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Physical Review Letters – 20 November 2000
Volume 85, Issue 21

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.

New Perspective on Cosmic Coincidence Problems
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lawrence J. Hall, Christopher Kolda, and Hitoshi Murayama
pp. 4434-4437 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
Spontaneous Evolution of Rydberg Atoms into an Ultracold Plasma
M. P. Robinson, B. Laburthe Tolra, Michael W. Noel, T. F. Gallagher, and P. Pillet
pp. 4466-4469 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Quantum Anti-Zeno Acceleration of a Chemical Reaction
Oleg V. Prezhdo
pp. 4413-4417 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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Violations of Local Realism by Two Entangled N-Dimensional Systems Are Stronger than for Two Qubits
Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Piotr Gnaciński, Marek Żukowski, Wieslaw Miklaszewski, and Anton Zeilinger
pp. 4418-4421 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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How to Measure the Bogoliubov Quasiparticle Amplitudes in a Trapped Condensate
A. Brunello, F. Dalfovo, L. Pitaevskii, and S. Stringari
pp. 4422-4425 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Statistics of Resonances and of Delay Times in Quasiperiodic Schrödinger Equations
F. Steinbach, A. Ossipov, Tsampikos Kottos, and T. Geisel
pp. 4426-4429 [View PDF (189 kB)]
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Nonequilibrium Phase Behavior during the Random Sequential Adsorption of Tethered Hard Disks
Jeffrey J. Gray, D. Harley Klein, Roger T. Bonnecaze, and Brian A. Korgel
pp. 4430-4433 [View PDF (399 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Perspective on Cosmic Coincidence Problems
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lawrence J. Hall, Christopher Kolda, and Hitoshi Murayama
pp. 4434-4437 [View PDF (98 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Dynamical Solution to the Problem of a Small Cosmological Constant and Late-Time Cosmic Acceleration
C. Armendariz-Picon, V. Mukhanov, and Paul J. Steinhardt
pp. 4438-4441 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Gamow-Teller Strengths of the Inverse Beta Transition 176Yb→176Lu for Spectroscopy of Proton-Proton and Other Sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos
M. Fujiwara, H. Akimune, A. M. van den Berg, M. Cribier, I. Daito, H. Ejiri, H. Fujimura, Y. Fujita, C. D. Goodman, K. Hara, M. N. Harakeh, F. Ihara, T. Ishikawa, J. Jänecke, T. Kawabata, R. S. Raghavan, K. Schwarz, M. Tanaka, T. Yamanaka, M. Yosoi, and R. G. T. Zegers
pp. 4442-4445 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Measurement of Gamow-Teller Strength for 176Yb→176Lu and the Efficiency of a Solar Neutrino Detector
M. Bhattacharya, C. D. Goodman, R. S. Raghavan, M. Palarczyk, A. García, J. Rapaport, I. J. van Heerden, and P. Zupranski
pp. 4446-4449 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Absolute Differential Cross Sections for Photo Double Ionization of Helium from the Ab Initio Hyperspherical R-Matrix Method with Semiclassical Outgoing Waves
L. Malegat, P. Selles, and A. K. Kazansky
pp. 4450-4453 [View PDF (223 kB)]
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Atomic Micromotion and Geometric Forces in a Triaxial Magnetic Trap
J. H. Müller, O. Morsch, D. Ciampini, M. Anderlini, R. Mannella, and E. Arimondo
pp. 4454-4457 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Ground State Laser Cooling Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Giovanna Morigi, Jürgen Eschner, and Christoph H. Keitel
pp. 4458-4461 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Observation of Optically Induced Feshbach Resonances in Collisions of Cold Atoms
F. K. Fatemi, K. M. Jones, and P. D. Lett
pp. 4462-4465 [View PDF (235 kB)]
Spontaneous Evolution of Rydberg Atoms into an Ultracold Plasma
M. P. Robinson, B. Laburthe Tolra, Michael W. Noel, T. F. Gallagher, and P. Pillet
pp. 4466-4469 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Search for a Parity-Violating Energy Difference between Enantiomers of a Chiral Iron Complex
A. S. Lahamer, S. M. Mahurin, R. N. Compton, D. House, J. K. Laerdahl, M. Lein, and P. Schwerdtfeger
pp. 4470-4473 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy on Chiral Liquids: A Novel Technique to Probe Molecular Chirality
M. A. Belkin, T. A. Kulakov, K.-H. Ernst, L. Yan, and Y. R. Shen
pp. 4474-4477 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Observation of Magnetoelectric Jones Birefringence
T. Roth and G. L. J. A. Rikken
pp. 4478-4481 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Orientational Imaging of Single Molecules by Annular Illumination
B. Sick, B. Hecht, and L. Novotny
pp. 4482-4485 [View PDF (816 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Threshold Effects in the Energy Loss of Protons in Carbon and Aluminum due to Inner Shell Ionization
M. Famá, J. C. Eckardt, G. H. Lantschner, and N. R. Arista
pp. 4486-4489 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Interatomic Coulombic Decay in van der Waals Clusters and Impact of Nuclear Motion
Robin Santra, Jürgen Zobeley, Lorenz S. Cederbaum, and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 4490-4493 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Diffraction of Trapped (CsI)nCs+: The Appearance of Bulk Structure
Stefan Krückeberg, Detlef Schooss, Mathias Maier-Borst, and Joel H. Parks
pp. 4494-4497 [View PDF (439 kB)]
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Large Area Light-Pulse Atom Interferometry
J. M. McGuirk, M. J. Snadden, and M. A. Kasevich
pp. 4498-4501 [View PDF (87 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Novel Soliton Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation Model
Vladimir N. Serkin and Akira Hasegawa
pp. 4502-4505 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Spiral Intensity Patterns in the Internally Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator
P. Lodahl, M. Bache, and M. Saffman
pp. 4506-4509 [View PDF (686 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Free-Electron Laser without Inversion: Gain Optimization and Implementation Scheme
Alexander I. Artemiev, Mikhail V. Fedorov, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Gershon Kurizki, and Marlan O. Scully
pp. 4510-4513 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Energy Transfer in Nonequilibrium Space-Charge-Dominated Beams
R. A. Kishek, P. G. O'Shea, and M. Reiser
pp. 4514-4517 [View PDF (689 kB)]
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Shaping of Intense Ion Beams into Hollow Cylindrical Form
U. Neuner, R. Bock, M. Roth, P. Spiller, C. Constantin, U. N. Funk, M. Geissel, S. Hakuli, D. H. H. Hoffmann, J. Jacoby, A. Kozyreva, N. A. Tahir, S. Udrea, D. Varentsov, and A. Tauschwitz
pp. 4518-4521 [View PDF (337 kB)]
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Ablative Stabilization of the Deceleration Phase Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
V. Lobatchev and R. Betti
pp. 4522-4525 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Effects of Spatial and Temporal Smoothing on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Independent-Hot-Spot Model Limit
Ph. Mounaix, L. Divol, S. Hüller, and V. T. Tikhonchuk
pp. 4526-4529 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Ion Heating and High-Energy-Particle Production by Ion-Cyclotron Heating in the Large Helical Device
T. Mutoh et al.
pp. 4530-4533 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Heat Convection and Transport Barriers in Low-Magnetic-Shear Rijnhuizen Tokamak Project Plasmas
P. Mantica, G. Gorini, G. M. D. Hogeweij, N. J. Lopes Cardozo, and A. M. R. Schilham
pp. 4534-4537 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Chaotic Scattering and Self-Organization in Spheromak Sustainment
John M. Finn, Carl R. Sovinec, and Diego del-Castillo-Negrete
pp. 4538-4541 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Experimental Observation of Further Frequency Upshift from dc to ac Radiation Converter with Perpendicular dc Magnetic Field
T. Higashiguchi, N. Yugami, H. Gao, T. Niiyama, S. Sasaki, E. Takahashi, H. Ito, and Y. Nishida
pp. 4542-4545 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Cavitation in Adhesives
Ioulia Chikina and Cyprien Gay
pp. 4546-4549 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Microscopic Theory for the Fast Flow of Polymer Melts
Alexei E. Likhtman, Scott T. Milner, and Tom C. B. McLeish
pp. 4550-4553 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Spontaneous Formation and Stability of Small GaP Fullerenes
V. Tozzini, F. Buda, and A. Fasolino
pp. 4554-4557 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Coexistence and Criticality in Size-Asymmetric Hard-Core Electrolytes
José Manuel Romero-Enrique, G. Orkoulas, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, and Michael E. Fisher
pp. 4558-4561 [View PDF (202 kB)]
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Origin of Antimony Segregation in GaInSb/InAs Strained-Layer Superlattices
J. Steinshnider, J. Harper, M. Weimer, C.-H. Lin, S. S. Pei, and D. H. Chow
pp. 4562-4565 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Direct Observation of the Quantum Tunneling of Single Hydrogen Atoms with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
L. J. Lauhon and W. Ho
pp. 4566-4569 [View PDF (83 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Where is the Luttinger Liquid in One-Dimensional Semiconductor Quantum Wire Structures?
D. W. Wang, A. J. Millis, and S. Das Sarma
pp. 4570-4573 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Highly Anisotropic g-Factor of Two-Dimensional Hole Systems
R. Winkler, S. J. Papadakis, E. P. De Poortere, and M. Shayegan
pp. 4574-4577 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Statistics and Noise in a Quantum Measurement Process
Yuriy Makhlin, Gerd Schön, and Alexander Shnirman
pp. 4578-4581 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Smearing of the Coulomb Blockade by Resonant Tunneling
Thomas Gramespacher and K. A. Matveev
pp. 4582-4585 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Spin-Triplet Superconductivity due to Antiferromagnetic Spin-Fluctuation in Sr2RuO4
Takeshi Kuwabara and Masao Ogata
pp. 4586-4589 [View PDF (106 kB)]
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From Antiferromagnetic Order to Static Magnetic Stripes: The Phase Diagram of (La,Eu)2-xSrxCuO4
H.-H. Klauss, W. Wagener, M. Hillberg, W. Kopmann, H. Walf, F. J. Litterst, M. Hücker, and B. Büchner
pp. 4590-4593 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Oscillatory Melting Temperature of the Vortex Smectic Phase in Layered Superconductors
S. N. Gordeev, A. A. Zhukov, P. A. J. de Groot, A. G. M. Jansen, R. Gagnon, and L. Taillefer
pp. 4594-4597 [View PDF (122 kB)]
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Quantum Tetrahedral Mean Field Theory of the Magnetic Susceptibility for the Pyrochlore Lattice
A. J. García-Adeva and D. L. Huber
pp. 4598-4601 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Transport Anomalies and Marginal-Fermi-Liquid Effects at a Quantum Critical Point
D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, R. Narayanan, and Thomas Vojta
pp. 4602-4605 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Topology-Induced Spin Frustrations at the Cr(001) Surface Studied by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
M. Kleiber, M. Bode, R. Ravlić, and R. Wiesendanger
pp. 4606-4609 [View PDF (261 kB)]
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Double Resonance Mechanism of Ferromagnetism and Magnetotransport in (Ga-Mn)As
J. Inoue, S. Nonoyama, and H. Itoh
pp. 4610-4613 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Easy Collective Polarization Switching in Ferroelectrics
A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk
pp. 4614-4617 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy: A New Probe for the Solid-Liquid Interface
B. Sheridan, D. S. Martin, J. R. Power, S. D. Barrett, C. I. Smith, C. A. Lucas, R. J. Nichols, and P. Weightman
pp. 4618-4621 [View PDF (131 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Acoustic Excitations in Suspensions of Soft Colloids
R. S. Penciu, G. Fytas, E. N. Economou, W. Steffen, and S. N. Yannopoulos
pp. 4622-4625 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Resilience of the Internet to Random Breakdowns
Reuven Cohen, Keren Erez, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Shlomo Havlin
pp. 4626-4628 [View PDF (73 kB)]
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Connectivity of Growing Random Networks
P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, and F. Leyvraz
pp. 4629-4632 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Structure of Growing Networks with Preferential Linking
S. N. Dorogovtsev, J. F. F. Mendes, and A. N. Samukhin
pp. 4633-4636 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Detection and Sorting of Neural Spikes Using Wavelet Packets
Eyal Hulata, Ronen Segev, Yoash Shapira, Morris Benveniste, and Eshel Ben-Jacob
pp. 4637-4640 [View PDF (91 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Regular Black Hole in General Relativity Coupled to Nonlinear Electrodynamics”
K. A. Bronnikov
pp. 4641 [View PDF (44 kB)]
 
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