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Physical Review Letters – 25 January 1999
Volume 82, Issue 4

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.

Sound in a Magnetorheological Slurry
Y. Nahmad-Molinari, C. A. Arancibia-Bulnes, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
pp. 727-730 [View PDF (123 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Stochastic and Bona Fide Resonance: An Experimental Investigation
Giovanni Giacomelli, Francesco Marin, and Ivan Rabbiosi
pp. 675-678 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Power Spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background and Density Fluctuations Seeded by Local Cosmic Strings
Carlo Contaldi, Mark Hindmarsh, and João Magueijo
pp. 679-682 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Degenerate and Quasidegenerate Majorana Neutrinos
G. C. Branco, M. N. Rebelo, and J. I. Silva-Marcos
pp. 683-686 [View PDF (157 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Tensor Analyzing Powers for Quasielastic Electron Scattering from Deuterium
Z.-L. Zhou et al.
pp. 687-690 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Incompressibility of Nuclear Matter from the Giant Monopole Resonance
D. H. Youngblood, H. L. Clark, and Y.-W. Lui
pp. 691-694 [View PDF (150 kB)]
Accelerated Emission of Gamma Rays from the 31-yr Isomer of 178Hf Induced by X-Ray Irradiation
C. B. Collins, F. Davanloo, M. C. Iosif, R. Dussart, J. M. Hicks, S. A. Karamian, C. A. Ur, I. I. Popescu, V. I. Kirischuk, J. J. Carroll, H. E. Roberts, P. McDaniel, and C. E. Crist
pp. 695-698 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Shell Effects in Fission Fragment Anisotropies for 12C194,198+Pt Systems
A. Shrivastava, S. Kailas, A. Chatterjee, A. M. Samant, A. Navin, P. Singh, and B. S. Tomar
pp. 699-702 [View PDF (173 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Ultracold Ground-State Potassium Molecules
A. N. Nikolov, E. E. Eyler, X. T. Wang, J. Li, H. Wang, W. C. Stwalley, and P. L. Gould
pp. 703-706 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Electron Impact Detachment of Weakly Bound Negative Ions
F. Robicheaux
pp. 707-710 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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High Precision Measurements of the Ground State Hyperfine Structure Interval of Muonium and of the Muon Magnetic Moment
W. Liu, M. G. Boshier, S. Dhawan, O. van Dyck, P. Egan, X. Fei, M. Grosse Perdekamp, V. W. Hughes, M. Janousch, K. Jungmann, D. Kawall, F. G. Mariam, C. Pillai, R. Prigl, G. zu Putlitz, I. Reinhard, W. Schwarz, P. A. Thompson, and K. A. Woodle
pp. 711-714 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Statistics of Wave Dynamics in Random Media
A. Z. Genack, P. Sebbah, M. Stoytchev, and B. A. van Tiggelen
pp. 715-718 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Photonic Crystal Optics and Homogenization of 2D Periodic Composites
P. Halevi, A. A. Krokhin, and J. Arriaga
pp. 719-722 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Optical Solitary Wave and Shock Solutions of the Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
C. E. Zaspel
pp. 723-726 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Sound in a Magnetorheological Slurry
Y. Nahmad-Molinari, C. A. Arancibia-Bulnes, and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez
pp. 727-730 [View PDF (123 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Controlled Dynamics of Interfaces in a Vibrated Granular Layer
I. S. Aranson, D. Blair, W. K. Kwok, G. Karapetrov, U. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, V. M. Vinokur, and L. S. Tsimring
pp. 731-734 [View PDF (442 kB)]
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Diffusion of Ionic Particles in Charged Disordered Media
Ali Reza Mehrabi and Muhammad Sahimi
pp. 735-738 [View PDF (147 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Spectroscopic Measurements of Argon Plasma Formation by a High-Intensity Lithium Ion Beam
J. E. Bailey, H. K. Chung, A. L. Carlson, D. Cohen, D. J. Johnson, P. Lake, J. J. MacFarlane, P. Wang, and D. R. Welch
pp. 739-742 [View PDF (933 kB)]
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Collimated Electron Jets by Intense Laser-Beam–Plasma Surface Interaction under Oblique Incidence
H. Ruhl, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, K. A. Tanaka, and R. Kodama
pp. 743-746 [View PDF (320 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Thermodynamics of Glasses: A First Principles Computation
Marc Mézard and Giorgio Parisi
pp. 747-750 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Thickness Induced Structural Phase Transition of Gold Nanofilm
Y. Kondo, Q. Ru, and Kunio Takayanagi
pp. 751-754 [View PDF (500 kB)]
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Coherent Soft-X-Ray Dynamic Light Scattering from Smectic- A Films
A. C. Price, L. B. Sorensen, S. D. Kevan, J. Toner, A. Poniewierski, and R. Hołyst
pp. 755-758 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Simultaneous Observation of Molecular Tilt and Azimuthal Angle Distributions in Spontaneously Modulated Liquid-Crystalline Langmuir Monolayers
Yuka Tabe, Nan Shen, Eric Mazur, and Hiroshi Yokoyama
pp. 759-762 [View PDF (290 kB)]
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Decagonal Epilayers on the Icosahedral Quasicrystal Al70Pd20Mn10
B. Bolliger, M. Erbudak, D. D. Vvedensky, and A. R. Kortan
pp. 763-766 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Theory of Systematic Absence of NaCl-Type ( β-Sn–Type) High Pressure Phases in Covalent (Ionic) Semiconductors
V. Ozoliņš and Alex Zunger
pp. 767-770 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Preferential Amorphization at Extended Defects of Self-Ion-Irradiated Silicon
R. D. Goldberg, J. S. Williams, and R. G. Elliman
pp. 771-774 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Experimental Determination of the Structural Relaxation in Liquid Water
A. Cunsolo, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, C. Masciovecchio, A. Mermet, G. Monaco, M. Sampoli, and R. Verbeni
pp. 775-778 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Glasslike Heat Conduction in High-Mobility Crystalline Semiconductors
J. L. Cohn, G. S. Nolas, V. Fessatidis, T. H. Metcalf, and G. A. Slack
pp. 779-782 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Critical Wetting of a Liquid/Vapor Interface by Octane
T. Pfohl and H. Riegler
pp. 783-786 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Elastic Interaction between Surface Defects in Thin Layers
P. Peyla, A. Vallat, C. Misbah, and H. Müller-Krumbhaar
pp. 787-790 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Step-Induced Optical Anisotropy of Vicinal Si(001)
S. G. Jaloviar, Jia-Ling Lin, Feng Liu, V. Zielasek, L. McCaughan, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 791-794 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Wetting of Argon on CO2
Giampaolo Mistura, Francesco Ancilotto, Lorenzo Bruschi, and Flavio Toigo
pp. 795-798 [View PDF (239 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Sapphire (0001) Surface, Clean and with d-Metal Overlayers
C. Verdozzi, D. R. Jennison, P. A. Schultz, and M. P. Sears
pp. 799-802 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Finite Temperature Effects in a One-Dimensional Mott-Hubbard Insulator: Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of Na0.96V2O5
K. Kobayashi, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, T. Tohyama, and S. Maekawa
pp. 803-806 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Mobile Small Polaron
A. S. Alexandrov and P. E. Kornilovitch
pp. 807-810 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Charge Density Wave Gap Formation of NbSe3 Detected by Electron Tunneling
He Haifeng and Zhang Dianlin
pp. 811-814 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Radiation-Induced Formation of H2* in Silicon
S. K. Estreicher, J. L. Hastings, and P. A. Fedders
pp. 815-818 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Magnetization of the Fractional Quantum Hall States
I. Meinel, T. Hengstmann, D. Grundler, D. Heitmann, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
pp. 819-822 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Fluctuation Controlled Hopping of Bound Magnetic Polarons in ErAs:GaAs Nanocomposites
D. R. Schmidt, A. G. Petukhov, M. Foygel, J. P. Ibbetson, and S. J. Allen
pp. 823-826 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Interaction between Magnetic Order and the Vortex Lattice in HoNi2B2C
C. D. Dewhurst, R. A. Doyle, E. Zeldov, and D. McK. Paul
pp. 827-830 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Radio-Frequency Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Superconducting In-InOx: A Possible Evidence for Vortex Density Waves
S. E. Hebboul, D. P. Johnson, and M. Rokhlin
pp. 831-834 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of the One-Dimensional SU(4) Symmetric Spin-Orbital Model
Beat Frischmuth, Frédéric Mila, and Matthias Troyer
pp. 835-838 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Ground State Properties of an Anderson Impurity in a Gapless Host
Valery I. Rupasov
pp. 839-842 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Electron-Hole Correlation Effects in the Emission of Light from Quantum Wires
Francesco Tassone and Carlo Piermarocchi
pp. 843-846 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Local Optical Spectroscopy in Quantum Confined Systems: A Theoretical Description
Oskar Mauritz, Guido Goldoni, Fausto Rossi, and Elisa Molinari
pp. 847-850 [View PDF (200 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Ratchet for Cold Rubidium Atoms: The Asymmetric Optical Lattice
C. Mennerat-Robilliard, D. Lucas, S. Guibal, J. Tabosa, C. Jurczak, J.-Y. Courtois, and G. Grynberg
pp. 851-854 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Noise Driven Avalanche Behavior in Subexcitable Media
Jichang Wang, Sándor Kádár, Peter Jung, and Kenneth Showalter
pp. 855-858 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Effect of Inhomogeneity on Spiral Wave Dynamics
Matthew Hendrey, Edward Ott, and Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr.
pp. 859-862 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Comparison of Polymer Dynamics between Entanglements and Covalent Cross-Links
Taco Nicolai, Frederic Prochazka, and Dominique Durand
pp. 863-866 [View PDF (120 kB)]
Time-Delayed Theory of the Neolithic Transition in Europe
Joaquim Fort and Vicenç Méndez
pp. 867-870 [View PDF (150 kB)]
 
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