Volume 87, Issue 27

31 December 2001

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Segregation process in a cluster of cobalt atoms (red spheres) and carbon atoms (blue spheres) as the temperature drops from 2000 K, (a), to 1500 K, (c), showing the migration of the cobalt atoms to the center.

From the article:

Root-Growth Mechanism for Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
J. Gavillet, A. Loiseau, C. Journet, F. Willaime, F. Ducastelle, and J.-C. Charlier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275504 (2001)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Perfectly Monodisperse Microbubbling by Capillary Flow Focusing

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo and José M. Gordillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 274501 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Storage Ring for Neutral Atoms

J. A. Sauer, M. D. Barrett, and M. S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270401 (2001) - Published 7 December, 2001

Critical Point of a Weakly Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

Nikolay Prokof'ev, Oliver Ruebenacker, and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270402 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Low Energy Collective Modes of a Superfluid Trapped Atomic Fermi Gas

G. M. Bruun and B. R. Mottelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270403 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Using Entanglement Improves the Precision of Quantum Measurements

G. Mauro D'Ariano, Paoloplacido Lo Presti, and Matteo G. A. Paris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270404 (2001) - Published 12 December, 2001

Universal Dynamical Control of Quantum Mechanical Decay: Modulation of the Coupling to the Continuum

A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270405 (2001) - Published 12 December, 2001

Droplet Nucleation and Domain Wall Motion in a Bounded Interval

Robert S. Maier and D. L. Stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270601 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Molecular Iodine Clock

Jun Ye, Long Sheng Ma, and John L. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 270801 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton-to-Proton Abundance Ratio between 4 and 50 GeV

A. S. Beach, J. J. Beatty, A. Bhattacharyya, C. Bower, S. Coutu, M. A. DuVernois, A. W. Labrador, S. McKee, S. A. Minnick, D. Müller, J. Musser, S. Nutter, M. Schubnell, S. Swordy, G. Tarlé, and A. Tomasch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 271101 (2001) - Published 10 December, 2001

Asymptotic Normalization Coefficient of $^{8} B$ from Breakup Reactions and the $S_{17}$ Astrophysical Factor

L. Trache, F. Carstoiu, C. A. Gagliardi, and R. E. Tribble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 271102 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

3D Grazing Collision of Two Black Holes

Miguel Alcubierre, Werner Benger, Bernd Brügmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Lars Nerger, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 271103 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Natural Quintessence with Gauge Coupling Unification

A. de la Macorra and C. Stephan-Otto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 271301 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Manifestation of a Nontrivial Vacuum in Discrete Light-Cone Quantization

Takanori Sugihara and Masa-aki Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 271601 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Search for the Familon via $B^{\pm} \to π^{\pm} X^{0}$ , $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} X^{0}$ , and $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} X^{0}$ Decays

R. Ammar et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 271801 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Parity Violation in Proton-Proton Scattering at 221 MeV

A. R. Berdoz et al. (TRIUMF E497 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 272301 (2001) - Published 12 December, 2001

Description of the RHIC $p_{⊥}$ Spectra in a Thermal Model with Expansion

Wojciech Broniowski and Wojciech Florkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 272302 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy of Multiply Ionized Atoms: Natural Radiative Lifetimes in Ce IV

Z. G. Zhang, S. Svanberg, P. Quinet, P. Palmeri, and E. Biémont

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 273001 (2001) - Published 10 December, 2001

Absolute Measurements and Theoretical Calculations of Photoionization Cross Sections along the Isonuclear Sequence of Multiply Charged Barium Ions

J.-M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, J.-M. Esteva, F. J. Wuilleumier, C. Blancard, J. Bruneau, J.-P. Champeaux, A. Compant La Fontaine, C. Couillaud, R. Marmoret, C. Rémond, D. Hitz, M. Delaunay, N. Haque, P. C. Deshmukh, H. L. Zhou, and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 273002 (2001) - Published 12 December, 2001

Large Nondipole Effects in the Angular Distributions of $K$ -Shell Photoelectrons from Molecular Nitrogen

O. Hemmers, H. Wang, P. Focke, I. A. Sellin, D. W. Lindle, J. C. Arce, J. A. Sheehy, and P. W. Langhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 273003 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Dynamic Imaging of Nuclear Wave Functions with Ultrashort UV Laser Pulses

André D. Bandrauk and Szczepan Chelkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 273004 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Excitation of Rydberg Series in $C_{60}$

M. Boyle, K. Hoffmann, C. P. Schulz, I. V. Hertel, R. D. Levine, and E. E. B. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 273401 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Islands of Stability in Soft Wall Atom-Optics Billiards

Ariel Kaplan, Nir Friedman, Mikkel Andersen, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 274101 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Experimental Evidence for Detuning Induced Pattern Selection in Nonlinear Optics

U. Bortolozzo, P. Villoresi, and P. L. Ramazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 274102 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Sensitivity to Perturbations of a Time-Reversed Acoustic Wave in a Multiple Scattering Medium

Arnaud Tourin, Arnaud Derode, and Mathias Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 274301 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Perfectly Monodisperse Microbubbling by Capillary Flow Focusing

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo and José M. Gordillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 274501 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Low-Current, Vertical Blowup in a Stored Laser-Cooled Ion Beam

N. Madsen, P. Bowe, J. S. Nielsen, L. E. Siegfried, and J. S. Hangst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 274801 (2001) - Published 10 December, 2001

High-Confinement Regime at High $β_{N}$ Values Due to a Changed Behavior of the Neoclassical Tearing Modes

S. Günter, A. Gude, M. Maraschek, S. Sesnic, H. Zohm, ASDEX Upgrade Team, and D. F. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275001 (2001) - Published 10 December, 2001

Electromagnetic Energy Penetration in the Self-Induced Transparency Regime of Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions

M. Tushentsov, A. Kim, F. Cattani, D. Anderson, and M. Lisak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275002 (2001) - Published 11 December, 2001

Efficient Multi-keV Underdense Laser-Produced Plasma Radiators

C. A. Back, J. Grun, C. Decker, L. J. Suter, J. Davis, O. L. Landen, R. Wallace, W. W. Hsing, J. M. Laming, U. Feldman, M. C. Miller, and C. Wuest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275003 (2001) - Published 12 December, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Effect of Pressure on Statics, Dynamics, and Stability of Multielectron Bubbles

J. Tempere, Isaac F. Silvera, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275301 (2001) - Published 7 December, 2001

Quantum Signature of Superfluid Turbulence

D. Kivotides, J. C. Vassilicos, C. F. Barenghi, M. A. I. Khan, and D. C. Samuels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275302 (2001) - Published 10 December, 2001

Experimental and Theoretical Identification of a New High-Pressure ${TiO}_{2}$ Polymorph

Natalia A. Dubrovinskaia, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Rajeev Ahuja, Vitaly B. Prokopenko, V. Dmitriev, H.-P. Weber, J. M. Osorio-Guillen, and Börje Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275501 (2001) - Published 7 December, 2001