuda, A. Chainani, T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, T. Shimojima, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, C.-T. Chen, Y. Takano, M. Nagao, I. Sakaguchi, T. Takenouchi, H. Kawarada, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166402 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Excitons in the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model: A Real-Time Study

K. A. Al-Hassanieh, F. A. Reboredo, A. E. Feiguin, I. González, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166403 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Interacting Quantum Dot Coupled to a Kondo Spin: A Universal Hamiltonian Study

Stefan Rotter, Hakan E. Türeci, Y. Alhassid, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166601 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Generalized Adiabatic Polaron Hopping: Meyer-Neldel Compensation and Poole-Frenkel Behavior

David Emin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166602 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Suppression of Magnetotransport in Strongly Disordered Graphene

K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166801 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Charge Response Function and a Novel Plasmon Mode in Graphene

S. Gangadharaiah, A. M. Farid, and E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166802 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Incompressible Fractional Quantum Hall States

A. E. Feiguin, E. Rezayi, C. Nayak, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166803 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Impact of Exchange-Correlation Effects on the $I V$ Characteristics of a Molecular Junction

K. S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166804 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Disorder Scattering in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Theory of Nonequilibrium Vertex Correction

Youqi Ke, Ke Xia, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 166805 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Spin-Dependent Electronic States of the Ferromagnetic Semimetal ${EuB}_{6}$

Xiaohang Zhang, Stephan von Molnár, Zachary Fisk, and Peng Xiong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167001 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Spontaneous Transverse Response and Amplified Switching in Superconductors with Honeycomb Pinning Arrays

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167002 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Line Shape Distortion in a Nonlinear Auto-Oscillator Near Generation Threshold: Application to Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillators

Joo-Von Kim, Q. Mistral, C. Chappert, V. S. Tiberkevich, and A. N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167201 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

String Order and Symmetries in Quantum Spin Lattices

D. Pérez-García, M. M. Wolf, M. Sanz, F. Verstraete, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167202 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Ferroelectrically Induced Weak Ferromagnetism by Design

Craig J. Fennie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167203 (2008) - Published 22 April, 2008

Scaling Behavior of the First Arrival Time of a Random-Walking Magnetic Domain

M.-Y. Im, S.-H. Lee, D.-H. Kim, P. Fischer, and S.-C. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167204 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Evolution of Spin-Orbital-Lattice Coupling in the $R {VO}_{3}$ Perovskites

Peter Horsch, Andrzej M. Oleś, Louis Felix Feiner, and Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167205 (2008) - Published 23 April, 2008

Strongly Correlated Electrons in the $[Ni (hmp) (R OH) X]_{4}$ Single Molecule Magnet: A $DFT + U$ Study

Chao Cao, Stephen Hill, and Hai-Ping Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167206 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Origin of the Structural and Magnetic Anomalies of the Layered Compound ${SrFeO}_{2}$ : A Density Functional Investigation

H. J. Xiang, Su-Huai Wei, and M.-H. Whangbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167207 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008

Gain Recovery Dynamics and Photon-Driven Transport in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Hyunyong Choi, Laurent Diehl, Zong-Kwei Wu, Marcella Giovannini, Jérôme Faist, Federico Capasso, and Theodore B. Norris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167401 (2008) - Published 24 April, 2008

Nature of the Band Gap of ${In}_{2} O_{3}$ Revealed by First-Principles Calculations and X-Ray Spectroscopy

Aron Walsh, Juarez L. F. Da Silva, Su-Huai Wei, C. Körber, A. Klein, L. F. J. Piper, Alex DeMasi, Kevin E. Smith, G. Panaccione, P. Torelli, D. J. Payne, A. Bourlange, and R. G. Egdell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 167402 (2008) - Published 25 April, 2008