Volume 87, Issue 10

3 September 2001

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On the Cover

Minimization of a trajectory in a two-dimensional configuration space (Mueller potential) with two different algorithms.

From the article:

Action-Derived Molecular Dynamics in the Study of Rare Events
Daniele Passerone and Michele Parrinello
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 108302 (2001)

LETTERS

General Physics

Localization on Short-Range Potentials in Dissipative Quantum Mechanics

Akakii Melikidze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 100401 (2001) - Published 17 August, 2001

Vortices in Trapped Superfluid Fermi Gases

M. Rodriguez, G.-S. Paraoanu, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 100402 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Superfluidity versus Bloch Oscillations in Confined Atomic Gases

H. P. Büchler, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 100403 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Finite-Temperature Simulations of the Scissors Mode in Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases

B. Jackson and E. Zaremba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 100404 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Inadequacy of the Usual Galilean Transformation in Quantum Mechanics

Daniel M. Greenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 100405 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Gravitation and Astrophysics

On the Penrose Inequality

Jörg Frauendiener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 101101 (2001) - Published 15 August, 2001

Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Signals from Tangled Magnetic Fields

T. R. Seshadri and Kandaswamy Subramanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 101301 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Branching Fractions for $B \to π π$ , $K π$ , and $KK$ Decays

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 101801 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Measurement of the Top Quark $p_{T}$ Distribution

T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 102001 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Ratios of Charged Antiparticles-to-Particles near Mid-Rapidity in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$

B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 102301 (2001) - Published 15 August, 2001

Measurement of the High Energy Two-Body Deuteron Photodisintegration Differential Cross Section

E. C. Schulte et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 102302 (2001) - Published 16 August, 2001

Charged-Particle Pseudorapidity Density Distributions from $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$

B. B. Back et al. (PHOBOS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 102303 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Possibility to Deduce the Emission Time Sequence of Neutrons and Protons from the Neutron-Proton Correlation Function

R. Ghetti et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 102701 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Even-Harmonic Generation due to Beyond-Born-Oppenheimer Dynamics

Thomas Kreibich, Manfred Lein, Volker Engel, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 103901 (2001) - Published 16 August, 2001

Angle-Resolved Second-Harmonic Light Scattering from Colloidal Particles

N. Yang, W. E. Angerer, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 103902 (2001) - Published 16 August, 2001

Transverse Instability of Vector Solitons and Generation of Dipole Arrays

Dragomir Neshev, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, Glen McCarthy, and Yuri S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 103903 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Universality of Velocity Gradients in Forced Burgers Turbulence

Jérémie Bec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 104501 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Plasma and Beam Physics

Production of Alfvén Waves by a Rapidly Expanding Dense Plasma

M. VanZeeland, W. Gekelman, S. Vincena, and G. Dimonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 105001 (2001) - Published 17 August, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evidence for Droplet Reorientation and Interfacial Charges in a Polymer-Dispersed Liquid-Crystal Cell

S. C. Sharma, L. Zhang, A. J. Tapiawala, and P. C. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 105501 (2001) - Published 16 August, 2001

Dynamical Event during Slow Crack Propagation

Knut Jørgen Måløy and Jean Schmittbuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 105502 (2001) - Published 17 August, 2001

Hydrogen above Saturation at Silicon Vacancies: H-Pair Reservoirs and Metastability Sites

S. B. Zhang and Howard M. Branz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 105503 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Retention of the Potential Energy of Multiply Charged Argon Ions Incident on Copper

U. Kentsch, H. Tyrroff, G. Zschornack, and W. Möller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 105504 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions of Phosphorus via Constant-Pressure First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Tetsuya Morishita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 105701 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Geometry-Dependent Electrostatics near Contact Lines

Tom Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106101 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Measurement of the Energetics of Metal Film Growth on a Semiconductor: $Ag / Si (100) - (2 \times 1)$

D. E. Starr, J. T. Ranney, J. H. Larsen, J. E. Musgrove, and C. T. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106102 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Self-Assembly of One-Dimensional Surface Structures: Long-Range Interactions in the Growth of Ir and Pd on W(110)

Seong Jin Koh and Gert Ehrlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106103 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Continuum Model for Low Temperature Relaxation of Crystal Steps

O. Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106104 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Dynamic Observation of an Atom-Sized Gold Wire by Phase Electron Microscopy

Yoshizo Takai, Tadahiro Kawasaki, Yoshihide Kimura, Takashi Ikuta, and Ryuichi Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106105 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Temperature Dependence of the Kondo Resonance and Its Satellites in ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

F. Reinert, D. Ehm, S. Schmidt, G. Nicolay, S. Hüfner, J. Kroha, O. Trovarelli, and C. Geibel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106401 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Quantum Interference and Ballistic Transmission in Nanotube Electron Waveguides

Jing Kong, Erhan Yenilmez, Thomas W. Tombler, Woong Kim, Hongjie Dai, Robert B. Laughlin, Lei Liu, C. S. Jayanthi, and S. Y. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106801 (2001) - Published 16 August, 2001

Characterization of Individual Threading Dislocations in GaN Using Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy

H.-J. Im, Y. Ding, J. P. Pelz, B. Heying, and J. S. Speck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106802 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Oscillating Sign of Drag in High Landau Levels

Felix von Oppen, Steven H. Simon, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 106803 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Direct Observation of Spontaneous Weak Ferromagnetism in the Superconductor ${ErNi}_{2} B_{2} C$

S.-M. Choi, J. W. Lynn, D. Lopez, P. L. Gammel, P. C. Canfield, and S. L. Bud'ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107001 (2001) - Published 15 August, 2001

Terahertz Responses of Intrinsic Josephson Junctions in High $T_{C}$ Superconductors

H. B. Wang, P. H. Wu, and T. Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107002 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Origin of Biquadratic Coupling in $Fe / Cr (100)$ Superlattices

J. Meersschaut, C. L'abbé, M. Rots, and S. D. Bader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107201 (2001) - Published 16 August, 2001

Giant Room-Temperature Magnetoresistance in Polycrystalline ${Zn}_{0.41} {Fe}_{2.59} O_{4}$ with $α - {Fe}_{2} O_{3}$ Grain Boundaries

P. Chen, D. Y. Xing, Y. W. Du, J. M. Zhu, and D. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107202 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Effects of Disorder on Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Mona Berciu and R. N. Bhatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107203 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Electron Confinement in Surface States on a Stepped Gold Surface Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission

A. Mugarza, A. Mascaraque, V. Pérez-Dieste, V. Repain, S. Rousset, F. J. García de Abajo, and J. E. Ortega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107601 (2001) - Published 17 August, 2001

Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Fluctuations of $π - d$ Itinerant Electrons Disclosed by Band-Selective NMR

A. Kawamoto, K. Miyagawa, and K. Kanoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 107602 (2001) - Published 21 August, 2001

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Random Walks of Cytoskeletal Motors in Open and Closed Compartments

Reinhard Lipowsky, Stefan Klumpp, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 108101 (2001) - Published 17 August, 2001

Excitable Media in a Chaotic Flow

Zoltán Neufeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 108301 (2001) - Published 15 August, 2001

Action-Derived Molecular Dynamics in the Study of Rare Events

Daniele Passerone and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 108302 (2001) - Published 17 August, 2001

COMMENTS

Comment on “Observation of Attosecond Light Localization in Higher Order Harmonic Generation”

G. Tempea, A. Scrinzi, F. Krausz, and T. Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 109401 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001

Papadogiannis et al. Reply:

N. A. Papadogiannis, B. Witzel, C. Kalpouzos, and D. Charalambidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 109402 (2001) - Published 20 August, 2001