Volume 99, Issue 17

26 October 2007

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On the Cover

ANITA balloon payload set up to detect radio Cherenkov emission from particle showers produced when a high energy electron beam strikes a seven ton ice target.

From the article:

Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice
P. W. Gorham et al. (ANITA Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171101 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects

T. Emig, N. Graham, R. L. Jaffe, and M. Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170403 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isomer Triggering via Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture

Adriana Pálffy, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 172502 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlled Coupling of Counterpropagating Whispering-Gallery Modes by a Single Rayleigh Scatterer: A Classical Problem in a Quantum Optical Light

A. Mazzei, S. Götzinger, L. de S. Menezes, G. Zumofen, O. Benson, and V. Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173603 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Real Time Microscopy, Kinetics, and Mechanism of Giant Fullerene Evaporation

J. Y. Huang, Feng Ding, Kun Jiao, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175503 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

LETTERS

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

Unitary Transformations Can Be Distinguished Locally

Xiang-Fa Zhou, Yong-Sheng Zhang, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170401 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Superfluid Equation of State of Dilute Composite Bosons

X. Leyronas and R. Combescot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170402 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Casimir Forces between Arbitrary Compact Objects

T. Emig, N. Graham, R. L. Jaffe, and M. Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170403 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Theory of rf-Spectroscopy of Strongly Interacting Fermions

M. Punk and W. Zwerger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170404 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Storage of Spin Squeezing in a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

Guang-Ri Jin and Sang Wook Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170405 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi Theory

Marco Roncadelli and L. S. Schulman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170406 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Unstable Semiclassical Trajectories in Tunneling

D. G. Levkov, A. G. Panin, and S. M. Sibiryakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170407 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Experimental Violation of Bell’s Inequality in Spatial-Parity Space

Timothy Yarnall, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170408 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Robust Optimal Quantum Gates for Josephson Charge Qubits

Simone Montangero, Tommaso Calarco, and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170501 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Regional Versus Global Entanglement in Resonating-Valence-Bond States

Anushya Chandran, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170502 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Adiabatic Quantum Search Scheme With Atoms In a Cavity Driven by Lasers

D. Daems and S. Guérin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170503 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Temperature Dependence of Coherent Oscillations in Josephson Phase Qubits

J. Lisenfeld, A. Lukashenko, M. Ansmann, J. M. Martinis, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170504 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Thermal Equilibrium and Statistical Thermometers in Special Relativity

David Cubero, Jesús Casado-Pascual, Jörn Dunkel, Peter Talkner, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 170601 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice

P. W. Gorham et al. (ANITA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171101 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Charting the Landscape of Supercritical String Theory

Simeon Hellerman and Ian Swanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171601 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Search for High-Mass Diphoton States and Limits on Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at CDF

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171801 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Search for New Physics in High-Mass Electron-Positron Events in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171802 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Improved Measurement of $C P$ Violation in Neutral $B$ Decays to $c \bar{c} s$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171803 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Properties of $L = 1$ $B_{1}$ and $B_{2}^{*}$ Mesons

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 172001 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Viscosity Information from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions: How Perfect is the Fluid Observed at RHIC?

Paul Romatschke and Ulrike Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 172301 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

From Chiral Vibration to Static Chirality in ${}^{135}{Nd}$

S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Almehed, U. Garg, S. Frauendorf, T. Li, P. V. Madhusudhana Rao, X. Wang, S. S. Ghugre, M. P. Carpenter, S. Gros, A. Hecht, R. V. F. Janssens, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, D. Seweryniak, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 172501 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isomer Triggering via Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture

Adriana Pálffy, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 172502 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Efficient Coherent Population Transfer among Three States in NO Molecules by Stark-Chirped Rapid Adiabatic Passage

Martin Oberst, Holger Münch, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173001 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Excited Ions in Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses: Laser-Induced Recombination

I. D. Williams, J. McKenna, J. Wood, M. Suresh, W. A. Bryan, S. L. Stebbings, E. M. L. English, C. R. Calvert, B. Srigengan, E. J. Divall, C. J. Hooker, A. J. Langley, and W. R. Newell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173002 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Exceptional Points in Atomic Spectra

Holger Cartarius, Jörg Main, and Günter Wunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173003 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Demonstration of an Area-Enclosing Guided-Atom Interferometer for Rotation Sensing

Saijun Wu, Edward Su, and Mara Prentiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173201 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Double-Electron Transfer in $H^{-} + H^{+}$ Collisions

H Bräuning, H Helm, J S Briggs, and E Salzborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173202 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Generalized Rotating-Wave Approximation for Arbitrarily Large Coupling

E. K. Twyeffort Irish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173601 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Interference of Multimode Photon Echoes Generated in Spatially Separated Solid-State Atomic Ensembles

M. U. Staudt, M. Afzelius, H. de Riedmatten, S. R. Hastings-Simon, C. Simon, R. Ricken, H. Suche, W. Sohler, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173602 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlled Coupling of Counterpropagating Whispering-Gallery Modes by a Single Rayleigh Scatterer: A Classical Problem in a Quantum Optical Light

A. Mazzei, S. Götzinger, L. de S. Menezes, G. Zumofen, O. Benson, and V. Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173603 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Slow Light with Integrated Gain and Large Pulse Delay

Irina Novikova, David F. Phillips, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173604 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fronts between Rhythms: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Extended Polyrhythmic Media

Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Raúl Montagne, Nicolás Piro, and Oreste Piro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 174101 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Extraordinary Acoustic Transmission through a 1D Grating with Very Narrow Apertures

Ming-Hui Lu, Xiao-Kang Liu, Liang Feng, Jian Li, Cheng-Ping Huang, Yan-Feng Chen, Yong-Yuan Zhu, Shi-Ning Zhu, and Nai-Ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 174301 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Linear and Nonlinear Photoinduced Deformations of Cantilevers

D. Corbett and M. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 174302 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Destabilization of a Saffman-Taylor Fingerlike Pattern in a Granular Suspension

C. Chevalier, A. Lindner, and E. Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 174501 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Droplets

Denis Bartolo, Arezki Boudaoud, Grégoire Narcy, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 174502 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Spatiotemporal Stability of a Femtosecond Hard–X-Ray Undulator Source Studied by Control of Coherent Optical Phonons

P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, A. Streun, R. Abela, D. Abramsohn, D. Grolimund, F. Krasniqi, T. Schmidt, V. Schlott, and G. Ingold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 174801 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Compensation for Time-Dependent Radiation-Drive Asymmetries in Inertial-Fusion Capsules

S. A. Slutz, R. A. Vesey, and M. C. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175001 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Magnetic Reconnection Rate in Space Plasmas: A Fractal Approach

Massimo Materassi and Giuseppe Consolini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175002 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Field-Reversed Configuration Maintained by Rotating Magnetic Field with High Spatial Harmonics

Michiaki Inomoto, Katsuhisa Kitano, and Shigefumi Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175003 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Mode Conversion and Anomalous Transport in Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices and Kinetic Alfvén Waves at the Earth’s Magnetopause

C. C. Chaston, M. Wilber, F. S. Mozer, M. Fujimoto, M. L. Goldstein, M. Acuna, H. Reme, and A. Fazakerley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175004 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Experimental Evidence for a Crossover between Two Distinct Mechanisms of Amorphization in Ice $I h$ under Pressure

Thierry Strässle, Stefan Klotz, Gérard Hamel, Michael M. Koza, and Helmut Schober

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175501 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Self-Interstitial in Germanium

A. Carvalho, R. Jones, C. Janke, J. P. Goss, P. R. Briddon, J. Coutinho, and S. Öberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175502 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Real Time Microscopy, Kinetics, and Mechanism of Giant Fullerene Evaporation

J. Y. Huang, Feng Ding, Kun Jiao, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175503 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Phase-Transition Plasticity Response in Uniaxially Compressed Silicon Nanospheres

P. Valentini, W. W. Gerberich, and T. Dumitrică

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 175701 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Roughness Induced Boundary Slip in Microchannel Flows

Christian Kunert and Jens Harting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176001 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Pressure Induced Friction Collapse of Rare Gas Boundary Layers Sliding over Metal Surfaces

M. C. Righi and M. Ferrario

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176101 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Phase Field Modeling of Hysteresis in Sessile Drops

Srikanth Vedantam and Mahesh V. Panchagnula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176102 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Long-Range Repulsive Interaction between Molecules on a Metal Surface Induced by Charge Transfer

I. Fernandez-Torrente, S. Monturet, K. J. Franke, J. Fraxedas, N. Lorente, and J. I. Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176103 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Importance of Van Der Waals Interaction for Organic Molecule-Metal Junctions: Adsorption of Thiophene on Cu(110) as a Prototype

Priya Sony, Peter Puschnig, Dmitrii Nabok, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176401 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Ultrafast Exciton Relaxation in Microcrystalline Pentacene Films

H. Marciniak, M. Fiebig, M. Huth, S. Schiefer, B. Nickel, F. Selmaier, and S. Lochbrunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176402 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Semiconductors: The Key Role of Dark Excitons

Monique Combescot, Odile Betbeder-Matibet, and Roland Combescot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176403 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Terahertz Emission from Collapsing Field Domains during Switching of a Gallium Arsenide Bipolar Transistor

Sergey Vainshtein, Juha Kostamovaara, Valentin Yuferev, Wojciech Knap, Abdel Fatimy, and Nina Diakonova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176601 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Graphite and Graphene as Perfect Spin Filters

V. M. Karpan, G. Giovannetti, P. A. Khomyakov, M. Talanana, A. A. Starikov, M. Zwierzycki, J. van den Brink, G. Brocks, and P. J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176602 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Random Resistor Network Model of Minimal Conductivity in Graphene

Vadim V. Cheianov, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Boris L. Altshuler, and Igor L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176801 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Phonon Anharmonicities in Graphite and Graphene

Nicola Bonini, Michele Lazzeri, Nicola Marzari, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176802 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in the Presence of Strong Spin-Orbit Interactions

Boris Grbić, Renaud Leturcq, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Dirk Reuter, and Andreas D. Wieck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176803 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Eightfold Shell Filling in a Double-Wall Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot

Sunkyung Moon, Woon Song, Joon Sung Lee, Nam Kim, Jinhee Kim, Soon-Gul Lee, and Mahn-Soo Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176804 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Transport in Superlattices of Magnetic Nanoparticles: Coulomb Blockade, Hysteresis, and Switching Induced by a Magnetic Field

Reasmey P. Tan, Julian Carrey, Céline Desvaux, Jérémie Grisolia, Philippe Renaud, Bruno Chaudret, and Marc Respaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 176805 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Activated Scaling of Classical and Quantum Spin Glasses

B. Barbara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177201 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Ferroelectricity Driven by the Noncentrosymmetric Magnetic Ordering in Multiferroic ${TbMn}_{2} O_{5}$ : A First-Principles Study

Chenjie Wang, Guang-Can Guo, and Lixin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177202 (2007) - Published 22 October, 2007

Is a Griffiths Phase a Prerequisite for Colossal Magnetoresistance?

Wanjun Jiang, XueZhi Zhou, Gwyn Williams, Y. Mukovskii, and K. Glazyrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177203 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Magnetism in Graphene Nanoislands

J. Fernández-Rossier and J. J. Palacios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177204 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Antiferromagnetic Ordering Driven by the Molecular Orbital Order of $C_{60}$ in $α^{'}$ -Tetra-Kis-(Dimethylamino)-Ethylene- $C_{60}$

Takashi Kambe, Koichi Kajiyoshi, Motoyasu Fujiwara, and Kokichi Oshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177205 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Coupling of Frustrated Ising Spins to the Magnetic Cycloid in Multiferroic ${TbMnO}_{3}$

O. Prokhnenko, R. Feyerherm, M. Mostovoy, N. Aliouane, E. Dudzik, A. U. B. Wolter, A. Maljuk, and D. N. Argyriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177206 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Influence of Ligand States on the Relationship between Orbital Moment and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy

C. Andersson, B. Sanyal, O. Eriksson, L. Nordström, O. Karis, D. Arvanitis, T. Konishi, E. Holub-Krappe, and J. Hunter Dunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177207 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Thermal Logic Gates: Computation with Phonons

Lei Wang and Baowen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177208 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Coherent Spin Transport through a 350 Micron Thick Silicon Wafer

Biqin Huang, Douwe J. Monsma, and Ian Appelbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177209 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Local Control of Entanglement in a Spin Chain

Francesco Plastina and Tony J. G. Apollaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 177210 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Charged Colloidal Particles and Small Mobile Ions near the Oil-Water Interface: Destruction of Colloidal Double Layer and Ionic Charge Separation

Jos Zwanikken and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 178301 (2007) - Published 26 October, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Landé $g$ Factors and Orbital Momentum Quenching in Semiconductor Quantum Dots [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026804 (2006)]

Craig E. Pryor and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 179901 (2007) - Published 23 October, 2007

Erratum: Alleviation of the Fermion-Sign Problem by Optimization of Many-Body Wave Functions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110201 (2007)]

C. J. Umrigar, Julien Toulouse, Claudia Filippi, S. Sorella, and R. G. Hennig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 179902 (2007) - Published 24 October, 2007

Erratum: Chemically Induced Conductance Switching in Carbon Nanotube Circuits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 016601 (2006)]

Jaan Mannik, Brett R. Goldsmith, Alexander Kane, and Philip G. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 179903 (2007) - Published 25 October, 2007

Volume 99, Issue 17

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

Nuclear Physics

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

COMMENTS

ERRATA