Volume 96, Issue 23

16 June 2006

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On the Cover

Spin-resolved differential conductance image of cobalt islands on a copper surface. The dots are standing wave patterns of surface state electrons, spin polarized on the islands, but not on the substrate.

From the article:

Spin-Resolved Electronic Structure of Nanoscale Cobalt Islands on Cu(111)
O. Pietzsch, S. Okatov, A. Kubetzka, M. Bode, S. Heinze, A. Lichtenstein, and R. Wiesendanger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 237203 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Biased Tomography Schemes: An Objective Approach

Z. Hradil, D. Mogilevtsev, and J. Řeháček

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230401 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Vortex-Lattice Melting in a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice

Michiel Snoek and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230402 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Synchronization in the BCS Pairing Dynamics as a Critical Phenomenon

R. A. Barankov and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230403 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Dynamical Vanishing of the Order Parameter in a Fermionic Condensate

Emil A. Yuzbashyan and Maxim Dzero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230404 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Entanglement of Two Impurities through Electron Scattering

A. T. Costa, Jr., S. Bose, and Y. Omar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230501 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Decoherence in a System of Many Two-Level Atoms

Daniel Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230502 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Anomalous Diffusion of Inertial, Weakly Damped Particles

R. Friedrich, F. Jenko, A. Baule, and S. Eule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230601 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Nonequilibrium Quantum Condensation in an Incoherently Pumped Dissipative System

M. H. Szymańska, J. Keeling, and P. B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230602 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Simulating Nanoscale Dielectric Response

A. C. Maggs and R. Everaers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230603 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Enhanced Sensitivity to Fundamental Constants In Ultracold Atomic and Molecular Systems near Feshbach Resonances

Cheng Chin and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 230801 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Compensation of Strong Thermal Lensing in High-Optical-Power Cavities

C. Zhao, J. Degallaix, L. Ju, Y. Fan, D. G. Blair, B. J. J. Slagmolen, M. B. Gray, C. M. Mow Lowry, D. E. McClelland, D. J. Hosken, D. Mudge, A. Brooks, J. Munch, P. J. Veitch, M. A. Barton, and G. Billingsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231101 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Displacement- and Timing-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection

Yanbei Chen and Seiji Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231102 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Nonlinear Perturbations of the Kaluza-Klein Monopole

Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj, and Gary Gibbons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231103 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gravitational Correction to Running of Gauge Couplings

Sean P. Robinson and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231601 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} \to ψ (2 S) ϕ$ and Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions $B (B_{s}^{0} \to ψ (2 S) ϕ) / B (B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ ϕ)$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231801 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Natural Electroweak Breaking from a Mirror Symmetry

Z. Chacko, Hock-Seng Goh, and Roni Harnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231802 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

$W$ Boson Production Cross Section at the Large Hadron Collider with $O (α_{s}^{2})$ Corrections

Kirill Melnikov and Frank Petriello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231803 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Observation of $Υ (4 S)$ Decays to $π^{+} π^{-} Υ (1 S)$ and $π^{+} π^{-} Υ (2 S)$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 232001 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Measurement of Azimuthal Asymmetries in Inclusive Production of Hadron Pairs in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at Belle

R. Seidl et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 232002 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Nuclear Physics

How Low-Energy Weak Reactions Can Constrain Three-Nucleon Forces and the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length

A. Gårdestig and D. R. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 232301 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Enhanced Core Polarization in ${}^{70}{Ni}$ and ${}^{74}{Zn}$

O. Perru et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 232501 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coincidence and Total Photoelectron Spectra and their Differences Induced by Internal Degrees of Freedom

S. Scheit and L. S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 233001 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Convergence of Experiment and Theory on the Pure Vibrational Spectrum of ${HeH}^{+}$

Monika Stanke, Dariusz Kędziera, Marcin Molski, Sergiy Bubin, Maria Barysz, and Ludwik Adamowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 233002 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Young-Type Interference in $(e, 2 e)$ Ionization of $H_{2}$

D. S. Milne-Brownlie, M. Foster, Junfang Gao, B. Lohmann, and D. H. Madison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 233201 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Isomorphous Substitution in Bimetallic Oxide Clusters

E. Janssens, G. Santambrogio, M. Brümmer, L. Wöste, P. Lievens, J. Sauer, G. Meijer, and K. R. Asmis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 233401 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhanced Transmission through Periodic Arrays of Subwavelength Holes: The Role of Localized Waveguide Resonances

Zhichao Ruan and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 233901 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Parametric Amplification of the Dynamic Radiation Force of Acoustic Waves in Fluids

Glauber T. Silva, Shigao Chen, and Leonardo P. Viana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 234301 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evidence of the Presence of Opticlike Collective Modes in a Liquid from Neutron Scattering Experiments

F. J. Bermejo, J. W. Taylor, S. E. McLain, I. Bustinduy, J. F. C. Turner, M. D. Ruiz-Martin, C. Cabrillo, and R Fernandez-Perea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 235501 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Glass Fragility and Atomic Ordering on the Intermediate and Extended Range

Philip S. Salmon, Adrian C. Barnes, Richard A. Martin, and Gabriel J. Cuello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 235502 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Glasslike Two-Level Systems in Minimally Disordered Mixed Crystals

J. P. Wrubel, B. E. Hubbard, N. I. Agladze, A. J. Sievers, P. P. Fedorov, D. I. Klimenchenko, A. I. Ryskin, and J. A. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 235503 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Aging Dynamics and the Topology of Inhomogenous Networks

R. Burioni, D. Cassi, F. Corberi, and A. Vezzani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 235701 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Chaos and Residual Correlations in Pinned Disordered Systems

Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 235702 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

Influence of the Angular Distribution Function of Incident Particles on the Microstructure and Anomalous Scaling Behavior of Thin Films

A. Yanguas-Gil, J. Cotrino, A. Barranco, and A. R. González-Elipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 236101 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Velocity Dependence of Friction and Hydrogen Bonding Effects

Jinyu Chen, Imma Ratera, Jeong Young Park, and Miquel Salmeron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 236102 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

High Resolution Electromechanical Imaging of Ferroelectric Materials in a Liquid Environment by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

Brian J. Rodriguez, Stephen Jesse, A. P. Baddorf, and Sergei V. Kalinin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 237602 (2006) - Published 16 June, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Observation of the First-Order Transition in Ultrafiltration of Flexible Linear Polymer Chains

Fan Jin and Chi Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 237801 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Nonlinear Photoresponse of Disordered Elastomers

D. Corbett and M. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 237802 (2006) - Published 12 June, 2006

Reproducibility of Dynamical Heterogeneities and Metabasin Dynamics in Glass Forming Liquids: The Influence of Structure on Dynamics

G. A. Appignanesi, J. A. Rodríguez Fris, and M. A. Frechero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 237803 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Can One Predict DNA Transcription Start Sites by Studying Bubbles?”

C. H. Choi, A. Usheva, G. Kalosakas, K. Ø. Rasmussen, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 239801 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

van Erp et al. Reply:

Titus S. van Erp, Santiago Cuesta-Lopez, Johannes-Geert Hagmann, and Michel Peyrard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 239802 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Enhanced Interfacial Magnetic Coupling of $Gd / Fe$ Multilayers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 207201 (2001)]

D. Haskel, G. Srajer, J. C. Lang, J. Pollmann, C. S. Nelson, J. S. Jiang, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 239901 (2006) - Published 13 June, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Direct Numerical Simulations of Electrophoresis of Charged Colloids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 208302 (2006)]

Kang Kim, Yasuya Nakayama, and Ryoichi Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 239902 (2006) - Published 14 June, 2006

Erratum: All-Angle Negative Refraction for Surface Plasmon Waves Using a Metal-Dielectric-Metal Structure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 073907 (2006)]

Hocheol Shin and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 239903 (2006) - Published 15 June, 2006