Volume 95, Issue 24

9 December 2005

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On the Cover

Electrically and laser-heated diamond anvil cell is used to demonstrate that high pressure promotes solubility of magnesium in iron.

From the article:

Beating the Miscibility Barrier between Iron Group Elements and Magnesium by High-Pressure Alloying
N. Dubrovinskaia, L. Dubrovinsky, I. Kantor, W. A. Crichton, V. Dmitriev, V. Prakapenka, G. Shen, L. Vitos, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson, and I. A. Abrikosov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245502 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Realization of an Optimally Distinguishable Multiphoton Quantum Superposition

Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino, and Veronica Secondi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240401 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Confinement and Superfluidity in One-Dimensional Degenerate Fermionic Cold Atoms

P. Lecheminant, E. Boulat, and P. Azaria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240402 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Zero-Temperature Phases of Many-Atom Bose Systems

Bo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240403 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Phase Diagram of Spin-1 Bosons on One-Dimensional Lattices

Matteo Rizzi, Davide Rossini, Gabriele De Chiara, Simone Montangero, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240404 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

All-Versus-Nothing Nonlocality Test of Quantum Mechanics by Two-Photon Hyperentanglement

C. Cinelli, M. Barbieri, R. Perris, P. Mataloni, and F. De Martini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240405 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

All-Versus-Nothing Violation of Local Realism by Two-Photon, Four-Dimensional Entanglement

Tao Yang, Qiang Zhang, Jun Zhang, Juan Yin, Zhi Zhao, Marek Żukowski, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240406 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Direct Measurement of Nonlinear Properties of Bipartite Quantum States

Fabio Antonio Bovino, Giuseppe Castagnoli, Artur Ekert, Paweł Horodecki, Carolina Moura Alves, and Alexander Vladimir Sergienko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240407 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Experimental Demonstration of Fractional Orbital Angular Momentum Entanglement of Two Photons

S. S. R. Oemrawsingh, X. Ma, D. Voigt, A. Aiello, E. R. Eliel, G. W. ’t Hooft, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240501 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Bethe Ansatz Solution of the Asymmetric Exclusion Process with Open Boundaries

Jan de Gier and Fabian H. L. Essler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240601 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Clustering by Mixing Flows

Kevin Duncan, Bernhard Mehlig, Stellan Östlund, and Michael Wilkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240602 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Local Control of Periodic Pattern Formation in Binary Fluids within Microchannels

Olga Kuksenok, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240603 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Breaking of Ergodicity and Long Relaxation Times in Systems with Long-Range Interactions

D. Mukamel, S. Ruffo, and N. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 240604 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gamma Rays from Heavy Neutralino Dark Matter

Lars Bergström, Torsten Bringmann, Martin Eriksson, and Michael Gustafsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 241301 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Mapping Dark Matter with Cosmic Magnification

Pengjie Zhang and Ue-Li Pen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 241302 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Determination of $| V_{u b} |$ from Measurements of the Inclusive Charmless Semileptonic Partial Rates of $B$ Mesons using Full Reconstruction Tags

I. Bizjak et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 241801 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Measurement of the Tensor Structure Function $b_{1}$ of the Deuteron

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 242001 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Bimodality as a Signal of a Liquid-Gas Phase Transition in Nuclei?

O. Lopez, D. Lacroix, and E. Vient

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 242701 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Magnetic Trapping of Long-Lived Cold Rydberg Atoms

J.-H. Choi, J. R. Guest, A. P. Povilus, E. Hansis, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243001 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Experimental Confirmation of Quantum Monodromy: The Millimeter Wave Spectrum of Cyanogen Isothiocyanate NCNCS

Brenda P. Winnewisser, Manfred Winnewisser, Ivan R. Medvedev, Markus Behnke, Frank C. De Lucia, Stephen C. Ross, and Jacek Koput

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243002 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Partial Photoionization Cross Sections and Angular Distributions for Double Excitation of Helium up to the $N = 13$ Threshold

A. Czasch, M. Schöffler, M. Hattass, S. Schössler, T. Jahnke, Th. Weber, A. Staudte, J. Titze, C. Wimmer, S. Kammer, M. Weckenbrock, S. Voss, R. E. Grisenti, O. Jagutzki, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, J. M. Rost, T. Schneider, Chien-Nan Liu, I. Bray, A. S. Kheifets, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243003 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Enhancement of Low Energy Electron-Ion Recombination in a Magnetic Field: Influence of Transient Field Effects

Maria Hörndl, Shuhei Yoshida, Andreas Wolf, Gerald Gwinner, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243201 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Effective Hamiltonian for Fermions in an Optical Lattice across a Feshbach Resonance

L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243202 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Radial Confinement of Light in an Ultracold Anisotropic Medium

Mukund Vengalattore and Mara Prentiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243601 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Superradiance and Subradiance in an Inhomogeneously Broadened Ensemble of Two-Level Systems Coupled to a Low- $Q$ Cavity

Vasily V. Temnov and Ulrike Woggon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243602 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Generation of Bright Two-Color Continuous Variable Entanglement

A. S. Villar, L. S. Cruz, K. N. Cassemiro, M. Martinelli, and P. Nussenzveig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243603 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Reconstruction of Attosecond Pulse Trains Using an Adiabatic Phase Expansion

K. Varjú, Y. Mairesse, P. Agostini, P. Breger, B. Carré, L. J. Frasinski, E. Gustafsson, P. Johnsson, J. Mauritsson, H. Merdji, P. Monchicourt, A. L’Huillier, and P. Salières

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243901 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Topological Dragging of Solitons

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243902 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Field-Free Alignment of Molecules Observed with High-Order Harmonic Generation

K. Miyazaki, M. Kaku, G. Miyaji, A. Abdurrouf, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243903 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Information Transfer between Dynamical System Components

X. San Liang and Richard Kleeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 244101 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Simulations of Localized States of Stationary Convection in ${}^{3}{He} − {}^{4}{He}$ Mixtures

Oriol Batiste and Edgar Knobloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 244501 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence in a Circular Container

Kai Schneider and Marie Farge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 244502 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Measurement of the Decay Rate of Single-Frequency Perturbations on Blast Waves

A. D. Edens, T. Ditmire, J. F. Hansen, M. J. Edwards, R. G. Adams, P. K. Rambo, L. Ruggles, I. C. Smith, and J. L. Porter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 244503 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Singularities of the Hele-Shaw Flow and Shock Waves in Dispersive Media

Eldad Bettelheim, Oded Agam, Anton Zabrodin, and Paul Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 244504 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Spreading of Viscous Fluid Drops on a Solid Substrate Assisted by Thermal Fluctuations

Benny Davidovitch, Esteban Moro, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 244505 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collisionless Reconnection in an Electron-Positron Plasma

N. Bessho and A. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245001 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Electron Hole Generation and Propagation in an Inhomogeneous Collisionless Plasma

F. Califano and M. Lontano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245002 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Nonlinear Spectral Signatures and Spatiotemporal Behavior of Stimulated Raman Scattering from Single Laser Speckles

H. X. Vu, L. Yin, D. F. DuBois, B. Bezzerides, and E. S. Dodd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245003 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Modes in a Three-Dimensional Plasma

C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245004 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Microstructure of Fragile Metallic Glasses Inferred from Ultrasound-Accelerated Crystallization in Pd-Based Metallic Glasses

T. Ichitsubo, E. Matsubara, T. Yamamoto, H. S. Chen, N. Nishiyama, J. Saida, and K. Anazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245501 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Beating the Miscibility Barrier between Iron Group Elements and Magnesium by High-Pressure Alloying

N. Dubrovinskaia, L. Dubrovinsky, I. Kantor, W. A. Crichton, V. Dmitriev, V. Prakapenka, G. Shen, L. Vitos, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson, and I. A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245502 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition: Exact Solution of the Quantum Ising Model

Jacek Dziarmaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245701 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Quantum Effect Induced Reverse Kinetic Molecular Sieving in Microporous Materials

A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245901 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Stress Tensor of a Dilute Suspension of Spheres in a Viscoelastic Liquid

F. Greco, G. D’Avino, and P. L. Maffettone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246001 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Evolution of Terrace-Width Distributions on Vicinal Surfaces: Fokker-Planck Derivation of the Generalized Wigner Surmise

Alberto Pimpinelli, Hailu Gebremariam, and T. L. Einstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246101 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Excitation of Molecular Vibrational Modes with Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Processes: Examination through Action Spectra of cis-2-Butene on Pd(110)

Yasuyuki Sainoo, Yousoo Kim, Toshiro Okawa, Tadahiro Komeda, Hidemi Shigekawa, and Maki Kawai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246102 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Diffusion of Palladium Clusters on Magnesium Oxide

G. Barcaro, A. Fortunelli, F. Nita, and R. Ferrando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246103 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Generation and Propagation of a Picosecond Acoustic Pulse at a Buried Interface: Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Measurements

S. H. Lee, A. L. Cavalieri, D. M. Fritz, M. C. Swan, R. S. Hegde, M. Reason, R. S. Goldman, and D. A. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246104 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

X-Ray Photoemission Study of ${CuIr}_{2} S_{4} : {Ir}^{3 +} − {Ir}^{4 +}$ Charge Ordering and the Effect of Light Illumination

K. Takubo, S. Hirata, J.-Y. Son, J. W. Quilty, T. Mizokawa, N. Matsumoto, and S. Nagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246401 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Temperature-Dependent Luttinger Surfaces

T. Ito, A. Chainani, T. Haruna, K. Kanai, T. Yokoya, S. Shin, and R. Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246402 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Deterministic Weak Localization in Periodic Structures

C. Tian and A. Larkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246601 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Ion-Nanotube Terahertz Oscillator

Deyu Lu, Yan Li, Umberto Ravaioli, and Klaus Schulten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246801 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Aharonov-Bohm Superperiod in a Laughlin Quasiparticle Interferometer

F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246802 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Adiabatic Pumping through Interacting Quantum Dots

Janine Splettstoesser, Michele Governale, Jürgen König, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246803 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Electronic Phase Diagrams of Carriers in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots: Violation of Hund’s Rule and the Aufbau Principle for Holes

Lixin He, Gabriel Bester, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 246804 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Triplet Superconducting Pairing and Density-Wave Instabilities in Organic Conductors

J. C. Nickel, R. Duprat, C. Bourbonnais, and N. Dupuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247001 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Field-Enhanced Diamagnetism in the Pseudogap State of the Cuprate ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor in an Intense Magnetic Field

Yayu Wang, Lu Li, M. J. Naughton, G. D. Gu, S. Uchida, and N. P. Ong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247002 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Quantum Limit in a Parallel Magnetic Field in Layered Conductors

A. G. Lebed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247003 (2005) - Published 5 December, 2005

Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric Heavy-Fermion ${CeRhSi}_{3}$

N. Kimura, K. Ito, K. Saitoh, Y. Umeda, H. Aoki, and T. Terashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247004 (2005) - Published 6 December, 2005

Quantum Size Effects on the Perpendicular Upper Critical Field in Ultrathin Lead Films

Xin-Yu Bao, Yan-Feng Zhang, Yupeng Wang, Jin-Feng Jia, Qi-Kun Xue, X. C. Xie, and Zhong-Xian Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247005 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Ohmic and Step Noise from a Single Trapping Center Hybridized with a Fermi Sea

Rogerio de Sousa, K. Birgitta Whaley, Frank K. Wilhelm, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247006 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Spin-Orbit Coupling-Induced Magnetic Phase in the $d$ -Density-Wave Phase of ${La}_{2 - x} {Ba}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductors

Congjun Wu, Jan Zaanen, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 247007 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Electron Transport and Hot Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 236802 (2005)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 249901 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005

Erratum: Kinematic Approach to the Mixed State Geometric Phase in Nonunitary Evolution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 080405 (2004)]

D. M. Tong, E. Sjöqvist, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 249902 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Erratum: Mayer Sampling: Calculation of Cluster Integrals Using Free-Energy Perturbation Methods [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 220601 (2004)]

Jayant K. Singh and David A. Kofke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 249903 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Inseparability Criteria for Continuous Bipartite Quantum States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230502 (2005)]

E. Shchukin and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 249904 (2005) - Published 8 December, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Search for $B_{s}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B_{d}^{0} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions with CDF II [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 221805 (2005)]

A. Abulencia et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 249905 (2005) - Published 9 December, 2005