Volume 82, Issue 9

1 March 1999

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultrasound Propagation in Externally Stressed Granular Media

X. Jia, C. Caroli, and B. Velicky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1863 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stimulated Emission and Amplification in Josephson Junction Arrays

P. Barbara, A. B. Cawthorne, S. V. Shitov, and C. J. Lobb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1963 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

LETTERS

General Physics

Open System Dynamics with Non-Markovian Quantum Trajectories

Walter T. Strunz, Lajos Diósi, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1801 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Observation of Saddle-Point Avoidance in Noise-Induced Escape

D. G. Luchinsky, R. S. Maier, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, and D. L. Stein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1806 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from the Measurement of Day-Night Solar Neutrino Fluxes at Super-Kamiokande

Y. Fukuda et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1810 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Microscopic Structure of a Vortex Line in Superfluid Neutron Star Matter

F. V. De Blasio and Ø. Elgarøy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1815 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Nuclear Physics

Hindered ( $Δ l = 0$ ) Alpha Decay and Shape Staggering in $^{191} Po$

A. N. Andreyev, M. Huyse, P. Van Duppen, J. F. C. Cocks, K. Helariutta, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, W. H. Trzaska, K. Eskola, and R. Wyss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1819 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Precise Atomic Mass Values near ${}^{132}S n$ : The Resolution of a Puzzle

B. Fogelberg, K. A. Mezilev, H. Mach, V. I. Isakov, and J. Slivova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1823 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Nuclear Saturation with In-Medium Meson Exchange Interactions

R. Rapp, R. Machleidt, J. W. Durso, and G. E. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1827 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Using High Rydberg States as Electric Field Sensors

A. Osterwalder and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1831 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Multiparticle Entanglement of Hot Trapped Ions

Klaus Mølmer and Anders Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1835 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Long-Range Forces between Cold Atoms

A. Fioretti, D. Comparat, C. Drag, T. F. Gallagher, and P. Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1839 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Analytical Calculation of the Relaxation Dynamics of Partially Stretched Flexible Chain Molecules: Necessity of a Wormlike Chain Description

Roland G. Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1843 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Quantum Noise and Correlations in Resonantly Enhanced Wave Mixing Based on Atomic Coherence

M. D. Lukin, A. B. Matsko, M. Fleischhauer, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1847 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Period Doubling of a Torus near the Ferroelectric Phase Transition of a ${KH}_{2} {PO}_{4}$ Crystal

Jong Cheol Shin and Sook-Il Kwun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1851 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Light-Induced Surface Sliding of the Nematic Director in Liquid Crystals

O. Francescangeli, S. Slussarenko, F. Simoni, D. Andrienko, V. Reshetnyak, and Y. Reznikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1855 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Heat Conductivity and Dynamical Instability

Daniel Alonso, Roberto Artuso, Giulio Casati, and Italo Guarneri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1859 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Ultrasound Propagation in Externally Stressed Granular Media

X. Jia, C. Caroli, and B. Velicky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1863 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Plasma and Beam Physics

Phase Mixing of Nonlinear Plasma Oscillations in an Arbitrary Mass Ratio Cold Plasma

Sudip Sen Gupta and Predhiman K. Kaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1867 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Wave-Induced Momentum Transport and Flow Drive in Tokamak Plasmas

L. A. Berry, E. F. Jaeger, and D. B. Batchelor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1871 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Physical Picture for Light Emission in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Mufei Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1875 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Example of a Compound Semiconductor Surface that Mimics Silicon: The InP(001)-( $2 \times 1$ ) Reconstruction

L. Li, B.-K. Han, Q. Fu, and R. F. Hicks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1879 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Identification of Vacancy-Impurity Complexes in Highly $n$ -Type Si

K. Saarinen, J. Nissilä, H. Kauppinen, M. Hakala, M. J. Puska, P. Hautojärvi, and C. Corbel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1883 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Novel Defect Complexes and Their Role in the $p$ -Type Doping of GaN

F. A. Reboredo and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1887 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Deterministic Equations of Motion and Dynamic Critical Phenomena

B. Zheng, M. Schulz, and S. Trimper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1891 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Early Stage Kinetics of Phase-Separating Liquid Mixtures

S. Buil, J. P. Delville, and A. Ducasse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1895 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Switching in the Molecular Orientation Ruled by Steric Repulsion of Adsorbed CO on Pd(110)

Hiroyuki Kato, Maki Kawai, and Jun Yoshinobu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1899 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Condensation Coefficients of Ag on Polymers

A. Thran, M. Kiene, V. Zaporojtchenko, and F. Faupel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1903 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Fluctuation-Induced Transitions in a Bistable Surface Reaction: Catalytic CO Oxidation on a Pt Field Emitter Tip

Yu. Suchorski, J. Beben, E. W. James, J. W. Evans, and R. Imbihl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1907 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Conformation and Self-Diffusion of Single DNA Molecules Confined to Two Dimensions

Berenike Maier and Joachim O. Rädler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1911 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mott-Hubbard Transition in Infinite Dimensions

R. M. Noack and F. Gebhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1915 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Ab Initio Excitation Spectra and Collective Electronic Response in Atoms and Clusters

Igor Vasiliev, Serdar Öğüt, and James R. Chelikowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1919 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Scaling in Charge-Density-Wave Relaxation: Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering Measurements

K. L. Ringland, A. C. Finnefrock, Y. Li, J. D. Brock, S. G. Lemay, and R. E. Thorne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1923 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Flatband Conditions Observed for Lanthanide-Silicide Monolayers on $n$ -Type Si(111)

S. Vandré, T. Kalka, C. Preinesberger, and M. Dähne-Prietsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1927 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Phase and Energy Relaxation in an Antibonding Surface State: Cs/Cu(111)

S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, and H. Petek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1931 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Absence of Two-Dimensional Bragg Glasses

Chen Zeng, P. L. Leath, and Daniel S. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1935 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Effect of Nonmagnetic Impurities on the Magnetic Resonance Peak in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$

H. F. Fong, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, L. P. Regnault, J. Bossy, A. Ivanov, D. L. Milius, I. A. Aksay, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1939 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Spectral Evidence for Pseudogap Formation in Kondo Insulators CeRhAs and CeRhSb

H. Kumigashira, T. Sato, T. Yokoya, T. Takahashi, S. Yoshii, and M. Kasaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1943 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Curie Temperature Enhancement and Induced Pd Magnetic Moments for Ultrathin Fe Films Grown on Stepped Pd(001)

Hyuk J. Choi, R. K. Kawakami, Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio, Z. Q. Qiu, J. Pearson, J. S. Jiang, Dongqi Li, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1947 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Is There an Excess Wing in the Dielectric Loss of Plastic Crystals?

R. Brand, P. Lunkenheimer, U. Schneider, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1951 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Dynamics of Single Selenium Chains Confined in One-Dimensional Nanochannels of ${AlPO}_{4} - 5$ : Temperature Dependencies of the First- and Second-Order Raman Spectra

Vladimir V. Poborchii, Alexander V. Kolobov, Jürgen Caro, Victor V. Zhuravlev, and Kazunobu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1955 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Optical Excitations in Conjugated Polymers

Michael Rohlfing and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1959 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stimulated Emission and Amplification in Josephson Junction Arrays

P. Barbara, A. B. Cawthorne, S. V. Shitov, and C. J. Lobb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1963 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Dissociation of a Surface Bond by Direct Optical Excitation: H-Si(100)

T. Vondrak and X.-Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1967 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Computation with Ions in Thermal Motion

Anders Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1971 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions

D. Jaksch, H.-J. Briegel, J. I. Cirac, C. W. Gardiner, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1975 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Reentrant Melting in Polydispersed Hard Spheres

Paul Bartlett and Patrick B. Warren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1979 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Species-Area Relation and Self-Similarity in a Biogeographical Model of Speciation and Extinction

Jon D. Pelletier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1983 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Statistical Properties of Genealogical Trees

Bernard Derrida, Susanna C. Manrubia, and Damián H. Zanette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1987 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Membrane Mediated Attraction and Ordered Aggregation of Colloidal Particles Bound to Giant Phospholipid Vesicles

Ilya Koltover, Joachim O. Rädler, and Cyrus R. Safinya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1991 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Instability and “Sausage-String” Appearance in Blood Vessels during High Blood Pressure

Preben Alstrøm, Victor M. Eguíluz, Morten Colding-Jørgensen, Finn Gustafsson, and Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1995 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

COMMENTS

Comment on “ $Δ I = 4$ Bifurcation in Ground Bands of Even-Even Nuclei and the Interacting Boson Model”

S. Kuyucak and A. E. Stuchbery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1999 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Comment on “Energy Velocity of Diffusing Waves in Strongly Scattering Media”

C. M. Soukoulis, K. Busch, M. Kafesaki, and E. N. Economou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2000 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Schriemer et al. Reply:

H. P. Schriemer, M. L. Cowan, J. H. Page, Ping Sheng, Zhengyou Liu, and D. A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2001 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Comment on “Dimensionally Induced Structural Transformations in Titanium-Aluminum Multilayers”

J. Bonevich and D. Josell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2002 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Banerjee, Ahuja, and Fraser Reply:

R. Banerjee, R. Ahuja, and H. L. Fraser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2003 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Comment on “Observation of 2D Polarons and Magnetopolarons on Superfluid Helium Films”

N. A. Rubin and A. J. Dahm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2004 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Tress et al. Reply:

O. Tress, Yu. P. Monarkha, F. C. Penning, H. Bluyssen, and P. Wyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2005 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

ERRATA

Erratum: Generation of Coherent Soft X Rays at 2.7 nm Using High Harmonics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2967 (1997)]

Zenghu Chang, Andy Rundquist, Haiwen Wang, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2006 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999

Erratum: Quasi-Two-Dimensional MHD Turbulence in Three-Dimensional Flows [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 548 (1999)]

D. Aaron Roberts, Melvyn L. Goldstein, Anil E. Deane, and Sanjoy Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2007 (1999) - Published 1 March, 1999