Volume 95, Issue 9

26 August 2005

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On the Cover

Simulations describe the early stages of carbon nanotube growth on metal nanoparticle catalysts.

From the article:

Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Metal Nanoparticles: A Microscopic Mechanism from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Jean-Yves Raty, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096103 (2005)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Strange-Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Forward G0 Electron-Proton Scattering Experiment

D. S. Armstrong et al. (G0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 092001 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

LETTERS

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

Detection of Macroscopic Entanglement by Correlation of Local Observables

Akira Shimizu and Tomoyuki Morimae

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090401 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Density and Spin Response Functions in Ultracold Fermionic Atom Gases

Bogdan Mihaila, Sergio Gaudio, Krastan B. Blagoev, Alexander V. Balatsky, Peter B. Littlewood, and Darryl L. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090402 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Drag Effect and Topological Complexes in Strongly Interacting Two-Component Lattice Superfluids

V. M. Kaurov, A. B. Kuklov, and A. E. Meyerovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090403 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Correlations and Counting Statistics of an Atom Laser

Anton Öttl, Stephan Ritter, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090404 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Inverting Quantum Decoherence by Classical Feedback from the Environment

Francesco Buscemi, Giulio Chiribella, and Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090501 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Charge-Qubit Operation of an Isolated Double Quantum Dot

J. Gorman, D. G. Hasko, and D. A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090502 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Logarithmic Negativity: A Full Entanglement Monotone That is not Convex

M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090503 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Separating the Classical and Quantum Information via Quantum Cloning

M. Ricci, F. Sciarrino, N. J. Cerf, R. Filip, J. Fiurášek, and F. De Martini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090504 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Theory of Metastability in Simple Metal Nanowires

J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford, and D. L. Stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090601 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Infinite Average Lifetime of an Unstable Bright State in the Green Fluorescent Protein

P. Didier, L. Guidoni, and F. Bardou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090602 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

High-Efficiency Deterministic Josephson Vortex Ratchet

M. Beck, E. Goldobin, M. Neuhaus, M. Siegel, R. Kleiner, and D. Koelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090603 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Unexpected Density Fluctuations in Jammed Disordered Sphere Packings

Aleksandar Donev, Frank H. Stillinger, and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090604 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Uniqueness and Nonuniqueness in the Einstein Constraints

Harald P. Pfeiffer and James W. York, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091101 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Quantum Cosmology of the Brane Universe

A. Boyarsky, A. Neronov, and I. Tkachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091301 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Black Hole Mass Threshold from Nonsingular Quantum Gravitational Collapse

Martin Bojowald, Rituparno Goswami, Roy Maartens, and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091302 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Evolution of Nonlinear Cosmological Perturbations

David Langlois and Filippo Vernizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091303 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Results of a Search for Cold Flows of Dark Matter Axions

L. Duffy, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner, S. Asztalos, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, L. J Rosenberg, K. van Bibber, D. Yu, and R. F. Bradley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091304 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Studies of $C P$ Violation in $B \to J / ψ K^{*}$ Decays

R. Itoh et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091601 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in Dilepton and Diphoton Final States

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 091801 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Strange-Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Forward G0 Electron-Proton Scattering Experiment

D. S. Armstrong et al. (G0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 092001 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Calculation of Proton-Deuteron Breakup Reactions including the Coulomb Interaction between the Two Protons

A. Deltuva, A. C. Fonseca, and P. U. Sauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 092301 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Resolved Imaging and Manipulation of $H_{2}$ Fragmentation in Intense Laser Fields

Th. Ergler, A. Rudenko, B. Feuerstein, K. Zrost, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 093001 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Strong Orientation Effects in Ionization of $H_{2}^{+}$ by Short, Intense, High-Frequency Light Pulses

S. Selstø, M. Førre, J. P. Hansen, and L. B. Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 093002 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Bond- and Site-Selective Loss of $H^{-}$ from Pyrimidine Bases

Sylwia Ptasińska, Stephan Denifl, Verena Grill, Tilmann D. Märk, Eugen Illenberger, and Paul Scheier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 093201 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Sensitive Measurement of Forces at the Micron Scale Using Bloch Oscillations of Ultracold Atoms

I. Carusotto, L. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 093202 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nanoscopic Ultrafast Space-Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

T. Brixner, F. J. García de Abajo, J. Schneider, and W. Pfeiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 093901 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Chaos in an Electromagnetically Induced Transparent Medium Inside an Optical Cavity

Wenge Yang, Amitabh Joshi, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 093902 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Poincaré Recurrence and Measure of Hyperbolic and Nonhyperbolic Chaotic Attractors

Murilo S. Baptista, Suso Kraut, and Celso Grebogi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 094101 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Heat Conduction in a Two-Dimensional Harmonic Crystal with Disorder

Lik Wee Lee and Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 094302 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Three-Dimensional Evolution of a Relativistic Current Sheet: Triggering of Magnetic Reconnection by the Guide Field

S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095001 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Observation of Nonlinear Coupling between Small-Poloidal Wave-Number Potential Fluctuations and Turbulent Potential Fluctuations in Ohmically Heated Plasmas in the JFT-2M Tokamak

Y. Nagashima, K. Hoshino, A. Ejiri, K. Shinohara, Y. Takase, K. Tsuzuki, K. Uehara, H. Kawashima, H. Ogawa, T. Ido, Y. Kusama, and Y. Miura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095002 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Resonant Scattering of Ions on Charged Dust Particles

U. de Angelis, C. Marmolino, and V. N. Tsytovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095003 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Oscillations in the Expansion of Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ into Vacuum

Giorgio Benedek, Franco Dalfovo, Robert E. Grisenti, Manuel Käsz, and J. Peter Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095301 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Persistent Step-Flow Growth of Strained Films on Vicinal Substrates

Wei Hong, Ho Nyung Lee, Mina Yoon, Hans M. Christen, Douglas H. Lowndes, Zhigang Suo, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095501 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Strain Localization and Percolation of Stable Structure in Amorphous Solids

Yunfeng Shi and Michael L. Falk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095502 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Explosive Fragmentation of a Thin Ceramic Tube Using Pulsed Power

Hiroaki Katsuragi, Satoshi Ihara, and Haruo Honjo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095503 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Circuit Elements at Optical Frequencies: Nanoinductors, Nanocapacitors, and Nanoresistors

Nader Engheta, Alessandro Salandrino, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095504 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

Basile Audoly and Sébastien Neukirch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095505 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Simulations of Spinodal Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Interactions

C. J. Gagne, Harvey Gould, W. Klein, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 095701 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Suppression of Capillary Wave Broadening of Interfaces in Binary Alloys due to Elastic Interactions

B. J. Schulz, B. Dünweg, K. Binder, and M. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096101 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Electronic Origin of Disorder and Diffusion at a Molecule-Metal Interface: Self-Assembled Monolayers Of ${CH}_{3} S$ on Cu(111)

Martin Konôpka, Roger Rousseau, Ivan Štich, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096102 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Metal Nanoparticles: A Microscopic Mechanism from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Jean-Yves Raty, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096103 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Morphological Instability in $InAs / GaSb$ Superlattices due to Interfacial Bonds

J. H. Li, D. W. Stokes, O. Caha, S. L. Ammu, J. Bai, K. E. Bassler, and S. C. Moss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096104 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Carbon Nanotube Ballistic Thermal Conductance and Its Limits

N. Mingo and D. A. Broido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096105 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Intermediate Phase of the One Dimensional Half-Filled Hubbard-Holstein Model

R. T. Clay and R. P. Hardikar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096401 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Electron Emission from Diamondoids: A Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Study

N. D. Drummond, A. J. Williamson, R. J. Needs, and G. Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096801 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Band Structure and Oscillatory Electron-Phonon Coupling of Pb Thin Films Determined by Atomic-Layer-Resolved Quantum-Well States

Yan-Feng Zhang, Jin-Feng Jia, Tie-Zhu Han, Zhe Tang, Quan-Tong Shen, Yang Guo, Z. Q. Qiu, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 096802 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Superconducting $π$ Qubit with a Ferromagnetic Josephson Junction

T. Yamashita, K. Tanikawa, S. Takahashi, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097001 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Temperature Dependence of the Optical Spectral Weight in the Cuprates: Role of Electron Correlations

A. Toschi, M. Capone, M. Ortolani, P. Calvani, S. Lupi, and C. Castellani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097002 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Superconducting Spin Valve Effect of a V Layer Coupled to an Antiferromagnetic $[Fe / V]$ Superlattice

K. Westerholt, D. Sprungmann, H. Zabel, R. Brucas, B. Hjörvarsson, D. A. Tikhonov, and I. A. Garifullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097003 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Observation of Vortex Coalescence in the Anisotropic Spin-Triplet Superconductor ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

V. O. Dolocan, C. Veauvy, F. Servant, P. Lejay, K. Hasselbach, Y. Liu, and D. Mailly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097004 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Temperature-Dependent Anisotropy of the Penetration Depth and Coherence Length of ${MgB}_{2}$

J. D. Fletcher, A. Carrington, O. J. Taylor, S. M. Kazakov, and J. Karpinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097005 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Effect of Disorder Outside the ${CuO}_{2}$ Planes on $T_{c}$ of Copper Oxide Superconductors

K. Fujita, T. Noda, K. M. Kojima, H. Eisaki, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097006 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Irradiation-Induced Magnetism in Carbon Nanostructures

S. Talapatra, P. G. Ganesan, T. Kim, R. Vajtai, M. Huang, M. Shima, G. Ramanath, D. Srivastava, S. C. Deevi, and P. M. Ajayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097201 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Finite-Temperature Transitions in Dipolar Spin Ice in a Large Magnetic Field

Jacob P. C. Ruff, Roger G. Melko, and Michel J. P. Gingras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097202 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Zero-Field Incommensurate Spin-Peierls Phase with Interchain Frustration in TiOCl

R. Rückamp, J. Baier, M. Kriener, M. W. Haverkort, T. Lorenz, G. S. Uhrig, L. Jongen, A. Möller, G. Meyer, and M. Grüninger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097203 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Cooling Mechanism for a Nanomechanical Resonator by Periodic Coupling to a Cooper Pair Box

P. Zhang, Y. D. Wang, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097204 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Power-Law-Distributed Dark States are the Main Pathway for Photobleaching of Single Organic Molecules

Jacob P. Hoogenboom, Erik M. H. P. van Dijk, Jordi Hernando, Niek F. van Hulst, and María F. García-Parajó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097401 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Accelerating the Spontaneous Emission of X Rays from Atoms in a Cavity

R. Röhlsberger, K. Schlage, T. Klein, and O. Leupold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097601 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Rheology of Cholesteric Blue Phases

A. Dupuis, D. Marenduzzo, E. Orlandini, and J. M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097801 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Dynamics of Nematic Liquid Crystal Disclinations: The Role of the Backflow

C. Blanc, D. Svenšek, S. Žumer, and M. Nobili

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 097802 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Energy Partition and Segregation for an Intruder in a Vibrated Granular System under Gravity

J. Javier Brey, M. J. Ruiz-Montero, and F. Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098001 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Two-Dimensional Melting Far from Equilibrium in a Granular Monolayer

J. S. Olafsen and J. S. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098002 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Spatial Scaling in Model Plant Communities

Tommaso Zillio, Igor Volkov, Jayanth R. Banavar, Stephen P. Hubbell, and Amos Maritan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098101 (2005) - Published 23 August, 2005

Molecular Model of the Contractile Ring

D. Biron, E. Alvarez-Lacalle, T. Tlusty, and E. Moses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098102 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Form of Growing Strings

D. Marenduzzo, T. X. Hoang, F. Seno, M. Vendruscolo, and A. Maritan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098103 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Scale-Free Networks Provide a Unifying Framework for the Emergence of Cooperation

F. C. Santos and J. M. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098104 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Closed-Form Solutions for Continuous Time Random Walks on Finite Chains

Ophir Flomenbom and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098105 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Fractons in Proteins: Can They Lead to Anomalously Decaying Time Autocorrelations?

Rony Granek and Joseph Klafter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098106 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Vibrations and Diverging Length Scales Near the Unjamming Transition

Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098301 (2005) - Published 24 August, 2005

Asymmetric Bound States of Spiral Pairs in Excitable Media

Christian Zemlin, Karthik Mukund, Marcel Wellner, Roman Zaritsky, and Arkady Pertsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098302 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Trading Interactions for Topology in Scale-Free Networks

C. V. Giuraniuc, J. P. L. Hatchett, J. O. Indekeu, M. Leone, I. Pérez Castillo, B. Van Schaeybroeck, and C. Vanderzande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098701 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Novel Public Key Encryption Technique Based on Multiple Chaotic Systems

Ranjan Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 098702 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

COMMENTS

Comment on “Cross Section of $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation into Hadrons of Order $α_{s}^{4} n_{f}^{2}$ in Perturbative QCD”

F. A. Chishtie, V. Elias, and T. G. Steele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099101 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Comment on “Three-Species Collisionless Reconnection: Effect of $O^{+}$ on Magnetotail Reconnection”

P. K. Shukla and L. Stenflo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099501 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Shay and Swisdak Reply:

M. A. Shay and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099502 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005

Comment on “Band Filling and Interband Scattering Effects in ${MgB}_{2}$ : Carbon versus Aluminium Doping”

P. Samuely, P. Szabó, P. C. Canfield, and S. L. Bud’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099701 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Kortus et al. Reply:

J. Kortus, O. V. Dolgov, R. K. Kremer, and A. A. Golubov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099702 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Coherence Properties and Quantum State Transportation in an Optical Conveyor Belt [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 213002 (2003)]

S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, I. Dotsenko, Y. Miroshnychenko, W. Rosenfeld, M. Khudaverdyan, V. Gomer, A. Rauschenbeutel, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099901 (2005) - Published 22 August, 2005

Erratum: Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation in the Presence of Spontaneous Emission and Collective Dephasing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 197904 (2002)]

K. Khodjasteh and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099902 (2005) - Published 25 August, 2005

Erratum: Orientation-Dependent $C_{60}$ Electronic Structures Revealed by Photoemission Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197601 (2004)]

V. Brouet, W. L. Yang, X. J. Zhou, H. J. Choi, S. G. Louie, M. L. Cohen, A. Goldoni, F. Parmigiani, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 099903 (2005) - Published 26 August, 2005