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Physical Review Letters – 21 June 1999
Volume 82, Issue 25

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.

Nonlinear Coherent Transport Through Doped Nanotube Junctions
Amir A. Farajian, Keivan Esfarjani, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
pp. 5084-5087 [View PDF (137 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Flux Lattice Symmetry in V3Si: Nonlocal Effects in a High- κ Superconductor
M. Yethiraj, D. K. Christen, D. McK. Paul, P. Miranovic, and J. R. Thompson
pp. 5112-5115 [View PDF (178 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Dissipation due to the Interaction with Chaotic Degrees of Freedom and the Correspondence Principle
Doron Cohen
pp. 4951-4955 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Vortex Stability of Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates Confined in Anisotropic Harmonic Traps
David L. Feder, Charles W. Clark, and Barry I. Schneider
pp. 4956-4959 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Optical Frequency Measurement of the 2S-12D Transitions in Hydrogen and Deuterium: Rydberg Constant and Lamb Shift Determinations
C. Schwob, L. Jozefowski, B. de Beauvoir, L. Hilico, F. Nez, L. Julien, F. Biraben, O. Acef, J.-J. Zondy, and A. Clairon
pp. 4960-4963 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Severe Limits on Variations of the Speed of Light with Frequency
Bradley E. Schaefer
pp. 4964-4966 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Holography, Cosmology, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Richard Easther and David Lowe
pp. 4967-4970 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Effective Field Theory, Black Holes, and the Cosmological Constant
Andrew G. Cohen, David B. Kaplan, and Ann E. Nelson
pp. 4971-4974 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Decays of Top Quark Pairs
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 4975-4980 [View PDF (201 kB)]
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Mean Field Dynamics in Non-Abelian Plasmas from Classical Transport Theory
Daniel F. Litim and Cristina Manuel
pp. 4981-4984 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Nucleon-Quarkonium Elastic Scattering and the Gluon Contribution to Nucleon Spin
Pervez Hoodbhoy
pp. 4985-4987 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Charge Form Factor of the Neutron from the Reaction 2H⃗(e⃗,e′n)p
I. Passchier et al.
pp. 4988-4991 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Chiral Two-Pion Exchange and Proton-Proton Partial-Wave Analysis
M. C. M. Rentmeester, R. G. E. Timmermans, J. L. Friar, and J. J. de Swart
pp. 4992-4995 [View PDF (158 kB)]
“Di-Neutron” Configuration of 6He
Yu. Ts. Oganessian, V. I. Zagrebaev, and J. S. Vaagen
pp. 4996-4999 [View PDF (339 kB)]
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Phase Transitions in Finite Nuclei and the Integer Nucleon Number Problem
R. F. Casten, Dimitri Kusnezov, and N. V. Zamfir
pp. 5000-5003 [View PDF (612 kB)]
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Differential Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions at Balance Energies
Bao-An Li and Andrew T. Sustich
pp. 5004-5007 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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New Type of Shape Instability of Hot Nuclei and Nuclear Fragmentation
J. Tõke and W. U. Schröder
pp. 5008-5011 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Fission Time Evolution with Excitation Energy from a Crystal Blocking Experiment
F. Goldenbaum, M. Morjean, J. Galin, E. Liénard, B. Lott, Y. Périer, M. Chevallier, D. Dauvergne, R. Kirsch, J. C. Poizat, J. Remillieux, C. Cohen, A. L'Hoir, G. Prévot, D. Schmaus, J. Dural, M. Toulemonde, and D. Jacquet
pp. 5012-5015 [View PDF (257 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Timesaving Double-Grid Method for Real-Space Electronic-Structure Calculations
Tomoya Ono and Kikuji Hirose
pp. 5016-5019 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Dynamically Induced Spin Polarization of Resonant Auger Electrons
U. Hergenhahn, G. Snell, M. Drescher, B. Schmidtke, N. Müller, U. Heinzmann, M. Wiedenhöft, and U. Becker
pp. 5020-5023 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Suppression of Angular-Momentum Mixing in Photoexcitation of Rydberg States by Multistate Off-Resonant Quantum Coherence
H. G. Muller and L. D. Noordam
pp. 5024-5027 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Low Energy Dissociative Electron Attachment to Ozone
G. Senn, J. D. Skalny, A. Stamatovic, N. J. Mason, P. Scheier, and T. D. Märk
pp. 5028-5031 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Positron Scattering from Atoms and Molecules at Low Energies
S. J. Gilbert, R. G. Greaves, and C. M. Surko
pp. 5032-5035 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Single and Double Resonance Microwave Spectroscopy in Superfluid 4He Clusters
I. Reinhard, C. Callegari, A. Conjusteau, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles
pp. 5036-5039 [View PDF (199 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Disentangling Scaling Properties in Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Turbulence
Itai Arad, Luca Biferale, Irene Mazzitelli, and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 5040-5043 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Intermittency and Structure Functions in Channel Flow Turbulence
F. Toschi, G. Amati, S. Succi, R. Benzi, and R. Piva
pp. 5044-5047 [View PDF (156 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlocal Transient Transport and Thermal Barriers in Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project Plasmas
P. Mantica, P. Galli, G. Gorini, G. M. D. Hogeweij, J. de Kloe, N. J. Lopes Cardozo, and RTP Team
pp. 5048-5051 [View PDF (121 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Investigation of Atomic Displacements at a Σ3 {111} Twin Boundary in BaTiO3 by Means of Phase-Retrieval Electron Microscopy
C. L. Jia and A. Thust
pp. 5052-5055 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Crossover from 3D Ising to Isotropic Lifshitz Critical Behavior in a Mixture of a Homopolymer Blend and Diblock Copolymer
Dietmar Schwahn, Kell Mortensen, Henrich Frielinghaus, and Kristoffer Almdal
pp. 5056-5059 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of Reversibly Associating Polymer Solutions
Sanat K. Kumar and Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
pp. 5060-5063 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Growing Spatial Correlations of Particle Displacements in a Simulated Liquid on Cooling toward the Glass Transition
Claudio Donati, Sharon C. Glotzer, and Peter H. Poole
pp. 5064-5067 [View PDF (216 kB)]
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Interlayer Diffusion of Adatoms: A Scanning-Tunneling Microscopy Study
E. Lundgren, B. Stanka, G. Leonardelli, M. Schmid, and P. Varga
pp. 5068-5071 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Quasielastic Helium Atom Scattering from a Two-Dimensional Gas of Xe Atoms on Pt(111)
J. Ellis, A. P. Graham, and J. P. Toennies
pp. 5072-5075 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Shear of Telechelic Brushes
Erika Eiser, Jacob Klein, Thomas A. Witten, and Lewis J. Fetters
pp. 5076-5079 [View PDF (165 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Delocalization in an Open One-Dimensional Chain in an Imaginary Vector Potential
Igor V. Yurkevich and Igor V. Lerner
pp. 5080-5083 [View PDF (154 kB)]
Nonlinear Coherent Transport Through Doped Nanotube Junctions
Amir A. Farajian, Keivan Esfarjani, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
pp. 5084-5087 [View PDF (137 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Kondo Resonance Effect on Persistent Currents through a Quantum Dot in a Mesoscopic Ring
V. Ferrari, G. Chiappe, E. V. Anda, and Maria A. Davidovich
pp. 5088-5091 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo Scheme to Study Coherent Tunneling
Nikolai Prokof'ev, Boris Svistunov, and Igor Tupitsyn
pp. 5092-5095 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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New Class of Non-Abelian Spin-Singlet Quantum Hall States
Eddy Ardonne and Kareljan Schoutens
pp. 5096-5099 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Integer Quantum Hall Effect of Interacting Electrons: Dynamical Scaling and Critical Conductivity
Bodo Huckestein and Michael Backhaus
pp. 5100-5103 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Localization of Spin Waves in the Quantum Hall Ferromagnet
A. G. Green
pp. 5104-5107 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Thermal Hall Angle and Magnetoconductance in YBa2Cu3Ox
K. Krishana, N. P. Ong, Y. Zhang, Z. A. Xu, R. Gagnon, and L. Taillefer
pp. 5108-5111 [View PDF (252 kB)]
Flux Lattice Symmetry in V3Si: Nonlocal Effects in a High- κ Superconductor
M. Yethiraj, D. K. Christen, D. McK. Paul, P. Miranovic, and J. R. Thompson
pp. 5112-5115 [View PDF (178 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Onset of Plasticity and Hardening of the Hysteretic Response in the Vortex System of YBa2Cu3O7-δ
S. Kokkaliaris, P. A. J. de Groot, S. N. Gordeev, A. A. Zhukov, R. Gagnon, and L. Taillefer
pp. 5116-5119 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Anomalous Pseudogap Formation in a Nonsuperconducting Crystal of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4+y: Implication of Charge Ordering
Y. Onose, Y. Taguchi, T. Ishikawa, S. Shinomori, K. Ishizaka, and Y. Tokura
pp. 5120-5123 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Nonlinear σ Model for Inhomogeneous Spin Chains
Ken'ichi Takano
pp. 5124-5127 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Universal Finite-Size Scaling Functions in the 3D Ising Spin Glass
Matteo Palassini and Sergio Caracciolo
pp. 5128-5131 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Influence of Rare Regions on Magnetic Quantum Phase Transitions
Rajesh Narayanan, Thomas Vojta, D. Belitz, and T. R. Kirkpatrick
pp. 5132-5135 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Electron Spin Resonance Theory for Half-Integer Spin Antiferromagnetic Chains
Masaki Oshikawa and Ian Affleck
pp. 5136-5139 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Femtosecond Charge Transport in Polar Semiconductors
A. Leitenstorfer, S. Hunsche, J. Shah, M. C. Nuss, and W. H. Knox
pp. 5140-5143 [View PDF (133 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Simple Model for the Formation of a Complex Organism
Barbara Drossel
pp. 5144-5147 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Indium Segregation and Enrichment in Coherent InxGa1-xAs/GaAs Quantum Dots
X. Z. Liao, J. Zou, D. J. H. Cockayne, R. Leon, and C. Lobo
pp. 5148-5151 [View PDF (294 kB)]
Acoustic Radiation Controls Dynamic Friction: Evidence from a Spring-Block Experiment
Anders Johansen and Didier Sornette
pp. 5152-5155 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Dynamics of the Dissociative Adsorption of Methane on Pt{110}(1×2)
A. V. Walker and D. A. King
pp. 5156-5159 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Electric Polarizability of Polyelectrolytes: Maxwell-Wagner and Electrokinetic Relaxation
Tommaso Bellini, Francesco Mantegazza, Vittorio Degiorgio, Roberto Avallone, and Dudley A. Saville
pp. 5160-5163 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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How to Tell a Target from a Spiral: The Two Probe Problem
Kevin Hall and Leon Glass
pp. 5164-5167 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Vesicles as Osmotic Motors
J. Nardi, R. Bruinsma, and E. Sackmann
pp. 5168-5171 [View PDF (258 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Theory of Unconventional Spin Density Wave: A Possible Mechanism of the Micromagnetism in U-based Heavy Fermion Compounds”
M. N. Kiselev and F. Bouis
pp. 5172 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Ikeda and Ohashi Reply:
Hiroaki Ikeda and Yoji Ohashi
pp. 5173 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Comment on “General Method to Determine Replica Symmetry Breaking Transitions”
Hemant Bokil, A. J. Bray, Barbara Drossel, and M. A. Moore
pp. 5174 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Marinari et al. Reply:
E. Marinari, C. Naitza, F. Zuliani, G. Parisi, M. Picco, and F. Ritort
pp. 5175 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Comment on “Evidence for the Droplet Picture of Spin Glasses”
E. Marinari, G. Parisi, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, and F. Zuliani
pp. 5176 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Bokil et al. Reply:
H. Bokil, A. J. Bray, B. Drossel, and M. A. Moore
pp. 5177 [View PDF (88 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Trapping of Electromagnetic Wave by Nonstationary Plasma Layer [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4585 (1997)]
M. I. Bakunov and A. V. Maslov
pp. 5178 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Erratum: Accurate Density Functional with Correct Formal Properties: A Step Beyond the Generalized Gradient Approximation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2544 (1999)]
John P. Perdew, Stefan Kurth, Ales̆ Zupan, and Peter Blaha
pp. 5179 [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Small-World Networks: Evidence for a Crossover Picture [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3180 (1999)]
Marc Barthélémy and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
pp. 5180 [View PDF (57 kB)]
 
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