Volume 90, Issue 1

10 January 2003

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On the Cover

Demonstrations of the "classical" (top row) and the "reverse" (bottom row) Brazil-nut effect. Granular media consisting of large and small particles tend to demix upon vertical shaking; the large particles can either rise to the top or sink to the bottom, depending upon their size and density relative to the small particles.

From the article:

Reversing the Brazil-Nut Effect: Competition between Percolation and Condensation
A. P. J. Breu, H.-M. Ensner, C. A. Kruelle, and I. Rehberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014302 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Phase Coherent Precessional Magnetization Reversal in Microscopic Spin Valve Elements

H. W. Schumacher, C. Chappert, P. Crozat, R. C. Sousa, P. P. Freitas, J. Miltat, J. Fassbender, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017201 (2003) - Published 3 January, 2003

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Quasiballistic Magnetization Reversal

H. W. Schumacher, C. Chappert, R. C. Sousa, P. P. Freitas, and J. Miltat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017204 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

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Kinetic Potential and Barrier Crossing: A Model for Warm Cloud Drizzle Formation

Robert McGraw and Yangang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 018501 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Stability and Phase Coherence of Trapped 1D Bose Gases

D. M. Gangardt and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 010401 (2003) - Published 2 January, 2003

Instantaneous Measurement of Nonlocal Variables

Lev Vaidman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 010402 (2003) - Published 2 January, 2003

Decoherence-Induced Continuous Pointer States

Ph. Blanchard and R. Olkiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 010403 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Are There Phase Transitions in Information Space?

Jonathan Oppenheim, Michał Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 010404 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Lévy Flights in the Landau-Teller Model of Molecular Collisions

Andrea Carati, Luigi Galgani, and Barbara Pozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 010601 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Radiative Cycle with Stimulated Emission from Atoms and Ions in an Astrophysical Plasma

S. Johansson and V. S. Letokhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 011101 (2003) - Published 6 January, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Two-Loop Renormalization Group Equations in the Standard Model

Mingxing Luo and Yong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 011601 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Consistent Resolution of Possible Anomalies in $B^{0} \to ϕ K_{S}$ and $B^{+} \to η^{'} K^{+}$ Decays

B. Dutta, C. S. Kim, and Sechul Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 011801 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Double Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off the Nucleon

M. Guidal and M. Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 012001 (2003) - Published 7 January, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Novel Search for Heavy $ν$ Mixing from the $β^{+}$ Decay of ${}^{38 m}K$ Confined in an Atom Trap

M. Trinczek, A. Gorelov, D. Melconian, W. P. Alford, D. Asgeirsson, D. Ashery, J. A. Behr, P. G. Bricault, J. M. D’Auria, J. Deutsch, J. Dilling, M. Dombsky, P. Dubé, S. Eaton, J. Fingler, U. Giesen, S. Gu, O. Häusser, K. P. Jackson, B. Lee, J. H. Schmid, T. J. Stocki, T. B. Swanson, and W. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 012501 (2003) - Published 2 January, 2003

Fine Structure in Proton Emission from ${}^{145}T m$ Discovered with Digital Signal Processing

M. Karny, R. K. Grzywacz, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, C. J. Gross, K. Hagino, J. H. Hamilton, Z. Janas, W. D. Kulp, J. W. McConnell, M. Momayezi, A. Piechaczek, K. P. Rykaczewski, P. A. Semmes, M. N. Tantawy, J. A. Winger, C. H. Yu, and E. F. Zganjar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 012502 (2003) - Published 7 January, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Conical Intersections and Bound Molecular States Embedded in the Continuum

Lorenz S. Cederbaum, Ronald S. Friedman, Victor M. Ryaboy, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013001 (2003) - Published 7 January, 2003

Photodetachment of ${H e}^{-}$ in the Vicinity of the Two-Electron Escape Threshold

V. V. Petrunin, M. H. Jacobsen, L. B. Madsen, S. A. Aseyev, and T. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013002 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Strong Field Atomic Ionization: Origin of High-Energy Structures in Photoelectron Spectra

Joseph Wassaf, Valérie Véniard, Richard Taïeb, and Alfred Maquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013003 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Single-Molecule Study of the Electronic Couplings in a Circular Array of Molecules: Light-Harvesting-2 Complex from Rhodospirillum Molischianum

Clemens Hofmann, Martijn Ketelaars, Michio Matsushita, Hartmut Michel, Thijs J. Aartsma, and Jürgen Köhler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013004 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Thermally Enhanced Neutralization in Hyperthermal Energy Ion Scattering

C. E. Sosolik, J. R. Hampton, A. C. Lavery, B. H. Cooper, and J. B. Marston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013201 (2003) - Published 2 January, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Eigenvalues of the Zakharov-Shabat Scattering Problem for Real Symmetric Pulses

M. Desaix, D. Anderson, L. Helczynski, and M. Lisak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013901 (2003) - Published 7 January, 2003

Nonlinear Theory of Polarization-Mode Dispersion for Fiber Solitons

A. Levent, S. G. Rajeev, F. Yaman, and Govind P. Agrawal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013902 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Near-Field Second-Harmonic Generation Induced by Local Field Enhancement

A. Bouhelier, M. Beversluis, A. Hartschuh, and L. Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013903 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

X-Ray Interferometry with Microelectronvolt Resolution

Yu. V. Shvyd’ko, M. Lerche, H.-C. Wille, E. Gerdau, M. Lucht, H. D. Rüter, E. E. Alp, and R. Khachatryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 013904 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Self-Organized and Driven Phase Synchronization in Coupled Maps

Sarika Jalan and R. E. Amritkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014101 (2003) - Published 6 January, 2003

Phase Shift Experiments Identifying Kramers Doublets in a Chaotic Superconducting Microwave Billiard of Threefold Symmetry

C. Dembowski, B. Dietz, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, F. Leyvraz, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and T. H. Seligman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014102 (2003) - Published 7 January, 2003

Parameter Scaling in the Decoherent Quantum-Classical Transition for Chaotic Systems

Arjendu K. Pattanayak, Bala Sundaram, and Benjamin D. Greenbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014103 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Taking Advantage of Multiple Scattering to Communicate with Time-Reversal Antennas

Arnaud Derode, Arnaud Tourin, Julien de Rosny, Mickaël Tanter, Sylvain Yon, and Mathias Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014301 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Reversing the Brazil-Nut Effect: Competition between Percolation and Condensation

A. P. J. Breu, H.-M. Ensner, C. A. Kruelle, and I. Rehberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014302 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Transition to Turbulence in Particulate Pipe Flow

J.-P. Matas, J. F. Morris, and É. Guazzelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014501 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Quadrupole-Induced Resonant-Particle Transport in a Pure Electron Plasma

E. P. Gilson and J. Fajans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015001 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Transport Reduction by Rotation Shear in Tokamak-Edge Turbulence

C. F. Figarella, S. Benkadda, P. Beyer, X. Garbet, and I. Voitsekhovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015002 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stability of Small Carbon-Nitride Heterofullerenes

D. Schultz, R. Droppa, Jr., F. Alvarez, and M. C. dos Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015501 (2003) - Published 2 January, 2003

Hollow-Core Dendrimers Revisited

Thomas C. Zook and Galen T. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015502 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Partial Crystallization of an Amorphous Alloy by Electronic Energy Deposition

A. Dunlop, G. Jaskierowicz, G. Rizza, and M. Kopcewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015503 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Surface Ordering Transitions at a Liquid Crystal–Solid Interface above the Isotropic Smectic- $A$ Transition

T. Jin, G. P. Crawford, R. J. Crawford, S. Zumer, and D. Finotello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015504 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Self-Diffusion of tris-Naphthylbenzene near the Glass Transition Temperature

Stephen F. Swallen, Paul A. Bonvallet, Robert J. McMahon, and M. D. Ediger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 015901 (2003) - Published 3 January, 2003

Two-Dimensional Coarsening Kinetics of Reconstruction Domains: $G a A s (001) − β (2 \times 4)$

V. M. Kaganer, W. Braun, B. Jenichen, L. Däweritz, and K. H. Ploog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016101 (2003) - Published 6 January, 2003

Novel Stabilization Mechanism on Polar Surfaces: ZnO(0001)-Zn

Olga Dulub, Ulrike Diebold, and G. Kresse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016102 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Oxidation at the $S i / {S i O}_{2}$ Interface: Influence of the Spin Degree of Freedom

W. Orellana, Antônio J. R. da Silva, and A. Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016103 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Rapid Roughening in Thin Film Growth of an Organic Semiconductor (Diindenoperylene)

A. C. Dürr, F. Schreiber, K. A. Ritley, V. Kruppa, J. Krug, H. Dosch, and B. Struth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016104 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Hydrodynamic Origin of Diffusion in Nanopores

Suresh K. Bhatia and David Nicholson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016105 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Bridging Simulations and Experiments in Microstructure Evolution

M. C. Demirel, A. P. Kuprat, D. C. George, and A. D. Rollett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016106 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Measuring Local Optical Properties: Near-Field Polarimetry of Photonic Block Copolymer Morphology

M. J. Fasolka, Lori S. Goldner, J. Hwang, A. M. Urbas, P. DeRege, T. Swager, and E. L. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016107 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Narrow-Gap Luttinger Liquid in Carbon Nanotubes

L. S. Levitov and A. M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016401 (2003) - Published 2 January, 2003

Glassy Behavior of Electrons Near Metal-Insulator Transitions

V. Dobrosavljević, D. Tanasković, and A. A. Pastor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016402 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Indication of Charge-Density-Wave Formation in Bi(111)

Christian R. Ast and Hartmut Höchst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016403 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Origin of the Residual Acceptor Ground-State Splitting in Silicon

D. Karaiskaj, G. Kirczenow, M. L. W. Thewalt, R. Buczko, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016404 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Asymmetric Transport due to Spin Injection into a Kondo Alloy

T. Taniyama, N. Fujiwara, Y. Kitamoto, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016601 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect of Composite Fermions

W. Pan, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016801 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Monte Carlo Evaluation of Non-Abelian Statistics

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016802 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Quantum Orders in an Exact Soluble Model

Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 016803 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Phase Coherent Precessional Magnetization Reversal in Microscopic Spin Valve Elements

H. W. Schumacher, C. Chappert, P. Crozat, R. C. Sousa, P. P. Freitas, J. Miltat, J. Fassbender, and B. Hillebrands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017201 (2003) - Published 3 January, 2003

Observation of Minority Spin Character of the New Electron Doped Manganite ${L a}_{0.7} {C e}_{0.3} {M n O}_{3}$ from Tunneling Magnetoresistance

C. Mitra, P. Raychaudhuri, K. Dörr, K.-H. Müller, L. Schultz, P. M. Oppeneer, and S. Wirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017202 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Microscopic Description of Aging Dynamics: Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations, Effective Temperature, and Heterogeneities

A. Montanari and F. Ricci-Tersenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017203 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quasiballistic Magnetization Reversal

H. W. Schumacher, C. Chappert, R. C. Sousa, P. P. Freitas, and J. Miltat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017204 (2003) - Published 8 January, 2003

Interplay between Anisotropic Strain Relaxation and Uniaxial Interface Magnetic Anisotropy in Epitaxial Fe Films on (001) GaAs

O. Thomas, Q. Shen, P. Schieffer, N. Tournerie, and B. Lépine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 017205 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Liquid Crystal Formation in Suspensions of Hard Rodlike Colloidal Particles: Direct Observation of Particle Arrangement and Self-Ordering Behavior

Hideatsu Maeda and Yoshiko Maeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 018303 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

Rotational Diffusion Microrheology

Z. Cheng and T. G. Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 018304 (2003) - Published 10 January, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Kinetic Potential and Barrier Crossing: A Model for Warm Cloud Drizzle Formation

Robert McGraw and Yangang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 018501 (2003) - Published 9 January, 2003