Volume 99, Issue 21

23 November 2007

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Apparatus to test the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect by tracking a laser-extracted electron pulse as it passes between two solenoids. The absence of any time delay rules out external forces on the electron pulse, which in turn excludes semiclassical explanations of the AB effect.

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Macroscopic Test of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect
Adam Caprez, Brett Barwick, and Herman Batelaan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210401 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Accelerating Airy Beams

G. A. Siviloglou, J. Broky, A. Dogariu, and D. N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213901 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Macroscopic Test of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Adam Caprez, Brett Barwick, and Herman Batelaan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210401 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Falsification of Leggett’s Nonlocal Variable Model

Cyril Branciard, Alexander Ling, Nicolas Gisin, Christian Kurtsiefer, Antia Lamas-Linares, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210407 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Macroscopic Test of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Adam Caprez, Brett Barwick, and Herman Batelaan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210401 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Strongly Resonant $p$ -Wave Superfluids

J. Levinsen, N. R. Cooper, and V. Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210402 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Quantum Reflection and Dwell Times of Metastable States

N. G. Kelkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210403 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Quasibound States in the Continuum in a Two Channel Quantum Wire with an Adatom

Hiroaki Nakamura, Naomichi Hatano, Sterling Garmon, and Tomio Petrosky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210404 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Bell Inequalities for Continuous-Variable Correlations

E. G. Cavalcanti, C. J. Foster, M. D. Reid, and P. D. Drummond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210405 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Experimental Test of Nonlocal Realistic Theories Without the Rotational Symmetry Assumption

Tomasz Paterek, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Simon Gröblacher, Thomas Jennewein, Marek Żukowski, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210406 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Falsification of Leggett’s Nonlocal Variable Model

Cyril Branciard, Alexander Ling, Nicolas Gisin, Christian Kurtsiefer, Antia Lamas-Linares, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210407 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Distribution of Time-Averaged Observables for Weak Ergodicity Breaking

A. Rebenshtok and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210601 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

NMR Measurement of Nonlocal Dispersion in Complex Flows

M. W. Hunter and P. T. Callaghan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 210602 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Friedmann Equations and Thermodynamics of Apparent Horizons

Yungui Gong and Anzhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 211301 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the $C P$ -Violating Decays $Υ (4 S) \to B^{0} {\bar{B}}^{0} \to J / ψ K_{S}^{0} + J / ψ (η_{c}) K_{S}^{0}$

O. Tajima et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 211601 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Color Screening Melts Quarkonium

Ágnes Mócsy and Péter Petreczky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 211602 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Six-Quark Decays of the Higgs Boson in Supersymmetry with $R$ -Parity Violation

Linda M. Carpenter, David E. Kaplan, and Eun-Jung Rhee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 211801 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Color Transfer in Associated Heavy-Quarkonium Production

Gouranga C. Nayak, Jian-Wei Qiu, and George Sterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 212001 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Sivers Single-Spin Asymmetry in Photon-Jet Production

Alessandro Bacchetta, Cedran Bomhof, Umberto D’Alesio, Piet J. Mulders, and Francesco Murgia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 212002 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Spin and Magnetic Moment of ${}^{33}{Mg}$ : Evidence for a Negative-Parity Intruder Ground State

D. T. Yordanov, M. Kowalska, K. Blaum, M. De Rydt, K. T. Flanagan, P. Lievens, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, and H. H. Stroke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 212501 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Inclusion of Electric Octupole Contributions Explains the Fast Radiative Decays of Two Metastable States in ${Ar}^{+}$

P. Lundin, J. Gurell, L.-O. Norlin, P. Royen, S. Mannervik, P. Palmeri, P. Quinet, V. Fivet, and É. Biémont

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213001 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Photoelectric Effect at Ultrahigh Intensities

A. A. Sorokin, S. V. Bobashev, T. Feigl, K. Tiedtke, H. Wabnitz, and M. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213002 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Direct Determination of the Sign of the NO Dipole Moment

A. Gijsbertsen, W. Siu, M. F. Kling, P. Johnsson, P. Jansen, S. Stolte, and M. J. J. Vrakking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213003 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Intensity Inversion between Main and Satellite Lines in Atomic Photoionization

D. Cubaynes, S. Diehl, F. J. Wuilleumier, M. Meyer, E. Heinecke, T. Richter, and P. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213004 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Water Fragmentation and Energy Loss by Carbon Ions at the Distal Region of the Bragg Peak

E. C. Montenegro, M. B. Shah, H. Luna, S. W. J. Scully, A. L. F. de Barros, J. A. Wyer, and J. Lecointre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213201 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Cavity Nonlinear Optics at Low Photon Numbers from Collective Atomic Motion

Subhadeep Gupta, Kevin L. Moore, Kater W. Murch, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213601 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Geometric Resonance Cooling of Polarizable Particles in an Optical Waveguide

G. Szirmai and P. Domokos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213602 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Accelerating Airy Beams

G. A. Siviloglou, J. Broky, A. Dogariu, and D. N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 213901 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Deconstructing Spatiotemporal Chaos Using Local Symbolic Dynamics

Shawn D. Pethel, Ned J. Corron, and Erik Bollt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 214101 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Spatiotemporal Chaos of Self-Replicating Spots in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Hongli Wang and Qi Ouyang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 214102 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Mobility of Discrete Solitons in Quadratically Nonlinear Media

H. Susanto, P. G. Kevrekidis, R. Carretero-González, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Frantzeskakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 214103 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Nanometer-Resolved Collective Micromeniscus Oscillations through Optical Diffraction

Helmut Rathgen, Kazuyasu Sugiyama, Claus-Dieter Ohl, Detlef Lohse, and Frieder Mugele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 214501 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Free Volume and Finite-Size Effects in a Polymer Glass under Stress

Robert A. Riggleman, Hau-Nan Lee, M. D. Ediger, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 215501 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Origin of Polarity in Amorphous ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Anatoly I. Frenkel, David Ehre, Vera Lyahovitskaya, Leah Kanner, Ellen Wachtel, and Igor Lubomirsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 215502 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Stability and Dynamics of Frenkel Pairs in Si

M. J. Beck, L. Tsetseris, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 215503 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Tuning Oxygen Packing in Silica by Nonhydrostatic Pressure

Yunfeng Liang, Caetano R. Miranda, and Sandro Scandolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 215504 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Correlation between Dynamic Heterogeneity and Medium-Range Order in Two-Dimensional Glass-Forming Liquids

Takeshi Kawasaki, Takeaki Araki, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 215701 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Zero Thermal Expansion in a Nanostructured Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Crystal

Y. Zhang, Z. Islam, Y. Ren, P. A. Parilla, S. P. Ahrenkiel, P. L. Lee, A. Mascarenhas, M. J. McNevin, I. Naumov, H.-X. Fu, X.-Y. Huang, and J. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 215901 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Block-Copolymer Ordering with a Spatiotemporally Heterogeneous Mobility

August W. Bosse, Jack F. Douglas, Brian C. Berry, Ronald L. Jones, and Alamgir Karim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216101 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

What Orchestrates the Self-Assembly of Glycine Molecules on Cu(100)?

Ken Kanazawa, Atsushi Taninaka, Osamu Takeuchi, and Hidemi Shigekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216102 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Manifestation of Work Function Difference in High Order Gundlach Oscillation

C. L. Lin, S. M. Lu, W. B. Su, H. T. Shih, B. F. Wu, Y. D. Yao, C. S. Chang, and Tien T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216103 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Aging Effects across the Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions

J. Jaroszyński and Dragana Popović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216401 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Itinerant Ferromagnetism in the Multiorbital Hubbard Model: A Dynamical Mean-Field Study

Shiro Sakai, Ryotaro Arita, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216402 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Phase Diagram of the One-Dimensional Half-Filled Extended Hubbard Model

Satoshi Ejima and Satoshi Nishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216403 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Novel Mechanism of a Charge Density Wave in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide

D. W. Shen, B. P. Xie, J. F. Zhao, L. X. Yang, L. Fang, J. Shi, R. H. He, D. H. Lu, H. H. Wen, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216404 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Sample-Size Effects in the Magnetoresistance of Graphite

J. C. González, M. Muñoz, N. García, J. Barzola-Quiquia, D. Spoddig, K. Schindler, and P. Esquinazi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216601 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Minimum Electrical and Thermal Conductivity of Graphene: A Quasiclassical Approach

Maxim Trushin and John Schliemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216602 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Bipolaron Mechanism for Organic Magnetoresistance

P. A. Bobbert, T. D. Nguyen, F. W. A. van Oost, B. Koopmans, and M. Wohlgenannt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216801 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Biased Bilayer Graphene: Semiconductor with a Gap Tunable by the Electric Field Effect

Eduardo V. Castro, K. S. Novoselov, S. V. Morozov, N. M. R. Peres, J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos, Johan Nilsson, F. Guinea, A. K. Geim, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 216802 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Superconductivity in Novel Ge-Based Skutterudites: ${Sr, Ba} {Pt}_{4} {Ge}_{12}$

E. Bauer, A. Grytsiv, Xing-Qiu Chen, N. Melnychenko-Koblyuk, G. Hilscher, H. Kaldarar, H. Michor, E. Royanian, G. Giester, M. Rotter, R. Podloucky, and P. Rogl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217001 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Magnetic Interference Patterns and Vortices in Diffusive SNS Junctions

J. C. Cuevas and F. S. Bergeret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217002 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Phase States of Multiterminal Mesoscopic Normal-Metal–Superconductor Structures

P. Virtanen, J. Zou, I. Sosnin, V. T. Petrashov, and T. T. Heikkilä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217003 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Magnetic Field Switching between the Two Orbital-Ordered States in ${DyVO}_{3}$

S. Miyasaka, T. Yasue, J. Fujioka, Y. Yamasaki, Y. Okimoto, R. Kumai, T. Arima, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217201 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Electric Polarization, Magnetoelectric Effect, and Orbital State of a Layered Iron Oxide with Frustrated Geometry

A. Nagano, M. Naka, J. Nasu, and S. Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217202 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Giant Negative Magnetization in a Layered Organic Magnet

Randy S. Fishman and Fernando A. Reboredo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217203 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Subpicosecond Magnetization Reversal across Ferrimagnetic Compensation Points

C. D. Stanciu, A. Tsukamoto, A. V. Kimel, F. Hansteen, A. Kirilyuk, A. Itoh, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217204 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Spin Supersolid in an Anisotropic Spin-One Heisenberg Chain

P. Sengupta and C. D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217205 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Tunnel Spin Polarization Versus Energy for Clean and Doped ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$ Barriers

B. G. Park, T. Banerjee, J. C. Lodder, and R. Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217206 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Competing Ordered Phases in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ : Hydrostatic Pressure and Rhenium Substitution

J. R. Jeffries, N. P. Butch, B. T. Yukich, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217207 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Creep and Flow Regimes of Magnetic Domain-Wall Motion in Ultrathin $Pt / Co / Pt$ Films with Perpendicular Anisotropy

P. J. Metaxas, J. P. Jamet, A. Mougin, M. Cormier, J. Ferré, V. Baltz, B. Rodmacq, B. Dieny, and R. L. Stamps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217208 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007

Theory of Fast Optical Spin Rotation in a Quantum Dot Based on Geometric Phases and Trapped States

Sophia E. Economou and T. L. Reinecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217401 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Field-Induced Paramagnons at the Metamagnetic Transition of ${Ca}_{1.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {RuO}_{4}$

P. Steffens, Y. Sidis, P. Link, K. Schmalzl, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Maeno, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217402 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Ultranarrow Optical Absorption and Two-Phonon Excitation Spectroscopy of ${Cu}_{2} O$ Paraexcitons in a High Magnetic Field

Jan Brandt, Dietmar Fröhlich, Christian Sandfort, Manfred Bayer, Heinrich Stolz, and Nobuko Naka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217403 (2007) - Published 19 November, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Orientational Coupling Amplification in Ferroelectric Nematic Colloids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 147801 (2006)]

Fenghua Li, Oleksandr Buchnev, Chae Il Cheon, Anatoliy Glushchenko, Victor Reshetnyak, Yuri Reznikov, Timothy J. Sluckin, and John L. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 219901 (2007) - Published 20 November, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Anderson Localization of Bogolyubov Quasiparticles in Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 180402 (2007)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 219902 (2007) - Published 21 November, 2007