• LETTERS
  • 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.
  • Cross-Disciplinary Physics
• COMMENTS

LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Effects of decay of the scalar partner of the axion on cosmological bounds on axion supermultiplet properties Jihn E. Kim pp. 3465-3468 [View Page Images , PDF (492 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Gauge theory of the Virasoro group Y. M. Cho pp. 3469-3472 [View Page Images , PDF (554 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Axial vector coupling of the quark Steven Weinberg pp. 3473-3474 [View Page Images , PDF (333 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surprises from Bose-Einstein correlations I. V. Andreev, M. Plümer, and R. M. Weiner pp. 3475-3478 [View Page Images , PDF (443 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Axial-charge transitions in heavy nuclei and in-medium effective chiral Lagrangians Kuniharu Kubodera and Mannque Rho pp. 3479-3482 [View Page Images , PDF (714 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Slowing atoms with σ- polarized light Thomas E. Barrett, Samuel W. Dapore-Schwartz, Mark D. Ray, and Gregory P. Lafyatis pp. 3483-3486 [View Page Images , PDF (728 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Universal parameter tight-binding molecular dynamics: Application to C60 Madhu Menon and K. R. Subbaswamy pp. 3487-3490 [View Page Images , PDF (701 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single-quantum annihilation of positrons with shell-bound atomic electrons J. C. Palathingal, P. Asoka-Kumar, K. G. Lynn, Y. Posada, and X. Y. Wu pp. 3491-3494 [View Page Images , PDF (638 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for very narrow shape resonances in low-energy electron-Cs scattering U. Thumm and D. W. Norcross pp. 3495-3498 [View Page Images , PDF (609 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	Quantum vortex configurations in three dimensions Gerald A. Goldin, Ralph Menikoff, and David H. Sharp pp. 3499-3502 [View Page Images , PDF (797 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Probability distribution of a passive scalar in grid-generated turbulence Jayesh and Z. Warhaft pp. 3503-3506 [View Page Images , PDF (688 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations and transport in a stirred fluid with a mean gradient J. P. Gollub, J. Clarke, M. Gharib, B. Lane, and O. N. Mesquita pp. 3507-3510 [View Page Images , PDF (586 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Numerical computation of 3D incompressible ideal fluids with swirl Rainer Grauer and Thomas C. Sideris pp. 3511-3514 [View Page Images , PDF (508 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wavelets and multifractal formalism for singular signals: Application to turbulence data J. F. Muzy, E. Bacry, and A. Arneodo pp. 3515-3518 [View Page Images , PDF (748 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Development of hard-turbulent convection in two dimensions: Numerical evidence J. Werne, E. E. DeLuca, R. Rosner, and F. Cattaneo pp. 3519-3522 [View Page Images , PDF (654 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Measurement of femtosecond ionization dynamics of atmospheric density gases by spectral blueshifting Wm. M. Wood, C. W. Siders, and M. C. Downer pp. 3523-3526 [View Page Images , PDF (783 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•

Analysis of sawtooth oscillations using simultaneous measurement of electron cyclotron emission imaging and x-ray tomography on TFTR Y. Nagayama, K. M. McGuire, M. Bitter, A. Cavallo, E. D. Fredrickson, K. W. Hill, H. Hsuan, A. Janos, W. Park, G. Taylor, and M. Yamada pp. 3527-3530 [View Page Images , PDF (726 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Relaxation of randomly cross-linked polymer melts Edgardo R. Duering, Kurt Kremer, and Gary S. Grest pp. 3531-3534 [View Page Images , PDF (689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Heat capacity of fluid monolayers of 4He Dennis S. Greywall and Paul A. Busch pp. 3535-3538 [View Page Images , PDF (725 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular dynamics of drop spreading on a solid surface Ju-xing Yang, Joel Koplik, and Jayanth R. Banavar pp. 3539-3542 [View Page Images , PDF (640 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Attractive interaction between steps J. Frohn, M. Giesen, M. Poensgen, J. F. Wolf, and H. Ibach pp. 3543-3546 [View Page Images , PDF (937 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phases of the Au(100) surface reconstruction Xiao-Qian Wang pp. 3547-3550 [View Page Images , PDF (645 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unusual state of adsorbed CO: CO(√3 × √3 )R30°/Cr2O3(111) C. Xu, B. Dillmann, H. Kuhlenbeck, and H.-J. Freund pp. 3551-3554 [View Page Images , PDF (730 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-body correlations in the metallic glass Ni81B19 probed by x-ray-absorption near-edge-structure spectroscopy Peter Kizler pp. 3555-3558 [View Page Images , PDF (699 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanical instability of α-quartz: A molecular dynamics study John S. Tse and Dennis D. Klug pp. 3559-3562 [View Page Images , PDF (605 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	5f bonding in thorium metal at extreme compressions: Phase transitions to 300 GPa Yogesh K. Vohra and Jagannadham Akella pp. 3563-3566 [View Page Images , PDF (582 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Cluster-impact-fusion yields: No collective effect observed for small water clusters R. Vandenbosch, T. A. Trainor, D. I. Will, J. Neubauer, and I. Brown pp. 3567-3570 [View Page Images , PDF (507 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental evidence for the aggregation of photostimulable centers in BaFBr:Eu2+ single crystals by cross relaxation spectroscopy F. K. Koschnick, J.-M. Spaeth, R. S. Eachus, W. G. McDugle, and R. H. Nuttall pp. 3571-3574 [View Page Images , PDF (696 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beam charge dependence of ion-surface scattering B. Hird, P. Gauthier, J. Bulicz, and R. A. Armstrong pp. 3575-3577 [View Page Images , PDF (531 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic response of a single, isolated gold loop V. Chandrasekhar, R. A. Webb, M. J. Brady, M. B. Ketchen, W. J. Gallagher, and A. Kleinsasser pp. 3578-3581 [View Page Images , PDF (725 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy localization in mesoscopic systems: Rings versus cylinders Isaac Goldhirsch, Dror Lubin, and Yuval Gefen pp. 3582-3585 [View Page Images , PDF (685 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tunneling spectroscopy of an electron waveguide Cristopher C. Eugster and Jesús A. del Alamo pp. 3586-3589 [View Page Images , PDF (931 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dichroic x-ray fluorescence P. Strange, P. J. Durham, and B. L. Gyorffy pp. 3590-3593 [View Page Images , PDF (599 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of anomalous multilayer magnetoresistance within the thermomagnetoelectric system Mark Johnson pp. 3594-3597 [View Page Images , PDF (698 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Systematic variation of the strength and oscillation period of indirect magnetic exchange coupling through the 3d, 4d, and 5d transition metals S. S. Parkin pp. 3598-3601 [View Page Images , PDF (759 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Size-dependent Curie temperature in nanoscale MnFe2O4 particles Z. X. Tang, C. M. Sorensen, K. J. Klabunde, and G. C. Hadjipanayis pp. 3602-3605 [View Page Images , PDF (600 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Effect of random disorder on the critical behavior of Josephson junction arrays D. C. Harris, S. T. Herbert, D. Stroud, and J. C. Garland pp. 3606-3609 [View Page Images , PDF (682 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Variational wave functions and ground-state properties in the one-dimensional t-J model Hisatoshi Yokoyama and Masao Ogata pp. 3610-3613 [View Page Images , PDF (644 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sign of the coupling between T-violating ground states in second-order perturbation theory A. G. Rojo and A. J. Leggett pp. 3614-3617 [View Page Images , PDF (655 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous Hall effect associated with pinning in high-κ superconductors Z. D. Wang and C. S. Ting pp. 3618-3621 [View Page Images , PDF (625 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-energy spin waves in La2CuO4 S. M. Hayden, G. Aeppli, R. Osborn, A. D. Taylor, T. G. Perring, S-W. Cheong, and Z. Fisk pp. 3622-3625 [View Page Images , PDF (665 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Structure of silica gels Fabio Ferri, B. J. Frisken, and David S. Cannell pp. 3626-3629 [View Page Images , PDF (622 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spin-glass nature of tweed precursors in martensitic transformations Sivan Kartha, Teresa Castán, James A. Krumhansl, and James P. Sethna pp. 3630-3633 [View Page Images , PDF (808 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Fractal geometry of isoscalar surfaces in turbulence Robert H. Kraichnan pp. 3634 [View Page Images , PDF (125 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]