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Volume 97, Issue 20

17 November 2006
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Atomic Force Microscopy reveals a copolymer fluid droplet with a terraced, nearly conical shape. Each ring is one diblock bilayer thick.

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Droplet Shape of an Anisotropic Liquid
Andrew B. Croll, Michael V. Massa, Mark W. Matsen, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 204502 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Emergence of Artificial Photons in an Optical Lattice

Sumanta Tewari, V. W. Scarola, T. Senthil, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200401 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Guided Quasicontinuous Atom Laser

W. Guerin, J.-F. Riou, J. P. Gaebler, V. Josse, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200402 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Normal State of a Polarized Fermi Gas at Unitarity

C. Lobo, A. Recati, S. Giorgini, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200403 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Gauging a Quantum Heat Bath with Dissipative Landau-Zener Transitions

Martijn Wubs, Keiji Saito, Sigmund Kohler, Peter Hänggi, and Yosuke Kayanuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200404 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Realization of a Superconducting Atom Chip

T. Nirrengarten, A. Qarry, C. Roux, A. Emmert, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J.-M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200405 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Sweeping from the Superfluid to the Mott Phase in the Bose-Hubbard Model

Ralf Schützhold, Michael Uhlmann, Yan Xu, and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200601 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Spectral Theory of Metastability and Extinction in Birth-Death Systems

Michael Assaf and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200602 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Why Anthropic Reasoning Cannot Predict Λ

Glenn D. Starkman and Roberto Trotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 201301 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Entanglement Entropy of Black Holes and Anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Correspondence

Sergey N. Solodukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 201601 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Measurements of Branching Fractions, Polarizations, and Direct CP-Violation Asymmetries in B→ρK* and B→f0(980)K* Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 201801 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries in B Decays to an η Meson and a K* Meson

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 201802 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

DsJ(2860) as the First Radial Excitation of Ds0*(2317)

Eef van Beveren and George Rupp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202001 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Search for Invisible Decays of η and η′ in J/ψ→ϕη and ϕη′

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202002 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Observation of B+→Λc+Λc−K+ and B0→Λc+Λc−K0 Decays

N. Gabyshev et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202003 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Isospin Effects on Subthreshold Kaon Production at Intermediate Energies

G. Ferini, T. Gaitanos, M. Colonna, M. Di Toro, and H. H. Wolter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202301 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Examining the Necessity to Include Event-By-Event Fluctuations in Experimental Evaluations of Elliptical Flow

R. Andrade, F. Grassi, Y. Hama, T. Kodama, and O. Socolowski, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202302 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Measurement of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Integrand for H2 from 200 to 800 MeV

J. Ahrens et al. (GDH and A2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202303 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Implications of Deformation and Shape Coexistence for the Nuclear Shell Model

D. J. Rowe, G. Thiamova, and J. L. Wood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 202501 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Adiabatic Approximation of the Correlation Function in the Density-Functional Treatment of Ionization Processes

F. Wilken and D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 203001 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Driven Drops on Heterogeneous Substrates: Onset of Sliding Motion

Uwe Thiele and Edgar Knobloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 204501 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Droplet Shape of an Anisotropic Liquid

Andrew B. Croll, Michael V. Massa, Mark W. Matsen, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 204502 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Surface Roughness-Hydrophobicity Coupling in Microchannel and Nanochannel Flows

M. Sbragaglia, R. Benzi, L. Biferale, S. Succi, and F. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 204503 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser-Beam Smoothing Induced by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Inhomogeneous Plasma

P. Loiseau, O. Morice, D. Teychenné, M. Casanova, S. Hüller, and D. Pesme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205001 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Bubble Acceleration in the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

R. Betti and J. Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205002 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Formation of Inner Structure of a Reconnection Separatrix Region

Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, A. Vaivads, A. Retinò, M. André, C. J. Owen, and H. Nilsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205003 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Pressure Effect in a Shock-Wave–Plasma Interaction Induced by a Focused Laser Pulse

A. Sasoh, T. Ohtani, and K. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205004 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Fast-Ion Dynamics in the TEXTOR Tokamak Measured by Collective Thomson Scattering

H. Bindslev, S. K. Nielsen, L. Porte, J. A. Hoekzema, S. B. Korsholm, F. Meo, P. K. Michelsen, S. Michelsen, J. W. Oosterbeek, E. L. Tsakadze, E. Westerhof, and P. Woskov (the TEXTOR team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205005 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Dispersion and Transport of Energetic Particles due to the Interaction of Intense Laser Pulses with Overdense Plasmas

J. C. Adam, A. Héron, and G. Laval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205006 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Numerical Simulation of the Creation of a Hollow Neutral-Hydrogen Channel by an Electron Beam

V. V. Ivanov, P. S. Antsiferov, K. N. Koshelev, M. R. Akdim, and F. Bijkerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205007 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Probabilistic Transport Model with Two Critical Mechanisms for Magnetically Confined Plasmas

Sebastián Bouzat and Ricardo Farengo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205008 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Obliquely Propagating Dust-Density Plasma Waves in the Presence of an Ion Beam

A. Piel, M. Klindworth, O. Arp, A. Melzer, and M. Wolter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205009 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Is the Elongation of Ge Huts in the Low-Temperature Regime Governed by Kinetics?

I. Goldfarb, L. Banks-Sills, and R. Eliasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206101 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Ag Films: The Effect of Periodic versus Quasiperiodic Modulation

Daejin Eom, C.-S. Jiang, H.-B. Yu, J. Shi, Q. Niu, Ph. Ebert, and C.-K. Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206102 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Coexistence of Localized and Delocalized Surface Plasmon Modes in Percolating Metal Films

K. Seal, D. A. Genov, A. K. Sarychev, H. Noh, V. M. Shalaev, Z. C. Ying, X. Zhang, and H. Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206103 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Microscopic Study of a Pressure-Induced Ferromagnetic–Spin-Glass Transition in the Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore (Tb1−xLax)2Mo2O7

A. Apetrei, I. Mirebeau, I. Goncharenko, D. Andreica, and P. Bonville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206401 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Kondo-Transport Spectroscopy of Single Molecule Magnets

C. Romeike, M. R. Wegewijs, W. Hofstetter, and H. Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206601 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Angular Dependence of Domain Wall Resistivity in Artificial Magnetic Domain Structures

A. Aziz, S. J. Bending, H. G. Roberts, S. Crampin, P. J. Heard, and C. H. Marrows

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206602 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Electron Transport via Local Polarons at Interface Atoms

M. Berthe, A. Urbieta, L. Perdigão, B. Grandidier, D. Deresmes, C. Delerue, D. Stiévenard, R. Rurali, N. Lorente, L. Magaud, and P. Ordejón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206801 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Probing Quasiparticle States Bound by Disparate Periodic Potentials

P. Moras, L. Ferrari, C. Spezzani, S. Gardonio, M. Ležaić, Ph. Mavropoulos, S. Blügel, and C. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206802 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Disentangling Surface, Bulk, and Space-Charge-Layer Conductivity in Si(111)−(7×7)

J. W. Wells, J. F. Kallehauge, T. M. Hansen, and Ph. Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206803 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Mesoscopic Charge Relaxation

Simon E. Nigg, Rosa López, and Markus Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206804 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Transport Spectroscopy of a Single Dopant in a Gated Silicon Nanowire

H. Sellier, G. P. Lansbergen, J. Caro, S. Rogge, N. Collaert, I. Ferain, M. Jurczak, and S. Biesemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206805 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

General Properties of Local Plasmons in Metal Nanostructures

Feng Wang and Y. Ron Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 206806 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Onset of a Boson Mode at the Superconducting Critical Point of Underdoped YBa2Cu3Oy

Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Mike Sutherland, S. Y. Li, Louis Taillefer, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207001 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

High-Temperature Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization in Ni10 Magnetic Molecules

S. Carretta, P. Santini, G. Amoretti, M. Affronte, A. Candini, A. Ghirri, I. S. Tidmarsh, R. H. Laye, R. Shaw, and E. J. L. McInnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207201 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Magnon Decay in Noncollinear Quantum Antiferromagnets

A. L. Chernyshev and M. E. Zhitomirsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207202 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Hidden Order and Low-Energy Excitations in NpO2

P. Santini, S. Carretta, N. Magnani, G. Amoretti, and R. Caciuffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207203 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Spin-Liquid Phase in a Spin-1/2 Quantum Magnet on the Kagome Lattice

S. V. Isakov, Yong Baek Kim, and A. Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207204 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

Dependence of Current and Field Driven Depinning of Domain Walls on Their Structure and Chirality in Permalloy Nanowires

Masamitsu Hayashi, Luc Thomas, Charles Rettner, Rai Moriya, Xin Jiang, and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207205 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Pairwise Decoherence in Coupled Spin Qubit Networks

Andrea Morello, P. C. E. Stamp, and Igor S. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207206 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Nanosecond Dynamics of the Near-Infrared Photoluminescence of Er-Doped SiO2 Sensitized with Si Nanocrystals

I. Izeddin, A. S. Moskalenko, I. N. Yassievich, M. Fujii, and T. Gregorkiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207401 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Characterization of the Drastic Increase in Molecular Mobility of a Deformed Amorphous Polymer

Etienne Munch, Jean-Marc Pelletier, Bruno Sixou, and Gérard Vigier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207801 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Biaxial Ordering in a Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

K. Neupane, S. W. Kang, S. Sharma, D. Carney, T. Meyer, G. H. Mehl, D. W. Allender, Satyendra Kumar, and S. Sprunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207802 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

From a Simple Liquid to a Polymer Melt: NMR Relaxometry Study of Polybutadiene

S. Kariyo, C. Gainaru, H. Schick, A. Brodin, V. N. Novikov, and E. A. Rössler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 207803 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Elasticity from the Force Network Ensemble in Granular Media

Srdjan Ostojic and Debabrata Panja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208001 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

Chaos via Shilnikov’s Saddle-Node Bifurcation in a Theory of the Electroencephalogram

Lennaert van Veen and David T. J. Liley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208101 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Kinetic Accessibility of Buried DNA Sites in Nucleosomes

Wolfram Möbius, Richard A. Neher, and Ulrich Gerland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208102 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Molecular Shift Register and its Utilization as an Autonomous DNA Synthesizer

Ilya Baskin, Stav Zaitsev, Doron Lipson, Rachel Gilad, Kinneret Keren, Gidi Ben-Yoseph, and Uri Sivan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208103 (2006) - Published 16 November, 2006

DNA Unzipping and the Unbinding of Directed Polymers in a Random Media

Yariv Kafri and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208104 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Control of Electron Transfer Pathways in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Ben Brüggemann, Juan Angel Organero, Torbjörn Pascher, Tõnu Pullerits, and Arkady Yartsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208301 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Layer Reduction in Driven 2D-Colloidal Systems through Microchannels

M. Köppl, P. Henseler, A. Erbe, P. Nielaba, and P. Leiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208302 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Computational Investigations of Pore Forming Peptide Assemblies in Lipid Bilayers

Laura J. Douglas Frink and Amalie L. Frischknecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208701 (2006) - Published 15 November, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Charge-Qubit Operation of an Isolated Double Quantum Dot”

O. Astafiev, Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin, T. Yamamoto, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208901 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Gorman et al. Reply:

J. Gorman, E. G. Emiroglu, D. G. Hasko, and D. A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 208902 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

Comment on “Combinatorial Search for Optimal Hydrogen-Storage Nanomaterials Based on Polymers”

S. Li and P. Jena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 209601 (2006) - Published 17 November, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Zipper Dynamics of Surfactant Nanotube Y Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 188105 (2006)]

Tatsiana Lobovkina, Paul Dommersnes, Jean-François Joanny, Johan Hurtig, and Owe Orwar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 209901 (2006) - Published 13 November, 2006

Publisher’s Note: Large Melting-Point Hysteresis of Ge Nanocrystals Embedded in SiO2 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 155701 (2006)]

Q. Xu, I. D. Sharp, C. W. Yuan, D. O. Yi, C. Y. Liao, A. M. Glaeser, A. M. Minor, J. W. Beeman, M. C. Ridgway, P. Kluth, J. W. Ager, III, D. C. Chrzan, and E. E. Haller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 209902 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

Erratum: Ellipsoidal Universe Can Solve the Cosmic Microwave Background Quadrupole Problem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 131302 (2006)]

L. Campanelli, P. Cea, and L. Tedesco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 209903 (2006) - Published 14 November, 2006

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