Volume 100, Issue 17

2 May 2008

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On the Cover

Calculated photoluminescence intensity for a self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot, plotted as energy against applied voltage. The high energy peaks are due to hybridization effects at the |0> - |e> and |e> - |2e> crossovers in the Coulomb blockade.

From the article:

Optically Induced Hybridization of a Quantum Dot State with a Filled Continuum
P. A. Dalgarno, M. Ediger, B. D. Gerardot, J. M. Smith, S. Seidl, M. Kroner, K. Karrai, P. M. Petroff, A. O. Govorov, and R. J. Warburton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176801 (2008)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Helpful Reviews

Reinhardt Schuhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170001 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Designing Real Nanotube-Based Gas Sensors

A. R. Rocha, M. Rossi, A. Fazzio, and Antonio J. R. da Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176803 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Determination of the Berry Phase in a Superconducting Charge Pump

Mikko Möttönen, Juha J. Vartiainen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177201 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

LETTERS

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

Synchronized and Desynchronized Phases of Exciton-Polariton Condensates in the Presence of Disorder

A. Baas, K. G. Lagoudakis, M. Richard, R. André, Le Si Dang, and B. Deveaud-Plédran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170401 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Insulating Phases and Superfluid-Insulator Transition of Disordered Boson Chains

Ehud Altman, Yariv Kafri, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170402 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Spontaneously Modulated Spin Textures in a Dipolar Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. Vengalattore, S. R. Leslie, J. Guzman, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170403 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Resonant Scattering of Ultracold Atoms in Low Dimensions

Ludovic Pricoupenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170404 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Quantum Information Processing with Single Photons and Atomic Ensembles in Microwave Coplanar Waveguide Resonators

David Petrosyan and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170501 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Structured Codes Improve the Bennett-Brassard-84 Quantum Key Rate

Graeme Smith, Joseph M. Renes, and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170502 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Quantum Benchmark for Teleportation and Storage of Squeezed States

Gerardo Adesso and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170503 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Quantum Gates and Multiparticle Entanglement by Rydberg Excitation Blockade and Adiabatic Passage

Ditte Møller, Lars Bojer Madsen, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170504 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Highly Efficient Generation of Entangled Photons by Controlling Cavity Bipolariton States

Hisaki Oka and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170505 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Realization of Quantum Walks with Negligible Decoherence in Waveguide Lattices

Hagai B. Perets, Yoav Lahini, Francesca Pozzi, Marc Sorel, Roberto Morandotti, and Yaron Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170506 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Complete Analytic Solution of the Geodesic Equation in Schwarzschild–(Anti-)de Sitter Spacetimes

Eva Hackmann and Claus Lämmerzahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171101 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Late Time Behavior of False Vacuum Decay: Possible Implications for Cosmology and Metastable Inflating States

Lawrence M. Krauss and James Dent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171301 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Non-Gaussianities in New Ekpyrotic Cosmology

Evgeny I. Buchbinder, Justin Khoury, and Burt A. Ovrut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171302 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Large Top-Quark Mass and Nonlinear Representation of Flavor Symmetry

Thorsten Feldmann and Thomas Mannel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171601 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Nucleon Axial Charge in ( $2 + 1$ )-Flavor Dynamical-Lattice QCD with Domain-Wall Fermions

T. Yamazaki, Y. Aoki, T. Blum, H. W. Lin, M. F. Lin, S. Ohta, S. Sasaki, R. J. Tweedie, and J. M. Zanotti (RBC+UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171602 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Jet Signals for Low Mass Strings at the Large Hadron Collider

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, Satoshi Nawata, and Tomasz R. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171603 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Flavor Anarchy in a Randall-Sundrum Model with 5D Minimal Flavor Violation and a Low Kaluza-Klein Scale

A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Gilad Perez, and Lisa Randall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171604 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Determining the $C P$ Parity of Higgs Bosons via Their $τ$ Decay Channels at the Large Hadron Collider

Stefan Berge, Werner Bernreuther, and Jörg Ziethe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171605 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Black Holes and Universality Classes of Critical Points

Pavel Kovtun and Adam Ritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171606 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Lattice Study of the Conformal Window in QCD-like Theories

Thomas Appelquist, George T. Fleming, and Ethan T. Neil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171607 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Transverse Mass for Pairs of Gluinos

Won Sang Cho, Kiwoon Choi, Yeong Gyun Kim, and Chan Beom Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171801 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Measurements of Partial Branching Fractions for $\bar{B} \to X_{u} l \bar{ν}$ and Determination of $| V_{u b} |$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171802 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Observation of Tree-Level $B$ Decays with $s \bar{s}$ Production from Gluon Radiation

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 171803 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Jet Rates in Electron-Positron Annihilation at $O (α_{s}^{3})$ in QCD

A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover, and G. Heinrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 172001 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Shear Viscosity in a Gluon Gas

Zhe Xu and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 172301 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Measurement of the Reaction ${}^{2}H (e, e^{'})$ at 180° Close to the Deuteron Breakup Threshold

N. Ryezayeva, H. Arenhövel, O. Burda, A. Byelikov, M. Chernykh, J. Enders, H. W. Grießhammer, Y. Kalmykov, P. von Neumann-Cosel, B. Özel, I. Poltoratska, I. Pysmenetska, C. Rangacharyulu, S. Rathi, A. Richter, G. Schrieder, A. Shevchenko, and O. Yevetska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 172501 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Nuclear Magnetic Moment of ${}^{210}{Fr}$ : A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach

E. Gomez, S. Aubin, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse, E. Iskrenova-Tchoukova, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 172502 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Wavelength Scaling of High-Harmonic Yield: Threshold Phenomena and Bound State Symmetry Dependence

M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173001 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Lasing without Inversion: Counterintuitive Population Dynamics in the Transient Regime

S. Ya. Kilin, Kishore T. Kapale, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173601 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Observation of Intracavity Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Polariton Resonances in a Doppler-Broadened Medium

Haibin Wu, J. Gea-Banacloche, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173602 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Vibrational Response of Hydrogen-Bonded Interfacial Water is Dominated by Intramolecular Coupling

Maria Sovago, R. Kramer Campen, George W. H. Wurpel, Michiel Müller, Huib J. Bakker, and Mischa Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173901 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Measuring the Complete Transverse Spatial Mode Spectrum of a Wave Field

Gabriel F. Calvo, Antonio Picón, and Roberta Zambrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 173902 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Poincaré Recurrences from the Perspective of Transient Chaos

Eduardo G. Altmann and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174101 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Uncertainty-Limited Turnstile Transport in Deformed Microcavities

Jeong-Bo Shim, Sang-Bum Lee, Sang Wook Kim, Soo-Young Lee, Juhee Yang, Songky Moon, Jai-Hyung Lee, and Kyungwon An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174102 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Dynamical Tunneling in Mushroom Billiards

A. Bäcker, R. Ketzmerick, S. Löck, M. Robnik, G. Vidmar, R. Höhmann, U. Kuhl, and H.-J. Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174103 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Spectral Coarse Graining and Synchronization in Oscillator Networks

David Gfeller and Paolo De Los Rios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174104 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Nonperturbative Approach to the Nonlinear Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Premixed Flames

Hazem El-Rabii, Guy Joulin, and Kirill A. Kazakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174501 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Hydrodynamic Crystals: Collective Dynamics of Regular Arrays of Spherical Particles in a Parallel-Wall Channel

M. Baron, J. Bławzdziewicz, and E. Wajnryb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174502 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Experimental Confirmation of Kelvin’s Equilibria

Georgios H. Vatistas, Hamid A. Abderrahmane, and M. H. Kamran Siddiqui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174503 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Lagrangian Statistical Theory of Fully Developed Hydrodynamical Turbulence

K. P. Zybin, V. A. Sirota, A. S. Ilyin, and A. V. Gurevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174504 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Dynamics of Cryogenic Jets: Non-Rayleigh Breakup and Onset of Nonaxisymmetric Motions

A. V. Boukharov, M. Büscher, A. S. Gerasimov, V. D. Chernetsky, P. V. Fedorets, I. N. Maryshev, A. A. Semenov, and A. F. Ginevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174505 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Characterization of Nonlinear Harmonic Generation in Planar and Helical Undulators

E. Allaria, F. Curbis, M. Coreno, M. Danailov, B. Diviacco, C. Spezzani, M. Trovó, and G. De Ninno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174801 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Operational Stochastic Cooling in the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

M. Blaskiewicz, J. M. Brennan, and F. Severino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174802 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Quantum Plasma Effects in the Classical Regime

G. Brodin, M. Marklund, and G. Manfredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175001 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Trapping and Evolution Dynamics of Ultracold Two-Component Plasmas

J.-H. Choi, B. Knuffman, X. H. Zhang, A. P. Povilus, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175002 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

The Turbulent Alfvénic Aurora

C. C. Chaston, C. Salem, J. W. Bonnell, C. W. Carlson, R. E. Ergun, R. J. Strangeway, and J. P. McFadden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175003 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Experimental Investigation of the Plasma-Wall Transition

Tilmann Lunt, Gerd Fussmann, and Ole Waldmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175004 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Mechanism for Superelongation of Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures

Chun Tang, Wanlin Guo, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175501 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Single Atom Adhesion in Optimized Gold Nanojunctions

M. L. Trouwborst, E. H. Huisman, F. L. Bakker, S. J. van der Molen, and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175502 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Nanoengineering Defect Structures on Graphene

Mark T. Lusk and L. D. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175503 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Melting and Freezing of Argon in a Granular Packing of Linear Mesopore Arrays

Christof Schaefer, Tommy Hofmann, Dirk Wallacher, Patrick Huber, and Klaus Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175701 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Interaction Quench in the Hubbard Model

Michael Moeckel and Stefan Kehrein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 175702 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Abrupt Stress Induced Transformation in Amorphous Carbon Films with a Highly Conductive Transition Phase

D. W. M. Lau, D. G. McCulloch, M. B. Taylor, J. G. Partridge, D. R. McKenzie, N. A. Marks, E. H. T. Teo, and B. K. Tay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176101 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Fingering Instabilities in Dewetting Nanofluids

E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt, I. Notingher, P. J. Moriarty, I. Vancea, and U. Thiele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176102 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Model of Quantum Criticality in ${He}^{3}$ Bilayers Adsorbed on Graphite

A. Benlagra and C. Pépin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176401 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Direct Observation of Dispersive Kondo Resonance Peaks in a Heavy-Fermion System

H. J. Im, T. Ito, H.-D. Kim, S. Kimura, K. E. Lee, J. B. Hong, Y. S. Kwon, A. Yasui, and H. Yamagami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176402 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Real-Time Path Integral Approach to Nonequilibrium Many-Body Quantum Systems

Lothar Mühlbacher and Eran Rabani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176403 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Lattice-Induced Double-Valley Degeneracy Lifting in Graphene by a Magnetic Field

Igor A. Luk’yanchuk and Alexander M. Bratkovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176404 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Time-Resolved X-Ray Microscopy of Spin-Torque-Induced Magnetic Vortex Gyration

Markus Bolte, Guido Meier, Benjamin Krüger, André Drews, René Eiselt, Lars Bocklage, Stellan Bohlens, Tolek Tyliszczak, Arne Vansteenkiste, Bartel Van Waeyenberge, Kang Wei Chou, Aleksandar Puzic, and Hermann Stoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176601 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Optically Induced Hybridization of a Quantum Dot State with a Filled Continuum

P. A. Dalgarno, M. Ediger, B. D. Gerardot, J. M. Smith, S. Seidl, M. Kroner, K. Karrai, P. M. Petroff, A. O. Govorov, and R. J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176801 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Origin of Anomalous Electronic Structures of Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon Carbide

Seungchul Kim, Jisoon Ihm, Hyoung Joon Choi, and Young-Woo Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176802 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Designing Real Nanotube-Based Gas Sensors

A. R. Rocha, M. Rossi, A. Fazzio, and Antonio J. R. da Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176803 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Electronic Shot Noise in Fractal Conductors

C. W. Groth, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176804 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Telegraph Noise in Coupled Quantum Dot Circuits Induced by a Quantum Point Contact

D. Taubert, M. Pioro-Ladrière, D. Schröer, D. Harbusch, A. S. Sachrajda, and S. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176805 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Symmetry and Spin Dephasing in (110)-Grown Quantum Wells

V. V. Bel’kov, P. Olbrich, S. A. Tarasenko, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, T. Korn, C. Schüller, D. Weiss, W. Prettl, and S. D. Ganichev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 176806 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Andreev Reflection in Heavy-Fermion Superconductors and Order Parameter Symmetry in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

W. K. Park, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and L. H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177001 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Chirality Sensitive Effect on Surface States in Chiral $p$ -Wave Superconductors

Takehito Yokoyama, Christian Iniotakis, Yukio Tanaka, and Manfred Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177002 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Low-Energy Subgap States and the Magnetic Flux Periodicity in $d$ -Wave Superconducting Rings

Yu. S. Barash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177003 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Evidence for Two Separate Energy Gaps in Underdoped High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors from Broadband Infrared Ellipsometry

Li Yu, D. Munzar, A. V. Boris, P. Yordanov, J. Chaloupka, Th. Wolf, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177004 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Evidence for a Pseudogap in Underdoped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ and ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.50}$ from In-Plane Optical Conductivity Measurements

J. Hwang, J. P. Carbotte, and T. Timusk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177005 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Determination of the Berry Phase in a Superconducting Charge Pump

Mikko Möttönen, Juha J. Vartiainen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177201 (2008) - Published 28 April, 2008

Single-Copy Entanglement in a Gapped Quantum Spin Chain

Christopher Hadley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177202 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Entropic Effects in the Very Low Temperature Regime of Diluted Ising Spin Glasses with Discrete Couplings

Thomas Jörg and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177203 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Creation and Manipulation of Anyons in the Kitaev Model

Sébastien Dusuel, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Julien Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177204 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008

Spin-Lattice Interactions Mediated by Magnetic Field

J. Cao, L. I. Vergara, J. L. Musfeldt, A. P. Litvinchuk, Y. J. Wang, S. Park, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177205 (2008) - Published 1 May, 2008

Molecular Dynamics and Transfer Integral Investigations of an Elastic Anharmonic Model for Phonon-Induced Spin Crossover

Kamel Boukheddaden, Masamichi Nishino, and Seiji Miyashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177206 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Spin Currents in Rough Graphene Nanoribbons: Universal Fluctuations and Spin Injection

Michael Wimmer, İnanç Adagideli, Savaş Berber, David Tománek, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177207 (2008) - Published 2 May, 2008

Observation of Dressed Excitonic States in a Single Quantum Dot

Gregor Jundt, Lucio Robledo, Alexander Högele, Stefan Fält, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177401 (2008) - Published 29 April, 2008

Reduction of the Linewidths of Deep Luminescence Centers in ${}^{28}{Si}$ Reveals Fingerprints of the Isotope Constituents

M. Steger, A. Yang, N. Stavrias, M. L. W. Thewalt, H. Riemann, N. V. Abrosimov, M. F. Churbanov, A. V. Gusev, A. D. Bulanov, I. D. Kovalev, A. K. Kaliteevskii, O. N. Godisov, P. Becker, and H.-J. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 177402 (2008) - Published 30 April, 2008