Volume 95, Issue 25

16 December 2005

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A fan-angle configuration is used to study the angle-resolved electron tunneling behavior of the high-T_c superconductor YBa₂Cu₃O₇. Results show significant anisotropy in the electronic properties.

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Admixtures to $d$ -Wave Gap Symmetry in Untwinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Superconducting Films Measured by Angle-Resolved Electron Tunneling
H. J. H. Smilde, A. A. Golubov, Ariando, G. Rijnders, J. M. Dekkers, S. Harkema, D. H. A. Blank, H. Rogalla, and H. Hilgenkamp
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257001 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Controllable Snail-Paced Light in Biological Bacteriorhodopsin Thin Film

Pengfei Wu and D. V. G. L. N. Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253601 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

LETTERS

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

Ultracold Superstrings in Atomic Boson-Fermion Mixtures

Michiel Snoek, Masudul Haque, S. Vandoren, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250401 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Attractive Casimir Forces in a Closed Geometry

M. P. Hertzberg, R. L. Jaffe, M. Kardar, and A. Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250402 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Localization of Matter Waves in Two-Dimensional Disordered Optical Potentials

R. C. Kuhn, C. Miniatura, D. Delande, O. Sigwarth, and C. A. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250403 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Momentum Distribution of a Fermi Gas of Atoms in the BCS-BEC Crossover

C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, S. Giorgini, M. Holland, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250404 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Controlling Quantum Systems by Embedded Dynamical Decoupling Schemes

O. Kern and G. Alber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250501 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Characterization of Complex Quantum Dynamics with a Scalable NMR Information Processor

C. A. Ryan, J. Emerson, D. Poulin, C. Negrevergne, and R. Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250502 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Adiabatic Quantum Computation in Open Systems

M. S. Sarandy and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250503 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Large- $n$ Excitations in the Ferromagnetic Ising Field Theory in a Weak Magnetic Field: Mass Spectrum and Decay Widths

S. B. Rutkevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 250601 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Stellar Stability by Thermodynamic Instability

Harald A. Posch and Walter Thirring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 251101 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Pointlike Gamma Ray Sources as Signatures of Distant Accelerators of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

Stefano Gabici and Felix A. Aharonian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 251102 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Evidence for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from a Region of the Galactic Plane

R. Atkins et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 251103 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Stochastic Loewner Evolution for Conformal Field Theories with Lie Group Symmetries

E. Bettelheim, I. A. Gruzberg, A. W. W. Ludwig, and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 251601 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Improved Measurement of $B (D^{+} \to μ^{+} ν)$ and the Pseudoscalar Decay Constant $f_{D^{+}}$

M. Artuso et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 251801 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Search for New High-Mass Particles Decaying to Lepton Pairs in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252001 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Kertész Line and Embedded Monopoles in QCD

M. N. Chernodub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252002 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Skyrmions from Instantons inside Domain Walls

Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, and David Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252003 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Search for Coherent Charged Pion Production in Neutrino-Carbon Interactions

M. Hasegawa et al. (K2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252301 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

U(3) and Pseudo-U(3) Symmetry of the Relativistic Harmonic Oscillator

Joseph N. Ginocchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252501 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Superscaling in Charged Current Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering in the Relativistic Impulse Approximation

J. A. Caballero, J. E. Amaro, M. B. Barbaro, T. W. Donnelly, C. Maieron, and J. M. Udias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 252502 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spatial Control of Recollision Wave Packets with Attosecond Precision

Markus Kitzler and Matthias Lezius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253001 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Atom Counting Statistics in Ensembles of Interacting Rydberg Atoms

T. Cubel Liebisch, A. Reinhard, P. R. Berman, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253002 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Motion-Induced Magnetic Resonance of Rb Atoms in a Periodic Magnetostatic Field

A. Hatakeyama, Y. Enomoto, K. Komaki, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253003 (2005) - Published 14 December, 2005

Limit on the Electron Electric Dipole Moment in Gadolinium-Iron Garnet

B. J. Heidenreich, O. T. Elliott, N. D. Charney, K. A. Virgien, A. W. Bridges, M. A. McKeon, S. K. Peck, D. Krause, Jr., J. E. Gordon, L. R. Hunter, and S. K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253004 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Landau Quantization and Time Dependence in the Ionization of Cold, Strongly Magnetized Rydberg Atoms

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253005 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Measuring the Kernel of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of $3 d$ Transition Metals

A. Scherz, E. K. U. Gross, H. Appel, C. Sorg, K. Baberschke, H. Wende, and K. Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253006 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Magnetic Properties in Transition-Metal-Doped Gold Clusters: $M @ {Au}_{6}$ ( $M = Ti, V, Cr$ )

Xi Li, Boggavarapu Kiran, Li-Feng Cui, and Lai-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253401 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Controllable Snail-Paced Light in Biological Bacteriorhodopsin Thin Film

Pengfei Wu and D. V. G. L. N. Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253601 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Polarization Singularities from Unfolding an Optical Vortex through a Birefringent Crystal

Florian Flossmann, Ulrich T. Schwarz, Max Maier, and Mark R. Dennis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 253901 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Dynamics of a Sonoluminescing Bubble in Sulfuric Acid

Stephen D. Hopkins, Seth J. Putterman, Brian A. Kappus, Kenneth S. Suslick, and Carlos G. Camara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 254301 (2005) - Published 14 December, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Magnetic-Field Generation in Helical Turbulence

Stanislav Boldyrev, Fausto Cattaneo, and Robert Rosner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255001 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Competition between Langmuir and Upper-Hybrid Turbulence in a High-Frequency-Pumped Ionosphere

B. Thidé, E. N. Sergeev, S. M. Grach, T. B. Leyser, and T. D. Carozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255002 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Rotational Stabilization of Resistive Wall Modes by the Shear Alfvén Resonance

L.-J. Zheng, M. Kotschenreuther, and M. S. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255003 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Negative Thermal Expansion in ${ZrW}_{2} O_{8}$ : Mechanisms, Rigid Unit Modes, and Neutron Total Scattering

Matthew G. Tucker, Andrew L. Goodwin, Martin T. Dove, David A. Keen, Stephen A. Wells, and John S. O. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255501 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Rubberlike Dynamics in Sulphur above the $λ$ -Transition Temperature

G. Monaco, L. Crapanzano, R. Bellissent, W. Crichton, D. Fioretto, M. Mezouar, F. Scarponi, and R. Verbeni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255502 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Disentangling Scaling Properties in Anisotropic Fracture

Eran Bouchbinder, Itamar Procaccia, and Shani Sela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255503 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Shape Memory and Pseudoelasticity in Metal Nanowires

Harold S. Park, Ken Gall, and Jonathan A. Zimmerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255504 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Structure and Reactivity of Surface Oxides on Pt(110) during Catalytic CO Oxidation

M. D. Ackermann, T. M. Pedersen, B. L. M. Hendriksen, O. Robach, S. C. Bobaru, I. Popa, C. Quiros, H. Kim, B. Hammer, S. Ferrer, and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255505 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Universal Dynamic Exponent at the Liquid-Gas Transition from Molecular Dynamics

A. Chen, E. H. Chimowitz, S. De, and Y. Shapir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255701 (2005) - Published 14 December, 2005

Phase Separation of a Binary Fluid in the Inertia-Dominated Regime

Anirban Sain and Martin Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 255702 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Negative Normal Stress Elasticity of Emulsions of Viscous Drops at Finite Inertia

Xiaoyi Li and Kausik Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256001 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Theoretical Analysis of Mound Slope Selection during Unstable Multilayer Growth

Maozhi Li and J. W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256101 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

One-Dimensional ${PtO}_{2}$ at Pt Steps: Formation and Reaction with CO

J. G. Wang, W. X. Li, M. Borg, J. Gustafson, A. Mikkelsen, T. M. Pedersen, E. Lundgren, J. Weissenrieder, J. Klikovits, M. Schmid, B. Hammer, and J. N. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256102 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Complex Nonlinear Deformation of Nanometer Intergranular Glassy Films in $β − {Si}_{3} N_{4}$

Jun Chen, Lizhi Ouyang, Paul Rulis, Anil Misra, and W. Y. Ching

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256103 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Phonon Modes at the $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ Surface Observed by Grazing Incidence Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

B. M. Murphy, H. Requardt, J. Stettner, J. Serrano, M. Krisch, M. Müller, and W. Press

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256104 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Nonicosahedral Equilibrium Overlayers of Icosahedral Quasicrystals

M. Yurechko, B. Grushko, and Ph. Ebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256105 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Role of Surface Electronic Structure in Thin Film Molecular Ordering

G. E. Thayer, J. T. Sadowski, F. Meyer zu Heringdorf, T. Sakurai, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256106 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Strongly Accelerated and Humidity-Independent Drying of Nanochannels Induced by Sharp Corners

J. C. T. Eijkel, B. Dan, H. W. Reemeijer, D. C. Hermes, J. G. Bomer, and A. van den Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256107 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polaronic Quasiparticles in a Strongly Correlated Electron Band

W. Koller, A. C. Hewson, and D. M. Edwards

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256401 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Spatial Structure of Mn-Mn Acceptor Pairs in GaAs

A. M. Yakunin, A. Yu. Silov, P. M. Koenraad, J.-M. Tang, M. E. Flatté, W. Van Roy, J. De Boeck, and J. H. Wolter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256402 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Magnetic Form Factor of $α$ -Ce: Towards Understanding the Magnetism of Cerium

A. P. Murani, S. J. Levett, and J. W. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256403 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Role of Embedded Clustering in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors: Cr Doped GaN

X. Y. Cui, J. E. Medvedeva, B. Delley, A. J. Freeman, N. Newman, and C. Stampfl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256404 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Direct Determination of the Hole Density of States in Undoped and Doped Amorphous Organic Films with High Lateral Resolution

O. Tal, Y. Rosenwaks, Y. Preezant, N. Tessler, C. K. Chan, and A. Kahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256405 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Magnetic-Field Asymmetry of Nonlinear Transport in Carbon Nanotubes

Jiang Wei, Michael Shimogawa, Zenghui Wang, Iuliana Radu, Robert Dormaier, and David Henry Cobden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256601 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Intrinsic Spin Hall Edges

İnanç Adagideli and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256602 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Spin Polarization Dependence of Carrier Effective Mass in Semiconductor Structures: Spintronic Effective Mass

Ying Zhang and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256603 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Adiabatic Pumping in a Superconductor-Normal-Superconductor Weak Link

M. Governale, F. Taddei, Rosario Fazio, and F. W. J. Hekking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256801 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Charge Pumping in Carbon Nanotubes

P. J. Leek, M. R. Buitelaar, V. I. Talyanskii, C. G. Smith, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, J. Wei, and D. H. Cobden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256802 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Kondo Resonances and Anomalous Gate Dependence in the Electrical Conductivity of Single-Molecule Transistors

L. H. Yu, Z. K. Keane, J. W. Ciszek, L. Cheng, J. M. Tour, T. Baruah, M. R. Pederson, and D. Natelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256803 (2005) - Published 14 December, 2005

Conductance Oscillations in Zigzag Platinum Chains

V. M. García-Suárez, A. R. Rocha, S. W. Bailey, C. J. Lambert, S. Sanvito, and J. Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256804 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Universal Conductance and Conductivity at Critical Points in Integer Quantum Hall Systems

L. Schweitzer and P. Markoš

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256805 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Atomic-Size Oscillations in Conductance Histograms for Gold Nanowires and the Influence of Work Hardening

I. K. Yanson, O. I. Shklyarevskii, Sz. Csonka, H. van Kempen, S. Speller, A. I. Yanson, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256806 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Electron Transport through a Molecular Conductor with Center-of-Mass Motion

K. A. Al-Hassanieh, C. A. Büsser, G. B. Martins, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 256807 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Admixtures to $d$ -Wave Gap Symmetry in Untwinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Superconducting Films Measured by Angle-Resolved Electron Tunneling

H. J. H. Smilde, A. A. Golubov, Ariando, G. Rijnders, J. M. Dekkers, S. Harkema, D. H. A. Blank, H. Rogalla, and H. Hilgenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257001 (2005) - Published 12 December, 2005

Dephasing of a Superconducting Qubit Induced by Photon Noise

P. Bertet, I. Chiorescu, G. Burkard, K. Semba, C. J. P. M. Harmans, D. P. DiVincenzo, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257002 (2005) - Published 13 December, 2005

Critical Temperature and Enhanced Isotope Effect in the Presence of Paramagnons in Phonon-Mediated Superconductors

O. V. Dolgov, I. I. Mazin, A. A. Golubov, S. Y. Savrasov, and E. G. Maksimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257003 (2005) - Published 15 December, 2005

Equilibrium First-Order Melting and Second-Order Glass Transitions of the Vortex Matter in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$

H. Beidenkopf, N. Avraham, Y. Myasoedov, H. Shtrikman, E. Zeldov, B. Rosenstein, E. H. Brandt, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 257004 (2005) - Published 16 December, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Spin Squeezing Inequalities and Entanglement of $N$ Qubit States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 120502 (2005)]

J. K. Korbicz, J. I. Cirac, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 259901 (2005) - Published 14 December, 2005