Volume 98, Issue 9

2 March 2007

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Small clusters of colloidal rods formed during the initial stage of spinodal decomposition in the isotropic fluid phase. They indicate a phase transition to an orientationally ordered nematic phase.

From the article:

Kinetic Pathways for the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition in a System of Colloidal Hard Rods: A Simulation Study
Alejandro Cuetos and Marjolein Dijkstra
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095701 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Amplitude-Dependent Frequency, Desynchronization, and Stabilization in Noisy Metapopulation Dynamics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098104 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observing the Formation of Long-Range Order during Bose-Einstein Condensation

Stephan Ritter, Anton Öttl, Tobias Donner, Thomas Bourdel, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 090402 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser Trapping of ${}^{225}{Ra}$ and ${}^{226}{Ra}$ with Repumping by Room-Temperature Blackbody Radiation

J. R. Guest, N. D. Scielzo, I. Ahmad, K. Bailey, J. P. Greene, R. J. Holt, Z.-T. Lu, T. P. O’Connor, and D. H. Potterveld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 093001 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Faraday Waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. Engels, C. Atherton, and M. A. Hoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095301 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Thermal Runaway as an Ultimate Failure Mechanism of Materials

S. Braeck and Y. Y. Podladchikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095504 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodielectric Bistability in Dual Frequency Nematic Liquid Crystal

Y. Yin, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and O. D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097801 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

LETTERS

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

Generalized Limits for Single-Parameter Quantum Estimation

Sergio Boixo, Steven T. Flammia, Carlton M. Caves, and JM Geremia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 090401 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observing the Formation of Long-Range Order during Bose-Einstein Condensation

Stephan Ritter, Anton Öttl, Tobias Donner, Thomas Bourdel, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 090402 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Universality in a 2-Component Fermi System at Finite Temperature

Gautam Rupak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 090403 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Optimal Quantum Circuits for General Phase Estimation

Wim van Dam, G. Mauro D’Ariano, Artur Ekert, Chiara Macchiavello, and Michele Mosca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 090501 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Maximum Kick from Nonspinning Black-Hole Binary Inspiral

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 091101 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Classical Gravity Does Not Refract Negatively

Martin W. McCall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 091102 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Prediction for the Deconfinement Temperature

Christopher P. Herzog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 091601 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Universal Reconnection of Non-Abelian Cosmic Strings

Minoru Eto, Koji Hashimoto, Giacomo Marmorini, Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, and Walter Vinci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 091602 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Measurement of the $B^{0} \to π^{-} l^{+} ν$ Form-Factor Shape and Branching Fraction, and Determination of $| V_{u b} |$ with a Loose Neutrino Reconstruction Technique

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 091801 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Measurement of the Near-Threshold $e^{+} e^{-} \to D^{() \pm} D^{() \mp}$ Cross Section using Initial-State Radiation

G. Pakhlova et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 092001 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Precision Determination of the $D^{0}$ Mass

C. Cawlfield et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 092002 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Double-Charm Production $e^{+} e^{-} \to J / ψ + c \bar{c}$ at $B$ Factories with Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections

Yu-Jie Zhang and Kuang-Ta Chao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 092003 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Has the QCD Critical Point Been Signaled by Observations at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider?

Roy A. Lacey, N. N. Ajitanand, J. M. Alexander, P. Chung, W. G. Holzmann, M. Issah, A. Taranenko, P. Danielewicz, and Horst Stöcker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 092301 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser Trapping of ${}^{225}{Ra}$ and ${}^{226}{Ra}$ with Repumping by Room-Temperature Blackbody Radiation

J. R. Guest, N. D. Scielzo, I. Ahmad, K. Bailey, J. P. Greene, R. J. Holt, Z.-T. Lu, T. P. O’Connor, and D. H. Potterveld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 093001 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Bragg Scattering of Cooper Pairs in an Ultracold Fermi Gas

K. J. Challis, R. J. Ballagh, and C. W. Gardiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 093002 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem for the Lowest-Energy Resonance of Unbound Systems

Adam Wasserman and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 093003 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Intense Nonlinear Magnetic Dipole Radiation at Optical Frequencies: Molecular Scattering in a Dielectric Liquid

Samuel L. Oliveira and Stephen C. Rand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 093901 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Irreversibility and Fluctuation Theorem in Stationary Time Series

A. Porporato, J. R. Rigby, and E. Daly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 094101 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Nonlinear Torsional Oscillations in Rotating Systems

X. Liao, K. Zhang, and Y. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 094501 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Theory of the Collapsing Axisymmetric Cavity

J. Eggers, M. A. Fontelos, D. Leppinen, and J. H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 094502 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Observation of Gravity-Capillary Wave Turbulence

Éric Falcon, Claude Laroche, and Stéphan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 094503 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Mechanisms of Edge-Localized-Mode Mitigation by External-Magnetic-Field Perturbations

M. Z. Tokar, T. E. Evans, A. Gupta, R. Singh, P. Kaw, and R. C. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095001 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Revisiting Nonlocal Electron-Energy Transport in Inertial-Fusion Conditions

G. Schurtz, S. Gary, S. Hulin, C. Chenais-Popovics, J.-C. Gauthier, F. Thais, J. Breil, F. Durut, J.-L. Feugeas, P.-H. Maire, P. Nicolaï, O. Peyrusse, C. Reverdin, G. Soullié, V. Tikhonchuk, B. Villette, and C. Fourment

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095002 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Mean-Field Theory of Critical Phenomenon for Mutually Repelling Particles in Complex Plasmas

K. Avinash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095003 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Effect of Laser-Focusing Conditions on Propagation and Monoenergetic Electron Production in Laser-Wakefield Accelerators

A. G. R. Thomas, Z. Najmudin, S. P. D. Mangles, C. D. Murphy, A. E. Dangor, C. Kamperidis, K. L. Lancaster, W. B. Mori, P. A. Norreys, W. Rozmus, and K. Krushelnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095004 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Faraday Waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. Engels, C. Atherton, and M. A. Hoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095301 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Avalanche Size Scaling in Sheared Three-Dimensional Amorphous Solid

Nicholas P. Bailey, Jakob Schiøtz, Anaël Lemaître, and Karsten W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095501 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Dislocation Dynamics in Nanocrystalline Nickel

Z. W. Shan, J. M. K Wiezorek, E. A. Stach, D. M. Follstaedt, J. A. Knapp, and S. X. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095502 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Vibrational Properties of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Inelastic X-Ray Scattering and Ab Initio Calculations

J. Serrano, A. Bosak, R. Arenal, M. Krisch, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Kanda, A. Rubio, and L. Wirtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095503 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Thermal Runaway as an Ultimate Failure Mechanism of Materials

S. Braeck and Y. Y. Podladchikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095504 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Kinetic Pathways for the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition in a System of Colloidal Hard Rods: A Simulation Study

Alejandro Cuetos and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095701 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Phase Transitions in Systems of Self-Propelled Agents and Related Network Models

M. Aldana, V. Dossetti, C. Huepe, V. M. Kenkre, and H. Larralde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095702 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Experimental Evidence of the Vacancy-Mediated Silicon Self-Diffusion in Single-Crystalline Silicon

Yasuo Shimizu, Masashi Uematsu, and Kohei M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095901 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Formation and Thickness Evolution of Periodic Twin Domains in Manganite Films Grown on ${SrTiO}_{3} (001)$ Substrates

U. Gebhardt, N. V. Kasper, A. Vigliante, P. Wochner, H. Dosch, F. S. Razavi, and H.-U. Habermeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096101 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Formation of Gold Nanowires with Impurities: A First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Eduardo Anglada, José A. Torres, Félix Yndurain, and José M. Soler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096102 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Coarsening, Mixing, and Motion: The Complex Evolution of Epitaxial Islands

Yuhai Tu and J. Tersoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096103 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

High-Frequency Subsurface and Bulk Dynamics of Liquid Indium

H. Reichert, F. Bencivenga, B. Wehinger, M. Krisch, F. Sette, and H. Dosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096104 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Fast Ortho-Para Conversion of $H_{2}$ Adsorbed at Copper Surface Step Atoms

K. Svensson and S. Andersson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096105 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

How Pb-Overlayer Islands Move Fast Enough to Self-Assemble on Pb-Cu Surface Alloys

M. L. Anderson, N. C. Bartelt, P. J. Feibelman, B. S. Swartzentruber, and G. L. Kellogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096106 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Control of the Charge State of Metal Atoms on Thin MgO Films

Martin Sterrer, Thomas Risse, Umberto Martinez Pozzoni, Livia Giordano, Markus Heyde, Hans-Peter Rust, Gianfranco Pacchioni, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096107 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Instability of the Electron Gas in an Expanding Metal

K. Matsuda, K. Tamura, and M. Inui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096401 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Effect of Interfacial Shallow Traps on Polaron Transport at the Surface of Organic Semiconductors

M. F. Calhoun, C. Hsieh, and V. Podzorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096402 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Asymmetric Zero-Bias Anomaly for Strongly Interacting Electrons in One Dimension

K. A. Matveev, A. Furusaki, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096403 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

DNA Double Helices for Single Molecule Electronics

A. V. Malyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096801 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Redistributing Chern Numbers of Landau Subbands: Tight-Binding Electrons under Staggered Modulated Magnetic Fields

Yi-Fei Wang and Chang-De Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096802 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Controlled Dephasing of a Quantum Dot: From Coherent to Sequential Tunneling

Daniel Rohrlich, Oren Zarchin, Moty Heiblum, Diana Mahalu, and Vladimir Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096803 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Intrinsic Noise Properties of Atomic Point Contact Displacement Detectors

N. E. Flowers-Jacobs, D. R. Schmidt, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096804 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Observation of the Linear Stark Effect in a Single Acceptor in Si

L. E. Calvet, R. G. Wheeler, and M. A. Reed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 096805 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Depinning of the Bragg Glass in a Point Disordered Model Superconductor

Peter Olsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097001 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

Mechanism of Enhancement in Electromagnetic Properties of ${MgB}_{2}$ by Nano SiC Doping

S. X. Dou, O. Shcherbakova, W. K. Yeoh, J. H. Kim, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, C. Senatore, R. Flukiger, M. Dhalle, O. Husnjak, and E. Babic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097002 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Coulomb Interactions and Nanoscale Electronic Inhomogeneities in Manganites

Vijay B. Shenoy, Tribikram Gupta, H. R. Krishnamurthy, and T. V. Ramakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097201 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Electric Dipole Spin Resonance for Heavy Holes in Quantum Dots

Denis V. Bulaev and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097202 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Strong Dynamical Heterogeneities in the Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in Spin Glasses

F. Romá, S. Bustingorry, P. M. Gleiser, and D. Domínguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097203 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Exchange Bias Dependence on Interface Spin Alignment in a ${Ni}_{80} {Fe}_{20} / (Ni, Fe) O$ Thin Film

H. Ouyang, K.-W. Lin, C.-C. Liu, Shen-Chuan Lo, Y.-M. Tzeng, Z.-Y. Guo, and J. van Lierop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097204 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Dynamics of the Self-Energy of the Gd(0001) Surface State Probed by Femtosecond Photoemission Spectroscopy

P. A. Loukakos, M. Lisowski, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, M. Wolf, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097401 (2007) - Published 28 February, 2007

Photoinduced Melting of a Stripe-Type Charge-Order and Metallic Domain Formation in a Layered BEDT-TTF-Based Organic Salt

S. Iwai, K. Yamamoto, A. Kashiwazaki, F. Hiramatsu, H. Nakaya, Y. Kawakami, K. Yakushi, H. Okamoto, H. Mori, and Y. Nishio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097402 (2007) - Published 1 March, 2007

Pseudogap Dependence of the Optical Conductivity Spectra of ${Ca}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$ : A Possible Contribution of the Orbital Flip Excitation

J. S. Lee, S. J. Moon, B. J. Yang, Jaejun Yu, U. Schade, Y. Yoshida, S.-I. Ikeda, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097403 (2007) - Published 2 March, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodielectric Bistability in Dual Frequency Nematic Liquid Crystal

Y. Yin, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and O. D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 097801 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Randomly Forced DNA

Rajeev Kapri and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098101 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Neutral Evolution in a Biological Population as Diffusion in Phenotype Space: Reproduction with Local Mutation but without Selection

Daniel John Lawson and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098102 (2007) - Published 26 February, 2007

Temporal and Dimensional Effects in Evolutionary Graph Theory

C. J. Paley, S. N. Taraskin, and S. R. Elliott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098103 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Amplitude-Dependent Frequency, Desynchronization, and Stabilization in Noisy Metapopulation Dynamics

Refael Abta, Marcelo Schiffer, and Nadav M. Shnerb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098104 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

How Xenopus Laevis Replicates DNA Reliably even though Its Origins of Replication are Located and Initiated Stochastically

John Bechhoefer and Brandon Marshall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 098105 (2007) - Published 27 February, 2007

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Erratum: Chiral Solitons in Nuclei: Saturation, EMC Effect, and Drell-Yan Experiments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 212301 (2003)]

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Publisher’s Note: Gate-Controlled Superconductivity in a Diffusive Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 087002 (2007)]

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Erratum: Synthetic Aperture Fourier Holographic Optical Microscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 168102 (2006)]

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