Volume 86, Issue 10

5 March 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurement of the $B (E 2)$ of $_{Λ}^{7} Li$ and Shrinkage of the Hypernuclear Size

K. Tanida et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1982 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stereoscopic Microscopy of Atomic Arrangement by Circularly Polarized-Light Photoelectron Diffraction

H. Daimon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2034 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Bell's Theorem without Inequalities and without Probabilities for Two Observers

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1911 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Formation of Pairing Fields in Resonantly Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates

M. Holland, J. Park, and R. Walser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1915 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Search for Exchange-Antisymmetric States for Spin-0 Particles at the $10^{- 11}$ Level

D. Mazzotti, P. Cancio, G. Giusfredi, M. Inguscio, and P. De Natale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1919 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Noise- and Force-Induced Resonances in Noisy Rotary Oscillations of Classical Spins

Yu. L. Raikher and V. I. Stepanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1923 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Quantum Approach to a Derivation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Jochen Gemmer, Alexander Otte, and Günter Mahler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1927 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Radiation Reaction and the Self-Force for a Point Mass in General Relativity

Steven Detweiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1931 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Simulation of the Spherically Symmetric Stellar Core Collapse, Bounce, and Postbounce Evolution of a Star of 13 Solar Masses with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport, and Its Implications for the Supernova Mechanism

Anthony Mezzacappa, Matthias Liebendörfer, O. E. Bronson Messer, W. Raphael Hix, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, and Stephen W. Bruenn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1935 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Opportunities for Future Supernova Studies of Cosmic Acceleration

Jochen Weller and Andreas Albrecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1939 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Deconfinement and the Hagedorn Transition in String Theory

Shyamoli Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1943 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

A Convergent Series for the QED Effective Action

Y. M. Cho and D. G. Pak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1947 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Renormalization-Group Improved Calculation of Top-Quark Production Near Threshold

A. H. Hoang, A. V. Manohar, I. W. Stewart, and T. Teubner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1951 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Ratios of Multijet Cross Sections in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt s = 1.8$ TeV

B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1955 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Criticality in Quark-Gluon Systems Far Beyond Thermal and Chemical Equilibrium

Fu Jinghua, Meng Ta-chung, R. Rittel, and K. Tabelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1961 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Event-by-Event Fluctuations of the Kaon-to-Pion Ratio in Central $P b + P b$ Collisions at 158 GeV per Nucleon

S. V. Afanasiev et al. (NA49 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1965 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Baryon Rapidity Loss in Relativistic $A u + A u$ Collisions

B. B. Back et al. (E917 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1970 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Probing the Nuclear Equation of State by $K^{+}$ Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions

C. Fuchs, Amand Faessler, E. Zabrodin, and Yu-Ming Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1974 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Limits on the Existence of Heavy Neutrinos in the Range 50–1000 eV from the Study of the $^{187} Re$ Beta Decay

M. Galeazzi, F. Fontanelli, F. Gatti, and S. Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1978 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurement of the $B (E 2)$ of $_{Λ}^{7} Li$ and Shrinkage of the Hypernuclear Size

K. Tanida et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1982 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Reaction Mechanisms for Two-Neutron Halo Breakup

E. Garrido, D. V. Fedorov, A. S. Jensen, and K. Riisager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1986 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Leading Logarithmic Contribution to the Second-Order Lamb Shift Induced by the Loop-After-Loop Diagram

Vladimir A. Yerokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1990 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Structural Properties of Two-Component Coulomb Crystals in Linear Paul Traps

L. Hornekær, N. Kjærgaard, A. M. Thommesen, and M. Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1994 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Fine Structure Continuum Cross Section Ratios in the Two-Photon Ionization of Rubidium Using Elliptically Polarized Light

J. Colgan and M. S. Pindzola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1998 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Doppler-Free Two-Photon Millimeter Wave Transitions in OCS and ${CHF}_{3}$

L. A. Surin, B. S. Dumesh, F. S. Rusin, G. Winnewisser, and I. Pak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2002 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Anomalous Stimulated Brillouin Scattering via Ultraslow Light

A. B. Matsko, Y. V. Rostovtsev, M. Fleischhauer, and M. O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2006 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Parametric Three-Wave Soliton Generated from Incoherent Light

Antonio Picozzi and Marc Haelterman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2010 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Phase Separation in a Chaotic Flow

Ludovic Berthier, Jean-Louis Barrat, and Jorge Kurchan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2014 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Ordered and Self-Disordered Dynamics of Holes and Defects in the One-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Martin van Hecke and Martin Howard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2018 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Curing Coupled-Bunch Instabilities with Uneven Fills

S. Prabhakar, J. D. Fox, and D. Teytelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2022 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anomalous Dispersion Behavior of Multiple-Wave X-Ray Diffraction at Absorption Edges: Determination of Phase Change at Resonance

Yuri P. Stetsko, Gong-Yih Lin, Yi-Shan Huang, Chun-Hsiung Chao, and Shih-Lin Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2026 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Picosecond X-Ray Diffraction Probed Transient Structural Changes in Organic Solids

S. Techert, F. Schotte, and M. Wulff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2030 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stereoscopic Microscopy of Atomic Arrangement by Circularly Polarized-Light Photoelectron Diffraction

H. Daimon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2034 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Evidence of Double Criticality in a Fluid Model with Density-Dependent Interactions

N. G. Almarza, E. Lomba, G. Ruiz, and C. F. Tejero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2038 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Equilibrium Dynamics in the Nondiffusive Regime of an Entangled Polymer Blend

D. Lumma, M. A. Borthwick, P. Falus, L. B. Lurio, and S. G. J. Mochrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2042 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Novel Structures and Properties of Gold Nanowires

Baolin Wang, Shuangye Yin, Guanghou Wang, Alper Buldum, and Jijun Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2046 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Efficient, Multiple-Range Random Walk Algorithm to Calculate the Density of States

Fugao Wang and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2050 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Phase Equilibria of Size-Asymmetric Primitive Model Electrolytes

Qiliang Yan and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2054 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Entropy-Vanishing Transition and Glassy Dynamics in Frustrated Spins

Hui Yin and Bulbul Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2058 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Heterogeneities in Supercooled Liquids: A Density-Functional Study

Charanbir Kaur and Shankar P. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2062 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Liquid/Vapor Surface Tension of Metals: Embedded Atom Method with Charge Gradient Corrections

Edmund B. Webb, III and Gary S. Grest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2066 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Critical Adsorption in the Weak Surface Field Limit

J.-H. J. Cho and B. M. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2070 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Validity of the Quasiharmonic Analysis for Surface Thermal Expansion of Ag(111)

Ahlam N. Al-Rawi, Abdelkader Kara, Pavlin Staikov, Chandana Ghosh, and Talat S. Rahman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2074 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Many-Body Diagrammatic Expansion in a Kohn-Sham Basis: Implications for Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory of Excited States

I. V. Tokatly and O. Pankratov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2078 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Localized $4 f$ States and Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in ${PrO}_{2}$

A. T. Boothroyd, C. H. Gardiner, S. J. S. Lister, P. Santini, B. D. Rainford, L. D. Noailles, D. B. Currie, R. S. Eccleston, and R. I. Bewley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2082 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Origin of Giant Optical Nonlinearity in Charge-Transfer–Mott Insulators: A New Paradigm for Nonlinear Optics

G. P. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2086 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Kondo Tunneling through Real and Artificial Molecules

Konstantin Kikoin and Yshai Avishai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2090 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Point-Contact Conductances from Density Correlations

Rochus Klesse and Martin R. Zirnbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2094 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Geometrical Magnetothermopower in Semiconductors

Joseph P. Heremans, Christopher M. Thrush, and Donald T. Morelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2098 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Spin Degeneracy and Conductance Fluctuations in Open Quantum Dots

J. A. Folk, S. R. Patel, K. M. Birnbaum, C. M. Marcus, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2102 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Spin-Orbit Effects in a GaAs Quantum Dot in a Parallel Magnetic Field

B. I. Halperin, Ady Stern, Yuval Oreg, J. N. H. J. Cremers, J. A. Folk, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2106 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Quasiparticle Effects on Tunneling Currents: A Study of $C_{2} H_{4}$ Adsorbed on the $Si (001)$ - $(2 \times 1)$ Surface

G.-M. Rignanese, X. Blase, and S. G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2110 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Shot Noise by Quantum Scattering in Chaotic Cavities

S. Oberholzer, E. V. Sukhorukov, C. Strunk, C. Schönenberger, T. Heinzel, and M. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2114 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Signatures of Spin Pairing in Chaotic Quantum Dots

S. Lüscher, T. Heinzel, K. Ensslin, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2118 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Transverse Josephson Plasma Mode in $T^{*}$ Phase ${SmLa}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4 - δ}$ Single Crystals

H. Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2122 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Depinning Transition of a Two-Dimensional Vortex Lattice in a Commensurate Periodic Potential

Violeta Gotcheva and S. Teitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2126 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Quantum Melting of the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortex Lattice in $κ$ - $(ET)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$

M. M. Mola, S. Hill, J. S. Brooks, and J. S. Qualls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2130 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Finite-Size Scaling for the Ising Model on the Möbius Strip and the Klein Bottle

Kazuhisa Kaneda and Yutaka Okabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2134 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Magnetic Behavior of Na Films with Fe, Co, and Ni Impurities

G. Bergmann and M. Hossain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2138 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Experimental Evidence for Intra-Atomic Noncollinear Magnetism at Thin Film Probe Tips

M. Bode, O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, S. Heinze, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2142 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Strongly Enhanced Orbital Moments and Anisotropies of Adatoms on the Ag(001) Surface

B. Nonas, I. Cabria, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, T. Huhne, and H. Ebert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2146 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Gateable Suppression of Spin Relaxation in Semiconductors

J. S. Sandhu, A. P. Heberle, J. J. Baumberg, and J. R. A. Cleaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2150 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Vibrational Anharmonicities Revealed by Coherent Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

O. Golonzka, M. Khalil, N. Demirdöven, and A. Tokmakoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2154 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Wave Packet Dynamics in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Metal-Halogen Complex Studied by Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

A. Sugita, T. Saito, H. Kano, M. Yamashita, and T. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2158 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Computing of Quantum Chaos and Imperfection Effects

Pil Hun Song and Dima L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2162 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Efficiently Learning Multilayer Perceptrons

C. Bunzmann, M. Biehl, and R. Urbanczik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2166 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Transitions between Orbits of Resonance Attractors for Spiral Waves

On-Uma Kheowan, Vladimir S. Zykov, Orapin Rangsiman, and Stefan C. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2170 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Retarded Learning: Rigorous Results from Statistical Mechanics

Didier Herschkowitz and Manfred Opper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2174 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Hairpin Formation and Elongation of Biomolecules

Andrea Montanari and Marc Mézard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2178 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Elastically Driven Linker Aggregation between Two Semiflexible Polyelectrolytes

Itamar Borukhov, Robijn F. Bruinsma, William M. Gelbart, and Andrea J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2182 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001

Effects of Synaptic Noise and Filtering on the Frequency Response of Spiking Neurons

Nicolas Brunel, Frances S. Chance, Nicolas Fourcaud, and L. F. Abbott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2186 (2001) - Published 5 March, 2001