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Physical Review Letters – 29 November 1999
Volume 83, Issue 22

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.

Double Twist in Helical Polymer “Soft” Crystals
Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Ian K. Mann, Frank W. Harris, Lang-Chy Chien, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, and Bernard Lotz
pp. 4558-4561 [View PDF (600 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Observation of Quantum Accelerator Modes
M. K. Oberthaler, R. M. Godun, M. B. d'Arcy, G. S. Summy, and K. Burnett
pp. 4447-4451 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Scissors Mode and Superfluidity of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
D. Guéry-Odelin and S. Stringari
pp. 4452-4455 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Phase-Space Formulation of Thermodynamic and Dynamical Properties of Quantum Particles
Rafael Ramírez and Telesforo López-Ciudad
pp. 4456-4459 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Quon Statistics for Composite Systems and a Limit on the Violation of the Pauli Principle for Nucleons and Quarks
O. W. Greenberg and Robert C. Hilborn
pp. 4460-4463 [View PDF (53 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies and Extra Dimensions in String Cosmology
A. Melchiorri, F. Vernizzi, R. Durrer, and G. Veneziano
pp. 4464-4467 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Sigma Models as Perturbed Conformal Field Theories
Paul Fendley
pp. 4468-4471 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Single-Top-Squark Production via R-Parity-Violating Supersymmetric Couplings in Hadron Collisions
Edmond L. Berger, B. W. Harris, and Z. Sullivan
pp. 4472-4475 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Search for R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry in the Dielectron Channel
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 4476-4481 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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New Measurement of the Properties of the Rare Decay K+→π+e+e-
R. Appel et al.
pp. 4482-4485 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Constraining New Physics with the Fermilab Measurement of CP Violation in B→ ψKs
Gabriela Barenboim, Galit Eyal, and Yosef Nir
pp. 4486-4489 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Photoproduction of ηc in Nonrelativistic QCD
Li-Kun Hao, Feng Yuan, and Kuang-Ta Chao
pp. 4490-4493 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Pion Cloud and the Q2 Dependence of γ*N ↔ Δ Transition Form Factors
S. S. Kamalov and Shin Nan Yang
pp. 4494-4497 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Spin Transfer in pp Elastic Scattering at 198 MeV: Implications for the πNN Coupling Constant
S. W. Wissink, S. M. Bowyer, W. A. Franklin, A. D. Bacher, A. Betker, T. Black, T. Bowyer, Seonho Choi, K. Jiang, W. Schmitt, J. Sowinski, E. J. Stephenson, S. P. Wells, and C. Yu
pp. 4498-4501 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Shell-Model Half-Lives for N = 82 Nuclei and Their Implications for the r Process
G. Martínez-Pinedo and K. Langanke
pp. 4502-4505 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Determination of the 133Cs and Proton Mass Ratio Using Highly Charged Ions
C. Carlberg, T. Fritioff, and I. Bergström
pp. 4506-4509 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Penning Trap Measurements of the Masses of 133Cs, 87,85Rb, and 23Na with Uncertainties ≤0.2 ppb
Michael P. Bradley, James V. Porto, Simon Rainville, James K. Thompson, and David E. Pritchard
pp. 4510-4513 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Time Dependent Screening in the Photoionization of Doubly Excited Two-Electron Systems
C. Rosen, M. Dörr, U. Eichmann, and W. Sandner
pp. 4514-4517 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Fast Electron Production at Intermediate Energies: Evidence for Fermi Shuttle Acceleration and for Deviations from Simple Relativistic Kinematics
G. Lanzanò, E. De Filippo, D. Mahboub, H. Rothard, S. Aiello, A. Anzalone, S. Cavallaro, A. Elanique, E. Geraci, M. Geraci, F. Giustolisi, A. Pagano, and G. Politi
pp. 4518-4521 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Evidence for Significant Target Outer-Shell Excitation in Multiple-Electron Capture Collisions of Slow Highly Charged Ions with Many-Electron Atoms
A. A. Hasan, E. D. Emmons, G. Hinojosa, and R. Ali
pp. 4522-4525 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Lyapunov Exponents, Entropy Production, and Decoherence
Arjendu K. Pattanayak
pp. 4526-4529 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Collision and Symmetry Breaking in the Transition to Strange Nonchaotic Attractors
Awadhesh Prasad, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, Indubala I. Satija, and Nausheen Shah
pp. 4530-4533 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Radiation Force Exerted on Subwavelength Particles near a Nanoaperture
K. Okamoto and S. Kawata
pp. 4534-4537 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Observation of Electron Trapping in an Intense Laser Beam
J. L. Chaloupka and D. D. Meyerhofer
pp. 4538-4541 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Thermodynamically Admissible Form for Discrete Hydrodynamics
Pep Español, Mar Serrano, and Hans Christian Öttinger
pp. 4542-4545 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Parametric Resonance in the Drift Motion of an Ionic Bubble in Near Critical Ar Gas
A. F. Borghesani and F. Tamburini
pp. 4546-4549 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Generation of Localized Noninductive Current by Electron Cyclotron Waves on the DIII-D Tokamak
T. C. Luce, Y. R. Lin-Liu, R. W. Harvey, G. Giruzzi, P. A. Politzer, B. W. Rice, J. M. Lohr, C. C. Petty, and R. Prater
pp. 4550-4553 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Depletion Interactions in the Protein Limit: Effects of Polymer Density Fluctuations
Amit M. Kulkarni, Avik P. Chatterjee, Kenneth S. Schweizer, and Charles F. Zukoski
pp. 4554-4557 [View PDF (219 kB)]
Double Twist in Helical Polymer “Soft” Crystals
Christopher Y. Li, Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Jason J. Ge, Feng Bai, John Z. Zhang, Ian K. Mann, Frank W. Harris, Lang-Chy Chien, Donghang Yan, Tianbai He, and Bernard Lotz
pp. 4558-4561 [View PDF (600 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Lattice-Stiffening Transition in Copolymer Films of Vinylidene Fluoride (70%) with Trifluoroethylene (30%)
C. N. Borca, S. Adenwalla, Jaewu Choi, P. T. Sprunger, Stephen Ducharme, Lee Robertson, S. P. Palto, Jianglai Liu, Matt Poulsen, V. M. Fridkin, H. You, and P. A. Dowben
pp. 4562-4565 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Analog of the Stokes-Einstein Relation for Bulk Viscosity
Kyunil Rah and Byung Chan Eu
pp. 4566-4569 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Structure and Dynamics of Orientational Defects in Ice
R. Podeszwa and V. Buch
pp. 4570-4573 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Rules for Forest Interactions between Dislocations
L. K. Wickham, K. W. Schwarz, and J. S. Stölken
pp. 4574-4577 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Self-Induced Kinetic Roughening of Dislocations in the Vicinity of First-Order Phase Transitions
Alexander L. Korzhenevskii, Richard Bausch, and Rudi Schmitz
pp. 4578-4581 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Alloy Splitting of Gold and Platinum Acceptor Levels in SiGe
L. Dobaczewski, K. Gościński, K. Bonde Nielsen, A. Nylandsted Larsen, J. Lundsgaard Hansen, and A. R. Peaker
pp. 4582-4585 [View PDF (226 kB)]
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Vacancy Clusters on Surfaces of Au Nanoparticles Embedded in MgO
Jun Xu, A. P. Mills, Jr., A. Ueda, D. O. Henderson, R. Suzuki, and S. Ishibashi
pp. 4586-4589 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Distribution of Fractal Dimensions at the Anderson Transition
D. A. Parshin and H. R. Schober
pp. 4590-4593 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Scaling Approach to Calculate Critical Exponents in Anomalous Surface Roughening
Juan M. López
pp. 4594-4597 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Observation of Melting Instability in Highly Magnetized Solid 3He
A. Marchenkov, H. Akimoto, R. v. Rooijen, R. Jochemsen, and G. Frossati
pp. 4598-4601 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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Surface Gliding of Large Low-Dimensional Clusters
S. Yu. Krylov
pp. 4602-4605 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Second-Order Reentrant Phase Transition in the Quantum Anisotropic Planar Rotor Model
Balázs Hetényi, Martin H. Müser, and B. J. Berne
pp. 4606-4609 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Conducting Phase in the Two-Dimensional Disordered Hubbard Model
P. J. H. Denteneer, R. T. Scalettar, and N. Trivedi
pp. 4610-4613 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Isotope Effects in Switchable Metal-Hydride Mirrors
A. T. M. van Gogh, E. S. Kooij, and R. Griessen
pp. 4614-4617 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Dynamical Breaking of Charge Neutrality in Intrinsic Josephson Junctions: Common Origin for Microwave Resonant Absorptions and Multiple-Branch Structures in the I-V Characteristics
M. Machida, T. Koyama, and M. Tachiki
pp. 4618-4621 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Superconducting-Normal Phase Transition in (Ba1-xKx)BiO3, x = 0.40, 0.47
B. F. Woodfield, D. A. Wright, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips, and H. Y. Tang
pp. 4622-4625 [View PDF (911 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Thermal Conductivity in the Vortex State of High- Tc Cuprates
I. Vekhter and A. Houghton
pp. 4626-4629 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Doppler Shift of the Andreev Bound States at the YBCO Surface
M. Aprili, E. Badica, and L. H. Greene
pp. 4630-4633 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Anisotropic Magnetic Field Dependence of the Zero-Bias Anomaly on In-Plane Oriented [100] Y1Ba2Cu3O7-x/In Tunnel Junctions
R. Krupke and G. Deutscher
pp. 4634-4637 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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From Ferromagnetism to Spin-Density Wave: Magnetism in the Two Channel Periodic Anderson Model
Frithjof B. Anders
pp. 4638-4641 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Melting of the Electron Glass
A. A. Pastor and V. Dobrosavljević
pp. 4642-4645 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Electronic Dephasing in the Quantum Hall Regime
N. A. Fromer, C. Schüller, D. S. Chemla, T. V. Shahbazyan, I. E. Perakis, K. Maranowski, and A. C. Gossard
pp. 4646-4649 [View PDF (596 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Optical Observation of Spin-Wave Dynamics
J. S. Dodge, A. B. Schumacher, J.-Y. Bigot, D. S. Chemla, N. Ingle, and M. R. Beasley
pp. 4650-4653 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Enhanced Polar Exciton-LO-Phonon Interaction in Quantum Dots
R. Heitz, I. Mukhametzhanov, O. Stier, A. Madhukar, and D. Bimberg
pp. 4654-4657 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Energy-Resolved Positron Annihilation in Flight in Solid Targets
M. H. Weber, A. W. Hunt, J. A. Golovchenko, and K. G. Lynn
pp. 4658-4661 [View PDF (409 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Power Laws in Solar Flares: Self-Organized Criticality or Turbulence?
Guido Boffetta, Vincenzo Carbone, Paolo Giuliani, Pierluigi Veltri, and Angelo Vulpiani
pp. 4662-4665 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Structural Relaxation of Dense Suspensions of Soft Giant Micelles
R. Sigel, S. Pispas, D. Vlassopoulos, N. Hadjichristidis, and G. Fytas
pp. 4666-4669 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Coexistence of Native and Denatured Phases in a Single Proteinlike Molecule
Rose Du, Alexander Yu. Grosberg, and Toyoichi Tanaka
pp. 4670-4673 [View PDF (515 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quantum Theory of Secondary Emission in Optically Excited Semiconductor Quantum Wells”
S. Savasta, G. Martino, and R. Girlanda
pp. 4674 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Kira et al. Reply:
M. Kira, F. Jahnke, and S. W. Koch
pp. 4675 [View PDF (23 kB)]
 
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