Volume 93, Issue 25

17 December 2004

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On the Cover

Plot of the differential conductance of a quantum dot with up to four electrons as a function of gate and source-drain voltages, allowing spectroscopy of its quantum states. The dark band in the (upper-image) two-electron region shows the onset of tunneling through the triplet excited state and gives a direct measure of the singlet-triplet splitting in "quantum-dot helium". This splitting is reduced in a magnetic field (bottom image).

From the article:

Cotunneling Spectroscopy in Few-Electron Quantum Dots
D. M. Zumbühl, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256801 (2004)

LETTERS

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

Roton-Rotation Coupling of Acetylene in ${}^{4}H e$

R. E. Zillich, Y. Kwon, and K. B. Whaley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250401 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Zero Sound in a Mixture of a Single-Component Fermion Gas and a Bose-Einstein Condensate

D. H. Santamore, Sergio Gaudio, and Eddy Timmermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250402 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Creating a Stable Molecular Condensate Using a Generalized Raman Adiabatic Passage Scheme

Hong Y. Ling, Han Pu, and Brian Seaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250403 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Quantum Phase Transitions and Bipartite Entanglement

L.-A. Wu, M. S. Sarandy, and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250404 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Implementation of Spin Hamiltonians in Optical Lattices

J. J. García-Ripoll, M. A. Martin-Delgado, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250405 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Vortex Molecules in Coherently Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

Kenichi Kasamatsu, Makoto Tsubota, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250406 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Quantum Calibration of Measurement Instrumentation

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, Lorenzo Maccone, and Paoloplacido Lo Presti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250407 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Universal Properties of Two-Dimensional Boson Droplets

H.-W. Hammer and D. T. Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250408 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Radiative Corrections and Quantum Gates in Molecular Systems

John H. Reina, Ray G. Beausoleil, Tim P. Spiller, and William J. Munro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250501 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Nearly Deterministic Linear Optical Controlled-NOT Gate

Kae Nemoto and W. J. Munro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250502 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Experimental Demonstration of Unconditional Entanglement Swapping for Continuous Variables

Xiaojun Jia, Xiaolong Su, Qing Pan, Jiangrui Gao, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250503 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Generalized Constraints on Quantum Amplification

U. Gavish, B. Yurke, and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250601 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Thermal-Noise Limit in the Frequency Stabilization of Lasers with Rigid Cavities

Kenji Numata, Amy Kemery, and Jordan Camp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250602 (2004) - Published 17 December, 2004

Stability Properties of Nonhyperbolic Chaotic Attractors with Respect to Noise

Suso Kraut and Celso Grebogi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 250603 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Energy Conservation for Dynamical Black Holes

Sean A. Hayward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 251101 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scalar Quantum Field Theory with a Complex Cubic Interaction

Carl M. Bender, Dorje C. Brody, and Hugh F. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 251601 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Neutrino Superfluidity

J. I. Kapusta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 251801 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Universality of Soft and Collinear Factors in Hard-Scattering Factorization

John C. Collins and Andreas Metz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 252001 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Anisotropy and Correlations at Large Transverse Momenta in $p + p$ and $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 252301 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Correlated Multielectron Dynamics in Ultrafast Laser Pulse Interactions with Atoms

A. Rudenko, K. Zrost, B. Feuerstein, V. L. B. de Jesus, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 253001 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Imaging the Translational Dynamics of ${C F}_{3}$ in Liquid Helium Droplets

Andreas Braun and Marcel Drabbels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 253401 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Bistability between Different Localized Structures in Nonlinear Optics

U. Bortolozzo, L. Pastur, P. L. Ramazza, M. Tlidi, and G. Kozyreff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 253901 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Entrainment of Randomly Coupled Oscillator Networks by a Pacemaker

Hiroshi Kori and Alexander S. Mikhailov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 254101 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Spectral Statistics of a Quantum Interval-Exchange Map

E. Bogomolny and C. Schmit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 254102 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Retrieving the Elastodynamic Green's Function of an Arbitrary Inhomogeneous Medium by Cross Correlation

Kees Wapenaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 254301 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Air Entrainment by a Viscous Jet Plunging into a Bath

Élise Lorenceau, David Quéré, and Jens Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 254501 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Generalization of the Landau Criterion as a New Foundation of the Vavilov-Cherenkov Radiation Theory

S. G. Chefranov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 254801 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Stationary Equilibria of Two Fluid Plasmas Having Significant, Internal, Static Electric Fields

W. F. Edwards and E. D. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255001 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Synergy of Electron-Cyclotron and Lower-Hybrid Current Drive in Steady-State Plasmas

G. Giruzzi, J. F. Artaud, R. J. Dumont, F. Imbeaux, P. Bibet, G. Berger-By, F. Bouquey, J. Clary, C. Darbos, A. Ekedahl, G. T. Hoang, M. Lennholm, P. Maget, R. Magne, J. L. Ségui, A. Bruschi, and G. Granucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255002 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Energy Landscape Picture of Overaging and Rejuvenation in a Sheared Glass

Daniel J. Lacks and Mark J. Osborne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255501 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Formation of Thermal Vacancies in Highly As and P Doped Si

V. Ranki and K. Saarinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255502 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Dynamics of the Magnetic and Structural $α − ε$ Phase Transition in Iron

O. Mathon, F. Baudelet, J. P. Itié, A. Polian, M. d'Astuto, J. C. Chervin, and S. Pascarelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255503 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Theory of Carbon Nanocones: Mechanical Chiral Inversion of a Micron-Scale Three-Dimensional Object

Stephen P. Jordan and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255504 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Lattice Vibrations and Electronic Transitions in the Rare-Earth Metals: Praseodymium under Pressure

Helmut Olijnyk, Walter A. Grosshans, and Andrew P. Jephcoat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255505 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Ductile Bulk Metallic Glass

Jan Schroers and William L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255506 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Percolation of Immobile Domains in Supercooled Thin Polymeric Films

Arlette R. C. Baljon, Joris Billen, and Rajesh Khare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255701 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Anomalous Scaling at the Quantum Critical Point in Itinerant Antiferromagnets

Ar. Abanov and A. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255702 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Elastic Behavior of a Two-Dimensional Crystal Near Melting

H. H. von Grünberg, P. Keim, K. Zahn, and G. Maret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255703 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Dynamical Scaling of the Structure Factor of Some Non-Euclidean Systems

S. Mazumder, D. Sen, A. K. Patra, S. A. Khadilkar, R. M. Cursetji, R. Loidl, M. Baron, and H. Rauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 255704 (2004) - Published 16 December, 2004

Brownian Dynamics in Fourier Space: Membrane Simulations over Long Length and Time Scales

Lawrence C.-L. Lin and Frank L. H. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256001 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Observation of Electronic States on Si(111)- $(7 \times 7)$ through Short-Range Attractive Force with Noncontact Atomic Force Spectroscopy

T. Arai and M. Tomitori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256101 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Endotaxial Silicide Nanowires

Zhian He, David J. Smith, and P. A. Bennett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256102 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Self-Organized Formation of Rhomboidal Nanopyramids on fcc(110) Metal Surfaces

A. Molle, F. Buatier de Mongeot, A. Molinari, F. Xiaerding, C. Boragno, and U. Valbusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256103 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Phase Diagram of Coulomb Interactions across the Metal-Insulator Transition in Si:B

Mark Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256401 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Temperature and Magnetic-Field-Enhanced Hall Slope of a Dilute 2D Hole System in the Ballistic Regime

X. P. A. Gao, G. S. Boebinger, A. P. Mills, Jr., A. P. Ramirez, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256402 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Glass Transition and the Coulomb Gap in Electron Glasses

M. Müller and L. B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256403 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Quantum Phase Transitions in the Itinerant Ferromagnet ${Z r Z n}_{2}$

M. Uhlarz, C. Pfleiderer, and S. M. Hayden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256404 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Inelastic Scattering and Local Heating in Atomic Gold Wires

Thomas Frederiksen, Mads Brandbyge, Nicolás Lorente, and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256601 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Identification of Transverse Spin Currents in Noncollinear Magnetic Structures

Jianwei Zhang, Peter M. Levy, Shufeng Zhang, and Vladimir Antropov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256602 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Cotunneling Spectroscopy in Few-Electron Quantum Dots

D. M. Zumbühl, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256801 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

An Elastic “Sieve” to Probe Momentum Space: Gd Chains on W(110)

O. Rader and A. M. Shikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256802 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Effect of Dephasing on the Current Statistics of Mesoscopic Devices

Marco G. Pala and Giuseppe Iannaccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256803 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Propagation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Semiconductor Gratings

J. Gómez Rivas, M. Kuttge, P. Haring Bolivar, H. Kurz, and J. A. Sánchez-Gil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256804 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Role of Surface Anisotropy for Magnetic Impurities in Electron Dephasing and Energy Relaxation and their Size Effect

O. Újsághy, A. Jakovác, and A. Zawadowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256805 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Subgap Density of States in Superconductor-Normal Metal Bilayers in the Cooper Limit

Zhenyi Long, M. D. Stewart, Jr., Taejoon Kouh, and James M. Valles, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257001 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Experimental Evidence for Giant Vortex States in a Mesoscopic Superconducting Disk

A. Kanda, B. J. Baelus, F. M. Peeters, K. Kadowaki, and Y. Ootuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257002 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Pressure-Induced Quantum Phase Transition in the Spin-Liquid $T l C u {C l}_{3}$

Ch. Rüegg, A. Furrer, D. Sheptyakov, Th. Strässle, K. W. Krämer, H.-U. Güdel, and L. Mélési

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257201 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Domain-Wall Induced Phase Shifts in Spin Waves

Riccardo Hertel, Wulf Wulfhekel, and Jürgen Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257202 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Magnetic Domain Wall Propagation unto the Percolation Threshold across a Pseudorectangular Disordered Lattice

J. P. Attané, Y. Samson, A. Marty, J. C. Toussaint, G. Dubois, A. Mougin, and J. P. Jamet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257203 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Temperature Dependent Magnetic Anisotropy in Metallic Magnets from an Ab Initio Electronic Structure Theory: $L 1_{0}$ -Ordered FePt

J. B. Staunton, S. Ostanin, S. S. A. Razee, B. L. Gyorffy, L. Szunyogh, B. Ginatempo, and Ezio Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257204 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Temperature and Field Dependence of the Order Parameter in the Antiferroquadrupolar Phase of ${C e B}_{6}$ from $μ^{+}$ Knight Shift Measurements

A. Schenck, F. N. Gygax, G. Solt, O. Zaharko, and S. Kunii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 257601 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Geometrical Dependence of High-Bias Current in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes”

W. A. de Heer, P. Poncharal, and C. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 259701 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

Bachtold and Bourlon Reply:

A. Bachtold and B. Bourlon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 259702 (2004) - Published 13 December, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Lattice Dynamics and Electron-Phonon Interaction in $(3, 3)$ Carbon Nanotubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 245501 (2004)]

K.-P. Bohnen, R. Heid, H. J. Liu, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 259901 (2004) - Published 14 December, 2004

Publisher's Note: Angular Distributions for ${}_{Λ}^{3, 4}H$ Bound States in the ${}^{3, 4}{H e} (e, e^{'} K^{+})$ Reaction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 242501 (2004)]

F. Dohrmann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 259902 (2004) - Published 15 December, 2004