Volume 86, Issue 7

12 February 2001

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Attraction of Minute Particles to Invariant Regions of Volume Preserving Flows by Transients

T. Shinbrot, M. M. Alvarez, J. M. Zalc, and F. J. Muzzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1207 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Simple Microscopic Theory of Amontons's Laws for Static Friction

Martin H. Müser, Ludgar Wenning, and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1295 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

LETTERS

General Physics

Reducing the Linewidth of an Atom Laser by Feedback

H. M. Wiseman and L. K. Thomsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1143 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nonlinear $r$ -Modes in Rapidly Rotating Relativistic Stars

N. Stergioulas and José A. Font

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1148 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Nonlinear Evolution of the $r$ -Modes in Neutron Stars

Lee Lindblom, Joel E. Tohline, and Michele Vallisneri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1152 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Large Extra Dimensions in Dielectron and Diphoton Production

B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1156 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Improved Direct Measurement of Leptonic Coupling Asymmetries with Polarized $Z$ Bosons

Koya Abe et al. (The SLD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1162 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

First Observation of the $Σ_{c}^{* +}$ Baryon and a New Measurement of the $Σ_{c}^{* +}$ Mass

R. Ammar et al. (CLEO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1167 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Transition from Spherical to Deformed Shapes of Nuclei in the Monte Carlo Shell Model

Noritaka Shimizu, Takaharu Otsuka, Takahiro Mizusaki, and Michio Honma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1171 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rabi-Lorentzian Profile of an Atomic Resonance Obtained with Gaussian Beams

Hervé Gilles, Bernard Cheron, Olivier Emile, Fabien Bretenaker, and Albert Le Floch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1175 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Quantum Phase Retrieval of a Rydberg Wave Packet Using a Half-Cycle Pulse

J. Ahn, D. N. Hutchinson, C. Rangan, and P. H. Bucksbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1179 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Bound Ro-Vibronic States of Triplet ${H_{3}}^{+}$

Oliver Friedrich, Alexander Alijah, ZongRong Xu, and António J. C. Varandas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1183 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Asymmetry in Photoelectron Emission from Chiral Molecules Induced by Circularly Polarized Light

N. Böwering, T. Lischke, B. Schmidtke, N. Müller, T. Khalil, and U. Heinzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1187 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Negative Heat Capacity for a Cluster of 147 Sodium Atoms

Martin Schmidt, Robert Kusche, Thomas Hippler, Jörn Donges, Werner Kronmüller, Bernd von Issendorff, and Hellmut Haberland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1191 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Two-Dimensional Atom Trapping in Field-Induced Adiabatic Potentials

O. Zobay and B. M. Garraway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1195 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Irregular Scattering of Acoustic Rays by Vortices

V. Pagneux and A. Maurel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1199 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Suppression of Dripping from a Ceiling

John M. Burgess, Anne Juel, W. D. McCormick, J. B. Swift, and Harry L. Swinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1203 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Attraction of Minute Particles to Invariant Regions of Volume Preserving Flows by Transients

T. Shinbrot, M. M. Alvarez, J. M. Zalc, and F. J. Muzzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1207 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Couette Flow of Two Immiscible Liquids between Two Concentric Cylinders: The Formation of Toroidal Drops and Liquid Sheaths

W. G. P. Mietus, O. K. Matar, G. Seevaratnam, A. Wong, B. J. Briscoe, and C. J. Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1211 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Shear Viscosity of Strongly Coupled Yukawa Systems on Finite Length Scales

K. Y. Sanbonmatsu and M. S. Murillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1215 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Experimental Observation of Vertically Polarized Transverse Dust-Lattice Wave Propagating in a One-Dimensional Strongly Coupled Dust Chain

T. Misawa, N. Ohno, K. Asano, M. Sawai, S. Takamura, and P. K. Kaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1219 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Transport Control by Coherent Zonal Flows in the Core/Edge Transitional Regime

K. Hallatschek and D. Biskamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1223 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Observation of a Hot High-Current Electron Beam from a Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator

M. I. K. Santala, Z. Najmudin, E. L. Clark, M. Tatarakis, K. Krushelnick, A. E. Dangor, V. Malka, J. Faure, R. Allott, and R. J. Clarke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1227 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Study of the Ion-Distribution Dynamics of an Aluminum Laser-Produced Plasma with Picosecond Resolution

M. Fajardo, P. Audebert, P. Renaudin, H. Yashiro, R. Shepherd, J. C. Gauthier, and C. Chenais-Popovics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1231 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Electrostatic Mode Excitation in Electron Holes due to Wave Bounce Resonances

Georgios Vetoulis and Meers Oppenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1235 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Dynamics and Instability of Electron Phase-Space Tubes

D. L. Newman, M. V. Goldman, M. Spector, and F. Perez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1239 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Colloidal Aggregation with Sedimentation: Computer Simulations

Agustín E. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1243 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Unexpected Dynamics for Self-Interstitial Clusters in Silicon

S. K. Estreicher, M. Gharaibeh, P. A. Fedders, and Pablo Ordejón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1247 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Anomalous High Pressure Dependence of the Jahn-Teller Phonon in ${La}_{0.75} {Ca}_{0.25} {MnO}_{3}$

A. Congeduti, P. Postorino, E. Caramagno, M. Nardone, A. Kumar, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1251 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Origin of the Boson Peak in Systems with Lattice Disorder

S. N. Taraskin, Y. L. Loh, G. Natarajan, and S. R. Elliott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1255 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Dynamics of Late-Stage Phase Separation in Crystalline Solids

K. Thornton, Norio Akaiwa, and P. W. Voorhees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1259 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Direct Observation of Shear-Induced Orientational Phase Coexistence in a Lyotropic System Using a Modified X-Ray Surface Forces Apparatus

Yuval Golan, Ana Martin-Herranz, Youli Li, Cyrus R. Safinya, and Jacob Israelachvili

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1263 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Experimental Evidence of the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma Effect in Liquid Crystals

Ioannis Lelidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1267 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Time-Temperature Superposition in Viscous Liquids

Niels Boye Olsen, Tage Christensen, and Jeppe C. Dyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1271 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Effect of Diffusion on Lithium Intercalation in Titanium Dioxide

Marina V. Koudriachova, Nicholas M. Harrison, and Simon W. de Leeuw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1275 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Origin of Constant Loss in Ionic Conductors

C. León, A. Rivera, A. Várez, J. Sanz, J. Santamaria, and K. L. Ngai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1279 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

End-to-End Distance on Contour Loops of Random Gaussian Surfaces

Moshe Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1283 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Can Atomic Force Microscopy Achieve Atomic Resolution in Contact Mode?

M. R. Jarvis, Rubén Pérez, and M. C. Payne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1287 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Coarsening of Cracks in a Uniaxially Strained Solid

Efim A. Brener, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, and R. Spatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1291 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Simple Microscopic Theory of Amontons's Laws for Static Friction

Martin H. Müser, Ludgar Wenning, and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1295 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge-Density Waves in Self-Assembled Halogen-Bridged Metal Chains

K. Swamy, A. Menzel, R. Beer, and E. Bertel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1299 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Tuning Dimensionality by Nanowire Adsorption on Layered Materials

R. Adelung, J. Brandt, K. Rossnagel, O. Seifarth, L. Kipp, M. Skibowski, C. Ramírez, T. Strasser, and W. Schattke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1303 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Field-Induced Delocalization and Zener Breakdown in Semiconductor Superlattices

B. Rosam, D. Meinhold, F. Löser, V. G. Lyssenko, S. Glutsch, F. Bechstedt, F. Rossi, K. Köhler, and K. Leo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1307 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Half-Polarized Quantum Hall States

V. M. Apalkov, T. Chakraborty, P. Pietiläinen, and K. Niemelä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1311 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Conductivity of Doped Two-Leg Ladders

Eugene H. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1315 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Chiral Nonlinear $σ$ Models as Models for Topological Superconductivity

A. G. Abanov and P. B. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1319 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Vortex Entry and Nucleation of Antivortices in a Mesoscopic Superconducting Triangle

L. F. Chibotaru, A. Ceulemans, V. Bruyndoncx, and V. V. Moshchalkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1323 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Low Energy Quasiparticle Excitation in the Vortex State of Borocarbide Superconductor ${YNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

K. Izawa, A. Shibata, Yuji Matsuda, Y. Kato, H. Takeya, K. Hirata, C. J. van der Beek, and M. Konczykowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1327 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Quasiperiodic Hubbard Chains

Kazuo Hida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1331 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Experimental Realization of a 2D Fractional Quantum Spin Liquid

R. Coldea, D. A. Tennant, A. M. Tsvelik, and Z. Tylczynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1335 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Aging Effect in Ceramic Superconductors

Mai Suan Li, Per Nordblad, and Hikaru Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1339 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Griffiths-McCoy Singularities in Random Quantum Spin Chains: Exact Results through Renormalization

Ferenc Iglói, Róbert Juhász, and Péter Lajkó

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1343 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Modified Magnetism at a Buried $Co / Pd$ Interface Resolved with X-Ray Standing Waves

Sang-Koog Kim and J. B. Kortright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1347 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Anisotropic Nuclear Inelastic Scattering of an Iron(II) Molecular Crystal

H. Paulsen, R. Benda, C. Herta, V. Schünemann, A. I. Chumakov, L. Duelund, H. Winkler, H. Toftlund, and A. X. Trautwein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1351 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Quantum Confinement in Amorphous Silicon Quantum Dots Embedded in Silicon Nitride

Nae-Man Park, Chel-Jong Choi, Tae-Yeon Seong, and Seong-Ju Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1355 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Triplet Energies of $π$ -Conjugated Polymers

A. P. Monkman, H. D. Burrows, L. J. Hartwell, L. E. Horsburgh, I. Hamblett, and S. Navaratnam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1358 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Complete Screening and Quasiatomic $MVV$ Auger Line Shapes due to Double Core Ionization

A. de Siervo, R. Landers, and G. G. Kleiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1362 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

ERRATA

Erratum: Entropic Trapping and Escape of Long DNA Molecules at Submicron Size Constriction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1688 (1999)]

J. Han, S. W. Turner, and H. G. Craighead

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1394 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Erratum: Laser Probing of Atomic Cooper Pairs [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 487 (2000)]

P. Törmä and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1395 (2001) - Published 12 February, 2001

Volume 86, Issue 7

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

COMMENTS

ERRATA