Volume 95, Issue 10

G. Savard, F. Buchinger, J. A. Clark, J. E. Crawford, S. Gulick, J. C. Hardy, A. A. Hecht, J. K. P. Lee, A. F. Levand, N. D. Scielzo, H. Sharma, K. S. Sharma, I. Tanihata, A. C. C. Villari, and Y. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 102501 (2005) - Published 29 August, 2005

Experimental Identification of Spin-Parities and Single-Particle Configurations in ${}^{257}{No}$ and Its $α$ -Decay Daughter ${}^{253}{Fm}$

M. Asai, K. Tsukada, M. Sakama, S. Ichikawa, T. Ishii, Y. Nagame, I. Nishinaka, K. Akiyama, A. Osa, Y. Oura, K. Sueki, and M. Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 102502 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nondispersive Two-Electron Wave Packets in a Helium Atom

Matt Kalinski, Loren Hansen, and David Farrelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 103001 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Conformational Effects in Inner-Shell Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ethanol

M. Abu-samha, K. J. Børve, L. J. Sæthre, and T. D. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 103002 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Two Very Efficient Nonlinear Laser Absorption Mechanisms in Clusters

P. Mulser, M. Kanapathipillai, and D. H. H. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 103401 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Experimental Demonstration of Selective Coherent Population Transfer via a Continuum

Thorsten Peters, Leonid P. Yatsenko, and Thomas Halfmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 103601 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Transmission of Light through a Single Rectangular Hole

F. J. García-Vidal, Esteban Moreno, J. A. Porto, and L. Martín-Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 103901 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Light in Metallic Nanoslits

K. G. Lee and Q-Han Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 103902 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Degenerate Periodic Orbits and Homoclinic Torus Bifurcation

Thomas J. Bridges and Neil M. Donaldson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 104301 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Interface Thermal Resistance between Dissimilar Anharmonic Lattices

Baowen Li, Jinghua Lan, and Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 104302 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Anomalous Roughening of Viscous Fluid Fronts in Spontaneous Imbibition

J. Soriano, A. Mercier, R. Planet, A. Hernández-Machado, M. A. Rodríguez, and J. Ortín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 104501 (2005) - Published 30 August, 2005

Multifractal Method for the Instantaneous Evaluation of the Stream Function in Geophysical Flows

Antonio Turiel, Jordi Isern-Fontanet, Emilio Garcia-Ladona, and Jordi Font

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 104502 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Transition to Chaos in a Confined Two-Dimensional Fluid Flow

D. Molenaar, H. J. H. Clercx, and G. J. F. van Heijst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 104503 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Efficient Radiation Production in Long Implosions of Structured Gas-Puff $Z$ Pinch Loads from Large Initial Radius

H. Sze, J. Banister, B. H. Failor, J. S. Levine, N. Qi, A. L. Velikovich, J. Davis, D. Lojewski, and P. Sincerny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105001 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observability of a Projected New State of Matter: A Metallic Superfluid

E. Babaev, A. Sudbø, and N. W. Ashcroft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105301 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Size Dependence of the Thin-Shell Model for Carbon Nanotubes

Lifeng Wang, Quanshui Zheng, Jefferson Z. Liu, and Qing Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105501 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Importance of Quantum Tunneling in Vacancy-Hydrogen Complexes in Diamond

M. J. Shaw, P. R. Briddon, J. P. Goss, M. J. Rayson, A. Kerridge, A. H. Harker, and A. M. Stoneham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105502 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Diffuse Scattering and Phason Fluctuations in the Zn-Mg-Sc Icosahedral Quasicrystal and Its Zn-Sc Periodic Approximant

M. de Boissieu, S. Francoual, Y. Kaneko, and T. Ishimasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105503 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition

Wojciech H. Zurek, Uwe Dorner, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 105701 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Velocity and Strain-Rate Profiles in Materials Subjected to Unlubricated Sliding

S. Karthikeyan, H. J. Kim, and D. A. Rigney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106001 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Self-Assembly of Parallel Atomic Wires and Periodic Clusters of Silicon on a Vicinal Si(111) Surface

Takeharu Sekiguchi, Shunji Yoshida, and Kohei M. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106101 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Water-Enhanced Catalysis of CO Oxidation on Free and Supported Gold Nanoclusters

Angelo Bongiorno and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106102 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Atomic-Scale Surface Demixing in a Eutectic Liquid BiSn Alloy

Oleg G. Shpyrko, Alexei Yu. Grigoriev, Reinhard Streitel, Diego Pontoni, Peter S. Pershan, Moshe Deutsch, Ben Ocko, Mati Meron, and Binhua Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106103 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

When Smoothening Makes It Rough: Unhindered Step-Edge Diffusion and the Meandering Instability on Metal Surfaces

F. Nita and A. Pimpinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106104 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Universal Relationship between Magnetization and Changes in the Local Structure of ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ : Evidence for Magnetic Dimers

L. Downward, F. Bridges, S. Bushart, J. J. Neumeier, N. Dilley, and L. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106401 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Dynamical Breakup of the Fermi Surface in a Doped Mott Insulator

M. Civelli, M. Capone, S. S. Kancharla, O. Parcollet, and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106402 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Spin Current and Accumulation Generated by the Spin Hall Insulator

Masaru Onoda and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106601 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Population Inversion of a Driven Two-Level System in a Structureless Bath

T. M. Stace, A. C. Doherty, and S. D. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106801 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

First-Principles Mobility Calculations and Atomic-Scale Interface Roughness in Nanoscale Structures

M. H. Evans, X.-G. Zhang, J. D. Joannopoulos, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106802 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Andreev Reflection at High Magnetic Fields: Evidence for Electron and Hole Transport in Edge States

J. Eroms, D. Weiss, J. De Boeck, G. Borghs, and U. Zülicke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107001 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Breakdown of One-Parameter Scaling in Quantum Critical Scenarios for High-Temperature Copper-Oxide Superconductors

Philip Phillips and Claudio Chamon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107002 (2005) - Published 31 August, 2005

Direct Observation of Quadrupolar Excitons in the Heavy-Fermion Superconductor ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

K. Kuwahara, K. Iwasa, M. Kohgi, K. Kaneko, N. Metoki, S. Raymond, M.-A. Méasson, J. Flouquet, H. Sugawara, Y. Aoki, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107003 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Multiband Superconductivity in the Heavy Fermion Compound $\Pr {Os}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$

G. Seyfarth, J. P. Brison, M.-A. Méasson, J. Flouquet, K. Izawa, Y. Matsuda, H. Sugawara, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107004 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a $d$ -Wave High- $T_{C}$ ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductor

K. Inomata, S. Sato, Koji Nakajima, A. Tanaka, Y. Takano, H. B. Wang, M. Nagao, H. Hatano, and S. Kawabata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107005 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Low-Temperature Thermal Conductivity of Superconductors with Gap Nodes

Tomas Löfwander and Mikael Fogelström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107006 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Quantum Phase Slips in the Presence of Finite-Range Disorder

Sergei Khlebnikov and Leonid P. Pryadko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107007 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

${Na}_{2} V_{3} O_{7}$ : A Frustrated Nanotubular System with Spin- $1 / 2$ Diamond Ring Geometry

T. Saha-Dasgupta, Roser Valentí, F. Capraro, and C. Gros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107201 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Checking for Optimal Solutions in Some NP-Complete Problems

Michel Bauer and Henri Orland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 107202 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Annihilation of Limit-Cycle Oscillations by Identification of Critical Perturbing Stimuli via Mixed-Integer Optimal Control

D. Lebiedz, S. Sager, H. G. Bock, and P. Lebiedz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 108303 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Threshold Effects for Two Pathogens Spreading on a Network

M. E. J. Newman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 108701 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

COMMENTS

Comment on “Physical Limits on Electronic Nonlinear Molecular Susceptibilities”

Benoît Champagne and Bernard Kirtman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 109401 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

Kuzyk Replies:

Mark G. Kuzyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 109402 (2005) - Published 1 September, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Chern Numbers for Spin Models of Transition Metal Nanomagnets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 046805 (2003)]

C. M. Canali, A. Cehovin, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 109901 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005

Erratum: Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)]

M. Dion, H. Rydberg, E. Schröder, D. C. Langreth, and B. I. Lundqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 109902 (2005) - Published 2 September, 2005