• 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
• ERRATA

LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Quark matter droplets in neutron stars H. Heiselberg, C. J. Pethick, and E. F. Staubo pp. 1355-1359 [View Page Images , PDF (851 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Operator algebra in Chern-Simons theory on a torus Choon-Lin Ho and Yutaka Hosotani pp. 1360-1363 [View Page Images , PDF (641 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	CP violation in semileptonic top quark decays in the Weinberg model D. Atwood, G. Eilam, A. Soni, R. R. Mendel, and R. Migneron pp. 1364-1367 [View Page Images , PDF (705 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Implications of b→sγ Decay Measurements in Testing the Higgs Sector of the Minimum Supersymmetric Standard Model V. Barger, M. S. Berger, and R. J. Phillips pp. 1368-1371 [View Page Images , PDF (1009 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QCD corrections to Higgs-boson production at proton-proton colliders D. Graudenz, M. Spira, and P. M. Zerwas pp. 1372-1375 [View Page Images , PDF (721 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison of jet production in p¯p collisions at √s =546 and 1800 GeV F. Abe et al. pp. 1376-1380 [View Page Images , PDF (891 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the mass and lifetime of the Ξc+ P. L. Frabetti et al. pp. 1381-1384 [View Page Images , PDF (541 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Structure of exotic neutron-rich nuclei Takaharu Otsuka, Nobuhisa Fukunishi, and Hiroyuki Sagawa pp. 1385-1388 [View Page Images , PDF (694 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-pole structure of the 3/2+ resonance of 5He in a dynamical microscopic model A. Csótó, R. G. Lovas, and A. T. Kruppa pp. 1389-1392 [View Page Images , PDF (749 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Azimuthal asymmetries of particles emitted in relativistic heavy-ion collisions T. Abbott et al. pp. 1393-1396 [View Page Images , PDF (749 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Measurement of the positronium 13S1-23S1 interval by continuous-wave two-photon excitation M. S. Fee, A. P. Mills, S. Chu, E. D. Shaw, K. Danzmann, R. J. Chichester, and D. M. Zuckerman pp. 1397-1400 [View Page Images , PDF (621 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonlinear optics of Bessel beams T. Wulle and S. Herminghaus pp. 1401-1404 [View Page Images , PDF (588 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	Semiclassical construction of chaotic eigenstates Steven Tomsovic and Eric J. Heller pp. 1405-1408 [View Page Images , PDF (825 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Scattering by a one-dimensional rough surface, and surface profile reconstruction by confocal imaging C. J. Sheppard, T. J. Connolly, and Min Gu pp. 1409-1412 [View Page Images , PDF (643 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	QED-vacuum confinement of inelastic quantum scattering at optical frequencies: A new perspective in Raman spectroscopy F. Cairo, F. De Martini, and D. Murra pp. 1413-1416 [View Page Images , PDF (609 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Large enhancements in nonlinear generation by external electromagnetic fields G. S. Agarwal and Surya P. Tewari pp. 1417-1420 [View Page Images , PDF (602 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near dipole-dipole effects in lasing without inversion: An enhancement of gain and absorptionless index of refraction Jonathan P. Dowling and Charles M. Bowden pp. 1421-1424 [View Page Images , PDF (547 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamic characteristics of a subcritical bifurcation with inversion symmetry S. T. Vohra and F. Bucholtz pp. 1425-1428 [View Page Images , PDF (629 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Drift instability and second harmonic generation in a one-dimensional pattern-forming system Innocent Mutabazi and C. David Andereck pp. 1429-1432 [View Page Images , PDF (1039 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Free-electron lasing without inversion by interference of momentum states G. Kurizki, M. O. Scully, and C. Keitel pp. 1433-1436 [View Page Images , PDF (642 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Scanning-tunneling-microscope tip-induced migration of vacancies on GaP(110) Ph. Ebert, M. G. Lagally, and K. Urban pp. 1437-1440 [View Page Images , PDF (955 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct observation of surface chemical order by scanning tunneling microscopy M. Schmid, H. Stadler, and P. Varga pp. 1441-1444 [View Page Images , PDF (1123 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Curvature elasticity of smectic-A textures with virtual surface singularities J. B. Fournier pp. 1445-1448 [View Page Images , PDF (621 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Shear-induced isotropic-to-lamellar transition Kurt A. Koppi, Matthew Tirrell, and Frank S. Bates pp. 1449-1452 [View Page Images , PDF (715 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Wetting properties of thin liquid polyethylene propylene films W. Zhao, M. H. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, L. J. Fetters, R. Plano, M. K. Sanyal, S. K. Sinha, and B. B. Sauer pp. 1453-1456 [View Page Images , PDF (997 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity-induced phonon softening in YBa2Cu3O7 observed by inelastic neutron scattering N. Pyka, W. Reichardt, L. Pintschovius, G. Engel, J. Rossat-Mignod, and J. Y. Henry pp. 1457-1460 [View Page Images , PDF (532 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Reaction kinetics of diffusing particles injected into a d-dimensional reactive substrate H. Larralde, Y. Lereah, P. Trunfio, J. Dror, S. Havlin, R. Rosenbaum, and H. E. Stanley pp. 1461-1464 [View Page Images , PDF (641 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical behavior of the pair contact process Iwan Jensen pp. 1465-1468 [View Page Images , PDF (720 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidences of transitory metastable phases in refractory metals solidified from highly undercooled liquids in a drop tube L. Cortella, B. Vinet, P. J. Desré, A. Pasturel, A. T. Paxton, and M. van Schilfgaarde pp. 1469-1472 [View Page Images , PDF (678 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlated Ostwald ripening in two dimensions Oleg Krichevsky and Joel Stavans pp. 1473-1476 [View Page Images , PDF (888 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of simultaneous ordering and phase separation and effect of long-range Coulomb interactions L. Q. Chen and A. G. Khachaturyan pp. 1477-1480 [View Page Images , PDF (1062 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Melting pressure of solid 3He through the magnetic-ordering transitions J. S. Xia, W. Ni, and E. D. Adams pp. 1481-1484 [View Page Images , PDF (553 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Saddle-splay modulus of the AOT monolayer in the AOT-brine-oil system H. Kellay, J. Meunier, and B. P. Binks pp. 1485-1488 [View Page Images , PDF (667 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pt(111) reconstruction induced by enhanced Pt gas-phase chemical potential Michael Bott, Michael Hohage, Thomas Michely, and George Comsa pp. 1489-1492 [View Page Images , PDF (1396 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mg on Pd(111): The formation of local order observed by photoelectron diffraction A. Fischer, R. Fasel, J. Osterwalder, A. Krozer, and L. Schlapbach pp. 1493-1496 [View Page Images , PDF (1037 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Optical and magnetic signatures of localized excitations in pernigraniline: Role of neutral solitons W. P. Su and A. J. Epstein pp. 1497-1500 [View Page Images , PDF (618 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transitions between the quantum Hall states and insulators induced by periodic potentials Xiao-Gang Wen and Yong-Shi Wu pp. 1501-1504 [View Page Images , PDF (681 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of polarons in conducting polymers H. A. Mizes and E. M. Conwell pp. 1505-1508 [View Page Images , PDF (622 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Persistent currents in an interacting 1D disordered ring: Manifestations of the Mott-Hubbard transition Michael Abraham and Richard Berkovits pp. 1509-1512 [View Page Images , PDF (733 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic theory of periodic conductance resonances in narrow channels N. F. Johnson and M. C. Payne pp. 1513-1516 [View Page Images , PDF (669 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single electron tunneling from bound states on the surface of liquid helium Gordon F. Saville, John M. Goodkind, and P. M. Platzman pp. 1517-1520 [View Page Images , PDF (769 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical-current fluctuations and flux-flow noise in type-II superconductors B. Plaçais, P. Mathieu, and Y. Simon pp. 1521-1524 [View Page Images , PDF (716 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Thermally activated coherent vortex motion in YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin film microbridges M. J. de Nivelle, G. J. Gerritsma, and H. Rogalla pp. 1525-1528 [View Page Images , PDF (746 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quasiparticle decay effects in the superconducting density of states: Evidence for d-wave pairing in the cuprates D. Coffey and L. Coffey pp. 1529-1532 [View Page Images , PDF (649 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interbilayer charge dynamics in YBa2Cu3O6+x S. L. Cooper, P. Nyhus, D. Reznik, M. V. Klein, W. C. Lee, D. M. Ginsberg, B. W. Veal, A. P. Paulikas, and B. Dabrowski pp. 1533-1536 [View Page Images , PDF (710 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-dimensional momentum density of magnetic electrons in ferromagnetic iron Yoshikazu Tanaka, Nobuhiko Sakai, Yasunori Kubo, and Hiroshi Kawata pp. 1537-1540 [View Page Images , PDF (792 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dissipation by nuclear spins in macroscopic magnetization tunneling Anupam Garg pp. 1541-1544 [View Page Images , PDF (745 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of photoluminescence from the Wigner crystal in a strong magnetic field H. A. Fertig, D. Z. Liu, and S. Das Sarma pp. 1545-1548 [View Page Images , PDF (693 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray magnetic dichroism of antiferromagnet Fe2O3: The orientation of magnetic moments observed by Fe 2p x-ray absorption spectroscopy Pieter Kuiper, Barry G. Searle, Petra Rudolf, L. H. Tjeng, and C. T. Chen pp. 1549-1552 [View Page Images , PDF (752 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anomalously large gap anisotropy in the a-b plane of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Z.-X. Shen, D. S. Dessau, B. O. Wells, D. M. King, W. E. Spicer, A. J. Arko, D. Marshall, L. W. Lombardo, A. Kapitulnik, P. Dickinson, S. Doniach, J. DiCarlo, T. Loeser, and C. H. Park pp. 1553-1556 [View Page Images , PDF (783 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Dynamical criterion for freezing of colloidal liquids Hartmut Löwen, Thomas Palberg, and Rolf Simon pp. 1557-1560 [View Page Images , PDF (750 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on ‘‘Packet spreading, stabilization, and localization in superstrong fields’’ T. Katsouleas and W. B. Mori pp. 1561 [View Page Images , PDF (165 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Grobe and Fedorov reply R. Grobe and M. V. Fedorov pp. 1562 [View Page Images , PDF (109 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superfluid-insulator transition in the Bogoliubov model A. Gold pp. 1563 [View Page Images , PDF (140 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Huang and Meng reply Kerson Huang and Hsin-Fei Meng pp. 1564 [View Page Images , PDF (37 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Origin of the Band Gap in the Negative Charge-Transfer-Energy Compound NaCuO2 T. Mizokawa, H. Namatame, A. Fujimori, K. Akeyama, H. Kondoh, H. Kuroda, and N. Kosugi pp. 1565 [View Page Images or PDF (80 kB) ]

•	Ginzburg-Landau Theory of the Phase Diagram of Superconducting UPt3 Anupam Garg pp. 1565 [View Page Images or PDF (80 kB) ]