Volume 87, Issue 18

29 October 2001

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On the Cover

Numerical simulation plot of (a) the electric field and (b) the ion density inside a 'postsoliton' formed from the interaction of a high-intensity, ultrashort laser pulse with a plasma.

From the article:

Formation of Electromagnetic Postsolitons in Plasmas
N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, D. Farina, K. Nishihara, F. Pegoraro, H. Ruhl, and A. S. Sakharov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185004 (2001)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stick-Slip Dynamics of a Stressed Ion Crystal

T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, and D. H. E. Dubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183001 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Approximate Boost of the Relativistic Two-Body Problem in the Instantaneous Formalism

S. J. Wallace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 180401 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Thermal vs Quantum Decoherence in Double Well Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 180402 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Dynamical Foundations of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics

Christian Beck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 180601 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Spin Susceptibility of Neutron Matter at Zero Temperature

S. Fantoni, A. Sarsa, and K. E. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 181101 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Perturbative Finiteness in Spin-Foam Quantum Gravity

Louis Crane, Alejandro Perez, and Carlo Rovelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 181301 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Electron-Spin Precession in a Plane Electromagnetic Wave

V. V. Tikhomirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 181801 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Proton Stability in Six Dimensions

Thomas Appelquist, Bogdan A. Dobrescu, Eduardo Pontón, and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 181802 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Improved Upper Limits on the Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays $B \to K ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B \to K^{*} (892) ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$

S. Anderson et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 181803 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Measurement of the Beam-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetry Associated with Deeply-Virtual Compton Scattering

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182001 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Observation of Exclusive Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering in Polarized Electron Beam Asymmetry Measurements

S. Stepanyan et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182002 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Identified Particle Elliptic Flow in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$

C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182301 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Explosive Decomposition in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

O. Scavenius, A. Dumitru, and A. D. Jackson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182302 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Collective Dipole Bremsstrahlung in Fusion Reactions

V. Baran, D. M. Brink, M. Colonna, and M. Di Toro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182501 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Photofissility of Actinide Nuclei at Intermediate Energies

A. Deppman, O. A. P. Tavares, S. B. Duarte, E. C. de Oliveira, J. D. T. Arruda-Neto, S. R. de Pina, V. P. Likhachev, O. Rodriguez, J. Mesa, and M. Gonçalves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 182701 (2001) - Published 9 October, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stick-Slip Dynamics of a Stressed Ion Crystal

T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, W. M. Itano, and D. H. E. Dubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183001 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Cyclic Population Transfer in Quantum Systems with Broken Symmetry

Petr Král and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183002 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Observation of Magnetochiral Birefringence

M. Vallet, R. Ghosh, A. Le Floch, T. Ruchon, F. Bretenaker, and J.-Y. Thépot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183003 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Relativistic Fine Structure and Resonance Effects in Electron-Ion Recombination and Excitation of ( $e + C IV$ )

Anil K. Pradhan, Guo Xin Chen, Sultana N. Nahar, and Hong Lin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183201 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Bridging the Cluster-to-Bulk Divide: Electron Attachment Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Reveals Geometrical Shell Closings in $({SF}_{6})_{n}$ Clusters $(n = 2 - 550)$

Oddur Ingólfsson and Alec M. Wodtke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183401 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Quantum Cascade of Photons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

E. Moreau, I. Robert, L. Manin, V. Thierry-Mieg, J. M. Gérard, and I. Abram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183601 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Interferometric Signatures of Single Molecules

Taras Plakhotnik and Viktor Palm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183602 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

High-Order Harmonic Generation in Aligned Molecules

R. Velotta, N. Hay, M. B. Mason, M. Castillejo, and J. P. Marangos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183901 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Focusing versus Defocusing Nonlinearities due to Parametric Wave Mixing

P. Di Trapani, A. Bramati, S. Minardi, W. Chinaglia, C. Conti, S. Trillo, J. Kilius, and G. Valiulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183902 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Selective Excitation of Localized Modes in Active Random Media

C. Vanneste and P. Sebbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 183903 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Acoustic Attenuation by Two-Dimensional Arrays of Rigid Cylinders

You-Yu Chen and Zhen Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 184301 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Does Turbulent Convection Feel the Shape of the Container?

Z. A. Daya and R. E. Ecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 184501 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Bunched Crystalline Ion Beams

U. Schramm, T. Schätz, and D. Habs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 184801 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Suppression of Transport Cross Phase by Strongly Sheared Flow

P. W. Terry, D. E. Newman, and A. S. Ware

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185001 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Theoretical Interpretation of Alfvén Cascades in Tokamaks with Nonmonotonic $q$ Profiles

H. L. Berk, D. N. Borba, B. N. Breizman, S. D. Pinches, and S. E. Sharapov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185002 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Low-Frequency Responses and Wave Dispersion in Dusty Plasmas

V. N. Tsytovich, U. de Angelis, and R. Bingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185003 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Formation of Electromagnetic Postsolitons in Plasmas

N. M. Naumova, S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, D. Farina, K. Nishihara, F. Pegoraro, H. Ruhl, and A. S. Sakharov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185004 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evolutions of Competition of Multiple-Spin-Exchange Interactions and Structure in Submonolayer Solid $^{3} He$ Film Adsorbed on Grafoil

Masashi Morishita and Takeo Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185301 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Roton Excitation Spectrum in Liquid Helium II

V. I. Kruglov and M. J. Collett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185302 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Ion Fluctuations within an Aqueous Microdroplet in an Apolar Medium

Yu-Jane Sheng and Heng-Kwong Tsao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185501 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Evolution of Hydrogen Platelets in Silicon Determined by Polarized Raman Spectroscopy

E. V. Lavrov and J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185502 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Sharp Rigid to Floppy Phase Transition Induced by Dangling Ends in a Network Glass

Y. Wang, J. Wells, D. G. Georgiev, P. Boolchand, Koblar Jackson, and M. Micoulaut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 185503 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Dewetting of Highly Elastic Thin Polymer Films

Günter Reiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186101 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Step Dynamics in 3D Crystal Shape Relaxation

K. Thürmer, J. E. Reutt-Robey, Ellen D. Williams, M. Uwaha, A. Emundts, and H. P. Bonzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186102 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Copper/Diamond Adhesion and Hydrogen Termination

Xiao-Gang Wang and John R. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186103 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Cellular Dynamical Mean Field Approach to Strongly Correlated Systems

Gabriel Kotliar, Sergej Y. Savrasov, Gunnar Pálsson, and Giulio Biroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186401 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Diagrammatic Quantum Monte Carlo for Two-Body Problems: Applied to Excitons

E. A. Burovski, A. S. Mishchenko, N. V. Prokof'ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186402 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Interaction-Induced Restoration of Phase Coherence

A. A. Clerk, P. W. Brouwer, and V. Ambegaokar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186801 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Fractional Surface Doping by Topological Neutral Wall Intersections on Ge(111)

G. Ballabio, A. Goldoni, S. Modesti, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186802 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Modeling Two-Roton Bound State Formation in the Fractional Quantum Hall System

Tarun Kanti Ghosh and G. Baskaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186803 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Scaling Analysis of Magnetic-Field-Tuned Phase Transitions in One-Dimensional Josephson Junction Arrays

Watson Kuo and C. D. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186804 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Dynamical Offset Charges in Single-Electron Transistors

D. E. Grupp, T. Zhang, G. J. Dolan, and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186805 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Fermi Liquid to Luttinger Liquid Transition at the Edge of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

M. Hilke, D. C. Tsui, M. Grayson, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186806 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Electronic Transport in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays: The Effect of Structural Disorder on Scaling Behavior

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186807 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Giant Magnetoresistance by Exchange Springs in ${DyFe}_{2} / {YFe}_{2}$ Superlattices

S. N. Gordeev, J.-M. L. Beaujour, G. J. Bowden, B. D. Rainford, P. A. J. de Groot, R. C. C. Ward, M. R. Wells, and A. G. M. Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 186808 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Superconductivity at 1 K in ${Cd}_{2} {Re}_{2} O_{7}$

M. Hanawa, Y. Muraoka, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, J. Yamaura, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187001 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Origin of the Roughness Exponent in Elastic Strings at the Depinning Threshold

Alberto Rosso and Werner Krauth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187002 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Magnetoresistance of Proximity-Coupled Au Wires

D. A. Dikin, M. J. Black, and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187003 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Magnetic and Superconducting Instabilities of the Hubbard Model at the Van Hove Filling

Carsten Honerkamp and Manfred Salmhofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187004 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Anomalous Thermal Hysteresis in Magnetization and Resistivity of ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

Joonghoe Dho, W. S. Kim, and N. H. Hur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187201 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Dissipationless Spin Transport in Thin Film Ferromagnets

Jürgen König, Martin Chr. Bønsager, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187202 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Spin Tunneling via Dislocations in ${Mn}_{12}$ Acetate Crystals

E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187203 (2001) - Published 15 October, 2001

Nature of the Ordering in the Three-Dimensional $XY$ Spin Glass

Hikaru Kawamura and Mai Suan Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187204 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Far-Infrared Optical Response of Neutral-Ionic Phase Transition in an Organic Charge-Transfer Complex

Y. Okimoto, S. Horiuchi, E. Saitoh, R. Kumai, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187401 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Triplet-Exciton Generation Mechanism in a New Soluble (Red-Phase) Polydiacetylene

G. Lanzani, G. Cerullo, M. Zavelani-Rossi, S. De Silvestri, Davide Comoretto, Gianfranco Musso, and Giovanna Dellepiane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187402 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Infrared Photoemission from a Pure Gold Surface: Validation of the Lucky-Electron Model

F. Pisani, J. L. Fabre, S. Guizard, P. Palianov, Ph. Martin, F. Glotin, and J. M. Ortega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187403 (2001) - Published 11 October, 2001

Dislocation Related Photoluminescence in Silicon

A. T. Blumenau, R. Jones, S. Öberg, P. R. Briddon, and T. Frauenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 187404 (2001) - Published 12 October, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Surrogate Test for Pseudoperiodic Time Series Data

Michael Small, Dejin Yu, and Robert G. Harrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 188101 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Vibrational Energy Transfer in Helices

David M. Leitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 188102 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001

Gelation in Physically Associating Polymer Solutions

Sanat K. Kumar and Jack F. Douglas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 188301 (2001) - Published 10 October, 2001

Transition from Self-Replicating Behavior to Stationary Patterns Induced by Concentration-Dependent Diffusivities

Marc R. Roussel and Jichang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 188302 (2001) - Published 16 October, 2001