Volume 96, Issue 11

24 March 2006

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On the Cover

PVLAS collaboration data providing evidence for light polarization rotation in vacuum with a transverse magnetic field. The signal (arrow) is at a frequency shift twice that of a rotating magnet. A light neutral spin-zero particle could cause such polarization rotation, though there are strong astrophysical constraints.

From the article:

Experimental Observation of Optical Rotation Generated in Vacuum by a Magnetic Field
E. Zavattini, G. Zavattini, G. Ruoso, E. Polacco, E. Milotti, M. Karuza, U. Gastaldi, G. Di Domenico, F. Della Valle, R. Cimino, S. Carusotto, G. Cantatore, and M. Bregant (PVLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110406 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Quantum Atom Optics with Fermions from Molecular Dissociation

K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110401 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Multimode Uncertainty Relations and Separability of Continuous Variable States

Alessio Serafini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110402 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases with Density Imbalance

J. Kinnunen, L. M. Jensen, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110403 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Topological Entanglement Entropy

Alexei Kitaev and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110404 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Detecting Topological Order in a Ground State Wave Function

Michael Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110405 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Experimental Observation of Optical Rotation Generated in Vacuum by a Magnetic Field

E. Zavattini, G. Zavattini, G. Ruoso, E. Polacco, E. Milotti, M. Karuza, U. Gastaldi, G. Di Domenico, F. Della Valle, R. Cimino, S. Carusotto, G. Cantatore, and M. Bregant (PVLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110406 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Photon Regeneration from Pseudoscalars at X-Ray Laser Facilities

Raúl Rabadán, Andreas Ringwald, and Kris Sigurdson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110407 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Experimental Synchronization of Independent Entangled Photon Sources

Tao Yang, Qiang Zhang, Teng-Yun Chen, Shan Lu, Juan Yin, Jian-Wei Pan, Zhi-Yi Wei, Jing-Rong Tian, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110501 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Tunable Tsallis Distributions in Dissipative Optical Lattices

P. Douglas, S. Bergamini, and F. Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110601 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Accurate Evolutions of Orbiting Black-Hole Binaries without Excision

M. Campanelli, C. O. Lousto, P. Marronetti, and Y. Zlochower

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 111101 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Gravitational-Wave Extraction from an Inspiraling Configuration of Merging Black Holes

John G. Baker, Joan Centrella, Dae-Il Choi, Michael Koppitz, and James van Meter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 111102 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Inflationary Predictions for Scalar and Tensor Fluctuations Reconsidered

Latham A. Boyle, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 111301 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Radiative Decays and the Nature of Heavy Quarkonia

Xavier Garcia i Tormo and Joan Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 111801 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Photoabsorption on ${}^{4}{He}$ with a Realistic Nuclear Force

Doron Gazit, Sonia Bacca, Nir Barnea, Winfried Leidemann, and Giuseppina Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112301 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Efimov Effect in Nuclear Three-Body Resonance Decays

E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, and A. S. Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112501 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Risk of Misinterpretation of Nearly Degenerate Pair Bands as Chiral Partners in Nuclei

C. M. Petrache, G. B. Hagemann, I. Hamamoto, and K. Starosta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112502 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Probing Shell Structure and Shape Changes in Neutron-Rich Sulfur Isotopes through Transient-Field $g$ -Factor Measurements on Fast Radioactive Beams of ${}^{38}S$ and ${}^{40}S$ .

A. D. Davies, A. E. Stuchbery, P. F. Mantica, P. M. Davidson, A. N. Wilson, A. Becerril, B. A. Brown, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, D. C. Dinca, A. Gade, S. N. Liddick, T. J. Mertzimekis, W. F. Mueller, J. R. Terry, B. E. Tomlin, K. Yoneda, and H. Zwahlen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112503 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Hindrance of Heavy-Ion Fusion due to Nuclear Incompressibility

Ş. Mişicu and H. Esbensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 112701 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Efficient Approach to Time-Dependent Density-Functional Perturbation Theory for Optical Spectroscopy

Brent Walker, A. Marco Saitta, Ralph Gebauer, and Stefano Baroni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113001 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Enhancement and Quenching of Single-Molecule Fluorescence

Pascal Anger, Palash Bharadwaj, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113002 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Absorption Spectra of Quantum Aggregates Interacting via Long-Range Forces

A. Eisfeld and J. S. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113003 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Structural Transformations and Melting in Neon Clusters: Quantum versus Classical Mechanics

Pavel A. Frantsuzov, Dario Meluzzi, and Vladimir A. Mandelshtam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113401 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quasi-Intrinsic Angular Momentum and the Measurement of Its Spectrum

Roberta Zambrini and Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113901 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Enhanced Soliton Transport in Quasiperiodic Lattices with Introduced Aperiodicity

Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113902 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Stable Optical Trapping Based on Optical Binding Forces

Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk, Brandon A. Kemp, and Jin Au Kong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113903 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Spatiotemporal Chaos: The Microscopic Perspective

Nicolas B. Garnier and Daniel K. Wójcik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114101 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Synchronization Reveals Topological Scales in Complex Networks

Alex Arenas, Albert Díaz-Guilera, and Conrad J. Pérez-Vicente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114102 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Viscosity Destabilizes Sonoluminescing Bubbles

Ruediger Toegel, Stefan Luther, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114301 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Folding of Viscous Threads in Diverging Microchannels

Thomas Cubaud and Thomas G. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114501 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Nanoscale Fluid Flows in the Vicinity of Patterned Surfaces

Marek Cieplak, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114502 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Multifractal Dimension of Lagrangian Turbulence

Haitao Xu, Nicholas T. Ouellette, and Eberhard Bodenschatz (International Collaboration for Turbulence Research)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114503 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Efficient Propagation of Polarization from Laser Photons to Positrons through Compton Scattering and Electron-Positron Pair Creation

T. Omori, M. Fukuda, T. Hirose, Y. Kurihara, R. Kuroda, M. Nomura, A. Ohashi, T. Okugi, K. Sakaue, T. Saito, J. Urakawa, M. Washio, and I. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114801 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Measurement of the Interaction Force among Particles in Three-Dimensional Plasma Clusters

T. Antonova, B. M. Annaratone, D. D. Goldbeck, V. Yaroshenko, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115001 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Spectrum of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Stanislav Boldyrev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115002 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Streamers in the JIPP T-llU Tokamak Plasmas

Y. Hamada, T. Watari, A. Nishizawa, K. Narihara, Y. Kawasumi, T. Ido, M. Kojima, and K. Toi (JIPPT-IIU Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115003 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Early Out-Of-Equilibrium Beam-Plasma Evolution

M.-C. Firpo, A. F. Lifschitz, E. Lefebvre, and C. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115004 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Test of Thermal Transport Models through Dynamic Overpressure Stabilization of Ablation-Front Perturbation Growth in Laser-Driven CH Foils

O. V. Gotchev, V. N. Goncharov, J. P. Knauer, T. R. Boehly, T. J. B. Collins, R. Epstein, P. A. Jaanimagi, and D. D. Meyerhofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115005 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Inductive and Electrostatic Acceleration in Relativistic Jet-Plasma Interactions

Johnny S. T. Ng and Robert J. Noble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115006 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Novel Bidecahedral Morphology in Gold Nanoparticles Frozen from Liquid

Kenji Koga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115501 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Lattice Dynamics of Molybdenum at High Pressure

Daniel L. Farber, Michael Krisch, Daniele Antonangeli, Alexandre Beraud, James Badro, Florent Occelli, and Daniel Orlikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115502 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

New Growth Mode through Decorated Twin Boundaries

Sebastian Bleikamp, Arne Thoma, Celia Polop, Gerhard Pirug, Udo Linke, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115503 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

First-Principles Calculations of Vibrational Lifetimes and Decay Channels: Hydrogen-Related Modes in Si

D. West and S. K. Estreicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115504 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Acoustic Pulse Echoes Probed with Time-Resolved X-Ray Triple-Crystal Diffractometry

Yujiro Hayashi, Yoshihito Tanaka, Tomoyuki Kirimura, Noboru Tsukuda, Eiichi Kuramoto, and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115505 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Scaling Relations for Logarithmic Corrections

R. Kenna, D. A. Johnston, and W. Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 115701 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Direct Identification of Critical Clusters in Chemical Vapor Deposition

H. Rauscher, J. Braun, and R. J. Behm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116101 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Two-Site Entropy and Quantum Phase Transitions in Low-Dimensional Models

Ö. Legeza and J. Sólyom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116401 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Subgap Collective Tunneling and Its Staircase Structure in Charge Density Waves

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116402 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Mott-Anderson Transition Controlled by a Magnetic Field in Pyrochlore Molybdate

N. Hanasaki, M. Kinuhara, I. Kézsmárki, S. Iguchi, S. Miyasaka, N. Takeshita, C. Terakura, H. Takagi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116403 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Critical Phenomena and the Quantum Critical Point of Ferromagnetic ${Zr}_{1 - x} {Nb}_{x} {Zn}_{2}$

D. A. Sokolov, M. C. Aronson, W. Gannon, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116404 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Orbital Ordering in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ : Electron-Electron versus Electron-Lattice Interactions

Wei-Guo Yin, Dmitri Volja, and Wei Ku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116405 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Experimental Investigation of the Breakdown of the Onsager-Casimir Relations

C. A. Marlow, R. P. Taylor, M. Fairbanks, I. Shorubalko, and H. Linke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116801 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Electron States in a Lattice of Au Nanoparticles: The Role of Strain and Functionalization

Ronaldo J. C. Batista, Mário S. C. Mazzoni, Ignacio L. Garzón, Marcela R. Beltrán, and Helio Chacham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 116802 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Pressure Dependence of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

C. F. Miclea, M. Nicklas, D. Parker, K. Maki, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, G. Sparn, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117001 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Superconductivity in a Molecular Metal Cluster Compound

O. N. Bakharev, D. Bono, H. B. Brom, A. Schnepf, H. Schnöckel, and L. J. de Jongh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117002 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Phase Coexistence and Resistivity near the Ferromagnetic Transition of Manganites

A. S. Alexandrov, A. M. Bratkovsky, and V. V. Kabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117003 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Kinks, Nodal Bilayer Splitting, and Interband Scattering in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$

S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, V. Zabolotnyy, J. Geck, D. Inosov, A. Koitzsch, J. Fink, M. Knupfer, B. Büchner, V. Hinkov, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, T. Wolf, S. G. Chiuzbăian, L. Patthey, and R. Follath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117004 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

$0 - π$ Transitions in Josephson Junctions with Antiferromagnetic Interlayers

Brian M. Andersen, I. V. Bobkova, P. J. Hirschfeld, and Yu. S. Barash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117005 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Local Tunneling Spectroscopy as a Signature of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in $s$ - and $d$ -Wave Superconductors

Qian Wang, H.-Y. Chen, C.-R. Hu, and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117006 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Charge and Magnetization Inhomogeneities in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Carsten Timm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117201 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Instanton Analysis of Hysteresis in the Three-Dimensional Random-Field Ising Model

Markus Müller and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117202 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Motional-Narrowing-Type Dephasing of Electron and Hole Spins of Itinerant Excitons in Magnetically Doped II-VI Bulk Semiconductors

Kai E. Rönnburg, Ernst Mohler, Hartmut G. Roskos, Kai Ortner, Charles R. Becker, and Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117203 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Enhancing Exchange Bias with Diluted Antiferromagnets

Jung-Il Hong, Titus Leo, David J. Smith, and Ami E. Berkowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117204 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Magnetization Plateaus Induced by a Coupling to the Lattice

T. Vekua, D. C. Cabra, A. Dobry, C. Gazza, and D. Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117205 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Localized Excitation in the Hybridization Gap in ${YbAl}_{3}$

A. D. Christianson, V. R. Fanelli, J. M. Lawrence, E. A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, E. D. Bauer, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, C. D. Frost, and J. L. Zarestky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117206 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Angle-Dependent X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism from (Ga,Mn)As: Anisotropy and Identification of Hybridized States

K. W. Edmonds, G. van der Laan, A. A. Freeman, N. R. S. Farley, T. K. Johal, R. P. Campion, C. T. Foxon, B. L. Gallagher, and E. Arenholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117207 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Berry Phase, Topology, and Degeneracies in Quantum Nanomagnets

Patrick Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117208 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Universal Distribution of Kondo Temperatures in Dirty Metals

P. S. Cornaglia, D. R. Grempel, and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117209 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Evidence of Large Magnetostructural Effects in Austenitic Stainless Steels

L. Vitos, P. A. Korzhavyi, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117210 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Spin and Orbital Quantization of Electronic States as Origins of Second Harmonic Generation in Semiconductors

I. Sänger, D. R. Yakovlev, R. V. Pisarev, V. V. Pavlov, M. Bayer, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Kossut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117211 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Efficient Single-Photon Sources Based on Low-Density Quantum Dots in Photonic-Crystal Nanocavities

Wen-Hao Chang, Wen-Yen Chen, Hsiang-Szu Chang, Tung-Po Hsieh, Jen-Inn Chyi, and Tzu-Min Hsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117401 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Terahertz Radiation by an Ultrafast Spontaneous Polarization Modulation of Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$ Thin Films

Kouhei Takahashi, Noriaki Kida, and Masayoshi Tonouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117402 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Influence of Copolymer Interface Orientation on the Optical Emission of Polymeric Semiconductor Heterojunctions

P. Sreearunothai, A. C. Morteani, I. Avilov, J. Cornil, D. Beljonne, R. H. Friend, R. T. Phillips, C. Silva, and L. M. Herz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117403 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Polarization Dependence of $L$ - and $M$ -Edge Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in Transition-Metal Compounds

Michel van Veenendaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117404 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Observation of Electron Gas Cooling in Free Sodium Clusters

M. Maier, G. Wrigge, M. Astruc Hoffmann, P. Didier, and B. v. Issendorff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117405 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Core Precession and Global Modes in Granular Bulk Flow

Denis Fenistein, Jan-Willem van de Meent, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118001 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

Brownian Forces in Sheared Granular Matter

A. Baldassarri, F. Dalton, A. Petri, S. Zapperi, G. Pontuale, and L. Pietronero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118002 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Hydrodynamic Damping of Membrane Thermal Fluctuations near Surfaces Imaged by Fluorescence Interference Microscopy

Yoshihisa Kaizuka and Jay T. Groves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118101 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Single Molecule Unzipping of Coiled Coils: Sequence Resolved Stability Profiles

Thomas Bornschlögl and Matthias Rief

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118102 (2006) - Published 20 March, 2006

Dynamics of Polymer Translocation through Nanopores: Theory Meets Experiment

Silvina Matysiak, Alberto Montesi, Matteo Pasquali, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, and Cecilia Clementi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118103 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Microrheology Probes Length Scale Dependent Rheology

J. Liu, M. L. Gardel, K. Kroy, E. Frey, B. D. Hoffman, J. C. Crocker, A. R. Bausch, and D. A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118104 (2006) - Published 23 March, 2006

Condensation Transition in DNA-Polyaminoamide Dendrimer Fibers Studied Using Optical Tweezers

F. Ritort, S. Mihardja, S. B. Smith, and C. Bustamante

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118301 (2006) - Published 22 March, 2006

Overembedding Method for Modeling Nonstationary Systems

P. F. Verdes, P. M. Granitto, and H. A. Ceccatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 118701 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Destructive Effect of Disorder and Bias Voltage on Interface Resonance Transmission in Symmetric Tunnel Junctions”

J. P. Velev, K. D. Belashchenko, and E. Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 119601 (2006) - Published 21 March, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Effect Induced Reverse Kinetic Molecular Sieving in Microporous Materials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 245901 (2005)]

A. V. Anil Kumar and Suresh K. Bhatia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 119901 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006

Erratum: Quantitative Image Reconstruction of GaN Quantum Dots from Oversampled Diffraction Intensities Alone [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 95, 085503 (2005)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 119902 (2006) - Published 24 March, 2006