Volume 81, Issue 24

14 December 1998

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Simultaneous Imaging of Individual Molecules Aligned Both Parallel and Perpendicular to the Optic Axis

Robert M. Dickson, D. J. Norris, and W. E. Moerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5322 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Spins Mixing in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

C. K. Law, H. Pu, and N. P. Bigelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5257 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Decoherence of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Traps at Finite Temperature

Robert Graham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5262 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Quantum Kinetic Theory of Condensate Growth: Comparison of Experiment and Theory

C. W. Gardiner, M. D. Lee, R. J. Ballagh, M. J. Davis, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5266 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Do Naked Singularities Generically Occur in Generalized Theories of Gravity?

Kengo Maeda, Takashi Torii, and Makoto Narita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5270 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer Constraints on an Inflation Model with Nonminimal Scalar Field

Jai-chan Hwang and Hyerim Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5274 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

Events with a Rapidity Gap between Jets in $\bar{p} p$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 630 GeV$

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5278 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Nuclear Physics

Unified Description of Freeze-Out Parameters in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

J. Cleymans and K. Redlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5284 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Calculation of the ${}_{Σ}^{4}H e$ Bound State in the ${}^{4}H e (K^{-}, π^{-})$ Reaction at $600 MeV / c$

Toru Harada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5287 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Variation after Angular Momentum Projection for the Study of Excited States Based on Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics

Y. Kanada-En'yo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5291 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Relationship between Quantum Decoherence Times and Solvation Dynamics in Condensed Phase Chemical Systems

Oleg V. Prezhdo and Peter J. Rossky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5294 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Quasi-2D Gas of Laser Cooled Atoms in a Planar Matter Waveguide

H. Gauck, M. Hartl, D. Schneble, H. Schnitzler, T. Pfau, and J. Mlynek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5298 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Doubly Charged Negative Ions of $B_{2}$ and $C_{2}$

H. B. Pedersen, N. Djurić, M. J. Jensen, D. Kella, C. P. Safvan, L. Vejby-Christensen, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5302 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Large Variations in the Magnetization of Co Clusters Induced by Noble-Metal Coating

Javier Guevara, Ana Maria Llois, and Mariana Weissmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5306 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Miniaturized Wire Trap for Neutral Atoms

J. Fortagh, A. Grossmann, C. Zimmermann, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5310 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Hopf Bifurcation from Chaos and Generalized Winding Numbers of Critical Modes

G. Hu, J. Z. Yang, W. Q. Ma, and J. H. Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5314 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Phase Slips and Phase Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators

Zhigang Zheng, Gang Hu, and Bambi Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5318 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Simultaneous Imaging of Individual Molecules Aligned Both Parallel and Perpendicular to the Optic Axis

Robert M. Dickson, D. J. Norris, and W. E. Moerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5322 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Non-Markovian Dynamics of the Vibrations of Ions in Water from Femtosecond Infrared Three-Pulse Photon Echoes

Peter Hamm, Manho Lim, and Robin M. Hochstrasser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5326 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Extraction of Anisotropic Contributions in Turbulent Flows

Itai Arad, Brindesh Dhruva, Susan Kurien, Victor S. L'vov, Itamar Procaccia, and K. R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5330 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Dynamics and Selection of Giant Spirals in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Brendan B. Plapp, David A. Egolf, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Werner Pesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5334 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Camassa-Holm Equations as a Closure Model for Turbulent Channel and Pipe Flow

Shiyi Chen, Ciprian Foias, Darryl D. Holm, Eric Olson, Edriss S. Titi, and Shannon Wynne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5338 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Saturation of the Rayleigh-Taylor Growth of Broad-Bandwidth Laser-Imposed Nonuniformities in Planar Targets

V. A. Smalyuk, T. R. Boehly, D. K. Bradley, V. N. Goncharov, J. A. Delettrez, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, D. Oron, and D. Shvarts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5342 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Plastic Deformations of Carbon Nanotubes

Peihong Zhang, Paul E. Lammert, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5346 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Atomic Arrangement of a Z-Shape Faulted Dipole within Deformed GaAs

S.-H. Lim, D. Shindo, I. Yonenaga, P. D. Brown, and C. J. Humphreys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5350 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Fluctuations with Cubic Symmetry in a Hexagonal Copolymer Microstructure

Chang Yeol Ryu, Martin E. Vigild, and Timothy P. Lodge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5354 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Slow Atomic Motion in Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be Metallic Glasses Studied by NMR

X.-P. Tang, Ralf Busch, William L. Johnson, and Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5358 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Deposition of Hydrogenated Si Clusters on Si(111)- $(7 \times 7)$ Surfaces

M. O. Watanabe, T. Miyazaki, and T. Kanayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5362 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Structural Stability and Adatom Diffusion at Steps on Hydrogenated Si(100) Surfaces

Sukmin Jeong and Atsushi Oshiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5366 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Confinement of Surface State Electrons in Fabry-Pérot Resonators

L. Bürgi, O. Jeandupeux, A. Hirstein, H. Brune, and K. Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5370 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Ab Initio Calculation of Self-Energy Effects on Optical Properties of GaAs(110)

Olivia Pulci, Giovanni Onida, Rodolfo Del Sole, and Lucia Reining

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5374 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Electronic Structure of Small Fullerenes: Evidence for the High Stability of $C_{32}$

H. Kietzmann, R. Rochow, G. Ganteför, W. Eberhardt, K. Vietze, G. Seifert, and P. W. Fowler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5378 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Continuous-Time Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm for the Lattice Polaron

P. E. Kornilovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5382 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Coherence of Four-Particle Correlations in Semiconductors

P. Kner, W. Schäfer, R. Lövenich, and D. S. Chemla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5386 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Statistics of the Lyapunov Exponent in 1D Random Periodic-on-Average Systems

Lev I. Deych, D. Zaslavsky, and A. A. Lisyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5390 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Nonlinear Response of a Kondo System: Direct and Alternating Tunneling Currents

Y. Goldin and Y. Avishai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5394 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Hall Magnetocapacitance in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

A. M. C. Valkering, P. K. H. Sommerfeld, R. A. M. van de Ven, R. W. van der Heijden, F. A. P. Blom, M. J. Lea, and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5398 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Hole Dynamics of the One-Dimensional Supersymmetric $t - J$ Model with a Long-Range Interaction: An Exact Result

Yusuke Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5402 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Alternating Spin and Orbital Dimerization and Spin-Gap Formation in Coupled Spin-Orbital Systems

Swapan K. Pati, Rajiv R. P. Singh, and Daniel I. Khomskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5406 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Experimental Evidence for Kaplan–Shekhtman–Entin-Wohlman–Aharony Interactions in ${Ba}_{2} {CuGe}_{2} O_{7}$

A. Zheludev, S. Maslov, I. Tsukada, I. Zaliznyak, L. P. Regnault, T. Masuda, K. Uchinokura, R. Erwin, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5410 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Configurational Anisotropy in Nanomagnets

R. P. Cowburn, A. O. Adeyeye, and M. E. Welland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5414 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Universal Critical Temperature for Kosterlitz-Thouless Transitions in Bilayer Quantum Magnets

Matthias Troyer and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5418 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Magnetic Domain Dependent Quantum Transport through a Ferromagnetic Dot Embedded in a Semiconductor Quantum Wire

Syoji Yamada, Tomoyuki Kikutani, Nobuyuki Aoki, Hidenobu Hori, and Gen Tatara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5422 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Piezoelectric Coefficients of mNA Organic Nonlinear Optical Material Using Synchrotron X-Ray Multiple Diffraction

L. H. Avanci, L. P. Cardoso, S. E. Girdwood, D. Pugh, J. N. Sherwood, and K. J. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5426 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Sonoluminescence: Proton-Tunneling Radiation

John R. Willison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5430 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Shock Wave Emissions of a Sonoluminescing Bubble

Joachim Holzfuss, Matthias Rüggeberg, and Andreas Billo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5434 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Enhancement of the Secondary-Electron Production Process in Front of Insulator Surfaces

Kenji Kimura, Gou Andou, and Kaoru Nakajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5438 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Limit on the Speed of Quantum Computation in Determining Parity

Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann, and Michael Sipser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5442 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Self-Organized Criticality in a Mixed Hierarchical System

M. G. Shnirman and E. M. Blanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5445 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Isotope Effects and Fermi Resonance in Hydrogen Bonds: A New Model

Susumu Ikeda, Hidehiko Sugimoto, and Yasusada Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5449 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Tunable Pinning of Burst Waves in Extended Systems with Discrete Sources

Igor Mitkov, Konstantin Kladko, and John E. Pearson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5453 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Shear Banding in a Micellar Solution under Transient Flow

S. Lerouge, J. P. Decruppe, and C. Humbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5457 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Natural Gradient Descent for On-Line Learning

Magnus Rattray, David Saad, and Shun-ichi Amari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5461 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Electrostatically Induced Polyelectrolyte Association of Rodlike Virus Particles

Alexander P. Lyubartsev, Jay X. Tang, Paul A. Janmey, and Lars Nordenskiöld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5465 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “New Performance Bounds for a Finite-Time Carnot Refrigerator”

Zijun Yan and Jincan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5469 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Velasco, Roco, Medina, and Calvo Hernández Reply:

S. Velasco, J. M. M. Roco, A. Medina, and A. Calvo Hernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5470 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Comment on “Nonuniversal Exponents in Interface Growth”

Hugues Chaté, Qing-Hu Chen, and Lei-Han Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5471 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Newman and Swift Reply:

T. J. Newman and M. R. Swift

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5472 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Comment on “Step Faceting at the (001) Surface of Boron Doped Silicon”

J. P. Pelz, C. Ebner, D. E. Jones, Y. Hong, E. Bauer, and I. S. T. Tsong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5473 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

Hannon et al. Reply:

J. B. Hannon, N. C. Bartelt, B. S. Swartzentruber, J. C. Hamilton, and G. L. Kellogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5474 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 $μ m$ Range [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 5 (1997)]

S. K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5475 (1998) - Published 14 December, 1998