Volume 93, Issue 10

3 September 2004

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On the Cover

Bimetallic nanoclusters built out of 13-atom icosahedral building blocks (top row). This family of magic clusters possesses remarkable structural, thermodynamic, and electronic stability.

From the article:

Magic Polyicosahedral Core-Shell Clusters
G. Rossi, A. Rapallo, C. Mottet, A. Fortunelli, F. Baletto, and R. Ferrando
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105503 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Whispering Gallery Modes in Nanosized Dielectric Resonators with Hexagonal Cross Section

Thomas Nobis, Evgeni M. Kaidashev, Andreas Rahm, Michael Lorenz, and Marius Grundmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 103903 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

LETTERS

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

Soliton Trains in Bose-Fermi Mixtures

T. Karpiuk, M. Brewczyk, S. Ospelkaus-Schwarzer, K. Bongs, M. Gajda, and K. Rza̧żewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100401 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Multiple Domain Formation Induced by Modulation Instability in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

Kenichi Kasamatsu and Makoto Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100402 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Variable Quantum Erasing

Ulrik L. Andersen, Oliver Glöckl, Stefan Lorenz, Gerd Leuchs, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100403 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Quantitative Comparison between Theoretical Predictions and Experimental Results for the BCS-BEC Crossover

A. Perali, P. Pieri, and G. C. Strinati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100404 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Physical Limits to Communication

Seth Lloyd, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100501 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Scaling Ion Trap Quantum Computation through Fast Quantum Gates

L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100502 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Time Reversal and Charge Echo in an Electron Gas

Richard J. Creswick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100601 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for an Oscillatory Signature in Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations

Y. Ashie et al. (The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 101801 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Two-Loop Sudakov Form Factor in a Theory with a Mass Gap

Bernd Feucht, Johann H. Kühn, Alexander A. Penin, and Vladimir A. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 101802 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Stopping in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

I. G. Bearden et al. (BRAHMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 102301 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Measurement of the $β - ν$ Correlation using Magneto-optically Trapped ${}^{21}{N a}$

N. D. Scielzo, S. J. Freedman, B. K. Fujikawa, and P. A. Vetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 102501 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Regular and Chaotic Vibrations of Deformed Nuclei with Increasing $γ$ Rigidity

Pavel Cejnar and Pavel Stránský

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 102502 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Quantum Calculations of Coulomb Reorientation for Sub-Barrier Fusion

C. Simenel, Ph. Chomaz, and G. de France

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 102701 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherence-Preserving Trap Architecture for Long-Term Control of Giant Ryberg Atoms

P. Hyafil, J. Mozley, A. Perrin, J. Tailleur, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 103001 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Cavity QED with Quantized Center of Mass Motion

Joe Leach and P. R. Rice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 103601 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

All-Fiber Format Compression of Frequency Chirped Pulses in Air-Guiding Photonic Crystal Fibers

C. J. S. de Matos, S. V. Popov, A. B. Rulkov, J. R. Taylor, J. Broeng, T. P. Hansen, and V. P. Gapontsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 103901 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Grating-Mediated Waveguiding

Oren Cohen, Barak Freedman, Jason W. Fleischer, Mordechai Segev, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 103902 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Whispering Gallery Modes in Nanosized Dielectric Resonators with Hexagonal Cross Section

Thomas Nobis, Evgeni M. Kaidashev, Andreas Rahm, Michael Lorenz, and Marius Grundmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 103903 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Aging Transition and Universal Scaling in Oscillator Networks

Hiroaki Daido and Kenji Nakanishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 104101 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Chemical Instability Induced by a Shear Flow

Desiderio A. Vasquez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 104501 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Structure of the Magnetic Reconnection Diffusion Region from Four-Spacecraft Observations

A. Vaivads, Y. Khotyaintsev, M. André, A. Retinò, S. C. Buchert, B. N. Rogers, P. Décréau, G. Paschmann, and T. D. Phan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105001 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Resistive Wall Mode in Collisionless Quasistationary Plasmas

Bo Hu and R. Betti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105002 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Shear Alfvén Wave Perpendicular Propagation from the Kinetic to the Inertial Regime

Stephen Vincena, Walter Gekelman, and James Maggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105003 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Nonlinear Evolution of the Lower-Hybrid Drift Instability in a Current Sheet

William Daughton, Giovanni Lapenta, and Paolo Ricci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105004 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase-Transition Phenomena of $0.8 μ m$ Superfluid ${}^{3}H e$ Slab

Kenji Kawasaki, Tomohiro Yoshida, Miki Tarui, Hisashi Nakagawa, Hideo Yano, Osamu Ishikawa, and Tohru Hata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105301 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Neutron-Detected Tomography of Impurity-Seeded Superfluid Helium

M. E. Hayden, G. Archibald, P. D. Barnes, W. T. Buttler, D. J. Clark, M. D. Cooper, M. Espy, R. Golub, G. L. Greene, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. Lei, L. J. Marek, J.-C. Peng, and S. I. Penttila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105302 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Nanofilm Allotrope and Phase Transformation of Ultrathin Bi Film on $S i (111) − 7 \times 7$

T. Nagao, J. T. Sadowski, M. Saito, S. Yaginuma, Y. Fujikawa, T. Kogure, T. Ohno, Y. Hasegawa, S. Hasegawa, and T. Sakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105501 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Does the Interaction Potential Determine Both the Fragility of a Liquid and the Vibrational Properties of Its Glassy State?

Patrice Bordat, Frédéric Affouard, Marc Descamps, and K. L. Ngai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105502 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Magic Polyicosahedral Core-Shell Clusters

G. Rossi, A. Rapallo, C. Mottet, A. Fortunelli, F. Baletto, and R. Ferrando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105503 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Dynamic Instabilities of Fracture under Biaxial Strain Using a Phase Field Model

Hervé Henry and Herbert Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105504 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Enhanced Planar Channeling of MeV Protons through Thin Crystals

M. B. H. Breese, M. A. Rana, T. Osipowicz, and E. J. Teo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105505 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Microscale Simulation of Martensitic Microstructure Evolution

Valery I. Levitas, Alexander V. Idesman, and Dean L. Preston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105701 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Anisotropic Defect-Mediated Melting of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

C. Eisenmann, U. Gasser, P. Keim, and G. Maret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 105702 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Observation of Finite-Size Effects on a Structural Phase Transition of 2D Nanoislands

Ing-Shouh Hwang, Shih-Hsin Chang, Chung-Kai Fang, Lih-Juann Chen, and Tien T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106101 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Coulomb Sink: A Novel Coulomb Effect on Coarsening of Metal Nanoclusters on Semiconductor Surfaces

Y. Han, J. Y. Zhu, Feng Liu, Shao-Chun Li, Jin-Feng Jia, Yan-Feng Zhang, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106102 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Temperature Driven Reversible Breakdown of Pseudomorphism in Ultrathin $F e / {C u}_{3} A u$ Films

F. Bisio, S. Terreni, G. Gonella, L. Floreano, A. Morgante, M. Canepa, and L. Mattera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106103 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

General Insight into CO Oxidation: A Density Functional Theory Study of the Reaction Mechanism on Platinum Oxides

Xue-Qing Gong, R. Raval, and P. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106104 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Calorimetry at Surfaces Using High-Resolution Core-Level Photoemission

S. C. Santucci, A. Goldoni, R. Larciprete, S. Lizzit, M. Bertolo, A. Baraldi, and C. Masciovecchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106105 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mechanism of Gap Opening in a Triple-Band Peierls System: In Atomic Wires on Si

J. R. Ahn, J. H. Byun, H. Koh, E. Rotenberg, S. D. Kevan, and H. W. Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106401 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Direct Evidence of the Charge Ordered Phase Transition of Indium Nanowires on Si(111)

S. J. Park, H. W. Yeom, S. H. Min, D. H. Park, and I. -W. Lyo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106402 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Berry Phase and de Haas–van Alphen Effect in ${L a R h I n}_{5}$

G. P. Mikitik and Yu. V. Sharlai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106403 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Sliding-Induced Decoupling and Charge Transfer between the Coexisting $Q_{1}$ and $Q_{2}$ Charge Density Waves in ${N b S e}_{3}$

A. Ayari, R. Danneau, H. Requardt, L. Ortega, J. E. Lorenzo, P. Monceau, R. Currat, S. Brazovskii, and G. Grübel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106404 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Direct Observation of Self-Trapped Vibrational States in $α$ -Helices

J. Edler, R. Pfister, V. Pouthier, C. Falvo, and P. Hamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106405 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Quasiparticle Anisotropy and Pseudogap Formation from the Weak-Coupling Renormalization Group Point of View

A. A. Katanin and A. P. Kampf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106406 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Spin Mass of an Electron Liquid

Zhixin Qian, Giovanni Vignale, and D. C. Marinescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106601 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Interfacial Resonance State Probed by Spin-Polarized Tunneling in Epitaxial $F e / M g O / F e$ Tunnel Junctions

C. Tiusan, J. Faure-Vincent, C. Bellouard, M. Hehn, E. Jouguelet, and A. Schuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106602 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Josephson Junctions as Threshold Detectors for Full Counting Statistics

J. Tobiska and Yu. V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106801 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Magnetic-Field Asymmetry of Nonlinear Mesoscopic Transport

David Sánchez and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106802 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Coulomb-Modified Fano Resonance in a One-Lead Quantum Dot

A. C. Johnson, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106803 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Measurement Efficiency and $n$ -Shot Readout of Spin Qubits

Hans-Andreas Engel, Vitaly N. Golovach, Daniel Loss, L. M. K. Vandersypen, J. M. Elzerman, R. Hanson, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106804 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Metal-to-Insulator Crossover in ${Y B a}_{2} {C u}_{3} O_{y}$ Probed by Low-Temperature Quasiparticle Heat Transport

X. F. Sun, Kouji Segawa, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107001 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Microwave-Induced Thermal Escape in Josephson Junctions

N. Grønbech-Jensen, M. G. Castellano, F. Chiarello, M. Cirillo, C. Cosmelli, L. V. Filippenko, R. Russo, and G. Torrioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107002 (2004) - Published 30 August, 2004

Survival of the $d$ -Wave Superconducting State near the Edge of Antiferromagnetism in the Cuprate Phase Diagram

A. Hosseini, D. M. Broun, D. E. Sheehy, T. P. Davis, M. Franz, W. N. Hardy, Ruixing Liang, and D. A. Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107003 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Broken Particle-Hole Symmetry at Atomically Flat $a$ -Axis ${Y B a}_{2} {C u}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Interfaces

Bruce A. Davidson, Revaz Ramazashvili, Simon Kos, and James N. Eckstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107004 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Direct Imaging of Temperature-Dependent Layered Antiferromagnetism of a Magnetic Oxide

M. Konoto, T. Kohashi, K. Koike, T. Arima, Y. Kaneko, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107201 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Field-Induced Ferromagnetic Metallic State in the Bilayer Manganite $({L a}_{0.4} {P r}_{0.6})_{1.2} {S r}_{1.8} {M n}_{2} O_{7}$ , Probed by Neutron Scattering

F. Moussa, M. Hennion, F. Wang, A. Gukasov, R. Suryanarayanan, M. Apostu, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107202 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Magnon Squeezing in an Antiferromagnet: Reducing the Spin Noise below the Standard Quantum Limit

Jimin Zhao, A. V. Bragas, D. J. Lockwood, and R. Merlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107203 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Theory of Inelastic Scattering from Magnetic Impurities

Gergely Zaránd, László Borda, Jan von Delft, and Natan Andrei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107204 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Conditions for Noncollinear Instabilities of Ferromagnetic Materials

Raquel Lizárraga, Lars Nordström, Lars Bergqvist, Anders Bergman, Elisabeth Sjöstedt, Peter Mohn, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107205 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Magnetic-Field Induced Spin-Peierls Instability in Strongly Frustrated Quantum Spin Lattices

Johannes Richter, Oleg Derzhko, and Jörg Schulenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107206 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Colossal Magnetodielectric Effects in ${D y M n}_{2} O_{5}$

N. Hur, S. Park, P. A. Sharma, S. Guha, and S-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107207 (2004) - Published 3 September, 2004

Photocurrents in Nanotube Junctions

D. A. Stewart and François Léonard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107401 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Effective Medium Theory of Left-Handed Materials

T. Koschny, M. Kafesaki, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107402 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Measurement of the Radiative and Nonradiative Decay Rates of Single CdSe Nanocrystals through a Controlled Modification of their Spontaneous Emission

X. Brokmann, L. Coolen, M. Dahan, and J. P. Hermier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107403 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Excited States Mapped by Secondary Photoemission

M. Bovet, V. N. Strocov, F. Clerc, C. Koitzsch, D. Naumović, and P. Aebi 1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107601 (2004) - Published 31 August, 2004

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Publisher's Note: Experimental Evidence for a High-Pressure Isostructural Phase Transition in Osmium [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095502 (2004)]

Florent Occelli, Daniel L. Farber, James Badro, Chantel M. Aracne, David M. Teter, Michael Hanfland, Bernard Canny, and Bernard Couzinet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 109901 (2004) - Published 1 September, 2004

Publisher's Note: Anisotropic Thermal Conduction in a Polymer Liquid Subjected to Shear Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 098301 (2004)]

David C. Venerus, Jay D. Schieber, Venkat Balasubramanian, Kendall Bush, and Stoyan Smoukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 109902 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004

Publisher's Note: Experimental Bell Inequality Violation with an Atom and a Photon [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090410 (2004)]

D. L. Moehring, M. J. Madsen, B. B. Blinov, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 109903 (2004) - Published 2 September, 2004