Volume 92, Issue 8

27 February 2004

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On the Cover

The cover image is from a Monte Carlo study of crystal nucleation in a colloidal suspension of rodlike particles; different colors are used to illustrate the various orientations of the rods.

From the article:

Self-Poisoning of Crystal Nuclei in Hard-Rod Liquids
Tanja Schilling and Daan Frenkel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085505 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stopping Light All Optically

Mehmet Fatih Yanik and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083901 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics

Extended Molecules and Geometric Scattering Resonances in Optical Lattices

P. O. Fedichev, M. J. Bijlsma, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 080401 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Noise Shaping by Interval Correlations Increases Information Transfer

Maurice J. Chacron, Benjamin Lindner, and André Longtin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 080601 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Critical Exponent Crossovers in Escape near a Bifurcation Point

M. I. Dykman, B. Golding, and D. Ryvkine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 080602 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Obtaining the Apex of the Unitarity Triangle from $B \to π K$ Decays

Maxime Imbeault, Alexandre Lemerle, Véronique Pagé, and David London

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 081801 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Energy Dependence of the Cronin Effect from Nonlinear QCD Evolution

Javier L. Albacete, Néstor Armesto, Alex Kovner, Carlos A. Salgado, and Urs Achim Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 082001 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Determination of the Strange Form Factors of the Nucleon from $ν p$ , $\bar{ν} p$ , and Parity-Violating $\vec{e} p$ Elastic Scattering

Stephen F. Pate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 082002 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Polarization Contributions to the Spin Dependence of the Effective Interaction in Neutron Matter

Achim Schwenk and Bengt Friman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 082501 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Energy and Angular Distributions of Electrons Emitted by Direct Double Auger Decay

Jens Viefhaus, Slobodan Cvejanović, Burkhard Langer, Toralf Lischke, Georg Prümper, Daniel Rolles, Alexander V. Golovin, Alexei N. Grum-Grzhimailo, Nikolai M. Kabachnik, and Uwe Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083001 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Superexcited State Dynamics Probed with an Extreme-Ultraviolet Free Electron Laser

Wen Li, Robert R. Lucchese, Adnan Doyuran, Zilu Wu, Henrik Loos, Gregory E. Hall, and Arthur G. Suits

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083002 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Long-Range Electron Binding to Quadrupolar Molecules

C. Desfrançois, Y. Bouteiller, J. P. Schermann, D. Radisic, S. T. Stokes, K. H. Bowen, N. I. Hammer, and R. N. Compton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083003 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Lifetime of Molecule-Atom Mixtures near a Feshbach Resonance in ${}^{40}K$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083201 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Dissipation Effects in Cluster Fission

C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, B. Concina, and J. Leygnier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083401 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stopping Light All Optically

Mehmet Fatih Yanik and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083901 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Breakup of Ring Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum in Sodium Vapor

Matthew S. Bigelow, Petros Zerom, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083902 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Dramatic Enhancement of Third-Harmonic Generation in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

Przemyslaw P. Markowicz, Hanifi Tiryaki, Haridas Pudavar, Paras N. Prasad, Nick N. Lepeshkin, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083903 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Snake Instability of a Spatiotemporal Bright Soliton Stripe

S.-P. Gorza, N. Roig, Ph. Emplit, and M. Haelterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084101 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Classical Scaling Theory of Quantum Resonances

Sandro Wimberger, Italo Guarneri, and Shmuel Fishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084102 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Distribution of the Local Density of States, Reflection Coefficient, and Wigner Delay Time in Absorbing Ergodic Systems at the Point of Chiral Symmetry

Yan V. Fyodorov and Alexander Ossipov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084103 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Dispersion and Mixing in Quasigeostrophic Turbulence

Annalisa Bracco, Jost von Hardenberg, Antonello Provenzale, Jeffrey B. Weiss, and Jim C. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084501 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Spatiotemporal Oscillations and Rheochaos in a Simple Model of Shear Banding

S. M. Fielding and P. D. Olmsted

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084502 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Aspect-Ratio Dependence of Charge Transport in Turbulent Electroconvection

Peichun Tsai, Zahir A. Daya, and Stephen W. Morris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084503 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Saturated State of the Nonlinear Small-Scale Dynamo

A. A. Schekochihin, S. C. Cowley, S. F. Taylor, G. W. Hammett, J. L. Maron, and J. C. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 084504 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Interaction of Compressional Waves in a 2D Dusty Plasma Crystal

V. Nosenko, K. Avinash, J. Goree, and B. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085001 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Hot Dense Capsule-Implosion Cores Produced by $Z$ -Pinch Dynamic Hohlraum Radiation

J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, S. A. Slutz, I. Golovkin, P. W. Lake, J. J. MacFarlane, R. C. Mancini, T. J. Burris-Mog, G. Cooper, R. J. Leeper, T. A. Mehlhorn, T. C. Moore, T. J. Nash, D. S. Nielsen, C. L. Ruiz, D. G. Schroen, and W. A. Varnum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085002 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

High-Momentum Response of Liquid ${}^{3}{H e}$

F. Mazzanti, A. Polls, J. Boronat, and J. Casulleras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085301 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Surface Structure of Liquid Li and Na: An ab initio Molecular Dynamics Study

D. J. González, L. E. González, and M. J. Stott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085501 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Probing Weak Forces in Granular Media through Nonlinear Dynamic Dilatancy: Clapping Contacts and Polarization Anisotropy

V. Tournat, V. Zaitsev, V. Gusev, V. Nazarov, P. Béquin, and B. Castagnède

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085502 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Nanotube-Substrate Interactions: Distinguishing Carbon Nanotubes by the Helical Angle

Aleksey N. Kolmogorov, Vincent H. Crespi, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, and James C. Ellenbogen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085503 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

How Narrow Can a Meniscus Be?

Joonkyung Jang, George C. Schatz, and Mark A. Ratner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085504 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Self-Poisoning of Crystal Nuclei in Hard-Rod Liquids

Tanja Schilling and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085505 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Pressure Induced Self-Oxidation of $F e (O H)_{2}$

M. P. Pasternak, A. P. Milner, G. Kh. Rozenberg, R. D. Taylor, and R. Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085506 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Motion and Rotation of Small Glissile Dislocation Loops in Stress Fields

W. G. Wolfer, T. Okita, and D. M. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085507 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Solute Diffusion in Metals: Larger Atoms Can Move Faster

A. Janotti, M. Krčmar, C. L. Fu, and R. C. Reed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 085901 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Understanding the Magnetocatalytic Effect: Magnetism as a Driving Force for Surface Segregation

Donald J. Siegel, Mark van Schilfgaarde, and J. C. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086101 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Surface Energy and the Common Dangling Bond Rule for Semiconductors

S. B. Zhang and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086102 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Submonolayer Growth with Anomalously High Island Density in Hyperthermal Deposition

I. T. Koponen, M. O. Jahma, M. Rusanen, and T. Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086103 (2004) - Published 25 February, 2004

Microscopic Mechanisms of Self-Compensation in Si $δ$ -Doped GaAs

S. Modesti, R. Duca, P. Finetti, G. Ceballos, M. Piccin, S. Rubini, and A. Franciosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086104 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quasiparticle Spectra, Charge-Density Waves, Superconductivity, and Electron-Phonon Coupling in $2 H − {N b S e}_{2}$

T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, P. D. Johnson, P-A. Glans, C. McGuinness, K. E. Smith, E. Y. Andrei, and H. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086401 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Quantum-Classical Transitions in Lifshitz Tails with Magnetic Fields

Hajo Leschke and Simone Warzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086402 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Phase Inhomogeneity of the Itinerant Ferromagnet MnSi at High Pressures

W. Yu, F. Zamborszky, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Sarrao, M. E. Torelli, Z. Fisk, and S. E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086403 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Theory of Current-Driven Domain Wall Motion: Spin Transfer versus Momentum Transfer

Gen Tatara and Hiroshi Kohno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086601 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Spin Polarization of Electrons by Nonmagnetic Heterostructures: The Basics of Spin Optics

M. Khodas, A. Shekhter, and A. M. Finkel’stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086602 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Vibrationally Resolved Fluorescence from Organic Molecules near Metal Surfaces in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Z.-C. Dong, X.-L. Guo, A. S. Trifonov, P. S. Dorozhkin, K. Miki, K. Kimura, S. Yokoyama, and S. Mashiko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086801 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Anomalous-Filling-Factor-Dependent Nuclear-Spin Polarization in a 2D Electron System

J. H. Smet, R. A. Deutschmann, F. Ertl, W. Wegschei der, G. Abstreiter, and K. von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086802 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Noise Spectroscopy and Interlayer Phase Coherence in Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems

Yogesh N. Joglekar, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086803 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Direct Observation of Nonlocal Effects in a Superconductor

A. Suter, E. Morenzoni, R. Khasanov, H. Luetkens, T. Prokscha, and N. Garifianov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087001 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Diverging Entanglement Length in Gapped Quantum Spin Systems

F. Verstraete, M. A. Martín-Delgado, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087201 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Orbital Ordering in ${L a}_{0.5} {S r}_{1.5} {M n O}_{4}$ Studied by Soft X-Ray Linear Dichroism

D. J. Huang, W. B. Wu, G. Y. Guo, H.-J. Lin, T. Y. Hou, C. F. Chang, C. T. Chen, A. Fujimori, T. Kimura, H. B. Huang, A. Tanaka, and T. Jo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087202 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Complexity of Ising Spin Glasses

T. Aspelmeier, A. J. Bray, and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087203 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Field-Induced Reentrant Novel Phase and a Ferroelectric-Magnetic Order Coupling in ${H o M n O}_{3}$

B. Lorenz, A. P. Litvinchuk, M. M. Gospodinov, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087204 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Bosons as the Origin for Giant Magnetic Properties of Organic Monolayers

Zeev Vager and Ron Naaman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087205 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Localized Dynamics during Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials

C. W. Carr, H. B. Radousky, A. M. Rubenchik, M. D. Feit, and S. G. Demos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087401 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Hydrogen-Release Mechanisms in the Breakdown of Thin ${S i O}_{2}$ Films

J. Suñé and E. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087601 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

Ab Initio Calculation of Hyperfine and Superhyperfine Interactions for Shallow Donors in Semiconductors

Harald Overhof and Uwe Gerstmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 087602 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Anomalous Heat Conduction and Anomalous Diffusion in One-Dimensional Systems”

Ralf Metzler and Igor M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089401 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Li and Wang Reply:

Baowen Li and Jiao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089402 (2004) - Published 24 February, 2004

Comment on “Theoretical Study of the Optical Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanoparticles under an Excitonic Resonance Condition”

Matthew Pelton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089701 (2004) - Published 26 February, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Relativistic Generation of Isolated Attosecond Pulses in a $λ^{3}$ Focal Volume [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063902 (2004)]

N. M. Naumova, J. A. Nees, I. V. Sokolov, B. Hou, and G. A. Mourou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089901 (2004) - Published 23 February, 2004

Erratum: Fractional Band Filling in an Atomic Chain Structure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 176805 (2003)]

J. N. Crain, A. Kirakosian, K. N. Altmann, C. Bromberger, S. C. Erwin, J. L. McChesney, J.-L. Lin, and F. J. Himpsel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089902 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Erratum: Time-Resolved Measurement of Propagating Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Thin Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 237202 (2002)]

M. Covington, T. M. Crawford, and G. J. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089903 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004

Erratum: Electron-Phonon Coupling and its Evidence in the Photoemission Spectra of Lead [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 186406 (2003)]

F. Reinert, B. Eltner, G. Nicolay, D. Ehm, S. Schmidt, and S. Hüfner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 089904 (2004) - Published 27 February, 2004