Volume 96, Issue 14

14 April 2006

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Spiral pattern due to a Lehmann-type effect from a noiseless simulation of a chiral liquid crystalline monolayer. Such patterns may arise in catalytic reactions on surfaces.

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Phase Winding in Chiral Liquid Crystalline Monolayers due to Lehmann Effects
Daniel Svenšek, Harald Pleiner, and Helmut R. Brand
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140601 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Neutrino-Induced Nucleosynthesis of $A > 64$ Nuclei: The $ν p$ Process

C. Fröhlich, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Liebendörfer, F.-K. Thielemann, E. Bravo, W. R. Hix, K. Langanke, and N. T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 142502 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Imaging Spin-Reorientation Transitions in Consecutive Atomic Co Layers on Ru(0001)

Farid El Gabaly, Silvia Gallego, Carmen Muñoz, Laszlo Szunyogh, Peter Weinberger, Christof Klein, Andreas K. Schmid, Kevin F. McCarty, and Juan de la Figuera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147202 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

LETTERS

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

Bose-Einstein Condensation with an Entangled Order Parameter

Yu Shi and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140401 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Pair Production and Optical Lasers

D. B. Blaschke, A. V. Prozorkevich, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt, and S. A. Smolyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140402 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Achieving Peak Brightness in an Atom Laser

N. P. Robins, C. Figl, S. A. Haine, A. K. Morrison, M. Jeppesen, J. J. Hope, and J. D. Close

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140403 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Strong-Coupling Theory for the Superfluidity of Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Daw-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140404 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Change of Decoherence Scenario and Appearance of Localization due to Reservoir Anharmonicity

Paweł Machnikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140405 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Phase Winding in Chiral Liquid Crystalline Monolayers due to Lehmann Effects

Daniel Svenšek, Harald Pleiner, and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140601 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Identifying Diffusion Processes in One-Dimensional Lattices in Thermal Equilibrium

Hong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140602 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Universality Away from Critical Points in Two-Dimensional Phase Transitions

Cintia M. Lapilli, Peter Pfeifer, and Carlos Wexler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140603 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Decay of Loschmidt Echo Enhanced by Quantum Criticality

H. T. Quan, Z. Song, X. F. Liu, P. Zanardi, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 140604 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Quantum Nature of the Big Bang

Abhay Ashtekar, Tomasz Pawlowski, and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 141301 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

String Splitting and Strong Coupling Meson Decay

A. L. Cotrone, L. Martucci, and W. Troost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 141601 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Enhanced Electroweak Penguin Amplitude in $B \to V V$ Decays

M. Beneke, J. Rohrer, and D. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 141801 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Probing MeV Dark Matter at Low-Energy $e^{+} e^{-}$ Colliders

Natalia Borodatchenkova, Debajyoti Choudhury, and Manuel Drees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 141802 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Quantum Optics with X-Ray Laser Pulses

Thomas J. Bürvenich, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 142501 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Neutrino-Induced Nucleosynthesis of $A > 64$ Nuclei: The $ν p$ Process

C. Fröhlich, G. Martínez-Pinedo, M. Liebendörfer, F.-K. Thielemann, E. Bravo, W. R. Hix, K. Langanke, and N. T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 142502 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhancement and Control of $H_{2}$ Dissociative Ionization by Femtosecond VUV Laser Pulses

A. Palacios, H. Bachau, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143001 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Direct Experimental Probe of the On-Site Coulomb Repulsion in the Doubly Charged Fullerene Anion $C_{70}^{2 -}$

Xue-Bin Wang, Hin-Koon Woo, Xin Huang, Manfred M. Kappes, and Lai-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143002 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Interference Oscillations in the Angular Distribution of Laser-Ionized Electrons near Ionization Threshold

D. G. Arbó, S. Yoshida, E. Persson, K. I. Dimitriou, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143003 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Cold Molecule Spectroscopy for Constraining the Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant

Eric R. Hudson, H. J. Lewandowski, Brian C. Sawyer, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143004 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Laser Cooling without Repumping: A Magneto-Optical Trap for Erbium Atoms

J. J. McClelland and J. L. Hanssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143005 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Saturated Ionization of Fullerenes in Intense Laser Fields

A. Jaroń-Becker, A. Becker, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143006 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Dispersion Spreading of Biphotons in Optical Fibers and Two-Photon Interference

G. Brida, M. V. Chekhova, M. Genovese, M. Gramegna, and L. A. Krivitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143601 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Direct Observation of Optical Precursors in a Region of Anomalous Dispersion

Heejeong Jeong, Andrew M. C. Dawes, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143901 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Longitudinal Optical Binding of High Optical Contrast Microdroplets in Air

Marc Guillon, Olivier Moine, and Brian Stout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143902 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Semiconductor Nanowire Ring Resonator Laser

Peter J. Pauzauskie, Donald J. Sirbuly, and Peidong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143903 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Spontaneous Emergence of Periodic Patterns in a Biologically Inspired Simulation of Photonic Structures

Alexander Gondarenko, Stefan Preble, Jacob Robinson, Long Chen, Hod Lipson, and Michal Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 143904 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Coarse Graining the Dynamics of Coupled Oscillators

Sung Joon Moon, R. Ghanem, and I. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 144101 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Making Forecasts for Chaotic Physical Processes

Christopher M. Danforth and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 144102 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Monodisperse Drop Formation in Square Microchannels

O. Ozen, N. Aubry, D. T. Papageorgiou, and P. G. Petropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 144501 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Elastic Instabilities of Polymer Solutions in Cross-Channel Flow

P. E. Arratia, C. C. Thomas, J. Diorio, and J. P. Gollub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 144502 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Fully Coherent X-Ray Pulses from a Regenerative-Amplifier Free-Electron Laser

Zhirong Huang and Ronald D. Ruth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 144801 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Role of Turbulence on Edge Momentum Redistribution in the TJ-II Stellarator

B. Gonçalves, C. Hidalgo, M. A. Pedrosa, R. O. Orozco, E. Sánchez, and C. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145001 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Displacement Current and the Generation of Parallel Electric Fields

Yan Song and Robert L. Lysak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145002 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Shear Viscosity and Shear Thinning in Two-Dimensional Yukawa Liquids

Z. Donkó, J. Goree, P. Hartmann, and K. Kutasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145003 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Cause of Sudden Magnetic Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

S. Choi, D. Craig, F. Ebrahimi, and S. C. Prager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145004 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Numerical Simulations of Type-III Solar Radio Bursts

B. Li, P. A. Robinson, and I. H. Cairns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145005 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Quasimonoenergetic Deuteron Bursts Produced by Ultraintense Laser Pulses

S. Ter-Avetisyan, M. Schnürer, P. V. Nickles, M. Kalashnikov, E. Risse, T. Sokollik, W. Sandner, A. Andreev, and V. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145006 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Identification of the Carbon Antisite-Vacancy Pair in $4 H$ -SiC

T. Umeda, N. T. Son, J. Isoya, E. Janzén, T. Ohshima, N. Morishita, H. Itoh, A. Gali, and M. Bockstedte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145501 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Stokes-Einstein Relation in Supercooled Aqueous Solutions of Glycerol

Bo Chen, E. E. Sigmund, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145502 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Pressure-Induced Lock-In in an Aperiodic Nanoporous Crystal

B. Toudic, F. Aubert, C. Ecolivet, P. Bourges, and T. Breczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145503 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Correlation between Floppy to Rigid Transitions and Non-Arrhenius Conductivity in Glasses

M. Malki, M. Micoulaut, F. Chaimbault, and Y. Vaills

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145504 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Role of Interparticle Forces in the Formation of Random Loose Packing

K. J. Dong, R. Y. Yang, R. P. Zou, and A. B. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145505 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Mechanical Behavior of Bulk Amorphous Alloys Reinforced by Ductile Particles at Cryogenic Temperatures

Cang Fan, Hongqi Li, Laszlo J. Kecskes, Kaixiang Tao, Hahn. Choo, P. K. Liaw, and C. T. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145506 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Universality of Synchrony: Critical Behavior in a Discrete Model of Stochastic Phase-Coupled Oscillators

Kevin Wood, C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai, and Katja Lindenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145701 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Signatures of Glass Formation in a Fluidized Bed of Hard Spheres

Daniel I. Goldman and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145702 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Revisiting the Structure of the $p (4 \times 4)$ Surface Oxide on Ag(111)

J. Schnadt, A. Michaelides, J. Knudsen, R. T. Vang, K. Reuter, E. Lægsgaard, M. Scheffler, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146101 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Structure of $Ag (111) − p (4 \times 4) − O$ : No Silver Oxide

M. Schmid, A. Reicho, A. Stierle, I. Costina, J. Klikovits, P. Kostelnik, O. Dubay, G. Kresse, J. Gustafson, E. Lundgren, J. N. Andersen, H. Dosch, and P. Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146102 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Instabilities and Coarsening of Stressed Crystal Surfaces in Aqueous Solution

Jan Bisschop and Dag Kristian Dysthe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146103 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Physisorption-Induced C-H Bond Elongation in Methane

H. Öström, H. Ogasawara, L.-Å. Näslund, L. G. M. Pettersson, and A. Nilsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146104 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Breakdown of Dynamic Scaling in Surface Growth under Shadowing

M. Pelliccione, T. Karabacak, and T.-M. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146105 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Wettability Control of Droplet Deposition and Detachment

Jean-Christophe Baret and Martin Brinkmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146106 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Application of van der Waals Density Functional to an Extended System: Adsorption of Benzene and Naphthalene on Graphite

Svetla D. Chakarova-Käck, Elsebeth Schröder, Bengt I. Lundqvist, and David C. Langreth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146107 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Creation and Destruction of a Spin Gap in Weakly Coupled Quarter-Filled Ladders

B. Edegger, H. G. Evertz, and R. M. Noack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146401 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

High Intrachain Hole Mobility on Molecular Wires of Ladder-Type Poly( $p$ -Phenylenes)

P. Prins, F. C. Grozema, J. M. Schins, S. Patil, U. Scherf, and L. D. A. Siebbeles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146601 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Correlation-Induced Resonances in Transport through Coupled Quantum Dots

V. Meden and F. Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146801 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Resonance Energy and Charge Pumping through Quantum SINIS Contacts

N. B. Kopnin, A. S. Mel’nikov, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146802 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Mesoscopic Resistance Fluctuations in Cobalt Nanoparticles

Y. G. Wei, X. Y. Liu, L. Y. Zhang, and D. Davidović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146803 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Binding of Single Gold Atoms on Thin MgO(001) Films

Maxim Yulikov, Martin Sterrer, Markus Heyde, Hans-Peter Rust, Thomas Risse, Hans-Joachim Freund, Gianfranco Pacchioni, and Andrea Scagnelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 146804 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Enhancing the Superconducting Transition Temperature of ${CeRh}_{1 - x} {Ir}_{x} {In}_{5}$ due to the Strong-Coupling Effects of Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations: An ${}^{115}{In}$ Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Study

Shinji Kawasaki, Mitsuharu Yashima, Yoichi Mugino, Hidekazu Mukuda, Yoshio Kitaoka, Hiroaki Shishido, and Yoshichika Ōnuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147001 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Critical Voltage of a Mesoscopic Superconductor

R. S. Keizer, M. G. Flokstra, J. Aarts, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147002 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Normal-State Diamagnetism of Charged Bosons in Cuprate Superconductors

A. S. Alexandrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147003 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Resonating Plaquette Phase of a Quantum Six-Vertex Model

Olav F. Syljuåsen and Sudip Chakravarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147004 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Giant Magnetocrystalline Anisotropies of $4 d$ Transition-Metal Monowires

Y. Mokrousov, G. Bihlmayer, S. Heinze, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147201 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Imaging Spin-Reorientation Transitions in Consecutive Atomic Co Layers on Ru(0001)

Farid El Gabaly, Silvia Gallego, Carmen Muñoz, Laszlo Szunyogh, Peter Weinberger, Christof Klein, Andreas K. Schmid, Kevin F. McCarty, and Juan de la Figuera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147202 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid in a Quasi-One-Dimensional $S = 1$ Antiferromagnet Observed by Specific Heat Measurements

M. Hagiwara, H. Tsujii, C. R. Rotundu, B. Andraka, Y. Takano, N. Tateiwa, T. C. Kobayashi, T. Suzuki, and S. Suga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147203 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Thermally Activated Depinning of a Narrow Domain Wall from a Single Defect

J. P. Attané, D. Ravelosona, A. Marty, Y. Samson, and C. Chappert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147204 (2006) - Published 13 April, 2006

Spin-Orbital Entanglement and Violation of the Goodenough-Kanamori Rules

Andrzej M. Oleś, Peter Horsch, Louis Felix Feiner, and Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147205 (2006) - Published 14 April, 2006

Near-Surface Structural Phase Transition of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Studied with Zero-Field $β$ -Detected Nuclear Spin Relaxation and Resonance

Z. Salman, R. F. Kiefl, K. H. Chow, M. D. Hossain, T. A. Keeler, S. R. Kreitzman, C. D. P. Levy, R. I. Miller, T. J. Parolin, M. R. Pearson, H. Saadaoui, J. D. Schultz, M. Smadella, D. Wang, and W. A. MacFarlane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147601 (2006) - Published 11 April, 2006

Frustration of Tilts and $A$ -Site Driven Ferroelectricity in ${KNbO}_{3} − {LiNbO}_{3}$ Alloys

D. I. Bilc and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147602 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of the Insulating ${Na}_{x} {WO}_{3}$ : Anderson Localization, Polaron Formation, and Remnant Fermi Surface

S. Raj, D. Hashimoto, H. Matsui, S. Souma, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, D. D. Sarma, Priya Mahadevan, and S. Oishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 147603 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Nature of the Polyamorphic Transition in Ice under Pressure”

C. A. Tulk, C. J. Benmore, D. D. Klug, and J. Neuefeind

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 149601 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

Klotz et al. Reply:

S. Klotz, Th. Strässle, R. J. Nelmes, J. S. Loveday, G. Hamel, G. Rousse, B. Canny, J. C. Chervin, and A. M. Saitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 149602 (2006) - Published 10 April, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: High Temperature Ferromagnetism in GaAs-Based Heterostructures with Mn $δ$ Doping [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 017201 (2005)]

A. M. Nazmul, T. Amemiya, Y. Shuto, S. Sugahara, and M. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 149901 (2006) - Published 12 April, 2006