Volume 99, Issue 22

30 November 2007

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On the Cover

A dynamo mode with a wavy spatial distribution of magnetic energy and field lines, from full magnetohydrodynamic simulations of subcritical dynamo bifurcation.

From the article:

Subcritical Dynamo Bifurcation in the Taylor-Green Flow
Y. Ponty, J.-P. Laval, B. Dubrulle, F. Daviaud, and J.-F. Pinton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 224501 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entanglement Renormalization

G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220405 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole in M Theory

Gary T. Horowitz and Matthew M. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 221601 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Parametrically Stimulated Recovery of a Microwave Signal Stored in Standing Spin-Wave Modes of a Magnetic Film

A. A. Serga, A. V. Chumak, A. André, G. A. Melkov, A. N. Slavin, S. O. Demokritov, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227202 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Excitons in One-Dimensional Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Feng Wang, David J. Cho, Brian Kessler, Jack Deslippe, P. James Schuck, Steven G. Louie, Alex Zettl, Tony F. Heinz, and Y. Ron Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227401 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

LETTERS

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

Quantum Reconstruction of an Intense Polarization Squeezed Optical State

Ch. Marquardt, J. Heersink, R. Dong, M. V. Chekhova, A. B. Klimov, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, U. L. Andersen, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220401 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Bipartite All-Versus-Nothing Proofs of Bell’s Theorem with Single-Qubit Measurements

Adán Cabello and Pilar Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220402 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Dynamical Control of Matter-Wave Tunneling in Periodic Potentials

H. Lignier, C. Sias, D. Ciampini, Y. Singh, A. Zenesini, O. Morsch, and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220403 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Spatial Pair Correlations of Atoms in Molecular Dissociation

C. M. Savage and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220404 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entanglement Renormalization

G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220405 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

General Theory of Carrier-Envelope Phase Effects

V. Roudnev and B. D. Esry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220406 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Holographic Storage of Multiple Coherence Gratings in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Yutaka Yoshikawa, Kazuyuki Nakayama, Yoshio Torii, and Takahiro Kuga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220407 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Universal Geometric Theory of Mesoscopic Stochastic Pumps and Reversible Ratchets

N. A. Sinitsyn and Ilya Nemenman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220408 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Fidelity Enhancement by Logical Qubit Encoding

Michael K. Henry, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Jonathan S. Hodges, Colm A. Ryan, Michael J. Ditty, Raymond Laflamme, and David G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220501 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Bell’s Inequality and Universal Quantum Gates in a Cold-Atom Chiral Fermionic $p$ -Wave Superfluid

Chuanwei Zhang, Sumanta Tewari, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220502 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Interaction-Controlled Transport of an Ultracold Fermi Gas

Niels Strohmaier, Yosuke Takasu, Kenneth Günter, Robert Jördens, Michael Köhl, Henning Moritz, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220601 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Variational Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations with Tensor-Network States

A. W. Sandvik and G. Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 220602 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Wave Production at the End of Inflation

Richard Easther, John T. Giblin, Jr., and Eugene A. Lim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 221301 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Counting the Microstates of a Kerr Black Hole in M Theory

Gary T. Horowitz and Matthew M. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 221601 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Observation of the Decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} K^{-} π^{+}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 221801 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Search for $B \to h^{(*)} ν \bar{ν}$ Decays at Belle

K.-F. Chen et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 221802 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Push-Pull Laser-Atomic Oscillator

Y.-Y. Jau and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223001 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Spin-Exchange Collisions of Submerged Shell Atoms Below 1 Kelvin

J. G. E. Harris, S. V. Nguyen, S. C. Doret, W. Ketterle, and J. M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223201 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Quantum Superposition State Production by Continuous Observations and Feedback

Antonio Negretti, Uffe V. Poulsen, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223601 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Phase Detection at the Quantum Limit with Multiphoton Mach-Zehnder Interferometry

L. Pezzé, A. Smerzi, G. Khoury, J. F. Hodelin, and D. Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223602 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Purcell Enhancement of Spontaneous Emission from Quantum Cascades inside Mirror-Grating Metal Cavities at THz Frequencies

Yanko Todorov, Isabelle Sagnes, Izo Abram, and Christophe Minot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223603 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dispersive Shock Waves in Nonlinear Arrays

Shu Jia, Wenjie Wan, and Jason W. Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223901 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Observation of Conical Waves in Focusing, Dispersive, and Dissipative Kerr Media

P. Polesana, A. Couairon, D. Faccio, A. Parola, M. A. Porras, A. Dubietis, A. Piskarskas, and P. Di Trapani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223902 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Integrability, Stability, and Adiabaticity in Nonlinear Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage

A. P. Itin and S. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223903 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Self-Compression of Attosecond High-Order Harmonic Pulses

Kyung Taec Kim, Kyung Sik Kang, Mi Na Park, Tayyab Imran, G. Umesh, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223904 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Selective Amplification of Scars in a Chaotic Optical Fiber

Claire Michel, Valérie Doya, Olivier Legrand, and Fabrice Mortessagne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 224101 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Subcritical Dynamo Bifurcation in the Taylor-Green Flow

Y. Ponty, J.-P. Laval, B. Dubrulle, F. Daviaud, and J.-F. Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 224501 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Turbulent Diffusion of Magnetic Fields in Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence with Stable Stratification

Shane R. Keating and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 224502 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Settling and Swimming of Flexible Fluid-Lubricated Foils

M. Argentina, J. Skotheim, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 224503 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Elucidation of the Heat-Flux Limit from Magnetic-Island Heating

M. Z. Tokar and A. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 225001 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Hyperthermal Chaotic Photodesorption of Xenon from Alumina-Supported Silver Nanoparticles: Plasmonic Coupling and Plasmon-Induced Desorption

Kazuo Watanabe, Ki Hyun Kim, Dietrich Menzel, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 225501 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Vacancy Mechanism of High Oxygen Solubility and Nucleation of Stable Oxygen-Enriched Clusters in Fe

C. L. Fu, Maja Krčmar, G. S. Painter, and Xing-Qiu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 225502 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Rate Effects on Layering of a Confined Linear Alkane

Lionel Bureau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 225503 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Defect Cores Investigated by X-Ray Scattering close to Forbidden Reflections in Silicon

M.-I. Richard, T. H. Metzger, V. Holý, and K. Nordlund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 225504 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

High-Pressure Melting Curve of Nitrogen and the Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition

Goutam Dev Mukherjee and Reinhard Boehler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 225701 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Ferrodistortive Instability at the (001) Surface of Half-Metallic Manganites

J. M. Pruneda, V. Ferrari, R. Rurali, P. B. Littlewood, N. A. Spaldin, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226101 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Capture-Zone Scaling in Island Nucleation: Universal Fluctuation Behavior

Alberto Pimpinelli and T. L. Einstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226102 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Surface Metal-Insulator Transition on a Vanadium Pentoxide (001) Single Crystal

R.-P Blum, H. Niehus, C. Hucho, R. Fortrie, M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano, J. Sauer, S. Shaikhutdinov, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226103 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Specific Ion Adsorption at Hydrophobic Solid Surfaces

Dominik Horinek and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226104 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Orientationally Ordered ( $7 \times 7$ ) Superstructure of $C_{60}$ on Au(111)

G. Schull and R. Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226105 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Entropy-Mediated Patterning of Surfactant-Coated Nanoparticles and Surfaces

Chetana Singh, Pradip K. Ghorai, Mark A. Horsch, Alicia M. Jackson, Ronald G. Larson, Francesco Stellacci, and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226106 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Enhanced Photosusceptibility near $T_{c}$ for the Light-Induced Insulator-to-Metal Phase Transition in Vanadium Dioxide

D. J. Hilton, R. P. Prasankumar, S. Fourmaux, A. Cavalleri, D. Brassard, M. A. El Khakani, J. C. Kieffer, A. J. Taylor, and R. D. Averitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226401 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Temperature Dependence of the Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectra in the Undoped Cuprates: Self-Consistent Approach to the $t − J$ Holstein Model

V. Cataudella, G. De Filippis, A. S. Mishchenko, and N. Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226402 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Generation of Spin Currents and Spin Densities in Systems with Reduced Symmetry

Dimitrie Culcer and R. Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226601 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Bias Voltage Dependence of Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with MgO and ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$ Tunnel Barriers

Li Gao, Xin Jiang, See-Hun Yang, J. D. Burton, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Stuart S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226602 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Relaxation Dynamics in Quantum Electron Glasses

Z. Ovadyahu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226603 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Evolution of the Spin Hall Effect in Pt Nanowires: Size and Temperature Effects

Laurent Vila, Takashi Kimura, and YoshiChika Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226604 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Density Dependent Exchange Contribution to $\partial μ / \partial n$ and Compressibility in Graphene

E. H. Hwang, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226801 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Turbulence-Induced Magnetic Flux Asymmetry at Nanoscale Junctions

Neil Bushong, Yuriy Pershin, and Massimiliano Di Ventra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226802 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Quantum Critical Scaling in Graphene

Daniel E. Sheehy and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226803 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Standing Friedel Waves: A Quantum Probe of Electronic States in Nanoscale Devices

Jun-Qiang Lu, X.-G. Zhang, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226804 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Bistability in a Superconducting Al Thin Film Induced by Arrays of Fe-Nanodot Magnetic Vortices

J. E. Villegas, C.-P. Li, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227001 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Observation of Leggett’s Collective Mode in a Multiband ${MgB}_{2}$ Superconductor

G. Blumberg, A. Mialitsin, B. S. Dennis, M. V. Klein, N. D. Zhigadlo, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227002 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

Quantum Phases in a Doped Mott Insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice

Jun Liu, Nandini Trivedi, Yongbin Lee, B. N. Harmon, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227003 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Dual Nature of Improper Ferroelectricity in a Magnetoelectric Multiferroic

S. Picozzi, K. Yamauchi, B. Sanyal, I. A. Sergienko, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227201 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Parametrically Stimulated Recovery of a Microwave Signal Stored in Standing Spin-Wave Modes of a Magnetic Film

A. A. Serga, A. V. Chumak, A. André, G. A. Melkov, A. N. Slavin, S. O. Demokritov, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227202 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Magnetic Quantum Phase Transition in an Anisotropic Kondo Lattice

Matthew T. Glossop and Kevin Ingersent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227203 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Zero-Temperature Magnetic Transition in an Easy-Axis Kondo Lattice Model

Jian-Xin Zhu, Stefan Kirchner, Ralf Bulla, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227204 (2007) - Published 27 November, 2007

Onset of Ferromagnetism in Low-Doped ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$

B. L. Sheu, R. C. Myers, J.-M. Tang, N. Samarth, D. D. Awschalom, P. Schiffer, and M. E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227205 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Polarization Reversal in Multiferroic ${TbMnO}_{3}$ with a Rotating Magnetic Field Direction

N. Abe, K. Taniguchi, S. Ohtani, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa, and T. Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227206 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Microwave Assisted Switching of Single Domain ${Ni}_{80} {Fe}_{20}$ Elements

Georg Woltersdorf and Christian H. Back

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 227207 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Single Chains of Block Copolymers in Poor Solvents: Handshake, Spiral, and Lamellar Globules Formed by Geometric Frustration

Drew F. Parsons and David R. M. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 228302 (2007) - Published 30 November, 2007

Emergence of Communities in Weighted Networks

Jussi M. Kumpula, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Jari Saramäki, Kimmo Kaski, and János Kertész

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 228701 (2007) - Published 29 November, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Static Friction on the Fly: Velocity Depinning Transitions of Lubricants in Motion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 206101 (2007)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 229901 (2007) - Published 26 November, 2007

Erratum: Amplified Signal Response in Scale-Free Networks by Collaborative Signaling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 128701 (2007)]

Juan A. Acebrón, Sergi Lozano, and Alex Arenas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 229902 (2007) - Published 28 November, 2007

Volume 99, Issue 22

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

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