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Physical Review Letters – 1 November 1999
Volume 83, Issue 18

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.

State Memory and Reentrance in a Paramagnetically Limited Superconductor
V. Yu. Butko, P. W. Adams, and E. I. Meletis
pp. 3725-3728 [View PDF (61 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Complete Characterization of Arbitrary Quantum Measurement Processes
A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto
pp. 3573-3576 [View PDF (329 kB)]
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Coherent Evolution of Bouncing Bose-Einstein Condensates
K. Bongs, S. Burger, G. Birkl, K. Sengstock, W. Ertmer, K. Rza̧żewski, A. Sanpera, and M. Lewenstein
pp. 3577-3580 [View PDF (290 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Inspiraling Black Holes: The Close Limit
Gaurav Khanna, John Baker, Reinaldo J. Gleiser, Pablo Laguna, Carlos O. Nicasio, Hans-Peter Nollert, Richard Price, and Jorge Pullin
pp. 3581-3584 [View PDF (59 kB)]
Improved Test of the Equivalence Principle for Gravitational Self-Energy
S. Baeßler, B. R. Heckel, E. G. Adelberger, J. H. Gundlach, U. Schmidt, and H. E. Swanson
pp. 3585-3588 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Amorphous and Heterogeneous Phase of Neutron Star Matter
P. B. Jones
pp. 3589-3592 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Constraints on Light Pseudoscalars Implied by Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law
Ephraim Fischbach and Dennis E. Krause
pp. 3593-3596 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Modulation Effect with Realistic Velocity Dispersion of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
J. D. Vergados
pp. 3597-3600 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Brane Fluctuations and Suppression of Kaluza-Klein Mode Couplings
Masako Bando, Taichiro Kugo, Tatsuya Noguchi, and Koichi Yoshioka
pp. 3601-3604 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Spacetime and the Holographic Renormalization Group
Vijay Balasubramanian and Per Kraus
pp. 3605-3608 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of the γp → π+n Reaction near Threshold
E. Korkmaz, N. R. Kolb, D. A. Hutcheon, G. V. O'Rielly, J. C. Bergstrom, G. Feldman, D. Jordan, A. K. Opper, R. E. Pywell, B. Sawatzky, and D. M. Skopik
pp. 3609-3612 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Magicity of the 68Ni Semidouble-Closed-Shell Nucleus Probed by Gamow-Teller Decay of the Odd- A Neighbors
W. F. Mueller, B. Bruyneel, S. Franchoo, H. Grawe, M. Huyse, U. Köster, K.-L. Kratz, K. Kruglov, Y. Kudryavtsev, B. Pfeiffer, R. Raabe, I. Reusen, P. Thirolf, P. Van Duppen, J. Van Roosbroeck, L. Vermeeren, W. B. Walters, and L. Weissman
pp. 3613-3616 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Application of Information Theory in Nuclear Liquid Gas Phase Transition
Y. G. Ma
pp. 3617-3620 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Highly Excited States of Ultracold Molecules: Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Na2
J. P. Shaffer, W. Chalupczak, and N. P. Bigelow
pp. 3621-3624 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Manipulation of Bond Hardening in H2+ by Chirping of Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses
L. J. Frasinski, J. H. Posthumus, J. Plumridge, K. Codling, P. F. Taday, and A. J. Langley
pp. 3625-3628 [View PDF (236 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Continued Fractions Hierarchy of Rotation Numbers in Planar Dynamics
Carl Robert, Kathleen T. Alligood, and Timothy D. Sauer
pp. 3629-3632 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Limit from Small Lattices of Coupled Maps
R. Carretero-González, S. Ørstavik, J. Huke, D. S. Broomhead, and J. Stark
pp. 3633-3636 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Threshold Behavior in Formation of Optical Hexagons and First Order Optical Phase Transition
Serguey G. Odoulov, Mikhail Yu. Goulkov, and Oksana A. Shinkarenko
pp. 3637-3640 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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High Rayleigh Number Turbulent Convection in a Gas near the Gas-Liquid Critical Point
Shay Ashkenazi and Victor Steinberg
pp. 3641-3644 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Effects of Collisional Zonal Flow Damping on Turbulent Transport
Z. Lin, T. S. Hahm, W. W. Lee, W. M. Tang, and P. H. Diamond
pp. 3645-3648 [View PDF (96 kB)]
Mach Cones in a Coulomb Lattice and a Dusty Plasma
D. Samsonov, J. Goree, Z. W. Ma, A. Bhattacharjee, H. M. Thomas, and G. E. Morfill
pp. 3649-3652 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Self-Similarity Properties of the Probability Distribution Function of Turbulence-Induced Particle Fluxes at the Plasma Edge
B. A. Carreras, B. van Milligen, C. Hidalgo, R. Balbin, E. Sanchez, I. Garcia-Cortes, M. A. Pedrosa, J. Bleuel, and M. Endler
pp. 3653-3656 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Self-Sustained Divertor Plasma Oscillations in the JET Tokamak
A. Loarte, R. D. Monk, A. S. Kukushkin, E. Righi, D. J. Campbell, G. D. Conway, and C. F. Maggi
pp. 3657-3660 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Dependence of Heat and Particle Transport on the Ratio of the Ion and Electron Temperatures
C. C. Petty, M. R. Wade, J. E. Kinsey, R. J. Groebner, T. C. Luce, and G. M. Staebler
pp. 3661-3664 [View PDF (168 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Orientation Field Fracture in a Liquid Crystal: Metastable Anticlinic Molecular Tilt in Adjacent Layers in Smectic- C DOBAMBC and TFMHPOBC
D. R. Link, G. Natale, J. E. Maclennan, N. A. Clark, M. Walsh, S. S. Keast, and M. E. Neubert
pp. 3665-3668 [View PDF (911 kB)]
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Percolation Properties of the 2D Heisenberg Model
B. Allés, J. J. Alonso, C. Criado, and M. Pepe
pp. 3669-3672 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Optimal Structure of Bimetallic Catalysts for the A+B Reaction
A. P. J. Jansen and C. G. M. Hermse
pp. 3673-3676 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Line Tension Effects near First-Order Wetting Transitions
J. Y. Wang, S. Betelu, and B. M. Law
pp. 3677-3680 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Bond Activation at Monatomic Steps: NO Dissociation at Corrugated Ru(0001)
B. Hammer
pp. 3681-3684 [View PDF (590 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Charge-Orbital Stripe Structure in La1-xCaxMnO3 (x = 1/2,2/3)
Tetsuya Mutou and Hiroshi Kontani
pp. 3685-3688 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Two-Scale Localization in Disordered Wires in a Magnetic Field
A. V. Kolesnikov and K. B. Efetov
pp. 3689-3692 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Rotation of the Conduction Band Valleys in AlAs due to XX- XY Mixing
Hyunsik Im, P. C. Klipstein, R. Grey, and G. Hill
pp. 3693-3696 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Effects of Coulomb Interaction and Tunneling on Electron Transport in Coupled One-Dimensional Systems: From the Ballistic to the Diffusive Regime
O. E. Raichev and P. Vasilopoulos
pp. 3697-3700 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Topological Phase Diagram of a Two-Subband Electron System
X. Y. Lee, H. W. Jiang, and W. J. Schaff
pp. 3701-3704 [View PDF (241 kB)]
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Momentum Dependence of Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Spectrum in Insulating Cuprates
K. Tsutsui, T. Tohyama, and S. Maekawa
pp. 3705-3708 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Electronic Spectra and Their Relation to the (π,π) Collective Mode in High- Tc Superconductors
J. C. Campuzano, H. Ding, M. R. Norman, H. M. Fretwell, M. Randeria, A. Kaminski, J. Mesot, T. Takeuchi, T. Sato, T. Yokoya, T. Takahashi, T. Mochiku, K. Kadowaki, P. Guptasarma, D. G. Hinks, Z. Konstantinovic, Z. Z. Li, and H. Raffy
pp. 3709-3712 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic RuSr2GdCu2O8
W. E. Pickett, R. Weht, and A. B. Shick
pp. 3713-3716 [View PDF (285 kB)]
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Reexamination of the Electronic Structure of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ and Bi2Sr2Cu1O6+δ: Electronlike Portions of the Fermi Surface and Depletion of Spectral Weight near M̅
Y.-D. Chuang, A. D. Gromko, D. S. Dessau, Y. Aiura, Y. Yamaguchi, K. Oka, A. J. Arko, J. Joyce, H. Eisaki, S. I. Uchida, K. Nakamura, and Yoichi Ando
pp. 3717-3720 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Effect of Zero Point Phase Fluctuations on Josephson Tunneling
Gert-Ludwig Ingold and Hermann Grabert
pp. 3721-3724 [View PDF (65 kB)]
State Memory and Reentrance in a Paramagnetically Limited Superconductor
V. Yu. Butko, P. W. Adams, and E. I. Meletis
pp. 3725-3728 [View PDF (61 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Two Gaps in (VO)2P2O7: Observation Using High-Field Magnetization and NMR
T. Yamauchi, Y. Narumi, J. Kikuchi, Y. Ueda, K. Tatani, T. C. Kobayashi, K. Kindo, and K. Motoya
pp. 3729-3732 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Statistical Transfer Matrix of a Spin-Glass Ladder
Daniel C. Mattis and Prabasaj Paul
pp. 3733-3736 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Berry Phase Theory of the Anomalous Hall Effect: Application to Colossal Magnetoresistance Manganites
Jinwu Ye, Yong Baek Kim, A. J. Millis, B. I. Shraiman, P. Majumdar, and Z. Tešanović
pp. 3737-3740 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Random Quantum Magnets with Long-Range Correlated Disorder: Enhancement of Critical and Griffiths-McCoy Singularities
Heiko Rieger and Ferenc Iglói
pp. 3741-3744 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Femtosecond Laser-Induced Disorder of the ( 1×1)-Relaxed GaAs(110) Surface
H. Kwak, K. C. Chou, J. Guo, and H. W. K. Tom
pp. 3745-3748 [View PDF (72 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Morse Stretch Potential Charge Equilibrium Force Field for Ceramics: Application to the Quartz-Stishovite Phase Transition and to Silica Glass”
S. L. Chaplot
pp. 3749 [View PDF (15 kB)]
 
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