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Physical Review Letters – 14 June 1999
Volume 82, Issue 24

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.

Laser Probing of Metastable Atoms and Molecules Deflected by Electron Impact
A. J. Murray and P. Hammond
pp. 4799-4802 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Three Dimensional Imaging of Atoms with Isotropic 0.5 Å Resolution
M. Tegze, G. Faigel, S. Marchesini, M. Belakhovsky, and A. I. Chumakov
pp. 4847-4850 [View PDF (171 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Magnetization Measurements in the Cubic (K,Ba)BiO3 Superconductor
I. Joumard, J. Marcus, T. Klein, and R. Cubitt
pp. 4930-4933 [View PDF (307 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Classical Behavior with Small Quantum Numbers: The Physics of Ramsey Interferometry of Rydberg Atoms
J. I. Kim, K. M. Fonseca Romero, A. M. Horiguti, L. Davidovich, M. C. Nemes, and A. F. R. de Toledo Piza
pp. 4737-4740 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Optical Linewidth of a Low Density Fermi-Dirac Gas
Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen
pp. 4741-4744 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Reptation Quantum Monte Carlo: A Method for Unbiased Ground-State Averages and Imaginary-Time Correlations
Stefano Baroni and Saverio Moroni
pp. 4745-4748 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Symmetry Breaking with a Slant: Topological Defects after an Inhomogeneous Quench
Jacek Dziarmaga, Pablo Laguna, and Wojciech H. Zurek
pp. 4749-4752 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Limits on the Couplings of Light Pseudoscalars from Equivalence Principle Experiments
Ephraim Fischbach and Dennis E. Krause
pp. 4753-4756 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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New Measurement of the Flux of Atmospheric Muons
M. Boezio et al.
pp. 4757-4760 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Heavy Majorana Neutrinos at e+e- Colliders
G. Cvetič, C. S. Kim, and C. W. Kim
pp. 4761-4764 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Indirect Collider Signals for Extra Dimensions
JoAnne L. Hewett
pp. 4765-4768 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Measurement of the High-Mass Drell-Yan Cross Section and Limits on Quark-Electron Compositeness Scales
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 4769-4774 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of Proton-Proton Bremsstrahlung at 389 MeV
K. Yasuda, H. Akiyoshi, T. Hotta, K. Imai, M. Kato, M. Kawabata, Y. Maeda, N. Matsuoka, T. Matsuzuka, Y. Mizuno, T. Murakami, J. Murata, I. Nakagawa, M. Nomachi, T. Noro, Y. Sugaya, K. Takahisa, T. Tamae, K. Tamura, H. Tsubota, Y. Yokota, H. P. Yoshida, M. Yoshimura, and Y. Yuasa
pp. 4775-4778 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in Rapidly Expanding Matter
I. N. Mishustin
pp. 4779-4782 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Octupole Vibration and Influence of Shell Effects on the E1 Transition Rates in 140Xe
A. Lindroth, B. Fogelberg, H. Mach, M. Sanchez-Vega, and J. Bielčík
pp. 4783-4786 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Angular Distributions of α Particles Emitted by Deformed Oriented Nuclei
P. Schuurmans, J. Camps, P. De Moor, K. Freitag, P. Herzog, M. Huyse, R. Paulsen, N. Severijns, A. Van Geert, P. Van Duppen, B. Will, NICOLE, and ISOLDE Collaborations
pp. 4787-4790 [View PDF (343 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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dc Field-Induced, Phase and Polarization Control of Interference between One- and Two-Photon Ionization Amplitudes
N. L. Manakov, V. D. Ovsiannikov, and Anthony F. Starace
pp. 4791-4794 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Charge Equilibration Time of Slow, Highly Charged Ions in Solids
M. Hattass, T. Schenkel, A. V. Hamza, A. V. Barnes, M. W. Newman, J. W. McDonald, T. R. Niedermayr, G. A. Machicoane, and D. H. Schneider
pp. 4795-4798 [View PDF (94 kB)]
Laser Probing of Metastable Atoms and Molecules Deflected by Electron Impact
A. J. Murray and P. Hammond
pp. 4799-4802 [View PDF (144 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Modeling of Coupled Chaotic Oscillators
Ying-Cheng Lai and Celso Grebogi
pp. 4803-4806 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Long-Range Saturation of Spatial Decoherence in Wave-Field Transport in Random Multiple-Scattering Media
Chung-Chieh Cheng and M. G. Raymer
pp. 4807-4810 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Fractals in Microcavities: Giant Coupled, Multiplicative Enhancement of Optical Responses
W. Kim, V. P. Safonov, V. M. Shalaev, and R. L. Armstrong
pp. 4811-4814 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Polarization Switching of a Vertical-Cavity Semiconductor Laser as a Kramers Hopping Problem
M. B. Willemsen, M. U. F. Khalid, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 4815-4818 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Length Scales of Clustering in Granular Gases
Olaf Petzschmann, Udo Schwarz, Frank Spahn, Celso Grebogi, and Jürgen Kurths
pp. 4819-4822 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Modifying Friction by Manipulating Normal Response to Lateral Motion
V. Zaloj, M. Urbakh, and J. Klafter
pp. 4823-4826 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Large-Scale Simulations of Bubble-Induced Convection in a Liquid Layer
Eric Climent and Jacques Magnaudet
pp. 4827-4830 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Finite Channel
Steven R. Stalp, L. Skrbek, and Russell J. Donnelly
pp. 4831-4834 [View PDF (129 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Energy of a Plasma in the Classical Limit
Merav Opher and Reuven Opher
pp. 4835-4838 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Measurement of Cross-Magnetic-Field Heat Transport in a Pure Ion Plasma
E. M. Hollmann, F. Anderegg, and C. F. Driscoll
pp. 4839-4842 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Isochoric Heating of Solid Aluminum by Ultrashort Laser Pulses Focused on a Tamped Target
A. Saemann, K. Eidmann, I. E. Golovkin, R. C. Mancini, E. Andersson, E. Förster, and K. Witte
pp. 4843-4846 [View PDF (869 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Three Dimensional Imaging of Atoms with Isotropic 0.5 Å Resolution
M. Tegze, G. Faigel, S. Marchesini, M. Belakhovsky, and A. I. Chumakov
pp. 4847-4850 [View PDF (171 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Subquadratic Quantum Number Dependence and Other Anomalies of Vibrational Dephasing in Liquid Nitrogen: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study from the Triple Point to the Critical Point and Beyond
N. Gayathri and B. Bagchi
pp. 4851-4854 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Observation of Pattern Evolution during Homeotropic-Focal Conic Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Yang-Ming Zhu and Deng-Ke Yang
pp. 4855-4858 [View PDF (291 kB)]
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Coarse-Grained Surface Energies and Temperature-Induced Anchoring Transitions in Nematic Liquid Crystals
J.-B. Fournier and P. Galatola
pp. 4859-4862 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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First Order Phase Transition and Evidence for Frustrations in Polyampholytic Gels
Yukikazu Takeoka, A. Nihat Berker, Rose Du, Takashi Enoki, Alexander Grosberg, Mehran Kardar, Taro Oya, Kazunori Tanaka, Guoqiang Wang, Xiaohong Yu, and Toyoichi Tanaka
pp. 4863-4865 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Dynamics of Oxidation of Aluminum Nanoclusters using Variable Charge Molecular-Dynamics Simulations on Parallel Computers
Timothy Campbell, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, Priya Vashishta, Shuji Ogata, and Stephen Rodgers
pp. 4866-4869 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Theory of the Nucleation, Growth, and Structure of Hydrogen-Induced Extended Defects in Silicon
F. A. Reboredo, M. Ferconi, and S. T. Pantelides
pp. 4870-4873 [View PDF (446 kB)]
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Oxygen Induced Reconstruction of the Rh(100) Surface: General Tendency Towards Threefold Oxygen Adsorption Site on Rh Surfaces
A. Baraldi, J. Cerdá, J. A. Martín-Gago, G. Comelli, S. Lizzit, G. Paolucci, and R. Rosei
pp. 4874-4877 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Influence of Rotational Energy on Adsorption Probability for a Physisorbed System: C2H4 on Ag(001)
L. Vattuone, U. Valbusa, and M. Rocca
pp. 4878-4881 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Roughening in Plasma Etch Fronts of Si(100)
Y.-P. Zhao, Jason T. Drotar, G.-C. Wang, and T.-M. Lu
pp. 4882-4885 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Arsenic Dimer Dynamics during MBE Growth: Theoretical Evidence for a Novel Chemisorption State of As2 Molecules on GaAs Surfaces
C. G. Morgan, P. Kratzer, and M. Scheffler
pp. 4886-4889 [View PDF (1,973 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Absence of Hysteresis at the Mott-Hubbard Metal-Insulator Transition in Infinite Dimensions
J. Schlipf, M. Jarrell, P. G. J. van Dongen, N. Blümer, S. Kehrein, Th. Pruschke, and D. Vollhardt
pp. 4890-4893 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Non-Cayley-Tree Model for Quasiparticle Decay in a Quantum Dot
X. Leyronas, J. Tworzydło, and C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. 4894-4897 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Instability and Charge Density Wave of Metallic Quantum Chains on a Silicon Surface
H. W. Yeom, S. Takeda, E. Rotenberg, I. Matsuda, K. Horikoshi, J. Schaefer, C. M. Lee, S. D. Kevan, T. Ohta, T. Nagao, and S. Hasegawa
pp. 4898-4901 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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The Haldane-Rezayi Quantum Hall State and Magnetic Flux
Kazusumi Ino
pp. 4902-4905 [View PDF (384 kB)]
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Chalker-Coddington Network Model is Quantum Critical
J. B. Marston and Shan-Wen Tsai
pp. 4906-4909 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Effect of Stripes on Electronic States in Underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4
T. Tohyama, S. Nagai, Y. Shibata, and S. Maekawa
pp. 4910-4913 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Low Field Anomaly in the Specific Heat of s-Wave Superconductors due to the Expansion of the Vortex Cores
J. E. Sonier, M. F. Hundley, J. D. Thompson, and J. W. Brill
pp. 4914-4917 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Superconducting Gap Δc, the Pseudogap Δp, and Pair Fluctuations above Tc in Overdoped Y1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-δ from Femtosecond Time-Domain Spectroscopy
J. Demsar, B. Podobnik, V. V. Kabanov, Th. Wolf, and D. Mihailovic
pp. 4918-4921 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Transverse Depinning and Melting of a Moving Vortex Lattice in Driven Periodic Josephson Junction Arrays
Verónica I. Marconi and Daniel Domínguez
pp. 4922-4925 [View PDF (605 kB)]
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Evidence for a Two-Stage Melting Transition of the Vortex Matter in Bi2Sr2Ca1Cu2O8+δ Single Crystals Obtained by Muon Spin Rotation
T. Blasius, Ch. Niedermayer, J. L. Tallon, D. M. Pooke, A. Golnik, and C. Bernhard
pp. 4926-4929 [View PDF (198 kB)]
Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Magnetization Measurements in the Cubic (K,Ba)BiO3 Superconductor
I. Joumard, J. Marcus, T. Klein, and R. Cubitt
pp. 4930-4933 [View PDF (307 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Ising Spin Glasses in a Magnetic Field
J. Houdayer and O. C. Martin
pp. 4934-4937 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Suppression of Giant Magnetoresistance by a Superconducting Contact
F. Taddei, S. Sanvito, J. H. Jefferson, and C. J. Lambert
pp. 4938-4941 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Coherent Control of the Angular Distribution of Electrons Photoemitted from Metal Surfaces
V. B. Deyirmenjian and J. E. Sipe
pp. 4942-4945 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Static Inhomogeneities in Thermoreversible Physical Gels
Fumiyoshi Ikkai and Mitsuhiro Shibayama
pp. 4946-4949 [View PDF (158 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Resonant Andreev Tunneling in Strongly Interacting Quantum Dots [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2913 (1998)]
Rosario Fazio and Roberto Raimondi
pp. 4950 [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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