Volume 91, Issue 26

31 December 2003

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Calculated light-intensity distribution inside a "tilted" optical superlattice made up of coupled microcavities. The dark regions are photonic band gaps. A new study reports the observation of optical Bloch oscillations (the analogue of electronic Bloch oscillations in crystals) in a short laser pulse passing through such a superlattice.

From the article:

Optical Analogue of Electronic Bloch Oscillations
Riccardo Sapienza, Paola Costantino, Diederik Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, Claudio J. Oton, and Lorenzo Pavesi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263902 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Behavior of Complex Knots in Single DNA Molecules

Xiaoyan R. Bao, Heun Jin Lee, and Stephen R. Quake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265506 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Delay Time and the Hartman Effect in Quantum Tunneling

Herbert G. Winful

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 260401 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Transition Radiation by Matter-Wave Solitons in Optical Lattices

A. V. Yulin, D. V. Skryabin, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 260402 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Dynamics of an Ensemble of Noisy Bistable Elements with Global Time Delayed Coupling

D. Huber and L. S. Tsimring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 260601 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Wide-Band Direct Measurement of Thermal Fluctuations in an Interferometer

Kenji Numata, Masaki Ando, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Shigemi Otsuka, and Kimio Tsubono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 260602 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Masses of ${}^{32}{A r}$ and ${}^{33}{A r}$ for Fundamental Tests

K. Blaum, G. Audi, D. Beck, G. Bollen, F. Herfurth, A. Kellerbauer, H.-J. Kluge, E. Sauvan, and S. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 260801 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Flexible Magnetic Filaments as Micromechanical Sensors

C. Goubault, P. Jop, M. Fermigier, J. Baudry, E. Bertrand, and J. Bibette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 260802 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

$R e / O s$ Constraint on the Time Variability of the Fine-Structure Constant

Yasunori Fujii and Akira Iwamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 261101 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of $B \to K^{*} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$

A. Ishikawa et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 261601 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Measurement of Time-Dependent $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to ϕ K_{S}^{0}$ , $K^{+} K^{-} K_{S}^{0}$ , and $η^{'} K_{S}^{0}$ Decays

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 261602 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Evidence for $B^{0} \to π^{0} π^{0}$

S. H. Lee et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 261801 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

High Statistics Measurement of the $K^{+} \to π^{0} e^{+} ν$ ( $K_{e 3}^{+}$ ) Branching Ratio

A. Sher et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 261802 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Observation of a Narrow Charmoniumlike State in Exclusive $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} π^{+} π^{-} J / ψ$ Decays

S.-K. Choi et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 262001 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Observation of the $D_{s J} (2317)$ and $D_{s J} (2457)$ in $B$ Decays

P. Krokovny et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 262002 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Three-Pion Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions from the STAR Experiment

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 262301 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Pion-Kaon Correlations in Central $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 130 G e V$

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 262302 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Spin Symmetry in the Antinucleon Spectrum

Shan-Gui Zhou, Jie Meng, and P. Ring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 262501 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Spin-Isospin Resonances and the Neutron Skin of Nuclei

D. Vretenar, N. Paar, T. Nikšić, and P. Ring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 262502 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Accurate Rydberg Excitations from the Local Density Approximation

Adam Wasserman, Neepa T. Maitra, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263001 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Reevaluation of the Use of Photoelectron Angular Distributions as a Probe of Dynamical Processes: Strong Dependence of Such Distributions from $S_{1}$ Paradifluorobenzene on Photoelectron Kinetic Energy

Susan M. Bellm and Katharine L. Reid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263002 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

Search for $C P T$ -Odd Decays of Positronium

P. A. Vetter and S. J. Freedman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263401 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Semiclassical Description of Chaos-Assisted Tunneling

Viktor A. Podolskiy and Evgenii E. Narimanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263601 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Magnetoelectric Jones Dichroism in Atoms

D. Budker and J. E. Stalnaker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263901 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Optical Analogue of Electronic Bloch Oscillations

Riccardo Sapienza, Paola Costantino, Diederik Wiersma, Mher Ghulinyan, Claudio J. Oton, and Lorenzo Pavesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263902 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Molding and Stretched Evolution of Optical Solitons in Cumulative Nonlinearities

Cesare Dari-Salisburgo, Eugenio DelRe, and Elia Palange

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263903 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Superstable Granular Heap in a Thin Channel

Nicolas Taberlet, Patrick Richard, Alexandre Valance, Wolfgang Losert, José Miguel Pasini, James T. Jenkins, and Renaud Delannay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 264301 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Speed of Sound in Periodic Elastic Composites

A. A. Krokhin, J. Arriaga, and L. N. Gumen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 264302 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Distribution of Injected Power Fluctuations in Electroconvection

Tibor Tóth-Katona and J. T. Gleeson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 264501 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Fluctuations Do Matter: Large Noise-Enhanced Halos in Charged-Particle Beams

Courtlandt L. Bohn and Ioannis V. Sideris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 264801 (2003) - Published 30 December, 2003

New Benchmarks from Tokamak Experiments for Theoretical Calculations of the Dielectronic Satellite Spectra of Heliumlike Ions

M. Bitter, M. F. Gu, L. A. Vainshtein, P. Beiersdorfer, G. Bertschinger, O. Marchuk, R. Bell, B. LeBlanc, K. W. Hill, D. Johnson, and L. Roquemore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265001 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Self-Compression of Laser Pulses in Plasma

O. Shorokhov, A. Pukhov, and I. Kostyukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265002 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Direct Excitation of High-Amplitude Chirped Bucket-BGK Modes

W. Bertsche, J. Fajans, and L. Friedland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265003 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Density-Transition Scale at Quasiperpendicular Collisionless Shocks

S. D. Bale, F. S. Mozer, and T. S. Horbury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265004 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

In situ Synchrotron Study of Phase Transformation Behaviors in Bulk Metallic Glass by Simultaneous Diffraction and Small Angle Scattering

X.-L. Wang, J. Almer, C. T. Liu, Y. D. Wang, J. K. Zhao, A. D. Stoica, D. R. Haeffner, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265501 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Crossover of Microscopic Dynamics in Metallic Supercooled Liquid Observed by NMR

Lilong Li, Jan Schroers, and Yue Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265502 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Structure and Bonding of Dense Liquid Oxygen from First Principles Simulations

Burkhard Militzer, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265503 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

In situ Transmission-Electron-Microscopy Investigation of Melting in Submicron Al-Si Alloy Particles under Electron-Beam Irradiation

Takeshi Yokota, M. Murayama, and J. M. Howe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265504 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Semisharp Phase Field Method for Quantitative Phase Change Simulations

Gustav Amberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265505 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Behavior of Complex Knots in Single DNA Molecules

Xiaoyan R. Bao, Heun Jin Lee, and Stephen R. Quake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265506 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Heat-Induced Transformation of Nanodiamond into a Tube-Shaped Fullerene: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Gun-Do Lee, C. Z. Wang, Jaejun Yu, Euijoon Yoon, and K. M. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 265701 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Correct Height Measurement in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

Sascha Sadewasser and Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 266101 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Catalytic Role of Metal Oxides in Gold-Based Catalysts: A First Principles Study of CO Oxidation on ${T i O}_{2}$ Supported Au

Zhi-Pan Liu, Xue-Qing Gong, Jorge Kohanoff, Cristián Sanchez, and P. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 266102 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Competition between Diffusion and Fragmentation: An Important Evolutionary Process of Nature

Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Mogens H. Jensen, Joachim Mathiesen, Poul Olesen, and Kim Sneppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 266103 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Enhanced Ionic Conductivity of Polymer Electrolytes Containing Nanocomposite ${S i O}_{2}$ Particles

Ce-Wen Nan, Lizhen Fan, Yuanhua Lin, and Qiang Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 266104 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Spin Dependence in the Survival Probability of Metastable He ( $2 {}^{3}S$ ) Atoms during the Scattering from Ferromagnetic Surfaces

M. Kurahashi, T. Suzuki, X. Ju, and Y. Yamauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 267203 (2003) - Published 24 December, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Nonclassical Paths in the Recurrence Spectrum of Diamagnetic Atoms”

A. Matzkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269301 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Granger and Greene Reply:

B. E. Granger and C. H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269302 (2003) - Published 22 December, 2003

Comment on “Algebraic Fermi Liquid from Phase Fluctuations: ‘Topological’ Fermions, Vortex ‘Berryons,’ and ${Q E D}_{3}$ Theory of Cuprate Superconductor”

D. V. Khveshchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269701 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

Franz and Tešanović Reply:

M. Franz and Z. Tešanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269702 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003

ERRATA

Erratum: Shear-Excited Sound in Magnetic Fluid [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 067201 (2002)]

H. W. Müller and M. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269901 (2003) - Published 23 December, 2003

Publisher’s Note: Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point and Competing Order Parameters in ${U R u}_{2} {S i}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 256401 (2003)]

K. H. Kim, N. Harrison, M. Jaime, G. S. Boebinger, and J. A. Mydosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269902 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Publisher’s Note: Magnetic Neutron Scattering Study of ${Y V O}_{3}$ : Evidence for an Orbital Peierls State [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 257202 (2003)]

C. Ulrich, G. Khaliullin, J. Sirker, M. Reehuis, M. Ohl, S. Miyasaka, Y. Tokura, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269903 (2003) - Published 29 December, 2003

Erratum: Reaction and Scattering in Cold Electron Collisions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 083201 (2003)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269904 (2003) - Published 31 December, 2003