Volume 96, Issue 12

31 March 2006

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Symmetrized angle-resolved photoemission spectra of the valence band of Sn/Ge(111) at two different surface temperatures, showing the opening of a surface band gap.

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Observation of a Mott Insulating Ground State for $Sn / Ge (111)$ at Low Temperature
R. Cortés, A. Tejeda, J. Lobo, C. Didiot, B. Kierren, D. Malterre, E. G. Michel, and A. Mascaraque
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126103 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Formation of a New Dynamical Mode in $α$ -Uranium Observed by Inelastic X-Ray and Neutron Scattering

M. E. Manley, M. Yethiraj, H. Sinn, H. M. Volz, A. Alatas, J. C. Lashley, W. L. Hults, G. H. Lander, and J. L. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125501 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spin Proximity Effect in Ultrathin Superconducting Be-Au Bilayers

X. S. Wu, P. W. Adams, Y. Yang, and R. L. McCarley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127002 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

LETTERS

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

Wang-Landau Algorithm for Continuous Models and Joint Density of States

Chenggang Zhou, T. C. Schulthess, Stefan Torbrügge, and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120201 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Spontaneous-Emission Rate in Microcavities: Application to Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

C. Shen, K. Michielsen, and H. De Raedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120401 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Definition and Relevance of Nonequilibrium Intensive Thermodynamic Parameters

Eric Bertin, Olivier Dauchot, and Michel Droz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120601 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Statistical Mechanical Derivation of Jarzynski’s Identity for Thermostated Non-Hamiltonian Dynamics

Michel A. Cuendet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120602 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Direct Evaluation of Large-Deviation Functions

Cristian Giardinà, Jorge Kurchan, and Luca Peliti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120603 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Microfabricated Quadrupole Ion Trap for Mass Spectrometer Applications

S. Pau, C. S. Pai, Y. L. Low, J. Moxom, P. T. A. Reilly, W. B. Whitten, and J. M. Ramsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 120801 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Accurate Evolution of Orbiting Binary Black Holes

Peter Diener, Frank Herrmann, Denis Pollney, Erik Schnetter, Edward Seidel, Ryoji Takahashi, Jonathan Thornburg, and Jason Ventrella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121101 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Spacetime

Christopher Eling, Raf Guedens, and Ted Jacobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121301 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Temperature of the Inflaton and Duration of Inflation from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Data

Kaushik Bhattacharya, Subhendra Mohanty, and Raghavan Rangarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121302 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Parity Doubling and $SU (2)_{L} \times SU (2)_{R}$ Restoration in the Hadron Spectrum

R. L. Jaffe, Dan Pirjol, and Antonello Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121601 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Supersymmetric Standard Model from the Heterotic String

Wilfried Buchmüller, Koichi Hamaguchi, Oleg Lebedev, and Michael Ratz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121602 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Experimental Limits on Weak Annihilation Contributions to $b \to u l ν$ Decays

J. L. Rosner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121801 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Distinguishing between Dirac and Majorana Neutrinos with Two-Particle Interferometry

Thomas D. Gutierrez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 121802 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section Using the $k_{T}$ Algorithm in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 122001 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Stabilization of Nuclear Isovector Valence-Shell Excitations

G. Rainovski, N. Pietralla, T. Ahn, C. J. Lister, R. V. F. Janssens, M. P. Carpenter, S. Zhu, and C. J. Barton, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 122501 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electrodynamic Trapping of Spinless Neutral Atoms with an Atom Chip

T. Kishimoto, H. Hachisu, J. Fujiki, K. Nagato, M. Yasuda, and H. Katori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123001 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Threshold Electron-Impact Ionization Mechanism for Hydrogen Atoms

J. F. Williams, Philip L. Bartlett, and Andris T. Stelbovics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123201 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Controlling Collisions of Ultracold Atoms with dc Electric Fields

R. V. Krems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123202 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Nonlinear Resonance Absorption in the Laser-Cluster Interaction

M. Kundu and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123401 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Realization of an On-Chip All-Optical Analogue to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Qianfan Xu, Sunil Sandhu, Michelle L. Povinelli, Jagat Shakya, Shanhui Fan, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123901 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Two Level Metal Vapor Lasers with Thermal Creation of Population Inversion

V. A. Gerasimov, V. V. Gerasimov, and A. V. Pavlinskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123902 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Coherent Thermal Antenna Using a Photonic Crystal Slab

M. Laroche, R. Carminati, and J.-J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123903 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Spectral Redshift in Harmonic Generation from Plasma Dynamics in the Laser Focus

F. Brandi, F. Giammanco, and W. Ubachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 123904 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Synchronization of Oscillating Reactions in an Extended Fluid System

M. S. Paoletti, C. R. Nugent, and T. H. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124101 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Singular Jets and Bubbles in Drop Impact

Denis Bartolo, Christophe Josserand, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124501 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Properties of Steady States in Turbulent Axisymmetric Flows

R. Monchaux, F. Ravelet, B. Dubrulle, A. Chiffaudel, and F. Daviaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124502 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Chaotic Advection and Targeted Mixing

T. Benzekri, C. Chandre, X. Leoncini, R. Lima, and M. Vittot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124503 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Bubbling in Unbounded Coflowing Liquids

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo, Miguel A. Herrada, and Piotr Garstecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124504 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Superradiant Spin-Flip Radiative Emission of a Spin-Polarized Free-Electron Beam

A. Gover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124801 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Heating of Ions by Alfvén Waves via Nonresonant Interactions

C. B. Wang, C. S. Wu, and P. H. Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125001 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Study of Ultraintense Laser-Produced Fast-Electron Propagation and Filamentation in Insulator and Metal Foil Targets by Optical Emission Diagnostics

M. Manclossi, J. J. Santos, D. Batani, J. Faure, A. Debayle, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125002 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

A Modified Fermi Model for Wave-Particle Interactions in Plasmas

Rossana De Marco, Vincenzo Carbone, and Pierluigi Veltri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125003 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Coherent Wake Emission of High-Order Harmonics from Overdense Plasmas

F. Quéré, C. Thaury, P. Monot, S. Dobosz, Ph. Martin, J.-P. Geindre, and P. Audebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125004 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Spontaneous Formation of Closed-Field Torus Equilibrium via Current Jump Observed in an Electron-Cyclotron-Heated Plasma

T. Yoshinaga, M. Uchida, H. Tanaka, and T. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125005 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Slow Transition of Energy Transport in High-Temperature Plasmas

K. Ida, S. Inagaki, R. Sakamoto, K. Tanaka, H. Funaba, Y. Takeiri, K. Ikeda, C. Michael, T. Tokuzawa, H. Yamada, Y. Nagayama, K. Itoh, O. Kaneko, A. Komori, and O. Motojima (LHD experimental group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125006 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Start-Up Scenario in Gyrotrons with a Nonstationary Microwave-Field Structure

G. S. Nusinovich, M. Yeddulla, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., and A. N. Vlasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125101 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Surface Specific Heat of ${}^{3}{He}$ and Andreev Bound States

H. Choi, J. P. Davis, J. Pollanen, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125301 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Formation of a New Dynamical Mode in $α$ -Uranium Observed by Inelastic X-Ray and Neutron Scattering

M. E. Manley, M. Yethiraj, H. Sinn, H. M. Volz, A. Alatas, J. C. Lashley, W. L. Hults, G. H. Lander, and J. L. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125501 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Interplay between Structure and Magnetism in ${Mo}_{12} S_{9} I_{9}$ Nanowires

Teng Yang, Shinya Okano, Savas Berber, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125502 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Dislocation Patterns and the Similitude Principle: 2.5D Mesoscale Simulations

D. Gómez-García, B. Devincre, and L. P. Kubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125503 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Real-Time Observation of Structural and Orientational Transitions during Growth of Organic Thin Films

S. Kowarik, A. Gerlach, S. Sellner, F. Schreiber, L. Cavalcanti, and O. Konovalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125504 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Evidence for $p$ -Type Doping of InN

R. E. Jones, K. M. Yu, S. X. Li, W. Walukiewicz, J. W. Ager, E. E. Haller, H. Lu, and W. J. Schaff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125505 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Changes in the Burgers Vector of Perfect Dislocation Loops without Contact with the External Dislocations

K. Arakawa, M. Hatanaka, E. Kuramoto, K. Ono, and H. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125506 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Quantum Nature of the Sign Preference in Ion-Induced Nucleation

Alexey B. Nadykto, Anas Al Natsheh, Fangqun Yu, K. V. Mikkelsen, and J. Ruuskanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 125701 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Orientation Dependence of Strained-Ge Surface Energies near (001): Role of Dimer-Vacancy Lines and Their Interactions with Steps

C. J. Moore, C. M. Retford, M. J. Beck, M. Asta, M. J. Miksis, and P. W. Voorhees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126101 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Experimental Determination of the Helium-Metal Interaction Potential by Interferometry of Nanostructured Surfaces

C. Huang, D. A. MacLaren, J. Ellis, and W. Allison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126102 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Observation of a Mott Insulating Ground State for $Sn / Ge (111)$ at Low Temperature

R. Cortés, A. Tejeda, J. Lobo, C. Didiot, B. Kierren, D. Malterre, E. G. Michel, and A. Mascaraque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126103 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Excitons in Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Dimensionality Effects

Ludger Wirtz, Andrea Marini, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126104 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Excitons and Many-Electron Effects in the Optical Response of Single-Walled Boron Nitride Nanotubes

Cheol-Hwan Park, Catalin D. Spataru, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126105 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Sublimation of Atomic Layers from a Chromium Surface

S.-J. Tang, S. Kodambaka, W. Swiech, I. Petrov, C. P. Flynn, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126106 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Inverse Anderson Transition Caused by Flatbands

Masaki Goda, Shinya Nishino, and Hiroki Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126401 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Bound States in a Two-Dimensional Short Range Potential Induced by the Spin-Orbit Interaction

A. V. Chaplik and L. I. Magarill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126402 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Electric-Field Effect on the Angle-Dependent Magnetotransport Properties of Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors

K. Kobayashi, M. Saito, E. Ohmichi, and T. Osada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126601 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Magnetic Field Symmetry and Phase Rigidity of the Nonlinear Conductance in a Ring

R. Leturcq, D. Sánchez, G. Götz, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, D. C. Driscoll, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126801 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Surface Criticality and Multifractality at Localization Transitions

A. R. Subramaniam, I. A. Gruzberg, A. W. W. Ludwig, F. Evers, A. Mildenberger, and A. D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126802 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Drastic Reduction of Shot Noise in Semiconductor Superlattices

W. Song, A. K. M. Newaz, J. K. Son, and E. E. Mendez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126803 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Interaction Effects and Pseudogap in Two-Dimensional Lateral Tunnel Junctions

P. Jiang, I. Yang, W. Kang, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126804 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Half-Integer Filling-Factor States in Quantum Dots

A. Harju, H. Saarikoski, and E. Räsänen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126805 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Excitation Spectrum of Two Correlated Electrons in a Lateral Quantum Dot with Negligible Zeeman Splitting

C. Ellenberger, T. Ihn, C. Yannouleas, U. Landman, K. Ensslin, D. Driscoll, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126806 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Detection of the Electron Spin Resonance of Two-Dimensional Electrons at Large Wave Vectors

I. V. Kukushkin, J. H. Smet, D. S. Lyne Abergel, V. I. Fal’ko, W. Wegscheider, and K. von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 126807 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Experimental Demonstration of an Oscillator Stabilized Josephson Flux Qubit

R. H. Koch, G. A. Keefe, F. P. Milliken, J. R. Rozen, C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, and D. P. DiVincenzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127001 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spin Proximity Effect in Ultrathin Superconducting Be-Au Bilayers

X. S. Wu, P. W. Adams, Y. Yang, and R. L. McCarley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127002 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

High-Contrast Dispersive Readout of a Superconducting Flux Qubit Using a Nonlinear Resonator

A. Lupaşcu, E. F. C. Driessen, L. Roschier, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127003 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Nonuniform Self-Organized Dynamical States in Superconductors with Periodic Pinning

Vyacheslav R. Misko, Sergey Savel’ev, Alexander L. Rakhmanov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127004 (2006) - Published 29 March, 2006

Impurity-Induced Local Magnetism and Density of States in the Superconducting State of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$

S. Ouazi, J. Bobroff, H. Alloul, M. Le Tacon, N. Blanchard, G. Collin, M. H. Julien, M. Horvatić, and C. Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127005 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Vacuum Rabi Oscillations in a Macroscopic Superconducting Qubit $L C$ Oscillator System

J. Johansson, S. Saito, T. Meno, H. Nakano, M. Ueda, K. Semba, and H. Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127006 (2006) - Published 31 March, 2006

Epitaxial Stabilization of Ferromagnetism in the Nanophase of FeGe

Changgan Zeng, P. R. C. Kent, M. Varela, M. Eisenbach, G. M. Stocks, Maria Torija, Jian Shen, and Hanno H. Weitering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127201 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Spin Dynamics and Magnetic Order in Magnetically Frustrated ${Tb}_{2} {Sn}_{2} O_{7}$

P. Dalmas de Réotier, A. Yaouanc, L. Keller, A. Cervellino, B. Roessli, C. Baines, A. Forget, C. Vaju, P. C. M. Gubbens, A. Amato, and P. J. C. King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127202 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Efficient Magnetization Reversal with Noisy Currents

Wouter Wetzels, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Oleg N. Jouravlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127203 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Controlling the Spin Polarization of Nanostructures on Magnetic Substrates

L. Niebergall, V. S. Stepanyuk, J. Berakdar, and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127204 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Nanometer Linear Focusing of Hard X Rays by a Multilayer Laue Lens

H. C. Kang, J. Maser, G. B. Stephenson, C. Liu, R. Conley, A. T. Macrander, and S. Vogt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127401 (2006) - Published 27 March, 2006

Experimental Evidence of Zero Forward Scattering by Magnetic Spheres

R. V. Mehta, Rajesh Patel, Rucha Desai, R. V. Upadhyay, and Kinnari Parekh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127402 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Temperature Dependence of the Optical Transition Energies of Carbon Nanotubes: The Role of Electron-Phonon Coupling and Thermal Expansion

S. B. Cronin, Y. Yin, A. Walsh, Rodrigo B. Capaz, A. Stolyarov, P. Tangney, Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, A. K. Swan, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, and M. Tinkham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 127403 (2006) - Published 30 March, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Intermediate Nonlinear Evolution of the Parker Instability: Formation of Convection-Induced Discontinuities and Absence of Finite-Time Singularities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 065001 (2006)]

P. Zhu, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 129901 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006

Erratum: Inseparability Criteria for Continuous Bipartite Quantum States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 230502 (2005)]

E. Shchukin and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 129902 (2006) - Published 28 March, 2006