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Physical Review Letters – 20 March 2000
Volume 84, Issue 12

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.

Low Temperature Scanning Force Microscopy of the Si(111)-(7×7) Surface
M. A. Lantz, H. J. Hug, P. J. A. van Schendel, R. Hoffmann, S. Martin, A. Baratoff, A. Abdurixit, H.-J. Güntherodt, and Ch. Gerber
pp. 2642-2645 [View PDF (375 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Formation of Uniaxial Molecular Films by Liquid-Crystal Imprinting in a Magnetic Field
Joseph D. Mougous, Andrew J. Brackley, Katherine Foland, Robert T. Baker, and David L. Patrick
pp. 2742-2745 [View PDF (597 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quasi-2D Trapped Gases
D. S. Petrov, M. Holzmann, and G. V. Shlyapnikov
pp. 2551-2555 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Kramers Problem for a Multiwell Potential
M. Arrayás, I. Kh. Kaufman, D. G. Luchinsky, P. V. E. McClintock, and S. M. Soskin
pp. 2556-2559 [View PDF (162 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Vorticity Affects the Stability of Neutron Stars
Vahid Rezania and Roy Maartens
pp. 2560-2563 [View PDF (70 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Nonsingular Global String Compactifications
Ruth Gregory
pp. 2564-2567 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Strong Enhancement of ɛ′/ɛ through Final State Interactions
Elisabetta Pallante and Antonio Pich
pp. 2568-2571 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Neutrino Mass Anarchy
Lawrence Hall, Hitoshi Murayama, and Neal Weiner
pp. 2572-2575 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Search for Free Fractional Electric Charge Elementary Particles Using an Automated Millikan Oil Drop Technique
V. Halyo, P. Kim, E. R. Lee, I. T. Lee, D. Loomba, and M. L. Perl
pp. 2576-2579 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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New Measurement of the Rare Decay K+→π+μ+μ-
H. Ma et al.
pp. 2580-2583 [View PDF (826 kB)]
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Measurement of the Spin Asymmetry in the Photoproduction of Pairs of High- pT Hadrons at HERMES
A. Airapetian et al. (HERMES Collaboration)
pp. 2584-2588 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Hard Exclusive Electroproduction of Decuplet Baryons in the Large Nc Limit
L. L. Frankfurt, M. V. Polyakov, M. Strikman, and M. Vanderhaeghen
pp. 2589-2592 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Search for the Weak Decay of a Lightly Bound H0 Dibaryon
A. Alavi-Harati et al. ((KTeV Collaboration))
pp. 2593-2597 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Radiative Decay of Doubly Excited States in Helium below the He+ (N = 2) Ionization Threshold
M. K. Odling-Smee, E. Sokell, P. Hammond, and M. A. MacDonald
pp. 2598-2601 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Quantum Localization of the Kicked Rydberg Atom
S. Yoshida, C. O. Reinhold, and J. Burgdörfer
pp. 2602-2605 [View PDF (370 kB)]
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Collision Relaxation Cross Section of Highly Vibrationally Excited Molecules
Bing Xue, Jun Han, and Hai-Lung Dai
pp. 2606-2609 [View PDF (180 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Phase Order in Chaotic Maps and in Coupled Map Lattices
Wei Wang, Zonghua Liu, and Bambi Hu
pp. 2610-2613 [View PDF (2,415 kB)]
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Universal Geometric Condition for the Transverse Instability of Solitary Waves
Thomas J. Bridges
pp. 2614-2617 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Dynamical Anomalies and Intermittency in Burgers Turbulence
Michael Lässig
pp. 2618-2621 [View PDF (72 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Anomalous Atomic Hydrogen Shock Pattern in a Supersonic Plasma Jet
S. Mazouffre, M. G. H. Boogaarts, J. A. M. van der Mullen, and D. C. Schram
pp. 2622-2625 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Dispersion Properties of a Dusty Plasma Containing Nonspherical Rotating Dust Grains
J. Mahmoodi, P. K. Shukla, N. L. Tsintsadze, and D. D. Tskhakaya
pp. 2626-2629 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Suppression of Temperature Fluctuations and Energy Barrier Generation by Velocity Shear
J. A. Boedo, P. W. Terry, D. Gray, R. S. Ivanov, R. W. Conn, S. Jachmich, G. Van Oost, and The TEXTOR Team
pp. 2630-2633 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Nuclear Fusion Driven by Coulomb Explosions of Large Deuterium Clusters
J. Zweiback, R. A. Smith, T. E. Cowan, G. Hays, K. B. Wharton, V. P. Yanovsky, and T. Ditmire
pp. 2634-2637 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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New Approach to Transport Improvement in a Helical Magnetic Axis System by Introduction of Effective Toroidal Curvature
M. Aizawa and S. Shiina
pp. 2638-2641 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Low Temperature Scanning Force Microscopy of the Si(111)-(7×7) Surface
M. A. Lantz, H. J. Hug, P. J. A. van Schendel, R. Hoffmann, S. Martin, A. Baratoff, A. Abdurixit, H.-J. Güntherodt, and Ch. Gerber
pp. 2642-2645 [View PDF (375 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dynamics of Liquid 4He in Vycor
H. R. Glyde, O. Plantevin, B. Fåk, G. Coddens, P. S. Danielson, and H. Schober
pp. 2646-2649 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Equation of State of Solid 3He
Saverio Moroni, Francesco Pederiva, Stefano Fantoni, and Massimo Boninsegni
pp. 2650-2653 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Shallow Implantation of “Size-Selected” Ag Clusters into Graphite
S. J. Carroll, P. D. Nellist, R. E. Palmer, S. Hobday, and R. Smith
pp. 2654-2657 [View PDF (422 kB)]
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Cluster Diffusion and Dissociation in the Kinetics of Layer Growth: An Atomic View
Kentaro Kyuno and Gert Ehrlich
pp. 2658-2661 [View PDF (192 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Detailed Topography of the Fermi Surface of Sr2RuO4
C. Bergemann, S. R. Julian, A. P. Mackenzie, S. NishiZaki, and Y. Maeno
pp. 2662-2665 [View PDF (359 kB)]
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Quasi-Two-Dimensional Mott Transition System Ca2-xSrxRuO4
S. Nakatsuji and Y. Maeno
pp. 2666-2669 [View PDF (221 kB)]
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Hall Effect and Conduction Anisotropy in the Organic Conductor (TMTSF)2PF6
G. Mihály, I. Kézsmárki, F. Zámborszky, and L. Forró
pp. 2670-2673 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Hall Effect in the Normal Phase of the Organic Superconductor (TMTSF)2PF6
J. Moser, J. R. Cooper, D. Jérome, B. Alavi, S. E. Brown, and K. Bechgaard
pp. 2674-2677 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Single Parameter Scaling in One-Dimensional Localization Revisited
Lev I. Deych, A. A. Lisyansky, and B. L. Altshuler
pp. 2678-2681 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Carbon Nanotube Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
H. Mehrez, Jeremy Taylor, Hong Guo, Jian Wang, and Christopher Roland
pp. 2682-2685 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Depolarization Shift of the Intersubband Resonance
S. Graf, H. Sigg, K. Köhler, and W. Bächtold
pp. 2686-2689 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Magnetic Domains and Stripes in a Spin-Fermion Model for Cuprates
Charles Buhler, Seiji Yunoki, and Adriana Moreo
pp. 2690-2693 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Superconductivity in a Doped Mott Insulator
Dung-Hai Lee
pp. 2694-2697 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Evaporation of the Pancake-Vortex Lattice in Weakly Coupled Layered Superconductors
M. J. W. Dodgson, A. E. Koshelev, V. B. Geshkenbein, and G. Blatter
pp. 2698-2701 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Evidence for a Two Component Magnetic Response in UPt3
A. Yaouanc, P. Dalmas de Réotier, F. N. Gygax, A. Schenck, A. Amato, C. Baines, P. C. M. Gubbens, C. T. Kaiser, A. de Visser, R. J. Keizer, A. Huxley, and A. A. Menovsky
pp. 2702-2705 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Antiferroquadrupolar Ordering: Resonant X-Ray Scattering Study of DyB2C2
K. Hirota, N. Oumi, T. Matsumura, H. Nakao, Y. Wakabayashi, Y. Murakami, and Y. Endoh
pp. 2706-2709 [View PDF (316 kB)]
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Pressure Tuning of Magnetic Interactions in Layered (La0.6Nd0.4)1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7 Manganite
K. V. Kamenev, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, D. McK. Paul, W. G. Marshall, V. G. Tissen, and M. V. Nefedova
pp. 2710-2713 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Thermal Conductivity of the Hole-Doped Spin Ladder System Sr14-xCaxCu24O41
A. V. Sologubenko, K. Giannó, H. R. Ott, U. Ammerahl, and A. Revcolevschi
pp. 2714-2717 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Spectral Shape of Relaxations in Silica Glass
Johannes Wiedersich, Sergei V. Adichtchev, and Ernst Rössler
pp. 2718-2721 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Inseparability Criterion for Continuous Variable Systems
Lu-Ming Duan, G. Giedke, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 2722-2725 [View PDF (66 kB)]
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Peres-Horodecki Separability Criterion for Continuous Variable Systems
R. Simon
pp. 2726-2729 [View PDF (65 kB)]
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Rigorous Derivation of the Long-Time Asymptotics for Reversible Binding
Irina V. Gopich and Noam Agmon
pp. 2730-2733 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Brownian Motion of Spiral Waves Driven by Spatiotemporal Structured Noise
I. Sendiña-Nadal, S. Alonso, V. Pérez-Muñuzuri, M. Gómez-Gesteira, V. Pérez-Villar, L. Ramírez-Piscina, J. Casademunt, J. M. Sancho, and F. Sagués
pp. 2734-2737 [View PDF (970 kB)]
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Topological Constraint on Scroll Wave Pinning
Arkady M. Pertsov, Marcel Wellner, Michael Vinson, and José Jalife
pp. 2738-2741 [View PDF (204 kB)]
Formation of Uniaxial Molecular Films by Liquid-Crystal Imprinting in a Magnetic Field
Joseph D. Mougous, Andrew J. Brackley, Katherine Foland, Robert T. Baker, and David L. Patrick
pp. 2742-2745 [View PDF (597 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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High-Gain Wide-Band Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifier with a Helically Corrugated Waveguide
V. L. Bratman, A. W. Cross, G. G. Denisov, W. He, A. D. R. Phelps, K. Ronald, S. V. Samsonov, C. G. Whyte, and A. R. Young
pp. 2746-2749 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Rupture of Multiple Parallel Molecular Bonds under Dynamic Loading
Udo Seifert
pp. 2750-2753 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Imaging Sustained Dissipative Patterns in the Metabolism of Individual Living Cells
Howard R. Petty, Randall G. Worth, and Andrei L. Kindzelskii
pp. 2754-2757 [View PDF (507 kB)]
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Fast Response and Temporal Coherent Oscillations in Small-World Networks
Luis F. Lago-Fernández, Ramón Huerta, Fernando Corbacho, and Juan A. Sigüenza
pp. 2758-2761 [View PDF (157 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Range of Validity for the Kelvin Force
Mario Liu
pp. 2762 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Luo, Du, and Huang Reply:
Weili Luo, Tengda Du, and Jie Huang
pp. 2763 [View PDF (33 kB)]
 
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