Volume 96, Issue 3

27 January 2006

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On the Cover

Spacetime diagrams for models designed to evade the Big Bang singularity. The left diagram depicts a pre-Big-Bang scenario, while the other two show how a new string theory model evades the singularity by creating two Universes.

From the article:

Brane Decay and an Initial Spacelike Singularity
Shinsuke Kawai, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Robert G. Leigh, and Sean Nowling
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031301 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Conduction-Electron Drift Velocity Measurement via Electron Spin Resonance

M. Drescher, N. Kaplan, and E. Dormann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037601 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

LETTERS

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

Learning by Message Passing in Networks of Discrete Synapses

Alfredo Braunstein and Riccardo Zecchina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030201 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Molecules of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Thilo Stöferle, Henning Moritz, Kenneth Günter, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030401 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Nonperturbative Calculation of Born-Infeld Effects on the Schrödinger Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom

Holly Carley and Michael K.-H. Kiessling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030402 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Classical Divergence of Nonlinear Response Functions

Maksym Kryvohuz and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030403 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Observation of Entanglement of a Single Photon with a Trapped Atom

Jürgen Volz, Markus Weber, Daniel Schlenk, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Johannes Vrana, Karen Saucke, Christian Kurtsiefer, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030404 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Entanglement of Remote Atomic Qubits

D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chanelière, S. D. Jenkins, S.-Y. Lan, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030405 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Friction and Diffusion of Matter-Wave Bright Solitons

Subhasis Sinha, Alexander Yu. Cherny, Dmitry Kovrizhin, and Joachim Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030406 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Improved Transfer of Quantum Information Using a Local Memory

Vittorio Giovannetti and Daniel Burgarth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030501 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Staggered Ladder Spectra

E. Arvedson, M. Wilkinson, B. Mehlig, and K. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030601 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Activated Aging Dynamics and Negative Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratios

Peter Mayer, Sébastien Léonard, Ludovic Berthier, Juan P. Garrahan, and Peter Sollich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030602 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Collapse of Magnetized Hypermassive Neutron Stars in General Relativity

Matthew D. Duez, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata, and Branson C. Stephens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031101 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Magnetized Hypermassive Neutron-Star Collapse: A Central Engine for Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Masaru Shibata, Matthew D. Duez, Yuk Tung Liu, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Branson C. Stephens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031102 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Formation and Evaporation of Nonsingular Black Holes

Sean A. Hayward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031103 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Brane Decay and an Initial Spacelike Singularity

Shinsuke Kawai, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Robert G. Leigh, and Sean Nowling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031301 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Quantum Evaporation of a Naked Singularity

Rituparno Goswami, Pankaj S. Joshi, and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031302 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

High Density Preheating Effects on $Q$ -Ball Decays and Inflation in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

Micha Berkooz, Daniel J. H. Chung, and Tomer Volansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031303 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Double Protection of the Higgs Potential in a Supersymmetric Little Higgs Model

Zurab Berezhiani, Piotr H. Chankowski, Adam Falkowski, and Stefan Pokorski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031801 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Single Electrons from Heavy-Flavor Decays in $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032001 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Improved Calculation of Electroweak Radiative Corrections and the Value of $V_{u d}$

William J. Marciano and Alberto Sirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032002 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Search for Exclusive Multibody Non- $D \bar{D}$ Decays at the $ψ (3770)$ Resonance

G. S. Huang et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032003 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Modification of Electron Spectra and Implications for Heavy Quark Energy Loss in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032301 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Measurement of Identified $π^{0}$ and Inclusive Photon Second-Harmonic Parameter $v_{2}$ and Implications for Direct Photon Production in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ $Au + Au$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032302 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Azimuthal Asymmetry of Direct Photons in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

S. Turbide, C. Gale, and R. J. Fries

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032303 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Chemical Thermalization in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

F. Gelis, K. Kajantie, and T. Lappi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032304 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Critical-Point Description of the Transition from Vibrational to Rotational Regimes in the Pairing Phase

R. M. Clark, A. O. Macchiavelli, L. Fortunato, and R. Krücken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032501 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Structure of ${}^{12}{Be}$ : Intruder $d$ -Wave Strength at $N = 8$

S. D. Pain, W. N. Catford, N. A. Orr, J. C. Angélique, N. I. Ashwood, V. Bouchat, N. M. Clarke, N. Curtis, M. Freer, B. R. Fulton, F. Hanappe, M. Labiche, J. L. Lecouey, R. C. Lemmon, D. Mahboub, A. Ninane, G. Normand, N. Soić, L. Stuttge, C. N. Timis, J. A. Tostevin, J. S. Winfield, and V. Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032502 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Proton Reaction Cross Sections as Measures of the Spatial Distibutions of Neutrons in Exotic Nuclei

K. Amos, W. A. Richter, S. Karataglidis, and B. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032503 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Determination of the Fine Structure Constant Based on Bloch Oscillations of Ultracold Atoms in a Vertical Optical Lattice

Pierre Cladé, Estefania de Mirandes, Malo Cadoret, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa, Catherine Schwob, François Nez, Lucile Julien, and François Biraben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033001 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Nuclear Charge Radii of ${}^{9, 11}{Li}$ : The Influence of Halo Neutrons

R. Sánchez, W. Nörtershäuser, G. Ewald, D. Albers, J. Behr, P. Bricault, B. A. Bushaw, A. Dax, J. Dilling, M. Dombsky, G. W. F. Drake, S. Götte, R. Kirchner, H.-J. Kluge, Th. Kühl, J. Lassen, C. D. P. Levy, M. R. Pearson, E. J. Prime, V. Ryjkov, A. Wojtaszek, Z.-C. Yan, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033002 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Systematic Study of the ${}^{87}{Sr}$ Clock Transition in an Optical Lattice

Andrew D. Ludlow, Martin M. Boyd, Tanya Zelevinsky, Seth M. Foreman, Sebastian Blatt, Mark Notcutt, Tetsuya Ido, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033003 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Observation of Dark State Polariton Collapses and Revivals

D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chanelière, S. D. Jenkins, S.-Y. Lan, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033601 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Optical Decoherence in ${Er}^{3 +}$ -Doped Silicate Fiber: Evidence for Coupled Spin-Elastic Tunneling Systems

R. M. Macfarlane, Y. Sun, P. B. Sellin, and R. L. Cone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033602 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Spatially Coherent Polarization Vector Fields and Visualization of Vector Singularities

Y. F. Chen, T. H. Lu, and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033901 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Unidirectional High Intensity Narrow-Linewidth Lasing from a Planar Random Microcavity Laser

Qinghai Song, Liying Liu, Shumin Xiao, Xinchuan Zhou, Wencheng Wang, and Lei Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033902 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Photonic Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Dense Co Particle Ensembles

K. J. Chau and A. Y. Elezzabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033903 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Enhanced Photonic Band-Gap Confinement via Van Hove Saddle Point Singularities

Mihai Ibanescu, Evan J. Reed, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033904 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Manifestation of Weak Localization and Long-Range Correlation in Disordered Wave Functions from Conical Second Harmonic Generation

Y. F. Chen, K. W. Su, T. H. Lu, and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033905 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Universality in the Synchronization of Weighted Random Networks

Changsong Zhou, Adilson E. Motter, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034101 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Chaos Control using Notch Filter Feedback

Alexander Ahlborn and Ulrich Parlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034102 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Observation of Soliton Fusion in a Josephson Array

J. Pfeiffer, M. Schuster, A. A. Abdumalikov, Jr., and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034103 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Synchronization from Disordered Driving Forces in Arrays of Coupled Oscillators

Sebastian F. Brandt, Babette K. Dellen, and Ralf Wessel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034104 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Symbolic Dynamics of Coupled Map Lattices

Shawn D. Pethel, Ned J. Corron, and Erik Bollt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034105 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Nuclear Emissions During Self-Nucleated Acoustic Cavitation

R. P. Taleyarkhan, C. D. West, R. T. Lahey, Jr., R. I. Nigmatulin, R. C. Block, and Y. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034301 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Sink Flow Deforms the Interface Between a Viscous Liquid and Air into a Tip Singularity

S. Courrech du Pont and J. Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034501 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Resonant Excitation of Rossby Waves in the Equatorial Waveguide and their Nonlinear Evolution

G. M. Reznik and V. Zeitlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034502 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

$α$ Effect in a Family of Chaotic Flows

Alice Courvoisier, David W. Hughes, and Steven M. Tobias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034503 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Dripping of a Liquid from a Tube in the Absence of Gravity

Ronald Suryo and Osman A. Basaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034504 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Interaction and Fragmentation of Pulsed Laser Induced Microbubbles in a Narrow Gap

Yen-Hong Chen, Hong-Yu Chu, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034505 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Heating Mechanisms in Short-Pulse Laser-Driven Cone Targets

R. J. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035001 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Experimental Study of Coaxial Free-Electron Maser Based on Two-Dimensional Distributed Feedback

I. V. Konoplev, P. McGrane, W. He, A. W. Cross, A. D. R. Phelps, C. G. Whyte, K. Ronald, and C. W. Robertson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035002 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch

K. J. McCollam, A. P. Blair, S. C. Prager, and J. S. Sarff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035003 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Change of the Magnetic-Field Topology by an Ergodic Divertor and the Effect on the Plasma Structure and Transport

M. W. Jakubowski, O. Schmitz, S. S. Abdullaev, S. Brezinsek, K. H. Finken, A. Krämer-Flecken, M. Lehnen, U. Samm, K. H. Spatschek, B. Unterberg, and R. C. Wolf (TEXTOR Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035004 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Effect of Target Composition on Proton Energy Spectra in Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions

A. P. L Robinson, A. R. Bell, and R. J. Kingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035005 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Model for Current-Driven Edge-Localized Modes

C. G. Gimblett, R. J. Hastie, and P. Helander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035006 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Decay of Pure Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

D. I. Bradley, D. O. Clubb, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, R. P. Haley, C. J. Matthews, G. R. Pickett, V. Tsepelin, and K. Zaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035301 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Vibrational Lifetimes and Frequency-Gap Law of Hydrogen Bending Modes in Semiconductors

B. Sun, G. A. Shi, S. V. S. Nageswara Rao, M. Stavola, N. H. Tolk, S. K. Dixit, L. C. Feldman, and G. Lüpke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035501 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

X-Ray Tomographic Imaging of Crystal Structure at the Atomic Level

P. Korecki, M. Tolkiehn, D. V. Novikov, G. Materlik, and M. Szymonski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035502 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Far-Infrared Absorption of ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3 - y}$ at High Pressure

A. Sacchetti, M. Cestelli Guidi, E. Arcangeletti, A. Nucara, P. Calvani, M. Piccinini, A. Marcelli, and P. Postorino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035503 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Martensitic fcc-to-hcp Transformations in Solid Xenon under Pressure: A First-Principles Study

Eunja Kim, Malcolm Nicol, Hyunchae Cynn, and Choong-Shik Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035504 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Mutual Passivation of Donors and Isovalent Nitrogen in GaAs

Jingbo Li, Pierre Carrier, Su-Huai Wei, Shu-Shen Li, and Jian-Bai Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035505 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Two-Dimensional Scaling Properties of Experimental Fracture Surfaces

L. Ponson, D. Bonamy, and E. Bouchaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035506 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Lattice Dynamics of MgO at High Pressure: Theory and Experiment

Subrata Ghose, Michael Krisch, Artem R. Oganov, Alexandre Beraud, Alexey Bosak, Revansidha Gulve, Raghunandan Seelaboyina, Hexiong Yang, and Surendra K. Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035507 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Stoichiometry Driven Impurity Configurations in Compound Semiconductors

G. Chen, I. Miotkowski, S. Rodriguez, and A. K. Ramdas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035508 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Ultrastability and Enhanced Stiffness of $\sim 6 nm$ ${TiO}_{2}$ Nanoanatase and Eventual Pressure-Induced Disorder on the Nanometer Scale

V. Pischedda, G. R. Hearne, A. M. Dawe, and J. E. Lowther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035509 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Nonequilibrium Phase Transition on a Randomly Diluted Lattice

Thomas Vojta and Man Young Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035701 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Jamming Percolation and Glass Transitions in Lattice Models

Cristina Toninelli, Giulio Biroli, and Daniel S. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 035702 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Transition to Tumbling and Two Regimes of Tumbling Motion of a Vesicle in Shear Flow

Vasiliy Kantsler and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036001 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Chirality-Induced Spin-Selective Properties of Self-Assembled Monolayers of DNA on Gold

S. G. Ray, S. S. Daube, G. Leitus, Z. Vager, and R. Naaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036101 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Nanoscale Volcanoes: Accretion of Matter at Ion-Sculpted Nanopores

Toshiyuki Mitsui, Derek Stein, Young-Rok Kim, David Hoogerheide, and J. A. Golovchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036102 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Influence of the Metal Substrate on the Adsorption Properties of Thin Oxide Layers: Au Atoms on a Thin Alumina Film on NiAl(110)

M. Kulawik, N. Nilius, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036103 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Fabrication of Complex Three-Dimensional Nanostructures from Self-Assembling Block Copolymer Materials on Two-Dimensional Chemically Patterned Templates with Mismatched Symmetry

Kostas Ch. Daoulas, Marcus Müller, Mark P. Stoykovich, Sang-Min Park, Yioryos J. Papakonstantopoulos, Juan J. de Pablo, Paul F. Nealey, and Harun H. Solak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036104 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Anisotropic Water Chain Growth on Cu(110) Observed with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

T. Yamada, S. Tamamori, H. Okuyama, and T. Aruga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036105 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Reversible Shape Transition of Pb Islands on Cu(111)

R. van Gastel, N. C. Bartelt, and G. L. Kellogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036106 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Chaos in Atomic Force Microscopy

Shuiqing Hu and Arvind Raman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036107 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Evidence for Electronic Phase Separation between Orbital Orderings in ${SmVO}_{3}$

M. H. Sage, G. R. Blake, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, and T. T. M. Palstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036401 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Energy Anomaly and Polarizability of Carbon Nanotubes

D. S. Novikov and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036402 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Pauli Spin Susceptibility of a Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid

A. A. Shashkin, S. Anissimova, M. R. Sakr, S. V. Kravchenko, V. T. Dolgopolov, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036403 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Many-Body Electronic Structure of Americium Metal

Sergej Y. Savrasov, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036404 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Helicity Order: Hidden Order Parameter in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

C. M. Varma and Lijun Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036405 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Saturated Ferromagnetism from Statistical Transmutation in Two Dimensions

Yasuhiro Saiga and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036406 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Bosonization Solution of the Falicov-Kimball Model

P. M. R. Brydon and M. Gulácsi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036407 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Functional Renormalization Group Analysis of the Half-Filled One-Dimensional Extended Hubbard Model

Ka-Ming Tam, Shan-Wen Tsai, and David K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036408 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Kondo Effect in Bosonic Spin Liquids

Serge Florens, Lars Fritz, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036601 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Disorder Induced Localized States in Graphene

Vitor M. Pereira, F. Guinea, J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos, N. M. R. Peres, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036801 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Modification of Surface States in Ultrathin Films via Hybridization with the Substrate: A Study of Ag on Ge

S.-J. Tang, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036802 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Interaction between Adatom-Induced Localized States and a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Canhua Liu, Iwao Matsuda, Rei Hobara, and Shuji Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036803 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Phase Coherence in the Inelastic Cotunneling Regime

Martin Sigrist, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Daniel Loss, Matthias Reinwald, and Werner Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036804 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Surface Reactivity and Quantum-Size Effects on the Electronic Density Decay Length of Ultrathin Metal Films

N. Binggeli and M. Altarelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036805 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Interlayer Aharonov-Bohm Interference in Tilted Magnetic Fields in Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Conductors

Benjamin K. Cooper and Victor M. Yakovenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037001 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Cooper Pairs with Broken Parity and Spin-Rotational Symmetries in $d$ -Wave Superconductors

A. G. Lebed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037002 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Effect of Zn and Ni Impurities on the Quasiparticle Renormalization of Superconducting Bi-2212

V. B. Zabolotnyy, S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, J. Fink, J. Geck, A. Koitzsch, M. Knupfer, B. Büchner, H. Berger, A. Erb, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, and R. Follath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037003 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Magnetization-Dependent $T_{c}$ Shift in Ferromagnet/Superconductor/Ferromagnet Trilayers with a Strong Ferromagnet

Ion C. Moraru, W. P. Pratt, Jr., and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037004 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Switching Magnetization of a Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Particle Using Nonlocal Spin Injection

T. Kimura, Y. Otani, and J. Hamrle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037201 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Phase Separation in $A$ -Site-Ordered Perovskite Manganite ${LaBaMn}_{2} O_{6}$ Probed by ${}^{139}{La}$ and ${}^{55}{Mn}$ NMR

Y. Kawasaki, T. Minami, Y. Kishimoto, T. Ohno, K. Zenmyo, H. Kubo, T. Nakajima, and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037202 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Quantitative Real-Space Analysis of Self-Assembled Structures of Magnetic Dipolar Colloids

Mark Klokkenburg, Roel P. A. Dullens, Willem K. Kegel, Ben H. Erné, and Albert P. Philipse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037203 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Linear Magnetization Dependence of the Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect

Changgan Zeng, Yugui Yao, Qian Niu, and Hanno H. Weitering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037204 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Perpendicular Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Tetragonally Distorted Fe-Co Alloys

Gabriella Andersson, Till Burkert, Peter Warnicke, Matts Björck, Biplab Sanyal, Cyril Chacon, Claudia Zlotea, Lars Nordström, Per Nordblad, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037205 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Static Magnetic Order in Metallic $K_{0.49} {CoO}_{2}$

J. Sugiyama, H. Nozaki, Y. Ikedo, K. Mukai, J. H. Brewer, E. J. Ansaldo, G. D. Morris, D. Andreica, A. Amato, T. Fujii, and A. Asamitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037206 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

Photoexcited Electron Dynamics in Kondo Insulators and Heavy Fermions

Jure Demsar, Verner K. Thorsmølle, John L. Sarrao, and Antoinette J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037401 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Ramsey Fringes in an Electric-Field-Tunable Quantum Dot System

S. Stufler, P. Ester, A. Zrenner, and M. Bichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037402 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Nonexponential Relaxations in a Two-Dimensional Electron System in Silicon

J. Jaroszyński and Dragana Popović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037403 (2006) - Published 25 January, 2006

Stimulated Terahertz Stokes Emission of Silicon Crystals Doped with Antimony Donors

S. G. Pavlov, H.-W. Hübers, J. N. Hovenier, T. O. Klaassen, D. A. Carder, P. J. Phillips, B. Redlich, H. Riemann, R. Kh. Zhukavin, and V. N. Shastin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037404 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Ultrafast Photoinduced Melting of a Spin-Peierls Phase in an Organic Charge-Transfer Compound, K-Tetracyanoquinodimethane

H. Okamoto, K. Ikegami, T. Wakabayashi, Y. Ishige, J. Togo, H. Kishida, and H. Matsuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037405 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Optical Pseudogap from Iron States in Filled Skutterudites $A {Fe}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ ( $A = Yb, Ca, Ba$ )

J. Sichelschmidt, V. Voevodin, H. J. Im, S. Kimura, H. Rosner, A. Leithe-Jasper, W. Schnelle, U. Burkhardt, J. A. Mydosh, Yu. Grin, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037406 (2006) - Published 27 January, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Conduction-Electron Drift Velocity Measurement via Electron Spin Resonance

M. Drescher, N. Kaplan, and E. Dormann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037601 (2006) - Published 23 January, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Storage of Localized Structure Matrices in Nematic Liquid Crystals

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Structure Formation under Steady-State Isothermal Planar Elongational Flow of $n$ -Eicosane: A Comparison between Simulation and Experiment

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 037802 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 039901 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

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J. Muth-Böhm, A. Becker, and F. H. M. Faisal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 039902 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Significance of the Hyperfine Interactions in the Phase Diagram of ${LiHo}_{x} Y_{1 - x} F_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267208 (2005)]

M. Schechter and P. C. E. Stamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 039903 (2006) - Published 24 January, 2006

Erratum: Observation of the Anomalous Increase of the Longitudinal Energy Spread in a Space-Charge-Dominated Electron Beam [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 134801 (2005)]

Y. Zou, Y. Cui, M. Reiser, and P. G. O’Shea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 039904 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Erratum: Freezing Transition of Interfacial Water at Room Temperature under Electric Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 085701 (2005)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 039905 (2006) - Published 26 January, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Visual Observation of Zener Tunneling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 023901 (2006)]

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