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Physical Review Letters

Volume 84, Issue 12

20 March 2000

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Low Temperature Scanning Force Microscopy of the $Si (111) - (7 \times 7)$ Surface

M. A. Lantz, H. J. Hug, P. J. A. van Schendel, R. Hoffmann, S. Martin, A. Baratoff, A. Abdurixit, H.-J. Güntherodt, and Ch. Gerber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2642 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Formation of Uniaxial Molecular Films by Liquid-Crystal Imprinting in a Magnetic Field

Joseph D. Mougous, Andrew J. Brackley, Katherine Foland, Robert T. Baker, and David L. Patrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2742 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

LETTERS

General Physics

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quasi-2D Trapped Gases

D. S. Petrov, M. Holzmann, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2551 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Kramers Problem for a Multiwell Potential

M. Arrayás, I. Kh. Kaufman, D. G. Luchinsky, P. V. E. McClintock, and S. M. Soskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2556 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Vorticity Affects the Stability of Neutron Stars

Vahid Rezania and Roy Maartens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2560 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonsingular Global String Compactifications

Ruth Gregory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2564 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Strong Enhancement of $ɛ^{'} / ɛ$ through Final State Interactions

Elisabetta Pallante and Antonio Pich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2568 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Neutrino Mass Anarchy

Lawrence Hall, Hitoshi Murayama, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2572 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Search for Free Fractional Electric Charge Elementary Particles Using an Automated Millikan Oil Drop Technique

V. Halyo, P. Kim, E. R. Lee, I. T. Lee, D. Loomba, and M. L. Perl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2576 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

New Measurement of the Rare Decay $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$

H. Ma et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2580 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Measurement of the Spin Asymmetry in the Photoproduction of Pairs of High- $p_{T}$ Hadrons at HERMES

A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2584 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Hard Exclusive Electroproduction of Decuplet Baryons in the Large $N_{c}$ Limit

L. L. Frankfurt, M. V. Polyakov, M. Strikman, and M. Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2589 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Search for the Weak Decay of a Lightly Bound $H^{0}$ Dibaryon

A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2593 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Radiative Decay of Doubly Excited States in Helium below the ${He}^{+}$ $(N = 2)$ Ionization Threshold

M. K. Odling-Smee, E. Sokell, P. Hammond, and M. A. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2598 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Quantum Localization of the Kicked Rydberg Atom

S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2602 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Collision Relaxation Cross Section of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules

Bing Xue, Jun Han, and Hai-Lung Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2606 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase Order in Chaotic Maps and in Coupled Map Lattices

Wei Wang, Zonghua Liu, and Bambi Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2610 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Universal Geometric Condition for the Transverse Instability of Solitary Waves

Thomas J. Bridges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2614 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Dynamical Anomalies and Intermittency in Burgers Turbulence

Michael Lässig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2618 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Anomalous Atomic Hydrogen Shock Pattern in a Supersonic Plasma Jet

S. Mazouffre, M. G. H. Boogaarts, J. A. M. van der Mullen, and D. C. Schram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2622 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Dispersion Properties of a Dusty Plasma Containing Nonspherical Rotating Dust Grains

J. Mahmoodi, P. K. Shukla, N. L. Tsintsadze, and D. D. Tskhakaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2626 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Suppression of Temperature Fluctuations and Energy Barrier Generation by Velocity Shear

J. A. Boedo, P. W. Terry, D. Gray, R. S. Ivanov, R. W. Conn, S. Jachmich, G. Van Oost, and The TEXTOR Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2630 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Nuclear Fusion Driven by Coulomb Explosions of Large Deuterium Clusters

J. Zweiback, R. A. Smith, T. E. Cowan, G. Hays, K. B. Wharton, V. P. Yanovsky, and T. Ditmire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2634 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

New Approach to Transport Improvement in a Helical Magnetic Axis System by Introduction of Effective Toroidal Curvature

M. Aizawa and S. Shiina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2638 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Low Temperature Scanning Force Microscopy of the $Si (111) - (7 \times 7)$ Surface

M. A. Lantz, H. J. Hug, P. J. A. van Schendel, R. Hoffmann, S. Martin, A. Baratoff, A. Abdurixit, H.-J. Güntherodt, and Ch. Gerber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2642 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Dynamics of Liquid ${}^{4}H e$ in Vycor

H. R. Glyde, O. Plantevin, B. Fåk, G. Coddens, P. S. Danielson, and H. Schober

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2646 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Equation of State of Solid $^{3} He$

Saverio Moroni, Francesco Pederiva, Stefano Fantoni, and Massimo Boninsegni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2650 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Shallow Implantation of “Size-Selected” Ag Clusters into Graphite

S. J. Carroll, P. D. Nellist, R. E. Palmer, S. Hobday, and R. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2654 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Cluster Diffusion and Dissociation in the Kinetics of Layer Growth: An Atomic View

Kentaro Kyuno and Gert Ehrlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2658 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Detailed Topography of the Fermi Surface of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

C. Bergemann, S. R. Julian, A. P. Mackenzie, S. NishiZaki, and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2662 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Quasi-Two-Dimensional Mott Transition System ${Ca}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {RuO}_{4}$

S. Nakatsuji and Y. Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2666 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Hall Effect and Conduction Anisotropy in the Organic Conductor $(TMTSF)_{2} {PF}_{6}$

G. Mihály, I. Kézsmárki, F. Zámborszky, and L. Forró

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2670 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Hall Effect in the Normal Phase of the Organic Superconductor $(TMTSF)_{2} {PF}_{6}$

J. Moser, J. R. Cooper, D. Jérome, B. Alavi, S. E. Brown, and K. Bechgaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2674 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Single Parameter Scaling in One-Dimensional Localization Revisited

Lev I. Deych, A. A. Lisyansky, and B. L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2678 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Carbon Nanotube Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

H. Mehrez, Jeremy Taylor, Hong Guo, Jian Wang, and Christopher Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2682 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Direct Observation of Depolarization Shift of the Intersubband Resonance

S. Graf, H. Sigg, K. Köhler, and W. Bächtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2686 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Magnetic Domains and Stripes in a Spin-Fermion Model for Cuprates

Charles Buhler, Seiji Yunoki, and Adriana Moreo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2690 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Superconductivity in a Doped Mott Insulator

Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2694 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Evaporation of the Pancake-Vortex Lattice in Weakly Coupled Layered Superconductors

M. J. W. Dodgson, A. E. Koshelev, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2698 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Evidence for a Two Component Magnetic Response in ${UPt}_{3}$

A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, F. N. Gygax, A. Schenck, A. Amato, C. Baines, P. C. M. Gubbens, C. T. Kaiser, A. de Visser, R. J. Keizer, A. Huxley, and A. A. Menovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2702 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Direct Observation of Antiferroquadrupolar Ordering: Resonant X-Ray Scattering Study of ${DyB}_{2} C_{2}$

K. Hirota, N. Oumi, T. Matsumura, H. Nakao, Y. Wakabayashi, Y. Murakami, and Y. Endoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2706 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Pressure Tuning of Magnetic Interactions in Layered $({La}_{0.6} {Nd}_{0.4})_{1.2} {Sr}_{1.8} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$ Manganite

K. V. Kamenev, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, D. McK. Paul, W. G. Marshall, V. G. Tissen, and M. V. Nefedova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2710 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Thermal Conductivity of the Hole-Doped Spin Ladder System ${Sr}_{14 - x} {Ca}_{x} {Cu}_{24} O_{41}$

A. V. Sologubenko, K. Giannó, H. R. Ott, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2714 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Spectral Shape of Relaxations in Silica Glass

Johannes Wiedersich, Sergei V. Adichtchev, and Ernst Rössler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2718 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Inseparability Criterion for Continuous Variable Systems

Lu-Ming Duan, G. Giedke, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2722 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Peres-Horodecki Separability Criterion for Continuous Variable Systems

R. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2726 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Rigorous Derivation of the Long-Time Asymptotics for Reversible Binding

Irina V. Gopich and Noam Agmon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2730 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Brownian Motion of Spiral Waves Driven by Spatiotemporal Structured Noise

I. Sendiña-Nadal, S. Alonso, V. Pérez-Muñuzuri, M. Gómez-Gesteira, V. Pérez-Villar, L. Ramírez-Piscina, J. Casademunt, J. M. Sancho, and F. Sagués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2734 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Topological Constraint on Scroll Wave Pinning

Arkady M. Pertsov, Marcel Wellner, Michael Vinson, and José Jalife

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2738 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Formation of Uniaxial Molecular Films by Liquid-Crystal Imprinting in a Magnetic Field

Joseph D. Mougous, Andrew J. Brackley, Katherine Foland, Robert T. Baker, and David L. Patrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2742 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

High-Gain Wide-Band Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifier with a Helically Corrugated Waveguide

V. L. Bratman, A. W. Cross, G. G. Denisov, W. He, A. D. R. Phelps, K. Ronald, S. V. Samsonov, C. G. Whyte, and A. R. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2746 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Rupture of Multiple Parallel Molecular Bonds under Dynamic Loading

Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2750 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Imaging Sustained Dissipative Patterns in the Metabolism of Individual Living Cells

Howard R. Petty, Randall G. Worth, and Andrei L. Kindzelskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2754 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

Fast Response and Temporal Coherent Oscillations in Small-World Networks

Luis F. Lago-Fernández, Ramón Huerta, Fernando Corbacho, and Juan A. Sigüenza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2758 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

COMMENTS

Range of Validity for the Kelvin Force

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2762 (2000) - Published 20 March, 2000

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