Volume 95, Issue 8

19 August 2005

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On the Cover

Measurements of the current through a single multiwalled carbon nanotube demonstrate a high conduction capacity, which would be important if such tubes were used in integrated circuits.

From the article:

Multichannel Ballistic Transport in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes
H. J. Li, W. G. Lu, J. J. Li, X. D. Bai, and C. Z. Gu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086601 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Polarity Switching and Transient Responses in Single Nanotube Nanofluidic Transistors

Rong Fan, Min Yue, Rohit Karnik, Arun Majumdar, and Peidong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086607 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

LETTERS

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

Simple and Surprisingly Accurate Approach to the Chemical Bond Obtained from Dimensional Scaling

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Marlan O. Scully, and Dudley R. Herschbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080401 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Ground-State Properties of Fermi Gases in the Strongly Interacting Regime

S. Y. Chang and V. R. Pandharipande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080402 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Four-Body Problem and BEC-BCS Crossover in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Cold Fermion Gas

C. Mora, A. Komnik, R. Egger, and A. O. Gogolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080403 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Casimir Zero-Point Radiation Pressure

Yoseph Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080404 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Lower and Upper Bounds on the Secret-Key Rate for Quantum Key Distribution Protocols Using One-Way Classical Communication

B. Kraus, N. Gisin, and R. Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080501 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Nongeometric Conditional Phase Shift via Adiabatic Evolution of Dark Eigenstates: A New Approach to Quantum Computation

Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080502 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Efficient Quantum Computation with Probabilistic Quantum Gates

L.-M. Duan and R. Raussendorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080503 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Quantum Algorithms without Initializing the Auxiliary Qubits

Dong Pyo Chi, Jeong San Kim, and Soojoon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080504 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Bipartite Subspaces Having No Bases Distinguishable by Local Operations and Classical Communication

John Watrous

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 080505 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Cosmic-Ray Antideuterons

H. Fuke et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081101 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Core Collapse via Coarse Dynamic Renormalization

Andras Szell, David Merritt, and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081102 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Upper Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission in Association with the 27 Dec 2004 Giant Flare of SGR1806-20

L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, M. De Rosa, P. Falferi, P. Fortini, M. Inguscio, N. Liguori, F. Marin, R. Mezzena, A. Mion, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, S. Poggi, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, A. Vinante, S. Vitale, and J. P. Zendri (AURIGA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081103 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering

P. L. Anthony et al. (SLAC E158 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081601 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Resonant $τ$ Leptogenesis with Observable Lepton Number Violation

Apostolos Pilaftsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081602 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Observation of the Decay $Ξ^{0} \to Σ^{+} μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ}$

E. Abouzaid et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081801 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Diabatic States from Nodal Structure Conservation

F. A. Ivanyuk and W. Nörenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 082501 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Collisions of Halo Nuclei within a Dynamical Eikonal Approximation

D. Baye, P. Capel, and G. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 082502 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Inner-Shell Photodetachment Thresholds: Unexpected Long-Range Validity of the Wigner Law

R. C. Bilodeau, J. D. Bozek, N. D. Gibson, C. W. Walter, G. D. Ackerman, I. Dumitriu, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 083001 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Multielectron Spectroscopy: The Xenon $4 d$ Hole Double Auger Decay

F. Penent, J. Palaudoux, P. Lablanquie, L. Andric, R. Feifel, and J. H. D. Eland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 083002 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Observation and Absolute Frequency Measurements of the ${}^{1}S_{0} − {}^{3}P_{0}$ Optical Clock Transition in Neutral Ytterbium

C. W. Hoyt, Z. W. Barber, C. W. Oates, T. M. Fortier, S. A. Diddams, and L. Hollberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 083003 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Solvation beyond the Linear Response Regime

Jens Bredenbeck, Jan Helbing, and Peter Hamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 083201 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Universality of Quantum Critical Dynamics in a Planar Optical Parametric Oscillator

Peter D. Drummond and Kaled Dechoum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 083601 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quasiregular Concentric Waves in Heterogeneous Lattices of Coupled Oscillators

Bernd Blasius and Ralf Tönjes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 084101 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Efficient Procedure to Compute the Microcanonical Volume of Initial Conditions that Lead to Escape Trajectories from a Multidimensional Potential Well

Holger Waalkens, Andrew Burbanks, and Stephen Wiggins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 084301 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Causodynamics of Autowave Patterns

V. N. Biktashev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 084501 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Wind Reversals in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Francisco Fontenele Araujo, Siegfried Grossmann, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 084502 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Reorientation of the Large-Scale Circulation in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Eric Brown, Alexei Nikolaenko, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 084503 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Kinetic Boundary Condition at a Vapor-Liquid Interface

Tatsuya Ishiyama, Takeru Yano, and Shigeo Fujikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 084504 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Study of Trapped-Electron-Mode Properties in Tokamaks: Threshold and Stabilization by Collisions

F. Ryter, C. Angioni, A. G. Peeters, F. Leuterer, H.-U. Fahrbach, and W. Suttrop (ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085001 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Ab-Initio Simulations of the Optical Properties of Warm Dense Gold

S. Mazevet, J. Clérouin, V. Recoules, P. M. Anglade, and G. Zerah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085002 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Effect of Ion Skin Depth on Relaxation of Merging Spheromaks to a Field-Reversed Configuration

Eiichirou Kawamori and Yasushi Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085003 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

In situ High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Local Structure of Supercooled Liquid Si

T. H. Kim, G. W. Lee, B. Sieve, A. K. Gangopadhyay, R. W. Hyers, T. J. Rathz, J. R. Rogers, D. S. Robinson, K. F. Kelton, and A. I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085501 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Phase Measurement for Accurate Mapping of Chemical Bonds in Acentric Space Groups

M. A. Spackman, B. Jiang, T. L. Groy, H. He, A. E. Whitten, and J. C. H. Spence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085502 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Quantitative Image Reconstruction of GaN Quantum Dots from Oversampled Diffraction Intensities Alone

Jianwei Miao, Yoshinori Nishino, Yoshiki Kohmura, Bart Johnson, Changyong Song, Subhash H. Risbud, and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085503 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Microstructure of Ferroelectric Domains in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ Observed via X-Ray Microdiffraction

M. Holt, Kh. Hassani, and M. Sutton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085504 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Freezing Transition of Interfacial Water at Room Temperature under Electric Fields

Eun-Mi Choi, Young-Hwan Yoon, Sangyoub Lee, and Heon Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085701 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Step-Controlled Strain Relaxation in the Vicinal Surface Epitaxy of Nitrides

X. R. Huang, J. Bai, M. Dudley, B. Wagner, R. F. Davis, and Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086101 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Island, Pit, and Groove Formation in Strained Heteroepitaxy

M. T. Lung, Chi-Hang Lam, and Leonard M. Sander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086102 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham Theory with Memory

H. O. Wijewardane and C. A. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086401 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Phase Bifurcation and Quantum Fluctuations in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

A. G. Green, S. A. Grigera, R. A. Borzi, A. P. Mackenzie, R. S. Perry, and B. D. Simons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086402 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Magnetic-Field-Induced Band-Structure Change in CeBiPt

N. Kozlova, J. Hagel, M. Doerr, J. Wosnitza, D. Eckert, K.-H. Müller, L. Schultz, I. Opahle, S. Elgazzar, Manuel Richter, G. Goll, H. v. Löhneysen, G. Zwicknagl, T. Yoshino, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086403 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Local Structure of Isolated Positively Charged Muonium as an Analog for the Hydrogen Ion in $p$ -Type GaAs

B. E. Schultz, K. H. Chow, B. Hitti, R. F. Kiefl, R. L. Lichti, and S. F. J. Cox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086404 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Magnetic Ordering in CuO from First Principles: A Cuprate Antiferromagnet with Fully Three-Dimensional Exchange Interactions

Alessio Filippetti and Vincenzo Fiorentini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086405 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Hidden Caldeira-Leggett Dissipation in a Bose-Fermi Kondo Model

Mei-Rong Li, Karyn Le Hur, and Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086406 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Multichannel Ballistic Transport in Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

H. J. Li, W. G. Lu, J. J. Li, X. D. Bai, and C. Z. Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086601 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Spin-Dependent Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Layered Antiferromagnetic Cr(001) Spacer: Role of Band Structure and Interface Scattering

T. Nagahama, S. Yuasa, E. Tamura, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086602 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Orbital ac Spin-Hall Effect in the Hopping Regime

O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, Y. M. Galperin, V. I. Kozub, and V. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086603 (2005) - Published 15 August, 2005

Origin of the Tunnel Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As / ZnSe / {Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ Magnetic Tunnel Junctions of II-VI/III-V Heterostructures

H. Saito, S. Yuasa, and K. Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086604 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Numerical Study of the Spin-Hall Conductance in the Luttinger Model

W. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Weng, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086605 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Microscopic Analysis of the Coherent Optical Generation and the Decay of Charge and Spin Currents in Semiconductor Heterostructures

Huynh Thanh Duc, T. Meier, and S. W. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086606 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Polarity Switching and Transient Responses in Single Nanotube Nanofluidic Transistors

Rong Fan, Min Yue, Rohit Karnik, Arun Majumdar, and Peidong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086607 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Spin Current due to Spinlike Andreev Reflection

Baigeng Wang, Ju Peng, D. Y. Xing, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086608 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Density of States Measured by Scanning-Tunneling Spectroscopy Sheds New Light on the Optical Transitions in PbSe Nanocrystals

Peter Liljeroth, Pedro A. Zeijlmans van Emmichoven, Stephen G. Hickey, Horst Weller, Bruno Grandidier, Guy Allan, and Daniël Vanmaekelbergh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086801 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Pseudospin Ferromagnetism in Double-Quantum-Wire Systems

D.-W. Wang, E. G. Mishchenko, and E. Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 086802 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Optical Selection Rules and Phase-Dependent Adiabatic State Control in a Superconducting Quantum Circuit

Yu-xi Liu, J. Q. You, L. F. Wei, C. P. Sun, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087001 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Direct Observation of Rectified Motion of Vortices in a Niobium Superconductor

Yoshihiko Togawa, Ken Harada, Tetsuya Akashi, Hiroto Kasai, Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Franco Nori, Atsutaka Maeda, and Akira Tonomura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087002 (2005) - Published 17 August, 2005

Superconductivity of Bulk ${CaC}_{6}$

N. Emery, C. Hérold, M. d’Astuto, V. Garcia, Ch. Bellin, J. F. Marêché, P. Lagrange, and G. Loupias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087003 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Stable Solution of the Simplest Spin Model for Inverse Freezing

Andrea Crisanti and Luca Leuzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087201 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Kinetic Antiferromagnetism in the Triangular Lattice

Jan O. Haerter and B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087202 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Ground State of the Kagomé-Like $S = 1 / 2$ Antiferromagnet Volborthite ${Cu}_{3} V_{2} O_{7} (OH)_{2} \cdot 2 H_{2} O$

F. Bert, D. Bono, P. Mendels, F. Ladieu, F. Duc, J.-C. Trombe, and P. Millet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087203 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Thermodynamic Properties in the Approach to the Quantum Critical Point of the Spin-Ladder Material ${Na}_{2} {Co}_{2} (C_{2} O_{4})_{3} (H_{2} O)_{2}$

Z. Honda, K. Katsumata, A. Kikkawa, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087204 (2005) - Published 19 August, 2005

Direct Observation of Excitons and a Continuum of One-Dimensional Mott Insulators: A Reflection-Type Third-Harmonic-Generation Study of Ni-Halogen Chain Compounds

M. Ono, H. Kishida, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087401 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Surface Structure of Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(001) Revisited

T. Bernhard, M. Baron, M. Gruyters, and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 087601 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Stability of Soap Films: Hysteresis and Nucleation of Black Films”

Cosima Stubenrauch, Dominique Langevin, and Dotchi Exerowa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 088901 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

Bonn and Meunier Reply:

Daniel Bonn and Jacques Meunier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 088902 (2005) - Published 16 August, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Origin of Spontaneous Electric Dipoles in Homonuclear Niobium Clusters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 246105 (2004)]

Kristopher E. Andersen, Vijay Kumar, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, and Warren E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 089901 (2005) - Published 18 August, 2005