Volume 98, Issue 13

30 March 2007

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Noninvariance of Space- and Time-Scale Ranges under a Lorentz Transformation and the Implications for the Study of Relativistic Interactions
J.-L. Vay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130405 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Noninvariance of Space- and Time-Scale Ranges under a Lorentz Transformation and the Implications for the Study of Relativistic Interactions

J.-L. Vay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130405 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Working Regimes for Coupled Heat Engines

B. Jiménez de Cisneros and A. Calvo Hernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130602 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predicting Solar Cycle 24 With a Solar Dynamo Model

Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Piyali Chatterjee, and Jie Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131103 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Pumping of Trapped Neutral Molecules by Blackbody Radiation

Steven Hoekstra, Joop J. Gilijamse, Boris Sartakov, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Ludwig Scharfenberg, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133001 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatial Imaging of Two-Dimensional Electronic States in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

K. Suzuki, K. Kanisawa, C. Janer, S. Perraud, K. Takashina, T. Fujisawa, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136802 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

LETTERS

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

Decoherence and Thermalization

M. Merkli, I. M. Sigal, and G. P. Berman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130401 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Many-Body Interband Tunneling as a Witness of Complex Dynamics in the Bose-Hubbard Model

Andrea Tomadin, Riccardo Mannella, and Sandro Wimberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130402 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Mixtures of Bose Gases under Rotation

S. Bargi, J. Christensson, G. M. Kavoulakis, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130403 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Ultracold Atoms in a Disordered Crystal of Light: Towards a Bose Glass

L. Fallani, J. E. Lye, V. Guarrera, C. Fort, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130404 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Noninvariance of Space- and Time-Scale Ranges under a Lorentz Transformation and the Implications for the Study of Relativistic Interactions

J.-L. Vay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130405 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Quantum Capacities of Bosonic Channels

Michael M. Wolf, David Pérez-García, and Geza Giedke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130501 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Generic Entanglement Can Be Generated Efficiently

R. Oliveira, O. C. O. Dahlsten, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130502 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Steady-State Conduction in Self-Similar Billiards

Felipe Barra and Thomas Gilbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130601 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Working Regimes for Coupled Heat Engines

B. Jiménez de Cisneros and A. Calvo Hernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130602 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Critical Phenomena in Head-On Collisions of Neutron Stars

Ke-Jian Jin and Wai-Mo Suen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131101 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Ising Analogue to Compact-Star Matter

P. Napolitani, Ph. Chomaz, F. Gulminelli, and K. H. O. Hasnaoui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131102 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predicting Solar Cycle 24 With a Solar Dynamo Model

Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Piyali Chatterjee, and Jie Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131103 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Particle-Physics Implications of a Recent Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law

E. G. Adelberger, B. R. Heckel, S. Hoedl, C. D. Hoyle, D. J. Kapner, and A. Upadhye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131104 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Measures on Transitions for Cosmology from Eternal Inflation

Anthony Aguirre, Steven Gratton, and Matthew C. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131301 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Are $f (R)$ Dark Energy Models Cosmologically Viable?

Luca Amendola, David Polarski, and Shinji Tsujikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131302 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Signal for an Extra-Dimensional Model of Flavor at the Large Hadron Collider

Priscila M. Aquino, Gustavo Burdman, and Oscar J. P. Éboli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131601 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Ultraviolet Properties of Maximal Supergravity

Michael B. Green, Jorge G. Russo, and Pierre Vanhove

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131602 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Test of the Anti–de Sitter-Space/Conformal-Field-Theory Correspondence Using High-Spin Operators

M. K. Benna, S. Benvenuti, I. R. Klebanov, and A. Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131603 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Fourth Generation $C P$ Violation Effects on $B \to K π$ , $φ K$ , and $ρ K$ in Next-to-Leading-Order Perturbative QCD

Wei-Shu Hou, Hsiang-nan Li, Satoshi Mishima, and Makiko Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131801 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Light Scalars Coupled to Photons and Non-Newtonian Forces

Arnaud Dupays, Eduard Massó, Javier Redondo, and Carlo Rizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131802 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Observation of the Decay $B^{0} \to J / ψ η$

M.-C. Chang et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131803 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Search for Anomalous Production of Multilepton Events in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131804 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Search for Invisible Decay of the $Υ (1 S)$

O. Tajima et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132001 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Analysis of the Quantum Numbers $J^{P C}$ of the X(3872) Particle

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132002 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Proton Spin Structure in the Resonance Region

F. R. Wesselmann et al. (Resonance Spin Structure Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132003 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for a Long-Range Component in the Pion Emission Source in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132301 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Tensor Forces and the Ground-State Structure of Nuclei

R. Schiavilla, R. B. Wiringa, Steven C. Pieper, and J. Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132501 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Empirical Proton-Neutron Interactions and Nuclear Density Functional Theory: Global, Regional, and Local Comparisons

M. Stoitsov, R. B. Cakirli, R. F. Casten, W. Nazarewicz, and W. Satuła

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132502 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Observation of a Rotational Band in the Odd- $Z$ Transfermium Nucleus ${}_{101}^{251}{Md}$

A. Chatillon et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132503 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Pumping of Trapped Neutral Molecules by Blackbody Radiation

Steven Hoekstra, Joop J. Gilijamse, Boris Sartakov, Nicolas Vanhaecke, Ludwig Scharfenberg, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133001 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Three-Body Recombination of Atomic Ions with Slow Electrons

S. X. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133201 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Liquid Transport due to Light Scattering

Robert D. Schroll, Régis Wunenburger, Alexis Casner, Wendy W. Zhang, and Jean-Pierre Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133601 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Electron-Spin-Dependent Terahertz Light Transport in Spintronic-Plasmonic Media

K. J. Chau, Mark Johnson, and A. Y. Elezzabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133901 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Correlation Effects in Disordered Metallic Photonic Crystal Slabs

D. Nau, A. Schönhardt, Ch. Bauer, A. Christ, T. Zentgraf, J. Kuhl, M. W. Klein, and H. Giessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 133902 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Origin of Bursting through Homoclinic Spike Adding in a Neuron Model

Paul Channell, Gennady Cymbalyuk, and Andrey Shilnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 134101 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Acoustic Analogue of Electronic Bloch Oscillations and Resonant Zener Tunneling in Ultrasonic Superlattices

Helios Sanchis-Alepuz, Yuriy A. Kosevich, and José Sánchez-Dehesa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 134301 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Large-Scale Circulation Model for Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Eric Brown and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 134501 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Splitting of a Liquid Jet

Srinivas Paruchuri and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 134502 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Electro-Flow Focusing: The High-Conductivity Low-Viscosity Limit

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 134503 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering

D. H. Froula, J. S. Ross, B. B. Pollock, P. Davis, A. N. James, L. Divol, M. J. Edwards, A. A. Offenberger, D. Price, R. P. J. Town, G. R. Tynan, and S. H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135001 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Observation of Kinetic Plasma Jets in a Coronal-Loop Simulation Experiment

S. K. P. Tripathi, P. M. Bellan, and G. S. Yun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135002 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Superfluidity of Grain Boundaries in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

L. Pollet, M. Boninsegni, A. B. Kuklov, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135301 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Growing Perfect Decagonal Quasicrystals by Local Rules

Hyeong-Chai Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135501 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Pressure-Induced Structural Transformation in Radiation-Amorphized Zircon

Kostya Trachenko, V. V. Brazhkin, O. B. Tsiok, Martin T. Dove, and E. K. H. Salje

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135502 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Heterogeneous Diffusion in a Reversible Gel

Pablo I. Hurtado, Ludovic Berthier, and Walter Kob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135503 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Low-Temperature Ultrafast Mobility in Systems with Long-Range Repulsive Interactions: $Pb / Si (111)$

M. Yakes, M. Hupalo, M. A. Zaluska-Kotur, Z. W. Gortel, and M. C. Tringides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135504 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Colossal Shear-Strength Enhancement of Low-Density Cubic ${BC}_{2} N$ by Nanoindentation

Zicheng Pan, Hong Sun, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135505 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Possible Approach to Overcome the Doping Asymmetry in Wideband Gap Semiconductors

Yanfa Yan, Jingbo Li, Su-Huai Wei, and M. M. Al-Jassim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135506 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Shock Waves in Polycrystalline Iron

Kai Kadau, Timothy C. Germann, Peter S. Lomdahl, Robert C. Albers, Justin S. Wark, Andrew Higginbotham, and Brad Lee Holian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 135701 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

A Nanoscale Gas State

Xue H. Zhang, Abbas Khan, and William A. Ducker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136101 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Probing Enantioselectivity with X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory

R. Schillinger, Ž. Šljivančanin, B. Hammer, and T. Greber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136102 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

From Homogeneous to Heterogeneous Nucleation of Chain Molecules under Nanoscopic Cylindrical Confinement

Euntaek Woo, June Huh, Young Gyu Jeong, and Kyusoon Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136103 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Cl Insertion on $Si (100) − (2 \times 1)$ : Etching Under Conditions of Supersaturation

Abhishek Agrawal, R. E. Butera, and J. H. Weaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136104 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Epitaxial Silicon Oxynitride Layer on a $6 H − SiC (0001)$ Surface

Tetsuroh Shirasawa, Kenjiro Hayashi, Seigi Mizuno, Satoru Tanaka, Kan Nakatsuji, Fumio Komori, and Hiroshi Tochihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136105 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Unified Origin for the 3D Magnetism and Superconductivity in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

Kazuhiko Kuroki, Shuhei Ohkubo, Takumi Nojima, Ryotaro Arita, Seiichiro Onari, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136401 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Electrical Resistivity near Pomeranchuk Instability in Two Dimensions

Luca Dell’Anna and Walter Metzner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136402 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Current and Strain-Induced Spin Polarization in $InGaN / GaN$ Superlattices

H. J. Chang, T. W. Chen, J. W. Chen, W. C. Hong, W. C. Tsai, Y. F. Chen, and G. Y. Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136403 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Structure and Transport Characteristics of Modified DNA with Magnetic Ions

Sairam S. Mallajosyula and Swapan K. Pati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136601 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Weak Antilocalization in Epitaxial Graphene: Evidence for Chiral Electrons

Xiaosong Wu, Xuebin Li, Zhimin Song, Claire Berger, and Walt A. de Heer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136801 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatial Imaging of Two-Dimensional Electronic States in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

K. Suzuki, K. Kanisawa, C. Janer, S. Perraud, K. Takashina, T. Fujisawa, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136802 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Stochastic Dynamics of a Josephson Junction Threshold Detector

Eugene V. Sukhorukov and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136803 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Surface Double Layer on (001) Surfaces of Alkali Halide Crystals: A Scanning Force Microscopy Study

Clemens Barth and Claude R. Henry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136804 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Enhancement of Carrier Mobility in Semiconductor Nanostructures by Dielectric Engineering

Debdeep Jena and Aniruddha Konar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136805 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Anisotropy of the Sommerfeld Coefficient in Magnesium Diboride Single Crystals

Z. Pribulova, T. Klein, J. Marcus, C. Marcenat, F. Levy, M. S. Park, H. G. Lee, B. W. Kang, S. I. Lee, S. Tajima, and S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137001 (2007) - Published 28 March, 2007

Transition from a Mixed to a Pure $d$ -Wave Symmetry in Superconducting Optimally Doped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - x}$ Thin Films Under Applied Fields

G. Elhalel, R. Beck, G. Leibovitch, and G. Deutscher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137002 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007

Effect of Ferroelectricity on Electron Transport in $Pt / {BaTiO}_{3} / Pt$ Tunnel Junctions

J. P. Velev, Chun-Gang Duan, K. D. Belashchenko, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137201 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Magnetizing Oxides by Substituting Nitrogen for Oxygen

I. S. Elfimov, A. Rusydi, S. I. Csiszar, Z. Hu, H. H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, C. T. Chen, R. Liang, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137202 (2007) - Published 26 March, 2007

Understanding the Insulating Phase in Colossal Magnetoresistance Manganites: Shortening of the Jahn-Teller Long-Bond across the Phase Diagram of ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

E. S. Božin, M. Schmidt, A. J. DeConinck, G. Paglia, J. F. Mitchell, T. Chatterji, P. G. Radaelli, Th. Proffen, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137203 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Antiferromagnetic Interactions in Single Crystalline ${Zn}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} O$ Thin Films

P. Sati, C. Deparis, C. Morhain, S. Schäfer, and A. Stepanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137204 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Chain Breaks and the Susceptibility of ${Sr}_{2} {Cu}_{1 - x} {Pd}_{x} O_{3 + δ}$ and Other Doped Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

J. Sirker, N. Laflorencie, S. Fujimoto, S. Eggert, and I. Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 137205 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Difficulty in the Fermi-Liquid-Type Theory for the In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy of Untwinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.85}$ Superconductors

Hou-Jun Zhao and Jun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 139701 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

Eremin and Manske Reply:

Ilya Eremin and Dirk Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 139702 (2007) - Published 29 March, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: High-Resolution Raman Spectra with Femtosecond Pulses: An Example of Combined Time- and Frequency-Domain Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 267401 (2006)]

Sukhendu Nath, Diana C. Urbanek, Sean J. Kern, and Mark A. Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 139901 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Mechanism of Enhancement in Electromagnetic Properties of ${MgB}_{2}$ by Nano SiC Doping [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097002 (2007)]

S. X. Dou, O. Shcherbakova, W. K. Yeoh, J. H. Kim, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, C. Senatore, R. Flukiger, M. Dhalle, O. Husnjak, and E. Babic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 139902 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Minimal Model for Phase Separation under Slow Cooling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 115701 (2007)]

Jürgen Vollmer, Günter K. Auernhammer, and Doris Vollmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 139903 (2007) - Published 27 March, 2007

Erratum: Nucleation Time of Nanoscale Water Bridges [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135502 (2005)]

Robert Szoszkiewicz and Elisa Riedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 139904 (2007) - Published 30 March, 2007