Volume 96, Issue 17

5 May 2006

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On the Cover

Liquid crystal structures within coffee-ring-like deposits, revealed via polarizing microscopy. The deposits were formed by drying drops of fluorescently labelled DNA solution.

From the article:

Structure and Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Pattern Formation in Drying Droplets of DNA
Ivan I. Smalyukh, Olena V. Zribi, John C. Butler, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Gerard C. L. Wong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Formation of Bright Matter-Wave Solitons during the Collapse of Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensates

Simon L. Cornish, Sarah T. Thompson, and Carl E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 170401 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Benchmarking Quantum Control Methods on a 12-Qubit System

C. Negrevergne, T. S. Mahesh, C. A. Ryan, M. Ditty, F. Cyr-Racine, W. Power, N. Boulant, T. Havel, D. G. Cory, and R. Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 170501 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Nonlinear Entanglement Witnesses

Otfried Gühne and Norbert Lütkenhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 170502 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Classical Simulation of Limited-Width Cluster-State Quantum Computation

Nadav Yoran and Anthony J. Short

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 170503 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Cosmic Neutrino Fluxes from the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Experiment

S. W. Barwick et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171101 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Thermal Background Can Solve the Cosmological Moduli Problem

Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171301 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

High-Energy Zero-Norm States and Symmetries of String Theory

Chuan-Tsung Chan, Pei-Ming Ho, Jen-Chi Lee, Shunsuke Teraguchi, and Yi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171601 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Measurement of the Branching Fraction, Polarization, and $C P$ Asymmetry for $B^{0} \to ρ^{+} ρ^{-}$ Decays, and Determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Phase $ϕ_{2}$

A. Somov et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171801 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Search for Scalar Bottom Quarks from Gluino Decays in $\bar{p} p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171802 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Enhancement of Hadronic $b$ Quark Decays

Andrzej Czarnecki, Maciej Ślusarczyk, and Fyodor Tkachov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171803 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Reconstructing Supernova-Neutrino Spectra using Low-Energy Beta Beams

N. Jachowicz and G. C. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 172301 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Cherenkov Radiation from Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

V. Koch, A. Majumder, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 172302 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Selective Ionization of Oriented Nonpolar Molecules with Asymmetric Structure by Phase-Controlled Two-Color Laser Fields

Hideki Ohmura, Naoaki Saito, and M. Tachiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173001 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Coherent Control of Ultracold Molecule Dynamics in a Magneto-Optical Trap by Use of Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Benjamin L. Brown, Alexander J. Dicks, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173002 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Kinematically Complete Study of Dissociative Ionization of $D_{2}$ by Ion Impact

G. Laurent, J. Fernández, S. Legendre, M. Tarisien, L. Adoui, A. Cassimi, X. Fléchard, F. Frémont, B. Gervais, E. Giglio, J. P. Grandin, and F. Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173201 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Interference Swapping in Scattering from a Nonlocal Quantum Target

Daniel Rohrlich, Yakov Neiman, Yonathan Japha, and Ron Folman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173601 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

High Finesse Opto-Mechanical Cavity with a Movable Thirty-Micron-Size Mirror

Dustin Kleckner, William Marshall, Michiel J. A. de Dood, Khodadad Nima Dinyari, Bart-Jan Pors, William T. M. Irvine, and Dirk Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173901 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Experimental Demonstration of Self-Collimation inside a Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

Zhaolin Lu, Shouyuan Shi, Janusz A. Murakowski, Garrett J. Schneider, Christopher A. Schuetz, and Dennis W. Prather

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173902 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

From Finite to Infinite Volumes: Removal of Boundaries in Diffuse Wave Imaging

Jorge Ripoll and Vasilis Ntziachristos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173903 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Antenna Model for Wire Lasers

E. E. Orlova, J. N. Hovenier, T. O. Klaassen, I. Kašalynas, A. J. L. Adam, J. R. Gao, T. M. Klapwijk, B. S. Williams, S. Kumar, Q. Hu, and J. L. Reno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 173904 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Edge of Chaos in a Parallel Shear Flow

Joseph D. Skufca, James A. Yorke, and Bruno Eckhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174101 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Dissimilar Electro-Osmotic Flow and Ionic Current Recirculation Patterns in Porous Media Detected by NMR Mapping Experiments

Bogdan Buhai and Rainer Kimmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174501 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Polygons on a Rotating Fluid Surface

Thomas R. N. Jansson, Martin P. Haspang, Kåre H. Jensen, Pascal Hersen, and Tomas Bohr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174502 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Shock-Wave Mach-Reflection Slip-Stream Instability: A Secondary Small-Scale Turbulent Mixing Phenomenon

A. Rikanati, O. Sadot, G. Ben-Dor, D. Shvarts, T. Kuribayashi, and K. Takayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174503 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Avoided Critical Behavior in Dynamically Forced Wetting

Jacco H. Snoeijer, Giles Delon, Marc Fermigier, and Bruno Andreotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174504 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Polarized Proton Collisions at 205 GeV at RHIC

M. Bai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 174801 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Nontrapping Arrest of Langmuir Wave Damping near the Threshold Amplitude

A. V. Ivanov and Iver H. Cairns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175001 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Kinetics of the Collisionless Expansion of Spherical Nanoplasmas

F. Peano, F. Peinetti, R. Mulas, G. Coppa, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175002 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Heating of the Solar Corona by Dissipative Alfvén Solitons

K. Stasiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175003 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coherent Structure Formation in Turbulent Thermal Superfluids

Demosthenes Kivotides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175301 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Point Defect Concentrations in Metastable Fe-C Alloys

Clemens J. Först, Jan Slycke, Krystyn J. Van Vliet, and Sidney Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175501 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Slow Crack Propagation in Heterogeneous Materials

J. Kierfeld and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175502 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Two-Step Crystallization Kinetics in Colloidal Hard-Sphere Systems

Hans Joachim Schöpe, Gary Bryant, and William van Megen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175701 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Oxygen-Driven Unzipping of Graphitic Materials

Je-Luen Li, Konstantin N. Kudin, Michael J. McAllister, Robert K. Prud’homme, Ilhan A. Aksay, and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176101 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Energetic Surface Smoothing of Complex Metal-Oxide Thin Films

P. R. Willmott, R. Herger, C. M. Schlepütz, D. Martoccia, and B. D. Patterson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176102 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Scaling Theory and Morphometrics for a Coarsening Multiscale Surface, via a Principle of Maximal Dissipation

Stephen J. Watson and Scott A. Norris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176103 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Degeneracy of Microcavity Polaritons

A. Baas, J.-Ph. Karr, M. Romanelli, A. Bramati, and E. Giacobino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176401 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Drastic Change in Transport of Entropy with Quadrupolar Ordering in ${PrFe}_{4} P_{12}$

A. Pourret, K. Behnia, D. Kikuchi, Y. Aoki, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176402 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Using a Quantum Dot as a High-Frequency Shot Noise Detector

E. Onac, F. Balestro, L. H. Willems van Beveren, U. Hartmann, Y. V. Nazarov, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176601 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Orientation-Dependent Transparency of Metallic Interfaces

P. X. Xu, K. Xia, M. Zwierzycki, M. Talanana, and P. J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176602 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Electrical Detection of Spin Accumulation at a Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Interface

X. Lou, C. Adelmann, M. Furis, S. A. Crooker, C. J. Palmstrøm, and P. A. Crowell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176603 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Vibration-Induced Kondo Tunneling through Metal-Organic Complexes with Even Electron Occupation Number

K. Kikoin, M. N. Kiselev, and M. R. Wegewijs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176801 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Spectroscopy of the Kondo Problem in a Box

Ribhu K. Kaul, Gergely Zaránd, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Denis Ullmo, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176802 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Spin-Filtered Edge States and Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene

Dmitry A. Abanin, Patrick A. Lee, and Leonid S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176803 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Electron Transport in a Double Quantum Dot Governed by a Nuclear Magnetic Field

Oleg N. Jouravlev and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176804 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006

Surface Melting of the Vortex Lattice

A. De Col, G. I. Menon, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177001 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Effect of Irradiation-Induced Disorder on the Conductivity and Critical Temperature of the Organic Superconductor $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} Cu (SCN)_{2}$

James G. Analytis, Arzhang Ardavan, Stephen J. Blundell, Robin L. Owen, Elspeth F. Garman, Chris Jeynes, and Ben J. Powell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177002 (2006) - Published 3 May, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Thermal Effects in the Splashing of Drops under a Reduced Pressure Environment

Khellil Sefiane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179401 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Xu, Zhang, and Nagel Reply:

Lei Xu, Wendy W. Zhang, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179402 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Charge and Magnetization Inhomogeneities in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 117201 (2006)]

Carsten Timm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179901 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Dielectric Fluctuations and the Origins of Noncontact Friction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 156103 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179902 (2006) - Published 1 May, 2006

Erratum: Nuclear Emissions during Self-Nucleated Acoustic Cavitation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034301 (2006)]

R. P. Taleyarkhan, C. D. West, R. T. Lahey, Jr., R. I. Nigmatulin, R. C. Block, and Y. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179903 (2006) - Published 2 May, 2006

Erratum: Real-Space Observation of Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion in Submicron Magnetic Wires [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 077205 (2004)]

A. Yamaguchi, T. Ono, S. Nasu, K. Miyake, K. Mibu, and T. Shinjo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179904 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Erratum: Relaxation and Persistent Oscillations of the Order Parameter in Fermionic Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 097005 (2006)]

Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev, and Boris L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179905 (2006) - Published 4 May, 2006

Erratum: Stress Relaxation in a Perfect Nanocrystal by Coherent Ejection of Lattice Layers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 266103 (2005)]

Abhishek Chaudhuri, Surajit Sengupta, and Madan Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 179906 (2006) - Published 5 May, 2006