Volume 95, Issue 16

14 October 2005

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On the Cover

Images of the coalescence of two millimeter-sized water droplets taken at 11 200 frames/sec elucidate the roles surface tension and viscosity play in this process.

From the article:

Hydrodynamics of Droplet Coalescence
Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker, Hua Guo, Gerard H. Wegdam, and Daniel Bonn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164503 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Escape of Black Holes from the Brane

Antonino Flachi and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 161302 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

LETTERS

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

Resonant Fermi Gases with a Large Effective Range

A. Schwenk and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160401 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Detecting Entanglement Using a Double-Quantum-Dot Turnstile

M. Blaauboer and D. P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160402 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Testing Gravity-Driven Collapse of the Wave Function via Cosmogenic Neutrinos

Joy Christian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160403 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Incompressible Liquid State of Rapidly Rotating Bosons at Filling Factor $3 / 2$

E. H. Rezayi, N. Read, and N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160404 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Generation of Atomic Cluster States through the Cavity Input-Output Process

Jaeyoon Cho and Hai-Woong Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160501 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Direct Observation of Nondiffusive Motion of a Brownian Particle

B. Lukić, S. Jeney, C. Tischer, A. J. Kulik, L. Forró, and E.-L. Florin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160601 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

General Nonextremal Rotating Black Holes in Minimal Five-Dimensional Gauged Supergravity

Z.-W. Chong, M. Cvetič, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 161301 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Escape of Black Holes from the Brane

Antonino Flachi and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 161302 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Relaxing to Three Dimensions

Andreas Karch and Lisa Randall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 161601 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Search for Large Extra Spatial Dimensions in Dimuon Production with the D0 Detector

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 161602 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Supersymmetric SO(10) Seesaw Mechanism with Low $B − L$ Scale

M. Malinský, J. C. Romão, and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 161801 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Finite-Temperature Gauge Theory from the Transverse Lattice

S. Dalley and B. van de Sande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 162001 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Quantitative Study of the Violation of $k_{⊥}$ Factorization in Hadroproduction of Quarks at Collider Energies

Hirotsugu Fujii, François Gelis, and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 162002 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Beam-Helicity Asymmetries in Double-Charged-Pion Photoproduction on the Proton

S. Strauch et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 162003 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Resolving the Discrepancy of 135 MeV $p d$ Elastic Scattering Cross Sections and Relativistic Effects

K. Sekiguchi, H. Sakai, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, K. Hatanaka, M. Hatano, K. Itoh, H. Kamada, H. Kuboki, Y. Maeda, A. Nogga, H. Okamura, T. Saito, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, M. Sasano, Y. Shimizu, K. Suda, A. Tamii, T. Uesaka, T. Wakasa, and K. Yako

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 162301 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Nonextensive Boltzmann Equation and Hadronization

T. S. Biró and G. Purcsel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 162302 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Fast Decision in Favor of the Slow Fission Process

V. Tishchenko, C.-M. Herbach, D. Hilscher, U. Jahnke, J. Galin, F. Goldenbaum, A. Letourneau, and W.-U. Schröder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 162701 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Trajectory Surface Hopping in the Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham Approach for Electron-Nuclear Dynamics

Colleen F. Craig, Walter R. Duncan, and Oleg V. Prezhdo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163001 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Nonadiabatic Effects in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

F. Hennies, S. Polyutov, I. Minkov, A. Pietzsch, M. Nagasono, F. Gel’mukhanov, L. Triguero, M.-N. Piancastelli, W. Wurth, H. Ågren, and A. Föhlisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163002 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Precise Calculation of Transition Frequencies of Hydrogen and Deuterium Based on a Least-Squares Analysis

Ulrich D. Jentschura, Svetlana Kotochigova, Eric-Olivier Le Bigot, Peter J. Mohr, and Barry N. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163003 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

In Search of the Electron Electric Dipole Moment: Relativistic Correlation Calculations of the $P, T$ -Violating Effect in the Ground State of ${HI}^{+}$

T. A. Isaev, A. N. Petrov, N. S. Mosyagin, and A. V. Titov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163004 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Evanescent-Wave Mirror for Ultracold Diatomic Polar Molecules

S. Kallush, B. Segev, and R. Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163005 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Rydberg Transition Frequencies from the Local Density Approximation

Adam Wasserman and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163006 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Engineering Very-High- $n$ Polarized Rydberg States Using Tailored Half-Cycle-Pulse Sequences

W. Zhao, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163007 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Doped Helium Nanodroplets

Evgeniy Loginov, Dominic Rossi, and Marcel Drabbels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163401 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Cold Antihydrogen Formation in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

S. X. Hu, D. Vrinceanu, S. Mazevet, and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163402 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Non-Markovian Dynamics in a Dense Potassium Vapor

V. O. Lorenz and S. T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163601 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Amplification of Femtosecond Laser Filaments in Ti:Sapphire

J. Philip, C. D’Amico, G. Chériaux, A. Couairon, B. Prade, and A. Mysyrowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 163901 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Dissipative Quantum Chaos: Transition from Wave Packet Collapse to Explosion

Gabriel G. Carlo, Giuliano Benenti, and Dima L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164101 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Flow-Induced Transverse Electrical Potential across an Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles

Chandramouli Subramaniam, T. Pradeep, and J. Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164501 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Origin of Non-Gaussian Statistics in Hydrodynamic Turbulence

Yi Li and Charles Meneveau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164502 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Hydrodynamics of Droplet Coalescence

Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker, Hua Guo, Gerard H. Wegdam, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164503 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Droplet Detachment and Satellite Bead Formation in Viscoelastic Fluids

C. Wagner, Y. Amarouchene, Daniel Bonn, and J. Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164504 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Molecular Understanding of Diffusion in Confinement

E. Beerdsen, D. Dubbeldam, and B. Smit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164505 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Large-Scale Streamers in the Sedimentation of a Dilute Fiber Suspension

Bloen Metzger, Élisabeth Guazzelli, and Jason E. Butler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164506 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ultracold Electron Source

B. J. Claessens, S. B. van der Geer, G. Taban, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 164801 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Mechanism of Branching in Negative Ionization Fronts

Manuel Arrayás, Marco A. Fontelos, and José L. Trueba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165001 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Superradiant Linear Raman Amplification in Plasma Using a Chirped Pump Pulse

B. Ersfeld and D. A. Jaroszynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165002 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Total Absorption of an Electromagnetic Wave by an Overdense Plasma

Yury P. Bliokh, Joshua Felsteiner, and Yakov Z. Slutsker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165003 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Why Twins Do Not Grow at the Speed of Sound All the Time

Paul G. Oberson and Sreeramamurthy Ankem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165501 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Controlled Growth of Silicon Nanocrystals in a Plasma Reactor

Holger Vach and Quentin Brulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165502 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

New Cubic Phase of ${Li}_{3} N$ : Stability of the $N^{3 -}$ Ion to 200 GPa

A. Lazicki, B. Maddox, W. J. Evans, C.-S Yoo, A. K. McMahan, W. E. Pickett, R. T. Scalettar, M. Y. Hu, and P. Chow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165503 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Universality and Finite-Size Scaling of the Specific Heat of ${}^{3}{He} − {}^{4}{He}$ Mixtures

Mark O. Kimball and Francis M. Gasparini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 165701 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Small Angle Neutron Scattering Observation of Chain Retraction after a Large Step Deformation

A. Blanchard, R. S. Graham, M. Heinrich, W. Pyckhout-Hintzen, D. Richter, A. E. Likhtman, T. C. B. McLeish, D. J. Read, E. Straube, and J. Kohlbrecher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166001 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Arm Retraction Potential of Branched Polymers in the Absence of Dynamic Dilution

Daniel A. Vega, Leopoldo R. Gómez, Leandro E. Roth, Jorge A. Ressia, Marcelo A. Villar, and Enrique M. Vallés

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166002 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Unidirectional Adsorbate Motion on a High-Symmetry Surface: “Walking” Molecules Can Stay the Course

Ki-Young Kwon, Kin L. Wong, Greg Pawin, Ludwig Bartels, Sergey Stolbov, and Talat S. Rahman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166101 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Crystalline Ice Growth on Pt(111): Observation of a Hydrophobic Water Monolayer

Greg A. Kimmel, Nikolay G. Petrik, Zdenek Dohnálek, and Bruce D. Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166102 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Charging and Interaction of Individual Impurities in a Monolayer Organic Crystal

G. V. Nazin, X. H. Qiu, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166103 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Quasi-Ice Monolayer on Atomically Smooth Amorphous ${SiO}_{2}$ at Room Temperature Observed with a High-Finesse Optical Resonator

I. M. P. Aarts, A. C. R. Pipino, J. P. M. Hoefnagels, W. M. M. Kessels, and M. C. M. van de Sanden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166104 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Twin Boundaries Can Be Moved by Step Edges During Film Growth

W. L. Ling, N. C. Bartelt, K. F. McCarty, and C. B. Carter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166105 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Anion Adsorption Induced Reversal of Coherency Strain

T. Trimble, L. Tang, N. Vasiljevic, N. Dimitrov, M. van Schilfgaarde, C. Friesen, C. V. Thompson, S. C. Seel, J. A. Floro, and K. Sieradzki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166106 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Experimental Observation and Theoretical Description of the Pure Fano Effect in the Valence-Band Photoemission of Ferromagnets

J. Minár, H. Ebert, C. De Nadaï, N. B. Brookes, F. Venturini, G. Ghiringhelli, L. Chioncel, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166401 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Paired Gap States in a Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube: Deep and Shallow Levels

Sungjun Lee, Gunn Kim, Hajin Kim, Byoung-Young Choi, Jhinhwan Lee, Byoung Wook Jeong, Jisoon Ihm, Young Kuk, and Se-Jong Kahng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166402 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Kondo Effect of Molecular Complexes at Surfaces: Ligand Control of the Local Spin Coupling

P. Wahl, L. Diekhöner, G. Wittich, L. Vitali, M. A. Schneider, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166601 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Role of Molecular Conformations in Rubrene Thin Film Growth

D. Käfer, L. Ruppel, G. Witte, and Ch. Wöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166602 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Field Dependence of the Electron Spin Relaxation in Quantum Dots

Carlos Calero, E. M. Chudnovsky, and D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166603 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Non-Ohmic Variable-Range Hopping Transport in One-Dimensional Conductors

M. M. Fogler and R. S. Kelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166604 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Theory of Spin Hall Conductivity in $n$ -Doped GaAs

Hans-Andreas Engel, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Emmanuel I. Rashba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166605 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Macroscopic Channel-Size Effect of Nonequilibrium Electron Distributions in Quantum Hall Conductors

Y. Kawano and T. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166801 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Effect of Electron-Phonon Scattering on Shot Noise in Nanoscale Junctions

Yu-Chang Chen and Massimiliano Di Ventra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 166802 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Orbital Response Of Evanescent Cooper Pairs in Paramagnetically Limited Al Films

X. S. Wu, P. W. Adams, and G. Catelani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167001 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Direct Observation of Geometrical Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Superconductors by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

G. Karapetrov, J. Fedor, M. Iavarone, D. Rosenmann, and W. K. Kwok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167002 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Field-Induced Superconductivity with an Enhanced and Tunable Paramagnetic Limit

A. Buzdin, S. Tollis, and J. Cayssol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167003 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Anomalous Pressure Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature of $β$ -Pyrochlore $A {Os}_{2} O_{6}$ Oxides

T. Muramatsu, N. Takeshita, C. Terakura, H. Takagi, Y. Tokura, S. Yonezawa, Y. Muraoka, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167004 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Interactions of Spin Waves with a Magnetic Vortex

J. P. Park and P. A. Crowell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167201 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Ferromagnetism in Mn-Doped GaN Nanowires

Q. Wang, Q. Sun, and P. Jena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167202 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Semiclassical Ordering in the Large- $N$ Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet

U. Hizi, Prashant Sharma, and C. L. Henley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167203 (2005) - Published 12 October, 2005

Spin-Liquid Behavior in Electronic Griffiths Phases

D. Tanasković, V. Dobrosavljević, and E. Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167204 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Quantum Nonlinear $σ$ Model for Arbitrary Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

Jianhui Dai and Wei-Min Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167205 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Ultrafast Quenching of Ferromagnetism in InMnAs Induced by Intense Laser Irradiation

J. Wang, C. Sun, J. Kono, A. Oiwa, H. Munekata, Ł. Cywiński, and L. J. Sham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 167401 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Contaminants in Suspended Gold Chains: An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study”

Edwin Hobi, Jr., Antônio J. R. da Silva, Frederico D. Novaes, E. Z. da Silva, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 169601 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

Legoas et al. Reply:

S. B. Legoas, V. Rodrigues, D. Ugarte, and D. S. Galvão

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 169602 (2005) - Published 14 October, 2005

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Amorphouslike Diffraction Pattern in Solid Metallic Titanium [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.95.155501 95, 155501 (2005)]

Y. Wang, Y. Z. Fang, T. Kikegawa, C. Lathe, K. Saksl, H. Franz, J. R. Schneider, L. Gerward, F. M. Wu, J. F. Liu, and J. Z. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 169901 (2005) - Published 10 October, 2005

Erratum: Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Nanowires [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076601 (2005)]

A. S. Alexandrov and V. V. Kabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 169902 (2005) - Published 11 October, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Berry Phase Correction to Electron Density of States in Solids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137204 (2005)]

Di Xiao, Junren Shi, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 169903 (2005) - Published 13 October, 2005