Volume 95, Issue 19

4 November 2005

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Three multilayered C₆₀ nanocrystals on a gold surface. Luminescence induced by tunneling electrons can provide unambiguous chemical identification of individual C₆₀ molecules.

From the article:

Fluorescence and Phosphorescence from Individual $C_{60}$ Molecules Excited by Local Electron Tunneling
Elizabeta Ćavar, Marie-Christine Blüm, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Majed Chergui, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196102 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experiments with a High-Density Positronium Gas

D. B. Cassidy, S. H. M. Deng, R. G. Greaves, T. Maruo, N. Nishiyama, J. B. Snyder, H. K. M. Tanaka, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195006 (2005) - Published 4 November, 2005

LETTERS

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

Spin Dynamics in a Dissipative Environment: From Quantal to Classical

J. L. García-Palacios and S. Dattagupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190401 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

High-Density Limit and Inflation of Matter

E. B. Manoukian and S. Sirininlakul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190402 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Observation of Phase Defects in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates

Sabine Stock, Zoran Hadzibabic, Baptiste Battelier, Marc Cheneau, and Jean Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190403 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Ultracold Molecule Production via a Resonant Oscillating Magnetic Field

S. T. Thompson, E. Hodby, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190404 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Coherent Collisional Spin Dynamics in Optical Lattices

Artur Widera, Fabrice Gerbier, Simon Fölling, Tatjana Gericke, Olaf Mandel, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190405 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Local Pair Correlations in One-Dimensional Bose Gases

Toshiya Kinoshita, Trevor Wenger, and David S. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190406 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Beyond the Tonks-Girardeau Gas: Strongly Correlated Regime in Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose Gases

G. E. Astrakharchik, J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, and S. Giorgini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190407 (2005) - Published 4 November, 2005

Irreversibility for All Bound Entangled States

Dong Yang, Michał Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki, and Barbara Synak-Radtke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190501 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Entropy of Classical Systems with Long-Range Interactions

T. M. Rocha Filho, A. Figueiredo, and M A. Amato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190601 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Thermodynamic Efficiency at Maximum Power

C. Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 190602 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Particle Scattering in Loop Quantum Gravity

Leonardo Modesto and Carlo Rovelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 191301 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Probing the Origins of Neutrino Mass with Supernova Data

Hooman Davoudiasl and Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 191302 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Quantizing Open Spin Chains with Variable Length and Giant Gravitons in the Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal Field-Theory Correspondence

David Berenstein, Diego H. Correa, and Samuel E. Vázquez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 191601 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Search for Lepton-Flavor and Lepton-Number Violation in the Decay $τ^{-} \to ℓ^{\mp} h^{\pm} h^{' -}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 191801 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Nuclear Physics

${}^{1}S_{0}$ Superfluid Phase Transition in Neutron Matter with Realistic Nuclear Potentials and Modern Many-Body Theories

Adelchi Fabrocini, Stefano Fantoni, Alexei Yu. Illarionov, and Kevin E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 192501 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Optical Transfer Functions of Kerr Nonlinear Cavities and Interferometers

Henning Rehbein, Jan Harms, Roman Schnabel, and Karsten Danzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193001 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Classical Effects of Laser Pulse Duration on Strong-Field Double Ionization

Phay J. Ho and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193002 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Superfluidity of Mesoscopic Bose Gases under Varying Confinements

Kwangsik Nho and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193601 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Femtosecond Optical Vortices in Air

Antoine Vinçotte and Luc Bergé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193901 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Direct Measurement of the Oscillation Frequency in an Optical-Tweezers Trap by Parametric Excitation

Joji Joykutty, Vaibhav Mathur, V. Venkataraman, and Vasant Natarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193902 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Complete Band Gaps in One-Dimensional Left-Handed Periodic Structures

Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193903 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Variable Coherence Scattering Microscopy

Erwan Baleine and Aristide Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 193904 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Quantum Chaotic Scattering in Atomic Physics: Ericson Fluctuations in Photoionization

Gernot Stania and Herbert Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 194101 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Axisymmetric Bubble Pinch-Off at High Reynolds Numbers

J. M. Gordillo, A. Sevilla, J. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, and C. Martínez-Bazán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 194501 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Identification and Calculation of the Universal Asymptote for Drag Reduction by Polymers in Wall Bounded Turbulence

Roberto Benzi, Elisabetta De Angelis, Victor S. L’vov, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 194502 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Pair Dispersion and Doubling Time Statistics in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

M. K. Rivera and R. E. Ecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 194503 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Harmonic Inverse-Free-Electron-Laser Interaction at 800 nm

Christopher M. S. Sears, Eric R. Colby, Benjamin M. Cowan, Robert H. Siemann, James E. Spencer, Robert L. Byer, and Tomas Plettner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 194801 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Dynamics of Electric Fields Driving the Laser Acceleration of Multi-MeV Protons

L. Romagnani, J. Fuchs, M. Borghesi, P. Antici, P. Audebert, F. Ceccherini, T. Cowan, T. Grismayer, S. Kar, A. Macchi, P. Mora, G. Pretzler, A. Schiavi, T. Toncian, and O. Willi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195001 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Effects of Ion Motion in Intense Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators

J. B. Rosenzweig, A. M. Cook, A. Scott, M. C. Thompson, and R. B. Yoder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195002 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Dynamic Acceleration Effects in Explosions of Laser-Irradiated Heteronuclear Clusters

M. Hohenberger, D. R. Symes, K. W. Madison, A. Sumeruk, G. Dyer, A. Edens, W. Grigsby, G. Hays, M. Teichmann, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195003 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Regularization of Moving Boundaries in a Laplacian Field by a Mixed Dirichlet-Neumann Boundary Condition: Exact Results

Bernard Meulenbroek, Ute Ebert, and Lothar Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195004 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Measurement of the Dispersion of Thermal Ion-Acoustic Fluctuations in High-Temperature Laser Plasmas Using Multiple-Wavelength Thomson Scattering

D. H. Froula, P. Davis, L. Divol, J. S. Ross, N. Meezan, D. Price, S. H. Glenzer, and C. Rousseaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195005 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experiments with a High-Density Positronium Gas

D. B. Cassidy, S. H. M. Deng, R. G. Greaves, T. Maruo, N. Nishiyama, J. B. Snyder, H. K. M. Tanaka, and A. P. Mills, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195006 (2005) - Published 4 November, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

A Universal Criterion for Plastic Yielding of Metallic Glasses with a $(T / T_{g})^{2 / 3}$ Temperature Dependence

W. L. Johnson and K. Samwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195501 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Organization of Complex Networks without Multiple Connections

S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, A. M. Povolotsky, and A. N. Samukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195701 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Energy Dissipation and Stability of Propagating Surfaces

Peter Fratzl, Franz Dieter Fischer, and Jiri Svoboda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195702 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Universality of Ionic Criticality: Size- and Charge-Asymmetric Electrolytes

Young C. Kim, Michael E. Fisher, and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195703 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Surface Diffusion of Cr Adatoms on Au(111) by Quantum Tunneling

P. Ohresser, H. Bulou, S. S. Dhesi, C. Boeglin, B. Lazarovits, E. Gaudry, I. Chado, J. Faerber, and F. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 195901 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

First-Principles Molecular-Dynamics Study of Native Oxide Growth on Si(001)

Lucio Colombi Ciacchi and Mike C. Payne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196101 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Fluorescence and Phosphorescence from Individual $C_{60}$ Molecules Excited by Local Electron Tunneling

Elizabeta Ćavar, Marie-Christine Blüm, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Majed Chergui, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196102 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Breaking the Phonon Bottleneck in Semiconductor Nanocrystals via Multiphonon Emission Induced by Intrinsic Nonadiabatic Interactions

Richard D. Schaller, Jeffrey M. Pietryga, Serguei V. Goupalov, Melissa A. Petruska, Sergei A. Ivanov, and Victor I. Klimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196401 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Coexistence of Two Different Peierls Distortions within an Atomic Scale Wire: Si(553)-Au

J. R. Ahn, P. G. Kang, K. D. Ryang, and H. W. Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196402 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Nonempirical Construction of Current-Density Functionals from Conventional Density-Functional Approximations

Jianmin Tao and John P. Perdew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196403 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Orbital-Assisted Metal-Insulator Transition in ${VO}_{2}$

M. W. Haverkort, Z. Hu, A. Tanaka, W. Reichelt, S. V. Streltsov, M. A. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, H. H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, D. I. Khomskii, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196404 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Doped Mott Insulators Are Insulators: Hole Localization in the Cuprates

Ting-Pong Choy and Philip Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196405 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Entanglement Scaling in the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model at Criticality

Daniel Larsson and Henrik Johannesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196406 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Severe Fermi Surface Reconstruction at a Metamagnetic Transition in ${Ca}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {RuO}_{4}$ (for $0.2 \leq x \leq 0.5$ )

L. Balicas, S. Nakatsuji, D. Hall, T. Ohnishi, Z. Fisk, Y. Maeno, and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196407 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Real-Time Dynamics in Quantum-Impurity Systems: A Time-Dependent Numerical Renormalization-Group Approach

Frithjof B. Anders and Avraham Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196801 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Four-Point Resistance of Individual Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

B. Gao, Y. F. Chen, M. S. Fuhrer, D. C. Glattli, and A. Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196802 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Physical Origin of Hydrogen-Adsorption-Induced Metallization of the SiC Surface: $n$ -Type Doping via Formation of Hydrogen Bridge Bond

Hao Chang, Jian Wu, Bing-Lin Gu, Feng Liu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196803 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Ferroelectricity of Perovskites under Pressure

Igor A. Kornev, L. Bellaiche, P. Bouvier, P.-E. Janolin, B. Dkhil, and J. Kreisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196804 (2005) - Published 31 October, 2005

Electron Localization in the Quantum Hall Regime

Raffaele Resta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 196805 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Field Dependence of the Vortex Core Size in a Multiband Superconductor

F. D. Callaghan, M. Laulajainen, C. V. Kaiser, and J. E. Sonier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 197001 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Giant Oscillations of Energy Levels in Mesoscopic Superconductors

N. B. Kopnin, A. S. Mel’nikov, V. I. Pozdnyakova, D. A. Ryzhov, I. A. Shereshevskii, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 197002 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005

Possible Observation of Phase Separation near a Quantum Phase Transition in Doubly Connected Ultrathin Superconducting Cylinders of Aluminum

H. Wang, M. M. Rosario, N. A. Kurz, B. Y. Rock, M. Tian, P. T. Carrigan, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 197003 (2005) - Published 2 November, 2005

Shot-Noise-Driven Escape in Hysteretic Josephson Junctions

J. P. Pekola, T. E. Nieminen, M. Meschke, J. M. Kivioja, A. O. Niskanen, and J. J. Vartiainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 197004 (2005) - Published 3 November, 2005

Coexistence and Coupling of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Thin Film Structures

A. J. Drew, S. L. Lee, D. Charalambous, A. Potenza, C. Marrows, H. Luetkens, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, R. Khasanov, E. Morenzoni, D. Ucko, and E. M. Forgan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 197201 (2005) - Published 1 November, 2005