Volume 98, Issue 20

18 May 2007

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Band structure of bilayer graphene imaged through photoemission intensity mapping. White lines indicate directions of high symmetry and blue dashed lines are obtained from theory. The study finds a transition from 2D to bulk behavior in multilayer graphene.

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Interlayer Interaction and Electronic Screening in Multilayer Graphene Investigated with Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Taisuke Ohta, Aaron Bostwick, J. L. McChesney, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, and Eli Rotenberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206802 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Superstability of Surface Nanobubbles

Bram M. Borkent, Stephan M. Dammer, Holger Schönherr, G. Julius Vancso, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 204502 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transparency of the Sun to Gamma Rays due to Axionlike Particles

Malcolm Fairbairn, Timur Rashba, and Sergey Troitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 201801 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantitative Analysis of Long-Range Interactions between Adsorbed Dipolar Molecules on Cu(111)

Takashi Yokoyama, Tomonori Takahashi, Kazuteru Shinozaki, and Masakuni Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206102 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interlayer Interaction and Electronic Screening in Multilayer Graphene Investigated with Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Taisuke Ohta, Aaron Bostwick, J. L. McChesney, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206802 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

LETTERS

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

Coherent Dynamics of Domain Formation in the Bose Ferromagnet

Qiang Gu and Haibo Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200401 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Measurement of Decoherence of Electron Waves and Visualization of the Quantum-Classical Transition

Peter Sonnentag and Franz Hasselbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200402 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

$p$ -Wave Feshbach Molecules

J. P. Gaebler, J. T. Stewart, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200403 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Decoherence Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Cold Atom Interferometers

A. A. Burkov, M. D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200404 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Preparing and Probing Atomic Number States with an Atom Interferometer

J. Sebby-Strabley, B. L. Brown, M. Anderlini, P. J. Lee, W. D. Phillips, J. V. Porto, and P. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200405 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Bayesian Reconstruction of the Density of States

Michael Habeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200601 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Universality Classes of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

L. Canet and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200602 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Subdiffusion and Weak Ergodicity Breaking in the Presence of a Reactive Boundary

Michael A. Lomholt, Irwin M. Zaid, and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200603 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Competing Interactions, the Renormalization Group, and the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition

Daniel G. Barci and Daniel A. Stariolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200604 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

High-Resolution Magnetometry with a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. Vengalattore, J. M. Higbie, S. R. Leslie, J. Guzman, L. E. Sadler, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 200801 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Null Test of Newtonian Inverse-Square Law at Submillimeter Range with a Dual-Modulation Torsion Pendulum

Liang-Cheng Tu, Sheng-Guo Guan, Jun Luo, Cheng-Gang Shao, and Lin-Xia Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 201101 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Choreographic Solution to the General-Relativistic Three-Body Problem

Tatsunori Imai, Takamasa Chiba, and Hideki Asada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 201102 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transparency of the Sun to Gamma Rays due to Axionlike Particles

Malcolm Fairbairn, Timur Rashba, and Sergey Troitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 201801 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Few-Photon Multiple Ionization of Ne and Ar by Strong Free-Electron-Laser Pulses

R. Moshammer, Y. H. Jiang, L. Foucar, A. Rudenko, Th. Ergler, C. D. Schröter, S. Lüdemann, K. Zrost, D. Fischer, J. Titze, T. Jahnke, M. Schöffler, T. Weber, R. Dörner, T. J. M. Zouros, A. Dorn, T. Ferger, K. U. Kühnel, S. Düsterer, R. Treusch, P. Radcliffe, E. Plönjes, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203001 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Time-Resolved Quantum Dynamics of Double Ionization in Strong Laser Fields

Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki, Krzysztof Sacha, Bruno Eckhardt, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203002 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Theoretical Study of the Accuracy Limits of Optical Resonance Frequency Measurements

L. Labzowsky, G. Schedrin, D. Solovyev, and G. Plunien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203003 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Electric Dipole Echoes in Rydberg Atoms

S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, J. Burgdörfer, W. Zhao, J. J. Mestayer, J. C. Lancaster, and F. B. Dunning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203004 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Enhancement of Rydberg Atom Interactions Using ac Stark Shifts

P. Bohlouli-Zanjani, J. A. Petrus, and J. D. D. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203005 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Decoherence Control by Tracking a Hamiltonian Reference Molecule

Gil Katz, Mark A. Ratner, and Ronnie Kosloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203006 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Probing Orbital Structure of Polyatomic Molecules by High-Order Harmonic Generation

R. Torres, N. Kajumba, Jonathan G. Underwood, J. S. Robinson, S. Baker, J. W. G. Tisch, R. de Nalda, W. A. Bryan, R. Velotta, C. Altucci, I. C. E. Turcu, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203007 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Collective Excitations and Instability of an Optical Lattice due to Unbalanced Pumping

J. K. Asbóth, H. Ritsch, and P. Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203008 (2007) - Published 18 May, 2007

Determination of the $s$ -Wave Scattering Length and the $C_{6}$ van der Waals Coefficient of ${}^{174}{Yb}$ via Photoassociation Spectroscopy

K. Enomoto, M. Kitagawa, K. Kasa, S. Tojo, and Y. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203201 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Topological Stability of Stored Optical Vortices

R. Pugatch, M. Shuker, O. Firstenberg, A. Ron, and N. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203601 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Entanglement Generation by Fock-State Filtration

K. J. Resch, J. L. O’Brien, T. J. Weinhold, K. Sanaka, B. P. Lanyon, N. K. Langford, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203602 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Generation of an Extreme Ultraviolet Supercontinuum in a Two-Color Laser Field

Zhinan Zeng, Ya Cheng, Xiaohong Song, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203901 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Experimental Observation of Modulation Instability and Optical Spatial Soliton Arrays in Soft Condensed Matter

P. J. Reece, E. M. Wright, and K. Dholakia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203902 (2007) - Published 18 May, 2007

Draining of the Sea of Chaos: Role of Resonant Transmission and Reflection in an Array of Billiards

R. Brunner, R. Meisels, F. Kuchar, R. Akis, D. K. Ferry, and J. P. Bird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 204101 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Lower Branch Coherent States in Shear Flows: Transition and Control

Jue Wang, John Gibson, and Fabian Waleffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 204501 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Superstability of Surface Nanobubbles

Bram M. Borkent, Stephan M. Dammer, Holger Schönherr, G. Julius Vancso, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 204502 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

One-Dimensional Beam Ordering of Protons in a Storage Ring

T. Shirai, M. Ikegami, S. Fujimoto, H. Souda, M. Tanabe, H. Tongu, A. Noda, K. Noda, T. Fujimoto, S. Iwata, S. Shibuya, A. Smirnov, I. Meshkov, H. Fadil, and M. Grieser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 204801 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Measurement of Large Parallel and Perpendicular Electric Fields on Electron Spatial Scales in the Terrestrial Bow Shock

S. D. Bale and F. S. Mozer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 205001 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Mode Switching in a Gyrotron with Azimuthally Corrugated Resonator

G. S. Nusinovich, O. V. Sinitsyn, and T. M. Antonsen, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 205101 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

S. O. Diallo, J. V. Pearce, R. T. Azuah, O. Kirichek, J. W. Taylor, and H. R. Glyde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 205301 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Unveiling Quasiperiodicity through Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Periodic Media

Alon Bahabad, Noa Voloch, Ady Arie, Ariel Bruner, and David Eger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 205501 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Bending Induced Rippling and Twisting of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Xiaoyan Li, Wei Yang, and Bin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 205502 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Prediction of Uncompensated Polarity in Ultrathin Films

Jacek Goniakowski, Claudine Noguera, and Livia Giordano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 205701 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Atomic Row Doubling in the STM Images of Cu(014)-O Obtained with MnNi Tips

A. N. Chaika, V. N. Semenov, S. S. Nazin, S. I. Bozhko, S. Murphy, K. Radican, and I. V. Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206101 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantitative Analysis of Long-Range Interactions between Adsorbed Dipolar Molecules on Cu(111)

Takashi Yokoyama, Tomonori Takahashi, Kazuteru Shinozaki, and Masakuni Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206102 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Crossover from Three-Dimensional to Two-Dimensional Geometries of Au Nanostructures on Thin MgO(001) Films: A Confirmation of Theoretical Predictions

Martin Sterrer, Thomas Risse, Markus Heyde, Hans-Peter Rust, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206103 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Elucidating the Mechanism of Nucleation near the Gas-Liquid Spinodal

Prabhakar Bhimalapuram, Suman Chakrabarty, and Biman Bagchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206104 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Impact of Ice Structure on Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in $D_{2} O$ Clusters on Cu(111)

J. Stähler, M. Mehlhorn, U. Bovensiepen, M. Meyer, D. O. Kusmierek, K. Morgenstern, and M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206105 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Atomistic View of the Autosurfactant Effect during GaN Epitaxy

S. T. King, M. Weinert, and L. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206106 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Hydrogen Dissociation Dynamics on Precovered Pd Surfaces: Langmuir is Still Right

Axel Groß and Arezoo Dianat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206107 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Long-Range Electronic Interactions at a High Temperature: Bromine Adatom Islands on Cu(111)

Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, E. Charles H. Sykes, Luis C. Fernández-Torres, Meaghan M. Blake, and Paul S. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206108 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Kondo Breakdown as a Selective Mott Transition in the Anderson Lattice

C. Pépin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206401 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Bose Glass and Superfluid Phases of Cavity Polaritons

G. Malpuech, D. D. Solnyshkov, H. Ouerdane, M. M. Glazov, and I. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206402 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

H-Induced Dangling Bonds in H–Isoelectronic-Impurity Complexes Formed in ${GaAs}_{1 - y} N_{y}$ Alloys

A. Amore Bonapasta, F. Filippone, and G. Mattioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206403 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Torsional Strain of ${TaS}_{3}$ Whiskers on the Charge-Density Wave Depinning

V. Ya. Pokrovskii, S. G. Zybtsev, and I. G. Gorlova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206404 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Charge Ordering and Coexistence of Charge Fluctuations in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Organic Conductors $θ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} X$

Masafumi Udagawa and Yukitoshi Motome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206405 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Role of Intermolecular Coupling in the Photophysics of Disordered Organic Semiconductors: Aggregate Emission in Regioregular Polythiophene

Jenny Clark, Carlos Silva, Richard H. Friend, and Frank C. Spano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206406 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Dynamics of Spin Transport in Voltage-Biased Josephson Junctions

Erhai Zhao and J. A. Sauls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206601 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Formation of a Metallic Contact: Jump to Contact Revisited

C. Untiedt, M. J. Caturla, M. R. Calvo, J. J. Palacios, R. C. Segers, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206801 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interlayer Interaction and Electronic Screening in Multilayer Graphene Investigated with Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Taisuke Ohta, Aaron Bostwick, J. L. McChesney, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, and Eli Rotenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206802 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Origin of Discrepancies in Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectra of Molecular Junctions

Lam H. Yu, Christopher D. Zangmeister, and James G. Kushmerick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206803 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Impact of Spin-Orbit Coupling on Quantum Hall Nematic Phases

M. J. Manfra, R. de Picciotto, Z. Jiang, S. H. Simon, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and A. M. Sergent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206804 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Energy Band-Gap Engineering of Graphene Nanoribbons

Melinda Y. Han, Barbaros Özyilmaz, Yuanbo Zhang, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206805 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Wideband Detection of the Third Moment of Shot Noise by a Hysteretic Josephson Junction

A. V. Timofeev, M. Meschke, J. T. Peltonen, T. T. Heikkilä, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207001 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

High Energy Scales in the Optical Self-Energy of the Cuprate Superconductors

J. Hwang, E. J. Nicol, T. Timusk, A. Knigavko, and J. P. Carbotte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207002 (2007) - Published 18 May, 2007

Peculiar Ferrimagnetism Associated with Charge Order in Layered Perovskite ${GdBaMn}_{2} O_{5.0}$

A. A. Taskin and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207201 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Pressure-Induced Enhancement of Giant Magnetoresistance due to Crossover of Interlayer Exchange Coupling in $Fe / Cr$ Multilayers

K. Suenaga, S. Higashihara, M. Ohashi, G. Oomi, M. Hedo, Y. Uwatoko, K. Saito, S. Mitani, and K. Takanashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207202 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Ferroelectricity in Asymmetric Metal-Ferroelectric-Metal Heterostructures: A Combined First-Principles–Phenomenological Approach

G. Gerra, A. K. Tagantsev, and N. Setter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207601 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Direct Detection of Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance in Thin Films by the Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect

Thomas Gerrits, Pavol Krivosik, Michael L. Schneider, Carl E. Patton, and T. J. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207602 (2007) - Published 16 May, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Observation of Very Narrow Linewidths in the Fluorescence Excitation Spectra of Single Conjugated Polymer Chains at 1.2 K

Florian A. Feist, Giovanni Tommaseo, and Thomas Basché

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 208301 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Numerical Demonstration of Fluctuation Dynamo at Low Magnetic Prandtl Numbers

A. B. Iskakov, A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, J. C. McWilliams, and M. R. E. Proctor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 208501 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

Invasion Percolation and Critical Transient in the Barabási Model of Human Dynamics

A. Gabrielli and G. Caldarelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 208701 (2007) - Published 14 May, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Green’s Function of a Dressed Particle”

O. S. Barišić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209701 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Berciu Replies:

Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209702 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Comment on “Far-Field Optical Microscopy with a Nanometer-Scale Resolution Based on the In-Plane Image Magnification by Surface Plasmon Polaritons”

Aurélien Drezet, Andreas Hohenau, and Joachim R. Krenn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209703 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Smolyaninov et al. Reply:

I. I. Smolyaninov, C. C. Davis, J. Elliott, and A. V. Zayats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209704 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Classification Scheme for Phenomenological Universalities in Growth Problems in Physics and Other Sciences [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 188701 (2006)]

P. Castorina, P. P. Delsanto, and C. Guiot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209901 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Erratum: Magnetic Response of Mesoscopic Superconducting Rings with Two Order Parameters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 237002 (2006)]

Hendrik Bluhm, Nicholas C. Koshnick, Martin E. Huber, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209902 (2007) - Published 15 May, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Length Scales at which Classical Elasticity Breaks Down for Various Materials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195504 (2007)]

R. Maranganti and P. Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209903 (2007) - Published 17 May, 2007

Erratum: Liquids on Topologically Nanopatterned Surfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217801 (2005)]

Oleg Gang, Kyle J. Alvine, Masafumi Fukuto, Peter S. Pershan, Charles T. Black, and Benjamin M. Ocko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 209904 (2007) - Published 18 May, 2007