Volume 85, Issue 26

Steve Brandt, Randall Correll, Roberto Gómez, Mijan Huq, Pablo Laguna, Luis Lehner, Pedro Marronetti, Richard A. Matzner, David Neilsen, Jorge Pullin, Erik Schnetter, Deirdre Shoemaker, and Jeffrey Winicour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5496 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Solving the Initial Value Problem of Two Black Holes

Pedro Marronetti and Richard A. Matzner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5500 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Is Equilibrium of Aligned Kerr Black Holes Possible?

Vladimir S. Manko, Eduardo Ruiz, and Olga V. Manko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5504 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Entropy and Holography Constraints for Inhomogeneous Universes

Bin Wang, Elcio Abdalla, and Takeshi Osada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5507 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Astronomical Constraints on the Cosmic Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant and Possible Quantum Dimensions

C. L. Carilli, K. M. Menten, J. T. Stocke, E. Perlman, R. Vermeulen, F. Briggs, A. G. de Bruyn, J. Conway, and C. P. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5511 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Tree Structure of a Percolating Universe

S. Colombi, D. Pogosyan, and T. Souradeep

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5515 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

New Source for Electroweak Baryogenesis in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model

James M. Cline and Kimmo Kainulainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5519 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Elementary Particles and Fields

Noncommutative D-Brane in a Nonconstant NS-NS $B$ Field Background

Pei-Ming Ho and Yu-Ting Yeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5523 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Kaluza-Klein Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

Tatsuo Kobayashi and Koichi Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5527 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Nuclear Physics

Kaon Condensation in High-Density Quark Matter

Thomas Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5531 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Non-Abelian Energy Loss at Finite Opacity

M. Gyulassy, P. Levai, and I. Vitev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5535 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Measurement of $π^{0} π^{0}$ Production in the Nuclear Medium by $π^{-}$ Interactions at $0.408 GeV / c$

A. Starostin et al. (The Crystal Ball Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5539 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cold Atom Beam Splitter Realized with Two Crossing Dipole Guides

Olivier Houde, Demascoth Kadio, and Laurence Pruvost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5543 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Experimental Demonstration of Ground State Laser Cooling with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

C. F. Roos, D. Leibfried, A. Mundt, F. Schmidt-Kaler, J. Eschner, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5547 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Ponderomotive Optical Lattice for Rydberg Atoms

S. K. Dutta, J. R. Guest, D. Feldbaum, A. Walz-Flannigan, and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5551 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Dynamics of Three-Body Breakup in Dissociative Recombination: $H_{2} O^{+}$

S. Datz, R. Thomas, S. Rosén, M. Larsson, A. M. Derkatch, F. Hellberg, and W. van der Zande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5555 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

LETTERS

Unexpected X-Ray Emission due to Formation of Bound Doubly Excited States

R. Schuch, S. Madzunkov, E. Lindroth, and D. Fry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5559 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

LETTERS

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Vanishing of Energy Transport Velocity and Diffusion Constant of Electromagnetic Waves in Disordered Magnetic Media

F. A. Pinheiro, A. S. Martinez, and L. C. Sampaio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5563 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Experimental Phase Synchronization of a Chaotic Convective Flow

D. Maza, A. Vallone, H. Mancini, and S. Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5567 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Chaotic Dynamics of Coupled Transverse-Longitudinal Plasma Oscillations in Magnetized Plasmas

D. Teychenné, E. Bésuelle, A. Oloumi, and R. R. E. Salomaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5571 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stability of Muon Beams to Langmuir Waves during Ionization Cooling

V. M. Malkin and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5575 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Electron Temperature Gradient Turbulence

W. Dorland, F. Jenko, M. Kotschenreuther, and B. N. Rogers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5579 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Aqueous Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Solutions

Grant D. Smith, Dmitry Bedrov, and Oleg Borodin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5583 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Evolution of the Lamellar Structure during Crystallization of a Semicrystalline-Amorphous Polymer Blend: Time-Resolved Hot-Stage SPM Study

Charlotte Basire and Dimitri A. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5587 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Anomalous Isotope Dependence of Tunnel Splitting of ${OH}^{-}$ and ${OD}^{-}$ Defects in KCl and NaCl Crystals

S. Ludwig, A. Brederek, C. Enss, C. P. An, and F. Luty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5591 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

New Ortho-Para Conversion Mechanism in Dense Solid Hydrogen

Mikhail A. Strzhemechny and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5595 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Negative Excess Interfacial Entropy between Free and End-Grafted Chemically Identical Polymers

Günter Reiter and Rajesh Khanna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5599 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Unique Dynamic Appearance of a Ge-Si Ad-dimer on Si(001)

Zhong-Yi Lu, Feng Liu, Cai-Zhuang Wang, X. R. Qin, B. S. Swartzentruber, M. G. Lagally, and Kai-Ming Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5603 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonperturbative Saddle Point for the Effective Action of Disordered and Interacting Electrons in 2D

Claudio Chamon and Eduardo R. Mucciolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5607 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Efficient Total Energy Calculations from Self-Energy Models

Paula Sánchez-Friera and R. W. Godby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5611 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Wigner-Dyson Statistics from the Keldysh $σ$ -Model

Alexander Altland and Alex Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5615 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Mesoscopic Kondo Effect in an Aharonov-Bohm Ring

Kicheon Kang and Sung-Chul Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5619 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Theory of Tunneling Spectroscopy in Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles

C. M. Canali and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5623 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Magnetic-Field-Induced Low-Energy Spin Excitations in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{4} O_{8}$ Measured by High Field ${Gd}^{3 +}$ Electron Spin Resonance

Titusz Fehér, András Jánossy, Gábor Oszlányi, Ferenc Simon, Bogdan Dabrowski, Piotr W. Klamut, Mladen Horvatić, and Grant V. M. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5627 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Schwinger-Keldysh Semionic Approach for Quantum Spin Systems

M. N. Kiselev and R. Oppermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5631 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Transmission of Information and Herd Behavior: An Application to Financial Markets

Víctor M. Eguíluz and Martín G. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5659 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Determining the Cascade of Passive Scalar Variance in the Lower Stratosphere

Erik Lindborg and John Y. N. Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5663 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

COMMENTS

Comment on “Giant Absorption Cross Section of Ultracold Neutrons in Gadolinium”

J. Felber, R. Gähler, and R. Golub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5667 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Rauch et al. Reply:

H. Rauch, M. Zawisky, Ch. Stellmach, and P. Geltenbort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5668 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000

Comment on “Experimental Evidence for Fast Heterogeneous Collective Stuctural Relaxation in a Supercooled Liquid near the Glass Transition”

W. Schmidt, M. Ohl, and U. Buchenau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5669 (2000) - Published 25 December, 2000