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Physical Review Letters – 18 December 2000
Volume 85, Issue 25

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.

One-Dimensional Metallofullerene Crystal Generated Inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
K. Hirahara, K. Suenaga, S. Bandow, H. Kato, T. Okazaki, H. Shinohara, and S. Iijima
pp. 5384-5387 [View PDF (439 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Hierarchy of Local Minimum Solutions of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
David K. Hoffman and Donald J. Kouri
pp. 5263-5267 [View PDF (84 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Primordial Galactic Magnetic Fields from Domain Walls at the QCD Phase Transition
Michael McNeil Forbes and Ariel Zhitnitsky
pp. 5268-5271 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Making Classical and Quantum Canonical General Relativity Computable through a Power Series Expansion in the Inverse Cosmological Constant
Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin
pp. 5272-5275 [View PDF (90 kB)]
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Solving the Coincidence Problem: Tracking Oscillating Energy
Scott Dodelson, Manoj Kaplinghat, and Ewan Stewart
pp. 5276-5279 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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A Class of 6D Conformal Field Theories: Relation to 4D Superconformal Yang-Mills Theories?
Måns Henningson
pp. 5280-5283 [View PDF (91 kB)]
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Using Kaon Regeneration to Probe the Quark Mixing Parameter cos2β in B→ψK Decays
Helen R. Quinn, Thomas Schietinger, João P. Silva, and Arthur E. Snyder
pp. 5284-5287 [View PDF (109 kB)]
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Strong Coupling Constant from Scaling Violations in Fragmentation Functions
Bernd A. Kniehl, Gustav Kramer, and Björn Pötter
pp. 5288-5291 [View PDF (110 kB)]
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Improved Experimental Limits on the Production of Magnetic Monopoles
G. R. Kalbfleisch, K. A. Milton, M. G. Strauss, L. Gamberg, E. H. Smith, and W. Luo
pp. 5292-5295 [View PDF (97 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Neutron Radii in Nuclei and the Neutron Equation of State
B. Alex Brown
pp. 5296-5299 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Double-Octupole States in 208Pb
B. Alex Brown
pp. 5300-5303 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Analytical Derivation of Interference Dips in Molecular Absorption Spectra: Molecular Properties and Relationships to Fano's Antiresonance
Daniel Neuhauser, Tae-Jun Park, and Jeffrey I. Zink
pp. 5304-5307 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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High-Accuracy Measurement of the Magnetic Moment Anomaly of the Electron Bound in Hydrogenlike Carbon
H. Häffner, T. Beier, N. Hermanspahn, H.-J. Kluge, W. Quint, S. Stahl, J. Verdú, and G. Werth
pp. 5308-5311 [View PDF (543 kB)]
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Influencing the Angular Emission of a Single Molecule
H. Gersen, M. F. García-Parajó, L. Novotny, J. A. Veerman, L. Kuipers, and N. F. van Hulst
pp. 5312-5315 [View PDF (760 kB)]
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From Classical Mobility to Hopping Conductivity: Charge Hopping in an Ultracold Gas
Robin Côté
pp. 5316-5319 [View PDF (117 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Monitor-Outside-a-Monitor Effect and Self-Similar Fractal Structure in the Eigenmodes of Unstable Optical Resonators
Johannes Courtial and Miles J. Padgett
pp. 5320-5323 [View PDF (694 kB)]
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Geometry of Lagrangian Dispersion in Turbulence
Alain Pumir, Boris I. Shraiman, and Misha Chertkov
pp. 5324-5327 [View PDF (98 kB)]
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Linear Stability of Scroll Waves
Hervé Henry and Vincent Hakim
pp. 5328-5331 [View PDF (104 kB)]
Theoretical Analysis of a Dripping Faucet
Bala Ambravaneswaran, Scott D. Phillips, and Osman A. Basaran
pp. 5332-5335 [View PDF (340 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Generation and Stability of Zonal Flows in Ion-Temperature-Gradient Mode Turbulence
B. N. Rogers, W. Dorland, and M. Kotschenreuther
pp. 5336-5339 [View PDF (180 kB)]
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Angular Distributions of Fast Electrons, Ions, and Bremsstrahlung x/ γ-Rays in Intense Laser Interaction with Solid Targets
Z. -M. Sheng, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, J. Zhang, W. Yu, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
pp. 5340-5343 [View PDF (291 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Ferromagnetic hcp Chromium in Cr /Ru(0001) Superlattices
M. Albrecht, M. Maret, J. Köhler, B. Gilles, R. Poinsot, J. L. Hazemann, J. M. Tonnerre, C. Teodorescu, and E. Bucher
pp. 5344-5347 [View PDF (482 kB)]
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Damping Mechanism in Dynamic Force Microscopy
Michel Gauthier and Masaru Tsukada
pp. 5348-5351 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Neutron Investigation of Collective Excitations in Liquid K-Cs Alloys: The Role of the Electron Density
L. E. Bove, F. Sacchetti, C. Petrillo, and B. Dorner
pp. 5352-5355 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Saddles in the Energy Landscape Probed by Supercooled Liquids
L. Angelani, R. Di Leonardo, G. Ruocco, A. Scala, and F. Sciortino
pp. 5356-5359 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Energy Landscape of a Lennard-Jones Liquid: Statistics of Stationary Points
Kurt Broderix, Kamal K. Bhattacharya, Andrea Cavagna, Annette Zippelius, and Irene Giardina
pp. 5360-5363 [View PDF (146 kB)]
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Electrical and Mechanical Properties of C70 Fullerene and Graphite under High Pressures Studied Using Designer Diamond Anvils
Jeremy R. Patterson, Shane A. Catledge, Yogesh K. Vohra, Jagannadham Akella, and Samuel T. Weir
pp. 5364-5367 [View PDF (185 kB)]
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Transverse Thermal Depinning and Nonlinear Sliding Friction of an Adsorbed Monolayer
Enzo Granato and S. C. Ying
pp. 5368-5371 [View PDF (597 kB)]
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Inducing Desorption of Organic Molecules with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope: Theory and Experiments
Saman Alavi, Roger Rousseau, S. N. Patitsas, Gregory P. Lopinski, Robert A. Wolkow, and Tamar Seideman
pp. 5372-5375 [View PDF (347 kB)]
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Bulk Terminated NaCl(111) on Aluminum: A Polar Surface of an Ionic Crystal?
W. Hebenstreit, M. Schmid, J. Redinger, R. Podloucky, and P. Varga
pp. 5376-5379 [View PDF (646 kB)]
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Creation of “Quantum Platelets” via Strain-Controlled Self-Organization at Steps
Adam Li, Feng Liu, D. Y. Petrovykh, J.-L. Lin, J. Viernow, F. J. Himpsel, and M. G. Lagally
pp. 5380-5383 [View PDF (256 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

One-Dimensional Metallofullerene Crystal Generated Inside Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
K. Hirahara, K. Suenaga, S. Bandow, H. Kato, T. Okazaki, H. Shinohara, and S. Iijima
pp. 5384-5387 [View PDF (439 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Critical Behavior of Metal-Insulator Transition in La1-xSrxVO3
S. Miyasaka, T. Okuda, and Y. Tokura
pp. 5388-5391 [View PDF (130 kB)]
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Quantum Correlations in the Nonperturbative Regime of Semiconductor Microcavities
C. Ell, P. Brick, M. Hübner, E. S. Lee, O. Lyngnes, J. P. Prineas, G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, M. Kira, F. Jahnke, S. W. Koch, D. G. Deppe, and D. L. Huffaker
pp. 5392-5395 [View PDF (240 kB)]
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Spontaneous Breakdown of Translational Symmetry in Quantum Hall Systems: Crystalline Order in High Landau Levels
F. D. M. Haldane, E. H. Rezayi, and Kun Yang
pp. 5396-5399 [View PDF (327 kB)]
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Resonant Mechanisms of Inelastic Light Scattering by Low-Dimensional Electron Gases
B. Jusserand, M. N. Vijayaraghavan, F. Laruelle, A. Cavanna, and B. Etienne
pp. 5400-5403 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Universal Distribution of Transparencies in Highly Conductive Nb/AlOx/Nb Junctions
Y. Naveh, Vijay Patel, D. V. Averin, K. K. Likharev, and J. E. Lukens
pp. 5404-5407 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Infinite-Layer Systems
J. D. Naud, Leonid P. Pryadko, and S. L. Sondhi
pp. 5408-5411 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Polarized-Neutron Scattering Study of the Cooper-Pair Moment in Sr2RuO4
J. A. Duffy, S. M. Hayden, Y. Maeno, Z. Mao, J. Kulda, and G. J. McIntyre
pp. 5412-5415 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Static and Dynamic Coupling Transitions of Vortex Lattices in Disordered Anisotropic Superconductors
C. J. Olson, G. T. Zimányi, A. B. Kolton, and N. Grønbech-Jensen
pp. 5416-5419 [View PDF (213 kB)]
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Mott Transition, Antiferromagnetism, and Unconventional Superconductivity in Layered Organic Superconductors
S. Lefebvre, P. Wzietek, S. Brown, C. Bourbonnais, D. Jérome, C. Mézière, M. Fourmigué, and P. Batail
pp. 5420-5423 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Oscillatory Curie Temperature of Two-Dimensional Ferromagnets
M. Pajda, J. Kudrnovský, I. Turek, V. Drchal, and P. Bruno
pp. 5424-5427 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Anisotropic Optical Spectra of PrBa2Cu4O8: Possible Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Response of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Metallic CuO Double Chains
K. Takenaka, K. Nakada, A. Osuka, S. Horii, H. Ikuta, I. Hirabayashi, S. Sugai, and U. Mizutani
pp. 5428-5431 [View PDF (97 kB)]
Optically Injected Spin Currents in Semiconductors
R. D. R. Bhat and J. E. Sipe
pp. 5432-5435 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Polarized Raman Spectroscopy on Isolated Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
G. S. Duesberg, I. Loa, M. Burghard, K. Syassen, and S. Roth
pp. 5436-5439 [View PDF (655 kB)]
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Structural and Optical Properties of the Ge(111)-( 2×1) Surface
Michael Rohlfing, Maurizia Palummo, Giovanni Onida, and Rodolfo Del Sole
pp. 5440-5443 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Ionization of Xenon Rydberg Atoms at a Metal Surface
S. B. Hill, C. B. Haich, Z. Zhou, P. Nordlander, and F. B. Dunning
pp. 5444-5447 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Communication Capacity of Quantum Computation
S. Bose, L. Rallan, and V. Vedral
pp. 5448-5451 [View PDF (132 kB)]
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Experimental Realization of an Order-Finding Algorithm with an NMR Quantum Computer
Lieven M. K. Vandersypen, Matthias Steffen, Gregory Breyta, Costantino S. Yannoni, Richard Cleve, and Isaac L. Chuang
pp. 5452-5455 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Synchronization of Randomly Multiplexed Chaotic Systems with Application to Communication
Shyam Sundar and Ali A. Minai
pp. 5456-5459 [View PDF (89 kB)]
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Effective Screening of Hydrodynamic Interactions in Charged Colloidal Suspensions
Dirk O. Riese, Gerard H. Wegdam, Willem L. Vos, Rudolf Sprik, Denis Fenistein, Jeroen H. H. Bongaerts, and Gerhard Grübel
pp. 5460-5463 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Planar Magnetic Colloidal Crystals
Weijia Wen, Lingyun Zhang, and Ping Sheng
pp. 5464-5467 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Network Robustness and Fragility: Percolation on Random Graphs
Duncan S. Callaway, M. E. J. Newman, Steven H. Strogatz, and Duncan J. Watts
pp. 5468-5471 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Twist and Writhe Dynamics of Stiff Polymers
A. C. Maggs
pp. 5472-5475 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Stochastic Relaxation Oscillator Model for the Solar Cycle
P. D. Mininni, D. O. Gómez, and G. B. Mindlin
pp. 5476-5479 [View PDF (1,595 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries”
Scott A. Hughes
pp. 5480 [View PDF (36 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Magnetic-Octupole Order in Neptunium Dioxide? [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2188 (2000)]
P. Santini and G. Amoretti
pp. 5481 [View PDF (31 kB)]
 
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