Volume 93, Issue 19

5 November 2004

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On the Cover

Photographs of two identical films on a sapphire substrate: 200 nm of Mg₂Ni capped by 5 nm of Pd. On the left the view is through the substrate; on the right we see the Pd layer. Initially, both sides are reflective (a). Upon exposure to hydrogen, the Mg₂Ni film forms a black absorbing state [(b), left side]. This switching is reversible and has possible applications to, e.g., smart coatings in solar collectors.

From the article:

Self-Organized Layered Hydrogenation in Black ${M g}_{2} {N i H}_{x}$ Switchable Mirrors
W. Lohstroh, R. J. Westerwaal, B. Noheda, S. Enache, I. A. M. E. Giebels, B. Dam, and R. Griessen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197404 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Topological Relaxation of a Shear-Induced Lamellar Phase to Sponge Equilibrium and the Energetics of Membrane Fusion

L. Porcar, W. A. Hamilton, P. D. Butler, and G. G. Warr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 198301 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

LETTERS

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

Landau Levels and the Thomas-Fermi Structure of Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

Gentaro Watanabe, Gordon Baym, and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190401 (2004) - Published 2 November, 2004

Towards Quantum Entanglement in Nanoelectromechanical Devices

J. Eisert, M. B. Plenio, S. Bose, and J. Hartley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190402 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Collective Modes and Ballistic Expansion of a Fermi Gas in the BCS-BEC Crossover

Hui Hu, A. Minguzzi, Xia-Ji Liu, and M. P. Tosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190403 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Density Profile of a Harmonically Trapped Ideal Fermi Gas in Arbitrary Dimension

Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190404 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Inhomogeneous Atomic Bose-Fermi Mixtures in Cubic Lattices

M. Cramer, J. Eisert, and F. Illuminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190405 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Bound Entanglement Provides Convertibility of Pure Entangled States

Satoshi Ishizaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190501 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

Quantum Phase Control of Entanglement

Vladimir S. Malinovsky and Ignacio R. Sola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190502 (2004) - Published 3 November, 2004

Aperiodic Quantum Random Walks

P. Ribeiro, P. Milman, and R. Mosseri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190503 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Superscaling of Percolation on Rectangular Domains

Hiroshi Watanabe, Satoshi Yukawa, Nobuyasu Ito, and Chin-Kun Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190601 (2004) - Published 2 November, 2004

Power-Law Tail Distributions and Nonergodicity

Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190602 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Anomalous Critical Exponents in the Anisotropic Ashkin-Teller Model

A. Giuliani and V. Mastropietro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190603 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Current Relaxation in Nonlinear Random Media

Tsampikos Kottos and Matthias Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 190604 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Gravity: An Additional Fine-Tuning Problem?

John Collins, Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky, Luis Urrutia, and Héctor Vucetich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 191301 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current and Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays of $D^{0} \to l^{+} l^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 191801 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Evidence for Direct $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

Y. Chao et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 191802 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Proton Source Size Measurements in the $e A \to e^{'} p p X$ Reaction

A. V. Stavinsky et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 192301 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Microscopic Nature of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance: The Stable Ca Isotopes

T. Hartmann, M. Babilon, S. Kamerdzhiev, E. Litvinova, D. Savran, S. Volz, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 192501 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photoexcitation of ${H e}^{-}$ Hollow-Ion Resonances: Observation of the $2 s 2 p^{2} {}^{4}P$ State

R. C. Bilodeau, J. D. Bozek, A. Aguilar, G. D. Ackerman, G. Turri, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193001 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Quantum Suppression of Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms at High Scaled Frequency

H. Maeda and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193002 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Engineering Mixed States in a Degenerate Four-State System

A. Karpati, Z. Kis, and P. Adam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193003 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Multiple Photofragmentation Pathways with Different Recoil Anisotropy from a Metal-Ion–Ligand Complex

Fuminori Misaizu, Ari Furuya, Hironori Tsunoyama, and Koichi Ohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193401 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Resonant Cavity Photon Creation via the Dynamical Casimir Effect

Michael Uhlmann, Günter Plunien, Ralf Schützhold, and Gerhard Soff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193601 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Transfer and Storage of Vortex States in Light and Matter Waves

Zachary Dutton and Janne Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193602 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantum Entanglement of a Large Number of Photons

H. S. Eisenberg, G. Khoury, G. A. Durkin, C. Simon, and D. Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 193901 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Universal Spectral Statistics in Quantum Graphs

Sven Gnutzmann and Alexander Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 194101 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Exact Analysis of Soliton Dynamics in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Jun'ichi Ieda, Takahiko Miyakawa, and Miki Wadati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 194102 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

From Red Cells to Snowboarding: A New Concept for a Train Track

Qianhong Wu, Yiannis Andreopoulos, and Sheldon Weinbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 194501 (2004) - Published 3 November, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron-Beam Conditioning by Thomson Scattering

C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 194801 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

New Scheme for Positron Accumulation in Ultrahigh Vacuum

N. Oshima, T. M. Kojima, M. Niigaki, A. Mohri, K. Komaki, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195001 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Dust-Free Regions around Langmuir Probes in Complex Plasmas under Microgravity

M. Klindworth, A. Piel, A. Melzer, U. Konopka, H. Rothermel, K. Tarantik, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195002 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Attosecond Electron Bunches

N. Naumova, I. Sokolov, J. Nees, A. Maksimchuk, V. Yanovsky, and G. Mourou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195003 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Beat-Wave Excitation of Plasma Waves Based on Relativistic Bistability

Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195004 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Intrinsic Pinning of Vorticity by Domain Walls of $\hat{l}$ Texture in Superfluid ${}^{3}{H e} − A$

P. M. Walmsley, I. J. White, and A. I. Golov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195301 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Universal Breakdown of Elasticity at the Onset of Material Failure

Craig Maloney and Anaël Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195501 (2004) - Published 2 November, 2004

Migration Processes of the 30° Partial Dislocation in Silicon

Norihisa Oyama and Takahisa Ohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195502 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Phonon Density of States and Compression Behavior in Iron Sulfide under Pressure

Hisao Kobayashi, Takashi Kamimura, Dario Alfè, Wolfgang Sturhahn, Jiyong Zhao, and Esen E. Alp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195503 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Superhard Cubic ${B C}_{2} N$ Compared to Diamond

Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195504 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Section Method for Projected Structures of Icosahedral Quasicrystals and Its Application to Electron-Microscopy-Image and Surface Analyses

Akiji Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195505 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Shock Compressing Diamond to a Conducting Fluid

D. K Bradley, J. H. Eggert, D. G. Hicks, P. M. Celliers, S. J. Moon, R. C. Cauble, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195506 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Self-Affine Surface Morphology of Plastically Deformed Metals

Michael Zaiser, Frederic Madani Grasset, Vasileios Koutsos, and Elias C. Aifantis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195507 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Driving Rate Effects in Avalanche-Mediated First-Order Phase Transitions

Francisco-José Pérez-Reche, Bosiljka Tadić, Lluís Mañosa, Antoni Planes, and Eduard Vives

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 195701 (2004) - Published 3 November, 2004

Water Dissociation on Ru(001): An Activated Process

K. Andersson, A. Nikitin, L. G. M. Pettersson, A. Nilsson, and H. Ogasawara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196101 (2004) - Published 3 November, 2004

Experimental Evidence for a Partially Dissociated Water Bilayer on Ru{0001}

Jonas Weissenrieder, Anders Mikkelsen, Jesper N. Andersen, Peter J. Feibelman, and Georg Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196102 (2004) - Published 3 November, 2004

Tuning Surface Reactivity via Electron Quantum Confinement

L. Aballe, A. Barinov, A. Locatelli, S. Heun, and M. Kiskinova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196103 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Ultrathin Films of Ferroelectric Solid Solutions under a Residual Depolarizing Field

Igor Kornev, Huaxiang Fu, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196104 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strain Induced Deep Electronic States around Threading Dislocations in GaN

L. Lymperakis, J. Neugebauer, M. Albrecht, T. Remmele, and H. P. Strunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196401 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

Unification of the Band Anticrossing and Cluster-State Models of Dilute Nitride Semiconductor Alloys

A. Lindsay and E. P. O'Reilly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196402 (2004) - Published 2 November, 2004

Signatures of Spin-Charge Separation in Scanning Probe Microscopy

Iddo Ussishkin and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196403 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

One-Dimensional Transport in Polymer Nanofibers

A. N. Aleshin, H. J. Lee, Y. W. Park, and K. Akagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196601 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Observation of an Interedge Magnetoplasmon Mode in a Degenerate Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

G. Sukhodub, F. Hohls, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196801 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

Role of Spin in Quasiparticle Interference

J. I. Pascual, G. Bihlmayer, Yu. M. Koroteev, H.-P. Rust, G. Ceballos, M. Hansmann, K. Horn, E. V. Chulkov, S. Blügel, P. M. Echenique, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196802 (2004) - Published 2 November, 2004

Identifying Defects in Nanoscale Materials

Masa Ishigami, Hyoung Joon Choi, Shaul Aloni, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen, and A. Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196803 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Observation of a New Type of THz Resonance of Surface Plasmons Propagating on Metal-Film Hole Arrays

Dongxia Qu and D. Grischkowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196804 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Band-to-Band Tunneling in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

J. Appenzeller, Y.-M. Lin, J. Knoch, and Ph. Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196805 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Mechanisms of Reversible Conformational Transitions in a Single Molecule

X. H. Qiu, G. V. Nazin, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196806 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Chiral Single-Wall Gold Nanotubes

R. T. Senger, S. Dag, and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196807 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Coulomb-Blockade-Induced Bound Quasiparticle States in a Double-Island Structure

D. A. Pesin and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 196808 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Observation of the Nonlinear Meissner Effect in YBCO Thin Films: Evidence for a $d$ -Wave Order Parameter in the Bulk of the Cuprate Superconductors

D. E. Oates, S.-H. Park, and G. Koren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197001 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

Observation of Shot-Noise-Induced Asymmetry in the Coulomb Blockaded Josephson Junction

R. K. Lindell, J. Delahaye, M. A. Sillanpää, T. T. Heikkilä, E. B. Sonin, and P. J. Hakonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197002 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Evidence for Crossed Andreev Reflection in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrid Structures

D. Beckmann, H. B. Weber, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197003 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Runaway “Fingerlike” Instability of Magnetic Walls in Ultrathin Layers

B. G. Elmegreen, L. Krusin-Elbaum, T. Shibauchi, and B. Argyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197201 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Nuclear Spin Dynamics in the Quantum Regime of a Single-Molecule Magnet

A. Morello, O. N. Bakharev, H. B. Brom, R. Sessoli, and L. J. de Jongh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197202 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Half-Magnetization Plateau Stabilized by Structural Distortion in the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on a Pyrochlore Lattice

Karlo Penc, Nic Shannon, and Hiroyuki Shiba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197203 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Enhanced Pairing in Doped Quantum Magnets with Frustrated Hole Motion

Didier Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197204 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Babinet Principle Applied to the Design of Metasurfaces and Metamaterials

F. Falcone, T. Lopetegi, M. A. G. Laso, J. D. Baena, J. Bonache, M. Beruete, R. Marqués, F. Martín, and M. Sorolla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197401 (2004) - Published 1 November, 2004

Electron Interactions and Scaling Relations for Optical Excitations in Carbon Nanotubes

C. L. Kane and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197402 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Ultrafast Generation of Ferromagnetic Order via a Laser-Induced Phase Transformation in FeRh Thin Films

Ganping Ju, Julius Hohlfeld, Bastiaan Bergman, René J. M. van de Veerdonk, Oleg N. Mryasov, Jai-Young Kim, Xiaowei Wu, Dieter Weller, and Bert Koopmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197403 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004

Self-Organized Layered Hydrogenation in Black ${M g}_{2} {N i H}_{x}$ Switchable Mirrors

W. Lohstroh, R. J. Westerwaal, B. Noheda, S. Enache, I. A. M. E. Giebels, B. Dam, and R. Griessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197404 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Orientation-Dependent $C_{60}$ Electronic Structures Revealed by Photoemission Spectroscopy

V. Brouet, W. L. Yang, X. J. Zhou, H. J. Choi, S. G. Louie, M. L. Cohen, A. Goldoni, F. Parmigiani, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197601 (2004) - Published 5 November, 2004

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Study of Microtubules Buckling and Bundling under Osmotic Stress: A Probe of Interprotofilament Interactions

Daniel J. Needleman, Miguel A. Ojeda-Lopez, Uri Raviv, Kai Ewert, Jayna B. Jones, Herbert P. Miller, Leslie Wilson, and Cyrus R. Safinya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 198104 (2004) - Published 4 November, 2004