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Physical Review Letters – 22 March 1999
Volume 82, Issue 12

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.

Impurity Effects in the Premelting of Ice
J. S. Wettlaufer
pp. 2516-2519 [View PDF (194 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Dynamical Decoupling of Open Quantum Systems
Lorenza Viola, Emanuel Knill, and Seth Lloyd
pp. 2417-2421 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Strongly Enhanced Inelastic Collisions in a Bose-Einstein Condensate near Feshbach Resonances
J. Stenger, S. Inouye, M. R. Andrews, H.-J. Miesner, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, and W. Ketterle
pp. 2422-2425 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Quantized Röntgen Effect in Bose-Einstein Condensates
U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki
pp. 2426-2429 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of the Solar Neutrino Energy Spectrum Using Neutrino-Electron Scattering
Y. Fukuda et al. ((Super-Kamiokande Collaboration))
pp. 2430-2434 [View PDF (159 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Counterterms and M-Theory Corrections to D = 11 Supergravity
S. Deser and D. Seminara
pp. 2435-2438 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Search for an Axionlike Spin Coupling Using a Paramagnetic Salt with a dc SQUID
Wei-Tou Ni, Sheau-shi Pan, Hsien-Chi Yeh, Li-Shing Hou, and Juling Wan
pp. 2439-2442 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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New String Excitations in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Standard Model
C. Bachas, B. Rai, and T. N. Tomaras
pp. 2443-2446 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Fully Supersymmetric CP Violation in K and B Systems
D. A. Demir, A. Masiero, and O. Vives
pp. 2447-2450 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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Inclusive Jet Cross Section in p̅ p Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 2451-2456 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Dijet Mass Spectrum and a Search for Quark Compositeness in p̅ p Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 2457-2462 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Anomalous Chiral Symmetry Breaking above the QCD Phase Transition
Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Dong Chen, Norman Christ, Weonjong Lee, Robert Mawhinney, and Pavlos Vranas
pp. 2463-2466 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Parton Distributions, d/u, and Higher Twist Effects at High x
U. K. Yang and A. Bodek
pp. 2467-2470 [View PDF (526 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Baryon Stopping and Charged Particle Distributions in Central Pb+Pb Collisions at 158 GeV per Nucleon
H. Appelshäuser et al. (NA49 Collaboration)
pp. 2471-2475 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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First On-Line Laser Spectroscopy of Radioisotopes of a Refractory Element
J. M. G. Levins, D. M. Benton, J. Billowes, P. Campbell, T. G. Cooper, P. Dendooven, D. E. Evans, D. H. Forest, I. S. Grant, J. A. R. Griffith, J. Huikari, A. Jokinen, K. Peräjärvi, G. Tungate, G. Yeandle, and J. Äystö
pp. 2476-2479 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Complete Description of the Xe 4d Photoionization by Spin-Resolved Photoelectron and Auger Spectroscopy
G. Snell, B. Langer, M. Drescher, N. Müller, B. Zimmermann, U. Hergenhahn, J. Viefhaus, U. Heinzmann, and U. Becker
pp. 2480-2483 [View PDF (194 kB)]
Measurement of the 6S→7S Transition Polarizability in Atomic Cesium and an Improved Test of the Standard Model
S. C. Bennett and C. E. Wieman
pp. 2484-2487 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Interferometric Line Shape Modulation in Alkali-Halide Photoabsorption
S. T. Cornett, H. R. Sadeghpour, and M. J. Cavagnero
pp. 2488-2491 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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Charge Asymmetric Dissociation Induced by Sequential and Nonsequential Strong Field Ionization
Chunlei Guo, Ming Li, and George N. Gibson
pp. 2492-2495 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Double Ionization of Helium by Fast Electron Impact
A. Dorn, R. Moshammer, C. D. Schröter, T. J. M. Zouros, W. Schmitt, H. Kollmus, R. Mann, and J. Ullrich
pp. 2496-2499 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Phase-Dependent Spectra in a Driven Two-Level Atom
Peng Zhou and S. Swain
pp. 2500-2503 [View PDF (174 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Control of Unstable High-Period Orbits in Complex Systems
Yu. L. Bolotin, V. Yu. Gonchar, A. A. Krokhin, A. Tur, and V. V. Yanovsky
pp. 2504-2507 [View PDF (310 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Anticlinic Smectic- C Surfaces on Smectic- A Freely Suspended Liquid-Crystal Films
D. R. Link, G. Natale, N. A. Clark, J. E. Maclennan, M. Walsh, S. S. Keast, and M. E. Neubert
pp. 2508-2511 [View PDF (432 kB)]
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Hydrogen Flip Model for Light-Induced Changes of Amorphous Silicon
R. Biswas and Y.-P. Li
pp. 2512-2515 [View PDF (267 kB)]
Impurity Effects in the Premelting of Ice
J. S. Wettlaufer
pp. 2516-2519 [View PDF (194 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Mesoscopic Mean-Field Theory for Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition
R. V. Chamberlin
pp. 2520-2523 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Nature of the Low-Temperature 3×3 Surface Phase of Pb/Ge(111)
A. Mascaraque, J. Avila, J. Alvarez, M. C. Asensio, S. Ferrer, and E. G. Michel
pp. 2524-2527 [View PDF (716 kB)]
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Self-Organized Replication of 3D Coherent Island Size and Shape in Multilayer Heteroepitaxial Films
Feng Liu, Sarah E. Davenport, Heather M. Evans, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 2528-2531 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Stable Vacancy Clusters in Neutron-Irradiated Graphite: Evidence for Aggregations with a Magic Number
Z. Tang, M. Hasegawa, T. Shimamura, Y. Nagai, T. Chiba, Y. Kawazoe, M. Takenaka, E. Kuramoto, and T. Iwata
pp. 2532-2535 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Fermion-Boson Duality of One-Dimensional Quantum Particles with Generalized Contact Interactions
Taksu Cheon and T. Shigehara
pp. 2536-2539 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Non-Fermi-Liquid Single Particle Line Shape of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Non-CDW Metal Li0.9Mo6O17: Comparison to the Luttinger Liquid
J. D. Denlinger, G.-H. Gweon, J. W. Allen, C. G. Olson, J. Marcus, C. Schlenker, and L.-S. Hsu
pp. 2540-2543 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Accurate Density Functional with Correct Formal Properties: A Step Beyond the Generalized Gradient Approximation
John P. Perdew, Stefan Kurth, Aleš Zupan, and Peter Blaha
pp. 2544-2547 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Electronic Structure and Optical Limiting Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes
P. Chen, X. Wu, X. Sun, J. Lin, W. Ji, and K. L. Tan
pp. 2548-2551 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Residual Native Shallow Donor in ZnO
D. C. Look, J. W. Hemsky, and J. R. Sizelove
pp. 2552-2555 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Primary Decay Pathway of a Local Mode of a Photoexcited Ion into a Dielectric Crystal Host Lattice
S. G. Demos, Dana M. Calistru, Scot Owen, A. B. Bykov, V. Petricevic, and R. R. Alfano
pp. 2556-2559 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Quantum Mechanical Position Operator and Localization in Extended Systems
A. A. Aligia and G. Ortiz
pp. 2560-2563 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Self-Gating Effect in the Electron Y-Branch Switch
Jan-Olof J. Wesström
pp. 2564-2567 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of a Superconducting and Antiferromagnetic System with SO(5) Symmetry
Xiao Hu, Tomio Koyama, and Masashi Tachiki
pp. 2568-2571 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Strongly Asymmetric Tricriticality of Quenched Random-Field Systems
Alkan Kabakçıoğlu and A. Nihat Berker
pp. 2572-2574 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Small Energy Scale for Mixed-Valent Uranium Materials
Mikito Koga and Daniel L. Cox
pp. 2575-2578 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Spin Wave Signature in the Spin Polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectrum of Ultrathin Fe Films: Theory and Experiment
M. Plihal, D. L. Mills, and J. Kirschner
pp. 2579-2582 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Generation of Spin-Wave Envelope Dark Solitons
Andrei N. Slavin, Yuri S. Kivshar, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Hartmut Benner
pp. 2583-2586 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Zeeman Polarization Spectroscopy of Tunneling Atomic Groups in Solids
J. Peternelj, A. Damyanovich, and M. M. Pintar
pp. 2587-2589 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Squeezing the Optical Near-Field Zone by Plasmon Coupling of Metallic Nanoparticles
J. R. Krenn, A. Dereux, J. C. Weeber, E. Bourillot, Y. Lacroute, J. P. Goudonnet, G. Schider, W. Gotschy, A. Leitner, F. R. Aussenegg, and C. Girard
pp. 2590-2593 [View PDF (251 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Pulsed Energy-Time Entangled Twin-Photon Source for Quantum Communication
J. Brendel, N. Gisin, W. Tittel, and H. Zbinden
pp. 2594-2597 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Reversing Measurement and Probabilistic Quantum Error Correction
Masato Koashi and Masahito Ueda
pp. 2598-2601 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Polymers on Nanoperiodic, Heterogeneous Surfaces
L. Rockford, Y. Liu, P. Mansky, T. P. Russell, M. Yoon, and S. G. J. Mochrie
pp. 2602-2605 [View PDF (650 kB)]
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Smooth-Filamental Transition of Active Tracer Fields Stirred by Chaotic Advection
Zoltán Neufeld, Cristóbal López, and Peter H. Haynes
pp. 2606-2609 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Shear-Induced Changes in Two-Dimensional Foam
A. Abd el Kader and J. C. Earnshaw
pp. 2610-2613 [View PDF (622 kB)]
Two-Dimensional Mapping of the Electrostatic Potential in Transistors by Electron Holography
W. D. Rau, P. Schwander, F. H. Baumann, W. Höppner, and A. Ourmazd
pp. 2614-2617 [View PDF (857 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Hot Spots on the Fermi Surface of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: Stripes versus Superstructure
J. Mesot, M. R. Norman, H. Ding, and J. C. Campuzano
pp. 2618 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Saini et al. Reply:
N. L. Saini, A. Bianconi, A. Lanzara, J. Avila, M. C. Asensio, S. Tajima, G. D. Gu, and N. Koshizuka
pp. 2619 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Comment on “Experimental and Theoretical Constraints of Bipolaronic Superconductivity in High Tc Materials: An Impossibility”
A. S. Alexandrov
pp. 2620 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Chakraverty et al. Reply:
B. K. Chakraverty, J. Ranninger, and D. Feinberg
pp. 2621 [View PDF (52 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Coulomb Charging Effect in Self-Assembled Ge Quantum Dots Studied by Admittance Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3340 (1998)]
S. K. Zhang, H. J. Zhu, F. Lu, Z. M. Jiang, and Xun Wang
pp. 2622 [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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