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Physical Review Letters – 6 November 2000
Volume 85, Issue 19

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.

Creating Macroscopic Atomic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen States from Bose-Einstein Condensates
H. Pu and P. Meystre
pp. 3987-3990 [View PDF (86 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Squeezing and Entanglement of Atomic Beams
L.-M. Duan, A. Sørensen, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 3991-3994 [View PDF (385 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

Creating Macroscopic Atomic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen States from Bose-Einstein Condensates
H. Pu and P. Meystre
pp. 3987-3990 [View PDF (86 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Squeezing and Entanglement of Atomic Beams
L.-M. Duan, A. Sørensen, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 3991-3994 [View PDF (385 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Energy Transduction in Periodically Driven Non-Hermitian Systems
T. Alarcón, A. Pérez-Madrid, and J. M. Rubí
pp. 3995-3998 [View PDF (119 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

Tau Neutrinos Favored over Sterile Neutrinos in Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Oscillations
S. Fukuda et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)
pp. 3999-4003 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Grand Unified Theories without the Desert
Alex Pomarol
pp. 4004-4007 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Phenomenological Evidence for Gluon Depletion in pA Collisions
Rudolph C. Hwa, Ján Pišút, and Neva Pišútová
pp. 4008-4011 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Transverse Energy Fluctuations and the Pattern of J/ψ Suppression in Pb-Pb Collisions
Jean-Paul Blaizot, Phuong Mai Dinh, and Jean-Yves Ollitrault
pp. 4012-4015 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Geometric Chaoticity Leads to Ordered Spectra for Randomly Interacting Fermions
D. Mulhall, A. Volya, and V. Zelevinsky
pp. 4016-4019 [View PDF (155 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Minimization Methods for the One-Particle Dirac Equation
Jean Dolbeault, Maria J. Esteban, Eric Séré, and Michel Vanbreugel
pp. 4020-4023 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Slow Photoelectron Imaging
Céline Nicole, Ingrid Sluimer, Florentina Rosca-Pruna, Marcel Warntjes, Marc Vrakking, Christian Bordas, Frederic Texier, and Francis Robicheaux
pp. 4024-4027 [View PDF (525 kB)]
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High-Resolution Vacuum-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of an Electron-Cooled D- Beam
M. K. Raarup, U. V. Pedersen, V. V. Petrunin, P. Balling, and T. Andersen
pp. 4028-4031 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Pondermotive Forces with Slow Light
S. E. Harris
pp. 4032-4035 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Incremental Approach to Strongly Correlated Many-Body Finite Systems
J. Berakdar
pp. 4036-4039 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Angular Momentum Partitioning and Hexacontatetrapole Moments in Impulsively Excited Argon Ions
H. M. Al-Khateeb, B. G. Birdsey, and T. J. Gay
pp. 4040-4043 [View PDF (516 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Frequency Modulation in the Transmittivity of Wave Guides in Elastic-Wave Band-Gap Materials
M. Kafesaki, M. M. Sigalas, and N. García
pp. 4044-4047 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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Inversion Symmetry and Exact Critical Exponents of Dissipating Waves in the Sandpile Model
Chin-Kun Hu, E. V. Ivashkevich, Chai-Yu Lin, and V. B. Priezzhev
pp. 4048-4051 [View PDF (206 kB)]
Experimental Dynamics of a Vortex within a Vortex
D. Durkin and J. Fajans
pp. 4052-4055 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Solitary Coherent Structures in Viscoelastic Shear Flow: Computation and Mechanism
K. Arun Kumar and Michael D. Graham
pp. 4056-4059 [View PDF (100 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Nonlinear Vertical Oscillations of a Particle in a Sheath of a rf Discharge
A. V. Ivlev, R. Sütterlin, V. Steinberg, M. Zuzic, and G. Morfill
pp. 4060-4063 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Three-Dimensional Strongly Coupled Plasma Crystal under Gravity Conditions
M. Zuzic, A. V. Ivlev, J. Goree, G. E. Morfill, H. M. Thomas, H. Rothermel, U. Konopka, R. Sütterlin, and D. D. Goldbeck
pp. 4064-4067 [View PDF (614 kB)]
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Stimulated Raman Scattering of Rapidly Amplified Short Laser Pulses
V. M. Malkin, Yu. A. Tsidulko, and N. J. Fisch
pp. 4068-4071 [View PDF (175 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Reversible Thermal Gelation in Soft Spheres
M. Kapnistos, D. Vlassopoulos, G. Fytas, K. Mortensen, G. Fleischer, and J. Roovers
pp. 4072-4075 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Evidence of Two Viscous Relaxation Processes in the Collective Dynamics of Liquid Lithium
T. Scopigno, U. Balucani, G. Ruocco, and F. Sette
pp. 4076-4079 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Surface Plasmon Resonance Study of the Spreading of a Liquid-Crystal Smectic- A Droplet on a Gold Substrate
R. Lucht and Ch. Bahr
pp. 4080-4083 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Solving the Crystallographic Phase Problem in i(AlPdMn)
K. S. Brown, A. A. Avanesov, and V. Elser
pp. 4084-4087 [View PDF (436 kB)]
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Dislocated Epitaxial Islands
X. H. Liu, F. M. Ross, and K. W. Schwarz
pp. 4088-4091 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Laser-Induced Graphitization on a Diamond (111) Surface
C. Z. Wang, K. M. Ho, M. D. Shirk, and P. A. Molian
pp. 4092-4095 [View PDF (167 kB)]
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Critical Dynamics of Burst Instabilities in the Portevin-Le Châtelier Effect
Gianfranco D'Anna and Franco Nori
pp. 4096-4099 [View PDF (372 kB)]
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Crystal-like High Frequency Phonons in the Amorphous Phases of Solid Water
H. Schober, M. M. Koza, A. Tölle, C. Masciovecchio, F. Sette, and F. Fujara
pp. 4100-4103 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Efficient Monte Carlo Algorithm and High-Precision Results for Percolation
M. E. J. Newman and R. M. Ziff
pp. 4104-4107 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Local Functional Models of Critical Correlations in Thin Films
A. O. Parry, E. D. Macdonald, and C. Rascón
pp. 4108-4111 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Optical Field-Induced Mass Transport in As2S3 Chalcogenide Glasses
Ali Saliminia, Tigran V. Galstian, and Alain Villeneuve
pp. 4112-4115 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Roughness Evolution of Ion Sputtered Rotating InP Surfaces: Pattern Formation and Scaling Laws
F. Frost, A. Schindler, and F. Bigl
pp. 4116-4119 [View PDF (344 kB)]
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Atomic Transport and Chemical Stability during Annealing of Ultrathin Al2O3 Films on Si
C. Krug, E. B. O. da Rosa, R. M. C. de Almeida, J. Morais, I. J. R. Baumvol, T. D. M. Salgado, and F. C. Stedile
pp. 4120-4123 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Signature of Atomic Structure in the Quantum Conductance of Gold Nanowires
Varlei Rodrigues, Tobias Fuhrer, and Daniel Ugarte
pp. 4124-4127 [View PDF (388 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Adsorption on Carbon Nanotubes: Quantum Spin Tubes, Magnetization Plateaus, and Conformal Symmetry
Dmitry Green and Claudio Chamon
pp. 4128-4131 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Tunneling between Two Luttinger Liquids Induced by a Driving Field
D. Schmeltzer
pp. 4132-4135 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Analytic Environment-Dependent Tight-Binding Bond Integrals: Application to MoSi2
D. Nguyen-Manh, D. G. Pettifor, and V. Vitek
pp. 4136-4139 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Absence of Residual Quasiparticle Conductivity in the Underdoped Cuprate YBa2Cu4O8
N. E. Hussey, S. Nakamae, K. Behnia, H. Takagi, C. Urano, S. Adachi, and S. Tajima
pp. 4140-4143 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Nonlinear Voltage Dependence of the Shot Noise in Mesoscopic Degenerate Conductors with Strong Electron-Electron Scattering
E. G. Mishchenko
pp. 4144-4147 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Current Switch by Coherent Trapping of Electrons in Quantum Dots
T. Brandes and F. Renzoni
pp. 4148-4151 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Enhancement of Persistent Currents due to Confinement in Metallic Samples
V. M. Apel, G. Chiappe, and M. J. Sánchez
pp. 4152-4155 [View PDF (380 kB)]
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Stability of the Smectic Quantum Hall State: A Quantitative Study
Hangmo Yi, H. A. Fertig, and R. Côté
pp. 4156-4159 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Weak Charge Quantization as an Instanton of the Interacting σ Model
Alex Kamenev
pp. 4160-4163 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Meissner-London Currents in Superconductors with Rectangular Cross Section
Ernst Helmut Brandt and Grigorii P. Mikitik
pp. 4164-4167 [View PDF (138 kB)]
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Effects of Interlayer Coupling on the Irreversibility Lines of NbN/AlN Superconducting Multilayers
E. S. Sadki, Z. H. Barber, S. J. Lloyd, M. G. Blamire, and A. M. Campbell
pp. 4168-4171 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Ferromagnetism and Colossal Magnetoresistance from Phase Competition
Georgios Varelogiannis
pp. 4172-4175 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Disorder-Driven Hysteresis-Loop Criticality
A. Berger, A. Inomata, J. S. Jiang, J. E. Pearson, and S. D. Bader
pp. 4176-4179 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Electric Field Gradient Effects in Raman Spectroscopy
E. J. Ayars, H. D. Hallen, and C. L. Jahncke
pp. 4180-4183 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Cooper Minima in the Photoemission Spectra of Solids
S. L. Molodtsov, S. V. Halilov, V. D. P. Servedio, W. Schneider, S. Danzenbächer, J. J. Hinarejos, Manuel Richter, and C. Laubschat
pp. 4184-4187 [View PDF (144 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Must Thin-Thick Transitions Precede Long-Range Critical Wetting?
Joseph O. Indekeu
pp. 4188 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Bertrand, Bonn, and Meunier Reply:
E. Bertrand, D. Bonn, and J. Meunier
pp. 4189 [View PDF (37 kB)]
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Comment on “Direct Measurement of the `Giant' Adiabatic Temperature Change in Gd5Si2Ge2”
K. A. Gschneidner, Jr., V. K. Pecharsky, E. Brück, H. G. M. Duijn, and E. M. Levin
pp. 4190 [View PDF (46 kB)]
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Comment on “Direct Measurement of the `Giant' Adiabatic Temperature Change in Gd5Si2Ge2”
J. R. Sun, F. X. Hu, and B. G. Shen
pp. 4191 [View PDF (42 kB)]
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Földeàki et al. Reply:
M. Földeàki, R. Chahine, T. K. Bose, and J. A. Barclay
pp. 4192 [View PDF (34 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Cone-Jet Analytical Extension of Taylor's Electrostatic Solution and the Asymptotic Universal Scaling Laws in Electrospraying [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 217 (1997)]
Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo
pp. 4193 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Erratum: Atomic Structure and Vibrational Properties of Icosahedral B4C Boron Carbide [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3230 (1999)]
R. Lazzari, N. Vast, J. M. Besson, S. Baroni, and A. Dal Corso
pp. 4194 [View PDF (20 kB)]
 
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