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Physical Review Letters – 11 September 2000
Volume 85, Issue 11

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.

Determination of the Bond Length and Binding Energy of the Helium Dimer by Diffraction from a Transmission Grating
R. E. Grisenti, W. Schöllkopf, J. P. Toennies, G. C. Hegerfeldt, T. Köhler, and M. Stoll
pp. 2284-2287 [View PDF (253 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Elastic Instability of Grain Boundaries and the Physical Origin of Superplasticity
Miguel Lagos
pp. 2332-2335 [View PDF (83 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Measurement of the Angular Momentum of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate
F. Chevy, K. W. Madison, and J. Dalibard
pp. 2223-2227 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Observation of Superfluid Flow in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
R. Onofrio, C. Raman, J. M. Vogels, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, A. P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle
pp. 2228-2231 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Nonstationarity Induced by Long-Time Noise Correlations in the Langevin Equation
T. Srokowski
pp. 2232-2235 [View PDF (93 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Reconstruction of a Scalar-Tensor Theory of Gravity in an Accelerating Universe
B. Boisseau, G. Esposito-Farèse, D. Polarski, and A. A. Starobinsky
pp. 2236-2239 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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New Microwave Background Constraints on the Cosmic Matter Budget: Trouble for Nucleosynthesis?
Max Tegmark and Matias Zaldarriaga
pp. 2240-2243 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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New Constraints from Haverah Park Data on the Photon and Iron Fluxes of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays
M. Ave, J. A. Hinton, R. A. Vázquez, A. A. Watson, and E. Zas
pp. 2244-2247 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Logarithms of α in QED Bound States from the Renormalization Group
Aneesh V. Manohar and Iain W. Stewart
pp. 2248-2251 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Stochastic Field Theory for a Dirac Particle Propagating in Gauge Field Disorder
T. Guhr, T. Wilke, and H. A. Weidenmüller
pp. 2252-2255 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Measurement of Structure-Dependent K+ → μ+νμγ Decay
S. Adler et al. ((E787 Collaboration))
pp. 2256-2259 [View PDF (1,071 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Response Function Technique for Calculating the Random-Phase Approximation Correlation Energy
Y. R. Shimizu, P. Donati, and R. A. Broglia
pp. 2260-2263 [View PDF (91 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Optical Frequency Synthesizer for Precision Spectroscopy
R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem, T. W. Hänsch, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell
pp. 2264-2267 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Charge-State Resolved above Threshold Ionization
B. Witzel, N. A. Papadogiannis, and D. Charalambidis
pp. 2268-2271 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Suppression of Magnetic State Decoherence Using Ultrafast Optical Pulses
C. Search and P. R. Berman
pp. 2272-2275 [View PDF (139 kB)]
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Multielectron Effects on Single-Electron Strong Field Ionization
Chunlei Guo
pp. 2276-2279 [View PDF (76 kB)]
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Suppressed Molecular Ionization for a Class of Diatomics in Intense Femtosecond Laser Fields
J. Muth-Böhm, A. Becker, and F. H. M. Faisal
pp. 2280-2283 [View PDF (383 kB)]
Determination of the Bond Length and Binding Energy of the Helium Dimer by Diffraction from a Transmission Grating
R. E. Grisenti, W. Schöllkopf, J. P. Toennies, G. C. Hegerfeldt, T. Köhler, and M. Stoll
pp. 2284-2287 [View PDF (253 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Hydrodynamic Description of Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion for Small Molecules
Ph. Hering, M. Brewczyk, and C. Cornaggia
pp. 2288-2291 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Photoassociation of Cold Ca Atoms
Götz Zinner, Tomas Binnewies, Fritz Riehle, and Eberhard Tiemann
pp. 2292-2295 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Impact of Ionic Motion on Ionization of Metal Clusters under Intense Laser Pulses
E. Suraud and P. G. Reinhard
pp. 2296-2299 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Forecasting Confined Spatiotemporal Chaos with Genetic Algorithms
Cristóbal López, Alberto Álvarez, and Emilio Hernández-García
pp. 2300-2303 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Chaotic Transition of Random Dynamical Systems and Chaos Synchronization by Common Noises
Sunghwan Rim, Dong-Uk Hwang, Inbo Kim, and Chil-Min Kim
pp. 2304-2307 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Gain in Phase Sensitive Parametric Image Amplification
Fabrice Devaux and Eric Lantz
pp. 2308-2311 [View PDF (275 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Quasistationary High Confinement Discharges with trans-Greenwald Density on TEXTOR-94
G. Mank, A. M. Messiaen, J. Ongena, B. Unterberg, P. Dumortier, K. H. Finken, R. Jaspers, H. R. Koslowski, A. Krämer-Flecken, J. Rapp, U. Samm, G. van Wassenhove, R. R. Weynants, and TEXTOR-94 Team ((Partners in the Trilateral Euregio Cluster))
pp. 2312-2315 [View PDF (292 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Complex Dynamic Behavior of Fluctuating Smectic- A Films as Studied by Scattering with Coherent X-Rays
Andrea Fera, Igor P. Dolbnya, Gerhard Grübel, Harm Geert Muller, Boris I. Ostrovskii, Arcadi N. Shalaginov, and Wim H. de Jeu
pp. 2316-2319 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Untwisting of a Cholesteric Elastomer by a Mechanical Field
M. Warner, E. M. Terentjev, R. B. Meyer, and Y. Mao
pp. 2320-2323 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Fast Diffusion of H and Creation of Dangling Bonds in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Studied by in situ ESR
U. K. Das, T. Yasuda, and S. Yamasaki
pp. 2324-2327 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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New Superhard Phases for Three-Dimensional C60-based Fullerites
E. Burgos, E. Halac, Ruben Weht, H. Bonadeo, Emilio Artacho, and Pablo Ordejón
pp. 2328-2331 [View PDF (299 kB)]
Elastic Instability of Grain Boundaries and the Physical Origin of Superplasticity
Miguel Lagos
pp. 2332-2335 [View PDF (83 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Experimental Evidence for Crossover to Mean-Field Tricritical Behavior in a Concentrated Salt Solution
M. A. Anisimov, J. Jacob, A. Kumar, V. A. Agayan, and J. V. Sengers
pp. 2336-2339 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Shear Modulation Force Microscopy Study of Near Surface Glass Transition Temperatures
S. Ge, Y. Pu, W. Zhang, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, C. Buenviaje, R. Buckmaster, and R. M. Overney
pp. 2340-2343 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Dimers in Two-Dimensional 3He- 4He Mixtures
E. Krotscheck, J. Paaso, M. Saarela, and K. Schörkhuber
pp. 2344-2347 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Zero-Temperature Equation of State of Quasi-One-Dimensional H2
M. C. Gordillo, J. Boronat, and J. Casulleras
pp. 2348-2351 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Observation of “Ghost” Islands and Surfactant Effect of Surface Gallium Atoms during GaN Growth by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
L. X. Zheng, M. H. Xie, S. M. Seutter, S. H. Cheung, and S. Y. Tong
pp. 2352-2355 [View PDF (287 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Localization in Artificial Disorder: Two Coupled Quantum Dots
M. Brodsky, N. B. Zhitenev, R. C. Ashoori, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
pp. 2356-2359 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Correlations due to Localization in Quantum Eigenfunctions of Disordered Microwave Cavities
Prabhakar Pradhan and S. Sridhar
pp. 2360-2363 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Metal-Insulator Oscillations in a Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole System
R. J. Nicholas, K. Takashina, M. Lakrimi, B. Kardynal, S. Khym, N. J. Mason, D. M. Symons, D. K. Maude, and J. C. Portal
pp. 2364-2367 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Hausdorff Dimension of Critical Fluctuations in Abelian Gauge Theories
J. Hove, S. Mo, and A. Sudbø
pp. 2368-2371 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Collective Multivortex States in Periodic Arrays of Traps
Charles Reichhardt and Niels Grønbech-Jensen
pp. 2372-2375 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Anomalously Large Oxygen-Ordering Contribution to the Thermal Expansion of Untwinned YBa2Cu3O6.95 Single Crystals: A Glasslike Transition near Room Temperature
Peter Nagel, Volker Pasler, Christoph Meingast, Alexandre I. Rykov, and Setsuko Tajima
pp. 2376-2379 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Thermodynamics of the Bilinear-Biquadratic Spin-One Heisenberg Chain
Jizhong Lou, Tao Xiang, and Zhaobin Su
pp. 2380-2383 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Wells
L. Brey and F. Guinea
pp. 2384-2387 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Geometry-Dependent Electronic Properties of Highly Fluorescent Conjugated Molecules
Shu-Chun Yang, W. Graupner, S. Guha, P. Puschnig, C. Martin, H. R. Chandrasekhar, M. Chandrasekhar, G. Leising, C. Ambrosch-Draxl, and U. Scherf
pp. 2388-2391 [View PDF (181 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Efficient Scheme for Two-Atom Entanglement and Quantum Information Processing in Cavity QED
Shi-Biao Zheng and Guang-Can Guo
pp. 2392-2395 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Phylogenetic Study of the Spatial Distribution of Protein-Coding and Control Segments in DNA Chains
Nestor N. Oiwa and Carla Goldman
pp. 2396-2399 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Sequence Dependent Rigidity of Single Stranded DNA
Noel L. Goddard, Grégoire Bonnet, Oleg Krichevsky, and Albert Libchaber
pp. 2400-2403 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Thermal Fluctuations of Elastic Filaments with Spontaneous Curvature and Torsion
S. Panyukov and Y. Rabin
pp. 2404-2407 [View PDF (84 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Ion Larmour Radius Effect on rf Ponderomotive Forces and Induced Poloidal Flow in Tokamak Plasmas”
P. K. Shukla and L. Stenflo
pp. 2408 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Elfimov and Galvão Reply:
A. G. Elfimov and R. M. O. Galvão
pp. 2409 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Comment on “Why is the Bandwidth of Sodium Observed to be Narrower in Photoemission Experiments?”
Wei Ku, A. G. Eguiluz, and E. W. Plummer
pp. 2410 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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Yasuhara, Yoshinaga, and Higuchi Reply:
Hiroshi Yasuhara, Sho Yoshinaga, and Masahiko Higuchi
pp. 2411 [View PDF (29 kB)]
 
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