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Volume 81, Issue 25

21 December 1998
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Extremely High Energy Neutrinos, Neutrino Hot Dark Matter, and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Shigeru Yoshida, Günter Sigl, and Sangjin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5505 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Large Differences in the Diffraction of Normal- and Para- H2 from LiF(001)

M. F. Bertino, A. L. Glebov, J. P. Toennies, F. Traeger, E. Pijper, G. J. Kroes, and R. C. Mowrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5608 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

LETTERS

General Physics

Detection of Vorticity in Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases by Matter-Wave Interference

Eric L. Bolda and Dan F. Walls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5477 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Coarsening Dynamics of Crystalline Thin Films

Martin Siegert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5481 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Density of Bloch Waves after a Quench

Jacek Dziarmaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5485 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Random Walks and Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensions

Bertrand Duplantier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5489 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Experimental Demonstration of a Suspended Dual Recycling Interferometer for Gravitational Wave Detection

G. Heinzel, K. A. Strain, J. Mizuno, K. D. Skeldon, B. Willke, W. Winkler, R. Schilling, A. Rüdiger, and K. Danzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5493 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Gravitational Waves from Collapsing Vacuum Domains

Marcelo Gleiser and Ronald Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5497 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Unambiguous Probabilities in an Eternally Inflating Universe

Alexander Vilenkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5501 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Extremely High Energy Neutrinos, Neutrino Hot Dark Matter, and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Shigeru Yoshida, Günter Sigl, and Sangjin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5505 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

Signals for CP Violation in Scalar Tau Pair Production at Muon Colliders

Seong-Youl Choi and Manuel Drees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5509 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Measurement of the CP-Violation Parameter sin(2β) in Bd0/B¯d0→J/ψKS0 Decays

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5513 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Flavor Asymmetry of the Light Quark Sea from Semi-inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering

K. Ackerstaff et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5519 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Theoretical Estimation of the Importance of Two-Electron Collisions for Relaxation in Metal Clusters

A. Domps, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5524 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Efficient Scheme for the Deterministic Maximal Entanglement of N Trapped Ions

J. Steinbach and C. C. Gerry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5528 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Finsler Geometric Local Indicator of Chaos for Single Orbits in the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian

P. Cipriani and M. Di Bari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5532 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Temporal Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback

G. Vaschenko, M. Giudici, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, J. R. Tredicce, and S. Balle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5536 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Observation of Localized Electromagnetic Waves in Three-Dimensional Networks Of Waveguides

Z. Q. Zhang, C. C. Wong, K. K. Fung, Y. L. Ho, W. L. Chan, S. C. Kan, T. L. Chan, and N. Cheung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5540 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Temporal and Spectral Tailoring of High-Order Harmonics

Pascal Salières, Philippe Antoine, Armelle de Bohan, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5544 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Time-Resolved Investigation of Photoinduced Birefringence in Azobenzene Side-Chain Polyester Films

Ralf Hildebrandt, Manuel Hegelich, Hans-Martin Keller, Gerd Marowsky, Søren Hvilsted, Niels Christian Rømer Holme, and P. S. Ramanujam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5548 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Controlling Turbulence in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Jinghua Xiao, Gang Hu, Junzhong Yang, and Jihua Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5552 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ion Structure Factors and Electron Transport in Dense Coulomb Plasmas

D. A. Baiko, A. D. Kaminker, A. Y. Potekhin, and D. G. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5556 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Feedout and Rayleigh-Taylor Seeding Induced by Long Wavelength Perturbations in Accelerated Planar Foils

R. Betti, V. Lobatchev, and R. L. McCrory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5560 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Nonlinear Splitting of Fast Particle Driven Waves in a Plasma: Observation and Theory

A. Fasoli, B. N. Breizman, D. Borba, R. F. Heeter, M. S. Pekker, and S. E. Sharapov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5564 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Accuracy of Stark Broadening Calculations for Ionic Emitters

L. Godbert-Mouret, T. Meftah, A. Calisti, R. Stamm, B. Talin, M. Gigosos, V. Cardenoso, S. Alexiou, R. W. Lee, and L. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5568 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Field-Induced Deformation as a Mechanism for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Based Nanofabrication

O. Hansen, J. T. Ravnkilde, U. Quaade, K. Stokbro, and F. Grey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5572 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Molecular-Level Mechanical Instabilities and Enhanced Self-Diffusion in Flowing Liquids

Dennis L. Malandro and Daniel J. Lacks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5576 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Concentration Fluctuations in a Polymer Solution under a Temperature Gradient

W. B. Li, K. J. Zhang, J. V. Sengers, R. W. Gammon, and J. M. Ortiz de Zárate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5580 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Associating Polymers: From “Flowers” to Transient Networks

Y. Séréro, R. Aznar, G. Porte, J.-F. Berret, D. Calvet, A. Collet, and M. Viguier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5584 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Tight-Binding Computation of the STM Image of Carbon Nanotubes

V. Meunier and Ph. Lambin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5588 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Step-Edge Barriers on Pt(111): An Atomistic View

Kentaro Kyuno and Gert Ehrlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5592 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Highly Site-Specific H2 Adsorption on Vicinal Si(001) Surfaces

P. Kratzer, E. Pehlke, M. Scheffler, M. B. Raschke, and U. Höfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5596 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Activated Si-H Exchange at Si-Island Edges on Si(001)

Pavel Šmilauer, Kazuki Mizushima, and Dimitri D. Vvedensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5600 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

“Flux” State in the Double-Exchange Model

Masanori Yamanaka, Wataru Koshibae, and Sadamichi Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5604 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Large Differences in the Diffraction of Normal- and Para- H2 from LiF(001)

M. F. Bertino, A. L. Glebov, J. P. Toennies, F. Traeger, E. Pijper, G. J. Kroes, and R. C. Mowrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5608 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Phase Separation Induced by Orbital Degrees of Freedom in Models for Manganites with Jahn-Teller Phonons

S. Yunoki, A. Moreo, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5612 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Scattering States of Ionized Dopants Probed by Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Chr. Wittneven, R. Dombrowski, M. Morgenstern, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5616 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Evidence for a Common Physical Description of Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Chemically Substituted f-Electron Systems

M. C. de Andrade, R. Chau, R. P. Dickey, N. R. Dilley, E. J. Freeman, D. A. Gajewski, M. B. Maple, R. Movshovich, A. H. Castro Neto, G. Castilla, and B. A. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5620 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Spin Relaxation of Conduction Electrons in Polyvalent Metals: Theory and a Realistic Calculation

J. Fabian and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5624 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Detection of Spin-Flip Relaxation Using Quantum Point Contacts

B. W. Alphenaar, H. O. Müller, and K. Tsukagoshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5628 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Quasiparticle Lifetime in Macroscopically Uniform Ag/Fe(100) Quantum Wells

J. J. Paggel, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5632 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Normal-State Resistivity Anisotropy in Underdoped RBa2Cu3O6+x Crystals

A. N. Lavrov, M. Yu. Kameneva, and L. P. Kozeeva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5636 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Is the Nonlinear Meissner Effect Unobservable?

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5640 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Density of Zeros on the Lee-Yang Circle Obtained from Magnetization Data of a Two-Dimensional Ising Ferromagnet

Ch. Binek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5644 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Low-Temperature Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of EuB6

J. L. Gavilano, B. Ambrosini, P. Vonlanthen, H. R. Ott, D. P. Young, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5648 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Magnetic Hardening of Sm2Fe17N3 by Radiation Damage

N. M. Dempsey, M. Ghidini, J. P. Nozières, P. A. I. Smith, B. Gervais, and J. M. D. Coey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5652 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Magnetization Reversal in Arrays of Perpendicularly Magnetized Ultrathin Dots Coupled by Dipolar Interaction

T. Aign, P. Meyer, S. Lemerle, J. P. Jamet, J. Ferré, V. Mathet, C. Chappert, J. Gierak, C. Vieu, F. Rousseaux, H. Launois, and H. Bernas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5656 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Magnetoresistance of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions in the Presence of a Nonmagnetic Layer

S. Zhang and P. M. Levy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5660 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Silicon: A Two-Color Transient Reflection Grating Study on a (111) Surface

Theodore Sjodin, Hrvoje Petek, and Hai-Lung Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5664 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Teleportation with Bright Squeezed Light

T. C. Ralph and P. K. Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5668 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Power of One Bit of Quantum Information

E. Knill and R. Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5672 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Driving, Conservation, and Absorbing States in Sandpiles

Alessandro Vespignani, Ronald Dickman, Miguel A. Muñoz, and Stefano Zapperi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5676 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifier with a Helical Interaction Waveguide

G. G. Denisov, V. L. Bratman, A. W. Cross, W. He, A. D. R. Phelps, K. Ronald, S. V. Samsonov, and C. G. Whyte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5680 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Autocatalytic Sets and the Growth of Complexity in an Evolutionary Model

Sanjay Jain and Sandeep Krishna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5684 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Receiver-Operating-Characteristic Analysis Reveals Superiority of Scale-Dependent Wavelet and Spectral Measures for Assessing Cardiac Dysfunction

Stefan Thurner, Markus C. Feurstein, Steven B. Lowen, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5688 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Synchronous Behavior of Two Coupled Biological Neurons

Robert C. Elson, Allen I. Selverston, Ramon Huerta, Nikolai F. Rulkov, Mikhail I. Rabinovich, and Henry D. I. Abarbanel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5692 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Analytical Theory of Susceptibility Induced NMR Signal Dephasing in a Cerebrovascular Network

V. G. Kiselev and S. Posse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5696 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

COMMENTS

Comment on “Maximum of the Local Entropy Production Becomes Minimal in Stationary Processes”

V. M. Castillo and Wm. G. Hoover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5700 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Struchtrup and Weiss Reply:

Henning Struchtrup and Wolf Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5701 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Comment on “Shape Phase Transitions in the Absorption Spectra of Atomic Clusters”

Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5702 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

Pacheco and Schöne Reply:

J. M. Pacheco and W.-D. Schöne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5703 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Fluctuations of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Smectics Intercalated between Membranes in Multilamellar Phases of DNA-Cationic Lipid Complexes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4341 (1998)]

Leonardo Golubović and Mirjana Golubović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5704 (1998) - Published 21 December, 1998

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