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Volume 97, Issue 9

1 September 2006
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Calculated momentum distribution for the strong-field ionization of atomic hydrogen by a three-cycle laser pulse. The distribution rotates with the phase of the pulse.

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Symmetry of Carrier-Envelope Phase Difference Effects in Strong-Field, Few-Cycle Ionization of Atoms and Molecules
Christian Per Juul Martiny and Lars Bojer Madsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093001 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Instability and Evolution of Nonlinearly Interacting Water Waves

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LETTERS

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

Can One Count the Shape of a Drum?

Sven Gnutzmann, Panos D. Karageorge, and Uzy Smilansky

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Bosonic Molecules in Rotating Traps

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Intermediate-Temperature Superfluidity in an Atomic Fermi Gas with Population Imbalance

Chih-Chun Chien, Qijin Chen, Yan He, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 090402 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Methods for Scalable Optical Quantum Computation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 090501 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Globally Controlled Quantum Wires for Perfect Qubit Transport, Mirroring, and Computing

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 090502 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Toy Model of Hydrodynamic Fluctuations

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 090601 (2006) - Published 28 August, 2006

Active Nematics Are Intrinsically Phase Separated

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 090602 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Reconstruction of Complex Dynamical Systems Affected by Strong Measurement Noise

Frank Böttcher, Joachim Peinke, David Kleinhans, Rudolf Friedrich, Pedro G. Lind, and Maria Haase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 090603 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Signals from the Formation of a Black Hole: A Probe of the Equation of State of Dense Matter

K. Sumiyoshi, S. Yamada, H. Suzuki, and S. Chiba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 091101 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Measuring the Primordial Deuterium Abundance during the Cosmic Dark Ages

Kris Sigurdson and Steven R. Furlanetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 091301 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Phase Transitions with Fundamental Matter

David Mateos, Robert C. Myers, and Rowan M. Thomson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 091601 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Nuclear Physics

Low-Energy Dynamics in Ultradegenerate QCD Matter

Thomas Schäfer and Kai Schwenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 092301 (2006) - Published 28 August, 2006

Reduction of the Spin-Orbit Splittings at the N=28 Shell Closure

L. Gaudefroy et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 092501 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Enhanced Effect of Temporal Variation of the Fine Structure Constant and the Strong Interaction in Th229

V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 092502 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Symmetry of Carrier-Envelope Phase Difference Effects in Strong-Field, Few-Cycle Ionization of Atoms and Molecules

Christian Per Juul Martiny and Lars Bojer Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093001 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Low Velocity Quantum Reflection of Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. A. Pasquini, M. Saba, G.-B. Jo, Y. Shin, W. Ketterle, D. E. Pritchard, T. A. Savas, and N. Mulders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093201 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Unexpected Higher-Order Effects in Charged Particle Impact Ionization at High Energies

M. Foster, J. L. Peacher, M. Schulz, D. H. Madison, Zhangjin Chen, and H. R. J. Walters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093202 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Spontaneous Emission of an Atom in a Cavity with Nonorthogonal Eigenmodes

Yuh-Jen Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093601 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Stable Control of Pulse Speed in Parametric Three-Wave Solitons

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Mode-Coupling Control in Resonant Devices: Application to Solid-State Ring Lasers

Sylvain Schwartz, Gilles Feugnet, Philippe Bouyer, Evguenii Lariontsev, Alain Aspect, and Jean-Paul Pocholle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093902 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Bistable Phase Locking of a Nonlinear Optical Cavity via Rocking: Transmuting Vortices into Phase Patterns

Adolfo Esteban-Martín, Manuel Martínez-Quesada, Victor B. Taranenko, Eugenio Roldán, and Germán J. de Valcárcel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 093903 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Scarring by Homoclinic and Heteroclinic Orbits

D. A. Wisniacki, E. Vergini, R. M. Benito, and F. Borondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 094101 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Characterizing the Dynamical Importance of Network Nodes and Links

Juan G. Restrepo, Edward Ott, and Brian R. Hunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 094102 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Thermal Rectification in Billiardlike Systems

Jean-Pierre Eckmann and Carlos Mejía-Monasterio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 094301 (2006) - Published 28 August, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Instability and Evolution of Nonlinearly Interacting Water Waves

P. K. Shukla, I. Kourakis, B. Eliasson, M. Marklund, and L. Stenflo

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Cavitation Bubble Dynamics inside Liquid Drops in Microgravity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 094502 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Plasma and Beam Physics

Trapped-Particle-Mediated Collisional Damping of Nonaxisymmetric Plasma Waves

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095001 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Observation of Instability-Induced Current Redistribution in a Spherical-Torus Plasma

J. E. Menard, R. E. Bell, D. A. Gates, S. M. Kaye, B. P. LeBlanc, F. M. Levinton, S. S. Medley, S. A. Sabbagh, D. Stutman, K. Tritz, and H. Yuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095002 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Experimental Confirmation of Stable, Small-Debye-Length, Pure-Electron-Plasma Equilibria in a Stellarator

J. P. Kremer, T. Sunn Pedersen, R. G. Lefrancois, and Q. Marksteiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095003 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Surface Acceleration of Fast Electrons with Relativistic Self-Focusing in Preformed Plasma

H. Habara, K. Adumi, T. Yabuuchi, T. Nakamura, Z. L. Chen, M. Kashihara, R. Kodama, K. Kondo, G. R. Kumar, L. A. Lei, T. Matsuoka, K. Mima, and K. A. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095004 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Exotic Behavior of Hydrogen Atoms in Solid H2 at Temperatures below 1 K

J. Ahokas, J. Järvinen, V. V. Khmelenko, D. M. Lee, and S. Vasiliev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095301 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Bulk-Driven Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in a Mesoscopic Ring

Hauke Hinsch and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095701 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Cooperativity beyond Caging: Generalized Mode-Coupling Theory

Peter Mayer, Kunimasa Miyazaki, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095702 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Nonlinear Dielectric Response and Thermodynamic Heterogeneity in Liquids

Ranko Richert and Susan Weinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 095703 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

How Does Crystalline Substrate Plasticity Modify Thin Film Buckling?

Frédéric Foucher, Christophe Coupeau, Jérôme Colin, Alain Cimetière, and Jean Grilhé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096101 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Continuum Theory of Nanostructure Decay Via a Microscale Condition

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096102 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Excitonic Effects and Optical Properties of Passivated CdSe Clusters

Marie Lopez del Puerto, Murilo L. Tiago, and James R. Chelikowsky

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Energy- and Momentum-Resolved Exchange and Spin-Orbit Interaction in Cobalt Film by Spin-Polarized Two-Electron Spectroscopy

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Coulomb Blockade and Transport in a Chain of One-Dimensional Quantum Dots

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Controlled Flow of Spin-Entangled Electrons via Adiabatic Quantum Pumping

Kunal K. Das, Sungjun Kim, and Ari Mizel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096602 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Zero-Field Kondo Splitting and Quantum-Critical Transition in Double Quantum Dots

Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva, Nancy P. Sandler, Kevin Ingersent, and Sergio E. Ulloa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096603 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Optical Conductivity of a Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid with Spin-Orbit Interaction

Abdel-Khalek Farid and Eugene G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096604 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Generating Spin Currents in Semiconductors with the Spin Hall Effect

V. Sih, W. H. Lau, R. C. Myers, V. R. Horowitz, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096605 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

First-Principles Calculation of Alloy Scattering in GexSi1−x

F. Murphy-Armando and S. Fahy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096606 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Resonantly Enhanced Nonlinear Conductance in Long Quantum Point Contacts near Pinch-Off

T. Morimoto, M. Henmi, R. Naito, K. Tsubaki, N. Aoki, J. P. Bird, and Y. Ochiai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096801 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Phase-Charge Duality of a Josephson Junction in a Fluctuating Electromagnetic Environment

S. Corlevi, W. Guichard, F. W. J. Hekking, and D. B. Haviland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096802 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Variable Orbital Coupling in a Two-Dimensional Quantum-Dot Solid Probed on a Local Scale

Peter Liljeroth, Karin Overgaag, Ana Urbieta, Bruno Grandidier, Stephen G. Hickey, and Daniël Vanmaekelbergh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096803 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Electron-Magnon Coupling and Nonlinear Tunneling Transport in Magnetic Nanoparticles

Ł. Michalak, C. M. Canali, and V. G. Benza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096804 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Spin Excitations in Fluctuating Stripe Phases of Doped Cuprate Superconductors

Matthias Vojta, Thomas Vojta, and Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097001 (2006) - Published 28 August, 2006

Low-Energy Electrodynamics of Superconducting Diamond

M. Ortolani, S. Lupi, L. Baldassarre, U. Schade, P. Calvani, Y. Takano, M. Nagao, T. Takenouchi, and H. Kawarada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097002 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Organometallic Benzene-Vanadium Wire: A One-Dimensional Half-Metallic Ferromagnet

Volodymyr V. Maslyuk, Alexei Bagrets, Velimir Meded, Andreas Arnold, Ferdinand Evers, Mads Brandbyge, Thomas Bredow, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097201 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Interface Coupling Transition in a Thin Epitaxial Antiferromagnetic Film Interacting with a Ferromagnetic Substrate

M. Finazzi, A. Brambilla, P. Biagioni, J. Graf, G.-H. Gweon, A. Scholl, A Lanzara, and L. Duò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097202 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Ferroelectric Polarization Flop in a Frustrated Magnet MnWO4 Induced by a Magnetic Field

K. Taniguchi, N. Abe, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097203 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Lattice Disorder and Size-Induced Kondo Behavior in CeAl2 and CePt2+x

S.-W. Han, C. H. Booth, E. D. Bauer, P. H. Huang, Y. Y. Chen, and J. M. Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097204 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Spin Transfer in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with Hot Electrons

Peter M Levy and Albert Fert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097205 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Long-Range Spin-Qubit Interaction Mediated by Microcavity Polaritons

G. F. Quinteiro, J. Fernández-Rossier, and C. Piermarocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097401 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Dominant Effect of Polariton-Polariton Interactions on the Coherence of the Microcavity Optical Parametric Oscillator

D. N. Krizhanovskii, D. Sanvitto, A. P. D. Love, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, and J. S. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097402 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Attraction Between Like-Charged Walls: Short-Ranged Simulations Using Local Molecular Field Theory

Jocelyn M. Rodgers, Charanbir Kaur, Yng-Gwei Chen, and John D. Weeks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097801 (2006) - Published 28 August, 2006

Vortex Flow in Freestanding Smectic Films Driven by Elastic Relaxation of the c Director

Ralf Stannarius, Christian Bohley, and Alexey Eremin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097802 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Superlattice Formation in a Binary Mixture of Block Copolymer Micelles

Sayeed Abbas and Timothy P. Lodge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 097803 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Stall, Spiculate, or Run Away: The Fate of Fibers Growing towards Fluctuating Membranes

D. R. Daniels, D. Marenduzzo, and M. S. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098101 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Fisher Information for Spike-Based Population Decoding

Taro Toyoizumi, Kazuyuki Aihara, and Shun-ichi Amari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098102 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

Negative Tension Induced by Lipid Uptake

Jérôme Solon, Jacques Pécréaux, Philippe Girard, Marie-Claude Fauré, Jacques Prost, and Patricia Bassereau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098103 (2006) - Published 31 August, 2006

Nanophase-Separated Synchronizing Structure with Parallel Double Periodicity from an Undecablock Terpolymer

Jun Masuda, Atsushi Takano, Yutaka Nagata, Atsushi Noro, and Yushu Matsushita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098301 (2006) - Published 29 August, 2006

Additive Decomposition of Shear Strength in Cohesive Granular Media from Grain-Scale Interactions

Alfredo Taboada, Nicolas Estrada, and Farhang Radjaï

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098302 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Screening and Fundamental Length Scales in Semidilute Na-DNA Aqueous Solutions

S. Tomić, T. Vuletić, S. Dolanski Babić, S. Krča, D. Ivanković, L. Griparić, and R. Podgornik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098303 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

Measuring the Force of Interaction between a Metallic Probe and a Single Molecule

B. Naydenov, P. Ryan, L. C. Teague, and John J. Boland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 098304 (2006) - Published 1 September, 2006

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: AMANDA Observations Constrain the Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Flux [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 071101 (2006)]

Francis Halzen and Dan Hooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 099901 (2006) - Published 30 August, 2006

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