Volume 94, Issue 9

11 March 2005

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N-Z chart of the average p-n interaction energy of the last protons with the last neutrons in nuclei near Pb, extracted from a new, more extensive nuclear-mass tabulation. High energies are in red & pink; low energies in blue. In both the Z ≤ 82, N ≤ 126 and the Z > 82, N > 126 regions, the orbits of the last protons overlap strongly with the last neutrons and the p-n interactions are correspondingly larger there.

From the article:

Proton-Neutron Interactions and the New Atomic Masses
R. B. Cakirli, D. S. Brenner, R. F. Casten, and E. A. Millman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 092501 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Efficient Universal Programmable Quantum Measurements

Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano and Paolo Perinotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090401 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

Fermion Superfluids of Nonzero Orbital Angular Momentum near Resonance

Tin-Lun Ho and Roberto B. Diener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090402 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Laser Cooling of Fermions to the Superfluid Transition Temperature

J. Dziarmaga and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090403 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Symmetry Breaking and Enhanced Condensate Fraction in a Matter-Wave Bright Soliton

Rina Kanamoto, Hiroki Saito, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090404 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Atom Michelson Interferometer on a Chip Using a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Ying-Ju Wang, Dana Z. Anderson, Victor M. Bright, Eric A. Cornell, Quentin Diot, Tetsuo Kishimoto, Mara Prentiss, R. A. Saravanan, Stephen R. Segal, and Saijun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090405 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Physical Bounds to the Entropy-Depolarization Relation in Random Light Scattering

A. Aiello and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090406 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Spectroscopy on Two Coupled Superconducting Flux Qubits

J. B. Majer, F. G. Paauw, A. C. J. ter Haar, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090501 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Multiphoton Path Entanglement by Nonlocal Bunching

H. S. Eisenberg, J. F. Hodelin, G. Khoury, and D. Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 090502 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Study of the Suppressed Decays $B^{-} \to [K^{+} π^{-}]_{D} K^{-}$ and $B^{-} \to [K^{+} π^{-}]_{D} π^{-}$

M. Saigo et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091601 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Direct Measurements of $A_{b}$ and $A_{c}$ Using Vertex and Kaon Charge Tags at the SLAC Detector

Koya Abe et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091801 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

Search for $W b \bar{b}$ and $W H$ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 T e V$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091802 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

First Measurements of Inclusive $W$ and $Z$ Cross Sections from Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091803 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Suppressing Proton Decay in the Minimal SO(10) Model

Bhaskar Dutta, Yukihiro Mimura, and R. N. Mohapatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091804 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Proton-Neutron Interactions and the New Atomic Masses

R. B. Cakirli, D. S. Brenner, R. F. Casten, and E. A. Millman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 092501 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

New Limits on Fundamental Weak-Interaction Parameters from Superallowed $β$ Decay

J. C. Hardy and I. S. Towner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 092502 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

Suppression of Modes in the Random Phase Approximation

F. Dönau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 092503 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Stellar $(n, γ)$ Cross Section of ${}^{62}{N i}$

H. Nassar et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 092504 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Number Statistics of Molecules Formed from Ultracold Atoms

D. Meiser and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 093001 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

Nonsequential Double Ionization as a Completely Classical Photoelectric Effect

Phay J. Ho, R. Panfili, S. L. Haan, and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 093002 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Experimental Observation of Nanojets Formed by Heating PbO-Coated Pb Clusters

Fengqi Song, Min Han, Minda Liu, Bang Chen, Jianguo Wan, and Guanghou Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 093401 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Superfluidlike Motion of Vortices in Light Condensates

María J. Paz-Alonso and Humberto Michinel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 093901 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

Resonant Optical Interactions with Molecules Confined in Photonic Band-Gap Fibers

Saikat Ghosh, Jay E. Sharping, Dimitre G. Ouzounov, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 093902 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Excitable Optical Waves in Semiconductor Microcavities

Francesco Marino and Salvador Balle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 094101 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Unified Tensile Fracture Criterion

Z. F. Zhang and J. Eckert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 094301 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

Heavy Flags Undergo Spontaneous Oscillations in Flowing Water

Michael Shelley, Nicolas Vandenberghe, and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 094302 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Exact Equation for Curved Stationary Flames with Arbitrary Gas Expansion

Kirill A. Kazakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 094501 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Production of Energetic Electrons during Magnetic Reconnection

J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, W. Thongthai, and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095001 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

The Saturn Target for Polar Direct Drive on the National Ignition Facility

R. S. Craxton and D. W. Jacobs-Perkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095002 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Emission of Electromagnetic Pulses from Laser Wakefields through Linear Mode Conversion

Zheng-Ming Sheng, Kunioki Mima, Jie Zhang, and Heiji Sanuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095003 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Observation of Radio-Wave-Induced Red Hydroxyl Emission at Low Altitude in the Ionosphere

L. M. Kagan, M. J. Nicolls, M. C. Kelley, H. C. Carlson, V. V. Belikovich, N. V. Bakhmet’eva, G. P. Komrakov, T. S. Trondsen, and E. Donovan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095004 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Experimental Investigation of High-Mach-Number 3D Hydrodynamic Jets at the National Ignition Facility

B. E. Blue, S. V. Weber, S. G. Glendinning, N. E. Lanier, D. T. Woods, M. J. Bono, S. N. Dixit, C. A. Haynam, J. P. Holder, D. H. Kalantar, B. J. MacGowan, A. J. Nikitin, V. V. Rekow, B. M. Van Wonterghem, E. I. Moses, P. E. Stry, B. H. Wilde, W. W. Hsing, and H. F. Robey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095005 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Size Dependence of Incipient Dislocation Plasticity in ${Ni}_{3} Al$

L. Zuo, A. H. W. Ngan, and G. P. Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095501 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Phase Diagram of Silicon from Atomistic Simulations

M. Kaczmarski, O. N. Bedoya-Martínez, and E. R. Hernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095701 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Thermal Diffusion Shock Waves

Sorasak Danworaphong, Walter Craig, Vitalyi Gusev, and Gerald J. Diebold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095901 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Step Structures on III-V Phosphide (001) Surfaces: How Do Steps and Sb affect CuPt Ordering of ${G a I n P}_{2}$ ?

Iskander G. Batyrev, W. E. McMahon, S. B. Zhang, J. M. Olson, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096101 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Nucleation and Submonolayer Growth of $C_{60}$ on KBr

S. A. Burke, J. M. Mativetsky, R. Hoffmann, and P. Grütter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096102 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Covariance for Cone and Wedge Complete Filling

C. Rascón and A. O. Parry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096103 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Vortex Sublattice Melting in a Two-Component Superconductor

E. Smørgrav, J. Smiseth, E. Babaev, and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096401 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Preserving the Half-Metallicity at the Heusler Alloy ${C o}_{2} M n S i (001)$ Surface: A Density Functional Theory Study

S. Javad Hashemifar, Peter Kratzer, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096402 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Reversible Thermoelectric Nanomaterials

T. E. Humphrey and H. Linke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096601 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Aharonov-Bohm Effect as a Probe of Interaction between Magnetic Impurities

Victor M. Galitski, Maxim G. Vavilov, and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096602 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Pure Spin Current from One-Photon Absorption of Linearly Polarized Light in Noncentrosymmetric Semiconductors

R. D. R Bhat, F. Nastos, Ali Najmaie, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096603 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Influence of Linker Molecules on Charge Transport through Self-Assembled Single-Nanoparticle Devices

Amir Zabet-Khosousi, Yoshinori Suganuma, Kenneth Lopata, Paul-Emile Trudeau, Al-Amin Dhirani, and Bryan Statt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096801 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Spin Degree of Freedom in the $ν = 1$ Bilayer Electron System Investigated by Nuclear Spin Relaxation

N. Kumada, K. Muraki, K. Hashimoto, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 096802 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005

Dissociation of Vortex Stacks into Fractional-Flux Vortices

A. De Col, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097001 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

Superconductivity in the Americium Metal as a Function of Pressure: Probing the Mott Transition

J.-C. Griveau, J. Rebizant, G. H. Lander, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097002 (2005) - Published 7 March, 2005

Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity Close to a Quantum Phase Transition: The Heisenberg- to Ising-type Crossover

Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097003 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

${}^{77}{Se}$ NMR Probe of Magnetic Excitations of the Magic Angle Effect in $(TMTSF)_{2} {PF}_{6}$

Weida Wu, P. M. Chaikin, W. Kang, J. Shinagawa, W. Yu, and S. E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097004 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Theory of Incommensurate Magnetic Correlations Across the Insulator-Superconductor Transition of Underdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Oleg P. Sushkov and Valeri N. Kotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097005 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Universal Scaling Relations in Molecular Superconductors

F. L. Pratt and S. J. Blundell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097006 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Role of Disorder in Mn:GaAs, Cr:GaAs, and Cr:GaN

J. L. Xu, M. van Schilfgaarde, and G. D. Samolyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097201 (2005) - Published 9 March, 2005

Weak Charge-Lattice Coupling Requires Reinterpretation of Stripes of Charge Order in ${L a}_{1 - x} {C a}_{x} {M n O}_{3}$

J. C. Loudon, S. Cox, A. J. Williams, J. P. Attfield, P. B. Littlewood, P. A. Midgley, and N. D. Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097202 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Entanglement in Spin Chains and Lattices with Long-Range Ising-Type Interactions

W. Dür, L. Hartmann, M. Hein, M. Lewenstein, and H.-J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097203 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Stability of High-Density One-Dimensional Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes under High Laser Excitation

G. N. Ostojic, S. Zaric, J. Kono, V. C. Moore, R. H. Hauge, and R. E. Smalley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097401 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

Gate Control of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in GaAs Quantum Wells

H. Sanada, S. Matsuzaka, K. Morita, C. Y. Hu, Y. Ohno, and H. Ohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097601 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

Shallow Donors in Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Limit of the Effective Mass Approximation

Serguei B. Orlinskii, Jan Schmidt, Edgar J. J. Groenen, Pavel G. Baranov, Celso de Mello Donegá, and Andries Meijerink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097602 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Observation of the Transient Rotator Phase of $n$ -Hexadecane in Emulsified Droplets with Time-Resolved Two-Dimensional Small- and Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering

Yuya Shinohara, Naohiko Kawasaki, Satoru Ueno, Isao Kobayashi, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, and Yoshiyuki Amemiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 097801 (2005) - Published 11 March, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Theory of Inelastic Electric Current through Single Molecules [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 246102 (2004)]

Yoshihiro Asai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 099901 (2005) - Published 8 March, 2005

Erratum: Polar Anchoring Strength of a Tilted Nematic: Confirmation of the Dual Easy Axis Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057802 (2005)]

Giovanni Carbone and Charles Rosenblatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 099902 (2005) - Published 10 March, 2005