Volume 94, Issue 8

4 March 2005

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On the Cover

Simulation of high-intensity laser beams propagating through a plasma under National-Ignition-Facility conditions. The image on the right shows the effect that temporal beam smoothing has in significantly reducing the beam spray due to laser-plasma instabilities.

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Intensity Limits for Propagation of $0.527 μ m$ Laser Beams through Large-Scale-Length Plasmas for Inertial Confinement Fusion
C. Niemann, L. Divol, D. H. Froula, G. Gregori, O. Jones, R. K. Kirkwood, A. J. MacKinnon, N. B. Meezan, J. D. Moody, C. Sorce, L. J. Suter, R. Bahr, W. Seka, and S. H. Glenzer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085005 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Justification of $c$ -Number Substitutions in Bosonic Hamiltonians

Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, and Jakob Yngvason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080401 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Equivalence of Bose-Einstein Condensation and Symmetry Breaking

András Sütő

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080402 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Fermionic Atoms in a Three Dimensional Optical Lattice: Observing Fermi Surfaces, Dynamics, and Interactions

Michael Köhl, Henning Moritz, Thilo Stöferle, Kenneth Günter, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080403 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Observations on Sound Propagation in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. P. Simula, P. Engels, I. Coddington, V. Schweikhard, E. A. Cornell, and R. J. Ballagh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080404 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Iterative Optimization of Quantum Error Correcting Codes

M. Reimpell and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080501 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Nonergodicity of Blinking Nanocrystals and Other Lévy-Walk Processes

G. Margolin and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080601 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Thermodynamic Theory of Incompressible Hydrodynamics

Santosh Ansumali, Iliya V. Karlin, and Hans Christian Öttinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080602 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Lorentz Violation in Supersymmetric Field Theories

Stefan Groot Nibbelink and Maxim Pospelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 081601 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of Spectral Distortion

T. Araki et al. (KamLAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 081801 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Evidence for Muon Neutrino Oscillation in an Accelerator-Based Experiment

E. Aliu et al. (The K2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 081802 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Measurement of the Transverse Beam Spin Asymmetry in Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering and the Inelastic Contribution to the Imaginary Part of the Two-Photon Exchange Amplitude

F. E. Maas et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082001 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Centrality Dependence of Charm Production from a Measurement of Single Electrons in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082301 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Nuclear Modification Factors for Hadrons at Forward and Backward Rapidities in Deuteron-Gold Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082302 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Measurement of the Absolute $n p$ Scattering Differential Cross Section at 194 MeV

M. Sarsour, T. Peterson, M. Planinic, S. E. Vigdor, C. Allgower, B. Bergenwall, J. Blomgren, T. Hossbach, W. W. Jacobs, C. Johansson, J. Klug, A. V. Klyachko, P. Nadel-Turonski, L. Nilsson, N. Olsson, S. Pomp, J. Rapaport, T. Rinckel, E. J. Stephenson, U. Tippawan, S. W. Wissink, and Y. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082303 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Centrality Dependence of Charged Hadron Transverse Momentum Spectra in $A u + A u$ Collisions from $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 62.4$ to 200 GeV

B. B. Back et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082304 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Measurement of the ${}^{3}{H e} (e, e^{'} p) p n$ Reaction at High Missing Energies and Momenta

F. Benmokhtar et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082305 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Asymmetries in the Nonmesonic Weak Decay of Polarized $Λ$ Hypernuclei

W. M. Alberico, G. Garbarino, A. Parreño, and A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082501 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Neutron Spectroscopic Factors in ${}^{9}{L i}$ from ${}^{2}H ({}^{8}{L i}, p) {}^{9}{L i}$

A. H. Wuosmaa, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, L. Jisonna, E. F. Moore, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, D. Peterson, Steven C. Pieper, G. Savard, J. P. Schiffer, R. E. Segel, S. Sinha, X. Tang, and R. B. Wiringa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082502 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Direct Measurement of the ${}^{14}N (p, γ) {}^{15}O$ $S$ Factor

R. C. Runkle, A. E. Champagne, C. Angulo, C. Fox, C. Iliadis, R. Longland, and J. Pollanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082503 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

ac Electric Trap for Ground-State Molecules

Jacqueline van Veldhoven, Hendrick L. Bethlem, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083001 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Simple Route to Strong-Field Coherent Control

Nirit Dudovich, Thomas Polack, Avi Pe'er, and Yaron Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083002 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Mapping Attosecond Electron Wave Packet Motion

Hiromichi Niikura, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083003 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Photoassociative Spectroscopy at Long Range in Ultracold Strontium

S. B. Nagel, P. G. Mickelson, A. D. Saenz, Y. N. Martinez, Y. C. Chen, T. C. Killian, P. Pellegrini, and R. Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083004 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Highly Spin-Polarized Atoms and Molecules from Rotationally State-Selected Molecules

T. Peter Rakitzis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083005 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Two-Photon Coincident-Frequency Entanglement via Extended Phase Matching

Onur Kuzucu, Marco Fiorentino, Marius A. Albota, Franco N. C. Wong, and Franz X. Kärtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083601 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Superradiant Light Scattering from Thermal Atomic Vapors

Yutaka Yoshikawa, Yoshio Torii, and Takahiro Kuga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 083602 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

$1 / f^{α}$ Noise in Spectral Fluctuations of Quantum Systems

J. M. G. Gómez, A. Relaño, J. Retamosa, E. Faleiro, L. Salasnich, M. Vraničar, and M. Robnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 084101 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Measuring Phase Synchronization of Superimposed Signals

Frank C. Meinecke, Andreas Ziehe, Jürgen Kurths, and Klaus-Robert Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 084102 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Mixing of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Steadily Forced Systems

Paulo E. Arratia, Troy Shinbrot, Mario M. Alvarez, and Fernando J. Muzzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 084501 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Measuring Topological Chaos

Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 084502 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Broad Energy Spectrum of Laser-Accelerated Protons for Spallation-Related Physics

P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham, S. Shimizu, J. M. Yang, L. Robson, T. McCanny, J. Galy, J. Magill, R. J. Clarke, D. Neely, P. A. Norreys, R. P. Singhal, K. Krushelnick, and M. S. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 084801 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Evidence for High- $m$ Secondary Islands Induced by Large Low- $m$ Islands in a Tokamak Plasma

A. J. H. Donné, J. C. van Gorkom, V. S. Udintsev, C. W. Domier, A. Krämer-Flecken, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., and F. C. Schüller (TEXTOR team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085001 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Observation of the Effects of Radially Sheared Electric Fields on the Suppression of Turbulent Vortex Structures and the Associated Transverse Loss in GAMMA 10

T. Cho, M. Yoshida, J. Kohagura, M. Hirata, T. Numakura, H. Higaki, H. Hojo, M. Ichimura, K. Ishii, K. Md. Islam, A. Itakura, I. Katanuma, Y. Nakashima, T. Saito, Y. Tatematsu, M. Yoshikawa, Y. Kojima, S. Tokioka, N. Yokoyama, Y. Tomii, T. Imai, V. P. Pastukhov, and S. Miyoshi (GAMMA 10 Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085002 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Synchronization due to a Single Wave

F. Doveil, D. F. Escande, and A. Macor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085003 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Efficiency and Energy Spread in Laser-Wakefield Acceleration

A. J. W. Reitsma, R. A. Cairns, R. Bingham, and D. A. Jaroszynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085004 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Intensity Limits for Propagation of $0.527 μ m$ Laser Beams through Large-Scale-Length Plasmas for Inertial Confinement Fusion

C. Niemann, L. Divol, D. H. Froula, G. Gregori, O. Jones, R. K. Kirkwood, A. J. MacKinnon, N. B. Meezan, J. D. Moody, C. Sorce, L. J. Suter, R. Bahr, W. Seka, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085005 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamic Elastic Hysteretic Solids and Dislocations

M. W. Barsoum, M. Radovic, T. Zhen, P. Finkel, and S. R. Kalidindi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085501 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Heat Transfer between Two Nanoparticles Through Near Field Interaction

Gilberto Domingues, Sebastian Volz, Karl Joulain, and Jean-Jacques Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 085901 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Initial Stages of Ti Growth on Diamond (100) Surfaces: From Single Adatom Diffusion to Quantum Wire Formation

Yu Jia, Wenguang Zhu, E. G. Wang, Yuping Huo, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086101 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Crystal Structure and Interaction Dependence of the Crystal-Melt Interfacial Free Energy

Ruslan L. Davidchack and Brian B. Laird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086102 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Spectroscopy of Shear Horizontal Surface Phonons by Rotation-Flip Scattering of Ortho- $H_{2}$ Molecules

Giorgio Benedek, Franziska Traeger, and J. Peter Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086103 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Adsorbate-Induced Enhancement of Electrostatic Noncontact Friction

A. I. Volokitin and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086104 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Hydrogen-Induced Instability of the Ge(105) Surface

Yasunori Fujikawa, T. Nagao, Y. Yamada-Takamura, T. Sakurai, T. Hashimoto, Y. Morikawa, K. Terakura, and M. G. Lagally

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086105 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

New Type of Charged Defect in Amorphous Chalcogenides

S. I. Simdyankin, T. A. Niehaus, G. Natarajan, Th. Frauenheim, and S. R. Elliott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086401 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Strongly Enhanced Hole-Phonon Coupling in the Metallic State of the Dilute Two-Dimensional Hole Gas

X. P. A. Gao, G. S. Boebinger, A. P. Mills, Jr., A. P. Ramirez, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086402 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Kondo Screening Cloud Around a Quantum Dot: Large-Scale Numerical Results

Erik S. Sørensen and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086601 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005

Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida and Magnetic-Field Interactions in Coupled Kondo Quantum Dots

Pascal Simon, Rosa López, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086602 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Temperature Dependence of the Tunneling Amplitude between Quantum Hall Edges

Roberto D’Agosta, Giovanni Vignale, and Roberto Raimondi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086801 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

Electron-Phonon Interaction and Transport in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Vasili Perebeinos, J. Tersoff, and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086802 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Fractional Quantum Hall States of Atoms in Optical Lattices

Anders S. Sørensen, Eugene Demler, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086803 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Electron Interactions and Transport between Coupled Quantum Hall Edge States

J. W. Tomlinson, J.-S. Caux, and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086804 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Transport Spectroscopy of Kondo Quantum Dots Coupled by RKKY Interaction

Maxim G. Vavilov and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086805 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Noise and Full Counting Statistics of Incoherent Multiple Andreev Reflection

S. Pilgram and P. Samuelsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 086806 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Uniformly Frustrated $X Y$ Model without a Vortex-Pattern Ordering

S. E. Korshunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087001 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Generalized Anisotropic Scaling Theory and the Transverse Meissner Transition

Anders Vestergren, Jack Lidmar, and Mats Wallin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087002 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in $d$ -Wave ${Y B a}_{2} {C u}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Josephson Junctions

T. Bauch, F. Lombardi, F. Tafuri, A. Barone, G. Rotoli, P. Delsing, and T. Claeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087003 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Thermal Conductivity of Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Spin-Chain Materials

A. V. Rozhkov and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087201 (2005) - Published 1 March, 2005

General Features of Photoinduced Spin Dynamics in Ferromagnetic and Ferrimagnetic Compounds

T. Ogasawara, K. Ohgushi, Y. Tomioka, K. S. Takahashi, H. Okamoto, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087202 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Roundabout Relaxation: Collective Excitation Requires a Detour to Equilibrium

Hidetoshi Morita and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087203 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Revealing Antiferromagnetic Order of the Fe Monolayer on W(001): Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and First-Principles Calculations

A. Kubetzka, P. Ferriani, M. Bode, S. Heinze, G. Bihlmayer, K. von Bergmann, O. Pietzsch, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087204 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Orbital Order and Ferrimagnetic Properties of ${S r}_{8} {C a R e}_{3} {C u}_{4} O_{24}$

Xiangang Wan, Masanori Kohno, and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087205 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Optical Polarization Driven Giant Relief Modulation in Amorphous Chalcogenide Glasses

K. E. Asatryan, T. Galstian, and R. Vallée

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087401 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Polarization Dependence of the Optical Absorption of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Yoichi Murakami, Erik Einarsson, Tadao Edamura, and Shigeo Maruyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087402 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Room-Temperature Ordered Photon Emission from Multiexciton States in Single CdSe Core-Shell Nanocrystals

Brent Fisher, Jean Michel Caruge, Don Zehnder, and Moungi Bawendi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087403 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Reflectance Anisotropy Spectra of the Diamond $(100) − (2 \times 1)$ Surface: Evidence of Strongly Bound Surface State Excitons

Maurizia Palummo, Olivia Pulci, Rodolfo Del Sole, Andrea Marini, M. Schwitters, S. R. Haines, K. H. Williams, D. S. Martin, P. Weightman, and J. E. Butler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087404 (2005) - Published 3 March, 2005

Narrow Luminescence Linewidth of a Silicon Quantum Dot

Ilya Sychugov, Robert Juhasz, Jan Valenta, and Jan Linnros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087405 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Magnetic Order and Spin Dynamics in Ferroelectric ${H o M n O}_{3}$

O. P. Vajk, M. Kenzelmann, J. W. Lynn, S. B. Kim, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 087601 (2005) - Published 4 March, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Thermoinduced Magnetization in Nanoparticles of Antiferromagnetic Materials”

A. H. MacDonald and C. M. Canali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 089701 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

Mørup and Frandsen Reply:

Steen Mørup and Cathrine Frandsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 089702 (2005) - Published 2 March, 2005

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Experimental Benchmark for an Improved Simulation of Absolute Soft-X-Ray Emission from Polystyrene Targets Irradiated with the Nike Laser [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 045002 (2005)]

J. L. Weaver, M. Busquet, D. G. Colombant, A. N. Mostovych, U. Feldman, M. Klapisch, J. F. Seely, C. Brown, and G. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 089901 (2005) - Published 28 February, 2005