Volume 97, Issue 18

3 November 2006

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On the Cover

Time history of the simulated electric field component in the direction of the Earth's magnetic field near a double layer in the auroral upward-current region, plotted with time vertical and distance along the geomagnetic field horizontal. Red & yellow denote electric fields parallel to the geomagnetic field, while dark blue & black denote antiparallel fields.

From the article:

Double Layers and Ion Phase-Space Holes in the Auroral Upward-Current Region
D. S. Main, D. L. Newman, and R. E. Ergun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185001 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mechanics of Climbing and Attachment in Twining Plants

Alain Goriely and Sébastien Neukirch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184302 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

LETTERS

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

Condition for Any Realistic Theory of Quantum Systems

A. Montina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180401 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Maxwell’s Demon Assisted Thermodynamic Cycle in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

H. T. Quan, Y. D. Wang, Yu-xi Liu, C. P. Sun, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180402 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Efficient Quantum-State Estimation by Continuous Weak Measurement and Dynamical Control

Greg A. Smith, Andrew Silberfarb, Ivan H. Deutsch, and Poul S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180403 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Observation of Heteronuclear Feshbach Molecules from a ${}^{85}{Rb} - {}^{87}{Rb}$ Gas

S. B. Papp and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180404 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Oblique Dark Solitons in Supersonic Flow of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

G. A. El, A. Gammal, and A. M. Kamchatnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180405 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Interaction-Free Measurements with Superconducting Qubits

G. S. Paraoanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180406 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Vortex-Core Structure in Neutral Fermion Superfluids with Population Imbalance

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180407 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Melting of Discrete Vortices via Quantum Fluctuations

Chaohong Lee, Tristram J. Alexander, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180408 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Dynamical Evolution of a Doubly Quantized Vortex Imprinted in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

A. Muñoz Mateo and V. Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180409 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Probing the Quantum State of a Guided Atom Laser Pulse

Kevin L. Moore, Subhadeep Gupta, Kater W. Murch, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180410 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Quantum Insulating States of $F = 2$ Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Fei Zhou and Gordon W. Semenoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180411 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Classifying Novel Phases of Spinor Atoms

Ryan Barnett, Ari Turner, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180412 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Quantum Fluids of Self-Assembled Chains of Polar Molecules

Daw-Wei Wang, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180413 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Critical Rotational Frequency for Superfluid Fermionic Gases across a Feshbach Resonance

Hui Zhai and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180414 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Topological Quantum Distillation

H. Bombin and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180501 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Perfect Quantum State Transfer with Spinor Bosons on Weighted Graphs

David L. Feder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180502 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Two-Loop Iteration of Five-Point $N = 4$ Super-Yang-Mills Amplitudes

Z. Bern, M. Czakon, D. A. Kosower, R. Roiban, and V. A. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 181601 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Gauge and Yukawa Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking in the Triplet Seesaw Scenario

Filipe R. Joaquim and Anna Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 181801 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Anomalous Superfluidity in $(2 + 1)$ -Dimensional Two-Color Lattice QCD

Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 182001 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Calculating the Jet Quenching Parameter

Hong Liu, Krishna Rajagopal, and Urs Achim Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 182301 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

$M_{F}$ -Dependent Lifetimes due to Hyperfine Induced Interference Effects

Ke Yao, Martin Andersson, Tomas Brage, Roger Hutton, Per Jönsson, and Yaming Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 183001 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Ultracold Rb-OH Collisions and Prospects for Sympathetic Cooling

Manuel Lara, John L. Bohn, Daniel Potter, Pavel Soldán, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 183201 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Spectroscopic Exploration of Atomic Scale Superfluidity in Doped Helium Nanoclusters

A. R. W. McKellar, Yunjie Xu, and Wolfgang Jäger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 183401 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Existence of a ${}^{2}P^{o}$ Excited State for the $e^{+} Ca$ System

M. W. J. Bromley and J. Mitroy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 183402 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Quantum Study of Information Delay in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

M. T. L. Hsu, G. Hétet, O. Glöckl, J. J. Longdell, B. C. Buchler, H.-A. Bachor, and P. K. Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 183601 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Acoustic Attenuation in Self-Affine Porous Structures

Steven R. Pride and Yder J. Masson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184301 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mechanics of Climbing and Attachment in Twining Plants

Alain Goriely and Sébastien Neukirch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184302 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Destabilization of a Viscous Film Flowing Down in the Form of a Vertical Cylindrical Curtain

Christophe Pirat, Christian Mathis, Manoranjan Mishra, and Philippe Maïssa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184501 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Experimental Evidence for Magnetorotational Instability in a Taylor-Couette Flow under the Influence of a Helical Magnetic Field

Frank Stefani, Thomas Gundrum, Gunter Gerbeth, Günther Rüdiger, Manfred Schultz, Jacek Szklarski, and Rainer Hollerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184502 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Experimental Evidence of the Vapor Recoil Mechanism in the Boiling Crisis

V. S. Nikolayev, D. Chatain, Y. Garrabos, and D. Beysens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184503 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Wave-Field Formation in a Hollow X-Ray Waveguide

I. Bukreeva, A. Popov, D. Pelliccia, A. Cedola, S. B. Dabagov, and S. Lagomarsino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 184801 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Double Layers and Ion Phase-Space Holes in the Auroral Upward-Current Region

D. S. Main, D. L. Newman, and R. E. Ergun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185001 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence is Nothing Like Kolmogorov Turbulence in the Self-Similar Regime

Olivier Poujade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185002 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Experimental Evidence of the Local Character of Vibrations Constituting the Boson Peak in Amorphous Solids

Yu. G Vainer, A. V. Naumov, M. Bauer, and L. Kador

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185501 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Multiple Wave Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure

Yen-Ru Lee, Yuri P. Stetsko, Wen-Hsien Sun, Shih-Chang Weng, Shen-Yuan Cheng, Guin-Gi Lin, Yun-Liang Soo, and Shih-Lin Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185502 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Quantum Critical End Point for the Kondo Volume Collapse Model

M. Dzero, M. R. Norman, I. Paul, C. Pépin, and J. Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185701 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

In Situ Imaging of Field-Induced Hexagonal Columns in Magnetite Ferrofluids

Mark Klokkenburg, Ben H. Erné, Johannes D. Meeldijk, Albrecht Wiedenmann, Andrei V. Petukhov, Roel P. A. Dullens, and Albert P. Philipse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 185702 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Dynamic Structure Formation at the Fronts of Volatile Liquid Drops

Y. Gotkis, I. Ivanov, N. Murisic, and L. Kondic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186101 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Clustering of Chemisorbed H(D) Atoms on the Graphite (0001) Surface due to Preferential Sticking

L. Hornekær, E. Rauls, W. Xu, Ž. Šljivančanin, R. Otero, I. Stensgaard, E. Lægsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186102 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Reentrant Adhesion Behavior in Nanocluster Deposition

A. Awasthi, S. C. Hendy, P. Zoontjens, and S. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186103 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Real-Space Direct Visualization of the Layer-Dependent Roughening Transition in Nanometer-Thick Pb Films

F. Calleja, M. C. G. Passeggi, Jr., J. J. Hinarejos, A. L. Vázquez de Parga, and R. Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186104 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Real-Time Observation of Nonadiabatic Surface Dynamics: The First Picosecond in the Dissociation of NO on Iridium

Ian M. Lane, David A. King, Zhi-Pan Liu, and Heike Arnolds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186105 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Rotational Dynamics and Friction in Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

J. Servantie and P. Gaspard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186106 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bosonization Approach for Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems at $ν_{T} = 1$

R. L. Doretto, A. O. Caldeira, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186401 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Magnetization-Switched Metal-Insulator Transition in a (Ga,Mn)As Tunnel Device

K. Pappert, M. J. Schmidt, S. Hümpfner, C. Rüster, G. M. Schott, K. Brunner, C. Gould, G. Schmidt, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186402 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Adatom Self-Organization Induced by Quantum Confinement of Surface Electrons

V. S. Stepanyuk, N. N. Negulyaev, L. Niebergall, R. C. Longo, and P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186403 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Valley Susceptibility of an Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron System

O. Gunawan, Y. P. Shkolnikov, K. Vakili, T. Gokmen, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186404 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Complete $d$ -Band Dispersion Relation in Sodium Cobaltates

D. Qian, L. Wray, D. Hsieh, L. Viciu, R. J. Cava, J. L. Luo, D. Wu, N. L. Wang, and M. Z. Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186405 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Suppression of Shot Noise in Quantum Point Contacts in the “0.7 Regime”

A. Golub, T. Aono, and Yigal Meir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186801 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Quantum Hall Ferrimagnetism in Lateral Quantum Dot Molecules

Ramin M. Abolfath and Pawel Hawrylak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186802 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006

Detecting Non-Abelian Statistics with an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

D. E. Feldman and Alexei Kitaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186803 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Interface Controlled Electronic Charge Inhomogeneities in Correlated Heterostructures

Natalia Pavlenko and Thilo Kopp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187001 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Effect of the Vortices on the Nuclear Spin Relaxation Rate in the Unconventional Pairing States of the Organic Superconductor $(TMTSF)_{2} {PF}_{6}$

M. Takigawa, M. Ichioka, K. Kuroki, Y. Asano, and Y. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187002 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Magnon Excitation with Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

T. Balashov, A. F. Takács, W. Wulfhekel, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187201 (2006) - Published 2 November, 2006

Numerical Linked-Cluster Approach to Quantum Lattice Models

Marcos Rigol, Tyler Bryant, and Rajiv R. P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187202 (2006) - Published 3 November, 2006

Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers

A. C. Ferrari, J. C. Meyer, V. Scardaci, C. Casiraghi, M. Lazzeri, F. Mauri, S. Piscanec, D. Jiang, K. S. Novoselov, S. Roth, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187401 (2006) - Published 30 October, 2006

Coherence Length of Cold Exciton Gases in Coupled Quantum Wells

Sen Yang, A. T. Hammack, M. M. Fogler, L. V. Butov, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187402 (2006) - Published 31 October, 2006

Motional Enhancement of Exciton Magnetic Moments in Zinc-Blende Semiconductors

J. J. Davies, D. Wolverson, V. P. Kochereshko, A. V. Platonov, R. T. Cox, J. Cibert, H. Mariette, C. Bodin, C. Gourgon, E. V. Ubyivovk, Yu. P. Efimov, and S. A. Eliseev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 187403 (2006) - Published 1 November, 2006