Volume 89, Issue 23

2 December 2002

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On the Cover

Left: A scanning-electron-microscope image of a micropost microcavity containing a single quantum dot, which can efficiently emit single photons. The height is 4.2 microns. Right: A simulation depicting the amplitude of the electric field for the fundamental mode inside the microcavity.

From the article:

Efficient Source of Single Photons: A Single Quantum Dot in a Micropost Microcavity
Matthew Pelton, Charles Santori, Jelena Vuc̆ković, Bingyang Zhang, Glenn S. Solomon, Jocelyn Plant, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233602 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Limit Cycles in Quantum Theories

Stanisław D. Głazek and Kenneth G. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230401 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Fluctuations of Fluctuation-Induced Casimir-Like Forces

Denis Bartolo, Armand Ajdari, Jean-Baptiste Fournier, and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230601 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Noise-Induced Transport with Low Randomness

Benjamin Lindner and Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230602 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Optical Clock with Ultracold Neutral Atoms

G. Wilpers, T. Binnewies, C. Degenhardt, U. Sterr, J. Helmcke, and F. Riehle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230801 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

$r$ -Process Nucleosynthesis without Excess Neutrons

Bradley S. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231101 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Measuring Neutron-Star Radii with Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Joshua A. Faber, Philippe Grandclément, Frederic A. Rasio, and Keisuke Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231102 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Observational Bounds on Quantum Gravity Signals using Existing Data

Daniel Sudarsky, Luis Urrutia, and Héctor Vucetich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231301 (2002) - Published 14 November, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

$C P$ Violation in Neutrino Oscillation and Leptogenesis

T. Endoh, S. Kaneko, S. K. Kang, T. Morozumi, and M. Tanimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231601 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

$C P T$ Violation Implies Violation of Lorentz Invariance

O. W. Greenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231602 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Radiative $B$ Meson Decays into $K π γ$ and $K π π γ$ Final States

S. Nishida et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231801 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Direct $C P$ Violation in $B \to ϕ K_{s}$ and New Physics

Marco Ciuchini and Luca Silvestrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231802 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

$C P$ Asymmetry in $B \to ϕ K_{S}$ Decays in Left-Right Models and its Implications for $B_{s}$ Decays

Martti Raidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231803 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Observation of $D_{s}^{+} K^{-}$ and Evidence for $D_{s}^{+} π^{-}$ Final States in Neutral $B$ Decays

P. Krokovny et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 231804 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Control of Light Pulse Propagation with Only a Few Cold Atoms in a High-Finesse Microcavity

Yukiko Shimizu, Noritsugu Shiokawa, Noriaki Yamamoto, Mikio Kozuma, Takahiro Kuga, L. Deng, and E. W. Hagley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233001 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Theory of Time-Resolved Photoelectron Imaging: Nonperturbative Calculation for an Internally Converting Polyatomic Molecule

Yoshi-ichi Suzuki, Mauro Stener, and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233002 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Theory for the Optimal Control of Time-Averaged Quantities in Quantum Systems

Ilia Grigorenko, Martin E. Garcia, and K. H. Bennemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233003 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Controlling the Cold Collision Shift in High Precision Atomic Interferometry

F. Pereira Dos Santos, H. Marion, S. Bize, Y. Sortais, A. Clairon, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233004 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Driven Production of Cold Antihydrogen and the First Measured Distribution of Antihydrogen States

G. Gabrielse, N. S. Bowden, P. Oxley, A. Speck, C. H. Storry, J. N. Tan, M. Wessels, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers, T. Sefzick, J. Walz, H. Pittner, T. W. Hänsch, and E. A. Hessels (ATRAP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233401 (2002) - Published 19 November, 2002

Efficient Two-Photon Light Amplification by a Coherent Biexciton Wave

R. Shimano, Yu. P Svirko, A. Mysyrowicz, and M. Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233601 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Efficient Source of Single Photons: A Single Quantum Dot in a Micropost Microcavity

Matthew Pelton, Charles Santori, Jelena Vuc̆ković, Bingyang Zhang, Glenn S. Solomon, Jocelyn Plant, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233602 (2002) - Published 13 November, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Curvature Instability in Passive Diffractive Resonators

M. Tlidi, A. G. Vladimirov, and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 233901 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Discrete Breathers in Two-Dimensional Josephson-Junction Arrays

J. J. Mazo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 234101 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Bi-Laplacian Growth Patterns in Disordered Media

Anders Levermann and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 234501 (2002) - Published 14 November, 2002

Active versus Passive Scalar Turbulence

Antonio Celani, Massimo Cencini, Andrea Mazzino, and Massimo Vergassola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 234502 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Time-Resolved Phase Measurement of a Self-Amplified Free-Electron Laser

Yuelin Li, John Lewellen, Zhirong Huang, Vadim Sajaev, and Stephen V. Milton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 234801 (2002) - Published 18 November, 2002

Sustained Stabilization of the Resistive-Wall Mode by Plasma Rotation in the DIII-D Tokamak

A. M. Garofalo, E. J. Strait, L. C. Johnson, R. J. La Haye, E. A. Lazarus, G. A. Navratil, M. Okabayashi, J. T. Scoville, T. S. Taylor, and A. D. Turnbull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 235001 (2002) - Published 15 November, 2002