Volume 99, Issue 12

21 September 2007

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On the Cover

Constraints on the neutral-weak effective quark-electron couplings C_1u and C_1d from parity-violating electron scattering experiments (green ellipse). Taken with previous combined limits (dotted ellipse), these yield a new combined limit (blue ellipse) in good agreement with the standard model (black star).

From the article:

Testing the Standard Model by Precision Measurement of the Weak Charges of Quarks
R. D. Young, R. D. Carlini, A. W. Thomas, and J. Roche
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 122003 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dumbbell Rattling in Thermoelectric Zinc Antimony

W. Schweika, R. P. Hermann, M. Prager, J. Perßon, and V. Keppens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125501 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cyclic Voltammograms for H on Pt(111) and Pt(100) from First Principles

G. S. Karlberg, T. F. Jaramillo, E. Skúlason, J. Rossmeisl, T. Bligaard, and J. K. Nørskov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126101 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

LETTERS

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

Thermodynamics of a Trapped Unitary Fermi Gas

Aurel Bulgac, Joaquín E. Drut, and Piotr Magierski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120401 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Vortex-Nucleating Zeeman Resonance in Axisymmetric Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

Gilbert Reinisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120402 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Finite-Temperature Phase Diagram of a Polarized Fermi Gas in an Optical Lattice

T. K. Koponen, T. Paananen, J.-P. Martikainen, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120403 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Intrinsic Heating and Cooling in Adiabatic Processes for Bosons in Optical Lattices

Tin-Lun Ho and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120404 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Boson Mott Insulators at Finite Temperatures

Fabrice Gerbier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120405 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

First-Principles Theory of van der Waals Forces between Macroscopic Bodies

Vassilios Yannopapas and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120406 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Vortex Quantum Creation and Winding Number Scaling in a Quenched Spinor Bose Gas

Michael Uhlmann, Ralf Schützhold, and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120407 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Nonclassical Interference and Entanglement Generation Using a Photonic Crystal Fiber Pair Photon Source

Jérémie Fulconis, Olivier Alibart, Jeremy L. O’Brien, William J. Wadsworth, and John G. Rarity

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120501 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

High-Fidelity Adaptive Qubit Detection through Repetitive Quantum Nondemolition Measurements

D. B. Hume, T. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120502 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Experimental Realization of One-Way Quantum Computing with Two-Photon Four-Qubit Cluster States

Kai Chen, Che-Ming Li, Qiang Zhang, Yu-Ao Chen, Alexander Goebel, Shuai Chen, Alois Mair, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120503 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Spin Chains and Channels with Memory

M. B. Plenio and S. Virmani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120504 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Fiber-Optics Implementation of an Asymmetric Phase-Covariant Quantum Cloner

Lucie Bartůšková, Miloslav Dušek, Antonín Černoch, Jan Soubusta, and Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120505 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Tensor Renormalization Group Approach to Two-Dimensional Classical Lattice Models

Michael Levin and Cody P. Nave

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120601 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Use and Abuse of a Fractional Fokker-Planck Dynamics for Time-Dependent Driving

E. Heinsalu, M. Patriarca, I. Goychuk, and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 120602 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring a Parity-Violation Signature in the Early Universe via Ground-Based Laser Interferometers

Naoki Seto and Atsushi Taruya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 121101 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Gravitational Waves from Relativistic Neutron-Star Mergers with Microphysical Equations of State

R. Oechslin and H.-T. Janka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 121102 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Compatibility of the Chameleon-Field Model with Fifth-Force Experiments, Cosmology, and PVLAS and CAST Results

Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, and Anne-Christine Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 121103 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Decaying Warm Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses

M. Lattanzi and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 121301 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurements of Branching Fractions for $B \to K π$ and $B \to π π$ Decays

S.-W. Lin et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 121601 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Search for Heavy Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 121801 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Measurement of Prominent $η$ -Decay Branching Fractions

A. Lopez et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 122001 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Measurement of the $η$ -Meson Mass Using $ψ (2 S) \to η J / ψ$

D. H. Miller et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 122002 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Testing the Standard Model by Precision Measurement of the Weak Charges of Quarks

R. D. Young, R. D. Carlini, A. W. Thomas, and J. Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 122003 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sideband Cooling while Preserving Coherences in the Nuclear Spin State in Group-II-like Atoms

Iris Reichenbach and Ivan H. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 123001 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Spectral Density Matrix of a Single Photon Measured

Wojciech Wasilewski, Piotr Kolenderski, and Robert Frankowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 123601 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Mesoscopic Superposition States in Relativistic Landau Levels

A. Bermudez, M. A. Martin-Delgado, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 123602 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Opening Four-Wave Mixing and Six-Wave Mixing Channels via Dual Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Windows

Yanpeng Zhang, Andy W. Brown, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 123603 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Spectral-Spatial Control and Localization of Supercontinuum Radiation

Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Alexander Dreischuh, Robert Fischer, Sangwoo Ha, Jeremy Bolger, Lam Bui, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Arnan Mitchell, Michael W. Austin, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 123901 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Dynamical Description of Transient X-Ray Lasers Seeded with High-Order Harmonic Radiation through Maxwell-Bloch Numerical Simulations

I. R. Al’miev, O. Larroche, D. Benredjem, J. Dubau, S. Kazamias, C. Möller, and A. Klisnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 123902 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Ultrasonic Properties of a Suspension of Microspheres Supporting Negative Group Velocities

Joel Mobley and Robert Evans Heithaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 124301 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Instabilities in Droplets Spreading on Gels

Karen E. Daniels, Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Paul J. Houseworth, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 124501 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Anomalous Microfluidic Phonons Induced by the Interplay of Hydrodynamic Screening and Incompressibility

Tsevi Beatus, Roy Bar-Ziv, and Tsvi Tlusty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 124502 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Semianalytical Solution of the Problem of Converging Shock Waves

V. Tz. Gurovich, A. Grinenko, and Ya. E. Krasik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 124503 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Theoretical Investigation of Controlled Generation of a Dense Attosecond Relativistic Electron Bunch from the Interaction of an Ultrashort Laser Pulse with a Nanofilm

Victor V. Kulagin, Vladimir A. Cherepenin, Min Sup Hur, and Hyyong Suk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 124801 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Tokamak Equilibria with Toroidal-Current Reversal in the Plasma Core Consistent with Experimental Data

Paulo Rodrigues and João P. S. Bizarro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125001 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Fluid Turbulence in Quantum Plasmas

Dastgeer Shaikh and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125002 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Thermalization of Nonequilibrium Electron-Positron-Photon Plasmas

A. G. Aksenov, R. Ruffini, and G. V. Vereshchagin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125003 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dumbbell Rattling in Thermoelectric Zinc Antimony

W. Schweika, R. P. Hermann, M. Prager, J. Perßon, and V. Keppens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125501 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Relation between Interfacial Separation and Load: A General Theory of Contact Mechanics

B. N. J. Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125502 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Role of N Defects on Thermally Induced Atomic-Scale Structural Changes in Transition-Metal Nitrides

L. Tsetseris, N. Kalfagiannis, S. Logothetidis, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125503 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Steering Liquid Pt-Si Nanodroplets on Si(100) by Interactions with Surface Steps

P. Sutter, P. A. Bennett, J. I. Flege, and E. Sutter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125504 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Walking the Path from $B 4$ - to $B 1$ -Type Structures in GaN

S. E. Boulfelfel, D. Zahn, Yu. Grin, and S. Leoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125505 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Thickness Difference: A New Filtering Tool for Quantitative Electron Diffraction

Philip N. H. Nakashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125506 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Two-Stage Formation Model and Helicity of Gold Nanowires

Yusuke Iguchi, Takeo Hoshi, and Takeo Fujiwara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125507 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Direct Measurement of the Intermolecular Forces Confining a Single Molecule in an Entangled Polymer Solution

Rae M. Robertson and Douglas E. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126001 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cyclic Voltammograms for H on Pt(111) and Pt(100) from First Principles

G. S. Karlberg, T. F. Jaramillo, E. Skúlason, J. Rossmeisl, T. Bligaard, and J. K. Nørskov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126101 (2007) - Published 17 September, 2007

Proton-Induced Fixed Positive Charge at the $Si (100) − {SiO}_{2}$ Interface

Julien Godet, Feliciano Giustino, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126102 (2007) - Published 18 September, 2007

Symmetry Breaking in the Growth of Two-Dimensional Islands on Si(111)

Konstantin Romanyuk, Vasily Cherepanov, and Bert Voigtländer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126103 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Diatomic Molecular Switches to Enable the Observation of Very-Low-Energy Vibrations

Marina Pivetta, Markus Ternes, François Patthey, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126104 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Imaging Intrinsic Diffusion of Bridge-Bonded Oxygen Vacancies on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

Zhenrong Zhang, Qingfeng Ge, Shao-Chun Li, Bruce D. Kay, J. M. White, and Zdenek Dohnálek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 126105 (2007) - Published 21 September, 2007

Steplike Transmission of Light through a Metal-Dielectric Multilayer Structure due to an Intensity-Dependent Sign of the Effective Dielectric Constant

A. Husakou and J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 127402 (2007) - Published 19 September, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Editorial Note: Experimental Observation of Optical Rotation Generated in Vacuum by a Magnetic Field [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 110406 (2006)]

E. Zavattini, G. Zavattini, G. Ruoso, E. Polacco, E. Milotti, M. Karuza, U. Gastaldi, G. Di Domenico, F. Della Valle, R. Cimino, S. Carusotto, G. Cantatore, and M. Bregant (PVLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 129901 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Erratum: Dielectron Widths of the $Υ (1 S, 2 S, 3 S)$ Resonances [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092003 (2006)]

J. L. Rosner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 129902 (2007) - Published 20 September, 2007

Volume 99, Issue 12

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

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

ERRATA