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  • 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

General Physics

•	A No-Go Theorem for Joint Property Ascriptions in Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics Pieter E. Vermaas pp. 2033-2037 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Diffraction of Atoms from a Measurement Induced Grating Stefan Kunze, Kai Dieckmann, and Gerhard Rempe pp. 2038-2041 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Toward a Statistical Thermodynamics of Steady States Mark E. Tuckerman, Christopher J. Mundy, and Michael L. Klein pp. 2042-2045 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision Rotation Measurements with an Atom Interferometer Gyroscope T. L. Gustavson, P. Bouyer, and M. A. Kasevich pp. 2046-2049 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Self-Consistent Wormhole Solutions of Semiclassical Gravity David Hochberg, Arkadiy Popov, and Sergey V. Sushkov pp. 2050-2053 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Signature of Gravity Waves in the Polarization of the Microwave Background Uros̆ Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga pp. 2054-2057 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	A Probe of Primordial Gravity Waves and Vorticity Marc Kamionkowski, Arthur Kosowsky, and Albert Stebbins pp. 2058-2061 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Weakly First-Order Phase Transitions: The ε Expansion vs Numerical Simulations in the Cubic Anisotropy Model Peter Arnold, Stephen R. Sharpe, Laurence G. Yaffe, and Yan Zhang pp. 2062-2065 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Nonintercommuting Cosmic Strings Luís M. Bettencourt, Pablo Laguna, and Richard A. Matzner pp. 2066-2069 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in pp̅ Collisions at  =  1.8 TeV S. Abachi et al. (D0 Collaboration) pp. 2070-2074 [View PDF (223 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Improved Measurement of the Left-Right Z0 Cross Section Asymmetry K. Abe et al. (SLD Collaboration) pp. 2075-2079 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Collective Expansion in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions I. G. Bearden et al. (The NA44 Collaboration) pp. 2080-2083 [View PDF (152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Evidence for the Decay of Nuclear Matter Toroidal Geometries in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions N. T. Stone, O. Bjarki, E. E. Gualtieri, S. A. Hannuschke, R. Lacey, J. Lauret, W. J. Llope, D. J. Magestro, R. Pak, A. M. Vander Molen, G. D. Westfall, and J. Yee pp. 2084-2087 [View PDF (106 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Delta Kick Cooling: A New Method for Cooling Atoms Hubert Ammann and Nelson Christensen pp. 2088-2091 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatial Quantum Signatures in Parametric Down-Conversion I. Marzoli, A. Gatti, and L. A. Lugiato pp. 2092-2095 [View PDF (739 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observing the Position Spread of Atomic Wave Packets A. Görlitz, M. Weidemüller, T. W. Hänsch, and A. Hemmerich pp. 2096-2099 [View PDF (136 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Harmonic Generation Spectra of Neutral Helium by the Complex-Scaled ( t,t′) Method: Role of Dynamical Electron Correlation Nimrod Moiseyev and Frank Weinhold pp. 2100-2103 [View PDF (133 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	First Order Phase Transition Resulting from Finite Inertia in Coupled Oscillator Systems Hisa-Aki Tanaka, Allan J. Lichtenberg, and Shin'ichi Oishi pp. 2104-2107 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Decay of High Order Optical Vortices in Anisotropic Nonlinear Optical Media A. V. Mamaev, M. Saffman, and A. A. Zozulya pp. 2108-2111 [View PDF (2152 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Vorticity Generation in Slow Cooling Flows Ami Glasner, Eli Livne, and Baruch Meerson pp. 2112-2115 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular Simulation of Reentrant Corner Flow Joel Koplik and Jayanth R. Banavar pp. 2116-2119 [View PDF (193 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gas-Film Levitated Liquids: Shape Fluctuations of Viscous Drops M. Papoular and C. Parayre pp. 2120-2123 [View PDF (219 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Observation of Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission in the Mid-Infrared in a Free-Electron Laser R. Prazeres, J. M. Ortega, F. Glotin, D. A. Jaroszynski, and O. Marcouillé pp. 2124-2127 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Test Particle Transport due to Long Range Interactions F. Anderegg, X.-P. Huang, C. F. Driscoll, E. M. Hollmann, T. M. O'Neil, and D. H. Dubin pp. 2128-2131 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron Parametric Instabilities of Ultraintense Short Laser Pulses Propagating in Plasmas B. Quesnel, P. Mora, J. C. Adam, S. Guérin, A. Héron, and G. Laval pp. 2132-2135 [View PDF (233 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Small-Angle Excess Scattering: Glassy Freezing or Local Orientational Ordering? H. Weber, W. Paul, W. Kob, and K. Binder pp. 2136-2139 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tricritical Behavior in Rupture Induced by Disorder Jørgen Vitting Andersen, Didier Sornette, and Kwan-tai Leung pp. 2140-2143 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Role of Ultrafine Microstructures in Dynamic Fracture in Nanophase Silicon Nitride Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Andrey Omeltchenko, Kenji Tsuruta, and Priya Vashishta pp. 2144-2147 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Crack Front Propagation and Fracture in a Graphite Sheet: A Molecular-Dynamics Study on Parallel Computers Andrey Omeltchenko, Jin Yu, Rajiv K. Kalia, and Priya Vashishta pp. 2148-2151 [View PDF (936 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low-Frequency Phason and Amplitudon Dynamics in the Incommensurate Phase of Rb2ZnCl4 P. Mischo, F. Decker, U. Häcker, K.-P. Holzer, J. Petersson, and D. Michel pp. 2152-2155 [View PDF (121 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetics of Crossover in Phase-Separating Liquid Mixtures Induced by Finite-Size Effects C. Lalaude, J. P. Delville, S. Buil, and A. Ducasse pp. 2156-2159 [View PDF (163 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carrier Concentrations and Relaxation Spectroscopy: New Information from Scaling Properties of Conductivity Spectra in Ionically Conducting Glasses B. Roling, A. Happe, K. Funke, and M. D. Ingram pp. 2160-2163 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Transition from Island Growth to Step-Flow Growth for Si/Si(100) Epitaxy Bert Voigtländer, Thomas Weber, Pavel Šmilauer, and Dietrich E. Wolf pp. 2164-2167 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Droplet Fluctuations in the Morphology and Kinetics of Martensites Madan Rao and Surajit Sengupta pp. 2168-2171 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Etching of Silica Glass under Electric Fields B. Lesche, F. C. Garcia, E. N. Hering, W. Margulis, I. C. Carvalho, and F. Laurell pp. 2172-2175 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Anomalous Drude Model Hermann Schulz-Baldes pp. 2176-2179 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	One-Dimensional Kondo Lattice at Partial Band Filling Graeme Honner and Miklós Gulácsi pp. 2180-2183 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fast Hole Transport in a New Calamitic Liquid Crystal of 2-(4′-Heptyloxyphenyl)-6-Dodecylthiobenzothiazole Masahiro Funahashi and Jun-ichi Hanna pp. 2184-2187 [View PDF (103 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hopf Term and the Effective Lagrangian for the Skyrmions in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at Small g Factor W. Apel and Yu. A. Bychkov pp. 2188-2191 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optically Induced Damping of the Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold Colloids M. Perner, P. Bost, U. Lemmer, G. von Plessen, J. Feldmann, U. Becker, M. Mennig, M. Schmitt, and H. Schmidt pp. 2192-2195 [View PDF (117 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fractional Pumping of Energy into a Ballistic Quantum Ring L. Gorelik, S. Kulinich, Yu. Galperin, R. I. Shekhter, and M. Jonson pp. 2196-2199 [View PDF (206 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	New Universality at the Magnetic Field Driven Insulator to Integer Quantum Hall Effect Transitions S.-H. Song, D. Shahar, D. C. Tsui, Y. H. Xie, and Don Monroe pp. 2200-2203 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Correlation Effects on the Coupled Plasmon Modes of a Double Quantum Well N. P. Hill, J. T. Nicholls, E. H. Linfield, M. Pepper, D. A. Ritchie, G. A. Jones, Ben Yu-Kuang Hu, and Karsten Flensberg pp. 2204-2207 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Precision Ginzburg-Landau Solution of Ideal Vortex Lattices for Any Induction and Symmetry Ernst Helmut Brandt pp. 2208-2211 [View PDF (181 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Evidence for Two-Component High-Temperature Superconductivity in the Femtosecond Optical Response of YBa2Cu3O7-δ C. J. Stevens, D. Smith, C. Chen, J. F. Ryan, B. Podobnik, D. Mihailovic, G. A. Wagner, and J. E. Evetts pp. 2212-2215 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Schwinger-Boson Approach to Quantum Spin Systems: Gaussian Fluctuations in the “Natural” Gauge A. E. Trumper, L. O. Manuel, C. J. Gazza, and H. A. Ceccatto pp. 2216-2219 [View PDF (182 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Low Temperature Relaxational Dynamics of the Ising Chain in a Transverse Field Subir Sachdev and A. P. Young pp. 2220-2223 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Soliton and 2D Domains in Ultrathin Magnetic Films S. T. Chui and V. N. Ryzhov pp. 2224-2227 [View PDF (252 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Femtosecond Emission from Quantum Well Excitons: The Role of Rayleigh Scattering and Luminescence S. Haacke, R. A. Taylor, R. Zimmermann, I. Bar-Joseph, and B. Deveaud pp. 2228-2231 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitonic Emission of THz Radiation: Experimental Evidence of the Shortcomings of the Bloch Equation Method P. Haring Bolivar, F. Wolter, A. Müller, H. G. Roskos, H. Kurz, and K. Köhler pp. 2232-2235 [View PDF (295 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Anisotropy in the Positron 2D Angular Correlation of Annihilation Radiation for Singly Negative Divacancies in Si Z. Tang, M. Hasegawa, T. Chiba, M. Saito, A. Kawasuso, Z. Q. Li, R. T. Fu, T. Akahane, Y. Kawazoe, and S. Yamaguchi pp. 2236-2239 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Evidence of an Elastic Instability between the Amorphous and the Microcrystalline State of Ca-modified Lead Titanate as revealed by Brillouin Spectroscopy J. K. Krüger, C. Ziebert, H. Schmitt, B. Jiménez, and C. Bruch pp. 2240-2243 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Kinetics of Trapping Reactions with a Time Dependent Density of Traps Alejandro D. Sánchez, Ernesto M. Nicola, and Horacio S. Wio pp. 2244-2247 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Curvature Determination of Spinodal Interface in a Condensed Matter System Hiroshi Jinnai, Tsuyoshi Koga, Yukihiro Nishikawa, Takeji Hashimoto, and Stephen T. Hyde pp. 2248-2251 [View PDF (179 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Active Stabilization, Quantum Computation, and Quantum State Synthesis A. M. Steane pp. 2252-2255 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Security of Quantum Cryptography against Collective Attacks Eli Biham and Tal Mor pp. 2256-2259 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Dispersion Velocity of Galactic Dark Matter Particles” N. W. Evans pp. 2260 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Dispersion Velocity of Galactic Dark Matter Particles” Evalyn Gates, Marc Kamionkowski, and Michael S. Turner pp. 2261 [View PDF (61 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cowsik et al. Reply: R. Cowsik, Charu Ratnam, and P. Bhattacharjee pp. 2262-2264 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical Exponents of the Classical Heisenberg Ferromagnet Christian Holm and Wolfhard Janke pp. 2265 [View PDF (52 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Brown and Ciftan Reply: Robert G. Brown and Mikael Ciftan pp. 2266 [View PDF (47 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation” Astrid Lambrecht, Marc-Thierry Jaekel, and Serge Reynaud pp. 2267 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Sonoluminescence as Quantum Vacuum Radiation” N. García and A. P. Levanyuk pp. 2268 [View PDF (64 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Eberlein Replies: Claudia Eberlein pp. 2269-2270 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Extended Van Hove Singularity in a Noncuprate Layered Superconductor Sr2RuO4” A. P. Mackenzie, S. R. Julian, G. G. Lonzarich, Y. Maeno, and T. Fujita pp. 2271 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Yokoya et al. Reply: T. Yokoya, A. Chainani, T. Takahashi, H. Katayama-Yoshida, M. Kasai, and Y. Tokura pp. 2272 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	The Rosseland Mean Opacity of a Mixture of Gold and Gadolinium at High Temperatures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3545 (1996)] T. J. Orzechowski, M. D. Rosen, H. N. Kornblum, J. L. Porter, L. J. Suter, A. R. Thiessen, and R. J. Wallace pp. 2273 [View PDF (13 kB) ]