Volume 99, Issue 18

2 November 2007

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On the Cover

Probability of transmission through the dominant spin channel of an Fe/Cr(6 ML)/MgO/Fe tunnel junction as a function of electron momentum parallel to the interface. Conductance decreases with the addition of Cr monolayers.

From the article:

Evidence of a Symmetry-Dependent Metallic Barrier in Fully Epitaxial MgO Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
F. Greullet, C. Tiusan, F. Montaigne, M. Hehn, D. Halley, O. Bengone, M. Bowen, and W. Weber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187202 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Limited Path Percolation in Complex Networks

Eduardo López, Roni Parshani, Reuven Cohen, Shai Carmi, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188701 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electromagnetic Wormholes and Virtual Magnetic Monopoles from Metamaterials

Allan Greenleaf, Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas, and Gunther Uhlmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183901 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photoacoustic Doppler Effect from Flowing Small Light-Absorbing Particles

Hui Fang, Konstantin Maslov, and Lihong V. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 184501 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Calorimetric Evidence for a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconducting State in the Layered Organic Superconductor $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$

R. Lortz, Y. Wang, A. Demuer, P. H. M. Böttger, B. Bergk, G. Zwicknagl, Y. Nakazawa, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187002 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Behavior in a Granular Jet: Emergence of a Liquid with Zero Surface Tension

Xiang Cheng, German Varas, Daniel Citron, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188001 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

LETTERS

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

Suppression of Dephasing due to a Trapping Potential and Atom-Atom Interactions in a Trapped-Condensate Interferometer

Munekazu Horikoshi and Ken’ichi Nakagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180401 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Anderson Localization of Bogolyubov Quasiparticles in Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates

P. Lugan, D. Clément, P. Bouyer, A. Aspect, and L. Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180402 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Classical World Arising out of Quantum Physics under the Restriction of Coarse-Grained Measurements

Johannes Kofler and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180403 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Nonlocality of a Single Particle

Jacob Dunningham and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180404 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Channel Correction via Quantum Erasure

Francesco Buscemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180501 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Quantum Nonlocality and Beyond: Limits from Nonlocal Computation

Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu, Anthony J. Short, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180502 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Simple and Efficient Quantum Key Distribution with Parametric Down-Conversion

Yoritoshi Adachi, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180503 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Heralded Entanglement between Atomic Ensembles: Preparation, Decoherence, and Scaling

J. Laurat, K. S. Choi, H. Deng, C. W. Chou, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180504 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Demonstration of a Stable Atom-Photon Entanglement Source for Quantum Repeaters

Shuai Chen, Yu-Ao Chen, Bo Zhao, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180505 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Fluctuation Theorem in Quantum Heat Conduction

Keiji Saito and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180601 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Critical Scaling in Standard Biased Random Walks

C. Anteneodo and W. A. M. Morgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180602 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Consistency of Post-Newtonian Waveforms with Numerical Relativity

John G. Baker, James R. van Meter, Sean T. McWilliams, Joan Centrella, and Bernard J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 181101 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Overspinning a Nearly Extreme Charged Black Hole via a Quantum Tunneling Process

George E. A. Matsas and André R. R. da Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 181301 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $Λ_{b}^{0}$ Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182001 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass in the $Lepton + Jets$ Topology at CDF II

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182002 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Indications of a Four-Quark Structure for the $X (3872)$ and $X (3876)$ Particles from Recent Belle and BABAR Data

L. Maiani, A. D. Polosa, and V. Riquer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182003 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Measurement of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to π^{+} π^{-} J / ψ$ Cross Section Via Initial-State Radiation at Belle

C. Z. Yuan et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182004 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Two-Proton Radioactivity of ${}^{19}{Mg}$ by Tracking the Decay Products

I. Mukha et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182501 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Barrier Distributions Derived from Quasielastic Backscattering of ${}^{48}{Ti}$ , ${}^{54}{Cr}$ , ${}^{56}{Fe}$ , ${}^{64}{Ni}$ , and ${}^{70}{Zn}$ Projectiles on a ${}^{208}{Pb}$ Target

S. Mitsuoka, H. Ikezoe, K. Nishio, K. Tsuruta, S. C. Jeong, and Y. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182701 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Single-Ion Two-Photon Source

F. Dubin, D. Rotter, M. Mukherjee, S. Gerber, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183001 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Attosecond Resolved Charging of Ions in a Rare-Gas Cluster

Ionuţ Georgescu, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183002 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Transporting Rydberg Electron Wave Packets with Chirped Trains of Pulses

J. J. Mestayer, W. Zhao, J. C. Lancaster, F. B. Dunning, C. O. Reinhold, S. Yoshida, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183003 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Magnetic Anisotropies of Late Transition Metal Atomic Clusters

Lucas Fernández-Seivane and Jaime Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183401 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Driving Light Pulses with Light in Two-Level Media

R. Khomeriki and J. Leon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183601 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Quantum Magnetic Dynamics of Polarized Light in Arrays of Microcavities

An-Chun Ji, X. C. Xie, and W. M. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183602 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electromagnetic Wormholes and Virtual Magnetic Monopoles from Metamaterials

Allan Greenleaf, Yaroslav Kurylev, Matti Lassas, and Gunther Uhlmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183901 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Laser Steered Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics of Electrons in LiH

F. Remacle, M. Nest, and R. D. Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 183902 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Entrainment Transition in Populations of Random Frequency Oscillators

Hyunsuk Hong, Hugues Chaté, Hyunggyu Park, and Lei-Han Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 184101 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photoacoustic Doppler Effect from Flowing Small Light-Absorbing Particles

Hui Fang, Konstantin Maslov, and Lihong V. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 184501 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Turbulent Transport of Material Particles: An Experimental Study of Finite Size Effects

Nauman M. Qureshi, Mickaël Bourgoin, Christophe Baudet, Alain Cartellier, and Yves Gagne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 184502 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Mixing-Induced Global Modes in Open Active Flow

Arthur V. Straube and Arkady Pikovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 184503 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Phase Transition in a Strongly Nonideal Deuterium Plasma Generated by Quasi-Isentropical Compression at Megabar Pressures

V. E. Fortov, R. I. Ilkaev, V. A. Arinin, V. V. Burtzev, V. A. Golubev, I. L. Iosilevskiy, V. V. Khrustalev, A. L. Mikhailov, M. A. Mochalov, V. Ya. Ternovoi, and M. V. Zhernokletov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185001 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Proton Acceleration with High-Intensity Ultrahigh-Contrast Laser Pulses

T. Ceccotti, A. Lévy, H. Popescu, F. Réau, P. D’Oliveira, P. Monot, J. P. Geindre, E. Lefebvre, and Ph. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185002 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Excited Electron Dynamics Modeling of Warm Dense Matter

Julius T. Su and William A. Goddard, III

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185003 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Fast Resistive Reconnection Regime in the Nonlinear Evolution of Double Tearing Modes

Z. X. Wang, X. G. Wang, J. Q. Dong, Y. A. Lei, Y. X. Long, Z. Z. Mou, and W. X. Qu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185004 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

When Can the Fokker-Planck Equation Describe Anomalous or Chaotic Transport?

D. F. Escande and F. Sattin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185005 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermodynamic Casimir Effect in ${}^{4}{He}$ Films near $T_{λ}$ : Monte Carlo Results

Alfred Hucht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185301 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Phonons in Iron: From the Bulk to an Epitaxial Monolayer

S. Stankov, R. Röhlsberger, T. Ślęzak, M. Sladecek, B. Sepiol, G. Vogl, A. I. Chumakov, R. Rüffer, N. Spiridis, J. Łażewski, K. Parliński, and J. Korecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185501 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Measuring the Configurational Heat Capacity of Liquids

Li-Min Wang and Ranko Richert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185701 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Atomic Dipole Moment Distribution of Si Atoms on a $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ Surface Studied Using Noncontact Scanning Nonlinear Dielectric Microscopy

Yasuo Cho and Ryusuke Hirose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 186101 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mott-Insulating and Glassy Phases of Polaritons in 1D Arrays of Coupled Cavities

Davide Rossini and Rosario Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 186401 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Absence of the Mott Glass Phase in 1D Disordered Fermionic Systems

Thomas Nattermann, Aleksandra Petković, Zoran Ristivojevic, and Friedmar Schütze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 186402 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Stable Two-Channel Kondo Fixed Point of an SU(3) Quantum Defect in a Metal: Renormalization-Group Analysis and Conductance Spikes

Michael Arnold, Tobias Langenbruch, and Johann Kroha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 186601 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Quasiparticle Energies and Band Gaps in Graphene Nanoribbons

Li Yang, Cheol-Hwan Park, Young-Woo Son, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 186801 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Evolution of the Fermi Surface and Quasiparticle Renormalization through a van Hove Singularity in ${Sr}_{2 - y} {La}_{y} {RuO}_{4}$

K. M. Shen, N. Kikugawa, C. Bergemann, L. Balicas, F. Baumberger, W. Meevasana, N. J. C. Ingle, Y. Maeno, Z.-X. Shen, and A. P. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187001 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Calorimetric Evidence for a Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconducting State in the Layered Organic Superconductor $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$

R. Lortz, Y. Wang, A. Demuer, P. H. M. Böttger, B. Bergk, G. Zwicknagl, Y. Nakazawa, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187002 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

NMR Relaxation and Resistivity from Rattling Phonons in Pyrochlore Superconductors

Thomas Dahm and Kazuo Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187003 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Hybrid Gap Structure of the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor ${CeIrIn}_{5}$

H. Shakeripour, M. A. Tanatar, S. Y. Li, C. Petrovic, and Louis Taillefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187004 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Current to Frequency Conversion in a Josephson Circuit

F. Nguyen, N. Boulant, G. Ithier, P. Bertet, H. Pothier, D. Vion, and D. Esteve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187005 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

$1 / f$ Flux Noise in Josephson Phase Qubits

Radoslaw C. Bialczak, R. McDermott, M. Ansmann, M. Hofheinz, N. Katz, Erik Lucero, Matthew Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, H. Wang, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187006 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Enhanced Pressure Dependence of Magnetic Exchange in $A^{2 +} [V_{2}] O_{4}$ Spinels Approaching the Itinerant Electron Limit

S. Blanco-Canosa, F. Rivadulla, V. Pardo, D. Baldomir, J.-S. Zhou, M. García-Hernández, M. A. López-Quintela, J. Rivas, and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187201 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Evidence of a Symmetry-Dependent Metallic Barrier in Fully Epitaxial MgO Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

F. Greullet, C. Tiusan, F. Montaigne, M. Hehn, D. Halley, O. Bengone, M. Bowen, and W. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187202 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Magnetic Phase Control in Monolayer Films by Substrate Tuning

P. Ferriani, I. Turek, S. Heinze, G. Bihlmayer, and S. Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187203 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Spin Coherence of Holes in $GaAs / (Al, Ga) As$ Quantum Wells

M. Syperek, D. R. Yakovlev, A. Greilich, J. Misiewicz, M. Bayer, D. Reuter, and A. D. Wieck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187401 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Resonance Fluorescence from a Coherently Driven Semiconductor Quantum Dot in a Cavity

A. Muller, E. B. Flagg, P. Bianucci, X. Y. Wang, D. G. Deppe, W. Ma, J. Zhang, G. J. Salamo, M. Xiao, and C. K. Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187402 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Stochastic Dipolar Recoupling in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Solids

Robert Tycko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187601 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Anomalous Phase Sequences in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

Won Bo Lee, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Glenn H Fredrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187801 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Resonance-Enhanced Optical Reorientation of Molecules in Liquids via Intermolecular Interaction

Thai V. Truong and Y. R. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187802 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Behavior in a Granular Jet: Emergence of a Liquid with Zero Surface Tension

Xiang Cheng, German Varas, Daniel Citron, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188001 (2007) - Published 1 November, 2007

Dissolution Arrest and Stability of Particle-Covered Bubbles

Manouk Abkarian, Anand Bala Subramaniam, Shin-Hyun Kim, Ryan J. Larsen, Seung-Man Yang, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188301 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

Slippery or Sticky Boundary Conditions: Control of Wrinkling in Metal-Capped Thin Polymer Films by Selective Adhesion to Substrates

Hugues Vandeparre, Julien Léopoldès, Christophe Poulard, Sylvain Desprez, Gwennaelle Derue, Cyprien Gay, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188302 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Limited Path Percolation in Complex Networks

Eduardo López, Roni Parshani, Reuven Cohen, Shai Carmi, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188701 (2007) - Published 29 October, 2007

Scale-Free Distribution of Avian Influenza Outbreaks

Michael Small, David M. Walker, and Chi Kong Tse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 188702 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Intense Nonlinear Magnetic Dipole Radiation at Optical Frequencies: Molecular Scattering in a Dielectric Liquid”

Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 189401 (2007) - Published 2 November, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Spectroscopy of Superfluid Pairing in Atomic Fermi Gases [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 080401 (2004)]

H. P. Büchler, P. Zoller, and W. Zwerger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 189901 (2007) - Published 30 October, 2007

Erratum: Monovacancy and Interstitial Migration in Ion-Implanted Silicon [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 265502 (2007)]

P. G. Coleman and C. P. Burrows

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 189902 (2007) - Published 31 October, 2007