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Physical Review Letters – 20 September 1999
Volume 83, Issue 12

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.

Mystery of the Alkali Metals: Giant Moments of Fe and Co on and in Cs films
H. Beckmann and G. Bergmann
pp. 2417-2420 [View PDF (57 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Measurement of the Density Matrix of a Longitudinally Modulated Atomic Beam
Richard A. Rubenstein, David A. Kokorowski, Al-Amin Dhirani, Tony D. Roberts, Subhadeep Gupta, Jana Lehner, Winthrop W. Smith, Edward T. Smith, Herbert J. Bernstein, and David E. Pritchard
pp. 2285-2288 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Renormalization Group, Entropy Optimization, and Nonextensivity at Criticality
A. Robledo
pp. 2289-2292 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Solitons and Nondissipative Diffusion
N. Theodorakopoulos and M. Peyrard
pp. 2293-2296 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Vacuum Backreaction on a Pair-Creating Source
G. A. Vilkovisky
pp. 2297-2299 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Effects of R-Parity Violation on Direct CP Violation in B Decays and Extraction of γ
Gautam Bhattacharyya and Amitava Datta
pp. 2300-2303 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Parton Energy Loss Limits and Shadowing in Drell-Yan Dimuon Production
M. A. Vasiliev et al. (FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration)
pp. 2304-2307 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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High-Precision Studies of the 3He(e,e′p) Reaction at the Quasielastic Peak
R. E. J. Florizone et al.
pp. 2308-2311 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Second-Order Electron Self-Energy in Hydrogenlike Ions
Igor Goidenko, Leonti Labzowsky, Andrei Nefiodov, Günter Plunien, and Gerhard Soff
pp. 2312-2315 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Resolution of the Apparent Disorder of the Rb2 A1Σu1(0u+) andb3Πu(0u+) Spectra: A Case of Fully Coupled Electronic States
C. Amiot, O. Dulieu, and J. Vergès
pp. 2316-2319 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Coherence and Relaxation in Potassium-Doped Helium Droplets Studied by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy
F. Stienkemeier, F. Meier, A. Hägele, H. O. Lutz, E. Schreiber, C. P. Schulz, and I. V. Hertel
pp. 2320-2323 [View PDF (589 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Discrete Instability in Nonlinear Lattices
J. Leon and M. Manna
pp. 2324-2327 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Convection versus Dispersion in Optical Bistability
S. Coen, M. Tlidi, Ph. Emplit, and M. Haelterman
pp. 2328-2331 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Energy-Exchange Interactions between Colliding Vector Solitons
Charalambos Anastassiou, Mordechai Segev, Ken Steiglitz, J. A. Giordmaine, Matthew Mitchell, Ming-feng Shih, Song Lan, and John Martin
pp. 2332-2335 [View PDF (360 kB)]
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Profiles of Light-Induced Charge Gratings on Photorefractive Crystals
E. Soergel and W. Krieger
pp. 2336-2339 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Control of Chaotic Pattern Dynamics in Taylor Vortex Flow
Richard J. Wiener, Donevan C. Dolby, G. Clayton Gibbs, Bonita Squires, Thomas Olsen, and Alison M. Smiley
pp. 2340-2343 [View PDF (578 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Evolution of Electron Phase-Space Holes in a 2D Magnetized Plasma
M. Oppenheim, D. L. Newman, and M. V. Goldman
pp. 2344-2347 [View PDF (461 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Origin of Temperature and Pressure Effects on the Radial Distribution Function of Water
J. Urquidi, S. Singh, C. H. Cho, and G. W. Robinson
pp. 2348-2350 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Calculations of Silicon Self-Interstitial Defects
W.-K. Leung, R. J. Needs, G. Rajagopal, S. Itoh, and S. Ihara
pp. 2351-2354 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Dynamics of Electronic “Bubble” Formation in Solid Hydrogen: A Classical Model Calculation based on Fluid Dynamics
F. Vigliotti, E. Sarraf, M. Chergui, and R. Scholz
pp. 2355-2358 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Dynamical Instability of Thin Liquid Films Between Conducting Media
S. Herminghaus
pp. 2359-2361 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Intramolecular and Lattice Melting in n-Alkane Monolayers: An Analog of Melting in Lipid Bilayers
F. Y. Hansen, K. W. Herwig, B. Matthies, and H. Taub
pp. 2362-2365 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Equilibrium Shape of Steps and Islands on Polar II-VI Semiconductors Surfaces
D. Martrou, J. Eymery, and N. Magnea
pp. 2366-2369 [View PDF (809 kB)]
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Spontaneous Ordering in Bulk GaN:Mg Samples
Z. Liliental-Weber, M. Benamara, J. Washburn, I. Grzegory, and S. Porowski
pp. 2370-2373 [View PDF (670 kB)]
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Vicinal Surfaces, Fractional Statistics, and Universality
Somendra M. Bhattacharjee and Sutapa Mukherji
pp. 2374-2377 [View PDF (338 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Possible New Phase of Commensurate Insulators with Disorder: The Mott Glass
E. Orignac, T. Giamarchi, and P. Le Doussal
pp. 2378-2381 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Hamiltonian Description of Composite Fermions: Aftermath
R. Shankar
pp. 2382-2385 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Dynamical Mean Field Theory of the Antiferromagnetic Metal to Antiferromagnetic Insulator Transition
R. Chitra and G. Kotliar
pp. 2386-2389 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Plasmons in Lithium Ammonia
C. A. Burns, P. Abbamonte, E. D. Isaacs, and P. M. Platzman
pp. 2390-2393 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Intrinsic Gap States in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Peter C. Sercel, Al. L. Efros, and M. Rosen
pp. 2394-2397 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Nonexponential Dynamic Scaling of the Magnetization Relaxation in Mn12 Acetate
Luc Thomas, Andrea Caneschi, and Bernard Barbara
pp. 2398-2401 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Brownian Motion of Microscopic Solids under the Action of Fluctuating Electromagnetic Fields
I. Dorofeyev, H. Fuchs, G. Wenning, and B. Gotsmann
pp. 2402-2405 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Indirect Band Gap of Light-Emitting BC2N
Y. Chen, J. C. Barnard, R. E. Palmer, M. O. Watanabe, and T. Sasaki
pp. 2406-2408 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Flux Penetration and Expulsion in Thin Superconducting Disks
V. A. Schweigert and F. M. Peeters
pp. 2409-2412 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Stripe Formation by Long Range Interactions within SO(5) Theory
M. Veillette, Ya. B. Bazaliy, A. J. Berlinsky, and C. Kallin
pp. 2413-2416 [View PDF (110 kB)]
Mystery of the Alkali Metals: Giant Moments of Fe and Co on and in Cs films
H. Beckmann and G. Bergmann
pp. 2417-2420 [View PDF (57 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Crystal Field Triplets: A New Route to Non-Fermi-Liquid Physics
Mikito Koga, Gergely Zaránd, and Daniel L. Cox
pp. 2421-2424 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Geometrically Constrained Magnetic Wall
P. Bruno
pp. 2425-2428 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Giant Enhancement of Surface Second Harmonic Generation in BaTiO3 due to Photorefractive Surface Wave Excitation
Igor I. Smolyaninov, Chi H. Lee, and Christopher C. Davis
pp. 2429-2432 [View PDF (856 kB)]
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Electric-Field Tuning of Spin-Dependent Exciton-Exciton Interactions in Coupled Quantum Wells
G. Aichmayr, M. Jetter, L. Viña, J. Dickerson, F. Camino, and E. E. Mendez
pp. 2433-2436 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Luminescence Characteristics of Laser-Induced Bubbles in Water
Ohan Baghdassarian, Bernd Tabbert, and Gary A. Williams
pp. 2437-2440 [View PDF (545 kB)]
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Extreme Electrostatic Phenomena in a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble
Ning Xu, Long Wang, and Xiwei Hu
pp. 2441-2444 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Microscope Light Emission Spectra of Au(110)-(2×1) with Atomic Spatial Resolution
Y. Uehara, T. Fujita, and S. Ushioda
pp. 2445-2448 [View PDF (811 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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1/f Noise in Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Models on Narrow Stripes
Sergei Maslov, Chao Tang, and Yi-Cheng Zhang
pp. 2449-2452 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Structure of the Resonance Attractor for Spiral Waves in Excitable Media
A. Karma and V. S. Zykov
pp. 2453-2456 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Probing by NMR the Effect of Surface Charges on the Chemisorption Bond
P.-A. Vuissoz, J.-Ph. Ansermet, and A. Wieckowski
pp. 2457-2460 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Suppression of Coalescence in Surfactant Stabilized Emulsions by Shear Flow
Arup Nandi, Anurag Mehra, and D. V. Khakhar
pp. 2461-2464 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Coiling of Cylindrical Membrane Stacks with Anchored Polymers
Vidar Frette, Ilan Tsafrir, Marie-Alice Guedeau-Boudeville, Ludovic Jullien, Daniel Kandel, and Joel Stavans
pp. 2465-2468 [View PDF (196 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Unraveling Quantum Dissipation in the Frequency Domain”
D. B. Horoshko and S. Ya. Kilin
pp. 2469 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Holland Replies:
M. Holland
pp. 2470 [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Comment on “Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays”
C. M. Hoffman
pp. 2471 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Farrar and Biermann Reply:
Glennys R. Farrar and Peter L. Biermann
pp. 2472 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Comment on “Adsorption of Polyelectrolyte onto a Colloid of Opposite Charge”
Ramin Golestanian
pp. 2473 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Sens Replies:
P. Sens
pp. 2474 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Comment on “Temperature Dependence of the Josephson Current”
Vinay Ambegaokar
pp. 2475 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Comment on “Practical Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution over 1 km”
Thomas Durt
pp. 2476 [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Buttler et al. Reply:
W. T. Buttler, R. J. Hughes, P. G. Kwiat, S. K. Lamoreaux, G. L. Morgan, J. E. Nordholt, and C. G. Peterson
pp. 2477 [View PDF (12 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3579 (1998)]
Glennys R. Farrar and Peter L. Biermann
pp. 2478 [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Hysteretic Microwave Cyclotronlike Resonance in a Laterally Confined Two-Dimensional Electron Gas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 812 (1999)]
B. M. Ashkinadze and V. I. Yudson
pp. 2479 [View PDF (13 kB)]
 
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