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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

•	Optimization by Thermal Cycling A. Möbius, A. Neklioudov, A. Díaz-Sánchez, K. H. Hoffmann, A. Fachat, and M. Schreiber pp. 4297-4301 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

•	Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays without Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff V. Berezinsky, M. Kachelrieß, and A. Vilenkin pp. 4302-4305 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Galactic Confinement Time of Iron-Group Cosmic Rays Derived from the 54Mn Chronometer K. Zaerpoor, Y. D. Chan, D. E. DiGregorio, M. R. Dragowsky, M. M. Hindi, M. C. Isaac, K. S. Krane, R. M. Larimer, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. Macleod, P. Miocinovic, and E. B. Norman pp. 4306-4309 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rotating Solitons and Nonrotating, Nonstatic Black Holes O. Brodbeck, M. Heusler, N. Straumann, and M. Volkov pp. 4310-4313 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Elementary Particles and Fields

•	Neutrino-Modulino Mixing Karim Benakli and Alexei Yu. Smirnov pp. 4314-4317 [View PDF (174 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Oblique S and T Parameters and Leptoquark Models of the HERA Events E. Keith and Ernest Ma pp. 4318-4320 [View PDF (161 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for Scalar Leptoquark Pairs Decaying to Electrons and Jets in p̅ p Collisions B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration) pp. 4321-4326 [View PDF (145 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Search for First Generation Leptoquark Pair Production in pp̅ Collisions at s}  =  1.8 TeV F. Abe et al. (CDF Collaboration) pp. 4327-4332 [View PDF (218 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	B Decays Involving η and η′ in Light of the B→Kη′ Process Amol S. Dighe, Michael Gronau, and Jonathan L. Rosner pp. 4333-4336 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	N  →Δ Transition from Simultaneous Measurements of p(γ→, π) and p(γ→, γ) G. Blanpied et al. (The LEGS Collaboration) pp. 4337-4340 [View PDF (188 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nuclear Physics

•	Full f- p Shell Calculation of 51Ca and 51Sc A. Novoselsky, M. Vallières, and O. La'adan pp. 4341-4344 [View PDF (99 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Δ Resonance Production in 58Ni+Cu Collisions at E  =  1.97A GeV E. L. Hjort et al. pp. 4345-4348 [View PDF (166 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mirror Symmetry Up to the Band Termination in 49Mn and 49Cr C. D. O'Leary, M. A. Bentley, D. E. Appelbe, D. M. Cullen, S. Ertürk, R. A. Bark, A. Maj, and T. Saitoh pp. 4349-4352 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

•	High Accuracy Molecular Heats of Formation and Reaction Barriers: Essential Role of Electron Correlation Jeffrey C. Grossman and Lubos Mitas pp. 4353-4356 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excess Quantum Noise due to Nonorthogonal Polarization Modes A. M. van der Lee, N. J. van Druten, A. L. Mieremet, M. A. van Eijkelenborg, Å. M. Lindberg, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman pp. 4357-4360 [View PDF (115 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

•	Geometry of Dynamics, Lyapunov Exponents, and Phase Transitions Lando Caiani, Lapo Casetti, Cecilia Clementi, and Marco Pettini pp. 4361-4364 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Breit-Wigner Width and Inverse Participation Ratio in Finite Interacting Fermi Systems B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky pp. 4365-4368 [View PDF (134 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observation of Anomalous Transport of Strongly Multiple Scattered Light in Thin Disordered Slabs Rik H. Kop, Pedro de Vries, Rudolf Sprik, and Ad Lagendijk pp. 4369-4372 [View PDF (162 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Three-Dimensional Patterns in a Transient, Stratified Intrusion Flow Wolfgang Schöpf and Olaf Stiller pp. 4373-4376 [View PDF (220 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intermittency in a Locally Forced Plane Couette Flow S. Bottin, O. Dauchot, and F. Daviaud pp. 4377-4380 [View PDF (355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Observations of Surfactant Driven Instability in a Hele-Shaw Cell C. K. Chan and N. Y. Liang pp. 4381-4384 [View PDF (335 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coarsening of Heterogeneous Media: Application of Wavelets Ali Reza Mehrabi and Muhammad Sahimi pp. 4385-4388 [View PDF (524 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Plasma and Beam Physics

•	Polarization of Parametric X Radiation V. V. Morokhovskii, K. H. Schmidt, G. Buschhorn, J. Freudenberger, H. Genz, R. Kotthaus, A. Richter, M. Rzepka, and P. M. Weinmann pp. 4389-4392 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

•	Inelastic Scattering in Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction from Si(111) Bert Müller and Volkmar Zielasek pp. 4393-4396 [View PDF (1054 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Site-Specific Displacement of Si Adatoms on Si(111)- (7×7) B. C. Stipe, M. A. Rezaei, and W. Ho pp. 4397-4400 [View PDF (486 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Monte Carlo Simulations of Stable Point Defects in Hybrid Nematic Films C. Chiccoli, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, and C. Zannoni pp. 4401-4404 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	In Search of a Chiral Smectic Liquid-Crystal State with a Macroscopic Spontaneous Ferroelectric Polarization P. Tolédano and A. M. Figueiredo Neto pp. 4405-4408 [View PDF (154 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Pressure-Induced Concurrent Transformation to an Amorphous and Crystalline Phase in Berlinite-Type FePO4 M. P. Pasternak, G. Kh. Rozenberg, A. P. Milner, M. Amanowicz, T. Zhou, U. Schwarz, K. Syassen, R. Dean Taylor, M. Hanfland, and K. Brister pp. 4409-4412 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unusual Strain Relaxation in Cu Thin Films on Ni(001) Frank Berg Rasmussen, Jeff Baker, Mourits Nielsen, Robert Feidenhans'l, and Robert L. Johnson pp. 4413-4416 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Hydrogen Inhibition of Exchange Diffusion on Pt(100) G. L. Kellogg pp. 4417-4420 [View PDF (211 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorption and Diffusion of Si Atoms on the H-Terminated Si(001) Surface: Si Migration Assisted by H Mobility Jun Nara, Taizo Sasaki, and Takahisa Ohno pp. 4421-4424 [View PDF (266 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorption and Diffusion of Si Adatom on Hydrogenated Si(100) Surfaces Sukmin Jeong and Atsushi Oshiyama pp. 4425-4428 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum Scattering of Heavy Particles from a 10 K Cu(111) Surface F. Althoff, T. Andersson, and S. Andersson pp. 4429-4432 [View PDF (123 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Early Oxidation Stages of Mg(0001): A Density Functional Study C. Bungaro, C. Noguera, P. Ballone, and W. Kress pp. 4433-4436 [View PDF (172 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

•	Towards a Field Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall States R. Shankar and Ganpathy Murthy pp. 4437-4440 [View PDF (180 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Adsorbate Reorganization at Steps: NO on Pd(211) B. Hammer and J. K. Nørskov pp. 4441-4444 [View PDF (261 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Intrinsic Photoconduction in PPV-Type Conjugated Polymers S. Barth and H. Bässler pp. 4445-4448 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Magnetization Instability in a Two-Dimensional System A. J. Daneshvar, C. J. Ford, M. Y. Simmons, A. V. Khaetskii, A. R. Hamilton, M. Pepper, and D. A. Ritchie pp. 4449-4452 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Carbon Nanotube “T Junctions”: Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Contact Devices Madhu Menon and Deepak Srivastava pp. 4453-4456 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Multiterminal Capacitance Tensor Elements of Composite Fermions and Anomalous Capacitance Peaks at Even Denominator Fillings J. S. Moon, J. A. Simmons, J. L. Reno, and B. L. Johnson pp. 4457-4460 [View PDF (310 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Josephson Current through Charge Density Waves M. I. Visscher and B. Rejaei pp. 4461-4464 [View PDF (156 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Photoemission above the Fermi Level: The Top of the Minority d Band in Nickel T. Greber, T. J. Kreutz, and J. Osterwalder pp. 4465-4468 [View PDF (937 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	First- and Second-Order Transitions between Quantum and Classical Regimes for the Escape Rate of a Spin System E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin pp. 4469-4472 [View PDF (148 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Microscopic Structure of DX Centers in Cd0.8Zn0.2Te:Cl Y. Y. Shan, K. G. Lynn, Cs. Szeles, P. Asoka-Kumar, T. Thio, J. W. Bennett, C. B. Beling, S. Fung, and P. Becla pp. 4473-4476 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Resonant Coherent Excitation of Fast Hydrogen Atoms in Front of a LiF(001) Surface C. Auth, A. Mertens, H. Winter, A. G. Borisov, and F. J. García de Abajo pp. 4477-4480 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

•	Molecular Precursors in the Dissociative Adsorption of O2 on Pt(111) A. Eichler and J. Hafner pp. 4481-4484 [View PDF (239 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Experimental Demonstration of a W-Band Gyroklystron Amplifier M. Blank, B. G. Danly, B. Levush, P. E. Latham, and D. E. Pershing pp. 4485-4488 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Molecular Stick-Slip Motion Revealed by Opening DNA with Piconewton Forces U. Bockelmann, B. Essevaz-Roulet, and F. Heslot pp. 4489-4492 [View PDF (139 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Collective Dynamics in the Immune System Response S. Succi, F. Castiglione, and M. Bernaschi pp. 4493-4496 [View PDF (135 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Mechanics of Microtubule-Based Membrane Extension Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson, John F. Marko, and Albert Libchaber pp. 4497-4500 [View PDF (1355 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Long Memory Processes ( 1/fα Type) in Human Coordination Yanqing Chen, Mingzhou Ding, and J. A. Kelso pp. 4501-4504 [View PDF (149 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Behaviors of Spike Output Jitter in the Integrate-and-Fire Model Jianfeng Feng pp. 4505-4508 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

COMMENTS

•	Mainz Measurement of the E2/M1 Ratio in the N-Δ Transition R. M. Davidson and Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay pp. 4509 [View PDF (70 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beck and Krahn Reply: R. Beck and H.-P. Krahn pp. 4510 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	E2/M1 Ratio from the Mainz p(γ→,p)π0 Data R. L. Workman pp. 4511 [View PDF (66 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Beck and Krahn Reply: R. Beck and H.-P. Krahn pp. 4512 [View PDF (65 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comment on “Quasiparticle Spectra around a Single Vortex in a d-Wave Superconductor” M. Franz and M. Ichioka pp. 4513 [View PDF (69 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Morita, Kohmoto, and Maki Reply: Y. Morita, M. Kohmoto, and K. Maki pp. 4514 [View PDF (36 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ERRATA

•	Novel Dopant Activation of Heavily Doped p+-Si by High Current Densities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4926 (1996)] J. S. Huang and K. N. Tu pp. 4515 [View PDF (50 kB) ]

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Measurement of the E2/M1 Ratio in the N → Δ Transition Using the Reaction p(γ→,p)π0 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 606 (1997)] 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. 4515 [View PDF (58 kB) ]

•	Theory of Electric-Field Effects on Electron-Spin-Resonance Hyperfine Couplings [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 379 (1997)] Shashi P. Karna pp. 4516 [View PDF (48 kB) ]