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Physical Review Letters – 11 May 1998
Volume 80, Issue 19

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Quantum Delta-Kicked Rotor: Experimental Observation of Decoherence
H. Ammann, R. Gray, I. Shvarchuck, and N. Christensen
pp. 4111-4115 [View PDF (128 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Real-Time Cavity QED with Single Atoms
C. J. Hood, M. S. Chapman, T. W. Lynn, and H. J. Kimble
pp. 4157-4160 [View PDF (225 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

Quantum Delta-Kicked Rotor: Experimental Observation of Decoherence
H. Ammann, R. Gray, I. Shvarchuck, and N. Christensen
pp. 4111-4115 [View PDF (128 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Spectrum of Large N Gauge Theory from Supergravity
Gary T. Horowitz and Hirosi Ooguri
pp. 4116-4118 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Is There a Landau Pole Problem in QED?
M. Göckeler, R. Horsley, V. Linke, P. Rakow, G. Schierholz, and H. Stüben
pp. 4119-4122 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Measurement of the Branching Fraction of the Decay KL→π+π-e+e-
J. Adams et al. (KTeV Collaboration)
pp. 4123-4126 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Investigation of Semileptonic B Meson Decays to p-Wave Charm Mesons
A. Anastassov et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 4127-4131 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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New Limit of the G-Parity Irregular Weak Nucleon Current Disclosed in β-Ray Angular Distributions from Spin Aligned 12B and 12N
T. Minamisono, K. Matsuta, T. Yamaguchi, K. Minamisono, T. Ikeda, Y. Muramoto, M. Fukuda, Y. Nojiri, A. Kitagawa, K. Koshigiri, and M. Morita
pp. 4132-4135 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Directed and Elliptic Flow in 158 GeV/Nucleon Pb+Pb Collisions
H. Appelshäuser et al. (NA49 Collaboration)
pp. 4136-4140 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Bremsstrahlung in α Decay
Thomas Papenbrock and George F. Bertsch
pp. 4141-4144 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Quantal and Thermal Dampings of Giant Dipole Resonances in 90Zr, 120Sn, and 208Pb
Nguyen Dinh Dang and Akito Arima
pp. 4145-4148 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Resolved-Sideband Raman Cooling to the Ground State of an Optical Lattice
S. E. Hamann, D. L. Haycock, G. Klose, P. H. Pax, I. H. Deutsch, and P. S. Jessen
pp. 4149-4152 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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van der Waals Energies in Density Functional Theory
Walter Kohn, Yigal Meir, and Dmitrii E. Makarov
pp. 4153-4156 [View PDF (173 kB)]
Real-Time Cavity QED with Single Atoms
C. J. Hood, M. S. Chapman, T. W. Lynn, and H. J. Kimble
pp. 4157-4160 [View PDF (225 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, Etc.

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Quantum Billiards with Surface Scattering: Ballistic Sigma-Model Approach
Ya. M. Blanter, A. D. Mirlin, and B. A. Muzykantskii
pp. 4161-4164 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Intensity Distribution of Modes in Surface Corrugated Waveguides
A. García-Martín, J. A. Torres, J. J. Sáenz, and M. Nieto-Vesperinas
pp. 4165-4168 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Thirring Solitons in the Presence of Dispersion
Alan R. Champneys, Boris A. Malomed, and Mark J. Friedman
pp. 4169-4172 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Euler-Poincaré Models of Ideal Fluids with Nonlinear Dispersion
Darryl D. Holm, Jerrold E. Marsden, and Tudor S. Ratiu
pp. 4173-4176 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Singular Solutions of the Incompressible Euler Equations
Rainer Grauer, Christiane Marliani, and Kai Germaschewski
pp. 4177-4180 [View PDF (698 kB)]
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Transition to Normal Fluid Turbulence in Helium II
David J. Melotte and Carlo F. Barenghi
pp. 4181-4184 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Electrostatic Turbulence and Transport in the Velocity Shear Layer of a Reversed Field Pinch Plasma
V. Antoni, R. Cavazzana, D. Desideri, E. Martines, G. Serianni, and L. Tramontin
pp. 4185-4188 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Probe-Induced Particle Circulation in a Plasma Crystal
D. A. Law, W. H. Steel, B. M. Annaratone, and J. E. Allen
pp. 4189-4192 [View PDF (367 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, Etc.

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Cavity Expulsion and Weak Dewetting of Hydrophobic Solutes in Water
Gerhard Hummer and Shekhar Garde
pp. 4193-4196 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Observation of New Ring Isomers for Carbon Cluster Anions
Ph. Dugourd, R. R. Hudgins, J. M. Tenenbaum, and M. F. Jarrold
pp. 4197-4200 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Role of Self-Interstitial Atoms on the High Temperature Properties of Metals
K. Nordlund and R. S. Averback
pp. 4201-4204 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced In-Glass Structural Transformation in the Amorphous Polymer Poly(methylmethacrylate)
A. Mermet, A. Cunsolo, E. Duval, M. Krisch, C. Masciovecchio, S. Perghem, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, R. Verbeni, and G. Viliani
pp. 4205-4208 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Absence of an Isotope Effect in the Two Level Spectrum of Amorphous Ice
N. I. Agladze and A. J. Sievers
pp. 4209-4212 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Composition-Driven Shape Transformations of Membranes of Complex Topology
Wojciech T. Góźdź and Gerhard Gompper
pp. 4213-4216 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Energy Constrained Sandpile Models
Alessandro Chessa, Enzo Marinari, and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 4217-4220 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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New Nonlinear Evolution Equation for Steps during Molecular Beam Epitaxy on Vicinal Surfaces
O. Pierre-Louis, C. Misbah, Y. Saito, J. Krug, and P. Politi
pp. 4221-4224 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Nucleation Mechanism of YBa2Cu3O7-δ on SrTiO3(001)
T. Haage, J. Zegenhagen, H.-U. Habermeier, and M. Cardona
pp. 4225-4228 [View PDF (375 kB)]
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Exchange-Barrier Effects on Nucleation and Growth of Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxy
Ing-Shouh Hwang, Tien-Chih Chang, and Tien T. Tsong
pp. 4229-4232 [View PDF (683 kB)]
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Control of Chaotic Wandering of an Isolated Step by the Drift of Adatoms
Masahide Sato, Makio Uwaha, and Yukio Saito
pp. 4233-4236 [View PDF (169 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, Etc.

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Phase Diagram of the Spin Polarization of Composite Fermions and a New Effective Mass
K. Park and J. K. Jain
pp. 4237-4240 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Semimetal to Semiconductor Transition in Carbon Nanoparticles
Gregory P. Lopinski, Vladimir I. Merkulov, and Jeffrey S. Lannin
pp. 4241-4244 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Systematics of the Photoemission Spectral Function of Cuprates: Insulators and Hole- and Electron-Doped Superconductors
C. Kim, P. J. White, Z.-X. Shen, T. Tohyama, Y. Shibata, S. Maekawa, B. O. Wells, Y. J. Kim, R. J. Birgeneau, and M. A. Kastner
pp. 4245-4248 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Surface-Plasmon Resonances in Single Metallic Nanoparticles
T. Klar, M. Perner, S. Grosse, G. von Plessen, W. Spirkl, and J. Feldmann
pp. 4249-4252 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Correlation Effects in the Compton Profile of Silicon
Balázs Králik, Paul Delaney, and Steven G. Louie
pp. 4253-4256 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Random Dirac Fermions and Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics
Christopher Mudry, B. D. Simons, and Alexander Altland
pp. 4257-4260 [View PDF (437 kB)]
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Temperature-Frequency Scaling in Amorphous Niobium-Silicon near the Metal-Insulator Transition
Hok-Ling Lee, John P. Carini, David V. Baxter, and George Grüner
pp. 4261-4264 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Dynamic Image Potential at an Al(111) Surface
I. D. White, R. W. Godby, M. M. Rieger, and R. J. Needs
pp. 4265-4268 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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One-Dimensional Delocalized Adsorbate Bloch States on a Semiconductor Surface: C2H4/Si(001)-(2×1)
W. Widdra, A. Fink, S. Gokhale, P. Trischberger, D. Menzel, U. Birkenheuer, U. Gutdeutsch, and N. Rösch
pp. 4269-4272 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Quantum Interference and Electron-Electron Interactions at Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling in Disordered Systems
Yuli Lyanda-Geller
pp. 4273-4276 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Capacitance of Atomic Junctions
Jian Wang, Hong Guo, Jose-Luis Mozos, C. C. Wan, Gianni Taraschi, and Qingrong Zheng
pp. 4277-4280 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Excitation of a Magnetic Multilayer by an Electric Current
M. Tsoi, A. G. M. Jansen, J. Bass, W.-C. Chiang, M. Seck, V. Tsoi, and P. Wyder
pp. 4281-4284 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Quasiclassical Theory of Twin Boundaries in High- Tc Superconductors
W. Belzig, C. Bruder, and M. Sigrist
pp. 4285-4288 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Coherent Electron Transport in Superconducting-Normal Metallic Films
Frank K. Wilhelm, Andrei D. Zaikin, and Hervé Courtois
pp. 4289-4292 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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General Features of Quantum Creep in High- Tc Superconductors
A. F. Th. Hoekstra, R. Griessen, A. M. Testa, J. el Fattahi, M. Brinkmann, K. Westerholt, W. K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree
pp. 4293-4296 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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First-Order Vortex-Lattice Phase Transition in (La1-xSrx)2CuO4 Single Crystals: Universal Scaling of the Transition Lines in High-Temperature Superconductors
T. Sasagawa, K. Kishio, Y. Togawa, J. Shimoyama, and K. Kitazawa
pp. 4297-4300 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Self-Generation of Microwave Magnetic Envelope Soliton Trains in Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films
Boris A. Kalinikos, Nikolai G. Kovshikov, and Carl E. Patton
pp. 4301-4304 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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CrO2: A Self-Doped Double Exchange Ferromagnet
M. A. Korotin, V. I. Anisimov, D. I. Khomskii, and G. A. Sawatzky
pp. 4305-4308 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Origin of Giant Magnetoresistance: Bulk or Interface Scattering
P. Zahn, J. Binder, I. Mertig, R. Zeller, and P. H. Dederichs
pp. 4309-4312 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Resonant Spin Amplification in n-Type GaAs
J. M. Kikkawa and D. D. Awschalom
pp. 4313-4316 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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X-Ray Diffraction Measurement of the Effect of Layer Thickness on the Ferroelectric Transition in Epitaxial KTaO3/KNbO3 Multilayers
E. D. Specht, H.-M. Christen, D. P. Norton, and L. A. Boatner
pp. 4317-4320 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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First-Principles Study of Piezoelectricity in PbTiO3
Gotthard Sághi-Szabó, Ronald E. Cohen, and Henry Krakauer
pp. 4321-4324 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Synergy of Electronic Excitations and Elastic Collision Spikes in Sputtering of Heavy Metal Oxides
T. Schenkel, A. V. Barnes, A. V. Hamza, D. H. Schneider, J. C. Banks, and B. L. Doyle
pp. 4325-4328 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Quantum Computers Can Search Rapidly by Using Almost Any Transformation
Lov K. Grover
pp. 4329-4332 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Alkali Promotion of N2 Dissociation over Ru(0001)
J. J. Mortensen, B. Hammer, and J. K. Nørskov
pp. 4333-4336 [View PDF (807 kB)]
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Dynamics of Hydrogen Adsorption on GaAs Electrodes
B. H. Erné, F. Ozanam, and J.-N. Chazalviel
pp. 4337-4340 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Fluctuations of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Smectics Intercalated between Membranes in Multilamellar Phases of DNA-Cationic Lipid Complexes
Leonardo Golubović and Mirjana Golubović
pp. 4341-4344 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Sliding Columnar Phase of DNA-Lipid Complexes
C. S. O'Hern and T. C. Lubensky
pp. 4345-4348 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Stochastic Equation for the Erosion of Inclined Topography
Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Daniel H. Rothman
pp. 4349-4352 [View PDF (239 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Resonant Spectra and the Time Evolution of the Survival and Nonescape Probabilities”
R. M. Cavalcanti
pp. 4353 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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García-Calderón, Mateos, and Moshinsky Reply:
G. García-Calderón, J. L. Mateos, and M. Moshinsky
pp. 4354 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Comment on “One-Dimensional Disordered Bosonic Hubbard Model: A Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Study”
N. V. Prokof'ev and B. V. Svistunov
pp. 4355 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnus and Iordanskii Forces in Superfluids”
H. E. Hall and J. R. Hook
pp. 4356 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Wexler et al. Reply:
C. Wexler, D. J. Thouless, P. Ao, and Q. Niu
pp. 4357 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Antiferromagnetic Short Range Order in a Two-Dimensional Manganite Exhibiting Giant Magnetoresistance”
A. J. Millis
pp. 4358 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Perring et al. Reply:
T. G. Perring, G. Aeppli, and Y. Tokura
pp. 4359 [View PDF (58 kB)]
 
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