Volume 99, Issue 20

16 November 2007

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On the Cover

Scanning electron microscopy image of a graphene multiterminal device used to measure quantum Hall activation gaps.

From the article:

Quantum-Hall Activation Gaps in Graphene
A. J. M. Giesbers, U. Zeitler, M. I. Katsnelson, L. A. Ponomarenko, T. M. Mohiuddin, and J. C. Maan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206803 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analogue of Cosmological Particle Creation in an Ion Trap

Ralf Schützhold, Michael Uhlmann, Lutz Petersen, Hector Schmitz, Axel Friedenauer, and Tobias Schätz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201301 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Positronium-Ion Decay

Mariusz Puchalski, Andrzej Czarnecki, and Savely G. Karshenboim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203401 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spinodal Decomposition in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture in Microgravity

A. E. Bailey, W. C. K. Poon, R. J. Christianson, A. B. Schofield, U. Gasser, V. Prasad, S. Manley, P. N. Segre, L. Cipelletti, W. V. Meyer, M. P. Doherty, S. Sankaran, A. L. Jankovsky, W. L. Shiley, J. P. Bowen, J. C. Eggers, C. Kurta, T. Lorik, Jr., P. N. Pusey, and D. A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205701 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of Spin Hall Effect: Extension of the Drude Model

Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206601 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

LETTERS

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

Testing Nonclassical Theories of Electromagnetism with Ion Interferometry

B. Neyenhuis, D. Christensen, and D. S. Durfee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200401 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Ultracold Bosons in a Tilted Multilevel Double-Well Potential

D. R. Dounas-Frazer, A. M. Hermundstad, and L. D. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200402 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Spontaneous Splitting of a Quadruply Charged Vortex

T. Isoshima, M. Okano, H. Yasuda, K. Kasa, J. A. M. Huhtamäki, M. Kumakura, and Y. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200403 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Spectroscopy of Collective Excitations in Interacting Low-Dimensional Many-Body Systems Using Quench Dynamics

Vladimir Gritsev, Eugene Demler, Mikhail Lukin, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200404 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

State Preparation and Dynamics of Ultracold Atoms in Higher Lattice Orbitals

Torben Müller, Simon Fölling, Artur Widera, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200405 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Relativistic Ideal Bose Gas

M. Grether, M. de Llano, and George A. Baker, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200406 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Anomalous Escape Governed by Thermal $1 / f$ Noise

I. Goychuk and P. Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200601 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black-Hole No-Hair Theorems for a Positive Cosmological Constant

Sourav Bhattacharya and Amitabha Lahiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201101 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Prospects for Detection of Gravitational Waves from Intermediate-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Duncan A. Brown, Jeandrew Brink, Hua Fang, Jonathan R. Gair, Chao Li, Geoffrey Lovelace, Ilya Mandel, and Kip S. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201102 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analogue of Cosmological Particle Creation in an Ion Trap

Ralf Schützhold, Michael Uhlmann, Lutz Petersen, Hector Schmitz, Axel Friedenauer, and Tobias Schätz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201301 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} τ^{\mp} μ^{\pm}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201801 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Amplitude Analysis of the $B^{\pm} \to φ K^{*} (892)^{\pm}$ Decay

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 201802 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Observation of the Heavy Baryons $Σ_{b}$ and $Σ_{b}^{*}$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202001 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Measurements of the Proton Elastic-Form-Factor Ratio $μ_{p} G_{E}^{p} / G_{M}^{p}$ at Low Momentum Transfer

G. Ron et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202002 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Extraction of Weak Transition Strengths via the ( ${}^{3}{He}$ , $t$ ) Reaction at 420 MeV

R. G. T. Zegers et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202501 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Spin- and Parity-Resolved Level Densities from the Fine Structure of Giant Resonances

Y. Kalmykov, C. Özen, K. Langanke, G. Martínez-Pinedo, P. von Neumann-Cosel, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202502 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Positronium-Ion Decay

Mariusz Puchalski, Andrzej Czarnecki, and Savely G. Karshenboim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203401 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Statistics of Diffusive and Localized Fields in the Vortex Core

Sheng Zhang and Azriel Z. Genack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203901 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Few-Optical-Cycle Solitons and Pulse Self-Compression in a Kerr Medium

S. A. Skobelev, D. V. Kartashov, and A. V. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203902 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Fundamental Limit to Linear One-Dimensional Slow Light Structures

David A. B. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203903 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Fresnel Formulas for the Forced Electromagnetic Pulses and Their Application for Optical-to-Terahertz Conversion in Nonlinear Crystals

M. I. Bakunov, A. V. Maslov, and S. B. Bodrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203904 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Theory of Extraordinary Transmission of Light through Quasiperiodic Arrays of Subwavelength Holes

J. Bravo-Abad, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, F. J. García-Vidal, and L. Martín-Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 203905 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Partial Mutual Information for Coupling Analysis of Multivariate Time Series

Stefan Frenzel and Bernd Pompe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 204101 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Acceleration Correlations and Pressure Structure Functions in High-Reynolds Number Turbulence

Haitao Xu, Nicholas T. Ouellette, Dario Vincenzi, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 204501 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Experiments with Precise and Arbitrary Control of the Initial Interface Shape

Zhibin Huang, Antonio De Luca, Timothy J. Atherton, Matthew Bird, Charles Rosenblatt, and Pierre Carlès

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 204502 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relic Crystal-Lattice Effects on Raman Compression of Powerful X-Ray Pulses in Plasmas

V. M. Malkin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205001 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Cyclotron-Resonance Maser Driven by Magnetic Compression of Rarefied Plasma

S. V. Golubev and A. G. Shalashov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205002 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Fill-Tube-Induced Mass Perturbations on X-Ray-Driven, Ignition-Scale, Inertial-Confinement-Fusion Capsule Shells and the Implications for Ignition Experiments

G. R. Bennett, M. C. Herrmann, M. J. Edwards, B. K. Spears, C. A. Back, E. W. Breden, P. J. Christenson, M. E. Cuneo, K. L. Dannenburg, C. Frederick, K. L. Keller, T. D. Mulville, A. Nikroo, K. Peterson, J. L. Porter, C. O. Russell, D. B. Sinars, I. C. Smith, R. M. Stamm, and R. A. Vesey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205003 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Laboratory Evidence for Stochastic Plasma-Wave Growth

D. R. Austin, M. J. Hole, P. A. Robinson, Iver H. Cairns, and R. Dallaqua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205004 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Dynamics of Whistler Spheromaks in Magnetized Plasmas

B. Eliasson and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205005 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Spontaneous Generation of Self-Organized Solitary Wave Structures at Earth’s Magnetopause

R. Trines, R. Bingham, M. W. Dunlop, A. Vaivads, J. A. Davies, J. T. Mendonça, L. O. Silva, and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205006 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Zero Sound Mode in Normal Liquid ${}^{3}{He}$

F. Albergamo, R. Verbeni, S. Huotari, G. Vankó, and G. Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205301 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Wetting Properties of Grain Boundaries in Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

Satoshi Sasaki, Frédéric Caupin, and Sébastien Balibar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205302 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Supercurrent Survival under a Rosen-Zener Quench of Hard-Core Bosons

I. Klich, C. Lannert, and G. Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205303 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Nonuniform Growth of Embedded Silicon Nanocrystals in an Amorphous Matrix

Alessandro Mattoni and Luciano Colombo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205501 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Dynamical Law for Slow Crack Growth in Polycarbonate Films

Pierre-Philippe Cortet, Loïc Vanel, and Sergio Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205502 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Tailoring of Phononic Band Structures in Colloidal Crystals

J. Baumgartl, M. Zvyagolskaya, and C. Bechinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205503 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Diffusion of Muonium and Hydrogen in Diamond

Carlos P. Herrero and Rafael Ramírez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205504 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spinodal Decomposition in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture in Microgravity

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205701 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Liquid-Liquid Phase Transformation in Silicon: Evidence from First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations

N. Jakse and A. Pasturel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 205702 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Static Friction on the Fly: Velocity Depinning Transitions of Lubricants in Motion

A. Vanossi, N. Manini, F. Caruso, G. E. Santoro, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206101 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Effect of Surface Stress on the Stiffness of Cantilever Plates

Michael J. Lachut and John E. Sader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206102 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Compositional Correlation and Anticorrelation in Quaternary Alloys: Competition Between Bulk Thermodynamics and Surface Kinetics

M. Albrecht, H. Abu-Farsakh, T. Remmele, L. Geelhaar, H. Riechert, and J. Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206103 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Incommmensurability and Unconventional Superconductor to Insulator Transition in the Hubbard Model with Bond-Charge Interaction

A. A. Aligia, A. Anfossi, L. Arrachea, C. Degli Esposti Boschi, A. O. Dobry, C. Gazza, A. Montorsi, F. Ortolani, and M. E. Torio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206401 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Surface Verwey Transition in Magnetite

Zbigniew Łodziana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206402 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Direct Observation of Oxygen Superstructures in Manganites

S. Grenier, K. J. Thomas, J. P. Hill, U. Staub, Y. Bodenthin, M. García-Fernández, V. Scagnoli, V. Kiryukhin, S-W. Cheong, B. G. Kim, and J. M. Tonnerre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206403 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Zero-Energy States and Fragmentation of Spin in the Easy-Plane Antiferromagnet on a Honeycomb Lattice

Igor F. Herbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206404 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Zero-Bias Tunneling Anomaly in a Clean 2D Electron Gas Caused by Smooth Density Variations

T. A. Sedrakyan, E. G. Mishchenko, and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206405 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Cuprate Fermi Orbits and Fermi Arcs: The Effect of Short-Range Antiferromagnetic Order

N. Harrison, R. D. McDonald, and J. Singleton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206406 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of Spin Hall Effect: Extension of the Drude Model

Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206601 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Noise Enhancement due to Quantum Coherence in Coupled Quantum Dots

G. Kießlich, E. Schöll, T. Brandes, F. Hohls, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206602 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Biased Surface Fluctuations due to Current Stress

O. Bondarchuk, W. G. Cullen, M. Degawa, E. D. Williams, T. Bole, and P. J. Rous

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206801 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Theory of the Pseudospin Resonance in Semiconductor Bilayers

Saeed H. Abedinpour, Marco Polini, A. H. MacDonald, B. Tanatar, M. P. Tosi, and G. Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206802 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Quantum-Hall Activation Gaps in Graphene

A. J. M. Giesbers, U. Zeitler, M. I. Katsnelson, L. A. Ponomarenko, T. M. Mohiuddin, and J. C. Maan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206803 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Frequency-Selective Single-Photon Detection Using a Double Quantum Dot

S. Gustavsson, M. Studer, R. Leturcq, T. Ihn, K. Ensslin, D. C. Driscoll, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206804 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Theory of Fractional Microwave-Induced Resistance Oscillations

I. A. Dmitriev, A. D. Mirlin, and D. G. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206805 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Microscopic Model of Critical Current Noise in Josephson Junctions

Magdalena Constantin and Clare C. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207001 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Sine-Gordon Description of Beresinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Vortices in Superconductors Immersed in an External Magnetic Field

L. Benfatto, C. Castellani, and T. Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207002 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Nonlinear Nanodevices Using Magnetic Flux Quanta

S. Ooi, Sergey Savel’ev, M. B. Gaifullin, T. Mochiku, K. Hirata, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207003 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Time Dilation of a Bound Half-Fluxon Pair in a Long Josephson Junction with a Ferromagnetic Insulator

Munehiro Nishida, Kyoko Murata, Toshiyuki Fujii, and Noriyuki Hatakenaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207004 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Basins of Attraction of a Nonlinear Nanomechanical Resonator

I. Kozinsky, H. W. Ch. Postma, O. Kogan, A. Husain, and M. L. Roukes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207201 (2007) - Published 13 November, 2007

Microwave-Assisted Switching of Microscopic Rings: Correlation Between Nonlinear Spin Dynamics and Critical Microwave Fields

Jan Podbielski, Detlef Heitmann, and Dirk Grundler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207202 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Emergence of U(1) Symmetry in the 3D $X Y$ Model with $Z_{q}$ Anisotropy

Jie Lou, Anders W. Sandvik, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207203 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Ultrafast Photoinduced Insulator-Ferromagnet Transition in the Perovskite Manganite ${Gd}_{0.55} {Sr}_{0.45} {MnO}_{3}$

M. Matsubara, Y. Okimoto, T. Ogasawara, Y. Tomioka, H. Okamoto, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207401 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Ferroelectricity, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Relaxation Effects in Monoclinic ${Sn}_{2} P_{2} S_{6}$

Konstantin Z. Rushchanskii, Yulian M. Vysochanskii, and Dieter Strauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 207601 (2007) - Published 16 November, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Ortho-Para Conversion of Interstitial $H_{2}$ in Si [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 055504 (2007)]

M. Hiller, E. V. Lavrov, and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 209901 (2007) - Published 12 November, 2007

Erratum: Absence of Skew Scattering in Two-Dimensional Systems: Testing the Origins of the Anomalous Hall Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 066604 (2007)]

Mario F. Borunda, Tamara S. Nunner, Thomas Lück, N. A. Sinitsyn, Carsten Timm, J. Wunderlich, T. Jungwirth, A. H. MacDonald, and Jairo Sinova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 209902 (2007) - Published 14 November, 2007

Erratum: Obliquely Propagating Dust-Density Plasma Waves in the Presence of an Ion Beam [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 205009 (2006)]

A. Piel, M. Klindworth, O. Arp, A. Melzer, and M. Wolter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 209903 (2007) - Published 15 November, 2007

Volume 99, Issue 20

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