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Physical Review Letters – 23 November 1998
Volume 81, Issue 21

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.

Precision Measurement of the Casimir Force from 0.1 to 0.9μm
U. Mohideen and Anushree Roy
pp. 4549-4552 [View PDF (272 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Brittle and Ductile Behavior in Carbon Nanotubes
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, B. I. Yakobson, and J. Bernholc
pp. 4656-4659 [View PDF (693 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Multilevel Blocking Approach to the Fermion Sign Problem in Path-Integral Monte Carlo Simulations
C. H. Mak, R. Egger, and H. Weber-Gottschick
pp. 4533-4536 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Semiclassical Representation of Width-Weighted Spectra
M. W. Beims, V. Kondratovich, and J. B. Delos
pp. 4537-4540 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Elementary Excitations in Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensed Gases Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation
L. Pitaevskii and S. Stringari
pp. 4541-4544 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Observation of Quasicondensate in Two-Dimensional Atomic Hydrogen
A. I. Safonov, S. A. Vasilyev, I. S. Yasnikov, I. I. Lukashevich, and S. Jaakkola
pp. 4545-4548 [View PDF (271 kB)]
Precision Measurement of the Casimir Force from 0.1 to 0.9μm
U. Mohideen and Anushree Roy
pp. 4549-4552 [View PDF (272 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Black Holes and Superconformal Mechanics
Piet Claus, Martijn Derix, Renata Kallosh, Jason Kumar, Paul K. Townsend, and Antoine Van Proeyen
pp. 4553-4556 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Inequalities Relating Area, Energy, Surface Gravity, and Charge of Black Holes
Sean A. Hayward
pp. 4557-4559 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Strong Interaction of Vortices with Attractive Point Defects, and Applicationto Neutron Star Rotation
P. B. Jones
pp. 4560-4563 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Kaon Condensation and Dynamical Nucleons in Neutron Stars
Norman K. Glendenning and Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich
pp. 4564-4567 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Evidence for Scale-Scale Correlations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Jesús Pando, David Valls-Gabaud, and Li-Zhi Fang
pp. 4568-4571 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Production of φ and ω Mesons in Near-Threshold pp Reactions
F. Balestra et al. ((DISTO Collaboration))
pp. 4572-4575 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Measurements of Deuteron Photodisintegration up to 4.0 GeV
C. Bochna et al.
pp. 4576-4579 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Sub-barrier Fusion of 6He with 209Bi
J. J. Kolata, V. Guimarães, D. Peterson, P. Santi, R. White-Stevens, P. A. DeYoung, G. F. Peaslee, B. Hughey, B. Atalla, M. Kern, P. L. Jolivette, J. A. Zimmerman, M. Y. Lee, F. D. Becchetti, E. F. Aguilera, E. Martinez-Quiroz, and J. D. Hinnefeld
pp. 4580-4583 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Unambiguous Proof for Berry's Phase in the Sodium Trimer: Analysis of the Transition A2E′′←X2E′
H. von Busch, Vas Dev, H.-A. Eckel, S. Kasahara, J. Wang, W. Demtröder, P. Sebald, and W. Meyer
pp. 4584-4587 [View PDF (369 kB)]
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Calculation of Circular Dichroism in Helium Double Photoionization
Anatoli S. Kheifets and Igor Bray
pp. 4588-4591 [View PDF (228 kB)]
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Sensitive Electric Field Measurement by Fluorescence-Dip Spectroscopy of Rydberg States of Atomic Hydrogen
U. Czarnetzki, D. Luggenhölscher, and H. F. Döbele
pp. 4592-4595 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Controlling Atom-Atom Interaction at Ultralow Temperatures by dc Electric Fields
M. Marinescu and L. You
pp. 4596-4599 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Fully Determined ( e,3e) Experiments for the Double Ionization of Helium
I. Taouil, A. Lahmam-Bennani, A. Duguet, and L. Avaldi
pp. 4600-4603 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Comparison of Electron-Atom Collision Parameters for S to P Transitions under Reversal of Energy Transfer
M. Shurgalin, A. J. Murray, W. R. MacGillivray, M. C. Standage, D. H. Madison, K. D. Winkler, and I. Bray
pp. 4604-4607 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Cluster-Substrate Interaction on a Femtosecond Time Scale Revealed by a High-Resolution Photoemission Study of the Fermi-Level Onset
H. Hövel, B. Grimm, M. Pollmann, and B. Reihl
pp. 4608-4611 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Temperature Effects in the Coulombic Fission of Strontium Clusters
C. Bréchignac, Ph. Cahuzac, N. Kébaïli, and J. Leygnier
pp. 4612-4615 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Dissociation Energies of Silicon Clusters: A Depth Gauge for the Global Minimum on the Potential Energy Surface
Alexandre A. Shvartsburg, Martin F. Jarrold, Bei Liu, Zhong-Yi Lu, Cai-Zhuang Wang, and Kai-Ming Ho
pp. 4616-4619 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Retroactive Quantum Jumps in a Strongly Coupled Atom-Field System
H. Mabuchi and H. M. Wiseman
pp. 4620-4623 [View PDF (158 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Turbulence and Spatial Correlation of Currents in Quantum Chaos
John R. Evans and Mark I. Stockman
pp. 4624-4627 [View PDF (871 kB)]
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Zeolite-Dye Microlasers
U. Vietze, O. Krauß, F. Laeri, G. Ihlein, F. Schüth, B. Limburg, and M. Abraham
pp. 4628-4631 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Partially Coherent Solitons of Variable Shape
Nail Akhmediev, Wiesław Królikowski, and A. W. Snyder
pp. 4632-4635 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Statistics of Dissipation and Enstrophy Induced by Localized Vortices
Guowei He, Shiyi Chen, Robert H. Kraichnan, Raoyang Zhang, and Ye Zhou
pp. 4636-4639 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Variable Intensity of Lagrangian Chaos in the Nonlinear Dynamo Problem
E. Zienicke, H. Politano, and A. Pouquet
pp. 4640-4643 [View PDF (297 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Laser Imprint Reduction Using a Low-Density Foam Buffer as a Thermal Smoothing Layer at 351-nm Wavelength
R. G. Watt, J. Duke, C. J. Fontes, P. L. Gobby, R. V. Hollis, R. A. Kopp, R. J. Mason, D. C. Wilson, C. P. Verdon, T. R. Boehly, J. P. Knauer, D. D. Meyerhofer, V. Smalyuk, R. P. J. Town, A. Iwase, and O. Willi
pp. 4644-4647 [View PDF (298 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Connected Network of Minima as a Model Glass: Long Time Dynamics
L. Angelani, G. Parisi, G. Ruocco, and G. Viliani
pp. 4648-4651 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Environment of Erbium in a-Si:H and a-SiOx:H
C. Piamonteze, A. C. Iñiguez, L. R. Tessler, M. C. Martins Alves, and H. Tolentino
pp. 4652-4655 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Brittle and Ductile Behavior in Carbon Nanotubes
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, B. I. Yakobson, and J. Bernholc
pp. 4656-4659 [View PDF (693 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Electronic Crystallization in a Lithium Battery Material: Columnar Ordering of Electrons and Holes in the Spinel LiMn2O4
J. Rodríguez-Carvajal, G. Rousse, C. Masquelier, and M. Hervieu
pp. 4660-4663 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Scaling of Misorientation Angle Distributions
D. A. Hughes, D. C. Chrzan, Q. Liu, and N. Hansen
pp. 4664-4667 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Electron Correlation Effects and the Equation of State of Shocked Liquid Deuterium
Zeev Zinamon and Yaakov Rosenfeld
pp. 4668-4671 [View PDF (147 kB)]
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Numerical Study of Order in a Gauge Glass Model
J. M. Kosterlitz and N. Akino
pp. 4672-4675 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Etching of the Si(001) Surface with Molecular Oxygen
J. B. Hannon, M. C. Bartelt, N. C. Bartelt, and G. L. Kellogg
pp. 4676-4679 [View PDF (431 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Self-Diffusion Mechanism on the Ag(100) Surface
M. F. Roşu, C. R. Laurens, A. Falepin, M. A. James, M. H. Langelaar, F. Pleiter, O. C. Rogojanu, and L. Niesen
pp. 4680-4683 [View PDF (205 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Optical Study of the Evolution of Charge and Spin Ordering in the Manganese Perovskite Bi1-xCaxMnO3 (x > 0.5)
H. L. Liu, S. L. Cooper, and S-W. Cheong
pp. 4684-4687 [View PDF (480 kB)]
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Kondo Effect in ac Transport through Quantum Dots
Rosa López, Ramón Aguado, Gloria Platero, and Carlos Tejedor
pp. 4688-4691 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Interlayer Magnetic Coupling and the Quantum Hall Effect in Multilayer Electron Systems
Luis Brey
pp. 4692-4695 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Critical Conductance of a Mesoscopic System: Interplay of the Spectral and Eigenfunction Correlations at the Metal-Insulator Transition
D. G. Polyakov
pp. 4696-4699 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Edge States in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime Investigated by Magnetocapacitance
S. Takaoka, K. Oto, S. Uno, K. Murase, F. Nihey, and K. Nakamura
pp. 4700-4703 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Quasiparticle Transport and Localization in High- Tc Superconductors
T. Senthil, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Leon Balents, and Chetan Nayak
pp. 4704-4707 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Pairing Fluctuation Theory of Superconducting Properties in Underdoped to Overdoped Cuprates
Qijin Chen, Ioan Kosztin, Boldizsár Jankó, and K. Levin
pp. 4708-4711 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Fixed-N Superconductivity: The Crossover from the Bulk to the Few-Electron Limit
Fabian Braun and Jan von Delft
pp. 4712-4715 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Spectral Function of Superconducting Cuprates near Optimal Doping
Andrey V. Chubukov and Dirk K. Morr
pp. 4716-4719 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Insulator-Metal Crossover near Optimal Doping in Pr2-xCexCuO4: Anomalous Normal-State Low Temperature Resistivity
P. Fournier, P. Mohanty, E. Maiser, S. Darzens, T. Venkatesan, C. J. Lobb, G. Czjzek, R. A. Webb, and R. L. Greene
pp. 4720-4723 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Anomalous Mesoscopic Fluctuations of Transport Coefficients above the Critical Temperature
Fei Zhou and Cristiano Biagini
pp. 4724-4727 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Heat Conduction in κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2
Stéphane Belin, Kamran Behnia, and André Deluzet
pp. 4728-4731 [View PDF (193 kB)]
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Quantum Phase Transitions in the Triangular-Lattice Bilayer Heisenberg Model
Rajiv R. P. Singh and Norbert Elstner
pp. 4732-4735 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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First Order Nucleation of Charge Ordered Domains in La0.5Ca0.5MnO3 Detected by 139La and 55Mn NMR
G. Allodi, R. De Renzi, F. Licci, and M. W. Pieper
pp. 4736-4739 [View PDF (463 kB)]
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Critical Phenomena in the Double-Exchange Ferromagnet La0.7Sr0.3MnO3
K. Ghosh, C. J. Lobb, R. L. Greene, S. G. Karabashev, D. A. Shulyatev, A. A. Arsenov, and Y. Mukovskii
pp. 4740-4743 [View PDF (358 kB)]
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Neutron Spectroscopy for the Magnetic Anisotropy of Molecular Clusters
Roberto Caciuffo, Giuseppe Amoretti, Amir Murani, Roberta Sessoli, Andrea Caneschi, and Dante Gatteschi
pp. 4744-4747 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Two-Stage Excitation Mechanism of Er in Si
I. Tsimperidis, T. Gregorkiewicz, H. H. P. Th. Bekman, and C. J. G. M. Langerak
pp. 4748-4751 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Quantum Information in Semiconductors: Noiseless Encoding in a Quantum-Dot Array
Paolo Zanardi and Fausto Rossi
pp. 4752-4755 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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Complete Exact Solution of Diffusion-Limited Coalescence, A + A → A
Daniel ben-Avraham
pp. 4756-4759 [View PDF (142 kB)]
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Ultrahigh Gain Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifier
K. R. Chu, H. Y. Chen, C. L. Hung, T. H. Chang, L. R. Barnett, S. H. Chen, and T. T. Yang
pp. 4760-4763 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Elastically Coupled Two-Level Systems as a Model for Biopolymer Extensibility
Matthias Rief, Julio M. Fernandez, and Hermann E. Gaub
pp. 4764-4767 [View PDF (328 kB)]
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Charge Fluctuations and Shear Stress of Thin Films
S. A. Safran
pp. 4768-4771 [View PDF (142 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Stern-Gerlach Effect for Electron Beams”
George H. Rutherford and Rainer Grobe
pp. 4772 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Batelaan and Gay Reply:
H. Batelaan and T. J. Gay
pp. 4773 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Bare Quark Matter Surfaces of Strange Stars and e+e- Emission”
Abhas Mitra
pp. 4774 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Usov Replies:
V. V. Usov
pp. 4775 [View PDF (57 kB)]
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Comment on “Anomalous Peaklike Structure in the Fission Fragment Anisotropies at Sub-barrier Energies in 11B, 12C, 16O, 19F+232Th Reactions”
J. P. Lestone, A. A. Sonzogni, M. P. Kelly, and R. Vandenbosch
pp. 4776 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Comment on “Anomalous Peaklike Structure in the Fission Fragment Anisotropies at Sub-barrier Energies in 11B, 12C, 16O, 19F+232Th Reactions”
D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, J. R. Leigh, D. G. Marinaro, and J. O. Newton
pp. 4777 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Majumdar et al. Reply:
N. Majumdar, P. Bhattacharya, D. C. Biswas, R. K. Choudhury, D. M. Nadkarni, and A. Saxena
pp. 4778-4779 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Comment on “Effect of the Growth Temperature on the Diameter Distribution and Chirality of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes”
Eric Anglaret, Stéphane Rols, and Jean-Louis Sauvajol
pp. 4780 [View PDF (61 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Six-Dimensional Quantum Dynamics of Dissociative Chemisorption of ( v = 0,j = 0) H2 on Cu(100) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3583 (1997)]
G. J. Kroes,, E. J. Baerends,, and R. C. Mowrey
pp. 4781 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Erratum: Off-Equilibrium, Static Fields in Dielectric Ferrofluids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2937 (1998)]
Mario Liu
pp. 4782 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Erratum: Cyclotron Resonance in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Long-Range Randomness [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4749 (1998)]
M. M. Fogler and B. I. Shklovskii
pp. 4783 [View PDF (12 kB)]
 
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