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Physical Review Letters – 28 June 1999
Volume 82, Issue 26

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.

Ultraslow Group Velocity and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects in a Coherently Driven Hot Atomic Gas
Michael M. Kash, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Alexander S. Zibrov, L. Hollberg, George R. Welch, Mikhail D. Lukin, Yuri Rostovtsev, Edward S. Fry, and Marlan O. Scully
pp. 5229-5232 [View PDF (97 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Limit of Decoherence: Environment Induced Superselection of Energy Eigenstates
Juan Pablo Paz and Wojciech Hubert Zurek
pp. 5181-5185 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Pressure Drag in Linear and Nonlinear Quantum Fluids
T. Winiecki, J. F. McCann, and C. S. Adams
pp. 5186-5189 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Quantum Wave Packet Dynamics with Trajectories
Courtney L. Lopreore and Robert E. Wyatt
pp. 5190-5193 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observation of the East-West Anisotropy of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux
T. Futagami et al. ((Super-Kamiokande Collaboration))
pp. 5194-5197 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae
C. J. Horowitz and Gang Li
pp. 5198-5201 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays from Fermi-Degenerate Relic Neutrinos Consistent with Super-Kamiokande Results
Graciela Gelmini and Alexander Kusenko
pp. 5202-5204 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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First Measurement of the 3He(3He,2p)4He Cross Section down to the Lower Edge of the Solar Gamow Peak
R. Bonetti, C. Broggini, L. Campajola, P. Corvisiero, A. D'Alessandro, M. Dessalvi, A. D'Onofrio, A. Fubini, G. Gervino, L. Gialanella, U. Greife, A. Guglielmetti, C. Gustavino, G. Imbriani, M. Junker, P. Prati, V. Roca, C. Rolfs, M. Romano, F. Schuemann, F. Strieder, F. Terrasi, H. P. Trautvetter, and S. Zavatarelli (LUNA Collaboration)
pp. 5205-5208 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Higgs Production with Large Transverse Momentum in Hadronic Collisions at Next-to-Leading Order
D. de Florian, M. Grazzini, and Z. Kunszt
pp. 5209-5212 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Study of Λ0 Polarization in Four Different Exclusive pp Reactions at 27.5 GeV/ c
J. Félix, C. Avilez, D. C. Christian, M. D. Church, M. Forbush, E. E. Gottschalk, G. Gutierrez, E. P. Hartouni, S. D. Holmes, F. R. Huson, D. A. Jensen, B. C. Knapp, M. N. Kreisler, G. Moreno, J. Uribe, B. J. Stern, M. H. L. S. Wang, A. Wehmann, L. R. Wiencke, and J. T. White
pp. 5213-5216 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Superdeformation in 68Zn: Evidence for a New, Neutron-Rich Island of Superdeformation in A∼70 Nuclei
M. Devlin, A. V. Afanasjev, R. M. Clark, D. R. LaFosse, I. Y. Lee, F. Lerma, A. O. Macchiavelli, R. W. MacLeod, I. Ragnarsson, P. Ring, D. Rudolph, D. G. Sarantites, and P. G. Thirolf
pp. 5217-5220 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Electron Scattering and Multi- ħω Correlations
Jutta Escher and Jerry P. Draayer
pp. 5221-5224 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sub-Shot-Noise-Limited Optical Heterodyne Detection Using an Amplitude-Squeezed Local Oscillator
Yong-qing Li, Dorel Guzun, and Min Xiao
pp. 5225-5228 [View PDF (73 kB)]
Ultraslow Group Velocity and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects in a Coherently Driven Hot Atomic Gas
Michael M. Kash, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Alexander S. Zibrov, L. Hollberg, George R. Welch, Mikhail D. Lukin, Yuri Rostovtsev, Edward S. Fry, and Marlan O. Scully
pp. 5229-5232 [View PDF (97 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quantum Resonances and Decay of a Chaotic Fractal Repeller Observed Using Microwaves
Wentao Lu, M. Rose, K. Pance, and S. Sridhar
pp. 5233-5236 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Homoclinic Structure Controls Chaotic Tunneling
Stephen C. Creagh and Niall D. Whelan
pp. 5237-5240 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Stress Fluctuations in a 2D Granular Couette Experiment: A Continuous Transition
Daniel Howell, R. P. Behringer, and Christian Veje
pp. 5241-5244 [View PDF (264 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann Method for Irregular Grids
I. V. Karlin, S. Succi, and S. Orszag
pp. 5245-5248 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Inertial Effects on Fluid Flow through Disordered Porous Media
J. S. Andrade, Jr., U. M. S. Costa, M. P. Almeida, H. A. Makse, and H. E. Stanley
pp. 5249-5252 [View PDF (535 kB)]
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Electrostriction of Near-Critical SF6 in Microgravity
G. A. Zimmerli, R. A. Wilkinson, R. A. Ferrell, and M. R. Moldover
pp. 5253-5256 [View PDF (386 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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High Spectral Coherence in Long-Pulse and Continuous Free-Electron Laser: Measurements and Theoretical Limitations
A. Abramovich, M. Canter, A. Gover, J. Sokolowski, Y. M. Yakover, Y. Pinhasi, I. Schnitzer, and J. Shiloh
pp. 5257-5260 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Measurement of Electron-Beam Bunch Length and Emittance Using Shot-Noise-Driven Fluctuations in Incoherent Radiation
P. Catravas, W. P. Leemans, J. S. Wurtele, M. S. Zolotorev, M. Babzien, I. Ben-Zvi, Z. Segalov, X.-J. Wang, and V. Yakimenko
pp. 5261-5264 [View PDF (305 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Evidence of Discrete Bond Breaking Steps in the 1×1 to 1×3 Phase Transition of TiO2(100)
H. Raza, C. L. Pang, S. A. Haycock, and G. Thornton
pp. 5265-5268 [View PDF (1,062 kB)]
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Structure of a Quasicrystal without Atomic Clusters
Eiji Abe, Taku J. Sato, and An Pang Tsai
pp. 5269-5272 [View PDF (1,431 kB)]
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Quasicrystalline d-AlCuCo Identified as Random Tiling by Ion Channeling Combined with Particle-Induced X-Ray Emission
Gabriele Zeger, Dieter Plachke, Heinz Dieter Carstanjen, and Hans-Rainer Trebin
pp. 5273-5276 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Anomalous Packing in Thin Nanoparticle Supercrystals
D. Zanchet, M. S. Moreno, and D. Ugarte
pp. 5277-5280 [View PDF (1,066 kB)]
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Raman Study of the Anomalous TO Phonon Structure in GaP with Controlled Isotopic Composition
F. Widulle, T. Ruf, A. Göbel, E. Schönherr, and M. Cardona
pp. 5281-5284 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Simulation Study of the Link between Molecular Association and Reentrant Miscibility for a Mixture of Molecules with Directional Interactions
Lowri A. Davies, George Jackson, and Luis F. Rull
pp. 5285-5288 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Star Polymer Solutions
M. Watzlawek, C. N. Likos, and H. Löwen
pp. 5289-5292 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Melting of the Classical Bilayer Wigner Crystal: Influence of Lattice Symmetry
I. V. Schweigert, V. A. Schweigert, and F. M. Peeters
pp. 5293-5296 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Insertion Process of a Protein Single Layer within a Newton Black Film
J. J. Benattar, M. Nedyalkov, J. Prost, A. Tiss, R. Verger, and C. Guilbert
pp. 5297-5300 [View PDF (292 kB)]
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Metal-on-Metal Bonding and Rebonding Revisited
Alexander Bogicevic
pp. 5301-5304 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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4He Desorption from Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Bundles: A One-Dimensional Adsorbate
W. Teizer, R. B. Hallock, E. Dujardin, and T. W. Ebbesen
pp. 5305-5308 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Observation and Analysis of Multidomain Epitaxy of α-Mn on MgO(111)
Ilya L. Grigorov, M. R. Fitzsimmons, I-Liang Siu, and J. C. Walker
pp. 5309-5312 [View PDF (224 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Positional Disorder in the Fully Frustrated Josephson Junction Array: Random Gaussian Phase Shifts in the Fully Frustrated 2D XY Model
Pramod Gupta and S. Teitel
pp. 5313-5316 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Zero Temperature Phases of the Electron Gas
G. Ortiz, M. Harris, and P. Ballone
pp. 5317-5320 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Spectral Evolution in (Ca,Sr)RuO3 near the Mott-Hubbard Transition
J. S. Ahn, J. Bak, H. S. Choi, T. W. Noh, J. E. Han, Yunkyu Bang, J. H. Cho, and Q. X. Jia
pp. 5321-5324 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Single and Molecular Quantum Dots
Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman
pp. 5325-5328 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Density Modulations and Addition Spectra of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Quantum Dots
Paul N. Walker, Yuval Gefen, and Gilles Montambaux
pp. 5329-5332 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Ballistic Heating of a Two-Dimensional Electron System by Phonon Excitation of the Magnetoroton Minimum at ν = 1/3
U. Zeitler, A. M. Devitt, J. E. Digby, C. J. Mellor, A. J. Kent, K. A. Benedict, and T. Cheng
pp. 5333-5336 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Linear Dependence of Peak Width in χ(q,ω) vs Tc for YBa2Cu3O6+x Superconductors
A. V. Balatsky and P. Bourges
pp. 5337-5340 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Dissipation Effects on the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in 2D Superconductors
N. Mason and A. Kapitulnik
pp. 5341-5344 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Interlayer Transport of Quasiparticles and Cooper Pairs in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Superconductors
Yu. I. Latyshev, T. Yamashita, L. N. Bulaevskii, M. J. Graf, A. V. Balatsky, and M. P. Maley
pp. 5345-5348 [View PDF (350 kB)]
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Doping Dependence of the Electronic Interactions in Bi-2212 Cuprate Superconductors: Doped Antiferromagnets or Antiferromagnetic Fermi Liquids?
M. Rübhausen, O. A. Hammerstein, A. Bock, U. Merkt, C. T. Rieck, P. Guptasarma, D. G. Hinks, and M. V. Klein
pp. 5349-5352 [View PDF (433 kB)]
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Evolution from Magnetism to Unconventional Superconductivity in a Series of CexCu2Si2 Compounds Probed by Cu NQR
K. Ishida, Y. Kawasaki, K. Tabuchi, K. Kashima, Y. Kitaoka, K. Asayama, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich
pp. 5353-5356 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Measurement of the Intrinsic Dissipation of a Macroscopic System in the Quantum Regime
C. Cosmelli, P. Carelli, M. G. Castellano, F. Chiarello, G. Diambrini Palazzi, R. Leoni, and G. Torrioli
pp. 5357-5360 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Interlayer Tunneling Spectroscopy for Slightly Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Minoru Suzuki, Takao Watanabe, and Azusa Matsuda
pp. 5361-5364 [View PDF (765 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent Spatial Oscillations in the Correlations of the XXZ Spin Chain
Klaus Fabricius, Andreas Klümper, and Barry M. McCoy
pp. 5365-5368 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Ab Initio Theoretical Description of the Interrelation between Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy and Atomic Short-Range Order
S. S. A. Razee, J. B. Staunton, B. Ginatempo, F. J. Pinski, and E. Bruno
pp. 5369-5372 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Laser-Driven Atomic Pump
Petr Král and David Tománek
pp. 5373-5376 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Quantum Confinement Effect in Diamond Nanocrystals Studied by X-Ray-Absorption Spectroscopy
Y. K. Chang, H. H. Hsieh, W. F. Pong, M.-H. Tsai, F. Z. Chien, P. K. Tseng, L. C. Chen, T. Y. Wang, K. H. Chen, D. M. Bhusari, J. R. Yang, and S. T. Lin
pp. 5377-5380 [View PDF (460 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Simulations on a Quantum Computer
S. Somaroo, C. H. Tseng, T. F. Havel, R. Laflamme, and D. G. Cory
pp. 5381-5384 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Unextendible Product Bases and Bound Entanglement
Charles H. Bennett, David P. DiVincenzo, Tal Mor, Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, and Barbara M. Terhal
pp. 5385-5388 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Nonlinear Dynamics of the Perceived Pitch of Complex Sounds
Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Diego L. González, and Oreste Piro
pp. 5389-5392 [View PDF (304 kB)]
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Vorticity Elongation in Polymeric Emulsions
E. K. Hobbie and K. B. Migler
pp. 5393-5396 [View PDF (789 kB)]
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Statistical Mechanics of Stress Transmission in Disordered Granular Arrays
S. F. Edwards and D. V. Grinev
pp. 5397-5400 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Nonlinear Multilevel Dynamics of a Coupled SQUID Ring–Resonator System in the Hysteretic Regime
R. J. Prance, R. Whiteman, T. D. Clark, H. Prance, V. Schöllmann, J. F. Ralph, S. Al-Khawaja, and M. Everitt
pp. 5401-5404 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Coupling Between Adsorption and the Helix-Coil Transition
Gustavo A. Carri and M. Muthukumar
pp. 5405-5408 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Flip-Flop Transitions of the Magnetic Intensity and Polarity Reversals in the Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamo
Akira Kageyama, Márcia M. Ochi, and Tetsuya Sato
pp. 5409-5412 [View PDF (819 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “ β Limit Disruptions in Tokamaks”
W. Park and E. D. Fredrickson
pp. 5413 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Kleva and Guzdar Reply:
Robert G. Kleva and Parvez N. Guzdar
pp. 5414 [View PDF (18 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Water Molecule Dipole in the Gas and in the Liquid Phase [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3308 (1999)]
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli and Michele Parrinello
pp. 5415 [View PDF (11 kB)]
 
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