Volume 96, Issue 4

H. Nassar, M. Paul, I. Ahmad, Y. Ben-Dov, J. Caggiano, S. Ghelberg, S. Goriely, J. P. Greene, M. Hass, A. Heger, A. Heinz, D. J. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, Y. Kashiv, B. S. Nara Singh, A. Ofan, R. C. Pardo, T. Pennington, K. E. Rehm, G. Savard, R. Scott, and R. Vondrasek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041102 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Constraining Inverse-Curvature Gravity with Supernovae

Olga Mena, José Santiago, and Jochen Weller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041103 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Exotic Axion Cosmology in Theories with Phase Transitions below the QCD Scale

David B. Kaplan and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041301 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Dark Matter and the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

Glennys R. Farrar and Gabrijela Zaharijas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041302 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Why Black Hole Production in Scattering of Cosmic Ray Neutrinos Is Generically Suppressed

Dejan Stojkovic, Glenn D. Starkman, and De-Chang Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041303 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Superconducting Vortices in Semilocal Models

Péter Forgács, Sébastien Reuillon, and Mikhail S. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041601 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decay $τ^{\pm} \to e^{\pm} γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 041801 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Search for $Θ^{+} (1540)$ Pentaquark in High-Statistics Measurement of $γ p \to {\bar{K}}^{0} K^{+} n$ at CLAS

M. Battaglieri et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042001 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Mass and $K Λ$ Coupling of the $N^{*} (1535)$

B. C. Liu and B. S. Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042002 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Search for Charged Higgs Bosons from Top Quark Decays in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042003 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Nuclear Physics

$α ∶ 2 n ∶ α$ Molecular Band in ${}^{10}{Be}$

M. Freer, E. Casarejos, L. Achouri, C. Angulo, N. I. Ashwood, N. Curtis, P. Demaret, C. Harlin, B. Laurent, M. Milin, N. A. Orr, D. Price, R. Raabe, N. Soić, and V. A. Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042501 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Correlations in Nuclear Masses

H. Olofsson, S. Åberg, O. Bohigas, and P. Leboeuf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042502 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Measurement of the $p$ to $s$ Wave Branching Ratio of ${}^{187}{Re}$ $β$ Decay from Beta Environmental Fine Structure

C. Arnaboldi, G. Benedek, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, F. Capozzi, O. Cremonesi, A. Filipponi, E. Fiorini, A. Giuliani, A. Monfardini, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, and M. Sisti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042503 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

First Precision Mass Measurements of Refractory Fission Fragments

U. Hager, T. Eronen, J. Hakala, A. Jokinen, V. S. Kolhinen, S. Kopecky, I. Moore, A. Nieminen, M. Oinonen, S. Rinta-Antila, J. Szerypo, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042504 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Breakdown of $K$ Selection in ${}^{178}{Hf}$

A. B. Hayes, D. Cline, C. Y. Wu, J. Ai, H. Amro, C. Beausang, R. F. Casten, J. Gerl, A. A. Hecht, A. Heinz, R. Hughes, R. V. F. Janssens, C. J. Lister, A. O. Macchiavelli, D. A. Meyer, E. F. Moore, P. Napiorkowski, R. C. Pardo, Ch. Schlegel, D. Seweryniak, M. W. Simon, J. Srebrny, R. Teng, K. Vetter, and H. J. Wollersheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042505 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Continuous Nondemolition Measurement of the Cs Clock Transition Pseudospin

Souma Chaudhury, Greg A. Smith, Kevin Schulz, and Poul S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043001 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Double Excitations of Helium in Weak Static Electric Fields

Conny Såthe, Magnus Ström, Marcus Agåker, Johan Söderström, Jan-Erik Rubensson, Robert Richter, Michele Alagia, Stefano Stranges, T. W. Gorczyca, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043002 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Feedback Cooling of a Single Trapped Ion

Pavel Bushev, Daniel Rotter, Alex Wilson, François Dubin, Christoph Becher, Jürgen Eschner, Rainer Blatt, Viktor Steixner, Peter Rabl, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043003 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Diffusion-Induced Ramsey Narrowing

Yanhong Xiao, Irina Novikova, David F. Phillips, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043601 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Photon Echoes Produced by Switching Electric Fields

A. L. Alexander, J. J. Longdell, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043602 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Low-Light-Level Cross-Phase-Modulation Based on Stored Light Pulses

Yong-Fan Chen, Chang-Yi Wang, Shih-Hao Wang, and Ite A. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043603 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Observation of Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer between Acoustic and Optical Vortices in Optical Fiber

Pedram Z. Dashti, Fares Alhassen, and Henry P. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043604 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Attraction between Dark Solitons

Alexander Dreischuh, Dragomir N. Neshev, Dan E. Petersen, Ole Bang, and Wieslaw Krolikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043901 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Dynamics of Anderson Localization in Open 3D Media

S. E. Skipetrov and B. A. van Tiggelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043902 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Doppler Radiation Emitted by an Oscillating Dipole Moving inside a Photonic Band-Gap Crystal

Chiyan Luo, Mihai Ibanescu, Evan J. Reed, Steven G. Johnson, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043903 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Medium-Term Prediction of Chaos

Christopher C. Strelioff and Alfred W. Hübler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044101 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Understanding Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials

E. Beerdsen, D. Dubbeldam, and B. Smit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044501 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Turbulent Friction in Rough Pipes and the Energy Spectrum of the Phenomenological Theory

G. Gioia and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Roughness-Induced Critical Phenomena in a Turbulent Flow

Nigel Goldenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044503 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Scaling and Self-Similarity in an Unforced Flow of Inviscid Fluid Trapped Inside a Viscous Fluid in a Hele-Shaw Cell

Arkady Vilenkin, Baruch Meerson, and Pavel V. Sasorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044504 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Slip, Immiscibility, and Boundary Conditions at the Liquid-Liquid Interface

Joel Koplik and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044505 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Competition between Traveling Fluid Waves of Left and Right Spiral Vortices and Their Different Amplitude Combinations

A. Pinter, M. Lücke, and Ch. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044506 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Demonstration of Relativistic Electron Cooling

Sergei Nagaitsev, Daniel Broemmelsiek, Alexey Burov, Kermit Carlson, Consolato Gattuso, Martin Hu, Thomas Kroc, Lionel Prost, Stanley Pruss, Mary Sutherland, Charles W. Schmidt, Alexander Shemyakin, Vitali Tupikov, Arden Warner, Grigory Kazakevich, and Sergey Seletskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044801 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Hose Instability and Wake Generation by an Intense Electron Beam in a Self-Ionized Gas

S. Deng, C. D. Barnes, C. E. Clayton, C. O’Connell, F. J. Decker, R. A. Fonseca, C. Huang, M. J. Hogan, R. Iverson, D. K. Johnson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, P. Krejcik, W. Lu, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, E. Oz, F. Tsung, D. Walz, and M. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045001 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Fireball Ejection from a Molten Hot Spot to Air by Localized Microwaves

Vladimir Dikhtyar and Eli Jerby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045002 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Beat-Wave Resonant Down Scattering of Diocotron and Kelvin Modes

Nathan Mattor, B. T. Chang, and T. B. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045003 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Giant Oscillations of Electron Temperature during Steady-State Operation on Tore Supra

F. Imbeaux, G. Giruzzi, P. Maget, J. L. Ségui, V. S. Udintsev, J. F. Artaud, D. Elbèze, G. Huysmans, E. Joffrin, D. Mazon, R. Sabot, and A. Sirinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045004 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Very High Mach-Number Electrostatic Shocks in Collisionless Plasmas

G. Sorasio, M. Marti, R. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045005 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Local Waiting Time Fluctuations along a Randomly Pinned Crack Front

Knut Jørgen Måløy, Stéphane Santucci, Jean Schmittbuhl, and Renaud Toussaint

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045501 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Glass-Specific Behavior in the Damping of Acousticlike Vibrations

B. Rufflé, G. Guimbretière, E. Courtens, R. Vacher, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045502 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Coherent Light Scattering from Semicontinuous Silver Nanoshells near the Percolation Threshold

C. A. Rohde, K. Hasegawa, and Miriam Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045503 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Direct Observation of Nitrogen Location in Molecular Beam Epitaxy Grown Nitrogen-Doped ZnO

Paul Fons, Hiroshi Tampo, Alexander V. Kolobov, Masataka Ohkubo, Shigeru Niki, Junji Tominaga, Roberta Carboni, Federico Boscherini, and Stephan Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045504 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Evidence of a fcc-hcp Transition in Aluminum at Multimegabar Pressure

Y. Akahama, M. Nishimura, K. Kinoshita, H. Kawamura, and Y. Ohishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045505 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Formation of Polymorphic Cluster Phases for a Class of Models of Purely Repulsive Soft Spheres

Bianca M. Mladek, Dieter Gottwald, Gerhard Kahl, Martin Neumann, and Christos N. Likos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045701 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Effect of Stress on Melting and Freezing in Nanopores

J. J. Hoyt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045702 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Jahn-Teller Solitons, Structural Phase Transitions, and Phase Separation

Dennis P. Clougherty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045703 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Exact Characterization of $O (n)$ Tricriticality in Two Dimensions

Wenan Guo, Bernard Nienhuis, and Henk W. J. Blöte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045704 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Origin of the Verwey Transition in Magnetite

G. Kh. Rozenberg, M. P. Pasternak, W. M. Xu, Y. Amiel, M. Hanfland, M. Amboage, R. D. Taylor, and R. Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045705 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Thermal Conductivity Reduction and Thermoelectric Figure of Merit Increase by Embedding Nanoparticles in Crystalline Semiconductors

Woochul Kim, Joshua Zide, Arthur Gossard, Dmitri Klenov, Susanne Stemmer, Ali Shakouri, and Arun Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045901 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Probing the Nanohydrodynamics at Liquid-Solid Interfaces Using Thermal Motion

L. Joly, C. Ybert, and L. Bocquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046101 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Theoretical Evidence for a Dense Fluid Precursor to Crystallization

James F. Lutsko and Grégoire Nicolis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046102 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Chemically Resolved Structure of the $Sn / Ge (111)$ Surface

Tien-Lin Lee, Samantha Warren, Bruce C. C. Cowie, and Jörg Zegenhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046103 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Viscosity and Lubricity of Aqueous NaCl Solution Confined between Mica Surfaces Studied by Shear Resonance Measurement

Hiroshi Sakuma, Kenshiro Otsuki, and Kazue Kurihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046104 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Shear Modulus and Plasticity of a Driven Charge Density Wave

A. F. Isakovic, P. G. Evans, J. Kmetko, K. Cicak, Z. Cai, B. Lai, and R. E. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046401 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Giant Dielectric Response in the One-Dimensional Charge-Ordered Semiconductor $({NbSe}_{4})_{3} I$

D. Starešinić, P. Lunkenheimer, J. Hemberger, K. Biljaković, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046402 (2006) - Published 30 January, 2006

Neutron Scattering Study of Novel Magnetic Order in ${Na}_{0.5} {CoO}_{2}$

G. Gašparović, R. A. Ott, J.-H. Cho, F. C. Chou, Y. Chu, J. W. Lynn, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046403 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Modeling of Exciton Diffusion in Amorphous Organic Thin Films

Conor Madigan and Vladimir Bulović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046404 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Anomalous Pressure Dependence of the Kadowaki-Woods Ratio and Crystal-Field Effects in Mixed-Valence ${YbInCu}_{4}$

Tuson Park, V. A. Sidorov, J. L. Sarrao, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046405 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Observation of a Strongly Nested Fermi Surface in the Shape-Memory Alloy ${Ni}_{0.62} {Al}_{0.38}$

S. B. Dugdale, R. J. Watts, J. Laverock, Zs. Major, M. A. Alam, M. Samsel-Czekała, G. Kontrym-Sznajd, Y. Sakurai, M. Itou, and D. Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046406 (2006) - Published 1 February, 2006

Quasiparticle Dynamics in the Vicinity of Metal-Insulator Phase Transition in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

D. Qian, L. Wray, D. Hsieh, D. Wu, J. L. Luo, N. L. Wang, A. Kuprin, A. Fedorov, R. J. Cava, L. Viciu, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046407 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Anomalous Electronic State in ${CaCrO}_{3}$ and ${SrCrO}_{3}$

J.-S. Zhou, C.-Q. Jin, Y.-W. Long, L.-X. Yang, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046408 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Magnetization of a Strongly Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron System in Perpendicular Magnetic Fields

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046409 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Role of Strong Electronic Correlations in the Metal-To-Insulator Transition in Disordered ${LiAl}_{y} {Ti}_{2 - y} O_{4}$

F. Fazileh, R. J. Gooding, W. A. Atkinson, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046410 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Measurement of the Surface Strain Induced by Reconstructed Surfaces of GaAs (001) Using Photoreflectance and Reflectance-Difference Spectroscopies

L. F. Lastras-Martínez, J. M. Flores-Camacho, A. Lastras-Martínez, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047402 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006

Determination of the Exciton Binding Energy in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Zhenjia Wang, Hermen Pedrosa, Todd Krauss, and Lewis Rothberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047403 (2006) - Published 3 February, 2006

Domain Instability during Magnetization Precession

A. Kashuba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 047601 (2006) - Published 31 January, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Incommensurate Magnetic Ordering in ${Cu}_{2} {Te}_{2} O_{5} X_{2}$ $X = Cl, Br$ Studied by Neutron Diffraction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 217206 (2004)]

O. Zaharko, A. Daoud-Aladine, S. Streule, J. Mesot, P.-J. Brown, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 049901 (2006) - Published 2 February, 2006