Volume 89, Issue 7

12 August 2002

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On the Cover

Numerical simulation of the merging of two carbon nanotubes. The starting configuration is shown in a top view in (a). Side views of the merging process are shown in (b) at 10 ps, (c) at 100 ps, and (d) at 220 ps.

From the article:

Molecular Junctions by Joining Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
M. Terrones, F. Banhart, N. Grobert, J.-C. Charlier, H. Terrones, and P. M. Ajayan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075505 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Structure of Intercalated Cs in Zeolite ITQ-4: An Array of Metal Ions and Correlated Electrons Confined in a Pseudo-1D Nanoporous Host

V. Petkov, S. J. L. Billinge, T. Vogt, A. S. Ichimura, and J. L. Dye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075502 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Existence of a Hexatic Phase in Porous Media

Ravi Radhakrishnan, Keith E. Gubbins, and Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076101 (2002) - Published 25 July, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

General Exact Solution to the Problem of the Probability Density for Sums of Random Variables

Michael I. Tribelsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 070201 (2002) - Published 25 July, 2002

Quantum Tweezer for Atoms

Roberto B. Diener, Biao Wu, Mark G. Raizen, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 070401 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Vortex Rings and Lieb Modes in a Cylindrical Bose-Einstein Condensate

S. Komineas and N. Papanicolaou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 070402 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Lieb Mode in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate of Atoms

A. D. Jackson and G. M. Kavoulakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 070403 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Study of $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 071801 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Radiative Decay Width Measurements of Neutral Kaon Excitations Using the Primakoff Effect

A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 072001 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Microscopic Correlation Functions for the QCD Dirac Operator with Chemical Potential

G. Akemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 072002 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Sigma-Nucleus Potential in $A = 28$

H. Noumi et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 072301 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Non-Born-Oppenheimer Isotope Effects on the Polarizabilities of $H_{2}$

Mauricio Cafiero and Ludwik Adamowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 073001 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Separation and Identification of Dominant Mechanisms in Double Photoionization

Tobias Schneider, Peter Leszek Chocian, and Jan-Michael Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 073002 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Effects of Interchannel Coupling in Associative Detachment: Electron Spectra for $H + {C l}^{-}$ and $H + {B r}^{-}$ Collisions

S. Živanov, M. Allan, M. Čížek, J. Horáček, F. A. U. Thiel, and H. Hotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 073201 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Giant Improvement of Time-Delayed Feedback Control by Spatio-Temporal Filtering

Nilüfer Baba, Andreas Amann, Eckehard Schöll, and Wolfram Just

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 074101 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Development of Grain Avalanches

Jean Rajchenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 074301 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Inverse Cascade Regime in Shell Models of Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Thomas Gilbert, Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 074501 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Spontaneous Formation of a Plasma Hole in a Rotating Magnetized Plasma: A Giant Burgers Vortex in a Compressible Fluid

Kenichi Nagaoka, Atsushi Okamoto, Shinji Yoshimura, Mitsuo Kono, and Masayoshi Y. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075001 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Superfluid Bose Liquid with a Suppressed BEC and an Intensive Pair Coherent Condensate as a Model of ${}^{4}H e$

E. A. Pashitskii, S. V. Mashkevich, and S. I. Vilchynskyy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075301 (2002) - Published 24 July, 2002

Evidence for Magnetic Field Induced Changes of the Phase of Tunneling States: Spontaneous Echoes in $(K B r)_{1 - x} (K C N)_{x}$ in Magnetic Fields

C. Enss and S. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075501 (2002) - Published 24 July, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Structure of Intercalated Cs in Zeolite ITQ-4: An Array of Metal Ions and Correlated Electrons Confined in a Pseudo-1D Nanoporous Host

V. Petkov, S. J. L. Billinge, T. Vogt, A. S. Ichimura, and J. L. Dye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075502 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Gamma Spectra Resulting from the Annihilation of Positrons with Electrons in a Single Core Level

A. Eshed, S. Goktepeli, A. R. Koymen, S. Kim, W. C. Chen, D. J. O’Kelly, P. A. Sterne, and A. H. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075503 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Sequence of Morphological Transitions in Two-Dimensional Pattern Growth from Aqueous Ascorbic Acid Solutions

A. S. Paranjpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075504 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Molecular Junctions by Joining Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

M. Terrones, F. Banhart, N. Grobert, J.-C. Charlier, H. Terrones, and P. M. Ajayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075505 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

The Role of the Nanoscale in Surface Reactions: ${C O}_{2}$ on CdSe

L. G. Wang, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075506 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Icosahedral Short-Range Order in Deeply Undercooled Metallic Melts

T. Schenk, D. Holland-Moritz, V. Simonet, R. Bellissent, and D. M. Herlach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075507 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

How Well Do We Know Atomic Motions of Simple Liquids?

C. Cabrillo, F. J. Bermejo, M. Alvarez, P. Verkerk, A. Maira-Vidal, S. M. Bennington, and D. Martín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 075508 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Existence of a Hexatic Phase in Porous Media

Ravi Radhakrishnan, Keith E. Gubbins, and Malgorzata Sliwinska-Bartkowiak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076101 (2002) - Published 25 July, 2002

Line Tension Behavior of a First-Order Wetting System

T. Pompe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076102 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Strain-Driven Mesoscopic Reconstruction of the $A s / G e (111)$ Surface

W. E. McMahon, Iskander G. Batyrev, J. M. Olson, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076103 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Robustness of the Van Hove Scenario for High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

V. Yu. Irkhin, A. A. Katanin, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076401 (2002) - Published 24 July, 2002

Anisotropy and Interplane Interactions in the Dielectric Response of Graphite

A. G. Marinopoulos, Lucia Reining, Valerio Olevano, Angel Rubio, T. Pichler, X. Liu, M. Knupfer, and J. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076402 (2002) - Published 25 July, 2002

Critical Local-Moment Fluctuations, Anomalous Exponents, and $ω / T$ Scaling in the Kondo Problem with a Pseudogap

Kevin Ingersent and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076403 (2002) - Published 25 July, 2002

Anomalously Broad Raman Scattering Spectrum due to Two-Magnon Excitation in Hexagonal ${Y M n O}_{3}$

Jun-ichi Takahashi, Katsumi Hagita, Keiichiro Kohn, Yukito Tanabe, and Eiichi Hanamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076404 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Configurational Entropy of Network-Forming Materials

R. L. C. Vink and G. T. Barkema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076405 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Hole-Hole Interaction Effect in the Conductance of the Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in the Ballistic Regime

Y. Y. Proskuryakov, A. K. Savchenko, S. S. Safonov, M. Pepper, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076406 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Theoretical Characterization of the Ground and Optically Excited States of $α^{'} − N a V_{2} O_{5}$

L. Hozoi, A. H. de Vries, A. B. van Oosten, R. Broer, J. Cabrero, and C. de Graaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076407 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Critical Fluctuations in a Mesoscopic Superconducting Ring

A. I. Buzdin and A. A. Varlamov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076601 (2002) - Published 24 July, 2002

New Spin-Orbit-Induced Universality Class in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime

Yshai Avishai and Yigal Meir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076602 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Zener Tunneling Between Landau Orbits in a High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

C. L. Yang, J. Zhang, R. R. Du, J. A. Simmons, and J. L. Reno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076801 (2002) - Published 24 July, 2002

Chemical Design of Direct-Gap Light-Emitting Silicon

Xuan Luo, S. B. Zhang, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076802 (2002) - Published 25 July, 2002

Is the Onset of High-Temperature Superconductivity Associated with a Dimensional Crossover?

A. Menzel, R. Beer, and E. Bertel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 076803 (2002) - Published 29 July, 2002

Zinc Impurities in $d$ -Wave Superconductors

Th. A. Maier and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 077001 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Topological Origin of Zero-Energy Edge States in Particle-Hole Symmetric Systems

Shinsei Ryu and Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 077002 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Origin of the Peak-Dip-Hump Line Shape in the Superconducting-State $(π, 0)$ Photoemission Spectra of ${B i}_{2} {S r}_{2} {C a C u}_{2} O_{8}$

A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, T. K. Kim, K. A. Nenkov, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, M. S. Golden, H. Berger, and R. Follath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 077003 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Exchange Bias in Spin-Engineered Double Superlattices

P. Steadman, M. Ali, A. T. Hindmarch, C. H. Marrows, B. J. Hickey, Sean Langridge, R. M. Dalgliesh, and S. Foster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 077201 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Magnetic Structure, Phase Diagram, and a New Type of Spin-Flop Transition Dominated by Higher Order Interaction in a Localized $5 f$ System $U_{3} {P d}_{20} {S i}_{6}$

Y. Koike, N. Metoki, Y. Haga, K. A. McEwen, M. Kohgi, R. Yamamoto, N. Aso, N. Tateiwa, T. Komatsubara, N. Kimura, and H. Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 077202 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Rippling Patterns in Aggregates of Myxobacteria Arise from Cell-Cell Collisions

Uwe Börner, Andreas Deutsch, Hans Reichenbach, and Markus Bär

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 078101 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Colloidal Dynamics on Disordered Substrates

C. Reichhardt and C. J. Olson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 078301 (2002) - Published 24 July, 2002

Comment on “Ionic Conduction in Glass: New Information on the Interrelation between the ̀Jonscher Behavior’ and the ̀Nearly Constant-Loss Behavior’ from Broadband Conductivity Spectra”

C. León, A. Rivera, J. Santamaría, C. T. Moynihan, and K. L. Ngai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 079601 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Roling, Martiny, and Murugavel Reply:

B. Roling, C. Martiny, and S. Murugavel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 079602 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Comment on “Spin Dynamics of the 2D Spin $\frac{1}{2}$ Quantum Antiferromagnet Copper Deuteroformate Tetradeuterate (CFTD)”

Peter Kopietz and Ivan Spremo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 079701 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

Rønnow et al. Reply:

H. M. Rønnow, D. F. McMorrow, R. Coldea, A. Harrison, I. D. Youngson, T. G. Perring, G. Aeppli, O. Syljuåsen, K. Lefmann, and C. Rischel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 079702 (2002) - Published 30 July, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Direct Observation of the Quantum Tunneling of Single Hydrogen Atoms with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 85, 4566 (2000)]

L. J. Lauhon and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 079901 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Erratum: Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects on Quantum Transport in Lateral Semiconductor Dots [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 87, 256801 (2001)]

I. L. Aleiner and Vladimir I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 079902 (2002) - Published 26 July, 2002

Volume 89, Issue 7

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

ERRATA