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Physical Review Letters – 27 September 1999
Volume 83, Issue 13

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.

Coorbital Dynamics at Large Eccentricity and Inclination
F. Namouni, A. A. Christou, and C. D. Murray
pp. 2506-2509 [View PDF (149 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Decoherent Histories and the Emergent Classicality of Local Densities
J. J. Halliwell
pp. 2481-2485 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Maxwell Duality, Lorentz Invariance, and Topological Phase
Jonathan P. Dowling, Colin P. Williams, and J. D. Franson
pp. 2486-2489 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Test of the State Reduction Rule
G. M. D'Ariano, Prem Kumar, C. Macchiavello, L. Maccone, and N. Sterpi
pp. 2490-2493 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Three Dimensional Quantum Delay Time Tomography
Shimon Coen
pp. 2494-2497 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
M. R. Matthews, B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, D. S. Hall, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell
pp. 2498-2501 [View PDF (869 kB)]
Evidence for a Critical Velocity in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
C. Raman, M. Köhl, R. Onofrio, D. S. Durfee, C. E. Kuklewicz, Z. Hadzibabic, and W. Ketterle
pp. 2502-2505 [View PDF (246 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Coorbital Dynamics at Large Eccentricity and Inclination
F. Namouni, A. A. Christou, and C. D. Murray
pp. 2506-2509 [View PDF (149 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Observable Isocurvature Fluctuations from the Affleck-Dine Condensate
Kari Enqvist and John McDonald
pp. 2510-2513 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Simple Connection Between Atmospheric and Solar Neutrino Vacuum Oscillations
Ernest Ma
pp. 2514-2517 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Exact Calculation of the Radiatively Induced Lorentz and CPT Violation in QED
M. Pérez-Victoria
pp. 2518-2521 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Supersymmetry, Local Horizontal Unification, and a Solution to the Flavor Puzzle
K. S. Babu and R. N. Mohapatra
pp. 2522-2525 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Theta-Induced Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron via QCD Sum Rules
Maxim Pospelov and Adam Ritz
pp. 2526-2529 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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First Determination of the Nucleon-Nucleon Response Functions in the Timelike Region
J. G. Messchendorp, J. C. S. Bacelar, M. J. van Goethem, M. N. Harakeh, M. Hoefman, H. Huisman, N. Kalantar-Nayestanaki, H. Löhner, R. W. Ostendorf, S. Schadmand, O. Scholten, M. Volkerts, H. W. Wilschut, and R. S. Simon
pp. 2530-2533 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Elliptic Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions near the Balance Energy
Yu-Ming Zheng, C. M. Ko, Bao-An Li, and Bin Zhang
pp. 2534-2536 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Angular Momentum Sharing in Dissipative Collisions
G. Casini, G. Poggi, M. Bini, S. Calamai, P. R. Maurenzig, A. Olmi, G. Pasquali, A. A. Stefanini, N. Taccetti, J. C. Steckmeyer, R. Laforest, and F. Saint-Laurent
pp. 2537-2540 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Improved Nonadiabatic Ground-State Energy Upper Bound for Dihydrogen
Donald B. Kinghorn and Ludwik Adamowicz
pp. 2541-2543 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Generation of Nonadiabatic Blueshift of High Harmonics in an Intense Femtosecond Laser Field
Hyun Joon Shin, Dong Gun Lee, Yong Ho Cha, Kyung Han Hong, and Chang Hee Nam
pp. 2544-2547 [View PDF (539 kB)]
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Rydberg States of Silver: Excitation Dynamics of Doped Helium Droplets
F. Federmann, K. Hoffmann, N. Quaas, and J. D. Close
pp. 2548-2551 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Vibrationally Autoionizing Rydberg Wave Packets in NO
V. G. Stavros, J. A. Ramswell, R. A. L. Smith, J. R. R. Verlet, J. Lei, and H. H. Fielding
pp. 2552-2555 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Cavity Enhanced Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion for the Prolongation of Correlation Time between Conjugate Photons
Z. Y. Ou and Y. J. Lu
pp. 2556-2559 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Generation of Multiple Phase-Locked Stokes and Anti-Stokes Components in an Impulsively Excited Raman Medium
A. Nazarkin, G. Korn, M. Wittmann, and T. Elsaesser
pp. 2560-2563 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Pulse Compression of a High-Order Harmonic by Compensating the Atomic Dipole Phase
Taro Sekikawa, Tomoki Ohno, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Yasuo Nabekawa, and Shuntaro Watanabe
pp. 2564-2567 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Stable Complexes of Parametrically Driven, Damped Nonlinear Schrödinger Solitons
I. V. Barashenkov and E. V. Zemlyanaya
pp. 2568-2571 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Asymptotic Theory for the Probability Density Functions in Burgers Turbulence
Weinan E and Eric Vanden Eijnden
pp. 2572-2575 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Cavitating Langmuir Turbulence Observed during High-Latitude Ionospheric Wave Interaction Experiments
B. Isham, C. La Hoz, M. T. Rietveld, T. Hagfors, and T. B. Leyser
pp. 2576-2579 [View PDF (913 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Direct Three-Dimensional Patterson Inversion of Low-Energy Electron Diffraction I(E) Curves
C. Y. Chang, Z. C. Lin, Y. C. Chou, and C. M. Wei
pp. 2580-2583 [View PDF (456 kB)]
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Dynamics and Structural Details of Amorphous Phases of Ice Determined by Incoherent Inelastic Neutron Scattering
D. D. Klug, C. A. Tulk, E. C. Svensson, and C.-K. Loong
pp. 2584-2587 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Generalized Anisotropic Planar Rotor Model and Its Application to Polymer Intercalation Compounds
Guomin Mao, Dong Chen, F. E. Karasz, and M. J. Winokur
pp. 2588-2591 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Many-Body Effects in fcc Metals: A Lennard-Jones Embedded-Atom Potential
M. I. Baskes
pp. 2592-2595 [View PDF (61 kB)]
Isotope Enrichment in Laser-Ablation Plumes and Commensurately Deposited Thin Films
P. P. Pronko, P. A. VanRompay, Z. Zhang, and J. A. Nees
pp. 2596-2599 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Nucleation of Vortices by Rapid Thermal Quench
I. S. Aranson, N. B. Kopnin, and V. M. Vinokur
pp. 2600-2603 [View PDF (458 kB)]
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Large Fermi Density Waves on the Reconstructed Pt(100) Surface
C. S. Chang, W. B. Su, C. M. Wei, and Tien T. Tsong
pp. 2604-2607 [View PDF (754 kB)]
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Origin of Compact Triangular Islands in Metal-on-Metal Growth
Staffan Ovesson, Alexander Bogicevic, and Bengt I. Lundqvist
pp. 2608-2611 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Electrochemical Growth of Iron Arborescences under In-Plane Magnetic Field: Morphology Symmetry Breaking
S. Bodea, L. Vignon, R. Ballou, and P. Molho
pp. 2612-2615 [View PDF (780 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Positive Magnetoresistance of Composite Fermion Systems with a Weak One-Dimensional Density Modulation
S. D. M. Zwerschke and R. R. Gerhardts
pp. 2616-2619 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Commensurate Composite Fermions in Weak Periodic Electrostatic Potentials: Direct Evidence of a Periodic Effective Magnetic Field
J. H. Smet, S. Jobst, K. von Klitzing, D. Weiss, W. Wegscheider, and V. Umansky
pp. 2620-2623 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Geometric Resonance of Composite Fermion Cyclotron Orbits with a Fictitious Magnetic Field Modulation
R. L. Willett, K. W. West, and L. N. Pfeiffer
pp. 2624-2627 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Local Density Approximation for Superconductors
S. Kurth, M. Marques, M. Lüders, and E. K. U. Gross
pp. 2628-2631 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Dephasing in Metals by Two-Level Systems in the 2-Channel Kondo Regime
A. Zawadowski, Jan von Delft, and D. C. Ralph
pp. 2632-2635 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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End States, Ladder Compounds, and Domain-Wall Fermions
Michael Creutz
pp. 2636-2639 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Chaos in Quantum Dots: Dynamical Modulation of Coulomb Blockade Peak Heights
Evgenii E. Narimanov, Nicholas R. Cerruti, Harold U. Baranger, and Steven Tomsovic
pp. 2640-2643 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Anomalous Low Temperature Behavior of Superconducting Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4-y
L. Alff, S. Meyer, S. Kleefisch, U. Schoop, A. Marx, H. Sato, M. Naito, and R. Gross
pp. 2644-2647 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Scaling of the H- T Phase Diagram of CuGeO3
J. Zeman, G. Martinez, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, G. Dhalenne, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 2648-2651 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Imaging Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Excitons in a Narrow GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Well
Qiang Wu, Robert D. Grober, D. Gammon, and D. S. Katzer
pp. 2652-2655 [View PDF (703 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimal Entanglement Enhancement for Mixed States
Adrian Kent, Noah Linden, and Serge Massar
pp. 2656-2659 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Error-Correcting Codes That Nearly Saturate Shannon's Bound
Ido Kanter and David Saad
pp. 2660-2663 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Stratified Spatiotemporal Chaos in Anisotropic Reaction-Diffusion Systems
Markus Bär, Aric Hagberg, Ehud Meron, and Uwe Thiele
pp. 2664-2667 [View PDF (867 kB)]
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Diffusion-Induced Vortex Filament Instability in 3-Dimensional Excitable Media
Zhilin Qu, Fagen Xie, and Alan Garfinkel
pp. 2668-2671 [View PDF (518 kB)]
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Dual-Path Mechanism for Catalytic Oxidation of Hydrogen on Platinum Surfaces
S. Völkening, K. Bedürftig, K. Jacobi, J. Wintterlin, and G. Ertl
pp. 2672-2675 [View PDF (709 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Lyapunov Exponent of a Many Body System and Its Transport Coefficients”
A. Torcini, Ch. Dellago, and H. A. Posch
pp. 2676 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Barnett et al. Reply:
D. M. Barnett, T. Tajima, and Y. Ueshima
pp. 2677 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Comment on “Two Scaling Regimes for Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection”
Robert E. Ecke
pp. 2678 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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Canuto and Dubovikov Reply:
V. M. Canuto and M. S. Dubovikov
pp. 2679 [View PDF (25 kB)]
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The Nature of Attraction between Like-Charged Rods
Yan Levin, Jeferson J. Arenzon, and Jürgen F. Stilck
pp. 2680 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Ha and Liu Reply:
B.-Y. Ha and Andrea J. Liu
pp. 2681 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “Noncoarsening Origin of Logarithmic-Normal Size Distributions during Crystallization of Amorphous Thin Films”
Vitaly A. Shneidman
pp. 2682 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Bergmann and Shi Reply:
R. B. Bergmann and F. G. Shi
pp. 2683 [View PDF (14 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: String Breaking in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories with Fundamental Matter Fields [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4056 (1998)]
Owe Philipsen and Hartmut Wittig
pp. 2684 [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Erratum: Quasienergy Spectroscopy of Excitons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1207 (1999)]
Kristinn Johnsen and Antti-Pekka Jauho
pp. 2685 [View PDF (105 kB)]
 
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