Volume 95, Issue 23

2 December 2005

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Plot of the superconducting regions in a microsquare coupled to a magnetic dot, from a numerical study of superconductivity nucleation. The dot stabilizes novel vortex-antivortex patterns and induces multiquanta vortex entries, not possible in the square by itself. By varying the dot's magnetic field, vortex patterns in the square can be tuned, with possible applications to flux-quantization control in microstructures.

From the article:

Multiquanta Vortex Entry and Vortex-Antivortex Pattern Expansion in a Superconducting Microsquare with a Magnetic Dot
Carlos Carballeira, Victor V. Moshchalkov, Liviu F. Chibotaru, and Arnout Ceulemans
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237003 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Catastrophe Model for Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset

P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay, and J. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235002 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Crystallization in Two-Component Coulomb Systems

M. Bonitz, V. S. Filinov, V. E. Fortov, P. R. Levashov, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235006 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

LETTERS

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

Statistics of Real Eigenvalues in Ginibre’s Ensemble of Random Real Matrices

Eugene Kanzieper and Gernot Akemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230201 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

New Technique for Finding Needles in Haystacks: Geometric Approach to Distinguishing between a New Source and Random Fluctuations

Ramani S. Pilla, Catherine Loader, and Cyrus C. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230202 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

$p$ -Wave Interactions in Low-Dimensional Fermionic Gases

Kenneth Günter, Thilo Stöferle, Henning Moritz, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230401 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Theory of Decoherence due to Scattering Events and Lévy Processes

Bassano Vacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230402 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Itinerant Ferromagnetism in an Ultracold Atom Fermi Gas

R. A. Duine and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230403 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Exponentially Decaying Correlations in a Gas of Strongly Interacting Spin-Polarized 1D Fermions with Zero-Range Interactions

Scott A. Bender, Kevin D. Erker, and Brian E. Granger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230404 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Momentum Distribution and Condensate Fraction of a Fermion Gas in the BCS-BEC Crossover

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230405 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Nucleation and Growth of Vortices in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate

O. K. Vorov, P. Van Isacker, M. S. Hussein, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230406 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Measurement-Based Teleportation along Quantum Spin Chains

J. P. Barjaktarevic, R. H. McKenzie, J. Links, and G. J. Milburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230501 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Inseparability Criteria for Continuous Bipartite Quantum States

E. Shchukin and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230502 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Quantum Error Correction in Spatially Correlated Quantum Noise

Rochus Klesse and Sandra Frank

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230503 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Stabilizer Formalism for Operator Quantum Error Correction

David Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230504 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Experimental Single Qubit Quantum Secret Sharing

Christian Schmid, Pavel Trojek, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Marek Żukowski, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230505 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Lifshitz Interaction between Dielectric Bodies of Arbitrary Geometry

Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230601 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Nuclear Spin Gyroscope Based on an Atomic Comagnetometer

T. W. Kornack, R. K. Ghosh, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230801 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Spatial Correlation of Solar-Wind Turbulence from Two-Point Measurements

W. H. Matthaeus, S. Dasso, J. M. Weygand, L. J. Milano, C. W. Smith, and M. G. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 231101 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Cryptobaryonic Dark Matter

C. D. Froggatt and H. B. Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 231301 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Casimir Energy for Rotating Black Holes

G. W. Gibbons, M. J. Perry, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 231601 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

de Sitter Vacua via Consistent $D$ Terms

Giovanni Villadoro and Fabio Zwirner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 231602 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Measurement of the Wrong-Sign Decays $D^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-} π^{0}$ and $D^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ , and Search for $C P$ Violation

X. C. Tian et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 231801 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Measurements of $B$ Decays to Two Kaons

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 231802 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Electromagnetic Nucleon-to-Delta Transition in Chiral Effective-Field Theory

Vladimir Pascalutsa and Marc Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 232001 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Generalizing the Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi Evolution of Fragmentation Functions to the Smallest $x$ Values

S. Albino, B. A. Kniehl, G. Kramer, and W. Ochs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 232002 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for In-Medium Changes of Four-Quark Condensates

R. Thomas, S. Zschocke, and B. Kämpfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 232301 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Evidence for Nontermination of Rotational Bands in ${}^{74}{Kr}$

J. J. Valiente-Dobón et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 232501 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Evolution of Nuclear Shells due to the Tensor Force

Takaharu Otsuka, Toshio Suzuki, Rintaro Fujimoto, Hubert Grawe, and Yoshinori Akaishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 232502 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Velocity Selective Optical Pumping of Rb Hyperfine Lines Induced by a Train of Femtosecond Pulses

D. Aumiler, T. Ban, H. Skenderović, and G. Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 233001 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Back and Forth Transfer and Coherent Coupling in a Cold Rydberg Dipole Gas

Marcel Mudrich, Nassim Zahzam, Thibault Vogt, Daniel Comparat, and Pierre Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 233002 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Measurement of the Two-Loop Lamb Shift in Lithiumlike $U^{89 +}$

P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, D. B. Thorn, and E. Träbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 233003 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Relativistic Correction to the Helium Dimer Interaction Energy

Wojciech Cencek, Jacek Komasa, Krzysztof Pachucki, and Krzysztof Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 233004 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Coherence Phenomena in the Phase-Sensitive Optical Parametric Amplification inside a Cavity

Hongliang Ma, Chenguang Ye, Dong Wei, and Jing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 233601 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Electromagnetic Surface Modes in Structured Perfect-Conductor Surfaces

F. J. García de Abajo and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 233901 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Reversible Destruction of Dynamical Localization

Hans Lignier, Julien Chabé, Dominique Delande, Jean Claude Garreau, and Pascal Szriftgiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 234101 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Drift Compression of an Intense Neutralized Ion Beam

P. K. Roy, S. S. Yu, E. Henestroza, A. Anders, F. M. Bieniosek, J. Coleman, S. Eylon, W. G. Greenway, M. Leitner, B. G. Logan, W. L. Waldron, D. R. Welch, C. Thoma, A. B. Sefkow, E. P. Gilson, P. C. Efthimion, and R. C. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 234801 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Fluorescence Measurements Of Expanding Strongly Coupled Neutral Plasmas

E. A. Cummings, J. E. Daily, D. S. Durfee, and S. D. Bergeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235001 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Catastrophe Model for Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset

P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay, and J. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235002 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

$X$ -Point Collapse and Saturation in the Nonlinear Tearing Mode Reconnection

N. F. Loureiro, S. C. Cowley, W. D. Dorland, M. G. Haines, and A. A. Schekochihin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235003 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Opacity Effect on Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation from Laser-Produced Tin Plasmas

Shinsuke Fujioka, Hiroaki Nishimura, Katsunobu Nishihara, Akira Sasaki, Atsushi Sunahara, Tomoharu Okuno, Nobuyoshi Ueda, Tsuyoshi Ando, Yezheng Tao, Yoshinori Shimada, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, Michiteru Yamaura, Keisuke Shigemori, Mitsuo Nakai, Keiji Nagai, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Takeshi Nishikawa, Noriaki Miyanaga, Yasukazu Izawa, and Kunioki Mima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235004 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurement of the Ion-Energy-Distribution Function in a Collisionless Reconnection Experiment

A. Stark, W. Fox, J. Egedal, O. Grulke, and T. Klinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235005 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Crystallization in Two-Component Coulomb Systems

M. Bonitz, V. S. Filinov, V. E. Fortov, P. R. Levashov, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235006 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Crack Path Prediction in Anisotropic Brittle Materials

Vincent Hakim and Alain Karma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235501 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Size-Asymmetric Primitive Model at Low Temperature: Description of Ion Pairing and Location of the Critical Point

Weimin Zhou and Jerome K. Percus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235701 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Vitrification and Glass Transition of Water: Insights from Spin Probe ESR

Shrivalli N. Bhat, Ajay Sharma, and S. V. Bhat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235702 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Competition between Order and Phase Separation in Au-Ni

H. Reichert, A. Schöps, I. B. Ramsteiner, V. N. Bugaev, O. Shchyglo, A. Udyansky, H. Dosch, M. Asta, R. Drautz, and V. Honkimäki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 235703 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Shear-Thickening and Entropy-Driven Reentrance

Mauro Sellitto and Jorge Kurchan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236001 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Control of Particles in Microelectrode Devices

Idan Tuval, Igor Mezić, Frédéric Bottausci, Yanting T. Zhang, Noel C. MacDonald, and Oreste Piro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236002 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Orbital Polaron Lattice Formation in Lightly Doped ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

J. Geck, P. Wochner, S. Kiele, R. Klingeler, P. Reutler, A. Revcolevschi, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236401 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Curie Law, Entropy Excess, and Superconductivity in Heavy Fermion Metals and Other Strongly Interacting Fermi Liquids

V. A. Khodel, M. V. Zverev, and Victor M. Yakovenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236402 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

NMR Evidence for Gapped Spin Excitations in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

P. M. Singer, P. Wzietek, H. Alloul, F. Simon, and H. Kuzmany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236403 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Space-Charge-Limited Current Fluctuations in Organic Semiconductors

A. Carbone, B. K. Kotowska, and D. Kotowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236601 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Few-Electron Molecular States and Their Transitions in a Single InAs Quantum Dot Molecule

T. Ota, M. Rontani, S. Tarucha, Y. Nakata, H. Z. Song, T. Miyazawa, T. Usuki, M. Takatsu, and N. Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236801 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Electron Transport and Hot Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes

Michele Lazzeri, S. Piscanec, Francesco Mauri, A. C. Ferrari, and J. Robertson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236802 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Electric-Field-Dependent Charge-Carrier Velocity in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Yung-Fu Chen and M. S. Fuhrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236803 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Frequency-Dependent Spontaneous Emission Rate from CdSe and CdTe Nanocrystals: Influence of Dark States

A. F. van Driel, G. Allan, C. Delerue, P. Lodahl, W. L. Vos, and D. Vanmaekelbergh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236804 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Systematic Study of $d$ -Wave Superconductivity in the 2D Repulsive Hubbard Model

T. A. Maier, M. Jarrell, T. C. Schulthess, P. R. C. Kent, and J. B. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237001 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Theoretical Explanation of Superconductivity in $C_{6} Ca$

Matteo Calandra and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237002 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Multiquanta Vortex Entry and Vortex-Antivortex Pattern Expansion in a Superconducting Microsquare with a Magnetic Dot

Carlos Carballeira, Victor V. Moshchalkov, Liviu F. Chibotaru, and Arnout Ceulemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237003 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Spin Wave Mode Excited by Spin-Polarized Current in a Magnetic Nanocontact is a Standing Self-Localized Wave Bullet

Andrei Slavin and Vasil Tiberkevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237201 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Self-Generation of Chaotic Solitary Spin Wave Pulses in Magnetic Film Active Feedback Rings

Mingzhong Wu, Boris A. Kalinikos, and Carl E. Patton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237202 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Quantum Nucleation in a Single-Chain Magnet

W. Wernsdorfer, R. Clérac, C. Coulon, L. Lecren, and H. Miyasaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237203 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Supersolid Phase of Hard-Core Bosons on a Triangular Lattice

Massimo Boninsegni and Nikolay Prokof’ev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237204 (2005) - Published 28 November, 2005

Shifting and Pinning of a Magnetic Vortex Core in a Permalloy Dot by a Magnetic Field

Thomas Uhlig, M. Rahm, Christian Dietrich, Rainer Höllinger, Martin Heumann, Dieter Weiss, and Josef Zweck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237205 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Percolation Quantum Phase Transitions in Diluted Magnets

Thomas Vojta and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237206 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Weakly Dispersive Band near the Fermi Level of GaMnAs Due to Mn Interstitials

A. Ernst, L. M. Sandratskii, M. Bouhassoune, J. Henk, and M. Lüders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237207 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Field-Induced Transition on a Triangular Plane in the Spin-Ice Compound ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

Ryuji Higashinaka and Yoshiteru Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237208 (2005) - Published 29 November, 2005

Magnetic Moments and Adiabatic Magnetization of Free Cobalt Clusters

Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237209 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Visualization of Localized Holes in Manganite Thin Films with Atomic Resolution

J. X. Ma, D. T. Gillaspie, E. W. Plummer, and J. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237210 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Nonequilibrium Domain Pattern Formation in Mesoscopic Magnetic Thin Film Elements Assisted by Thermally Excited Spin Fluctuations

B. C. Choi, J. Ho, G. Arnup, and M. R. Freeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237211 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Negative Magnetic Permeability in the Visible Light Region

Atsushi Ishikawa, Takuo Tanaka, and Satoshi Kawata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237401 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Optical Magnetoelectric Effect in Multiferroic Materials: Evidence for a Lorentz Force Acting on a Ray of Light

Kei Sawada and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237402 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005

Optimized Hole Injection with Strong Electron Acceptors at Organic-Metal Interfaces

Norbert Koch, Steffen Duhm, Jürgen P. Rabe, Antje Vollmer, and Robert L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237601 (2005) - Published 30 November, 2005

Polarization Relaxation Induced by a Depolarization Field in Ultrathin Ferroelectric ${BaTiO}_{3}$ Capacitors

D. J. Kim, J. Y. Jo, Y. S. Kim, Y. J. Chang, J. S. Lee, Jong-Gul Yoon, T. K. Song, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 237602 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation into $J / ψ + J / ψ$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 162001 (2003)]

Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Eric Braaten, and Jungil Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 239901 (2005) - Published 1 December, 2005

Erratum: Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation for Dispersive Susceptibility and Permeability: Application to Negative Index Materials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 013902 (2005)]

Michael Scalora, Maxim S. Syrchin, Neset Akozbek, Evgeni Y. Poliakov, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Nadia Mattiucci, Mark J. Bloemer, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 239902 (2005) - Published 2 December, 2005