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Physical Review Letters – 28 December 1998
Volume 81, Issue 26

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 Scattering in a Juggling Atomic Fountain
Ronald Legere and Kurt Gibble
pp. 5780-5783 [View PDF (150 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Fringe Visibility and Which-Way Information in an Atom Interferometer
S. Dürr, T. Nonn, and G. Rempe
pp. 5705-5709 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Decoherent Dynamics of a Two-Level System Coupled to a Sea of Spins
Jiushu Shao and Peter Hänggi
pp. 5710-5713 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Entropic Lower Bound for the Quantum Scattering of Spinless Particles
D. B. Ion and M. L. D. Ion
pp. 5714-5717 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Phase Separation of Bose-Einstein Condensates
E. Timmermans
pp. 5718-5721 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Observing the Birth of Supermassive Black Holes with the Planned ICECUBE Neutrino Detector
Xiangdong Shi, George M. Fuller, and Francis Halzen
pp. 5722-5725 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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A New Solar System Dark Matter Population of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
Thibault Damour and Lawrence M. Krauss
pp. 5726-5729 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Solar Neutrino Puzzle: An Oscillation Solution with Maximal Neutrino Mixing
Anthony J. Baltz, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, and Maurice Goldhaber
pp. 5730-5733 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Limit on Muon and Electron Lepton Number Violation from KL0→μ±e∓ Decay
D. Ambrose et al. ((BNL E871 Collaboration))
pp. 5734-5737 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Prospects for Direct CP Violation in Exclusive and Inclusive Charmless B Decays
Xiao-Gang He, Wei-Shu Hou, and Kwei-Chou Yang
pp. 5738-5741 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Search for the Decays Bs0, Bd0 → e±μ∓ and Pati-Salam Leptoquarks
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 5742-5747 [View PDF (383 kB)]
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Search for Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 5748-5753 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Measurement of the Lepton Charge Asymmetry in W-Boson Decays Produced in pp̅ Collisions
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 5754-5759 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Observation of a New JPC = 1-+ Exotic State in the Reaction π-p→π+π-π-p at 18GeV/c
G. S. Adams et al. (E852 Collaboration)
pp. 5760-5763 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Evidence of Early Multistrange Hadron Freeze-Out in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
H. van Hecke, H. Sorge, and N. Xu
pp. 5764-5767 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Degenerate Raman Sideband Cooling of Trapped Cesium Atoms at Very High Atomic Densities
Vladan Vuletić, Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, and Steven Chu
pp. 5768-5771 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Observation of a Nondecaying Wave Packet in a Two-Electron Atom
Xin Chen and John A. Yeazell
pp. 5772-5775 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Double Photoionization of Spatially Aligned D2
R. Dörner, H. Bräuning, O. Jagutzki, V. Mergel, M. Achler, R. Moshammer, J. M. Feagin, T. Osipov, A. Bräuning-Demian, L. Spielberger, J. H. McGuire, M. H. Prior, N. Berrah, J. D. Bozek, C. L. Cocke, and H. Schmidt-Böcking
pp. 5776-5779 [View PDF (267 kB)]
Quantum Scattering in a Juggling Atomic Fountain
Ronald Legere and Kurt Gibble
pp. 5780-5783 [View PDF (150 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Quantum Electrodynamic Shifts of Rydberg Energy Levels between Parallel Metal Plates
M. Marrocco, M. Weidinger, R. T. Sang, and H. Walther
pp. 5784-5787 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Nonlinear Magneto-optic Effects with Ultranarrow Widths
Dmitry Budker, Valeriy Yashchuk, and Max Zolotorev
pp. 5788-5791 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Charged Wire Interferometer for Atoms
S. Nowak, N. Stuhler, T. Pfau, and J. Mlynek
pp. 5792-5795 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quantum Chaos with Nonperiodic, Complex Orbits in the Resonant Tunneling Diode
D. S. Saraga and T. S. Monteiro
pp. 5796-5799 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Universal Conductance Fluctuations of Light
Frank Scheffold and Georg Maret
pp. 5800-5803 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Demonstration of a High Average Power Tabletop Soft X-Ray Laser
B. R. Benware, C. D. Macchietto, C. H. Moreno, and J. J. Rocca
pp. 5804-5807 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Observation of Solitary Waves with Different Phase Behavior in Stimulated Raman Forward Scattering
A. S. Grabtchikov, D. E. Gakhovich, A. G. Shvedko, V. A. Orlovich, and K. J. Witte
pp. 5808-5811 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Acoustic Phase Conjugation in Superfluid Helium
Dmitry Rinberg and Victor Steinberg
pp. 5812-5815 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of Self-Amplified Spontaneous-Emission-Induced Electron-Beam Microbunching Using Coherent Transition Radiation
A. Tremaine, J. B. Rosenzweig, S. Anderson, P. Frigola, M. Hogan, A. Murokh, C. Pellegrini, D. C. Nguyen, and R. L. Sheffield
pp. 5816-5819 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Linear Kinetic Modes in Weakly Collisional Plasma
F. Skiff, S. De Souza-Machado, W. A. Noonan, A. Case, and T. N. Good
pp. 5820-5823 [View PDF (315 kB)]
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Asymptotic Theory of Nonlinear Landau Damping and Particle Trapping in Waves of Finite Amplitude
M. V. Medvedev, P. H. Diamond, M. N. Rosenbluth, and V. I. Shevchenko
pp. 5824-5827 [View PDF (201 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Quantum Mechanical Effects on the Static Structure Factor of Pairs of Orthodeuterium Molecules
Milva Celli, Renato Magli, Henry Fischer, Lothar Frommhold, and Fabrizio Barocchi
pp. 5828-5831 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Coherent X-Ray Study of Fluctuations during Domain Coarsening
A. Malik, A. R. Sandy, L. B. Lurio, G. B. Stephenson, S. G. J. Mochrie, I. McNulty, and M. Sutton
pp. 5832-5835 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Fluctuations in Electrolytes: The Lebowitz and Other Correlation Lengths
Stefan Bekiranov and Michael E. Fisher
pp. 5836-5839 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Mechanism and Strength of Polymer Bridging Flocculation
J. Swenson, M. V. Smalley, and H. L. M. Hatharasinghe
pp. 5840-5843 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Surface-Dominated Orientational Dynamics and Surface Viscosity in Confined Liquid Crystals
A. Mertelj and M. Čopič
pp. 5844-5847 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Coupling of Polarization and Dislocation in Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid-Crystal Films
Robert Hołyst, A. Poniewierski, P. Fortmeier, and H. Stegemeyer
pp. 5848-5851 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Intercage Hopping in Strongly Adsorbing Guest-Zeolite Systems
D. E. Favre, D. J. Schaefer, S. M. Auerbach, and B. F. Chmelka, Ph.D.
pp. 5852-5855 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Sn-Background-Induced Diffusion Enhancement of Sb in Si
Jacob Fage-Pedersen, Arne Nylandsted Larsen, Peter Gaiduk, John Lundsgaard Hansen, and Margareta Linnarsson
pp. 5856-5859 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Localized Collective Excitations in Superfluid Helium in Vycor
R. M. Dimeo, P. E. Sokol, C. R. Anderson, W. G. Stirling, K. H. Andersen, and M. A. Adams
pp. 5860-5863 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Positional Order in Langmuir Monolayers
V. M. Kaganer, G. Brezesinski, H. Möhwald, P. B. Howes, and K. Kjaer
pp. 5864-5867 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Carbon Atomic Chain Formation on the β-SiC(100) Surface by Controlled sp→sp3 Transformation
V. Derycke, P. Soukiassian, A. Mayne, G. Dujardin, and J. Gautier
pp. 5868-5871 [View PDF (699 kB)]
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Ad-Dimer Diffusion between Trough and Dimer Row on Si(100)
Gun-Do Lee, C. Z. Wang, Z. Y. Lu, and K. M. Ho
pp. 5872-5875 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Icelike Water Monolayer Adsorbed on Mica at Room Temperature
P. B. Miranda, Lei Xu, Y. R. Shen, and Miquel Salmeron
pp. 5876-5879 [View PDF (243 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Identification of Higher-Order Electronic Coherences in Semiconductors by their Signature in Four-Wave-Mixing Signals
G. Bartels, A. Stahl, V. M. Axt, B. Haase, U. Neukirch, and J. Gutowski
pp. 5880-5883 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Quantum Phase Transition in Fe/Cr Multilayers Tuned by a Magnetic Field
F. G. Aliev, V. V. Moshchalkov, and Y. Bruynseraede
pp. 5884-5887 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Aharonov-Bohm Cages in Two-Dimensional Structures
Julien Vidal, Rémy Mosseri, and Benoit Douçot
pp. 5888-5891 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Effects of Band Structure on Electron Attachment to Adsorbed Molecules: Cross Section Enhancements via Coupling to Image States
K. Nagesha and L. Sanche
pp. 5892-5895 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Quantum Zeno Effect and Parametric Resonance in Mesoscopic Physics
G. Hackenbroich, B. Rosenow, and H. A. Weidenmüller
pp. 5896-5899 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Changing the Electronic Spectrum of a Quantum Dot by Adding Electrons
S. R. Patel, D. R. Stewart, C. M. Marcus, M. Gökçedağ, Y. Alhassid, A. D. Stone, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
pp. 5900-5903 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Coulomb Blockade in One-Channel Quantum Dots
S. M. Cronenwett, S. M. Maurer, S. R. Patel, C. M. Marcus, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
pp. 5904-5907 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Persistent Edge Current in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Kazusumi Ino
pp. 5908-5911 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Isotope Dependence of the Spin Gap in YBa2Cu4O8 as Determined by Cu NQR Relaxation
F. Raffa, T. Ohno, M. Mali, J. Roos, D. Brinkmann, K. Conder, and M. Eremin
pp. 5912-5915 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Critical Behavior and Griffiths-McCoy Singularities in the Two-Dimensional Random Quantum Ising Ferromagnet
C. Pich, A. P. Young, H. Rieger, and N. Kawashima
pp. 5916-5919 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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Anisotropic Magnetoelastic Phenomena in Layered Manganite Crystals: Implication of Change in Orbital State
T. Kimura, Y. Tomioka, A. Asamitsu, and Y. Tokura
pp. 5920-5923 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Coexistence of Order-Disorder and Displacive Features at the Phase Transitions in Hydrogen-Bonded Solids: Squaric Acid and its Analogs
N. Dalal, A. Klymachyov, and A. Bussmann-Holder
pp. 5924-5927 [View PDF (172 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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How to Teleport Superpositions of Chiral Amplitudes
Christopher S. Maierle, Daniel A. Lidar, and Robert A. Harris
pp. 5928-5931 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Quantum Repeaters: The Role of Imperfect Local Operations in Quantum Communication
H.-J. Briegel, W. Dür, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 5932-5935 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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First-Principles Study of Oxide Growth on Si(100) Surfaces and at SiO2/Si(100) Interfaces
Hiroyuki Kageshima and Kenji Shiraishi
pp. 5936-5939 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Collective Motion and Structural Order in Adsorbate Vibrational Dynamics
M. V. Pykhtin, Steven P. Lewis, E. J. Mele, and Andrew M. Rappe
pp. 5940-5943 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Screened and Unscreened Phases in Sedimenting Suspensions
Alex Levine, Sriram Ramaswamy, Erwin Frey, and Robijn Bruinsma
pp. 5944-5947 [View PDF (176 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Full f-p Shell Calculation of 51Ca and 51Sc”
Yutaka Utsuno, Takashi Sebe, Takaharu Otsuka, and Takahiro Mizusaki
pp. 5948 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Novoselsky, Vallières, and La'adan Reply:
A. Novoselsky, M. Vallières, and O. La'adan
pp. 5949 [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Comment on “Selection of the Saffman-Taylor Finger Width in the Absence of Surface Tension: An Exact Result”
J. Casademunt and F. X. Magdaleno
pp. 5950 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Comment on “Selection of the Saffman-Taylor Finger Width in the Absence of Surface Tension: An Exact Result”
Robert F. Almgren
pp. 5951 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Mineev-Weinstein Replies:
Mark Mineev-Weinstein
pp. 5952 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Comment on “Roughening Transition of Interfaces in Disordered Systems”
Anusha Hazareesing and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
pp. 5953 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Emig and Nattermann Reply:
Thorsten Emig and Thomas Nattermann
pp. 5954 [View PDF (58 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Full f-p Shell Calculation of 51Ca and 51Sc [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4341 (1997)]
A. Novoselsky, M. Vallières, and O. La'adan
pp. 5955 [View PDF (47 kB)]
 
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