Volume 95, Issue 5

29 July 2005

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On the Cover

Energy spectrum of a relativistic electron beam before and after propagation through a plasma, showing the multi-GeV wakefield acceleration of particles.

From the article:

Multi-GeV Energy Gain in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator
M. J. Hogan, C. D. Barnes, C. E. Clayton, F. J. Decker, S. Deng, P. Emma, C. Huang, R. H. Iverson, D. K. Johnson, C. Joshi, T. Katsouleas, P. Krejcik, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, P. Muggli, C. L. O’Connell, E. Oz, R. H. Siemann, and D. Walz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 054802 (2005)

LETTERS

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

Direct Nondestructive Imaging of Magnetization in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Gas

J. M. Higbie, L. E. Sadler, S. Inouye, A. P. Chikkatur, S. R. Leslie, K. L. Moore, V. Savalli, and D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050401 (2005) - Published 26 July, 2005

Large- $N$ Scaling Behavior of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model

F. Leyvraz and W. D. Heiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050402 (2005) - Published 26 July, 2005

Fully Three Dimensional Breather Solitons Can Be Created Using Feshbach Resonances

M. Matuszewski, E. Infeld, B. A. Malomed, and M. Trippenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050403 (2005) - Published 27 July, 2005

Phase Coherence of an Atomic Mott Insulator

Fabrice Gerbier, Artur Widera, Simon Fölling, Olaf Mandel, Tatjana Gericke, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050404 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Uniform Approximation for the Coherent-State Propagator Using a Conjugate Application of the Bargmann Representation

A. D. Ribeiro, M. Novaes, and M. A. M. de Aguiar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050405 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Geometric Phase in Eigenspace Evolution of Invariant and Adiabatic Action Operators

Jeffrey C. Y. Teo and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050406 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Analytically Solving the Relativistic Dirac-Coulomb Equation for Atoms and Molecules

Hiroshi Nakatsuji and Hiroyuki Nakashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050407 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Fast Quantum Algorithm for Numerical Gradient Estimation

Stephen P. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 050501 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Strong Hyperon-Nucleon Pairing in Neutron Stars

Xian-Rong Zhou, H.-J. Schulze, Feng Pan, and J. P. Draayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 051101 (2005) - Published 26 July, 2005

Exact Quantization of Einstein-Rosen Waves Coupled to Massless Scalar Matter

J. Fernando Barbero G., Iñaki Garay, and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 051301 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Elementary Particles and Fields

Kertész Line in the Three-Dimensional Compact U(1) Lattice Higgs Model

Sandro Wenzel, Elmar Bittner, Wolfhard Janke, Adriaan M. J. Schakel, and Arwed Schiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 051601 (2005) - Published 26 July, 2005

Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying into $b \bar{b}$ and Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV$

D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 051801 (2005) - Published 25 July, 2005

Study of $Z γ$ Events and Limits on Anomalous $Z Z γ$ and $Z γ γ$ Couplings in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 051802 (2005) - Published 27 July, 2005

Critical Opacity: A Possible Explanation of the Fast Thermalization Times Seen in BNL RHIC Experiments

F. Gastineau, E. Blanquier, and J. Aichelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052001 (2005) - Published 27 July, 2005

Accurate Determinations of $α_{s}$ from Realistic Lattice QCD

Q. Mason, H. D. Trottier, C. T. H. Davies, K. Foley, A. Gray, G. P. Lepage, M. Nobes, and J. Shigemitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052002 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Measurement of the $D_{s}^{+}$ Lifetime

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052003 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for the Two-Pole Structure of the $Λ (1405)$ Resonance

V. K. Magas, E. Oset, and A. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052301 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Spin-Dependent Structure Functions in Nuclear Matter and the Polarized EMC Effect

I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, and A. W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052302 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Simultaneous Measurement of $β^{-}$ Decay to Bound and Continuum Electron States

T. Ohtsubo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052501 (2005) - Published 25 July, 2005

Interpretation of the Processes ${}^{3}{He} (e, e^{'} p) {}^{2}H$ and ${}^{3}{He} (e, e^{'} p) (p n)$ at High Missing Momenta

C. Ciofi degli Atti and L. P. Kaptari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052502 (2005) - Published 27 July, 2005

Dynamic Supersymmetries of Differential Equations with Applications to Nuclear Spectroscopy

F. Iachello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052503 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms

Igor Lesanovsky and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053001 (2005) - Published 26 July, 2005

Fully Relativistic Theory of the Ponderomotive Force in an Ultraintense Standing Wave

A. E. Kaplan and A. L. Pokrovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053601 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Enhancing the Capacity and Performance of Collective Atomic Quantum Memory

Tomáš Opatrný and Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053602 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Two Dimensional Counterpropagating Spatial Solitons in Photorefractive Crystals

M. Petrović, D. Jović, M. Belić, J. Schröder, Ph. Jander, and C. Denz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053901 (2005) - Published 25 July, 2005

Discrete Talbot Effect in Waveguide Arrays

Robert Iwanow, Daniel A. May-Arrioja, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, George I. Stegeman, Yoohong Min, and Wolfgang Sohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053902 (2005) - Published 25 July, 2005

Curvilinear Motion of Multivortex Laser-Soliton Complexes with Strong and Weak Coupling

Nikolay N. Rosanov, Sergey V. Fedorov, and Anatoly N. Shatsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053903 (2005) - Published 27 July, 2005

Observation of Second-Band Vortex Solitons in 2D Photonic Lattices

Guy Bartal, Ofer Manela, Oren Cohen, Jason W. Fleischer, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053904 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Observation of Spontaneous Self-Channeling of Light in Air below the Collapse Threshold

C. Ruiz, J. San Román, C. Méndez, V. Díaz, L. Plaja, I. Arias, and L. Roso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 053905 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Conformation Statistics of a Deformable Material Line in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Y. Amarouchene and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 054501 (2005) - Published 27 July, 2005

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Anomalously Large Spectral Bandwidth in a High-Gain Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser

G. Andonian, A. Murokh, J. B. Rosenzweig, R. Agustsson, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, P. Frigola, J. Y. Huang, L. Palumbo, C. Pellegrini, S. Reiche, G. Travish, C. Vicario, and V. Yakimenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 054801 (2005) - Published 25 July, 2005

Gaplike Excitations in the Superconducting State of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Studied by Resonant Raman Scattering

D. Budelmann, B. Schulz, M. Rübhausen, M. V. Klein, M. S. Williamsen, and P. Guptasarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 057003 (2005) - Published 29 July, 2005

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Ambiguities in the Up-Quark Mass”

Mark Srednicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 059101 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005

ERRATA

Erratum: Brane-Induced-Gravity Shock Waves [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 181601 (2005)]

Nemanja Kaloper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 059901 (2005) - Published 28 July, 2005