Volume 92, Issue 4

30 January 2004

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On the Cover

Condensation of fermionic atom pairs near the BEC-BCS crossover regime, where Bose-Einstein condensation changes over into condensation of Cooper pairs. This novel state of matter was created by applying a magnetic field to an ultracold gas of potassium atoms and then tuning the atom-atom interactions.

From the article:

Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs
C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D. S. Jin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Atomistic Mechanism of NaCl Nucleation from an Aqueous Solution

Dirk Zahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040801 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics

Optimal Rotations of Deformable Bodies and Orbits in Magnetic Fields

J. E. Avron, O. Gat, O. Kenneth, and U. Sivan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040201 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Spontaneous Soliton Formation and Modulational Instability in Bose-Einstein Condensates

L. D. Carr and J. Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040401 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Dynamics of $F = 2$ Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

H. Schmaljohann, M. Erhard, J. Kronjäger, M. Kottke, S. van Staa, L. Cacciapuoti, J. J. Arlt, K. Bongs, and K. Sengstock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040402 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs

C. A. Regal, M. Greiner, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040403 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates in and near the Lowest Landau Level

V. Schweikhard, I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. P. Mogendorff, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040404 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Canonical Bose Gas Simulations with Stochastic Gauges

P. D. Drummond, P. Deuar, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040405 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Klein Paradox in Spatial and Temporal Resolution

P. Krekora, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040406 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Minimal Stochastic Model for Fermi’s Acceleration

Freddy Bouchet, Fabio Cecconi, and Angelo Vulpiani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040601 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Atomistic Mechanism of NaCl Nucleation from an Aqueous Solution

Dirk Zahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040801 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nonexistence of Conformally Flat Slices in Kerr and Other Stationary Spacetimes

Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 041101 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Chemical Evolution of Mg Isotopes versus the Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant

T. Ashenfelter, Grant J. Mathews, and Keith A. Olive

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 041102 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

$B_{K}$ from Quenched QCD with Exact Chiral Symmetry

Nicolas Garron, Leonardo Giusti, Christian Hoelbling, Laurent Lellouch, and Claudio Rebbi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 042001 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Generalized Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD

M. Göckeler, R. Horsley, D. Pleiter, P. E. L. Rakow, A. Schäfer, G. Schierholz, and W. Schroers (QCDSF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 042002 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Evidence for an Exotic $S = - 2$ , $Q = - 2$ Baryon Resonance in Proton-Proton Collisions at the CERN SPS

C. Alt et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 042003 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at $Q^{2} = 0.5$ and $1.0 {G e V}^{2} / c^{2}$

G. Warren et al. (Jefferson Lab E93-026 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 042301 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hydrogenic Rydberg States of Molecular van der Waals Complexes: Resolved Rydberg Spectroscopy of $D A B C O − N_{2}$

Martin C. R. Cockett and Mark J. Watkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043001 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Electromagnetically Induced Quantum Memory

A. Nazarkin, R. Netz, and R. Sauerbrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043002 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Symmetry of Dipositronium ${P s}_{2}$

D. M. Schrader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043401 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Fast Light, Slow Light, and Phase Singularities: A Connection to Generalized Weak Values

D. R. Solli, C. F. McCormick, R. Y. Chiao, S. Popescu, and J. M. Hickmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043601 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Generation of a Two-Photon Singlet Beam

W. A. T. Nogueira, S. P. Walborn, S. Pádua, and C. H. Monken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043602 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Evidence of Absolute and Convective Instabilities in Optics

Eric Louvergneaux, Christophe Szwaj, Gonzague Agez, Pierre Glorieux, and Majid Taki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043901 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

Self-Organization in Semiconductor Lasers with Ultrashort Optical Feedback

O. Ushakov, S. Bauer, O. Brox, H.-J. Wünsche, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043902 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Nonlinear Optics and Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Cavities

Vladimir S. Ilchenko, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Andrey B. Matsko, and Lute Maleki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043903 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Partially Incoherent Optical Vortices in Self-Focusing Nonlinear Media

Chien-Chung Jeng, Ming-Feng Shih, Kristian Motzek, and Yuri Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043904 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Photonic Band Gap Architectures for Holographic Lithography

Ovidiu Toader, Timothy Y. M. Chan, and Sajeev John

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 043905 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Space-Filling Bearings in Three Dimensions

R. Mahmoodi Baram, H. J. Herrmann, and N. Rivier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 044301 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Warm Cascades and Anomalous Scaling in a Diffusion Model of Turbulence

Colm Connaughton and Sergey Nazarenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 044501 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Divergence of Neighboring Magnetic-Field Lines and Fast-Particle Diffusion in Strong Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, with Application to Thermal Conduction in Galaxy Clusters

Jason Maron, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, and Eric Blackman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045001 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

Electrostatic Shocks Excited by Velocity Modulation of an Ion Beam in a Plasma

Takuma Gohda, Seiji Ishiguro, Satoru Iizuka, and Noriyoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045002 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

Low-Frequency Sheath Instability in a Non-Maxwellian Plasma with Energetic Ions

Mikhail Starodubtsev, Md. Kamal-Al-Hassan, Hiroaki Ito, Noboru Yugami, and Yasushi Nishida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045003 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Complexity of Small Silicon Self-Interstitial Defects

D. A. Richie, Jeongnim Kim, Stephen A. Barr, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Richard Hennig, and John W. Wilkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045501 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Flory-Huggins Model of Equilibrium Polymerization and Phase Separation in the Stockmayer Fluid

Jacek Dudowicz, Karl F. Freed, and Jack F. Douglas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045502 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Observation of Many Coherent Oscillations for MeV Protons Transmitted through Stacking Faults

M. B. H. Breese, E. J. Teo, M. A. Rana, L. Huang, J. A. van Kan, F. Watt, and P. J. C. King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045503 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Crossover (or Kovacs) Effect in an Aging Molecular Liquid

Stefano Mossa and Francesco Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 045504 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Kinetic Hindrance during the Initial Oxidation of Pd(100) at Ambient Pressures

E. Lundgren, J. Gustafson, A. Mikkelsen, J. N. Andersen, A. Stierle, H. Dosch, M. Todorova, J. Rogal, K. Reuter, and M. Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 046101 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Hydrogen Bonding in Mixed $O H + H_{2} O$ Overlayers on Pt(111)

C. Clay, S. Haq, and A. Hodgson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 046102 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Intramolecular Diffusive Motion in Alkane Monolayers Studied by High-Resolution Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

F. Y. Hansen, L. Criswell, D. Fuhrmann, K. W. Herwig, A. Diama, R. M. Dimeo, D. A. Neumann, U. G. Volkmann, and H. Taub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 046103 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Thermal Conductivity of ${P r}_{1.3 - x} {L a}_{0.7} {C e}_{x} {C u O}_{4}$ Single Crystals and Signatures of Stripes in an Electron-Doped Cuprate

X. F. Sun, Y. Kurita, T. Suzuki, Seiki Komiya, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047001 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Gap Structure of the Spin-Triplet Superconductor ${S r}_{2} {R u O}_{4}$ Determined from the Field-Orientation Dependence of the Specific Heat

K. Deguchi, Z. Q. Mao, H. Yaguchi, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047002 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Inhomogeneous Electronic Structure Probed by Spin-Echo Experiments in the Electron Doped High- $T_{c}$ Superconductor ${P r}_{1.85} {C e}_{0.15} {C u O}_{4 - y}$

F. Zamborszky, G. Wu, J. Shinagawa, W. Yu, H. Balci, R. L. Greene, W. G. Clark, and S. E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047003 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Unconventional Superconductivity and Electron Correlations in the Cobalt Oxyhydrate ${N a}_{0.35} {C o O}_{2} \cdot y H_{2} O$ from Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance

Tatsuya Fujimoto, Guo-qing Zheng, Y. Kitaoka, R. L. Meng, J. Cmaidalka, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047004 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Overhauser Effect of ${}^{67}{Z n}$ Nuclear Spins in ZnO via Cross Relaxation Induced by the Zero-Point Fluctuations of the Phonon Field

Hubert Blok, Serguei B. Orlinski, Jan Schmidt, and Pavel G. Baranov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047602 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Probing the Wave Function of Shallow Li and Na Donors in ZnO Nanoparticles

Serguei B. Orlinskii, Jan Schmidt, Pavel G. Baranov, Detlev M. Hofmann, Celso de Mello Donegá, and Andries Meijerink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047603 (2004) - Published 28 January, 2004

Distinctive Contributions from Organic Filler and Relaxorlike Polymer Matrix to Dielectric Response of CuPc-P(VDF-TrFE-CFE) Composite

V. Bobnar, A. Levstik, C. Huang, and Q. M. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 047604 (2004) - Published 29 January, 2004

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Gibbons-Hawking Effect in the Sonic de Sitter Space-Time of an Expanding Bose-Einstein-Condensed Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 240407 (2003)]

Petr O. Fedichev and Uwe R. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 049901 (2004) - Published 27 January, 2004

Publisher’s Note: Observation of an Exotic Baryon with $S = + 1$ in Photoproduction from the Proton [Phys. Rev. Lett.PRLTAO0031-9007 92, 032001 (2004)]

V. Kubarovsky et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 049902 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004

Erratum: Large Hadron Collider Tests of the Little Higgs Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 241802 (2003)]

Gustavo Burdman, Maxim Perelstein, and Aaron Pierce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 049903 (2004) - Published 30 January, 2004