Volume 91, Issue 9

29 August 2003

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On the Cover

Phase-space Wigner functions of I⁺ ions at 2 picoseconds (a) and 5 picoseconds (b) after dissociation of an I₂ molecule by a femtosecond laser pulse. Each Wigner function give a complete characterization of the internuclear quantum state at that time; they were obtained using quantum state tomography from momentum and position measurements (the open circles on the side panels).

From the article:

Quantum State Tomography of Dissociating Molecules
Esben Skovsen, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Søren Juhl, and Klaus Mølmer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090406 (2003)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneously Generated X-Shaped Light Bullets

P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, C. Conti, and S. Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093904 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

LETTERS

General Physics

Short-Distance Correlation Properties of the Lieb-Liniger System and Momentum Distributions of Trapped One-Dimensional Atomic Gases

Maxim Olshanii and Vanja Dunjko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090401 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Controlling Spin Exchange Interactions of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

L.-M. Duan, E. Demler, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090402 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Experimental Observation of a Superfluid Gyroscope in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate

E. Hodby, S. A. Hopkins, G. Hechenblaikner, N. L. Smith, and C. J. Foot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090403 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Berry Phase for a Spin $1 / 2$ Particle in a Classical Fluctuating Field

Gabriele De Chiara and G. Massimo Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090404 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Mixed State Geometric Phases, Entangled Systems, and Local Unitary Transformations

Marie Ericsson, Arun K. Pati, Erik Sjöqvist, Johan Brännlund, and Daniel K. L. Oi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090405 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Quantum State Tomography of Dissociating Molecules

Esben Skovsen, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Søren Juhl, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090406 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Dissipative Flow and Vortex Shedding in the Painlevé Boundary Layer of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Amandine Aftalion, Qiang Du, and Yves Pomeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090407 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Wave Nature of Biomolecules and Fluorofullerenes

Lucia Hackermüller, Stefan Uttenthaler, Klaus Hornberger, Elisabeth Reiger, Björn Brezger, Anton Zeilinger, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 090408 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Elementary Particles and Fields

Interference Study of the $χ_{c 0} (1^{3} P_{0})$ in the Reaction $\bar{p} p \to π^{0} π^{0}$

M. Andreotti et al. (Fermilab E835 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 091801 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Beam-Polarization Asymmetries for the $p (\vec{γ}, K^{+}) Λ$ and $p (\vec{γ}, K^{+}) Σ^{0}$ Reactions for $E_{γ} = 1.5 - 2.4 G e V$

R. G. T. Zegers et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092001 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

$η π$ and $η^{'} π$ Spectra and Interpretation of Possible Exotic $J^{P C} = 1^{- +}$ Mesons

Adam P. Szczepaniak, Maciej Swat, Alex R. Dzierba, and Scott Teige

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092002 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Perturbative QCD Analysis of the Nucleon’s Pauli Form Factor $F_{2} (Q^{2})$

A. V. Belitsky, Xiangdong Ji, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092003 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Critical Behavior of Non-Order-Parameter Fields

Ágnes Mócsy, Francesco Sannino, and Kimmo Tuominen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092004 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Positivity Constraints on Initial Spin Observables in Inclusive Reactions

Jacques Soffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092005 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic Flow at Large Transverse Momenta from Quark Coalescence

Dénes Molnár and Sergei A. Voloshin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092301 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Chronology of Particle Emission from the $E / A = 61 M e V$ ${}^{36}{A r} + {}^{27}{A l}$ Reaction

R. Ghetti, J. Helgesson, V. Avdeichikov, P. Golubev, B. Jakobsson, N. Colonna, G. Tagliente, S. Kopecky, V. L. Kravchuk, H. W. Wilschut, E. W. Anderson, P. Nadel-Turonski, L. Westerberg, V. Bellini, M. L. Sperduto, and C. Sutera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 092701 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Relativistic Linear Response Wave Functions and Dynamic Scattering Tensor for the $n s_{1 / 2}$ States in Hydrogenlike Atoms

V. Yakhontov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093001 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Time-Resolved Double Ionization with Few Cycle Laser Pulses

F. Légaré, I. V. Litvinyuk, P. W. Dooley, F. Quéré, A. D. Bandrauk, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093002 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Observation of Large Kerr Nonlinearity at Low Light Intensities

Hoonsoo Kang and Yifu Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093601 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Observation of the Transfer of the Local Angular Momentum Density of a Multiringed Light Beam to an Optically Trapped Particle

V. Garcés-Chávez, D. McGloin, M. J. Padgett, W. Dultz, H. Schmitzer, and K. Dholakia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093602 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatial Correlations in the Near Field of Random Media

A. Apostol and A. Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093901 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Breakdown of Wave Diffusion in 2D due to Loops

Matthew Haney and Roel Snieder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093902 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Photon Antibunching and Collective Effects in the Fluorescence of Single Bichromophoric Molecules

Christian G. Hübner, Gert Zumofen, Alois Renn, Andreas Herrmann, Klaus Müllen, and Thomas Basché

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093903 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spontaneously Generated X-Shaped Light Bullets

P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, C. Conti, and S. Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093904 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Two-Beam Modulation Instability in Noninstantaneous Nonlinear Media

I. Velchev, R. Pattnaik, and J. Toulouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 093905 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Distributed Delays Facilitate Amplitude Death of Coupled Oscillators

Fatihcan M. Atay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 094101 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Thermal-Noise Effect on the Transition to Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Jaechul Oh and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 094501 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Plasma and Beam Physics

Efficiency Enhancement in Free-Electron Lasers by Means of Concurrent rf Acceleration

H. P. Freund and J. Pasour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 094801 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Synergy of Anomalous Transport and Radiation in the Density Limit

M. Z. Tokar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 095001 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Observation of a Structural Transition for Coulomb Crystals in a Linear Paul Trap

Niels Kjærgaard and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 095002 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Time-Dependent Electron Thermal Flux Inhibition in Direct-Drive Laser Implosions

A. Sunahara, J. A. Delettrez, C. Stoeckl, R. W. Short, and S. Skupsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 095003 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Creeping Friction Dynamics and Molecular Dissipation Mechanisms in Glassy Polymers

Scott Sills and René M. Overney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 095501 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Role of the Entangled Amorphous Network in Tensile Deformation of Semicrystalline Polymers

Yongfeng Men, Jens Rieger, and Gert Strobl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 095502 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Origins of Growth Stresses in Amorphous Semiconductor Thin Films

J. A. Floro, P. G. Kotula, S. C. Seel, and D. J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096101 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Nanowires and Nanorings at the Atomic Level

Midori Kawamura, Neelima Paul, Vasily Cherepanov, and Bert Voigtländer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096102 (2003) - Published 28 August, 2003

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Magnetic Impurities in Magnetically Ordered Systems

A. H. Castro Neto, E. Novais, L. Borda, Gergely Zaránd, and I. Affleck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096401 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Scaling and the Center-of-Band Anomaly in a One-Dimensional Anderson Model with Diagonal Disorder

L. I. Deych, M. V. Erementchouk, A. A. Lisyansky, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096601 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Evidence for Spontaneous Spin-Polarized Transport in Magnetic Nanowires

Varlei Rodrigues, Jefferson Bettini, Paulo C. Silva, and Daniel Ugarte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096801 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003

Evidence of the Key Role of Metal-Molecule Bonding in Metal-Molecule-Metal Transport Experiments

L. Patrone, S. Palacin, J. Charlier, F. Armand, J. P. Bourgoin, H. Tang, and S. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096802 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Observation of Microwave-Induced Zero-Conductance State in Corbino Rings of a Two-Dimensional Electron System

C. L. Yang, M. A. Zudov, T. A. Knuuttila, R. R. Du, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 096803 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Amorphous Vortex Glass Phase in Strongly Disordered Superconductors

Jack Lidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097001 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Vortex Lattice Structural Transitions: A Ginzburg-Landau Model Approach

A. D. Klironomos and Alan T. Dorsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097002 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Electronic Model for ${C o O}_{2}$ Layer Based Systems: Chiral Resonating Valence Bond Metal and Superconductivity

G. Baskaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097003 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Temperature Chaos, Rejuvenation, and Memory in Migdal-Kadanoff Spin Glasses

M. Sasaki and O. C. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097201 (2003) - Published 27 August, 2003

Effective Hamiltonian for ${G a}_{1 - x} {M n}_{x} A s$ in the Dilute Limit

Gregory A. Fiete, Gergely Zaránd, and Kedar Damle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097202 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Magnetic Tuning of Biquadratic Exchange Coupling in Magnetic Thin Films

Andreas Moser, Andreas Berger, David T. Margulies, and Eric E. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097203 (2003) - Published 29 August, 2003

Interplay of Collective Excitations in Quantum-Well Intersubband Resonances

Jianzhong Li and C. Z. Ning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097401 (2003) - Published 26 August, 2003