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Physical Review Letters – 27 July 1998
Volume 81, Issue 4

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.

Probing a Singular Potential with Cold Atoms: A Neutral Atom and a Charged Wire
Johannes Denschlag, Gerhard Umshaus, and Jörg Schmiedmayer
pp. 737-741 [View PDF (229 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Null Energy Condition in Dynamic Wormholes
David Hochberg and Matt Visser
pp. 746-749 [View PDF (111 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

Probing a Singular Potential with Cold Atoms: A Neutral Atom and a Charged Wire
Johannes Denschlag, Gerhard Umshaus, and Jörg Schmiedmayer
pp. 737-741 [View PDF (229 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Spinor Bose Condensates in Optical Traps
Tin-Lun Ho
pp. 742-745 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Null Energy Condition in Dynamic Wormholes
David Hochberg and Matt Visser
pp. 746-749 [View PDF (111 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Monte Carlo Study of Inverse Symmetry Breaking
G. Bimonte, D. Iñiguez, A. Tarancón, and C. L. Ullod
pp. 750-753 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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String Network and U Duality
Sandip Bhattacharyya, Alok Kumar, and Subir Mukhopadhyay
pp. 754-757 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Nucleon-Nucleon Bremsstrahlung: An Example of the Impossibility of Measuring Off-Shell Amplitudes
Harold W. Fearing
pp. 758-761 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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J/Ψ Production, χ Polarization, and Color Fluctuations
L. Gerland, L. Frankfurt, M. Strikman, H. Stöcker, and W. Greiner
pp. 762-765 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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New Island of μs Isomers in Neutron-Rich Nuclei around the Z  = 28 and N  = 40 Shell Closures
R. Grzywacz, R. Béraud, C. Borcea, A. Emsallem, M. Glogowski, H. Grawe, D. Guillemaud-Mueller, M. Hjorth-Jensen, M. Houry, M. Lewitowicz, A. C. Mueller, A. Nowak, A. Płochocki, M. Pfützner, K. Rykaczewski, M. G. Saint-Laurent, J. E. Sauvestre, M. Schaefer, O. Sorlin, J. Szerypo, W. Trinder, S. Viteritti, and J. Winfield
pp. 766-769 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Z-Dependent Barriers in Multifragmentation from Poissonian Reducibility and Thermal Scaling
L. Beaulieu, L. Phair, L. G. Moretto, and G. J. Wozniak
pp. 770-773 [View PDF (546 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Relativistic and QED Energies in Lithium
Zong-Chao Yan and G. W. F. Drake
pp. 774-777 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Laser Photoelectron Attachment to Molecules in a Skimmed Supersonic Beam: Diagnostics of Weak Electric Fields and Attachment Cross Sections Down to 20μeV
A. Schramm, J. M. Weber, J. Kreil, D. Klar, M.-W. Ruf, and H. Hotop
pp. 778-781 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Low Saturation Intensities in Two-Photon Ultracold Collisions
C. I. Sukenik, D. Hoffmann, S. Bali, and T. Walker
pp. 782-785 [View PDF (332 kB)]
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Observation of Multimode Quantum Correlations in Fiber Optical Solitons
S. Spälter, N. Korolkova, F. König, A. Sizmann, and G. Leuchs
pp. 786-789 [View PDF (241 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Self-Bouncing of Quadratic Solitons
Carl Balslev Clausen and Lluis Torner
pp. 790-793 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Vertical and Horizontal Vibration of Granular Materials: Coulomb Friction and a Novel Switching State
Sarath G. K. Tennakoon and R. P. Behringer
pp. 794-797 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Density Oscillator: Analysis of Flow Dynamics and Stability
O. Steinbock, A. Lange, and I. Rehberg
pp. 798-801 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Universal Scaling Exponents in Shell Models of Turbulence: Viscous Effects Are Finite-Sized Corrections to Scaling
Victor S. L'vov, Itamar Procaccia, and Damien Vandembroucq
pp. 802-805 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Square Patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection with Rotation about a Vertical Axis
Kapil M. S. Bajaj, Jun Liu, Brian Naberhuis, and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 806-809 [View PDF (537 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Driven by a High-Brightness Electron Beam
D. C. Nguyen, R. L. Sheffield, C. M. Fortgang, J. C. Goldstein, J. M. Kinross-Wright, and N. A. Ebrahim
pp. 810-813 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Near-LTE Linear Response Calculations with a Collisional-Radiative Model for He-like Al Ions
Richard More and Takako Kato
pp. 814-817 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Molecular Activated Recombination in Detached Recombining Plasmas
N. Ohno, N. Ezumi, S. Takamura, S. I. Krasheninnikov, and A. Yu. Pigarov
pp. 818-821 [View PDF (188 kB)]
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Experimental Measurements of Hot Electrons Generated by Ultraintense ( >1019W/cm2) Laser-Plasma Interactions on Solid-Density Targets
K. B. Wharton, S. P. Hatchett, S. C. Wilks, M. H. Key, J. D. Moody, V. Yanovsky, A. A. Offenberger, B. A. Hammel, M. D. Perry, and C. Joshi
pp. 822-825 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Debye-Scale Plasma Structures Associated with Magnetic-Field-Aligned Electric Fields
R. E. Ergun, C. W. Carlson, J. P. McFadden, F. S. Mozer, L. Muschietti, I. Roth, and R. J. Strangeway
pp. 826-829 [View PDF (274 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Compton Scattering from PTFE: Probing Electron-Charge Redistributionin Polymer Phase Transitions
D. L. Anastassopoulos, G. D. Priftis, C. Toprakcioglu, and A. A. Vradis
pp. 830-833 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Kinetic Ising Model in an Oscillating Field: Finite-Size Scaling at the Dynamic Phase Transition
S. W. Sides, P. A. Rikvold, and M. A. Novotny
pp. 834-837 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Phase Nucleation of Elastic Defects in Crystals Undergoing a Phase Transition
A. A. Boulbitch and P. Tolédano
pp. 838-841 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Identification of Silicon Interstitials in Ion Implanted GaAs
T. Ahlgren
pp. 842-845 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of the Shear Resistance of Solid 4He near a Structural Phase Transition
Inon Berent and Emil Polturak
pp. 846-849 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Atomistic Mechanism of Surfactant-Assisted Epitaxial Growth
J. Camarero, J. Ferrón, V. Cros, L. Gómez, A. L. Vázquez de Parga, J. M. Gallego, J. E. Prieto, J. J. de Miguel, and R. Miranda
pp. 850-853 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Importance of the Surface Electronic Structure in Heteroepitaxy
H. Wormeester, E. Hüger, and E. Bauer
pp. 854-857 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Magic Islands in Si/Si(111) Homoepitaxy
Bert Voigtländer, Martin Kästner, and Pavel Šmilauer
pp. 858-861 [View PDF (786 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Delocalization in Coupled One-Dimensional Chains
P. W. Brouwer, C. Mudry, B. D. Simons, and A. Altland
pp. 862-865 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Natural Orbital Functional for the Many-Electron Problem
S. Goedecker and C. J. Umrigar
pp. 866-869 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Quantum Interference in the Spin-Polarized Heavy Fermion Compound CeB6: Evidence for Topological Deformation of the Fermi Surface in Strong Magnetic Fields
N. Harrison, D. W. Hall, R. G. Goodrich, J. J. Vuillemin, and Z. Fisk
pp. 870-873 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Fano Resonances in Semiconductor Superlattices
C. P. Holfeld, F. Löser, M. Sudzius, K. Leo, D. M. Whittaker, and K. Köhler
pp. 874-877 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Crossover from Large to Small Polarons across the Metal-Insulator Transition in Manganites
A. Lanzara, N. L. Saini, M. Brunelli, F. Natali, A. Bianconi, P. G. Radaelli, and S.-W. Cheong
pp. 878-881 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Ultrafast Quantum Kinetics of Time-Dependent RPA-Screened Coulomb Scattering
L. Bányai, Q. T. Vu, B. Mieck, and H. Haug
pp. 882-885 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Complete Fermi Surface, Imperfect Nesting, and Gap Anisotropy in the High-Temperature Incommensurate Charge-Density-Wave Compound SmTe3
G.-H. Gweon, J. D. Denlinger, J. A. Clack, J. W. Allen, C. G. Olson, E. DiMasi, M. C. Aronson, B. Foran, and S. Lee
pp. 886-889 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Electron Conduction through Surface States of the Si(111)-( 7×7) Surface
Seiji Heike, S. Watanabe, Y. Wada, and T. Hashizume
pp. 890-893 [View PDF (494 kB)]
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Nonsinusoidal Current-Phase Relationship of Grain Boundary Josephson Junctions in High- Tc Superconductors
E. Il'ichev, V. Zakosarenko, R. P. J. IJsselsteijn, V. Schultze, H.-G. Meyer, H. E. Hoenig, H. Hilgenkamp, and J. Mannhart
pp. 894-897 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Anisotropic Josephson Effects in Point Contacts between the Heavy Fermion Superconductor URu2Si2 and Nb
S. Wasser, A. Nowack, W. Schlabitz, A. Freimuth, O. E. Kvitnitskaya, A. A. Menovsky, and C. Bruder
pp. 898-901 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Josephson Plasma Resonance as a Structural Probe of Vortex Liquid
A. E. Koshelev, L. N. Bulaevskii, and M. P. Maley
pp. 902-905 [View PDF (184 kB)]
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Thermal Suppression of Strong Pinning
Orlando S. Wagner, Guido Burkard, Vadim B. Geshkenbein, and Gianni Blatter
pp. 906-909 [View PDF (753 kB)]
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Incommensurate Spin Correlations in Spin- 1/2 Frustrated Two-Leg Heisenberg Ladders
Alexander A. Nersesyan, Alexander O. Gogolin, and Fabian H. L. Eßler
pp. 910-913 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Reorientation of Spin Density Waves in Cr(001) Films Induced by Fe(001) Cap Layers
P. Bödeker, A. Hucht, A. Schreyer, J. Borchers, F. Güthoff, and H. Zabel
pp. 914-917 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Direct Two-Magnon Optical Absorption in α′-NaV2O5: “Charged” Magnons
A. Damascelli, D. van der Marel, M. Grüninger, C. Presura, T. T. M. Palstra, J. Jegoudez, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 918-921 [View PDF (273 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Electron Interactions in Metal Films
N. Del Fatti, R. Bouffanais, F. Vallée, and C. Flytzanis
pp. 922-925 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Asymmetric Flow in Symmetric Branched Structures
J. S. Andrade, Jr., A. M. Alencar, M. P. Almeida, J. Mendes Filho, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Zapperi, H. E. Stanley, and B. Suki
pp. 926-929 [View PDF (251 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Aging Effects in a Lennard-Jones Glass”
Uwe Müssel and Heiko Rieger
pp. 930 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Kob and Barrat Reply:
Walter Kob and Jean-Louis Barrat
pp. 931 [View PDF (52 kB)]
 
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