Volume 90, Issue 25

27 June 2003

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On the Cover

Evolution of a model population in 2D "ideological space" under the competing influences of "conformity" and "dissent". In the model, nonconformist members reproduce more, with offspring replacing other random members. The image shows a population initially made up of 2 close groups (red) which splits up due to "dissent"; as the tendency to conform comes into play it regroups, eventually forming 3 distinct opinion clusters (mauve).

From the article:

The Dynamics of Multidimensional Secession: Fixed Points and Ideological Condensation
Arne Soulier and Tim Halpin-Healy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 258103 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Brillouin Study of the Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Nanospheres

M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu, and Z. K. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255502 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Experimental Test of the Kochen-Specker Theorem with Single Photons

Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Jian-Wei Pan, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250401 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Dimer State of Spin-1 Bosons in an Optical Lattice

S. K. Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250402 (2003) - Published 25 June, 2003

Roton-Maxon Spectrum and Stability of Trapped Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

L. Santos, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250403 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Proposal for Translational Entanglement of Dipole-Dipole Interacting Atoms in Optical Lattices

Tomáš Opatrný, Bimalendu Deb, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250404 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Near-Field Short Range Correlation in Optical Waves Transmitted through Random Media

V. Emiliani, F. Intonti, M. Cazayous, D. S. Wiersma, M. Colocci, F. Aliev, and A. Lagendijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250801 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Limits on Diffuse Fluxes of High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos with the AMANDA-B10 Detector

J. Ahrens et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 251101 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark in Dilepton Events from $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 T e V$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 251801 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the $Monojet + {E̸}_{T}$ Channel with the DØ Detector

V. M. Abazov et al. (DØ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 251802 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Resonance-Continuum Interference in the Diphoton Higgs Signal at the LHC

Lance Dixon and M. Stewart Siu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 252001 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Relativistic Kinetic Equations for Finite Domains and the Freeze-Out Problem

K. A. Bugaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 252301 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Can Modern Nuclear Hamiltonians Tolerate a Bound Tetraneutron?

Steven C. Pieper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 252501 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Selective Addressing of High-Rank Atomic Polarization Moments

V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D. F. Kimball, Yu. P. Malakyan, and S. M. Rochester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253001 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Multichannel Cold Collisions between Metastable Sr Atoms

Viatcheslav Kokoouline, Robin Santra, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253201 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Efficient Engineering of Multiatom Entanglement through Single-Photon Detections

L.-M. Duan and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253601 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strongly Localized Mode at the Intersection of the Phase Slips in a Photonic Crystal without Band Gap

V. M. Apalkov and M. E. Raikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253901 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Observation of Mutually Trapped Multiband Optical Breathers in Waveguide Arrays

D. Mandelik, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253902 (2003) - Published 25 June, 2003

Stable Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Erdem A. Ultanir, George I. Stegeman, Dirk Michaelis, Christoph H. Lange, and Falk Lederer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253903 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Information Flow in Chaos Synchronization: Fundamental Tradeoffs in Precision, Delay, and Anticipation

Shawn D. Pethel, Ned J. Corron, Quitisha R. Underwood, and Krishna Myneni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 254101 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Collisions of Two Solitons in an Arbitrary Number of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

Marin Soljac̆ić, Ken Steiglitz, Suzanne M. Sears, Mordechai Segev, Mariusz H. Jakubowski, and Richard Squier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 254102 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Order Parameter Description of Stationary Partially Fluidized Shear Granular Flows

Dmitri Volfson, Lev S. Tsimring, and Igor S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 254301 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Coda-Wave Interferometry in Finite Solids: Recovery of $P$ -to- $S$ Conversion Rates in an Elastodynamic Billiard

Oleg I. Lobkis and Richard L. Weaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 254302 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Kolmogorov’s Third Hypothesis and Turbulent Sign Statistics

Qiaoning Chen, Shiyi Chen, Gregory L. Eyink, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 254501 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Modification of the Current Profile in High-Performance Plasmas using Off-Axis Electron-Cyclotron-Current Drive in DIII-D

M. Murakami, M. R. Wade, C. M. Greenfield, T. C. Luce, M. A. Makowski, C. C. Petty, J. C. DeBoo, J. R. Ferron, R. J. Jayakumar, L. L. Lao, J. Lohr, P. A. Politzer, R. Prater, and H. E. St. John

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255001 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Reduction of Electron Heating in the Low-Frequency Anomalous-Skin-Effect Regime

Yu. O. Tyshetskiy, A. I. Smolyakov, and V. A. Godyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255002 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Large Difference in the Elastic Properties of fcc and hcp Hard-Sphere Crystals

Sander Pronk and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255501 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Brillouin Study of the Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Nanospheres

M. H. Kuok, H. S. Lim, S. C. Ng, N. N. Liu, and Z. K. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255502 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Fourier-Expansion Solution of Atom Distributions in a Crystal Using X-Ray Standing Waves

L. Cheng, P. Fenter, M. J. Bedzyk, and N. C. Sturchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255503 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

In Situ Observation of the Formation of ${F e}_{3} O_{4}$ in ${F e}_{4} N$ (001) due to Electron Irradiation

Z. Q. Liu, H. Hashimoto, E. Sukedai, M. Song, K. Mitsuishi, and K. Furuya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255504 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Nature of the First-Order Phase Transition in Fluid Phosphorus at High Temperature and Pressure

G. Monaco, S. Falconi, W. A. Crichton, and M. Mezouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255701 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Observation of a Smecticlike Crystalline Structure in Polydisperse Colloids

Stephen Martin, Gary Bryant, and William van Megen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 255702 (2003) - Published 27 June, 2003

Seeing the Atomic Orbital: First-Principles Study of the Effect of Tip Termination on Atomic Force Microscopy

Minghuang Huang, Martin Čuma, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256101 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Why is a Noble Metal Catalytically Active? The Role of the O-Ag Interaction in the Function of Silver as an Oxidation Catalyst

Wei-Xue Li, Catherine Stampfl, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256102 (2003) - Published 25 June, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Cluster-Doping Approach for Wide-Gap Semiconductors: The Case of $p$ -Type ZnO

L. G. Wang and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256401 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Unconventional Charge-Density Wave in the Organic Conductor $α − (B E D T − T T F)_{2} K H g (S C N)_{4}$

Kazumi Maki, Balázs Dóra, Mark Kartsovnik, Attila Virosztek, Bojana Korin-Hamzić, and Mario Basletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256402 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Antisymmetric Spin Filtering in One-Dimensional Electron Systems with Uniform Spin-Orbit Coupling

P. Středa and P. Šeba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256601 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Focusing of Spin Polarization in Semiconductors by Inhomogeneous Doping

Yuriy V. Pershin and Vladimir Privman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256602 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Optical Detection of Hot-Electron Spin Injection into GaAs from a Magnetic Tunnel Transistor Source

X. Jiang, R. Wang, S. van Dijken, R. Shelby, R. Macfarlane, G. S. Solomon, J. Harris, and S. S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256603 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Quantum Shuttle in Phase Space

Tomáš Novotný, Andrea Donarini, and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256801 (2003) - Published 25 June, 2003

Disorder-Driven Collapse of the Mobility Gap and Transition to an Insulator in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

D. N. Sheng, Xin Wan, E. H. Rezayi, Kun Yang, R. N. Bhatt, and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256802 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Electronic Structure of Carbon Nanostripes

A. M. Shikin, S. A. Gorovikov, V. K. Adamchuk, W. Gudat, and O. Rader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 256803 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Thermally Activated Spontaneous Fluxoid Formation in Superconducting Thin Film Rings

J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, and F. Tafuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257001 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Suppression of the Charge-Density-Wave State in ${S r}_{14} {C u}_{24} O_{41}$ by Calcium Doping

T. Vuletić, B. Korin-Hamzić, S. Tomić, B. Gorshunov, P. Haas, T. Rõõm, M. Dressel, J. Akimitsu, T. Sasaki, and T. Nagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257002 (2003) - Published 26 June, 2003

Exchange-Induced Anisotropies at Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Interfaces above and below the Néel Temperature

M. Grimsditch, A. Hoffmann, P. Vavassori, Hongtao Shi, and D. Lederman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257201 (2003) - Published 24 June, 2003

Magnetic Field Induced Sign Reversal of the Anomalous Hall Effect in a Pyrochlore Ferromagnet ${N d}_{2} {M o}_{2} O_{7}$ : Evidence for a Spin Chirality Mechanism

Y. Taguchi, T. Sasaki, S. Awaji, Y. Iwasa, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, S. Iguchi, T. Ito, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257202 (2003) - Published 25 June, 2003

Pressure-Induced Suppression of the Diffuse Scattering in the Model Relaxor Ferroelectric ${P b M g}_{1 / 3} {N b}_{2 / 3} O_{3}$

B. Chaabane, J. Kreisel, B. Dkhil, P. Bouvier, and M. Mezouar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257601 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Strained Hexagonal ScN: A Material with Unusual Structural and Optical Properties

V. Ranjan, L. Bellaiche, and Eric J. Walter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257602 (2003) - Published 25 June, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities and without Probabilities for Two Observers”

Luca Marinatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 258901 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

Cabello Replies:

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 258902 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: Instability of Thin Liquid Films by Density Variations: A New Mechanism that Mimics Spinodal Dewetting [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 89, 186101 (2002)]

Ashutosh Sharma and Jeetain Mittal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 259901 (2003) - Published 23 June, 2003