Volume 95, Issue 7

12 August 2005

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On the Cover

Investigations of the cosmic microwave background indicate the presence of a preferred axis, which would have implications for the standard model of cosmology.

From the article:

Examination of Evidence for a Preferred Axis in the Cosmic Radiation Anisotropy
Kate Land and João Magueijo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071301 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Allosteric Control through Mechanical Tension

Brian Choi, Giovanni Zocchi, Yim Wu, Sum Chan, and L. Jeanne Perry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 078102 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

LETTERS

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

Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Random Potential

J. E. Lye, L. Fallani, M. Modugno, D. S. Wiersma, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 070401 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Dynamics of a Large Spin with Strong Dissipation

Till Vorrath and Tobias Brandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 070402 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Creation Dynamics of Bound States in Supercritical Fields

P. Krekora, K. Cooley, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 070403 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Anisotropic Fermi Superfluid via $p$ -Wave Feshbach Resonance

Chi-Ho Cheng and S.-K. Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 070404 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Non-Gaussian Cloning of Quantum Coherent States is Optimal

N. J. Cerf, O. Krüger, P. Navez, R. F. Werner, and M. M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 070501 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Einstein-Sasaki Spaces in Five and Higher Dimensions

M. Cvetič, H. Lü, Don N. Page, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071101 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Critical Behavior in Vacuum Gravitational Collapse in $4 + 1$ Dimensions

Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj, and Bernd G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071102 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Examination of Evidence for a Preferred Axis in the Cosmic Radiation Anisotropy

Kate Land and João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071301 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Long-Lived Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071801 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Precision Model Independent Determination of $| V_{ub} |$ from $B \to π l ν$

Christian M. Arnesen, Benjamin Grinstein, Ira Z. Rothstein, and Iain W. Stewart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 071802 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

$s \bar{s}$ Component of the Proton and the Strangeness Magnetic Moment

B. S. Zou and D. O. Riska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 072001 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Theory of Tunnel Ionization in Complex Systems

Thomas Brabec, Michel Côté, Paul Boulanger, and Lora Ramunno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073001 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Dissociation and Ionization of $H_{2}^{+}$ by Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses Probed by Coincidence 3D Momentum Imaging

I. Ben-Itzhak, P. Q. Wang, J. F. Xia, A. M. Sayler, M. A. Smith, K. D. Carnes, and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073002 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Dissipation-Induced Symmetry Breaking in a Driven Optical Lattice

R. Gommers, S. Bergamini, and F. Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073003 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Vibrational Excitation of Diatomic Molecular Ions in Strong Field Ionization of Diatomic Molecules

Thomas K. Kjeldsen and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073004 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Anomalous Quantum Reflection of Bose-Einstein Condensates from a Silicon Surface: The Role of Dynamical Excitations

R. G. Scott, A. M. Martin, T. M. Fromhold, and F. W. Sheard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073201 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Modulational Instability in Systems with Integrating Nonlinearity

U. Streppel, D. Michaelis, R. Kowarschik, and A. Bräuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073901 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Nonlinearly Induced Relaxation to the Ground State in a Two-Level System

D. Mandelik, Y. Lahini, and Y. Silberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073902 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Giant Excess Noise and Transient Gain in Misaligned Laser Cavities

William J Firth and Alison M Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073903 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Weak Localization and Time Reversal of Ultrasound in a Rotational Flow

Julien de Rosny, Arnaud Tourin, Arnaud Derode, Philippe Roux, and Mathias Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 074301 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Evidence of the $k_{1}^{- 1}$ Law in a High-Reynolds-Number Turbulent Boundary Layer

T. B. Nickels, I. Marusic, S. Hafez, and M. S. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 074501 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Azimuthal Symmetry, Flow Dynamics, and Heat Transport in Turbulent Thermal Convection in a Cylinder with an Aspect Ratio of 0.5

Chao Sun, Heng-Dong Xi, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 074502 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of a 17-GHz, High-Gradient Accelerator with a Photonic-Band-Gap Structure

Evgenya I. Smirnova, Amit S. Kesar, Ivan Mastovsky, Michael A. Shapiro, and Richard J. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 074801 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Current Clamp at Zero Level in JT-60U Current Hole Plasmas

T. Fujita, T. Suzuki, T. Oikawa, A. Isayama, T. Hatae, O. Naito, Y. Sakamoto, N. Hayashi, K. Hamamatsu, S. Ide, and H. Takenaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075001 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Surface Andreev Bound States of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ by Transverse Acoustic Impedance Measurements

Y. Aoki, Y. Wada, M. Saitoh, R. Nomura, Y. Okuda, Y. Nagato, M. Yamamoto, S. Higashitani, and K. Nagai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075301 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

EXAFS Measurement of Iron bcc-to-hcp Phase Transformation in Nanosecond-Laser Shocks

B. Yaakobi, T. R. Boehly, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. J. B. Collins, B. A. Remington, P. G. Allen, S. M. Pollaine, H. E. Lorenzana, and J. H. Eggert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075501 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Direct Observation of the $α − ε$ Transition in Shock-Compressed Iron via Nanosecond X-Ray Diffraction

D. H. Kalantar, J. F. Belak, G. W. Collins, J. D. Colvin, H. M. Davies, J. H. Eggert, T. C. Germann, J. Hawreliak, B. L. Holian, K. Kadau, P. S. Lomdahl, H. E. Lorenzana, M. A. Meyers, K. Rosolankova, M. S. Schneider, J. Sheppard, J. S. Stölken, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075502 (2005) - Published 9 August, 2005

Time-of-Flight Flow Imaging Using NMR Remote Detection

J. Granwehr, E. Harel, S. Han, S. Garcia, A. Pines, P. N. Sen, and Y.-Q. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075503 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Average Shape of Transport-Limited Aggregates

Benny Davidovitch, Jaehyuk Choi, and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075504 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Medium-Range Structural Properties of Vitreous Germania Obtained through First-Principles Analysis of Vibrational Spectra

Luigi Giacomazzi, P. Umari, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075505 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Complete Elastic Tensor through the First-Order Transformation in $U_{2} {Rh}_{3} {Si}_{5}$

R. G. Leisure, S. Kern, F. R. Drymiotis, H. Ledbetter, A. Migliori, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075506 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Crystal-Amorphous and Crystal-Crystal Phase Transformations via Virtual Melting

Valery I. Levitas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075701 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Classical Many-Body Potential for Concentrated Alloys and the Inversion of Order in Iron-Chromium Alloys

A. Caro, D. A. Crowson, and M. Caro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075702 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Isoenergetic Jamming Transition in Particle-Filled Systems

Christopher G. Robertson and Xiaorong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 075703 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Chains: Scaling Laws and Shearing Response Compared to DNA Experiments

Vasileios Symeonidis, George Em Karniadakis, and Bruce Caswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076001 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Impact of Substrate Corrugation on the Sliding Friction Levels of Adsorbed Films

T. Coffey and J. Krim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076101 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Self-Assembled Superlattice by Spinodal Decomposition during Growth

I. Daruka and J. Tersoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076102 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Atomic Structure of a Thin Silica Film on a Mo(112) Substrate: A Two-Dimensional Network of ${SiO}_{4}$ Tetrahedra

J. Weissenrieder, S. Kaya, J.-L. Lu, H.-J. Gao, S. Shaikhutdinov, H.-J. Freund, M. Sierka, T. K. Todorova, and J. Sauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076103 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Experimental Evidence of Dislocation Related Shallow States in $p$ -Type Si

A. Castaldini, D. Cavalcoli, A. Cavallini, and S. Pizzini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076401 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Quantum Hydrodynamics, the Quantum Benjamin-Ono Equation, and the Calogero Model

Alexander G. Abanov and Paul B. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076402 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Identifying Contact Effects in Electronic Conduction through $C_{60}$ on Silicon

G.-C. Liang and A. W. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076403 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Magnetic Quantum Oscillations in Nanowires

A. S. Alexandrov and V. V. Kabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076601 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Maxwell Equation for Coupled Spin-Charge Wave Propagation

B. Andrei Bernevig, Xiaowei Yu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076602 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Anisotropy of Spin Splitting and Spin Relaxation in Lateral Quantum Dots

Vladimir I. Fal’ko, B. L. Altshuler, and O. Tsyplyatyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076603 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Dephasing of Mesoscopic Interferences from Electron Fractionalization

Karyn Le Hur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076801 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Suppression of Superconductivity in Zinc Nanowires by Bulk Superconductors

Mingliang Tian, Nitesh Kumar, Shengyong Xu, Jinguo Wang, James S. Kurtz, and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076802 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Quantum Dephasing in Carbon Nanotubes due to Electron-Phonon Coupling

Stephan Roche, Jie Jiang, François Triozon, and Riichiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076803 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005

Band Structure and Quantum Conductance of Nanostructures from Maximally Localized Wannier Functions: The Case of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

Young-Su Lee, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076804 (2005) - Published 10 August, 2005

Spin Relaxation and Decoherence of Holes in Quantum Dots

Denis V. Bulaev and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076805 (2005) - Published 11 August, 2005

Multiple Cotunneling in Large Quantum Dot Arrays

T. B. Tran, I. S. Beloborodov, X. M. Lin, T. P. Bigioni, V. M. Vinokur, and H. M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 076806 (2005) - Published 12 August, 2005

Fermi Surface and Quasiparticle Excitations of Overdoped ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$

M. Platé, J. D. F. Mottershead, I. S. Elfimov, D. C. Peets, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, S. Chiuzbaian, M. Falub, M. Shi, L. Patthey, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 077001 (2005) - Published 8 August, 2005