• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • Gravitation and Astrophysics
  • Elementary Particles and Fields
  • Nuclear 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

General Physics

•	Structure and the Failure of the Linear Theory of Continuous Ordering N. Gross, W. Klein, and K. Ludwig pp. 2639-2642 [View Page Images , PDF (705 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Boundary Magnetization of a Two-Dimensional Ising Model with Inhomogeneous Nearest-Neighbor Interactions Alessandro Pelizzola pp. 2643-2645 [View Page Images , PDF (429 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exact Results for Hamiltonian Walks from the Solution of the Fully Packed Loop Model on the Honeycomb Lattice M. T. Batchelor, J. Suzuki, and C. M. Yung pp. 2646-2649 [View Page Images , PDF (650 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Asymmetric Nuclear Matter and Neutron Star Properties L. Engvik, M. Hjorth-Jensen, E. Osnes, G. Bao, and E. Østgaard pp. 2650-2653 [View Page Images , PDF (615 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	New Determination of the Pole Mass of the b Quark Using Lattice QCD C. T. Davies, K. Hornbostel, A. Langnau, G. P. Lepage, A. Lidsey, C. J. Morningstar, J. Shigemitsu, and J. Sloan pp. 2654-2657 [View Page Images , PDF (761 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Right Handed Weak Currents in Sum Rules for Axial-Vector Constant Renormalization N. B. Shul'gina pp. 2658-2661 [View Page Images , PDF (643 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision Measurement of the Prompt Photon Cross Section in pp̅ Collisions at sqrt[s]=1.8 TeV F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration) pp. 2662-2666 [View Page Images , PDF (1004 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for the Top Quark Decaying to a Charged Higgs Boson in p̅ p Collisions at sqrt[s]=1.8 TeV F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration) pp. 2667-2671 [View Page Images , PDF (915 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Intermittency in Quark-Gluon-Plasma Phase Transition A. K. Mohanty and S. K. Kataria pp. 2672-2675 [View Page Images , PDF (662 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Excitation Energy Dependence of the Fission Probability in 200Pb Compound Nuclei D. Fabris, G. Viesti, E. Fioretto, M. Cinausero, N. Gelli, K. Hagel, F. Lucarelli, J. B. Natowitz, G. Nebbia, G. Prete, and R. Wada pp. 2676-2679 [View Page Images , PDF (648 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Coulomb Dissociation of 8B and the 7Be(p,γ)8B Reaction at Low Energies T. Motobayashi, N. Iwasa, Y. Ando, M. Kurokawa, H. Murakami, J. Ruan (Gen), S. Shimoura, S. Shirato, N. Inabe, M. Ishihara, T. Kubo, Y. Watanabe, M. Gai, R. H. France, K. I. Hahn, Z. Zhao, T. Nakamura, T. Teranishi, Y. Futami, K. Furutaka, and Th. Delbar pp. 2680-2683 [View Page Images , PDF (756 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High-Momentum Protons in 208Pb I. Bobeldijk et al. pp. 2684-2687 [View Page Images , PDF (797 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics: Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	Distribution of "Level Velocities" in Quasi-1D Disordered or Chaotic Systems with Localization Yan V. Fyodorov pp. 2688-2691 [View Page Images , PDF (706 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Two-Color Phase Control in Tunneling Ionization and Harmonic Generation by a Strong Laser Field and Its Third Harmonic S. Watanabe, K. Kondo, Y. Nabekawa, A. Sagisaka, and Y. Kobayashi pp. 2692-2695 [View Page Images , PDF (614 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Negative Resistance Instability due to Nonlinear Damping D. D. Caussyn, M. Ball, B. Brabson, J. Budnick, V. Derenchuk, G. East, M. Ellison, D. Friesel, B. Hamilton, K. Hedblom, W. P. Jones, S. Y. Lee, D. Li, J. Y. Liu, T. Lofnes, K. Y. Ng, A. Riabko, T. Sloan, and Y. Wang pp. 2696-2699 [View Page Images , PDF (760 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Self-consistent Analytical Model of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Inertial Confinement Fusion J. Sanz pp. 2700-2703 [View Page Images , PDF (689 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Direct Measurements of the Ion Acoustic Decay Instability in a Laser-Produced, Large-Scale, Hot Plasma K. Mizuno, R. Bahr, B. S. Bauer, R. S. Craxton, J. S. DeGroot, R. P. Drake, W. Seka, and B. Sleaford pp. 2704-2707 [View Page Images , PDF (705 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Surface-Induced Discrete Smectic Order in the Isotropic Phase of 12CB in Cylindrical Pores Germano S. Iannacchione, Joseph T. Mang, Satyendra Kumar, and Daniele Finotello pp. 2708-2711 [View Page Images , PDF (727 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Approach in Equilibrium Theory for Strained Layer Relaxation A. Fischer, H. Kühne, and H. Richter pp. 2712-2715 [View Page Images , PDF (789 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coulombic Criticality in General Dimensions Yan Levin, Xiao-jun Li, and Michael E. Fisher pp. 2716-2719 [View Page Images , PDF (720 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Orientational Ordering of Frustrated Molecular Quadrupoles: NMR Studies of N2-Ar Solid Mixtures J. A. Hamida, N. S. Sullivan, and M. D. Evans pp. 2720-2723 [View Page Images , PDF (609 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Muonium Centers in Crystalline Si and Ge under Illumination R. Kadono, A. Matsushita, R. M. Macrae, K. Nishiyama, and K. Nagamine pp. 2724-2727 [View Page Images , PDF (807 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Room-Temperature Instability of Co/Cu(111) A. Rabe, N. Memmel, A. Steltenpohl, and Th. Fauster pp. 2728-2731 [View Page Images , PDF (802 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	EL2 Deep Donor State in Semi-Insulating GaAs Revealed by Frequency Dependent Positron Mobility Measurements H. L. Au, C. C. Ling, B. K. Panda, T. C. Lee, C. D. Beling, and S. Fung pp. 2732-2735 [View Page Images , PDF (848 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Non-Fermi-Liquid States in a Generalized Two-Channel Kondo Model Hanbin Pang pp. 2736-2739 [View Page Images , PDF (681 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exclusion Statistics: Low-Temperature Properties, Fluctuations, Duality, and Applications Chetan Nayak and Frank Wilczek pp. 2740-2743 [View Page Images , PDF (761 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetic Field Dependence of the Density of States of YBa2Cu3O6.95 as Determined from the Specific Heat K. A. Moler, D. J. Baar, J. S. Urbach, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, and A. Kapitulnik pp. 2744-2747 [View Page Images , PDF (770 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Neutron Diffraction Studies of Flowing and Pinned Magnetic Flux Lattices in 2H-NbSe2 U. Yaron, P. L. Gammel, D. A. Huse, R. N. Kleiman, C. S. Oglesby, E. Bucher, B. Batlogg, D. J. Bishop, K. Mortensen, K. Clausen, C. A. Bolle, and F. De La Cruz pp. 2748-2751 [View Page Images , PDF (738 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pair Breaking by Spin-Disorder Scattering at the Antiferromagnetic Transition of the Dy3+ Sublattice of DyBa2Cu3O7-δ Films K. M. Beauchamp, G. C. Spalding, W. H. Huber, and A. M. Goldman pp. 2752-2755 [View Page Images , PDF (787 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Oscillatory Magnetic Order in the Antiferromagnetic Superconductor HoNi2B2C T. E. Grigereit, J. W. Lynn, Q. Huang, A. Santoro, R. J. Cava, J. J. Krajewski, and W. F. Peck pp. 2756-2759 [View Page Images , PDF (746 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transient Spectroscopy of Excitons and Polarons in C60 Films from Femtoseconds to Milliseconds D. Dick, X. Wei, S. Jeglinski, R. E. Benner, Z. V. Vardeny, D. Moses, V. I. Srdanov, and F. Wudl pp. 2760-2763 [View Page Images , PDF (805 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Molecules in Solids W. E. Moerner, Taras Plakhotnik, Thomas Irngartinger, Urs P. Wild, Dieter W. Pohl, and Bert Hecht pp. 2764-2767 [View Page Images , PDF (827 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Limitations of the Trajectory Approximation in Atom-Surface Scattering Christopher A. DiRubio, David M. Goodstein, Barbara H. Cooper, and Kieron Burke pp. 2768-2771 [View Page Images , PDF (762 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Rates of Activated Processes with Fluctuating Barriers Philip Pechukas and Peter Hänggi pp. 2772-2775 [View Page Images , PDF (644 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dynamics of Semidilute Polyelectrolyte Solutions Michael Rubinstein, Ralph H. Colby, and Andrey V. Dobrynin pp. 2776-2779 [View Page Images , PDF (657 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long-Range Attraction between Nucleosides with Short-Range Specificity: Direct Measurements Frédéric Pincet, Eric Perez, Gary Bryant, Luc Lebeau, and Charles Mioskowski pp. 2780-2783 [View Page Images , PDF (771 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Potential Renormalization in Mesoscopic Tunneling D. V. Averin pp. 2784 [View Page Images , PDF (197 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ueda and Ando Reply Masahito Ueda and Tsuneya Ando pp. 2785 [View Page Images , PDF (175 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Conformal Charge and Exact Exponents in the n=2 Fully Packed Loop Model Jané Kondev and Christopher L. Henley pp. 2786 [View Page Images , PDF (189 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Blöte and Nienhuis Reply H. W. Blöte and B. Nienhuis pp. 2787 [View Page Images , PDF (86 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Selection by Quantum Fluctuations of Dipolar Order in a Diamond Lattice Christopher L. Henley pp. 2788 [View Page Images , PDF (152 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]