Volume 97, Issue 25

22 December 2006

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On the Cover

Calculated distribution and intensity (from blue to red) of long-lived modes (dots) that form along periodic rays (dashed lines) in an optical resonator with a semistadium shape.

From the article:

Formation of Long-Lived, Scarlike Modes near Avoided Resonance Crossings in Optical Microcavities
Jan Wiersig
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253901 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Superfluid Transition in a Rotating Fermi Gas with Resonant Interactions

Martin Y. Veillette, Daniel E. Sheehy, Leo Radzihovsky, and Victor Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250401 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Comparing Contact and Dipolar Interactions in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Axel Griesmaier, Jürgen Stuhler, Tobias Koch, Marco Fattori, Tilman Pfau, and Stefano Giovanazzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250402 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Experimental Evidence for the Breakdown of a Hartree-Fock Approach in a Weakly Interacting Bose Gas

J.-B. Trebbia, J. Esteve, C. I. Westbrook, and I. Bouchoule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250403 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Quest for Quantum Superpositions of a Mirror: High and Moderately Low Temperatures

József Zsolt Bernád, Lajos Diósi, and Tamás Geszti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250404 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Security of Quantum Bit String Commitment Depends on the Information Measure

Harry Buhrman, Matthias Christandl, Patrick Hayden, Hoi-Kwong Lo, and Stephanie Wehner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250501 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Relativity and Lorentz Invariance of Entanglement Distillability

L. Lamata, M. A. Martin-Delgado, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250502 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Quantum Information Becomes Classical When Distributed to Many Users

Giulio Chiribella and Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250503 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

All-Optical Measurement-Based Quantum-Information Processing in Quantum Dots

Avinash Kolli, Brendon W. Lovett, Simon C. Benjamin, and Thomas M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250504 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Effective Coupling between Two Brownian Particles

O. S. Duarte and A. O. Caldeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 250601 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Enhanced Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation from Thermal Gravitational Waves

Kaushik Bhattacharya, Subhendra Mohanty, and Akhilesh Nautiyal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 251301 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Absolute Branching Fraction Measurements for $D^{+}$ and $D^{0}$ Inclusive Semileptonic Decays

N. E. Adam et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 251801 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Evidence of the Purely Leptonic Decay $B^{-} \to τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}$

K. Ikado et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 251802 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry and Cross Section for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 252001 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Measurement of High- $p_{T}$ Single Electrons from Heavy-Flavor Decays in $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 252002 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Small- $x$ Behavior of Parton Distributions from the Observed Froissart Energy Dependence of the Deep-Inelastic-Scattering Cross Sections

M. M. Block, Edmond L. Berger, and Chung-I Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 252003 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Plasma Instabilities in an Anisotropically Expanding Geometry

Paul Romatschke and Anton Rebhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 252301 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Memory in Nonlinear Ionization of Transparent Solids

P. P. Rajeev, M. Gertsvolf, E. Simova, C. Hnatovsky, R. S. Taylor, V. R. Bhardwaj, D. M. Rayner, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253001 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Magnetic-Field Induced Enhancement in the Fluorescence Yield Spectrum of Doubly Excited States in Helium

Magnus Ström, Conny Såthe, Marcus Agåker, Johan Söderström, Jan-Erik Rubensson, Stefano Stranges, Robert Richter, Michele Alagia, T. W. Gorczyca, and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253002 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Navigating Localized Wave Packets in Phase Space

W. Zhao, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253003 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Nonperturbative Calculation of the Two-Loop Lamb Shift in Li-Like Ions

V. A. Yerokhin, P. Indelicato, and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253004 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Structure and Magnetization of Small Monodisperse Platinum Clusters

Xiong Liu, Matthias Bauer, Helmut Bertagnolli, Emil Roduner, Joris van Slageren, and Fritz Phillipp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253401 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Experimental Evidence for Spin-Orbit Interactions in Positronium-Xe Collisions

Haruo Saito and Toshio Hyodo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253402 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Quantum Correlations of Two Optical Fields Close to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

A. Sinatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253601 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Formation of Long-Lived, Scarlike Modes near Avoided Resonance Crossings in Optical Microcavities

Jan Wiersig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253901 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Subcycle Pulsed Focused Vector Beams

Qiang Lin, Jian Zheng, and Wilhelm Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253902 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Attosecond Temporal Gating with Elliptically Polarized Light

N. Dudovich, J. Levesque, O. Smirnova, D. Zeidler, D. Comtois, M. Yu. Ivanov, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253903 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Long-Range Propagation of Plasmon Polaritons in a Thin Metal Film on a One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Surface

Valery N. Konopsky and Elena V. Alieva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253904 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Dissipative Solitons that Cannot be Trapped

Rosa Pardo and Víctor M. Pérez-García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 254101 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

First Experimental Observation of Superscars in a Pseudointegrable Barrier Billiard

E. Bogomolny, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and C. Schmit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 254102 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Reciprocal Oscillons and Nonmonotonic Fronts in Forced Nonequilibrium Systems

Arik Yochelis, John Burke, and Edgar Knobloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 254501 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Waveguide-Based Off-Axis Holography with Hard X Rays

C. Fuhse, C. Ollinger, and T. Salditt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 254801 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Magnetic Reconnection and Plasma Dynamics in Two-Beam Laser-Solid Interactions

P. M. Nilson, L. Willingale, M. C. Kaluza, C. Kamperidis, S. Minardi, M. S. Wei, P. Fernandes, M. Notley, S. Bandyopadhyay, M. Sherlock, R. J. Kingham, M. Tatarakis, Z. Najmudin, W. Rozmus, R. G. Evans, M. G. Haines, A. E. Dangor, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255001 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Dynamic Alignment in Driven Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Joanne Mason, Fausto Cattaneo, and Stanislav Boldyrev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255002 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Strong ExB Shear Flows in the Transport-Barrier Region in $H$ -Mode Plasma

H. Xia, M. G. Shats, and H. Punzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255003 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Direct Observation of Local Distortion of a Crystal Lattice with Picometer Accuracy Using Atomic Resolution Neutron Holography

L. Cser, G. Krexner, M. Markó, I. Sharkov, and Gy. Török

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255501 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Probing the Structure and Energetics of Dislocation Cores in SiGe Alloys through Monte Carlo Simulations

Ioannis N. Remediakis, David E. Jesson, and Pantelis C. Kelires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255502 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Megabar-Pressure Infrared Study of Hydrogen Deuteride

Akobuije Chijioke and Isaac F. Silvera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255701 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Electron-Ion Interference and Onsager Reciprocity in Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport in ${TiO}_{2}$

Doh-Kwon Lee and Han-Ill Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255901 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Atomistic Mechanism of Boron Diffusion in Silicon

Davide De Salvador, Enrico Napolitani, Salvatore Mirabella, Gabriele Bisognin, Giuliana Impellizzeri, Alberto Carnera, and Francesco Priolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255902 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

How Do Oxygen Molecules Move into Silver Contacts and Change Their Electronic Transport Properties?

Yuanhua Qi, Daren Guan, Yuansheng Jiang, Yujun Zheng, and Chengbu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256101 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Evidence of Long-Wavelength Collective Excitations in Magnetic Superlattices

Nikolay I. Polushkin, Steven A. Michalski, Lanping Yue, and Roger D. Kirby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256401 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Energy Dependence on Fractional Charge for Strongly Interacting Subsystems

Steven M. Valone and Susan R. Atlas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256402 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Fermi-Edge Singularity in a Spin-Incoherent Luttinger Liquid

Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256403 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Critical Fidelity at the Metal-Insulator Transition

Gim Seng Ng, Joshua Bodyfelt, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256404 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Detection of Current-Induced Spins by Ferromagnetic Contacts

İ. Adagideli, G. E. W. Bauer, and B. I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256601 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Bistability-Mediated Carrier Recombination at Light-Induced Boron-Oxygen Complexes in Silicon

Mao-Hua Du, Howard M. Branz, Richard S. Crandall, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256602 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Spatial Extent of Wave Functions of Gate-Induced Hole Carriers in Pentacene Field-Effect Devices as Investigated by Electron Spin Resonance

Kazuhiro Marumoto, Shin-ichi Kuroda, Taishi Takenobu, and Yoshihiro Iwasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256603 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Dirac and Normal Fermions in Graphite and Graphene: Implications of the Quantum Hall Effect

Igor A. Luk’yanchuk and Yakov Kopelevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256801 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Interaction-Induced Resonance in Conductance and Thermopower of Quantum Wires

Anders Mathias Lunde, Karsten Flensberg, and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256802 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Nanometer Scale Electronic Reconstruction at the Interface between ${LaVO}_{3}$ and ${LaVO}_{4}$

L. Fitting Kourkoutis, Y. Hotta, T. Susaki, H. Y. Hwang, and D. A. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256803 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Edge Excitations and Non-Abelian Statistics in the Moore-Read State: A Numerical Study in the Presence of Coulomb Interaction and Edge Confinement

Xin Wan, Kun Yang, and E. H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 256804 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Novel Route to a Finite Center-of-Mass Momentum Pairing State for Superconductors: A Current-Driven Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State

Hyeonjin Doh, Matthew Song, and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257001 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Crossover between Channeling and Pinning at Twin Boundaries in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Thin Films

A. Palau, J. H. Durrell, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, S. Harrington, T. Puig, F. Sandiumenge, X. Obradors, and M. G. Blamire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257002 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Quantum Cascade Phenomenon in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Single Crystals

V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257003 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in Layered Organic Conductors: Variational Cluster Approach

P. Sahebsara and D. Sénéchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257004 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Enhancement of Pairwise Entanglement via $Z_{2}$ Symmetry Breaking

Andreas Osterloh, Guillaume Palacios, and Simone Montangero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257201 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Observation of Higher-Harmonic Helical Spin-Resonance Modes in the Chromium Spinel ${CdCr}_{2} O_{4}$

S. Kimura, M. Hagiwara, H. Ueda, Y. Narumi, K. Kindo, H. Yashiro, T. Kashiwagi, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257202 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Loss Separation for Dynamic Hysteresis in Ferromagnetic Thin Films

Francesca Colaiori, Gianfranco Durin, and Stefano Zapperi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257203 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Octupolar Order in the Multiple Spin Exchange Model on a Triangular Lattice

Tsutomu Momoi, Philippe Sindzingre, and Nic Shannon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257204 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Kagomé Ice State in the Dipolar Spin Ice ${Dy}_{2} {Ti}_{2} O_{7}$

Y. Tabata, H. Kadowaki, K. Matsuhira, Z. Hiroi, N. Aso, E. Ressouche, and B. Fåk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257205 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Short Period Magnetic Coupling Oscillations in $Co / Si$ Multilayers: Theory versus Experiment

Nader Yaacoub, Christian Meny, Olivier Bengone, and Pierre Panissod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257206 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Exciton Localization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Revealed by Femtosecond Excitation Correlation Spectroscopy

Hideki Hirori, Kazunari Matsuda, Yuhei Miyauchi, Shigeo Maruyama, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257401 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

NMR Evidence for Higher-Order Multipole Order Parameters in ${NpO}_{2}$

Y. Tokunaga, D. Aoki, Y. Homma, S. Kambe, H. Sakai, S. Ikeda, T. Fujimoto, R. E. Walstedt, H. Yasuoka, E. Yamamoto, A. Nakamura, and Y. Shiokawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257601 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Multiferroic Domain Dynamics in Strained Strontium Titanate

A. Vasudevarao, A. Kumar, L. Tian, J. H. Haeni, Y. L. Li, C.-J. Eklund, Q. X. Jia, R. Uecker, P. Reiche, K. M. Rabe, L. Q. Chen, D. G. Schlom, and Venkatraman Gopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257602 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Evidence of Simultaneous Double-Electron Promotion in $F^{+}$ Collisions with Surfaces

J. Mace, M. J. Gordon, and K. P. Giapis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257603 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Critical Scaling in Linear Response of Frictionless Granular Packings near Jamming

Wouter G. Ellenbroek, Ellák Somfai, Martin van Hecke, and Wim van Saarloos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258001 (2006) - Published 22 December, 2006

Diffusion and Segmental Dynamics of Double-Stranded DNA

E. P. Petrov, T. Ohrt, R. G. Winkler, and P. Schwille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258101 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Hydra Molecular Network Reaches Criticality at the Symmetry-Breaking Axis-Defining Moment

Jordi Soriano, Cyril Colombo, and Albrecht Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258102 (2006) - Published 18 December, 2006

Coevolution of Strategy and Structure in Complex Networks with Dynamical Linking

Jorge M. Pacheco, Arne Traulsen, and Martin A. Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258103 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Bistable Bacterial Growth Rate in Response to Antibiotics with Low Membrane Permeability

Johan Elf, Karin Nilsson, Tanel Tenson, and Måns Ehrenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258104 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Mechanisms of Molecular Response in the Optimal Control of Photoisomerization

Benjamin Dietzek, Ben Brüggemann, Torbjörn Pascher, and Arkady Yartsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258301 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Nonlinear Screening and Gas-Liquid Separation in Suspensions of Charged Colloids

Bas Zoetekouw and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258302 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Collective Rearrangement at the Onset of Flow of a Polycrystalline Hexagonal Columnar Phase

Teresa Bauer, Julian Oberdisse, and Laurence Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258303 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Röntgen Quantum Phase Shift: A Semiclassical Local Electrodynamical Effect?”

G. Spavieri and M. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258901 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Horsley and Babiker Reply:

S. A. R. Horsley and M. Babiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 258902 (2006) - Published 19 December, 2006

Comment on “Atomic Origin of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in ${Nd}_{2} {Fe}_{14} B$ ”

M. D. Kuz’min

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 259701 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

Haskel and van Veenendaal Reply:

Daniel Haskel and Michel van Veenendaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 259702 (2006) - Published 20 December, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Spin-Liquid Correlations in the Nd-Langasite Anisotropic Kagomé Antiferromagnet [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 96, 197205 (2006)]

J. Robert, V. Simonet, B. Canals, R. Ballou, P. Bordet, P. Lejay, and A. Stunault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 259901 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006

Erratum: Partial Photoionization Cross Sections and Angular Distributions for Double Excitation of Helium up to the $N = 13$ Threshold [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 243003 (2005)]

A. Czasch, M. Schöffler, M. Hattass, S. Schössler, T. Jahnke, Th. Weber, A. Staudte, J. Titze, C. Wimmer, S. Kammer, M. Weckenbrock, S. Voss, R. E. Grisenti, O. Jagutzki, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, H. Schmidt-Böcking, R. Dörner, J. M. Rost, T. Schneider, Chien-Nan Liu, I. Bray, A. S. Kheifets, and K. Bartschat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 259902 (2006) - Published 21 December, 2006