Volume 95, Issue 26

31 December 2005

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Scanning electron microscope images of semiconductor quantum dots. Inelastic light scattering is used to uncover the spin behavior in dots with few electrons.

From the article:

Evidence of Correlation in Spin Excitations of Few-Electron Quantum Dots
César Pascual García, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Massimo Rontani, Guido Goldoni, Elisa Molinari, Brian S. Dennis, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266806 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Cold Atom Dynamics in a Quantum Optical Lattice Potential

Christoph Maschler and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260401 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Superfluid Fermi Gas in a 1D Optical Lattice

G. Orso and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260402 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Number Statistics in a Degenerate Bose Gas

C.-S. Chuu, F. Schreck, T. P. Meyrath, J. L. Hanssen, G. N. Price, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260403 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Superfluid-Insulator Transition in a Periodically Driven Optical Lattice

André Eckardt, Christoph Weiss, and Martin Holthaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260404 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Thermodynamics of Interacting Fermions in Atomic Traps

Qijin Chen, Jelena Stajic, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260405 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Population of Closed-Channel Molecules in Trapped Fermi Gases with Broad Feshbach Resonances

Qijin Chen and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260406 (2005) - Published 28 December, 2005

Dressed Feshbach Molecules in the BEC-BCS Crossover

M. W. J. Romans and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260407 (2005) - Published 28 December, 2005

Generation of Hyperentangled Photon Pairs

Julio T. Barreiro, Nathan K. Langford, Nicholas A. Peters, and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260501 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Concurrence of Mixed Multipartite Quantum States

Florian Mintert, Marek Kuś, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260502 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Capacities of Quantum Channels for Massive Bosons and Fermions

Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, Bartosz Gromek, Dagmar Bruß, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260503 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

First-Passage Times for Random Walks in Bounded Domains

S. Condamin, O. Bénichou, and M. Moreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260601 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory and Boundary Effects in the Dimer Model

N. Sh. Izmailian, V. B. Priezzhev, Philippe Ruelle, and Chin-Kun Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260602 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Optimal Target Search on a Fast-Folding Polymer Chain with Volume Exchange

Michael A. Lomholt, Tobias Ambjörnsson, and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260603 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Entanglement and Criticality in Translationally Invariant Harmonic Lattice Systems with Finite-Range Interactions

R. G. Unanyan and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260604 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Consistent Lattice Boltzmann Method

Santosh Ansumali and Iliya V. Karlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260605 (2005) - Published 29 December, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Radio-Quiet Neutron Star 1E 1207.4-5209: A Possible Strong Gravitational-Wave Source

Biping Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261101 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

The Gravity Lagrangian According to Solar System Experiments

Gonzalo J. Olmo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261102 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Constraints on Changes in Fundamental Constants from a Cosmologically Distant OH Absorber or Emitter

N. Kanekar, C. L. Carilli, G. I. Langston, G. Rocha, F. Combes, R. Subrahmanyan, J. T. Stocke, K. M. Menten, F. H. Briggs, and T. Wiklind

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261301 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

511 keV Photons from Superconducting Cosmic Strings

Francesc Ferrer and Tanmay Vachaspati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261302 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Measuring the Geometry of the Universe in the Presence of Isocurvature Modes

J. Dunkley, M. Bucher, P. G. Ferreira, K. Moodley, and C. Skordis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261303 (2005) - Published 28 December, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Randall-Sundrum Brane Model with 7D Anti–de Sitter Space

Ruoyu Bao and Joseph Lykken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261601 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

QCD and a Holographic Model of Hadrons

Joshua Erlich, Emanuel Katz, Dam T. Son, and Mikhail A. Stephanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261602 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Black Holes in Many Dimensions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Testing Critical String Theory

JoAnne L. Hewett, Ben Lillie, and Thomas G. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261603 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Evidence for $B_{s}^{()} {\bar{B}}_{s}^{()}$ Production at the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

M. Artuso et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261801 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

QCD Corrections to Static Heavy-Quark Form Factors

W. Bernreuther, R. Bonciani, T. Gehrmann, R. Heinesch, T. Leineweber, P. Mastrolia, and E. Remiddi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261802 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Precision Measurements of the Timelike Electromagnetic Form Factors of Pion, Kaon, and Proton

T. K. Pedlar et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261803 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Radiative Seesaw Mechanism and Degenerate Neutrinos

Borut Bajc and Goran Senjanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261804 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Rare Decay $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν \bar{ν}$ at the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Andrzej J. Buras, Martin Gorbahn, Ulrich Haisch, and Ulrich Nierste

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261805 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Observation of a Resonance $X (1835)$ in $J / ψ \to γ π^{+} π^{-} η^{'}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 262001 (2005) - Published 28 December, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Variational Approach to Configuration Interaction

R. R. Chasman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 262501 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Localized Excitations at the Mott Insulator-Superfluid Interfaces for Confined Bose-Einstein Condensates

Eros Mariani and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263001 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Experimental Study of Photodetachment in a Strong Laser Field of Circular Polarization

Boris Bergues, Yongfeng Ni, Hanspeter Helm, and Igor Yu. Kiyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263002 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

High-Resolution Dissociative Recombination of Cold $H_{3}^{+}$ and First Evidence for Nuclear Spin Effects

H. Kreckel, M. Motsch, J. Mikosch, J. Glosík, R. Plašil, S. Altevogt, V. Andrianarijaona, H. Buhr, J. Hoffmann, L. Lammich, M. Lestinsky, I. Nevo, S. Novotny, D. A. Orlov, H. B. Pedersen, F. Sprenger, A. S. Terekhov, J. Toker, R. Wester, D. Gerlich, D. Schwalm, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263201 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Simple Three-Parameter Model Potential for Diatomic Systems: From Weakly and Strongly Bound Molecules to Metastable Molecular Ions

Rui-Hua Xie and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263202 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Extreme Sensitivity of Differential Momentum Transfer Cross Sections to Target Atom Initial Conditions

R. E. Olson and J. Fiol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263203 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Strong Oscillations in Molecular Valence Photoemission Intensities

Piero Decleva, Giovanna Fronzoni, Mauro Stener, Monica de Simone, Marcello Coreno, Jennifer C. Green, Nilay Hazari, and Oksana Plekan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263401 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Ericson Fluctuations in an Open Deterministic Quantum System: Theory Meets Experiment

Javier Madroñero and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263601 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Condensation of Classical Nonlinear Waves

Colm Connaughton, Christophe Josserand, Antonio Picozzi, Yves Pomeau, and Sergio Rica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263901 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Theory of Surface Plasmon Generation at Nanoslit Apertures

P. Lalanne, J. P. Hugonin, and J. C. Rodier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263902 (2005) - Published 28 December, 2005

Controlled Switching of Intrinsic Localized Modes in a One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet

J. P. Wrubel, M. Sato, and A. J. Sievers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264101 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Electron Climbing a “Devil’s Staircase” in Wave-Particle Interaction

Alessandro Macor, Fabrice Doveil, and Yves Elskens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264102 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

A Generic Mechanism of Sliding Friction between Charged Soft Surfaces

S. Herminghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264301 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Renormalized Waves and Discrete Breathers in $β$ -Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Chains

Boris Gershgorin, Yuri V. Lvov, and David Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264302 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Regimes of Terminal Motion of Sliding Spinning Disks

P. D. Weidman and C. P. Malhotra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264303 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Chemical Transients in Closed Chaotic Flows: The Role of Effective Dimensions

György Károlyi and Tamás Tél

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264501 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Effective Dissipation and Turbulence in Spectrally Truncated Euler Flows

Cyril Cichowlas, Pauline Bonaïti, Fabrice Debbasch, and Marc Brachet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264502 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Imprint of Large-Scale Flows on Turbulence

A. Alexakis, P. D. Mininni, and A. Pouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264503 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Preventing Transition to Turbulence: A Viscosity Stratification Does Not Always Help

Vijayakumar Chikkadi, A. Sameen, and Rama Govindarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 264504 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Self-Similar Behavior of the 3D, Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

O. Sadot, V. A. Smalyuk, J. A. Delettrez, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. C. Sangster, R. Betti, V. N. Goncharov, and D. Shvarts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265001 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Self-Sustained Oscillations in a Plasma-Wall System with Strongly Inhomogeneous Diffusion of Charged Particles

M. Z. Tokar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265002 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Double-Gap Alfvén Eigenmodes: Revisiting Eigenmode Interaction with the Alfvén Continuum

N. N. Gorelenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265003 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Weak Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Solar Corona

Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265004 (2005) - Published 29 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of a New Type of Electron Bubble in Superfluid Helium

Ambarish Ghosh and Humphrey J. Maris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265301 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Crystalline Ground States for Classical Particles

András Sütő

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265501 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Structure, Stability, and Quantum Conductivity of Small Diameter Silicon Nanowires

Inna Ponomareva, Madhu Menon, Deepak Srivastava, and Antonis N. Andriotis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265502 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Dynamical Heterogeneity Close to the Jamming Transition in a Sheared Granular Material

O. Dauchot, G. Marty, and G. Biroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 265701 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Controlling the Thermal Stability of Thin Films by Interfacial Engineering

D. A. Ricci, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266101 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Stabilizing CO on Au with ${NO}_{2}$ : Electronegative Species as Promoters on Coinage Metals?

Tianfu Zhang, Zhi-Pan Liu, S. M. Driver, S. J. Pratt, S. J. Jenkins, and D. A. King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266102 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Stress Relaxation in a Perfect Nanocrystal by Coherent Ejection of Lattice Layers

Abhishek Chaudhuri, Surajit Sengupta, and Madan Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266103 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Hydrogen Induced Metallicity on the $ZnO (10 \bar{1} 0)$ Surface

Y. Wang, B. Meyer, X. Yin, M. Kunat, D. Langenberg, F. Traeger, A. Birkner, and Ch. Wöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266104 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Surface and Interface Studies of GaN Epitaxy on Si(111) via ${ZrB}_{2}$ Buffer Layers

Yukiko Yamada-Takamura, Z. T. Wang, Y. Fujikawa, T. Sakurai, Q. K. Xue, J. Tolle, P.-L. Liu, A. V. G. Chizmeshya, J. Kouvetakis, and I. S. T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266105 (2005) - Published 28 December, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Coherent Control and Polarization Readout of Individual Excitonic States

B. Patton, U. Woggon, and W. Langbein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266401 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Observation of Charge Density Wave Solitons in Overlapping Tunnel Junctions

Yu. I. Latyshev, P. Monceau, S. Brazovskii, A. P. Orlov, and T. Fournier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266402 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Interfaces of Correlated Electron Systems: Proposed Mechanism for Colossal Electroresistance

Takashi Oka and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266403 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Competing Orders in One-Dimensional Spin- $3 / 2$ Fermionic Systems

Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266404 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Incompressible Quantum Liquids and New Conservation Laws

Alexander Seidel, Henry Fu, Dung-Hai Lee, Jon Magne Leinaas, and Joel Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266405 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Anderson Localization in Carbon Nanotubes: Defect Density and Temperature Effects

Blanca Biel, F. J. García-Vidal, Angel Rubio, and Fernando Flores

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266801 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Helicity and Electron-Correlation Effects on Transport Properties of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Shidong Wang and Milena Grifoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266802 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Nonlinear Transport and Heat Dissipation in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

Marcelo A. Kuroda, Andreas Cangellaris, and Jean-Pierre Leburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266803 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Interlayer Transport in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems

Enrico Rossi, Alvaro S. Núñez, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266804 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Experimental Test of the Numerical Renormalization-Group Theory for Inelastic Scattering from Magnetic Impurities

Christopher Bäuerle, François Mallet, Félicien Schopfer, Dominique Mailly, Georg Eska, and Laurent Saminadayar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266805 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Evidence of Correlation in Spin Excitations of Few-Electron Quantum Dots

César Pascual García, Vittorio Pellegrini, Aron Pinczuk, Massimo Rontani, Guido Goldoni, Elisa Molinari, Brian S. Dennis, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Ken W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266806 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

How Do Electronic Carriers Cross Si-Bound Alkyl Monolayers?

Adi Salomon, Till Boecking, Calvin K. Chan, Fabrice Amy, Olga Girshevitz, David Cahen, and Antoine Kahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266807 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Nonlinear Quantum Critical Transport and the Schwinger Mechanism for a Superfluid-Mott-Insulator Transition of Bosons

A. G. Green and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267001 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Inversion of Two-Band Superconductivity at the Critical Electron Doping of $(Mg, Al) B_{2}$

L. D. Cooley, A. J. Zambano, A. R. Moodenbaugh, R. F. Klie, Jin-Cheng Zheng, and Yimei Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267002 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Quantum Statistics of Interacting Dimer Spin Systems

Ch. Rüegg, B. Normand, M. Matsumoto, Ch. Niedermayer, A. Furrer, K. W. Krämer, H.-U. Güdel, Ph. Bourges, Y. Sidis, and H. Mutka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267201 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Self-Contained Kondo Effect in Single Molecules

C. H. Booth, M. D. Walter, M. Daniel, W. W. Lukens, and R. A. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267202 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Temperature Chaos and Bond Chaos in Edwards-Anderson Ising Spin Glasses: Domain-Wall Free-Energy Measurements

M. Sasaki, K. Hukushima, H. Yoshino, and H. Takayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267203 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005

Randomly Diluted $e_{g}$ Orbital-Ordered Systems

T. Tanaka, M. Matsumoto, and S. Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267204 (2005) - Published 21 December, 2005

Orbital Polarization in Itinerant Magnets

I. V. Solovyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267205 (2005) - Published 22 December, 2005

Theory of Magnetodynamics Induced by Spin Torque in Perpendicularly Magnetized Thin Films

M. A. Hoefer, M. J. Ablowitz, B. Ilan, M. R. Pufall, and T. J. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267206 (2005) - Published 23 December, 2005

Unifying Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics

B. Koopmans, J. J. M. Ruigrok, F. Dalla Longa, and W. J. M. de Jonge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267207 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Significance of the Hyperfine Interactions in the Phase Diagram of ${LiHo}_{x} Y_{1 - x} F_{4}$

M. Schechter and P. C. E. Stamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267208 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Direct Observation of Condon Domains in Silver by Hall Probes

R. B. G. Kramer, V. S. Egorov, V. A. Gasparov, A. G. M. Jansen, and W. Joss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267209 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Phase Separation in Jahn-Teller Systems with Localized and Itinerant Electrons

K. I. Kugel, A. L. Rakhmanov, and A. O. Sboychakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267210 (2005) - Published 27 December, 2005

Coherent Light Generation from a $Nd ∶ SBN$ Nonlinear Laser Crystal through its Ferroelectric Phase Transition

M. O. Ramírez, D. Jaque, L. E. Bausá, J. García Solé, and A. A. Kaminskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267401 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Femtosecond Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Metals Investigated with Soft X-Ray Resonant Emission

L. Braicovich, G. Ghiringhelli, A. Tagliaferri, G. van der Laan, E. Annese, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267402 (2005) - Published 19 December, 2005

Structural Aspects of Metamagnetism in ${Ca}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {RuO}_{4}$ : Evidence for Field Tuning of Orbital Occupation

M. Kriener, P. Steffens, J. Baier, O. Schumann, T. Zabel, T. Lorenz, O. Friedt, R. Müller, A. Gukasov, P. G. Radaelli, P. Reutler, A. Revcolevschi, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Maeno, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267403 (2005) - Published 20 December, 2005