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Physical Review Letters – 18 September 2000
Volume 85, 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.

Solid Clusters above the Bulk Melting Point
Alexandre A. Shvartsburg and Martin F. Jarrold
pp. 2530-2532 [View PDF (62 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Collective Oscillations of Two Colliding Bose-Einstein Condensates
P. Maddaloni, M. Modugno, C. Fort, F. Minardi, and M. Inguscio
pp. 2413-2417 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Influence of Induced Interactions on the Superfluid Transition in Dilute Fermi Gases
H. Heiselberg, C. J. Pethick, H. Smith, and L. Viverit
pp. 2418-2421 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Fick's Law, Green-Kubo Formula, and Heisenberg's Equation of Motion
M. Howard Lee
pp. 2422-2425 [View PDF (82 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Growth and Form of Planetary Seedlings: Results from a Microgravity Aggregation Experiment
J. Blum et al.
pp. 2426-2429 [View PDF (158 kB)]
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Monopole-Antimonopole Solutions of Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs Theory
Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz
pp. 2430-2433 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Evaporation of Near-Extremal Reissner-Nordström Black Holes
Alessandro Fabbri, Diego J. Navarro, and José Navarro-Salas
pp. 2434-2437 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Do Semiclassical Zero Temperature Black Holes Exist?
Paul R. Anderson, William A. Hiscock, and Brett E. Taylor
pp. 2438-2441 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Very High Q Measurements on a Fused Silica Monolithic Pendulum for Use in Enhanced Gravity Wave Detectors
G. Cagnoli, L. Gammaitoni, J. Hough, J. Kovalik, S. McIntosh, M. Punturo, and S. Rowan
pp. 2442-2445 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Resummation of QED Perturbation Series by Sequence Transformations and the Prediction of Perturbative Coefficients
U. D. Jentschura, J. Becher, E. J. Weniger, and G. Soff
pp. 2446-2449 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Improved Limit on the Rate of the Decay K+→π+μ+e-
R. Appel et al.
pp. 2450-2453 [View PDF (114 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Signature Inversion Caused by Triaxiality and Unpaired Band Crossings in 72Br
C. Plettner, I. Ragnarsson, H. Schnare, R. Schwengner, L. Käubler, F. Dönau, A. Algora, G. de Angelis, D. R. Napoli, A. Gadea, J. Eberth, T. Steinhardt, O. Thelen, M. Hausmann, A. Müller, A. Jungclaus, K. P. Lieb, D. G. Jenkins, R. Wadsworth, and A. N. Wilson
pp. 2454-2457 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Creation of Polar and Nonpolar Ultra-Long-Range Rydberg Molecules
Chris H. Greene, A. S. Dickinson, and H. R. Sadeghpour
pp. 2458-2461 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Sub-dekahertz Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of 199Hg+
R. J. Rafac, B. C. Young, J. A. Beall, W. M. Itano, D. J. Wineland, and J. C. Bergquist
pp. 2462-2465 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Observation of Power-Law Scaling for Phase Transitions in Linear Trapped Ion Crystals
D. G. Enzer, M. M. Schauer, J. J. Gomez, M. S. Gulley, M. H. Holzscheiter, P. G. Kwiat, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. G. Peterson, V. D. Sandberg, D. Tupa, A. G. White, R. J. Hughes, and D. F. V. James
pp. 2466-2469 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Three Dimensional Alignment of Molecules Using Elliptically Polarized Laser Fields
Jakob Juul Larsen, Kasper Hald, Nis Bjerre, Henrik Stapelfeldt, and Tamar Seideman
pp. 2470-2473 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Sideband Generation Using Strongly Driven Raman Coherence in Solid Hydrogen
J. Q. Liang, M. Katsuragawa, Fam Le Kien, and K. Hakuta
pp. 2474-2477 [View PDF (247 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Observation of Resonance Trapping in an Open Microwave Cavity
E. Persson, I. Rotter, H.-J. Stöckmann, and M. Barth
pp. 2478-2481 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Measurement of Wave Chaotic Eigenfunctions in the Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking Crossover Regime
Seok-Hwan Chung, Ali Gokirmak, Dong-Ho Wu, J. S. A. Bridgewater, E. Ott, T. M. Antonsen, and Steven M. Anlage
pp. 2482-2485 [View PDF (449 kB)]
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Spectral Statistics of Chaotic Systems with a Pointlike Scatterer
E. Bogomolny, P. Leboeuf, and C. Schmit
pp. 2486-2489 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Mechanisms for the Development of Unstable Dimension Variability and the Breakdown of Shadowing in Coupled Chaotic Systems
Ernest Barreto and Paul So
pp. 2490-2493 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Spectral Features and Modeling of High-Order Harmonics Generated by Sub-10-fs Pulses
P. Villoresi, P. Ceccherini, L. Poletto, G. Tondello, C. Altucci, R. Bruzzese, C. de Lisio, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, G. Cerullo, S. De Silvestri, and O. Svelto
pp. 2494-2497 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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All Optical Quasi-Steady-State Photorefractive Spatial Solitons
W. L. She, K. K. Lee, and W. K. Lee
pp. 2498-2501 [View PDF (333 kB)]
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Energy Localization in Photonic Crystals of a Purely Nonlinear Origin
Claudio Conti, Stefano Trillo, and Gaetano Assanto
pp. 2502-2505 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Growth Rates of the Buoyancy-Driven Instability of an Autocatalytic Reaction Front in a Narrow Cell
Martin Böckmann and Stefan C. Müller
pp. 2506-2509 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Two Regimes of Asymmetry-Induced Transport in Non-neutral Plasmas
J. M. Kriesel and C. F. Driscoll
pp. 2510-2513 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Critical Wave Vectors for Transverse Modes in Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas
M. S. Murillo
pp. 2514-2517 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Parabolic Plasma Sheath Potentials and their Implications for the Charge on Levitated Dust Particles
E. B. Tomme, D. A. Law, B. M. Annaratone, and J. E. Allen
pp. 2518-2521 [View PDF (444 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Can Polymer Coils Be Modeled as “Soft Colloids”?
A. A. Louis, P. G. Bolhuis, J. P. Hansen, and E. J. Meijer
pp. 2522-2525 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Induced Antiferroelectric Smectic- CA* Phase by Doping Ferroelectric- C* Phase with Bent-Shaped Molecules
Ewa Gorecka, Michi Nakata, Jozef Mieczkowski, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Junji Watanabe, Hideo Takezoe, Stephan H. Eichhorn, and Timothy M. Swager
pp. 2526-2529 [View PDF (201 kB)]
Solid Clusters above the Bulk Melting Point
Alexandre A. Shvartsburg and Martin F. Jarrold
pp. 2530-2532 [View PDF (62 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Entropic Elasticity of Two-Dimensional Self-Avoiding Percolation Systems
Oded Farago and Yacov Kantor
pp. 2533-2536 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the Energy Gap of Superfluid 3He-B in the Low-Temperature Limit
Naoto Masuhara, Brian C. Watson, and Mark W. Meisel
pp. 2537-2540 [View PDF (338 kB)]
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Orientation Dependence of Surface Critical Phenomena in Antiferromagnets: Exact Results in Two Dimensions
D. B. Abraham and P. J. Upton
pp. 2541-2544 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Shocks and Curvature Dynamics: A Test of Global Kinetic Faceting in Crystals
M. Maruyama, N. Kuribayashi, K. Kawabata, and J. S. Wettlaufer
pp. 2545-2548 [View PDF (126 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Electronic Structure of Sr2FeMoO6
D. D. Sarma, Priya Mahadevan, T. Saha-Dasgupta, Sugata Ray, and Ashwani Kumar
pp. 2549-2552 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Short-Range Polaron Correlations in the Ferromagnetic La1-xCaxMnO3
Pengcheng Dai, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, N. Wakabayashi, E. W. Plummer, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura
pp. 2553-2556 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Theory of the Fano Resonance in the STM Tunneling Density of States due to a Single Kondo Impurity
O. Újsághy, J. Kroha, L. Szunyogh, and A. Zawadowski
pp. 2557-2560 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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One-Dimensional Spin-Polarized Quantum-Wire States in Au on Ni(110)
C. Pampuch, O. Rader, T. Kachel, W. Gudat, C. Carbone, R. Kläsges, G. Bihlmayer, S. Blügel, and W. Eberhardt
pp. 2561-2564 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Towards an Explanation of the Mesoscopic Double-Slit Experiment: A New Model for Charging of a Quantum Dot
P. G. Silvestrov and Y. Imry
pp. 2565-2568 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Nodal Quasiparticle Lifetime in the Superconducting State of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
J. Corson, J. Orenstein, Seongshik Oh, J. O'Donnell, and J. N. Eckstein
pp. 2569-2572 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Relaxation of Polarized Nuclei in Superconducting Rhodium
T. A. Knuuttila, J. T. Tuoriniemi, and K. Lefmann
pp. 2573-2576 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Possible Tricritical Point in Phase Diagrams of Interlayer Josephson-Vortex Systems in High- Tc Superconductors
Xiao Hu and Masashi Tachiki
pp. 2577-2580 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Evidence for an Energy Scale for Quasiparticle Dispersion in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, S. A. Kellar, X. J. Zhou, E. D. Lu, W. J. Zheng, G. Gu, J.-I. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, H. Ikeda, R. Yoshizaki, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen
pp. 2581-2584 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Stripes in Doped Antiferromagnets: Single-Particle Spectral Weight
Marc G. Zacher, Robert Eder, Enrico Arrigoni, and Werner Hanke
pp. 2585-2588 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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From Second to First Order Transitions in a Disordered Quantum Magnet
Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Daniel R. Grempel, and Constantino A. da Silva Santos
pp. 2589-2592 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Impurity Spin Magnetization of Thin Fe Doped Au Films
E. Seynaeve, K. Temst, F. G. Aliev, C. Van Haesendonck, V. N. Gladilin, V. M. Fomin, and J. T. Devreese
pp. 2593-2596 [View PDF (379 kB)]
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Spiraling Spin Structure in an Exchange-Coupled Antiferromagnetic Layer
F. Y. Yang and C. L. Chien
pp. 2597-2600 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Longitudinal Magnetic Excitations in Classical Spin Systems
Alex Bunker and D. P. Landau
pp. 2601-2604 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Collective Singlet Excitations and Evolution of Raman Spectral Weights in the 2D Spin Dimer Compound SrCu2(BO3)2
P. Lemmens, M. Grove, M. Fischer, G. Güntherodt, Valeri N. Kotov, H. Kageyama, K. Onizuka, and Y. Ueda
pp. 2605-2608 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Nature of Ergodicity Breaking in Ising Spin Glasses as Revealed by Correlation Function Spectral Properties
Jairo Sinova, Geoff Canright, and A. H. MacDonald
pp. 2609-2612 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Excitons and Optical Properties of α-Quartz
Eric K. Chang, Michael Rohlfing, and Steven G. Louie
pp. 2613-2616 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Polarized Raman Study of Single-Wall Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes
A. Jorio, G. Dresselhaus, M. S. Dresselhaus, M. Souza, M. S. S. Dantas, M. A. Pimenta, A. M. Rao, R. Saito, C. Liu, and H. M. Cheng
pp. 2617-2620 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Surface Topography Dependent Desorption of Alkali Halides
B. Such, J. Kolodziej, P. Czuba, P. Piatkowski, P. Struski, F. Krok, and M. Szymonski
pp. 2621-2624 [View PDF (421 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Entanglement of Formation for Isotropic States
Barbara M. Terhal and Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht
pp. 2625-2628 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Exploiting the Natural Redundancy of Chaotic Signals in Communication Systems
Inés P. Mariño, Epaminondas Rosa, Jr., and Celso Grebogi
pp. 2629-2632 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Saturated Behavior of the Gyrotron Backward-Wave Oscillator
S. H. Chen, K. R. Chu, and T. H. Chang
pp. 2633-2636 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Conformational Diffusion and Helix Formation Kinetics
Gerhard Hummer, Angel E. García, and Shekhar Garde
pp. 2637-2640 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Predictions of Gene Family Distributions in Microbial Genomes: Evolution by Gene Duplication and Modification
Itai Yanai, Carlos J. Camacho, and Charles DeLisi
pp. 2641-2644 [View PDF (243 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Experimental Evidence for Dynamical Decay of Finite Nuclear Matter”
L. G. Moretto, D. Breus, L. Phair, and G. J. Wozniak
pp. 2645 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Yanez et al. Reply:
R. Yanez, R. T. de Souza, T. A. Bredeweg, B. Davin, and V. E. Viola
pp. 2646 [View PDF (33 kB)]
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What Can Be Inferred from Surrogate Data Testing?
J. Timmer
pp. 2647 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Paluš and Novotná Reply:
M. Paluš
pp. 2648 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Carbon Atomic Chain Formation on the β-SiC(100) Surface by Controlled sp→sp3 Transformation”
Shiro Hara, J. Kitamura, H. Okushi, S. Yoshida, K. Kajimura, and H. W. Yeom
pp. 2649 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Derycke et al. Reply:
V. Derycke, P. Soukiassian, A. Mayne, G. Dujardin, and J. Gautier
pp. 2650 [View PDF (67 kB)]
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Comment on “Structure and Phase Transition of Josephson Vortices in Anisotropic High- Tc Superconductors”
Peter Olsson and Petter Holme
pp. 2651 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Hu and Tachiki Reply:
Xiao Hu and Masashi Tachiki
pp. 2652 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Comment on “Identifying Molecular Orientation of Individual C60 on a Si(111)-(7×7) Surface”
J. I. Pascual, J. Gómez-Herrero, A. M. Baró, Daniel Sánchez-Portal, Emilio Artacho, Pablo Ordejón, and José M. Soler
pp. 2653 [View PDF (479 kB)]
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Hou et al. Reply:
J. G. Hou, Yang Jinlong, Wang Haiqian, Li Qunxiang, Zeng Changgan, Lin Hai, Bing Wang, D. M. Chen, and Zhu Qingshi
pp. 2654 [View PDF (155 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Covalent Bonding of CN to the Pt(111) Surface [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 766 (1998)]
W. Daum, F. Dederichs, and J. E. Müller
pp. 2655 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Erratum: Spin Relaxation in Quantum Hall Systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3324 (1999)]
W. Apel and Yu. A. Bychkov
pp. 2656 [View PDF (19 kB)]
 
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