Volume 88, Issue 9

4 March 2002

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On the Cover

Electron-microscope dark-field image from superlattice reflections of the praseodymium compound Pr_5/8 Ca_3/8 MnO₃. The insert shows the electron-diffraction pattern of this crystal.

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Charge/Orbital Ordering Structure of $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ ( $x = 3 / 8$ ) Examined by Low-Temperature Transmission Electron Microscopy
T. Asaka, S. Yamada, S. Tsutsumi, C. Tsuruta, K. Kimoto, T. Arima, and Y. Matsui
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097201 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Controlling the Energy Flow in Nonlinear Lattices: A Model for a Thermal Rectifier

M. Terraneo, M. Peyrard, and G. Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094302 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

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Charge and Spin Structure in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.35}$

H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, and F. Doğan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097004 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

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Communication with Dynamically Fluctuating States of Light Polarization

Gregory D. VanWiggeren and Rajarshi Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097903 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

Periodically Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensate: A Superfluid with an Anisotropic and Variable Critical Velocity

J. Higbie and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090401 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Signatures of Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Fermi Gas

M. L. Chiofalo, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, J. N. Milstein, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090402 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Rate Limit for Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Juha Javanainen and Matt Mackie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090403 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Creation of a Monopole in a Spinor Condensate

J.-P. Martikainen, A. Collin, and K.-A. Suominen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090404 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Clock-Comparison Tests of Lorentz and $CPT$ Symmetry in Space

Robert Bluhm, V. Alan Kostelecký, Charles D. Lane, and Neil Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090801 (2002) - Published 11 February, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Calculating the Gravitational Self-Force in Schwarzschild Spacetime

Leor Barack, Yasushi Mino, Hiroyuki Nakano, Amos Ori, and Misao Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091101 (2002) - Published 19 February, 2002

Tachyon Condensation and Black Hole Entropy

Atish Dabholkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091301 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Probing the Dark Energy with Quasar Clustering

M. O. Calvão, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, and I. Waga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091302 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Changing $α$ with Time: Implications for Fifth-Force-Type Experiments and Quintessence

Gia Dvali and Matias Zaldarriaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091303 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Thermally Generated Gauge Singlet Scalars as Self-Interacting Dark Matter

John McDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091304 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Recoil Correction to the Bound-Electron $g$ Factor in H-Like Atoms to All Orders in $α Z$

V. M. Shabaev and V. A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091801 (2002) - Published 11 February, 2002

Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering

G. P. Zeller et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091802 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of $G_{E_{p}} / G_{M_{p}}$ in $\vec{e} p \to e \vec{p}$ to $Q^{2} = 5.6 {GeV}^{2}$

O. Gayou et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 092301 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

${}_{28}^{68}N i_{40}$ : Magicity versus Superfluidity

O. Sorlin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 092501 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Nuclear Masses: Evidence of Order-Chaos Coexistence

O. Bohigas and P. Leboeuf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 092502 (2002) - Published 19 February, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

$K$ -Shell Photodetachment of ${He}^{-}$ : Experiment and Theory

N. Berrah, J. D. Bozek, G. Turri, G. Akerman, B. Rude, H.-L Zhou, and S. T. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093001 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Strong Electron Correlation in Photoionization of Spin-Orbit Doublets

M. Ya. Amusia, L. V. Chernysheva, S. T. Manson, A. M. Msezane, and V. Radojević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093002 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Feedback Control of Atomic Motion in an Optical Lattice

N. V. Morrow, S. K. Dutta, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093003 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Magnetic Slowing Down of Spin Relaxation due to Binary Collisions of Alkali-Metal Atoms with Buffer-Gas Atoms

D. K. Walter, W. M. Griffith, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093004 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Interisotope Determination of Ultracold Rubidium Interactions from Three High-Precision Experiments

E. G. M. van Kempen, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, D. J. Heinzen, and B. J. Verhaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093201 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Polarization Squeezing of Continuous Variable Stokes Parameters

Warwick P. Bowen, Roman Schnabel, Hans-A. Bachor, and Ping Koy Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093601 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Anomalous Refraction and Diffraction in Discrete Optical Systems

T. Pertsch, T. Zentgraf, U. Peschel, A. Bräuer, and F. Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093901 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Decay Distribution of Spontaneous Emission from an Assembly of Atoms in Photonic Crystals with Pseudogaps

Xue-Hua Wang, Rongzhou Wang, Ben-Yuan Gu, and Guo-Zhen Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093902 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Autonomous Swinging of a Lipid Tubule under Stationary Irradiation by a ${Nd}^{3 +} : YAG$ Laser

Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Takahiro Harada, and Kenichi Yoshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093903 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Random Laser in One Dimension

A. L. Burin, Mark A. Ratner, H. Cao, and S. H. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093904 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Numerical Characterization of High Harmonic Attosecond Pulses

Nenad Milosevic, Armin Scrinzi, and Thomas Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 093905 (2002) - Published 19 February, 2002

Quantum Dissipative Chaos in the Statistics of Excitation Numbers

Gagik Yu. Kryuchkyan and Suren B. Manvelyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094101 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Fresnel Filtering in Lasing Emission from Scarred Modes of Wave-Chaotic Optical Resonators

N. B. Rex, H. E. Tureci, H. G. L. Schwefel, R. K. Chang, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094102 (2002) - Published 19 February, 2002

Finite Heat Conduction in a 2D Disorder Lattice

Lei Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094301 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

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Controlling the Energy Flow in Nonlinear Lattices: A Model for a Thermal Rectifier

M. Terraneo, M. Peyrard, and G. Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094302 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Relative Dispersion in Fully Developed Turbulence: The Richardson’s Law and Intermittency Corrections

G. Boffetta and I. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094501 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

On-Line Ion Cooling and Bunching for Collinear Laser Spectroscopy

A. Nieminen, P. Campbell, J. Billowes, D. H. Forest, J. A. R. Griffith, J. Huikari, A. Jokinen, I. D. Moore, R. Moore, G. Tungate, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 094801 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Variational Principles and Self-Organization in Two-Fluid Plasmas

Z. Yoshida and S. M. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095001 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Electron Cyclotron Resonance in a Weakly Magnetized Radio-Frequency Inductive Discharge

ChinWook Chung, S. S. Kim, and H. Y. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095002 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Ensembles of Classical Oscillators

A. G. Litvak and M. D. Tokman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095003 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Dissipative Longitudinal Solitons in a Two-Dimensional Strongly Coupled Complex (Dusty) Plasma

D. Samsonov, A. V. Ivlev, R. A. Quinn, G. Morfill, and S. Zhdanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095004 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Electron Acceleration by a Tightly Focused Laser Beam

Yousef I. Salamin and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095005 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Instability-Triggered Phase Transition to a Dusty-Plasma Condensate

Glenn Joyce, Martin Lampe, and Gurudas Ganguli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095006 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Origins of Coexistence of Conductivity and Transparency in ${SnO}_{2}$

Çetin Kılıç and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095501 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Spiral Cracks in Drying Precipitates

Z. Néda, K.-t. Leung, L. Józsa, and M. Ravasz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095502 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Beyond Flory-Huggins Theory: New Classes of Blend Miscibility Associated with Monomer Structural Asymmetry

Jacek Dudowicz, Karl F. Freed, and Jack F. Douglas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095503 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Phase Equilibria of Charge-, Size-, and Shape-Asymmetric Model Electrolytes

Qiliang Yan and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095504 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

From Strong to Fragile Glass Formers: Secondary Relaxation in Polyalcohols

A. Döß, M. Paluch, H. Sillescu, and G. Hinze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095701 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Singularity in the Thermal Boundary Resistance between Superfluid ${}^{4}H e$ and a Solid Surface

Kerry Kuehn, Sarabjit Mehta, Haiying Fu, Edgar Genio, Daniel Murphy, Fengchuan Liu, Yuanming Liu, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095702 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Magnetic Field Enhancement of Heat Transport in the 2D Heisenberg Antiferromagnet $K_{2} V_{3} O_{8}$

B. C. Sales, M. D. Lumsden, S. E. Nagler, D. Mandrus, and R. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095901 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Ionic Self-Diffusion in Concentrated Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions

J.-F. Dufrêche, O. Bernard, P. Turq, A. Mukherjee, and B. Bagchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 095902 (2002) - Published 19 February, 2002

Elastic Relaxations in Ultrathin Epitaxial Alloy Films

V. Ozoliņš, M. Asta, and J. J. Hoyt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096101 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Transition from Stick-Slip to Smooth Sliding: An Earthquakelike Model

O. M. Braun and J. Röder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096102 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Thickness Induced Structural Transition in Suspended fcc Metal Nanofilms

Anwar Hasmy and Ernesto Medina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096103 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Structure of Quantum Wires in $Au / Si (557)$

I. K. Robinson, P. A. Bennett, and F. J. Himpsel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096104 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Self-Organized Nanoscale Pattern Formation on Vicinal Si(111) Surfaces via a Two-Stage Faceting Transition

F. K. Men, Feng Liu, P. J. Wang, C. H. Chen, D. L. Cheng, J. L. Lin, and F. J. Himpsel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096105 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Evidence for Insulating Behavior in the Electric Conduction of $({NH}_{3}) K_{3} C_{60}$ Systems

H. Kitano, R. Matsuo, K. Miwa, A. Maeda, T. Takenobu, Y. Iwasa, and T. Mitani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096401 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Spectroscopic Signatures of Spin-Charge Separation in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Conductor TTF-TCNQ

R. Claessen, M. Sing, U. Schwingenschlögl, P. Blaha, M. Dressel, and C. S. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096402 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Spectral Function of a Quarter-Filled One-Dimensional Charge Density Wave Insulator

Fabian H. L. Essler and Alexei M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096403 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Nonuniversal Behavior of Scattering between Fractional Quantum Hall Edges

Bernd Rosenow and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096404 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Engineering Electronic Lifetimes in Artificial Atomic Structures

K.-F. Braun and K.-H. Rieder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096801 (2002) - Published 11 February, 2002

Electron Scattering at Steps: Image-Potential States on Cu(119)

Manfred Roth, Martin Pickel, Wang Jinxiong, Martin Weinelt, and Thomas Fauster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096802 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Real-Space Measurement of the Potential Distribution Inside Organic Semiconductors

M. Kemerink, P. Offermans, J. K. J. van Duren, P. M. Koenraad, R. A. J. Janssen, H. W. M. Salemink, and J. H. Wolter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096803 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Kondo Effect of Single Co Adatoms on Cu Surfaces

Nikolaus Knorr, M. Alexander Schneider, Lars Diekhöner, Peter Wahl, and Klaus Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 096804 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Flux Flow of Abrikosov-Josephson Vortices along Grain Boundaries in High-Temperature Superconductors

A. Gurevich, M. S. Rzchowski, G. Daniels, S. Patnaik, B. M. Hinaus, F. Carillo, F. Tafuri, and D. C. Larbalestier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097001 (2002) - Published 13 February, 2002

Nanoscale One-Dimensional Scattering Resonances in the CuO Chains of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6 + x}$

D. J. Derro, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, S. H. Pan, J. C. Davis, J. T. Markert, and A. L. de Lozanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097002 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Impurity States and Interlayer Tunneling in High Temperature Superconductors

I. Martin, A. V. Balatsky, and J. Zaanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097003 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

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Charge and Spin Structure in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{6.35}$

H. A. Mook, Pengcheng Dai, and F. Doğan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097004 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002

Absence of a Loss of In-Plane Infrared Spectral Weight in the Pseudogap Regime of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

A. F. Santander-Syro, R. P. S. M. Lobo, N. Bontemps, Z. Konstantinovic, Z. Li, and H. Raffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097005 (2002) - Published 19 February, 2002

Charge/Orbital Ordering Structure of $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ ( $x = 3 / 8$ ) Examined by Low-Temperature Transmission Electron Microscopy

T. Asaka, S. Yamada, S. Tsutsumi, C. Tsuruta, K. Kimoto, T. Arima, and Y. Matsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097201 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Optimizing the Encounter Rate in Biological Interactions: Lévy versus Brownian Strategies

F. Bartumeus, J. Catalan, U. L. Fulco, M. L. Lyra, and G. M. Viswanathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097901 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

Experimental Simulation of Two-Particle Quantum Entanglement using Classical Fields

K. F. Lee and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097902 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

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COMMENTS

Cabello’s Nonlocality and Linear Optics

A. I. Lvovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 098901 (2002) - Published 14 February, 2002

Rigorous Bounds to Retarded Learning

Arnaud Buhot, Mirta B. Gordon, and Jean-Pierre Nadal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 099801 (2002) - Published 12 February, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: “Two-Time Green's Functions and the Spectral Density Method in Nonextensive Classical Statistical Mechanics”[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240602 (2001)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 099901 (2002) - Published 11 February, 2002

Erratum: Remote State Preparation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 077902 (2001)]

Charles H. Bennett, David P. DiVincenzo, Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, Barbara M. Terhal, and William K. Wootters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 099902 (2002) - Published 15 February, 2002