Volume 89, Issue 4

22 July 2002

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On the Cover

Absorption images of a Bose-Einstein condensate propagating through a magnetic waveguide constructed on a silicon microchip. The image in (a) shows excitation-less propagation, a key step towards microchip-based atom interferometers. The transverse excitations in (b) & (c) are due to downstream perturbations in the guiding potential.

From the article:

Propagation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Magnetic Waveguide
A. E. Leanhardt, A. P. Chikkatur, D. Kielpinski, Y. Shin, T. L. Gustavson, W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 040401 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Propagation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Magnetic Waveguide

A. E. Leanhardt, A. P. Chikkatur, D. Kielpinski, Y. Shin, T. L. Gustavson, W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 040401 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

Creation of a Molecular Condensate by Dynamically Melting a Mott Insulator

D. Jaksch, V. Venturi, J. I. Cirac, C. J. Williams, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 040402 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

Quantum Breaking Time near Classical Equilibrium Points

Fabrizio Cametti and Carlo Presilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 040403 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Uniqueness and Nonuniqueness of Static Black Holes in Higher Dimensions

Gary W. Gibbons, Daisuke Ida, and Tetsuya Shiromizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 041101 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Hadronic Light-by-Light Contribution to Muon $g - 2$ in Chiral Perturbation Theory

M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and Mark B. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 041601 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

New U(1) Gauge Extension of the Supersymmetric Standard Model

Ernest Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 041801 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Search for New Physics in Photon-Lepton Events in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV$

D. Acosta et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 041802 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Two-Particle Resonant States in a Many-Body Mean Field

R. Id Betan, R. J. Liotta, N. Sandulescu, and T. Vertse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 042501 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Gamow Shell Model Description of Neutron-Rich Nuclei

N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, M. Płoszajczak, and K. Bennaceur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 042502 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy: A Nonlinear Local Probe for Electronic Excitations

Satoshi Tanaka and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 043001 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

Evidence for $F^{-}$ Formation by Simultaneous Double-Electron Capture during Scattering of $F^{+}$ from a LiF(001) Surface

P. Roncin, A. G. Borisov, H. Khemliche, A. Momeni, A. Mertens, and H. Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 043201 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase-Matched Frequency Doubling at Photonic Band Edges: Efficiency Scaling as the Fifth Power of the Length

Y. Dumeige, I. Sagnes, P. Monnier, P. Vidakovic, I. Abram, C. Mériadec, and A. Levenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 043901 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Quantum Optical Communication Rates through an Amplifying Random Medium

J. Tworzydło and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 043902 (2002) - Published 8 July, 2002

Vortex Induced Rotation of Clusters of Localized States in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Dmitry V. Skryabin and Andrei G. Vladimirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 044101 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

van der Waals–Like Transition in Fluidized Granular Matter

M. Argentina, M. G. Clerc, and R. Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 044301 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Langmuir Decay Instability Cascade in Laser-Plasma Experiments

S. Depierreux, C. Labaune, J. Fuchs, D. Pesme, V. T. Tikhonchuk, and H. A. Baldis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 045001 (2002) - Published 8 July, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Zero-Temperature Equation of State of Two-Dimensional ${}^{3}H e$

V. Grau, J. Boronat, and J. Casulleras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 045301 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Large Force Fluctuations in a Flowing Granular Medium

Emily Longhi, Nalini Easwar, and Narayanan Menon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 045501 (2002) - Published 8 July, 2002

Experimental Evidence of a Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in $C_{60}^{+}$

S. E. Canton, A. J. Yencha, E. Kukk, J. D. Bozek, M. C. A. Lopes, G. Snell, and N. Berrah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 045502 (2002) - Published 8 July, 2002

Charge-Induced Anisotropic Distortions of Semiconducting and Metallic Carbon Nanotubes

Yu. N. Gartstein, A. A. Zakhidov, and R. H. Baughman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 045503 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

CO Oxidation on Pt(110): Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Inside a High-Pressure Flow Reactor

B. L. M. Hendriksen and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 046101 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Compressibility Divergence and the Finite Temperature Mott Transition

G. Kotliar, Sahana Murthy, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 046401 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Chaotic Dot-Superconductor Analog of the Hanbury Brown–Twiss Effect

P. Samuelsson and M. Büttiker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 046601 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling Probed by the Weak Antilocalization Analysis in $InAlAs / InGaAs / InAlAs$ Quantum Wells as a Function of Quantum Well Asymmetry

Takaaki Koga, Junsaku Nitta, Tatsushi Akazaki, and Hideaki Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 046801 (2002) - Published 2 July, 2002

Effect of an Atomically Thin Dielectric Film on the Surface Electron Dynamics: Image-Potential States in the $Ar / Cu (100)$ System

D. C. Marinica, C. Ramseyer, A. G. Borisov, D. Teillet-Billy, J. P. Gauyacq, W. Berthold, P. Feulner, and U. Höfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 046802 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Comprehensive Encoding and Decoupling Solution to Problems of Decoherence and Design in Solid-State Quantum Computing

Mark S. Byrd and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 047901 (2002) - Published 3 July, 2002

COMMENTS

Comment on “Polarons in Carbon Nanotubes”

E. Piegari, V. Cataudella, V. Marigliano Ramaglia, and G. Iadonisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 049701 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

Verissimo-Alves et al. Reply:

M. Verissimo-Alves, R. B. Capaz, Belita Koiller, E. Artacho, and H. Chacham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 049702 (2002) - Published 9 July, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Vortex Lattice Melting in Layered Superconductors with Periodic Columnar Pins [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 257002 (2001)]

Chandan Dasgupta and Oriol T. Valls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 049901 (2002) - Published 8 July, 2002