Volume 92, Issue 21

28 May 2004

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Plot of momentum correlation in the multiphoton double ionization of neon. The horizontal and vertical axes show, respectively, the component of the momentum in the polarization direction for each of the emitted electrons; the tendency is for both to be emitted in the same direction, in contrast to the back-to-back emission seen in single-photon double ionization.

From the article:

Fully Differential Rates for Femtosecond Multiphoton Double Ionization of Neon
M. Weckenbrock, D. Zeidler, A. Staudte, Th. Weber, M. Schöffler, M. Meckel, S. Kammer, M. Smolarski, O. Jagutzki, V. R. Bhardwaj, D. M. Rayner, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and R. Dörner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213002 (2004)

LETTERS

General Physics

Exact Decoherence to Pointer States in Free Open Quantum Systems is Universal

Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210401 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Observation of Half-Quantum Defects in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

Yu. Mukharsky, O. Avenel, and E. Varoquaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210402 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Realization of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox Using Momentum- and Position-Entangled Photons from Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

John C. Howell, Ryan S. Bennink, Sean J. Bentley, and R. W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210403 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Evolution of Wave-Packet Spread under Sequential Scattering of Particles of Unequal Mass

L. S. Schulman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210404 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Continuous Melting of Compact Polymers

Jesper Lykke Jacobsen and Jané Kondev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210601 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Numerical Simulation of Orbiting Black Holes

Bernd Brügmann, Wolfgang Tichy, and Nina Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 211101 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Deflagrations and Detonations in Thermonuclear Supernovae

Vadim N. Gamezo, Alexei M. Khokhlov, and Elaine S. Oran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 211102 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Measuring the Small-Scale Power Spectrum of Cosmic Density Fluctuations through 21 cm Tomography Prior to the Epoch of Structure Formation

Abraham Loeb and Matias Zaldarriaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 211301 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Dynamical Approach to the Cosmological Constant

Shinji Mukohyama and Lisa Randall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 211302 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Nuclear Physics

In-Medium Effects on Charmonium Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Loïc Grandchamp, Ralf Rapp, and Gerald E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 212301 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Quantum Phase Transitions in Mesoscopic Systems

F. Iachello and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 212501 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Relativistic and QED Corrections for the Beryllium Atom

Krzysztof Pachucki and Jacek Komasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213001 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Fully Differential Rates for Femtosecond Multiphoton Double Ionization of Neon

M. Weckenbrock, D. Zeidler, A. Staudte, Th. Weber, M. Schöffler, M. Meckel, S. Kammer, M. Smolarski, O. Jagutzki, V. R. Bhardwaj, D. M. Rayner, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213002 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Energy Loss by keV Ions in Silicon

H. O. Funsten, S. M. Ritzau, R. W. Harper, J. E. Borovsky, and R. E. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213201 (2004) - Published 24 May, 2004

Mutual Projectile-Target Ionization via the Two-Center Dielectronic Interaction in Relativistic Ion-Atom Collisions

A. B. Voitkiv, B. Najjari, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213202 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Single-Photon Generation from Stored Excitation in an Atomic Ensemble

C. W. Chou, S. V. Polyakov, A. Kuzmich, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213601 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Chaos in Practically Isolated Microcavity Lasers

Sebastian Wieczorek and Weng W. Chow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213901 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Self-Similar Evolution of Parabolic Pulses in a Laser

F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, W. G. Clark, and F. W. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Beyond the Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy Model for the Temporal Fluctuations of Scattered Light

R. Carminati, R. Elaloufi, and J.-J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213903 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Shear Band Formation in Granular Media as a Variational Problem

T. Unger, J. Török, J. Kertész, and D. E. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 214301 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Beam-Beam Limit in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Circular Colliders

K. Ohmi, M. Tawada, Y. Cai, S. Kamada, K. Oide, and J. Qiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 214801 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Nature of the Isotope Effect on Transport in Tokamaks

M. Z. Tokar, D. Kalupin, and B. Unterberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215001 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Size Effects in the Polarizability of Carbon Fullerenes

G. K. Gueorguiev, J. M. Pacheco, and David Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215501 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Fracture of Silicate Glasses: Ductile or Brittle?

Jean-Pierre Guin and Sheldon M. Wiederhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215502 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Universality in the Vibrational Spectra of Single-Component Amorphous Clusters

Subir K. Sarkar, Gurpreet S. Matharoo, and Akhilesh Pandey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215503 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Harmonic Lattice Behavior of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

P. Keim, G. Maret, U. Herz, and H. H. von Grünberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215504 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Exceptional Ideal Strength of Carbon Clathrates

X. Blase, Philippe Gillet, A. San Miguel, and P. Mélinon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215505 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Spectroscopic Evidence of Polymorphism in Vitreous $B_{2} O_{3}$

Jason Nicholas, Stanislav Sinogeikin, John Kieffer, and Jay Bass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215701 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

In situ Observation of Carbon-Nanopillar Tubulization Caused by Liquidlike Iron Particles

Toshinari Ichihashi, Jun-ichi Fujita, Masahiko Ishida, and Yukinori Ochiai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 215702 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Semiconducting Surface Reconstructions of $p$ -Type Si(100) Substrates at 5 K

L. Perdigão, D. Deresmes, B. Grandidier, M. Dubois, C. Delerue, G. Allan, and D. Stiévenard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216101 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Ultrafast Laser Excitation of $CO / Pt (111)$ Probed by Sum Frequency Generation: Coverage Dependent Desorption Efficiency

Frédéric Fournier, Wanquan Zheng, Serge Carrez, Henri Dubost, and Bernard Bourguignon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216102 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Emergence of Supersteps on ${KH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$ Crystal Surfaces

T. N. Thomas, T. A. Land, W. H. Casey, and J. J. DeYoreo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216103 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Critical Role of Surface Steps in the Alloying of Ge on Si(001)

J. B. Hannon, M. Copel, R. Stumpf, M. C. Reuter, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216104 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Shear at Twin Domain Boundaries in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - x}$

W. A. Caldwell, N. Tamura, R. S. Celestre, A. A. MacDowell, H. A. Padmore, T. H. Geballe, G. Koster, B. W. Batterman, and J. R. Patel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216105 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Effect of Particle-Hole Asymmetry on the Mott-Hubbard Metal-Insulator Transition

D. O. Demchenko, A. V. Joura, and J. K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216401 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Orbital-Selective Mott Transitions in the Degenerate Hubbard Model

Akihisa Koga, Norio Kawakami, T. M. Rice, and Manfred Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216402 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

de Haas–van Alphen Effect Across the Metamagnetic Transition in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

R. A. Borzi, S. A. Grigera, R. S. Perry, N. Kikugawa, K. Kitagawa, Y. Maeno, and A. P. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216403 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004

Climbing the Entropy Barrier: Driving the Single- towards the Multichannel Kondo Effect by a Weak Coulomb Blockade of the Leads

S. Florens and A. Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 216601 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Intrinsic Susceptibility and Bond Defects in the Novel Two Dimensional Frustrated Antiferromagnet ${Ba}_{2} {Sn}_{2} {ZnCr}_{7 p} {Ga}_{10 - 7 p} O_{22}$

D. Bono, P. Mendels, G. Collin, and N. Blanchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 217202 (2004) - Published 27 May, 2004

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Electron Correlation Effects in Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering of ${NaV}_{2} O_{5}$ ”

Michel van Veenendaal and A. J. Fedro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 219701 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Zhang et al. Reply:

G. P. Zhang, T. A. Callcott, G. T. Woods, L. Lin, Brian Sales, D. Mandrus, and J. He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 219702 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

Exchange Model for Oscillatory Interlayer Coupling and Induced Unidirectional Anisotropy in $[Pt / Co]_{3} / NiO / [Pt / Co]_{3}$ Multilayers

M. Ye. Zhuravlev, E. Y. Tsymbal, and S. S. Jaswal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 219703 (2004) - Published 26 May, 2004

ERRATA

Erratum: Stochastic Modeling Approach to the Incubation Time of Prionic Diseases [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 198101 (2003)]

A. S. Ferreira, M. A. A. da Silva, and J. C. Cressoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 219901 (2004) - Published 25 May, 2004

Publisher’s Note: Supersymmetric Patterns in the Pseudospin, Spin, and Coulomb Limits of the Dirac Equation with Scalar and Vector Potentials [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 202501 (2004)]

A. Leviatan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 219902 (2004) - Published 28 May, 2004