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Physical Review Letters – 27 November 2000
Volume 85, Issue 22

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.

Rheological Aging and Rejuvenation in Microgel Pastes
Michel Cloitre, Régis Borrega, and Ludwik Leibler
pp. 4819-4822 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Sonic Analog of Gravitational Black Holes in Bose-Einstein Condensates
L. J. Garay, J. R. Anglin, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
pp. 4643-4647 [View PDF (284 kB)]
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Rapidly Rotating Fermi Gases
Tin-Lun Ho and C. V. Ciobanu
pp. 4648-4651 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Experimental Evidence of Binary Aperiodic Stochastic Resonance
Sylvain Barbay, Giovanni Giacomelli, and Francesco Marin
pp. 4652-4655 [View PDF (102 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Scattering of Energetic Particles by Anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence with a Goldreich-Sridhar Power Spectrum
Benjamin D. G. Chandran
pp. 4656-4659 [View PDF (106 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Defect Formation and Local Gauge Invariance
M. Hindmarsh and A. Rajantie
pp. 4660-4663 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Brane World Generated Dynamically from String Type IIB Matrices
Jun Nishimura and Graziano Vernizzi
pp. 4664-4667 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Measurement of the Decay Amplitudes of B0→J/ψK*0 and Bs0→J/ψφ Decays
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
pp. 4668-4673 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Dynamical Quark Effects on Light Quark Masses
A. Ali Khan, S. Aoki, G. Boyd, R. Burkhalter, S. Ejiri, M. Fukugita, S. Hashimoto, N. Ishizuka, Y. Iwasaki, K. Kanaya, T. Kaneko, Y. Kuramashi, T. Manke, K. Nagai, M. Okawa, H. P. Shanahan, A. Ukawa, and T. Yoshié ((CP-PACS Collaboration))
pp. 4674-4677 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order Logarithmic Corrections at Small Transverse Momentum in Hadronic Collisions
Daniel de Florian and Massimiliano Grazzini
pp. 4678-4681 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Photoproduction of φ(1020) Mesons on the Proton at Large Momentum Transfer
E. Anciant et al. (The CLAS Collaboration)
pp. 4682-4686 [View PDF (176 kB)]
Intermediate Mass Strangelets are Positively Charged
Jes Madsen
pp. 4687-4690 [View PDF (238 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Nuclear Multifragmentation in Nonextensive Statistics: Canonical Formulation
K. K. Gudima, A. S. Parvan, M. Płoszajczak, and V. D. Toneev
pp. 4691-4694 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Sudden Hadronization in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions
Johann Rafelski and Jean Letessier
pp. 4695-4698 [View PDF (105 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Two-Photon Exchange Corrections to the 2p1/2-2s Transition Energy in Li-Like High- Z Ions
V. A. Yerokhin, A. N. Artemyev, V. M. Shabaev, M. M. Sysak, O. M. Zherebtsov, and G. Soff
pp. 4699-4702 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Qualitative Modification of the High Energy Atomic Photoionization Cross Section
M. Ya. Amusia, N. B. Avdonina, E. G. Drukarev, S. T. Manson, and R. H. Pratt
pp. 4703-4706 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Intense-Field Double Ionization of Helium: Identifying the Mechanism
M. Lein, E. K. U. Gross, and V. Engel
pp. 4707-4710 [View PDF (495 kB)]
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Critical Petermann K Factor for Intensity Noise Squeezing
A. M. van der Lee, N. J. van Druten, M. P. van Exter, J. P. Woerdman, J.-Ph. Poizat, and Ph. Grangier
pp. 4711-4714 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Profile Structures of TJ-II Stellarator Plasmas
J. Herranz, I. Pastor, F. Castejón, E. de la Luna, I. García-Cortés, C. J. Barth, E. Ascasíbar, J. Sánchez, and V. Tribaldos
pp. 4715-4718 [View PDF (319 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of Saturn-Ring Defects around Solid Microspheres in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Yuedong Gu and Nicholas L. Abbott
pp. 4719-4722 [View PDF (268 kB)]
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Direct 3D Imaging of Al70.4Pd21Mn8.6 Quasicrystal Local Atomic Structure by X-ray Holography
S. Marchesini, F. Schmithüsen, M. Tegze, G. Faigel, Y. Calvayrac, M. Belakhovsky, J. Chevrier, and A. S. Simionovici
pp. 4723-4726 [View PDF (157 kB)]
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Smoothest Bearings: Interlayer Sliding in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
Aleksey N. Kolmogorov and Vincent H. Crespi
pp. 4727-4730 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Energy Losses of Muons, Pions, Protons, and Deuterons Channeled in Si
J. E. Valdés, P. Vargas, and N. R. Arista
pp. 4731-4734 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Effect of Disorder on the Critical Temperature of a Dilute Hard-Sphere Gas
M. C. Gordillo and D. M. Ceperley
pp. 4735-4738 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Composite Defect Extends Analogy between Cosmology and 3He
V. B. Eltsov, T. W. B. Kibble, M. Krusius, V. M. H. Ruutu, and G. E. Volovik
pp. 4739-4742 [View PDF (209 kB)]
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Heterogeneous Hole Nucleation in Electron-Charged 4He Wetting Films
E. Montevecchi and R. Blossey
pp. 4743-4746 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Isomerization Kinetics in Condensed Fluids
S. Toxvaerd
pp. 4747-4750 [View PDF (229 kB)]
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Direct Calculation of the Hard-Sphere Crystal /Melt Interfacial Free Energy
Ruslan L. Davidchack and Brian B. Laird
pp. 4751-4754 [View PDF (108 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Quantum Phase Diagram of the t-Jz Chain Model
C. D. Batista and G. Ortiz
pp. 4755-4758 [View PDF (298 kB)]
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Charge-Density-Wave-Induced Modifications to the Quasiparticle Self-Energy in 2H- TaSe2
T. Valla, A. V. Fedorov, P. D. Johnson, J. Xue, K. E. Smith, and F. J. DiSalvo
pp. 4759-4762 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Self-Induced Shapiro Effect in Semiconductor Superlattices
F. Löser, M. M. Dignam, Yu. A. Kosevich, K. Köhler, and K. Leo
pp. 4763-4766 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Negative Differential Resistance in Nanotube Devices
François Léonard and J. Tersoff
pp. 4767-4770 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Nonadiabatic Channels in the Superconducting Pairing of Fullerides
E. Cappelluti, C. Grimaldi, L. Pietronero, and S. Strässler
pp. 4771-4774 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Temperature Dependence of the Penetration Depth in Sr2RuO4: Evidence for Nodes in the Gap Function
I. Bonalde, Brian D. Yanoff, M. B. Salamon, D. J. Van Harlingen, E. M. E. Chia, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno
pp. 4775-4778 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of Insulating and Metallic Cu-O Chains in PrBa2Cu3O7 and PrBa2Cu4O8
T. Mizokawa, C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen, A. Ino, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, M. Goto, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, M. Tagami, K. Yoshida, A. I. Rykov, Y. Siohara, K. Tomimoto, S. Tajima, Yuh Yamada, S. Horii, N. Yamada, Yasuji Yamada, and I. Hirabayashi
pp. 4779-4782 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Tail States in a Superconductor with Magnetic Impurities
A. Lamacraft and B. D. Simons
pp. 4783-4786 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Discriminating the Superconducting Gap from the Pseudogap in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ by Interlayer Tunneling Spectroscopy
Minoru Suzuki and Takao Watanabe
pp. 4787-4790 [View PDF (286 kB)]
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Random Bond XXZ Chains with Modulated Couplings
D. C. Cabra, A. De Martino, M. D. Grynberg, S. Peysson, and P. Pujol
pp. 4791-4794 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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NMR Evidence for a “Generalized Spin-Peierls Transition” in the High-Magnetic-Field Phase of the Spin Ladder Cu2(C5H12N2)2Cl4
H. Mayaffre, M. Horvatić, C. Berthier, M.-H. Julien, P. Ségransan, L. Lévy, and O. Piovesana
pp. 4795-4798 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Energy Separation of Single-Particle and Continuum States in an S = 1/2 Weakly Coupled Chains Antiferromagnet
A. Zheludev, M. Kenzelmann, S. Raymond, E. Ressouche, T. Masuda, K. Kakurai, S. Maslov, I. Tsukada, K. Uchinokura, and A. Wildes
pp. 4799-4802 [View PDF (282 kB)]
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Crossover between Thermally Assisted and Pure Quantum Tunneling in Molecular Magnet Mn12-Acetate
Louisa Bokacheva, Andrew D. Kent, and Marc A. Walters
pp. 4803-4806 [View PDF (761 kB)]
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Phonon-Assisted Tunneling in the Quantum Regime of Mn12 Acetate
I. Chiorescu, R. Giraud, A. G. M. Jansen, A. Caneschi, and B. Barbara
pp. 4807-4810 [View PDF (202 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Optimal Distillation of a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger State
A. Acín, E. Jané, W. Dür, and G. Vidal
pp. 4811-4814 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Novel Strategy for Database Searching in Spin Liouville Space by NMR Ensemble Computing
R. Brüschweiler
pp. 4815-4818 [View PDF (91 kB)]
Rheological Aging and Rejuvenation in Microgel Pastes
Michel Cloitre, Régis Borrega, and Ludwik Leibler
pp. 4819-4822 [View PDF (84 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Energetic Components of Cooperative Protein Folding
Hüseyin Kaya and Hue Sun Chan
pp. 4823-4826 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Twirling Elastica: Kinks, Viscous Drag, and Torsional Stress
Stephan A. Koehler and Thomas R. Powers
pp. 4827-4830 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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Reversible Transitions between Synchronization States of the Cardiorespiratory System
A. Stefanovska, H. Haken, P. V. E. McClintock, M. Hožič, F. Bajrović, and S. Ribarič
pp. 4831-4834 [View PDF (721 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Self-Diffusion in Silicon: Similarity between the Properties of Native Point Defects”
Hartmut Bracht and Eugene E. Haller
pp. 4835 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Ural, Griffin, and Plummer Reply:
Ant Ural, P. B. Griffin, and J. D. Plummer
pp. 4836 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Extreme Electrostatic Phenomena in a Single Sonoluminescing Bubble”
William C. Moss
pp. 4837 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Xu, Wang, and Hu Reply:
Ning Xu, Long Wang, and Xiwei Hu
pp. 4838 [View PDF (35 kB)]
 
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