Volume 96, Issue 2

20 January 2006

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On the Cover

A peculiar lava channel left of the Laghetto vent was formed during the 2001 eruption on Mount Etna. Field studies support mechanical erosion as the underlying mechanism rather than thermal erosion.

From the article:

Lava Channel Formation during the 2001 Eruption on Mount Etna: Evidence for Mechanical Erosion
Carmelo Ferlito and Jens Siewert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028501 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultralong Raman Fiber Lasers as Virtually Lossless Optical Media

Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, Tim J. Ellingham, R. Ibbotson, X. Chen, L. Zhang, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023902 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Lava Channel Formation during the 2001 Eruption on Mount Etna: Evidence for Mechanical Erosion

Carmelo Ferlito and Jens Siewert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028501 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

LETTERS

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

Interaction-Driven Dynamics of ${}^{40}K − {}^{87}{Rb}$ Fermion-Boson Gas Mixtures in the Large-Particle-Number Limit

C. Ospelkaus, S. Ospelkaus, K. Sengstock, and K. Bongs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020401 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

A Quantum Violation of the Second Law?

G. W. Ford and R. F. O’Connell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020402 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Coherent Quantum Evolution via Reservoir Driven Holonomies

Angelo Carollo, Marcelo França Santos, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020403 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Thermal Activation of Vortex-Antivortex Pairs in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. P. Simula and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020404 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Commutability between the Semiclassical and Adiabatic Limits

Biao Wu and Jie Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020405 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Parametric Amplification of Scattered Atom Pairs

Gretchen K. Campbell, Jongchul Mun, Micah Boyd, Erik W. Streed, Wolfgang Ketterle, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020406 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Multiparticle Interference, Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement, and Full Counting Statistics

H.-S. Sim and E. V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020407 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Realization of a Minimal Disturbance Quantum Measurement

F. Sciarrino, M. Ricci, F. De Martini, R. Filip, and L. Mišta, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020408 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Experimental Demonstration of Coherent State Estimation with Minimal Disturbance

Ulrik L. Andersen, Metin Sabuncu, Radim Filip, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020409 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Noise Thresholds for Optical Quantum Computers

Christopher M. Dawson, Henry L. Haselgrove, and Michael A. Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020501 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Remote Preparation of Arbitrary Time-Encoded Single-Photon Ebits

Alessandro Zavatta, Milena D’Angelo, Valentina Parigi, and Marco Bellini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020502 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Single-File Diffusion on a Periodic Substrate

Alessandro Taloni and Fabio Marchesoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020601 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Average Entropy Dissipation in Irreversible Mesoscopic Processes

Dor Ben-Amotz and J. M. Honig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020602 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Particle Physics on Ice: Constraints on Neutrino Interactions Far above the Weak Scale

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Jonathan L. Feng, and Haim Goldberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 021101 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Problems with Small Area Surveys: Lensing Covariance of Supernova Distance Measurements

Asantha Cooray, Dragan Huterer, and Daniel E. Holz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 021301 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Stabilization of the Compactification Volume by Quantum Corrections

Marcus Berg, Michael Haack, and Boris Körs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 021601 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Muon-Pair Production by Atmospheric Muons in CosmoALEPH

F. Maciuc, C. Grupen, N.-O. Hashim, S. Luitz, A. Mailov, A.-S. Müller, A. Putzer, H.-G. Sander, S. Schmeling, M. Schmelling, R. Tcaciuc, H. Wachsmuth, Th. Ziegler, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 021801 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Aspects of the Confinement Mechanism in Coulomb-Gauge QCD

R. Alkofer, M. Kloker, A. Krassnigg, and R. F. Wagenbrunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022001 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Observation of $B_{s}$ Production at the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

G. Bonvicini et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022002 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Parity-Violating Electron Scattering from ${}^{4}{He}$ and the Strange Electric Form Factor of the Nucleon

K. A. Aniol et al. (HAPPEX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022003 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurement in the $Lepton + Jets$ Topology in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022004 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Neutral Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell State and Chromomagnetic Instability in Two-Flavor Dense QCD

E. V. Gorbar, Michio Hashimoto, and V. A. Miransky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022005 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Evidence for Modulations in the Relative Double-Photoionization Cross Section of $C_{60}$ from Threshold up to 280 eV

P. N. Juranić, D. Lukić, K. Barger, and R. Wehlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023001 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Normal Mode Splitting and Mechanical Effects of an Optical Lattice in a Ring Cavity

Julian Klinner, Malik Lindholdt, Boris Nagorny, and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023002 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Self-Sustained Oscillations in a Large Magneto-Optical Trap

G. Labeyrie, F. Michaud, and R. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023003 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Optimal Squeezing and Entanglement from Noisy Gaussian Operations

Norbert Schuch, Michael M. Wolf, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023004 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Experimental Investigation of Ultracold Atom-Molecule Collisions

Peter Staanum, Stephan D. Kraft, Jörg Lange, Roland Wester, and Matthias Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023201 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Atom-Molecule Collisions in an Optically Trapped Gas

N. Zahzam, T. Vogt, M. Mudrich, D. Comparat, and P. Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023202 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Accurate Determination of the Scattering Length of Metastable Helium Atoms Using Dark Resonances between Atoms and Exotic Molecules

S. Moal, M. Portier, J. Kim, J. Dugué, U. D. Rapol, M. Leduc, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023203 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Entangled Light Pulses from Single Cold Atoms

Giovanna Morigi, Jürgen Eschner, Stefano Mancini, and David Vitali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023601 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Time-Bandwidth Problem in Room Temperature Slow Light

Zhijie Deng, De-Kui Qing, Philip Hemmer, C. H. Raymond Ooi, M. Suhail Zubairy, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023602 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Visual Observation of Zener Tunneling

Henrike Trompeter, Thomas Pertsch, Falk Lederer, Dirk Michaelis, Ulrich Streppel, Andreas Bräuer, and Ulf Peschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023901 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultralong Raman Fiber Lasers as Virtually Lossless Optical Media

Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, Tim J. Ellingham, R. Ibbotson, X. Chen, L. Zhang, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023902 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Turning Light into a Liquid via Atomic Coherence

Humberto Michinel, María J. Paz-Alonso, and Víctor M. Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023903 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Classification of Electromagnetic Resonances in Finite Inhomogeneous Three-Dimensional Structures

Neil V. Budko and Alexander B. Samokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023904 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Reduced-Symmetry Two-Dimensional Solitons in Photonic Lattices

Robert Fischer, Denis Träger, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Cornelia Denz, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023905 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Spatiotemporal Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators in a Laboratory Plasma

T. Fukuyama, R. Kozakov, H. Testrich, and C. Wilke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024101 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Episodic Synchronization via Dynamic Injection

Javier M. Buldú, Tilmann Heil, Ingo Fischer, M. C. Torrent, and Jordi García-Ojalvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024102 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Localization-Delocalization Transition in a System of Quantum Kicked Rotors

C. E. Creffield, G. Hur, and T. S. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024103 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Three Types of Chaos in the Forced Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Eli Shlizerman and Vered Rom-Kedar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024104 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Effective Mass Density of Fluid-Solid Composites

Jun Mei, Zhengyou Liu, Weijia Wen, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024301 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Predicting the Progress of Diffusively Limited Chemical Reactions in the Presence of Chaotic Advection

P. E. Arratia and J. P. Gollub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024501 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Polymer Effects on Small- and Large-Scale Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Yonggun Jun, Jie Zhang, and Xiao-Lun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024502 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

High Order Lagrangian Velocity Statistics in Turbulence

Haitao Xu, Mickaël Bourgoin, Nicholas T. Ouellette, and Eberhard Bodenschatz (International Collaboration for Turbulence Research)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 024503 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transport Barrier inside the Reversal Surface in the Chaotic Regime of the Reversed-Field Pinch

G. Spizzo, S. Cappello, A. Cravotta, D. F. Escande, I. Predebon, L. Marrelli, P. Martin, and R. B. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025001 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Transient Dynamics of Charged Particles Interacting with Localized Waves of Continuous Spectra

Y. Kominis, K. Hizanidis, and A. K. Ram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025002 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Interaction of Light Filaments Generated by Femtosecond Laser Pulses in Air

Ting-Ting Xi, Xin Lu, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025003 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Shear-Induced Overaging in a Polymer Glass

Matthew L. Wallace and Béla Joós

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025501 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Recombination-Induced Stacking Faults: Evidence for a General Mechanism in Hexagonal SiC

A. Galeckas, J. Linnros, and P. Pirouz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025502 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Chain Morphologies in Semicrystalline Polyfluorene: Evidence from Raman Scattering

M. Arif, C. Volz, and S. Guha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025503 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Scaling Behavior of Fragment Shapes

F. Kun, F. K. Wittel, H. J. Herrmann, B. H. Kröplin, and K. J. Måløy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025504 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Effect of Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions on the Dynamics of Two-Level Systems in Glasses

A. L. Burin, I. Ya. Polishchuk, P. Fulde, and Y. Sereda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025505 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Generic Rugged Landscapes under Strain and the Possibility of Rejuvenation in Glasses

Brittany A. Isner and Daniel J. Lacks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025506 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Fluid-Solid Transition in a Hard-Core System

Lewis Bowen, Russell Lyons, Charles Radin, and Peter Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025701 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Amorphous Ice: Stepwise Formation of Very-High-Density Amorphous Ice from Low-Density Amorphous Ice at 125 K

Thomas Loerting, Werner Schustereder, Katrin Winkel, Christoph G. Salzmann, Ingrid Kohl, and Erwin Mayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025702 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Measurement of the Electronic Grüneisen Constant Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

Shouhua Nie, Xuan Wang, Hyuk Park, Richard Clinite, and Jianming Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025901 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Video STM Studies of Adsorbate Diffusion at Electrochemical Interfaces

T. Tansel and O. M. Magnussen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026101 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Dynamics of an Ising Chain under Local Excitation: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of Si(100) Dimer Rows at 5 K

Y. Pennec, M. Horn von Hoegen, Xiaobin Zhu, D. C. Fortin, and M. R. Freeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026102 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Influence of Nitrogen Doping on the Defect Formation and Surface Properties of ${TiO}_{2}$ Rutile and Anatase

Matthias Batzill, Erie H. Morales, and Ulrike Diebold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026103 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Continuous Evolution of the Fermi Surface of ${CeRu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ across the Metamagnetic Transition

R. Daou, C. Bergemann, and S. R. Julian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026401 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Huge Excitonic Effects in Layered Hexagonal Boron Nitride

B. Arnaud, S. Lebègue, P. Rabiller, and M. Alouani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026402 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Heavy-Fermion-like State in a Transition Metal Oxide ${LiV}_{2} O_{4}$ Single Crystal: Indication of Kondo Resonance in the Photoemission Spectrum

A. Shimoyamada, S. Tsuda, K. Ishizaka, T. Kiss, T. Shimojima, T. Togashi, S. Watanabe, C. Q. Zhang, C. T. Chen, Y. Matsushita, H. Ueda, Y. Ueda, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026403 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Wave-Vector Conservation upon Hybridization of $4 f$ and Valence-Band States Observed in Photoemission Spectra of a Ce Monolayer on W(110)

D. V. Vyalikh, Yu. Kucherenko, S. Danzenbächer, Yu. S. Dedkov, C. Laubschat, and S. L. Molodtsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026404 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Novel Approach to Tuning the Physical Properties of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors

Yong Zhang, G. M. Dalpian, B. Fluegel, Su-Huai Wei, A. Mascarenhas, X.-Y. Huang, J. Li, and L.-W. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026405 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Coexistence of Gapless Excitations and Commensurate Charge-Density Wave in the $2 H$ Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Ryan L. Barnett, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Eugene Demler, Wei-Guo Yin, and Wei Ku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026406 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Inversion of Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Effect of Pinhole Nanocontacts

Soumik Mukhopadhyay and I. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026601 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Spin Gunn Effect

Yunong Qi, Zhi-Gang Yu, and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026602 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Tunneling in Suspended Carbon Nanotubes Assisted by Longitudinal Phonons

S. Sapmaz, P. Jarillo-Herrero, Ya. M. Blanter, C. Dekker, and H. S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026801 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Detecting Topological Order through a Continuous Quantum Phase Transition

Ying Ran and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026802 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Shot-Noise Detection in a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot

E. Onac, F. Balestro, B. Trauzettel, C. F. J. Lodewijk, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026803 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Landé $g$ Factors and Orbital Momentum Quenching in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Craig E. Pryor and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026804 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Full Counting Statistics in Strongly Interacting Systems: Non-Markovian Effects

Alessandro Braggio, Jürgen König, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026805 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Oxygen-Enhanced Atomic Chain Formation

W. H. A. Thijssen, D. Marjenburgh, R. H. Bremmer, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026806 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of the Vortex Glass in Superconductors

Sebastian Bustingorry, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, and Daniel Domínguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027001 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Chaotic Dynamics of Superconductor Vortices in the Plastic Phase

E. Olive and J. C. Soret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027002 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Local Superconducting Density of States of ${ErNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

M. Crespo, H. Suderow, S. Vieira, S. Bud’ko, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027003 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Dissipative Dynamics of Planar $d$ -Wave Josephson Junctions

D. V. Khveshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027004 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Persistent Superconductivity in Ultrathin Pb Films: A Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Study

Daejin Eom, S. Qin, M.-Y. Chou, and C. K. Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027005 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Nanomagnetic Droplets and Implications to Orbital Ordering in ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CoO}_{3}$

D. Phelan, Despina Louca, S. Rosenkranz, S.-H. Lee, Y. Qiu, P. J. Chupas, R. Osborn, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, J. R. D. Copley, J. L. Sarrao, and Y. Moritomo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027201 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Signature of Carrier-Induced Ferromagnetism in ${Ti}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} O_{2 - δ}$ : Exchange Interaction between High-Spin ${Co}^{2 +}$ and the Ti $3 d$ Conduction Band

J. W. Quilty, A. Shibata, J.-Y. Son, K. Takubo, T. Mizokawa, H. Toyosaki, T. Fukumura, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027202 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Parallel versus Antiparallel Interfacial Coupling in Exchange Biased $Co / {FeF}_{2}$

Hendrik Ohldag, Hongtao Shi, Elke Arenholz, Joachim Stöhr, and David Lederman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027203 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Dynamics of a Domain Wall and Spin-Wave Excitations Driven by a Mesoscopic Current

Jun-ichiro Ohe and Bernhard Kramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027204 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Magnetic Bistability and Controllable Reversal of Asymmetric Ferromagnetic Nanorings

F. Q. Zhu, G. W. Chern, O. Tchernyshyov, X. C. Zhu, J. G. Zhu, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027205 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Field-Induced Magnetoelastic Instabilities in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Wheels

O. Waldmann, C. Dobe, S. T. Ochsenbein, H. U. Güdel, and I. Sheikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027206 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Co-Doped $(La, Sr) {TiO}_{3 - δ}$ : A High Curie Temperature Diluted Magnetic System with Large Spin Polarization

G. Herranz, R. Ranchal, M. Bibes, H. Jaffrès, E. Jacquet, J.-L. Maurice, K. Bouzehouane, F. Wyczisk, E. Tafra, M. Basletic, A. Hamzic, C. Colliex, J.-P. Contour, A. Barthélémy, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027207 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Quantum Oscillation of the Tunneling Conductance in Fully Epitaxial Double Barrier Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

T. Nozaki, N. Tezuka, and K. Inomata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027208 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Unconventional Anisotropic Superexchange in $α^{'} − {NaV}_{2} O_{5}$

M. V. Eremin, D. V. Zakharov, R. M. Eremina, J. Deisenhofer, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, G. Obermeier, S. Horn, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027209 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Possible Observation of the Quadrupolar Kondo Effect in Dilute Quadrupolar System $\Pr_{x} {La}_{1 - x} {Pb}_{3}$ for $x \leq 0.05$

T. Kawae, K. Kinoshita, Y. Nakaie, N. Tateiwa, K. Takeda, H. S. Suzuki, and T. Kitai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027210 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Half-Metallic Digital Ferromagnetic Heterostructure Composed of a $δ$ -Doped Layer of Mn in Si

M. C. Qian, C. Y. Fong, Kai Liu, W. E. Pickett, J. E. Pask, and L. H. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027211 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Steplike Magnetization in a Spin-Chain System: ${Ca}_{3} {Co}_{2} O_{6}$

Yuri B. Kudasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027212 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Nematic Order in Square Lattice Frustrated Ferromagnets

Nic Shannon, Tsutomu Momoi, and Philippe Sindzingre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027213 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Micromagnetic Imaging to Determine the Nature of the Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

J. C. Loudon and P. A. Midgley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027214 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Universal Scaling Relations in Strongly Anisotropic Materials

M. B. Hastings and C. Mudry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027215 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Slow Spin Relaxation in a Highly Polarized Cooperative Paramagnet

B. G. Ueland, G. C. Lau, R. J. Cava, J. R. O’Brien, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027216 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Ultrafast Dynamics of Delocalized and Localized Electrons in Carbon Nanotubes

L. Perfetti, T. Kampfrath, F. Schapper, A. Hagen, T. Hertel, C. M. Aguirre, P. Desjardins, R. Martel, C. Frischkorn, and M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027401 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Circular-to-Linear and Linear-to-Circular Conversion of Optical Polarization by Semiconductor Quantum Dots

G. V. Astakhov, T. Kiessling, A. V. Platonov, T. Slobodskyy, S. Mahapatra, W. Ossau, G. Schmidt, K. Brunner, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027402 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Anisotropic Dielectric Function in Polar Nanoregions of Relaxor Ferroelectrics

J. Hlinka, T. Ostapchuk, D. Noujni, S. Kamba, and J. Petzelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027601 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Electron Transport in Self-Assembled Polymer Molecular Junctions

Wenping Hu, Jun Jiang, Hiroshi Nakashima, Yi Luo, Yoshiaki Kashimura, Ke-Qiu Chen, Z. Shuai, Kazuaki Furukawa, Wei Lu, Yunqi Liu, Daoben Zhu, and Keiichi Torimitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027801 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

First Observation of Two-Stage Collapsing Kinetics of a Single Synthetic Polymer Chain

Jian Xu, Zhiyuan Zhu, Shizhong Luo, Chi Wu, and Shiyong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027802 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Structure of Smectic Defect Cores: X-Ray Study of 8CB Liquid Crystal Ultrathin Films

Jean-Philippe Michel, Emmanuelle Lacaze, Michel Goldmann, Marc Gailhanou, Marc de Boissieu, and Michel Alba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027803 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Aeolian Sand Ripples: Experimental Study of Fully Developed States

Bruno Andreotti, Philippe Claudin, and Olivier Pouliquen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028001 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Spontaneous Patterning of Confined Granular Rods

Jennifer Galanis, Daniel Harries, Dan L. Sackett, Wolfgang Losert, and Ralph Nossal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028002 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Auto- and Crosscorrelograms for the Spike Response of Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons with Slow Synapses

Rubén Moreno-Bote and Néstor Parga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028101 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Generic Phase Diagram of Active Polar Films

R. Voituriez, J. F. Joanny, and J. Prost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028102 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Coherence in the B800 Ring of Purple Bacteria LH2

Y. C. Cheng and R. J. Silbey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028103 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Vacillating Breathing and Tumbling of Vesicles under Shear Flow

Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028104 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Resolution Exchange Simulation

Edward Lyman, F. Marty Ytreberg, and Daniel M. Zuckerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028105 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Normal Force Exerted on Vascular Endothelial Cells

Yechun Wang and P. Dimitrakopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028106 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Self-Organized Criticality Model for Brain Plasticity

Lucilla de Arcangelis, Carla Perrone-Capano, and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028107 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

FbsA-Driven Fibrinogen Polymerization: A Bacterial “Deceiving Strategy”

Matteo Pierno, Laura Maravigna, Roberto Piazza, Livia Visai, and Pietro Speziale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028108 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Crossover from Intermittent to Continuum Dynamics for Locally Driven Colloids

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028301 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Shear-Induced Phase Transitions in Ternary Polymer Blends

Bharadwaj Narayanan, Victor Pryamitsyn, and Venkat Ganesan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028302 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Substrate Effect on the Melting Temperature of Thin Polyethylene Films

Y. Wang, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. Gersappe, T. Araki, Y. Zou, A. D. L. Kilcoyne, H. Ade, G. Marom, and A. Lustiger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028303 (2006) - Published 17 January, 2006

Shape-Induced Frustration of Hexagonal Order in Polyhedral Colloids

Roel P. A. Dullens, Maurice C. D. Mourad, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Jacob P. Hoogenboom, and Willem K. Kegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028304 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Aggregation Kinetics in a Model Colloidal Suspension

Sorin Bastea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028305 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Fluids of Clusters in Attractive Colloids

Peter J. Lu, Jacinta C. Conrad, Hans M. Wyss, Andrew B. Schofield, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028306 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Symmetry Relations in Chemical Kinetics Arising from Microscopic Reversibility

Artur B. Adib

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028307 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Lava Channel Formation during the 2001 Eruption on Mount Etna: Evidence for Mechanical Erosion

Carmelo Ferlito and Jens Siewert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028501 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Cluster Structure and Corralling Effect Driven by Interaction Mismatch in Two Dimensional Mixtures

Dongsheng Zhang, M. A. Carignano, and I. Szleifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028701 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Fermi Gap Stabilization of an Incommensurate Two-Dimensional Superstructure”

A. Bendounan, F. Forster, F. Reinert, B. Kierren, Y. Fagot-Revurat, and D. Malterre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029701 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Schiller et al. Reply:

F. Schiller, J. Cordón, D. Vyalikh, A. Rubio, and J. E. Ortega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029702 (2006) - Published 19 January, 2006

Comment on “Bosons as the Origin for Giant Magnetic Properties of Organic Monolayers”

A. Hernando and M. A. García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029703 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

Vager and Naaman Reply:

Zeev Vager and Ron Naaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029704 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Zener Enhancement of Quantum Tunneling in a Two-Level Superconducting Circuit [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 057004 (2005)]

G. Ithier, E. Collin, P. Joyez, D. Vion, D. Esteve, J. Ankerhold, and H. Grabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029901 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Erratum: QCD Dirac Operator at Nonzero Chemical Potential: Lattice Data and Matrix Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 102002 (2004)]

Gernot Akemann and Tilo Wettig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029902 (2006) - Published 18 January, 2006

Erratum: Enhanced Fusion-Evaporation Cross Sections in Neutron-Rich ${}^{132}{Sn}$ on ${}^{64}{Ni}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 152701 (2003)]

J. F. Liang, D. Shapira, C. J. Gross, J. R. Beene, J. D. Bierman, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gomez del Campo, P. A. Hausladen, Y. Larochelle, W. Loveland, P. E. Mueller, D. Peterson, D. C. Radford, D. W. Stracener, and R. L. Varner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 029903 (2006) - Published 20 January, 2006