Volume 99, Issue 15

12 October 2007

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On the Cover

Three defects on a thin spherical shell of nematic liquid crystal, observed in bright field microscopy (left) and under crossed polarizers (right).

From the article:

Novel Defect Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystal Shells
A. Fernández-Nieves, V. Vitelli, A. S. Utada, D. R. Link, M. Márquez, D. R. Nelson, and D. A. Weitz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157801 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structural Basis for the Conducting Interface between ${LaAlO}_{3}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$

P. R. Willmott, S. A. Pauli, R. Herger, C. M. Schlepütz, D. Martoccia, B. D. Patterson, B. Delley, R. Clarke, D. Kumah, C. Cionca, and Y. Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155502 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

LETTERS

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

Nonlocal Quantum Effects with Bose-Einstein Condensates

F. Laloë and W. J. Mullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150401 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Observing the Einstein–de Haas Effect with Atoms in an Optical Lattice

B. Sun and L. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150402 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Finite-Temperature Collective Dynamics of a Fermi Gas in the BEC-BCS Crossover

M. J. Wright, S. Riedl, A. Altmeyer, C. Kohstall, E. R. Sánchez Guajardo, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150403 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Nonlinear Phase Shift from Photon-Photon Scattering in Vacuum

Albert Ferrando, Humberto Michinel, Marcos Seco, and Daniele Tommasini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150404 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Observation of Atom Pairs in Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing of Two Colliding Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Perrin, H. Chang, V. Krachmalnicoff, M. Schellekens, D. Boiron, A. Aspect, and C. I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150405 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Strong Monogamy of Bipartite and Genuine Multipartite Entanglement: The Gaussian Case

Gerardo Adesso and Fabrizio Illuminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150501 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Transition from Diffusive to Ballistic Dynamics for a Class of Finite Quantum Models

Robin Steinigeweg, Heinz-Peter Breuer, and Jochen Gemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150601 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Mapping Nonequilibrium onto Equilibrium: The Macroscopic Fluctuations of Simple Transport Models

Julien Tailleur, Jorge Kurchan, and Vivien Lecomte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150602 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Nonequilibrium Functional Renormalization Group for Interacting Quantum Systems

Severin G. Jakobs, Volker Meden, and Herbert Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150603 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Phase Diagram for a Bose-Einstein Condensate Moving in an Optical Lattice

Jongchul Mun, Patrick Medley, Gretchen K. Campbell, Luis G. Marcassa, David E. Pritchard, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150604 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Artificial Sieves for Quasimassless Particles

Marcello Borromeo and Fabio Marchesoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150605 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Enhanced Sensitivity to the Time Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant and $m_{p} / m_{e}$ in Diatomic Molecules

V. V. Flambaum and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 150801 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Identification of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles Through a Combined Measurement of Axial and Scalar Couplings

G. Bertone, D. G. Cerdeño, J. I. Collar, and B. Odom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 151301 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

First Measurement of the $W$ -Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 151801 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Predictive Flavor Symmetries of the Neutrino Mass Matrix

M. Hirsch, Anjan S. Joshipura, S. Kaneko, and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 151802 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Wake of a Quark Moving through a Strongly Coupled $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma

Paul M. Chesler and Laurence G. Yaffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 152001 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Modified Dihadron Fragmentation Functions in Hot and Nuclear Matter

A. Majumder, Enke Wang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 152301 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multireference Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the $O_{4}$ Molecule

Michel Caffarel, Ramón Hernández-Lamoneda, Anthony Scemama, and Alejandro Ramírez-Solís

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153001 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Complete Characterization of Molecular Dynamics in Ultrashort Laser Fields

B. Feuerstein, Th. Ergler, A. Rudenko, K. Zrost, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, T. Niederhausen, and U. Thumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153002 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Experimental Separation of Virtual Photon Exchange and Electron Transfer in Interatomic Coulombic Decay of Neon Dimers

T. Jahnke, A. Czasch, M. Schöffler, S. Schössler, M. Käsz, J. Titze, K. Kreidi, R. E. Grisenti, A. Staudte, O. Jagutzki, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, Th. Weber, H. Schmidt-Böcking, K. Ueda, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153401 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Coherent Optical Phase Transfer over a 32-km Fiber with 1 s Instability at $10^{- 17}$

Seth M. Foreman, Andrew D. Ludlow, Marcio H. G. de Miranda, Jason E. Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153601 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Ultraslow Propagation of Squeezed Vacuum Pulses with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Daisuke Akamatsu, Yoshihiko Yokoi, Manabu Arikawa, Satoshi Nagatsuka, Takahito Tanimura, Akira Furusawa, and Mikio Kozuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153602 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Using a Laguerre-Gaussian Beam to Trap and Cool the Rotational Motion of a Mirror

M. Bhattacharya and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153603 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subwavelength Discrete Solitons in Nonlinear Metamaterials

Yongmin Liu, Guy Bartal, Dentcho A. Genov, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153901 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Two-Dimensional Front Dynamics and Spatial Solitons in a Nonlinear Optical System

M. Pesch, W. Lange, D. Gomila, T. Ackemann, W. J. Firth, and G.-L. Oppo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153902 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Random Fiber Laser

Christiano J. S. de Matos, Leonardo de S. Menezes, Antônio M. Brito-Silva, M. A. Martinez Gámez, Anderson S. L. Gomes, and Cid B. de Araújo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 153903 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Shape Changing and Accelerating Solitons in the Integrable Variable Mass Sine-Gordon Model

Anjan Kundu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 154101 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Distinguishing Noise from Chaos

O. A. Rosso, H. A. Larrondo, M. T. Martin, A. Plastino, and M. A. Fuentes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 154102 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Heat Conduction Process on Community Networks as a Recommendation Model

Yi-Cheng Zhang, Marcel Blattner, and Yi-Kuo Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 154301 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Coiling of Elastic Ropes

M. Habibi, N. M. Ribe, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 154302 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Overcoming Depolarizing Resonances with Dual Helical Partial Siberian Snakes

H. Huang, L. A. Ahrens, M. Bai, K. Brown, E. D. Courant, C. Gardner, J. W. Glenn, F. Lin, A. U. Luccio, W. W. MacKay, M. Okamura, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, J. Takano, S. Tepikian, N. Tsoupas, A. Zelenski, and K. Zeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 154801 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Experimental Realization of an Exact Solution to the Vlasov Equations for an Expanding Plasma

S. Laha, P. Gupta, C. E. Simien, H. Gao, J. Castro, T. Pohl, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155001 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Two-Scale Structure of the Electron Dissipation Region during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection

M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155002 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Controlling Stimulated Brillouin Backscatter with Beam Smoothing in Weakly Damped Systems

Laurent Divol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155003 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Exact Solution for the Generalized Bohm Criterion in a Two-Ion-Species Plasma

Dongsoo Lee, Lutfi Oksuz, and Noah Hershkowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155004 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Why is Random Close Packing Reproducible?

Randall D. Kamien and Andrea J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155501 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structural Basis for the Conducting Interface between ${LaAlO}_{3}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$

P. R. Willmott, S. A. Pauli, R. Herger, C. M. Schlepütz, D. Martoccia, B. D. Patterson, B. Delley, R. Clarke, D. Kumah, C. Cionca, and Y. Yacoby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155502 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Quadrupolar Ordering in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ Revealed from Scattering Data and Geometric Modeling

A. Sartbaeva, S. A. Wells, M. F. Thorpe, E. S. Božin, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155503 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Theoretical Prediction of Intrinsic Self-Trapping of Electrons and Holes in Monoclinic ${HfO}_{2}$

D. Muñoz Ramo, A. L. Shluger, J. L. Gavartin, and G. Bersuker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155504 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Competition of Charge-Density Waves and Superconductivity in Sulfur

O. Degtyareva, M. V. Magnitskaya, J. Kohanoff, G. Profeta, S. Scandolo, M. Hanfland, M. I. McMahon, and E. Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155505 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Interaction of Voids and Nanoductility in Silica Glass

Yi-Chun Chen, Zhen Lu, Ken-ichi Nomura, Weiqiang Wang, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155506 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Effects of Size on the Dynamics of Dislocations in Ice Single Crystals

V. Taupin, S. Varadhan, J. Chevy, C. Fressengeas, A. J. Beaudoin, M. Montagnat, and P. Duval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155507 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Probing Nanoscale Solids at Thermal Extremes

G. E. Begtrup, K. G. Ray, B. M. Kessler, T. D. Yuzvinsky, H. Garcia, and Alex Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155901 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Probing Single Jumps of Surface Atoms

G. Vogl, M. Sladecek, and S. Dattagupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155902 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Diffusion in a Single Crystal within a Stressed Environment

N. E. B. Cowern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155903 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Spontaneous Breakdown of Superhydrophobicity

Mauro Sbragaglia, Alisia M. Peters, Christophe Pirat, Bram M. Borkent, Rob G. H. Lammertink, Matthias Wessling, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156001 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Two-Dimensional Quasicrystals of Decagonal Order in One-Component Monolayer Films

A. Patrykiejew and S. Sokołowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156101 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Metastability in 2D Self-Assembling Systems

N. V. Medhekar, V. B. Shenoy, J. B. Hannon, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156102 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Quantum Oscillations and Beats in X-Ray Diffraction during Film Growth

Y.-R. Lee, A. Gray, J. Tischler, P. Czoschke, H. Hong, S.-L. Chang, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156103 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Superexchange Interaction in Orbitally Fluctuating $R {VO}_{3}$

J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, J.-Q. Yan, and Y. Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156401 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Power-Law Conductivity inside the Mott Gap: Application to $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} {Cu}_{2} (CN)_{3}$

Tai-Kai Ng and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156402 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Atomic Ordering and Gap Formation in Ag-Sb-Based Ternary Chalcogenides

Khang Hoang, S. D. Mahanti, James R. Salvador, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156403 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

NiO: Correlated Band Structure of a Charge-Transfer Insulator

J. Kuneš, V. I. Anisimov, S. L. Skornyakov, A. V. Lukoyanov, and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156404 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Transport of Charge-Density Waves in the Presence of Disorder: Classical Pinning Versus Quantum Localization

A. D. Mirlin, D. G. Polyakov, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156405 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Magnetic Field and Pressure Dependence of Small Angle Neutron Scattering in MnSi

C. Pfleiderer, D. Reznik, L. Pintschovius, and J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156406 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Anomalous Dispersion of Optical Phonons at the Neutral-Ionic Transition: Evidence from Diffuse X-Ray Scattering

Gabriele D’Avino, Alberto Girlando, Anna Painelli, Marie-Hélène Lemée-Cailleau, and Zoltán G. Soos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156407 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Connection between Charge Fluctuations and the Coherent Temperature in the Heavy-Fermion System ${SmOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ : A ${}^{121, 123}{Sb}$ NQR Study

H. Kotegawa, H. Hidaka, T. C. Kobayashi, D. Kikuchi, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156408 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Resonant Dephasing in the Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Eugene V. Sukhorukov and Vadim V. Cheianov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156801 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Energy-Dependent Tunneling from Few-Electron Dynamic Quantum Dots

M. R. Astley, M. Kataoka, C. J. B. Ford, C. H. W. Barnes, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156802 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Shot Noise with Interaction Effects in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

F. Wu, P. Queipo, A. Nasibulin, T. Tsuneta, T. H. Wang, E. Kauppinen, and P. J. Hakonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156803 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Shot Noise in Fabry-Perot Interferometers Based on Carbon Nanotubes

L. G. Herrmann, T. Delattre, P. Morfin, J.-M. Berroir, B. Plaçais, D. C. Glattli, and T. Kontos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 156804 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Protected Nodes and the Collapse of Fermi Arcs in High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors

A. Kanigel, U. Chatterjee, M. Randeria, M. R. Norman, S. Souma, M. Shi, Z. Z. Li, H. Raffy, and J. C. Campuzano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157001 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Competition between Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity in the Electron-Doped Cuprates Triggered by Oxygen Reduction

P. Richard, M. Neupane, Y.-M. Xu, P. Fournier, S. Li, Pengcheng Dai, Z. Wang, and H. Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157002 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Magnetic Interactions in the Geometrically Frustrated Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet ${CuFeO}_{2}$

F. Ye, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, R. S. Fishman, Y. Ren, H. J. Kang, Y. Qiu, and T. Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157201 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Local Electronic Structure near Mn Acceptors in InAs: Surface-Induced Symmetry Breaking and Coupling to Host States

F. Marczinowski, J. Wiebe, J.-M. Tang, M. E. Flatté, F. Meier, M. Morgenstern, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157202 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Spin Disorder and Order in Quasi-2D Triangular Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Comparative Study of ${FeGa}_{2} S_{4}$ , ${Fe}_{2} {Ga}_{2} S_{5}$ , and ${NiGa}_{2} S_{4}$

S. Nakatsuji, H. Tonomura, K. Onuma, Y. Nambu, O. Sakai, Y. Maeno, R. T. Macaluso, and Julia Y. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157203 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Orbital Degeneracy Removed by Charge Order in Triangular Antiferromagnet ${AgNiO}_{2}$

E. Wawrzyńska, R. Coldea, E. M. Wheeler, I. I. Mazin, M. D. Johannes, T. Sörgel, M. Jansen, R. M. Ibberson, and P. G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157204 (2007) - Published 11 October, 2007

Photoinduced Magnetism and Random Magnetic Anisotropy in Organic-Based Magnetic Semiconductor $V (TCNE)_{x}$ Films, for $x \sim 2$

Jung-Woo Yoo, R. Shima Edelstein, D. M. Lincoln, N. P. Raju, and A. J. Epstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157205 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Polaron Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time in $π$ -Conjugated Polymers from Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance

C. G. Yang, E. Ehrenfreund, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157401 (2007) - Published 9 October, 2007

Fermi Edge Polaritons in a Microcavity Containing a High Density Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

A. Gabbay, Yulia Preezant, E. Cohen, B. M. Ashkinadze, and L. N. Pfeiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 157402 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Superhard Pseudocubic ${BC}_{2} N$ Superlattices”

Changfeng Chen and Hong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 159601 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

Chen, Gong, and Wei Reply:

Shiyou Chen, X. G. Gong, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 159602 (2007) - Published 8 October, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Surface Nucleation in the Freezing of Gold Nanoparticles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185503 (2007)]

Eduardo Mendez-Villuendas and Richard K. Bowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 159901 (2007) - Published 10 October, 2007

Erratum: Femtosecond Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Metals Investigated with Soft X-Ray Resonant Emission [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 267402 (2005)]

L. Braicovich, G. Ghiringhelli, A. Tagliaferri, G. van der Laan, E. Annese, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 159902 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007

Erratum: Interaction-Driven Relaxation of Two-Level Systems in Glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165505 (2006)]

Doru Bodea and Alois Würger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 159903 (2007) - Published 12 October, 2007