Physical Review Letters – 28 February 2000
(Volume 84, Issue 9)
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LETTERS
- General Physics
- Gravitation and Astrophysics
- Elementary Particles and Fields
- Nuclear Physics
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
- Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
- Plasma and Beam Physics
- Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
- Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
- Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
- COMMENTS
LETTERS
General Physics
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Nonclassical States: An Observable CriterionWerner Vogel pp. 1849-1852 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Gravitation and Astrophysics
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Stable Monopole and Dyon Solutions in the Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory in Asymptotically anti–de Sitter SpaceJefferson Bjoraker and Yutaka Hosotani pp. 1853-1856 [View PDF (160 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Elementary Particles and Fields
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Observation of the Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay Ξc+ → pK-π+S. Y. Jun et al. (SELEX Collaboration) pp. 1857-1861 [View PDF (131 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Nuclear Physics
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Nuclear and Coulomb Interaction in 8B Breakup at Sub-Coulomb EnergiesV. Guimarães, J. J. Kolata, D. Peterson, P. Santi, R. H. White-Stevens, S. M. Vincent, F. D. Becchetti, M. Y. Lee, T. W. O'Donnell, D. A. Roberts, and J. A. Zimmerman pp. 1862-1865 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Partial Dynamical Symmetry in a Fermion SystemJutta Escher and Amiram Leviatan pp. 1866-1869 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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Quantum Energy Flow in Atomic Ions Moving in Magnetic FieldsV. S. Melezhik and P. Schmelcher pp. 1870-1873 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Photoassociation Spectroscopy of Cold He(2 3S) AtomsN. Herschbach, P. J. Tol, W. Vassen, W. Hogervorst, G. Woestenenk, J. W. Thomsen, P. van der Straten, and A. Niehaus pp. 1874-1877 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Complete Numerical Solution of Electron-Hydrogen Model Collision Problem above the Ionization ThresholdS. Jones and A. T. Stelbovics pp. 1878-1881 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Dynamical Casimir Effect at Finite TemperatureGünter Plunien, Ralf Schützhold, and Gerhard Soff pp. 1882-1885 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
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Correlations in the Adiabatic Response of Chaotic SystemsOphir M. Auslaender and Shmuel Fishman pp. 1886-1889 [View PDF (93 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Prediction of Spatiotemporal Time Series Based on Reconstructed Local StatesUlrich Parlitz and Christian Merkwirth pp. 1890-1893 [View PDF (311 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Finite Flux Solutions of the Quantum Boltzmann Equation and Semiconductor LasersYuri V. Lvov and Alan C. Newell pp. 1894-1897 [View PDF (74 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Intrinsic Bistability of Luminescence and Stimulated Emission in Yb- and Tm-Doped GlassA. Kuditcher, M. P. Hehlen, C. M. Florea, K. W. Winick, and S. C. Rand pp. 1898-1901 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Cantor Set Fractals from SolitonsSuzanne Sears, Marin Soljacic, Mordechai Segev, Dmitriy Krylov, and Keren Bergman pp. 1902-1905 [View PDF (151 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Spatiotemporally Localized Multidimensional Solitons in Self-Induced Transparency MediaM. Blaauboer, B. A. Malomed, and G. Kurizki pp. 1906-1909 [View PDF (247 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Propagating Pattern Selection and Causality ReconsideredJ.-M. Chomaz and A. Couairon pp. 1910-1913 [View PDF (62 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Plasma and Beam Physics
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Astrophysical Jets as Exact Plasma EquilibriaOleg I. Bogoyavlenskij pp. 1914-1917 [View PDF (89 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Negative Ion Density Fronts during Ignition and Extinction of Plasmas in Electronegative GasesI. D. Kaganovich, D. J. Economou, B. N. Ramamurthi, and V. Midha pp. 1918-1921 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Impurity-Induced Suppression of Core Turbulence and Transport in the DIII-D TokamakG. McKee, K. Burrell, R. Fonck, G. Jackson, M. Murakami, G. Staebler, D. Thomas, and P. West pp. 1922-1925 [View PDF (183 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
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Internal Atomic Distortion and Layer Roughness of Epitaxial SiC Thin Films Studied by Short Wavelength X-Ray DiffractionG. Xu and Z. C. Feng pp. 1926-1929 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals by Liquid CrystalsYuriy Reznikov, Oksana Ostroverkhova, Kenneth D. Singer, Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, Oleg Lavrentovich, Bin Wang, and John L. West pp. 1930-1933 [View PDF (72 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Director Precession and Nonlinear Waves in Nematic Liquid Crystals under Elliptic ShearT. Börzsönyi, Á. Buka, A. P. Krekhov, O. A. Scaldin, and L. Kramer pp. 1934-1937 [View PDF (548 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Magnetic Field Dependent Tunneling in GlassesP. Strehlow, M. Wohlfahrt, A. G. Jansen, R. Haueisen, G. Weiss, C. Enss, and S. Hunklinger pp. 1938-1941 [View PDF (96 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Charged Local Defects in Extended SystemsPeter A. Schultz pp. 1942-1945 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Scaling and Noise in Slow Combustion of PaperM. Myllys, J. Maunuksela, M. J. Alava, T. Ala-Nissila, and J. Timonen pp. 1946-1949 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Dynamic Scaling of Ultrasonic Damping near the Nematic-Smectic- A Transition of TBBAP. Sonntag, D. Collin, and P. Martinoty pp. 1950-1953 [View PDF (77 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Orientational Ordering of N2O Molecules Adsorbed on Graphite (0001): A Novel Commensurate Pinwheel StructureB. Leinböck, B. Krömker, H. Wiechert, and M. Hofmann pp. 1954-1957 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Strain Evolution in Coherent Ge/Si IslandsChuan-Pu Liu, J. Murray Gibson, David G. Cahill, Theodore I. Kamins, David P. Basile, and R. Stanley Williams pp. 1958-1961 [View PDF (340 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Polarizability of KC60: Evidence for Potassium Skating on the C60 SurfaceD. Rayane, R. Antoine, Ph. Dugourd, E. Benichou, A. R. Allouche, M. Aubert-Frécon, and M. Broyer pp. 1962-1965 [View PDF (167 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Anomalous Shape and Decay of Islands on Au(110)M. J. Rost, R. van Gastel, and J. W. Frenken pp. 1966-1969 [View PDF (698 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
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Mesoscopic Sensitivity of Speckles in Disordered Nonlinear Media to Changes of the Scattering PotentialB. Spivak and A. Zyuzin pp. 1970-1973 [View PDF (97 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Fractional Quantum Conductance in Carbon NanotubesStefano Sanvito, Young-Kyun Kwon, David Tománek, and Colin J. Lambert pp. 1974-1977 [View PDF (80 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Spectral Function of Composites from Reflectivity MeasurementsA. R. Day, A. R. Grant, A. J. Sievers, and M. F. Thorpe pp. 1978-1981 [View PDF (132 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Nematic Phase of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in a Magnetic FieldEduardo Fradkin, Steven A. Kivelson, Efstratios Manousakis, and Kwangsik Nho pp. 1982-1985 [View PDF (71 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Double Quantum Dots as Detectors of High-Frequency Quantum Noise in Mesoscopic ConductorsRamón Aguado and Leo P. Kouwenhoven pp. 1986-1989 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Large Isotope Effect on the Pseudogap in the High-Temperature Superconductor HoBa2Cu4O8D. Rubio Temprano, J. Mesot, S. Janssen, K. Conder, A. Furrer, H. Mutka, and K. A. Müller pp. 1990-1993 [View PDF (119 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Vortices Freeze like Window Glass: The Vortex Molasses ScenarioCharles Reichhardt, Anne van Otterlo, and Gergely T. Zimányi pp. 1994-1997 [View PDF (129 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Anomalous Magnetotransport Properties of R2Mo2O7 near the Magnetic Phase BoundaryT. Katsufuji, H. Ẏ. Hwang, and S-W. Cheong pp. 1998-2001 [View PDF (401 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Strong Surface State Effects in Nonlinear Magneto-optical Response of Ni(110)K. J. Veenstra, A. V. Petukhov, E. Jurdik, and Th. Rasing pp. 2002-2005 [View PDF (203 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Femtosecond Coherent Dynamics of the Fermi-Edge Singularity and Exciton HybridT. V. Shahbazyan, N. Primozich, I. E. Perakis, and D. S. Chemla pp. 2006-2009 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Many-Body Renormalization of Semiconductor Quantum Wire Excitons: Absorption, Gain, Binding, and UnbindingS. Das Sarma and D. W. Wang pp. 2010-2013 [View PDF (107 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.
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Limits for Entanglement MeasuresMichał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki pp. 2014-2017 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Viscous Sintering Phenomena in Liquid-Liquid DispersionsJohn Philip, L. Bonakdar, P. Poulin, J. Bibette, and F. Leal-Calderon pp. 2018-2021 [View PDF (287 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Observation of Chaotic Dynamics in Dilute Sheared Aqueous Solutions of CTATRanjini Bandyopadhyay, Geetha Basappa, and A. K. Sood pp. 2022-2025 [View PDF (108 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Glassy Transition in a Disordered Model for the RNA Secondary StructureA. Pagnani, G. Parisi, and F. Ricci-Tersenghi pp. 2026-2029 [View PDF (84 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Cryptographical Properties of Ising Spin SystemsYoshiyuki Kabashima, Tatsuto Murayama, and David Saad pp. 2030-2033 [View PDF (67 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
COMMENTS
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Comment on “Physical Picture for Light Emission in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”P. Johansson, R. Berndt, J. K. Gimzewski, and S. P. Apell pp. 2034 [View PDF (22 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Comment on “Precision Neutron Interferometric Search for Evidence of Nuclear Quantum Entanglement in Liquid H2O-D2O Mixtures”C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann, T. Abdul Redah, R. M. Streffer, and B. Hessmo pp. 2036 [View PDF (24 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Ioffe et al. Reply:A. Ioffe, M. Arif, D. L. Jacobson, and F. Mezei pp. 2037 [View PDF (13 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Comment on “Adatom Formation on the Ni(110) Surface”W. Theis pp. 2038 [View PDF (22 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Silvestri, Graham, and Toennies Reply:W. Silvestri, A. P. Graham, and J. P. Toennies pp. 2039 [View PDF (12 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Comment on “Complementarity Enforced by Random Classical Phase Kicks”Berthold-Georg Englert, Marlan O. Scully, and Herbert Walther pp. 2040 [View PDF (27 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Luis and Sánchez-Soto Reply:A. Luis and L. L. Sánchez-Soto pp. 2041 [View PDF (17 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Comment on “Carrier Density Collapse and Colossal Magnetoresistance in Doped Manganites”E. L. Nagaev pp. 2042 [View PDF (25 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Alexandrov and Bratkovsky Reply:A. S. Alexandrov and A. M. Bratkovsky pp. 2043 [View PDF (25 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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Comment on “Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of the Haldane Phase in Random One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets”Kun Yang and R. A. Hyman pp. 2044 [View PDF (21 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ] |
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