Volume 83, Issue 12

20 September 1999

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mystery of the Alkali Metals: Giant Moments of Fe and Co on and in Cs films

H. Beckmann and G. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2417 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

LETTERS

General Physics

Measurement of the Density Matrix of a Longitudinally Modulated Atomic Beam

Richard A. Rubenstein, David A. Kokorowski, Al-Amin Dhirani, Tony D. Roberts, Subhadeep Gupta, Jana Lehner, Winthrop W. Smith, Edward T. Smith, Herbert J. Bernstein, and David E. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2285 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Renormalization Group, Entropy Optimization, and Nonextensivity at Criticality

A. Robledo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2289 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Solitons and Nondissipative Diffusion

N. Theodorakopoulos and M. Peyrard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2293 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Elementary Particles and Fields

Vacuum Backreaction on a Pair-Creating Source

G. A. Vilkovisky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2297 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Effects of $R$ -Parity Violation on Direct $CP$ Violation in $B$ Decays and Extraction of $γ$

Gautam Bhattacharyya and Amitava Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2300 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Nuclear Physics

Parton Energy Loss Limits and Shadowing in Drell-Yan Dimuon Production

M. A. Vasiliev et al. (FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2304 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

High-Precision Studies of the ${}^{3}H e (e, e^{'} p)$ Reaction at the Quasielastic Peak

R. E. J. Florizone et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2308 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Second-Order Electron Self-Energy in Hydrogenlike Ions

Igor Goidenko, Leonti Labzowsky, Andrei Nefiodov, Günter Plunien, and Gerhard Soff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2312 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Resolution of the Apparent Disorder of the ${Rb}_{2}$ $A^{1} Σ_{u}^{1} (0_{u}^{+}) and b^{3} Π_{u} (0_{u}^{+})$ Spectra: A Case of Fully Coupled Electronic States

C. Amiot, O. Dulieu, and J. Vergès

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2316 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Coherence and Relaxation in Potassium-Doped Helium Droplets Studied by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

F. Stienkemeier, F. Meier, A. Hägele, H. O. Lutz, E. Schreiber, C. P. Schulz, and I. V. Hertel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2320 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Discrete Instability in Nonlinear Lattices

J. Leon and M. Manna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2324 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Convection versus Dispersion in Optical Bistability

S. Coen, M. Tlidi, Ph. Emplit, and M. Haelterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2328 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Energy-Exchange Interactions between Colliding Vector Solitons

Charalambos Anastassiou, Mordechai Segev, Ken Steiglitz, J. A. Giordmaine, Matthew Mitchell, Ming-feng Shih, Song Lan, and John Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2332 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Profiles of Light-Induced Charge Gratings on Photorefractive Crystals

E. Soergel and W. Krieger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2336 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Control of Chaotic Pattern Dynamics in Taylor Vortex Flow

Richard J. Wiener, Donevan C. Dolby, G. Clayton Gibbs, Bonita Squires, Thomas Olsen, and Alison M. Smiley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2340 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evolution of Electron Phase-Space Holes in a 2D Magnetized Plasma

M. Oppenheim, D. L. Newman, and M. V. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2344 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Origin of Temperature and Pressure Effects on the Radial Distribution Function of Water

J. Urquidi, S. Singh, C. H. Cho, and G. W. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2348 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Calculations of Silicon Self-Interstitial Defects

W.-K. Leung, R. J. Needs, G. Rajagopal, S. Itoh, and S. Ihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2351 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Dynamics of Electronic “Bubble” Formation in Solid Hydrogen: A Classical Model Calculation based on Fluid Dynamics

F. Vigliotti, E. Sarraf, M. Chergui, and R. Scholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2355 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Dynamical Instability of Thin Liquid Films Between Conducting Media

S. Herminghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2359 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Intramolecular and Lattice Melting in $n$ -Alkane Monolayers: An Analog of Melting in Lipid Bilayers

F. Y. Hansen, K. W. Herwig, B. Matthies, and H. Taub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2362 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Equilibrium Shape of Steps and Islands on Polar II-VI Semiconductors Surfaces

D. Martrou, J. Eymery, and N. Magnea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2366 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Spontaneous Ordering in Bulk GaN:Mg Samples

Z. Liliental-Weber, M. Benamara, J. Washburn, I. Grzegory, and S. Porowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2370 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Vicinal Surfaces, Fractional Statistics, and Universality

Somendra M. Bhattacharjee and Sutapa Mukherji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2374 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Possible New Phase of Commensurate Insulators with Disorder: The Mott Glass

E. Orignac, T. Giamarchi, and P. Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2378 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Hamiltonian Description of Composite Fermions: Aftermath

R. Shankar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2382 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Antiferromagnetic Metal to Antiferromagnetic Insulator Transition

R. Chitra and G. Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2386 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Plasmons in Lithium Ammonia

C. A. Burns, P. Abbamonte, E. D. Isaacs, and P. M. Platzman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2390 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Intrinsic Gap States in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Peter C. Sercel, Al. L. Efros, and M. Rosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2394 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Nonexponential Dynamic Scaling of the Magnetization Relaxation in ${Mn}_{12}$ Acetate

Luc Thomas, Andrea Caneschi, and Bernard Barbara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2398 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Brownian Motion of Microscopic Solids under the Action of Fluctuating Electromagnetic Fields

I. Dorofeyev, H. Fuchs, G. Wenning, and B. Gotsmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2402 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Indirect Band Gap of Light-Emitting ${BC}_{2} N$

Y. Chen, J. C. Barnard, R. E. Palmer, M. O. Watanabe, and T. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2406 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Flux Penetration and Expulsion in Thin Superconducting Disks

V. A. Schweigert and F. M. Peeters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2409 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Stripe Formation by Long Range Interactions within SO(5) Theory

M. Veillette, Ya. B. Bazaliy, A. J. Berlinsky, and C. Kallin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2413 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mystery of the Alkali Metals: Giant Moments of Fe and Co on and in Cs films

H. Beckmann and G. Bergmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2417 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Crystal Field Triplets: A New Route to Non-Fermi-Liquid Physics

Mikito Koga, Gergely Zaránd, and Daniel L. Cox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2421 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Geometrically Constrained Magnetic Wall

P. Bruno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2425 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Giant Enhancement of Surface Second Harmonic Generation in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ due to Photorefractive Surface Wave Excitation

Igor I. Smolyaninov, Chi H. Lee, and Christopher C. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2429 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Electric-Field Tuning of Spin-Dependent Exciton-Exciton Interactions in Coupled Quantum Wells

G. Aichmayr, M. Jetter, L. Viña, J. Dickerson, F. Camino, and E. E. Mendez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2433 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Luminescence Characteristics of Laser-Induced Bubbles in Water

Ohan Baghdassarian, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2437 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Extreme Electrostatic Phenomena in a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble

Ning Xu, Long Wang, and Xiwei Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2441 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Scanning Tunneling Microscope Light Emission Spectra of $Au (110) - (2 \times 1)$ with Atomic Spatial Resolution

Y. Uehara, T. Fujita, and S. Ushioda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2445 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

$1 / f$ Noise in Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Models on Narrow Stripes

Sergei Maslov, Chao Tang, and Yi-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2449 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Structure of the Resonance Attractor for Spiral Waves in Excitable Media

A. Karma and V. S. Zykov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2453 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Probing by NMR the Effect of Surface Charges on the Chemisorption Bond

P.-A. Vuissoz, J.-Ph. Ansermet, and A. Wieckowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2457 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Suppression of Coalescence in Surfactant Stabilized Emulsions by Shear Flow

Arup Nandi, Anurag Mehra, and D. V. Khakhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2461 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Coiling of Cylindrical Membrane Stacks with Anchored Polymers

Vidar Frette, Ilan Tsafrir, Marie-Alice Guedeau-Boudeville, Ludovic Jullien, Daniel Kandel, and Joel Stavans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2465 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

ERRATA

Erratum: Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3579 (1998)]

Glennys R. Farrar and Peter L. Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2478 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999

Erratum: Hysteretic Microwave Cyclotronlike Resonance in a Laterally Confined Two-Dimensional Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 812 (1999)]

B. M. Ashkinadze and V. I. Yudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2479 (1999) - Published 20 September, 1999