Volume 98, Issue 18

4 May 2007

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On the Cover

Critical solid nuclei in a freezing gold nanoparticle. The free-energy barrier to nucleation is calculated to study the location of freezing of these particles within a liquid cluster.

From the article:

Surface Nucleation in the Freezing of Gold Nanoparticles
Eduardo Mendez-Villuendas and Richard K. Bowles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185503 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Imaging of Stochastic Domain-Wall Motion Driven by Nanosecond Current Pulses

Guido Meier, Markus Bolte, René Eiselt, Benjamin Krüger, Dong-Hyun Kim, and Peter Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187202 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase-Sensitive Recombination of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip

G.-B. Jo, J.-H. Choi, C. A. Christensen, T. A. Pasquini, Y.-R. Lee, W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180401 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of $| V_{t b} |$

V. M. Abazov et al. (DØ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181802 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Transfer from an Optically Pumped Alkali Vapor to a Solid

K. Ishikawa, B. Patton, Y. -Y. Jau, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183004 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling of Resistance and Electron Mean Free Path of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Meninder S. Purewal, Byung Hee Hong, Anirudhh Ravi, Bhupesh Chandra, James Hone, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186808 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase-Sensitive Recombination of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip

G.-B. Jo, J.-H. Choi, C. A. Christensen, T. A. Pasquini, Y.-R. Lee, W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180401 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Normal State of Highly Polarized Fermi Gases: Simple Many-Body Approaches

R. Combescot, A. Recati, C. Lobo, and F. Chevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180402 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Modified Coulomb Law in a Strongly Magnetized Vacuum

Anatoly E. Shabad and Vladimir V. Usov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180403 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Criterion for Bosonic Superfluidity in an Optical Lattice

Roberto B. Diener, Qi Zhou, Hui Zhai, and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180404 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Robust Controlled-NOT Gates from Almost Any Interaction

Charles D. Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180501 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Realization and Characterization of a Two-Photon Four-Qubit Linear Cluster State

Giuseppe Vallone, Enrico Pomarico, Paolo Mataloni, Francesco De Martini, and Vincenzo Berardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180502 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Synchronized Independent Narrow-Band Single Photons and Efficient Generation of Photonic Entanglement

Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Yu-Ao Chen, Shuai Chen, Bo Zhao, Markus Koch, Thorsten Strassel, Yong Zhao, Gan-Jun Zhu, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180503 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Quench Dynamics and Nonequilibrium Phase Diagram of the Bose-Hubbard Model

Corinna Kollath, Andreas M. Läuchli, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180601 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Reverse Monte Carlo Method and Its Implications for Generalized Cluster Algorithms

C. H. Mak and Arun K. Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180602 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Statistics of Entropy Production in Linearized Stochastic Systems

K. Turitsyn, M. Chertkov, V. Y. Chernyak, and A. Puliafito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180603 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Hydrogenlike Highly Charged Ions for Tests of the Time Independence of Fundamental Constants

S. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 180801 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Braneworld Gravity Models from a Kinematic Limit on the Age of the Black Hole XTE $J 1118 + 480$

Dimitrios Psaltis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181101 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Black Hole Entropy Quantization

Alejandro Corichi, Jacobo Díaz-Polo, and Enrique Fernández-Borja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181301 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Improving the Improved Action

E. T. Tomboulis and A. Velytsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181601 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Low Energy Supersymmetry from the Heterotic String Landscape

Oleg Lebedev, Hans-Peter Nilles, Stuart Raby, Saúl Ramos-Sánchez, Michael Ratz, Patrick K. S. Vaudrevange, and Akın Wingerter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181602 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

New Physics Contributions to the Lifetime Difference in $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing

Eugene Golowich, Sandip Pakvasa, and Alexey A. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181801 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of $| V_{t b} |$

V. M. Abazov et al. (DØ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181802 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Measurements of $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to a_{1}^{\pm} (1260) π^{\mp}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181803 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Observation of $B$ Decays to Two Kaons

S.-W. Lin et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181804 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Charge Density of a Positively Charged Vector Boson May Be Negative

V. V. Flambaum and M. Yu. Kuchiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181805 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Anti–de Sitter/Conformal-Field-Theory Calculation of Screening in a Hot Wind

Hong Liu, Krishna Rajagopal, and Urs Achim Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 182301 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Recoil-Proton Polarization in High-Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration with Circularly Polarized Photons

X. Jiang et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 182302 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Measurement of Tensor Analyzing Powers in Deuteron Photodisintegration

I. A. Rachek, L. M. Barkov, S. L. Belostotsky, V. F. Dmitriev, M. V. Dyug, R. Gilman, R. J. Holt, B. A. Lazarenko, S. I. Mishnev, V. V. Nelyubin, D. M. Nikolenko, A. V. Osipov, D. H. Potterveld, R. Sh. Sadykov, Yu. V. Shestakov, V. N. Stibunov, D. K. Toporkov, H. de Vries, and S. A. Zevakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 182303 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Spectral Convexity for Attractive $SU (2 N)$ Fermions

Dean Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 182501 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Soft X-Ray Laser Spectroscopy on Trapped Highly Charged Ions at FLASH

S. W. Epp, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, G. Brenner, V. Mäckel, P. H. Mokler, R. Treusch, M. Kuhlmann, M. V. Yurkov, J. Feldhaus, J. R. Schneider, M. Wellhöfer, M. Martins, W. Wurth, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183001 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Double Photoionization into Double Core-Hole States in Xe

Y. Hikosaka, P. Lablanquie, F. Penent, T. Kaneyasu, E. Shigemasa, J. H. D. Eland, T. Aoto, and K. Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183002 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Photon Correlation versus Interference of Single-Atom Fluorescence in a Half-Cavity

François Dubin, Daniel Rotter, Manas Mukherjee, Carlos Russo, Jürgen Eschner, and Rainer Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183003 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Transfer from an Optically Pumped Alkali Vapor to a Solid

K. Ishikawa, B. Patton, Y. -Y. Jau, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183004 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Interplay between Magic Number Stabilities and Superfluidity of Small Parahydrogen Clusters

S. A. Khairallah, M. B. Sevryuk, D. M. Ceperley, and J. P. Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183401 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Interfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons

Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183601 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Direct Observation of a Transition of a Surface Plasmon Resonance from a Photonic Crystal Effect

Weili Zhang, Abul K. Azad, Jiaguang Han, Jingzhou Xu, Jian Chen, and X.-C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183901 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Subsurface Near-Field Scanning Tomography

K. P. Gaikovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183902 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

High Harmonic Generation and the Role of Atomic Orbital Wave Functions

J. Levesque, D. Zeidler, J. P. Marangos, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Villeneuve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183903 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Noise-Induced Synchronization and Clustering in Ensembles of Uncoupled Limit-Cycle Oscillators

Hiroya Nakao, Kensuke Arai, and Yoji Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 184101 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Fano Blockade by a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice

Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Joachim Brand, and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 184102 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Equilibration and Universal Heat Conduction in Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Chains

Trieu Mai, Abhishek Dhar, and Onuttom Narayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 184301 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Proposal for a Quantum-Degenerate Electron Source

M. Zolotorev, E. D. Commins, and F. Sannibale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 184801 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Enhanced Ductile Behavior of Tensile-Elongated Individual Double-Walled and Triple-Walled Carbon Nanotubes at High Temperatures

J. Y. Huang, S. Chen, Z. F. Ren, Z. Wang, K. Kempa, M. J. Naughton, G. Chen, and M. S. Dresselhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185501 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Density-Wave Theory of the Capsid Structure of Small Icosahedral Viruses

V. L. Lorman and S. B. Rochal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185502 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Surface Nucleation in the Freezing of Gold Nanoparticles

Eduardo Mendez-Villuendas and Richard K. Bowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185503 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Medium-Range Fluctuations Accompanying the Metal-Nonmetal Transition in Expanded Fluid Hg

M. Inui, K. Matsuda, D. Ishikawa, K. Tamura, and Y. Ohishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185504 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Evaluation of the Disorder Temperature and Free-Volume Formalisms via Simulations of Shear Banding in Amorphous Solids

Yunfeng Shi, Michael B. Katz, Hui Li, and Michael L. Falk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185505 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Particle Dynamics in Polymer-Metal Nanocomposite Thin Films on Nanometer-Length Scales

Suresh Narayanan, Dong Ryeol Lee, Aleta Hagman, Xuefa Li, and Jin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185506 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Fluctuations and Phase Separation in a Quasi-One-Dimensional System

Enrico Doná, Thomas Loerting, Simon Penner, Mariana Minca, Alexander Menzel, Erminald Bertel, Johannes Schoiswohl, Steven Berkebile, Falko P. Netzer, Rinaldo Zucca, and Josef Redinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186101 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Growth of One-Dimensional Pd Nanowires on the Terraces of a Reduced ${SnO}_{2} (101)$ Surface

Khabibulakh Katsiev, Matthias Batzill, Ulrike Diebold, Alexander Urban, and Bernd Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186102 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Effect of Measurement Probes upon the Conductance of an Interacting Nanosystem: Detection of an Attached Ring by Nonlocal Many Body Effects

Axel Freyn and Jean-Louis Pichard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186401 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Absolute Negative Resistance Induced by Directional Electron-Electron Scattering in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Ismet I. Kaya and Karl Eberl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186801 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Mesoscopic to Universal Crossover of the Transmission Phase of Multilevel Quantum Dots

C. Karrasch, T. Hecht, A. Weichselbaum, Y. Oreg, J. von Delft, and V. Meden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186802 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Fock-Darwin States of Dirac Electrons in Graphene-Based Artificial Atoms

Hong-Yi Chen, Vadim Apalkov, and Tapash Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186803 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Room-Temperature Electron Spin Dynamics in Free-Standing ZnO Quantum Dots

William K. Liu, Kelly M. Whitaker, Alyssa L. Smith, Kevin R. Kittilstved, Bruce H. Robinson, and Daniel R. Gamelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186804 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Correlation-Induced Resonances and Population Switching in a Quantum-Dot Coulomb Valley

Hyun-Woo Lee and Sejoong Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186805 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Carrier Transport in Two-Dimensional Graphene Layers

E. H. Hwang, S. Adam, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186806 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Giant Spin Splitting through Surface Alloying

Christian R. Ast, Jürgen Henk, Arthur Ernst, Luca Moreschini, Mihaela C. Falub, Daniela Pacilé, Patrick Bruno, Klaus Kern, and Marco Grioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186807 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling of Resistance and Electron Mean Free Path of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Meninder S. Purewal, Byung Hee Hong, Anirudhh Ravi, Bhupesh Chandra, James Hone, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186808 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Electron Fractionalization in Two-Dimensional Graphenelike Structures

Chang-Yu Hou, Claudio Chamon, and Christopher Mudry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186809 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Fermi-Edge Singularity of Spin-Polarized Electrons

P. Plochocka-Polack, J. G. Groshaus, M. Rappaport, V. Umansky, Y. Gallais, A. Pinczuk, and I. Bar-Joseph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186810 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Sharp Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Short Wires

Dganit Meidan, Yuval Oreg, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187001 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Elasticity and Melting of Skyrmion Flux Lattices in $p$ -Wave Superconductors

Qi Li, John Toner, and D. Belitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187002 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

Enhanced Charge Gap in the Bilayer Manganite ${La}_{2 - 2 x} {Sr}_{1 + 2 x} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ near $x = 0.4$

Myung Whun Kim, H. J. Lee, B. J. Yang, K. H. Kim, Y. Moritomo, Jaejun Yu, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187201 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Direct Imaging of Stochastic Domain-Wall Motion Driven by Nanosecond Current Pulses

Guido Meier, Markus Bolte, René Eiselt, Benjamin Krüger, Dong-Hyun Kim, and Peter Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187202 (2007) - Published 2 May, 2007

$g$ -Factor Tuning and Manipulation of Spins by an Electric Current

Zbyslaw Wilamowski, Hans Malissa, Friedrich Schäffler, and Wolfgang Jantsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187203 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

$π$ -Electron Ferromagnetism in Metal-Free Carbon Probed by Soft X-Ray Dichroism

H. Ohldag, T. Tyliszczak, R. Höhne, D. Spemann, P. Esquinazi, M. Ungureanu, and T. Butz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187204 (2007) - Published 3 May, 2007

Exciton Dephasing in Quantum Dots due to LO-Phonon Coupling: An Exactly Solvable Model

E. A. Muljarov and R. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187401 (2007) - Published 1 May, 2007

Experimental Observation of Different-Order Components of a Vibrational Wave Packet in a Bulk Dielectric Using High-Order Raman Scattering

Benjamin Dietzek, Stefanie Gräfe, Michael Schmitt, Arkady Yartsev, Torbjörn Pascher, Villy Sundström, Wolfgang Kiefer, and Misha Yu. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187402 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Time-Domain Ab Initio Simulation of Electron and Hole Relaxation Dynamics in a Single-Wall Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 187401 (2006)]

Bradley F. Habenicht, Colleen F. Craig, and Oleg V. Prezhdo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 189901 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Erratum: Glass Transition and the Coulomb Gap in Electron Glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 256403 (2004)]

M. Müller and L. B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 189902 (2007) - Published 30 April, 2007

Erratum: Experimental Characterization of Superradiance in a Single-Pass High-Gain Laser-Seeded Free-Electron Laser Amplifier [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 98, 034802 (2007)]

T. Watanabe, X. J. Wang, J. B. Murphy, J. Rose, Y. Shen, T. Tsang, L. Giannessi, P. Musumeci, and S. Reiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 189903 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Erratum: An Electroweak Oscillon [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 101801 (2007)]

N. Graham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 189904 (2007) - Published 4 May, 2007

Volume 98, Issue 18

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

ERRATA