Volume 81, Issue 18

2 November 1998

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen

Dale G. Fried, Thomas C. Killian, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Stephen C. Moss, Daniel Kleppner, and Thomas J. Greytak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3811 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Fingering Instability in Combustion

Ory Zik, Zeev Olami, and Elisha Moses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3868 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

LETTERS

General Physics

Cold Collision Frequency Shift of the $1 S$ - $2 S$ Transition in Hydrogen

Thomas C. Killian, Dale G. Fried, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Stephen C. Moss, Thomas J. Greytak, and Daniel Kleppner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3807 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen

Dale G. Fried, Thomas C. Killian, Lorenz Willmann, David Landhuis, Stephen C. Moss, Daniel Kleppner, and Thomas J. Greytak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3811 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

$O (α)$ Radiative Correction to the Casimir Energy for Penetrable Mirrors

M. Bordag and K. Scharnhorst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3815 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Operator Expansion for the Elastic Limit

Ratindranath Akhoury, Michael G. Sotiropoulos, and George Sterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3819 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

First Search for $CP$ Violation in Tau Lepton Decay

S. Anderson et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3823 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Nuclear Physics

Universalities of Triplet Pairing in Neutron Matter

V. A. Khodel, V. V. Khodel, and J. W. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3828 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

25-State Calculation for $e^{-} - {Na}_{2}$ Scattering

Alexandra P. P. Natalense, Luiz G. Ferreira, and Marco A. P. Lima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3832 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Direct Observation of Band-Gap Closure in Mercury Clusters

Ram Busani, Mareike Folkers, and Ori Cheshnovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3836 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

In-Loop Squeezing Is Like Real Squeezing to an In-Loop Atom

H. M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3840 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Smallest Focal Spot

Tasso R. M. Sales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3844 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Clustering and Non-Gaussian Behavior in Granular Matter

A. Puglisi, V. Loreto, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, A. Petri, and A. Vulpiani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3848 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Spinodal Decomposition of Binary Mixtures in Uniform Shear Flow

F. Corberi, G. Gonnella, and A. Lamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3852 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Effect of Nonlinear Gradient Terms on Breathing Localized Solutions in the Quintic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Robert J. Deissler and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3856 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Observation of a Finite-Time Singularity in Needle Propagation in Hele-Shaw Cells

O. Greffier, A. Al kahwaji, J. Rouch, and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3860 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Nonuniform Stationary Measure of the Invariant Unstable Foliation in Hamiltonian and Fluid Mixing Systems

M. Giona and A. Adrover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3864 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Fingering Instability in Combustion

Ory Zik, Zeev Olami, and Elisha Moses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3868 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Rodlike Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Brushes

P. Guenoun, F. Muller, M. Delsanti, L. Auvray, Y. J. Chen, J. W. Mays, and M. Tirrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3872 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Dynamics of Lightly Sulfonated Polystyrene Ionomers

R. H. Colby, X. Zheng, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. G. Peiffer, S. A. Schwarz, Y. Strzhemechny, and D. Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3876 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Formation of Helical States in Wormlike Polymer Chains

Josh P. Kemp and Zheng Yu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3880 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Theory of Strain Percolation in Metals

Robb Thomson and L. E. Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3884 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Charge Glass in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Capacitively Coupled Grains with Random Offset Charges

Enzo Granato and J. M. Kosterlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3888 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Differences in the Detachment of Electron Bubbles from Superfluid $^{4} He$ Droplets versus Nonsuperfluid $^{3} He$ Droplets

Michal Fárník, Ulrich Henne, Björn Samelin, and J. Peter Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3892 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Liquid ${}^{3}H e$ in Aerogel: Crossover from Drude's to Hagen-Poiseuille's Law

Dietrich Einzel and Jeevak M. Parpia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3896 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Coupling between Phase Separation and Surface Deformation Modes in Self-Organizing Polymer Blend Films

Brett D. Ermi, Giovanni Nisato, Jack F. Douglas, John A. Rogers, and Alamgir Karim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3900 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Distortion of a Substrate Induced by Adsorption at Solid-Liquid Interfaces

E. V. Vakarin, A. E. Filippov, and J. P. Badiali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3904 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Silicon Epoxide: Unexpected Intermediate during Silicon Oxide Formation

Boris B. Stefanov, Alejandra B. Gurevich, Marcus K. Weldon, Krishnan Raghavachari, and Yves. J. Chabal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3908 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Density of States near the Mott-Hubbard Transition in the Limit of Large Dimensions

Stefan Kehrein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3912 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Finite Temperature Transport at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in Disordered Systems

Igor F. Herbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3916 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Stimulation of Polariton Photoluminescence in Semiconductor Microcavity

Le Si Dang, D. Heger, R. André, F. Bœuf, and R. Romestain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3920 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Are Directed Waves Multifractal?

Yi-Kuo Yu and H. Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3924 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Magnetic Control of Electric-Field Domains in Semiconductor Superlattices

T. Schmidt, A. G. M. Jansen, R. J. Haug, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Eberl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3928 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Coulomb Drag at $ν = \frac{1}{2}$ : Composite Fermion Pairing Fluctuations

Iddo Ussishkin and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3932 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Bad Metals Made with Good-Metal Components

S. B. Arnason, S. P. Herschfield, and A. F. Hebard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3936 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Role of Spatial Amplitude Fluctuations in Highly Disordered $s$ -Wave Superconductors

Amit Ghosal, Mohit Randeria, and Nandini Trivedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3940 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Transport Properties of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$ Crystals with and without Surface Barriers

D. T. Fuchs, R. A. Doyle, E. Zeldov, S. F. W. R. Rycroft, T. Tamegai, S. Ooi, M. L. Rappaport, and Y. Myasoedov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3944 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anisotropic Rescaling of a Splayed Pinning Landscape in Hg Cuprates: Strong Vortex Pinning and Recovery of Variable Range Hopping

L. Krusin-Elbaum, G. Blatter, J. R. Thompson, D. K. Petrov, R. Wheeler, J. Ullmann, and C. W. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3948 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dynamic Vortex Mass in Clean Fermi Superfluids and Superconductors

N. B. Kopnin and V. M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3952 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Peierls Dimerization with Nonadiabatic Spin-Phonon Coupling

G. Wellein, H. Fehske, and A. P. Kampf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3956 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Pd/Cu Site Interchange and Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in ${UCu}_{4} Pd$

C. H. Booth, D. E. MacLaughlin, R. H. Heffner, R. Chau, M. B. Maple, and G. H. Kwei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3960 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Neutron Scattering Investigation of Magnetic Bilayer Correlations in ${La}_{1.2} {Sr}_{1.8} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ : Evidence of Canting above $T_{C}$

R. Osborn, S. Rosenkranz, D. N. Argyriou, L. Vasiliu-Doloc, J. W. Lynn, S. K. Sinha, J. F. Mitchell, K. E. Gray, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3964 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Spin Dependent Hopping and Colossal Negative Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial ${Nd}_{0.52} {Sr}_{0.48} {MnO}_{3}$ Films in Fields up to 50 T

P. Wagner, I. Gordon, L. Trappeniers, J. Vanacken, F. Herlach, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3980 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Singular Behavior in the Pressure-Tuned Competition between Spin-Peierls and Antiferromagnetic Ground States of $(TMTTF)_{2} {PF}_{6}$

D. S. Chow, P. Wzietek, D. Fogliatti, B. Alavi, D. J. Tantillo, C. A. Merlic, and S. E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3984 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Nuclear Spin Polarization Transfer with a Single Radio-Frequency Field in Optically Pumped Indium Phosphide

Carl A. Michal and Robert Tycko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3988 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “New Limits to the Infrared Background: Bounds on Radiative Neutrino Decay and on Contributions of Very Massive Objects to the Dark Matter Problem”

Georg G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4020 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Evidence for Dynamical Fragment Production?

L. Phair, L. Beaulieu, L. G. Moretto, and G. J. Wozniak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4021 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Comment on “Is There an Electronic Topological Transition in Zinc under High Pressure?”

A. W. Overhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4022 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Comment on “ $T$ Dependence of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Unconventional Superconductors at Low Temperatures: Can It Be Linear?”

G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4023 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Comment on “ $T$ Dependence of the Magnetic Penetration Depth in Unconventional Superconductors at Low Temperatures: Can It Be Linear?”

P. J. Hirschfeld, M.-R. Li, and P. Wölfle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4024 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Ideal Brittle Fracture of Silicon Studied with Molecular Dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 746 (1998)]

Dominic Holland and M. Marder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4029 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Erratum: X-Ray Resonant Scattering as a Direct Probe of Orbital Ordering in Transition-Metal Oxides [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3400 (1998)]

Michele Fabrizio, Massimo Altarelli, and Maurizio Benfatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4030 (1998) - Published 2 November, 1998

Volume 81, Issue 18

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

ERRATA