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Physical Review Letters

Volume 86, Issue 15

9 April 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Equipartition of Seismic Waves

R. Hennino, N. Trégourès, N. M. Shapiro, L. Margerin, M. Campillo, B. A. van Tiggelen, and R. L. Weaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3447 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Backreaction through the Bohmian Particle

Oleg V. Prezhdo and Craig Brooksby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3215 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Quantum Superchemistry: Dynamical Quantum Effects in Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. J. Hope and M. K. Olsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3220 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Grand Unification Signal from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays?

Z. Fodor and S. D. Katz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3224 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of $B_{d}^{0} - {\bar{B}}_{d}^{0}$ Mixing Rate from the Time Evolution of Dilepton Events at the $ϒ (4 S)$

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3228 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

First Measurement of the Ratio $B (t \to Wb) / B (t \to Wq)$ and Associated Limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Element $| V_{tb} |$

T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3233 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Measurement of the Branching Ratio and Asymmetry of the Decay $Ξ ° \to Σ ° γ$

A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3239 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Nuclear Physics

${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ : The Key Reaction in Stellar Nucleosynthesis

R. Kunz, M. Jaeger, A. Mayer, J. W. Hammer, G. Staudt, S. Harissopulos, and T. Paradellis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3244 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Predicting Total Reaction Cross Sections for Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering

P. K. Deb, K. Amos, S. Karataglidis, M. B. Chadwick, and D. G. Madland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3248 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Evidence for Spinodal Decomposition in Nuclear Multifragmentation

B. Borderie et al. (INDRA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3252 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Exchange Forces in Dispersion Relations Investigated Using Circuit Relations

D. Vrinceanu, A. Z. Msezane, D. Bessis, and A. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3256 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

High-Accuracy Calculation of $6 s \to 7 s$ Parity-Nonconserving Amplitude in Cs

M. G. Kozlov, S. G. Porsev, and I. I. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3260 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Energy Transport in High-Density Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping Cells

D. K. Walter, W. M. Griffith, and W. Happer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3264 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Magnetic-Field-Induced Quadrupole Splitting in Gaseous and Liquid ${}^{131}X e$ NMR: Quadratic and Quartic Field Dependence

Juha Vaara and Pekka Pyykkö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3268 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Observation of Direct Dissociative Ionization in Molecular Hydrogen

B. L. G. Bakker, D. H. Parker, and W. J. van der Zande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3272 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Triplet Scattering Lengths for Rubidium and their Role in Bose-Einstein Condensation

S. Geltman and A. Bambini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3276 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

New Value of $m_{μ} / m_{e}$ from Muonium Hyperfine Splitting

Richard J. Hill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3280 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

First Experimental Test of a Trace Formula for Billiard Systems Showing Mixed Dynamics

C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, T. Hesse, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3284 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Stabilization of Femtosecond Lasers for Optical Frequency Metrology and Direct Optical to Radio Frequency Synthesis

R. Jason Jones and Jean-Claude Diels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3288 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Extreme Midinfrared Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors

Alan H. Chin, Oscar G. Calderón, and Junichiro Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3292 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Self-Focusing and Defocusing in Waveguide Arrays

R. Morandotti, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, M. Sorel, and J. S. Aitchison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3296 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Settling Statistics of Hard Sphere Particles

X. Lei, B. J. Ackerson, and P. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3300 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Convection in Highly Fluidized Three-Dimensional Granular Beds

R. D. Wildman, J. M. Huntley, and D. J. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3304 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Green's Function Probe of a Static Granular Piling

Guillaume Reydellet and Eric Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3308 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Static Friction between Elastic Solids due to Random Asperities

J. B. Sokoloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3312 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Thermal Convection for Large Prandtl Numbers

Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3316 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Prandtl-Number Dependence of Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Guenter Ahlers and Xiaochao Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3320 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

New Mechanism of X-Ray Radiation from a Relativistic Charged Particle in a Dielectric Random Medium

Zh. S. Gevorkian, C. P. Chen, and Chin-Kun Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3324 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Parametric Excitations of Fast Plasma Waves by Counterpropagating Laser Beams

G. Shvets and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3328 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Plasma Ions Dynamics in the Wake of a Short Laser Pulse

L. M. Gorbunov, P. Mora, and A. A. Solodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3332 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Stagnation Pressure of Imploding Shells and Ignition Energy Scaling of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets

A. Kemp, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, and S. Atzeni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3336 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of a Topological Relaxation Mode in Microemulsions

U. Peter, D. Roux, and A. K. Sood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3340 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Velocity Correlations and the Structure of Nonequilibrium Hard-Core Fluids

James F. Lutsko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3344 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Vacancy Hardening and Softening in Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides

Seung-Hoon Jhi, Steven G. Louie, Marvin L. Cohen, and Jisoon Ihm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3348 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Microstructural Stability of the Kirkendall Plane in Solid-State Diffusion

M. J. H. van Dal, A. M. Gusak, C. Cserháti, A. A. Kodentsov, and F. J. J. van Loo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3352 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Adsorption and Two-Body Recombination of Atomic Hydrogen on ${}^{3}H e - {}^{4}H e$ Mixture Films

A. I. Safonov, S. A. Vasilyev, A. A. Kharitonov, S. T. Boldarev, I. I. Lukashevich, and S. Jaakkola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3356 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Helium in One-Dimensional Nanopores: Free Dispersion, Localization, and Commensurate/Incommensurate Transitions with Nonrigid Orbitals

Massimo Boninsegni, Seung-Yeop Lee, and Vincent H. Crespi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3360 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Commensurate Water Monolayer at the ${RuO}_{2} (110)$ /Water Interface

Y. S. Chu, T. E. Lister, W. G. Cullen, H. You, and Z. Nagy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3364 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Temperature-Dependent Etching of Diamond (100) by Atomic Hydrogen

R. E. Stallcup, II and J. M. Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3368 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polarons in Carbon Nanotubes

M. Verissimo-Alves, R. B. Capaz, Belita Koiller, Emilio Artacho, and H. Chacham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3372 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Radio-Frequency Single-Electron Transistor as Readout Device for Qubits: Charge Sensitivity and Backaction

A. Aassime, G. Johansson, G. Wendin, R. J. Schoelkopf, and P. Delsing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3376 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Conductance Peak Motion due to a Magnetic Field in Weakly Coupled Chaotic Quantum Dots

Ilya L. Kurland, Richard Berkovits, and Boris L. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3380 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Imaging of Friedel Oscillation Patterns of Two-Dimensionally Accumulated Electrons at Epitaxially Grown InAs(111) $A$ Surfaces

K. Kanisawa, M. J. Butcher, H. Yamaguchi, and Y. Hirayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3384 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Radio-Frequency Bloch-Transistor Electrometer

A. B. Zorin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3388 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Spinon Attraction in Spin- $1 / 2$ Antiferromagnetic Chains

B. A. Bernevig, D. Giuliano, and R. B. Laughlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3392 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Nagaoka Ferromagnetism in the Two-Dimensional Infinite- $U$ Hubbard Model

Federico Becca and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3396 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Hamiltonian of the $V_{15}$ Spin System from First-Principles Density-Functional Calculations

Jens Kortus, C. Stephen Hellberg, and Mark R. Pederson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3400 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Giant Dielectric Permittivity Observed in Pb-Based Perovskite Ferroelectrics

Bog-Gi Kim, Seong M. Cho, Tea-Yong Kim, and Hyun M. Jang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3404 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy of $α$ - and $γ$ -Phase Cerium

J. W. van der Eb, A. B. Kuz'menko, and D. van der Marel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3407 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Standing Optical Phonons in Finite Semiconductor Superlattices Studied by Resonant Raman Scattering in a Double Microcavity

A. Fainstein, M. Trigo, D. Oliva, B. Jusserand, T. Freixanet, and V. Thierry-Mieg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3411 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

X-Ray Magneto-optics in Lanthanides

K. Starke, F. Heigl, A. Vollmer, M. Weiss, G. Reichardt, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3415 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Magnetic Moments at the Surface of Antiferromagnetic NiO(100)

F. U. Hillebrecht, H. Ohldag, N. B. Weber, C. Bethke, U. Mick, M. Weiss, and J. Bahrdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3419 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Reverse Brazil Nut Problem: Competition between Percolation and Condensation

Daniel C. Hong, Paul V. Quinn, and Stefan Luding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3423 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Experimental Evidence for a Kinetic Transition in Reversible Reactions

Kyril M. Solntsev, Dan Huppert, and Noam Agmon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3427 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Spiking Behavior in a Noise-Driven System Combining Oscillatory and Excitatory Properties

V. A. Makarov, V. I. Nekorkin, and M. G. Velarde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3431 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Voltage-Driven DNA Translocations through a Nanopore

Amit Meller, Lucas Nivon, and Daniel Branton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3435 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Coherent Dynamics of Photoexcited Green Fluorescent Proteins

Riccardo A. G. Cinelli, Valentina Tozzini, Vittorio Pellegrini, Fabio Beltram, Giulio Cerullo, Margherita Zavelani-Rossi, Sandro De Silvestri, Mudit Tyagi, and Mauro Giacca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3439 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Stochastic Biperiodic Oscillations in the Electroreceptors of Paddlefish

Alexander Neiman and David F. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3443 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Equipartition of Seismic Waves

R. Hennino, N. Trégourès, N. M. Shapiro, L. Margerin, M. Campillo, B. A. van Tiggelen, and R. L. Weaver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3447 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

COMMENTS

Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in $κ - (BEDT - TTF)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$

S. Hill, N. Harrison, M. Mola, and J. Wosnitza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3451 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Comment on “Millimeter-Wave Magneto-Optical Determination of the Anisotropy of the Superconducting Order Parameter in the Molecular Superconductor $κ - (BEDT - TTF)_{2} Cu (NCS)_{2}$ ”

T. Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, M. B. Gaifullin, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3452 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Schrama et al. Reply:

J. Marije Schrama and John Singleton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3453 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Comment on “Stripe Glasses: Self-Generated Randomness in a Uniformly Frustrated System”

M. Grousson, G. Tarjus, and P. Viot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3455 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

Schmalian and Wolynes Reply:

Jörg Schmalian and Peter G. Wolynes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3456 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron Thermalization in Gold [Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1638 (2001)]

Chunlei Guo, George Rodriguez, Mark A. Hoffbauer, and Antoinette J. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3457 (2001) - Published 9 April, 2001