Volume 101, Issue 17

24 October 2008

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Electron charge density isosurfaces (green) of a tungsten tip (blue) at distances of 4.75, 4.5, and 3.0 Å from a silicon surface (brown). As the tip approaches, the charge accumulation distribution on the surface changes, affecting the electron transport between tip and surface.

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Tip-Induced Reduction of the Resonant Tunneling Current on Semiconductor Surfaces
Pavel Jelínek, Martin Švec, Pablo Pou, Ruben Perez, and Vladimír Cháb
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176101 (2008)

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Reexamination of the Power Spectrum in De Sitter Inflation

Iván Agulló, José Navarro-Salas, Gonzalo J. Olmo, and Leonard Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171301 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

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Nature’s Microfluidic Transporter: Rotational Cytoplasmic Streaming at High Péclet Numbers

Jan-Willem van de Meent, Idan Tuval, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178102 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

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A Spin-1 Top Quark Superpartner

Haiying Cai, Hsin-Chia Cheng, and John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171805 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

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Nonlinear Waves in Zonostrophic Turbulence

Semion Sukoriansky, Nadejda Dikovskaya, and Boris Galperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178501 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

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Hyperfine Suppression of $2 {}^{3}S_{1} - 3 {}^{3}P_{J}$ Transitions in ${}^{3}{He}$

I. A. Sulai, Qixue Wu, M. Bishof, G. W. F. Drake, Z.-T. Lu, P. Mueller, and R. Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 173001 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

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Transport of Finite-Sized Particles in Chaotic Flow

Nicholas T. Ouellette, P. J. J. O’Malley, and J. P. Gollub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174504 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

LETTERS

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

Universal Fermi Gases in Mixed Dimensions

Yusuke Nishida and Shina Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170401 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Limits on an Energy Dependence of the Speed of Light from a Flare of the Active Galaxy PKS 2155-304

F. Aharonian et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170402 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Spectral Functions of Strongly Interacting Isospin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Bosons in One Dimension

K. A. Matveev and A. Furusaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170403 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Formation of Dispersive Shock Waves by Merging and Splitting Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. J. Chang, P. Engels, and M. A. Hoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170404 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Nonlinear Phenomenology from Quantum Mechanics: Soliton in a Lattice

Juha Javanainen and Uttam Shrestha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170405 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Resonance Beating of Light Stored Using Atomic Spinor Polaritons

Leon Karpa, Frank Vewinger, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170406 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Excitations of One-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Random Potential

V. Gurarie, G. Refael, and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170407 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Evolution of Entanglement Between Distinguishable Light States

R. Mark Stevenson, Andrew J. Hudson, Anthony J. Bennett, Robert J. Young, Christine A. Nicoll, David A. Ritchie, and Andrew J. Shields

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170501 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Entanglement Evolution in Finite Dimensions

Markus Tiersch, Fernando de Melo, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170502 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Size Dependence of the Minimum Excitation Gap in the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm

A. P. Young, S. Knysh, and V. N. Smelyanskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170503 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Quantum Computing with Alkaline-Earth-Metal Atoms

Andrew J. Daley, Martin M. Boyd, Jun Ye, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170504 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Muon Production in Extended Air Shower Simulations

T. Pierog and K. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171101 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

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Reexamination of the Power Spectrum in De Sitter Inflation

Iván Agulló, José Navarro-Salas, Gonzalo J. Olmo, and Leonard Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171301 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Helical Magnetic Fields from Sphaleron Decay and Baryogenesis

Craig J. Copi, Francesc Ferrer, Tanmay Vachaspati, and Ana Achúcarro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171302 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Non-Pauli-Fierz Massive Gravitons

Gia Dvali, Oriol Pujolàs, and Michele Redi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171303 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Identifying Neutrino Mass Hierarchy at Extremely Small $θ_{13}$ through Earth Matter Effects in a Supernova Signal

Basudeb Dasgupta, Amol Dighe, and Alessandro Mirizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171801 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Grand Unification and Enhanced Quantum Gravitational Effects

Xavier Calmet, Stephen D. H. Hsu, and David Reeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171802 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Observation of $Z Z$ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (The D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171803 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Measurement of the $C P$ Asymmetry in $b \to s γ$ Using a Sum of Exclusive Final States

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171804 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

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A Spin-1 Top Quark Superpartner

Haiying Cai, Hsin-Chia Cheng, and John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171805 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Observation of a Near-Threshold Enhancement in the $e^{+} e^{-} \to Λ_{c}^{+} Λ_{c}^{-}$ Cross Section Using Initial-State Radiation

G. Pakhlova et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 172001 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Hyperfine Suppression of $2 {}^{3}S_{1} - 3 {}^{3}P_{J}$ Transitions in ${}^{3}{He}$

I. A. Sulai, Qixue Wu, M. Bishof, G. W. F. Drake, Z.-T. Lu, P. Mueller, and R. Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 173001 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Relativistic MeV Photoelectrons from the Single Atom Response of Argon to a $10^{19} W / {cm}^{2}$ Laser Field

A. D. DiChiara, I. Ghebregziabher, R. Sauer, J. Waesche, S. Palaniyappan, B. L. Wen, and B. C. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 173002 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Cold Atom Trap with Zero Residual Magnetic Field: The ac Magneto-Optical Trap

Matthew Harvey and Andrew James Murray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 173201 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Young-Type Interference in Collisions between Hydrogen Molecular Ions and Helium

L. Ph. H. Schmidt, S. Schössler, F. Afaneh, M. Schöffler, K. E. Stiebing, H. Schmidt-Böcking, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 173202 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Erasing Distinguishability Using Quantum Frequency Up-Conversion

Hiroki Takesue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 173901 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Semiclassical Mechanism for the Quantum Decay in Open Chaotic Systems

Daniel Waltner, Martha Gutiérrez, Arseni Goussev, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174101 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Enhanced Vertical Inhomogeneity in Turbulent Rotating Convection

R. P. J. Kunnen, H. J. H. Clercx, and B. J. Geurts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174501 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations and Statistical Temperatures in a Turbulent von Kármán Flow

Romain Monchaux, Pierre-Philippe Cortet, Pierre-Henri Chavanis, Arnaud Chiffaudel, François Daviaud, Pantxo Diribarne, and Bérengère Dubrulle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174502 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Variable-Range Projection Model for Turbulence-Driven Collisions

K. Gustavsson, B. Mehlig, M. Wilkinson, and V. Uski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174503 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transport of Finite-Sized Particles in Chaotic Flow

Nicholas T. Ouellette, P. J. J. O’Malley, and J. P. Gollub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174504 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Asymptotically Self-Similar Propagation of Spherical Ionization Waves

A. S. Kyuregyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174505 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Merging of Super-Alfvénic Current Filaments during Collisionless Weibel Instability of Relativistic Electron Beams

Oleg Polomarov, Igor Kaganovich, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175001 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Surface States and the Charge of a Dust Particle in a Plasma

F. X. Bronold, H. Fehske, H. Kersten, and H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175002 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Time Window for Magnetic Reconnection in Plasma Configurations with Velocity Shear

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175003 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Suppression and Feedback Control of Anomalous Induced Backscattering by Pump-Frequency Modulation

V. I. Arkhipenko, E. Z. Gusakov, L. V. Simonchik, and F. M. Truhachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175004 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Anisotropic Scaling of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Timothy S. Horbury, Miriam Forman, and Sean Oughton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175005 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dominoes in Carbon Nanotubes

Tienchong Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175501 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Mechanical Properties of ZnO Nanowires

Baomei Wen, John E. Sader, and John J. Boland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175502 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Fine Structure in Swift Heavy Ion Tracks in Amorphous ${SiO}_{2}$

P. Kluth, C. S. Schnohr, O. H. Pakarinen, F. Djurabekova, D. J. Sprouster, R. Giulian, M. C. Ridgway, A. P. Byrne, C. Trautmann, D. J. Cookson, K. Nordlund, and M. Toulemonde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175503 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Adiabatic Dynamics in Open Quantum Critical Many-Body Systems

Dario Patanè, Alessandro Silva, Luigi Amico, Rosario Fazio, and Giuseppe E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175701 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Wave Localization in Complex Networks with High Clustering

Lukas Jahnke, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Richard Berkovits, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175702 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Competition between Thermal Fluctuations and Disorder in the Crystallization of ${}^{4}{He}$ in Aerogel

Ryuji Nomura, Aiko Osawa, Tomohiro Mimori, Ken-ichi Ueno, Haruko Kato, and Yuichi Okuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175703 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Tip-Induced Reduction of the Resonant Tunneling Current on Semiconductor Surfaces

Pavel Jelínek, Martin Švec, Pablo Pou, Ruben Perez, and Vladimír Cháb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176101 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Metal Atom Catalyzed Enlargement of Fullerenes

Chuanhong Jin, Haiping Lan, Kazu Suenaga, Lianmao Peng, and Sumio Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176102 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Salt-Induced Counterion-Mobility Anomaly in Polyelectrolyte Electrophoresis

Sebastian Fischer, Ali Naji, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176103 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Multichannel Kondo Models in Non-Abelian Quantum Hall Droplets

Gregory A. Fiete, Waheb Bishara, and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176801 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Unconventional Quasiparticle Lifetime in Graphene

J. González and E. Perfetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176802 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Paired Composite Fermion Phase of Quantum Hall Bilayers at $ν = \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{2}$

Gunnar Möller, Steven H. Simon, and Edward H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176803 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Integrable Theory of Quantum Transport in Chaotic Cavities

Vladimir Al. Osipov and Eugene Kanzieper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176804 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Sequence Dependent Electron Transport in Wet DNA: Ab initio and Molecular Dynamics Studies

Sairam S. Mallajosyula, J. C. Lin, D. L. Cox, S. K. Pati, and R. R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 176805 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Fermi Arcs in the Superconducting Clustered State for Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

G. Alvarez and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177001 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Probing the Nodal Gap in the Pressure-Induced Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

Tuson Park, E. D. Bauer, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177002 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Generalized Elliott-Yafet Theory of Electron Spin Relaxation in Metals: Origin of the Anomalous Electron Spin Lifetime in ${MgB}_{2}$

F. Simon, B. Dóra, F. Murányi, A. Jánossy, S. Garaj, L. Forró, S. Bud’ko, C. Petrovic, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177003 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Evidence for Charge Glasslike Behavior in Lightly Doped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ at Low Temperatures

I. Raičević, J. Jaroszyński, Dragana Popović, C. Panagopoulos, and T. Sasagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177004 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

K-Doping Dependence of the Fermi Surface of the Iron-Arsenic ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductor Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Chang Liu, G. D. Samolyuk, Y. Lee, Ni Ni, Takeshi Kondo, A. F. Santander-Syro, S. L. Bud’ko, J. L. McChesney, E. Rotenberg, T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, P. C. Canfield, B. N. Harmon, and A. Kaminski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177005 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Fractional Magnetization Plateaus and Magnetic Order in the Shastry-Sutherland Magnet ${TmB}_{4}$

K. Siemensmeyer, E. Wulf, H.-J. Mikeska, K. Flachbart, S. Gabáni, S. Mat’aš, P. Priputen, A. Efdokimova, and N. Shitsevalova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177201 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Quantized Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chains

R. Wieser, E. Y. Vedmedenko, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177202 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Multiple Metamagnetic Transitions in the Magnetic Refrigerant $La (Fe, Si)_{13} H_{x}$

Julia Lyubina, Konstantin Nenkov, Ludwig Schultz, and Oliver Gutfleisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177203 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Diffusion of Interstitial Mn in the Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As: The Effect of a Charge State

V. I. Baykov, P. A. Korzhavyi, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177204 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Molecular Spin Resonance in the Geometrically Frustrated Magnet ${MgCr}_{2} O_{4}$ by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

K. Tomiyasu, H. Suzuki, M. Toki, S. Itoh, M. Matsuura, N. Aso, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177401 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Light-Induced Matrix Softening of Ge-As-Se Network Glasses

Laurent Calvez, Zhiyong Yang, and Pierre Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177402 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

Photoinduced Metal-to-Insulator Transition in a Manganite Thin Film

N. Takubo, I. Onishi, K. Takubo, T. Mizokawa, and K. Miyano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177403 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Bound Excitons in ${Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{3}$

K. W. Kim, G. D. Gu, C. C. Homes, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177404 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Grazing Incidence Diffraction of keV Helium Atoms on a Ag(110) Surface

N. Bundaleski, H. Khemliche, P. Soulisse, and P. Roncin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 177601 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Origin of Contractile Force during Cell Division of Bacteria

Biplab Ghosh and Anirban Sain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178101 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

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Nature’s Microfluidic Transporter: Rotational Cytoplasmic Streaming at High Péclet Numbers

Jan-Willem van de Meent, Idan Tuval, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178102 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Protein Dynamical Transition Does Not Require Protein Structure

Yunfen He, Pei I. Ku, J. R. Knab, J. Y. Chen, and A. G. Markelz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178103 (2008) - Published 23 October, 2008

Physical Limits on Computation by Assemblies of Allosteric Proteins

John M. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178104 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

Chiral-Selective Chemistry Induced by Spin-Polarized Secondary Electrons from a Magnetic Substrate

R. A. Rosenberg, M. Abu Haija, and P. J. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178301 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Solvent-Induced Acceleration of the Rate of Activation of a Molecular Reaction

P. L. García-Müller, F. Borondo, Rigoberto Hernandez, and R. M. Benito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178302 (2008) - Published 22 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nonlinear Waves in Zonostrophic Turbulence

Semion Sukoriansky, Nadejda Dikovskaya, and Boris Galperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 178501 (2008) - Published 24 October, 2008

COMMENTS

Comment on “Coexistence of BCS- and BEC-Like Pair Structures in Halo Nuclei”

N. T. Zinner and A. S. Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 179201 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

Hagino et al. Reply:

K. Hagino, H. Sagawa, J. Carbonell, and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 179202 (2008) - Published 20 October, 2008

ERRATA

Erratum: Kinetics of Stimulated Polariton Scattering in Planar Microcavities: Evidence for a Dynamically Self-Organized Optical Parametric Oscillator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 136401 (2008)]

A. A. Demenev, A. A. Shchekin, A. V. Larionov, S. S. Gavrilov, V. D. Kulakovskii, N. A. Gippius, and S. G. Tikhodeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 179901 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008

Erratum: Rotational Raman Effects in the Wake of Optical Filamentation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 123006 (2008)]

F. Calegari, C. Vozzi, S. Gasilov, E. Benedetti, G. Sansone, M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, and S. Stagira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 179902 (2008) - Published 21 October, 2008