Volume 95, Issue 21

18 November 2005

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On the Cover

The phase diagram of a two-dimensional electron system with two energy levels reveals intriguing topology due to electron spin interactions.

From the article:

Multiple Phases with the Same Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Subband System
X. C. Zhang, D. R. Faulhaber, and H. W. Jiang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216801 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Stronger Two-Observer All-Versus-Nothing Violation of Local Realism

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210401 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Optimal Bell Tests Do Not Require Maximally Entangled States

Antonio Acín, Richard Gill, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210402 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Entanglement of Formation of Bipartite Quantum States

Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210501 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Experimental Analysis of a Four-Qubit Photon Cluster State

Nikolai Kiesel, Christian Schmid, Ulrich Weber, Géza Tóth, Otfried Gühne, Rupert Ursin, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210502 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Decoherence in Josephson Qubits from Dielectric Loss

John M. Martinis, K. B. Cooper, R. McDermott, Matthias Steffen, Markus Ansmann, K. D. Osborn, K. Cicak, Seongshik Oh, D. P. Pappas, R. W. Simmonds, and Clare C. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210503 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis

N. K. Langford, T. J. Weinhold, R. Prevedel, K. J. Resch, A. Gilchrist, J. L. O’Brien, G. J. Pryde, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210504 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Linear Optics Controlled-Phase Gate Made Simple

Nikolai Kiesel, Christian Schmid, Ulrich Weber, Rupert Ursin, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210505 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Demonstration of an Optical Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate without Path Interference

Ryo Okamoto, Holger F. Hofmann, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 210506 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Maximum Elastic Deformations of Compact Stars with Exotic Equations of State

Benjamin J. Owen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211101 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Demonstration of a Squeezed-Light-Enhanced Power- and Signal-Recycled Michelson Interferometer

Henning Vahlbruch, Simon Chelkowski, Boris Hage, Alexander Franzen, Karsten Danzmann, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211102 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Difficulty of Detecting Minihalos via $γ$ Rays from Dark Matter Annihilation

Lidia Pieri, Enzo Branchini, and Stefan Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211301 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Looking for Light Pseudoscalar Bosons in the Binary Pulsar System J0737-3039

Arnaud Dupays, Carlo Rizzo, Marco Roncadelli, and Giovanni F. Bignami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211302 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Cosmic 21 cm Delensing of Microwave Background Polarization and the Minimum Detectable Energy Scale of Inflation

Kris Sigurdson and Asantha Cooray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211303 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Describing Oscillations of High Energy Neutrinos in Matter Precisely

E. Kh. Akhmedov, M. Maltoni, and A. Yu. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211801 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Solar Mass-Varying Neutrino Oscillations

V. Barger, Patrick Huber, and Danny Marfatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 211802 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

$B$ -Meson Decay Constant from Unquenched Lattice QCD

Alan Gray, Matthew Wingate, Christine T. H. Davies, Emel Gulez, G. Peter Lepage, Quentin Mason, Matthew Nobes, and Junko Shigemitsu (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 212001 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Gamow-Teller Strengths in Proton-Rich Exotic Nuclei Deduced in the Combined Analysis of Mirror Transitions

Y. Fujita, T. Adachi, P. von Brentano, G. P. A. Berg, C. Fransen, D. De Frenne, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, E. Jacobs, K. Nakanishi, A. Negret, N. Pietralla, L. Popescu, B. Rubio, Y. Sakemi, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, Y. Tameshige, A. Tamii, M. Yosoi, and K. O. Zell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 212501 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Single Photon Transport in a One-Dimensional Waveguide Coupled with Superconducting Quantum Bits

Jung-Tsung Shen and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213001 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Control of Diabatic versus Adiabatic Field Dissociation in a Heavy Rydberg System

R. C. Shiell, E. Reinhold, F. Magnus, and W. Ubachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213002 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Anomalous Decline of Molecular Ion Mobility in Cooled Helium Gas

Kazumasa Ohtsuki, Masatoshi Hananoe, and Michio Matsuzawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213201 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Ultrafast Dynamics of All-trans- $β$ -Carotene Explored by Resonant and Nonresonant Photoexcitations

D. Kosumi, M. Komukai, H. Hashimoto, and M. Yoshizawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213601 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Random Walk of Polarized Light in Turbid Media

M. Xu and R. R. Alfano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213901 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Interaction of an Optical Soliton with a Dispersive Wave

A. Efimov, A. V. Yulin, D. V. Skryabin, J. C. Knight, N. Joly, F. G. Omenetto, A. J. Taylor, and P. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213902 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Stokes Amplification Regimes in Quasi-cw Pumped Hydrogen-Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

F. Benabid, G. Antonopoulos, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213903 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Solitons in Nonlinear Media with an Infinite Range of Nonlocality: First Observation of Coherent Elliptic Solitons and of Vortex-Ring Solitons

Carmel Rotschild, Oren Cohen, Ofer Manela, Mordechai Segev, and Tal Carmon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213904 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Theory of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves and Selection of the Ground State

A. Soffer and M. I. Weinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 213905 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Identifying Turbulent Energy Distributions in Real, Rather than Fourier, Space

P. A. Davidson and B. R. Pearson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 214501 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Turbulence Regeneration in Pipe Flow at Moderate Reynolds Numbers

Björn Hof, Casimir W. H. van Doorne, Jerry Westerweel, and Frans T. M. Nieuwstadt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 214502 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Fourier-Space Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Measurements of 3D Laser-Imprinted Modulations in Planar Targets

V. A. Smalyuk, O. Sadot, J. A. Delettrez, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, and T. C. Sangster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215001 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Anomalously High Near-Wall Sheath Potential Drop in a Plasma with Nonlocal Fast Electrons

V. I. Demidov, C. A. DeJoseph, Jr., and A. A. Kudryavtsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215002 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Self-Consistent Generation of Superthermal Electrons by Beam-Plasma Interaction

Peter H. Yoon, Tongnyeol Rhee, and Chang-Mo Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215003 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Radiation-Driven Hydrodynamics of High- $Z$ Hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility

E. L. Dewald et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215004 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

High-Resolution Spectroscopy of NO in Helium Droplets: A Prototype for Open Shell Molecular Interactions in a Quantum Solvent

K. von Haeften, A. Metzelthin, S. Rudolph, V. Staemmler, and M. Havenith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215301 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Measurement of the Normal-Fluid Velocity in Superfluids

Demosthenes Kivotides, Carlo F. Barenghi, and Yuri A. Sergeev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215302 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Direct Evidence of Nanometric Invasionlike Grain Boundary Penetration in the $Al / Ga$ System

E. Pereiro-López, W. Ludwig, D. Bellet, P. Cloetens, and C. Lemaignan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215501 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Structural Organization of $π$ Conjugated Highly Luminescent Molecular Material

B. Toudic, P. Limelette, G. Froyer, F. Le Gac, A. Moréac, and P. Rabiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215502 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Direct Evidence for As as a Zn-Site Impurity in ZnO

U. Wahl, E. Rita, J. G. Correia, A. C. Marques, E. Alves, and J. C. Soares (ISOLDE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215503 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Direct Observation of Hydrogen Adsorption Sites and Nanocage Formation in Metal-Organic Frameworks

T. Yildirim and M. R. Hartman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215504 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Observation of a Wurtzite Form of Gallium Arsenide

M. I. McMahon and R. J. Nelmes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215505 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Simulation of Screw Dislocation Motion in Iron by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Christophe Domain and Ghiath Monnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215506 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Structural Origin of Negative Thermal Expansion in High-Temperature Silica Polymorphs

Liping Huang and John Kieffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 215901 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

New Types of Unstable Step-Flow Growth on $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ during Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Scaling and Universality

Hiroo Omi, Yoshikazu Homma, Vesselin Tonchev, and Alberto Pimpinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216101 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Surface Smoothening Mechanism of Amorphous Silicon Thin Films

Mayur S. Valipa, Tamas Bakos, Eray S. Aydil, and Dimitrios Maroudas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216102 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Probing Nanotube-Nanopore Interactions

G. M. King and J. A. Golovchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216103 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bayesian Error Estimation in Density-Functional Theory

J. J. Mortensen, K. Kaasbjerg, S. L. Frederiksen, J. K. Nørskov, J. P. Sethna, and K. W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216401 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Interaction of the Ground State of Quarter-Filled One-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Electronic System with Localized Spins

Chisa Hotta, Masao Ogata, and Hidetoshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216402 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Negative Spin Polarization and Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial $Co | {SrTiO}_{3} | Co$ Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

J. P. Velev, K. D. Belashchenko, D. A. Stewart, M. van Schilfgaarde, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216601 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Electrical Switching in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

Young-Woo Son, Jisoon Ihm, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, and Hyoung Joon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216602 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Spin Noise Spectroscopy in GaAs

M. Oestreich, M. Römer, R. J. Haug, and D. Hägele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216603 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Multiple Phases with the Same Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Subband System

X. C. Zhang, D. R. Faulhaber, and H. W. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216801 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Dark-State Luminescence of Macroatoms at the Near Field

Ulrich Hohenester, Guido Goldoni, and Elisa Molinari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 216802 (2005) - Published 16 November, 2005

Spiral Spin State in High-Temperature Copper-Oxide Superconductors: Evidence from Neutron Scattering Measurements

Per-Anker Lindgård

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217001 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Novel Coexistence of Superconductivity with Two Distinct Magnetic Orders

A. Llobet, A. D. Christianson, Wei Bao, J. S. Gardner, I. P. Swainson, J. W. Lynn, J.-M. Mignot, K. Prokes, P. G. Pagliuso, N. O. Moreno, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and A. H. Lacerda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217002 (2005) - Published 15 November, 2005

Charge-Transfer Excitations in the Model Superconductor ${HgBa}_{2} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$

L. Lu, G. Chabot-Couture, X. Zhao, J. N. Hancock, N. Kaneko, O. P. Vajk, G. Yu, S. Grenier, Y. J. Kim, D. Casa, T. Gog, and M. Greven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217003 (2005) - Published 17 November, 2005

Phase-Sensitive Tests of the Pairing State Symmetry in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Igor Žutić and Igor Mazin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217004 (2005) - Published 18 November, 2005

Why Spin Ice Obeys the Ice Rules

S. V. Isakov, R. Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217201 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Anomalous Magnetic Properties Near the Spin-Flop Bicritical Point in ${Mn}_{2} A S_{4}$ ( $A = Si$ and Ge)

K. Ohgushi and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217202 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005

Negligible Magnetism in Excellent Structural Quality ${Cr}_{x} {Ti}_{1 - x} O_{2}$ Anatase: Contrast with High- $T_{C}$ Ferromagnetism in Structurally Defective ${Cr}_{x} {Ti}_{1 - x} O_{2}$

T. C. Kaspar, S. M. Heald, C. M. Wang, J. D. Bryan, T. Droubay, V. Shutthanandan, S. Thevuthasan, D. E. McCready, A. J. Kellock, D. R. Gamelin, and S. A. Chambers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217203 (2005) - Published 14 November, 2005