Volume 89, Issue 12

16 September 2002

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On the Cover

Last closed flux surfaces of two model stellarator configurations; the colors illustrate the magnetic-field strength over each surface.

From the article:

High- $β$ Equilibria of Drift-Optimized Compact Stellarators
A. S. Ware, S. P. Hirshman, D. A. Spong, L. A. Berry, A. J. Deisher, G. Y. Fu, J. F. Lyon, and R. Sanchez
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125003 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Kinetically Locked-In Colloidal Transport in an Array of Optical Tweezers

Pamela T. Korda, Michael B. Taylor, and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 128301 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Hall States and Boson Triplet Condensate for Rotating Spin-1 Bosons

J. W. Reijnders, F. J. M. van Lankvelt, K. Schoutens, and N. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 120401 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Does a Randall-Sundrum Scenario Create the Illusion of a Torsion-Free Universe?

Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Somasri Sen, and Soumitra SenGupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 121101 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Positive Mass from Holographic Causality

Don N. Page, Sumati Surya, and Eric Woolgar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 121301 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Additional Stringy Sources for Electric Dipole Moments

S. Abel, S. Khalil, and O. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 121601 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Dalitz Plot Analysis of the Decay $D^{+} \to K^{-} π^{+} π^{+}$ and Indication of a Low-Mass Scalar $K π$ Resonance

E. M. Aitala et al. (Fermilab E791 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 121801 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Transverse-Momentum Fluctuations in $π^{+} p$ and $K^{+} p$ Collisions at $250 G e V / c$

M. R. Atayan, Bai Yuting, E. A. De Wolf, A. M. F. Endler, Fu Jinghua, H. Gulkanyan, R. Hakobyan, W. Kittel, Liu Lianshou, Z. V. Metreveli, L. N. Smirnova, L. A. Tikhonova, A. G. Tomaradze, F. Verbeure, Wu Yuanfang, and S. A. Zotkin (EHS/NA22 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 121802 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Observation of the Decay $B^{0} \to D^{\pm} D^{* \mp}$

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 122001 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

Leading-Particle Effect from Heavy-Quark Recombination

Eric Braaten, Yu Jia, and Thomas Mehen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 122002 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

Is There a Significant Excess in Bottom Hadroproduction at the Tevatron?

Matteo Cacciari and Paolo Nason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 122003 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Strong Coupling Constant from the Photon Structure Function

Simon Albino, Michael Klasen, and Stefan Söldner-Rembold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 122004 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Theory of Spontaneous Emission by Real Moving Atoms

L. G. Boussiakou, C. R. Bennett, and M. Babiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 123001 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Unified Treatment of Positron Annihilation and Positronium Formation

Akinori Igarashi, Mineo Kimura, and Isao Shimamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 123201 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Overcoming the Diffraction Limit in Wave Physics Using a Time-Reversal Mirror and a Novel Acoustic Sink

J. de Rosny and M. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 124301 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Universal Spectrum of Two-Dimensional Turbulence on a Rotating Sphere and Some Basic Features of Atmospheric Circulation on Giant Planets

Semion Sukoriansky, Boris Galperin, and Nadejda Dikovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 124501 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Universality of Small Scale Turbulence

Ch. Renner, J. Peinke, R. Friedrich, O. Chanal, and B. Chabaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 124502 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evolution of a Dust Void in a Radio-Frequency Plasma Sheath

R. P. Dahiya, G. V. Paeva, W. W. Stoffels, E. Stoffels, G. M. W. Kroesen, K. Avinash, and A. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125001 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

Dynamical Overstability of Radiative Blast Waves: The Atomic Physics of Shock Stability

J. Martin Laming and Jacob Grun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125002 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

High- $β$ Equilibria of Drift-Optimized Compact Stellarators

A. S. Ware, S. P. Hirshman, D. A. Spong, L. A. Berry, A. J. Deisher, G. Y. Fu, J. F. Lyon, and R. Sanchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125003 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Collective Deceleration of Relativistic Electrons Precisely in the Core of an Inertial-Fusion Target

V. M. Malkin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125004 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Short Wavelength Temperature Gradient Driven Modes in Tokamak Plasmas

A. I. Smolyakov, M. Yagi, and Y. Kishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125005 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dynamic Critical Behavior Near the Superfluid Transition in ${}^{3}H e − {}^{4}H e$ Mixtures in Two Loop Order

R. Folk and G. Moser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125301 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

What Do We Learn from the Local Geometry of Glass-Forming Liquids?

Francis W. Starr, Srikanth Sastry, Jack F. Douglas, and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125501 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Pressure Evolution of the High-Frequency Sound Velocity in Liquid Water

M. Krisch, P. Loubeyre, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, A. Cunsolo, M. D’Astuto, R. LeToullec, M. Lorenzen, A. Mermet, G. Monaco, and R. Verbeni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125502 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Imaging Delocalized Electron Clouds: Photoionization of $C_{60}$ in Fourier Reciprocal Space

Andy Rüdel, Rainer Hentges, Uwe Becker, Himadri S. Chakraborty, Mohamed E. Madjet, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125503 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics and Stability of Deuterated Amorphous Silicon

Jon-Paul R. Wells, Ruud E. I. Schropp, Lex F. G. van der Meer, and Jaap I. Dijkhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125504 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Observation of an Anomalous Discontinuous Liquid-Structure Change with Temperature

Fang-Qiu Zu, Zhen-Gang Zhu, Li-Jun Guo, Xu-Bo Qin, Hua Yang, and Wen-Jun Shan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125505 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Density-Fluctuation-Induced Swelling of Polymer Thin Films in Carbon Dioxide

Tadanori Koga, Young-Soo Seo, Yimin Zhang, Kwanwoo Shin, Kouhei Kusano, Keiko Nishikawa, Miriam H. Rafailovich, Jonathan C. Sokolov, Benjamin Chu, Dennis Peiffer, Ron Occhiogrosso, and Sushil K. Satija

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125506 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Homogeneity of a Supersaturated Solid Solution

J. H. He, H. W. Sheng, J. S. Lin, P. J. Schilling, R. C. Tittsworth, and E. Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125507 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Re-entrant Glass Transition in a Colloid-Polymer Mixture with Depletion Attractions

T. Eckert and E. Bartsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125701 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

Functional Renormalization Group at Large $N$ for Disordered Systems

Pierre Le Doussal and Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 125702 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

Photo- and Thermodesorption of Helium on Pt(111)

T. Niedermayer, H. Schlichting, D. Menzel, S. H. Payne, and H. J. Kreuzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126101 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Mesoscopic Relaxation in Homoepitaxial Metal Growth

O. V. Lysenko, V. S. Stepanyuk, W. Hergert, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126102 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Reversible Stress Relaxation during Precoalescence Interruptions of Volmer-Weber Thin Film Growth

C. Friesen and C. V. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126103 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Single-Molecule Reaction and Characterization by Vibrational Excitation

Yousoo Kim, Tadahiro Komeda, and Maki Kawai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126104 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Band-Gap Problem in Semiconductors Revisited: Effects of Core States and Many-Body Self-Consistency

Wei Ku and Adolfo G. Eguiluz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126401 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Self-Consistent Green Function Approach for Calculation of Electronic Structure in Transition Metals

N. E. Zein and V. P. Antropov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126402 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Calogero-Moser Models with Noncommutative Spin Interactions

Alexios P. Polychronakos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126403 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Absolute and Approximate Calculations of Electron-Energy-Loss Spectroscopy Edge Thresholds

D. R. Hamann and David A. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126404 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Crossover Between Universality Classes in the Statistics of Rare Events in Disordered Conductors

V. M. Apalkov, M. E. Raikh, and B. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126601 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Field-Modulated Carrier Transport in Carbon Nanotube Transistors

J. Appenzeller, J. Knoch, V. Derycke, R. Martel, S. Wind, and Ph. Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126801 (2002) - Published 29 August, 2002

Slow Oscillations of Magnetoresistance in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Metals

M. V. Kartsovnik, P. D. Grigoriev, W. Biberacher, N. D. Kushch, and P. Wyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126802 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Disproportionation Phenomena on Free and Strained $S n / G e (111)$ and $S n / S i (111)$ Surfaces

G. Ballabio, G. Profeta, S. de Gironcoli, S. Scandolo, G. E. Santoro, and E. Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126803 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Interactions and Disorder in Quantum Dots: Instabilities and Phase Transitions

Ganpathy Murthy and Harsh Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 126804 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Effect of Spin-Orbit Scattering on the Magnetic and Superconducting Properties of Nearly Ferromagnetic Metals: Application to Granular Pt

D. Fay and J. Appel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 127001 (2002) - Published 28 August, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Efficient Universal Leakage Elimination for Physical and Encoded Qubits

L.-A. Wu, M. S. Byrd, and D. A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 127901 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

Method for Direct Detection of Quantum Entanglement

Paweł Horodecki and Artur Ekert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 127902 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Weak Anisotropy and Disorder Dependence of the In-Plane Magnetoresistance in High-Mobility (100) Si-Inversion Layers”

V. T. Dolgopolov and A. Gold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 129701 (2002) - Published 27 August, 2002

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Observation of the $η_{c} (2 S)$ in Exclusive $B \to K K_{S} K^{-} π^{+}$ Decays [Phys. Rev. Lett 89, 102001 (2002)]

S.-K. Choi et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 129901 (2002) - Published 30 August, 2002

Publisher’s Note: Zener Polaron Ordering in Half-Doped Manganites [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 097205 (2002)]

A. Daoud-Aladine, J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, L. Pinsard-Gaudart, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 129902 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002

Publisher’s Note: Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.7 ppm [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 101804 (2002)]

G. W. Bennett et al. (Muon (g-2) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 129903 (2002) - Published 3 September, 2002