Volume 100, Issue 22

6 June 2008

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On the Cover

Climate network for the global surface temperature for La Niña years. Colors indicate the total number of network links at each location, from highest connectivity (red) to lowest (blue).

From the article:

Topology and Predictability of El Niño and La Niña Networks
Anastasios A. Tsonis and Kyle L. Swanson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228502 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Observation of the Phenomenology of a Solid Thermal Explosion Using Time-Resolved Proton Radiography

L. Smilowitz, B. F. Henson, J. J. Romero, B. W. Asay, C. L. Schwartz, A. Saunders, F. E. Merrill, C. L. Morris, K. Kwiatkowski, G. Hogan, P. Nedrow, M. M. Murray, T. N. Thompson, W. McNeil, P. Rightley, and M. Marr-Lyon (pRad Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228301 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Delayed-Choice Test of Quantum Complementarity with Interfering Single Photons

Vincent Jacques, E Wu, Frédéric Grosshans, François Treussart, Philippe Grangier, Alain Aspect, and Jean-François Roch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220402 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Nonadiabatic Effects in Layer Metals: Raman Spectra of Intercalated Graphite Explained

A. Marco Saitta, Michele Lazzeri, Matteo Calandra, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226401 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correlated Electronic Structure of ${LaO}_{1 - x} F_{x} FeAs$

K. Haule, J. H. Shim, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226402 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Climate Networks around the Globe are Significantly Affected by El Niño

K. Yamasaki, A. Gozolchiani, and S. Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228501 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology and Predictability of El Niño and La Niña Networks

Anastasios A. Tsonis and Kyle L. Swanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228502 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

LETTERS

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

Dynamics of the Entanglement between Two Oscillators in the Same Environment

Juan Pablo Paz and Augusto J. Roncaglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220401 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Delayed-Choice Test of Quantum Complementarity with Interfering Single Photons

Vincent Jacques, E Wu, Frédéric Grosshans, François Treussart, Philippe Grangier, Alain Aspect, and Jean-François Roch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220402 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Bosonic Amplification of Noise-Induced Suppression of Phase Diffusion

Y. Khodorkovsky, G. Kurizki, and A. Vardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220403 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Spacelike Separation in a Bell Test Assuming Gravitationally Induced Collapses

D. Salart, A. Baas, J. A. W. van Houwelingen, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220404 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Exponentially Enhanced Quantum Metrology

S. M. Roy and Samuel L. Braunstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220501 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Cryptography from Noisy Storage

Stephanie Wehner, Christian Schaffner, and Barbara M. Terhal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 220502 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

How Quantum is the Big Bang?

Martin Bojowald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221301 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli-Like String on Codimension-2 Braneworlds in the Thin Brane Limit

Bertha Cuadros-Melgar, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos, Minas Tsoukalas, and Vassilios Zamarias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221601 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Determination of the Strong Phase in $D^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ Using Quantum-Correlated Measurements

J. L. Rosner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221801 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Holographic Dark Matter and Higgs Models

J. Lorenzo Díaz-Cruz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221802 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND

S. Abe et al. (The KamLAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 221803 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Combining Infrared and Low-Temperature Asymptotes in Yang-Mills Theories

M. N. Chernodub and V. I. Zakharov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 222001 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Nuclear Physics

$Λ_{c}$ Enhancement from Strongly Coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma

Su Houng Lee, Kazuaki Ohnishi, Shigehiro Yasui, In-Kwon Yoo, and Che Ming Ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 222301 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photoionization Cross Section of ${Xe}^{+}$ Ion in the Pure $5 p^{5}$ ${}^{2}P_{3 / 2}$ Ground Level

R. Thissen, J. M. Bizau, C. Blancard, M. Coreno, C. Dehon, P. Franceschi, A. Giuliani, J. Lemaire, and C. Nicolas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 223001 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Rydberg Atom Formation in Ultracold Plasmas: Small Energy Transfer with Large Consequences

T. Pohl, D. Vrinceanu, and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 223201 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Storing Images in Warm Atomic Vapor

M. Shuker, O. Firstenberg, R. Pugatch, A. Ron, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 223601 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Chaos-Assisted Tunneling and $1 / f^{α}$ Spectral Fluctuations in the Order-Chaos Transition

A. Relaño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 224101 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Vortex and Translational Currents due to Broken Time-Space Symmetries

S. Denisov, Y. Zolotaryuk, S. Flach, and O. Yevtushenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 224102 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Monoenergetic-Proton-Radiography Measurements of Implosion Dynamics in Direct-Drive Inertial-Confinement Fusion

C. K. Li, F. H. Séguin, J. R. Rygg, J. A. Frenje, M. Manuel, R. D. Petrasso, R. Betti, J. Delettrez, J. P. Knauer, F. Marshall, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Shvarts, V. A. Smalyuk, C. Stoeckl, O. L. Landen, R. P. J. Town, C. A. Back, and J. D. Kilkenny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225001 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

High- and Low-Confinement Modes in Simple Magnetized Toroidal Plasmas

Paolo Ricci, B. N. Rogers, and S. Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225002 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Electric Potential Around an Absorbing Body in Plasmas: Effect of Ion-Neutral Collisions

S. A. Khrapak, B. A. Klumov, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225003 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Plasma Jets Driven by Ultraintense-Laser Interaction with Thin Foils

S. Kar, M. Borghesi, S. V. Bulanov, M. H. Key, T. V. Liseykina, A. Macchi, A. J. Mackinnon, P. K. Patel, L. Romagnani, A. Schiavi, and O. Willi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225004 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Mixed-Mode Oscillations in Complex-Plasma Instabilities

Maxime Mikikian, Marjorie Cavarroc, Lénaïc Couëdel, Yves Tessier, and Laïfa Boufendi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225005 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Poisson’s Ratio and the Densification of Glass under High Pressure

T. Rouxel, H. Ji, T. Hammouda, and A. Moréac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225501 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Crystallization of Dense Binary Hard-Sphere Mixtures with Marginal Size Ratio

Stephen R. Williams, C. Patrick Royall, and Gary Bryant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225502 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Direct Measurement of the Lifetime of Optical Phonons in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Daohua Song, Feng Wang, Gordana Dukovic, M. Zheng, E. D. Semke, Louis E. Brus, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225503 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Origin of Low Thermal Conductivity in Nuclear Fuels

Quan Yin and Sergey Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225504 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Evolution of Thermodynamic Potentials in Closed and Open Nanocrystalline Systems: Ge-Si:Si(001) Islands

Marina S. Leite, A. Malachias, S. W. Kycia, T. I. Kamins, R. Stanley Williams, and G. Medeiros-Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226101 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Nonadiabatic Effects in Layer Metals: Raman Spectra of Intercalated Graphite Explained

A. Marco Saitta, Michele Lazzeri, Matteo Calandra, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226401 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correlated Electronic Structure of ${LaO}_{1 - x} F_{x} FeAs$

K. Haule, J. H. Shim, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226402 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Electron-Phonon Interaction and Charge Carrier Mass Enhancement in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

J. L. M. van Mechelen, D. van der Marel, C. Grimaldi, A. B. Kuzmenko, N. P. Armitage, N. Reyren, H. Hagemann, and I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226403 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Multiple Minima on the Energy Landscape of Elemental Zinc: A Wave Function Based Ab Initio Study

Nicola Gaston, Beate Paulus, Ulrich Wedig, and Martin Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226404 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Transmission Phase of a Singly Occupied Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

M. Zaffalon, Aveek Bid, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226601 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Spin-Transfer Torques in Antiferromagnetic Metals from First Principles

Yuan Xu, Shuai Wang, and Ke Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226602 (2008) - Published 3 June, 2008

Large Spin Diffusion Length in an Amorphous Organic Semiconductor

J. H. Shim, K. V. Raman, Y. J. Park, T. S. Santos, G. X. Miao, B. Satpati, and J. S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226603 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Unified Description of Inelastic Propensity Rules for Electron Transport through Nanoscale Junctions

Magnus Paulsson, Thomas Frederiksen, Hiromu Ueba, Nicolás Lorente, and Mads Brandbyge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226604 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

High-Resolution Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Magnetic Impurity Induced Bound States in the Superconducting Gap of Pb Thin Films

Shuai-Hua Ji, Tong Zhang, Ying-Shuang Fu, Xi Chen, Xu-Cun Ma, Jia Li, Wen-Hui Duan, Jin-Feng Jia, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226801 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Scanning Gate Microscopy of a Nanostructure Where Electrons Interact

Axel Freyn, Ioannis Kleftogiannis, and Jean-Louis Pichard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226802 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Bulk-Edge Coupling in the Non-Abelian $ν = 5 / 2$ Quantum Hall Interferometer

B. Rosenow, B. I. Halperin, S. H. Simon, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226803 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Anticrossing of Spin-Split Subbands in Quasi-One-Dimensional Wires

A. C. Graham, M. Y. Simmons, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226804 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

$N$ -Particle Scattering Matrix for Electrons Interacting on a Quantum Dot

A. V. Lebedev, G. B. Lesovik, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226805 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Phase Diagram of the Electron-Doped ${La}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Cuprate Superconductor from Andreev Bound States at Grain Boundary Junctions

M. Wagenknecht, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, S. Graser, N. Schopohl, B. Chesca, A. Tsukada, S. T. B. Goennenwein, and R. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 227001 (2008) - Published 2 June, 2008

Bond Stretching Phonon Softening and Kinks in the Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra of Optimally Doped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{1.6} {La}_{0.4} {Cu}_{2} O_{6 + δ}$ Superconductors

J. Graf, M. d’Astuto, C. Jozwiak, D. R. Garcia, N. L. Saini, M. Krisch, K. Ikeuchi, A. Q. R. Baron, H. Eisaki, and A. Lanzara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 227002 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

Size Effects in the Nonlinear Resistance and Flux Creep in a Virtual Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless State of Superconducting Films

A. Gurevich and V. M. Vinokur.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 227007 (2008) - Published 6 June, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Observation of the Phenomenology of a Solid Thermal Explosion Using Time-Resolved Proton Radiography

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228301 (2008) - Published 4 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Climate Networks around the Globe are Significantly Affected by El Niño

K. Yamasaki, A. Gozolchiani, and S. Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228501 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology and Predictability of El Niño and La Niña Networks

Anastasios A. Tsonis and Kyle L. Swanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 228502 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Equalization of Synaptic Efficacy by Synchronous Neural Activity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 208102 (2007)]

Myoung Won Cho and M. Y. Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 229901 (2008) - Published 5 June, 2008

Volume 100, Issue 22

On the Cover

From the article:

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