Volume 89, Issue 25

16 December 2002

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On the Cover

The figures show the Poynting vectors (white arrows) and interference patterns (broad colored bands) for light composed of two different frequencies incident on the boundary between two right-handed media (left) and between right- and left-handed media (right). The second plot clearly shows the negative refraction of the light at the right-left interface.

From the article:

Power Propagation in Homogeneous Isotropic Frequency-Dispersive Left-Handed Media
J. Pacheco, Jr., T. M. Grzegorczyk, B.-I. Wu, Y. Zhang, and J. A. Kong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257401 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Replica Field Theories, Painlevé Transcendents, and Exact Correlation Functions

Eugene Kanzieper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 250201 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Universal Behavior of the Energy of Trapped Few-Boson Systems with Large Scattering Length

S. Jonsell, H. Heiselberg, and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 250401 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Expansion of an Interacting Fermi Gas

C. Menotti, P. Pedri, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 250402 (2002) - Published 2 December, 2002

The Feynman Propagator from a Single Path

G. N. Ord and J. A. Gualtieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 250403 (2002) - Published 2 December, 2002

Oscillating Superfluidity of Bosons in Optical Lattices

Ehud Altman and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 250404 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Multispecies Pair Annihilation Reactions

Olivier Deloubrière, Henk J. Hilhorst, and Uwe C. Täuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 250601 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of $B \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ and Evidence for $B \to K^{* \pm} π^{\mp}$

E. Eckhart et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 251801 (2002) - Published 2 December, 2002

Dalitz Analysis of $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$

H. Muramatsu et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 251802 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Measurement of the $B^{0} − {\bar{B}}^{0}$ Mixing Parameter $Δ m_{d}$ using Semileptonic $B^{0}$ Decays

K. Hara et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 251803 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Spin, Parity, and Nature of the $Ξ (1620)$ Resonance

A. Ramos, E. Oset, and C. Bennhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 252001 (2002) - Published 2 December, 2002

Nuclear Physics

High- $p_{T}$ Tomography of $d + A u$ and $A u + A u$ at SPS, RHIC, and LHC

Ivan Vitev and Miklos Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 252301 (2002) - Published 5 December, 2002

Observation of Double Radiative Capture on Pionic Hydrogen

S. Tripathi, D. S. Armstrong, M. E. Christy, J. H. D. Clark, T. P. Gorringe, M. D. Hasinoff, M. A. Kovash, D. H. Wright, and P. A. Żołnierczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 252501 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Vibration Induced Electric Dipole in a Weakly Bound Molecular Complex

I. Compagnon, R. Antoine, D. Rayane, M. Broyer, and Ph. Dugourd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253001 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Dynamics of Two Overlapping Spin Ensembles Interacting by Spin Exchange

T. W. Kornack and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253002 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Collective Cooling and Self-Organization of Atoms in a Cavity

Peter Domokos and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253003 (2002) - Published 5 December, 2002

Controlled Tunneling of Cold Atoms: From Full Suppression to Strong Enhancement

Vitali Averbukh, Shmuel Osovski, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253201 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Surface Aligned Ion-Molecule Reaction: Direct Observation of Initial and Final Ion Momenta

Jae-Gook Lee, Seung-hoon Hong, Joachim Ahner, and John T. Yates, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253202 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Experimental Demonstration of Continuous Variable Polarization Entanglement

Warwick P. Bowen, Nicolas Treps, Roman Schnabel, and Ping Koy Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253601 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Demonstration of a Ni-Like Kr Optical-Field-Ionization Collisional Soft X-Ray Laser at 32.8 nm

S. Sebban, T. Mocek, D. Ros, L. Upcraft, Ph. Balcou, R. Haroutunian, G. Grillon, B. Rus, A. Klisnick, A. Carillon, G. Jamelot, C. Valentin, A. Rousse, J. P. Rousseau, L. Notebaert, M. Pittman, and D. Hulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253901 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Highly Directive 18.9 nm Nickel-like Molybdenum X-Ray Laser Operating at 150 mJ Pump Energy

T. Ozaki, R. A. Ganeev, A. Ishizawa, T. Kanai, and H. Kuroda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 253902 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Noise-Induced Hopf-Bifurcation-Type Sequence and Transition to Chaos in the Lorenz Equations

J. B. Gao, Wen-wen Tung, and Nageswara Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254101 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Suppression of Spatial Chaos via Noise-Induced Growth of Arrays of Spatial Solitons

I. Rabbiosi, A. J. Scroggie, and G.-L. Oppo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254102 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Nonequilibrium Probabilistic Dynamics of the Logistic Map at the Edge of Chaos

Ernesto P. Borges, Constantino Tsallis, Garín F. J. Añaños, and Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254103 (2002) - Published 5 December, 2002

Spatial and Temporal Coarse Graining for Dispersion in Randomly Packed Spheres

Ulrich M. Scheven and Pabitra N. Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254501 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Long Time Correlations in Lagrangian Dynamics: A Key to Intermittency in Turbulence

N. Mordant, J. Delour, E. Léveque, A. Arnéodo, and J.-F. Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254502 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Origin of Stability in Sedimentation

P. N. Segrè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 254503 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Sandpiles with Bistable Automata Rules: Towards a Minimal Model of Pedestal Formation and Structure

I. Gruzinov, P. H. Diamond, and M. N. Rosenbluth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255001 (2002) - Published 5 December, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Patching and Tearing Single-Wall Carbon-Nanotube Ropes into Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

María J. López, Angel Rubio, Julio A. Alonso, Serge Lefrant, Karine Méténier, and Sylvie Bonnamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255501 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Torsional Response and Stiffening of Individual Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

P. A. Williams, S. J. Papadakis, A. M. Patel, M. R. Falvo, S. Washburn, and R. Superfine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255502 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Charge Distribution and Stability of Charged Carbon Nanotubes

P. Keblinski, S. K. Nayak, P. Zapol, and P. M. Ajayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255503 (2002) - Published 2 December, 2002

Ablation of Solids under Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Danny Perez and Laurent J. Lewis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255504 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Electronic Structure of the Muonium Center as a Shallow Donor in ZnO

Koichiro Shimomura, Kusuo Nishiyama, and Ryosuke Kadono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255505 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

High-Frequency Acoustic Modes in Liquid Gallium at the Melting Point

T. Scopigno, A. Filipponi, M. Krisch, G. Monaco, G. Ruocco, and F. Sette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255506 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Strength and Elasticity of ${S i O}_{2}$ across the Stishovite– ${C a C l}_{2}$ -type Structural Phase Boundary

Sean R. Shieh, Thomas S. Duffy, and Baosheng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255507 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

From Dislocation Junctions to Forest Hardening

R. Madec, B. Devincre, and L. P. Kubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 255508 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Competing Classical and Quantum Effects in Shape Relaxation of a Metallic Island

Hiroshi Okamoto, Dongmin Chen, and Toshishige Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256101 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Limiting Step Involved in the Thermal Growth of Silicon Oxide Films on Silicon Carbide

I. C. Vickridge, I. Trimaille, J.-J. Ganem, S. Rigo, C. Radtke, I. J. R. Baumvol, and F. C. Stedile

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256102 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Evaporation of Free PbS Nanoparticles: Evidence of the Kelvin Effect

K. K. Nanda, F. E. Kruis, and H. Fissan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256103 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Epitaxial Crystal Growth of Charged Colloids

J. P. Hoogenboom, A. Yethiraj, A. K. van Langen-Suurling, J. Romijn, and A. van Blaaderen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256104 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Luttinger-Liquid Behavior in Tunneling through a Quantum Dot at Zero Magnetic Field

Paula Rojt, Yigal Meir, and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256401 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Size Effects in Photoemission of One-Dimensional Metals

P. Starowicz, O. Gallus, Th. Pillo, and Y. Baer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256402 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Anderson Transition in Two-Dimensional Systems with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Yoichi Asada, Keith Slevin, and Tomi Ohtsuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256601 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime Coupled to Superconductors

M. R. Buitelaar, T. Nussbaumer, and C. Schönenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256801 (2002) - Published 4 December, 2002

Specific Heat of Single Crystal ${M g B}_{2}$ : A Two-Band Superconductor with Two Different Anisotropies

F. Bouquet, Y. Wang, I. Sheikin, T. Plackowski, A. Junod, S. Lee, and S. Tajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257001 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Origin of Second-Order Transverse Magnetic Anisotropy in ${M n}_{12}$ -Acetate

A. Cornia, R. Sessoli, L. Sorace, D. Gatteschi, A. L. Barra, and C. Daiguebonne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257201 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Reversal-Field Memory in the Hysteresis of Spin Glasses

H. G. Katzgraber, F. Pázmándi, C. R. Pike, Kai Liu, R. T. Scalettar, K. L. Verosub, and G. T. Zimányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257202 (2002) - Published 2 December, 2002

First-Order Transition between a Small Gap Semiconductor and a Ferromagnetic Metal in the Isoelectronic Alloy ${F e S i}_{1 - x} {G e}_{x}$

V. I. Anisimov, R. Hlubina, M. A. Korotin, V. V. Mazurenko, T. M. Rice, A. O. Shorikov, and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257203 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Ultrafast Dephasing of Surface Plasmon Excitation in Silver Nanoparticles: Influence of Particle Size, Shape, and Chemical Surrounding

J. Bosbach, C. Hendrich, F. Stietz, T. Vartanyan, and F. Träger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 257404 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Superheating and Supercooling of Vortex Matter in a Nb Single Crystal: Direct Evidence for a Phase Transition at the Peak Effect from Neutron Diffraction”

G. P. Mikitik and E. H. Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 259701 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

Ling et al. Reply:

X. S. Ling, S. R. Park, B. A. McClain, S. M. Choi, D. C. Dender, and J. W. Lynn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 259702 (2002) - Published 3 December, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Bethe Ansatz Results for the $4 f$ -Electron Spectra of a Degenerate Anderson Model [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 87, 117601 (2001)]

A. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 259901 (2002) - Published 27 November, 2002

Erratum: Does a Randall-Sundrum Scenario Create the Illusion of a Torsion-Free Universe? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 121101 (2002)]

Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Somasri Sen, and Soumitra SenGupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 259902 (2002) - Published 5 December, 2002