Volume 90, Issue 12

28 March 2003

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On the Cover

Illustration of a proposed micron-scale waveguide, showing nearly perfect, diffractionless transmission of an EM signal through a right angle. The electric field intensity, vectors, and equal-intensity contours are shown in light colors; the inset shows the calculated transmission and reflection properties of the bend.

From the article:

Diffractionless Flow of Light in All-Optical Microchips
Alongkarn Chutinan, Sajeev John, and Ovidiu Toader
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123901 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Twisted Protein Aggregates and Disease: The Stability of Sickle Hemoglobin Fibers

M. S. Turner, R. W. Briehl, F. A. Ferrone, and R. Josephs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128103 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Flat Histogram Methods for Quantum Systems: Algorithms to Overcome Tunneling Problems and Calculate the Free Energy

Matthias Troyer, Stefan Wessel, and Fabien Alet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120201 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Measuring the Condensate Fraction of Rapidly Rotating Trapped Boson Systems: Off-Diagonal Order from the Density Profile

Jairo Sinova, C. B. Hanna, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120401 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Lattice Models with $N = 2$ Supersymmetry

Paul Fendley, Kareljan Schoutens, and Jan de Boer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120402 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Ring Dark Solitons and Vortex Necklaces in Bose-Einstein Condensates

G. Theocharis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120403 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Environment-Assisted Invariance, Entanglement, and Probabilities in Quantum Physics

Wojciech Hubert Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120404 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Statistical Aging and Nonergodicity in the Fluorescence of Single Nanocrystals

X. Brokmann, J.-P. Hermier, G. Messin, P. Desbiolles, J.-P. Bouchaud, and M. Dahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120601 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Activity Driven Adaptive Stochastic Resonance

G. Wenning and K. Obermayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 120602 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black-Hole Singularities: A New Critical Phenomenon

Lior M. Burko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 121101 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Strangelets as Cosmic Rays beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff

Jes Madsen and Jonas Møller Larsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 121102 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Relativistic Turbulence: A Long Way from Preheating to Equilibrium

Raphael Micha and Igor I. Tkachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 121301 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Light Sheets and Bekenstein’s Entropy Bound

Raphael Bousso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 121302 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gauge Coupling Unification in Grand Unified Theories with Anomalous U(1) Symmetry

Nobuhiro Maekawa and Toshifumi Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 121801 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Observation of the Decay ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} \bar{p}$

N. Gabyshev et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 121802 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Final State Three-Body Coulomb Effects in the ${}^{208}{P b} ({}^{8}B, {}^{7}{B e} p) {}^{208}{P b}$ Coulomb Breakup Reaction

E. O. Alt, B. F. Irgaziev, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 122701 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantal Density Functional Theory of Degenerate States

Viraht Sahni and Xiao-Yin Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123001 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Diffractionless Flow of Light in All-Optical Microchips

Alongkarn Chutinan, Sajeev John, and Ovidiu Toader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123901 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Light Bullets in Quadratic Media with Normal Dispersion at the Second Harmonic

I. N. Towers, B. A. Malomed, and F. W. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123902 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Superfluorescent Rayleigh Scattering from Suspensions of Dielectric Particles

G. R. M. Robb and B. W. J. McNeil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123903 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Mechanism of Standing Wave Patterns in Cardiac Muscle

Seiji Takagi, Alain Pumir, Lorenz Kramer, and Valentin Krinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124101 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Experimental Observation of High-Order Quantum Accelerator Modes

S. Schlunk, M. B. d’Arcy, S. A. Gardiner, and G. S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124102 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Self-Induced Hysteresis for Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Cracked Material

Alexei Moussatov, Vitalyi Gusev, and Bernard Castagnède

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124301 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Mean Effects of Turbulence on Elliptic Instability in Fluids

Bruce R. Fabijonas and Darryl D. Holm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124501 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Discrete Boltzmann Equation for Microfluidics

Baoming Li and Daniel Y. Kwok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124502 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Thermal Transpiration at the Microscale: A Crookes Cantilever

A. Passian, R. J. Warmack, T. L. Ferrell, and T. Thundat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 124503 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Drift-Wave Instability Excited by Field-Aligned Ion Flow Velocity Shear in the Absence of Electron Current

T. Kaneko, H. Tsunoyama, and R. Hatakeyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125001 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Turbulent Transport Reduction and Randomization of Coherent Fluctuations by Zonal Flows in Toroidal Plasma

M. G. Shats, W. M. Solomon, and H. Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125002 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Hafnium Nitride with Thorium Phosphide Structure: Physical Properties and an Assessment of the Hf-N, Zr-N, and Ti-N Phase Diagrams at High Pressures and Temperatures

Peter Kroll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125501 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Origin of Network Connectivity and Structural Units in Amorphous ${S i S e}_{2}$

Massimo Celino and Carlo Massobrio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125502 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Kinetics of Moisture Expansion in Fired Clay Ceramics: A $(Time)^{1 / 4}$ Law

Moira A. Wilson, William D. Hoff, Christopher Hall, Bernard McKay, and Anna Hiley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125503 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Polyelectrolytes in the Presence of Multivalent Ions: Gelation Versus Segregation

A. V. Ermoshkin and M. Olvera de la Cruz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125504 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Absorbing Phase Transitions of Branching-Annihilating Random Walks

Julien Kockelkoren and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 125701 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

InP(001)-( $2 \times 1$ ) Surface: A Hydrogen Stabilized Structure

W. G. Schmidt, P. H. Hahn, F. Bechstedt, N. Esser, P. Vogt, A. Wange, and W. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126101 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Vacancy-Mediated and Exchange Diffusion in a $P b / C u (111)$ Surface Alloy: Concurrent Diffusion on Two Length Scales

M. L. Anderson, M. J. D’Amato, P. J. Feibelman, and B. S. Swartzentruber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126102 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Linear versus Nonlinear Coupling Effects in Single- and Multiphonon Atom-Surface Scattering

A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126103 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Shear Viscosity of Langmuir Monolayers in the Low-Density Limit

Manuel Sickert and Francis Rondelez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126104 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Reverse Undercompressive Shock Structures in Driven Thin Film Flow

Jeanman Sur, Andrea L. Bertozzi, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126105 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Finite Temperature Spectral Function of Mott Insulators and Charge Density Wave States

Fabian H. L. Essler and Alexei M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126401 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Scaling in the One-Dimensional Anderson Localization Problem in the Region of Fluctuation States

L. I. Deych, M. V. Erementchouk, and A. A. Lisyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126601 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Density of States in a Superconductor Carrying a Supercurrent

A. Anthore, H. Pothier, and D. Esteve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127001 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Mott Transition, Compressibility Divergence, and the $P − T$ Phase Diagram of Layered Organic Superconductors: An Ultrasonic Investigation

D. Fournier, M. Poirier, M. Castonguay, and K. D. Truong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127002 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Corrections to Scaling are Large for Droplets in Two-Dimensional Spin Glasses

A. K. Hartmann and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127201 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Interface Energies in Ising Spin Glasses

T. Aspelmeier, M. A. Moore, and A. P. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127202 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Ab Initio Calculations for Large Dielectric Matrices of Confined Systems

Serdar Öğüt, Russ Burdick, Yousef Saad, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127401 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Electrophosphorescence and Delayed Electroluminescence from Pristine Polyfluorene Thin-Film Devices at Low Temperature

S. Sinha, C. Rothe, R. Güntner, U. Scherf, and A. P. Monkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127402 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Tunable Coupling of Superconducting Qubits

Alexandre Blais, Alexander Maassen van den Brink, and Alexandre M. Zagoskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127901 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Quantum Computation with Unknown Parameters

J. J. García-Ripoll and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127902 (2003) - Published 24 March, 2003

Probabilistic Generation of Entanglement in Optical Cavities

Anders S. Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127903 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Quantification of Entanglement by Means of Convergent Iterations

Jaroslav Řeháček and Zdeněk Hradil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127904 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Oblivious Remote State Preparation

Debbie W. Leung and Peter W. Shor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 127905 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Vibrational Spectroscopic Investigation of the Phase Diagram of a Biomimetic Lipid Monolayer

Sylvie Roke, Juleon Schins, Michiel Müller, and Mischa Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128101 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Pattern Formation inside Bacteria: Fluctuations due to the Low Copy Number of Proteins

Martin Howard and Andrew D. Rutenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128102 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Twisted Protein Aggregates and Disease: The Stability of Sickle Hemoglobin Fibers

M. S. Turner, R. W. Briehl, F. A. Ferrone, and R. Josephs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128103 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Nonequilibrium Unfolding of Polyelectrolyte Condensates in Electric Fields

R. R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128104 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Dynamics of Turing Patterns under Spatiotemporal Forcing

S. Rüdiger, D. G. Míguez, A. P. Muñuzuri, F. Sagués, and J. Casademunt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128301 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Pattern of Reaction Diffusion Fronts in Laminar Flows

M. Leconte, J. Martin, N. Rakotomalala, and D. Salin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128302 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Electrically Guided Assembly of Planar Superlattices in Binary Colloidal Suspensions

W. D. Ristenpart, I. A. Aksay, and D. A. Saville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128303 (2003) - Published 27 March, 2003

Line Thermodynamics: Adsorption at a Membrane Edge

P.-H. Puech, N. Borghi, E. Karatekin, and F. Brochard-Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128304 (2003) - Published 28 March, 2003

Time-Dependent Random Walks and the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems

Shahar Hod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 128701 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

COMMENTS

Comment on “Band Structure Approach to Resonant X-Ray Scattering”

V. E. Dmitrienko and K. Ishida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 129601 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Elfimov et al. Reply:

I. S. Elfimov, N. A. Skorikov, V. I. Anisimov, and G. A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 129602 (2003) - Published 25 March, 2003

Comment on “Systematics of the Induced Magnetic Moments in $5 d$ Layers and the Violation of the Third Hund’s Rule”

R. Tyer, G. van der Laan, W. M. Temmerman, and Z. Szotek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 129701 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003

Wilhelm et al. Reply:

F. Wilhelm, P. Poulopoulos, H. Wende, A. Scherz, K. Baberschke, M. Angelakeris, N. K. Flevaris, and A. Rogalev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 129702 (2003) - Published 26 March, 2003