Volume 99, Issue 4

27 July 2007

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Optical control of magnetization with 40 fs laser pulses shone through a circular polarizer. By changing the polarization, one can reverse the magnetic orientation at the 20 micron diameter laser spot. See article 047601 and Physics News Update

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All-Optical Magnetic Recording with Circularly Polarized Light
C. D. Stanciu, F. Hansteen, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, and Th. Rasing
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047601 (2007)

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Signatures for a Classical to Quantum Transition of a Driven Nonlinear Nanomechanical Resonator

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040404 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

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Critical Point of an Interacting Two-Dimensional Atomic Bose Gas

Peter Krüger, Zoran Hadzibabic, and Jean Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040402 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-Optical Magnetic Recording with Circularly Polarized Light

C. D. Stanciu, F. Hansteen, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047601 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

LETTERS

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

Josephson Effect throughout the BCS-BEC Crossover

A. Spuntarelli, P. Pieri, and G. C. Strinati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040401 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

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Critical Point of an Interacting Two-Dimensional Atomic Bose Gas

Peter Krüger, Zoran Hadzibabic, and Jean Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040402 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Noise Robustness of the Nonlocality of Entangled Quantum States

Mafalda L. Almeida, Stefano Pironio, Jonathan Barrett, Géza Tóth, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040403 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

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Signatures for a Classical to Quantum Transition of a Driven Nonlinear Nanomechanical Resonator

Itamar Katz, Alex Retzker, Raphael Straub, and Ron Lifshitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040404 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Quantum Computers Based on Electron Spins Controlled by Ultrafast Off-Resonant Single Optical Pulses

Susan M. Clark, Kai-Mei C. Fu, Thaddeus D. Ladd, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040501 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Nonequilibrium Tricritical Point in a System with Long-Range Interactions

Andrea Antoniazzi, Duccio Fanelli, Stefano Ruffo, and Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 040601 (2007) - Published 24 July, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Waves in Interplanetary Shocks: A Wind/WAVES Study

L. B. Wilson, III, C. Cattell, P. J. Kellogg, K. Goetz, K. Kersten, L. Hanson, R. MacGregor, and J. C. Kasper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041101 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Recoil Velocities from Equal-Mass Binary-Black-Hole Mergers

Michael Koppitz, Denis Pollney, Christian Reisswig, Luciano Rezzolla, Jonathan Thornburg, Peter Diener, and Erik Schnetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041102 (2007) - Published 27 July, 2007

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observable Signatures of a Black Hole Ejected by Gravitational-Radiation Recoil in a Galaxy Merger

Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041103 (2007) - Published 27 July, 2007

Significant Gamma Lines from Inert Higgs Dark Matter

Michael Gustafsson, Erik Lundström, Lars Bergström, and Joakim Edsjö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041301 (2007) - Published 27 July, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nondecoupling of Maximal Supergravity from the Superstring

Michael B. Green, Hirosi Ooguri, and John H. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041601 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Field Theory in Two-Time Physics with $N = 1$ Supersymmetry

Itzhak Bars and Yueh-Cheng Kuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041801 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Study of Exclusive Charmless Semileptonic $B$ Decays and $| V_{u b} |$

N. E. Adam et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041802 (2007) - Published 24 July, 2007

Small Neutrino Mass from Large Compactification Volumes

Joseph P. Conlon and Daniel Cremades

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041803 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Longitudinal Broadening of Quenched Jets in Turbulent Color Fields

A. Majumder, B. Müller, and S. A. Bass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 042301 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Structure of $A = 10 - 13$ Nuclei with Two- Plus Three-Nucleon Interactions from Chiral Effective Field Theory

P. Navrátil, V. G. Gueorguiev, J. P. Vary, W. E. Ormand, and A. Nogga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 042501 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Identification of a Shape Isomer in ${}^{235}U$

A. Oberstedt, S. Oberstedt, M. Gawrys, and N. Kornilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 042502 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Shape and Structure of $N = Z$ ${}^{64}{Ge}$ : Electromagnetic Transition Rates from the Application of the Recoil Distance Method to a Knockout Reaction

K. Starosta et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 042503 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

First Experiment on Fission Transients in Highly Fissile Spherical Nuclei Produced by Fragmentation of Radioactive Beams

C. Schmitt, P. N. Nadtochy, A. Heinz, B. Jurado, A. Kelić, and K.-H. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 042701 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Lowest Excitation Energy of ${}^{9}{Be}$

Monika Stanke, Dariusz Kędziera, Sergiy Bubin, and Ludwik Adamowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043001 (2007) - Published 24 July, 2007

Rectified Momentum Transport for a Kicked Bose-Einstein Condensate

Mark Sadgrove, Munekazu Horikoshi, Tetsuo Sekimura, and Ken’ichi Nakagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043002 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Photoassociation in Cold Atoms via Ladder Excitation

M. L. Trachy, G. Veshapidze, M. H. Shah, H. U. Jang, and B. D. DePaola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043003 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Enhancement of Double Auger Decay Probability in Xenon Clusters Irradiated with a Soft-X-Ray Laser Pulse

S. Namba, N. Hasegawa, M. Nishikino, T. Kawachi, M. Kishimoto, K. Sukegawa, M. Tanaka, Y. Ochi, K. Takiyama, and K. Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043004 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Time-Dependent Density Functional Calculation of $e − H$ Scattering

Meta van Faassen, Adam Wasserman, Eberhard Engel, Fan Zhang, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043005 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Effect of Mutual Configuration between Molecular Orientation and Atomic Orientation in the Oriented Ar $({}^{3}P_{2}) + Oriented$ ${CF}_{3} H$ Reaction

D. Watanabe, H. Ohoyama, T. Matsumura, and T. Kasai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043201 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Stimulated Emission as a Result of Multiphoton Interference

F. W. Sun, B. H. Liu, Y. X. Gong, Y. F. Huang, Z. Y. Ou, and G. C. Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043601 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Cross-Phase Modulation with Intense Single-Cycle Terahertz Pulses

Y. Shen, T. Watanabe, D. A. Arena, C.-C. Kao, J. B. Murphy, T. Y. Tsang, X. J. Wang, and G. L. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043901 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Giant Optical Transmission of a Subwavelength Slit Optimized Using the Magnetic Field Phase

O. T. A. Janssen, H. P. Urbach, and G. W. ’t Hooft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043902 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Shocks in Nonlocal Media

Neda Ghofraniha, Claudio Conti, Giancarlo Ruocco, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 043903 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Surface Resonant-States-Enhanced Acoustic Wave Tunneling in Two-Dimensional Phononic Crystals

Manzhu Ke, Zhaojian He, Shasha Peng, Zhengyou Liu, Jing Shi, Weijia Wen, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 044301 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Concentration Polarization and Nonlinear Electrokinetic Flow near a Nanofluidic Channel

Sung Jae Kim, Ying-Chih Wang, Jeong Hoon Lee, Hongchul Jang, and Jongyoon Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 044501 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Nonlinear Stage of the Benjamin-Feir Instability: Three-Dimensional Coherent Structures and Rogue Waves

V. P. Ruban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 044502 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Stokes Instability in Inhomogeneous Membranes: Application to Lipoprotein Suction of Cholesterol-Enriched Domains

M. Ben Amar, J.-M. Allain, N. Puff, and M. I. Angelova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 044503 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

First-Order Transition from Superfluid to Bose-Metal State in Systems with Resonant Pairing

T. Stauber and J. Ranninger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 045301 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Carbon Nanostructures as an Electromechanical Bicontinuum

Cristiano Nisoli, Paul E. Lammert, Eric Mockensturm, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 045501 (2007) - Published 27 July, 2007

Ice Crystallization Induced by Optical Breakdown

B. Lindinger, R. Mettin, R. Chow, and W. Lauterborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 045701 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Nanotube Phonon Waveguide

C. W. Chang, D. Okawa, H. Garcia, A. Majumdar, and A. Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 045901 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Plastic Folding of Buckling Structures

Jérôme Colin, Christophe Coupeau, and Jean Grilhé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046101 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Higher Harmonic Atomic Force Microscopy: Imaging of Biological Membranes in Liquid

Johannes Preiner, Jilin Tang, Vasilli Pastushenko, and Peter Hinterdorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046102 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Femtosecond Field Ion Emission by Surface Optical Rectification

A. Vella, B. Deconihout, L. Marrucci, and E. Santamato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046103 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

STM Studies of ${TbTe}_{3}$ : Evidence for a Fully Incommensurate Charge Density Wave

A. Fang, N. Ru, I. R. Fisher, and A. Kapitulnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046401 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Nanoscale Dynamical Mean-Field Theory for Molecules and Mesoscopic Devices in the Strong-Correlation Regime

Serge Florens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046402 (2007) - Published 23 July, 2007

Anomalous Quasiparticle Renormalization in ${Na}_{0.73} {CoO}_{2}$ : Role of Interorbital Interactions and Magnetic Correlations

J. Geck, S. V. Borisenko, H. Berger, H. Eschrig, J. Fink, M. Knupfer, K. Koepernik, A. Koitzsch, A. A. Kordyuk, V. B. Zabolotnyy, and B. Büchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046403 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

All-Optical Magnetic Recording with Circularly Polarized Light

C. D. Stanciu, F. Hansteen, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk, A. Tsukamoto, A. Itoh, and Th. Rasing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047601 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Long-Range Exciton Transport by Dynamic Strain Fields in a GaAs Quantum Well

J. Rudolph, R. Hey, and P. V. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047602 (2007) - Published 25 July, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Temporal Correlations and Entanglement via Adiabatic Control of Vector Solitons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 023902 (2006)]

Mankei Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 049901 (2007) - Published 26 July, 2007