Volume 95, Issue 22

25 November 2005

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Nanoscale crystallite displaying spiral growth on the top facet caused by a noncentered screw dislocation.

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Spiral Evolution in a Confined Geometry
Madhav Ranganathan, D. B. Dougherty, W. G. Cullen, Tong Zhao, John D. Weeks, and E. D. Williams
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225505 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Continuous Quantum Measurement with Independent Detector Cross Correlations

Andrew N. Jordan and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220401 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Phase Coherence, Visibility, and the Superfluid–Mott-Insulator Transition on One-Dimensional Optical Lattices

P. Sengupta, M. Rigol, G. G. Batrouni, P. J. H. Denteneer, and R. T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220402 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Collisional Decay of a Strongly Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate

N. Katz, E. Rowen, R. Ozeri, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220403 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Correlated Electron Transfer in Molecular Chains

L. Mühlbacher, J. Ankerhold, and A. Komnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220404 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Distillation of Multipartite Entanglement by Complementary Stabilizer Measurements

Akimasa Miyake and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220501 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Linear Response to Perturbation of Nonexponential Renewal Processes

Francesco Barbi, Mauro Bologna, and Paolo Grigolini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 220601 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Upper Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves

B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221101 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Neutrino Masses and the Dark Energy Equation of State:Relaxing the Cosmological Neutrino Mass Bound

Steen Hannestad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221301 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Center Flux Correlation in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory

K. Langfeld, G. Schulze, and H. Reinhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221601 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Evidence for $B^{+} \to {\bar{K}}^{0} K^{+}$ and $B^{0} \to K^{0} {\bar{K}}^{0}$ , and Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Search for Direct $C P$ Violation in $B^{+} \to K^{0} π^{+}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221801 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Search for Rare and Forbidden Decays $D^{+} \to h^{\pm} e^{\mp} e^{+}$

Q. He et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221802 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Nonuniversality Aspects of Nonlinear $k_{⊥}$ Factorization for Hard Dijets

N. N. Nikolaev, W. Schäfer, and B. G. Zakharov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221803 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Effect of Penguin Operators in the $B^{0} \to J / ψ K^{0}$ $C P$ Asymmetry

M. Ciuchini, M. Pierini, and L. Silvestrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221804 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Search for $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B_{d}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions with CDF II

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221805 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

$W$ Production at Large Transverse Momentum at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Richard J. Gonsalves, Nikolaos Kidonakis, and Agustín Sabio Vera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 222001 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Survey of Ground State Neutron Spectroscopic Factors from Li to Cr Isotopes

M. B. Tsang, Jenny Lee, and W. G. Lynch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 222501 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Semiclassical Scattering on Conical Intersections

Andrei Piryatinski, Misha Stepanov, Sergei Tretiak, and Vladimir Chernyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223001 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Spectroscopic Determination of the $s$ -Wave Scattering Lengths of ${}^{86}{Sr}$ and ${}^{88}{Sr}$

P. G. Mickelson, Y. N. Martinez, A. D. Saenz, S. B. Nagel, Y. C. Chen, T. C. Killian, P. Pellegrini, and R. Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223002 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

What Determines the Sticking Probability of Water Molecules on Ice?

Enrique R. Batista, Patrick Ayotte, Ante Bilić, Bruce D. Kay, and Hannes Jónsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223201 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Energy-Sharing Asymmetries in Ionization by Positron Impact

C. Arcidiacono, Á. Kövér, and G. Laricchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223202 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Enhanced Dispersion Interaction in Confined Geometry

Michal Marcovitch and Haim Diamant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223203 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Refractive Index Enhancement in a Far-Off Resonant Atomic System

D. D. Yavuz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223601 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantitative Modeling of Single Atom High Harmonic Generation

Ariel Gordon and Franz X. Kärtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223901 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Saturation of the Magnetic Response of Split-Ring Resonators at Optical Frequencies

J. Zhou, Th. Koschny, M. Kafesaki, E. N. Economou, J. B. Pendry, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223902 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Extreme Ultraviolet Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy with High Order Harmonics

M. Kovačev, S. V. Fomichev, E. Priori, Y. Mairesse, H. Merdji, P. Monchicourt, P. Breger, J. Norin, A. Persson, A. L’Huillier, C.-G. Wahlström, B. Carré, and P. Salières

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 223903 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Divergence of the Chaotic Layer Width and Strong Acceleration of the Spatial Chaotic Transport in Periodic Systems Driven by an Adiabatic ac Force

S. M. Soskin, O. M. Yevtushenko, and R. Mannella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 224101 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Near-Field Heat Transfer in a Scanning Thermal Microscope

Achim Kittel, Wolfgang Müller-Hirsch, Jürgen Parisi, Svend-Age Biehs, Daniel Reddig, and Martin Holthaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 224301 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Supersonic Crack Propagation in a Class of Lattice Models of Mode III Brittle Fracture

T. M. Guozden and E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 224302 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Random Bearings and Their Stability

Reza Mahmoodi Baram and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 224303 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Turbulence and Coarsening in Active and Passive Binary Mixtures

S. Berti, G. Boffetta, M. Cencini, and A. Vulpiani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 224501 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Lattice Mesoscopic Model of Dynamically Heterogeneous Fluids

A. Lamura and S. Succi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 224502 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Study of Three-Dimensional Structure in Wire-Array $Z$ Pinches by Controlled Seeding of Axial Modulations in Wire Radius

B. Jones, C. Deeney, J. L. McKenney, C. J. Garasi, T. A. Mehlhorn, A. C. Robinson, S. E. Wunsch, S. N. Bland, S. V. Lebedev, J. P. Chittenden, S. C. Bott, D. J. Ampleford, J. B. A. Palmer, J. Rapley, G. N. Hall, and B. V. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225001 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Current-Drive Efficiency in a Degenerate Plasma

S. Son and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225002 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Direct Observation of Nanocrystallite Buckling in Carbon Fibers under Bending Load

D. Loidl, O. Paris, M. Burghammer, C. Riekel, and H. Peterlik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225501 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Evidence for Native-Defect Donors in $n$ -Type ZnO

D. C. Look, G. C. Farlow, Pakpoom Reunchan, Sukit Limpijumnong, S. B. Zhang, and K. Nordlund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225502 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Cl Vacancies in NaCl Films: Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling in Double-Barrier Tunneling Junctions

Jascha Repp, Gerhard Meyer, Sami Paavilainen, Fredrik E. Olsson, and Mats Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225503 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Unified Description of Aging and Rate Effects in Yield of Glassy Solids

Jörg Rottler and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225504 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Spiral Evolution in a Confined Geometry

Madhav Ranganathan, D. B. Dougherty, W. G. Cullen, Tong Zhao, John D. Weeks, and E. D. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225505 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Atomic-Scale Analysis of the Oxygen Configuration at a ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Dislocation Core

C. L. Jia, A. Thust, and K. Urban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225506 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Hydrogenation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A. Nikitin, H. Ogasawara, D. Mann, R. Denecke, Z. Zhang, H. Dai, K. Cho, and A. Nilsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225507 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Kramers-Wannier Dualities via Symmetries

Philippe Ruelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 225701 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Ballistic Phonon Thermal Transport in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

H.-Y. Chiu, V. V. Deshpande, H. W. Ch. Postma, C. N. Lau, C. Mikó, L. Forró, and M. Bockrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226101 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Excitation of Frustrated Translation and Nonadiabatic Adatom Hopping Induced by Inelastic Tunneling

Kai Liu and Shiwu Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226102 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Quantum Dissociation of an Edge of a Luttinger Liquid

Eugene B. Kolomeisky and Michael Timmins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226103 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Adsorption Bond Length for $H_{2} O$ on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ : A Key Parameter for Theoretical Understanding

F. Allegretti, S. O’Brien, M. Polcik, D. I. Sayago, and D. P. Woodruff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226104 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Polarity Effects on ZnO Films Grown along the Nonpolar $[11 \bar{2} 0]$ Direction

Jesús Zúñiga-Pérez, Vicente Muñoz-Sanjosé, Elisa Palacios-Lidón, and Jaime Colchero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226105 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Aggregation of Finite-Size Particles with Variable Mobility

Darryl D. Holm and Vakhtang Putkaradze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226106 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Prewetting Boundary Tensions from Monte Carlo Simulation

Jeffrey R. Errington and David W. Wilbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226107 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Interface Energy of Semicoherent Metal-Ceramic Interfaces

Sven A. E. Johansson, Mikael Christensen, and Göran Wahnström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226108 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Pairing when Electron-Electron and Electron-Phonon Interactions Coexist: Effect of the Electronic Band Structure

Masaki Tezuka, Ryotaro Arita, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226401 (2005) - Published 22 November, 2005

Two-Component Fermi Gas on Internal-State-Dependent Optical Lattices

M. A. Cazalilla, A. F. Ho, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226402 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Reentrant Semiconducting Behavior of Zigzag Carbon Nanotubes at Substitutional Doping by Oxygen Dimers

Seung-Hoon Jhi, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226403 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Hall Effect in the Accumulation Layers on the Surface of Organic Semiconductors

V. Podzorov, E. Menard, J. A. Rogers, and M. E. Gershenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226601 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene

C. L. Kane and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226801 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Decoherence-Driven Quantum Transport

Sang Wook Kim and Mahn-Soo Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226802 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Quantum Interference of Electrons in a Ring: Tuning of the Geometrical Phase

R. Capozza, D. Giuliano, P. Lucignano, and A. Tagliacozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226803 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Mesoscopic Oscillations of the Conductance of Disordered Metallic Samples as a Function of Temperature

B. Spivak, A. Zyuzin, and D. H. Cobden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 226804 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Intercalant-Driven Superconductivity in ${YbC}_{6}$ and ${CaC}_{6}$

I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227001 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Polaronic Behavior of Undoped High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors from Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra

O. Rösch, O. Gunnarsson, X. J. Zhou, T. Yoshida, T. Sasagawa, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227002 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Domain-Wall Guided Nucleation of Superconductivity in Hybrid Ferromagnet-Superconductor-Ferromagnet Layered Structures

W. Gillijns, A. Yu. Aladyshkin, M. Lange, M. J. Van Bael, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227003 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Two- to Three-Dimensional Crossover in the Electronic Structure of $(Bi, Pb)_{2} (Sr, La)_{2} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$ from Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Tsunehiro Takeuchi, Takeshi Kondo, Takio Kitao, Hiroyuki Kaga, Hongbo Yang, Hong Ding, Adam Kaminski, and Juan Carlos Campuzano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227004 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Experimental Observation of Bias-Dependent Nonlocal Andreev Reflection [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 027002 (2005)]

S. Russo, M. Kroug, T. M. Klapwijk, and A. F. Morpurgo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 229901 (2005) - Published 21 November, 2005

Erratum: Antiferromagnetic $s − d$ Exchange Coupling in GaMnAs [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 017204 (2005)]

R. C. Myers, M. Poggio, N. P. Stern, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 229902 (2005) - Published 23 November, 2005