Volume 101, Issue 2

11 July 2008

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On the Cover

Atomistic simulation of the crater formed when a 315000-atom gold particle hits a gold surface. The picture is of a horizontal slice 1 nm below the surface.

From the article:

Atomistic Simulation of the Transition from Atomistic to Macroscopic Cratering
Juha Samela and Kai Nordlund
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027601 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Water Polarization under Thermal Gradients

Fernando Bresme, Anders Lervik, Dick Bedeaux, and Signe Kjelstrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020602 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Probing Unfolded Acoustic Phonons with X Rays

M. Trigo, Y. M. Sheu, D. A. Arms, J. Chen, S. Ghimire, R. S. Goldman, E. Landahl, R. Merlin, E. Peterson, M. Reason, and D. A. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025505 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Negativity and Contextuality are Equivalent Notions of Nonclassicality

Robert W. Spekkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020401 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Atomic-Scale Spin Spiral with a Unique Rotational Sense: Mn Monolayer on W(001)

P. Ferriani, K. von Bergmann, E. Y. Vedmedenko, S. Heinze, M. Bode, M. Heide, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027201 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatially Resolved Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetism in $(Ga, Mn) As$ Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors: A Microscopic Study by Muon Spin Relaxation

Vyacheslav G. Storchak, Dmitry G. Eshchenko, Elvezio Morenzoni, Thomas Prokscha, Andreas Suter, Xinyu Liu, and Jacek K. Furdyna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027202 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Negativity and Contextuality are Equivalent Notions of Nonclassicality

Robert W. Spekkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020401 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Kelvin Waves of Quantized Vortex Lines in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. P. Simula, T. Mizushima, and K. Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020402 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Simple Test for Hidden Variables in Spin-1 Systems

Alexander A. Klyachko, M. Ali Can, Sinem Binicioğlu, and Alexander S. Shumovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020403 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Entanglement between Two Uses of a Noisy Multipartite Quantum Channel Enables Perfect Transmission of Classical Information

Runyao Duan and Yaoyun Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020501 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Heat Conduction and Fourier’s Law by Consecutive Local Mixing and Thermalization

P. Gaspard and T. Gilbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020601 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Water Polarization under Thermal Gradients

Fernando Bresme, Anders Lervik, Dick Bedeaux, and Signe Kjelstrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020602 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Coherent Backscattering of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Two-Dimensional Disorder Potentials

Michael Hartung, Thomas Wellens, Cord A. Müller, Klaus Richter, and Peter Schlagheck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 020603 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to J / ψ π^{0}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 021801 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Geometric Scaling from Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi Evolution

Fabrizio Caola and Stefano Forte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022001 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Constraining Light Colored Particles with Event Shapes

David E. Kaplan and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022002 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Uniform Description of Soft Observables in Heavy-Ion Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

Wojciech Broniowski, Mikolaj Chojnacki, Wojciech Florkowski, and Adam Kisiel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022301 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Radiative Energy Loss in a Finite Dynamical QCD Medium

Magdalena Djordjevic and Ulrich Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022302 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

${}^{3}{He}$ Spin-Dependent Cross Sections and Sum Rules

K. Slifer et al. (Jefferson Lab E94010 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022303 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Unified Description of $0^{+}$ States in a Large Class of Nuclear Collective Models

Dennis Bonatsos, E. A. McCutchan, and R. F. Casten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022501 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Correlating Radii and Electric Monopole Transitions of Atomic Nuclei

S. Zerguine, P. Van Isacker, A. Bouldjedri, and S. Heinze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 022502 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Internal Inelastic Scattering Satellite Probed by Molecular-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions from ${CO}_{2}$

X.-J. Liu, H. Fukuzawa, T. Teranishi, A. De Fanis, M. Takahashi, H. Yoshida, A. Cassimi, A. Czasch, L. Schmidt, R. Dörner, I. Koyano, N. Saito, and K. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 023001 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Collisions between Tunable Halo Dimers: Exploring an Elementary Four-Body Process with Identical Bosons

F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, M. Mark, M. Berninger, H. Schöbel, H.-C. Nägerl, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 023201 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Melting-Point Depression by Insoluble Impurities: A Finite Size Effect

C. Hock, S. Straßburg, H. Haberland, B. v. Issendorff, A. Aguado, and M. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 023401 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Piecewise Adiabatic Population Transfer in a Molecule via a Wave Packet

Evgeny A. Shapiro, Avi Pe’er, Jun Ye, and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 023601 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Collective Phase Sensitivity

Yoji Kawamura, Hiroya Nakao, Kensuke Arai, Hiroshi Kori, and Yoshiki Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 024101 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Coupling-Induced Bipartite Pointer States in Arrays of Electron Billiards: Quantum Darwinism in Action?

R. Brunner, R. Akis, D. K. Ferry, F. Kuchar, and R. Meisels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 024102 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Hydrodynamic Boundary Conditions and Dynamic Forces between Bubbles and Surfaces

Ofer Manor, Ivan U. Vakarelski, Xiaosong Tang, Sean J. O’Shea, Geoffrey W. Stevens, Franz Grieser, Raymond R. Dagastine, and Derek Y. C. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 024501 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Fully Self-Consistent Ion-Drag-Force Calculations for Dust in Collisional Plasmas with an External Electric Field

Leonardo Patacchini and Ian H. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025001 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Stabilization in Direct-Drive Plastic Targets at Laser Intensities of $\sim 1 \times 10^{15} W / {cm}^{2}$

V. A. Smalyuk, S. X. Hu, V. N. Goncharov, D. D. Meyerhofer, T. C. Sangster, D. Shvarts, C. Stoeckl, B. Yaakobi, J. A. Frenje, and R. D. Petrasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025002 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Fast Reconnection in Nonrelativistic 2D Electron-Positron Plasmas

L. Chacón, Andrei N. Simakov, V. S. Lukin, and A. Zocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025003 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Observation of Collisionless Shocks in Laser-Plasma Experiments

L. Romagnani, S. V. Bulanov, M. Borghesi, P. Audebert, J. C. Gauthier, K. Löwenbrück, A. J. Mackinnon, P. Patel, G. Pretzler, T. Toncian, and O. Willi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025004 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Single-Helical-Axis States in Reversed-Field-Pinch Plasmas

R. Lorenzini, D. Terranova, A. Alfier, P. Innocente, E. Martines, R. Pasqualotto, and P. Zanca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025005 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Cross-Scale Effects in Solar-Wind Turbulence

F. Valentini, P. Veltri, F. Califano, and A. Mangeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025006 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phonon-Roton Modes and Localized Bose-Einstein Condensation in Liquid Helium under Pressure in Nanoporous Media

Jacques Bossy, Jonathan V. Pearce, Helmut Schober, and Henry R. Glyde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025301 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Spin Wave and Vortex Excitations of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − A$ in Parallel-Plate Geometry

Minoru Yamashita, Ken Izumina, Akira Matsubara, Yutaka Sasaki, Osamu Ishikawa, Takeo Takagi, Minoru Kubota, and Takao Mizusaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025302 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Stability Map for Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Materials

Shailendra P. Joshi and K. T. Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025501 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Quantitative Phase-Field Approach for Simulating Grain Growth in Anisotropic Systems with Arbitrary Inclination and Misorientation Dependence

N. Moelans, B. Blanpain, and P. Wollants

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025502 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Inverse Grain-Size Effect on Twinning in Nanocrystalline Ni

X. L. Wu and Y. T. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025503 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Neutron Decoherence Imaging for Visualizing Bulk Magnetic Domain Structures

C. Grünzweig, C. David, O. Bunk, M. Dierolf, G. Frei, G. Kühne, J. Kohlbrecher, R. Schäfer, P. Lejcek, H. M. R. Rønnow, and F. Pfeiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025504 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Probing Unfolded Acoustic Phonons with X Rays

M. Trigo, Y. M. Sheu, D. A. Arms, J. Chen, S. Ghimire, R. S. Goldman, E. Landahl, R. Merlin, E. Peterson, M. Reason, and D. A. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025505 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Equivalence of Critical Scaling Laws for Many-Body Entanglement in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model

Román Orús, Sébastien Dusuel, and Julien Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025701 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

ac Hopping Conduction at Extreme Disorder Takes Place on the Percolating Cluster

Thomas B. Schrøder and Jeppe C. Dyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025901 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Temperature Dependence of the Slip Length in Polymer Melts at Attractive Surfaces

J. Servantie and M. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026101 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Charging of Metal Adatoms on Ultrathin Oxide Films: Au and Pd on $FeO / Pt (111)$

Livia Giordano, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Jacek Goniakowski, Niklas Nilius, Emile D. L. Rienks, and Hans-Joachim Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026102 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Logarithmic Fermi-Liquid Breakdown in ${NbFe}_{2}$

M. Brando, W. J. Duncan, D. Moroni-Klementowicz, C. Albrecht, D. Grüner, R. Ballou, and F. M. Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026401 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Effective Mass Suppression in Dilute, Spin-Polarized Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

Medini Padmanabhan, T. Gokmen, N. C. Bishop, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026402 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Is ${LaFeAsO}_{1 - x} F_{x}$ an Electron-Phonon Superconductor?

L. Boeri, O. V. Dolgov, and A. A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026403 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Multiple Avalanches across the Metal-Insulator Transition of Vanadium Oxide Nanoscaled Junctions

Amos Sharoni, Juan Gabriel Ramírez, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026404 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya Anisotropy in the Spin-1/2 Kagome Compound ${ZnCu}_{3} (OH)_{6} {Cl}_{2}$

A. Zorko, S. Nellutla, J. van Tol, L. C. Brunel, F. Bert, F. Duc, J.-C. Trombe, M. A. de Vries, A. Harrison, and P. Mendels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026405 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects on the Fermi Surface of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ and ${Sr}_{2} {RhO}_{4}$

M. W. Haverkort, I. S. Elfimov, L. H. Tjeng, G. A. Sawatzky, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026406 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Fermi Surface and van Hove Singularities in the Itinerant Metamagnet ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

A. Tamai, M. P. Allan, J. F. Mercure, W. Meevasana, R. Dunkel, D. H. Lu, R. S. Perry, A. P. Mackenzie, D. J. Singh, Z.-X. Shen, and F. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026407 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Coulomb-Enhanced Spin-Orbit Splitting: The Missing Piece in the ${Sr}_{2} {RhO}_{4}$ Puzzle

Guo-Qiang Liu, V. N. Antonov, O. Jepsen, and O. K. Andersen.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026408 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Epitaxial-Graphene/Graphene-Oxide Junction: An Essential Step towards Epitaxial Graphene Electronics

Xiaosong Wu, Mike Sprinkle, Xuebin Li, Fan Ming, Claire Berger, and Walt A. de Heer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026801 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Origin of Metallic States at the Heterointerface between the Band Insulators ${LaAlO}_{3}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$

K. Yoshimatsu, R. Yasuhara, H. Kumigashira, and M. Oshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026802 (2008) - Published 9 July, 2008

Doping Graphene with Metal Contacts

G. Giovannetti, P. A. Khomyakov, G. Brocks, V. M. Karpan, J. van den Brink, and P. J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026803 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Electronic Energy Levels of Weakly Coupled Nanostructures: $C_{60}$ -Metal Interfaces

Jay D. Sau, J. B. Neaton, Hyoung Joon Choi, Steven G. Louie, and Marvin L. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026804 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Localized Magnetic States in Graphene

Bruno Uchoa, Valeri N. Kotov, N. M. R. Peres, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 026805 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Instability of Square Vortex Lattice in $d$ -Wave Superconductors is due to Paramagnetic Depairing

Norihito Hiasa and Ryusuke Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027001 (2008) - Published 8 July, 2008

Superconductivity in Thin Films of Boron-Doped Carbon Nanotubes

N. Murata, J. Haruyama, J. Reppert, A. M. Rao, T. Koretsune, S. Saito, M. Matsudaira, and Y. Yagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027002 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Entanglement of Solid Vortex Matter: A Boomerang-Shaped Reduction Forced by Disorder in Interlayer Phase Coherence in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + y}$

T. Kato, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, J. R. Thompson, and L. Krusin-Elbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027003 (2008) - Published 10 July, 2008

Phase and Vortex Correlations in Superconducting Josephson-Junction Arrays at Irrational Magnetic Frustration

Enzo Granato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027004 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Nodal Quasiparticles and the Onset of Spin-Density-Wave Order in Cuprate Superconductors

Andrea Pelissetto, Subir Sachdev, and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027005 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Atomic-Scale Spin Spiral with a Unique Rotational Sense: Mn Monolayer on W(001)

P. Ferriani, K. von Bergmann, E. Y. Vedmedenko, S. Heinze, M. Bode, M. Heide, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027201 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatially Resolved Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetism in $(Ga, Mn) As$ Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors: A Microscopic Study by Muon Spin Relaxation

Vyacheslav G. Storchak, Dmitry G. Eshchenko, Elvezio Morenzoni, Thomas Prokscha, Andreas Suter, Xinyu Liu, and Jacek K. Furdyna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 027202 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Ab initio Description of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Dense Molecular Hydrogen [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 257001 (2008)]

P. Cudazzo, G. Profeta, A. Sanna, A. Floris, A. Continenza, S. Massidda, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 029901 (2008) - Published 7 July, 2008

Erratum: Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180403 (2008)]

Yuki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 029902 (2008) - Published 11 July, 2008

Volume 101, Issue 2

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA