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Volume 91, Issue 23

5 December 2003
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The image shown is from a numerical study of magnetic-field-line reconnection in a two-dimensional plasma.

From the article:

Secondary Instabilities and Vortex Formation in Collisionless-Fluid Magnetic Reconnection
D. Del Sarto, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235001 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam

R. Dorn, S. Quabis, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233901 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Long-Range Nature of Feshbach Molecules in Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. Köhler, T. Gasenzer, P. S. Julienne, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230401 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Condition for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation

V. V. Konotop and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230402 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities and without Alignments

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230403 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Quantum Zeno Subspace and Entangled Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. Zhang and L. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230404 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Entanglement of a Mesoscopic Field with an Atom Induced by Photon Graininess in a Cavity

A. Auffeves, P. Maioli, T. Meunier, S. Gleyzes, G. Nogues, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230405 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Asymmetric Landau-Zener Tunneling in a Periodic Potential

M. Jona-Lasinio, O. Morsch, M. Cristiani, N. Malossi, J. H. Müller, E. Courtade, M. Anderlini, and E. Arimondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230406 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Stochastic Resonance in a Non-Markovian Discrete State Model for Excitable Systems

T. Prager and L. Schimansky-Geier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230601 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Relativistic Chaos is Coordinate Invariant

Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 231101 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

New Contribution to Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nuclei

Gary Prézeau, Andriy Kurylov, Marc Kamionkowski, and Petr Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 231301 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gödel’s Universe in a Supertube Shroud

Nadav Drukker, Bartomeu Fiol, and Joan Simón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 231601 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Geometric Scaling as Traveling Waves

S. Munier and R. Peschanski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232001 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Understanding Pentaquark States in QCD

Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232002 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Diquarks and Exotic Spectroscopy

Robert Jaffe and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232003 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Relation between Proton and Neutron Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients for Light Mirror Nuclei and its Relevance to Nuclear Astrophysics

N. K. Timofeyuk, R. C. Johnson, and A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232501 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Doorway States in the Gamma Decay-Out of the Yrast Superdeformed Band in Cu59

C. Andreoiu, T. Døssing, C. Fahlander, I. Ragnarsson, D. Rudolph, S. Åberg, R. A. E. Austin, M. P. Carpenter, R. M. Clark, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, T. Rodinger, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, T. Steinhardt, C. E. Svensson, O. Thelen, and J. C. Waddington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 232502 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rovibrational-State-Selected Photoionization of Acetylene by the Two-Color IR+VUV Scheme: Observation of Rotationally Resolved Rydberg Transitions

X.-M. Qian, A. H. Kung, Tao Zhang, K. C. Lau, and C. Y. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233001 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Trapping and Manipulating Neutral Atoms with Electrostatic Fields

P. Krüger, X. Luo, M. W. Klein, K. Brugger, A. Haase, S. Wildermuth, S. Groth, I. Bar-Joseph, R. Folman, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233201 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Resonant Enhancement and Dissipation in Nonequilibrium van der Waals Forces

Adam E. Cohen and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233202 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Probing Molecular Dynamics at Attosecond Resolution with Femtosecond Laser Pulses

X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233203 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Xenon Clusters in Intense VUV Laser Fields

Robin Santra and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233401 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Phase Control of Collective Quantum Dynamics

Mihai Macovei, Jörg Evers, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233601 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Quasiperiodic Raman Technique for Ultrashort Pulse Generation

D. D. Yavuz, D. R. Walker, M. Y. Shverdin, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233602 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam

R. Dorn, S. Quabis, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 233901 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Propensity Criterion for Networking in an Array of Coupled Chaotic Systems

F. T. Arecchi, E. Allaria, and I. Leyva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 234101 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Internal Mode Mechanism for Collective Energy Transport in Extended Systems

Luis Morales-Molina, Niurka R. Quintero, Franz G. Mertens, and Angel Sánchez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 234102 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Secondary Instabilities and Vortex Formation in Collisionless-Fluid Magnetic Reconnection

D. Del Sarto, F. Califano, and F. Pegoraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235001 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Preheat Effects on Shock Propagation in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Ablator Materials

R. E. Olson, R. J. Leeper, A. Nobile, and J. A. Oertel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235002 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Substrate-Tuned Boson Localization in Superfluid He4 Films

G. A. Csáthy, J. D. Reppy, and M. H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235301 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Interactions between Sheets of Phonons in Liquid He4

Ruslan V. Vovk, Charles D. H. Williams, and Adrian F. G. Wyatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235302 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

What Does the Potential Energy Landscape Tell Us about the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses?

B. Doliwa and A. Heuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235501 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Interaction of Shear Waves and Propagating Cracks

D. Bonamy and K. Ravi-Chandar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235502 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Charge State Dependent Jahn-Teller Distortions of the E-Center Defect in Crystalline Si

Serdar Öğüt and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235503 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Microscopic Origin of the Nonexponential Dynamics in a Glassy Crystal

M. Winterlich, G. Diezemann, H. Zimmermann, and R. Böhmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235504 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Driven Alloys in the Athermal Limit

Alan C. Lund and Christopher A. Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235505 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Force-Extension Curve of a Polymer in a High-Frequency Electric Field

Adam E. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235506 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Defect Structure around Two Colloids in a Liquid Crystal

O. Guzmán, E. B. Kim, S. Grollau, N. L. Abbott, and J. J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235507 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Free Surfaces Cause Reductions in the Glass Transition Temperature of Thin Polystyrene Films

J. S. Sharp and J. A. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235701 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Theory of Transport of Long Polymer Molecules through Carbon Nanotube Channels

Chenyu Wei and Deepak Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 235901 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Kinetic Wetting of a Moving Planar Defect by a New Phase

Alexander L. Korzhenevskii, Richard Bausch, and Rudi Schmitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 236101 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Precursor Film Controlled Wetting of Pb on Cu

Edmund B. Webb, III, Gary S. Grest, and David R. Heine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 236102 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Optical Conductivity of the Fröhlich Polaron

A. S. Mishchenko, N. Nagaosa, N. V. Prokof’ev, A. Sakamoto, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 236401 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Electron Field Emission Properties of Closed Carbon Nanotubes

Alper Buldum and Jian Ping Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 236801 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Near-Perfect Correlation of the Resistance Components of Mesoscopic Samples at the Quantum Hall Regime

E. Peled, D. Shahar, Y. Chen, E. Diez, D. L. Sivco, and A. Y. Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 236802 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Eight-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect and “Octonions”

Bogdan A. Bernevig, Jiangping Hu, Nicolaos Toumbas, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 236803 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Quantum Criticality of d-Wave Quasiparticles and Superconducting Phase Fluctuations

Oskar Vafek and Zlatko Tešanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237001 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Two Resonant Magnetic Modes in an Overdoped High Tc Superconductor

S. Pailhès, Y. Sidis, P. Bourges, C. Ulrich, V. Hinkov, L. P. Regnault, A. Ivanov, B. Liang, C. T. Lin, C. Bernhard, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237002 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Hysteretic Spin-Density-Wave Ordering in Confined Geometries

Eric E. Fullerton, J. L. Robertson, A. R. E. Prinsloo, H. L. Alberts, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237201 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Elementary Excitations in the Cyclic Molecular Nanomagnet Cr8

O. Waldmann, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, C. Mondelli, and A. L. Dearden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237202 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Ferromagnetism in fcc Twinned 2.4 nm Size Pd Nanoparticles

B. Sampedro, P. Crespo, A. Hernando, R. Litrán, J. C. Sánchez López, C. López Cartes, A. Fernandez, J. Ramírez, J. González Calbet, and M. Vallet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237203 (2003) - Published 4 December, 2003

Magnetism in All-Carbon Nanostructures with Negative Gaussian Curvature

Noejung Park, Mina Yoon, Savas Berber, Jisoon Ihm, Eiji Osawa, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237204 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Magnetostrictive Domain Walls in Antiferromagnetic NiO

N. B. Weber, H. Ohldag, H. Gomonaj, and F. U. Hillebrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237205 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Interband Impact Ionization and Nonlinear Absorption of Terahertz Radiation in Semiconductor Heterostructures

J. C. Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237401 (2003) - Published 1 December, 2003

Hydrogen Bond Dynamics Probed with Ultrafast Infrared Heterodyne-Detected Multidimensional Vibrational Stimulated Echoes

John B. Asbury, Tobias Steinel, C. Stromberg, K. J. Gaffney, I. R. Piletic, Alexi Goun, and M. D. Fayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237402 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Logic Approach to Wave Packet Control

E. A. Shapiro, Michael Spanner, and Misha Yu. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 237901 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Noise-Controlled Self-Replicating Patterns

Felipe Lesmes, David Hochberg, Federico Morán, and Juan Pérez-Mercader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 238301 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

Hysteresis in One-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion Systems

A. Rákos, M. Paessens, and G. M. Schütz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 238302 (2003) - Published 3 December, 2003

Ergodic Dynamics in a Natural Threshold System

K. F. Tiampo, J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, J. S. Sá Martins, and C. D. Ferguson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 238501 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Network Information and Connected Correlations

Elad Schneidman, Susanne Still, Michael J. Berry, II, and William Bialek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 238701 (2003) - Published 2 December, 2003

COMMENTS

Comment on “Probable Langevin-Like Director Reorientation in an Interface-Induced Disordered SmC*-Like State of Liquid Crystals Characterized by Frustration between Ferro- and Antiferroelectricity”

Byoungchoo Park, C. H. Oh, W. J. Choi, J. W. Wu, and H. Takezoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 239601 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

Hayashi et al. Reply:

Naoki Hayashi, Tatsuhisa Kato, Takayuki Aoki, Tomohiro Ando, Atsuo Fukuda, and San-Seong Seomun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 239602 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Critical Resistance in the AlAs Quantum Hall Ferromagnet [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 216802 (2003)]

E. P. De Poortere, E. Tutuc, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 239901 (2003) - Published 5 December, 2003

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