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Physical Review Letters

Volume 81, Issue 22

30 November 1998

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Signatures of the Tricritical Point in QCD

M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4816 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

LETTERS

General Physics

Unitary Integration of Quantum Liouville-Bloch Equations

A. R. P. Rau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4785 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Search for Small Violations of the Symmetrization Postulate for Spin-0 Particles

G. Modugno, M. Inguscio, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4790 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Phase Transition in a Model Gravitating System

Bruce N. Miller and Paige Youngkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4794 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

Knots as Stable Soliton Solutions in a Three-Dimensional Classical Field Theory

Richard A. Battye and P. M. Sutcliffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4798 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Zeta Functions, Renormalization Group Equations, and the Effective Action

David Hochberg, Carmen Molina-París, Juan Pérez-Mercader, and Matt Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4802 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks in the Dimuon Plus Dijet Channel of $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 1.8 TeV$

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4806 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Lattice Determination of Heavy-Light Decay Constants

C. Bernard, T. DeGrand, C. DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, Urs M. Heller, J. E. Hetrick, N. Ishizuka, C. McNeile, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, and M. Wingate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4812 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Nuclear Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Signatures of the Tricritical Point in QCD

M. Stephanov, K. Rajagopal, and E. Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4816 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Calculation of Proton-Deuteron Elastic Scattering at 10 MeV with a Realistic Potential

E. O. Alt, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, and A. I. Sattarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4820 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ground State Hyperfine Splitting of Hydrogenlike $^{207} {Pb}^{81 +}$ by Laser Excitation of a Bunched Ion Beam in the GSI Experimental Storage Ring

P. Seelig, S. Borneis, A. Dax, T. Engel, S. Faber, M. Gerlach, C. Holbrow, G. Huber, T. Kühl, D. Marx, K. Meier, P. Merz, W. Quint, F. Schmitt, M. Tomaselli, L. Völker, H. Winter, M. Würtz, K. Beckert, B. Franzke, F. Nolden, H. Reich, M. Steck, and T. Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4824 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Rotational Frequency Shift of a Light Beam

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4828 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Threshold in the Stopping of Slow Protons Scattered from the Surface of a Wide-Band-Gap Insulator

C. Auth, A. Mertens, H. Winter, and A. Borisov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4831 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Approximating the Mapping between Systems Exhibiting Generalized Synchronization

Reggie Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4835 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Quasiperiodic Motion in the Hamiltonian Systems of the Billiard Type

Vadim Zharnitsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4839 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Observation of the Transition to Chaos in the Level Statistics of Diamagnetic Helium

K. Karremans, W. Vassen, and W. Hogervorst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4843 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Coupled Microwave Billiards as a Model for Symmetry Breaking

H. Alt, C. I. Barbosa, H.-D. Gräf, T. Guhr, H. L. Harney, R. Hofferbert, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4847 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Self-Trapping of “Necklace” Beams in Self-Focusing Kerr Media

Marin Soljačić, Suzanne Sears, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4851 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Nonlocal Bottleneck Effect in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

D. Biskamp, E. Schwarz, and A. Celani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4855 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Transfer at Rough Sheared Interfaces

Emmanuel Villermaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4859 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Double Curl Beltrami Flow: Diamagnetic Structures

S. M. Mahajan and Z. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4863 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of Gain Larger than $10^{5}$ at $12 μ m$ in a Self-Amplified Spontaneous-Emission Free-Electron Laser

M. J. Hogan, C. Pellegrini, J. Rosenzweig, S. Anderson, P. Frigola, A. Tremaine, C. Fortgang, D. C. Nguyen, R. L. Sheffield, J. Kinross-Wright, A. Varfolomeev, A. A. Varfolomeev, S. Tolmachev, and Roger Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4867 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Nonlinear Diffusion of the Magnetic Field in Weakly Ionized Plasmas

A. I. Smolyakov and I. Khabibrakhmanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4871 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Rotating Field Confinement of Pure Electron Plasmas Using Trivelpiece-Gould Modes

F. Anderegg, E. M. Hollmann, and C. F. Driscoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4875 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Superradiant Amplification of an Ultrashort Laser Pulse in a Plasma by a Counterpropagating Pump

G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch, A. Pukhov, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4879 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Enhancement of X-Ray Power from a $Z$ Pinch Using Nested-Wire Arrays

C. Deeney, M. R. Douglas, R. B. Spielman, T. J. Nash, D. L. Peterson, P. L'Eplattenier, G. A. Chandler, J. F. Seamen, and K. W. Struve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4883 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Pair Production by Ultraintense Lasers

Edison P. Liang, Scott C. Wilks, and Max Tabak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4887 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Cyclic Ozone Identified in Magnesium Oxide (111) Surface Reconstructions

Richard Plass, Kenneth Egan, Chris Collazo-Davila, Daniel Grozea, Eric Landree, Laurence D. Marks, and Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4891 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Liquid-State Anomalies and the Stell-Hemmer Core-Softened Potential

M. Reza Sadr-Lahijany, Antonio Scala, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4895 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Properties of a Continuous-Random-Network Model for Amorphous Systems

Yuhai Tu, J. Tersoff, G. Grinstein, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4899 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

First Principles Simulations of the Structure, Formation, and Migration Energies of Kinks on the 90° Partial Dislocation in Silicon

Alexander Valladares, J. A. White, and A. P. Sutton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4903 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Extended Fractons and Localized Phonons on Percolation Clusters

Jan W. Kantelhardt, Armin Bunde, and Ludwig Schweitzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4907 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Order-Parameter Profiles and Casimir Amplitudes in Critical Slabs

Z. Borjan and P. J. Upton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4911 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Heterogeneous Diffusion in Highly Supercooled Liquids

Ryoichi Yamamoto and Akira Onuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4915 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Experimental Evidence of a Gaussian Roughness at $Si (111) / {SiO}_{2}$ Interfaces

Xidong Chen and J. M. Gibson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4919 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Surface Diffusion of Compact and Other Clusters: ${Ir}_{x}$ on Ir(111)

S. C. Wang, Ulrike Kürpick, and Gert Ehrlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4923 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Submonolayer Island Nucleation and Growth Kinetics during Self-Assembled Monolayer Formation

Ivo Doudevski, William A. Hayes, and Daniel K. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4927 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Unstable Growth on Rough Surfaces

Mark F. Gyure, Jennifer J. Zinck, Christian Ratsch, and Dimitri D. Vvedensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4931 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Textures and the Shapes of Domains in Langmuir Monolayers

Kok-Kiong Loh and Joseph Rudnick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4935 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Temperature-Induced Gap Formation in Dynamic Correlation Functions of the One-Dimensional Kondo Insulator: Finite-Temperature Density-Matrix Renormalization-Group Study

Tetsuya Mutou, Naokazu Shibata, and Kazuo Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4939 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Absolute Band Mapping by Combined Angle-Dependent Very-Low-Energy Electron Diffraction and Photoemission: Application to Cu

V. N. Strocov, R. Claessen, G. Nicolay, S. Hüfner, A. Kimura, A. Harasawa, S. Shin, A. Kakizaki, P. O. Nilsson, H. I. Starnberg, and P. Blaha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4943 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Pressure-Induced Local Moment Magnetism in the Nonmagnetic Heavy Fermion Compound ${Yb}_{2} {Ni}_{2} Al$

H. Winkelmann, M. M. Abd-Elmeguid, H. Micklitz, J. P. Sanchez, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4947 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Metal-Insulator Transition of Disordered Interacting Electrons

Qimiao Si and C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4951 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Effects of Pressure on the Zn Vacancy in ZnSe: Essential Role of Lattice Relaxation for a Basic $C_{3 v}$ Defect

V. Iota and B. A. Weinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4955 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Liquid CdTe and GaAs: Semiconducting versus Metallic Behavior

Vitaliy V. Godlevsky, Jeffrey J. Derby, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4959 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy on ${CoSi}_{2} / Si (111)$ Interfaces: Band Structure Induced Atomic-Scale Resolution and Role of Localized Surface States

K. Reuter, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, P. L. de Andres, F. Flores, and K. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4963 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Absence of Scaling in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

N. Q. Balaban, U. Meirav, and I. Bar-Joseph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4967 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Photoinduced Multistable Phenomena in the Tunneling Current through Doped Superlattices

Ramón Aguado and Gloria Platero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4971 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Exact Thermodynamics of Disordered Impurities in Quantum Spin Chains

A. Klümper and A. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4975 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Helical and Incommensurate Spin-Density Waves in Fe $/$ Cr Multilayers with Interfacial Steps

R. S. Fishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4979 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Scaling Behavior of Spectral Weight Changes in Perovskite Manganites ${La}_{0.7 - y} \Pr_{y} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

K. H. Kim, J. H. Jung, D. J. Eom, T. W. Noh, Jaejun Yu, and E. J. Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4983 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Aging in $K_{1 - x} {Li}_{x} {TaO}_{3}$ : A Domain Growth Interpretation

F. Alberici-Kious, J. P. Bouchaud, L. F. Cugliandolo, P. Doussineau, and A. Levelut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4987 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Experimental Validation of the Dissociation Hypothesis for Single Bubble Sonoluminescence

Jeffrey A. Ketterling and Robert E. Apfel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4991 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Interatomic Resonant Photoemission from Quantum-Well States in Ultrathin Films of Ag on V(100)

P. Pervan, M. Milun, and D. P. Woodruff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4995 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Matrix Games, Mixed Strategies, and Statistical Mechanics

J. Berg and A. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4999 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Universal Optimal Cloning of Arbitrary Quantum States: From Qubits to Quantum Registers

Vladimír Bužek and Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5003 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Resolving an Experimental Paradox in Open Spatial Reactors: The Role of Spatial Bistability

P. Blanchedeau and J. Boissonade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5007 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Extinction Events and Species Lifetimes in a Simple Ecological Model

Barbara Drossel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5011 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Observation of a Rectangular Columnar Phase in Condensed Lamellar Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes

F. Artzner, R. Zantl, G. Rapp, and J. O. Rädler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5015 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Red Blood Cell Lipids Form Immiscible Liquids

S. L. Keller, W. H. Pitcher, III, W. H. Huestis, and H. M. McConnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5019 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Sign Singularity in the Secular Acceleration of the Geomagnetic Field

P. De Michelis, G. Consolini, and A. Meloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5023 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Influence of Cosmic Rays on Earth's Climate

Henrik Svensmark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5027 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “Theorem for Nonrotating Singularity-Free Universes”

Alberto Saa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5031 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Comment on “Theorem for Nonrotating Singularity-Free Universes”

José M. M. Senovilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5032 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Raychaudhuri Replies:

A. K. Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5033 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Comment on “Absence of Abelian Higgs Hair for Extreme Black Holes”

Filipe Bonjour and Ruth Gregory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5034 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Comment on “Current-Loop Model for the Intermediate State of Type-I Superconductors”

Onuttom Narayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5035 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Goldstein and Dorsey Reply:

Raymond E. Goldstein and Alan T. Dorsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5036 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Comment on “Quantized Thermal Conductance of Dielectric Quantum Wires”

A. Greiner, L. Reggiani, and T. Kuhn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5037 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998

Rego and Kirczenow Reply:

Luis G. C. Rego and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5038 (1998) - Published 30 November, 1998