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Physical Review Letters

Volume 82, Issue 4

25 January 1999

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Sound in a Magnetorheological Slurry

Y. Nahmad-Molinari, C. A. Arancibia-Bulnes, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 727 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

LETTERS

General Physics

Stochastic and Bona Fide Resonance: An Experimental Investigation

Giovanni Giacomelli, Francesco Marin, and Ivan Rabbiosi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 675 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Power Spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Density Fluctuations Seeded by Local Cosmic Strings

Carlo Contaldi, Mark Hindmarsh, and João Magueijo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 679 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Elementary Particles and Fields

Degenerate and Quasidegenerate Majorana Neutrinos

G. C. Branco, M. N. Rebelo, and J. I. Silva-Marcos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 683 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Nuclear Physics

Tensor Analyzing Powers for Quasielastic Electron Scattering from Deuterium

Z.-L. Zhou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 687 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Incompressibility of Nuclear Matter from the Giant Monopole Resonance

D. H. Youngblood, H. L. Clark, and Y.-W. Lui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 691 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Accelerated Emission of Gamma Rays from the 31-yr Isomer of $^{178} Hf$ Induced by X-Ray Irradiation

C. B. Collins, F. Davanloo, M. C. Iosif, R. Dussart, J. M. Hicks, S. A. Karamian, C. A. Ur, I. I. Popescu, V. I. Kirischuk, J. J. Carroll, H. E. Roberts, P. McDaniel, and C. E. Crist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 695 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Shell Effects in Fission Fragment Anisotropies for ${}^{12}C {}^{194, 198}{+ P} t$ Systems

A. Shrivastava, S. Kailas, A. Chatterjee, A. M. Samant, A. Navin, P. Singh, and B. S. Tomar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 699 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Ultracold Ground-State Potassium Molecules

A. N. Nikolov, E. E. Eyler, X. T. Wang, J. Li, H. Wang, W. C. Stwalley, and P. L. Gould

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 703 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Electron Impact Detachment of Weakly Bound Negative Ions

F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 707 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

High Precision Measurements of the Ground State Hyperfine Structure Interval of Muonium and of the Muon Magnetic Moment

W. Liu, M. G. Boshier, S. Dhawan, O. van Dyck, P. Egan, X. Fei, M. Grosse Perdekamp, V. W. Hughes, M. Janousch, K. Jungmann, D. Kawall, F. G. Mariam, C. Pillai, R. Prigl, G. zu Putlitz, I. Reinhard, W. Schwarz, P. A. Thompson, and K. A. Woodle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 711 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Statistics of Wave Dynamics in Random Media

A. Z. Genack, P. Sebbah, M. Stoytchev, and B. A. van Tiggelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 715 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Photonic Crystal Optics and Homogenization of 2D Periodic Composites

P. Halevi, A. A. Krokhin, and J. Arriaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 719 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Optical Solitary Wave and Shock Solutions of the Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

C. E. Zaspel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 723 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Sound in a Magnetorheological Slurry

Y. Nahmad-Molinari, C. A. Arancibia-Bulnes, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 727 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Controlled Dynamics of Interfaces in a Vibrated Granular Layer

I. S. Aranson, D. Blair, W. K. Kwok, G. Karapetrov, U. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, V. M. Vinokur, and L. S. Tsimring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 731 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Diffusion of Ionic Particles in Charged Disordered Media

Ali Reza Mehrabi and Muhammad Sahimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 735 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Plasma and Beam Physics

Spectroscopic Measurements of Argon Plasma Formation by a High-Intensity Lithium Ion Beam

J. E. Bailey, H. K. Chung, A. L. Carlson, D. Cohen, D. J. Johnson, P. Lake, J. J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, and D. R. Welch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 739 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Collimated Electron Jets by Intense Laser-Beam–Plasma Surface Interaction under Oblique Incidence

H. Ruhl, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, K. A. Tanaka, and R. Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 743 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermodynamics of Glasses: A First Principles Computation

Marc Mézard and Giorgio Parisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 747 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Thickness Induced Structural Phase Transition of Gold Nanofilm

Y. Kondo, Q. Ru, and Kunio Takayanagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 751 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Coherent Soft-X-Ray Dynamic Light Scattering from Smectic- $A$ Films

A. C. Price, L. B. Sorensen, S. D. Kevan, J. Toner, A. Poniewierski, and R. Hołyst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 755 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Simultaneous Observation of Molecular Tilt and Azimuthal Angle Distributions in Spontaneously Modulated Liquid-Crystalline Langmuir Monolayers

Yuka Tabe, Nan Shen, Eric Mazur, and Hiroshi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 759 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Decagonal Epilayers on the Icosahedral Quasicrystal ${Al}_{70} {Pd}_{20} {Mn}_{10}$

B. Bolliger, M. Erbudak, D. D. Vvedensky, and A. R. Kortan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 763 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Theory of Systematic Absence of NaCl-Type ( $β$ -Sn–Type) High Pressure Phases in Covalent (Ionic) Semiconductors

V. Ozoliņš and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 767 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Preferential Amorphization at Extended Defects of Self-Ion-Irradiated Silicon

R. D. Goldberg, J. S. Williams, and R. G. Elliman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 771 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Experimental Determination of the Structural Relaxation in Liquid Water

A. Cunsolo, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, C. Masciovecchio, A. Mermet, G. Monaco, M. Sampoli, and R. Verbeni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 775 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Glasslike Heat Conduction in High-Mobility Crystalline Semiconductors

J. L. Cohn, G. S. Nolas, V. Fessatidis, T. H. Metcalf, and G. A. Slack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 779 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Critical Wetting of a Liquid/Vapor Interface by Octane

T. Pfohl and H. Riegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 783 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Elastic Interaction between Surface Defects in Thin Layers

P. Peyla, A. Vallat, C. Misbah, and H. Müller-Krumbhaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 787 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Step-Induced Optical Anisotropy of Vicinal Si(001)

S. G. Jaloviar, Jia-Ling Lin, Feng Liu, V. Zielasek, L. McCaughan, and M. G. Lagally

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 791 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Wetting of Argon on ${CO}_{2}$

Giampaolo Mistura, Francesco Ancilotto, Lorenzo Bruschi, and Flavio Toigo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 795 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Sapphire (0001) Surface, Clean and with $d$ -Metal Overlayers

C. Verdozzi, D. R. Jennison, P. A. Schultz, and M. P. Sears

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 799 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Finite Temperature Effects in a One-Dimensional Mott-Hubbard Insulator: Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of ${Na}_{0.96} V_{2} O_{5}$

K. Kobayashi, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, T. Tohyama, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 803 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Mobile Small Polaron

A. S. Alexandrov and P. E. Kornilovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 807 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Charge Density Wave Gap Formation of ${NbSe}_{3}$ Detected by Electron Tunneling

He Haifeng and Zhang Dianlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 811 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Radiation-Induced Formation of $H_{2}^{*}$ in Silicon

S. K. Estreicher, J. L. Hastings, and P. A. Fedders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 815 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Magnetization of the Fractional Quantum Hall States

I. Meinel, T. Hengstmann, D. Grundler, D. Heitmann, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 819 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Fluctuation Controlled Hopping of Bound Magnetic Polarons in ErAs:GaAs Nanocomposites

D. R. Schmidt, A. G. Petukhov, M. Foygel, J. P. Ibbetson, and S. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 823 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Interaction between Magnetic Order and the Vortex Lattice in ${HoNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

C. D. Dewhurst, R. A. Doyle, E. Zeldov, and D. McK. Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 827 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Radio-Frequency Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Superconducting $In - {InO}_{x}$ : A Possible Evidence for Vortex Density Waves

S. E. Hebboul, D. P. Johnson, and M. Rokhlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 831 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Thermodynamics of the One-Dimensional SU(4) Symmetric Spin-Orbital Model

Beat Frischmuth, Frédéric Mila, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 835 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Ground State Properties of an Anderson Impurity in a Gapless Host

Valery I. Rupasov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 839 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Electron-Hole Correlation Effects in the Emission of Light from Quantum Wires

Francesco Tassone and Carlo Piermarocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 843 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Local Optical Spectroscopy in Quantum Confined Systems: A Theoretical Description

Oskar Mauritz, Guido Goldoni, Fausto Rossi, and Elisa Molinari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 847 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Ratchet for Cold Rubidium Atoms: The Asymmetric Optical Lattice

C. Mennerat-Robilliard, D. Lucas, S. Guibal, J. Tabosa, C. Jurczak, J.-Y. Courtois, and G. Grynberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 851 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Noise Driven Avalanche Behavior in Subexcitable Media

Jichang Wang, Sándor Kádár, Peter Jung, and Kenneth Showalter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 855 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Effect of Inhomogeneity on Spiral Wave Dynamics

Matthew Hendrey, Edward Ott, and Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 859 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Comparison of Polymer Dynamics between Entanglements and Covalent Cross-Links

Taco Nicolai, Frederic Prochazka, and Dominique Durand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 863 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999

Time-Delayed Theory of the Neolithic Transition in Europe

Joaquim Fort and Vicenç Méndez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 867 (1999) - Published 25 January, 1999