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Physical Review Letters – 29 May 2000
Volume 84, Issue 22

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.

Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb
Scott A. Diddams, David J. Jones, Jun Ye, Steven T. Cundiff, John L. Hall, Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, Ronald Holzwarth, Thomas Udem, and T. W. Hänsch
pp. 5102-5105 [View PDF (95 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Superchemistry: Dynamics of Coupled Atomic and Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates
D. J. Heinzen, Roahn Wynar, P. D. Drummond, and K. V. Kheruntsyan
pp. 5029-5033 [View PDF (230 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Generation of Large Flavor Mixing from Radiative Corrections
K. R. S. Balaji, Amol S. Dighe, R. N. Mohapatra, and M. K. Parida
pp. 5034-5037 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Search for D0-D̅ 0 Mixing
R. Godang et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 5038-5042 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Diffractive Dijets with a Leading Antiproton in p̅ p Collisions at √s = 1800GeV
T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 5043-5048 [View PDF (184 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Universality in the Nuclear Dependence Coefficient α(qT)
Xiaofeng Guo, Jianwei Qiu, and Xiaofei Zhang
pp. 5049-5052 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Measurement of Tensor Polarization in Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering at Large Momentum Transfer
D. Abbott et al. (The Jefferson Lab t20 Collaboration)
pp. 5053-5057 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Transfer and/or Breakup Modes in the 6He+209Bi Reaction near the Coulomb Barrier
E. F. Aguilera, J. J. Kolata, F. M. Nunes, F. D. Becchetti, P. A. DeYoung, M. Goupell, V. Guimarães, B. Hughey, M. Y. Lee, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, A. Nowlin, T. W. O'Donnell, G. F. Peaslee, D. Peterson, P. Santi, and R. White-Stevens
pp. 5058-5061 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Shape Coexistence and the N  = 28 Shell Closure Far from Stability
F. Sarazin, H. Savajols, W. Mittig, F. Nowacki, N. A. Orr, Z. Ren, P. Roussel-Chomaz, G. Auger, D. Baiborodin, A. V. Belozyorov, C. Borcea, E. Caurier, Z. Dlouhý, A. Gillibert, A. S. Lalleman, M. Lewitowicz, S. M. Lukyanov, F. de Oliveira, Y. E. Penionzhkevich, D. Ridikas, H. Sakuraï, O. Tarasov, and A. de Vismes
pp. 5062-5065 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Measurement of Excitation Functions in the Reactions 197Au(11C,xn)208-xAt Using a Radioactive 11C Beam
R. Joosten, J. Powell, F. Q. Guo, P. E. Haustein, R.-M. Larimer, M. A. McMahan, E. B. Norman, J. P. O'Neil, M. W. Rowe, H. F. VanBrocklin, D. Wutte, X. J. Xu, and Joseph Cerny
pp. 5066-5069 [View PDF (206 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Simulation of All-Order Density-Functional Perturbation Theory, Using the Second Order and the Strong-Correlation Limit
Michael Seidl, John P. Perdew, and Stefan Kurth
pp. 5070-5073 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Pulsed Standing-Wave Mirror for Neutral Atoms and Molecules
P. Ryytty and M. Kaivola
pp. 5074-5077 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Vibrational Autoionization in Rydberg States of Ammonia
C. A. Raptis and S. T. Pratt
pp. 5078-5081 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Nonlinear Ionization of Organic Molecules in High Intensity Laser Fields
S. M. Hankin, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and D. M. Rayner
pp. 5082-5085 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Order α2 Corrections to the Decay Rate of Orthopositronium
G. S. Adkins, R. N. Fell, and J. Sapirstein
pp. 5086-5089 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Towards Single-Particle Spectroscopy of Small Metal Clusters
A. Pohl, P.-G. Reinhard, and E. Suraud
pp. 5090-5093 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Dark-State Polaritons in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin
pp. 5094-5097 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Resonant Tunneling of Ultracold Atoms through Vacuum Induced Potentials
G. S. Agarwal and R. Arun
pp. 5098-5101 [View PDF (112 kB)]
Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb
Scott A. Diddams, David J. Jones, Jun Ye, Steven T. Cundiff, John L. Hall, Jinendra K. Ranka, Robert S. Windeler, Ronald Holzwarth, Thomas Udem, and T. W. Hänsch
pp. 5102-5105 [View PDF (95 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Integrable Structure of Interface Dynamics
Mark Mineev-Weinstein, Paul B. Wiegmann, and Anton Zabrodin
pp. 5106-5109 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Analysis of the Asynchronous State in Networks of Strongly Coupled Oscillators
C. van Vreeswijk
pp. 5110-5113 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Spatial Rectification of the Electric Field of Space Charge Waves
M. P. Petrov, A. P. Paugurt, V. V. Bryksin, S. Wevering, and E. Krätzig
pp. 5114-5117 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Stochastic Resonance in the Coherence of a Quantum System
Thomas Wellens and Andreas Buchleitner
pp. 5118-5121 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Jamming and Fluctuations in Granular Drag
I. Albert, P. Tegzes, B. Kahng, R. Albert, J. G. Sample, M. Pfeifer, A.-L. Barabási, T. Vicsek, and P. Schiffer
pp. 5122-5125 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Ripples in Tapped or Blown Powder
Jacques Duran
pp. 5126-5129 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Viscous Heating and the Stability of Newtonian and Viscoelastic Taylor-Couette Flows
James M. White and Susan J. Muller
pp. 5130-5133 [View PDF (246 kB)]
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Lagrangian Chaos and the Effect of Drag on the Enstrophy Cascade in Two-Dimensional Turbulence
Keeyeol Nam, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., and Parvez N. Guzdar
pp. 5134-5137 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Behavior of Localized Space-Charge Waves in Space-Charge Dominated Electron Beams
Y. Zou, J. G. Wang, H. Suk, and M. Reiser
pp. 5138-5140 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Transverse Waves in a Two-Dimensional Screened-Coulomb Crystal (Dusty Plasma)
S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, and J. Goree
pp. 5141-5144 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Condensation of Microturbulence-Generated Shear Flows into Global Modes
K. Hallatschek
pp. 5145-5148 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Intense Picosecond X-Ray Pulses from Laser Plasmas by Use of Nanostructured “Velvet” Targets
G. Kulcsár, D. AlMawlawi, F. W. Budnik, P. R. Herman, M. Moskovits, L. Zhao, and R. S. Marjoribanks
pp. 5149-5152 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Progress toward Ignition with Noncryogenic Double-Shell Capsules
W. S. Varnum, N. D. Delamater, S. C. Evans, P. L. Gobby, J. E. Moore, J. M. Wallace, R. G. Watt, J. D. Colvin, R. Turner, V. Glebov, J. Soures, and C. Stoeckl
pp. 5153-5155 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Scattering Theory of Bardeen's Formalism for Tunneling: New Approach to Near-Field Microscopy
R. Carminati and J. J. Sáenz
pp. 5156-5159 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Theoretical Strength and Cleavage of Diamond
R. H. Telling, C. J. Pickard, M. C. Payne, and J. E. Field
pp. 5160-5163 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Sticking Probabilities in Adsorption from Liquid Solutions: Alkylthiols on Gold
Linda S. Jung and Charles T. Campbell
pp. 5164-5167 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electronic Correlations in Manganites
K. Held and D. Vollhardt
pp. 5168-5171 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Degenerate Ground States and a Fractional Number of Electrons in Density and Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory
Weitao Yang, Yingkai Zhang, and Paul W. Ayers
pp. 5172-5175 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Annealed Disorder, Rare Regions, and Local Moments: A Novel Mechanism for Metal-Insulator Transitions
D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Vojta
pp. 5176-5179 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Landau Theory of the Finite Temperature Mott Transition
G. Kotliar, E. Lange, and M. J. Rozenberg
pp. 5180-5183 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Convective Terms and Transversely Driven Charge-Density Waves
S. N. Artemenko, S. V. Zaitsev-Zotov, V. E. Minakova, and P. Monceau
pp. 5184-5187 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Microscopic Identification of the Origin of Generation-Recombination Noise in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon with Noise-Detected Magnetic Resonance
S. T. B. Goennenwein, M. W. Bayerl, M. S. Brandt, and M. Stutzmann
pp. 5188-5191 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Photon-Assisted Tunneling in Electron Pumps
M. Covington, Mark W. Keller, R. L. Kautz, and John M. Martinis
pp. 5192-5195 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Fractional Conductance Quantization in Metallic Nanoconstrictions under Electrochemical Potential Control
C. Shu, C. Z. Li, H. X. He, A. Bogozi, J. S. Bunch, and N. J. Tao
pp. 5196-5199 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Pseudogap Phase in High- Tc Superconductors
P. Devillard and J. Ranninger
pp. 5200-5203 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Metallic Normal State of Y1Ba2Cu3O7-δ
Milind N. Kunchur, B. I. Ivlev, D. K. Christen, and J. M. Phillips
pp. 5204-5207 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Frustrated Heisenberg Magnets: A Nonperturbative Approach
M. Tissier, B. Delamotte, and D. Mouhanna
pp. 5208-5211 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Real-Space Observation of Dipolar Antiferromagnetism in Magnetic Nanowires by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, M. Bode, and R. Wiesendanger
pp. 5212-5215 [View PDF (839 kB)]
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Soft Phonon Anomalies in the Relaxor Ferroelectric Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)0.92Ti0.08O3
P. M. Gehring, S.-E. Park, and G. Shirane
pp. 5216-5219 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Stimulated Emission from Donor Transitions in Silicon
S. G. Pavlov, R. Kh. Zhukavin, E. E. Orlova, V. N. Shastin, A. V. Kirsanov, H.-W. Hübers, K. Auen, and H. Riemann
pp. 5220-5223 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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How to Quantify Deterministic and Random Influences on the Statistics of the Foreign Exchange Market
R. Friedrich, J. Peinke, and Ch. Renner
pp. 5224-5227 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Simulations of Frequency-Domain Spectra: Structure-Function Relationships in Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes
Thomas Renger and Volkhard May
pp. 5228-5231 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Essential Nonlinearities in Hearing
V. M. Eguíluz, M. Ospeck, Y. Choe, A. J. Hudspeth, and M. O. Magnasco
pp. 5232-5235 [View PDF (103 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Evidence of Quantum Correlation Effects of Protons and Deuterons in Raman Spectra of Liquid H2O-D2O”
Hajime Torii
pp. 5236 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann et al. Reply:
C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann, T. Abdul-Redah, B. Kolaric, and I. Juranic
pp. 5237 [View PDF (24 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Sustained Kilowatt Lasing in a Free-Electron Laser with Same-Cell Energy Recovery [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 662 (2000)]
G. R. Neil, C. L. Bohn, S. V. Benson, G. Biallas, D. Douglas, H. F. Dylla, R. Evans, J. Fugitt, A. Grippo, J. Gubeli, R. Hill, K. Jordan, G. A. Krafft, R. Li, L. Merminga, P. Piot, J. Preble, M. Shinn, T. Siggins, R. Walker, and B. Yunn
pp. 5238 [View PDF (5 kB)]
 
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