Volume 98, Issue 10

9 March 2007

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On the Cover

Low brilliance hard x-ray phase images of a hornet. Left: Differential phase contrast projection image. Right: 3D rendering of the hornet. Middle: 2D slice of that rendering.

From the article:

Hard X-Ray Phase Tomography with Low-Brilliance Sources
F. Pfeiffer, C. Kottler, O. Bunk, and C. David
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108105 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is Violation of Newton’s Second Law Possible?

A. Yu. Ignatiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 101101 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinematic Slowing of Molecules Formed by Reactive Collisions

Ning-Ning Liu and Hansjürgen Loesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103002 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Slowing of a Supersonic Beam with an Atomic Paddle

E. Narevicius, A. Libson, M. F. Riedel, C. G. Parthey, I. Chavez, U. Even, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103201 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realization of a Room-Temperature Spin Dynamo: The Spin Rectification Effect

Y. S. Gui, N. Mecking, X. Zhou, Gwyn Williams, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107602 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

LETTERS

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

Discrete Symmetries and $1 / 3$ –Quantum Vortices in Condensates of $F = 2$ Cold Atoms

Gordon W. Semenoff and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100401 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Cavity-Enhanced Light Scattering in Optical Lattices to Probe Atomic Quantum Statistics

Igor B. Mekhov, Christoph Maschler, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100402 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Young-Type Experiment Using a Single-Electron Source and an Independent Atomic-Size Two-Center Interferometer

J.-Y. Chesnel, A. Hajaji, R. O. Barrachina, and F. Frémont

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100403 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Quantum Polarization Spectroscopy of Ultracold Spinor Gases

K. Eckert, Ł. Zawitkowski, A. Sanpera, M. Lewenstein, and E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100404 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Quantum Communication without Alignment using Multiple-Qubit Single-Photon States

L. Aolita and S. P. Walborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100501 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

Generalization of Quantum Error Correction via the Heisenberg Picture

Cédric Bény, Achim Kempf, and David W. Kribs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100502 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Entanglement is Not Necessary for Perfect Discrimination between Unitary Operations

Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng, and Mingsheng Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100503 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Keeping a Quantum Bit Alive by Optimized $π$ -Pulse Sequences

Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 100504 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is Violation of Newton’s Second Law Possible?

A. Yu. Ignatiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 101101 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Viscosity of Fundamental Matter

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 101601 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

An Electroweak Oscillon

N. Graham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 101801 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Effect of $γ$ Softness on the Stability of Chiral Geometry: Spectroscopy of ${}^{106}{Ag}$

P. Joshi, M. P. Carpenter, D. B. Fossan, T. Koike, E. S. Paul, G. Rainovski, K. Starosta, C. Vaman, and R. Wadsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 102501 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Spectroscopic Study of Neutron Shell Closures via Nucleon Transfer in the Near-Dripline Nucleus ${}^{23}O$

Z. Elekes et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 102502 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Symmetric Nuclear Matter

Stefano Gandolfi, Francesco Pederiva, Stefano Fantoni, and Kevin E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 102503 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Excited States of the Helium-Antihydrogen System

Vasily Sharipov, Leonti N. Labzowsky, and Günter Plunien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103001 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinematic Slowing of Molecules Formed by Reactive Collisions

Ning-Ning Liu and Hansjürgen Loesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103002 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Slowing of a Supersonic Beam with an Atomic Paddle

E. Narevicius, A. Libson, M. F. Riedel, C. G. Parthey, I. Chavez, U. Even, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103201 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Three-Fermion Problems in Optical Lattices

T. Luu and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103202 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Gain Narrowing in Few-Atom Systems

Tom Savels, Allard P. Mosk, and Ad Lagendijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103601 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Quantum Vacuum Radiation Spectra from a Semiconductor Microcavity with a Time-Modulated Vacuum Rabi Frequency

Simone De Liberato, Cristiano Ciuti, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103602 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Conical Diffraction and Gap Solitons in Honeycomb Photonic Lattices

Or Peleg, Guy Bartal, Barak Freedman, Ofer Manela, Mordechai Segev, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103901 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

Transition to the Relativistic Regime in High Order Harmonic Generation

Alexander Tarasevitch, Konstantin Lobov, Clemens Wünsche, and Dietrich von der Linde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 103902 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Localized Excitations in Arrays of Synchronized Laser Oscillators

Fabien Rogister and Rajarshi Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104101 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Robust Transport Barriers Resulting from Strong Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Stability

I. I. Rypina, M. G. Brown, F. J. Beron-Vera, H. Koçak, M. J. Olascoaga, and I. A. Udovydchenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104102 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Chaotic Scattering and the $n$ -Bounce Resonance in Solitary-Wave Interactions

Roy H. Goodman and Richard Haberman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104103 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Interaction Dynamics of Elastic Waves with a Complex Nonlinear Scatterer through the Use of a Time Reversal Mirror

T. J. Ulrich, Paul A. Johnson, and Robert A. Guyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104301 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Magnetically Induced Thermal Rectification

Giulio Casati, Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104302 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Numerical Simulation of a Turbulent Magnetic Dynamo

S. Kenjereš and K. Hanjalić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 104501 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Plasma Modulation of Harmonic Emission Spectra from Laser-Plasma Interactions

T. J. M. Boyd and R. Ondarza-Rovira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 105001 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Microstructural Evolution and Irreversibility in the Viscoelastic Response of Mesoscopic Dusty-Plasma Liquids

Chia-Ling Chan and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 105002 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

${SrTiO}_{3}$ Displacive Transition Revisited via Coherent X-Ray Diffraction

S. Ravy, D. Le Bolloc’h, R. Currat, A. Fluerasu, C. Mocuta, and B. Dkhil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 105501 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Structure of Alkali Borate Glasses at High Pressure: B and Li $K$ -Edge Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Study

Sung Keun Lee, Peter J. Eng, Ho-kwang Mao, Yue Meng, and Jinfu Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 105502 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

“Ideal” Engineering Alloys

Tianshu Li, J. W. Morris, Jr., N. Nagasako, S. Kuramoto, and D. C. Chrzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 105503 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Low-Temperature Structural Transitions: Circumventing the Broken-Ergodicity Problem

Vladimir A. Sharapov, Dario Meluzzi, and Vladimir A. Mandelshtam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 105701 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Direct Imaging of Lipid-Ion Network Formation under Physiological Conditions by Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy

Takeshi Fukuma, Michael J. Higgins, and Suzanne P. Jarvis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106101 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Sculpting Semiconductor Heteroepitaxial Islands: From Dots to Rods

J. T. Robinson, D. A. Walko, D. A. Arms, D. S. Tinberg, P. G. Evans, Y. Cao, J. A. Liddle, A. Rastelli, O. G. Schmidt, and O. D. Dubon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106102 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Mechanism of Inhibition of Nanoparticle Growth and Phase Transformation by Surface Impurities

Bin Chen, Hengzhong Zhang, Benjamin Gilbert, and Jillian F. Banfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106103 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Mechanism for Room-Temperature Single-Atom Lateral Manipulations on Semiconductors using Dynamic Force Microscopy

Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Pavel Jelinek, Pablo Pou, Masayuki Abe, Seizo Morita, Ruben Perez, and Oscar Custance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106104 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Four Wave Mixing Oscillation in a Semiconductor Microcavity: Generation of Two Correlated Polariton Populations

M. Romanelli, C. Leyder, J. Ph. Karr, E. Giacobino, and A. Bramati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106401 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Influence of Interactions on Flux and Back-Gate Period of Quantum Hall Interferometers

B. Rosenow and B. I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106801 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Single-Layer Model of the Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanomesh on the Rh(111) Surface

Robert Laskowski, Peter Blaha, Thomas Gallauner, and Karlheinz Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106802 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions

Liang Fu, C. L. Kane, and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106803 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Resistance Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Induced by Both ac and dc Fields

W. Zhang, M. A. Zudov, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106804 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Single-Electron Transport in Electrically Tunable Nanomagnets

J. Fernández-Rossier and Ramón Aguado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106805 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Dynamic Order-to-Metastable-Disorder Vortex Matter Transition in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

B. Kalisky, Y. Myasoedov, A. Shaulov, T. Tamegai, E. Zeldov, and Y. Yeshurun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107001 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

Josephson Effect due to Odd-Frequency Pairs in Diffusive Half Metals

Yasuhiro Asano, Yukio Tanaka, and Alexander A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107002 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Magnetothermal Transport in the Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Chains of Copper Pyrazine Dinitrate

A. V. Sologubenko, K. Berggold, T. Lorenz, A. Rosch, E. Shimshoni, M. D. Phillips, and M. M. Turnbull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107201 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Kondo Effect in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

K. I. Lee, S. J. Joo, J. H. Lee, K. Rhie, Tae-Suk Kim, W. Y. Lee, K. H. Shin, B. C. Lee, P. LeClair, J.-S. Lee, and J.-H. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107202 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

Mapping the Surface Spin Structure of Large Unit Cells: Reconstructed Mn Films on Fe(001)

C. L. Gao, U. Schlickum, W. Wulfhekel, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107203 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Spin Dynamics of the Spin- $1 / 2$ Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet ${ZnCu}_{3} (OH)_{6} {Cl}_{2}$

J. S. Helton, K. Matan, M. P. Shores, E. A. Nytko, B. M. Bartlett, Y. Yoshida, Y. Takano, A. Suslov, Y. Qiu, J.-H. Chung, D. G. Nocera, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107204 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Subsecond Spin Relaxation Times in Quantum Dots at Zero Applied Magnetic Field Due to a Strong Electron-Nuclear Interaction

R. Oulton, A. Greilich, S. Yu. Verbin, R. V. Cherbunin, T. Auer, D. R. Yakovlev, M. Bayer, I. A. Merkulov, V. Stavarache, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107401 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Spectral Degeneracy Breaking of the Plasmon Resonance of Single Metal Nanoparticles by Nanoscale Near-Field Photopolymerization

H. Ibn El Ahrach, R. Bachelot, A. Vial, G. Lérondel, J. Plain, P. Royer, and O. Soppera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107402 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Structure and Polarization in the High $T_{c}$ Ferroelectric $Bi (Zn, Ti) O_{3} − {PbTiO}_{3}$ Solid Solutions

Ilya Grinberg, Matthew R. Suchomel, Wojtek Dmowski, Sara E. Mason, Hui Wu, Peter K. Davies, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107601 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realization of a Room-Temperature Spin Dynamo: The Spin Rectification Effect

Y. S. Gui, N. Mecking, X. Zhou, Gwyn Williams, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 107602 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Network Mechanism for Burst Generation

Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, Grigory V. Osipov, Vladimir D. Shalfeev, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108101 (2007) - Published 5 March, 2007

Characterization of Synchrony with Applications to Epileptic Brain Signals

Ying-Cheng Lai, Mark G. Frei, Ivan Osorio, and Liang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108102 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

Dynamical Organization of Cooperation in Complex Topologies

J. Gómez-Gardeñes, M. Campillo, L. M. Floría, and Y. Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108103 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Symmetry-Breaking Model for $X$ -Chromosome Inactivation

Mario Nicodemi and Antonella Prisco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108104 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Hard X-Ray Phase Tomography with Low-Brilliance Sources

F. Pfeiffer, C. Kottler, O. Bunk, and C. David

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108105 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Breaking the Symmetry between Interaction and Replacement in Evolutionary Dynamics on Graphs

Hisashi Ohtsuki, Martin A. Nowak, and Jorge M. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108106 (2007) - Published 8 March, 2007

Optimal Finite-Time Processes In Stochastic Thermodynamics

Tim Schmiedl and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108301 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007

Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in an Aging Colloidal Glass

Sara Jabbari-Farouji, Daisuke Mizuno, Maryam Atakhorrami, Fred C. MacKintosh, Christoph F. Schmidt, Erika Eiser, Gerard H. Wegdam, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108302 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Depletion-Induced Percolation in Networks of Nanorods

T. Schilling, S. Jungblut, and Mark A. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108303 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Error Growth Patterns in Systems with Spatial Chaos: From Coupled Map Lattices to Global Weather Models

C. Primo, I. G. Szendro, M. A. Rodríguez, and J. M. Gutiérrez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108501 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Classical and Quantum Interaction of the Dipole”

Tomislav Ivezić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 108901 (2007) - Published 9 March, 2007

Comment on “Partial Photoionization Cross Sections and Angular Distributions for Double Excitation of Helium up to the $N = 13$ Threshold”

L. Malegat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 109301 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

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. 98, 109302 (2007) - Published 6 March, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Large Cross-Phase Modulation between Slow Copropagating Weak Pulses in ${}^{87}{Rb}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 063901 (2006)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 109901 (2007) - Published 7 March, 2007