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Physical Review Letters – 13 March 2000
Volume 84, Issue 11

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.

Devil's Staircase–Type Faceting of a Cubic Lyotropic Liquid Crystal
Pawel Pieranski, Paul Sotta, Daniel Rohe, and Marianne Imperor-Clerc
pp. 2409-2412 [View PDF (617 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Minimal Potentials with Very Many Minima
Marin Soljac̆ić and Frank Wilczek
pp. 2285-2289 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Fast Time-Evolution Method for Dynamical Systems
Y. L. Loh, S. N. Taraskin, and S. R. Elliott
pp. 2290-2293 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Nonlinear Effects in Interference of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Wu-Ming Liu, Biao Wu, and Qian Niu
pp. 2294-2297 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Motion of Dark Solitons in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
Th. Busch and J. R. Anglin
pp. 2298-2301 [View PDF (294 kB)]
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General Structure of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Arbitrary Spin
Tin-Lun Ho and Lan Yin
pp. 2302-2305 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Condensate Statistics in Interacting and Ideal Dilute Bose Gases
V. V. Kocharovsky, Vl. V. Kocharovsky, and Marlan O. Scully
pp. 2306-2309 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance in Multilevel Threshold Systems
N. G. Stocks
pp. 2310-2313 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Consistent Canonical Quantization of General Relativity in the Space of Vassiliev Invariants
Cayetano Di Bartolo, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Griego, and Jorge Pullin
pp. 2314-2317 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Quantum Gravity Corrections to Neutrino Propagation
Jorge Alfaro, Hugo A. Morales-Técotl, and Luis F. Urrutia
pp. 2318-2321 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Multi-TeV Scalars are Natural in Minimal Supergravity
Jonathan L. Feng, Konstantin T. Matchev, and Takeo Moroi
pp. 2322-2325 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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New Approach to Axial Coupling Constants in the QCD Sum Rule
Tetsuo Nishikawa, Sakae Saito, and Yoshihiko Kondo
pp. 2326-2329 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Interference in Exclusive Vector Meson Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Spencer R. Klein and Joakim Nystrand
pp. 2330-2333 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Elastic Compton Scattering from the Deuteron and Nucleon Polarizabilities
D. L. Hornidge, B. J. Warkentin, R. Igarashi, J. C. Bergstrom, E. L. Hallin, N. R. Kolb, R. E. Pywell, D. M. Skopik, J. M. Vogt, and G. Feldman
pp. 2334-2337 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Out of Plane Measurements of the Decay Neutron from the Giant Resonance in the 12C(e,e′n)11C Reaction
M. Oikawa, T. Saito, K. Takahisa, Y. Suga, K. Kino, T. Nakagawa, T. Tohei, K. Abe, and H. Ueno
pp. 2338-2341 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Large Enhancement of the Sub-barrier Fusion Probability for a Halo Nucleus
M. Trotta et al.
pp. 2342-2345 [View PDF (203 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Atomic Quadrupolar Photoemission Asymmetry Parameters from a Solid State Measurement
G. J. Jackson, B. C. C. Cowie, D. P. Woodruff, R. G. Jones, M. S. Kariapper, C. Fisher, A. S. Y. Chan, and M. Butterfield
pp. 2346-2349 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Density Shift and Broadening of Transition Lines in Antiprotonic Helium
Dimitre Bakalov, Bogumil Jeziorski, Tatiana Korona, Krzysztof Szalewicz, and Eugeniya Tchoukova
pp. 2350-2353 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Tomographic Measurement of Joint Photon Statistics of the Twin-Beam Quantum State
Michael Vasilyev, Sang-Kyung Choi, Prem Kumar, and G. Mauro D'Ariano
pp. 2354-2357 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Directed Current due to Broken Time-Space Symmetry
S. Flach, O. Yevtushenko, and Y. Zolotaryuk
pp. 2358-2361 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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How Efficiently Do Three Pointlike Particles Sample Phase Space?
S. G. Cox and G. J. Ackland
pp. 2362-2365 [View PDF (466 kB)]
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Estimation of Noise Levels for Models of Chaotic Dynamical Systems
J. P. M. Heald and J. Stark
pp. 2366-2369 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Average Energy Flow of Optical Pulses in Dispersive Media
J. Peatross, S. A. Glasgow, and M. Ware
pp. 2370-2373 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Bright Spatial Solitons on a Partially Incoherent Background
Tamer H. Coskun, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Young-Rae Kim, Zhigang Chen, Marin Soljacic, and Mordechai Segev
pp. 2374-2377 [View PDF (387 kB)]
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Acoustic Einstein-Hopf Drag on a Bubble
A. Larraza and E. Tucholski
pp. 2378-2380 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Normal Heat Conductivity of the One-Dimensional Lattice with Periodic Potential of Nearest-Neighbor Interaction
O. V. Gendelman and A. V. Savin
pp. 2381-2384 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Universality and Saturation of Intermittency in Passive Scalar Turbulence
A. Celani, A. Lanotte, A. Mazzino, and M. Vergassola
pp. 2385-2388 [View PDF (526 kB)]
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Finite Wavelength Instabilities in a Slow Mode Coupled Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
M. Ipsen and P. G. Sørensen
pp. 2389-2392 [View PDF (384 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Self-Amplification of Coherent Spontaneous Emission in a Cherenkov Free-Electron Maser
S. M. Wiggins, D. A. Jaroszynski, B. W. J. McNeil, G. R. M. Robb, P. Aitken, A. D. R. Phelps, A. W. Cross, K. Ronald, N. S. Ginzburg, V. G. Shpak, M. I. Yalandin, S. A. Shunailov, and M. R. Ulmaskulov
pp. 2393-2396 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Identification of Minority Ion-Cyclotron Emission during Radio Frequency Heating in the JET Tokamak
G. A. Cottrell
pp. 2397-2400 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Destabilization of the m = 1 Diocotron Mode in Non-neutral Plasmas
John M. Finn, Diego del-Castillo-Negrete, and Daniel C. Barnes
pp. 2401-2404 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Laser-Hole Boring into Overdense Plasmas Measured with Soft X-Ray Laser Probing
K. Takahashi, R. Kodama, K. A. Tanaka, H. Hashimoto, Y. Kato, K. Mima, F. A. Weber, T. W. Barbee, Jr., and L. B. Da Silva
pp. 2405-2408 [View PDF (449 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Devil's Staircase–Type Faceting of a Cubic Lyotropic Liquid Crystal
Pawel Pieranski, Paul Sotta, Daniel Rohe, and Marianne Imperor-Clerc
pp. 2409-2412 [View PDF (617 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Defects in a Disordered World: The Structure of Glassy GeSe2
Ingrid Petri, Philip S. Salmon, and Henry E. Fischer
pp. 2413-2416 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Unexpected Scenario of Glass Transition in Polymer Globules: An Exactly Enumerable Model
Rose Du, Alexander Yu. Grosberg, Toyoichi Tanaka, and Michael Rubinstein
pp. 2417-2420 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Observation of “Stick” and “Handle” Intermediates along the Fullerene Road
Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Robert R. Hudgins, Philippe Dugourd, Rafael Gutierrez, Thomas Frauenheim, and Martin F. Jarrold
pp. 2421-2424 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Dimer to Monomer Phase Transition in Alkali-Metal Fullerides: Magnetic Susceptibility Changes
Kwang S. Kim, Jung Mee Park, Jongseob Kim, Seung Bum Suh, P. Tarakeshwar, Kee Hag Lee, and Sung Soo Park
pp. 2425-2428 [View PDF (353 kB)]
Water under Pressure
Eric Schwegler, Giulia Galli, and François Gygi
pp. 2429-2432 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Metastability and Nucleation in Capillary Condensation
Frédéric Restagno, Lydéric Bocquet, and Thierry Biben
pp. 2433-2436 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Orientational Dynamics in Supercooled Liquids near Tc and Comparison with Ideal Mode-Coupling Theory
G. Hinze, David D. Brace, S. D. Gottke, and M. D. Fayer
pp. 2437-2440 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Diffusion of Ge below the Si(100) Surface: Theory and Experiment
Blas P. Uberuaga, Michael Leskovar, Arthur P. Smith, Hannes Jónsson, and Marjorie Olmstead
pp. 2441-2444 [View PDF (483 kB)]
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Ripple Rotation in Multilayer Homoepitaxy
F. Buatier de Mongeot, G. Costantini, C. Boragno, and U. Valbusa
pp. 2445-2448 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Enhanced Instability of Strained Alloy Films due to Compositional Stresses
B. J. Spencer, P. W. Voorhees, and J. Tersoff
pp. 2449-2452 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Gapping by Squashing: Metal-Insulator and Insulator-Metal Transitions in Collapsed Carbon Nanotubes
Paul E. Lammert, Peihong Zhang, and Vincent H. Crespi
pp. 2453-2456 [View PDF (283 kB)]
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Excitonic and Quasiparticle Gaps in Si Nanocrystals
C. Delerue, M. Lannoo, and G. Allan
pp. 2457-2460 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Competition between Phase Separation and “Classical” Intermediate Valence in an Exactly Solved Model
Woonki Chung and J. K. Freericks
pp. 2461-2464 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Nonlinear Electric Field Effects at a Continuous Mott-Hubbard Transition
A. Husmann, J. Brooke, T. F. Rosenbaum, X. Yao, and J. M. Honig
pp. 2465-2468 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Dynamical Properties near the Metal-Insulator Transition: Evidence for Electron-Assisted Variable Range Hopping
S. Marnieros, L. Bergé, A. Juillard, and L. Dumoulin
pp. 2469-2472 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Probing the Potential Landscape Inside a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
J. J. Koonen, H. Buhmann, and L. W. Molenkamp
pp. 2473-2476 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Topological Scenario for Stripe Formation in Manganese Oxides
Takashi Hotta, Yasutami Takada, Hiroyasu Koizumi, and Elbio Dagotto
pp. 2477-2480 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Finite-Element Theory of Transport in Ferromagnet–Normal Metal Systems
Arne Brataas, Yu. V. Nazarov, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer
pp. 2481-2484 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Direct Coulomb and Exchange Interaction in Artificial Atoms
S. Tarucha, D. G. Austing, Y. Tokura, W. G. van der Wiel, and L. P. Kouwenhoven
pp. 2485-2488 [View PDF (533 kB)]
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Weak Localization, Hole-Hole Interactions, and the “Metal”-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions
M. Y. Simmons, A. R. Hamilton, M. Pepper, E. H. Linfield, P. D. Rose, and D. A. Ritchie
pp. 2489-2492 [View PDF (423 kB)]
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Dynamic Phases and the Peak Effect in Dirty Type II Superconductors
Anne van Otterlo, Richard T. Scalettar, Gergely T. Zimányi, Robert Olsson, Andra Petrean, Wai Kwok, and Valerii Vinokur
pp. 2493-2496 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Enhanced Critical Currents of Superconducting ErNi2B2C in the Ferromagnetically Ordered State
P. L. Gammel, B. Barber, D. Lopez, A. P. Ramirez, D. J. Bishop, S. L. Bud'ko, and P. C. Canfield
pp. 2497-2500 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of Ferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions in the Double-Exchange Model
H. Itoh, T. Ohsawa, and J. Inoue
pp. 2501-2504 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Optical Anisotropy of Zinc-Blende Semiconductors in an Electric Field
Bradley A. Foreman
pp. 2505-2508 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Squeezing Alcohols into Sonoluminescing Bubbles: The Universal Role of Surfactants
Rüdiger Tögel, Sascha Hilgenfeldt, and Detlef Lohse
pp. 2509-2512 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Regulated and Entangled Photons from a Single Quantum Dot
Oliver Benson, Charles Santori, Matthew Pelton, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto
pp. 2513-2516 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Role of the 2D Surface State Continuum and Projected Band Gap in Charge Transfer in Front of a Cu(111) Surface
T. Hecht, H. Winter, A. G. Borisov, J. P. Gauyacq, and A. K. Kazansky
pp. 2517-2520 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Classical Teleportation of a Quantum Bit
N. J. Cerf, N. Gisin, and S. Massar
pp. 2521-2524 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Theory of Quantum Error Correction for General Noise
Emanuel Knill, Raymond Laflamme, and Lorenza Viola
pp. 2525-2528 [View PDF (66 kB)]
Highly Optimized Tolerance: Robustness and Design in Complex Systems
J. M. Carlson and John Doyle
pp. 2529-2532 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Do Free DNA Counterions Control the Osmotic Pressure?
E. Raspaud, M. da Conceiçao, and F. Livolant
pp. 2533-2536 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Twist in Chiral Interaction between Biological Helices
A. A. Kornyshev and S. Leikin
pp. 2537-2540 [View PDF (253 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Accelerated Emission of Gamma Rays from the 31-yr Isomer of 178Hf Induced by X-Ray Irradiation”
Silviu Olariu and Agata Olariu
pp. 2541 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Comment on “Accelerated Emission of Gamma Rays from the 31-yr Isomer of 178Hf Induced by X-Ray Irradiation”
D. P. McNabb, J. D. Anderson, J. A. Becker, and M. S. Weiss
pp. 2542 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Comment on “Accelerated Emission of Gamma Rays from the 31-yr Isomer of 178Hf Induced by X-Ray Irradiation”
P. von Neumann-Cosel and A. Richter
pp. 2543 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Collins et al. Reply:
C. B. Collins, F. Davanloo, M. C. Iosif, R. Dussart, J. M. Hicks, S. A. Karamian, C. A. Ur, I. I. Popescu, V. I. Kirischuk, H. E. Roberts, P. McDaniel, and C. E. Crist
pp. 2544-2545 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Singularities and Pseudogaps in the Density of States of Peierls Chains”
A. J. Millis and H. Monien
pp. 2546 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Bartosch and Kopietz Reply:
Lorenz Bartosch and Peter Kopietz
pp. 2547 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Comment on “Density Functional Simulation of a Breaking Nanowire”
C. A. Stafford, J. Bürki, and D. Baeriswyl
pp. 2548 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Nakamura et al. Reply:
A. Nakamura, M. Brandbyge, L. B. Hansen, and K. W. Jacobsen
pp. 2549 [View PDF (16 kB)]

ERRATA

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Pairing Correlations in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4486 (1997)]
Shiwei Zhang, J. Carlson, and J. E. Gubernatis
pp. 2550 [View PDF (4 kB)]
 
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