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Physical Review Letters – 17 May 1999
Volume 82, Issue 20

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.

Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Large Systems
Peter B. Weichman, Eugene M. Lavely, and Michael H. Ritzwoller
pp. 4102-4105 [View PDF (163 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Three-Dimensional Vibrational Imaging by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
Andreas Zumbusch, Gary R. Holtom, and X. Sunney Xie
pp. 4142-4145 [View PDF (131 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Condensation of N Bosons and the Laser Phase Transition Analogy
Marlan O. Scully
pp. 3927-3931 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Quantum Effect of the Aharonov-Bohm Type for Particles with an Electric Dipole Moment
Gianfranco Spavieri
pp. 3932-3935 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Algebraic Approach in Unifying Quantum Integrable Models
Anjan Kundu
pp. 3936-3939 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Harmonic Measure Exponents for Two-Dimensional Percolation
Bertrand Duplantier
pp. 3940-3943 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Blocking and Persistence in the Zero-Temperature Dynamics of Homogeneous and Disordered Ising Models
C. M. Newman and D. L. Stein
pp. 3944-3947 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Identity of the van der Waals Force and the Casimir Effect and the Irrelevance of These Phenomena to Sonoluminescence
Iver Brevik, Valery N. Marachevsky, and Kimball A. Milton
pp. 3948-3951 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Precision Detection of the Cosmic Neutrino Background
Robert E. Lopez, Scott Dodelson, Andrew Heckler, and Michael S. Turner
pp. 3952-3955 [View PDF (213 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter
Thomas Schäfer and Frank Wilczek
pp. 3956-3959 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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The 10B(7Be,8B)9Be Reaction and the 7Be(p,γ)8B S Factor
A. Azhari, V. Burjan, F. Carstoiu, H. Dejbakhsh, C. A. Gagliardi, V. Kroha, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble
pp. 3960-3963 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Stellar Reactions with Short-Lived Nuclei: 17F(p,α)14O
B. Harss, J. P. Greene, D. Henderson, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, J. Nolen, R. C. Pardo, K. E. Rehm, J. P. Schiffer, R. H. Siemssen, A. A. Sonzogni, J. Uusitalo, I. Wiedenhöver, M. Paul, T. F. Wang, F. Borasi, R. E. Segel, J. C. Blackmon, M. S. Smith, A. Chen, and P. Parker
pp. 3964-3967 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Triaxial Projected Shell Model Approach
J. A. Sheikh and K. Hara
pp. 3968-3971 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Elastic Transfer: A Nondispersive Component in the Optical Potential, and its Effect on the 12C24+Mg Elastic Scattering
A. Lépine-Szily, M. S. Hussein, R. Lichtenthäler, J. Cseh, and G. Lévai
pp. 3972-3975 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Lattice, Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation Solution for Ion-Atom Collisions
D. R. Schultz, M. R. Strayer, and J. C. Wells
pp. 3976-3979 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Absolute Differential Cross Sections for the Electron Impact Excitation of the 12S → 22S + 22P Levels of Atomic Hydrogen at 50 and 100 eV
M. A. Khakoo, M. Larsen, B. Paolini, X. Guo, I. Bray, A. Stelbovics, I. Kanik, and S. Trajmar
pp. 3980-3983 [View PDF (137 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Propagation of Complex Laser Pulses in Optically Dense Media
M. R. Fetterman, J. C. Davis, D. Goswami, W. Yang, and W. S. Warren
pp. 3984-3987 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Observation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in an Optical Fiber
S. T. Cundiff, B. C. Collings, N. N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, K. Bergman, and W. H. Knox
pp. 3988-3991 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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High Order Correlation Tensors in Turbulence
E. A. Novikov
pp. 3992-3993 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Kolmogorov Equation in a Fully Developed Turbulence Experiment
F. Moisy, P. Tabeling, and H. Willaime
pp. 3994-3997 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Random Roughness of Boundary Increases the Turbulent Convection Scaling Exponent
S. Ciliberto and C. Laroche
pp. 3998-4001 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observations and Simulations of Transverse Density Waves in a Collimated Space-Charge Dominated Electron Beam
S. Bernal, R. A. Kishek, M. Reiser, and I. Haber
pp. 4002-4005 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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On Conservation of Helicity and Energy of Reflecting Electron Magnetohydrodynamic Vortices
R. L. Stenzel, J. M. Urrutia, and M. C. Griskey
pp. 4006-4009 [View PDF (485 kB)]
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Experimental Identification of “Vacuum Heating” at Femtosecond-Laser-Irradiated Metal Surfaces
M. K. Grimes, A. R. Rundquist, Y.-S. Lee, and M. C. Downer
pp. 4010-4013 [View PDF (288 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Near-Field Fluorescence Microscopy Based on Two-Photon Excitation with Metal Tips
Erik J. Sánchez, Lukas Novotny, and X. Sunney Xie
pp. 4014-4017 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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Structural Correlations and Mechanical Behavior in Nanophase Silica Glasses
Timothy Campbell, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Fuyuki Shimojo, Kenji Tsuruta, Priya Vashishta, and Shuji Ogata
pp. 4018-4021 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Vibrations of the Interstitial Oxygen Pairs in Silicon
M. Pesola, J. von Boehm, and R. M. Nieminen
pp. 4022-4025 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Simulation of Hard Particles in a Phase-Separating Binary Mixture
Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Feng Qiu, Marco Paniconi, Gongwen Peng, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs
pp. 4026-4029 [View PDF (451 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Interactions in Two-Dimensional 3He on 4He Films
M. Dann, J. Nyéki, B. P. Cowan, and J. Saunders
pp. 4030-4033 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Jahn-Teller Distortion in Dangling-Bond Linear Chains Fabricated on a Hydrogen-Terminated Si(100)- 2×1 Surface
Taro Hitosugi, S. Heike, T. Onogi, T. Hashizume, S. Watanabe, Z.-Q. Li, K. Ohno, Y. Kawazoe, T. Hasegawa, and K. Kitazawa
pp. 4034-4037 [View PDF (786 kB)]
Steering-Enhanced Roughening during Metal Deposition at Grazing Incidence
Sebastiaan van Dijken, Louis C. Jorritsma, and Bene Poelsema
pp. 4038-4041 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Formation and Stability of Self-Assembled Coherent Islands in Highly Mismatched Heteroepitaxy
L. G. Wang, P. Kratzer, M. Scheffler, and N. Moll
pp. 4042-4045 [View PDF (225 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Reentrant Charge Order Transition in the Extended Hubbard Model
R. Pietig, R. Bulla, and S. Blawid
pp. 4046-4049 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Variations in the Nature of Metal Adsorption on Ultrathin Al2O3 Films
Alexander Bogicevic and Dwight R. Jennison
pp. 4050-4053 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Nitrogen Adsorption and Hydrogenation on a MoFe6S9 Complex
T. H. Rod, B. Hammer, and J. K. Nørskov
pp. 4054-4057 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Excitation Dynamics in Disubstituted Polyacetylene
I. Gontia, S. V. Frolov, M. Liess, E. Ehrenfreund, Z. V. Vardeny, K. Tada, H. Kajii, R. Hidayat, A. Fujii, K. Yoshino, M. Teraguchi, and T. Masuda
pp. 4058-4061 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Localization and the Mobility Edge in One-Dimensional Potentials with Correlated Disorder
F. M. Izrailev and A. A. Krokhin
pp. 4062-4065 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit Coupling Induced Surface Band Splitting in Li/W(110) and Li/Mo(110)
Eli Rotenberg, J. W. Chung, and S. D. Kevan
pp. 4066-4069 [View PDF (254 kB)]
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New Type of Electron Nuclear-Spin Interaction from Resistively Detected NMR in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime
S. Kronmüller, W. Dietsche, K. v. Klitzing, G. Denninger, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
pp. 4070-4073 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Time-Dependent Development of the Coulomb Gap
Clare C. Yu
pp. 4074-4077 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Absence of a Finite-Temperature Melting Transition in the Classical Two-Dimensional One-Component Plasma
M. A. Moore and A. Pérez–Garrido
pp. 4078-4081 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Systematic Studies of the Square-Hexagonal Flux Line Lattice Transition in Lu(Ni1-xCox)2B2C: The Role of Nonlocality
P. L. Gammel, D. J. Bishop, M. R. Eskildsen, K. Mortensen, N. H. Andsersen, I. R. Fisher, K. O. Cheon, P. C. Canfield, and V. G. Kogan
pp. 4082-4085 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Shot Noise and Coherent Multiple Charge Transfer in Superconducting Quantum Point Contacts
J. C. Cuevas, A. Martín-Rodero, and A. Levy Yeyati
pp. 4086-4089 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Current Noise in Mesoscopic Disordered Superconductor–Normal-Metal–Superconductor Junctions
Y. Naveh and D. V. Averin
pp. 4090-4093 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Numerical Study of Spin and Chiral Order in a Two-Dimensional XY Spin Glass
J. M. Kosterlitz and N. Akino
pp. 4094-4097 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Determination of the Magnetic Coupling in the Co/Cu/Co(100) System with Momentum-Resolved Quantum Well States
R. K. Kawakami, E. Rotenberg, Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio, Hyuk J. Choi, J. H. Wolfe, N. V. Smith, and Z. Q. Qiu
pp. 4098-4101 [View PDF (162 kB)]
Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Large Systems
Peter B. Weichman, Eugene M. Lavely, and Michael H. Ritzwoller
pp. 4102-4105 [View PDF (163 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Direct Observation of Pinning and Bowing of a Single Ferroelectric Domain Wall
T. J. Yang, Venkatraman Gopalan, P. J. Swart, and U. Mohideen
pp. 4106-4109 [View PDF (312 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Analysis of Stimulated Raman Scattering in the Early Stage of Laser-Induced Breakdown in Water
Hiroharu Yui, Yoshinori Yoneda, Takehiko Kitamori, and Tsuguo Sawada
pp. 4110-4113 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Efficient Carrier Relaxation Mechanism in InGaAs/GaAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dots Based on the Existence of Continuum States
Y. Toda, O. Moriwaki, M. Nishioka, and Y. Arakawa
pp. 4114-4117 [View PDF (217 kB)]
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Enhanced Dipole-Dipole Interaction in a Polymer Microcavity
M. Hopmeier, W. Guss, M. Deussen, E. O. Göbel, and R. F. Mahrt
pp. 4118-4121 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Negative-Ion Enhancements in Electron-Stimulated Desorption of CF2Cl2 Coadsorbed with Nonpolar and Polar Gases on Ru(0001)
Q.-B. Lu and Theodore E. Madey
pp. 4122-4125 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Multiatom Resonant Photoemission: Theory and Systematics
F. J. García de Abajo, C. S. Fadley, and M. A. Van Hove
pp. 4126-4129 [View PDF (439 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Micromechanics of Dipolar Chains Using Optical Tweezers
Eric M. Furst and Alice P. Gast
pp. 4130-4133 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Novel Convective Instabilities in a Magnetic Fluid
Weili Luo, Tengda Du, and Jie Huang
pp. 4134-4137 [View PDF (309 kB)]
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Electrostatic Zipper Motif for DNA Aggregation
A. A. Kornyshev and S. Leikin
pp. 4138-4141 [View PDF (587 kB)]
Three-Dimensional Vibrational Imaging by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering
Andreas Zumbusch, Gary R. Holtom, and X. Sunney Xie
pp. 4142-4145 [View PDF (131 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Intermittent Synchronization in a Pair of Coupled Chaotic Pendula”
Peter Grassberger
pp. 4146 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Blackburn et al. Reply:
James A. Blackburn, Gregory L. Baker, and H. J. T. Smith
pp. 4147 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Comment on “Frequency Mixing of Magnetic Oscillations: Beyond Falicov-Stachowiak Theory”
N. Harrison and J. Singleton
pp. 4148 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Fortin and Ziman Reply:
Jean-Yves Fortin and Timothy Ziman
pp. 4149 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnetically Ordered fcc Structure at the Relaxed Grain Boundaries of Pure Nanocrystalline Fe”
J. Balogh, D. Kaptás, T. Kemény, I. Vincze, and G. Radnóczi
pp. 4150 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Del Bianco et al. Reply:
L. Del Bianco, C. Ballesteros, J. M. Rojo, and A. Hernando
pp. 4151 [View PDF (52 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Origin of the Phase Lag in the Coherent Control of Photoionization and Photodissociation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 65 (1999)]
Jeanette A. Fiss, Langchi Zhu, Robert J. Gordon, and Tamar Seideman
pp. 4152 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Erratum: Measurement of the 6s→7s Transition Polarizability in Atomic Cesium and an Improved Test of the Standard Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2484 (1999)]
S. C. Bennett and C. E. Wieman
pp. 4153 [View PDF (26 kB)]
 
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