Volume 98, Issue 11

16 March 2007

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On the Cover

Magneto-optic image of a superconducting MgB₂ film in a magnetic field at 10 K. Flux penetrates the superconductor in the form of dendritic avalanches. Surprisingly, at this temperature the flux penetration is only in the direction of strongest flux pinning.

From the article:

Dramatic Role of Critical Current Anisotropy on Flux Avalanches in ${MgB}_{2}$ Films
J. Albrecht, A. T. Matveev, J. Strempfer, H.-U. Habermeier, D. V. Shantsev, Y. M. Galperin, and T. H. Johansen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117001 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

General Probabilistic Approach to the Filtration Process

N. Roussel, Thi Lien Huong Nguyen, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 114502 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherence-Enhanced Imaging of a Degenerate Bose-Einstein Gas

L. E. Sadler, J. M. Higbie, S. R. Leslie, M. Vengalattore, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110401 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Visible Cascade Higgs Decays to Four Photons at Hadron Colliders

Spencer Chang, Patrick J. Fox, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111802 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low Relaxation Rate in Epitaxial Vanadium-Doped Ultrathin Iron Films

C. Scheck, L. Cheng, I. Barsukov, Z. Frait, and W. E. Bailey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117601 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

LETTERS

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

Alleviation of the Fermion-Sign Problem by Optimization of Many-Body Wave Functions

C. J. Umrigar, Julien Toulouse, Claudia Filippi, S. Sorella, and R. G. Hennig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110201 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherence-Enhanced Imaging of a Degenerate Bose-Einstein Gas

L. E. Sadler, J. M. Higbie, S. R. Leslie, M. Vengalattore, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110401 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Vortex Formation by Merging of Multiple Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

David R. Scherer, Chad N. Weiler, Tyler W. Neely, and Brian P. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110402 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Birkhoff’s Theorem, Many-Body Response Functions, and the Ergodic Condition

M. Howard Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110403 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Superfluid Phase Diagrams of Trapped Fermi Gases with Population Imbalance

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110404 (2007) - Published 13 March, 2007

Interferences in the Density of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates Consisting of Identical or Different Atoms

Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Alexej I. Streltsov, Yehuda B. Band, and Ofir E. Alon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110405 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Can Spinor Dipolar Effects Be Observed in Bose-Einstein Condensates?

Yuki Kawaguchi, Hiroki Saito, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110406 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Acoustic Attenuation Probe for Fermion Superfluidity in Ultracold-Atom Gases

Sergio Gaudio, Bogdan Mihaila, Krastan B. Blagoev, Kevin S. Bedell, and Eddy Timmermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110407 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Scalable Architecture for Coherence-Preserving Qubits

Yaakov S. Weinstein and C. Stephen Hellberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110501 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Estimating Entanglement Measures in Experiments

O. Gühne, M. Reimpell, and R. F. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110502 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Quantum Computational Complexity of the $N$ -Representability Problem: QMA Complete

Yi-Kai Liu, Matthias Christandl, and F. Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110503 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Ground-State Fidelity and Bipartite Entanglement in the Bose-Hubbard Model

P. Buonsante and A. Vezzani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110601 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational-Wave Stochastic Background from Cosmic Strings

Xavier Siemens, Vuk Mandic, and Jolien Creighton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111101 (2007) - Published 13 March, 2007

Testing General Relativity with Atom Interferometry

Savas Dimopoulos, Peter W. Graham, Jason M. Hogan, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111102 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

21-cm Radiation: A New Probe of Variation in the Fine-Structure Constant

Rishi Khatri and Benjamin D. Wandelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111301 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anyonic Strings and Membranes in Anti–de Sitter Space and Dual Aharonov-Bohm Effects

Sean A. Hartnoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111601 (2007) - Published 13 March, 2007

Evidence for $B^{0} \to ρ^{0} ρ^{0}$ Decays and Implications for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle $α$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111801 (2007) - Published 13 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Visible Cascade Higgs Decays to Four Photons at Hadron Colliders

Spencer Chang, Patrick J. Fox, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 111802 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Observation of Exclusive Electron-Positron Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 112001 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Coupled-Cluster and Configuration-Interaction Calculations for Heavy Nuclei

M. Horoi, J. R. Gour, M. Włoch, M. D. Lodriguito, B. A. Brown, and P. Piecuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 112501 (2007) - Published 13 March, 2007

Nuclear Charge Radii of Neutron-Deficient Lead Isotopes Beyond $N = 104$ Midshell Investigated by In-Source Laser Spectroscopy

H. De Witte et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 112502 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Scaling Laws for the Photoionization Cross Section of Two-Electron Atoms

Chang Woo Byun, Nark Nyul Choi, Min-Ho Lee, and Gregor Tanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113001 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Antiproton Confinement in a Penning-Ioffe Trap for Antihydrogen

G. Gabrielse et al. (ATRAP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113002 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Coherent Optical Detection of Highly Excited Rydberg States Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

A. K. Mohapatra, T. R. Jackson, and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113003 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Precise Control of Molecular Dynamics with a Femtosecond Frequency Comb

Avi Pe’er, Evgeny A. Shapiro, Matthew C. Stowe, Moshe Shapiro, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113004 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Resonant Channel Coupling in Electron Scattering by Pyrazine

Carl Winstead and Vincent McKoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113201 (2007) - Published 13 March, 2007

Magnetic Enhancement in Cobalt-Manganese Alloy Clusters

Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, Xiaoshan Xu, and Walter A. de Heer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113401 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Fidelity of an Optical Memory Based on Stimulated Photon Echoes

M. U. Staudt, S. R. Hastings-Simon, M. Nilsson, M. Afzelius, V. Scarani, R. Ricken, H. Suche, W. Sohler, W. Tittel, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113601 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Quantum Interference of Electromagnetic Fields from Remote Quantum Memories

T. Chanelière, D. N. Matsukevich, S. D. Jenkins, S.-Y. Lan, R. Zhao, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113602 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three-Dimensional Vortex Solitons in Self-Defocusing Media

Nikolaos K. Efremidis, Kyriakos Hizanidis, Boris A. Malomed, and Paolo Di Trapani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113901 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Nonspecular Total Internal Reflection of Spatial Solitons at the Interface between Highly Birefringent Media

Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto, Andriy Dyadyusha, and Malgosia Kaczmarek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 113902 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Refuting the Odd-Number Limitation of Time-Delayed Feedback Control

B. Fiedler, V. Flunkert, M. Georgi, P. Hövel, and E. Schöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 114101 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Corrugated Waveguide under Scaling Investigation

Edson D. Leonel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 114102 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Spout States in the Selective Withdrawal of Immiscible Fluids through a Nozzle Suspended above a Two-Fluid Interface

Sarah C. Case and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 114501 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

General Probabilistic Approach to the Filtration Process

N. Roussel, Thi Lien Huong Nguyen, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 114502 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ion-Kinetic-Energy Measurements and Energy Balance in a $Z$ -Pinch Plasma at Stagnation

E. Kroupp, D. Osin, A. Starobinets, V. Fisher, V. Bernshtam, Y. Maron, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, A. Fisher, and C. Deeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 115001 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Role of Surface Elastic Relaxations in an O-Induced Nanopattern on $Pt (110) − (1 \times 2)$

S. Helveg, W. X. Li, N. C. Bartelt, S. Horch, E. Lægsgaard, B. Hammer, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 115501 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Measurement of the 3D Born-Oppenheimer Potential of a Proton in a Hydrogen-Bonded System via Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering: The Superprotonic Conductor ${Rb}_{3} H ({SO}_{4})_{2}$

D. Homouz, G. Reiter, J. Eckert, J. Mayers, and R. Blinc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 115502 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Oxygen Vacancy Clustering and Electron Localization in Oxygen-Deficient ${SrTiO}_{3}$ : $LDA + U$ Study

Do Duc Cuong, Bora Lee, Kyeong Mi Choi, Hyo-Shin Ahn, Seungwu Han, and Jaichan Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 115503 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Minimal Model for Phase Separation under Slow Cooling

Jürgen Vollmer, Günter K. Auernhammer, and Doris Vollmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 115701 (2007) - Published 15 March, 2007

Internal Mechanical Response of a Polymer in Solution

Adam E. Cohen and W. E. Moerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 116001 (2007) - Published 14 March, 2007

Giant Metal Compression at Liquid-Solid (Pb-Si, In-Si) Schottky Junctions

H. Reichert, M. Denk, J. Okasinski, V. Honkimäki, and H. Dosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 116101 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Electron Induced Ortho-Meta Isomerization of Single Molecules

V. Simic-Milosevic, M. Mehlhorn, K.-H. Rieder, J. Meyer, and K. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 116102 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low Relaxation Rate in Epitaxial Vanadium-Doped Ultrathin Iron Films

C. Scheck, L. Cheng, I. Barsukov, Z. Frait, and W. E. Bailey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117601 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Migration and Proliferation Dichotomy in Tumor-Cell Invasion

Sergei Fedotov and Alexander Iomin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 118101 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Active Liquid Crystals: A Numerical Investigation

D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini, and J. M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 118102 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Optimization of Ground- and Excited-State Wave Functions and van der Waals Clusters”

X.-G. Wang and T. Carrington, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 119301 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Nightingale Replies:

M. P. Nightingale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 119302 (2007) - Published 16 March, 2007

Comment on “Field-Enhanced Diamagnetism in the Pseudogap State of the Cuprate ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor in an Intense Magnetic Field”

Lucía Cabo, Jesús Mosqueira, and Félix Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 119701 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Ong et al. Reply:

N. P. Ong, Yayu Wang, Lu Li, and M. J. Naughton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 119702 (2007) - Published 12 March, 2007

Volume 98, Issue 11

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS