Volume 81, Issue 23

F. T. Avignone, III, D. Abriola, R. L. Brodzinski, J. I. Collar, R. J. Creswick, D. E. DiGregorio, H. A. Farach, A. O. Gattone, C. K. Guérard, F. Hasenbalg, H. Huck, H. S. Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, S. Nussinov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, J. H. Reeves, J. A. Villar, and K. Zioutas (SOLAX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5068 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Quantum Metamorphosis of a Conformal Transformation in D3-Brane Yang-Mills Theory

Antal Jevicki, Yoichi Kazama, and Tamiaki Yoneya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5072 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Determination of the Weak Phase $γ$ from Rate Measurements in $B^{\pm} \to π K, π π$ Decays

Matthias Neubert and Jonathan L. Rosner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5076 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

$ψ (2 S)$ Hadronic Decays to Vector-Tensor Final States

J. Z. Bai et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5080 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Transparency in Large Momentum Transfer Quasielastic Scattering

I. Mardor, S. Durrant, J. Aclander, J. Alster, D. Barton, G. Bunce, A. Carroll, N. Christensen, H. Courant, S. Gushue, S. Heppelmann, E. Kosonovsky, Y. Mardor, M. Marshak, Y. Makdisi, E. D. Minor, I. Navon, H. Nicholson, E. Piasetzky, T. Roser, J. Russell, C. S. Sutton, M. Tanaka, C. White, and J.-Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5085 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Spectroscopy of Radioactive Beams from Single-Nucleon Knockout Reactions: Application to the $sd$ Shell Nuclei ${}^{25}A l$ and ${}^{26, 27, 28}P$

A. Navin, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, B. Davids, G. Gervais, T. Glasmacher, K. Govaert, P. G. Hansen, M. Hellström, R. W. Ibbotson, V. Maddalena, B. Pritychenko, H. Scheit, B. M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, J. A. Tostevin, and J. Yurkon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5089 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dynamical Bloch Band Suppression in an Optical Lattice

K. W. Madison, M. C. Fischer, R. B. Diener, Qian Niu, and M. G. Raizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5093 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Static-Electric-Field-Induced, High-Energy Plateau for Scattered X-Ray Photons in Laser-Assisted, X-Ray–Atom Scattering

Dejan B. Milošević and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5097 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Observing the Transition from a Multiphoton-Dominated to a Field-Mediated Ionization Process for Polyatomic Molecules in Intense Laser Fields

Merrick J. DeWitt and Robert J. Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5101 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Observation of Optically Trapped Cold Cesium Molecules

T. Takekoshi, B. M. Patterson, and R. J. Knize

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5105 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Resonant Magnetic Field Control of Elastic Scattering in Cold ${}^{85}R b$

J. L. Roberts, N. R. Claussen, James P. Burke, Jr., Chris H. Greene, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5109 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Positronic Water, ${Ps}_{2} O$

Nan Jiang and D. M. Schrader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5113 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Unraveling Quantum Dissipation in the Frequency Domain

M. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5117 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Excess Quantum Noise Is Colored

A. M. van der Lee, M. P. van Exter, A. L. Mieremet, N. J. van Druten, and J. P. Woerdman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5121 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Critical Attractor and Universality in a Renormalization Scheme for Three Frequency Hamiltonian Systems

C. Chandre and H. R. Jauslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5125 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Integrability and Quantum Chaos in Spin Glass Shards

B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5129 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Observation of Optical Vortices and $J_{0}$ Bessel-Like Beams in Quantum-Noise Parametric Amplification

Paolo Di Trapani, Audrius Beržanskis, Stefano Minardi, Samantha Sapone, and Walter Chinaglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5133 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Critical Initial States in Collisionless Plasmas

Carlo Lancellotti and J. J. Dorning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5137 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Surface Instabilities in Cracks

Efim A. Brener and V. I. Marchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5141 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Direct Imaging of Local Chemical Disorder and Columnar Vacancies in Ideal Decagonal Al-Ni-Co Quasicrystals

Yanfa Yan, Stephen J. Pennycook, and An Pang Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5145 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Crystal Structures of Zirconia from First Principles and Self-Consistent Tight Binding

M. W. Finnis, A. T. Paxton, M. Methfessel, and M. van Schilfgaarde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5149 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Surface Structure and Electron Density Dependence of Scattered ${Ne}^{+}$ Ion Fractions from Cd- and S-Terminated $CdS {0001}$ Surfaces

L. Houssiau, J. W. Rabalais, J. Wolfgang, and P. Nordlander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5153 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Equivalent Effects of a Lattice Translation and Rotation on Planar Channeled MeV Protons

M. B. H. Breese and P. J. M. Smulders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5157 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

First-Principles Calculation of Transport Coefficients

Dario Alfè and Michael J. Gillan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5161 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Nucleation Controlled Formation and Growth of Disperse Particles

A. A. Lushnikov and M. Kulmala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5165 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Contact Line Stability and “Undercompressive Shocks” in Driven Thin Film Flow

A. L. Bertozzi, A. Münch, X. Fanton, and A. M. Cazabat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5169 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Interfacial Instability Driven by Dispersive Forces: The Early Stages of Spinodal Dewetting of a Thin Polymer Film on a Polymer Substrate

M. Sferrazza, M. Heppenstall-Butler, R. Cubitt, D. Bucknall, J. Webster, and R. A. L. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5173 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Structure of Ge(113): Origin and Stability of Surface Self-Interstitials

A. Laracuente, S. C. Erwin, and L. J. Whitman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5177 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Photoinduced Crystallization of Amorphous Ice Films on Graphite

Dinko Chakarov and Bengt Kasemo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5181 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Fluctuations Close to Phase Separation in the Two-Dimensional $t - J$ Model

Matteo Calandra, Federico Becca, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5185 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Properties of Low-Lying States in a Diffusive Quantum Dot and Fock-Space Localization

Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, Jean Richert, Thomas Rupp, and Hans A. Weidenmüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5189 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Destruction of the Field-Induced Density-Wave State in Graphite by Large Magnetic Fields

Hiroshi Yaguchi and John Singleton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5193 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Charging Energy of a Chaotic Quantum Dot

S. Möller, H. Buhmann, S. F. Godijn, and L. W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5197 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Evidence for Bulk Current in Hall Bar Samples and Potential Screening in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

E. Yahel, A. Tsukernik, A. Palevski, and H. Shtrikman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5201 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

State Orthogonalization by Building a Hilbert Space: A New Approach to Electronic Quantum Transport in Molecular Wires

Eldon Emberly and George Kirczenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5205 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Observations of Suppression of Static and Dynamic Disorder in ${Bi}_{2.15} {Sr}_{1.85} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$ Crystals by Columnar Defects

S. L. Lee, C. M. Aegerter, S. H. Lloyd, E. M. Forgan, C. Ager, M. B. Hunt, H. Keller, I. M. Savić, R. Cubitt, G. Wirth, K. Kadowaki, and N. Koshizuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5209 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Anisotropy of the Josephson Critical Current between ${UPt}_{3}$ and $Nb$

A. Sumiyama, S. Shibata, Y. Oda, N. Kimura, E. Yamamoto, Y. Haga, and Y. O¯nuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5213 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Thickness–Magnetic Field Phase Diagram at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in 2D

N. Marković, C. Christiansen, and A. M. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5217 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Semiclassical Eigenstates of Four-Sublattice Antiferromagnets

Christopher L. Henley and Nai-gong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5221 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

From the Kondo Regime to the Mixed-Valence Regime in a Single-Electron Transistor

D. Goldhaber-Gordon, J. Göres, M. A. Kastner, Hadas Shtrikman, D. Mahalu, and U. Meirav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5225 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Caused by Interfacial Hybridization via Enhanced Orbital Moment in $Co / Pt$ Multilayers: Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism Study

N. Nakajima, T. Koide, T. Shidara, H. Miyauchi, H. Fukutani, A. Fujimori, K. Iio, T. Katayama, M. Nývlt, and Y. Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5229 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “ $π NN$ Coupling from High Precision $np$ Charge Exchange at 162 MeV”

M. C. M. Rentmeester, R. A. M. Klomp, and J. J. de Swart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5253 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

Ericson et al. Reply:

T. E. O. Ericson, B. Loiseau, J. Rahm, N. Olsson, J. Blomgren, H. Condé, K. Elmgren, O. Jonsson, L. Nilsson, P.-U. Renberg, A. Ringbom, T. Rönnqvist, G. Tibell, and R. Zorro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5254 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Turbulent Steady-State Configuration of an Inductively Driven Reversed Field Pinch Plasma [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3148 (1998)]

T. K. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5255 (1998) - Published 7 December, 1998