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Volume 80, Issue 7

16 February 1998
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heartbeat Intervals Discriminates Healthy Patients from Those with Cardiac Pathology

Stefan Thurner, Markus C. Feurstein, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1544 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

LETTERS

General Physics

Thermodynamics of Global Optimization

Jonathan P. K. Doye and David J. Wales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1357 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Resonance Phenomena of a Solitonlike Extended Object in a Bistable Potential

J. A. González, B. A. Mello, L. I. Reyes, and L. E. Guerrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1361 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Projected Free Energies for Polydisperse Phase Equilibria

Peter Sollich and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1365 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Combinatorial Entropy and the Statistical Mechanics of Polydispersity

Patrick B. Warren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1369 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

From Quantum Dynamics to the Canonical Distribution: General Picture and a Rigorous Example

Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1373 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Brownian Ratchets: Transport Controlled by Thermal Noise

J. Kula, T. Czernik, and J. Łuczka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1377 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Signal Enhancement in a Nonlinear Transfer Characteristic

M. E. Inchiosa, A. R. Bulsara, A. D. Hibbs, and B. R. Whitecotton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1381 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Power Law Scaling for a System of Interacting Units with Complex Internal Structure

Luís A. Nunes Amaral, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, Michael A. Salinger, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1385 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

Infrared Stable Supersymmetry in Chern-Simons Theories with Matter and Quenched Disorder

H. Hamidian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1389 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Measurement of the Form-Factor Ratios for D+→K¯*0e+νe

E. M. Aitala et al. (Fermilab E791 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1393 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multiple-Quantum Filtered Xenon-131 NMR as a Surface Probe

Thomas Meersmann, Scott A. Smith, and Geoffrey Bodenhausen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1398 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Effect of Interacting Resonances on Dielectronic Recombination in Static Fields

F. Robicheaux, M. S. Pindzola, and D. C. Griffin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1402 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Molecular “ π Pulse” for Total Inversion of Electronic State Population

Jianshu Cao, Christopher J. Bardeen, and Kent R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1406 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

Predicting Chaos Most of the Time from Embeddings with Self-Intersections

Christian G. Schroer, Tim Sauer, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1410 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Phase Space Caustics in Multicomponent Systems

Atushi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1414 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Quantum State Holography

C. Leichtle, W. P. Schleich, I. Sh. Averbukh, and M. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1418 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Big Incoherent Solitons

Allan W. Snyder and D. John Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1422 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Optical Solitons in N-Coupled Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

K. Nakkeeran, K. Porsezian, P. Shanmugha Sundaram, and A. Mahalingam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1425 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Breakdown of Scale Invariance in the Coarsening of Phase-Separating Binary Fluids

Alexander J. Wagner and J. M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1429 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw Flow and the Saffman-Taylor Instability

Ljubinko Kondic, Michael J. Shelley, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1433 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Positron Production in Tungsten Crystals by 1.2-GeV Channeling Electrons

K. Yoshida, K. Goto, T. Isshiki, I. Endo, T. Kondo, K. Matsukado, T. Takahashi, Y. Takashima, A. Potylitsin, C. Yu. Amosov, B. Kalinin, G. Naumenko, V. Verzilov, I. Vnukov, H. Okuno, and K. Nakayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1437 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Simultaneous Observation of Multiple Nonlocal Eigenmodes of an Inhomogeneity-Driven Plasma Instability

M. E. Koepke, J. J. Carroll, III, M. W. Zintl, C. A. Selcher, and V. Gavrishchaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1441 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

Size Scaling of Strength in Heterogeneous Materials

W. A. Curtin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1445 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Reorientation in Random Potential: A Model for Glasslike Dynamics in Confined Liquid Crystals

M. Čopič and A. Mertelj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1449 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Scaling Laws in Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Experimental Evidence of Main-Chain Layer Hopping in the Smectic Phase

L. Noirez, C. Boeffel, and A. Daoud-Aladine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1453 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Expansion Around the Mean-Field Solution of the Bak-Sneppen Model

Matteo Marsili, Paolo De Los Rios, and Sergei Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1457 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Superfluid Transition of 4He in Ultralight Aerogel

Jongsoo Yoon, Dmitri Sergatskov, Jian Ma, Norbert Mulders, and Moses H. W. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1461 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Defect Formation in Quench-Cooled Superfluid Phase Transition

V. M. Ruutu, V. B. Eltsov, M. Krusius, Yu. G. Makhlin, B. Plaçais, and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1465 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observation of an Electronic Superlattice at the Surface of Clean Gold

W. Chen, V. Madhavan, T. Jamneala, and M. F. Crommie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1469 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Ratchet Effect in Surface Electromigration: Smoothing Surfaces by an ac Field

Imre Derényi, Choongseop Lee, and Albert-László Barabási

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1473 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Long Jumps in Surface Diffusion: A Microscopic Derivation of the Jump Frequencies

M. Azzouz, H. J. Kreuzer, and M. R. A. Shegelski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1477 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

Adsorption of Thiophene on the Catalytically Active Surface of MoS2: An Ab Initio Local-Density-Functional Study

P. Raybaud, J. Hafner, G. Kresse, and H. Toulhoat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1481 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Resonant Raman Scattering by Collective Modes of the One-Dimensional Electron Gas

Maura Sassetti and Bernhard Kramer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1485 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Electron Exchange Interaction in S=1 Defects Observed by Level Crossing Spin Dependent Microwave Photoconductivity in Irradiated Silicon

R. Laiho, M. M. Afanasjev, M. P. Vlasenko, and L. S. Vlasenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1489 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Raman Scattering of the Charge-Spin Stripes in La1.67Sr0.33NiO4

K. Yamamoto, T. Katsufuji, T. Tanabe, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1493 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Electronic Structure of Self-Organized Lateral Superlattices on a Metal Surface: O/Cu(110)

E. Bertel and J. Lehmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1497 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Magnetic Edge States in a Magnetic Quantum Dot

Heung-Sun Sim, K.-H. Ahn, K. J. Chang, G. Ihm, N. Kim, and S. J. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1501 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Transition from Quantum Hall to Compressible States in the Second Landau Level: New Light on the ν=5/2 Enigma

R. H. Morf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1505 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Dynamical Scaling at the Quantum Hall Transition: Coulomb Blockade versus Phase Breaking

D. G. Polyakov and K. V. Samokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1509 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Charge- Versus Spin-Driven Stripe Order: Role of Transversal Spin Fluctuations

C. N. A. van Duin and J. Zaanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1513 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Nonlocal Effects and Vortex Lattice Transitions in YNi2B2C

D. McK. Paul, C. V. Tomy, C. M. Aegerter, R. Cubitt, S. H. Lloyd, E. M. Forgan, S. L. Lee, and M. Yethiraj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1517 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Landau Levels and Quasiparticle Spectrum of Extreme Type-II Superconductors

Zlatko Tes̆anović and Pedro D. Sacramento

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1521 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Nontrivial Response of Nanoscale Uniaxial Magnets to an Alternating Field

Seiji Miyashita, Keiji Saito, and Hans De Raedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1525 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Ferromagnetic Resonance in TDAE- C60

D. Arc̆on, P. Cevc, A. Omerzu, and R. Blinc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1529 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Surface-Induced Ferroelectric Ice on Pt(111)

Xingcai Su, L. Lianos, Y. Ron Shen, and Gabor A. Somorjai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1533 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Optical Measurement of Narrow Band Rare-Earth 4f Levels with Energies Greater than the Band Gap of the Host

T. Schweizer, P. E.-A. Möbert, J. R. Hector, D. W. Hewak, W. S. Brocklesby, D. N. Payne, and G. Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1537 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Quarter-Wave Plate in Near-Edge Soft X-Ray Region Based on the Total External Reflection Principle

V. Sh. Machavariani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1541 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis of Heartbeat Intervals Discriminates Healthy Patients from Those with Cardiac Pathology

Stefan Thurner, Markus C. Feurstein, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1544 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Lateral Separation of Macromolecules and Polyelectrolytes in Microlithographic Arrays

Deniz Ertaş

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1548 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Microfabricated Sieve for the Continuous Sorting of Macromolecules

T. A. J. Duke and R. H. Austin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1552 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Elasticity Model of a Supercoiled DNA Molecule

C. Bouchiat and M. Mézard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1556 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Charge-Fluctuation Forces between Rodlike Polyelectrolytes: Pairwise Summability Reexamined

R. Podgornik and V. A. Parsegian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1560 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Spontaneous Helix Hand Reversal and Tendril Perversion in Climbing Plants

Alain Goriely and Michael Tabor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1564 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “Oscillation of the Fe and Co Magnetic Moments near the Sharp (1−10) Fe/Co Interface”

Željko V. Šljivančanin and Filip R. Vukajlović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1568 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

Swinnen et al. Reply:

B. Swinnen, J. Meersschaut, J. Dekoster, G. Langouche, S. Cottenier, S. Demuynck, and M. Rots

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1569 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

ERRATA

Is There a Pronounced Giant Dipole Resonance in 4He? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4015 (1997)]

Victor D. Efros, Winfried Leidemann, and Giuseppina Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1570 (1998) - Published 16 February, 1998

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