Volume 96, Issue 15

21 April 2006

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On the Cover

Simulated STM image of an atomic hydrogen dimer adsorbed onto a graphite surface. It is similar to observed images. This dimer does not directly recombine into molecular hydrogen.

From the article:

Metastable Structures and Recombination Pathways for Atomic Hydrogen on the Graphite (0001) Surface
L. Hornekær, Ž. Šljivančanin, W. Xu, R. Otero, E. Rauls, I. Stensgaard, E. Lægsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156104 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Experimental Study of the Role of Atomic Interactions on Quantum Transport

K. Henderson, H. Kelkar, B. Gutiérrez-Medina, T. C. Li, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150401 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Nature of the Intrinsic Relation between Bloch-Band Tunneling and Modulational Instability

V. A. Brazhnyi, V. V. Konotop, and V. Kuzmiak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150402 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Geometric Phase Induced by a Cyclically Evolving Squeezed Vacuum Reservoir

Angelo Carollo, G. Massimo Palma, Artur Łozinski, Marcelo França Santos, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150403 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Trapped Fermions with Density Imbalance in the Bose-Einstein Condensate Limit

P. Pieri and G. C. Strinati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150404 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

All Bipartite Entangled States Are Useful for Information Processing

Lluís Masanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150501 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Inequalities and Separations Among Assisted Capacities of Quantum Channels

Charles H. Bennett, Igor Devetak, Peter W. Shor, and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150502 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Optical Implementation of Quantum Orienteering

Evan R. Jeffrey, Joseph B. Altepeter, Madalina Colci, and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150503 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Experimental Quantum Communication without a Shared Reference Frame

Teng-Yun Chen, Jun Zhang, J.-C. Boileau, Xian-Min Jin, Bin Yang, Qiang Zhang, Tao Yang, R. Laflamme, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150504 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of Population in a Nonadiabatically Driven Atomic Trap: An Ising-Class Phase Transition

Kihwan Kim, Myoung-Sun Heo, Ki-Hwan Lee, Kiyoub Jang, Heung-Ryoul Noh, Doochul Kim, and Wonho Jhe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150601 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Diffusionless Crystal Growth in Rapidly Solidifying Eutectic Systems

P. K. Galenko and D. M. Herlach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150602 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Indication of a Cosmological Variation of the Proton-Electron Mass Ratio Based on Laboratory Measurement and Reanalysis of $H_{2}$ Spectra

E. Reinhold, R. Buning, U. Hollenstein, A. Ivanchik, P. Petitjean, and W. Ubachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151101 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Stochastic Acceleration in Turbulent Electric Fields Generated by 3D Reconnection

Marco Onofri, Heinz Isliker, and Loukas Vlahos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151102 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Naturalness in an Emergent Analogue Spacetime

Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151301 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Hawking Radiation from Charged Black Holes via Gauge and Gravitational Anomalies

Satoshi Iso, Hiroshi Umetsu, and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151302 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Global Universe Anisotropy Probed by the Alignment of Structures in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Y. Wiaux, P. Vielva, E. Martínez-González, and P. Vandergheynst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151303 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Improved Constraints on $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing in $D^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ Decays from the Belle Detector

L. M. Zhang et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151801 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Lower Limit on Dark Matter Production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Jonathan L. Feng, Shufang Su, and Fumihiro Takayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 151802 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Measurements of the Exclusive Decays of the $ϒ (5 S)$ to $B$ Meson Final States and Improved $B_{s}^{*}$ Mass Measurement

O. Aquines et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 152001 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Top-Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at CDF II

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 152002 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Leptonic and Charged Kaon Decay Modes of the $ϕ$ Meson Measured in Heavy-Ion Collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

D. Adamová et al. (CERES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 152301 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Experiments with Thermalized Rare Isotope Beams from Projectile Fragmentation: A Precision Mass Measurement of the Superallowed $β$ Emitter ${}^{38}{Ca}$

G. Bollen, D. Davies, M. Facina, J. Huikari, E. Kwan, P. A. Lofy, D. J. Morrissey, A. Prinke, R. Ringle, J. Savory, P. Schury, S. Schwarz, C. Sumithrarachchi, T. Sun, and L. Weissman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 152501 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High Resolution Atomic Coherent Control via Spectral Phase Manipulation of an Optical Frequency Comb

Matthew C. Stowe, Flavio C. Cruz, Adela Marian, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153001 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Photodouble Ionization Dynamics for Fixed-in-Space $H_{2}$

M. Gisselbrecht, M. Lavollée, A. Huetz, P. Bolognesi, L. Avaldi, D. P. Seccombe, and T. J. Reddish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153002 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

High-Resolution Photoassociation Spectroscopy of Ultracold Ytterbium Atoms by Using the Intercombination Transition

Satoshi Tojo, Masaaki Kitagawa, Katsunari Enomoto, Yutaka Kato, Yosuke Takasu, Mitsutaka Kumakura, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153201 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Dipole Induced Transparency in Drop-Filter Cavity-Waveguide Systems

Edo Waks and Jelena Vuckovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153601 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three-Dimensional Polarization Control in Microscopy

Ayman F. Abouraddy and Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153901 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Inverse Design for Full Control of Spontaneous Emission Using Light Emitting Scattering Optical Elements

Andreas Håkansson, Hideki T. Miyazaki, and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 153902 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Reaction Driven Convection around a Stably Stratified Chemical Front

J. D’Hernoncourt, A. Zebib, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154501 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Self-Propelled Leidenfrost Droplets

H. Linke, B. J. Alemán, L. D. Melling, M. J. Taormina, M. J. Francis, C. C. Dow-Hygelund, V. Narayanan, R. P. Taylor, and A. Stout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154502 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Experimental Study of Parametric Autoresonance in Faraday Waves

Oded Ben-David, Michael Assaf, Jay Fineberg, and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154503 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Real-Time Measurement of Bubbling Phenomena in a Three-Dimensional Gas-Fluidized Bed Using Ultrafast Magnetic Resonance Imaging

C. R. Müller, J. F. Davidson, J. S. Dennis, P. S. Fennell, L. F. Gladden, A. N. Hayhurst, M. D. Mantle, A. C. Rees, and A. J. Sederman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154504 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Giant Bubble Pinch-Off

Raymond Bergmann, Devaraj van der Meer, Mark Stijnman, Marijn Sandtke, Andrea Prosperetti, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154505 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transverse Characteristics of Short-Pulse Laser-Produced Ion Beams: A Study of the Acceleration Dynamics

E. Brambrink, J. Schreiber, T. Schlegel, P. Audebert, J. Cobble, J. Fuchs, M. Hegelich, and M. Roth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154801 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Dynamical Diffraction Theory for Wave Packet Propagation in Deformed Crystals

Kei Sawada, Shuichi Murakami, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 154802 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Laboratory Observation of a Nonlinear Interaction between Shear Alfvén Waves

T. A. Carter, B. Brugman, P. Pribyl, and W. Lybarger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 155001 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Synthesis of Novel Transition Metal Nitrides ${IrN}_{2}$ and ${OsN}_{2}$

Andrea F. Young, Chrystele Sanloup, Eugene Gregoryanz, Sandro Scandolo, Russell J. Hemley, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 155501 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Dynamical Identification of a Threshold Instability in Si-Doped Heterofullerenes

M. Matsubara, J. Kortus, J.-C. Parlebas, and C. Massobrio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 155502 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Theory of the Phonon Hall Effect in Paramagnetic Dielectrics

L. Sheng, D. N. Sheng, and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 155901 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Cascade of Shocks in Inertial Liquid-Liquid Dewetting

X. Noblin, A. Buguin, and F. Brochard-Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156101 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Selective Analysis of Molecular States by Functionalized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Tips

Z. T. Deng, H. Lin, W. Ji, L. Gao, X. Lin, Z. H. Cheng, X. B. He, J. L. Lu, D. X. Shi, W. A. Hofer, and H.-J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156102 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Dielectric Fluctuations and the Origins of Noncontact Friction

Seppe Kuehn, Roger F. Loring, and John A. Marohn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156103 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Metastable Structures and Recombination Pathways for Atomic Hydrogen on the Graphite (0001) Surface

L. Hornekær, Ž. Šljivančanin, W. Xu, R. Otero, E. Rauls, I. Stensgaard, E. Lægsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156104 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Disentanglement Time of Polymers Determines the Onset of Rim Instabilities in Dewetting

Sylvain Gabriele, Séverine Sclavons, Günter Reiter, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156105 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Conformational Molecular Switch of the Azobenzene Molecule: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study

Byoung-Young Choi, Se-Jong Kahng, Seungchul Kim, Hajin Kim, Hyo Won Kim, Young Jae Song, Jisoon Ihm, and Young Kuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156106 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quasicrystalline Electronic States of a One-Dimensionally Modulated Ag Film

P. Moras, W. Theis, L. Ferrari, S. Gardonio, J. Fujii, K. Horn, and C. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156401 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Phonon Effects on Spin-Charge Separation in One Dimension

Wen-Qiang Ning, Hui Zhao, Chang-Qin Wu, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156402 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Metal to Insulator Transition in Films of Molecularly Linked Gold Nanoparticles

Amir Zabet-Khosousi, Paul-Emile Trudeau, Yoshinori Suganuma, Al-Amin Dhirani, and Bryan Statt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156403 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Specific Heat of $δ$ -Pu Stabilized by Am

P. Javorský, L. Havela, F. Wastin, E. Colineau, and D. Bouëxière

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156404 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Electrically Tunable Resistance of a Metal

M. Sagmeister, U. Brossmann, S. Landgraf, and R. Würschum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156601 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Quantum Point Contacts

L. P. Rokhinson, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156602 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Electronic Effects in the Length Distribution of Atom Chains

J. N. Crain, M. D. Stiles, J. A. Stroscio, and D. T. Pierce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156801 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Multipeak Kondo Effect in One- and Two-Electron Quantum Dots

A. Vidan, M. Stopa, R. M. Westervelt, M. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156802 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Evidence for Temperature-Dependent Electron Band Dispersion in Pentacene

N. Koch, A. Vollmer, I. Salzmann, B. Nickel, H. Weiss, and J. P. Rabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156803 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Mesoscopic Fluctuations of Nonlinear Conductance of Chaotic Quantum Dots

M. L. Polianski and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156804 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

High-Energy Spin Excitations in the Electron-Doped Superconductor $\Pr_{0.88} {LaCe}_{0.12} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$ with $T_{c} = 21 K$

Stephen D. Wilson, Shiliang Li, Hyungje Woo, Pengcheng Dai, H. A. Mook, C. D. Frost, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157001 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Superconducting Phase Coherent Electron Transport in Proximity Conical Ferromagnets

I. Sosnin, H. Cho, V. T. Petrashov, and A. F. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157002 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Doping Dependence of the Coupling of Electrons to Bosonic Modes in the Single-Layer High-Temperature ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{6}$ Superconductor

W. Meevasana, N. J. C. Ingle, D. H. Lu, J. R. Shi, F. Baumberger, K. M. Shen, W. S. Lee, T. Cuk, H. Eisaki, T. P. Devereaux, N. Nagaosa, J. Zaanen, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157003 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Localized and Delocalized Excitons: Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {NiO}_{4}$ and ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

E. Collart, Abhay Shukla, J.-P. Rueff, P. Leininger, H. Ishii, I. Jarrige, Y. Q. Cai, S.-W. Cheong, and G. Dhalenne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157004 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Stabilizing Superconductivity in Nanowires by Coupling to Dissipative Environments

Henry C. Fu, Alexander Seidel, John Clarke, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157005 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Theory of Electron Mediated Mn-Mn Interactions in Quantum Dots

Fanyao Qu and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157201 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Colossal Magnetocapacitance and Colossal Magnetoresistance in ${HgCr}_{2} S_{4}$

S. Weber, P. Lunkenheimer, R. Fichtl, J. Hemberger, V. Tsurkan, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157202 (2006) - Published 21 April, 2006

Dispersion of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Metal Wires in the Terahertz Frequency Range

Kanglin Wang and Daniel M. Mittleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157401 (2006) - Published 17 April, 2006

Enhanced Raman Scattering from Individual Semiconductor Nanocones and Nanowires

Linyou Cao, Bahram Nabet, and Jonathan E. Spanier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157402 (2006) - Published 18 April, 2006

Electronic Origins of Structural Distortions in Post-Transition Metal Oxides: Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for a Revision of the Lone Pair Model

D. J. Payne, R. G. Egdell, A. Walsh, G. W. Watson, J. Guo, P.-A. Glans, T. Learmonth, and K. E. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157403 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Origin of Fine Structure in Si $2 p$ Photoelectron Spectra at Silicon Surfaces and Interfaces

Oleg V. Yazyev and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157601 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Ferroelectric Instabilities in Epitaxial ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Films

T. Yamada, J. Petzelt, A. K. Tagantsev, S. Denisov, D. Noujni, P. K. Petrov, A. Mackova, K. Fujito, T. Kiguchi, K. Shinozaki, N. Mizutani, V. O. Sherman, P. Muralt, and N. Setter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 157602 (2006) - Published 19 April, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Maximally Entangled Mixed States: Creation and Concentration [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 133601 (2004)]

Nicholas A. Peters, Joseph B. Altepeter, David Branning, Evan R. Jeffrey, Tzu-Chieh Wei, and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 159901 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006

Erratum: Allostery in a Coarse-Grained Model of Protein Dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 198103 (2005)]

Dengming Ming and Michael E. Wall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 159902 (2006) - Published 20 April, 2006