Volume 96, Issue 13

7 April 2006

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Top and side views of simulations of diblock copolymers confined to cylindrical pores. The resulting novel structures are not found in the bulk phase.

From the article:

Confinement-Induced Novel Morphologies of Block Copolymers
Bin Yu, Pingchuan Sun, Tiehong Chen, Qinghua Jin, Datong Ding, Baohui Li, and An-Chang Shi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 138306 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Pfaffian Pairing Wave Functions in Electronic-Structure Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

M. Bajdich, L. Mitas, G. Drobný, L. K. Wagner, and K. E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130201 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Density Profile of a Trapped Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas with Unbalanced Spin Populations

F. Chevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130401 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Momentum Transfer from Quantum Vacuum to Magnetoelectric Matter

B. A. van Tiggelen, G. L. J. A. Rikken, and V. Krstić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130402 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Observations of Density Fluctuations in an Elongated Bose Gas: Ideal Gas and Quasicondensate Regimes

J. Esteve, J.-B. Trebbia, T. Schumm, A. Aspect, C. I. Westbrook, and I. Bouchoule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130403 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Noise Thermometry with Two Weakly Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Rudolf Gati, Börge Hemmerling, Jonas Fölling, Michael Albiez, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130404 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor Quantum Dots

N. Akopian, N. H. Lindner, E. Poem, Y. Berlatzky, J. Avron, D. Gershoni, B. D. Gerardot, and P. M. Petroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130501 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Quantum Teleportation with a Three-Bell-State Analyzer

J. A. W. van Houwelingen, N. Brunner, A. Beveratos, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130502 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Signature of Directed Chaos in the Conductance of a Nanowire

Manamohan Prusty and Holger Schanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130601 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Adiabatic Swimming in an Ideal Quantum Gas

J. E. Avron, B. Gutkin, and D. H. Oaknin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130602 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Entropic Transport: Kinetics, Scaling, and Control Mechanisms

D. Reguera, G. Schmid, P. S. Burada, J. M. Rubí, P. Reimann, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 130603 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Thermal Spectral Functions of Strongly Coupled $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Pavel Kovtun and Andrei Starinets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 131601 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Mass and Width of the Lowest Resonance in QCD

I. Caprini, G. Colangelo, and H. Leutwyler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 132001 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Isolated Photons in Deep Inelastic Scattering

A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, and E. Poulsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 132002 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Evidence for Nucleon-Resonance Excitation in $ω$ -Meson Photoproduction

J. Ajaka, Y. Assafiri, S. Bouchigny, J. P. Didelez, L. Fichen, M. Guidal, E. Hourany, V. Kouznetsov, R. Kunne, A. N. Mushkarenkov, V. Nedorezov, N. Rudnev, A. Turinge, and Q. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 132003 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Matter Formed at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

G. E. Brown, B. A. Gelman, and Mannque Rho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 132301 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Direct Empirical Correlation between Proton-Neutron Interaction Strengths and the Growth of Collectivity in Nuclei

R. B. Cakirli and R. F. Casten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 132501 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High-Energy Cutoff in the Spectrum of Strong-Field Nonsequential Double Ionization

J. S. Parker, B. J. S. Doherty, K. T. Taylor, K. D. Schultz, C. I. Blaga, and L. F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 133001 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Generating Controllable Atom-Light Entanglement with a Raman Atom Laser System

S. A. Haine, M. K. Olsen, and J. J. Hope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 133601 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Quantum Noise Minimization in Transistor Amplifiers

U. Gavish, B. Yurke, and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 133602 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Collapse of Optical Vortices

Luat T. Vuong, Taylor D. Grow, Amiel Ishaaya, Alexander L. Gaeta, Gert W. ’t Hooft, Eric R. Eliel, and Gadi Fibich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 133901 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Fast Relaxation of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Composite Actuators

S. V. Ahir and E. M. Terentjev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 133902 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Deterministic Ratchets, Circle Maps, and Current Reversals

R. Salgado-García, M. Aldana, and G. Martínez-Mekler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134101 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Dust Eruptions by Photophoresis and Solid State Greenhouse Effects

Gerhard Wurm and Oliver Krauss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134301 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Resolving Singular Forces in Cavity Flow: Multiscale Modeling from Atomic to Millimeter Scales

Xiaobo Nie, Mark O. Robbins, and Shiyi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134501 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Multipoint Holographic Optical Velocimetry in Microfluidic Systems

R. Di Leonardo, J. Leach, H. Mushfique, J. M. Cooper, G. Ruocco, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134502 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Centrifugal Forces Alter Streamline Topology and Greatly Enhance the Rate of Heat and Mass Transfer from Neutrally Buoyant Particles to a Shear Flow

G. Subramanian and D. L. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134503 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence in Two Dimensions

Antonio Celani, Andrea Mazzino, and Lara Vozella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134504 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Selection of Two-Phase Flow Patterns at a Simple Junction in Microfluidic Devices

W. Engl, K. Ohata, P. Guillot, A. Colin, and P. Panizza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134505 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Quasiadiabatic, Nonfocusing Transition-Energy Crossing

Yoshito Shimosaki, Ken Takayama, and Kota Torikai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 134801 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Coalescence of Magnetic Islands in the Low-Resistivity, Hall-MHD Regime

D. A. Knoll and L. Chacón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135001 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Second-Sound Spectroscopy of a Nonequilibrium Superfluid-Normal Interface

Peter B. Weichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135301 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

High-Frequency Dynamics in Metallic Glasses

T. Scopigno, J.-B. Suck, R. Angelini, F. Albergamo, and G. Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135501 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Do Current-Density Nonlinearities Cut Off the Glass Transition?

M. E. Cates and Sriram Ramaswamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135701 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Size-Dependent Pressure-Induced Amorphization in Nanoscale ${TiO}_{2}$

Varghese Swamy, Alexei Kuznetsov, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Paul F. McMillan, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Guoyin Shen, and Barry C. Muddle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135702 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

“Magic Melters” Have Geometrical Origin

Kavita Joshi, Sailaja Krishnamurty, and D. G. Kanhere

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135703 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Local Electromigration Model for Crystal Surfaces

O. Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 135901 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Soft Phonon, Dynamical Fluctuations, and a Reversible Phase Transition: Indium Chains on Silicon

C. González, F. Flores, and J. Ortega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136101 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Nonlinear Evolution of Surface Morphology in $InAs / AlAs$ Superlattices via Surface Diffusion

O. Caha, V. Holý, and Kevin E. Bassler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136102 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Statistics of Crumpled Paper

Eric Sultan and Arezki Boudaoud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136103 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

One-Dimensional Surface Reconstruction as an Atomic-Scale Template for the Growth of Periodically Striped Ag Films

Takashi Uchihashi, Chigusa Ohbuchi, Shigeru Tsukamoto, and Tomonobu Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136104 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Enhancement of Electron Spin Coherence by Optical Preparation of Nuclear Spins

Dimitrije Stepanenko, Guido Burkard, Geza Giedke, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136401 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Metamagnetic Quantum Criticality in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$ Studied by Thermal Expansion

P. Gegenwart, F. Weickert, M. Garst, R. S. Perry, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136402 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Irreversible Dynamics of the Phase Boundary in $U ({Ru}_{0.96} {Rh}_{0.04})_{2} {Si}_{2}$ and Implications for Ordering

A. V. Silhanek, M. Jaime, N. Harrison, V. R. Fanelli, C. D. Batista, H. Amitsuka, S. Nakatsuji, L. Balicas, K. H. Kim, Z. Fisk, J. L. Sarrao, L. Civale, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136403 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

First-Principles Description of Correlation Effects in Layered Materials

Andrea Marini, P. García-González, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136404 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Validity of the Franck-Condon Principle in the Optical Spectroscopy: Optical Conductivity of the Fröhlich Polaron

G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, A. S. Mishchenko, C. A. Perroni, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136405 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Spin Injection in Mesoscopic Silver Wires: Experimental Test of Resistance Mismatch

Ryan Godfrey and Mark Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136601 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Current-Voltage Characteristics of Charge-Ordered Organic Crystals

Yamaguchi Takahide, Takako Konoike, Kengo Enomoto, Mitsuka Nishimura, Taichi Terashima, Shinya Uji, and Hiroshi M. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136602 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Time Dependence of Correlation Functions Following a Quantum Quench

Pasquale Calabrese and John Cardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136801 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Resonant Tunneling in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Superperiods and Braiding Statistics

Jainendra K. Jain and Chuntai Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136802 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Exciton Formation and Annihilation during 1D Impact Excitation of Carbon Nanotubes

L. Marty, E. Adam, L. Albert, R. Doyon, D. Ménard, and R. Martel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136803 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Emission and Absorption Asymmetry in the Quantum Noise of a Josephson Junction

P.-M. Billangeon, F. Pierre, H. Bouchiat, and R. Deblock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136804 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Crossover from Conserving to Lossy Transport in Circular Random-Matrix Ensembles

Steven H. Simon and Aris L. Moustakas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136805 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Landau-Level Splitting in Graphene in High Magnetic Fields

Y. Zhang, Z. Jiang, J. P. Small, M. S. Purewal, Y.-W. Tan, M. Fazlollahi, J. D. Chudow, J. A. Jaszczak, H. L. Stormer, and P. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136806 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Surface-Acoustic-Wave-Induced Transport in a Double Quantum Dot

W. J. M. Naber, T. Fujisawa, H. W. Liu, and W. G. van der Wiel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 136807 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Temperature Square Dependence of the Low Frequency $1 / f$ Charge Noise in the Josephson Junction Qubits

O. Astafiev, Yu. A. Pashkin, Y. Nakamura, T. Yamamoto, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137001 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Magnetic Field Effect on the Superconducting Magnetic Gap of ${Nd}_{1.85} {Ce}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4}$

E. M. Motoyama, P. K. Mang, D. Petitgrand, G. Yu, O. P. Vajk, I. M. Vishik, and M. Greven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137002 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Phason and Amplitudon in the Charge-Density-Wave Phase of One-Dimensional Charge Stripes in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

S. Sugai, Y. Takayanagi, and N. Hayamizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137003 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Anomalous Spontaneous Reversal in Magnetic Heterostructures

Zhi-Pan Li, Johannes Eisenmenger, Casey W. Miller, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137201 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Interface Free Energies in $p$ -Spin Glass Models

M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137202 (2006) - Published 3 April, 2006

Electron Correlations and the Minority-Spin Band Gap in Half-Metallic Heusler Alloys

L. Chioncel, E. Arrigoni, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. I. Lichtenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137203 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Scenario for Spin-Glass Phase with Infinitely Many States

Olivia L. White and Daniel S. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137204 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Spiral Spin Order of Self-Assembled Co Nanodisk Arrays

Youhui Gao, Yuping Bao, Alec B. Pakhomov, Daisuke Shindo, and Kannan M. Krishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137205 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Electron Spin Precession upon Reflecting from Ferromagnetic Surfaces

L. Joly, J. K. Ha, M. Alouani, J. Kortus, and W. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137206 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Quantum Light Emission of Two Lateral Tunnel-Coupled $(In, Ga) As / GaAs$ Quantum Dots Controlled by a Tunable Static Electric Field

G. J. Beirne, C. Hermannstädter, L. Wang, A. Rastelli, O. G. Schmidt, and P. Michler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137401 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Valence Band X-Ray Emission Spectra of Compressed Germanium

Viktor V. Struzhkin, Ho-kwang Mao, Jung-Fu Lin, Russell J. Hemley, John S. Tse, Yanming Ma, Michael Y. Hu, Paul Chow, and Chi-Chang Kao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137402 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Ultrafast Fiske Effect in Semiconductor Superlattices

Yuriy A. Kosevich, Anne Beate Hummel, Hartmut G. Roskos, and Klaus Köhler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137403 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Polarization Fluctuations in Insulators and Metals: New and Old Theories Merge

Raffaele Resta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137601 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Electric-Field-Induced Domain Evolution in Ferroelectric Ultrathin Films

Bo-Kuai Lai, I. Ponomareva, I. I. Naumov, I. Kornev, Huaxiang Fu, L. Bellaiche, and G. J. Salamo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137602 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Interface Effects in Ferroelectric ${PbTiO}_{3}$ Ultrathin Films on a Paraelectric Substrate

M. Sepliarsky, M. G. Stachiotti, and R. L. Migoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137603 (2006) - Published 5 April, 2006

Magnetic Double Resonance in Force Microscopy

Qiong Lin, Christian L. Degen, Marco Tomaselli, Andreas Hunkeler, Urban Meier, and Beat H. Meier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 137604 (2006) - Published 7 April, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Projective Quantum Monte Carlo Method for the Anderson Impurity Model and Its Application to Dynamical Mean Field Theory”

M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 139701 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

Feldbacher, Held, and Assad Reply:

M. Feldbacher, K. Held, and F. F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 139702 (2006) - Published 4 April, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Strain Induced Half-Metal to Semiconductor Transition in GdN [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 237201 (2005)]

Chun-gang Duan, R. F. Sabiryanov, Jianjun Liu, W. N. Mei, P. A. Dowben, and J. R. Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 139901 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006

Erratum: Direct Observation of Ferromagnetic Spin Polarization in Gold Nanoparticles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 116801 (2004)]

Y. Yamamoto, T. Miura, T. Teranishi, H. Hori, M. Suzuki, N. Kawamura, H. Miyagawa, T. Nakamura, and K. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 139902 (2006) - Published 6 April, 2006