Volume 88, Issue 22

3 June 2002

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On the Cover

Figures (a) & (b) are topographic & phase images of a polymer monolayer from intermittent-contact atomic force microscopy; the inset shows the polymer's structure & backbone. While intermittent-contact AFM usually measures only out-of-plane properties, the color contrast in (b) is due to friction and in-plane viscoelasticity

From the article:

Material Anisotropy Revealed by Phase Contrast in Intermittent Contact Atomic Force Microscopy
Matthew S. Marcus, Robert W. Carpick, Darryl Y. Sasaki, and M. A. Eriksson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226103 (2002)

LETTERS

General Physics

Direct Observation of the Phonon Energy in a Bose-Einstein Condensate by Tomographic Imaging

Roee Ozeri, Jeff Steinhauer, Nadav Katz, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 220401 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Statistics of Magnetic Noise in Neutron Star Crusts

V. N. Kondratyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 221101 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Elementary Particles and Fields

Testing the Self-Duality of Topological Lumps in SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory

Christof Gattringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 221601 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Black Hole Production and Large Extra Dimensions

Kingman Cheung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 221602 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Increased Yield of $t \bar{t} b \bar{b}$ at Hadron Colliders in Low-Energy Supersymmetry

Adam K. Leibovich and David Rainwater

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 221801 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Measurement of $B^{0} - {\bar{B}}^{0}$ Flavor Oscillations in Hadronic $B^{0}$ Decays

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 221802 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Measurement of the $B^{0} - {\bar{B}}^{0}$ Oscillation Frequency with Inclusive Dilepton Events

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 221803 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Nuclear Physics

Coulomb Excitation of Radioactive $^{132, 134, 136} Te$ Beams and the Low $B (E 2)$ of $^{136} Te$

D. C. Radford, C. Baktash, J. R. Beene, B. Fuentes, A. Galindo-Uribarri, C. J. Gross, P. A. Hausladen, T. A. Lewis, P. E. Mueller, E. Padilla, D. Shapira, D. W. Stracener, C.-H. Yu, C. J. Barton, M. A. Caprio, L. Coraggio, A. Covello, A. Gargano, D. J. Hartley, and N. V. Zamfir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 222501 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong, Polarized Balmer- $α$ Fluorescence after Resonant Core Excitation of HCl

M. Meyer, S. Aloise, and A. N. Grum-Grzhimailo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 223001 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Raman Coherence Beats from Entangled Polarization Eigenstates in InAs Quantum Dots

A. S. Lenihan, M. V. Gurudev Dutt, D. G. Steel, S. Ghosh, and P. K. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 223601 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Finite Thermal Conductivity in 1D Models Having Zero Lyapunov Exponents

Baowen Li, Lei Wang, and Bambi Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 223901 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Slow Relaxation, Confinement, and Solitons

L. S. Schulman, E. Mihóková, A. Scardicchio, P. Facchi, M. Nikl, K. Polák, and B. Gaveau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 224101 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Formation of a Spiraling Line Defect and Its Meandering Transition in a Period-2 Medium

Jin-Sung Park and Kyoung J. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 224501 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Multifractal Properties of Return Time Statistics

Nicolai Hadyn, José Luevano, Giorgio Mantica, and Sandro Vaienti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 224502 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Plasma and Beam Physics

Caging of Particles in One-Component Plasmas

Z. Donkó, G. J. Kalman, and K. I. Golden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225001 (2002) - Published 15 May, 2002

Intermittency in Drift-Wave Turbulence: Structure of the Momentum Flux Probability Distribution Function

Eun-jin Kim and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225002 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Collective Effects in Grain Boundary Migration

K. L. Merkle, L. J. Thompson, and Fritz Phillipp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225501 (2002) - Published 14 May, 2002

Evidence of Fano-Like Interference Phenomena in Locally Resonant Materials

C. Goffaux, J. Sánchez-Dehesa, A. Levy Yeyati, Ph. Lambin, A. Khelif, J. O. Vasseur, and B. Djafari-Rouhani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225502 (2002) - Published 15 May, 2002

Structures of High and Low Density Amorphous Ice by Neutron Diffraction

J. L. Finney, A. Hallbrucker, I. Kohl, A. K. Soper, and D. T. Bowron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225503 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Memory Effect on the Glass Transition in Vulcanized Rubber

Yoshihisa Miyamoto, Koji Fukao, Hiromi Yamao, and Ken Sekimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225504 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Potential Energy Landscape Equation of State

Emilia La Nave, Stefano Mossa, and Francesco Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225701 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in the Activated Regime of Simple Strong-Glass Models

Arnaud Buhot and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 225702 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Stability of a Flexible Polar Ionic Crystal Surface: Metastable Alumina and One-Dimensional Surface Metallicity

C. Ruberto, Y. Yourdshahyan, and B. I. Lundqvist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226101 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Novel Sb Induced Reconstruction of the (113) Surface of Ge

A. Hirnet, K. Schroeder, S. Blügel, X. Torrelles, M. Albrecht, B. Jenichen, M. Gierer, and W. Moritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226102 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Material Anisotropy Revealed by Phase Contrast in Intermittent Contact Atomic Force Microscopy

Matthew S. Marcus, Robert W. Carpick, Darryl Y. Sasaki, and M. A. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226103 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Stress Relief as the Driving Force for Self-Assembled Bi Nanolines

J. H. G. Owen, K. Miki, H. Koh, H. W. Yeom, and D. R. Bowler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226104 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Surface Diffusion Anomaly near a Substrate Phase Transition: H on $W (100)$

Lei Cai, M. S. Altman, E. Granato, T. Ala-Nissila, S. C. Ying, and Xudong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 226105 (2002) - Published 20 May, 2002

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Semiclassical Balance Equations in Semiconductor Superlattices in Strong Crossed Fields

Yu. A. Kosevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 229701 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

Cannon et al. Reply:

E. H. Cannon, F. V. Kusmartsev, K. N. Alekseev, and D. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 229702 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002

ERRATA

Erratum: Autler-Townes Splitting in Molecular Lithium: Prospects for All-Optical Alignment of Nonpolar Molecules [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 288 (1999)]

Jianbing Qi, Guenadiy Lazarov, Xuejun Wang, Li Li, Lorenzo M. Narducci, A. Marjatta Lyyra, and Frank C. Spano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 229901 (2002) - Published 16 May, 2002

Erratum: Dynamics of Quantum Phase Transition in an Array of Josephson Junctions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 167001 (2002)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 229902 (2002) - Published 17 May, 2002