Volume 92, Issue 11

19 March 2004

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Experimental structure of a negative-refractive-index lens capable of better than 1/2-wavelength resolution. The lens consists of a mesh of printed metal strips loaded with capacitors and inductors (inset) which both focus microwaves from the source (a small dipole) and amplify the weak evanescent waves that carry the details of its subwavelength features.

From the article:

Overcoming the Diffraction Limit with a Planar Left-Handed Transmission-Line Lens
Anthony Grbic and George V. Eleftheriades
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117403 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Highly Directional Emission from Photonic Crystal Waveguides of Subwavelength Width

P. Kramper, M. Agio, C. M. Soukoulis, A. Birner, F. Müller, R. B. Wehrspohn, U. Gösele, and V. Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113903 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics

Pairing Fluctuation Effects on the Single-Particle Spectra for the Superconducting State

P. Pieri, L. Pisani, and G. C. Strinati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 110401 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Phase Transitions Driven by State-Dependent Poisson Noise

Amilcare Porporato and Paolo D’Odorico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 110601 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Intense, Narrow Atomic-Clock Resonances

Y.-Y. Jau, A. B. Post, N. N. Kuzma, A. M. Braun, M. V. Romalis, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 110801 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino-Induced Fission of Neutron-Rich Nuclei

E. Kolbe, K. Langanke, and G. M. Fuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 111101 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Gamma Rays from the Galactic Bulge and Large Extra Dimensions

Michel Cassé, Jacques Paul, Gianfranco Bertone, and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 111102 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Effects of the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream on Dark Matter Detectors

Katherine Freese, Paolo Gondolo, Heidi Jo Newberg, and Matthew Lewis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 111301 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Nonquasinormal Modes and Black Hole Physics

Danny Birmingham and S. Carlip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 111302 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Radiative Decays $B \to ρ γ$ and $B^{0} \to ω γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 111801 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Identified Particle Distributions in $p p$ and $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adams et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 112301 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Unambiguous Identification of Three $β$ -Decaying Isomers in ${}^{70}{Cu}$

J. Van Roosbroeck et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 112501 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Evidence for Multiphonon Giant Resonances in Electromagnetic Fission of ${}^{238}U$

S. Ilievski, T. Aumann, K. Boretzky, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, A. Grünschloß, J. Holeczek, R. Holzmann, C. Kozhuharov, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, A. Leistenschneider, E. Lubkiewicz, T. Ohtsuki, P. Reiter, H. Simon, K. Stelzer, J. Stroth, K. Sümmerer, E. Wajda, and W. Waluś (LAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 112502 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Algebraic Solutions of an Extended Pairing Model for Well Deformed Nuclei

Feng Pan, V. G. Gueorguiev, and J. P. Draayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 112503 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Gouy Phase Shift for Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

F. Lindner, G. G. Paulus, H. Walther, A. Baltuška, E. Goulielmakis, M. Lezius, and F. Krausz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113001 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Coherent Control of Photofragment Separation in the Dissociative Ionization of IBr

Hideki Ohmura, Taisuke Nakanaga, and M. Tachiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113002 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Complete Control of Population Transfer between Clusters of Degenerate States

Ioannis Thanopulos, Petr Král, and Moshe Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113003 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Control of Trapped-Ion Quantum States with Optical Pulses

C. Rangan, A. M. Bloch, C. Monroe, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113004 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Observation of Antinormally Ordered Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations

Koji Usami, Yoshihiro Nambu, Bao-Sen Shi, Akihisa Tomita, and Kazuo Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113601 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Direct Observation of Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Parametric Down-Conversion

Edo Waks, Eleni Diamanti, Barry C. Sanders, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113602 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamics of Weakly Localized Waves

S. E. Skipetrov and B. A. van Tiggelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113901 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Observation of Optical Spatial Solitons in a Highly Nonlocal Medium

Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, and Gaetano Assanto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113902 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Highly Directional Emission from Photonic Crystal Waveguides of Subwavelength Width

P. Kramper, M. Agio, C. M. Soukoulis, A. Birner, F. Müller, R. B. Wehrspohn, U. Gösele, and V. Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113903 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Observation of Carrier-Envelope Phase Phenomena in the Multi-Optical-Cycle Regime

G. Sansone, C. Vozzi, S. Stagira, M. Pascolini, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi, G. Tondello, S. De Silvestri, and M. Nisoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 113904 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Spectral Properties and Transport Mechanisms of Partially Chaotic Bounded Flows in the Presence of Diffusion

M. Giona, A. Adrover, S. Cerbelli, and V. Vitacolonna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 114101 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Controlling Synchronization in an Ensemble of Globally Coupled Oscillators

Michael G. Rosenblum and Arkady S. Pikovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 114102 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Vibration-Induced Granular Segregation: A Phenomenon Driven by Three Mechanisms

D. A. Huerta and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 114301 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Hindered and Enhanced Coalescence of Drops in Stokes Flows

M. B. Nemer, X. Chen, D. H. Papadopoulos, J. Bławzdziewicz, and M. Loewenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 114501 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electromagnetic Fluctuations during Fast Reconnection in a Laboratory Plasma

Hantao Ji, Stephen Terry, Masaaki Yamada, Russell Kulsrud, Aleksey Kuritsyn, and Yang Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115001 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Three-Dimensional Critical Behavior with 2D, 1D, and 0D Dimensionality Crossover: Surface and Edge Specific Heats

M. O. Kimball, K. P. Mooney, and F. M. Gasparini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115301 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Collective Dynamics of an End-Grafted Polymer Brush in Solvents of Varying Quality

G. E. Yakubov, B. Loppinet, H. Zhang, J. Rühe, R Sigel, and G. Fytas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115501 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Elastic and Vibrational Properties of Cobalt to 120 GPa

Alexander F. Goncharov, Jonathan Crowhurst, and Joseph M. Zaug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115502 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Tunable Metastability of Surface Nanostructure Arrays

D. E. Jesson, T. P. Munt, V. A. Shchukin, and D. Bimberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115503 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Ab Initio Studies of Polarization and Piezoelectricity in Vinylidene Fluoride and BN-Based Polymers

S. M. Nakhmanson, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, and J. Bernholc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115504 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Structure and Mobility of Defects Formed from Collision Cascades in MgO

B. P. Uberuaga, R. Smith, A. R. Cleave, F. Montalenti, G. Henkelman, R. W. Grimes, A. F. Voter, and K. E. Sickafus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115505 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Argon Nanobubbles in Al(111): A Photoemission Study

C. Biswas, A. K. Shukla, S. Banik, S. R. Barman, and Aparna Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115506 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Size- and Temperature-Dependent Structural Transitions in Gold Nanoparticles

Kenji Koga, Tamio Ikeshoji, and Ko-ichi Sugawara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 115507 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Chain Length Dependencies of the Bending Modulus of Surfactant Monolayers

Live Rekvig, Bjørn Hafskjold, and Berend Smit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116101 (2004) - Published 15 March, 2004

Strain Relief through Heterophase Interface Reconstruction: $Ag (111) / Ru (0001)$

W. L. Ling, J. de la Figuera, N. C. Bartelt, R. Q. Hwang, A. K. Schmid, G. E. Thayer, and J. C. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116102 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Atomic Structure of a $(2 \times 1)$ Reconstructed ${NiSi}_{2} / Si (001)$ Interface

Uwe Falke, Andrew Bleloch, Meiken Falke, and Steffen Teichert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116103 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin and Orbital Frustration in ${MnSc}_{2} S_{4}$ and ${FeSc}_{2} S_{4}$

V. Fritsch, J. Hemberger, N. Büttgen, E.-W. Scheidt, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, A. Loidl, and V. Tsurkan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116401 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Possible Evidence of a Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Mesoscopic Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

A. Ghosh, C. J. B. Ford, M. Pepper, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116601 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Breakdown of Universality in Quantum Chaotic Transport: The Two-Phase Dynamical Fluid Model

Ph. Jacquod and E. V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116801 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Spatially Correlated Charge Transport in Organic Thin Film Transistors

Franco Dinelli, Mauro Murgia, Pablo Levy, Massimiliano Cavallini, Fabio Biscarini, and Dago M. de Leeuw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 116802 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Intrinsic Josephson Effects in the Magnetic Superconductor ${RuSr}_{2} {GdCu}_{2} O_{8}$

T. Nachtrab, D. Koelle, R. Kleiner, C. Bernhard, and C. T. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117001 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Critical Currents at the Bragg Glass to Vortex Glass Transition

Alexander D. Hernández and Daniel Domínguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117002 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Disordered RKKY Lattice Mean Field Theory for Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

D. J. Priour, Jr., E. H. Hwang, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117201 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Critical Thermodynamics of the Two-Dimensional $\pm J$ Ising Spin Glass

J. Lukic, A. Galluccio, E. Marinari, O. C. Martin, and G. Rinaldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117202 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Self-Generation of Two-Dimensional Spin-Wave Bullets

A. A. Serga, S. O. Demokritov, B. Hillebrands, and A. N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117203 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Selective Cap Opening in Carbon Nanotubes Driven by Laser-Induced Coherent Phonons

Traian Dumitrică, Martin E. Garcia, Harald O. Jeschke, and Boris I. Yakobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117401 (2004) - Published 16 March, 2004

Interband Recombination Dynamics in Resonantly Excited Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

G. N. Ostojic, S. Zaric, J. Kono, M. S. Strano, V. C. Moore, R. H. Hauge, and R. E. Smalley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117402 (2004) - Published 17 March, 2004

Overcoming the Diffraction Limit with a Planar Left-Handed Transmission-Line Lens

Anthony Grbic and George V. Eleftheriades

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117403 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Formation Mechanism and Low-Temperature Instability of Exciton Rings

L. V. Butov, L. S. Levitov, A. V. Mintsev, B. D. Simons, A. C. Gossard, and D. S. Chemla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117404 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Charge Separation of Dense Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gases: Mechanism for Exciton Ring Pattern Formation

R. Rapaport, Gang Chen, D. Snoke, Steven H. Simon, Loren Pfeiffer, Ken West, Y. Liu, and S. Denev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117405 (2004) - Published 18 March, 2004

Low Energy Electronic Excitations in the Layered Cuprates Studied by Copper $L_{3}$ Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

G. Ghiringhelli, N. B. Brookes, E. Annese, H. Berger, C. Dallera, M. Grioni, L. Perfetti, A. Tagliaferri, and L. Braicovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117406 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004

Mie Resonances, Infrared Emission, and the Band Gap of InN

T. V. Shubina, S. V. Ivanov, V. N. Jmerik, D. D. Solnyshkov, V. A. Vekshin, P. S. Kop’ev, A. Vasson, J. Leymarie, A. Kavokin, H. Amano, K. Shimono, A. Kasic, and B. Monemar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 117407 (2004) - Published 19 March, 2004