Volume 88, Issue 16

22 April 2002

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On the Cover

Numerical simulation of electron density in amorphous silicon showing the migration of a hydrogen atom (blue) from atom A to atom B (1-5). The last panel plots the distance from the hydrogen atom to the nearest silicon atom as a function of time.

From the article:

Diffusion Mechanism of Hydrogen in Amorphous Silicon: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Y.-S. Su and S. T. Pantelides
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 165503 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Two-Species Mixture of Quantum Degenerate Bose and Fermi Gases

Z. Hadzibabic, C. A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, S. Gupta, M. W. Zwierlein, A. Görlitz, and W. Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 160401 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Bose-Enhanced Chemistry: Amplification of Selectivity in the Dissociation of Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. G. Moore and A. Vardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 160402 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Kinetics and Scaling in Ballistic Annihilation

Emmanuel Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 160601 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Cross Sections and Future Observations of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

Alexander Kusenko and Thomas J. Weiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 161101 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Observability of Earth-Skimming Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos

Jonathan L. Feng, Peter Fisher, Frank Wilczek, and Terri M. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 161102 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Noncommutative Quantum Cosmology

H. García-Compeán, O. Obregón, and C. Ramírez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 161301 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Dimming Supernovae without Cosmic Acceleration

Csaba Csáki, Nemanja Kaloper, and John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 161302 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

A High Statistics Measurement of the $Λ_{c}^{+}$ Lifetime

J. M. Link et al. (FOCUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 161801 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

$ϒ$ Production and Polarization in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 161802 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Measurement of the Lifetime Difference in $D^{0}$ Meson Decays

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 162001 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Neutron Polarizabilities Investigated by Quasifree Compton Scattering from the Deuteron

K. Kossert, M. Camen, F. Wissmann, J. Ahrens, J. R. M. Annand, H.-J Arends, R. Beck, G. Caselotti, P. Grabmayr, O. Jahn, P. Jennewein, M. I. Levchuk, A. I. L'vov, J. C. McGeorge, A. Natter, V. Olmos de León, V. A. Petrun'kin, G. Rosner, M. Schumacher, B. Seitz, F. Smend, A. Thomas, W. Weihofen, and F. Zapadtka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 162301 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spinor Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices: Symmetry Breaking and Fractionalization

Eugene Demler and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 163001 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Feedback on the Motion of a Single Atom in an Optical Cavity

T. Fischer, P. Maunz, P. W. H. Pinkse, T. Puppe, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 163002 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Helium-Antihydrogen Interaction: The Born-Oppenheimer Potential Energy Curve

Krzysztof Strasburger and Henryk Chojnacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 163201 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Enhancement of Positron-Atom Annihilation near the Positronium Formation Threshold

G. F. Gribakin and J. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 163202 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Focal Spots of Size $λ / 23$ Open Up Far-Field Florescence Microscopy at 33 nm Axial Resolution

Marcus Dyba and Stefan W. Hell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 163901 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Patterning of Small Particles by a Surfactant-Enhanced Marangoni-Bénard Instability

Van X. Nguyen and Kathleen J. Stebe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 164501 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Storing, Retrieving, and Processing Optical Information by Raman Backscattering in Plasmas

I. Y. Dodin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 165001 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coulomb Explosion and Thermal Spikes

E. M. Bringa and R. E. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 165501 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of $H_{2}$ , HD, and $D_{2}$ Physisorption on Ropes of Single-Walled, Carbon Nanotubes

Keith A. Williams, Bhabendra K. Pradhan, Peter C. Eklund, Milen K. Kostov, and Milton W. Cole

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 165502 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Diffusion Mechanism of Hydrogen in Amorphous Silicon: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Y.-S. Su and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 165503 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Surface Segregation of Ge at SiGe(001) by Concerted Exchange Pathways

P. Bogusławski and J. Bernholc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166101 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Total Energy Method from Many-Body Formulation

F. Aryasetiawan, T. Miyake, and K. Terakura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166401 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Nonadiabatic Car-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics

Nikos L. Doltsinis and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166402 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Spin-Resolved Unoccupied Electronic Band Structure from Quantum Size Oscillations in the Reflectivity of Slow Electrons from Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Crystals

R. Zdyb and E. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166403 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Mediation of Long Range Charge Transfer by Kondo Bound States

R. G. Endres, D. L. Cox, R. R. P. Singh, and S. K. Pati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166601 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Broken Unitarity and Phase Measurements in Aharonov-Bohm Interferometers

O. Entin-Wohlman, A. Aharony, Y. Imry, Y. Levinson, and A. Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166801 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Energy Loss of Atoms at Metal Surfaces due to Electron-Hole Pair Excitations: First-Principles Theory of “Chemicurrents”

J. R. Trail, M. C. Graham, D. M. Bird, M. Persson, and S. Holloway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166802 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Two-Dimensional Metal in a Parallel Magnetic Field

Xuan P. A. Gao, Allen P. Mills, Jr., Arthur P. Ramirez, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Kenneth W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 166803 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Dynamics of Quantum Phase Transition in an Array of Josephson Junctions

J. Dziarmaga, A. Smerzi, W. H. Zurek, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167001 (2002) - Published 2 April, 2002

Anomalous Dispersion of Longitudinal Optical Phonons in ${Nd}_{1.86} {Ce}_{0.14} {CuO}_{4 + δ}$ Determined by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

M. d'Astuto, P. K. Mang, P. Giura, A. Shukla, P. Ghigna, A. Mirone, M. Braden, M. Greven, M. Krisch, and F. Sette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167002 (2002) - Published 3 April, 2002

Intrinsic Behavior of Flux Lines in Pure Niobium near the Upper Critical Field

E. M. Forgan, S. J. Levett, P. G. Kealey, R. Cubitt, C. D. Dewhurst, and D. Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167003 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Temperature and Field Dependence of the Anisotropy of ${MgB}_{2}$

M. Angst, R. Puzniak, A. Wisniewski, J. Jun, S. M. Kazakov, J. Karpinski, J. Roos, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167004 (2002) - Published 4 April, 2002

Magnetoresistance of Untwinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$ Single Crystals in a Wide Range of Doping: Anomalous Hole-Doping Dependence of the Coherence Length

Yoichi Ando and Kouji Segawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167005 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Quasiparticle Liquid in the Highly Overdoped ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Z. M. Yusof, B. O. Wells, T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, P. D. Johnson, Q. Li, C. Kendziora, Sha Jian, and D. G. Hinks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167006 (2002) - Published 8 April, 2002

Kink Pairs Unbinding on Domain Walls and the Sequence of Phase Transitions in Fully Frustrated $XY$ Models

S. E. Korshunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167007 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Competition between Charge- and Spin-Density-Wave Order and Superconductivity in ${La}_{1.875} {Ba}_{0.125 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

M. Fujita, H. Goka, K. Yamada, and M. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167008 (2002) - Published 9 April, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Nonclassical Smoothening of Nanoscale Surface Corrugations”

Navot Israeli and Daniel Kandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 169601 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002

Erlebacher et al. Reply:

Jonah Erlebacher, Michael J. Aziz, Eric Chason, Michael B. Sinclair, and Jerrold A. Floro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 169602 (2002) - Published 5 April, 2002