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Physical Review Letters – 19 October 1998
Volume 81, Issue 16

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.

Coherent Control of the Polarization of an Optical Field
S. Wielandy and Alexander L. Gaeta
pp. 3359-3362 [View PDF (152 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Oscillatory Conductance of Carbon-Atom Wires
N. D. Lang and Ph. Avouris
pp. 3515-3518 [View PDF (870 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Feynman Effective Classical Potential in the Schrödinger Formulation
Rafael Ramírez, Telesforo López-Ciudad, and José C. Noya
pp. 3303-3306 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with Matter-Antimatter Domains
Jan B. Rehm and Karsten Jedamzik
pp. 3307-3310 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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How to Identify a Strange Star
Jes Madsen
pp. 3311-3314 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Supersymmetric Electroweak Phase Transition: Baryogenesis versus Experimental Constraints
James M. Cline and Guy D. Moore
pp. 3315-3318 [View PDF (508 kB)]
Search for Proton Decay via p→e+π0 in a Large Water Cherenkov Detector
M. Shiozawa et al. ((Super-Kamiokande Collaboration))
pp. 3319-3323 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Two-body Decays of the b Quark: Applications to Direct CP Violation, Searches for Electroweak Penguins, and New Physics
David Atwood and Amarjit Soni
pp. 3324-3327 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Further Search for the Two-Photon Production of the Glueball Candidate fJ(2220)
M. S. Alam et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 3328-3332 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Diffractive Deeply Inelastic Scattering of Hadronic States with Small Transverse Size
F. Hautmann, Z. Kunszt, and D. E. Soper
pp. 3333-3336 [View PDF (207 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Observation of Fermi Superallowed β+ Decays in Heavy Odd-Odd, N = Z Nuclei: Evidence for 0+ Ground States in 78Y, 82Nb, and 86Tc
C. Longour et al.
pp. 3337-3340 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Fusion Cross Sections for the Proton Drip Line Nucleus 17F at Energies below the Coulomb Barrier
K. E. Rehm, H. Esbensen, C. L. Jiang, B. B. Back, F. Borasi, B. Harss, R. V. F. Janssens, V. Nanal, J. Nolen, R. C. Pardo, M. Paul, P. Reiter, R. E. Segel, A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, and A. H. Wuosmaa
pp. 3341-3344 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Theoretical Study of the 4f146s 2S1/2–4f136s2 2F7/20 E3 Transition in Yb II
E. Biémont and P. Quinet
pp. 3345-3346 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Study of Unimolecular Reactions by Coulomb Explosion Imaging: The Nondecaying Vinylidene
J. Levin, H. Feldman, A. Baer, D. Ben-Hamu, O. Heber, D. Zajfman, and Z. Vager
pp. 3347-3350 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Photodetachment Spectroscopy of a Doubly Charged Anion: Direct Observation of the Repulsive Coulomb Barrier
Xue-Bin Wang, Chuan-Fan Ding, and Lai-Sheng Wang
pp. 3351-3354 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Multichannel Cold Collisions: Simple Dependences on Energy and Magnetic Field
James P. Burke, Jr., Chris H. Greene, and John L. Bohn
pp. 3355-3358 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Coherent Control of the Polarization of an Optical Field
S. Wielandy and Alexander L. Gaeta
pp. 3359-3362 [View PDF (152 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Breakdown of the Area Theorem: Carrier-Wave Rabi Flopping of Femtosecond Optical Pulses
S. Hughes
pp. 3363-3366 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Eigenvector Statistics in Non-Hermitian Random Matrix Ensembles
J. T. Chalker and B. Mehlig
pp. 3367-3370 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Semiclassical Dynamical Localization and the Multiplicative Semiclassical Propagator
L. Kaplan
pp. 3371-3374 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Unstable Periodic Orbit Analysis of Histograms of Chaotic Time Series
Scott M. Zoldi
pp. 3375-3378 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Modulational Instability of Solitary Waves in Nondegenerate Three-Wave Mixing: The Role of Phase Symmetries
Dmitry V. Skryabin and William J. Firth
pp. 3379-3382 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Discrete Spatial Optical Solitons in Waveguide Arrays
H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, A. R. Boyd, and J. S. Aitchison
pp. 3383-3386 [View PDF (464 kB)]
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Dynamics of the Euler Buckling Instability
Leonardo Golubović, Dorel Moldovan, and Anatoli Peredera
pp. 3387-3390 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Analytical Solutions of Layzer-Type Approach to Unstable Interfacial Fluid Mixing
Qiang Zhang
pp. 3391-3394 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Self-Similar Spatiotemporal Structure of Intermaterial Boundaries in Chaotic Flows
M. M. Alvarez, F. J. Muzzio, S. Cerbelli, A. Adrover, and M. Giona
pp. 3395-3398 [View PDF (258 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Increased Destabilization of the Parallel Velocity Shear Instabilitydue to Reversed Magnetic Shear
D. R. McCarthy and S. S. Maurer
pp. 3399-3402 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Ion Transport in Tokamak Plasmas with Ion Banana Orbits Squeezed by Alfvén Waves
V. S. Tsypin, R. M. O. Galvão, I. C. Nascimento, A. G. Elfimov, M. Tendler, C. A. de Azevedo, and A. S. de Assis
pp. 3403-3406 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Dimensionally Exact Energy Confinement Scaling in W7-AS
V. Dose, R. Preuss, and W. von der Linden
pp. 3407-3410 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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High Beam Quality and Efficiency in Plasma-Based Accelerators
T. C. Chiou and T. Katsouleas
pp. 3411-3414 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Modulational Interaction of the Lower-Hybrid Waves with a Kinetic-Alfvén Mode
V. D. Shapiro
pp. 3415-3418 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Probe Coherence Volume and the Interpretation of Scattering Experiments
N. Bernhoeft, A. Hiess, S. Langridge, A. Stunault, D. Wermeille, C. Vettier, G. H. Lander, M. Huth, M. Jourdan, and H. Adrian
pp. 3419-3422 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Electron Waves in the π* Surface Band of the Si(001) Surface
Takashi Yokoyama, Masakuni Okamoto, and Kunio Takayanagi
pp. 3423-3426 [View PDF (894 kB)]
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Convection-Induced Patterns in Phase-Separating Polymeric Fluids
Zdravko Mitov and Eugenia Kumacheva
pp. 3427-3430 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Low Energy Dynamics and Tunneling States in Silica Glass
Kostya Trachenko, Martin T. Dove, Kenton D. Hammonds, Mark J. Harris, and Volker Heine
pp. 3431-3434 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Phase Retrieval by Combined Bragg and Fresnel X-Ray Diffraction Imaging
P. Rejmánková-Pernot, P. Cloetens, J. Baruchel, J.-P. Guigay, and P. Moretti
pp. 3435-3438 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Model Study of Brittle Fracture of Polymers
B. N. J. Persson
pp. 3439-3442 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Diffusion of Nitrogen from a Buried Doping Layer in Gallium Arsenide Revealing the Prominent Role of As Interstitials
G. Bösker, N. A. Stolwijk, J. V. Thordson, U. Södervall, and T. G. Andersson
pp. 3443-3446 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Diffusion of Atomic Oxygen in SiO2
D. R. Hamann
pp. 3447-3450 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Evidence for Single-Vortex Pinning and Unpinning Events in Superfluid 4He
P. Hakonen, O. Avenel, and E. Varoquaux
pp. 3451-3454 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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X-Ray Measurements of Noncapillary Spatial Fluctuations from a Liquid Surface
M. Fukuto, R. K. Heilmann, P. S. Pershan, J. A. Griffiths, S. M. Yu, and D. A. Tirrell
pp. 3455-3458 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Nucleation and Ordering of an Electrodeposited Two-Dimensional Crystal: Real-Time X-Ray Scattering and Electronic Measurements
A. C. Finnefrock, K. L. Ringland, J. D. Brock, L. J. Buller, and H. D. Abruña
pp. 3459-3462 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Pattern Formation in Unstable Thin Liquid Films
Ashutosh Sharma and Rajesh Khanna
pp. 3463-3466 [View PDF (896 kB)]
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Hydrogen Induced Si Surface Segregation on Ge-Covered Si(001)
E. Rudkevich, Feng Liu, D. E. Savage, T. F. Kuech, L. McCaughan, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 3467-3470 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Embedding of Nanoscale 3D SiGe Islands in a Si Matrix
P. Sutter and M. G. Lagally
pp. 3471-3474 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Bunching Transitions on Vicinal Surfaces and Quantum n-mers
V. B. Shenoy, Shiwei Zhang, and W. F. Saam
pp. 3475-3478 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Dynamics of Ripening of Self-Assembled II-VI Semiconductor Quantum Dots
S. Lee, I. Daruka, C. S. Kim, A.-L. Barabási, J. L. Merz, and J. K. Furdyna
pp. 3479-3482 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Regular Mixing in a Two-Dimensional Lattice System: The Coadsorption of N and O on Ru(0001)
C. Nagl, R. Schuster, S. Renisch, and G. Ertl
pp. 3483-3486 [View PDF (429 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Edge Electron Gas
Walter Kohn and Ann E. Mattsson
pp. 3487-3490 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Thermometer for the 2D Electron Gas using 1D Thermopower
N. J. Appleyard, J. T. Nicholls, M. Y. Simmons, W. R. Tribe, and M. Pepper
pp. 3491-3494 [View PDF (421 kB)]
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Transition Between Coherent and Incoherent Electron Transport in GaAs/GaAlAs Superlattices
C. Rauch, G. Strasser, K. Unterrainer, W. Boxleitner, E. Gornik, and A. Wacker
pp. 3495-3498 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Donor Impurities as a Probe of Electron Correlations in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in High Magnetic Fields
Z. X. Jiang, B. D. McCombe, and Pawel Hawrylak
pp. 3499-3502 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Universality of Transport Properties in Equilibrium, the Goldstone Theorem, and Chiral Anomaly
Anton Yu. Alekseev, Vadim V. Cheianov, and Jürg Fröhlich
pp. 3503-3506 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Coulomb Charging Effects in an Open Quantum Dot at Zero Magnetic Field
C.-T. Liang, M. Y. Simmons, C. G. Smith, G. H. Kim, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper
pp. 3507-3510 [View PDF (547 kB)]
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Strong Tunneling in the Single-Electron Box
Jürgen König and Herbert Schoeller
pp. 3511-3514 [View PDF (186 kB)]
Oscillatory Conductance of Carbon-Atom Wires
N. D. Lang and Ph. Avouris
pp. 3515-3518 [View PDF (870 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Double Josephson Plasma Resonance in T* Phase SmLa1-xSrxCuO4-δ
H. Shibata and T. Yamada
pp. 3519-3522 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Superinsulator Phase of Two-Dimensional Superconductors
A. Krämer and S. Doniach
pp. 3523-3526 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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SU(4) Theory for Spin Systems with Orbital Degeneracy
Y. Q. Li, Michael Ma, D. N. Shi, and F. C. Zhang
pp. 3527-3530 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior and Griffiths Phase in f-Electron Compounds
A. H. Castro Neto, G. Castilla, and B. A. Jones
pp. 3531-3534 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Manifestations of Electronic Correlations in the Diffraction of Electron Pairs from Crystals
J. Berakdar, S. N. Samarin, R. Herrmann, and J. Kirschner
pp. 3535-3538 [View PDF (177 kB)]

Cross-Disciplinary Physics

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Size-Dependent Temperature Variation of the Energy Gap in Lead-Salt Quantum Dots
A. Olkhovets, R.-C. Hsu, A. Lipovskii, and F. W. Wise
pp. 3539-3542 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Multiaffine Chemical Turbulence
Yoshiki Kuramoto, Dorjsuren Battogtokh, and Hiroya Nakao
pp. 3543-3546 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Optical Communication with Chaotic Waveforms
Gregory D. VanWiggeren and Rajarshi Roy
pp. 3547-3550 [View PDF (126 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Has a Josephson-Plasma Mode Been Observed in Layered Superconductors?”
M. B. Gaifullin, Y. Matsuda, and L. N. Bulaevskii
pp. 3551 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Sonin Replies:
E. B. Sonin
pp. 3552 [View PDF (75 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Strong Correlation Effects in the (3×3) Charge Density Wave Phase of Sn/Ge(111) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3266 (1997)]
A. Goldoni and S. Modesti
pp. 3553 [View PDF (67 kB)]
 
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