Volume 97, Issue 24

15 December 2006

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Scanning electron image of a micromechanical resonator consisting of a toroidial microcavity on a chip. Cooling of the radial breathing mode of the resonator to 11K is achieved via cavity-enhanced radiation pressure.

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Radiation Pressure Cooling of a Micromechanical Oscillator Using Dynamical Backaction
A. Schliesser, P. Del’Haye, N. Nooshi, K. J. Vahala, and T. J. Kippenberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243905 (2006)

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Sympathetic Cooling of Complex Molecular Ions to Millikelvin Temperatures

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243005 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

LETTERS

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

Spin Hall Effects for Cold Atoms in a Light-Induced Gauge Potential

Shi-Liang Zhu, Hao Fu, C.-J. Wu, S.-C. Zhang, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240401 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Observation of Vortex Pinning in Bose-Einstein Condensates

S. Tung, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240402 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Anomalously Long Passage through a Rounded-Off-Step Potential due to a New Mechanism of Multidimensional Tunneling

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240403 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Dynamical Vortex Phases in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Driven by a Rotating Optical Lattice

Kenichi Kasamatsu and Makoto Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240404 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Ratcheting Up Energy by Means of Measurement

L. S. Schulman and B. Gaveau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240405 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Spin-Orbit Mediated Control of Spin Qubits

Christian Flindt, Anders S. Sørensen, and Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240501 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Force Dependence of Transition Rates in Atomic Friction

Mykhaylo Evstigneev, André Schirmeisen, Lars Jansen, Harald Fuchs, and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240601 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Generic Quantum Ratchet Accelerator with Full Classical Chaos

Jiangbin Gong and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240602 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Long-Term Stability of an Area-Reversible Atom-Interferometer Sagnac Gyroscope

D. S. Durfee, Y. K. Shaham, and M. A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 240801 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Coherent Development of Neutrino Flavor in the Supernova Environment

Huaiyu Duan, George M. Fuller, J. Carlson, and Yong-Zhong Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 241101 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Sterile Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and Pulsar Velocities in Models with a Higgs Singlet

Alexander Kusenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 241301 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0}$ Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 241801 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

$B_{s} − {\bar{B}}_{s}$ Mixing in Grand Unified Models

Bhaskar Dutta and Yukihiro Mimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 241802 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Study of Decay Mechanisms in $B^{-} \to Λ_{c}^{+} \bar{p} π^{-}$ Decays and Observation of Low-Mass Structure in the $Λ_{c}^{+} \bar{p}$ System

N. Gabyshev et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242001 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Nature of the $f_{0} (600)$ Scalar Meson from its $N_{c}$ Dependence at Two Loops in Unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory

J. R. Peláez and G. Ríos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242002 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} - {\bar{B}}_{s}^{0}$ Oscillations

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242003 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Nuclear Physics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242501 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Evidence for a Three-Phonon Giant Resonance State in ${}^{40}{Ca}$ Nuclei

M. Fallot, J. A. Scarpaci, N. Frascaria, Y. Blumenfeld, A. Chbihi, Ph. Chomaz, P. Désesquelles, J. Frankland, E. Khan, J. L. Laville, E. Plagnol, E. C. Pollacco, P. Roussel-Chomaz, J. C. Roynette, A. Shrivastava, and T. Zerguerras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242502 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Measurement of the Cascade Transition via the First Excited State of ${}^{16}O$ in the ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ Reaction, and Its $S$ Factor in Stellar Helium Burning

C. Matei, L. Buchmann, W. R. Hannes, D. A. Hutcheon, C. Ruiz, C. R. Brune, J. Caggiano, A. A. Chen, J. D’Auria, A. Laird, M. Lamey, ZH. Li, WP. Liu, A. Olin, D. Ottewell, J. Pearson, G. Ruprecht, M. Trinczek, C. Vockenhuber, and C. Wrede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242503 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High-Precision Calculation of the Hyperfine Structure of the ${HD}^{+}$ Ion

Dimitar Bakalov, Vladimir I. Korobov, and Stephan Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243001 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Electronic and Nuclear Responses of Fixed-in-Space $H_{2} S$ to Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields

Akiyoshi Hishikawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, and Akitaka Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243002 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Inserting Two Atoms into a Single Optical Micropotential

Y. Miroshnychenko, W. Alt, I. Dotsenko, L. Förster, M. Khudaverdyan, D. Meschede, S. Reick, and A. Rauschenbeutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243003 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Trace Isotope Detection Enhanced by Coherent Elimination of Power Broadening

Álvaro Peralta Conde, Lukas Brandt, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243004 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

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Sympathetic Cooling of Complex Molecular Ions to Millikelvin Temperatures

A. Ostendorf, C. B. Zhang, M. A. Wilson, D. Offenberg, B. Roth, and S. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243005 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Differential Electron Emission for Single and Multiple Ionization of Argon by 500 eV Positrons

O. G. de Lucio, J. Gavin, and R. D. DuBois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243201 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

State-Specified Protonium Formation in Low-Energy Antiproton–Hydrogen-Atom Collisions

X. M. Tong, K. Hino, and N. Toshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243202 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Properties of Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay in Ne Dimers

T. Aoto, K. Ito, Y. Hikosaka, E. Shigemasa, F. Penent, and P. Lablanquie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243401 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Minimum Uncertainty Measurements of Angle and Angular Momentum

Z. Hradil, J. Řeháček, Z. Bouchal, R. Čelechovský, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243601 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Beyond the Rayleigh Criterion: Grating Assisted Far-Field Optical Diffraction Tomography

Anne Sentenac, Patrick C. Chaumet, and Kamal Belkebir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243901 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Magnetic Plasmon Propagation Along a Chain of Connected Subwavelength Resonators at Infrared Frequencies

H. Liu, D. A. Genov, D. M. Wu, Y. M. Liu, J. M. Steele, C. Sun, S. N. Zhu, and X. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243902 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Emergence of $X$ -Shaped Spatiotemporal Coherence in Optical Waves

O. Jedrkiewicz, A. Picozzi, M. Clerici, D. Faccio, and P. Di Trapani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243903 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Localized Modes in Open One-Dimensional Dissipative Random Systems

K. Yu. Bliokh, Yu. P. Bliokh, V. Freilikher, A. Z. Genack, B. Hu, and P. Sebbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243904 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Radiation Pressure Cooling of a Micromechanical Oscillator Using Dynamical Backaction

A. Schliesser, P. Del’Haye, N. Nooshi, K. J. Vahala, and T. J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243905 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Exploring the Phase Space of the Quantum $δ$ -Kicked Accelerator

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Impact Dynamics for Elastic Membranes

Laurent Courbin, Antonin Marchand, Ashkan Vaziri, Armand Ajdari, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 244301 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

How Waves Affect the Distribution of Particles that Float on a Liquid Surface

P. Denissenko, G. Falkovich, and S. Lukaschuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 244501 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Drop Formation by Thermal Fluctuations at an Ultralow Surface Tension

Y. Hennequin, D. G. A. L. Aarts, J. H. van der Wiel, G. Wegdam, J. Eggers, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 244502 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Small-Scale Structures in Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

P. D. Mininni, A. G. Pouquet, and D. C. Montgomery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 244503 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Small-Scale Turbulence in a Closed-Field-Line Geometry

Paolo Ricci, B. N. Rogers, and W. Dorland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245001 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Search for Superfluidity in Solid Hydrogen

A. C. Clark, X. Lin, and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245301 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Transient Deformation Regime in Bending of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A. Kutana and K. P. Giapis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245501 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Weissenberg Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction for Surface Crystallography

Tadashi Abukawa, Tomoyuki Yamazaki, Kentaro Yajima, and Koji Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245502 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Charge Redistribution and Phonon Entropy of Vanadium Alloys

O. Delaire and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245701 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Liquidlike Behavior of Supercritical Fluids

F. Gorelli, M. Santoro, T. Scopigno, M. Krisch, and G. Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245702 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Kinetics and Mechanism of Proton Transport across Membrane Nanopores

Christoph Dellago and Gerhard Hummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 245901 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Do Deviations from Reptation Scaling of Entangled Polymer Melts Result from Single- or Many-Chain Effects?

Chen-Yang Liu, Roland Keunings, and Christian Bailly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246001 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Electron Core-Hole Interaction and Its Induced Ionic Structural Relaxation in Molecular Systems under X-Ray Irradiation

Wei Ji, Zhong-Yi Lu, and Hongjun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246101 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Interfaces Between ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$ and $β − {Ni}_{1 - x} {Al}_{x}$ Alloys: Complex Structures and Ab Initio Thermodynamics

Jiwei Feng, Wenqing Zhang, Wan Jiang, and Hui Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246102 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonlinear Quantum Shock Waves in Fractional Quantum Hall Edge States

E. Bettelheim, Alexander G. Abanov, and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246401 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Orthogonality Catastrophe and Shock Waves in a Nonequilibrium Fermi Gas

E. Bettelheim, A. G. Abanov, and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246402 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Low-Magnetic-Field Divergence of the Electronic $g$ Factor Obtained from the Cyclotron Spin-Flip Mode of the $ν = 1$ Quantum Hall Ferromagnet

A. B. Van’kov, L. V. Kulik, I. V. Kukushkin, V. E. Kirpichev, S. Dickmann, V. M. Zhilin, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246801 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Spectroscopic Measurement of Spin-dependent Resonant Tunneling through a 3D Disorder: The Case of $MnAs / GaAs / MnAs$ Junctions

V. Garcia, H. Jaffrès, J.-M. George, M. Marangolo, M. Eddrief, and V. H. Etgens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246802 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006

Generation of Spin Current by Coulomb Drag

M. Pustilnik, E. G. Mishchenko, and O. A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 246803 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

$0 − π$ Josephson Tunnel Junctions with Ferromagnetic Barrier

M. Weides, M. Kemmler, H. Kohlstedt, R. Waser, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, and E. Goldobin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247001 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

From $E_{2 g}$ to Other Modes: Effects of Pressure on Electron-Phonon Interaction in ${MgB}_{2}$

Prabhakar P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247002 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Interplay of Externally Doped and Thermally Activated Holes in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ and Their Impact on the Pseudogap Crossover

Lev P. Gor’kov and Gregory B. Teitel’baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247003 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

First-Order Phase Transition in Easy-Plane Quantum Antiferromagnets

S. Kragset, E. Smørgrav, J. Hove, F. S. Nogueira, and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247201 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Photoinduced Magnetism Caused by Charge-Transfer Excitations in Tetracyanoethylene-Based Organic Magnets

Serkan Erdin and Michel van Veenendaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247202 (2006) - Published 11 December, 2006

Splitting of Spin Excitations in Nanometric Rings Induced by a Magnetic Field

G. Gubbiotti, M. Madami, S. Tacchi, G. Carlotti, H. Tanigawa, T. Ono, L. Giovannini, F. Montoncello, and F. Nizzoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247203 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Coexisting Ferromagnetic Order and Disorder in a Uniform System of Hydroxyhalide ${Co}_{2} (OH)_{3} Cl$

X. G. Zheng, T. Kawae, H. Yamada, K. Nishiyama, and C. N. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247204 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Multiple Photonic Responses in Films of Organic-Based Magnetic Semiconductor $V (TCNE)_{x}$ , $x \sim 2$

Jung-Woo Yoo, R. Shima Edelstein, D. M. Lincoln, N. P. Raju, C. Xia, K. I. Pokhodnya, Joel S. Miller, and A. J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247205 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

In-Gap Spin Excitations and Finite Triplet Lifetimes in the Dilute Singlet Ground State System ${SrCu}_{2 - x} {Mg}_{x} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

S. Haravifard, S. R. Dunsiger, S. El Shawish, B. D. Gaulin, H. A. Dabkowska, M. T. F. Telling, T. G. Perring, and J. Bonča

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247206 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Electronic Spin Precession and Interferometry from Spin-Orbital Entanglement in a Double Quantum Dot

P. Simon and D. Feinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247207 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Spin-State Transition in ${LaCoO}_{3}$ : Direct Neutron Spectroscopic Evidence of Excited Magnetic States

A. Podlesnyak, S. Streule, J. Mesot, M. Medarde, E. Pomjakushina, K. Conder, A. Tanaka, M. W. Haverkort, and D. I. Khomskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247208 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Vortex Chirality in Exchange-Biased Elliptical Magnetic Rings

W. Jung, F. J. Castaño, and C. A. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247209 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Coherent Population Trapping of Single Spins in Diamond under Optical Excitation

Charles Santori, Philippe Tamarat, Philipp Neumann, Jörg Wrachtrup, David Fattal, Raymond G. Beausoleil, James Rabeau, Paolo Olivero, Andrew D. Greentree, Steven Prawer, Fedor Jelezko, and Philip Hemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247401 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Ultrafast Electron Pulses from a Tungsten Tip Triggered by Low-Power Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Peter Hommelhoff, Catherine Kealhofer, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247402 (2006) - Published 14 December, 2006

Nonvolatile Gate Effect in a Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Quantum Well

Igor Stolichnov, Enrico Colla, Nava Setter, Tomasz Wojciechowski, Elżbieta Janik, and Grzegorz Karczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247601 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Polarization Switching Dynamics Governed by the Thermodynamic Nucleation Process in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Films

J. Y. Jo, D. J. Kim, Y. S. Kim, S.-B. Choe, T. K. Song, J.-G. Yoon, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247602 (2006) - Published 15 December, 2006

Production of Photocurrent due to Intermediate-to-Conduction-Band Transitions: A Demonstration of a Key Operating Principle of the Intermediate-Band Solar Cell

A. Martí, E. Antolín, C. R. Stanley, C. D. Farmer, N. López, P. Díaz, E. Cánovas, P. G. Linares, and A. Luque

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 247701 (2006) - Published 13 December, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: HESS Observations of the Galactic Center Region and Their Possible Dark Matter Interpretation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221102 (2006)]

F. Aharonian et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 249901 (2006) - Published 12 December, 2006