Volume 99, Issue 8

24 August 2007

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On the Cover

Intensity pattern of a radio beam generated by two circular arrays of vector antennas (purple dots). The pattern corresponds to the orbital angular momentum l=1 found in Laguerre-Gauss laser beams.

From the article:

Utilization of Photon Orbital Angular Momentum in the Low-Frequency Radio Domain
B. Thidé, H. Then, J. Sjöholm, K. Palmer, J. Bergman, T. D. Carozzi, Ya. N. Istomin, N. H. Ibragimov, and R. Khamitova
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 087701 (2007)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Dimensional Mapping of Chemical Information at Atomic Resolution

M. Bosman, V. J. Keast, J. L. García-Muñoz, A. J. D’Alfonso, S. D. Findlay, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086102 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

LETTERS

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

Computation and Visualization of Casimir Forces in Arbitrary Geometries: Nonmonotonic Lateral-Wall Forces and the Failure of Proximity-Force Approximations

Alejandro Rodriguez, Mihai Ibanescu, Davide Iannuzzi, Federico Capasso, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Steven G. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 080401 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Number Fluctuation Dynamics of Atomic Spin Mixing inside a Condensate

Lee Chang, Q. Zhai, Rong Lu, and L. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 080402 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Superfluid and Insulating Phases of Fermion Mixtures in Optical Lattices

M. Iskin and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 080403 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Commensurability Effects for Fermionic Atoms Trapped in 1D Optical Lattices

Rafael A. Molina, Jorge Dukelsky, and Peter Schmitteckert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 080404 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmological Constraints from Type Ia Supernovae Peculiar Velocity Measurements

C. Gordon, K. Land, and A. Slosar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 081301 (2007) - Published 20 August, 2007

Imprints of Spherical Nontrivial Topologies on the Cosmic Microwave Background

Anastasia Niarchou and Andrew Jaffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 081302 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Time-Dependent $C P$ Asymmetry in $B^{0} \to D_{C P}^{(*)} h^{0}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 081801 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Importance of the Heavier Singlet Neutrinos in Leptogenesis

Guy Engelhard, Yuval Grossman, Enrico Nardi, and Yosef Nir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 081802 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

First Observation of $K_{L} \to π^{\pm} e^{\mp} ν e^{+} e^{-}$

E. Abouzaid et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 081803 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Effect of Orbital Angular Momentum on Valence-Quark Helicity Distributions

Harut Avakian, Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 082001 (2007) - Published 20 August, 2007

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Angular Distributions of Drell-Yan Dimuons in $p + d$ Interactions at $800 GeV / c$

L. Y. Zhu et al. (FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 082301 (2007) - Published 20 August, 2007

$n − p$ Pairing, Wigner Energy, and Shell Gaps

R. R. Chasman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 082501 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Effect of a Triaxial Nuclear Shape on Proton Tunneling: The Decay and Structure of ${}^{145}{Tm}$

D. Seweryniak, B. Blank, M. P. Carpenter, C. N. Davids, T. Davinson, S. J. Freeman, N. Hammond, N. Hoteling, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, Z. Liu, G. Mukherjee, A. Robinson, C. Scholey, S. Sinha, J. Shergur, K. Starosta, W. B. Walters, A. Woehr, and P. J. Woods

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 082502 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Averaged Adiabatic Potentials: Versatile Matter-Wave Guides and Atom Traps

Igor Lesanovsky and Wolf von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083001 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Control of Electron Excitation and Localization in the Dissociation of $H_{2}^{+}$ and Its Isotopes Using Two Sequential Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Feng He, Camilo Ruiz, and Andreas Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083002 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Multiscale Dynamics of Cluster Fragmentation

F. Calvo, D. Bonhommeau, and P. Parneix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083401 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Shellwise Mackay Transformation in Iron Nanoclusters

Georg Rollmann, Markus E. Gruner, Alfred Hucht, Ralf Meyer, Peter Entel, Murilo L. Tiago, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083402 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dispersing Light with Surface Plasmon Polaritonic Crystals

V. Mikhailov, G. A. Wurtz, J. Elliott, P. Bayvel, and A. V. Zayats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 083901 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Pattern Transformation Triggered by Deformation

T. Mullin, S. Deschanel, K. Bertoldi, and M. C. Boyce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 084301 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Dynamics of Energy Condensation in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

M. Chertkov, C. Connaughton, I. Kolokolov, and V. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 084501 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Plasma and Beam Physics

Bright Multi-keV Harmonic Generation from Relativistically Oscillating Plasma Surfaces

B. Dromey, S. Kar, C. Bellei, D. C. Carroll, R. J. Clarke, J. S. Green, S. Kneip, K. Markey, S. R. Nagel, P. T. Simpson, L. Willingale, P. McKenna, D. Neely, Z. Najmudin, K. Krushelnick, P. A. Norreys, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 085001 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Mechanical Detection of Carbon Nanotube Resonator Vibrations

D. Garcia-Sanchez, A. San Paulo, M. J. Esplandiu, F. Perez-Murano, L. Forró, A. Aguasca, and A. Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 085501 (2007) - Published 20 August, 2007

Nature of Native Defects in ZnO

F. A. Selim, M. H. Weber, D. Solodovnikov, and K. G. Lynn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 085502 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Unique Structural and Transport Properties of Molybdenum Chalcohalide Nanowires

Igor Popov, Teng Yang, Savas Berber, Gotthard Seifert, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 085503 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Time Scales and Mechanisms of Relaxation in the Energy Landscape of Polymer Glass under Deformation: Direct Atomistic Modeling

Alexey V. Lyulin and M. A. J. Michels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 085504 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Ultrathin Oxides: Bulk-Oxide-Like Model Surfaces or Unique Films?

Christoph Freysoldt, Patrick Rinke, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086101 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Dimensional Mapping of Chemical Information at Atomic Resolution

M. Bosman, V. J. Keast, J. L. García-Muñoz, A. J. D’Alfonso, S. D. Findlay, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086102 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Cooperative Rearrangements Leading to Long Range Order in Monolayers of Supramolecular Polymers

F. Vonau, D. Aubel, L. Bouteiller, G. Reiter, and L. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086103 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Determining the Mobility of Ions by Transient Current Measurements at High Voltages

Peter Kohn, Klaus Schröter, and Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086104 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Specific Ion Adsorption and Short-Range Interactions at the Air Aqueous Solution Interface

Viswanath Padmanabhan, Jean Daillant, Luc Belloni, Serge Mora, Michel Alba, and Oleg Konovalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086105 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Helix Self-Assembly from Anisotropic Molecules

Szilard N. Fejer and David J. Wales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086106 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nature of the Transition between a Ferromagnetic Metal and a Spin-Glass Insulator in Pyrochlore Molybdates

N. Hanasaki, K. Watanabe, T. Ohtsuka, I. Kézsmárki, S. Iguchi, S. Miyasaka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086401 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Novel Orientational Ordering and Reentrant Metallicity in $K_{x} C_{60}$ Monolayers for $3 \leq x \leq 5$

Yayu Wang, R. Yamachika, A. Wachowiak, M. Grobis, K. H. Khoo, D.-H. Lee, Steven G. Louie, and M. F. Crommie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086402 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Charge Order Superstructure with Integer Iron Valence in ${Fe}_{2} {OBO}_{3}$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086403 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Temperature Dependence of Coulomb Drag Between Finite-Length Quantum Wires

J. Peguiron, C. Bruder, and B. Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086404 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Adiabatic Quantum Pumping at the Josephson Frequency

S. Russo, J. Tobiska, T. M. Klapwijk, and A. F. Morpurgo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086601 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Crossover Behavior of the Anomalous Hall Effect and Anomalous Nernst Effect in Itinerant Ferromagnets

T. Miyasato, N. Abe, T. Fujii, A. Asamitsu, S. Onoda, Y. Onose, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086602 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Influence of Laser Light on Electronic Transport through Atomic-Size Contacts

D. C. Guhr, D. Rettinger, J. Boneberg, A. Erbe, P. Leiderer, and E. Scheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086801 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Direct Measurements of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Gaps

V. S. Khrapai, A. A. Shashkin, M. G. Trokina, V. T. Dolgopolov, V. Pellegrini, F. Beltram, G. Biasiol, and L. Sorba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086802 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Tunneling Current Spectroscopy of a Nanostructure Junction Involving Multiple Energy Levels

David M.-T. Kuo and Yia-Chung Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086803 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Velocity Renormalization and Carrier Lifetime in Graphene from the Electron-Phonon Interaction

Cheol-Hwan Park, Feliciano Giustino, Marvin L. Cohen, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086804 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Control of Schottky Barrier Heights on High- $K$ Gate Dielectrics for Future Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Devices

Koon-Yiu Tse and John Robertson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 086805 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Dynamic and Thermodynamic Properties of Porous Vortex Matter in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8}$ in an Oblique Magnetic Field

Nurit Avraham, Y. Y. Goldschmidt, J. T. Liu, Y. Myasoedov, M. Rappaport, E. Zeldov, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 087001 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Field-Induced Order-Disorder Transition in Antiferromagnetic ${BaCo}_{2} V_{2} O_{8}$ Driven by a Softening of Spinon Excitation

S. Kimura, H. Yashiro, K. Okunishi, M. Hagiwara, Z. He, K. Kindo, T. Taniyama, and M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 087602 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007

Utilization of Photon Orbital Angular Momentum in the Low-Frequency Radio Domain

B. Thidé, H. Then, J. Sjöholm, K. Palmer, J. Bergman, T. D. Carozzi, Ya. N. Istomin, N. H. Ibragimov, and R. Khamitova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 087701 (2007) - Published 22 August, 2007

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Heating of the Solar Corona by Dissipative Alfvén Solitons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 175003 (2006)]

K. Stasiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 089901 (2007) - Published 21 August, 2007

Erratum: Optical Implementation of Quantum Orienteering [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150503 (2006)]

Evan R. Jeffrey, Joseph B. Altepeter, Madalina Colci, and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 089902 (2007) - Published 23 August, 2007

Publisher’s Note: Measurement of the Decay Constant $f_{D_{s}^{+}}$ Using $D_{s}^{+} \to l^{+} ν$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 071802 (2007)]

M. Artuso et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 089903 (2007) - Published 24 August, 2007