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Physical Review Letters – 22 May 2000
Volume 84, Issue 21

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.

Observation of Superluminal Behaviors in Wave Propagation
D. Mugnai, A. Ranfagni, and R. Ruggeri
pp. 4830-4833 [View PDF (55 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Depth-Resolved Profile of the Magnetic Field beneath the Surface of a Superconductor with a Few nm Resolution
T. J. Jackson, T. M. Riseman, E. M. Forgan, H. Glückler, T. Prokscha, E. Morenzoni, M. Pleines, Ch. Niedermayer, G. Schatz, H. Luetkens, and J. Litterst
pp. 4958-4961 [View PDF (73 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Method for Solving Moving Boundary Value Problems for Linear Evolution Equations
A. S. Fokas and B. Pelloni
pp. 4785-4789 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Complementarity between Local and Nonlocal Topological Effects
Yakir Aharonov and Benni Reznik
pp. 4790-4793 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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General Theory of Lee-Yang Zeros in Models with First-Order Phase Transitions
M. Biskup, C. Borgs, J. T. Chayes, L. J. Kleinwaks, and R. Kotecký
pp. 4794-4797 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Naturally Large Cosmological Neutrino Asymmetries in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
John McDonald
pp. 4798-4801 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for the CP Forbidden Decay η→4π0
S. Prakhov et al. (Crystal Ball Collaboration)
pp. 4802-4805 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Possibility of Large Final State Interaction Phases in Light of B → Kπ and ππ Data
Wei-Shu Hou and Kwei-Chou Yang
pp. 4806-4809 [View PDF (190 kB)]
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Bloch-Nordsieck Violating Electroweak Corrections to Inclusive TeV Scale Hard Processes
Marcello Ciafaloni, Paolo Ciafaloni, and Denis Comelli
pp. 4810-4813 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Can Induced Θ Vacua be Created in Heavy-Ion Collisions?
K. Buckley, T. Fugleberg, and A. Zhitnitsky
pp. 4814-4817 [View PDF (66 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Angular Distributions of s-Subshell Electrons in Open-Shell Atoms: 3s Photoionization of Atomic Chlorine
S. B. Whitfield, K. Kehoe, M. O. Krause, and C. D. Caldwell
pp. 4818-4821 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Influence of Magnetic Fields on Electron-Ion Recombination at Very Low Energies
G. Gwinner, A. Hoffknecht, T. Bartsch, M. Beutelspacher, N. Eklöw, P. Glans, M. Grieser, S. Krohn, E. Lindroth, A. Müller, A. A. Saghiri, S. Schippers, U. Schramm, D. Schwalm, M. Tokman, G. Wissler, and A. Wolf
pp. 4822-4825 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Polarizability of Sodium Clusters
S. A. Blundell, C. Guet, and Rajendra R. Zope
pp. 4826-4829 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Superluminal Behaviors in Wave Propagation
D. Mugnai, A. Ranfagni, and R. Ruggeri
pp. 4830-4833 [View PDF (55 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Gain Saturation Regime for Laser-Driven Tabletop, Transient Ni-Like Ion X-Ray Lasers
J. Dunn, Y. Li, A. L. Osterheld, J. Nilsen, J. R. Hunter, and V. N. Shlyaptsev
pp. 4834-4837 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Defect Chaos of Oscillating Hexagons in Rotating Convection
Blas Echebarria and Hermann Riecke
pp. 4838-4841 [View PDF (190 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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In Search of the Elusive Zonal Flow Using Cross-Bicoherence Analysis
P. H. Diamond, M. N. Rosenbluth, E. Sanchez, C. Hidalgo, B. Van Milligen, T. Estrada, B. Brañas, M. Hirsch, H. J. Hartfuss, and B. A. Carreras
pp. 4842-4845 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Yield Optimization and Time Structure of Femtosecond Laser Plasma Kα Sources
Ch. Reich, P. Gibbon, I. Uschmann, and E. Förster
pp. 4846-4849 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Current-Sheet Formation in 3D Ideal Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics
Rainer Grauer and Christiane Marliani
pp. 4850-4853 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Spectrum of Coherent Structures in a Turbulent Environment
F. Spineanu and M. Vlad
pp. 4854-4857 [View PDF (98 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Interfacial Properties of Polymeric Liquids
Miguel Aubouy, Manoel Manghi, and Elie Raphaël
pp. 4858-4861 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Counterion Release and Electrostatic Adsorption
P. Sens and J.-F. Joanny
pp. 4862-4865 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Deuteron NMR Study of Monolayer Thick Films of Nematogenic Molecules
Boštjan Zalar, Slobodan Žumer, and Daniele Finotello
pp. 4866-4869 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Structure of the Liquid-Crystal Ferrielectric Phases as Determined by Ellipsometry
P. M. Johnson, D. A. Olson, S. Pankratz, T. Nguyen, J. Goodby, M. Hird, and C. C. Huang
pp. 4870-4873 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Frustration and Sound Attenuation in Structural Glasses
L. Angelani, M. Montagna, G. Ruocco, and G. Viliani
pp. 4874-4877 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Instantaneous Normal Mode Analysis of Liquid HF
G. Garberoglio and R. Vallauri
pp. 4878-4881 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Universal Distributions for Growth Processes in 1+1 Dimensions and Random Matrices
Michael Prähofer and Herbert Spohn
pp. 4882-4885 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Quasi-Long-Range Order in Nematics Confined in Random Porous Media
D. E. Feldman
pp. 4886-4889 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Dependence of Formation Energies of Tin Nanoclusters on their Size and Shape
T. Bachels, R. Schäfer, and H.-J. Güntherodt
pp. 4890-4893 [View PDF (181 kB)]
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Specific Heat of Helium Confined to a 57- μm Planar Geometry near the Lambda Point
J. A. Lipa, D. R. Swanson, J. A. Nissen, Z. K. Geng, P. R. Williamson, D. A. Stricker, T. C. P. Chui, U. E. Israelsson, and M. Larson
pp. 4894-4897 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Diffusion of N Adatoms on the Fe(100) Surface
M. Ø. Pedersen, L. Österlund, J. J. Mortensen, M. Mavrikakis, L. B. Hansen, I. Stensgaard, E. Lægsgaard, J. K. Nørskov, and F. Besenbacher
pp. 4898-4901 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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Infrared Intensity Enhancement of the CN Stretch of HCN by Coadsorbed CO on the Cu(100) Surface
Hugo Celio and Michael Trenary
pp. 4902-4905 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Dynamics of High-Barrier Surface Reactions: Laser-Assisted Associative Desorption of N2 from Ru(0001)
L. Diekhöner, H. Mortensen, A. Baurichter, A. C. Luntz, and B. Hammer
pp. 4906-4909 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Hydrogen Atoms Cause Long-Range Electronic Effects on Graphite
P. Ruffieux, O. Gröning, P. Schwaller, L. Schlapbach, and P. Gröning
pp. 4910-4913 [View PDF (899 kB)]
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Coarsening Kinetics with Elastic Effects
Efim A. Brener, V. I. Marchenko, H. Müller-Krumbhaar, and R. Spatschek
pp. 4914-4917 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Exact Solution of a Repulsive Fermi Model with Enhanced Superconducting Correlations
H. R. Krishnamurthy and B. Sriram Shastry
pp. 4918-4921 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Metallic Stripe in Two Dimensions: Stability and Spin-Charge Separation
A. L. Chernyshev, A. H. Castro Neto, and A. R. Bishop
pp. 4922-4925 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Overcoordinated Hydrogens in the Carbon Vacancy: Donor Centers of SiC
A. Gali, B. Aradi, P. Deák, W. J. Choyke, and N. T. Son
pp. 4926-4929 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Kinematics of Electrons near a Van Hove Singularity
J. González, F. Guinea, and M. A. H. Vozmediano
pp. 4930-4933 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Blocking of the Polaron Effect and Spin-Split Cyclotron Resonance in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
X. G. Wu, F. M. Peeters, Y. J. Wang, and B. D. McCombe
pp. 4934-4937 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Charge Degree of Freedom and the Single-Spin Fluid Model in YBa2Cu4O8
A. Suter, M. Mali, J. Roos, and D. Brinkmann
pp. 4938-4941 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Enhanced Backscattering and Modal Echo of Reverberant Elastic Waves
Richard L. Weaver and Oleg I. Lobkis
pp. 4942-4945 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Extraction Current Transients: New Method of Study of Charge Transport in Microcrystalline Silicon
G. Juška, K. Arlauskas, M. Viliūnas, and J. Kočka
pp. 4946-4949 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Controllable Reversibility of an sp2 to sp3 Transition of a Single Wall Nanotube under the Manipulation of an AFM Tip: A Nanoscale Electromechanical Switch?
Lei Liu, C. S. Jayanthi, Meijie Tang, S. Y. Wu, Thomas W. Tombler, Chongwu Zhou, Leo Alexseyev, Jing Kong, and Hongjie Dai
pp. 4950-4953 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Interband Scattering and the “Metallic Phase” of Two-Dimensional Holes in GaAs /AlGaAs
Yuval Yaish, Oleg Prus, Evgeny Buchstab, Shye Shapira, Gidi Ben Yoseph, Uri Sivan, and Ady Stern
pp. 4954-4957 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Depth-Resolved Profile of the Magnetic Field beneath the Surface of a Superconductor with a Few nm Resolution
T. J. Jackson, T. M. Riseman, E. M. Forgan, H. Glückler, T. Prokscha, E. Morenzoni, M. Pleines, Ch. Niedermayer, G. Schatz, H. Luetkens, and J. Litterst
pp. 4958-4961 [View PDF (73 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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One-Dimensional Metallic Behavior of the Stripe Phase in La2-xSrxCuO4
Marcus Fleck, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, Eva Pavarini, and Andrzej M. Oleś
pp. 4962-4965 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Observation of Spontaneous Flux Generation in a Multi-Josephson-Junction Loop
Raz Carmi, Emil Polturak, and Gad Koren
pp. 4966-4969 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Josephson Effect in Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superconductors
Kun Yang and D. F. Agterberg
pp. 4970-4973 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Vortex Flow and Transverse Flux Screening at the Bose Glass Transition
A. W. Smith, H. M. Jaeger, T. F. Rosenbaum, A. M. Petrean, W. K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree
pp. 4974-4977 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Spectral Flow and Vortex Dynamics in a Temperature Gradient
A. Freimuth and M. Zittartz
pp. 4978-4981 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Interdependence of Magnetism and Superconductivity in the Borocarbide TmNi2B2C
K. Nørgaard, M. R. Eskildsen, N. H. Andersen, J. Jensen, P. Hedegård, S. N. Klausen, and P. C. Canfield
pp. 4982-4985 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Quasi-2D CeRhIn5
H. Hegger, C. Petrovic, E. G. Moshopoulou, M. F. Hundley, J. L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, and J. D. Thompson
pp. 4986-4989 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Size-Induced Transition from Magnetic Ordering to Kondo Behavior in (Ce,Al) Compounds
Y. Y. Chen, Y. D. Yao, C. R. Wang, W. H. Li, C. L. Chang, T. K. Lee, T. M. Hong, J. C. Ho, and S. F. Pan
pp. 4990-4993 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Doping Dependence of the Néel Temperature in Mott-Hubbard Antiferromagnets: Effect of Vortices
Carsten Timm and K. H. Bennemann
pp. 4994-4997 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Coherent Dynamics of the Localized Vibrational Modes of Hydrogen in CaF2
Jon-Paul R. Wells, Chris W. Rella, Ian V. Bradley, Ian Galbraith, and Carl R. Pidgeon
pp. 4998-5001 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Electron-Phonon Interaction in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: A Time-Domain Study
Tobias Hertel and Gunnar Moos
pp. 5002-5005 [View PDF (109 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Scaling and Universality in Electrical Failure of Thin Films
C. Pennetta, L. Reggiani, and Gy. Trefán
pp. 5006-5009 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Designing Protein β-Sheet Surfaces by Z-Score Optimization
Arthur G. Street, Deepshikha Datta, D. Benjamin Gordon, and Stephen L. Mayo
pp. 5010-5013 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Femtonewton Force Spectroscopy of Single Extended DNA Molecules
Jens-Christian Meiners and Stephen R. Quake
pp. 5014-5017 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Self-Segregation of Competitive Chaotic Populations
Renate Wackerbauer, Hongyan Sun, and Kenneth Showalter
pp. 5018-5021 [View PDF (1,010 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Magnetoelectronic Phenomena at a Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Interface
F. G. Monzon, H. X. Tang, and M. L. Roukes
pp. 5022 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Comment on “Observation of Spin Injection at a Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Interface”
B. J. van Wees
pp. 5023 [View PDF (18 kB)]
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Hammar et al. Reply:
P. R. Hammar, B. R. Bennett, M. J. Yang, and Mark Johnson
pp. 5024-5025 [View PDF (152 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Formation of Electron Strings in Narrow Band Polar Semiconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 530 (2000)]
F. V. Kusmartsev
pp. 5026 [View PDF (19 kB)]
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Erratum: Ultrahigh-Intensity Inverse-Bremsstrahlung Absorption [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2206 (1999)]
I. Yu. Kostyukov and J.-M. Rax
pp. 5027 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Fast Time-Evolution Method for Dynamical Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2290 (2000)]
Y. L. Loh, S. N. Taraskin, and S. R. Elliott
pp. 5028 [View PDF (5 kB)]
 
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