Volume 98, Issue 5

2 February 2007

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Image of a highly compressed state of photoelastic disks. The experiment confirms the existence of a critical jamming transition in real granular materials.

From the article:

Jamming Transition in Granular Systems
T. S. Majmudar, M. Sperl, S. Luding, and R. P. Behringer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 058001 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Remote Preparation of an Atomic Quantum Memory

Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Stefan Berner, Jürgen Volz, Markus Weber, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050504 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exchange Interaction between Single Magnetic Adatoms

P. Wahl, P. Simon, L. Diekhöner, V. S. Stepanyuk, P. Bruno, M. A. Schneider, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056601 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Evidence for Two Gaps in the High-Temperature ${La}_{1.83} {Sr}_{0.17} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductor

R. Khasanov, A. Shengelaya, A. Maisuradze, F. La Mattina, A. Bussmann-Holder, H. Keller, and K. A. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057007 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Jamming Transition in Granular Systems

T. S. Majmudar, M. Sperl, S. Luding, and R. P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 058001 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractal Dimension and Localization of DNA Knots

Erika Ercolini, Francesco Valle, Jozef Adamcik, Guillaume Witz, Ralf Metzler, Paolo De Los Rios, Joaquim Roca, and Giovanni Dietler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 058102 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

LETTERS

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

Curvature of Lagrangian Trajectories in Turbulence

Haitao Xu, Nicholas T. Ouellette, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050201 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Spontaneous Emergence of Angular Momentum Josephson Oscillations in Coupled Annular Bose-Einstein Condensates

I. Lesanovsky and W. von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050401 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Reconciling the CAST and PVLAS Results

R. N. Mohapatra and Salah Nasri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050402 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Experimental Investigation of the Casimir Force beyond the Proximity-Force Approximation

D. E. Krause, R. S. Decca, D. López, and E. Fischbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050403 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Superfluid Expansion of a Rotating Fermi Gas

C. H. Schunck, M. W. Zwierlein, A. Schirotzek, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050404 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Relaxation in a Completely Integrable Many-Body Quantum System: An Ab Initio Study of the Dynamics of the Highly Excited States of 1D Lattice Hard-Core Bosons

Marcos Rigol, Vanja Dunjko, Vladimir Yurovsky, and Maxim Olshanii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050405 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Adiabatic Condition for Nonlinear Systems

Han Pu, Peter Maenner, Weiping Zhang, and Hong Y. Ling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050406 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Suppression of Decoherence in a Wave Packet via Nonlinear Resonance

E. A. Shapiro, I. A. Walmsley, and Misha Yu. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050501 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Universal Set of Quantum Gates for Double-Dot Spin Qubits with Fixed Interdot Coupling

Ronald Hanson and Guido Burkard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050502 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Monogamy Inequality for Distributed Gaussian Entanglement

Tohya Hiroshima, Gerardo Adesso, and Fabrizio Illuminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050503 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Remote Preparation of an Atomic Quantum Memory

Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Stefan Berner, Jürgen Volz, Markus Weber, and Harald Weinfurter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050504 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Quadratic Contact Process: Phase Separation with Interface-Orientation-Dependent Equistability

Da-Jiang Liu, Xiaofang Guo, and J. W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050601 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Separation of Suspended Particles by Arrays of Obstacles in Microfluidic Devices

Zhigang Li and German Drazer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050602 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Optical Clock with Millihertz Linewidth Based on a Phase-Matching Effect

Deshui Yu and Jingbiao Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050801 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observing the Geometry of Warped Compactification via Cosmic Inflation

Gary Shiu and Bret Underwood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 051301 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Accelerating Dynamical-Fermion Computations Using the Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm with Multiple Pseudofermion Fields

M. A. Clark and A. D. Kennedy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 051601 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Vector-Tensor and Vector-Vector Decay Amplitude Analysis of $B^{0} \to φ K^{* 0}$

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 051801 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Observation of $B \to η^{'} K^{*}$ and Evidence for $B^{+} \to η^{'} ρ^{+}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 051802 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Measurement of the $C P$ Asymmetry and Branching Fraction of $B^{0} \to ρ^{0} K^{0}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 051803 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Measurement of Inclusive $D_{s}$ , $D^{0}$ , and $J / ψ$ Rates and Determination of the $B_{s}^{()} {\bar{B}}_{s}^{()}$ Production Fraction in $b \bar{b}$ Events at the $Υ (5 S)$ Resonance

A. Drutskoy et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052001 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Observation of $Υ (3 S) \to τ^{+} τ^{-}$ and Tests of Lepton Universality in $Υ$ Decays

D. Besson et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052002 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

$N$ -to- $Δ$ Axial Transition Form Factors from Lattice QCD

C. Alexandrou, Th. Leontiou, J. W. Negele, and A. Tsapalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052003 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Proton’s Electric to Magnetic Form Factor Ratio from ${}^{1}{\vec{H}} (\vec{e}, e^{'} p)$

C. B. Crawford et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052301 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Dielectron Production in ${}^{12}C + {}^{12}C$ Collisions at $2 A GeV$ with the HADES Spectrometer

G. Agakichiev et al. (HADES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052302 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Critical-Point Symmetries in Boson-Fermion Systems: The Case of Shape Transitions in Odd Nuclei in a Multiorbit Model

C. E. Alonso, J. M. Arias, and A. Vitturi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 052501 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of the Phase Lag in the Asymmetric Photoelectron Angular Distributions of Atomic Barium

Rekishu Yamazaki and D. S. Elliott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053001 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Ellipticity Dependence of High-Order Harmonic Generation from Aligned Molecules

Tsuneto Kanai, Shinichirou Minemoto, and Hirofumi Sakai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053002 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Mass and Double-Beta-Decay $Q$ Value of ${}^{136}{Xe}$

Matthew Redshaw, Elizabeth Wingfield, Joseph McDaniel, and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053003 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Four-Wave Mixing and Biphoton Generation in a Two-Level System

Shengwang Du, Jianming Wen, Morton H. Rubin, and G. Y. Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053601 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Coherent Control of Light Shifts in an Atomic System: Modulation of the Medium Gain

J. C. Delagnes and M. A. Bouchene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053602 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Superradiant Rayleigh Scattering and Collective Atomic Recoil Lasing in a Ring Cavity

S. Slama, S. Bux, G. Krenz, C. Zimmermann, and Ph. W. Courteille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053603 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Laguerre and Hermite Soliton Clusters in Nonlocal Nonlinear Media

Daniel Buccoliero, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053901 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Observation of Temporal Vector Soliton Propagation and Collision in Birefringent Fiber

Darren Rand, Ivan Glesk, Camille-Sophie Brès, Daniel A. Nolan, Xin Chen, Joohyun Koh, Jason W. Fleischer, Ken Steiglitz, and Paul R. Prucnal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053902 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Observation of Coherent Precursors in Pulsed Mode-Stirred Reverberation Fields

L. R. Arnaut and D. A. Knight

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053903 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Kinetic Theory of Coupled Oscillators

Eric J. Hildebrand, Michael A. Buice, and Carson C. Chow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054101 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Experimental Evidence for Phase Synchronization Transitions in the Human Cardiorespiratory System

Ronny Bartsch, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Thomas Penzel, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054102 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq Effects in Gaseous Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Guenter Ahlers, Francisco Fontenele Araujo, Denis Funfschilling, Siegfried Grossmann, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054501 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Fluctuations in Fluid Invasion into Disordered Media

Martin Rost, Lasse Laurson, Martin Dubé, and Mikko Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054502 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Can Surfactant Be Present at Pinch-Off of a Liquid Filament?

Qi Xu, Ying-Chih Liao, and Osman A. Basaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054503 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Demonstration of the Induction Synchrotron

Ken Takayama, Yoshio Arakida, Tanuja Dixit, Taiki Iwashita, Tadaaki Kono, Eiji Nakamura, Kazunori Otsuka, Yoshito Shimosaki, Kota Torikai, and Masayoshi Wake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054801 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Measurements of Wave-Breaking Radiation from a Laser-Wakefield Accelerator

A. G. R. Thomas, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, M. C. Kaluza, C. D. Murphy, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 054802 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Reduced Critical Rotation for Resistive-Wall Mode Stabilization in a Near-Axisymmetric Configuration

H. Reimerdes, A. M. Garofalo, G. L. Jackson, M. Okabayashi, E. J. Strait, M. S. Chu, Y. In, R. J. La Haye, M. J. Lanctot, Y. Q. Liu, G. A. Navratil, W. M. Solomon, H. Takahashi, and R. J. Groebner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055001 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Identification of a Low Plasma-Rotation Threshold for Stabilization of the Resistive-Wall Mode

M. Takechi, G. Matsunaga, N. Aiba, T. Fujita, T. Ozeki, Y. Koide, Y. Sakamoto, G. Kurita, A. Isayama, and Y. Kamada (the JT-60 team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055002 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

First-Principles Simulations on the Nature of the Melting Line of Sodium

Eduardo R. Hernández and Jorge Íñiguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055501 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Elastic Composite Materials Having a Negative Stiffness Phase Can Be Stable

W. J. Drugan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055502 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Effects of the Orientational Distribution of Cracks in Solids

Stefano Giordano and Luciano Colombo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055503 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Ortho-Para Conversion of Interstitial $H_{2}$ in Si

M. Hiller, E. V. Lavrov, and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055504 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Unique Melting Behavior in Phase-Change Materials for Rewritable Data Storage

Zhimei Sun, Jian Zhou, and Rajeev Ahuja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055505 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Frictional Dissipation in Stick-Slip Sliding

Jacob Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056101 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Structure of Adsorbed Organometallic Rhodium: Model Single Atom Catalysts

R. A. Bennett, N. D. McCavish, M. Basham, V. R. Dhanak, and M. A. Newton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056102 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonvolatile Memory Elements Based on the Intercalation of Organic Molecules Inside Carbon Nanotubes

Vincent Meunier, Sergei V. Kalinin, and Bobby G. Sumpter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056401 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exchange Interaction between Single Magnetic Adatoms

P. Wahl, P. Simon, L. Diekhöner, V. S. Stepanyuk, P. Bruno, M. A. Schneider, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056601 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Boson-Controlled Quantum Transport

A. Alvermann, D. M. Edwards, and H. Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056602 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations and Noise in the Charge Transfer Statistics through a Multiterminal Kondo Dot

T. L. Schmidt, A. Komnik, and A. O. Gogolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056603 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Vortex Polarity Switching by a Spin-Polarized Current

Jean-Guy Caputo, Yuri Gaididei, Franz G. Mertens, and Denis D. Sheka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056604 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Thermally Assisted Current-Driven Domain-Wall Motion

R. A. Duine, A. S. Núñez, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056605 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Tunable Noise Cross Correlations in a Double Quantum Dot

D. T. McClure, L. DiCarlo, Y. Zhang, H.-A. Engel, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 056801 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Probing the Quantum Critical Behavior of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ via Hall Effect Measurements

S. Singh, C. Capan, M. Nicklas, M. Rams, A. Gladun, H. Lee, J. F. DiTusa, Z. Fisk, F. Steglich, and S. Wirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057001 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Electric-Field-Effect Modulation of the Transition Temperature, Mobile Carrier Density, and In-Plane Penetration Depth of ${NdBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Thin Films

D. Matthey, N. Reyren, J.-M. Triscone, and T. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057002 (2007) - Published 31 January, 2007

Penetration Depth Study of Superconducting Gap Structure of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

J. D. Fletcher, A. Carrington, P. Diener, P. Rodière, J. P. Brison, R. Prozorov, T. Olheiser, and R. W. Giannetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057003 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Controllable Coupling of Superconducting Flux Qubits

S. H. W. van der Ploeg, A. Izmalkov, Alec Maassen van den Brink, U. Hübner, M. Grajcar, E. Il’ichev, H.-G. Meyer, and A. M. Zagoskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057004 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Spin-Triplet Pairing States in Ferromagnet/Ferromagnet/ $d$ -Wave Superconductor Heterojunctions with Noncollinear Magnetizations

Zhi Ping Niu and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057005 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Fidelity and Quantum Chaos in the Mesoscopic Device for the Josephson Flux Qubit

Ezequiel N. Pozzo and Daniel Domínguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057006 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Evidence for Two Gaps in the High-Temperature ${La}_{1.83} {Sr}_{0.17} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductor

R. Khasanov, A. Shengelaya, A. Maisuradze, F. La Mattina, A. Bussmann-Holder, H. Keller, and K. A. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057007 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007

Will Spin-Relaxation Times in Molecular Magnets Permit Quantum Information Processing?

Arzhang Ardavan, Olivier Rival, John J. L. Morton, Stephen J. Blundell, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, Grigore A. Timco, and Richard E. P. Winpenny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057201 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Ground States of the $SU (N)$ Heisenberg Model

Naoki Kawashima and Yuta Tanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057202 (2007) - Published 29 January, 2007

Unconventional Anomalous Hall Effect Enhanced by a Noncoplanar Spin Texture in the Frustrated Kondo Lattice $\Pr_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Y. Machida, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Maeno, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, and S. Onoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057203 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Measurement-Noise Maximum as a Signature of a Phase Transition

Zhi Chen and Clare C. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057204 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Spin-Wave Excitations: The Main Source of the Temperature Dependence of Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Nanostructures

S. Schwieger, J. Kienert, K. Lenz, J. Lindner, K. Baberschke, and W. Nolting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057205 (2007) - Published 30 January, 2007

Enhanced Ferroelectric Polarization by Induced Dy Spin Order in Multiferroic ${DyMnO}_{3}$

O. Prokhnenko, R. Feyerherm, E. Dudzik, S. Landsgesell, N. Aliouane, L. C. Chapon, and D. N. Argyriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057206 (2007) - Published 1 February, 2007

Structural Determination of a Short-Lived Excited Iron(II) Complex by Picosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Wojciech Gawelda, Van-Thai Pham, Maurizio Benfatto, Yuri Zaushitsyn, Maik Kaiser, Daniel Grolimund, Steven L. Johnson, Rafael Abela, Andreas Hauser, Christian Bressler, and Majed Chergui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057401 (2007) - Published 2 February, 2007