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Physical Review Letters – 3 July 2000
Volume 85, Issue 1

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.

The Structure of Electromagnetic Wave-Induced 557.7-nm Emission Associated with a Sporadic- E Event over Arecibo
L. M. Kagan, M. C. Kelley, F. Garcia, P. A. Bernhardt, F. T. Djuth, M. P. Sulzer, and C. A. Tepley
pp. 218-221 [View PDF (472 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantal-Classical Correspondence Impulse Theory
M. R. Flannery and D. Vrinceanu
pp. 1-5 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Order of the Phase Transition in Models of DNA Thermal Denaturation
Nikos Theodorakopoulos, Thierry Dauxois, and Michel Peyrard
pp. 6-9 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Probing Strange Stars and Color Superconductivity by r-Mode Instabilities in Millisecond Pulsars
Jes Madsen
pp. 10-13 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Complete One-Loop Analysis of the Nucleon's Spin Polarizabilities
George C. Gellas, Thomas R. Hemmert, and Ulf-G. Meißner
pp. 14-17 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Emission Pattern of High-Energy Pions: A New Probe for the Early Phase of Heavy-Ion Collisions
A. Wagner, C. Müntz, H. Oeschler, C. Sturm, R. Barth, M. Cieślak, M. Dȩbowski, E. Grosse, P. Koczoń, F. Laue, M. Mang, D. Miśkowiec, E. Schwab, P. Senger, P. Beckerle, D. Brill, Y. Shin, H. Ströbele, W. Waluś, B. Kohlmeyer, F. Pühlhofer, J. Speer, and I. K. Yoo
pp. 18-21 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Theory of Two-Proton Radioactivity with Application to 19Mg and 48Ni
L. V. Grigorenko, R. C. Johnson, I. G. Mukha, I. J. Thompson, and M. V. Zhukov
pp. 22-25 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Behavior of Shell Effects with the Excitation Energy in Atomic Nuclei
J. L. Egido, L. M. Robledo, and V. Martin
pp. 26-29 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Effect of Differences in Proton and Neutron Density Distributions on Fission Barriers
J. F. Berger and K. Pomorski
pp. 30-33 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Born-Oppenheimer Approximation near Level Crossing
A. Gordon and J. E. Avron
pp. 34-37 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Excited-Configuration Metastable Level Lifetimes of Cl-like Mn IX and Fe X
D. P. Moehs, D. A. Church, M. I. Bhatti, and W. F. Perger
pp. 38-41 [View PDF (59 kB)]
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Laser-Induced Transitions between Triply Excited Hollow States
L. B. Madsen, P. Schlagheck, and P. Lambropoulos
pp. 42-45 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Photoelectron Angular Distributions from O K Shell of Oriented CO Molecules: A Critical Comparison between Theory and Experiment
K. Ito, J. Adachi, Y. Hikosaka, S. Motoki, K. Soejima, A. Yagishita, G. Raseev, and N. A. Cherepkov
pp. 46-49 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Novel Precursors of Solvated Electrons in Water: Evidence for a Charge Transfer Process
R. Laenen, T. Roth, and A. Laubereau
pp. 50-53 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Enhanced Backward-Directed Multiphoton-Excited Fluorescence from Dielectric Microcavities
Steven C. Hill, Veronique Boutou, Jin Yu, Stephane Ramstein, Jean-Pierre Wolf, Yong-le Pan, Stephen Holler, and Richard K. Chang
pp. 54-57 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Symmetry Breakdown in Ground State Dissociation of HD+
I. Ben-Itzhak, E. Wells, K. D. Carnes, Vidhya Krishnamurthi, O. L. Weaver, and B. D. Esry
pp. 58-61 [View PDF (249 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Invariant Integral and the Transition to Steady States in Separable Dynamical Systems
G. L. Lippi, S. Barland, and F. Monsieur
pp. 62-65 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Phase-Space Distributions for Light Backscattered from a Disordered Medium
A. Wax, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas
pp. 66-69 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Time Dependent Theory for Random Lasers
Xunya Jiang and C. M. Soukoulis
pp. 70-73 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Observation of Critical Coupling in a Fiber Taper to a Silica-Microsphere Whispering-Gallery Mode System
Ming Cai, Oskar Painter, and Kerry J. Vahala
pp. 74-77 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Dynamics of Activated Escape and Its Observation in a Semiconductor Laser
J. Hales, A. Zhukov, R. Roy, and M. I. Dykman
pp. 78-81 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Dipole-Mode Vector Solitons
Juan J. García-Ripoll, Víctor M. Pérez-García, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and Yuri S. Kivshar
pp. 82-85 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Modulated Amplitude Waves and the Transition from Phase to Defect Chaos
Lutz Brusch, Martín G. Zimmermann, Martin van Hecke, Markus Bär, and Alessandro Torcini
pp. 86-89 [View PDF (294 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Cyclotron Resonant Wave-Particle Interaction in a Nonuniform Magnetic Field
V. L. Galinsky and V. I. Shevchenko
pp. 90-93 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Transverse Instability of Magnetized Electron Holes
L. Muschietti, I. Roth, C. W. Carlson, and R. E. Ergun
pp. 94-97 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Effect of Core-Corona Plasma Structure on Seeding of Instabilities in Wire Array Z Pinches
S. V. Lebedev, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, J. P. Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, S. A. Pikuz, and T. A. Shelkovenko
pp. 98-101 [View PDF (820 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Membrane Decoration by Amphiphilic Block Copolymers in Bicontinuous Microemulsions
H. Endo, J. Allgaier, G. Gompper, B. Jakobs, M. Monkenbusch, D. Richter, T. Sottmann, and R. Strey
pp. 102-105 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Persistence of Well-Defined Collective Excitations in a Molten Transition Metal
F. J. Bermejo, M. L. Saboungi, D. L. Price, M. Alvarez, B. Roessli, C. Cabrillo, and A. Ivanov
pp. 106-109 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Changing Shapes in the Nanoworld
Nicolas Combe, Pablo Jensen, and Alberto Pimpinelli
pp. 110-113 [View PDF (260 kB)]
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Structural Principles and Amorphouslike Thermal Conductivity of Na-Doped Si Clathrates
J. S. Tse, K. Uehara, R. Rousseau, A. Ker, C. I. Ratcliffe, M. A. White, and G. MacKay
pp. 114-117 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Continuum Field Description of Crack Propagation
I. S. Aranson, V. A. Kalatsky, and V. M. Vinokur
pp. 118-121 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Complex Phase Behavior Induced by Repulsive Interactions
E. Velasco, L. Mederos, G. Navascués, P. C. Hemmer, and G. Stell
pp. 122-125 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Universal Ratios in the 2D Tricritical Ising Model
D. Fioravanti, G. Mussardo, and P. Simon
pp. 126-129 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Topological Lifshitz Line, Off-Specular Scattering, and Mesoporous Materials
Robert Hołyst and Bartosz Przybylski
pp. 130-133 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Critical Adsorption and Dimensional Crossover in Epitaxial FeCo Films
B. Nickel, W. Donner, H. Dosch, C. Detlefs, and G. Grübel
pp. 134-137 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Gases Do Not Adsorb on the Interstitial Channels of Closed-Ended Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Bundles
S. Talapatra, A. Z. Zambano, S. E. Weber, and A. D. Migone
pp. 138-141 [View PDF (62 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Gallium and Indium under High Pressure
S. I. Simak, U. Häussermann, R. Ahuja, S. Lidin, and B. Johansson
pp. 142-145 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Structure and Electronic Properties of MoS2 Nanotubes
Gotthard Seifert, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Gerd Jungnickel, and Thomas Frauenheim
pp. 146-149 [View PDF (647 kB)]
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Schottky Barriers in Carbon Nanotube Heterojunctions
Arkadi A. Odintsov
pp. 150-153 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Electronic Structure of Deformed Carbon Nanotubes
Liu Yang and Jie Han
pp. 154-157 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Charge-Density-Wave Transitions in the Local-Moment Magnet Er5Ir4Si10
F. Galli, S. Ramakrishnan, T. Taniguchi, G. J. Nieuwenhuys, J. A. Mydosh, S. Geupel, J. Lüdecke, and S. van Smaalen
pp. 158-161 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Tenfold Magnetoconductance in a Nonmagnetic Metal Film
V. Yu. Butko, J. F. DiTusa, and P. W. Adams
pp. 162-165 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Electron Localization in a Disordered Insulating Host
V. G. Storchak, D. G. Eshchenko, J. H. Brewer, G. D. Morris, S. P. Cottrell, and S. F. J. Cox
pp. 166-169 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Supercurrent in Atomic Point Contacts and Andreev States
M. F. Goffman, R. Cron, A. Levy Yeyati, P. Joyez, M. H. Devoret, D. Esteve, and C. Urbina
pp. 170-173 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Probing Pauli Blocking Factors in Quantum Pumps with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
Mathias Wagner
pp. 174-177 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Confinement of Slave Particles in U(1) Gauge Theories of Strongly Interacting Electrons
Chetan Nayak
pp. 178-181 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Phase-Sensitive Evidence for d-Wave Pairing Symmetry in Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors
C. C. Tsuei and J. R. Kirtley
pp. 182-185 [View PDF (552 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism below the Stoner limit in La-Doped SrB6
T. Jarlborg
pp. 186-189 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Measurement of Internal Stresses via the Polarization in Epitaxial Ferroelectric Films
A. L. Roytburd, S. P. Alpay, V. Nagarajan, C. S. Ganpule, S. Aggarwal, E. D. Williams, and R. Ramesh
pp. 190-193 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Pauli Exchange Errors in Quantum Computation
Mary Beth Ruskai
pp. 194-197 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Quantum Computation through Entangling Single Photons in Multipath Interferometers
John C. Howell and John A. Yeazell
pp. 198-201 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Examining Noise Sources at the Single-Molecule Level: 1/f Noise of an Open Maltoporin Channel
Sergey M. Bezrukov and Mathias Winterhalter
pp. 202-205 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Generating Ensemble Averages for Small Proteins from Extended Conformations by Monte Carlo Simulations
Philippe Derreumaux
pp. 206-209 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Random Networks of Spiking Neurons: Instability in the Xenopus Tadpole Moto-Neural Pattern
Carlo Fulvi Mari
pp. 210-213 [View PDF (58 kB)]
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Anomalous Scaling of Cumulus Cloud Boundaries
A. P. Siebesma and H. J. J. Jonker
pp. 214-217 [View PDF (433 kB)]
The Structure of Electromagnetic Wave-Induced 557.7-nm Emission Associated with a Sporadic- E Event over Arecibo
L. M. Kagan, M. C. Kelley, F. Garcia, P. A. Bernhardt, F. T. Djuth, M. P. Sulzer, and C. A. Tepley
pp. 218-221 [View PDF (472 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Conductance and Shot Noise for Particles with Exclusion Statistics”
M. P. Das and F. Green
pp. 222 [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Martin and Ouvry Reply:
T. Martin and S. Ouvry
pp. 223 [View PDF (20 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: KN Scattering and the Nucleon Strangeness Radius [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2539 (1998)]
M. J. Ramsey-Musolf and H.-W. Hammer
pp. 224 [View PDF (16 kB)]
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Erratum: High Pressure Behavior of ZrW2O8: Grüneisen Parameter and Thermal Properties [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3879 (2000)]
T. R. Ravindran, Akhilesh K. Arora, and T. A. Mary
pp. 225 [View PDF (13 kB)]
 
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