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Physical Review Letters – 23 October 2000
Volume 85, Issue 17

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.

Characterization of Fusion Burn Time in Exploding Deuterium Cluster Plasmas
J. Zweiback, T. E. Cowan, R. A. Smith, J. H. Hartley, R. Howell, C. A. Steinke, G. Hays, K. B. Wharton, J. K. Crane, and T. Ditmire
pp. 3640-3643 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Velocity Fluctuations in a Homogeneous 2D Granular Gas in Steady State
Florence Rouyer and Narayanan Menon
pp. 3676-3679 [View PDF (101 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Exact Monte Carlo Method for Continuum Fermion Systems
M. H. Kalos and Francesco Pederiva
pp. 3547-3551 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Robustness and Diffusion of Pointer States
Lajos Diósi and Claus Kiefer
pp. 3552-3555 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Fluctuation and Relaxation Properties of Pulled Fronts: A Scenario for Nonstandard Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Scaling
Goutam Tripathy and Wim van Saarloos
pp. 3556-3559 [View PDF (203 kB)]
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Discrete Periodic Melting Point Observations for Nanostructure Ensembles
M. Yu. Efremov, F. Schiettekatte, M. Zhang, E. A. Olson, A. T. Kwan, R. S. Berry, and L. H. Allen
pp. 3560-3563 [View PDF (225 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Generic Isolated Horizons and Their Applications
Abhay Ashtekar, Christopher Beetle, Olaf Dreyer, Stephen Fairhurst, Badri Krishnan, Jerzy Lewandowski, and Jacek Wiśniewski
pp. 3564-3567 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Technique for Direct eV-Scale Measurements of the Mu and Tau Neutrino Masses Using Supernova Neutrinos
J. F. Beacom, R. N. Boyd, and A. Mezzacappa
pp. 3568-3571 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Natural Chaotic Inflation in Supergravity
M. Kawasaki, Masahide Yamaguchi, and T. Yanagida
pp. 3572-3575 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Pion Photo- and Electroproduction and the Partially Conserved Axial Current
Helmut Haberzettl
pp. 3576-3579 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Dynamic Symmetries at the Critical Point
F. Iachello
pp. 3580-3583 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Evidence for a Possible E(5) Symmetry in 134Ba
R. F. Casten and N. V. Zamfir
pp. 3584-3586 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Caloric Curves and Energy Fluctuations in the Microcanonical Liquid-Gas Phase Transition
Ph. Chomaz, V. Duflot, and F. Gulminelli
pp. 3587-3590 [View PDF (231 kB)]
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Multiple Scattering, Parton Energy Loss, and Modified Fragmentation Functions in Deeply Inelastic eA Scattering
Xiaofeng Guo and Xin-Nian Wang
pp. 3591-3594 [View PDF (101 kB)]
Observation of Direct Photons in Central 158A GeV 208P208b+Pb Collisions
M. M. Aggarwal et al. ((WA98 Collaboration))
pp. 3595-3599 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Anti-Stokes Fluorescence Cooling in Thulium-Doped Glass
C. W. Hoyt, M. Sheik-Bahae, R. I. Epstein, B. C. Edwards, and J. E. Anderson
pp. 3600-3603 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Electron-Impact Induced Fragmentation of Fullerene Ions
D. Hathiramani, K. Aichele, W. Arnold, K. Huber, E. Salzborn, and P. Scheier
pp. 3604-3607 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dimension of Fractal Growth Patterns as a Dynamical Exponent
Benny Davidovitch and Itamar Procaccia
pp. 3608-3611 [View PDF (1,966 kB)]
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Stochastic Spatiotemporal Intermittency and Noise-Induced Transition to an Absorbing Phase
Martin G. Zimmermann, Raúl Toral, Oreste Piro, and Maxi San Miguel
pp. 3612-3615 [View PDF (635 kB)]
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Convective Lyapunov Exponents and Propagation of Correlations
G. Giacomelli, R. Hegger, A. Politi, and M. Vassalli
pp. 3616-3619 [View PDF (262 kB)]
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Frobenius-Perron Resonances for Maps with a Mixed Phase Space
Joachim Weber, Fritz Haake, and Petr Šeba
pp. 3620-3623 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Fractal Structure in the Collision of Vector Solitons
Jianke Yang and Yu Tan
pp. 3624-3627 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Strain versus Stress in a Model Granular Material: A Devil's Staircase
Gaël Combe and Jean-Noël Roux
pp. 3628-3631 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Memory Effects in Granular Materials
Christophe Josserand, Alexei V. Tkachenko, Daniel M. Mueth, and Heinrich M. Jaeger
pp. 3632-3635 [View PDF (183 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Batchelor Dispersion of Passive Tracers
Marie-Caroline Jullien, Patrizia Castiglione, and Patrick Tabeling
pp. 3636-3639 [View PDF (754 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

Characterization of Fusion Burn Time in Exploding Deuterium Cluster Plasmas
J. Zweiback, T. E. Cowan, R. A. Smith, J. H. Hartley, R. Howell, C. A. Steinke, G. Hays, K. B. Wharton, J. K. Crane, and T. Ditmire
pp. 3640-3643 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Experimental Observation of the α Relaxation in Supercooled Water
M. C. Bellissent-Funel, S. Longeville, J. M. Zanotti, and S. H. Chen
pp. 3644-3647 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Effect of Stress on Track Formation in Amorphous Iron Boron Alloy: Ion Tracks as Elastic Inclusions
C. Trautmann, S. Klaumünzer, and H. Trinkaus
pp. 3648-3651 [View PDF (214 kB)]
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Spontaneous Chirality in Simple Systems
Galen T. Pickett, Mark Gross, and Hiroko Okuyama
pp. 3652-3655 [View PDF (230 kB)]
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Dynamic Criteria for Melting in Two Dimensions
K. Zahn and G. Maret
pp. 3656-3659 [View PDF (275 kB)]
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Diffusional Kinetics of SiGe Dimers on Si(100) Using Atom-Tracking Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
X. R. Qin, B. S. Swartzentruber, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 3660-3663 [View PDF (517 kB)]
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Observation of a Near-Surface Structural Phase Transition in SrTiO3 by Optical Second Harmonic Generation
E. D. Mishina, T. V. Misuryaev, N. E. Sherstyuk, V. V. Lemanov, A. I. Morozov, A. S. Sigov, and Th. Rasing
pp. 3664-3667 [View PDF (134 kB)]
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Surface Freezing on Patterned Substrates
Martin Heni and Hartmut Löwen
pp. 3668-3671 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Pathway for the Strain-Driven Two-Dimensional to Three-Dimensional Transition during Growth of Ge on Si(001)
A. Vailionis, B. Cho, G. Glass, P. Desjardins, David G. Cahill, and J. E. Greene
pp. 3672-3675 [View PDF (897 kB)]
Velocity Fluctuations in a Homogeneous 2D Granular Gas in Steady State
Florence Rouyer and Narayanan Menon
pp. 3676-3679 [View PDF (101 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Continuous Wave Observation of Massive Polariton Redistribution by Stimulated Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities
R. M. Stevenson, V. N. Astratov, M. S. Skolnick, D. M. Whittaker, M. Emam-Ismail, A. I. Tartakovskii, P. G. Savvidis, J. J. Baumberg, and J. S. Roberts
pp. 3680-3683 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Sn/Ge(111) Surface Charge-Density-Wave Phase Transition
T. E. Kidd, T. Miller, M. Y. Chou, and T.-C. Chiang
pp. 3684-3687 [View PDF (186 kB)]
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Optical Investigation of Spin-Wave Excitations in Fractional Quantum Hall States and of Interaction between Composite Fermions
I. V. Kukushkin, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl
pp. 3688-3691 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Tunneling Density of States of High Tc Superconductors: d-Wave BCS Model versus SU(2) Slave-Boson Model
Walter Rantner and Xiao-Gang Wen
pp. 3692-3695 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Microwave Electrodynamics of Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors
J. David Kokales, Patrick Fournier, Lucia V. Mercaldo, Vladimir V. Talanov, Richard L. Greene, and Steven M. Anlage
pp. 3696-3699 [View PDF (171 kB)]
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Evidence for Nodal Quasiparticles in Electron-Doped Cuprates from Penetration Depth Measurements
R. Prozorov, R. W. Giannetta, P. Fournier, and R. L. Greene
pp. 3700-3703 [View PDF (308 kB)]
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Negative Length Orbits in Normal-Superconductor Billiard Systems
J. Cserti, G. Vattay, J. Koltai, F. Taddei, and C. J. Lambert
pp. 3704-3707 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Anomalous Proximity Effect in Underdoped YBa2Cu3O6+x Josephson Junctions
R. S. Decca, H. D. Drew, E. Osquiguil, B. Maiorov, and J. Guimpel
pp. 3708-3711 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Instabilities and Disorder-Driven First-Order Transition of the Vortex Lattice
Y. Paltiel, E. Zeldov, Y. Myasoedov, M. L. Rappaport, G. Jung, S. Bhattacharya, M. J. Higgins, Z. L. Xiao, E. Y. Andrei, P. L. Gammel, and D. J. Bishop
pp. 3712-3715 [View PDF (397 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Washboard Noise of a Driven Vortex Lattice in a High-Temperature Superconductor, Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy
Yoshihiko Togawa, Ryuichi Abiru, Katsuya Iwaya, Haruhisa Kitano, and Atsutaka Maeda
pp. 3716-3719 [View PDF (562 kB)]
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New Type of Charge and Magnetic Order in the Ferromagnetic Kondo Lattice
D. J. García, K. Hallberg, C. D. Batista, M. Avignon, and B. Alascio
pp. 3720-3723 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Large Nonlinear Dynamical Response of Superparamagnets: Interplay between Precession and Thermoactivation in the Stochastic Landau-Lifshitz Equation
J. L. García-Palacios and P. Svedlindh
pp. 3724-3727 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Oscillatory Exchange Coupling and Positive Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructures
K. R. Nikolaev, A. Yu. Dobin, I. N. Krivorotov, W. K. Cooley, A. Bhattacharya, A. L. Kobrinskii, L. I. Glazman, R. M. Wentzovitch, E. Dan Dahlberg, and A. M. Goldman
pp. 3728-3731 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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High-Resolution, >1GHz NMR in Unstable Magnetic Fields
Y.-Y. Lin, S. Ahn, N. Murali, W. Brey, C. R. Bowers, and W. S. Warren
pp. 3732-3735 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

Correlated and Uncorrelated Regions in Heart-Rate Fluctuations during Sleep
Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Thomas Penzel, Jörg-Hermann Peter, and Karlheinz Voigt
pp. 3736-3739 [View PDF (240 kB)]
Functional Stochastic Resonance in the Human Brain: Noise Induced Sensitization of Baroreflex System
Ichiro Hidaka, Daichi Nozaki, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
pp. 3740-3743 [View PDF (183 kB)]
 
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