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Physical Review Letters – 6 March 2000
Volume 84, Issue 10

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.

Phenomenology of a Realistic Accelerating Universe Using Only Planck-Scale Physics
Andreas Albrecht and Constantinos Skordis
pp. 2076-2079 [View PDF (110 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Spectroscopy of Nanoscopic Semiconductor Rings
Axel Lorke, R. Johannes Luyken, Alexander O. Govorov, Jörg P. Kotthaus, J. M. Garcia, and P. M. Petroff
pp. 2223-2226 [View PDF (263 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Effect of Measurement on the Decay Rate of a Quantum System
Brahim Elattari and S. A. Gurvitz
pp. 2047-2051 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Wave Packet Dynamics in Energy Space, Random Matrix Theory, and the Quantum-Classical Correspondence
Doron Cohen, Felix M. Izrailev, and Tsampikos Kottos
pp. 2052-2055 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Observation of the Scissors Mode and Evidence for Superfluidity of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
O. M. Maragò, S. A. Hopkins, J. Arlt, E. Hodby, G. Hechenblaikner, and C. J. Foot
pp. 2056-2059 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Density Dependence of the Transition Temperature in a Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate
J. D. Reppy, B. C. Crooker, B. Hebral, A. D. Corwin, J. He, and G. M. Zassenhaus
pp. 2060-2063 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Is Random Close Packing of Spheres Well Defined?
S. Torquato, T. M. Truskett, and P. G. Debenedetti
pp. 2064-2067 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Bayesian Approach to Inverse Quantum Statistics
J. C. Lemm, J. Uhlig, and A. Weiguny
pp. 2068-2071 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Generalized Second Law in Cosmology from Causal Boundary Entropy
Ram Brustein
pp. 2072-2075 [View PDF (58 kB)]
Phenomenology of a Realistic Accelerating Universe Using Only Planck-Scale Physics
Andreas Albrecht and Constantinos Skordis
pp. 2076-2079 [View PDF (110 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Phenomenology of the Randall-Sundrum Gauge Hierarchy Model
H. Davoudiasl, J. L. Hewett, and T. G. Rizzo
pp. 2080-2083 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Holography and Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theory
Miao Li and Yong-Shi Wu
pp. 2084-2087 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Search for Second-Generation Leptoquark Pairs in p̅ p Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 2088-2093 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Production of ϒ(1S) Mesons from χb Decays in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 2094-2099 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Hard-Thermal-Loop Resummed Pressure of a Degenerate Quark-Gluon Plasma
Rudolf Baier and Krzysztof Redlich
pp. 2100-2103 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Half-Life Measurement for the rp-Process Waiting Point Nuclide 80Zr
J. J. Ressler, A. Piechaczek, W. B. Walters, A. Aprahamian, M. Wiescher, J. C. Batchelder, C. R. Bingham, D. S. Brenner, T. N. Ginter, C. J. Gross, R. Grzywacz, D. Kulp, B. MacDonald, W. Reviol, J. Rikovska, K. Rykaczewski, J. A. Winger, and E. F. Zganjar
pp. 2104-2107 [View PDF (123 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Can the Eigenstates of a Many-Body Hamiltonian Be Represented Exactly Using a General Two-Body Cluster Expansion?
Marcel Nooijen
pp. 2108-2111 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Strong-Coupling Theory of Two-Level Atoms in Periodic Fields
J. C. A. Barata and W. F. Wreszinski
pp. 2112-2115 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Electric-Octupole and Pure-Electric-Quadrupole Effects in Soft-X-Ray Photoemission
A. Derevianko, O. Hemmers, S. Oblad, P. Glans, H. Wang, S. B. Whitfield, R. Wehlitz, I. A. Sellin, W. R. Johnson, and D. W. Lindle
pp. 2116-2119 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Unique Case of Highly Polarized Collision-Induced Light Scattering: The Very Far Spectral Wing by the Helium Pair
Florent Rachet, Michael Chrysos, Christophe Guillot-Noël, and Yves Le Duff
pp. 2120-2123 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Unexpected Behavior of the Stopping of Slow Ions in Ionic Crystals
J. I. Juaristi, C. Auth, H. Winter, A. Arnau, K. Eder, D. Semrad, F. Aumayr, P. Bauer, and P. M. Echenique
pp. 2124-2127 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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From Above Threshold Ionization to Statistical Electron Emission: The Laser Pulse-Duration Dependence of C60 Photoelectron Spectra
E. E. B. Campbell, K. Hansen, K. Hoffmann, G. Korn, M. Tchaplyguine, M. Wittmann, and I. V. Hertel
pp. 2128-2131 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Local Estimates for Entropy Densities in Coupled Map Lattices
Eckehard Olbrich, Rainer Hegger, and Holger Kantz
pp. 2132-2135 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Spontaneous Radiation and Lamb Shift in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
Shi-Yao Zhu, Yaping Yang, Hong Chen, Hang Zheng, and M. S. Zubairy
pp. 2136-2139 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Tight-Binding Description of the Coupled Defect Modes in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
Mehmet Bayindir, B. Temelkuran, and E. Ozbay
pp. 2140-2143 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Finite Thermal Conductivity in 1D Lattices
C. Giardinà, R. Livi, A. Politi, and M. Vassalli
pp. 2144-2147 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Lattice-Boltzmann Model with Sub-Grid-Scale Boundary Conditions
R. Verberg and A. J. C. Ladd
pp. 2148-2151 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Small-Action Particles in a Tokamak in the Presence of an n = 1 Mode
Ya. I. Kolesnichenko, V. V. Lutsenko, R. B. White, and Yu. V. Yakovenko
pp. 2152-2155 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Hydrogen Adatoms on TiO2(110)-(1×1) Characterized by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Electron Stimulated Desorption
Shushi Suzuki, Ken-ichi Fukui, Hiroshi Onishi, and Yasuhiro Iwasawa
pp. 2156-2159 [View PDF (666 kB)]
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Extension of Rod-Coil Multiblock Copolymers and the Effect of the Helix-Coil Transition
A. Buhot and A. Halperin
pp. 2160-2163 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Shear Induced Smectic- A–Smectic- C Transition in Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polymers
Laurence Noirez
pp. 2164-2167 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Metastable States as a Key to the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids
Stephan Büchner and Andreas Heuer
pp. 2168-2171 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Vacancy Interaction with Dislocations in Silicon: The Shuffle-Glide Competition
João F. Justo, Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai, and Vasily V. Bulatov
pp. 2172-2175 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Anomalous Frequency Dependence of the Internal Friction of Vitreous Silica
J. Classen, T. Burkert, C. Enss, and S. Hunklinger
pp. 2176-2179 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Critical Adsorption on Defects in Ising Magnets and Binary Alloys
Andreas Hanke
pp. 2180-2183 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Surfactant Effects and an Order-Disorder Transition in Binary Gas-Liquid Nucleation
Ismo Napari and Ari Laaksonen
pp. 2184-2187 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Scaling of the Conductivity Spectra in Ionic Glasses: Dependence on the Structure
A. Ghosh and A. Pan
pp. 2188-2190 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Subcritical Dissipation in Three-Dimensional Superflows
C. Nore, C. Huepe, and M. E. Brachet
pp. 2191-2194 [View PDF (323 kB)]
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Enhanced Heat Capacity and a New Temperature Instability in Superfluid 4He in the Presence of a Constant Heat Flux Near Tλ
Alexa W. Harter, Richard A. M. Lee, Andrew Chatto, Xinkai Wu, Talso C. P. Chui, and David L. Goodstein
pp. 2195-2198 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Generic Dynamic Scaling in Kinetic Roughening
José J. Ramasco, Juan M. López, and Miguel A. Rodríguez
pp. 2199-2202 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Reentrant Layering in Rare Gas Adsorption: Preroughening or Premelting?
Franck Celestini, Daniele Passerone, Furio Ercolessi, and Erio Tosatti
pp. 2203-2206 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ferromagnetism and Superstructure in Ca1-xLaxB6
Victor Barzykin and Lev P. Gor'kov
pp. 2207-2210 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Evidence for Anisotropic Kondo Behavior in Ce0.8La0.2Al3
E. A. Goremychkin, R. Osborn, B. D. Rainford, and A. P. Murani
pp. 2211-2214 [View PDF (242 kB)]
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Polariton-Biexciton Transitions in a Semiconductor Microcavity
U. Neukirch, S. R. Bolton, N. A. Fromer, L. J. Sham, and D. S. Chemla
pp. 2215-2218 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Determining the Wiedemann-Franz Ratio from the Thermal Hall Conductivity: Application to Cu and YBa2Cu3O6.95
Y. Zhang, N. P. Ong, Z. A. Xu, K. Krishana, R. Gagnon, and L. Taillefer
pp. 2219-2222 [View PDF (119 kB)]
Spectroscopy of Nanoscopic Semiconductor Rings
Axel Lorke, R. Johannes Luyken, Alexander O. Govorov, Jörg P. Kotthaus, J. M. Garcia, and P. M. Petroff
pp. 2223-2226 [View PDF (263 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Tunneling Transverse to a Magnetic Field and Its Occurrence in Correlated 2D Electron Systems
T. Barabash-Sharpee, M. I. Dykman, and P. M. Platzman
pp. 2227-2230 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Resistance Resonance Effects through Magnetic Edge States
A. Nogaret, S. J. Bending, and M. Henini
pp. 2231-2234 [View PDF (342 kB)]
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Role of the Anisotropy of Lead in BSCCO-Pb Josephson Tunneling
A. I. M. Rae
pp. 2235-2238 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Direct Magneto-Optical Observation of a Structural Phase Transition in Thin Films of Manganites
V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov, Y. K. Lin, D. J. Miller, U. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, and V. I. Nikitenko
pp. 2239-2242 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Reduction of Magnetic Moments in Very Thin Cr Layers of Fe/Cr Multilayers: Evidence from 119Sn Mössbauer Spectroscopy
K. Mibu, M. Almokhtar, S. Tanaka, A. Nakanishi, T. Kobayashi, and T. Shinjo
pp. 2243-2246 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Two-Step Disordering of Perpendicularly Magnetized Ultrathin Films
A. Vaterlaus, C. Stamm, U. Maier, M. G. Pini, P. Politi, and D. Pescia
pp. 2247-2250 [View PDF (886 kB)]
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Novel Behavior of Bond-Centered Muonium in Heavily Doped n-Type Silicon: Curie-Like Spin Susceptibility and Charge Screening
K. H. Chow, R. F. Kiefl, B. Hitti, T. L. Estle, and R. L. Lichti
pp. 2251-2254 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Selective Photon-Stimulated Desorption of Hydrogen from GaAs Surfaces
M. Petravić, P. N. K. Deenapanray, G. Comtet, L. Hellner, G. Dujardin, and B. F. Usher
pp. 2255-2258 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Atomic Many-Body Effects for the p-Shell Photoelectron Spectra of Transition Metals
Paul S. Bagus, R. Broer, W. A. de Jong, W. C. Nieuwpoort, F. Parmigiani, and L. Sangaletti
pp. 2259-2262 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Information, Relative Entropy of Entanglement, and Irreversibility
L. Henderson and V. Vedral
pp. 2263-2266 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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dc = 4 Is the Upper Critical Dimension for the Bak-Sneppen Model
Stefan Boettcher and Maya Paczuski
pp. 2267-2270 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Pumped Biochemical Reactions, Nonequilibrium Circulation, and Stochastic Resonance
Hong Qian and Min Qian
pp. 2271-2274 [View PDF (295 kB)]
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Universal Aging Features in the Restructuring of Fractal Colloidal Gels
Luca Cipelletti, S. Manley, R. C. Ball, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 2275-2278 [View PDF (159 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Resistive Anomalies at Ferromagnetic Transitions Revisited: The case of SrRuO3
R. Roussev and A. J. Millis
pp. 2279 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Klein et al. Reply:
L. Klein, J. S. Dodge, T. H. Geballe, M. R. Beasley, and A. Kapitulnik
pp. 2280 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Comment on “Quantum Theory of Secondary Emission in Optically Excited Semiconductor Quantum Wells”
J. Fernández-Rossier, S. Haacke, and B. Deveaud
pp. 2281 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Kira et al. Reply:
M. Kira, F. Jahnke, and S. W. Koch
pp. 2282 [View PDF (12 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Bragg Spectroscopy of a Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4569 (1999)]
J. Stenger, S. Inouye, A. P. Chikkatur, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
pp. 2283 [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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