Volume 76, Issue 10

4 March 1996

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LETTERS

General Physics

Finite-Size Scaling and Universality above the Upper Critical Dimensionality

Erik Luijten and Henk W. J. Blöte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1557 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Salty Water Cerenkov Detectors for Solar Neutrinos

W. C. Haxton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1562 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Elementary Particles and Fields

New Scenario for String Unification

Jorge L. Lopez and D. V. Nanopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1566 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Measurement of the $B$ Semileptonic Branching Fraction with Lepton Tags

B. Barish et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1570 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Confirmation of the Sigma Meson

Nils A. Törnqvist and Matts Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1575 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Longitudinal, Transverse, and Longitudinal-Transverse Structure Functions in the ${}^{2}H ({e, e}^{'} p) n$ Reaction

D. Jordan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1579 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Excitation Energies and Spins of a Superdeformed Band in $^{194} Hg$ from One-Step Discrete Decays to the Yrast Line

T. L. Khoo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1583 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Experimental Fusion Barrier Distributions Reflecting Projectile Octupole State Coupling to Prolate and Oblate Target Nuclei

J. D. Bierman, P. Chan, J. F. Liang, M. P. Kelly, A. A. Sonzogni, and R. Vandenbosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1587 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Extensive Electron-Nuclear Angular Momentum Exchange in Vibrational Autoionization of $np$ and $nf$ Rydberg States of NO

Hongkun Park, David J. Leahy, and Richard N. Zare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1591 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Positronium-Argon Scattering

N. Zafar, G. Laricchia, M. Charlton, and A. Garner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1595 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

How “Magic” is a Magic Metal Cluster?

H. Häkkinen and M. Manninen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1599 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Wigner Random Banded Matrices with Sparse Structure: Local Spectral Density of States

Y. V. Fyodorov, O. A. Chubykalo, F. M Izrailev, and G. Casati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1603 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Manifestation of Classical Bifurcation in the Spectrum of the Integrable Quantum Dimer

S. Aubry, S. Flach, K. Kladko, and E. Olbrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1607 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Coherent and Incoherent Quantum Stochastic Resonance

Milena Grifoni and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1611 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Penumbra Diffraction in the Quantization of Dispersing Billiards

Harel Primack, Holger Schanz, Uzy Smilansky, and Iddo Ussishkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1615 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Spiral Waves in Chaotic Systems

Andrei Goryachev and Raymond Kapral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1619 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Optical Bullet Holes: Robust Controllable Localized States of a Nonlinear Cavity

W. J. Firth and A. J. Scroggie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1623 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Bragg Grating Solitons

Benjamin J. Eggleton, R. E. Slusher, C. Martijn de Sterke, Peter A. Krug, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1627 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

New Scenario for Transition to Turbulence?

Michael I. Tribelsky and Kazuhiro Tsuboi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1631 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Acceleration by a Transverse Electromagnetic Wave Supplemented with a Crossed Static Magnetic Field

Noboru Yugami, Kazuo Kikuta, and Yasushi Nishida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1635 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

How a Wave Flips Its Energy Sign by Linear Conversion

A. J. Brizard and A. N. Kaufman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1639 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Measurement and Simulation of Laser Imprinting and Consequent Rayleigh-Taylor Growth

R. J. Taylor, J. P. Dahlburg, A. Iwase, J. H. Gardner, D. E. Fyfe, and O. Willi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1643 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Mode Conversion Heating Experiments on the Tore Supra Tokamak

B. Saoutic, A. Bécoulet, T. Hutter, D. Fraboulet, A. K. Ram, and A. Bers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1647 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

An Explanation of the Density Maximum in Water

Chul Hee Cho, Surjit Singh, and G. Wilse Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1651 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Nonlinear Effects in Vibrating Smectic Films

M. Brazovskaia, H. Dumoulin, and P. Pieranski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1655 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Separating Thermal, Electronic, and Topographic Effects in Pulsed Laser Melting and Sputtering of Gold

Ted D. Bennett, Douglas J. Krajnovich, and Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1659 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Extended Infrared Studies of High Pressure Hydrogen

Nancy H. Chen, Eran Sterer, and Isaac F. Silvera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1663 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy to 0.15 eV of $H_{2}$ and $D_{2}$ at Megabar Pressures

Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, Alexander F. Goncharov, Michael Hanfland, and Viktor Struzhkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1667 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Cs-Induced Relaxation of the Cu(110) Surface

R. Schuster and I. K. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1671 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Self-Organization in Growth of Quantum Dot Superlattices

J. Tersoff, C. Teichert, and M. G. Lagally

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1675 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Kinetic Pathways of Order-Disorder and Order-Order Transitions in Weakly Segregated Microstructured Systems

Shuyan Qi and Zhen-Gang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1679 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Equilibrium Dynamics of the Dissipative Two-State System

T. A. Costi and C. Kieffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1683 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Dimensionality Dependence of the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Anderson Model of Localization

Michael Schreiber and Heiko Grussbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1687 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

One-Center Small Polarons as Short-Lived Precursors in Self-Trapping Processes of Holes and Electron-Hole Pairs in Alkali Iodides

S. Iwai, T. Tokizaki, A. Nakamura, K. Tanimura, N. Itoh, and A. Shluger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1691 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Non-Gaussian Distribution of Coulomb Blockade Peak Heights in Quantum Dots

A. M. Chang, H. U. Baranger, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, and T. Y. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1695 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Statistics and Parametric Correlations of Coulomb Blockade Peak Fluctuations in Quantum Dots

J. A. Folk, S. R. Patel, S. F. Godijn, A. G. Huibers, S. M. Cronenwett, C. M. Marcus, K. Campman, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1699 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Coherent Control of Photocurrent Generation in Bulk Semiconductors

R. Atanasov, A. Haché, J. L. P. Hughes, H. M. van Driel, and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1703 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Haldane's Fractional Statistics and the Lowest Landau Level on a Torus

Ansar Fayyazuddin and Dingping Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1707 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Universal Parametric Correlations of Conductance Peaks in Quantum Dots

Y. Alhassid and H. Attias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1711 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Zero-Bias Anomalies and Boson-Assisted Tunneling Through Quantum Dots

Jürgen König, Herbert Schoeller, and Gerd Schön

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1715 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Field Dependence of $c$ -Axis Plasma Resonance in Josephson-Coupled Superconductors

L. N. Bulaevskii, V. L. Pokrovsky, and M. P. Maley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1719 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Linear ac Response of Thin Superconductors during Flux Creep

Ernst Helmut Brandt and Alexander Gurevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1723 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Proximity Effects in Superconductor/Insulating-Ferromagnet NbN/GdN Multilayers

John Q. Xiao and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1727 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Spin Dynamics of Hole Doped $Y_{2 - x} {Ca}_{x} {BaNiO}_{5}$

E. Dagotto, J. Riera, A. Sandvik, and A. Moreo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1731 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Singlet Semiconductor to Ferromagnetic Metal Transition in FeSi

V. I. Anisimov, S. Yu Ezhov, I. S. Elfimov, I. V. Solovyev, and T. M. Rice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1735 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Energetic and Thermodynamic Aspects of Hysteresis

Giorgio Bertotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1739 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Finite-Size Effects and Uncompensated Magnetization in Thin Antiferromagnetic CoO Layers

T. Ambrose and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1743 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Dephasing-Rephasing Balancing in Photon Echoes by Excitation Induced Frequency Shifts

S. B. Altner, M. Mitsunaga, G. Zumofen, and U. P. Wild

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1747 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Adsorbate-Localized Excitation in Surface Photochemistry: Methane on Pt(111)

Kazuo Watanabe, Kyoichi Sawabe, and Yoshiyasu Matsumoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1751 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Rapid Phase Locking in Systems of Pulse-Coupled Oscillators with Delays

Wulfram Gerstner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1755 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

COMMENTS

Comment on “Overdamped Phonons in Fluid Helium at 4K”

A. Griffin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1759 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Crevecoeur, de Schepper, and Montfrooij Reply:

R. M. Crevecoeur, I. M. de Schepper, and W. Montfrooij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1760 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Core Hole Effects in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering of Graphite

P. A. Brühwiler, P. Kuiper, O. Eriksson, R. Ahuja, and S. Svensson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1761 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

Carlisle et al. Reply:

J. A. Carlisle, Eric L. Shirley, E. A. Hudson, L. J. Terminello, T. A. Callcott, J. J. Jia, D. L. Ederer, R. C. C. Perera, and F. J. Himpsel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1762 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996

ERRATA

Brillouin Scattering in Salol: Determining $T_{c}$ of the Mode Coupling Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3666 (1992)]

C. Dreyfus, M. J. Lebon, H. Z. Cummins, J. Toulouse, B. Bonello, and R. M. Pick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1763 (1996) - Published 4 March, 1996