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Physical Review Letters – 10 January 2000
Volume 84, Issue 2

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.

Atom-Selective Bond Breaking in a Chemisorbed Homonuclear Molecule Induced by Core Excitation: N2/Ru(001)
R. Romberg, N. Heckmair, S. P. Frigo, A. Ogurtsov, D. Menzel, and P. Feulner
pp. 374-377 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Backward-to-Forward Jump Rates on a Tilted Periodic Substrate
M. Borromeo and F. Marchesoni
pp. 203-207 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Rotators with Long-Range Interactions: Connection with the Mean-Field Approximation
Francisco Tamarit and Celia Anteneodo
pp. 208-211 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Indications for an Extra Neutral Gauge Boson in Electroweak Precision Data
Jens Erler and Paul Langacker
pp. 212-215 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Measurement of the Helicity of W Bosons in Top Quark Decays
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 216-221 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Measurement of the W Boson Mass Using Electrons at Large Rapidities
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 222-227 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Higgs-Mediated B0→μ+μ- in Minimal Supersymmetry
K. S. Babu and Christopher Kolda
pp. 228-231 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Observation of Diffractive b-Quark Production at the Fermilab Tevatron
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 232-237 [View PDF (243 kB)]
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Quenched Light Hadron Spectrum
S. Aoki, G. Boyd, R. Burkhalter, S. Ejiri, M. Fukugita, S. Hashimoto, Y. Iwasaki, K. Kanaya, T. Kaneko, Y. Kuramashi, K. Nagai, M. Okawa, H. P. Shanahan, A. Ukawa, and T. Yoshié (CP-PACS Collaboration)
pp. 238-241 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Improved Molecular Final-State Distribution of HeT+ for the β-Decay Process of T2
Alejandro Saenz, Svante Jonsell, and Piotr Froelich
pp. 242-245 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Efficient Production of Ground-State Potassium Molecules at Sub-mK Temperatures by Two-Step Photoassociation
A. N. Nikolov, J. R. Ensher, E. E. Eyler, H. Wang, W. C. Stwalley, and P. L. Gould
pp. 246-249 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Manifestation of Many-Electron Correlations in Photoionization of the K Shell of N2
N. A. Cherepkov, S. K. Semenov, Y. Hikosaka, K. Ito, S. Motoki, and A. Yagishita
pp. 250-253 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Collective Effects in the Self-Interference of a Single Photon Emitted by Two Atoms
Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara
pp. 254-257 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Chaotic Transport and Current Reversal in Deterministic Ratchets
José L. Mateos
pp. 258-261 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Quantization of a Billiard Model for Interacting Particles
Thomas Papenbrock and Tomaž Prosen
pp. 262-265 [View PDF (501 kB)]
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Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Diffusion in Granular Flow
Joseph D. Seymour, Arvind Caprihan, Stephen A. Altobelli, and Eiichi Fukushima
pp. 266-269 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Parametric X Rays Observed under Bragg Condition: Boost of Intensity by a Factor of Two
J. Freudenberger, H. Genz, V. V. Morokhovskyi, A. Richter, and J. P. F. Sellschop
pp. 270-273 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Detailed Measurements of a Diffusive Supersonic Wave in a Radiatively Heated Foam
C. A. Back, J. D. Bauer, O. L. Landen, R. E. Turner, B. F. Lasinski, J. H. Hammer, M. D. Rosen, L. J. Suter, and W. H. Hsing
pp. 274-277 [View PDF (393 kB)]
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Resonant Instability of Laser Filaments in a Plasma
D. Pesme, W. Rozmus, V. T. Tikhonchuk, A. Maximov, I. Ourdev, and C. H. Still
pp. 278-281 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Experimental Confirmation of Impurity Convection Driven by the Ion-Temperature Gradient in Toroidal Plasmas
M. R. Wade, W. A. Houlberg, and L. R. Baylor
pp. 282-285 [View PDF (506 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Criterion for Dominance of Directional over Size Fluctuations in Destroying Order
H. Kleinert
pp. 286-289 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Mechanical Flocculation in Flowing Fiber Suspensions
C. F. Schmid and D. J. Klingenberg
pp. 290-293 [View PDF (366 kB)]
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Adsorptionlike Collapse of Diblock Copolymers
Enzo Orlandini, Flavio Seno, and Attilio L. Stella
pp. 294-297 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Self-Similar Chain Conformations in Polymer Gels
Mathias Pütz, Kurt Kremer, and Ralf Everaers
pp. 298-301 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Oxygen-Related Intrinsic Defects in Glassy SiO2: Interstitial Ozone Molecules
L. Skuja, M. Hirano, and H. Hosono
pp. 302-305 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Thermodynamical Liquid-Glass Transition in a Lennard-Jones Binary Mixture
Barbara Coluzzi, Giorgio Parisi, and Paolo Verrocchio
pp. 306-309 [View PDF (57 kB)]
Scaling and Universality of ac Conduction in Disordered Solids
Thomas B. Schrøder and Jeppe C. Dyre
pp. 310-313 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Bose-Einstein Condensation and Spatial Correlations in 4He
J. Mayers
pp. 314-317 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Stress Domains in Si(111)/a-Si3N4 Nanopixel: Ten-Million-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Parallel Computers
Andrey Omeltchenko, Martina E. Bachlechner, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv K. Kalia, Priya Vashishta, Ingvar Ebbsjö, Anupam Madhukar, and Paul Messina
pp. 318-321 [View PDF (902 kB)]
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Dislocation Emission at the Silicon/Silicon Nitride Interface: A Million Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Parallel Computers
Martina E. Bachlechner, Andrey Omeltchenko, Aiichiro Nakano, Rajiv K. Kalia, Priya Vashishta, Ingvar Ebbsjö, and Anupam Madhukar
pp. 322-325 [View PDF (795 kB)]
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Facet Ridge End Points in Crystal Shapes
Douglas Davidson and Marcel den Nijs
pp. 326-329 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Subcritical Fluctuations during the Formation of Strained Semiconductor Islands
D. E. Jesson, M. Kästner, and B. Voigtländer
pp. 330-333 [View PDF (418 kB)]
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Nonuniform Composition Profile in In0.5Ga0.5As Alloy Quantum Dots
N. Liu, J. Tersoff, O. Baklenov, A. L. Holmes, Jr., and C. K. Shih
pp. 334-337 [View PDF (893 kB)]
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Collapse Dynamics of Liquid Bridges Investigated by Time-Varying Magnetic Levitation
Milind P. Mahajan, Mesfin Tsige, Shiyong Zhang, J. Iwan D. Alexander, P. L. Taylor, and Charles Rosenblatt
pp. 338-341 [View PDF (302 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Gap-Anisotropic Model for the Narrow-Gap Kondo Insulators
Juana Moreno and P. Coleman
pp. 342-345 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Zero-Point Fluctuations and the Quenching of the Persistent Current in Normal Metal Rings
Pascal Cedraschi, Vadim V. Ponomarenko, and Markus Büttiker
pp. 346-349 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Composite Fermion Hofstadter Problem: Partially Polarized Density Wave States in the ν = 2/5 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Ganpathy Murthy
pp. 350-353 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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NMR Determination of 2D Electron Spin Polarization at ν = 1/2
S. Melinte, N. Freytag, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, L. P. Lévy, V. Bayot, and M. Shayegan
pp. 354-357 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Carbon-Atom Wires: Charge-Transfer Doping, Voltage Drop, and the Effect of Distortions
N. D. Lang and Ph. Avouris
pp. 358-361 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Negative Differential Conductivity in Carbon Nanotubes
Anton S. Maksimenko and Gregory Ya. Slepyan
pp. 362-365 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Spin Dynamics and Magnetic Correlation Length in Two-Dimensional Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnets
P. Carretta, T. Ciabattoni, A. Cuccoli, E. Mognaschi, A. Rigamonti, V. Tognetti, and P. Verrucchi
pp. 366-369 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Double-Spin-Flip Resonance of Rhodium Nuclei at Positive and Negative Spin Temperatures
J. T. Tuoriniemi, T. A. Knuuttila, K. Lefmann, K. K. Nummila, W. Yao, and F. B. Rasmussen
pp. 370-373 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Atom-Selective Bond Breaking in a Chemisorbed Homonuclear Molecule Induced by Core Excitation: N2/Ru(001)
R. Romberg, N. Heckmair, S. P. Frigo, A. Ogurtsov, D. Menzel, and P. Feulner
pp. 374-377 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Angular Studies of Potential Electron Emission in the Interaction of Slow Ions with Al Surfaces
P. Riccardi, P. Barone, A. Bonanno, A. Oliva, and R. A. Baragiola
pp. 378-381 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Presence of Many Stable Nonhomogeneous States in an Inertial Car-Following Model
Elad Tomer, Leonid Safonov, and Shlomo Havlin
pp. 382-385 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Mean-Field HP Model, Designability and Alpha-Helices in Protein Structures
C. T. Shih, Z. Y. Su, J. F. Gwan, B. L. Hao, C. H. Hsieh, and H. C. Lee
pp. 386-389 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Thermal Unbinding of Highly Oriented Phospholipid Membranes
M. Vogel, C. Münster, W. Fenzl, and T. Salditt
pp. 390-393 [View PDF (119 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Universal Relation between the Kolmogorov-Sinai Entropy and the Thermodynamical Entropy in Simple Liquids”
E. G. D. Cohen and L. Rondoni
pp. 394 [View PDF (30 kB)]
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Dzugutov Replies:
Mikhail Dzugutov
pp. 395 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Biot Slow Wave in a Magnetorheological Slurry?
David Linton Johnson
pp. 396 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Nahmad-Molinari et al. Reply:
Y. Nahmad-Molinari, J. C. Ruiz-Suárez, and C. A. Arancibia-Bulnes
pp. 397 [View PDF (11 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: A Relation between the Resonance Neutron Peak and ARPES Data in Cuprates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1652 (1999)]
Ar. Abanov and Andrey V. Chubukov
pp. 398 [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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