Volume 87, Issue 16

15 October 2001

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On the Cover

Side view of the atomic structures and theoretical STM images for D_B As/Ge steps. The blue balls are the As atoms and the red are the Ge atoms.

From the article:

Steps on As-Terminated Ge(001) Revisited: Theory versus Experiment
S. B. Zhang, W. E. McMahon, J. M. Olson, and Su-Huai Wei
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166104 (2001)

LETTERS

General Physics

Diffraction of Complex Molecules by Structures Made of Light

Olaf Nairz, Björn Brezger, Markus Arndt, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160401 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Simulations of Bose Fields at Finite Temperature

M. J. Davis, S. A. Morgan, and K. Burnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160402 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Superposition of Macroscopic Numbers of Atoms and Molecules

John Calsamiglia, Matt Mackie, and Kalle-Antti Suominen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160403 (2001) - Published 28 September, 2001

Measuring the Temporal Coherence of an Atom Laser Beam

Michael Köhl, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160404 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Exploring Phase Coherence in a 2D Lattice of Bose-Einstein Condensates

Markus Greiner, Immanuel Bloch, Olaf Mandel, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160405 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Observation of Phase Fluctuations in Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensates

S. Dettmer, D. Hellweg, P. Ryytty, J. J. Arlt, W. Ertmer, K. Sengstock, D. S. Petrov, G. V. Shlyapnikov, H. Kreutzmann, L. Santos, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160406 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Three-Body Recombination into Deep Bound States in a Bose Gas with Large Scattering Length

Eric Braaten and H.-W. Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160407 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Resonance Absolute Quantum Reflection at Selected Energies

V. M. Chabanov and B. N. Zakhariev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160408 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Worm Algorithms for Classical Statistical Models

Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160601 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation of $B \to J / {ψ K}_{1} (1270)$

K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 161601 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider

Savas Dimopoulos and Greg Landsberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 161602 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Large Electric Dipole Moments of Heavy Leptons

Marc Sher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 161801 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Measurement of the Branching Ratios of $D^{+}$ and $D_{s}^{+}$ Hadronic Decays to Four-Body Final States Containing a $K_{S}$

J. M. Link et al. (FOCUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 162001 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Measurement of $J / ψ$ Production in Continuum $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilations near $\sqrt s = 10.6 GeV$

B. Aubert et al. (The BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 162002 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Nuclear Physics

Quantum Phase Transition for $γ$ -Soft Nuclei

J. Jolie, R. F. Casten, P. von Brentano, and V. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 162501 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Poisson Equation in the Kohn-Sham Coulomb Problem

F. R. Manby and P. J. Knowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 163001 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Angular Focusing, Squeezing, and Rainbow Formation in a Strongly Driven Quantum Rotor

I. Sh. Averbukh and R. Arvieu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 163601 (2001) - Published 28 September, 2001

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Thermodynamic Formalism of the Harmonic Measure of Diffusion Limited Aggregates: Phase Transition

Benny Davidovitch, Mogens H. Jensen, Anders Levermann, Joachim Mathiesen, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 164101 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Extracting Symbolic Cycles from Turbulent Fluctuation Data

M. Lehrman and A. B. Rechester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 164501 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Statistical Conservation Laws in Turbulent Transport

Itai Arad, Luca Biferale, Antonio Celani, Itamar Procaccia, and Massimo Vergassola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 164502 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Targeted Energy Transfer through Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Systems

G. Kopidakis, S. Aubry, and G. P. Tsironis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165501 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

First-Principles Predictions of Yet-Unobserved Ordered Structures in the Ag-Pd Phase Diagram

Stefan Müller and Alex Zunger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165502 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Application of an Electric Field to Colloidal Particles Suspended in a Liquid-Crystal Solvent

J. C. Loudet and P. Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165503 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Temperature Measurements of Shock Compressed Liquid Deuterium up to 230 GPa

G. W. Collins, P. M. Celliers, L. B. Da Silva, R. Cauble, D. M. Gold, M. E. Foord, N. C. Holmes, B. A. Hammel, R. J. Wallace, and A. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165504 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Molecular Dynamics Study of Melting and fcc-bcc Transitions in Xe

A. B. Belonoshko, R. Ahuja, and B. Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165505 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Defect Generation by Hydrogen at the Si- ${SiO}_{2}$ Interface

S. N. Rashkeev, D. M. Fleetwood, R. D. Schrimpf, and S. T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165506 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Surface Step Effects on Nanoindentation

J. A. Zimmerman, C. L. Kelchner, P. A. Klein, J. C. Hamilton, and S. M. Foiles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165507 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Multifractal Burst in the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Jerky Flow

M. S. Bharathi, M. Lebyodkin, G. Ananthakrishna, C. Fressengeas, and L. P. Kubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 165508 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Layering at Free Liquid Surfaces

E. Chacón, M. Reinaldo-Falagán, E. Velasco, and P. Tarazona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166101 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Oxidation of a Single Carbon Monoxide Molecule Manipulated and Induced with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

J. R. Hahn and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166102 (2001) - Published 28 September, 2001

Auto-Optimization of Dewetting Rates by Rim Instabilities in Slipping Polymer Films

Günter Reiter and Ashutosh Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166103 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Steps on As-Terminated Ge(001) Revisited: Theory versus Experiment

S. B. Zhang, W. E. McMahon, J. M. Olson, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166104 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Localized Microstructures Induced by Fluid Flow in Directional Solidification

H. Jamgotchian, N. Bergeon, D. Benielli, Ph. Voge, B. Billia, and R. Guérin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166105 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Evolution of Quasiparticle Properties in ${UGe}_{2}$ with Hydrostatic Pressure Studied via the de Haas–van Alphen Effect

T. Terashima, T. Matsumoto, C. Terakura, S. Uji, N. Kimura, M. Endo, T. Komatsubara, and H. Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166401 (2001) - Published 28 September, 2001

Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Scattering of Hot-Electron Spins Injected into Ferromagnetic Thin-Films

R. Jansen, S. D. Kim, R. Vlutters, O. M. J. van't Erve, and J. C. Lodder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166601 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Suppression of Tunneling into Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

A. Bachtold, M. de Jonge, K. Grove-Rasmussen, P. L. McEuen, M. Buitelaar, and C. Schönenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166801 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Magnetically Induced Reconstruction of the Ground State in a Few-Electron Si Quantum Dot

L. P. Rokhinson, L. J. Guo, S. Y. Chou, and D. C. Tsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 166802 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Temperature Variations of the Disorder-Induced Vortex-Lattice-Melting Landscape

A. Soibel, Y. Myasoedov, M. L. Rappaport, T. Tamegai, S. S. Banerjee, and E. Zeldov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167001 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Evidence for Diverging Barriers in the Disordered Vortex Solid in the $(K, B a) {BiO}_{3}$ Superconducting Oxide

I. Joumard, T. Klein, and J. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167002 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Order Parameter of ${MgB}_{2}$ : A Fully Gapped Superconductor

H. D. Yang, J.-Y. Lin, H. H. Li, F. H. Hsu, C. J. Liu, S.-C. Li, R.-C. Yu, and C.-Q. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167003 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Staggered Currents in the Mixed State

Qiang-Hua Wang, Jung Hoon Han, and Dung-Hai Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167004 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Stripes and Spin Incommensurabilities Are Favored by Lattice Anisotropies

Federico Becca, Luca Capriotti, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167005 (2001) - Published 26 September, 2001

Angle Dependence of the Transverse Thermal Conductivity in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7}$ Single Crystals: Doppler Shift and Andreev Scattering Contributions

R. Ocaña and P. Esquinazi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167006 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001

Simultaneous Onset of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity

Harry Suhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167007 (2001) - Published 28 September, 2001

Strong Spin-Fluctuation Effects on the Photoemission Line Shape in the Normal State of High- $T_{C}$ Cuprates

J. D. Lee and A. Fujimori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167008 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Fluctuation Induced Diamagnetism in the Zero Magnetic Field Limit in a Low Temperature Superconducting Alloy

Jesús Mosqueira, Carlos Carballeira, and Félix Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167009 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Absence of a Slater Transition in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

S. Moukouri and M. Jarrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167010 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Nodal Quasiparticles in Stripe Ordered Superconductors

M. Granath, V. Oganesyan, S. A. Kivelson, E. Fradkin, and V. J. Emery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167011 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Intermediate Spin, Schrödinger Cat States, and Nanomagnets

S. E. Barnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167201 (2001) - Published 28 September, 2001

Local Defect in Metallic Quantum Critical Systems

A. J. Millis, D. K. Morr, and J. Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167202 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Pressure-Enhanced 3D Antiferromagnetic Correlations in ${La}_{1.4} {Sr}_{1.6} {Mn}_{2} O_{7}$

K. V. Kamenev, G. J. McIntyre, Z. Arnold, J. Kamarád, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, E. M. L. Chung, and D. McK. Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167203 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Fractional and Integer Excitations in Quantum Antiferromagnetic Spin $1 / 2$ Ladders

C. Knetter, K. P. Schmidt, M. Grüninger, and G. S. Uhrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167204 (2001) - Published 1 October, 2001

Dzyaloshinski-Moriya Interaction in the 2D Spin Gap System ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

O. Cépas, K. Kakurai, L. P. Regnault, T. Ziman, J. P. Boucher, N. Aso, M. Nishi, H. Kageyama, and Y. Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167205 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Two-Dimensional Randomly Frustrated Spin- $1 / 2$ Heisenberg Model

J. Oitmaa and O. P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167206 (2001) - Published 2 October, 2001

Localization versus Delocalization of Surface Plasmons in Nanosystems: Can One State Have Both Characteristics?

Mark I. Stockman, Sergey V. Faleev, and David J. Bergman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 167401 (2001) - Published 27 September, 2001