Volume 84, Issue 4

24 January 2000

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LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Almost Analytic Solutions to Equilibrium Sequences of Irrotational Binary Polytropic Stars for $n = 1$

Keisuke Taniguchi and Takashi Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 581 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Infinitely Large New Dimensions

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali, and Nemanja Kaloper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 586 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

New Limit on $CPT$ Violation

S. Geer, J. Marriner, M. Martens, R. E. Ray, J. Streets, W. Wester, M. Hu, G. R. Snow, T. Armstrong, C. Buchanan, B. Corbin, M. Lindgren, T. Muller, and R. Gustafson (The APEX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 590 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Measurement of the Total Cross Section for Hadronic Production by $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at Energies between 2.6–5 GeV

J. Z. Bai et al. (BES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 594 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Gapless Color Superconductivity

Mark Alford, Jürgen Berges, and Krishna Rajagopal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 598 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Nuclear Physics

Thermodynamics of a $n - p$ Condensate in Asymmetric Nuclear Matter

A. Sedrakian and U. Lombardo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 602 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Three-Nucleon Force and the $A_{y}$ Puzzle in Intermediate Energy $\vec{p} + d$ and $\vec{d} + p$ Elastic Scattering

R. Bieber, W. Glöckle, J. Golak, M. N. Harakeh, D. Hüber, H. Huisman, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, H. Kamada, J. G. Messchendorp, A. Nogga, H. Sakai, N. Sakamoto, M. Seip, M. Volkerts, S. Y. van der Werf, and H. Witała

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 606 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Transition State Theory without Time-Reversal Symmetry: Chaotic Ionization of the Hydrogen Atom

Charles Jaffé, D. Farrelly, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 610 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Shape Resonances of Oriented Molecules: ab initio Theory and Experiment on Hydrocarbon Molecules

N. Haack, G. Ceballos, H. Wende, K. Baberschke, D. Arvanitis, A. L. Ankudinov, and J. J. Rehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 614 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Dispersion-Independent High-Visibility Quantum Interference in Ultrafast Parametric Down-Conversion

Mete Atatüre, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 618 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinearly Saturated Dynamical State of a Three-Wave Mode-Coupled Dissipative System with Linear Instability

Y. S. Dimant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 622 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Fractal Basin Boundaries Generated by Basin Cells and the Geometry of Mixing Chaotic Flows

Helena E. Nusse and James A. Yorke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 626 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Riddled-like Basins of Transient Chaos

Matthias Woltering and Mario Markus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 630 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Interaction of Vortices in a Complex Vector Field and Stability of a “Vortex Molecule”

Igor S. Aranson and Len M. Pismen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 634 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Granular Packings and Fault Zones

J. A. Åström, H. J. Herrmann, and J. Timonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 638 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Effects of Nonlocal Stress on the Determination of Shear Banding Flow

C.-Y. David Lu, Peter D. Olmsted, and R. C. Ball

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 642 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Closure Approach to High-Order Structure Functions of Turbulence

J. Qian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 646 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Holtsmark Distributions in Point-Vortex Systems

Boris N. Kuvshinov and Theo J. Schep

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 650 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Two-Mode Rhomboidal States in Driven Surface Waves

H. Arbell and J. Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 654 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Emittance Growth during Bunch Compression in the CTF-II

H. Braun, F. Chautard, R. Corsini, T. O. Raubenheimer, and P. Tenenbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 658 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Sustained Kilowatt Lasing in a Free-Electron Laser with Same-Cell Energy Recovery

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, R. Li, L. Merminga, P. Piot, J. Preble, M. Shinn, T. Siggins, R. Walker, and B. Yunn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 662 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

First Laboratory Observation of Freely Propagating Electrostatic Waves Produced by Intense, Localized Field Structures

M. D. McFarland and A. Y. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 666 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Measurements of Energetic Proton Transport through Magnetized Plasma from Intense Laser Interactions with Solids

E. L. Clark, K. Krushelnick, J. R. Davies, M. Zepf, M. Tatarakis, F. N. Beg, A. Machacek, P. A. Norreys, M. I. K. Santala, I. Watts, and A. E. Dangor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 670 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Long-Scale Jet Formation with Specularly Reflected Light in Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions

R. Kodama, K. A. Tanaka, Y. Sentoku, T. Matsushita, K. Takahashi, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, Y. Kato, T. Yamanaka, and K. Mima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 674 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Flow-Induced Beam Steering in a Single Laser Hot Spot

D. S. Montgomery, R. P. Johnson, H. A. Rose, J. A. Cobble, and J. C. Fernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 678 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics with a Classical Pressure Reservoir: Simulation of Pressure-Induced Amorphization in a ${Si}_{35} H_{36}$ Cluster

R. Martoňák, C. Molteni, and M. Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 682 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Dynamic Behavior of Nickel Atoms in Graphitic Networks

F. Banhart, J.-C. Charlier, and P. M. Ajayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 686 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Hydrogen Interaction with Dislocations in Si

C. P. Ewels, S. Leoni, M. I. Heggie, P. Jemmer, E. Hernández, R. Jones, and P. R. Briddon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 690 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Density Functional for Hard Sphere Crystals: A Fundamental Measure Approach

P. Tarazona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 694 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Surface Supercooling and Stability of $n$ -Alkane Films

Nobuo Maeda and Vassili V. Yaminsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 698 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Novel SiGe Island Coarsening Kinetics: Ostwald Ripening and Elastic Interactions

J. A. Floro, M. B. Sinclair, E. Chason, L. B. Freund, R. D. Twesten, R. Q. Hwang, and G. A. Lucadamo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 701 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Oxygen Molecule Dissociation on the Al(111) Surface

Karoliina Honkala and Kari Laasonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 705 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Calculation of Polarization Using a Density Functional Method with Localized Charge

L. L. Boyer, H. T. Stokes, and M. J. Mehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 709 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Anomalous Magneto-Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Systems

R. Winkler, S. J. Papadakis, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 713 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Electron Spin Density Distribution in the Polymer Phase of ${CsC}_{60}$ : Assignment of the NMR Spectrum

T. M. de Swiet, J. L. Yarger, T. Wagberg, J. Hone, B. J. Gross, M. Tomaselli, J. J. Titman, A. Zettl, and M. Mehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 717 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Molecular Geometry Fluctuation Model for the Mobility of Conjugated Polymers

Z. G. Yu, D. L. Smith, A. Saxena, R. L. Martin, and A. R. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 721 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Canted Antiferromagnetic Phase in a Double Quantum Well in a Tilted Quantizing Magnetic Field

V. S. Khrapai, E. V. Deviatov, A. A. Shashkin, V. T. Dolgopolov, F. Hastreiter, A. Wixforth, K. L. Campman, and A. C. Gossard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 725 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Landau-Level Spectroscopy of a Two-Dimensional Electron System by Tunneling through a Quantum Dot

P. C. Main, A. S. G. Thornton, R. J. A. Hill, S. T. Stoddart, T. Ihn, L. Eaves, K. A. Benedict, and M. Henini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 729 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Inverted Electron-Hole Alignment in InAs-GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

P. W. Fry, I. E. Itskevich, D. J. Mowbray, M. S. Skolnick, J. J. Finley, J. A. Barker, E. P. O'Reilly, L. R. Wilson, I. A. Larkin, P. A. Maksym, M. Hopkinson, M. Al-Khafaji, J. P. R. David, A. G. Cullis, G. Hill, and J. C. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 733 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Fluctuation Conductivity in Insulator-Superconductor Transitions with Dissipation

Denis Dalidovich and Philip Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 737 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices: Experimental Detection in a Josephson Array

E. Trías, J. J. Mazo, and T. P. Orlando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 741 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Observation of Breathers in Josephson Ladders

P. Binder, D. Abraimov, A. V. Ustinov, S. Flach, and Y. Zolotaryuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 745 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Three-Dimensional Josephson-Junction Arrays in the Quantum Regime

T. K. Kopeć and Jorge V. José

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 749 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Order Out of Disorder in a Gas of Elastic Quantum Strings in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

J. Zaanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 753 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Magnetotransport in Manganites and the Role of Quantal Phases: Theory and Experiment

S. H. Chun, M. B. Salamon, Y. Lyanda-Geller, P. M. Goldbart, and P. D. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 757 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

$^{55} Mn$ NMR Investigation of Electronic Phase Separation in ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ for $0.2 \leq x \leq 0.5$

G. Papavassiliou, M. Fardis, M. Belesi, T. G. Maris, G. Kallias, M. Pissas, D. Niarchos, C. Dimitropoulos, and J. Dolinsek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 761 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Effect of Noble Gases on Sonoluminescence Temperatures during Multibubble Cavitation

Yuri T. Didenko, William B. McNamara, III, and Kenneth S. Suslick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 777 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Liquid-Crystalline Phase Behavior of a Colloidal Rod-Plate Mixture

F. M. van der Kooij and H. N. W. Lekkerkerker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 781 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Absence of Scaling for the Intermediate Scattering Function of a Hard-Sphere Suspension: Static and Dynamic X-Ray Scattering from Concentrated Polystyrene Latex Spheres

L. B. Lurio, D. Lumma, A. R. Sandy, M. A. Borthwick, P. Falus, S. G. J. Mochrie, J. F. Pelletier, M. Sutton, Lynne Regan, A. Malik, and G. B. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 785 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

COMMENTS

Quantum and Classical Game Strategies

S. J. van Enk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 789 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

Meyer Replies:

David A. Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 790 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamics of Phase Separation Under Shear: A Soluble Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3856 (1999)]

N. P. Rapapa and A. J. Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 791 (2000) - Published 24 January, 2000