Volume 93, Issue 9

27 August 2004

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On the Cover

Snapshot from a simulation of the superfluid density in the region of a collapsed bubble; The bubble was moving to the right before its collapse. The collapse of the bubble has created four vortex rings; three of them are moving to the right and one to the left.

From the article:

Vortex Nucleation by Collapsing Bubbles in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Natalia G. Berloff and Carlo F. Barenghi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090401 (2004)

LETTERS

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

Vortex Nucleation by Collapsing Bubbles in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Natalia G. Berloff and Carlo F. Barenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090401 (2004) - Published 23 August, 2004

Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, and Nino Zanghì

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090402 (2004) - Published 23 August, 2004

Quasiparticle Scattering by Quantum Phase Slips in One-Dimensional Superfluids

S. Khlebnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090403 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Weakly Bound Dimers of Fermionic Atoms

D. S. Petrov, C. Salomon, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090404 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Dilute Fermi Gas in Quasi-One-Dimensional Traps: From Weakly Interacting Fermions via Hard Core Bosons to a Weakly Interacting Bose Gas

I. V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090405 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

High-Temperature Atomic Superfluidity in Lattice Bose-Fermi Mixtures

Fabrizio Illuminati and Alexander Albus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090406 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Universal Vortex Formation in Rotating Traps with Bosons and Fermions

M. Toreblad, M. Borgh, M. Koskinen, M. Manninen, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090407 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Exactly Solvable Model of the BCS-BEC Crossover

J. N. Fuchs, A. Recati, and W. Zwerger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090408 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Getting the Elastic Scattering Length by Observing Inelastic Collisions in Ultracold Metastable Helium Atoms

S. Seidelin, J. Viana Gomes, R. Hoppeler, O. Sirjean, D. Boiron, A. Aspect, and C. I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090409 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Experimental Bell Inequality Violation with an Atom and a Photon

D. L. Moehring, M. J. Madsen, B. B. Blinov, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090410 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Scaling of Decoherence in Wide NMR Quantum Registers

Hans Georg Krojanski and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090501 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Microscopic Analysis of a Thermal Brownian Motor

C. Van den Broeck, R. Kawai, and P. Meurs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090601 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Universality of the Shear Viscosity from Supergravity Duals

Alex Buchel and James T. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 090602 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Radiation from Inspiralling Compact Binaries Completed at the Third Post-Newtonian Order

Luc Blanchet, Thibault Damour, Gilles Esposito-Farèse, and Bala R. Iyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 091101 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Elementary Particles and Fields

Neutrino Oscillations as a Probe of Dark Energy

David B. Kaplan, Ann E. Nelson, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 091801 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Search for $B^{0}$ Decays to Invisible Final States and to $ν \bar{ν} γ$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 091802 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Nonrandom Event-by-Event Fluctuations of Average Transverse Momentum in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$ $A u + A u$ and $p + p$ Collisions

S. S. Adler et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 092301 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Aharonov-Bohm Effects in Entangled Molecules

J. C. Kimball and H. L. Frisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093001 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Inducing Disallowed Two-Atom Transitions with Temporally Entangled Photons

Ashok Muthukrishnan, Girish S. Agarwal, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093002 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Realization of a Magnetically Guided Atomic Beam in the Collisional Regime

T. Lahaye, J. M. Vogels, K. J. Günter, Z. Wang, J. Dalibard, and D. Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093003 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Optimal Control Approach to Suppression of Radiationless Transitions

Maxim Sukharev and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093004 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Symmetry and Electronic Structure of Noble-Metal Nanoparticles and the Role of Relativity

Hannu Häkkinen, Michael Moseler, Oleg Kostko, Nina Morgner, Margarita Astruc Hoffmann, and Bernd v. Issendorff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093401 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Efficient Conditional Preparation of High-Fidelity Single Photon States for Fiber-Optic Quantum Networks

Alfred B. U’Ren, Christine Silberhorn, Konrad Banaszek, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093601 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Ghost Imaging with Thermal Light: Comparing Entanglement and ClassicalCorrelation

A. Gatti, E. Brambilla, M. Bache, and L. A. Lugiato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093602 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Temporal Correlation Vortices and Topological Dispersion

Grover A. Swartzlander, Jr. and Joanna Schmit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093901 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Nonequivalence of Spatial Shifts and Wigner Delays at Interfaces

Christophe Bonnet, Dominique Chauvat, Olivier Emile, and Albert Le Floch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093902 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Nonlinear Optical Beam Interactions in Waveguide Arrays

Joachim Meier, George I. Stegeman, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J. S. Aitchison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093903 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Rotary Solitons in Bessel Optical Lattices

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Victor A. Vysloukh, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093904 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Power-Law Slip Profile of the Moving Contact Line in Two-Phase Immiscible Flows

Tiezheng Qian, Xiao-Ping Wang, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 094501 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Hydrodynamic Theory of Forced Dewetting

Jens Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 094502 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Plasma and Beam Physics

A Model Describing Stable Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in Storage Rings

F. Sannibale, J. M. Byrd, Á. Loftsdóttir, M. Venturini, M. Abo-Bakr, J. Feikes, K. Holldack, P. Kuske, G. Wüstefeld, H.-W. Hübers, and R. Warnock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 094801 (2004) - Published 23 August, 2004

How to Realize Uniform Three-Dimensional Ellipsoidal Electron Bunches

O. J. Luiten, S. B. van der Geer, M. J. de Loos, F. B. Kiewiet, and M. J. van der Wiel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 094802 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Observation of Superradiant Amplification of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in a Plasma

M. Dreher, E. Takahashi, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, and K.-J. Witte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095001 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coherent Shear Phonon Generation and Detection with Ultrashort Optical Pulses

O. Matsuda, O. B. Wright, D. H. Hurley, V. E. Gusev, and K. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095501 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Experimental Evidence for a High-Pressure Isostructural Phase Transition in Osmium

Florent Occelli, Daniel L. Farber, James Badro, Chantel M. Aracne, David M. Teter, Michael Hanfland, Bernard Canny, and Bernard Couzinet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095502 (2004) - Published 24 August, 2004

Silicon Monoxide Clusters: The Favorable Precursors for Forming Silicon Nanostructures

R. Q. Zhang, M. W. Zhao, and S. T. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095503 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Unusual Freezing and Melting of Gallium Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotubes

Zongwen Liu, Yoshio Bando, Masanori Mitome, and Jinhua Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095504 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Subcritical Statistics in Rupture of Fibrous Materials: Experiments and Model

Stéphane Santucci, Loïc Vanel, and Sergio Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095505 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Discontinuous Tangential Stress in Double Wall Carbon Nanotubes

P. Puech, H. Hubel, D. J. Dunstan, R. R. Bacsa, C. Laurent, and W. S. Bacsa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095506 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

First-Principles Prediction of a Decagonal Quasicrystal Containing Boron

M. Mihalkovič and M. Widom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 095507 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Superlubricity: A Paradox about Confined Fluids Resolved

Yingxi Zhu and Steve Granick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096101 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Lifetimes of Excited Electrons In Fe And Ni: First-Principles GW and the $T$ -Matrix Theory

V. P. Zhukov, E. V. Chulkov, and P. M. Echenique

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096401 (2004) - Published 23 August, 2004

Grüneisen Ratio Divergence at the Quantum Critical Point in ${C e C u}_{6 - x} {A g}_{x}$

R. Küchler, P. Gegenwart, K. Heuser, E.-W. Scheidt, G. R. Stewart, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096402 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

First-Principles Theory of Intermediate-Valence $f$ -electron Systems

M. Colarieti-Tosti, M. I. Katsnelson, M. Mattesini, S. I. Simak, R. Ahuja, B. Johansson, C. Dallera, and O. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096403 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Electronic and Transport Properties of Artificial Gold Chains

Arrigo Calzolari, Carlo Cavazzoni, and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096404 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Antibunched Photons Emitted by a Quantum Point Contact out of Equilibrium

C. W. J. Beenakker and H. Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096801 (2004) - Published 23 August, 2004

Absorption Spectrum Around $ν = 1$ : Evidence for a Small-Size Skyrmion

J. G. Groshaus, V. Umansky, H. Shtrikman, Y. Levinson, and I. Bar-Joseph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096802 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Optical Probing of Spin Polarization of Electrons in Quantum Dot Edge Channels

Shintaro Nomura and Yoshinobu Aoyagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096803 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Is the Quantum Hall Effect Influenced by the Gravitational Field?

Friedrich W. Hehl, Yuri N. Obukhov, and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096804 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Transition from a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid to a Fermi Liquid in Potassium-Intercalated Bundles of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

H. Rauf, T. Pichler, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, and H. Kataura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 096805 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Imaging Nanoscale Electronic Inhomogeneity in the Lightly Doped Mott Insulator ${C a}_{2 - x} {N a}_{x} {C u O}_{2} {C l}_{2}$

Y. Kohsaka, K. Iwaya, S. Satow, T. Hanaguri, M. Azuma, M. Takano, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 097004 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA

Publisher's Note: Direct Generation of a Voltage and a Current by Gas Flow over Carbon Nanotubes and Semiconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 086601 (2004)]

A. K. Sood and Shankar Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 099901 (2004) - Published 25 August, 2004

Erratum: Asters, Vortices, and Rotating Spirals in Active Gels of Polar Filaments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 078101 (2004)]

K. Kruse, J. F. Joanny, F. Jülicher, J. Prost, and K. Sekimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 099902 (2004) - Published 26 August, 2004

Erratum: Superconductivity without Inversion Symmetry: MnSi versus $C e {P t}_{3} S i$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 097001 (2004)]

P. A. Frigeri, D. F. Agterberg, A. Koga, and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 099903 (2004) - Published 27 August, 2004