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Physical Review Letters

Volume 77, Issue 22

25 November 1996

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LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Colliding Black Holes: How Far Can the Close Approximation Go?

Reinaldo J. Gleiser, Carlos O. Nicasio, Richard H. Price, and Jorge Pullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4483 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Gravitomagnetic Induction during the Coalescence of Compact Binaries

Stuart L. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4487 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Four-Dimensional Greybody Factors and the Effective String

Steven S. Gubser and Igor R. Klebanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4491 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Analytic Scaling Solutions for Cosmic Domain Walls

Mark Hindmarsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4495 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Elementary Particles and Fields

Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theory Contributions and Model Independent Extractions of CP Phases

N. G. Deshpande, B. Dutta, and Sechul Oh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4499 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

A Search for Nonresonant $B^{+} \to h^{+} h^{-} h^{+}$ Decays

T. Bergfeld et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4503 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Nuclear Physics

Investigating the Evolution of Multifragmenting Systems with Fragment Emission Order

E. W. Cornell, T. M. Hamilton, D. Fox, Y. Lou, R. T. de Souza, M. J. Huang, W. C. Hsi, C. Schwarz, C. Williams, D. R. Bowman, J. Dinius, C. K. Gelbke, D. O. Handzy, M. A. Lisa, W. G. Lynch, G. F. Peaslee, L. Phair, M. B. Tsang, G. VanBuren, R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, and W. A. Friedman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4508 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Radiative Muon Capture on Hydrogen and the Induced Pseudoscalar Coupling

G. Jonkmans et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4512 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hydrogen Molecule as a Classical Restricted Four-Body Problem

A. López-Castillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4516 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Imaging of Saddle Point Electron Emission in Slow $p - H e$ Collisions

R. Dörner, H. Khemliche, M. H. Prior, C. L. Cocke, J. A. Gary, R. E. Olson, V. Mergel, J. Ullrich, and H. Schmidt-Böcking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4520 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Energy Dissipation in Small Clusters: Direct Photoemission, Dissociation, and Thermionic Emission

G. Ganteför, W. Eberhardt, H. Weidele, D. Kreisle, and E. Recknagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4524 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Photoelectron Spectra and Geometric Structures of Small Niobium Cluster Anions

Hardy Kietzmann, J. Morenzin, Paul S. Bechthold, Gerd Ganteför, Wolfgang Eberhardt, Dong-Sheng Yang, Peter A. Hackett, René Fournier, Tao Pang, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4528 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Spin Polarized Alkali Clusters: Observation of Quartet States of the Sodium Trimer

J. Higgins, W. E. Ernst, C. Callegari, J. Reho, K. K. Lehmann, G. Scoles, and M. Gutowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4532 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Field Theory of the Quantum Kicked Rotor

Alexander Altland and Martin R. Zirnbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4536 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Propagation of Waves in the Spectrum of a Multimode Laser

Christophe Szwaj, Serge Bielawski, and Dominique Derozier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4540 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Vortex Evolution and Bound Pair Formation in Anisotropic Nonlinear Optical Media

A. V. Mamaev, M. Saffman, and A. A. Zozulya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4544 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Isotropic Turbulence: Important Differences between True Dissipation Rate and Its One-Dimensional Surrogate

Iwao Hosokawa, Shin-ichi Oide, and Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4548 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Do Hydrodynamic Dispersion Coefficients Exist?

C. P. Lowe and D. Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4552 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Plasma and Beam Physics

Propagation of Subpicosecond Laser Pulses through a Fully Ionized Plasma

P. E. Young and P. R. Bolton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4556 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Renormalization of Nonequilibrium Systems with Critical Stationary States

Alessandro Vespignani, Stefano Zapperi, and Vittorio Loreto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4560 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Liquid-Crystal Phase Transitions Induced by Microtextured Substrates

Tie Zheng Qian and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4564 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Effect of Magnetic Scattering on the $^{3} He$ Superfluid State in Aerogel

D. T. Sprague, T. M. Haard, J. B. Kycia, M. R. Rand, Y. Lee, P. J. Hamot, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4568 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Edward-Wilkinson Behavior of Crystal Surfaces Grown By Sedimentation of Si $O_{2}$ Nanospheres

R. C. Salvarezza, L. Vázquez, H. Míguez, R. Mayoral, C. López, and F. Meseguer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4572 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Femtosecond Laser-Induced Desorption of CO from Cu(100): Comparison of Theory and Experiment

Lisa M. Struck, Lee J. Richter, Steven A. Buntin, Richard R. Cavanagh, and John C. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4576 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Epitaxial Growth of Metastable Co-Cu Alloys by a Surface Pump Mechanism

G. L. Zhou, M. H. Yang, and C. P. Flynn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4580 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Step-Adatom Attraction as a New Mechanism for Instability in Epitaxial Growth

Jacques G. Amar and Fereydoon Family

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4584 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

The Anharmonic Electron-Phonon Problem

J. K. Freericks, Mark Jarrell, and G. D. Mahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4588 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Quantum Transition between an Antiferromagnetic Mott Insulator and $d_{x^{2} {- y}^{2}}$ Superconductor in Two Dimensions

F. F. Assaad, M. Imada, and D. J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4592 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Self-Pulse-Shaping Coherent Control of Excitons in a Semiconductor Microcavity

D. S. Citrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4596 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Electronic Structure of Band-Tail Electrons in a Si:H

T. Umeda, S. Yamasaki, J. Isoya, A. Matsuda, and K. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4600 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Spin Excitations of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in the Limit of Vanishing Landé $g$ Factor

D. K. Maude, M. Potemski, J. C. Portal, M. Henini, L. Eaves, G. Hill, and M. A. Pate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4604 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Response from Quantum Well States in Noble Metals: Double Period and Interface Localization

A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, R. Mégy, and P. Beauvillain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4608 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Nonuniversal Conductance Quantization in Quantum Wires

A. Yacoby, H. L. Stormer, Ned S. Wingreen, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4612 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

New Concept for the Reduction of Impurity Scattering in Remotely Doped GaAs Quantum Wells

K.-J. Friedland, R. Hey, H. Kostial, R. Klann, and K. Ploog

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4616 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Optical Study on Phonon Anomalies and Spin Gap in ${YBa}_{2} ({Cu}_{1 - x} {Zn}_{x})_{3} O_{6.6}$

R. Hauff, S. Tajima, W.-J. Jang, and A. I. Rykov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4620 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Evidence for Large Static and Dynamic Distortions in High $T_{c}$ Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {{Cu}_{3} O}_{7 - δ}$ Crystals over a Wide Temperature Range

R. P. Sharma, T. Venkatesan, Z. H. Zhang, J. R. Liu, R. Chu, and W. K. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4624 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Anomalous Phonon Scattering Below $T_{c}$ in $Y {Ni}_{2} {}^{11}B_{2} C$

H. Kawano, H. Yoshizawa, H. Takeya, and K. Kadowaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4628 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

$c$ Axis Superfluid Response of Copper Oxide Superconductors

T. Xiang and J. M. Wheatley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4632 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Strong Pinning and Plastic Deformations of the Vortex Lattice

A. Schönenberger, A. Larkin, E. Heeb, V. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4636 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Thermodynamic Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of the Magnetic Susceptibility of Half-Integer Quantum Spin Chains

S. Moukouri and L. G. Caron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4640 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Thresholds of Envelope Soliton Formation in a Weakly Dissipative Medium

Andrei N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4644 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Spin Glass Dynamics under a Change in Magnetic Field

Y. G. Joh, R. Orbach, and J. Hammann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4648 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Metal-Insulator Transition and Giant Negative Magnetoresistance in Amorphous Magnetic Rare Earth Silicon Alloys

F. Hellman, M. Q. Tran, A. E. Gebala, E. M. Wilcox, and R. C. Dynes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4652 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Chemical Bonding and Size Scaling of Nonlinear Polarizabilities of Conjugated Polymers

Sergei Tretiak, Vladimir Chernyak, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4656 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Continuous Shear Thickening and Colloid Surfaces

J. R. Melrose, J. H. van Vliet, and R. C. Ball

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4660 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Measurement of Phase and Magnitude of the Reflection Coefficient of a Quantum Dot

E. Buks, R. Schuster, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky, and H. Shtrikman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4664 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Two-Dimensional Child-Langmuir Law

J. W. Luginsland, Y. Y. Lau, and R. M. Gilgenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4668 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

On-line versus Off-line Learning from Random Examples: General Results

Manfred Opper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4671 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Size Enhancement of Transition Dipoles to One- and Two-Exciton Bands in a Photosynthetic Antenna

D. Leupold, H. Stiel, K. Teuchner, F. Nowak, W. Sandner, B. Ücker, and H. Scheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4675 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Noise-Mediated Spike Timing Precision from Aperiodic Stimuli in an Array of Hodgekin-Huxley-Type Neurons

Xing Pei, Lon Wilkens, and Frank Moss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4679 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Quantum Logical Operations on Encoded Qubits

Wojciech Hubert Zurek and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4683 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

COMMENTS

Comment on “Transverse Force on a Quantized Vortex in a Superfluid”

G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4687 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Comment on “Local Magnetism and Crystal Fields of Pr in PrB $a_{2}$ C $u_{3}$ $O_{7}$ Studied by $^{141}$ Pr NMR”

U. Staub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4688 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Nehrke and Pieper Reply:

K. Nehrke and M. W. Pieper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4689 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Comment on “Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation”

C. S. Unnikrishnan and Shomeek Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4690 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

Eberlein Replies:

Claudia Eberlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4691 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996

ERRATA

Threshold Dynamics of Singular Gravity-Capillary Waves

Christopher L. Goodridge, W. Tao Shi, and Daniel P. Lathrop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4692 (1996) - Published 25 November, 1996