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Physical Review Letters – 16 October 2000
Volume 85, Issue 16

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.

Experimental Evidence of Time-Delay-Induced Death in Coupled Limit-Cycle Oscillators
D. V. Ramana Reddy, A. Sen, and G. L. Johnston
pp. 3381-3384 [View PDF (546 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Annihilating Cold Dark Matter
Manoj Kaplinghat, Lloyd Knox, and Michael S. Turner
pp. 3335-3338 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Quintessential Adjustment of the Cosmological Constant
A. Hebecker and C. Wetterich
pp. 3339-3342 [View PDF (71 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Matrix Theory Interpretation of Discrete Light Cone Quantization String Worldsheets
G. Grignani, P. Orland, L. D. Paniak, and G. W. Semenoff
pp. 3343-3346 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 3347-3352 [View PDF (138 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Section Measurements Out of the 52P Excited State of Rubidium
M. L. Keeler, L. W. Anderson, and Chun C. Lin
pp. 3353-3356 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Resonant Enhancement of Dielectronic Recombination by a Microwave Field
Victor Klimenko and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 3357-3360 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Quantum State Preparation via Asymptotic Completeness
Thomas Wellens, Andreas Buchleitner, Burkhard Kümmerer, and Hans Maassen
pp. 3361-3364 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Quantum Coherence in an Optical Lattice
D. L. Haycock, P. M. Alsing, I. H. Deutsch, J. Grondalski, and P. S. Jessen
pp. 3365-3368 [View PDF (89 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Information-Theoretic Stochastic Resonance in Noise-Floor Limited Systems: The Case for Adding Noise
M. E. Inchiosa, J. W. C. Robinson, and A. R. Bulsara
pp. 3369-3372 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Decoherence and the Rate of Entropy Production in Chaotic Quantum Systems
Diana Monteoliva and Juan Pablo Paz
pp. 3373-3376 [View PDF (541 kB)]
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From Low-Dimensional Synchronous Chaos to High-Dimensional Desynchronous Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Systems
Gang Hu, Ying Zhang, Hilda A. Cerdeira, and Shigang Chen
pp. 3377-3380 [View PDF (257 kB)]
Experimental Evidence of Time-Delay-Induced Death in Coupled Limit-Cycle Oscillators
D. V. Ramana Reddy, A. Sen, and G. L. Johnston
pp. 3381-3384 [View PDF (546 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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3D Imaging: Wave Front Sensing Utilizing a Birefringent Crystal
K. Buse and M. Luennemann
pp. 3385-3387 [View PDF (331 kB)]
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Signature of Wave Localization in the Time Dependence of a Reflected Pulse
M. Titov and C. W. J. Beenakker
pp. 3388-3391 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Femtosecond X-Ray Fluorescence
M. Schnürer, Ch. Streli, P. Wobrauschek, M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, Ch. Spielmann, and F. Krausz
pp. 3392-3395 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Substrate Interactions, Effects of Symmetry Breaking, and Convection in a 2D Horizontally Shaken Granular System
Benjamin Painter and R. P. Behringer
pp. 3396-3399 [View PDF (219 kB)]
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Experimental Study of the Multipolar Vortex Instability
Christophe Eloy, Patrice Le Gal, and Stéphane Le Dizès
pp. 3400-3403 [View PDF (332 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Subpicosecond Electro-optic Measurement of Relativistic Electron Pulses
X. Yan, A. M. MacLeod, W. A. Gillespie, G. M. H. Knippels, D. Oepts, A. F. G. van der Meer, and W. Seidel
pp. 3404-3407 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Momentum Transport from Nonlinear Mode Coupling of Magnetic Fluctuations
A. K. Hansen, A. F. Almagri, D. Craig, D. J. Den Hartog, C. C. Hegna, S. C. Prager, and J. S. Sarff
pp. 3408-3411 [View PDF (299 kB)]
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Subharmonic Resonances in Plasmas: Exponential and Superexponential Growth of Driven Relativistic Plasma Waves
C. Ren, E. S. Dodd, D. Gordon, and W. B. Mori
pp. 3412-3415 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Magnetic Geometry and the Confinement of Electrically Conducting Plasmas
L. Faddeev and Antti J. Niemi
pp. 3416-3419 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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In situ Diagnostics in Plasmas of Electronic-Ground-State Hydrogen Molecules in High Vibrational and Rotational States by Laser-Induced Fluorescence with Vacuum-Ultraviolet Radiation
Thomas Mosbach, H.-M. Katsch, and H. F. Döbele
pp. 3420-3423 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Effective Co-Generation of Opposite and Forward Waves in Cyclotron-Resonance Masers
V. L. Bratman, A. E. Fedotov, N. G. Kolganov, S. V. Samsonov, and A. V. Savilov
pp. 3424-3427 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Discovering New Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers
Yardena Bohbot-Raviv and Zhen-Gang Wang
pp. 3428-3431 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Quantitative NMR Characterization of Long-Range Chain Dynamics prior to Reptation: Polyethylene-Oxide
Jean-Pierre Cohen Addad and Armel Guillermo
pp. 3432-3435 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Polyhedral Units and Network Connectivity in Calcium Aluminosilicate Glasses from High-Energy X-Ray Diffraction
V. Petkov, S. J. L. Billinge, S. D. Shastri, and B. Himmel
pp. 3436-3439 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Origin of Anomalous Lattice Expansion in Oxide Nanoparticles
S. Tsunekawa, K. Ishikawa, Z.-Q. Li, Y. Kawazoe, and A. Kasuya
pp. 3440-3443 [View PDF (409 kB)]
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Melting of the Rare Earth Metals and f-Electron Delocalization
Daniel Errandonea, Reinhard Boehler, and Marvin Ross
pp. 3444-3447 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Hole-Burning Experiments within Glassy Models with Infinite Range Interactions
Leticia F. Cugliandolo and José Luis Iguain
pp. 3448-3451 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Testing the Kibble-Zurek Scenario with Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions
E. Kavoussanaki, R. Monaco, and R. J. Rivers
pp. 3452-3455 [View PDF (86 kB)]
Semisuperfluidity of 3He in Aerogel?
Yu. M. Bunkov, A. S. Chen, D. J. Cousins, and H. Godfrin
pp. 3456-3459 [View PDF (1,855 kB)]
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Effect of Branching on the Fluid Phase Behavior of Alkane Monolayers
Jeffrey J. Potoff and J. Ilja Siepmann
pp. 3460-3463 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spin Transport in Interacting Quantum Wires and Carbon Nanotubes
L. Balents and R. Egger
pp. 3464-3467 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Covalent Bonds in AlMnSi Icosahedral Quasicrystalline Approximant
K. Kirihara, T. Nakata, M. Takata, Y. Kubota, E. Nishibori, K. Kimura, and M. Sakata
pp. 3468-3471 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Origin of Surface Conductivity in Diamond
F. Maier, M. Riedel, B. Mantel, J. Ristein, and L. Ley
pp. 3472-3475 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Electronic Transport in Y-Junction Carbon Nanotubes
C. Papadopoulos, A. Rakitin, J. Li, A. S. Vedeneev, and J. M. Xu
pp. 3476-3479 [View PDF (245 kB)]
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Andreev Peaks and Massive Magnons in Cuprate Superconductor-Normal-Superconductor Junctions
Assa Auerbach and Ehud Altman
pp. 3480-3483 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Intrinsic Finite-Size Effects in the Two-Dimensional XY Model with Irrational Frustration
Sung Yong Park, M. Y. Choi, Beom Jun Kim, Gun Sang Jeon, and Jean S. Chung
pp. 3484-3487 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Measurement of Vortex Motion in a Type-II Superconductor: A Novel Use of the Neutron Spin-Echo Technique
E. M. Forgan, P. G. Kealey, S. T. Johnson, A. Pautrat, Ch. Simon, S. L. Lee, C. M. Aegerter, R. Cubitt, B. Farago, and P. Schleger
pp. 3488-3491 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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Coulomb-Gas Scaling Law for a Superconducting Bi2+ySr2-x-yLaxCuO6+δ Thin Films in Magnetic Fields
Y. Z. Zhang, R. Deltour, and Z. X. Zhao
pp. 3492-3495 [View PDF (236 kB)]
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Ga NMR Study of the Local Susceptibility in Kagomé-Based SrCr8Ga4O19: Pseudogap and Paramagnetic Defects
P. Mendels, A. Keren, L. Limot, M. Mekata, G. Collin, and M. Horvatić
pp. 3496-3499 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Observation of Charge-Density Wave Domains on the Cr(110) Surface by Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
K.-F. Braun, S. Fölsch, G. Meyer, and K.-H. Rieder
pp. 3500-3503 [View PDF (516 kB)]
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Low Temperature Spin Dynamics of the Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Garnet Gd3Ga5O12
S. R. Dunsiger, J. S. Gardner, J. A. Chakhalian, A. L. Cornelius, M. Jaime, R. F. Kiefl, R. Movshovich, W. A. MacFarlane, R. I. Miller, J. E. Sonier, and B. D. Gaulin
pp. 3504-3507 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Signature of Electron-Plasmon Quantum Kinetics in GaAs
Q. T. Vu, H. Haug, W. A. Hügel, S. Chatterjee, and M. Wegener
pp. 3508-3511 [View PDF (296 kB)]
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Interaction of Excess Electrons with Water Molecules at the Early Stage of Laser-Induced Plasma Generation in Water
Hiroharu Yui and Tsuguo Sawada
pp. 3512-3515 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Dynamics of Laser Desorption and Ablation of Metals at the Threshold on the Femtosecond Time Scale
V. Schmidt, W. Husinsky, and G. Betz
pp. 3516-3519 [View PDF (485 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Dynamical Generation of Noiseless Quantum Subsystems
Lorenza Viola, Emanuel Knill, and Seth Lloyd
pp. 3520-3523 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Validity of Threshold-Crossing Analysis of Symbolic Dynamics from Chaotic Time Series
Erik M. Bollt, Theodore Stanford, Ying-Cheng Lai, and Karol Życzkowski
pp. 3524-3527 [View PDF (195 kB)]
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Soap Froths and Crystal Structures
P. Ziherl and Randall D. Kamien
pp. 3528-3531 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Voronoï Tessellation Reveals the Condensed Matter Character of Folded Proteins
Alain Soyer, Jacques Chomilier, Jean-Paul Mornon, Rémi Jullien, and Jean-François Sadoc
pp. 3532-3535 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in a Model for Social Influence
Claudio Castellano, Matteo Marsili, and Alessandro Vespignani
pp. 3536-3539 [View PDF (136 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Stability of the Period-Doubled Core of the 90° Partial in Silicon
R. W. Nunes and David Vanderbilt
pp. 3540 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Charged Impurity-Scattering-Limited Low-Temperature Resistivity of Low-Density Silicon Inversion Layers”
A. Gold and V. T. Dolgopolov
pp. 3541 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Das Sarma and Hwang Reply:
S. Das Sarma and E. H. Hwang
pp. 3542 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Asymmetry of Critical Exponents in YBa2Cu3O7-δ”
Manuel V. Ramallo and Félix Vidal
pp. 3543 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Polarized Raman Study of Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes”
S. Reich and C. Thomsen
pp. 3544 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Rao et al. Reply:
A. M. Rao, A. Jorio, M. A. Pimenta, M. S. S. Dantas, R. Saito, G. Dresselhaus, and M. S. Dresselhaus
pp. 3545 [View PDF (40 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: New Limit on CPT Violation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 590 (2000)]
S. Geer, J. Marriner, M. Martens, R. E. Ray, J. Streets, W. Wester, M. Hu, G. R. Snow, T. Armstrong, C. Buchanan, B. Corbin, M. Lindgren, T. Muller, and R. Gustafson ((The APEX Collaboration))
pp. 3546 [View PDF (27 kB)]
 
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