Volume 94, Issue 14

15 April 2005

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Electronic charge density of cubic BC₂N in several crystallographic planes (horizontal rows) at equilibrium (left column) and under large tensile strains (middle and right columns). A sequential bond-breaking pattern is seen in this simulation which can explain the large disparity between the shear and the tensile strengths of this superhard solid.

From the article:

Atomistic Deformation Modes in Strong Covalent Solids
Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145505 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermal Conductance of Andreev Interferometers

Z. Jiang and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147002 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

LETTERS

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

Structure of a Quantized Vortex near the BCS-BEC Crossover in an Atomic Fermi Gas

M. Machida and T. Koyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 140401 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Geometric Phase for Adiabatic Evolutions of General Quantum States

Biao Wu, Jie Liu, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 140402 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Secure Deterministic Communication without Entanglement

Marco Lucamarini and Stefano Mancini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 140501 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Renormalization-Group Transformations on Quantum States

F. Verstraete, J. I. Cirac, J. I. Latorre, E. Rico, and M. M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 140601 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

$R$ Parity from the Heterotic String

Mary K. Gaillard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 141601 (2005) - Published 11 April, 2005

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries for Exclusive $B$ Decays to Charmonium

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 141801 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Precision Rosenbluth Measurement of the Proton Elastic Form Factors

I. A. Qattan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 142301 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Scalar Interaction Limits from the $β − ν$ Correlation of Trapped Radioactive Atoms

A. Gorelov, D. Melconian, W. P. Alford, D. Ashery, G. Ball, J. A. Behr, P. G. Bricault, J. M. D’Auria, J. Deutsch, J. Dilling, M. Dombsky, P. Dubé, J. Fingler, U. Giesen, F. Glück, S. Gu, O. Häusser, K. P. Jackson, B. K. Jennings, M. R. Pearson, T. J. Stocki, T. B. Swanson, and M. Trinczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 142501 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resonant Activation in a Nonadiabatically Driven Optical Lattice

R. Gommers, P. Douglas, S. Bergamini, M. Goonasekera, P. H. Jones, and F. Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143001 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Field-Free Three Dimensional Molecular Axis Alignment

Jonathan G. Underwood, Benjamin J. Sussman, and Albert Stolow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143002 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Exact Time-Dependent Exchange-Correlation Potentials for Strong-Field Electron Dynamics

Manfred Lein and Stephan Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143003 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Accumulation of Three-Body Resonances above Two-Body Thresholds

Z. Papp, J. Darai, J. Zs. Mezei, Z. T. Hlousek, and C-. Y. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143201 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamics of Traveling Waves in the Transverse Section of a Laser

Eamonn O’Neill, John Houlihan, John G. McInerney, and Guillaume Huyet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143901 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Complete Modal Decomposition for Optical Waveguides

Ofer Shapira, Ayman F. Abouraddy, John D. Joannopoulos, and Yoel Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143902 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Nanoscale Resolution in the Focal Plane of an Optical Microscope

Volker Westphal and Stefan W. Hell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 143903 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Direct Processes in Chaotic Microwave Cavities in the Presence of Absorption

U. Kuhl, M. Martínez-Mares, R. A. Méndez-Sánchez, and H.-J. Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 144101 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Magnetically Controlled Convection in a Diamagnetic Fluid

H. Nakamura, T. Takayama, H. Uetake, N. Hirota, and and K. Kitazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 144501 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of the Acceleration of a Single Bunch by Using the Induction Device in the KEK Proton Synchrotron

Ken Takayama, Kunio Koseki, Kota Torikai, Akira Tokuchi, Eiji Nakamura, Yoshio Arakida, Yoshito Shimosaki, Masayoshi Wake, Tadaaki Kouno, Kazuhiko Horioka, Susumu Igarashi, Taiki Iwashita, Atsushi Kawasaki, Jun-ichi Kishiro, Makoto Sakuda, Hikaru Sato, Makoto Shiho, Masashi Shirakata, Tsuyoshi Sueno, Takeshi Toyama, Masao Watanabe, and Isao Yamane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 144801 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Dominant Electrostatic Nature of the Reversed Field Pinch Dynamo

D. Bonfiglio, S. Cappello, and D. F. Escande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145001 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Global Gyrokinetic Stability of Pressure-Gradient-Driven Electromagnetic Modes in Tokamaks with Regions of Low Shear

R. Ganesh and J. Vaclavik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145002 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Electronic-Enthalpy Functional for Finite Systems Under Pressure

Matteo Cococcioni, Francesco Mauri, Gerbrand Ceder, and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145501 (2005) - Published 11 April, 2005

Slow Energy Relaxation of Macromolecules and Nanoclusters in Solution

F. Piazza, P. De Los Rios, and Y.-H. Sanejouand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145502 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Strong dc Electric Field Applied to Supersaturated Aqueous Glycine Solution Induces Nucleation of the $γ$ Polymorph

Janice E. Aber, Stephen Arnold, Bruce A. Garetz, and Allan S. Myerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145503 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Real-Time Evolution of the Distribution of Nanoparticles in an Ultrathin-Polymer-Film-Based Waveguide

Suresh Narayanan, Dong Ryeol Lee, Rodney S. Guico, Sunil K. Sinha, and Jin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145504 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Atomistic Deformation Modes in Strong Covalent Solids

Yi Zhang, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145505 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Modeling the Phase Diagram of Carbon

Luca M. Ghiringhelli, Jan H. Los, Evert Jan Meijer, A. Fasolino, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145701 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Asymmetrically Coupled Directed Percolation Systems

Jae Dong Noh and Hyunggyu Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 145702 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Compressive Stress in Polycrystalline Volmer-Weber Films

R. Koch, Dongzhi Hu, and A. K. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146101 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Columnar $AlGaN / GaN$ Nanocavities with $AlN / GaN$ Bragg Reflectors Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Si(111)

Jelena Ristić, Enrique Calleja, Achim Trampert, Sergio Fernández-Garrido, Carlos Rivera, Uwe Jahn, and Klaus H. Ploog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146102 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Patterning Multilayers of Molecules via Self-Organization

Wei Lu and David Salac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146103 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Bond Breaking Coupled with Translation in Rolling of Covalently Bound Molecules

D. L. Keeling, M. J. Humphry, R. H. J. Fawcett, P. H. Beton, C. Hobbs, and L. Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146104 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Strain Relief in Cu-Pd Heteroepitaxy

Yafeng Lu, M. Przybylski, O. Trushin, W. H. Wang, J. Barthel, E. Granato, S. C. Ying, and T. Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146105 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ab Initio Design of High- $k$ Dielectrics: ${La}_{x} Y_{1 - x} {AlO}_{3}$

Stephen A. Shevlin, Alessandro Curioni, and Wanda Andreoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146401 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Orbital Symmetry and Electron Correlation in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

W. B. Wu, D. J. Huang, J. Okamoto, A. Tanaka, H.-J. Lin, F. C. Chou, A. Fujimori, and C. T. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146402 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Magnetism on the Surface of the Bulk Paramagnetic Intermetallic Compound ${YCo}_{2}$

S. Khmelevskyi, P. Mohn, J. Redinger, and M. Weinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146403 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Effects of Inversion Asymmetry on Electron-Nuclear Spin Coupling in Semiconductor Heterostructures: Possible Role of Spin-Orbit Interactions

Katsushi Hashimoto, Koji Muraki, Norio Kumada, Tadashi Saku, and Yoshiro Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146601 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Half-Metallicity and Efficient Spin Injection in $AlN / GaN ∶ Cr$ (0001) Heterostructure

J. E. Medvedeva, A. J. Freeman, X. Y. Cui, C. Stampfl, and N. Newman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146602 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Tilt-Induced Localization and Delocalization in the Second Landau Level

G. A. Csáthy, J. S. Xia, C. L. Vicente, E. D. Adams, N. S. Sullivan, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146801 (2005) - Published 11 April, 2005

Dwell-Time-Limited Coherence in Open Quantum Dots

B. Hackens, S. Faniel, C. Gustin, X. Wallart, S. Bollaert, A. Cappy, and V. Bayot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146802 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Density Functional Theory of the Electrical Conductivity of Molecular Devices

Kieron Burke, Roberto Car, and Ralph Gebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146803 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Observation of Collapse of Pseudospin Order in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets

Stefano Luin, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Brian S. Dennis, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146804 (2005) - Published 13 April, 2005

Numerical Evidences of Fractionalization in an Easy-Axis Two-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

D. N. Sheng and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 146805 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Novel neutron resonance mode in $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ -wave superconductors

I. Eremin, D. K. Morr, A. V. Chubukov, K. H. Bennemann, and M. R. Norman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147001 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermal Conductance of Andreev Interferometers

Z. Jiang and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147002 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Charged Particles on a Two-Dimensional Lattice Subject to Anisotropic Jahn-Teller Interactions

T. Mertelj, V. V. Kabanov, and D. Mihailovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147003 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Delocalized Fermions in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Mike Sutherland, S. Y. Li, D. G. Hawthorn, R. W. Hill, F. Ronning, M. A. Tanatar, J. Paglione, H. Zhang, Louis Taillefer, J. DeBenedictis, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147004 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005

Ferromagnetic Fluctuation and Possible Triplet Superconductivity in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2} \cdot y H_{2} O$ : Fluctuation-Exchange Study of the Multiorbital Hubbard Model

Masahito Mochizuki, Youichi Yanase, and Masao Ogata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147005 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Direct Observation of the Formation of Polar Nanoregions in $Pb ({Mg}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3}) O_{3}$ Using Neutron Pair Distribution Function Analysis

I.-K. Jeong, T. W. Darling, J. K. Lee, Th. Proffen, R. H. Heffner, J. S. Park, K. S. Hong, W. Dmowski, and T. Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 147602 (2005) - Published 15 April, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Energy-Time Entanglement Preservation in Plasmon-Assisted Light Transmission [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 110501 (2005)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 149901 (2005) - Published 12 April, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Kim et al. Reply [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 139602 (2005)]

T. C. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 149902 (2005) - Published 14 April, 2005