Volume 94, Issue 17

6 May 2005

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On the Cover

Side and top views of a large stable drop floating on a bath of the same fluid. The interference fringes show the existence of an air film between the drop and the bath.

From the article:

From Bouncing to Floating: Noncoalescence of Drops on a Fluid Bath
Y. Couder, E. Fort, C.-H. Gautier, and A. Boudaoud
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177801 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Exons, Introns, and DNA Thermodynamics

Enrico Carlon, Mehdi Lejard Malki, and Ralf Blossey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 178101 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

LETTERS

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

Computational Complexity and Fundamental Limitations to Fermionic Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Matthias Troyer and Uwe-Jens Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170201 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Fixed Points of the Dissipative Hofstadter Model

E. Novais, F. Guinea, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170401 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Dynamics of the BCS-BEC Crossover in a Degenerate Fermi Gas

M. H. Szymańska, B. D. Simons, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170402 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Photon Recoil Momentum in Dispersive Media

Gretchen K. Campbell, Aaron E. Leanhardt, Jongchul Mun, Micah Boyd, Erik W. Streed, Wolfgang Ketterle, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170403 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Damping of a Unitary Fermi Gas

J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170404 (2005) - Published 6 May, 2005

Origin of the Usefulness of the Natural-Time Representation of Complex Time Series

Sumiyoshi Abe, N. V. Sarlis, E. S. Skordas, H. K. Tanaka, and P. A. Varotsos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170601 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

How to Measure Subdiffusion Parameters

T. Kosztołowicz, K. Dworecki, and St. Mrówczyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 170602 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gamma-Ray Constraint on Galactic Positron Production by MeV Dark Matter

John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, and Gianfranco Bertone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171301 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Supersymmetric Dark Matter and the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background

Dominik Elsässer and Karl Mannheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171302 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Can Dark Matter Annihilation Dominate the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background?

Shin’ichiro Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171303 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Factorization-Suppressed $B \to χ_{c} K^{(*)}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171801 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Measurement of Charged-Particle Multiplicities in Gluon and Quark Jets in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 171802 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Mass of the $B_{c}$ Meson in Three-Flavor Lattice QCD

Ian F. Allison, Christine T. H. Davies, Alan Gray, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Paul B. Mackenzie, and James N. Simone (HPQCD, Fermilab Lattice, and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 172001 (2005) - Published 6 May, 2005

Nuclear Physics

The Hot Nonperturbative Gluon Plasma Is an Almost Ideal Colored Liquid

A. Peshier and W. Cassing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 172301 (2005) - Published 6 May, 2005

“Safe” Coulomb Excitation of ${}^{30}{Mg}$

O. Niedermaier et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 172501 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dipole-Dipole Excitation and Ionization in an Ultracold Gas of Rydberg Atoms

Wenhui Li, Paul J. Tanner, and T. F. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173001 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

High-Accuracy Optical Clock via Three-Level Coherence in Neutral Bosonic ${}^{88}{Sr}$

Robin Santra, Ennio Arimondo, Tetsuya Ido, Chris H. Greene, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173002 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Electron Collisions with Laser Cooled and Trapped Metastable Helium Atoms: Total Scattering Cross Sections

L. J. Uhlmann, R. G. Dall, A. G. Truscott, M. D. Hoogerland, K. G. H. Baldwin, and S. J. Buckman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173201 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Melting, Premelting, and Structural Transitions in Size-Selected Aluminum Clusters with around 55 Atoms

Gary A. Breaux, Colleen M. Neal, Baopeng Cao, and Martin F. Jarrold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173401 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Experimental Observation of Classical Subwavelength Interference with a Pseudothermal Light Source

Jun Xiong, De-Zhong Cao, Feng Huang, Hong-Guo Li, Xu-Juan Sun, and Kaige Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173601 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Computable Measure of Nonclassicality for Light

János K. Asbóth, John Calsamiglia, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173602 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Complete destructive interference of partially coherent sources of acoustic waves

Lorenzo Basano and Pasquale Ottonello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173901 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Frequency Bistability of a Semiconductor Laser under a Frequency-Dependent Feedback

B. Farias, T. Passerat de Silans, M. Chevrollier, and M. Oriá

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173902 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

High Harmonic XUV Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-Field Reconstruction

Y. Mairesse, O. Gobert, P. Breger, H. Merdji, P. Meynadier, P. Monchicourt, M. Perdrix, P. Salières, and B. Carré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173903 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Coherent Plasmonic Enhanced Terahertz Transmission through Random Metallic Media

K. J. Chau, G. D. Dice, and A. Y. Elezzabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 173904 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Spontaneous Optical Fractal Pattern Formation

J. G. Huang and G. S. McDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174101 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Phase Compactons in Chains of Dispersively Coupled Oscillators

Philip Rosenau and Arkady Pikovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174102 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Ballistic and Localized Transport for the Atom Optics Kicked Rotor in the Limit of a Vanishing Kicking Period

Mark Sadgrove, Sandro Wimberger, Scott Parkins, and Rainer Leonhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174103 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Transitions to Electrochemical Turbulence

Hamilton Varela, Carsten Beta, Antoine Bonnefont, and Katharina Krischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174104 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Second Mode of Recycling together with Period Doubling Links Single-Bubble and Multibubble Sonoluminescence

Jeppe Seidelin Dam and Mogens T. Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174301 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Theoretical and Numerical Approach to “Magic Angle” of Stone Skipping

Shin-ichiro Nagahiro and Yoshinori Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174501 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Drag Reduction by Microbubbles in Turbulent Flows: The Limit of Minute Bubbles

Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, Itamar Procaccia, and Vasil Tiberkevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174502 (2005) - Published 6 May, 2005

Density Fluctuations in Strongly Stratified Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Jie Zhang, X. L. Wu, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174503 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

X-Ray Resonance in Crystal Cavities: Realization of Fabry-Perot Resonator for Hard X Rays

S.-L. Chang, Yu. P. Stetsko, M.-T. Tang, Y.-R. Lee, W.-H. Sun, M. Yabashi, and T. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174801 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Mechanism of Stabilization of Ballooning Modes by Toroidal Rotation Shear in Tokamaks

M. Furukawa and S. Tokuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175001 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Observation of Centrifugally Driven Interchange Instabilities in a Plasma Confined by a Magnetic Dipole

B. Levitt, D. Maslovsky, and M. E. Mauel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175002 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Observation of a Transition from Fluid to Kinetic Nonlinearities for Langmuir Waves Driven by Stimulated Raman Backscatter

J. L. Kline, D. S. Montgomery, B. Bezzerides, J. A. Cobble, D. F. DuBois, R. P. Johnson, H. A. Rose, L. Yin, and H. X. Vu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175003 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Exact Energy Principle in Magnetic Reconnection for Current-Sheet Models

Peter H. Yoon and Anthony T. Y. Lui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175004 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Modified Jeans Instability for Dust Grains in a Plasma

G. L. Delzanno and G. Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175005 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Effective Lagrangian and Topological Interactions in Supersolids

D. T. Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175301 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Titanium-Decorated Carbon Nanotubes as a Potential High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage Medium

T. Yildirim and S. Ciraci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175501 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Radial Elasticity of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

I. Palaci, S. Fedrigo, H. Brune, C. Klinke, M. Chen, and E. Riedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175502 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Dynamic Model of Super-Arrhenius Relaxation Rates in Glassy Materials

J. S. Langer and Anaël Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175701 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Superheating and Induced Melting at Semiconductor Interfaces

Kerwyn Casey Huang, Tairan Wang, and John D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 175702 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Strain Phase Diagram and Domain Orientation in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Thin Films

Feizhou He, B. O. Wells, and S. M. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176101 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Role of Strain-Dependent Surface Energies in $Ge / Si (100)$ Island Formation

O. E. Shklyaev, M. J. Beck, M. Asta, M. J. Miksis, and P. W. Voorhees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176102 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Towards Quantitative Understanding of Formation and Stability of Ge Hut Islands on Si(001)

Guang-Hong Lu and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176103 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Single Cu, Ag, and Au Atoms Adsorbed on $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$

Chun Zhang, Gang Chen, Kedong Wang, Hongwei Yang, Tao Su, C. T. Chan, M. M. T. Loy, and Xudong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176104 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Why Are Alkali Halide Surfaces Not Wetted by Their Own Melt?

T. Zykova-Timan, D. Ceresoli, U. Tartaglino, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176105 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Observation of Two-Dimensional Classical Wave Localization: Third Sound on Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ Films on a Disordered Substrate

D. R. Luhman, J. C. Herrmann, and R. B. Hallock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176401 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Spin-Dependent Resistivity at Transitions between Integer Quantum Hall States

K. Vakili, Y. P. Shkolnikov, E. Tutuc, N. C. Bishop, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176402 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Phase-Space Dynamics of Semiclassical Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Bloch Electrons

W. C. Kerr, M. J. Rave, and Ł. A. Turski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176403 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Pattern Formation as a Signature of Quantum Degeneracy in a Cold Exciton System

L. S. Levitov, B. D. Simons, and L. V. Butov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176404 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Temperature-Dependent Asymmetry of the Nonlocal Spin-Injection Resistance: Evidence for Spin Nonconserving Interface Scattering

Samir Garzon, Igor Žutić, and Richard A. Webb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176601 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Vibrational Sidebands and the Kondo Effect in Molecular Transistors

Jens Paaske and Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176801 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Charge and Spin Dynamics of Interacting Fermions in a One-Dimensional Harmonic Trap

Lars Kecke, Hermann Grabert, and Wolfgang Häusler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176802 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Electric Field Modulation of Galvanomagnetic Properties of Mesoscopic Graphite

Yuanbo Zhang, Joshua P. Small, Michael E. S. Amori, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176803 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Vortices, Tunneling, and Deconfinement in Bilayer Quantum Hall Excitonic Superfluid

Ziqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176804 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Wedge-Shaped Potential and Airy-Function Electron Localization in Oxide Superlattices

Z. S. Popovic and S. Satpathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176805 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Bimolecular Recombination Coefficient as a Sensitive Testing Parameter for Low-Mobility Solar-Cell Materials

A. Pivrikas, G. Juška, A. J. Mozer, M. Scharber, K. Arlauskas, N. S. Sariciftci, H. Stubb, and R. Österbacka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 176806 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Vortex Motion Rectification in Josephson Junction Arrays with a Ratchet Potential

D. E. Shalóm and H. Pastoriza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177001 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Inhomogeneous Level Splitting in $\Pr_{2 - x} {Bi}_{x} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

J. van Duijn, K. H. Kim, N. Hur, D. Adroja, M. A. Adams, Q. Z. Huang, M. Jaime, S.-W. Cheong, C. Broholm, and T. G. Perring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177201 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Spin Excitations in an Anisotropic Bond-Alternating Quantum $S = 1$ Chain in a Magnetic Field: Contrast to Haldane Spin Chains

M. Hagiwara, L. P. Regnault, A. Zheludev, A. Stunault, N. Metoki, T. Suzuki, S. Suga, K. Kakurai, Y. Koike, P. Vorderwisch, and J.-H. Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177202 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005

Orbital Correlations in the Pseudocubic $O$ and Rhombohedral $R$ Phases of ${LaMnO}_{3}$

Xiangyun Qiu, Th. Proffen, J. F. Mitchell, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177203 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Stimulated Emission of Surface Plasmons at the Interface between a Silver Film and an Optically Pumped Dye Solution

J. Seidel, S. Grafström, and L. Eng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 177401 (2005) - Published 2 May, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

COMMENTS

Comment on “Do Intradot Electron-Electron Interactions Induce Dephasing?”

Jürgen König, Yuval Gefen, and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 179701 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

Jiang et al. Reply:

Z.-T. Jiang, Q.-F. Sun, X. C. Xie, and Y. P. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 179702 (2005) - Published 5 May, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: First-Principles Theory of Correlated Transport through Nanojunctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 116802 (2005)]

A. Ferretti, A. Calzolari, R. Di Felice, F. Manghi, M. J. Caldas, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, and E. Molinari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 179901 (2005) - Published 3 May, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Phase-Sensitive Order Parameter Symmetry Test Experiments Utilizing ${Nd}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} Cu O_{4 - y} / Nb$ Zigzag Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 167001 (2005)]

Ariando, D. Darminto, H.-J. H. Smilde, V. Leca, D. H. A. Blank, H. Rogalla, and H. Hilgenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 179902 (2005) - Published 4 May, 2005