Volume 93, Issue 18

29 October 2004

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Time plots of the phase along a superconducting annular Josephson junction. Arrows indicate the presence of a fluxon or an antifluxon. Experiment and numerical calculations demonstrate the existence of a novel kind of fluxon resonant state in this perturbed sine-Gordon system.

From the article:

New Fluxon Resonant Mechanism in Annular Josephson Tunnel Structures
C. Nappi, M. P. Lisitskiy, G. Rotoli, R. Cristiano, and A. Barone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187001 (2004)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Tip-Enhanced Fluorescence Microscopy at 10 Nanometer Resolution

Jordan M. Gerton, Lawrence A. Wade, Guillaume A. Lessard, Z. Ma, and Stephen R. Quake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180801 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Record of Cycling Operation of the Natural Nuclear Reactor in the Oklo/Okelobondo Area in Gabon

A. P. Meshik, C. M. Hohenberg, and O. V. Pravdivtseva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 182302 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Excitable CO Oxidation on Pt(110) under Nonuniform Coupling

C. Beta, M. G. Moula, A. S. Mikhailov, H. H. Rotermund, and G. Ertl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 188302 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

LETTERS

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

Observation of Quantum Oscillations between a Josephson Phase Qubit and a Microscopic Resonator Using Fast Readout

K. B. Cooper, Matthias Steffen, R. McDermott, R. W. Simmonds, Seongshik Oh, D. A. Hite, D. P. Pappas, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180401 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Limit to Minimally Destructive Optical Detection of Atoms

J. J. Hope and J. D. Close

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180402 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Interference of an Array of Independent Bose-Einstein Condensates

Zoran Hadzibabic, Sabine Stock, Baptiste Battelier, Vincent Bretin, and Jean Dalibard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180403 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

How Quantum Correlations Enhance Prediction of Complementary Measurements

Radim Filip, Miroslav Gavenda, Jan Soubusta, Antonín Černoch, and Miloslav Dušek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180404 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Strong Levinson Theorem for the Dirac Equation

Alex Calogeracos and Norman Dombey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180405 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Confined Quantum Time of Arrivals

Eric A. Galapon, Roland F. Caballar, and Ricardo T. Bahague Jr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180406 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Electron-Positron Pair Production By Photons In Nonuniform Strong Fields

H. Nitta, M. Kh. Khokonov, Y. Nagata, and S. Onuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180407 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Quantum Cloning of a Coherent Light State into an Atomic Quantum Memory

Jaromír Fiurášek, Nicolas J. Cerf , and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180501 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Distribution of Time-Bin Entangled Qubits over 50 km of Optical Fiber

I. Marcikic, H. de Riedmatten, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, M. Legré, and N. Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180502 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Efficient Use of Quantum Resources for the Transmission of a Reference Frame

G. Chiribella, G. M. D’Ariano, P. Perinotti, and M. F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180503 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Quasiperiodic Dynamics of a Quantum Walk on the Line

Antoni Wójcik, Tomasz Łuczak, Paweł Kurzyński, Andrzej Grudka, and Małgorzata Bednarska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180601 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Phenomena in Porous Media with Nonlinear Kinetics: Effects of Quenched Porosity Fluctuations

Ivan L'Heureux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180602 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Generalized Langevin Equation with Fractional Gaussian Noise: Subdiffusion within a Single Protein Molecule

S. C. Kou and X. Sunney Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180603 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Tip-Enhanced Fluorescence Microscopy at 10 Nanometer Resolution

Jordan M. Gerton, Lawrence A. Wade, Guillaume A. Lessard, Z. Ma, and Stephen R. Quake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180801 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

TeV Neutrinos from Core Collapse Supernovae and Hypernovae

Soebur Razzaque, Peter Mészáros, and Eli Waxman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181101 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Phantom Energy Mediates a Long-Range Repulsive Force

Luca Amendola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181102 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Study of $B \to D_{s J}^{() +} {\bar{D}}^{()}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181801 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

A Determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Parameter $| V_{u s} |$ _ Using $K_{L}$ Decays

T. Alexopoulos et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181802 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Precise Measurement of the $π^{+} \to π^{0} e^{+} ν$ Branching Ratio

D. Počanić et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181803 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Precise Measurement of the Pion Axial Form Factor in the $π^{+} \to e^{+} ν γ$ Decay

E. Frlež et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181804 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Branching Fractions and $C P$ Asymmetries in $B^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} K_{S}^{0}$ and $B^{+} \to K^{+} K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181805 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Searches for $B^{0}$ Decays to Combinations of Two Charmless Isoscalar Mesons

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 181806 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Fluctuations of the Initial Conditions and the Continuous Emission in the Hydrodynamical Description of Two-Pion Interferometry

O. Socolowski, ,Jr., F. Grassi, Y. Hama, and T. Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 182301 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Record of Cycling Operation of the Natural Nuclear Reactor in the Oklo/Okelobondo Area in Gabon

A. P. Meshik, C. M. Hohenberg, and O. V. Pravdivtseva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 182302 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Correlated Strength in the Nuclear Spectral Function

D. Rohe et al. (E97-006 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 182501 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Relativistic and Interchannel Coupling Effects in Photoionization Angular Distributions By Synchrotron Spectrocopy of Laser Cooled Atoms

L. H. Coutinho, R. L. Cavasso-Filho, T. C. R. Rocha, M. G. P. Homem, D. S. L. Figueira, P. T. Fonseca, F. C. Cruz, and A. Naves de Brito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183001 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Observation of Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in a Mixture of Bosons and Fermions

S. Inouye, J. Goldwin, M. L. Olsen, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183201 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Routes to Control of $H_{2}$ Coulomb Explosion in Few-Cycle Laser Pulses

A. S. Alnaser, X. M. Tong, T. Osipov, S. Voss, C. M. Maharjan, P. Ranitovic, B. Ulrich, B. Shan, Z. Chang, C. D. Lin, and C. L. Cocke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183202 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Regge Oscillations in Integral Cross Sections for Proton Impact on Atomic Hydrogen

J. H. Macek, P. S. Krstić, and S. Yu. Ovchinnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183203 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Frequency Mixing Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms

Danielle A. Braje, Vlatko Balić, Sunil Goda, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183601 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Vector Soliton Fission

F. Lu, Q. Lin, W. H. Knox, and Govind P. Agrawal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183901 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Thermal Diode: Rectification of Heat Flux

Baowen Li, Lei Wang, and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184301 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Stripe Formation in Granular Mixtures due to the Differential Influence of Drag

P. Sánchez, Michael R. Swift, and P. J. King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184302 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Pattern Formation in Binary Fluids Confined between Rough, Chemically Heterogeneous Surfaces

R. Verberg, C. M. Pooley, J. M. Yeomans, and Anna. C. Balazs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184501 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Viscous Entrainment from a Nozzle: Singular Liquid Spouts

Wendy W. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184502 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Velocity and Velocity-Difference Distributions in Burgers Turbulence

Stanislav Boldyrev, Timur Linde, and Alexandre Polyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184503 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of 0.4-keV Femtosecond Electron Pulses using Impulsively Excited Surface Plasmons

S. E. Irvine, A. Dechant, and A. Y. Elezzabi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 184801 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Diagnostics of the Electronegative Plasma Sheath at Low Pressures Using Microparticles

B. M. Annaratone, T. Antonova, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185001 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Near-GeV-Energy Laser-Wakefield Acceleration of Self-Injected Electrons in a Centimeter-Scale Plasma Channel

F. S. Tsung, Ritesh Narang, W. B. Mori, C. Joshi, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185002 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Breakdown of Hot-Spot Model in Determining Convective Amplification in Large Homogeneous Systems

Philippe Mounaix and Laurent Divol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185003 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Global Simulation for Laser-Driven MeV Electrons in Fast Ignition

C. Ren, M. Tzoufras, F. S. Tsung, W. B. Mori, S. Amorini, R. A. Fonseca, L. O. Silva, J. C. Adam, and A. Heron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185004 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Intrinsic Energy Loss Mechanisms in a Cantilevered Carbon Nanotube Beam Oscillator

H. Jiang, M.-F. Yu, B. Liu, and Y. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185501 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Path Prediction of Kinked and Branched Cracks in Plane Situations

M. Adda–Bedia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185502 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Kohn Anomalies and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphite

S. Piscanec, M. Lazzeri, Francesco Mauri, A. C. Ferrari, and J. Robertson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185503 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Peculiar Effects of Anisotropic Diffusion on Dynamics of Vicinal Surfaces

G. Danker, O. Pierre-Louis, K. Kassner, and C. Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185504 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Nanoscale Hydrophobic Interaction and Nanobubble Nucleation

T. Koishi, S. Yoo, K. Yasuoka, X. C. Zeng, T. Narumi, R. Susukita, A. Kawai, H. Furusawa, A. Suenaga, N. Okimoto, N. Futatsugi, and T. Ebisuzaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185701 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Disorder by Random Crosslinking in Smectic Elastomers

Denitza M. Lambreva, Boris I. Ostrovskii, Heino Finkelmann, and Wim H. de Jeu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185702 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Investigations of the Structure of Water Using Mid-IR Fiberoptic Evanescent Wave Spectroscopy

Y. Raichlin, A. Millo, and A. Katzir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185703 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Negative Entropy of Mixing for Vanadium-Platinum Solutions

O. Delaire, T. Swan–Wood, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 185704 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

Optimal Swimming at Low Reynolds Numbers

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186001 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Fractional Statistical Theory of Adsorption of Polyatomics

J. L. Riccardo, A. J. Ramirez-Pastor, and F. Romá

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186101 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetic Properties of (BEDT-TTF)(ClMeTCNQ) Studied by ESR under Pressure: A Neutral-Ionic Crossover and Thermoinduced Mesophase

Hirokazu Sakamoto, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tatsuo Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186401 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Well-Defined Quasiparticles in Interacting Metallic Grains

Dominique Gobert, Moshe Schechter, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186402 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

Jahn-Teller Distortions and the Supershell Effect in Metal Nanowires

D. F. Urban, J. Bürki, C.-H. Zhang, C. A. Stafford, and Hermann Grabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186403 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Strong Exciton-Photon Coupling and Exciton Hybridization in a Thermally Evaporated Polycrystalline Film of an Organic Small Molecule

R. J. Holmes and S. R. Forrest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 186404 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Pressure and Field Induced Magnetic Order in the Spin Liquid ${T b}_{2} {T i}_{2} O_{7}$ as Studied by Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction

I. Mirebeau, I. N. Goncharenko, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187204 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Low-Energy Singlets in the Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Kagome Lattice

Ran Budnik and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187205 (2004) - Published 29 October, 2004

First-Principles Study of the Electro-Optic Effect in Ferroelectric Oxides

Marek Veithen, Xavier Gonze, and Philippe Ghosez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187401 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Structure of Excited-State Transitions of Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals Probed by Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy

Han Htoon, Paris J. Cox, and Victor I. Klimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187402 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Two-Photon Lasers Based on Intersubband Transitions in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

C. Z. Ning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187403 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Laser Trapping of Small Colloidal Particles in a Nematic Liquid Crystal: Clouds and Ghosts

I. Muševič, M. Škarabot, D. Babič, N. Osterman, I. Poberaj, V. Nazarenko, and A. Nych

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187801 (2004) - Published 27 October, 2004

Theory of Optical Spectra Involving Charge Transfer States: Dynamic Localization Predicts a Temperature Dependent Optical Band Shift

Thomas Renger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 188101 (2004) - Published 26 October, 2004

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Excitable CO Oxidation on Pt(110) under Nonuniform Coupling

C. Beta, M. G. Moula, A. S. Mikhailov, H. H. Rotermund, and G. Ertl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 188302 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

Fitness-Dependent Topological Properties of the World Trade Web

Diego Garlaschelli and Maria I. Loffredo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 188701 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Chirality Distribution and Transition Energies of Carbon Nanotubes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 177401 (2004)]

H. Telg, J. Maultzsch, S. Reich, F. Hennrich, and C. Thomsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 189901 (2004) - Published 25 October, 2004

Publisher's Note: Search for the Rare Leptonic Decay $B^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 221803 (2004)]

B. Aubert et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 189902 (2004) - Published 28 October, 2004