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Physical Review Letters – 31 January 2000
Volume 84, Issue 5

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.

Photonuclear Physics when a Multiterawatt Laser Pulse Interacts with Solid Targets
K. W. D. Ledingham, I. Spencer, T. McCanny, R. P. Singhal, M. I. K. Santala, E. Clark, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, M. Zepf, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, P. A. Norreys, R. Allott, D. Neely, R. J. Clark, A. C. Machacek, J. S. Wark, A. J. Cresswell, D. C. W. Sanderson, and J. Magill
pp. 899-902 [View PDF (243 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Photonuclear Fission from High Energy Electrons from Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions
T. E. Cowan, A. W. Hunt, T. W. Phillips, S. C. Wilks, M. D. Perry, C. Brown, W. Fountain, S. Hatchett, J. Johnson, M. H. Key, T. Parnell, D. M. Pennington, R. A. Snavely, and Y. Takahashi
pp. 903-906 [View PDF (99 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Atomic-Scale Structure of Single-Layer MoS2 Nanoclusters
S. Helveg, J. V. Lauritsen, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, J. K. Nørskov, B. S. Clausen, H. Topsøe, and F. Besenbacher
pp. 951-954 [View PDF (548 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Inequalities for Dealing with Detector Inefficiencies in Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger–Type Experiments
J. Acacio de Barros and Patrick Suppes
pp. 793-797 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Decoherence via the Dynamical Casimir Effect
Diego A. R. Dalvit and Paulo A. Maia Neto
pp. 798-801 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Quantum Time Evolution in Terms of Nonredundant Probabilities
Stefan Weigert
pp. 802-805 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Vortex Formation in a Stirred Bose-Einstein Condensate
K. W. Madison, F. Chevy, W. Wohlleben, and J. Dalibard
pp. 806-809 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Surface Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
R. Onofrio, D. S. Durfee, C. Raman, M. Köhl, C. E. Kuklewicz, and W. Ketterle
pp. 810-813 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Yang-Lee Theory for a Nonequilibrium Phase Transition
Peter F. Arndt
pp. 814-817 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Noise Induced Stability in Fluctuating, Bistable Potentials
Andreas Mielke
pp. 818-821 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity
U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki
pp. 822-825 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Resonant Production of Topological Defects
Sanatan Digal, Rajarshi Ray, Supratim Sengupta, and Ajit M. Srivastava
pp. 826-829 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Observation of Radiative Leptonic Decay of the Tau Lepton
T. Bergfeld et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 830-834 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Search for a Fourth-Generation Quark More Massive than the Z0 Boson in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 835-840 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Quark Dispersion Relation and Dilepton Production in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
André Peshier and Markus H. Thoma
pp. 841-844 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Transverse Momentum and Total Cross Section of e+e- Pairs in the Z-Boson Region from pp̅ Collisions at √s  = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 845-850 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Hyperfine Structure of Highly Charged 92238U Ions with Rotationally Excited Nuclei
L. N. Labzowsky, A. V. Nefiodov, G. Plunien, G. Soff, and D. Liesen
pp. 851-854 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Variationally Optimized Numerical Orbitals for Molecular Calculations
James D. Talman
pp. 855-858 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Field Ionization of Strongly Magnetized Rydberg Positronium: A New Physical Mechanism for Positron Accumulation
J. Estrada, T. Roach, J. N. Tan, P. Yesley, and G. Gabrielse
pp. 859-862 [View PDF (287 kB)]
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Electron Correlations Observed through Intensity Interferometry
M. Schulz, R. Moshammer, W. Schmitt, H. Kollmus, B. Feuerstein, R. Mann, S. Hagmann, and J. Ullrich
pp. 863-866 [View PDF (59 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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First Experimental Evidence for Chaos-Assisted Tunneling in a Microwave Annular Billiard
C. Dembowski, H.-D. Gräf, A. Heine, R. Hofferbert, H. Rehfeld, and A. Richter
pp. 867-870 [View PDF (450 kB)]
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Anomalous Resonance Phenomena of Solitary Waves with Internal Modes
Niurka R. Quintero, Angel Sánchez, and Franz G. Mertens
pp. 871-874 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Quasinondestructive Holographic Recording in Photochromic LiNbO3
Myeongkyu Lee, Shunji Takekawa, Yasunori Furukawa, Kenji Kitamura, and Hideki Hatano
pp. 875-878 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Experimental Control of Unstable Patterns and Elimination of Spatiotemporal Disorder in Nonlinear Optics
E. Benkler, M. Kreuzer, R. Neubecker, and T. Tschudi
pp. 879-882 [View PDF (970 kB)]
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Time Resolved Pattern Evolution in a Large Aperture Laser
F. Encinas-Sanz, I. Leyva, and J. M. Guerra
pp. 883-886 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Modulated Periodic Stokes Waves in Deep Water
M. J. Ablowitz, J. Hammack, D. Henderson, and C. M. Schober
pp. 887-890 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Measurement of the Interaction Potential of Microspheres in the Sheath of a rf Discharge
U. Konopka, G. E. Morfill, and L. Ratke
pp. 891-894 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Model for the Transition to the Radiatively Improved Mode in a Tokamak
M. Z. Tokar, J. Ongena, B. Unterberg, and R. R. Weynants ((Partners in the Trilateral Euregio Cluster))
pp. 895-898 [View PDF (76 kB)]
Photonuclear Physics when a Multiterawatt Laser Pulse Interacts with Solid Targets
K. W. D. Ledingham, I. Spencer, T. McCanny, R. P. Singhal, M. I. K. Santala, E. Clark, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, M. Zepf, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, P. A. Norreys, R. Allott, D. Neely, R. J. Clark, A. C. Machacek, J. S. Wark, A. J. Cresswell, D. C. W. Sanderson, and J. Magill
pp. 899-902 [View PDF (243 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Photonuclear Fission from High Energy Electrons from Ultraintense Laser-Solid Interactions
T. E. Cowan, A. W. Hunt, T. W. Phillips, S. C. Wilks, M. D. Perry, C. Brown, W. Fountain, S. Hatchett, J. Johnson, M. H. Key, T. Parnell, D. M. Pennington, R. A. Snavely, and Y. Takahashi
pp. 903-906 [View PDF (99 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Active Feedback Stabilization of Toroidal External Modes in Tokamaks
Y. Q. Liu and A. Bondeson
pp. 907-910 [View PDF (132 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Local Size Segregation in Polydisperse Hard Sphere Fluids
I. Pagonabarraga, M. E. Cates, and G. J. Ackland
pp. 911-914 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Nanoscopic-Confinement Effects on Local Dynamics
S. H. Anastasiadis, K. Karatasos, G. Vlachos, E. Manias, and E. P. Giannelis
pp. 915-918 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Incubation Dose for Ion Beam Induced Anisotropic Growth of Amorphous Alloys: Insight into Amorphous State Modifications
A. I. Ryazanov, H. Trinkaus, and A. E. Volkov
pp. 919-922 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Shape Change as an Indicator of Mechanism in the High-Pressure Structural Transformations of CdSe Nanocrystals
Juanita N. Wickham, Amy B. Herhold, and A. P. Alivisatos
pp. 923-926 [View PDF (709 kB)]
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Minimum Thermal Conductivity of Superlattices
M. V. Simkin and G. D. Mahan
pp. 927-930 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Instability and Morphology of Thin Liquid Films on Chemically Heterogeneous Substrates
Rahul Konnur, Kajari Kargupta, and Ashutosh Sharma
pp. 931-934 [View PDF (330 kB)]
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New Structural Model for Si/SiO2 Interfaces Derived from Spherosiloxane Clusters: Implications for Si 2p Photoemission Spectroscopy
Krishnan Raghavachari and Joseph Eng, Jr.
pp. 935-938 [View PDF (444 kB)]
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Photoelectron Diffraction Imaging for C2H2 and C2H4 Chemisorbed on Si(100) Reveals a New Bonding Configuration
S. H. Xu, M. Keeffe, Y. Yang, C. Chen, M. Yu, G. J. Lapeyre, E. Rotenberg, J. Denlinger, and J. T. Yates, Jr.
pp. 939-942 [View PDF (434 kB)]
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Bonding Arrangements at the Si-SiO2 and SiC-SiO2 Interfaces and a Possible Origin of their Contrasting Properties
Ryszard Buczko, Stephen J. Pennycook, and Sokrates T. Pantelides
pp. 943-946 [View PDF (565 kB)]
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New Mechanism for Dislocation Blocking in Strained Layer Epitaxial Growth
E. A. Stach, K. W. Schwarz, R. Hull, F. M. Ross, and R. M. Tromp
pp. 947-950 [View PDF (455 kB)]
Atomic-Scale Structure of Single-Layer MoS2 Nanoclusters
S. Helveg, J. V. Lauritsen, E. Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, J. K. Nørskov, B. S. Clausen, H. Topsøe, and F. Besenbacher
pp. 951-954 [View PDF (548 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Symmetry-Breaking and Percolation Transitions in a Surface Reaction Model with Superlattice Ordering
Da-Jiang Liu and J. W. Evans
pp. 955-958 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Simple Classical Mapping of the Spin-Polarized Quantum Electron Gas: Distribution Functions and Local-Field Corrections
M. W. C. Dharma-wardana and F. Perrot
pp. 959-962 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Remnant Fermi Surfaces in Photoemission
C. Kusko and R. S. Markiewicz
pp. 963-966 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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Nonradiative Electron-Hole Recombination by a Low-Barrier Pathway in Hydrogenated Silicon Semiconductors
S. B. Zhang and Howard M. Branz
pp. 967-970 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Spin-Dependent Hot Electron Transport in Co/Cu Thin Films
W. H. Rippard and R. A. Buhrman
pp. 971-974 [View PDF (566 kB)]
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Thermodynamic Phase Diagram of the Quantum Hall Skyrmion System
Kyungsun Moon and Kieran Mullen
pp. 975-978 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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First-Principles Calculation of Transport Properties of a Molecular Device
M. Di Ventra, S. T. Pantelides, and N. D. Lang
pp. 979-982 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Spin Accumulation and Domain Wall Magnetoresistance in 35 nm Co Wires
U. Ebels, A. Radulescu, Y. Henry, L. Piraux, and K. Ounadjela
pp. 983-986 [View PDF (667 kB)]
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Effect of Thermal Phase Fluctuations on the Superfluid Density of Two-Dimensional Superconducting Films
Stefan J. Turneaure, Thomas R. Lemberger, and John M. Graybeal
pp. 987-990 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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In-Plane Anisotropy of Upper Critical Field in Sr2RuO4
Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, S. NishiZaki, T. Akima, and T. Ishiguro
pp. 991-994 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Volume and Anisotropic Spontaneous Striction in Layered Manganites: Role of Charge Localization and Magnetic Interactions
B. García-Landa, C. Marquina, M. R. Ibarra, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, and D. McK. Paul
pp. 995-998 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Strongly Enhanced Magnetic Excitations Near the Quantum Critical Point of Cr1-xVx and Why Strong Exchange Enhancement Need Not Imply Heavy Fermion Behavior
S. M. Hayden, R. Doubble, G. Aeppli, T. G. Perring, and E. Fawcett
pp. 999-1002 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Conductance Quantization and Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Point Contacts
Hiroshi Imamura, Nobuhiko Kobayashi, Saburo Takahashi, and Sadamichi Maekawa
pp. 1003-1006 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Coherent Resonant X-Ray Scattering from a Rotating Medium
R. Röhlsberger, T. S. Toellner, W. Sturhahn, K. W. Quast, E. E. Alp, A. Bernhard, E. Burkel, O. Leupold, and E. Gerdau
pp. 1007-1010 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Femtosecond Optical Responses of Disordered Clusters, Composites, and Rough Surfaces: “The Ninth Wave” Effect
Mark I. Stockman
pp. 1011-1014 [View PDF (633 kB)]
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Coherent Transfer of Spin through a Semiconductor Heterointerface
I. Malajovich, J. M. Kikkawa, D. D. Awschalom, J. J. Berry, and N. Samarth
pp. 1015-1018 [View PDF (514 kB)]
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Laser-Induced Quantum Coherence in a Semiconductor Quantum Well
G. B. Serapiglia, E. Paspalakis, C. Sirtori, K. L. Vodopyanov, and C. C. Phillips
pp. 1019-1022 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Mechanism of THz Emission from Asymmetric Double Quantum Wells
P. G. Huggard, C. J. Shaw, S. R. Andrews, J. A. Cluff, and R. Grey
pp. 1023-1026 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Phosphorescence of π-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers
Yu. V. Romanovskii, A. Gerhard, B. Schweitzer, U. Scherf, R. I. Personov, and H. Bässler
pp. 1027-1030 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Influence of Source Coherence on X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
J. Hunter Dunn, D. Arvanitis, R. Carr, and N. Mårtensson
pp. 1031-1034 [View PDF (63 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Probing Entanglement and Nonlocality of Electrons in a Double-Dot via Transport and Noise
Daniel Loss and Eugene V. Sukhorukov
pp. 1035-1038 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Bubbling and Large-Scale Structures in Avalanche Dynamics
Supriya Krishnamurthy, Vittorio Loreto, and Stéphane Roux
pp. 1039-1042 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Thermal Decomposition of an Ultrathin Si Oxide Layer around a Si(001)- (2×1) Window
Noriyuki Miyata, Heiji Watanabe, and Masakazu Ichikawa
pp. 1043-1046 [View PDF (334 kB)]
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Transition from Spirals to Defect-Mediated Turbulence Driven by a Doppler Instability
Qi Ouyang, Harry L. Swinney, and Ge Li
pp. 1047-1050 [View PDF (654 kB)]
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Exactly Solvable Quantum Model for Electrochemical Electron-Transfer Reactions
Jörg-Heinrich Mohr and Wolfgang Schmickler
pp. 1051-1054 [View PDF (62 kB)]

COMMENTS

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The “Shape Eigenstate” is the Short-Lived “Macroscopic” Molecule
Sergey Yu. Kun
pp. 1055 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Comment on “Ising Spin Glasses in a Magnetic Field”
E. Marinari, G. Parisi, and F. Zuliani
pp. 1056 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Houdayer and Martin Reply:
J. Houdayer and O. C. Martin
pp. 1057 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Comment on “Adaptive Competition, Market Efficiency, and Phase Transitions”
Andrea Cavagna
pp. 1058 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Savit Replies:
Robert Savit
pp. 1059 [View PDF (21 kB)]
 
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