Volume 92, Issue 15

16 April 2004

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Numerical simulation of fluid flowing past an oscillating cylinder. The effect of noise in the flow on vortex dynamics in the wake is shown by the colored areas, depicting vorticity regions with high uncertainty, and the white lines, which show deterministic vorticity.

From the article:

Noisy Inflows Cause a Shedding-Mode Switching in Flow Past an Oscillating Cylinder
Didier Lucor and George Em Karniadakis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 154501 (2004)

LETTERS

General Physics

Distillation of Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Double-Well Potential

Y. Shin, M. Saba, A. Schirotzek, T. A. Pasquini, A. E. Leanhardt, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150401 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Evidence for Superfluidity in a Resonantly Interacting Fermi Gas

J. Kinast, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150402 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Semiclassical Time Evolution of the Reduced Density Matrix and Dynamically Assisted Generation of Entanglement for Bipartite Quantum Systems

Ph. Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150403 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Achieving a BCS Transition in an Atomic Fermi Gas

L. D. Carr, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and Y. Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150404 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Detection of Spatial Correlations in an Ultracold Gas of Fermions

M. Greiner, C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150405 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Berry Phase in a Composite System

X. X. Yi, L. C. Wang, and T. Y. Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150406 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Rules for Transition Rates in Nonequilibrium Steady States

R. M. L. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 150601 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measurement of the Flux of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays from Monocular Observations by the High Resolution Fly’s Eye Experiment

R. U. Abbasi et al. (High Resolution Fly’s Eye Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 151101 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Neutron Stars as Type-I Superconductors

Kirk B. W. Buckley, Max A. Metlitski, and Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 151102 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

What Does a Strongly Excited ’t Hooft–Polyakov Magnetic Monopole Do?

Gyula Fodor and István Rácz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 151801 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Resonant Excitations of the ’t Hooft–Polyakov Monopole

Péter Forgács and Mikhail S. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 151802 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Production and State-Selective Detection of Ultracold RbCs Molecules

Andrew J. Kerman, Jeremy M. Sage, Sunil Sainis, Thomas Bergeman, and David DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153001 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Counting Individual ${}^{41}{Ca}$ Atoms with a Magneto-Optical Trap

I. D. Moore, K. Bailey, J. Greene, Z.-T. Lu, P. Müller, T. P. O’Connor, Ch. Geppert, K. D. A. Wendt, and L. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153002 (2004) - Published 14 April, 2004

Beyond the $T_{1}$ Limit: Singlet Nuclear Spin States in Low Magnetic Fields

Marina Carravetta, Ole G. Johannessen, and Malcolm H. Levitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153003 (2004) - Published 14 April, 2004

Lifetime Measurement of the ${}^{3}P_{2}$ Metastable State of Strontium Atoms

Masami Yasuda and Hidetoshi Katori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153004 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Spin-Orbit Coupling and Berry Phase with Ultracold Atoms in 2D Optical Lattices

Artem M. Dudarev, Roberto B. Diener, Iacopo Carusotto, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153005 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Interference Effect in Electron Emission in Heavy Ion Collisions with $H_{2}$ Detected by Comparison with the Measured Electron Spectrum from Atomic Hydrogen

Deepankar Misra, U. Kadhane, Y. P. Singh, L. C. Tribedi, P. D. Fainstein, and P. Richard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153201 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Non-Gaussian Statistics from Individual Pulses of Squeezed Light

Jérôme Wenger, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, and Philippe Grangier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153601 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Distinguishing Genuine Entangled Two-Photon-Polarization States from Independently Generated Pairs of Entangled Photons

Kenji Tsujino, Holger F. Hofmann, Shigeki Takeuchi, and Keiji Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153602 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Synchronization of Spatiotemporal Disorder

R. Neubecker and B. Gütlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 154101 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Noisy Inflows Cause a Shedding-Mode Switching in Flow Past an Oscillating Cylinder

Didier Lucor and George Em Karniadakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 154501 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Different Modes of a Capacitively Coupled Radio-Frequency Discharge in Methane

I. V. Schweigert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155001 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Paul Trap Simulator Experiment to Model Intense-Beam Propagation in Alternating-Gradient Transport Systems

Erik P. Gilson, Ronald C. Davidson, Philip C. Efthimion, and Richard Majeski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155002 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Coulomb Crystallization in Expanding Laser-Cooled Neutral Plasmas

T. Pohl, T. Pattard, and J. M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155003 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Reversible, Surface-Controlled Structure Transformation in Nanoparticles Induced by an Aggregation State

Feng Huang, Benjamin Gilbert, Hengzhong Zhang, and Jillian F. Banfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155501 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Formation of Thermal Vacancies on the Si Sublattice of the Intermetallic Compound ${MoSi}_{2}$

X. Y. Zhang, W. Sprengel, T. E. M. Staab, H. Inui, and H.-E. Schaefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155502 (2004) - Published 14 April, 2004

Effect of Monomer Geometry on the Fractal Structure of Colloidal Rod Aggregates

Ali Mohraz, David B. Moler, Robert M. Ziff, and Michael J. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155503 (2004) - Published 14 April, 2004

Doping by Large-Size-Mismatched Impurities: The Microscopic Origin of Arsenic- or Antimony-Doped $p$ -Type Zinc Oxide

Sukit Limpijumnong, S. B. Zhang, Su-Huai Wei, and C. H. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155504 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Investigation of Transition States in Bulk and Freestanding Film Polymer Glasses

Tushar S. Jain and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155505 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Pressure-Induced Sharp Coordination Change in Liquid Germanate

Osamu Ohtaka, Hiroshi Arima, Hiroshi Fukui, Wataru Utsumi, Yoshinori Katayama, and Akira Yoshiasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155506 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Activation Energies for Quantum Diffusion of Hydrogen in Metals and on Metal Surfaces using Delocalized Nuclei within the Density-Functional Theory

Per G. Sundell and Göran Wahnström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 155901 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Probing Adsorbate State Lifetime with Low Energy Ions

J. Sjakste, A. G. Borisov, and J. P. Gauyacq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156101 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Molecular Forces Caused by the Confinement of Thermal Noise

Mihai D. Morariu, Erik Schäffer, and Ullrich Steiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156102 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Direct Measurement of the $g$ Factor of Composite Fermions

F. Schulze-Wischeler, E. Mariani, F. Hohls, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156401 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Controlled Dephasing of a Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

M. Avinun-Kalish, M. Heiblum, A. Silva, D. Mahalu, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156801 (2004) - Published 14 April, 2004

Oscillatory Magnetothermopower and Resonant Phonon Drag in a High-Mobility 2D Electron Gas

Jian Zhang, S. K. Lyo, R. R. Du, J. A. Simmons, and J. L. Reno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156802 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Diffusive Diffraction of the Local ESR Pulse-Gradient Spin-Echo Signal in a Restricted One-Dimensional Conductor

A. Feintuch, A. Grayevsky, N. Kaplan, and E. Dormann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156803 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Where is the Shot Noise of a Quantum Point Contact?

Frederick Green, Jagdish S. Thakur, and Mukunda P. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 156804 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Vortex State in Double Transition Superconductors

Yasushi Matsunaga, Masanori Ichioka, and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157001 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Do Vortices Entangle?

C. J. Olson Reichhardt and M. B. Hastings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157002 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Resonating Valence Bond Wave Function for the Two-Dimensional Fractional Spin Liquid

S. Yunoki and S. Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157003 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Thermodynamic and Transport Measurements of Superconducting ${Na}_{0.3} {CoO}_{2} \cdot 1.3 H_{2} O$ Single Crystals Prepared by Electrochemical Deintercalation

F. C. Chou, J. H. Cho, P. A. Lee, E. T. Abel, K. Matan, and Y. S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157004 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Nodal Order Parameter in Electron-Doped $\Pr_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$ Superconducting Films

A. Snezhko, R. Prozorov, D. D. Lawrie, R. W. Giannetta, J. Gauthier, J. Renaud, and P. Fournier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157005 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Magnetic Imaging of Pearl Vortices in Artificially Layered $({Ba}_{0.9} {Nd}_{0.1} {CuO}_{2 + x})_{m} / ({CaCuO}_{2})_{n}$ Systems

F. Tafuri, J. R. Kirtley, P. G. Medaglia, P. Orgiani, and G. Balestrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157006 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Lack of Ultrametricity in the Low-Temperature Phase of Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses

Guy Hed, A. P. Young, and Eytan Domany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157201 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Ising Transition in the Two-Dimensional Quantum $J_{1} - J_{2}$ Heisenberg Model

Luca Capriotti, Andrea Fubini, Tommaso Roscilde, and Valerio Tognetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157202 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

Theory of Insulator Metal Transition and Colossal Magnetoresistance in Doped Manganites

T. V. Ramakrishnan, H. R. Krishnamurthy, S. R. Hassan, and G. Venketeswara Pai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157203 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Abrupt Discontinuity of the Bulk Modulus Pressure Dependence in ${Fe}_{64} {Ni}_{36}$

Frédéric Decremps and Lucie Nataf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157204 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Optical Stark Effect in a Quantum Dot: Ultrafast Control of Single Exciton Polarizations

Thomas Unold, Kerstin Mueller, Christoph Lienau, Thomas Elsaesser, and Andreas D. Wieck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157401 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Anomalous Power Law Dispersions in ac Conductivity and Permittivity Shown to be Characteristics of Microstructural Electrical Networks

D. P. Almond and C. R. Bowen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157601 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Cheat Sensitive Quantum Bit Commitment

Lucien Hardy and Adrian Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 157901 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Water Induced Effects on the Thermal Response of a Protein

Simone Melchionna, Giuseppe Briganti, Paola Londei, and Piero Cammarano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 158101 (2004) - Published 13 April, 2004

Topological Origin of the Phase Transition in a Model of DNA Denaturation

Paolo Grinza and Alessandro Mossa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 158102 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Coherent Electron Transport through an Azobenzene Molecule: A Light-Driven Molecular Switch

C. Zhang, M.-H. Du, H.-P. Cheng, X.-G. Zhang, A. E. Roitberg, and J. L. Krause

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 158301 (2004) - Published 15 April, 2004

COMMENTS

Comment on “Spontaneous-Emission Suppression on Arbitrary Atomic Transitions”

P. R. Berman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159301 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Comment on “Spontaneous-Emission Suppression on Arbitrary Atomic Transitions”

A. G. Kofman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159302 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Evers and Keitel Reply:

J. Evers and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159303 (2004) - Published 12 April, 2004

Comment on “Rotational Drag on DNA: A Single Molecule Experiment”

Philip Nelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159801 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Thomen and Heslot Reply:

P. Thomen and F. Heslot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159802 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Comment on “Global Climate Models Violate Scaling of the Observed Atmospheric Variability”

D. Ritson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159803 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

Vjushin et al. Reply:

D. Vyushin, A. Bunde, St. Brenner, S. Havlin, R. B. Govindan, and H.-J. Schellnhuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159804 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Light Intensification towards the Schwinger Limit [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 085001 (2003)]

Sergei V. Bulanov, Timur Esirkepov, and Toshiki Tajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 159901 (2004) - Published 16 April, 2004