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Volume 88, Issue 1

7 January 2002
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Velocity field of a supersonic granular flow incident on a wedge; the colors indicate the horizontal component of the velocity. As the flow encounters the obstacle it forms a shock that is very similar to shocks formed by supersonic gas flows.

From the article:

Shocks in Supersonic Sand
Erin C. Rericha, Chris Bizon, Mark D. Shattuck, and Harry L. Swinney
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014302 (2001)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Oscillating Fracture Paths in Rubber

Robert D. Deegan, Paul J. Petersan, M. Marder, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014304 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

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Crystallization Kinetics of Hard Spheres in Microgravity in the Coexistence Regime: Interactions between Growing Crystallites

Zhengdong Cheng, P. M. Chaikin, Jixiang Zhu, W. B. Russel, and W. V. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015501 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Three-Dimensional Photonic “Molecules” from Sequentially Attached Polymer-Blend Microparticles

M. D. Barnes, S. M. Mahurin, A. Mehta, B. G. Sumpter, and D. W. Noid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015508 (2001) - Published 21 December, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Tests of Relativity Using a Cryogenic Optical Resonator

C. Braxmaier, H. Müller, O. Pradl, J. Mlynek, A. Peters, and S. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010401 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Rigorous Approach to the Problem of Ultraviolet Divergencies in Dilute Bose Gases

Maxim Olshanii and Ludovic Pricoupenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010402 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Dissipation, Noise, and Vacuum Decay in Quantum Field Theory

Esteban Calzetta, Albert Roura, and Enric Verdaguer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010403 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Modified J-Matrix Method for Scattering

Wim Vanroose, Jan Broeckhove, and Frans Arickx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010404 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Vortex Nucleation in Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Oblate, Purely Magnetic Potential

E. Hodby, G. Hechenblaikner, S. A. Hopkins, O. M. Maragò, and C. J. Foot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010405 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Noise Induced Propagation in Monostable Media

A. A. Zaikin, J. García-Ojalvo, L. Schimansky-Geier, and J. Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 010601 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Generation of Magnetic Fields and Gravitational Waves at Neutrino Decoupling

Alexander D. Dolgov and Dario Grasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 011301 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Unknowns after the SNO Charged-Current Measurement

V. Barger, D. Marfatia, and K. Whisnant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 011302 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Shape versus Volume: Making Large Flat Extra Dimensions Invisible

Keith R. Dienes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 011601 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Origin of Gauge Bosons from Strong Quantum Correlations

Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 011602 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

New Determination of the Electron’s Mass

Thomas Beier, Hartmut Häffner, Nikolaus Hermanspahn, Savely G. Karshenboim, H.-Jürgen Kluge, Wolfgang Quint, Stefan Stahl, José Verdú, and Günther Werth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 011603 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Cross Section of e+e− Annihilation into Hadrons of Order αs4nf2 in Perturbative QCD

P. A. Baikov, K. G. Chetyrkin, and J. H. Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012001 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Properties of the Λ(1670)12− Resonance

D. M. Manley et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012002 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

New Predictions for Inclusive Heavy-Quarkonium P-Wave Decays

Nora Brambilla, Dolors Eiras, Antonio Pineda, Joan Soto, and Antonio Vairo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012003 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Neutral Pion Threshold Production at Q2=0.05GeV2/c2 and Chiral Perturbation Theory

H. Merkel et al. (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012301 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Direct Measurement of the L/K Ratio in B7e Electron Capture

P. A. Voytas, C. Ternovan, M. Galeazzi, D. McCammon, J. J. Kolata, P. Santi, D. Peterson, V. Guimarães, F. D. Becchetti, M. Y. Lee, T. W. O'Donnell, D. A. Roberts, and S. Shaheen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012501 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Parity Measurements of Nuclear Levels Using a Free-Electron-Laser Generated γ-Ray Beam

N. Pietralla, Z. Berant, V. N. Litvinenko, S. Hartman, F. F. Mikhailov, I. V. Pinayev, G. Swift, M. W. Ahmed, J. H. Kelley, S. O. Nelson, R. Prior, K. Sabourov, A. P. Tonchev, and H. R. Weller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012502 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Coherent Wave Packets in a Heavy Rydberg System

E. Reinhold and W. Ubachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013001 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Effective Strength of the Electron-Electron Interaction in Simultaneous Projectile and Target Ionization

E. C. Montenegro, A. C. F. Santos, W. S. Melo, M. M. Sant'Anna, and G. M. Sigaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013201 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Management of the Angular Momentum of Light: Preparation of Photons in Multidimensional Vector States of Angular Momentum

Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Juan P. Torres, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013601 (2001) - Published 13 December, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Anomalous Behavior of Spectra near Phase Singularities of Focused Waves

G. Gbur, T. D. Visser, and E. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013901 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Large Deuterium Isotope Effect in the Optical Nonlinearity of Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals

M. Kreuzer, F. Hanisch, R. Eidenschink, D. Paparo, and L. Marrucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013902 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Phase Modulation of Ultrashort Light Pulses using Molecular Rotational Wave Packets

R. A. Bartels, T. C. Weinacht, N. Wagner, M. Baertschy, Chris H. Greene, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 013903 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Learning Phase Synchronization from Nonsynchronized Chaotic Regimes

Isao Tokuda, Jürgen Kurths, and Epaminondas Rosa, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014101 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Light Scarring in an Optical Fiber

Valérie Doya, Olivier Legrand, Fabrice Mortessagne, and Christian Miniatura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014102 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Sequential Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with an Application to Communication

Chil-Min Kim, Sunghwan Rim, and Won-Ho Kye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014103 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Dynamics of Grain Avalanches

Jean Rajchenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014301 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Shocks in Supersonic Sand

Erin C. Rericha, Chris Bizon, Mark D. Shattuck, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014302 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Instability, Chaos, and “Memory” in Acoustic-Wave–Crack Interaction

Igor Yu. Solodov and Boris A. Korshak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014303 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Oscillating Fracture Paths in Rubber

Robert D. Deegan, Paul J. Petersan, M. Marder, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014304 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Scaling and Similarity in Rough Channel Flows

G. Gioia and F. A. Bombardelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014501 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Path Instability of a Rising Bubble

Guillaume Mougin and Jacques Magnaudet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014502 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

99.6% Spin-Flip Efficiency in the Presence of a Strong Siberian Snake

B. B. Blinov, Z. B. Etienne, A. D. Krisch, M. A. Leonova, W. Lorenzon, V. S. Morozov, C. C. Peters, V. K. Wong, K. Yonehara, V. A. Anferov, P. Schwandt, E. J. Stephenson, B. von Przewoski, and H. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014801 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Bunch Self-Focusing Regime of Laser Wakefield Acceleration with Reduced Emittance Growth

A. J. W. Reitsma, V. V. Goloviznin, L. P. J. Kamp, and T. J. Schep

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 014802 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Measurement of Lower-Hybrid Drift Turbulence in a Reconnecting Current Sheet

T. A. Carter, H. Ji, F. Trintchouk, M. Yamada, and R. M. Kulsrud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015001 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Observation of Plasma Flow at the Magnetic Island in the Large Helical Device

K. Ida, N. Ohyabu, T. Morisaki, Y. Nagayama, S. Inagaki, K. Itoh, Y. Liang, K. Narihara, A. Yu. Kostrioukov, B. J. Peterson, K. Tanaka, T. Tokuzawa, K. Kawahata, H. Suzuki, and A. Komori (LHD Experimental Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015002 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Crystallization Kinetics of Hard Spheres in Microgravity in the Coexistence Regime: Interactions between Growing Crystallites

Zhengdong Cheng, P. M. Chaikin, Jixiang Zhu, W. B. Russel, and W. V. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015501 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Lithium Intercalation into Opened Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: Storage Capacity and Electronic Properties

H. Shimoda, B. Gao, X. P. Tang, A. Kleinhammes, L. Fleming, Y. Wu, and O. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015502 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

When Boundaries Dominate: Dislocation Dynamics in Smectic Films

Patrick Oswald, Paweł Pierański, Frédéric Picano, and Robert Hołyst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015503 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Band Structure Approach to Resonant X-Ray Scattering

I. S. Elfimov, N. A. Skorikov, V. I. Anisimov, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015504 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Ab Initio Study of Phase Equilibria in TiCx

P. A. Korzhavyi, L. V. Pourovskii, H. W. Hugosson, A. V. Ruban, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015505 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Ultralow Compressibility Silicate without Highly Coordinated Silicon

Henry P. Scott, Quentin Williams, and Elise Knittle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015506 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Nanoscale Dislocation Patterning in PbTe/PbSe(001) Lattice-Mismatched Heteroepitaxy

G. Springholz and K. Wiesauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015507 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Three-Dimensional Photonic “Molecules” from Sequentially Attached Polymer-Blend Microparticles

M. D. Barnes, S. M. Mahurin, A. Mehta, B. G. Sumpter, and D. W. Noid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015508 (2001) - Published 21 December, 2001

Dynamics of the Pinned Modulation Wave in Incommensurate bis (4-chlorophenyl) sulfone (BCPS)

R. Blinc, U. Mikac, T. Apih, J. Dolinšek, J. Seliger, J. Slak, S. Žumer, L. Guibe, and David C. Ailion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 015701 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Antiferrodistortive Reconstruction of the PbTiO3(001) Surface

A. Munkholm, S. K. Streiffer, M. V. Ramana Murty, J. A. Eastman, Carol Thompson, O. Auciello, L. Thompson, J. F. Moore, and G. B. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016101 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Quantitative Determination of the Metastability of Flat Ag Overlayers on GaAs(110)

Hongbin Yu, C. S. Jiang, Ph. Ebert, X. D. Wang, J. M. White, Qian Niu, Zhenyu Zhang, and C. K. Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016102 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Irreversible Growth of a Binary Mixture Confined in a Thin Film Geometry with Competing Walls

Julián Candia and Ezequiel V. Albano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016103 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Desorption Behavior of Quench-Condensed Argon-Neon Mixtures

J. Meier, G. Wittich, J. Classen, and S. Hunklinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016104 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fluctuations of the Correlation Dimension at Metal-Insulator Transitions

E. Cuevas, M. Ortuño, V. Gasparian, and A. Pérez-Garrido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016401 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Bulk Excitonic Effects in Surface Optical Spectra

P. H. Hahn, W. G. Schmidt, and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016402 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Quasiparticle Electronic Structure of Copper in the GW Approximation

Andrea Marini, Giovanni Onida, and Rodolfo Del Sole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016403 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Cooling of Electrons in a Silicon Inversion Layer

O. Prus, M. Reznikov, U. Sivan, and V. Pudalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016801 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Dilute Electron Gas near the Metal-Insulator Transition: Role of Valleys in Silicon Inversion Layers

Alexander Punnoose and Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016802 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Quantum Phase Transition in a Multilevel Dot

Walter Hofstetter and Herbert Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 016803 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Topological Textures in a Ferromagnet-Superconductor Bilayer

Serkan Erdin, Igor F. Lyuksyutov, Valery L. Pokrovsky, and Valeri M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017001 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Soliton in Two-Band Superconductor

Y. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017002 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Resonant Cooper Pair Tunneling through a Double-Island Qubit

E. Bibow, P. Lafarge, and L. P. Lévy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017003 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Triplet Superconductivity in an Organic Superconductor Probed by NMR Knight Shift

I. J. Lee, S. E. Brown, W. G. Clark, M. J. Strouse, M. J. Naughton, W. Kang, and P. M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017004 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Prediction of Orbital Ordering in Single-Layered Ruthenates

Takashi Hotta and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017201 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Critical Slowing Down in Polynomial Time Algorithms

A. Alan Middleton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017202 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

Barkhausen Noise in a Relaxor Ferroelectric

Eugene V. Colla, Lambert K. Chao, and M. B. Weissman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017601 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Discord: A Measure of the Quantumness of Correlations

Harold Ollivier and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017901 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Predictability of Large Future Changes in a Competitive Evolving Population

D. Lamper, S. D. Howison, and N. F. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017902 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Experimental Nonlocality Proof of Quantum Teleportation and Entanglement Swapping

Thomas Jennewein, Gregor Weihs, Jian-Wei Pan, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017903 (2001) - Published 18 December, 2001

Quantum Computing Without Local Control of Qubit-Qubit Interactions

Simon C. Benjamin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017904 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Reducing Constraints on Quantum Computer Design by Encoded Selective Recoupling

D. A. Lidar and L.-A. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 017905 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Motor-Driven Dynamics in Actin-Myosin Networks

Loïc Le Goff, François Amblard, and Eric M. Furst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018101 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Excited-State Lifetimes of Far-Infrared Collective Modes in Proteins

Aihua Xie, Alexander F. G. van der Meer, and Robert H. Austin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018102 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Conformations and Interactions of Star-Branched Polyelectrolytes

A. Jusufi, C. N. Likos, and H. Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018301 (2001) - Published 14 December, 2001

Glass Transition and Dynamical Heterogeneities in Charged Colloidal Suspensions under Pressure

B. V. R. Tata, P. S. Mohanty, and M. C. Valsakumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018302 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

A Complexity View of Rainfall

Ole Peters, Christopher Hertlein, and Kim Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018701 (2001) - Published 19 December, 2001

Algorithm for Data Clustering in Pattern Recognition Problems Based on Quantum Mechanics

David Horn and Assaf Gottlieb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 018702 (2001) - Published 20 December, 2001

COMMENTS

Comment on “Damping Mechanism in Dynamic Force Microscopy”

H. Hölscher, B. Gotsmann, W. Allers, U. D. Schwarz, H. Fuchs, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 019601 (2001) - Published 17 December, 2001

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