Volume 99, Issue 23

7 December 2007

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On the Cover

Trajectory of a buoyant sensor's temperature and position in a Rayleigh-Bénard convective flow. Flow temperatures range from 27 °C (violet) to 30 °C (red) at millimeter resolution.

From the article:

Lagrangian Temperature, Velocity, and Local Heat Flux Measurement in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Y. Gasteuil, W. L. Shew, M. Gibert, F. Chillá, B. Castaing, and J.-F. Pinton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234302 (2007)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Which Wei Wang?

Gene D. Sprouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230001 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Brownian Gyrator: A Minimal Heat Engine on the Nanoscale

Roger Filliger and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230602 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Stopping Power in LiF from First Principles

J. M. Pruneda, D. Sánchez-Portal, A. Arnau, J. I. Juaristi, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235501 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Valley-Contrasting Physics in Graphene: Magnetic Moment and Topological Transport

Di Xiao, Wang Yao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236809 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

LETTERS

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

Testing Born-Infeld Electrodynamics in Waveguides

Rafael Ferraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230401 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Soluble Models of Strongly Interacting Ultracold Gas Mixtures in Tight Waveguides

M. D. Girardeau and A. Minguzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230402 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Superfluid-Insulator Transitions of the Fermi Gas with Near-Unitary Interactions in a Periodic Potential

Eun Gook Moon, Predrag Nikolić, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230403 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Effects of Dissipation on a Quantum Critical Point with Disorder

José A. Hoyos, Chetan Kotabage, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230601 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Brownian Gyrator: A Minimal Heat Engine on the Nanoscale

Roger Filliger and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230602 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Fractional Generalization of Fick’s Law: A Microscopic Approach

I. Calvo, R. Sánchez, B. A. Carreras, and B. Ph. van Milligen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 230603 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Are Neutron Stars with Crystalline Color-Superconducting Cores Relevant for the LIGO Experiment?

B. Haskell, N. Andersson, D. I. Jones, and L. Samuelsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231101 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

Detecting Axionlike Particles with Gamma Ray Telescopes

Dan Hooper and Pasquale D. Serpico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231102 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Upper Bound on the Dark Matter Total Annihilation Cross Section

John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, and Gregory D. Mack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231301 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Plasma Suppression of Large Scale Structure Formation in the Universe

Pisin Chen and Kwang-Chang Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231302 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Two-Loop Effective Theory Analysis of $π$ $(K) \to e {\bar{ν}}_{e} [γ]$ Branching Ratios

Vincenzo Cirigliano and Ignasi Rosell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231801 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Measurement of $\cos 2 β$ in $B^{0} \to D^{(*)} h^{0}$ Decays with a Time-Dependent Dalitz Plot Analysis of $D \to K_{s}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 231802 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Density Fluctuations in the Presence of Spinodal Instabilities

C. Sasaki, B. Friman, and K. Redlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 232301 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Shear Viscosity of Neutron Matter from Realistic Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions

Omar Benhar and Marco Valli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 232501 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Attosecond Control of Ionization by Wave-Packet Interference

P. Johnsson, J. Mauritsson, T. Remetter, A. L’Huillier, and K. J. Schafer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233001 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Universal Properties of a Trapped Two-Component Fermi Gas at Unitarity

D. Blume, J. von Stecher, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233201 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Highly Charged Ions from Laser-Cluster Interactions: Local-Field-Enhanced Impact Ionization and Frustrated Electron-Ion Recombination

Thomas Fennel, Lora Ramunno, and Thomas Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233401 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Cylindrical Invisibility Cloak with Simplified Material Parameters is Inherently Visible

Min Yan, Zhichao Ruan, and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233901 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

Observation of Resonant Behavior in the Energy Velocity of Diffused Light

R. Sapienza, P. D. García, J. Bertolotti, M. D. Martín, Á. Blanco, L. Viña, C. López, and D. S. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233902 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Resonant Mode Oscillations in Modulated Waveguiding Structures

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 233903 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Fractional $ℏ$ Scaling for Quantum Kicked Rotors without Cantori

J. Wang, T. S. Monteiro, S. Fishman, J. P. Keating, and R. Schubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234101 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

Compactification of Patterns by a Singular Convection or Stress

Philip Rosenau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234102 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Plasma Characteristics of the Discharge Produced during Mechanoluminescence

Nathan C. Eddingsaas and Kenneth S. Suslick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234301 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Lagrangian Temperature, Velocity, and Local Heat Flux Measurement in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Y. Gasteuil, W. L. Shew, M. Gibert, F. Chillá, B. Castaing, and J.-F. Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234302 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Scaling Properties of Coating Flows in Rectangular Channels

A. de Lózar, A. L. Hazel, and A. Juel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234501 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Influence of Substrate Conductivity on Circulation Reversal in Evaporating Drops

W. D. Ristenpart, P. G. Kim, C. Domingues, J. Wan, and H. A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234502 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Directed Percolation Criticality in Turbulent Liquid Crystals

Kazumasa A. Takeuchi, Masafumi Kuroda, Hugues Chaté, and Masaki Sano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234503 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Mean Velocity Profile in Confined Turbulent Convection

Ronald du Puits, Christian Resagk, and André Thess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234504 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Violation of the Porod Law in a Freely Cooling Granular Gas in One Dimension

Mahendra Shinde, Dibyendu Das, and R. Rajesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234505 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Direct Measurement of the Double Emittance Minimum in the Beam Dynamics of the Sparc High-Brightness Photoinjector

M. Ferrario et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 234801 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Steady-State Properties of Driven Magnetic Reconnection in 2D Electron Magnetohydrodynamics

L. Chacón, Andrei N. Simakov, and A. Zocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235001 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

Charge and Current Neutralization of an Ion-Beam Pulse Propagating in a Background Plasma along a Solenoidal Magnetic Field

I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev, A. B. Sefkow, and R. C. Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235002 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Magnetic Double-Gradient Instability and Flapping Waves in a Current Sheet

N. V. Erkaev, V. S. Semenov, and H. K. Biernat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235003 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Stopping Power in LiF from First Principles

J. M. Pruneda, D. Sánchez-Portal, A. Arnau, J. I. Juaristi, and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235501 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Ultralow-Density Nanocage-Based Metal-Oxide Polymorphs

Javier Carrasco, Francesc Illas, and Stefan T. Bromley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235502 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

How do Quasicrystals Grow?

Aaron S. Keys and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235503 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Electrically Benign Behavior of Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline ${CuInSe}_{2}$ Films

Yanfa Yan, C.-S. Jiang, R. Noufi, Su-Huai Wei, H. R. Moutinho, and M. M. Al-Jassim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235504 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Critical Shape and Size for Dislocation Nucleation in ${Si}_{1 - x} {Ge}_{x}$ Islands on Si(001)

A. Marzegalli, V. A. Zinovyev, F. Montalenti, A. Rastelli, M. Stoffel, T. Merdzhanova, O. G. Schmidt, and Leo Miglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235505 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Hard Disks on the Hyperbolic Plane

Carl D. Modes and Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235701 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Phase Coexistence of Cluster Crystals: Beyond the Gibbs Phase Rule

Bianca M. Mladek, Patrick Charbonneau, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 235702 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Partial Field-Induced Magnetic Order in the Spin-Liquid Kagomé ${Nd}_{3} {Ga}_{5} {SiO}_{14}$

H. D. Zhou, B. W. Vogt, J. A. Janik, Y.-J. Jo, L. Balicas, Y. Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, J. S. Gardner, and C. R. Wiebe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236401 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Transport and Percolation in a Low-Density High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Hole System

M. J. Manfra, E. H. Hwang, S. Das Sarma, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and A. M. Sergent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236402 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Disorder Induced Transition into a One-Dimensional Wigner Glass

Shimul Akhanjee and Joseph Rudnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236403 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Quantum Phase Transition in the Two-Band Hubbard Model

T. A. Costi and A. Liebsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236404 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Ab initio Method for Calculating Electron-Phonon Scattering Times in Semiconductors: Application to GaAs and GaP

Jelena Sjakste, Nathalie Vast, and Valeriy Tyuterev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236405 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

Vacuum Polarization and Screening of Supercritical Impurities in Graphene

A. V. Shytov, M. I. Katsnelson, and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236801 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Phonon-Induced Many-Body Renormalization of the Electronic Properties of Graphene

Wang-Kong Tse and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236802 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Experimental Test of the High-Frequency Quantum Shot Noise Theory in a Quantum Point Contact

E. Zakka-Bajjani, J. Ségala, F. Portier, P. Roche, D. C. Glattli, A. Cavanna, and Y. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236803 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Intrinsic Spin-Hall Effect: Topological Transitions in Two-Dimensional Systems

O. E. Raichev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236804 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Polar Discontinuity Doping of the ${LaVO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

Y. Hotta, T. Susaki, and H. Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236805 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Particle-Hole Symmetry and the Pfaffian State

Michael Levin, Bertrand I. Halperin, and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236806 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Particle-Hole Symmetry and the $ν = \frac{5}{2}$ Quantum Hall State

Sung-Sik Lee, Shinsei Ryu, Chetan Nayak, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236807 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Imaginary-Time Formulation of Steady-State Nonequilibrium: Application to Strongly Correlated Transport

J. E. Han and R. J. Heary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236808 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Valley-Contrasting Physics in Graphene: Magnetic Moment and Topological Transport

Di Xiao, Wang Yao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236809 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007

High-Energy Kink in the Single-Particle Spectra of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Alexandru Macridin, M. Jarrell, Thomas Maier, and D. J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 237001 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Momentum and Energy Dependence of the Anomalous High-Energy Dispersion in the Electronic Structure of High Temperature Superconductors

D. S. Inosov, J. Fink, A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, V. B. Zabolotnyy, R. Schuster, M. Knupfer, B. Büchner, R. Follath, H. A. Dürr, W. Eberhardt, V. Hinkov, B. Keimer, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 237002 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Valence Changes and Structural Distortions in “Charge Ordered” Manganites Quantified by Atomic-Scale Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

J. C. Loudon, L. Fitting Kourkoutis, J. S. Ahn, C. L. Zhang, S.-W. Cheong, and D. A. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 237205 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Limits on the Time Variation of the Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant in the Low Energy Limit from Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Distant Quasars”

M. T. Murphy, J. K. Webb, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239001 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

Srianand et al. Reply:

R. Srianand, H. Chand, P. Petitjean, and B. Aracil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239002 (2007) - Published 6 December, 2007

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Field-Induced Paramagnons at the Metamagnetic Transition of ${Ca}_{1.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {RuO}_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 217402 (2007)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239901 (2007) - Published 3 December, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Generation of Spin Currents and Spin Densities in Systems with Reduced Symmetry [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 226601 (2007)]

Dimitrie Culcer and R. Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239902 (2007) - Published 4 December, 2007

Erratum: Evidence of a Symmetry-Dependent Metallic Barrier in Fully Epitaxial MgO Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 187202 (2007)]

F. Greullet, C. Tiusan, F. Montaigne, M. Hehn, D. Halley, O. Bengone, M. Bowen, and W. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239903 (2007) - Published 5 December, 2007

Erratum: Probing Nanoscale Solids at Thermal Extremes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 155901 (2007)]

Gavi E. Begtrup, Keith G. Ray, Brian M. Kessler, Thomas D. Yuzvinsky, Henry Garcia, and Alex Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 239904 (2007) - Published 7 December, 2007