Volume 84, Issue 6

B. Blank, M. Chartier, S. Czajkowski, J. Giovinazzo, M. S. Pravikoff, J.-C. Thomas, G. de France, F. de Oliveira Santos, M. Lewitowicz, C. Borcea, R. Grzywacz, Z. Janas, and M. Pfützner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1116 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Isospin Tracing: A Probe of Nonequilibrium in Central Heavy-Ion Collisions

F. Rami et al. (FOPI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1120 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Guiding Neutral Atoms on a Chip

N. H. Dekker, C. S. Lee, V. Lorent, J. H. Thywissen, S. P. Smith, M. Drndić, R. M. Westervelt, and M. Prentiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1124 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Stability of the Ground State Vinylidene Anion $H_{2} {CC}^{-}$

M. J. Jensen, U. V. Pedersen, and L. H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1128 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Ultrafast Hot-Electron Dynamics Observed in ${Pt}_{3}^{-}$ Using Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

N. Pontius, P. S. Bechthold, M. Neeb, and W. Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1132 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Measurement of the $1 s - 2 s$ Energy Interval in Muonium

V. Meyer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1136 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Double Tunneling: An Overlooked Quantum Effect in Anionic Molecular Clusters

Pavel Jungwirth and Vladimír Špirko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1140 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Variational Study of $^{3} He$ Droplets

R. Guardiola and J. Navarro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1144 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Single-Molecule Fluorescence at Room Temperature

L. Fleury, J.-M. Segura, G. Zumofen, B. Hecht, and U. P. Wild

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1148 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Solid State Coherent Transient Measurements Using Hard Optical Pulses

G. J. Pryde, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1152 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Information-Theoretic Limits of Control

Hugo Touchette and Seth Lloyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1156 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Beyond Nearest-Neighbor Spacing Distributions: A New Indicator for Core-Induced Chaos

H. Held and W. Schweizer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1160 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Composite Multihump Vector Solitons Carrying Topological Charge

Ziad H. Musslimani, Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1164 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Behavior of the Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Fabry-Perot Cavity in the Bragg Reflection Band

Zhizhong Zhuang, Young Jin Kim, and J. S. Patel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1168 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Velocity Dependence of Atomic Friction

E. Gnecco, R. Bennewitz, T. Gyalog, Ch. Loppacher, M. Bammerlin, E. Meyer, and H.-J. Güntherodt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1172 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Manifestation of Random Phase in a Finite Ensemble of a Turbulent Fluid

Ari M. Turner and Leaf Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1176 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

The D'yakov-Kontorovich Instability of Shock Waves in Real Gases

Jason W. Bates and David C. Montgomery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1180 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of a Hybrid Spin Resonance

M. Bai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1184 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Free-Electron Laser as a Driver for a Resonant Cavity at 35 GHz

T. Lefevre, J. Gardelle, J. L. Rullier, C. Vermare, J. T. Donohue, Y. Meurdesoif, and S. M. Lidia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1188 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Observation of Avalanchelike Phenomena in a Magnetically Confined Plasma

P. A. Politzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1192 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Helicity Redistribution during Relaxation of Astrophysical Plasmas

T. Amari and J. F. Luciani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1196 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Ion Larmour Radius Effect on rf Ponderomotive Forces and Induced Poloidal Flow in Tokamak Plasmas

A. G. Elfimov, G. Amarante Segundo, R. M. O. Galvão, and I. C. Nascimento

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1200 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Sawtooth Evolution during JET Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance-Heated Pulses

J. P. Graves, K. I. Hopcraft, R. O. Dendy, R. J. Hastie, K. G. McClements, and M. Mantsinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1204 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Detuned Raman Amplification of Short Laser Pulses in Plasma

V. M. Malkin, G. Shvets, and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1208 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Nature of Monster Sawteeth and Their Relationship to Alfvén Instabilities in Tokamaks

S. Bernabei, M. G. Bell, R. V. Budny, E. D. Fredrickson, N. N. Gorelenkov, J. C. Hosea, R. Majeski, E. Mazzucato, C. K. Phillips, G. Schilling, and J. R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1212 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Energy Confinement Time and Heat Transport in Initial Neutral Beam Heated Plasmas on the Large Helical Device

H. Yamada et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1216 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Density-Functional Theory of Inhomogeneous Fluids in the Canonical Ensemble

J. A. White, A. González, F. L. Román, and S. Velasco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1220 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Librons Observed in Liquid Acetonitrile by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering

David P. Shelton and Philip Kaatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1224 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Pseudo-Casimir Structural Force Drives Spinodal Dewetting in Nematic Liquid Crystals

P. Ziherl, R. Podgornik, and S. Žumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1228 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Microscopic Origin of the Phenomenological Equilibrium “Doping Limit Rule” in $n$ -Type III-V Semiconductors

S. B. Zhang, S.-H. Wei, and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1232 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Dynamics of Si-H Vibrations in an Amorphous Environment

Marjolein van der Voort, Chris W. Rella, Lex F. G. van der Meer, Andrey V. Akimov, and Jaap I. Dijkhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1236 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Freezing by Heating in a Driven Mesoscopic System

Dirk Helbing, Illés J. Farkas, and Tamás Vicsek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1240 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Topology, Phase Instabilities, and Wetting of Microemulsion Networks

T. Tlusty, S. A. Safran, and R. Strey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1244 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Slow $^{4} He$ Quenches Produce Fuzzy, Transient Vortices

R. J. Rivers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1248 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Repetitive Single Vortex-Loop Creation by a Vibrating Wire in Superfluid $^{3} He - B$

D. I. Bradley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1252 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Ab Initio Modeling of Metal Adhesion on Oxide Surfaces with Defects

Yu. F. Zhukovskii, E. A. Kotomin, P. W. M. Jacobs, and A. M. Stoneham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1256 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Multiscale Simulation of Loading and Electrical Resistance in Silicon Nanoindentation

G. S. Smith, E. B. Tadmor, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1260 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ferromagnetism in Doped Excitonic Insulators

Leon Balents and Chandra M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1264 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Virial Coefficients of Non-Abelian Anyons

Alexios P. Polychronakos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1268 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Dynamical Properties of the One-Dimensional Band Insulator $({NbSe}_{4})_{3} I$

V. Vescoli, F. Zwick, J. Voit, H. Berger, M. Zacchigna, L. Degiorgi, M. Grioni, and G. Grüner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1272 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Metal-Insulator Transitions: Influence of Lattice Structure, Jahn-Teller Effect, and Hund's Rule Coupling

J. E. Han, E. Koch, and O. Gunnarsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1276 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Semiclassical Theory of Conductance and Noise in Open Chaotic Cavities

Ya. M. Blanter and E. V. Sukhorukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1280 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Bistability in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Ga-Terminated Si(111)

I. B. Altfeder and D. M. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1284 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Finite-Temperature Density Instability at High Landau Level Occupancy

Tudor D. Stanescu, Ivar Martin, and Philip Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1288 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Relevance of Disorder for Dirac Fermions with Imaginary Vector Potentials

André LeClair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1292 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Interlayer Quasiparticle Transport in the Vortex State of Josephson Coupled Superconductors

I. Vekhter, L. N. Bulaevskii, A. E. Koshelev, and M. P. Maley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1296 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Observation of Cascaded Two-Photon-Induced Transitions between Fluxoid States of a SQUID

Siyuan Han, R. Rouse, and J. E. Lukens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1300 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Vortex Entanglement in Disordered Superconductors

K. V. Samokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1304 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Exact Dynamical Structure Factor of the Degenerate Haldane-Shastry Model

Takashi Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Saiga, Mitsuhiro Arikawa, and Yoshio Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1308 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Step-Edge Induced Anisotropic Domain-Wall Propagation

P. Haibach, M. Huth, and H. Adrian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1312 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Dynamics of a Domain Wall in Soft-Magnetic Materials: Barkhausen Effect and Relation with Sandpile Models

Alexei Vázquez and Oscar Sotolongo-Costa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1316 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Nuclear Spin Relaxation Rates in Two-Leg Spin Ladders

F. Naef and Xiaoqun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1320 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Periodic Resonance Excitation and Intertube Interaction from Quasicontinuous Distributed Helicities in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

M. Milnera, J. Kürti, M. Hulman, and H. Kuzmany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1324 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Microimplosions: Cavitation Collapse and Shock Wave Emission on a Nanosecond Time Scale

R. Pecha and B. Gompf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1328 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Atom Abstraction in the Scattering of State-Selected ${NO}^{+} (X^{1} Σ^{+})$ on O/Al(111)

M. Maazouz, T. L. O. Barstis, P. L. Maazouz, and D. C. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1331 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Coupling between Flow and Structure for a Lamellar Surfactant Phase

Aurélien Léon, Daniel Bonn, Jacques Meunier, Amer Al-Kahwaji, Olivier Greffier, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1335 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Evidence for Non-DLVO Hydration Interactions in Solutions of the Protein Apoferritin

Dimiter N. Petsev and Peter G. Vekilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1339 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

A Space-Time Adaptive Method for Simulating Complex Cardiac Dynamics

Elizabeth M. Cherry, Henry S. Greenside, and Craig S. Henriquez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1343 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Random Costs in Combinatorial Optimization

Stephan Mertens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1347 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

From Massively Parallel Algorithms and Fluctuating Time Horizons to Nonequilibrium Surface Growth

G. Korniss, Z. Toroczkai, M. A. Novotny, and P. A. Rikvold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1351 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Typical Performance of Gallager-Type Error-Correcting Codes

Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tatsuto Murayama, and David Saad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1355 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

ERRATA

Erratum: Pairing Effects at the Edge of Paired Quantum Hall States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1078 (1998)]

Kazusumi Ino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1359 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Erratum: Angular Distribution Studies for the Time-Reversed Photoionization Process in Hydrogenlike Uranium: The Identification of Spin-Flip Transitions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3232 (1999)]

Th. Stöhlker, T. Ludziejewski, F. Bosch, R. W. Dunford, C. Kozhuharov, P. H. Mokler, H. F. Beyer, O. Brinzanescu, B. Franzke, J. Eichler, A. Griegal, S. Hagmann, A. Ichihara, A. Krämer, J. Lekki, D. Liesen, F. Nolden, H. Reich, P. Rymuza, Z. Stachura, M. Steck, P. Swiat, and A. Warczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1360 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000

Erratum: Noiseless Optical Amplification of Images [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1938 (1999)]

Sang-Kyung Choi, Michael Vasilyev, and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1361 (2000) - Published 7 February, 2000