Volume 94, Issue 24

24 June 2005

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Solvent caging effects in methanol during the photoreaction of CH₂I₂ are accurately probed by time-resolved x-ray diffraction.

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Structural Determination of a Transient Isomer of ${CH}_{2} I_{2}$ by Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction
Jan Davidsson, Jens Poulsen, Marco Cammarata, Panayiotis Georgiou, Remco Wouts, Gergely Katona, Frida Jacobson, Anton Plech, Michael Wulff, Gunnar Nyman, and Richard Neutze
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245503 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Constraining New Forces in the Casimir Regime Using the Isoelectronic Technique

R. S. Decca, D. López, H. B. Chan, E. Fischbach, D. E. Krause, and C. R. Jamell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240401 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Fermion-Mediated BCS-BEC Crossover in Ultracold ${}^{40}K$ Gases

M. M. Parish, B. Mihaila, B. D. Simons, and P. B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240402 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Fermionization in an Expanding 1D Gas of Hard-Core Bosons

Marcos Rigol and Alejandro Muramatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240403 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Exact Coherent States of a Harmonically Confined Tonks-Girardeau Gas

A. Minguzzi and D. M. Gangardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240404 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Collapse of Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with a Time-Dependent Nonlinearity: Application to Bose-Einstein Condensates

V. V. Konotop and P. Pacciani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240405 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Local Conversion of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger States to Approximate $W$ States

P. Walther, K. J. Resch, and A. Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240501 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Protocol for Universal Gates in Optimally Biased Superconducting Qubits

Chad Rigetti, Alexandre Blais, and Michel Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240502 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Unconditional Quantum Cloning of Coherent States with Linear Optics

Ulrik L. Andersen, Vincent Josse, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240503 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Passive Sliders on Fluctuating Surfaces: Strong-Clustering States

Apoorva Nagar, Mustansir Barma, and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240601 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Weak Ergodicity Breaking in the Continuous-Time Random Walk

G. Bel and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 240602 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

3-Mode Detection for Widening the Bandwidth of Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors

L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, P. Falferi, N. Liguori, A. Marin, R. Mezzena, A. Ortolan, S. Poggi, G. A. Prodi, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, A. Vinante, S. Vitale, and J. P. Zendri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 241101 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Exact Counting of Supersymmetric Black Hole Microstates

Atish Dabholkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 241301 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Implications of Dynamical Generation of Standard-Model Fermion Masses

Neil D. Christensen and Robert Shrock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 241801 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Study of $τ$ Decays to Four-Hadron Final States with Kaons

K. Arms et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 241802 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Polarization Transfer in Proton Compton Scattering at High Momentum Transfer

D. J. Hamilton et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 242001 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurement of Light Shifts in a Single Trapped ${Ba}^{+}$ Ion

J. A. Sherman, T. W. Koerber, A. Markhotok, W. Nagourney, and E. N. Fortson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243001 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Testing the Time Dependence of Fundamental Constants in the Spectra of Multicharged Ions

O. Yu. Andreev, L. N. Labzowsky, G. Plunien, and G. Soff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243002 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Ultrastrong Field Ionization of ${Ne}^{n +}$ $(n \leq 8)$ : Rescattering and the Role of the Magnetic Field

S. Palaniyappan, A. DiChiara, E. Chowdhury, A. Falkowski, G. Ongadi, E. L. Huskins, and B. C. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243003 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Symmetry-Resolved Vibrational Spectra of Carbon $K$ -Shell Photoelectron Satellites in Carbon Monoxides: Experiment and Theory

K. Ueda, M. Hoshino, T. Tanaka, M. Kitajima, H. Tanaka, A. De Fanis, Y. Tamenori, M. Ehara, F. Oyagi, K. Kuramoto, and H. Nakatsuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243004 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Projectile–Residual-Target-Ion Scattering after Single Ionization of Helium by Slow Proton Impact

N. V. Maydanyuk, A. Hasan, M. Foster, B. Tooke, E. Nanni, D. H. Madison, and M. Schulz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243201 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Highly Efficient High-Harmonic Generation in an Orthogonally Polarized Two-Color Laser Field

I Jong Kim, Chul Min Kim, Hyung Taek Kim, Gae Hwang Lee, Yong Soo Lee, Ju Yun Park, David Jaeyun Cho, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243901 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Light Detectors Bistable Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays

R. Khomeriki and J. Leon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243902 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Convective Instability Induced by Nonlocality in Nonlinear Diffusive Systems

Francesco Papoff and Roberta Zambrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243903 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Dynamics of Nonlinear and Dispersion Managed Solitons

Qudsia Quraishi, Steven T. Cundiff, Boaz Ilan, and Mark J. Ablowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243904 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Electromagnetic-Wave Tunneling Through Negative-Permittivity Media with High Magnetic Fields

Lei Zhou, Weijia Wen, C. T. Chan, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 243905 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Fidelity Recovery in Chaotic Systems and the Debye-Waller Factor

H.-J. Stöckmann and R. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 244101 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Anderson Transition in Quantum Chaos

Antonio M. García-García and Jiao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 244102 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

From Anomalous Energy Diffusion to Levy Walks and Heat Conductivity in One-Dimensional Systems

P. Cipriani, S. Denisov, and A. Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 244301 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Friction and Slip at Simple Fluid-Solid Interfaces: The Roles of the Molecular Shape and the Solid-Liquid Interaction

Tatiana Schmatko, Hubert Hervet, and Liliane Leger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 244501 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Acceleration in Cavitated Channels Formed by a Petawatt Laser in Low-Density Plasma

S. P. D. Mangles, B. R. Walton, M. Tzoufras, Z. Najmudin, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, S. Fritzler, A. Gopal, C. Hernandez-Gomez, W. B. Mori, W. Rozmus, M. Tatarakis, A. G. R. Thomas, F. S. Tsung, M. S. Wei, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245001 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Beam Instabilities in Laser-Plasma Interaction: Relevance to Preferential Ion Heating

J. T. Mendonça, P. Norreys, R. Bingham, and J. R. Davies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245002 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Influence of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Factors on the Glass-Forming Ability of Zirconium-Based Bulk Amorphous Alloys

S. Mukherjee, J. Schroers, W. L. Johnson, and W.-K. Rhim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245501 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Phonons in Random Elastic Media and the Boson Peak

V. Gurarie and A. Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245502 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Structural Determination of a Transient Isomer of ${CH}_{2} I_{2}$ by Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction

Jan Davidsson, Jens Poulsen, Marco Cammarata, Panayiotis Georgiou, Remco Wouts, Gergely Katona, Frida Jacobson, Anton Plech, Michael Wulff, Gunnar Nyman, and Richard Neutze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245503 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Electronic Sputtering of Silicon Suboxide Films by Swift Heavy Ions

W. M. Arnoldbik, P. A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven, and F. H. P. M. Habraken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245504 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Bimodal Energy Relaxation in Quasi-One-Dimensional Compounds with a Commensurate Modulated Ground State

J. C. Lasjaunias, R. Mélin, D. Starešinić, K. Biljaković, and J. Souletie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 245701 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Terraced Hollow Oxide Pyramids

Guangwen Zhou, William S. Slaughter, and Judith C. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246101 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Revisiting the Surface Structure of ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ : A Quantitative low-Energy Electron Diffraction Study

R. Lindsay, A. Wander, A. Ernst, B. Montanari, G. Thornton, and N. M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246102 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Energy Barriers at the Ends of Carbon Nanotube Bundles: Effects on Interstitial Adsorption Kinetics

M. Mercedes Calbi and Jose L. Riccardo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246103 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

State-Resolved Gas-Surface Reactivity of Methane in the Symmetric C-H Stretch Vibration on Ni(100)

Plinio Maroni, Dimitrios C. Papageorgopoulos, Marco Sacchi, Tung T. Dang, Rainer D. Beck, and Thomas R. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246104 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Complementarity of Microcavity Polaritons

S. Savasta, O. Di Stefano, V. Savona, and W. Langbein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246401 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Ordered Spin Ice State and Magnetic Fluctuations in ${Tb}_{2} {Sn}_{2} O_{7}$

I. Mirebeau, A. Apetrei, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, P. Bonville, A. Forget, D. Colson, V. Glazkov, J. P. Sanchez, O. Isnard, and E. Suard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246402 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Symmetry of Spin Transport in Two-Terminal Waveguides with a Spin-Orbital Interaction and Magnetic Field Modulations

Feng Zhai and H. Q. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246601 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Tuning of the Gap in a Laughlin-Bychkov-Rashba Incompressible Liquid

Marco Califano, Tapash Chakraborty, and Pekka Pietiläinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246801 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Giant Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions

M. Ye. Zhuravlev, R. F. Sabirianov, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246802 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Ground State of Two-Dimensional Finite Electron Systems in the Quantum Hall Regime

Henri Saarikoski and Ari Harju

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 246803 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Two-Band Effect on the Superconducting Fluctuating Diamagnetism in ${MgB}_{2}$

L. Romanò, A. Lascialfari, A. Rigamonti, and I. Zucca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247001 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Observation of Transition from Escape Dynamics to Underdamped Phase Diffusion in a Josephson Junction

J. M. Kivioja, T. E. Nieminen, J. Claudon, O. Buisson, F. W. J. Hekking, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247002 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Local Electronic Structure of ${MgB}_{2}$ by X-Ray Raman Scattering at the Boron $K$ Edge

A. Mattila, J. A. Soininen, S. Galambosi, S. Huotari, G. Vankó, N. D. Zhigadlo, J. Karpinski, and K. Hämäläinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247003 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Quartet Formation at $(100) / (110)$ Interfaces of $d$ -Wave Superconductors

A. A. Aligia, A. P. Kampf, and J. Mannhart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247004 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Observation of a New Mechanism of Spontaneous Generation of Magnetic Flux in a Superconductor

Ariel Maniv, Emil Polturak, Gad Koren, Yuri Bliokh, Björn Biehler, Bernd-Uwe Runge, Paul Leiderer, Boris Shapiro, and Irena Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247005 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

$p$ -Wave Superconductivity in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor URhGe

F. Hardy and A. D. Huxley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247006 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

From Large Scale Rearrangements to Mode Coupling Phenomenology in Model Glasses

A. Montanari and G. Semerjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247201 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Scaling Theory of Magnetoresistance in Disordered Local Moment Ferromagnets

Gergely Zaránd, Cătălin Paşcu Moca, and Boldizsár Jankó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247202 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Role of Tunneling Matrix Elements in Determining the Magnitude of the Tunneling Spin Polarization of $3 d$ Transition Metal Ferromagnetic Alloys

Christian Kaiser, Sebastiaan van Dijken, See-Hun Yang, Hyunsoo Yang, and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247203 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Evidence for Short-Range Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations in Kondo-Insulating ${YbB}_{12}$

J.-M. Mignot, P. A. Alekseev, K. S. Nemkovski, L.-P. Regnault, F. Iga, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247204 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Tricritical Behavior in Itinerant Quantum Ferromagnets

D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and Jörg Rollbühler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247205 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Current-Induced Spin Torque in a Nanomagnet

X. Waintal and O. Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247206 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Doping and Field-Induced Insulator-Metal Transitions in Half-Doped Manganites

O. Cépas, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and T. V. Ramakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247207 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Controllable High-Speed Rotation of Nanowires

D. L. Fan, F. Q. Zhu, R. C. Cammarata, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247208 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Band-Gap Shift Transition in the Photoluminescence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

P. Finnie, Y. Homma, and J. Lefebvre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247401 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Negative Refraction and Imaging Using 12-fold-Symmetry Quasicrystals

Zhifang Feng, Xiangdong Zhang, Yiquan Wang, Zhi-Yuan Li, Bingying Cheng, and Dao-Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247402 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Long-Time Behavior of Spin Echo

Boris V. Fine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247601 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

${}^{59}{Co}$ NMR Study of the Co States in Superconducting and Anhydrous Cobaltates

I. R. Mukhamedshin, H. Alloul, G. Collin, and N. Blanchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247602 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Susceptibility Anomaly in Films with Bilinear Coupling between Order Parameter and Strain

Alexander K. Tagantsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247603 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Dynamics at the Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition in Aerosil Dispersed Liquid Crystal

F. Mercuri, S. Paoloni, U. Zammit, and M. Marinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 247801 (2005) - Published 24 June, 2005

Formation of Two-Dimensional Sand Ripples under Laminar Shear Flow

Vincent Langlois and Alexandre Valance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 248001 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Continuum Model for Polymorphism of Bacterial Flagella

Srikanth V. Srigiriraju and Thomas R. Powers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 248101 (2005) - Published 21 June, 2005

Intrinsic Low Temperature Paramagnetism in B-DNA

S. Nakamae, M. Cazayous, A. Sacuto, P. Monod, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 248102 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

From DNA Sequence Analysis to Modeling Replication in the Human Genome

E. B. Brodie of Brodie, S. Nicolay, M. Touchon, B. Audit, Y. d’Aubenton-Carafa, C. Thermes, and A. Arneodo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 248103 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Predicting Mutual Entrainment of Oscillators with Experiment-Based Phase Models

István Z. Kiss, Yumei Zhai, and John L. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 248301 (2005) - Published 20 June, 2005

Anomalous Transport in Scale-Free Networks

Eduardo López, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 248701 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005

COMMENTS

Comment on “Formation of Repetitively Nanosecond Spatial Solitons in a Saturable Absorber $Q$ -Switched Laser”

J. Tredicce, M. Giudici, and P. Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 249401 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

Chen and Huang Reply:

Y. F. Chen and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 249402 (2005) - Published 23 June, 2005

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: First Observation of ${}^{54}{Zn}$ and its Decay by Two-Proton Emission [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232501 (2005)]

B. Blank, A. Bey, G. Canchel, C. Dossat, A. Fleury, J. Giovinazzo, I. Matea, N. Adimi, F. De Oliveira, I. Stefan, G. Georgiev, S. Grévy, J. C. Thomas, C. Borcea, D. Cortina, M. Caamano, M. Stanoiu, F. Aksouh, B. A. Brown, F. C. Barker, and W. A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 249901 (2005) - Published 22 June, 2005