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Physical Review Letters – 13 November 2000
Volume 85, Issue 20

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.

Dilution Wave and Negative-Order Crystallization Kinetics of Chain Molecules
G. Ungar, P. K. Mandal, P. G. Higgs, D. S. M. de Silva, E. Boda, and C. M. Chen
pp. 4397-4400 [View PDF (316 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Strong Confinement and Oscillations in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates
Q-Han Park and J. H. Eberly
pp. 4195-4198 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Effect of Noise on a Quantum Bound State
Yi-Kuo Yu
pp. 4199-4202 [View PDF (110 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Constraints on Neutrino Physics from BOOMERANG Data
Steen Hannestad
pp. 4203-4206 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Meron Pairs and Fermion Zero Modes
James V. Steele and John W. Negele
pp. 4207-4210 [View PDF (326 kB)]
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Renormalons as Dilatation Modes in the Functional Space
A. Babansky and I. Balitsky
pp. 4211-4214 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Dijet Production by Double Pomeron Exchange at the Fermilab Tevatron
T. Affolder et al. (CDF Collaboration)
pp. 4215-4220 [View PDF (154 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Neutron-Proton Differential Flow as a Probe of Isospin-Dependence of the Nuclear Equation of State
Bao-An Li
pp. 4221-4224 [View PDF (143 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Amplification of Light and Atoms in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
S. Inouye, R. F. Löw, S. Gupta, T. Pfau, A. Görlitz, T. L. Gustavson, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
pp. 4225-4228 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Proper Treatment of Symmetries and Excited States in a Computationally Tractable Kohn-Sham Method
Andreas Görling
pp. 4229-4232 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Relative Phase Measurement of a Stark Wave Packet in the Vicinity of the Saddle Point
C. W. Rella, F. Texier, L. D. Noordam, and F. Robicheaux
pp. 4233-4236 [View PDF (235 kB)]
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Spin Relaxation Resonances due to the Spin-Axis Interaction in Dense Rubidium and Cesium Vapor
C. J. Erickson, D. Levron, W. Happer, S. Kadlecek, B. Chann, L. W. Anderson, and T. G. Walker
pp. 4237-4240 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Selective Excitation of Vibrational States by Shaping of Light-Induced Potentials
Ignacio R. Solá, Bo Y. Chang, Jesús Santamaría, Vladimir S. Malinovsky, and Jeffrey L. Krause
pp. 4241-4244 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Collisions between Metastable Hydrogen Atoms at Thermal Energies
R. C. Forrey, R. Côté, A. Dalgarno, S. Jonsell, A. Saenz, and P. Froelich
pp. 4245-4248 [View PDF (75 kB)]
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Suppression of Recoil Heating by an Optical Lattice
Steffen Wolf, Steven J. Oliver, and David S. Weiss
pp. 4249-4252 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Three-Wave Mixing in Chiral Liquids
Peer Fischer, Diederik S. Wiersma, Roberto Righini, Benoît Champagne, and A. David Buckingham
pp. 4253-4256 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Third-Order Nonlinear Dichroism in a Liquid of Chiral Molecules
H. Mesnil and F. Hache
pp. 4257-4260 [View PDF (86 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Triangle Map: A Model of Quantum Chaos
Giulio Casati and Tomaž Prosen
pp. 4261-4264 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Testing Whether Two Chaotic One Dimensional Processes Are Dynamically Identical
Guo-Cheng Yuan, James A. Yorke, Thomas L. Carroll, Edward Ott, and Louis M. Pecora
pp. 4265-4268 [View PDF (270 kB)]
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Multiple Scattering of Light by Atoms in the Weak Localization Regime
Thibaut Jonckheere, Cord A. Müller, Robin Kaiser, Christian Miniatura, and Dominique Delande
pp. 4269-4272 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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From Avalanches to Fluid Flow: A Continuous Picture of Grain Dynamics Down a Heap
P.-A. Lemieux and D. J. Durian
pp. 4273-4276 [View PDF (168 kB)]
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Wave Attractors in Rotating Fluids: A Paradigm for Ill-Posed Cauchy Problems
M. Rieutord, B. Georgeot, and L. Valdettaro
pp. 4277-4280 [View PDF (950 kB)]
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Superlattice Patterns in Vertically Oscillated Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Jeffrey L. Rogers, Michael F. Schatz, Oliver Brausch, and Werner Pesch
pp. 4281-4284 [View PDF (467 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Multiscale Coherent Structures and Broadband Waves due to Parallel Inhomogeneous Flows
Valeriy V. Gavrishchaka, Gurudas I. Ganguli, Wayne A. Scales, Steven P. Slinker, Christopher C. Chaston, James P. McFadden, Robert E. Ergun, and Charles W. Carlson
pp. 4285-4288 [View PDF (247 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure from Hydrogen Atoms in Water
Kevin R. Wilson, James G. Tobin, A. L. Ankudinov, J. J. Rehr, and R. J. Saykally
pp. 4289-4292 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Dynamic Heterogeneity of Relaxations in Glasses and Liquids
D. Caprion, J. Matsui, and H. R. Schober
pp. 4293-4296 [View PDF (145 kB)]
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Diffusion Coefficients in a Lamellar Lyotropic Phase: Evidence for Defects Connecting the Surfactant Structure
Doru Constantin and Patrick Oswald
pp. 4297-4300 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Anisotropic Nonlinear Elastic Properties of an Icosahedral Quasicrystal
J.-Y. Duquesne and B. Perrin
pp. 4301-4304 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Conformations of Random Polyampholytes
Vesselin Yamakov, Andrey Milchev, Hans Jörg Limbach, Burkhard Dünweg, and Ralf Everaers
pp. 4305-4308 [View PDF (148 kB)]
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A Discotic Disguised as a Smectic: A Hybrid Columnar Bragg Glass
Karl Saunders, Leo Radzihovsky, and John Toner
pp. 4309-4312 [View PDF (166 kB)]
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Critical Behavior of the de Gennes Elastic Constants near the Nematic-Smectic- A Transition of TBBA
P. Sonntag, D. Collin, and P. Martinoty
pp. 4313-4316 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Supercooled Confined Water and the Mode Coupling Crossover Temperature
P. Gallo, M. Rovere, and E. Spohr
pp. 4317-4320 [View PDF (207 kB)]
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Primary and Secondary Nucleation of the Transition between the A and B Phases of Superfluid 3He
M. Bartkowiak, S. N. Fisher, A. M. Guénault, R. P. Haley, G. R. Pickett, G. N. Plenderleith, and P. Skyba
pp. 4321-4324 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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High-Frequency Acoustics of 3He in Aerogel
R. Nomura, G. Gervais, T. M. Haard, Y. Lee, N. Mulders, and W. P. Halperin
pp. 4325-4328 [View PDF (198 kB)]
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Meniscus Instability in a Thin Elastic Film
Animangsu Ghatak, Manoj K. Chaudhury, Vijay Shenoy, and Ashutosh Sharma
pp. 4329-4332 [View PDF (227 kB)]
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Theoretical Analysis of the Growth Mode for Thin Metallic Films on Oxide Substrates
David Fuks, Simon Dorfman, Eugene A. Kotomin, Yuri F. Zhukovskii, and A. Marshall Stoneham
pp. 4333-4336 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Exploiting the Difference in Lattice Structures for Formation of Self-Assembled PbS Dots on InP(110)
A. B. Preobrajenski, K. Barucki, and T. Chassé
pp. 4337-4340 [View PDF (572 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Vibrational Energy Delocalization on Surfaces: CO on Ru(001)
Ch. Hess, M. Wolf, and M. Bonn
pp. 4341-4344 [View PDF (239 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Spontaneous Deformation of the Fermi Surface due to Strong Correlation in the Two-Dimensional t- J Model
A. Himeda and M. Ogata
pp. 4345-4348 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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X-Ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5
H. Nakao, K. Ohwada, N. Takesue, Y. Fujii, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda, M. v. Zimmermann, J. P. Hill, D. Gibbs, J. C. Woicik, I. Koyama, and Y. Murakami
pp. 4349-4352 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Independent Freezing of Charge and Spin Dynamics in La1.5Sr0.5CoO4
I. A. Zaliznyak, J. P. Hill, J. M. Tranquada, R. Erwin, and Y. Moritomo
pp. 4353-4356 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Analysis of the Metallic Phase of Two-Dimensional Holes in SiGe in Terms of Temperature Dependent Screening
V. Senz, T. Ihn, T. Heinzel, K. Ensslin, G. Dehlinger, D. Grützmacher, and U. Gennser
pp. 4357-4360 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Is the Intrinsic Thermoelectric Power of Carbon Nanotubes Positive?
Keith Bradley, Seung-Hoon Jhi, Philip G. Collins, J. Hone, Marvin L. Cohen, S. G. Louie, and A. Zettl
pp. 4361-4364 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Detecting Electronic States at Stacking Faults in Magnetic Thin Films by Tunneling Spectroscopy
A. L. Vázquez de Parga, F. J. García-Vidal, and R. Miranda
pp. 4365-4368 [View PDF (558 kB)]
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Anomalous Thermopower in the Metalliclike Phase of a 2D Hole System
L. Moldovan, S. Melinte, V. Bayot, S. J. Papadakis, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan
pp. 4369-4372 [View PDF (205 kB)]
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Strong-Coupling Expansions for Multiparticle Excitations: Continuum and Bound States
Simon Trebst, Hartmut Monien, Chris J. Hamer, Zheng Weihong, and Rajiv R. P. Singh
pp. 4373-4376 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Observation of Quantum Coherence in Mesoscopic Molecular Magnets
F. Luis, F. L. Mettes, J. Tejada, D. Gatteschi, and L. J. de Jongh
pp. 4377-4380 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Optical Anisotropy of the SiC(001)- (3×2) Surface: Evidence for the Two-Adlayer Asymmetric-Dimer Model
Wenchang Lu, W. G. Schmidt, E. L. Briggs, and J. Bernholc
pp. 4381-4384 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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First Observation of Nonreciprocal X-Ray Gyrotropy
J. Goulon, A. Rogalev, C. Goulon-Ginet, G. Benayoun, L. Paolasini, C. Brouder, C. Malgrange, and P. A. Metcalf
pp. 4385-4388 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Salt-Induced DNA-Histone Complexation
K.-K. Kunze and R. R. Netz
pp. 4389-4392 [View PDF (178 kB)]
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Fluctuation-Facilitated Charge Migration along DNA
R. Bruinsma, G. Grüner, M. R. D'Orsogna, and J. Rudnick
pp. 4393-4396 [View PDF (121 kB)]
Dilution Wave and Negative-Order Crystallization Kinetics of Chain Molecules
G. Ungar, P. K. Mandal, P. G. Higgs, D. S. M. de Silva, E. Boda, and C. M. Chen
pp. 4397-4400 [View PDF (316 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Universal Aspects of the Chemomechanical Coupling for Molecular Motors
Reinhard Lipowsky
pp. 4401-4404 [View PDF (90 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Astrophysical Jets as Exact Plasma Equilibria”
E. N. Parker
pp. 4405 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Bogoyavlenskij Replies:
Oleg I. Bogoyavlenskij
pp. 4406 [View PDF (44 kB)]
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Comment on “Hydrodynamic Coarsening of Binary Fluids”
H. Furukawa
pp. 4407 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Solis, Olvera de la Cruz, and Smith Reply:
F. J. Solis, M. Olvera de la Cruz, and K. A. Smith
pp. 4408 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Degenerate Wannier Theory for Multiple Ionization”
M. Yu. Kuchiev and V. N. Ostrovsky
pp. 4409 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Pattard and Rost Reply:
Thomas Pattard and Jan M. Rost
pp. 4410 [View PDF (31 kB)]
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Comment on “New Approach in Equilibrium Theory for Strained Layer Relaxation”
Fred Huang
pp. 4411 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Fischer Replies:
A. Fischer
pp. 4412 [View PDF (44 kB)]
 
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