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Physical Review Letters

Volume 82, Issue 16

19 April 1999

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General Physics

Time Oscillations of Escape Rates in Periodically Driven Systems

V. N. Smelyanskiy, M. I. Dykman, and B. Golding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3193 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Precision Mass Spectroscopy of the Antiproton and Proton Using Simultaneously Trapped Particles

G. Gabrielse, A. Khabbaz, D. S. Hall, C. Heimann, H. Kalinowsky, and W. Jhe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3198 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Elementary Particles and Fields

Atmospheric Neutrino Observations and Flavor Changing Interactions

M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, M. M. Guzzo, P. I. Krastev, H. Nunokawa, O. L. G. Peres, V. Pleitez, J. W. F. Valle, and R. Zukanovich Funchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3202 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Search for Third-Generation Leptoquarks from Technicolor Models in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 1.8 TeV$

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3206 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Nuclear Physics

Superscaling in Inclusive Electron-Nucleus Scattering

T. W. Donnelly and Ingo Sick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3212 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Excitation of Isovector Spin-Dipole Resonances and Neutron Skin of Nuclei

A. Krasznahorkay, M. Fujiwara, P. van Aarle, H. Akimune, I. Daito, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. N. Harakeh, T. Inomata, J. Jänecke, S. Nakayama, A. Tamii, M. Tanaka, H. Toyokawa, W. Uijen, and M. Yosoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3216 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Shears Mechanism in the $A \sim 110$ Region

R. M. Clark, S. J. Asztalos, B. Busse, C. J. Chiara, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, D. B. Fossan, D. G. Jenkins, S. Juutinen, N. Kelsall, R. Krücken, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, G. Schmid, J. M. Sears, J. F. Smith, F. S. Stephens, K. Vetter, R. Wadsworth, and S. Frauendorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3220 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Implications of Nonfeasible Transformations among Icosahedral $h$ Orbitals

Edwin Lo and B. R. Judd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3224 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Cs-Based Frequency Measurement of a Single, Trapped Ion Transition in the Visible Region of the Spectrum

J. E. Bernard, A. A. Madej, L. Marmet, B. G. Whitford, K. J. Siemsen, and S. Cundy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3228 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Angular Distribution Studies for the Time-Reversed Photoionization Process in Hydrogenlike Uranium: The Identification of Spin-Flip Transitions

Th. Stöhlker, T. Ludziejewski, F. Bosch, R. W. Dunford, C. Kozhuharov, P. H. Mokler, H. F. Beyer, O. Brinzanescu, B. Franzke, J. Eichler, A. Griegal, S. Hagmann, A. Ichihara, A. Krämer, J. Lekki, D. Liesen, F. Nolden, H. Reich, P. Rymuza, Z. Stachura, M. Steck, P. Swiat, and A. Warczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3232 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Strong Alignment Effect in Quasiresonant Charge Transfer between Laser-Excited Sodium Atoms and $C_{60}$

G. Heusler and E. E. B. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3236 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Sixth-Order Vacuum-Polarization Contribution to the Lamb Shift of Muonic Hydrogen

T. Kinoshita and M. Nio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3240 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Backaction Cancellation in Quantum Nondemolition Measurement of Optical Solitons

A. B. Matsko, V. V. Kozlov, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3244 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Nonequilibrium Stationary States of a Particle in a Gravitational Field Driven by a Vibrating Surface

V. Kumaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3248 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Bekki-Nozaki Amplitude Holes in Hydrothermal Nonlinear Waves

Javier Burguete, Hugues Chaté, François Daviaud, and Nathalie Mukolobwiez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3252 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Plasma and Beam Physics

Simulation and Observation of the Long-Time Evolution of the Longitudinal Instability in a Cooler Storage Ring

O. Boine-Frankenheim, I. Hofmann, and G. Rumolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3256 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Fishbone Mode in Spherical Tokamaks

Ya. I. Kolesnichenko, V. V. Lutsenko, and V. S. Marchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3260 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Electronic Structure of Passivated ${Au}_{38} ({SCH}_{3})_{24}$ Nanocrystal

H. Häkkinen, R. N. Barnett, and U. Landman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3264 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Wigner Crystal Model of Counterion Induced Bundle Formation of Rodlike Polyelectrolytes

B. I. Shklovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3268 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Dislocation Pinning by Small Interstitial Loops: A Molecular Dynamics Study

D. Rodney and G. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3272 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Universality of the Bond-Breaking Mechanism in Defect Bistability: Observation of Open Volume in the Deep States of In and Ga in ${CdF}_{2}$

J. Nissilä, K. Saarinen, P. Hautojärvi, A. Suchocki, and J. M. Langer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3276 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Hysteresis and the Dynamic Elasticity of Consolidated Granular Materials

R. A. Guyer, James TenCate, and Paul Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3280 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Pressure-Induced High-Spin to Low-Spin Transition in FeS Evidenced by X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy

J.-P. Rueff, C.-C. Kao, V. V. Struzhkin, J. Badro, J. Shu, R. J. Hemley, and H. K. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3284 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Observation of Intrinsically Localized Modes in a Discrete Low-Dimensional Material

B. I. Swanson, J. A. Brozik, S. P. Love, G. F. Strouse, A. P. Shreve, A. R. Bishop, W.-Z. Wang, and M. I. Salkola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3288 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Change of Ground State Configuration Induced by the Stark Shift of Surface States in Some bcc(001) Surfaces

J. G. Che, Z. Z. Zhu, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3292 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Thermal Contraction and Disordering of the Al(110) Surface

Nicola Marzari, David Vanderbilt, Alessandro De Vita, and M. C. Payne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3296 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Behavior of Single Adatoms on the Ge(111) Surface above the 1050 K Phase Transition

Alexei L. Glebov, J. Peter Toennies, and Stefan Vollmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3300 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Deliberately Designed Materials for Optoelectronics Applications

Tairan Wang, N. Moll, Kyeongjae Cho, and J. D. Joannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3304 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Water Molecule Dipole in the Gas and in the Liquid Phase

Pier Luigi Silvestrelli and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3308 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Nitrogen-Activated Transitions, Level Repulsion, and Band Gap Reduction in ${GaAs}_{1 - x} N_{x}$ with $x < 0.03$

J. D. Perkins, A. Mascarenhas, Yong Zhang, J. F. Geisz, D. J. Friedman, J. M. Olson, and Sarah R. Kurtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3312 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Room Temperature Polariton Emission from Strongly Coupled Organic Semiconductor Microcavities

D. G. Lidzey, D. D. C. Bradley, T. Virgili, A. Armitage, M. S. Skolnick, and S. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3316 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Crossover from Fermi Liquid to Wigner Molecule Behavior in Quantum Dots

R. Egger, W. Häusler, C. H. Mak, and H. Grabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3320 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Spin Relaxation in Quantum Hall Systems

W. Apel and Yu. A. Bychkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3324 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Large Magnetoresistance and Finite-Size Effects in Electrodeposited Single-Crystal Bi Thin Films

F. Y. Yang, Kai Liu, C. L. Chien, and P. C. Searson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3328 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Negative Magnetoresistance of Granular Metals in a Strong Magnetic Field

I. S. Beloborodov and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3332 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Paramagnetic Instability at Normal-Metal–Superconductor Interfaces

Alban L. Fauchère, Wolfgang Belzig, and Gianni Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3336 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Incommensurate and Commensurate Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations in Cr and Cr Alloys from Ab Initio Dynamical Spin Susceptibility Calculations

J. B. Staunton, J. Poulter, B. Ginatempo, E. Bruno, and D. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3340 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Photogeneration Action Spectroscopy of Neutral and Charged Excitations in Films of a Ladder-Type Poly(Para-Phenylene)

M. Wohlgenannt, W. Graupner, G. Leising, and Z. V. Vardeny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3344 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Stimulated Desorption by Surface Electron Standing Waves

M. T. Sieger, G. K. Schenter, and T. M. Orlando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3348 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Anomalous Surface Peaks Observed in the Backscattering Spectra from Amorphous Si and ${SiO}_{2}$ Films for Medium Energy He Ions

Yoshiaki Kido, Tomoaki Nishimura, and Fumihiro Fukumura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3352 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Gambling

Lior Goldenberg, Lev Vaidman, and Stephen Wiesner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3356 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Self-Organized Segregation within an Evolving Population

N. F. Johnson, P. M. Hui, R. Jonson, and T. S. Lo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3360 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Melting and Reentrant Freezing of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals in Confined Geometry

R. Bubeck, C. Bechinger, S. Neser, and P. Leiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3364 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Dynamical Transition in a Model for Dry Foams

A. Hasmy, R. Paredes, O. Sonneville-Aubrun, B. Cabane, and R. Botet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3368 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Protein Structures and Optimal Folding from a Geometrical Variational Principle

Cristian Micheletti, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan, and Flavio Seno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3372 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

COMMENTS

Comment on “Dissipative Quantum Dynamics with a Lindblad Functional”

G. W. Ford and R. F. O'Connell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3376 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Gao Replies:

Shiwu Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3377 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Comment on “Hall Anomaly and Vortex-Lattice Melting in Superconducting Single Crystal ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ ”

Ryusuke Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3378 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

D'Anna et al. Reply:

G. D'Anna, V. Berseth, L. Forró, A. Erb, and E. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3379 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Comment on “Order-Disorder Transition in an External Field in Random Ferromagnets and Nematic Elastomers”

Thorsten Emig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3380 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999

Fridrikh and Terentjev Reply:

S. V. Fridrikh and E. M. Terentjev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3381 (1999) - Published 19 April, 1999