Volume 94, Issue 11

25 March 2005

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On the Cover

STM image of a Ga₂Se₃ film deposited on silicon, showing wirelike nanoscale structures which alternate between vertical and horizontal orientations. The area depicted is 100 nanometers square.

From the article:

Intrinsic Vacancy-Induced Nanoscale Wire Structure in Heteroepitaxial ${Ga}_{2} {Se}_{3} / Si (001)$
Taisuke Ohta, D. A. Schmidt, Shuang Meng, A. Klust, A. Bostwick, Q. Yu, Marjorie A. Olmstead, and F. S. Ohuchi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 116102 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Control of Nanoparticles with Arbitrary Two-Dimensional Force Fields

Adam E. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 118102 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

LETTERS

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

Probing Pair-Correlated Fermionic Atoms through Correlations in Atom Shot Noise

M. Greiner, C. A. Regal, J. T. Stewart, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110401 (2005) - Published 21 March, 2005

Breached Superfluidity via $p$ -Wave Coupling

E. Gubankova, E. G. Mishchenko, and F. Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110402 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Possibility of a First-Order Superfluid–Mott-Insulator Transition of Spinor Bosons in an Optical Lattice

Takashi Kimura, Shunji Tsuchiya, and Susumu Kurihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110403 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Surface Plasmon Modes and the Casimir Energy

F. Intravaia and A. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110404 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Energy-Time Entanglement Preservation in Plasmon-Assisted Light Transmission

Sylvain Fasel, Franck Robin, Esteban Moreno, Daniel Erni, Nicolas Gisin, and Hugo Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110501 (2005) - Published 21 March, 2005

Robust One-Step Catalytic Machine for High Fidelity Anticloning and $W$ -State Generation in a Multiqubit System

Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Neil F. Johnson, and Luis Quiroga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110502 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Observation of Flux Reversal in a Symmetric Optical Thermal Ratchet

Sang-Hyuk Lee, Kosta Ladavac, Marco Polin, and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110601 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Bounded Step Superdiffusion in an Oriented Hexagonal Phase

Yann Gambin, Gladys Massiera, Laurence Ramos, Christian Ligoure, and Wladimir Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110602 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Ratchet Effect for Cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Emil Lundh and Mats Wallin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110603 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

String Picture for a Model of Frustrated Quantum Magnets and Dimers

Ying Jiang and Thorsten Emig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110604 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Ultimate Energy Density of Observable Cold Baryonic Matter

James M. Lattimer and Madappa Prakash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111101 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Energy Spectrum of Particles Accelerated in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks

Uri Keshet and Eli Waxman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111102 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Feynman Propagator for Spin Foam Quantum Gravity

Daniele Oriti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111301 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Absence of Preclassical Solutions in Bianchi I Loop Quantum Cosmology

Daniel Cartin and Gaurav Khanna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111302 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics

P. K. Kovtun, D. T. Son, and A. O. Starinets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111601 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Late Time Neutrino Masses, the LSND Experiment, and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Z. Chacko, Lawrence J. Hall, Steven J. Oliver, and Maxim Perelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111801 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Observation of $B^{+} \to K_{1} (1270)^{+} γ$

Heyoung Yang et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 111802 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Open Charm and Beauty at Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Colliders

Magdalena Djordjevic, Miklos Gyulassy, and Simon Wicks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 112301 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Half-Life of the Doubly Magic $r$ -Process Nucleus ${}^{78}N i$

P. T. Hosmer, H. Schatz, A. Aprahamian, O. Arndt, R. R. C. Clement, A. Estrade, K.-L. Kratz, S. N. Liddick, P. F. Mantica, W. F. Mueller, F. Montes, A. C. Morton, M. Ouellette, E. Pellegrini, B. Pfeiffer, P. Reeder, P. Santi, M. Steiner, A. Stolz, B. E. Tomlin, W. B. Walters, and A. Wöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 112501 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Emergence of Classical Orbits in Few-Cycle Above-Threshold Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen

D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113001 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Single-Particle Self-Excited Oscillator

B. D’Urso, R. Van Handel, B. Odom, D. Hanneke, and G. Gabrielse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113002 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Short-Time Dynamics Through Conical Intersections in Macrosystems

Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Etienne Gindensperger, and Irene Burghardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113003 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Nonthermal Power Law Decay of Metal Dimer Anions

J. Fedor, K. Hansen, J. U. Andersen, and P. Hvelplund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113201 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Quenching of the Magnetic Moment of a Transition Metal Dopant in Silver Clusters

E. Janssens, S. Neukermans, H. M. T. Nguyen, M. T. Nguyen, and P. Lievens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113401 (2005) - Published 21 March, 2005

Nondestructive Rydberg Atom Counting with Mesoscopic Fields in a Cavity

P. Maioli, T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, A. Auffeves, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113601 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Femtosecond Light Transmission and Subradiant Damping in Plasmonic Crystals

C. Ropers, D. J. Park, G. Stibenz, G. Steinmeyer, J. Kim, D. S. Kim, and C. Lienau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113901 (2005) - Published 21 March, 2005

Necklacelike Solitons in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices

J. Yang, I. Makasyuk, P. G. Kevrekidis, H. Martin, B. A. Malomed, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113902 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Optical Necklace States in Anderson Localized 1D Systems

Jacopo Bertolotti, Stefano Gottardo, Diederik S. Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, and Lorenzo Pavesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113903 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Nonadiabatic Landau-Zener Tunneling in Waveguide Arrays with a Step in the Refractive Index

Ramaz Khomeriki and Stefano Ruffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113904 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Second Order Autocorrelation of an XUV Attosecond Pulse Train

L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, E. P. Benis, P. Tzallas, D. Charalambidis, K. Witte, and G. D. Tsakiris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113905 (2005) - Published 23 March, 2005

Enhanced High Harmonic Generation from an Optically Prepared Excited Medium

P. M. Paul, T. O. Clatterbuck, C. Lyngå, P. Colosimo, L. F. DiMauro, P. Agostini, and K. C. Kulander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113906 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Local Observation and Spectroscopy of Optical Modes in an Active Photonic-Crystal Microcavity

N. Louvion, D. Gérard, J. Mouette, F. de Fornel, C. Seassal, X. Letartre, A. Rahmani, and S. Callard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113907 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Universal Decay of the Classical Loschmidt Echo of Neutrally Stable Mixing Dynamics

Giulio Casati, Tomaž Prosen, Jinghua Lan, and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 114101 (2005) - Published 21 March, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Clocking Femtosecond X Rays

A. L. Cavalieri et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 114801 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Dynamics of Zonal Flows in Helical Systems

H. Sugama and T.-H. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 115001 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Characterization of the Initial Filamentation of a Relativistic Electron Beam Passing through a Plasma

A. Bret, M.-C. Firpo, and C. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 115002 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

Spatially Localized Self-Injection of Electrons in a Self-Modulated Laser-Wakefield Accelerator by Using a Laser-Induced Transient Density Ramp

T.-Y. Chien, C.-L. Chang, C.-H. Lee, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 115003 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Photoluminescence and Terahertz Emission from Femtosecond Laser-Induced Plasma Channels

W. Hoyer, A. Knorr, J. V. Moloney, E. M. Wright, M. Kira, and S. W. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 115004 (2005) - Published 24 March, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Hypersonic Phononic Crystals

T. Gorishnyy, C. K. Ullal, M. Maldovan, G. Fytas, and E. L. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 115501 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005

First-Order Isostructural Mott Transition in Highly Compressed MnO

C. S. Yoo, B. Maddox, J.-H. P. Klepeis, V. Iota, W. Evans, A. McMahan, M. Y. Hu, P. Chow, M. Somayazulu, D. Häusermann, R. T. Scalettar, and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 115502 (2005) - Published 22 March, 2005