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Physical Review Letters – 9 August 1999
Volume 83, Issue 6

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.

Observation of Superheavy Nuclei Produced in the Reaction of 86Kr with 208Pb
V. Ninov, K. E. Gregorich, W. Loveland, A. Ghiorso, D. C. Hoffman, D. M. Lee, H. Nitsche, W. J. Swiatecki, U. W. Kirbach, C. A. Laue, J. L. Adams, J. B. Patin, D. A. Shaughnessy, D. A. Strellis, and P. A. Wilk
pp. 1104-1107 [View PDF (80 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Two Fluid Drop Snap-Off Problem: Experiments and Theory
Itai Cohen, Michael P. Brenner, Jens Eggers, and Sidney R. Nagel
pp. 1147-1150 [View PDF (300 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Spectral Noncommutative Geometry and Quantization
Carlo Rovelli
pp. 1079-1083 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Ubiquitous Inflaton in String-Inspired Models
Arjun Berera and Thomas W. Kephart
pp. 1084-1087 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Probing Neutrino Vacuum Oscillations with the GALLEX Solar Neutrino Results
S. Wänninger, M. Altmann, F. v. Feilitzsch, C. Hagner, B. Kemmather, L. Oberauer, and J. Schnagl
pp. 1088-1091 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Cosmological Limits on the Neutrino Mass from the Lyα Forest
Rupert A. C. Croft, Wayne Hu, and Romeel Davé
pp. 1092-1095 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Conditions for a Total Neutrino Conversion in a Medium
M. V. Chizhov and S. T. Petcov
pp. 1096-1099 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Indications for Factorization and ReVub < 0 from Rare B Decay Data
Xiao-Gang He, Wei-Shu Hou, and Kwei-Chou Yang
pp. 1100-1103 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Superheavy Nuclei Produced in the Reaction of 86Kr with 208Pb
V. Ninov, K. E. Gregorich, W. Loveland, A. Ghiorso, D. C. Hoffman, D. M. Lee, H. Nitsche, W. J. Swiatecki, U. W. Kirbach, C. A. Laue, J. L. Adams, J. B. Patin, D. A. Shaughnessy, D. A. Strellis, and P. A. Wilk
pp. 1104-1107 [View PDF (80 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Structure of Odd-N Superheavy Elements
S. Ćwiok, W. Nazarewicz, and P. H. Heenen
pp. 1108-1111 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Coulomb Dissociation of 19C and its Halo Structure
T. Nakamura, N. Fukuda, T. Kobayashi, N. Aoi, H. Iwasaki, T. Kubo, A. Mengoni, M. Notani, H. Otsu, H. Sakurai, S. Shimoura, T. Teranishi, Y. X. Watanabe, K. Yoneda, and M. Ishihara
pp. 1112-1115 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Fine Structure in the Decay of the Highly Deformed Proton Emitter 131Eu
A. A. Sonzogni, C. N. Davids, P. J. Woods, D. Seweryniak, M. P. Carpenter, J. J. Ressler, J. Schwartz, J. Uusitalo, and W. B. Walters
pp. 1116-1118 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Multiple Collective Vibrations and Nonlinear Dynamics in Mean-Field Approaches
C. Volpe and Ph. Chomaz
pp. 1119-1122 [View PDF (628 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Controlling the Branching Ratio of Photodissociation Using Aligned Molecules
Jakob Juul Larsen, Ida Wendt-Larsen, and Henrik Stapelfeldt
pp. 1123-1126 [View PDF (182 kB)]
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Ultrafast Deformation of the Geometrical Structure of CO2 Induced in Intense Laser Fields
Akiyoshi Hishikawa, Atsushi Iwamae, and Kaoru Yamanouchi
pp. 1127-1130 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Production of Hollow Lithium by Multielectron Correlation in 95MeV/nucleonAr18++ Li Collisions
J. A. Tanis, J.-Y. Chesnel, F. Frémont, D. Hennecart, X. Husson, A. Cassimi, J. P. Grandin, B. Skogvall, B. Sulik, J.-H. Bremer, and N. Stolterfoht
pp. 1131-1134 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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α2 Corrections to Parapositronium Decay
Andrzej Czarnecki, Kirill Melnikov, and Alexander Yelkhovsky
pp. 1135-1138 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spectral Statistics and Dynamical Localization: Sharp Transition in a Generalized Sinai Billiard
Ulrich Gerland
pp. 1139-1142 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Beam Collapse and Polarization Self-Modulation in an Optically Active Photorefractive Crystal in an Alternating Electric Field
C. A. Fuentes-Hernández and A. V. Khomenko
pp. 1143-1146 [View PDF (665 kB)]
Two Fluid Drop Snap-Off Problem: Experiments and Theory
Itai Cohen, Michael P. Brenner, Jens Eggers, and Sidney R. Nagel
pp. 1147-1150 [View PDF (300 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Similarity Solutions for Capillary Pinch-Off in Fluids of Differing Viscosity
Wendy W. Zhang and John R. Lister
pp. 1151-1154 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Evidence for a Singularity in Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics: Implications for Fast Reconnection
Robert M. Kerr and Axel Brandenburg
pp. 1155-1158 [View PDF (590 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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What Happened to the Gas-Liquid Transition in the System of Dipolar Hard Spheres?
Yan Levin
pp. 1159-1162 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Burrowing of Co Nanoparticles on Clean Cu and Ag Surfaces
C. G. Zimmermann, M. Yeadon, K. Nordlund, J. M. Gibson, R. S. Averback, U. Herr, and K. Samwer
pp. 1163-1166 [View PDF (944 kB)]
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Ab Initio Intermolecular Potential of Solid C60 in the Low-Temperature Phase
K.-P. Bohnen and R. Heid
pp. 1167-1170 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Nondiffracting Bulk-Acoustic X waves in Crystals
J. Salo, J. Fagerholm, A. T. Friberg, and M. M. Salomaa
pp. 1171-1174 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Shock Wave Structure in Lennard-Jones Crystal via Molecular Dynamics
V. V. Zhakhovskiĭ, S. V. Zybin, K. Nishihara, and S. I. Anisimov
pp. 1175-1178 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Vibrational Spectroscopy of Water at Liquid/Solid Interfaces: Crossing the Isoelectric Point of a Solid Surface
M. S. Yeganeh, S. M. Dougal, and H. S. Pink
pp. 1179-1182 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Shocks in Inertial Dewetting
A. Buguin, L. Vovelle, and F. Brochard-Wyart
pp. 1183-1186 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Critical Fluctuation-Induced Thinning of 4He Films near the Superfluid Transition
R. Garcia and M. H. W. Chan
pp. 1187-1190 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Reaction-Limited Aggregation on Semiconductor Surfaces
Tien-Chih Chang, Ing-Shouh Hwang, and Tien T. Tsong
pp. 1191-1194 [View PDF (786 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Pattern Formation in Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxial Growth
Bang-Gui Liu, Jing Wu, E. G. Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang
pp. 1195-1198 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Strain-Driven Alloying in Ge/Si(100) Coherent Islands
S. A. Chaparro, Jeff Drucker, Y. Zhang, D. Chandrasekhar, M. R. McCartney, and David J. Smith
pp. 1199-1202 [View PDF (466 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Magnetotunneling as a Probe of Luttinger-Liquid Behavior
Alexander Altland, C. H. W. Barnes, F. W. J. Hekking, and A. J. Schofield
pp. 1203-1206 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Quasienergy Spectroscopy of Excitons
Kristinn Johnsen and Antti-Pekka Jauho
pp. 1207-1210 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Phonon-Induced Spin Relaxation of Conduction Electrons in Aluminum
Jaroslav Fabian and S. Das Sarma
pp. 1211-1214 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Predictable Electrical Breakdown in Composites
C. D. Mukherjee, K. K. Bardhan, and M. B. Heaney
pp. 1215-1218 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Charge-Density-Wave Ordering in Half-Filled High Landau Levels
E. H. Rezayi, F. D. M. Haldane, and Kun Yang
pp. 1219-1222 [View PDF (457 kB)]
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Optimal TC in Layered Manganites: Different Roles of Coherent and Incoherent Lattice Distortions
M. Medarde, J. F. Mitchell, J. E. Millburn, S. Short, and J. D. Jorgensen
pp. 1223-1226 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Magnetic Domain Formation in Fe Films on Cr(100)
H. Hopster
pp. 1227-1230 [View PDF (871 kB)]
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Dipolar Defect Model for Fatigue in Ferroelectric Perovskites
S. Pöykkö and D. J. Chadi
pp. 1231-1234 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Electronic Structure near the Fermi Surface in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor Li0.9Mo6O17
Jinyu Xue, L.-C. Duda, Kevin E. Smith, Alexei V. Fedorov, Peter D. Johnson, Steve L. Hulbert, William McCarroll, and Martha Greenblatt
pp. 1235-1238 [View PDF (561 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Colloid-Polymer Mixtures at Triple Coexistence: Kinetic Maps from Free-Energy Landscapes
W. C. K. Poon, F. Renth, R. M. L. Evans, D. J. Fairhurst, M. E. Cates, and P. N. Pusey
pp. 1239-1242 [View PDF (538 kB)]
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Tangential Forces between Nontouching Colloidal Particles
D. Velegol, S. Catana, J. L. Anderson, and S. Garoff
pp. 1243-1246 [View PDF (73 kB)]
Self-organized Vortex State in Two-Dimensional Dictyostelium Dynamics
Wouter-Jan Rappel, Alastair Nicol, Armand Sarkissian, Herbert Levine, and William F. Loomis
pp. 1247-1250 [View PDF (671 kB)]
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Does Good Mutation Help You Live Longer?
W. Hwang, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner
pp. 1251-1254 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Intermittency, Log-Normal Statistics, and Multifractal Cascade Process in High-Resolution Satellite Images of Cloud Structure
A. Arneodo, N. Decoster, and S. G. Roux
pp. 1255-1258 [View PDF (305 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Intermittent Synchronization in a Pair of Coupled Chaotic Pendula”
P. Muruganandam, S. Parthasarathy, and M. Lakshmanan
pp. 1259 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Baker, Blackburn, and Smith Reply:
Gregory L. Baker, James A. Blackburn, and H. J. T. Smith
pp. 1260 [View PDF (14 kB)]
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Quartz Microbalance Studies of Superconductivity-Dependent Sliding Friction
R. L. Renner, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek
pp. 1261 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Krim Replies:
J. Krim
pp. 1262 [View PDF (17 kB)]
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Comment on “Additional Boundary Conditions: An Historical Mistake”
D. F. Nelson and B. Chen
pp. 1263 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Comment on “Additional Boundary Conditions: An Historical Mistake”
R. Zeyher
pp. 1264 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Henneberger Replies:
K. Henneberger
pp. 1265-1266 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Universality of the 1/3 Shot-Noise Suppression Factor in Nondegenerate Diffusive Conductors”
K. E. Nagaev
pp. 1267 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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González et al. Reply:
T. González, C. González, J. Mateos, D. Pardo, L. Reggiani, O. M. Bulashenko, and J. M. Rubí
pp. 1268 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum Confinement and Optical Gaps in Si Nanocrystals”
A. Franceschetti, L. W. Wang, and A. Zunger
pp. 1269 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Öğüt, Chelikowsky, and Louie Reply:
Serdar Öğüt, James R. Chelikowsky, and Steven G. Louie
pp. 1270 [View PDF (27 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Normal State Pseudogap and (π,0) Feature in the Underdoped High- Tc Cuprates: A Microscopic Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3136 (1999)]
F. Onufrieva and P. Pfeuty
pp. 1271 [View PDF (15 kB)]
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Erratum: Photogeneration Action Spectroscopy of Neutral and Charged Excitations in Films of a Ladder-Type Poly(Para-Phenylene) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3344 (1999)]
M. Wohlgenannt, W. Graupner, G. Leising, and Z. V. Vardeny
pp. 1272 [View PDF (7 kB)]
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Erratum: Indium Segregation and Enrichment in Coherent InxGa1-xAs/GaAs Quantum Dots [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5148 (1999)]
X. Z. Liao, J. Zou, D. J. H. Cockayne, R. Leon, and C. Lobo
pp. 1273 [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Erratum: Crossing Lattices, Vortex Chains, and Angular Dependence of Melting Line in Layered Superconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 187 (1999)]
A. E. Koshelev
pp. 1274 [View PDF (9 kB)]
 
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