corner
corner
PROLA » Phys. Rev. Lett. » Volume 87 » Issue 27
< Previous Issue | Next Issue >

Physical Review Letters – 31 December 2001
Volume 87, Issue 27

Segregation process in a cluster of cobalt atoms (red spheres) and carbon atoms (blue spheres) as the temperature drops from 2000 K, (a), to 1500 K, (c), showing the migration of the cobalt atoms to the center. [J. Gavillet, A. Loiseau, C. Journet, F. Willaime, F. Ducastelle, and J.-C. Charlier, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 275504 (2001)]

View Larger Image | Read the Article

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Perfectly Monodisperse Microbubbling by Capillary Flow Focusing
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo and José M. Gordillo
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
274501 [View PDF (235 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

Storage Ring for Neutral Atoms
J. A. Sauer, M. D. Barrett, and M. S. Chapman
Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages)
270401 [View PDF (177 kB)]
•
Critical Point of a Weakly Interacting Two-Dimensional Bose Gas
Nikolay Prokof'ev, Oliver Ruebenacker, and Boris Svistunov
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
270402 [View PDF (103 kB)]
•
Low Energy Collective Modes of a Superfluid Trapped Atomic Fermi Gas
G. M. Bruun and B. R. Mottelson
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
270403 [View PDF (137 kB)]
•
Using Entanglement Improves the Precision of Quantum Measurements
G. Mauro D'Ariano, Paoloplacido Lo Presti, and Matteo G. A. Paris
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
270404 [View PDF (105 kB)]
•
Universal Dynamical Control of Quantum Mechanical Decay: Modulation of the Coupling to the Continuum
A. G. Kofman and G. Kurizki
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
270405 [View PDF (130 kB)]
•
Droplet Nucleation and Domain Wall Motion in a Bounded Interval
Robert S. Maier and D. L. Stein
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
270601 [View PDF (102 kB)]
•
Molecular Iodine Clock
Jun Ye, Long Sheng Ma, and John L. Hall
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
270801 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•
Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton-to-Proton Abundance Ratio between 4 and 50 GeV
A. S. Beach, J. J. Beatty, A. Bhattacharyya, C. Bower, S. Coutu, M. A. DuVernois, A. W. Labrador, S. McKee, S. A. Minnick, D. Müller, J. Musser, S. Nutter, M. Schubnell, S. Swordy, G. Tarlé, and A. Tomasch
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
271101 [View PDF (141 kB)]
•
Asymptotic Normalization Coefficient of 8B from Breakup Reactions and the S17 Astrophysical Factor
L. Trache, F. Carstoiu, C. A. Gagliardi, and R. E. Tribble
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
271102 [View PDF (120 kB)]
•
3D Grazing Collision of Two Black Holes
Miguel Alcubierre, Werner Benger, Bernd Brügmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Lars Nerger, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
271103 [View PDF (299 kB)]
•
Natural Quintessence with Gauge Coupling Unification
A. de la Macorra and C. Stephan-Otto
Published 13 December 2001 (3 pages)
271301 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•
Manifestation of a Nontrivial Vacuum in Discrete Light-Cone Quantization
Takanori Sugihara and Masa-aki Taniguchi
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
271601 [View PDF (89 kB)]
•
Search for the Familon via B±→π±X0, B±→K±X0, and B0→KS0X0 Decays
R. Ammar et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
Published 11 December 2001 (5 pages)
271801 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

•
Parity Violation in Proton-Proton Scattering at 221 MeV
A. R. Berdoz et al. ((TRIUMF E497 Collaboration))
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
272301 [View PDF (139 kB)]
•
Description of the RHIC p⊥ Spectra in a Thermal Model with Expansion
Wojciech Broniowski and Wojciech Florkowski
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
272302 [View PDF (166 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•
Time-Resolved Laser Spectroscopy of Multiply Ionized Atoms: Natural Radiative Lifetimes in Ce IV
Z. G. Zhang, S. Svanberg, P. Quinet, P. Palmeri, and E. Biémont
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
273001 [View PDF (108 kB)]
•
Absolute Measurements and Theoretical Calculations of Photoionization Cross Sections along the Isonuclear Sequence of Multiply Charged Barium Ions
J.-M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, J.-M. Esteva, F. J. Wuilleumier, C. Blancard, J. Bruneau, J.-P. Champeaux, A. Compant La Fontaine, C. Couillaud, R. Marmoret, C. Rémond, D. Hitz, M. Delaunay, N. Haque, P. C. Deshmukh, H. L. Zhou, and S. T. Manson
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
273002 [View PDF (92 kB)]
•
Large Nondipole Effects in the Angular Distributions of K-Shell Photoelectrons from Molecular Nitrogen
O. Hemmers, H. Wang, P. Focke, I. A. Sellin, D. W. Lindle, J. C. Arce, J. A. Sheehy, and P. W. Langhoff
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
273003 [View PDF (112 kB)]
•
Dynamic Imaging of Nuclear Wave Functions with Ultrashort UV Laser Pulses
André D. Bandrauk and Szczepan Chelkowski
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
273004 [View PDF (105 kB)]
•
Excitation of Rydberg Series in C60
M. Boyle, K. Hoffmann, C. P. Schulz, I. V. Hertel, R. D. Levine, and E. E. B. Campbell
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
273401 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

•
Observation of Islands of Stability in Soft Wall Atom-Optics Billiards
Ariel Kaplan, Nir Friedman, Mikkel Andersen, and Nir Davidson
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
274101 [View PDF (232 kB)]
•
Experimental Evidence for Detuning Induced Pattern Selection in Nonlinear Optics
U. Bortolozzo, P. Villoresi, and P. L. Ramazza
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
274102 [View PDF (287 kB)]
•
Sensitivity to Perturbations of a Time-Reversed Acoustic Wave in a Multiple Scattering Medium
Arnaud Tourin, Arnaud Derode, and Mathias Fink
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
274301 [View PDF (259 kB)]
Perfectly Monodisperse Microbubbling by Capillary Flow Focusing
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo and José M. Gordillo
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
274501 [View PDF (235 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Plasma and Beam Physics

•
Low-Current, Vertical Blowup in a Stored Laser-Cooled Ion Beam
N. Madsen, P. Bowe, J. S. Nielsen, L. E. Siegfried, and J. S. Hangst
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
274801 [View PDF (174 kB)]
•
High-Confinement Regime at High βN Values Due to a Changed Behavior of the Neoclassical Tearing Modes
S. Günter, A. Gude, M. Maraschek, S. Sesnic, H. Zohm, ASDEX Upgrade Team, and D. F. Howell
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
275001 [View PDF (517 kB)]
•
Electromagnetic Energy Penetration in the Self-Induced Transparency Regime of Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions
M. Tushentsov, A. Kim, F. Cattani, D. Anderson, and M. Lisak
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
275002 [View PDF (122 kB)]
•
Efficient Multi-keV Underdense Laser-Produced Plasma Radiators
C. A. Back, J. Grun, C. Decker, L. J. Suter, J. Davis, O. L. Landen, R. Wallace, W. W. Hsing, J. M. Laming, U. Feldman, M. C. Miller, and C. Wuest
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
275003 [View PDF (277 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

•
Effect of Pressure on Statics, Dynamics, and Stability of Multielectron Bubbles
J. Tempere, Isaac F. Silvera, and J. T. Devreese
Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages)
275301 [View PDF (333 kB)]
•
Quantum Signature of Superfluid Turbulence
D. Kivotides, J. C. Vassilicos, C. F. Barenghi, M. A. I. Khan, and D. C. Samuels
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
275302 [View PDF (87 kB)]
•
Experimental and Theoretical Identification of a New High-Pressure TiO2 Polymorph
Natalia A. Dubrovinskaia, Leonid S. Dubrovinsky, Rajeev Ahuja, Vitaly B. Prokopenko, V. Dmitriev, H.-P. Weber, J. M. Osorio-Guillen, and Börje Johansson
Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages)
275501 [View PDF (144 kB)]
•
Calculation of a Deuterium Double Shock Hugoniot from Ab Initio Simulations
B. Militzer, D. M. Ceperley, J. D. Kress, J. D. Johnson, L. A. Collins, and S. Mazevet
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
275502 [View PDF (95 kB)]
•
New δ (Distorted-bcc) Titanium to 220 GPa
Yuichi Akahama, Haruki Kawamura, and Tristan Le Bihan
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
275503 [View PDF (173 kB)]
•
Root-Growth Mechanism for Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
J. Gavillet, A. Loiseau, C. Journet, F. Willaime, F. Ducastelle, and J.-C. Charlier
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
275504 [View PDF (371 kB)]
•
Flexoelectric Surface Switching of Bistable Nematic Devices
Colin Denniston and J. M. Yeomans
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
275505 [View PDF (290 kB)]
•
Confined Molecules under Shear: From a Microscopic Description to Phenomenology
A. E. Filippov, J. Klafter, and M. Urbakh
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
275506 [View PDF (210 kB)]
•
Identifying and Indexing Icosahedral Quasicrystals from Powder Diffraction Patterns
Peter J. Lu, Kenneth Deffeyes, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Nan Yao
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
275507 [View PDF (111 kB)]
•
Origins of Nonstoichiometry and Vacancy Ordering in Sc1-x□xS
Gus L. W. Hart and Alex Zunger
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
275508 [View PDF (448 kB)]
•
Role of Steps and of Terrace Width in Gas-Surface Interaction: O2/Ag(410)
L. Savio, L. Vattuone, and M. Rocca
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
276101 [View PDF (174 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

•
Chemically Induced Metal-to-Insulator Transition in Au55 Clusters: Effect of Stabilizing Ligands on the Electronic Properties of Nanoparticles
H.-G. Boyen, G. Kästle, F. Weigl, P. Ziemann, G. Schmid, M. G. Garnier, and P. Oelhafen
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
276401 [View PDF (156 kB)]
•
High Level Ab Initio Calculations of the Optical Gap of Small Silicon Quantum Dots
C. S. Garoufalis, Aristides D. Zdetsis, and Stefan Grimme
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
276402 [View PDF (89 kB)]
•
Spectral and Magnetic Properties of α- and γ-Ce from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and Local Density Approximation
M. B. Zölfl, I. A. Nekrasov, Th. Pruschke, V. I. Anisimov, and J. Keller
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
276403 [View PDF (137 kB)]
•
Cerium Volume Collapse: Results from the Merger of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory and Local Density Approximation
K. Held, A. K. McMahan, and R. T. Scalettar
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
276404 [View PDF (104 kB)]
•
Deconfinement Transition and Luttinger to Fermi Liquid Crossover in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems
S. Biermann, A. Georges, A. Lichtenstein, and T. Giamarchi
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
276405 [View PDF (99 kB)]
•
Transport and Lifetime Enhancement of Photoexcited Spins in GaAs by Surface Acoustic Waves
T. Sogawa, P. V. Santos, S. K. Zhang, S. Eshlaghi, A. D. Wieck, and K. H. Ploog
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
276601 [View PDF (144 kB)]
•
Insulator at the Ultrathin Limit: MgO on Ag(001)
Silvia Schintke, Stéphane Messerli, Marina Pivetta, François Patthey, Laurent Libioulle, Massimiliano Stengel, Alessandro De Vita, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider
Published 7 December 2001 (4 pages)
276801 [View PDF (372 kB)]
•
Quantized Adiabatic Charge Transport in a Carbon Nanotube
V. I. Talyanskii, D. S. Novikov, B. D. Simons, and L. S. Levitov
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
276802 [View PDF (159 kB)]
•
Counting Statistics for Arbitrary Cycles in Quantum Pumps
Yuriy Makhlin and Alexander D. Mirlin
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
276803 [View PDF (110 kB)]
•
Optical Properties of c-Axis Oriented Superconducting MgB2 Films
J. J. Tu, G. L. Carr, V. Perebeinos, C. C. Homes, M. Strongin, P. B. Allen, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyeong-Jin Kim, and Sung-Ik Lee
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
277001 [View PDF (197 kB)]
•
Density of States in High- Tc Superconductor Vortices
C. Berthod and B. Giovannini
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
277002 [View PDF (172 kB)]
•
Disorder Induced Cross-Over Effects at Quantum Critical Points
Enrico Carlon, Péter Lajkó, and Ferenc Iglói
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
277201 [View PDF (109 kB)]
•
Colossal Effects in Transition Metal Oxides Caused by Intrinsic Inhomogeneities
J. Burgy, M. Mayr, V. Martin-Mayor, A. Moreo, and E. Dagotto
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
277202 [View PDF (1,202 kB)]
•
Dynamical Mean-Field Theory of Resonating-Valence-Bond Antiferromagnets
Antoine Georges, Rahul Siddharthan, and Serge Florens
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
277203 [View PDF (117 kB)]
•
Near-Field Magnetophotoluminescence Spectroscopy of Composition Fluctuations in InGaAsN
A. M. Mintairov, T. H. Kosel, J. L. Merz, P. A. Blagnov, A. S. Vlasov, V. M. Ustinov, and R. E. Cook
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
277401 [View PDF (189 kB)]
•
Soft Mode Dynamics above and below the Burns Temperature in the Relaxor Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3
P. M. Gehring, S. Wakimoto, Z.-G. Ye, and G. Shirane
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
277601 [View PDF (121 kB)]
•
Electron Spin Relaxation Near a Micron-Size Ferromagnet
B. C. Stipe, H. J. Mamin, C. S. Yannoni, T. D. Stowe, T. W. Kenny, and D. Rugar
Published 13 December 2001 (4 pages)
277602 [View PDF (279 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

•
Impurity Scattering Induced Entanglement of Ballistic Electrons
A. T. Costa, Jr. and S. Bose
Published 11 December 2001 (4 pages)
277901 [View PDF (88 kB)]
•
Distinguishability of Bell States
Sibasish Ghosh, Guruprasad Kar, Anirban Roy, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen
Published 13 December 2001 (2 pages)
277902 [View PDF (56 kB)]
•
Tension-Induced Straightening Transition of Self-Assembled Helical Ribbons
Brice Smith, Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, and George B. Benedek
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
278101 [View PDF (100 kB)]
Dynamic Compartmentalization of Bacteria: Accurate Division in E. Coli
Martin Howard, Andrew D. Rutenberg, and Simon de Vet
Published 10 December 2001 (4 pages)
278102 [View PDF (145 kB)]
•
Simple Theory for the Two-Dimensional Child-Langmuir Law
Y. Y. Lau
Published 10 December 2001 (3 pages)
278301 [View PDF (61 kB)]
•
Universal Behavior of Load Distribution in Scale-Free Networks
K.-I. Goh, B. Kahng, and D. Kim
Published 12 December 2001 (4 pages)
278701 [View PDF (102 kB)]

COMMENTS

•
Effect of Substrate Roughness on Wetting and Absorption
D. Bonn, J. Meunier, E. Rolley, R. Bausch, R. Blossey, D. Bonn, J. Meunier, E. Rolley, R. Bausch, and R. Blossey
Published 11 December 2001 (1 page)
279601 [View PDF (41 kB)]
•
Wyatt and Klier reply:
Adrian Wyatt and Jürgen Klier
Published 11 December 2001 (1 page)
279602 [View PDF (37 kB)]

ERRATA

•
Erratum: Subsystem Purity as an Enforcer of Entanglement [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 050401 (2001)]
S. Bose, I. Fuentes-Guridi, P. L. Knight, and V. Vedral
Published 13 December 2001 (1 page)
279901(E) [View PDF (40 kB)]
•
Publisher's Note: d̅ and 3He̅ Production in √sNN = 130 GeV Au+Au Collisions[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 262301 (2001)]
C. Adler et al.
Published 13 December 2001 (1 page)
279902(E) [View PDF (35 kB)]
 
< Previous Issue | Next Issue >