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Physical Review Letters – 16 August 1999
Volume 83, Issue 7

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.

Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron: QND Measurements of Quantum Jumps between Fock States
S. Peil and G. Gabrielse
pp. 1287-1290 [View PDF (270 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Noise Dressing of Financial Correlation Matrices
Laurent Laloux, Pierre Cizeau, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, and Marc Potters
pp. 1467-1470 [View PDF (61 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Universal and Nonuniversal Properties of Cross Correlations in Financial Time Series
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Bernd Rosenow, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1471-1474 [View PDF (120 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Exact Solution of Double δ Function Bose Gas through an Interacting Anyon Gas
Anjan Kundu
pp. 1275-1278 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Kramers-Like Turnover in Activationless Rate Processes
D. J. Bicout, A. M. Berezhkovskii, Attila Szabo, and G. H. Weiss
pp. 1279-1282 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Group Theory Approach to Band Structure: Scarf and Lamé Hamiltonians
Hui Li and Dimitri Kusnezov
pp. 1283-1286 [View PDF (89 kB)]
Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron: QND Measurements of Quantum Jumps between Fock States
S. Peil and G. Gabrielse
pp. 1287-1290 [View PDF (270 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking in QED in a Magnetic Field: Toward Exact Results
V. P. Gusynin, V. A. Miransky, and I. A. Shovkovy
pp. 1291-1294 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Elliptic Flow: Transition from Out-of-Plane to In-Plane Emission in Au + Au Collisions
C. Pinkenburg et al. (E895 Collaboration)
pp. 1295-1298 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Positron-Neutrino Correlation in the 0+→0+ Decay of 32Ar
E. G. Adelberger, C. Ortiz, A. García, H. E. Swanson, M. Beck, O. Tengblad, M. J. G. Borge, I. Martel, H. Bichsel, and the ISOLDE Collaboration
pp. 1299-1302 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Transition Rates between Mixed Symmetry States: First Measurement in 94Mo
N. Pietralla, C. Fransen, D. Belic, P. von Brentano, C. Frießner, U. Kneissl, A. Linnemann, A. Nord, H. H. Pitz, T. Otsuka, I. Schneider, V. Werner, and I. Wiedenhöver
pp. 1303-1306 [View PDF (141 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Narrowing Spontaneous Emission without Intensity Reduction
C. H. Keitel
pp. 1307-1310 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Spin-Polarized Atoms in a Circularly Polarized Optical Dipole Trap
K. L. Corwin, S. J. M. Kuppens, D. Cho, and C. E. Wieman
pp. 1311-1314 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Bond-Length-Dependent Core Hole Localization Observed in Simple Hydrocarbons
Kerstin Gunnelin, Peter Glans, Jan-Erik Rubensson, Conny Såthe, Joseph Nordgren, Yang Li, Faris Gel'mukhanov, and Hans Ågren
pp. 1315-1318 [View PDF (196 kB)]
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Spin Squeezed Atoms: A Macroscopic Entangled Ensemble Created by Light
J. Hald, J. L. Sørensen, C. Schori, and E. S. Polzik
pp. 1319-1322 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Partial Distinguishability in Femtosecond Optical Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
Mete Atatüre, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bradley M. Jost, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 1323-1326 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Transition from Quantum Ergodicity to Adiabaticity: Dynamical Localization in an Amplitude Modulated Pendulum
B. Mirbach and G. Casati
pp. 1327-1330 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Reconstructing the Jacobian from Data with Observational Noise
Timothy D. Sauer and James A. Yorke
pp. 1331-1334 [View PDF (81 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Resonant Cyclotron Emission of Whistler Waves by a Modulated Electron Beam
M. Starodubtsev and C. Krafft
pp. 1335-1338 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Identification of Unstable Periodic Orbit in Inter–Edge-Localized-Mode Intervals in JT-60U
P. E. Bak, R. Yoshino, N. Asakura, and T. Nakano
pp. 1339-1342 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Ionospheric Source for Low-Frequency Broadband Electromagnetic Signatures
J. R. Peñano and G. Ganguli
pp. 1343-1346 [View PDF (73 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Intrinsic Piezoelectric Response in Perovskite Alloys: PMN-PT versus PZT
L. Bellaiche and David Vanderbilt
pp. 1347-1350 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Symmetry of Molecular H2 in Si from a Uniaxial Stress Study of the 3618.4cm-1 Vibrational Line
J. Anna Zhou and Michael Stavola
pp. 1351-1354 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Observation of the Crossover to Strong Scattering of Acoustic Phonons in Densified Silica
E. Rat, M. Foret, E. Courtens, R. Vacher, and M. Arai
pp. 1355-1358 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Path-Crossing Exponents and the External Perimeter in 2D Percolation
Michael Aizenman, Bertrand Duplantier, and Amnon Aharony
pp. 1359-1362 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Two New Topologically Ordered Glass Phases of Smectics Confined in Anisotropic Random Media
Brad Jacobsen, Karl Saunders, Leo Radzihovsky, and John Toner
pp. 1363-1366 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Evidence for Superfluid B Phase of 3He in Aerogel
H. Alles, J. J. Kaplinsky, P. S. Wootton, J. D. Reppy, J. H. Naish, and J. R. Hook
pp. 1367-1370 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Triple-Point Wetting and Liquid Condensation in a Slit Pore
Ying Qiao and Hugo K. Christenson
pp. 1371-1374 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Recovery Temperature for Nonclassical Energy Transfer in Atom-Surface Scattering
B. Gumhalter, A. Šiber, and J. P. Toennies
pp. 1375-1378 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Short-Range Order and Phase Stability of Surface Alloys: PdAu on Ru(0001)
B. Sadigh, M. Asta, V. Ozoliņš, A. K. Schmid, N. C. Bartelt, A. A. Quong, and R. Q. Hwang
pp. 1379-1382 [View PDF (871 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Breakdown of the Chiral Luttinger Liquid in One Dimension
A. F. Ho and P. Coleman
pp. 1383-1386 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Exchange Interactions and Magnetic Properties of the Layered Vanadates CaV2O5, MgV2O5, CaV3O7, and CaV4O9
M. A. Korotin, I. S. Elfimov, V. I. Anisimov, M. Troyer, and D. I. Khomskii
pp. 1387-1390 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Monte Carlo Simulations of Ultrafast Resonant Rayleigh Scattering from Quantum Well Excitons: Beyond Ensemble Averaging
Andrei V. Shchegrov, Dan Birkedal, and Jagdeep Shah
pp. 1391-1394 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Destabilization of a Charge-Density Wave by an Oscillatory Chemical Potential
N. Harrison
pp. 1395-1398 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Current Noise in an Irradiated Point Contact
Y. Levinson and P. Wölfle
pp. 1399-1402 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Coulomb Blockade Fluctuations in Strongly Coupled Quantum Dots
S. M. Maurer, S. R. Patel, C. M. Marcus, C. I. Duruöz, and J. S. Harris, Jr.
pp. 1403-1406 [View PDF (488 kB)]
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Resonant Transmission through a Quantum Dot in the Coulomb Blockade Regime
Shi-Jie Xiong and Ye Xiong
pp. 1407-1410 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Quantum Dynamics of Pseudospin Solitons in Double-Layer Quantum Hall Systems
Jordan Kyriakidis, Daniel Loss, and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 1411-1414 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Temperature Dependent Complex Band Structure and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Ag
J. J. Paggel, T. Miller, and T.-C. Chiang
pp. 1415-1418 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance in Heavily Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x: Antiferromagnetic Correlations and Normal-State Transport
A. N. Lavrov, Yoichi Ando, Kouji Segawa, and J. Takeya
pp. 1419-1422 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Model for Unconventional Superconductivity of Sr2RuO4: Effect of Impurity Scattering on Time-Reversal Breaking Triplet Pairing with a Tiny Gap
K. Miyake and O. Narikiyo
pp. 1423-1426 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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How to Define and Calculate the Degree of Spin Polarization in Ferromagnets
I. I. Mazin
pp. 1427-1430 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Kinetic Exchange between the Conduction Band Electrons and Magnetic Ions in Quantum-Confined Structures
I. A. Merkulov, D. R. Yakovlev, A. Keller, W. Ossau, J. Geurts, A. Waag, G. Landwehr, G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz, and J. Kossut
pp. 1431-1434 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Electron Spin Density on TDAE Cations in the Ferromagnetic State of Solid TDAE-C60
Y. Deligiannakis, G. Papavassiliou, M. Fardis, G. Diamantopoulos, F. Milia, C. Christides, K. I. Pokhodnia, and V. Barchuk
pp. 1435-1438 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Spin Structure at the Interface of Exchange Biased FeMn /Co Bilayers
W. J. Antel, Jr., F. Perjeru, and G. R. Harp
pp. 1439-1442 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Size of Electron-Hole Pairs in π-Conjugated Systems
M. Knupfer, T. Pichler, M. S. Golden, J. Fink, M. Murgia, R. H. Michel, R. Zamboni, and C. Taliani
pp. 1443-1446 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Unconditionally Secure Bit Commitment
Adrian Kent
pp. 1447-1450 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Disentangling Quantum States while Preserving All Local Properties
Tal Mor
pp. 1451-1454 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Minimal Conditions for Local Pure-State Entanglement Manipulation
Daniel Jonathan and Martin B. Plenio
pp. 1455-1458 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Classical Communication Cost of Entanglement Manipulation: Is Entanglement an Interconvertible Resource?
Hoi-Kwong Lo and Sandu Popescu
pp. 1459-1462 [View PDF (52 kB)]
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Computational Complexity for Continuous Time Dynamics
Hava T. Siegelmann, Asa Ben-Hur, and Shmuel Fishman
pp. 1463-1466 [View PDF (58 kB)]
Noise Dressing of Financial Correlation Matrices
Laurent Laloux, Pierre Cizeau, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, and Marc Potters
pp. 1467-1470 [View PDF (61 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Universal and Nonuniversal Properties of Cross Correlations in Financial Time Series
Vasiliki Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, Bernd Rosenow, Luís A. Nunes Amaral, and H. Eugene Stanley
pp. 1471-1474 [View PDF (120 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Self-Organized Chemical Nanoscale Microreactors
M. Hildebrand, M. Kuperman, H. Wio, A. S. Mikhailov, and G. Ertl
pp. 1475-1478 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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RNA Secondary Structure Formation: A Solvable Model of Heteropolymer Folding
R. Bundschuh and T. Hwa
pp. 1479-1482 [View PDF (72 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “First-Order Transition in the Breakdown of Disordered Media”
G. Caldarelli and A. Petri
pp. 1483 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Zapperi et al. Reply:
Stefano Zapperi, Purusattam Ray, H. Eugene Stanley, and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 1484 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Comment on “Activation Gaps and Mass Enhancement of Composite Fermions”
Rudolf H. Morf
pp. 1485 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Park et al. Reply:
K. Park, N. Meskini, and J. K. Jain
pp. 1486 [View PDF (27 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Analytical Theory of Susceptibility Induced NMR Signal Dephasing in a Cerebrovascular Network [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5696 (1998)]
V. G. Kiselev and S. Posse
pp. 1487 [View PDF (14 kB)]
 
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