Volume 87, Issue 3

16 July 2001

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Exchange correlation hole around an electron at a density minimum in a strongly inhomogeneous electron gas.

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Quantum Monte Carlo Analysis of Exchange and Correlation in the Strongly Inhomogeneous Electron Gas
Maziar Nekovee, W. M. C. Foulkes, and R. J. Needs
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036401 (2001)

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Wideband Dual Sphere Detector of Gravitational Waves

M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, J. A. Lobo, A. Ortolan, L. Taffarello, and J. P. Zendri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 031101 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

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Giant Anharmonicity and Nonlinear Electron-Phonon Coupling in ${MgB}_{2}$ : A Combined First-Principles Calculation and Neutron Scattering Study

T. Yildirim, O. Gülseren, J. W. Lynn, C. M. Brown, T. J. Udovic, Q. Huang, N. Rogado, K. A. Regan, M. A. Hayward, J. S. Slusky, T. He, M. K. Haas, P. Khalifah, K. Inumaru, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 037001 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Optics with an Atom Laser Beam

Immanuel Bloch, Michael Köhl, Markus Greiner, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030401 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Chern-Simons Theories on the Noncommutative Plane

Dongsu Bak, Kimyeong Lee, and Jeong-Hyuck Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030402 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Level Quantization for the Noncommutative Chern-Simons Theory

V. P. Nair and A. P. Polychronakos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030403 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Fragmented Condensate Ground State of Trapped Weakly Interacting Bosons in Two Dimensions

Xia-Ji Liu, Hui Hu, Lee Chang, Weiping Zhang, Shi-Qun Li, and Yu-Zhu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030404 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Inequivalence of Ensembles in a System with Long-Range Interactions

Julien Barré, David Mukamel, and Stefano Ruffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030601 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wideband Dual Sphere Detector of Gravitational Waves

M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, J. A. Lobo, A. Ortolan, L. Taffarello, and J. P. Zendri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 031101 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Probing Large Distance Higher-Dimensional Gravity with Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements

Pierre Binétruy and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 031102 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Superfluid Phase Transitions in Dense Neutron Matter

V. A. Khodel, J. W. Clark, and M. V. Zverev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 031103 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gauge Invariances and Phases of Massive Higher Spins in (Anti-) de Sitter Space

S. Deser and A. Waldron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 031601 (2001) - Published 27 June, 2001

Number of Fermion Generations Derived from Anomaly Cancellation

Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Erich Poppitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 031801 (2001) - Published 27 June, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Coherent Transients in Ultrashort Chirped Excitation of an Undamped Two-Level System

Sébastien Zamith, Jérôme Degert, Sabine Stock, Béatrice de Beauvoir, Valérie Blanchet, M. Aziz Bouchene, and Bertrand Girard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033001 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Selectivity in the Excitation of Fermi-Coupled Vibrations in ${CO}_{2}$ by Impact of Slow Electrons

M. Allan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033201 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Superelastic Scattering Of Electrons From Highly Charged Ions With Inner Shell Vacancies

P. A. Závodszky, H. Aliabadi, C. P. Bhalla, P. Richard, G. Tóth, and J. A. Tanis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033202 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Nuclear Fusion induced by Coulomb Explosion of Heteronuclear Clusters

Isidore Last and Joshua Jortner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033401 (2001) - Published 25 June, 2001

Femtosecond Light Source for Phase-Controlled Multiphoton Ionization

A. V. Sokolov, D. R. Walker, D. D. Yavuz, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033402 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Necklace-Ring Vector Solitons

Anton S. Desyatnikov and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033901 (2001) - Published 27 June, 2001

Experimental Demonstration of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Recurrence in a Modulationally Unstable Optical Wave

G. Van Simaeys, Ph. Emplit, and M. Haelterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033902 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Dynamical Turbulent Flow on the Galton Board with Friction

A. D. Chepelianskii and D. L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 034101 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electro-optic Measurement of the Wake Fields of a Relativistic Electron Beam

M. J. Fitch, A. C. Melissinos, P. L. Colestock, J.-P. Carneiro, H. T. Edwards, and W. H. Hartung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 034801 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

Resonant Emittance Transfer Driven by Space Charge

I. Hofmann and O. Boine-Frankenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 034802 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

Loss of Second-Ballooning Stability in Three-Dimensional Equilibria

C. C. Hegna and S. R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035001 (2001) - Published 27 June, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of the Superfluid Shapiro Effect in a ${}^{3}H e$ Weak Link

R. W. Simmonds, A. Marchenkov, J. C. Davis, and R. E. Packard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035301 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

Is There Something of Mode Coupling Theory in Orientationally Disordered Crystals?

F. Affouard and M. Descamps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035501 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Breather Induced Modification of the Speed of Sound

Bambi Hu and Jasmina Tekić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035502 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Theoretical Identification of the Smallest Fullerene, $C_{20}$

Mineo Saito and Yoshiyuki Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035503 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Orthorhombic Intermediate State in the Zinc Blende to Rocksalt Transformation Path of SiC at High Pressure

Michele Catti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035504 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Surface Reconstruction of an Ordered Fluid: An Analogy with Crystal Surfaces

N. Rehse, A. Knoll, M. Konrad, R. Magerle, and G. Krausch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035505 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Footprints in Sand: The Response of a Granular Material to Local Perturbations

Junfei Geng, D. Howell, E. Longhi, R. P. Behringer, G. Reydellet, L. Vanel, E. Clément, and S. Luding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035506 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Modification of the Superfluid $^{3} He$ Phase Diagram by Impurity Scattering

G. Gervais, T. M. Haard, R. Nomura, N. Mulders, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035701 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Alloying Effects on Electromigration Mass Transport

J. P. Dekker, C. A. Volkert, E. Arzt, and P. Gumbsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035901 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Surface Patterson Function by Inversion of Low-Energy Electron Diffraction $I - V$ Spectra at Multiple Incident Angles

Huasheng Wu and S. Y. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036101 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

Corners, Cusps, and Pearls in Running Drops

T. Podgorski, J.-M. Flesselles, and L. Limat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036102 (2001) - Published 27 June, 2001

Adsorption Sites and Ligand Effect for CO on an Alloy Surface: A Direct View

Y. Gauthier, M. Schmid, S. Padovani, E. Lundgren, V. Buš, G. Kresse, J. Redinger, and P. Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036103 (2001) - Published 28 June, 2001

Two-Atom Structures of Ge on Si(100): Dimers versus Adatom Pairs

Antônio J. R. da Silva, G. M. Dalpian, A. Janotti, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036104 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Model for Intrinsic Stress Formation in Amorphous Thin Films

S. G. Mayr and K. Samwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036105 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Monte Carlo Analysis of Exchange and Correlation in the Strongly Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

Maziar Nekovee, W. M. C. Foulkes, and R. J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036401 (2001) - Published 25 June, 2001

Hard Correlation Gap Observed in Quench-Condensed Ultrathin Beryllium

E. Bielejec, J. Ruan, and Wenhao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036801 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

Evolution of Fractal Patterns during a Classical-Quantum Transition

A. P. Micolich, R. P. Taylor, A. G. Davies, J. P. Bird, R. Newbury, T. M. Fromhold, A. Ehlert, H. Linke, L. D. Macks, W. R. Tribe, E. H. Linfield, D. A. Ritchie, J. Cooper, Y. Aoyagi, and P. B. Wilkinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036802 (2001) - Published 29 June, 2001

Observation of a Linearly Dispersing Collective Mode in a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet

I. B. Spielman, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 036803 (2001) - Published 2 July, 2001

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Giant Anharmonicity and Nonlinear Electron-Phonon Coupling in ${MgB}_{2}$ : A Combined First-Principles Calculation and Neutron Scattering Study

T. Yildirim, O. Gülseren, J. W. Lynn, C. M. Brown, T. J. Udovic, Q. Huang, N. Rogado, K. A. Regan, M. A. Hayward, J. S. Slusky, T. He, M. K. Haas, P. Khalifah, K. Inumaru, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 037001 (2001) - Published 26 June, 2001

Volume 87, Issue 3

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

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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