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Physical Review Letters

Volume 76, Issue 9

26 February 1996

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LETTERS

General Physics

Moment of Inertia and Superfluidity of a Trapped Bose Gas

S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1405 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Chaos around a Hénon-Heiles-Inspired Exact Perturbation of a Black Hole

Werner M. Vieira and Patricio S. Letelier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1409 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Causality, Randomness, and the Microwave Background

Andreas Albrecht, David Coulson, Pedro Ferreira, and Joao Magueijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1413 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Elementary Particles and Fields

On the Convergence of Perturbative QCD at High Temperature

Eric Braaten and Agustin Nieto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1417 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Search for the Decay $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν \bar{ν}$

S. Adler et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1421 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Nuclear Physics

Importance of One- and Two-Body Dissipation at Intermediate Energies Studied by Hard Photons

J. H. G. van Pol et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1425 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Missing Isoscalar Monopole Strength in $^{58}$ Ni

D. H. Youngblood, H. L. Clark, and Y.-W. Lui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1429 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Self-Energy Correction to the Hyperfine Structure Splitting of Hydrogenlike Atoms

H. Persson, S. M. Schneider, W. Greiner, G. Soff, and I. Lindgren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1433 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Electron Correlation in Multiple Excitation of Atoms by High-Energy Ions

F. Martín and A. Salin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1437 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Surface-Enhanced Magnetism in Nickel Clusters

S. E. Apsel, J. W. Emmert, J. Deng, and L. A. Bloomfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1441 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

New Spectroscopic Tool for Cluster Science: Nonexponential Laser Fluence Dependence of Photofragmentation

H. Haberland and B. v. Issendorff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1445 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Local Optimal Metrics and Nonlinear Modeling of Chaotic Time Series

P. García, J. Jiménez, A. Marcano, and F. Moleiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1449 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Overcoming the Wall in the Semiclassical Baker's Map

L. Kaplan and E. J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1453 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Optical Wave-Packet Propagation in Nonisotropic Media

Y. B. Band and Marek Trippenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1457 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Passive Scalars, Random Flux, and Chiral Phase Fluids

Jonathan Miller and Jane Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1461 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Thermal Turbulence in Mercury

Tohru Takeshita, Takehiko Segawa, James A. Glazier, and Masaki Sano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1465 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Plasma and Beam Physics

Helicity and Transport in Electron MHD Heat Pulses

R. L. Stenzel and J. M. Urrutia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1469 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Quantitative Study of the Ionization-Induced Refraction of Picosecond Laser Pulses in Gas-Jet Targets

A. J. Mackinnon, M. Borghesi, A. Iwase, M. W. Jones, G. J. Pert, S. Rae, K. Burnett, and O. Willi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1473 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Structure in a Confined Smectic Liquid Crystal with Competing Surface and Sample Elasticities

Stefan H. J. Idziak, Ilya Koltover, Jacob N. Israelachvili, and Cyrus R. Safinya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1477 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Directed Surfaces in Disordered Media

A.-L. Barabási, G. Grinstein, and M. A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1481 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Apparent Barrier Height in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Revisited

L. Olesen, M. Brandbyge, M. R. Sørensen, K. W. Jacobsen, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, and F. Besenbacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1485 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Superspace Groups without the Embedding: The Link between Superspace and Fourier-Space Crystallography

Jörg Dräger and N. David Mermin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1489 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Trap-Limited Migration of Si Self-Interstitials at Room Temperature

K. Kyllesbech Larsen, V. Privitera, S. Coffa, F. Priolo, S. U. Campisano, and A. Carnera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1493 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Stability of Quasiequilibrium Cracks under Uniaxial Loading

Mokhtar Adda-Bedia and Martine Ben Amar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1497 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Formation of AgH $e_{2}$ Exciplex in Liquid Helium

J. L. Persson, Q. Hui, Z. J. Jakubek, M. Nakamura, and M. Takami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1501 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Boundary Effects on Spectral Properties of Interacting Electrons in One Dimension

Sebastian Eggert, Henrik Johannesson, and Ann Mattsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1505 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Effective $σ$ Model Formulation for Two Interacting Electrons in a Disordered Metal

Klaus Frahm, Axel Müller-Groeling, and Jean-Louis Pichard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1509 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Exciton Dynamics in Poly(p-Pyridyl Vinylene)

J. W. Blatchford, S. W. Jessen, L. B. Lin, J. J. Lih, T. L. Gustafson, A. J. Epstein, D. K. Fu, M. J. Marsella, T. M. Swager, A. G. MacDiarmid, S. Yamaguchi, and H. Hamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1513 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Electronic Energy Transfer in CdSe Quantum Dot Solids

C. R. Kagan, C. B. Murray, M. Nirmal, and M. G. Bawendi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1517 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

In Situ Measurements of Interface States at Silicon Surfaces in Fluoride Solutions

Gerko Oskam, Peter M. Hoffmann, and Peter C. Searson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1521 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Grazing Incidence Infrared Reflectivity of ${La}_{1.85} {Sr}_{0.15} {CuO}_{4}$ and NbN

H. S. Somal, B. J. Feenstra, J. Schützmann, Jae Hoon Kim, Z. H. Barber, V. H. M. Duijn, N. T. Hien, A. A. Menovsky, Mario Palumbo, and D. van der Marel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1525 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Observation of Quantum Dissipation in the Vortex State of a Highly Disordered Superconducting Thin Film

D. Ephron, A. Yazdani, A. Kapitulnik, and M. R. Beasley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1529 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Electronic Excitations in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} Ca {Cu}_{2} O_{8}$ : Fermi Surface, Dispersion, and Absence of Bilayer Splitting

H. Ding, A. F. Bellman, J. C. Campuzano, M. Randeria, M. R. Norman, T. Yokoya, T. Takahashi, H. Katayama-Yoshida, T. Mochiku, K. Kadowaki, G. Jennings, and G. P. Brivio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1533 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Observation of Magnetism and Kondo Effect for Sc Ions in Metallic Hosts

J. Kapoor, J. Andres, Yi Li, A. Metz, C. Polaczyk, D. Riegel, and W. D. Brewer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1537 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Magnetic Order in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Nanometer-Sized Superparamagnets

M. R. Scheinfein, K. E. Schmidt, K. R. Heim, and G. G. Hembree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1541 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Femtosecond Carrier Dynamics in GaAs Far from Equilibrium

Alfred Leitenstorfer, Cornelius Fürst, Alfred Laubereau, Wolfgang Kaiser, Günther Tränkle, and Günter Weimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1545 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Magnetic Field Diagnostic for Sonoluminescence

Tom Chou and Eric G. Blackman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1549 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

COMMENTS

Comment on “Dynamic Viscosity of a Simple Glass-Forming Liquid”

Claus F. Behrens, Tine G. Christiansen, Tage Christensen, Jeppe C. Dyre, and Niels B. Olsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1553 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Menon, Nagel, and Venerus Reply:

Narayanan Menon, Sidney R. Nagel, and D. C. Venerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1554 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

Comment on “Superconductivity in Bad Metals”

Guy Deutscher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1555 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996

ERRATA

Influence of $s - d$ Exchange Interaction on Universal Conductance Fluctuations in ${Cd}_{1 - x} {Mn}_{x} Te$ : In

J. Jaroszyński, J. Wróbel, M. Sawicki, E. Kamińska, T. Skośkiewicz, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, A. Piotrowska, J. Kossut, and T. Dietl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1556 (1996) - Published 26 February, 1996