Volume 97, Issue 16

20 October 2006

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On the Cover

A one-dimensional piece of Mylar confined in a two-dimensional container exhibits interesting folding patterns as a result of the interplay between elasticity and geometry.

From the article:

Spiral Patterns in the Packing of Flexible Structures
L. Boué, M. Adda-Bedia, A. Boudaoud, D. Cassani, Y. Couder, A. Eddi, and M. Trejo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166104 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Large Deviations of Extreme Eigenvalues of Random Matrices

David S. Dean and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160201 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Opposites Attract: A Theorem about the Casimir Force

Oded Kenneth and Israel Klich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160401 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Scattering Length Instability in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

D. C. E. Bortolotti, S. Ronen, J. L. Bohn, and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160402 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Anomalous Scaling Exponents in Nonlinear Models of Turbulence

Luiza Angheluta, Roberto Benzi, Luca Biferale, Itamar Procaccia, and Federico Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160601 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cross Section Dependence of Event Rates at Neutrino Telescopes

S. Hussain, D. Marfatia, D. W. McKay, and D. Seckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161101 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Inflation, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy in the String Landscape

Andrew R. Liddle and L. Arturo Ureña-López

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161301 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Surface Tension and the Cosmological Constant

Joseph Samuel and Supurna Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161302 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Effect on Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization of Coupling of Quintessence to Pseudoscalar Formed from the Electromagnetic Field and its Dual

Guo-Chin Liu, Seokcheon Lee, and Kin-Wang Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161303 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Upper Bound on the Hadronic Light-By-Light Contribution to the Muon $g - 2$

Jens Erler and Genaro Toledo Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161801 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Two Muons in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161802 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the $p \bar{p} \to Z H \to ν \bar{ν} b \bar{b}$ Channel

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161803 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Observation of New States Decaying into $Λ_{c}^{+} K^{-} π^{+}$ and $Λ_{c}^{+} K_{S}^{0} π^{-}$

R. Chistov et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162001 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Observation of a Near-Threshold $D^{0} {\bar{D}}^{0} π^{0}$ Enhancement in $B \to D^{0} {\bar{D}}^{0} π^{0} K$ Decay

G. Gokhroo et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162002 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Study of $J / ψ \to p \bar{p}, Λ \bar{Λ}$ and Observation of $η_{c} \to Λ \bar{Λ}$ at Belle

C.-H. Wu et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162003 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Direct Observation of Dijets in Central $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162301 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Measuring Shear Viscosity Using Transverse Momentum Correlations in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Sean Gavin and Mohamed Abdel-Aziz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162302 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Mean Field with Tensor Force and Shell Structure of Exotic Nuclei

Takaharu Otsuka, Toshiaki Matsuo, and Daisuke Abe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162501 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Global Calculations of Ground-State Axial Shape Asymmetry of Nuclei

Peter Möller, Ragnar Bengtsson, B. Gillis Carlsson, Peter Olivius, and Takatoshi Ichikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162502 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Asymmetry Dependence of Proton Correlations

R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, and W. H. Dickhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162503 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Evidence for Strong Dominance of Proton-Neutron Correlations in Nuclei

E. Piasetzky, M. Sargsian, L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman, and J. W. Watson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162504 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Heterodyne Mixing of Laser Fields for Temporal Gating of High-Order Harmonic Generation

Thomas Pfeifer, Lukas Gallmann, Mark J. Abel, Phillip M. Nagel, Daniel M. Neumark, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163901 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Passive Mode Locking of Lasers by Crossed-Polarization Gain Modulation

Julien Javaloyes, Josep Mulet, and Salvador Balle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163902 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Overcoming the Rayleigh Criterion Limit with Optical Vortices

F. Tamburini, G. Anzolin, G. Umbriaco, A. Bianchini, and C. Barbieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163903 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Nonlinear Optics of Intense Attosecond Light Pulses

Alexander Nazarkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163904 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Kilohertz-Resolution Spectroscopy of Cold Atoms with an Optical Frequency Comb

T. M. Fortier, Y. Le Coq, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Ortega, S. A. Diddams, C. W. Oates, and L. Hollberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163905 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Abnormal Synchronization in Complex Clustered Networks

Liang Huang, Kwangho Park, Ying-Cheng Lai, Lei Yang, and Kongqing Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 164101 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Anomalous Transparency of Water-Air Interface for Low-Frequency Sound

Oleg A. Godin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 164301 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Global Invariants for Variable-Mass Systems

James E. Howard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 164302 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Violent Folding of a Flame Front in a Flame-Acoustic Resonance

Arkady Petchenko, Vitaly Bychkov, V’yacheslav Akkerman, and Lars-Erik Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 164501 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Resonance of Static-Error-Field Amplification in Tokamak Plasmas

L.-J. Zheng and M. Kotschenreuther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165001 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Enhanced Production of Runaway Electrons during a Disruptive Termination of Discharges Heated with Lower Hybrid Power in the Frascati Tokamak Upgrade

J. R. Martín-Solís, B. Esposito, R. Sánchez, F. M. Poli, and L. Panaccione

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165002 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Influence of the Static Dynamic Ergodic Divertor on Edge Turbulence Properties in TEXTOR

Y. Xu, R. R. Weynants, S. Jachmich, M. Van Schoor, M. Vergote, P. Peleman, M. W. Jakubowski, M. Mitri, D. Reiser, B. Unterberg, and K. H. Finken (the TEXTOR team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165003 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Classical Rotational Inertia and Nonclassical Supersolid Signals in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ below 250 mK

Ann Sophie C. Rittner and John D. Reppy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165301 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Melting Curve of ${}^{4}{He}$ : No Sign of a Supersolid Transition down to 10 mK

I. A. Todoshchenko, H. Alles, J. Bueno, H. J. Junes, A. Ya. Parshin, and V. Tsepelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165302 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Texture of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ Probed by a Wigner Solid

Hiroki Ikegami and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165303 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Controlling the Morphology of Ag Nanoclusters by Ion Implantation to Different Doses and Subsequent Annealing

Feng Ren, Changzhong Jiang, Chang Liu, Jianbo Wang, and Takeo Oku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165501 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

How Does Tetrahedral Structure Grow in Liquid Silicon upon Supercooling?

Tetsuya Morishita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165502 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Dynamics of the Peel Front and the Nature of Acoustic Emission during Peeling of an Adhesive Tape

Rumi De and G. Ananthakrishna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165503 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Magic Numbers of Atoms in Surface-Supported Planar Clusters

Ya-Ping Chiu, Li-Wei Huang, Ching-Ming Wei, Chia-Seng Chang, and Tien-Tzou Tsong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165504 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Interaction-Driven Relaxation of Two-Level Systems in Glasses

Doru Bodea and Alois Würger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165505 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Quantum Diffusion of H on Pt(111): Step Effects

C. Z. Zheng, C. K. Yeung, M. M. T. Loy, and Xudong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166101 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

True Nature of an Archetypal Self-Assembly System: Mobile Au-Thiolate Species on Au(111)

Miao Yu, N. Bovet, Christopher J. Satterley, S. Bengió, Kevin R. J. Lovelock, P. K. Milligan, Robert G. Jones, D. P. Woodruff, and V. Dhanak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166102 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Stick-Slip Motion in Spite of a Slippery Contact: Do We Get What We See in Atomic Friction?

S. Yu. Krylov, J. A. Dijksman, W. A. van Loo, and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166103 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Spiral Patterns in the Packing of Flexible Structures

L. Boué, M. Adda-Bedia, A. Boudaoud, D. Cassani, Y. Couder, A. Eddi, and M. Trejo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166104 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dynamical Structure, Bonding, and Thermodynamics of the Superionic Sublattice in $α − AgI$

Brandon C. Wood and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166401 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Phosphorus Donors in Highly Strained Silicon

Hans Huebl, Andre R. Stegner, Martin Stutzmann, Martin S. Brandt, Guenther Vogg, Frank Bensch, Eva Rauls, and Uwe Gerstmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166402 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Oxygen-Related Band Gap State in Single Crystal Rubrene

Oleg Mitrofanov, David V. Lang, Christian Kloc, J. Magnus Wikberg, Theo Siegrist, Woo-Young So, M. A. Sergent, and Arthur P. Ramirez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166601 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Transport through Molecules

Andrea Donarini, Milena Grifoni, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166801 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Quantum Criticality in a Double-Quantum-Dot System

Gergely Zaránd, Chung-Hou Chung, Pascal Simon, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166802 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

Electronic Structure of Defect States in Hydroxylated and Reduced Rutile ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ Surfaces

Cristiana Di Valentin, Gianfranco Pacchioni, and Annabella Selloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166803 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Anomalous Energy Transfer Dynamics due to Torsional Relaxation in a Conjugated Polymer

Sebastian Westenhoff, Wichard J. D. Beenken, Richard H. Friend, Neil C. Greenham, Arkady Yartsev, and Villy Sundström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166804 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Undoing a Weak Quantum Measurement of a Solid-State Qubit

Alexander N. Korotkov and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 166805 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Decoherence of Flux Qubits due to $1 / f$ Flux Noise

F. Yoshihara, K. Harrabi, A. O. Niskanen, Y. Nakamura, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 167001 (2006) - Published 17 October, 2006

High Resolution Polar Kerr Effect Measurements of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ : Evidence for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in the Superconducting State

Jing Xia, Yoshiteru Maeno, Peter T. Beyersdorf, M. M. Fejer, and Aharon Kapitulnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 167002 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Production of Doubly Charged Helium Ions by Two-Photon Absorption of an Intense Sub-10-fs Soft X-Ray Pulse at 42 eV Photon Energy”

L. A. A. Nikolopoulos and P. Lambropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 169301 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

Nabekawa et al. Reply:

Yasuo Nabekawa, Hirokazu Hasegawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 169302 (2006) - Published 19 October, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Self-Consistent Scaling Theory for Logarithmic-Correction Exponents [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155702 (2006)]

R. Kenna, D. A. Johnston, and W. Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 169901 (2006) - Published 16 October, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Adiabatic Mach-Zehnder Interferometry on a Quantized Bose-Josephson Junction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150402 (2006)]

Chaohong Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 169902 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Erratum: Symmetry of Carrier-Envelope Phase Difference Effects in Strong-Field, Few-Cycle Ionization of Atoms and Molecules [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093001 (2006)]

Christian Per Juul Martiny and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 169903 (2006) - Published 18 October, 2006

Erratum: Extreme Ultrafast Dynamics of Quasiparticles Excited in Surface Electronic Bands [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 086801 (2006)]

P. Lazić, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, and B. Gumhalter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 169904 (2006) - Published 20 October, 2006