Volume 96, Issue 9

10 March 2006

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On the Cover

These two-meter tall penitentes, found in the Andes, were caused by sunlight ablation. Five-centimeter versions of these spiked structures can be produced in the lab by ablation with a flood lamp.

From the article:

Controlled Irradiative Formation of Penitentes
Vance Bergeron, Charles Berger, and M. D. Betterton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 098502 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Controlled Irradiative Formation of Penitentes

Vance Bergeron, Charles Berger, and M. D. Betterton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 098502 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

LETTERS

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

Probing Number Squeezing of Ultracold Atoms across the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition

Fabrice Gerbier, Simon Fölling, Artur Widera, Olaf Mandel, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090401 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Entangled Photon Holes

J. D. Franson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090402 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Vortices in Superfluid Fermi Gases through the BEC to BCS Crossover

Rajdeep Sensarma, Mohit Randeria, and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090403 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Spin $1 / 2$ Fermions in the Unitary Regime: A Superfluid of a New Type

Aurel Bulgac, Joaquín E. Drut, and Piotr Magierski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090404 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Quantum Key Distribution with Higher-Order Alphabets Using Spatially Encoded Qudits

S. P. Walborn, D. S. Lemelle, M. P. Almeida, and P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090501 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Equilibrium Free Energies from Nonequilibrium Metadynamics

Giovanni Bussi, Alessandro Laio, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090601 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

New Critical Frontiers for the Potts and Percolation Models

F. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 090602 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Supernova Neutrino Nucleosynthesis of Light Elements with Neutrino Oscillations

Takashi Yoshida, Toshitaka Kajino, Hidekazu Yokomakura, Keiichi Kimura, Akira Takamura, and Dieter H. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 091101 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Relic keV Sterile Neutrinos and Reionization

Peter L. Biermann and Alexander Kusenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 091301 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Flavor- and $C P$ -Violating Physics from New Supersymmetric Thresholds

Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz, and Yudi Santoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 091801 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Correction to $e^{+} e^{-} \to J / ψ + η_{c}$ at $\sqrt{s} = 10.6 GeV$

Yu-Jie Zhang, Ying-Jia Gao, and Kuang-Ta Chao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092001 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Measurement of $σ (e^{+} e^{-} \to ψ (3770) \to hadrons)$ at $E_{c . m .} = 3773 MeV$

D. Besson et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092002 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Dielectron Widths of the $Υ (1 S, 2 S, 3 S)$ Resonances

J. L. Rosner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092003 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Experimental Signature of Medium Modifications for $ρ$ and $ω$ Mesons in the 12 GeV $p + A$ Reactions

M. Naruki et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092301 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

${}^{58}{Ni}$ : An Unpaired Band Crossing at New Heights of Angular Momentum for Rotating Nuclei

D. Rudolph, B. G. Carlsson, I. Ragnarsson, S. Åberg, C. Andreoiu, M. A. Bentley, M. P. Carpenter, R. J. Charity, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, J. Ekman, C. Fahlander, P. Fallon, E. Ideguchi, A. O. Macchiavelli, M. N. Mineva, W. Reviol, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, and S. J. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092501 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Detection of the ${}^{1}P^{e}$ Series of Doubly Excited Helium States below $N = 2$ via the Stark Effect

K. C. Prince, M. Coreno, R. Richter, M. de Simone, V. Feyer, A. Kivimäki, A. Mihelič, and M. Žitnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093001 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Real-Time Observation of Phase-Controlled Molecular Wave-Packet Interference

Kenji Ohmori, Hiroyuki Katsuki, Hisashi Chiba, Masahiro Honda, Yusuke Hagihara, Katsutoshi Fujiwara, Yukinori Sato, and Kiyoshi Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093002 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

State to State to State Dynamics of the $D + H_{2} \to H D + H$ Reaction: Control of Transition-State Pathways via Reagent Orientation

Jianyang Zhang, Dongxu Dai, Chia C. Wang, Steven A. Harich, Xiuyan Wang, Xueming Yang, Magnus Gustafsson, and Rex T. Skodje

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093201 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Effect of Superradiance on Transport of Diffusing Photons in Cold Atomic Gases

A. Gero and E. Akkermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093601 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Acoustically Induced Transparency in Optically Dense Resonance Medium

Y. V. Radeonychev, M. D. Tokman, A. G. Litvak, and Olga Kocharovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093602 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Observation of sub-Poisson Photon Statistics in the Cavity-QED Microlaser

Wonshik Choi, Jai-Hyung Lee, Kyungwon An, C. Fang-Yen, R. R. Dasari, and M. S. Feld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093603 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Quantum Telecommunication Based on Atomic Cascade Transitions

T. Chanelière, D. N. Matsukevich, S. D. Jenkins, T. A. B. Kennedy, M. S. Chapman, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093604 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonadiabatic Dynamics of the Electromagnetic Field and Charge Carriers in High- $Q$ Photonic Crystal Resonators

A. M. Yacomotti, F. Raineri, C. Cojocaru, P. Monnier, J. A. Levenson, and R. Raj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 093901 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Pattern Stabilization through Parameter Alternation in a Nonlinear Optical System

J. P. Sharpe, P. L. Ramazza, N. Sungar, and Karl Saunders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 094101 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Decay of Turbulence in Pipe Flow

J. Peixinho and T. Mullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 094501 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Tomography of Injection and Acceleration of Monoenergetic Electrons in a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator

C.-T. Hsieh, C.-M. Huang, C.-L. Chang, Y.-C. Ho, Y.-S. Chen, J.-Y. Lin, J. Wang, and S.-Y. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095001 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Probing Internal Transport Barriers with Heat Pulses in JET

P. Mantica, D. Van Eester, X. Garbet, F. Imbeaux, L. Laborde, M. Mantsinen, A. Marinoni, D. Mazon, D. Moreau, N. Hawkes, E. Joffrin, V. Kiptily, S. Pinches, A. Salmi, S. Sharapov, A. Thyagaraja, I. Voitsekhovitch, P. de Vries, and K.-D. Zastrow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095002 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Direction of Impurity Pinch and Auxiliary Heating in Tokamak Plasmas

C. Angioni and A. G. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095003 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Whistler Modes with Wave Magnetic Fields Exceeding the Ambient Field

R. L. Stenzel, J. M. Urrutia, and K. D. Strohmaier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095004 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Measurement of a Long Electronic Spin Relaxation Time of Cesium Atoms in Superfluid Helium

T. Furukawa, Y. Matsuo, A. Hatakeyama, Y. Fukuyama, T. Kobayashi, H. Izumi, and T. Shimoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095301 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Experimental Realization of the Fuse Model of Crack Formation

D. R. Otomar, I. L. Menezes-Sobrinho, and M. S. Couto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095501 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Determining the Structure of Phosphorus in Phase IV

Takahiro Ishikawa, Hitose Nagara, Koichi Kusakabe, and Naoshi Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095502 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Mesoscale Theory of Grains and Cells: Crystal Plasticity and Coarsening

Surachate Limkumnerd and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095503 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Salt Permeation and Exclusion in Hydroxylated and Functionalized Silica Pores

Kevin Leung, Susan B. Rempe, and Christian D. Lorenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095504 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Multiparadigm Modeling of Dynamical Crack Propagation in Silicon Using a Reactive Force Field

Markus J. Buehler, Adri C. T. van Duin, and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095505 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Thermodynamic Glass Transition in Finite Dimensions

M. A. Moore and J. Yeo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 095701 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Inelastic Spectroscopy Identification of STM-Induced Benzene Dehydrogenation

M.-L. Bocquet, H. Lesnard, and N. Lorente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096101 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Multidimensional Effects on Dissociation of $N_{2}$ on Ru(0001)

C. Díaz, J. K. Vincent, G. P. Krishnamohan, R. A. Olsen, G. J. Kroes, K. Honkala, and J. K. Nørskov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096102 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Diffusion Dynamics during the Nucleation and Growth of $Ge / Si$ Nanostructures on Si(111)

F. Ratto, A. Locatelli, S. Fontana, S. Kharrazi, S. Ashtaputre, S. K. Kulkarni, S. Heun, and F. Rosei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096103 (2006) - Published 8 March, 2006

Magic Structures and Quantum Conductance of $[110]$ Silver Nanowires

Dayong Cheng, Woo Youn Kim, Seung Kyu Min, Tashi Nautiyal, and Kwang S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096104 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Diameter-Independent Kinetics in the Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Si Nanowires

S. Kodambaka, J. Tersoff, M. C. Reuter, and F. M. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096105 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Statistical Estimation of Atomic Positions from Exit Wave Reconstruction with a Precision in the Picometer Range

Sara Bals, Sandra Van Aert, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, and David Ávila-Brande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096106 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Observation of Surface Layering in a Nonmetallic Liquid

Haiding Mo, Guennadi Evmenenko, Sumit Kewalramani, Kyungil Kim, Steven N. Ehrlich, and Pulak Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 096107 (2006) - Published 10 March, 2006

Raising Bi-O Bands above the Fermi Energy Level of Hole-Doped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ and Other Cuprate Superconductors

Hsin Lin, S. Sahrakorpi, R. S. Markiewicz, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 097001 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Collinear to Spiral Spin Transformation without Changing the Modulation Wavelength upon Ferroelectric Transition in ${Tb}_{1 - x} {Dy}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

T. Arima, A. Tokunaga, T. Goto, H. Kimura, Y. Noda, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 097202 (2006) - Published 7 March, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Optical and Resonant X-Ray Diffraction Studies Confirm a $Sm C_{F I 2}^{} − Sm C^{}$ Liquid Crystal Phase Sequence Reversal

S. T. Wang, Z. Q. Liu, B. K. McCoy, R. Pindak, W. Caliebe, H. T. Nguyen, and C. C. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 097801 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006

Sheared Force Networks: Anisotropies, Yielding, and Geometry

Jacco H. Snoeijer, Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Thijs J. H. Vlugt, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 098001 (2006) - Published 9 March, 2006

Phase Diagram of a Ternary Mixture of Cholesterol and Saturated and Unsaturated Lipids Calculated from a Microscopic Model

R. Elliott, I. Szleifer, and M. Schick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 098101 (2006) - Published 6 March, 2006