Volume 86, Issue 5

29 January 2001

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LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

A New Look at the Accelerating Universe

Leonard Parker and Alpan Raval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 749 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Critical Behavior in the Dense Planar Nambu–Jona-Lasinio Model

Simon Hands, Biagio Lucini, and Susan Morrison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 753 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Vector Manifestation of Chiral Symmetry

Masayasu Harada and Koichi Yamawaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 757 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Study of the $K_{L}^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} γ$ Direct Emission Vertex

A. Alavi-Harati et al. (KTeV Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 761 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Study of the $D_{s}^{+} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{+}$ Decay and Measurement of $f_{0}$ Masses and Widths

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 765 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Experimental Evidence for a Light and Broad Scalar Resonance in $D^{+} \to π^{-} π^{+} π^{+}$ Decay

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 770 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Dependent Alignment and Orientation of Molecules in Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed Nonresonant Laser Fields

Long Cai, Jotin Marango, and Bretislav Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 775 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Two- and Three-Body Kinematical Correlation in the Dissociative Recombination of $H_{3}^{+}$

D. Strasser, L. Lammich, S. Krohn, M. Lange, H. Kreckel, J. Levin, D. Schwalm, Z. Vager, R. Wester, A. Wolf, and D. Zajfman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 779 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor

D. F. Phillips, A. Fleischhauer, A. Mair, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 783 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Observation of the Topological Structure of Exceptional Points

C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, H. L. Harney, A. Heine, W. D. Heiss, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 787 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Synchronization of Homoclinic Chaos

E. Allaria, F. T. Arecchi, A. Di Garbo, and R. Meucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 791 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Chaos Synchronization and Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking in Symmetrically Delay-Coupled Semiconductor Lasers

Tilmann Heil, Ingo Fischer, Wolfgang Elsässer, Josep Mulet, and Claudio R. Mirasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 795 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Delayed-Action Interaction and Spin-Orbit Coupling between Solitons

Ziad H. Musslimani, Marin Soljačić, Mordechai Segev, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 799 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Boundary Conditions at a Fluid-Solid Interface

Marek Cieplak, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 803 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Self-Parametric Instability in Spatially Extended Systems

M. Argentina, P. Coullet, and E. Risler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 807 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Phase Modulation of Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses Reflected From Steep, Dense Plasmas

R. J. Kingham, P. Gibbon, W. Theobald, L. Veisz, and R. Sauerbrey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 810 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Dynamic Modeling of Stepwise Internal Transport Barrier Formation in DIII-D Negative-Central-Shear Discharges

J. E. Kinsey, G. M. Staebler, K. H. Burrell, M. E. Austin, and R. E. Waltz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 814 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Aerosil Dispersed in a Liquid Crystal: Magnetic Order and Random Silica Disorder

Tao Jin and Daniele Finotello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 818 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Reentrant Coil-to-Globule-to-Coil Transition of a Single Linear Homopolymer Chain in a Water $/$ Methanol Mixture

Guangzhao Zhang and Chi Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 822 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Isotope-Disorder-Induced Line Broadening of Phonons in the Raman Spectra of SiC

S. Rohmfeld, M. Hundhausen, L. Ley, N. Schulze, and G. Pensl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 826 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Rare-Event Induced Binding Transition of Heteropolymers

Lei-Han Tang and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 830 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Vortex-Lattice Phases of Superfluid ${}^{3}H e$ in Rapid Rotation

Takafumi Kita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 834 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Is Ion Sputtering Always a “Negative Homoepitaxial Deposition”?

G. Costantini, F. Buatier de Mongeot, C. Boragno, and U. Valbusa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 838 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Size-Dependent Grain-Growth Kinetics Observed in Nanocrystalline Fe

C. E. Krill, III, L. Helfen, D. Michels, H. Natter, A. Fitch, O. Masson, and R. Birringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 842 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Coexistence of Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Ferromagnetic Metals

N. I. Karchev, K. B. Blagoev, K. S. Bedell, and P. B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 846 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Phenomenological Theory of Ferromagnetic Superconductivity

Kazushige Machida and Tetsuo Ohmi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 850 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Fermi Surface Nesting and Structural Transition on a Metal Surface: In $/$ Cu(001)

T. Nakagawa, G. I. Boishin, H. Fujioka, H. W. Yeom, I. Matsuda, N. Takagi, M. Nishijima, and T. Aruga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 854 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Probing Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons with Electromagnetic Radiation

K. Johnsen and G. M. Kavoulakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 858 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Electron-Phonon Coupling Spectrum in Photodoped Pentacene Crystals

Mark Lee, J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc, and B. Batlogg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 862 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Magnetoresistance Anisotropy in Si $/$ SiGe in Tilted Magnetic Fields: Experimental Evidence for a Stripe-Phase Formation

U. Zeitler, H. W. Schumacher, A. G. M. Jansen, and R. J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 866 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Exchange Frequencies in the 2D Wigner Crystal

B. Bernu, Ladir Cândido, and D. M. Ceperley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 870 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Universal Gap Fluctuations in the Superconductor Proximity Effect

M. G. Vavilov, P. W. Brouwer, V. Ambegaokar, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 874 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Electron Cotunneling in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

S. De Franceschi, S. Sasaki, J. M. Elzerman, W. G. van der Wiel, S. Tarucha, and L. P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 878 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Field Theory of Spin-Singlet Quantum Hall States

Kazusumi Ino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 882 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Stepwise Behavior of Vortex-Lattice Melting Transition in Tilted Magnetic Fields in Single Crystals of ${{Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O}_{8 + δ}$

J. Mirković, S. E. Savel'ev, E. Sugahara, and K. Kadowaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 886 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Giant Enhancement of the Thermal Hall Conductivity $κ_{xy}$ in the Superconductor ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$

Y. Zhang, N. P. Ong, P. W. Anderson, D. A. Bonn, R. Liang, and W. N. Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 890 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Geometric Magnetic Frustration in ${Ba}_{2} {Sn}_{2} {Ga}_{3} {ZnCr}_{7} O_{22}$ : A Two-Dimensional Spinel Based Kagomé Lattice

I. S. Hagemann, Q. Huang, X. P. A. Gao, A. P. Ramirez, and R. J. Cava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 894 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Algorithm for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Spin Liquids

I. P. Omelyan, I. M. Mryglod, and R. Folk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 898 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Noncollinear Magnetic Hyperfine Fields in the Ag Spacers of $Fe / Ag$ Multilayers

T. Phalet, M. J. Prandolini, W. D. Brewer, P. De Moor, P. Schuurmans, N. Severijns, B. G. Turrell, A. Van Geert, B. Vereecke, and S. Versyck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 902 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Phonon Dispersion Curves in Wurtzite-Structure GaN Determined by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

T. Ruf, J. Serrano, M. Cardona, P. Pavone, M. Pabst, M. Krisch, M. D'Astuto, T. Suski, I. Grzegory, and M. Leszczynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 906 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Persistent Entanglement in Arrays of Interacting Particles

Hans J. Briegel and Robert Raussendorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 910 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Continuous Variable Cloning via Network of Parametric Gates

Giacomo M. D'Ariano, Francesco De Martini, and Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 914 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Interplay between Zeeman Coupling and Swap Action in Spin-Based Quantum Computer Models: Error Correction in Inhomogeneous Magnetic Fields

Xuedong Hu, Rogerio de Sousa, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 918 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Long-Time Tails in the Kinetics of Reversible Bimolecular Reactions

Irina V. Gopich, Alexander A. Ovchinnikov, and Attila Szabo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 922 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Front Propagation into an Unstable State of Reaction-Transport Systems

Sergei Fedotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 926 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Phase Behavior of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Systems in the Presence of Periodic Light Fields

C. Bechinger, M. Brunner, and P. Leiderer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 930 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Stretching of Polymers in a Random Three-Dimensional Flow

Alexander Groisman and Victor Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 934 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Shear-Induced First-Order Sponge-to-Lamellar Transition in a Lyotropic Surfactant System

Aurélien Léon, Daniel Bonn, Jacques Meunier, Amer Al-Kahwaji, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 938 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

COMMENTS

Comment on “Confinement of Slave Particles in U(1) Gauge Theories of Strongly Interacting Electrons”

Ikuo Ichinose and Tetsuo Matsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 942 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

Nayak Replies:

Chetan Nayak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 943 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001

ERRATA

Erratum: Determination of the Rate of Cross Slip of Screw Dislocations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3866 (2000)]

T. Vegge, T. Rasmussen, T. Leffers, O. B. Pedersen, and K. W. Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 944 (2001) - Published 29 January, 2001