Volume 98, Issue 17

27 April 2007

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On the Cover

Atomic force microscopy image (left) and simulation (right) of a piece of human DNA. In the latter the green line is the initial DNA chain while the black lines are equilibrium conformations. Both show the intrinsic curvature of human DNA.

From the article:

Probing Persistence in DNA Curvature Properties with Atomic Force Microscopy
J. Moukhtar, E. Fontaine, C. Faivre-Moskalenko, and A. Arneodo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 178101 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Weak Localization in Bilayer Graphene

R. V. Gorbachev, F. V. Tikhonenko, A. S. Mayorov, D. W. Horsell, and A. K. Savchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176805 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Breaking the Phonon Bottleneck for Holes in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Ryan R. Cooney, Samuel L. Sewall, Kevin E. H. Anderson, Eva A. Dias, and Patanjali Kambhampati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177403 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Criterion for Negative Refraction with Low Optical Losses from a Fundamental Principle of Causality

Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177404 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

LETTERS

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

Measurement of Sound Velocity in a Fermi Gas near a Feshbach Resonance

J. Joseph, B. Clancy, L. Luo, J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170401 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Normal-Superfluid Interface Scattering for Polarized Fermion Gases

Bert Van Schaeybroeck and Achilleas Lazarides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170402 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Ultracold Bose Gases in 1D Disorder: From Lifshits Glass to Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. Lugan, D. Clément, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, M. Lewenstein, and L. Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170403 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Teleportation Fidelities of Squeezed States from Thermodynamical State Space Measures

Alessio Serafini, Oscar C. O. Dahlsten, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170501 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Optical Nondestructive Controlled-NOT Gate without Using Entangled Photons

Xiao-Hui Bao, Teng-Yun Chen, Qiang Zhang, Jian Yang, Han Zhang, Tao Yang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170502 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Variable Cloning with Phase-Conjugate Inputs

Metin Sabuncu, Ulrik L. Andersen, and Gerd Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170503 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Stochastic Resonance Phenomena in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Susana F. Huelga and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170601 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Effective Forces Induced by a Fluctuating Interface: Exact Results

D. B. Abraham, F. H. L. Essler, and A. Maciołek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 170602 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmological Neutrino Mass Detection: The Best Probe of Neutrino Lifetime

Pasquale D. Serpico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 171301 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

A New Force in the Dark Sector?

Glennys R. Farrar and Rachel A. Rosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 171302 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for the Rare Decay $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{+} π^{0}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 171801 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Two-Flavor Lattice-QCD Simulation in the $ϵ$ Regime with Exact Chiral Symmetry

H. Fukaya, S. Aoki, T. W. Chiu, S. Hashimoto, T. Kaneko, H. Matsufuru, J. Noaki, K. Ogawa, M. Okamoto, T. Onogi, and N. Yamada (JLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 172001 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Resonantly Enhanced Axion-Photon Regeneration

P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, and Karl van Bibber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 172002 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 172301 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Centrality Dependence of $π^{0}$ and $η$ Production at Large Transverse Momentum in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ $d + Au$ Collisions

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 172302 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Shear Viscosity in Weakly Coupled $N = 4$ Super Yang-Mills Theory Compared to QCD

Simon C. Huot, Sangyong Jeon, and Guy D. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 172303 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Sub-Barrier Coulomb Excitation of ${}^{110}{Sn}$ and Its Implications for the ${}^{100}{Sn}$ Shell Closure

J. Cederkäll et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 172501 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Generating Phase Shifts from Pseudostate Energy Shifts

J. Mitroy and M. W. J. Bromley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173001 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Vibrational Spectroscopy of ${HD}^{+}$ with 2-ppb Accuracy

J. C. J. Koelemeij, B. Roth, A. Wicht, I. Ernsting, and S. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173002 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Methane Dissociation on Ni(111): The Role of Lattice Reconstruction

Sven Nave and Bret Jackson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173003 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

QED Calculation of the $2 p_{3 / 2} - 2 p_{1 / 2}$ Transition Energy in Boronlike Argon

A. N. Artemyev, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, G. Plunien, and V. A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173004 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Indirect Dissociative Recombination of ${LiH}^{+}$ Molecules Fueled by Complex Resonance Manifolds

R. Čurík and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173201 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Band Structure of Orientational Modes in Quasiperiodic Mesoscale Liquid-Crystal–Polymer Dispersions

M. Avsec, I. Drevenšek-Olenik, A. Mertelj, S. P. Gorkhali, G. P. Crawford, and M. Čopič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173901 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Direct Observation of Subluminal and Superluminal Velocity Swinging in Coupled Mode Optical Propagation

Andrea Melloni and Francesco Morichetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173902 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Observation of Two-Dimensional Surface Solitons in Asymmetric Waveguide Arrays

A. Szameit, Y. V. Kartashov, F. Dreisow, T. Pertsch, S. Nolte, A. Tünnermann, and L. Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 173903 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Driven Resonance in Partially Relaxed Plasmas

X. Z. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175001 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Scaling of Electron and Ion Transport in the High-Power Spherical Torus NSTX

S. M. Kaye, R. E. Bell, D. Gates, B. P. LeBlanc, F. M. Levinton, J. E. Menard, D. Mueller, G. Rewoldt, S. A. Sabbagh, W. Wang, and H. Yuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175002 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Demonstration of Enhanced Radiation Drive in Hohlraums Made from a Mixture of High- $Z$ Wall Materials

Jochen Schein, Ogden Jones, Mordecai Rosen, Eduard Dewald, Siegfried Glenzer, Janelle Gunther, Bruce Hammel, Otto Landen, Laurence Suter, and Russell Wallace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175003 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Demonstration of Electron-Bernstein-Wave Heating in a Tokamak via $O − X − B$ Double-Mode Conversion

A. Mueck, L. Curchod, Y. Camenen, S. Coda, T. P. Goodman, H. P. Laqua, A. Pochelon, L. Porte, and F. Volpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175004 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase-Slip Avalanches in the Superflow of ${}^{4}{He}$ through Arrays of Nanosize Apertures

David Pekker, Roman Barankov, and Paul M. Goldbart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175301 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Disorder and the Supersolid State of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

Ann Sophie C. Rittner and John D. Reppy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175302 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Incommensurate Structure of Phosphorus Phase IV

Hiroshi Fujihisa, Yuichi Akahama, Haruki Kawamura, Yasuo Ohishi, Yoshito Gotoh, Hiroshi Yamawaki, Mami Sakashita, Satoshi Takeya, and Kazumasa Honda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175501 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Excess Vibrational Modes and the Boson Peak in Model Glasses

Ning Xu, Matthieu Wyart, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175502 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Mechanism of Shear-Induced Alignment in Bilayer Thin Films of Spherical Particles

Jörg Rottler and David J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 175503 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Forbidden Island Heights in Stress-Driven Coherent Stranski-Krastanov Growth

José Emilio Prieto and Ivan Markov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176101 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Delayed Plastic Relaxation on Patterned Si Substrates: Coherent SiGe Pyramids with Dominant ${111}$ Facets

Zhenyang Zhong, W. Schwinger, F. Schäffler, G. Bauer, G. Vastola, F. Montalenti, and L. Miglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176102 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Towards an Exact Treatment of Exchange and Correlation in Materials: Application to the “CO Adsorption Puzzle” and Other Systems

Qing-Miao Hu, Karsten Reuter, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176103 (2007) - Published 23 April, 2007

Internal Polarization of Oxygen Adatoms on Polycrystalline Ta Investigated by Na-Ion Scattering

G. F. Liu, P. Karmakar, and J. A. Yarmoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176104 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Electrophoresis of Colloidal Dispersions in the Low-Salt Regime

Vladimir Lobaskin, Burkhard Dünweg, Martin Medebach, Thomas Palberg, and Christian Holm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176105 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Energy Dissipation due to Capillary Interactions: Hydrophobicity Maps in Force Microscopy

E. Sahagún, P. García-Mochales, G. M. Sacha, and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176106 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Effect of Initial Spin Polarization on Spin Dephasing and the Electron $g$ Factor in a High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron System

D. Stich, J. Zhou, T. Korn, R. Schulz, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, M. W. Wu, and C. Schüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176401 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Hyper-Raman Spectrum of Vitreous Silica from First Principles

P. Umari and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176402 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Exciton Dissociation in Organic Light Emitting Diodes at the Donor-Acceptor Interface

Q. L. Song, C. M. Li, Mary B. Chan-Park, M. Lu, H. Yang, and X. Y. Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176403 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Quantum Lifshitz Point in the Infinite-Dimensional Hubbard Model

F. Günther, G. Seibold, and J. Lorenzana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176404 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Na-Induced Correlations in ${Na}_{x} {CoO}_{2}$

C. A. Marianetti and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176405 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Charge Ordering as Alternative to Jahn-Teller Distortion

I. I. Mazin, D. I. Khomskii, R. Lengsdorf, J. A. Alonso, W. G. Marshall, R. M. Ibberson, A. Podlesnyak, M. J. Martínez-Lope, and M. M. Abd-Elmeguid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176406 (2007) - Published 26 April, 2007

Overcoming the Dipolar Disorder in Dense CoFe Nanoparticle Ensembles: Superferromagnetism

S. Bedanta, T. Eimüller, W. Kleemann, J. Rhensius, F. Stromberg, E. Amaladass, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176601 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Fractional Statistics and Duality: Strong Tunneling Behavior of Edge States of Quantum Hall Liquids in the Jain Sequence

Claudio Chamon, Eduardo Fradkin, and Ana López

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176801 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Aharonov-Bohm Conductance Modulation in Ballistic Carbon Nanotubes

B. Lassagne, J-P. Cleuziou, S. Nanot, W. Escoffier, R. Avriller, S. Roche, L. Forró, B. Raquet, and J.-M Broto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176802 (2007) - Published 24 April, 2007

Multiple Charge States of Ag Atoms on Ultrathin NaCl Films

F. E. Olsson, S. Paavilainen, M. Persson, J. Repp, and G. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176803 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

Self-Pulsed Electron Transmission through a Finite Waveguide in a Transversal Magnetic Field

Manamohan Prusty and Holger Schanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 176804 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Breaking the Phonon Bottleneck for Holes in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Ryan R. Cooney, Samuel L. Sewall, Kevin E. H. Anderson, Eva A. Dias, and Patanjali Kambhampati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177403 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Criterion for Negative Refraction with Low Optical Losses from a Fundamental Principle of Causality

Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177404 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “All-Angle Broadband Negative Refraction of Metal Waveguide Arrays in the Visible Range: Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Demonstration”

Viktor A. Podolskiy and Evgenii E. Narimanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 179401 (2007) - Published 27 April, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Magnetothermoelectric Response at a Superfluid–Mott-Insulator Transition [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 166801 (2007)]

M. J. Bhaseen, A. G. Green, and and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 179901 (2007) - Published 25 April, 2007