Volume 97, Issue 14

6 October 2006

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Topographic image of CuGaSe₂, showing grooves along the [110] direction on the (001) cubic side and a slope at the onset of the (112) facets on the (221) cubic side. The sides are separated by a charge-neutral twin grain boundary.

From the article:

Evidence for a Neutral Grain-Boundary Barrier in Chalcopyrites
Susanne Siebentritt, Sascha Sadewasser, Mark Wimmer, Caspar Leendertz, Tobias Eisenbarth, and Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146601 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Up-Conversion Fluorescence: Noncoherent Excitation by Sunlight

S. Baluschev, T. Miteva, V. Yakutkin, G. Nelles, A. Yasuda, and G. Wegner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143903 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

LETTERS

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

Sensitive Polarimetric Search for Relativity Violations in Gamma-Ray Bursts

V. Alan Kostelecký and Matthew Mewes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140401 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Polarized Light Propagating in a Magnetic Field as a Probe for Millicharged Fermions

Holger Gies, Joerg Jaeckel, and Andreas Ringwald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140402 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Quantum Open System Theory: Bipartite Aspects

T. Yu and J. H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140403 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Anomalous Specific-Heat Jump in a Two-Component Ultracold Fermi Gas

Armen Sedrakian, Herbert Müther, and Artur Polls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140404 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Detecting Level Crossings without Looking at the Spectrum

M. Bhattacharya and C. Raman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140405 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Bipartite Bell Inequalities for Hyperentangled States

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140406 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Enhancing the Violation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Local Realism by Quantum Hyperentanglement

Marco Barbieri, Francesco De Martini, Paolo Mataloni, Giuseppe Vallone, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140407 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Universal Quantum Computation in Decoherence-Free Subspace with Neutral Atoms

Peng Xue and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140501 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Giant Fiber Lasers: A New Paradigm for Secure Key Distribution

Jacob Scheuer and Amnon Yariv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140502 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Triangle of Dualities between Quantum Communication Protocols

I. Devetak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140503 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Direct Production of Tripartite Pump-Signal-Idler Entanglement in the Above-Threshold Optical Parametric Oscillator

A. S. Villar, M. Martinelli, C. Fabre, and P. Nussenzveig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140504 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Entanglement in Finitely Correlated Spin States

S. Michalakis and B. Nachtergaele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140601 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Field-Induced Dispersion in Subdiffusion

I. M. Sokolov and J. Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140602 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Work Fluctuation Theorems for Harmonic Oscillators

F. Douarche, S. Joubaud, N. B. Garnier, A. Petrosyan, and S. Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 140603 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Challenging the Paradigm of Singularity Excision in Gravitational Collapse

Luca Baiotti and Luciano Rezzolla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 141101 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Coherent Active-Sterile Neutrino Flavor Transformation in the Early Universe

Chad T. Kishimoto, George M. Fuller, and Christel J. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 141301 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Detecting Solar Axions Using Earth’s Magnetic Field

Hooman Davoudiasl and Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 141302 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Microstates of a Neutral Black Hole in M Theory

Roberto Emparan and Gary T. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 141601 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Improving Jet Distributions with Effective Field Theory

Christian W. Bauer and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 142001 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Observation of a Broad $1^{--}$ Resonant Structure around $1.5 GeV / c^{2}$ in the $K^{+} K^{-}$ Mass Spectrum in $J / ψ \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 142002 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Next-to-Leading-Order Perturbative-QCD Predictions for $γ γ \to M^{+} M^{-}$ ( $M = π, K$ )

Goran Duplančić and Bene Nižić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 142003 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Precision Measurement of the Quasifree $p n \to d ϕ$ Reaction Close to Threshold

Y. Maeda, M. Hartmann, I. Keshelashvili, S. Barsov, M. Büscher, A. Dzyuba, S. Dymov, V. Hejny, A. Kacharava, V. Kleber, H. R. Koch, V. Koptev, P. Kulessa, T. Mersmann, S. Mikirtytchiants, A. Mussgiller, M. Nekipelov, H. Ohm, R. Schleichert, H. J. Stein, H. Ströher, Yu. Valdau, K. H. Watzlawik, C. Wilkin, and P. Wüstner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 142301 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Polarization Propagator for X-Ray Spectra

Ulf Ekström, Patrick Norman, Vincenzo Carravetta, and Hans Ågren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143001 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Anti-Hermitian Contracted Schrödinger Equation: Direct Determination of the Two-Electron Reduced Density Matrices of Many-Electron Molecules

David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143002 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

The $3 C / 3 D$ Line Ratio in Ni XIX: New Ab Initio Theory and Experimental Results

G. X. Chen, K. Kirby, E. Silver, N. S. Brickhouse, J. D. Gillaspy, J. N. Tan, J. M. Pomeroy, and J. M. Laming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143201 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

New Interpretations of Measured Antihydrogen Velocities and Field Ionization Spectra

T. Pohl, H. R. Sadeghpour, and G. Gabrielse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143401 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Nonadiabatic Ladder Climbing during Molecular Collisions

Holger Vach, Tao-Nhân V. Nguyen, Qadir K. Timerghazin, and Gilles H. Peslherbe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143402 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Scalable Generation of Graph-State Entanglement Through Realistic Linear Optics

T. P. Bodiya and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143601 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Polarization Squeezing by Optical Faraday Rotation

Jacob F. Sherson and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143602 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhanced Recollisions for Antisymmetric Molecular Orbitals in Intense Laser Fields

R. Fischer, M. Lein, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143901 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Coexistence of Josephson Oscillations and a Novel Self-Trapping Regime in Optical Waveguide Arrays

Ramaz Khomeriki, Jérôme Leon, and Stefano Ruffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143902 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Up-Conversion Fluorescence: Noncoherent Excitation by Sunlight

S. Baluschev, T. Miteva, V. Yakutkin, G. Nelles, A. Yasuda, and G. Wegner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143903 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Fast Thermo-Optical Excitability in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal

A. M. Yacomotti, P. Monnier, F. Raineri, B. Ben Bakir, C. Seassal, R. Raj, and J. A. Levenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143904 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Multiscale Laminar Flows with Turbulentlike Properties

Lionel Rossi, J. C. Vassilicos, and Yannis Hardalupas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144501 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Instabilities, Bifurcations, and Multiple Solutions in Expanding Channel Flows

Vakhtang Putkaradze and Peter Vorobieff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144502 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Breakup of Air Bubbles in Water: Memory and Breakdown of Cylindrical Symmetry

Nathan C. Keim, Peder Møller, Wendy W. Zhang, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144503 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Cascades of Velocity and Temperature Fluctuations in Buoyancy-Driven Thermal Turbulence

Chao Sun, Quan Zhou, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144504 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Is the Kelvin Theorem Valid for High Reynolds Number Turbulence?

Shiyi Chen, Gregory L. Eyink, Minping Wan, and Zuoli Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144505 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Coarse Grained Scale of Turbulent Mixtures

E. Villermaux and J. Duplat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144506 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Lagrangian Measurements of Inertial Particle Accelerations in Grid Generated Wind Tunnel Turbulence

S. Ayyalasomayajula, A. Gylfason, L. R. Collins, E. Bodenschatz, and Z. Warhaft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144507 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Dynamical Model of Bubble Path Instability

Woodrow L. Shew and Jean-François Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144508 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ratchet Motion in an Asymmetric Nanochannel

M. Chinappi, E. De Angelis, S. Melchionna, C. M. Casciola, S. Succi, and R. Piva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144509 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Volume Reflection of a Proton Beam in a Bent Crystal

Yu. M. Ivanov, A. A. Petrunin, V. V. Skorobogatov, Yu. A. Gavrikov, A. V. Gelamkov, L. P. Lapina, A. I. Schetkovsky, S. A. Vavilov, V. I. Baranov, Yu. A. Chesnokov, A. G. Afonin, V. T. Baranov, V. N. Chepegin, V. Guidi, W. Scandale, and A. Vomiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 144801 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermal Dissipation in Quantum Turbulence

Michikazu Kobayashi and Makoto Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 145301 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Quantum and Classical Relaxation in the Proton Glass

Yejun Feng, C. Ancona-Torres, T. F. Rosenbaum, G. F. Reiter, D. L. Price, and E. Courtens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 145501 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Anisotropic X-Ray Emission from Heliumlike ${Fe}^{24 +}$ Ions Aligned by Resonant Coherent Excitation with a Periodic Crystal Potential

T. Azuma, Y. Takabayashi, C. Kondo, T. Muranaka, K. Komaki, Y. Yamazaki, E. Takada, and T. Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 145502 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Dynamics of Probes in Model Glassy Matrices

Kamakshi Jagannathan, Bong June Sung, and Arun Yethiraj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 145503 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Reconstruction Control of Magnetic Properties during Epitaxial Growth of Ferromagnetic ${Mn}_{3 - δ} Ga$ on Wurtzite GaN(0001)

Erdong Lu, David C. Ingram, Arthur R. Smith, J. W. Knepper, and F. Y. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146101 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Strong Modification of the Nonlinear Optical Response of Metallic Subwavelength Hole Arrays

J. A. H. van Nieuwstadt, M. Sandtke, R. H. Harmsen, F. B. Segerink, J. C. Prangsma, S. Enoch, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146102 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Gold-Adatom-Mediated Bonding in Self-Assembled Short-Chain Alkanethiolate Species on the Au(111) Surface

Peter Maksymovych, Dan C. Sorescu, and John T. Yates, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146103 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interactions and Phase Transitions on Graphene’s Honeycomb Lattice

Igor F. Herbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146401 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Quantum Degenerate Exciton-Polaritons in Thermal Equilibrium

Hui Deng, David Press, Stephan Götzinger, Glenn S. Solomon, Rudolf Hey, Klaus H. Ploog, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146402 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Strong Valence-Band Offset Bowing of ${ZnO}_{1 - x} S_{x}$ Enhances $p$ -Type Nitrogen Doping of ZnO-like Alloys

Clas Persson, Charlotte Platzer-Björkman, Jonas Malmström, Tobias Törndahl, and Marika Edoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146403 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006

Fermi Surface Changes across the Néel Phase Boundary of ${NdB}_{6}$

R. G. Goodrich, N. Harrison, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146404 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Ground State Valency and Spin Configuration of the Ni Ions in Nickelates

L. Petit, G. M. Stocks, T. Egami, Z. Szotek, and W. M. Temmerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146405 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

Evidence for a Neutral Grain-Boundary Barrier in Chalcopyrites

Susanne Siebentritt, Sascha Sadewasser, Mark Wimmer, Caspar Leendertz, Tobias Eisenbarth, and Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146601 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Nuclear Spin Effect in a Metallic Spin Valve

J. Danon and Yu. V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146602 (2006) - Published 3 October, 2006

Influence of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Few-Cycle Pulses on Ponderomotive Surface-Plasmon Electron Acceleration

S. E. Irvine, P. Dombi, Gy. Farkas, and A. Y. Elezzabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146801 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

“Wormhole” Geometry for Entrapping Topologically Protected Qubits in Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States and Probing Them with Voltage and Noise Measurements

Chang-Yu Hou and Claudio Chamon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 146802 (2006) - Published 2 October, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Orientational Coupling Amplification in Ferroelectric Nematic Colloids

Fenghua Li, Oleksandr Buchnev, Chae Il Cheon, Anatoliy Glushchenko, Victor Reshetnyak, Yuri Reznikov, Timothy J. Sluckin, and John L. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 147801 (2006) - Published 5 October, 2006

Phase Behavior of Symmetric Ternary Block Copolymer-Homopolymer Blends in Thin Films and on Chemically Patterned Surfaces

Mark P. Stoykovich, Erik W. Edwards, Harun H. Solak, and Paul F. Nealey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 147802 (2006) - Published 6 October, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Suppression of Superconductivity in Disordered Interacting Wires [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 117001 (2006)]

D. A. Pesin and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 149901 (2006) - Published 4 October, 2006