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Physical Review Letters

Volume 75, Issue 21

20 November 1995

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LETTERS

General Physics

Photon Scattering from Atoms in an Atom Interferometer: Coherence Lost and Regained

Michael S. Chapman, Troy D. Hammond, Alan Lenef, Jörg Schmiedmayer, Richard A. Rubenstein, Edward Smith, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3783 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Decoherence, Continuous Observation, and Quantum Computing: A Cavity QED Model

T. Pellizzari, S. A. Gardiner, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3788 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observation of Cosmic-Ray Antiprotons at Energies below 500 MeV

K. Yoshimura, S. Orito, I. Ueda, K. Anraku, R. Golden, M. Imori, S. Inaba, B. Kimbell, N. Kimura, Y. Makida, H. Matsumoto, H. Matsunaga, J. Mitchell, M. Motoki, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, J. Ormes, T. Saeki, R. Streitmatter, J. Suzuki, K. Tanaka, N. Yajima, T. Yamagami, A. Yamamoto, and T. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3792 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Primordial Magnetic Fields from String Cosmology

M. Gasperini, M. Giovannini, and G. Veneziano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3796 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Elementary Particles and Fields

Flavor Changing Neutral Scalar Currents at $μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Colliders

David Atwood, Laura Reina, and Amarjit Soni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3800 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Measurement of the $D_{s}^{+} \to η ℓ^{+} ν$ and $D_{s}^{+} \to η^{'} ℓ^{+} ν$ Branching Ratios

G. Brandenburg et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3804 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Measurements of the Decays $τ^{-} \to h^{-} h^{+} h^{-} ν_{τ}$ and $τ^{-} \to h^{-} h^{+} h^{-} π^{0} ν_{τ}$

R. Balest et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3809 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Nuclear Physics

Transverse Energy Production in ${}^{208}{Pb}$ + Pb Collisions at 158 GeV per Nucleon

T. Alber et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3814 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multiple Time Scales in the Microwave Ionization of Rydberg Atoms

Andreas Buchleitner, Dominique Delande, Jakub Zakrzewski, Rosario N. Mantegna, Markus Arndt, and Herbert Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3818 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Measuring Coherence while Observing Noise

Opher Kinrot, I. Sh. Averbukh, and Yehiam Prior

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3822 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Observation of Polarization of the Soft X-Ray Laser Line in Neonlike Germanium Ions

T. Kawachi, K. Murai, G. Yuan, S. Ninomiya, R. Kodama, H. Daido, Y. Kato, and T. Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3826 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Coherent and Incoherent Drifting Pulse Dynamics in a Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Martin van Hecke, Ewald de Wit, and Wim van Saarloos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3830 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Anomalous Scaling of the Passive Scalar

Krzysztof Gawȩdzki and Antti Kupiainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3834 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Hexagons, Kinks, and Disorder in Oscillated Granular Layers

Francisco Melo, Paul B. Umbanhowar, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3838 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Plasma and Beam Physics

Analysis of the Thermal Equilibrium State of Bunched Beams with a Streak Camera

I. Hofmann, K. F. Johnson, P. Spiller, H. Eickhoff, G. Kalisch, W. Laux, and M. Steck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3842 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

An Electron-Positron Beam-Plasma Experiment

R. G. Greaves and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3846 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Ion-Controlled Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection

D. Biskamp, E. Schwarz, and J. F. Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3850 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Experimental Evidence of Interpenetration and High Ion Temperature in Colliding Plasmas

O. Rancu, P. Renaudin, C. Chenais-Popovics, H. Kawagashi, J. C. Gauthier, M. Dirksmöller, T. Missalla, I. Uschmann, E. Förster, O. Larroche, O. Peyrusse, O. Renner, E. Krouský, H. Pépin, and T. Shepard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3854 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Evaluation of a Foam Buffer Target Design for Spatially Uniform Ablation of Laser-Irradiated Plasmas

M. Dunne, M. Borghesi, A. Iwase, M. W. Jones, R. Taylor, O. Willi, R. Gibson, S. R. Goldman, J. Mack, and R. G. Watt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3858 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Generation of Hot Solid-Density Plasmas by Laser Radiation Pressure Confinement

O. Peyrusse, M. Busquet, J. C. Kieffer, Z. Jiang, and C. Y. Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3862 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Measurement of Magnetic Fluctuation Induced Energy Transport in a Tokamak

G. Fiksel, S. C. Prager, P. Pribyl, R. J. Taylor, and G. R. Tynan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3866 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Structure and Stability of Molecular Carbon: Importance of Electron Correlation

Jeffrey C. Grossman, Lubos Mitas, and Krishnan Raghavachari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3870 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Are Nanophase Grain Boundaries Anomalous?

E. A. Stern, R. W. Siegel, M. Newville, P. G. Sanders, and D. Haskel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3874 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Rayleigh Waves at Vicinal Surfaces

E. J. Mele and M. V. Pykhtin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3878 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Universal Short-Time Behavior in Critical Dynamics near Surfaces

U. Ritschel and P. Czerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3882 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Viscous Bursting of Suspended Films

G. Debrégeas, P. Martin, and F. Brochard-Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3886 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Energetics of Ni-Induced Vacancy Line Defects on Si(001)

H. J. W. Zandvliet, H. K. Louwsma, P. E. Hegeman, and Bene Poelsema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3890 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Anisotropic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation for Surface Growth and Erosion

Martin Rost and Joachim Krug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3894 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Shape of the Tip and the Formation of Sidebranches of Xenon Dendrites

U. Bisang and J. H. Bilgram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3898 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Magnetopolarizability at the Metal-Insulator Transition

Michael Specht, Laurent P. Lévy, Francois Ladieu, and Marc Sanquer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3902 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Controlled Exciton-Photon Interaction in Semiconductor Bulk Microcavities

Alessandro Tredicucci, Yong Chen, Vittorio Pellegrini, Marco Börger, Lucia Sorba, Fabio Beltram, and Franco Bassani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3906 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Electron Localization in Mixed-Valence Manganites

J. M. D. Coey, M. Viret, L. Ranno, and K. Ounadjela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3910 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

ac-Field-Controlled Anderson Localization in Disordered Semiconductor Superlattices

Martin Holthaus, Gerald H. Ristow, and Daniel W. Hone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3914 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Electronic Structure of Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Physisorbed on Metal Surfaces

A. Nagashima, N. Tejima, Y. Gamou, T. Kawai, and C. Oshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3918 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Statistical Distributions of Level Widths and Conductance Peaks in Irregularly Shaped Quantum Dots

Y. Alhassid and C. H. Lewenkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3922 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect around $ν = \frac{3}{2}$ : Composite Fermions with a Spin

R. R. Du, A. S. Yeh, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3926 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Phases of Josephson Junction Ladders

Colin Denniston and Chao Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3930 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Microwave Fabry-Pérot Transmission through YBaCuO Superconducting Thin Films

H. E. Porţeanu, K. Karraï, R. Seifert, F. Koch, P. Berberich, and H. Kinder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3934 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Impurity Scattering and Triplet Superconductivity in U ${Pt}_{3}$

Y. Dalichaouch, M. C. de Andrade, D. A. Gajewski, R. Chau, P. Visani, and M. B. Maple

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3938 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Vortex Lock-In Deep in the Bose Glass

K. M. Beauchamp, T. F. Rosenbaum, U. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3942 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Spin-Echo Double Resonance NMR Evidence for Preferential Like-Cation Clustering in Mixed-Alkali Disilicate Glasses

A. T -W. Yap, H. Förster, and S. R. Elliott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3946 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Band Structure Effects in Ejection of Ni Atoms in Fine Structure States

C. He, Z. Postawa, S. W. Rosencrance, R. Chatterjee, B. J. Garrison, and N. Winograd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3950 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Kinetics of Simple Reactions in a Dichotomic Barrier Model

A. P. Gonzalez, V. D. Pereyra, A. Milchev, and G. Zgrablich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3954 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Pseudocritical Behavior and Unbinding of Phospholipid Bilayers

Jesper Lemmich, Kell Mortensen, John Hjort Ipsen, Thomas Hønger, Rogert Bauer, and Ole G. Mouritsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3958 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

COMMENTS

Comment on "Direct Determination of the Electron-Electron-Hole Auger Threshold Energy in Silicon"

M. L. W. Thewalt and V. A. Karasyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3962 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Chen et al. Reply

W. M. Chen, B. Monemar, E. Janzén, A. M. Frens, M. T. Bennebroek, and J. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3963 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Comment on "Crossover Between Dissipative and Nondissipative Electron Transport in Metal Wires"

D. E. Prober

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3964 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Wybourne and Kanskar Reply

M. N. Wybourne and M. Kanskar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3965 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

Comment on "Formation of Crystalline ${Ag}_{x} {Ni}_{1 - x}$ Solid Solutions of Unusually High Supersaturation by Laser Ablation Deposition"

Hans-Ulrich Krebs and Michael Störmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3966 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

van Ingen, Fastenau, and Mittemeijer Reply

R. P. van Ingen, R. H. J. Fastenau, and E. J. Mittemeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3967 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995

ERRATA

Anomalous fcc Crystal Structure of Thorium Metal

B. Johansson, R. Ahuja, O. Eriksson, and J. M. Wills

Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3968 (1995) - Published 20 November, 1995