Volume 95, Issue 11

9 September 2005

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On the Cover

Conductivity data for a germanium surface reveal the existence of 1D electronic states in the troughs between the straight self-organized platinum nanowires.

From the article:

Quantum Confinement between Self-Organized Pt Nanowires on Ge(001)
Nuri Oncel, Arie van Houselt, Jeroen Huijben, Ann-Sofie Hallbäck, Oguzhan Gurlu, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, and Bene Poelsema
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116801 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Unexpected Symmetry in the Nodal Structure of the He Atom

Dario Bressanini and Peter J. Reynolds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110201 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Fluctuations of Internal Energy Flow in a Vibrated Granular Gas

Andrea Puglisi, Paolo Visco, Alain Barrat, Emmanuel Trizac, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110202 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Collisions of Solitons and Vortex Rings in Cylindrical Bose-Einstein Condensates

Stavros Komineas and Joachim Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110401 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Collective Oscillations of Strongly Correlated One-Dimensional Bosons on a Lattice

M. Rigol, V. Rousseau, R. T. Scalettar, and R. R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110402 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Dissipative Quantum Dynamics of Bosonic Atoms in a Shallow 1D Optical Lattice

J. Ruostekoski and L. Isella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110403 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Dynamic Projection on Feshbach Molecules: A Probe of Pairing and Phase Fluctuations

Ehud Altman and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110404 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Observation of Nonspreading Wave Packets in an Imaginary Potential

R. Stützle, M. C. Göbel, Th. Hörner, E. Kierig, I. Mourachko, M. K. Oberthaler, M. A. Efremov, M. V. Fedorov, V. P. Yakovlev, K. A. H. van Leeuwen, and W. P. Schleich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110405 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Absence of Single-Particle Bose-Einstein Condensation at Low Densities for Bosons with Correlated Hopping

Rachel Bendjama, Brijesh Kumar, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110406 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Quantitative Conditions Do Not Guarantee the Validity of the Adiabatic Approximation

D. M. Tong, K. Singh, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110407 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Simple Mean-Field Theory for a Zero-Temperature Fermionic Gas at a Feshbach Resonance

Juha Javanainen, Marijan Koštrun, Matt Mackie, and Andrew Carmichael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110408 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Weak Measurements Are Universal

Ognyan Oreshkov and Todd A. Brun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110409 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Single-Step Implementation of Universal Quantum Gates

I. A. Grigorenko and D. V. Khveshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110501 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Measuring the Parity of an $N$ -Qubit State

B. Zeng, D. L. Zhou, and L. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110502 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Sequential Generation of Entangled Multiqubit States

C. Schön, E. Solano, F. Verstraete, J. I. Cirac, and M. M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110503 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Purity Estimation with Separable Measurements

E. Bagan, M. A. Ballester, R. Muñoz-Tapia, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110504 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Asymptotic Solution of the Wang-Uhlenbeck Recurrence Time Problem

A. Singer and Z. Schuss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 110601 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Trace Detection of Metastable Helium Molecules in Superfluid Helium by Laser-Induced Fluorescence

D. N. McKinsey, W. H. Lippincott, J. A. Nikkel, and W. G. Rellergert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 111101 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Local Existence of Dynamical and Trapping Horizons

Lars Andersson, Marc Mars, and Walter Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 111102 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Electroweak Baryogenesis from Late Neutrino Masses

Lawrence J. Hall, Hitoshi Murayama, and Gilad Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 111301 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Determination of $| V_{u b} |$ from Measurements of the Electron and Neutrino Momenta in Inclusive Semileptonic $B$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 111801 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Intense Laser Alignment in Dissipative Media as a Route to Solvent Dynamics

S. Ramakrishna and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113001 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Quantum States of Magnetically Induced Anions

Victor G. Bezchastnov, Peter Schmelcher, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113002 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Apparent Velocity Threshold in the Electronic Stopping of Slow Hydrogen Ions in LiF

M. Draxler, S. P. Chenakin, S. N. Markin, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113201 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

New Asymptotic Behavior of the Surface-Atom Force out of Thermal Equilibrium

Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113202 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Molecular Limits to the Quantum Confinement Model in Diamond Clusters

T. M. Willey, C. Bostedt, T. van Buuren, J. E. Dahl, S. G. Liu, R. M. K. Carlson, L. J. Terminello, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113401 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Observation of Mixed Fermionic-Bosonic Helium Clusters by Transmission Grating Diffraction

Anton Kalinin, Oleg Kornilov, Wieland Schöllkopf, and J. Peter Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113402 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Soliton Mobility in Nonlocal Optical Lattices

Zhiyong Xu, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 113901 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Spectral Fluctuations and $1 / f$ Noise in the Order-Chaos Transition Regime

M. S. Santhanam and Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 114101 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Hot Cracks in Rubber: Origin of the Giant Toughness of Rubberlike Materials

G. Carbone and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 114301 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Entropically Enhanced Excitability in Small Systems

J. W. Shuai and P. Jung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 114501 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Spectral Energy Dynamics in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Wolf-Christian Müller and Roland Grappin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 114502 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonances: A New Way to Accelerate Charged Particles

Władysław Żakowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 114801 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Quantumlike Dynamics of Classical Particles in Ponderomotive Potentials

I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115001 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Enhanced Plasma Transport Due To Neutral Depletion

A. Fruchtman, G. Makrinich, P. Chabert, and J. M. Rax

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115002 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Electron Kinetic Effects on Raman Backscatter in Plasmas

M. S. Hur, R. R. Lindberg, A. E. Charman, J. S. Wurtele, and H. Suk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115003 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Atomic Scale Origin of Crack Resistance in Brittle Fracture

A. Mattoni, L. Colombo, and F. Cleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115501 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Structures of Si and Ge Nanowires in the Subnanometer Range

R. Kagimura, R. W. Nunes, and H. Chacham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115502 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Monitoring of Chain Alignment in Freely Suspended Nanomembranes

Chaoyang Jiang, Wilber Y. Lio, and Vladimir V. Tsukruk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115503 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Growth Spiral Activity and Step Velocities on a Crystal Surface

Martin J. McLoughlin, Timothy J. Mays, and Robert Price

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115504 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Nucleation Rates for High Supersaturations

Vitaly A. Shneidman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115701 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Viscoelasticity and Metastability Limit in Supercooled Liquids

Andrea Cavagna, Alessandro Attanasi, and José Lorenzana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115702 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Internal Friction and Vulnerability of Mixed Alkali Glasses

Robby Peibst, Stephan Schott, and Philipp Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 115901 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Transition from Icosahedral to Decahedral Structure in a Coexisting Solid-Liquid Nickel Cluster

D. Schebarchov and S. C. Hendy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116101 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Self-Assembled Silicon Nanotubes under Supercritically Hydrothermal Conditions

Y. H. Tang, L. Z. Pei, Y. W. Chen, and C. Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116102 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Real-Space Observation of Nanoscale Inhomogeneities and Fluctuations in a Phase Transition of a Surface Quasi-One-Dimensional System: $In / Si (111)$

Geunseop Lee, Jiandong Guo, and E. W. Plummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116103 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Streaming Currents in a Single Nanofluidic Channel

Frank H. J. van der Heyden, Derek Stein, and Cees Dekker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116104 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Density Wave Dislocation as Revealed by Coherent X-Ray Diffraction

D. Le Bolloc’h, S. Ravy, J. Dumas, J. Marcus, F. Livet, C. Detlefs, F. Yakhou, and L. Paolasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116401 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Novel Mott Transitions in a Nonisotropic Two-Band Hubbard Model

A. Liebsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116402 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Quantum Confinement between Self-Organized Pt Nanowires on Ge(001)

Nuri Oncel, Arie van Houselt, Jeroen Huijben, Ann-Sofie Hallbäck, Oguzhan Gurlu, Harold J. W. Zandvliet, and Bene Poelsema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116801 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Plasmonic Band Gaps and Trapped Plasmons on Nanostructured Metal Surfaces

T. A. Kelf, Y. Sugawara, J. J. Baumberg, M. Abdelsalam, and P. N. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116802 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Continuum Theory for Nanotube Piezoelectricity

P. J. Michalski, Na Sai, and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116803 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Circular-Polarization-Dependent Study of the Microwave Photoconductivity in a Two-Dimensional Electron System

J. H. Smet, B. Gorshunov, C. Jiang, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, V. Umansky, M. Dressel, R. Meisels, F. Kuchar, and K. von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116804 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Nanowire Acting as a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device

A. Johansson, G. Sambandamurthy, D. Shahar, N. Jacobson, and R. Tenne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116805 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Coulomb Promotion of Spin-Dependent Tunneling

L. Y. Gorelik, S. I. Kulinich, R. I. Shekhter, M. Jonson, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116806 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Multiple Bosonic Mode Coupling in the Electron Self-Energy of $({La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x}) {CuO}_{4}$

X. J. Zhou, Junren Shi, T. Yoshida, T. Cuk, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, J. Nakamura, N. Mannella, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, F. Zhou, W. X. Ti, J. W. Xiong, Z. X. Zhao, T. Sasagawa, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. Fujimori, Zhenyu Zhang, E. W. Plummer, R. B. Laughlin, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117001 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Dynamical Properties of Charged Stripes in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

L. Tassini, F. Venturini, Q.-M. Zhang, R. Hackl, N. Kikugawa, and T. Fujita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117002 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Topological Structure of a Vortex in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State

T. Mizushima, K. Machida, and M. Ichioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117003 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Charge-Fluctuation Contribution to the Raman Response in Superconducting Cuprates

S. Caprara, C. Di Castro, M. Grilli, and D. Suppa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117004 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Abrupt Transition in Quasiparticle Dynamics at Optimal Doping in a Cuprate Superconductor System

N. Gedik, M. Langner, J. Orenstein, S. Ono, Yasushi Abe, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117005 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Pressure Induced Effects on the Fermi Surface of Superconducting $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

H. Suderow, V. G. Tissen, J. P. Brison, J. L. Martínez, and S. Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117006 (2005) - Published 9 September, 2005

Spin-Flop Ordering from Frustrated Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Interactions: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study of a $Mn / Fe (100)$ Monolayer

C. Grazioli, Dario Alfè, S. R. Krishnakumar, Subhra Sen Gupta, M. Veronese, S. Turchini, Nicola Bonini, Andrea Dal Corso, D. D. Sarma, Stefano Baroni, and C. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117201 (2005) - Published 6 September, 2005

Energy Structure of a Finite Haldane Chain in $Y_{2} {BaNi}_{0.96} {Mg}_{0.04} O_{5}$ Studied by High Field Electron Spin Resonance

M. Yoshida, K. Shiraki, S. Okubo, H. Ohta, T. Ito, H. Takagi, M. Kaburagi, and Y. Ajiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 117202 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Phonons from Powder Diffraction: A Quantitative Model-Independent Evaluation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 075502 (2004)]

Andrew L. Goodwin, Matthew G. Tucker, Martin T. Dove, and David A. Keen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 119901 (2005) - Published 7 September, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Logarithmic Negativity: A Full Entanglement Monotone That Is not Convex [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090503 (2005)]

M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 119902 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005

Erratum: Proton-Neutron Interactions and the New Atomic Masses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 092501 (2005)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 119903 (2005) - Published 8 September, 2005