Volume 80, Issue 12

23 March 1998

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision

G. B. Cook et al. (Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2512 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Three-Laboratory Measurement of the $^{44} Ti$ Half-Life

I. Ahmad, G. Bonino, G. Cini Castagnoli, S. M. Fischer, W. Kutschera, and M. Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2550 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Half-Life of $^{44} Ti$ as a Probe for Supernova Models

J. Görres, J. Meißner, H. Schatz, E. Stech, P. Tischhauser, M. Wiescher, D. Bazin, R. Harkewicz, M. Hellström, B. Sherrill, M. Steiner, R. N. Boyd, L. Buchmann, D. H. Hartmann, and J. D. Hinnefeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2554 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurement of the Vortex Pair Interaction Potential in a Type-II Superconductor

Chorng-Haur Sow, Ken Harada, Akira Tonomura, George Crabtree, and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2693 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

LETTERS

General Physics

Role of Coincidental Nonlinear Events in the Saturation of Moderately Damped Modes

R. Paul Drake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2499 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Ground State Energy of the Low Density Bose Gas

Elliott H. Lieb and Jakob Yngvason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2504 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Spacetime Foam as a Quantum Thermal Bath

Luis J. Garay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2508 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Boosted Three-Dimensional Black-Hole Evolutions with Singularity Excision

G. B. Cook et al. (Binary Black Hole Grand Challenge Alliance)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2512 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

't Hooft Anomaly Matching for QCD

John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2517 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Combining Real and Virtual Higgs Boson Mass Constraints

Michael S. Chanowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2521 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Decays of the Top Quark in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV$

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2525 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Two-Loop QCD Corrections to the Heavy Quark Pair Production Cross Section in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation near Threshold

Andrzej Czarnecki and Kirill Melnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2531 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Two-Loop Corrections to the Leptonic Decays of Quarkonium

M. Beneke, A. Signer, and V. A. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2535 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

$KN$ Scattering and the Nucleon Strangeness Radius

M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and H.-W. Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2539 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Nuclear Physics

High-Missing-Momentum Components in the $^{4} He (e, e^{'} p)^{3} H$ Reaction

J. J. van Leeuwe, H. P. Blok, J. F. J. van den Brand, H. J. Bulten, G. E. Dodge, R. Ent, W. H. A. Hesselink, E. Jans, W. J. Kasdorp, J. M. Laget, L. Lapikás, S. I. Nagorny, C. J. G. Onderwater, A. R. Pellegrino, C. M. Spaltro, J. J. M. Steijger, R. Schiavilla, J. A. Templon, and O. Unal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2543 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Momentum Transformation Connecting a $NN$ Potential in the Nonrelativistic and Relativistic Two-Nucleon Schrödinger Equation

H. Kamada and W. Glöckle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2547 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Three-Laboratory Measurement of the $^{44} Ti$ Half-Life

I. Ahmad, G. Bonino, G. Cini Castagnoli, S. M. Fischer, W. Kutschera, and M. Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2550 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Half-Life of $^{44} Ti$ as a Probe for Supernova Models

J. Görres, J. Meißner, H. Schatz, E. Stech, P. Tischhauser, M. Wiescher, D. Bazin, R. Harkewicz, M. Hellström, B. Sherrill, M. Steiner, R. N. Boyd, L. Buchmann, D. H. Hartmann, and J. D. Hinnefeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2554 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Smooth Termination of Rotational Bands in ${}^{62}Z n$ : Evidence for a Loss of Collectivity

C. E. Svensson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2558 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Negative Ion of Boron: An Experimental Study of the $^{3} P$ Ground State

Michael Scheer, René C. Bilodeau, and Harold K. Haugen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2562 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Electric Linear Dichroism with a Simple Interpretation in Terms of Molecular Pendular States

A. Slenczka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2566 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Dimer Destruction in a Cs Vapor by a Laser Close to Atomic Resonance

M. Lintz and M. A. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2570 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Fluctuations and Bonding in Lithium Clusters

Roger Rousseau and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2574 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Structure and Spectra of Three-Dimensional $(H_{2} O)_{n}$ Clusters, $n = 8, 9, 10$

Udo Buck, Ingo Ettischer, Mario Melzer, Victoria Buch, and Joanna Sadlej

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2578 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Wave Function Intensity Statistics from Unstable Periodic Orbits

L. Kaplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2582 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Noninterferometric Phase Imaging with Partially Coherent Light

D. Paganin and K. A. Nugent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2586 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Propagation of Acoustic Waves through a System of Many Vortex Rings

Maurizio Baffico, Denis Boyer, and Fernando Lund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2590 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Noncircular Triangularity and Ellipticity-Induced Alfvén Eigenmodes Observed in JT-60U

G. J. Kramer, M. Saigusa, T. Ozeki, Y. Kusama, H. Kimura, T. Oikawa, K. Tobita, G. Y. Fu, and C. Z. Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2594 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Tunable Radiation Source through Upshifting without Ionization

G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, and J.-M. Rax

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2598 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Potential Structure Modified by Electron Cyclotron Resonance in a Plasma Flow along Magnetic Field Lines with Mirror Configuration

T. Kaneko, R. Hatakeyama, and N. Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2602 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Necessary Conditions for Attaining a Crystalline Beam

Jie Wei, Hiromi Okamoto, and Andrew M. Sessler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2606 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Evolution of a Plasma Waveguide Created during Relativistic-Ponderomotive Self-Channeling of an Intense Laser Pulse

S.-Y. Chen, G. S. Sarkisov, A. Maksimchuk, R. Wagner, and D. Umstadter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2610 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Phase Determination in Spin-Polarized Neutron Specular Reflection

J. Kasper, H. Leeb, and R. Lipperheide

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2614 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

STM-Induced Hydrogen Desorption via a Hole Resonance

K. Stokbro, C. Thirstrup, M. Sakurai, U. Quaade, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, F. Perez-Murano, and F. Grey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2618 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Dynamics of Local Substructures in Water Observed by Ultrafast Infrared Hole Burning

R. Laenen, C. Rauscher, and A. Laubereau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2622 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Vacancies and Self-Interstitials in Germanium Observed by Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy

Helmut Haesslein, Rainer Sielemann, and Christian Zistl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2626 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Fractional Stokes-Einstein Law for Ionic Transport in Liquids

A. Voronel, E. Veliyulin, V. Sh. Machavariani, A. Kisliuk, and D. Quitmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2630 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Coalescence of Spheres by Surface Diffusion

Jens Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2634 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Structure and Phonons of the Ice Surface

J. Braun, A. Glebov, A. P. Graham, A. Menzel, and J. P. Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2638 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Island Shape Transition in Heteroepitaxial Metal Growth on Square Lattices

Bert Müller, Lorenz Nedelmann, Bjørn Fischer, Harald Brune, Johannes V. Barth, and Klaus Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2642 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Spiral Motion in a Noisy Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Igor S. Aranson, Hugues Chaté, and Lei-Han Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2646 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Island Size Scaling in InAs/GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

Y. Ebiko, S. Muto, D. Suzuki, S. Itoh, K. Shiramine, T. Haga, Y. Nakata, and N. Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2650 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Increased Stability in Crystal Growth Kinetics in Response to Bulk Transport Enhancement

Peter G. Vekilov and Franz Rosenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2654 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Dynamical Simulation of Current Fluctuations in a Dissipative Two-State System

Jürgen T. Stockburger and C. H. Mak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2657 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Density Matrix Approach to Local Hilbert Space Reduction

Chunli Zhang, Eric Jeckelmann, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2661 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Phonon-Assisted Double Exchange in Perovskite Manganites

J.-S. Zhou and J. B. Goodenough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2665 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Spontaneous dc Current Generation in a Resistively Shunted Semiconductor Superlattice Driven by a Terahertz Field

Kirill N. Alekseev, Ethan H. Cannon, Jonathan C. McKinney, Feodor V. Kusmartsev, and David K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2669 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Quasiatomic Fine Structure and Selection Rules in Quantum Dots

C. Schüller, K. Keller, G. Biese, E. Ulrichs, L. Rolf, C. Steinebach, D. Heitmann, and K. Eberl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2673 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Resonant Tunneling and Band Mixing in Multichannel Superlattices

Pedro Pereyra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2677 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Quantization of the Hall Conductance in a Three-Dimensional Layer

S. S. Murzin, A. G. M. Jansen, and P. v. d. Linden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2681 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Temperature-Independent Photoconductivity in Thin Films of Semiconducting Polymers: Photocarrier Sweep-Out Prior to Deep Trapping

D. Moses, J. Wang, G. Yu, and A. J. Heeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2685 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Asymmetric Magnetic Interference Patterns in 0- $π$ Josephson Junctions

D. F. Agterberg and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2689 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurement of the Vortex Pair Interaction Potential in a Type-II Superconductor

Chorng-Haur Sow, Ken Harada, Akira Tonomura, George Crabtree, and David G. Grier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2693 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Restoration of Superconductivity in High Parallel Magnetic Fields in Layered Superconductors

A. G. Lebed and K. Yamaji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2697 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Direct Observation of Incommensurate Modulation in Phase-Separated Cu-Rich ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4.003}$

X. L. Dong, Z. F. Dong, B. R. Zhao, Z. X. Zhao, X. F. Duan, L.-M. Peng, W. W. Huang, B. Xu, Y. Z. Zhang, S. Q. Guo, L. H. Zhao, and L. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2701 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Low Temperature Behavior and Crossovers of the Square Lattice Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Jae-Kwon Kim and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2705 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Non-Haldane Spin-Liquid Models with Exact Ground States

A. K. Kolezhuk and H.-J. Mikeska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2709 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the $S = 1 / 2$ Heisenberg Ladder ${Cu}_{2} (C_{5} H_{12} N_{2})_{2} {Cl}_{4}$ : Quantum Phase Transition and Critical Dynamics

G. Chaboussant, Y. Fagot-Revurat, M.-H. Julien, M. E. Hanson, C. Berthier, M. Horvatić, L. P. Lévy, and O. Piovesana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2713 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Symmetry of Magnetically Ordered Quasicrystals

Ron Lifshitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2717 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Static Magnetic Hyperfine Fields in Magnetically Polarized Pd

H. H. Bertschat, H.-H. Blaschek, H. Granzer, K. Potzger, S. Seeger, W.-D. Zeitz, H. Niehus, A. Burchard, D. Forkel-Wirth, and ISOLDE Collaboration

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2721 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum Action-Angle Variables for the Harmonic Oscillator”

T. B. Smith and John A. Vaccaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2745 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Lewis, Lawrence, and Harris Reply:

H. Ralph Lewis, Walter E. Lawrence, and Joseph D. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2746 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Laser Cooling of Electron Beams for Linear Colliders [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4757 (1997)]

Valery Telnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2747 (1998) - Published 23 March, 1998

Volume 80, Issue 12

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA