Volume 89, Issue 15

7 October 2002

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On the Cover

Illustration of the failure of the semiclassical eigenfunction hypothesis, a cornerstone of quantum-chaos theory, for a spatially periodic, kicked Hamiltonian. The quantum eigenstate (red) ignores the classical phase-space structures of regular islands in a chaotic sea when the dynamics is such that the island chain is traversed sequentially in time.

From the article:

Eigenstates Ignoring Regular and Chaotic Phase-Space Structures
Lars Hufnagel, Roland Ketzmerick, Marc-Felix Otto, and Holger Schanz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154101 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Using Hysteresis for Optimization

G. Zaránd, F. Pázmándi, K. F. Pál, and G. T. Zimányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 150201 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Interferometry below the Standard Quantum Limit with Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. A. Dunningham, K. Burnett, and Stephen M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 150401 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Accidental Suppression of Landau Damping of the Transverse Breathing Mode in Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensates

B. Jackson and E. Zaremba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 150402 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Fermi-Bose Quantum Degenerate ${}^{40}K − {}^{87}R b$ Mixture with Attractive Interaction

G. Roati, F. Riboli, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 150403 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Exact Asymptotics for One-Dimensional Diffusion with Mobile Traps

Alan J. Bray and Richard A. Blythe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 150601 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the Analysis of the Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey Radio-Selected Gravitational Lens Statistics

K.-H. Chae, A. D. Biggs, R. D. Blandford, I. W. A. Browne, A. G. de Bruyn, C. D. Fassnacht, P. Helbig, N. J. Jackson, L. J. King, L. V. E. Koopmans, S. Mao, D. R. Marlow, J. P. McKean, S. T. Myers, M. Norbury, T. J. Pearson, P. M. Phillips, A. C. S. Readhead, D. Rusin, C. M. Sykes, P. N. Wilkinson, E. Xanthopoulos, and T. York

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 151301 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Black Hole as a Point Radiator and Recoil Effect on the Brane World

Valeri Frolov and Dejan Stojković

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 151302 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measuring the Higgs Boson Self-Coupling at the Large Hadron Collider

Ulrich Baur, Tilman Plehn, and David Rainwater

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 151801 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Observation of ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to D^{(*) 0} p \bar{p}$

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 151802 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Partonic Effects on Pion Interferometry at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

Zi-wei Lin, C. M. Ko, and Subrata Pal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 152301 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Luneburg Lens Approach to Nuclear Rainbow Scattering

F. Michel, G. Reidemeister, and S. Ohkubo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 152701 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Phase-Dependent Effects of a Few-Cycle Laser Pulse

D. B. Milošević, G. G. Paulus, and W. Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 153001 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Electron-Spin-Resonance Instability in Two-Dimensional Atomic Hydrogen Gas

S. Vasilyev, J. Järvinen, A. I. Safonov, A. A. Kharitonov, I. I. Lukashevich, and S. Jaakkola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 153002 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Quantum Dynamics of Ultracold $N a + {N a}_{2}$ Collisions

Pavel Soldán, Marko T. Cvitaš, Jeremy M. Hutson, Pascal Honvault, and Jean-Michel Launay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 153201 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantum Effects with an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt, and D. V. Vinnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 153901 (2002) - Published 24 September, 2002

Hyperbolic Shock Waves of the Optical Self-Focusing with Normal Group-Velocity Dispersion

L. Bergé, K. Germaschewski, R. Grauer, and J. Juul Rasmussen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 153902 (2002) - Published 24 September, 2002

Eigenstates Ignoring Regular and Chaotic Phase-Space Structures

Lars Hufnagel, Roland Ketzmerick, Marc-Felix Otto, and Holger Schanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154101 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Collective Directed Transport of Symmetrically Coupled Lattices in Symmetric Periodic Potentials

Zhigang Zheng, M. C. Cross, and Gang Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154102 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Decay of the Loschmidt Echo for Quantum States with Sub-Planck-Scale Structures

Ph. Jacquod, I. Adagideli, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154103 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Time-Delayed Spatial Patterns in a Two-Dimensional Array of Coupled Oscillators

Seong-Ok Jeong, Tae-Wook Ko, and Hie-Tae Moon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154104 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Prevalence of Unstable Attractors in Networks of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators

Marc Timme, Fred Wolf, and Theo Geisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 154105 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-Consistent Nonlinear Resonance and Hysteresis of a Charged Microparticle in a rf Sheath

You-Nian Wang, Lu-Jing Hou, and Xiaogang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155001 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Avalanche Excitations of Fast Particles in Quasi-2D Cold Dusty-Plasma Liquids

Ying-Ju Lai and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155002 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Shear Flow and Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Superfluids

R. Blaauwgeers, V. B. Eltsov, G. Eska, A. P. Finne, R. P. Haley, M. Krusius, J. J. Ruohio, L. Skrbek, and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155301 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Evaporation of a Packet of Quantized Vorticity

Carlo F. Barenghi and David C. Samuels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155302 (2002) - Published 24 September, 2002

Linking Chiral Indices and Transport Properties of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

M. Kociak, K. Suenaga, K. Hirahara, Y. Saito, T. Nakahira, and S. Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155501 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Atomic Resolution Three-Dimensional Electron Diffraction Microscopy

Jianwei Miao, Tetsu Ohsuna, Osamu Terasaki, Keith O. Hodgson, and Michael A. O’Keefe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155502 (2002) - Published 18 September, 2002

Entropically Driven Formation of Hierarchically Ordered Nanocomposites

Jae-Youn Lee, Russell B. Thompson, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 155503 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Ab initio Study of Misfit Dislocations at the $S i C / S i (001)$ Interface

Giancarlo Cicero, Laurent Pizzagalli, and Alessandra Catellani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 156101 (2002) - Published 19 September, 2002

Disjoining Pressure of Discrete Surface Charges on Thin Aqueous Films

Lionel Foret, Reimer Kühn, and Alois Würger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 156102 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Polymers near Metal Surfaces: Selective Adsorption and Global Conformations

L. Delle Site, C. F. Abrams, A. Alavi, and K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 156103 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002

Quasicrystalline Epitaxial Single Element Monolayers on Icosahedral Al-Pd-Mn and Decagonal Al-Ni-Co Quasicrystal Surfaces

K. J. Franke, H. R. Sharma, W. Theis, P. Gille, Ph. Ebert, and K. H. Rieder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 156104 (2002) - Published 23 September, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Erratum: Second Order Dissipative Fluid Dynamics for Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 062302 (2002)]

Azwinndini Muronga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 159901 (2002) - Published 20 September, 2002