• LETTERS
  • General Physics
  • 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

•	Relations between Markov Processes via Local Time and Coordinate Transformations A. Pelster and H. Kleinert pp. 565-569 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Solutions to the Time Dependent Schrödinger and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equations Mark J. Ablowitz and Javier Villarroel pp. 570-573 [View PDF (140 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Inseparable Two Spin- 1 / 2 Density Matrices Can Be Distilled to a Singlet Form Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki pp. 574-577 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Semiclassical Description of Nonadiabatic Quantum Dynamics Gerhard Stock and Michael Thoss pp. 578-581 [View PDF (194 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms M.-O. Mewes, M. R. Andrews, D. M. Kurn, D. S. Durfee, C. G. Townsend, and W. Ketterle pp. 582-585 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Production of Two Overlapping Bose-Einstein Condensates by Sympathetic Cooling C. J. Myatt, E. A. Burt, R. W. Ghrist, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman pp. 586-589 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Tight Binding Hamiltonians and Quantum Turing Machines Paul Benioff pp. 590-593 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Virtual Top-Quark Effects on the H→bb̅ Decay at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD K. G. Chetyrkin, B. A. Kniehl, and M. Steinhauser pp. 594-597 [View PDF (178 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Which Chiral Symmetry is Restored in High Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics? Claude Bernard, Tom Blum, Carleton DeTar, Steven Gottlieb, Urs M. Heller, James E. Hetrick, K. Rummukainen, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, and Matthew Wingate pp. 598-601 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Static Quark-Antiquark Potential in QCD to Three Loops Markus Peter pp. 602-605 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Measurement of the E2/M1 Ratio in the N→Δ Transition using the reaction p(γ→,p)πo R. Beck, H. P. Krahn, J. Ahrens, H. J. Arends, G. Audit, A. Braghieri, N. d'Hose, S. J. Hall, V. Isbert, J. D. Kellie, I. J. MacGregor, P. Pedroni, T. Pinelli, G. Tamas, Th. Walcher, and S. Wartenberg pp. 606-609 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Gauge-Invariant Decomposition of Nucleon Spin Xiangdong Ji pp. 610-613 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

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Interband Transitions between Superdeformed Bands in 87Nb: Evidence for a Superintruder Orbital D. R. LaFosse, M. Devlin, M. Korolija, F. Lerma, D. G. Sarantites, Y. A. Akovali, C. Baktash, C. J. Gross, D. W. Stracener, J. Döring, G. D. Johns, S. L. Tabor, F. E. Durham, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, and W. Rathbun pp. 614-617 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for Monoenergetic Positron Emission from Heavy-Ion Collisions at Coulomb-Barrier Energies I. Ahmad et al. (APEX Collaboration) pp. 618-621 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	Experimental Verification of the Shift of the Cesium Hyperfine Transition Frequency due to Blackbody Radiation Andreas Bauch and Roland Schröder pp. 622-625 [View PDF (105 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Measurement of the Initial Condition of Electrons Ionized by a Linearly Polarized, High-Intensity Laser S. J. McNaught, J. P. Knauer, and D. D. Meyerhofer pp. 626-629 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooling and Localization Dynamics in Optical Lattices G. Raithel, G. Birkl, A. Kastberg, W. D. Phillips, and S. L. Rolston pp. 630-633 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Nondemolition Measurements using Cold Trapped Atoms J.-F. Roch, K. Vigneron, Ph. Grelu, A. Sinatra, J.-Ph. Poizat, and Ph. Grangier pp. 634-637 [View PDF (137 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	High Harmonic Generation from Ultrafast Pump Lasers Kenneth J. Schafer and Kenneth C. Kulander pp. 638-641 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	Failure of the Quasimonochromatic Approximation for Ultrashort Pulse Propagation in a Dispersive, Attenuative Medium Kurt E. Oughstun and Hong Xiao pp. 642-645 [View PDF (173 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theory of Incoherent Self-Focusing in Biased Photorefractive Media Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Tamer H. Coskun, Matthew Mitchell, and Mordechai Segev pp. 646-649 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Layer-Mean Quantities, Local Conservation Laws, and Vorticity Roberto Camassa and C. David Levermore pp. 650-653 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Waiting-Time Behavior for Large Angle Wedges of Viscous Liquids L. P. Thomas, B. M. Marino, and R. Gratton pp. 654-657 [View PDF (142 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Absolute and Convective Secondary Instabilities in Spatially Periodic Shear Flows P. Brancher and J. M. Chomaz pp. 658-661 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Turbulent Convection in a Spectral Model V. M. Canuto, M. S. Dubovikov, and A. Dienstfrey pp. 662-665 [View PDF (164 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Physical Regimes and Dimensional Structure of Rotating Turbulence V. M. Canuto and M. S. Dubovikov pp. 666-669 [View PDF (147 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Transient Filamentation of a Laser Beam in a Thermal Force Dominated Plasma A. K. Lal, K. A. Marsh, C. E. Clayton, C. Joshi, C. J. McKinstrie, J. S. Li, and T. W. Johnston pp. 670-673 [View PDF (195 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Helical Plasma Confinement Devices with Good Confinement Properties John R. Cary and Svetlana G. Shasharina pp. 674-677 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Role of Covalent Tip-Surface Interactions in Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy on Reactive Surfaces Rubén Pérez, Michael C. Payne, Ivan Štich, and Kiyoyuki Terakura pp. 678-681 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Fluctuations in Confined Liquid Crystals above Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition Temperature P. Ziherl and S. Z̆umer pp. 682-685 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dimensions of Polymer Chains in Critical Semidilute Solutions Yu. B. Melnichenko and G. D. Wignall pp. 686-688 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morphology of Pores and Interfaces and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocluster-Assembled Silicon Nitride Ceramic Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Kenji Tsuruta, and Priya Vashishta pp. 689-692 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Lattice Dynamics of Icosahedral α-Boron under Pressure N. Vast, S. Baroni, G. Zerah, J. M. Besson, A. Polian, M. Grimsditch, and J. C. Chervin pp. 693-696 [View PDF (116 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Activation Volume for Hf Diffusion in an Amorphous Ni0.54Zr0.46 Alloy A. Grandjean, P. Blanchard, and Y. Limoge pp. 697-700 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Nonuniversal Corrections to the Level Curvature Distribution beyond Random Matrix Theory I. V. Yurkevich and V. E. Kravtsov pp. 701-704 [View PDF (155 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Suppression of Conductance in Surface Superlattices by Temperature and Electric Field A. Messica, A. Soibel, U. Meirav, Ady Stern, Hadas Shtrikman, V. Umansky, and D. Mahalu pp. 705-708 [View PDF (224 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interaction-Induced Oscillations of the Tunneling Density of States in a Nonquantizing Magnetic Field A. M. Rudin, I. L. Aleiner, and L. I. Glazman pp. 709-712 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superconductivity-Induced Anomalies in the Spin Excitation Spectra of Underdoped YBa2Cu3 O6+x H. F. Fong, B. Keimer, D. L. Milius, and I. A. Aksay pp. 713-716 [View PDF (141 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Single Hole Dynamics in the CuO2 Plane at Half Filling J. J. Pothuizen, R. Eder, N. T. Hien, M. Matoba, A. A. Menovsky, and G. A. Sawatzky pp. 717-720 [View PDF (158 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	NMR Evidence for a d-Wave Normal-State Pseudogap G. V. Williams, J. L. Tallon, E. M. Haines, R. Michalak, and R. Dupree pp. 721-724 [View PDF (170 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Empty 4f1-State Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy in LaSe R. Pittini, J. Schoenes, F. Hulliger, and P. Wachter pp. 725-728 [View PDF (157 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Cooperative Emission in π-Conjugated Polymer Thin Films S. V. Frolov, W. Gellermann, M. Ozaki, K. Yoshino, and Z. V. Vardeny pp. 729-732 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Factors Influencing Stimulated Emission from Poly( p-phenylenevinylene) G. J. Denton, N. Tessler, N. T. Harrison, and R. H. Friend pp. 733-736 [View PDF (113 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Heavy-Light Hole Quantum Beats in the Band-to-Band Continuum of GaAs Observed in 20 Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments Markus Joschko, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Eberhard Binder, Tilmann Kuhn, R. Hey, H. Kostial, and K. Ploog pp. 737-740 [View PDF (100 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Fluctuation-Dominated Kinetics under Stirring R. Reigada, F. Sagués, I. M. Sokolov, J. M. Sancho, and A. Blumen pp. 741-744 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitation Waves on Cylindrical Surfaces: Rotor Competition and Vortex Drift Oliver Steinbock pp. 745-748 [View PDF (200 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Comment on “Electron Correlation in Multiple Excitation of Atoms by High-Energy Ions” J. F. Reading, T. Bronk, and A. L. Ford pp. 749 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Martín and Salin Reply: F. Martín and A. Salin pp. 750 [View PDF (56 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Moving Glass Phase of Driven Lattices” Leon Balents, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Leo Radzihovsky pp. 751 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Giamarchi and Le Doussal Reply: T. Giamarchi and Pierre Le Doussal pp. 752 [View PDF (45 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Giant K Doubling in the Infrared Spectrum of CH3OH: A Sensitive Probe for CH3-Rock/CO-Stretch/OH-Bend Vibrational Coupling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3645 (1995)] R. M. Lees pp. 753 [View PDF (38 kB) ]

•	Numerical Simulation of Three-Dimensional Dendritic Growth[Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4050 (1996)] Alain Karma and Wouter-Jan Rappel pp. 753 [View PDF (41 kB) ]