Volume 80, Issue 15

13 April 1998

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General Physics

Observation of Scalar Aharonov-Bohm Effect with Longitudinally Polarized Neutrons

W.-T. Lee, O. Motrunich, B. E. Allman, and S. A. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3165 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Contradiction of Quantum Mechanics with Local Hidden Variables for Quadrature Phase Amplitude Measurements

A. Gilchrist, P. Deuar, and M. D. Reid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3169 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Sub-Kilohertz Optical Spectroscopy with a Time Domain Atom Interferometer

F. Ruschewitz, J. L. Peng, H. Hinderthür, N. Schaffrath, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3173 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Four-Particle Condensate in Strongly Coupled Fermion Systems

G. Röpke, A. Schnell, P. Schuck, and P. Nozières

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3177 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Gravitation and Astrophysics

High Power Interferometric Phase Measurement Limited by Quantum Noise and Application to Detection of Gravitational Waves

P. Fritschel, G. González, B. Lantz, P. Saha, and M. Zucker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3181 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Experimental Signatures of Supersymmetric Dark-Matter $Q$ -Balls

Alexander Kusenko, Vadim Kuzmin, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, and P. G. Tinyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3185 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

Non-Abelian Dipole Radiation and the Heavy Quark Expansion

Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Nikolai Uraltsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3189 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Measurement of $B (D^{0} \to K^{-} π^{+})$ Using Partial Reconstruction of $\bar{B} \to D^{* +} X ℓ^{-} \bar{ν}$

M. Artuso et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3193 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Effective QCD Coupling and Power Corrections to Photon-Photon Scattering

F. Hautmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3198 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Nuclear Physics

$η^{'}$ Production in Proton-Proton Scattering Close to Threshold

P. Moskal et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3202 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Ultraviolet Photon Emission Observed in the Search for the Decay of the $^{229} Th$ Isomer

D. S. Richardson, D. M. Benton, D. E. Evans, J. A. R. Griffith, and G. Tungate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3206 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hyperspherical Symmetry of Hydrogenic Orbitals and Recoupling Coefficients among Alternative Bases

Vincenzo Aquilanti, Simonetta Cavalli, and Cecilia Coletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3209 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Excitation and Relaxation in Atom-Cluster Collisions

U. Saalmann and R. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3213 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Measurement of the Rotational Frequency Shift Imparted to a Rotating Light Beam Possessing Orbital Angular Momentum

J. Courtial, K. Dholakia, D. A. Robertson, L. Allen, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3217 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Formation of Negative Ions upon Irradiation of Molecules by Intense Laser Fields

V. R. Bhardwaj, D. Mathur, and F. A. Rajgara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3220 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Quenching of $H_{2}$ Vibrations in Ultracold $^{3} He$ and $^{4} He$ Collisions

N. Balakrishnan, R. C. Forrey, and A. Dalgarno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3224 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Importance of Local Pattern Properties in Spiral Defect Chaos

David A. Egolf, Ilarion V. Melnikov, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3228 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Microwave Realization of the Hofstadter Butterfly

U. Kuhl and H.-J. Stöckmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3232 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Coherent 0.5-keV X-Ray Emission from Helium Driven by a Sub-10-fs Laser

M. Schnürer, Ch. Spielmann, P. Wobrauschek, C. Streli, N. H. Burnett, C. Kan, K. Ferencz, R. Koppitsch, Z. Cheng, T. Brabec, and F. Krausz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3236 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Anomalous Interaction of Spatial Solitons in Photorefractive Media

Wiesław Królikowski, M. Saffman, Barry Luther-Davies, and Cornelia Denz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3240 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Multiscale Velocity Correlations in Turbulence

R. Benzi, L. Biferale, and F. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3244 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Percolation with Two Invaders and Two Defenders: Volatile Clusters, Oscillations, and Scaling

Mehrdad Hashemi, Muhammad Sahimi, and Bahram Dabir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3248 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Wave-Particle Resonance in Magnetized Plasma

M. Sarfaty, S. De Souza-Machado, and F. Skiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3252 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Experimental Test of the Sweet-Parker Model of Magnetic Reconnection

Hantao Ji, Masaaki Yamada, Scott Hsu, and Russell Kulsrud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3256 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Laser-Induced Fluorescence Observation of Self-Organized Ion Structures Induced by Electrostatic Perturbations

G. Bachet, F. Skiff, M. Dindelegan, F. Doveil, and R. A. Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3260 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Experimental Evidence of Collisionless Power Absorption in Inductively Coupled Plasmas

V. A. Godyak, R. B. Piejak, B. M. Alexandrovich, and V. I. Kolobov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3264 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Solving the Phase Problem Using Reference-Beam X-Ray Diffraction

Qun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3268 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Nondestructive Resolution of Higher Harmonics of Light-Induced Volume Gratings in PMMA with Cold Neutrons

Frank Havermeyer, Sergei F. Lyuksyutov, Romano A. Rupp, Helmut Eckerlebe, Peter Staron, and Jürgen Vollbrandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3272 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Reaction-Induced Phase Separation Dynamics: A Polymer in a Liquid Crystal Solvent

J. B. Nephew, T. C. Nihei, and S. A. Carter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3276 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Growth Mechanism and Cross-Sectional Structure of Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Thin Films

C. A. Davis, G. A. J. Amaratunga, and K. M. Knowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3280 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Quantum Breathers in Electron-Phonon Systems

W. Z. Wang, A. R. Bishop, J. T. Gammel, and R. N. Silver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3284 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Activation Volume of ${}^{57}C o$ Diffusion in Amorphous ${Co}_{81} {Zr}_{19}$

P. Klugkist, K. Rätzke, S. Rehders, P. Troche, and F. Faupel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3288 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Measurements of the Solubility and Diffusion Coefficient of $^{4} He$ in Liquid $^{3} He$ in the Fermi-Liquid Region

Jizhong He, T. G. Culman, H. H. Hjort, and D. O. Edwards

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3292 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Dewetting at Soft Interfaces

Pascal Martin and Françoise Brochard-Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3296 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Profile Scaling in Decay of Nanostructures

Navot Israeli and Daniel Kandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3300 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Local Chemical Environments and the Phonon Partial Densities of States of $^{57} Fe$ in $^{57} {Fe}_{3} Al$

B. Fultz, T. A. Stephens, W. Sturhahn, T. S. Toellner, and E. E. Alp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3304 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Efficient Computation of Dendritic Microstructures Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Nikolas Provatas, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Jonathan Dantzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3308 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Quantum Oscillations of Electrons and of Composite Fermions in Two Dimensions: Beyond the Luttinger Expansion

S. Curnoe and P. C. E. Stamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3312 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Electronic Structure of a Novel Class of Nanoporous Materials

F. Starrost, E. E. Krasovskii, W. Schattke, J. Jockel, U. Simon, X. Wang, and F. Liebau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3316 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Excitonic Effects and the Optical Absorption Spectrum of Hydrogenated Si Clusters

Michael Rohlfing and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3320 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

New Liquid Phase and Metal-Insulator Transition in Si MOSFETs

Song He and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3324 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Plasmon Excitation by Multiply Charged $Ne^{q +}$ Ions Interacting with an Al Surface

D. Niemann, M. Grether, M. Rösler, and N. Stolterfoht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3328 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Electron Confinement to Nanoscale Ag Islands on Ag(111): A Quantitative Study

Jiutao Li, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Richard Berndt, and S. Crampin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3332 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Spontaneous Magnetization of Simple Metal Nanowires

N. Zabala, M. J. Puska, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3336 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Coulomb Charging Effect in Self-Assembled Ge Quantum Dots Studied by Admittance Spectroscopy

S. K. Zhang, H. J. Zhu, F. Lu, Z. M. Jiang, and Xun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3340 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Electron-Electron Interactions in Emission from a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Quantizing Magnetic Fields

L. Gravier, M. Potemski, P. Hawrylak, and B. Etienne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3344 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Microscopic Theory of Quantum-Transport Phenomena in Mesoscopic Systems: A Monte Carlo Approach

Fausto Rossi, Aldo Di Carlo, and Paolo Lugli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3348 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Transport through Quantum Melts

Efrat Shimshoni, Assa Auerbach, and Aharon Kapitulnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3352 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Duality Transformation in a Three Dimensional Conducting Medium with Two Dimensional Heterogeneity and an In-Plane Magnetic Field

David J. Bergman and Yakov M. Strelniker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3356 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

de Haas–van Alphen Effect in Anisotropic Superconductors in Magnetic Fields Well Below $H_{c 2}$

L. P. Gor'kov and J. R. Schrieffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3360 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

$d - Wave$ Scaling Relations in the Mixed-State Specific Heat of ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$

B. Revaz, J.-Y. Genoud, A. Junod, K. Neumaier, A. Erb, and E. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3364 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Bethe Ansatz Approach to the Thermodynamics of Superconducting Magnetic Alloys

Valery I. Rupasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3368 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Cherenkov Radiation of Vortices in a Two-Dimensional Annular Josephson Junction

V. V. Kurin, A. V. Yulin, I. A. Shereshevskii, and N. K. Vdovicheva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3372 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Collective Dynamics of Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

Dmitry A. Ryndyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3376 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Phase Transitions in the ${Gd}_{0.5} {Ba}_{0.5} {CoO}_{3}$ Perovskite

I. O. Troyanchuk, N. V. Kasper, D. D. Khalyavin, H. Szymczak, R. Szymczak, and M. Baran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3380 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Projection Method for Statics and Dynamics of Lattice Spin Systems

M. Kolesik, M. A. Novotny, and P. A. Rikvold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3384 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

NMR Chemical Shifts in Hard Carbon Nitride Compounds

Young-Gui Yoon, Bernd G. Pfrommer, Francesco Mauri, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3388 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Absence of Carrier Hopping in Porous Silicon

I. Mihalcescu, J. C. Vial, and R. Romestain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3392 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Photoluminescence of Tensile Strained, Exactly Strain Compensated, and Compressively Strained ${Si}_{1 - x - y} {Ge}_{x} C_{y}$ Layers on Si

O. G. Schmidt and K. Eberl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3396 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

X-Ray Resonant Scattering as a Direct Probe of Orbital Ordering in Transition-Metal Oxides

Michele Fabrizio, Massimo Altarelli, and Maurizio Benfatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3400 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

Understanding the Electroporation of Cells and Artificial Bilayer Membranes

Hervé Isambert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3404 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Experimental Implementation of Fast Quantum Searching

Isaac L. Chuang, Neil Gershenfeld, and Mark Kubinec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3408 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “Understanding the Area Proposal for Extremal Black Hole Entropy”

O. B. Zaslavskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3412 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Ghosh and Mitra Reply:

A. Ghosh and P. Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3413 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Comment on “Measurements of Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Rate of Planar Targets Irradiated Directly by Partially Coherent Light”

R. H. Lehmberg, C. J. Pawley, and A. J. Schmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3414 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Shigemori $et al .$ Reply:

K. Shigemori, H. Azechi, M. Nakai, H. Takabe, and K. Mima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3415 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Comment on “Peierls Gap in a Mesoscopic Ring Threaded by a Magnetic Flux”

B. Nathanson, O. Entin-Wohlman, and B. Mühlschlegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3416 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998

Comment on “Peierls Gap in a Mesoscopic Ring Threaded by a Magnetic Flux”

G. Montambaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3417 (1998) - Published 13 April, 1998