Volume 99, Issue 14

5 October 2007

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On the Cover

Calculated local density of states for a nanotube-molecule-nanotube junction. The nanotubes and the three-ring molecule are fully conjugated, resulting in high transparency and electrical conduction.

From the article:

Contact Transparency of Nanotube-Molecule-Nanotube Junctions
San-Huang Ke, Harold U. Baranger, and Weitao Yang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146802 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Immobilized Water Molecules around Hydrophobic Groups

Y. L. A. Rezus and H. J. Bakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 148301 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bright Quasi-Phase-Matched Soft-X-Ray Harmonic Radiation from Argon Ions

M. Zepf, B. Dromey, M. Landreman, P. Foster, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143901 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

LETTERS

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

Observation of Nearly Perfect Irrotational Flow in Normal and Superfluid Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases

Bason Clancy, Le Luo, and John E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140401 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Excitations in a Nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein Condensate of Exciton Polaritons

Michiel Wouters and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140402 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Bose-Einstein Condensate Coupled to a Nanomechanical Resonator on an Atom Chip

Philipp Treutlein, David Hunger, Stephan Camerer, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Jakob Reichel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140403 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Observation of a Topological and Parity-Dependent Phase of $m = 0$ Spin States

Koji Usami and Mikio Kozuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140404 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Infinite-Randomness Fixed Points for Chains of Non-Abelian Quasiparticles

N. E. Bonesteel and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140405 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Cold Dipolar Gases in Quasi-One-Dimensional Geometries

S. Sinha and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140406 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Quantum Key Distribution with Classical Bob

Michel Boyer, Dan Kenigsberg, and Tal Mor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140501 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Preparation and Detection of Magnetic Quantum Phases in Optical Superlattices

A. M. Rey, V. Gritsev, I. Bloch, E. Demler, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140601 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining Unparticle Physics with Cosmology and Astrophysics

Hooman Davoudiasl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 141301 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Probing Gravity at Cosmological Scales by Measurements which Test the Relationship between Gravitational Lensing and Matter Overdensity

Pengjie Zhang, Michele Liguori, Rachel Bean, and Scott Dodelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 141302 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

A Delicate Universe: Compactification Obstacles to D-brane Inflation

Daniel Baumann, Anatoly Dymarsky, Igor R. Klebanov, Liam McAllister, and Paul J. Steinhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 141601 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Baryon-Number-Induced Chern-Simons Couplings of Vector and Axial-Vector Mesons in Holographic QCD

Sophia K. Domokos and Jeffrey A. Harvey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 141602 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Measurement of the $Λ_{b}$ Lifetime in the Exclusive Decay $Λ_{b} \to J / ψ Λ$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 142001 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Observation of Two Resonant Structures in $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{+} π^{-} ψ (2 S)$ via Initial-State Radiation at Belle

X. L. Wang et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 142002 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for Dijet Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

B. I. Abelev et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 142003 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Effects of the Anomaly on the Two-Flavor QCD Chiral Phase Transition

Shailesh Chandrasekharan and Abhijit C. Mehta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 142004 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Coulomb Excitation of Neutron-Rich Zn Isotopes: First Observation of the $2_{1}^{+}$ State in ${}^{80}{Zn}$

J. Van de Walle et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 142501 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stochastic Perturbation Theory: A Low-Scaling Approach to Correlated Electronic Energies

Alex J. W. Thom and Ali Alavi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143001 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Trapping of Ultracold Polar Molecules with a Thin-Wire Electrostatic Trap

J. Kleinert, C. Haimberger, P. J. Zabawa, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143002 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Observation of Excitonic Quenching by Long-Range Dipole-Dipole Interaction in Sequentially Doped Organic Phosphorescent Host-Guest System

Y. Divayana and X. W. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143003 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Many-Body Dipole-Dipole Interactions between Excited Rb Atoms Probed by Wave Packets and Parametric Four-Wave Mixing

F. Shen, J. Gao, A. A. Senin, C. J. Zhu, J. R. Allen, Z. H. Lu, Y. Xiao, and J. G. Eden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143201 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Ultraslow Propagation of Matched Pulses by Four-Wave Mixing in an Atomic Vapor

V. Boyer, C. F. McCormick, E. Arimondo, and P. D. Lett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143601 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Holding and Spinning Molecules in Space

Simon S. Viftrup, Vinod Kumarappan, Sebastian Trippel, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Edward Hamilton, and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143602 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bright Quasi-Phase-Matched Soft-X-Ray Harmonic Radiation from Argon Ions

M. Zepf, B. Dromey, M. Landreman, P. Foster, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143901 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Light Propagation in Strongly Scattering, Random Colloidal Films: The Role of the Packing Geometry

X. T. Peng and A. D. Dinsmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143902 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Subwatt Threshold cw Raman Fiber-Gas Laser Based on $H_{2}$ -Filled Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber

F. Couny, F. Benabid, and P. S. Light

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 143903 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Vibration-Induced Climbing of Drops

P. Brunet, J. Eggers, and R. D. Deegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 144501 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Scaling Properties of the Two-Dimensional Randomly Stirred Navier-Stokes Equation

Andrea Mazzino, Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi, and Stefano Musacchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 144502 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Resonant Vibrations of Bluff Bodies Cause Multivortex Shedding and High Frequency Forces

J. M. Dahl, F. S. Hover, M. S. Triantafyllou, S. Dong, and G. E. Karniadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 144503 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observations of Beam Losses Due to Bound-Free Pair Production in a Heavy-Ion Collider

R. Bruce, J. M. Jowett, S. Gilardoni, A. Drees, W. Fischer, S. Tepikian, and S. R. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 144801 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Using Three-Body Recombination to Extract Electron Temperatures of Ultracold Plasmas

R. S. Fletcher, X. L. Zhang, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145001 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Theory of Weak Bipolar Fields and Electron Holes with Applications to Space Plasmas

Martin V. Goldman, David L. Newman, and André Mangeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145002 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Intermittent Transport Associated with the Geodesic Acoustic Mode near the Critical Gradient Regime

K. Miki, Y. Kishimoto, N. Miyato, and J. Q. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145003 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dissipative Dynamics of Superfluid Vortices at Nonzero Temperatures

Natalia G. Berloff and Anthony J. Youd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145301 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Strain-Minimizing Tetrahedral Networks of Semiconductor Alloys

Jefferson Z. Liu, Giancarlo Trimarchi, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145501 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Enhanced Conductivity at the Interface of ${Li}_{2} O ∶ B_{2} O_{3}$ Nanocomposites: Atomistic Models

Mazharul M. Islam, Thomas Bredow, Sylvio Indris, and Paul Heitjans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145502 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Influence of Phonon Dimensionality on Electron Energy Relaxation

J. T. Karvonen and I. J. Maasilta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145503 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Creep of a Fracture Line in Paper Peeling

J. Koivisto, J. Rosti, and M. J. Alava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145504 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction of Deforming Micropillars

Robert Maaß, Steven Van Petegem, Helena Van Swygenhoven, Peter M. Derlet, Cynthia A. Volkert, and Daniel Grolimund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145505 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Phonon Softening in Individual Metallic Carbon Nanotubes due to the Kohn Anomaly

H. Farhat, H. Son, Ge. G Samsonidze, S. Reich, M. S. Dresselhaus, and J. Kong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145506 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Connecting Solvation Shell Structure to Proton Transport Kinetics in Hydrogen–Bonded Networks via Population Correlation Functions

Amalendu Chandra, Mark E. Tuckerman, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 145901 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Why Does Wurtzite Form in Nanowires of III-V Zinc Blende Semiconductors?

Frank Glas, Jean-Christophe Harmand, and Gilles Patriarche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146101 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Evolution of the Electronic Structure of $1 T − {Cu}_{x} {TiSe}_{2}$

J. F. Zhao, H. W. Ou, G. Wu, B. P. Xie, Y. Zhang, D. W. Shen, J. Wei, L. X. Yang, J. K. Dong, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, X. H. Chen, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146401 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Interacting Antiferromagnetic Droplets in Quantum Critical ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

R. R. Urbano, B.-L. Young, N. J. Curro, J. D. Thompson, L. D. Pham, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146402 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Evidence for an Excitonic Insulator Phase in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

H. Cercellier, C. Monney, F. Clerc, C. Battaglia, L. Despont, M. G. Garnier, H. Beck, P. Aebi, L. Patthey, H. Berger, and L. Forró

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146403 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Efficient Dynamical Mean Field Simulation of the Holstein-Hubbard Model

Philipp Werner and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146404 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Nonlocal Composite Spin-Lattice Polarons in High Temperature Superconductors

G. De Filippis, V. Cataudella, A. S. Mishchenko, and N. Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146405 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Detection of Current-Induced Resonance of Geometrically Confined Domain Walls

D. Bedau, M. Kläui, S. Krzyk, U. Rüdiger, G. Faini, and L. Vila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146601 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Two-Particle Scattering Matrix of Two Interacting Mesoscopic Conductors

M. C. Goorden and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146801 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Contact Transparency of Nanotube-Molecule-Nanotube Junctions

San-Huang Ke, Harold U. Baranger, and Weitao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146802 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Mechanism for Negative Differential Resistance in Molecular Electronic Devices: Local Orbital Symmetry Matching

Lan Chen, Zhenpeng Hu, Aidi Zhao, Bing Wang, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, and J. G. Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146803 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Theory of the Three-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphite

B. Andrei Bernevig, Taylor L. Hughes, Srinivas Raghu, and Daniel P. Arovas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146804 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Electron-Phonon Interaction and Localization of Surface-State Carriers in a Metallic Monolayer

Iwao Matsuda, Canhua Liu, Toru Hirahara, Masashi Ueno, Takehiro Tanikawa, Taizo Kanagawa, Rei Hobara, Shiro Yamazaki, Shuji Hasegawa, and Katsuyoshi Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146805 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Topological Delocalization of Two-Dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions

Kentaro Nomura, Mikito Koshino, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146806 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Ettingshausen Effect around a Landau Level Filling Factor $ν = 3$ Studied by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Yosuke Komori, Satoru Sakuma, and Tohru Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146807 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Oscillatory Persistent Currents in Self-Assembled Quantum Rings

N. A. J. M. Kleemans, I. M. A. Bominaar-Silkens, V. M. Fomin, V. N. Gladilin, D. Granados, A. G. Taboada, J. M. García, P. Offermans, U. Zeitler, P. C. M. Christianen, J. C. Maan, J. T. Devreese, and P. M. Koenraad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146808 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Dirac Fermions and Conductance Oscillations in $s$ - and $d$ -Wave Superconductor-Graphene Junctions

J. Linder and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147001 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Disorder-Induced Static Antiferromagnetism in Cuprate Superconductors

Brian M. Andersen, P. J. Hirschfeld, Arno P. Kampf, and Markus Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147002 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Pinning-Induced Formation of Vortex Clusters and Giant Vortices in Mesoscopic Superconducting Disks

I. V. Grigorieva, W. Escoffier, V. R. Misko, B. J. Baelus, F. M. Peeters, L. Y. Vinnikov, and S. V. Dubonos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147003 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Dirty Superconductivity in the Electron-Doped Cuprate $\Pr_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$ : Tunneling Study

Y. Dagan, R. Beck, and R. L. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147004 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Thermoelectric Response Near a Quantum Critical Point: The Case of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$

K. Izawa, K. Behnia, Y. Matsuda, H. Shishido, R. Settai, Y. Onuki, and J. Flouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147005 (2007) - Published 4 October, 2007

Inhomogeneity-Induced Enhancement of the Pairing Interaction in Cuprate Superconductors

Maciej M. Maśka, Żaneta Śledź, Katarzyna Czajka, and Marcin Mierzejewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147006 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Emergence of Quasi-Long-Range Order below the Bragg Glass Transition

N. D. Daniilidis, S. R. Park, I. K. Dimitrov, J. W. Lynn, and X. S. Ling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147007 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Observation of Competing Order in a High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor Using Femtosecond Optical Pulses

Elbert E. M. Chia, Jian-Xin Zhu, D. Talbayev, R. D. Averitt, A. J. Taylor, Kyu-Hwan Oh, In-Sun Jo, and S.-I. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147008 (2007) - Published 5 October, 2007

Link between Perpendicular Coupling and Exchange Biasing in ${Fe}_{3} O_{4} / CoO$ Multilayers

Y. Ijiri, T. C. Schulthess, J. A. Borchers, P. J. van der Zaag, and R. W. Erwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147201 (2007) - Published 1 October, 2007

Entanglement Entropy at Infinite-Randomness Fixed Points in Higher Dimensions

Yu-Cheng Lin, Ferenc Iglói, and Heiko Rieger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147202 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Criticality in Inhomogeneous Magnetic Systems: Application to Quantum Ferromagnets

D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and Ronojoy Saha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147203 (2007) - Published 2 October, 2007

Quantum Critical Behavior of the Cluster Glass Phase

Matthew J. Case and V. Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147204 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Pump-Probe Experiments on the Single-Molecule Magnet ${Fe}_{8}$ : Measurement of Excited Level Lifetimes

S. Bahr, K. Petukhov, V. Mosser, and W. Wernsdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147205 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Distinct Effects of Homogeneous Weak Disorder and Dilute Strong Scatterers on Phase Competition in Manganites

Kalpataru Pradhan, Anamitra Mukherjee, and Pinaki Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147206 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007

Anisotropic Magnetoresistance Components in (Ga,Mn)As

A. W. Rushforth, K. Výborný, C. S. King, K. W. Edmonds, R. P. Campion, C. T. Foxon, J. Wunderlich, A. C. Irvine, P. Vašek, V. Novák, K. Olejník, Jairo Sinova, T. Jungwirth, and B. L. Gallagher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147207 (2007) - Published 3 October, 2007