Volume 99, Issue 10

7 September 2007

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On the Cover

Experimental setup to detect ground state two-proton decay from long-lived ⁴⁵ Fe in a time-projection chamber.

From the article:

First Direct Observation of Two Protons in the Decay of ${}^{45}{Fe}$ with a Time-Projection Chamber
J. Giovinazzo, B. Blank, C. Borcea, G. Canchel, J.-C. Dalouzy, C. E. Demonchy, F. de Oliveira Santos, C. Dossat, S. Grévy, L. Hay, J. Huikari, S. Leblanc, I. Matea, J.-L. Pedroza, L. Perrot, J. Pibernat, L. Serani, C. Stodel, and J.-C. Thomas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 102501 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Strong Photon Nonlinearities and Photonic Mott Insulators

Michael J. Hartmann and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 103601 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid-Helium Converter for Accumulation and Extraction of Ultracold Neutrons

O. Zimmer, K. Baumann, M. Fertl, B. Franke, S. Mironov, C. Plonka, D. Rich, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, H.-F. Wirth, and B. van den Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 104801 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vortex Mass in a Superfluid at Low Frequencies

D. J. Thouless and J. R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 105301 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dielectric Metamaterials Based on Electric and Magnetic Resonances of Silicon Carbide Particles

Jon A. Schuller, Rashid Zia, Thomas Taubner, and Mark L. Brongersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107401 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

LETTERS

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

Pairing and Density-Wave Phases in Boson-Fermion Mixtures at Fixed Filling

F. D. Klironomos and S.-W. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100401 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Superfluid-Insulator Transition of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices

Hui Zhai and Tin-Lun Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100402 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Full Control by Locally Induced Relaxation

Daniel Burgarth and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100501 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Coulomb Analogy for Non-Hermitian Degeneracies near Quantum Phase Transitions

Pavel Cejnar, Stefan Heinze, and Michal Macek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100601 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Measuring Thermodynamic Length

Gavin E. Crooks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100602 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Information-Theoretic Differential Geometry of Quantum Phase Transitions

Paolo Zanardi, Paolo Giorda, and Marco Cozzini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100603 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Nuclear Physics

First Direct Observation of Two Protons in the Decay of ${}^{45}{Fe}$ with a Time-Projection Chamber

J. Giovinazzo, B. Blank, C. Borcea, G. Canchel, J.-C. Dalouzy, C. E. Demonchy, F. de Oliveira Santos, C. Dossat, S. Grévy, L. Hay, J. Huikari, S. Leblanc, I. Matea, J.-L. Pedroza, L. Perrot, J. Pibernat, L. Serani, C. Stodel, and J.-C. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 102501 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Torsional Control by Intense Pulses

S. Ramakrishna and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 103001 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Cooling in a Bistable Optical Cavity

Mark Y. Vilensky, Yehiam Prior, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 103002 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Strong Isotope Effects on the Charge Transfer in Slow Collisions of ${He}^{2 +}$ with Atomic Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Tritium

N. Stolterfoht, R. Cabrera-Trujillo, Y. Öhrn, E. Deumens, R. Hoekstra, and J. R. Sabin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 103201 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Low Field Laser Ionization of Argon Clusters: The Remarkable Fragmentation Dynamics of Doubly Ionized Clusters

Lionel Poisson, Kevin D. Raffael, Marc-André Gaveau, Benoît Soep, Jean-Michel Mestdagh, Jérémie Caillat, Richard Taïeb, and Alfred Maquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 103401 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Strong Photon Nonlinearities and Photonic Mott Insulators

Michael J. Hartmann and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 103601 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Random Roughness Enhances Lift in Supersonic Flow

Guang Lin, Chau-Hsing Su, and George Em Karniadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 104501 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Stability of a Jet in Confined Pressure-Driven Biphasic Flows at Low Reynolds Numbers

Pierre Guillot, Annie Colin, Andrew S. Utada, and Armand Ajdari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 104502 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Proposed Resolution of Theory-Experiment Discrepancy in Homoclinic Snaking

W. J. Firth, L. Columbo, and A. J. Scroggie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 104503 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Equilibrium Capillary Forces with Atomic Force Microscopy

J. Sprakel, N. A. M. Besseling, F. A. M. Leermakers, and M. A. Cohen Stuart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 104504 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid-Helium Converter for Accumulation and Extraction of Ultracold Neutrons

O. Zimmer, K. Baumann, M. Fertl, B. Franke, S. Mironov, C. Plonka, D. Rich, P. Schmidt-Wellenburg, H.-F. Wirth, and B. van den Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 104801 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vortex Mass in a Superfluid at Low Frequencies

D. J. Thouless and J. R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 105301 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

From Elasticity to Hypoplasticity: Dynamics of Granular Solids

Yimin Jiang and Mario Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 105501 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Velocity Selection Problem in the Presence of the Triple Junction

E. A. Brener, C. Hüter, D. Pilipenko, and D. E. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 105701 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Labyrinthine Island Growth during $Pd / Ru (0001)$ Heteroepitaxy

N. Rougemaille, F. El Gabaly, R. Stumpf, A. K. Schmid, K. Thürmer, N. C. Bartelt, and J. de la Figuera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106101 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Half Vortices in Exciton Polariton Condensates

Yuri G. Rubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106401 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Site-Specific Kondo Effect at Ambient Temperatures in Iron-Based Molecules

L. Gao, W. Ji, Y. B. Hu, Z. H. Cheng, Z. T. Deng, Q. Liu, N. Jiang, X. Lin, W. Guo, S. X. Du, W. A. Hofer, X. C. Xie, and H.-J. Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106402 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Spin Hall Edge Spin Polarization in a Ballistic 2D Electron System

V. A. Zyuzin, P. G. Silvestrov, and E. G. Mishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106601 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

One-Parameter Scaling at the Dirac Point in Graphene

J. H. Bardarson, J. Tworzydło, P. W. Brouwer, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106801 (2007) - Published 5 September, 2007

Quantum Hall States near the Charge-Neutral Dirac Point in Graphene

Z. Jiang, Y. Zhang, H. L. Stormer, and P. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106802 (2007) - Published 6 September, 2007

Universal Phase Shift and Nonexponential Decay of Driven Single-Spin Oscillations

F. H. L. Koppens, D. Klauser, W. A. Coish, K. C. Nowack, L. P. Kouwenhoven, D. Loss, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 106803 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Single-Gap $s$ -Wave Superconductivity near the Charge-Density-Wave Quantum Critical Point in ${Cu}_{x} {TiSe}_{2}$

S. Y. Li, G. Wu, X. H. Chen, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107001 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Correlation between the Superconducting Transition Temperature and Anisotropic Quasiparticle Scattering in ${Tl}_{2} {Ba}_{2} {CuO}_{6 + δ}$

M. Abdel-Jawad, J. G. Analytis, L. Balicas, A. Carrington, J. P. H. Charmant, M. M. J. French, and N. E. Hussey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107002 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

First-Principles Study of Defect-Induced Magnetism in Carbon

Y. Zhang, S. Talapatra, S. Kar, R. Vajtai, S. K. Nayak, and P. M. Ajayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107201 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dielectric Metamaterials Based on Electric and Magnetic Resonances of Silicon Carbide Particles

Jon A. Schuller, Rashid Zia, Thomas Taubner, and Mark L. Brongersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 107401 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Dissociation of Water Buried under Ice on Pt(111)”

Georgina Zimbitas, Mark E. Gallagher, Sam Haq, and Andrew Hodgson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 109601 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

Lilach et al. Reply:

Yigal Lilach, Martin J. Iedema, and James P. Cowin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 109602 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Time-Averaged Adiabatic Potentials: Versatile Matter-Wave Guides and Atom Traps [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083001 (2007)]

Igor Lesanovsky and Wolf von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 109901 (2007) - Published 4 September, 2007

Erratum: The $3 C / 3 D$ Line Ratio in Ni XIX: New Ab Initio Theory and Experimental Results [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 143201 (2006)]

G. X. Chen, K. Kirby, E. Silver, N. S. Brickhouse, J. D. Gillaspy, J. N. Tan, J. M. Pomeroy, and J. M. Laming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 109902 (2007) - Published 7 September, 2007