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Volume 96, Issue 18

12 May 2006
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On the Cover

Passive scalar advection in a turbulent flow simulated using the Kraichnan model, which has proven useful for study of realistic turbulence.

From the article:

Large-Scale Anisotropy in Scalar Turbulence
Antonio Celani and Agnese Seminara
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 184501 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Zurek-Kibble Mechanism for the Spontaneous Vortex Formation in Nb−Al/Alox/Nb Josephson Tunnel Junctions: New Theory and Experiment

R. Monaco, J. Mygind, M. Aaroe, R. J. Rivers, and V. P. Koshelets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180604 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

LETTERS

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

Positronium Collapse and the Maximum Magnetic Field in Pure QED

A. E. Shabad and V. V. Usov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180401 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Bose-Fermi Mixtures in a Three-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Kenneth Günter, Thilo Stöferle, Henning Moritz, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180402 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Localization of Bosonic Atoms by Fermionic Impurities in a Three-Dimensional Optical Lattice

S. Ospelkaus, C. Ospelkaus, O. Wille, M. Succo, P. Ernst, K. Sengstock, and K. Bongs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180403 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Integrable Models for Asymmetric Fermi Superfluids: Emergence of a New Exotic Pairing Phase

J. Dukelsky, G. Ortiz, S. M. A. Rombouts, and K. Van Houcke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180404 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Observation of Strong Quantum Depletion in a Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate

K. Xu, Y. Liu, D. E. Miller, J. K. Chin, W. Setiawan, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180405 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Vortex-Peierls States in Optical Lattices

A. A. Burkov and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180406 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

High-Field Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Optical Lattices

R. N. Palmer and D. Jaksch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180407 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm Using Triggered Single Photons from a Single Quantum Dot

M. Scholz, T. Aichele, S. Ramelow, and O. Benson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180501 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Brownian Flights over a Fractal Nest and First-Passage Statistics on Irregular Surfaces

P. Levitz, D. S. Grebenkov, M. Zinsmeister, K. M. Kolwankar, and B. Sapoval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180601 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Simple Model for Active Nematics: Quasi-Long-Range Order and Giant Fluctuations

Hugues Chaté, Francesco Ginelli, and Raúl Montagne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180602 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Loop Updates for Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations in the Canonical Ensemble

S. M. A. Rombouts, K. Van Houcke, and L. Pollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180603 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Zurek-Kibble Mechanism for the Spontaneous Vortex Formation in Nb−Al/Alox/Nb Josephson Tunnel Junctions: New Theory and Experiment

R. Monaco, J. Mygind, M. Aaroe, R. J. Rivers, and V. P. Koshelets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 180604 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Rayleigh-Plateau and Gregory-Laflamme Instabilities of Black Strings

Vitor Cardoso and Óscar J. C. Dias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 181601 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Holographic Derivation of Entanglement Entropy from the anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence

Shinsei Ryu and Tadashi Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 181602 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Improved Search for νμ→νe Oscillation in a Long-Baseline Accelerator Experiment

S. Yamamoto et al. (K2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 181801 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Compact Multigluonic Scattering Amplitudes with Heavy Scalars and Fermions

Paola Ferrario, Germán Rodrigo, and Pere Talavera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 182001 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Observation of ψ(3770)→γχc1→γγJ/ψ

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 182002 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Vanishing N=20 Shell Gap: Study of Excited States in Ne27,28

Zs. Dombrádi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 182501 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multicolored Coherent Population Trapping in a Λ System Using Phase Modulated Fields

Harshawardhan Wanare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 183601 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase and Amplitude Retrieval in Ghost Diffraction from Field-Correlation Measurements

Riccardo Borghi, Franco Gori, and Massimo Santarsiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 183901 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Extended Quasimodes within Nominally Localized Random Waveguides

P. Sebbah, B. Hu, J. M. Klosner, and A. Z. Genack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 183902 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Novel Heat Conduction Model for Bridging Different Space and Time Scales

Christianne V. D. R. Anderson and Kumar K. Tamma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 184301 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Large-Scale Anisotropy in Scalar Turbulence

Antonio Celani and Agnese Seminara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 184501 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evolution of Filament Structures during Edge-Localized Modes in the MAST Tokamak

A. Kirk, B. Koch, R. Scannell, H. R. Wilson, G. Counsell, J. Dowling, A. Herrmann, R. Martin, and M. Walsh (the MAST team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185001 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Radiation Transfer Effects on the Spectra of Laser-Generated Plasmas

O. Renner, F. M. Kerr, E. Wolfrum, J. Hawreliak, D. Chambers, S. J. Rose, J. S. Wark, H. A. Scott, and P. Patel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185002 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Heating by an Electron Bernstein Wave in a Spherical Tokamak Plasma via Mode Conversion

S. Shiraiwa, K. Hanada, M. Hasegawa, H. Idei, H. Kasahara, O. Mitarai, K. Nakamura, N. Nishino, H. Nozato, M. Sakamoto, K. Sasaki, K. Sato, Y. Takase, T. Yamada, and H. Zushi (TST-2@K Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185003 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Interfacial Segregation and Electrodiffusion of Dopants in AlN/GaN Superlattices

P. Bogusławski, N. Gonzalez Szwacki, and J. Bernholc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185501 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Microscopic Structure and Elasticity of Weakly Aggregated Colloidal Gels

A. D. Dinsmore, V. Prasad, I. Y. Wong, and D. A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185502 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Insights into the Fracture Mechanisms and Strength of Amorphous and Nanocomposite Carbon

M. G. Fyta, I. N. Remediakis, P. C. Kelires, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185503 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Predicting the Long-Time Dynamic Heterogeneity in a Supercooled Liquid on the Basis of Short-Time Heterogeneities

Asaph Widmer-Cooper and Peter Harrowell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 185701 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Thermal Conductance of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Interfaces

Zhenbin Ge, David G. Cahill, and Paul V. Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186101 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Giant Amplification of Interfacially Driven Transport by Hydrodynamic Slip: Diffusio-Osmosis and Beyond

Armand Ajdari and Lydéric Bocquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186102 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Stress and Morphology Evolution during Island Growth

Chun-Wei Pao and David J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186103 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

C60 Molecular Bearings and the Phenomenon of Nanomapping

T. Coffey and J. Krim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186104 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Dynamical Response of Nanomechanical Oscillators in Immiscible Viscous Fluid for In Vitro Biomolecular Recognition

Jerome Dorignac, Agnieszka Kalinowski, Shyamsunder Erramilli, and Pritiraj Mohanty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186105 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bosonization in Higher Dimensions via Noncommutative Field Theory

Alexios P. Polychronakos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186401 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Separation of Orbital Contributions to the Optical Conductivity of BaVS3

I. Kézsmárki, G. Mihály, R. Gaál, N. Barišić, A. Akrap, H. Berger, L. Forró, C. C. Homes, and L. Mihály

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186402 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Anomalous Electronic Correlations in the Ground State Momentum Density of Al97Li3

J. Kwiatkowska, B. Barbiellini, S. Kaprzyk, A. Bansil, H. Kawata, and N. Shiotani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186403 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Evidence for Two-Path Recombination of Photoinduced Small Polarons in Reduced LiNbO3

C. Merschjann, D. Berben, M. Imlau, and M. Wöhlecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186404 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Decomposition of 1/f Noise in AlxGa1−xAs/GaAs Hall Devices

Jens Müller, Stephan von Molnár, Yuzo Ohno, and Hideo Ohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186601 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Theory of Phonon-Induced Spin Relaxation in Laterally Coupled Quantum Dots

Peter Stano and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186602 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Spin Torque, Tunnel-Current Spin Polarization, and Magnetoresistance in MgO Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

G. D. Fuchs, J. A. Katine, S. I. Kiselev, D. Mauri, K. S. Wooley, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186603 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Domain Wall Creation in Nanostructures Driven by a Spin-Polarized Current

D. Ravelosona, S. Mangin, Y. Lemaho, J. A. Katine, B. D. Terris, and Eric E. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186604 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Spectral Dependence of Spin Photocurrent and Current-Induced Spin Polarization in an InGaAs/InAlAs Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

C. L. Yang, H. T. He, Lu Ding, L. J. Cui, Y. P. Zeng, J. N. Wang, and W. K. Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186605 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Alkali-Induced Enhancement of Surface Electronic Polarizibility

Sergey Stolbov and Talat S. Rahman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 186801 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Quantum Criticality of a Fermi Gas with a Spherical Dispersion Minimum

Kun Yang and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187001 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Continuous-Time Monitoring of Landau-Zener Interference in a Cooper-Pair Box

Mika Sillanpää, Teijo Lehtinen, Antti Paila, Yuriy Makhlin, and Pertti Hakonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187002 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Entanglement and Dynamics of Spin Chains in Periodically Pulsed Magnetic Fields: Accelerator Modes

T. Boness, S. Bose, and T. S. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187201 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Observation of Spin-Wave Soliton Fractals in Magnetic Film Active Feedback Rings

Mingzhong Wu, Boris A. Kalinikos, Lincoln D. Carr, and Carl E. Patton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187202 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Time-Domain Ab Initio Simulation of Electron and Hole Relaxation Dynamics in a Single-Wall Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube

Bradley F. Habenicht, Colleen F. Craig, and Oleg V. Prezhdo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187401 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Nonlinear Terahertz Response of n-Type GaAs

P. Gaal, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, R. Hey, and K. H. Ploog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187402 (2006) - Published 12 May, 2006

Nanosecond Domain Wall Dynamics in Ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Thin Films

Alexei Grigoriev, Dal-Hyun Do, Dong Min Kim, Chang-Beom Eom, Bernhard Adams, Eric M. Dufresne, and Paul G. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187601 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Importance of Second-Order Piezoelectric Effects in Zinc-Blende Semiconductors

Gabriel Bester, Xifan Wu, David Vanderbilt, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187602 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Decoupling Phenomena in Supercooled Liquids: Signatures in the Energy Landscape

Dwaipayan Chakrabarti and Biman Bagchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187801 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Collapse of Telechelic Star Polymers to Watermelon Structures

Federica Lo Verso, Christos N. Likos, Christian Mayer, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187802 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Genetic Toggle Switch without Cooperative Binding

Azi Lipshtat, Adiel Loinger, Nathalie Q. Balaban, and Ofer Biham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188101 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Mechanically Controlled DNA Extrusion from a Palindromic Sequence by Single Molecule Micromanipulation

Alexandre Dawid, Fabien Guillemot, Camille Brème, Vincent Croquette, and François Heslot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188102 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Invasive Tumor Growth

Evgeniy Khain and Leonard M. Sander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188103 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Evolutionary Dynamics on Degree-Heterogeneous Graphs

T. Antal, S. Redner, and V. Sood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188104 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Dynamics, Rectification, and Fractionation for Colloids on Flashing Substrates

A. Libál, C. Reichhardt, B. Jankó, and C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188301 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

Star Polymers in Shear Flow

M. Ripoll, R. G. Winkler, and G. Gompper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188302 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Classification Scheme for Phenomenological Universalities in Growth Problems in Physics and Other Sciences

P. Castorina, P. P. Delsanto, and C. Guiot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188701 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Gaussian Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Fermions and Bosons”

S. M. A. Rombouts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188901 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Corney and Drummond Reply:

J. F. Corney and P. D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188902 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Comment on “Theory of Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion: Spin Transfer versus Momentum Transfer”

S. E. Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189701 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Tatara and Kohno Reply:

Gen Tatara and Hiroshi Kohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189702 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Comment on “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Cs2CuCl4”

S. E. Sebastian, V. S. Zapf, N. Harrison, C. D. Batista, P. A. Sharma, M. Jaime, I. R. Fisher, and A. Lacerda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189703 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Radu et al. Reply:

T. Radu, H. Wilhelm, V. Yushankhai, D. Kovrizhin, R. Coldea, Z. Tylczynski, T. Lühmann, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189704 (2006) - Published 9 May, 2006

Comment on “Theoretical Analysis of the Transmission Phase Shift of a Quantum Dot in the Presence of Kondo Correlations”

A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, Y. Oreg, and J. van Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189705 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

Lavagna et al. Reply:

M. Lavagna, P. Vitushinsky, and A. Jerez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189706 (2006) - Published 11 May, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Quadrupole Deformation of the Self-Conjugate Nucleus Kr72 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 022502 (2005)]

A. Gade, D. Bazin, A. Becerril, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, D. J. Dean, D.-C. Dinca, T. Glasmacher, G. W. Hitt, M. E. Howard, W. F. Mueller, H. Olliver, J. R. Terry, and K. Yoneda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189901 (2006) - Published 8 May, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Scale Separation in Granular Packings: Stress Plateaus and Fluctuations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 168001 (2006)]

C. Goldenberg, A. P. F. Atman, P. Claudin, G. Combe, and I. Goldhirsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 189902 (2006) - Published 10 May, 2006

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