Volume 97, Issue 19

10 November 2006

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On the Cover

Kinetic energy (vertical) of deuterons after fragmentation of deuterium molecules in a pump-probe experiment, for a given time delay (horizontal) between the pump and the probe pulses. Colors denote the number of ions, with orange-yellow being the highest.

From the article:

Spatiotemporal Imaging of Ultrafast Molecular Motion: Collapse and Revival of the $D_{2}^{+}$ Nuclear Wave Packet
Th. Ergler, A. Rudenko, B. Feuerstein, K. Zrost, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193001 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Quantum Feedback Control for Deterministic Entangled Photon Generation

Masahiro Yanagisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190201 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

General Approach to Quantum-Classical Hybrid Systems and Geometric Forces

Qi Zhang and Biao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190401 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Condensation of $N$ Interacting Bosons: A Hybrid Approach to Condensate Fluctuations

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190402 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Dipole Polarizability of a Trapped Superfluid Fermi Gas

A. Recati, I. Carusotto, C. Lobo, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190403 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Loschmidt Echo in a System of Interacting Electrons

G. Manfredi and P.-A. Hervieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190404 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Detection Scheme for Acoustic Quantum Radiation in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190405 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Quantum Stripe Ordering in Optical Lattices

Congjun Wu, W. Vincent Liu, Joel Moore, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190406 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Deformation of a Trapped Fermi Gas with Unequal Spin Populations

G. B. Partridge, Wenhui Li, Y. A. Liao, R. G. Hulet, M. Haque, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190407 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Quantum fluctuations and Collective Oscillations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a 2D Optical Lattice

G. Orso, C. Menotti, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190408 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Efficient Solvability of Hamiltonians and Limits on the Power of Some Quantum Computational Models

Rolando Somma, Howard Barnum, Gerardo Ortiz, and Emanuel Knill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190501 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Optimality of Gaussian Attacks in Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography

Miguel Navascués, Frédéric Grosshans, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190502 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Unconditional Optimality of Gaussian Attacks against Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Raúl García-Patrón and Nicolas J. Cerf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190503 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Entropy and Galilean Invariance of Lattice Boltzmann Theories

Shyam S. Chikatamarla and Iliya V. Karlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190601 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Wave-Number Spectra and Intermittency in the Terrestrial Foreshock Region

Y. Narita, K.-H. Glassmeier, and R. A. Treumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191101 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Proper Motion of Gamma Rays from Microhalo Sources

Savvas M. Koushiappas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191301 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Holographic Probabilities in Eternal Inflation

Raphael Bousso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191302 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Can Sterile Neutrinos Be the Dark Matter?

Uroš Seljak, Alexey Makarov, Patrick McDonald, and Hy Trac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191303 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Gauge-invariant inflaton in the minimal supersymmetric standard model

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Kari Enqvist, Juan Garcia-Bellido, and Anupam Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191304 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

$M$ Theory Solution to the Hierarchy Problem

Bobby Acharya, Konstantin Bobkov, Gordon Kane, Piyush Kumar, and Diana Vaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191601 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Neutrino Beam

D. G. Michael et al. (MINOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191801 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Search for Excited and Exotic Muons in the $μ γ$ Decay Channel in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191802 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Determination of the Pion Charge Form Factor at $Q^{2} = 1.60$ and $2.45 (GeV / c)^{2}$

T. Horn et al. (Jefferson Lab F_{π} Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 192001 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Exotic Hadrons in $s$ -Wave Chiral Dynamics

Tetsuo Hyodo, Daisuke Jido, and Atsushi Hosaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 192002 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Estimates of the Uncertainties Associated with Models of the Nucleon Structure Functions in the $Δ$ Production Region

Omar Benhar and Davide Meloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 192301 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Astrophysical Reaction Rate for the Neutron-Generator Reaction ${}^{13}C (α, n) {}^{16}O$ in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

E. D. Johnson, G. V. Rogachev, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, L. T. Baby, S. Brown, W. T. Cluff, A. M. Crisp, E. Diffenderfer, V. Z. Goldberg, B. W. Green, T. Hinners, C. R. Hoffman, K. W. Kemper, O. Momotyuk, P. Peplowski, A. Pipidis, R. Reynolds, and B. T. Roeder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 192701 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spatiotemporal Imaging of Ultrafast Molecular Motion: Collapse and Revival of the $D_{2}^{+}$ Nuclear Wave Packet

Th. Ergler, A. Rudenko, B. Feuerstein, K. Zrost, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193001 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Photoelectron Angular Distributions from Above Threshold Ionization of Hydrogen Atoms in Strong Laser Fields

Lihua Bai, Jingtao Zhang, Zhizhan Xu, and Dong-Sheng Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193002 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Photodetachment of Cold ${OH}^{-}$ in a Multipole Ion Trap

S. Trippel, J. Mikosch, R. Berhane, R. Otto, M. Weidemüller, and R. Wester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193003 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Positron Annihilation in Molecules by Capture into Vibrational Feshbach Resonances of Infrared-Active Modes

G. F. Gribakin and C. M. R. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193201 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Cold Atomic Collisions: Coherent Control of Penning and Associative Ionization

Carlos A. Arango, Moshe Shapiro, and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193202 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Suppression of Quantum Scattering in Strongly Confined Systems

J. I. Kim, V. S. Melezhik, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193203 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Magnetism and Magnetic Isomers in Free Chromium Clusters

F. W. Payne, Wei Jiang, and L. A. Bloomfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193401 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Observation of Long-Lived Muonic Hydrogen in the $2 S$ State

Randolf Pohl, Herbert Daniel, F. Joachim Hartmann, Peter Hauser, Franz Kottmann, Valery E. Markushin, Markus Mühlbauer, Claude Petitjean, Wolfgang Schott, David Taqqu, and Peter Wojciechowski-Grosshauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193402 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Experimental Realization of Maximum Confidence Quantum State Discrimination for the Extraction of Quantum Information

Peter J. Mosley, Sarah Croke, Ian A. Walmsley, and Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193601 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Interaction-Induced Localization of Anomalously Diffracting Nonlinear Waves

Y. Linzon, Y. Sivan, B. Malomed, M. Zaezjev, R. Morandotti, and S. Bar-Ad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193901 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Waves in Nonlinear Lattices: Ultrashort Optical Pulses and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Y. Sivan, G. Fibich, and M. I. Weinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193902 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Photospin-Orbit Coupling in Photonic Structures

Fredrik Jonsson and Christos Flytzanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193903 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Generalized $n$ -Photon Resonant $2 n$ -Wave Mixing in an ( $n + 1$ )-Level System with Phase-Conjugate Geometry

Zhanchun Zuo, Jiang Sun, Xia Liu, Qian Jiang, Guangsheng Fu, Ling-An Wu, and Panming Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 193904 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

Diversity-Induced Resonance

Claudio J. Tessone, Claudio R. Mirasso, Raúl Toral, and James D. Gunton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 194101 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Hyperacceleration in a Stochastic Fermi-Ulam Model

A. K. Karlis, P. K. Papachristou, F. K. Diakonos, V. Constantoudis, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 194102 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Lyapunov Generation of Entanglement and the Correspondence Principle

C. Petitjean and Ph. Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 194103 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Periodic Heterogeneity-Driven Resonance Amplification in Density Fingering

D. Horváth, S. Tóth, and Á. Tóth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 194501 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Compression and Extraction of Stopped Muons

D. Taqqu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 194801 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Two-Stage Melting in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Dissipative Yukawa Systems

O. S. Vaulina, I. E. Drangevski, X. G. Adamovich, O. F. Petrov, and V. E. Fortov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195001 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Electron Gyroharmonic Effects in Ionization and Electron Acceleration during High-Frequency Pumping in the Ionosphere

B. Gustavsson, T. B. Leyser, M. Kosch, M. T. Rietveld, Å. Steen, B. U. E. Brändström, and T. Aso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195002 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Activation Energy of Shear Transformation Zones: A Key for Understanding Rheology of Glasses and Liquids

S. G. Mayr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195501 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Strain-Induced Bond Buckling and Its Role in Insulating Properties of Cr-Doped $V_{2} O_{3}$

A. I. Frenkel, D. M. Pease, J. I. Budnick, P. Metcalf, E. A. Stern, P. Shanthakumar, and T. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195502 (2006) - Published 9 November, 2006

Inhomogeneous Mode-Coupling Theory and Growing Dynamic Length in Supercooled Liquids

Giulio Biroli, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Kunimasa Miyazaki, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195701 (2006) - Published 6 November, 2006

Scaled Equation of State for Supercooled Water near the Liquid-Liquid Critical Point

D. A. Fuentevilla and M. A. Anisimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195702 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Giant Wave-Drag Enhancement of Friction in Sliding Carbon Nanotubes

Paul Tangney, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 195901 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Ring of $C_{60}$ Polymers Formed by Electron or Hole Injection from a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Tip

Ryo Nouchi, Kosuke Masunari, Toshio Ohta, Yoshihiro Kubozono, and Yoshihiro Iwasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 196101 (2006) - Published 7 November, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Appearance of a Liquid Crystalline Nematic-Isotropic Critical Point in a Mixture System of Rod- and Bent-Shaped Molecules

K. Takekoshi, K. Ema, H. Yao, Y. Takanishi, J. Watanabe, and H. Takezoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 197801 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Chemical Contribution to Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering”

E. C. Le Ru and P. G. Etchegoin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 199701 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

Persson, Zhao, and Zhang Reply:

B. N. J. Persson, Ke Zhao, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 199702 (2006) - Published 10 November, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Observation of ${}^{54}{Ni}$ : Cross-Conjugate Symmetry in $f_{7 / 2}$ Mirror Energy Differences [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 152501 (2006)]

A. Gadea et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 199901 (2006) - Published 8 November, 2006