Volume 99, Issue 2

13 July 2007

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Light intensity distributions for spatiotemporal pulses generated in a ring cavity with a liquid crystal gain medium.

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Spatiotemporal Pulses in a Liquid Crystal Optical Oscillator
U. Bortolozzo, A. Montina, F. T. Arecchi, J. P. Huignard, and S. Residori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 023901 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Colloidal Glass Transition Observed in Confinement

Carolyn R. Nugent, Kazem V. Edmond, Hetal N. Patel, and Eric R. Weeks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025702 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Identification of Excited States in the $T_{z} = 1$ Nucleus ${}^{110}{Xe}$ : Evidence for Enhanced Collectivity near the $N = Z = 50$ Double Shell Closure

M. Sandzelius et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022501 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity in Heavy Alkaline-Earth Intercalated Graphites

J. S. Kim, L. Boeri, J. R. O’Brien, F. S. Razavi, and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027001 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Heat Transistor: Demonstration of Gate-Controlled Electronic Refrigeration

Olli-Pentti Saira, Matthias Meschke, Francesco Giazotto, Alexander M. Savin, Mikko Möttönen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027203 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

LETTERS

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

Semiclassical Quantization of the Bogoliubov Spectrum

Andrey R. Kolovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020401 (2007) - Published 10 July, 2007

Sublattice Addressing and Spin-Dependent Motion of Atoms in a Double-Well Lattice

P. J. Lee, M. Anderlini, B. L. Brown, J. Sebby-Strabley, W. D. Phillips, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020402 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Negative Echo in the Density Evolution of Ultracold Fermionic Gases

F. Fumarola, Y. Ahmadian, I. L. Aleiner, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020403 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Predicting Spinor Condensate Dynamics from Simple Principles

M. Moreno-Cardoner, J. Mur-Petit, M. Guilleumas, A. Polls, A. Sanpera, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020404 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Circulating Current States in Bilayer Fermionic and Bosonic Systems

A. K. Kolezhuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020405 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Feedback Control of Nonlinear Quantum Systems: A Rule of Thumb

Kurt Jacobs and Austin P. Lund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020501 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Addressing Individual Atoms in Optical Lattices with Standing-Wave Driving Fields

Jaeyoon Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020502 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Topologically Decoherence-Protected Qubits with Trapped Ions

P. Milman, W. Maineult, S. Guibal, L. Guidoni, B. Douçot, L. Ioffe, and T. Coudreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020503 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Power Spectra of the Total Occupancy in the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process

D. A. Adams, R. K. P Zia, and B. Schmittmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 020601 (2007) - Published 10 July, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black Hole Thermodynamics from Euclidean Horizon Constraints

S. Carlip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 021301 (2007) - Published 10 July, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Seesaw Neutrinos from the Heterotic String

Wilfried Buchmüller, Koichi Hamaguchi, Oleg Lebedev, Saúl Ramos-Sánchez, and Michael Ratz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 021601 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Is There a “Most Perfect Fluid” Consistent with Quantum Field Theory?

Thomas D. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 021602 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Observation of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 021603 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Nuclear Force from Lattice QCD

N. Ishii, S. Aoki, and T. Hatsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022001 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Spectral Functions at Small Energies and the Electrical Conductivity in Hot Quenched Lattice QCD

Gert Aarts, Chris Allton, Justin Foley, Simon Hands, and Seyong Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022002 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Identification of Excited States in the $T_{z} = 1$ Nucleus ${}^{110}{Xe}$ : Evidence for Enhanced Collectivity near the $N = Z = 50$ Double Shell Closure

M. Sandzelius et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022501 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Neutron- $α$ Scattering

Kenneth M. Nollett, Steven C. Pieper, R. B. Wiringa, J. Carlson, and G. M. Hale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022502 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Collapse of the $N = 28$ Shell Closure in ${}^{42}S i$

B. Bastin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022503 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Single-Neutron States in ${}^{101}{Sn}$

D. Seweryniak, M. P. Carpenter, S. Gros, A. A. Hecht, N. Hoteling, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, G. Lotay, D. Peterson, A. P. Robinson, W. B. Walters, X. Wang, P. J. Woods, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022504 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Bremsstrahlung in $α$ Decay Reexamined

H. Boie, H. Scheit, U. D. Jentschura, F. Köck, M. Lauer, A. I. Milstein, I. S. Terekhov, and D. Schwalm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022505 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Coexistence of BCS- and BEC-Like Pair Structures in Halo Nuclei

K. Hagino, H. Sagawa, J. Carbonell, and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022506 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo Calculation of Nuclei with $A \leq 40$ with Tensor Interactions

S. Gandolfi, F. Pederiva, S. Fantoni, and K. E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 022507 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Optically Switched Energy Transfer: Twin-Beam Off-Resonance Control

David L. Andrews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 023601 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatiotemporal Pulses in a Liquid Crystal Optical Oscillator

U. Bortolozzo, A. Montina, F. T. Arecchi, J. P. Huignard, and S. Residori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 023901 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Very Large Spontaneous-Emission $β$ Factors in Photonic-Crystal Waveguides

G. Lecamp, P. Lalanne, and J. P. Hugonin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 023902 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Experimental Evidence of Coherence Resonance in a Time-Delayed Bistable System

Mikel Arizaleta Arteaga, Miguel Valencia, Marc Sciamanna, Hugo Thienpont, Manuel López-Amo, and Krassimir Panajotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 023903 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Investigation of Ultrafast Nuclear Spin Polarization Induced by Short Laser Pulses

Takashi Nakajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 024801 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Coexistence of Self-Organized Criticality and Intermittent Turbulence in the Solar Corona

Vadim M. Uritsky, Maya Paczuski, Joseph M. Davila, and Shaela I. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025001 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Supersonic Dislocations Observed in a Plasma Crystal

V. Nosenko, S. Zhdanov, and G. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025002 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Strongly Driven Frequency-Sweeping Events in Plasmas

R. G. L. Vann, H. L. Berk, and A. R. Soto-Chavez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025003 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Dissipation in Turbulent Plasma due to Reconnection in Thin Current Sheets

David Sundkvist, Alessandro Retinò, Andris Vaivads, and Stuart D. Bale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025004 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ga Penetration along Grain Boundaries in Al: A Dislocation Climb Mechanism

Ho-Seok Nam and David J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025501 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Composite Behavior and Multidegeneracy in High-Pressure Phases of Cs and Rb

J. M. Perez-Mato, Luis Elcoro, Václav Petříček, Hannelore Katzke, and Peter Blaha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025502 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Origin of the $λ$ Transition in Liquid Sulfur

T. Scopigno, S. N. Yannopoulos, F. Scarponi, K. S. Andrikopoulos, D. Fioretto, and G. Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025701 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Colloidal Glass Transition Observed in Confinement

Carolyn R. Nugent, Kazem V. Edmond, Hetal N. Patel, and Eric R. Weeks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025702 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Evolution of a Reactive Surface via Subsurface Defect Dynamics

J. P. Pierce, N. C. Bartelt, and K. F. McCarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026101 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Observation of Depolarized ZnO(0001) Monolayers: Formation of Unreconstructed Planar Sheets

C. Tusche, H. L. Meyerheim, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026102 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Asymmetric Wetting Hysteresis on Chemical Defects

Craig Priest, Rossen Sedev, and John Ralston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026103 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonresonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering and Energy-Resolved Wannier Function Investigation of $d − d$ Excitations in NiO and CoO

B. C. Larson, Wei Ku, J. Z. Tischler, Chi-Cheng Lee, O. D. Restrepo, A. G. Eguiluz, P. Zschack, and K. D. Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026401 (2007) - Published 10 July, 2007

Soliton Wall Superlattice in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor $(Per)_{2} Pt (mnt)_{2}$

A. G. Lebed and Si Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026402 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

From Spin Flip Excitations to the Spin Susceptibility Enhancement of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

F. Perez, C. Aku-leh, D. Richards, B. Jusserand, L. C. Smith, D. Wolverson, and G. Karczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026403 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Exact Many-Electron Ground States on the Diamond Hubbard Chain

Zsolt Gulácsi, Arno Kampf, and Dieter Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026404 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Tuning the Kondo Effect with a Mechanically Controllable Break Junction

J. J. Parks, A. R. Champagne, G. R. Hutchison, S. Flores-Torres, H. D. Abruña, and D. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026601 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Hysteretic Resistance Spikes in Quantum Hall Ferromagnets without Domains

Henrique J. P. Freire and J. Carlos Egues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026801 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Electronic Bisection of a Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube by Controlled Chemisorption

Dragan Stojkovic, Paul E. Lammert, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 026802 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity in Heavy Alkaline-Earth Intercalated Graphites

J. S. Kim, L. Boeri, J. R. O’Brien, F. S. Razavi, and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027001 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Josephson Effect for Superconductors Lacking Time-Reversal and Inversion Symmetries

B. Leridon, Tai-Kai Ng, and C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027002 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Total Suppression of Superconductivity by High Magnetic Fields in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.6}$

F. Rullier-Albenque, H. Alloul, Cyril Proust, P. Lejay, A. Forget, and D. Colson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027003 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Persistence to High Temperatures of Interlayer Coherence in an Organic Superconductor

John Singleton, P. A. Goddard, A. Ardavan, A. I. Coldea, S. J. Blundell, R. D. McDonald, S. Tozer, and J. A. Schlueter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027004 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

No Evidence for Spontaneous Orbital Currents in Numerical Studies of Three-Band Models for the CuO Planes of High Temperature Superconductors

Martin Greiter and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027005 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Linear Positive Magnetoresistance and Quantum Interference in Ferromagnetic Metals

A. Gerber, I. Kishon, I. Ya. Korenblit, O. Riss, A. Segal, M. Karpovski, and B. Raquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027201 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Quantum and Thermal Transitions Out of the Supersolid Phase of a 2D Quantum Antiferromagnet

Nicolas Laflorencie and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027202 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Heat Transistor: Demonstration of Gate-Controlled Electronic Refrigeration

Olli-Pentti Saira, Matthias Meschke, Francesco Giazotto, Alexander M. Savin, Mikko Möttönen, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027203 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Identification of the Dominant Precession-Damping Mechanism in Fe, Co, and Ni by First-Principles Calculations

K. Gilmore, Y. U. Idzerda, and M. D. Stiles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027204 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Anomalous Curie Response of Impurities in Quantum-Critical Spin- $1 / 2$ Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

Kaj H. Höglund and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027205 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Chiral Spin Pairing in Helical Magnets

Shigeki Onoda and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027206 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Spin Precession and Avalanches

J. M. Deutsch and A. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027207 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Ultrafast Dynamics of a Charge-Transfer Dimer as a Model for the Photoinduced Phase Transition of Charge-Transfer Compounds

Larry Lüer, Cristian Manzoni, Giulio Cerullo, Guglielmo Lanzani, and Moreno Meneghetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027401 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Variable Electron-Phonon Coupling in Isolated Metallic Carbon Nanotubes Observed by Raman Scattering

Yang Wu, Janina Maultzsch, Ernst Knoesel, Bhupesh Chandra, Mingyuan Huang, Matthew Y. Sfeir, Louis E. Brus, J. Hone, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027402 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Pressure-Induced Two-Color Photoluminescence in ${MnF}_{2}$ at Room Temperature

I. Hernández, Fernando Rodríguez, and H. D. Hochheimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027403 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Semimetal-to-Semimetal Charge Density Wave Transition in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

G. Li, W. Z. Hu, D. Qian, D. Hsieh, M. Z. Hasan, E. Morosan, R. J. Cava, and N. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027404 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Intrinsic Impurities in Glass Alkali-Vapor Cells

B. Patton, K. Ishikawa, Y.-Y. Jau, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027601 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Chemical Energy Release and Radical Formation in Cluster-Induced Sputtering of Diatomic Molecular Targets: A Molecular-Dynamics Model Study

Christian Anders and Herbert M. Urbassek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027602 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Experimental Evidence for Molecular Chaos in Granular Gases

G. W. Baxter and J. S. Olafsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028001 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

Capturing the Interaction Potential of Amyloidogenic Proteins

Nadeem Javid, Karsten Vogtt, Christina Krywka, Metin Tolan, and Roland Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028101 (2007) - Published 13 July, 2007

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Colloidal Glasses under Steady Shear

R. Besseling, Eric R. Weeks, A. B. Schofield, and W. C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028301 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Dynamics of Domain Walls in Pattern Formation with Traveling-Wave Forcing

S. Rüdiger, J. Casademunt, and L. Kramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028302 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Gravitational Stability of Suspensions of Attractive Colloidal Particles

Chanjoong Kim, Yaqian Liu, Angelika Kühnle, Stephan Hess, Sonja Viereck, Thomas Danner, L. Mahadevan, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028303 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Concentration-Temperature Superposition of Helix Folding Rates in Gelatin

J. L. Gornall and E. M. Terentjev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028304 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Experimental Characterization of Superradiance in a Single-Pass High-Gain Laser-Seeded Free-Electron Laser Amplifier”

R. Bonifacio, F. Casagrande, D. A. Jaroszynski, B. W. J. McNeil, N. Piovella, and G. R. M. Robb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 029501 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

Watanabe et al. Reply:

T. Watanabe, X. J. Wang, J. B. Murphy, J. Rose, Y. Shen, T. Tsang, L. Giannessi, P. Musumeci, and S. Reiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 029502 (2007) - Published 9 July, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Ferroelectricity in Asymmetric Metal-Ferroelectric-Metal Heterostructures: A Combined First-Principles-Phenomenological Approach [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 207601 (2007)]

G. Gerra, A. K. Tagantsev, and N. Setter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 029901 (2007) - Published 11 July, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Parametric Resonance of Optically Trapped Aerosols [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 010601 (2007)]

R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco, J. Leach, M. J. Padgett, A. J. Wright, J. M. Girkin, D. R. Burnham, and D. McGloin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 029902 (2007) - Published 12 July, 2007