Volume 99, Issue 19

9 November 2007

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On the Cover

Illustration of the Coulomb interaction due to electron transfer from a copper substrate to the S- and R- phenylglycine admolecules. Density functional theory calculations show that the substrate may catalyze longe-range molecular recognition and self-assembly.

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Long-Range Chiral Recognition due to Substrate Locking and Substrate-Adsorbate Charge Transfer
S. Blankenburg and W. G. Schmidt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196107 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Beyond the Coherent Coupled Channels Description of Nuclear Fusion

M. Dasgupta, D. J. Hinde, A. Diaz-Torres, B. Bouriquet, Catherine I. Low, G. J. Milburn, and J. O. Newton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 192701 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

New Insight into Cataract Formation: Enhanced Stability through Mutual Attraction

A. Stradner, G. Foffi, N. Dorsaz, G. Thurston, and P. Schurtenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 198103 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Proton Correlations in the Decay of ${}^{45}{Fe}$

K. Miernik, W. Dominik, Z. Janas, M. Pfützner, L. Grigorenko, C. R. Bingham, H. Czyrkowski, M. Ćwiok, I. G. Darby, R. Dąbrowski, T. Ginter, R. Grzywacz, M. Karny, A. Korgul, W. Kuśmierz, S. N. Liddick, M. Rajabali, K. Rykaczewski, and A. Stolz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 192501 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single Quantum Dot Spontaneous Emission in a Finite-Size Photonic Crystal Waveguide: Proposal for an Efficient “On Chip” Single Photon Gun

V. S. C. Manga Rao and S. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193901 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${NaV}_{2} O_{4}$ : A Quasi-1D Metallic Antiferromagnet with Half-Metallic Chains

K. Yamaura, M. Arai, A. Sato, A. B. Karki, D. P. Young, R. Movshovich, S. Okamoto, D. Mandrus, and E. Takayama-Muromachi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196601 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

LETTERS

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

Correlators and Fractional Statistics in the Quantum Hall Bulk

Smitha Vishveshwara, Michael Stone, and Diptiman Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190401 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Superfluid Ring Excitations in Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates

K. M. Mertes, J. W. Merrill, R. Carretero-González, D. J. Frantzeskakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, and D. S. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190402 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

No “Light Shining through a Wall”: Results from a Photoregeneration Experiment

C. Robilliard, R. Battesti, M. Fouché, J. Mauchain, A.-M. Sautivet, F. Amiranoff, and C. Rizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190403 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Semiclassical Dynamics of Electron Wave Packet States with Phase Vortices

Konstantin Yu. Bliokh, Yury P. Bliokh, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190404 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Atomic Landau-Zener Tunneling in Fourier-Synthesized Optical Lattices

Tobias Salger, Carsten Geckeler, Sebastian Kling, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190405 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Theory for $p$ -Wave Feshbach Molecules

K. B. Gubbels and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190406 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Coherence and Clock Shifts in Ultracold Fermi Gases with Resonant Interactions

Gordon Baym, C. J. Pethick, Zhenhua Yu, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190407 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Inert States of Spin- $S$ Systems

H. Mäkelä and K.-A. Suominen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190408 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Density Waves and Supersolidity in Rapidly Rotating Atomic Fermi Gases

G. Möller and N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190409 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Driving Particle Current through Narrow Channels Using a Classical Pump

Kavita Jain, Rahul Marathe, Abhishek Chaudhuri, and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 190601 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Resolving Cosmic Gamma Ray Anomalies with Dark Matter Decaying Now

Jose A. R. Cembranos, Jonathan L. Feng, and Louis E. Strigari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191301 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Gravitational Particle Production in Braneworld Cosmology

C. Bambi and F. R. Urban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191302 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Conceptual Explanation for the Algebra in the Noncommutative Approach to the Standard Model

Ali H. Chamseddine and Alain Connes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191601 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Alternative Experimental Evidence for Chiral Restoration in Excited Baryons

L. Ya. Glozman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191602 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Evidence for the Decay $D^{0} \to K^{-} π^{+} π^{-} e^{+} ν_{e}$

M. Artuso et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191801 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Search for Production of Single Top Quarks Via $t c g$ and $t u g$ Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current Couplings

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191802 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Measurement of the Neutrino Asymmetry Parameter $B$ in Neutron Decay

M. Schumann, T. Soldner, M. Deissenroth, F. Glück, J. Krempel, M. Kreuz, B. Märkisch, D. Mund, A. Petoukhov, and H. Abele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191803 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Long-Range Electron Spin-Spin Interactions from Unparticle Exchange

Yi Liao and Ji-Yuan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191804 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Suppressed Decays of $D_{s}^{+}$ Mesons to Two Pseudoscalar Mesons

G. S. Adams et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191805 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191806 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Observation of $B^{0} \to D^{* -} τ^{+} ν_{τ}$ Decay at Belle

A. Matyja et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191807 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Measurement of the Nucleon Strange-Antistrange Asymmetry at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD from NuTeV Dimuon Data

D. Mason et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 192001 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Small Shear Viscosity of a Quark-Gluon Plasma Implies Strong Jet Quenching

Abhijit Majumder, Berndt Müller, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 192301 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Proton Correlations in the Decay of ${}^{45}{Fe}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 192501 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Beyond the Coherent Coupled Channels Description of Nuclear Fusion

M. Dasgupta, D. J. Hinde, A. Diaz-Torres, B. Bouriquet, Catherine I. Low, G. J. Milburn, and J. O. Newton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 192701 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Doubly Inelastic Collisions with Relativistic Heavy Ions and Target Recoil Momentum Spectroscopy

A. B. Voitkiv, B. Najjari, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193201 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Experimental Determination of Nucleation Scaling Law for Small Charged Particles

Fabien Chirot, Pierre Labastie, Sébastien Zamith, and Jean-Marc L’Hermite

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193401 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Experimental Test of the No-Signaling Theorem

Tiziano De Angelis, Eleonora Nagali, Fabio Sciarrino, and Francesco De Martini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193601 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Generation of Symmetric Dicke States of Remote Qubits with Linear Optics

C. Thiel, J. von Zanthier, T. Bastin, E. Solano, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193602 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single Quantum Dot Spontaneous Emission in a Finite-Size Photonic Crystal Waveguide: Proposal for an Efficient “On Chip” Single Photon Gun

V. S. C. Manga Rao and S. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193901 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Suppression of Anderson Localization in Disordered Metamaterials

Ara A. Asatryan, Lindsay C. Botten, Michael A. Byrne, Valentin D. Freilikher, Sergey A. Gredeskul, Ilya V. Shadrivov, Ross C. McPhedran, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 193902 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Zonal Wind Driven by Inertial Modes

A. Tilgner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 194501 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Curvature Fields, Topology, and the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Chaos

Nicholas T. Ouellette and J. P. Gollub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 194502 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Benchmark Measurements of the Ionization Balance of Non-Local-Thermodynamic-Equilibrium Gold Plasmas

R. F. Heeter, S. B. Hansen, K. B. Fournier, M. E. Foord, D. H. Froula, A. J. Mackinnon, M. J. May, M. B. Schneider, and B. K. F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 195001 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Laser-Ablation Rates Measured Using X-Ray Laser Transmission

M. H. Edwards, D. S. Whittaker, G. J. Tallents, P. Mistry, G. J. Pert, B. Rus, T. Mocek, M. Kozlová, J. Polan, A. Praeg, M. Stupka, and P. Homer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 195002 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Control of Asymmetric Magnetic Perturbations in Tokamaks

Jong-kyu Park, Michael J. Schaffer, Jonathan E. Menard, and Allen H. Boozer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 195003 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Activated Dynamics and Effective Temperature in a Steady State Sheared Glass

Thomas K. Haxton and Andrea J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 195701 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Critical Analysis of the Density Functional Theory Prediction of Enhanced Capillary Waves

P. Tarazona, R. Checa, and E. Chacón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196101 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Domain Sensitive Contrast in Photoelectron Emission Microscopy

D. Thien, P. Kury, M. Horn-von Hoegen, F.-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, J. van Heys, M. Lindenblatt, and E. Pehlke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196102 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Hydrogen Bonding, H-D Exchange, and Molecular Mobility in Thin Water Films on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

Nikolay G. Petrik and Greg A. Kimmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196103 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Nanotemplate with Holes: Ultrathin Alumina on ${Ni}_{3} Al (111)$

M. Schmid, G. Kresse, A. Buchsbaum, E. Napetschnig, S. Gritschneder, M. Reichling, and P. Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196104 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Surface Phase Transition in $H / W (110)$ Induced by Tuning the Fermi Surface Nesting Vector by Hydrogen Loading

Y. Yamada, K.-H. Rieder, and W. Theis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196105 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Initial Structure and Growth Dynamics of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ during Pulsed Laser Deposition

V. Vonk, K. J. I. Driessen, M. Huijben, G. Rijnders, D. H. A. Blank, H. Rogalla, S. Harkema, and H. Graafsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196106 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Long-Range Chiral Recognition due to Substrate Locking and Substrate-Adsorbate Charge Transfer

S. Blankenburg and W. G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196107 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polariton Induced Transparency at Low Light Level: Polymer Chains Dispersed in a Monomer Single Crystal

Gerhard Weiser and Jeanne Berréhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196401 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Interference of Coherent Polariton Beams in Microcavities: Polarization-Controlled Optical Gates

C. Leyder, T. C. H. Liew, A. V. Kavokin, I. A. Shelykh, M. Romanelli, J. Ph. Karr, E. Giacobino, and A. Bramati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196402 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Metal-Insulator Transitions in the Periodic Anderson Model

G. Sordi, A. Amaricci, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196403 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Electronic Reconstruction at ${SrMnO}_{3} − {LaMnO}_{3}$ Superlattice Interfaces

Şerban Smadici, Peter Abbamonte, Anand Bhattacharya, Xiaofang Zhai, Bin Jiang, Andrivo Rusydi, James N. Eckstein, Samuel D. Bader, and Jian-Min Zuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196404 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Magnetic Excitations in an Itinerant Ferromagnet near Quantum Criticality

E. A. Yelland and S. M. Hayden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196405 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

${NaV}_{2} O_{4}$ : A Quasi-1D Metallic Antiferromagnet with Half-Metallic Chains

K. Yamaura, M. Arai, A. Sato, A. B. Karki, D. P. Young, R. Movshovich, S. Okamoto, D. Mandrus, and E. Takayama-Muromachi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196601 (2007) - Published 5 November, 2007

Anomalous $c$ -Axis Transport in Layered Metals

D. B. Gutman and D. L. Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196602 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Reversal of Spin Polarization in $Fe / GaAs$ (001) Driven by Resonant Surface States: First-Principles Calculations

Athanasios N. Chantis, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Darryl L. Smith, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Mark van Schilfgaarde, and Robert C. Albers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196603 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Large Spin Accumulation in a Permalloy-Silver Lateral Spin Valve

T. Kimura and Y. Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196604 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Kondo-Peak Splitting and Coherent Transport in a Single-Electron Transistor

Jongbae Hong and Wonmyung Woo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196801 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Odd-Integer Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene: Interaction and Disorder Effects

L. Sheng, D. N. Sheng, F. D. M. Haldane, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196802 (2007) - Published 6 November, 2007

Reciprocal Space Constraints Create Real-Space Anomalies in Doped Carbon Nanotubes

E. R. Margine, Paul E. Lammert, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196803 (2007) - Published 7 November, 2007

Strong Lateral Electron Coupling of Pb Nanowires on Stepped Si(111): Angle-Resolved Photoemission Studies

Keun Su Kim, Harumo Morikawa, Won Hoon Choi, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196804 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Edge Solitons of Topological Insulators and Fractionalized Quasiparticles in Two Dimensions

Dung-Hai Lee, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Tao Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 196805 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Ultrafast Electron Relaxation in Superconducting ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

L. Perfetti, P. A. Loukakos, M. Lisowski, U. Bovensiepen, H. Eisaki, and M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197001 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Stability of Half-Quantum Vortices in $p_{x} + i p_{y}$ Superconductors

Suk Bum Chung, Hendrik Bluhm, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197002 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Orbital Fluctuations and Orbital Flipping in $R {VO}_{3}$ Perovskites

J.-Q. Yan, J.-S. Zhou, J. B. Goodenough, Y. Ren, J. G. Cheng, S. Chang, J. Zarestky, O. Garlea, A. Llobet, H. D. Zhou, Y. Sui, W. H. Su, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197201 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Quantum Theory of Orbital Magnetization and Its Generalization to Interacting Systems

Junren Shi, G. Vignale, Di Xiao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197202 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Configurational Energetics in Ice $I h$ Probed by Compton Scattering

K. Nygård, M. Hakala, S. Manninen, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, and K. Hämäläinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197401 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of the Molecular Biexciton in Vertically Stacked InAs-GaAs Quantum Dot Pairs

M. Scheibner, I. V. Ponomarev, E. A. Stinaff, M. F. Doty, A. S. Bracker, C. S. Hellberg, T. L. Reinecke, and D. Gammon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197402 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Control of the Oscillator Strength of the Exciton in a Single InGaN-GaN Quantum Dot

Anas F. Jarjour, Rachel A. Oliver, Abbes Tahraoui, Menno J. Kappers, Colin J. Humphreys, and Robert A. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197403 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Optical Magnetoelectric Effect of Patterned Oxide Superlattices with Ferromagnetic Interfaces

N. Kida, H. Yamada, H. Sato, T. Arima, M. Kawasaki, H. Akoh, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197404 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Non-Resonant and Resonant X-Ray Scattering Studies on Multiferroic ${TbMn}_{2} O_{5}$

J. Koo, C. Song, S. Ji, J.-S. Lee, J. Park, T.-H. Jang, C.-H. Yang, J.-H. Park, Y. H. Jeong, K.-B. Lee, T. Y. Koo, Y. J. Park, J.-Y. Kim, D. Wermeille, A. I. Goldman, G. Srajer, S. Park, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197601 (2007) - Published 8 November, 2007

Indications for Enhanced Auger-Electron Absorption in a Hot-Electron Gas

G. Schiwietz, M. Roth, K. Czerski, F. Staufenbiel, and P. L. Grande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 197602 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

New Insight into Cataract Formation: Enhanced Stability through Mutual Attraction

A. Stradner, G. Foffi, N. Dorsaz, G. Thurston, and P. Schurtenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 198103 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007

Anisotropic Random Networks of Semiflexible Polymers

Panayotis Benetatos and Annette Zippelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 198301 (2007) - Published 9 November, 2007