Volume 86, Issue 2

8 January 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Surface Conduction on Insulating ${BaTiO}_{3}$ Crystal Suggesting an Intrinsic Surface Electron Layer

Yukio Watanabe, Motochika Okano, and Akihiro Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 332 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Closed Path Integrals and the Quantum Action

H. Jirari, H. Kröger, X. Q. Luo, K. J. M. Moriarty, and S. G. Rubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 187 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Spin, Gravity, and Inertia

Yuri N. Obukhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 192 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Dark Energy and the BOOMERANG Data

Luca Amendola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 196 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Index of a Family of Lattice Dirac Operators and Its Relation to the Non-Abelian Anomaly on the Lattice

David H. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 200 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Relativistic Symmetry Suppresses Quark Spin-Orbit Splitting

P. R. Page, T. Goldman, and J. N. Ginocchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 204 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Studying Hadronic Structure of the Photon in Lattice QCD

Xiangdong Ji and Chulwoo Jung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 208 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Upper Bound on the Scale of Majorana-Neutrino Mass Generation

F. Maltoni, J. M. Niczyporuk, and S. Willenbrock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 212 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

$B \to ρ π$ Decays, Resonant and Nonresonant Contributions

A. Deandrea and A. D. Polosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 216 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Model for Studying Branching Processes, Multiplicity Distributions, and Non-Poissonian Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collisions

A. Z. Mekjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 220 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Abrupt Rise of the Longitudinal Recoil Ion Momentum Distribution for Ionizing Collisions

Th. Weber, Kh. Khayyat, R. Dörner, V. D. Rodríguez, V. Mergel, O. Jagutzki, L. Schmidt, K. A. Müller, F. Afaneh, A. Gonzalez, and H. Schmidt-Böcking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 224 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Transition to Spatiotemporal Chaos in the Fronts Dynamics of a Subcritical State

L. Pastur, M. Henriot, and R. Ribotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 228 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Investigation of Stochastic Pulsation and Formation of Light Bullets with Megagauss Magnetic Fields by an Intense Laser Pulse Propagating in a Preionized Plasma

Nadja I. Vogel and N. Kochan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 232 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ab Initio Structure Determination of Icosahedral Zn-Mg-Ho Quasicrystals by Density Modification Method

Hiroyuki Takakura, Masaaki Shiono, Taku J. Sato, Akiji Yamamoto, and An Pang Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 236 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Scaling of the Euler Characteristic, Surface Area, and Curvatures in the Phase Separating or Ordering Systems

Marcin Fiałkowski, Aleksij Aksimentiev, and Robert Hołyst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 240 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Generation and Detection of Quantum Turbulence in Superfluid ${}^{3}H e - B$

S. N. Fisher, A. J. Hale, A. M. Guénault, and G. R. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 244 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Zero Temperature Spin Wave Damping in Spin Polarized ${}^{3}H e$ : Does It Exist?

Gerard Vermeulen and Agnès Roni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 248 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Ionic Films on Vicinal Metal Surfaces: Enhanced Binding due to Charge Modulation

Jascha Repp, Stefan Fölsch, Gerhard Meyer, and Karl-Heinz Rieder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 252 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Anomalous Scaling of the Surface Width during Cu Electrodeposition

S. Huo and W. Schwarzacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 256 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Glancing-Angle Ion Enhanced Surface Diffusion on GaAs(001) during Molecular Beam Epitaxy

P. M. DeLuca, K. C. Ruthe, and S. A. Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 260 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Localization-Induced Griffiths Phase of Disordered Anderson Lattices

E. Miranda and V. Dobrosavljević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 264 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Non-Abelian Statistics of Half-Quantum Vortices in $p$ -Wave Superconductors

D. A. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 268 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

“Metallic” and “Insulating” Behavior of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas on a Vicinal Surface of Si MOSFET's

S. S. Safonov, S. H. Roshko, A. K. Savchenko, A. G. Pogosov, and Z. D. Kvon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 272 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Energy Dependence of Quasiparticle Relaxation in a Disordered Fermi Liquid

T. Schmidt, P. König, E. McCann, Vladimir I. Fal'ko, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 276 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Coulomb Blockade Oscillations in the Thermopower of Open Quantum Dots

A. V. Andreev and K. A. Matveev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 280 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Proximity Effect and Multiple Andreev Reflections in Gold Atomic Contacts

E. Scheer, W. Belzig, Y. Naveh, M. H. Devoret, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 284 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Temperature Effects on the Transport Properties of Molecules

M. Di Ventra, S.-G. Kim, S. T. Pantelides, and N. D. Lang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 288 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Fractionalization in the Cuprates: Detecting the Topological Order

T. Senthil and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 292 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Impurity in a $d$ -Wave Superconductor: Kondo Effect and STM Spectra

Anatoli Polkovnikov, Subir Sachdev, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 296 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Magnetism, Spin-Orbit Coupling, and Superconducting Pairing in ${UGe}_{2}$

A. B. Shick and W. E. Pickett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 300 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Inhomogeneous Superconductivity Induced in a Ferromagnet by Proximity Effect

T. Kontos, M. Aprili, J. Lesueur, and X. Grison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 304 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Oscillations of Andreev States in Clean Ferromagnetic Films

M. Zareyan, W. Belzig, and Yu. V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 308 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Charge Profile in Vortices

Jan Koláček, Pavel Lipavský, and Ernst Helmut Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 312 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Random Magnetic Field and Quasiparticle Transport in the Mixed State of High- $T_{c}$ Cuprates

Jinwu Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 316 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Flux Line Lattice Reorientation in the Borocarbide Superconductors with $H ∥ a$

M. R. Eskildsen, A. B. Abrahamsen, D. López, P. L. Gammel, D. J. Bishop, N. H. Andersen, K. Mortensen, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 320 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Evidence for the Singlet-Dimer Ground State in an $S = 1$ Antiferromagnetic Bond Alternating Chain

Yasuo Narumi, Masayuki Hagiwara, Masanori Kohno, and Koichi Kindo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 324 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Invalidation of the Kelvin Force in Ferrofluids

Stefan Odenbach and Mario Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 328 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Surface Conduction on Insulating ${BaTiO}_{3}$ Crystal Suggesting an Intrinsic Surface Electron Layer

Yukio Watanabe, Motochika Okano, and Akihiro Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 332 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Magneto Infrared Absorption in High Electron Density GaAs Quantum Wells

A. J. L. Poulter, J. Zeman, D. K. Maude, M. Potemski, G. Martinez, A. Riedel, R. Hey, and K. J. Friedland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 336 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Charge Transport and Carrier Dynamics in Liquids Probed by THz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

E. Knoesel, M. Bonn, J. Shan, and T. F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 340 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

From Coherently Excited Highly Correlated States to Incoherent Relaxation Processes in Semiconductors

W. Schäfer, R. Lövenich, N. A. Fromer, and D. S. Chemla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 344 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Novel Mechanism of Photoinduced Reversible Phase Transitions in Molecule-Based Magnets

Tohru Kawamoto, Yoshihiro Asai, and Shuji Abe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 348 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Remote Information Concentration Using a Bound Entangled State

Mio Murao and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 352 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Stretch-Induced Hairpin-Coil Transitions in Designed Polynucleotide Chains

Haijun Zhou, Yang Zhang, and Zhong-Can Ou-Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 356 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Probing Chromosome Structure with Dynamic Force Relaxation

Michael G. Poirier, Ajay Nemani, Prateek Gupta, Sertac Eroglu, and John F. Marko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 360 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001

Equilibrium Properties of Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Plasticity

Jonathan Rubin, Daniel D. Lee, and H. Sompolinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 364 (2001) - Published 8 January, 2001