Volume 97, Issue 22

1 December 2006

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On the Cover

Electron orbitals for the bonding of transition metal atoms (Ti: red) to ethylene (C₂H₄: yellow and green). The resulting complex (left) is capable of absorbing up to ten hydrogen molecules.

From the article:

Transition-Metal-Ethylene Complexes as High-Capacity Hydrogen-Storage Media
E. Durgun, S. Ciraci, W. Zhou, and T. Yildirim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226102 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Contribution of Quantum Molecular Flexibility to the Second Virial Coefficient of Water Vapor

Alexander G. Donchev, Nikolay G. Galkin, and Vladimir I. Tarasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220401 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Entanglement Entropy beyond the Free Case

Thomas Barthel, Sébastien Dusuel, and Julien Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220402 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Dark-State Cooling of Atoms by Superfluid Immersion

A. Griessner, A. J. Daley, S. R. Clark, D. Jaksch, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220403 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Fidelity and Coherence Measures from Interference

Daniel K. L. Oi and Johan Åberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220404 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Casimir Edge Effects

Holger Gies and Klaus Klingmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220405 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Potential Energy of a ${}^{40}K$ Fermi Gas in the BCS-BEC Crossover

J. T. Stewart, J. P. Gaebler, C. A. Regal, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220406 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Process Tomography of Ion Trap Quantum Gates

M. Riebe, K. Kim, P. Schindler, T. Monz, P. O. Schmidt, T. K. Körber, W. Hänsel, H. Häffner, C. F. Roos, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 220407 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Limits on the High-Energy Gamma and Neutrino Fluxes from the SGR 1806-20 Giant Flare of 27 December 2004 with the AMANDA-II Detector

A. Achterberg et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221101 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

HESS Observations of the Galactic Center Region and Their Possible Dark Matter Interpretation

F. Aharonian et al. (HESS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221102 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Local Model for Angular-Momentum Transport in Accretion Disks Driven by the Magnetorotational Instability

Martin E. Pessah, Chi-kwan Chan, and Dimitrios Psaltis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221103 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Analytical Study of Diffusive Relativistic Shock Acceleration

Uri Keshet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221104 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Fixed Points of Higher-Derivative Gravity

Alessandro Codello and Roberto Percacci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221301 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Simple Approach to Renormalize the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

Bernd A. Kniehl and Alberto Sirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221801 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Parity-Odd Asymmetries in $W$ -Jet Events at the Fermilab Tevatron

Kaoru Hagiwara, Ken-ichi Hikasa, and Hiroshi Yokoya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221802 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Search for $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing and Branching-Ratio Measurement in the Decay $D^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-} π^{0}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221803 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Observation of a New $D_{s}$ Meson Decaying to $D K$ at a Mass of $2.86 GeV / c^{2}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 222001 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Evidence for Diquarks in Lattice QCD

C. Alexandrou, Ph. de Forcrand, and B. Lucini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 222002 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Controlling Ultracold Rydberg Atoms in the Quantum Regime

Bernd Hezel, Igor Lesanovsky, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223001 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Relevance of the Slowly Varying Electron Gas to Atoms, Molecules, and Solids

John P. Perdew, Lucian A. Constantin, Espen Sagvolden, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223002 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Effect of Target Polarization in Electron-Ion Recombination

A. V. Korol, G. F. Gribakin, and F. J. Currell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223201 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

First Measurement of the Linear Polarization of Radiative Electron Capture Transitions

S. Tashenov, Th. Stöhlker, D. Banaś, K. Beckert, P. Beller, H. F. Beyer, F. Bosch, S. Fritzsche, A. Gumberidze, S. Hagmann, C. Kozhuharov, T. Krings, D. Liesen, F. Nolden, D. Protic, D. Sierpowski, U. Spillmann, M. Steck, and A. Surzhykov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223202 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Casimir-Lifshitz Force Out of Thermal Equilibrium and Asymptotic Nonadditivity

Mauro Antezza, Lev P. Pitaevskii, Sandro Stringari, and Vitaly B. Svetovoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223203 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Time-Bin-Modulated Biphotons from Cavity-Enhanced Down-Conversion

Christopher E. Kuklewicz, Franco N. C. Wong, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223601 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Generation of Two-Photon States with an Arbitrary Degree of Entanglement Via Nonlinear Crystal Superlattices

Alfred B. U’Ren, Reinhard K. Erdmann, Manuel de la Cruz-Gutierrez, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223602 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Long-Range Correlations in the Speckle Patterns of Directed Waves

Oded Agam, A. V. Andreev, and B. Spivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223901 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Gain-Assisted Slow to Superluminal Group Velocity Manipulation in Nanowaveguides

Alexander A. Govyadinov and Viktor A. Podolskiy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223902 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Synchronization of Extended Chaotic Systems with Long-Range Interactions: An Analogy to Lévy-Flight Spreading of Epidemics

Claudio Juan Tessone, Massimo Cencini, and Alessandro Torcini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 224101 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Alpha Channeling in Mirror Machines

N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225001 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Imaging Electron Trajectories in a Laser-Wakefield Cavity Using Betatron X-Ray Radiation

Kim Ta Phuoc, Sebastien Corde, Rahul Shah, Felicie Albert, Romuald Fitour, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Fréderic Burgy, Brigitte Mercier, and Antoine Rousse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225002 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Frictional Dissipation and Interfacial Glass Transition of Polymeric Solids

Lionel Bureau, Christiane Caroli, and Tristan Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225501 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Amorphization Induced by Pressure: Results for Zeolites and General Implications

Inmaculada Peral and Jorge Íñiguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225502 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Incommensurate Structural Correlations in the Disordered Spin-Dimer State Induced by X-Ray and Electron Irradiation in ${CuIr}_{2} S_{4}$

V. Kiryukhin, Y. Horibe, Y. S. Hor, H. J. Noh, S-W. Cheong, and C. H. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225503 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Is There Any Fast Sound in Water?

S. C. Santucci, D. Fioretto, L. Comez, A. Gessini, and C. Masciovecchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225701 (2006) - Published 27 November, 2006

Critical Scaling Properties at the Superfluid Transition of ${}^{4}{He}$ in Aerogel

Marios Nikolaou, Mats Wallin, and Hans Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225702 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Shape Memory Effect and Superelasticity in a Strain Glass Alloy

Yu Wang, Xiaobing Ren, and Kazuhiro Otsuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 225703 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Relaxation Time of the Topological $T 1$ Process in a Two-Dimensional Foam

Marc Durand and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226101 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Transition-Metal-Ethylene Complexes as High-Capacity Hydrogen-Storage Media

E. Durgun, S. Ciraci, W. Zhou, and T. Yildirim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226102 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Evidence for the Formation of Different Energetically Similar Atomic Structures in $Ag (111) − (\sqrt{7} \times \sqrt{7}) − R 19.1 ° − {CH}_{3} S$

D. Torres, P. Carro, R. C. Salvarezza, and F. Illas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226103 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Real Time Observation of $GeSi / Si (001)$ Island Shrinkage due to Surface Alloying during Si Capping

C. Lang, S. Kodambaka, F. M. Ross, and D. J. H. Cockayne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226104 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quasiparticle Corrections to the Electronic Properties of Anion Vacancies at GaAs(110) and InP(110)

Magnus Hedström, Arno Schindlmayr, Günther Schwarz, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226401 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Strong Correlations Produce the Curie-Weiss Phase of ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

Jan O. Haerter, Michael R. Peterson, and B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226402 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

Effect of Fermi Surface Curvature on Low-Energy Properties of Fermions with Singular Interactions

A. V. Chubukov and D. V. Khveshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226403 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Direct Photoexcitation of Appreciable Size of Domains without Lattice Motion in Neutral-Ionic Transition Systems

Kaoru Iwano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226404 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Experimental Evidence for Spin-Split Bands in a One-Dimensional Chain Structure

I. Barke, Fan Zheng, T. K. Rügheimer, and F. J. Himpsel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226405 (2006) - Published 1 December, 2006

Friedel Oscillations, Impurity Scattering, and Temperature Dependence of Resistivity in Graphene

Vadim V. Cheianov and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226801 (2006) - Published 28 November, 2006

First Principles Modeling of Tunnel Magnetoresistance of $Fe / MgO / Fe$ Trilayers

Derek Waldron, Vladimir Timoshevskii, Yibin Hu, Ke Xia, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226802 (2006) - Published 29 November, 2006

Phase Coherence of Conduction Electrons Below the Kondo Temperature

Gassem M. Alzoubi and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226803 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006

Scaling of the Low-Temperature Dephasing Rate in Kondo Systems

F. Mallet, J. Ericsson, D. Mailly, S. Ünlübayir, D. Reuter, A. Melnikov, A. D. Wieck, T. Micklitz, A. Rosch, T. A. Costi, L. Saminadayar, and C. Bäuerle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 226804 (2006) - Published 30 November, 2006