Volume 91, Issue 17

24 October 2003

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On the Cover

Color plots of the spectral intensity of radiation emitted in a simulated electron-ion collision for full (top) and for partial (bottom) ionization; time is along the horizontal axis. The bottom plot shows an attosecond radiation pulse due to "stimulated recombination", the result of a freed electron reencountering the ion and interfering with itself in the ground state.

From the article:

Temporal Structure of Attosecond Pulses from Intense Laser-Atom Interactions
A. Pukhov, S. Gordienko, and T. Baeva
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173002 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Near-Field Optical Mapping of Exciton Wave Functions in a GaAs Quantum Dot

K. Matsuda, T. Saiki, S. Nomura, M. Mihara, Y. Aoyagi, S. Nair, and T. Takagahara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 177401 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Numerical Renormalization Group for Bosonic Systems and Application to the Sub-Ohmic Spin-Boson Model

Ralf Bulla, Ning-Hua Tong, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 170601 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Bounds on Isocurvature Perturbations from Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Data

Patrick Crotty, Juan García-Bellido, Julien Lesgourgues, and Alain Riazuelo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 171301 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Permanent Confinement in the Compact ${Q E D}_{3}$ with Fermionic Matter

Igor F. Herbut and Babak H. Seradjeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 171601 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays of a Heavy Neutral Particle in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 T e V$

D. Acosta et al. (The CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 171602 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Search for $D^{0} − {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing and a Measurement of the Doubly Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay Rate in $D^{0} \to K π$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 171801 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Rates, Polarizations, and Asymmetries in Charmless Vector-Vector $B$ Meson Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 171802 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Scaling Properties of Proton and Antiproton Production in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$ $A u + A u$ Collisions

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 172301 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Transverse-Momentum and Collision-Energy Dependence of High- $p_{T}$ Hadron Suppression in $A u + A u$ Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 172302 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Connection between the Elastic $G_{E p} / G_{M p}$ and $P \to Δ$ Form Factors

Paul Stoler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 172303 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

$a_{0}^{+} (980)$ -Resonance Production in $p p \to d K^{+} {\bar{K}}^{0}$ Reactions Close to Threshold

V. Kleber et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 172304 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherence of Nondegenerate States Studied by Auger Electron-Photoelectron Coincidence Experiments in Kr

S. Rioual, B. Rouvellou, A. Huetz, and L. Avaldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173001 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Temporal Structure of Attosecond Pulses from Intense Laser-Atom Interactions

A. Pukhov, S. Gordienko, and T. Baeva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173002 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Above-Threshold Ionization at the Few-Cycle Limit

F. Grasbon, G. G. Paulus, H. Walther, P. Villoresi, G. Sansone, S. Stagira, M. Nisoli, and S. De Silvestri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173003 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Anomalous Frequency Shift in the Photoassociation Spectrum of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Matt Mackie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173004 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Ultrastable Optical Clock with Neutral Atoms in an Engineered Light Shift Trap

Hidetoshi Katori, Masao Takamoto, V. G. Pal’chikov, and V. D. Ovsiannikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173005 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Bound-Bound State Quantum Wave Packet Dynamics in the Intermediate Coupling Range: The $A {}^{1}Σ_{u}^{+}$ ( $0_{u}^{+}$ ) and $b {}^{3}Π_{u}$ ( $0_{u}^{+}$ ) System in ${R b}_{2}$

Bo Zhang, Niklas Gador, and Tony Hansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173006 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Absolute Doubly Differential Cross Sections for Electron Bremsstrahlung from Rare Gas Atoms at 28 and 50 keV

Sal Portillo and C. A. Quarles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173201 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Quantum Signatures in Laser-Driven Relativistic Multiple Scattering

Guido R. Mocken and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173202 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

New Electro-Optic Effect: Sum-Frequency Generation from Optically Active Liquids in the Presence of a dc Electric Field

P. Fischer, A. D. Buckingham, K. Beckwitt, D. S. Wiersma, and F. W. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 173901 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Generalized Synchronization of Chaos in Identical Systems with Hidden Degrees of Freedom

Atsushi Uchida, Ryan McAllister, Riccardo Meucci, and Rajarshi Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174101 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Distribution of Reflection Coefficients in Absorbing Chaotic Microwave Cavities

R. A. Méndez-Sánchez, U. Kuhl, M. Barth, C. H. Lewenkopf, and H.-J. Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174102 (2003) - Published 21 October, 2003

Collapse of Spatiotemporal Chaos

Renate Wackerbauer and Kenneth Showalter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174103 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Fluctuational Transitions through a Fractal Basin Boundary

A. N. Silchenko, S. Beri, D. G. Luchinsky, and P. V. E. McClintock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174104 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence in Air-Saturated Water

Dagmar Krefting, Robert Mettin, and Werner Lauterborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174301 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Geometric Features of the Mixing of Passive Scalars at High Schmidt Numbers

Jörg Schumacher and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174501 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Distortion of a Spherical Gaseous Interface Accelerated by a Plane Shock Wave

Guillaume Layes, Georges Jourdan, and Lazhar Houas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 174502 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pressure Tuning of Electron-Phonon Coupling: The Insulator to Metal Transition in Manganites

P. Postorino, A. Congeduti, P. Dore, A. Sacchetti, F. Gorelli, L. Ulivi, A. Kumar, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 175501 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Melting of Lithium Hydride under Pressure

Tadashi Ogitsu, Eric Schwegler, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 175502 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Pressure, Temperature, and Thickness Dependence of ${C O}_{2}$ -Induced Devitrification of Polymer Films

Joseph Q. Pham, Stephen M. Sirard, Keith P. Johnston, and Peter F. Green

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 175503 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in Carbon Nanotube Oscillators

Yang Zhao, Chi-Chiu Ma, GuanHua Chen, and Qing Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 175504 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Control of Molecular Orientation in Electrostatically Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

D. Coleman, D. Mueller, N. A. Clark, J. E. Maclennan, R.-F. Shao, S. Bardon, and D. M. Walba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 175505 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

3D Composition of Epitaxial Nanocrystals by Anomalous X-Ray Diffraction: Observation of a Si-Rich Core in Ge Domes on Si(100)

A. Malachias, S. Kycia, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, R. Magalhães-Paniago, T. I. Kamins, and R. Stanley Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176101 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Initial Surface Roughening in $G e / S i (001)$ Heteroepitaxy Driven by Step-Vacancy Line Interaction

P. Sutter, I. Schick, W. Ernst, and E. Sutter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176102 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Cu-Ag (111) Polymorphism Induced by Segregation and Advacancies

Robert Tétot, Fabienne Berthier, Jérôme Creuze, Isabelle Meunier, Guy Tréglia, and Bernard Legrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176103 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Photoemission and the Electronic Structure of ${P u C o G a}_{5}$

J. J. Joyce, J. M. Wills, T. Durakiewicz, M. T. Butterfield, E. Guziewicz, J. L. Sarrao, L. A. Morales, A. J. Arko, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176401 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Dynamical Excitonic Effects in Metals and Semiconductors

Andrea Marini and Rodolfo Del Sole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176402 (2003) - Published 23 October, 2003

Giant Coster-Kronig Transitions and Intrinsic Line Shapes of the Anomalous Pd $M_{45} V V$ Auger Spectrum of $P d / A g (100)$ Dilute Surface Alloys

D. A. Arena, R. A. Bartynski, R. A. Nayak, A. H. Weiss, S. L. Hulbert, and M. Weinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 176403 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Near-Field Optical Mapping of Exciton Wave Functions in a GaAs Quantum Dot

K. Matsuda, T. Saiki, S. Nomura, M. Mihara, Y. Aoyagi, S. Nair, and T. Takagahara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 177401 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Zeeman Levels with Exotic Field Dependence in the High Field Phase of an $S = 1$ Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Chain

M. Hagiwara, Z. Honda, K. Katsumata, A. K. Kolezhuk, and H.-J. Mikeska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 177601 (2003) - Published 22 October, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum-Dot Ground-State Energies and Spin Polarizations: Soft versus Hard Chaos [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 176801 (2003)]

Denis Ullmo, Tatsuro Nagano, and Steven Tomsovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 179901 (2003) - Published 20 October, 2003

Erratum: Observation of Heterodyne Mixing in Surface X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Experiments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076104 (2003)]

C. Gutt, T. Ghaderi, V. Chamard, A. Madsen, T. Seydel, M. Tolan, M. Sprung, G. Grübel, and S. K. Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 179902 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003

Publisher’s Note: Achieving Geodetic Motion for LISA Test Masses: Ground Testing Results [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 151101 (2003)]

L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, R. Dolesi, C. D. Hoyle, M. Hueller, S. Vitale, and W. J. Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 179903 (2003) - Published 24 October, 2003