Volume 90, Issue 13

4 April 2003

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On the Cover

Experimental demonstration of focusing by a flat slab of "left-handed material" (a composite structure of wires and split-ring resonators, with a negative effective index of refraction). Microwaves from an antenna at bottom focus at a predicted 4 cm above the slab in the idealized schematic on the left, and at 2.5 cm in the actual experiment on the right.

From the article:

Experimental Observations of a Left-Handed Material That Obeys Snell’s Law
Andrew A. Houck, Jeffrey B. Brock, and Isaac L. Chuang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 137401 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Einstein Oscillators in Thallium Filled Antimony Skutterudites

Raphaël P. Hermann, Rongying Jin, Werner Schweika, Fernande Grandjean, David Mandrus, Brian C. Sales, and Gary J. Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135505 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Interference Control of Ballistic Pure Spin Currents in Semiconductors

Martin J. Stevens, Arthur L. Smirl, R. D. R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, J. E. Sipe, and H. M. van Driel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136603 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Commensurate-Incommensurate Transition of Cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

H. P. Büchler, G. Blatter, and W. Zwerger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 130401 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Anomalous Tunneling of Phonon Excitations between Two Bose-Einstein Condensates

Yu. Kagan, D. L. Kovrizhin, and L. A. Maksimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 130402 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Solar Flares as Cascades of Reconnecting Magnetic Loops

D. Hughes, M. Paczuski, R. O. Dendy, P. Helander, and K. G. McClements

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131101 (2003) - Published 31 March, 2003

Does the Sun Shine by $p p$ or CNO Fusion Reactions?

John N. Bahcall, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, and Carlos Peña-Garay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131301 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Long-Lived Charged Massive Particles in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 T e V$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131801 (2003) - Published 31 March, 2003

Limit on the Electron Neutrino Magnetic Moment from the Kuo-Sheng Reactor Neutrino Experiment

H. B. Li et al. (TEXONO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131802 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Studies of the Decay $B^{\pm} \to D_{C P} K^{\pm}$

K. Abe et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131803 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

First Measurement of Transferred Polarization in the Exclusive $\vec{e} p \to e^{'} K^{+} \vec{Λ}$ Reaction

D. S. Carman et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 131804 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Using the Chern-Simons Action for a Self-Consistent Determination of the Magnetic Screening Mass in Thermal QCD

G. M. von Hippel and R. R. Horgan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 132001 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Nuclear Physics

High-Energy Photons from Passage of Jets through Quark-Gluon Plasma

Rainer J. Fries, Berndt Müller, and Dinesh K. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 132301 (2003) - Published 31 March, 2003

Mean First Passage Time for Nuclear Fission and the Emission of Light Particles

Helmut Hofmann and Fedor A. Ivanyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 132701 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Generation of Light Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum via Induced Coherence Grating in Cold Atoms

S. Barreiro and J. W. R. Tabosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133001 (2003) - Published 31 March, 2003

Double Photoexcitation of Helium in a Strong dc Electric Field

James R. Harries, James P. Sullivan, James B. Sternberg, Satoshi Obara, Tadayuki Suzuki, Peter Hammond, John Bozek, Nora Berrah, Monica Halka, and Yoshiro Azuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133002 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Theory of Dissociative Recombination of $D_{3 h}$ Triatomic Ions Applied to $H_{3}^{+}$

Viatcheslav Kokoouline and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133201 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Stability of ${}^{3}{H e}_{2} {}^{4}{H e}_{N}$ and ${}^{3}{H e}_{3} {}^{4}{H e}_{N}$ $L = 0$ Clusters

Dario Bressanini and Gabriele Morosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133401 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Chemical Control of Magnetism: Oxidation-Induced Ferromagnetic Spin Coupling in the Chromium Dimer Evidenced by Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Kensuke Tono, Akira Terasaki, Toshiaki Ohta, and Tamotsu Kondow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133402 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Decoherence-Free Generation of Many-Particle Entanglement by Adiabatic Ground-State Transitions

R. G. Unanyan and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133601 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

State-Insensitive Cooling and Trapping of Single Atoms in an Optical Cavity

J. McKeever, J. R. Buck, A. D. Boozer, A. Kuzmich, H.-C. Nägerl, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133602 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Entangled Imaging and Wave-Particle Duality: From the Microscopic to the Macroscopic Realm

A. Gatti, E. Brambilla, and L. A. Lugiato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133603 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Structure of Optical Vortices

Jennifer E. Curtis and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133901 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Two-Photon Ionization of He through a Superposition of Higher Harmonics

N. A. Papadogiannis, L. A. A. Nikolopoulos, D. Charalambidis, G. D. Tsakiris, P. Tzallas, and K. Witte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133902 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Chaos in a Relativistic 3-Body Self-Gravitating System

F. Burnell, R. B. Mann, and T. Ohta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 134101 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Periodic and Disordered Structures in a Modulated Gas-Driven Granular Layer

J. Li, I. S. Aranson, W.-K. Kwok, and L. S. Tsimring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 134301 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Boundary Effects on Chaotic Advection-Diffusion Chemical Reactions

M. Chertkov and V. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 134501 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Penta-Hepta Defect Chaos in a Model for Rotating Hexagonal Convection

Yuan-Nan Young and Hermann Riecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 134502 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Guiding Center Theory for Ion Holes in Magnetized Plasmas

D. Jovanović and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135001 (2003) - Published 31 March, 2003

Time-Resolved Areal-Density Measurements with Proton Spectroscopy in Spherical Implosions

V. A. Smalyuk, P. B. Radha, J. A. Delettrez, V. Yu. Glebov, V. N. Goncharov, D. D. Meyerhofer, S. P. Regan, S. Roberts, T. C. Sangster, J. M. Soures, C. Stoeckl, J. A. Frenje, C. K. Li, R. D. Petrasso, and F. H. Séguin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135002 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Dynamical Plasma Response during Driven Magnetic Reconnection

J Egedal, A Fasoli, and J Nazemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135003 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Positron Creation and Annihilation in Tokamak Plasmas with Runaway Electrons

P. Helander and D. J. Ward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135004 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Solitonlike Solutions of the Grad-Shafranov Equation

Giovanni Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135005 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dipole Moments of Molecules Solvated in Helium Nanodroplets

Paul L. Stiles, Klaas Nauta, and Roger E. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135301 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Acoustic Emission and Shape Memory Effect in the Martensitic Transformation

S. Sreekala and G. Ananthakrishna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135501 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Edge Dislocations in Crystal Structures Considered as Traveling Waves in Discrete Models

A. Carpio and L. L. Bonilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135502 (2003) - Published 1 April, 2003

Stabilization of ${S i}_{60}$ Cage Structure

Q. Sun, Q. Wang, P. Jena, B. K. Rao, and Y. Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135503 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Growth of Three-Shell Onionlike Bimetallic Nanoparticles

F. Baletto, C. Mottet, and R. Ferrando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135504 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Einstein Oscillators in Thallium Filled Antimony Skutterudites

Raphaël P. Hermann, Rongying Jin, Werner Schweika, Fernande Grandjean, David Mandrus, Brian C. Sales, and Gary J. Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135505 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Surface Tension of the Restrictive Primitive Model for Ionic Liquids

Minerva González-Melchor, José Alejandre, and Fernando Bresme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135506 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Metastable Systems

G. Báez, H. Larralde, F. Leyvraz, and R. A. Méndez-Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135701 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

Competition of Percolation and Phase Separation in a Fluid of Adhesive Hard Spheres

Mark A. Miller and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135702 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Crystal-Liquid Phase Relations in Silicon at Negative Pressure

Mark Wilson and Paul F. McMillan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 135703 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Interface Localization-Delocalization in a Double Wedge: A New Universality Class with Strong Fluctuations and Anisotropic Scaling

A. Milchev, M. Müller, K. Binder, and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136101 (2003) - Published 3 April, 2003

Attractive Migration and Coalescence: A Significant Process in the Coarsening of ${T i S i}_{2}$ Islands on the Si(111) Surface

W.-C. Yang, M. Zeman, H. Ade, and R. J. Nemanich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136102 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Monte Carlo Method using Phase-Free Random Walks with Slater Determinants

Shiwei Zhang and Henry Krakauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136401 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Spin-Polarized Stable Phases of the 2D Electron Fluid at Finite Temperatures

M. W. C. Dharma-wardana and François Perrot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136601 (2003) - Published 31 March, 2003

Two-Channel Kondo Effect in a Modified Single Electron Transistor

Yuval Oreg and David Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136602 (2003) - Published 2 April, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Interference Control of Ballistic Pure Spin Currents in Semiconductors

Martin J. Stevens, Arthur L. Smirl, R. D. R. Bhat, Ali Najmaie, J. E. Sipe, and H. M. van Driel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 136603 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Superconductivity of the ${S r}_{2} {C a}_{12} {C u}_{24} O_{41}$ Spin-Ladder System: Are the Superconducting Pairing and the Spin-Gap Formation of the Same Origin?

Naoki Fujiwara, Nobuo Môri, Yoshiya Uwatoko, Takehiko Matsumoto, Naoki Motoyama, and Shinichi Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 137001 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Coherent Nonlinear Optical Response of Single Quantum Dots Studied by Ultrafast Near-Field Spectroscopy”

M. Joffre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 139701 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003

Guenther et al. Reply:

T. Guenther, C. Lienau, T. Elsaesser, M. Glanemann, V. M. Axt, and T. Kuhn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 139702 (2003) - Published 4 April, 2003