Volume 97, Issue 12

22 September 2006

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Slice from a simulation of the gradient squared for a concentration field transported by turbulent flow. Areas of the largest magnitude (red) correspond to the most intense dissipation.

From the article:

Geometry of Intensive Scalar Dissipation Events in Turbulence
Dan Kushnir, Jörg Schumacher, and Achi Brandt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124502 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Detecting the Breached-Pair Phase in a Polarized Ultracold Fermi Gas

W. Yi and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120401 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Ultracold Heteronuclear Molecules in a 3D Optical Lattice

C. Ospelkaus, S. Ospelkaus, L. Humbert, P. Ernst, K. Sengstock, and K. Bongs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120402 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Tuning of Heteronuclear Interactions in a Degenerate Fermi-Bose Mixture

S. Ospelkaus, C. Ospelkaus, L. Humbert, K. Sengstock, and K. Bongs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120403 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Rayleigh’s Hypothesis and the Geometrical Optics Limit

Tanos Elfouhaily and Thomas Hahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120404 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

From Bell’s Theorem to Secure Quantum Key Distribution

Antonio Acín, Nicolas Gisin, and Lluis Masanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120405 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Topological Defects and the Superfluid Transition of the $s = 1$ Spinor Condensate in Two Dimensions

Subroto Mukerjee, Cenke Xu, and J. E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120406 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Generic Phase Diagram of Fermion Superfluids with Population Imbalance

K. Machida, T. Mizushima, and M. Ichioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120407 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Loss Tolerance in One-Way Quantum Computation via Counterfactual Error Correction

Michael Varnava, Daniel E. Browne, and Terry Rudolph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120501 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Generating the Curvature Perturbation at the End of Inflation in String Theory

David H. Lyth and Antonio Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 121301 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Signatures of the Unruh Effect from Electrons Accelerated by Ultrastrong Laser Fields

Ralf Schützhold, Gernot Schaller, and Dietrich Habs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 121302 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurements of the Branching Fractions for $ψ (3770) \to D^{0} {\bar{D}}^{0}$ , $D^{+} D^{-}$ , $D \bar{D}$ , and the Resonance Parameters of $ψ (3770)$ and $ψ (2 S)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 121801 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 121802 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Negative $S$ Parameter from Holographic Technicolor

Johannes Hirn and Verónica Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 121803 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

New Critical Point Induced By the Axial Anomaly in Dense QCD

Tetsuo Hatsuda, Motoi Tachibana, Naoki Yamamoto, and Gordon Baym

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 122001 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Charm-Quark Contribution to $K_{L} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Martin Gorbahn and Ulrich Haisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 122002 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Nonperturbative Determination of the QCD Potential at $O (1 / m)$

Yoshiaki Koma, Miho Koma, and Hartmut Wittig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 122003 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Magnetic Fields Boosted by Gluon Vortices in Color Superconductivity

Efrain J. Ferrer and Vivian de la Incera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 122301 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Anomalous Isomeric Decays in ${}^{174}{Lu}$ as a Probe of $K$ Mixing and Interactions in Deformed Nuclei

G. D. Dracoulis, F. G. Kondev, G. J. Lane, A. P. Byrne, T. R. McGoram, T. Kibédi, I. Ahmad, M. P. Carpenter, R. V. F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, P. Chowdhury, and S. K. Tandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 122501 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Activation Measurement of the ${}^{3}{He} (α, γ) {}^{7}{Be}$ Cross Section at Low Energy

D. Bemmerer et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 122502 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Reversible Born-Oppenheimer Molecular Dynamics

Anders M. N. Niklasson, C. J. Tymczak, and Matt Challacombe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123001 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Elliptic and Circular Dichroism Effects in Two-Photon Double Ionization of Atoms

Andrei Y. Istomin, E. A. Pronin, N. L. Manakov, S. I. Marmo, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123002 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

High Harmonic Generation and Molecular Orbital Tomography in Multielectron Systems: Beyond the Single Active Electron Approximation

Serguei Patchkovskii, Zengxiu Zhao, Thomas Brabec, and D. M. Villeneuve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123003 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Dipolar Effect in Coherent Spin Mixing of Two Atoms in a Single Optical Lattice Site

B. Sun, W. X. Zhang, S. Yi, M. S. Chapman, and L. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123201 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Rotational Excitation of $H_{2} O$ by Cold Electrons

R. Čurík, J. P. Ziesel, N. C. Jones, T. A. Field, and D. Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123202 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Electric Dipole Moments of Water Clusters from a Beam Deflection Measurement

Ramiro Moro, Roman Rabinovitch, Chunlei Xia, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123401 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

High-Brightness Injection-Seeded Soft-X-Ray-Laser Amplifier Using a Solid Target

Y. Wang, E. Granados, M. A. Larotonda, M. Berrill, B. M. Luther, D. Patel, C. S. Menoni, and J. J. Rocca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123901 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Zero-Lag Long-Range Synchronization via Dynamical Relaying

Ingo Fischer, Raúl Vicente, Javier M. Buldú, Michael Peil, Claudio R. Mirasso, M. C. Torrent, and Jordi García-Ojalvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123902 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Laser Beam Filamentation in Fractal Aggregates

Claudio Conti, Neda Ghofraniha, Giancarlo Ruocco, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123903 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Radiationless Traveling Waves in Saturable Nonlinear Schrödinger Lattices

T. R. O. Melvin, A. R. Champneys, P. G. Kevrekidis, and J. Cuevas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124101 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Superconducting Terminals as Sensitive Probes for Scarred States

Andor Kormányos and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124102 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Quantum Reversibility and Echoes in Interacting Systems

C. Petitjean and Ph. Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124103 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Observation of Surface-Avoiding Waves: A New Class of Extended States in Periodic Media

M. Trigo, T. A. Eckhause, M. Reason, R. S. Goldman, and R. Merlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124301 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Asymmetric Heat Conduction in Nonlinear Lattices

Bambi Hu, Lei Yang, and Yong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124302 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Quasicrystalline and Rational Approximant Wave Patterns in Hydrodynamic and Quantum Nested Wells

A. Bazán, M. Torres, G. Chiappe, E. Louis, J. A. Miralles, J. A. Vergés, Gerardo G. Naumis, and J. L. Aragón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124501 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Geometry of Intensive Scalar Dissipation Events in Turbulence

Dan Kushnir, Jörg Schumacher, and Achi Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 124502 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Dynamics of Mass Transport and Magnetic Fields in Low-Wire-Number-Array $Z$ Pinches

V. V. Ivanov, V. I. Sotnikov, G. S. Sarkisov, T. E. Cowan, S. N. Bland, B. Jones, C. A. Coverdale, C. Deeney, P. J. Laca, A. L. Astanovitskiy, and A. Haboub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 125001 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Detection of Zero-Mean-Frequency Zonal Flows in the Core of a High-Temperature Tokamak Plasma

D. K. Gupta, R. J. Fonck, G. R. McKee, D. J. Schlossberg, and M. W. Shafer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 125002 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spinodal Decomposition in Solid Isotopic Helium Mixtures

M. Poole, J. Saunders, and B. Cowan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 125301 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Ginzburg-Landau Theory of a Supersolid

Jinwu Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 125302 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Low Self-Affine Exponents of Fractured Glass Ceramics Surfaces

Laurent Ponson, Harold Auradou, Philippe Vié, and Jean-Pierre Hulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 125501 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Temperature-Driven Change in the Unstable Growth Mode on Patterned GaAs(001)

T. Tadayyon-Eslami, H.-C. Kan, L. C. Calhoun, and R. J. Phaneuf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126101 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Chemical Reactivity of Ni-Rh Nanowires

J. Schoiswohl, F. Mittendorfer, S. Surnev, M. G. Ramsey, J. N. Andersen, and F. P. Netzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126102 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Generalized Electron Counting in Determination of Metal-Induced Reconstruction of Compound Semiconductor Surfaces

Lixin Zhang, E. G. Wang, Q. K. Xue, S. B. Zhang, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126103 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Real-Time Ab Initio Simulations of Excited Carrier Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes

Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Angel Rubio, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126104 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Kinetic-Anisotropy-Induced Ordering-Orientation Transition in Epitaxial Growth: A Method to Synthesize Ordering-Orientation Superlattices

Lin Shi and Jun Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126105 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Surface Structure of an Ultrathin Alumina Film on ${Ni}_{3} Al (111)$ : A Dynamic Scanning Force Microscopy Study

Guido Hamm, Clemens Barth, Conrad Becker, Klaus Wandelt, and Claude R. Henry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126106 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Shubnikov–de Haas Effect in the Metallic State of ${Na}_{0.3} {CoO}_{2}$

L. Balicas, J. G. Analytis, Y. J. Jo, K. Storr, H. Zandbergen, Y. Xin, N. E. Hussey, F. C. Chou, and P. A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126401 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Berry-Phase Oscillations of the Kondo Effect in Single-Molecule Magnets

Michael N. Leuenberger and Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126601 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferromagnets

Shigeki Onoda, Naoyuki Sugimoto, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126602 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Current-Induced Polarization and the Spin Hall Effect at Room Temperature

N. P. Stern, S. Ghosh, G. Xiang, M. Zhu, N. Samarth, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126603 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Fractional Quantum Hall States of Dirac Electrons in Graphene

Vadim M. Apalkov and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 126801 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006

Field Dependent Coherence Length in the Superclean, High- $κ$ Superconductor ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

L. DeBeer-Schmitt, C. D. Dewhurst, B. W. Hoogenboom, C. Petrovic, and M. R. Eskildsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 127001 (2006) - Published 21 September, 2006

Phase Diagram of the Disordered RKKY Model in Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors

D. J. Priour, Jr. and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 127201 (2006) - Published 19 September, 2006

Anisotropic Magnetoresistance and Anisotropic Tunneling Magnetoresistance due to Quantum Interference in Ferromagnetic Metal Break Junctions

Kirill I. Bolotin, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, and D. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 127202 (2006) - Published 20 September, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Definability of No-Return Transition States in the High-Energy Regime above the Reaction Threshold [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 028302 (2006)]

Chun-Biu Li, Akira Shoujiguchi, Mikito Toda, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 129901 (2006) - Published 18 September, 2006

Erratum: Zonal Flows in Tokamak Plasmas with Tororidal Rotation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 085002 (2006)]

Shaojie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 129902 (2006) - Published 22 September, 2006