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Physical Review Letters – 11 December 2000
Volume 85, Issue 24

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.

Picometer Accuracy in Measuring Lattice Displacements Across Planar Faults by Interferometry in Coherent Electron Diffraction
Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, and J. Tafto
pp. 5126-5129 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Experimental Demonstration of Three Mutually Orthogonal Polarization States of Entangled Photons
Tedros Tsegaye, Jonas Söderholm, Mete Atatüre, Alexei Trifonov, Gunnar Björk, Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Malvin C. Teich
pp. 5013-5017 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Proposal for Measurement of Harmonic Oscillator Berry Phase in Ion Traps
I. Fuentes-Guridi, S. Bose, and V. Vedral
pp. 5018-5021 [View PDF (83 kB)]
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Time Evolution of Quantum Fractals
Daniel Wójcik, Iwo Białynicki-Birula, and Karol Życzkowski
pp. 5022-5025 [View PDF (523 kB)]
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Generating Entangled Atom-Photon Pairs from Bose-Einstein Condensates
M. G. Moore and P. Meystre
pp. 5026-5029 [View PDF (82 kB)]
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Eliminating the Mean-Field Shift in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates
E. V. Goldstein, M. G. Moore, H. Pu, and P. Meystre
pp. 5030-5033 [View PDF (80 kB)]
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Edwards' Measures for Powders and Glasses
Alain Barrat, Jorge Kurchan, Vittorio Loreto, and Mauro Sellitto
pp. 5034-5037 [View PDF (96 kB)]
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Limit on Lorentz and CPT Violation of the Neutron Using a Two-Species Noble-Gas Maser
D. Bear, R. E. Stoner, R. L. Walsworth, V. Alan Kostelecký, and Charles D. Lane
pp. 5038-5041 [View PDF (271 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Hawking Radiation As Tunneling
Maulik K. Parikh and Frank Wilczek
pp. 5042-5045 [View PDF (73 kB)]
First Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts with a Network of Detectors
Z. A. Allen et al. ((International Gravitational Event Collaboration))
pp. 5046-5050 [View PDF (120 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Chiral Symmetry, Quark Mass, and Scaling of the Overlap Fermions
S. J. Dong, F. X. Lee, K. F. Liu, and J. B. Zhang
pp. 5051-5054 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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CPT-Odd Resonances in Neutrino Oscillations
V. Barger, S. Pakvasa, T. J. Weiler, and K. Whisnant
pp. 5055-5058 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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First Direct Measurement of the Parity-Violating Coupling of the Z0 to the s Quark
Koya Abe et al. ((The SLD Collaboration))
pp. 5059-5063 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Enhanced Electric Dipole Moment of the Muon in the Presence of Large Neutrino Mixing
K. S. Babu, B. Dutta, and R. N. Mohapatra
pp. 5064-5067 [View PDF (102 kB)]
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Cross Section for b-Jet Production in p̅ p Collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV
B. Abbott et al. (D0 Collaboration)
pp. 5068-5073 [View PDF (204 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Sudden Interchannel Interaction in the Tl 6p Ionization above the 5d Threshold
G. Prümper, B. Zimmermann, B. Langer, J. Viefhaus, R. Hentges, N. A. Cherepkov, B. Schmidtke, M. Drescher, U. Heinzmann, U. Becker, and H. Kleinpoppen
pp. 5074-5077 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Observation of Inner Electron Ionization from Radial Rydberg Wave Packets in Two-Electron Atoms
H. Maeda, W. Li, and T. F. Gallagher
pp. 5078-5081 [View PDF (212 kB)]
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High Harmonic Generation Beyond the Electric Dipole Approximation
M. W. Walser, C. H. Keitel, A. Scrinzi, and T. Brabec
pp. 5082-5085 [View PDF (152 kB)]
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Boundary-Free Propagation with the Time-Dependent Schrödinger Equation
E. Y. Sidky and B. D. Esry
pp. 5086-5089 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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X-Ray Emission Following Low-Energy Charge Exchange Collisions of Highly Charged Ions
P. Beiersdorfer, R. E. Olson, G. V. Brown, H. Chen, C. L. Harris, P. A. Neill, L. Schweikhard, S. B. Utter, and K. Widmann
pp. 5090-5093 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Order α7ln(1/α) Contribution to Positronium Hyperfine Splitting
Bernd A. Kniehl and Alexander A. Penin
pp. 5094-5097 [View PDF (81 kB)]
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Optimal States and Almost Optimal Adaptive Measurements for Quantum Interferometry
D. W. Berry and H. M. Wiseman
pp. 5098-5101 [View PDF (189 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Segregation Transitions in Wet Granular Matter
Azadeh Samadani and A. Kudrolli
pp. 5102-5105 [View PDF (255 kB)]
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Stability of Water Bells Generated by Jet Impacts on a Disk
C. Clanet
pp. 5106-5109 [View PDF (908 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Stable Laser-Pulse Propagation in Plasma Channels for GeV Electron Acceleration
P. Sprangle, B. Hafizi, J. R. Peñano, R. F. Hubbard, A. Ting, A. Zigler, and T. M. Antonsen, Jr.
pp. 5110-5113 [View PDF (452 kB)]
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Ion Heating in the Field-Reversed Configuration by Rotating Magnetic Fields near the Ion-Cyclotron Resonance
Samuel A. Cohen and Alan H. Glasser
pp. 5114-5117 [View PDF (216 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Diffusion-Reorganized Aggregates: Attractors in Diffusion Processes?
Marcel Filoche and Bernard Sapoval
pp. 5118-5121 [View PDF (252 kB)]
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Structural Properties of Lanthanide and Actinide Compounds within the Plane Wave Pseudopotential Approach
Chris J. Pickard, Björn Winkler, Roger K. Chen, M. C. Payne, M. H. Lee, J. S. Lin, J. A. White, V. Milman, and David Vanderbilt
pp. 5122-5125 [View PDF (74 kB)]
Picometer Accuracy in Measuring Lattice Displacements Across Planar Faults by Interferometry in Coherent Electron Diffraction
Lijun Wu, Yimei Zhu, and J. Tafto
pp. 5126-5129 [View PDF (220 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Phonon Anomaly in High-Pressure Zn
Zhiqiang Li and John S. Tse
pp. 5130-5133 [View PDF (220 kB)]
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Angular Structure of Lacunarity, and the Renormalization Group
R. C. Ball, G. Caldarelli, and A. Flammini
pp. 5134-5137 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Freezing by Monte Carlo Phase Switch
N. B. Wilding and A. D. Bruce
pp. 5138-5141 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Slippage of Nonsuperfluid Helium Films
Mitsunori Hieda, Tomonori Nishino, Masaru Suzuki, Nobuo Wada, and Kazuo Torii
pp. 5142-5145 [View PDF (289 kB)]
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Low-Temperature Magnetization of Submonolayer 3He Adsorbed on HD Preplated Graphite
Hiroki Ikegami, Ryuichi Masutomi, Ken Obara, and Hidehiko Ishimoto
pp. 5146-5149 [View PDF (100 kB)]
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New Phase and Surface Melting of Si(111) at High Temperature above the (7×7)-(1×1) Phase Transition
Y. Fukaya and Y. Shigeta
pp. 5150-5153 [View PDF (154 kB)]
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X-Ray Waveguiding Studies of Ordering Phenomena in Confined Fluids
M. J. Zwanenburg, J. H. H. Bongaerts, J. F. Peters, D. O. Riese, and J. F. van der Veen
pp. 5154-5157 [View PDF (1,771 kB)]
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Role of the Metal/Semiconductor Interface in Quantum Size Effects: Pb /Si(111)
V. Yeh, L. Berbil-Bautista, C. Z. Wang, K. M. Ho, and M. C. Tringides
pp. 5158-5161 [View PDF (99 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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d-Wave Superconductivity and Pomeranchuk Instability in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model
Christoph J. Halboth and Walter Metzner
pp. 5162-5165 [View PDF (137 kB)]
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Magnetic Stress as a Driving Force of Structural Distortions: The Case of CrN
Alessio Filippetti and Nicola A. Hill
pp. 5166-5169 [View PDF (129 kB)]
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Observation of Charge Stripes in Cupric Oxide
X. G. Zheng, C. N. Xu, Y. Tomokiyo, E. Tanaka, H. Yamada, and Y. Soejima
pp. 5170-5173 [View PDF (204 kB)]
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Photoemission Spectra of LaMnO3 Controlled by Orbital Excitations
Jeroen van den Brink, Peter Horsch, and Andrzej M. Oleś
pp. 5174-5177 [View PDF (570 kB)]
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Franck-Condon–Broadened Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra Predicted in LaMnO3
Vasili Perebeinos and Philip B. Allen
pp. 5178-5181 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Negative Spin-Polarization of SrRuO3
D. C. Worledge and T. H. Geballe
pp. 5182-5185 [View PDF (78 kB)]
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Intertube Coupling in Ropes of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
H. Stahl, J. Appenzeller, R. Martel, Ph. Avouris, and B. Lengeler
pp. 5186-5189 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Topological Phases in Graphitic Cones
Paul E. Lammert and Vincent H. Crespi
pp. 5190-5193 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Fermi Surface, Surface States, and Surface Reconstruction in Sr2RuO4
A. Damascelli, D. H. Lu, K. M. Shen, N. P. Armitage, F. Ronning, D. L. Feng, C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno
pp. 5194-5197 [View PDF (257 kB)]
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Evidence for Large Gap Anisotropy in Superconducting Pb from Phonon Imaging
J. D. Short and J. P. Wolfe
pp. 5198-5201 [View PDF (381 kB)]
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Gd(0001): A Semi-Infinite Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Ferromagnet with Ordinary Surface Transition
C. S. Arnold and D. P. Pappas
pp. 5202-5205 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in a Magnetic Nanoparticle Above the Surface of a Superconductor
Eugene M. Chudnovsky and Jonathan R. Friedman
pp. 5206-5209 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Neutral-Ionic Phase Separation and One-Dimensional Ferroelectricity in Organic Relaxors
S. Horiuchi, R. Kumai, Y. Okimoto, and Y. Tokura
pp. 5210-5213 [View PDF (121 kB)]
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Double Resonant Raman Scattering in Graphite
C. Thomsen and S. Reich
pp. 5214-5217 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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High Harmonic Generation of Soft X-Rays by Carbon Nanotubes
Ofir E. Alon, Vitali Averbukh, and Nimrod Moiseyev
pp. 5218-5221 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Phonon Density of States of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
S. Rols, Z. Benes, E. Anglaret, J. L. Sauvajol, P. Papanek, J. E. Fischer, G. Coddens, H. Schober, and A. J. Dianoux
pp. 5222-5225 [View PDF (259 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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New Paradoxical Games Based on Brownian Ratchets
Juan M. R. Parrondo, Gregory P. Harmer, and Derek Abbott
pp. 5226-5229 [View PDF (162 kB)]
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Optimal Strategies for Sending Information through A Quantum Channel
E. Bagan, M. Baig, A. Brey, R. Muñoz-Tapia, and R. Tarrach
pp. 5230-5233 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Topology of Evolving Networks: Local Events and Universality
Réka Albert and Albert-László Barabási
pp. 5234-5237 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Scaling Law of Resistance Fluctuations in Stationary Random Resistor Networks
Cecilia Pennetta, György Trefán, and Lino Reggiani
pp. 5238-5241 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Multiple-Sequence Information Provides Protection against Mis-Specified Potential Energy Functions in the Lattice Model of Proteins
Yan Cui and Wing Hung Wong
pp. 5242-5245 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Elasticity of the Rod-Shaped Gram-Negative Eubacteria
A. Boulbitch, B. Quinn, and D. Pink
pp. 5246-5249 [View PDF (85 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Do Thiols Merely Passivate Gold Nanoclusters?
I. L. Garzón, C. Rovira, K. Michaelian, M. R. Beltrán, P. Ordejón, J. Junquera, D. Sánchez-Portal, E. Artacho, and J. M. Soler
pp. 5250-5251 [View PDF (74 kB)]
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Comment on “Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity”
Matt Visser
pp. 5252 [View PDF (41 kB)]
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Leonhardt and Piwnicki Reply:
U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki
pp. 5253 [View PDF (28 kB)]
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Comment on “Canonical and Microcanonical Calculations for Fermi Systems”
V. Meden and K. Schönhammer
pp. 5254 [View PDF (49 kB)]
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Comment on “Potts Model with Long-Range Interactions in One Dimension”
Katarina Uzelac and Zvonko Glumac
pp. 5255 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Bayong et al. Reply:
E. Bayong, H. T. Diep, and Victor Dotsenko
pp. 5256 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Andreev Reflection at Point Contacts with Heavy-Fermion UBe13?
K. Gloos
pp. 5257 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Wälti et al. Reply
Ch. Wälti, H. R. Ott, Z. Fisk, and J. L. Smith
pp. 5258 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Spin Tunneling in Mn12 Cannot Be Assisted by Phonons at Millikelvin Temperatures
E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin
pp. 5259 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Bellessa et al. Reply:
G. Bellessa, N. Vernier, B. Barbara, and D. Gatteschi
pp. 5260 [View PDF (40 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Determination of the Sn 4d Line Shape of the Sn /Ge(111) √3×√3 and 3×3 Surfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1036 (2000)]
R. I. G. Uhrberg, H. M. Zhang, and T. Balasubramanian
pp. 5261 [View PDF (493 kB)]
 
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