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Physical Review Letters – 7 February 2000
Volume 84, Issue 6

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.

Microimplosions: Cavitation Collapse and Shock Wave Emission on a Nanosecond Time Scale
R. Pecha and B. Gompf
pp. 1328-1330 [View PDF (296 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Anomalous Spreading of Power-Law Quantum Wave Packets
Fabrizio Lillo and Rosario N. Mantegna
pp. 1061-1065 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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Exact Eigenstates and Magnetic Response of Spin-1 and Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensates
Masato Koashi and Masahito Ueda
pp. 1066-1069 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Dynamics of Kinks: Nucleation, Diffusion, and Annihilation
Salman Habib and Grant Lythe
pp. 1070-1073 [View PDF (751 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Gott Time Machines, BTZ Black Hole Formation, and Choptuik Scaling
Danny Birmingham and Siddhartha Sen
pp. 1074-1077 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Precision Measurement of Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Spectrum
S. Orito et al.
pp. 1078-1081 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Limits on Neutrino Mass from Cosmic Structure Formation
Masataka Fukugita, Guo-Chin Liu, and Naoshi Sugiyama
pp. 1082-1085 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Shell Structure of Nuclei in Strong Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star Crusts
V. N. Kondratyev, T. Maruyama, and S. Chiba
pp. 1086-1089 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Nonlinear Supergravity on a Brane without Compactification
A. Chamblin and G. W. Gibbons
pp. 1090-1093 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Tiling the Plane without Supersymmetry
D. Bazeia and F. A. Brito
pp. 1094-1097 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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CPT and Lorentz Tests with Muons
Robert Bluhm, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Charles D. Lane
pp. 1098-1101 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Meson Structure in a Relativistic Many-Body Approach
Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada and Stephen R. Cotanch
pp. 1102-1105 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Parity Violation in Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering and the Proton's Strange Magnetic Form Factor
D. T. Spayde et al. ((SAMPLE Collaboration))
pp. 1106-1109 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Search for Color Singlet Technicolor Particles in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 1110-1115 [View PDF (183 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Discovery of Doubly Magic 48Ni
B. Blank, M. Chartier, S. Czajkowski, J. Giovinazzo, M. S. Pravikoff, J.-C. Thomas, G. de France, F. de Oliveira Santos, M. Lewitowicz, C. Borcea, R. Grzywacz, Z. Janas, and M. Pfützner
pp. 1116-1119 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Isospin Tracing: A Probe of Nonequilibrium in Central Heavy-Ion Collisions
F. Rami et al. (FOPI Collaboration)
pp. 1120-1123 [View PDF (112 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Guiding Neutral Atoms on a Chip
N. H. Dekker, C. S. Lee, V. Lorent, J. H. Thywissen, S. P. Smith, M. Drndić, R. M. Westervelt, and M. Prentiss
pp. 1124-1127 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Stability of the Ground State Vinylidene Anion H2CC-
M. J. Jensen, U. V. Pedersen, and L. H. Andersen
pp. 1128-1131 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Ultrafast Hot-Electron Dynamics Observed in Pt3 - Using Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
N. Pontius, P. S. Bechthold, M. Neeb, and W. Eberhardt
pp. 1132-1135 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Measurement of the 1s-2s Energy Interval in Muonium
V. Meyer et al.
pp. 1136-1139 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Double Tunneling: An Overlooked Quantum Effect in Anionic Molecular Clusters
Pavel Jungwirth and Vladimír Špirko
pp. 1140-1143 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Variational Study of 3He Droplets
R. Guardiola and J. Navarro
pp. 1144-1147 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Nonclassical Photon Statistics in Single-Molecule Fluorescence at Room Temperature
L. Fleury, J.-M. Segura, G. Zumofen, B. Hecht, and U. P. Wild
pp. 1148-1151 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Solid State Coherent Transient Measurements Using Hard Optical Pulses
G. J. Pryde, M. J. Sellars, and N. B. Manson
pp. 1152-1155 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Information-Theoretic Limits of Control
Hugo Touchette and Seth Lloyd
pp. 1156-1159 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Beyond Nearest-Neighbor Spacing Distributions: A New Indicator for Core-Induced Chaos
H. Held and W. Schweizer
pp. 1160-1163 [View PDF (440 kB)]
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Composite Multihump Vector Solitons Carrying Topological Charge
Ziad H. Musslimani, Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Marin Soljačić
pp. 1164-1167 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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Behavior of the Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Fabry-Perot Cavity in the Bragg Reflection Band
Zhizhong Zhuang, Young Jin Kim, and J. S. Patel
pp. 1168-1171 [View PDF (964 kB)]
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Velocity Dependence of Atomic Friction
E. Gnecco, R. Bennewitz, T. Gyalog, Ch. Loppacher, M. Bammerlin, E. Meyer, and H.-J. Güntherodt
pp. 1172-1175 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Manifestation of Random Phase in a Finite Ensemble of a Turbulent Fluid
Ari M. Turner and Leaf Turner
pp. 1176-1179 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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The D'yakov-Kontorovich Instability of Shock Waves in Real Gases
Jason W. Bates and David C. Montgomery
pp. 1180-1183 [View PDF (96 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Observation of a Hybrid Spin Resonance
M. Bai et al.
pp. 1184-1187 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Free-Electron Laser as a Driver for a Resonant Cavity at 35 GHz
T. Lefevre, J. Gardelle, J. L. Rullier, C. Vermare, J. T. Donohue, Y. Meurdesoif, and S. M. Lidia
pp. 1188-1191 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Observation of Avalanchelike Phenomena in a Magnetically Confined Plasma
P. A. Politzer
pp. 1192-1195 [View PDF (872 kB)]
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Helicity Redistribution during Relaxation of Astrophysical Plasmas
T. Amari and J. F. Luciani
pp. 1196-1199 [View PDF (493 kB)]
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Ion Larmour Radius Effect on rf Ponderomotive Forces and Induced Poloidal Flow in Tokamak Plasmas
A. G. Elfimov, G. Amarante Segundo, R. M. O. Galvão, and I. C. Nascimento
pp. 1200-1203 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Sawtooth Evolution during JET Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance-Heated Pulses
J. P. Graves, K. I. Hopcraft, R. O. Dendy, R. J. Hastie, K. G. McClements, and M. Mantsinen
pp. 1204-1207 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Detuned Raman Amplification of Short Laser Pulses in Plasma
V. M. Malkin, G. Shvets, and N. J. Fisch
pp. 1208-1211 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Nature of Monster Sawteeth and Their Relationship to Alfvén Instabilities in Tokamaks
S. Bernabei, M. G. Bell, R. V. Budny, E. D. Fredrickson, N. N. Gorelenkov, J. C. Hosea, R. Majeski, E. Mazzucato, C. K. Phillips, G. Schilling, and J. R. Wilson
pp. 1212-1215 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Energy Confinement Time and Heat Transport in Initial Neutral Beam Heated Plasmas on the Large Helical Device
H. Yamada et al.
pp. 1216-1219 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Density-Functional Theory of Inhomogeneous Fluids in the Canonical Ensemble
J. A. White, A. González, F. L. Román, and S. Velasco
pp. 1220-1223 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Librons Observed in Liquid Acetonitrile by Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering
David P. Shelton and Philip Kaatz
pp. 1224-1227 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Pseudo-Casimir Structural Force Drives Spinodal Dewetting in Nematic Liquid Crystals
P. Ziherl, R. Podgornik, and S. Žumer
pp. 1228-1231 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Microscopic Origin of the Phenomenological Equilibrium “Doping Limit Rule” in n-Type III-V Semiconductors
S. B. Zhang, S.-H. Wei, and Alex Zunger
pp. 1232-1235 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Dynamics of Si-H Vibrations in an Amorphous Environment
Marjolein van der Voort, Chris W. Rella, Lex F. G. van der Meer, Andrey V. Akimov, and Jaap I. Dijkhuis
pp. 1236-1239 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Freezing by Heating in a Driven Mesoscopic System
Dirk Helbing, Illés J. Farkas, and Tamás Vicsek
pp. 1240-1243 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Topology, Phase Instabilities, and Wetting of Microemulsion Networks
T. Tlusty, S. A. Safran, and R. Strey
pp. 1244-1247 [View PDF (310 kB)]
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Slow 4He Quenches Produce Fuzzy, Transient Vortices
R. J. Rivers
pp. 1248-1251 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Repetitive Single Vortex-Loop Creation by a Vibrating Wire in Superfluid 3He-B
D. I. Bradley
pp. 1252-1255 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Ab Initio Modeling of Metal Adhesion on Oxide Surfaces with Defects
Yu. F. Zhukovskii, E. A. Kotomin, P. W. M. Jacobs, and A. M. Stoneham
pp. 1256-1259 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Multiscale Simulation of Loading and Electrical Resistance in Silicon Nanoindentation
G. S. Smith, E. B. Tadmor, and Efthimios Kaxiras
pp. 1260-1263 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Ferromagnetism in Doped Excitonic Insulators
Leon Balents and Chandra M. Varma
pp. 1264-1267 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Virial Coefficients of Non-Abelian Anyons
Alexios P. Polychronakos
pp. 1268-1271 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Dynamical Properties of the One-Dimensional Band Insulator (NbSe4)3I
V. Vescoli, F. Zwick, J. Voit, H. Berger, M. Zacchigna, L. Degiorgi, M. Grioni, and G. Grüner
pp. 1272-1275 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Transitions: Influence of Lattice Structure, Jahn-Teller Effect, and Hund's Rule Coupling
J. E. Han, E. Koch, and O. Gunnarsson
pp. 1276-1279 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Semiclassical Theory of Conductance and Noise in Open Chaotic Cavities
Ya. M. Blanter and E. V. Sukhorukov
pp. 1280-1283 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Bistability in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Ga-Terminated Si(111)
I. B. Altfeder and D. M. Chen
pp. 1284-1287 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Finite-Temperature Density Instability at High Landau Level Occupancy
Tudor D. Stanescu, Ivar Martin, and Philip Phillips
pp. 1288-1291 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Relevance of Disorder for Dirac Fermions with Imaginary Vector Potentials
André LeClair
pp. 1292-1295 [View PDF (55 kB)]
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Interlayer Quasiparticle Transport in the Vortex State of Josephson Coupled Superconductors
I. Vekhter, L. N. Bulaevskii, A. E. Koshelev, and M. P. Maley
pp. 1296-1299 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Observation of Cascaded Two-Photon-Induced Transitions between Fluxoid States of a SQUID
Siyuan Han, R. Rouse, and J. E. Lukens
pp. 1300-1303 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Vortex Entanglement in Disordered Superconductors
K. V. Samokhin
pp. 1304-1307 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Exact Dynamical Structure Factor of the Degenerate Haldane-Shastry Model
Takashi Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Saiga, Mitsuhiro Arikawa, and Yoshio Kuramoto
pp. 1308-1311 [View PDF (218 kB)]
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Step-Edge Induced Anisotropic Domain-Wall Propagation
P. Haibach, M. Huth, and H. Adrian
pp. 1312-1315 [View PDF (649 kB)]
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Dynamics of a Domain Wall in Soft-Magnetic Materials: Barkhausen Effect and Relation with Sandpile Models
Alexei Vázquez and Oscar Sotolongo-Costa
pp. 1316-1319 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Nuclear Spin Relaxation Rates in Two-Leg Spin Ladders
F. Naef and Xiaoqun Wang
pp. 1320-1323 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Periodic Resonance Excitation and Intertube Interaction from Quasicontinuous Distributed Helicities in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
M. Milnera, J. Kürti, M. Hulman, and H. Kuzmany
pp. 1324-1327 [View PDF (93 kB)]
Microimplosions: Cavitation Collapse and Shock Wave Emission on a Nanosecond Time Scale
R. Pecha and B. Gompf
pp. 1328-1330 [View PDF (296 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Atom Abstraction in the Scattering of State-Selected NO+(X1Σ+) on O/Al(111)
M. Maazouz, T. L. O. Barstis, P. L. Maazouz, and D. C. Jacobs
pp. 1331-1334 [View PDF (65 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Coupling between Flow and Structure for a Lamellar Surfactant Phase
Aurélien Léon, Daniel Bonn, Jacques Meunier, Amer Al-Kahwaji, Olivier Greffier, and Hamid Kellay
pp. 1335-1338 [View PDF (355 kB)]
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Evidence for Non-DLVO Hydration Interactions in Solutions of the Protein Apoferritin
Dimiter N. Petsev and Peter G. Vekilov
pp. 1339-1342 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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A Space-Time Adaptive Method for Simulating Complex Cardiac Dynamics
Elizabeth M. Cherry, Henry S. Greenside, and Craig S. Henriquez
pp. 1343-1346 [View PDF (391 kB)]
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Random Costs in Combinatorial Optimization
Stephan Mertens
pp. 1347-1350 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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From Massively Parallel Algorithms and Fluctuating Time Horizons to Nonequilibrium Surface Growth
G. Korniss, Z. Toroczkai, M. A. Novotny, and P. A. Rikvold
pp. 1351-1354 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Typical Performance of Gallager-Type Error-Correcting Codes
Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tatsuto Murayama, and David Saad
pp. 1355-1358 [View PDF (70 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Pairing Effects at the Edge of Paired Quantum Hall States [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1078 (1998)]
Kazusumi Ino
pp. 1359 [View PDF (12 kB)]
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Erratum: Angular Distribution Studies for the Time-Reversed Photoionization Process in Hydrogenlike Uranium: The Identification of Spin-Flip Transitions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3232 (1999)]
Th. Stöhlker, T. Ludziejewski, F. Bosch, R. W. Dunford, C. Kozhuharov, P. H. Mokler, H. F. Beyer, O. Brinzanescu, B. Franzke, J. Eichler, A. Griegal, S. Hagmann, A. Ichihara, A. Krämer, J. Lekki, D. Liesen, F. Nolden, H. Reich, P. Rymuza, Z. Stachura, M. Steck, P. Swiat, and A. Warczak
pp. 1360 [View PDF (5 kB)]
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Erratum: Noiseless Optical Amplification of Images [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1938 (1999)]
Sang-Kyung Choi, Michael Vasilyev, and Prem Kumar
pp. 1361 [View PDF (6 kB)]
 
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