Volume 89, Issue 20

11 November 2002

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On the Cover

Lattice Monte Carlo simulation of the growth of a gyroid cubic phase in a triblock copolymer melt; the three different polymers making up the melt are indicated by the blue, red, and yellow areas, respectively.

From the article:

Tricontinuous Cubic Structures in $A B C / A / C$ Copolymer and Homopolymer Blends
Tomonari Dotera
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205502 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Depression Solitary Surface Waves on a Thin Fluid Layer

Éric Falcon, Claude Laroche, and Stéphan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 204501 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

Efficiency of Mesoscopic Detectors

S. Pilgram and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200401 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Direct Measurement of the Wigner Function of a One-Photon Fock State in a Cavity

P. Bertet, A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, S. Osnaghi, T. Meunier, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200402 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Dynamics of a Single Vortex Line in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. Rosenbusch, V. Bretin, and J. Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200403 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Bright Soliton Trains of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

U. Al Khawaja, H. T. C. Stoof, R. G. Hulet, K. E. Strecker, and G. B. Partridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200404 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Elimination of Body-Frame Singularities in the Separation of Three Collective Angles in Quantum $N$ -Body Problems

A. V. Meremianin and J. S. Briggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200405 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Glory Oscillations in the Index of Refraction for Matter Waves

Tony D. Roberts, Alexander D. Cronin, David A. Kokorowski, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200406 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Anomalous Heat Conduction in One-Dimensional Momentum-Conserving Systems

Onuttom Narayan and Sriram Ramaswamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 200601 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmological Higgs Fields

J. W. van Holten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 201301 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Benchmarks for the Forward Observables at RHIC, the Tevatron-Run II, and the LHC

J. R. Cudell, V. V. Ezhela, P. Gauron, K. Kang, Yu. V. Kuyanov, S. B. Lugovsky, E. Martynov, B. Nicolescu, E. A. Razuvaev, and N. P. Tkachenko (COMPETE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 201801 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Measurement of the $C P$ Asymmetry Amplitude $\sin 2 β$ with $B^{0}$ Mesons

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 201802 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Centrality Dependence of High- $p_{T}$ Hadron Suppression in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 130 G e V$

C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 202301 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Flavor Ordering of Elliptic Flows at High Transverse Momentum

Zi-wei Lin and C. M. Ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 202302 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Conversion Electron Cascades in ${}_{102}^{254}N o$

P. A. Butler et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 202501 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of a Motional Stark Effect to Determine the Second-Order Doppler Effect

G. Hagel, R. Battesti, F. Nez, L. Julien, and F. Biraben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203001 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Fluorescence Quenching of Dye Molecules near Gold Nanoparticles: Radiative and Nonradiative Effects

E. Dulkeith, A. C. Morteani, T. Niedereichholz, T. A. Klar, J. Feldmann, S. A. Levi, F. C. J. M. van Veggel, D. N. Reinhoudt, M. Möller, and D. I. Gittins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203002 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Realization of a Time-Domain Fresnel Lens with Coherent Control

Jérôme Degert, Wendel Wohlleben, Béatrice Chatel, Marcus Motzkus, and Bertrand Girard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203003 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Decay of an Ultracold Fermionic Lithium Gas near a Feshbach Resonance

K. Dieckmann, C. A. Stan, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, C. H. Schunck, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203201 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Rotational Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Molecular Collisions

J. L. Bohn, A. V. Avdeenkov, and M. P. Deskevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203202 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Caloric Curves of Small Fragmenting Clusters

C. Bréchignac, Ph Cahuzac, B. Concina, and J. Leygnier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 203401 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamics of Freely Cooling Granular Gases

Xiaobo Nie, Eli Ben-Naim, and Shiyi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 204301 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Preavalanche Instabilities in a Granular Pile

Lydie Staron, Jean-Pierre Vilotte, and Farhang Radjai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 204302 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Depression Solitary Surface Waves on a Thin Fluid Layer

Éric Falcon, Claude Laroche, and Stéphan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 204501 (2002) - Published 23 October, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Damping of Plasma Zonal Flows Excited by Inverse Spectral Transfer

P. W. Terry, R. Gatto, and D. A. Baver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205001 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Structure-Driven Nonlinear Instability of Double Tearing Modes and the Abrupt Growth after Long-Time-Scale Evolution

Yasutomo Ishii, Masafumi Azumi, and Yasuaki Kishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205002 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evolution of Percolating Force Chains in Compressed Granular Media

Raúl Cruz Hidalgo, Christian U. Grosse, Ferenc Kun, Hans W. Reinhardt, and Hans J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205501 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Tricontinuous Cubic Structures in $A B C / A / C$ Copolymer and Homopolymer Blends

Tomonari Dotera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205502 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Structure of a New Dense Amorphous Ice

J. L. Finney, D. T. Bowron, A. K. Soper, T. Loerting, E. Mayer, and A. Hallbrucker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205503 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Nature of the High-Pressure Transition in $F e_{2} O_{3}$ Hematite

James Badro, Guillaume Fiquet, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Maddury Somayazulu, Ho-kwang Mao, Guoyin Shen, and Tristan Le Bihan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205504 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Perturbation-Induced Compositional Instability in Epitaxial Binary-Alloy Films

S. R. Lee and N. A. Modine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 205701 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Scaling Behavior of Grain-Rotation-Induced Grain Growth

Dorel Moldovan, Vesselin Yamakov, Dieter Wolf, and Simon R. Phillpot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206101 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

New Structure Model for the $G a A s (001) − c (4 \times 4)$ Surface

Akihiro Ohtake, Jun Nakamura, Shiro Tsukamoto, Nobuyuki Koguchi, and Akiko Natori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206102 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ordered Charge Asphericity around Dysprosium and Structural Deformation in $D y B_{2} C_{2}$

H. Adachi, H. Kawata, M. Mizumaki, T. Akao, M. Sato, N. Ikeda, Y. Tanaka, and H. Miwa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206401 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Dynamics of Photoexcited States in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Akira Takahashi, Hiroki Gomi, and Masaki Aihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206402 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Quantum Transport in Parallel Magnetic Fields: A Realization of the Berry-Robnik Symmetry Phenomenon

Julia S. Meyer, Alexander Altland, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206601 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Finite-Size Effects in Conductance Measurements on Quantum Dots

Pascal Simon and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206602 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Semiclassical Theory of Chaotic Quantum Transport

Klaus Richter and Martin Sieber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206801 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Quantum Dots with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

M. Governale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206802 (2002) - Published 25 October, 2002

Diamagnetic Orbital Response of Mesoscopic Silver Rings

R. Deblock, R. Bel, B. Reulet, H. Bouchiat, and D. Mailly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206803 (2002) - Published 28 October, 2002

Dephasing by Extremely Dilute Magnetic Impurities Revealed by Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations

F. Pierre and Norman O. Birge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206804 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Hyperfine Structure of the Electron Spin Resonance of Phosphorus-Doped Si Nanocrystals

Minoru Fujii, Atsushi Mimura, Shinji Hayashi, Yoshiaki Yamamoto, and Kouichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 206805 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Intrinsic $d$ -Wave Effects in $Y B a_{2} C u_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ Grain Boundary Josephson Junctions

F. Lombardi, F. Tafuri, F. Ricci, F. Miletto Granozio, A. Barone, G. Testa, E . Sarnelli, J. R. Kirtley, and C. C. Tsuei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 207001 (2002) - Published 24 October, 2002

Direct Observation of the Transition from the Conventional Superconducting State to the $π$ State in a Controllable Josephson Junction

J. J. A. Baselmans, T. T. Heikkilä, B. J. van Wees, and T. M. Klapwijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 207002 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Erratum: Formation and Interaction of Membrane Tubes [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 88, 238101 (2002)]

Imre Derényi, Frank Jülicher, and Jacques Prost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 209901 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002

Erratum: Limit on Lorentz and $C P T$ Violation of the Neutron Using a Two-Species Noble-Gas Maser [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5038 (2000)]

D. Bear, R. E. Stoner, R. L. Walsworth, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Charles D. Lane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 209902 (2002) - Published 29 October, 2002