Volume 96, Issue 22

9 June 2006

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On the Cover

Cross section of tantalum solidification: solid (red), liquid (blue) and grain boundaries (yellow). The simulation uses 16 million atoms---enough to be free from finite size effects.

From the article:

Beyond Finite-Size Scaling in Solidification Simulations
Frederick H. Streitz, James N. Glosli, and Mehul V. Patel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225701 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Searching for $C P T$ Violation with Cosmic Microwave Background Data from WMAP and BOOMERANG

Bo Feng, Mingzhe Li, Jun-Qing Xia, Xuelei Chen, and Xinmin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 221302 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

LETTERS

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

Eckhaus Instability in Systems with Large Delay

Matthias Wolfrum and Serhiy Yanchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220201 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Casimir Effect for Curved Geometries: Proximity-Force-Approximation Validity Limits

Holger Gies and Klaus Klingmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220401 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Processor Core Model for Quantum Computing

Man-Hong Yung, Simon C. Benjamin, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220501 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Information-Disturbance Tradeoff in Estimating a Maximally Entangled State

Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220502 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

General Monogamy Inequality for Bipartite Qubit Entanglement

Tobias J. Osborne and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220503 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Experimental Quantum Error Rejection for Quantum Communication

Yu-Ao Chen, An-Ning Zhang, Zhi Zhao, Xiao-Qi Zhou, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220504 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Experimental Entanglement Distillation of Two-Qubit Mixed States under Local Operations

Zhi-Wei Wang, Xiang-Fa Zhou, Yun-Feng Huang, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Xi-Feng Ren, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220505 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Criticality, the Area Law, and the Computational Power of Projected Entangled Pair States

F. Verstraete, M. M. Wolf, D. Perez-Garcia, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 220601 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

3D Quantum Gravity and Effective Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory

Laurent Freidel and Etera R. Livine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 221301 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Searching for $C P T$ Violation with Cosmic Microwave Background Data from WMAP and BOOMERANG

Bo Feng, Mingzhe Li, Jun-Qing Xia, Xuelei Chen, and Xinmin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 221302 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Background Independent Duals of the Harmonic Oscillator

Viqar Husain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 221303 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of $b \to d γ$ and Determination of $| V_{t d} / V_{t s} |$

D. Mohapatra et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 221601 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Determinations of $| V_{u b} |$ from Inclusive Semileptonic $B$ Decays with Reduced Model Dependence

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 221801 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Solving Pure Yang-Mills Theory in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

Robert G. Leigh, Djordje Minic, and Alexandr Yelnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 222001 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Unquenched Complex Dirac Spectra at Nonzero Chemical Potential: Two-Color QCD Lattice Data versus Matrix Model

Gernot Akemann and Elmar Bittner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 222002 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Angle Correlations for Rapidity Separated Hadron Pairs in $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 222301 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron-Impact Ionization and Excitation of Helium to the $n = 1 - 4$ Ionic States

S. Bellm, J. Lower, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 223201 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Diamagnetic Response of Metallic Photonic Crystals at Infrared and Visible Frequencies

Xinhua Hu, C. T. Chan, Jian Zi, Ming Li, and Kai-Ming Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 223901 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Role of Many-Electron Dynamics in High Harmonic Generation

Ariel Gordon, Franz X. Kärtner, Nina Rohringer, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 223902 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Band-Gap Guidance in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices with a Negative Defect

Igor Makasyuk, Zhigang Chen, and Jianke Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 223903 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Coherence Current, Coherence Vortex, and the Conservation Law of Coherence

Wei Wang and Mitsuo Takeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 223904 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Controlled Multibubble Surface Cavitation

Nicolas Bremond, Manish Arora, Claus-Dieter Ohl, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 224501 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Charge Inversion at High Ionic Strength Studied by Streaming Currents

Frank H. J. van der Heyden, Derek Stein, Koen Besteman, Serge G. Lemay, and Cees Dekker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 224502 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Lattice Boltzmann versus Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoscale Hydrodynamic Flows

Jürgen Horbach and Sauro Succi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 224503 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Spatiotemporal Growing Wave Fronts in Spatially Stable Boundary Layers

T. K. Sengupta, A. Kameswara Rao, and K. Venkatasubbaiah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 224504 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Cross-Stream Migration of Flexible Molecules in a Nanochannel

Rajesh Khare, Michael D. Graham, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 224505 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Gain Lasing and Polarization Switch with a Distributed Optical-Klystron Free-Electron Laser

Y. K. Wu, N. A. Vinokurov, S. Mikhailov, J. Li, and V. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 224801 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Autoresonant Phase-Space Holes in Plasmas

L. Friedland, P. Khain, and A. G. Shagalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225001 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Observation of Plasma Toroidal-Momentum Dissipation by Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity

W. Zhu, S. A. Sabbagh, R. E. Bell, J. M. Bialek, M. G. Bell, B. P. LeBlanc, S. M. Kaye, F. M. Levinton, J. E. Menard, K. C. Shaing, A. C. Sontag, and H. Yuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225002 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Momentum-Resolved Electron-Phonon Interaction in Lead Determined by Neutron Resonance Spin-Echo Spectroscopy

T. Keller, P. Aynajian, K. Habicht, L. Boeri, S. K. Bose, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225501 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Do Binary Hard Disks Exhibit an Ideal Glass Transition?

Aleksandar Donev, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225502 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Isotope Dependence of the Lifetime of the $1136 − {cm}^{- 1}$ Vibration of Oxygen in Silicon

K. K. Kohli, Gordon Davies, N. Q. Vinh, D. West, S. K. Estreicher, T. Gregorkiewicz, I. Izeddin, and K. M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225503 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Phase-Field Crystals with Elastic Interactions

Peter Stefanovic, Mikko Haataja, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225504 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Beyond Finite-Size Scaling in Solidification Simulations

Frederick H. Streitz, James N. Glosli, and Mehul V. Patel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 225701 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Role of Lateral Alkyl Chains in Modulation of Molecular Structures on Metal Surfaces

D. X. Shi, W. Ji, X. Lin, X. B. He, J. C. Lian, L. Gao, J. M. Cai, H. Lin, S. X. Du, F. Lin, C. Seidel, L. F. Chi, W. A. Hofer, H. Fuchs, and H.-J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226101 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Quantum Size Effect on the Diffusion Barriers and Growth Morphology of $Pb / Si (111)$

T.-L. Chan, C. Z. Wang, M. Hupalo, M. C. Tringides, and K. M. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226102 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Dendrochronology of Strain-Relaxed Islands

T. Merdzhanova, S. Kiravittaya, A. Rastelli, M. Stoffel, U. Denker, and O. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226103 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Nonequilibrium Interlayer Transport in Pulsed Laser Deposition

J. Z. Tischler, Gyula Eres, B. C. Larson, Christopher M. Rouleau, P. Zschack, and Douglas H. Lowndes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226104 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Surface Reconstructions of ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ Driven by Suboxides

K. T. Park, M. H. Pan, V. Meunier, and E. W. Plummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226105 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Interplay between Thermodynamics and Kinetics in the Capping of $InAs / GaAs (001)$ Quantum Dots

G. Costantini, A. Rastelli, C. Manzano, P. Acosta-Diaz, R. Songmuang, G. Katsaros, O. G. Schmidt, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226106 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Superconductivity Dependent Friction of Water, Nitrogen, and Superheated He Films Adsorbed on Pb(111)

M. Highland and J. Krim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226107 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

${Cu}_{2} O$ Island Shape Transition during Cu-Au Alloy Oxidation

G.-W. Zhou, L. Wang, R. C. Birtcher, P. M. Baldo, J. E. Pearson, J. C. Yang, and J. A. Eastman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226108 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Local Atomic Structure and Discommensurations in the Charge Density Wave of ${CeTe}_{3}$

H. J. Kim, C. D. Malliakas, A. T. Tomić, S. H. Tessmer, M. G. Kanatzidis, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226401 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Quasiparticle Self-Consistent $G W$ Theory

M. van Schilfgaarde, Takao Kotani, and S. Faleev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226402 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Local Self-Energy Approach for Electronic Structure Calculations

N. E. Zein, S. Y. Savrasov, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226403 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Universal Dephasing Rate due to Diluted Kondo Impurities

T. Micklitz, A. Altland, T. A. Costi, and A. Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226601 (2006) - Published 7 June, 2006

Physical Picture behind the Oscillating Sign of Drag in High Landau Levels

Rafi Bistritzer and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226801 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Self-Purification in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Gustavo M. Dalpian and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226802 (2006) - Published 6 June, 2006

Switching Noise as a Probe of Statistics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Eytan Grosfeld, Steven H. Simon, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 226803 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

Coexistence of $f$ -Wave Superconductivity, Charge Order, and Spin Antiferromagnetism around Nonmagnetic Impurities in ${Na}_{0.33} {CoO}_{2} \cdot 1.3 H_{2} O$

Jin An, Hai-Qing Lin, and Chang-De Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 227001 (2006) - Published 9 June, 2006

Perfect Softening of the Ferroelectric Mode in the Isotope-Exchanged Strontium Titanate of $SrTi {}^{18}O_{3}$ Studied by Light Scattering

M. Takesada, M. Itoh, and T. Yagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 227602 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Single Molecular Anatomy of Solvophobic Effects in Host-Guest Interactions Based on Surface Tension Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Satoshi Yasuda, Iwao Suzuki, Ken-ichi Shinohara, and Hidemi Shigekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 228303 (2006) - Published 8 June, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Low Photoemission Intensity near $E_{F}$ Induced by the Surface Relaxed Structure of ${CrO}_{2} (001)$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167206 (2006)]

Feng Hong and J. G. Che

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 229901 (2006) - Published 5 June, 2006