Volume 97, Issue 23

8 December 2006

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On the Cover

Simulation of bilayers of pear-shaped, repulsive particles, in a phase transition from a smectic bilayer to a cubic gyroid. The interlayer migration of particles is significantly advanced, the topological arrangement showing characteristics of both phases.

From the article:

Entropy-Driven Formation of the Gyroid Cubic Phase
L. J. Ellison, D. J. Michel, F. Barmes, and D. J. Cleaver
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237801 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Quantum Contextuality in a Single-Neutron Optical Experiment

Yuji Hasegawa, Rudolf Loidl, Gerald Badurek, Matthias Baron, and Helmut Rauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230401 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Signatures of Strong Momentum Localization via Entanglement of Translational and Internal States

Nir Bar-Gill and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230402 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Demixing of Bosonic Mixtures in Optical Lattices from Macroscopic to Microscopic Scales

Ofir E. Alon, Alexej I. Streltsov, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230403 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

BCS-BEC Crossover on the Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice

Erhai Zhao and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230404 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Producing Cluster States in Charge Qubits and Flux Qubits

Tetsufumi Tanamoto, Yu-xi Liu, Shinobu Fujita, Xuedong Hu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230501 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Measurement of the Translational and Rotational Brownian Motion of Individual Particles in a Rarefied Gas

Jürgen Blum, Stefan Bruns, Daniel Rademacher, Annika Voss, Björn Willenberg, and Maya Krause

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230601 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

First-Passage Monte Carlo Algorithm: Diffusion without All the Hops

Tomas Opplestrup, Vasily V. Bulatov, George H. Gilmer, Malvin H. Kalos, and Babak Sadigh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230602 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Critical Behavior of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Random Porous Media

R. L. C. Vink, K. Binder, and H. Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230603 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Short-Path Statistics and the Diffusion Approximation

Stéphane Blanco and Richard Fournier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230604 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

High Frequency Atomic Magnetometer by Use of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

G. Katsoprinakis, D. Petrosyan, and I. K. Kominis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 230801 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Second Dip as a Signature of Ultrahigh Energy Proton Interactions with Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

V. Berezinsky, A. Gazizov, and M. Kachelrieß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 231101 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Can Cosmic Structure Form without Dark Matter?

Scott Dodelson and Michele Liguori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 231301 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Open M5-Branes

Eric A. Bergshoeff, Gary W. Gibbons, and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 231601 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

How Can We Test the Neutrino Mass Seesaw Mechanism Experimentally?

Matthew R. Buckley and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 231801 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Observation of an Excited Charm Baryon $Ω_{c}^{*}$ Decaying to $Ω_{c}^{0} γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 232001 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Nuclear Physics

$J / ψ$ Production in Quark-Gluon Plasma

Li Yan, Pengfei Zhuang, and Nu Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 232301 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

$Q$ Values of the Superallowed $β$ Emitters ${}^{26}{Al}^{m}$ , ${}^{42}{Sc}$ , and ${}^{46}V$ and Their Impact on $V_{u d}$ and the Unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix

T. Eronen, V. Elomaa, U. Hager, J. Hakala, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, I. Moore, H. Penttilä, S. Rahaman, J. Rissanen, A. Saastamoinen, T. Sonoda, J. Äystö, J. C. Hardy, and V. S. Kolhinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 232501 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cancellation of Stark Shifts in Optical Lattice Clocks by Use of Pulsed Raman and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Techniques

Thomas Zanon-Willette, Andrew D. Ludlow, Sebastian Blatt, Martin M. Boyd, Ennio Arimondo, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233001 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Experimental Verification of Minima in Excited Long-Range Rydberg States of ${Rb}_{2}$

Chris H. Greene, Edward L. Hamilton, Heather Crowell, Cedomil Vadla, and Kay Niemax

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233002 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Double Ionization of Lithiumlike Ions by Compton Scattering of High-Energy Photons

A. I. Mikhailov, A. V. Nefiodov, and G. Plunien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233003 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Enantiospecific Adsorption of Chiral Molecules on Chiral Gold Clusters

Xóchitl López-Lozano, Luis A. Pérez, and Ignacio L. Garzón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233401 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Slow-Light Optical Bullets in Arrays of Nonlinear Bragg-Grating Waveguides

Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233901 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Evolution of the Correlation between Orthogonal Polarization Patterns in Broad-Area Lasers

Eduardo Cabrera, Sonia Melle, Oscar G. Calderón, and J. M. Guerra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233902 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Hyperboloid Structures Formed by Polarization Singularities in Coherent Vector Fields with Longitudinal-Transverse Coupling

Y. F. Chen, T. H. Lu, and K. F. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 233903 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Modulational Instability in a Layered Kerr Medium: Theory and Experiment

Martin Centurion, Mason A. Porter, Ye Pu, P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and Demetri Psaltis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 234101 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Unified Green’s Function Retrieval by Cross Correlation

Kees Wapenaar, Evert Slob, and Roel Snieder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 234301 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Mechanism of Polymer Drag Reduction Using a Low-Dimensional Model

Anshuman Roy, Alexander Morozov, Wim van Saarloos, and Ronald G. Larson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 234501 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Collisional Relaxation of Superthermal Electrons Generated by Relativistic Laser Pulses in Dense Plasma

A. J. Kemp, Y. Sentoku, V. Sotnikov, and S. C. Wilks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235001 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Evidence of Relaxation and Spontaneous Transition to a High-Confinement State in High- $β$ Steady-State Plasmas Sustained by Rotating Magnetic Fields

H. Y. Guo, A. L. Hoffman, L. C. Steinhauer, K. E. Miller, and R. D. Milroy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235002 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Observation of Spontaneous Toroidal Rotation Inversion in Ohmically Heated Tokamak Plasmas

A. Bortolon, B. P. Duval, A. Pochelon, and A. Scarabosio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235003 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spin Incommensurability and Two Phase Competition in Cobaltites

D. Phelan, Despina Louca, K. Kamazawa, S.-H. Lee, S. N. Ancona, S. Rosenkranz, Y. Motome, M. F. Hundley, J. F. Mitchell, and Y. Moritomo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235501 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

X-Ray Bragg Diffraction in Asymmetric Backscattering Geometry

Yu. V. Shvyd’ko, M. Lerche, U. Kuetgens, H. D. Rüter, A. Alatas, and J. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235502 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Tricritical Phenomena at the $γ \to α$ Transition in ${Ce}_{0.9 - x} {La}_{x} {Th}_{0.1}$ Alloys

J. C. Lashley, A. C. Lawson, J. C. Cooley, B. Mihaila, C. P. Opeil, L. Pham, W. L. Hults, J. L. Smith, G. M. Schmiedeshoff, F. R. Drymiotis, G. Chapline, S. Basu, and P. S. Riseborough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235701 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the High-Pressure Molecular-Atomic Crossover in Fluid Hydrogen

Kris T. Delaney, Carlo Pierleoni, and D. M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 235702 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Motion of Nanodroplets near Edges and Wedges

A. Moosavi, M. Rauscher, and S. Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236101 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Kinetic Instabilities in the Growth of One Dimensional Molecular Nanostructures

J. Ben Taylor and Peter H. Beton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236102 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Anomalous Fermi-Surface Dependent Pairing in a Self-Doped High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor

Yulin Chen, Akira Iyo, Wanli Yang, Xingjiang Zhou, Donghui Lu, Hiroshi Eisaki, Thomas P. Devereaux, Zahid Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236401 (2006) - Published 5 December, 2006

Landé $g$ Tensor in Semiconductor Nanostructures

T. P. Mayer Alegre, F. G. G. Hernández, A. L. C. Pereira, and G. Medeiros-Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236402 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Superconducting ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ : A Thermal Conductivity Study

G. Seyfarth, J. P. Brison, M.-A. Méasson, D. Braithwaite, G. Lapertot, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236403 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Exact SU(2) Symmetry and Persistent Spin Helix in a Spin-Orbit Coupled System

B. Andrei Bernevig, J. Orenstein, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236601 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Spatially Dependent Kondo Effect in Quantum Corrals

Enrico Rossi and Dirk K. Morr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236602 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Effect of Disorder on Transport in Graphene

I. L. Aleiner and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236801 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Low-Energy Theory of Disordered Graphene

Alexander Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236802 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Fractional Charges and Quantum Phase Transitions in Imbalanced Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems

Jinwu Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236803 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Real-Space Imaging of Alternate Localization and Extension of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electronic States at Graphite Surfaces in Magnetic Fields

Y. Niimi, H. Kambara, T. Matsui, D. Yoshioka, and Hiroshi Fukuyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236804 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Enhanced Magnetic Response by Spin-Orbit Coupling

Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236805 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Local Spectroscopy of Image-Potential-Derived States: From Single Molecules to Monolayers of Benzene on Cu(111)

D. B. Dougherty, P. Maksymovych, J. Lee, and J. T. Yates, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236806 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Electron Transport in Stretched Monoatomic Gold Wires

A. Grigoriev, N. V. Skorodumova, S. I. Simak, G. Wendin, B. Johansson, and R. Ahuja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236807 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Nonequilibrium Quantum Criticality in Open Electronic Systems

Aditi Mitra, So Takei, Yong Baek Kim, and A. J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236808 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Quantum-Well Wave-Function Localization and the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Thin Ag Nanofilms

S. Mathias, M. Wiesenmayer, M. Aeschlimann, and M. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236809 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Dynamic Coupling-Decoupling Crossover in the Current-Driven Vortex State in ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Probed by the Josephson Plasma Resonance

V. K. Thorsmølle, R. D. Averitt, T. Shibauchi, M. F. Hundley, and A. J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237001 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Magnetic Response of Mesoscopic Superconducting Rings with Two Order Parameters

Hendrik Bluhm, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Martin E. Huber, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237002 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Nonlocal Correlations in Normal-Metal Superconducting Systems

P. Cadden-Zimansky and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237003 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Rotational Symmetry Breaking in the Ground State of Sodium-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

Yan Chen, T. M. Rice, and F. C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237004 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Composite to Tilted Vortex Lattice Transition in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ in Oblique Fields

M. Konczykowski, C. J. van der Beek, A. E. Koshelev, V. Mosser, M. Dodgson, and P. H. Kes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237005 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Interaction-Induced Renormalization of Andreev Reflection

M. Titov, M. Müller, and W. Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237006 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Probing Tiny Motions of Nanomechanical Resonators: Classical or Quantum Mechanical?

L. F. Wei, Yu-xi Liu, C. P. Sun, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237201 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Clustering in a Precipitate-Free GeMn Magnetic Semiconductor

D. Bougeard, S. Ahlers, A. Trampert, N. Sircar, and G. Abstreiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237202 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Induced Random Fields in the ${LiHo}_{x} Y_{1 - x} F_{4}$ Quantum Ising Magnet in a Transverse Magnetic Field

S. M. A. Tabei, M. J. P. Gingras, Y.-J. Kao, P. Stasiak, and J.-Y. Fortin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237203 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Unusual Evolution of the Conduction-Electron State in ${Ce}_{x} {La}_{1 - x} B_{6}$ from Non-Fermi Liquid to Fermi Liquid

S. Nakamura, M. Endo, H. Yamamoto, T. Isshiki, N. Kimura, H. Aoki, T. Nojima, S. Otani, and S. Kunii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237204 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Anomalous Bias Dependence of Spin Torque in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Ioannis Theodonis, Nicholas Kioussis, Alan Kalitsov, Mairbek Chshiev, and W. H. Butler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237205 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Converting Wannier into Frenkel Excitons in an Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Semiconductor Nanostructure

S. Blumstengel, S. Sadofev, C. Xu, J. Puls, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237401 (2006) - Published 7 December, 2006

Enhanced Fluorescence Intermittency of CdSe-ZnS Quantum-Dot Clusters

Ming Yu and Alan Van Orden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237402 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Multiphoton Ionization in Dielectrics: Comparison of Circular and Linear Polarization

V. V. Temnov, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, P. Zhou, A. El-Khamhawy, and D. von der Linde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237403 (2006) - Published 8 December, 2006

Quantized Electron Accumulation States in Indium Nitride Studied by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Leyla Colakerol, T. D. Veal, Hae-Kyung Jeong, Lukasz Plucinski, Alex DeMasi, Timothy Learmonth, Per-Anders Glans, Shancai Wang, Yufeng Zhang, L. F. J. Piper, P. H. Jefferson, Alexei Fedorov, Tai-Chou Chen, T. D. Moustakas, C. F. McConville, and Kevin E. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237601 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Signatures of Short-Range Many-Body Effects in the Dielectric Function of Silicon for Finite Momentum Transfer

Hans-Christian Weissker, Jorge Serrano, Simo Huotari, Fabien Bruneval, Francesco Sottile, Giulio Monaco, Michael Krisch, Valerio Olevano, and Lucia Reining

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237602 (2006) - Published 4 December, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Spin Dynamics of the Electron-Doped High- $T_{c}$ Superconducting Cuprates”

Thomas Dahm and Ilya Eremin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 239701 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Onufrieva and Pfeuty Reply:

F. Onufrieva and P. Pfeuty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 239702 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Optimized Interactions for Targeted Self-Assembly: Application to a Honeycomb Lattice [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 228301 (2005)]

Mikael Rechtsman, Frank Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 239901 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006

Erratum: Critical Temperature and Thermodynamics of Attractive Fermions at Unitarity [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 96, 160402 (2006)]

Evgeni Burovski, Nikolay Prokof’ev, Boris Svistunov, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 239902 (2006) - Published 6 December, 2006