Volume 90, Issue 5

7 February 2003

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On the Cover

Representation of a proposed nano-oscillator capable of gigahertz oscillations; both sealed and "presealed" versions are depicted. In the device, an inner carbon nanotube (yellow) oscillates inside a larger tube under the influence of the van der Waals force between them; the sealing would help to prevent contamination.

From the article:

Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanotubes as Gigahertz Oscillators
S. B. Legoas, V. R. Coluci, S. F. Braga, P. Z. Coura, S. O. Dantas, and D. S. Galvão
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055504 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Shadowing High-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems: The Gravitational $N$ -body Problem

Wayne B. Hayes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 054104 (2003) - Published 7 February, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Theoretical Study of the Optical Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanoparticles under an Excitonic Resonance Condition

Takuya Iida and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 057403 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Classical Correlations and Entanglement in Quantum Measurements

V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 050401 (2003) - Published 3 February, 2003

When is Quantum Decoherence Dynamics Classical?

Jiangbin Gong and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 050402 (2003) - Published 3 February, 2003

Off-Diagonal Geometric Phase for Mixed States

Stefan Filipp and Erik Sjöqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 050403 (2003) - Published 3 February, 2003

Dynamical Instability in a Trimeric Chain of Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates

P. Buonsante, R. Franzosi, and V. Penna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 050404 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

$B^{0} \to D^{* -} a_{1}^{+}$ : Chirality Tests and Resolving an Ambiguity in the $C P$ Violation Parameter $2 β + γ$

Michael Gronau, Dan Pirjol, and Daniel Wyler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 051801 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

$b − τ$ Unification and Large Atmospheric Mixing: A Case for a Noncanonical Seesaw Mechanism

Borut Bajc, Goran Senjanović, and Francesco Vissani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 051802 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Nuclear Physics

$Q^{2}$ Dependence of Nuclear Transparency for Exclusive $ρ^{0}$ Production

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 052501 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experiments with a 3D Double Optical Lattice

Harald Ellmann, Johan Jersblad, and Anders Kastberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053001 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Above Threshold Ionization in Tightly Focused, Strongly Relativistic Laser Fields

A. Maltsev and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053002 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Complete Two-Electron Spectra in Double Photoionization: The Rare Gases Ar, Kr, and Xe

J. H. D. Eland, O. Vieuxmaire, T. Kinugawa, P. Lablanquie, R. I. Hall, and F. Penent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053003 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Tuning $p$ -Wave Interactions in an Ultracold Fermi Gas of Atoms

C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053201 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Recombination of Three Ultracold Fermionic Atoms

H. Suno, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053202 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Cluster Growing Process and a Sequence of Magic Numbers

Ilia A. Solov’yov, Andrey V. Solov’yov, Walter Greiner, Andrey Koshelev, and Andrey Shutovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053401 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Temporal Shaping of Femtosecond Solitary Pulses in Photoionized Media

Hélène Ward and Luc Bergé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053901 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Band-Gap Structure of Waveguide Arrays and Excitation of Floquet-Bloch Solitons

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053902 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

New Type of Polariton in a Piezoelectric Superlattice

Yong-yuan Zhu, Xue-jin Zhang, Yan-qing Lu, Yan-feng Chen, Shi-ning Zhu, and Nai-ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053903 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Observation of Vector Vortex Lattices in Polarization States of an Isotropic Microcavity Laser

Y. F. Chen, K. F. Huang, H. C. Lai, and Y. P. Lan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053904 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Signatures of Quantum Stability in a Classically Chaotic System

S. Schlunk, M. B. d’Arcy, S. A. Gardiner, D. Cassettari, R. M. Godun, and G. S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 054101 (2003) - Published 3 February, 2003

Coherent Regimes of Globally Coupled Dynamical Systems

Silvia De Monte, Francesco d’Ovidio, and Erik Mosekilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 054102 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Parametrically Driven Dark Solitons

I. V. Barashenkov, S. R. Woodford, and E. V. Zemlyanaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 054103 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Shadowing High-Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems: The Gravitational $N$ -body Problem

Wayne B. Hayes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 054104 (2003) - Published 7 February, 2003

Reconnection of Colliding Vortex Rings

Philippe Chatelain, Demosthenes Kivotides, and Anthony Leonard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 054501 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Barriers for Transport in Turbulent Plasmas

Vincenzo Carbone, Fabio Lepreti, and Pierluigi Veltri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055001 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Backscattering of an Intense Laser Beam by an Electron

Fei He, Y. Y. Lau, Donald P. Umstadter, and Richard Kowalczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055002 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Decharging of Complex Plasmas: First Kinetic Observations

A. V. Ivlev, M. Kretschmer, M. Zuzic, G. E. Morfill, H. Rothermel, H. M. Thomas, V. E. Fortov, V. I. Molotkov, A. P. Nefedov, A. M. Lipaev, O. F. Petrov, Yu. M. Baturin, A. I. Ivanov, and J. Goree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055003 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Dynamics of a Supersonic Plume Moving along a Magnetized Plasma

F. S. Tsung, G. J. Morales, and J. N. Leboeuf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055004 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Light Transport through the Band-Edge States of Fibonacci Quasicrystals

Luca Dal Negro, Claudio J. Oton, Zeno Gaburro, Lorenzo Pavesi, Patrick Johnson, Ad Lagendijk, Roberto Righini, Marcello Colocci, and Diederik S. Wiersma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055501 (2003) - Published 3 February, 2003

Hydrogenated Silicon Fullerenes: Effects of H on the Stability of Metal-Encapsulated Silicon Clusters

Vijay Kumar and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055502 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Scaling Relations for Implantation of Size-Selected Au, Ag, and Si Clusters into Graphite

S. Pratontep, P. Preece, C. Xirouchaki, R. E. Palmer, C. F. Sanz-Navarro, S. D. Kenny, and R. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055503 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Molecular-Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Nanotubes as Gigahertz Oscillators

S. B. Legoas, V. R. Coluci, S. F. Braga, P. Z. Coura, S. O. Dantas, and D. S. Galvão

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055504 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Mechanisms of Radiation-Induced Viscous Flow: Role of Point Defects

S. G. Mayr, Y. Ashkenazy, K. Albe, and R. S. Averback

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055505 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Direct Imaging of $S c_{2} @ C_{84}$ Molecules Encapsulated Inside Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by High Resolution Electron Microscopy with Atomic Sensitivity

K. Suenaga, T. Okazaki, C.-R. Wang, S. Bandow, H. Shinohara, and S. Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055506 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Photorefractivity in Nanostructured Tin-Silicate Glass Ceramics: A Radiation-Induced Nanocluster Size Effect

N. Chiodini, A. Paleari, and G. Spinolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055507 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Infrared-Phonon–Polariton Resonance of the Nonlinear Susceptibility in GaAs

T. Dekorsy, V. A. Yakovlev, W. Seidel, M. Helm, and F. Keilmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055508 (2003) - Published 7 February, 2003

$C_{60}$ Molecular Bearings

K. Miura, S. Kamiya, and N. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055509 (2003) - Published 7 February, 2003

Dispersive Phonon Linewidths: The $E_{2}$ Phonons of ZnO

J. Serrano, F. J. Manjón, A. H. Romero, F. Widulle, R. Lauck, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055510 (2003) - Published 7 February, 2003

Relation between Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Glass-Forming Liquids

Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 055701 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Adatom Kinetics On and Below the Surface: The Existence of a New Diffusion Channel

Jörg Neugebauer, Tosja K. Zywietz, Matthias Scheffler, John E. Northrup, Huajie Chen, and R. M. Feenstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056101 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Potential-Induced Strain Relaxation in Au Mono- and Bilayer Films on Pt(111) Electrode Surfaces

E. Sibert, F. Ozanam, F. Maroun, O. M. Magnussen, and R. J. Behm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056102 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Irreversibility and Polymer Adsorption

Ben O’Shaughnessy and Dimitrios Vavylonis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056103 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

New $(\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}) R 30 °$ Phase of Pb on Ge(111) and Its Consequence for the Melting Transition

M. F. Reedijk, J. Arsic, D. Kaminski, P. Poodt, J. W. M van Kessel, W. J. Szweryn, H. Knops, and E. Vlieg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056104 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Linear Response Calculations of Lattice Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Systems

S. Y. Savrasov and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056401 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the Dephasing Time in Mesoscopic Kondo Wires

Félicien Schopfer, Christopher Bäuerle, Wilfried Rabaud, and Laurent Saminadayar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056801 (2003) - Published 3 February, 2003

Quantum Ratchet Effect for Vortices

J. B. Majer, J. Peguiron, M. Grifoni, M. Tusveld, and J. E. Mooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056802 (2003) - Published 4 February, 2003

Observation of Spin-Polarized Surface States on Ultrathin bct Mn(001) Films by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

T. K. Yamada, M. M. J. Bischoff, G. M. M. Heijnen, T. Mizoguchi, and H. van Kempen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 056803 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Magnetic-Field Dependence of the Maximum Supercurrent of ${L a}_{2 - x} {C e}_{x} {C u O}_{4 - y}$ Interferometers: Evidence for a Predominant $d_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ Superconducting Order Parameter

B. Chesca, K. Ehrhardt, M. Mößle, R. Straub, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, and A. Tsukada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 057004 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Theoretical Study of the Optical Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanoparticles under an Excitonic Resonance Condition

Takuya Iida and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 057403 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

J-S. Lauret, C. Voisin, G. Cassabois, C. Delalande, Ph. Roussignol, O. Jost, and L. Capes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 057404 (2003) - Published 5 February, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Erratum: Dalitz Analysis of $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 89, 251802 (2002)]

H. Muramatsu et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 059901 (2003) - Published 6 February, 2003

Volume 90, Issue 5

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

ERRATA