Volume 98, Issue 7

16 February 2007

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On the Cover

Angular distribution of electrons from an H₂ molecule (violet) doubly ionized by a single photon, when one electron (red) is ejected perpendicular to the photon polarization (green). The cross section depends strongly on the internuclear distance.

From the article:

Role of Nuclear Motion in Double Ionization of Molecular Hydrogen by a Single Photon
D. A. Horner, W. Vanroose, T. N. Rescigno, F. Martín, and C. W. McCurdy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073001 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurements of Electric-Field Strengths in Ionization Fronts during Breakdown

E. Wagenaars, M. D. Bowden, and G. M. W. Kroesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075002 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermal Fluctuations and Rubber Elasticity

Xiangjun Xing, Paul M. Goldbart, and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075502 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Testing Local Position Invariance with Four Cesium-Fountain Primary Frequency Standards and Four NIST Hydrogen Masers

N. Ashby, T. P. Heavner, S. R. Jefferts, T. E. Parker, A. G. Radnaev, and Y. O. Dudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070802 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gravitomagnetic Influence on Gyroscopes and on the Lunar Orbit

T. W. Murphy, Jr., K. Nordtvedt, and S. G. Turyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071102 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Constraints on Macroscopic Compact Objects as Dark Matter Candidates from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae

R. Benton Metcalf and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071302 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Left-Handed Interfaces for Electromagnetic Surface Waves

A. V. Kats, Sergey Savel’ev, V. A. Yampol’skii, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073901 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

LETTERS

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

Classical Simulation of Infinite-Size Quantum Lattice Systems in One Spatial Dimension

G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070201 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Decoherence of Anyonic Charge in Interferometry Measurements

Parsa Bonderson, Kirill Shtengel, and J. K. Slingerland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070401 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Attractive Fermi Gases with Unequal Spin Populations in Highly Elongated Traps

G. Orso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070402 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Phase Diagram of a Strongly Interacting Polarized Fermi Gas in One Dimension

Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu, and Peter D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070403 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Level Density of a Bose Gas and Extreme Value Statistics

A. Comtet, P. Leboeuf, and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070404 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Quantum Logic via the Exchange Blockade in Ultracold Collisions

David Hayes, Paul S. Julienne, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070501 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Experimental Preparation of Quadripartite Cluster and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entangled States for Continuous Variables

Xiaolong Su, Aihong Tan, Xiaojun Jia, Jing Zhang, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070502 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

DNA Bubble Dynamics as a Quantum Coulomb Problem

Hans C. Fogedby and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070601 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Breakdown of a Topological Phase: Quantum Phase Transition in a Loop Gas Model with Tension

Simon Trebst, Philipp Werner, Matthias Troyer, Kirill Shtengel, and Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070602 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Amnestically Induced Persistence in Random Walks

J. C. Cressoni, Marco Antonio Alves da Silva, and G. M. Viswanathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070603 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Gauge Theory for the Rate Equations: Electrodynamics on a Network

Carsten Timm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070604 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Precision Atomic Spectroscopy for Improved Limits on Variation of the Fine Structure Constant and Local Position Invariance

T. M. Fortier, N. Ashby, J. C. Bergquist, M. J. Delaney, S. A. Diddams, T. P. Heavner, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, S. R. Jefferts, K. Kim, F. Levi, L. Lorini, W. H. Oskay, T. E. Parker, J. Shirley, and J. E. Stalnaker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070801 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Testing Local Position Invariance with Four Cesium-Fountain Primary Frequency Standards and Four NIST Hydrogen Masers

N. Ashby, T. P. Heavner, S. R. Jefferts, T. E. Parker, A. G. Radnaev, and Y. O. Dudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070802 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Evidence for Heating of Neutron Stars by Magnetic-Field Decay

José A. Pons, Bennett Link, Juan A. Miralles, and Ulrich Geppert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071101 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gravitomagnetic Influence on Gyroscopes and on the Lunar Orbit

T. W. Murphy, Jr., K. Nordtvedt, and S. G. Turyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071102 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Prospects for Lunar Satellite Detection of Radio Pulses from Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos Interacting with the Moon

O. Stål, J. E. S. Bergman, B. Thidé, L. K. S. Daldorff, and G. Ingelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071103 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Turnaround in Cyclic Cosmology

Lauris Baum and Paul H. Frampton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071301 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Constraints on Macroscopic Compact Objects as Dark Matter Candidates from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae

R. Benton Metcalf and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071302 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Fuzzball Solutions for Black Holes and D1-Brane–D5-Brane Microstates

Kostas Skenderis and Marika Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071601 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Two-Loop Virtual Top-Quark Effect on Higgs-Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks

Mathias Butenschön, Frank Fugel, and Bernd A. Kniehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 071602 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Search for $V + A$ Current in Top-Quark Decays in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 072001 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Sign of the Spectroscopic Quadrupole Moment for the $2_{1}^{+}$ State in ${}^{70}{Se}$ : No Evidence for Oblate Shape

A. M. Hurst et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 072501 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Role of Nuclear Motion in Double Ionization of Molecular Hydrogen by a Single Photon

D. A. Horner, W. Vanroose, T. N. Rescigno, F. Martín, and C. W. McCurdy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073001 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Directed Motion for Delta-Kicked Atoms with Broken Symmetries: Comparison between Theory and Experiment

P. H. Jones, M. Goonasekera, D. R. Meacher, T. Jonckheere, and T. S. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073002 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Attosecond Strobing of Two-Surface Population Dynamics in Dissociating $H_{2}^{+}$

A. Staudte, D. Pavičić, S. Chelkowski, D. Zeidler, M. Meckel, H. Niikura, M. Schöffler, S. Schössler, B. Ulrich, P. P. Rajeev, Th. Weber, T. Jahnke, D. M. Villeneuve, A. D. Bandrauk, C. L. Cocke, P. B. Corkum, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073003 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Left-Handed Interfaces for Electromagnetic Surface Waves

A. V. Kats, Sergey Savel’ev, V. A. Yampol’skii, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073901 (2007) - Published 16 February, 2007

Wave Mediated Synchronization of Nonuniform Oscillatory Media

On-Uma Kheowan, Eugene Mihaliuk, Bernd Blasius, Irene Sendiña-Nadal, and Kenneth Showalter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 074101 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Nonautonomous Solitons in External Potentials

V. N. Serkin, Akira Hasegawa, and T. L. Belyaeva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 074102 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Induced Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking Observed in Microwave Billiards

B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H. L. Harney, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, F. Schäfer, and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 074103 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Chaotically Spiking Canards in an Excitable System with 2D Inertial Fast Manifolds

Francesco Marino, Francesco Marin, Salvador Balle, and Oreste Piro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 074104 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Morphological Evolution of Thermal Plumes in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Quan Zhou, Chao Sun, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 074501 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Spatially Resolved Measurements of Ion Heating during Impulsive Reconnection in the Madison Symmetric Torus

S. Gangadhara, D. Craig, D. A. Ennis, D. J. Den Hartog, G. Fiksel, and S. C. Prager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075001 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurements of Electric-Field Strengths in Ionization Fronts during Breakdown

E. Wagenaars, M. D. Bowden, and G. M. W. Kroesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075002 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Magnetic Dichroism of Potassium Atoms on the Surface of Helium Nanodroplets

Johann Nagl, Gerald Auböck, Carlo Callegari, and Wolfgang E. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075301 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Contrasting Mechanical Anisotropies of the Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ Phases in Aerogel

D. I. Bradley, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, R. P. Haley, N. Mulders, S. O’Sullivan, G. R. Pickett, J. Roberts, and V. Tsepelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075302 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Kinetic Faceting and Anomalous Coarsening in Elastically Inhomogeneous Multiphase Systems

Danny Perez and Laurent J. Lewis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075501 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermal Fluctuations and Rubber Elasticity

Xiangjun Xing, Paul M. Goldbart, and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075502 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Pseudoclimb and Dislocation Dynamics in Superplastic Nanotubes

Feng Ding, Kun Jiao, Mingqi Wu, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075503 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Dislocation Glasses: Aging during Relaxation and Coarsening

B. Bakó, I. Groma, G. Györgyi, and G. T. Zimányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 075701 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

How Can We Make Stable Linear Monoatomic Chains? Gold-Cesium Binary Subnanowires as an Example of a Charge-Transfer-Driven Approach to Alloying

Young Cheol Choi, Han Myoung Lee, Woo Youn Kim, S. K. Kwon, Tashi Nautiyal, Da-Yong Cheng, K. Vishwanathan, and Kwang S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076101 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Surface of Strontium Titanate

R. Herger, P. R. Willmott, O. Bunk, C. M. Schlepütz, B. D. Patterson, and B. Delley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076102 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Correlating Off-Stoichiometric Doping and Nanoscale Electronic Inhomogeneity in the High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Sen Zhou, Hong Ding, and Ziqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076401 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Controlling the Early Stages of Pentacene Growth by Supersonic Molecular Beam Deposition

Yu Wu, Tullio Toccoli, Norbert Koch, Erica Iacob, Alessia Pallaoro, Petra Rudolf, and Salvatore Iannotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076601 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Quantum Transport of Massless Dirac Fermions

Kentaro Nomura and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076602 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Nernst Effect in Semimetals: The Effective Mass and the Figure of Merit

Kamran Behnia, Marie-Aude Méasson, and Yakov Kopelevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076603 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Nondiffusive Spin Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

C. P. Weber, J. Orenstein, B. Andrei Bernevig, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Jason Stephens, and D. D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076604 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Conformal Field Theory of Composite Fermions

T. H. Hansson, C.-C. Chang, J. K. Jain, and S. Viefers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076801 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Localization in a Quantum Spin Hall System

Masaru Onoda, Yshai Avishai, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076802 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Towards a Parameter-Free Characterization of Charge Transfer via Hopping: The Case of tris(8-Hydroxyquinolato) Aluminum

Salomon R. Billeter, Alessandro Curioni, and Wanda Andreoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076803 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Quantum Transport in Molecules and Nanotube Devices

K. Varga and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076804 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

$e / 3$ Laughlin Quasiparticle Primary-Filling $ν = 1 / 3$ Interferometer

F. E. Camino, Wei Zhou, and V. J. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076805 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Theory of Tunneling Spectroscopy in the Larkin-Ovchinnikov State

Yukio Tanaka, Yasuhiro Asano, Masanori Ichioka, and Satoshi Kashiwaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077001 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Quantum Terahertz Electrodynamics and Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Layered Superconductors

Sergey Savel’ev, A. L. Rakhmanov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077002 (2007) - Published 14 February, 2007

Fully Developed Triplet Proximity Effect

V. Braude and Yu. V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077003 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Magnetic-Field-Induced Spin Excitations and Renormalized Spin Gap of the Underdoped ${La}_{1.895} {Sr}_{0.105} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconductor

J. Chang, A. P. Schnyder, R. Gilardi, H. M. Rønnow, S. Pailhes, N. B. Christensen, Ch. Niedermayer, D. F. McMorrow, A. Hiess, A. Stunault, M. Enderle, B. Lake, O. Sobolev, N. Momono, M. Oda, M. Ido, C. Mudry, and J. Mesot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077004 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Theoretical Limit in the Magnetization Reversal of Stoner Particles

X. R. Wang and Z. Z. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077201 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Frustrated Cuprate Route from Antiferromagnetic to Ferromagnetic Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Heisenberg Chains: ${Li}_{2} {ZrCuO}_{4}$ as a Missing Link near the Quantum Critical Point

S.-L. Drechsler, O. Volkova, A. N. Vasiliev, N. Tristan, J. Richter, M. Schmitt, H. Rosner, J. Málek, R. Klingeler, A. A. Zvyagin, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077202 (2007) - Published 12 February, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Red Blood Cells and Other Nonspherical Capsules in Shear Flow: Oscillatory Dynamics and the Tank-Treading-to-Tumbling Transition

J. M. Skotheim and T. W. Secomb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 078301 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Electron-Phonon Renormalization in Cuprate Superconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 067005 (2007)]

Peihong Zhang, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 079901 (2007) - Published 13 February, 2007

Erratum: Multipartite Entanglement Signature of Quantum Phase Transitions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 170401 (2006)]

Thiago R. de Oliveira, Gustavo Rigolin, Marcos C. de Oliveira, and Eduardo Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 079902 (2007) - Published 15 February, 2007

Volume 98, Issue 7

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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

COMMENTS

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