Volume 95, Issue 13

23 September 2005

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Damage produced in silica glass under dynamic compression is evinced by a wing crack (gray) and nanocavities (color) in these snapshots from a molecular dynamics simulation.

From the article:

Dynamics of Wing Cracks and Nanoscale Damage in Glass
Zhen Lu, Ken-ichi Nomura, Ashish Sharma, Weiqiang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv Kalia, Priya Vashishta, Elisabeth Bouchaud, and Cindy Rountree
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135501 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of a Metallic Superfluid in a Numerical Experiment

E. Smørgrav, E. Babaev, J. Smiseth, and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135301 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

LETTERS

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

Quantum Decoupling Transition in a One-Dimensional Feshbach-Resonant Superfluid

Daniel E. Sheehy and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130401 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Atom-Molecule Coherence in a One-Dimensional System

R. Citro and E. Orignac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130402 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Propagation of a Dark Soliton in a Disordered Bose-Einstein Condensate

Nicolas Bilas and Nicolas Pavloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130403 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Holonomic Quantum Computation in Decoherence-Free Subspaces

L.-A. Wu, P. Zanardi, and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130501 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Nonadiabatic Electron Pumping: Maximal Current with Minimal Noise

Michael Strass, Peter Hänggi, and Sigmund Kohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130601 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Equality Connecting Energy Dissipation with a Violation of the Fluctuation-Response Relation

Takahiro Harada and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130602 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Coarse Nonlinear Dynamics and Metastability of Filling-Emptying Transitions: Water in Carbon Nanotubes

Saravanapriyan Sriraman, Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, and Gerhard Hummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130603 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Structural Order for One-Scale and Two-Scale Potentials

Zhenyu Yan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Nicolas Giovambattista, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 130604 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for New Physics Using High-Mass Tau Pairs from 1.96 TeV $p \bar{p}$ Collisions

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 131801 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Measurement of Time-Dependent $C P$ Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to D^{(*) \pm} D^{\mp}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 131802 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Measurement of Branching Fractions and Charge Asymmetries in $B^{+}$ Decays to $η π^{+}$ , $η K^{+}$ , $η ρ^{+}$ , and $η^{'} π^{+}$ , and Search for $B^{0}$ Decays to $η K^{0}$ and $η ω$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 131803 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Monoenergetic Neutrino Beam for Long-Baseline Experiments

Joe Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 131804 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for Pygmy and Giant Dipole Resonances in ${}^{130}{Sn}$ and ${}^{132}{Sn}$

P. Adrich, A. Klimkiewicz, M. Fallot, K. Boretzky, T. Aumann, D. Cortina-Gil, U. Datta Pramanik, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, K. L. Jones, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, Y. Leifels, C. Nociforo, R. Palit, H. Simon, G. Surówka, K. Sümmerer, and W. Waluś (LAND-FRS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 132501 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Doppler Shift as a Tool for Studies of Isobaric Analog States of Neutron-Rich Nuclei: Application to ${}^{7}{He}$

P. Boutachkov, G. V. Rogachev, V. Z. Goldberg, A. Aprahamian, F. D. Becchetti, J. P. Bychowski, Y. Chen, G. Chubarian, P. A. DeYoung, J. J. Kolata, L. O. Lamm, G. F. Peaslee, M. Quinn, B. B. Skorodumov, and A. Wöhr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 132502 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Violation of the Franck-Condon Principle due to Recoil Effects in High Energy Molecular Core-Level Photoionization

E. Kukk, K. Ueda, U. Hergenhahn, X.-J. Liu, G. Prümper, H. Yoshida, Y. Tamenori, C. Makochekanwa, T. Tanaka, M. Kitajima, and H. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133001 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Observation of Atom Wave Phase Shifts Induced by Van Der Waals Atom-Surface Interactions

John D. Perreault and Alexander D. Cronin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133201 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Ionization of Hydrogen Rydberg Molecules at a Metal Surface

G. R. Lloyd, S. R. Procter, and T. P. Softley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133202 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency

Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133601 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Photonic Quasicrystals for Nonlinear Optical Frequency Conversion

Ron Lifshitz, Ady Arie, and Alon Bahabad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133901 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Linear Instability of Planar Shear Banded Flow

S. M. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 134501 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Visible-Laser Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons in a Semi-Infinite Vacuum

T. Plettner, R. L. Byer, E. Colby, B. Cowan, C. M. S. Sears, J. E. Spencer, and R. H. Siemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 134801 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Effect of Radial-Electric-Field Polarity on Wire-Array $Z$ -Pinch Dynamics

S. N. Bland, S. V. Lebedev, J. P. Chittenden, D. J. Ampleford, S. C. Bott, J. A. Gómez, M. G. Haines, G. N. Hall, D. A. Hammer, I. H. Mitchell, and J. B. A. Palmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135001 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of a Metallic Superfluid in a Numerical Experiment

E. Smørgrav, E. Babaev, J. Smiseth, and A. Sudbø

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135301 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Dynamics of Wing Cracks and Nanoscale Damage in Glass

Zhen Lu, Ken-ichi Nomura, Ashish Sharma, Weiqiang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv Kalia, Priya Vashishta, Elisabeth Bouchaud, and Cindy Rountree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135501 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

Nucleation Time of Nanoscale Water Bridges

Robert Szoszkiewicz and Elisa Riedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135502 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

How Multivalency Controls Ionic Criticality

Michael E. Fisher, Jean-Noël Aqua, and Shubho Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135701 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Fractal Structure of High-Temperature Graphs of $O (N)$ Models in Two Dimensions

Wolfhard Janke and Adriaan M. J. Schakel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135702 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Dynamical Zero-Temperature Phase Transitions and Cosmic Inflation or Deflation

Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135703 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Sublimation of a Vibrated Granular Monolayer: Coexistence of Gas and Solid

Andreas Götzendorfer, Jennifer Kreft, Christof A. Kruelle, and Ingo Rehberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 135704 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Observation of the Dynamical Change in a Water Monolayer Adsorbed on a ZnO Surface

Olga Dulub, Bernd Meyer, and Ulrike Diebold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136101 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

1D Lattice Distortions as the Origin of the $(2 \times 2) p 4 g m$ Reconstruction in $γ^{'} − {Fe}_{4} N (100)$ : A Magnetism-Induced Surface Reconstruction

J. M. Gallego, D. O. Boerma, R. Miranda, and Felix Ynduráin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136102 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

Reversible Self-Propelled Droplet Movement: A New Driving Mechanism

Paul Lazar and Hans Riegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136103 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Evolution of Topological Order in Xe Films on a Quasicrystal Surface

Stefano Curtarolo, Wahyu Setyawan, Nicola Ferralis, Renee D. Diehl, and Milton W. Cole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136104 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Dissociation of Water on Defective Carbon Substrates

M. K. Kostov, E. E. Santiso, A. M. George, K. E. Gubbins, and M. Buongiorno Nardelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136105 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Critical Epinucleation on Reconstructured Surfaces and First-Principle Calculation of Homonucleation on Si(100)

Raj Ganesh S. Pala and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136106 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Orbital Ordering Transition in ${Ca}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ Observed with Resonant X-Ray Diffraction

I. Zegkinoglou, J. Strempfer, C. S. Nelson, J. P. Hill, J. Chakhalian, C. Bernhard, J. C. Lang, G. Srajer, H. Fukazawa, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Maeno, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136401 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

All-Electron Exact Exchange Treatment of Semiconductors: Effect of Core-Valence Interaction on Band-Gap and $d$ -Band Position

S. Sharma, J. K. Dewhurst, and C. Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136402 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Optical Spin Hall Effect

Alexey Kavokin, Guillaume Malpuech, and Mikhail Glazov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136601 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Nondissipative Spin Hall Effect via Quantized Edge Transport

L. Sheng, D. N. Sheng, C. S. Ting, and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136602 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Optical Signatures of Spin-Orbit Interaction Effects in a Parabolic Quantum Dot

Tapash Chakraborty and Pekka Pietiläinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136603 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Link between Adatom Resonances and the Cu(111) Shockley Surface State

Jérôme Lagoute, Xi Liu, and Stefan Fölsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136801 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Sensing Dipole Fields at Atomic Steps with Combined Scanning Tunneling and Force Microscopy

Jeong Young Park, G. M. Sacha, M. Enachescu, D. F. Ogletree, R. A. Ribeiro, P. C. Canfield, C. J. Jenks, P. A. Thiel, J. J. Sáenz, and M. Salmeron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136802 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Quasiparticle Tunneling through a Barrier in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Elad Shopen, Yuval Gefen, and Yigal Meir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136803 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Imaging Transport Resonances in the Quantum Hall Effect

G. A. Steele, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 136804 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Particle-Hole Asymmetry in Doped Mott Insulators: Implications for Tunneling and Photoemission Spectroscopies

Mohit Randeria, Rajdeep Sensarma, Nandini Trivedi, and Fu-Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137001 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Correlation between Superfluid Density and $T_{C}$ of Underdoped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$ Near the Superconductor-Insulator Transition

Yuri Zuev, Mun Seog Kim, and Thomas R. Lemberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137002 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

Spin-Dependent Scattering in Multilayered Magnetic Rings

F. J. Castaño, D. Morecroft, W. Jung, and C. A. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137201 (2005) - Published 20 September, 2005

Interface Magnetization Reversal and Anisotropy in $Fe / AlGaAs (001)$

H. B. Zhao, D. Talbayev, G. Lüpke, A. T. Hanbicki, C. H. Li, M. J. van’t Erve, G. Kioseoglou, and B. T. Jonker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137202 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Spin-Polarized Tunneling Spectroscopy in Tunnel Junctions with Half-Metallic Electrodes

M. Bowen, A. Barthélémy, M. Bibes, E. Jacquet, J.-P. Contour, A. Fert, F. Ciccacci, L. Duò, and R. Bertacco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137203 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Berry Phase Correction to Electron Density of States in Solids

Di Xiao, Junren Shi, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137204 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Orbital Magnetization in Periodic Insulators

T. Thonhauser, Davide Ceresoli, David Vanderbilt, and R. Resta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137205 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Two-Step Restoration of SU(2) Symmetry in a Frustrated Ring-Exchange Magnet

A. Läuchli, J. C. Domenge, C. Lhuillier, P. Sindzingre, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137206 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Peierls Transition in the Quantum Spin-Peierls Model

William Barford and Robert J. Bursill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137207 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Ground States and Thermal States of the Random Field Ising Model

Yong Wu and Jonathan Machta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137208 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Fraction of Boroxol Rings in Vitreous Boron Oxide from a First-Principles Analysis of Raman and NMR Spectra

P. Umari and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137401 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Femtosecond Electron and Spin Dynamics in Gd(0001) Studied by Time-Resolved Photoemission and Magneto-optics

M. Lisowski, P. A. Loukakos, A. Melnikov, I. Radu, L. Ungureanu, M. Wolf, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137402 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Photon Statistics from Coupled Quantum Dots

Brian D. Gerardot, Stefan Strauf, Michiel J. A. de Dood, Andrey M. Bychkov, Antonio Badolato, Kevin Hennessy, Evelyn L. Hu, Dirk Bouwmeester, and Pierre M. Petroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137403 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Experimental Demonstration of Near-Infrared Negative-Index Metamaterials

Shuang Zhang, Wenjun Fan, N. C. Panoiu, K. J. Malloy, R. M. Osgood, and S. R. J. Brueck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137404 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Ground-State Decay Rate for the Zener Breakdown in Band and Mott Insulators

Takashi Oka and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137601 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Structural and Electronic Properties of the Interface between the High- $k$ Oxide ${LaAlO}_{3}$ and Si(001)

Clemens J. Först, Karlheinz Schwarz, and Peter E. Blöchl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137602 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Shear Stress Fluctuations in the Granular Liquid and Solid Phases

F. Dalton, F. Farrelly, A. Petri, L. Pietronero, L. Pitolli, and G. Pontuale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 138001 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Symmetry-Breaking Motility

Allen Lee, Ha Youn Lee, and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 138101 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Efficient Sampling of Protein Structures by Model Hopping

Wooseop Kwak and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 138102 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Neuronal Oscillators in Aplysia californica that Demonstrate Weak Coupling In Vitro

Amanda J. Preyer and Robert J. Butera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 138103 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005

COMMENTS

Comment on “Acoustical Klein-Gordon Equation: A Time-Independent Perturbation Analysis”

Hans Werner Strube

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139401 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Forbes and Pike Reply:

Barbara J. Forbes and E. Roy Pike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139402 (2005) - Published 22 September, 2005

Comment on “ $a / [110]$ Stacking Fault Model for Platelets in Diamond”

R. Jones, M. I. Heggie, and J. P. Goss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139601 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Miranda, Antonelli, and Nunes Reply:

C. R. Miranda, A. Antonelli, and R. W. Nunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139602 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Opacity, the RHIC Hanbury Brown–Twiss Puzzle, and the Chiral Phase Transition [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 102302 (2005)]

John G. Cramer, Gerald A. Miller, Jackson M. S. Wu, and Jin-Hee Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139901 (2005) - Published 19 September, 2005

Erratum: Observation of Shock Transverse Waves in Elastic Media [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 164301 (2003)]

S. Catheline, J.-L. Gennisson, M. Tanter, and M. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139902 (2005) - Published 21 September, 2005

Erratum: Upper Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission in Association with the 27 Dec 2004 Giant Flare of SGR1806-20 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 081103 (2005)]

L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, M. De Rosa, P. Falferi, P. Fortini, M. Inguscio, N. Liguori, F. Marin, R. Mezzena, A. Mion, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, S. Poggi, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, A. Vinante, S. Vitale, and J. P. Zendri (AURIGA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 139903 (2005) - Published 23 September, 2005