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Physical Review Letters – 26 April 1999
Volume 82, Issue 17

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.

Optical Centrifuge for Molecules
Joanna Karczmarek, James Wright, Paul Corkum, and Misha Ivanov
pp. 3420-3423 [View PDF (184 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Dynamic Approach to the Thermodynamics of Superdiffusion
Marco Buiatti, Paolo Grigolini, and Anna Montagnini
pp. 3383-3387 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of an Oscillating Tip-Microlever System and Contrast at the Atomic Scale
J. P. Aimé, R. Boisgard, L. Nony, and G. Couturier
pp. 3388-3391 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Establishing a νμ,τ Component in the Solar Neutrino Flux
André de Gouvêa and Hitoshi Murayama
pp. 3392-3395 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Masses of J/ψ and ηc in the Nuclear Medium: QCD Sum Rule Approach
Frank Klingl, Sungsik Kim, Su Houng Lee, Philippe Morath, and Wolfram Weise
pp. 3396-3399 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Decay Out of the Doubly Magic Superdeformed Band in the N = Z Nucleus 60Zn
C. E. Svensson et al.
pp. 3400-3403 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Giant Dipole Resonance in Highly Excited Nuclei: Does the Width Saturate?
M. P. Kelly, K. A. Snover, J. P. S. van Schagen, M. Kicińska-Habior, and Z. Trznadel
pp. 3404-3407 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Scission Properties: Identical Shape Elongations of Fissioning Nuclei
Y. L. Zhao, I. Nishinaka, Y. Nagame, M. Tanikawa, K. Tsukada, S. Ichikawa, K. Sueki, Y. Oura, H. Ikezoe, S. Mitsuoka, H. Kudo, T. Ohtsuki, and H. Nakahara
pp. 3408-3411 [View PDF (104 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Classical Atomic Form Factor
D. Vrinceanu and M. R. Flannery
pp. 3412-3415 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Femtosecond Coulomb Explosion Imaging of Vibrational Wave Functions
S. Chelkowski, P. B. Corkum, and A. D. Bandrauk
pp. 3416-3419 [View PDF (145 kB)]
Optical Centrifuge for Molecules
Joanna Karczmarek, James Wright, Paul Corkum, and Misha Ivanov
pp. 3420-3423 [View PDF (184 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Reduced Tangent Dynamics and Lyapunov Spectrum for Hamiltonian Systems
M. Hossein Partovi
pp. 3424-3427 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Self-Organized Quasiparticles: Breathing Filaments in a Gas Discharge System
I. Müller, E. Ammelt, and H.-G. Purwins
pp. 3428-3431 [View PDF (279 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Bremsstrahlung Emissivity of a Proton-Electron Plasma in a Strong Magnetic Field
H. Riffert, M. Klingler, and H. Ruder
pp. 3432-3435 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Effect of Neutral Atoms on a Capillary-Discharge Z Pinch
R. A. Nemirovsky, A. Ben-Kish, M. Shuker, and A. Ron
pp. 3436-3439 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Solitonlike Electromagnetic Waves behind a Superintense Laser Pulse in a Plasma
S. V. Bulanov, T. Zh. Esirkepov, N. M. Naumova, F. Pegoraro, and V. A. Vshivkov
pp. 3440-3443 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Turbulence, Spatial Transport, and Heating of the Solar Wind
W. H. Matthaeus, G. P. Zank, C. W. Smith, and S. Oughton
pp. 3444-3447 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Surface Molecular Chain Reaction Initiated at STM-Made Individual Active Sites
Gérald Dujardin, Andrew J. Mayne, and Franck Rose
pp. 3448-3451 [View PDF (863 kB)]
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Translational Density of States Derived from Short-Time Relative Motions
Alberto De Santis, Alessandro Ercoli, and Dario Rocca
pp. 3452-3455 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Conformation-Dependent Sequence Design (Engineering) of AB Copolymers
Alexei R. Khokhlov and Pavel G. Khalatur
pp. 3456-3459 [View PDF (199 kB)]
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High Resolution Radial Distribution Function of Pure Amorphous Silicon
Khalid Laaziri, S. Kycia, S. Roorda, M. Chicoine, J. L. Robertson, J. Wang, and S. C. Moss
pp. 3460-3463 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Impeded Dimer Formation in the High-Pressure Crystal Structure of Formic Acid
David R. Allan and Stewart J. Clark
pp. 3464-3467 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Novel Type of Dislocation in an Al-Pd-Mn Quasicrystal Approximant
H. Klein, M. Feuerbacher, P. Schall, and K. Urban
pp. 3468-3471 [View PDF (760 kB)]
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Elastic Response of Carbon Nanotube Bundles to Visible Light
Y. Zhang and S. Iijima
pp. 3472-3475 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Microfracture in a Complex Material
Giulia Galli, François Gygi, and Alessandra Catellani
pp. 3476-3479 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Crossover in the Kinetic Growth Process of Porphyrin Aggregation
Francesco Mallamace, Luigi Monsu' Scolaro, Andrea Romeo, and Norberto Micali
pp. 3480-3483 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Dynamical Nucleation Theory: A New Molecular Approach to Vapor-Liquid Nucleation
Gregory K. Schenter, Shawn M. Kathmann, and Bruce C. Garrett
pp. 3484-3487 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional Cellular Automaton Model of Segregation of Granular Materials in a Rotating Cylinder
Tatsuo Yanagita
pp. 3488-3491 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Acoustic Spectroscopy of Superfluid 3He in Aerogel
A. Golov, D. A. Geller, J. M. Parpia, and N. Mulders
pp. 3492-3495 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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How Disjoining Pressure Drives the Dewetting of a Polymer Film on a Silicon Surface
Hyun I. Kim, C. Mathew Mate, Kelly A. Hannibal, and Scott S. Perry
pp. 3496-3499 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Are Vicinal Metal Surfaces Stable?
J. W. M. Frenken and P. Stoltze
pp. 3500-3503 [View PDF (128 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Topological Spin Excitations of Heisenberg Antiferromagnets in Two Dimensions
Tai Kai Ng
pp. 3504-3507 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Electronic Correlations in Transport through Coupled Quantum Dots
Antoine Georges and Yigal Meir
pp. 3508-3511 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Spin-Pseudospin Coherence and CP3 Skyrmions in Bilayer Quantum Hall Ferromagnets
Z. F. Ezawa
pp. 3512-3515 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Quantum Hall Plateau Transitions in Disordered Superconductors
V. Kagalovsky, B. Horovitz, Y. Avishai, and J. T. Chalker
pp. 3516-3519 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Electronic States in a Finite Carbon Nanotube: A One-Dimensional Quantum Box
Angel Rubio, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Emilio Artacho, Pablo Ordejón, and José M. Soler
pp. 3520-3523 [View PDF (476 kB)]
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c-Axis Electronic Raman Scattering in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
H. L. Liu, G. Blumberg, M. V. Klein, P. Guptasarma, and D. G. Hinks
pp. 3524-3527 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Cuprate Core-Level Line Shapes for Different Cu-O Networks
K. Karlsson, O. Gunnarsson, and O. Jepsen
pp. 3528-3531 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Induced Transitions from Spin Glass to Liquid to Long Range Order in a 3D Geometrically Frustrated Magnet
Y. K. Tsui, C. A. Burns, J. Snyder, and P. Schiffer
pp. 3532-3535 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Magnetism of Stripe-Ordered La5/3Sr1/3NiO4
Y. Yoshinari, P. C. Hammel, and S-W. Cheong
pp. 3536-3539 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Ferroelectricity Induced by Oxygen Isotope Exchange in Strontium Titanate Perovskite
M. Itoh, R. Wang, Y. Inaguma, T. Yamaguchi, Y-J. Shan, and T. Nakamura
pp. 3540-3543 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Quantum Theory of Secondary Emission in Optically Excited Semiconductor Quantum Wells
M. Kira, F. Jahnke, and S. W. Koch
pp. 3544-3547 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Dynamic Properties of an Extended Polymer in Solution
John William Hatfield and Stephen R. Quake
pp. 3548-3551 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Entropy-Driven Pumping in Zeolites and Biological Channels
Tom Chou and Detlef Lohse
pp. 3552-3555 [View PDF (212 kB)]
Emergence of Spontaneous Rhythm Disorders in Self-Assembled Networks of Heart Cells
Yoav Soen, Netta Cohen, Doron Lipson, and Erez Braun
pp. 3556-3559 [View PDF (156 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Unambiguous Proof for Berry's Phase in the Sodium Trimer: Analysis of the Transition A2E′′ ← X2E′ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4584 (1998)]
H. von Busch, Vas Dev, H.-A. Eckel, S. Kasahara, J. Wang, W. Demtröder, P. Sebald, and W. Meyer
pp. 3560 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Erratum: Optically Written Waveguide in an Atomic Vapor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1438 (1999)]
A. G. Truscott, M. E. J. Friese, N. R. Heckenberg, and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop
pp. 3561 [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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