Volume 98, Issue 2

12 January 2007

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Numerical simulation of compactons, which are robust solitons with compact support. A pulse (left) decomposes into a moving compacton and a pair of traveling formations which later coalesce into a second compacton.

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Multidimensional Compactons
Philip Rosenau, James M. Hyman, and Martin Staley
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024101 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Microscopic Basis for the Mechanism of Carrier Dynamics in an Operating $p − n$ Junction Examined by Using Light-Modulated Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Shoji Yoshida, Yuya Kanitani, Ryuji Oshima, Yoshitaka Okada, Osamu Takeuchi, and Hidemi Shigekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026802 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electromagnons in Multiferroic ${YMn}_{2} O_{5}$ and ${TbMn}_{2} O_{5}$

A. B. Sushkov, R. Valdés Aguilar, S. Park, S-W. Cheong, and H. D. Drew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 027202 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effective Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Slow Measurements

David P. DiVincenzo and Panos Aliferis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020501 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale

D. J. Kapner, T. S. Cook, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, B. R. Heckel, C. D. Hoyle, and H. E. Swanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 021101 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bonding at the $SiC − {SiO}_{2}$ Interface and the Effects of Nitrogen and Hydrogen

Sanwu Wang, S. Dhar, Shu-rui Wang, A. C. Ahyi, A. Franceschetti, J. R. Williams, L. C. Feldman, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026101 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Josephson-Vortex-Flow Terahertz Emission in Layered High- $T_{c}$ Superconducting Single Crystals

Myung-Ho Bae, Hu-Jong Lee, and Jae-Hyun Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 027002 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

No-Slip Hydrodynamic Boundary Condition for Hydrophilic Particles

Christopher D. F. Honig and William A. Ducker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 028305 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

LETTERS

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

Noise-Free Measurement of Harmonic Oscillators with Instantaneous Interactions

M. França Santos, G. Giedke, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020401 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Bright Matter-Wave Soliton Collisions in a Harmonic Trap: Regular and Chaotic Dynamics

A. D. Martin, C. S. Adams, and S. A. Gardiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020402 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Optimal Data Processing for Quantum Measurements

G. M. D’Ariano and P. Perinotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020403 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effective Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Slow Measurements

David P. DiVincenzo and Panos Aliferis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020501 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Noisy Processing and Distillation of Private Quantum States

Joseph M. Renes and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020502 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Experimental Demonstration of Four-Party Quantum Secret Sharing

S. Gaertner, C. Kurtsiefer, M. Bourennane, and H. Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020503 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Probability Distribution of the Maximum of a Smooth Temporal Signal

Clément Sire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020601 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Dispersionless Transport in a Washboard Potential

Katja Lindenberg, J. M. Sancho, A. M. Lacasta, and I. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020602 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Derivation of Hydrodynamics for the Gapless Mode in the BEC-BCS Crossover from the Exact One-Loop Effective Action

Da-Shin Lee, Chi-Yong Lin, and Ray J. Rivers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020603 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Vanishing Bulk Viscosities and Conformal Invariance of the Unitary Fermi Gas

D. T. Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 020604 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale

D. J. Kapner, T. S. Cook, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, B. R. Heckel, C. D. Hoyle, and H. E. Swanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 021101 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Onset of Quark-Hadron Duality in Pion Electroproduction

T. Navasardyan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 022001 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Estimate of $B (\bar{B} \to X_{s} γ)$ at $O (α_{s}^{2})$

M. Misiak, H. M. Asatrian, K. Bieri, M. Czakon, A. Czarnecki, T. Ewerth, A. Ferroglia, P. Gambino, M. Gorbahn, C. Greub, U. Haisch, A. Hovhannisyan, T. Hurth, A. Mitov, V. Poghosyan, M. Ślusarczyk, and M. Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 022002 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Analysis of $B (\bar{B} \to X_{s} γ)$ at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order with a Cut on Photon Energy

Thomas Becher and Matthias Neubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 022003 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Dilepton Yields from Brown-Rho Scaled Vector Mesons Including Memory Effects

Björn Schenke and Carsten Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 022301 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Viscous Plasma Evolution from Gravity Using Anti–de Sitter/Conformal-Field-Theory Correspondence

Romuald A. Janik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 022302 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Trajectory Surface Hopping within Linear Response Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

Enrico Tapavicza, Ivano Tavernelli, and Ursula Rothlisberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023001 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Antiblockade in Rydberg Excitation of an Ultracold Lattice Gas

C. Ates, T. Pohl, T. Pattard, and J. M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023002 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Trapped Ion Chain as a Neural Network: Error Resistant Quantum Computation

Marisa Pons, Veronica Ahufinger, Christof Wunderlich, Anna Sanpera, Sibylle Braungardt, Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023003 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Mechanical Effect of van der Waals Interactions Observed in Real Time in an Ultracold Rydberg Gas

T. Amthor, M. Reetz-Lamour, S. Westermann, J. Denskat, and M. Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023004 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Multiply Charged Neon Clusters: Failure of the Liquid Drop Model?

I Mähr, F. Zappa, S. Denifl, D. Kubala, O. Echt, T. D. Märk, and P. Scheier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023401 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Antimatter Plasmas in a Multipole Trap for Antihydrogen

G. Andresen et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023402 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Discrete $X$ -Wave Formation in Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays

Yoav Lahini, Eugene Frumker, Yaron Silberberg, Sotiris Droulias, Kyriakos Hizanidis, Roberto Morandotti, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023901 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Multidimensional Compactons

Philip Rosenau, James M. Hyman, and Martin Staley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024101 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Data Synchronization in a Network of Coupled Phase Oscillators

Takaya Miyano and Takako Tsutsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024102 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Inverse Turbulent Cascades and Conformally Invariant Curves

D. Bernard, G. Boffetta, A. Celani, and G. Falkovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024501 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Experimental Investigation of Primary and Secondary Features in High-Mach-Number Shock-Bubble Interaction

Devesh Ranjan, John Niederhaus, Bradley Motl, Mark Anderson, Jason Oakley, and Riccardo Bonazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024502 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Stretching of Polymers in Isotropic Turbulence: A Statistical Closure

Dario Vincenzi, Shi Jin, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Lance R. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024503 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Dynamics of Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Quantum Plasmas

Mattias Marklund and Gert Brodin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025001 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Transverse Interferometry of a Hydrogen-Filled Capillary Discharge Waveguide

A. J. Gonsalves, T. P. Rowlands-Rees, B. H. P. Broks, J. J. A. M. van der Mullen, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025002 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Structural Evolution and Formation of High-Pressure Plasmas in $X$ Pinches

J. P. Chittenden, A. Ciardi, C. A. Jennings, S. V. Lebedev, D. A Hammer, S. A. Pikuz, and T. A. Shelkovenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025003 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

High- $ρ R$ Implosions for Fast-Ignition Fuel Assembly

C. D. Zhou, W. Theobald, R. Betti, P. B. Radha, V. A. Smalyuk, D. Shvarts, V. Yu. Glebov, C. Stoeckl, K. S. Anderson, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. C. Sangster, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, J. A. Frenje, and F. H. Seguin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025004 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Enhancement of the Stabilization Efficiency of a Neoclassical Magnetic Island by Modulated Electron Cyclotron Current Drive in the ASDEX Upgrade Tokamak

M. Maraschek, G. Gantenbein, Q. Yu, H. Zohm, S. Günter, F. Leuterer, and A. Manini (ECRH Group, ASDEX Upgrade Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025005 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Acoustic Attenuation in Glasses and its Relation with the Boson Peak

W. Schirmacher, G. Ruocco, and T. Scopigno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025501 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Equation of State and Raman Frequency of Diamond from Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Ryo Maezono, A. Ma, M. D. Towler, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025701 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bonding at the $SiC − {SiO}_{2}$ Interface and the Effects of Nitrogen and Hydrogen

Sanwu Wang, S. Dhar, Shu-rui Wang, A. C. Ahyi, A. Franceschetti, J. R. Williams, L. C. Feldman, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026101 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Chladni Figures Revisited Based on Nanomechanics

M. Dorrestijn, A. Bietsch, T. Açıkalın, A. Raman, M. Hegner, E. Meyer, and Ch. Gerber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026102 (2007) - Published 8 January, 2007

Viscoplastic and Granular Behavior in Films of Colloidal Nanocrystals

Dongyun Lee, Shengguo Jia, Sarbajit Banerjee, Joze Bevk, Irving P. Herman, and Jeffrey W. Kysar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026103 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Optical Frequency Mixing at Coupled Gold Nanoparticles

Matthias Danckwerts and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026104 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Hexagon versus Trimer Formation in In Nanowires on Si(111): Energetics and Quantum Conductance

A. A. Stekolnikov, K. Seino, F. Bechstedt, S. Wippermann, W. G. Schmidt, A. Calzolari, and M. Buongiorno Nardelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026105 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Pressure Dependence of the Charge-Density-Wave Gap in Rare-Earth Tritellurides

A. Sacchetti, E. Arcangeletti, A. Perucchi, L. Baldassarre, P. Postorino, S. Lupi, N. Ru, I. R. Fisher, and L. Degiorgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026401 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Kondo Breakdown and Hybridization Fluctuations in the Kondo-Heisenberg Lattice

I. Paul, C. Pépin, and M. R. Norman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026402 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007

Interplay between Carrier and Impurity Concentrations in Annealed ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$ : Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect

S. H. Chun, Y. S. Kim, H. K. Choi, I. T. Jeong, W. O. Lee, K. S. Suh, Y S. Oh, K. H. Kim, Z. G. Khim, J. C. Woo, and Y. D. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026601 (2007) - Published 9 January, 2007

Optically Induced Spin-Hall Effect in Atoms

Xiong-Jun Liu, Xin Liu, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026602 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Surface Dangling-Bond States and Band Lineups in Hydrogen-Terminated Si, Ge, and $Ge / Si$ Nanowires

R. Kagimura, R. W. Nunes, and H. Chacham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026801 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Microscopic Basis for the Mechanism of Carrier Dynamics in an Operating $p − n$ Junction Examined by Using Light-Modulated Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Shoji Yoshida, Yuya Kanitani, Ryuji Oshima, Yoshitaka Okada, Osamu Takeuchi, and Hidemi Shigekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026802 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

Terahertz-Pulse Emission Through Laser Excitation of Surface Plasmons in a Metal Grating

Gregor H. Welsh, Neil T. Hunt, and Klaas Wynne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026803 (2007) - Published 10 January, 2007

First-Principles Study of Electron-Conduction Properties of $C_{60}$ Bridges

Tomoya Ono and Kikuji Hirose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026804 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

New Collective Mode in the Fractional Quantum Hall Liquid

I. V. Tokatly and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026805 (2007) - Published 11 January, 2007

Nuclear Spin Switch in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

A. I. Tartakovskii, T. Wright, A. Russell, V. I. Fal’ko, A. B. Van’kov, J. Skiba-Szymanska, I. Drouzas, R. S. Kolodka, M. S. Skolnick, P. W. Fry, A. Tahraoui, H.-Y. Liu, and M. Hopkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026806 (2007) - Published 12 January, 2007