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Physical Review Letters

Volume 86, Issue 17

23 April 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wigner Crystallization in Mesoscopic 2D Electron Systems

A. V. Filinov, M. Bonitz, and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3851 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Tractable Approximations for Probabilistic Models: The Adaptive Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Mean Field Approach

Manfred Opper and Ole Winther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3695 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Spatial Persistence of Fluctuating Interfaces

Satya N. Majumdar and Alan J. Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3700 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Rotating Hairy Black Holes

Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3704 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Domain Walls without Cosmological Constant in Higher Order Gravity

Krzysztof A. Meissner and Marek Olechowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3708 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Quasi-Model-Independent Search for New High $p_{T}$ Physics at D0

B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3712 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Observation of $B \to φ K$ and $B \to {φ K}^{*}$

R. A. Briere et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3718 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Counting Inclusive $b$ Jets as an Efficient Probe of New Flavor Physics

S. Bar-Shalom and J. Wudka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3722 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Measuring the Top Yukawa Coupling to a Heavy Higgs Boson at Future $e^{+} e^{-}$ Linear Colliders

Juan Alcaraz and Ester Ruiz Morales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3726 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Observation of the $Ω_{c}^{0}$ Charmed Baryon at CLEO

D. Cronin-Hennessy et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3730 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Electromagnetic Moments of the $β$ -Emitting Nucleus ${}^{16}N$

K. Matsuta, T. Miyake, K. Minamisono, A. Morishita, S. Momota, Y. Nojiri, M. Mihara, M. Fukuda, K. Sato, S. Y. Zhu, H. Kitagawa, H. Sagawa, and T. Minamisono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3735 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

The $A_{y}$ Problem for $p - {}^{3}H e$ Elastic Scattering

M. Viviani, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, E. A. George, and L. D. Knutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3739 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Collisional Frequency Shifts in $^{133} Cs$ Fountain Clocks

Paul J. Leo, Paul S. Julienne, Fred H. Mies, and Carl J. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3743 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Statistical Properties of Inter-Series Mixing in Helium: From Integrability to Chaos

R. Püttner, B. Grémaud, D. Delande, M. Domke, M. Martins, A. S. Schlachter, and G. Kaindl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3747 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Total, Partial, and Electron-Capture Cross Sections for Ionization of Water Vapor by 20–150 keV Protons

F. Gobet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M. J. Gaillard, M. Carré, M. Lezius, P. Scheier, and T. D. Märk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3751 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Double Ionization of Helium by Electron-Impact: Complete Pictures of the Four-Body Breakup Dynamics

A. Dorn, A. Kheifets, C. D. Schröter, B. Najjari, C. Höhr, R. Moshammer, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3755 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Formation of Rydberg Atoms in an Expanding Ultracold Neutral Plasma

T. C. Killian, M. J. Lim, S. Kulin, R. Dumke, S. D. Bergeson, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3759 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Measurement of the Resonant $d μ t$ Molecular Formation Rate in Solid HD

T. A. Porcelli, A. Adamczak, J. M. Bailey, G. A. Beer, J. L. Douglas, M. P. Faifman, M. C. Fujiwara, T. M. Huber, P. Kammel, S. K. Kim, P. E. Knowles, A. R. Kunselman, M. Maier, V. E. Markushin, G. M. Marshall, G. R. Mason, F. Mulhauser, A. Olin, C. Petitjean, and J. Zmeskal (TRIUMF Muonic Hydrogen Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3763 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Dynamic Stabilization in ${1 σ}_{u} \to {1 π}_{g}$ Excited Nitrogen Clusters

R. Flesch, A. A. Pavlychev, J. J. Neville, J. Blumberg, M. Kuhlmann, W. Tappe, F. Senf, O. Schwarzkopf, A. P. Hitchcock, and E. Rühl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3767 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Self-Organization in Granular Slurries

Nitin Jain, D. V. Khakhar, R. M. Lueptow, and J. M. Ottino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3771 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Pressure Spectrum in Homogeneous Turbulence

Toshiyuki Gotoh and Daigen Fukayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3775 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Novel Final Focus Design for Future Linear Colliders

Pantaleo Raimondi and Andrei Seryi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3779 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Doppler-Shifted Cyclotron Absorption of Electron Bernstein Waves via $N_{∥}$ -Upshift in a Tokamak Plasma

T. Maekawa, T. Kobayashi, S. Yamaguchi, K. Yoshinaga, H. Igami, M. Uchida, H. Tanaka, M. Asakawa, and Y. Terumichi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3783 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Alternative Mechanism for $ω_{0} / 2$ Emission in Laser-Produced Plasmas

K. L. Baker, K. G. Estabrook, R. P. Drake, and B. B. Afeyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3787 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Structural Investigations on Smectic Blue Phases

Eric Grelet, Brigitte Pansu, Min-Hui Li, and Huu Tinh Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3791 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

New Source of Stacking Faults in Heteroepitaxial Systems

S.-H. Lim and D. Shindo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3795 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

X-Ray Studies of Phonon Softening in ${TiSe}_{2}$

M. Holt, P. Zschack, Hawoong Hong, M. Y. Chou, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3799 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Sound Wave Scattering in Network Glasses

A. Matic, D. Engberg, C. Masciovecchio, and L. Börjesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3803 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Direct Observation of Capillary Condensation of a Solid

Ying Qiao and Hugo K. Christenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3807 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Stability of Polar Oxide Surfaces

A. Wander, F. Schedin, P. Steadman, A. Norris, R. McGrath, T. S. Turner, G. Thornton, and N. M. Harrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3811 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

$GaAs (2 5 11)$ : A New Stable Surface within the Stereographic Triangle

L. Geelhaar, J. Márquez, P. Kratzer, and K. Jacobi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3815 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Direct Observation of Misfit Dislocation Glide on Surfaces

J. de la Figuera, K. Pohl, O. Rodríguez de la Fuente, A. K. Schmid, N. C. Bartelt, C. B. Carter, and R. Q. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3819 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Jahn-Teller Phonon Anomaly and Dynamic Phase Fluctuations in ${La}_{0.7} {Ca}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

Jiandi Zhang, Pengcheng Dai, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, E. W. Plummer, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3823 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Nanostructured Copper Filaments in Electrochemical Deposition

Mu Wang, Sheng Zhong, Xiao-Bo Yin, Jian-Ming Zhu, Ru-Wen Peng, Yuan Wang, Ke-Qin Zhang, and Nai-Ben Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3827 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Metal-Insulator Crossover in Superconducting Cuprates in Strong Magnetic Fields

P. A. Marchetti, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3831 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Energetics and Electronic Structures of Encapsulated $C_{60}$ in a Carbon Nanotube

Susumu Okada, Susumu Saito, and Atsushi Oshiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3835 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Bose-Einstein Condensation Quantum Kinetics for a Gas of Interacting Excitons

O. M. Schmitt, D. B. Tran Thoai, L. Bányai, P. Gartner, and H. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3839 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Universal Crossover from Band to Hopping Conduction in Molecular Organic Semiconductors

Jan Hendrik Schön, Christian Kloc, and Bertram Batlogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3843 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Prediction of a Surface State and a Related Surface Insulator-Metal Transition for the (100) Surface of Stochiometric EuO

R. Schiller and W. Nolting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3847 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wigner Crystallization in Mesoscopic 2D Electron Systems

A. V. Filinov, M. Bonitz, and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3851 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Coherence and Partial Coherence in Interacting Electron Systems

Jürgen König and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3855 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Towards a Chemically Driven Molecular Electron Pump

R. Dean Astumian and Imre Derényi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3859 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Levitation of Current Carrying States in the Lattice Model for the Integer Quantum Hall Effect

Th. Koschny, H. Potempa, and L. Schweitzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3863 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Mobility-Dependent Charge Injection into an Organic Semiconductor

Yulong Shen, Matthias W. Klein, Daniel B. Jacobs, J. Campbell Scott, and George G. Malliaras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3867 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Electron Spectral Function and Algebraic Spin Liquid for the Normal State of Underdoped High $T_{c}$ Superconductors

Walter Rantner and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3871 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Observability of Quantum Phase Fluctuations in Cuprate Superconductors

Hyok-Jon Kwon, Alan T. Dorsey, and P. J. Hirschfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3875 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Spin Order due to Orbital Fluctuations: Cubic Vanadates

Giniyat Khaliullin, Peter Horsch, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3879 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Size Effect on Magnetism of Fe Thin Films in $Fe / Ir$ Superlattices

S. Andrieu, C. Chatelain, M. Lemine, B. Berche, and Ph. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3883 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Effects of a Bulk Perturbation on the Ground State of 3D Ising Spin Glasses

Enzo Marinari and Giorgio Parisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3887 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Polarization Rotation via a Monoclinic Phase in the Piezoelectric 92% ${PbZn}_{1 / 3} {Nb}_{2 / 3} O_{3}$ -8% ${PbTiO}_{3}$

B. Noheda, D. E. Cox, G. Shirane, S.-E. Park, L. E. Cross, and Z. Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3891 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Effect of van der Waals Interactions on the Raman Modes in Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A. M. Rao, J. Chen, E. Richter, U. Schlecht, P. C. Eklund, R. C. Haddon, U. D. Venkateswaran, Y.-K. Kwon, and D. Tománek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3895 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Two-Dimensional Time-Frequency Ultrafast Infrared Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy

K. A. Merchant, David E. Thompson, and M. D. Fayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3899 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Single-mode Spontaneous Emission from a Single Quantum Dot in a Three-Dimensional Microcavity

G. S. Solomon, M. Pelton, and Y. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3903 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Multibit Gates for Quantum Computing

Xiaoguang Wang, Anders Sørensen, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3907 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Budding Dynamics of Multicomponent Membranes

P. B. Sunil Kumar, Gerhard Gompper, and Reinhard Lipowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3911 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Nematic-Wetted Colloids in the Isotropic Phase: Pairwise Interaction, Biaxiality, and Defects

P. Galatola and J.-B. Fournier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3915 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Neural Mechanism for a Cognitive Timer

Hiroshi Okamoto and Tomoki Fukai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3919 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

COMMENTS

Comment on “Revised Fine Splitting of Excitons in Diamond”

M. Cardona, T. Ruf, and J. Serrano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3923 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001

Sauer and Thonke Reply:

R. Sauer and K. Thonke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3924 (2001) - Published 23 April, 2001