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Physical Review Letters – 6 December 1999
Volume 83, Issue 23

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.

An Alternative to Compactification
Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum
pp. 4690-4693 [View PDF (58 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Internal Vortex Structure of a Trapped Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
S.-K. Yip
pp. 4677-4681 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Zero-Variance Principle for Monte Carlo Algorithms
Roland Assaraf and Michel Caffarel
pp. 4682-4685 [View PDF (57 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Measurement of the Solar Neutrino Capture Rate by SAGE and Implications for Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum
J. N. Abdurashitov, T. J. Bowles, M. L. Cherry, B. T. Cleveland, R. Davis, Jr., S. R. Elliott, V. N. Gavrin, S. V. Girin, V. V. Gorbachev, T. V. Ibragimova, A. V. Kalikhov, N. G. Khairnasov, T. V. Knodel, K. Lande, I. N. Mirmov, J. S. Nico, A. A. Shikhin, W. A. Teasdale, E. P. Veretenkin, V. M. Vermul, D. L. Wark, P. S. Wildenhain, J. F. Wilkerson, V. E. Yants, and G. T. Zatsepin ((SAGE Collaboration))
pp. 4686-4689 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

An Alternative to Compactification
Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum
pp. 4690-4693 [View PDF (58 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Past Electron-Positron g-2 Experiments Yielded Sharpest Bound on CPT Violation for Point Particles
H. Dehmelt, R. Mittleman, R. S. Van Dyck, Jr., and P. Schwinberg
pp. 4694-4696 [View PDF (43 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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First-Order Chiral Phase Transition May Naturally Lead to a “Quenched” Initial Condition and Strong Soft-Pion Fields
O. Scavenius and A. Dumitru
pp. 4697-4700 [View PDF (363 kB)]
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Kaonic Nuclei Excited by the (K-,N) Reaction
Tadafumi Kishimoto
pp. 4701-4704 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Production of Even-Even Superheavy Nuclei in Cold Fusion Reactions
Robert Smolańczuk
pp. 4705-4708 [View PDF (56 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Spin Signatures in Intense Laser-Ion Interaction
S. X. Hu and C. H. Keitel
pp. 4709-4712 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Quantum State Engineering on an Optical Transition and Decoherence in a Paul Trap
Ch. Roos, Th. Zeiger, H. Rohde, H. C. Nägerl, J. Eschner, D. Leibfried, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Blatt
pp. 4713-4716 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Long Range Binding in Alkali-Helium Pairs
U. Kleinekathöfer, M. Lewerenz, and M. Mladenović
pp. 4717-4720 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Initial State Dependence of Low-Energy Electron Emission in Fast Ion Atom Collisions
R. Moshammer, P. D. Fainstein, M. Schulz, W. Schmitt, H. Kollmus, R. Mann, S. Hagmann, and J. Ullrich
pp. 4721-4724 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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High-Efficiency Quantum Interrogation Measurements via the Quantum Zeno Effect
P. G. Kwiat, A. G. White, J. R. Mitchell, O. Nairz, G. Weihs, H. Weinfurter, and A. Zeilinger
pp. 4725-4728 [View PDF (231 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Mixing Property of Triangular Billiards
Giulio Casati and Tomaž Prosen
pp. 4729-4732 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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New Type of Intensity Correlation in Random Media
B. Shapiro
pp. 4733-4735 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Coherent and Incoherent Contributions to Multisoliton Complexes
Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Nail N. Akhmediev
pp. 4736-4739 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Quasiperiodic Envelope Solitons
Carl Balslev Clausen, Yuri S. Kivshar, Ole Bang, and Peter L. Christiansen
pp. 4740-4743 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Transition to Chaos via Gluing Bifurcations in Optically Excited Nematic Liquid Crystals
G. Demeter and L. Kramer
pp. 4744-4747 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Pulse Self-Compression in the Subcarrier Cycle Regime
A. Nazarkin and G. Korn
pp. 4748-4751 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Optical Bloch Oscillations in Temperature Tuned Waveguide Arrays
T. Pertsch, P. Dannberg, W. Elflein, A. Bräuer, and F. Lederer
pp. 4752-4755 [View PDF (1,204 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Bloch Oscillations
R. Morandotti, U. Peschel, J. S. Aitchison, H. S. Eisenberg, and Y. Silberberg
pp. 4756-4759 [View PDF (941 kB)]
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Spectra and Statistics of Velocity and Temperature Fluctuations in Turbulent Convection
Shay Ashkenazi and Victor Steinberg
pp. 4760-4763 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Structure of a Three-Dimensional Coulomb Crystal in a Fine-Particle Plasma
Yasuaki Hayashi
pp. 4764-4767 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Alfvén-Wave Instability of Current Sheets in Force-Free Collisionless Plasmas
P. M. Bellan
pp. 4768-4771 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Multi-MeV Electron Beam Generation by Direct Laser Acceleration in High-Density Plasma Channels
C. Gahn, G. D. Tsakiris, A. Pukhov, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, G. Pretzler, P. Thirolf, D. Habs, and K. J. Witte
pp. 4772-4775 [View PDF (377 kB)]
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Creation of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma
T. C. Killian, S. Kulin, S. D. Bergeson, L. A. Orozco, C. Orzel, and S. L. Rolston
pp. 4776-4779 [View PDF (122 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Determination of Tip-Sample Interaction Potentials by Dynamic Force Spectroscopy
H. Hölscher, W. Allers, U. D. Schwarz, A. Schwarz, and R. Wiesendanger
pp. 4780-4783 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Expanded Distorted-Wave Theory for Phase-Sensitive X-Ray Diffraction in Single Crystals
Qun Shen
pp. 4784-4787 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Surface Defects and Bulk Defect Migration Produced by Ion Bombardment of Si(001)
K. Kyuno, David G. Cahill, R. S. Averback, J. Tarus, and K. Nordlund
pp. 4788-4791 [View PDF (351 kB)]
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Anomalous Melting Transition of the Charge-Ordered State in Manganites
C. H. Chen, S. Mori, and S-W. Cheong
pp. 4792-4795 [View PDF (699 kB)]
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External-Field-Induced Tricritical Point in a Fluctuation-Driven Nematic–Smectic- A Transition
Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Anand Yethiraj, and John Bechhoefer
pp. 4796-4799 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Lambda Point in the 4He-Vycor System: A Test of Hyperuniversality
G. M. Zassenhaus and J. D. Reppy
pp. 4800-4803 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Elementary Steps on the 4He Crystal Interface Probed by 3He Atoms
V. Tsepelin, J. P. Saramäki, A. V. Babkin, P. J. Hakonen, J. J. Hyvönen, R. M. Luusalo, A. Ya. Parshin, and G. K. Tvalashvili
pp. 4804-4807 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Images of Transition-Metal Structures Buried Below Noble-Metal Surfaces
S. Heinze, R. Abt, S. Blügel, G. Gilarowski, and H. Niehus
pp. 4808-4811 [View PDF (757 kB)]
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Quantitative Determination of Adsorbate-Adsorbate Interactions
L. Österlund, M. Ø. Pedersen, I. Stensgaard, E. Lægsgaard, and F. Besenbacher
pp. 4812-4815 [View PDF (583 kB)]
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Molecular Ordering in Amphiphile Monolayers and Alkanes
Alois Würger
pp. 4816-4819 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Quantitative Interpretation of Thermopower Data for Composite Fermions in a Half-Filled Landau Level
M. Tsaousidou, P. N. Butcher, and S. S. Kubakaddi
pp. 4820-4823 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Nesting Properties and Anisotropy of the Fermi Surface of LuNi2B2C
S. B. Dugdale, M. A. Alam, I. Wilkinson, R. J. Hughes, I. R. Fisher, P. C. Canfield, T. Jarlborg, and G. Santi
pp. 4824-4827 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Self-Trapped Exciton and Franck-Condon Spectra Predicted in LaMnO3
Philip B. Allen and Vasili Perebeinos
pp. 4828-4831 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Electron-Hole Correlation in Quantum Dots under a High Magnetic Field (up to 45 T)
R. Cingolani, R. Rinaldi, H. Lipsanen, M. Sopanen, R. Virkkala, K. Maijala, J. Tulkki, J. Ahopelto, K. Uchida, N. Miura, and Y. Arakawa
pp. 4832-4835 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Universality in Metallic Nanocohesion: A Quantum Chaos Approach
C. A. Stafford, F. Kassubek, J. Bürki, and Hermann Grabert
pp. 4836-4839 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Charge, Polarizability, and Photoionization of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Todd D. Krauss and Louis E. Brus
pp. 4840-4843 [View PDF (573 kB)]
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Fermi-Level Alignment at Metal-Carbon Nanotube Interfaces: Application to Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Yongqiang Xue and Supriyo Datta
pp. 4844-4847 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Superconductivity and Quantum Spin Disorder in Cuprates
Moshe Havilio and Assa Auerbach
pp. 4848-4851 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Evolution of a Polaron Band through the Phase Diagram of Nd2-xCexCuO4-y
S. Lupi, P. Maselli, M. Capizzi, P. Calvani, P. Giura, and P. Roy
pp. 4852-4855 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Observation of Supercurrent Enhancement in SNS Junctions by Nonequilibrium Injection into Supercurrent Carrying Bound Andreev States
Jonatan Kutchinsky, Rafael Taboryski, Claus B. Sørensen, Jørn Bindslev Hansen, and Poul Erik Lindelof
pp. 4856-4859 [View PDF (306 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of Mesoscopic Vortex Systems in 1+1 Dimensions
Chen Zeng, P. L. Leath, and Terence Hwa
pp. 4860-4863 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Effects of Pinning on the Flux Flow Hall Resistivity
N. B. Kopnin and V. M. Vinokur
pp. 4864-4867 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Structural versus Magnetic Properties at the Surface of Fe Films during Oxygen-Assisted Homoepitaxial Growth
F. Bisio, R. Moroni, M. Canepa, L. Mattera, R. Bertacco, and F. Ciccacci
pp. 4868-4871 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Interplay between Charge, Orbital, and Magnetic Order in Pr1-xCaxMnO3
M. v. Zimmermann, J. P. Hill, Doon Gibbs, M. Blume, D. Casa, B. Keimer, Y. Murakami, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura
pp. 4872-4875 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Relaxation Times for Magnetization Reversal in a High Coercivity Magnetic Thin Film
N. D. Rizzo, T. J. Silva, and A. B. Kos
pp. 4876-4879 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Infrared Studies of the Onset of Conductivity in Ultrathin Pb Films
P. F. Henning, C. C. Homes, S. Maslov, G. L. Carr, D. N. Basov, B. Nikolić, and M. Strongin
pp. 4880-4883 [View PDF (469 kB)]
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Polaron Effects in Quantum Dots
M. A. Odnoblyudov, I. N. Yassievich, and K. A. Chao
pp. 4884-4887 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Universal Control of Decoupled Quantum Systems
Lorenza Viola, Seth Lloyd, and Emanuel Knill
pp. 4888-4891 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Simple Model of Self-Organized Biological Evolution as a Completely Integrable Dissipative System
Yu. M. Pis'mak
pp. 4892-4895 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Noise-Enhanced Phase Synchronization in Excitable Media
Alexander Neiman, Lutz Schimansky-Geier, Ann Cornell-Bell, and Frank Moss
pp. 4896-4899 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Elastic Rod Model of a DNA Loop in the Lac Operon
Alexander Balaeff, L. Mahadevan, and Klaus Schulten
pp. 4900-4903 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Laboratory Study of Spherical Convection in Simulated Central Gravity
R. E. Rosensweig, J. Browaeys, J.-C. Bacri, A. Zebib, and R. Perzynski
pp. 4904-4907 [View PDF (387 kB)]
 
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