Volume 90, Issue 8

28 February 2003

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On the Cover

Phase-space plots of the electrons in an electron-positron plasma expanding under the action of a diamagnetic relativistic pulse; the colors show the distributions at successive times. Numerical simulations suggest that this mechanism can efficiently convert magnetic energy into the directed, ultrarelativistic motion of some of the plasma surface particles.

From the article:

Particle Energization in an Expanding Magnetized Relativistic Plasma
Edison Liang, Kazumi Nishimura, Hui Li, and S. Peter Gary
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085001 (2003)

LETTERS

General Physics

Classifying $N$ -Qubit Entanglement via Bell’s Inequalities

Sixia Yu, Zeng-Bing Chen, Jian-Wei Pan, and Yong-De Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 080401 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Cyclization of a Polymer: First-Passage Problem for a Non-Markovian Process

I. M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 080601 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Quasinormal Modes, the Area Spectrum, and Black Hole Entropy

Olaf Dreyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 081301 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Experimental Limit on the Photon Rest Mass with a Rotating Torsion Balance

Jun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, Zhong-Kun Hu, and En-Jie Luan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 081801 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Search for a $W^{'}$ Boson Decaying to a Top and Bottom Quark Pair in 1.8 TeV $p \bar{p}$ Collisions

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 081802 (2003) - Published 28 February, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Light from Cascading Partons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Steffen A. Bass, Berndt Müller, and Dinesh K. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 082301 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Disappearance of Back-To-Back High- $p_{T}$ Hadron Correlations in Central $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 082302 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Experimental Evidence for the Existence of ${}^{7}H$ and for a Specific Structure of ${}^{8}{H e}$

A. A. Korsheninnikov, E. Yu. Nikolskii, E. A. Kuzmin, A. Ozawa, K. Morimoto, F. Tokanai, R. Kanungo, I. Tanihata, N. K. Timofeyuk, M. S. Golovkov, A. S. Fomichev, A. M. Rodin, M. L. Chelnokov, G. M. Ter-Akopian, W. Mittig, P. Roussel-Chomaz, H. Savajols, E. Pollacco, A. A. Ogloblin, and M. V. Zhukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 082501 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

New Shape Isomer in the Self-Conjugate Nucleus ${}^{72}K r$

E. Bouchez, I. Matea, W. Korten, F. Becker, B. Blank, C. Borcea, A. Buta, A. Emsallem, G. de France, J. Genevey, F. Hannachi, K. Hauschild, A. Hürstel, Y. Le Coz, M. Lewitowicz, R. Lucas, F. Negoita, F. de Oliveira Santos, D. Pantelica, J. Pinston, P. Rahkila, M. Rejmund, M. Stanoiu, and Ch. Theisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 082502 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Controlling the Orientation of Polar Molecules with Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed, Nonresonant Laser Fields

Hirofumi Sakai, Shinichirou Minemoto, Hiroshi Nanjo, Haruka Tanji, and Takayuki Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083001 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Reaction and Scattering in Cold Electron Collisions

J. P. Ziesel, N. C. Jones, D. Field, and L. B. Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083201 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Ultracold Atom-Atom Collisions in a Nonresonant Laser Field

V. S. Melezhik and Chi-Yu Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083202 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Auger Recombination and Charge-Carrier Thermalization in ${H g}_{n}^{-}$ -Cluster Photoelectron Studies

R. Busani, R. Giniger, T. Hippler, and O. Cheshnovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083401 (2003) - Published 24 February, 2003

Quantum Locking of Mirrors in Interferometers

Jean-Michel Courty, Antoine Heidmann, and Michel Pinard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083601 (2003) - Published 24 February, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Photonic Band Gap from a Stack of Positive and Negative Index Materials

Jensen Li, Lei Zhou, C. T. Chan, and P. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083901 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Defect Mode Emission of a Dye Doped Cholesteric Polymer Network

Jürgen Schmidtke, Werner Stille, and Heino Finkelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083902 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Rings of Charged Metallic Spheres

Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Jason A. Wiles, and George M. Whitesides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083903 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Fano Resonances with Discrete Breathers

S. Flach, A. E. Miroshnichenko, V. Fleurov, and M. V. Fistul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 084101 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Statistics of Lagrangian Velocities in Turbulent Flows

R. Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 084501 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Particle Energization in an Expanding Magnetized Relativistic Plasma

Edison Liang, Kazumi Nishimura, Hui Li, and S. Peter Gary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085001 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Slow Magnetosonic Solitons Detected by the Cluster Spacecraft

K. Stasiewicz, P. K. Shukla, G. Gustafsson, S. Buchert, B. Lavraud, B. Thidé, and Z. Klos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085002 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fluctuations of the Phase Difference across an Array of Josephson Junctions in Superfluid ${}^{4}{H e}$ near the Lambda Transition

Talso Chui, Warren Holmes, and Konstantin Penanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085301 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Excitation Energies and Radiative Lifetimes of ${G e}_{1 - x} {S i}_{x}$ Nanocrystals: Alloying Versus Confinement Effects

H.-Ch. Weissker, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085501 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Chemical- or Radiation-Assisted Selective Dealloying in Bimetallic Nanoclusters

G. Mattei, G. De Marchi, C. Maurizio, P. Mazzoldi, C. Sada, V. Bello, and G. Battaglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085502 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Anchoring-Mediated Interaction of Edge Dislocations with Bounding Surfaces in Confined Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085503 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Quantum Friction of Micromechanical Resonators at Low Temperatures

Kang-Hun Ahn and Pritiraj Mohanty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085504 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Microscopic Theory of Network Glasses

Randall W. Hall and Peter G. Wolynes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085505 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Connection between Adam-Gibbs Theory and Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics

Nicolas Giovambattista, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Francis W. Starr, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085506 (2003) - Published 28 February, 2003

Viscosity of a Liquid Crystal near the Nematic–Smectic $A$ Phase Transition

Anders Madsen, Jens Als-Nielsen, and Gerhard Grübel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085701 (2003) - Published 26 February, 2003

Crystal Nucleation in the Hard Sphere System

Brendan O’Malley and Ian Snook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085702 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Water in Contact with Extended Hydrophobic Surfaces: Direct Evidence of Weak Dewetting

Torben R. Jensen, Morten Østergaard Jensen, Niels Reitzel, Konstantin Balashev, Günther H. Peters, Kristian Kjaer, and Thomas Bjørnholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 086101 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electronic Properties of Polymer Crystals: The Effect of Interchain Interactions

Andrea Ferretti, Alice Ruini, Elisa Molinari, and Marilia J. Caldas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 086401 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

First-Principles Approach to the Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Systems: Combining the $G W$ Approximation and Dynamical Mean-Field Theory

S. Biermann, F. Aryasetiawan, and A. Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 086402 (2003) - Published 27 February, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Hydrogenic Spin Quantum Computing in Silicon: A Digital Approach

A. J. Skinner, M. E. Davenport, and B. E. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 087901 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

Substituting a Qubit for an Arbitrarily Large Number of Classical Bits

Ernesto F. Galvão and Lucien Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 087902 (2003) - Published 28 February, 2003

Synchronization Tomography: A Method for Three-Dimensional Localization of Phase Synchronized Neuronal Populations in the Human Brain using Magnetoencephalography

P. A. Tass, T. Fieseler, J. Dammers, K. Dolan, P. Morosan, M. Majtanik, F. Boers, A. Muren, K. Zilles, and G. R. Fink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 088101 (2003) - Published 25 February, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: Optical Clock with Ultracold Neutral Atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 230801 (2002)]

G. Wilpers, T. Binnewies, C. Degenhardt, U. Sterr, J. Helmcke, and F. Riehle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 089901 (2003) - Published 28 February, 2003