Volume 96, Issue 19

19 May 2006

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On the Cover

Cross section from a 3D simulation of two upward-propagating crossed laser beams interacting with a rightward flow of plasma out of a laser target. Less laser energy is deposited within the target in the presence of such interactions.

From the article:

Creation of Hot Radiation Environments in Laser-Driven Targets
D. E. Hinkel, M. B. Schneider, B. K. Young, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams, M. D. Rosen, and L. J. Suter
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195001 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Integrable Nonlinear Evolution Partial Differential Equations in $4 + 2$ and $3 + 1$ Dimensions

A. S. Fokas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190201 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Quantum Magnetism with Multicomponent Dipolar Molecules in an Optical Lattice

Ryan Barnett, Dmitry Petrov, Mikhail Lukin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190401 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Phase Diagram of Bose-Fermi Mixtures in One-Dimensional Optical Lattices

Lode Pollet, Matthias Troyer, Kris Van Houcke, and Stefan M. A. Rombouts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190402 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Spin-3 Chromium Bose-Einstein Condensates

L. Santos and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190404 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

${}^{52}{Cr}$ Spinor Condensate: A Biaxial or Uniaxial Spin Nematic

Roberto B. Diener and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190405 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Complete Deterministic Linear Optics Bell State Analysis

Carsten Schuck, Gerhard Huber, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190501 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Giant Colloidal Diffusivity on Corrugated Optical Vortices

Sang-Hyuk Lee and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190601 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Demonstration of a Controllable Three-Dimensional Brownian Motor in Symmetric Potentials

P. Sjölund, S. J. H. Petra, C. M. Dion, S. Jonsell, M. Nylén, L. Sanchez-Palencia, and A. Kastberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 190602 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Hidden Supersymmetry of Domain Walls and Cosmologies

Kostas Skenderis and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 191301 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Dipole of the Luminosity Distance: A Direct Measure of $H (z)$

Camille Bonvin, Ruth Durrer, and Martin Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 191302 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions $B (B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} π^{+}) / B (B^{0} \to D^{-} π^{+})$ and $B (B^{+} \to {\bar{D}}^{0} π^{+}) / B (B^{0} \to D^{-} π^{+})$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 191801 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Clean Prediction of $C P$ -Violating Processes $ψ$ , $ϕ$ , and $Υ (1 S)$ Decay to $K_{S} K_{S}$ and $K_{L} K_{L}$

Haibo Li and Maozhi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 192001 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Partial Photoneutron Cross Sections for the Isomeric State ${}^{180}{Ta}^{m}$

S. Goko, H. Utsunomiya, S. Goriely, A. Makinaga, T. Kaihori, S. Hohara, H. Akimune, T. Yamagata, Y.-W. Lui, H. Toyokawa, A. J. Koning, and S. Hilaire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 192501 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Signatures for Multi- $α$ -Condensed States

Tz. Kokalova, N. Itagaki, W. von Oertzen, and C. Wheldon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 192502 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electric Quadrupole Moments of the $D$ States of Alkaline-Earth-Metal Ions

Chiranjib Sur, K. V. P. Latha, Bijaya K. Sahoo, Rajat K. Chaudhuri, B. P. Das, and D. Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 193001 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Conical Emission, Pulse Splitting, and X-Wave Parametric Amplification in Nonlinear Dynamics of Ultrashort Light Pulses

Daniele Faccio, Miguel A. Porras, Audrius Dubietis, Francesca Bragheri, Arnaud Couairon, and Paolo Di Trapani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 193901 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Determination of a Coupling Function in Multicoupled Oscillators

Jun Miyazaki and Shuichi Kinoshita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 194101 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Bulk Flow in Ferrofluids in a Uniform Rotating Magnetic Field

A. Chaves, C. Rinaldi, S. Elborai, X. He, and M. Zahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 194501 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Creation of Hot Radiation Environments in Laser-Driven Targets

D. E. Hinkel, M. B. Schneider, B. K. Young, A. B. Langdon, E. A. Williams, M. D. Rosen, and L. J. Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195001 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Observation of Turbulent-Driven Shear Flow in a Cylindrical Laboratory Plasma Device

C. Holland, J. H. Yu, A. James, D. Nishijima, M. Shimada, N. Taheri, and G. R. Tynan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195002 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Observation of High-Field-Side Crash and Heat Transfer during Sawtooth Oscillation in Magnetically Confined Plasmas

H. K. Park, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., A. J. H. Donné, I. G. J. Classen, C. W. Domier, E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, M. J. van de Pol, and Z. Xia (TEXTOR team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195003 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Comparison Study of 2D Images of Temperature Fluctuations during Sawtooth Oscillation with Theoretical Models

H. K. Park, A. J. H. Donné, N. C. Luhmann, Jr., I. G. J. Classen, C. W. Domier, E. Mazzucato, T. Munsat, M. J. van de Pol, and Z. Xia (TEXTOR Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195004 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Transitions in Solids Stimulated by Simultaneous Exposure to High Pressure and Relativistic Heavy Ions

Ulrich A. Glasmacher, Maik Lang, Hans Keppler, Falko Langenhorst, Reinhard Neumann, Dieter Schardt, Christina Trautmann, and Günther A. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195701 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Birth and Morphological Evolution of Step Bunches under Electromigration

J. Chang, O. Pierre-Louis, and C. Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195901 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Similarities in the $C_{p} / T^{3}$ Peaks in Amorphous and Crystalline Metals

D. J. Safarik, R. B. Schwarz, and M. F. Hundley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 195902 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Banding in Entangled Polymer Fluids under Oscillatory Shearing

Prashant Tapadia, Sham Ravindranath, and Shi-Qing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196001 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Determination of Interface Atomic Structure and Its Impact on Spin Transport Using $Z$ -Contrast Microscopy and Density-Functional Theory

Thomas J. Zega, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Steven C. Erwin, Igor Žutić, George Kioseoglou, Connie H. Li, Berend T. Jonker, and Rhonda M. Stroud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196101 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

New Linear-Parabolic Rate Equation for Thermal Oxidation of Silicon

Takanobu Watanabe, Kosuke Tatsumura, and Iwao Ohdomari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196102 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Correlated Hybridization in Transition-Metal Complexes

A. Hübsch, J. C. Lin, J. Pan, and D. L. Cox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196401 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Nitrogen Vacancies as Major Point Defects in Gallium Nitride

M. G. Ganchenkova and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196402 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

New Luttinger-Liquid Physics from Photoemission on ${Li}_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$

Feng Wang, J. V. Alvarez, S.-K. Mo, J. W. Allen, G.-H. Gweon, J. He, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, and H. Höchst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196403 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Tunable Anomalous Hall Effect in a Nonferromagnetic System

John Cumings, L. S. Moore, H. T. Chou, K. C. Ku, G. Xiang, S. A. Crooker, N. Samarth, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196404 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Dynamic Response of One-Dimensional Interacting Fermions

M. Pustilnik, M. Khodas, A. Kamenev, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196405 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Magnetic Domain Formation in Itinerant Metamagnets

B. Binz, H. B. Braun, T. M. Rice, and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196406 (2006) - Published 19 May, 2006

Quantum-Tunneling-Induced Kondo Effect in Single Molecular Magnets

C. Romeike, M. R. Wegewijs, W. Hofstetter, and H. Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196601 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Nonlinear 2D Spin Susceptibility in a Finite Magnetic Field: Spin-Polarization Dependence

Ying Zhang and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196602 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Crossover between Monopole and Multipole Plasmon of Cs Monolayers on Si(111) Individually Resolved in Energy and Momentum

Volkmar Zielasek, Neele Rönitz, Martin Henzler, and Herbert Pfnür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196801 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Anisotropic States of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Magnetic Fields

A. M. Ettouhami, C. B. Doiron, F. D. Klironomos, R. Côté, and Alan T. Dorsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196802 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Universal Behavior of Nearly Free Electron States in Carbon Nanotubes

E. R. Margine and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196803 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Ehrenfest Time and the Coherent Backscattering Off Ballistic Cavities

Saar Rahav and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196804 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Spin Quantum Tunneling in Single Molecular Magnets: Fingerprints in Transport Spectroscopy of Current and Noise

C. Romeike, M. R. Wegewijs, and H. Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196805 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Interface Energetics and Level Alignment at Covalent Metal-Molecule Junctions: $π$ -Conjugated Thiols on Gold

Georg Heimel, Lorenz Romaner, Jean-Luc Brédas, and Egbert Zojer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196806 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Photochemistry on Thin Metal Films: Probe of Electron Dynamics in Metal-Semiconductor Heterosystems

Olaf Autzen, Claudia Wesenberg, and Eckart Hasselbrink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196807 (2006) - Published 17 May, 2006

Quantization of 2D Hole Gas in Conductive Hydrogenated Diamond Surfaces Observed by Electron Field Emission

L. Gan, E. Baskin, C. Saguy, and R. Kalish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196808 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Magnetic Order in the Pseudogap Phase of High- $T_{C}$ Superconductors

B. Fauqué, Y. Sidis, V. Hinkov, S. Pailhès, C. T. Lin, X. Chaud, and P. Bourges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 197001 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Local Electronic Structure of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ near Oxygen Dopants: A Window on the High- $T_{c}$ Pairing Mechanism

Y. He, T. S. Nunner, P. J. Hirschfeld, and H.-P. Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 197002 (2006) - Published 15 May, 2006

Influence of Current on Field-Driven Domain Wall Motion in Permalloy Nanowires from Time Resolved Measurements of Anisotropic Magnetoresistance

M. Hayashi, L. Thomas, Ya. B. Bazaliy, C. Rettner, R. Moriya, X. Jiang, and S. S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 197207 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Room-Temperature Magneto-Optics of Ferromagnetic Transition-Metal-Doped ZnO Thin Films

J. R. Neal, A. J. Behan, R. M. Ibrahim, H. J. Blythe, M. Ziese, A. M. Fox, and G. A. Gehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 197208 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Novel Heat Conduction Model for Bridging Different Space and Time Scales [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 184301 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 199901 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Erratum: Chaotic Dynamics of the Fractional Lorenz System [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 034101 (2003)]

Ilia Grigorenko and Elena Grigorenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 199902 (2006) - Published 16 May, 2006

Erratum: Measurement of Absolute Hadronic Branching Fractions of $D$ Mesons and $e^{+} e^{-} \to D \bar{D}$ Cross Sections at $E_{c . m .} = 3773 MeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 121801 (2005)]

Q. He et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 199903 (2006) - Published 18 May, 2006