Volume 82, Issue 2

11 January 1999

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Evidence for an Anisotropic State of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Landau Levels

M. P. Lilly, K. B. Cooper, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 394 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

LETTERS

General Physics

Origin of Quantum Indeterminism and Irreversibility of Measurements

Yuri F. Orlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 243 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Pairing of Fermions with Arbitrary Spin

Tin-Lun Ho and Sungkit Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 247 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Dynamics of Two Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Sinatra, P. O. Fedichev, Y. Castin, J. Dalibard, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 251 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Semiclassical Corrections to the Oscillation Frequencies of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate

Eric Braaten and John Pearson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 255 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

When Is a One-Dimensional Lattice Small?

C. Y. Lin, S. N. Cho, C. G. Goedde, and S. Lichter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 259 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Symmetric Hyperbolic System in the Ashtekar Formulation

Gen Yoneda and Hisa-aki Shinkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 263 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Elementary Particles and Fields

Strings with Negative Stiffness and Hyperfine Structure

M. C. Diamantini, H. Kleinert, and C. A. Trugenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 267 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 271 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

$B$ Decay and the $ϒ$ Mass

Andre H. Hoang, Zoltan Ligeti, and Aneesh V. Manohar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 277 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

First Observation of the Decay $τ^{-} \to K^{* -} η ν_{τ}$

M. Bishai et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 281 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

First Observations of $ϒ (1 S) \to {γ π}^{+} π^{-}$ and $ϒ (1 S) \to {γ π}^{0} π^{0}$

A. Anastassov et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 286 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Nuclear Physics

$l$ -Forbidden $M 1$ Transition in ${}^{32}S$ : A Test of Tensor Corrections to the Magnetic Dipole Operator

B. Reitz, F. Hofmann, P. von Neumann-Cosel, F. Neumeyer, C. Rangacharyulu, A. Richter, G. Schrieder, D. I. Sober, and B. A. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 291 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Observation of the $Z = N + 1$ Nuclei ${}_{39}^{77}Y$ , ${}_{40}^{79}Z r$ , and ${}_{42}^{83}M o$

Z. Janas et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 295 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Chaos Assisted Tunneling from Superdeformed States

Sven Åberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 299 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Angular Anisotropy of Prompt $γ$ Rays and Fragment Spin Alignment in Binary and Light-Charged-Particle-Accompanied Spontaneous Fission of $^{252} Cf$

Yu. N. Kopach, P. Singer, M. Mutterer, M. Klemens, A. Hotzel, D. Schwalm, P. Thirolf, M. Hesse, and F. Gönnenwein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 303 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photoassociation of Spin-Polarized Hydrogen

A. P. Mosk, M. W. Reynolds, T. W. Hijmans, and J. T. M. Walraven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 307 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Positronium Hyperfine Splitting: Analytical Value at $O ({m α}^{6})$

Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 311 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Generalized Field Propagator for Arbitrary Finite-Size Photonic Band Gap Structures

Olivier J. F. Martin, Christian Girard, David R. Smith, and Sheldon Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 315 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Plasma and Beam Physics

Representative Electrons and Energy Exchange in Strong Laser Fields

G. M. Fraiman, V. A. Mironov, and A. A. Balakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 319 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Bunching at 3 GHz in a Microwave Free-Electron Laser

T. Lefevre, J. Gardelle, G. Marchese, J. L. Rullier, and J. T. Donohue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 323 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Effects of Collisions and Particle Trapping on Collisionless Heating

I. D. Kaganovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 327 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Direct Observation of Ion-Bernstein-Wave-Induced Poloidal Flow in TFTR

B. P. LeBlanc, R. E. Bell, S. Bernabei, J. C. Hosea, R. Majeski, M. Ono, C. K. Phillips, J. H. Rogers, G. Schilling, C. H. Skinner, and J. R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 331 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Correlated Thermal Diffuse Scattering in Low to Medium Energy Electron Diffraction: A New Structural Tool

T. Abukawa, C. M. Wei, T. Hanano, and S. Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 335 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Adsorption of Polyelectrolyte onto a Colloid of Opposite Charge

E. Gurovitch and P. Sens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 339 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Mechanical Energy Storage in Carbon Nanotube Springs

S. A. Chesnokov, V. A. Nalimova, A. G. Rinzler, R. E. Smalley, and J. E. Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 343 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Avalanche Behavior and Statistical Properties in a Microcrack Coalescence Process

Chunsheng Lu, David Vere-Jones, and Hideki Takayasu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 347 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Pressure-Induced Disappearance of the Raman Anomaly in CuCl

C. Ulrich, A. Göbel, K. Syassen, and M. Cardona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 351 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Oxygen-Induced Vacancy Formation on a Metal Surface

M. Schmid, G. Leonardelli, M. Sporn, E. Platzgummer, W. Hebenstreit, M. Pinczolits, and P. Varga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 355 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Universal Mechanism for Gas Adsorption and Electron Trapping on Oxidized Silicon

N. Shamir, J. G. Mihaychuk, H. M. van Driel, and H. J. Kreuzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 359 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Ordered Surface Structure in ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ Films

H. B. Peng, B. R. Zhao, Z. Xie, Y. Lin, B. Y. Zhu, Z. Hao, H. J. Tao, B. Xu, C. Y. Wang, H. Chen, and F. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 362 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Relaxation of Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity in a Polymer Melt Following Step Shear Strain

David C. Venerus, Jay D. Schieber, Hadjira Iddir, Job D. Guzman, and Andrew W. Broerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 366 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electron Localization in the Insulating State

Raffaele Resta and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 370 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Electronic Properties of Armchair Carbon Nanotubes: Bosonization Approach

Hideo Yoshioka and Arkadi A. Odintsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 374 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Several Theorems in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory

Paul Hessler, Jang Park, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 378 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Corrections to Scaling at the Anderson Transition

Keith Slevin and Tomi Ohtsuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 382 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Dispersion and Intrinsic Width of Image Resonances Measured by Resonant Inelastic Electron Scattering: The $α$ phase of Pb/Ge(111)

L. Petaccia, L. Grill, M. Zangrando, and S. Modesti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 386 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Effects of Electron-Electron Interaction on the Conductance of Open Quantum Dots

P. W. Brouwer and I. L. Aleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 390 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Evidence for an Anisotropic State of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Landau Levels

M. P. Lilly, K. B. Cooper, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 394 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Current Partition: A Nonequilibrium Green's Function Approach

Baigeng Wang, Jian Wang, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 398 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Topological Defects and Goldstone Excitations in Domain Walls between Ferromagnetic Quantum Hall Liquids

Vladimir I. Fal'ko and S. V. Iordanskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 402 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Skyrmions in Disordered Heterostructures

A. J. Nederveen and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 406 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Josephson-Coupling Origin for the Upward Curvature of the Pseudo-Upper-Critical Field in $Bi_{2} Sr_{2 - x} La_{x} CuO_{6 + δ}$ Crystals

H. H. Wen, W. L. Yang, Z. X. Zhao, and Y. M. Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 410 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Phase Locking, Devil's Staircases, Farey Trees, and Arnold Tongues in Driven Vortex Lattices with Periodic Pinning

C. Reichhardt and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 414 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Spin Correlations in an Isotropic Spin- $5 / 2$ Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnet

R. L. Leheny, R. J. Christianson, R. J. Birgeneau, and R. W. Erwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 418 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Aharonov-Bohm–de Haas–van Alphen Supermagnetization

Mark Ya. Azbel'

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 422 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Equilibrium Random-Field Ising Critical Scattering in the Antiferromagnet ${Fe}_{0.93} {Zn}_{0.07} F_{2}$

Z. Slanič, D. P. Belanger, and J. A. Fernandez-Baca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 426 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Noncubic Behavior of Antiferromagnetic Transition-Metal Monoxides with the Rocksalt Structure

S. Massidda, M. Posternak, A. Baldereschi, and R. Resta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 430 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Numerical Evidence for Continuity of Mean-Field and Finite-Dimensional Spin Glasses

Enzo Marinari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 434 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Extraction of the Spin Glass Correlation Length

Y. G. Joh, R. Orbach, G. G. Wood, J. Hammann, and E. Vincent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 438 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Dynamical Fluctuations as the Origin of a Surface Phase Transition in $Sn / Ge (111)$

J. Avila, A. Mascaraque, E. G. Michel, M. C. Asensio, G. LeLay, J. Ortega, R. Pérez, and F. Flores

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 442 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Electron-Hole Pair Creation at Ag and Cu Surfaces by Adsorption of Atomic Hydrogen and Deuterium

H. Nienhaus, H. S. Bergh, B. Gergen, A. Majumdar, W. H. Weinberg, and E. W. McFarland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 446 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Production of the Molecular Di-cation ${ArN}^{2 +}$ in the Reaction ${Ar}^{2 +} {+ N}_{2}$

Paolo Tosi, Raffaele Correale, Wenyun Lu, Stefano Falcinelli, and Davide Bassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 450 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Simplified Model for Red Cell Dynamics in Small Blood Vessels

Piero Olla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 453 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

COMMENTS

Comment on “Regge Trajectories for All Flavors”

L. Burakovsky and T. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 457 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Filipponi, Pancheri, and Srivastava Reply:

S. Filipponi, G. Pancheri, and Y. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 458 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Comment on “Thermionic Emission and Fragmentation of $C_{60}$ ”

Peter Stampfli and Tilmann D. Märk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 459 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Hansen and Echt Reply:

Klavs Hansen and Olof Echt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 460 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Comment on “Superconducting ${{PrBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O}_{x}$ ”

V. N. Narozhnyi and S.-L. Drechsler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 461 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999

Zou and Nishihara Reply:

Z. Zou and Y. Nishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 462 (1999) - Published 11 January, 1999