Volume 83, Issue 24

13 December 1999

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Giant Absorption Cross Section of Ultracold Neutrons in Gadolinium

H. Rauch, M. Zawisky, Ch. Stellmach, and P. Geltenbort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4955 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Trajectories for Brownian Motion

Walter T. Strunz, Lajos Diósi, Nicolas Gisin, and Ting Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4909 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Flow Equation Solution for the Weak- to Strong-Coupling Crossover in the Sine-Gordon Model

Stefan Kehrein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4914 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Extended Limits on Neutral Strongly Interacting Massive Particles and Nuclearites from NaI(Tl) Scintillators

R. Bernabei, P. Belli, R. Cerulli, F. Montecchia, M. Amato, G. Ignesti, A. Incicchitti, D. Prosperi, C. J. Dai, H. L. He, H. H. Kuang, J. M. Ma, G. X. Sun, and Z. Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4918 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Elementary Particles and Fields

Modulus Stabilization with Bulk Fields

Walter D. Goldberger and Mark B. Wise

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4922 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Predicting Proton-Air Cross Sections at $\sqrt{s} \sim 30 TeV$ Using Accelerator and Cosmic Ray Data

M. M. Block, Francis Halzen, and Todor Stanev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4926 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Large $Δ I = \frac{3}{2}$ Contribution to $ε^{'} / ε$ in Supersymmetry

Alexander L. Kagan and Matthias Neubert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4929 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Violation of Time Reversal Invariance in the Decays $K_{L} \to π^{+} π^{-} γ$ and $K_{L} \to π^{+} π^{-} e^{+} e^{-}$

L. M. Sehgal and J. van Leusen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4933 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Search for Squarks and Gluinos in Events Containing Jets and a Large Imbalance in Transverse Energy

B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4937 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Search for Neutral Heavy Leptons in a High-Energy Neutrino Beam

A. Vaitaitis et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4943 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Operator Product Expansion for Exclusive Decays $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{+} e^{+} e^{-}$ and $B^{+} \to D_{s}^{* +} e^{+} e^{-}$

David H. Evans, Benjamín Grinstein, and Detlef R. Nolte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4947 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Nuclear Physics

Unusual Space-Time Evolution for Heavy-Ion Collisions at High Energies due to the QCD Phase Transition

D. Teaney and E. V. Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4951 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Giant Absorption Cross Section of Ultracold Neutrons in Gadolinium

H. Rauch, M. Zawisky, Ch. Stellmach, and P. Geltenbort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4955 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Prevalence of Fission and Evaporation in the Decay of Heavy Nuclei Excited up to 1000 MeV with Energetic Antiprotons

U. Jahnke, W. Bohne, T. von Egidy, P. Figuera, J. Galin, F. Goldenbaum, D. Hilscher, J. Jastrzebski, B. Lott, M. Morjean, G. Pausch, A. Péghaire, L. Pienkowski, D. Polster, S. Proschitzki, B. Quednau, H. Rossner, S. Schmid, and W. Schmid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4959 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Excitation of a Three-Dimensionally Localized Atomic Electron Wave Packet

Jake Bromage and C. R. Stroud, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4963 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Optical Pumping of Orbital Angular Momentum of Light in Cold Cesium Atoms

J. W. R. Tabosa and D. V. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4967 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Revival Structure of Aligned Rotational Wave Packets

Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4971 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Direct Observation of Excited State Fragments Following Molecular Ionization and Dissociation in Strong Fields

John P. Nibarger, Ming Li, Saipriya Menon, and George N. Gibson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4975 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Threshold Effects and Ion-Pair Production in the Dissociative Recombination of ${HD}^{+}$

M. Lange, J. Levin, G. Gwinner, U. Hechtfischer, L. Knoll, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, A. Wolf, X. Urbain, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4979 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Metal-Carbide Clusters and Nanocrystals

Deniz van Heijnsbergen, Gert von Helden, Michael A. Duncan, André J. A. van Roij, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4983 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Trapping of Single Atoms in Cavity QED

J. Ye, D. W. Vernooy, and H. J. Kimble

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4987 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Semiclassical Theory of the Emission Properties of Wave-Chaotic Resonant Cavities

Evgenii E. Narimanov, Gregor Hackenbroich, Philippe Jacquod, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4991 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Three-Dimensional Optical Crystals and Localized Structures in Cavity Second Harmonic Generation

M. Tlidi and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4995 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Flowing Sand: A Physical Realization of Directed Percolation

Haye Hinrichsen, Andrea Jiménez-Dalmaroni, Yadin Rozov, and Eytan Domany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4999 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Departure from Fourier's Law for Fluidized Granular Media

R. Soto, M. Mareschal, and D. Risso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5003 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

A Ball in a Groove

Thomas C. Halsey and Deniz Ertaş

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5007 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Turbulent Fluctuation and Transport of Passive Scalars by Random Wave Fields

Peter B. Weichman and Roman E. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5011 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Plasma and Beam Physics

Time-Resolved Observation of Ultrahigh Intensity Laser-Produced Electron Jets Propagating through Transparent Solid Targets

L. Gremillet, F. Amiranoff, S. D. Baton, J.-C. Gauthier, M. Koenig, E. Martinolli, F. Pisani, G. Bonnaud, C. Lebourg, C. Rousseaux, C. Toupin, A. Antonicci, D. Batani, A. Bernardinello, T. Hall, D. Scott, P. Norreys, H. Bandulet, and H. Pépin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5015 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Spectral Evidence for Collisionless Absorption in Subpicosecond Laser-Solid Interactions

C. T. Hansen, S. C. Wilks, and P. E. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5019 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Atomically Resolved Silver Imaging on the $Si (111) - (\sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{3}) - Ag$ Surface Using a Noncontact Atomic Force Microscope

Kousuke Yokoyama, Taketoshi Ochi, Yasuhiro Sugawara, and Seizo Morita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5023 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Time-Temperature Superposition of Structural Relaxation in a Viscous Metallic Liquid

A. Meyer, R. Busch, and H. Schober

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5027 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Observing Correlated Production of Defects and Antidefects in Liquid Crystals

Sanatan Digal, Rajarshi Ray, and Ajit M. Srivastava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5030 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Ultrafast Dynamics of Shock Waves in Polymers and Proteins: The Energy Landscape

Hackjin Kim, Selezion A. Hambir, and Dana D. Dlott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5034 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Observation of Fluctuation-Dissipation-Theorem Violations in a Structural Glass

Tomás S. Grigera and N. E. Israeloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5038 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Direct Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Light-Induced Structural Change in Amorphous Selenium

Xiaodong Zhang and D. A. Drabold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5042 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Interesting Physical Properties of the New Spinel Phase of ${Si}_{3} N_{4}$ and $C_{3} N_{4}$

Shang-Di Mo, Lizhi Ouyang, W. Y. Ching, Isao Tanaka, Yukinori Koyama, and Ralf Riedel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5046 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Atomic Scale Sliding and Rolling of Carbon Nanotubes

A. Buldum and Jian Ping Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5050 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Off-Equilibrium Dynamics in a Singular Diffusion Model

Federico Corberi, Mario Nicodemi, Marina Piccioni, and Antonio Coniglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5054 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Superfluid Hydrodynamic Model for the Enhanced Moments of Inertia of Molecules in Liquid $^{4} He$

C. Callegari, A. Conjusteau, I. Reinhard, K. K. Lehmann, G. Scoles, and F. Dalfovo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5058 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Time Resolved X-Ray Imaging of Dendritic Growth in Binary Alloys

R. H. Mathiesen, L. Arnberg, F. Mo, T. Weitkamp, and A. Snigirev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5062 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Potential-Controlled Step Flow to 3D Step Decoration Transition: Ni Electrodeposition on Ag(111)

S. Morin, A. Lachenwitzer, O. M. Magnussen, and R. J. Behm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5066 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Why Effective Medium Theory Fails in Granular Materials

Hernán A. Makse, Nicolas Gland, David L. Johnson, and Lawrence M. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5070 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Optically Pumped NMR Studies of Electron Spin Polarization and Dynamics: New Constraints on the Composite Fermion Description of $ν = 1 / 2$

A. E. Dementyev, N. N. Kuzma, P. Khandelwal, S. E. Barrett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5074 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Giant Oxygen Isotope Effect on the Spin Glass Transition in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Cu}_{1 - z} {Mn}_{z} O_{4}$ as Revealed by Muon Spin Rotation

A. Shengelaya, Guo-meng Zhao, C. M. Aegerter, K. Conder, I. M. Savić, and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5142 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Femtosecond Optical Breakdown of Dielectrics”

Guillaume Petite, Stéphane Guizard, Philippe Martin, and Fabien Quéré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5182 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

ERRATA

Erratum: Adatom Formation on the Ni(110) Surface [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1034 (1998)]

W. Silvestri, A. P. Graham, and J. P. Toennies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5183 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999

Erratum: Several Theorems in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 378 (1999)]

Paul Hessler, Jang Park, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5184 (1999) - Published 13 December, 1999