Volume 85, Issue 12

C. Plettner, I. Ragnarsson, H. Schnare, R. Schwengner, L. Käubler, F. Dönau, A. Algora, G. de Angelis, D. R. Napoli, A. Gadea, J. Eberth, T. Steinhardt, O. Thelen, M. Hausmann, A. Müller, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, D. G. Jenkins, R. Wadsworth, and A. N. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2454 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Creation of Polar and Nonpolar Ultra-Long-Range Rydberg Molecules

Chris H. Greene, A. S. Dickinson, and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2458 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Sub-dekahertz Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of $^{199} {Hg}^{+}$

R. J. Rafac, B. C. Young, J. A. Beall, W. M. Itano, D. J. Wineland, and J. C. Bergquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2462 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Observation of Power-Law Scaling for Phase Transitions in Linear Trapped Ion Crystals

D. G. Enzer, M. M. Schauer, J. J. Gomez, M. S. Gulley, M. H. Holzscheiter, P. G. Kwiat, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. G. Peterson, V. D. Sandberg, D. Tupa, A. G. White, R. J. Hughes, and D. F. V. James

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2466 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Three Dimensional Alignment of Molecules Using Elliptically Polarized Laser Fields

Jakob Juul Larsen, Kasper Hald, Nis Bjerre, Henrik Stapelfeldt, and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2470 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Sideband Generation Using Strongly Driven Raman Coherence in Solid Hydrogen

J. Q. Liang, M. Katsuragawa, Fam Le Kien, and K. Hakuta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2474 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Resonance Trapping in an Open Microwave Cavity

E. Persson, I. Rotter, H.-J. Stöckmann, and M. Barth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2478 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Measurement of Wave Chaotic Eigenfunctions in the Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking Crossover Regime

Seok-Hwan Chung, Ali Gokirmak, Dong-Ho Wu, J. S. A. Bridgewater, E. Ott, T. M. Antonsen, and Steven M. Anlage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2482 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Spectral Statistics of Chaotic Systems with a Pointlike Scatterer

E. Bogomolny, P. Leboeuf, and C. Schmit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2486 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Mechanisms for the Development of Unstable Dimension Variability and the Breakdown of Shadowing in Coupled Chaotic Systems

Ernest Barreto and Paul So

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2490 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Spectral Features and Modeling of High-Order Harmonics Generated by Sub-10-fs Pulses

P. Villoresi, P. Ceccherini, L. Poletto, G. Tondello, C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, C. de Lisio, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, G. Cerullo, S. De Silvestri, and O. Svelto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2494 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

All Optical Quasi-Steady-State Photorefractive Spatial Solitons

W. L. She, K. K. Lee, and W. K. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2498 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Energy Localization in Photonic Crystals of a Purely Nonlinear Origin

Claudio Conti, Stefano Trillo, and Gaetano Assanto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2502 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Growth Rates of the Buoyancy-Driven Instability of an Autocatalytic Reaction Front in a Narrow Cell

Martin Böckmann and Stefan C. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2506 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Two Regimes of Asymmetry-Induced Transport in Non-neutral Plasmas

J. M. Kriesel and C. F. Driscoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2510 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Critical Wave Vectors for Transverse Modes in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas

M. S. Murillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2514 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Parabolic Plasma Sheath Potentials and their Implications for the Charge on Levitated Dust Particles

E. B. Tomme, D. A. Law, B. M. Annaratone, and J. E. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2518 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as “Soft Colloids”?

A. A. Louis, P. G. Bolhuis, J. P. Hansen, and E. J. Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2522 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Induced Antiferroelectric Smectic- $C_{A}^{}$ Phase by Doping Ferroelectric- $C^{}$ Phase with Bent-Shaped Molecules

Ewa Gorecka, Michi Nakata, Jozef Mieczkowski, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Junji Watanabe, Hideo Takezoe, Stephan H. Eichhorn, and Timothy M. Swager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2526 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Solid Clusters above the Bulk Melting Point

Alexandre A. Shvartsburg and Martin F. Jarrold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2530 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Entropic Elasticity of Two-Dimensional Self-Avoiding Percolation Systems

Oded Farago and Yacov Kantor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2533 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Direct Measurement of the Energy Gap of Superfluid $^{3} He - B$ in the Low-Temperature Limit

Naoto Masuhara, Brian C. Watson, and Mark W. Meisel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2537 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Orientation Dependence of Surface Critical Phenomena in Antiferromagnets: Exact Results in Two Dimensions

D. B. Abraham and P. J. Upton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2541 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Shocks and Curvature Dynamics: A Test of Global Kinetic Faceting in Crystals

M. Maruyama, N. Kuribayashi, K. Kawabata, and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2545 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electronic Structure of ${Sr}_{2} {FeMoO}_{6}$

D. D. Sarma, Priya Mahadevan, T. Saha-Dasgupta, Sugata Ray, and Ashwani Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2549 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Short-Range Polaron Correlations in the Ferromagnetic ${La}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$

Pengcheng Dai, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, N. Wakabayashi, E. W. Plummer, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2553 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Theory of the Fano Resonance in the STM Tunneling Density of States due to a Single Kondo Impurity

O. Újsághy, J. Kroha, L. Szunyogh, and A. Zawadowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2557 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

One-Dimensional Spin-Polarized Quantum-Wire States in Au on Ni(110)

C. Pampuch, O. Rader, T. Kachel, W. Gudat, C. Carbone, R. Kläsges, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and W. Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2561 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Towards an Explanation of the Mesoscopic Double-Slit Experiment: A New Model for Charging of a Quantum Dot

P. G. Silvestrov and Y. Imry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2565 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Nodal Quasiparticle Lifetime in the Superconducting State of ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

J. Corson, J. Orenstein, Seongshik Oh, J. O'Donnell, and J. N. Eckstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2569 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Relaxation of Polarized Nuclei in Superconducting Rhodium

T. A. Knuuttila, J. T. Tuoriniemi, and K. Lefmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2573 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Possible Tricritical Point in Phase Diagrams of Interlayer Josephson-Vortex Systems in High- $T_{c}$ Superconductors

Xiao Hu and Masashi Tachiki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2577 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Evidence for an Energy Scale for Quasiparticle Dispersion in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8}$

P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, S. A. Kellar, X. J. Zhou, E. D. Lu, W. J. Zheng, G. Gu, J.-I. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, H. Ikeda, R. Yoshizaki, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2581 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Stripes in Doped Antiferromagnets: Single-Particle Spectral Weight

Marc G. Zacher, Robert Eder, Enrico Arrigoni, and Werner Hanke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2585 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

From Second to First Order Transitions in a Disordered Quantum Magnet

Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Daniel R. Grempel, and Constantino A. da Silva Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2589 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Impurity Spin Magnetization of Thin Fe Doped Au Films

E. Seynaeve, K. Temst, F. G. Aliev, C. Van Haesendonck, V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2593 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Spiraling Spin Structure in an Exchange-Coupled Antiferromagnetic Layer

F. Y. Yang and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2597 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Longitudinal Magnetic Excitations in Classical Spin Systems

Alex Bunker and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2601 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Collective Singlet Excitations and Evolution of Raman Spectral Weights in the 2D Spin Dimer Compound ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

P. Lemmens, M. Grove, M. Fischer, G. Güntherodt, Valeri N. Kotov, H. Kageyama, K. Onizuka, and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2605 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Nature of Ergodicity Breaking in Ising Spin Glasses as Revealed by Correlation Function Spectral Properties

Jairo Sinova, Geoff Canright, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2609 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Excitons and Optical Properties of $α$ -Quartz

Eric K. Chang, Michael Rohlfing, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2613 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Polarized Raman Study of Single-Wall Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

A. Jorio, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, M. Souza, M. S. S. Dantas, M. A. Pimenta, A. M. Rao, R. Saito, C. Liu, and H. M. Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2617 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Surface Topography Dependent Desorption of Alkali Halides

B. Such, J. Kolodziej, P. Czuba, P. Piatkowski, P. Struski, F. Krok, and M. Szymonski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2621 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Entanglement of Formation for Isotropic States

Barbara M. Terhal and Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2625 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Exploiting the Natural Redundancy of Chaotic Signals in Communication Systems

Inés P. Mariño, Epaminondas Rosa, Jr., and Celso Grebogi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2629 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Saturated Behavior of the Gyrotron Backward-Wave Oscillator

S. H. Chen, K. R. Chu, and T. H. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2633 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Conformational Diffusion and Helix Formation Kinetics

Gerhard Hummer, Angel E. García, and Shekhar Garde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2637 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Predictions of Gene Family Distributions in Microbial Genomes: Evolution by Gene Duplication and Modification

Itai Yanai, Carlos J. Camacho, and Charles DeLisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2641 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

ERRATA

Erratum: Covalent Bonding of CN to the Pt(111) Surface [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 766 (1998)]

W. Daum, F. Dederichs, and J. E. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2655 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Erratum: Spin Relaxation in Quantum Hall Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3324 (1999)]

W. Apel and Yu. A. Bychkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2656 (2000) - Published 18 September, 2000

Volume 85, Issue 12

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics