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Physical Review Letters – 8 March 1999
Volume 82, Issue 10

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.

Charge Conveyance and Nonlinear Acoustoelectric Phenomena for Intense Surface Acoustic Waves on a Semiconductor Quantum Well
M. Rotter, A. V. Kalameitsev, A. O. Govorov, W. Ruile, and A. Wixforth
pp. 2171-2174 [View PDF (237 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Testing Quantum Nonlocality in Phase Space
Konrad Banaszek and Krzysztof Wódkiewicz
pp. 2009-2013 [View PDF (135 kB)]
Guiding Neutral Atoms with a Wire
Johannes Denschlag, Donatella Cassettari, and Jörg Schmiedmayer
pp. 2014-2017 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Search for Off-Diagonal Density Matrix Elements for Atoms in a Supersonic Beam
Richard A. Rubenstein, Al-Amin Dhirani, David A. Kokorowski, Tony D. Roberts, Edward T. Smith, Winthrop W. Smith, Herbert J. Bernstein, Jana Lehner, Subhadeep Gupta, and David E. Pritchard
pp. 2018-2021 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice
Dae-Il Choi and Qian Niu
pp. 2022-2025 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Global versus Local Billiard Level Dynamics: The Limits of Universality
M. Barth, U. Kuhl, and H.-J. Stöckmann
pp. 2026-2029 [View PDF (243 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Embeddings of the Virasoro Algebra and Black Hole Entropy
Máximo Bañados
pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Cosmic Microwave Background and Density Fluctuations from Strings plus Inflation
Carlo Contaldi, Mark Hindmarsh, and João Magueijo
pp. 2034-2037 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for New Particles Decaying to bb̅ in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
F. Abe et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 2038-2043 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Inelastic Diffraction and Color-Singlet Gluon Clusters in High-Energy Hadron-Hadron and Lepton-Hadron Collisions
Ta-chung Meng, R. Rittel, and Yang Zhang
pp. 2044-2047 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Highly Sensitive Centrality Dependence of Elliptic Flow: A Novel Signature of the Phase Transition in QCD
H. Sorge
pp. 2048-2051 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Emission Times and Opacities from Interferometry in Noncentral Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
Henning Heiselberg
pp. 2052-2055 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Inclusive Electron-Nucleus Scattering at Large Momentum Transfer
J. Arrington et al.
pp. 2056-2059 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Pseudo-SU(4) Symmetry in pf-Shell Nuclei
P. Van Isacker, O. Juillet, and F. Nowacki
pp. 2060-2063 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Chaotic Wave Functions and Exponential Convergence of Low-Lying Energy Eigenvalues
Mihai Horoi, Alexander Volya, and Vladimir Zelevinsky
pp. 2064-2067 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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4d Photoionization of Free Singly Charged Xenon Ions
A. Gottwald, Ch. Gerth, and M. Richter
pp. 2068-2070 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Sympathetic Crystallization of Trapped Ions
P. Bowe, L. Hornekær, C. Brodersen, M. Drewsen, J. S. Hangst, and J. P. Schiffer
pp. 2071-2074 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Vibrationally Selected O+-O+ Fragmentation of O2 below the Adiabatic Double-Ionization Potential Studied via Electron-Electron Coincidence Spectroscopy
P. Bolognesi, D. B. Thompson, L. Avaldi, M. A. MacDonald, M. C. A. Lopes, D. R. Cooper, and G. C. King
pp. 2075-2078 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Transparency Induced via Decay Interference
E. Paspalakis, N. J. Kylstra, and P. L. Knight
pp. 2079-2082 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Influence of Experimental Resolution on the Spectral Statistics Used to Show Quantum Chaos: The Case of Molecular Vibrational Chaos
Laurent Michaille and Jean-Paul Pique
pp. 2083-2086 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Diffraction-Induced Polarization Effects in Optical Pattern Formation
F. Papoff, G. D'Alessandro, W. J. Firth, and G.-L. Oppo
pp. 2087-2090 [View PDF (519 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Theory of the Ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
V. N. Goncharov
pp. 2091-2094 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Collective Dynamics and Enhancement of Absorption in Deformed Targets
Hartmut Ruhl, Andrea Macchi, Peter Mulser, Fulvio Cornolti, and Steffen Hain
pp. 2095-2098 [View PDF (586 kB)]
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Ion Cyclotron Emission from JET D-T Plasmas
K. G. McClements, C. Hunt, R. O. Dendy, and G. A. Cottrell
pp. 2099-2102 [View PDF (194 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Localized Soft Mode at Optical-Field-Induced Fréedericksz Transition in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
I. Drevenšek Olenik, M. Jazbinšek, and M. Čopič
pp. 2103-2106 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Stacking Transformation from Hexagonal to Cubic SiC Induced by Surface Reconstruction: A Seed for Heterostructure Growth
U. Starke, J. Schardt, J. Bernhardt, M. Franke, and K. Heinz
pp. 2107-2110 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Calculations of Electrical Levels of Deep Centers: Application to Au-H and Ag-H Defects in Silicon
A. Resende, R. Jones, S. Öberg, and P. R. Briddon
pp. 2111-2114 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Renormalized SO(5) Symmetry in Ladders with Next-Nearest-Neighbor Hopping
E. Arrigoni and W. Hanke
pp. 2115-2118 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Incommensurate State and Spin-Induced Peierls Instability
Wataru Koshibae, Masanori Yamanaka, Masaki Oshikawa, and Sadamichi Maekawa
pp. 2119-2122 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Successful Test of a Seamless van der Waals Density Functional
John F. Dobson and Jun Wang
pp. 2123-2126 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Locality of the Density Matrix in Metals, Semiconductors, and Insulators
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi and T. A. Arias
pp. 2127-2130 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Detection by NMR of a “Local Spin Gap” in Quenched CsC60
V. Brouet, H. Alloul, F. Quéré, G. Baumgartner, and L. Forró
pp. 2131-2134 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Striped Phase in the Presence of Disorder and Lattice Potentials
N. Hasselmann, A. H. Castro Neto, C. Morais Smith, and Y. Dimashko
pp. 2135-2138 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Optical Conductivity of Disordered Alloys Calculated from First Principles
John Banhart
pp. 2139-2142 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Kondo Box: A Magnetic Impurity in an Ultrasmall Metallic Grain
Wolfgang B. Thimm, Johann Kroha, and Jan von Delft
pp. 2143-2146 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Manifestation of Berry's Phase in Metal Physics
G. P. Mikitik and Yu. V. Sharlai
pp. 2147-2150 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Spin Gap in Perchlorate-Doped Trans-Polyacetylene
T. Masui, T. Ishiguro, and J. Tsukamoto
pp. 2151-2154 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Strongly Anisotropic Band Dispersion of an Image State Located above Metallic Nanowires
I. G. Hill and A. B. McLean
pp. 2155-2158 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Delocalized States in Random Dimer Superlattices
V. Bellani, E. Diez, R. Hey, L. Toni, L. Tarricone, G. B. Parravicini, F. Domínguez-Adame, and R. Gómez-Alcalá
pp. 2159-2162 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Collective Excitations in the Dilute 2D Electron System
M. A. Eriksson, A. Pinczuk, B. S. Dennis, S. H. Simon, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 2163-2166 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Fluctuations in Small Metal Particles Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
F. C. Fritschij, H. B. Brom, L. J. de Jongh, and G. Schmid
pp. 2167-2170 [View PDF (147 kB)]
Charge Conveyance and Nonlinear Acoustoelectric Phenomena for Intense Surface Acoustic Waves on a Semiconductor Quantum Well
M. Rotter, A. V. Kalameitsev, A. O. Govorov, W. Ruile, and A. Wixforth
pp. 2171-2174 [View PDF (237 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Separation of Quasiparticle and Phononic Heat Currents in YBa2Cu3O7-δ
B. Zeini, A. Freimuth, B. Büchner, R. Gross, A. P. Kampf, M. Kläser, and G. Müller-Vogt
pp. 2175-2178 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Temperature Dependent Photoemission Studies of Optimally Doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
A. V. Fedorov, T. Valla, P. D. Johnson, Q. Li, G. D. Gu, and N. Koshizuka
pp. 2179-2182 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Correlation Lengths in the Vortex Line Liquid of a High- Tc Superconductor
Peter Olsson and S. Teitel
pp. 2183-2186 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Changes in 5d Band Polarization in Rare-Earth Compounds
S. Langridge, J. A. Paixão, N. Bernhoeft, C. Vettier, G. H. Lander, Doon Gibbs, S. Aa. Sørensen, A. Stunault, D. Wermeille, and E. Talik
pp. 2187-2190 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Structural Instability of the Charge Ordered Compound Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 under a Magnetic Field
R. Mahendiran, M. R. Ibarra, A. Maignan, F. Millange, A. Arulraj, R. Mahesh, B. Raveau, and C. N. R. Rao
pp. 2191-2194 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Exciton Dynamics Probed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Hermann Bach, Alois Renn, Gert Zumofen, and Urs P. Wild
pp. 2195-2198 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Anomalous Anisotropic Light Scattering in Ge-Doped Silica Glass
P. G. Kazansky, H. Inouye, T. Mitsuyu, K. Miura, J. Qiu, K. Hirao, and F. Starrost
pp. 2199-2202 [View PDF (323 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Adaptive Competition, Market Efficiency, and Phase Transitions
Robert Savit, Radu Manuca, and Rick Riolo
pp. 2203-2206 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Optimal Quantum Clocks
V. Bužek, R. Derka, and S. Massar
pp. 2207-2210 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of Hydrodynamic Cross Correlations between Two Particles in an External Potential
Jens-Christian Meiners and Stephen R. Quake
pp. 2211-2214 [View PDF (120 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Molecular Activated Recombination in Detached Recombining Plasmas
Ralph F. G. Meulenbroeks, Richard van de Sanden, and Daniel C. Schram
pp. 2215 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Ohno et al. Reply:
N. Ohno, N. Ezumi, S. Takamura, S. I. Krasheninnikov, and A. Yu. Pigarov
pp. 2216 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Comment on “Correlations of the Nd Magnetic Moments and Their Influence on the Specific Heat in Nd2-xCexCuO4”
G. Zwicknagl and P. Fulde
pp. 2217 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Henggeler et al. Reply:
W. Henggeler, B. Roessli, A. Furrer, P. Vorderwisch, and Tapan Chatterji
pp. 2218 [View PDF (45 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Galactic Confinement Time of Iron-Group Cosmic Rays Derived from the 54Mn Chronometer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4306 (1997)]
K. Zaerpoor, Y. D. Chan, D. E. DiGregorio, M. R. Dragowsky, M. M. Hindi, M. C. P. Isaac, K. S. Krane, R. M. Larimer, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. Macleod, P. Miocinovic, and E. B. Norman
pp. 2219 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Erratum: Search for Strange Matter by Heavy Ion Activation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2416 (1998)]
M. C. Perillo Isaac, Y. D. Chan, R. Clark, M. A. Deleplanque, M. R. Dragowsky, P. Fallon, I. D. Goldman, R-M. Larimer, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, K. Nishiizumi, E. B. Norman, L. S. Schroeder, and F. S. Stephens
pp. 2220 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Erratum: Comparison of Polarization Observables in Electron Scattering from the Proton and Deuteron [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 452 (1998)]
B. D. Milbrath et al. ((Bates FPP Collaboration))
pp. 2221 [View PDF (60 kB)]
 
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