Volume 93, Issue 13

24 September 2004

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The image is the projection onto a screen of a conical light beam, generated by a polarized incident beam scattering from a photonic crystal. The conical structure of the beam shows up as the rings on the screen.

From the article:

Conical Second Harmonic Generation in a Two-Dimensional $χ^{(2)}$ Photonic Crystal: A Hexagonally Poled ${L i T a O}_{3}$ Crystal
P. Xu, S. H. Ji, S. N. Zhu, X. Q. Yu, J. Sun, H. T. Wang, J. L. He, Y. Y. Zhu, and N. B. Ming
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133904 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity

J. Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131301 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Determination of a Wave Function Functional

Xiao-Yin Pan, Viraht Sahni, and Lou Massa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130401 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Thermodynamics of a Degenerate Fermi Gas Across a Feshbach Resonance

A. V. Andreev, V. Gurarie, and L. Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130402 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Atom-Molecule Coexistence and Collective Dynamics Near a Feshbach Resonance of Cold Fermions

R. A. Barankov and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130403 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Relaxation and Dephasing in a Many-Fermion Generalization of the Caldeira-Leggett Model

Florian Marquardt and D. S. Golubev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130404 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Dual Kinetic Balance Approach to Basis-Set Expansions for the Dirac Equation

V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. A. Yerokhin, G. Plunien, and G. Soff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130405 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Unified Theory of Dynamically Suppressed Qubit Decoherence in Thermal Baths

A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130406 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Generalizing Tsirelson's Bound on Bell Inequalities Using a Min-Max Principle

Stefan Filipp and Karl Svozil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130407 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Parametric Driving of Dark Solitons in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates

N. P. Proukakis, N. G. Parker, C. F. Barenghi, and and C. S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130408 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Proposal for a Loophole-Free Bell Test Using Homodyne Detection

R. García-Patrón, J. Fiurášek, N. J. Cerf, J. Wenger, R. Tualle-Brouri, and Ph. Grangier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130409 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Observation of Coherent Oscillation of a Single Nuclear Spin and Realization of a Two-Qubit Conditional Quantum Gate

F. Jelezko, T. Gaebel, I. Popa, M. Domhan, A. Gruber, and J. Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130501 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Quantum Circuits for General Multiqubit Gates

Mikko Möttönen, Juha J. Vartiainen, Ville Bergholm, and Martti M. Salomaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130502 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Demonstration of Conditional Quantum Phase Shift Between Ions in a Solid

J. J. Longdell, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130503 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Maximum Renyi Entropy Principle for Systems with Power-Law Hamiltonians

A. G. Bashkirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130601 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Autocorrelation Exponent of Conserved Spin Systems in the Scaling Regime Following a Critical Quench

Clément Sire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130602 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Density Functional Theory for General Hard-Core Lattice Gases

Luis Lafuente and José A. Cuesta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130603 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Yang-Lee Zeros of the Antiferromagnetic Ising Model

Seung-Yeon Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130604 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Critical Collapse of a Complex Scalar Field with Angular Momentum

Matthew W. Choptuik, Eric W. Hirschmann, Steven L. Liebling, and Frans Pretorius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131101 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity

J. Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, and R. Loll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131301 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Limit on the $T$ -Violating Transverse Muon Polarization in $K^{+} \to π^{0} μ^{+} ν$ Decays

M. Abe et al. (KEK-E246 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131601 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

All Conjugate-Maximal-Helicity-Violating Amplitudes from Topological Open String Theory in Twistor Space

Radu Roiban and Anastasia Volovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131602 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Direct $C P$ Violating Asymmetry in $B^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131801 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Evidence for $B^{0} \to ρ^{0} π^{0}$

J. Dragic et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131802 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Evidence for $B^{+} \to ω l^{+} ν$

C. Schwanda et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131803 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Search for $B^{\pm} \to [K^{\mp} π^{\pm}]_{D} K^{\pm}$ and Upper Limit on the $b \to u$ Amplitude in $B^{\pm} \to D K^{\pm}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131804 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Measurements of $C P$ -Violating Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to K_{s}^{0} π^{0}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 131805 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Melting Pattern of Diquark Condensates in Quark Matter

K. Iida, T. Matsuura, M. Tachibana, and T. Hatsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132001 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

QCD Vacuum as a Disordered Medium: A Simplified Model for the QCD Dirac Operator

Antonio M. García-García and James C. Osborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132002 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Exclusive ${}^{3}H e (e, e^{'} p)$ Reaction Below the Quasielastic Peak

A. Kozlov et al. (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132301 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Experimental Confirmation of the Alhassid-Whelan Arc of Regularity

J. Jolie, R. F. Casten, P. Cejnar, S. Heinze, E. A. McCutchan, and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132501 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Quark Structure and Nuclear Effective Forces

P. A. M. Guichon and A. W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132502 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Distribution of Spectral Widths and Preponderance of Spin-0 Ground States in Nuclei

T. Papenbrock and H. A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132503 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Breakup Densities of Hot Nuclei

V. E. Viola, K. Kwiatkowski, J. B. Natowitz, and S. J. Yennello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132701 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Caloric Curve for Mononuclear Configurations

L. G. Sobotka, R. J. Charity, J. Tõke, and W. U. Schröder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 132702 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of the Electric Quadrupole Moment of the $4 d {}^{2}D_{5 / 2}$ Level in ${}^{88}{S r}^{+}$

G. P. Barwood, H. S. Margolis, G. Huang, P. Gill, and H. A. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133001 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Alternative Low-Symmetry Structure for 13-Atom Metal Clusters

C. M. Chang and M. Y. Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133401 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Collective Polarization Exchanges in Collisions of Photon Clouds

R. F. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133601 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Waveguide Directional Couplers

Po Dong and Andrew G. Kirk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133901 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Whispering Gallery Modes Inside Asymmetric Resonant Cavities

Yuliy Baryshnikov, Pascal Heider, Wolfgang Parz, and Vadim Zharnitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133902 (2004) - Published 22 September, 2004

Phase-Coupling-Induced Ultraslow Light Propagation in Solids at Room Temperature

Guoquan Zhang, Fang Bo, Rong Dong, and Jingjun Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133903 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Conical Second Harmonic Generation in a Two-Dimensional $χ^{(2)}$ Photonic Crystal: A Hexagonally Poled ${L i T a O}_{3}$ Crystal

P. Xu, S. H. Ji, S. N. Zhu, X. Q. Yu, J. Sun, H. T. Wang, J. L. He, Y. Y. Zhu, and N. B. Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 133904 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Phase Synchronization in Ensembles of Bursting Oscillators

Mikhail V. Ivanchenko, Grigory V. Osipov, Vladimir D. Shalfeev, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 134101 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

First Experimental Evidence for Quantum Echoes in Scattering Systems

C. Dembowski, B. Dietz, T. Friedrich, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, C. Mejía-Monasterio, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and T. H. Seligman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 134102 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Transient Structures in a Granular Gas

Nikolai Brilliantov, Clara Salueña, Thomas Schwager, and Thorsten Pöschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 134301 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Lagrangian Tracers on a Surface Flow: The Role of Time Correlations

Guido Boffetta, Jahanshah Davoudi, Bruno Eckhardt, and Jörg Schumacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 134501 (2004) - Published 21 September, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Dynamics in a Multicomponent Plasma Near the Low-Frequency Cutoff

Gurudas Ganguli and Leonid Rudakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 135001 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Measurement of the Resistive-Wall-Mode Stability in a Rotating Plasma Using Active MHD Spectroscopy

H. Reimerdes, M. S. Chu, A. M. Garofalo, G. L. Jackson, R. J. La Haye, G. A. Navratil, M. Okabayashi, J. T. Scoville, and E. J. Strait

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 135002 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

Parametric Dependence of Turbulent Particle Transport in Tore Supra Plasmas

G. T. Hoang, C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, J. F. Artaud, V. Basiuk, J. Bucalossi, F. Clairet, C. Fenzi-Bonizec, C. Gil, J. L. Ségui, J. M. Travère, E. Tsitrone, and L. Vermare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 135003 (2004) - Published 20 September, 2004

X-ray Generation in Strongly Nonlinear Plasma Waves

S. Kiselev, A. Pukhov, and I. Kostyukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 135004 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004

Production of a keV X-Ray Beam from Synchrotron Radiation in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction

Antoine Rousse, Kim Ta Phuoc, Rahul Shah, Alexander Pukhov, Eric Lefebvre, Victor Malka, Sergey Kiselev, Fréderic Burgy, Jean-Philippe Rousseau, Donald Umstadter, and Daniéle Hulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 135005 (2004) - Published 23 September, 2004