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Physical Review Letters – 26 July 1999
Volume 83, Issue 4

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.

Constraining Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae and Large-Scale Structure
Saul Perlmutter, Michael S. Turner, and Martin White
pp. 670-673 [View PDF (79 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Tunneling across Spin Domains in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
D. M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, A. P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, J. Stenger, and W. Ketterle
pp. 661-665 [View PDF (68 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Patterns from Preheating
A. Sornborger and M. Parry
pp. 666-669 [View PDF (248 kB)]
Constraining Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae and Large-Scale Structure
Saul Perlmutter, Michael S. Turner, and Martin White
pp. 670-673 [View PDF (79 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Antiprotons at Solar Maximum
John W. Bieber, R. A. Burger, Ralph Engel, Thomas K. Gaisser, Stefan Roesler, and Todor Stanev
pp. 674-677 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Sonoluminescence: Bogolubov Coefficients for the QED Vacuum of a Time-Dependent Dielectric Bubble
Matt Visser, S. Liberati, F. Belgiorno, and D. W. Sciama
pp. 678-681 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Comparison of Λ and Σ0 Production near Threshold in Proton-Proton Collisions
S. Sewerin et al.
pp. 682-685 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Theoretical Constraints for Observation of Superdeformed Bands in the Mass-60 Region
Yang Sun, Jing-ye Zhang, Mike Guidry, and Cheng-Li Wu
pp. 686-689 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Isovector Electric Monopole Resonance in 60Ni
S. Nakayama, H. Akimune, Y. Arimoto, I. Daito, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, K. Fushimi, H. Kohri, N. Koori, K. Takahisa, T. Takeuchi, A. Tamii, M. Tanaka, T. Yamagata, Y. Yamamoto, K. Yonehara, and H. Yoshida
pp. 690-693 [View PDF (261 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Electric Field Dependence of the Exchange-Correlation Potential in Molecular Chains
S. J. A. van Gisbergen, P. R. T. Schipper, O. V. Gritsenko, E. J. Baerends, J. G. Snijders, B. Champagne, and B. Kirtman
pp. 694-697 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Lifetime Measurement of the Metastable 4d2D3/2 Level in Sr+ by Optical Pumping of a Stored Ion Beam
S. Mannervik, J. Lidberg, L-O Norlin, P. Royen, A. Schmitt, W. Shi, and X. Tordoir
pp. 698-701 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit and Core-Shielding Effects on Double-Excitation Resonances of Zn
L.-R. Wang, H.-C. Chi, and K.-N. Huang
pp. 702-705 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Ionization Above the Coulomb Barrier
Armin Scrinzi, Michael Geissler, and Thomas Brabec
pp. 706-709 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Magneto-Optic Piston Effect
S. Dattagupta, R. Ghosh, and J. Singh
pp. 710-713 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Formation of Giant Quasibound Cold Diatoms by Strong Atom-Cavity Coupling
B. Deb and G. Kurizki
pp. 714-717 [View PDF (78 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quasisolitons in Dissipative Systems and Exactly Solvable Lattice Models
Yuji Igarashi, Katsumi Itoh, Ken Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Ogura, and Ken Yokokawa
pp. 718-721 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Absorption-Limited Generation of Coherent Ultrashort Soft-X-Ray Pulses
M. Schnürer, Z. Cheng, M. Hentschel, G. Tempea, P. Kálmán, T. Brabec, and F. Krausz
pp. 722-725 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Localizations in Fractal Drums: An Experimental Study
Catherine Even, Stefanie Russ, Vincent Repain, Pawel Pieranski, and Bernard Sapoval
pp. 726-729 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Controlling Dispersive Chaos in Binary-Fluid Convection
Paul Kolodner, Georg Flätgen, and Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
pp. 730-733 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Origin of the “ -1” Spectral Law in Wall-Bounded Turbulence
Vladimir Nikora
pp. 734-736 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Multi-MeV Ion Production from High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Underdense Plasmas
K. Krushelnick, E. L. Clark, Z. Najmudin, M. Salvati, M. I. K. Santala, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, V. Malka, D. Neely, R. Allott, and C. Danson
pp. 737-740 [View PDF (339 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Surface Structure of GaN(0001) in the Chemical Vapor Deposition Environment
A. Munkholm, G. B. Stephenson, J. A. Eastman, C. Thompson, P. Fini, J. S. Speck, O. Auciello, P. H. Fuoss, and S. P. DenBaars
pp. 741-744 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Transverse Fluctuations of Polyelectrolytes
Yacov Kantor and Mehran Kardar
pp. 745-748 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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On-Off Intermittency in Stochastically Driven Electrohydrodynamic Convection in Nematics
Thomas John, Ralf Stannarius, and Ulrich Behn
pp. 749-752 [View PDF (417 kB)]
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Quasicrystal-Crystal Transformation in Zn-Mg–Rare-Earth Alloys
Eiji Abe and An Pang Tsai
pp. 753-756 [View PDF (921 kB)]
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Importance of Many-Body Effects in the Clustering of Charged Zn Dopant Atoms in GaAs
Ph. Ebert, Tianjiao Zhang, F. Kluge, M. Simon, Zhenyu Zhang, and K. Urban
pp. 757-760 [View PDF (936 kB)]
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Evidence of Molecular-Oxygen Inclusions in Electron-Irradiated Li2O Crystals through Magnetization Measurements
F. Beuneu, P. Vajda, and O. J. Żogał
pp. 761-763 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Surface Fluctuations and Correlations in a Pile of Rice
A. Malthe-Sørenssen, J. Feder, K. Christensen, V. Frette, and T. Jøssang
pp. 764-767 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Scanning Force Imaging of Atomic Size Defects on the CaF2(111) Surface
M. Reichling and C. Barth
pp. 768-771 [View PDF (855 kB)]
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Critical Casimir Effect in Binary Liquid Wetting Films
Ashis Mukhopadhyay and Bruce M. Law
pp. 772-775 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Growth of Nanostructured Carbon Films by Cluster Assembly
D. Donadio, L. Colombo, P. Milani, and G. Benedek
pp. 776-779 [View PDF (855 kB)]
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Thickness Induced Buckling of bcc Copper Films
B. M. Ocko, I. K. Robinson, M. Weinert, R. J. Randler, and D. M. Kolb
pp. 780-783 [View PDF (249 kB)]
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Nanometer Scale Dynamics in Diffusion Limited Propagation of Interfaces in Amorphous Alloys
Yossi Lereah, Alexander Gladkikh, Sergey V. Buldyrev, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 784-787 [View PDF (564 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Total Energies from GW Calculations
Bengt Holm
pp. 788-791 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Are Quasi-One Dimensional Structures of Si Stable?
Madhu Menon and Ernst Richter
pp. 792-795 [View PDF (601 kB)]
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Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Half-Filled Two-Dimensional Kondo Lattice Model
F. F. Assaad
pp. 796-799 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Single Particle and Collective Excitations in the One-Dimensional Charge Density Wave Solid K0.3MoO3 Probed in Real Time by Femtosecond Spectroscopy
J. Demsar, K. Biljaković, and D. Mihailovic
pp. 800-803 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Anomalous Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot at Nonzero Bias
F. Simmel, R. H. Blick, J. P. Kotthaus, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
pp. 804-807 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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How Long Does It Take for the Kondo Effect to Develop?
Peter Nordlander, Michael Pustilnik, Yigal Meir, Ned S. Wingreen, and David C. Langreth
pp. 808-811 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Hysteretic Microwave Cyclotronlike Resonance in a Laterally Confined Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
B. M. Ashkinadze and V. I. Yudson
pp. 812-815 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Resonant Raman Scattering by Elementary Electronic Excitations in Semiconductor Structures
S. Das Sarma and Daw-Wei Wang
pp. 816-819 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Strongly Anisotropic Electronic Transport at Landau Level Filling Factor ν = 9/2 and ν = 5/2 under a Tilted Magnetic Field
W. Pan, R. R. Du, H. L. Stormer, D. C. Tsui, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, and K. W. West
pp. 820-823 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Anisotropic States of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems in High Landau Levels: Effect of an In-Plane Magnetic Field
M. P. Lilly, K. B. Cooper, J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 824-827 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Bulk Tunneling at Integer Quantum Hall Transitions
Ziqiang Wang and Shanhui Xiong
pp. 828-831 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Hole Decoherence of d Bands in Copper
H. Petek, H. Nagano, and S. Ogawa
pp. 832-835 [View PDF (356 kB)]
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Inelastic Quantum Transport in Superlattices: Success and Failure of the Boltzmann Equation
Andreas Wacker, Antti-Pekka Jauho, Stephan Rott, Alexander Markus, Peter Binder, and Gottfried H. Döhler
pp. 836-839 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Superconducting Gap Anisotropy and Quasiparticle Interactions: A Doping Dependent Photoemission Study
J. Mesot, M. R. Norman, H. Ding, M. Randeria, J. C. Campuzano, A. Paramekanti, H. M. Fretwell, A. Kaminski, T. Takeuchi, T. Yokoya, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, T. Mochiku, and K. Kadowaki
pp. 840-843 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Anisotropic Peak Effect due to Structural Phase Transition in the Vortex Lattice
Baruch Rosenstein and Anton Knigavko
pp. 844-847 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Underscreened Kondo Effect in Ladder Systems
Karyn Le Hur
pp. 848-851 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Ordering due to Quantum Fluctuations in Sr2Cu3O4Cl2
Y. J. Kim, A. Aharony, R. J. Birgeneau, F. C. Chou, O. Entin-Wohlman, R. W. Erwin, M. Greven, A. B. Harris, M. A. Kastner, I. Ya. Korenblit, Y. S. Lee, and G. Shirane
pp. 852-855 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Excitons and Optical Spectrum of the Si(111)-(2×1) Surface
Michael Rohlfing and Steven G. Louie
pp. 856-859 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering from Valence Excitations in Insulating Copper Oxides
P. Abbamonte, C. A. Burns, E. D. Isaacs, P. M. Platzman, L. L. Miller, S. W. Cheong, and M. V. Klein
pp. 860-863 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Energy Loss of Low Energy Protons on LiF(100): Surface Excitation and H- Mediated Electron Emission
P. Roncin, J. Villette, J. P. Atanas, and H. Khemliche
pp. 864-867 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Eigenstate-Resolved Studies of Gas-Surface Reactivity: CH4 ( ν3) Dissociation on Ni(100)
L. B. F. Juurlink, P. R. McCabe, R. R. Smith, C. L. DiCologero, and A. L. Utz
pp. 868-871 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Enhanced Transverse Diffusion in Active Biomembranes
R. Granek and S. Pierrat
pp. 872-875 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic Lift on Bound Vesicles
Udo Seifert
pp. 876-879 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Lift Force and Dynamical Unbinding of Adhering Vesicles under Shear Flow
Isabelle Cantat and Chaouqi Misbah
pp. 880-883 [View PDF (72 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Self-Diffusion in Icosahedral Al72.4Pd20.5Mn7.1 and Phason Percolation at Low Temperatures Studied by 27Al NMR”
Gerrit Coddens
pp. 884 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Dolinšek Replies:
J. Dolinšek
pp. 885 [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Comment on “Effective Mass and g Factor of Four-Flux-Quanta Composite Fermions”
Daijiro Yoshioka
pp. 886 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “Is the Nonlinear Meissner Effect Unobservable?”
Anand Bhattacharya, Igor Z̆utić, Oriol T. Valls, and A. M. Goldman
pp. 887 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Li et al. Reply:
M.-R. Li, P. J. Hirschfeld, and P. Wölfle
pp. 888 [View PDF (24 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Measurement of the 6S→7S Transition Polarizability in Atomic Cesium and an Improved Test of the Standard Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2484 (1999)]
S. C. Bennett and C. E. Wieman
pp. 889 [View PDF (22 kB)]
 
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