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Physical Review Letters

Volume 97, Issue 1

7 July 2006

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Three-dimensional polar plot of the energy gap of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Li₂Pd₃B in momentum space.

From the article:

$S$ -Wave Spin-Triplet Order in Superconductors without Inversion Symmetry: ${Li}_{2} {Pd}_{3} B$ and ${Li}_{2} {Pt}_{3} B$
H. Q. Yuan, D. F. Agterberg, N. Hayashi, P. Badica, D. Vandervelde, K. Togano, M. Sigrist, and M. B. Salamon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017006 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Entropic Lattice Boltzmann Models for Hydrodynamics in Three Dimensions

S. S. Chikatamarla, S. Ansumali, and I. V. Karlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010201 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Level Density of a Fermi Gas: Average Growth and Fluctuations

Patricio Leboeuf and Jérôme Roccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010401 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Six-Axis Inertial Sensor Using Cold-Atom Interferometry

B. Canuel, F. Leduc, D. Holleville, A. Gauguet, J. Fils, A. Virdis, A. Clairon, N. Dimarcq, Ch. J. Bordé, A. Landragin, and P. Bouyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010402 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Vortices in Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensates in Two Dimensions

L. D. Carr and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010403 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Braid Group, Gauge Invariance, and Topological Order

Masatoshi Sato, Mahito Kohmoto, and Yong-Shi Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010601 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Interaction-Driven Real-Space Condensation

M. R. Evans, T. Hanney, and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010602 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Theory of Cooling by Flow through Narrow Pores

William J. Mullin and Neal Kalechofsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 010801 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Coherent Control of Vacuum Squeezing in the Gravitational-Wave Detection Band

Henning Vahlbruch, Simon Chelkowski, Boris Hage, Alexander Franzen, Karsten Danzmann, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 011101 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Sigma Coupling to Photons: Hidden Scalar in $γ γ \to π^{0} π^{0}$

M. R. Pennington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 011601 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering from Fully Dynamical Lattice QCD

S. R. Beane, P. F. Bedaque, K. Orginos, and M. J. Savage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 012001 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Measurement of the $B_{c}^{+}$ Meson Lifetime Using the Decay Mode $B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ e^{+} ν_{e}$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 012002 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Overlap Dirac Operator at Nonzero Chemical Potential and Random Matrix Theory

Jacques Bloch and Tilo Wettig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 012003 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Energy Dependence of Directed Flow over a Wide Range of Pseudorapidity in $Au + Au$ Collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 012301 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Giant Dipole Resonance in the Hot and Thermalized ${}^{132}{Ce}$ Nucleus: Damping of Collective Modes at Finite Temperature

O. Wieland et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 012501 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Pulse Trains Generated Using Two Color Laser Fields

J. Mauritsson, P. Johnsson, E. Gustafsson, A. L’Huillier, K. J. Schafer, and M. B. Gaarde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013001 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Improved Theory of Helium Fine Structure

Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013002 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Above Threshold Coulomb Explosion of Molecules in Intense Laser Pulses

B. D. Esry, A. M. Sayler, P. Q. Wang, K. D. Carnes, and I. Ben-Itzhak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013003 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Light Transport in Cold Atoms and Thermal Decoherence

G. Labeyrie, D. Delande, R. Kaiser, and C. Miniatura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013004 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Exact-Exchange Spin-Current Density-Functional Theory

Stefan Rohra and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013005 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Importance of Nonresonant Scattering in Low-Energy Dissociative Electron Attachment to Molecular Hydrogen

Djamal Rabli and Michael A. Morrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013201 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Speckle Patterns with Atomic and Molecular de Broglie Waves

Forest S. Patton, Daniel P. Deponte, Greg S. Elliott, and Stephen D. Kevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013202 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Deterministic Single Photons via Conditional Quantum Evolution

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013601 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Do Solitonlike Self-Similar Waves Exist in Nonlinear Optical Media?

Sergey A. Ponomarenko and Govind P. Agrawal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013901 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Generation of Light in Media with a Random Distribution of Nonlinear Domains

Xavier Vidal and Jordi Martorell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013902 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transient Development of Backward Stimulated Raman and Brillouin Scattering on a Picosecond Time Scale Measured by Subpicosecond Thomson Diagnostic

C. Rousseaux, L. Gremillet, M. Casanova, P. Loiseau, M. Rabec Le Gloahec, S. D. Baton, F. Amiranoff, J. C. Adam, and A. Héron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 015001 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Current-Driven Rotating-Kink Mode in a Plasma Column with a Non-Line-Tied Free End

I. Furno, T. P. Intrator, D. D. Ryutov, S. Abbate, T. Madziwa-Nussinov, A. Light, L. Dorf, and G. Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 015002 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Electrical Breakdown in Helium Cells at Low Temperature

B. Sethumadhavan, W. Yao, Y. H. Huang, R. E. Lanou, H. J. Maris, and G. M. Seidel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 015301 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Isoconfigurational Elastic Constants and Liquid Fragility of a Bulk Metallic Glass Forming Alloy

Mary Laura Lind, Gang Duan, and William L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 015501 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Magnetically Induced Immiscibility in the Ising Model of FeCr Stainless Steel

G. J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 015502 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Hydration and Distribution of Ions at the Mica-Water Interface

Changyong Park, Paul A. Fenter, Kathryn L. Nagy, and Neil C. Sturchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016101 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Scaling and Universality of Roughening in Thermal Oxidation of Si(001)

Hiroo Omi, Hiroyuki Kageshima, and Masashi Uematsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016102 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Identification of Nanoscale Dissipation Processes by Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy

R. Garcia, C. J. Gómez, N. F. Martinez, S. Patil, C. Dietz, and R. Magerle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016103 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Probing Non-Abelian Statistics with Quasiparticle Interferometry

Parsa Bonderson, Kirill Shtengel, and J. K. Slingerland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016401 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Magnetic Metastability in Tetrahedrally Bonded Magnetic III-Nitride Semiconductors

X. Y. Cui, B. Delley, A. J. Freeman, and C. Stampfl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016402 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Quantum Melting of the Hole Crystal in the Spin Ladder of ${Sr}_{14 - x} {Ca}_{x} {Cu}_{24} O_{41}$

A. Rusydi, P. Abbamonte, H. Eisaki, Y. Fujimaki, G. Blumberg, S. Uchida, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016403 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Destruction of the Small Fermi Surfaces in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$ by Disorder

D. J. Singh and Deepa Kasinathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016404 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Chemically Induced Conductance Switching in Carbon Nanotube Circuits

Jaan Mannik, Brett R. Goldsmith, Alexander Kane, and Philip G. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016601 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Full Counting Statistics for the Kondo Dot in the Unitary Limit

A. O. Gogolin and A. Komnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016602 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Strong Suppression of Weak Localization in Graphene

S. V. Morozov, K. S. Novoselov, M. I. Katsnelson, F. Schedin, L. A. Ponomarenko, D. Jiang, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016801 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Signatures of a Noise-Induced Quantum Phase Transition in a Mesoscopic Metal Ring

Ning-Hua Tong and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016802 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Trapping Excitons in a Two-Dimensional In-Plane Harmonic Potential: Experimental Evidence for Equilibration of Indirect Excitons

Z. Vörös, D. W. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, and K. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016803 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Evidence for Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of Phase Slips in Long One-Dimensional Superconducting Al Wires

Fabio Altomare, A. M. Chang, Michael R. Melloch, Yuguang Hong, and Charles W. Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017001 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Constituents of the Quasiparticle Spectrum Along the Nodal Direction of High- $T_{c}$ Cuprates

A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, V. B. Zabolotnyy, J. Geck, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, B. Büchner, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, H. Berger, A. V. Pan, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017002 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Magnetic Excitations of Stripes near a Quantum Critical Point

D. X. Yao, E. W. Carlson, and D. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017003 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Flux Cloning in Josephson Transmission Lines

D. R. Gulevich and F. V. Kusmartsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017004 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Competitive Coexistence of Superconductivity with Antiferromagnetism in ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

G. F. Chen, K. Matsubayashi, S. Ban, K. Deguchi, and N. K. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017005 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

$S$ -Wave Spin-Triplet Order in Superconductors without Inversion Symmetry: ${Li}_{2} {Pd}_{3} B$ and ${Li}_{2} {Pt}_{3} B$

H. Q. Yuan, D. F. Agterberg, N. Hayashi, P. Badica, D. Vandervelde, K. Togano, M. Sigrist, and M. B. Salamon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017006 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Lee-Yang Zeros of Periodic and Quasiperiodic Anisotropic $X Y$ Chains in a Transverse Field

Peiqing Tong and Xiaoxian Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017201 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Remanent Zero Field Spin Splitting of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots in a Paramagnetic Host

C. Gould, A. Slobodskyy, D. Supp, T. Slobodskyy, P. Grabs, P. Hawrylak, F. Qu, G. Schmidt, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017202 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Direct Experimental Evidence for Atomic Tunneling of Europium in Crystalline ${Eu}_{8} {Ga}_{16} {Ge}_{30}$

Raphaël P. Hermann, Veerle Keppens, Pierre Bonville, George S. Nolas, Fernande Grandjean, Gary J. Long, Hans M. Christen, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Brian C. Sales, and David Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017401 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Enhancement of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Using a Gold Nanoparticle as an Optical Nanoantenna

Sergei Kühn, Ulf Håkanson, Lavinia Rogobete, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017402 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Phase Diagram and Electrical Conductivity of High Energy-Density Water from Density Functional Theory

Thomas R. Mattsson and Michael P. Desjarlais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 017801 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Free Cooling of the One-Dimensional Wet Granular Gas

V. Yu. Zaburdaev, M. Brinkmann, and S. Herminghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018001 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Song of the Dunes as a Self-Synchronized Instrument

S. Douady, A. Manning, P. Hersen, H. Elbelrhiti, S. Protière, A. Daerr, and B. Kabbachi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018002 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Dynamics and Morphology of Microvilli Driven by Actin Polymerization

Nir S. Gov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018101 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Effect of Confinement on the Interaction between Two Like-Charged Rods

G. Odriozola, F. Jiménez-Ángeles, and M. Lozada-Cassou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018102 (2006) - Published 6 July, 2006

Molecular Sieving in Periodic Free-Energy Landscapes Created by Patterned Nanofilter Arrays

Jianping Fu, Juhwan Yoo, and Jongyoon Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018103 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Light Guiding in Biological Tissue due to Scattering

Alwin Kienle and Raimund Hibst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018104 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Dissociative Electron Attachment to Phosphoric Acid Esters: The Direct Mechanism for Single Strand Breaks in DNA

Constanze König, Janina Kopyra, Ilko Bald, and Eugen Illenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018105 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Switching Mechanics with Chemistry: A Model for the Bending Stiffness of Amphiphilic Bilayers with Interacting Headgroups in Crystalline Order

Markus A. Hartmann, Richard Weinkamer, Thomas Zemb, Franz Dieter Fischer, and Peter Fratzl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018106 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Single Polymer Molecules in a Protein Nanopore in the Limit of a Strong Polymer-Pore Attraction

Oleg V. Krasilnikov, Claudio G. Rodrigues, and Sergey M. Bezrukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018301 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Prediction of an Autocatalytic Replication Mechanism for Micelle Formation

René Pool and Peter G. Bolhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018302 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Contact Instability in Adhesion and Debonding of Thin Elastic Films

Manoj Gonuguntla, Ashutosh Sharma, Jayati Sarkar, Subash A. Subramanian, Moniraj Ghosh, and Vijay Shenoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018303 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Wetting and Contact Lines of Micrometer-Sized Ellipsoids

J. C. Loudet, A. G. Yodh, and B. Pouligny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018304 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Formation of Polymorphic Cluster Phases for a Class of Models of Purely Repulsive Soft Spheres [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045701 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 019901 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Erratum: Bagnold Scaling, Density Plateau, and Kinetic Theory Analysis of Dense Granular Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 94, 128001 (2005)]

Namiko Mitarai and Hiizu Nakanishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 019902 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Erratum: Determination of $| V_{u b} |$ from Measurements of the Electron and Neutrino Momenta in Inclusive Semileptonic $B$ decays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 111801 (2005)]

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 019903 (2006) - Published 5 July, 2006

Erratum: Shear-Induced Overaging in a Polymer Glass [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 025501 (2006)]

Matthew L. Wallace and Béla Joós

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 019904 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006

Erratum: Self-Assembled Silicon Nanotubes under Supercritically Hydrothermal Conditions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 116102 (2005)]

Y. H. Tang, L. Z. Pei, Y. W. Chen, and C. Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 019905 (2006) - Published 7 July, 2006