Volume 92, Issue 14

9 April 2004

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On the Cover

Model plot of the density distribution (red-green areas) of an excess neutron in a ¹⁴C nucleus. A molecular-orbital calculation suggests that this nucleus consists of three alpha clusters (blue spheres) forming an equilateral triangle in the xy plane, surrounded by two additional neutrons.

From the article:

Equilateral-Triangular Shape in ${}^{14}C$
N. Itagaki, T. Otsuka, K. Ikeda, and S. Okabe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 142501 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

L. A. Madsen, T. J. Dingemans, M. Nakata, and E. T. Samulski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145505 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Biaxial Nematic Phase in Bent-Core Thermotropic Mesogens

Bharat R. Acharya, Andrew Primak, and Satyendra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145506 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics

Inhibiting Three-Body Recombination in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chris P. Search, Weiping Zhang, and Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140401 (2004) - Published 6 April, 2004

Molecular Kondo Resonance in Atomic Fermi Gases

G. M. Falco, R. A. Duine, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140402 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Observation of Spinor Dynamics in Optically Trapped ${}^{87}{Rb}$ Bose-Einstein Condensates

M.-S. Chang, C. D. Hamley, M. D. Barrett, J. A. Sauer, K. M. Fortier, W. Zhang, L. You, and M. S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140403 (2004) - Published 7 April, 2004

Effective Theory of Feshbach Resonances and Many-Body Properties of Fermi Gases

G. M. Bruun and C. J. Pethick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140404 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Expansion of a Fermi Gas Interacting with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

F. Ferlaino, E. de Mirandes, G. Roati, G. Modugno, and M. Inguscio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140405 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Fluctuations and Irreversibility: An Experimental Demonstration of a Second-Law-Like Theorem Using a Colloidal Particle Held in an Optical Trap

D. M. Carberry, J. C. Reid, G. M. Wang, E. M. Sevick, Debra J. Searles, and Denis J. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 140601 (2004) - Published 6 April, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dynamical Determination of the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit of Binary Neutron Stars

Pedro Marronetti, Matthew D. Duez, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Thomas W. Baumgarte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 141101 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Universal Canonical Black Hole Entropy

Ashok Chatterjee and Parthasarathi Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 141301 (2004) - Published 6 April, 2004

Information Entropy in Cosmology

Akio Hosoya, Thomas Buchert, and Masaaki Morita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 141302 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Polarization for the Decay $B^{-} \to D^{* 0} K^{* -}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 141801 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Observation of $η_{c}^{'}$ Production in $γ γ$ Fusion at CLEO

D. M. Asner et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 142001 (2004) - Published 5 April, 2004

Measurements of the Mass and Width of the $η_{c}$ Meson and of an $η_{c} (2 S)$ Candidate

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 142002 (2004) - Published 5 April, 2004

Photoproduction of Quarkonium in Proton-Proton and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

Spencer R. Klein and Joakim Nystrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 142003 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Equilateral-Triangular Shape in ${}^{14}C$

N. Itagaki, T. Otsuka, K. Ikeda, and S. Okabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 142501 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Using Absorption Imaging to Study Ion Dynamics in an Ultracold Neutral Plasma

C. E. Simien, Y. C. Chen, P. Gupta, S. Laha, Y. N. Martinez, P. G. Mickelson, S. B. Nagel, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143001 (2004) - Published 6 April, 2004

Observation of the Symmetry-Forbidden $5 σ_{u} \to k σ_{u}$ ${CS}_{2}$ Transition: A Vibrationally Driven Photoionization Resonance

G. J. Rathbone, E. D. Poliakoff, John D. Bozek, and R. R. Lucchese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143002 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Interaction of Argon Clusters with Intense VUV-Laser Radiation: The Role of Electronic Structure in the Energy-Deposition Process

T. Laarmann, A. R. B. de Castro, P. Gürtler, W. Laasch, J. Schulz, H. Wabnitz, and T. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143401 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Radiative Intermittent Events during Fermi’s Stochastic Acceleration

Alessandro Veltri and Vincenzo Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143901 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Anisotropic Enhancement of Discrete Diffraction and Formation of Two-Dimensional Discrete-Soliton Trains

Zhigang Chen, Hector Martin, Eugenia D. Eugenieva, Jingjun Xu, and Anna Bezryadina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143902 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Colored Conical Emission by Means of Second Harmonic Generation in a Quadratically Nonlinear Medium

Heping Zeng, Jian Wu, Han Xu, Kun Wu, and E Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143903 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Squeezing Millimeter Waves into Microns

Alastair P. Hibbins, J. Roy Sambles, Christopher R. Lawrence, and James R. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143904 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Spatial Correlation Singularity of a Vortex Field

D. M. Palacios, I. D. Maleev, A. S. Marathay, and G. A. Swartzlander, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143905 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Incoherent Solitons in Instantaneous Response Nonlinear Media

Antonio Picozzi, Marc Haelterman, Stéphane Pitois, and Guy Millot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143906 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Delays, Connection Topology, and Synchronization of Coupled Chaotic Maps

Fatihcan M. Atay, Jürgen Jost, and Andreas Wende

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 144101 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Size of the Light-Emitting Region in a Sonoluminescing Bubble

Jeppe Seidelin Dam and Mogens T. Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 144301 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Magnetic-Field Generation in Kolmogorov Turbulence

Stanislav Boldyrev and Fausto Cattaneo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 144501 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Intermittent Nature of Acceleration in Near Wall Turbulence

Changhoon Lee, Kyongmin Yeo, and Jung-Il Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 144502 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Simulation of Induction at Low Magnetic Prandtl Number

Yannick Ponty, Hélène Politano, and Jean-François Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 144503 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Decay of MHD-Scale Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices Mediated by Parasitic Electron Dynamics

T. K. M. Nakamura, D. Hayashi, M. Fujimoto, and I. Shinohara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145001 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Origin of the Thermoreversible fcc-bcc Transition in Block Copolymer Solutions

Timothy P. Lodge, Joona Bang, Moon Jeong Park, and Kookheon Char

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145501 (2004) - Published 6 April, 2004

Icosahedral Short-Range Order in Amorphous Alloys

W. K. Luo, H. W. Sheng, F. M. Alamgir, J. M. Bai, J. H. He, and E. Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145502 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Bridging the Gap between Small Clusters and Nanodroplets: Spectroscopic Study and Computer Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Solvated with Helium Atoms

J. Tang, A. R. W. McKellar, F. Mezzacapo, and S. Moroni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145503 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Experimental Study of Spinodal Decomposition in a 1D Conserved Order Parameter System

Tomoyuki Nagaya and Jean-Marc Gilli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145504 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

L. A. Madsen, T. J. Dingemans, M. Nakata, and E. T. Samulski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145505 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Biaxial Nematic Phase in Bent-Core Thermotropic Mesogens

Bharat R. Acharya, Andrew Primak, and Satyendra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145506 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Nonequilibrium Critical Dynamics at Surfaces: Cluster Dissolution and Nonalgebraic Correlations

Michel Pleimling and Ferenc Iglói

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145701 (2004) - Published 7 April, 2004

Phase Coexistence in Gallium Nanoparticles Controlled by Electron Excitation

S. Pochon, K. F. MacDonald, R. J. Knize, and N. I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145702 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

New Universal Scaling Laws of Diffusion and Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy in Simple Liquids

Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 145901 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Transient Evolution of Surface Roughness on Patterned GaAs(001) during Homoepitaxial Growth

H.-C. Kan, S. Shah, T. Tadyyon-Eslami, and R. J. Phaneuf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146101 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Ice Tessellation on a Hydroxylated Silica Surface

Jianjun Yang, Sheng Meng, L. F. Xu, and E. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146102 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Sublattice Identification in Scanning Force Microscopy on Alkali Halide Surfaces

R. Hoffmann, L. N. Kantorovich, A. Baratoff, H. J. Hug, and H.-J. Güntherodt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146103 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Unusual Phonon Softening in $δ$ -Phase Plutonium

R. J. McQueeney, A. C. Lawson, A. Migliori, T. M. Kelley, B. Fultz, M. Ramos, B. Martinez, J. C. Lashley, and Sven C. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146401 (2004) - Published 7 April, 2004

Experimental Evidence for the $p − d$ Hybridization in the Cd-Ca Quasicrystal: Origin of the Pseudogap

R. Tamura, T. Takeuchi, C. Aoki, S. Takeuchi, T. Kiss, T. Yokoya, and S. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146402 (2004) - Published 7 April, 2004

Electron-Phonon Interaction in the $t − J$ Model

O. Rösch and O. Gunnarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146403 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Potential Functionals: Dual to Density Functionals and Solution to the $v$ -Representability Problem

Weitao Yang, Paul W. Ayers, and Qin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146404 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Demonstration of a $1 / 4$ -Cycle Phase Shift in the Radiation-Induced Oscillatory Magnetoresistance in $GaAs / AlGaAs$ Devices

R. G. Mani, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, V. Narayanamurti, W. B. Johnson, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 146801 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Impeded Growth of Magnetic Flux Bubbles in the Intermediate State Pattern of Type I Superconductors

V. Jeudy, C. Gourdon, and T. Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147001 (2004) - Published 6 April, 2004

Anisotropy of the Superconducting Gap of the Borocarbide Superconductor ${YNi}_{2} B_{2} C$ with Ultrasonic Attenuation

Tadataka Watanabe, Minoru Nohara, Tetsuo Hanaguri, and Hidenori Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147002 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Instability of the Quantum-Critical Point of Itinerant Ferromagnets

Andrey V. Chubukov, Catherine Pépin, and Jerome Rech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147003 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Why ${N i}_{3} A l$ Is an Itinerant Ferromagnet but ${N i}_{3} G a$ Is Not

A. Aguayo, I. I. Mazin, and D. J. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147201 (2004) - Published 5 April, 2004

Manipulation of Spin Reorientation Transition by Oxygen Surfactant Growth: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Approach

Jisang Hong, R. Q. Wu, J. Lindner, E. Kosubek, and K. Baberschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147202 (2004) - Published 5 April, 2004

First Order Magnetic Transition in Doped ${CeFe}_{2}$ Alloys: Phase Coexistence and Metastability

S. B. Roy, G. K. Perkins, M. K. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Nigam, K. J. S. Sokhey, P. Chaddah, A. D. Caplin, and L. F. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147203 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Finite Conductance Governs the Resonance Transmission of Thin Metal Slits at Microwave Frequencies

J. R. Suckling, A. P. Hibbins, M. J. Lockyear, T. W. Preist, J. R. Sambles, and C. R. Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147401 (2004) - Published 7 April, 2004

Lowest Optical Excitations in Molecular Crystals: Bound Excitons versus Free Electron-Hole Pairs in Anthracene

Kerstin Hummer, Peter Puschnig, and Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147402 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Carrier-Envelope Phase-Controlled Quantum Interference of Injected Photocurrents in Semiconductors

T. M. Fortier, P. A. Roos, D. J. Jones, S. T. Cundiff, R. D. R. Bhat, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147403 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Experimental Investigation of a Two-Qubit Decoherence-Free Subspace

J. B. Altepeter, P. G. Hadley, S. M. Wendelken, A. J. Berglund, and P. G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147901 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Folding and Unfolding of an Elastinlike Oligopeptide: “Inverse Temperature Transition,” Reentrance, and Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics

Eduard Schreiner, Chiara Nicolini, Björn Ludolph, Revanur Ravindra, Nikolaj Otte, Axel Kohlmeyer, Roger Rousseau, Roland Winter, and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 148101 (2004) - Published 7 April, 2004

Short-Term Memory in Orthogonal Neural Networks

Olivia L. White, Daniel D. Lee, and Haim Sompolinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 148102 (2004) - Published 9 April, 2004

Configurational Temperature of Charge-Stabilized Colloidal Monolayers

Yilong Han and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 148301 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Cluster Mode-Coupling Approach to Weak Gelation in Attractive Colloids

K. Kroy, M. E. Cates, and W. C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 148302 (2004) - Published 8 April, 2004

Volume 92, Issue 14

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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