Volume 91, Issue 7

15 August 2003

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On the Cover

Latest results of the PHENIX, PHOBOS, BRAHMS & STAR Collaborations from 200-GeV per nucleon gold-gold and deuteron-gold nuclear collisions. In the Au-Au data, high-transverse-momentum particles are suppressed (red data in PHOBOS & BRAHMS) and there is only one peak in the pair-correlation plot (STAR); both results are as expected if a quark-gluon plasma forms. A QGP is not expected in d-Au collisions and this data show no high-p_T suppression (PHENIX) and two peaks.

From the article:

Centrality Dependence of Charged-Hadron Transverse-Momentum Spectra in $d + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$
B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072302 (2003)

LETTERS

General Physics

Fermi Gases in Slowly Rotating Traps: Superfluid versus Collisional Hydrodynamics

Marco Cozzini and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 070401 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Environment Induced Entanglement in Markovian Dissipative Dynamics

Fabio Benatti, Roberto Floreanini, and Marco Piani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 070402 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Levinson-Like Theorem for Scattering from a Bose-Einstein Condensate

J. Brand, I. Häring, and J.-M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 070403 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Atom-Molecule Laser Fed by Stimulated Three-Body Recombination

Bogdan Borca, Josh W. Dunn, V. Kokoouline, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 070404 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Non-Markovian Stochastic Resonance

Igor Goychuk and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 070601 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Polarized X-Ray Emission from Magnetized Neutron Stars: Signature of Strong-Field Vacuum Polarization

Dong Lai and Wynn C. G. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 071101 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

High-Energy Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts

Charles D. Dermer and Armen Atoyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 071102 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Spectroscopic Constraints on the Surface Magnetic Field of the Accreting Neutron Star EXO 0748-676

Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 071103 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Phantom Energy: Dark Energy with $w < - 1$ Causes a Cosmic Doomsday

Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski, and Nevin N. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 071301 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Rare $B$ Decays into States Containing a $J / ψ$ Meson and a Meson with $s \bar{s}$ Quark Content

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 071801 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Suppressed $π^{0}$ Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072301 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Centrality Dependence of Charged-Hadron Transverse-Momentum Spectra in $d + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$

B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072302 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Absence of Suppression in Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$ $d + A u$ Collisions

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072303 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Evidence from $d + A u$ Measurements for Final-State Suppression of High- $p_{T}$ Hadrons in $A u + A u$ Collisions at RHIC

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072304 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Transverse-Momentum Spectra in $A u + A u$ and $d + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$ and the Pseudorapidity Dependence of High- $p_{T}$ Suppression

I. Arsene et al. (BRAHMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072305 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Observation of the Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moment of ${}^{133}{C s}$

Vladislav Gerginov, Andrei Derevianko, and Carol E. Tanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072501 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two-Loop Self-Energy Correction in High- $Z$ Hydrogenlike Ions

V. A. Yerokhin, P. Indelicato, and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073001 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Role of the Ground State in Electron-Atom Double Ionization

S. Jones and D. H. Madison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073201 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Precise Determination of the $2 s_{1 / 2} − 2 p_{1 / 2}$ Splitting in Very Heavy Lithiumlike Ions Utilizing Dielectronic Recombination

C. Brandau, C. Kozhuharov, A. Müller, W. Shi, S. Schippers, T. Bartsch, S. Böhm, C. Böhme, A. Hoffknecht, H. Knopp, N. Grün, W. Scheid, T. Steih, F. Bosch, B. Franzke, P. H. Mokler, F. Nolden, M. Steck, T. Stöhlker, and Z. Stachura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073202 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Giant Helium Dimers Produced by Photoassociation of Ultracold Metastable Atoms

J. Léonard, M. Walhout, A. P. Mosk, T. Müller, M. Leduc, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073203 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Photodesorption of Alkali Anions from Alkali-Halide Cluster Anions

F. K. Fatemi, A. J. Dally, and L. A. Bloomfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073401 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Entangling Strings of Neutral Atoms in 1D Atomic Pipeline Structures

U. Dorner, P. Fedichev, D. Jaksch, M. Lewenstein, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073601 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Route to Nonlocality and Observation of Accessible Solitons

Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, and Gaetano Assanto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073901 (2003) - Published 11 August, 2003

Magnetochiral Anisotropy in Bragg Scattering

C. Koerdt, G. Düchs, and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073902 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Asymmetric Stationary Lasing Patterns in 2D Symmetric Microcavities

Takahisa Harayama, Takehiro Fukushima, Satoshi Sunada, and Kensuke S. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 073903 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Ultraviolet High-Gain Harmonic-Generation Free-Electron Laser

L. H. Yu, L. DiMauro, A. Doyuran, W. S. Graves, E. D. Johnson, R. Heese, S. Krinsky, H. Loos, J. B. Murphy, G. Rakowsky, J. Rose, T. Shaftan, B. Sheehy, J. Skaritka, X. J. Wang, and Z. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 074801 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Observation of Terahertz Emission from a Laser-Plasma Accelerated Electron Bunch Crossing a Plasma-Vacuum Boundary

W. P. Leemans, C. G. R. Geddes, J. Faure, Cs. Tóth, J. van Tilborg, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, G. Fubiani, D. Auerbach, B. Marcelis, M. A. Carnahan, R. A. Kaindl, J. Byrd, and M. C. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 074802 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Horizontal Phase-Space Distortions Arising from Magnetic Pulse Compression of an Intense, Relativistic Electron Beam

S. G. Anderson, J. B. Rosenzweig, P. Musumeci, and M. C. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 074803 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Effect of Mean Flow Shear on Cross Phase and Transport Reconsidered

Eun-jin Kim and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075001 (2003) - Published 11 August, 2003

Aluminum Equation-of-State Data in the Warm Dense Matter Regime

P. Renaudin, C. Blancard, J. Clérouin, G. Faussurier, P. Noiret, and V. Recoules

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075002 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Collisional Damping of ETG-Mode-Driven Zonal Flows

Eun-jin Kim, C. Holland, and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075003 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Ultrashort-Pulse Laser Ellipsometric Pump-Probe Experiments on Gold Targets

Hitoki Yoneda, Hidetoshi Morikami, Ken-ichi Ueda, and Richard M. More

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075004 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Theory of Cavitons in Complex Plasmas

P. K. Shukla, B. Eliasson, and I. Sandberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075005 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Demonstration of Fusion-Evaporation and Direct-Interaction Nuclear Reactions using High-Intensity Laser-Plasma-Accelerated Ion Beams

P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham, T. McCanny, R. P. Singhal, I. Spencer, M. I. K. Santala, F. N. Beg, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, M. S. Wei, E. L. Clark, R. J. Clarke, K. L. Lancaster, P. A. Norreys, K. Spohr, R. Chapman, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075006 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Structural polymorphism of DNA-dendrimer complexes

Heather M. Evans, A. Ahmad, K. Ewert, T. Pfohl, A. Martin-Herranz, R. F. Bruinsma, and C. R. Safinya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075501 (2003) - Published 11 August, 2003

Lévy Statistics for Random Single-Molecule Line Shapes in a Glass

E. Barkai, A. V. Naumov, Yu. G. Vainer, M. Bauer, and L. Kador

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075502 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Study of Surface and Bulk Acoustic Phonon Excitations in Superlattices using Picosecond Ultrasonics

Nen-Wen Pu and Jeffrey Bokor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076101 (2003) - Published 11 August, 2003

Determination of Atomic Structure of the Metal-Oxide Interface: Pd Nanodeposits on an FeO(111) Film

Sh. K. Shaikhutdinov, R. Meyer, D. Lahav, M. Bäumer, T. Klüner, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076102 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Surface Phase Transitions Induced by Electron Mediated Adatom-Adatom Interaction

Junren Shi, Biao Wu, X. C. Xie, E. W. Plummer, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076103 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Observation of Heterodyne Mixing in Surface X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Experiments

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076104 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Insulating, Superconducting, and Large-Compressibility Phases in Nanotube Ropes

J. V. Alvarez and J. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076401 (2003) - Published 11 August, 2003

Uniaxial Pressure Effects on ${C e I r I n}_{5}$ and ${C e C o I n}_{5}$ Studied by Low-Temperature Thermal Expansion

N. Oeschler, P. Gegenwart, M. Lang, R. Movshovich, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076402 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Optical and Diffusive Properties of the Vacancy Defect in Diamond

Randolph Q. Hood, P. R. C. Kent, R. J. Needs, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076403 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Tunneling into Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes: Coulomb Blockade and the Fano Resonance

W. Yi, L. Lu, H. Hu, Z. W. Pan, and S. S. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076801 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Role of Density Imbalance in an Interacting Bilayer Hole System

E. Tutuc, S. Melinte, E. P. De Poortere, R. Pillarisetty, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076802 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Direct Measurement of the Local Density of States of a Disordered One-Dimensional Conductor

Chr. Meyer, J. Klijn, M. Morgenstern, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076803 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

Resistance, Magnetoresistance, and Thermopower of Zinc Nanowire Composites

Joseph P. Heremans, Christopher M. Thrush, Donald T. Morelli, and Ming-Cheng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076804 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Observation of a Parity Oscillation in the Conductance of Atomic Wires

R. H. M. Smit, C. Untiedt, G. Rubio-Bollinger, R. C. Segers, and J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076805 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Quantum Toys for Quantum Computing: Persistent Currents Controlled by the Spin Josephson Effect

Gen Tatara and N. Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 076806 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Pressure-Induced Superconductor-Insulator Transition in the Spinel Compound $C u R h_{2} S_{4}$

M. Ito, J. Hori, H. Kurisaki, H. Okada, A. J. Perez Kuroki, N. Ogita, M. Udagawa, H. Fujii, F. Nakamura, T. Fujita, and T. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 077001 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Vortex Glass Transition in a Frustrated 3D $X Y$ Model with Disorder

Peter Olsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 077002 (2003) - Published 12 August, 2003

Phase Modulated Thermal Conductance of Josephson Weak Links

Erhai Zhao, Tomas Löfwander, and J. A. Sauls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 077003 (2003) - Published 14 August, 2003

Anisotropic Electromagnetic Response of Lightly Doped ${L a}_{2 - x} {S r}_{x} {C u O}_{4}$ within the ${C u O}_{2}$ Planes

M. Dumm, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 077004 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

$1 / f$ Noise Outperforms White Noise in Sensitizing Baroreflex Function in the Human Brain

Rika Soma, Daichi Nozaki, Shin Kwak, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 078101 (2003) - Published 11 August, 2003

Probing the Spin State of a Single Electron Trap by Random Telegraph Signal

M. Xiao, I. Martin, and H. W. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 078301 (2003) - Published 13 August, 2003

COMMENTS

Comment on “London Theory for Superconducting Phase Transitions in External Magnetic Fields: Application to ${U P t}_{3}$ ”

V. P. Mineev and T. Champel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 079701 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003

Agterberg and Dodgson Reply:

D. F. Agterberg and Matthew J. W. Dodgson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 079702 (2003) - Published 15 August, 2003