Volume 98, Issue 23

8 June 2007

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On the Cover

Schematic of events in the MiniBooNE experiment. The cones are Cherenkov radiation, summed to signal rings on the right. MiniBooNE presents evidence against simple neutrino oscillations involving the existence of a fourth neutrino flavor. See article 231801 and Physics News Update

From the article:

Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the $Δ m^{2} \sim 1 {eV}^{2}$ Scale
A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polytetrahedral Nature of the Dense Disordered Packings of Hard Spheres

A. V. Anikeenko and N. N. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235504 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Supermassive Recoil Velocities for Binary Black-Hole Mergers with Antialigned Spins

José A. González, Mark Hannam, Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Brügmann, and Sascha Husa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231101 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Maximum Gravitational Recoil

Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, and David Merritt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231102 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Conical Forward THz Emission from Femtosecond-Laser-Beam Filamentation in Air

C. D’Amico, A. Houard, M. Franco, B. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235002 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the $Δ m^{2} \sim 1 {eV}^{2}$ Scale

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

LETTERS

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

Device-Independent Security of Quantum Cryptography against Collective Attacks

Antonio Acín, Nicolas Brunner, Nicolas Gisin, Serge Massar, Stefano Pironio, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 230501 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Distinguishing Arbitrary Multipartite Basis Unambiguously Using Local Operations and Classical Communication

Runyao Duan, Yuan Feng, Zhengfeng Ji, and Mingsheng Ying

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 230502 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Efficient Multiqubit Entanglement via a Spin Bus

Mark Friesen, Asoka Biswas, Xuedong Hu, and Daniel Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 230503 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Additive Global Noise Delays Turing Bifurcations

Axel Hutt, Andre Longtin, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 230601 (2007) - Published 6 June, 2007

Critical Speeding-Up in the Local Dynamics of the Random-Cluster Model

Youjin Deng, Timothy M. Garoni, and Alan D. Sokal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 230602 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Supermassive Recoil Velocities for Binary Black-Hole Mergers with Antialigned Spins

José A. González, Mark Hannam, Ulrich Sperhake, Bernd Brügmann, and Sascha Husa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231101 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Maximum Gravitational Recoil

Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, and David Merritt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231102 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Particle Physics Catalysis of Thermal Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Maxim Pospelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231301 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Tensor Modes from a Primordial Hagedorn Phase of String Cosmology

Robert H. Brandenberger, Ali Nayeri, Subodh P. Patil, and Cumrun Vafa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231302 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Conformally Coupled Scalars, Instantons, and Vacuum Instability in 4D Anti-de Sitter Space

Sebastian de Haro, Ioannis Papadimitriou, and Anastasios C. Petkou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231601 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance at the $Δ m^{2} \sim 1 {eV}^{2}$ Scale

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 231801 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Measurement of $σ_{χ_{c 2}} B (χ_{c 2} \to J / ψ γ) / σ_{χ_{c 1}} B (χ_{c 1} \to J / ψ γ)$ in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232001 (2007) - Published 6 June, 2007

$J / ψ$ Production versus Transverse Momentum and Rapidity in $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232002 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Nuclear Physics

$J / ψ$ Production versus Centrality, Transverse Momentum, andRapidity in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232301 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

System Size and Energy Dependence of Jet-Induced Hadron Pair Correlation Shapes in $Cu + Cu$ and $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ and 62.4 GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232302 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Investigating Neutron Polarizabilities through Compton Scattering on ${}^{3}{He}$

Deepshikha Choudhury, Andreas Nogga, and Daniel R. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232303 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Pinning Down the Mechanism of Neutrinoless Double $β$ Decay with Measurements in Different Nuclei

Frank Deppisch and Heinrich Päs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232501 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Deterministic Loading of Individual Atoms to a High-Finesse Optical Cavity

Kevin M. Fortier, Soo Y. Kim, Michael J. Gibbons, Peyman Ahmadi, and Michael S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 233601 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Solution to the Twin Image Problem in Holography

Tatiana Latychevskaia and Hans-Werner Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 233901 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Geometry of Hamiltonian Chaos

Lawrence Horwitz, Yossi Ben Zion, Meir Lewkowicz, Marcelo Schiffer, and Jacob Levitan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 234301 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Tunable Nonlinear Viscoelastic “Focusing” in a Microfluidic Device

A. M. Leshansky, A. Bransky, N. Korin, and U. Dinnar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 234501 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stochastic Extraction of Periodic Attosecond Bunches from Relativistic Electron Beams

I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 234801 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

White-Light Parametric Instabilities in Plasmas

J. E. Santos, L. O. Silva, and R. Bingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235001 (2007) - Published 6 June, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Conical Forward THz Emission from Femtosecond-Laser-Beam Filamentation in Air

C. D’Amico, A. Houard, M. Franco, B. Prade, A. Mysyrowicz, A. Couairon, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235002 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Dynamical Model for Nonlinear Mirror Modes near Threshold

E. A. Kuznetsov, T. Passot, and P. L. Sulem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235003 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Metastable States of a Gas of Dipolar Bosons in a 2D Optical Lattice

C. Menotti, C. Trefzger, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235301 (2007) - Published 6 June, 2007

Microwave-Resonance-Induced Resistivity: Evidence of Ultrahot Surface-State Electrons on Liquid ${}^{3}{He}$

Denis Konstantinov, Hanako Isshiki, Yuriy Monarkha, Hikota Akimoto, Keiya Shirahama, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235302 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Nanoscale Periodic Morphologies on the Fracture Surface of Brittle Metallic Glasses

G. Wang, D. Q. Zhao, H. Y. Bai, M. X. Pan, A. L. Xia, B. S. Han, X. K. Xi, Y. Wu, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235501 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Controlling Polymorphism during the Crystallization of an Atomic Fluid

Caroline Desgranges and Jerome Delhommelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235502 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy of Highly Compressed Solid Deuterium at 300 K: Evidence for a New Phase and Implications for the Band Gap

Bruce J. Baer, William J. Evans, and Choong-Shik Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235503 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polytetrahedral Nature of the Dense Disordered Packings of Hard Spheres

A. V. Anikeenko and N. N. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235504 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Control of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in a Molecular Liquid by Spatial Confinement

Rei Kurita and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 235701 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Anomalous Scaling for Thick Electrodeposited Films

M. C. Lafouresse, P. J. Heard, and W. Schwarzacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236101 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Pb Nanoprecipitates in Al: Magic-Shape Effects due to Elastic Strain

J. C. Hamilton, F. Léonard, E. Johnson, and U. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236102 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polarization Multistability of Cavity Polaritons

N. A. Gippius, I. A. Shelykh, D. D. Solnyshkov, S. S. Gavrilov, Yuri G. Rubo, A. V. Kavokin, S. G. Tikhodeev, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236401 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Emergence of Strong Exchange Interaction in the Actinide Series: The Driving Force for Magnetic Stabilization of Curium

K. T. Moore, G. van der Laan, R. G. Haire, M. A. Wall, A. J. Schwartz, and P. Söderlind

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236402 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Origin of the Optical Contrast in Phase-Change Materials

Wojciech Wełnic, Silvana Botti, Lucia Reining, and Matthias Wuttig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236403 (2007) - Published 6 June, 2007

Chirality and Correlations in Graphene

Yafis Barlas, T. Pereg-Barnea, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236601 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Collective Excitations in Electron-Hole Bilayers

G. J. Kalman, P. Hartmann, Z. Donkó, and K. I. Golden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236801 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Quantum Phase Transitions in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems at a Total Filling Factor $ν_{T} = 1$

Jinwu Ye and Longhua Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236802 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Transport Measurements Across a Tunable Potential Barrier in Graphene

B. Huard, J. A. Sulpizio, N. Stander, K. Todd, B. Yang, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236803 (2007) - Published 7 June, 2007

Phenomenological Theory of the Underdoped Phase of a High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor

A. M. Tsvelik and A. V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 237001 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Observing Majorana bound States in $p$ -Wave Superconductors Using Noise Measurements in Tunneling Experiments

C. J. Bolech and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 237002 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Magnetic Proximity Effects in Antiferromagnet/Ferromagnet Bilayers: The Impact on the Néel Temperature

K. Lenz, S. Zander, and W. Kuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 237201 (2007) - Published 5 June, 2007

Many-Spinon States and the Secret Significance of Young Tableaux

Martin Greiter and Dirk Schuricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 237202 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Observation of a Change of Vibrational Excitation Mechanism with Surface Temperature: HCl Collisions with Au(111)

Q. Ran, D. Matsiev, D. J. Auerbach, and A. M. Wodtke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 237601 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Signatures of Discontinuity in the Exchange-Correlation Energy Functional Derived from the Subband Electronic Structure of Semiconductor Quantum Wells [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 066806 (2007)]

S. Rigamonti and C. R. Proetto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 239901 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Erratum: Current and Strain-Induced Spin Polarization in $InGaN / GaN$ Superlattices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 136403 (2007)]

H. J. Chang, T. W. Chen, J. W. Chen, W. C. Hong, W. C. Tsai, Y. F. Chen, and G. Y. Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 239902 (2007) - Published 4 June, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Probing Orbital Structure of Polyatomic Molecules by High-Order Harmonic Generation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203007 (2007)]

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, 239903 (2007) - Published 6 June, 2007

Erratum: Electro-Flow Focusing: The High-Conductivity Low-Viscosity Limit [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 134503 (2007)]

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 239904 (2007) - Published 8 June, 2007