Volume 96, Issue 16

28 April 2006

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Trajectories for various initial conditions in a Lorentz model of particles moving around randomly distributed obstacles. This model has proven a useful testing ground for elaborate kinetic theories and theories of anomalous transport.

From the article:

Localization Transition of the Three-Dimensional Lorentz Model and Continuum Percolation
Felix Höfling, Thomas Franosch, and Erwin Frey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165901 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Conversion in Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media

L. Marrucci, C. Manzo, and D. Paparo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163905 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Laser-Induced Microexplosion Confined in the Bulk of a Sapphire Crystal: Evidence of Multimegabar Pressures

S. Juodkazis, K. Nishimura, S. Tanaka, H. Misawa, E. G. Gamaly, B. Luther-Davies, L. Hallo, P. Nicolai, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166101 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

LETTERS

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

A Theory of Electromagnetic Fluctuations for Metallic Surfaces and van der Waals Interactions between Metallic Bodies

Giuseppe Bimonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 160401 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Critical Temperature and Thermodynamics of Attractive Fermions at Unitarity

Evgeni Burovski, Nikolay Prokof’ev, Boris Svistunov, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 160402 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

High-Order Quantum Resonances Observed in a Periodically Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate

C. Ryu, M. F. Andersen, A. Vaziri, M. B. d’Arcy, J. M. Grossman, K. Helmerson, and W. D. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 160403 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Observation of Bunching of Two Bell States

H. S. Eisenberg, J. F. Hodelin, G. Khoury, and D. Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 160404 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Formation of Supermassive Black Holes through Fragmentation of Torodial Supermassive Stars

Burkhard Zink, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Ian Hawke, Christian D. Ott, Erik Schnetter, and Ewald Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 161101 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Brane Gas-Driven Bulk Expansion as a Precursor Stage to Brane Inflation

Natalia Shuhmaher and Robert Brandenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 161301 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Production of Axions by Cosmic Magnetic Helicity

L. Campanelli and M. Giannotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 161302 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Moduli Space of Non-Abelian Vortices

Minoru Eto, Youichi Isozumi, Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, and Norisuke Sakai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 161601 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Percolation Effects in Very-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

J. Dias de Deus, M. C. Espírito Santo, M. Pimenta, and C. Pajares

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162001 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Observation of a Near-Threshold Enhancement in the $ω ϕ$ Mass Spectrum from the Doubly OZI-Suppressed Decay $J / ψ \to γ ω ϕ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162002 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Charmonium Decays of $Y (4260)$ , $ψ (4160)$ , and $ψ (4040)$

T. E. Coan et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162003 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Double-Hadron Leptoproduction in the Nuclear Medium

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162301 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

First Measurement of the $ρ$ Spectral Function in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

R. Arnaldi et al. (NA60 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162302 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

${}^{15}C − {}^{15}F$ Charge Symmetry and the ${}^{14}C (n, γ) {}^{15}C$ Reaction Puzzle

N. K. Timofeyuk, D. Baye, P. Descouvemont, R. Kamouni, and I. J. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162501 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Deep Sub-Barrier Fusion Enhancement in the ${}^{6}{He} + {}^{206}{Pb}$ Reaction

Yu. E. Penionzhkevich, V. I. Zagrebaev, S. M. Lukyanov, and R. Kalpakchieva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162701 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Constraints on Polarizability Corrections to Hydrogen Hyperfine Structure

Vahagn Nazaryan, Carl E. Carlson, and Keith A. Griffioen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163001 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Rapid Proton Transfer Mediated by a Strong Laser Field

Alexei N. Markevitch, Dmitri A. Romanov, Stanley M. Smith, and Robert J. Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163002 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Relativistic Coupled-Cluster Theory of Atomic Parity Nonconservation: Application to ${}^{137}{Ba}^{+}$

Bijaya K. Sahoo, Rajat Chaudhuri, B. P. Das, and Debashis Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163003 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

New Mass Value for ${}^{7}{Li}$

Sz. Nagy, T. Fritioff, M. Suhonen, R. Schuch, K. Blaum, M. Björkhage, and I. Bergström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163004 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Lost Topological (Berry) Phase Factor in Electronic Structure Calculations. Example: The Ozone Molecule

Pablo Garcia-Fernandez, Isaac B. Bersuker, and James E. Boggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163005 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

One-Dimensional Bose Chemistry: Effects of Nonintegrability

V. A. Yurovsky, A. Ben-Reuven, and M. Olshanii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163201 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Violation of the Exponential-Decay Law at Long Times

C. Rothe, S. I. Hintschich, and A. P. Monkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163601 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Universal Optical Amplification without Nonlinearity

Vincent Josse, Metin Sabuncu, Nicolas J. Cerf, Gerd Leuchs, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163602 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Quantum Lithography with Classical Light

P. R. Hemmer, A. Muthukrishnan, M. O. Scully, and M. S. Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163603 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spectral Phase Distribution Retrieval through Coherent Control of Harmonic Generation

E. Papalazarou, M. Kovačev, P. Tzallas, E. P. Benis, C. Kalpouzos, G. D. Tsakiris, and D. Charalambidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163901 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Correlation Transfer and Diffusion of Ultrasound-Modulated Multiply Scattered Light

Sava Sakadžić and Lihong V. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163902 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Mode Softening, Ferroelectric Transition, and Tunable Photonic Band Structures in a Point-Dipole Crystal

J. A. Klugkist, M. Mostovoy, and J. Knoester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163903 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Localized Polaritons and Second-Harmonic Generation in a Resonant Medium with Quadratic Nonlinearity

D. V. Skryabin, A. V. Yulin, and A. I. Maimistov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163904 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Conversion in Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media

L. Marrucci, C. Manzo, and D. Paparo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163905 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Quantum Accelerator Modes from the Farey Tree

A. Buchleitner, M. B. d’Arcy, S. Fishman, S. A. Gardiner, I. Guarneri, Z.-Y. Ma, L. Rebuzzini, and G. S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 164101 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Dynamical Weights and Enhanced Synchronization in Adaptive Complex Networks

Changsong Zhou and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 164102 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Lorentz Force Velocimetry

A. Thess, E. V. Votyakov, and Y. Kolesnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 164501 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Single-Point Velocity Statistics of Forced and Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Yonggun Jun, X. L. Wu, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 164502 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Tailored Terahertz Pulses from a Laser-Modulated Electron Beam

J. M. Byrd, Z. Hao, M. C. Martin, D. S. Robin, F. Sannibale, R. W. Schoenlein, A. A. Zholents, and M. S. Zolotorev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 164801 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Ultrafast Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas

Michael S. Murillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165001 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Nonlinear Theory for Relativistic Plasma Wakefields in the Blowout Regime

W. Lu, C. Huang, M. Zhou, W. B. Mori, and T. Katsouleas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165002 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Observation of a Fast Electron Beam Emitted along the Surface of a Target Irradiated by Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Y. T. Li, X. H. Yuan, M. H. Xu, Z. Y. Zheng, Z. M. Sheng, M. Chen, Y. Y. Ma, W. X. Liang, Q. Z. Yu, Y. Zhang, F. Liu, Z. H. Wang, Z. Y. Wei, W. Zhao, Z. Jin, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165003 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Incommensurate Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

D. E. Galli and L. Reatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165301 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Axial-Strain-Induced Torsion in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Haiyi Liang and Moneesh Upmanyu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165501 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Local Structure of a Rolled-Up Single Crystal: An X-Ray Microdiffraction Study of Individual Semiconductor Nanotubes

B. Krause, C. Mocuta, T. H. Metzger, Ch. Deneke, and O. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165502 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Debye Screening of Dislocations

I. Groma, G. Györgyi, and B. Kocsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165503 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Localization Transition of the Three-Dimensional Lorentz Model and Continuum Percolation

Felix Höfling, Thomas Franosch, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 165901 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Laser-Induced Microexplosion Confined in the Bulk of a Sapphire Crystal: Evidence of Multimegabar Pressures

S. Juodkazis, K. Nishimura, S. Tanaka, H. Misawa, E. G. Gamaly, B. Luther-Davies, L. Hallo, P. Nicolai, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166101 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Two-Dimensional Roughening of Adsorbate Islands in Thermodynamic Equilibrium

J. Wintterlin, J. Trost, R. Schuster, A. Eichler, and J.-S. McEwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166102 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Capillary Condensation in Atomic Scale Friction: How Water Acts like a Glue

K. B. Jinesh and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166103 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Effect of Step Stiffness and Diffusion Anisotropy on the Meandering of a Growing Vicinal Surface

Thomas Frisch and Alberto Verga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166104 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Pressure-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ Is Not of Mott-Hubbard Type

A. Yamasaki, M. Feldbacher, Y.-F. Yang, O. K. Andersen, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166401 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Angle-Dependent Magnetoresistance in the Weakly Incoherent Interlayer Transport Regime in a Layered Organic Conductor

M. V. Kartsovnik, D. Andres, S. V. Simonov, W. Biberacher, I. Sheikin, N. D. Kushch, and H. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166601 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Static Dielectric Properties of Carbon Nanotubes from First Principles

Boris Kozinsky and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166801 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Adiabatic Pumping in Interacting Systems

Eran Sela and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166802 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Molecular Transport Junctions: Current from Electronic Excitations in the Leads

Michael Galperin, Abraham Nitzan, and Mark A. Ratner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166803 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Nonlinear Spin Current and Magnetoresistance of Molecular Tunnel Junctions

Derek Waldron, Paul Haney, Brian Larade, Allan MacDonald, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166804 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Surface Segregation and Backscattering in Doped Silicon Nanowires

M. V. Fernández-Serra, Ch. Adessi, and X. Blase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166805 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Mesoscopic versus Macroscopic Division of Current Fluctuations

V. Rychkov and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166806 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Bloch Inductance in Small-Capacitance Josephson Junctions

A. B. Zorin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167001 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking Vortex Lattice Transitions in Pure Niobium

M. Laver, E. M. Forgan, S. P. Brown, D. Charalambous, D. Fort, C. Bowell, S. Ramos, R. J. Lycett, D. K. Christen, J. Kohlbrecher, C. D. Dewhurst, and R. Cubitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167002 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Large Anisotropic Normal-State Magnetoresistance in Clean ${MgB}_{2}$ Thin Films

Qi Li, B. T. Liu, Y. F. Hu, J. Chen, H. Gao, L. Shan, H. H. Wen, A. V. Pogrebnyakov, J. M. Redwing, and X. X. Xi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167003 (2006) - Published 25 April, 2006

Supercurrent-Induced Temperature Gradient across a Nonequilibrium SNS Josephson Junction

M. S. Crosser, Pauli Virtanen, Tero T. Heikkilä, and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167004 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Index Theoretic Characterization of $d$ -Wave Superconductors in the Vortex State

Oskar Vafek and Ashot Melikyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167005 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Observation of a Griffiths-like Phase in the Magnetocaloric Compound ${Tb}_{5} {Si}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$

C. Magen, P. A. Algarabel, L. Morellon, J. P. Araújo, C. Ritter, M. R. Ibarra, A. M. Pereira, and J. B. Sousa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167201 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Enhanced Optical Magnetoelectric Effect in a Patterned Polar Ferrimagnet

N. Kida, Y. Kaneko, J. P. He, M. Matsubara, H. Sato, T. Arima, H. Akoh, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167202 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Observation of a Complex Nanoscale Magnetic Structure in a Hexagonal Fe Monolayer

K. von Bergmann, S. Heinze, M. Bode, E. Y. Vedmedenko, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167203 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Anomalous Electronic Raman Scattering in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2} \cdot y H_{2} O$

P. Lemmens, K. Y. Choi, V. Gnezdilov, E. Ya. Sherman, D. P. Chen, C. T. Lin, F. C. Chou, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167204 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Signature of the Ground-State Topology in the Low-Temperature Dynamics of Spin Glasses

F. Romá, S. Bustingorry, and P. M. Gleiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167205 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Low Photoemission Intensity near $E_{F}$ Induced by the Surface Relaxed Structure of ${CrO}_{2} (001)$

Feng Hong and J. G. Che

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167206 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Spin-Wave Interference in Microscopic Rings

J. Podbielski, F. Giesen, and D. Grundler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167207 (2006) - Published 27 April, 2006

Evolution with Composition of the $d$ -Band Density of States at the Fermi Level in Highly Spin Polarized ${Co}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x} S_{2}$

P. L. Kuhns, M. J. R. Hoch, A. P. Reyes, W. G. Moulton, L. Wang, and C. Leighton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167208 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Spontaneous Formation of Vanadium “Molecules” in a Geometrically Frustrated Crystal: ${AlV}_{2} O_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 96, 086406 (2006)]

Y. Horibe, M. Shingu, K. Kurushima, H. Ishibashi, N. Ikeda, K. Kato, Y. Motome, N. Furukawa, S. Mori, and T. Katsufuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169901 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Erratum: Observation of a Turbulence-Induced Large Scale Magnetic Field [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 96, 055002 (2006)]

E. J. Spence, M. D. Nornberg, C. M. Jacobson, R. D. Kendrick, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169902 (2006) - Published 24 April, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Role of Interparticle Forces in the Formation of Random Loose Packing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 145505 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169903 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Chaotic Advection and Targeted Mixing [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 96, 124503 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169904 (2006) - Published 26 April, 2006

Erratum: $η^{'}$ Photoproduction on the Proton for Photon Energies from 1.527 to 2.227 GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 062001 (2006)]

M. Dugger et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169905 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Erratum: Entanglement Scaling in the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model at Criticality [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 95, 196406 (2005)]

Daniel Larsson and Henrik Johannesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169906 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Erratum: Ab Initio Study of Deep Defect States in Narrow Band-Gap Semiconductors: Group III Impurities in PbTe [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056403 (2006)]

Salameh Ahmad, Khang Hoang, and S. D. Mahanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169907 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006

Erratum: Dynamics and Scaling in a Quantum Spin Chain Material with Bond Randomness [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 077206 (2004)]

T. Masuda, A. Zheludev, K. Uchinokura, J.-H. Chung, and S. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 169908 (2006) - Published 28 April, 2006