Volume 98, Issue 19

11 May 2007

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On the Cover

Stationary state of a model 2D supersolid in a gravitational field applied from upper right to lower left. Transient flow is allowed by defects, akin to plastic flow in ordinary solids, yet the defect-free system exhibits nonclassical moment of inertia at T = 0 K.

From the article:

Coexistence of Ordinary Elasticity and Superfluidity in a Model of a Defect-Free Supersolid
Christophe Josserand, Yves Pomeau, and Sergio Rica
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195301 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Polymeric Quasicrystal: Mesoscopic Quasicrystalline Tiling in $A B C$ Star Polymers

Kenichi Hayashida, Tomonari Dotera, Atsushi Takano, and Yushu Matsushita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195502 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reversible State Transfer between Light and a Single Trapped Atom

A. D. Boozer, A. Boca, R. Miller, T. E. Northup, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 193601 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Negative Refraction Observed in a Metallic Ferromagnet in the Gigahertz Frequency Range

A. Pimenov, A. Loidl, K. Gehrke, V. Moshnyaga, and K. Samwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197401 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

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Disappearance of the Gas-Liquid Phase Transition for Highly Charged Colloids

A.-P. Hynninen and A. Z. Panagiotopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 198301 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

LETTERS

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

Generating Unexpected Spin Echoes in Dipolar Solids with $π$ Pulses

Dale Li, A. E. Dementyev, Yanqun Dong, R. G. Ramos, and S. E. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190401 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

Quantum Emulsion: A Glassy Phase of Bosonic Mixtures in Optical Lattices

Tommaso Roscilde and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190402 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

How Continuous Quantum Measurements in Finite Dimensions Are Actually Discrete

Giulio Chiribella, Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano, and Dirk Schlingemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190403 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Nematic Order by Disorder in Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ari M. Turner, Ryan Barnett, Eugene Demler, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190404 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Optimal Dynamical Characterization of Entanglement

André R. R. Carvalho, Marc Busse, Olivier Brodier, Carlos Viviescas, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190501 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Delocalized Entanglement of Atoms in Optical Lattices

K. G. H. Vollbrecht and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190502 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Quantum Repeaters with Photon Pair Sources and Multimode Memories

Christoph Simon, Hugues de Riedmatten, Mikael Afzelius, Nicolas Sangouard, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190503 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with High Threshold in Two Dimensions

Robert Raussendorf and Jim Harrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190504 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Why Irreversibility Is Not a Sufficient Condition for Ergodicity

M. Howard Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190601 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Quantum Molecular Dynamics Simulations for the Nonmetal-to-Metal Transition in Fluid Helium

André Kietzmann, Bastian Holst, Ronald Redmer, Michael P. Desjarlais, and Thomas R. Mattsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190602 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Transverse Momentum and Centrality Dependence of High- $p_{T}$ Nonphotonic Electron Suppression in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 192301 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

Low-Energy Inelastic Neutrino Reactions on ${}^{4}{He}$

Doron Gazit and Nir Barnea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 192501 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

$(e, 3 e)$ on Helium at Low Impact Energy: The Strongly Correlated Three-Electron Continuum

M. Dürr, A. Dorn, J. Ullrich, S. P. Cao, A. Czasch, A. S. Kheifets, J. R. Götz, and J. S. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 193201 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Direct Measurement of Internal Energy of Fragmented $C_{60}$

L. Chen, S. Martin, J. Bernard, and R. Brédy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 193401 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reversible State Transfer between Light and a Single Trapped Atom

A. D. Boozer, A. Boca, R. Miller, T. E. Northup, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 193601 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Screening Effects in Flow through Rough Channels

J. S. Andrade, Jr., A. D. Araújo, M. Filoche, and B. Sapoval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 194101 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Fine Structures in Laser-Driven Electron Beams Using Coherent Transition Radiation

Y. Glinec, J. Faure, A. Norlin, A. Pukhov, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 194801 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Laboratory Study of Nonlinear Trapping of Magnetized Langmuir Waves Inside a Density Depletion

Mikhail V. Starodubtsev, Vladimir V. Nazarov, and Alexander V. Kostrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195001 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coexistence of Ordinary Elasticity and Superfluidity in a Model of a Defect-Free Supersolid

Christophe Josserand, Yves Pomeau, and Sergio Rica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195301 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Direct Measurement of Quantum Phase Gradients in Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ Flow

Yuki Sato, Aditya Joshi, and Richard Packard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195302 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Fast-Ion Conduction and Flexibility of Glassy Networks

Deassy I. Novita, P. Boolchand, M. Malki, and M. Micoulaut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195501 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Polymeric Quasicrystal: Mesoscopic Quasicrystalline Tiling in $A B C$ Star Polymers

Kenichi Hayashida, Tomonari Dotera, Atsushi Takano, and Yushu Matsushita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195502 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Stiffened Ultrathin Pt Films Confirmed by Acoustic-Phonon Resonances

H. Ogi, M. Fujii, N. Nakamura, T. Yasui, and M. Hirao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195503 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Length Scales at which Classical Elasticity Breaks Down for Various Materials

R. Maranganti and P. Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195504 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Intrinsic Strength of Silicon Crystals in Pure- and Combined-Mode Fracture without Precrack

V. V. Kozhushko, A. M. Lomonosov, and P. Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195505 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Noble-Gas Nanoclusters with Fivefold Symmetry Stabilized in Superfluid Helium

V. Kiryukhin, E. P. Bernard, V. V. Khmelenko, R. E. Boltnev, N. V. Krainyukova, and D. M. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195506 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Kinetic Limit of Heterogeneous Melting in Metals

Dmitriy S. Ivanov and Leonid V. Zhigilei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195701 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Dynamical First-Order Phase Transition in Kinetically Constrained Models of Glasses

J. P. Garrahan, R. L. Jack, V. Lecomte, E. Pitard, K. van Duijvendijk, and F. van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195702 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Oxygen Vacancies in High Dielectric Constant Oxide-Semiconductor Films

Supratik Guha and Vijay Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196101 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Size Selection of the Cooperative Ridge-Trench Formation in Heteroepitaxial Systems

Z. Huang, T. Zhou, and C.-h. Chiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196102 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

Probing Atomic Migration in Nanostructured Multilayers: Application of X-Ray Standing Wave Fields

S. Bera, K. Bhattacharjee, G. Kuri, and B. N. Dev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196103 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Statistics of Deep Energy States in Coulomb Glasses

A. Glatz, V. M. Vinokur, and Y. M. Galperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196401 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Low-Field Phase Diagram of the Spin Hall Effect in the Mesoscopic Regime

Zhenhua Qiao, Wei Ren, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196402 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Magnetic Ordering under Strain and Spin-Peierls Dimerization in ${GeCuO}_{3}$

Alessio Filippetti and Vincenzo Fiorentini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196403 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Metal-Ligand Interplay in Strongly Correlated Oxides: A Parametrized Phase Diagram for Pressure-Induced Spin Transitions

Aleksi Mattila, Jean-Pascal Rueff, James Badro, György Vankó, and Abhay Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196404 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

First-Principles Approach to Noncollinear Magnetism: Towards Spin Dynamics

S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, S. Kurth, N. Helbig, S. Pittalis, S. Shallcross, L. Nordström, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196405 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Evidence of a Pressure-Induced Metallization Process in Monoclinic ${VO}_{2}$

E. Arcangeletti, L. Baldassarre, D. Di Castro, S. Lupi, L. Malavasi, C. Marini, A. Perucchi, and P. Postorino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196406 (2007) - Published 10 May, 2007

Mesoscopic Spin Hall Effect

J. H. Bardarson, İ. Adagideli, and Ph. Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196601 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Persistent Spin Current in a Mesoscopic Hybrid Ring with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Qing-feng Sun, X. C. Xie, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196801 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Origin of Charge Density at ${LaAlO}_{3}$ on ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterointerfaces: Possibility of Intrinsic Doping

Wolter Siemons, Gertjan Koster, Hideki Yamamoto, Walter A. Harrison, Gerald Lucovsky, Theodore H. Geballe, Dave H. A. Blank, and Malcolm R. Beasley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196802 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Electronic and Transport Properties of Boron-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons

T. B. Martins, R. H. Miwa, Antônio J. R. da Silva, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196803 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

In-Crystal and Surface Charge Transport of Electric-Field-Induced Carriers in Organic Single-Crystal Semiconductors

J. Takeya, J. Kato, K. Hara, M. Yamagishi, R. Hirahara, K. Yamada, Y. Nakazawa, S. Ikehata, K. Tsukagoshi, Y. Aoyagi, T. Takenobu, and Y. Iwasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196804 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

Charge Rearrangement and Screening in a Quantum Point Contact

S. Lüscher, L. S. Moore, T. Rejec, Yigal Meir, Hadas Shtrikman, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196805 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Dissipative Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene near the Dirac Point

Dmitry A. Abanin, Kostya S. Novoselov, Uli Zeitler, Patrick A. Lee, A. K. Geim, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 196806 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Extremely High Upper Critical Magnetic Field of the Noncentrosymmetric Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeRhSi}_{3}$

N. Kimura, K. Ito, H. Aoki, S. Uji, and T. Terashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197001 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

NMR Observation of Rattling Phonons in the Pyrochlore Superconductor ${KOs}_{2} O_{6}$

M. Yoshida, K. Arai, R. Kaido, M. Takigawa, S. Yonezawa, Y. Muraoka, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197002 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Nature of the Magnetic Order in the Charge-Ordered Cuprate ${La}_{1.48} {Nd}_{0.4} {Sr}_{0.12} {CuO}_{4}$

N. B. Christensen, H. M. Rønnow, J. Mesot, R. A. Ewings, N. Momono, M. Oda, M. Ido, M. Enderle, D. F. McMorrow, and A. T. Boothroyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197003 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Nodeless $d$ -Wave Superconducting Pairing due to Residual Antiferromagnetism in Underdoped $\Pr_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$

Tanmoy Das, R. S. Markiewicz, and A. Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197004 (2007) - Published 8 May, 2007

Microscopic Theory of Thermal Phase Slips in Clean Narrow Superconducting Wires

A. Zharov, A. Lopatin, A. E. Koshelev, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197005 (2007) - Published 11 May, 2007

Angle-Dependent ${Ni}^{2 +}$ X-Ray Magnetic Linear Dichroism: Interfacial Coupling Revisited

Elke Arenholz, Gerrit van der Laan, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, and Yuri Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197201 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Efficient Organometallic Spin Filter between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube or Graphene Electrodes

Mohammad Koleini, Magnus Paulsson, and Mads Brandbyge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197202 (2007) - Published 7 May, 2007

Magnetism in Geometrically Frustrated ${YMnO}_{3}$ under Hydrostatic Pressure Studied with Muon Spin Relaxation

T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, D. Andreica, M. Janoschek, B. Roessli, S. N. Gvasaliya, K. Conder, E. Pomjakushina, M. L. Brooks, P. J. Baker, D. Prabhakaran, W. Hayes, and F. L. Pratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 197203 (2007) - Published 9 May, 2007

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