Volume 94, Issue 22

10 June 2005

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On the Cover

Orientation of a vortex lattice (black ovals) of a Bose-Einstein condensate greatly influences the transmission of light (see arrow). The resulting directional band gap allows a nondestructive measurement of the rotation frequency of the condensate.

From the article:

Photonic Band Gap via Quantum Coherence in Vortex Lattices of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu and M. Ö. Oktel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220404 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Ion Trap Simulations of Quantum Fields in an Expanding Universe

Paul M. Alsing, Jonathan P. Dowling, and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220401 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Deconfinement and Phase Diagram of Bosons in a Linear Optical Lattice with a Particle Reservoir

Kingshuk Majumdar and H. A. Fertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220402 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Simulating Maximal Quantum Entanglement without Communication

N. J. Cerf, N. Gisin, S. Massar, and S. Popescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220403 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Photonic Band Gap via Quantum Coherence in Vortex Lattices of Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu and M. Ö. Oktel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220404 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Measurement of Quantum Weak Values of Photon Polarization

G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, A. G. White, T. C. Ralph, and H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220405 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Demonstrating Superior Discrimination of Locally Prepared States Using Nonlocal Measurements

G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, A. G. White, and Stephen D. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220406 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Pixel Entanglement: Experimental Realization of Optically Entangled $d = 3$ and $d = 6$ Qudits

Malcolm N. O’Sullivan-Hale, Irfan Ali Khan, Robert W. Boyd, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220501 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

High-Fidelity Teleportation beyond the No-Cloning Limit and Entanglement Swapping for Continuous Variables

Nobuyuki Takei, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Takao Aoki, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220502 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Propulsion of a Molecular Machine by Asymmetric Distribution of Reaction Products

Ramin Golestanian, Tanniemola B. Liverpool, and Armand Ajdari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220801 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Radiation Reaction and Inspiral Waveforms in the Adiabatic Limit

Scott A. Hughes, Steve Drasco, Éanna É. Flanagan, and Joel Franklin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221101 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Designer Gravity and Field Theory Effective Potentials

Thomas Hertog and Gary T. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221301 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Quantum Gravity and Lorentz Invariance Violation in the Standard Model

Jorge Alfaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221302 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Effects of a Decaying Cosmological Fluctuation

Luca Amendola and Fabio Finelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221303 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations at Central Rapidities in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221801 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Scales of Mass Generation for Quarks, Leptons, and Majorana Neutrinos

Duane A. Dicus and Hong-Jian He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221802 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Search for Decays of $B^{0} \to e^{+} e^{-}$ , $B^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ , $B^{0} \to e^{\pm} μ^{\mp}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221803 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Measurement of Polarization and Triple-Product Correlations in $B \to ϕ K^{*}$ Decays

K.-F. Chen et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221804 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Observation of the $D_{1} (2420) \to D π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221805 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Electrodynamics in Strong Electric Fields: The Ground-State Lamb Shift in Hydrogenlike Uranium

A. Gumberidze, Th. Stöhlker, D. Banaś, K. Beckert, P. Beller, H. F. Beyer, F. Bosch, S. Hagmann, C. Kozhuharov, D. Liesen, F. Nolden, X. Ma, P. H. Mokler, M. Steck, D. Sierpowski, and S. Tashenov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223001 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Photoionization of Synchrotron-Radiation-Excited Atoms: Separating Partial Cross Sections by Full Polarization Control

S. Aloïse, P. O’Keeffe, D. Cubaynes, M. Meyer, and A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223002 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Long-Lived Molecular Hydrogen Anions $H_{2}^{-}$ and $D_{2}^{-}$

R. Golser, H. Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner, M. Čížek, J. Horáček, and W. Domcke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223003 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Collisional Properties of Cold Spin-Polarized Metastable Neon Atoms

P. Spoden, M. Zinner, N. Herschbach, W. J. van Drunen, W. Ertmer, and G. Birkl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223201 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Atom Interferometric Detection of the Pairing Order Parameter in a Fermi Gas

Iacopo Carusotto and Yvan Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223202 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Tuning the Continuum Ground State Energy of $N O_{2}^{2 -}$ by Water Molecules

A. Svendsen, H. Bluhme, M. O. A. El Ghazaly, K. Seiersen, S. Brøndsted Nielsen, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223401 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Proof that the Hydrogen-Antihydrogen Molecule Is Unstable

D. K. Gridnev and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223402 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Wolf Equations for Two-Photon Light

Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin C. Teich, and Alexander V. Sergienko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223601 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Indistinguishable Photons from a Single Molecule

A. Kiraz, M. Ehrl, Th. Hellerer, Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, C. Bräuchle, and A. Zumbusch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223602 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Spatially Noiseless Optical Amplification of Images

Alexis Mosset, Fabrice Devaux, and Eric Lantz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223603 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Measurement of Net Group and Reshaping Delays for Optical Pulses in Dispersive Media

Aminul I. Talukder, Takatoshi Haruta, and Makoto Tomita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223901 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Temporal Behavior of Radiation-Pressure-Induced Vibrations of an Optical Microcavity Phonon Mode

Tal Carmon, Hossein Rokhsari, Lan Yang, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Kerry J. Vahala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223902 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Controlled Observation of a Nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch Transition in a Nonlinear Optical Cavity

A. Esteban-Martín, V. B. Taranenko, J. García, Germán J. de Valcárcel, and Eugenio Roldán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 223903 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Self-Organization of Two-Dimensional Waves in an Active Dispersive-Dissipative Nonlinear Medium

Sergey Saprykin, Evgeny A. Demekhin, and Serafim Kalliadasis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 224101 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Inelastic Gravitational Billiards

S. Feldt and J. S. Olafsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 224102 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Universality and Hysteretic Dynamics in Rapid Fracture

A. Livne, G. Cohen, and J. Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 224301 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Asymptotic Behavior of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Laurent Duchemin, Christophe Josserand, and Paul Clavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 224501 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Effective Conductivity of Heterogeneous Multiphase Media with Circular Inclusions

Aldo Fiori, Igor Janković, and Gedeon Dagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 224502 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Edge-Localized-Mode–Induced Transport of Impurity Density, Energy, and Momentum

M. R. Wade, K. H. Burrell, A. W. Leonard, T. H. Osborne, and P. B. Snyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225001 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Onset of Turbulence and Profile Resilience in the Helimak Configuration

K. Rypdal and S. Ratynskaia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225002 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Direct Experimental Evidence for Current-Transfer Mode Operation of Nested Tungsten Wire Arrays at 16–19 MA

M. E. Cuneo, D. B. Sinars, D. E. Bliss, E. M. Waisman, J. L. Porter, W. A. Stygar, S. V. Lebedev, J. P. Chittenden, G. S. Sarkisov, and B. B. Afeyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225003 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Force-Free Magnetic Relaxation in Driven Plasmas

X. Z. Tang and A. H. Boozer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225004 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Excitation of Toroidicity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes by the Electrodes Inserted in a Heliotron/Torsatron Plasma

G. Matsunaga, K. Toi, S. Kawada, J. Kotani, C. Suzuki, and K. Matsuoka (CHS Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225005 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Transition State for High-Pressure Zinc Blende to Rocksalt Phase Transitions

M. S. Miao and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225501 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Nonlocal Screening, Electron-Phonon Coupling, and Phonon Renormalization in Metals

Peihong Zhang, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 225502 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Near-Field Intensity Correlations in Semicontinuous Metal-Dielectric Films

K. Seal, A. K. Sarychev, H. Noh, D. A. Genov, A. Yamilov, V. M. Shalaev, Z. C. Ying, and H. Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226101 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Kinetic Step Bunching Instability during Surface Growth

Thomas Frisch and Alberto Verga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226102 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Dynamic Ad-Dimer Twisting Assisted Nanowire Self-Assembly on Si(001)

Jian-Tao Wang, E. G. Wang, D. S. Wang, H. Mizuseki, Y. Kawazoe, M. Naitoh, and S. Nishigaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226103 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Charging of Metal Atoms on Ultrathin $MgO / Mo (100)$ Films

Gianfranco Pacchioni, Livia Giordano, and Matteo Baistrocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226104 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Long-Distance Diffusion of Excitons in Double Quantum Well Structures

Z. Vörös, R. Balili, D. W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226401 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Field-Induced Suppression of the Heavy-Fermion State in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

Y. Tokiwa, P. Gegenwart, T. Radu, J. Ferstl, G. Sparn, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226402 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

STS Observations of Landau Levels at Graphite Surfaces

T. Matsui, H. Kambara, Y. Niimi, K. Tagami, M. Tsukada, and Hiroshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226403 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Spin-Orbit Coupling and Anisotropy of Spin Splitting in Quantum Dots

J. Könemann, R. J. Haug, D. K. Maude, V. I. Fal’ko, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226404 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Effects of Thickness on the Spin Susceptibility of the Two Dimensional Electron Gas

S. De Palo, M. Botti, S. Moroni, and Gaetano Senatore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226405 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Bragg Diffraction of Microcavity Polaritons by a Surface Acoustic Wave

Kikuo Cho, Kazunori Okumoto, N. I. Nikolaev, and A. L. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226406 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

Ab initio Calculation of the Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors

G. Y. Guo, Yugui Yao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226601 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Pressure-Induced Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior of ${PrNiO}_{3}$

J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, and B. Dabrowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226602 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Current-Driven Oscillations and Time-Dependent Transport in Nanojunctions

Chao-Cheng Kaun and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226801 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Magnetic-Field-Induced Insulating Phases at Large $r_{s}$

G. A. Csáthy, Hwayong Noh, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226802 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Spin-Orbit-Driven Coherent Oscillations in a Few-Electron Quantum Dot

Stefan Debald and Clive Emary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226803 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Vortex-Antivortex Nucleation in Magnetically Nanotextured Superconductors: Magnetic-Field-Driven and Thermal Scenarios

M. V. Milošević and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227001 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Ground-State Entanglement of the BCS Model

Clare Dunning, Jon Links, and Huan-Qiang Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227002 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005

Nickel Impurity-Induced Enhancement of the Pseudogap of Cuprate High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

A. V. Pimenov, A. V. Boris, Li Yu, V. Hinkov, Th. Wolf, J. L. Tallon, B. Keimer, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227003 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

${}^{17}O$ NMR Studies of a Triangular-Lattice Superconductor ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2} \cdot y H_{2} O$

F. L. Ning and T. Imai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227004 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Observation of Interband Pairing Interaction in a Two-Band Superconductor: ${MgB}_{2}$

J. Geerk, R. Schneider, G. Linker, A. G. Zaitsev, R. Heid, K.-P. Bohnen, and H. v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227005 (2005) - Published 9 June, 2005

Experimental Observation of the $1 / 3$ Magnetization Plateau in the Diamond-Chain Compound ${Cu}_{3} ({CO}_{3})_{2} (OH)_{2}$

H. Kikuchi, Y. Fujii, M. Chiba, S. Mitsudo, T. Idehara, T. Tonegawa, K. Okamoto, T. Sakai, T. Kuwai, and H. Ohta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227201 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Modeling Surfactant Adsorption on Hydrophobic Surfaces

Steve O. Nielsen, Goundla Srinivas, Carlos F. Lopez, and Michael L. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 228301 (2005) - Published 8 June, 2005

Convex Error Growth Patterns in a Global Weather Model

John Harlim, Michael Oczkowski, James A. Yorke, Eugenia Kalnay, and Brian R. Hunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 228501 (2005) - Published 10 June, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: ac-Driven Double Quantum Dots as Spin Pumps and Spin Filters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 107202 (2005)]

Ernesto Cota, Ramón Aguado, and Gloria Platero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 229901 (2005) - Published 6 June, 2005

Erratum: Nonrelativistic QED Approach to the Bound-Electron $g$ Factor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 150401 (2004)]

Krzysztof Pachucki, Ulrich D. Jentschura, and Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 229902 (2005) - Published 7 June, 2005