Volume 89, Issue 26

23 December 2002

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The figure is a 2-dimensional slice of a chaotic 3-dimensional fluid flow showing the 'temperature amplitude' of small neutral-buoyancy particles in the flow.

From the article:

Bailout Embeddings and Neutrally Buoyant Particles in Three-Dimensional Flows
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, Oreste Piro, and Idan Tuval.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264501 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Dynamical Horizons: Energy, Angular Momentum, Fluxes, and Balance Laws

Abhay Ashtekar and Badri Krishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 261101 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Relevant Length Scale of Barchan Dunes

Pascal Hersen, Stéphane Douady, and Bruno Andreotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264301 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Multifunctional Composites: Optimizing Microstructures for Simultaneous Transport of Heat and Electricity

S. Torquato, S. Hyun, and A. Donev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266601 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

Configuration of Separability and Tests for Multipartite Entanglement in Bell-Type Experiments

Koji Nagata, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 260401 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Nucleation, Growth, and Stabilization of Bose-Einstein Condensate Vortex Lattices

A. A. Penckwitt, R. J. Ballagh, and C. W. Gardiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 260402 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Dynamical Horizons: Energy, Angular Momentum, Fluxes, and Balance Laws

Abhay Ashtekar and Badri Krishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 261101 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Inflation from Quantum Geometry

Martin Bojowald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 261301 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holography and String Dynamics in Time-Dependent Backgrounds

Akikazu Hashimoto and Savdeep Sethi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 261601 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Search for the Production of Single Sleptons through $R$ -Parity Violation in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 T e V$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 261801 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Strength of the ${}^{18}F (p, α) {}^{15}O$ Resonance at $E_{c . m .} = 330 k e V$

D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Batchelder, J. C. Blackmon, A. E. Champagne, T. Davinson, R. Fitzgerald, W. R. Hix, C. Iliadis, R. L. Kozub, Z. Ma, S. Parete-Koon, P. D. Parker, N. Shu, M. S. Smith, and P. J. Woods

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 262501 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Exact Level Densities for the Harmonic Oscillator

P. Van Isacker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 262502 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multiphoton $π$ Pulses

George N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263001 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Low-Energy Monopole Modes of a Trapped Atomic Fermi Gas

G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263002 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Competition Among Molecular Fragmentation Channels Described with Siegert Channel Pseudostates

Edward L. Hamilton and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263003 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Controlling the Angular Momentum Composition of a Rydberg Electron Wave Packet

J. R. R. Verlet, V. G. Stavros, R. S. Minns, and H. H. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263004 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Velocity Scaling of Ion Neutralization in Low Energy Ion Scattering

M. Draxler, R. Gruber, H. H. Brongersma, and P. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263201 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Decay Rates and Survival Probabilities in Open Quantum Systems

Sandro Wimberger, Andreas Krug, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263601 (2002) - Published 6 December, 2002

Superfluorescence-Stimulated Photon Echoes

A. I. Lvovsky, S. R. Hartmann, and F. Moshary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263602 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Chirped Femtosecond Solitonlike Laser Pulse Form with Self-Frequency Shift

Zhonghao Li, Lu Li, Huiping Tian, Guosheng Zhou, and Karl H. Spatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263901 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Optimal Identification of Hamiltonian Information by Closed-Loop Laser Control of Quantum Systems

J. M. Geremia and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 263902 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Harmonic Measure and Winding of Conformally Invariant Curves

Bertrand Duplantier and Ilia A. Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264101 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Locking-Based Frequency Measurement and Synchronization of Chaotic Oscillators with Complex Dynamics

Michael G. Rosenblum, Arkady S. Pikovsky, Jürgen Kurths, Grigory V. Osipov, István Z. Kiss, and John L. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264102 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Relevant Length Scale of Barchan Dunes

Pascal Hersen, Stéphane Douady, and Bruno Andreotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264301 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Epitaxial Growth of Granular Single Crystals

Y. Nahmad-Molinari and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264302 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Bailout Embeddings and Neutrally Buoyant Particles in Three-Dimensional Flows

Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Marcelo O. Magnasco, Oreste Piro, and Idan Tuval.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 264501 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Heating of Thin Foils with a Relativistic-Intensity Short-Pulse Laser

P. Audebert, R. Shepherd, K. B. Fournier, O. Peyrusse, D. Price, R. Lee, P. Springer, J.-C. Gauthier, and L. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265001 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Analytical Description of a Neutral-Induced Tripole Vortex in a Plasma

J. Vranješ, A. Okamoto, S. Yoshimura, S. Poedts, M. Kono, and M. Y. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265002 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Observation of Coherent Sheared Turbulence Flows in the DIII-D Tokamak

M. Jakubowski, R. J. Fonck, and G. R. McKee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265003 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Comparison of a Low- to High-Confinement Transition Theory with Experimental Data from DIII-D

P. N. Guzdar, R. G. Kleva, R. J. Groebner, and P. Gohil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265004 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Generation of Noninductive Current by Electron-Bernstein Waves on the COMPASS-D Tokamak

V. Shevchenko, Y. Baranov, M. O’Brien, and A. Saveliev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265005 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Anomalous Capacitive Sheath with Deep Radio-Frequency Electric-Field Penetration

Igor D. Kaganovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265006 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

New Dynamical Mean-Field Dynamo Theory and Closure Approach

Eric G. Blackman and George B. Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 265007 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Theoretical Evaluation of Zirconia and Hafnia as Gate Oxides for Si Microelectronics

Vincenzo Fiorentini and Gianluca Gulleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266101 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Segregation in Strongly Ordering Compounds: A Key Role of Constitutional Defects

V. Blum, L. Hammer, Ch. Schmidt, W. Meier, O. Wieckhorst, S. Müller, and K. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266102 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Influence of Supersaturation on Surface Structure

J. B. Hannon, J. Tersoff, M. C. Reuter, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266103 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Epitaxial Growth and Erosion on (110) Crystal Surfaces: Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial States

Leonardo Golubović, Artem Levandovsky, and Dorel Moldovan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266104 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopic Imaging of the $S i (111) − (7 \times 7)$ Surface: Contribution of Short-Range Force to the Images

Toyoaki Eguchi and Y. Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266105 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Tunneling Electron Induced Bromine Hopping on $S i (100) − (2 \times 1)$

Koji S. Nakayama, E. Graugnard, and J. H. Weaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266106 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

The Diffusion-Control Limit Revisited

E. Yariv and I. Frankel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266107 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Exchange Monte Carlo for Molecular Simulations with Monoelectronic Hamiltonians

F. Calvo and F. Spiegelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266401 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Hybrid Density-Functional Theory and the Insulating Gap of ${U O}_{2}$

Konstantin N. Kudin, Gustavo E. Scuseria, and Richard L. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266402 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

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Multifunctional Composites: Optimizing Microstructures for Simultaneous Transport of Heat and Electricity

S. Torquato, S. Hyun, and A. Donev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266601 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Detecting Spin-Polarized Currents in Ballistic Nanostructures

R. M. Potok, J. A. Folk, C. M. Marcus, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266602 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Crossover from Symplectic to Orthogonal Class in a Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice

Hidekatsu Suzuura and Tsuneya Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266603 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

From Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism to Huge Longitudinal Resistance at the $2 / 3$ Fractional Quantum Hall State

S. Kraus, O. Stern, J. G. S. Lok, W. Dietsche, K. von Klitzing, M. Bichler, D. Schuh, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266801 (2002) - Published 6 December, 2002

Ising Quantum Hall Ferromagnet in Magnetically Doped Quantum Wells

J. Jaroszyński, T. Andrearczyk, G. Karczewski, J. Wróbel, T. Wojtowicz, E. Papis, E. Kamińska, A. Piotrowska, Dragana Popović, and T. Dietl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266802 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Using Single Quantum States as Spin Filters to Study Spin Polarization in Ferromagnets

Mandar M. Deshmukh and D. C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266803 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Anomalous Low-Field Classical Magnetoresistance in Two Dimensions

Alexander Dmitriev, Michel Dyakonov, and Rémi Jullien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266804 (2002) - Published 11 December, 2002

Nanoscale Imaging of Electronic Surface Transport Probed by Atom Movements Induced by Scanning Tunneling Microscope Current

Yoshiaki Nakamura, Yutaka Mera, and Koji Maeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 266805 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Magnetization-Orientation Dependence of the Superconducting Transition Temperature in the Ferromagnet-Superconductor-Ferromagnet System: $C u N i / N b / C u N i$

J. Y. Gu, C.-Y. You, J. S. Jiang, J. Pearson, Ya. B. Bazaliy, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 267001 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

${L i V}_{2} O_{4}$ : Frustration Induced Heavy Fermion Metal

J. Hopkinson and P. Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 267201 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Absence of an Equilibrium Ferromagnetic Spin-Glass Phase in Three Dimensions

F. Krzakala and O. C. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 267202 (2002) - Published 9 December, 2002

Uniaxial Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces: $F e / Z n S e (001)$

Elisabeth Sjöstedt, Lars Nordström, Fredrik Gustavsson, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 267203 (2002) - Published 10 December, 2002

Stimulated Light Emission in Dense Fog Confined inside a Porous Glass Matrix

E. Gross, D. Kovalev, N. Künzner, J. Diener, F. Koch, and M. Fujii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 267401 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Singularities of the Mixed State Phase

Rajendra Bhandari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 268901 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002

Anandan et al. Reply:

Jeeva Anandan, Erik Sjöqvist, Arun K. Pati, Artur Ekert, Marie Ericsson, Daniel K. L. Oi, and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 268902 (2002) - Published 12 December, 2002