Volume 94, Issue 23

17 June 2005

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On the Cover

Illustration of an optimal search strategy on a real-world network. Topology investigations show that real-world networks are preferentially constructed to facilitate short-scale signaling.

From the article:

Communication Boundaries in Networks
A. Trusina, M. Rosvall, and K. Sneppen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 238701 (2005)

LETTERS

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

An Intrinsic Limit to Quantum Coherence due to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Jasper van Wezel, Jeroen van den Brink, and Jan Zaanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230401 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Dynamics of Narrow Bright Solitons in an Array of Attractive Atoms in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

A. Montina and F. T. Arecchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230402 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Quantum Phase Transitions across a $p$ -Wave Feshbach Resonance

V. Gurarie, L. Radzihovsky, and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230403 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Quantum Phases in a Resonantly Interacting Boson-Fermion Mixture

D. B. M. Dickerscheid, D. van Oosten, E. J. Tillema, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230404 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Experimental Error Filtration for Quantum Communication Over Highly Noisy Channels

L.-P. Lamoureux, E. Brainis, N. J. Cerf, Ph. Emplit, M. Haelterman, and S. Massar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230501 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Asymptotically Optimal Quantum Circuits for $d$ -Level Systems

Stephen S. Bullock, Dianne P. O’Leary, and Gavin K. Brennen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230502 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Beating the Photon-Number-Splitting Attack in Practical Quantum Cryptography

Xiang-Bin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230503 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution

Hoi-Kwong Lo, Xiongfeng Ma, and Kai Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230504 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Langevin Description of Critical Phenomena with Two Symmetric Absorbing States

Omar Al Hammal, Hugues Chaté, Ivan Dornic, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230601 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Sub-Hertz Optical Frequency Comparisons between Two Trapped ${}^{171}{Yb}^{+}$ Ions

T. Schneider, E. Peik, and Chr. Tamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 230801 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining the Spectrum of Supernova Neutrinos from $ν$ -Process Induced Light Element Synthesis

Takashi Yoshida, Toshitaka Kajino, and Dieter H. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 231101 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Transport of Mars-Crossing Asteroids from the Quasi-Hilda Region

Michael Dellnitz, Oliver Junge, Martin W. Lo, Jerrold E. Marsden, Kathrin Padberg, Robert Preis, Shane D. Ross, and Bianca Thiere

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 231102 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Time-Dependent $C P$ -Violating Asymmetry in $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{0} γ$ Decays

Y. Ushiroda et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 231601 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

High-Density QCD and Cosmic-Ray Air Showers

H. J. Drescher, A. Dumitru, and M. Strikman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 231801 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Determining $γ$ from $B \to π π$ Decays without the $C P$ -Asymmetry $C_{π^{0} π^{0}}$

Christian W. Bauer, Ira Z. Rothstein, and Iain W. Stewart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 231802 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Measurement of Inclusive Differential Cross Sections for $Υ (1 S)$ Production in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232001 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Branching Fractions for $ψ (2 S)$ -to- $J / ψ$ Transitions

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232002 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Centrality Dependence of Direct Photon Production in $\sqrt{S_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ $Au + Au$ Collisions

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232301 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Saturation of Azimuthal Anisotropy in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 62 - 200 GeV$

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232302 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

First Observation of ${}^{54}{Zn}$ and its Decay by Two-Proton Emission

B. Blank, A. Bey, G. Canchel, C. Dossat, A. Fleury, J. Giovinazzo, I. Matea, N. Adimi, F. De Oliveira, I. Stefan, G. Georgiev, S. Grévy, J. C. Thomas, C. Borcea, D. Cortina, M. Caamano, M. Stanoiu, F. Aksouh, B. A. Brown, F. C. Barker, and W. A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232501 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Nuclear Time-Reversal Violation and the Schiff Moment of ${}^{225}{Ra}$

J. Dobaczewski and J. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232502 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Formation of $η^{'} (958)$ -Mesic Nuclei and Axial $U_{A} (1)$ Anomaly at Finite Density

Hideko Nagahiro and Satoru Hirenzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 232503 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Response of Polyatomic Molecules to Ultrastrong Laser- and Ion-Induced Fields

T. Schlathölter, R. Hoekstra, S. Zamith, Y. Ni, H. G. Muller, and M. J. J. Vrakking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233001 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Effective Potential for Natural Spin Orbitals

Katarzyna Pernal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233002 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Anomalous Size Dependence in the Melting Temperatures of Free Sodium Clusters: An Explanation for the Calorimetry Experiments

Andrés Aguado and José M. López

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233401 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Electromagnetically Induced Magnetochiral Anisotropy in a Resonant Medium

V. A. Sautenkov, Y. V. Rostovtsev, H. Chen, P. Hsu, Girish S. Agarwal, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233601 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Communication via the Statistics of Photon-Number Squeezed Light

Joshua Paramanandam and Michael A. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233602 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Wave Chaos in Real-World Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Tobias Gensty, Klaus Becker, Ingo Fischer, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Christian Degen, Pierluigi Debernardi, and Gian Paolo Bava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233901 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Shadow Effects in Spiral Phase Contrast Microscopy

Alexander Jesacher, Severin Fürhapter, Stefan Bernet, and Monika Ritsch-Marte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 233902 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Velocity Intermittency in a Buoyancy Subrange in a Two-Dimensional Soap Film Convection Experiment

Jie Zhang and X. L. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 234501 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics of a Flow-Focusing Bubble Generator: An Inverted Dripping Faucet

Piotr Garstecki, Michael J. Fuerstman, and George M. Whitesides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 234502 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Compression of Laser Radiation in Plasmas Using Electromagnetic Cascading

Serguei Kalmykov and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235001 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Transition to Collisionless Ion-Temperature-Gradient-Driven Plasma Turbulence: A Dynamical Systems Approach

R. A. Kolesnikov and J. A. Krommes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235002 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Stationary Vortical Flows in Two-Dimensional Plasma and in Planetary Atmospheres

F. Spineanu and M. Vlad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235003 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Classical Rotational Inertia of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$

J. G. Dash and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235301 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Pressure Control of Conducting Channels in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Networks

M. Monteverde and M. Núñez-Regueiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235501 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Melting Curve of MgO from First-Principles Simulations

Dario Alfè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235701 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Interacting Classical Dimers on the Square Lattice

Fabien Alet, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, Grégoire Misguich, Vincent Pasquier, Frédéric Mila, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235702 (2005) - Published 15 June, 2005

Interplay between Structure and Size in a Critical Crystal Nucleus

Daniele Moroni, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, and Peter G. Bolhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 235703 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Dynamics of a Bonding Front

F. Rieutord, B. Bataillou, and H. Moriceau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236101 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Coulombic Amino Group-Metal Bonding: Adsorption of Adenine on Cu(110)

M. Preuss, W. G. Schmidt, and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236102 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Time-Resolved Measurement of Surface Diffusion Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pulses

K. Stépán, J. Güdde, and U. Höfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236103 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Surprises in the Phase Diagram of an Anderson Impurity Model for a Single $C_{60}^{n -}$ Molecule

Lorenzo De Leo and Michele Fabrizio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236401 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations and the Magnetic-Field-Induced Suppression of the Charge Ordered State in ${Na}_{0.5} {CoO}_{2}$

L. Balicas, M. Abdel-Jawad, N. E. Hussey, F. C. Chou, and P. A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236402 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Isotope Effect in the Superfluid Density of High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates: Stripes, Pseudogap, and Impurities

J. L. Tallon, R. S. Islam, J. Storey, G. V. M. Williams, and J. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 237002 (2005) - Published 16 June, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Role of Bremsstrahlung Radiation in Limiting the Energy of Runaway Electrons in Tokamaks [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 215003 (2005)]

M. Bakhtiari, G. J. Kramer, M. Takechi, H. Tamai, Y. Miura, Y. Kusama, and Y. Kamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 239901 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Complex Chemical Potential: Signature of Decay in a Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 190402 (2005)]

George E. Cragg and Arthur K. Kerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 239902 (2005) - Published 13 June, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Nonquantized Dirac Monopoles and Strings in the Berry Phase of Anisotropic Spin Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 247202 (2004)]

Patrick Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 239903 (2005) - Published 14 June, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Measurement of Quantum Weak Values of Photon Polarization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220405 (2005)]

G. J. Pryde, J. L. O’Brien, A. G. White, T. C. Ralph, and H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 239904 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005

Publisher’s Note: Bragg Diffraction of Microcavity Polaritons by a Surface Acoustic Wave [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 226406 (2005)]

Kikuo Cho, Kazunori Okumoto, N. I. Nikolaev, and A. L. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 239905 (2005) - Published 17 June, 2005