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Physical Review Letters – 17 April 2000
Volume 84, Issue 16

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.

Violation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff: A Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot? Why Cosmic Ray Energies above 1020 eV May Not Require New Physics
Glennys R. Farrar and Tsvi Piran
pp. 3527-3530 [View PDF (67 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Linking Numbers for Self-Avoiding Loops and Percolation: Application to the Spin Quantum Hall Transition
John Cardy
pp. 3507-3510 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Classification of Phase Transitions in Small Systems
Peter Borrmann, Oliver Mülken, and Jens Harting
pp. 3511-3514 [View PDF (171 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries
Janna Levin
pp. 3515-3518 [View PDF (420 kB)]
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Prospects for Gravitational-Wave Observations of Neutron-Star Tidal Disruption in Neutron-Star–Black-Hole Binaries
Michele Vallisneri
pp. 3519-3522 [View PDF (73 kB)]
Dark Energy and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Scott Dodelson and Lloyd Knox
pp. 3523-3526 [View PDF (106 kB)]
Violation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff: A Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot? Why Cosmic Ray Energies above 1020 eV May Not Require New Physics
Glennys R. Farrar and Tsvi Piran
pp. 3527-3530 [View PDF (67 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Coupling Gravitons to Matter
Z. Bern, A. De Freitas, and H. L. Wong
pp. 3531-3534 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Linking Solar and Long Baseline Terrestrial Neutrino Experiments
E. Kh. Akhmedov, G. C. Branco, and M. N. Rebelo
pp. 3535-3538 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Coherent Λ-Σ Coupling in s-Shell Hypernuclei
Y. Akaishi, T. Harada, S. Shinmura, and Khin Swe Myint
pp. 3539-3541 [View PDF (51 kB)]
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Entry Distribution, Fission Barrier, and Formation Mechanism of 102254No
P. Reiter et al.
pp. 3542-3545 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Interpretation of Momentum Distribution of Recoil Ions from Laser Induced Nonsequential Double Ionization
A. Becker and F. H. M. Faisal
pp. 3546-3549 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Collective Multielectron Tunneling Ionization in Strong Fields
U. Eichmann, M. Dörr, H. Maeda, W. Becker, and W. Sandner
pp. 3550-3553 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Dynamics of Electronic Excitations in Molecules and Small Clusters
S. Minemoto, J. Müller, G. Ganteför, H. J. Münzer, J. Boneberg, and P. Leiderer
pp. 3554-3557 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Threshold and Linewidth of a Mirrorless Parametric Oscillator
M. Fleischhauer, M. D. Lukin, A. B. Matsko, and M. O. Scully
pp. 3558-3561 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Asymmetric Electron-Nuclear Dynamics in Two-Color Laser Fields: Laser Phase Directional Control of Photofragments in H2+
André D. Bandrauk and Szczepan Chelkowski
pp. 3562-3565 [View PDF (211 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Quantum Resonances of the Kicked Rotor and the SU(q) Group
V. V. Sokolov, O. V. Zhirov, D. Alonso, and G. Casati
pp. 3566-3569 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Discrete Breathers: Exact Solutions in Piecewise Linear Models
Avijit Lahiri, Subhendu Panda, and Tarun K. Roy
pp. 3570-3573 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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High-Efficiency Single-Mode Free-Electron Maser Oscillator Based on a Bragg Resonator with Step of Phase of Corrugation
N. S. Ginzburg, A. A. Kaminsky, A. K. Kaminsky, N. Yu. Peskov, S. N. Sedykh, A. P. Sergeev, and A. S. Sergeev
pp. 3574-3577 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Spatial Field Distributions in the Transition from Ballistic to Diffusive Transport in Randomly Corrugated Waveguides
A. García-Martín, J. J. Sáenz, and M. Nieto-Vesperinas
pp. 3578-3581 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Catastrophic Collapse of Ultrashort Pulses
Alexander L. Gaeta
pp. 3582-3585 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Raman Gap Solitons
Herbert G. Winful and Victor Perlin
pp. 3586-3589 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Bénard-Marangoni Convection in Two-Layered Liquids
Wayne A. Tokaruk, T. C. A. Molteno, and Stephen W. Morris
pp. 3590-3593 [View PDF (145 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Stationary Velocity and Charge Distributions of Grains in Dusty Plasmas
A. G. Zagorodny, P. P. J. M. Schram, and S. A. Trigger
pp. 3594-3597 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Opacity of an Underdense Plasma Slab due to the Parametric Instabilities of an Ultraintense Laser Pulse
J. C. Adam, A. Héron, G. Laval, and P. Mora
pp. 3598-3601 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Impact of Kinetic Processes on the Macroscopic Nonlinear Evolution of the Electromagnetic-Beam-Plasma Instability
F. Califano, F. Pegoraro, and S. V. Bulanov
pp. 3602-3605 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Scale Size of Magnetic Turbulence in Tokamaks Probed with 30-MeV Electrons
I. Entrop, N. J. Lopes Cardozo, R. Jaspers, and K. H. Finken ((Partners in Trilateral Euregio Cluster))
pp. 3606-3609 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Jets in Tokamaks: A Theoretical Study
G. M. Staebler
pp. 3610-3613 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Generation of Broadband Electrostatic Waves in Earth's Magnetotail
Crockett Grabbe
pp. 3614-3617 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Electron Holography with Atomic Focusers
J. M. Cowley
pp. 3618-3621 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Structure of Liquid Y3Al5O12 (YAG)
J. K. Richard Weber, Shankar Krishnan, Stuart Ansell, April D. Hixson, and Paul C. Nordine
pp. 3622-3625 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Gas-Liquid Transition in a Two-Dimensional System of Millimeter-Sized Like-Charged Metal Balls
B. V. R. Tata, P. V. Rajamani, J. Chakrabarti, Alex Nikolov, and D. T. Wasan
pp. 3626-3629 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Fast Heterogeneous Collective Structural Relaxation in a Supercooled Liquid near the Glass Transition
M. Russina, F. Mezei, R. Lechner, S. Longeville, and B. Urban
pp. 3630-3633 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Investigation of the Radial Compression of Carbon Nanotubes with a Scanning Probe Microscope
Weidian Shen, Bin Jiang, Bao Shan Han, and Si-shen Xie
pp. 3634-3637 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Quasi–Ab Initio Molecular Dynamic Study of Fe Melting
A. B. Belonoshko, R. Ahuja, and B. Johansson
pp. 3638-3641 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Two Experimental Tests of the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma Effect at the Nematic–Smectic- A Phase Transition
Anand Yethiraj and John Bechhoefer
pp. 3642-3645 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Imaging Cluster Surfaces with Atomic Resolution: The Strong Metal-Support Interaction State of Pt Supported on TiO2(110)
Olga Dulub, Wilhelm Hebenstreit, and Ulrike Diebold
pp. 3646-3649 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Effect of the Environment on α-Al2O3 (0001) Surface Structures
Xiao-Gang Wang, Anne Chaka, and Matthias Scheffler
pp. 3650-3653 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Indium-Indium Pair Correlation and Surface Segregation in InGaAs Alloys
Jun-Hyung Cho, S. B. Zhang, and Alex Zunger
pp. 3654-3657 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Direct Local Epitaxy of Diamond on Si(100) and Surface-Roughening-Induced Crystal Misorientation
X. Jiang and C. L. Jia
pp. 3658-3661 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Decay of Silicon Mounds: Scaling Laws and Description with Continuum Step Parameters
A. Ichimiya, K. Hayashi, E. D. Williams, T. L. Einstein, M. Uwaha, and K. Watanabe
pp. 3662-3665 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Evidence for Phase-Separated Quantum Dots in Cubic InGaN Layers from Resonant Raman Scattering
V. Lemos, E. Silveira, J. R. Leite, A. Tabata, R. Trentin, L. M. R. Scolfaro, T. Frey, D. J. As, D. Schikora, and K. Lischka
pp. 3666-3669 [View PDF (209 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ground State Theory of δ-Pu
S. Y. Savrasov and G. Kotliar
pp. 3670-3673 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Pseudogap Formation in the Intermetallic Compounds (Fe1-xVx)3Al
H. Okamura, J. Kawahara, T. Nanba, S. Kimura, K. Soda, U. Mizutani, Y. Nishino, M. Kato, I. Shimoyama, H. Miura, K. Fukui, K. Nakagawa, H. Nakagawa, and T. Kinoshita
pp. 3674-3677 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Effect of Long Range Coulomb Interactions on the Mott Transition
R. Chitra and G. Kotliar
pp. 3678-3681 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Current Bistability and Hysteresis in Strongly Correlated Quantum Wires
R. Egger, H. Grabert, A. Koutouza, H. Saleur, and F. Siano
pp. 3682-3685 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Real-Time Renormalization Group and Charge Fluctuations in Quantum Dots
Herbert Schoeller and Jürgen König
pp. 3686-3689 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Fluctuations of the Inverse Participation Ratio at the Anderson Transition
F. Evers and A. D. Mirlin
pp. 3690-3693 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Calculation of the Inelastic Scanning Tunneling Image of Acetylene on Cu(100)
N. Mingo and K. Makoshi
pp. 3694-3697 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Transient Vortex States in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Crystals
D. Giller, A. Shaulov, T. Tamegai, and Y. Yeshurun
pp. 3698-3701 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Enhanced Vortex Damping by Eddy Currents in Superconductor-Semiconductor Hybrids
M. Danckwerts, A. R. Goñi, C. Thomsen, K. Eberl, and A. G. Rojo
pp. 3702-3705 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Critical Points in Heavy Ion Irradiated Untwinned YBa2Cu3O7-δ Crystals
W. K. Kwok, R. J. Olsson, G. Karapetrov, L. M. Paulius, W. G. Moulton, D. J. Hofman, and G. W. Crabtree
pp. 3706-3709 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Transmission Phase Shift of a Quantum Dot with Kondo Correlations
Ulrich Gerland, Jan von Delft, T. A. Costi, and Yuval Oreg
pp. 3710-3713 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Ferromagnetic, A-Type, and Charge-Ordered CE-Type States in Doped Manganites Using Jahn-Teller Phonons
Seiji Yunoki, Takashi Hotta, and Elbio Dagotto
pp. 3714-3717 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Local Spin Resonance and Spin-Peierls-like Phase Transition in a Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnet
S.-H. Lee, C. Broholm, T. H. Kim, W. Ratcliff, II, and S-W. Cheong
pp. 3718-3721 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Polarization Instability in Polydomain Ferroelectric Epitaxial Thin Films and the Formation of Heterophase Structures
N. A. Pertsev and V. G. Koukhar
pp. 3722-3725 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Novel Features of Sr1-xCaxTiO3 Phase Diagram: Evidence for Competing Antiferroelectric and Ferroelectric Interactions
Rajeev Ranjan, Dhananjai Pandey, and Niranjan Prasad Lalla
pp. 3726-3729 [View PDF (95 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Quasicrystal-Crystal Transformation in Zn-Mg–Rare-Earth Alloys”
Z. P. Luo, Y. L. Tang, and D. J. Miller
pp. 3730 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Abe and Tsai Reply:
Eiji Abe and An Pang Tsai
pp. 3731 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Comment on “Optical Solitary Wave and Shock Solutions of the Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation”
Q-Han Park and S. H. Han
pp. 3732 [View PDF (22 kB)]
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Comment on “Determination of Phonon Dispersions from X-Ray Transmission Scattering: The Example of Silicon”
M. Y. Chou and M. Choi
pp. 3733 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Holt and Chiang Reply:
M. Holt and T.-C. Chiang
pp. 3734 [View PDF (24 kB)]
 
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