Volume 97, Issue 26

31 December 2006

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On the Cover

Scanning tunneling microscopy image of iron islands (dots) nucleating on a wedge-shaped lead film (beige) on a silicon substrate (orange), with the number of lead monolayers in green and white. More islands form on segments with an odd number of monolayers than on even-number segments.

From the article:

Quantum Size Effect on Adatom Surface Diffusion
Li-Ying Ma, Lin Tang, Ze-Lei Guan, Ke He, Kang An, Xu-Cun Ma, Jin-Feng Jia, Qi-Kun Xue, Y. Han, Steve Huang, and Feng Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266102 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Hidden Order in 1D Bose Insulators

Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Erez Berg, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260401 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Continuous and Pulsed Quantum Zeno Effect

Erik W. Streed, Jongchul Mun, Micah Boyd, Gretchen K. Campbell, Patrick Medley, Wolfgang Ketterle, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260402 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Bogoliubov-Čerenkov Radiation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Flowing against an Obstacle

I. Carusotto, S. X. Hu, L. A. Collins, and A. Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260403 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Computational Difficulty of Global Variations in the Density Matrix Renormalization Group

J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260501 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Entangled Three-Qubit States without Concurrence and Three-Tangle

Robert Lohmayer, Andreas Osterloh, Jens Siewert, and Armin Uhlmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260502 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Fluorescence Near-Field Microscopy of DNA at Sub-10 nm Resolution

Ziyang Ma, Jordan M. Gerton, Lawrence A. Wade, and Stephen R. Quake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260801 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

21-cm Background Anisotropies Can Discern Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Asantha Cooray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261301 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Strategy for Searching for a Dark Matter Sterile Neutrino

A. Boyarsky, A. Neronov, O. Ruchayskiy, M. Shaposhnikov, and I. Tkachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261302 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Compactified Strings as Quantum Statistical Partition Function on the Jacobian Torus

Marco Matone, Paolo Pasti, Sergey Shadchin, and Roberto Volpato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261601 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Measurements of Branching Fraction, Polarization, and Charge Asymmetry of $B^{\pm} \to ρ^{\pm} ρ^{0}$ and a Search for $B^{\pm} \to ρ^{\pm} f_{0}$ (980)

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261801 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Seeing an Invisible Axion in the Supersymmetric Particle Spectrum

Joseph P. Conlon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261802 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Observation of $B^{+} \to φ φ K^{+}$ and Evidence for $B^{0} \to φ φ K^{0}$ below $η_{c}$ Threshold

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261803 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Anomalous Enhancement of a Penguin Hadronic Matrix Element in $B \to K η^{'}$

J.-M. Gerard and E. Kou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 261804 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Measurements of the Continuum $R_{u d s}$ and $R$ Values in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation in the Energy Region between 3.650 and 3.872 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 262001 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Scaling Tests of the Cross Section for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

C. Muñoz Camacho et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 262002 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Role of the Gouy Phase in the Coherent Phase Control of the Photoionization and Photodissociation of Vinyl Chloride

Vishal J. Barge, Zhan Hu, Joyce Willig, and Robert J. Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 263001 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating of Isolated Attosecond Pulses in the Extreme Ultraviolet

A. Kosuge, T. Sekikawa, X. Zhou, T. Kanai, S. Adachi, and S. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 263901 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Anomalous Light Scattering by Small Particles

Michael I. Tribelsky and Boris S. Luk’yanchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 263902 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Quantum Scaling Laws in the Onset of Dynamical Delocalization

Julien Chabé, Hans Lignier, Hugo Cavalcante, Dominique Delande, Pascal Szriftgiser, and Jean Claude Garreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 264101 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Manifestations of Drag Reduction by Polymer Additives in Decaying, Homogeneous, Isotropic Turbulence

Prasad Perlekar, Dhrubaditya Mitra, and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 264501 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Self-Assembly of Particles for Densest Packing by Mechanical Vibration

A. B. Yu, X. Z. An, R. P. Zou, R. Y. Yang, and K. Kendall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 265501 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Contribution of Slow Clusters to the Bulk Elasticity Near the Colloidal Glass Transition

Jacinta C. Conrad, Param P. Dhillon, Eric R. Weeks, David R. Reichman, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 265701 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Measurement of Effective Temperatures in an Aging Colloidal Glass

Nils Greinert, Tiffany Wood, and Paul Bartlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 265702 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

How Water Meets a Hydrophobic Surface

Adelé Poynor, Liang Hong, Ian K. Robinson, Steve Granick, Zhan Zhang, and Paul A. Fenter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266101 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Quantum Size Effect on Adatom Surface Diffusion

Li-Ying Ma, Lin Tang, Ze-Lei Guan, Ke He, Kang An, Xu-Cun Ma, Jin-Feng Jia, Qi-Kun Xue, Y. Han, Steve Huang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266102 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Surface Exchange and Shape Transitions of PbSe Quantum Dots during Overgrowth

L. Abtin, G. Springholz, and V. Holy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266103 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Dynamics and Energetics of Ge(001) Dimers

Arie van Houselt, Raoul van Gastel, Bene Poelsema, and Harold J. W. Zandvliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266104 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Reduced Viscosity in Thin Polymer Films

Hugues Bodiguel and Christian Fretigny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266105 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Sample Preserving Deep Interface Characterization Technique

E. Holmström, W. Olovsson, I. A. Abrikosov, A. M. N. Niklasson, B. Johansson, M. Gorgoi, O. Karis, S. Svensson, F. Schäfers, W. Braun, G. Öhrwall, G. Andersson, M. Marcellini, and W. Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266106 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Monoclinic and Correlated Metal Phase in ${VO}_{2}$ as Evidence of the Mott Transition: Coherent Phonon Analysis

Hyun-Tak Kim, Yong Wook Lee, Bong-Jun Kim, Byung-Gyu Chae, Sun Jin Yun, Kwang-Yong Kang, Kang-Jeon Han, Ki-Ju Yee, and Yong-Sik Lim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266401 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Linear-Scaling Density Matrix Perturbation Treatment of Electric Fields in Solids

H. J. Xiang, Jinlong Yang, J. G. Hou, and Qingshi Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266402 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Calculation of Magnetic Exchange Interactions in Mott-Hubbard Systems

Xiangang Wan, Quan Yin, and Sergej Y. Savrasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266403 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Evidence of Collective Charge Transport in the Ohmic Regime of $o − {TaS}_{3}$ in the Charge-Density-Wave State by a Photoconduction Study

S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov and V. E. Minakova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266404 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Landau Level Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Graphite Layers

M. L. Sadowski, G. Martinez, M. Potemski, C. Berger, and W. A. de Heer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266405 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Thermoplasma Polariton within Scaling Theory of Single-Layer Graphene

Oskar Vafek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266406 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Nonadiabatic Kohn Anomaly in a Doped Graphene Monolayer

Michele Lazzeri and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266407 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Nonequilibrium Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

J. K. Freericks, V. M. Turkowski, and V. Zlatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266408 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Spin-Hall Effect in a [110] GaAs Quantum Well

E. M. Hankiewicz, G. Vignale, and M. E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266601 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Shot Noise in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Evidence for Sequential Tunneling

R. Guerrero, F. G. Aliev, Y. Tserkovnyak, T. S. Santos, and J. S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266602 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Manipulation of the Kondo Effect via Two-Dimensional Molecular Assembly

Violeta Iancu, Aparna Deshpande, and Saw-Wai Hla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266603 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Electronic Properties of Graphene Multilayers

Johan Nilsson, A. H. Castro Neto, F. Guinea, and N. M. R. Peres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266801 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Robust Transport Properties in Graphene

K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266802 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Inelastic Effects in Aharonov-Bohm Molecular Interferometers

Oded Hod, Roi Baer, and Eran Rabani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266803 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Kondo Quantum Dots and the Novel Kondo-Doublet Interaction

J. Simonin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266804 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Encapsulation of Floating Carbon Nanotubes in ${SiO}_{2}$

L. Tsetseris and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266805 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Nonlinear Magnetoconductance of a Classical Ballistic System

A. V. Andreev and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266806 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Disorder-Enhanced Dielectric Response of Nanoscale and Mesoscopic Insulators

Shigeki Onoda, Chyh-Hong Chern, Shuichi Murakami, Yasushi Ogimoto, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266807 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Strong Coupling between Localized Plasmons and Organic Excitons in Metal Nanovoids

Y. Sugawara, T. A. Kelf, J. J. Baumberg, M. E Abdelsalam, and P. N. Bartlett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 266808 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Radiation from a Single Josephson Junction into Free Space due to Josephson Oscillations

L. N. Bulaevskii and A. E. Koshelev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267001 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Vortex Line Ordering in the Driven Three-Dimensional Vortex Glass

Ajay Kumar Ghosh, Peter Olsson, and S. Teitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267002 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of the Cobalt Oxide Superconductor ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2} \cdot y H_{2} O$ : Observation of the Fermi Surface

T. Shimojima, K. Ishizaka, S. Tsuda, T. Kiss, T. Yokoya, A. Chainani, S. Shin, P. Badica, K. Yamada, and K. Togano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267003 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

Nonlinear Coupling of Nanomechanical Resonators to Josephson Quantum Circuits

Xingxiang Zhou and Ari Mizel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267201 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Conformal Invariance and Stochastic Loewner Evolution Processes in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses

C. Amoruso, A. K. Hartmann, M. B. Hastings, and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267202 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Spin Hamiltonian, Competing Small Energy Scales, and Incommensurate Long-Range Order in the Highly Frustrated ${Gd}_{3} {Ga}_{5} O_{12}$ Garnet Antiferromagnet

Taras Yavors’kii, Matthew Enjalran, and Michel J. P. Gingras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267203 (2006) - Published 28 December, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Atomistic Simulations of a Thermotropic Biaxial Liquid Crystal

Jorge Peláez and Mark R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267801 (2006) - Published 26 December, 2006

Rheology of Active Filament Solutions

T. B. Liverpool and M. C. Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 268101 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006

COMMENTS

Comment on “Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at the Oxygen $K$ Resonance of NiO: Nonlocal Charge Transfer and Double-Singlet Excitations”

Stefan Hüfner, Stefan Schmidt, and Frank Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 269701 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

Duda et al. Reply:

L.-C. Duda, T. Schmitt, M. Magnuson, J. Forsberg, A. Olsson, J. Nordgren, K. Okada, and A. Kotani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 269702 (2006) - Published 27 December, 2006

ERRATA

Erratum: Higher Harmonics in Vacuum from Nonlinear QED Effects without Low-Mass Intermediate Particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 100403 (2006)]

J. T. Mendonça, J. Dias de Deus, and P. C. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 269901 (2006) - Published 29 December, 2006