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Physical Review Letters – 1 February 1999
Volume 82, Issue 5

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.

Quantum Sieving in Carbon Nanotubes and Zeolites
Qinyu Wang, Sivakumar R. Challa, David S. Sholl, and J. Karl Johnson
pp. 956-959 [View PDF (104 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Quantum Logic Gates in Optical Lattices
Gavin K. Brennen, Carlton M. Caves, Poul S. Jessen, and Ivan H. Deutsch
pp. 1060-1063 [View PDF (298 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Coherent Splitting of Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms with Optically Induced Bragg Diffraction
M. Kozuma, L. Deng, E. W. Hagley, J. Wen, R. Lutwak, K. Helmerson, S. L. Rolston, and W. D. Phillips
pp. 871-875 [View PDF (399 kB)]
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Measurements of Collective Collapse in a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions
C. A. Sackett, J. M. Gerton, M. Welling, and R. G. Hulet
pp. 876-879 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Two-Dimensional Copolymers and Exact Conformal Multifractality
Bertrand Duplantier
pp. 880-883 [View PDF (152 kB)]
Search for Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant
John K. Webb, Victor V. Flambaum, Christopher W. Churchill, Michael J. Drinkwater, and John D. Barrow
pp. 884-887 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Space-Time Variation of Physical Constants and Relativistic Corrections in Atoms
V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and J. K. Webb
pp. 888-891 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Numerical Models of Irrotational Binary Neutron Stars in General Relativity
Silvano Bonazzola, Eric Gourgoulhon, and Jean-Alain Marck
pp. 892-895 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Quintessence, Cosmic Coincidence, and the Cosmological Constant
Ivaylo Zlatev, Limin Wang, and Paul J. Steinhardt
pp. 896-899 [View PDF (167 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Two-Loop Contribution to Electric Dipole Moments in Supersymmetric Theories
Darwin Chang, Wai-Yee Keung, and Apostolos Pilaftsis
pp. 900-903 [View PDF (159 kB)]
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New Experimental Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron
P. G. Harris, C. A. Baker, K. Green, P. Iaydjiev, S. Ivanov, D. J. R. May, J. M. Pendlebury, D. Shiers, K. F. Smith, M. van der Grinten, and P. Geltenbort
pp. 904-907 [View PDF (217 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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New Insight into Halo Fragmentation
S. N. Ershov, B. V. Danilin, T. Rogde, and J. S. Vaagen
pp. 908-911 [View PDF (340 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Thermodynamic Entropy and Excess Information Loss in Dynamical Systems with Time-Dependent Hamiltonians
Shin-ichi Sasa and Teruhisa S. Komatsu
pp. 912-915 [View PDF (135 kB)]
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Aging in Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Models for Granular Media
Mario Nicodemi and Antonio Coniglio
pp. 916-919 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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Viscoelasticity of Xenon near the Critical Point
R. F. Berg, M. R. Moldover, and G. A. Zimmerli
pp. 920-923 [View PDF (139 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Anomalous Beam-Ion Loss in TFTR Reversed Magnetic Shear Plasmas
E. Ruskov, M. Bell, R. V. Budny, D. C. McCune, S. S. Medley, M. H. Redi, S. Scott, E. J. Synakowski, S. von Goeler, R. B. White, and S. J. Zweben
pp. 924-927 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Evidence for Convective Inward Particle Transport in a Stellarator
U. Stroth, T. Geist, J. P. T. Koponen, H.-J. Hartfuß, P. Zeiler, and ECRH and W7-AS team
pp. 928-931 [View PDF (559 kB)]
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New Paradigm for the Self-Consistent Modeling of Wave-Particle and Wave-Wave Interactions in the Saturation of Electromagnetically Driven Parametric Instabilities
K. Y. Sanbonmatsu, H. X. Vu, D. F. DuBois, and B. Bezzerides
pp. 932-935 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Theory of Tackiness
Cyprien Gay and Ludwik Leibler
pp. 936-939 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Unconventional Mesophases Formed by Condensed Vector Waves in a Medium of Achiral Molecules
V. L. Lorman and B. Mettout
pp. 940-943 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Elastic and Shear Moduli of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Ropes
Jean-Paul Salvetat, G. Andrew D. Briggs, Jean-Marc Bonard, Revathi R. Bacsa, Andrzej J. Kulik, Thomas Stöckli, Nancy A. Burnham, and László Forró
pp. 944-947 [View PDF (414 kB)]
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Time-Differential Length Change Measurements for Thermal Defect Investigations: Intermetallic B2-FeAl and B2-NiAl Compounds, a Case Study
H.-E. Schaefer, K. Frenner, and R. Würschum
pp. 948-951 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Entropically Induced Euler Buckling Instabilities in Polymer Crystals
Mark R. McGann and Daniel J. Lacks
pp. 952-955 [View PDF (119 kB)]
Quantum Sieving in Carbon Nanotubes and Zeolites
Qinyu Wang, Sivakumar R. Challa, David S. Sholl, and J. Karl Johnson
pp. 956-959 [View PDF (104 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Packing Fraction at Phase-Separation Transition in Hard-Core Mixtures
Arnaud Buhot
pp. 960-963 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Successive Transitions and Intermediate Chiral Phase in a Superfluid 3He Film
Hikaru Kawamura
pp. 964-967 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Identification of the Initial-Stage Oxidation Products on Si(111)-(7×7)
Sung-Hoon Lee and Myung-Ho Kang
pp. 968-971 [View PDF (515 kB)]
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Dimer Pairing on the C-Alloyed Si(001) Surface
O. Leifeld, D. Grützmacher, B. Müller, K. Kern, Efthimios Kaxiras, and P. C. Kelires
pp. 972-975 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Magnon Splitting Induced by Charge Ordering in NaV2O5
Claudius Gros and Roser Valentí
pp. 976-979 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Electron-Stimulated Modification of Si Surfaces
Koji Nakayama and J. H. Weaver
pp. 980-983 [View PDF (611 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Singular Pair Breaking in the Composite Fermi Liquid Description of the Half-Filled Landau Level
N. E. Bonesteel
pp. 984-987 [View PDF (172 kB)]
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Singularities and Pseudogaps in the Density of States of Peierls Chains
Lorenz Bartosch and Peter Kopietz
pp. 988-991 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Temperature-Dependent High-Resolution Photoemission Study of the Kondo Insulator YbB12
T. Susaki, Y. Takeda, M. Arita, K. Mamiya, A. Fujimori, K. Shimada, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, N. Shimizu, F. Iga, and T. Takabatake
pp. 992-995 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Transition in a Disordered Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in GaAs-AlGaAs at Zero Magnetic Field
E. Ribeiro, R. D. Jäggi, T. Heinzel, K. Ensslin, G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, and P. M. Petroff
pp. 996-999 [View PDF (197 kB)]
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Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Mott-Hubbard States on the 6H-SiC(0001) √3 × √3 Surface
V. Ramachandran and R. M. Feenstra
pp. 1000-1003 [View PDF (259 kB)]
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“Superconductor-Insulator Transition” in a Single Josephson Junction
J. S. Penttilä, Ü. Parts, P. J. Hakonen, M. A. Paalanen, and E. B. Sonin
pp. 1004-1007 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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Structure of Vortex Liquid Phase in Irradiated Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8-δ Crystals
N. Morozov, M. P. Maley, L. N. Bulaevskii, V. Thorsmølle, A. E. Koshelev, A. Petrean, and W. K. Kwok
pp. 1008-1011 [View PDF (471 kB)]
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Cooperative Paramagnetism in the Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7
J. S. Gardner, S. R. Dunsiger, B. D. Gaulin, M. J. P. Gingras, J. E. Greedan, R. F. Kiefl, M. D. Lumsden, W. A. MacFarlane, N. P. Raju, J. E. Sonier, I. Swainson, and Z. Tun
pp. 1012-1015 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Double Exchange via Degenerate Orbitals
Jeroen van den Brink and Daniel Khomskii
pp. 1016-1019 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Evidence for Roughness Driven 90° Coupling in Fe3O4/NiO/Fe3O4 Trilayers
P. A. A. van der Heijden, C. H. W. Swüste, W. J. M. de Jonge, J. M. Gaines, J. T. W. M. van Eemeren, and K. M. Schep
pp. 1020-1023 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Spin-Orbit Electric Field Gradient in Cubic Ferromagnets: Strong Magnetization-Direction Dependence of the Field Gradient Distribution
G. Seewald, E. Hagn, E. Zech, R. Kleyna, M. Voß, D. Forkel-Wirth, A. Burchard, and The ISOLDE Collaboration
pp. 1024-1027 [View PDF (424 kB)]
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μ+ Hopping between Magnetically Labeled Sites in PrIn3: “Kinematic” Simulation and Analytic Treatment
G. Alexandrowicz, T. Tashma, M. Socolovsky, A. Amato, A. Grayevsky, F. N. Gygax, M. Pinkpank, A. Schenck, and N. Kaplan
pp. 1028-1031 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Self-Steepening and Self-Compression of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in a Defocusing CdS Crystal
J.-F. Lami, S. Petit, and C. Hirlimann
pp. 1032-1035 [View PDF (191 kB)]
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Predictions for Upscaling Sonoluminescence
Sascha Hilgenfeldt and Detlef Lohse
pp. 1036-1039 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Time-Resolved Speckle Analysis: A New Approach to Coherence and Dephasing of Optical Excitations in Solids
W. Langbein, J. M. Hvam, and R. Zimmermann
pp. 1040-1043 [View PDF (848 kB)]
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Coherent Zone-Folded Longitudinal Acoustic Phonons in Semiconductor Superlattices: Excitation and Detection
Albrecht Bartels, Thomas Dekorsy, Heinrich Kurz, and Klaus Köhler
pp. 1044-1047 [View PDF (194 kB)]
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Charge State Dependence of the Energy Loss of Slow Ions in Metals
J. I. Juaristi, A. Arnau, P. M. Echenique, C. Auth, and H. Winter
pp. 1048-1051 [View PDF (163 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Quantum Strategies
David A. Meyer
pp. 1052-1055 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Bound Entanglement Can Be Activated
Paweł Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
pp. 1056-1059 [View PDF (220 kB)]
Quantum Logic Gates in Optical Lattices
Gavin K. Brennen, Carlton M. Caves, Poul S. Jessen, and Ivan H. Deutsch
pp. 1060-1063 [View PDF (298 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Strain Hardening of Fractal Colloidal Gels
T. Gisler, R. C. Ball, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 1064-1067 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Femtosecond Dynamics of Hydrogen Bonds in Liquid Water: A Real Time Study
G. M. Gale, G. Gallot, F. Hache, N. Lascoux, S. Bratos, and J-Cl. Leicknam
pp. 1068-1071 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Wall-Mediated Forces between Like-Charged Bodies in an Electrolyte
John C. Neu
pp. 1072-1074 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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NMR Microimaging of The Cell Sorting Process
Naoki Kataoka, Koji Saito, and Yasuji Sawada, Ph.D.
pp. 1075-1078 [View PDF (264 kB)]
 
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