Volume 90, Issue 10

14 March 2003

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On the Cover

Numerical simulation of a wave undergoing reflection and refraction at the surface of a material with negative index of refraction, showing that the beam is temporarily trapped there before formation of the backward-refracted beam (bottom panels). This time delay suggests a way to resolve a recent controversy over causality violation by negative-refractive media.

From the article:

Refraction in Media with a Negative Refractive Index
S. Foteinopoulou, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107402 (2003)

LETTERS

General Physics

Counterflow Superfluidity of Two-Species Ultracold Atoms in a Commensurate Optical Lattice

A. B. Kuklov and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100401 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Local Information as a Resource in Distributed Quantum Systems

Michał Horodecki, Karol Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, Ryszard Horodecki, Jonathan Oppenheim, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100402 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Quadrupole Oscillation of a Single-Vortex Bose-Einstein Condensate: Evidence for Kelvin Modes

V. Bretin, P. Rosenbusch, F. Chevy, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and J. Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100403 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Bose-Einstein Condensates near a Microfabricated Surface

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100404 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Strong Disorder Fixed Point in Absorbing-State Phase Transitions

Jef Hooyberghs, Ferenc Iglói, and Carlo Vanderzande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100601 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Detecting Subthreshold Events in Noisy Data by Symbolic Dynamics

Peter beim Graben and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100602 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anomaly-Free Brane Worlds in Seven Dimensions

Tony Gherghetta and Alex Kehagias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 101601 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003

First Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay $D^{0} \to γ γ$

T. E. Coan et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 101801 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

No Confinement without Coulomb Confinement

Daniel Zwanziger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 102001 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Rapidity Dependence of Charged Antihadron to Hadron Ratios in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

I. G. Bearden et al. (BRAHMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 102301 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

What Determines the $K^{-}$ Multiplicity at Energies Around $(1 - 2) A G e V$ ?

Ch. Hartnack, H. Oeschler, and J. Aichelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 102302 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Correlation of the Photodetachment Rate of a Scarred Resonance State with the Classical Lyapunov Exponent

T. Timberlake and J. V. Foreman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 103001 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003

Influence of Energy and Entropy on the Melting of Sodium Clusters

M. Schmidt, J. Donges, Th. Hippler, and H. Haberland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 103401 (2003) - Published 10 March, 2003

Self-Focusing of Intense Laser Pulses in a Clustered Gas

I. Alexeev, T. M. Antonsen, K. Y. Kim, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 103402 (2003) - Published 10 March, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Aging in Subdiffusion Generated by a Deterministic Dynamical System

Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104101 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Full Waveform Inversion with Optimal Basis Functions

Gang Sun, Qianshun Chang, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104301 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Lattice Dynamics and Melting of a Nonequilibrium Pattern

Daniel I. Goldman, M. D. Shattuck, Sung Joon Moon, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104302 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Intermittency and Non-Gaussian Fluctuations of the Global Energy Transfer in Fully Developed Turbulence

B. Portelli, P. C. W. Holdsworth, and J.-F. Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104501 (2003) - Published 11 March, 2003

Energy and Enstrophy Transfer in Decaying Two-Dimensional Turbulence

M. K. Rivera, W. B. Daniel, S. Y. Chen, and R. E. Ecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104502 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Incoherent Diffraction Radiation from a Single-Edge Target in the Visible-Light Region

T. Muto, S. Araki, R. Hamatsu, H. Hayano, T. Hirose, P. Karataev, G. Naumenko, A. Potylitsyn, and J. Urakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 104801 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Plasma Production by Helicon and Slow Waves

Youichi Sakawa, Hiroyuki Kunimatsu, Hideki Kikuchi, Yasuaki Fukui, and Tatsuo Shoji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105001 (2003) - Published 11 March, 2003

Experimental Evidence of High-Beta Plasma Confinement in an Axially Symmetric Gas Dynamic Trap

A. A. Ivanov, A. V. Anikeev, P. A. Bagryansky, P. P. Deichuli, S. A. Korepanov, A. A. Lizunov, V. V. Maximov, S. V. Murakhtin, V. Ya. Savkin, D. J. Den Hartog, G. Fiksel, and K. Noack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105002 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Inductance of rf-Wave-Heated Plasmas

E. Farshi and Y. Todo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105003 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

New Evidence for Zero-Temperature Relaxation in a Spin-Polarized Fermi Liquid

H. Akimoto, D. Candela, J. S. Xia, W. J. Mullin, E. D. Adams, and N. S. Sullivan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105301 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Search for Anomalous Effects in $H_{2} O / D_{2} O$ Mixtures by Neutron Total Cross Section Measurements

J. J. Blostein, J. Dawidowski, S. A. Ibáñez, and J. R. Granada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105302 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Piston-Effect-Induced Thermal Oscillations at the Rayleigh-Bénard Threshold in Supercritical ${}^{3}{H e}$

Sakir Amiroudine and Bernard Zappoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105303 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Dynamics of the Destruction and Rebuilding of a Dipole Gap in Glasses

S. Ludwig, P. Nalbach, D. Rosenberg, and D. Osheroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105501 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Observation of Vacancy Defect Migration in the Cation Sublattice of Complex Oxides by ${}^{18}O$ Tracer Experiments

René Meyer, Rainer Waser, Julia Helmbold, and Günter Borchardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105901 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Proton Transport through Water-Filled Carbon Nanotubes

Christoph Dellago, Mor M. Naor, and Gerhard Hummer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 105902 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Spontaneous N Incorporation onto a Si(100) Surface

J. W. Kim, H. W. Yeom, K. J. Kong, B. D. Yu, D. Y. Ahn, Y. D. Chung, C. N. Whang, H. Yi, Y. H. Ha, and D. W. Moon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106101 (2003) - Published 10 March, 2003

Stabilization of Polar ZnO Surfaces: Validating Microscopic Models by Using CO as a Probe Molecule

V. Staemmler, K. Fink, B. Meyer, D. Marx, M. Kunat, S. Gil Girol, U. Burghaus, and Ch. Wöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106102 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Low-Energy Electron Diffraction Study of the Phase Transition of Si(001) Surface below 40 K

M. Matsumoto, K. Fukutani, and T. Okano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106103 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Enhanced Optical Sensitivity to Adsorption due to Depolarization of Anisotropic Surface States

L. D. Sun, M. Hohage, P. Zeppenfeld, R. E. Balderas-Navarro, and K. Hingerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106104 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003

Diffusion-Corrected Simultaneous Multilayer Growth Model

Qiang Fu and Thomas Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106105 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polariton Parametric Amplifier Pump Dynamics in the Coherent Regime

A. Huynh, J. Tignon, O. Larsson, Ph. Roussignol, C. Delalande, R. André, R. Romestain, and Le Si Dang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106401 (2003) - Published 11 March, 2003

Orbital Hybridization and Charge Transfer in Carbon Nanopeapods

Youngmi Cho, Seungwu Han, Gunn Kim, Hosik Lee, and Jisoon Ihm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106402 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Two-Dimensional Electron System in High Magnetic Fields: Wigner Crystal versus Composite-Fermion Liquid

Sudhansu S. Mandal, Michael R. Peterson, and Jainendra K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106403 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Current-Induced Spin-Wave Excitations in a Single Ferromagnetic Layer

Y. Ji, C. L. Chien, and M. D. Stiles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106601 (2003) - Published 11 March, 2003

Enhanced Sensitivity of the Transmission Phase of a Quantum Dot to Kondo Correlations

P. G. Silvestrov and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106602 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Quantum Conductance Steps in Solutions of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

A. Urbina, I. Echeverría, A. Pérez-Garrido, A. Díaz-Sánchez, and J. Abellán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106603 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

First-Principles Phase-Coherent Transport in Metallic Nanotubes with Realistic Contacts

J. J. Palacios, A. J. Pérez-Jiménez, E. Louis, E. SanFabián, and J. A. Vergés

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106801 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Random Matrix Theory for Closed Quantum Dots with Weak Spin-Orbit Coupling

K. Held, E. Eisenberg, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 106802 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Quantum Critical Fluctuations in Disordered $d$ -Wave Superconductors

Julia S. Meyer, Igor V. Gornyi, and Alexander Altland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107001 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Raman Scattering from a Superconductivity-Induced Bound State in ${M g B}_{2}$

R. Zeyher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107002 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Topological Order in the Insulating Josephson Junction Array

B. Douçot, M. V. Feigel’man, and L. B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107003 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Giant Planar Hall Effect in Epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As Devices

H. X. Tang, R. K. Kawakami, D. D. Awschalom, and M. L. Roukes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107201 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Disorder-Induced Rounding of Certain Quantum Phase Transitions

Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107202 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Experimental Verification and Simulation of Negative Index of Refraction Using Snell’s Law

C. G. Parazzoli, R. B. Greegor, K. Li, B. E. C. Koltenbah, and M. Tanielian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107401 (2003) - Published 11 March, 2003

Refraction in Media with a Negative Refractive Index

S. Foteinopoulou, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107402 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003

Resonance Raman Spectra of Carbon Nanotubes by Cross-Polarized Light

A. Jorio, M. A. Pimenta, A. G. Souza Filho, Ge. G. Samsonidze, A. K. Swan, M. S. Ünlü, B. B. Goldberg, R. Saito, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107403 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Optical Manifestations of Planar Chirality

A. Papakostas, A. Potts, D. M. Bagnall, S. L. Prosvirnin, H. J. Coles, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107404 (2003) - Published 14 March, 2003

Ferroelectric Domain Breakdown

Michel Molotskii, Alex Agronin, Pavel Urenski, Maria Shvebelman, Gil Rosenman, and Yossi Rosenwaks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 107601 (2003) - Published 12 March, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Editorial Note: Unified Scaling Law for Earthquakes [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 88, 178501 (2002)]

Per Bak, Kim Christensen, Leon Danon, and Tim Scanlon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 109901 (2003) - Published 10 March, 2003

Publisher’s Note: Structure of End States for a Haldane Spin Chain [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 087202 (2003)]

M. Kenzelmann, G. Xu, I. A. Zaliznyak, C. Broholm, J. F. DiTusa, G. Aeppli, T. Ito, K. Oka, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 109902 (2003) - Published 13 March, 2003