Volume 90, Issue 18

9 May 2003

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On the Cover

STM conductance images of quantum well states along an 11-atom Au chain on a NiAl substrate (top). The bottom images show how these states are disturbed when the chain absorbs a CO molecule, which disrupts the delocalization of electron-density waves in the chain.

From the article:

Localized Molecular Constraint on Electron Delocalization in a Metallic Chain
N. Nilius, T. M. Wallis, and W. Ho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186102 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Controlling Cohesive Particle Mixing and Segregation

Hongming Li and J. J. McCarthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 184301 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Beliaev Damping and Kelvin Mode Spectroscopy of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Presence of a Vortex Line

T. Mizushima, M. Ichioka, and K. Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180401 (2003) - Published 7 May, 2003

Metropolis Importance Sampling for Rugged Dynamical Variables

Bernd A. Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180601 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Single-file Diffusion of Atomic and Colloidal Systems: Asymptotic Laws

Markus Kollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180602 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Long-Term Evolution of Stellar Self-Gravitating Systems Away from Thermal Equilibrium: Connection with Nonextensive Statistics

Atsushi Taruya and Masa-aki Sakagami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 181101 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Decay of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos

John F. Beacom, Nicole F. Bell, Dan Hooper, Sandip Pakvasa, and Thomas J. Weiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 181301 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Matrix Element $| V_{u b} |$ with $B \to ρ e ν$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 181801 (2003) - Published 6 May, 2003

Branching Fractions of $τ$ Leptons to Three Charged Hadrons

R. A. Briere et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 181802 (2003) - Published 6 May, 2003

Study of the Rare Decays $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{() +} π^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{() -} K^{+}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 181803 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Improved Limits on ${\bar{ν}}_{e}$ Emission from $μ^{+}$ Decay

B. Armbruster, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, T. Jannakos, J. Kleinfeller, R. Maschuw, C. Oehler, P. Plischke, J. Reichenbacher, M. Steidl, B. Zeitnitz, H. Gemmeke, M. Kleifges, C. Eichner, C. Ruf, B. A. Bodmann, E. Finckh, J. Hößl, P. Jünger, W. Kretschmer, J. Wolf, N. E. Booth, I. M. Blair, and J. A. Edgington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 181804 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Gluonic Excitation of the Three-Quark System in SU(3) Lattice QCD

Toru T. Takahashi and Hideo Suganuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 182001 (2003) - Published 5 May, 2003

Anisotropic Admixture in Color-Superconducting Quark Matter

Michael Buballa, Jiří Hošek, and Micaela Oertel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 182002 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Production of Energetic Electrons in the Process of Photodetachment of $F^{-}$

Igor Yu. Kiyan and Hanspeter Helm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 183001 (2003) - Published 6 May, 2003

Virtual-State Formation in Positron Scattering from Vibrating Molecules: A Gateway to Annihilation Enhancement

Tamio Nishimura and Franco A. Gianturco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 183201 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Spin-Orbit Quenching of Positronium during Atomic Collisions

J. Mitroy and S. A. Novikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 183202 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

How to Measure the Phase Diffusion Dynamics in the Micromaser

F. Casagrande, A. Ferraro, A. Lulli, R. Bonifacio, E. Solano, and H. Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 183601 (2003) - Published 5 May, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatial Weak-Light Solitons in an Electromagnetically Induced Nonlinear Waveguide

Tao Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 183901 (2003) - Published 5 May, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Controlling Cohesive Particle Mixing and Segregation

Hongming Li and J. J. McCarthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 184301 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Speckle Visibility Spectroscopy and Variable Granular Fluidization

P. K. Dixon and D. J. Durian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 184302 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Fracture of a Viscous Liquid

Élise Lorenceau, Frédéric Restagno, and David Quéré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 184501 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Nonlinear Frequency-Sweeping Suppression with rf Diffusion

D. Maslovsky, B. Levitt, and M. E. Mauel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185001 (2003) - Published 7 May, 2003

Plasma Expansion into a Vacuum

P. Mora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185002 (2003) - Published 7 May, 2003

Weakly Nonlinear Theory for the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

J. Garnier, P.-A. Raviart, C. Cherfils-Clérouin, and L. Masse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185003 (2003) - Published 7 May, 2003

Analytic Solutions to the Vlasov Equations for Expanding Plasmas

V. F. Kovalev and V. Yu. Bychenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185004 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Quiet-Time Statistics of Electrostatic Turbulent Fluxes from the JET Tokamak and the W7-AS and TJ-II Stellarators

R. Sánchez, B. Ph. van Milligen, D. E. Newman, and B. A. Carreras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185005 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Zonal Flows and Transient Dynamics of the $L − H$ Transition

Eun-jin Kim and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185006 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bound States of ${}^{3}{H e}$ at the Edge of a ${}^{4}{H e}$ Drop on a Cesium Surface

R. Mayol, M. Barranco, E. S. Hernández, M. Pi, and M. Guilleumas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185301 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Identification of the Relative Distribution of Rare-Earth Ions in Phosphate Glasses

Richard A. Martin, Philip S. Salmon, Henry E. Fischer, and Gabriel J. Cuello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185501 (2003) - Published 6 May, 2003

Extreme Superheating and Supercooling of Encapsulated Metals in Fullerenelike Shells

F. Banhart, E. Hernández, and M. Terrones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185502 (2003) - Published 6 May, 2003

X-Ray Scattering from Freestanding Polymer Films with Geometrically Curved Surfaces

D. R. Lee, K. Shin, O. H. Seeck, Hyunjung Kim, Y.-S. Seo, M. Tolan, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, and S. K. Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185503 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Absence of $2 k_{F}$ Splitting in the Diffuse Scattering from ${C u}_{3} A u$ at the $(001)$ Surface

H. Reichert, O. Klein, V. Bugaev, O. Shchyglo, A. Udyanskyy, H. Dosch, and K. F. Peters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185504 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Solvent-Induced Symmetry Breaking

F. S. Zhang and R. M. Lynden-Bell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185505 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Self-Limiting Size Distribution of Supported Cobalt Nanoclusters at Room Temperature

Shangjr Gwo, Chung-Pin Chou, Chung-Lin Wu, Yi-Jen Ye, Shu-Ju Tsai, Wen-Chin Lin, and Minn-Tsong Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185506 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Hydrogen Incorporation in Diamond: The Nitrogen-Vacancy-Hydrogen Complex

Claire Glover, M. E. Newton, P. Martineau, D. J. Twitchen, and J. M. Baker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185507 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Is There a Glass Transition in Planar Vortex Systems?

Thorsten Emig and Simon Bogner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 185701 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Transition Structure at the $S i (100) − {S i O}_{2}$ Interface

Angelo Bongiorno, Alfredo Pasquarello, Mark S. Hybertsen, and L. C. Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186101 (2003) - Published 6 May, 2003

Localized Molecular Constraint on Electron Delocalization in a Metallic Chain

N. Nilius, T. M. Wallis, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186102 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Reactive Wetting: $H_{2} O / R h (111)$

Peter J. Feibelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186103 (2003) - Published 9 May, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in Strongly Correlated Ladder Structures

U. Schollwöck, Sudip Chakravarty, J. O. Fjærestad, J. B. Marston, and M. Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186401 (2003) - Published 5 May, 2003

Impurity Absorption Spectroscopy in ${}^{28}{S i}$ : The Importance of Inhomogeneous Isotope Broadening

D. Karaiskaj, J. A. H. Stotz, T. Meyer, M. L. W. Thewalt, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186402 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003

Prominent Quasiparticle Peak in the Photoemission Spectrum of the Metallic Phase of $V_{2} O_{3}$

S.-K. Mo, J. D. Denlinger, H.-D. Kim, J.-H. Park, J. W. Allen, A. Sekiyama, A. Yamasaki, K. Kadono, S. Suga, Y. Saitoh, T. Muro, P. Metcalf, G. Keller, K. Held, V. Eyert, V. I. Anisimov, and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186403 (2003) - Published 8 May, 2003