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Physical Review Letters

Volume 86, Issue 23

4 June 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Evolution of Proto-Neutron Stars with Quarks

José A. Pons, Andrew W. Steiner, Madappa Prakash, and James M. Lattimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5223 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Optimization with Extremal Dynamics

Stefan Boettcher and Allon G. Percus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5211 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Universality Class of Fluctuating Pulled Fronts

Goutam Tripathy, Andrea Rocco, Jaume Casademunt, and Wim van Saarloos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5215 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Best Possible Strategy for Finding Ground States

Astrid Franz, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, and Peter Salamon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5219 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Evolution of Proto-Neutron Stars with Quarks

José A. Pons, Andrew W. Steiner, Madappa Prakash, and James M. Lattimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5223 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Absence of a Singularity in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Martin Bojowald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5227 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Phase Transitions for Flat Anti–de Sitter Black Holes

Sumati Surya, Kristin Schleich, and Donald M. Witt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5231 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Behavior of Boundary String Field Theory Associated with Integrable Massless Flow

A. Fujii and H. Itoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5235 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Verifying the Kugo-Ojima Confinement Criterion in Landau Gauge Yang-Mills Theory

Peter Watson and Reinhard Alkofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5239 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Precision Measurements of the $Λ_{c}^{+}$ and $D^{0}$ Lifetimes

A. Kushnirenko et al. (SELEX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5243 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Anapole Moment and Other Constraints on the Strangeness Conserving Hadronic Weak Interaction

W. C. Haxton, C.-P. Liu, and M. J. Ramsey-Musolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5247 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Longitudinal Field Modes Probed by Single Molecules

L. Novotny, M. R. Beversluis, K. S. Youngworth, and T. G. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5251 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Experimental Observation of Superparamagnetism in Manganese Clusters

Mark B. Knickelbein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5255 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Excitation and Fragmentation Mechanisms in Ion-Fullerene Collisions

Thomas Kunert and Rüdiger Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5258 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Photocount Statistics of Chaotic Lasers

G. Hackenbroich, C. Viviescas, B. Elattari, and F. Haake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5262 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Stability of a Charged Particle in a Combined Penning-Ioffe Trap

T. M. Squires, P. Yesley, and G. Gabrielse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5266 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Instability and Equilibration of Centrifugally Stable Stratified Taylor-Couette Flow

M. Jeroen Molemaker, James C. McWilliams, and Irad Yavneh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5270 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ponderomotive Laser Acceleration and Focusing in Vacuum for Generation of Attosecond Electron Bunches

G. V. Stupakov and M. S. Zolotorev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5274 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Effect of Trapped Ions on Shielding of a Charged Spherical Object in a Plasma

Martin Lampe, Valeriy Gavrishchaka, Gurudas Ganguli, and Glenn Joyce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5278 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Excitation of Ion-Acoustic-Like Waves by Subcritical Currents in a Plasma Having Equal Electron and Ion Temperatures

Erick Agrimson, Nicola D'Angelo, and Robert L. Merlino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5282 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Destabilization of Internal Kink Modes at High Frequency by Energetic Circulating Ions

Shaojie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5286 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Relativistic Electromagnetic Solitons in the Electron-Ion Plasma

D. Farina and S. V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5289 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Fast Formation of Magnetic Islands in a Plasma in the Presence of Counterstreaming Electrons

F. Califano, N. Attico, F. Pegoraro, G. Bertin, and S. V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5293 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Reduction of Ion Thermal Diffusivity Associated with the Transition of the Radial Electric Field in Neutral-Beam-Heated Plasmas in the Large Helical Device

K. Ida et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5297 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Two Disordered Phases of the $β$ -Tin Structure in Binary Semiconductors

G. J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5301 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Criticality in One Dimension with Inverse Square-Law Potentials

Erik Luijten and Holger Meßingfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5305 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Imprinted Networks as Chiral Pumps

Y. Mao and M. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5309 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Capillary Condensation in a Fractal Porous Medium

Daniel Broseta, Loïc Barré, Olga Vizika, Noushine Shahidzadeh, Jean-Pierre Guilbaud, and Sandrine Lyonnard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5313 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Instability and Wavelength Selection during Step Flow Growth of Metal Surfaces Vicinal to fcc(001)

M. Rusanen, I. T. Koponen, J. Heinonen, and T. Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5317 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Nonclassical Behavior in the Capacitance of a Nanojunction

J. G. Hou, Bing Wang, Jinlong Yang, X. R. Wang, H. Q. Wang, Qingshi Zhu, and Xudong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5321 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Adsorption of Carbon Monoxide on Ni(110) Above Atmospheric Pressure Investigated with Surface X-Ray Diffraction

K. F. Peters, C. J. Walker, P. Steadman, O. Robach, H. Isern, and S. Ferrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5325 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

X-Ray Standing Wave Analysis of the Effect of Isotopic Composition on the Lattice Constants of Si and Ge

E. Sozontov, L. X. Cao, A. Kazimirov, V. Kohn, M. Konuma, M. Cardona, and J. Zegenhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5329 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Polarized Ground State for Interacting Electrons in Two Dimensions

Giuliano Benenti, Gaëtan Caldara, and Dima L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5333 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Leading Temperature Corrections to Fermi-Liquid Theory in Two Dimensions

Gennady Y. Chitov and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5337 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Exponential Decay Properties of Wannier Functions and Related Quantities

Lixin He and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5341 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Mott-Hubbard Metal-Insulator Transition in Paramagnetic $V_{2} O_{3}$ : An $L D A + D M F T (QMC)$ Study

K. Held, G. Keller, V. Eyert, D. Vollhardt, and V. I. Anisimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5345 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Light-Induced Metal-Insulator Transition in a Switchable Mirror

A. F. Th. Hoekstra, A. S. Roy, T. F. Rosenbaum, R. Griessen, R. J. Wijngaarden, and N. J. Koeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5349 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Spectroscopic Evidence for the Localization of Skyrmions near $ν = 1$ as $T \to 0$

P. Khandelwal, A. E. Dementyev, N. N. Kuzma, S. E. Barrett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5353 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Role of Stress on Charge Transfer through Self-Assembled Alkanethiol Monolayers on Au

K.-A. Son, H. I. Kim, and J. E. Houston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5357 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Direct Transition between a Singlet Mott Insulator and a Superconductor

Massimo Capone, Michele Fabrizio, and Erio Tosatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5361 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Staggered Local Density of States around the Vortex in Underdoped Cuprates

Jun-ichiro Kishine, Patrick A. Lee, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5365 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Degenerate Ground State in a Mesoscopic ${{YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O}_{7 - x}$ Grain Boundary Josephson Junction

E. Il'ichev, M. Grajcar, R. Hlubina, R. P. J. IJsselsteijn, H. E. Hoenig, H.-G. Meyer, A. Golubov, M. H. S. Amin, A. M. Zagoskin, A. N. Omelyanchouk, and M. Yu. Kupriyanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5369 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Electron and Nuclear Spin Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic Molecular Rings

Florian Meier and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5373 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Spin Waves and Electronic Interactions in ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$

R. Coldea, S. M. Hayden, G. Aeppli, T. G. Perring, C. D. Frost, T. E. Mason, S.-W. Cheong, and Z. Fisk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5377 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Modeling the Electronic Behavior of $γ - {LiV}_{2} O_{5}$ : A Microscopic Study

Roser Valentí, T. Saha-Dasgupta, J. V. Alvarez, K. Požgajčić, and Claudius Gros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5381 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Dramatic Changes in the Magnetic Coupling Mechanism for La-Doped ${CaMnO}_{3}$

E. Granado, N. O. Moreno, H. Martinho, A. García, J. A. Sanjurjo, I. Torriani, C. Rettori, J. J. Neumeier, and S. B. Oseroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5385 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Field Cooling Induced Changes in the Antiferromagnetic Structure of NiO Films

W. Zhu, L. Seve, R. Sears, B. Sinkovic, and S. S. P. Parkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5389 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Stable Quantum Computation of Unstable Classical Chaos

B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5393 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Spectral Linewidths of Josephson Oscillators

M. Salerno, M. R. Samuelsen, and A. V. Yulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5397 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

Degree Distributions of Growing Networks

P. L. Krapivsky, G. J. Rodgers, and S. Redner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5401 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamics of Activated Escape and Its Observation in a Semiconductor Laser [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 78 (2000)]

J. Hales, A. Zhukov, R. Roy, and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5405 (2001) - Published 4 June, 2001