Volume 87, Issue 24

10 December 2001

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X-ray dichroism images of a nickel oxide film covered by cobalt monolayers.

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Spectroscopic Identification and Direct Imaging of Interfacial Magnetic Spins
H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247201 (2001)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Plasma Focusing of a 28.5 GeV Positron Beam

J. S. T. Ng, P. Chen, H. Baldis, P. Bolton, D. Cline, W. Craddock, C. Crawford, F. J. Decker, C. Field, Y. Fukui, V. Kumar, R. Iverson, F. King, R. E. Kirby, K. Nakajima, R. Noble, A. Ogata, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, and A. W. Weidemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 244801 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

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Spectroscopic Identification and Direct Imaging of Interfacial Magnetic Spins

H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247201 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

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General Physics

Local Vortex Generation and the Surface Mode Spectrum of Large Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240401 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

Inequivalence of Pure State Ensembles for Open Quantum Systems: The Preferred Ensembles Are Those That Are Physically Realizable

H. M. Wiseman and John A. Vaccaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240402 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

Degenerate Fermion Gas Heating by Hole Creation

Eddy Timmermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240403 (2001) - Published 21 November, 2001

$1 / f$ Noise and Extreme Value Statistics

T. Antal, M. Droz, G. Györgyi, and Z. Rácz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240601 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Two-Time Green's Functions and the Spectral Density Method in Nonextensive Classical Statistical Mechanics

A. Cavallo, F. Cosenza, and L. De Cesare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240602 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Probing Neutron-Star Superfluidity with Gravitational-Wave Data

N. Andersson and G. L. Comer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 241101 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $B \to J / ψ K^{*}$ (892) Decay Amplitudes

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 241801 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

Observation of Diffractive $J / ψ$ Production at the Fermilab Tevatron

T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 241802 (2001) - Published 21 November, 2001

Search for the Decay $B^{0} \to γ γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 241803 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Flavor-Spin Symmetry Estimate of the Nucleon Tensor Charge

Leonard Gamberg and Gary R. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 242001 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Top-Quark Spin Correlations at Hadron Colliders: Predictions at Next-to-Leading Order QCD

W. Bernreuther, A. Brandenburg, Z. G. Si, and P. Uwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 242002 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Antilambda Production in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $11.7 A GeV / c$

B. B. Back et al. (The E917 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 242301 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Precision Measurement of the Spin-Dependent Asymmetry in the Threshold Region of $^{3} \vec{H} e (\vec{e}, e^{'})$

F. Xiong et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 242501 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photodetachment of $H^{-}$ in a Strong Infrared Laser Field

Rainer Reichle, Hanspeter Helm, and Igor Yu. Kiyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 243001 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Photoionization of Metastable $O^{+}$ Ions: Experiment and Theory

A. M. Covington, A. Aguilar, I. R. Covington, M. Gharaibeh, C. A. Shirley, R. A. Phaneuf, I. Álvarez, C. Cisneros, G. Hinojosa, J. D. Bozek, I. Dominguez, M. M. Sant'Anna, A. S. Schlachter, N. Berrah, S. N. Nahar, and B. M. McLaughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 243002 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Observation of the Isomer Effect on Charge Transfer from $C_{3} H_{4}$ Molecules (Allene and Propyne) at keV Energies

T. Kusakabe, S. Satoh, H. Tawara, and M. Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 243201 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Delayed Optical Feedback: The Short Cavity Regime

T. Heil, I. Fischer, W. Elsäßer, and A. Gavrielides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 243901 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Coherent Control of High-Order Harmonics with Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Dong Gun Lee, Jung-Hoon Kim, Kyung-Han Hong, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 243902 (2001) - Published 21 November, 2001

Effects of Interparticle Force on the Packing of Spherical Granular Material

A. J. Forsyth, S. R. Hutton, C. F. Osborne, and M. J. Rhodes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 244301 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Pattern-Dislocation-Type Dynamical Instability in 1D Optical Feedback Kerr Media with Gaussian Transverse Pumping

E. Louvergneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 244501 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Energy Budget in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

R. M. Kerr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 244502 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Plasma Focusing of a 28.5 GeV Positron Beam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 244801 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Plasma Equilibrium and Confinement in a Tokamak with Nearly Zero Central Current Density in JT-60U

T. Fujita, T. Oikawa, T. Suzuki, S. Ide, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Koide, T. Hatae, O. Naito, A. Isayama, N. Hayashi, and H. Shirai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245001 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

MHD Stability of Advanced Tokamak Scenarios with Reversed Central Current: An Explanation of the “Current Hole”

G. T. A. Huysmans, T. C. Hender, N. C. Hawkes, and X. Litaudon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245002 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Symmetry-Breaking Induced Transport in the Vicinity of a Magnetic Island

K. C. Shaing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245003 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Transition between Orbital Orderings in ${YVO}_{3}$

G. R. Blake, T. T. M. Palstra, Y. Ren, A. A. Nugroho, and A. A. Menovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245501 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Fluctuation and Dissipation in Liquid-Crystal Electroconvection

Walter I. Goldburg, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245502 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Ultraslow Dynamics and Stress Relaxation in the Aging of a Soft Glassy System

Laurence Ramos and Luca Cipelletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245503 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Universal Scaling Laws of Diffusion in a Binary Fluid Mixture

Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 245901 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Mechanism of the Poisoning Action Of Sulfur on Catalytically Active Pd(100)

M. Rutkowski, D. Wetzig, and H. Zacharias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246101 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Direct Observation of Surface Alloying and Interface Roughening: Growth of Au on Fe(001)

M. M. J. Bischoff, T. Yamada, A. J. Quinn, R. G. P. van der Kraan, and H. van Kempen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246102 (2001) - Published 21 November, 2001

Oxygen Abstraction from Dioxygen on the Al(111) Surface

Andrew J. Komrowski, Jonathan Z. Sexton, Andrew C. Kummel, Marcello Binetti, Olaf Weiße, and Eckart Hasselbrink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246103 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Spontaneous Nanoscale Corrugation of Ion-Eroded ${SiO}_{2}$ : The Role of Ion-Irradiation-Enhanced Viscous Flow

Christopher C. Umbach, Randall L. Headrick, and Kee-Chul Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246104 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Exciton Rabi Oscillation in a Single Quantum Dot

H. Kamada, H. Gotoh, J. Temmyo, T. Takagahara, and H. Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246401 (2001) - Published 16 November, 2001

Origin of the Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior of ${SrRuO}_{3}$

M. S. Laad and E. Müller-Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246402 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Restrictions on the Coherence of the Ultrafast Optical Emission from an Electron-Hole-Pair Condensate

A. Olaya-Castro, F. J. Rodríguez, L. Quiroga, and C. Tejedor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246403 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Close Correlation between the Magnetic Moments, Lattice Distortions, and Hybridization in ${LaMnO}_{3}$ and ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3 + δ}$ : Doping-Dependent Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism Study

T. Koide, H. Miyauchi, J. Okamoto, T. Shidara, T. Sekine, T. Saitoh, A. Fujimori, H. Fukutani, M. Takano, and Y. Takeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246404 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Anomalous Quasiparticle Lifetime in Graphite: Band Structure Effects

Catalin D. Spataru, Miguel A. Cazalilla, Angel Rubio, Lorin X. Benedict, Pedro M. Echenique, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246405 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

Linear-Scaling Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations

A. J. Williamson, Randolph Q. Hood, and J. C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246406 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson-Junction Charge Two-Level System

Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin, and J. S. Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246601 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

Zero-Bias Anomaly in Disordered Wires

E. G. Mishchenko, A. V. Andreev, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246801 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Ghost Excitonic Insulator Transition in Layered Graphite

D. V. Khveshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246802 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

Magnetoresistance of Carbon Nanotubes: From Molecular to Mesoscopic Fingerprints

Stephan Roche and Riichiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 246803 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Implications of Reflectance Measurements on the Mechanism for Superconductivity in ${MgB}_{2}$

F. Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247001 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Proximity Effects and Quantum Dissipation in the Chains of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$

Dirk K. Morr and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247002 (2001) - Published 20 November, 2001

Superconductivity in the Filled Cage Compounds ${Ba}_{6} {Ge}_{25}$ and ${Ba}_{4} {Na}_{2} {Ge}_{25}$

F. M. Grosche, H. Q. Yuan, W. Carrillo-Cabrera, S. Paschen, C. Langhammer, F. Kromer, G. Sparn, M. Baenitz, Yu. Grin, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247003 (2001) - Published 21 November, 2001

Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic ${ZrZn}_{2}$ from Ab Initio Calculations

G. Santi, S. B. Dugdale, and T. Jarlborg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247004 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Hydrodynamic Instability of the Flux-Antiflux Interface in Type-II Superconductors

L. M. Fisher, P. E. Goa, M. Baziljevich, T. H. Johansen, A. L. Rakhmanov, and V. A. Yampol'skii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247005 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Phase Diagram of a Disordered Boson Hubbard Model in Two Dimensions

Ji-Woo Lee, Min-Chul Cha, and Doochul Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247006 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Shapiro Step Response in the Coherent Josephson Flux Flow State of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Yu. I. Latyshev, M. B. Gaifullin, T. Yamashita, M. Machida, and Yuji Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247007 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

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Spectroscopic Identification and Direct Imaging of Interfacial Magnetic Spins

H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247201 (2001) - Published 27 November, 2001

${}^{17}O$ NMR Study of $q = 0$ Spin Excitations in a Nearly Ideal $S = \frac{1}{2}$ 1D Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, ${Sr}_{2} {CuO}_{3}$ , up to 800 K

K. R. Thurber, A. W. Hunt, T. Imai, and F. C. Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247202 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

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Publisher's Note: Solution of the Relativistic Dirac-Morse Problem[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 210405 (2001)]

A. D. Alhaidari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 249901 (2001) - Published 19 November, 2001

Erratum: Shape of a Liquid Front upon Dewetting [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 196101 (2001)]

R. Seemann, S. Herminghaus, and K. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 249902 (2001) - Published 21 November, 2001

Erratum: Fermi-Edge Singularities in ${Al}_{x} {Ga}_{1 - x} As$ Quantum Wells: Extrinsic Versus Many-Body Scattering Processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 852 (2000)]

T. Mélin and F. Laruelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 249903 (2001) - Published 26 November, 2001

Volume 87, Issue 24

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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