Volume 88, Issue 11

18 March 2002

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Laser light exiting a sodium vapor cell as the power (a) and frequency (b & c) are varied; c is at lower power and higher density than b. The laser beam undergoes filamentation as it passes through the vapor and breaks up into the beams shown on the left in the figures; in the far field, these beams' diffraction patterns superimpose to form the hexagonal patterns on the right.

From the article:

Honeycomb Pattern Formation by Laser-Beam Filamentation in Atomic Sodium Vapor
Ryan S. Bennink, Vincent Wong, Alberto M. Marino, David L. Aronstein, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Jr., Svetlana Lukishova, and Daniel J. Gauthier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 113901 (2002)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Long Term Behavior of Lithographically Prepared In Vitro Neuronal Networks

Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Eyal Hulata, Netta Cohen, Alexander Palevski, Eli Kapon, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 118102 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

LETTERS

General Physics

Riemannian Geometry of Irrotational Vortex Acoustics

Uwe R. Fischer and Matt Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 110201 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Diffraction of a Superfluid Fermi Gas by an Atomic Grating

C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang, and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 110401 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Abnormal Number of Nambu-Goldstone Bosons and Kaon Condensate

V. A. Miransky and I. A. Shovkovy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111601 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Shadows of the Planck Scale: Scale Dependence of Compactification Geometry

Keith R. Dienes and Arash Mafi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111602 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Covariant Coordinate Transformations on Noncommutative Space

R. Jackiw and S.-Y. Pi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111603 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Observation of the Decay $K^{-} \to π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and Measurements of the Branching Ratios for $K^{\pm} \to π^{\pm} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

H. K. Park et al. (HyperCP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111801 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Can the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with Light Bottom Squark and Light Gluino Survive $Z$ -Peak Constraints?

Junjie Cao, Zhaohua Xiong, and Jin Min Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111802 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Search for $CP$ Violation in $τ \to K π ν_{τ}$ Decays

G. Bonvicini et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111803 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Predictions for Higgs and Supersymmetry Spectra from SO(10) Yukawa Unification with $μ > 0$

T. Blažek, R. Dermíšek, and S. Raby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 111804 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Collective Deceleration of Ultrarelativistic Nuclei and Creation of Quark-Gluon Plasma

I. N. Mishustin and J. I. Kapusta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 112501 (2002) - Published 27 February, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

${}^{129}X e - Xe$ Molecular Spin Relaxation

B. Chann, I. A. Nelson, L. W. Anderson, B. Driehuys, and T. G. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 113201 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Quantum State Preparation and Conditional Coherence

K. J. Resch, J. S. Lundeen, and A. M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 113601 (2002) - Published 1 March, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Honeycomb Pattern Formation by Laser-Beam Filamentation in Atomic Sodium Vapor

Ryan S. Bennink, Vincent Wong, Alberto M. Marino, David L. Aronstein, Robert W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Jr., Svetlana Lukishova, and Daniel J. Gauthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 113901 (2002) - Published 27 February, 2002

Rayleigh-Type Nondegenerate Four-Wave Mixing: Ultrafast Measurement and Field Correlation

Panming Fu, Qiang Jiang, Xin Mi, and Zuhe Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 113902 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Nodal Domains Statistics: A Criterion for Quantum Chaos

Galya Blum, Sven Gnutzmann, and Uzy Smilansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 114101 (2002) - Published 1 March, 2002

Percolation Model for Nodal Domains of Chaotic Wave Functions

E. Bogomolny and C. Schmit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 114102 (2002) - Published 1 March, 2002

Anomalous Self-Similarity in a Turbulent Rapidly Rotating Fluid

Charles N. Baroud, Brendan B. Plapp, Zhen-Su She, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 114501 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phonon Anomalies due to Collective Stripe Modes in High $T_{c}$ Cuprates

Eiji Kaneshita, Masanori Ichioka, and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115501 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Nearly Space-Filling Fractal Networks of Carbon Nanopores

P. Pfeifer, F. Ehrburger-Dolle, T. P. Rieker, M. T. González, W. P. Hoffman, M. Molina-Sabio, F. Rodríguez-Reinoso, P. W. Schmidt, and D. J. Voss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115502 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Smectic Membranes in Motion: Approaching the Fast Limits of X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

Irakli Sikharulidze, Igor P. Dolbnya, Andrea Fera, Anders Madsen, Boris I. Ostrovskii, and Wim H. de Jeu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115503 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Structural Identification of Metcars

G. K. Gueorguiev and J. M. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115504 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Stress Field in Granular Systems: Loop Forces and Potential Formulation

Robin C. Ball and Raphael Blumenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115505 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Chemical Isomerism as a Key to Explore Free-Energy Landscapes in Disordered Matter

C. Talón, F. J. Bermejo, C. Cabrillo, G. J. Cuello, M. A. González, J. W. Richardson, Jr., A. Criado, M. A. Ramos, S. Vieira, F. L. Cumbrera, and L. M. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115506 (2002) - Published 1 March, 2002

Solution of a Multiple-Scattering Inverse Problem: Electron Diffraction from Surfaces

D. K. Saldin, A. Seubert, and K. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 115507 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Zero-Point Vibration of Hydrogen Adsorbed on Si and Pt Surfaces

K. Fukutani, A. Itoh, M. Wilde, and M. Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116101 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Mean-Field Nucleation Theory with Nonlocal Interactions

Staffan Ovesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116102 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Novel Continuum Modeling of Crystal Surface Evolution

Navot Israeli and Daniel Kandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116103 (2002) - Published 1 March, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Coulomb Drag Shot Noise in Coupled Luttinger Liquids

B. Trauzettel, R. Egger, and H. Grabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116401 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Hall Effect Induced by a Spin-Polarized Current in Superconductors

S. Takahashi and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116601 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Optical Intersubband Transitions and Femtosecond Dynamics in Ag $/$ Fe(100) Quantum Wells

S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, and H. Petek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116801 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Shot Noise through a Quantum Dot in the Kondo Regime

Yigal Meir and Anatoly Golub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116802 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Density-Induced Interchange of Anisotropy Axes at Half-Filled High Landau Levels

J. Zhu, W. Pan, H. L. Stormer, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 116803 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Stripe States with Spatially Oscillating $d$ -Wave Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional $t - t^{'} - J$ Model

A. Himeda, T. Kato, and M. Ogata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117001 (2002) - Published 27 February, 2002

Superconductivity in the Two-Dimensional $t - J$ Model

S. Sorella, G. B. Martins, F. Becca, C. Gazza, L. Capriotti, A. Parola, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117002 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

High $T_{c}$ Superconductivity in ${MgB}_{2}$ by Nonadiabatic Pairing

E. Cappelluti, S. Ciuchi, C. Grimaldi, L. Pietronero, and S. Strässler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117003 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Vortex Glass Transition in a Random Pinning Model

Anders Vestergren, Jack Lidmar, and Mats Wallin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117004 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Small- $q$ Phonon-Mediated Superconductivity in Organic $κ$ -BEDT-TTF Compounds

G. Varelogiannis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117005 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Two Energy Scales and Slow Crossover in ${YbAl}_{3}$

A. L. Cornelius, J. M. Lawrence, T. Ebihara, P. S. Riseborough, C. H. Booth, M. F. Hundley, P. G. Pagliuso, J. L. Sarrao, J. D. Thompson, M. H. Jung, A. H. Lacerda, and G. H. Kwei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117201 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002

Enhanced Gilbert Damping in Thin Ferromagnetic Films

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117601 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Biexciton Quantum Coherence in a Single Quantum Dot

Gang Chen, T. H. Stievater, E. T. Batteh, Xiaoqin Li, D. G. Steel, D. Gammon, D. S. Katzer, D. Park, and L. J. Sham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 117901 (2002) - Published 5 March, 2002

Spiral Breakup in an Array of Coupled Cells: The Role of the Intercellular Conductance

A. V. Panfilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 118101 (2002) - Published 28 February, 2002

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Long Term Behavior of Lithographically Prepared In Vitro Neuronal Networks

Ronen Segev, Morris Benveniste, Eyal Hulata, Netta Cohen, Alexander Palevski, Eli Kapon, Yoash Shapira, and Eshel Ben-Jacob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 118102 (2002) - Published 4 March, 2002