Volume 97, Issue 6

11 August 2006

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On the Cover

Magnetic susceptibility of correlated electrons on a kagome lattice in reciprocal space. Regions of high susceptibility (yellow) are located at the vertices of the first Brillouin zone.

From the article:

Mott Transition in Kagomé Lattice Hubbard Model
Takuma Ohashi, Norio Kawakami, and Hirokazu Tsunetsugu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066401 (2006)

LETTERS

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

Self-Localization of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices via Boundary Dissipation

Roberto Livi, Roberto Franzosi, and Gian-Luca Oppo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 060401 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Long-Lived Bloch Oscillations with Bosonic Sr Atoms and Application to Gravity Measurement at the Micrometer Scale

G. Ferrari, N. Poli, F. Sorrentino, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 060402 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Formation of Spatial Shell Structure in the Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition

Simon Fölling, Artur Widera, Torben Müller, Fabrice Gerbier, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 060403 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Master Equation for a Quantum Particle in a Gas

Klaus Hornberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 060601 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Infrared Imaging of Single Nanoparticles via Strong Field Enhancement in a Scanning Nanogap

A. Cvitkovic, N. Ocelic, J. Aizpurua, R. Guckenberger, and R. Hillenbrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 060801 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dark Energy as a Born-Infeld Gauge Interaction Violating the Equivalence Principle

A. Füzfa and J.-M. Alimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 061301 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Irreducibility of the Weyl Algebra in Loop Quantum Gravity

Christian Fleischhack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 061302 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exploring $B_{d, s} \to K K$ Decays through Flavor Symmetries and QCD Factorization

Sébastien Descotes-Genon, Joaquim Matias, and Javier Virto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 061801 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Evidence for $B \to η^{'} π$ and Improved Measurements for $B \to η^{'} K$

J. Schümann et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 061802 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Top Quark Mediated Higgs Boson Decay into Hadrons to Order $α_{s}^{5}$

P. A. Baikov and K. G. Chetyrkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 061803 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Measurement of $D^{0} \to π l ν (K l ν)$ Form Factors and Absolute Branching Fractions

L. Widhalm et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 061804 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Observation of Two New $N^{*}$ Peaks in $J / ψ \to p π^{-} \bar{n}$ and $\bar{p} π^{+} n$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062001 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

$π N \to η N$ Data Require the Existence of the $N (1710)$ $P_{11}$ Resonance, Reducing the 1700-MeV Continuum Ambiguity

S. Ceci, A. Švarc, and B. Zauner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062002 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Measurement of the $B_{s}^{0} − {\bar{B}}_{s}^{0}$ Oscillation Frequency

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062003 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Effects of Jet Quenching on the Hydrodynamical Evolution of Quark-Gluon Plasma

A. K. Chaudhuri and Ulrich Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062301 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Collectivity and Configuration Mixing in ${}^{186, 188}{Pb}$ and ${}^{194}{Po}$

T. Grahn et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062501 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Gamow-Teller Strengths in the $A = 14$ Multiplet: A Challenge to the Shell Model

A. Negret et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062502 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Efimov States and their Fano Resonances in a Neutron-Rich Nucleus

I. Mazumdar, A. R. P. Rau, and V. S. Bhasin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062503 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Identification of Mixed-Symmetry States in an Odd-Mass Nearly Spherical Nucleus

J. N. Orce, J. D. Holt, A. Linnemann, C. J. McKay, S. R. Lesher, C. Fransen, J. W. Holt, A. Kumar, N. Warr, V. Werner, J. Jolie, T. T. S. Kuo, M. T. McEllistrem, N. Pietralla, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062504 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Proposal for a Sensitive Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron with Matrix-Isolated Radicals

M. G. Kozlov and Andrei Derevianko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 063001 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Large Cross-Phase Modulation between Slow Copropagating Weak Pulses in ${}^{87}{Rb}$

Zeng-Bin Wang, Karl-Peter Marzlin, and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 063901 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Coalescence of Spreading Droplets on a Wettable Substrate

W. D. Ristenpart, P. M. McCalla, R. V. Roy, and H. A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 064501 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Order-Chaos-Order Transitions in Electrosprays: The Electrified Dripping Faucet

Ioan Marginean, Peter Nemes, and Akos Vertes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 064502 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Geometric Simulation of Perovskite Frameworks with Jahn-Teller Distortions: Applications to the Cubic Manganites

A. Sartbaeva, S. A. Wells, M. F. Thorpe, E. S. Božin, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 065501 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Cooperative Shear Model for the Rheology of Glass-Forming Metallic Liquids

Marios D. Demetriou, John S. Harmon, Min Tao, Gang Duan, Konrad Samwer, and William L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 065502 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Heterogeneous Nucleation in and out of Pores

Amanda J. Page and Richard P. Sear

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 065701 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Two-Dimensional Ising Model Criticality in a Three-Dimensional Uniaxial Relaxor Ferroelectric with Frozen Polar Nanoregions

Wolfgang Kleemann, Jan Dec, Vladimir V. Shvartsman, Zdravko Kutnjak, and Thomas Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 065702 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Collapse of Transient Nucleation Fluxes in a Cold Ising Ferromagnet

Vitaly A. Shneidman and Gelu M. Nita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 065703 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

From Ultraslow to Fast Lithium Diffusion in the 2D Ion Conductor ${Li}_{0.7} {TiS}_{2}$ Probed Directly by Stimulated-Echo NMR and Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation

M. Wilkening, W. Küchler, and P. Heitjans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 065901 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Structure and Interconversion of Oxygen-Vacancy-Related Defects on Amorphous Silica

Chin-Lung Kuo and Gyeong S. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066101 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Crossover from Stretched to Compressed Exponential Relaxations in a Polymer-Based Sponge Phase

P. Falus, M. A. Borthwick, S. Narayanan, A. R. Sandy, and S. G. J. Mochrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066102 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Symmetric Liquid-Liquid Interface with a Nonzero Spontaneous Curvature

F. A. M. Leermakers, P. A. Barneveld, J. Sprakel, and N. A. M. Besseling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066103 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mott Transition in Kagomé Lattice Hubbard Model

Takuma Ohashi, Norio Kawakami, and Hirokazu Tsunetsugu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066401 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Polarization and Propagation of Polariton Condensates

I. A. Shelykh, Yuri G. Rubo, G. Malpuech, D. D. Solnyshkov, and A. Kavokin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066402 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Spin-Hall Conductivity in Electron-Phonon Coupled Systems

C. Grimaldi, E. Cappelluti, and F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066601 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Electrically Detected Electron Spin Resonance in a High-Mobility Silicon Quantum Well

Junya Matsunami, Mitsuaki Ooya, and Tohru Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066602 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Universal Spin-Hall Conductance Fluctuations in Two Dimensions

Wei Ren, Zhenhua Qiao, Jian Wang, Qingfeng Sun, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066603 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Positive Current Correlations Associated with Super-Poissonian Shot Noise

Yuanzhen Chen and Richard A. Webb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066604 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Full-Counting Statistics for Voltage and Dephasing Probes

S. Pilgram, P. Samuelsson, H. Förster, and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 066801 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Fluctuation-Exchange Study of Antiferromagnetism in Disordered Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors

Xin-Zhong Yan and C. S. Ting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067001 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Orbital Ordering and Jahn-Teller Distortion in Perovskite Ruthenate ${SrRuO}_{3}$

Horng-Tay Jeng, Shi-Hsin Lin, and Chen-Shiung Hsue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067002 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Flux-Flow Resistivity Anisotropy in the Instability Regime of the $a − b$ Plane of Epitaxial Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Thin Films

B. Kalisky, P. Aronov, G. Koren, A. Shaulov, Y. Yeshurun, and R. P. Huebener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067003 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Spectrum of the Andreev Billiard and Giant Fluctuations of the Ehrenfest Time

P. G. Silvestrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067004 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Thermal Conductivity in the Vicinity of the Quantum Critical End Point in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

F. Ronning, R. W. Hill, M. Sutherland, D. G. Hawthorn, M. A. Tanatar, J. Paglione, Louis Taillefer, M. J. Graf, R. S. Perry, Y. Maeno, and A. P. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067005 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Superconducting Atomic Contacts under Microwave Irradiation

M. Chauvin, P. vom Stein, H. Pothier, P. Joyez, M. E. Huber, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067006 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Specular Andreev Reflection in Graphene

C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067007 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Imprinting Vortices into Antiferromagnets

J. Sort, K. S. Buchanan, V. Novosad, A. Hoffmann, G. Salazar-Alvarez, A. Bollero, M. D. Baró, B. Dieny, and J. Nogués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067201 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Spin Nematics and Magnetization Plateau Transition in Anisotropic Kagome Magnets

Kedar Damle and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067202 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Permalloy Revisited

L. F. Yin, D. H. Wei, N. Lei, L. H. Zhou, C. S. Tian, G. S. Dong, X. F. Jin, L. P. Guo, Q. J. Jia, and R. Q. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067203 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Elastic Domains in Antiferromagnets on Substrates

Efim A. Brener and V. I. Marchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067204 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Giant Spin-Orbit Bowing in ${GaAs}_{1 - x} {Bi}_{x}$

B. Fluegel, S. Francoeur, A. Mascarenhas, S. Tixier, E. C. Young, and T. Tiedje

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067205 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Spin-Lattice Interaction in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Helimagnet ${LiCu}_{2} O_{2}$

László Mihály, Balázs Dóra, András Ványolos, Helmuth Berger, and László Forró

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067206 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006

Mechanism of Carrier Photogeneration and Carrier Transport in Molecular Crystal Tetracene

Daniel Moses, Cesare Soci, Xialiou Chi, and Arthur P. Ramirez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067401 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Time Evolution of the Electronic Structure of $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ through the Insulator-Metal Transition

L. Perfetti, P. A. Loukakos, M. Lisowski, U. Bovensiepen, H. Berger, S. Biermann, P. S. Cornaglia, A. Georges, and M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067402 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Trapped Electromagnetic Modes and Scaling in the Transmittance of Perforated Metal Films

S. Selcuk, K. Woo, D. B. Tanner, A. F. Hebard, A. G. Borisov, and S. V. Shabanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 067403 (2006) - Published 10 August, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Deterministic Teleportation of Electrons in a Quantum Dot Nanostructure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246801 (2006)]

R. L. de Visser and M. Blaauboer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 069901 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Erratum: Monopole Core Instability and Alice Rings in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 190402 (2003)]

J. Ruostekoski and J. R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 069902 (2006) - Published 7 August, 2006

Erratum: Contact Instability in Adhesion and Debonding of Thin Elastic Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 018303 (2006)]

Manoj Gonuguntla, Ashutosh Sharma, Jayati Sarkar, Subash A. Subramanian, Moniraj Ghosh, and Vijay Shenoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 069903 (2006) - Published 8 August, 2006

Erratum: Relation between Proton and Neutron Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients for Light Mirror Nuclei and its Relevance to Nuclear Astrophysics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232501 (2003)]

N. K. Timofeyuk, R. C. Johnson, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 069904 (2006) - Published 9 August, 2006

Erratum: Neutron Phase Imaging and Tomography [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 215505 (2006)]

F. Pfeiffer, C. Grünzweig, O. Bunk, G. Frei, E. Lehmann, and C. David

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 069905 (2006) - Published 11 August, 2006