Volume 99, Issue 25

21 December 2007

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On the Cover

Topography of an MnPc molecule adsorbed on a Pb island. The Kondo resonance can be tuned by manipulating the electronic structure of the host Pb island.

From the article:

Manipulating the Kondo Resonance through Quantum Size Effects
Ying-Shuang Fu, Shuai-Hua Ji, Xi Chen, Xu-Cun Ma, Rui Wu, Chen-Chen Wang, Wen-Hui Duan, Xiao-Hui Qiu, Bo Sun, Ping Zhang, Jin-Feng Jia, and Qi-Kun Xue
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256601 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nuclear Charge Radius of ${}^{8}{He}$

P. Mueller, I. A. Sulai, A. C. C. Villari, J. A. Alcántara-Núñez, R. Alves-Condé, K. Bailey, G. W. F. Drake, M. Dubois, C. Eléon, G. Gaubert, R. J. Holt, R. V. F. Janssens, N. Lecesne, Z.-T. Lu, T. P. O’Connor, M.-G. Saint-Laurent, J.-C. Thomas, and L.-B. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 252501 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

LETTERS

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

Bold Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Technique: When the Sign Problem Is Welcome

Nikolay Prokof’ev and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250201 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Creating and Probing Multipartite Macroscopic Entanglement with Light

M. Paternostro, D. Vitali, S. Gigan, M. S. Kim, C. Brukner, J. Eisert, and M. Aspelmeyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250401 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

BCS-BEC Crossover in a Random External Potential

G. Orso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250402 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Quasi-One-Dimensional Polarized Fermi Superfluids

Meera M. Parish, Stefan K. Baur, Erich J. Mueller, and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250403 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Macroscopic Atom-Molecule Dark State and Its Collective Excitations in Fermionic Systems

Andrew Robertson, Lei Jiang, Han Pu, Weiping Zhang, and Hong Y. Ling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250404 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Optimal Spin Squeezing Inequalities Detect Bound Entanglement in Spin Models

Géza Tóth, Christian Knapp, Otfried Gühne, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250405 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Vortex Pump for Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates

Mikko Möttönen, Ville Pietilä, and Sami M. M. Virtanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250406 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Knill-Laflamme-Milburn Linear Optics Quantum Computation as a Measurement-Based Computation

Sandu Popescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250501 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Synthesis and Analysis of Entangled Photonic Qubits in Spatial-Parity Space

Timothy Yarnall, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250502 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Experimental Demonstration of Decoherence-Free One-Way Information Transfer

R. Prevedel, M. S. Tame, A. Stefanov, M. Paternostro, M. S. Kim, and A. Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250503 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Demonstration of a Compiled Version of Shor’s Quantum Factoring Algorithm Using Photonic Qubits

Chao-Yang Lu, Daniel E. Browne, Tao Yang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250504 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Experimental Demonstration of a Compiled Version of Shor’s Algorithm with Quantum Entanglement

B. P. Lanyon, T. J. Weinhold, N. K. Langford, M. Barbieri, D. F. V. James, A. Gilchrist, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250505 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Simulations of Information Transport in Spin Chains

P. Cappellaro, C. Ramanathan, and D. G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250506 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Role of Spin Noise in the Detection of Nanoscale Ensembles of Nuclear Spins

C. L. Degen, M. Poggio, H. J. Mamin, and D. Rugar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250601 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Exact Solution to the Averaging Problem in Cosmology

David L. Wiltshire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 251101 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of $C P$ Violation Parameters with a Dalitz Plot Analysis of $B^{\pm} \to D_{π^{+} π^{-} π^{0}} K^{\pm}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 251801 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Landscape of Supersymmetric Particle Mass Hierarchies and their Signature Space at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Daniel Feldman, Zuowei Liu, and Pran Nath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 251802 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Improved Limits on the Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays $τ^{-} \to l^{-} l^{+} l^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 251803 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nuclear Charge Radius of ${}^{8}{He}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 252501 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Passive Electrostatic Recycling Spectrometer of Desk-Top Size for Charged Particles of Low Kinetic Energy

D. R. Tessier, Y. Niu, D. P. Seccombe, T. J. Reddish, A. J. Alderman, B. G. Birdsey, F. H. Read, and P. Hammond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 253201 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Observation of $p$ -Wave Threshold Behavior in Electron Attachment to $F_{2}$ Molecules

M. Braun, M.-W. Ruf, I. I. Fabrikant, and H. Hotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 253202 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Collective Atomic Recoil Lasing with a Partially Coherent Pump

G. R. M. Robb and W. J. Firth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 253601 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Observation of Strong Photon Localization in Disordered Photonic Crystal Waveguides

J. Topolancik, B. Ilic, and F. Vollmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 253901 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Localized Modes in a Finite-Size Open Disordered Microwave Cavity

David Laurent, Olivier Legrand, Patrick Sebbah, Christian Vanneste, and Fabrice Mortessagne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 253902 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Quantum Path Interference in the Wavelength Dependence of High-Harmonic Generation

K. Schiessl, K. L. Ishikawa, E. Persson, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 253903 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Developable Modes in Vibrated Thin Plates

Arezki Boudaoud, Eugenio Hamm, and Francisco Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 254301 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Gauge Symmetry and Slavnov-Taylor Identities for Randomly Stirred Fluids

Arjun Berera and David Hochberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 254501 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Energy Spectra Stemming from Interactions of Alfvén Waves and Turbulent Eddies

P. D. Mininni and A. Pouquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 254502 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Hosing Instability in the Blow-Out Regime for Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration

C. Huang, W. Lu, M. Zhou, C. E. Clayton, C. Joshi, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, S. Deng, E. Oz, T. Katsouleas, M. J. Hogan, I. Blumenfeld, F. J. Decker, R. Ischebeck, R. H. Iverson, N. A. Kirby, and D. Walz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255001 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Evidence for an Elongated ( $> 60$ Ion Skin Depths) Electron Diffusion Region during Fast Magnetic Reconnection

T. D. Phan, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, F. S. Mozer, and J. P. Eastwood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255002 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Prediction of Net Energy Gain in Deuterium-Beam Interactions with an Inertially Confined Plasma

M. Sherlock, S. J. Rose, and A. P. L. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255003 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Superfluidity of ${}^{4}{He}$ in One and Three Dimensions Realized in Nanopores

Ryo Toda, Mitsunori Hieda, Taku Matsushita, Nobuo Wada, Junko Taniguchi, Hiroki Ikegami, Shinji Inagaki, and Yoshiaki Fukushima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255301 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Size Limit of Defect Formation in Pyramidal Pt Nanocontacts

V. Rodrigues, F. Sato, D. S. Galvão, and D. Ugarte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255501 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Thermal Conductivity of Isolated and Interacting Carbon Nanotubes: Comparing Results from Molecular Dynamics and the Boltzmann Transport Equation

Davide Donadio and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255502 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Microstrain Sensitivity of Orbital and Electronic Phase Separation in ${SrCrO}_{3}$

Luis Ortega-San-Martin, Anthony J. Williams, Jennifer Rodgers, J. Paul Attfield, Gunter Heymann, and Hubert Huppertz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 255701 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Dimensionally Frustrated Diffusion towards Fractal Adsorbers

Pradeep R. Nair and Muhammad A. Alam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256101 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Long-Range Order in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors

S. N. Artemenko and Thomas Nattermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256401 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Incommensurate Charge Order Phase in ${Fe}_{2} {OBO}_{3}$ due to Geometrical Frustration

M. Angst, R. P. Hermann, W. Schweika, J.-W. Kim, P. Khalifah, H. J. Xiang, M.-H. Whangbo, D.-H. Kim, B. C. Sales, and D. Mandrus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256402 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Mott Transition in a Valence-Bond Solid Insulator with a Triangular Lattice

Y. Shimizu, H. Akimoto, H. Tsujii, A. Tajima, and R. Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256403 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Quasiparticle Bands in Cuprates by Quantum-Chemical Methods: Towards an Ab Initio Description of Strong Electron Correlations

L. Hozoi and M. S. Laad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256404 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Nuclear Spin Nanomagnet in an Optically Excited Quantum Dot

V. L. Korenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256405 (2007) - Published 19 December, 2007

Spin Polaron Theory for the Photoemission Spectra of Layered Cobaltates

Jiří Chaloupka and Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256406 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Cesium-Filled Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes as Conducting Nanowires: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy Study

S. H. Kim, W. I. Choi, G. Kim, Y. J. Song, G.-H. Jeong, R. Hatakeyama, J. Ihm, and Y. Kuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256407 (2007) - Published 21 December, 2007

Manipulating the Kondo Resonance through Quantum Size Effects

Ying-Shuang Fu, Shuai-Hua Ji, Xi Chen, Xu-Cun Ma, Rui Wu, Chen-Chen Wang, Wen-Hui Duan, Xiao-Hui Qiu, Bo Sun, Ping Zhang, Jin-Feng Jia, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256601 (2007) - Published 20 December, 2007

Impact of Bidirectional Charge Transfer and Molecular Distortions on the Electronic Structure of a Metal-Organic Interface

Lorenz Romaner, Georg Heimel, Jean-Luc Brédas, Alexander Gerlach, Frank Schreiber, Robert L. Johnson, Jörg Zegenhagen, Steffen Duhm, Norbert Koch, and Egbert Zojer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 256801 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Vortex Redistribution below the First-Order Transition Temperature in the $β$ -Pyrochlore Superconductor ${KOs}_{2} O_{6}$

T. Shibauchi, M. Konczykowski, C. J. van der Beek, R. Okazaki, Y. Matsuda, J. Yamaura, Y. Nagao, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 257001 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Superconducting Gap in the Hubbard Model and the Two-Gap Energy Scales of High- $T_{c}$ Cuprate Superconductors

M. Aichhorn, E. Arrigoni, Z. B. Huang, and W. Hanke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 257002 (2007) - Published 17 December, 2007

Localized Superconductivity in the Quantum-Critical Region of the Disorder-Driven Superconductor-Insulator Transition in TiN Thin Films

T. I. Baturina, A. Yu. Mironov, V. M. Vinokur, M. R. Baklanov, and C. Strunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 257003 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Generalized Rotating-Wave Approximation for Arbitrarily Large Coupling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173601 (2007)]

E. K. Twyeffort Irish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 259901 (2007) - Published 18 December, 2007