Volume 96, Issue 24

23 June 2006

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On the Cover

Scanning laser microscopy images of the resistive transition in a Nb bridge on a PbFe₁₂O₁₉ substrate, at different temperatures, showing evidence of parallel (A) and reverse (B) domain superconductivity.

From the article:

Local Observation of Reverse-Domain Superconductivity in a Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrid
J. Fritzsche, V. V. Moshchalkov, H. Eitel, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, and R. Szymczak
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247003 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Soft Nanopolyhedra as a Route to Multivalent Nanoparticles

Jiunn-Ren Roan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 248301 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

LETTERS

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

Anomalous Hydrodynamics and Normal Fluids in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Bourne, N. K. Wilkin, and J. M. F. Gunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240401 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Structure of Fermion Nodes and Nodal Cells

Lubos Mitas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240402 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Proposal of an Experimentally Accessible Measure of Many-Fermion Entanglement

M. Kindermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240403 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Hybrid Quantum Repeater Using Bright Coherent Light

P. van Loock, T. D. Ladd, K. Sanaka, F. Yamaguchi, Kae Nemoto, W. J. Munro, and Y. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240501 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Experimental Interference of Independent Photons

Rainer Kaltenbaek, Bibiane Blauensteiner, Marek Żukowski, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240502 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Time-Symmetric Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Systems

Christian Maes and Maarten H. van Wieren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240601 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Hamiltonian Dynamics Reveals the Existence of Quasistationary States for Long-Range Systems in Contact with a Reservoir

Fulvio Baldovin and Enzo Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240602 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Self-Avoiding Random Walk with Multiple Site Weightings and Restrictions

J. Krawczyk, T. Prellberg, A. L. Owczarek, and A. Rechnitzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240603 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Quasiperiodically Driven Ratchets for Cold Atoms

R. Gommers, S. Denisov, and F. Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 240604 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Effects in Neutrino Induced Coherent Pion Production at K2K and MiniBooNE

S. K. Singh, M. Sajjad Athar, and Shakeb Ahmad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 241801 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Search for the Rare Decay $B^{0} \to τ^{+} τ^{-}$ at BABAR

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 241802 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Measurement of the Asymmetry in the Decay ${\bar{Ω}}^{+} \to \bar{Λ} K^{+} \to \bar{p} π^{+} K^{+}$

L. C. Lu et al. (HyperCP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 242001 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Near-Threshold Production of $ϕ$ Mesons in $p p$ Collisions

M. Hartmann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 242301 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mechanism of Angular Momentum Exchange between Molecules and Laguerre-Gaussian Beams

Adrian Alexandrescu, Dan Cojoc, and Enzo Di Fabrizio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243001 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Comparison Study of Atomic and Molecular Single Ionization in the Multiphoton Ionization Regime

Jian Wu, Heping Zeng, and Chunlei Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243002 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Analytical Control of Molecular Excitations Including Strong Field Polarization Effects

Shiyang Zou, Qinghua Ren, Gabriel G. Balint-Kurti, and Frederick R Manby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243003 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Universal Reduced Potential Function for Diatomic Systems

Rui-Hua Xie and Paul S. Hsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243201 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Three-Dimensional Images for Electron-Impact Single Ionization of He: Complete and Comprehensive $(e, 2 e)$ Benchmark Data

M. Dürr, C. Dimopoulou, B. Najjari, A. Dorn, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243202 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Reactive Scattering Damage to DNA Components by Hyperthermal Secondary Ions

Zongwu Deng, Ilko Bald, Eugen Illenberger, and Michael A. Huels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243203 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Determination of the Antiproton-to-Electron Mass Ratio by Precision Laser Spectroscopy of $\bar{p} {He}^{+}$

M. Hori, A. Dax, J. Eades, K. Gomikawa, R. S. Hayano, N. Ono, W. Pirkl, E. Widmann, H. A. Torii, B. Juhász, D. Barna, and D. Horváth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243401 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Experimental Evidence of Interatomic Coulombic Decay from the Auger Final States in Argon Dimers

Y. Morishita, X.-J. Liu, N. Saito, T. Lischke, M. Kato, G. Prümper, M. Oura, H. Yamaoka, Y. Tamenori, I. H. Suzuki, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243402 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Dynamic Localization in Periodically Curved Waveguide Arrays

S. Longhi, M. Marangoni, M. Lobino, R. Ramponi, P. Laporta, E. Cianci, and V. Foglietti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243901 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Imaging Single Quantum Dots in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

Michael Barth, Roman Schuster, Achim Gruber, and Frank Cichos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243902 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Correcting Ray Optics at Curved Dielectric Microresonator Interfaces: Phase-Space Unification of Fresnel Filtering and the Goos-Hänchen Shift

Henning Schomerus and Martina Hentschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 243903 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Resonance Pacemakers in Excitable Media

Tabitha Ruvarashe Chigwada, P. Parmananda, and Kenneth Showalter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 244101 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with Coexisting Attractors

A. N. Pisarchik, R. Jaimes-Reátegui, J. R. Villalobos-Salazar, J. H. García-López, and S. Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 244102 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Crossing Bifurcations and Unstable Dimension Variability

K. T. Alligood, E. Sander, and J. A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 244103 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Noise-Induced Front Motion: Signature of a Global Bifurcation

J. Hizanidis, A. Balanov, A. Amann, and E. Schöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 244104 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Anomalous Slow Fidelity Decay for Symmetry-Breaking Perturbations

T. Gorin, H. Kohler, T. Prosen, T. H. Seligman, H.-J. Stöckmann, and M. Žnidarič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 244105 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Formation and Dynamics of Dark Solitons and Vortices in Quantum Electron Plasmas

P. K. Shukla and B. Eliasson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245001 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Collimated Multi-MeV Ion Beams from High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Underdense Plasma

L. Willingale, S. P. D. Mangles, P. M. Nilson, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, M. C. Kaluza, S. Karsch, K. L. Lancaster, W. B. Mori, Z. Najmudin, J. Schreiber, A. G. R. Thomas, M. S. Wei, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245002 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fracture Patterns Generated by Diffusion Controlled Volume Changing Reactions

A. Malthe-Sørenssen, B. Jamtveit, and P. Meakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245501 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Extraordinary Plasticity of Ductile Bulk Metallic Glasses

Mingwei Chen, Akihisa Inoue, Wei Zhang, and Toshio Sakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245502 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Phase Separating Bulk Metallic Glass: A Hierarchical Composite

Byung Joo Park, Hye Jung Chang, Do Hyang Kim, Won Tae Kim, Kamanio Chattopadhyay, T. A. Abinandanan, and Saswata Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245503 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Quantitative Parameter-Free Prediction of Simulated Crystal-Nucleation Times

Rachel S. Aga, James R. Morris, Jeffrey J. Hoyt, and Mikhail Mendelev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245701 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

In Situ Surface X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Homoepitaxial Electrochemical Growth on Au(100)

K. Krug, J. Stettner, and O. M. Magnussen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246101 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Decompositional Incommensurate Growth of Ferrocene Molecules on a Au(111) Surface

K.-F. Braun, V. Iancu, N. Pertaya, K.-H. Rieder, and S.-W. Hla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246102 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Origins of Nanoscale Heterogeneity in Ultrathin Films

J. B. Hannon, J. Sun, K. Pohl, and G. L. Kellogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246103 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Dynamics of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Water by Real-Time Visualization

Rajat Duggal and Matteo Pasquali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246104 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Theory of Defect Levels and the “Band Gap Problem” in Silicon

Peter A. Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246401 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Fermi Surface and Quasiparticle Excitations of ${Sr}_{2} {RhO}_{4}$

F. Baumberger, N. J. C. Ingle, W. Meevasana, K. M. Shen, D. H. Lu, R. S. Perry, A. P. Mackenzie, Z. Hussain, D. J. Singh, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246402 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Voltage-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition in Polythiophene Field-Effect Transistors

A. S. Dhoot, G. M. Wang, D. Moses, and A. J. Heeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246403 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Spin-Singlet Small Bipolarons in Nb-Doped ${BaTiO}_{3}$

T. Kolodiazhnyi and S. C. Wimbush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246404 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Determination of the Mechanism for Resonant Scattering in ${LaMnO}_{3}$

Q. Shen, I. S. Elfimov, P. Fanwick, Y. Tokura, T. Kimura, K. Finkelstein, R. Colella, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246405 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Coherence Control of Hall Charge and Spin Currents

Hui Zhao, Eric J. Loren, H. M. van Driel, and Arthur L. Smirl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246601 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Deterministic Teleportation of Electrons in a Quantum Dot Nanostructure

R. L. de Visser and M. Blaauboer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246801 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Sub-Poissonian Shot Noise in Graphene

J. Tworzydło, B. Trauzettel, M. Titov, A. Rycerz, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246802 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Generation and Control of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement in Superconducting Circuits

L. F. Wei, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246803 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Enhanced Shot Noise in Tunneling through a Stack of Coupled Quantum Dots

P. Barthold, F. Hohls, N. Maire, K. Pierz, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246804 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Understanding the $\frac{5}{2}$ Fractional Quantum Hall Effect without the Pfaffian Wave Function

Csaba Tőke and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246805 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Broad Peak in the $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ Superconducting Correlation Length as a Function of Hole Concentration in the Two-Dimensional $t − J$ Model

W. O. Putikka and M. U. Luchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247001 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Phenomenological Model of Protected Behavior in the Pseudogap State of Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors

Victor Barzykin and David Pines

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247002 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Local Observation of Reverse-Domain Superconductivity in a Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrid

J. Fritzsche, V. V. Moshchalkov, H. Eitel, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, and R. Szymczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247003 (2006) - Published 22 June, 2006

Thermal Conductivity of the Pyrochlore Superconductor ${KOs}_{2} O_{6}$ : Strong Electron Correlations and Fully Gapped Superconductivity

Y. Kasahara, Y. Shimono, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, S. Yonezawa, Y. Muraoka, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247004 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Spin Waves in the Frustrated Kagomé Lattice Antiferromagnet ${KFe}_{3} (OH)_{6} ({SO}_{4})_{2}$

K. Matan, D. Grohol, D. G. Nocera, T. Yildirim, A. B. Harris, S. H. Lee, S. E. Nagler, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247201 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Unusual Evolution of the Magnetic Interactions versus Structural Distortions in $R {MnO}_{3}$ Perovskites

J.-S. Zhou and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247202 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Low-Temperature Spin Diffusion in a Highly Ideal $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Chain Studied by Muon Spin Relaxation

F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, T. Lancaster, C. Baines, and S. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247203 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Time-Resolved Spin-Torque Switching and Enhanced Damping in Permalloy/Cu/Permalloy Spin-Valve Nanopillars

N. C. Emley, I. N. Krivorotov, O. Ozatay, A. G. F. Garcia, J. C. Sankey, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247204 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

Effect of Orbital Rotation and Mixing on the Optical Properties of Orthorhombic $R {MnO}_{3}$ ( $R = La$ , Pr, Nd, Gd, and Tb)

M. W. Kim, S. J. Moon, J. H. Jung, Jaejun Yu, Sachin Parashar, P. Murugavel, J. H. Lee, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247205 (2006) - Published 20 June, 2006

Long-Distance Entanglement in Spin Systems

L. Campos Venuti, C. Degli Esposti Boschi, and M. Roncaglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 247206 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Soft Nanopolyhedra as a Route to Multivalent Nanoparticles

Jiunn-Ren Roan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 248301 (2006) - Published 19 June, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Measurements of Energetic Proton Transport through Magnetized Plasma from Intense Laser Interactions with Solids”

S. Gaillard, J. Fuchs, N. Renard-LeGalloudec, and T. E. Cowan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 249201 (2006) - Published 23 June, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Correlated Hybridization in Transition-Metal Complexes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 196401 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 249901 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Magnetic Reversal of the Ferroelectric Polarization in a Multiferroic Spinel Oxide [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 207204 (2006)]

Y. Yamasaki, S. Miyasaka, Y. Kaneko, J.-P. He, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 249902 (2006) - Published 21 June, 2006