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Physical Review Letters – 8 May 2000
Volume 84, Issue 19

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.

Detection of a Flow Induced Magnetic Field Eigenmode in the Riga Dynamo Facility
Agris Gailitis, Olgerts Lielausis, Sergej Dement'ev, Ernests Platacis, Arnis Cifersons, Gunter Gerbeth, Thomas Gundrum, Frank Stefani, Michael Christen, Heiko Hänel, and Gotthard Will
pp. 4365-4368 [View PDF (101 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Femtosecond Vibrational Dynamics of Self-Trapping in a Quasi-One-Dimensional System
S. L. Dexheimer, A. D. Van Pelt, J. A. Brozik, and B. I. Swanson
pp. 4425-4428 [View PDF (60 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Canonical and Microcanonical Calculations for Fermi Systems
Scott Pratt
pp. 4255-4259 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Asymptotic Manipulations of Entanglement Can Exhibit Genuine Irreversibility
Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
pp. 4260-4263 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Stable and Unstable Vortices in Multicomponent Bose-Einstein Condensates
Juan J. García-Ripoll and Víctor M. Pérez-García
pp. 4264-4267 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Thermostating by Deterministic Scattering: Construction of Nonequilibrium Steady States
R. Klages, K. Rateitschak, and G. Nicolis
pp. 4268-4271 [View PDF (550 kB)]
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Predicting the Liquid-Vapor Critical Point from the Crystal Anharmonicity
Yaakov Rosenfeld
pp. 4272-4275 [View PDF (58 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Evidence for Changing of Cosmic Ray Composition between 1017 and 1018 eV from Multicomponent Measurements
T. Abu-Zayyad et al.
pp. 4276-4279 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Landau Excitation of Spiral Density Waves in an Inhomogeneous Disk of Stars
Evgeny Griv, Michael Gedalin, David Eichler, and Chi Yuan
pp. 4280-4283 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Baryogenesis at Low Reheating Temperatures
Sacha Davidson, Marta Losada, and Antonio Riotto
pp. 4284-4287 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Radiation from Cosmic String Standing Waves
Ken D. Olum and J. J. Blanco-Pillado
pp. 4288-4291 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for the Decay B̅ 0→D*0γ
M. Artuso et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 4292-4295 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Higher-Order QCD Corrections in Prompt Photon Production
Eric Laenen, George Sterman, and Werner Vogelsang
pp. 4296-4299 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Precise Measurement of the b-Quark Fragmentation Function in Z0 Boson Decays
Kenji Abe et al. ((The SLD Collaboration))
pp. 4300-4304 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Dibaryons with Strangeness: Their Weak Nonleptonic Decay Using SU(3) Symmetry and How to Find Them in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich, Raffaele Mattiello, and Heinz Sorge
pp. 4305-4308 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Initial Energy Density of Gluons Produced in Very-High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
Alex Krasnitz and Raju Venugopalan
pp. 4309-4312 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Parity Dependence of Nuclear Level Densities
Y. Alhassid, G. F. Bertsch, S. Liu, and H. Nakada
pp. 4313-4316 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Effective Nucleon Mass in Deformed Nuclei
P. Donati, T. Døssing, Y. R. Shimizu, S. Mizutori, P. F. Bortignon, and R. A. Broglia
pp. 4317-4320 [View PDF (69 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Precise Measurement of the J  = 1 to J  = 2 Fine Structure Interval in the 23P State of Helium
J. Castillega, D. Livingston, A. Sanders, and D. Shiner
pp. 4321-4324 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Observation of Predicted Resonance Structure in the H+D2→HD(v′ = 0,j′ = 7)+D Reaction at a Collision Energy of 0.94eV
Brian K. Kendrick, Lalith Jayasinghe, Steven Moser, Marcis Auzinsh, and Neil Shafer-Ray
pp. 4325-4328 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Self-Phase-Matched High Harmonic Generation
Gabriel Tempea, Michael Geissler, Matthias Schnürer, and Thomas Brabec
pp. 4329-4332 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Reflection and Transmission of Waves near the Localization Threshold
B. A. van Tiggelen, A. Lagendijk, and D. S. Wiersma
pp. 4333-4336 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Anatomy of a Polarization Switch of a Vertical-Cavity Semiconductor Laser
M. B. Willemsen, M. P. van Exter, and J. P. Woerdman
pp. 4337-4340 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Spontaneous Emission from Photonic Crystals: Full Vectorial Calculations
Zhi-Yuan Li, Lan-Lan Lin, and Zhao-Qing Zhang
pp. 4341-4344 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Hexagonally Poled Lithium Niobate: A Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystal
N. G. R. Broderick, G. W. Ross, H. L. Offerhaus, D. J. Richardson, and D. C. Hanna
pp. 4345-4348 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Theory and Experiments on Elastic Band Gaps
D. García-Pablos, M. Sigalas, F. R. Montero de Espinosa, M. Torres, M. Kafesaki, and N. García
pp. 4349-4352 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Validation of an Instability Growth Model Using Particle Image Velocimetry Measurements
K. Prestridge, P. Vorobieff, P. M. Rightley, and R. F. Benjamin
pp. 4353-4356 [View PDF (698 kB)]
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Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Xiaochao Xu, Kapil M. S. Bajaj, and Guenter Ahlers
pp. 4357-4360 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Periodic Boundary Motion in Thermal Turbulence
Jun Zhang and Albert Libchaber
pp. 4361-4364 [View PDF (297 kB)]
Detection of a Flow Induced Magnetic Field Eigenmode in the Riga Dynamo Facility
Agris Gailitis, Olgerts Lielausis, Sergej Dement'ev, Ernests Platacis, Arnis Cifersons, Gunter Gerbeth, Thomas Gundrum, Frank Stefani, Michael Christen, Heiko Hänel, and Gotthard Will
pp. 4365-4368 [View PDF (101 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Spiral Structures in Magnetized Rotating Plasmas
Mitsuo Kono and Masayoshi Y. Tanaka
pp. 4369-4372 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Nonlinear Model for Coherent Electric Field Structures in the Magnetosphere
D. Jovanović and P. K. Shukla
pp. 4373-4376 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Modeling Hot, Dense Hydrogen with a Classical Spin Dependent Hamiltonian
T. N. Rescigno
pp. 4377-4380 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Radial-Fluctuation-Induced Stabilization of the Ordered State in Two-Dimensional Classical Clusters
I. V. Schweigert, V. A. Schweigert, and F. M. Peeters
pp. 4381-4384 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Microscopic Structure of the Wetting Film at the Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi Alloys
H. Tostmann, E. DiMasi, O. G. Shpyrko, P. S. Pershan, B. M. Ocko, and M. Deutsch
pp. 4385-4388 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Anomalous X-Ray Yields under Surface Wave Resonance during Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction and Adatom Site Determination
Toshiro Yamanaka and Shozo Ino
pp. 4389-4392 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Structure and Energetics of the Si- SiO2 Interface
Yuhai Tu and J. Tersoff
pp. 4393-4396 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Novel Microscopic Mechanism of Intermixing during Growth on Soft Metallic Substrates
L. Gómez, C. Slutzky, J. Ferrón, J. de la Figuera, J. Camarero, A. L. Vázquez de Parga, J. J. de Miguel, and R. Miranda
pp. 4397-4400 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Molecular Simulations of Dewetting
Joel Koplik and Jayanth R. Banavar
pp. 4401-4404 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Crystallization: The Role of Convection
T. Buhse, D. Durand, D. Kondepudi, J. Laudadio, and S. Spilker
pp. 4405-4408 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Polydispersity Exponent in Homogeneous Droplet Growth
J. A. Blackman and S. Brochard
pp. 4409-4412 [View PDF (64 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of a Luttinger Liquid
Sebastian Eggert
pp. 4413-4416 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Anderson Impurity in a Correlated Conduction Band
W. Hofstetter, R. Bulla, and D. Vollhardt
pp. 4417-4420 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Parallel Magnetic Field Induced Transition in Transport in the Dilute Two-Dimensional Hole System in GaAs
Jongsoo Yoon, C. C. Li, D. Shahar, D. C. Tsui, and M. Shayegan
pp. 4421-4424 [View PDF (103 kB)]
Femtosecond Vibrational Dynamics of Self-Trapping in a Quasi-One-Dimensional System
S. L. Dexheimer, A. D. Van Pelt, J. A. Brozik, and B. I. Swanson
pp. 4425-4428 [View PDF (60 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Charged Magnetoexcitons in Two-Dimensions: Magnetic Translations and Families of Dark States
A. B. Dzyubenko and A. Yu. Sivachenko
pp. 4429-4432 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Molecule-Type Phases and Hund's Rule in Vertically Coupled Quantum Dots
B. Partoens and F. M. Peeters
pp. 4433-4436 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Bilayer Quantum Hall Systems at Filling Factor ν = 2: An Exact Diagonalization Study
John Schliemann and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 4437-4440 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Electrical Transport in Rings of Single-Wall Nanotubes: One-Dimensional Localization
H. R. Shea, R. Martel, and Ph. Avouris
pp. 4441-4444 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Collective Mode in a Superconductor with Mixed-Symmetry Order Parameter Components
A. V. Balatsky, P. Kumar, and J. R. Schrieffer
pp. 4445-4448 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Fermi Surface of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
H. M. Fretwell, A. Kaminski, J. Mesot, J. C. Campuzano, M. R. Norman, M. Randeria, T. Sato, R. Gatt, T. Takahashi, and K. Kadowaki
pp. 4449-4452 [View PDF (465 kB)]
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Joys and Pitfalls of Fermi Surface Mapping in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Using Angle Resolved Photoemission
S. V. Borisenko, M. S. Golden, S. Legner, T. Pichler, C. Dürr, M. Knupfer, J. Fink, G. Yang, S. Abell, and H. Berger
pp. 4453-4456 [View PDF (340 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Periodic Frustrated Ising Models in a Transverse Field
R. Moessner, S. L. Sondhi, and P. Chandra
pp. 4457-4460 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Quantum Phase Transitions in the Shastry-Sutherland Model for SrCu2(BO3)2
Akihisa Koga and Norio Kawakami
pp. 4461-4464 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Triplet Waves in a Quantum Spin Liquid
Guangyong Xu, C. Broholm, Daniel H. Reich, and M. A. Adams
pp. 4465-4468 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Neutron Scattering Study of the Field-Induced Soliton Lattice in CuGeO3
H. M. Rønnow, M. Enderle, D. F. McMorrow, L.-P. Regnault, G. Dhalenne, A. Revcolevschi, A. Hoser, K. Prokes, P. Vorderwisch, and H. Schneider
pp. 4469-4472 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Two Time Scales and Violation of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem in a Finite Dimensional Model for Structural Glasses
Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Daniel A. Stariolo, and Jeferson J. Arenzon
pp. 4473-4476 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Disorder Averaging and Finite-Size Scaling
Karim Bernardet, Ferenc Pázmándi, and G. G. Batrouni
pp. 4477-4480 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Low Temperature Anomaly in Mesoscopic Kondo Wires
P. Mohanty and R. A. Webb
pp. 4481-4484 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Noise Probe of the Dynamic Phase Separation in La2/3Ca1/3MnO3
B. Raquet, A. Anane, S. Wirth, P. Xiong, and S. von Molnár
pp. 4485-4488 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Jahn-Teller Dynamics in Charge-Ordered Manganites from Raman Spectroscopy
V. Dediu, C. Ferdeghini, F. C. Matacotta, P. Nozar, and G. Ruani
pp. 4489-4492 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Structural Phase Transition of Aluminum Induced by Electronic Excitation
C. Guo, G. Rodriguez, A. Lobad, and A. J. Taylor
pp. 4493-4496 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Pauli Cloning of a Quantum Bit
Nicolas J. Cerf
pp. 4497-4500 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Human Electroencephalogram Induces Transient Coherence in Excitable Spatiotemporal Chaos
Gerold Baier, Ron S. Leder, and P. Parmananda
pp. 4501-4504 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Universal Scaling of Wave Propagation Failure in Arrays of Coupled Nonlinear Cells
Konstantin Kladko, Igor Mitkov, and A. R. Bishop
pp. 4505-4508 [View PDF (62 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Coherence and Relaxation in Potassium-Doped Helium Droplets Studied by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy”
Miles J. Weida, Susumu Ogawa, and Hrvoje Petek
pp. 4509 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Stienkemeier, Lutz, and Schulz Reply:
F. Stienkemeier, H. O. Lutz, and C. P. Schulz
pp. 4510 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Comment on “ Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Studies of Off-Center Displacements in CuCl”
M. Cardona, K. Syassen, and T. Ruf
pp. 4511 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Bickham et al. Reply:
S. R. Bickham, J. D. Kress, L. A. Collins, and R. Stumpf
pp. 4512 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Comment on Electro-optic Effect and Valence-Band Mixing in Zinc-Blende Semiconductors
Bradley A. Foreman
pp. 4513 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Khurgin and Voisin Reply:
J. B. Khurgin and P. Voisin
pp. 4514 [View PDF (29 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Shape Change as an Indicator of Mechanism in the High-Pressure Structural Transformations of CdSe Nanocrystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 923 (2000)]
Juanita N. Wickham, Amy B. Herhold, and A. P. Alivisatos
pp. 4515 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Erratum: Anomalous Spreading of Power-Law Quantum Wave Packets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1061 (2000)]
Fabrizio Lillo and Rosario N. Mantegna
pp. 4516 [View PDF (9 kB)]
 
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