Volume 88, Issue 5

4 February 2002

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On the Cover

Electric field strength around a field-emitting carbon nanotube measured by electron holography. As electrons in an imaging beam are scattered by the nanotube, they acquire a phase shift due to the varying potential. A measurement of this shift therefore gives the electric potential, and the gradient of the phase shift (depicted in the image) shows the field strength.

From the article:

Electron Holography of Field-Emitting Carbon Nanotubes
John Cumings, A. Zettl, M. R. McCartney, and J. C. H. Spence
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 056804 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Generic Entanglement Generation, Quantum Statistics, and Complementarity

S. Bose and D. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050401 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Conservation Laws, Uncertainty Relations, and Quantum Limits of Measurements

Masanao Ozawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050402 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Aharonov-Casher-Effect Suppression of Macroscopic Tunneling of Magnetic Flux

Jonathan R. Friedman and D. V. Averin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050403 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

System Size Resonance in Coupled Noisy Systems and in the Ising Model

A. Pikovsky, A. Zaikin, and M. A. de la Casa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050601 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Quantum Afterburner: Improving the Efficiency of an Ideal Heat Engine

Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050602 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Observable Dependence of Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations and Effective Temperatures

Suzanne Fielding and Peter Sollich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 050603 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Low-Energy Antiproton and Proton Spectra in a Transient Period of Solar Field Reversal

Y. Asaoka et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 051101 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Determining the Structure of Higgs Couplings at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Tilman Plehn, David Rainwater, and Dieter Zeppenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 051801 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Measuring the Photon Polarization in $B \to K π π γ$

Michael Gronau, Yuval Grossman, Dan Pirjol, and Anders Ryd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 051802 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Production of Prompt Charmonia in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at $\sqrt{s} \approx 10.6 GeV$

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 052001 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Observation of the Color-Suppressed Decay ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{0} π^{0}$

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 052002 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Leading Chiral Contributions to the Spin Structure of the Proton

Jiunn-Wei Chen and Xiangdong Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 052003 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Intermediate Mass Fragment Emission Pattern in Peripheral Heavy-Ion Collisions at Fermi Energies

S. Piantelli, L. Bidini, G. Poggi, M. Bini, G. Casini, P. R. Maurenzig, A. Olmi, G. Pasquali, A. A. Stefanini, and N. Taccetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 052701 (2002) - Published 15 January, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Local Approximation of the Correlation Energy Functional in the Density Matrix Functional Theory

Koji Yasuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053001 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Magnetically Quantized Continuum Distorted Waves

D. S. F. Crothers, D. M. McSherry, S. F. C. O'Rourke, M. B. Shah, C. McGrath, and H. B. Gilbody

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053201 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Deceptive Signals of Phase Transitions in Small Magnetic Clusters

Heinrich Stamerjohanns, Oliver Mülken, and Peter Borrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053401 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Nature of the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Light Beam

A. T. O'Neil, I. MacVicar, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053601 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Coherent Radiation from Neutral Molecules Moving above a Grating

Alexey Belyanin, Vitaly Kocharovsky, Vladimir Kocharovsky, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053602 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Nonperturbative Coherent Population Trapping: An Analytic Model

V. Delgado and J. M. Gomez Llorente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053603 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Rotating Optical Soliton Clusters

Anton S. Desyatnikov and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 053901 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Semiquantal Approach to Finite Systems of Interacting Particles

F. Borgonovi, G. Celardo, F. M. Izrailev, and G. Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054101 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Rotators

Grigory V. Osipov, Arkady S. Pikovsky, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054102 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Sensitivity of Wave Field Evolution and Manifold Stability in Chaotic Systems

Nicholas R. Cerruti and Steven Tomsovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054103 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Minimal Model for Sand Dunes

Klaus Kroy, Gerd Sauermann, and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054301 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Large Scale Structures, Symmetry, and Universality in Sandpiles

David Hughes and Maya Paczuski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054302 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Evolution of Hexagonal Patterns from Controlled Initial Conditions in a Bénard-Marangoni Convection Experiment

Denis Semwogerere and Michael F. Schatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054501 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Controlling Wake Turbulence

B. S. V. Patnaik and G. W. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054502 (2002) - Published 17 January, 2002

Scaling and Universality in Turbulent Convection

Antonio Celani, Takeshi Matsumoto, Andrea Mazzino, and Massimo Vergassola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 054503 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evolution of Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

S. Mazevet, L. A. Collins, and J. D. Kress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055001 (2002) - Published 17 January, 2002

Simulation of the Expansion of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma

F. Robicheaux and James D. Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055002 (2002) - Published 17 January, 2002

Effect of Hyperdiffusivity on Turbulent Dynamos with Helicity

Axel Brandenburg and Graeme R. Sarson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055003 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Stochastic Heating and Acceleration of Electrons in Colliding Laser Fields in Plasma

Z.-M. Sheng, K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, M. S. Jovanović, T. Taguchi, J. Zhang, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055004 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Island Dynamics in the Large-Helical-Device Plasmas

N. Ohyabu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055005 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Observation of the Fast Potential Change at L-H Transition by a Heavy-Ion-Beam Probe on JFT-2M

T. Ido, K. Kamiya, Y. Miura, Y. Hamada, A. Nishizawa, and Y. Kawasumi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055006 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Angular Gaps in Radial Diffusion-Limited Aggregation: Two Fractal Dimensions and Nontransient Deviations from Linear Self-Similarity

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Boaz Kol, and Amnon Aharony

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055501 (2002) - Published 15 January, 2002

Geometric Approach to the Dynamic Glass Transition

Tomás S. Grigera, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, and Giorgio Parisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055502 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

How to Couple Landau Theory to an Equation of State

A. Tröster, W. Schranz, and R. Miletich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055503 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Differential Photoelectron Holography: A New Approach for Three-Dimensional Atomic Imaging

S. Omori, Y. Nihei, E. Rotenberg, J. D. Denlinger, S. Marchesini, S. D. Kevan, B. P. Tonner, M. A. Van Hove, and C. S. Fadley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055504 (2002) - Published 17 January, 2002

Evolution of Gas-Filled Nanocracks in Crystalline Solids

M. Hartmann and H. Trinkaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055505 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Exact Multifractal Spectra for Arbitrary Laplacian Random Walks

M. B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055506 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Submicrometer Coherent Neutron Beam Production Using a Thin-Film Waveguide

F. Pfeiffer, V. Leiner, P. Høghøj, and I. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055507 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Reactions and Diffusion of Water and Oxygen Molecules in Amorphous ${SiO}_{2}$

T. Bakos, S. N. Rashkeev, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055508 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals Under Negative Pressures

V. Manjuladevi, R. Pratibha, and N. V. Madhusudana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055701 (2002) - Published 17 January, 2002

Triple-Point Wetting on Rough Substrates

A. Esztermann, M. Heni, H. Löwen, J. Klier, M. Sohaili, and P. Leiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055702 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Anomaly of the Nonergodicity Parameter and Crossover to White Noise in the Fast Relaxation Spectrum of a Simple Glass Former

S. V. Adichtchev, St. Benkhof, Th. Blochowicz, V. N. Novikov, E. Rössler, Ch. Tschirwitz, and J. Wiedersich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055703 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Shear Instability of $γ$ -Fe in Bulk and in Ultrathin Films

D. Spišák and J. Hafner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 056101 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Random Walks on a ( $2 + 1$ )-Dimensional Deformable Medium

Sheng-You Huang, Xian-Wu Zou, Wen-Bing Zhang, and Zhun-Zhi Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 056102 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Measuring Surface Stress Discontinuities in Self-Organized Systems with X Rays

B. Croset, Y. Girard, G. Prévot, M. Sotto, Y. Garreau, R. Pinchaux, and M. Sauvage-Simkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 056103 (2002) - Published 18 January, 2002

Stability of Metal Vicinal Surfaces Revisited

M. C. Desjonquères, D. Spanjaard, C. Barreteau, and F. Raouafi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 056104 (2002) - Published 22 January, 2002

Ultrafast Optical Switching from an Ionic to a Neutral State in Tetrathiafulvalene-p-Chloranil (TTF-CA) Observed in Femtosecond Reflection Spectroscopy

S. Iwai, S. Tanaka, K. Fujinuma, H. Kishida, H. Okamoto, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 057402 (2002) - Published 16 January, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Evidence of a Sponge-to-Lamellar Phase Transition under Shear by X-Ray Scattering Experiments in a Couette Cell”

P. D. Butler, L. Porcar, W. A. Hamilton, and G. G. Warr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 059601 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Self-Assembled Quantum Dots: Crossover from Kinetically Controlled to Thermodynamically Limited Growth [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 236101 (2001)]

M. Meixner, E. Schöll, V. A. Shchukin, and D. Bimberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 059901 (2002) - Published 23 January, 2002