Volume 96, Issue 1

13 January 2006

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On the Cover

Reaction-diffusion equations are used to predict twisted spiral waves—the inner and outer parts are wound in opposite directions. The spiral retains its shape as it rotates.

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Front Reversals, Wave Traps, and Twisted Spirals in Periodically Forced Oscillatory Media
Oliver Rudzick and Alexander S. Mikhailov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 018302 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Quantum Metrology

Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010401 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Fermions in Optical Lattices Swept across Feshbach Resonances

Roberto B. Diener and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010402 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Emergence of Chaos in Quantum Systems Far from the Classical Limit

Salman Habib, Kurt Jacobs, and Kosuke Shizume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010403 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Violation of the Entropic Area Law for Fermions

Michael M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010404 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Directed Spontaneous Emission from an Extended Ensemble of $N$ Atoms: Timing Is Everything

Marlan O. Scully, Edward S. Fry, C. H. Raymond Ooi, and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010501 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Field Squeeze Operators in Optical Cavities with Atomic Ensembles

R. Guzmán, J. C. Retamal, E. Solano, and N. Zagury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010502 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Distributed Quantum Computation via Optical Fibers

Alessio Serafini, Stefano Mancini, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010503 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Rapid State Reduction of Quantum Systems Using Feedback Control

Joshua Combes and Kurt Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010504 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Breakdown of Hydrodynamics in a Simple One-Dimensional Fluid

Pablo I. Hurtado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010601 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Large Scale Structure in Bekenstein’s Theory of Relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics

C. Skordis, D. F. Mota, P. G. Ferreira, and C. Bœhm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011301 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Limits on Spin-Independent Interactions of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with Nucleons from the Two-Tower Run of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

D. S. Akerib et al. (CDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011302 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

$R$ Parity Violation Assisted Thermal Leptogenesis in the Seesaw Mechanism

Y. Farzan and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011601 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Equivalence of Two-Loop Superstring Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor and Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz Formalisms

Nathan Berkovits and Carlos R. Mafra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011602 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Search for the Higgs Boson in $H \to W W^{(*)}$ Decays in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011801 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

LETTERS

Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Decaying to $τ$ Pairs in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011802 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

LETTERS

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Resonance Contributions for $B^{0} \to {\bar{D}}^{0} K^{+} π^{-}$ and Search for $B^{0} \to D^{0} K^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011803 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Reconciling Open-Charm Production at the Fermilab Tevatron with QCD

B. A. Kniehl, G. Kramer, I. Schienbein, and H. Spiesberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012001 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Evidence for an Excited Hyperon State in $p p \to p K^{+} Y^{0 *}$

I. Zychor, V. Koptev, M. Büscher, A. Dzyuba, I. Keshelashvili, V. Kleber, H. R. Koch, S. Krewald, Y. Maeda, S. Mikirtichyants, M. Nekipelov, H. Ströher, and C. Wilkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012002 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Scalar Correlator at $O (α_{s}^{4})$ , Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks, and Bounds on the Light-Quark Masses

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012003 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Two-Photon-Exchange Effects in the Electroexcitation of the $Δ$ Resonance

Vladimir Pascalutsa, Carl E. Carlson, and Marc Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012301 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Hadronic Matter Is Soft

Ch. Hartnack, H. Oeschler, and Jörg Aichelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012302 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Transverse Momentum Distribution of Vector Mesons Produced in Ultraperipheral Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

Kai Hencken, Gerhard Baur, and Dirk Trautmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012303 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

$J / ψ$ Production and Nuclear Effects for $d + Au$ and $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012304 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Meson Supercurrent State in High-Density QCD

T. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012305 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

$N = 14$ Shell Closure in ${}^{22}O$ Viewed through a Neutron Sensitive Probe

E. Becheva et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012501 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Fine Structure of the Gamow-Teller Resonance in ${}^{90}{Nb}$ and Level Density of $1^{+}$ States

Y. Kalmykov, T. Adachi, G. P. A. Berg, H. Fujita, K. Fujita, Y. Fujita, K. Hatanaka, J. Kamiya, K. Nakanishi, P. von Neumann-Cosel, V. Yu. Ponomarev, A. Richter, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakemi, A. Shevchenko, Y. Shimbara, Y. Shimizu, F. D. Smit, T. Wakasa, J. Wambach, and M. Yosoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 012502 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Pseudopotential Method for Higher Partial Wave Scattering

Zbigniew Idziaszek and Tommaso Calarco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013201 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Dispersion Management Using Betatron Resonances in an Ultracold-Atom Storage Ring

K. W. Murch, K. L. Moore, S. Gupta, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013202 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Laser-Cluster Interaction: X-Ray Production by Short Laser Pulses

Cornelia Deiss, Nina Rohringer, Joachim Burgdörfer, Emily Lamour, Christophe Prigent, Jean-Pierre Rozet, and Dominique Vernhet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013203 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Real-Time and Background-Free Detection of Nanoscale Particles

Filipp V. Ignatovich and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013901 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Focusing of Scanning Light Beams below the Diffraction Limit without Near-Field Spatial Control Using a Saturable Absorber and a Negative-Refraction Material

A. Husakou and J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013902 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Stability Criterion for Dissipative Soliton Solutions of the One-, Two-, and Three-Dimensional Complex Cubic-Quintic Ginzburg-Landau Equations

V. Skarka and N. B. Aleksić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013903 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Coherent Optical Photons from Shock Waves in Crystals

Evan J. Reed, Marin Soljačić, Richard Gee, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013904 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Nonequilibrated Oscillations of Coherence in Coupled Nonlinear Wave Systems

Antonio Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 013905 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Heteroclinic Synchronization: Ultrasubharmonic Locking

Mikhail I. Rabinovich, Ramón Huerta, and Pablo Varona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014101 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Acoustic Backward-Wave Negative Refractions in the Second Band of a Sonic Crystal

Liang Feng, Xiao-Ping Liu, Ming-Hui Lu, Yan-Bin Chen, Yan-Feng Chen, Yi-Wei Mao, Jian Zi, Yong-Yuan Zhu, Shi-Ning Zhu, and Nai-Ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014301 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Evidence of Holes in the Arnold Tongues of Flow Past Two Oscillating Cylinders

Georgios V. Papaioannou, Dick K. P. Yue, Michael S. Triantafyllou, and George Em Karniadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014501 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Chiral Separation in Microflows

Marcin Kostur, Michael Schindler, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014502 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Modulational Instability in Crossing Sea States: A Possible Mechanism for the Formation of Freak Waves

M. Onorato, A. R. Osborne, and M. Serio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014503 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Temporal Characterization of Femtosecond Laser-Plasma-Accelerated Electron Bunches Using Terahertz Radiation

J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder, C. V. Filip, Cs. Tóth, C. G. R. Geddes, G. Fubiani, R. Huber, R. A. Kaindl, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014801 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Thomson-Backscattered X Rays From Laser-Accelerated Electrons

H. Schwoerer, B. Liesfeld, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, K.-U. Amthor, and R. Sauerbrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014802 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Electron, Positron, and Photon Wakefield Acceleration: Trapping, Wake Overtaking, and Ponderomotive Acceleration

T. Esirkepov, S. V. Bulanov, M. Yamagiwa, and T. Tajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 014803 (2006) - Published 13 January, 2006

Critical Point in Complex Plasmas

S. A. Khrapak, G. E. Morfill, A. V. Ivlev, H. M. Thomas, D. A. Beysens, B. Zappoli, V. E. Fortov, A. M. Lipaev, and V. I. Molotkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015001 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Onset and Saturation of Ion Heating by Odd-Parity Rotating Magnetic Fields in a Field-Reversed Configuration

A. S. Landsman, S. A. Cohen, and A. H. Glasser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015002 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Self-Diffusion in a Liquid Complex Plasma

S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, S. Zhdanov, and G. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015003 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Onset and Saturation of the Kink Instability in a Current-Carrying Line-Tied Plasma

W. F. Bergerson, C. B. Forest, G. Fiksel, D. A. Hannum, R. Kendrick, J. S. Sarff, and S. Stambler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015004 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Test of the Stokes-Einstein Relation in a Two-Dimensional Yukawa Liquid

Bin Liu, J. Goree, and O. S. Vaulina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015005 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evolution of a Network of Vortex Loops in He-II: Exact Solution of the Rate Equation

Sergey K. Nemirovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015301 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Dense Cluster Formation during Aggregation and Gelation of Attractive Slippery Nanoemulsion Droplets

J. N. Wilking, S. M. Graves, C. B. Chang, K. Meleson, M. Y. Lin, and T. G. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015501 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Phase Field Modeling of Fast Crack Propagation

Robert Spatschek, Miks Hartmann, Efim Brener, Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar, and Klaus Kassner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015502 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Linear Response Domain in Glassy Systems

Stephen R. Williams and Denis J. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015701 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Can Nonlinear Elasticity Explain Contact-Line Roughness at Depinning?

Pierre Le Doussal, Kay Jörg Wiese, Elie Raphael, and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015702 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

An Electric Bottle for Colloids

M. T. Sullivan, K. Zhao, A. D. Hollingsworth, R. H. Austin, W. B. Russel, and P. M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015703 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Direct Visualization of Continuous Simple Shear in Non-Newtonian Polymeric Fluids

Prashant Tapadia and Shi-Qing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016001 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Atomic-Scale Sharpening of Silicon Tips in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

V. Caciuc, H. Hölscher, S. Blügel, and H. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016101 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Nondissociative Adsorption of $H_{2}$ Molecules in Light-Element-Doped Fullerenes

Yong-Hyun Kim, Yufeng Zhao, Andrew Williamson, Michael J. Heben, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016102 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Surface Mobility Difference between Si and Ge and Its Effect on Growth of SiGe Alloy Films and Islands

Li Huang, Feng Liu, Guang-Hong Lu, and X. G. Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016103 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Oxygen Clamps in Gold Nanowires

Frederico D. Novaes, Antônio J. R. da Silva, E. Z. da Silva, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016104 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Strain Oscillations Probed with Light

L. D. Sun, M. Hohage, P. Zeppenfeld, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, and K. Hingerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016105 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Electrical Discharge in Capillary Breakup: Controlling the Charge of a Droplet

Jean-Christophe Baret and Frieder Mugele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016106 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Molecular Dynamics Study of Phase Separation Kinetics in Thin Films

Subir K. Das, Sanjay Puri, Jürgen Horbach, and K. Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016107 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Single Electron on a Nanodot in a Double-Barrier Tunneling Structure Observed by Noncontact Atomic-Force Spectroscopy

Yasuo Azuma, Masayuki Kanehara, Toshiharu Teranishi, and Yutaka Majima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016108 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Critical Point of an Itinerant Antiferromagnet in a Heavy Fermion

Hiroaki Kadowaki, Yoshikazu Tabata, Masugu Sato, Naofumi Aso, Stephane Raymond, and Shuzo Kawarazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016401 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Suppression of Ferromagnetic Double Exchange by Vibronic Phase Segregation

F. Rivadulla, M. Otero-Leal, A. Espinosa, A. de Andrés, C. Ramos, J. Rivas, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016402 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Magneto-Optical Evidence of Double Exchange in a Percolating Lattice

G. Caimi, A. Perucchi, L. Degiorgi, H. R. Ott, V. M. Pereira, A. H. Castro Neto, A. D. Bianchi, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016403 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Electrons and Hydrogen-Bond Connectivity in Liquid Water

M. V. Fernández-Serra and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016404 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Relaxation in Time-Dependent Current-Density-Functional Theory

Roberto D’Agosta and Giovanni Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016405 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry

S. Zaric, G. N. Ostojic, J. Shaver, J. Kono, O. Portugall, P. H. Frings, G. L. J. A. Rikken, M. Furis, S. A. Crooker, X. Wei, V. C. Moore, R. H. Hauge, and R. E. Smalley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016406 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Schwinger Boson Approach to the Fully Screened Kondo Model

J. Rech, P. Coleman, G. Zarand, and O. Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016601 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Insulator-Metal Phase Diagram of the Optimally Doped Manganites from the Disordered Holstein-Double Exchange Model

Sanjeev Kumar and Pinaki Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016602 (2006) - Published 12 January, 2006

Electrostatic Potential Screened by a Two-Dimensional Electron System: A Real-Space Observation by Scanning-Tunneling Spectroscopy

Masanori Ono, Y. Nishigata, T. Nishio, T. Eguchi, and Y. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016801 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Proposed Experiments to Probe the Non-Abelian $ν = 5 / 2$ Quantum Hall State

Ady Stern and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016802 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Detecting Non-Abelian Statistics in the $ν = 5 / 2$ Fractional Quantum Hall State

Parsa Bonderson, Alexei Kitaev, and Kirill Shtengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016803 (2006) - Published 6 January, 2006

Unexpected Behavior in a Two-Path Electron Interferometer

I. Neder, M. Heiblum, Y. Levinson, D. Mahalu, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 016804 (2006) - Published 10 January, 2006

Physics of the Resonating Valence Bond (Pseudogap) State of the Doped Mott Insulator: Spin-Charge Locking

P. W. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017001 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Evidence for Charge Inhomogeneity in Stripe Ordered ${La}_{1.8 - x} {Eu}_{0.2} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

H.-J. Grafe, N. J. Curro, M. Hücker, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017002 (2006) - Published 3 January, 2006

Electron Correlation and Charge Transfer in $[({Ba}_{0.9} {Nd}_{0.1}) {CuO}_{2 + δ}]_{2} / [{CaCuO}_{2}]_{2}$ Superconducting Superlattices

B. Freelon, A. Augustsson, J.-H. Guo, P. G. Medaglia, A. Tebano, and G. Balestrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017003 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Persistence of Strong Electron Coupling to a Narrow Boson Spectrum in Overdoped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Tunneling Data

J. F. Zasadzinski, L. Ozyuzer, L. Coffey, K. E. Gray, D. G. Hinks, and C. Kendziora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017004 (2006) - Published 9 January, 2006

Laser Based Angle-Resolved Photoemission, the Sudden Approximation, and Quasiparticle-Like Spectral Peaks in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

J. D. Koralek, J. F. Douglas, N. C. Plumb, Z. Sun, A. V. Fedorov, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, S. T. Cundiff, Y. Aiura, K. Oka, H. Eisaki, and D. S. Dessau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017005 (2006) - Published 11 January, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Evidence for Pauli Exchange Leading to Excited-State Enhancement in Electron Transfer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 133201 (2004)]

J. A. Tanis, A. L. Landers, D. J. Pole, A. S. Alnaser, S. Hossain, and T. Kirchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 019901 (2006) - Published 4 January, 2006

Erratum: Hydrogen Burning of ${}^{17}O$ in Classical Novae [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 031101 (2005)]

A. Chafa, V. Tatischeff, P. Aguer, S. Barhoumi, A. Coc, F. Garrido, M. Hernanz, J. José, J. Kiener, A. Lefebvre-Schuhl, S. Ouichaoui, N. de Séréville, and J.-P. Thibaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 019902 (2006) - Published 5 January, 2006

Volume 96, Issue 1

On the Cover

From the article:

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

LETTERS

LETTERS

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA