Volume 85, Issue 18

30 October 2000

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Single Atoms in an Optical Dipole Trap: Towards a Deterministic Source of Cold Atoms

D. Frese, B. Ueberholz, S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, V. Gomer, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3777 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

LETTERS

General Physics

Regimes of Quantum Degeneracy in Trapped 1D Gases

D. S. Petrov, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and J. T. M. Walraven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3745 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Stochastic Ballistic Annihilation and Coalescence

R. A. Blythe, M. R. Evans, and Y. Kafri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3750 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Deviations from Linear Theory for Fluctuations below the Supercritical Primary Bifurcation to Electroconvection

Michael A. Scherer, Guenter Ahlers, Frank Hörner, and Ingo Rehberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3754 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Gravitation and Astrophysics

No Black-Hole Theorem in Three-Dimensional Gravity

Daisuke Ida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3758 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Gravitational Wave Bursts from Cosmic Strings

Thibault Damour and Alexander Vilenkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3761 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Universal Torsion-Induced Interaction from Large Extra Dimensions

Lay Nam Chang, Oleg Lebedev, Will Loinaz, and Tatsu Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3765 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Verifiable Model of Neutrino Masses from Large Extra Dimensions

Ernest Ma, Martti Raidal, and Utpal Sarkar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3769 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Nuclear Physics

Two-Body Random Ensembles: From Nuclear Spectra to Random Polynomials

Dimitri Kusnezov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3773 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Single Atoms in an Optical Dipole Trap: Towards a Deterministic Source of Cold Atoms

D. Frese, B. Ueberholz, S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, V. Gomer, and D. Meschede

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3777 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Routes to Nonsequential Double Ionization

R. Kopold, W. Becker, H. Rottke, and W. Sandner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3781 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Channel Mixing Effects in the Dissociative Recombination of $H_{3}^{+}$ with Slow Electrons

I. F. Schneider, A. E. Orel, and A. Suzor-Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3785 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Quantum Limits on Optical Resolution

Mikhail I. Kolobov and Claude Fabre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3789 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Superradiant Emission Dynamics of an Optically Thin Material Sample in a Short-Decay-Time Optical Cavity

C. Greiner, B. Boggs, and T. W. Mossberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3793 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Accuracy Comparison of Absolute Optical Frequency Measurement between Harmonic-Generation Synthesis and a Frequency-Division Femtosecond Comb

Jun Ye, Tai Hyun Yoon, John L. Hall, Alan A. Madej, John E. Bernard, Klaus J. Siemsen, Louis Marmet, Jean-Marie Chartier, and Annick Chartier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3797 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhanced Quantum Correlations in Bound Higher-Order Solitons

Eduard Schmidt, Ludwig Knöll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Marc Zielonka, Friedrich König, and Andreas Sizmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3801 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Bubbles Interactions in the Cahn-Hilliard Equation

H. Calisto, M. Clerc, R. Rojas, and E. Tirapegui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3805 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Global Coupling with Time Delay in an Array of Semiconductor Lasers

G. Kozyreff, A. G. Vladimirov, and Paul Mandel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3809 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Subcritical Bifurcations and Nonlinear Balloons in Faraday Waves

Peilong Chen and Kuo-An Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3813 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Spontaneous Pattern Formation in an Effectively One-Dimensional Dielectric-Barrier Discharge System

J. Guikema, N. Miller, J. Niehof, M. Klein, and M. Walhout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3817 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Head-Tail Instability Caused by Electron Clouds in Positron Storage Rings

K. Ohmi and F. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3821 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

First Observation of Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission in a Free-Electron Laser at 109 nm Wavelength

J. Andruszkow et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3825 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Exact Invariants for a Class of Three-Dimensional Time-Dependent Classical Hamiltonians

Jürgen Struckmeier and Claus Riedel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3830 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Reversed Current Structure in a $Z$ -Pinch Plasma

Ki-Tae Lee, Dong-Eon Kim, and Seong-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3834 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Bifurcation in Viscoresistive MHD: The Hartmann Number and the Reversed Field Pinch

S. Cappello and D. F. Escande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3838 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Direct Observation of Self-Focusing with Subdiffraction Limited Resolution Using Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope

Ki-Bong Song, Jaekwang Lee, Jong-Hoi Kim, Kyuman Cho, and Soon-Kwang Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3842 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Structure and Spectroscopy of Surface Defects from Scanning Force Microscopy: Theoretical Predictions

Lev N. Kantorovich, Alexander L. Shluger, and A. Marshall Stoneham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3846 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Evidence for Negative Cross Correlations in Vibrational Dephasing in Liquids: Isotropic Raman-Line Shift and Width Phenomena in Isotopic Mixtures of $N_{2}$ and $O_{2}$

Dietmar Keutel, Frank Seifert, Karl-Ludwig Oehme, Augustinus Asenbaum, and Maurizio Musso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3850 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Molecular Structure of Polystyrene at Air/Polymer and Solid/Polymer Interfaces

K. S. Gautam, A. D. Schwab, A. Dhinojwala, D. Zhang, S. M. Dougal, and M. S. Yeganeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3854 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Critical Exponents for Random Knots

Alexander Yu. Grosberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3858 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Vacancies in Metals: From First-Principles Calculations to Experimental Data

Karin Carling, Göran Wahnström, Thomas R. Mattsson, Ann E. Mattsson, Nils Sandberg, and Göran Grimvall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3862 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Determination of the of Rate Cross Slip of Screw Dislocations

T. Vegge, T. Rasmussen, T. Leffers, O. B. Pedersen, and K. W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3866 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Reflected Shock Experiments on the Equation-of-State Properties of Liquid Deuterium at 100–600 GPa (1–6 Mbar)

A. N. Mostovych, Y. Chan, T. Lehecha, A. Schmitt, and J. D. Sethian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3870 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Phase Transition in the $n > 2$ Honeycomb $O (n)$ Model

Wenan Guo, Henk W. J. Blöte, and F. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3874 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Detection of the High Eigenmodes of Spin Diffusion in Porous Media

Yi-Qiao Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3878 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Correlated Electromigration of H in the Switchable Mirror ${YH}_{3 - δ}$

S. J. van der Molen, M. S. Welling, and R. Griessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3882 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Phonons, Rotons, and Layer Modes of Liquid ${}^{4}H e$ in Aerogel

B. Fåk, O. Plantevin, H. R. Glyde, and N. Mulders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3886 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

GaAs(001) Surface under Conditions of Low As Pressure: Evidence for a Novel Surface Geometry

Sung-Hoon Lee, Wolfgang Moritz, and Matthias Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3890 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Nonstandard Roughness of Terraced Surfaces

Stefan Gheorghiu and Peter Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3894 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Derivation and Validation of Mesoscopic Theories for Diffusion of Interacting Molecules

D. G. Vlachos and M. A. Katsoulakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3898 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Shear Response of Molecularly Thin Liquid Films to an Applied Air Stress

C. Mathew Mate and Bruno Marchon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3902 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interaction Induced Delocalization for Two Particles in a Periodic Potential

Julien Vidal, Benoît Douçot, Rémy Mosseri, and Patrick Butaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3906 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Optical Conductivity of the Half-Filled Hubbard Chain

E. Jeckelmann, F. Gebhard, and F. H. L. Essler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3910 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Observation of Anomalous Single-Magnon Scattering in Half-Metallic Ferromagnets by Chemical Pressure Control

T. Akimoto, Y. Moritomo, A. Nakamura, and N. Furukawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3914 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Evolution of Quasiparticle Charge in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

T. G. Griffiths, E. Comforti, M. Heiblum, Ady Stern, and V. Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3918 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Gap Inhomogeneities and the Density of States in Disordered d-Wave Superconductors

W. A. Atkinson, P. J. Hirschfeld, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3922 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Details of Disorder Matter in 2D $d$ -Wave Superconductors

W. A. Atkinson, P. J. Hirschfeld, A. H. MacDonald, and K. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3926 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Observation of a BCS Spectral Function in a Conventional Superconductor by Photoelectron Spectroscopy

F. Reinert, G. Nicolay, B. Eltner, D. Ehm, S. Schmidt, S. Hüfner, U. Probst, and E. Bucher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3930 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Self-Duality in Superconductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions

Adriaan M. J. Schakel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3934 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Resonances, Instabilities, and Structure Selection of Driven Josephson Lattice in Layered Superconductors

A. E. Koshelev and I. S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3938 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Chiral Critical Exponents of the Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet ${CsMnBr}_{3}$ as Determined by Polarized Neutron Scattering

V. P. Plakhty, J. Kulda, D. Visser, E. V. Moskvin, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3942 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Spin Dynamics and Orbital State in ${LaTiO}_{3}$

B. Keimer, D. Casa, A. Ivanov, J. W. Lynn, M. v. Zimmermann, J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs, Y. Taguchi, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3946 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Orbital Liquid in Three-Dimensional Mott Insulator: ${LaTiO}_{3}$

G. Khaliullin and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3950 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Charge Ordering and Polaron Formation in the Magnetoresistive Oxide ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

C. P. Adams, J. W. Lynn, Y. M. Mukovskii, A. A. Arsenov, and D. A. Shulyatev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3954 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Dispersion and Symmetry of Bound States in the Shastry-Sutherland Model

Christian Knetter, Alexander Bühler, Erwin Müller-Hartmann, and Götz S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3958 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Anisotropy of Domain Wall Resistance

M. Viret, Y. Samson, P. Warin, A. Marty, F. Ott, E. Søndergård, O. Klein, and C. Fermon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3962 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

MILESTONE

Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens

J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3966 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Vibrational Energy Transfer in a Protein Molecule

Kei Moritsugu, Osamu Miyashita, and Akinori Kidera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3970 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Synchronization by Irregular Inactivation

Taunia L. L. Closson and Marc R. Roussel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3974 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

COMMENTS

Comment on “New Conditions for a Total Neutrino Conversion in a Medium”

E. Kh. Akhmedov and A. Yu. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3978 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Chizhov and Petcov Reply:

M. V. Chizhov and S. T. Petcov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3979 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Comment on “Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries”

Neil J. Cornish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3980 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Comment on “Dramatic Change of the Magnetic Response in ${LiV}_{2} O_{4}$ : Possible Heavy Fermion to Itinerant $d$ -Metal Transition”

A. P. Murani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3981 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Krimmel et al. Reply:

A. Krimmel, A. Loidl, M. Klemm, S. Horn, and H. Schober

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3982 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Comment on “Cuprate Superconductivity: Dependence of $T_{c}$ on the $c$ -Axis Layering Structure”

Laurens Jansen and Ruud Block

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3983 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Leggett Replies:

A. J. Leggett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3984 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Non-Fermi Liquid Angle Resolved Photoemission Line Shapes of ${Li}_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$

G.-H. Gweon, J. D. Denlinger, J. W. Allen, C. G. Olson, H. Höchst, J. Marcus, and C. Schlenker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3985 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000

Smith et al. Reply

Kevin E. Smith, Jinyu Xue, L.-C. Duda, Alexei V. Fedorov, Peter D. Johnson, William McCarroll, and Martha Greenblatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3986 (2000) - Published 30 October, 2000