Volume 100, Issue 2

18 January 2008

Browse Issues:

On the Cover

Atomic configuration illustrating nucleation (blue) at the site of a partial dislocation in the surface layer of a square copper nanowire (yellow and green) under uniaxial stress.

From the article:

Temperature and Strain-Rate Dependence of Surface Dislocation Nucleation
Ting Zhu, Ju Li, Amit Samanta, Austin Leach, and Ken Gall
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025502 (2008)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Physical Review Letters; SamGoudsmit’s Vision

Robert K. Adair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020001 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Decompressing Emulsion Droplets Favors Coalescence

Nicolas Bremond, Abdou R. Thiam, and Jérôme Bibette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024501 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scattering Theory Derivation of a 3D Acoustic Cloaking Shell

Steven A. Cummer, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, David Schurig, David R. Smith, John Pendry, Marco Rahm, and Anthony Starr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024301 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shock Waves in Nanomechanical Resonators

Florian W. Beil, Achim Wixforth, Werner Wegscheider, Dieter Schuh, Max Bichler, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026801 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low Frequency Mechanical Modes of Viral Capsids: An Atomistic Approach

Eric C. Dykeman and Otto F. Sankey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 028101 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

LETTERS

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

Ground-State Properties of a One-Dimensional System of Hard Rods

F. Mazzanti, G. E. Astrakharchik, J. Boronat, and J. Casulleras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020401 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Recurrence and Pólya Number of Quantum Walks

M. Štefaňák, I. Jex, and T. Kiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020501 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Robust Quantum Error Correction via Convex Optimization

Robert L. Kosut, Alireza Shabani, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020502 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Local Distinguishability of Multipartite Unitary Operations

Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng, and Mingsheng Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020503 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Failure of the Work-Hamiltonian Connection for Free-Energy Calculations

Jose M. G. Vilar and J. Miguel Rubi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020601 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

New Duality Relations for Classical Ground States

S. Torquato and F. H. Stillinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020602 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Well-Tempered Metadynamics: A Smoothly Converging and Tunable Free-Energy Method

Alessandro Barducci, Giovanni Bussi, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 020603 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Flavor Evolution of the Neutronization Neutrino Burst From an O-Ne-Mg Core-Collapse Supernova

Huaiyu Duan, George M. Fuller, J. Carlson, and Yong-Zhong Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021101 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Lorentz Violation for Photons and Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

Matteo Galaverni and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021102 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Fitting Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Cosmic Strings and Inflation

Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz, and Jon Urrestilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021301 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Simultaneous Solution to Dark Matter and Flavor Problems of Supersymmetry

Jonathan L. Feng, Bryan T. Smith, and Fumihiro Takayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021302 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory

J. Angle et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021303 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Information Theory, Spectral Geometry, and Quantum Gravity

Achim Kempf and Robert Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021304 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Monte Carlo Studies of Supersymmetric Matrix Quantum Mechanics with Sixteen Supercharges at Finite Temperature

Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos, Masanori Hanada, Jun Nishimura, and Shingo Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021601 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Time-Dependent $C P$ -Violating Asymmetry in $B^{0} \to ρ^{0} γ$ Decays

Y. Ushiroda et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021602 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Observation of the Semileptonic Decays $B \to D^{*} τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}$ and Evidence for $B \to D τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021801 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Electroweak Sudakov Corrections using Effective Field Theory

Jui-yu Chiu, Frank Golf, Randall Kelley, and Aneesh V. Manohar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021802 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

First Observation of the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} D_{s}^{+}$ and Measurement of Its Branching Ratio

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021803 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Mass Shift and Width Broadening of $J / ψ$ in Hot Gluonic Plasma from QCD Sum Rules

Kenji Morita and Su Houng Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 022301 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Evidence for Radial Flow of Thermal Dileptons in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

R. Arnaldi et al. (NA60 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 022302 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Nuclear Enhancement of Universal Dynamics of High Parton Densities

H. Kowalski, T. Lappi, and R. Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 022303 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Lightest Isotope of Bh Produced via the ${}^{209}{Bi} ({}^{52}{Cr}, n) {}^{260}{Bh}$ Reaction

S. L. Nelson, K. E. Gregorich, I. Dragojević, M. A. Garcia, J. M. Gates, R. Sudowe, and H. Nitsche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 022501 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Coincidence Measurement of Residues and Light Particles in the Reaction ${}^{56}{Fe} + p$ at 1 GeV per Nucleon with the Spallation Reactions Setup SPALADIN

E. Le Gentil et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 022701 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Determination of the Helium $2 {}^{3}P_{1} - 1 {}^{1}S_{0}$ Transition Rate

R. G. Dall, K. G. H. Baldwin, L. J. Byron, and A. G. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023001 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

In Situ Measurement of Three-Dimensional Ion Densities in Focused Femtosecond Pulses

J. Strohaber and C. J. G. J. Uiterwaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023002 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Using Molecules to Measure Nuclear Spin-Dependent Parity Violation

D. DeMille, S. B. Cahn, D. Murphree, D. A. Rahmlow, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023003 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Quantum Interference Spectroscopy of Rubidium-Helium Exciplexes Formed on Helium Nanodroplets

M. Mudrich, F. Stienkemeier, G. Droppelmann, P. Claas, and C. P. Schulz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023401 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Electro-Optic Quantum Memory for Light Using Two-Level Atoms

G. Hétet, J. J. Longdell, A. L. Alexander, P. K. Lam, and M. J. Sellars

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023601 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Guiding and Focusing of Electromagnetic Fields with Wedge Plasmon Polaritons

Esteban Moreno, Sergio G. Rodrigo, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, L. Martín-Moreno, and F. J. García-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023901 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

One-Way Electromagnetic Waveguide Formed at the Interface between a Plasmonic Metal under a Static Magnetic Field and a Photonic Crystal

Zongfu Yu, Georgios Veronis, Zheng Wang, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023902 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Experimental Demonstration of Electromagnetic Tunneling Through an Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial at Microwave Frequencies

Ruopeng Liu, Qiang Cheng, Thomas Hand, Jack J. Mock, Tie Jun Cui, Steven A. Cummer, and David R. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 023903 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

When Can One Observe Good Hydrodynamic Lyapunov Modes?

Hong-liu Yang and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024101 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Loss Enhanced Phase Locking in Coupled Oscillators

Vardit Eckhouse, Moti Fridman, Nir Davidson, and Asher A. Friesem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024102 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Experimental Realization of Quantum-Resonance Ratchets at Arbitrary Quasimomenta

I. Dana, V. Ramareddy, I. Talukdar, and G. S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024103 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scattering Theory Derivation of a 3D Acoustic Cloaking Shell

Steven A. Cummer, Bogdan-Ioan Popa, David Schurig, David R. Smith, John Pendry, Marco Rahm, and Anthony Starr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024301 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Transfer of Angular Momentum to Matter from Acoustical Vortices in Free Space

Karen Volke-Sepúlveda, Arturo O. Santillán, and Ricardo R. Boullosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024302 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Molecular Dynamics Study of Contact Mechanics: Contact Area and Interfacial Separation from Small to Full Contact

C. Yang and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024303 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Decompressing Emulsion Droplets Favors Coalescence

Nicolas Bremond, Abdou R. Thiam, and Jérôme Bibette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 024501 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Effective-Viscosity Approach for Nonlocal Electron Kinetics in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

G. J. M. Hagelaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025001 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Artificial Collimation of Fast-Electron Beams with Two Laser Pulses

A. P. L. Robinson, M. Sherlock, and P. A. Norreys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025002 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Heat Transport in a Two-Dimensional Complex (Dusty) Plasma at Melting Conditions

V. Nosenko, S. Zhdanov, A. V. Ivlev, G. Morfill, J. Goree, and A. Piel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025003 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Mitigation of the Plasma-Implosion Inhomogeneity in Starlike Wire-Array $Z$ Pinches

V. V. Ivanov, V. I. Sotnikov, A. Haboub, A. P. Shevelko, A. L. Astanovitskiy, A. Morozov, E. D. Kazakov, and S. D. Altemara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025004 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Multiscaling Dynamics of Impurity Transport in Drift-Wave Turbulence

S. Futatani, S. Benkadda, Y. Nakamura, and K. Kondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025005 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Detection and Imaging of ${He}_{2}$ Molecules in Superfluid Helium

W. G. Rellergert, S. B. Cahn, A. Garvan, J. C. Hanson, W. H. Lippincott, J. A. Nikkel, and D. N. McKinsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025301 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

NMR Measurement of the Magnetic Field Correlation Function in Porous Media

H. Cho and Yi-Qiao Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025501 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Temperature and Strain-Rate Dependence of Surface Dislocation Nucleation

Ting Zhu, Ju Li, Amit Samanta, Austin Leach, and Ken Gall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025502 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Critical Role of Inelastic Interactions in Quantitative Electron Microscopy

K. A. Mkhoyan, S. E. Maccagnano-Zacher, M. G. Thomas, and J. Silcox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025503 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Nanoscale Imaging of Buried Structures with Elemental Specificity Using Resonant X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy

Changyong Song, Raymond Bergstrom, Damien Ramunno-Johnson, Huaidong Jiang, David Paterson, Martin D. de Jonge, Ian McNulty, Jooyoung Lee, Kang L. Wang, and Jianwei Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 025504 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Bond-Counting Rule for Carbon and its Application to the Roughness of Diamond (001)

H. X. Yang, L. F. Xu, Z. Fang, C. Z. Gu, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026101 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Formation Mechanism of One-Dimensional Si Islands on a $H / Si (001)$ Surface

Jun Nara, Hiroshi Kajiyama, Tomihiro Hashizume, Yuji Suwa, Seiji Heike, Shinobu Matsuura, Taro Hitosugi, and Takahisa Ohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026102 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Structural Origin of the Sn $4 d$ Core Level Line Shape in $Sn / Ge (111) − (3 \times 3)$

A. Tejeda, R. Cortés, J. Lobo-Checa, C. Didiot, B. Kierren, D. Malterre, E. G. Michel, and A. Mascaraque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026103 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Polar- and Azimuth-Angle-Dependent Rotational and Vibrational Excitation of Desorbing Product ${CO}_{2}$ in CO Oxidation on Palladium Surfaces

Toshiro Yamanaka and Tatsuo Matsushima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026104 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Hydrogen Bonding in Sodium Alanate: A Muon Spin Rotation Study

R. Kadono, K. Shimomura, K. H. Satoh, S. Takeshita, A. Koda, K. Nishiyama, E. Akiba, R. M. Ayabe, M. Kuba, and C. M. Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026401 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

In Situ Photoemission Study of $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ Epitaxial Thin Films with Suppressed Charge Fluctuations

H. Wadati, A. Maniwa, A. Chikamatsu, I. Ohkubo, H. Kumigashira, M. Oshima, A. Fujimori, M. Lippmaa, M. Kawasaki, and H. Koinuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026402 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Scaling and Enhanced Symmetry at the Quantum Critical Point of the Sub-Ohmic Bose-Fermi Kondo Model

Stefan Kirchner and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026403 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Strongly Correlated Superconductivity in ${Rh}_{17} S_{15}$

H. R. Naren, A. Thamizhavel, A. K. Nigam, and S. Ramakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026404 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Magnetic State around Cation Vacancies in II–VI Semiconductors

T. Chanier, I. Opahle, M. Sargolzaei, R. Hayn, and M. Lannoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026405 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Direct Observation of $t_{2 g}$ Orbital Ordering in Magnetite

J. Schlappa, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, C. F. Chang, H. Ott, A. Tanaka, Z. Hu, M. W. Haverkort, E. Schierle, E. Weschke, G. Kaindl, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026406 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Direct Link between Low-Temperature Magnetism and High-Temperature Sodium Order in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

T. F. Schulze, P. S. Häfliger, Ch. Niedermayer, K. Mattenberger, S. Bubenhofer, and B. Batlogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026407 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Universality of Liquid-Gas Mott Transitions at Finite Temperatures

Stefanos Papanikolaou, Rafael M. Fernandes, Eduardo Fradkin, Philip W. Phillips, Joerg Schmalian, and Rastko Sknepnek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026408 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Coupling between an Optical Phonon and the Kondo Effect

K. S. Burch, Elbert E. M. Chia, D. Talbayev, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, A. J. Taylor, and R. D. Averitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026409 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Dynamics of Quantum Noise in a Tunnel Junction under ac Excitation

J. Gabelli and B. Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026601 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Phase Diagram of the Spin Hall Effect

E. M. Hankiewicz and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026602 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shock Waves in Nanomechanical Resonators

Florian W. Beil, Achim Wixforth, Werner Wegscheider, Dieter Schuh, Max Bichler, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026801 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Localized States at Zigzag Edges of Bilayer Graphene

Eduardo V. Castro, N. M. R. Peres, J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos, A. H. Castro Neto, and F. Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026802 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Electronic Transport in Phosphorus-Doped Silicon Nanocrystal Networks

A. R. Stegner, R. N. Pereira, K. Klein, R. Lechner, R. Dietmueller, M. S. Brandt, M. Stutzmann, and H. Wiggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026803 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Weak Values and the Leggett-Garg Inequality in Solid-State Qubits

Nathan S. Williams and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026804 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Coulomb Drag at Zero Temperature

Alex Levchenko and Alex Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026805 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Role of Hydrogen in Giant Spin Polarization Observed on Magnetic Nanostructures

Werner A. Hofer, Krisztián Palotás, Stefano Rusponi, Tristan Cren, and Harald Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026806 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Kondo Effect from a Tunable Bound State within a Quantum Wire

F. Sfigakis, C. J. B. Ford, M. Pepper, M. Kataoka, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Y. Simmons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 026807 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Testable Signatures of Quantum Nonlocality in a Two-Dimensional Chiral $p$ -Wave Superconductor

Sumanta Tewari, Chuanwei Zhang, S. Das Sarma, Chetan Nayak, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027001 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Non-Abelian Superconducting Pumps

Valentina Brosco, Rosario Fazio, F. W. J. Hekking, and Alain Joye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027002 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Stability of Nodal Quasiparticles in Superconductors with Coexisting Orders

E. Berg, C-C. Chen, and S. A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027003 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Smectic Vortex Phase in Optimally Doped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Thin Films

S. A. Baily, B. Maiorov, H. Zhou, F. F. Balakirev, M. Jaime, S. R. Foltyn, and L. Civale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027004 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Manipulating the Magnetic Structure with Electric Fields in Multiferroic ${ErMn}_{2} O_{5}$

Y. Bodenthin, U. Staub, M. García-Fernández, M. Janoschek, J. Schlappa, E. I. Golovenchits, V. A. Sanina, and S. G. Lushnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027201 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Measuring the Momentum of a Nanomechanical Oscillator through the Use of Two Tunnel Junctions

C. B. Doiron, B. Trauzettel, and C. Bruder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027202 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Dynamic Origin of Vortex Core Switching in Soft Magnetic Nanodots

Konstantin Yu. Guslienko, Ki-Suk Lee, and Sang-Koog Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027203 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Quantum-Mechanically Induced Asymmetry in the Phase Diagrams of Spin-Glass Systems

C. Nadir Kaplan and A. Nihat Berker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027204 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Dopant-Assisted Concentration Enhancement of Substitutional Mn in Si and Ge

Wenguang Zhu, Zhenyu Zhang, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027205 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Exact Edge Singularities and Dynamical Correlations in Spin- $1 / 2$ Chains

Rodrigo G. Pereira, Steven R. White, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027206 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Spin Glass Model Based on the Onsager Reaction Field

Derek Walton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027207 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Quantum Kinetic Theory of Phonon-Assisted Excitation Transfer in Quantum Dot Molecules

Emil Rozbicki and Paweł Machnikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027401 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Long Fluorescence Lifetime of ${Ti}^{3 +}$ -Doped Low Silica Calcium Aluminosilicate Glass

L. H. C. Andrade, S. M. Lima, A. Novatski, P. T. Udo, N. G. C. Astrath, A. N. Medina, A. C. Bento, M. L. Baesso, Y. Guyot, and G. Boulon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027402 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Emission Characterization of a Single CdSe-ZnS Nanocrystal with High Temporal and Spectral Resolution by Photon-Correlation Fourier Spectroscopy

L. Coolen, X. Brokmann, P. Spinicelli, and J.-P. Hermier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027403 (2008) - Published 18 January, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Isotope and Temperature Effects in Liquid Water Probed by X-Ray Absorption and Resonant X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy

O. Fuchs, M. Zharnikov, L. Weinhardt, M. Blum, M. Weigand, Y. Zubavichus, M. Bär, F. Maier, J. D. Denlinger, C. Heske, M. Grunze, and E. Umbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 027801 (2008) - Published 16 January, 2008

Jamming Transition and New Percolation Universality Classes in Particulate Systems with Attraction

Gregg Lois, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, and Corey S. O’Hern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 028001 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Comment on “Three-Dimensional, Spin-Resolved Structure of Magnetic Vortex and Antivortex States in Patterned Co Films Using Scanning Ion Microscopy with Polarization Analysis”

M. Bode, O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, W. Wulfhekel, D. McGrouther, S. McVitie, and J. N. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 029703 (2008) - Published 14 January, 2008

Comment on “Optimal Stroke Patterns for Purcell’s Three-Link Swimmer”

O. Raz and J. E. Avron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 029801 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Tam and Hosoi Reply:

Daniel Tam and A. E. Hosoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 029802 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Production of Charginos, Neutralinos, and Sleptons at Hadron Colliders [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3780 (1999)]

W. Beenakker, M. Klasen, M. Kramer, T. Plehn, M. Spira, and P. M. Zerwas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 029901 (2008) - Published 15 January, 2008

Editorial Note: Srianand et al. Reply [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239002 (2007)]

R. Srianand, H. Chand, P. Petitjean, and B. Aracil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 029902 (2008) - Published 17 January, 2008

Volume 100, Issue 2

On the Cover

From the article:

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA