Volume 99, Issue 5

3 August 2007

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A diamond crystalline nucleus (red) embedded in liquid carbon (gray lines). Simulations show that the rate of diamond nucleation strongly depends on the local coordination of the liquid.

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Local Structure of Liquid Carbon Controls Diamond Nucleation
L. M. Ghiringhelli, C. Valeriani, E. J. Meijer, and D. Frenkel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055702 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of the Strange $b$ Baryon $Ξ_{b}^{-}$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052001 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Structure of Liquid Carbon Controls Diamond Nucleation

L. M. Ghiringhelli, C. Valeriani, E. J. Meijer, and D. Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055702 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coexistence of Two Different Cr Ions by Self-Doping in Half-Metallic ${CrO}_{2}$ Nanorods

Jeong Hyun Shim, Soonchil Lee, Joonghoe Dho, and Do-Hyung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057209 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Separation of Charged Grains

Amit Mehrotra, Fernando J. Muzzio, and Troy Shinbrot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 058001 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

LETTERS

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

Tests of Relativity by Complementary Rotating Michelson-Morley Experiments

Holger Müller, Paul Louis Stanwix, Michael Edmund Tobar, Eugene Ivanov, Peter Wolf, Sven Herrmann, Alexander Senger, Evgeny Kovalchuk, and Achim Peters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050401 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Thermodynamical Limit of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model

Pedro Ribeiro, Julien Vidal, and Rémy Mosseri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050402 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Quantum Glass Phases in the Disordered Bose-Hubbard Model

Pinaki Sengupta and Stephan Haas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050403 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Sideband Transitions and Two-Tone Spectroscopy of a Superconducting Qubit Strongly Coupled to an On-Chip Cavity

A. Wallraff, D. I. Schuster, A. Blais, J. M. Gambetta, J. Schreier, L. Frunzio, M. H. Devoret, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050501 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Phase Transitions from Saddles of the Potential Energy Landscape

Michael Kastner, Steffen Schreiber, and Oliver Schnetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050601 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Are Bosonic Replicas Faulty?

Vladimir Al. Osipov and Eugene Kanzieper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050602 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Eigenvalue Statistics of the Real Ginibre Ensemble

Peter J. Forrester and Taro Nagao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 050603 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Rare Decay $B \to π l^{+} l^{-}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 051801 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Gauge Coupling Unification and Light Exotica in String Theory

Stuart Raby and Akın Wingerter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 051802 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Collider Signals of Unparticle Physics

Kingman Cheung, Wai-Yee Keung, and Tzu-Chiang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 051803 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Measurements of the Decay $K_{L} \to e^{+} e^{-} γ$

E. Abouzaid et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 051804 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of the Strange $b$ Baryon $Ξ_{b}^{-}$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052001 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Observation and Mass Measurement of the Baryon $Ξ_{b}^{-}$

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052002 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic Flow for $ϕ$ Mesons and (Anti)deuterons in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

S. Afanasiev et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052301 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

High Resolution Spectroscopy of ${}_{Λ}^{12}B$ by Electroproduction

M. Iodice et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052501 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

New Determination of the Astrophysical $S$ Factor $S_{E 1}$ of the ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ Reaction

X. D. Tang, K. E. Rehm, I. Ahmad, C. R. Brune, A. Champagne, J. P. Greene, A. A. Hecht, D. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, L. Jisonna, D. Kahl, E. F. Moore, M. Notani, R. C. Pardo, N. Patel, M. Paul, G. Savard, J. P. Schiffer, R. E. Segel, S. Sinha, B. Shumard, and A. H. Wuosmaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052502 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Semiclassical Dynamics of Electron Transfer at Metal Surfaces

Hongzhi Cheng, Neil Shenvi, and John C. Tully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053201 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Tailoring Optical Nonlinearities via the Purcell Effect

Peter Bermel, Alejandro Rodriguez, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053601 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Bootstrapping Approach for Generating Maximally Path-Entangled Photon States

Kishore T. Kapale and Jonathan P. Dowling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053602 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fluctuational Electrodynamics in the Presence of Finite Thermal Sources

Vassilios Yannopapas and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053901 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Grating-Assisted Phase Matching in Extreme Nonlinear Optics

Oren Cohen, Xiaoshi Zhang, Amy L. Lytle, Tenio Popmintchev, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053902 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Guiding, Focusing, and Sensing on the Subwavelength Scale Using Metallic Wire Arrays

G. Shvets, S. Trendafilov, J. B. Pendry, and A. Sarychev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053903 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Dramatic Enhancement of High-Order Harmonic Generation

Eiji J. Takahashi, Tsuneto Kanai, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Yasuo Nabekawa, and Katsumi Midorikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053904 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Changing Dynamical Complexity with Time Delay in Coupled Fiber Laser Oscillators

Anthony L. Franz, Rajarshi Roy, Leah B. Shaw, and Ira B. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053905 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Tailoring Self-Assembled Metallic Photonic Crystals for Modified Thermal Emission

S. E. Han, Andreas Stein, and D. J. Norris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053906 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Maximum-Exponent Scaling Behavior of Optical Second-Harmonic Generation in Finite Multilayer Photonic Crystals

Marco Liscidini, Andrea Locatelli, Lucio Claudio Andreani, and Costantino De Angelis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053907 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Slow Dynamics in a Turbulent von Kármán Swirling Flow

A. de la Torre and J. Burguete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 054101 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Capillary Rise in Nanopores: Molecular Dynamics Evidence for the Lucas-Washburn Equation

D. I. Dimitrov, A. Milchev, and K. Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 054501 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Intrinsic Dispersivity of Randomly Packed Monodisperse Spheres

U. M. Scheven, R. Harris, and M. L. Johns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 054502 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Megagauss-Field Topology Changes due to Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Produced Plasmas

C. K. Li, F. H. Séguin, J. A. Frenje, J. R. Rygg, R. D. Petrasso, R. P. J. Town, O. L. Landen, J. P. Knauer, and V. A. Smalyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055001 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Geodesic Plasma Compressibility Effects on the Magnetic Islands in a Tokamak

A. I. Smolyakov, X. Garbet, and M. Ottaviani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055002 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Attraction of Positively Charged Particles in Highly Collisional Plasmas

S. A. Khrapak, G. E. Morfill, V. E. Fortov, L. G. D’yachkov, A. G. Khrapak, and O. F. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055003 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Nonambipolar Magnetic-Fluctuation-Induced Particle Transport and Plasma Flow in the MST Reversed-Field Pinch

W. X. Ding, D. L. Brower, D. Craig, B. H. Deng, S. C. Prager, J. S. Sarff, and V. Svidzinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055004 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evidence for Out-of-Equilibrium Crystal Nucleation in Suspensions of Oppositely Charged Colloids

Eduardo Sanz, Chantal Valeriani, Daan Frenkel, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055501 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Influence of Pressure on the Boson Peak: Stronger than Elastic Medium Transformation

K. Niss, B. Begen, B. Frick, J. Ollivier, A. Beraud, A. Sokolov, V. N. Novikov, and C. Alba-Simionesco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055502 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Dynamics of Step Bunching in Heteroepitaxial Growth on Vicinal Substrates

Mina Yoon, Ho Nyung Lee, Wei Hong, Hans M. Christen, Zhenyu Zhang, and Zhigang Suo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055503 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Critical Behavior of the Chayes–Machta–Swendsen–Wang Dynamics

Youjin Deng, Timothy M. Garoni, Jonathan Machta, Giovanni Ossola, Marco Polin, and Alan D. Sokal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055701 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Structure of Liquid Carbon Controls Diamond Nucleation

L. M. Ghiringhelli, C. Valeriani, E. J. Meijer, and D. Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055702 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Evidence of Subsurface Oxygen Vacancy Ordering on Reduced ${CeO}_{2} (111)$

Stefan Torbrügge, Michael Reichling, Atsushi Ishiyama, Seizo Morita, and Óscar Custance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056101 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi Surface of ${CeIn}_{3}$ above the Néel Critical Field

N. Harrison, S. E. Sebastian, C. H. Mielke, A. Paris, M. J. Gordon, C. A. Swenson, D. G. Rickel, M. D. Pacheco, P. F. Ruminer, J. B. Schillig, J. R. Sims, A. H. Lacerda, M.-T. Suzuki, H. Harima, and T. Ebihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056401 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Superfluid to Mott-Insulator Transition in Bose-Hubbard Models

Manuela Capello, Federico Becca, Michele Fabrizio, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056402 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance and Spin-Orbit Coupling in $Fe / GaAs / Au$ Tunnel Junctions

J. Moser, A. Matos-Abiague, D. Schuh, W. Wegscheider, J. Fabian, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056601 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Efficient Atomic Self-Interaction Correction Scheme for Nonequilibrium Quantum Transport

C. Toher and S. Sanvito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056801 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Transverse Field Effect in Graphene Ribbons

D. S. Novikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056802 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Hall Resistivity of Granular Metals

Maxim Yu. Kharitonov and Konstantin B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056803 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Dynamics of Quantum Dot Nuclear Spin Polarization Controlled by a Single Electron

P. Maletinsky, A. Badolato, and A. Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 056804 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Specific-Heat Measurements of the Gap Structure of the Organic Superconductors $κ − (ET)_{2} Cu [N (CN)_{2}] Br$ and $κ − (ET)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$

O. J. Taylor, A. Carrington, and J. A. Schlueter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057001 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Radiation due to Josephson Oscillations in Layered Superconductors

L. N. Bulaevskii and A. E. Koshelev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057002 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Supercurrent Pumping in Josephson Junctions with a Half-Metallic Ferromagnet

S. Takahashi, S. Hikino, M. Mori, J. Martinek, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057003 (2007) - Published 3 August, 2007

Hysteretic Behavior of Angular Dependence of Exchange Bias in $FeNi / FeMn$ Bilayers

T. R. Gao, D. Z. Yang, S. M. Zhou, R. Chantrell, P. Asselin, J. Du, and X. S. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057201 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Simulations of Ferrite-Dielectric-Wire Composite Negative Index Materials

Frederic J. Rachford, Douglas N. Armstead, Vincent G. Harris, and Carmine Vittoria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057202 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Quantum Projection in an Ising Spin Liquid

D. M. Silevitch, C. M. S. Gannarelli, A. J. Fisher, G. Aeppli, and T. F. Rosenbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057203 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Effects of Two Energy Scales in Weakly Dimerized Antiferromagnetic Quantum Spin Chains

A. Brühl, B. Wolf, V. Pashchenko, M. Anton, C. Gross, W. Assmus, R. Valenti, S. Glocke, A. Klümper, T. Saha-Dasgupta, B. Rahaman, and M. Lang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057204 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

Universal Temperature Dependence of the Magnetization of Gapped Spin Chains

Yoshitaka Maeda, Chisa Hotta, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057205 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Ultrametricity in the Edwards-Anderson Model

Pierluigi Contucci, Cristian Giardinà, Claudio Giberti, Giorgio Parisi, and Cecilia Vernia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057206 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Large-Scale Monte Carlo Study of a Realistic Lattice Model for ${Ga}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} As$

Yucel Yildirim, Gonzalo Alvarez, Adriana Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057207 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Local Tunneling Spectroscopy across a Metamagnetic Critical Point in the Bilayer Ruthenate ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

K. Iwaya, S. Satow, T. Hanaguri, N. Shannon, Y. Yoshida, S. I. Ikeda, J. P. He, Y. Kaneko, Y. Tokura, T. Yamada, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057208 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coexistence of Two Different Cr Ions by Self-Doping in Half-Metallic ${CrO}_{2}$ Nanorods

Jeong Hyun Shim, Soonchil Lee, Joonghoe Dho, and Do-Hyung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057209 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007

Transforming Nonlocality into a Frequency Dependence: A Shortcut to Spectroscopy

Matteo Gatti, Valerio Olevano, Lucia Reining, and Ilya V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057401 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Chirping of an Optical Transition by an Ultrafast Acoustic Soliton Train in a Semiconductor Quantum Well

A. V. Scherbakov, P. J. S. van Capel, A. V. Akimov, J. I. Dijkhuis, D. R. Yakovlev, T. Berstermann, and M. Bayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057402 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Surface Triple Points and Multiple-Layer Transitions Observed by Tuning the Surface Field at Smectic Liquid-Crystal–Water Interfaces

Ch. Bahr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 057801 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Separation of Charged Grains

Amit Mehrotra, Fernando J. Muzzio, and Troy Shinbrot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 058001 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Period-Doubling Bifurcation to Alternans in Paced Cardiac Tissue: Crossover from Smooth to Border-Collision Characteristics

Carolyn M. Berger, Xiaopeng Zhao, David G. Schaeffer, Hana M. Dobrovolny, Wanda Krassowska, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 058101 (2007) - Published 30 July, 2007

COMMENTS

Comment on “Electron Core-Hole Interaction and Its Induced Ionic Structural Relaxation in Molecular Systems under X-Ray Irradiation”

F. Schreiber, A. Gerlach, N. Koch, E. Zojer, M. Sokolowski, F. S. Tautz, M. Rohlfing, and E. Umbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 059601 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

Ji, Lu, and Gao Reply:

Wei Ji, Zhong-Yi Lu, and Hongjun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 059602 (2007) - Published 1 August, 2007

ERRATA

Erratum: Coherent Control of Light Shifts in an Atomic System: Modulation of the Medium Gain [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 053602 (2007)]

J. C. Delagnes and M. A. Bouchene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 059901 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Erratum: Minimal Set of Local Measurements and Classical Communication for Two-Mode Gaussian State Entanglement Quantification [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 150501 (2007)]

Luis F. Haruna, Marcos C. de Oliveira, and Gustavo Rigolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 059902 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Study of Exclusive Charmless Semileptonic $B$ Decays and $| V_{u b} |$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 041802 (2007)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 059903 (2007) - Published 31 July, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Anomalous Quasiparticle Renormalization in ${Na}_{0.73} {CoO}_{2}$ : Role of Interorbital Interactions and Magnetic Correlations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 046403 (2007)]

J. Geck, S. V. Borisenko, H. Berger, J. Fink, R. Follath, M. Knupfer, A. Koitzsch, A. A. Kordyuk, V. B. Zabolotnyy, and B. Buchner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 059904 (2007) - Published 2 August, 2007