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Physical Review Letters – 10 July 2000
Volume 85, Issue 2

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.

Local Observations of Phase Singularities in Optical Fields in Waveguide Structures
M. L. M. Balistreri, J. P. Korterik, L. Kuipers, and N. F. van Hulst
pp. 294-297 [View PDF (435 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Doubly Stochastic Resonance
A. A. Zaikin, J. Kurths, and L. Schimansky-Geier
pp. 227-231 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Optimizing the Classical Heat Engine
A. E. Allahverdyan and Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen
pp. 232-235 [View PDF (61 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Hydrodynamic Collimation of Gamma-Ray-Burst Fireballs
Amir Levinson and David Eichler
pp. 236-239 [View PDF (260 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Localizing Gravity on a Stringlike Defect in Six Dimensions
Tony Gherghetta and Mikhail Shaposhnikov
pp. 240-243 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Explicit SO(10) Supersymmetric Grand Unified Model for the Higgs and Yukawa Sectors
Carl H. Albright and S. M. Barr
pp. 244-247 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Are Messages of R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry Hidden within Top Quark Signals?
Aseshkrishna Datta and Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya
pp. 248-251 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Measuring γ Cleanly with CP-Tagged Bs and Bd Decays
Adam F. Falk and Alexey A. Petrov
pp. 252-255 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Spin Correlation in tt̅ Production from pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.8TeV
B. Abbott et al. ((D0 Collaboration))
pp. 256-261 [View PDF (90 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

Soft Dipole Resonance in the Neutron-Skin Nucleus 6He
S. Nakayama, T. Yamagata, H. Akimune, I. Daito, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, M. Fujiwara, K. Fushimi, T. Inomata, H. Kohri, N. Koori, K. Takahisa, A. Tamii, M. Tanaka, and H. Toyokawa
pp. 262-265 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Direct Evidence for the Breakdown of the N = 8 Shell Closure in 12Be
A. Navin, D. W. Anthony, T. Aumann, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, Y. Blumenfeld, B. A. Brown, T. Glasmacher, P. G. Hansen, R. W. Ibbotson, P. A. Lofy, V. Maddalena, K. Miller, T. Nakamura, B. V. Pritychenko, B. M. Sherrill, E. Spears, M. Steiner, J. A. Tostevin, J. Yurkon, and A. Wagner
pp. 266-269 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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ΛN Spin-Orbit Splittings in Λ9Be and Λ13C Studied with One-Boson-Exchange ΛN Interactions
E. Hiyama, M. Kamimura, T. Motoba, T. Yamada, and Y. Yamamoto
pp. 270-273 [View PDF (70 kB)]
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Measurement of the Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Strength Distributions up to 10 MeV in the Doubly Magic Nuclei 40Ca and 48Ca
T. Hartmann, J. Enders, P. Mohr, K. Vogt, S. Volz, and A. Zilges
pp. 274-277 [View PDF (76 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Multiple Ionization in Fast Ion-Atom Collisions: Simultaneous Measurement of Recoil Momentum and Projectile Energy Loss
M. A. Abdallah, C. R. Vane, C. C. Havener, D. R. Schultz, H. F. Krause, N. Jones, and S. Datz
pp. 278-281 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Excitonic Funneling in Extended Dendrimers with Nonlinear and Random Potentials
Subhadip Raychaudhuri, Yonathan Shapir, Vladimir Chernyak, and Shaul Mukamel
pp. 282-285 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Orbital and Intrinsic Angular Momentum of Single Photons and Entangled Pairs of Photons Generated by Parametric Down-Conversion
H. H. Arnaut and G. A. Barbosa
pp. 286-289 [View PDF (72 kB)]
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Stable Solid-State Source of Single Photons
Christian Kurtsiefer, Sonja Mayer, Patrick Zarda, and Harald Weinfurter
pp. 290-293 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Local Observations of Phase Singularities in Optical Fields in Waveguide Structures
M. L. M. Balistreri, J. P. Korterik, L. Kuipers, and N. F. van Hulst
pp. 294-297 [View PDF (435 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Potential Energy in a Three-Dimensional Vibrated Granular Medium Measured by NMR Imaging
Xiaoyu Yang and D. Candela
pp. 298-301 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Onset of Sliding Friction in Incommensurate Systems
L. Consoli, H. J. F. Knops, and A. Fasolino
pp. 302-305 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Energy Spectra for Decaying 2D Turbulence in a Bounded Domain
H. J. H. Clercx and G. J. F. van Heijst
pp. 306-309 [View PDF (1,157 kB)]
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Nonsteady Condensation and Evaporation Waves
Osamu Inomoto, Shoichi Kai, and Boris A. Malomed
pp. 310-313 [View PDF (77 kB)]
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Viscous Fingering in a Yield Stress Fluid
Anke Lindner, Philippe Coussot, and Daniel Bonn
pp. 314-317 [View PDF (196 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Plasma Oscillations and Expansion of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma
S. Kulin, T. C. Killian, S. D. Bergeson, and S. L. Rolston
pp. 318-321 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Confinement Scaling Laws for the Conventional Reversed-Field Pinch
J. Scheffel and D. D. Schnack
pp. 322-325 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Atomic Layer Growth on Al(111) by Ion Bombardment
Carsten Busse, Henri Hansen, Udo Linke, and Thomas Michely
pp. 326-329 [View PDF (425 kB)]
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Real-Time X-Ray Diffraction Measurements of the Phase Transition in KCl Shocked along [100]
T. d'Almeida and Y. M. Gupta
pp. 330-333 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Liquid-Liquid Critical Point in Heavy Water
Osamu Mishima
pp. 334-336 [View PDF (54 kB)]
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Bending Elasticity of Surfactant Films: The Role of the Hydrophobic Tails
Alois Würger
pp. 337-340 [View PDF (115 kB)]
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Strain-Mediated Phase Coexistence in Heteroepitaxial Films
V. M. Kaganer, B. Jenichen, F. Schippan, W. Braun, L. Däweritz, and K. H. Ploog
pp. 341-344 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Critical Effects at 3D Wedge Wetting
A. O. Parry, C. Rascón, and A. J. Wood
pp. 345-348 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Measurement of Roughness of Two Interfaces of a Dielectric Film by Scattering Ellipsometry
Thomas A. Germer
pp. 349-352 [View PDF (71 kB)]
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Molecular Mechanisms of Crystallization and Defect Formation
S.-T. Yau, Bill R. Thomas, and Peter G. Vekilov
pp. 353-356 [View PDF (200 kB)]
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Dynamics of Individual Atomic Kinks during Crystal Dissolution
O. M. Magnussen and M. R. Vogt
pp. 357-360 [View PDF (699 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Rigorous Proof of Fermi Liquid Behavior for Jellium Two-Dimensional Interacting Fermions
M. Disertori and V. Rivasseau
pp. 361-364 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Spin Configurations of a Carbon Nanotube in a Nonuniform External Potential
Yuval Oreg, Krzysztof Byczuk, and Bertrand I. Halperin
pp. 365-368 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Fluctuating Spin g-Tensor in Small Metal Grains
P. W. Brouwer, X. Waintal, and B. I. Halperin
pp. 369-372 [View PDF (140 kB)]
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Similarities between the Hubbard and Periodic Anderson Models at Finite Temperatures
K. Held, C. Huscroft, R. T. Scalettar, and A. K. McMahan
pp. 373-376 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Reactive Hall Response
X. Zotos, F. Naef, M. Long, and P. Prelovšek
pp. 377-380 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Antiferromagnetism and Phase Diagram in Ammoniated Alkali Fulleride Salts
T. Takenobu, T. Muro, Y. Iwasa, and T. Mitani
pp. 381-384 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Crossover from Exciton to Biexciton Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities
M. Saba, F. Quochi, C. Ciuti, U. Oesterle, J. L. Staehli, B. Deveaud, G. Bongiovanni, and A. Mura
pp. 385-388 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Excitonic Absorption in a Quantum Dot
P. Hawrylak, G. A. Narvaez, M. Bayer, and A. Forchel
pp. 389-392 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Spin Hall Effect in the Presence of Spin Diffusion
Shufeng Zhang
pp. 393-396 [View PDF (62 kB)]
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Partially Suppressed Shot Noise in Hopping Conduction: Observation in SiGe Quantum Wells
V. V. Kuznetsov, E. E. Mendez, X. Zuo, G. L. Snider, and E. T. Croke
pp. 397-400 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Molecular Hydrogen in a-Si:H
P. A. Fedders, D. J. Leopold, P. H. Chan, R. Borzi, and R. E. Norberg
pp. 401-404 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Superconducting Fluctuations and the Pseudogap in the Slightly Overdoped High- Tc Superconductor TlSr2CaCu2O6.8: High Magnetic Field NMR Studies
Guo-qing Zheng, H. Ozaki, W. G. Clark, Y. Kitaoka, P. Kuhns, A. P. Reyes, W. G. Moulton, T. Kondo, Y. Shimakawa, and Y. Kubo
pp. 405-408 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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LiVGe2O6, an Anomalous Quasi-1D, S = 1 System, as Revealed by NMR
J. L. Gavilano, S. Mushkolaj, H. R. Ott, P. Millet, and F. Mila
pp. 409-412 [View PDF (68 kB)]
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Layer-Resolved Magnetic Moments in Ni/Pt Multilayers
F. Wilhelm, P. Poulopoulos, G. Ceballos, H. Wende, K. Baberschke, P. Srivastava, D. Benea, H. Ebert, M. Angelakeris, N. K. Flevaris, D. Niarchos, A. Rogalev, and N. B. Brookes
pp. 413-416 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Extreme Reduction of the Spin-Orbit Splitting of the Deep Acceptor Ground State of ZnS- in Si
H. Schroth, K. Laßmann, S. Voß, and H. Bracht
pp. 417-420 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Electric Field Distribution in Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells
J. C. deMello, J. J. M. Halls, S. C. Graham, N. Tessler, and R. H. Friend
pp. 421-424 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Exciton and Biexciton Fine Structure in Single Elongated Islands Grown on a Vicinal Surface
L. Besombes, K. Kheng, and D. Martrou
pp. 425-428 [View PDF (258 kB)]
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Orbital Magnetic Moment Instability at the Spin Reorientation Transition of Nd2Fe14B
L. M. García, J. Chaboy, F. Bartolomé, and J. B. Goedkoop
pp. 429-432 [View PDF (75 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Unified Approach to Quantum Capacities: Towards Quantum Noisy Coding Theorem
Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki
pp. 433-436 [View PDF (61 kB)]
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Catalysis of Entanglement Manipulation for Mixed States
Jens Eisert and Martin Wilkens
pp. 437-440 [View PDF (64 kB)]
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Simple Proof of Security of the BB84 Quantum Key Distribution Protocol
Peter W. Shor and John Preskill
pp. 441-444 [View PDF (63 kB)]
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Complete Quantum Teleportation with a Kerr Nonlinearity
David Vitali, Mauro Fortunato, and Paolo Tombesi
pp. 445-448 [View PDF (60 kB)]
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Scaling of the Viscoelasticity of Weakly Attractive Particles
V. Trappe and D. A. Weitz
pp. 449-452 [View PDF (238 kB)]
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Velocity Fluctuations in Fluidized Suspensions Probed by Ultrasonic Correlation Spectroscopy
M. L. Cowan, J. H. Page, and D. A. Weitz
pp. 453-456 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Microrheology of Biopolymer-Membrane Complexes
E. Helfer, S. Harlepp, L. Bourdieu, J. Robert, F. C. MacKintosh, and D. Chatenay
pp. 457-460 [View PDF (215 kB)]
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Measuring Information Transfer
Thomas Schreiber
pp. 461-464 [View PDF (71 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Limits on the Majorana Neutrino Mass in the 0.1 eV Range”
F. T. Avignone, III, C. E. Aalseth, and R. L. Brodzinski
pp. 465 [View PDF (21 kB)]
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Comment on “Direct Observation of Stretched-Exponential Relaxation in Low-Temperature Lennard-Jones Systems Using the Cage Correlation Function”
U. Zürcher and T. Keyes
pp. 466 [View PDF (32 kB)]
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Rabani, Gezelter, and Berne Reply:
Eran Rabani, J. Daniel Gezelter, and B. J. Berne
pp. 467 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “Interlayer Mass Transport and Quantum Confinement of Electronic States”
Karina Morgenstern, Georg Rosenfeld, George Comsa, Erik Lægsgaard, and Flemming Besenbacher
pp. 468 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Giesen and Ibach Reply:
M. Giesen and H. Ibach
pp. 469 [View PDF (26 kB)]
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Comment on “Scaling Laws for a System with Long-Range Interactions within Tsallis Statistics”
Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee and Erik Luijten
pp. 470 [View PDF (27 kB)]
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Toral and Salazar Reply:
Raul Toral and Rafael Salazar
pp. 471 [View PDF (8 kB)]
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Comment on “Riddling of Chaotic Sets in Periodic Windows”
John R. Terry and Peter Ashwin
pp. 472 [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Lai and Grebogi Reply:
Ying-Cheng Lai and Celso Grebogi
pp. 473 [View PDF (13 kB)]
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Comment on “Magnetoresistance Anomalies in Antiferromagnetic YBa2Cu3O6+x: Fingerprints of Charged Stripes”
András Jánossy, Ferenc Simon, and Titusz Fehér
pp. 474 [View PDF (23 kB)]
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Ando, Lavrov, and Segawa Reply:
Yoichi Ando, A. N. Lavrov, and Kouji Segawa
pp. 475 [View PDF (87 kB)]
 
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