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Physical Review Letters – 1 March 1999
Volume 82, Issue 9

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.

Ultrasound Propagation in Externally Stressed Granular Media
X. Jia, C. Caroli, and B. Velicky
pp. 1863-1866 [View PDF (161 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Stimulated Emission and Amplification in Josephson Junction Arrays
P. Barbara, A. B. Cawthorne, S. V. Shitov, and C. J. Lobb
pp. 1963-1966 [View PDF (513 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Open System Dynamics with Non-Markovian Quantum Trajectories
Walter T. Strunz, Lajos Diósi, and Nicolas Gisin
pp. 1801-1805 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Observation of Saddle-Point Avoidance in Noise-Induced Escape
D. G. Luchinsky, R. S. Maier, R. Mannella, P. V. E. McClintock, and D. L. Stein
pp. 1806-1809 [View PDF (130 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraints on Neutrino Oscillation Parameters from the Measurement of Day-Night Solar Neutrino Fluxes at Super-Kamiokande
Y. Fukuda et al. ((Super-Kamiokande Collaboration))
pp. 1810-1814 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Microscopic Structure of a Vortex Line in Superfluid Neutron Star Matter
F. V. De Blasio and Ø. Elgarøy
pp. 1815-1818 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Hindered ( Δl = 0) Alpha Decay and Shape Staggering in 191Po
A. N. Andreyev, M. Huyse, P. Van Duppen, J. F. C. Cocks, K. Helariutta, H. Kettunen, P. Kuusiniemi, M. Leino, W. H. Trzaska, K. Eskola, and R. Wyss
pp. 1819-1822 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Precise Atomic Mass Values near 132Sn: The Resolution of a Puzzle
B. Fogelberg, K. A. Mezilev, H. Mach, V. I. Isakov, and J. Slivova
pp. 1823-1826 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Nuclear Saturation with In-Medium Meson Exchange Interactions
R. Rapp, R. Machleidt, J. W. Durso, and G. E. Brown
pp. 1827-1830 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Using High Rydberg States as Electric Field Sensors
A. Osterwalder and F. Merkt
pp. 1831-1834 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Multiparticle Entanglement of Hot Trapped Ions
Klaus Mølmer and Anders Sørensen
pp. 1835-1838 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Long-Range Forces between Cold Atoms
A. Fioretti, D. Comparat, C. Drag, T. F. Gallagher, and P. Pillet
pp. 1839-1842 [View PDF (210 kB)]
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Analytical Calculation of the Relaxation Dynamics of Partially Stretched Flexible Chain Molecules: Necessity of a Wormlike Chain Description
Roland G. Winkler
pp. 1843-1846 [View PDF (239 kB)]
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Quantum Noise and Correlations in Resonantly Enhanced Wave Mixing Based on Atomic Coherence
M. D. Lukin, A. B. Matsko, M. Fleischhauer, and M. O. Scully
pp. 1847-1850 [View PDF (153 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Period Doubling of a Torus near the Ferroelectric Phase Transition of a KH2PO4 Crystal
Jong Cheol Shin and Sook-Il Kwun
pp. 1851-1854 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Light-Induced Surface Sliding of the Nematic Director in Liquid Crystals
O. Francescangeli, S. Slussarenko, F. Simoni, D. Andrienko, V. Reshetnyak, and Y. Reznikov
pp. 1855-1858 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Heat Conductivity and Dynamical Instability
Daniel Alonso, Roberto Artuso, Giulio Casati, and Italo Guarneri
pp. 1859-1862 [View PDF (170 kB)]
Ultrasound Propagation in Externally Stressed Granular Media
X. Jia, C. Caroli, and B. Velicky
pp. 1863-1866 [View PDF (161 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Phase Mixing of Nonlinear Plasma Oscillations in an Arbitrary Mass Ratio Cold Plasma
Sudip Sen Gupta and Predhiman K. Kaw
pp. 1867-1870 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Wave-Induced Momentum Transport and Flow Drive in Tokamak Plasmas
L. A. Berry, E. F. Jaeger, and D. B. Batchelor
pp. 1871-1874 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Physical Picture for Light Emission in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Mufei Xiao
pp. 1875-1878 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Example of a Compound Semiconductor Surface that Mimics Silicon: The InP(001)-( 2×1) Reconstruction
L. Li, B.-K. Han, Q. Fu, and R. F. Hicks
pp. 1879-1882 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Identification of Vacancy-Impurity Complexes in Highly n-Type Si
K. Saarinen, J. Nissilä, H. Kauppinen, M. Hakala, M. J. Puska, P. Hautojärvi, and C. Corbel
pp. 1883-1886 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Novel Defect Complexes and Their Role in the p-Type Doping of GaN
F. A. Reboredo and S. T. Pantelides
pp. 1887-1890 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Deterministic Equations of Motion and Dynamic Critical Phenomena
B. Zheng, M. Schulz, and S. Trimper
pp. 1891-1894 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Early Stage Kinetics of Phase-Separating Liquid Mixtures
S. Buil, J. P. Delville, and A. Ducasse
pp. 1895-1898 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Switching in the Molecular Orientation Ruled by Steric Repulsion of Adsorbed CO on Pd(110)
Hiroyuki Kato, Maki Kawai, and Jun Yoshinobu
pp. 1899-1902 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Condensation Coefficients of Ag on Polymers
A. Thran, M. Kiene, V. Zaporojtchenko, and F. Faupel
pp. 1903-1906 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Fluctuation-Induced Transitions in a Bistable Surface Reaction: Catalytic CO Oxidation on a Pt Field Emitter Tip
Yu. Suchorski, J. Beben, E. W. James, J. W. Evans, and R. Imbihl
pp. 1907-1910 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Conformation and Self-Diffusion of Single DNA Molecules Confined to Two Dimensions
Berenike Maier and Joachim O. Rädler
pp. 1911-1914 [View PDF (323 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Mott-Hubbard Transition in Infinite Dimensions
R. M. Noack and F. Gebhard
pp. 1915-1918 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Ab Initio Excitation Spectra and Collective Electronic Response in Atoms and Clusters
Igor Vasiliev, Serdar Öğüt, and James R. Chelikowsky
pp. 1919-1922 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Scaling in Charge-Density-Wave Relaxation: Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering Measurements
K. L. Ringland, A. C. Finnefrock, Y. Li, J. D. Brock, S. G. Lemay, and R. E. Thorne
pp. 1923-1926 [View PDF (574 kB)]
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Flatband Conditions Observed for Lanthanide-Silicide Monolayers on n-Type Si(111)
S. Vandré, T. Kalka, C. Preinesberger, and M. Dähne-Prietsch
pp. 1927-1930 [View PDF (663 kB)]
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Phase and Energy Relaxation in an Antibonding Surface State: Cs/Cu(111)
S. Ogawa, H. Nagano, and H. Petek
pp. 1931-1934 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Absence of Two-Dimensional Bragg Glasses
Chen Zeng, P. L. Leath, and Daniel S. Fisher
pp. 1935-1938 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Effect of Nonmagnetic Impurities on the Magnetic Resonance Peak in YBa2Cu3O7
H. F. Fong, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, L. P. Regnault, J. Bossy, A. Ivanov, D. L. Milius, I. A. Aksay, and B. Keimer
pp. 1939-1942 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Spectral Evidence for Pseudogap Formation in Kondo Insulators CeRhAs and CeRhSb
H. Kumigashira, T. Sato, T. Yokoya, T. Takahashi, S. Yoshii, and M. Kasaya
pp. 1943-1946 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Curie Temperature Enhancement and Induced Pd Magnetic Moments for Ultrathin Fe Films Grown on Stepped Pd(001)
Hyuk J. Choi, R. K. Kawakami, Ernesto J. Escorcia-Aparicio, Z. Q. Qiu, J. Pearson, J. S. Jiang, Dongqi Li, and S. D. Bader
pp. 1947-1950 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Is There an Excess Wing in the Dielectric Loss of Plastic Crystals?
R. Brand, P. Lunkenheimer, U. Schneider, and A. Loidl
pp. 1951-1954 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Dynamics of Single Selenium Chains Confined in One-Dimensional Nanochannels of AlPO4-5: Temperature Dependencies of the First- and Second-Order Raman Spectra
Vladimir V. Poborchii, Alexander V. Kolobov, Jürgen Caro, Victor V. Zhuravlev, and Kazunobu Tanaka
pp. 1955-1958 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Optical Excitations in Conjugated Polymers
Michael Rohlfing and Steven G. Louie
pp. 1959-1962 [View PDF (108 kB)]
Stimulated Emission and Amplification in Josephson Junction Arrays
P. Barbara, A. B. Cawthorne, S. V. Shitov, and C. J. Lobb
pp. 1963-1966 [View PDF (513 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dissociation of a Surface Bond by Direct Optical Excitation: H-Si(100)
T. Vondrak and X.-Y. Zhu
pp. 1967-1970 [View PDF (127 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Computation with Ions in Thermal Motion
Anders Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer
pp. 1971-1974 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions
D. Jaksch, H.-J. Briegel, J. I. Cirac, C. W. Gardiner, and P. Zoller
pp. 1975-1978 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Reentrant Melting in Polydispersed Hard Spheres
Paul Bartlett and Patrick B. Warren
pp. 1979-1982 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Species-Area Relation and Self-Similarity in a Biogeographical Model of Speciation and Extinction
Jon D. Pelletier
pp. 1983-1986 [View PDF (104 kB)]
Statistical Properties of Genealogical Trees
Bernard Derrida, Susanna C. Manrubia, and Damián H. Zanette
pp. 1987-1990 [View PDF (161 kB)]
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Membrane Mediated Attraction and Ordered Aggregation of Colloidal Particles Bound to Giant Phospholipid Vesicles
Ilya Koltover, Joachim O. Rädler, and Cyrus R. Safinya
pp. 1991-1994 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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Instability and “Sausage-String” Appearance in Blood Vessels during High Blood Pressure
Preben Alstrøm, Victor M. Eguíluz, Morten Colding-Jørgensen, Finn Gustafsson, and Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou
pp. 1995-1998 [View PDF (326 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “ ΔI = 4 Bifurcation in Ground Bands of Even-Even Nuclei and the Interacting Boson Model”
S. Kuyucak and A. E. Stuchbery
pp. 1999 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Comment on “Energy Velocity of Diffusing Waves in Strongly Scattering Media”
C. M. Soukoulis, K. Busch, M. Kafesaki, and E. N. Economou
pp. 2000 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Schriemer et al. Reply:
H. P. Schriemer, M. L. Cowan, J. H. Page, Ping Sheng, Zhengyou Liu, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 2001 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Comment on “Dimensionally Induced Structural Transformations in Titanium-Aluminum Multilayers”
J. Bonevich and D. Josell
pp. 2002 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Banerjee, Ahuja, and Fraser Reply:
R. Banerjee, R. Ahuja, and H. L. Fraser
pp. 2003 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Comment on “Observation of 2D Polarons and Magnetopolarons on Superfluid Helium Films”
N. A. Rubin and A. J. Dahm
pp. 2004 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Tress et al. Reply:
O. Tress, Yu. P. Monarkha, F. C. Penning, H. Bluyssen, and P. Wyder
pp. 2005 [View PDF (75 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Generation of Coherent Soft X Rays at 2.7 nm Using High Harmonics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2967 (1997)]
Zenghu Chang, Andy Rundquist, Haiwen Wang, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn
pp. 2006 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Erratum: Quasi-Two-Dimensional MHD Turbulence in Three-Dimensional Flows [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 548 (1999)]
D. Aaron Roberts, Melvyn L. Goldstein, Anil E. Deane, and Sanjoy Ghosh
pp. 2007 [View PDF (14 kB)]
 
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