Volume 97, Issue 11

15 September 2006

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On the Cover

Calculated magnetic field lines for a (torus-shaped) spheromak configuration using a new inductive helicity injection method. Left-to-right, the figures depict the field lines with increasing spheromak current, from zero current (left) to the optimal value (right).

From the article:

Spheromak Formation by Steady Inductive Helicity Injection
T. R. Jarboe, W. T. Hamp, G. J. Marklin, B. A. Nelson, R. G. O’Neill, A. J. Redd, P. E. Sieck, R. J. Smith, and J. S. Wrobel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115003 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect from Surfaces

L. Miaja-Avila, C. Lei, M. Aeschlimann, J. L. Gland, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and G. Saathoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113604 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

A Solid State Paramagnetic Maser Device Driven by Electron Spin Injection

S. M. Watts and B. J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 116601 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

LETTERS

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

Test of Nonlocality for a Continuous-Variable State Based on an Arbitrary Number of Measurement Outcomes

W. Son, Č. Brukner, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110401 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Nonexponential Decay Via Tunneling in Tight-Binding Lattices and the Optical Zeno Effect

Stefano Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110402 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Quantum Phase Transitions in Matrix Product Systems

Michael M. Wolf, Gerardo Ortiz, Frank Verstraete, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110403 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Magnetically Tuned Spin Dynamics Resonance

J. Kronjäger, C. Becker, P. Navez, K. Bongs, and K. Sengstock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110404 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Unconventional Strongly Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

A. B. Kuklov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110405 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Splitting Times of Doubly Quantized Vortices in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. A. M. Huhtamäki, M. Möttönen, T. Isoshima, V. Pietilä, and S. M. M. Virtanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110406 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Universal Quantum Computation with Continuous-Variable Cluster States

Nicolas C. Menicucci, Peter van Loock, Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook, Timothy C. Ralph, and Michael A. Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110501 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Delayed Commutation in Quantum Computer Networks

Juan Carlos García-Escartín and Pedro Chamorro-Posada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110502 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Preventing Multipartite Disentanglement by Local Modulations

G. Gordon and G. Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110503 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Asymmetric Response of a Jammed Plastic Bead Raft

Michael Twardos and Michael Dennin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110601 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Supernarrow Spectral Peaks near a Kinetic Phase Transition in a Driven Nonlinear Micromechanical Oscillator

C. Stambaugh and H. B. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110602 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Density Matrix Renormalization Group Approach for Many-Body Open Quantum Systems

J. Rotureau, N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, M. Płoszajczak, and J. Dukelsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 110603 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Chiral Phase Transition from String Theory

Andrei Parnachev and David A. Sahakyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 111601 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Search for Resonant Second Generation Slepton Production at the Fermilab Tevatron

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 111801 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Measurement of the Spin of the $Ω^{-}$ Hyperon

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 112001 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Observation of $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation into the $C = + 1$ Hadronic Final States $ρ^{0} ρ^{0}$ and $ϕ ρ^{0}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 112002 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Measurement of the $N \to Δ^{+} (1232)$ Transition at High-Momentum Transfer by $π^{0}$ Electroproduction

M. Ungaro et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 112003 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Excited States in ${}^{40}{Si}$ and Evidence for Weakening of the $N = 28$ Shell Gap

C. M. Campbell, N. Aoi, D. Bazin, M. D. Bowen, B. A. Brown, J. M. Cook, D.-C. Dinca, A. Gade, T. Glasmacher, M. Horoi, S. Kanno, T. Motobayashi, W. F. Mueller, H. Sakurai, K. Starosta, H. Suzuki, S. Takeuchi, J. R. Terry, K. Yoneda, and H. Zwahlen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 112501 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electromagnetically Induced Coherent Backscattering

Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113001 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Spectroscopic Observation of the Rotational Doppler Effect

S. Barreiro, J. W. R. Tabosa, H. Failache, and A. Lezama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113601 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Generation of Narrow-Bandwidth Paired Photons: Use of a Single Driving Laser

Pavel Kolchin, Shengwang Du, Chinmay Belthangady, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113602 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Direct Measurement of Decoherence for Entanglement between a Photon and Stored Atomic Excitation

H. de Riedmatten, J. Laurat, C. W. Chou, E. W. Schomburg, D. Felinto, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113603 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Laser-Assisted Photoelectric Effect from Surfaces

L. Miaja-Avila, C. Lei, M. Aeschlimann, J. L. Gland, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, and G. Saathoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113604 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Electric-Field-Induced Polar Biaxial Order in a Nontilted Smectic Phase of an Asymmetric Bent-Core Liquid Crystal

Yoshio Shimbo, Ewa Gorecka, Damian Pociecha, Fumito Araoka, Masanao Goto, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Jozef Mieczkowski, Kinga Gomola, and Hideo Takezoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113901 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Non-Gibbsian Stochastic Light-Mode Dynamics of Passive Mode Locking

Michael Katz, Ariel Gordon, Omri Gat, and Baruch Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113902 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Self-Induced Chaos in a Single-Mode Inversionless Laser

Sebastian Wieczorek and Weng W. Chow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 113903 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Ring Intermittency in Coupled Chaotic Oscillators at the Boundary of Phase Synchronization

Alexander E. Hramov, Alexey A. Koronovskii, Maria K. Kurovskaya, and S. Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 114101 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Wannier-Stark Ladders in One-Dimensional Elastic Systems

L. Gutiérrez, A. Díaz-de-Anda, J. Flores, R. A. Méndez-Sánchez, G. Monsivais, and A. Morales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 114301 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Hydrodynamic Self-Consistent Field Theory for Inhomogeneous Polymer Melts

David M. Hall, Turab Lookman, Glenn H. Fredrickson, and Sanjoy Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 114501 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Cutoff Wave Number for Shear Waves in a Two-Dimensional Yukawa System (Dusty Plasma)

V. Nosenko, J. Goree, and A. Piel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115001 (2006) - Published 12 September, 2006

Theory of Laser Acceleration of Light-Ion Beams from Interaction of Ultrahigh-Intensity Lasers with Layered Targets

B. J. Albright, L. Yin, B. M. Hegelich, Kevin J. Bowers, T. J. T. Kwan, and J. C. Fernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115002 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Spheromak Formation by Steady Inductive Helicity Injection

T. R. Jarboe, W. T. Hamp, G. J. Marklin, B. A. Nelson, R. G. O’Neill, A. J. Redd, P. E. Sieck, R. J. Smith, and J. S. Wrobel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115003 (2006) - Published 15 September, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Collective Modes and $f$ -Wave Pairing Interactions in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$

J. P. Davis, H. Choi, J. Pollanen, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115301 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Supersolid Helium at High Pressure

E. Kim and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115302 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Apparently Complex High-Pressure Phase of Gallium as a Simple Modulated Structure

J. M. Perez-Mato, Luis Elcoro, Mois I. Aroyo, Hannelore Katzke, Pierre Tolédano, and Zunbeltz Izaola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115501 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Subterahertz Phonon Dynamics in Acoustic Nanocavities

A. Huynh, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, B. Jusserand, B. Perrin, A. Fainstein, M. F. Pascual-Winter, E. Peronne, and A. Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115502 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Adding a Length Scale to the Polyamorphic Ice Debate

C. A. Tulk, R. Hart, D. D. Klug, C. J. Benmore, and J. Neuefeind

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115503 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Self-Propulsion of Nematic Drops: Novel Phase Separation Dynamics in Impurity-Doped Nematogens

Snigdha Thakur, P. B. Sunil Kumar, N. V. Madhusudana, and Pramod A. Pullarkat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115701 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Anchored Critical Percolation Clusters and 2D Electrostatics

Peter Kleban, Jacob J. H. Simmons, and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115702 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Quantum Phase Transitions of Hard-Core Bosons in Background Potentials

Anand Priyadarshee, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Ji-Woo Lee, and Harold U. Baranger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115703 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Excitation Chains at the Glass Transition

J. S. Langer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115704 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Simulation of Phase Transitions in Highly Asymmetric Fluid Mixtures

Jiwen Liu, Nigel B. Wilding, and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115705 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Spin Thermal Conductivity of the Haldane Chain Compound $Y_{2} {BaNiO}_{5}$

K. Kordonis, A. V. Sologubenko, T. Lorenz, S.-W. Cheong, and A. Freimuth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 115901 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006

Oxygen Migration, Agglomeration, and Trapping: Key Factors for the Morphology of the $Si − {SiO}_{2}$ Interface

L. Tsetseris and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 116101 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Trapping-Mediated Chemisorption of Ethylene on $Si (001) − c (4 \times 2)$

Chun-Hyung Chung, Woo-Jin Jung, and In-Whan Lyo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 116102 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Influence of Surface Roughness on Superhydrophobicity

C. Yang, U. Tartaglino, and B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 116103 (2006) - Published 14 September, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Coherent Peaks and Minimal Probing Depth in Photoemission Spectroscopy of Mott-Hubbard Systems

G. Panaccione, M. Altarelli, A. Fondacaro, A. Georges, S. Huotari, P. Lacovig, A. Lichtenstein, P. Metcalf, G. Monaco, F. Offi, L. Paolasini, A. Poteryaev, O. Tjernberg, and M. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 116401 (2006) - Published 11 September, 2006

Transfer of Spectral Weight and Symmetry across the Metal-Insulator Transition in ${VO}_{2}$

T. C. Koethe, Z. Hu, M. W. Haverkort, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, F. Venturini, N. B. Brookes, O. Tjernberg, W. Reichelt, H. H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 116402 (2006) - Published 13 September, 2006