Volume 99, Issue 26

31 December 2007

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On the Cover

The top image shows the magnetic field lines of a freely moving spheromak (a nonlinear whistler wave packet) launched from a coil antenna in a magnetized laboratory plasma. As it moves, the spheromak heats electrons in the plasma, giving rise to a non-Maxwellian velocity distribution which creates an instability; this instability in turn drives linear whistler waves, which are radiated away along the ambient magnetic field (bottom image).

From the article:

Whistler Instability in an Electron-Magnetohydrodynamic Spheromak
R. L. Stenzel, J. M. Urrutia, and K. D. Strohmaier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265005 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Persistent Flow of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Toroidal Trap

C. Ryu, M. F. Andersen, P. Cladé, Vasant Natarajan, K. Helmerson, and W. D. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 260401 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the $β^{+}$ and Orbital Electron-Capture Decay Rates in Fully Ionized, Hydrogenlike, and Heliumlike ${}^{140}\Pr$ Ions

Yu. A. Litvinov et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262501 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Persistent Flow of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Toroidal Trap

C. Ryu, M. F. Andersen, P. Cladé, Vasant Natarajan, K. Helmerson, and W. D. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 260401 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Quantum Computing with Collective Ensembles of Multilevel Systems

E. Brion, K. Mølmer, and M. Saffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 260501 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Self-Regulation of Solar Coronal Heating Process via the Collisionless Reconnection Condition

Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 261101 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Unifying Inflation and Dark Matter with Neutrino Masses

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Bhaskar Dutta, and Anupam Mazumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 261301 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anomaly Mediated Neutrino-Photon Interactions at Finite Baryon Density

Jeffrey A. Harvey, Christopher T. Hill, and Richard J. Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 261601 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Evidence for Charged $B$ Meson Decays to $a_{1}^{\pm} (1260) π^{0}$ and $a_{1}^{0} (1260) π^{\pm}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 261801 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Two-Photon-Exchange and $γ Z$ -Exchange Corrections to Parity-Violating Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

Hai Qing Zhou, Chung Wen Kao, and Shin Nan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262001 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Method for Determining the $D^{0} - {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing Parameters

Nita Sinha, Rahul Sinha, T. E. Browder, N. G. Deshpande, and Sandip Pakvasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262002 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Particle Multiplicities in Lead-Lead Collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider from Nonlinear Evolution with Running Coupling Corrections

Javier L. Albacete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262301 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Search for Medium Modifications of the $ρ$ Meson

R. Nasseripour et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262302 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the $β^{+}$ and Orbital Electron-Capture Decay Rates in Fully Ionized, Hydrogenlike, and Heliumlike ${}^{140}\Pr$ Ions

Yu. A. Litvinov et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262501 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Cold Neutron Energy Dependent Production of Ultracold Neutrons in Solid Deuterium

F. Atchison et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 262502 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin Echo Formation in the Presence of Stochastic Dynamics

Paul P. Zänker, Jochen Schmidt, Jörg Schmiedeskamp, Rodolfo H. Acosta, and Hans W. Spiess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 263001 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Binary and Recoil Collisions in Strong Field Double Ionization of Helium

A. Staudte, C. Ruiz, M. Schöffler, S. Schössler, D. Zeidler, Th. Weber, M. Meckel, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, A. Becker, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 263002 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Correlated Two-Electron Momentum Spectra for Strong-Field Nonsequential Double Ionization of He at 800 nm

A. Rudenko, V. L. B. de Jesus, Th. Ergler, K. Zrost, B. Feuerstein, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 263003 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Identifying Wave-Packet Fractional Revivals by Means of Information Entropy

Elvira Romera and Francisco de los Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 263601 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatiotemporal Antiphase Dynamics in Coupled Extended Optical Media

E. Louvergneaux, F. Rogister, and P. Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 263901 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Frequency Comb Vernier Spectroscopy for Broadband, High-Resolution, High-Sensitivity Absorption and Dispersion Spectra

Christoph Gohle, Björn Stein, Albert Schliesser, Thomas Udem, and Theodor W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 263902 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Can Aerosols Be Trapped in Open Flows?

Rafael D. Vilela and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 264101 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Zone-Doubling Technique to Produce Ultrahigh-Resolution X-Ray Optics

K. Jefimovs, J. Vila-Comamala, T. Pilvi, J. Raabe, M. Ritala, and C. David

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 264801 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Supersonic-Jet Experiments Using a High-Energy Laser

B. Loupias, M. Koenig, E. Falize, S. Bouquet, N. Ozaki, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, T. Vinci, C. Michaut, M. Rabec le Goahec, W. Nazarov, C. Courtois, Y. Aglitskiy, A. Ya. Faenov, and T. Pikuz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265001 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Iron-Plasma Transmission Measurements at Temperatures Above 150 eV

J. E. Bailey, G. A. Rochau, C. A. Iglesias, J. Abdallah, Jr., J. J. MacFarlane, I. Golovkin, P. Wang, R. C. Mancini, P. W. Lake, T. C. Moore, M. Bump, O. Garcia, and S. Mazevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265002 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Wave-Particle Decorrelation and Transport of Anisotropic Turbulence in Collisionless Plasmas

Z. Lin, I. Holod, L. Chen, P. H. Diamond, T. S. Hahm, and S. Ethier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265003 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Saturation of Backward Stimulated Scattering of a Laser Beam in the Kinetic Regime

L. Yin, B. J. Albright, K. J. Bowers, W. Daughton, and H. A. Rose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265004 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Whistler Instability in an Electron-Magnetohydrodynamic Spheromak

R. L. Stenzel, J. M. Urrutia, and K. D. Strohmaier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265005 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Turbulence in a Propagating Superfluid Vortex Front

V. B. Eltsov, A. I. Golov, R. de Graaf, R. Hänninen, M. Krusius, V. S. L’vov, and R. E. Solntsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265301 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Dissipation of Quantum Turbulence in the Zero Temperature Limit

P. M. Walmsley, A. I. Golov, H. E. Hall, A. A. Levchenko, and W. F. Vinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265302 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

${Mn}^{2 +}$ as a Radial Pressure Gauge in Colloidal Core/Shell Nanocrystals

Sandrine Ithurria, Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, Benoit Mahler, and Benoit Dubertret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265501 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Second Sound in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Akitoshi Koreeda, Ryuta Takano, and Seishiro Saikan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 265502 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

In Situ Real-Time Observation of Thin Film Deposition: Roughening, Zeno Effect, Grain Boundary Crossing Barrier, and Steering

M. J. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266101 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Revelation of the Role of Impurities and Conduction Electron Density in the High Resolution Photoemission Study of Ferromagnetic Hexaborides

Kalobaran Maiti, V. R. R. Medicherla, Swapnil Patil, and Ravi Shankar Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266401 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Understanding Correlations in Vanadium Dioxide from First Principles

Matteo Gatti, Fabien Bruneval, Valerio Olevano, and Lucia Reining

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266402 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Spin-Triplet Pairing Instability of the Spinon Fermi Surface in a $U (1)$ Spin Liquid

Victor Galitski and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266403 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

Multifloquet to Single Electronic Channel Transition in the Transport Properties of a Resistive 1D Driven Disordered Ring

Federico Foieri, Liliana Arrachea, and María José Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 266601 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Scaling Equations for a Biopolymer in Salt Solution

Erik Geissler, Anne-Marie Hecht, and Ferenc Horkay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 267801 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007

Directing Colloidal Self-Assembly through Roughness-Controlled Depletion Attractions

Kun Zhao and Thomas G. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 268301 (2007) - Published 28 December, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Efimov States and Their Fano Resonances in a Neutron-Rich Nucleus”

M. T. Yamashita, T. Frederico, and Lauro Tomio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 269201 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

Mazumdar, Rau, and Bhasin Reply:

I. Mazumdar, A. R. P. Rau, and V. S. Bhasin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 269202 (2007) - Published 27 December, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Nuclear Emissions during Self-Nucleated Acoustic Cavitation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034301 (2006)]

R. P. Taleyarkhan, C. D. West, R. T. Lahey, Jr., R. I. Nigmatulin, R. C. Block, and Y. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 269901 (2007) - Published 26 December, 2007