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Physical Review Letters

Volume 86, Issue 19

7 May 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Conversion of Spin into Directed Electric Current in Quantum Wells

S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, S. N. Danilov, J. Eroms, W. Wegscheider, D. Weiss, and W. Prettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4358 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Tomography for Measuring Experimentally the Matrix Elements of an Arbitrary Quantum Operation

G. M. D'Ariano and P. Lo Presti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4195 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Atomic Four-Wave Mixing: Fermions versus Bosons

M. G. Moore and P. Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4199 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Does Matter Wave Amplification Work for Fermions?

Wolfgang Ketterle and Shin Inouye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4203 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Condensate Fragmentation in a New Exactly Solvable Model for Confined Bosons

J. Dukelsky and P. Schuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4207 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Controlled Collapse of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

J. L. Roberts, N. R. Claussen, S. L. Cornish, E. A. Donley, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4211 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Scale Dependent Dimension of Luminous Matter in the Universe

Per Bak and Kan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4215 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Signature Change on the Brane

Marc Mars, José M. M. Senovilla, and Raül Vera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4219 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Randall-Sundrum Model for Self-Tuning the Cosmological Constant

Jihn E. Kim, Bumseok Kyae, and Hyun Min Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4223 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Flavor-Dependent Supersymmetric Phases and $CP$ Asymmetry in $B \to X_{s} γ$ Decays

D. Bailin and S. Khalil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4227 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Low-Energy Supersymmetry and the Tevatron Bottom-Quark Cross Section

E. L. Berger, B. W. Harris, D. E. Kaplan, Z. Sullivan, T. M. P. Tait, and C. E. M. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4231 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

TeV Strings and the Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section at Ultrahigh Energies

F. Cornet, J. I. Illana, and M. Masip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4235 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Measuring the $P$ -Odd Pion-Nucleon Coupling $h_{π NN}^{(1)}$ in $π^{+}$ -Photoproton Production near Threshold

Jiunn-Wei Chen and Xiangdong Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4239 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Evidence of New States Decaying into $Ξ_{c}^{*} π$

S. E. Csorna et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4243 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Pathways to Rare Baryonic $B$ Decays

Wei-Shu Hou and A. Soni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4247 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Is Anomalous Production of $Ω$ and $\bar{Ω}$ Evidence for Disoriented Chiral Condensates?

J. I. Kapusta and S. M. H. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4251 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Observation of Spin-Orbit Splitting in $Λ$ Single-Particle States

S. Ajimura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4255 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Determination of the ${}^{76}G e$ Double Beta Decay $Q$ Value

Guilhem Douysset, Tomas Fritioff, Conny Carlberg, Ingmar Bergström, and Mikael Björkhage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4259 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Event-by-Event Analysis of Collision-Induced Cluster-Ion Fragmentation: Sequential Monomer Evaporation versus Fission Reactions

F. Gobet, B. Farizon, M. Farizon, M. J. Gaillard, S. Louc, N. Gonçalves, M. Barbatti, H. Luna, G. Jalbert, N. V. de Castro Faria, M. C. Bacchus-Montabonel, J. P. Buchet, M. Carré, and T. D. Märk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4263 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Generation of Continuous Variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement via the Kerr Nonlinearity in an Optical Fiber

Ch. Silberhorn, P. K. Lam, O. Weiß, F. König, N. Korolkova, and G. Leuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4267 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Inhibition of Decoherence due to Decay in a Continuum

G. S. Agarwal, M. O. Scully, and H. Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4271 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Resonant Radiation Pressure on Neutral Particles in a Waveguide

R. Gómez-Medina, P. San José, A. García-Martín, M. Lester, M. Nieto-Vesperinas, and J. J. Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4275 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Phase Diagram for the Winfree Model of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators

Joel T. Ariaratnam and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4278 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Ultrasonic Wedges for Elastic Wave Bending and Splitting without Requiring a Full Band Gap

M. Torres, F. R. Montero de Espinosa, and J. L. Aragón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4282 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Dynamic Sand Dunes

Y. Amarouchene, J. F. Boudet, and H. Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4286 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Air Entrainment through Free-Surface Cusps

Jens Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4290 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Generalized Hydrodynamic Theory of Shock Waves: Mach-Number Dependence of Inverse Shock Width for Nitrogen Gas

Mazen Al-Ghoul and Byung Chan Eu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4294 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Synchronized Chaos in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Gregory S. Duane and Joseph J. Tribbia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4298 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Rayleigh-Bénard Percolation Transition Study of Thermal Convection in Porous Media: Numerical Simulation and NMR Experiments

Markus Weber, Andreas Klemm, and Rainer Kimmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4302 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transient Enhancement and Detuning of Laser-Driven Parametric Instabilities by Particle Trapping

H. X. Vu, D. F. DuBois, and B. Bezzerides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4306 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Generalized Scaling Laws of the Formation and Effects of Plasma-Confining Potentials for Tandem-Mirror Operations in GAMMA 10

T. Cho, J. Kohagura, T. Numakura, M. Hirata, H. Hojo, M. Ichimura, K. Ishii, A. Itakura, I. Katanuma, Y. Nakashima, T. Saito, Y. Tatematsu, M. Yoshikawa, R. Minami, S. Nagashima, M. Yoshida, T. Tamano, K. Yatsu, and S. Miyoshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4310 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Lithium Dynamics in ${LiMn}_{2} O_{4}$ Probed Directly by Two-Dimensional $^{7} Li$ NMR

V. W. J. Verhoeven, I. M. de Schepper, G. Nachtegaal, A. P. M. Kentgens, E. M. Kelder, J. Schoonman, and F. M. Mulder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4314 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Low-Temperature Heat Transfer in Nanowires

B. A. Glavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4318 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Helium-4 Bose Fluids Formed in One-Dimensional 18 Å Diameter Pores

Nobuo Wada, Junko Taniguchi, Hiroki Ikegami, Shinji Inagaki, and Yoshiaki Fukushima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4322 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Capillary Force on Colloidal Particles in a Freely Suspended Liquid Thin Film

Jeanman Sur and Hyuk Kyu Pak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4326 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Structure and Dynamics of Dense Monolayers of NO Adsorbed on Rh(111) in Equilibrium with the Gas Phase in the Torr Pressure Range

Keith B. Rider, Kevin S. Hwang, Miquel Salmeron, and Gabor A. Somorjai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4330 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Atomic Resolution Noncontact Atomic Force and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of ${TiO}_{2} (110) - (1 \times 1)$ and - $(1 \times 2)$ : Simultaneous Imaging of Surface Structures and Electronic States

M. Ashino, Y. Sugawara, S. Morita, and M. Ishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4334 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Kinetics and Energetics of Oligomer Desorption from Surfaces

Kris R. Paserba and Andrew J. Gellman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4338 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Atomic Scale Oxidation of a Complex System: $O_{2} / α$ -SiC(0001)-( $3 \times 3$ )

F. Amy, H. Enriquez, P. Soukiassian, P.-F. Storino, Y. J. Chabal, A. J. Mayne, G. Dujardin, Y. K. Hwu, and C. Brylinski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4342 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Metal-Insulator and Structural Phase Transition Observed by ESR Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction in ${KC}_{60}$

C. Coulon, A. Pénicaud, R. Clérac, R. Moret, P. Launois, and J. Hone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4346 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

High Performance Thermoelectric ${Tl}_{9} {BiTe}_{6}$ with an Extremely Low Thermal Conductivity

Bernd Wölfing, Christian Kloc, Jens Teubner, and Ernst Bucher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4350 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Moving Wigner Glasses and Smectics: Dynamics of Disordered Wigner Crystals

C. Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, N. Grønbech-Jensen, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4354 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Conversion of Spin into Directed Electric Current in Quantum Wells

S. D. Ganichev, E. L. Ivchenko, S. N. Danilov, J. Eroms, W. Wegscheider, D. Weiss, and W. Prettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4358 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Evidence of Electron Fractionalization from Photoemission Spectra in the High Temperature Superconductors

D. Orgad, S. A. Kivelson, E. W. Carlson, V. J. Emery, X. J. Zhou, and Z. X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4362 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Superconductivity of ${MgB}_{2}$ : Covalent Bonds Driven Metallic

J. M. An and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4366 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Superconducting Gap and Strong In-Plane Anisotropy in Untwinned ${{YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O}_{7 - δ}$

D. H. Lu, D. L. Feng, N. P. Armitage, K. M. Shen, A. Damascelli, C. Kim, F. Ronning, Z.-X. Shen, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy, A. I. Rykov, and S. Tajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4370 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in ${MgB}_{2}$

G. Karapetrov, M. Iavarone, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, and D. G. Hinks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4374 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Creep of Superconducting Vortices in the Limit of Vanishing Temperature: A Fingerprint of Off-Equilibrium Dynamics

Mario Nicodemi and Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4378 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Charge Density Wave, Superconductivity, and Anomalous Metallic Behavior in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4382 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Field Induced Biquadratic Exchange in Hard/Soft Ferromagnetic Bilayers

V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov, U. Welp, J. S. Jiang, D. J. Miller, G. W. Crabtree, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4386 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Spin Dynamics in a Frustrated Magnet

J. van Lierop and D. H. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4390 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Two-Stage Magnetization Reversal in Exchange Biased Bilayers

C. Leighton, M. R. Fitzsimmons, P. Yashar, A. Hoffmann, J. Nogués, J. Dura, C. F. Majkrzak, and Ivan K. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4394 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Strong Phonon Replicas in Be $1 s$ Photoemission Spectra

J. N. Andersen, T. Balasubramanian, C.-O. Almbladh, L. I. Johansson, and R. Nyholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4398 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Stabilizing Distinguishable Qubits against Spontaneous Decay by Detected-Jump Correcting Quantum Codes

G. Alber, Th. Beth, Ch. Charnes, A. Delgado, M. Grassl, and M. Mussinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4402 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Self-Organized Stable Pacemakers near the Onset of Birhythmicity

Michael Stich, Mads Ipsen, and Alexander S. Mikhailov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4406 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Universal Learning Curves of Support Vector Machines

M. Opper and R. Urbanczik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4410 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Polymer Reptation and Nucleosome Repositioning

H. Schiessel, J. Widom, R. F. Bruinsma, and W. M. Gelbart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4414 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

Shape of Ecological Networks

Michael Lässig, Ugo Bastolla, Susanna C. Manrubia, and Angelo Valleriani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4418 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Robustness of Wave Functions of Interacting Many Bosons in a Leaky Box [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 688 (2000)]

Akira Shimizu and Takayuki Miyadera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4422 (2001) - Published 7 May, 2001