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Physical Review Letters – 20 December 1999
Volume 83, Issue 25

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.

High Pressure Behavior of Silicon Clathrates: A New Class of Low Compressibility Materials
A. San-Miguel, P. Kéghélian, X. Blase, P. Mélinon, A. Perez, J. P. Itié, A. Polian, E. Reny, C. Cros, and M. Pouchard
pp. 5290-5293 [View PDF (114 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Boson Correlation Energies from Reduced Hamiltonian Interpolation
David A. Mazziotti and Dudley R. Herschbach
pp. 5185-5189 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Exact Wave Functions for the Coulomb Problem from Classical Orbits
Kenneth G. Kay
pp. 5190-5193 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Guiding Neutral Atoms Around Curves with Lithographically Patterned Current-Carrying Wires
Dirk Müller, Dana Z. Anderson, Randal J. Grow, Peter D. D. Schwindt, and Eric A. Cornell
pp. 5194-5197 [View PDF (357 kB)]
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Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates
S. Burger, K. Bongs, S. Dettmer, W. Ertmer, K. Sengstock, A. Sanpera, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and M. Lewenstein
pp. 5198-5201 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Theory of Superradiant Scattering of Laser Light from Bose-Einstein Condensates
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. 5202-5205 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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“Fuse Safety Device” on an Atomic Scale
Oleg Braun, Maxim Paliy, and Bambi Hu
pp. 5206-5209 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Order Parameter Fragmentation after a Symmetry-Breaking Transition
S. Ducci, P. L. Ramazza, W. González-Viñas, and F. T. Arecchi
pp. 5210-5213 [View PDF (625 kB)]
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Solution of Classical Stochastic One-Dimensional Many-Body Systems
P.-A. Bares and M. Mobilia
pp. 5214-5217 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Some Remarks on Gravitational Global Monopoles
Dieter Maison and Steven L. Liebling
pp. 5218-5221 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Neutrino Magnetic Moments, Flavor Mixing, and the Super-Kamiokande Solar Data
J. F. Beacom and P. Vogel
pp. 5222-5225 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Gauged Six-Dimensional Supergravity from Massive Type IIA String Theory
Mirjam Cvetic̆, H. Lü, and C. N. Pope
pp. 5226-5229 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Decay of Pseudoscalars into Lepton Pairs and Large- Nc QCD
M. Knecht, S. Peris, M. Perrottet, and E. de Rafael
pp. 5230-5233 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Unresolved γ Rays in 114Te: Mass Dependence of Rotational Damping
S. Frattini, A. Bracco, S. Leoni, F. Camera, B. Million, N. Blasi, G. Lo Bianco, M. Pignanelli, E. Vigezzi, B. Herskind, T. Døssing, M. Bergström, P. Varmette, S. Törmänen, A. Maj, M. Kmiecik, D. R. Napoli, and M. Matsuo
pp. 5234-5237 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Σ Hyperons in the Nucleus
S. Bart, R. E. Chrien, W. A. Franklin, T. Fukuda, R. S. Hayano, K. Hicks, E. V. Hungerford, R. Michael, T. Miyachi, T. Nagae, J. Nakano, W. Naing, K. Omata, R. Sawafta, Y. Shimizu, L. Tang, and S. W. Wissink
pp. 5238-5241 [View PDF (182 kB)]
Photoactivation of 180Tam and Its Implications for the Nucleosynthesis of Nature's Rarest Naturally Occurring Isotope
D. Belic, C. Arlandini, J. Besserer, J. de Boer, J. J. Carroll, J. Enders, T. Hartmann, F. Käppeler, H. Kaiser, U. Kneissl, M. Loewe, H. J. Maier, H. Maser, P. Mohr, P. von Neumann-Cosel, A. Nord, H. H. Pitz, A. Richter, M. Schumann, S. Volz, and A. Zilges
pp. 5242-5245 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Has Charge Symmetry Breaking Been Observed in the dd→απ0 Reaction?
Denis Dobrokhotov, Göran Fäldt, Anders Gårdestig, and Colin Wilkin
pp. 5246-5249 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Deuteron Magnetic and Quadrupole Moments with a Poincaré Covariant Current Operator in the Front-Form Dynamics
F. M. Lev, E. Pace, and G. Salmè
pp. 5250-5253 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Propensity Rules for Angular Momentum Transfer in Electron-Impact Excitation and Deexcitation
K. Bartschat, N. Andersen, and D. Loveall
pp. 5254-5257 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Solidlike-to-Liquidlike Transition in Small Clusters of C60 Molecules or Transition-Metal Atoms
L. J. Gallego, J. García-Rodeja, M. M. G. Alemany, and C. Rey
pp. 5258-5261 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Hydrodynamics of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation in Two Dimensions
Bruce M. Boghosian, Carson C. Chow, and Terence Hwa
pp. 5262-5265 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Coherent Backscattering of Light by Cold Atoms
G. Labeyrie, F. de Tomasi, J.-C. Bernard, C. A. Müller, C. Miniatura, and R. Kaiser
pp. 5266-5269 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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High Harmonic Generation at Long Wavelengths
B. Sheehy, J. D. D. Martin, L. F. DiMauro, P. Agostini, K. J. Schafer, M. B. Gaarde, and K. C. Kulander
pp. 5270-5273 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional Complete Photonic-Band-gap Structures in the Visible
Alexander Moroz
pp. 5274-5277 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Observation of Pattern Formation in Optical Parametric Oscillators
M. Vaupel, A. Maître, and C. Fabre
pp. 5278-5281 [View PDF (908 kB)]
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Wave Number Selection and Large-Scale-Flow Effects due to a Radial Ramp of the Spacing in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Kapil M. S. Bajaj, Nathalie Mukolobwiez, Nathan Currier, and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 5282-5285 [View PDF (549 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Corrugation Effects in Oxygen Surface Trapping at Hyperthermal Energies
A. C. Lavery, C. E. Sosolik, and B. H. Cooper
pp. 5286-5289 [View PDF (110 kB)]
High Pressure Behavior of Silicon Clathrates: A New Class of Low Compressibility Materials
A. San-Miguel, P. Kéghélian, X. Blase, P. Mélinon, A. Perez, J. P. Itié, A. Polian, E. Reny, C. Cros, and M. Pouchard
pp. 5290-5293 [View PDF (114 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Novel Muonium State in CdS
J. M. Gil, H. V. Alberto, R. C. Vilão, J. Piroto Duarte, P. J. Mendes, L. P. Ferreira, N. Ayres de Campos, A. Weidinger, J. Krauser, Ch. Niedermayer, and S. F. J. Cox
pp. 5294-5297 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Freezing Transition in Very Small Systems of Hard Spheres
Willem K. Kegel, Howard Reiss, and Henk N. W. Lekkerkerker
pp. 5298-5301 [View PDF (146 kB)]
Cooperative Evaporation in Ordered Arrays of Volatile Droplets
C. Schäfle, C. Bechinger, B. Rinn, C. David, and P. Leiderer
pp. 5302-5305 [View PDF (569 kB)]
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A Damping Length Scale for Superfluid Turbulence
David C. Samuels and Demosthenes Kivotides
pp. 5306-5309 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Binding of Impurities to a 4He Superfluid Vortex
Michael Sadd, G. V. Chester, and F. Pederiva
pp. 5310-5313 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Monolayer Solid 4He Clusters on Graphite
M. E. Pierce and E. Manousakis
pp. 5314-5317 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Spinodal Decomposition in Films of Binary Mixtures
S. Toxvaerd
pp. 5318-5321 [View PDF (715 kB)]
Sand as Maxwell's Demon
Jens Eggers
pp. 5322-5325 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Andreev Reflection and Spin Injection into s- and d-Wave Superconductors
Robert L. Merrill and Qimiao Si
pp. 5326-5329 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Exactly Soluble Model for Umklapp Scattering at Quantum Hall Edges
U. Zülicke
pp. 5330-5333 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Molybdenum Selenide Molecular Wires as One-Dimensional Conductors
Latha Venkataraman and Charles M. Lieber
pp. 5334-5337 [View PDF (756 kB)]
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Quantum Correlations and Intraband Coherences in Semiconductor Cavity QED
Y.-S. Lee, T. B. Norris, M. Kira, F. Jahnke, S. W. Koch, G. Khitrova, and H. M. Gibbs
pp. 5338-5341 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Diffractive Orbits in an Open Microwave Billiard
J. S. Hersch, M. R. Haggerty, and E. J. Heller
pp. 5342-5345 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Nitrogen Doping of Amorphous Carbon Surfaces
M. Kaukonen, R. M. Nieminen, S. Pöykkö, and Ari P. Seitsonen
pp. 5346-5349 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Phenomenological Theory of Superconductivity and Magnetism in Ho1-xDyxNi2B2C
Hyeonjin Doh, Manfred Sigrist, B. K. Cho, and Sung-Ik Lee
pp. 5350-5353 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Broken Symmetry of Row Switching in 2D Josephson Junction Arrays
D. Abraimov, P. Caputo, G. Filatrella, M. V. Fistul, G. Yu. Logvenov, and A. V. Ustinov
pp. 5354-5357 [View PDF (803 kB)]
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Defect-Unbinding Transition in Layered Superconductors
Matthew J. W. Dodgson, Vadim B. Geshkenbein, and Gianni Blatter
pp. 5358-5361 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Ground State Properties of a Fully Frustrated Quantum Spin System
Elliott H. Lieb and Peter Schupp
pp. 5362-5365 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Evidence for Strong Quadrupolar Pair Interactions in Rare-Earth Palladium Bronzes RPd3S4
K. Abe, J. Kitagawa, N. Takeda, and M. Ishikawa
pp. 5366-5369 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Anisotropic Spin Freezing in the S = 1/2 Zigzag Chain Compound SrCuO2
I. A. Zaliznyak, C. Broholm, M. Kibune, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi
pp. 5370-5373 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Optical Demonstration of a Crystal Band Structure Formation
M. Bayer, T. Gutbrod, A. Forchel, T. L. Reinecke, P. A. Knipp, R. Werner, and J. P. Reithmaier
pp. 5374-5377 [View PDF (302 kB)]
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Evidence for the Stopping of Slow Ions by Excitations of Optical Phonons in Insulators
A. G. Borisov, A. Mertens, H. Winter, and A. K. Kazansky
pp. 5378-5381 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Coin Tossing is Strictly Weaker than Bit Commitment
Adrian Kent
pp. 5382-5384 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Fidelity and Leakage of Josephson Qubits
Rosario Fazio, G. Massimo Palma, and Jens Siewert
pp. 5385-5388 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Extraction of Signals from Chaotic Laser Data
John B. Geddes, Kevin M. Short, and Kelly Black
pp. 5389-5392 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Complex Periodic Spirals and Line-Defect Turbulence in a Chemical System
Jin-Sung Park and Kyoung J. Lee
pp. 5393-5396 [View PDF (1,733 kB)]
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Stability of Two-Dimensional Foams in Langmuir Monolayers
E. K. Mann and S. V. Primak
pp. 5397-5400 [View PDF (484 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Spontaneous Emission of Organic Molecules Embedded in a Photonic Crystal”
Mischa Megens, H. P. Schriemer, Ad Lagendijk, and Willem L. Vos
pp. 5401 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Petrov et al. Reply:
E. P. Petrov, V. N. Bogomolov, I. I. Kalosha, and S. V. Gaponenko
pp. 5402 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Comment on “Cooperative Molecular Motors”
J. L. Marín, M. Huerta, J. Muñiz, and X. Trujillo
pp. 5403 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Jülicher and Prost Reply:
Frank Jülicher and Jacques Prost
pp. 5404 [View PDF (26 kB)]
 
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