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Physical Review Letters – 21 February 2000
Volume 84, Issue 8

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.

Reversible, Nanometer-Scale Conductance Transitions in an Organic Complex
H. J. Gao, K. Sohlberg, Z. Q. Xue, H. Y. Chen, S. M. Hou, L. P. Ma, X. W. Fang, S. J. Pang, and S. J. Pennycook
pp. 1780-1783 [View PDF (904 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Surmounting Oscillating Barriers
Jörg Lehmann, Peter Reimann, and Peter Hänggi
pp. 1639-1642 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Critical Quantum Chaos and the One-Dimensional Harper Model
S. N. Evangelou and J.-L. Pichard
pp. 1643-1646 [View PDF (92 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Conserved Charges for Gravity with Locally Anti–de Sitter Asymptotics
Rodrigo Aros, Mauricio Contreras, Rodrigo Olea, Ricardo Troncoso, and Jorge Zanelli
pp. 1647-1650 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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The 44Ti(α,p) Reaction and its Implication on the 44Ti Yield in Supernovae
A. A. Sonzogni et al.
pp. 1651-1654 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Production of Spin 3/2 Particles from Vacuum Fluctuations
Antonio L. Maroto and Anupam Mazumdar
pp. 1655-1658 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Conformal Boundary Conditions and Three-Dimensional Topological Field Theory
Giovanni Felder, Jürg Fröhlich, Jürgen Fuchs, and Christoph Schweigert
pp. 1659-1662 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Measurement of b-Quark Fragmentation Fractions in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 1663-1668 [View PDF (135 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Coherently Controlled Asymmetric Synthesis with Achiral Light
Moshe Shapiro, Einat Frishman, and Paul Brumer
pp. 1669-1672 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Three-Loop Slope of the Dirac Form Factor and the 1S Lamb Shift in Hydrogen
Kirill Melnikov and Timo van Ritbergen
pp. 1673-1676 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectrometry Studies of the Autoionization of the 2s22p2P Triply Excited State of Atomic Lithium: Experimental Results and R-Matrix Calculations
S. Diehl, D. Cubaynes, H. L. Zhou, L. VoKy, F. J. Wuilleumier, E. T. Kennedy, J. M. Bizau, S. T. Manson, T. J. Morgan, C. Blancard, N. Berrah, and J. Bozek
pp. 1677-1680 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Trapping of an Electron due to Molecular Vibrations
Edvardas Narevicius and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 1681-1684 [View PDF (276 kB)]
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Exact Linearization of the Radiation-Damped Spin System
David E. Rourke and Matthew P. Augustine
pp. 1685-1688 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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From Generalized Synchrony to Topological Decoherence: Emergent Sets in Coupled Chaotic Systems
Ernest Barreto, Paul So, Bruce J. Gluckman, and Steven J. Schiff
pp. 1689-1692 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Coherent Backscattering of an Elastic Wave in a Chaotic Cavity
Julien de Rosny, Arnaud Tourin, and Mathias Fink
pp. 1693-1695 [View PDF (354 kB)]
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Probability Density Functions of the Enstrophy Flux in Two Dimensional Grid Turbulence
H. Kellay, C. H. Bruneau, and X. L. Wu
pp. 1696-1699 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Three-Lobed Shape Bifurcation of Rotating Liquid Drops
K. Ohsaka and E. H. Trinh
pp. 1700-1703 [View PDF (888 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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X-Ray Diffraction from a Dense Plasma
D. Riley, N. C. Woolsey, D. McSherry, I. Weaver, A. Djaoui, and E. Nardi
pp. 1704-1707 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Two Different Modes of Nested Wire Array Z-Pinch Implosions
S. V. Lebedev, R. Aliaga-Rossel, S. N. Bland, J. P. Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, and M. Zakaullah
pp. 1708-1711 [View PDF (828 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Stiffness of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Large Strain
T. Ozaki, Y. Iwasa, and T. Mitani
pp. 1712-1715 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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New Metallic Allotropes of Planar and Tubular Carbon
H. Terrones, M. Terrones, E. Hernández, N. Grobert, J-C. Charlier, and P. M. Ajayan
pp. 1716-1719 [View PDF (778 kB)]
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In Situ X-Ray Study of Thermal Expansion and Phase Transition of Iron at Multimegabar Pressure
L. S. Dubrovinsky, S. K. Saxena, F. Tutti, S. Rekhi, and T. LeBehan
pp. 1720-1723 [View PDF (519 kB)]
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Origin of O 1s Core-Level Shifts on Oxygen Adsorbed Si(111)-(7×7)
Sung-Hoon Lee and Myung-Ho Kang
pp. 1724-1727 [View PDF (430 kB)]
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Energetic and Entropic Contributions to Surface Diffusion and Epitaxial Growth
Anton Steltenpohl and Norbert Memmel
pp. 1728-1731 [View PDF (737 kB)]
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Dynamics of Surface Migration in the Weak Corrugation Regime
J. V. Barth, H. Brune, B. Fischer, J. Weckesser, and K. Kern
pp. 1732-1735 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Evidence of a Wetting and Prewetting Transition in Liquid K-KCl Mixtures
S. Staroske, D. Nattland, and W. Freyland
pp. 1736-1739 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Multiscale Random-Walk Algorithm for Simulating Interfacial Pattern Formation
Mathis Plapp and Alain Karma
pp. 1740-1743 [View PDF (151 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Disordered Magnetism at the Metal-Insulator Threshold in Nano-Graphite-Based Carbon Materials
Yoshiyuki Shibayama, Hirohiko Sato, Toshiaki Enoki, and Morinobu Endo
pp. 1744-1747 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Observation of Disorder-Induced 2D Mott-Hubbard States of the Alkali-Earth Metal (Mg,Ba)-Adsorbed Si(111) Surface
J. R. Ahn, S. S. Lee, N. D. Kim, J. H. Min, C. G. Hwang, and J. W. Chung
pp. 1748-1751 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Strongly Driven Exciton Resonances in Quantum Wells: Light-Induced Dressing versus Coulomb Scattering
C. Ciuti, C. Piermarocchi, V. Savona, P. E. Selbmann, P. Schwendimann, and A. Quattropani
pp. 1752-1755 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Quantum Dots with Even Number of Electrons: Kondo Effect in a Finite Magnetic Field
Michael Pustilnik, Yshai Avishai, and Konstantin Kikoin
pp. 1756-1759 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Analytic Structure of One-Dimensional Localization Theory: Re-Examining Mott's Law
Alexander O. Gogolin
pp. 1760-1763 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence for Resonant Tunneling in a Luttinger Liquid
O. M. Auslaender, A. Yacoby, R. de Picciotto, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 1764-1767 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Real-Time Kadanoff-Baym Approach to Plasma Oscillations in a Correlated Electron Gas
N.-H. Kwong and M. Bonitz
pp. 1768-1771 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Closed Formulas for Tunneling Time in Superlattices
Pedro Pereyra
pp. 1772-1775 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Tunneling through a Coherent “Quantum Antidot Molecule”
I. J. Maasilta and V. J. Goldman
pp. 1776-1779 [View PDF (392 kB)]
Reversible, Nanometer-Scale Conductance Transitions in an Organic Complex
H. J. Gao, K. Sohlberg, Z. Q. Xue, H. Y. Chen, S. M. Hou, L. P. Ma, X. W. Fang, S. J. Pang, and S. J. Pennycook
pp. 1780-1783 [View PDF (904 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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High-Field Quasiparticle Tunneling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ: Negative Magnetoresistance in the Superconducting State
N. Morozov, L. Krusin-Elbaum, T. Shibauchi, L. N. Bulaevskii, M. P. Maley, Yu. I. Latyshev, and T. Yamashita
pp. 1784-1787 [View PDF (293 kB)]
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Quasiparticles in the Superconducting State of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
A. Kaminski, J. Mesot, H. Fretwell, J. C. Campuzano, M. R. Norman, M. Randeria, H. Ding, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, T. Mochiku, K. Kadowaki, and H. Hoechst
pp. 1788-1791 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Do Columnar Defects Produce Bulk Pinning?
M. V. Indenbom, C. J. van der Beek, M. Konczykowski, and F. Holtzberg
pp. 1792-1795 [View PDF (787 kB)]
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Metastability and Paramagnetism in Superconducting Mesoscopic Disks
J. J. Palacios
pp. 1796-1799 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Theoretical Model for the Superconducting and Magnetically Ordered Borocarbides
A. Amici, P. Thalmeier, and P. Fulde
pp. 1800-1803 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Andreev Reflection in Strong Magnetic Fields
H. Hoppe, U. Zülicke, and Gerd Schön
pp. 1804-1807 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Exact Demonstration of Magnetization Plateaus and First-Order Dimer-Néel Phase Transitions in a Modified Shastry-Sutherland Model for SrCu2(BO3)2
Erwin Müller-Hartmann, Rajiv R. P. Singh, Christian Knetter, and Götz S. Uhrig
pp. 1808-1811 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Origin of Biquadratic Exchange in Fe/Si/Fe
G. J. Strijkers, J. T. Kohlhepp, H. J. M. Swagten, and W. J. M. de Jonge
pp. 1812-1815 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Domain-Wall Induced Coupling between Ferromagnetic Layers
Luc Thomas, Mahesh G. Samant, and Stuart S. P. Parkin
pp. 1816-1819 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Polarized Raman Study of Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
A. M. Rao, A. Jorio, M. A. Pimenta, M. S. S. Dantas, R. Saito, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
pp. 1820-1823 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Statistical Mechanics of Systems with Heterogeneous Agents: Minority Games
Damien Challet, Matteo Marsili, and Riccardo Zecchina
pp. 1824-1827 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Random Walks in the Space of Conformations of Toy Proteins
Rose Du, Alexander Yu. Grosberg, and Toyoichi Tanaka
pp. 1828-1831 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Factorial Moments Analyses Show a Characteristic Length Scale in DNA Sequences
A. K. Mohanty and A. V. S. S. Narayana Rao
pp. 1832-1835 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Partition Function Zeros and Finite Size Scaling of Helix-Coil Transitions in a Polypeptide
Nelson A. Alves and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann
pp. 1836-1839 [View PDF (72 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Fluid-Solid Phase Separation in Hard-Sphere Mixtures is Unrelated to Bond Percolation
A. A. Louis
pp. 1840 [View PDF (29 kB)]
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Buhot Replies:
A. Buhot
pp. 1841 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Comment on “Zero Temperature Phases of the Electron Gas”
Setsuo Ichimaru
pp. 1842 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Ortiz et al. Reply:
G. Ortiz, M. Harris, and P. Ballone
pp. 1843 [View PDF (12 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: 4He Desorption from Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Bundles: A One-Dimensional Adsorbate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5305 (1999)]
W. Teizer, R. B. Hallock, E. Dujardin, and T. W. Ebbesen
pp. 1844-1845 [View PDF (56 kB)]
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Erratum: Observation of Cosmic Acceleration and Determining the Fate of the Universe [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1510 (1999)]
Glenn Starkman, Mark Trodden, and Tanmay Vachaspati
pp. 1846 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Vibrationally Autoionizing Rydberg Wave Packets in NO [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2552 (1999)]
V. G. Stavros, J. A. Ramswell, R. A. L. Smith, J. R. R. Verlet, J. Lei, and H. H. Fielding
pp. 1847 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Erratum: Superfluid Hydrodynamic Model for the Enhanced Moments of Inertia of Molecules in Liquid 4He [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5058 (1999)]
C. Callegari, A. Conjusteau, I. Reinhard, K. K. Lehmann, G. Scoles, and F. Dalfovo
pp. 1848 [View PDF (21 kB)]
 
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