Volume 98, Issue 24

15 June 2007

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Spatiotemporal diagram of a viscous film flowing down a fiber, plotted as distance from the top of the fiber, with vertical range 10 cm and horizontal range 4 sec. The dark lines are regions of greater thickness, propagating down the fiber.

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Absolute and Convective Instabilities of a Viscous Film Flowing Down a Vertical Fiber
C. Duprat, C. Ruyer-Quil, S. Kalliadasis, and F. Giorgiutti-Dauphiné
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 244502 (2007)

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Dipolar Correlations and the Dielectric Permittivity of Water

Manu Sharma, Raffaele Resta, and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247401 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

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${}^{15}O (α, γ) {}^{19}{Ne}$ Breakout Reaction and Impact on X-Ray Bursts

W. P. Tan, J. L. Fisker, J. Görres, M. Couder, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242503 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

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Optimal Control of Light Pulse Storage and Retrieval

Irina Novikova, Alexey V. Gorshkov, David F. Phillips, Anders S. Sørensen, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243602 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

LETTERS

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

Generation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Entangled Radiation through an Atomic Reservoir

Susanne Pielawa, Giovanna Morigi, David Vitali, and Luiz Davidovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240401 (2007) - Published 12 June, 2007

Measuring the One-Particle Excitations of Ultracold Fermionic Atoms by Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy

Tung-Lam Dao, Antoine Georges, Jean Dalibard, Christophe Salomon, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240402 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Momentum Distribution Dynamics of a Tonks-Girardeau Gas: Bragg Reflections of a Quantum Many-Body Wave Packet

R. Pezer and H. Buljan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240403 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Nonlocal Properties of Dynamical Three-Body Casimir-Polder Forces

L. Rizzuto, R. Passante, and F. Persico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240404 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

First Measurements of the Index of Refraction of Gases for Lithium Atomic Waves

M. Jacquey, M. Büchner, G. Trénec, and J. Vigué

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240405 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Spin-Photon Entangling Diode

Christian Flindt, Anders S. Sørensen, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Jacob M. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240501 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Robust Creation of Entanglement between Remote Memory Qubits

Bo Zhao, Zeng-Bing Chen, Yu-Ao Chen, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240502 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Three-Level Systems as Amplifiers and Attenuators: A Thermodynamic Analysis

E. Boukobza and D. J. Tannor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240601 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

Limit on the Cosmological Variation of $m_{p} / m_{e}$ from the Inversion Spectrum of Ammonia

V. V. Flambaum and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 240801 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Supersymmetry Breaking with Zero Vacuum Energy in $M$ -Theory Flux Compactifications

Axel Krause

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 241601 (2007) - Published 12 June, 2007

Field Theoretic Description of the Abelian and Non-Abelian Josephson Effect

F. Paul Esposito, L.-P. Guay, R. B. MacKenzie, M. B. Paranjape, and L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 241602 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Analytic Expression for the Joint $x$ and $Q^{2}$ Dependences of the Deep-Inelastic Structure Functions

Edmond L. Berger, M. M. Block, and Chung-I Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242001 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Precision Study of the $η {}^{3}{He}$ System Using the $d p \to {}^{3}{He} η$ Reaction

T. Mersmann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242301 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

System Size, Energy, Pseudorapidity, and Centrality Dependence of Elliptic Flow

B. Alver et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242302 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Quasielastic Charged-Current Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering

J. E. Amaro, M. B. Barbaro, J. A. Caballero, and T. W. Donnelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242501 (2007) - Published 11 June, 2007

Partial Dynamical Symmetry at Critical Points of Quantum Phase Transitions

A. Leviatan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242502 (2007) - Published 12 June, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${}^{15}O (α, γ) {}^{19}{Ne}$ Breakout Reaction and Impact on X-Ray Bursts

W. P. Tan, J. L. Fisker, J. Görres, M. Couder, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 242503 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Direct Measurement of the Angular Dependence of Ionization for $N_{2}$ , $O_{2}$ , and ${CO}_{2}$ in Intense Laser Fields

Domagoj Pavičić, Kevin F. Lee, D. M. Rayner, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Villeneuve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243001 (2007) - Published 11 June, 2007

Ab Initio Calculation of Photoionization and Inelastic Photon Scattering Spectra of He below the $N = 2$ Threshold in a dc Electric Field

Andrej Mihelič and Matjaž Žitnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243002 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Cascaded Generation of Multiply Charged Optical Vortices and Spatiotemporal Helical Beams in a Raman Medium

A. V. Gorbach and D. V. Skryabin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243601 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Control of Light Pulse Storage and Retrieval

Irina Novikova, Alexey V. Gorshkov, David F. Phillips, Anders S. Sørensen, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243602 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Inhomogenous Dielectric Metamaterials with Space-Variant Polarizability

Uriel Levy, Maxim Abashin, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Ashok Krishnamoorthy, John Cunningham, and Yeshaiahu Fainman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243901 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

Optoacoustic Solitons in Bragg Gratings

Richard S. Tasgal, Y. B. Band, and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243902 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Lifetime of Bubble Rafts: Cooperativity and Avalanches

Hernán Ritacco, Flavien Kiefer, and Dominique Langevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 244501 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Absolute and Convective Instabilities of a Viscous Film Flowing Down a Vertical Fiber

C. Duprat, C. Ruyer-Quil, S. Kalliadasis, and F. Giorgiutti-Dauphiné

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 244502 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Interference between Compton Scattering and X-Ray Parametric Down-Conversion

Kenji Tamasaku and Tetsuya Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 244801 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Stabilizing Effect of Anisotropic Thermal Diffusion on the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

L. Masse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 245001 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Optical-to-THz Wave Conversion via Excitation of Plasma Oscillations in the Tunneling-Ionization Process

V. B. Gildenburg and N. V. Vvedenskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 245002 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Enhancing Mechanical Properties of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes via $s p^{3}$ Interwall Bridging

Z. H. Xia, P. R. Guduru, and W. A. Curtin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 245501 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Phonon Density of States of Metallic Sn at High Pressure

Hubertus Giefers, Elizabeth A. Tanis, Sven P. Rudin, Carl Greeff, Xuezhi Ke, Changfeng Chen, Malcolm F. Nicol, Michael Pravica, Walter Pravica, Jiyong Zhao, Ahmet Alatas, Michael Lerche, Wolfgang Sturhahn, and Ercan Alp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 245502 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Critical Dynamics of the Dirty Boson Problem: Revisiting the Equality $z = d$

Peter B. Weichman and Ranjan Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 245701 (2007) - Published 12 June, 2007

Enhanced Stability of 1D Molecular Lines on the H-Terminated Si(001) Surface

Jin-Ho Choi and Jun-Hyung Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246101 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Critical Test for Altshuler-Aronov Theory: Evolution of the Density of States Singularity in Double Perovskite ${Sr}_{2} {FeMoO}_{6}$ with Controlled Disorder

M. Kobayashi, K. Tanaka, A. Fujimori, Sugata Ray, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246401 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Electronic Correlations in ${CoO}_{2}$ , the Parent Compound of Triangular Cobaltates

C. de Vaulx, M.-H. Julien, C. Berthier, S. Hébert, V. Pralong, and A. Maignan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246402 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Charge Order and the Origin of Giant Magnetocapacitance in ${LuFe}_{2} O_{4}$

H. J. Xiang and M.-H. Whangbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246403 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Generalization of Faraday’s Law to Include Nonconservative Spin Forces

S. E. Barnes and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246601 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Formation of Two-Dimensional Polarons that are Absent in Three-Dimensional Crystals

M. Muntwiler and X.-Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246801 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

NMR Probing of Spin Excitations in the Ring Structure of a Two-Subband System

X. C. Zhang, G. D. Scott, and H. W. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246802 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Sagnac Interference in Carbon Nanotube Loops

Gil Refael, Jinseong Heo, and Marc Bockrath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 246803 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Specific Heat of Superconducting Zn Nanowires

James S. Kurtz, Robert R. Johnson, Mingliang Tian, Nitesh Kumar, Zhigang Ma, Shengyong Xu, and Moses H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247001 (2007) - Published 11 June, 2007

Theoretical Indications of Singular Structural and Electronic Features of Laves-Phase ${CaLi}_{2}$ Under Pressure

Ji Feng, N. W. Ashcroft, and Roald Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247002 (2007) - Published 11 June, 2007

Disappearance of Antiferromagnetic Spin Excitations in Overdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

S. Wakimoto, K. Yamada, J. M. Tranquada, C. D. Frost, R. J. Birgeneau, and H. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247003 (2007) - Published 11 June, 2007

Exact Results for Spin Dynamics and Fractionalization in the Kitaev Model

G. Baskaran, Saptarshi Mandal, and R. Shankar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247201 (2007) - Published 11 June, 2007

Quantum Spin Nematics, Dimerization, and Deconfined Criticality in Quasi-1D Spin-One Magnets

Tarun Grover and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247202 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

Simple Two-Dimensional Model for the Elastic Origin of Cooperativity among Spin States of Spin-Crossover Complexes

Masamichi Nishino, Kamel Boukheddaden, Yusuké Konishi, and Seiji Miyashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247203 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

Efficient Current-Induced Domain-Wall Displacement in ${SrRuO}_{3}$

Michael Feigenson, James W. Reiner, and Lior Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247204 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

Role of Ge in Bridging Ferromagnetism in the Giant Magnetocaloric ${Gd}_{5} ({Ge}_{1 - x} {Si}_{x})_{4}$ Alloys

D. Haskel, Y. B. Lee, B. N. Harmon, Z. Islam, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, Ya. Mudryk, K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., and V. K. Pecharsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 247205 (2007) - Published 15 June, 2007

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Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Room-Temperature Reversible Spin Hall Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 156601 (2007)]

T. Kimura, Y. Otani, T. Sato, S. Takahashi, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 249901 (2007) - Published 13 June, 2007

Publisher’s Note: $J / ψ$ Production versus Centrality, Transverse Momentum, and Rapidity in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232301 (2007)]

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 249902 (2007) - Published 14 June, 2007

Volume 98, Issue 24

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

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

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