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Physical Review Letters – 10 August 1998
Volume 81, Issue 6

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.

Observation of Noise and Dissipation Effects on Dynamical Localization
B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen
pp. 1203-1206 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
dc Supercurrents from Resonant Mixing of Josephson Oscillations in a 3He Weak Link
R. W. Simmonds, A. Loshak, A. Marchenkov, S. Backhaus, S. Pereversev, S. Vitale, J. C. Davis, and R. E. Packard
pp. 1247-1250 [View PDF (151 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Atomic Deflection Using an Adaptive Microelectromagnet Mirror
K. S. Johnson, M. Drndic, J. H. Thywissen, G. Zabow, R. M. Westervelt, and M. Prentiss
pp. 1137-1141 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Inelastic Collapse of a Randomly Forced Particle
Stephen J. Cornell, Michael R. Swift, and Alan J. Bray
pp. 1142-1145 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Order-Disorder Transitions under Confinement
A. Díaz-Ortiz, J. M. Sanchez, and J. L. Morán-López
pp. 1146-1149 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Angular Momentum in General Relativity: A New Definition
Anthony Rizzi
pp. 1150-1153 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Hamiltonian Time Evolution for General Relativity
Arlen Anderson and James W. York, Jr.
pp. 1154-1157 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Measurements of the Solar Neutrino Flux from Super-Kamiokande's First 300 Days
Y. Fukuda et al.
pp. 1158-1162 [View PDF (130 kB)]
Extension of the Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum beyond the Predicted Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min Cutoff
M. Takeda et al.
pp. 1163-1166 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Minimality Condition and Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations
Carl H. Albright, K. S. Babu, and S. M. Barr
pp. 1167-1170 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Pathways to Naturally Small Neutrino Masses
Ernest Ma
pp. 1171-1174 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Search for Millicharged Particles at SLAC
A. A. Prinz, R. Baggs, J. Ballam, S. Ecklund, C. Fertig, J. A. Jaros, K. Kase, A. Kulikov, W. G. J. Langeveld, R. Leonard, T. Marvin, T. Nakashima, W. R. Nelson, A. Odian, M. Pertsova, G. Putallaz, and A. Weinstein
pp. 1175-1178 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Experimental Study of J/ψ Radiative Decay to π0π0
J. Z. Bai et al. ((BES Collaboration))
pp. 1179-1182 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Cross Section Minima in Elastic Nd Scattering: Possible Evidence for Three-Nucleon Force Effects
H. Witała, W. Glöckle, D. Hüber, J. Golak, and H. Kamada
pp. 1183-1186 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Deformation Effects in 6Li
K. D. Veal, C. R. Brune, W. H. Geist, H. J. Karwowski, E. J. Ludwig, A. J. Mendez, E. E. Bartosz, P. D. Cathers, T. L. Drummer, K. W. Kemper, A. M. Eiró, F. D. Santos, B. Kozlowska, H. J. Maier, and I. J. Thompson
pp. 1187-1190 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Phase Coexistence in Transitional Nuclei and the Interacting-Boson Model
F. Iachello, N. V. Zamfir, and R. F. Casten
pp. 1191-1194 [View PDF (195 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Towards Complete Solutions to Systems of Nonlinear Equations of Many-Electron Theories
Karol Kowalski and Karol Jankowski
pp. 1195-1198 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Electric-Dipole–Quadrupole Interference of Overlapping Autoionizing Levels in Photoelectron Energy Spectra
N. L. S. Martin, D. B. Thompson, R. P. Bauman, C. D. Caldwell, M. O. Krause, S. P. Frigo, and M. Wilson
pp. 1199-1202 [View PDF (141 kB)]
Observation of Noise and Dissipation Effects on Dynamical Localization
B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen
pp. 1203-1206 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Bunching and Focusing of Tunneling Wave Packets in Enhancement of High-Order Above-Threshold Ionization
H. G. Muller and F. C. Kooiman
pp. 1207-1210 [View PDF (443 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Dependent Xenon-131 Quadrupolar Splitting in Gas and Liquid Phase NMR
Thomas Meersmann and Mathias Haake
pp. 1211-1214 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Observation of Raman Self-Conversion of fs-Pulse Frequency due to Impulsive Excitation of Molecular Vibrations
G. Korn, O. Dühr, and A. Nazarkin
pp. 1215-1218 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Hollow Atom Dynamics on LiF Covered Au(111): Role of the Surface Electronic Structure
H. Khemliche, T. Schlathölter, R. Hoekstra, R. Morgenstern, and S. Schippers
pp. 1219-1222 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Quantum Phase from the Glauber Model of Linear Phase Amplifiers
D. I. Lalović, D. M. Davidović, and A. R. Tanc̆ić
pp. 1223-1226 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Atomic Scale Friction: What can be Deduced from the Response to a Harmonic Drive?
V. Zaloj, M. Urbakh, and J. Klafter
pp. 1227-1230 [View PDF (186 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Evidence for a Wave-Induced Particle Pinch in the Presence of Toroidally Asymmetric ICRF Waves
L.-G. Eriksson, M. Mantsinen, D. Borba, A. Fasoli, R. Heeter, S. Sharapov, D. F. H. Start, J. Carlsson, A. Gondhalekar, T. Hellsten, and A. Korotkov
pp. 1231-1234 [View PDF (322 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Ab Initio Infrared Absorption Study of the Hydrogen-Bond Symmetrization in Ice
M. Bernasconi, P. L. Silvestrelli, and M. Parrinello
pp. 1235-1238 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Is There an Electronic Topological Transition in Zinc under High Pressure?
S. Klotz, M. Braden, and J. M. Besson
pp. 1239-1242 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Intrinsic Diffusion Coefficient of Interstitial Copper in Silicon
Andrei A. Istratov, Christoph Flink, Henry Hieslmair, Eicke R. Weber, and Thomas Heiser
pp. 1243-1246 [View PDF (158 kB)]
dc Supercurrents from Resonant Mixing of Josephson Oscillations in a 3He Weak Link
R. W. Simmonds, A. Loshak, A. Marchenkov, S. Backhaus, S. Pereversev, S. Vitale, J. C. Davis, and R. E. Packard
pp. 1247-1250 [View PDF (151 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Spinodal Dewetting of Thin Polymer Films
R. Xie, A. Karim, J. F. Douglas, C. C. Han, and R. A. Weiss
pp. 1251-1254 [View PDF (581 kB)]
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How Sensitive is Epitaxial Growth to Adsorbates?
Matthias Kalff, George Comsa, and Thomas Michely
pp. 1255-1258 [View PDF (279 kB)]
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Nonthermal Effects of Photon Illumination on Surface Diffusion
R. Ditchfield, D. Llera-Rodríguez, and E. G. Seebauer
pp. 1259-1262 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Coupling of Vibrational Excitation to the Rotational Motion of a Single Adsorbed Molecule
B. C. Stipe, M. A. Rezaei, and W. Ho
pp. 1263-1266 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Interfacial Structural Changes and Singularities in Nonplanar Geometries
C. Rascón and A. O. Parry
pp. 1267-1270 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Partial Dissociation of Water Molecules in the ( 3×2) Water Monolayer Deposited on the MgO (100) Surface
Livia Giordano, Jacek Goniakowski, and Jean Suzanne
pp. 1271-1273 [View PDF (341 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Lévy Flights in Quantum Transport in Quasiballistic Wires
M. Leadbeater, V. I. Falko, and C. J. Lambert
pp. 1274-1277 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Carbon-Nanotube-Based Quantum Dot
L. Chico, M. P. López Sancho, and M. C. Muñoz
pp. 1278-1281 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Tunable Spin-Splitting and Spin-Resolved Ballistic Transport in GaAs/AlGaAs Two-Dimensional Holes
J. P. Lu, J. B. Yau, S. P. Shukla, M. Shayegan, L. Wissinger, U. Rössler, and R. Winkler
pp. 1282-1285 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Adiabatic Charge Pumping in Almost Open Dots
I. L. Aleiner and A. V. Andreev
pp. 1286-1289 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Explosive Bifurcation to Chaos in Weakly Coupled Semiconductor Superlattices
K. J. Luo, H. T. Grahn, K. H. Ploog, and L. L. Bonilla
pp. 1290-1293 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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d-Wave Pairing Correlation in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model
C. T. Shih, Y. C. Chen, H. Q. Lin, and T. K. Lee
pp. 1294-1297 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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ĉ-Axis Electrodynamics of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
A. Hosseini, Saeid Kamal, D. A. Bonn, Ruixing Liang, and W. N. Hardy
pp. 1298-1301 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Two Types of Ordering in the Three-State Antiferromagnetic Potts Model on 3D Lattices: Monte Carlo Evidence
Saulius Lapinskas and Anders Rosengren
pp. 1302-1305 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Nature of Resonant Photoemission in Gd
S. R. Mishra, T. R. Cummins, G. D. Waddill, W. J. Gammon, G. van der Laan, K. W. Goodman, and J. G. Tobin
pp. 1306-1309 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Ultrafast Laser Induced Conductive and Resistive Transients in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3: Charge Transfer and Relaxation Dynamics
Y. G. Zhao, J. J. Li, R. Shreekala, H. D. Drew, C. L. Chen, W. L. Cao, C. H. Lee, M. Rajeswari, S. B. Ogale, R. Ramesh, G. Baskaran, and T. Venkatesan
pp. 1310-1313 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance in Mn Pyrochlore: Electrical Transport in a Low Carrier Density Ferromagnet
Pinaki Majumdar and Peter Littlewood
pp. 1314-1317 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Electrostatic Model of Atomic Ordering in Complex Perovskite Alloys
L. Bellaiche and David Vanderbilt
pp. 1318-1321 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Gates with “Hot” Trapped Ions
J. F. Poyatos, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 1322-1325 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Universal Law of Fractionation for Slightly Polydisperse Systems
R. M. L. Evans, D. J. Fairhurst, and W. C. K. Poon
pp. 1326-1329 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Depletion Potentials in Mixtures of Colloids and Nonionic Polymers
D. Rudhardt, C. Bechinger, and P. Leiderer
pp. 1330-1333 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Attraction between Like-Charged Macroions by Coulomb Depletion
E. Allahyarov, I. D'Amico, and H. Löwen
pp. 1334-1337 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Charge-Fluctuation-Induced Nonanalytic Bending Rigidity
A. W. C. Lau and P. Pincus
pp. 1338-1341 [View PDF (146 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interaction”
Xiao-Bing Wang, Lee Chang, and Bing-Lin Gu
pp. 1342 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Ueda and Leggett Reply:
Masahito Ueda and Anthony J. Leggett
pp. 1343 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Comment on “Phase and Phase Diffusion of a Split Bose-Einstein Condensate”
A. J. Leggett and F. Sols
pp. 1344 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Javanainen and Wilkens Reply:
Juha Javanainen and Martin Wilkens
pp. 1345 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Comment on “Evidence for Narrow Baryon Resonances in Inelastic pp Scattering”
A. I. L'vov and R. L. Workman
pp. 1346 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Tatischeff et al. Reply:
B. Tatischeff, J. Yonnet, N. Willis, M. Boivin, M. P. Comets, P. Courtat, R. Gacougnolle, Y. Le Bornec, E. Loireleux, and F. Reide
pp. 1347 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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CeSi2 Photoemission Spectra at 5 meV Resolution
A. J. Arko and J. J. Joyce
pp. 1348 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Garnier et al. Reply:
M. Garnier, D. Purdie, K. Breuer, M. Hengsberger, Y. Baer, and B. Delley
pp. 1349 [View PDF (48 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Classical Outlook on the Electron Translation Factor Problem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3029 (1998)]
Clara Illescas and A. Riera
pp. 1350 [View PDF (46 kB)]
 
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