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Physical Review Letters – 14 February 2000
Volume 84, Issue 7

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.

Angle-Resonant Stimulated Polariton Amplifier
P. G. Savvidis, J. J. Baumberg, R. M. Stevenson, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, and J. S. Roberts
pp. 1547-1550 [View PDF (96 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Conformally Invariant Fractals and Potential Theory
Bertrand Duplantier
pp. 1363-1367 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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“Weighing” a Closed System and the Time-Energy Uncertainty Principle
Yakir Aharonov and Benni Reznik
pp. 1368-1370 [View PDF (48 kB)]
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Propagation of Cold Atoms along a Miniature Magnetic Guide
M. Key, I. G. Hughes, W. Rooijakkers, B. E. Sauer, E. A. Hinds, D. J. Richardson, and P. G. Kazansky
pp. 1371-1373 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Completely Positive Quantum Dissipation
Bassano Vacchini
pp. 1374-1377 [View PDF (74 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Unstable Superheavy Relic Particles as a Source of Neutrinos Responsible for Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays
Graciela Gelmini and Alexander Kusenko
pp. 1378-1380 [View PDF (52 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Lorentz and CPT Tests with Spin-Polarized Solids
Robert Bluhm and V. Alan Kostelecký
pp. 1381-1384 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Precision Observables and Electroweak Theories
Jonathan A. Bagger, Adam F. Falk, and Morris Swartz
pp. 1385-1388 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Improved Branching Ratio Measurement for the Decay KL0→μ+μ-
D. Ambrose et al. ((BNL E871 Collaboration))
pp. 1389-1392 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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First Observation of the Decay B→J/ψφK
A. Anastassov et al. ((CLEO Collaboration))
pp. 1393-1397 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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GEp/GMp Ratio by Polarization Transfer in e⃗p → ep⃗
M. K. Jones et al. (The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)
pp. 1398-1402 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Microscopic Calculation of the Inclusive Electron Scattering Structure Function in 16O
Bogdan Mihaila and Jochen H. Heisenberg
pp. 1403-1406 [View PDF (79 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Slow Spin Relaxation of Rb Atoms Confined in Glass Cells Filled with Dense 4He Gas at 1.85 K
A. Hatakeyama, K. Oe, K. Ota, S. Hara, J. Arai, T. Yabuzaki, and A. R. Young
pp. 1407-1410 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Doubly Vibrationally Enhanced Four Wave Mixing: The Optical Analog to 2D NMR
Wei Zhao and John C. Wright
pp. 1411-1414 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Rydberg Electron Interferometry
Michael A. Morrison, Eric G. Layton, and Gregory A. Parker
pp. 1415-1418 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Entanglement of Ultraslow Single Photons
M. D. Lukin and A. Imamoğlu
pp. 1419-1422 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Annihilation of One of the Coexisting Attractors in a Bistable System
A. N. Pisarchik and B. K. Goswami
pp. 1423-1426 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Periodic-Orbit Theory of Anderson Localization on Graphs
Holger Schanz and Uzy Smilansky
pp. 1427-1430 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Noncausal Time Response in Frustrated Total Internal Reflection?
John J. Carey, Justyna Zawadzka, Dino A. Jaroszynski, and Klaas Wynne
pp. 1431-1434 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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New Effects in Light Scattering in Disordered Media and Coherent Backscattering Cone: Systems of Magnetic Particles
F. A. Pinheiro, A. S. Martinez, and L. C. Sampaio
pp. 1435-1438 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Stresses in Silos: Comparison Between Theoretical Models and New Experiments
L. Vanel, Ph. Claudin, J.-Ph. Bouchaud, M. E. Cates, E. Clément, and J. P. Wittmer
pp. 1439-1442 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Turbulence That Self-Organizes into Vortex Crystals
Dezhe Z. Jin and Daniel H. E. Dubin
pp. 1443-1446 [View PDF (801 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Evolution Equation of Finite-Amplitude Internal Gravity Waves in a Uniformly Stratified Fluid
Takeshi Kataoka, Michihisa Tsutahara, and Tomonori Akuzawa
pp. 1447-1450 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Spontaneous Fluctuations of a Temperature Filament in a Magnetized Plasma
A. T. Burke, J. E. Maggs, and G. J. Morales
pp. 1451-1454 [View PDF (364 kB)]
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Reconnection Rate for the Inhomogeneous Resistivity Petschek Model
Nikolai V. Erkaev, Vladimir S. Semenov, and Ferdinand Jamitzky
pp. 1455-1458 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Effect of the Plasma Density Scale Length on the Direction of Fast Electrons in Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions
M. I. K. Santala, M. Zepf, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, E. Clark, M. Tatarakis, K. Krushelnick, A. E. Dangor, T. McCanny, I. Spencer, R. P. Singhal, K. W. D. Ledingham, S. C. Wilks, A. C. Machacek, J. S. Wark, R. Allott, R. J. Clarke, and P. A. Norreys
pp. 1459-1462 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Suppression of Plasma Turbulence During Optimized Shear Configurations in JET
G. D. Conway, D. N. Borba, B. Alper, D. V. Bartlett, C. Gormezano, M. G. von Hellermann, A. C. Maas, V. V. Parail, P. Smeulders, and K-D. Zastrow
pp. 1463-1466 [View PDF (449 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Evidence of Highly Collective Co Diffusion in the Whole Stability Range of Co-Zr Glasses
A. Heesemann, V. Zöllmer, K. Rätzke, and F. Faupel
pp. 1467-1470 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Atomistic Simulation of Aging and Rejuvenation in Glasses
Marcel Utz, Pablo G. Debenedetti, and Frank H. Stillinger
pp. 1471-1474 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Structure and Formation Mechanism of Ge E′ Center from Divalent Defects in Ge-doped SiO2 Glass
Takashi Uchino, Masahide Takahashi, and Toshinobu Yoko
pp. 1475-1478 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Silicon Clusters of Intermediate Size: Energetics, Dynamics, and Thermal Effects
Lubos Mitas, Jeffrey C. Grossman, Ivan Stich, and Jaroslav Tobik
pp. 1479-1482 [View PDF (460 kB)]
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Orientational Melting in Carbon Nanotube Ropes
Young-Kyun Kwon and David Tománek
pp. 1483-1486 [View PDF (281 kB)]
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Dislocation Patterning: From Micro- to Mesoscale Description
I. Groma and B. Bakó
pp. 1487-1490 [View PDF (392 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Analysis of Structure and Strength of Dislocation Junctions in fcc Metals
V. B. Shenoy, R. V. Kukta, and R. Phillips
pp. 1491-1494 [View PDF (571 kB)]
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Lattice Location and Stability of Ion Implanted Cu in Si
U. Wahl, A. Vantomme, G. Langouche, J. G. Correia, and ISOLDE Collaboration
pp. 1495-1498 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Ab Initio Study of Screw Dislocations in Mo and Ta: A New Picture of Plasticity in bcc Transition Metals
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi and T. A. Arias
pp. 1499-1502 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Breakdown of Scaling in the Nonequilibrium Critical Dynamics of the Two-Dimensional XY Model
A. J. Bray, A. J. Briant, and D. K. Jervis
pp. 1503-1506 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Nagel Scaling, Relaxation, and Universality in the Kinetic Ising Model on an Alternating Isotopic Chain
L. L. Gonçalves, M. López de Haro, J. Tagüeña-Martínez, and R. B. Stinchcombe
pp. 1507-1510 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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From Microscopic Interactions to Macroscopic Laws of Cluster Evolution
Markos A. Katsoulakis and Dionisios G. Vlachos
pp. 1511-1514 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Attenuation of Second Sound in Superfluid 3He-A1
T. Sato, J. J. Coleman, P. G. N. de Vegvar, H. Kojima, and Y. Okuda
pp. 1515-1518 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Wetting and Molecular Orientation of 8CB on Silicon Substrates
Lei Xu, Miquel Salmeron, and Sebastien Bardon
pp. 1519-1522 [View PDF (869 kB)]
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Diffusion Driven Concerted Motion of Surface Atoms: Ge on Ge(001)
H. J. W. Zandvliet, T. M. Galea, E. Zoethout, and Bene Poelsema
pp. 1523-1526 [View PDF (789 kB)]
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Control and Characterization of a Multistep Unimolecular Reaction
L. J. Lauhon and W. Ho
pp. 1527-1530 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Inelastic Neutron Scattering Measurements and Ab Initio Calculations of Hydrogen in Single-Crystal Palladium
M. Kemali, J. E. Totolici, D. K. Ross, and I. Morrison
pp. 1531-1534 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Commensurability, Excitation Gap, and Topology in Quantum Many-Particle Systems on a Periodic Lattice
Masaki Oshikawa
pp. 1535-1538 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Resolution of the Scaling Exponent Puzzle for Weakly Compensated Crystalline Silicon and Germanium Metal-Insulator Systems
T. G. Castner
pp. 1539-1542 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Coulomb Gap: How a Metal Film Becomes an Insulator
V. Yu. Butko, J. F. DiTusa, and P. W. Adams
pp. 1543-1546 [View PDF (84 kB)]
Angle-Resonant Stimulated Polariton Amplifier
P. G. Savvidis, J. J. Baumberg, R. M. Stevenson, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, and J. S. Roberts
pp. 1547-1550 [View PDF (96 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Band Structure of the Jahn-Teller Polaron from Quantum Monte Carlo
P. E. Kornilovitch
pp. 1551-1554 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Time-Correlated Soliton Tunneling in Charge and Spin Density Waves
J. H. Miller, Jr., C. Ordóñez, and E. Prodan
pp. 1555-1558 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Undercompensated Kondo Impurity with Quantum Critical Point
P. Schlottmann
pp. 1559-1562 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Enhanced Fluctuations of the Tunneling Density of States near the Bottom of a Landau Band Measured by a Local Spectrometer
J. P. Holder, A. K. Savchenko, Vladimir I. Fal'ko, B. Jouault, G. Faini, F. Laruelle, and E. Bedel
pp. 1563-1566 [View PDF (623 kB)]
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Probing the Plateau-Insulator Quantum Phase Transition in the Quantum Hall Regime
R. T. F. van Schaijk, A. de Visser, S. M. Olsthoorn, H. P. Wei, and A. M. M. Pruisken
pp. 1567-1570 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Anisotropic Vortex Plasticity in the Liquid State of YBa2Cu3O7: Evidence for Quenched c-Axis Vortex Correlation Length
Teresa Puig and Xavier Obradors
pp. 1571-1574 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Observation of Out-of-Phase Bilayer Plasmons in YBa2Cu3O7-δ
M. Grüninger, D. van der Marel, A. A. Tsvetkov, and A. Erb
pp. 1575-1578 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Accurate Prediction of Large Antiferromagnetic Interactions in High- Tc HgBa2Can-1CunO2n+2+δ ( n = 2,3) Superconductor Parent Compounds
D. Muñoz, F. Illas, and I. de P. R. Moreira
pp. 1579-1582 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Imaging of a Vortex Lattice Transition in YNi2B2C by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Hideaki Sakata, Morimi Oosawa, Ken Matsuba, Nobuhiko Nishida, Hiroyuki Takeya, and Kazuto Hirata
pp. 1583-1586 [View PDF (940 kB)]
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Pressure Dependence of the Irreversibility Line in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: Role of Anisotropy in Flux-Line Formation
M. P. Raphael, M. E. Reeves, E. F. Skelton, and C. Kendziora
pp. 1587-1590 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Photoemission Quasiparticle Spectra of Sr2RuO4
A. Liebsch and A. Lichtenstein
pp. 1591-1594 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Spin-Triplet Superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 Probed by Andreev Reflection
F. Laube, G. Goll, H. v. Löhneysen, M. Fogelström, and F. Lichtenberg
pp. 1595-1598 [View PDF (234 kB)]
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Phase Separation in Supersolids
G. G. Batrouni and R. T. Scalettar
pp. 1599-1602 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Cooperative Jahn-Teller Coupling in the Manganites
Z. Popovic and S. Satpathy
pp. 1603-1606 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Negatively Charged Quantum Well Polaritons in a GaAs/AlAs Microcavity: An Analog of Atoms in a Cavity
R. Rapaport, R. Harel, E. Cohen, Arza Ron, E. Linder, and L. N. Pfeiffer
pp. 1607-1610 [View PDF (94 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Classical Information and Distillable Entanglement
J. Eisert, T. Felbinger, P. Papadopoulos, M. B. Plenio, and M. Wilkens
pp. 1611-1614 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Influence of Superpositional Wave Function Oscillations on Shor's Quantum Algorithm
Gennady P. Berman, Gary D. Doolen, and Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich
pp. 1615-1618 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Discrete Coherent Amplification of Oscillations by Nonresonant Forcing
G. D. Chagelishvili, A. G. Tevzadze, G. T. Gogoberidze, and J. G. Lominadze
pp. 1619-1622 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Twirling and Whirling: Viscous Dynamics of Rotating Elastic Filaments
Charles W. Wolgemuth, Thomas R. Powers, and Raymond E. Goldstein
pp. 1623-1626 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Chiral Self-Propulsion of Growing Bacterial Macrofibers on a Solid Surface
Neil H. Mendelson, Joelle E. Sarlls, Charles W. Wolgemuth, and Raymond E. Goldstein
pp. 1627-1630 [View PDF (770 kB)]
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Bistable Helices
Raymond E. Goldstein, Alain Goriely, Greg Huber, and Charles W. Wolgemuth
pp. 1631-1634 [View PDF (442 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Stellar Reactions with Short-Lived Nuclei: 17F(p,α)14O”
H. T. Fortune and R. Sherr
pp. 1635 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Comment on “Low-Temperature Charge Ordering in the Superconducting State of YBa2Cu3O7-δ”
B. Grévin, Y. Berthier, and G. Collin
pp. 1636 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Krämer and Mehring Reply:
S. Krämer and M. Mehring
pp. 1637 [View PDF (20 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Charge, Polarizability, and Photoionization of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4840 (1999)]
Todd D. Krauss and Louis E. Brus
pp. 1638 [View PDF (9 kB)]
 
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