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Physical Review Letters – 6 September 1999
Volume 83, Issue 10

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.

Noiseless Optical Amplification of Images
Sang-Kyung Choi, Michael Vasilyev, and Prem Kumar
pp. 1938-1941 [View PDF (87 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Supershielding: Confinement of Magnetic Fields
Robert W. Brown and Shmaryu M. Shvartsman
pp. 1946-1949 [View PDF (71 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Pseudotensors and Quasilocal Energy-Momentum
Chia-Chen Chang, James M. Nester, and Chiang-Mei Chen
pp. 1897-1901 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Direct Measurement of Ab in Z0 Decays Using Charged Kaon Tagging
Kenji Abe et al. ((SLD Collaboration))
pp. 1902-1907 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Measurement of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the All-Jets Decay Channel
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 1908-1913 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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QCD Factorization for B→ππ Decays: Strong Phases and CP Violation in the Heavy Quark Limit
M. Beneke, G. Buchalla, M. Neubert, and C. T. Sachrajda
pp. 1914-1917 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Charmonium Decays to Axial-Vector Plus Pseudoscalar Mesons
J. Z. Bai et al. ((BES Collaboration))
pp. 1918-1921 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Backbending Mechanism of 48Cr
Kenji Hara, Yang Sun, and Takahiro Mizusaki
pp. 1922-1925 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Precritical Pair Fluctuations and Formation of a Pseudogap in Low-Density Nuclear Matter
A. Schnell, G. Röpke, and P. Schuck
pp. 1926-1929 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Non-nuclear Maxima of the Electron Density
A. Martín Pendás, M. A. Blanco, Aurora Costales, Paula Mori Sánchez, and Víctor Luaña
pp. 1930-1933 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Tunneling Dynamics and Gauge Potentials in Optical Lattices
S. K. Dutta, B. K. Teo, and G. Raithel
pp. 1934-1937 [View PDF (537 kB)]
Noiseless Optical Amplification of Images
Sang-Kyung Choi, Michael Vasilyev, and Prem Kumar
pp. 1938-1941 [View PDF (87 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Homoclinic Bifurcation as a Mechanism of Chaotic Phase Synchronization
D. E. Postnov, A. G. Balanov, N. B. Janson, and E. Mosekilde
pp. 1942-1945 [View PDF (82 kB)]
Supershielding: Confinement of Magnetic Fields
Robert W. Brown and Shmaryu M. Shvartsman
pp. 1946-1949 [View PDF (71 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Measurement of χ(3) for Doubly Vibrationally Enhanced Four Wave Mixing Spectroscopy
Wei Zhao and John C. Wright
pp. 1950-1953 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Spontaneous Self-Trapping of Optical Beams in Metastable Paraelectric Crystals
Eugenio DelRe, Mario Tamburrini, Mordechai Segev, Refael Della Pergola, and Aharon J. Agranat
pp. 1954-1957 [View PDF (626 kB)]
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Embedded Solitons in Second-Harmonic-Generating Systems
J. Yang, B. A. Malomed, and D. J. Kaup
pp. 1958-1961 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Fluctuations and Correlations in Sandpile Models
Alain Barrat, Alessandro Vespignani, and Stefano Zapperi
pp. 1962-1965 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Surface Wave Scattering by a Vertical Vortex and the Symmetry of the Aharonov-Bohm Wave Function
Francisco Vivanco, Francisco Melo, Christophe Coste, and Fernando Lund
pp. 1966-1969 [View PDF (883 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Instability of Dust Particles in a Coulomb Crystal due to Delayed Charging
S. Nunomura, T. Misawa, N. Ohno, and S. Takamura
pp. 1970-1973 [View PDF (462 kB)]
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Kinetic Eigenmodes and Discrete Spectrum of Plasma Oscillations in a Weakly Collisional Plasma
C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, and F. Skiff
pp. 1974-1977 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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A Long-Wavelength Hosing Instability in Laser-Plasma Interactions
B. J. Duda, R. G. Hemker, K. C. Tzeng, and W. B. Mori
pp. 1978-1981 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Radiative Jet Experiments of Astrophysical Interest Using Intense Lasers
D. R. Farley, K. G. Estabrook, S. G. Glendinning, S. H. Glenzer, B. A. Remington, K. Shigemori, J. M. Stone, R. J. Wallace, G. B. Zimmerman, and J. A. Harte
pp. 1982-1985 [View PDF (651 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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New Metallic Crystalline Carbon: Three Dimensionally Polymerized C60 Fullerite
Susumu Okada, Susumu Saito, and Atsushi Oshiyama
pp. 1986-1989 [View PDF (317 kB)]
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Thermally Activated Reorientation of Di-interstitial Defects in Silicon
Jeongnim Kim, Florian Kirchhoff, Wilfried G. Aulbur, John W. Wilkins, Furrukh S. Khan, and Georg Kresse
pp. 1990-1993 [View PDF (405 kB)]
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Thermal Noise and the Branching Threshold in Brittle Fracture
L. M. Sander and S. V. Ghaisas
pp. 1994-1997 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Raman Spectroscopy of Dense H2O and the Transition to Symmetric Hydrogen Bonds
Alexander F. Goncharov, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Ho-kwang Mao, and Russell J. Hemley
pp. 1998-2001 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Helium Adsorption on a Lithium Substrate
Massimo Boninsegni, Milton W. Cole, and Flavio Toigo
pp. 2002-2005 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Wetting Silicon Carbide with Nitrogen: A Theoretical Study
Giulia Galli, Alessandra Catellani, and François Gygi
pp. 2006-2009 [View PDF (721 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electronic Structure of “Sequence Mutations” in Ordered GaInP2 Alloys
T. Mattila, Su-Huai Wei, and Alex Zunger
pp. 2010-2013 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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From Band Insulator to Mott Insulator in One Dimension
Michele Fabrizio, Alexander O. Gogolin, and Alexander A. Nersesyan
pp. 2014-2017 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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NQR by Coherent Raman Scattering of a Triplet Exciton in a Molecular Crystal
Michio Matsushita and Tatsuhisa Kato
pp. 2018-2021 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Carrier Density Dependence of Magnetoresistance in Tl2Mn2-xRuxO7 Pyrochlores
B. Martínez, R. Senis, J. Fontcuberta, X. Obradors, W. Cheikh-Rouhou, P. Strobel, C. Bougerol-Chaillout, and M. Pernet
pp. 2022-2025 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Hall Effect through Magnetic Phase Transitions in Nd2Fe14B
Jolanta Stankiewicz and Juan Bartolomé
pp. 2026-2029 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Domain Wall Scattering Explains 300% Ballistic Magnetoconductance of Nanocontacts
G. Tatara, Y.-W. Zhao, M. Muñoz, and N. García
pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Role of Interface Imperfections on Intervalley Coupling in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices
J. G. Menchero, Belita Koiller, and R. B. Capaz
pp. 2034-2037 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Growth Study and Theoretical Investigation of the Ultrathin Oxide SiO2-Si Heterojunction
Alexander A. Demkov and Otto F. Sankey
pp. 2038-2041 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Asymmetry of Critical Exponents in YBa2Cu3O7-δ
M. Charalambous, O. Riou, P. Gandit, B. Billon, P. Lejay, J. Chaussy, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, and Ruixing Liang
pp. 2042-2045 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Compressibility of the Two-Dimensional Infinite- U Hubbard Model
Arti Tandon, Ziqiang Wang, and Gabriel Kotliar
pp. 2046-2049 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Multiple Andreev Reflections and Enhanced Shot Noise in Diffusive Superconducting-Normal-Superconductor Junctions
E. V. Bezuglyi, E. N. Bratus', V. S. Shumeiko, and G. Wendin
pp. 2050-2053 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Kinetic Roughening of Penetrating Flux Fronts in High- Tc Thin Film Superconductors
R. Surdeanu, R. J. Wijngaarden, E. Visser, J. M. Huijbregtse, J. H. Rector, B. Dam, and R. Griessen
pp. 2054-2057 [View PDF (225 kB)]
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Low-Field Superconducting Spin Switch Based on a Superconductor /Ferromagnet Multilayer
L. R. Tagirov
pp. 2058-2061 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Magnons and Magnon-Phonon Interactions in Iron
R. F. Sabiryanov and S. S. Jaswal
pp. 2062-2064 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Second Low-Temperature Phase Transition in Frustrated UNi4B
R. Movshovich, M. Jaime, S. Mentink, A. A. Menovsky, and J. A. Mydosh
pp. 2065-2068 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Direct Spectroscopic Observation of the Energy Gap Formation in the Spin Density Wave Phase Transition at the Cr(110) Surface
J. Schäfer, Eli Rotenberg, G. Meigs, S. D. Kevan, P. Blaha, and S. Hüfner
pp. 2069-2072 [View PDF (764 kB)]
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Coherent Excitation Spectroscopy on Inhomogeneous Exciton Ensembles
A. Euteneuer, E. Finger, M. Hofmann, W. Stolz, T. Meier, P. Thomas, S. W. Koch, W. W. Rühle, R. Hey, and K. Ploog
pp. 2073-2076 [View PDF (628 kB)]
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Hydrogen Bond in Liquid Water as a Brownian Oscillator
Sander Woutersen and Huib J. Bakker
pp. 2077-2080 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Energy Focusing in a Converging Fluid Flow: Implications for Sonoluminescence
K. R. Weninger, C. G. Camara, and S. J. Putterman
pp. 2081-2084 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Many-Body Effects in Angle-Resolved Photoemission: Quasiparticle Energy and Lifetime of a Mo(110) Surface State
T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, P. D. Johnson, and S. L. Hulbert
pp. 2085-2088 [View PDF (734 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Neutron Interferometric Observation of Noncyclic Phase”
Rajendra Bhandari
pp. 2089 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Wagh et al. Reply:
Apoorva G. Wagh, Veer Chand Rakhecha, Peter Fischer, and Alexander Ioffe
pp. 2090 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Comment on “Theory of Metal-Insulator Transitions in Gated Semiconductors”
S. V. Kravchenko, M. P. Sarachik, and D. Simonian
pp. 2091 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Altshuler and Maslov Reply:
Boris L. Altshuler and Dmitrii L. Maslov
pp. 2092 [View PDF (20 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Fully Supersymmetric CP Violation in K and B Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2447 (1999)]
D. A. Demir, A. Masiero, and O. Vives
pp. 2093 [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Erratum: Fission Time Evolution with Excitation Energy from a Crystal Blocking Experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5012 (1999)]
F. Goldenbaum, M. Morjean, J. Galin, E. Liénard, B. Lott, A. Péghaire, 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. 2094 [View PDF (6 kB)]
 
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