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Volume 99, Issue 3

20 July 2007
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Labyrinthine pattern of air fingers in a fluid-grain mixture forming as the fluid is drained through the hole in the center.

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Labyrinth Patterns in Confined Granular-Fluid Systems
B. Sandnes, H. A. Knudsen, K. J. Måløy, and E. G. Flekkøy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038001 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Luttinger Liquid in the Core of a Screw Dislocation in Helium-4

M. Boninsegni, A. B. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035301 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vortex Proliferation in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Regime on a Two-Dimensional Lattice of Bose-Einstein Condensates

V. Schweikhard, S. Tung, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030401 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Measurement of the Positive-Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant

D. B. Chitwood et al. (MuLan Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032001 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Localized and Delocalized Motion of Colloidal Particles on a Magnetic Bubble Lattice

Pietro Tierno, Tom H. Johansen, and Thomas M. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038303 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vortex Proliferation in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Regime on a Two-Dimensional Lattice of Bose-Einstein Condensates

V. Schweikhard, S. Tung, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030401 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Role of Excited States in the Splitting of a Trapped Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate by a Time-Dependent Barrier

Alexej I. Streltsov, Ofir E. Alon, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030402 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Variational Wave Functions and Their Overlap with the Ground State

Christophe Mora and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030403 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Quantum Information Processing with Delocalized Qubits under Global Control

Joseph Fitzsimons, Li Xiao, Simon C. Benjamin, and Jonathan A. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030501 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Diffusive Motion and Recurrence on an Idealized Galton Board

N. Chernov and D. Dolgopyat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030601 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Spontaneous Chirality via Long-Range Electrostatic Forces

Kevin L. Kohlstedt, Francisco J. Solis, Graziano Vernizzi, and Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030602 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Quantum Approach to Classical Statistical Mechanics

R. D. Somma, C. D. Batista, and G. Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030603 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Seesaw Mechanism for Scalar Fields as Possible Basis for Dark Energy

Kari Enqvist, Steen Hannestad, and Martin S. Sloth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 031301 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Role of h→ηη in Intermediate-Mass Higgs Boson Searches at the Large Hadron Collider

Kingman Cheung, Jeonghyeon Song, and Qi-Shu Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 031801 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Measurement of the Positive-Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant

D. B. Chitwood et al. (MuLan Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032001 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Measurement of the Muon Capture Rate in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton’s Pseudoscalar Coupling gP

V. A. Andreev et al. (MuCap Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032002 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Muon Capture

Andrzej Czarnecki, William J. Marciano, and Alberto Sirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032003 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Exact Solution of the Spin-Isospin Proton-Neutron Pairing Hamiltonian

S. Lerma H., B. Errea, J. Dukelsky, and W. Satuła

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032501 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Systematics of the First 2+ Excitation with the Gogny Interaction

G. F. Bertsch, M. Girod, S. Hilaire, J.-P. Delaroche, H. Goutte, and S. Péru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032502 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Relationship between Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties and Magnetic Interactions in Open-Shell Systems: A New Paradigm for Nonlinear Optics

Masayoshi Nakano, Ryohei Kishi, Suguru Ohta, Hideaki Takahashi, Takashi Kubo, Kenji Kamada, Koji Ohta, Edith Botek, and Benoit Champagne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 033001 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Piecewise Adiabatic Passage with a Series of Femtosecond Pulses

E. A. Shapiro, V. Milner, C. Menzel-Jones, and M. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 033002 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Atom-Molecule Rabi Oscillations in a Mott Insulator

N. Syassen, D. M. Bauer, M. Lettner, D. Dietze, T. Volz, S. Dürr, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 033201 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Boltzmann Kinetic Equation for Filtered Fluid Turbulence

Sharath S. Girimaji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 034501 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Turbulence Transition and the Edge of Chaos in Pipe Flow

Tobias M. Schneider, Bruno Eckhardt, and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 034502 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ultrahigh-Intensity Optical Slow-Wave Structure

B. D. Layer, A. York, T. M. Antonsen, S. Varma, Y.-H. Chen, Y. Leng, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035001 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of Ion-Temperature-Gradient Turbulence for the Optimized Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator

P. Xanthopoulos, F. Merz, T. Görler, and F. Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035002 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Luttinger Liquid in the Core of a Screw Dislocation in Helium-4

M. Boninsegni, A. B. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. V. Prokof’ev, B. V. Svistunov, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035301 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Lattice Dynamics of Incommensurate Composite Rb-IV and a Realization of the Monatomic Linear Chain Model

I. Loa, L. F. Lundegaard, M. I. McMahon, S. R. Evans, A. Bossak, and M. Krisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035501 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Mechanism of Elastic Softening Behavior in a Superlattice

Nobutomo Nakamura, Hirotsugu Ogi, Takeshi Yasui, Makoto Fujii, and Masahiko Hirao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035502 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Observation of the Boson Peak at the Surface of Vitreous Silica

W. Steurer, A. Apfolter, M. Koch, W. E. Ernst, B. Holst, E. Søndergård, and J. R. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 035503 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Relaxation of Residual Stress and Reentanglement of Polymers in Spin-Coated Films

Pascal Damman, Sylvain Gabriele, Séverine Coppée, Sylvain Desprez, Didier Villers, Thomas Vilmin, Elie Raphaël, Moustafa Hamieh, Samer Al Akhrass, and Günter Reiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036101 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Thin Film Compressive Stresses due to Adatom Insertion into Grain Boundaries

Chun-Wei Pao, Stephen M. Foiles, Edmund B. Webb, III, David J. Srolovitz, and Jerrold A. Floro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036102 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Achieving Epitaxy between Incommensurate Materials by Quasicrystalline Interlayers

K. J. Franke, P. Gille, K.-H. Rieder, and W. Theis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036103 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Smearing of the Two-Dimensional Kohn Anomaly in a Nonquantizing Magnetic Field: Implications for Interaction Effects

T. A. Sedrakyan, E. G. Mishchenko, and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036401 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Orbital-Occupancy versus Charge Ordering and the Strength of Electron Correlations in Electron-Doped CaMnO3

Weidong Luo, Alberto Franceschetti, Maria Varela, Jing Tao, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036402 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

High Precision Quantum Control of Single Donor Spins in Silicon

Rajib Rahman, Cameron J. Wellard, Forrest R. Bradbury, Marta Prada, Jared H. Cole, Gerhard Klimeck, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036403 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Nonlocal Coulomb Correlations in Metals Close to a Charge Order Insulator Transition

Jaime Merino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036404 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Perfectly Conducting Channel and Universality Crossover in Disordered Graphene Nanoribbons

Katsunori Wakabayashi, Yositake Takane, and Manfred Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036601 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Self-Polarization and Dynamical Cooling of Nuclear Spins in Double Quantum Dots

M. S. Rudner and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036602 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Noise Correlations in a Coulomb-Blockaded Quantum Dot

Yiming Zhang, L. DiCarlo, D. T. McClure, M. Yamamoto, S. Tarucha, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036603 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Nonequilibrium Nuclear-Electron Spin Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

D. H. Feng, I. A. Akimov, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036604 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Suppression of Spin Relaxation in an InAs Nanowire Double Quantum Dot

A. Pfund, I. Shorubalko, K. Ensslin, and R. Leturcq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036801 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Features in Ballistic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Conductance and Shot Noise

Na Young Kim, Patrik Recher, William D. Oliver, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Jing Kong, and Hongjie Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036802 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Anomalous Resistance Ridges along Filling Factor ν=4i

K. Takashina, M. Brun, T. Ota, D. K. Maude, A. Fujiwara, Y. Ono, Y. Takahashi, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036803 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Interplay of Ehrenfest and Dephasing Times in Ballistic Conductors

Alexander Altland, Piet W. Brouwer, and Chushun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036804 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Non-Abelian States with Negative Flux: A New Series of Quantum Hall States

Th. Jolicoeur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036805 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Coherent Control of Interacting Electrons in Quantum Dots via Navigation in the Energy Spectrum

G. E. Murgida, D. A. Wisniacki, and P. I. Tamborenea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036806 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Transconductance of a Double Quantum Dot System in the Kondo Regime

V. Koerting, P. Wölfle, and J. Paaske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 036807 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Index Theorem for the Zero Modes of Majorana Fermion Vortices in Chiral p-Wave Superconductors

Sumanta Tewari, S. Das Sarma, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037001 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Observation of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a Single Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Surface Intrinsic Josephson Junction

Shao-Xiong Li, Wei Qiu, Siyuan Han, Y. F. Wei, X. B. Zhu, C. Z. Gu, S. P. Zhao, and H. B. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037002 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Anomalous Lattice Response at the Mott Transition in a Quasi-2D Organic Conductor

M. de Souza, A. Brühl, Ch. Strack, B. Wolf, D. Schweitzer, and M. Lang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037003 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in “Small” Josephson Junctions in a Magnetic Field

Yu. N. Ovchinnikov, A. Barone, and A. A. Varlamov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037004 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Anomalous Josephson Effect between Even- and Odd-Frequency Superconductors

Yukio Tanaka, Alexander A. Golubov, Satoshi Kashiwaya, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037005 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in Mo3Sb7

C. Candolfi, B. Lenoir, A. Dauscher, C. Bellouard, J. Hejtmánek, E. Šantavá, and J. Tobola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037006 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Classical Antiferromagnet on a Hyperkagome Lattice

John M. Hopkinson, Sergei V. Isakov, Hae-Young Kee, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037201 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Damping of Antiferromagnetic Spin Waves by Valence Fluctuations in the Double Layer Perovskite YBaFe2O5

S. Chang, P. Karen, M. P. Hehlen, F. R. Trouw, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037202 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Unusual Superexchange Pathways in an NiS2 Triangular Lattice with Negative Charge-Transfer Energy

K. Takubo, T. Mizokawa, J.-Y. Son, Y. Nambu, S. Nakatsuji, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037203 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Perpendicular Antiferromagnetic Ordering of Mn and Exchange Anisotropy in Fe/Mn Multilayers

S. J. Lee, J. P. Goff, G. J. McIntyre, R. C. C. Ward, S. Langridge, T. Charlton, R. Dalgliesh, and D. Mannix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037204 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

Thermalization of a Parametrically Driven Magnon Gas Leading to Bose-Einstein Condensation

V. E. Demidov, O. Dzyapko, S. O. Demokritov, G. A. Melkov, and A. N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037205 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Stabilization of the Electron-Nuclear Spin Orientation in Quantum Dots by the Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction

R. I. Dzhioev and V. L. Korenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037401 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Neutralization of Charged Fullerenes during Grazing Scattering from a Metal Surface

S. Wethekam, H. Winter, H. Cederquist, and H. Zettergren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037601 (2007) - Published 16 July, 2007

Nanoscale Disorder in CaCu3Ti4O12: A New Route to the Enhanced Dielectric Response

Y. Zhu, J. C. Zheng, L. Wu, A. I. Frenkel, J. Hanson, P. Northrup, and W. Ku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 037602 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Labyrinth Patterns in Confined Granular-Fluid Systems

B. Sandnes, H. A. Knudsen, K. J. Måløy, and E. G. Flekkøy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038001 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Entropy and Temperature of a Static Granular Assembly: An Ab Initio Approach

Silke Henkes, Corey S. O’Hern, and Bulbul Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038002 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Gas-Mediated Impact Dynamics in Fine-Grained Granular Materials

John R. Royer, Eric I. Corwin, Peter J. Eng, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038003 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Effective Medium Theory of Semiflexible Filamentous Networks

Moumita Das, F. C. MacKintosh, and Alex J. Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038101 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Controlling Vibrational Excitation with Shaped Mid-IR Pulses

David B. Strasfeld, Sang-Hee Shim, and Martin T. Zanni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038102 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Rate Determining Factors in Protein Model Structures

Pierpaolo Bruscolini, Alessandro Pelizzola, and Marco Zamparo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038103 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Inter-DNA Attraction Mediated by Divalent Counterions

Xiangyun Qiu, Kurt Andresen, Lisa W. Kwok, Jessica S. Lamb, Hye Yoon Park, and Lois Pollack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038104 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Reversible Photomechanical Switching of Individual Engineered Molecules at a Metallic Surface

Matthew J. Comstock, Niv Levy, Armen Kirakosian, Jongweon Cho, Frank Lauterwasser, Jessica H. Harvey, David A. Strubbe, Jean M. J. Fréchet, Dirk Trauner, Steven G. Louie, and Michael F. Crommie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038301 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

Switching and Nonswitching Phases of Photomechanical Molecules in Dissipative Environments

Chang-Qin Wu, Jian-Xin Li, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038302 (2007) - Published 18 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Localized and Delocalized Motion of Colloidal Particles on a Magnetic Bubble Lattice

Pietro Tierno, Tom H. Johansen, and Thomas M. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038303 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

Spectral Coarse Graining of Complex Networks

David Gfeller and Paolo De Los Rios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 038701 (2007) - Published 19 July, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Magneto-Optical Kerr Effects of Yttrium-Iron Garnet Thin Films Incorporating Gold Nanoparticles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 167402 (2006)]

Satoshi Tomita, Takeshi Kato, Shigeru Tsunashima, Satoshi Iwata, Minoru Fujii, and Shinji Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 039901 (2007) - Published 17 July, 2007

Erratum: New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant from the Electron g Value and QED [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030802 (2006)]

G. Gabrielse, D. Hanneke, T. Kinoshita, M. Nio, and B. Odom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 039902 (2007) - Published 20 July, 2007

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