Volume 79, Issue 23

8 December 1997

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General Physics

Stern-Gerlach Effect for Electron Beams

H. Batelaan, T. J. Gay, and J. J. Schwendiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4517 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Absence of Correlation between the Solar Neutrino Flux and the Sunspot Number

Guenther Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4522 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Cosmological Constraint on the String Dilaton in Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking Theories

J. Hashiba, M. Kawasaki, and T. Yanagida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4525 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Elementary Particles and Fields

Complex Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield Domain Walls and Phase Transition in Mass in Supersymmetric QCD

A. V. Smilga and A. I. Veselov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4529 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Measurement of the Decay Amplitudes and Branching Fractions of $B \to J / ψ K^{*}$ and $B \to J / ψ K$ Decays

C. P. Jessop et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4533 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for Transient Electric Field Gradients in H-like Ions Traversing Gd Targets at High Velocities

U. Grabowy, K.-H. Speidel, J. Cub, H. Busch, H.-J. Wollersheim, G. Jakob, A. Gohla, J. Gerber, and M. Loewe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4538 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Possible Understanding of Hyperdeformed ${}^{144 - 146}B a$ Nuclei Appearing in the Spontaneous Fission of ${}^{252}C f$

Xizhen Wu, Jianzhong Gu, Yizhong Zhuo, Zhuxia Li, Yongshou Chen, and Walter Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4542 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Manifestation of Strongly Delocalized Atomic States in the $5 s$ Photoionization of Xenon

H. Schmoranzer, S. Lauer, F. Vollweiler, G. Reichardt, K.-H. Schartner, G. Mentzel, O. Wilhelmi, V. L. Sukhorukov, B. M. Lagutin, and I. D. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4546 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Strong Field Ionization in Arbitrary Laser Polarizations

M. Protopapas, D. G. Lappas, and P. L. Knight

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4550 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Observation of Site-Specific Electron Emission in the Decay of Superexcited $O_{2}$

A. V. Golovin, F. Heiser, C. J. K. Quayle, P. Morin, M. Simon, O. Gessner, P.-M. Guyon, and U. Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4554 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Measurement of the Lifetime of Predissociative Diatomic Molecules

B. Buijsse and W. J. van der Zande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4558 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Chaos and Spatial Correlations for Dipolar Eigenproblems

Mark I. Stockman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4562 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Optical Pulse Compression in Fiber Bragg Gratings

N. G. R. Broderick, D. Taverner, D. J. Richardson, M. Ibsen, and R. I. Laming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4566 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Model for Subharmonic Waves in Granular Materials

Enrique Cerda, Francisco Melo, and Sergio Rica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4570 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Granular Convection and Transport due to Horizontal Shaking

Kurt Liffman, Guy Metcalfe, and Paul Cleary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4574 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Predictions of Small-Scale Statistics for a Passive Scalar in Turbulent Mixing

L. Danaila, F. Anselmet, P. Le Gal, J. Dusek, C. Brun, and A. Pumir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4577 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Phase Diagram of Fully Developed Drainage in Porous Media

Y. C. Yortsos, B. Xu, and D. Salin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4581 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Plasma and Beam Physics

Trapping of Electromagnetic Wave by Nonstationary Plasma Layer

M. I. Bakunov and A. V. Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4585 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Negative Power Absorption in Inductively Coupled Plasma

V. A. Godyak and V. I. Kolobov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4589 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Magnetic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy with a Two-Terminal Nonmagnetic Tip

P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4593 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Amorphization and Molecular Dissociation of $Sn I_{4}$ at High Pressure

N. Hamaya, K. Sato, K. Usui-Watanabe, K. Fuchizaki, Y. Fujii, and Y. Ohishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4597 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Local Analysis of Structural Instability in Stressed Lattices: Crack Nucleation in a Covalent Solid

C. S. Jayanthi, M. Tang, S. Y. Wu, J. A. Cocks, and S. Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4601 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Phonon Squeezed States Generated by Second-Order Raman Scattering

Xuedong Hu and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4605 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Phonon Dispersion of an Epitaxial Monolayer Film of Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Ni(111)

E. Rokuta, Y. Hasegawa, K. Suzuki, Y. Gamou, C. Oshima, and A. Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4609 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Dynamical Transition and Crystallization of Polymers

Koji Fukao and Yoshihisa Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4613 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Capillary Waves in Langmuir-Blodgett Interfaces and Formation of Confined CdS Layers

J. K. Basu and M. K. Sanyal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4617 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Diffusion Mechanism of Si Adatoms on a Double-Layer Stepped Si(001) Surface

Eunja Kim, Chan Wuk Oh, and Young Hee Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4621 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Influence of the Molecular Ordering on the Wetting of ${SiO}_{2}$ /Air Interfaces by Alkanes

C. Merkl, T. Pfohl, and H. Riegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4625 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Open Luttinger Liquids

A. H. Castro Neto, C. de C. Chamon, and C. Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4629 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Collective Intersubband Excitations in Quantum Wells: Coulomb Interaction versus Subband Dispersion

Dmitri E. Nikonov, Ataç Imamoğlu, Leonid V. Butov, and Holger Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4633 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Method for Calculating Valence Stability in Lanthanide Systems

Anna Delin, Lars Fast, Börje Johansson, J. M. Wills, and Olle Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4637 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Magnetic Impurity in an Open Correlated Electron Chain

A. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4641 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Dynamics and Spatial Distribution of Electrons in Quantum Wells at Interfaces Determined by Femtosecond Photoemission Spectroscopy

J. D. McNeill, R. L. Lingle, Jr., N.-H. Ge, C. M. Wong, R. E. Jordan, and C. B. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4645 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Optical Phase Control of Coherent Electron Dynamics in Metals

H. Petek, A. P. Heberle, W. Nessler, H. Nagano, S. Kubota, S. Matsunami, N. Moriya, and S. Ogawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4649 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Magnetization of Mesoscopic Superconducting Disks

P. Singha Deo, V. A. Schweigert, F. M. Peeters, and A. K. Geim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4653 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Quantum Paraelectric Model for Layered Superconductors

S. R. Shenoy, V. Subrahmanyam, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4657 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Order-Disorder Transition in an External Field in Random Ferromagnets and Nematic Elastomers

S. V. Fridrikh and E. M. Terentjev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4661 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Transition from Overscreening to Underscreening in the Multichannel Kondo Model: Exact Solution at Large $N$

Olivier Parcollet and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4665 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Dynamics of a Ferromagnetic Domain Wall and the Barkhausen Effect

Pierre Cizeau, Stefano Zapperi, Gianfranco Durin, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4669 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

NMR Spin-Spin Relaxation as Kinetics in Spin Phase Space

Boris V. Fine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4673 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

New Dielectric Resonances in Mesoscopic Ferroelectrics

R. Pattnaik and J. Toulouse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4677 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Energetic and Spatial Bonding Properties from Angular Distributions of Ultraviolet Photoelectrons: Application to the GaAs(110) Surface

C. Solterbeck, W. Schattke, J.-W. Zahlmann-Nowitzki, K.-U. Gawlik, L. Kipp, M. Skibowski, C. S. Fadley, and M. A. Van Hove

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4681 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Ring Morphology in Interfacial Electrodeposition

L. Zeiri, O. Younes, S. Efrima, and M. Deutsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4685 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Butterfly Light Scattering Pattern and Rheology of a Sheared Thixotropic Clay Gel

Frédéric Pignon, Albert Magnin, and Jean-Michel Piau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4689 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Shear-Induced Order in a Homopolymer Blend with Block Copolymer Surfactant

Alan I. Nakatani, Lipiin Sung, Erik K. Hobbie, and Charles C. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4693 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Information Transmission and Temporal Code in Central Spiking Neurons

Gustavo Deco and Bernd Schürmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4697 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Stochastic Resonance in Ensembles of Nondynamical Elements: The Role of Internal Noise

Paul C. Gailey, Alexander Neiman, James J. Collins, and Frank Moss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4701 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Bistability of Membrane Conductance in Cell Adhesion Observed in a Neuron Transistor

Martin Jenkner and Peter Fromherz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4705 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Quantum Computers Can Search Arbitrarily Large Databases by a Single Query

Lov K. Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4709 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

COMMENTS

Comment on “Spontaneous Wave Pattern Formation in Vibrated Granular Materials”

C. Bizon, M. D. Shattuck, J. T. Newman, Paul B. Umbanhowar, J. B. Swift, W. D. McCormick, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4713 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Aoki and Akiyama Reply:

Keiko M. Aoki and Tetsuo Akiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4714 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Comment on “Nonlinear Sinusoidal Waves and Their Superposition in Anharmonic Lattices”

Manuel Rodríguez-Achach and Gabriel Pérez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4715 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Kosevich Replies:

Yuriy A. Kosevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4716 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Comment on “Violation of Kohler's Rule in the Normal-State Magnetoresistance of ${{YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O}_{7 - δ}$ and ${{La}_{2} Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ ”

A. S. Alexandrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4717 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997

Ong and Anderson Reply:

N. P. Ong and P. W. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4718 (1997) - Published 8 December, 1997