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Physical Review Letters – 13 December 1999
Volume 83, Issue 24

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.

Giant Absorption Cross Section of Ultracold Neutrons in Gadolinium
H. Rauch, M. Zawisky, Ch. Stellmach, and P. Geltenbort
pp. 4955-4958 [View PDF (79 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Trajectories for Brownian Motion
Walter T. Strunz, Lajos Diósi, Nicolas Gisin, and Ting Yu
pp. 4909-4913 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Flow Equation Solution for the Weak- to Strong-Coupling Crossover in the Sine-Gordon Model
Stefan Kehrein
pp. 4914-4917 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Extended Limits on Neutral Strongly Interacting Massive Particles and Nuclearites from NaI(Tl) Scintillators
R. Bernabei, P. Belli, R. Cerulli, F. Montecchia, M. Amato, G. Ignesti, A. Incicchitti, D. Prosperi, C. J. Dai, H. L. He, H. H. Kuang, J. M. Ma, G. X. Sun, and Z. Ye
pp. 4918-4921 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Modulus Stabilization with Bulk Fields
Walter D. Goldberger and Mark B. Wise
pp. 4922-4925 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Predicting Proton-Air Cross Sections at √s∼30TeV Using Accelerator and Cosmic Ray Data
M. M. Block, Francis Halzen, and Todor Stanev
pp. 4926-4928 [View PDF (346 kB)]
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Large ΔI = 3/2 Contribution to ε′/ε in Supersymmetry
Alexander L. Kagan and Matthias Neubert
pp. 4929-4932 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Violation of Time Reversal Invariance in the Decays KL→π+π-γ and KL→π+π-e+e-
L. M. Sehgal and J. van Leusen
pp. 4933-4936 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Search for Squarks and Gluinos in Events Containing Jets and a Large Imbalance in Transverse Energy
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 4937-4942 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Search for Neutral Heavy Leptons in a High-Energy Neutrino Beam
A. Vaitaitis et al.
pp. 4943-4946 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Operator Product Expansion for Exclusive Decays B+ → Ds+e+e- and B+ → Ds*+e+e-
David H. Evans, Benjamín Grinstein, and Detlef R. Nolte
pp. 4947-4950 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Unusual Space-Time Evolution for Heavy-Ion Collisions at High Energies due to the QCD Phase Transition
D. Teaney and E. V. Shuryak
pp. 4951-4954 [View PDF (95 kB)]
Giant Absorption Cross Section of Ultracold Neutrons in Gadolinium
H. Rauch, M. Zawisky, Ch. Stellmach, and P. Geltenbort
pp. 4955-4958 [View PDF (79 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Prevalence of Fission and Evaporation in the Decay of Heavy Nuclei Excited up to 1000 MeV with Energetic Antiprotons
U. Jahnke, W. Bohne, T. von Egidy, P. Figuera, J. Galin, F. Goldenbaum, D. Hilscher, J. Jastrzebski, B. Lott, M. Morjean, G. Pausch, A. Péghaire, L. Pienkowski, D. Polster, S. Proschitzki, B. Quednau, H. Rossner, S. Schmid, and W. Schmid
pp. 4959-4962 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Excitation of a Three-Dimensionally Localized Atomic Electron Wave Packet
Jake Bromage and C. R. Stroud, Jr.
pp. 4963-4966 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Optical Pumping of Orbital Angular Momentum of Light in Cold Cesium Atoms
J. W. R. Tabosa and D. V. Petrov
pp. 4967-4970 [View PDF (612 kB)]
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Revival Structure of Aligned Rotational Wave Packets
Tamar Seideman
pp. 4971-4974 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Excited State Fragments Following Molecular Ionization and Dissociation in Strong Fields
John P. Nibarger, Ming Li, Saipriya Menon, and George N. Gibson
pp. 4975-4978 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Threshold Effects and Ion-Pair Production in the Dissociative Recombination of HD+
M. Lange, J. Levin, G. Gwinner, U. Hechtfischer, L. Knoll, D. Schwalm, R. Wester, A. Wolf, X. Urbain, and D. Zajfman
pp. 4979-4982 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Vibrational Spectroscopy of Gas-Phase Metal-Carbide Clusters and Nanocrystals
Deniz van Heijnsbergen, Gert von Helden, Michael A. Duncan, André J. A. van Roij, and Gerard Meijer
pp. 4983-4986 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Trapping of Single Atoms in Cavity QED
J. Ye, D. W. Vernooy, and H. J. Kimble
pp. 4987-4990 [View PDF (323 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Semiclassical Theory of the Emission Properties of Wave-Chaotic Resonant Cavities
Evgenii E. Narimanov, Gregor Hackenbroich, Philippe Jacquod, and A. Douglas Stone
pp. 4991-4994 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional Optical Crystals and Localized Structures in Cavity Second Harmonic Generation
M. Tlidi and Paul Mandel
pp. 4995-4998 [View PDF (365 kB)]
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Flowing Sand: A Physical Realization of Directed Percolation
Haye Hinrichsen, Andrea Jiménez-Dalmaroni, Yadin Rozov, and Eytan Domany
pp. 4999-5002 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Departure from Fourier's Law for Fluidized Granular Media
R. Soto, M. Mareschal, and D. Risso
pp. 5003-5006 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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A Ball in a Groove
Thomas C. Halsey and Deniz Ertaş
pp. 5007-5010 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Turbulent Fluctuation and Transport of Passive Scalars by Random Wave Fields
Peter B. Weichman and Roman E. Glazman
pp. 5011-5014 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Time-Resolved Observation of Ultrahigh Intensity Laser-Produced Electron Jets Propagating through Transparent Solid Targets
L. Gremillet, F. Amiranoff, S. D. Baton, J.-C. Gauthier, M. Koenig, E. Martinolli, F. Pisani, G. Bonnaud, C. Lebourg, C. Rousseaux, C. Toupin, A. Antonicci, D. Batani, A. Bernardinello, T. Hall, D. Scott, P. Norreys, H. Bandulet, and H. Pépin
pp. 5015-5018 [View PDF (916 kB)]
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Spectral Evidence for Collisionless Absorption in Subpicosecond Laser-Solid Interactions
C. T. Hansen, S. C. Wilks, and P. E. Young
pp. 5019-5022 [View PDF (745 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Atomically Resolved Silver Imaging on the Si(111)-(√3×√3)-Ag Surface Using a Noncontact Atomic Force Microscope
Kousuke Yokoyama, Taketoshi Ochi, Yasuhiro Sugawara, and Seizo Morita
pp. 5023-5026 [View PDF (727 kB)]
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Time-Temperature Superposition of Structural Relaxation in a Viscous Metallic Liquid
A. Meyer, R. Busch, and H. Schober
pp. 5027-5029 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Observing Correlated Production of Defects and Antidefects in Liquid Crystals
Sanatan Digal, Rajarshi Ray, and Ajit M. Srivastava
pp. 5030-5033 [View PDF (777 kB)]
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Ultrafast Dynamics of Shock Waves in Polymers and Proteins: The Energy Landscape
Hackjin Kim, Selezion A. Hambir, and Dana D. Dlott
pp. 5034-5037 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Observation of Fluctuation-Dissipation-Theorem Violations in a Structural Glass
Tomás S. Grigera and N. E. Israeloff
pp. 5038-5041 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Direct Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Light-Induced Structural Change in Amorphous Selenium
Xiaodong Zhang and D. A. Drabold
pp. 5042-5045 [View PDF (248 kB)]
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Interesting Physical Properties of the New Spinel Phase of Si3N4 and C3N4
Shang-Di Mo, Lizhi Ouyang, W. Y. Ching, Isao Tanaka, Yukinori Koyama, and Ralf Riedel
pp. 5046-5049 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Atomic Scale Sliding and Rolling of Carbon Nanotubes
A. Buldum and Jian Ping Lu
pp. 5050-5053 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Off-Equilibrium Dynamics in a Singular Diffusion Model
Federico Corberi, Mario Nicodemi, Marina Piccioni, and Antonio Coniglio
pp. 5054-5057 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Superfluid Hydrodynamic Model for the Enhanced Moments of Inertia of Molecules in Liquid 4He
C. Callegari, A. Conjusteau, I. Reinhard, K. K. Lehmann, G. Scoles, and F. Dalfovo
pp. 5058-5061 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Time Resolved X-Ray Imaging of Dendritic Growth in Binary Alloys
R. H. Mathiesen, L. Arnberg, F. Mo, T. Weitkamp, and A. Snigirev
pp. 5062-5065 [View PDF (1,442 kB)]
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Potential-Controlled Step Flow to 3D Step Decoration Transition: Ni Electrodeposition on Ag(111)
S. Morin, A. Lachenwitzer, O. M. Magnussen, and R. J. Behm
pp. 5066-5069 [View PDF (681 kB)]
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Why Effective Medium Theory Fails in Granular Materials
Hernán A. Makse, Nicolas Gland, David L. Johnson, and Lawrence M. Schwartz
pp. 5070-5073 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Optically Pumped NMR Studies of Electron Spin Polarization and Dynamics: New Constraints on the Composite Fermion Description of ν = 1/2
A. E. Dementyev, N. N. Kuzma, P. Khandelwal, S. E. Barrett, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 5074-5077 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Boron-Mediated Growth of Long Helicity-Selected Carbon Nanotubes
X. Blase, J.-C. Charlier, A. De Vita, R. Car, Ph. Redlich, M. Terrones, W. K. Hsu, H. Terrones, D. L. Carroll, and P. M. Ajayan
pp. 5078-5081 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Magnetic-Field-Induced Directional Localization in a 2D Rectangular Lattice
A. Barelli, J. Bellissard, and F. Claro
pp. 5082-5085 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Controlling the Lifetime of Adsorbate Negative Ion States
P. J. Rous
pp. 5086-5089 [View PDF (50 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Saturation of the Dephasing Time and Effects of Microwave Radiation on Open Quantum Dots
A. G. Huibers, J. A. Folk, S. R. Patel, C. M. Marcus, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
pp. 5090-5093 [View PDF (426 kB)]
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An Approximate Sign Sum Rule for the Transmission Amplitude through a Quantum Dot
Reinhard Baltin and Yuval Gefen
pp. 5094-5097 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Disorder, Pseudospins, and Backscattering in Carbon Nanotubes
Paul L. McEuen, Marc Bockrath, David H. Cobden, Young-Gui Yoon, and Steven G. Louie
pp. 5098-5101 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Magnetic Field Induced Localization in a Two-Dimensional Superconducting Wire Network
C. C. Abilio, P. Butaud, Th. Fournier, B. Pannetier, J. Vidal, S. Tedesco, and B. Dalzotto
pp. 5102-5105 [View PDF (176 kB)]
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Superconducting Fluxon Pumps and Lenses
J. F. Wambaugh, C. Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, F. Marchesoni, and Franco Nori
pp. 5106-5109 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Entropy Driven Fragmentation of the Locked Vortices in YBa2Cu3Oy Single Crystals
A. A. Zhukov, H. Küpfer, P. A. J. de Groot, and T. Wolf
pp. 5110-5113 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Effect of Pressure on Tiny Antiferromagnetic Moment in the Heavy-Electron Compound URu2Si2
H. Amitsuka, M. Sato, N. Metoki, M. Yokoyama, K. Kuwahara, T. Sakakibara, H. Morimoto, S. Kawarazaki, Y. Miyako, and J. A. Mydosh
pp. 5114-5117 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Charge and Orbital Order in Half-Doped Manganites
Jeroen van den Brink, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Daniel Khomskii
pp. 5118-5121 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Does the Heisenberg Model Describe the Multimagnon Spin Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic CuO Layers?
J. Lorenzana, J. Eroles, and S. Sorella
pp. 5122-5125 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Triviality of the Ground State Structure in Ising Spin Glasses
Matteo Palassini and A. P. Young
pp. 5126-5129 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Ordering In A Spin Glass under Applied Magnetic Field
Dorothée Petit, L. Fruchter, and I. A. Campbell
pp. 5130-5133 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Nonresonant Spectral Hole Burning in a Spin Glass
R. V. Chamberlin
pp. 5134-5137 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Large Magnetoresistance Ratio in Ferromagnetic Single-Electron Transistors in the Strong Tunneling Regime
X. H. Wang and Arne Brataas
pp. 5138-5141 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Giant Oxygen Isotope Effect on the Spin Glass Transition in La2-xSrxCu1-zMnzO4 as Revealed by Muon Spin Rotation
A. Shengelaya, Guo-meng Zhao, C. M. Aegerter, K. Conder, I. M. Savić, and H. Keller
pp. 5142-5145 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Hysteresislike Behavior in Meta-Nitroaniline Crystals
L. H. Avanci, R. S. Braga, L. P. Cardoso, D. S. Galvão, and J. N. Sherwood
pp. 5146-5149 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Probing the Spin Polarization in Ferromagnets
Jamal Berakdar
pp. 5150-5153 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Importance of Matrix Elements in the ARPES Spectra of BISCO
A. Bansil and M. Lindroos
pp. 5154-5157 [View PDF (263 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Proposal for Teleportation of an Atomic State via Cavity Decay
S. Bose, P. L. Knight, M. B. Plenio, and V. Vedral
pp. 5158-5161 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Quantum Algorithm Providing Exponential Speed Increase for Finding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
Daniel S. Abrams and Seth Lloyd
pp. 5162-5165 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Coherent Operation of a Tunable Quantum Phase Gate in Cavity QED
A. Rauschenbeutel, G. Nogues, S. Osnaghi, P. Bertet, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche
pp. 5166-5169 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Two-Species Continuum Model for Aeolian Sand Ripples
Rebecca B. Hoyle and Anita Mehta
pp. 5170-5173 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Novel Length Scales in Nanotube Devices
François Léonard and J. Tersoff
pp. 5174-5177 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Statistical Mechanics of Torque Induced Denaturation of DNA
Simona Cocco and Rémi Monasson
pp. 5178-5181 [View PDF (72 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Femtosecond Optical Breakdown of Dielectrics”
Guillaume Petite, Stéphane Guizard, Philippe Martin, and Fabien Quéré
pp. 5182 [View PDF (19 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Adatom Formation on the Ni(110) Surface [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1034 (1998)]
W. Silvestri, A. P. Graham, and J. P. Toennies
pp. 5183 [View PDF (11 kB)]
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Erratum: Several Theorems in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 378 (1999)]
Paul Hessler, Jang Park, and Kieron Burke
pp. 5184 [View PDF (16 kB)]
 
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