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Volume 86, Issue 14

2 April 2001
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Waveguiding in Surface Plasmon Polariton Band Gap Structures

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, John Erland, Kristjan Leosson, Peter M. W. Skovgaard, and Jørn M. Hvam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3008 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3200 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Universality of Decoherence

Daniel Braun, Fritz Haake, and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2913 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Dark Solitons in a Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. Öhberg and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2918 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Use of Surface-Wave Spectroscopy to Characterize Tilt Modes of a Vortex in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. C. Haljan, B. P. Anderson, I. Coddington, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2922 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Watching Dark Solitons Decay into Vortex Rings in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, C. A. Regal, D. L. Feder, L. A. Collins, C. W. Clark, and E. A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2926 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Exclusion Statistics in a Trapped Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

T. H. Hansson, J. M. Leinaas, and S. Viefers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2930 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Transmission of Noise Coded versus Additive Signals through a Neuronal Ensemble

Benjamin Lindner and Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2934 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Nonextensive Thermostatistics and the H Theorem

J. A. S. Lima, R. Silva, and A. R. Plastino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2938 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Deflection of Spacecraft Trajectories as a New Test of General Relativity

James M. Longuski, Ephraim Fischbach, and Daniel J. Scheeres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2942 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

From Computation to Black Holes and Space-Time Foam

Y. Jack Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2946 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for B→τν and B→Kνν¯

T. E. Browder et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2950 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Study of the Decay D0→K+π−

J. M. Link et al. (FOCUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2955 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Measurement of the Recoil Polarization in the p(e→,e′p→)π0 Reaction at the Δ(1232) Resonance

Th. Pospischil et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2959 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Search for Quadrupole Strength in the Electroexcitation of the Δ+(1232)

C. Mertz et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2963 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Parity Violation Observed in the Beta Decay of Magnetically Trapped R82b Atoms

S. G. Crane, S. J. Brice, A. Goldschmidt, R. Guckert, A. Hime, J. J. Kitten, D. J. Vieira, and X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2967 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Quantum Calculation of the Dipole Excitation in Fusion Reactions

C. Simenel, Ph. Chomaz, and G. de France

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2971 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Polarization Measurements in High-Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration

K. Wijesooriya et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2975 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Resolving the Antibaryon-Production Puzzle in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Ralf Rapp and Edward V. Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2980 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multicomponent Density-Functional Theory for Electrons and Nuclei

T. Kreibich and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2984 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Double-Well States of Ungerade Symmetry in H2: First Observation and Comparison with Ab Initio Calculations

A. de Lange, W. Hogervorst, W. Ubachs, and L. Wolniewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2988 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Ag8 Fluorescence in Argon

C. Félix, C. Sieber, W. Harbich, J. Buttet, I. Rabin, W. Schulze, and G. Ertl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2992 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Multiply Charged Metal Cluster Anions

Constantine Yannouleas, Uzi Landman, Alexander Herlert, and Lutz Schweikhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2996 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Spherical Growth and Surface-Quasifree Vibrations of Si Nanocrystallites in Er-Doped Si Nanostructures

X. L. Wu, Y. F. Mei, G. G. Siu, K. L. Wong, K. Moulding, M. J. Stokes, C. L. Fu, and X. M. Bao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3000 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Saturated Amplification of a Collisionally Pumped Optical-Field-Ionization Soft X-Ray Laser at 41.8 nm

S. Sebban, R. Haroutunian, Ph. Balcou, G. Grillon, A. Rousse, S. Kazamias, T. Marin, J. P. Rousseau, L. Notebaert, M. Pittman, J. P. Chambaret, A. Antonetti, D. Hulin, D. Ros, A. Klisnick, A. Carillon, P. Jaeglé, G. Jamelot, and J. F. Wyart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3004 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Waveguiding in Surface Plasmon Polariton Band Gap Structures

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, John Erland, Kristjan Leosson, Peter M. W. Skovgaard, and Jørn M. Hvam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3008 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for the Existence of Absolute Acoustic Band Gaps in Two-Dimensional Solid Phononic Crystals

J. O. Vasseur, P. A. Deymier, B. Chenni, B. Djafari-Rouhani, L. Dobrzynski, and D. Prevost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3012 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Convection, Heaping, and Cracking in Vertically Vibrated Granular Slurries

Johann M. Schleier-Smith and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3016 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Self-Diffusion in a Gas-Fluidized Bed of Fine Powder

Jose Manuel Valverde, Antonio Castellanos, and Miguel Angel Sanchez Quintanilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3020 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Magnetic Field Saturation in the Riga Dynamo Experiment

Agris Gailitis, Olgerts Lielausis, Ernests Platacis, Sergej Dement'ev, Arnis Cifersons, Gunter Gerbeth, Thomas Gundrum, Frank Stefani, Michael Christen, and Gotthard Will

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3024 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multiple Coulomb Ordered Strings of Ions in a Storage Ring

Rainer W. Hasse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3028 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Search of Self-Organized Criticality Processes in Magnetically Confined Plasmas: Hints from the Reversed Field Pinch Configuration

E. Spada, V. Carbone, R. Cavazzana, L. Fattorini, G. Regnoli, N. Vianello, V. Antoni, E. Martines, G. Serianni, M. Spolaore, and L. Tramontin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3032 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Generation of Suprathermal Electrons during Magnetic Reconnection at the Sawtooth Crash and Disruption Instability in the T-10 Tokamak

P. V. Savrukhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3036 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Observation of Toroidal Flow Antiparallel to the 〈Er×Bθ〉 Drift Direction in the Hot Electron Mode Plasmas in the Compact Helical System

K. Ida, T. Minami, Y. Yoshimura, A. Fujisawa, C. Suzuki, S. Okamura, S. Nishimura, M. Isobe, H. Iguchi, K. Itoh, S. Kado, Y. Liang, I. Nomura, M. Osakabe, C. Takahashi, K. Tanaka, and K. Matsuoka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3040 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Submicrometer Resolution Hard X-Ray Holography with the Asymmetric Bragg Diffraction Microscope

Richard D. Spal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3044 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Reentrant Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals

D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka, M. Čepič, N. Vaupotič, B. Žekš, D. Kardas, and J. Mieczkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3048 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Monte Carlo Simulation of Growth of Porous SiOx by Vapor Deposition

V. M. Burlakov, G. A. D. Briggs, A. P. Sutton, and Y. Tsukahara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3052 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Novel Polygonized Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Bundles

M. J. López, A. Rubio, J. A. Alonso, L.-C. Qin, and S. Iijima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3056 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Aggregation Kinetics of Thermal Double Donors in Silicon

Young Joo Lee, J. von Boehm, M. Pesola, and R. M. Nieminen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3060 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Proof of the Thermodynamical Stability of the E′ Center in SiO2

Carlo Maria Carbonaro, Vincenzo Fiorentini, and Fabio Bernardini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3064 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Novel γ-Phase of Titanium Metal at Megabar Pressures

Yogesh K. Vohra and Philemon T. Spencer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3068 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Probing Impulsive Strain Propagation with X-Ray Pulses

D. A. Reis, M. F. DeCamp, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. Clarke, E. Dufresne, M. Hertlein, R. Merlin, R. Falcone, H. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, J. Larsson, Th. Missalla, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3072 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Large Harmonic Softening of the Phonon Density of States of Uranium

M. E. Manley, B. Fultz, R. J. McQueeney, C. M. Brown, W. L. Hults, J. L. Smith, D. J. Thoma, R. Osborn, and J. L. Robertson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3076 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Kelvin Waves Cascade in Superfluid Turbulence

D. Kivotides, J. C. Vassilicos, D. C. Samuels, and C. F. Barenghi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3080 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Atomically Resolved Local Variation of the Barrier Height of the Flip-Flop Motion of Single Buckled Dimers of Si(100)

K. Hata, Y. Sainoo, and H. Shigekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3084 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Evolution of Two-Dimensional Wormlike Nanoclusters on Metal Surfaces

Woei Wu Pai, John F. Wendelken, C. R. Stoldt, P. A. Thiel, J. W. Evans, and Da-Jiang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3088 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Rate-Equation Approach to Island Capture Zones and Size Distributions in Epitaxial Growth

Jacques G. Amar, Mihail N. Popescu, and Fereydoon Family

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3092 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electron Addition Spectrum in the Supersymmetric t−J Model with Inverse-Square Interaction

Mitsuhiro Arikawa, Yasuhiro Saiga, and Yoshio Kuramoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3096 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Temperature-Dependent Fermi Gap Opening in the c(6×4)–C60/Ag(100) Two-Dimensional Superstructure

C. Cepek, I. Vobornik, A. Goldoni, E. Magnano, G. Selvaggi, J. Kröger, G. Panaccione, G. Rossi, and M. Sancrotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3100 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Composition-Dependent Electrical Resistivity in an Al-Re-Si 1 /1-Cubic Approximant Phase: An Indication of Electron Confinement in Clusters

Ryuji Tamura, Takayuki Asao, and Shin Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3104 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

High Pressure Insulator-Metal Transition in Molecular Fluid Oxygen

Marina Bastea, Arthur C. Mitchell, and William J. Nellis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3108 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Frequency-Dependent Shot Noise in Long Disordered Superconductor–Normal-Metal–Superconductor Contacts

K. E. Nagaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3112 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Wannier-Stark States of a Quantum Particle in 2D Lattices

M. Glück, F. Keck, A. R. Kolovsky, and H. J. Korsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3116 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Order-Disorder Transition in Nanoscopic Semiconductor Quantum Rings

Peter Borrmann and Jens Harting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3120 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Connected Rings

W. Rabaud, L. Saminadayar, D. Mailly, K. Hasselbach, A. Benoît, and B. Etienne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3124 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Current Saturation and Electrical Breakdown in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Philip G. Collins, M. Hersam, M. Arnold, R. Martel, and Ph. Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3128 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Surface Transformation and Photoinduced Recovery in CdSe Nanocrystals

B. C. Hess, I. G. Okhrimenko, R. C. Davis, B. C. Stevens, Q. A. Schulzke, K. C. Wright, C. D. Bass, C. D. Evans, and S. L. Summers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3132 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Vortex Glass Transition and Quantum Vortex Liquid at Low Temperature in a Thick a- MoxSi1−x Film

S. Okuma, Y. Imamoto, and M. Morita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3136 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Enhancement of the Josephson Current by an Exchange Field in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Structures

F. S. Bergeret, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3140 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Critical Spin Dynamics of the 2D Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets Sr2CuO2Cl2 and Sr2Cu3O4Cl2

Y. J. Kim, R. J. Birgeneau, F. C. Chou, R. W. Erwin, and M. A. Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3144 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Spin Domains Generate Hierarchical Ground State Structure in J=±1 Spin Glasses

Guy Hed, Alexander K. Hartmann, Dietrich Stauffer, and Eytan Domany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3148 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Absolute Spin Magnetic Moment of FeF2 from High Energy Photon Diffraction

J. Strempfer, U. Rütt, and W. Jauch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3152 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in a Heisenberg Fluid: Monte Carlo Simulations and Fisher Corrections to Scaling

I. M. Mryglod, I. P. Omelyan, and R. Folk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3156 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

C13 NMR Chemical Shift of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Sylvain Latil, Luc Henrard, Christophe Goze Bac, Patrick Bernier, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3160 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Two-Photon Resonant Third-Harmonic Generation in La2CuO4

A. Schülzgen, Y. Kawabe, E. Hanamura, A. Yamanaka, P.-A. Blanche, J. Lee, H. Sato, M. Naito, N. T. Dan, S. Uchida, Y. Tanabe, and N. Peyghambarian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3164 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Inhibition and Enhancement of the Spontaneous Emission of Quantum Dots in Structured Microresonators

M. Bayer, T. L. Reinecke, F. Weidner, A. Larionov, A. McDonald, and A. Forchel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3168 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Photon Beats from a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot

T. Flissikowski, A. Hundt, M. Lowisch, M. Rabe, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3172 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

State-Specific Enhancement of Cl+ and Cl− Desorption for SiCl4 Adsorbed on a Si(100) Surface Following Cl 2 p and Si 2 p Core-Level Excitations

J. M. Chen and K. T. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3176 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Matter-Wave Entanglement and Teleportation by Molecular Dissociation and Collisions

T. Opatrný and G. Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3180 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Prediction of Chaotic Dynamics in Sheared Liquid Crystalline Polymers

M. Grosso, R. Keunings, S. Crescitelli, and P. L. Maffettone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3184 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Translocation of a Confined Polymer through a Hole

M. Muthukumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3188 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Dynamic Concentration of Motors in Microtubule Arrays

François Nédélec, Thomas Surrey, and A. C. Maggs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3192 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Communication in Networks with Hierarchical Branching

A. Arenas, A. Díaz-Guilera, and R. Guimerà

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3196 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Epidemic Spreading in Scale-Free Networks

Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3200 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

COMMENTS

Comment on “Complete One-Loop Analysis of the Nucleon's Spin Polarizabilities”

Michael C. Birse, Xiangdong Ji, and Judith A. McGovern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3204 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Gellas, Hemmert, and Meißner Reply:

George C. Gellas, Thomas R. Hemmert, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3205 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Comment on “First-Order Amorphous-Amorphous Transformation in Silica”

E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3206 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Lacks Replies:

Daniel J. Lacks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3207 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Wetting of Alkanes on Water

E. Bertrand, D. Bonn, J. Meunier, and D. Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3208 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Comment on “Quantum Phase Transition of the Randomly Diluted Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Square Lattice”

Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3209 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Todo, Takayama, and Kawashima Reply:

Synge Todo, Hajime Takayama, and Naoki Kawashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3210 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Comment on “Photonic Band Gaps: Noncommuting Limits and the `Acoustic Band' ”

P. Halevi, A. A. Krokhin, and J. Arriaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3211 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

Nicorovici, McPhedran, and Botten Reply:

N. A. Nicorovici, R. C. McPhedran, and L. C. Botten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3212 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Experimental Phase Synchronization of a Chaotic Convective Flow [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5567 (2000)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3213 (2001) - Published 2 April, 2001

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