Volume 91, Issue 2

11 July 2003

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Diagram of a modern high-precision Michelson-Morley experiment to test for variations in the speed of light with direction. The resonant frequencies of two cryogenic optical resonators (COREs) were compared over a period of more than a year; an anisotropy in c would cause the beat frequency to vary as the apparatus rotates with the Earth.

From the article:

Modern Michelson-Morley Experiment using Cryogenic Optical Resonators
Holger Müller, Sven Herrmann, Claus Braxmaier, Stephan Schiller, and Achim Peters
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 020401 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Disordered Nanocrystalline Superconducting ${P b M o}_{6} S_{8}$ with a Very Large Upper Critical Field

H. J. Niu and D. P. Hampshire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027002 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ion Multivalence and Like-Charge Polyelectrolyte Attraction

John C. Butler, Thomas Angelini, Jay X. Tang, and Gerard C. L. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 028301 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Modern Michelson-Morley Experiment using Cryogenic Optical Resonators

Holger Müller, Sven Herrmann, Claus Braxmaier, Stephan Schiller, and Achim Peters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 020401 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Measurement of the Interaction Energy near a Feshbach Resonance in a ${}^{6}{L i}$ Fermi Gas

T. Bourdel, J. Cubizolles, L. Khaykovich, K. M. F. Magalhães, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and C. Salomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 020402 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Waves from Sub-Lunar-Mass Primordial Black-Hole Binaries: A New Probe of Extradimensions

Kaiki Taro Inoue and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 021101 (2003) - Published 9 July, 2003

Primordial Gravity Waves and Weak Lensing

Scott Dodelson, Eduardo Rozo, and Albert Stebbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 021301 (2003) - Published 9 July, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Black Holes in Gödel Universes and $p p$ Waves

Eric Gimon and Akikazu Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 021601 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Observation of the Decay $B^{\pm} \to π^{\pm} π^{0}$ , Study of $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} π^{0}$ , and Search for $B^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 021801 (2003) - Published 7 July, 2003

Observation of a Near-Threshold Enhancement in the $p \bar{p}$ Mass Spectrum from Radiative $J / ψ \to γ p \bar{p}$ Decays

J. Z. Bai et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 022001 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Measurement of $e p \to e^{'} p π^{+} π^{-}$ and Baryon Resonance Analysis

M. Ripani et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 022002 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Cross-Section Measurement of Charged-Pion Photoproduction from Hydrogen and Deuterium

L. Y. Zhu et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 022003 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Locality of Quark-Hadron Duality and Deviations from Quark Counting Rules Above the Resonance Region

Qiang Zhao and Frank E. Close

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 022004 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Ion-Induced Quark-Gluon Implosion

L. Frankfurt and M. Strikman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 022301 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Enhanced Production of Neutron-Rich Rare Isotopes in Peripheral Collisions at Fermi Energies

G. A. Souliotis, M. Veselsky, G. Chubarian, L. Trache, A. Keksis, E. Martin, D. V. Shetty, and S. J. Yennello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 022701 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Parity-Violation Effects in the C-F Stretching Mode of Heavy-Atom Methyl Fluorides

Radovan Bast and Peter Schwerdtfeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 023001 (2003) - Published 7 July, 2003

Autler-Townes Splitting in the Multiphoton Resonance Ionization Spectrum of Molecules Produced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Zhigang Sun and Nanquan Lou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 023002 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Increasing Spatial Complexity toward Near-Resonant Regimes of Quadratic Media

Mustapha Tlidi and Majid Taki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 023901 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Polarization-Independent Linear Waveguides in 3D Photonic Crystals

E. Lidorikis, M. L. Povinelli, S. G. Johnson, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 023902 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Three Types of Transitions to Phase Synchronization in Coupled Chaotic Oscillators

Grigory V. Osipov, Bambi Hu, Changsong Zhou, Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 024101 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Close-Packed Floating Clusters: Granular Hydrodynamics Beyond the Freezing Point?

Baruch Meerson, Thorsten Pöschel, and Yaron Bromberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 024301 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of a Self-Chirped Few-Cycle Optical Pulse in a FEL Oscillator

Ryoichi Hajima and Ryoji Nagai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 024801 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Continuum Self-Organized-Criticality Model of Turbulent Heat Transport in Tokamaks

Varun Tangri, Amita Das, Predhiman Kaw, and Raghvendra Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025001 (2003) - Published 7 July, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Lattice Trapping Barriers to Brittle Fracture

N. Bernstein and D. W. Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025501 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Monolayer Ice

Ronen Zangi and Alan E. Mark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025502 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Anomalous Dislocation Multiplication in FCC Metals

Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai, and Vasily V. Bulatov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025503 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

First One-Dimensional Stress-Strain Experiments inside an Aperiodic Inclusion Compound: Evidence of Depinning Effects

Lydie Bourgeois, Claude Ecolivet, Bertrand Toudic, Philippe Bourges, and Tomaz Breczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025504 (2003) - Published 9 July, 2003

Metastable Frenkel Pair Defect in Graphite: Source of Wigner Energy?

C. P. Ewels, R. H. Telling, A. A. El-Barbary, M. I. Heggie, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025505 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

New Mechanism for the $α$ to $ω$ Martensitic Transformation in Pure Titanium

D. R. Trinkle, R. G. Hennig, S. G. Srinivasan, D. M. Hatch, M. D. Jones, H. T. Stokes, R. C. Albers, and J. W. Wilkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025701 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Critical Behavior of Thermal Relaxation near a Breakdown Point

C. D. Mukherjee and K. K. Bardhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025702 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Evidence of 1D Behavior of ${H e}^{4}$ Confined within Carbon-Nanotube Bundles

J. C. Lasjaunias, K. Biljaković, J. L. Sauvajol, and P. Monceau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 025901 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Grains, Growth, and Grooving

M. J. Rost, D. A. Quist, and J. W. M. Frenken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026101 (2003) - Published 7 July, 2003

Knudsen Diffusivity of a Hard Sphere in a Rough Slit Pore

Gaurav Arya, Hsueh-Chia Chang, and Edward J. Maginn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026102 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Nucleation and Growth of Molecular Organic Crystals in a Liquid Film under Vapor Deposition

M. Voigt, S. Dorsfeld, A. Volz, and M. Sokolowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026103 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Doping of Magic Nanoclusters in the Submonolayer $I n / S i (100)$ System

V. G. Kotlyar, A. V. Zotov, A. A. Saranin, E. N. Chukurov, T. V. Kasyanova, M. A. Cherevik, I. V. Pisarenko, H. Okado, M. Katayama, K. Oura, and V. G. Lifshits

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026104 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Locally Critical Point in an Anisotropic Kondo Lattice

D. R. Grempel and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026401 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

How Irrelevant Operators Affect the Determination of Fractional Charge

A. Koutouza, H. Saleur, and B. Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026801 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

Ionic Shell and Subshell Structures in Aluminum and Gold Nanocontacts

E. Medina, M. Díaz, N. León, C. Guerrero, A. Hasmy, P. A. Serena, and J. L. Costa-Krämer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026802 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Spin-Blockade Spectroscopy of a Two-Level Artificial Molecule

M. Pioro-Ladrière, M. Ciorga, J. Lapointe, P. Zawadzki, M. Korkusiński, P. Hawrylak, and A. S. Sachrajda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026803 (2003) - Published 10 July, 2003

Even-Odd Effect in Spontaneously Coherent Bilayer Quantum Hall Droplets

K. Park, V. W. Scarola, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 026804 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Metallic Behavior of Lightly Doped ${L a}_{2 - x} {S r}_{x} {C u O}_{4}$ with a Fermi Surface Forming an Arc

T. Yoshida, X. J. Zhou, T. Sasagawa, W. L. Yang, P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, Z. Hussain, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, Z.-X. Shen, T. Kakeshita, and S. Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027001 (2003) - Published 8 July, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Disordered Nanocrystalline Superconducting ${P b M o}_{6} S_{8}$ with a Very Large Upper Critical Field

H. J. Niu and D. P. Hampshire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027002 (2003) - Published 11 July, 2003

Perpendicular Interlayer Coupling in ${N i}_{80} {F e}_{20} / N i O / C o$ Trilayers

J. Camarero, Y. Pennec, J. Vogel, M. Bonfim, S. Pizzini, F. Ernult, F. Fettar, F. Garcia, F. Lançon, L. Billard, B. Dieny, A. Tagliaferri, and N. B. Brookes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027201 (2003) - Published 7 July, 2003

Local Magnetic Susceptibility of the Positive Muon in the Quasi-One-Dimensional $S = 1 / 2$ Antiferromagnet Dichlorobis (Pyridine) Copper (II)

J. A. Chakhalian, R. F. Kiefl, R. Miller, J. Brewer, S. R. Dunsiger, G. Morris, W. A. MacFarlane, J. E. Sonier, S. Eggert, I. Affleck, A. Keren, and M. Verdaguer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027202 (2003) - Published 7 July, 2003