Volume 98, Issue 1

5 January 2007

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On the Cover

Membrane tubules under tension can exhibit surprising critical fluctuations caused by Goldstone modes. The drawing shows the first three such modes.

From the article:

Critical Fluctuations of Tense Fluid Membrane Tubules
Jean-Baptiste Fournier and Paolo Galatola
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 018103 (2007)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Announcement: Editors’ Suggestions: Another Experiment

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010001 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Much Entanglement Can Be Generated between Two Atoms by Detecting Photons?

L. Lamata, J. J. García-Ripoll, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010502 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Return of Collective Rotation in ${}^{157}{Er}$ and ${}^{158}{Er}$ at Ultrahigh Spin

E. S. Paul, P. J. Twin, A. O. Evans, A. Pipidis, M. A. Riley, J. Simpson, D. E. Appelbe, D. B. Campbell, P. T. W. Choy, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, P. Fallon, A. Görgen, D. T. Joss, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, P. J. Nolan, D. Ward, and I. Ragnarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 012501 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Behavior in the Relaminarization of Localized Turbulence in Pipe Flow

Ashley P. Willis and Rich R. Kerswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 014501 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Parity Breaking of Graphene in the Quantum Hall Regime

Jean-Noël Fuchs and Pascal Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016803 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatiotemporal Vortex Matter Oscillations in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Crystals

B. Kalisky, M. Gitterman, B. Ya. Shapiro, I. Shapiro, A. Shaulov, T. Tamegai, and Y. Yeshurun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 017001 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

LETTERS

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

Bounding the Set of Quantum Correlations

Miguel Navascués, Stefano Pironio, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010401 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Photon-Mass Bound Destroyed by Vortices

Eric Adelberger, Gia Dvali, and Andrei Gruzinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010402 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Unifying Quantum State Transfer and State Amplification

Alastair Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010501 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Much Entanglement Can Be Generated between Two Atoms by Detecting Photons?

L. Lamata, J. J. García-Ripoll, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010502 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Long-Distance Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution in Optical Fiber

Danna Rosenberg, Jim W. Harrington, Patrick R. Rice, Philip A. Hiskett, Charles G. Peterson, Richard J. Hughes, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam, and Jane E. Nordholt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010503 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Experimental Demonstration of Free-Space Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution over 144 km

Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach, Henning Weier, Martin Fürst, Rupert Ursin, Felix Tiefenbacher, Thomas Scheidl, Josep Perdigues, Zoran Sodnik, Christian Kurtsiefer, John G. Rarity, Anton Zeilinger, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010504 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Experimental Long-Distance Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution Based on Polarization Encoding

Cheng-Zhi Peng, Jun Zhang, Dong Yang, Wei-Bo Gao, Huai-Xin Ma, Hao Yin, He-Ping Zeng, Tao Yang, Xiang-Bin Wang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010505 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Quantum Computation using Vortices and Majorana Zero Modes of a $p_{x} + i p_{y}$ Superfluid of Fermionic Cold Atoms

Sumanta Tewari, S. Das Sarma, Chetan Nayak, Chuanwei Zhang, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010506 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Hidden Symmetries of Higher-Dimensional Rotating Black Holes

Valeri P. Frolov and David Kubizňák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 011101 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Direct $C P$ Violation in $B^{\mp} \to p \bar{p} K^{(*) \pm}$

C. Q. Geng, Y. K. Hsiao, and J. N. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 011801 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Observation of a Charmed Baryon Decaying to $D^{0} p$ at a Mass Near $2.94 GeV / c^{2}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 012001 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Measurement of Direct Photon Production in $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 012002 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Return of Collective Rotation in ${}^{157}{Er}$ and ${}^{158}{Er}$ at Ultrahigh Spin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 012501 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Laser Phase Control of High-Order Harmonic Generation at Large Internuclear Distance: The $H^{+} − H_{2}^{+}$ System

André D. Bandrauk, Samira Barmaki, and Gerard Lagmago Kamta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 013001 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Observation of Giant Resonance Phenomena in the Two-Step Mechanism of Electron-Xe Collision

M. Takahashi, Y. Miyake, N. Watanabe, Y. Udagawa, Y. Sakai, and T. Mukoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 013201 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Phase Behavior of Methane Haze

R. Signorell and M. Jetzki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 013401 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Strong-Coupling Theory of Periodically Driven Two-Level Systems

Ying Wu and Xiaoxue Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 013601 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Scaling of Wave-Packet Dynamics in an Intense Midinfrared Field

J. Tate, T. Auguste, H. G. Muller, P. Salières, P. Agostini, and L. F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 013901 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Origin of Transient and Intermittent Dynamics in Spatiotemporal Chaotic Systems

Erico L. Rempel and Abraham C.-L. Chian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 014101 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Curvature Condensation and Bifurcation in an Elastic Shell

Moumita Das, Ashkan Vaziri, Arshad Kudrolli, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 014301 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical Behavior in the Relaminarization of Localized Turbulence in Pipe Flow

Ashley P. Willis and Rich R. Kerswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 014501 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Simple and Double Emulsions via Coaxial Jet Electrosprays

Álvaro G. Marín, Ignacio G. Loscertales, M. Márquez, and A. Barrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 014502 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Kinetic Characterization of Strongly Coupled Systems

C. A. Knapek, A. V. Ivlev, B. A. Klumov, G. E. Morfill, and D. Samsonov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015001 (2007) - Published 3 January, 2007

Role of Ions in a Crossed-Field Diode

Y. Y. Lau, J. W. Luginsland, K. L. Cartwright, and M. D. Haworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015002 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Laboratory Observations of Spontaneous Magnetic Reconnection

J. Egedal, W. Fox, N. Katz, M. Porkolab, K. Reim, and E. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015003 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Recrystallization of a 2D Plasma Crystal

C. A. Knapek, D. Samsonov, S. Zhdanov, U. Konopka, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015004 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

First-Principles Simulations of Boron Diffusion in Graphite

I. Suarez-Martinez, A. A. El-Barbary, G. Savini, and M. I. Heggie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015501 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Superhard Pseudocubic ${BC}_{2} N$ Superlattices

Shiyou Chen, X. G. Gong, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015502 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Crack Propagation as a Free Boundary Problem

D. Pilipenko, R. Spatschek, E. A. Brener, and H. Müller-Krumbhaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015503 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Liquid-Liquid Phase Coexistence in Gold Clusters: 2D or Not 2D?

Pekka Koskinen, Hannu Häkkinen, Bernd Huber, Bernd von Issendorff, and Michael Moseler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 015701 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Mn-Stabilized Zirconia: From Imitation Diamonds to a New Potential High- $T_{C}$ Ferromagnetic Spintronics Material

S. Ostanin, A. Ernst, L. M. Sandratskii, P. Bruno, M. Däne, I. D. Hughes, J. B. Staunton, W. Hergert, I. Mertig, and J. Kudrnovský

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016101 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Structure of a ${CH}_{3} S$ Monolayer on Au(111) Solved by the Interplay between Molecular Dynamics Calculations and Diffraction Measurements

R. Mazzarello, A. Cossaro, A. Verdini, R. Rousseau, L. Casalis, M. F. Danisman, L. Floreano, S. Scandolo, A. Morgante, and G. Scoles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016102 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Diffraction of Fast Atomic Projectiles during Grazing Scattering from a LiF(001) Surface

A. Schüller, S. Wethekam, and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016103 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Quantum Scattering of Fast Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces

P. Rousseau, H. Khemliche, A. G. Borisov, and P. Roncin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016104 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Dissociation of Water Buried under Ice on Pt(111)

Yigal Lilach, Martin J. Iedema, and James P. Cowin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016105 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interplay between Fermi Surface Topology and Ordering in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ Revealed through Abrupt Hall Coefficient Changes in Strong Magnetic Fields

Y. S. Oh, Kee Hoon Kim, P. A. Sharma, N. Harrison, H. Amitsuka, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016401 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Correlated Insulated Phase Suggests Bond Order between Band and Mott Insulators in Two Dimensions

S. S. Kancharla and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016402 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Room-Temperature Tunnel Magnetoresistance and Spin-Polarized Tunneling through an Organic Semiconductor Barrier

T. S. Santos, J. S. Lee, P. Migdal, I. C. Lekshmi, B. Satpati, and J. S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016601 (2007) - Published 5 January, 2007

Conductance and Kondo Effect in a Controlled Single-Atom Contact

N. Néel, J. Kröger, L. Limot, K. Palotas, W. A. Hofer, and R. Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016801 (2007) - Published 2 January, 2007

Quantum Dots in Graphene

P. G. Silvestrov and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016802 (2007) - Published 3 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Parity Breaking of Graphene in the Quantum Hall Regime

Jean-Noël Fuchs and Pascal Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 016803 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Determination of the Exciton Binding Energy in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”

Ladislav Kavan, Martin Kalbác̆, Markéta Zukalová, and Lothar Dunsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 019701 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

Wang et al. Reply:

Zhenjia Wang, Hermen Pedrosa, Todd Krauss, and Lewis Rothberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 019702 (2007) - Published 4 January, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Electronic and Nuclear Responses of Fixed-in-Space $H_{2} S$ to Ultrashort Intense Laser Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243002 (2006)]

Akiyoshi Hishikawa, Eiji J. Takahashi, and Akitaka Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 019901 (2007) - Published 3 January, 2007