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Physical Review Letters

Volume 86, Issue 16

16 April 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Sequence Recognition in the Pairing of DNA Duplexes

A. A. Kornyshev and S. Leikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3666 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Metastable Helium

F. Pereira Dos Santos, J. Léonard, Junmin Wang, C. J. Barrelet, F. Perales, E. Rasel, C. S. Unnikrishnan, M. Leduc, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3459 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Steady-State Thermodynamics of Langevin Systems

Takahiro Hatano and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3463 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Unitarity Bounds and the Cuspy Halo Problem

Lam Hui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3467 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

End Point of the $rp$ Process on Accreting Neutron Stars

H. Schatz, A. Aprahamian, V. Barnard, L. Bildsten, A. Cumming, M. Ouellette, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thielemann, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3471 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG, and COBE DMR Cosmic Microwave Background Observations

A. H. Jaffe et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3475 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Supersymmetry and the Anomalous Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

Jonathan L. Feng and Konstantin T. Matchev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3480 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Implications of Muon $g - 2$ for Supersymmetry and for Discovering Superpartners Directly

Lisa L. Everett, Gordon L. Kane, Stefano Rigolin, and Lian-Tao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3484 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Neutrino Unification

P. H. Chankowski, A. N. Ioannisian, S. Pokorski, and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3488 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Enforced Electrical Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase

Krishna Rajagopal and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3492 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Energy and Centrality Dependence of Rapidity Densities at RHIC Energies

Xin-Nian Wang and Miklos Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3496 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$

K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3500 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Self-Consistency Requirement in High-Energy Nuclear Scattering

M. Hladik, H. J. Drescher, S. Ostapchenko, T. Pierog, and K. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3506 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Measurement of the $β β$ -Decay Rate of $^{100} Mo$ to the First Excited $0^{+}$ State of $^{100} Ru$

L. De Braeckeleer, M. Hornish, A. Barabash, and V. Umatov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3510 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Universal Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collisions in the Fermi Energy Domain

R. Botet, M. Płoszajczak, A. Chbihi, B. Borderie, D. Durand, and J. Frankland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3514 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Random Scattering by Atomic Density Fluctuations in Optical Lattices

M. Blaauboer, G. Kurizki, and V. M. Akulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3518 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Few Cycle Dynamics of Multiphoton Double Ionization

V. R. Bhardwaj, S. A. Aseyev, M. Mehendale, G. L. Yudin, D. M. Villeneuve, D. M. Rayner, M. Yu. Ivanov, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3522 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Observation of Accurate Ion Dissociation Thresholds in Pulsed Field Ionization-Photoelectron Studies

Karl-Michael Weitzel, G. K. Jarvis, Marcus Malow, Tomas Baer, Y. Song, and C. Y. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3526 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Kinetically Assisted Potential Sputtering of Insulators by Highly Charged Ions

G. Hayderer, S. Cernusca, M. Schmid, P. Varga, HP. Winter, F. Aumayr, D. Niemann, V. Hoffmann, N. Stolterfoht, C. Lemell, L. Wirtz, and J. Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3530 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Generation of Photon Number States on Demand via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Simon Brattke, Benjamin T. H. Varcoe, and Herbert Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3534 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Chaotic Ionization of Nonhydrogenic Alkali Rydberg States

Andreas Krug and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3538 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Synchronization of Single-Side Locally Averaged Adaptive Coupling and Its Application to Shock Capturing

G. W. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3542 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Superluminal to Subluminal Transition in the Pulse Propagation in a Resonantly Absorbing Medium

Md. Aminul Islam Talukder, Yoshimitsu Amagishi, and Makoto Tomita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3546 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Photoacoustic Point Source

Irio G. Calasso, Walter Craig, and Gerald J. Diebold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3550 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Heat Conduction in a One-Dimensional Gas of Elastically Colliding Particles of Unequal Masses

Abhishek Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3554 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Inhibition of the Finite-Time Singularity during Droplet Fission of a Polymeric Fluid

Y. Amarouchene, D. Bonn, J. Meunier, and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3558 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Ion Acceleration from a Foil Irradiated by a Short-Pulse Laser

A. Pukhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3562 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Co Dimers Observed by Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

Giuseppe Faraci, Agata R. Pennisi, Antonella Balerna, Hugo Pattyn, Gerhard E. J. Koops, and Guilin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3566 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Entropic Effects on the Size Dependence of Cluster Structure

Jonathan P. K. Doye and Florent Calvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3570 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Atomic and Electronic Structures of N-Incorporated Si Oxides

Sukmin Jeong and Atsushi Oshiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3574 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Lattice Boltzmann Model for Anisotropic Liquid-Solid Phase Transition

W. Miller, S. Succi, and D. Mansutti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3578 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Exactly Solvable Toy Model that Mimics the Mode Coupling Theory of Supercooled Liquid and Glass Transition

Kyozi Kawasaki and Bongsoo Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3582 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Subsurface Dimerization in III-V Semiconductor (001) Surfaces

C. Kumpf, L. D. Marks, D. Ellis, D. Smilgies, E. Landemark, M. Nielsen, R. Feidenhans'l, J. Zegenhagen, O. Bunk, J. H. Zeysing, Y. Su, and R. L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3586 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Decorated ${Ag}_{19}$ on Pt(111) or the “Rare Gas Necklace”

R. Schaub, H. Jödicke, F. Brunet, R. Monot, J. Buttet, and W. Harbich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3590 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Reconciling Conductance Fluctuations and the Scaling Theory of Localization

Keith Slevin, Peter Markoš, and Tomi Ohtsuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3594 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Effect of Anisotropic Strain on the Crosshatch Electrical Activity in Relaxed GeSi Films

M. H. Gray, J. W. P. Hsu, L. Giovane, and M. T. Bulsara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3598 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Polaron Dynamics in a System of Coupled Conjugated Polymer Chains

Åsa Johansson and Sven Stafström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3602 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Current-Induced Embrittlement of Atomic Wires

T. N. Todorov, J. Hoekstra, and A. P. Sutton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3606 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Coulomb Drag at $ν = 1 / 2$

B. N. Narozhny, I. L. Aleiner, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3610 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

New Class of Magnetoresistance Oscillations: Interaction of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Leaky Interface Phonons

M. A. Zudov, I. V. Ponomarev, A. L. Efros, R. R. Du, J. A. Simmons, and J. L. Reno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3614 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Precision Calculation of Magnetization and Specific Heat of Vortex Liquids and Solids in Type-II Superconductors

Dingping Li and Baruch Rosenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3618 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Flux Front Penetration in Disordered Superconductors

Stefano Zapperi, André A. Moreira, and José S. Andrade, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3622 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

New Vortex-Matter Size Effect Observed in ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + δ}$

Y. M. Wang, M. S. Fuhrer, A. Zettl, S. Ooi, and T. Tamegai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3626 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Collective Pinning of a Frozen Vortex Liquid in Ultrathin Superconducting ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Films

M. Calame, S. E. Korshunov, Ch. Leemann, and P. Martinoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3630 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Non-Stoner Continuum in the Double Exchange Model

T. A. Kaplan, S. D. Mahanti, and Y.-S. Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3634 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Orbital Frustration at the Origin of the Magnetic Behavior in ${LiNiO}_{2}$

F. Reynaud, D. Mertz, F. Celestini, J.-M. Debierre, A. M. Ghorayeb, P. Simon, A. Stepanov, J. Voiron, and C. Delmas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3638 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Phase Transitions, Stability, and Dielectric Response of the Domain Structure in Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Thin Films

A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3642 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Element-Selective Nanosecond Magnetization Dynamics in Magnetic Heterostructures

M. Bonfim, G. Ghiringhelli, F. Montaigne, S. Pizzini, N. B. Brookes, F. Petroff, J. Vogel, J. Camarero, and A. Fontaine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3646 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Ultrafast Laser-Induced Phase Transitions in Amorphous GeSb Films

J. P. Callan, A. M.-T. Kim, C. A. D. Roeser, E. Mazur, J. Solis, J. Siegel, C. N. Afonso, and J. C. G. de Sande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3650 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Spin Polarized Metastable $He^{*} (2^{3} S, 1 s 2 s)$ Stimulated Desorption of $H^{+}$ Ions

T. Suzuki, M. Kurahashi, Y. Yamauchi, T. Ishikawa, and T. Noro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3654 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Bound Entangled Gaussian States

R. F. Werner and M. M. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3658 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Correlation Detection and Resonance in Neural Systems with Distributed Noise Sources

Michael Rudolph and Alain Destexhe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3662 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Sequence Recognition in the Pairing of DNA Duplexes

A. A. Kornyshev and S. Leikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3666 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Metallic Conduction through Engineered DNA: DNA Nanoelectronic Building Blocks

A. Rakitin, P. Aich, C. Papadopoulos, Yu. Kobzar, A. S. Vedeneev, J. S. Lee, and J. M. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3670 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Optimal Wiring Principle and Plateaus in the Degree of Separation for Cortical Neurons

Jan Karbowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3674 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Defibrillation via the Elimination of Spiral Turbulence in a Model for Ventricular Fibrillation

Sitabhra Sinha, Ashwin Pande, and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3678 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Breakdown of the Internet under Intentional Attack

Reuven Cohen, Keren Erez, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3682 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

COMMENTS

Comment on “First Observation of Ion Acoustic Waves Produced by the Langmuir Decay Instability”

D. S. Montgomery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3686 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Pesme et al. Reply:

D. Pesme, S. Hüller, G. Laval, S. Depierreux, J. Fuchs, C. Labaune, A. Michard, and H. Baldis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3687 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Comment on “Antilocalization in a 2D Electron Gas in a Random Magnetic Field”

Alexander D. Mirlin and Peter Wölfle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3688 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Taras-Semchuk and Efetov Reply:

D. Taras-Semchuk and K. B. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3689 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Does the 2D Hubbard Model Really Show $d$ -Wave Superconductivity?

Gang Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3690 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Maier, Jarrell, and Pruschke Reply:

Th. Maier, M. Jarrell, and Th. Pruschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3691 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Comment on “Atomic Many-Body Effects for the $p$ -Shell Photoelectron Spectra of Transition Metals”

M. Taguchi, T. Uozumi, K. Okada, H. Ogasawara, and A. Kotani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3692 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

Bagus et al. Reply:

Paul S. Bagus, R. Broer, W. A. de Jong, W. C. Nieuwpoort, F. Parmigiani, and L. Sangaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3693 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Effects of Dephasing and Dissipation on Quantum Noise in Conductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1403 (1992)]

Akira Shimizu and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3694 (2001) - Published 16 April, 2001