Volume 81, Issue 7

17 August 1998

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LETTERS

General Physics

Minimal Optimal Generalized Quantum Measurements

J. I. Latorre, P. Pascual, and R. Tarrach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1351 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Large Lepton Number of the Universe and the Fate of Topological Defects

Borut Bajc, Antonio Riotto, and Goran Senjanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1355 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Baryogenesis via Neutrino Oscillations

E. Kh. Akhmedov, V. A. Rubakov, and A. Yu. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1359 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Global Topology and Local Violation of Discrete Symmetries

J. Anandan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1363 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $σ (W + \geq 1 Jet) / σ (W)$ Cross Section Ratiofrom $\bar{p} p$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 1.8 TeV$

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1367 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Differences between the Pole and On-Shell Masses and Widths of the Higgs Boson

Bernd A. Kniehl and Alberto Sirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1373 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Detecting New Physics Contributions to the $D^{0} - \bar{D^{0}}$ Mixing through Their Effects on $B$ Decays

Carlos C. Meca and João P. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1377 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resonant Scattering and Spontaneous Emission in Dielectrics: Microscopic Derivation of Local-Field Effects

Pedro de Vries and Ad Lagendijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1381 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Role of Electron Spin Coupling in Molecular Photoionization: The $b$ ${}^{4}Σ_{g}^{-} \leftarrow X$ ${}^{3}Σ_{g}^{-}$ Photoelectronic Transition of $O_{2}$

H. Palm and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1385 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions of Cold Spin-Polarized ${}^{133}C s$ Atoms

Paul J. Leo, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne, D. K. Walter, Steven Kadlecek, and Thad G. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1389 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Asymmetric Formation of Positronium Continuum States Following Positron-Impact Ionization of $H_{2}$

Jamal Berakdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1393 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Effect of Noise on Nonhyperbolic Chaotic Attractors

Christian G. Schroer, Edward Ott, and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1397 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Global and Local Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map Lattices

Nita Parekh, S. Parthasarathy, and Somdatta Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1401 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Tight-Binding Parametrization for Photonic Band Gap Materials

E. Lidorikis, M. M. Sigalas, E. N. Economou, and C. M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1405 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Polarization Domain Wall Solitons with Counterpropagating Laser Beams

S. Pitois, G. Millot, and S. Wabnitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1409 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Propagation of Sound through a Turbulent Vortex

R. Labbé and J.-F. Pinton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1413 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Turbulence in Flowing Soap Films: Velocity, Vorticity, and Thickness Fields

Michael Rivera, Peter Vorobieff, and Robert E. Ecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1417 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Continuum-Type Stability Balloon in Oscillated Granular Layers

John R. de Bruyn, C. Bizon, M. D. Shattuck, D. Goldman, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1421 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observations of Laser-Beam Bending due to Transverse Plasma Flow

P. E. Young, C. H. Still, D. E. Hinkel, W. L. Kruer, E. A. Williams, R. L. Berger, and K. G. Estabrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1425 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Poloidal Rotation in TFTR Reversed Shear Plasmas

R. E. Bell, F. M. Levinton, S. H. Batha, E. J. Synakowski, and M. C. Zarnstorff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1429 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Chain Collapse and Counterion Condensation in Dilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions

N. V. Brilliantov, D. V. Kuznetsov, and R. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1433 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Surface Reconstructions and Dimensional Changes in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

P. M. Ajayan, V. Ravikumar, and J.-C. Charlier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1437 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Field-Emission-Induced Luminescence from Carbon Nanotubes

Jean-Marc Bonard, Thomas Stöckli, Frédéric Maier, Walt A. de Heer, André Châtelain, Jean-Paul Salvetat, and László Forró

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1441 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Kinetically Driven Growth Instability in Stressed Solids

William Barvosa-Carter, Michael J. Aziz, L. J. Gray, and Theodore Kaplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1445 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Low-Frequency Modes in Nanocrystalline Pd

U. Stuhr, H. Wipf, K. H. Andersen, and H. Hahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1449 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Vibrational Properties of Metallic Nanocrystals

Abdelkader Kara and Talat S. Rahman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1453 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Fluctuations Dominate the Phase Diagram of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals

J. Englert, L. Longa, H. Stark, and H.-R. Trebin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1457 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Nanometer Scale Dielectric Fluctuations at the Glass Transition

E. Vidal Russell, N. E. Israeloff, L. E. Walther, and H. Alvarez Gomariz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1461 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Passivation versus Etching: Adsorption of $I_{2}$ on InAs(001)

W. K. Wang, W. C. Simpson, and J. A. Yarmoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1465 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Roughening Transition of Interfaces in Disordered Systems

Thorsten Emig and Thomas Nattermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1469 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Self-Assembly of Quantum-Dot Molecules: Heterogeneous Nucleation of SiGe Islands on Si(100)

X. Deng and M. Krishnamurthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1473 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ultrafast Adiabatic Population Transfer in $p$ -Doped Semiconductor Quantum Wells

R. Binder and M. Lindberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1477 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Collective Edge Excitations in the Quantum Hall Regime: Edge Helicons and Landau Levels

O. G. Balev and P. Vasilopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1481 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

High-Frequency Electrodynamics of ${{Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O}_{8 + δ}$ : Nonlinear Response in the Vortex State

R. Mallozzi, J. Orenstein, J. N. Eckstein, and I. Bozovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1485 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

New Methods for NMR of Cuprate Superconductors

J. Haase, N. J. Curro, R. Stern, and C. P. Slichter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1489 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Aging Effects of an Elastic String Diffusing in a Disordered Media

Hajime Yoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1493 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Phase Diagram of Disordered Vortices from London Langevin Simulations

Anne van Otterlo, Richard T. Scalettar, and Gergely T. Zimányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1497 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Breakup of Heavy Fermions on the Brink of “Phase $A$ ” in $CeCu_{2} Si_{2}$

P. Gegenwart, C. Langhammer, C. Geibel, R. Helfrich, M. Lang, G. Sparn, F. Steglich, R. Horn, L. Donnevert, A. Link, and W. Assmus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1501 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Hyperfine Fields of $sp$ Impurities on Ni and Fe Surfaces

Ph. Mavropoulos, N. Stefanou, B. Nonas, R. Zeller, and P. H. Dederichs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1505 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Ground States of Magnetorheological Fluids

Lei Zhou, Weijia Wen, and Ping Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1509 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Lattice Distortion Mediated Paramagnetic Relaxation in High-Spin High-Symmetry Molecular Magnets

Anupam Garg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1513 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Polaron Absorption in a Perovskite Manganite ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

K. H. Kim, J. H. Jung, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1517 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Optical Constants of Ferromagnetic Iron via $2 p$ Resonant Magnetic Scattering

Maurizio Sacchi, Coryn F. Hague, Luca Pasquali, Alessandro Mirone, Jean-Michel Mariot, Peter Isberg, Eric M. Gullikson, and James H. Underwood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1521 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Cooling the Collective Motion of Trapped Ions to Initialize a Quantum Register

B. E. King, C. S. Wood, C. J. Myatt, Q. A. Turchette, D. Leibfried, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1525 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

Symmetry Properties of the Electrophoretic Motion of Patterned Colloidal Particles

Didier Long and Armand Ajdari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1529 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998

ERRATA

Erratum: Forward Cross Sections for Production of $D^{+}$ , $D^{0}$ , $D_{s}$ , $D^{* +}$ , and $Λ_{c}$ in 250 GeV $π^{\pm}$ , $K^{\pm}$ , and $p$ Interactions with Nuclei [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2388 (1996)]

G. A. Alves et al. (Fermilab E769 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1537 (1998) - Published 17 August, 1998