Volume 84, Issue 22

29 May 2000

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

MILESTONE

Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb

Scott A. Diddams, David J. Jones, Jun Ye, Steven T. Cundiff, John L. Hall, Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, Ronald Holzwarth, Thomas Udem, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5102 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

LETTERS

General Physics

Superchemistry: Dynamics of Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates

D. J. Heinzen, Roahn Wynar, P. D. Drummond, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5029 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Generation of Large Flavor Mixing from Radiative Corrections

K. R. S. Balaji, Amol S. Dighe, R. N. Mohapatra, and M. K. Parida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5034 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Search for $D^{0} - {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Mixing

R. Godang et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5038 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Diffractive Dijets with a Leading Antiproton in $\bar{p} p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1800 GeV$

T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5043 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Nuclear Physics

Universality in the Nuclear Dependence Coefficient $α (q_{T})$

Xiaofeng Guo, Jianwei Qiu, and Xiaofei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5049 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Measurement of Tensor Polarization in Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering at Large Momentum Transfer

D. Abbott et al. (The Jefferson Lab t20 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5053 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Transfer and/or Breakup Modes in the ${}^{6}H e + {}^{209}B i$ Reaction near the Coulomb Barrier

E. F. Aguilera, J. J. Kolata, F. M. Nunes, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, M. Goupell, V. Guimarães, B. Hughey, M. Y. Lee, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, A. Nowlin, T. W. O'Donnell, G. F. Peaslee, D. Peterson, P. Santi, and R. White-Stevens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5058 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Shape Coexistence and the $N = 28$ Shell Closure Far from Stability

F. Sarazin, H. Savajols, W. Mittig, F. Nowacki, N. A. Orr, Z. Ren, P. Roussel-Chomaz, G. Auger, D. Baiborodin, A. V. Belozyorov, C. Borcea, E. Caurier, Z. Dlouhý, A. Gillibert, A. S. Lalleman, M. Lewitowicz, S. M. Lukyanov, F. de Oliveira, Y. E. Penionzhkevich, D. Ridikas, H. Sakuraï, O. Tarasov, and A. de Vismes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5062 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Measurement of Excitation Functions in the Reactions $^{197} Au (^{11} C, xn)^{208 - x} At$ Using a Radioactive $^{11} C$ Beam

R. Joosten, J. Powell, F. Q. Guo, P. E. Haustein, R.-M. Larimer, M. A. McMahan, E. B. Norman, J. P. O'Neil, M. W. Rowe, H. F. VanBrocklin, D. Wutte, X. J. Xu, and Joseph Cerny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5066 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Simulation of All-Order Density-Functional Perturbation Theory, Using the Second Order and the Strong-Correlation Limit

Michael Seidl, John P. Perdew, and Stefan Kurth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5070 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Pulsed Standing-Wave Mirror for Neutral Atoms and Molecules

P. Ryytty and M. Kaivola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5074 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Vibrational Autoionization in Rydberg States of Ammonia

C. A. Raptis and S. T. Pratt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5078 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Nonlinear Ionization of Organic Molecules in High Intensity Laser Fields

S. M. Hankin, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Rayner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5082 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Order $α^{2}$ Corrections to the Decay Rate of Orthopositronium

G. S. Adkins, R. N. Fell, and J. Sapirstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5086 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Towards Single-Particle Spectroscopy of Small Metal Clusters

A. Pohl, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5090 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Dark-State Polaritons in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5094 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Resonant Tunneling of Ultracold Atoms through Vacuum Induced Potentials

G. S. Agarwal and R. Arun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5098 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

MILESTONE

Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb

Scott A. Diddams, David J. Jones, Jun Ye, Steven T. Cundiff, John L. Hall, Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, Ronald Holzwarth, Thomas Udem, and T. W. Hänsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5102 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Integrable Structure of Interface Dynamics

Mark Mineev-Weinstein, Paul B. Wiegmann, and Anton Zabrodin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5106 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Analysis of the Asynchronous State in Networks of Strongly Coupled Oscillators

C. van Vreeswijk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5110 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Spatial Rectification of the Electric Field of Space Charge Waves

M. P. Petrov, A. P. Paugurt, V. V. Bryksin, S. Wevering, and E. Krätzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5114 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Stochastic Resonance in the Coherence of a Quantum System

Thomas Wellens and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5118 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Jamming and Fluctuations in Granular Drag

I. Albert, P. Tegzes, B. Kahng, R. Albert, J. G. Sample, M. Pfeifer, A.-L. Barabási, T. Vicsek, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5122 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Ripples in Tapped or Blown Powder

Jacques Duran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5126 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Viscous Heating and the Stability of Newtonian and Viscoelastic Taylor-Couette Flows

James M. White and Susan J. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5130 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Lagrangian Chaos and the Effect of Drag on the Enstrophy Cascade in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

Keeyeol Nam, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., and Parvez N. Guzdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5134 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Behavior of Localized Space-Charge Waves in Space-Charge Dominated Electron Beams

Y. Zou, J. G. Wang, H. Suk, and M. Reiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5138 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Transverse Waves in a Two-Dimensional Screened-Coulomb Crystal (Dusty Plasma)

S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, and J. Goree

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5141 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Condensation of Microturbulence-Generated Shear Flows into Global Modes

K. Hallatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5145 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Intense Picosecond X-Ray Pulses from Laser Plasmas by Use of Nanostructured “Velvet” Targets

G. Kulcsár, D. AlMawlawi, F. W. Budnik, P. R. Herman, M. Moskovits, L. Zhao, and R. S. Marjoribanks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5149 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Progress toward Ignition with Noncryogenic Double-Shell Capsules

W. S. Varnum, N. D. Delamater, S. C. Evans, P. L. Gobby, J. E. Moore, J. M. Wallace, R. G. Watt, J. D. Colvin, R. Turner, V. Glebov, J. Soures, and C. Stoeckl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5153 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Scattering Theory of Bardeen's Formalism for Tunneling: New Approach to Near-Field Microscopy

R. Carminati and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5156 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Theoretical Strength and Cleavage of Diamond

R. H. Telling, C. J. Pickard, M. C. Payne, and J. E. Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5160 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Sticking Probabilities in Adsorption from Liquid Solutions: Alkylthiols on Gold

Linda S. Jung and Charles T. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5164 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electronic Correlations in Manganites

K. Held and D. Vollhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5168 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Degenerate Ground States and a Fractional Number of Electrons in Density and Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory

Weitao Yang, Yingkai Zhang, and Paul W. Ayers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5172 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Annealed Disorder, Rare Regions, and Local Moments: A Novel Mechanism for Metal-Insulator Transitions

D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5176 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Landau Theory of the Finite Temperature Mott Transition

G. Kotliar, E. Lange, and M. J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5180 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Convective Terms and Transversely Driven Charge-Density Waves

S. N. Artemenko, S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov, V. E. Minakova, and P. Monceau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5184 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Microscopic Identification of the Origin of Generation-Recombination Noise in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon with Noise-Detected Magnetic Resonance

S. T. B. Goennenwein, M. W. Bayerl, M. S. Brandt, and M. Stutzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5188 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Photon-Assisted Tunneling in Electron Pumps

M. Covington, Mark W. Keller, R. L. Kautz, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5192 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Fractional Conductance Quantization in Metallic Nanoconstrictions under Electrochemical Potential Control

C. Shu, C. Z. Li, H. X. He, A. Bogozi, J. S. Bunch, and N. J. Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5196 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Pseudogap Phase in High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

P. Devillard and J. Ranninger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5200 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Metallic Normal State of ${Y_{1} {Ba}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O}_{7 - δ}$

Milind N. Kunchur, B. I. Ivlev, D. K. Christen, and J. M. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5204 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Frustrated Heisenberg Magnets: A Nonperturbative Approach

M. Tissier, B. Delamotte, and D. Mouhanna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5208 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Real-Space Observation of Dipolar Antiferromagnetism in Magnetic Nanowires by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, M. Bode, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5212 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Soft Phonon Anomalies in the Relaxor Ferroelectric $Pb ({Zn}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3})_{0.92} {Ti}_{0.08} O_{3}$

P. M. Gehring, S.-E. Park, and G. Shirane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5216 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Stimulated Emission from Donor Transitions in Silicon

S. G. Pavlov, R. Kh. Zhukavin, E. E. Orlova, V. N. Shastin, A. V. Kirsanov, H.-W. Hübers, K. Auen, and H. Riemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5220 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

How to Quantify Deterministic and Random Influences on the Statistics of the Foreign Exchange Market

R. Friedrich, J. Peinke, and Ch. Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5224 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Simulations of Frequency-Domain Spectra: Structure-Function Relationships in Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes

Thomas Renger and Volkhard May

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5228 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Essential Nonlinearities in Hearing

V. M. Eguíluz, M. Ospeck, Y. Choe, A. J. Hudspeth, and M. O. Magnasco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5232 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

COMMENTS

Comment on “Evidence of Quantum Correlation Effects of Protons and Deuterons in Raman Spectra of Liquid $H_{2} O - D_{2} O$ ”

Hajime Torii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5236 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann et al. Reply:

C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann, T. Abdul-Redah, B. Kolaric, and I. Juranic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5237 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000

ERRATA

Erratum: Sustained Kilowatt Lasing in a Free-Electron Laser with Same-Cell Energy Recovery [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 662 (2000)]

G. R. Neil, C. L. Bohn, S. V. Benson, G. Biallas, D. Douglas, H. F. Dylla, R. Evans, J. Fugitt, A. Grippo, J. Gubeli, R. Hill, K. Jordan, G. A. Krafft, R. Li, L. Merminga, P. Piot, J. Preble, M. Shinn, T. Siggins, R. Walker, and B. Yunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5238 (2000) - Published 29 May, 2000