Volume 101, Issue 10

5 September 2008

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A spin chain on a ferromagnetic substrate. Coupling with the substrate causes the ground state of an even-numbered chain of atoms (shown here in red) to be noncollinear and an odd-numbered chain to be collinear.

From the article:

Magnetism of Nanowires Driven by Novel Even-Odd Effects
Samir Lounis, Peter H. Dederichs, and Stefan Blügel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107204 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Control of Domain Wall Polarity by Current Pulses

A. Vanhaverbeke, A. Bischof, and R. Allenspach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107202 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electro-Optic Modulation of Single Photons

Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, Shengwang Du, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103601 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $J / ψ \to 3 γ$

G. S. Adams et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 101801 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interplay of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in the Proton

Anthony W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102003 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hypersonic Modes in Nanophononic Semiconductors

S. P. Hepplestone and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105502 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissipation-Driven Quantum Phase Transition in Superconductor-Graphene Systems

Roman M. Lutchyn, Victor Galitski, Gil Refael, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106402 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity at 38 K in the Iron Arsenide $({Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x}) {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Marianne Rotter, Marcus Tegel, and Dirk Johrendt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107006 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconducting Fe-Based Compounds $(A_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x}) {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ with $A = K$ and Cs with Transition Temperatures up to 37 K

Kalyan Sasmal, Bing Lv, Bernd Lorenz, Arnold M. Guloy, Feng Chen, Yu-Yi Xue, and Ching-Wu Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107007 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

LETTERS

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

Collisional Properties of $p$ -Wave Feshbach Molecules

Yasuhisa Inada, Munekazu Horikoshi, Shuta Nakajima, Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, Masahito Ueda, and Takashi Mukaiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100401 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Light-Front ${QED}_{1 + 1}$ at Finite Temperature

S. Strauss and M. Beyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100402 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Controllable Scattering of a Single Photon inside a One-Dimensional Resonator Waveguide

Lan Zhou (周兰), Z. R. Gong (龚志瑞), Yu-xi Liu (刘玉玺), C. P. Sun (孙昌璞), and Franco Nori (野理)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100501 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Fidelity Criterion for Quantum-Domain Transmission and Storage of Coherent States Beyond the Unit-Gain Constraint

Ryo Namiki, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100502 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Crossover from Attractive to Repulsive Casimir Forces and Vice Versa

Felix M. Schmidt and H. W. Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100601 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in the Sedimentation of Reproducing Particles

C. Barrett-Freeman, M. R. Evans, D. Marenduzzo, and W. C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100602 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Method for Probing the Orbital Angular Momentum of Optical Vortices in Electromagnetic Waves from Astronomical Objects

Gregorius C. G. Berkhout and Marco W. Beijersbergen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 100801 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for a Stochastic Background of 100-MHz Gravitational Waves with Laser Interferometers

Tomotada Akutsu, Seiji Kawamura, Atsushi Nishizawa, Koji Arai, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Daisuke Tatsumi, Shigeo Nagano, Erina Nishida, Takeshi Chiba, Ryuichi Takahashi, Naoshi Sugiyama, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Toshitaka Yamazaki, and Masa-Katsu Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 101101 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $J / ψ \to 3 γ$

G. S. Adams et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 101801 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Constrained Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

A. Djouadi, U. Ellwanger, and A. M. Teixeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 101802 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Deflected Mirage Mediation: A Phenomenological Framework for Generalized Supersymmetry Breaking

Lisa L. Everett, Ian-Woo Kim, Peter Ouyang, and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 101803 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Large- $N_{c}$ Confinement and Turbulence

Jean-Paul Blaizot and Maciej A. Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102001 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Factorization Theorems for Exclusive Heavy-Quarkonium Production

Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, and Jungil Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102002 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interplay of Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum in the Proton

Anthony W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102003 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Anomalous Line Shape of the Cross Section for $e^{+} e^{-} \to$ Hadrons in the Center-of-Mass Energy Region between 3.650 and 3.872 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102004 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Test of Isospin Symmetry via Low-Energy ${}^{1}H (π^{-}, π^{0}) n$ Charge Exchange

Y. Jia, T. P. Gorringe, M. D. Hasinoff, M. A. Kovash, M. Ojha, M. M. Pavan, S. Tripathi, and P. A. Żołnierczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102301 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Observation of Inverse Diproton Photodisintegration at Intermediate Energies

V. Komarov, T. Azaryan, D. Chiladze, S. Dymov, A. Dzyuba, M. Hartmann, A. Kacharava, I. Keshelashvili, A. Khoukaz, A. Kulikov, V. Kurbatov, G. Macharashvili, S. Merzliakov, S. Mikirtychiants, M. Papenbrock, M. Nekipelov, F. Rathmann, V. Serdyuk, H. Ströher, D. Tsirkov, Yu. Uzikov, and C. Wilkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 102501 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Electron Tunneling in a Dissociating Hydrogen Molecular Ion

Stefanie Gräfe, Volker Engel, and Misha Yu. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Magnetic Trapping of Silver and Copper, and Anomalous Spin Relaxation in the Ag-He System

Nathan Brahms, Bonna Newman, Cort Johnson, Tom Greytak, Daniel Kleppner, and John Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103002 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electro-Optic Modulation of Single Photons

Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, Shengwang Du, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103601 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Photon Localization and Dicke Superradiance in Atomic Gases

E. Akkermans, A. Gero, and R. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103602 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Two Regimes of Slow-Light Losses Revealed by Adiabatic Reduction of Group Velocity

R. J. P. Engelen, D. Mori, T. Baba, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103901 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Theory of Negative-Refractive-Index Response of Double-Fishnet Structures

A. Mary, Sergio G. Rodrigo, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 103902 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Impact of Impellers on the Axisymmetric Magnetic Mode in the VKS2 Dynamo Experiment

R. Laguerre, C. Nore, A. Ribeiro, J. Léorat, J.-L. Guermond, and F. Plunian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 104501 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Numerical Evidence of Undriven, Fast Reconnection in the Solar-Wind Interaction with Earth’s Magnetosphere: Formation of Electromagnetic Coherent Structures

M. Faganello, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Intense $γ$ -Ray Source in the Giant-Dipole-Resonance Range Driven by 10-TW Laser Pulses

A. Giulietti, N. Bourgeois, T. Ceccotti, X. Davoine, S. Dobosz, P. D’Oliveira, M. Galimberti, J. Galy, A. Gamucci, D. Giulietti, L. A. Gizzi, D. J. Hamilton, E. Lefebvre, L. Labate, J. R. Marquès, P. Monot, H. Popescu, F. Réau, G. Sarri, P. Tomassini, and P. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105002 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Quantitative, Comprehensive, Analytical Model for Magnetic Reconnection in Hall Magnetohydrodynamics

Andrei N. Simakov and L. Chacón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105003 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Hot and Cold Electron Dynamics Following High-Intensity Laser Matter Interaction

P. Antici, J. Fuchs, M. Borghesi, L. Gremillet, T. Grismayer, Y. Sentoku, E. d’Humières, C. A. Cecchetti, A. Mančić, A. C. Pipahl, T. Toncian, O. Willi, P. Mora, and P. Audebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105004 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermal Conductance of Thin Silicon Nanowires

Renkun Chen, Allon I. Hochbaum, Padraig Murphy, Joel Moore, Peidong Yang, and Arun Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105501 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hypersonic Modes in Nanophononic Semiconductors

S. P. Hepplestone and G. P. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105502 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Role of Strontium in Oxide Epitaxy on Silicon (001)

J. W. Reiner, K. F. Garrity, F. J. Walker, S. Ismail-Beigi, and C. H. Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105503 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Adiabatic Electron-Phonon Interaction and High-Temperature Thermodynamics of $A 15$ Compounds

O. Delaire, M. S. Lucas, J. A. Muñoz, M. Kresch, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105504 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Quantum Phase Transition in a Far-from-Equilibrium Steady State of an $X Y$ Spin Chain

Tomaž Prosen and Iztok Pižorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105701 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Continuous Crystallization in Hexagonally Ordered Materials

Gregory M. Grason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105702 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Deterministic Folding in Stiff Elastic Membranes

T. Tallinen, J. A. Åström, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106101 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Hydrodynamics of Nanoscopic Capillary Waves

R. Delgado-Buscalioni, E. Chacon, and P. Tarazona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106102 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Berry Phase Effect on the Exciton Transport and on the Exciton Bose-Einstein Condensate

Wang Yao and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106401 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissipation-Driven Quantum Phase Transition in Superconductor-Graphene Systems

Roman M. Lutchyn, Victor Galitski, Gil Refael, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106402 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Modified Kagome Physics in the Natural Spin- $1 / 2$ Kagome Lattice Systems: Kapellasite ${Cu}_{3} Zn (OH)_{6} {Cl}_{2}$ and Haydeeite ${Cu}_{3} Mg (OH)_{6} {Cl}_{2}$

O. Janson, J. Richter, and H. Rosner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106403 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Influence of the Core-Valence Interaction and of the Pseudopotential Approximation on the Electron Self-Energy in Semiconductors

Ricardo Gómez-Abal, Xinzheng Li, Matthias Scheffler, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106404 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Ab Initio Finite-Temperature Excitons

Andrea Marini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106405 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Single and Double Orbital Excitations Probed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Filomena Forte, Luuk J. P. Ament, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106406 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

First-Principles Studies of the Metallization and the Equation of State of Solid Helium

S. A. Khairallah and B. Militzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106407 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Electron Spin Resonance Signal of Luttinger Liquids and Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

B. Dóra, M. Gulácsi, J. Koltai, V. Zólyomi, J. Kürti, and F. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106408 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Equilibrium Spin Currents: Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance and Color Diamagnetism in Condensed Matter

I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106601 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Nonlocal Conductance Modulation by Molecules: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Substituted Styrene Heterostructures on H-Terminated Si(100)

Paul G. Piva, Robert A. Wolkow, and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106801 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Band Offsets at Semiconductor-Oxide Interfaces from Hybrid Density-Functional Calculations

Audrius Alkauskas, Peter Broqvist, Fabien Devynck, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106802 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Absence of Fermi-Level Pinning at Cleaved Nonpolar InN Surfaces

Chung-Lin Wu (吳忠霖), Hong-Mao Lee (李弘貿), Cheng-Tai Kuo (郭承泰), Chia-Hao Chen (陳家浩), and Shangjr Gwo (果尚志)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106803 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Persistent Currents in One Dimension: The Counterpart of Leggett’s Theorem

Xavier Waintal, Geneviève Fleury, Kyryl Kazymyrenko, Manuel Houzet, Peter Schmitteckert, and Dietmar Weinmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 106804 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Anomalous Josephson Current in Junctions with Spin Polarizing Quantum Point Contacts

A. A. Reynoso, Gonzalo Usaj, C. A. Balseiro, D. Feinberg, and M. Avignon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107001 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Superconducting High Pressure Phase of Germane

Guoying Gao, Artem R. Oganov, Aitor Bergara, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Tian Cui, Toshiaki Iitaka, Yanming Ma, and Guangtian Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107002 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Low-Energy Spin Fluctuations in the Ground States of Electron-Doped $\Pr_{1 - x} {LaCe}_{x} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$ Cuprate Superconductors

M. Fujita, M. Matsuda, S.-H. Lee, M. Nakagawa, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107003 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Probing the Superconducting Energy Gap from Infrared Spectroscopy on a ${Ba}_{0.6} K_{0.4} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Single Crystal with $T_{c} = 37 K$

G. Li, W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, Z. Li, P. Zheng, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107004 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Direct Coupling Between Magnetism and Superconducting Current in the Josephson $φ_{0}$ Junction

A. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107005 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity at 38 K in the Iron Arsenide $({Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x}) {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Marianne Rotter, Marcus Tegel, and Dirk Johrendt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107006 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconducting Fe-Based Compounds $(A_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x}) {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ with $A = K$ and Cs with Transition Temperatures up to 37 K

Kalyan Sasmal, Bing Lv, Bernd Lorenz, Arnold M. Guloy, Feng Chen, Yu-Yi Xue, and Ching-Wu Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107007 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

External Magnetic Field Effects on a Distorted Kagome Antiferromagnet

J.-H. Kim, S. Ji, S.-H. Lee, B. Lake, T. Yildirim, H. Nojiri, H. Kikuchi, K. Habicht, Y. Qiu, and K. Kiefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107201 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Control of Domain Wall Polarity by Current Pulses

A. Vanhaverbeke, A. Bischof, and R. Allenspach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107202 (2008) - Published 2 September, 2008

Dilute One-Dimensional Spin Glasses with Power Law Decaying Interactions

L. Leuzzi, G. Parisi, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107203 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Magnetism of Nanowires Driven by Novel Even-Odd Effects

Samir Lounis, Peter H. Dederichs, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107204 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Unusual Polarization Patterns in Flat Epitaxial Ferroelectric Nanoparticles

Ivan Naumov and Alexander M. Bratkovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107601 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008

Strain-Induced Polarization Rotation in Epitaxial (001) ${BiFeO}_{3}$ Thin Films

H. W. Jang, S. H. Baek, D. Ortiz, C. M. Folkman, R. R. Das, Y. H. Chu, P. Shafer, J. X. Zhang, S. Choudhury, V. Vaithyanathan, Y. B. Chen, D. A. Felker, M. D. Biegalski, M. S. Rzchowski, X. Q. Pan, D. G. Schlom, L. Q. Chen, R. Ramesh, and C. B. Eom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107602 (2008) - Published 4 September, 2008

Onset of Ferrielectricity and the Hidden Nature of Nanoscale Polarization in Ferroelectric Thin Films

Matías Nuñez and M. Buongiorno Nardelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107603 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Spin Polarization of Quantum Well States in Ag Films Induced by the Rashba Effect at the Surface

Ke He, Toru Hirahara, Taichi Okuda, Shuji Hasegawa, Akito Kakizaki, and Iwao Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 107604 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “How Bumps on Whale Flippers Delay Stall: An Aerodynamic Model”

Guang-Hua Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 109401 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

van Nierop, Alben, and Brenner Reply:

Ernst A. van Nierop, Silas Alben, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 109402 (2008) - Published 5 September, 2008

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Breakdown of the Two-Step Model in $K$ -Shell Photoemission and Subsequent Decay Probed by the Molecular-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions of ${CO}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 083001 (2008)]

X.-J. Liu, H. Fukuzawa, T. Teranishi, A. De Fanis, M. Takahashi, H. Yoshida, A. Cassimi, A. Czasch, L. Schmidt, R. Dorner, K. Wang, B. Zimmermann, V. McKoy, I. Koyano, N. Saito, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 109901 (2008) - Published 3 September, 2008