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Physical Review Letters

Volume 83, Issue 25

20 December 1999

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

High Pressure Behavior of Silicon Clathrates: A New Class of Low Compressibility Materials

A. San-Miguel, P. Kéghélian, X. Blase, P. Mélinon, A. Perez, J. P. Itié, A. Polian, E. Reny, C. Cros, and M. Pouchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5290 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

LETTERS

General Physics

Boson Correlation Energies from Reduced Hamiltonian Interpolation

David A. Mazziotti and Dudley R. Herschbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5185 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Exact Wave Functions for the Coulomb Problem from Classical Orbits

Kenneth G. Kay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5190 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Guiding Neutral Atoms Around Curves with Lithographically Patterned Current-Carrying Wires

Dirk Müller, Dana Z. Anderson, Randal J. Grow, Peter D. D. Schwindt, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5194 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates

S. Burger, K. Bongs, S. Dettmer, W. Ertmer, K. Sengstock, A. Sanpera, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5198 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Theory of Superradiant Scattering of Laser Light from Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. G. Moore and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5202 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

“Fuse Safety Device” on an Atomic Scale

Oleg Braun, Maxim Paliy, and Bambi Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5206 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Order Parameter Fragmentation after a Symmetry-Breaking Transition

S. Ducci, P. L. Ramazza, W. González-Viñas, and F. T. Arecchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5210 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Solution of Classical Stochastic One-Dimensional Many-Body Systems

P.-A. Bares and M. Mobilia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5214 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Some Remarks on Gravitational Global Monopoles

Dieter Maison and Steven L. Liebling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5218 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Elementary Particles and Fields

Neutrino Magnetic Moments, Flavor Mixing, and the Super-Kamiokande Solar Data

J. F. Beacom and P. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5222 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Gauged Six-Dimensional Supergravity from Massive Type IIA String Theory

Mirjam Cvetic̆, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5226 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Decay of Pseudoscalars into Lepton Pairs and Large- $N_{c}$ QCD

M. Knecht, S. Peris, M. Perrottet, and E. de Rafael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5230 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Nuclear Physics

Unresolved $γ$ Rays in $^{114} Te$ : Mass Dependence of Rotational Damping

S. Frattini, A. Bracco, S. Leoni, F. Camera, B. Million, N. Blasi, G. Lo Bianco, M. Pignanelli, E. Vigezzi, B. Herskind, T. Døssing, M. Bergström, P. Varmette, S. Törmänen, A. Maj, M. Kmiecik, D. R. Napoli, and M. Matsuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5234 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

$Σ$ Hyperons in the Nucleus

S. Bart, R. E. Chrien, W. A. Franklin, T. Fukuda, R. S. Hayano, K. Hicks, E. V. Hungerford, R. Michael, T. Miyachi, T. Nagae, J. Nakano, W. Naing, K. Omata, R. Sawafta, Y. Shimizu, L. Tang, and S. W. Wissink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5238 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Photoactivation of $^{180} {Ta}^{m}$ and Its Implications for the Nucleosynthesis of Nature's Rarest Naturally Occurring Isotope

D. Belic, C. Arlandini, J. Besserer, J. de Boer, J. J. Carroll, J. Enders, T. Hartmann, F. Käppeler, H. Kaiser, U. Kneissl, M. Loewe, H. J. Maier, H. Maser, P. Mohr, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Nord, H. H. Pitz, A. Richter, M. Schumann, S. Volz, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5242 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Has Charge Symmetry Breaking Been Observed in the $dd \to {α π}^{0}$ Reaction?

Denis Dobrokhotov, Göran Fäldt, Anders Gårdestig, and Colin Wilkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5246 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Deuteron Magnetic and Quadrupole Moments with a Poincaré Covariant Current Operator in the Front-Form Dynamics

F. M. Lev, E. Pace, and G. Salmè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5250 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Propensity Rules for Angular Momentum Transfer in Electron-Impact Excitation and Deexcitation

K. Bartschat, N. Andersen, and D. Loveall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5254 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Solidlike-to-Liquidlike Transition in Small Clusters of $C_{60}$ Molecules or Transition-Metal Atoms

L. J. Gallego, J. García-Rodeja, M. M. G. Alemany, and C. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5258 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Hydrodynamics of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation in Two Dimensions

Bruce M. Boghosian, Carson C. Chow, and Terence Hwa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5262 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Coherent Backscattering of Light by Cold Atoms

G. Labeyrie, F. de Tomasi, J.-C. Bernard, C. A. Müller, C. Miniatura, and R. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5266 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

High Harmonic Generation at Long Wavelengths

B. Sheehy, J. D. D. Martin, L. F. DiMauro, P. Agostini, K. J. Schafer, M. B. Gaarde, and K. C. Kulander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5270 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Three-Dimensional Complete Photonic-Band-gap Structures in the Visible

Alexander Moroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5274 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Observation of Pattern Formation in Optical Parametric Oscillators

M. Vaupel, A. Maître, and C. Fabre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5278 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Wave Number Selection and Large-Scale-Flow Effects due to a Radial Ramp of the Spacing in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Kapil M. S. Bajaj, Nathalie Mukolobwiez, Nathan Currier, and Guenter Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5282 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Corrugation Effects in Oxygen Surface Trapping at Hyperthermal Energies

A. C. Lavery, C. E. Sosolik, and B. H. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5286 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

High Pressure Behavior of Silicon Clathrates: A New Class of Low Compressibility Materials

A. San-Miguel, P. Kéghélian, X. Blase, P. Mélinon, A. Perez, J. P. Itié, A. Polian, E. Reny, C. Cros, and M. Pouchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5290 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Novel Muonium State in CdS

J. M. Gil, H. V. Alberto, R. C. Vilão, J. Piroto Duarte, P. J. Mendes, L. P. Ferreira, N. Ayres de Campos, A. Weidinger, J. Krauser, Ch. Niedermayer, and S. F. J. Cox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5294 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Freezing Transition in Very Small Systems of Hard Spheres

Willem K. Kegel, Howard Reiss, and Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5298 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Cooperative Evaporation in Ordered Arrays of Volatile Droplets

C. Schäfle, C. Bechinger, B. Rinn, C. David, and P. Leiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5302 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

A Damping Length Scale for Superfluid Turbulence

David C. Samuels and Demosthenes Kivotides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5306 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Binding of Impurities to a ${}^{4}H e$ Superfluid Vortex

Michael Sadd, G. V. Chester, and F. Pederiva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5310 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Monolayer Solid ${}^{4}H e$ Clusters on Graphite

M. E. Pierce and E. Manousakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5314 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Spinodal Decomposition in Films of Binary Mixtures

S. Toxvaerd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5318 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Sand as Maxwell's Demon

Jens Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5322 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Andreev Reflection and Spin Injection into $s$ - and $d$ -Wave Superconductors

Robert L. Merrill and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5326 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Exactly Soluble Model for Umklapp Scattering at Quantum Hall Edges

U. Zülicke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5330 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Molybdenum Selenide Molecular Wires as One-Dimensional Conductors

Latha Venkataraman and Charles M. Lieber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5334 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Quantum Correlations and Intraband Coherences in Semiconductor Cavity QED

Y.-S. Lee, T. B. Norris, M. Kira, F. Jahnke, S. W. Koch, G. Khitrova, and H. M. Gibbs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5338 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Diffractive Orbits in an Open Microwave Billiard

J. S. Hersch, M. R. Haggerty, and E. J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5342 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Nitrogen Doping of Amorphous Carbon Surfaces

M. Kaukonen, R. M. Nieminen, S. Pöykkö, and Ari P. Seitsonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5346 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Phenomenological Theory of Superconductivity and Magnetism in ${Ho}_{1 - x} {Dy}_{x} {Ni}_{2} B_{2} C$

Hyeonjin Doh, Manfred Sigrist, B. K. Cho, and Sung-Ik Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5350 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Broken Symmetry of Row Switching in 2D Josephson Junction Arrays

D. Abraimov, P. Caputo, G. Filatrella, M. V. Fistul, G. Yu. Logvenov, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5354 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Defect-Unbinding Transition in Layered Superconductors

Matthew J. W. Dodgson, Vadim B. Geshkenbein, and Gianni Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5358 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Ground State Properties of a Fully Frustrated Quantum Spin System

Elliott H. Lieb and Peter Schupp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5362 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Evidence for Strong Quadrupolar Pair Interactions in Rare-Earth Palladium Bronzes $R {Pd}_{3} S_{4}$

K. Abe, J. Kitagawa, N. Takeda, and M. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5366 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Anisotropic Spin Freezing in the $S = 1 / 2$ Zigzag Chain Compound ${SrCuO}_{2}$

I. A. Zaliznyak, C. Broholm, M. Kibune, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5370 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Optical Demonstration of a Crystal Band Structure Formation

M. Bayer, T. Gutbrod, A. Forchel, T. L. Reinecke, P. A. Knipp, R. Werner, and J. P. Reithmaier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5374 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Evidence for the Stopping of Slow Ions by Excitations of Optical Phonons in Insulators

A. G. Borisov, A. Mertens, H. Winter, and A. K. Kazansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5378 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Coin Tossing is Strictly Weaker than Bit Commitment

Adrian Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5382 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Fidelity and Leakage of Josephson Qubits

Rosario Fazio, G. Massimo Palma, and Jens Siewert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5385 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Extraction of Signals from Chaotic Laser Data

John B. Geddes, Kevin M. Short, and Kelly Black

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5389 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Complex Periodic Spirals and Line-Defect Turbulence in a Chemical System

Jin-Sung Park and Kyoung J. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5393 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Stability of Two-Dimensional Foams in Langmuir Monolayers

E. K. Mann and S. V. Primak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5397 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

COMMENTS

Comment on “Spontaneous Emission of Organic Molecules Embedded in a Photonic Crystal”

Mischa Megens, H. P. Schriemer, Ad Lagendijk, and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5401 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Petrov et al. Reply:

E. P. Petrov, V. N. Bogomolov, I. I. Kalosha, and S. V. Gaponenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5402 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Comment on “Cooperative Molecular Motors”

J. L. Marín, M. Huerta, J. Muñiz, and X. Trujillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5403 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999

Jülicher and Prost Reply:

Frank Jülicher and Jacques Prost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5404 (1999) - Published 20 December, 1999