Volume 96, Issue 25

30 June 2006

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On the Cover

Terraces formed by precipitation of calcium carbonate. Top: closeup of a 25 cm wide region of Angel Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs, WY. Bottom: a simulation.

From the article:

Dynamics of Precipitation Pattern Formation at Geothermal Hot Springs
Nigel Goldenfeld, Pak Yuen Chan, and John Veysey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254501 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Strong Low-Lying $E 1$ Strength in the Two-Neutron Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Li}$

T. Nakamura, A. M. Vinodkumar, T. Sugimoto, N. Aoi, H. Baba, D. Bazin, N. Fukuda, T. Gomi, H. Hasegawa, N. Imai, M. Ishihara, T. Kobayashi, Y. Kondo, T. Kubo, M. Miura, T. Motobayashi, H. Otsu, A. Saito, H. Sakurai, S. Shimoura, K. Watanabe, Y. X. Watanabe, T. Yakushiji, Y. Yanagisawa, and K. Yoneda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 252502 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

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Crystallization of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Granular Fluid

P. M. Reis, R. A. Ingale, and M. D. Shattuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 258001 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

LETTERS

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

Limit on Nonlocality in Any World in Which Communication Complexity Is Not Trivial

Gilles Brassard, Harry Buhrman, Noah Linden, André Allan Méthot, Alain Tapp, and Falk Unger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 250401 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

$d$ -Wave Resonating Valence Bond States of Fermionic Atoms in Optical Lattices

Simon Trebst, Ulrich Schollwöck, Matthias Troyer, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 250402 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Quantum Manipulation of Trapped Ions in Two Dimensional Coulomb Crystals

D. Porras and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 250501 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Hybrid Particle-Field Simulations of Polymer Nanocomposites

Scott W. Sides, Bumjoon J. Kim, Edward J. Kramer, and Glenn H. Fredrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 250601 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Regular Phantom Black Holes

K. A. Bronnikov and J. C. Fabris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 251101 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Forward-Backward Asymmetry and Wilson Coefficients in $B \to K^{*} l^{+} l^{-}$

A. Ishikawa et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 251801 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Search For $T$ , $C P$ , and $C P T$ Violation in $B^{0} − {\bar{B}}^{0}$ Mixing with Inclusive Dilepton Events

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 251802 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Evidence for Large Direct $C P$ Violation in $B^{\pm} \to ρ (770)^{0} K^{\pm}$ from Analysis of Three-Body Charmless $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} π^{\pm} π^{\pm}$ Decays

A. Garmash et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 251803 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Anomalous Viscosity of an Expanding Quark-Gluon Plasma

M. Asakawa, S. A. Bass, and B. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 252301 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Measurement of the $E_{c . m .} = 184 keV$ Resonance Strength in the ${}^{26 g}{Al} (p, γ) {}^{27}{Si}$ Reaction

C. Ruiz et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 252501 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Strong Low-Lying $E 1$ Strength in the Two-Neutron Halo Nucleus ${}^{11}{Li}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 252502 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Large Velocity Capture Range and Low Temperatures with Cavities

K. Murr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 253001 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

$g$ -Factor of Heavy Ions: A New Access to the Fine Structure Constant

V. M. Shabaev, D. A. Glazov, N. S. Oreshkina, A. V. Volotka, G. Plunien, H.-J. Kluge, and W. Quint

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 253002 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Microfabricated Surface-Electrode Ion Trap for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

S. Seidelin, J. Chiaverini, R. Reichle, J. J. Bollinger, D. Leibfried, J. Britton, J. H. Wesenberg, R. B. Blakestad, R. J. Epstein, D. B. Hume, W. M. Itano, J. D. Jost, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, N. Shiga, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 253003 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Energy-Dependent Excitation Cross Section Measurements of the Diagnostic Lines of Fe XVII

G. V. Brown, P. Beiersdorfer, H. Chen, J. H. Scofield, K. R. Boyce, R. L. Kelley, C. A. Kilbourne, F. S. Porter, M. F. Gu, S. M. Kahn, and A. E. Szymkowiak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 253201 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Distillation of Squeezing from Non-Gaussian Quantum States

J. Heersink, Ch. Marquardt, R. Dong, R. Filip, S. Lorenz, G. Leuchs, and U. L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 253601 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strength Distributions and Symmetry Breaking in Coupled Microwave Billiards

B. Dietz, T. Guhr, H. L. Harney, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254101 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Estimating the Shannon Entropy: Recurrence Plots versus Symbolic Dynamics

Christophe Letellier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254102 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Emergence of Coherence in Complex Networks of Heterogeneous Dynamical Systems

Juan G. Restrepo, Edward Ott, and Brian R. Hunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254103 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Dynamics of Precipitation Pattern Formation at Geothermal Hot Springs

Nigel Goldenfeld, Pak Yuen Chan, and John Veysey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254501 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Polyhedra Formation and Transient Cone Ejection of a Resonant Microdrop Forced by an ac Electric Field

Ping Wang, Siddharth Maheshwari, and Hsueh-Chia Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254502 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Meandering Rivulets on a Plane: A Simple Balance between Inertia and Capillarity

Nolwenn Le Grand-Piteira, Adrian Daerr, and Laurent Limat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 254503 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurement and 3D Simulation of Self-Organized Filaments in a Barrier Discharge

L. Stollenwerk, Sh. Amiranashvili, J.-P. Boeuf, and H.-G. Purwins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255001 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Torus Instability

B. Kliem and T. Török

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255002 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Broadband Dielectric Function of Nonequilibrium Warm Dense Gold

Y. Ping, D. Hanson, I. Koslow, T. Ogitsu, D. Prendergast, E. Schwegler, G. Collins, and A. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255003 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Toroidal Symmetry of the Geodesic Acoustic Mode Zonal Flow in a Tokamak Plasma

K. J. Zhao, T. Lan, J. Q. Dong, L. W. Yan, W. Y. Hong, C. X. Yu, A. D. Liu, J. Qian, J. Cheng, D. L. Yu, Q. W. Yang, X. T. Ding, Y. Liu, and C. H. Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255004 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Energy Loss of a Charged Particle Moving over a 2D Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasma

Lu-Jing Hou, Z. L. Mišković, Ke Jiang, and You-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255005 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Optimum Hot Electron Production with Low-Density Foams for Laser Fusion by Fast Ignition

A. L. Lei, K. A. Tanaka, R. Kodama, G. R. Kumar, K. Nagai, T. Norimatsu, T. Yabuuchi, and K. Mima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255006 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Application of Bond Constraint Theory to the Switchable Optical Memory Material ${Ge}_{2} {Sb}_{2} {Te}_{5}$

D. A. Baker, M. A. Paesler, G. Lucovsky, S. C. Agarwal, and P. C. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255501 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Growth-Melt Asymmetry in Crystals and Twelve-Sided Snowflakes

A. Cahoon, M. Maruyama, and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255502 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Approach to Phonon Transport in Defective Carbon Nanotubes

Takahiro Yamamoto and Kazuyuki Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255503 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Does Bulk Metallic Glass of Elemental Zr and Ti Exist?

Takanori Hattori, Hiroyuki Saitoh, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yuka Okajima, Katsutoshi Aoki, and Wataru Utsumi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255504 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Nanoscale Anisotropic Plastic Deformation in Single Crystal Aragonite

C. Kearney, Z. Zhao, B. J. F. Bruet, R. Radovitzky, M. C. Boyce, and C. Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255505 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Mechanisms of the Wurtzite to Rocksalt Transformation in CdSe Nanocrystals

Michael Grünwald, Eran Rabani, and Christoph Dellago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255701 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Bond-Induced Ergodicity Breakdown in Reactive Mixtures

S. Corezzi, L. Comez, G. Monaco, R. Verbeni, and D. Fioretto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 255702 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Superheating and Solid-Liquid Phase Coexistence in Nanoparticles with Nonmelting Surfaces

D. Schebarchov and S. C. Hendy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 256101 (2006) - Published 26 June, 2006

Experimental Measurement of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Torsional Properties

A. R. Hall, L. An, J. Liu, L. Vicci, M. R. Falvo, R. Superfine, and S. Washburn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 256102 (2006) - Published 28 June, 2006

Contact Area Measurements Reveal Loading-History Dependence of Static Friction

S. M. Rubinstein, G. Cohen, and J. Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 256103 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Relationship between Structural and Stress Relaxation in a Block-Copolymer Melt

Amish J. Patel, Suresh Narayanan, Alec Sandy, Simon G. J. Mochrie, Bruce A. Garetz, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Nitash P. Balsara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 257801 (2006) - Published 30 June, 2006

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Delayed Fracture in Porous Media”

Yang Gan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 259601 (2006) - Published 27 June, 2006

Comment on “Spectroscopic Evidence for Multiple Order Parameters in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ ”

Goutam Sheet and Pratap Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 259701 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Comment on “Spectroscopic Evidence for Multiple Order Parameter Components in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ ”

W. K. Park and L. H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 259702 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Rourke et al. Reply:

P. M. C. Rourke, M. A. Tanatar, C. S. Turel, C. Petrovic, and J. Y. T. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 259703 (2006) - Published 29 June, 2006

Volume 96, Issue 25

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS