Volume 96, Issue 5

10 February 2006

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Time slice of the spatial probability distribution for two helium electrons in a laser pulse. Points on the "X" lead to single ionization, while those off the "X" result in double ionization.

From the article:

Ab initio Calculation of the Double Ionization of Helium in a Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Beyond the One-Dimensional Approximation
Camilo Ruiz, Luis Plaja, Luis Roso, and Andreas Becker
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053001 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Modeling Interactions for Resonant $p$ -Wave Scattering

Ludovic Pricoupenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050401 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Long-Lived Feshbach Molecules in a Three-Dimensional Optical Lattice

G. Thalhammer, K. Winkler, F. Lang, S. Schmid, R. Grimm, and J. Hecker Denschlag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050402 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Canonical Typicality

Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghì

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050403 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Atomic Current across an Optical Lattice

Alexey V. Ponomarev, Javier Madroñero, Andrey R. Kolovsky, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050404 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Ultimate Decoherence Border for Matter-Wave Interferometry

Brahim Lamine, Rémy Hervé, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050405 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Method to Find Quantum Noiseless Subsystems

Man-Duen Choi and David W. Kribs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050501 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Phase-Controlled Collapse and Revival of Entanglement of Two Interacting Qubits

Vladimir S. Malinovsky and Ignacio R. Sola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050502 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Entanglement Conditions for Two-Mode States

Mark Hillery and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050503 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Long-Range Correlated Noise

Dorit Aharonov, Alexei Kitaev, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050504 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Fluctuation and Dissipation of Work in a Joule Experiment

B. Cleuren, C. Van den Broeck, and R. Kawai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050601 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Collective Oscillation in a Hamiltonian System

Hidetoshi Morita and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050602 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Stochastic Elastohydrodynamics of a Microcantilever Oscillating Near a Wall

R. J. Clarke, O. E. Jensen, J. Billingham, A. P. Pearson, and P. M. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 050801 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Universality in Solar Flare and Earthquake Occurrence

L. de Arcangelis, C. Godano, E. Lippiello, and M. Nicodemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 051102 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Intensity Thresholds and the Statistics of the Temporal Occurrence of Solar Flares

Marco Baiesi, Maya Paczuski, and Attilio L. Stella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 051103 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Soliton Solutions to the Einstein Equations in Five Dimensions

R. Clarkson and R. B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 051104 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Probing Spacetime Foam with Extragalactic Sources

W. A. Christiansen, Y. Jack Ng, and H. van Dam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 051301 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Low-Redshift Cosmic Baryon Fluid on Large Scales and She-Leveque Universal Scaling

Ping He, Jiren Liu, Long-Long Feng, Chi-Wang Shu, and Li-Zhi Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 051302 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nucleon Axial Charge in Full Lattice QCD

R. G. Edwards, G. T. Fleming, Ph. Hägler, J. W. Negele, K. Orginos, A. V. Pochinsky, D. B. Renner, D. G. Richards, and W. Schroers (LHPC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 052001 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} X_{c \bar{c}}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 052002 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Transition Probabilities in ${}^{134}\Pr$ : A Test for Chirality in Nuclear Systems

D. Tonev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 052501 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ab initio Calculation of the Double Ionization of Helium in a Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Beyond the One-Dimensional Approximation

Camilo Ruiz, Luis Plaja, Luis Roso, and Andreas Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053001 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Optical Pumping System Design for Large Production of Hyperpolarized ${}^{129}{Xe}$

I. C. Ruset, S. Ketel, and F. W. Hersman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053002 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Interatomic Electronic Decay in Endohedral Fullerenes

Vitali Averbukh and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053401 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Electromagnetically Induced Left Handedness in Optically Excited Four-Level Atomic Media

Quentin Thommen and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053601 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Unconditional Two-Mode Squeezing of Separated Atomic Ensembles

A. S. Parkins, E. Solano, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053602 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Sagnac Effect in Coupled-Resonator Slow-Light Waveguide Structures

Jacob Scheuer and Amnon Yariv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053901 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Synchronization and Clustering in a Multimode Quantum Dot Laser

Yann Tanguy, John Houlihan, Guillaume Huyet, Evgeny A. Viktorov, and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053902 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Bloch Oscillations and Zener Tunneling in Two-Dimensional Photonic Lattices

Henrike Trompeter, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Dragomir N. Neshev, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar, Thomas Pertsch, Ulf Peschel, and Falk Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 053903 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Diffusion-Induced Inhomogeneity in Globally Coupled Oscillators: Swing-By Mechanism

Hiroaki Daido and Kenji Nakanishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054101 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Extreme Sensitivity to Detuning for Globally Coupled Phase Oscillators

Peter Ashwin, Oleksandr Burylko, Yuri Maistrenko, and Oleksandr Popovych

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054102 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Revealing the Building Blocks of Spatiotemporal Chaos: Deviations from Extensivity

Matthew P. Fishman and David A. Egolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054103 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Arnold Tongues in a Microfluidic Drop Emitter

H Willaime, V. Barbier, L. Kloul, S. Maine, and P. Tabeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054501 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Repeated Formation of Fluid Threads in Breakup of a Surfactant-Covered Jet

Patrick T. McGough and Osman A. Basaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054502 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Femtosecond Terahertz Radiation from Femtoslicing at BESSY

K. Holldack, S. Khan, R. Mitzner, and T. Quast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054801 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Observation of the Second Harmonic in Thomson Scattering from Relativistic Electrons

Marcus Babzien, Ilan Ben-Zvi, Karl Kusche, Igor V. Pavlishin, Igor V. Pogorelsky, David P. Siddons, Vitaly Yakimenko, David Cline, Feng Zhou, Tachishige Hirose, Yoshio Kamiya, Tetsuro Kumita, Tsunehiko Omori, Junji Urakawa, and Kaoru Yokoya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054802 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Nuclear Reactions Induced by a Pyroelectric Accelerator

Jeffrey Geuther, Yaron Danon, and Frank Saglime

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 054803 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Optical Properties in Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions

T. Ao, Y. Ping, K. Widmann, D. F. Price, E. Lee, H. Tam, P. T. Springer, and A. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055001 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Observation of a Turbulence-Induced Large Scale Magnetic Field

E. J. Spence, M. D. Nornberg, C. M. Jacobson, R. D. Kendrick, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055002 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Squeezing Superfluid from a Stone: Coupling Superfluidity and Elasticity in a Supersolid

Alan T. Dorsey, Paul M. Goldbart, and John Toner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055301 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Scattering of 64 eV to 3 keV Neutrons from Polyethylene and Graphite and the Coherence Length Problem

R. Moreh, R. C. Block, Y. Danon, and M. Neuman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055302 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Divacancy in 4H-SiC

N. T. Son, P. Carlsson, J. ul Hassan, E. Janzén, T. Umeda, J. Isoya, A. Gali, M. Bockstedte, N. Morishita, T. Ohshima, and H. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055501 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Structure of Rutile ${TiO}_{2}$ $(110) − (1 \times 2)$ : Formation of ${Ti}_{2} O_{3}$ Quasi-1D Metallic Chains

M. Blanco-Rey, J. Abad, C. Rogero, J. Mendez, M. F. Lopez, J. A. Martin-Gago, and P. L. de Andres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055502 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Effect of Intense Laser Irradiation on the Lattice Stability of Semiconductors and Metals

V. Recoules, J. Clérouin, G. Zérah, P. M. Anglade, and S. Mazevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055503 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Raman Spectroscopy of Hot Compressed Hydrogen and Nitrogen: Implications for the Intramolecular Potential

Alexander F. Goncharov and Jonathan C. Crowhurst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055504 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Are the Structures of Twist Grain Boundaries in Silicon Ordered at 0 K?

S. von Alfthan, P. D. Haynes, K. Kaski, and A. P. Sutton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055505 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Element-Specific Surface X-Ray Diffraction Study of $GaAs (001) − c (4 \times 4)$

Masamitu Takahasi and Jun’ichiro Mizuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055506 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Structure of Phase Change Materials for Data Storage

Zhimei Sun, Jian Zhou, and Rajeev Ahuja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055507 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Multiple Time Scales in Diffraction Measurements of Diffusive Surface Relaxation

Aaron Fleet, Darren Dale, A. R. Woll, Y. Suzuki, and J. D. Brock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055508 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Fracture Surfaces as Multiscaling Graphs

Eran Bouchbinder, Itamar Procaccia, Stéphane Santucci, and Loïc Vanel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055509 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Nitrogen Diffusion in Amorphous Silicon Nitride Isotope Multilayers Probed by Neutron Reflectometry

H. Schmidt, M. Gupta, and M. Bruns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055901 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat of Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon

B. L. Zink, R. Pietri, and F. Hellman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 055902 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Kinetic Roughening and Pinning of Two Coupled Interfaces in Disordered Media

Alexander S. Balankin, Rafael García Paredes, Orlando Susarrey, Daniel Morales, and Fernando Castrejon Vacio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056101 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Observation of a Liquid Phase with an Orthorhombic Orientational Order

D. Kaminski, P. Poodt, E. Aret, N. Radenovic, and E. Vlieg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056102 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Chiral Recognition of Organic Molecules by Atomic Kinks on Surfaces

T. Greber, Ž. Šljivančanin, R. Schillinger, J. Wider, and B. Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056103 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Liquid Nanostripes

Antonio Checco, Oleg Gang, and Benjamin M. Ocko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056104 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Bombardment-Induced Tunable Superlattices in the Growth of Au-Ni Films

J. H. He, C. A. Carosella, G. K. Hubler, S. B. Qadri, and J. A. Sprague

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056105 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

First-Principles Calculations for Insulators at Constant Polarization

Oswaldo Diéguez and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056401 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Mapping of the Anisotropic Two-Channel Anderson Model onto a Fermi-Majorana Biresonant Level Model

C. J. Bolech and Aníbal Iucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056402 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Ab Initio Study of Deep Defect States in Narrow Band-Gap Semiconductors: Group III Impurities in PbTe

Salameh Ahmad, Khang Hoang, and S. D. Mahanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056403 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Spin Hall Effect in Doped Semiconductor Structures

Wang-Kong Tse and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056601 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Nonexistence of Intrinsic Spin Currents

Alexander Khaetskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056602 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Finite Frequency Quantum Noise in an Interacting Mesoscopic Conductor

F. W. J. Hekking and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056603 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Primary Photoexcitations and the Origin of the Photocurrent in Rubrene Single Crystals

Hikmat Najafov, Ivan Biaggio, Vitaly Podzorov, Matthew F. Calhoun, and Michael E. Gershenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056604 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Backaction Noise in Strongly Interacting Systems: The dc SQUID and the Interacting Quantum Point Contact

A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056801 (2006) - Published 7 February, 2006

Ab Initio Modeling of the Interaction of Electron Beams and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A. Nojeh, B. Shan, K. Cho, and R. F. W. Pease

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056802 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Pair Tunneling through Single Molecules

Jens Koch, M. E. Raikh, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 056803 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Superconductivity in Entirely End-Bonded Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

I. Takesue, J. Haruyama, N. Kobayashi, S. Chiashi, S. Maruyama, T. Sugai, and H. Shinohara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057001 (2006) - Published 10 February, 2006

Anomalous Excitation Spectra of Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnets

Weihong Zheng, John O. Fjærestad, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Ross H. McKenzie, and Radu Coldea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057201 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Spin Relaxation in the Presence of Electron-Electron Interactions

Alexander Punnoose and Alexander M. Finkel’stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057202 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Field-Induced Ferromagnetic Order and Colossal Magnetoresistance in ${La}_{1.2} {Sr}_{1.8} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ : A ${}^{139}{La}$ NMR Study

Y. Shiotani, J. L. Sarrao, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057203 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Resonant Tunneling in Truly Axial Symmetry ${Mn}_{12}$ Single-Molecule Magnets: Sharp Crossover between Thermally Assisted and Pure Quantum Tunneling

W. Wernsdorfer, M. Murugesu, and G. Christou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057208 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism and Resonant Photomission of $V (TCNE)_{x}$ Hybrid Magnets

C. Tengstedt, M. P. de Jong, A. Kanciurzewska, E. Carlegrim, and M. Fahlman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057209 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006

Orbital-Selective Mass Enhancements in Multiband ${Ca}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {RuO}_{4}$ Systems Analyzed by the Extended Drude Model

J. S. Lee, S. J. Moon, T. W. Noh, S. Nakatsuji, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057401 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Ultrafast Light-Induced Magnetization Dynamics of Ferromagnetic Semiconductors

J. Chovan, E. G. Kavousanaki, and I. E. Perakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057402 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Coherent Control of Charge and Lattice Dynamics in a Photoinduced Neutral-to-Ionic Transition of a Charge-Transfer Compound

S. Iwai, Y. Ishige, S. Tanaka, Y. Okimoto, Y. Tokura, and H. Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 057403 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Modeling of Exciton Diffusion in Amorphous Organic Thin Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046404 (2006)]

Conor Madigan and Vladimir Bulović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 059901 (2006) - Published 6 February, 2006

Erratum: Fermi-Liquid-Based Theory for the In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy in Untwinned High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 067006 (2005)]

I. Eremin and D. Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 059902 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Erratum: Taming Chaotic Solitons in Frenkel-Kontorova Chains by Weak Periodic Excitations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 237006 (2004)]

Pedro J. Martínez and Ricardo Chacón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 059903 (2006) - Published 8 February, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Adhesion of Membranes with Active Stickers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048101 (2006)]

Bartosz Różycki, Reinhard Lipowsky, and Thomas R. Weikl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 059904 (2006) - Published 9 February, 2006