Volume 91, Issue 10

5 September 2003

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On the Cover

The image shows a 2-dimensional model of a stiff polymer network; colors indicate the distribution of stress in the network. Systems such as this are thought to mimic the behavior of a biological cell's cytoskeleton, a rigid but flexible network of protein fibers that gives a cell its shape.

From the article:

Elasticity of Stiff Polymer Networks
Jan Wilhelm and Erwin Frey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 108103 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Morphology and Scaling of Impact Craters in Granular Media

Amanda M. Walsh, Kristi E. Holloway, Piotr Habdas, and John R. de Bruyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 104301 (2003) - Published 4 September, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Phase Conjugation of a Quantum-Degenerate Atomic Fermion Beam

Chris P. Search and Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 100401 (2003) - Published 2 September, 2003

Observation of Tkachenko Oscillations in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 100402 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Observation of Geometric Phases for Mixed States using NMR Interferometry

Jiangfeng Du, Ping Zou, Mingjun Shi, Leong Chuan Kwek, Jian-Wei Pan, C. H. Oh, Artur Ekert, Daniel K. L. Oi, and Marie Ericsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 100403 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining Hadronic Superfluidity with Neutron Star Precession

Bennett Link

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 101101 (2003) - Published 3 September, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Renormalization-Group Evolution of the $B$ -Meson Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude

Björn O. Lange and Matthias Neubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 102001 (2003) - Published 4 September, 2003

An Infrared Renormalization Group Limit Cycle in QCD

Eric Braaten and H.-W. Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 102002 (2003) - Published 4 September, 2003

Proton-Number Fluctuation as a Signal of the QCD Critical End Point

Y. Hatta and M. A. Stephanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 102003 (2003) - Published 4 September, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Dynamics of the $π^{-} p \to π^{0} π^{0} n$ Reaction for $p_{π^{-}} < 750 M e V / c$

K. Craig et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 102301 (2003) - Published 2 September, 2003

Low-Energy Coexisting Band in ${}^{154}{G d}$

W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, K. S. Krane, J. Loats, P. Schmelzenbach, C. J. Stapels, R.-M. Larimer, and E. B. Norman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 102501 (2003) - Published 3 September, 2003

How to Measure the Spreading Width for the Decay of Superdeformed Nuclei

D. M. Cardamone, C. A. Stafford, and B. R. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 102502 (2003) - Published 3 September, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Wave Packet Movements near the Conical Intersection between Two Excited Potential Surfaces May Create Observable Molecular Oscillations

S. Sorgues, J. M. Mestdagh, J. P. Visticot, and B. Soep

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 103001 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Polarization Squeezing with Cold Atoms

V. Josse, A. Dantan, L. Vernac, A. Bramati, M. Pinard, and E. Giacobino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 103601 (2003) - Published 2 September, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Free-Space Propagation of Diffuse Light: Theory and Experiments

Jorge Ripoll, Ralf B. Schulz, and Vasilis Ntziachristos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 103901 (2003) - Published 2 September, 2003

Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating of Femtosecond Pulses in the Extreme Ultraviolet

Taro Sekikawa, Teruto Kanai, and Shuntaro Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 103902 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Morphology and Scaling of Impact Craters in Granular Media

Amanda M. Walsh, Kristi E. Holloway, Piotr Habdas, and John R. de Bruyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 104301 (2003) - Published 4 September, 2003

Granular Medium under Vertical Tapping: Change of Compaction and Convection Dynamics around the Liftoff Threshold

P. Philippe and D. Bideau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 104302 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Entrainment of a Spatially Extended Nonlinear Structure under Selective Forcing

Michel Henriot, Javier Burguete, and Roland Ribotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 104501 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Anatomy of a Bathtub Vortex

A. Andersen, T. Bohr, B. Stenum, J. Juul Rasmussen, and B. Lautrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 104502 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evidence of Ultrashort Electron Bunches in Laser-Plasma Interactions at Relativistic Intensities

S. D. Baton, J. J. Santos, F. Amiranoff, H. Popescu, L. Gremillet, M. Koenig, E. Martinolli, O. Guilbaud, C. Rousseaux, M. Rabec Le Gloahec, T. Hall, D. Batani, E. Perelli, F. Scianitti, and T. E. Cowan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 105001 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Atomic-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Imaging in Aberration Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

L. J. Allen, S. D. Findlay, A. R. Lupini, M. P. Oxley, and S. J. Pennycook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 105503 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Activated Bond-Breaking Processes Preempt the Observation of a Sharp Glass-Glass Transition in Dense Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids

Emanuela Zaccarelli, Giuseppe Foffi, Francesco Sciortino, and Piero Tartaglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 108301 (2003) - Published 2 September, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: Insulator, Conductor, and Commensurability: A Topological Approach [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 236401 (2003)]

Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 109901 (2003) - Published 2 September, 2003

Erratum: Correlation Energy and Spin Polarization in the 2D Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 256601 (2002)]

Claudio Attaccalite, Saverio Moroni, Paola Gori-Giorgi, and Giovanni B. Bachelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 109902 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003

Erratum: Fermi-Liquid Ground State in the $n$ -Type ${P r}_{0.91} {L a C e}_{0.09} {C u O}_{4 - y}$ Copper-Oxide Superconductor [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 90, 197005 (2003)]

Guo-qing Zheng, T. Sato, Y. Kitaoka, M. Fujita, and K. Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 109903 (2003) - Published 5 September, 2003