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Volume 86, Issue 21

21 May 2001
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spectrum of Luminescence from Laser-Created Bubbles in Water

Ohan Baghdassarian, Han-Ching Chu, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4934 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Analogy to Electronic Quantum Corrals

Gérard Colas des Francs, Christian Girard, Jean-Claude Weeber, Cédric Chicane, Thierry David, Alain Dereux, and David Peyrade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4950 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Measuring the Quantum State of a Large Angular Momentum

G. Klose, G. Smith, and P. S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4721 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Superfluid Gyroscope with Cold Atomic Gases

S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4725 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Quasicontinuous Atom Laser in the Presence of Gravity

F. Gerbier, P. Bouyer, and A. Aspect

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4729 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Uniting Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Resonators

D. Jaksch, S. A. Gardiner, K. Schulze, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4733 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Coherence Resonance in Coupled Chaotic Oscillators

Zonghua Liu and Ying-Cheng Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4737 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Solving N-Body Problems with Neural Networks

Marcelino Quito, Jr., Christopher Monterola, and Caesar Saloma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4741 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Plasmoid Impacts on Neutron Stars and Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

C. Litwin and R. Rosner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4745 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

E10, BE10 and Arithmetical Chaos in Superstring Cosmology

Thibault Damour and Marc Henneaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4749 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Beta Function for Anisotropic Current Interactions in 2D

B. Gerganov, A. LeClair, and M. Moriconi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4753 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

(De)Constructing Dimensions

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Andrew G. Cohen, and Howard Georgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4757 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

On Some Positivity Properties of the Interquark Potential in QCD

Shmuel Nussinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4762 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

In-Medium Properties of the D13(1520) Nucleon Resonance

B. Krusche, J. Ahrens, R. Beck, I. J. D. MacGregor, J. C. McGeorge, V. Metag, and H. Ströher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4764 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Direct Measurement of the Pion Valence-Quark Momentum Distribution, the Pion Light-Cone Wave Function Squared

E. M. Aitala et al. (Fermilab E791 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4768 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Observation of Color-Transparency in Diffractive Dissociation of Pions

E. M. Aitala et al. (Fermilab E791 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4773 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Midrapidity Antiproton-to-Proton Ratio from Au+Au Collisions at sNN=130GeV

C. Adler et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4778 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Flow at the SPS and RHIC as a Quark-Gluon Plasma Signature

D. Teaney, J. Lauret, and E. V. Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4783 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Three- and Four-Nucleon Systems from Chiral Effective Field Theory

E. Epelbaum, H. Kamada, A. Nogga, H. Witała, W. Glöckle, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4787 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

New Mechanism for the Enhancement of sd Dominance in Interacting Boson Models

J. Dukelsky and S. Pittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4791 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sharp Spectral Lines Observed in γ-Ray Ionized Parahydrogen Crystals

Takamasa Momose, C. Michael Lindsay, Yu Zhang, and Takeshi Oka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4795 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Motional Effect in Surface Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy

Xing Wei and Y. R. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4799 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Charge Transfer and Elastic Scattering in Very Slow H++D(1s) Half Collisions

E. Wells, K. D. Carnes, B. D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4803 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Electron Delocalization in Magnesium Clusters Grown in Supercold Helium Droplets

Thomas Diederich, Tilo Döppner, Jenny Braune, Josef Tiggesbäumker, and Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4807 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Effect of Stacking Faults on the Optical Properties of Inverted Opals

V. Yannopapas, N. Stefanou, and A. Modinos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4811 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Anomalous Coherent Backscattering of Light from Opal Photonic Crystals

J. Huang, N. Eradat, M. E. Raikh, Z. V. Vardeny, A. A. Zakhidov, and R. H. Baughman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4815 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Spiraling Bubbles: How Acoustic and Hydrodynamic Forces Compete

Judith Rensen, Dennis Bosman, Jacques Magnaudet, Claus-Dieter Ohl, Andrea Prosperetti, Rüdiger Tögel, Michel Versluis, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4819 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Critical Behavior of a Heavy Particle in a Granular Fluid

Andrés Santos and James W. Dufty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4823 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Passive Scalar Intermittency in Low Temperature Helium Flows

F. Moisy, H. Willaime, J. S. Andersen, and P. Tabeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4827 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Anisotropic Homogeneous Turbulence: Hierarchy and Intermittency of Scaling Exponents in the Anisotropic Sectors

Luca Biferale and Federico Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4831 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Signature of Turbulent Zonal Flows Observed in the DIII-D Tokamak

S. Coda, M. Porkolab, and K. H. Burrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4835 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Liquid Alumina: Detailed Atomic Coordination Determined from Neutron Diffraction Data Using Empirical Potential Structure Refinement

C. Landron, L. Hennet, T. E. Jenkins, G. N. Greaves, J. P. Coutures, and A. K. Soper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4839 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Effect of a Rippling Mode on Resonances of Carbon Nanotubes

Jefferson Z. Liu, Quanshui Zheng, and Qing Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4843 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Soft Acoustic Modes in the Two-Dimensional Spin System SrCu2(BO3)2

B. Wolf, S. Zherlitsyn, S. Schmidt, B. Lüthi, H. Kageyama, and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4847 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Pressure-Induced Invar Effect in Fe-Ni Alloys

Leonid Dubrovinsky, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Igor A. Abrikosov, Marie Vennström, Frank Westman, Stefan Carlson, Mark van Schilfgaarde, and Börje Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4851 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Particle Excursions in Colloidal Crystals

Mischa Megens and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4855 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Freezing of Dynamical Exponents in Low Dimensional Random Media

Horacio E. Castillo and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4859 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Self-Similarity and Pattern Selection in the Roughening of Binary Liquid Films

Harald Hoppe, Marcus Heuberger, and Jacob Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4863 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Observation of a Metastable Periodic Structure for the (001) Surface of KTaO3 after Cleaving In Situ

Jaime A. Li, E. A. Akhadov, Jeff Baker, L. A. Boatner, D. Bonart, F. A. Flaherty, J. Fritsch, S. A. Safron, U. Schröder, J. G. Skofronick, T. W. Trelenberg, and D. H. Van Winkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4867 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Phase Coexistence during Surface Phase Transitions

J. B. Hannon, F.-J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, J. Tersoff, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4871 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Novel Layered Superstructures in Mixed Ultralong n-Alkanes

X. B. Zeng and G. Ungar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4875 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Epitaxial Growth of a Low-Density Framework Form of Crystalline Silicon: A Molecular-Dynamics Study

Shinji Munetoh, Koji Moriguchi, Kazuhito Kamei, Akira Shintani, and Teruaki Motooka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4879 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fluorescence Intermittency in Self-Assembled InP Quantum Dots

Mitsuru Sugisaki, Hong-Wen Ren, Kenichi Nishi, and Yasuaki Masumoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4883 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Coulomb Interaction and Quantum Transport through a Coherent Scatterer

Dmitrii S. Golubev and Andrei D. Zaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4887 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Surface Soft Phonon and the √3×√3↔3×3 Phase Transition in Sn/Ge(111) and Sn/Si(111)

Rubén Pérez, José Ortega, and Fernando Flores

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4891 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Fermi-Liquid Behavior of the Low-Density 2D Hole Gas in a GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure at Large Values of rs

Y. Y. Proskuryakov, A. K. Savchenko, S. S. Safonov, M. Pepper, M. Y. Simmons, and D. A. Ritchie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4895 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Isotope Effects in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors: A Quantum Critical Phenomenon

T. Schneider and H. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4899 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Theory of Equilibrium Flux Lattice in UPt3 under Magnetic Field Parallel to Hexagonal Crystal Axis

T. Champel and V. P. Mineev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4903 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Transport Anomalies and the Role of Pseudogap in the 60-K Phase of YBa2Cu3O7−δ

Kouji Segawa and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4907 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ: New Evidence for the Common Origin of the Pseudogap and Superconductivity

M. Kugler, Ø. Fischer, Ch. Renner, S. Ono, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4911 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

High-Resolution Photoemission Study of MgB2

T. Takahashi, T. Sato, S. Souma, T. Muranaka, and J. Akimitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4915 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Reversal of Momentum Relaxation

G. A. Melkov, Yu. V. Kobljanskyj, A. A. Serga, V. S. Tiberkevich, and A. N. Slavin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4918 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Stripes Induced by Orbital Ordering in Layered Manganites

Takashi Hotta, Adrian Feiguin, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4922 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Chaotic Domain Patterns in Periodic Inhomogeneous Magnetic Films

N. García, V. V. Osipov, E. V. Ponizovskaya, and A. del Moral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4926 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Observation of Phonon Bottleneck in Quantum Dot Electronic Relaxation

J. Urayama, T. B. Norris, J. Singh, and P. Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4930 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spectrum of Luminescence from Laser-Created Bubbles in Water

Ohan Baghdassarian, Han-Ching Chu, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4934 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Optimal Cloning of Coherent States with a Linear Amplifier and Beam Splitters

Samuel L. Braunstein, Nicolas J. Cerf, Sofyan Iblisdir, Peter van Loock, and Serge Massar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4938 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Optical Implementation of Continuous-Variable Quantum Cloning Machines

Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4942 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Heavy-Atom Skeleton Quantization and Proton Tunneling in “Intermediate-Barrier” Hydrogen Bonds

Mark E. Tuckerman and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4946 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optical Analogy to Electronic Quantum Corrals

Gérard Colas des Francs, Christian Girard, Jean-Claude Weeber, Cédric Chicane, Thierry David, Alain Dereux, and David Peyrade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4950 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Clustering of Arrays of Chaotic Chemical Oscillators by Feedback and Forcing

Wen Wang, István Z. Kiss, and John L. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4954 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Mutual Information of Population Codes and Distance Measures in Probability Space

K. Kang and H. Sompolinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4958 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Time Resolved Collapse of a Folding Protein Observed with Small Angle X-Ray Scattering

L. Pollack, M. W. Tate, A. C. Finnefrock, C. Kalidas, S. Trotter, N. C. Darnton, L. Lurio, R. H. Austin, C. A. Batt, S. M. Gruner, and S. G. J. Mochrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4962 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Long-Range Reactive Dynamics in Myoglobin

J. Timothy Sage, Stephen M. Durbin, Wolfgang Sturhahn, David C. Wharton, Paul M. Champion, Philip Hession, John Sutter, and E. Ercan Alp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4966 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Effective-Area Elasticity and Tension of Micromanipulated Membranes

J.-B. Fournier, A. Ajdari, and L. Peliti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4970 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

COMMENTS

Antiferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals

Helmut R. Brand, P. E. Cladis, and Harald Pleiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4974 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Link, Maclennan, and Clark Reply:

Darren R. Link, Joseph E. Maclennan, and Noel A. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4975 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Comment on “High Pressure Behavior of ZrW2O8: Grüneisen Parameter and Thermal Properties”

S. L. Chaplot and R. Mittal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4976 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Ravindran and Arora Reply:

T. R. Ravindran and Akhilesh K. Arora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4977 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Comment on “Invalidation of the Kelvin Force in Ferrofluids”

A. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4978 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Liu replies

Mario Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4979 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Structural Principles and Amorphouslike Thermal Conductivity of Na-Doped Si Clathrates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 114 (2000)]

J. S. Tse, K. Uehara, R. Rousseau, A. Ker, C. I. Ratcliffe, M. A. White, and G. MacKay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4980 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

Measurement of the Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Strength Distributions up to 10 MeV in the Doubly Magic Nuclei C40a and C48a [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 274 (2000)]

T. Hartmann, J. Enders, P. Mohr, K. Vogt, S. Volz, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4981 (2001) - Published 21 May, 2001

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