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Physical Review Letters – 7 December 1998
Volume 81, Issue 23

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.

Photoinduced Crystallization of Amorphous Ice Films on Graphite
Dinko Chakarov and Bengt Kasemo
pp. 5181-5184 [View PDF (141 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions
Gregor Weihs, Thomas Jennewein, Christoph Simon, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 5039-5043 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Atomic Interference in Grazing Incidence Diffraction from an Evanescent Wave Mirror
L. Cognet, V. Savalli, G. Zs. K. Horvath, D. Holleville, R. Marani, N. Westbrook, C. I. Westbrook, and A. Aspect
pp. 5044-5047 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Noise Enhanced Propagation
John F. Lindner, Sridhar Chandramouli, Adi R. Bulsara, Markus Löcher, and William L. Ditto
pp. 5048-5051 [View PDF (317 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Complex Instantons and Charged Rotating Black Hole Pair Creation
I. S. Booth and R. B. Mann
pp. 5052-5055 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Study of the Solar Neutrino Survival Probability
C. M. Bhat, P. C. Bhat, M. Paterno, and H. B. Prosper
pp. 5056-5059 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Getting the Most from Atmospheric Neutrinos
J. Pantaleone
pp. 5060-5063 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Family Symmetry and Neutrino Mixing
John K. Elwood, Nikolaos Irges, and Pierre Ramond
pp. 5064-5067 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Experimental Search for Solar Axions via Coherent Primakoff Conversion in a Germanium Spectrometer
F. T. Avignone, III, D. Abriola, R. L. Brodzinski, J. I. Collar, R. J. Creswick, D. E. DiGregorio, H. A. Farach, A. O. Gattone, C. K. Guérard, F. Hasenbalg, H. Huck, H. S. Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, S. Nussinov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, J. H. Reeves, J. A. Villar, and K. Zioutas ((SOLAX Collaboration))
pp. 5068-5071 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Quantum Metamorphosis of a Conformal Transformation in D3-Brane Yang-Mills Theory
Antal Jevicki, Yoichi Kazama, and Tamiaki Yoneya
pp. 5072-5075 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Determination of the Weak Phase γ from Rate Measurements in B±→πK,ππ Decays
Matthias Neubert and Jonathan L. Rosner
pp. 5076-5079 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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ψ(2S) Hadronic Decays to Vector-Tensor Final States
J. Z. Bai et al. ((BES Collaboration))
pp. 5080-5084 [View PDF (164 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Nuclear Transparency in Large Momentum Transfer Quasielastic Scattering
I. Mardor, S. Durrant, J. Aclander, J. Alster, D. Barton, G. Bunce, A. Carroll, N. Christensen, H. Courant, S. Gushue, S. Heppelmann, E. Kosonovsky, Y. Mardor, M. Marshak, Y. Makdisi, E. D. Minor, I. Navon, H. Nicholson, E. Piasetzky, T. Roser, J. Russell, C. S. Sutton, M. Tanaka, C. White, and J.-Y. Wu
pp. 5085-5088 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Spectroscopy of Radioactive Beams from Single-Nucleon Knockout Reactions: Application to the sd Shell Nuclei 25Al and 26,27,28P
A. Navin, D. Bazin, B. A. Brown, B. Davids, G. Gervais, T. Glasmacher, K. Govaert, P. G. Hansen, M. Hellström, R. W. Ibbotson, V. Maddalena, B. Pritychenko, H. Scheit, B. M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, J. A. Tostevin, and J. Yurkon
pp. 5089-5092 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Dynamical Bloch Band Suppression in an Optical Lattice
K. W. Madison, M. C. Fischer, R. B. Diener, Qian Niu, and M. G. Raizen
pp. 5093-5096 [View PDF (395 kB)]
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Static-Electric-Field-Induced, High-Energy Plateau for Scattered X-Ray Photons in Laser-Assisted, X-Ray–Atom Scattering
Dejan B. Milošević and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 5097-5100 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Observing the Transition from a Multiphoton-Dominated to a Field-Mediated Ionization Process for Polyatomic Molecules in Intense Laser Fields
Merrick J. DeWitt and Robert J. Levis
pp. 5101-5104 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Observation of Optically Trapped Cold Cesium Molecules
T. Takekoshi, B. M. Patterson, and R. J. Knize
pp. 5105-5108 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Resonant Magnetic Field Control of Elastic Scattering in Cold 85Rb
J. L. Roberts, N. R. Claussen, James P. Burke, Jr., Chris H. Greene, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman
pp. 5109-5112 [View PDF (135 kB)]
Positronic Water, Ps2O
Nan Jiang and D. M. Schrader
pp. 5113-5116 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Unraveling Quantum Dissipation in the Frequency Domain
M. Holland
pp. 5117-5120 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Excess Quantum Noise Is Colored
A. M. van der Lee, M. P. van Exter, A. L. Mieremet, N. J. van Druten, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 5121-5124 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Critical Attractor and Universality in a Renormalization Scheme for Three Frequency Hamiltonian Systems
C. Chandre and H. R. Jauslin
pp. 5125-5128 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Integrability and Quantum Chaos in Spin Glass Shards
B. Georgeot and D. L. Shepelyansky
pp. 5129-5132 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Observation of Optical Vortices and J0 Bessel-Like Beams in Quantum-Noise Parametric Amplification
Paolo Di Trapani, Audrius Beržanskis, Stefano Minardi, Samantha Sapone, and Walter Chinaglia
pp. 5133-5136 [View PDF (294 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Critical Initial States in Collisionless Plasmas
Carlo Lancellotti and J. J. Dorning
pp. 5137-5140 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Surface Instabilities in Cracks
Efim A. Brener and V. I. Marchenko
pp. 5141-5144 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Direct Imaging of Local Chemical Disorder and Columnar Vacancies in Ideal Decagonal Al-Ni-Co Quasicrystals
Yanfa Yan, Stephen J. Pennycook, and An Pang Tsai
pp. 5145-5148 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Crystal Structures of Zirconia from First Principles and Self-Consistent Tight Binding
M. W. Finnis, A. T. Paxton, M. Methfessel, and M. van Schilfgaarde, Ph.D.
pp. 5149-5152 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Surface Structure and Electron Density Dependence of Scattered Ne+ Ion Fractions from Cd- and S-Terminated CdS{0001} Surfaces
L. Houssiau, J. W. Rabalais, J. Wolfgang, and P. Nordlander
pp. 5153-5156 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Equivalent Effects of a Lattice Translation and Rotation on Planar Channeled MeV Protons
M. B. H. Breese and P. J. M. Smulders
pp. 5157-5160 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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First-Principles Calculation of Transport Coefficients
Dario Alfè and Michael J. Gillan
pp. 5161-5164 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Nucleation Controlled Formation and Growth of Disperse Particles
A. A. Lushnikov and M. Kulmala
pp. 5165-5168 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Contact Line Stability and “Undercompressive Shocks” in Driven Thin Film Flow
A. L. Bertozzi, A. Münch, X. Fanton, and A. M. Cazabat
pp. 5169-5172 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Interfacial Instability Driven by Dispersive Forces: The Early Stages of Spinodal Dewetting of a Thin Polymer Film on a Polymer Substrate
M. Sferrazza, M. Heppenstall-Butler, R. Cubitt, D. Bucknall, J. Webster, and R. A. L. Jones
pp. 5173-5176 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Structure of Ge(113): Origin and Stability of Surface Self-Interstitials
A. Laracuente, S. C. Erwin, and L. J. Whitman
pp. 5177-5180 [View PDF (314 kB)]
Photoinduced Crystallization of Amorphous Ice Films on Graphite
Dinko Chakarov and Bengt Kasemo
pp. 5181-5184 [View PDF (141 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Charge Fluctuations Close to Phase Separation in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model
Matteo Calandra, Federico Becca, and Sandro Sorella
pp. 5185-5188 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Properties of Low-Lying States in a Diffusive Quantum Dot and Fock-Space Localization
Carlos Mejía-Monasterio, Jean Richert, Thomas Rupp, and Hans A. Weidenmüller
pp. 5189-5192 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Destruction of the Field-Induced Density-Wave State in Graphite by Large Magnetic Fields
Hiroshi Yaguchi and John Singleton
pp. 5193-5196 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Charging Energy of a Chaotic Quantum Dot
S. Möller, H. Buhmann, S. F. Godijn, and L. W. Molenkamp
pp. 5197-5200 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Evidence for Bulk Current in Hall Bar Samples and Potential Screening in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
E. Yahel, A. Tsukernik, A. Palevski, and H. Shtrikman
pp. 5201-5204 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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State Orthogonalization by Building a Hilbert Space: A New Approach to Electronic Quantum Transport in Molecular Wires
Eldon Emberly and George Kirczenow
pp. 5205-5208 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Observations of Suppression of Static and Dynamic Disorder in Bi2.15Sr1.85CaCu2O8+δ Crystals by Columnar Defects
S. L. Lee, C. M. Aegerter, S. H. Lloyd, E. M. Forgan, C. Ager, M. B. Hunt, H. Keller, I. M. Savić, R. Cubitt, G. Wirth, K. Kadowaki, and N. Koshizuka
pp. 5209-5212 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Anisotropy of the Josephson Critical Current between UPt3 and Nb
A. Sumiyama, S. Shibata, Y. Oda, N. Kimura, E. Yamamoto, Y. Haga, and Y. O¯nuki
pp. 5213-5216 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Thickness–Magnetic Field Phase Diagram at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in 2D
N. Marković, C. Christiansen, and A. M. Goldman
pp. 5217-5220 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Semiclassical Eigenstates of Four-Sublattice Antiferromagnets
Christopher L. Henley and Nai-gong Zhang
pp. 5221-5224 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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From the Kondo Regime to the Mixed-Valence Regime in a Single-Electron Transistor
D. Goldhaber-Gordon, J. Göres, M. A. Kastner, Hadas Shtrikman, D. Mahalu, and U. Meirav
pp. 5225-5228 [View PDF (631 kB)]
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Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Caused by Interfacial Hybridization via Enhanced Orbital Moment in Co/Pt Multilayers: Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism Study
N. Nakajima, T. Koide, T. Shidara, H. Miyauchi, H. Fukutani, A. Fujimori, K. Iio, T. Katayama, M. Nývlt, and Y. Suzuki
pp. 5229-5232 [View PDF (232 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Maximum Amount of Information Obtainable from a Single Quantum Query of a Database
Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto
pp. 5233-5236 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Variational Theory for Site Resolved Protein Folding Free Energy Surfaces
J. J. Portman, S. Takada, and P. G. Wolynes
pp. 5237-5240 [View PDF (968 kB)]
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Fluorescence Interferometry of Neuronal Cell Adhesion on Microstructured Silicon
Dieter Braun and Peter Fromherz
pp. 5241-5244 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Wave-Coherent Fields in Air Flow over Ocean Waves: Identification of Cooperative Behavior Buried in Turbulence
Tihomir Hristov, Carl Friehe, and Scott Miller
pp. 5245-5248 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Probability Density Functions of Large-Scale Turbulence in the Ocean
Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith and Sarah T. Gille
pp. 5249-5252 [View PDF (149 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “ πNN Coupling from High Precision np Charge Exchange at 162 MeV”
M. C. M. Rentmeester, R. A. M. Klomp, and J. J. de Swart
pp. 5253 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Ericson et al. Reply:
T. E. O. Ericson, B. Loiseau, J. Rahm, N. Olsson, J. Blomgren, H. Condé, K. Elmgren, O. Jonsson, L. Nilsson, P.-U. Renberg, A. Ringbom, T. Rönnqvist, G. Tibell, and R. Zorro
pp. 5254 [View PDF (45 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Turbulent Steady-State Configuration of an Inductively Driven Reversed Field Pinch Plasma [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3148 (1998)]
T. K. Chu
pp. 5255 [View PDF (24 kB)]
 
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