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Physical Review Letters

Volume 84, Issue 18

1 May 2000

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermalization of a Two-Phase Fluid in Low Gravity: Heat Transferred from Cold to Hot

R. Wunenburger, Y. Garrabos, C. Lecoutre-Chabot, D. Beysens, and J. Hegseth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4100 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Entanglement of Atomic Ensembles by Trapping Correlated Photon States

M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4232 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Anti-Zeno Paradox

A. P. Balachandran and S. M. Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4019 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Coherent Atomic Beam Splitter Using Transients of a Chaotic System

A. G. Truscott, M. E. J. Friese, W. K. Hensinger, H. M. Wiseman, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and N. R. Heckenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4023 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Interferometric Modulation of an Atomic Beam by an Electric Field: A Phase Hologram for Atoms

J. Fujita, S. Mitake, and F. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4027 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Fragmented and Single Condensate Ground States of Spin-1 Bose Gas

Tin-Lun Ho and Sung Kit Yip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4031 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Solar Neutrino Problem and Gravitationally Induced Long-Wavelength Neutrino Oscillation

A. M. Gago, H. Nunokawa, and R. Zukanovich Funchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4035 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Leptogenesis with Dirac Neutrinos

K. Dick, M. Lindner, M. Ratz, and D. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4039 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Search for a $33.9 MeV / c^{2}$ Neutral Particle in Pion Decay

J. A. Formaggio et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4043 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Evidence for a Single-Spin Azimuthal Asymmetry in Semi-inclusive Pion Electroproduction

A. Airapetian et al. (The HERMES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4047 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Nuclear Physics

Asymmetry in the Nonmesonic Weak Decay of Polarized $_{Λ}^{5} He$ Hypernuclei

S. Ajimura, K. Ikeda, M. Ishikawa, T. Kishimoto, A. Okusu, N. Shinkai, Y. Tanaka, H. Ejiri, T. Nakano, K. Manabe, T. Nagae, H. Noumi, M. Sekimoto, T. Shibata, O. Hashimoto, K. Maeda, T. Takahashi, T. Hasegawa, H. Bhang, Y. D. Kim, H. Park, and M. Youn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4052 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Observation of the ${}^{11}N$ Ground State

J. M. Oliveira, Jr., A. Lépine-Szily, H. G. Bohlen, A. N. Ostrowski, R. Lichtenthäler, A. Di Pietro, A. M. Laird, G. F. Lima, L. Maunoury, F. de Oliveira Santos, P. Roussel-Chomaz, H. Savajols, W. Trinder, A. C. C. Villari, and A. de Vismes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4056 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Characterization of Three-Phonon States in ${}^{110}C d$

F. Corminboeuf, T. B. Brown, L. Genilloud, C. D. Hannant, J. Jolie, J. Kern, N. Warr, and S. W. Yates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4060 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Evidence for Collective Oblate Rotation in $N = Z$ $^{68} Se$

S. M. Fischer, D. P. Balamuth, P. A. Hausladen, C. J. Lister, M. P. Carpenter, D. Seweryniak, and J. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4064 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Light Forces between Strongly Coupled Atoms

P. Münstermann, T. Fischer, P. Maunz, P. W. H. Pinkse, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4068 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Water Pair and Three-Body Potential of Spectroscopic Quality from Ab Initio Calculations

G. C. Groenenboom, E. M. Mas, R. Bukowski, K. Szalewicz, P. E. S. Wormer, and A. van der Avoird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4072 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

$Z$ Oscillations in Ion-Induced Fullerene Fragmentation

O. Hadjar, P. Földi, R. Hoekstra, R. Morgenstern, and T. Schlathölter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4076 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Coherence Switching in a Four-Level System: Quantum Switching

Byoung S. Ham and Philip R. Hemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4080 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Statistics of Chaotic Tunneling

Stephen C. Creagh and Niall D. Whelan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4084 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Quantum Poincaré Recurrences for a Hydrogen Atom in a Microwave Field

Giuliano Benenti, Giulio Casati, Giulio Maspero, and Dima L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4088 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Coping with Nonstationarity by Overembedding

Rainer Hegger, Holger Kantz, Lorenzo Matassini, and Thomas Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4092 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

New Types of Solitary Wave Solutions for the Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Zhonghao Li, Lu Li, Huiping Tian, and Guosheng Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4096 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermalization of a Two-Phase Fluid in Low Gravity: Heat Transferred from Cold to Hot

R. Wunenburger, Y. Garrabos, C. Lecoutre-Chabot, D. Beysens, and J. Hegseth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4100 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Traveling Pairs of Spots in a Periodically Driven Gas Discharge System: Collective Motion Caused by Interaction

I. Brauer, M. Bode, E. Ammelt, and H.-G. Purwins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4104 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Forward Ion Acceleration in Thin Films Driven by a High-Intensity Laser

A. Maksimchuk, S. Gu, K. Flippo, D. Umstadter, and V. Yu. Bychenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4108 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ice XII in Its Second Regime of Metastability

M. M. Koza, H. Schober, T. Hansen, A. Tölle, and F. Fujara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4112 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Novel Electrostatic Attraction from Plasmon Fluctuations

A. W. C. Lau, Dov Levine, and P. Pincus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4116 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Polymer Crystallization in 25-nm Spheres

Yueh-Lin Loo, Richard A. Register, and Anthony J. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4120 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Bounded Analytic Bond-Order Potentials for $σ$ and $π$ Bonds

D. G. Pettifor and I. I. Oleinik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4124 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Atomic and Electronic Origins of a Type- $C$ Defect on Si(001)

Takehide Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Uda, and Kiyoyuki Terakura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4128 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

New $β$ (fcc)-Cobalt to 210 GPa

C. S. Yoo, H. Cynn, P. Söderlind, and V. Iota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4132 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Determination of the Short-Wavelength Propagation Threshold in the Collective Excitations of Liquid Ammonia

F. Sette, G. Ruocco, A. Cunsolo, C. Masciovecchio, G. Monaco, and R. Verbeni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4136 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Fréedericksz Transition in an Anticlinic Liquid Crystal

Shiyong Zhang, Bing Wen, S. S. Keast, M. E. Neubert, P. L. Taylor, and Charles Rosenblatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4140 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Determining Ionic Conductivity from Structural Models of Fast Ionic Conductors

St. Adams and J. Swenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4144 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Scaling of the Superfluid Fraction and $T_{c}$ of $^{3} He$ in Aerogel

G. Lawes, S. C. J. Kingsley, N. Mulders, and J. M. Parpia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4148 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Microscopic View of a Two-Dimensional Lattice-Gas Ising System within the Grand Canonical Ensemble

V. P. LaBella, D. W. Bullock, M. Anser, Z. Ding, C. Emery, L. Bellaiche, and P. M. Thibado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4152 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Ripening of Ordered Breath Figures

Hartmut Gau and Stephan Herminghaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4156 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Packing of Compressible Granular Materials

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4160 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Orbit Coupling in Interacting Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron Systems

A. V. Moroz, K. V. Samokhin, and C. H. W. Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4164 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Three-Dimensional Confinement in the Conduction Band Structure of InP

C. S. Menoni, L. Miao, D. Patel, O. I. Mic'ic', and A. J. Nozik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4168 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Revised Fine Splitting of Excitons in Diamond

R. Sauer, H. Sternschulte, S. Wahl, K. Thonke, and T. R. Anthony

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4172 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Charge-Order-Driven Spin-Peierls Transition in $α^{'} - {Na}_{x} V_{2} O_{5}$

Y. Fagot-Revurat, M. Mehring, and R. K. Kremer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4176 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Universal Distribution of Residual Carriers in Tetrahedrally Coordinated Amorphous Semiconductors

Baojie Yan, N. A. Schultz, A. L. Efros, and P. C. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4180 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

MILESTONE

Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity

D. R. Smith, Willie J. Padilla, D. C. Vier, S. C. Nemat-Nasser, and S. Schultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4184 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Pairing Correlations on $t - U - J$ Ladders

S. Daul, D. J. Scalapino, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4188 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Oxygen-Isotope Effect on the In-Plane Penetration Depth in Underdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Single Crystals

J. Hofer, K. Conder, T. Sasagawa, Guo-meng Zhao, M. Willemin, H. Keller, and K. Kishio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4192 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Supercooling of the Disordered Vortex Lattice in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

C. J. van der Beek, S. Colson, M. V. Indenbom, and M. Konczykowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4196 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Plasticity and Memory Effects in the Vortex Solid Phase of Twinned ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Single Crystals

S. O. Valenzuela and V. Bekeris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4200 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Quantum Phase Transition of the Randomly Diluted Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Square Lattice

K. Kato, S. Todo, K. Harada, N. Kawashima, S. Miyashita, and H. Takayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4204 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Barriers in the $p$ -Spin Interacting Spin-Glass Model: The Dynamical Approach

A. V. Lopatin and L. B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4208 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Magnon Excitation by Spin Injection in Thin $Fe / Cr / Fe$ Films

S. M. Rezende, F. M. de Aguiar, M. A. Lucena, and A. Azevedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4212 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

NMR Probe of Phase Segregation in Electron Doped Mixed Valence Manganites

Cz. Kapusta, P. C. Riedi, M. Sikora, and M. R. Ibarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4216 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Spin Diffusion in Semiconductors

Michael E. Flatté and Jeff M. Byers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4220 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Diluted Antiferromagnets in Exchange Bias: Proof of the Domain State Model

P. Miltényi, M. Gierlings, J. Keller, B. Beschoten, G. Güntherodt, U. Nowak, and K. D. Usadel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4224 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

High-Field Franz-Keldysh Effect and Exciton Ionization in Semiconductor Quantum Wires

S. Hughes and D. S. Citrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4228 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Entanglement of Atomic Ensembles by Trapping Correlated Photon States

M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4232 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Entanglement Teleportation via Werner States

Jinhyoung Lee and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4236 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Resonant Phase Patterns in a Reaction-Diffusion System

Anna L. Lin, Matthias Bertram, Karl Martinez, Harry L. Swinney, Alexandre Ardelea, and Graham F. Carey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4240 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Buckling Instabilities of One-Layered Growing Tissues

Dirk Drasdo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4244 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Paroxysmal Starting and Stopping of Circulating Waves in Excitable Media

Yoshihiko Nagai, Hortensia González, Alvin Shrier, and Leon Glass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4248 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

COMMENTS

Comment on “Quantum Electrodynamic Treatment of Harmonic Generation in Intense Optical Fields”

J. Chen, S. G. Chen, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4252 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000

Eden et al. Reply:

J. G. Eden, J. Gao, and F. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4253 (2000) - Published 1 May, 2000